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7 nr: m1 "-7-- A 1 1 1-- IT1101'1 'V tilt THE NASHVILLE TflT NASTIVITAT17 MERICAN THURSDAY Al117111C1 TITITUSI)A'Ir' GEMS SMUGGLED IN SEIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND SOLD BID OF A MEMPHIS FIRM HOTEL NEWS PERSONAL NOTES OLYMPIC GAMES LITERARY NOTES Final Meeting of Amateur Athletic Union RAP IDLY STRANGE EPIDEMIC WATERS OF VARIOUS CAUSES I cEms smoccLE0 IN OLYMPIC GAMES LITERARY NOTES HOTEL NEWS a Final Meeting of Amateur Athletic Union PERSONAL NOTES SEIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND SOLD STRANGE EPIDEMIC ERS OF BID OF A MEMPHIS FIRM VARIOUS CAUSES the district of tdbra where it tipplers that the Albanians are attacking Bulgrian villages The insurgents continue to devastate the district of Koritza and have captured important Turkish sunitea of provisionaN More or IPsu severe tighting le reported In the dietricts Of toria and Florina Three hundred itre assembled on the heights between Glevgvell and Yenlie Twenty-Mx Mussultbart peasants have been inaissacred In the village of Zivernini near Perlepe by the insurgents String ent rnilltory precautions have been talcn in the town of Uskub to prevent threatened dynamite outrages tb dip ttillti an The I the tilt tured provial torts a tnittlent betwee ty-six 1118168111( heat ent mil en in threate et ot' Dibca wh'ere it tipplers Albanians are attacking Dui- Itages urgents continue to devastate let of Korliza and have cap- 'portant Turkish sunliee of is More or les' severe fight- )orteci In the dietricts of Ku s- Florina Three hundred in are aseembled on the heights Glevgvell and Yeilije Twen- nosultbart peasants have been In the village of Zivernini epe by the ineurgents String try precautions have been talc- town of Uskub to prevent Young John Maxwell arriving Young John Maxwell arriving at Dooros House to be married to Mury Nesbit younger daughter of the proud despotic dandined English overlord Its that lie ohe has eloped Hugh ugh Mc Sw ney ex- iled el)li Of an Irish chieftain Ito has hcell fighting in the Irist kingade In France Stung by the taunts of the weuding guests John Nesbit Vows that since John Maxwell has been promised a bride from hous ki hull have one The whole roistering crew invade the wometi's a partmektn end compel the proud Isabel to marry ilaxwell upon whom she bits never before act eyes From the moment when John Maxwell realizen that he is unit-Med to a proud glorious beauty whoee every word stings him like a lash the awry with thin oplendid beginning goes on with vigor power and charm through strong bituations The Macmillan Company will publinh "John Maxwell's Niorrioge" In the early fall The author is Mr tephen Owyrn who wrote "The Old Knowledge" Young John Maxwell arriVing at Douros not19 to be married to Mury Nesbit younger daughter of the proud despotic dandined English overlord 11 de that she eloped with Ilutih kicSw ('ley the ex- son of an Irish entertain inl 11114 hrell lighting in the Irbil kirigade in France Stung by the taunts of the wisating guests John Neebil vows that since John Maxwell hits been promised a bride from he ehull have one whole roistering crew Invade the womeit's apart- end compel the proud Isabel to marry Maxwell upon whom ehe bits nt'Ver before set eyes From the murninat when Proves the Highest and the Entire Lot of Diamonds is Knocked Down to Them for of the Case Large Reward for Seizure Proves the HIghest and the Entire Lot of Millions of Dead Fish and Crabs on the Shores of Lake Explanation of the far Epidemic a Year Agkh and Crabs On the ar Age MilliOn3 of Dead Fish and Crabs on the Committee at St Louis ST LOUIS Aug final meeting of the Amateur Athletic Union's Olympic committee vested with WI power to arrange for the Olympic games of 1904 Is held to-day As all the athletic events that will be held during the year will take place Under the rules of the A A whereby athletes who compete must he amateurs and registered athletes the cornmittee discussed at length Just how they would proceed in regard to the entry of foreign athletett 'After a long cussion John O'Connor and 11 Garneau the representatives of the Western Association of the A A who 'control this district decided that their association would register free of charge all athletes from foreign vourttry The committee then named contestants for the control of the different sports Endeavor will be made to have the winners of the National and American League pennants play three games for the championship of thp world and the strong men of the world will have am Opportunity' to settle the question of supremacy in connection with the Olympic games Committee at St Louis ST LOUIS Aug final meet- Ing of the Amateur Athletic Urilon's Ol vow to arrange for the Olympic ympic committee vested With WI power utihri9e: gavttithreetyhicee'al atyatkhea tp 111101 garneesladoldf under the rules of the A A 15 where- beAhs by athletes who teurs and regintetrc)eldliPete Illuet be ama- kitilt th VISIT THE UNITED STATES Advice Given Young German Engineers by Privy Councillor Luig BERLIN Aug 12--Privy Councillor Luig the President of the Dusseldorf Exposition of Rhenish Westphalian Industries held in 1902 who recently toured through the IYnited4States today Made tin address to an assembly representing the various trade organizations of Dusseldorf in which he summarized the results of his observations lie recommended young German engineers to visit the United States because Something could be learned there wherever one looked Herr 'Luig continued: "I readily admit that the excellent arrangements in the factories impressed me everywhere but the goods produced are by no means better than ours German manufacturers can well stand comparison with American and I think we need not take too tragically the American danger of which all the world Is talking The labor factor is decidedly better than in the 'United States and our machine tools are at least equal to those of our rival "I believe that the cost of production In America except where goods are manufactured en 1118VISS is nearly as high as ours If not higher The American works producing pig iron and steel have the advantage of cheap freights without mentioning the rich natural resourees The cheap freights are due to the intelligent co-operation of the VISIT THE UNITED STATES Advice Given Young German Eng-ineers by Priv Councillor Luig BERLIN Aug 12--Privy Councillor Luig the President of the Dusseldorf Expositicm of Rhenish Westphalian i Inustres he in 19 02 who ecently toured through the Ilnited4States to day Made kn address eeenting the varlo to an assembly reprtis trade orgar d- zatione of Dusseldorf in which he Finn- marized the results of his observations rlao-mat cm- Rev Sullivan of Galveston Tex is spending his vacation with his mother airs u1Iivari at2e6 Rumen street The authorities of the University of North Caro Ilea are said to be very enziotte to secure Premident Henry Snyder of 'Watford College for the position of President of the university Dr Snyder is at present in Naahville lk hirh was formerly his home but he he had no otticial intimation of the reported wishes of the North Carolina University Dr Snyder took hie A and A at Vatuterhitt in the eighties and has achieved a pluee of prominence in Southern educational affairs State Senator John Caldwell of Knoxville wee In Nashville Wednesday Leland Hume General Manager of the Cumberland Telephone Telegraph COMparty will leave this morning or Atlantic City and New York for a vacation of about two weeks He will Admit some of the large exchanges in the East with a view to finding any new improvementa in methods or apparatus Says the Washington Post among ita TIO1Pfl of the 1 "George Vilmot Harris 'who bolds the record as an attendant of international conventions is in the city and seems not to grow old Mr Berrie wee formerly editor of lite Chicago Federalist and is POW the publisher of the Franklin County Truth at Winchester Tenn 'I have the label In a conspicuous part of my paper because my patrons want it there They get all the news too and that is whet makes the Truht the best journal in Tennessee' Early in Septetnher at Selmer a reunion IA to be held at which it is stated a West Tennesgee Republican organization may be effected with Postmaster Dutro of Memphis as its head Rev Ilubbert now of Marshall Alia and at one time pastor of a Comber-land Presbyterian Church of this city is at the Dr Huhbert is a roan of much prominence in the work of his hurch end is stated clerk of the General Assembly Rev Darby of Evansville Ind a prominent Cumberland Presbyterian divine came in with Pr Hubbert and la at the Tulanes Slayden of Franklin ts at the Tulane George Cook of Springfield Is st the Tu lane Ilev Sullivan of Galveston Tex Is spending his vacation with MN mother Mrs Sullivan at2o6 Russell street The alit hn ritio tshe University of North Caroltoa are said to be vet- snxione to -aefure President lienry Stiv der of AA'offord College for the post i i on or Pramillmnt nt tin vprmity NEW Tony Aug the sale held to-day or the diamonds smuggled into this country by Michael Leinkram the fIrrn of Joseph Goodham Son Memeh Is- Tenn were the successful biddera PoYing $24000 for the entire lot Th diamonds several thousand in number and weighing from about a fourth of a carat to about four carats each were appraised by the Government experts at $24900 not Including the duty of 10 per cent Michael Leinkram who when leaving the Kron Prinz Wilhelm had 'the stones concealed In a flannel abdominal bandage was apprehended by Treasury Agent Theobald Leinkram was convicted and sentenced to two years' imprisonment In Elmira and to pay a fine of $5000 William Goldwasser an expert diamond merchant put in a claim for tele gooda Naying he bad let a customer take the stones presumably to show them to a 13erlin jeweler and that instead the customer had given them to Leinkram and with the latter's aid hod attempted to smuggle them Into the United States Goldwasser said that be bad not been paid for the gems but the Federal Courts decided against him declaring the goods forfeited and ordered them sold For making the seizure Theobald will received $3000 or one-third of the price for which the goods were auctioned BAFFLING THE TUIZKS Macedonian Insurgents Appear in Scattered Bands Avoiding Encounters LONDON Aug 12--The Daily Mail this motming prints a dispatch from Belgrade which says that the Macedonian insurgents never appear in great numbers but In Rek red detachincnts thug baffling the troope an avoiding open eneounters They confine themselves mostly to the de-traction of villages and crops expects ing In this way to compel the populace to join the rebellion The Turkish mots diers are powerless to deal with tht small bands but to show that they are active they occasionally loot peaceful Chriatian villages and perpetrate the most terrible outrages under the pre tense of combatting the Bashi Basouks have become the curse of the villages They rob and murdet indiscriminately A climax of terrible massacres may occur at any time Even at Belgrade the Mohammedans are beginning to arm thernselvea The Turks now threaten recourse to dyne- mitee As far as known twelve vii- 'Agee have been totally destroyed On Tuesday the rebels failed In an attempt to set fire to llonastir The correspondent regards the situation as desperate Orders to Give No Quarter SALONICA Aug 12--It is reported that the Turkish troops on Monday bombarded and destroyed the village of Illkshisit twenty-six miles south of Monastir Accordin to another rumor the insurgents who have occupied Krushevo after repulsing two amsaults by the Turkish troops offered a conditional surrender Instructiona were e-ked from Constantinople and in reply the Turkish commander received orders to give no quarter The bridge at Givgvell on the Ilakub-Salonia Railway which was blown up by the insurgents has been repaired Several strong bands recently crossed the frontier of Eastern Macedonia Mated() tett LON this littera( Ian Irlf numbel ments al confine trued( tug in to join diers a small active Chriatit most tense Bashi of he intilwri troassac Even A re he Turks mitee iti geg Tuesda to set spondel pertite SAL( that tl bomber Illkshisi Mona at the in Krushe by the tional asked the Tut to give gveli which has bo bands 1 Easterr BATSON'S CLAIMS OF ALIBI Belief Prevails Tbat Evidence to Support it is Discovered NEW ORLEANS Aug 12--There was an important development in the Batson case to-day Ilis attorneys Messers Sompayrae and Overton are to go to Baton Roug to-night to lay befoi'e Gov Heard some evidence which 'they say has been brought to light and which they consider it their duty to present The attorneys are very guarded in speaking of the new evidence One of the attorneys said to-night that the evidence was of importance and would have had an important bearing on the trial if it had been introduced with other evidence The nature of the evidence is at best a surmise hut it is conjectured by parties wtli posted on the case that some one has been discovered by Batson's mother who will give testimony to support I3atson's claim of an alibi It is supposed that the attorney will pray for a respite for the condemneu prisoner if the new evidence can be sifted AFTER BEING STRUNG UP Negro Rescued From Mob by Officers at Whitesboro Tex wurrEstiono Tex Aug attempted assault to-day on Mrs Bart caused the arrest of eight negroet seVen of whom were released The other was held for identification About 8 o'clock to ntiOt a met took possession of him and haAged him to the limb of a tree He had not become unconscious whea officers arrived from Sherman and making their way through the 'mob with a rash cut the negro down Ile is being hurried to Sherman but there It talk of going there after him If this move is decided no other communities will help the Whitesboro people After the negro Brown had been forcibly taken from the authorities the mob turned its attention to the negroes of the town COMB were shot off promiscuously in the negro quarter and the terrified negroes when they came from their houses were ordered to leave town at onee No harm further thau this intimidation was offered them Outgoing trains on all roads are tilled with negroes Brantley of Tullahoma is at the Tulane Tarp ley of Murfreesboro la at the Tulane Mitchell of Lebanon is at the Ma mei' John Burchard of Centreville is at the Max well John I) Caldwell of Knoxville Is at the Max EXHIBIT'FOR ST LOUIS Experiment Station of University of Tennessee Will Have Special Dittpatch to The American: KNOXVILLE Tenn Aug 12--Prof Soule of the University of Tennessee has been engaged with his assistants lately in preparing the exhibit of the experiment station of the university at the St Louis World's Fair' It will he in the nature of a proeess and educational exnibit of the various varieties of cereals grown there The composition of the soil the cost of production the value for milling purposes the necessity for fertilizer the climatic conditions under which tile cereals and grains flourished will be amply set out in etteh exhibit Prof Soule's assistants are already busy collecting specimens and he Is about ready to let the contract for the cases In which the articles will be exhibited There will be tufty double cases each one of which will be made to contain six to twenty samples full size Over ltSio will be placed on exhibit The Exposition Commission will bear the expense of the exhibit so far as the ensom are concerned Prof Smile and his assistants donating their labor and time and skill free of charge The (11804 Will measure three by six feet with glass tops or front anti will he lined with ')Lica velvet Prof Soule Is very enthusiastic over the work and is assured mat it will be the finest exhibit of its kind at the big show Russian Consul Safe SALOSICA Aug dada Islam the acting Russian Consul at Usttuh who hos been appointed to succeel Itoatvokovaki the murdered Consul et 'Almost''' reached that town to-day eorne anxiety has been felt for him ty nothing hod been heard of himn Pince he left his post as l'skuh a couple of days ago The Mutesorif of the Usitub district refused to give Dr Madelstam an escort The Consul in- sistet On proceeding to his new post and having obtained an escort from Hilmi Pasha he on his own responsibility acrcss country from Mon-astir Revolutionists' Strength SALC the act who ha Itostvol Monast sorne at tY as since ht of tiar 'Nitta) Iladelst giste 1 and ha 1111mi I ponsib astir (New Orleans Special) Fish and crabs in Louisiana waters have been dying off in enormous quantities for the at year and opinion differ as to whether their destruction is due to natural causee to some new fish dimease or to the effects of the new drainage system of New Orleans' The shores of Lake Pontchartrain just north of New Orleans have been covered for the last week with millions of dead ish and crabs So great haft the mortality been that there have been apprehenelons afi to its effect upon the health of the people living near the lake apd the visitors to the varioutt summer resorts there No satisfactory explanation has been given of this deetruetion of fleti life Popular opinion attributes it to the emptying of the New Orleans drainage canal into Lake Pontchartrain These canal as a matter of fact contain no sewerage and are supposed to carry off nothing but surface or rain water The water however becomes more or lest polluted in the streets and gutters' of a great city That it becomes polluted to such a great degreeas to kill the fish and crabs is doubted by octets tints Besides the fish have died by wholesale In other Louisiana streams and lakes wholly uncontareinated by drainage from New Orleans Thus about a year ago millions of buffalo fish died auddenly in Harvey's Canal and Bayou Barataria on the other side of the MinFOseiPPI The number of dead fish then was far greater than it Is now The destruction of fish life then was attributed to the great ealt water wave which swept along the Gulf coast of LOUIStan3 and Texas converting fresh water streams into salty or briny waterways and cutting down the rice crops nearly one-quarter The fresh water fish were driven upstream it was said and finally asphyxiated by being packed too tightly together Popular opinion also found somttrleoeNfocootnrnhne only nection between this phenomenon and the Martinique volcanic disturbance It was suggested that the waters of the Gulf had been poteoned by the gases from Mont Ple ee Louisiana hti of esifa-eenlantarlar and mac 7tshhar vaoetneo occurred without fish ent uos leave of the explanations given of these epidemics is satisfactory As thre were fish epidetnics of old the present s1ider-1o5 must be due it its agreed to causes that have arisen of late years The drainage of New Orleans to Lake Pontchertrain was more offensive thirty years ego than to-dase but it did not kill the fish On the other hand factories have in creased in number and they may have contributed to the pollution of the water There Is for instance a strong distrust of Beaumont or fuel oil Whenever this oil has been used It has been poseible to trace the evils It has caused Thus a short time ago a distinct flavor of Beaumont oil was dee tected among the Plaquemine oysters and it was found that some of the tank steamers dumped refuse oil into the river Although the amount so dumped am infinitesimal compared with the mighty flood of the Missiesippl so powerful the odor and tbe flavor of fuel oil that they made themselves fit The police Jury of Plaquemine got an injunction from the United States Court prohibiting the dumping of any fuel oil into the river end the oysters are no longer oily and sulphurous But while the oil may explain some of the trouble with the fish it does not account for all the phenomena It looke at times as though there were an epidemic among fish or that the streams find bayous may be too densely populated en that the fish ere getting badly crowded and may be dying of tsrtmtiottoo Fortunately with few exceptions those that are dying are of the les valuable varieties The buffalo fish and choteulque are the worst sufferers and It looks se though they would be ultimately extinct In Southern Louisiana so many milliceps of them have died in reeent yetis Formerly they were eco abundant in the bayous of the alluvial diet rict thet they could be baled out With a dipper The fresh wafer mullets have suffered badly but the catfish very slightly The alligator and gars have been practical ty killol off Special) Louisiana waters in enormous quan 'ear and opinions heir destruction is to some new fish Vets of the new eew The ontchartrain just have been coyeek with millions bs So great hal at there have been Lis effect upon the I living near the to the varietal deflation has been etion of fieh life ributes it to the Orleans drainage tchartrain These fact contain no upposed to carry iee or rain water becomes more or treets and gutters' it it becomes poi: degreees to kill doubted by Eiden-ye died by whole Ina streams and Initiated by drain is Thus about te buffalo fish died Canal and Bayou side of the Nils- of dead fish then It Is now fish life then was ealt water wave he Gulf coast of converting fresh salty or briny ng down the rice ester The fresh upstream it was tyxiated by being gether found some con phenomenon and ic disturbance It he waters of the led by the gases ong tish are only oe occurred of re-ten to to leave the thout fish None iven of these ept epidemics of old must be due It le it have arisen of nage of New Or-amain was more ego than to-day fish factories 'have in they may have pollution of the nstance a strong or fuel oil las been used it trace the evils It short time ago a imont oil was de iquemine oysters some of the tank 'use oil into the so dumped 'wee I with the mighty ppi SO powerful )r of fuel oil that felt The police got an injunction et Court prohibitly fuel oil Into the rs are no longer nay explain some fish it does not phenomena It lough there wpm fish or that the lay be too densely Met ere getting may be dying of few exceptions re of the lese val buffalo fish and rst sufferers and would be ult ahem Louisiana hem have died in rly they were eco as of thA alluvial ild be baled out lets have suffered very slightly The re been practical PTOMAINE POISON Strikes Down Fifty Guests of Senator Stewart at Ashburn Va WASHINGTON Aug poison to-night laid low fifty guests of Senator Stewart at Ashburn Va A large number of persons had gathered to attend the sale of a dairy farm owned by Senator Stewart of Neva The Senator served to the prospective buyers a light luncheon consisting of coffee and sandwiches Shortly afterwards fifty persons were taken violently suffering from ptomaine One after another they fell to the ground writhing in agony Horsemen were dispatched in all directions for doctors and a number repsonded and took prompt measures to relieve the sufferings The doctors say the patients are out of danger although many are exceedingly sick An investigation developed the fact that the beef had been purchased in Washington and had been kept in cold storage On the farm for several days OBITUARY Miss Lena Dennison daughter of John Dennison died Wednesday morning at the family home near Una in the Fifth District She had been ill for several months She was a member of the Christian Church and had a wide circle of friends The funeral will he nt the residence thia afternoon at 2 o'clock with services by Elder Sewell MADE ALMOST PENNILESS Indiana Man Pays for Land in Tennessee and Gets Nothing CLINTON Ia Aug Zell of Eugene pur'hascd the Collett farm of 701 acres last May for $11000 Ile shortly afterwards mold it to Lorenz Platt of Chicago taking in part payment the Alabama Ilotel of that city for $25000 A few days ago a man offered to trade Zell 5000 acres of farm land In Eastern Tennessee for the hotel After the deal had been completed Zell went South to look at his farm hut when he got there he was surprised to find it covered by the town of Huntsville an that his deed was worthless The hotel however had in the Meantime been sold again and the owner has a clear title Zell has been made almost penniless Mp VIENNA Aug from Bulgarian 'sources assert that the reAolutionists possess 35000 rifles 15000000 cartridges and four tone of dynamite that the insurgents number 25000 of whom 10000 are in the vilayet of VIEN Bulgari lut lonis tartridg that th whom I UP TO SEMI-FINALS 2 1 4 I ll ll I I 1 1 I i i )1s)f i I 4 If i 1 astir rt I' i Ito t- 1 i- A 1 1 i I rt i 1 Austria's View VIENNA Aug the increasing number of reports of outbreaks in the Balkans official circles bccin to manifest a more confident attitude Serious representations will he made to Turkey and Bulgaria Nevertheless it is admitted that some untoward incidont may easily precipitate disaster VIEN lite inc ow brea el 51 her altitude twain Nevertt un towa 1 tate fils RAPIDLY IN TRIO LOUISIANA ASSIGNED 0 1 i I RAPIDLY IN THE WAX- trISIANA ASSIGNED 4 ') I a 11 1 1 A I i 40- IN THE wAx- LOUISIANA- ASSIGNED Deaths of Tennesseans AsurAND CITY Tenn Aug Maxey died recently at Lockertsville this county at the age of 74 years He was a prominent citizen of the county and is survived by his wife and a number of eons and daughters Ills NVilson Maxey is a resident of Nashville GALLATIN Tenn Aug Thomas Moore age years: died yesterday near Luton this county MONTEAGLE Tenn Aug Tucker son of Tucker and a brakeman on the railroed thrown from a train Monday night and twenty-three care passing over his body The funeral occurred here this afternoon rout -m ptA Tenn Aug Mrs Ed Green riled this afternoon She ii Murvive41 by her husband LEXINGTON Tenn Aug 'Squire Elijah Lewis one of the best known and most respected citizens of this county 111 deal in his wagon on the Public Square at Lexington this morniog lie sas ex-Confederate soldier with a splendid war reeord and was for years a Magitrate of this county Ile died of apoplexy JICNTINGDON Tenn Aug 11-efSneSarah Ann Davis an aged widow living in the Seventh District of this cwinty died yesterday of old age Silk leavcs three the infant con of Mr and Mrs Marvin Barnii4 died yesterday Doubleday Page Co's "Little Mast- erpieces" of literature have been very succeseful and over a million volumes have been sold They will publish early this fall the "Little alaeterplecem of Science" in six volume! edited by George Iles author of "lame Electricity and the Camera" as a companion library 'Hie 70111MeS are about the Skiee and the Earth by A Procter Newcomb Charles Young Iles 1401 Shaler arai Iluxleel Invention and Diseovery by Franklin Faraday Henry iivil Coent Rumford and Stephenson The aeaturalist as Interpreter and Seer by Charles Dar win A eVallace and Leland Howard Explorers by Winsor Lewis and Clarke Pipe eVilkee King and Powell Health and Healing by Sir James Paget' Sir Bennett Geddes Thomson Prudden Sternberg Roose Richardson Colton and Billings and Mind by John Fiske Sully Hudson Holmes Maudsley and William 11 Carpenter The volumes will form a sort of key to the modern twentieth century world of scientific mervels Though published as a eeries the volumes will be sold separately and the publiehers have anticipated the success' of the Fairies by printing 10000 volumes Charles Scribner's Sene have In preparation for pubitcation in a month or two Cyrus Towneend lirady's new novel "A Doctor of Philosophy" The story It is said Illustrates the principle that the great tragedies of life are those of the Keel The scene of the novel is laid in Philadelphia to-day Thoee who have seen the advance sheets of Mr Braay's book that it evidence of the rapid advance its author is making in the mastery of his art as was illuatrated by his last book "The Southerners" In The Schemers" a novel tale of Boston (L Page Co) IlarloVs calls the attention of his readers to a phase of life in our lams citiee of more than passing intereet Toe conditione of life aurrounding the you women employes of our great department stores are set forth clearly but without Jogbieetive exaggeration while certain types of college men are elan drawn with vigorous accuracy Dietinctly humorous creations are the author's city alderman and the shoppers from the Back Bay and he aims the shaft of his wit and pleasant sarcasm directly at some of the most cherished of the portal traditions of Boston's Smart Set with a delightfully happy result Ball Caine has begun to write a new 'novel which he expecte to have pub-'tithed in the autumn of next year The scene will be laid partly In- London and partly inIceland whither air Caine ha just gone for a- mantle? sojourn accompanied by his son Derwent it Is understood that this story is somewhat like that of the prodigal son with the striking difference that when the prodigal returns insteed of being fed on the fatted calf he is outrageously treated by a broth er whom he has wrenged in the past The work does not deal with religious social or labor quettions but with the primitive instincts and paseions of mankind and is devoid of philesophical isertations It will be published serielly both In this country and in England but no arrangements have as yet been made for the eerie' rights in the United States the matter being still in the hands of his publishers Messrs Appleton Co The publication by the Macmillan Company of the of Little Novels by Frivorite Author In which five or six tales have already appeared has started some discuesion in the papers about the reed for the diminutive novel The Springfield Republican comments on the growing demand for shorter novels and calls attention to the perfectly obvious fact that the majority of present day novelm would be better for being cut down half or two-thirds "It is not unlikely that if the fashion of buying concentrated novels could once he introdueed they would become very popular" If only the vital port of each story were given one could buy and read more books The conclusion of the discussion so for seems to be as one paper puts it that "the world is probably losing a good deal from the Ftmple fact that at the present day there Is no Inducement to the use of a literary form peculiarly suited to the genius of tho age" One paper urges writers to "squeeze Out the water in contemporary fiction" which is putting it rather strongly and ro doubt many talee cannot he told in 2eeall words in their oompletenese and beauty but it is not difficult to echo the wishes of a good many people that our authors he encouraged to write some great little books Marvin Dana the author of "A Puritan Werke" a book dealing with old New England times which is attracting much attention is a New Englander by birth and a descendant of the Puritans whom he so ably detects ale was born and eelucated in Vermont and later took tip journalism ELS a profeeslon in New York City From New York net went to Loudon where he became editor of Judy ins well-known comic weeloy In London be also publiehed his first 11()VPI "A Woman of Orciuds" "A Puritan Witch" strange to PAY 'as 'not written while the author was surrounded by a New Ergland en vironmente but during a reeldence in Antwerp Mr Dana however Is so thoroughly steeped in New England lore and atmosphere that he hes made it book thoroughly racy of the soil and which am a leading reviewer expresses it "tells iteell with the breath of living emoilims" The Minnie of reptipment of the Navy Department has te tee list of hooks for the selection of crews' libtairele in the United States navy George Wasson's collertion of New lingtand salt-water sketches entitled "Cap'n Stmeon's Store" Hanford Hendersone romance "John Percylield" is steadily winning its way and the fourth edition already ennouneed Mr Henderson is epending the first part of the summer in New Hampshire but will soon leave for Japan as he plans to take a trip Around the world Thomas Palley Aldrich is at Saranac in the Adiromineks Ills forthcoming book 'Ponhapog Papere" is to contain among other eseeee a biegraphicel and critical eintly Of Robert Herrick the Man and the Poet 'lee William Elliot Griffis author of "Young People's illetory of liollend" and several other booka on the Netheriande has resigned his pestorlito in ithitea and will devote his whole time to hie turicel literature kind cturing Ills levorite branches of history are the influenee of the Netherlends on the pre grass Of Ei110114 HMI on American enionia I and Federal history and the relation of feedal to modern Japen In a review of Prof Georire 13 Gerrie son's "Texas" (American Columnnwealthe) the Netion sayst "The descriptloe of the rivalry between France and Spain for P(vsesailen tind the discussion of the types of Spanish eettlment the weeknesses stud failure of Spenish Colonial mottled cenetituto the host treatment of the subject in English in brief HEAVY EMBEZZLEMENT Charged Against Johnson Bank Clerk at Duluth Minn nvLuvr Minn Aug Johnson hook-keeper for the COiTITTIN Hal Banking Company of Duluth was arrested this evening on a warrant charging hint with the embezzlement of $45000 of the hanks money Johnson admitted his guilt and said he had squandered the money in speculation President Charles of the Commercial Banking Company sgild' that the bank would not be open for business to-morrow Johnson Is 28 years old unmarried and the son of Johnon Clerk of the Court of St Louie County Coy TAFT'S ATTITUDE Doesn't Wish to Leave Philippines Until Problems Are Solved NIANILA Aug 12--Gov Oen Wm Taft refused to discuss to-day his probable appointment as the successor of Secretary Root when the latter retiree saying he had not yet been offered the appointment It is generally believed here that Gov Taft does not wish to have the Philippines until numerous problems now pending are solved The situation is beginning to show the results pledged for the upbuilding of the Filipinos who de votion to and faith in Gov Taft fire remarkable It is known in any event that Oov Taft does not t) iNIVO before February but it Is thought he is ready to obey President Roosevelt 's wishes though his departure would cause a sacrifice In the meantime It is Mated that relatives and friends are constantly urging him to return to the mainland Gov Taft is now enjoying excellent health Gov Taft is now personally formulating measures of the utmost importance to the islands The rumor of the probable retiretnent of Gov Taft has agitated the archipelago and the protincials join the Filipino press In begging him to remain Perin Pasha Wounded CETTINGE Aug It Is reported that Ferie Pasha while leaving Epik with Turkish troops wns attacked by Albania ns and severely' wounded CETT that PC with Ti Albania Progress of the Tennis Tournament at Soutbampton I Aug 12--The singles of the tennis tournament on the courts of the Meadow Club were brought up to the semi-final round today mdien play was discontinued for the day Wm A Lamed the Amen an champion Wm Clothier ot Philadelphia and the English champ-(Hi II Doherty won their plaoes in thiaround and it is expected that 8b the matter now stands 'Lamed and Doherty will meet in the finals In gaining this in the semifinals Clothier played a hard three-set match with -Mahoney of the English International team He 1A'811 too strongly aggressive at the not for the veteran 1nshman and the latter was cleanly outplayed That the ranking American player Liirned is in fine form was made evident by his work against Harry Alien the Philadelphian Allen was very accurate on his drives aud his attempts to pass but Lamed overcame this by the most dashing sort of work INCREASE IN EARNINGS -a Italy's Toors in Crete ROFEA Ang Go'vernment of Italy is sending reinforctonents to lt battalion of infantry which has been kept on the island of Crete since the Greco rurkish var In order to have contingent troops there in case the complications in Macedonia should render their use necessary sort Italy is hattallo kept or Green 'I conting plicatim their tit Of Louisville Nashville for First Week of August Deaths Elsewhere TiorN Ey Aug' 12---(SpPflardwick a brother of lir Hardwick formerly of this city died in liartford Ohio County last night lie 1tjv wife and daughter Champion Beats Walthour A Statement if estituarkd gross earni14s tnr the first week of Augart tHs bren isf4and ht the lAnnsvnie Railroad which Indicates a very gratifying ase Ine IA )(ar Grs earning for thp wePa are new $412N-- in excess Of the gross earnings tnr the vor-1tanng Litit yer which ere Frum the brginnir4 nt 1hp present fkeal 04e have amountPel to V7197341 against $335544 fur tho corrv4pniotirm this Ner than List Giving Them Rifles -LONDON Aug Ilmes prints a dispatch from Sofia -stitch says that the Turkish authorities at Uskub have distributed SAO rifles to the Mohammedan populltion which already threatens Christians with massacre toNr a dispa the Tut distribu medrin threatel In Receivers' Hands LAREDO Tex Aug private talgram re-eived here statcs that the Coahuila Paeilic Railway whlli runs from Samitilo to Coahuila Mexico ent into the hands of receivers at Trenton yestPrday A Lilllendahl was President and General Manager of the road The road WIS built but a few years ago by the 141- liondahis and traverses a rich mineral and cotton district PROVIDENCE Aug 12--AI bert Champion defeated Ttobert Walthour at the Coliseum to-night He was two miles and one lap ahead a the finish covering the distance in 2S514-6 and reducing the local track record of 24:37 3-k made by Walthour Explosion of Dynamite TWIN McilNTAIN Mich Aug Tv miners John King and John 4ue killed by the explosion ot a box of dynamite at the seventh level of the lIdniilion Chapin Mine here today The ro(n were surto( Mei by the fumos that cidlowfd the Pkplosion the eau! 40'' which Is not known It is said that several other minfTs were injuied but their names are not yet known Official Dismissed CoNSTANTINOPLE Aug I 2 Mutesarif of Mush Armenia where Kurdish excesseb ere recently alleged to have oveutred ham been dismissed coNS Mutesa i Kurdisi to bare SPECIAL RACE AT A MILE Charge of Construction Work NEM-1'111s Teno Aug llaydon agststant ungineor of the Illinois Central Railroad whose head-Quart' i's have been het for many varsltas been appointed assistant to Presirlent Stratton of the Mobile Jackson Kansas City Railroad Company Mr Ilaydon will have en-tire charge of the construction work of the road Ilia headquarters will be at Mohire Dick Welles and Grand Opera l'ileet at Harlem To-Day CHICAGO Aug! Opera had made a new world 's record and Dick Welles bad set a new mark for the Harlem rark track this afternoon their owners agreed to run the two cracks against one another in a apeetal WA a Mile to-morrow the tin! lem Jockey Club giving them a purse of $1000 The weights agreed upon are 115 pounds for Gland Opera and 112 for Dick Welles COMES AS SURPRISE Melting Department of Nimick Mills at Pittsburg Shuts Down 'rirrsnuRG Pa Aug' 12--A notioe was posted to-day in the Singer and Niiniek mills of the Crucible Steel Company announcing to the employes Of the melting department that the works xvould not open until Oct 1 As a result 400 Trion are out of employment No reason is assigned for the shutdown Telegrams to-night from Leechbutg and Hyde Park say that the managers of the American Sheet Steel Company were ordered to suspend all work until further notice A number of mills at Vamiergrift were shut down last night The order came as a surprise to mamigers and men Miners' Wage Scale Conference Special Dispatch to The Aniericen: kNOXVILL17 Tenn Aug conference was held to-day by opera tors end miners of District No 19 owing to the inability of the owrators to sgtee on certain minor details The scheme of the miners to sub-divide the district Into four districts and arrange a separate wage scale for each may re FUR In an early solution of the wage problem when a joint conference 141 held 'e Conference Aniorteent I Aug 12--Nai o-dity by opera itrict No 19 ow-the operators to details The to sub-divide the icts and arrange for eneh may re on nt the wege -it conference It Mineral Water at Springfield Speelet Disrateh to The American SPRINriFIELD Tenn Aug fine mineral well has recently been titscovered on the old Springfield Planing Mill property on Black Branch Just cast of the stivare A specimen of the water has been analyzed by one of the Ieitt State chemists and contains prop ernes that are not surpassed anywhere A stork company is being organized ond citizens are subscribing liberally The old buildings ill be removed shale trees set and a fine pavilion eret tee CRUSHED TO DEATH Tbree Men Killed at Furnace Plant in Cleveland CLEVELAND Aug 12---The CleVeland Furnace comnany'm plant just completed at a rost of nearly a rnllllnn dollars WA Ft to-day the scene of anarcident In which Frank Vimne George Peters and Michael Krerit were killed The ftrst blowing in of the company'9 blast furnaoe 'A-SS to have taken place to-night and three men werp Inside the stack laying thp laFtt coursp of material when without an instants WMrtling the tign bell at the top of the tack seventy-five feet above crashed down upon them The bell which Is used to regulate the draught in the slat weighed six tone I Tbree CLEll Clev'elat Just co million of an a George killed Theft blast fti to-night the $ta me teria warrint ttick down The I the dra tons Portland Gold Mining Company COLOilADO SPRINGS Col Aug NV RVATI son of Thomas Ryan Vice President of tha Morton Trust Company of New York to-day purchased control of the Portland Gold 11in1ng Company owning end operating the Portland mine ht Cripple Creek for the Whitney-Ryan syndicate and the Guggenheim Exploration Company The price paid for tho 19006o shares Involved is HAM to be in Inc neighborhood of $5 000- (01 Thrown From Vehicle Charles Chrliitain of 41' Britign tiVeot MP was tAightly hurt Wednesday in a stratot ear collb-iun A Vfbiefe oveurged by Mr Chritttain co1lit101 with a car ort l'athPrinnd street lie was thrown out and bruised Vehicle of ef Itridgs ave Wednesday in a ebtelA (weupled by wit a ear on was thrown out Found Almost Famished CHICAGO Aug hoy who ives his name r4 Percy Lige low and who says his father is a tcoalthy resident of Fort Wayne Ind was found by the pollee to-day in a famished dition in a box ear in the Wabash freight yards He said he hal beer seized by two tramps while playing in front (If his borne thrown into the ear and kept a prisoner without food and under threats of death if be inade an outcry Catholic Foresters la Aug 12--The Interatiomil convention of the Catholic Order of to-day adopted a cornndttee's report increasing the 13oard of Trosters to eight after a tight dean amendment offered by Cafialiana that no IWO trustees should be frinn the Fame jurisdiction Salaries of the Iligh Secretary and the 'High Treasurer Nye re incrcased to $2500 and a year respectively Cable diarotehcs pledging feRity to the church vcre sfmt to Pope plus Murder Robbery and Arson WILMiNGTON Aug -Register and his father Pi Register wkire convicted at -WhIteville Columbus Count Yi to-day of the inmder of Jesse Salts Hnd Jim Stably last lklarch and burning their house down upon their bodies after robbing the premises of more than $100 The younger -Register was senteneed to be hanged Oct and the father was FPnenced to the penitAtiary for life Cross Ednitndaon tiyhose corifession implicatcd 'the Registers and secured their conviotion se nb-nced to Six years ines of of At Fort Sheridan Range effICAt10 Ai annual rile competition of the Department of the Lakes and the Department of Dakota opined to-day at pttrt Sheridan A v-trong wind blow directly aerosa the rsniP Th five bighfst orpe of the day: Private Weil Twentieth Infantry no: Lieut Pardee Twentieth Infantry V) Lieut We ilnce Twentieth Infantry 26 Private McMillan First infantry 252 Sergi Miller Third Infantry :12 usiness xx)00000ccxx )000CxX Big Weighing Machine The largest automatic weighing machine is on its way from England to Natal It has a total weighing capacity of 1'20 tons and is fitted with automatic indicateirs Sc) arranged that when en engine ta run on to the machine the weight carried by each wheel is automatically and Instantly exhibited Pistol Ball in His Brain MERIDIAN Miss Aug Cahn aged cashier of the Eagle Cotton nil Company of Meridian committed istileide to-day by tiring a pistol ball into his -brain His father Cahn is president and generei manager nf the oil company Tt4 young man had Pod returned from several 'weeks vacation spent in the Northwest No reason Is assigned for self-destruetimii The faintly is wealthy and THINKS DEATH IS NEAR 'Lord" Barringion Held at St Louis in McCann Mut ler Case ST LOU'IS Aug 12--Fre1erick SoytrimirIlarrington a prisoner In th0 Clayton Jail on the charge of murdering James NI(' Cann to-day sent tor an Episcopal clergyman to administer to him as he believes he cannot live long Rev- II St Chili rector of Trinity Episcopal Church visited the prisoner and to-morrow Oil administer the sacrament Barrington is feeble front the ravages of typhoid fever Barrington's attorne ys said they would file an pplication for a writ of habeas corpus Motorman Killed PHILADELPHIA Aug League Island trolley car was struck itty atiocomotive on the Pennsylvania Railroad In the southern section of the city at James McGovern the motorman vas' killed and United States Marines Morris Davis Barrett Jones wet Injured Servian Cabinet Crisis 1717-NNA Aug hrs front I3elgrade St-rvitt announce that throe members: of the Cabilvtt representing tho radical element in Servia have reigned This is regarded as a sign of victory for the military party TH 'Lord" ST I tromir I ClaYtee In Jar an Fru to hint long Trinity prisone the sat front I 1 Bit rri vont(' ha beas Plitt tettella ty at Leiliron rtly at the me States and Joi VIEN 13eigrat rcembe the rad stenedt victory Missing Cashier NEW HOLLAND 0 Aug ow cashier of the Union Bank c)mpany who disappeared Monday last has not been heard from 'The investigation committee tO-day found 110700o in notes and bonds This with the rehl estate and other property' wiii rim tho assets trp to near the liabilities It is said Brown's shortage 'van not exceed $10a00 jailbird Gets Away Sorclal Dispatch to The American MEMPHIS TP1111 Aug Franklin White a negro under sentence fur numerous robberies escaped frrn the $helby County jail to-da3 vaile being returned from the dispensary Strikers Returning to Work LONDON- Aug 12----ttleNtehes from Kieft' Russia to the Times dated last aturday say that the leaders of the strike at Odessa induced the bulk of the ITIPTI to resume work and that on the hole they are satisfied with the concessions granted In many Instances the employers agreed to increase wages or reduce the hours of labor The cargo loaders in the harbor secured a f0 per cent increase The military has been almost entirely withdrawn and trade if4 resuming its normal course Wedded at Maryville Special Dispatch to The American: MARYVILLE Tenn Aug Will A MeTeer and Mrs Lucy W114on two prominent ponplo wero wedlieft here to-night Mn Wiison Is a sister ot Major MeeTer's former wife They go to Old Point Cbmfort on their wedding trip Hotel Clerk Who Stole ATLANTIC CITY Aug The police to-night gave out the name of the clerk who robbed the Hotel Chelsea's cafe Ile Norton of New YorkCity Ile it two pi-att shirt stuts valued at SC771 each: SID in cash and five drafts for WO each on the German National Bank of Cincinnati There are thousands of distinct kinds of bush ress some better than others Occasionally a business man complains that there is no business in his line Lee us re mind you that in The American there is business in every line and if you try a few of them you will bo convinced It pays to advertiso in The American ilsands Of of busi etto- than sionally a complains 1 business us re It in The is bustine and if of them convinced Ivertiso in Ex-Gov Lubbock's Wedding A1VLENE Aug COV Lubbock ftged 81 and Miss Lou Feott aged 40) were married to-day at the home of Maj Wise Ilev Mr Heeble of the Episcopal Church officiatinrc Mr and Mrs Lubbock left for Austin where they will reside To latei's Pamphlet in Germany LEIPSIC Germany Aug Provincial Court here to-day concluded the trial of the German publisher of Toistol's pamphlet "Thou Shalt Not Kill" which was Mzed by the pollee on the ground that it containq1 Ftatementa regarding' ErnpPror William The court decided that the charge of lese niajeste had been proven and ordered the unsold copies of t)ae 11inpWLt and the plates destroyed Barn Burned Special 11patch to The American 111'NTINCIDON Tenn Aug a prosperous farmer living near Atwood lotd his barn by tire last 'tor-day night He Etryi his wif were in Texas but the tire was by it twighbor who saved thc II ye volirlos plows etc About wo'rth corn and hay was deNtrnysit No Maurana It is supposed that the barn was bred by enemiegt of Mr Beier British tigsor Convention 1SINTION Aug prnelamation has bn isAufd under the rif'W PUgli COTIVC911 Inn act which prohibits the imPot-tailor) of sugar from Rus612 Denmark and Argenlina Passengers and Crew SavedTRIESTE Austna Aug Austrinn Lloyd steamer Poseidon today foundered on the 6yrian coast lier patz-ngers and crew were saved 4.