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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-07-08
MUTINEERS CONTROL
BATTLESHIP KNIAz .POTEMKINE
ROAMS The BLACK SEA.
Admiral Kruger and Officers Could
Not Depend on His Own Men to
Capture Pirate Ship, So Withdrew
Fires Drawn Beneath His Own Ships
and Officers and Sailors Go Ashore.

st. Petersburg, July 4.-The unpre.
cedented spectacle of a powerful mod
ern battleship cruising around in the
Black sea IN the hands of crew who
under the rules of international law
can not be regarded as other than nj
rates, and of the admiral in command
of the rest of the euxine feet frank
ly confessing his inability to cone
with the situation and ordering the
fires of his warships to be drawn, has
stupefied the Russian admiralty.
The whereabouts of the Grant bat
tleship KniaZ Potemkine is unknown
here; no plans for capturing her have
been devised, and the policy of nonin.
reference seems to be at present in
vogue. The situation would make a.
good libretto for a comic opera were
not the elements of the plot so seri-
Gus.
Dispatches from Odessa and Sebas-
topol, which were confirmed by the ad-
miralty, clear up fully the present
situation. The Kniaz Potemkine has
sailed from Odessa and is now at
large, and her crew, reinforced py
sympathizers from shore, is still in
control of the vessel.
On the Georgl Pobiedonosetz, which
cast in it's fortunes with the Kniaz
Potemkine after it's arrival at Odessa
and landed it's officers, the more loyal
or more timorous portion of the crew
again gained the upper hand and
agreed to surrender and disarm the
ship.
The rest of the squadron returned
to Sebastopol without venturing to
take up the gauntlet thrown down by
the mutineers on the Kniaz Potem-
kline, and Admiral Kruger, after a
council of war, finding that he could
not depend on his crews, ordered the
fires drawn beneath the boilers of his
ships and gave permission to all the
disaffected omcers and sailors to quit
the vessels and go ashore.
The sailors of the Ekaterina H.
were known to be so mutinous that
the battleship was left behind when
the squadron started for Odessa, the
whole crew dismissed and the ship
disarmed.
The Kniaz Polemkine, which was
steering a southerly course when she
left Odessa, would within few hours
be south of Russia limits and may
next be heard from at some Balkan or
Turkish port
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-07-08
WILD SCENES IN ODESSA.
Women and Girls Help Set City
Attire

Attire.
Groups of soldiers are stationed at
every 100 PAGES in the streets of Odes-
sa and by order of the governor the
Electric lights and gas were cut off
leaving the streets in darkness. Rail.
way communications to the north
were interrupted for four days. Later
in the day private message was re-
ceived from Odessa saying that the
fires were extinguished and that the
sender anticipated the town would
resume its normal state in a few days,
directly after the trouble with the
feet is settled.
1t is stated that 800 corpses of vic
tins of the fire of Wednesday night
are lying in heap in one of the har.
Dor sheds. Describing the incendiar.
ism, correspondent says:
Il saw women and young girls help.
ing to carry bundles of straw and fire
wood, saturated them with paraffine
and then lighting torches which were
thrown in through the small doors and
windows until the whole harbor front
was atame. mob of from 10000 to
$4,000 persons fell back slowly and re
sistingly before the rifle volleys OF
the troops until the machine guns
were brought into action when they
moved down the frenzied ranks"
The correspondent estimates the
number killed at 400 without count
ing those burned to death.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-07-08
HUNDREDS WERE DROWNED.
Flood Sweeps GuanaJuatc, Mexico
Resulting In Ruin and Death.


Mexico City, July 4.-Reports are
current here that from 500 persons up
ward. with one report claiming ever
1000. have been drowned in a great
food at Guanajuato, mining city, the
important seat of activity by several
large American and British com
panies.
Late tidings are that Guanajuato is
completely flooded and water is al
ready invading the higher parts of the
town. while there is fear that Laolls
dam may give away, which would
mean complete and general ruin.
The city is built in a great gorge in
the mountains and the streets run
I'D the mountainside in picturesque
fashion.
The lower streets became raging
torrents as the water poured in rivers
down the upper streets. Doors were
smashed in by the force OF the water
and windows were no protection
against the furious flood
A dispatch to President Robinson of
the Mexican Central railroad says
there are 1000 dead at Guanajuato.
The town of Marafilo, just below
Guanajuato, was completely wiped
out.
The raging water is carrying the
dead through every street of Guiana
juato.
In Guanajuato the water is up to
the second story of the Hotel Union.
Great damage has been wrought to
the street car line. There is only one
way the people get to Marafilo, which
is with mules or afoot 1elegraphic
with Guanajuato is cut
off and it is supposed Laolla dam was
completely destroyed, but this can not
be confirmed.
The Mexican Central northbound
train ran into a washout
north of Irapuato and was derailed,
the water running over some of the
cars.
Advices from Queretaro are to the
effect that there was no Geographic
communication with Guanajuato last
night.
Messengers who managed to get out
If the city say the water stands from
.hree to four feet deep in houses and
shops in the lower part of the city,
and that the citizens have gone to the
mountains carrying their valuables.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-07-08
PROCLAMATION BY PRESIDENT.
Flags Ordered Half Masted at the
Embassies.

Oyster Bay, July 4.-President
Roosevelt has prepared the formal
proclamation announcing the death of
John Hay, secretary of state, and 1t
will be promulgated tomorrow in
Washington. The proclamation will
be forwarded by mail to all ambassa.
doris and ministers of the United
States in foreign countries and also
will be transmitted officially to the
diplomatic representatives at Wash.
ington of foreign nations.
The following is the full text of the
announcement:
"a proclamation by the president of
the United states.
John Hay, secretary of state of the
United States, died on July l. His
death, a crushing sorrow to his
friends, is to lie people of the coun-
try national bereavement and in adj
dition is a serious loss to mankind,
for to him it was given to stand as
a leader in the effort to better world
conditions by striving to advance the
cause of international peace and JUS
tice.
HE entered the public service as
the trusted and intimate companion
of Abraham Lincoln, and for we'll nigh
40 years he served his country with
loyal devotion and high ability in
many positions of honor and trust,
and finally he crowned his life work
by serving as secretary of state with
such far sightedness in the future and
such loyalty to lofty ideas as to con-
fer lasting benefits not only upon our
own country but upon all the nations
of the world.
las a suitable expression of ma
tional mourning, | direct that the dip
lomatic representatives of the United
states in all foreign countries display
the flag at half mast for 10 days; that
for like period the flag of the Unit
ed States be displayed at half mast
at all forts and military posts and at
all naval stations and on all vessels
of the United States.
Il further order that on the day of
the funeral the executive departments
of the city of Washington be closed
and that on all public luildings
throughout the United States the ma
tional flag be displayed at half mast
Done at the city of Washington,
this, the third day of July, 1905, and
of the independence of the United
States of America the one hundred
and twenty-ninln."
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
BY the president: Herbert D. Pierce,
acting secretary of state.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-07-08
NEGOTIATIONS FOR TRUCE.
Efforts to Keep Big Armies From
Clashing Again.


Clashing Again.
St Petersburg, July 3, 2;07 a. M
Negotiations for an armistice between
the armies of Russia and Japan it can
be definitely stated, are now in prog
ress, presumably at Washington, but
they have not reached a stage where
any further announcement can be
made.
The decision seems to rest with
Japan, which country is weighing the
REIMBURSEMENT of the prospects of
lettering her present advantageous
position against the enormous cost in
lives and money Of another great bat
tie.
The chances for a decisive and final
Japanese victory, it is believed here,
are no better than before Liaoyang
and Mukden, and it is pointed out that
it is idle to talk of Vladivostok fall.
ing, like a ripe apple, into Japan's
hands before the peace conference
meets.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-07-08
Carries 21s,aoo Bushels Corn.

The largest cargo of corn carried
out of Chicago in the last 10 years, or
1t is believed, ever carried on Lake
Michigan, has been placed in the hold
of the Midland King, a Canadian boat
which has sailed for the north. The
boat carried 21S,200 bushels of the
cereal. The weight of the big cargo
caused the boat to draw Is feet II
inches of water. The cargo was ship
PED north for Canadian consumption
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-07-08
TAFT NOT TO BE PREMIER.
Says He Does Not Expect State Port
folio

Omaha, July g. Secretary Taft and
party en- route for the Philippines,
passed through Omaha early Sunday,
leaving for the west.
Secretary Taft, when asked: Are
you to become the premier of the ad-
ministration?" replied:
mo, do not expect to become Sec
rotary of state. l wired to the presi.
dent for instruction when we learned
of Secretary Hays death, and he or
dered us to proceed. That does not
look as if l was to become secretary
Of state"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-07-08
RoNAPARTE TAKES THE OATH
New Secretary of Navy Begins His
Duties.

Charles ]. Bonaparte of Maryland
was sworn in as secretary of the navy
few minutes after 10 o'clock Satur-
day morning. After taking the oath
Mr.. Bonaparte received in his office,
shaking hands with each one of the
naval and marine corps officers on
duty at the department. Subsequently
he received the entire clerical force of
the department, shaking hands with
each one. He then returned to his desk
and took up the work awaiting him
there.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-07-08

Swarms Of II year locusts have
appeared In southern Wisconsin.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-07-08
FINANCES OF THE NATION.
Secretary Shaw Issues a Treasury
Review of Year.

Secretary shaw has given out the
following statement reviewing the
finances of the country for the fiscal
year just closed:
The actual deficit for the year just
closed is in round numbers $24, 100000,
or 100000 more than the official es-
innate submitted in the last annual
report of the secretary of the treasury.
In the preparation of this estimate,
however, an error of $7,500,000 was
made, growing out of the loan of that
amount to the Louisiana Purchase ex-
position. By some inadvertence, the
amount of this loan was deducted
twice. The estimated deficit, but for
this inadvertence would have been
$22, 900.
Customs receipts are about $4,000
600 in excess of the estimate. There
fore receipts have been about $780,
600 ia excess of the estimate.
Expenditure Items.
I'm expenditures the following items
are worthy of note:
The deficiency in postal receipts is
$20OO,OOO in excess of the estimate;
there has been expended ON the
isthmian canal $1,00O,000 more than
estimated, and on irrigation projects
S75O,0O0 more than estimated; there
has been paid under an appropriation
for French spoilation and other claims
S75O,OO0 more tnan estimated; the war
department has expended on rivers
and harbors 100000 more than esti-
mated; there has been expended for
the Indian service $1,300,00O more
than estimated, $3.50, 900 of which was
attorney fees not anticipated. There
has been paid in pensions $1,750,0OO
more than estimated and on interest
100000 more than estimated.
"On the other hand the navy depart
ment has expended on constructive
work about $4,5oO,O0O less than esti-
mated.
THE favorable showing for June
has been in no degree the result OF
manipulation"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-07-08

Letters are dropped two or three
times day on to wren which is sit
ting on her eggs in the letter box of
d. Baker. an English draper, but the
bird keeps its place.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-07-08

The Indians of the Choctaw tribe.
in Indian territory, have formed good
roads association.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-07-08
A TEN MILLION GIFT.

rockefeller Endowment for Higher
Education In United States.
Ten million dollars as an endowment
for higher education In the United
States has been given the general edu.
cation board by John ID. Rockefeller
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-07-08

Alfonso XIII. is said to have Inherit
ed his fathers remarkably steady eye
and sure hand, and is now accounted
one OF the best shots in Spain.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-06-17
Copyright by Golfers Weekly.

own death wound How is that, Mr.
Sherlock Holmes:"
Holmes clapped his hands approving
ly.
Excellent, Lestrade. excellent he
cried But didn't quite follow your
explanation OF the destruction of the
busts
''I'he busts! You never can get those
busts out Of your head. After all, that
is nothing: petty larceny. six months at
the most. 1t is the murder that we are
really investigating. and l tell you that
! am gathering all the threads into my
hands"
And the next stage"
els very simple one / shall 20
down with Hill to the Italian quarter.
find the man whose photograph we
have got aud arrest him OH the charge
OF murder. VIII you come with usT'
Il think not. / fancy we can attain
our end In 4 simpler way. / can't say
for certain because IL all depends
well. il all depends upon factor which
is completely outside our control But
| have great hopes in fact. the betting
is exactly two to one that If you will
come with Us tonight / shall be able to
help you 10 lay him by the heels"
In the Italian quarter?"
NO; ! fancy Chiswick is an address
which * more likely 10 find him II
you viii come with me TO ChIswick
tonight, Lestrade. I'll promise TO 90 TO
the Italian quarter with you tomorrow.
and no harm Will be done 10y the de
lay. And now think that a few
hours sleep would do us all good. for
DO not propose to leave before IL
O'Clock. and il is unlikely that we shall
he back before morning. You'll dine
with us. LestTade. and then you are
welcome to- the sofa until IL in time for
MS 10 start. In the meantime. Watson.
should be glad II you would ring for
an express messenger. for have let
ter TO send. and II is important that IT
should go at once"
Holmes spent the evening In rum
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-06-17

l dare say they might get a peep at
There is no particular reason for keep
ing Il watch upon that book. Well.
well, its a very strange business. and
l hope that you will let me know IL
anything comes Of your Inquiries
Holmes had taken several notes dur
ing Mr. HardingS evidence. and 1
could see that he was thoroughly sat
listed 10y the turn which affairs We're
taking. He made TO remark. however.
save that unless we hurried we should
be late for our appointment with Lee
strade. Sure enough. when we reach
ed Baker street the detective was al
ready there and we found him pacing
up and down in fever of Impotence.
His look OF Importance showed that his
days work had not been in vain.
"Well?' he asked What luck. Mr..
Holiness"
Eve have had very busy day and
not entirely wasted one" my friend
explained. I'VE have seen both the re
tailers and also the wholesale manu-
facturerS- 1 can trace each OF the
busts now from the beginning"
THE bustS" cried I.eStrade. We'll,
well. you have your own methods. Mr..
Sherlock Holmes. and il is not for me
to say a word against them. hut l
think have done better days work
than YOU. l have identified the dead
man."
You don't say sO:'
And found n cause for the crime"
splendid
speciality of Saffron Hill and the Ital-
ian quarter Well. this dead man had
some Catholic emblem round his neck,
and that along with his color, made me
think he was from the south. Inspect
or Hill knew him the moment he
caught sight of him. His name is Pie
tro Nenucci. from Naples. and he is one
of the greatest cutthroats in London.
He is connected with the Malta. which.
as you know. is a secret political socie-
". enforcing its DEGREES by murder.
Now, You see how the affair begins TO
clear up The other fellow is probably
an Italian also and member of the
Malta. He has broken the rules in
some fashion. PiPtrO Is set upon his
track. Probably the photograph we
found in his pocket is the man himself.
so that he may not knife the wrong
person. He dogs the fellow. Me sees
him enter house. he waits outside for
him, and in the scuffie he receives his
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-06-17

maging among the flies of the old daily
papers with which one OF our lumber
rooms was packed. When at last he de-
scended il was with triumph in his
eyes. but he said nothing to either OK
us as to the result of his researches.
For my own part l had followed step
by step the methods by which he had
traced the various wlndingS OF this
complex case. and. though l could not
Vet perceive the goal which we would
reach. understood clearly that Holmes
expected this groteSque criminal TO
make an attempt upon the two remain
ing bustS. one of which. remembered,
was at ChiSwick. No doubt the object
of our journey was to catch him In the
very act and | could not but admire
the cunning with which my friend had
inserted 4 wrong clew in the evening
paper. so as 10 give the fellow the idea
that he could continue his scheme with
impunity. ! was not surprised when
Holmes suggested that l should take
my revolver with me. He had himself
picked up the loaded hunting crop,
which was his favorite weapon.
A four wheeler was at the door at II.
and in il we drove to spot at the
other side OF HammerSmith bridge.
Here the cabman was directed to wait.
short walk brought us to secluded
road fringcd with pleasant houses,
each standing in its own grounds. In
the light of street lamp we read
"Laburnum Villa" upon the gatepost
Of one of them. The occupants had ev.
identity retired To rest. for all was
da'a save for fanlight over the hall
door. which shed single blurreG cir
Gle on to the garden path. The wood
en- fence which separated the grounds
from the road threw a dense black
shadow upon the inner side. and here
il was that we crouched.
Il fear that you'll have long wait"
Holmes whispered I'VE may thank
our stars that il is not raining. l
don't think we can even venture TO
smoke to pass the time. However. it's
two TO one chance that we get some
thing to pay us for our trouble"
1t proved, however. that our vigil
was not to be So long as Holmes had
led us to fear. and il ended in a very
sudden and singular fashion. In an
instant, without the least sound to
warn us of his coming the garden
gate swung open, and a 1.-the. dark
figure. us swift and active as an ape,
rushed up the garden path. We saw
it whisk past the light thrown from
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-06-17

over the door and disappear against
the black shadow OF the house. There
was a long pause, during which we
held our breath, and then very gem
tie creaking sound came to our ears
The window was being opened. The
noise ceased, and again there was a
long silence. The fellow was making
his way into the house. We saw the
sudden fash of dark lantern inside
the room. What he sought was evil
IDENTITY not there, FOR again we saw the
fash through another blind and then
through another.
Let us get to the open window.
We will nab him as he climbs out"
Lestrade whispered.
But before we could move the man
had emerged again. As he came out
into the gIimmering patch OF light we
saw that he carried something white
under his arm. He looked stealthily
all round him. The silence or tue de-
serted street reassured him. Turning
his back upon US, he laid down his bur
den and the next instant there was the
sound Of a sharp tap, followed by
Clattcr and rattle. The man was so
intent upon what be was doing that he
never heard our steps as we stole
across tine grass plot. With the bound
OF a tiger. Holmes was on his back,
and an instant later Lestrade and 1
had him by either wrist aud the hand
cuffs had been fastened. As we turn
ed him over I saw hideous, sallow
face, with writing, furious features.
glaring up at us, and knew that IL
was indeed the man OF the photograph
whom We had secured.
But il WAS not our prisoner to whom
Holmes was giving his attention.
Squatted OIL the doorstep. he was en-
gagged in most carefully examining that
which the man had brought from the
house. II was bust OF Napoleon. Ike
the one which we had seen that morn
ing, and IL had been broken into similar
fragments. Carefully Holmes held each
separate shard to the light. but IA no
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-06-17
The Adventure of
=: the Six Napoleons
No. 8 OF the Series

ifcs1JTiEbr. 1900, b. a. csnAn Doyle saG c.iIis,'.
RssAIJ
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-06-17

[ was no very unusua.
thing for Mr.. Lestradt
of Scotland Yard to looE
in upon as of an even.
ing, and his visits were
welcome to Sherlock
Holmes. for they enabled
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-28
Accidental Happenlnus.


Two passengers were willed and
forty-three injured by train wreck on
the Southern Pacific near Harvey,
New.
During a heavy wind storm at May
vile, Mo-, large circus tent was
blown down and fifty persons in the
audience were injured, none fatally.
wilbert E. Robinston, president OF
the village of Mackinaw City, Mich,
and an extensive fish shipper at that
port, was instantly killed while clean.
ing a hammerless shotgun.
Francis Stillman, fifty-five years old,
was killed by train at Kewanee, Ill.
Andrew Hippert, after viewing the
mutilated body, walked a few blocks
and fell dead, supposedly from heart
disease.
Disastrous fires are raging in the
mountains Of Rowan county, Ken
lucky, and are destroying thousands of
valuable trees. Several residences are
in danger. A line of fire one mile long
runs along the mountain tops.
The schooner H. v. Ketchum, boun0
from Duluth to Cleveland, burned off
Partisan island, Lake Superior, and
two members of the crew were drown
ed while attempting to leave the
burning vessel in life boat.
Presumably having set fire to the
bedding while playing with matches,
two children, aged two and three
years, respectively, sons of Rudolph
Wiartalle, section foreman, persisted
in fire which destroyed a boarding
car at Laketon, near Newberry, Mich.
The mother had gone up town, leaving
the children and locking the door aft.
err her. The bodies were almost en-
tirely consumed.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-28
General.

Ross ]. Alexander, Indian commits
sioner under the second Cleveland ad-
ministration, died at Bridgeport. Ohio,
of Bright's disease.
Mr.. and Mrs. William ]. Bryan, &C
companied by their son and daughter,
William and Grace, have started for
their tour of the world.
Andrew Carnegie has given $125,OOG
to Smith college at Northampton,
Mass, for a biological laboratory on
condition that the college raise an
equal amount.
With 100000 in bonds and bank
books showing $4,000 in his posses
sion, Albert Hertz, Jewish peddler,
died alone in the city hospital at
Kingston, n. Y.
Brig. Gen. Daniel w. Benham, U. S
A., died suddenly at Tiffin. Ohio, aged
sixty-eight. He enlisted as a volun
teer in 1861 and was placed upon the
retired list in July, 1898.