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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04
MISS SUTTON TAKES
HER VICTORY EASILY
Young American Glad, From Pa
tliotic Impulse, That SHE is
Worlds Tennis Champion.
LONDON J4llY 25.

LONDON.F J4lly %.
Miss May Sutton. tile young Calitor-
Man, who has succeeded in becoming the
worlds champion in lawn tennis. is the
heroine Of the hour here, although the
English would naturally have preferred
that her rival Mrs. Chambers, would
i;haye Won.
Miss Sutton takes her honors easily, al
though she Is quite elated over her series
of victories Induced to talk to II re-
porter Of a leading daily Immediately
after her victory, she said:
II do not diet at all before playing. /
eat and drink just what i fancy. The
only change In my life l make is In tho
matter " sleep. keep early hours and
sleep All can for Il few weeks before
playing. People who only know lawn
tennis ns q; garden-party game have very.
Very little notion of the tremendous nerve
strain a match like this last one entails.
am supposed to have nerves OF steel,
and suppose have. but before a match
1 do feel oddly strung UP,
tTheoretlcally, SUPPOSE one should
do everything to cultivate II quick eye, n
supple body and strong neryes--or none
at all. Practically, ] guess Il champion
is Il good player aided by circumstances
/ love tennis better than anything, except
music; but play other games Mt home
basketball In particularly ] can't under
stand the fascination of cricket a bit; in
tennis you are doing something all the
time
II am going into the country for few
days and then I've promised to, play in
Canada. Otherwise would have liked
Ito have gone 10 Homburg for some
games. They tell me the courts there
are as perfect as they can be- However,
another time, perhaps. ! will have u
chance oyer there.
"I'm awfully glad to have won; it's
another little feather In Americas cap,
you see, and am a patriotic person." she
added. as she looked anHiously over to
the courts, where another fierce contest
| was In progress
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04
STRIKING POLICEMEN
. BES|EGED BY SOLDIERS
Anuse Themselves BY Disclosing
to the Crowd Many Depart
nnent Secrets.
ORDER ILLEGAL, VOTING

VIENNA. Aug. 8.
A remarkable situation has arisen at
Neusandee Galicia, ION account of q
strike of the municipal police force for
higher wages.
The project ordered the strikers yester-
day to leave the police barracks, but they
refused to go. "A number of gendarmes
were summoned to eject them, and bat
tie with swords followed.
Several persons We're injured on both
sides. and the police finally repulsed the
gendarmes, and barricaded themselves in
the barracks.
A company OF soldiers was then sent
for and proceeded to invest the barra cks
with the intention of starving the police
out. The besleged policemen accepted
the situation phlosophically, and amused
themselves this afternoon by shouting POI
lice secrets from an upper window to
crowds of townsmen assembled In the
streets.
Thus one policeman announced that he
had voted forty-five times in different
names and DISCUSSES at the recent CALI
clan elections, and that in doing so he
acted under orders from the authorities.
1t lis now announced that the Polish
Radicals will bring UP these revelations
in the Riechsrath.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04
BURGLAR; CAUGHT BY
FIRE .EXTIN GU|SHER
iris Turns Oh the Hose and
Drenches Him With a
Chemical Fluid.
3 Adj y SCARED
EDINBURGH. Aug. b

EDINBURGH, Aug. g.
A remarkable story of "a girls pluck
and resource comes from. the far north
of Scotland
s Sackville House, Bowen-by-Wick the
residence of Mrs. Sinclair Wemyss, was
broken into by u temp, who is believed
to be Ct German nationality, while the
family We're at dinner
The first to discover the intruder was
the butler. who, af.er a great struggle,
was knocked down and rendered uncon-
Scious.
Two other servants attracted by the
noise were attacked by the tramp, and
during the scuftc the daughter OF the
house, 16 years old. rushed out Of the
dining room, and ~ once took patent
fire eXtinguisher which was hanging on
the wall from its hook and squirted the
chemical contents into the face Of the
burglar
The man, utterly unnerved by this un-
expected attack, ana believing, probably.
that he was blinded for life, gave a
shrek and bolted out Of the front door.
He was. however, captured later on,
and Is now lying III the local jail await
ing trial.
The eXtnguiGhc- was cone-shaped
apparatus with a kncb a the top. When
the knob Is struck on the floor the ex-
tinguisher can be held horizontally, and
powerful jet Is thrown distance of
5thirty-nve feet Z. was this Jet which
settled tho burglar 2
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04
STONED. TO DEATH
FATE OF .EX-MAY0R.
Village Citrate Arrested for In
citing Crime, Which Was Dueto
Political Fanaticisrn.
AT WAR WITH SUPERIOR

MILAN. Aug. 3.
signor Logic. cx-Mayor of Barzizza,
village on the outskirts Of Bergamo was
barbarously waylaid and stoned to death
by political enemies while returning home
across lonely mulepath on Thursday
night. The assassins appear to have first
stunned their victim and then dragged
him some twenty yards across field
where they flung him into a ditch and
there dispatched him.
Don Domenico Milesi, the village curatc
has been arrested on the charge OF hav-
Ing instigated the crime. This cleric has
given much trouble to the ecclesiastical
authorities on account Of his notoriety as
q political agitator. He had led fierce
opposition against Signor Loglio, SO as to
divide the district into two hostile cam ps
Of almost equal strength. 1.-The bishop.
with a view to restoring peace, recently
ordered N1ilesi to resign his seat on the
local municipal Council. but the priest.
tits alleged, gave the diocesan to under.
stand that. rather than retire as one van
pushed from the district where he had
worked for twenty years, he preferred to
east aside the cassock
This week new elections We're due. and
consequently. party feeling was at fever
heat. Signor Loglio announced to his
friends several days ago that there was a
plot Matching against his life.
After the murder the band Of assassins
marched into the village. where they
stoned the residences of the victim and
OF the aged parish priest who had striyen
to curb his curate's political fanaticisln
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04
NAVAL OFFICER LOST
in AUSTRALIAN BUSH.
iWandcrs Aimlcssly About for
-Four Days Suffering From
Bsant Of Food and Water.
MELBOURNE, All

"A thrilling story OF the privations en-
Cured by Engineer Commander Ethel
bert Silk of the cruiser Pyramus, who
was lost for five days In the bush near
Port Darwin, is told In the papers today.
The Pyranius had conveyed Lord North
cote, tile governor general, ana party to
Commander SILK landed with shooting
party, but afterward the commander
went alone to search for game. When 1t
was known on the Pyramus that he was
missing The vessels searchlight was dis
played at night, SO as to act as guide
for him.
When dusk set in he found himself
hopelessly lost In some mangroves. He
obtained some water from swamp, and
during the next two days he continued to
wander about.
His position grew more desperate, for
besides having had no food. he could not
find any water. On the night of the third
day rain fell in torrents, and Commander
Silk spread his clothes out on the ground
and, squeezed the water into his mouth.
AZ night he saw the searchlight OF the
Pyranus, but was unable to go In Its d.
lection owing to wide river, fringed
with mangroye swamps. blocking his
way. .y f'
1t was not until the fourth day that he
met two black nstiyes, who put him into
q canoe, which they pushed across the
river. one swimming on either side. They
first took him to their house. gave him
nourishment, and next day they drove
him into Port Darwin.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04
.0U|DA is AIDED BY
/ italian GOVERNMENT
Position and Environments OF the J
Famous Autllor Pathetic
in tie Extreme.
DOGS ARE HER i E rs
Owing to Hardships She Has
Gone She is Nov Almost
Entirely Blind.
DOGS ARE HER 7 Z rs

MILAN, Aug. s.
Slgnor Rava. minister OF public instruo-
ton, moved to compassion by the details
OF Ouida's miserable condition, has COM
missoncd Count Brizlo, the project OF
Lucca, to pay visit of sympathy and to
express ltaly's readiness to render her
any acceptable assistance The il1ustrious
novelist, who is now able to leave her
bed for q few hours daily.is deeply touch-
ed by this act of thoughtfulness on the
part Of the land she so much loves,
though she says she cannot bear the idea
iof living on charity, for which reason
she has already returned donations from
England following on tile publicity given
to her necessitous state by the press.
Hunted from tho hotels Of the district,
som etimes through inability to settle her
Of the proprietors to tolerate the presence
of her numerous animal pets, Ouida has
on several occasions been driven to sleep
| In the open air.
Owing to the hardshps she has under
gone she is now almost wholly blind,
while the sight Of the left eyeis entirely
gone. She suffers excruciating agony
ton of complaints, but steadfastly de-
clines TO see any visitors. particularly
physciai,s;, whom she aposstrophizes as the
the fact that of twenty-seven splendid
dog companions she possessed In the last
century only three survive to cheer her.
l dying hours. CheQueS lot SiIittii AMOUNTS
/ reach her from time to time from admir-
ers In England. She insists, however, on
\ her animals being fed sunptuously,
lcounting his visit in the Florentine paper
Fieramosea. she herself economies I'd
| starvation point.
| Her sole nourishn ent Is consomme with
1 bread once a day and fish thrice weekly.
| Her wardrobe consists OF a single change
\ Of raiment.
Tho pathos of the situations tntensifed
I. when one recalls the little out-of-the way
Village in which she Is now residing Is
4 that which. under the name of Santa
Rosalia, Ouida made famous IN what IS
nerhaps her finest romance, "A Rural
\ Commune. y s,45s
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04
SAL UTING GEN. Booth
/ OLD MAN FALLS DEAD.
Pathetic Incident Marks the Tour
Of Aged Salvation Army
Chieftain.
ATE OF WHOLE FAMILY
( MANCHESTER, Aug. 9.

4 1 &. o.
AS General Booth. who Is on tour Of
the north Of England, was about to enter
a church at st. Ncots, Hunts. yesterday
to speak. William 1bbett, aged 50, a re-
tired merchant, fell dead on the church
steps.
Mr.. 1bbett had for many weeks been
looking forward to General Booths visit
I'm thankful have lived to this day.
he said when tho crowd, seeing General
Booth approaching in his motorcar,
shouted. Here he comesH' AS General
Booth approached the steps Mr.. Ibbett
raised his hat as a salute, and in doing
so fell to the ground. He was carried into
the churchyard, and as he was dying
muttered. My sight is going; cannot
see the general
God has summoned this old comrade
Of mine at noon today" said General
Booth, addressing the spectators. 1T
makes me question IL r should be called
tonight also am getting old, but trust
| when the summons comes. I, too. will
have my hand raised at the salute, anu
will be prepared
~ % 1itiu oeel preparing Tor 4
long time TO meet General Booth" said
Miss Elizabeth 1bbett subsequently,.
Since his retirement from business h.
has spent much time and money helping
the Salvation Army He would go from
town to town. giving where 1t was most
needed
Three of Mr.. 1bbetts brothers had sud-
den deaths. Joseph fell dead at 70 white
entering bank, Henry died at 81, and
Thomas at u. Two aged sisters also
dropped dead
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04
f'2LeAvvzg Ia. oh0oi EMeyJznS % Tie 5Wer
ODD AGE ASSURED
BY ALMSHOUSE L|F|
English Official Gives Statistics to
Show How to Become a
centenarian.
AN IDEAL EXISTENCE

LONDON, August 3.
Tho remark of Wynn Westcott, at an
inquest at Bcthnal Green, that the best
way to prolong life Is to retire to work
house, is indorsed by poor law admins
traitors.
I'VE have scores Of inmates over 50
years old, and quite a number just about
90 or IL little over an official Of one Of
the largest London warehouses; said yes
terday.
1--WE have had centenarlans. although
we have not one at present, but have
no doubt that two or three out OF our
scores OF octogennrians will easily live
into the 100 years. Most of the work
house centenarians are women, and 1t Is
undoubtedly u fact that the proportion OF
l.centcnariuns in warehouses; Is larger than
that outside.
..rhe conditions are ideal. There is reg
ular and good food. regularahours, genia
company, medical and nursing attend
ance, warmth. fresh air and contentment
The way that old people pick up on COM
ing into the workhouse IS quite remark
able.
"old soldiers of 50 or 60 come in almost
ut the point of collapse. They are often
broken down owing to want of food and
excess Of alcoholic liquor. But after a
few months of workhouse life they gem
orally recover, and some Of them live on
for twenty years or more.
.Thc latest returns for the metropolis
show that there We're last year nearly
"a. 900 men and women over co years OF
nrc in the London warehouses. OF these,
70 .016 were Between G5 and 70 years Of
nee: l2,2l1 were between 10 and 75 years
If age I 5000 were between 10 and 50 years
Of age and 6166 were over so years of age.
,t<.At
$lrures--those of inmates between 80 and
100 or over 100. hut / believe that there
are several centennrian workhouse in
mates in London
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04
RIOTERS AND POLICE
IN FIERCE CONFLICT.
Political Demonstrations Sicilian
Capital Leads to a Serious
Disturbance.
ONE MAN is XII II I, d

bPALERMO,8 Aug. 3.
The police having forbidden the demon.
stration in favor OF Signor Nasi which It.
was intended to hold here yesterday
afternoon In the Bellini Theater, crowd
Of demonstrators burst into the uniyer-s
sity and held the meeting there. They
,afterward formed a procession process io ana :
LIN the ATTEMPT to dispense the crowd
several policemen, carahineers and citi-S
5zens we're Slightly injured. Xxx
lin the evening the crowd again at
tempted to hold n demonstration in the
Strada del Quattro Can't. Among he
rioters were many old jailbtrds. The:
answer to move on',was answered with
by which some officials and police were
hurt. Suddenly two revolver shots were;
fired from the balcony Of a house. The
police returned the shots. and the crowd.
dispersed. Isl
& young music teacher named Pin
tauro. aged IS. was killed by a bullet, and
several rioters and policemen received
bullet wounds. Order was finally res
established. 3ss3 & 4
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04
SCORES
ANOTHER SUCCESS
Frencnnan Ascends Thirty--seve
Feet and Covers Distance Of
Eighty-Six Yards.
PARIS A,,p

In the presence OF NJ. Archdeacon, presI-
dent Of the aviation committee Of the
Aero Club Of France. and other interested
spectators M, Bleriot assembled yesterday
"a height of thirty-seyen feet, and flew a
distance Of eighty-siS yards The expert
ment proved the stability of the machine,
though 1t was slightly damaged In the
descent.
M. Bleriot drove the machine himself,
Shich weighs 1872 pounds and Is driven by
! lA-horsepower Antoinette motor, causing
a minute. This light but powerful m otor
easily lifted the aeroplane, which, to-
gether with M. Bleriot. weighed $50
pounds, to the height of thirty-seven feet,
After the slight damage has been re
paired and certain details improved, M.
Bleriot will recommence his experiments
and hopes to compete successfully for the
airship prizes
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04
BLOOD OF swine is
NEW CURE FOR CANCER.
Satisfactory Results Secured in
the Experiments Of a Berlin
Scientist,
BERLIN. Aug. 3.

BERLIN. Aug, g.
DR.. Bier. principal professor OF surgery
In Berlin University and late Professor
Bergmauns successor publishes res
markable article in. the apeutscha Medl-
izinische Wochenschrift' regarding expert
lnents conducted on cancer patients In
Berlin hospitals Ry Injecting the blood
of animals cleared OF all iibrous matters.
aud notably the blood Of swine, into cam
ceded IN altering their apparent complex
ion and giving them different character.
Y Under the microscope the results do lot
he is on the right track, and that Ii hs
has not been able to heal he has senaibiy
approached this end. s's
DR. Bier Giles cases IN which tho iDjec.
tion OF swine's blood has enabled him Il
operate where otherwise an operation
would have been impossible. In otheI {
cases patients have experienced q senyibis
relief from the process,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04
UPPER INDIA IN GRIP
. OF Famine AND HEAT
British Soldiers Succunb to Ap-
poplexy and Cattle Are Dying 4
From Lack Of Food.
TrcKNoyu

LUCKNOW, Aug. 3. 4
Intense heat prevails throughout Upper
India India, and there is a condition Of famine.
awaited. 49, 80 - =
British soldiers In Allahabad and Gavin
pore are suffering from apoplexy. Several
are are reported to have succumbed. Cattle
are also dying for want of fodder.
ana people have been driven to the ex-
to buy grain. Fs5 sEs1tsS a :
a swarm OF locusts passed over Luck.
now yesterday, and the native inhabitant.
KILLED as many as they could and ate
Owing to the continuation of tn,
drought 500 Mussulnians at AllahabaC
spent tho day In prayer and fasting.
They We're beginning to despair wher
heavy rain fell, and they had to wade
through water knee deep before they
could reach their homes. -.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04
China, AWAKENED
MAY ATTACK RUSSIA.
War Correspondent III East Says
She Will Soon lie Strong
as Japan.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. g.

.|PETEtSBUKG, Aug. 3.
The newspaper Reich was confscated
today for publishing an article by NJ.
Kllmkoff. the wcll-kaown war CORE
spondent,
NJ. Klimkoff says that China Is
and fleet is preparing for war; she is,
too, improving her ways and comlnuni-s
cations, and Japanese officers are
sWarminS throughout Mnnchuria. A IA
lations between the Russians and Chi
nese are extremely hostile. The Chs
nese Governors have forbidden the
Russians to hunt on the Chinese bank
of the Amur. and Will not allow the sale
OF cattle to them Moreover. Chinese.
officers refuse to have anything to do
with the Russian generals
NJ klimkoH concludes: The symp-
toms of coming war are only too evt.s
dent. China Will soon become as strong
as Japan" GO
The independent., 1907-02-07
BAD WEATHER FOR CATTLE
Live stock Losses on Northwest
Ranges Are Reported.

Railroad men who have returned
from the sandhill country of north
west Nebraska, where live stock is the
big item In traffic tonnage. and the
industry occupies the sole attention OF
the residents, say that heavy losses
have been sustained because Of bad
weather In October a storm came
that covered the ranges and made It
necessary to feed a great deal of hay.
The amount of hay put up was not
sufficient for a hard winter little
later on a sleet storm came that
covered the grass and sleet is said to
be worse for live stock than anything
else. because 1t covers the range grass
and cannot be moved. With a light
snow the cattle and sheep will find
the grass by uncovering it, but with
sleet they cannot reach the nutritious
food hidden near the ground by ice.
Reports from the Billings country i'm
Montana are to the fleet that some
sheep men have lost as much as eighty
per cent of their stock. Discussing this
a railroad traffic man says: when a
sheep man loses that much, unless he
is rich and has his stock all paid for
and owes 10 one, he Is out of business.
Very few OF the range men can stand
a loss of that proportion"
New York state has taken the lead
in recent years in prison reform. The
lock step has been abolished. First
term prisoners are not put in stripes.
The parole system has been operated
with successful results. Contract labor
has been abolished A long step has
been made in the direction of substi-
tuting the reformatory for the penal
idea. Schools have lately been estab-
lshed in the prisons, in the hope OF
adding the ability to work most eff
fectively to the habit of industry which
the prison training is intended to fix.
The opinion of Superintendent of Pris-
ons Collins of New York, who has been
active in promoting these innovations,
has considerable weight on any matter
Of penal policy. In his last annual re-
port he argues in favor Of the indeter-
inmate sentence except for murderers
in the first degree. He shows by sta
tistics that only six per cent of the
men immured for life remain in prison
for over twenty years, and thinks the
incentive to the formation of right
habits proposed by the indeterminate
sentence would much more than offset
any possible advantage in confinng
this six per cent beyond the twenty
year limit. He even expects the inde-
terminate sentence to cure rather than
promote the pardoning evil, by remov-
ing the chief excuse for granting par
dons.
The independent., 1907-02-07
Mr.. Doo\eY on Sw Aeck
By
F. P. Dunne.

eastern channel he says. There are
rocks there an some sharks, he says.
Admiral Davis cud not thrust him
silf to reply in writing. He wint at
wanst to call on tn gallant an cour-
teous riprisintive iv his Majesty. What
passed between the two ENJOYS iv tn
Wurruld'S powers will niver be known.
1t was too sacred to be repeated. 1t is
enough to say that whin Admiral Da-
Wis come firm tn mansion tn Gov
! nor's right eye was black with grief
an he carrid a large an vallyable axe
which he was thryin' to presint to tn
Admiral. The Constitution f'rbids our
officers acceptin' presints FIR doin' their
jooty simply an well. That night, hav-
In completed their errand iv mercy
tn feet sailed away, an so sthrong
was tn feelin' aboord tn ships in tn
harbor that not a sound issued firm
thin. Admiral Davis was highly
pleased with tn episode Those who
heerd his comments say he is splendidly
qualified to fill Bob Evans place in tn
hearts iv tn American Navy.
AN there ye ar-re, Hinnssy; an
other link forged in tn chain that
hooks us up to our Motherland. 1t is
such occurrences that makes us know
that though sturdy Briton may be
slow in speech, he still chcrishes tn
proper feelin' tord this country. Bet
ther tn bluff kick in tn eye thin tn
soft answer that turneth away our
wrath an tn kick i'm tn eye afterward
Aleck has cleared up a good nanny
doubts in my mind iv where we stand
If we're cousins at all. Jake Schiff an
Prisidint Hadley an / belong to an
infeeryor branch iv tn family an
ought to be treated as such. Besides
KNOWN how relations act to'rd each
other, if I've got to be amy kind iv
relation let it be as distant as possible.
I'm sorry they're COIN to fire Aiack
He's good man who's done something
fr tn Wurruld. I'm sorry fr thin if
they fire him, f'r they'll have to take
him home. If they want to punish him
they ought to make his perpetchool
GOv'nor iv Jamaica"
What did they want to sind tn
navy f'r, anyhow" asked Mr. Hen
messy.
Maybe ye're right" said Mr. Dooley.
II thing mesilf this navy iv ours is
gettin' into tn habit iv runnin' to
fires. It's all right to rescue people firm
burnin' buildin, but / think I'd wait
till l was asked. Maybe th' man wud
rather be burned to death thin have a
cousin rescue him and have it tn talk
iv tn family f'r tin years..
Copyright 1907, by S. S. Mcclure &
Coz
The independent., 1907-02-07

the Roosevelt third term league re-
Gently launched in Chicago Whether
the league was organized to make =
demand for the magazine or vice versa
may appear later.
The independent., 1907-02-07
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