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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-07
BRITISH FLEET AND RUSSIA.
Organized Protest Against Proposed
Visit to Cronstadt.

LONDON. July THE political committee
of the new Reform Club. of which Edmund
Robertson, civil lord of the admiralty. is
chairman, has started an organized agita-
ton against the visit of the British channel
fleet to Cronstadt which Is occasioning
considerable surprise. The committee. at q
meeting yesterday. adopted a resolution de-
nouncing the atrocities in Russia ana call
ing on the British government not to send
the fleet to Russian waters. to avert
further misunderstanding.
In letter accompanying the resolution,
which was sent to the newspapers, the sec
retary of the club urges the latter to sup
port the committees action. In view of for
eign Secretary Grey's numerous explana
tions on the subject in the house of COM
mons this action on the part of commit
tee presided over by Mr.. Robertson, a men,
ber of the government, has created sensa-
ton, and 1t is expected that attention will
be called to the matter in the house of
commons.
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SHIP is ON A CORAL REEF
Efforts to Pull Off the Vessel at High
Water Failed.
POWER TUGS ARE NEEDED
Gable Reports Received From Com.
mander Potts, Naval Governor
of Guam.

The following cablegrams were received
at the Navy Department today from Com
mander T. NJ. Potts, naval governor of the
Island of Guam, relative to the stranding
of the army transport Thomas:
GUAM. July 5-Transport Thomas
ashore on a reef inside the harbor Neces-
sary to shift weights aft. VIII attempt to
pull her off with the Supply (station ship
at high water. No damage to the ship as
yet"
The second dispatch follows: Attempts
to pull off Thomas at high water last night
and this morning failed. Ship 100 feet on the
reef. VIII make an effort tonight. carrying
out anchors. but success is doubtful. AS
sistance of powerful tugs needed. Ship safe
while weather good"
Passengers on The Thomas.
The army officers on the transport are
Capt. Thomas Moody land wife), Contract
Surgeon George T. Campbell (and wife),
Lieuts. William Goodale, Elliott Caziare,
Charles F. Herr. l.. w. Prunty, G. H.
Baird r. D. La Garda (and wife), Arthur
r. Ehrnbeck. Lieuts Alfred J. Roeder and
S. M Patterson of the Philippine Scouts are
also on the ship. Lieut. Roeder is accom-
panied by his wife. Surgeon c. p. Kin
dleberger of the navy and wife are also
the ship.
Many of the passengers are wives and
children and other relatives of army OFF,
GERS. Mrs. c. E. Stanton, wife of Paymas-
ter Stanton of the army; Mrs. Ahern wife
of Capt Ahern of the army; Miss Ada
Kneckle and the four children of Col. A l..
Smith of the army; Harry c. Browne, son
of Maj. Browne of the army and Miss Ma
garet Wheeler, sister of Lieut.. Col. A. c.
Wheeler, are among the representatives of
army families on the vessel.
Mr.. H. G. Squier, cashier of the Manila
post office, together with his wife and three
daughters and F. X. Crumb, surveyor of
the port of Manila, are among a large
number of civilian passengers. Most of the
others are clerks in the various depart
ments of the Philippine government Miss
eatherine Smith, ~ Aiss Margaret Moore
and Miss Minnie Annas, Philippine army
nurses, are also on the Thomas.
Reports received by the quartermaster
general indicate that the Thomas grounded
in the hal arbor of Guam about two ships
length from its anchorage point 1t is rest
ing with 100 feet of the ships length on a
reef.
The transport Thomas was acquired by
the United States government by purchase
during the Spanish war. She had a cargo
capacity of 5,9S7 tons and was commanded
by Capt. E. " Lyman.
MANILA, July S.-The transport Meade
leaves today Sunday to render assistance
to the transport Thomas, which is reported
ashore on q coral reef near the Island of
Guam.
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CRACK SHOTS IN THE ARMY.
Increase Ascribed to Encouragement
by Congress

In letter to Acting Secretary Oliver
President Roosevelt has expressed his graf
ification at the remarkable progress that
is being made by the enlisted men of the
army in craftsmanship. Before the Spanish
war the American private soldier was ad-
nJittetliy the finest shot in the world. Tne
addition of the large number OF volunteers
had the effect to greatly reduce the average
of the rifiemen. But since the reorganiza-
ton following the war every effort has been
made to stimulate interest In marksman-
ship. and the result is that today the aver
age is probably as high ii not higher than
ii was at the beginning of the war.
The figures laid before the President that
eiicited his approval showed that in 1901
there were in the whole army 90 expert
riff1emen, 549 sharpshooters and $50 marks
men, as the various grades are known tech
nically. In the following year these figures
had Increased to 264 expert rifiemen, 1.4;s3
sharpshooters and 2.4S4 unarksmen. Now
1t is shown that last year the record stood
606 expert rifiemen. 3.37I sharpshooters
and 3 436 marksmen.
General oliver attributes the Improve
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SECRETARY WILSON'S TRIP.
A Tour Of Inspection of the Packing
Houses


Houses.
While the Secretary of Agriculture has
announced that he will take no holiday this
summer, he will start this afternoon on
tour of inspection of the packing l. rses
that will keep him out of Washington for
ten days scr two weeks and may necessi-
Tate other trips of the same sort later in
the summer, He Will leave Washington this
afternoon for Chicago, where he will meet
the chief inspectors of the various packing
houses and after talk with them will
determine where else he will have to go
and how long he will be gone. When asked
today about his itinerary he said that II
had not yet been determined.
But he added with q smile, at will go
wherever the scent leads.
There will have to be a number of new
inspectors appointed under the new law
but there probably will not be more than
15e Or 200 of them. The Secretary said
that there was paragraph now going the
rounds of the newspapers saying that
there would be places for 400 more inspect
ors, but that this was exaggerated and mis-
leading. He said that the inspectors now
in the service were high grade men, and
that they all had to have passed al least
three years In a veterinary college. They
were taken into the service at 81 200 and
might be advanced as high as 5000 Toe
new men who will be charged with follow
ing the meat through the packing houses
and seeing to the sanitary conditions after
II has been passed as heaithful by the
veterinarians will not necessarily be high
ly trained men at all. They will ae in
telligent men, preferably butchers who are
familiar with such work
They will be started at 81, 600 and possibly
will not get beyond that grade unless they
put in their spare time in studying. and
snow by their progress that they are fitted
To be transferred TO the upper class.
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the emperor has replaced the carpet
knights" among the officers by fighting SOL
diers of the type of Major General Let
schitsky. the new commander Of the First
Guard division, which includes the Preo-
bra ,ensky Regiment. Letschftsky has spent
almost his entire life in Turkestan and the
far east commanding with distinction IN
China and Manchuria. He is an utter
stranger at court.
The newspapers today print an open let
ter from the Lettish Social Democratic
League of Libau in regard to the execution
Of Makhovsky, a revolutionist, who refused
to go to the scaffold, protesting his lnno-
cence The guards handled him SO roughly
that they broke his wrists and crushed in
his chest. The man died before he reacneo
the place of execution. His body, never
theless. was strung up.
Cabinet Must Go.
The demand of parliament for the re-
tirement of the Goremykin cabinet VIII be
backed by the zemstvo congress at Its
meeting in Moscow Monday. The pro-
gram drawn up by the central committee
favors the withdrawal by the zemstvo Or
ganiza tions of all measures for famine re-
lief 80 long as the present ministry re-
mains in power" The committee, however.
recommends the continued maintenance OF
soup kitchens and free dining rooms to
relieve actual starvation.
Parliamentary data regarding the famine
shows that 127 counties in twenty-eight
provinces are affected, that in III crops are
complete failures. and that in eighty-eight
counties the famine is in its second year.
The revolutionists of st. Petersburg are
organizing an executive organization.
which it is expected will fill the gap caused
by the arrest of the members of the work
mems council during the late crisis.
Thirty-eight agitators arrested within the
past week have been sent to prison by ad-
ministrative order for three months. on the
charge of melting strikes and the closing of
shops
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TROOPS WILL HAVE BEER.
Texas Will Establish Canteens in the
State Camp.

Canteen discussion is likely to be re-
vived this summer II the state of Texas
carries out its reported intention of estab-
fishing on the state maneuver camp near
Austin, Texas, canteens where beer may be
sold during the period of joint encampment
from July 27 to September 30 when the
National Guard of the state viii be asso-
ciated with United States troops on a
summer camp of instruction. 1t has been
the custom of the National Guard authori-
ties of Texas to permit the sale of beer on
their camp site, using the profits for the
Improvement of the camp. AS the ma
neuyer ground, where state and federal
troops will cooperate, is under state juris-
diction, the federal authorities are not ex-
pected to interfere with the practice.
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ANARCHIST STORY PUNCTURED.
Seattle German Reported a Victim of
Secret Enemy.


SEATTLE. Wash, July. 1.-The central
committee of the United German So2ieties
at its, regular meeting last night declared
that August Rosenberg. arrested in Ger
many upon suspicion of being an anarchist
with designs against the life of Emperor
William, was nothing but harmless mixer
of paints.
The letter which caused the arrest of
Rosenberg, the members of the society
claim, was written by secret enemy of
Rosenberg's to the authorities in the father
land. A prominent member Of the commit
tee having known Rosenberg for several
years states that Rosenberg in
ventor and investigator of paint compounds
and that the chemicals and appaI atus found
in Rosenbergs old shop were all for the
purpose of experimentation in this line.
Most of his supplies in his researches
were purchased from a local firm, and DR.
Warmburg. chemist, was often called into
consultation by Rosenberg toucafng his ex-
perimentS
According to this committeeman Rosen-
berg seventy-two years of age had
amassed about $4,000, a competency for
himself and wife. and his return to Ger
many was to spend the rest Of his days in
ease.
altoona, Prussia, July 7.-August Ro-
senberg, formerly of Seattle, Wash who
was arrested here yesterday as a suspected
anarchist, affirms that he is an American
citizen. who sold his property in Seattle
and returned here with the intention of
passing the remainder of his life IN the VIII
lage of Luet tjenburg, province of SchleSwg-
Hostein, where his wife was brought up.
He is sfxty-five years old, and says he has
passed the time of life for energetic deeds,
even IL he believed in them. His wife, who
was arrested at the same time, has been
liberated
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SUMMONS FOR ROCKEFELLER.
Ordered to Appear at Standard Oil
Hearing at Findlay.

FINDLAY, Ohio. July Judge Banker
of the probate court has issued a summons
for John D. Rockefeller in connection with
the suit recently filed here against the
Standard Oil Company and Mr. Rockefel-
1er, in which it is alleged that the Valen-
tine antitrust law has been violated by the
Standard or its subsidiary companies.
The summons has been turned over to
Sheriff Groves. who states that he will
make service upon Mr.. Rockefeller soon
as the latter returns from Europe. Sheriff
Groves has gone to Cleveland to serve sum
mons upon the Standard Oil Company
through one of it's officers.
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WON BY CAMBRIDGE
DEFEATED OXFORD IN THE AN
NUAL CRICKET MATCH.

LONDON, July 7.-Cambrdge today won
the seventy-second annual Inter-university
cricket match, defeating oxford by "a runs
Cambridge closed their first innings with
the big total of $50 runs and oxford in their
first innings were d smssed for 1S7 runs.
Cambridge in their second innings this
morning declared play closed after the
score had reached 24S runs for six wickets
down.
Oxford scored rapidly during their second
innings, but were all out for 1927 runs
The attendance was large throughout the
three days play.
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s25 1000 Fire Damage to Coke Bunker

CAMDEN. n. J., July THE coke bunk
er of tho Camden Coke Company. which is
controlled by the public service corpora
tion. was destroyed by fire today. entailing
loss OF $4,000 on the structure. The
damage to the machinery and the loss on
the stored coke. which burned for hours,
could not he estimated. according to General
Agent James r. Gilkerson. The bunker
was built on pile pier extending sixty
feet into the Delaware river and contained
valuable electrical machinery which oper-
ated the coke separators and screens The
tremen We're kept at distance by the In
tense heat emanating from the burning
coke.
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HE SHOWS HIS
HAND At LAST
Trepoff Wants a Ministry of
Constitutional Democrats.
ISSUES ARE TO BE FORCED
"Carpet Knights" Relegated to the
Background.
AMNESTY FOR SOME OFFENDERS
Advices From a Democratic League of
Libau of Another Fiendish Out
rage Upon Prisoner.
AMNESTY FOR SOME OFFENDERS

Trepoff has shown his hand. Just
what would be the next move on
the diplomatic chess board of this
past master of manipulation and
cunning has been query in the
Russian situation for days. Ever
fraught with relative surprises, his
last advocacy of ministry of con-
stitutional democrats, simply serves
to heap complications on already
extremely conglomerated condi-
tions. With Goremylin damned
as a procrastinator and vacillating
creature of the political, storm
tossed currents Trepoff's position
is one of increased strength. The
issue will shortly be forced. New
blood is to be infused in the guard
corps and the carpet knights" will
be placed in the background. In
famies continue. A tale of match
itSS IlCi III ID lNSllCd DIT lIlDdu. TIC
wrists of a political prisoner were
broken and his chest crushed sim
ply because he desired not to go
10 the scaffold.
ST. PETERSBURG. July T.--Gen. Tre-
poff's advocacy OF a ministry composed of
constitutional democrats introduces a new
element into the situation. which, though
the fall of the GOremylrin cabinet is mo-
mentarily postponed. is steadily trending
toward parliamentary government as being
the only expedlent which may ward off the
impending storm of anarchy. The state
ment which he made during the interview
at Peterhof yesterday shows that the con-
stitutonal democrats have wholly unex-
pected and perhaps undesired ally at court
and in Premier Goremykin an opponent
who IS held in contempt as a procrastinator
and drifter.
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Callers at the Tombs Today.

William Thaw, the prisoners nephew and
another young man called at the Tombs to-
day. They were not permitted TO see Thaw
and went away. Terence ]. McManus who
accompanied the young men to the prison.
had long talk with Thaw
Afterwards, in speaking of the mental ex-
aminations which have been made by DR..
Hamilton, Mr. McManus said:
so far as ii has proceeded the examina-
ton has been absolutely satisfactory to the
defense"
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AUTOMOBILES FOR TROOPS.
Four viii Be Tested at the Mt.
Gretna Encampment,

The four automobiles purchased by the
War Department for use during the mobili-
zation maneuvers viii be sent overland"
from Washington to Mount Gretna, Pa.
Experiments will be made with them there
ut the headquarters of Gen. Grant in order
to test their value to the military estab-
lishment. Subsequently they will be sent
for the same purpose to other camps of
instruction.
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general spoke with his usual remarka bic
hiuntness. not attempting To cover the des-
perate condition of the country and the
strength of the revolutionary cause and
giving the lie direct to Prince Urusuff
whom he further characterized as a traitor
who had sold himself In the hope of get
ting a place In the new government.
Will Force an Issue.
The interview with Gen. TrepofT will pre-
cipitate remarkable sensation when II is
repubiished here and force an issue at
Peterhof between the Goremykin and Tre-
por factions.
The constitutional democrats viii take no
part in that portion of the policy of the
radicals which can only plunge the countr,,
into streams of blood. Parliament must
exist as the Instrument of pacifcation or
not at all. The constitutional democrats
in the future bound to actively combat
the tactics OF the extremists as we'll as
those of the government,
The inspiration for the disorders in the
guards and ether troops Is clearly traced
10 the socialist organizatio tion. The police
are investigating the movements OF ri. Al
iadin. the peasant leader in the lower mouse,
hoping to connect him with the mutiny Of
the 1st Battalion of the Preobrajensky Reg
tnent.
Words of Mutiny.
The resolutions drawn up by the mutt
nous garrison OF Osowiec. one of the great
fortresses uefencing the toiiSh iFonter
against German invasion, thirty-five miles
northwest OF Bialystok. include the usual
social revolutionary demands for the ma
tionalzation OF the land. full amnesty for
political offenders and the summoning oil
a constituent assembly. and also go TO the
length or demanding the abolition of au-
thortty of the officers, permission TO leave
OF their uniforms except when on duty, the
election OF non-commissioned officers and
the reference OF all matters OF discipline
to an elected court, TO be composed of en-
listed men
Carpet Knights Replaced
In the reorganization of the Guard Corps
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Ocean Steamship Movements,

SIASCONSET, Mass, July THE steam
er st. Paul from Southampton and Cher
bourg for New York. was sixty miles east
of the Nantucket Ightship at Sis am.
Will probably dock about pm.
The steamer Celtic, from Liverpool ana
Queenstown for New York. was 10) miles
east OF the Nantucket nghtship at $50 a. m.
VIII probably dock about am Sunday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-07

Bryan. and to the certain knowledge OF the
writer the idea has been favorably received
by some of the most prominent democrats
In Congress. Mr.. Towne is apprec!ative Of
the kindly attitude of those leaders and has
never concealed the fact that he would be
Eratified to run on the ticket with Bryan.
1t will be recalled that in 1900 It was
Bryan's wish that Towne should be his
running mate. and for two days at Kansas
City il seemed assured that Towne would
be selected. But David B. Hill interviewed
at the last moment and insisted upon the
choice of AdIaf Stevenson to placate some
supposed ultra conservative element in the
party, with the result that the ticket lost
a great deal of strength that Towne.s un-
doubted popularity in the west would have
brought 1t. with but doubtful compensation
from the ultra conservatives
1t is known to some men in Washington
that Bryan still entertains the same feeling
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-07
FRANTZ INQUIRY CLOSED.
Oklahoma Governor Given Chance to
Answer Charges.

GUTHRIE. Okla, July Gov. Frantz
had hearing yesterday by Inspector Nc
Laughlin and Inspector Burns of the 1nte-
rior Department on charges duplicating him
in Usage Nation oil lease matters. He was
given copy of all the evidence and atttda-
Wits with the privilege of answering.
Gov. Frantz refused absolutely to talk
for publication. He says the investigation
is now closed and all the matter will be
filed soon in Washington.
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MR.. BARNES BOND.
Ready at Last and He Will Assume
His Duties Tonight

Benjamin F. Barnes, who has experienced
many delays in procuring his bond of $780,
coo, which is required of him before he can
assume charge of the post Office, will as
sumo charge tonight. when the transfer
will be formally made. The money order
Office and the registry division closed up
their accounts at noon today, so that Mr.
Barnes might know exactly how the ac-
counts stood. He has perfected his bond
and received his commission duly signed.
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delegates to wireless Conference.

BERLIN, July THE foreign office has
been notified that the delegates Of the
United States to the International wireless
telegraph conference. which will assemble
in Berlin September 8. will be Ambassador
Tower. Brig. Gen. James Allen. Gear Ad-
mira1 H. N. Manney and John j. Water
bury of New York. General Allen Admiral
Manney and Mr.. Waterbury were norni-
mated respectively by Departments of War.
Navy and Commerce.
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POSSE HOT AFTER CULPRIT.
Alleged Attempt to Assault Virginia
White Woman.

- NORFOLK, Va, July IA special dis
patch to the Ledger Dispatch from Suffolk,
Va, today says posse Of farmers is scour-
ing the Berlin section of Southampton coun-
ty, Va, for an unknown negro who at
tempted to assault Miss Lucy Worrell. aged
twenty years, daughter Of L. j. Worrell,
farmer. The young woman was attacked
by the negro while alone in the house
Thursday preparing the midday meal.
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No News of Steamer Reported on Fire

NEW YORK, July 7.-Nothing has been
learned here today of the New York bound
steamer which was reported on fire near
Plum Island in Long Island sound last
night The Plum Island report said that
the fire apparently was under control and
that the steamer was proceeding to her
destination Observers at City Island who
have been constantly on the lookout since
that time however, had seens nothing OF tho
steamer up to 10 o'clock today, and her
identity has not been determined
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Condition Of Salisbury Wreck Victims
SALISBURY, England July THE bull
letin issued this morning at the infirmary
where the injured passengers of the Ply
mouth steamer express are being cared for
says that the condition of Robert =. Crit
cheIi of Chicago has not improved. Mrs
Frank Koch of Allentown, Pa, passed a
good night. The condition OF the others Is
Improved.
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BRYAN HEADS THE TICKET
That Seems to Be Generally Con-
ceded.
CONFIDENCE IN ELEcTING HIM
Belief in Democratic Success-FolIow-
ing the Nebraskan's Movements
Very Closely.

Representative Charles A. Towne passed
through the city today returning from
trip to South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois. on
which he gathered some very distinct Inn
pressions of political conditions in the mid
die west. In conversation with Star
man Mr.. Towne said:
Among democrats in the west only one
man is being talked about-Bryan- II is
taken for granted that he is to be the demo-
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Attempt to Wreck an Illinois Hotel.

LINCOLN, ILL.,, July IAN inenectual
attempt was made before dawn today to
wreck the Commercial Hotel with dyna-
mite. A bomb, which had been thrown into
an area way. exploded with terrific force
damaging wall OF the hosiery and break
ing many windows In the vicinity bur
none, of the guests was injured. Al man
suspected OF the outrage is under survefi-
ance. bur sufficient evidence has not beer
gathered to warrant an arrest.