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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30

man and Austrian emperors and Ger
man troops are ready to invade our
country to defend the government
which opposes the people, with the
power of foreign arms. By such nego-
tiations we declare the government has
betrayed the country as now outside
the limits of the law.
Soldiers and Sailors: Your sacred
duty is to free the Russian people from
a treacherous government and defend
parliament Every man falling in this
holy war will cover himself with eter-
nal fame. The Russian people will
bless his name. In this struggle your
elected representatives will be with
you. Be brave Ror the fatherland for
the people, and for the land of liberty,
against the criminal government"
Social Democrats Active.
ST Petersburg. July 3O.-The central
committee of the social democrats has
been hastily summoned here from the
provinces. 1t has been formally decid-
ed to support the action of the revolu-
groups last week in pushing the
agitation for a general strike and up
rising Of the social democrats. The
central committee in it's resolution an
nounced the aim of the revolution is
to secure a constituent assembly of
the Russian people to decide on the fu-
ture form of government
Premier Stolypin has issued a spe-
cial circular to the governors instruct
ing them to employ every means to
compel the payment of taxes now fall
ing due, as well as arrearages. The
last official kilograms from Poltava,
where a serious outbreak occurred |
July % in the first battalion of the |
Sevsky regiment, say order has been
but the affair is still shroud- |
I'd in considerable mystery.
Nevertheless enough is known to es-
ablish the fact that the loyal troops |
Ised machine guns against their mu-
inous comrades. which alone is suf- |
icient to cause a deep impression in
he army generally.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30

ment is sending troops to shoot anC
beat them. Why will you defend the
government? Do you, yourselves. live
so we'll? Are you not yourselves in d
state IF servitude? You are in a worse
state of bondage than all the others
You are given slavish employment as
officers servants; you are tormented
in the discipline of battalions; for ev.
cry free word you are sent to hard la
Dor or to be shot.
The Desired Laws.
1--WE, the representatives of the peo-
pie. wished to promulgate laws, pro-
viding for the reduction of the term of
military service to two years and the
abolition of the soldiers employment
as servants, for the payment of a
monthly wage to soldiers. and the eff
fective prevention of all insults to the
rank and file by those placed over
them. We wished to improve the lot
of the soldiers, but the great aim before
us was to improve the lot of the whole
working population. To prevent all
this the government hastened to dis
solve parliament.
oOlNlelS anu w Z. legally
elected Representatives of the peasants
and workingmen, declare to you that
without a parliament the government
is illegal. The orders which it may
now issue have no legal force We call
on you
"Firstly-To cease to obey the illegal
government: to actively oppose it in
with us and the whole of
the poor population. You have taken
the oath to defend the fatherland.
Stand beside us for land and liberty
'Secondly-Any man who shoots at
he people is a criminal. a traitor, an
enemy of the people. We inform all
such. in the name of their fathers and
brothers. they will not be allowed to
return to their homes that over their
names will hang the eternal curse of
he people.
'Thirdly-The government has en-
cred into negotiations with the Ger
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30
TRAIN IN A SLIDE
Peculiar Catastrophe Overtake S
Express on New York
Central.
WORST SINCE TUNNEL WRECK
Whole Car Load lmperiIed, But For
tunately Only One is Dead so
Far.

New Hamburg, July 3O.-The tracks
were cleared this morning of the debris
of the wreck of the New York Cen
| trails Pacific express which ran into a
| landslide a mile south of New Ham
| burg last night, resulting in the death
| of the engineer Edward Warren, and
injuries to about dozen passengers,
none of which will prove fatal. Harry
Taylor, member of the Poughkeepsie
baseball team, was seriously injured.
s. First Since Great Disaster
The wreck was the first that has oc-
CURED on the Hudson river division
since the New York tunnel disaster It
seems miraculous there were no casu-
alties or serious injuries among the
passengers, especially with regard to
twenty or more men who were in the
combination smoking and baggage car
which. when the locomotive turned
over after ploughing for 40 feet into
great heap of the gravel which had
fallen down upon the train, shot up
ward. and then turning almost at a
right angle, came down with a crash
across all three tracks.
Joseph Shine, of Poughkeepsie. who
was in the forward part of the smoker
felt the floor knocked out from under
him and as the car landed, without
turning over, he was dropped into the
river, and swan ashore uninjured.
DR.. E. McCambridge, Poughkeepsie,
was thrown through a window, and
with another man fell upon the tender
which had turned over on its side and
lay embedded in the gravel bank. Meth |
er was hurt to any extent. Other pass
engers had equally narrow escapes, get |
ting off with slight cuts and bruises. |
rhe most seriously injured was E. w. |
Kelly of Poughkeepsie, who sustained |
4 broken shoulder. but many were
stunned
Fireman Instantly Killed.
Fireman Warren was dead. when he
and the engineer were lifted out of the
locomotive which turned at a right
angle from the train, darted across the
rack, turning on its side, and lay on
IN embankment with the front boiler in
he river The engineer died three
hours later.
John Carstens. baggageman, who
was thrown through the window of the
smoker, received a very deep cut in
he wrist, Notwithstanding which he
seized a lantern and ran north to pre-
Ient any southbound train from run
ling into the wreck
Wreck on the Pennsylvania.
Columbus. Ind. July 30.-Through
of orders south
)ound Pennsylvania passenger train
,oliided with a Madison accommoda-
ion in the. yards here today Fifteen
,r more persons were injured, none, it
S believed, dangerously.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30

John voss of Chicago, Charged
With Murder of Wife and
Burning Body.
LYNCHING WAS THREATENED
Charred Remains Are Discovered After
Quarrel-TeIIs Strange
Story.

Chicago. July 30.-FOllowing the find
ing of the charred body of Mrs. Ernes,
tina Voss in the burned ruins of her
home, 230O West Addison avenue. ear
ly yesterday morning. friends and rela-
tives of the woman tried to lynch her
husband, John Voss, a truck gardener,
whom they claim murdered the woman
and then fired the place in order to
hide his crime.
VOss was rescued from the hands of
his neighbors, who threatened to throw
him into the fire, which was still burn
ing, by the police of the Irving Park
station, who locked him up and put
many questions TO him during the en-
tire day.
Heard the QuarreIing.
Neighbors testified to hearing the
couple Quarreling during the night up
TO the time the fire was discovered
and VOss admits that they had quar-
relied, but with all the questioning and
being taken to view the charred and
unrecOgnizable remains of his wife he
still sticks TO the story he first told
the police that he knows nothing of
how his wife came to her death.
Tells Conflicting Stories.
Mrs Voss' body was dragged from
the charred embers of a summer kitch-
en- adjoining the Voss home after the
firemen had answered to a still alarm.
VOss himself was the first to point out
to the firemen where the body of his
wife lay, although before their arrival
he had told neighbors who had search
ed for her that she may have gone to
relatives in Hansen Park to spend the
night. Taken altogether. the stories
told by Voss to the police and others
show many discrepancies and the po-
lice believe they have murder mys-
terry second to none in the city 10
solve.
Voss is locked up in a cell.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30
Eiaht for Mexican RIGHTS.

City of Mexico, July 30.-Notwith-
standing the organization of Mexican
life insurance company with ample
capital with the object of carrying on
business In Mexico and Central Amer
lea. there is no intention on the part of
big New York life insurance companies
already here to abandon the field. They
have something like s100.O00,000 out
standing and find the field profitable
one. Two of these companies own
their own buildings.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30
RAPS La Toilette
AND QUITS THE RACE
j.. j. McGilIivray Withdraws from Gu
bernatoriaI Fight in Wiseon-
sin,

Milwaukee. July 30.-State Senator
J. ]. McGillivray has withdrawn from
the race for the republican nomination
for governor of Wisconsin and says his
action is due to the interference of
Senator La Toilette" In a statement
addressed to the voters of Wisconsin
Mr. McGillivray declares that the re-
publican party. half free and half
bossed," will not remain in control for
long.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30
Tragedy Attends Capsiz-
ing of Heavily La
den Yachts
ON A DANGEROUS BAR
Sad Sunday Disaster Occurs
Off AngIesea,
N. J.

Anglesea, n. J., July 30-Two yachts
crowded with eXcursionists from Phil
adelphia and vicinity who had come
an easterly gale ON treacherous Here
ford Bar off this place yesterday, and
eight persons were drowned.
That the number of victims was not
greatly multiplied was due to the hero
ic efforts of a volunteer life saving
crew under the command of Captain
Henry S. Ludlam and the crews of a
number of other yachts. These men
put out into the boiling seas and res
cued sc persons who were clinging to
the overturned craft or weakly swim
ming in the vicinity. Their work was
cheered by thousands of persons who
thronged the board walk and looked
on, helpless to aid the men they could
see fighting for life only a short dis
tance out.
1t was at first thought that from Ii
to 2S persons had been lost, but after
an investigation the coroner gave the
number as eight. His list is as fol-
lows:
Bodies Recovered.
FREDERICK FISHER, Sr., Phila-
delphia.
HERBERT HAMMEL, Lansdale. Pa.
WALTER SNYDER. Philadelphia.
JOHN FOGARTY, Haverford, Pa.
J. STARKEY, Philadelphia.
JERRY DONOHUE, Philadelphia
UNKNOWN MAN.
Missing.
SAMUEL LODNER, Woodbury., N. J..
The Greatest Disaster.
Of the two accidents the destruction
of the sloop yacht Nora, Captain Her
bert Shiver, was by far the most dis
astrous OF 80 passengers and two in
the crew of the ill fated pleasure boat
seven perished.
OF II persons aboard the Alvin B.,
Captain Burch, only one is known to
have been drowned.
1t was while returning from the fish
ing banks that the Nora B was cap
sized. The luckless passengers, caught
in a tangled mass of cordage and sails
and imprisoned under the overturned
yacht, had only half chance for their
lives.
The Nora is one of the fleet of pleas
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30
Terror Amona Worshipers.

Warsaw, July 30.-While a church
of Wilnaw, suburb. was filled with
outside began firing rapidly with a re-
volver A ponic followed. the service
was broken up and the congregation in
wild effort to escape crowded on a
ferry boat, which sank drowning five
nerSOnS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30
Workmen Gut Brewery.

St Petersburg, July 30.-Two thous-
and workmen completely gutted the
brewery on Schlossel road here last
night. Before a detachment of Cos
sacks that was sent TO disperse them
arrived, the mob had destroyed prac-
tically everything.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30
RUSSIAN PARl LAMENT ISSUES APPEAL TO
THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS TO FIGHT THE CAR

st. Petersburg, July 3O.-The full
adopted July 81 by the radical group
of the outlawed parliament in conjunc-
ton with the central committees of the
proletariat organizations. followax
Soldiers and Sailors: The govern
ment has by imperial command dis
solved the parliament and troops have
been assembled from all sides to op-
press the people by armed force The
peoples representatives were elected
from among your fathers and brothers
in order to lay before the emperor the
needs of the people and obtain a land
of libety. But the emperor would not
listen to the elect of the people. He
hearkened to his former councillors,
grand dukes, ministers, generals. and
the wealthiest landowners, who did not
want to give up their lands, their prop
critics, their emoluments or their ire
sponsible power.
RUSSIA In Two Parts.
Russia is now divided into two
parts. On one side is the vast majority
of all peasants, workmen and all poor
and oppressed, the best educated, most
enlightened citizens, soldiers who see
most clearly, the best officers, all mar
tyrs in jails, including many thousands
of soldiers and sailors On the other
side is collection of oppressors, such
as Trepoff, Pobedenostheoff, and Man
churian generals who ran away from
the Japanese, but who fired on the peo-
pie at Moscow and Odessa and Tohita.
petty government officials. police spies
and the whole black hundred. and these
rely on your strength to beat down the
whole Russian people Will you shoot
people and transfix our peoples breasts
with bayonets? Remember, you are
children of peasants that at the same
ime in villages where you were born
7Our own brothers who are remaining
lone are also agitating, also demand
ng a land of liberty, that the govern
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30
Killed In a Boiler Explosion.

Vincennes, Ind, July 30.-Six men
were killed and three injured in boil
er explosion at Shepard & Co.'S paper
mill today. The men were engaged in
placing new boilers in the mill. The
old boilers were still in use and work
men had started to take them out when
suddenly the explosion occurred. The
boiler room was demolished. The prop
erty loss is $4,000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30
kNlTS A MOOSE FROM
YARN GIVEN HER
Woman Inmate of Pennsylvania Asy-
Iun Commits Suicide With Rope
She Made.

Philadelphia, July 30.-Mrs. Laura
Hammel, an inmate of the Frankfort
asylum for the insane, was given some
yarn and some modern knitting nee
dies. She crocheted rope and with it
hanged herself. She had been afflicted
with suicidal mania for year, but the
asylum physicians never suspected the
suicidal possibilities in a skein of yarn.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30
SOMNAM BULIST WALKS OUT
OF SECOND STORY WINDOW
St. Louis Man Sustains Fatal
Fall in His
Sleep.

ST. Louis, July 30.1,While walking in
his sleep early yesterday morning.
Frank Warfel, "a years old. stepped
out of a second story window at 1411
Washington avenue. He sustained a
fractured skull and died at the city hos
pital a few hours later.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30
The REGULAR WAY.

Salt Lake City, Utah, July 30.-Jo-
seph McMann, the aeronaut, who fell
at the Salt palace last night owing TO
the failure of his parachute to work,
died today. McMann's home was near
Des Moines, Iowa.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30
Trepoff Not Asssssinated.

st. Petersburg, July 30.-The runor
last night that General Trepoff had
been assassinated, turns out to be base
less.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30
Plans for Reception to
Great Statesman Are
Determined Upon.
MONTH FROM TODAY
To be Met at Battery and Es-
corted Up Broadway
The Addresses.

New York, July 30.-William ]. Bry-
an, it was announced last night. desires
it to be known that he will outline his
the next democratic national CONVEX
ton should be fought in his Madison
Square garden speech on Aug. 80.
This is the official program OF the
Bryan reception as announced yester-
day at headquarters of the reception
executive committee, at the VictoRa
hotel
Reception at Battery.
Bryan will be met at the battery on
the afternoon of Aug. 80 by members
of the reception committee in carriag-
es. He will enter a carriage in which
will be Governor Folk of Missouri,
chairman of the reception committee;
Tom l.. Johnson. mayor of Cleveland,
and, possibly. some other prominent
democrats Headed by the Bryan car
riage, the procession will move up
Broadway to the Victoria hotel. Bryan
will meet democratic leaders and dine
there
In the evening he will be escorted to
Madison Square garden for the recep-
tion. Governor Folk will call the meet
ing in the garden to order, and will
make a speech, after which he will in
trOduce Mayor Johnson 10 preside. Au-
gustus THOMAS will deliver the address
of welcome on behalf of the CONNER
cial Travellers Antitrust league. Bry-
an viii then deliver his Grafton on DEM
ocTatic issues for 1908.
Great ThrOnR Promised.
More than 900 acceptances to invita-.
tions to the reception have been re-
ceived. Word was received yesterday
from the treasurer of the reception
committe. that Alexander TrOup of
New Haven, in regard to the popular
for the Bryan reception
that the subscriptions have been pour
ing in upon him will be in the end all
that Bryan expected on the score of
the number who are contributing. and
the Willingness TO give dollar toward
he cause.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30

ure boats which, running from Angle
sea direct and from Grassy Sound by
way of Hereford Inlet. take parties of
excursionists out TO the banks, some 10
miles out to sea. where the fish are
most plentiful.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30
TO Be SURE.
Bitter Fight in Iowa Republican
Convention at Des
Moines.
FACTIONS ARE LINED UP
Cummins Men for Progress - Perkins
for "Stand Pat"-Out look for
Bolt

Des Moines, July 30-The republi-
morning to arrange the preliminaries
for the state convention which will be
held here Wednesday. The counties
are entitled to 1,640 delegates About
200 are contested. The committee will
consider the contest this afternoon.
Control of the temporary organization
of the convention will depend upon the
action of the committee regarding
these contests.
Governor Cummins. who is a candi-
date for denomination. claims to have
a majority of the delegates. The ad-
herents of George ID. Perkins, who is
also candidate for governor. maintain
there were Irregularities in quite a
number of the county conventions, and
tions selected by majority in such
conventions.
If the central committee decides to
take up the matter of contested states,
and to prepare preliminary delegates
convention, to take part in the tempo
rary organization, it is asserted by the
friends of Perkins they will control the
preliminary organization. The friends
of Cummins insisting they have a ma
jOrity intend, it is said to assert their
rights to take charge of the convention
themselves.
Bitter Feeling Prevails.
The feeling on both sides is appar
emily very bitter and if the central COM
mittee makes up the preliminary roll,
which gives the Perkins men control
at state. it is not unlikely the proceed
ings of the convention from the begin
ming, will be characterized by the live
liest kind of a verbal warfare and a
bolt is among the possibilities.
The committee is understood toI
stand seven "standpat." and four pro-
gressive, the former being the war
cry. of the Perkins men and the lat
-eI the slogan of the Cummins follow
ers.
The outcome is uncertain with con-
tested delegates eliminated into two
factions will be about equally divided,
a majority either way not exceeding
perhaps 25.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30
Bar is Dangerous.

The weather and sea were heavy and
Hereford Bar is a bad place to cross
even in fine weather. In heavy wealth
er the crossing is exceptionally danger
Gus. Just as the bar was reached d
heavier gust of wind than had been
blowing struck the Nora. Captain Shiv-
ers threw the boats head up to meet
it. but before she could right herself
from the gust and the accompanying
wave she was struck by the following
sea and turned turtle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30

Columbus. Ind. July 30.-ThrOugh a
misunderstanding of orders a south
bound Pennsylvania passenger train
cofiided with a Madison accommoda-
ton in the. yards here today. Fifteen
or more persons were injured, none, it
is believed, dangerously.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-30
Life saver is Hero.

That many of the survivors of the
Nora are still alive is due to the work
of Captain Ludlam, who is in charge of
the United States life saving station
mile from where the Nora capsized.
Captain Ludlam WIS at dinner when
the lookout reporte' sloop in trouble
at the bar. He hastily gathered togeth-
er volunteer crew of five and launch
ed the government life boat. In sum-
mer the government life savers are not
in service.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-30
FAMOUS FRENCH BEAUTY.

Nine Liane de Pougy Is as indiS-
pensable to the Paris season, as, say,
Nine. Sarah Bernhard and M. Henri
Rochefort. She is the most famous
of Parision professional beauties. Her
adventures have given her fame
such as falls to the lot of few act
resses. Her beauty Is of remarka-
BILE order, classic and pure in its lines.
Now, unfortunately, writes the Paris
correspondent of the Pail Mall Ga
zette, she has met with an accident
when motoring in the Bois, and will
have to keep her bed for some time
in consequence.
Besides being endowed with great
physical charms, which, in them
selves are quite sufficient to earn the
attention and admiration of the Parl-
sian public Lame de Pougy is SAID
to be possessed of considerable
wealth, which she gained as the re-
suit of valuable information given
her by friends of an approaching rise
in the sugar market. Moreover, she
is an authoress, and has produced a
book which describes rather naively,
the fascination which she exercises
sometimes over her own sex, The
book is made splendid by portrait,
of her own self, which forms the
frontispiece. She has a salon, also,
like any grande dame, and the level
of conversation Is said to be intellec-
tual as we'll as merely amusing. Nine.
de Pougy shares with Nine Cleo de
Merode and La Belle Otero the posi-
tion of being the most-talkedof Par
isienne
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-30
BAYONNE DEMOCRATS
LOOK FOR A LEADER.
Objections to Committee Naming
One Are Heard-Contest Com.
ing i'm Republican Club.

BAYONNE, Nov. S0:--Steps are
the democratic party in Bayonne and
the selection of a new leader to Sue
ceed former Mayor Egbert Seymour,
who has concluded to retire. The de-
feat in the last two elections OF the
party has caused demand for new
man at the head of the organization.
In the opinion of many democrats a
leader should be selected by the en-
tire party not by committee, as
is proposed. Mr.. Seymour has been
empowered to name the committee,
but this plan will meet with opposi-
ton. The party is not in the best of
shape, and efforts are to be made to
get 1t united within the next few
months.
The republicans, having obtained
control of the city's affairs, will strive
to retain it. Monday evening next
the annual meeting of the republican
club will be held and it promises to
be lively. There is to be a contest
for nearly every Office The biggest
fight will be for committeeman at
large, and in this Mayor Pierre Gar
ven will take part. He has announced
himself for one of the four places of
committeeman at large, and so have
william Laubenheimer, Councilman
Frederick w. Farr, Assemblyman
Samuel Feldman and Charles e. Hen
erickson.