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trees. which are SO high and so close to-
gether that the only way To get tile
plants. short of cutting down the trees.
was to shoot them off with a shotgun.
When we got back To England said
Talbot the oak and elm seemed 10 US
mere walking sticks in comparison with
the gigantic trees We had left behind
Some of them grow at the rate of over Z.
foot 4 month, and they are SO close to-
gether that the sky is almost hidden. AS
a result the natives know only six stars
by name, one of which they have chris
tened Gods Hen One tree that Is just
as we'll to give wide BERTH he added.
lis the agara, for its fruit is Of tile size
and as big and almost as heavy :
cannon ball. and if one of these balls
for his
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This man is L. Amaury Talbot, who is
his majestys commissioner for the dis
trict of Oban. in southern Nigeria, as we'll
petition which the late Lieut.. Boyd Alex
ander led into the Lake Chad district,
and who recently returned to this coun-
Try after two years of travel in unex-
plored parts Of the dark continent, I'm
the course of which he nearly lost his
life, and things that have convinced
him that there are more things on earth,
anyway. than are dreamt of in our
philosophy.
The newspapers here have been print
ing more or less about the plucky eX-
P!u!er, but the most interesting of his
experiences have not been given before
As he told of these the weirdest chapters
of Allan -uatermain" and king Solo
mona Mines" came back to ones mind
especially when he described underground
rivers and the smelling out of witches
and one binked and looked again to
make sure that he really saw an English
rose garden bounded by meadows and
Indigenous through the open window,
and not the tangled African jungle.
MiS. Talbot. who accompanied her hus-
band on his three latest expeditions adj
mits that she has been "a bit nervous"
at times, while in Africa, which IS not
surprising considering that this plucky
Englishwoman has been charged by ele-
plants and had leopards shifting around
her bed curtains, not to mention having
marched by her husbands side into re-
:;ionS of the dark continent where no
government official, TO say nothing of a
white woman, ever before had penetrated.
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Talbot. who is only thirty-siX has rep
resented the great white king in Nj
geria since 1906. and once just escaped
being wiped out by a savage tribe named
the Iko. who bitterly regretted their fail
ure, and sent a polite message to the
commissioner just before he returned 10
England begging him To revisit them. as
they were most anxious to shoot him.
While on the Niger-to-Nile expedition h
took the lead in several brushes with the
savage Marragi. and when, In another
action, a Hausa was badly wounded by a
poisoned arrow, Talbot. without a mo-
ments hesitation, sucked the wound and
saved the mans life. An official report.
and not the explorer himself, told about
that.
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II really was in their company that
Olive Mcleod made the pilgrimage about
which so much was written to Lieut..
BOYD AleXander's grave. and 1t was after
this journey through the German Came
rooms, French Ccentral Africa and north
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON, September l., 1911
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FIGHT ON AMERICAN SOIL.
Mexican Rebels Battle With Customs
Collector and His Force

party of fifteen or twenty Mexican
revolutionists engaged in fight on the
American side of the border line Satur-
day night with Deputy Collector of Gus
toms Luke Dove and a party at Eagle
Pass, Tex, according to War Department
reports today
The engagement took place between
Eagle Pass and Derio. The rebels were
defeated leaving fourteen Swiss rifles,
1900 cartridges, wire clippers. field
glasses and clothing. No casualties were
reported and the Mexicans escaped across
the line.
Gen. Salazar, one of Gen. Orozco's lieu
tenants. is reported by Col. Steever to
have stated that the maItreatment of the
Mormons in Mexico by the rebels is be-
ing done purposely to bring about inter-
vention. The War Department reports
also state that the acts against the Nor
mons are being carried on against Oroz-
cos wishes
The consul al Durango has telegraphed
the state Department that the situation
in the Laguna district has been relieve ed
by the arrival at Torreon of Gen Blan-
quet. He adds that the railroad bridges
have been repaired and that trains are
running regularly from Torreon.
The consul at Juarez reports that there
is no mail or telegraphic communication
between there and Chihuahua OroZco is
said To be still in JuareZ. and the work
of destruction on the Mexican Central
railway continues, but it is reported thai
the situation has not changed materially
during the last three days.
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TO TAKE UP COTTON BILL.
Democratic Tariff Measure
Will Be introduced in
House Once More.

The House ways and means commit
tee today determined to reintroduce the
democratic cotton tariff bill which was
passed at the last session of Congress
and vetoed by President Taft. Revision
of the cotton tariff was decided upon
at a full meeting of the committee
When the House met Majority
Leader Underwood presented the
amended wool tariff measure and the
excise tax bill passed last week by the
Senate. He will ask tomorrow that
conferees be named to take up the
measures with the Senate.
The Importance of the tariff program
was reflected in the meeting of the ways
and means committee. all of the mem
bers being called into conference. The
republican members voted unanimously
to concur with the Senate wool bill, the
La Toilette substitute for the House
measure. There was break in the demo-
cratic ranks. however. when Representa-
tive Hammond of Minnesota voted for
the repeal of the Canadian reciprocity
agreement. which was attached as a
rider to the excise tax measure.
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AWAITING HOUSE ACTION
Fight Over the BattIeship
Question Suspended Pend
ing Developments.

Whether there are to be any battleships
authorized at this session OF Congress
was a matter of speculation among the
leaders of both the House and Senate
today. Chairman Padgett OF the House
naval affairs committee declared the en-
tire matter rested, SO far as he was con-
cerned. with the House instructions, which
will probably be forthcoming Thursday
when the measure is submitted
Those members of the House, chief
among whom is Representative Sulzer of
New York. who are in favor of at least
one battleship renewed their efforts to-
day to induce sufficient democrats to
agree to break their caucus pledge for a
mo battleship" program. so as to insure
some definite action Thursday. The eff
fort Of this group of democrats is to COM
NIT the House to an agreement with the
Senates wo-battleship policy, but they
are willing to compromise on one vessel.
The conference for the present is sus-
pended, and both ends of the Capitol are
time on the proposed legislation.
No call for caucus of the House demo-
Gratis has yet been issued, but it Is ex-
pected that one will bo ordered within the
next ten days.
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PRACTICAL,JOKE FATAL.
Boys Pour Whisky and Gasoline
Over Man and Set Him Afire.

MEMPHIS. Tenn, July 29-Mitchel
Cabaniss. eighteen years Of age. and
Clarence Shaw. ten years old, will be pre-
sented in court today to be charged with
homicide to which they smilingly con-
fessed when arrested yesterday
They explained that they had thought
to give Robert M. Ellis only a scare and
occasion for quick plunge into the pool
in Forrest Park. when they poured mix
ture. of whisky and gasoline over his
clothing while he slept on a park bench
Friday night. and then applied a match.
The whisky, Cabaniss, just out of an asy-
lum to which he had been committed for
insanity, took from the victims pocket,
and the other boy found the gasoline
where park employe had concealed it
under bushes. The mixture famed, but
instead Of seeing Ellis run for the lagoon
they say policemen make frantic efforts to
tear Ellis flaming clothing from him. He
was dead. however. before the blaze went
out.
The boys eluded the police until today
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DOCK WORKERS STILL OUT.
London Strikers Refuse to Obey
Leaders Manifesto.

LONDON. July 29.-The refusal of the
dock workers in London TO obey the mani
festo issued by the strike leaders Sat
urday declaring the strike al an end after
il had lasted ten weeks was given prac-
teal effect today when very few of the
men returned to work.
The strikers are generally of the opinion
that their leaders have betrayed them
into an unconditional surrender. A new
spirit seems to have entered into the men,
and today Ii was observed that most of
them displayed a much more ugly temper
than hitherto. On this account a stronger
force of police than usual was stationed
at the dock gates to protect the non
unionists These men appeared in their
usual numbers. The secretary OF the
strike committee this morning said that
the strike probably will be resumed
Several of the unions involved will meet
today to discuss the situation. and il is
expected that most of them will vote for
a continuance of the strike.
The stevedores union, with a member
ship of 5000 men in the port of London,
decided today to instruct its members to
return to work.
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UNCLE SAM
LANDS NEARS MANASSAS
Wins Contest to Determine
American Representative in
International Race.

MANASSAS. Va, July 29.-From ad-
vices so far received, it appears that
In the balloon contest to select teams
TO represent America in the contest to
be held in Stuttgart Germany in Oc-
tober was won by the St Louis Aero
Clubs Uncle Sam" when 1t landed
one mile west of Manassas at 5 o'clock
this morning. having covered an air
line distance of approximately s71
miles and an actual distance of about
100 miles.
The balloon. together with four other
pilot and Roy F. Donaldson aid, left
Kansas City at ) O'Clock Saturday after
noon and was in the air thirty-six hours.
The maximum altitude reached according
to the record of the barograph was
1900 feet and the minimum 200 feet.
The route taken was from Kansas City
via Waterloo, Iowa, crossing the Missis-
sippi river at O'Clock Sunday morning.
thence to Chicago, passing over that city
at noon. From Chicago the eastern and
southeastern portions of Indiana and Ohio
were traversed. reaching Pittsburgh at .
o'clock last night.
Thence they crossed the Allegheny Blue
landing at Manassas
Everything was fine said Mr.. Honey
WELL unit, midnight Saturday. when
storms were encountered. compelling them
to trail heavily to hold their balloon
back to allow the storm to pass. At )
O'Clock Yesterday morning they picked up
the trail rope and followed the storm,
passing over the mountains at an altitude
of about 5000 feet.
The balloon was shipped to ST. Louis
by express this afternoon. The pilot and
his aid went from here 10 Washington,
thirty miles from here.
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AMBASSADOR REDS GUESTS.
Ancient and Honorables of Boston
at Dorchester House.

LONDON, July 29.-Whitelaw Reid,
United States ambassador. gave lunch
at Dorchester House today in honor of
the officers of the Ancient and Honor
able Artillery Company of Boston and
the Free Artillery Company of London
Afterward he held a reception for the
men Of both corps, all of whom attended
in full uniform.
The Boston artillerymen yesterday re-
turned to London from trip on the con-
tinent
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PLAYERS RESPECT GRIEF.
Suspend Ball Game During Inter
ment Services.

NEWARK. y. j.. July pa game of
base ball between the Caldwell team and
the Worthington club of Harrison. which
was witnessed by large crowd was
strangely interrupted at Caldwell. n. j.,
yesterday. In the seventh inning, when
the contest hung in the balance, a funeral
entered the cemetery which adjoins the
base ball park.
Tie umpire raised his hand as the cor
tege neared the open grave and the game
stopped with two Caldwell men on the
bases. While the body was being lowered
into the grave and during the prayer by
the clergyman players and spectators re-
aimed silent.
AS soon as the mourners turned away
from the grave the umpire shouted play
ball"
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LIFE SACRIFICED IN VAIN.
Priest Tries to Rescue Drowning Girl
and Pneumonia Develops.

ANNAPOLIS. Md, July a.-rhe Rev.
Francis E. Klauder, rector of st. Mary $
Roman Catholic Church here. died today
of pneumonia which developed last Sat
urday, following an unsuccessful attempt
to save a parishioner from drowning
Father Klauder was also director oil
missions of the Redemptionist Order and
a widely known missionary priest. He
was sixty years of age.
Last Friday Father klauder attended
a picnic held by number of his congre-
cation at point on the Severn river,
near Annapolis. A woman member of the
party was in bathing with others and
got beyond her depth. Father kiauder,
although he could not swim. unhesita.-
ing,y plunged in after her, but before he
could reach the drowning girl tie priest
and two other persons who also went to
her assistance became exhausted, and but
for the timely arrival of launch. whose
occupants drew the would-be rescuers
aboard, all the party would have perished.
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MILITIA OFFICERS ARRESTED.
Oregon National Guardsmen Held
for Insubordination.

GATES. Ore. July 29.-Four officers of
the I'd Brigade Regiment, Oregon Ma
tional Guard. are under arrest on a
charge OF refusal to obey orders as the
result of the battalion's failure to obey
Immediately the command after yester-
days sham battle TO return TO Oakyille.
whence the regiment came After the
fighting. which had closed a week s
meneuvers. the regiment. carrying heavy
field equipment. proceeded TO this place.
On arrival here Gen. Maus ordered their
return to Oakville An Indignation meet
ing was held and the Officers of the ID
Battalion. il is said, declined to obey
the order. Later, after abandoning
their accouterments. the I'd Battalion re-
turned TO Oakville.
Gen. Maus ordered the arrest of Maj.
Ryland Scott. Capt Harry L. Williams,
Capt. Walter l.. Toose. jr., and First
Lieut.. Richard Deich.
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HURLED IN SEA
TWenty-0ne Bodies of Prus-
sian Excursionists AIready
Have Been Recovered.

BlNZ. Germany. July ga shocking
catastrophe, causing the death of large
number of German excursionists. occur.
red last evening at this Baltic bathins
resort. The landing stage. which was
crowded to its utmost during a concer,
given by the local band, collapsed and
threw more than a hundred people into
the sea.
There was a terrible scene of excite
ment. as the people on shore and on the
ruins of the landing stage endeavored to
rescue the men, women and children
struggling in the water among the
wreckage.
Twenty-one bodies have been recovered
but it is believed that many more persons
lost their lives. The excursionists had
come from all parts of northeastern Prus-
sia to spend the day on the seashore.
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SMALL CRAFT IN LONG RACE.
Bermuda Waiting With Intense In
terest or Motor Boats.

HAMILTON. Bermuda, July 29.-All
Bermuda is awaiting with intense inter-
est the arrival of the motor boats Kath-
emma and Dream. which started from
Philadelphia at 1910 o'clock Saturday for
Bermuda. distance of 719 nautical miles,
in the contest for the eBrmuda chal-
lenge cup valued at $500 and $1,000 in
cash.
The weather here is very bad Rain
has been falling continuously for seventy
hours. The wind blows mostly from the
northeast. There is thick haze and an
ugly sea, so that the conditions for the
race are not at all favorable.
The two contestants are not expected
to arrive here before tomorrow evening,
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LAPsED INSURANCE INCREASES.
Condition Attributed in Part to the
High Cost of Living.

ALBANY, n. Y, July 29-The annual
report of the state insurance depart
ment covering the business of life insur-
ance for 1911, shows a considerable in
crease in the amount of 1apsed and sur
rendered insurance, which the depart
ment declares may no doubt be at
tributed in a great degree to the general
increase in the cost of living, and to
somewhat unsatisfactory business con-
ditions
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RULES ON me TEMERE" CASE.
Privy Council Holds Canadian Par
lament Lacks Power.

LONDON. July 29.-The judicial com
mittee of the privy council decided the
Quebec me temere" marriage question
in favor of province of Quebec and
against the recent proposed legislation
of the Dominion parliament. which un-
dertook to provide that no law or ca
nonical decree or custom OF any prov
ince should have force or effect to in
validate any marriage performed by
any person competent to perform a
marriage ceremony.
The papal decree declared that to be
valid the marriage of two Catholics or
of a Catholic with Protestant must
he nerformed before or with the sane
ton of the Catholic parish priest.
The lord chancellor in delivering
judgment today said that the proPossa
bill was beyond the powers or the
dominion parliament.
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P|TNEY MAY REVIEW
KANSAS PRIMARY CASE
Taft and Roosevelt Forces
Both Seeking to Have
Matter Passed On.

Information has been received in Wash
ington that the Kansas primary election
case Will be reviewed by Justice Pitney
OF the United States Supreme Court at
Mcrristown. n. j.. one day this week.
The information comes from Kansas City.
Mo. Additional information, from Tope-
ka Kan, is to the effect that meeting
of Taft and Roosevelt supporters was held
in Topeka last night. at which an agree
ment was entered into which will prevent
either side in the controversy printing
the ballots for the coming primary cleo
tion until the application for writ of
error and supefsedeas can be heard. not
later than Thursday, August l.
At the White House today President
Taft informed visitors that Chairman
Hilles of the republican Tesular) national
committee had advised him that an effort
is being made to bring the Kansas case
before Supreme Court justice for re-
view. The move, the President said. orig
mated in Kansas, the White House hav-
ing nothing to do with it.
Olmsted Consults Taft
Representative Martin Olmsted of Penn
sylvania, in charge of the cases for the
Taft forces, was in consultation with the
President today. 1t is said he Informed
the President that Chairman Hilles.
working with the Taft leaders in Kan
sas. had arranged for the review of the
Kansas case by justice of the Supreme
Court, though it was undecided what jus
tice would be asked to pass on the case.
1t is believed either Justice Pitney.
who is in Morristown, n. j., or Justice
Vandevanter, who is spending his va
cation in New Hampshire. will be the
one finally selected. 1t is understood
Representative Olmsted told the Presi-
dent of the action taken by the Taft
leaders. adding that Gov. Stubbs of
kansas "a also so has asked for review in
dent Taft today reiterated his previous
declaration that he will not engage
personally in the campaign or any
phase of 1t. but will leave all the de-
tails Of management and procedure to
his campaign managers. He added.
however. that he believed the Kansas
cases were worth fighting to finish.
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Ex-Representative Uses Pistol.

NEW YORK, July 29.-Edmund A.
briggs. a former representative in Con-
gress. fired three shots early today at
negro burglar who entered tthe briggs
home in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn
The negro dived through a window to a
balcony and slid down a pillar Neigh
bors and policemen pursued him, but he
escaped.
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Searching for Missing Physician.

NEW YORK. July 29.-In response to
general alarm, the police are securing
New York today in a search for DR.. Cliff
ton Gardner. staff physician in the Post
Graduate Hospital, who disappeared from
that institution last Tuesday afternoon
He is a graduate OF the University of
Pennsylvania and native of South
Swansea, Mass.
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Dynamite Kills Underground Men

NEW YORK. July 29-Three men were
killed and five probably fatally injured
this morning by the explosion of q dyna-
mite charge 2c0 feet below the surface
in an aqueduct shaft in Central Park.
The victims were drillers and assistants.
The accident occurred when drill point
struck an unexphoded charge.
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Found Murdered in His Saloon.

CHICAGO. July 29.-George Hinter-
berger. forty-five years old. was found
shot to death in his saloon at 500
North Clark street early today. He Is
believed to have been murdered when
he resisted the efforts Of robbers 10
take the contents OF the cash r>g1ateH
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Thirty-Foot Auto Plunge Fatal.

HERKIMER, N. Y, July 29-Eugene
L. Cook of the Herkimer fire department
was instantly killed and three companions
were injured late yesterday when an
automobile in which they were riding
went down . thirty foot smbankment
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TOXIC July 3o.-Mutsuhito. Emperor
of Japan. died today at 12:43 am. Acute
nephritis was given as the cause of
death. The crown prince. Yoshihito, has
succeeded to the throne.
A large crowd had gathered around the
palace. announcement having been made
condition was critical
Emperor Born in 1852.
Mutsuhito the 12lst Emperor of Japan n.
was born at Kioto November }. 1867; the
second son of the late Emperor Komei.
upon whose death. in 1867. he succeeded
to the throne. He was crowned at kioto
October l.. lSsS. Eleven days later he
chose the name of Meiji. 10 designate the
era OF his reign. He married February
3. 1869. the third daughter of lchipo
Tadaka. a noble of the first rank. His
wife was born in 1850. She is known as
her Imperial Majesty Haruko.
The heir apparent TO the japanese
throne is Yoshihito. the third son of Nut
suhito. who was born August 81 1872
He was nominated heir apparent in 1887.
and proclaimed crown prince in 1855
Prince Yoshihto has served i'm the army
and navy of his country, and in 1909 he
became both lieutenant general and A
vice admiral. May 10. 1909. he married
Princess Sabaka. fourth daughter OF
Prince Kujo Michitaka.
The crown prince has three sons, the
youngest being born in 1905.
Lived Life of Seclusion.
While the Emperor of Japan has been
the ruler of his country for the past
forty-three years. a period during which
the empire has made remarkable indus
trial and political progress. he has lived
a life of compa rative seclusion and has
rarel, appeared in the conduct af affairs
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Heart Disease Kills Noted Oarsman

NEW YORK, July 29.-Edward Keller,
one of the best known amateur oarsmen
in the east, is dead of heart disease at
his home here. aged forty years. He was
born in Milwaukee and Lad been for
many years an officer of one of the Har-
lem river rowing cluhA