Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 208, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1902 — Page 2

TITT! TXBTAXAPOLTS JOURXAT,. SUXD.VY, JULY 27, 1902.

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t 'Vi-c. - th trr.r by J. fTri-' Th it how he i th lMt.r n-.in. ' s it not? I've I.. i t twer ty-iive y:ir f h ir-1 Msrhttns:. ami rny J?an.l have t'or.' P.k k .u rn If th-y na-l 1.. n ait ruht J T : i i s w..ahl i.ot have 1 it ! i i ir -N. 1 M I'vf k-C i xcvi.o. .s ;...! i rny j'; -- I !:! my Nf-t." !"itz.-;rr.:r.n'.: or;. ! r. - he .- il l thi- nri'I l"iok'l re i'T'iinWy at hi" eripplM hrinl-. "I know v..- wi'irar. hoi written to ai;i;!!t-n tl.it I was to Ijv down in the V.eruh." he '"I wa toM of it yt-ttr-lav aft-"rno."n Naui;hton was t Jude by the tfht wleth-r ttre any truth in th- stry, ar.-l leiw h rained frut ni:l Kay?; It was a fake Wh- a I got in distr -- in the eichth 1 c-t nik'ht I thought of th.- letter an.! trle.i to Mail off the -r. I. lut I (o ;ll not lo it. I rem. mbvre.l that as I went, or trie. I to ?p.y, 'I'm gT,' but . I pu'.-ts it was not any mere than a t:ap. 31- knokcJ all the wind oat of rny ho.ly. 1 i'.i-l !.-t 5ay 'that was a peach.' and if 1 frr.ilci, as they hay I Iii. It mint l.;'ve lt.n a smile of pain. I trll to list, but I cojl.l not. I K.t what I gave many a kW rn. It was th; am1 blow that I gave Corb'tt. onlv it wis a little to t)e ur. s-l.lo. Hut it Jii the buFin-. Some cmo during the nsj.it Jeffrie s;ot in cr." that camxhi me. ur.-Ser ho he-art. I did not fcl it much then, but this inorr.in' a hont - o'clock it causht me Kooil, and I thought I was t;oin to die. I can't raise rny left hard now. LICKED FAIR AITD SQUARK. "My hands went back on me," Fitzimrior.s repeatead. "In the last two rounds I put my gloves into Ms face, but there v.a3 no force to the blows. I was licked fair and square. The story that I laid down H a malicious lie. Barring my hands. I was never in better condition in my life. Vh-ro Is there a man of my weight ar.d ase?"' ho a.vked proudly, who could do what I did last nisht?" A moment later ho said: "And they saythat I was fuklnp, I call on the American public to Jude." Hp cried again he said this. "Why." he Haid, with childish frank-n-:-s. "I prayed to win this fight. It wns the f!r?t time I ever prayed to win. I lay In that room, there." he pointed to the adjoining apartment "and prayed, 'God plve me .trtngth to win this battle, and I will bi thankful. Amen.' Do you think 1 uai faking after that. If I wanted to fake I could do it better than any one in th? world, because I am not afraid of a punch. I would havo gone, up and taken one that would have stretched me out. I have been offered hundreds of thousands of eloliars to throw lights. I always fought on the B juare. I done my best. I could do no more. Now I'm going to retire, I'm dons for good. To another reporter Fitzsimmons fald today: "Had I been a faker I could have made a fortune. If I had been accused of fakinpr my last fight there might be some pround, but here I was to make a last stand, to retire from thevrlnsr forever. I was offered in my ilsht with Corbett ?T5,f) to throw it. I was offered 510ö.o.t to go out to Sharkey. Iiut I have always been square. I fought last night the best fight of my life. I punched Jeffries as I never T.unched a man before. I .plit his ear, I brok his nose, I cut his face up and to eay that I was faklnsr!" And Fitzslmmon.s, unable to restrain himself, burst into tears. Fltzsimmons did not leave hti bed until a late hour this morning. He complains of his left arm hurting and a severe pain tinder his chest, the re?ult of Jeffrles's terrific body blow3. Fitzslmmons declares he Is ready to turn over the loser's end of the purse about $.S,0 to the mayor to be given to charity if there can ba produced any evidence of a fake. Jeffries paid: "Of course the fight was tn .the square. It is ridiculous to talk of anything else. Fltzsimmons fought a hard light the gamest I ever paw. He worked hard nil the time, and when I pot in theleeidlng blow on him he was taken off his guard. Alter I had my tye cut Delaney told me to Mart In and fini.-h him for fear that I would be blinded and would te unable to keep on fight'ng." Jeffries' eyes were puffed out and eliscolored and his cheeks cut and bruised. "Devi look like a faker?" he facetiously remarked as he looked at himself in a class. If. I was gedn.tr to be a party to a fake I would net have stopped all those blows with this face of mine. Anybody that says that the tlffht was crooked i.- a liar and they can break me If they can brin a bit of evidence. If there had been a fake I would have hern th' man to floor for I was on the lone nd ef the betting." Trainer William Delaney this afternoon l.-.utd the following statement in behalf of Jeffrie: "The fight is over. Jeffries won, but not without a struggle. I am free to dmit that Fitzslmmons Rave us a surprise. I never did like Fitzsinimons but his actions last r.ierht wen me ov r. I admire him as n lighter and sympathize with him that he frhould have been .subjected to the mean uocusation of fakintr. Taking hi age and weight Into t nnsideration, he made a marvelous showir.g. If he i a faker we are willinir to adr.-.it ourselves to be in his class, for it is the kind of f iking that wins Rlory f!nd championships. If that light was a fake we were a party to it. fJUFATFST Fl (HIT KWAI SFF.W "I have been before the public for a quarter of a century and have never been

WEATHER FORECAST. Irnhn1Iy 1'nlr To-Dny nml To-Mor-ru Throughout Imliitnn. WASHINGTON. July .Forecast for liunday and Monday: For Indiana and Illinois Fair on Sunclay and Monday, fresh west to northwest winds. For Ohio Fair on Sunday, except rain elong the lakes, Monilay fnir, fresh southYC?t winds. Local (Ihirrvntioii. on Saturday. P.ar. Tern. It. II. Wind. Weather. Free. X a. m..n .t 7 J South, rt. cl-iy. o.o 7 p. m...:1 i i,) outh. Clear. e.lK) Maximum temperature, in); minimum temperature. 7". L't reparative statement of tlie mean temperature an I total precU-itatioa July !: Tem. IVro. formal 77 o.l3 M-ian fcj o.O'J I;.irture i 0.13 j;?iarture slnee Jul 1 n epartu:e fine Jan. 1 237 6!;j Pl i- W. T. DLTTIIE. Section .Director. V .i t r ii n s Trm pern t u r vh. Station. Ahllr-re. Tx Amarl.l . TcX Atlanta, (in limaick. X. 1 Huff a la. N. Y Cairo. Ill Calgary. Albrtx .... Chattanooga, Tcnn .. Chicago Cincinnati. O Cleveland. CVnecrdt.i. Kan la veni" rt. Ia Invr, C.d Des M oin s. Ia lXiÄe City. K.aa .... ruhuiuo. Ia Duluta. Minn Id l'ao. Tex Fort mtth. Ark .... Gft!v9toc, Tex CranJ Haven. Mich . OranJ Junction. Cwl Hvr, ilnt Helena, Hint Huren. S. D Jacksonville. Kla .... Kara eity. Mo .... Fan Irr. Wyo v XattJV Kock. Ai .... F. u!sHi Ky Maraaetta. Mich MnH-bi. Trtiu M-r:a. Ctali Mr-nttfoir.ery, ... New Orlear.:. La .... New Yc-fc city Ja,hvil., T-nn ..... N 'a folk. Va Min. Max. 7 p. m.

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N' rth riatte, Nob T ... Orilm, Nb .... I'alestice, Tex ... rarkersb-jr. V. I h;'.a:li n. PmaSur. Fa .... I eel l. rj" A','P-!ie. Ansla . V 1 I e'ity. S. I. Ft'.t Lake City... St. Lo;!i Paul. Minn .. Far.t Ke. i M . . frr:nrfl-u. ill .. Sprir.pfltlJ, Mo .. Jckl'ur. Miss . Washizston. D. C 3I0VI3IENTS OF STEAMERS. NFAV YORK. July 2-.-Arrlved: Stateniirn, from l:otterdam; Itohemian, from Liverpool. SalN-d: Noordam, for Rotterdam; Mlr.netor.ka. for London: Umbrl i, for Liverpool; Krtenland. for Antwerp; Columtia, for Glasgow; Island, for Chiiatlan;;nd. LIVERPOOL. July :C Arrive.! : Ultonia, from Boston; Campania, from New York. Eaikd: Ftrurla, for New York. UUKMKN, July 2C Sailed: Grosser Kurfutrat, Tor Ntw York. CHCFlCoUFG. July :.-Salled: Fhlladelphla. for Nw York. LONDON. July ArrWcl: Mar.ltou, from New York. HAVRF. July SC.-Satled: La I'.retagne, for New York. ANTWFPwP. Jul .-Sailed: Friesland, New York.

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accused of participating In a dishonest ring contest, and I am peif.ctly willing to bt the people judpe for themselves relative to lust night's fight. I like a courageous man or auim.il and when 1 see a man who fought as Fitzsirnmor.s fought last nK'ht. :i- u.-td of throwjniv his frp-nds, I am comp. lied to do something I have never done before rush into print in '.efeiise of the honesty of a ficht I was connected with. To d' iend Fltzsimmons from the accusation i to d'fen-i a principal in the greatest ptiwtilistie. encounter the world has ever s. en. I think the story is the brightest father in Fitz-dmmons's wing. It has had the effect of making rue a warm supirter of a man whom I never liked, and I venture to say it will have the same effect on thousands of uthtrs. Even the spectators did not know what a bad fix Jeffries was in. His ch"ek bone was laid op4 a and he had a bleeding, broken nose, the blood from which ran down his throat, preventing hi? brent hing. "These were not the things we feared most. Ono of his eyes was cut between the eyebrow anel the eyelish, and we were afraid that the fiap of ids eye would fall and' blind him. His other ye was also 'blown out' for a moment. I think Jeffries demonstrated he could take as much as he could give. People near the ring will agr e with me in this. I eagerly watched for some sign of weakening in Fltzsimmons. It came in the fifth round. I then told Jeffries to keep clos to him and not let him recover. Jeffries followed instructions and landed the punch in the eighth. In conclusion. I will say that It was the gamest fight between the gamest men the world has ever known, and the bst man won." Regarding the letter in the hands of Mayor Schmitz, saying that the contest would come to an end in the eighth round, Delaney said: "We received hundreds of anonymous letters predicting something for every round. That one should have hit It Is a fact so trivial t h n t I don't believe Manr Krhmizt will heed lt. I know nothing of it beyond what is rumored." George Siler said that Fltzsimmons, although beaten, prove. 1 conclusively that he is, or rather was. the greatest fighter that ever stepped into an American prize ring. The Chronicle this morning says: "There wa3 no taint or suspicion coming from any eiuarter that the contest was not strictly fair, and the best man won. Surely no other encounter of the kind ever waged combined all the good qualities of that fought last evening." The Call says: "For seven rounds Fitzslmmons made a pitiable spectacle of the young Hercules from the South, and then fell under just such a blow as that with which he won the world's championship from Corbett at Carson on that memorable 17th of March. lT." The Examiner insists that the fight was a fake pure and simple. It says: "W. W. N'aughton. the sporting writer, learned Thursday night that the fight was programmed for Fltzsimmons to go out in the eighth round. The information came from the Jeffries p ople. Mr. Naughton wrote out the programme, signed it, sealed it and put it in the custody of Mayor Schmitz. The fight came off according to the programme. In the eighth round, when there hud been no severe lighting. Fitzsimmons dropped his hands, turned and spoke to Jeffries. Jeffries hit him and Fitzslmmons went to his hands and knees and stayed down until ha was declared out. Then ho got up and walked around the ring, his eye clear, his voice strong, not a bruise on him. Kvery one present asked: 'What was Fltzsimmons talking for? Why did he quit fighting?' After the fight Mayor Schmidt proceeded to open Naughton's statement, there was every Indication in the betting that a large corterie was informed of the arrangement." The letter written by Naughton Is as follows: "July 241 received to-day an intimation that the fight between Jeffries and Fitzsimmons was to be won by Jeffries in the eight round and that one of the party who was with Jeffries at Harbin Springs had told my informant to bet that Jeffries would earn the decision in the round named. "W. W. NAUGHTON'." jnrrniLivs xosc iuiuki:.. Didn't Feel Pnln During the Figbt Division of the Receipt!. SAN FRANCISCO, July :C.LTron an examination being made by a surgeon after his fight with Fitzslmmons last night It was found that Jeffrles's nose was broken. The champion was not aware of the injury until the excitement of the battle had worn off. A doctor was then called, and he pronounced the rmall bones of the nose broken. Jeffries believes the injury was received in th.e second or third round from one of Fitzslmmons's left jabs on the bridge of the nose. The champion declared he felt no pain from the injury and would soon be in good shape again. He spent the night at the baths. When Fitzslmmons had been counted out and be had congratulated Jeffries he walked to the side of the ring, and, Hinging one of the gloves he had drawn from his hands to the right and the other to the left among the spectators, he d'clarel in a loud voice that he had fought his last light. Jeffries's manager, I)elaney, referring to the champion's future plans, said: "We will consider the challenge of Corbett and determine whether or not it is reasonable. I don't know what his proposition is. If he means business we will meet him and will take care of him. Jeffries is young and strong and has no intention of quitting the ring." Secretary Harrington, of the San Francisco Athletic Club has made the following financial statement of the fight: Total receipts from sale of ticketc....$.!l,SS0 Seventy per cent, to contestants 2,ölj Sixty per cent, of 70 to Jeffries 1:;,:k Forty per cent, of 70 to Fitzslmmons.. K.frJii Revenue of club from thi3 source li,54 All money was paid over by Sam T. Hall, who acted as treasurer, at an early hour this morning. Dr. Frederick Statement. SAN FRANCISCO, July 2G.-Dr. William Frederick, who attended Champion Jeffries's Injuries last night and this morning repaired bis broken nose, made the following statement regarding his injuries: "The condition of Jeffries's face would make It eldent to any one that Jeffries was not enageI in a fake fight. The condition of his face showed the punishment which he rteeived was enough to have put out a fighter who did not possess the extraordinary staying power of the champion. The contused wounds en the right infraorbital and the left supraorbital margins, as well as the detlrcted condition of the splum of the nose, prove what fury the blows must have possessel. if such blows had been rained on one of less staying powers the fight would have been over sooner. The other visible effects of Fltzsimmons show and prove that an hone.-t attempt was made to turn the victory toward the loser." SANTItY AM) OI.SHX Hnvc lleisun Training for Their Content Here Aug. 11. Two weeks from to-morrow night laddie Santry and Ole Olsen will meet at the Empire Theater in a ten-round contest for a decision. Santry recently fought in this city and gained a decision over Young Mowatt in ten rounds of the fastest boxing ever seen In Indianapolis. In that battle Santry demonstrated that he is wonderfully clever, his boxing at close range and his jabibng In the breaks being cf a very fast character. In that contest the men were not allowed to hit with one arm free, but had to take care of themselves in the breaks. In the coming battle between Santry and Olson straight rules will govern the contest. Roth men have begun training, ami will come to Indianapolis a few days b fore the date of the bout. Th,1 nun who witnessed the contest at the Kmpire last Friday night between Clarence Forbe-s .and Filly Rotchford were not as severe in their criticism of the decision nfter having bad tim to analyze the contest as they were after Referee Marx held up Forbes's hand. The contest was thoroughly discussed by groups of lovers of the fistle game yesterday, and It was point d out that Ferb. s had a tri:!' the best of the battle, especially lu the later rounds. The men had signed articles of agreement to it. gage in a ten-round contest for a decision, which meant that should either have the best of the battle the re f .-reo was to award a decision accordingly. It is true that Forbes and IloU hf.rJ told the reft n e that should the match be about ev n they diii not ieslre him to draw the line too closely in order to give a tlccir-jon. Mr. Marx is a capable referee, and be gave the decision as he saw it. believing that Forb s was entitled to it. ltlui; Chatter. Joe Humphrey offers to wager of even money that Trry Medovrrn will defeat Young Corbett ir. their coming battle. Gua Gardner, of I'hiladelphla. and Jim Kearns have agr d to box twenty roumls at l'altiniore the latter part of next month. Kansas City will probably secure the twenty-round, xliht between Jack Root and

Tommy Ityan for the middle-weight championship, to take place the latter part of October. Kid Frune and the "Canadian Kid." who fought a four-round elraw at the Kmpire last Friday night, will be matched for one of the preliminary contests to the Santry-ol.-en beut at the Fmpire on the night of Aug. 11. Young Corbett, who is matched to fight Terry McGovern at New Iondon. Conn., on the night of Aug. 1.'. will not accept Tim Hurst as re fere-. He gave his ultimatum in New York Friday in words that could not be mistaken. No amount of persuasion would induce him to change his mind. Young Corbett and Sam Harris, manager of McGovern, will select the referee thi3 week.

CHASING A NEGRO. l'oc ii nd Illoodhotinds on the Trail of Folice Chlef'M Slayer. rillLTFPJ, YV Ya., July 20. The real assassin of Chief of Tolice Wilmoth has been located and ofheers with bloodhounds are on the trail. YVith the daring and desperation of Tracy the negro murderer is terrorizing the people and steadily pushing his way up the mountains. His name is not known and the only point of identity is his reported confession to another negro, whom he was trying to take with him. He was located by the authorities on the Roaring Creek & Charleston Railroad about thirty miles northwest of Womelsdorf. A large posse is on his trail anil If taken he will probably share the horrible fate of 1 is companions. He 1 well armed and will make a daring fight for liberty. The whole country is aroused and the negroes are all leaving. CII.MILKSTON, W. Va., July 26.-Attor-ney General Freer received a telegram tonight from Governor White, who is at Mountain Lake Park, Md., instructing him to go to Elkins at once to take criminal action against members of the mob engaged in lynehings there recently. The Governor considers the conditions serious. .V report is current here that the number of negroes killed was live. The attorney general left for Elkins to-night. There is no term of court in that county until October, but the attorney general will order a special term and a special grand jury and will take up the prosecution in person. THREE SOLDIERS INJURED. Ilnrsm Attached to a tm Ran Away on the 1'nrnde Ground. SALT LAKE, Utah, July 26. Three soldiers were seriously injured at Fort Douglas to-day while the troops were being reviewed by General Funston. One of the horses attached to a gun of the Twentysecond Battery became entangled in its harness, frightened the others, anrl all six bolted at a terrific rate of speed across the parade grounds. The caisson turned over, badly injuring Privates G. T. Rurden and C. G. King. Private Hayes, who was riding the leader, had his skull fractured and received internal injuries. Ills recovery is doubtful. LIKE MARTINIQUE. Costa Rica Is. Said to Re In Danger of Tolcnnlc Ontbrenkn. SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, July 2. The official report of the commission appointed to inquire Into the recent eruption of the Costa Rica volcanoes, Miravallos and Decind do la Vieja, eighty and sixty miles southeast of Lake Nicaragua, Is alarming. Prof. Pittlcr says: "We are in the same conditions as the island of Martinique." No alarm however is yet felt. Turnips nml Rents. Lippincott's Magazine. Mrs. Smith was not in favor of adorning education with any frills and nifties. She opposed the introduction of each of the socalled "fads," and her opposition was always loud and insistent. One morning she visited the principal of the school building which sheltered the little Smiths lor the live most peaceful hours of their day, and expressed her sentiments in no measured terms. "It's disgraceful the way children are taught!" she began, with a painful disregard of tact and diplomacy. "Their studios are so jumbled together that they don't know when they have finished with arithmetic and taken up geography. The other day IJessle she is in G rom, you know came home and said that the teacher hal stopped in the middle of the singing lesson, right in the middle of a sorg, to ask how many turnips were in a peck." "You must be mistaken," excused the astonlsheel principal. "No, ma'am. Re'ssie told me, and Ressie never lies," said Ressie's mother with a complacency that irritated the atmosphere. The teacher was sent for. She denieel that she had interrupted the music lesson to satisfy her curiosity in regartl to turnips and iecks. She went back to G room with unkindly feelings, but three minutes later she came back smiling. "I know now what she meant," said she. "I asked the children how many beats were in a measure." Cheers for the Last Man. Cleveland Plain Dealer. When the last man in the line in the graduating ciass at West Point came forward to receivo his diploma there was a partially concealed grin of the sheepish type on his fair round face. As he saluted with the stiffness of a manikin on wires a cheer went up from his fellowt'adets. The cheer fell and rose, and lied away and rose again. The round face turned reel, the square chin slightly quivered, the bright gray eyes suddenly dimmed. The President smiled. Again the cheer rose, louder, fuller than before. It was a cry of encouragement; a shout of sympathy, a strident declaration of full equality. It was the symbol of a soulful process that Was designed to draw the opposing end of the class to a common center. The glittering staff had lauded the man whose brains h tel placed them first in the race lor honors; the gray-coated lads lifted the last man on a stormy war of cheers and swept him beside the clever youngsters who proudly led the linecadets all, comrades all, one for all and all for one! The last man In the line stiffened as he took his diploma. His chin grew rigid, Iiis eyes brightened. An.l again the cheer of good fellowship shrilly arose. Keeping; Illing. Tidy. Chicago Journal. "Marie," said Culberson, in a tone of forced patience. "1 do wish you would keep this room a little more ti.ly. Seems to me things are always lying about in the mid!Ie of the iloor." I'll try, dear," said Mrs. Culberson meekly. That night Mrs. Culberson took tea with a cousin. When she returned she found Culberson raging about in a vain search for his dressing gown. "This is a pretty st,ite of affairs!" he began. "Here 1 come home and can't find my slippers, nor rny paper, nor my pipe, nor my glasses, nor anything else. When I left this morning they were here all right." "Yes" said hh wife. "They were in the mid. ile of the fk-or. I think if you will look in the cupboard and on the writing desk and on the parlor table you will iind them all safe." And they were safe. Xrw ltailvay Incorporated. COLVMKUS. O.. July 2C.-The Columbus A- Southern Railway Company of Lancaster was incorporated to-day with $'.io,en) capital stork by Livingston Curling. John G. Resves. George lloadley. jr.. R. 1 run and A. R. Kicf tber. The articles of incorporation st:it that it is proposed, to construct a railroad to be ope rat eel by steam or other motive power, having its termini in Columbus and Weihten, with braneh.es from Lancaster. Hamdrn and Allenville. TP.e new company is the purchaser of the Lancaster v HamJen ro id, r cently soM by the Fnited States Court. The fact that the piopo.-fd line wil! compote directly with the Morgan coal roads, the Hocking Valley and the Oi.i Central g:cs rise to the suggestion that the Goulds may be financing the deal. Senator Clark Ituya Plctiirrn. VIENNA. July 2J. The Neues Wiener Tageblatt says that United States Senator William A. Clark will shortlv remove to the United States the famous Preyer collection of pictures, w hich he bought "in December lat at a cost cf 1.0"O.oo0 kronen (about Jo3ve.) The pictures, the Tageblatt says, have hitherto remained in Vienna, as the United States government demanded 400.1 0 kronen (about $lf.i duty, but Senator Clark is reported to have secured a reduction of this amount to enable 1.1m to rexuov tii collection to the United States.

RAIN PLENTY IN TEXAS

IT IS STILL FALLIXfi AND PORTIONS i i OF T1IC STATU ARC FLOODED. Railway Tracks Washed Out nml Cotton Fields I nder "Water Trains Delayed. DALLAS, Tex., July 2. The situation did not improve to-day and in some districts has become more serious. In the western part of the State, particularly, the rain continues to fall, and there is little prospect of an early resumption of railroad traffic. Nearly all trains arriving in Dallas to-day were late and trains on the Missouri. Kansas & Texas are reported tied up at . Hillsboro. There are several washouts on the Texas Central and no trains have gone further west than Whitney on that road. The Cotton Belt is cut off from Gatesville by a washout at Leon river. It is feared the bridge there will be washed out. At Waco the Rrazos is up thirty-one feet and lacks three feet of being the highest ever known. In East Waco merchants are moving their goods. The "Katy" bridge is washed out at Hillsboro and fifty feet of the main line of that road on the Dallas branch is undermined. Several residences are under water and skiffs have gone to their rescue. John Richards, a boy of seventeen, was drowned in Chambers creek at RIooming Grove to-day. He was attempting to cross during the overflow . At 10 o'clock to-night the Rrazos river at Waco began declining. The levee built to protect some of the largest cotton plantations below Waco broke luring the day and over 5.h) acres of cotton were submerged and ruined. The IJosriue and Rrazos rivers together have destroyed about 10,0"U acres of valuable crops in McLcnan county alone. Rain has ceased falling at Waco and the sky is clear. While the railroads and small farmers are suffering frem the Hood in western Texas the cattlemen are being benefited. l'looel at l"ond dn Lnc. FOND DU LAC, Wis.. July 2tf. Fond du Lac was flooded to-elay by a rainstorm which turned some of the principal streets into raging torrents and tore up many blocks" of cedar pavement. The rainfall aggregated three and twenty-three hundredths inches and the damage in the city alone is estimated at SuO.Onj. The crops are seriously damaged and many oat fields cannot be saved. The Flood In Illinois. CHICAGO, July 26. Crops on many farms In .the lowlands of the Illinois and Rock rivers are still under water and in many instances are supposed to be ruined. A cloudburst near Moline, 111., to-night put four miles of Rurlington tracks under water. A large force Is repairing the Lacey levee near Havana, 111., ami some of the crops in that vicinity may bo saved. Hallway Tracks AVi.slieel Out. ELMIRA, N. Y., July 20. Horncllsville and Canasteo, N. Y were visited to-nighl by a cloudburst which flooded the country, washed out the Erie railroad tracks for miles and wrought great elamage. DRAKE'S MANSION BURNED. Aued Shotvmnit Rescued, hut a Girl Stiff oca tedCurio Destroyed. NEW YORK. July 2tl. The large colonial mansion of John J. Drake, one of the pioneer showmen of the United States, at Rye, N. Y., has been destroyed by lire,' together with its entire contents, which consisted of curios from all parts of the world and many gifts from European potentates. Mr. Drake, who is eighty years old, hail eccupied the mansion half a century, lie was rescued by means of a ladder. Eva Healy, of Syracuse, niece of Mr. Drake's housekeeper, who was rescued from the burning building, died shortly afterward from suffocation. The loss is- estimated at $75,0u0. Town of I'uon Suffer. ENON, Ta., July 26.-Fire to-day, which for a time threatened the whole town, destroyed H. O. Hill's residence, Kerr's millinery store, two frame buildings and badly damaged the American House. Mr. Hill's family barely escaped with their lives. The loss was JwJ.OjO, partly covered by insurance. ENGLAND'S NEW PREMIER. Ilalfniir Educated to Statesmanship L'nder Salisbury. 0 New York Commercial Advertiser. The new Rritish premier, Arthur James Balfour, who is a nephew of his predecessor, was born in 184S. His father, James Maitland Balfour, was a member of a prominent Scotch family. His mother was. before marriage in 1S13, Lady Blanche Cecil. Arthur James Ralfour Was graduated from Eton and Oxford. He entered Parliament in 1874 as a Conservative from Hertford. He became his uncle's private secretary in 1S7S. In 1S6 be was appeuntod secretary for Scotland, and for the next year he was chief secretary for Ireland, lie was a severe and persistent taskmaster for Ireland, according to the Liberals. He was appointed first Jord of the treasury and leader of the House of Commons in 1'J1. Mr. Balfour is the head of a cadet branch Of the old Scotch family of Balfour of Balfour, which derives its name from Ralfour Castle, in Fife. The earliest reenhd Ralfour ancestor was a certain Siwaid. who met his death at the hands of a misguided noblemen named Machet several hundred years ago. Mr. Ralfour himself is the eldest, of a family of eight, being left fatherless when barely nine years old. His mother proved herself a Cecil in character as well as by birth. Many stories are told of the strong ami sensible way in which she ruled her young family through the sixteen years during which she survived her husband, who was only thirty-six when he died. Jl r life ended in 1S7J. only a little time after her eldest son had done with Eton and Trinity College. Cambridge, and taken his second class in the rneral science sch)ol at that university. He was twenty-four, and two years later be entered public life. Up to the elay he entered the House of Commons as member for Hertford the young lowland laird cannot be said to have distinguished himself. Eton contemporaries have r.oi come forward to bear witness to Mr. Balfour's intense appetite for work. At Cambridge he eleserved something better than a second class in moral science. He is still held up there as a comforting example to undergraduates who propose- lo exert themselves after their thirtieth birthday. Then an influential relative appeared eai the scene w ho di ined this young Scotchman's liability better than the young Scotchman eiid himself. Hertford is not very far from Hatileld House, and Hertford gave Arthur Ralfour his nrst chance. Lord Salisbury gave him his second, made him hi private secretary at the Kcreign Othec during the Kite sevenths, and took him with him to Berlin when Lord Reaconsdeld and he attended the famous congress. Like his llstinguished uncle before him. Mr. Balfour enjoyed a period of political revolt. The history of the fourth party has yt to be written. They forme. I a brilliant little hind of purliamt inry outlaws, with Iord Randolph Churchill as their leader, the acidulous Sir John Gorst and Sir Henry Drumrnond-Wolff as able-bodied members, and Mr. Ralfour as a generally recumbent extra hand. Rut the guardian uncle hovered over this rash young rebel, coming once again between the latter and the legitimate consequences of the eccentricities of youth. In lv4. accordingly, Mr. Balfour detached hLmself from his three companions. A year later he blossomed frth among the orthodox as a privy councilor and president of the Local Government Roard, and when his uncle returned ta power. In July, ISnG, the young statesman found himself secretary for Scotland, with a seat in the Cabinet. ilarch 14. iv.v7, must be a great iato In Mr. Balfour's life. On that day he took his seat on the treasury . lnch as chief secretary for Ireland. The former Irish chief

secretary. Sir MlchTel Hicks-Reach, had a few weeks previously been attacked with an affection of the eyes, which sent him into private life people thought for good. The last hours of Sir Michael s ofüclai life had been one prolonged and terrible fight with the Irish members in the House of Commons. And almost on the very eve of the day when the Conservative government intended asking Parliament for special administrative powers Mr. Ralfour was nominated for the vacant post. The Irish members felt that thev could easily unhorse this "silk-skinned' sybarite." As for the government organs, they received the appointment with dubious satisfaction. Mr. Ralfour was net physically strong enough for the post. He was too sensitive. He would never be able to endure the flood of insult and calumny frm the Irish benches. And on March 14, 1W. Mr. Ralfour took his seat In the House as chief secretary. And when five years later, he succeeded the late W. H. Smith as leader of the House of Commons and first lord of the treasury, Ireland was pacified. Though follonlg high intellectual pursuits, with assiduit, and conducting the weighty and exacting duties of his ocial position. Mr. Ralfour has found time for such pleasant recreations as relieve the stern responsibilities of life. He is a cyclist, arid is president of the National Cyclists' Union. Rut he is best known as a golfer. In 1S34 he was captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club. St. Andrews. Whlttinghame House, Mr. Ralfour's home, in East Lothian. Scotland, was built by his grandfather, John Ralfour, in 1S:7. Rut the demesne itself, which that gentleman purchased on his return from India with a large fortune, has a mucmh longer history. Whlttinghame is celebrated, lndeeel, in Scottish annals ns having been at one time the home of the great Douglas family, while tradition has linked it with the tragic fortunes of Mary Queen cf Scots. Having been given Whlttinghame Castle by the Queen In 1551, it was there, it is related, that the Earl of Morton planned with Rothwell the murder of Darnley. A portion of the castle still existed In a habitable state early in the century, and In Stonypath Tower, which Is supposed to have been built about 1411, there Is even yet a striking souvenir of the hoary past. Besides its historic interest Mr. Ralfour's home has the charm of some of the prettiest scenery of the south of Scotland the wooded banks of the Firth of Forth on the one side and the picturesque features of the Lammermoor country, as Scott describes them, on the other. Here Mr. Ralfour, A'ho is a bachelor, lives during the parliamentary vacations. Rut neither the House of Commons nor the Foreign OHice exhausted Mr. Ralfour's energies. His second class in the moral science school germinated in his mind to bear fruit about lb?) in a book called "A Defense of Philosophic Doubt." "The Foundation of Relief" was his last publication. MINISTER WU'S PERSONALITY.

Took to American "Wnys Kaslly nnd So Did Madame YVn. Washington Letter in Baltimore American. Minister Wu lived up to hl3 theory of adopting American manners and language, so far as It was consistent with his high official rank. He learned to speak English perfectly and learned to appreciate the merits of a cocktail. He caught on to every new American slang phrase as fast as it appeared, and he rarely lost money at poker. Of course, he retained his Oriental garb. But he made his little boy as thorough an American boy as any lad in Washington. The little chap went to the public schools and entered the batallion of cadets and served In the ranks. Indeed, one of the prettiest sights ever witnessed in Washington occurred at a drill of the cadets on the White Lot, just behind the White House. Minister Wu and Madame Wu had gone to the review in their automobile, and when the cadets were drawn up for inspection by the President, Madame Wu looked up and down the lines in vain to find her little son. Just as the President passed the Hag and the colors were dropped in salute to the chief executive the little lady gave a faint scream of delight. She had recognize! her little son as the colorbearer of the batallion. Even Minister Wu smiled in approval to see his boy carrying the stars and stripes. Socially Mr. Wu was one of the most popular members of the diplomatic corps in Washington. There has always been something fascinating about the Chinese legation, and the desire to be a guest at entertainments within its walls has consumed not only those within the charmed circle, but those who were not on the visiting list of the minister frequently crowded the -parlors of the legation building on the "days" of Madame Wu. Even when large receptions were given many unbidden guests came. This habit of some people annoyed Mr. Wu when he first began to entertain, and he wondered at the manners of the Americans who came to his house without an invitation. He, however, soon adopted the system of inclosing cards of admission to the house with his invitations, and those who were wont to come witnout the necessary reepiests soon found that the affairs at the Chinese legation were not "free for all," and Mr. Wu has not been troubled lately with unvlted guests. Mr. Wu is very fond of the society of young American ladies, and Madame Wu always has a bevy of charming young ladies assisting her o receive when there is a function on at the legation. Soon after Mr. Wu arrived in Washington he was invited to a cTd party and introduced to the mysteries of progressive euchre. The game fascinated him, and he soon became luito an expert player. Whenever Mr. Wu played euchre he played to win the first prize, and he was generally successful. Whenever, in the course of the game, he was obliged to play with a poor partner, as is often the case In the course of an evening, he never forgot his invariable politeness, but he managed to make the unfortunate partner feel uncomfoTvble ami ready to change with someone Ise as soon as they moved to another table. Mr. Wu gave large euchre parties at the Chinese legation during the season, ad as lie himself was fond of the prizes b be won, he always prepared the most elaborate prizes for his guests in the way of Chinese curios of rich silks and embroiderie(s. Mr. Wu always liked to he up to date. As seem as the bicycle craze starte! in Washington Mr. Wu caught the fever and got a wheel. On account of his national costume and its skirts, he was obliged to get a drop-frame or ladies wheel. He used to take long spins on his bicycle, not only in the city, but on pleasant afternoyns he could be seen wheeling along- he country roads, frequently accompanied by a party of young ladies. They would whel out to Chevy Chase or Cabin John's Rridije for dinner and come home by moonlight. The decline of the bicycle craze in Washington was deplored by Mr. Wu, but he did not give tip his wheel altogether. He still rides it. but with the advent of the automobile Mr. Wu became a chaffeur and automobilist. Mrs. Wu likes the automobile much better than she did the bicycle. On account of her very small feet she could not use the pedals ef the bicycle, but she can sit in the nutomoblle and delights to go whirling over the smooth asphalt pavements of Washington In her swift gliding machine. Mr. Wu got his automobile just about the time of the Boxer uprising in China, and as he was obliged tr go to the State Department several times a day during that exciting summer Mr. Wu's automobile became as familiar on Executive avenue as Mr. Wu himself. Mr. Wu learned to handle the machine, but he did not care to act often as the chaffeur, so he had his colored valet. Charley L e, to drive the machine. The law requires all chafteurs in Washington to take out an engineer's license to run an automobile, so Charley Lee, in the application of Mr. Wu. became an engineer. Mr. Wu geit him a regular automobile livery, and he always takes Mine. Wu out when she rides in the auto. Mrs. Wu during the season pays her calls in the auto. One of the attaches of the legation, sits on the little seat in front of the machine while madam and Charley Lee sit on the main seats. The Chinaman Jumps out at the houses and leaves madam's cards where she does not care to enter the house. Mr. Wu is very fond of a good dinner and the accompanying wines. He has the reputation of being able to stand more wine than the usual diner-out. Mr. "Wu was a tirst-class after-dinner speaker and has been much sought after at public functions. The old-timers often remarked on Mr. Wu's ability to stand the wine at dinner parties. One time a number of his friends decided to give him a dinner and drink him under the table. He accepted the Invitation and the dinner went along with great eclat. Mr. Wu drank all the wine placed before him anil so did his hots He never showed the least sign of weakening, and finally, long after midnight, Mr. Wu was seen emerging from the banquet hall all smiles and bows nnd as sober, apparently, as when he entered. When he was asked where the others were he smiled bis bland and childlike smile and said: "They are where I believe you call it 'under the table.' " This was the last attempt made to drink Mr. Wu down. Mr. "Wu Is very fond of the theater. The theatrical managers In Washington know him to be one of their best patrons. Ho

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