Washington Post, The (Newspaper) - August 5, 1905, Washington, District Of Columbia business men advertise la The Post because it is the paper the people of Washington cloudy NO. AUGUST 5, THREE READY FOR ENVOYS Pomp and Ceremony Will At- tend GUNS TO BOOM SALUTES Russians and Japanese to Meet on Board the Demonstration Is Expected in of the Distinguished Buffet Luncheon to Be Thus Avoiding Perplexing Questions of Pre- that Would Attend the Seating of Oyster N. T Aug. 4 ar- rangements were completed to-night for the reception by President Roosevelt of the Russian and Japanese peace envoys to-morrow The which will be a formal greeting to the representatives of the belligerent powers by President Roosevelt on behalf of the United States take place on the cruiser the finest vessel of her class to the navy It will take place at 1.30 p na and will be attended by a notable demonstration in honor of the guests of the country who have been designated by their emperors as their representatives to the Washington peace The President and the State and Navy Departments will unite to extend a cor- dial to the plenipotentiaries and to facilitate in every way their mission of peace Every honor due to their rank will be paid to the envoys and the cordiality of the greeting by the President on behalf of the people will leave nothing to be Mayflower Casts The cruiser Mayflower arrived here and cast anchor in the Jower bay early this afternoon She is in command of Com- mander Cameron the President's naval aid and carries a full complement of 260 men Her interior are beautiful and she has been specially fitted for this occasion It is expected that the the naval yacht with Assistant Herbert D Peirce and some of the guests Invited to the reception of the envoys wiU arrive to-morrow morning Secretary in the absence of Secretary will represent the De- of accompanied by his will go aboard the Maj flower about noon He will be accompanied by Rear Admiral Charles D as a representative of the Gen. Frederick of the of a tive of the The Russian and Japanese and their suites Will leave New Yoik to-morrow the Japanese at 9 o clock and the Russians at 10. TUe departure will be from the foot of East Tw street The envoys and their suites will make the trip to Oyster Baj In sisier the Chattanooga and the Tacoma Arrival of the Thus they will not meet until they reach here and are formally presented to the President of the United States The bruisers are expected to arrive in- the outer bay that bearing the Japanese about 11 45 o'clock and that ing the Russian plenipotentiaries an hour or so later President Roosevelt will go aboard the Maj flower at 1 o clock He will be ed with a Presidential salute of cne guns from the Mayflower as he goes and his pennant will be broken out at the forepeak 4.s soon as his flag is the Japanese ries Baron Jutaro minister of and Minsner of Japan to the United and their suite will proceed to the Co wer in launches their As go over the side a. salute of teen guns will be flred in their the crew will dress and they will received on deck by Commander lew and his officers in special full-dress They will be escorted to tno handsome main where Assistant Secretary present the envoys and each member of their suite to the President Such exchanges as may be made at the time be purely informal In turn the envoys and other members of the special mission will be presented to the guests of the President on board the ship Presentation to the At the conclusion of this ceremony the Russian president of the committee of end Baron the Russian dor to the United accompanied by their will board the Mayflower and tn the same formal manner received and presented to the President The envoys of the two powers will be presented formally to one when an effort will be by President velt and Secretary Peirce to render the ceremony as natural and easy as in order to eliminate any embarrassment These ceremonies a luncheon will be served In order to avoid any un- usual questions of the eon will be a buffet Thus will be avoided the seating of the guests at table with the President The party In ance at the luncheon will number about 25 Shortly after the President Roosevelt will take leave of the and will return to shore in a His pennant will be and another will be fixed as he leaves the ship's From the Mayflower the Japanese en- voys and their suite will he conveyed to the dispatch boat which will be anchored the Russian envoys and their suite remaining on the Mayflower On these ships the two sets of envoys will be conveyed to N. where the sessions of the peace ence are to be Soon after the de- parture of the guests the Mayflower and Dolphin will weigh and start on their convoyed by the OVER Reason for the Suicide of tor of thw Special to Tie New Augr of Bobert editor of the New Yorker and of the chief directors of the Social who committed suicide by lumping In front of a subway train Thursday said that they be- he killed himself because of worry over the charge of criminal Ubel made against Mm by Representative Joseph of friends declare that they do not think he was worried by the district attorney's Investigation of con- Foremost for which more than has been collected In Assistant District Attorney Krotel eaid was no other charge than the one for criminal libel pending against la true that we had making a pretty thorough Investigation of Foremost in the course of that investigation well amd Robert A. Irvine had been An of the books of Foremost showed that over had been collected practically nothing paid for getting the book The money went to and Irving and two A. De Wald Bloom and M expected here to produce books we not but he did not show The next day bis brought ime a letter who said that if the books were removed from tlie office it would hurt his but that I could look at them I sent Detective but he found no tangible It is true that we were thinking of starting nal but we had no ant. Jackson Wallace might have been a he got back the he put up Alexander H one Criswell's seemed to think that Criswell was mentally unbalanced Robert A Irving said that had been subject to fits at but that he had no cial worries or family TAKES HIM ON PROBATION Mayor Weaver Selects Unknown En- gineer for Highway J. A. Urged by His Wife to Try the Civil Service prised Himself WITTE AT OYSTER Broad Russian Has Pleasant Meeting with Special to Tne Washington Oyster N Aug. 4 is a the President was re- ported to have said of M. Wltte after the envoy left Sagamore The President CONTINUED FOURTH PAGE Mo Safer Storage Obtainable Than that offered by the storage ment of Union Trust Co. and Main 1414 T Pa August 4 was an- that J A. who was an applicant for the vacant position of chief of the bureau of has been to the place on probation by Mayor and will enter upon his duties 3vloiida.y Mr appointment is unique in the history of Philadelphia and considerable interest was attracted by his He Is a structural at present Is employed at the League Island Yird He to this city from Boston less two years ago a stranger When newspapers published the fact that a civil service ex- amination would be for applicants for the position of chief if the Mr Hunter was urged by his wife to take the He at first declined to do declaring that ha had no political and knew no one who would back Finally he agreed to take it and his family physician and another neighbor signed his Sdx 1 persons took tho and to the surprise of the mayor and Mr Hunter was the only one to Among who failed was the man the mayor had temporal lly pointed pending civil service and he hoped to make the nent As neither the mayor nor any one else connected with the city government had ever heard of Mr the mayor de- appointing him pending an gallon Into the man's record and his q as an executive Mr Hunter had several conferences with the with the result that he was to-day His politics Is not known WAR IN Hostilities Renewed Over the Opening of a Water 4 lumber which attracted attention on the St John River during the spring has broken out this time at Chamberlain and serious trouble Is cording to reports received here there was a. clash at the lake yesterday a crew employed bv the St John Lumber Company and the agent of the Marsh Ayer Co a It Is reported that the St John crew went to the which dam the foot of the and attempted to raise the These lodes are controlled by the Marsh Ayer Co. The attendant in charge of the locks claims that the St John Crew used took his rifle from and raised the gated despite his The agent of the Ayer Co. came here and reported the matter by telephone to his firm Tho agent later returned to Lake with the Intention of closing the gates It is feared that trouble will result if the gates are again closed The St John people want the water running to clean up their While the Bangor firm wish to hold it back for power CARRIER Three Held Him Up in Connecticut and Got Aug E. a rural mail was held up by three men on the about three miles from this and relieved of One of the men grabbed the horse by the and a ordered Townsend to stop A second climbed into the back of the wagon and pinioned his arms to his and the third produced a long knife and ordered the carrier to keep quiet while he went through his After robbery the men made their and a general alarm has been sent out for Convicted Man Will Mot N. Aug. W. who was to-day sentenced to death in the electric chair on September 10 for accepted bis sentence and re- quested his attorney not to take an peal to the Court of 1.85 To Baltimore and 81.80 Pennsylvania Saturday and Sunday Tickets good on all trains ex- cept Congressional and good for until Sunday Visit the Guard In Orly to Harpers Ferry and B. O. R. R. a. m. train 86.OO Week-end Excursions Baltimore and Ohio R. to Atlantic Cape Sea Isle and Ocean and Every Friday and returning until following AID AGAINST FEVER Federal Authorities Will Take in REQUEST OF BUSINESS WEN Formal Action Taken in Message to the General Wyman Will Take Up the Under Direction from Oyster Bay to Do Everything Possible to Stamp Out the Communities Will Now Have er Confidence of the New Aug. no Intention of admitting the fever situation to be be- yond but in the hope of reviving confidence here and elsewhere in the official and business interests day decided to send a request to dent Roosevelt to have the United States government assume full charge of struggle now in progress to wipe out low fever from New Orleans and The public approves the action Expectation is that within the next two days Surgeon Gen. with all the resources of the will be enlisted actively in the The decision to ask the Federal ment to take control was reached at a meeting held late to-day at the cotton President A There were present Mayor Chairman of the com- President of the State board of President of the city board of representatives of each of the exchanges and commercial Surgeon of the United States Marine Hospital and a number of representative Equipped for the All of those present participated in the discussion It waa the consensus of opinion of the meeting that control would restore con- throughout the other State's In the where there has been criticism of the city and State authorities for not sooner making public ence of yellow It was the belief of those present that Surgeon Gen Wyman would be abie to send a force of to New Orleans thoroughly ped tor the handling of the yellow fever situation of their experience and unquestionable facilities to enforce a campaign against the When local health officers first Charge of the situation it was hopfed fever could be stamped out within of reasonable but the Infection haa and frightened have the people become In the South over the increase in the number of cases that New Orleans is threatened with a serious paralysis of trade by reason of radical after the meeting a tele- signed by the mayor and others was addressed to Gov telling him of the action Purpose to Avert Announcement that the Federal ment was to be called on to take charge at first created some alarm in New many taking such action as an acknowledgment that the situation had got beyond control That alarm was layed when It was announced that the ob- ject in turning over the direction of to the Marine Hospital Service was to renew confidence among doubtful and thus avert an epidemic At a conference at the city hall it was decided that Mayojr Behrman should a proclamation requiring every business house in the city to close on so that employes might take a hand in the general cleaning movement chants are to be asked to furnish carts to carry away refuse A thousand carts will be required in the work A special appeal Is to be addressed to householders asking them to co-operate In the sanitary campaign by thoroughly cleaning jards To-day the board of health Instituted a new requiring its inspectors to make prompt report of To that order was due the fact that twenty new cases for day were announced early in the after- noon Yesterday the 3 o'clock report showed seven cases and two while at 6 o'clock there were reported fifty-four cases and five The In- had turned their cases in in bunches late In the and the evening report had a disquieting effect on the which had been led by the report to believe that the situation was improving Fleeing to St. Tammany Hundreds of persons temporarily moving from New Orleans to St many the near haven to which they can go The parish has opened its doors to All Yellow fever has never developed In St Tammany Parish during the most serious be- cause yellow fever mosquitoes have never existed A thorough inspection of the quarter to-day disclosed not a suspicious case of Business houses are feeling the effect of the There has been a tion in business and trade is President Roosevelt last night for- warded to Burgeon General of the Public Health and Marine Hospital a telegram of requesting that the United States government take control of the yellow fever situation in New The President directed the Surgeon eral to take every step in his power to meet the situation in New Orleans and to notify him what further action is ble and possible for the Federal ties to The in full is as President Roosevelt's received telegram from Gov of Joint meeting of of all com- belles of city of New uid other prominent at were tile major of the Uw health and the president of the Parish Medical following was this mooting OK proposition la uk the United to take central of tie yellow fever In New ana ON to Harpers Kerry Be tarn August 6. Splendid opportunity to visit the guard In Train leaves more and Ohio JR. R. Station a. m. above Chesapeake Bound Children's 26c Round Trip to HIS PROGRESSIVE BRIBERY AND LARCENY Five Indictments in Milwaukee Boodling WEALTHY ACCUSED Charles F. Pf utter Charged to His Use Placed in His Hands to Further a Garbage Con- Senator Elaton Also of Accepting a Aug. one wealthiest and most nent of was indicted by a grand jury with stealing belonging to the sin Rendering of Indictments were also returned against four other as John F formerly George E. Barney A. State Frank F. formerly newspaper perjury The Indictment against alleges that on March 1901, the was bailee of a sum of money said to be placed in his hands for the consin Rendering to obtain for the company a larpe contract from the city of Milwaukee for the disposing of It Is charged that the money was not used for tlhe purpose and that fraudulently converted the money to his own Pfister Enters is a director of a leading owns -a large Interest In a big is proprietor of a large and owns one of the leading newspapers of Mr to-night issued the following statement charge Is absolutely false and has no foundation whatever About years ago F. C was president of the Wisconsin Rendering placed money In my and I dis- bursed It years ago according to his than two vears since the balance was paid over on Mr No dissatisfaction ever expressed to me by any and this indictment Is the first intimation I ever received from any person that anything remained or that any claim whatever existed or was supposed to exist against me Mr has been in 111 health lor several sent a certified check for the clerk of the court for his appearance needed The against apd Dittmar lege bribery In connection with county Senator Eaton Is charged ing a bribe in connection with a ary In the indictment a 133 by the grand Jury The Jury taken a until August 22. STRIKE SEEMS Cotton Demands for ed Wages Will Wot Be Met. Aug. threatened strike of cotton operatives seems to be Representatives of the Federation of Master Spinners met in Manchester day and decided to appeal to all ers to unanimously resist the demand of the operatives for a 5 per increase In wages on the ground that the condition of the Industry does not warrant an ad- The federation embraces 420 working about Meanwhile the employers at Bolton have separately decided not only to refuse an but to reduce the present wages 5 per cent. The when it will be one of the largest that has ever It disorganize the entire trade and cause great ly as it will follow the long period fa 5904, when the mills ran on half time to restrict with the object of de- feating the alms of American cotton The Illinois at Bar Bar Aug. ship on which telegraph experiments have been conducted rejoined Rear Admiral ship fleet For and Newport via Norfolk Washington Steamboat foot 7th daily p. connecting at Norfolk with steamers tor New Tork Round trip Fridays and Saturdays during See page 6. 2290. Lumber So fat Carload Lots from Ubbey 6th and N. T. ave. OF Traffic Has Not Been Up on the Northern St. Aug. the strike of telegraphers on the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific railroads has not tied up serious delays have been caused in the moving of anc to-night passenger trains are running late While nearly all the morning trains on both roads were on two after- noon overland trains arrived several hours late on the Northern The Great Northern was more fortunate two fast trains arriving a couple of hours The strikers say that when the heavy movement of crops begins the railroads will be Perishable was received to-day in many cases out Iron ore at the head of the lakes is moving Reports from official sources on the number of union strikers the number at opened vary Manager of the Pacific and General Supt. of the gay that they are continuing to get men from the union and dent of the declares that the statements are greatly Several stations have been union engineers and ors employed on the two systems re- orders from their union chiefs tc cease assuming any of the functions of the telegraphers The telegraphers say that much of tha success the roads had im moving trains was due to the aid given by members of these two EDWARD AND Report that Hitlers Would Meet Is Well Received in Special Cable Dispatch to Washington Post Aug. newspaper In Vienna a few days ago printed a rumor that t meeting was Impending between King Bd ward and Emperor and ed that the Intention was to show thai the meeting between the Czar and Kaiser had no special and that 1 was not aimed against Great Britain The report seemed unworthy of but it has been received In various quarters In Germany In a manner eating that such a meeting would be widely except by the fire eat as a relief from the tension of tht last few Aug of the newspapers comment approvingly on the meeting of the Kaiser and King Edward at None of them Is hostile The tone at the boerse became stronger on the it being as likely that a meeting would result in a betterment of the Anglo-German tions Neither the British Embassy nor the foreign office Is able to confirm nor deny the that the two will meet at during the Journey to according to the foreign has the German Em- bassy at London received any information regarding such an do not regard the report as Im- SAUTE HIS 10 MAI'S PART Peace Envoys to Meet Federal Aid Asked Against Bribery and Theft Great Reception Taft Bureau Chief in Printing Loan Warrant for Town That Knows No Oregon Army and Navy Timely Topics Talks with Hotel and Nationals Win in the Racing Results and Appraisal Commission of Virginia and Sewer Contract Held PART 1 Representative Hull for Where Police Excel Increase in Internal Financial and Weekly Trade Searchers for Spanish 4 Among the City's Orleans The Legal News and Kansas the Land of Strange Devices of A Page of Breaking of Coupling Pin Saved Crowded Excursion Train from New Aug. William Mooney rolled bis engine down a steep embankment at N. day into Newark Bay and The engine plunged out of sight into deep A crowded excursion train on the tral Railroad of New Jersey was left marooned and with passengers stricken on a trestle above the saved from the same fatal dive only by a breaking coupling pin and the bravery of the lost who went to his death while in the act of setting the emergency The train was running Atlantic and had lust passed over a bridge at moderate when the engine ran into an open switch and was derailed along with the tender and two At this point rails are laid on a steep which forma the bridge and the engine der toppled over the The coupling pin between the tender and the first car leaving the stopped still on the The fireman saved himself by No passengers were Bound Trip to Chesapeake la Children's Harpers And Leave Baltimore and Ohio Railroad August 6, a. m. Splendid to visit our soldier boya in Baltimore and Ohio Every Saturday and Alt trains both both except Royal DAMAGING TO Army Officer's on of Shows Strain of Deposition of Filipino Stervant Tells of Finding Her in Compromising Special to The Washington Aug facing unflinchingly the recital of her alleged misconduct in the company of men other than her Mrs. Grace Culver Taggart Is to-night almost OQ the verge of collapse She Is not the same woman she was before the divorce trial began Her shoulders are bent and she has grown twenty years older In a few From far-off came the tale day that may decide the The sition of a Filipino girl employed as a servant the Taggart household related that she caught Mrs. Taggart in a com- promising position in her with Capt. The deposition of Mrs. J. R. a servant employed by Mrs. Taggart's ter Mrs. Charles In told of an episode which the de- fendant narrated to her one Mrs. the deposition said that she a party of men and women went slumming one visiting a ly where the was given for their The deposition of de La the Filipino girl wham Mrs. Taggart accused of in- with her said that never improper relations with Maj Andres de a Filipino mesa boy In Maj. Taggart's house at Fort worth in 1903, testified by deposition that Mrs. Taggart smoked cigarettes in the Morris father of the testified that he believed his daughter-in-law to toe a respectable woman The trial was interrupted to-day by an argument upon the of and the judge ruled at Its con- while he could not permit third persons to be smirched if he would keep out of the testimony ing which reflected upon the character of either Maj Taggart or his wife TWO NEGROES Were Members of the Chain Gang Who Killed Their to The Washington Poet Miss Aug. 4 George and Ed Lewis were lynched in this city at 9 o'clock to-night by a mob of no less than men The lynching was con- ducted in an orderly manner About 9 o'clock this morning J. G sixty-eight years a white guard over the city was by two Nell Horn and Kid of the gang The plot to murder the guard was hatched In the city jail last night After the crime It was found that George and Horn had gone to the home of Ed a notorious negro with two cut the shackles from the assassins This while trying to run the yellow fever quarantine a soldier shot at the ball cutting off his and he was with while several hundred people scoured the try and swamps below for the negro Horn A special train was run south to head him but the negro escaped To-night fully men broke Into the city after a desperate struggle with the who every inch of dragged them out and hanged on a wanted to burn them and ed a but this was put out by While the men dangling at end of phots were after which the mco The two wrrc not The sui rounding Is being to-night for the er TITIAN FOR Portrait of Cardinal Bembo Practically Purchased for Special Cable Dispatch to The Port. Aug. is understood that have been but not completed for the purchase by an American of Titian's portrait of dinal Bembo for It is also said that Titian's portrait of Aretino will be but this Is as yet A high art authority says that the Aretino trait is likely to go to while an- other authority declares that It has been bought for the National Gallery in don for Sir Casper director of the Metropolitan Museum of says that the portrait of Cardinal Bembo is one of the finest and that if it is bought by a private American it ought to be placed in a He points out that on the average fire de- one valuable collection of Ings in England for which son many English collectors are now content to have copies of their pictures in their confiding the originals to the of public dona Wins a Libel B. cable from London says the privy council has the Chinese government in its action for against the Canadian Pacific Hallway for the loss of the nese warship Hiang was sunk by the steamer Empress of India about two years off the Chinese Attractive sate of furniture at Sloan's to-day at JO a. m. First keepers save money buying at PAGEANT Secretary Receives Gorgeous Welcome at KEYS OF CITY PRESENTED Ceremony in Honor of His Party at Governor General's Invitations Have Been Issued to a Grand Ball in Honor of Miss Alice and Combined Chambers of Commerce Will Give One of the Several Imposing Banquets in Honor of the Commission to Hold Public Aug E of and party arrived on the steamship at 10 o'clock this Their arrival was made the occasion of a geous water Gov Gen. Maj. Gen and Hear Admiral with their and the official reception met the party when tha anchored The the and the craft la the harbor fired the regulation salute for the Secretary of The party left the steamship and proceeded to the governor general's where the official welcome was and where the golden keys of the city were presented to Secretary Thousands of persona lined the which were elaborately Parade and Ball The city and tha In bay are covered with bunting There will be a. magnificent electrical display on the and the government buildings night The triumphal arches have been and in the parade that will be a feature of the occasion will be a number of extraordinary floats ing the Industries of the country There will also be a parade Fifteen hundred persons have been in- to a ball that will be given In the marble of the in honor of Miss Alice Roosevelt pinos will give many entertainments honor of the visitors from the provinces show that elaborate ments will be given to welcome Fifteen governors are already Jn and others are with large delegations to receive the The combined chambers of commerce will give a banquet in their to which 350 guests have been The Filipino will also give banquet to 300 The entire party will be quartered with prominent citizens and army officials The Philippine commission has arranged to hold public sessions In order to give the Senators and Representatives ing the party an opportunity to hear the and lumber men present their views The party will spend four days in making a tour of the southern and the main cities of the archi- SERVICES Attorneys Asked Exorbitant Which Referee Aug 4. Referee In Bankruptcy Remington to-day took up the fee claims of Nathan Loeser for ices as receiver for Mrs and also the bills for compensation rendered by Messrs Kerruish the attorneys defended her s claim amounted to Referee Remington declared the amount tant and several tumes larger than the law allowed Mr. claim was temporarily laid as was also the bills rendered by Grossman counsel for thie pending the presentation of itemized Mrs. lawyers rendered a Joint for giving in detail the assistance said to been rendered to the court and the receiver by find a very few items in this list about which there is even a said Most of them are wholly unallowable One account rendered by the amounting to was for assistance dered in getting Mrs Chadwick's trunk and valise from New Tork Receiver Loeser also put In a concerning the services were In connection with the preservation of the said Attorney had property in and burg amounting to Remington held that as far aa the Cleveland property was It was well preserved at the time under the charge of a deputy sheriff I'd like to know about the rest of that said 4he never heard of it before volunteered no fur ther COAL Dragged from Ma Bed Head ed with Blunt Aug 4 brutal der was brought to light at in the extreme northern part of ton late this when the dead body of Joseph aged a coal was found lying in his room with the skull literally crushed Into a. shapeless mass The authorities have absolutely no clew to work upon to be- cure the arrest of the murderer Barr was employed by the Pittsburg Coal Company and had been confined to hte bed for two the result qf an accident in the mine To-night Mrs. Barr went to the house of a leaving her four children playing around the and when she returned at 8 30 o'clock she found her murdered and la now raving The children knew nothing of the tragedy until their mother Barr had been dragged from his bed ter probably having been as the condition of his throat and then while held upon the floor was struck re- over the head with some heavy instrument wielded with
