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Burl's Clothes Have a style and correctness of design found only in Tailored garments; The kind of clothes you weir make some impression on every person you meet. Burk Clothes Is a guarantee that this impression will be a favorable one- Circulation Books Open to A.11 Circulation JBoolcs Open to -All VOLUME XXVIII KASHVILliE. TENN, SUNDAY MORIIfG, SEPTEMBER 25, 1104. (SUBSCRIBERS' EDITION.) NUMBER 10,009 IS HOWSE AND EWING WILL GO TO SENATE Upon Platform Directly Antagonistic to Interests of Ring. FAHEY FL0TERIAL REPRESENTATIVE FIFTY-FOUR KILLED IN CRASH OF TRAINS Dreadful Catastrophe on the Southern Railway at Hodge's Station, Eighteen Miles From Knoxville; Tenn.

Straub, Sharpe, Hickman, Peay, Williams and Eastman Nominated for lower House Delegation Instructed to Oppose Charter Changes, to Regulate and Reduce Telephone to Redistrict County and Have Turnpikes Superintendent Elected by People. DISOBEDIENCE OF ORDERS BY AN ENGINEER THE NEWS IN BRIEF THE WEATHEB. Fair. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.

Forecast: Tennessee Fair 'Sunday and Monday. Kentucky Fair Sunday; Monday fuir. warmer. Alabama Fair Sunday and Monday; light southeast to south winds. HOURUT TEMPERATURE SEPT.

24. 6 a. 65 1 p. 7 a. 66 2 p.

8 a. 70 3 p. 8J a. 7:1 4 p. S3 lr u.

76 5 p. 1L a. 7S 6 p. A 13 SI 7 p. m.i 79 Sun rises 5:53 Sun sets NEWS SUMMARY.

IjOCAI-Nowsboy Is struck by waiter in the Silver Moon restaurant, the place narrowly escaping belpg torn up by an excited crowd in consequence. lour constitutional amendments, of passage is questioned, were before the Legislature of 1901 in the shape of joint Z. N. Estea, of Memphis, dies Nashville defeats Little Rock. 4 to Father T.

C. Abbott. Is to observe, his silver Jubilee. Insurance Commissioner Folk discusses the convention of Commissioners. Cunningham accepts the chair of hngllsh and history in South Carolina Collcco --Woolen estate will probably be divided without further litigation.

M. J. Ijynch shoots three negroes in McQovern saloon. ST ATB Terrible wreck on Southern Railway, near Knoxville, over fifty persons being killed and more than l-o injured, some. of them.

Mining town in Mexico completely wiped out by Gov. Fraaler and Hon. Jesse Littleton greeted by a large crowd at Gallatin. POMTICAL-Judgo Parker returns to lisopus. Antt Parker Democratic I formed in Chicago.

Davidson County's Legislative Convention nominates "Hillary E. Howso and Albert Ewing for tho Senate. WAR Mai. Gen. Orloff, whose conduct caused Kuropatkin's defeat at Llao Yang, to be relieved and possibly retired from the army.

Thousands of sick and wounded at Port. Arthur. -The British merchant steamer Crusader captured by Heavy firing at Port Arthur heard bv steamer arriving at Che I'oo. Chinese rumors the arc evacuating Russian reports are that the Japanese attacks on Port Arthur will sooti cease, and a starvation siege be initiated. Reported appearance nr'cholera at Port Arthur causes, sreat.

iuicern at St. Petersburg. Japanese. advancing on Tie. Pass, and an engagement Imminent.

Russians rout the enemy at Da Pass. GENERAL Triennial general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church meets ill Boston next month. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury culled on President Roosevelt yesterday. Statesborn and Talbotton lynchers tp be iivlivelv prosecuted. Tobacco men from I lie Cl'arksvlllc district meet at Guthrie and tf.ke steps to light the trust VOLCANO IN ACTION passed unanimously he wa given rousing cheer.

Running at a Speed of Thirty Miles an Hour, the Trains Crashed Into Each Other, Head On. More Than 120 Persons Injured. Til THE TIE Russians Eagerly Awaiting the Appearance of Advancing Japanese. COMING UP UAO RIVER Further Details of Da Pass Fight Tell of the Victory Won by Russians. CHOLERA AT PORT ARTHUR Reported Appearance of the Disease Causes Great Concern at St.

Petersburg Japanese Capture British' Merchant Steamer. Sept. 24. A Japanese column is reported to be advancing along the Liao River on the- Tie Pass, and the Russian troops are impatiently awaiting an engagement. Further details received of the fight at Da.

Pass say that on the evening of Sept. 19: the scouts reported strong Japanese forces to be moving behind the Da Pass was occupied by Gen. "Mlstchenkos and Gen; Samsonoff's troops. They allowed tho Japanese to approach within a short distance and then fired several vol-loys and made a counter attack, rout ing and driving hack the Japanese, who ran, throwing away their guns and ammunition. They were pursued by the Russian cavalry.

Having received reinforcements the Japanese, again advanced and attack ed the Russians, at the same time endeavoring to turn the iatter's flank. though the main attack was directed on the Russian center. This attack was repulsed and the Russian cavalry again pursued the Japanese, securing many prisoners, most of whom were wounded. CHOLERA AT PORT ARTHUR. St.

Petersburg Greatly Disturbed Oyer Its Reported Appearance, ST. PF.TEItSBURG. Sent. 24. Al though no confirmation hus been received fit this hour at eitherthe War Office or the Admiralty of the report from Tslngtau that cholera had broken out at Port Arthur, it Is admitted that possibly it is true owing to the.

terrible unsanitary conditions around the fortress arising from the number of decaying corpses there. But until confirmation 'is received the Tslngtau telegram will1 not out to the press In order-to avoid causing needless alarm among -tHe relatives of the -brave defenders. The announcement, none the less," has caused the deepest concern In naval and military circles. It is hoped, however, that even If the report Is true, the outbreak will turn out to be a mild one and that it will be quickly checked by rigid discipline and the isolation of suspicious coses. Port Arthur hus been free from cholera for several years, thanks to constant precautions.

The chief- danger lies in the. overcrowded Chinese quarters, but It Is believed that comparatively few natives are left at Port Arthur. It is. pointed out that If the epidemic, despite all precautions, obtains a foothold. It Is likely to affect the Japanese ias well as the Russians.

EVACUATING MUKDEN. Rumors That Russians Are Leaving the Place. GEN: OICU'S HEADQUARTERS IN THE FIELD, via Fusan, Sept. 24. There are persistent rumors among the Chinese that the Russians are evacuating Mukden and are preparing to make a desperate stand at Tie Pass.

Everything now a-waits the result of the attack on Port Arthur. JAPS CAPTURE BRITISH SHIP. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24. The Merchants' Exchange has received a cable message from London stating that the British steamer Crusader has been captured by the Japanese and taken to Hakodate.

The Crusader started from Astoria. 2 for Shanghai. PORTLAND, Sept. 24 The British steamer Crusader, reported captured by the Japanese and taken to Hakodate, cleared from this Port Aug. 1 with 'J Rn fiSU fppt nf lumber and 3.000 bundles of laths.

Her cargo was valued at $26,650. The vessel was under charter to. the Pacific Export Lumber Company and the cargo was consigned to merchants in Shanghai and Taku. At the office of the Pacific Export Lumber Company no reason for the reported seizure could be. ascertained.

The vessel was loaded with- a neutral cargo, consigned to neutral ports, and sailed uider a neutral Mag. A large portion of the cargo was consigned to the Paul Brunet Company at Tien Tsin, the port of receipt Taku. The vessel's route would take her very close to Hakodate, and it is surmised here that the vessel was merely stopped from the ordinary course by the Japanese. The Crusader is owned by the Eskide Shipping Company, Limited, of Whidby, England. ORLOFF IN DISGRACE.

ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 24, 5:45 p. Associated Press learns on unquestionable authority that Maj. Gen.

Orloff, whose precipitancy in leaving Ye'ritai to join in the attack on the heights of the Sykwantun exposed Gen. Kuropatkin's left flank and necessitated the abandonment of Lino Yang, will be detached from the Manchurian army and given another command in European Russia, or possibly he may be retired. The detachment of Gen. Orloff was ordered by Gen. Kuropatkin.

who has full power to do so without resorting to a court-martial. NOT' ROOM FOR THREE- ST. Sept. 24. The upon Lprd Rosebery's words at Edin burgh that, "'mere ir room enougn in Asia for Russia and England," says: Continued on Second Page.) Tammany and the antis locked horns in the Legislative convention Saturday, and, when the smoke of battle cleared away Tammany had lost ull that was really worth fighting for.

Hillary E. Howse was nominated for Senator, with Albert G. Swing as his running mate. The nomination of Howse was the one ray of comfort for the Tammany crowd, although they were favorable to several of the' delegates for the lower House. Mr.

Howse, for all his victory in the race, goes to the Senate instructed to vote for the redisricting 0f the county, for the election of Turnpike Superintendent by the people, for the reduction and equalization of "telephone tolls and against any tampering with the, charter by which the City Attorney can be again elected by the Council. LOWER HOUSE NOMINEES. Charles Fahey was nominated for Floterial Representative from Davidson and Wilaon, and the nominees for the lower Hoube are'J. J. Straub, of Fifth Ward; Litton Hickman; of the Eighteenth District; C.

L. Eastman, of the Seventh Ward; John Sharp, of the Seventh Ward; Miimlc.k WilHama, of the Seventeenth Ward, and. George W. Peuy, of the Twentieth Bintrict. The convention unanimously, -the candidacy of Edward 33.

Martin for Chief Clerk 'of the House, which adds seven more votes to-his already large list. His election Is now generally con- ceded. 1 Before the' convention opened there was a general understanding that the races before the convention, would be an open one with such "trades" as would be made entirely by wards and districts. To use an expression frequently heard, matters were "up in the air." It was anybody's race, with the odds slightly in favor ot Howse. Early in the morning a rumor, apparently circulated for, the purpose of mixing matters still tvas' indus triously spread around to the effect that by an agreement made early in the morning a combination had-been formed against Howse, whereby W.

A-Stewart and Pink Webb, the latter a dark horse, would be nominated for the Senate, while Albert Ewlng and Bush Sneed were to head the House ticket. The rumor could not be traced to its source, although It greatly worried tiie Howse leaders and caused some of them to divide their efforts between hustling for votes and tracing up the Webb rumor. Charles P. Fahey, it was announced before the convention, had withdrawn from the Senatorial race, and would run for Floater, with the Howse to back him. Last -Tuesday The American asserted that when the crucial moment came -the Howse men would not support for Senate, and events Saturday bore this out.

His being supported for Floater was a surprise, but it was said that his twenty or twenty-five votes were needed. They were. W. W. Wilkerson was not pliieed before the convention, his.

strength going to Thompson and Ewlng. EWING'S NOMINATION. The Stewart men were divided between Ewlng and Howse, and to this may be attributed the nomination Ewlng. There were several wards and districts whose delegates were for Stewart with the understanding that if Stewart was nominated pri the first ballot they would vote for Ewing on the next. Howse was nominated on the first ballot, but only after there was a great swapping of votes.

The" Fifteenth Ward, Stewart's home ward, which has nine votes, transferred eight of them rpm Stewart to Howse. Herman Hass-locK, the only delegate elected from the Wilkerson ticket, stuck to Stewart and refused to come over. Before the result was announced, however, there was a conference among the leaders of the Fifteenth and a moment later the transfer from Stewart to Howse was rescinded and the ward placed back in the Stewart column. The Howse men were immediately up in arms, and when on the second ballot Stewart was opposed by, Ewing, the Sixth Ward voted for Ewlng, as did other Howse men right flown the line. As a.

result Stewart was beaten and Ewing. nominated. Charles Sykes, the Chairman of the convention, was an able and absolutely impartial presiding officer. He refused to be overriden by anyone, and wjien some over-zealous partisans with whom be was known to be affiliated endeavored to have things their own way, he sat down hard upon them. At the close of the convention he was tendered a vote of thanks upon a motion of I.

Pendleton, and after the' inotlon waa Executive Committee Chairman W. R. Bryan called the committee to order at 10:15 o'clock and the roll of Chairmen Yas called by Secretary J. C. Gleaves, Prof.

J. L. Wright, of the Ninth District, was elected Temporary Chairman, and J'. Gleaves was elected Temporary Secretary. D.

U. Burke placed Tom Hart in norniriation for Chairman and he elected without opposition. Cohn nominated J. C. Gleaveff for Secretary and he also was elected-unani-, mously.

Mr. Hart in it. few words ackhowU edged the honor done him and the committee then adjourned. Convention Proceedings. The Floterlal delegation from Wilson County composed of Luke McMen-naway, Llttard 'Thompson, Beard, Frank- McMillin.

C- Sanders, Ray Rousseau, W. M. Harkreader, O. P. BalrdJ.

M. Hatcher, J. T. Odum A. McLaln -and'J.

D. Gkmn. Tom Hart, the Executive Committee, called the convention to order o'clock' and the roll of delegates was called- C. Gleaves was "appointed arid -Will Jones, Charles LonsHurnt; Alex Barthell and A. J.

Laurent Assistant Sergeant -at-Arms. The floor was cleared of all but delegates. J. M. Anderson placed Charles Sykes in nomination for Temporary Chairman and the nomination received many seconds: No other was placed before the convention.

John H. DeWitt among the seconding the Tbe'eleotionfof Mr. was made unanimous-- and Harry Anderson was then elected Temporary Secretary. Judge Anderson moved that two committees of seven each be appointed, the first to be a Committee on Permanent Organization and Credentials and the second on Platform and Resolutions. The Chairman announced as the- two1 committees the following: Platform and Resolutions Judge J.

M. Anderson, Charles Polak, Jesse H. Thomas. Clmrles Cohn. H.

O'Brien, Dr. G. P. Gilbert and E. M.

Patteroon. Orgunfuntion and Credentials T. M. Hart, Charles Myers, C. F.

Jack Tant, W. P. Phillips, Will LIngner and J. T. Johnson.

E. M. Wrenne then Introduced a resolution to the effect that all resolutions be referred to the Platform Committee without debate. T. O.

Morris raised the point that the convention had not permanently organized and no resolution' could be passed. He raised strenuous objection to what he termed "gag rule." The point was ruled not well taken. M. P. Estes raised the point that no Committee on Resolutions could be appointed until the Credentials Committee reported.

This point was sustained by the chair. Luke Lea, of the Eleventh District, then moved to adjourn to 2 o'clock. The motion was lost. George Canfield moved to adjourn until 1 o'clock, but the motion was declared out of order. COMMITTEE REPORTS.

The Committee on Credentials, Permanent Organization and Order of Business, reported at 11:15 o'clock that the duly elected delegates be the delegates of the convention that in the Tenth District, where delegates Reed and Richardson tied, each be entitled to one-half vote; that the Floterlal election be the first order of business; that the Senatorial election be second; that the Representatives be next, and that the temporary organization be made permanent. The Committee on Resolutions was then appointed as at first announced and retired to consider at 11:35 o'clock. H. A. Hasslock introduced the following resolution, which waa referred lo the committee: "Resolved, That the Senators and Representatives from this county are hereby instructed to introduce and vote for a bill to reduce and regulate tele phone rates in tile State.

"That they introduce and vote for a bill to change the hours of holding elections from '9 a. m. to 4 p. to 'from 7 a. m.

to 6 p. "That they introduce and vote for a bill that will compel telephone companies to pay a just tax to the county and municipality in which they transact business. "That they introduce and vote for a bill making It a misdemeanor for a steam railway to cross any public road at a grade crossing unless gates and a gateman are placed at the crossing 'That they be instructed to change the registration law making the presentation of a poll tax receipt from every voter liable to poll tax a prerequisite for registering. "That they be instructed to vote against any change of existing laws relative to fraternal Insurance orders." T. O.

Morris moved to adjourn until o'clock and the motion prevailed, 10G to 48, after a roll cull had been demanded. Convention Reconvenes. The convention reconvened at 1:15 (Continued on Third Page.) BY A SURVIVOR Airs. G. G.

Nanee, of Knoxville. Mrs. Norie Eubere, of New York, seriously. Mrs. Lucy Harbin, of Morristown, Tenn.

Mr. and Mrs. Hey, of Burlington', N. C. Mrs.

Will Jones, of South Knoxville. Hlight. W. B. Seatou, of' Jefferson C.

13. Wright, of" Jefferson City. Tenn'. Mrs. L.

c. of South both ii'mbsbrolten Mrs: of back inju'red; prostrated. Miss Pc(il Jones, of South Knoxville, slightly J. C. Welsh, 'Swannanoa, C.

Paul AshevUle, N. badly hurt. Robinson, Columbia, S. and Mrs. W.

'E. Wilmington', N. slightly. Miss Mary Bryan, HendersOnville, N. bruised.

S. T. Lawyer, Louisville, Ky seriously hurt. B. C.

Atlanta, Ga badly bruised. Mrs. Geo. Broughton, of Jacksoni 111. Rev.

J. Knox Montgomery, of lotte. N. c. J.

A. McDonald and Mrs. Fred Weir, Windsboro. S. C.

-B. Peace and J. H. Miller, negro Pullman porters of New York. T.

Ellis, of Jersey City, N. Dan Hivrrison, Dandridge, Tennf. slight. Will Smith, colored, AshevUle, N. not 'serious.

Tom' McDowell, colored, AshevUle, not. 'serious. Robert Jackson, Johnson City. Tenn. not serious.

W. A. Prultt.iWhlteshurg, not serious. H. B.

Lowery, serious. Wm. T. Keeveiy Johnson City, not serious. Harrison Cainnen, colored.

Frank Mantle. Walter Bailey, colored, Johnson City, flight. Col. J. J.

Craig, Knoxville, Tenn. slight. I Mance, Knoxville, not serious. J. A.

Pickens, New Market, not seri ous. George Brodger, Talbot, seri ous. B. B. Webb, Statesvllle, postal clerk, not serious.

F. G. Turner, ofg'anton, N. postal clerk, serious. B.

S. Green, Sylva, N. serious. J. F.

Turley, Granger County, not serious. E. D. Blackham, Jefferson County, not serious. J.

V. Wampler, Supervisor, Johnson City, slight. J. R. Shell, Knoxville, not serious.

J. Rogersville, not serious. Miliburn P. Garrett, Shelby, N. C.

J. H. Schell, Johnson City, Tenn. Mrs. J.

H. Schell, Johnson City, not serious. Holils Nichols, Dandridge, serious. Rev. W.

B. Brady, AshevUle, N. slight: CJhaiies Lester, Knoxville, hurl in back. Thomas Mashier, White Pine, not serious. L.

S. Borrah, AshevUle, N. hurt leg and hip. T. M.

Livingston, Ocala, not serious. 1 R. P. Keith, fireman, Morristown, slight. iCouUnued on Seventh Page.) AWFUL SCENES KNOXVILLE, Sept.

24. nun- nlng on a roadbed In a supposedly high condition of maintenance and Staving- about them every safeguard known to modern railroading, two trains on the Southern Railway, carrying heavy lists of came together in a frightful head-end collision near Hodges, to-day, sending 54 people to death ana Injuring 120, several of whom will probably die. This appalling loss of life and maiming of the living resulted apparently from, the' regarding of orders given to Irav two two trains to meet at a station which has for a long time been their regular meeting The claim of failure to see either. the station or srgnals cannot be set up by the engineer of the west-bound train were he alive to enter a jilea of defense, as the accident happened in broad daylight and, according to the best information obtainable, he had the order in a little frame in front of him as his monster of Iron and steel rushed by New Market and soon after came full upon an east-bound passenger train making for New Market in compliance with instructions to meet the west-bound train which carried the Bleepers from the Hast, for Knoxville, Chattanooga and other -Southern cities. The possibility exists that the ill-fated engineer may have been asleep or that death had suddenly taken the sight from his eyes before News Market was reached.

But nothing is known save that the orders were not The trains were on time and not making over thirty-five miles an hour, yet the impact as they rounded a curve and came suddenly upon each other was frightful. Both engines and the major portions of both trains were demolished, and whether the orders were disregarded or mislntrepreted will probably never be known, as the engineers of the two trains were crushed, fheir bodies remaining for hours under the wreckage of the monster locomotives which but a short time before had leaped, forward at the touch of their strong hands upon tile throttle. Some of the bodies have not yet been recovered and many remain unidentified. DETAILED ACCOUNT- Awful Scenes Told of by Survivor Dead and Injured. KNOXVILLE, Sept.

24. Two fast passenger trains on the Southern Railroad crashed together this morning at 11:18 about one and one-half miles west of Hodges Station and eighteen miles east of Knoxville. At 9 o'clock to-night it is known that fifty-four lives have lost in the crash and 120 persons injured, about twenty of whom will die, according to reports at the Knoxville hospital, to which, institution all of the seriously injured were removed. Workers at the scene of the wreck had at that hour recovered all the bodies except those of the enginemen and passengers whose lives were crushed out in the smoker of the east-bound train. Many bodies of the dead cannot be identified and it will be some time Sunday before the list is completed.

The known dead at 9 o'clock are: RALPH MOUNTCASTLE. of Knoxville, Tenn. W. A. GAILBRAITIt, of Knoxville.

MRS. W. A. GALBRAITH, of Knoxville. MONUGE ASHMORE, aged 19, of Knoxville, JOHN BLACK, of White Pine Tenn.

JAMES KING, of Knoxville. TWO CHILDREN OF JAS. KING, of Knoxville. AS DESCRIBED WM. KANE, of Knoxville, engineer of the west-bound train.

RICHARD PARROTT. of Knoxville, engineer of the east-bound train. JAMES MILLS, colored, of New Market, Tenn. ROSCOE KING, of New Market, Tenn. E.

G. EARNEST, of Johnson City, Tenn. G. W. BROWN, of Dandridge, Tenn.

R. D. GODFJ.N, of Jefferson City, Tenn. .1. X.

BIRD, of Jeffeinon.Clty, Tenn. WILLIAM JONES, son of James Jones, of South MRS. R. B. WEST, of Grainger County, Tenn.

J. B. GASS, of Dandridge, Tenn. MRS. J.

of Dandridge, Terin. MISS GASS, daughter of Eight Italian names unknown. JOHN P. CONNOR, of Knoxville, night foreman at Lonsdale round house. MRS.

JOHN P. CONNOR, of Knoxville. DAUGHTER OF JOHN P. CONNOR. CLAYTON M.

HEISKELL, Cincinnati. J. S. STEVENS, of Dandridge. One man was found with an envelope in his pocket bearing the name of J.

W. DALY, Greensburg, Ind. MISS NANNIE MURRAY, of Newport, Tenn. MRS. W.

O. HADDIN, of Knoxville, and a daughter of Mrs. Gass. WM. BREWER, of Knoxville.

MARY ETHEL SHIPP. J. M. ADKINS, Jelllco, Tenn. JOHN MOLYNEUX, Glen Mary, Tenn.

REV. ISAAC EMORY, Knoxville.j Tenn. J. P. KING, Newport, Tenn.

DR. D. A. FOX, Nashville. MISS HAY LOW Birmingham.

MRS. KINSELL, Knoxville. MRS M'EVVEN, Knoxville. JOHN BLACK, White Pine, JULIA W. HADDOX, Dandridge.

MRS. C. A. RUSSELL, AND TWO CHILDREN, aged 7 and Knoxville, identified at midnight. J.

J. DANIEL, Tampico, Tenn. D. S. FOX, Birmingham, Ala.

(No. D. A. Fox appears in the Nashville City Directory. Ed.

American.) THE INJURED. Those known to be injured are: Congressman Henry R. Gibson, of Knoxville, bruised about legs and shoulders, and back wrenched. Mrs. Jerome Gass, of Dandridge, fatally injured.

Mrs. Nichols, of Dandridge, fatally injured. J. N. Smith, of Knoxville, express messenger.

John T. Essary, of Morrlstown, slightly bruised. J. A. Jones, of face bruised; not seriously.

J. S. Helms, of Knoxville. J. Hare, of New Market, Tenn.

Mrs. J. Jones, of Union, S. C. J.

13. Arthur, of Union, S. C. J. W.

White and wife, of Strawberry Plains, Tenn. Oscar Dalton, of Knoxville. Miss Lucy Gray, of Knoxville, Tenn. C. M.

Livingston, of Louisville. S. S. Park and- E. W.

Robinson, of Columbia, S. C. O. H. Graves, of Ashovilte, N.

C. B. C. Trent, of Chattanooga. Mollie Glowers and child, of Annistoni fatally injured.

Emcrl Moore, Dandridge, Tenn. J. M. Anderson, of Morristown, bruised. Mrs.

James Mct'anipbell, of Knoxville, slightly. Vesuvius Throwing put Stones and Causing Earthquakes That Art Felt a Distance of 20 Miles, NAPLES, Sept. 24. The population of this city la somewhat alanriea by Hie increased eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Many foreigners, including a large number of Americans, have been attracted to Naples by the outbreak of the volcano.

Service on the Funicular railway has been suspended the operation of the road being thought unsafe. The eruption is accompanied by earthquakes which are felt to a distance of twenty miles, and stones are thrown out to a height of 1,500 feet. The director of tho observatory has declared that the eruption has not yet become dangerous. MORE FORTS TAKEN Tokio Hears That the Mikodo's Troops Have Captured Six of Port Arthur's Inner Defense. TOKIO, Sept.

2C, 11 a. m. It is believed that the Japanese have cap-lured six forts in the second line of. defense at Port Arthur since Sept. 19.

The hope of a speedy reduction of the fortress is running higher. RUSSiAWILL PROTEST Unless England Modifies the Treaty With Thibet. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 24.

Foreign Minister Lumsdorff has, it is announced, wired Instructions to Count BonkcndorlT. Russian Ambassador to Great Britain, to confer with. Secretary Lanadowne with a view of securing a modification of the Anglo-Tlbe-lan treaty, which has not yet been rati-lled by China. Count Benkendorff. is authorized by those instructions to lodge a strong protest If Great Britain tunes to consider Russia's objections lo the treaty, which it Is understood refer exclusively to article 9 of the draft of the convention.

Former Has Taken Steps to Arrive at Understanding. HOME, Sept. 24. The Vatican has sent to Paris a special courier with important documents reported to concern possible negotiations for a rapprochement, which although very difficult to arrange is not Impossible, as, according to Information received by the Holy See, President Ixiubet, Foreign Minister Delcasse, Minister of Public Instruction Chaumie, Minister of Finance Houvk'r and Minister of Public Works Maruejouls are in favor of such au understanding. V10LATEDJNJUNCTI0N Packing-House Strikers Heavily Fined at Omaha.

OMAHA, Sept. 21. Geo. Stevens. Secretary of the local council of the Meat Bucchers' Union, was to-day (hied JriO and costs by United States Judge Monger for violating an injunc-lion of the Federal Court restraining he packing-house strikers from inter-I'ciing with non-unln men who sought employment during the recent pock-iiiK-house strike.

Thirty-four of Mr. Elevens" assistants were lined $-0 each. The case may be appealed. 3.