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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1903, M5 WAR o AT HAND IN ORIENT Russian Secret Agent Makes Startling Statement. Declares That Hostilities Will Be Declared Within a Few Days. Neither the United States Nor Great Britain Will Be Involved the Coming Conflict. in HONGEONG, July 26.—A | Russian secret agent who has arrived here from Peki=, states confidently that war be- tween Russia and Japan will be declared in a few days. He id Great Britain and ited States will not par- the hostilities. + | { | | | | | | | < h to The Call. 2 » continuation of the Far East, sence of effective Brit y in the present A - State Depart- r cle just pub- England's wsfer of all ns on the sub- churia from ton. Pressure ves prompt from Count Foreign Minister, ign Office and the tersburg are y hu- s in abe) mplete Rus- a lation of the sorts having been that the Japanese coming to Paris from the Emperor ediat of France La Patrie has 1 of the Japa- t the Prince mission, and adds ace, but is de- r rights M savioff, the having ob legraph line from was the Korean Gov. Minister Hayashi "he latter has de- sibssiissisiie Requiem Masses Are Heard by Dast Crowds | ¢ church in San Fran- wded vesterday morn- special requiem for the repose of Leo XIII nteriors the draped with em- g, and the Pope were solemn ser- Jf the regret felt by Pontiff. ch (Paulist) the Rev. y on the de ered by the Rev. it dealt with the life s of Pope Leo XIII, of the great. The musical por- consisted of Mozart's s “Pie Je Miss Viantin, rghessi. The ated by the on Van Ness was taxed to its ut- large congregation. elebrated the requiem athers Butler and Pre- augmented and funeral mass’ was consisted of March Funebre,” rendered y Professor Zoberbier. The r consisted of the following singers: B e, Oscar Lienan, Joseph Redmond, Signor Comachi, E. M. Hilbert, Dr. Sebastia halkhammer and J. Walsh; bas Signor Domenico Borghese, George V. Wood, Professor K. E. G. Kern and nor Tomaso Panzini At St. Dominic’s Church, at Bush and Stelner streets, the funeral service was celebrated by the Rev. J. M. Foley, O. P. of New York, assisted by the Rev. F. alsh, P. P., and the Rev. F. B. Clync e sermon was delivered by the Rev. J. B. 0'Ce of New York. Dr. Stewart presided at the organ and Mozart's Requiem Mass” was rendered by an aug- At Notre Dame des Victoires, the urch, the mass was celebrated B aems of Hawali, who was 4 last Saturday. The Bishop assisted in the service by the ciergy ched the church, and the musical of the service was extremely ef- The eulogy was delivered by the Hamet, who dwelt feelingly Weteristics of the late Pope. iface Church, on Golden Gate cral service was celebrated Augustine, O. F. M. Many of was fective Rev. Fat on the cha I St. ¥ ue. the Father ADVERTISEMENTS. For two years, 1900 and 1601, there was an almost totai failure of crop of the best red pepper. Schilling’s Best got all that came to United States. Another is redder; not nearly so fine, not nearly so hot. Schilling’s Best has always been that one best sort, what- ever its cost—we’d rather lose money a year or two of short :X'OP. Monegbeck everytiing stwayn - constructed | XEARSARGE ENDS - HER OCEAN RACE Makes Passage to Bar Harbor in Little More Than Nine Days. Runs as High as Fifteen Knots but Slows Down for Fog and Icebergs. A ik BAR HARBOR, Me., July 2%.—The bat- teship Kearsarge arrived at Bar Harbor at 5:42 p. m. and dropped anchor in the upper harbor at 6:13. All day the shore path had been thronged with people anx- iously watching the eastern horizon for | the first glimpse of the famous ship, but | it was not until 5 o'clock that her im- mense hull appeared out of the mist in | the east. Coming full speed the battle- | ship entered the harbor, passed the other | | ships of the squadron at anchor and then | proceeded to the upper harbor, where | the battleship Illinois, with Admiral Bar- | | ker on board, was anchored. After the ! usual formality the representative of the Associated Press was received on board and was the first to greet Captain Hemp- hill, who expressed surprise that their | trip should be of interest to others out- : Department. He said: Needles at 1:% p. m. on % 7, and Mount Desert Rock | ) to-day, covering the distance of | miles in nine days four and a quarter | hours, an average speed of 13.16 miles an | hour MAKES FIFTEEN KNOTS. | > highest speed attained was a little | than fifteen knots an hour and the slowest was ten. Three times during the | trip the ship was slowed down, once on | account of being in the vicinity of an iceberg and twice on account of a very thick fog. Headwinds and thick weather retarded the speed of the ship and under { favorable conditions she would have cov- | ered the.distance in less than nine days. | Captain Hemphill says that he could | art on a return trip at once and beat this voyage. Since | York fifty- record made on the Kearsarge left New three days 2go she has visited Germany, Denmark and England, has steamed 5200 miles, has been at sea twenty-four days | and in port twenty-nine days, and during | all this time there has not been a single accident to the machinery or a stop of | any kind. She is ready for action. | When she left Portsmouth she carried | 1640 tons of coal. She now has on board | 410 tons, consuming 1230 tons on the voy- | | age, an average of 135 tons daily. As her coal carrying capacity is but 1591 tons, | some coal was taken on deck. | WHAT TRIP DEMONSTRATES. | The trip of the Kearsarge has demon- | | strated that a ship of her class can| maintain an average speed of over thir- | teen knots on a long voyage without in- | jury to her machinery; that her coal car- | rying capacity is adequate for a trip of | 400 miles under full speed; that in ume | of war, ships of her class can cross the | ocean and engage an enemy at once; that | the Kearsarge is one of the most perfect | ships in the world and fully equal to any | emergency ! Captain Hemphill and his officers are very enthuslastic over the way In which they have been entertained while in for- | eign waters. Everywhere the Stars and | Stripes was cheered as the Kearsarge | moved iIn and out of port. A big crowd watched her departure from Portsmouth as she started on the voyage that has ended so successfully. Captain Hemphill will not give out the detalls of daily etc., until he has made his report vy Department. arsarge will leave this port to- morrow morning at 5 o'clock and proceed | to the coaling station at Lamoine, where | | she will fill her bunkers preparatory to | participating in the naval maneuvers, | | | runs, which begin August 1 P WS | NAVY DEPARTMENT PLEASED. Ocean Voyage of the Kearsarge Is| Considered Highly Satisfactory. WASHINGTON, July A great deal | of interest was taken by naval officers in | Washington in the run of the Kearsarge | from Portsmouth to Frenchman's Bay. It timated before the vessel left Eng- | was es 1 land that, with good weather, she would | make the run across the ocean in ten| Jays, and this prediction has been veri- Estimating that she traveled about | miles, the speed of the Kearsarge | { would average approximately between | 13.1 and 13% knots per hour. While the run the vessel just made is not at all re- | markable, yet it is v ctory for | a heavy battleship and indicates the en- gines were in good condition, Admiral Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, speaking about the voyage to-night, sald: “There was no test of maximum speed | possible, but only a test of the usual run- | ning under all boflers. It is customary in | i | ordinary cruising to use only about two- thirds or three-fourths of the full boiler power of the snip. All the boilers are used when it s desired to make a better speed and sustain it for a long period, | | while for short periods of excessive speed | forced draught on the boilers is uséd. This is done, however, only fof short peri- | 0ds, because the strain on the boilers and | on the endurance of the firemen is very | great. The bottom of the Kearsarge, al- | though not necessarily very foul, is not| at its best condition because the vessel is | not just out of drydock.” I B i ) | the brothers of the Franciscan order took | part in the services, which 4ncluded spe- cially selected music. At the Church of S8. Peter and Paul the congregation was composed mainly of citizens of Italian descent or birth. The | church was somber with heavy drapings | of black velvet and clogh, relieved with The funeral mass was cele- white cords. brated by the Rev. B. C. Redehan, and the music consisted of portions of Mo- zart's and Caglieri’s requiem composi- tions. The choir was augmented. In all the Catholic churches the requiem masses were participated in by very large | congregations, the musical portions of the | services being specially selected. | e Speaks About | Great Work of | Holy Father IBERKELEY, July 2%.—Solemn re- | quiem mass was celebrated at St. # Joseph’s Church to-day for the dead Pope. brant. Father M. O'Riordan was the cele- The church was decorated mourning colors for the occasion. A special cholr rendered the sacred music. The Rev. J. J. Cantwell acted as deacon and the Rev. Father Carroll of San Francisco as subdeacon. Father O'Riordan delivered an eloguent address upon the life and character of the | dead Pontiff. He sald in part: Pope Leo XTI was one of the greatest mas- ters the church has ever produced. Living in an age when his work was necessarily hard, at the head of a church once the temporal as well as the spiritual ruler of the world, Pe Leo was coufronted with some peculiar prob- lems when he took charge of the church at 63 years. But his administration has been eminently successful. Pope Leo's great work was to place the good terms with the temporal pow- world, and he has left it much the his baving lived. in PLOT TO DEPOSE PRINCE FERDINAND AND COMBINE BULGARIA AND SERVIA Conspiracy Against Sovereign Involves Proposed Union of the Two Countries, to Be Governed by Kara- georgevitch, and Overthrow of the Sultan’s Power — IENNA, July 26.—The Universal Bucharest publishes a sensational story of an effort to bring about a union of Servia and Bulgaria, which involves the deposition of Prince Ferdinand and the substitution of the Karageorgevitch dynasty, and which, B | remark or | which iseem to demand attention. | tion of relevancy, FOUR NOTABLES WHO FIGURE IN A REMARKABLE STORY OF INTRIGUE. Sl — also, according to the story, would inci- dentally result in the settlement of the Macedonian question. According to the report, a secret meet- ing was recently held in Belgrade of Bul- garian Parliamentarians, prominent Ser- vians and Macedonians, at which detalls Capacity of Churches Tested by Mourners for Late Pope g Continued From Page 2, Column 4. tificate has been to attach people to us more closely, and to bring out clearly this truth, that the influence of the Ro- man Papacy is salutary in all respects.’ “Men find fault with the church for be- ing whajgthey call a system, but if the strengthWand success of civil, political and commercial life depend upon skillful organization why should our Lord not use this simple principle for the furtherance of good? Are virtue and religion alone to have no organized supporters or pro- moters? Is Christ, the King alone, to | have no united army but only a crowd of followers of some hundreds of isolated, often hostile bands? And if evil at pres- sent day is knit together Into such per- fect organizations éverywhere, what unity of Christian forces can be opposed to it more effective®han that which centers around the throne of Peter and reaches to the ends of the earth? Consequently the Holy Father has used all the welght of his teaching authority within the church to make the wonderful, world-wide organization of which he is the head the instrument of blessings to all mankind, hoping and praying the while that those who should be benefited by it might come to his alleglance and further the fulfill- ment of that unity which was the burden of our blessed Lord’s prayer on the sad- dest night of his life. ‘Surely,’ said the aged Pontiff only last year, ‘the eye of man cannot plerce all the depths of the designs of God in thus prolonging our old age beyond the limits of hope; here we can only be silent and adore. But there is one thing which we do well un- derstand, namely, that as it hath pleased Him and still pleases Him to preserve our existence a great duty is incumbent upon us—to live for the good ana the de- velopment of his immaculate spouse, the holy church, and, so far from losing courage in the midst of cares and pains, to consecrate to him the remainder of our strength unto our'last sigh.’ Was Promoter of Study and . . Investigation “B T in his work with nations and with peoples Leo did not forget nor lose sight of the great value in these days of learning. He has been an educational Pope. He has been a promoter of studies and of investigation in all the fields of knowledge, and the confidence he has had that all truth will uitimately rebound to the glory and usefuiness of the church is well exempiified in what he said in 1884 to the German Historical Cir- cle, ‘Draw as much as possible on the sources. It is for that purpose I have opened the Vatican Archives. We are not afraid to let the light come in on them.” And to a later historian he said, ‘You must make the Popes known. In accordance with this spirit he has given us a Catholic university in Washington. He has founded new chairs in the univer- sities of Louvaipl, Lisle and Freiburg. He o has increased the number of students at the Gregorian University in Rome from 400 to over 1000. And, safeguarding the interests of their Catholic faith, he has made i possible once again for the Cath- olic young men of England to attend the universities of * Oxford and Cambridge. He has written an encyclical on the Bible and but last year appointed a learned commission to consider scriptural ques- tions. He encouraged Oriental studies, caused new seminaries to spring into ex- istence and gave a fresh impetus to the work of the famous Vatican Observatory. “And now these manifold and Taborious works of Leo, the statesman, the teacher and the scholar, would seem to be enough 1o fill up the life and exhaust the strength of one man; but besides these things, which are without, he has had his daily instance, the solicitude for all the churches. He has-been responsible for the spiritual well-being of the universal church. He has appointed Cardinals and Bishops. He has, received pilgrimages, he has encouraged the faithful in all parts of the world. He has written nu- merous letters on devotional and doc- trinal questions. He has restored the hierarchy in Scotland; he has convened the Bishops of this country in the Thtrd Plenary Council of Baltimore, and in 1898 he summoned the 104 Archbishops and Bishops of Latin America in council at Rome. But among the sweetest joys that came to his fatherly heart was the return to the unity of the faith of 100,000 schismat- ic Nestorians, 60,000 Gregorian Armenians and thousands of Copts. He Las seen the church rise to a position of spiritual emi- nence and power which is all the more striking that his temporal power has shrunk to extinction. FHow, then, were these wonderful results accomplished? Success Is Due to Potency of Prayer to God PY E have seen the human agen- cies of diplomacy, teaching authority and scholarship. But we are mnot yet at the source of Leo’'s power. Paul may plant and Apollo may water, but God alone can give the increase. And so, while Leo used all-human means to ac- complish his work, he did not forget that the fructifying agent must be the grace of God. There is a celebrated portrait of the Pope painted by the French artist Chartrain which represents him on his knees, his arms resting on a priedieu, his hands clasped in front of him, his head bowed, and on his face an expression of intense earnestness. It is Lec at prayer, This has been the source of all his won- derful power. He consecrated all his en- ergies to God, and God gave them fruit- fulness. He understood St. Chrysostcm's beautiful saying, ‘There is nothing more powerful in the world than a man who prays.’” He remembered that the very gift which most distinguished the Papal chair, its gift of infallibility in teaching revealed truth, is a direct result of prayer. of the scheme were agreed upon. They | were sald to nclude a military convention | and a customs alliance. The plotters are sald to have resolved | to carry out their programme, if possible, | by legal means, including a vote of the | ulgarian Parliament. The plotters are aid to have argued that such a united | kingdom could overthrow Turkey, end the Macedonian troubles and guarantee a greater future for both Servia and Bul- garia. The story is discredited here, being re- garded as fanatical. s S PRINCE IS A DEGENERATE. Specialist’s Report as to the Heir to Servia’s Throne. ST. PETERSBURG, July 26.—A special- ist on the treatment of backward chil- dren, at the command of the Imperial Government, examined and observed | Prince George, the eldest son of King Peter Karageorgevitch of Servia, during | the past week and has reported to the Emperor that the boy is a degenerate. Prince George was born in 1883, and taerefore is 18 years of age. He was reared practically under the direction of the Russlan court and a report printed just after the Belgrade tragedy said that he was educated to occupy the throne of Servia. On Jume 12 a Berlin dispatch to the London Times sald that King Peter might abdicate in favor of his son. L e e e ‘Simon,’ said our blessed Lord, speaking to all the apostles, ‘Stmon, Satan hath de- sired you that he might sift you as wheat, but I have prayed for thee, that | thy faith shall fail not, and thou being | once converted confirm thy brethren.’ | | Resting upon that promise, upon the | value of prayer, when he found himself | beset by difficulties on every side, the | Pope at the very beginning of his reign asked the faithful to bend their knees and | supplicate the health of heaven. And if | in these days the spiritual greatness of the church has shone out with unwonted splendor, if all men's eyes have been turned to it, to what shall we ascribe the result but to the prayer which, by his direction, we have been saying after every low mass for the last twenty years, begging God. our refuge and our strength, through the intercession of the blessed Virgin and ally the saints, to hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners and for the liberty and exaltation of Holy | Mother Church? For the same period of time he has directed us, especially during | the month of October, to recite the sim- ple prayer of the rosary. He set apart Gays of adoration and prayer for the dif- ferent nations of the world for the re- union of Christendom. He ordered that the old century should be watched out in prayer for the different nations of the world, and that the coming in of the new should find the falthful on their knees consecrating again their iives and hearts to the service of God. “May the spirit of Leo live on, and may his splendid faith, his Christian plety and his humble trust in prayer remain an ex- ample and an inspiration to us who have lite's battles still to fight against enemies, | visible and invisible. Z: Though Leo Is Dead His Work Will Continue {4 EO'S work is done and Leo has l passed away. But the Papacy re- mains. The throne of Peter was already old when the oldest of existing thrones was first set up, and it aloné has the divine promise that it shall never fall. Neither time nor decay nor wars nor rev- olutions mor any of the vicissitudes of earthly things shall bring it to ruin. God, who watches over the church as the greatest creation of his wisdom and the dearest object of his love on earth, will raise up anotherto take Leo’splace. And so while the church to-day kneels in mourn- ing repeating for Leo the prayer of her liturgy, ‘Eternal rest grant uato him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him,’ there is In her heart no shadow of despair, but the spirit of hope born of her trust in her founder's word. And so she adds that other part of her funeral lit- urgy, which is a song of triumph, the canticle of the benedictus, ‘Blessed be the Lord God of Idrael, who hath visited and Wrought the redemption of his people and has raised up the horn of salvation to us in the house of David, his servant; to the end that, being delivered from the hands of our enemies, we may serve him in holiness and justice before him all our ays.’ % p e pray God that in his mercy he will deign to give us another shepherd, who, taking up the staff which Leo’s tired hand has laid down, may from the an- clent throne of the fisherman stretch it out in beneficent sway over new peoples and alien lands. And may Qe by his wis- dom and prudence give knowledge of sal- vation to his people unto remission of their sins, and enlighten them that sit in darkness and In the shadow of death and by his sure guidance direct our feet into the way of peace.” v | partment to evade the rules | { | sated by the Presidnt which provides for the | | i | entirely to abuse and vituperation. PROCTOR MAKES REPLE T0 SMITH Chairman of the Civil Service Commission Fights Back. Refutes Statements Made by P Former Postmaster General. WASHINGTON, Jyly 2.~ CEairman Proctor of the Civil Service Commission | has made reply to the recent letter of former Postmaster General Smith concern- ing the latter’s attack on his repoft on the investigation of the Washington postoffice | and also to an editorial article In the| Philadelphia Press. The reply Smith’s formal letter is as follows: July 24, 1905. The Honorable the Postmaster General— Sir: My attention has been called to the let- ter, dated July 14, of Hon. Charles Emory Smith, as it appeared in the public press of July %0, commenting on the recent letter of the commission In regard to the administration of the public service in the Washington post- office. If this letter were based upon the facts disclosed by the records, or could be read in connection with the commission’s letter and the report of the investigation, upon which it was based, there would be na mecessity for reply. Under the circumstances | there are certain parts of Mr. Smith's letter | QUESTION OF RELEVANCY. | The ‘relevancy of a portion of the commi son's letter has been denied by Mr. Smith. al though the essential facts it contained have not been controverted. Concerning the ques- | it may be stated that the Postmaster General requested the commission | to. investigate and report whether the civil | service rules were being violated in the Wash- | Ington postoffice; and that as the investigation | disclosed, the fact that regarding the relation of a bureau to the department in the matter of appointments and other changes, some of the departmental affalrs necessarily came with- in_its scope. This was especially true with regard to persons appointed to outside offices for the purpose of classification and afterward trans- ferred to the Washington postoffice and later to the department, as well as in the cases of persons appointed as laborers, but_irregularly assigned to classified duty in’ the Washington | Postoffice, who were afterward appointed in the | rural free dellvery service just before its class- | ification. In commenting upon that part of the com- mission’s letter which deals with the classi- fication transfer method adopted by the de- he avolds, by a safe margin, the facts di tigation. It 1s a civil closed by the inves- service rule promul- classification of clerks at free delivery offices | and the commission construes this rule as rec- ognizing only bona fide employes as acquir- | ing a classifiable status. It was the depart- ment and not the statute or the rules that places the names of elghteen residents of Washington or its vicinity on the rolls of postoffices in various parts of the United States, without reference to the needs of those offices, for the sole purpose of getting them into classified positions in the Washington postoffice or the department. Mr. Smith says in reference to the same subject: “‘In 1897, before I became Post- master General, some persons were appointed to offices about to be classified and after class- ification they were transferred to other parts of the service.. This practice thus introduced continued in a limited degree.” As a matter of record there were only four such appointments made during the latter part of 1897 and the early part of 1898, prior to the appointment of Mr. Smith, and 124 under his administration. ADMISSIONS TO SERVICE. He also quotes in his letter of December 27, 1900, to the commission, in which he agreed that’ admissions to the service should. so far as practicable. be made upon examination and stated that directions had been given which Wwould remove all just grounds of complaint. Mr., Smith now states his belief that the commission never received this letter and de- clares that he will not comment on *‘the pecu- lar candor “which made no acknowledgment of the removal of all just ground of complant then, 1d seeks to suppress the truth abeut it now. A sufficlent reply to this statement will be found on page 300 of the seventeenth annual report of tha commission pubiished in the early part of 1901, in which statement follows the full quotation of Mr. Smith's letter: Tt is gratifying to the commission to be able to state that, since the date of the above but one case of this kind has oc- mith’s letter closes with the statement “Mr. Proctor's innuendoes justify a per- sonal statement, which will be more becoming in a less formal paper.' An_edito in the Philadelphia Press of July 20, 1903, presumably contains this per- sonal statement. The article s given almost As the matters under consideration had their origin prior to your Induction into office, this letter cannot properly be regarded as referring in any way to your administration-of the de- partment. Very respectfully, JOHN B. PROCTOR, President. Mr. Proctor’s-reply to the editorfal in the Press answers a statement that he sought exceptions to the civil service rules in behalf of his relatives and friends. | He pronounces this charge untrue and says he never asked exceptlons for rela- tives or friends and so far as he knows has no relatives in the classified service. | L D e e o e e ] ) Will of Late Pope Read in Congregation OME, July 26.—The will of the late Pope was read to-day, after the R meeting of the congregation of Car- dinals. Only that portion which deals | with material matter of the personal| papal estate was made public. The re- ligious testament was not disclosed. The will is written on large sheets in the small, cleat handwriting of the Pontiff, presenting no trace of uncertainty. It was opened by Cardinals Mocenni, Cre- toni and Rampolla, the executors. The relatives of the la Pontifft were not| present, although invited. That portion made public is as folows: In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, as the end of our mortal career is approaching, we put on this holograph with our last desires. Before all we humbly sup- Dlicate the Infinite bounty and charity of the Blessed Lord to condone the faults of our life and recelve benignantiy our spirit in the beatific eternity which we specially hope through the merits of Jesus, redeemer, trusting to his Very sacred heart, an ardent furnace of charity and fountain of spiritual life and humanity. We also Implore, as mediators, the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God and our own much beloved mother, and that legion of saints whom in our life we venerated in a special way. Now, coming to dispose of our property, which 'is according to the deed of division drawn up_by the notary, Curzio Franchi, De- cember 17, 1882, We appoint as heir of this patrimony our nephew, Count Ludavico Peccl, 2o of Glovanni Battista, our deceased brother. From this property must be dedueted that al ready donated - to Count - Ricardo, _another nephew, on the occasion of his marriage, ac- cording to a deed of February 13, 1886, by No- tary Franchl. -Equally from this property must be deducted all tke estate in the Caripento Ro- mano belonging to the Holy See, according to the declaration on our chirograph of February 8, 1900. In this, our testamentary disposition, we have not thought of our other nephew, Ca- millo, and our nieces, Anna sund Maria, son and daughters of our brother, Glovanni Bat- tista. For them we have in life properly pro- vided decorous maintenance on the occasion of their marriages. We declare that no one of our family can claim any right in.anything not contemplated in the present document, because all the other pelongings of whatevér nature Which have come to us as Pontuf consequently are, and in any case we wish-to be, for the property of the Holy See. We confide the exact execution of this. our disposition, to Cardinals Mariano Rampolla, our Secretary of State, Mario Mocenni and Serafino Cretoni. This declaration is to be our last will. The Vatican, Rome, this eighth day of July, to Mr. BOYISH TRID MUST ANSWER FOR MURDER Torture of Nine-Year- “Old Companion Re- sults in Death. —— Reading College Stories Leads Vermont Youngsters to Try Hazing. —— Compel Naked Victim to Stand and Sit on Red Hot Stones and Thea Trample Upon His Body. o PR S Spectal Dispatch to The Call. BARTON, Vt., July 2.—Thres young boys of this place, Alva Day, 11 years old; Raymond Adams, 10 years old, and Ray- mond Waterman, 7 years old, are on trial before Justice Guild charged with caus- ing the death of a schoolmate, Ralph Canning by name, a delicate boy of 9 years. The elder boys had read of hazing in colleges and they determined to try a little original hazing on their own ac- count. They induced their victim to go with them to a lonely pasture back of the schoolhouse, where they built a fire and heated a number of stones red hot in the flames. The testimony is that they compelled | the lad to both stand and sit with his | naked flesh upon the red-hot stones, hold- ing him there in spite of his screams and pitiable supplications for release. After that the big boys walked on the little one and performed other horseplay tricks un- til the victim became nearly unconscious. When young Canning was at last allowed to go he managed to crawl home. He was taken at once with great pains about the stomach and died two weeks later. The case is exciting great interest, as the boys were so young they probably did not realize the enormity of their acts. The lads are members of prominent fam- ilies and have had a good reputation in the past. The hearing now in progress will determine their punishment. There are about forty witnesses on each side. ——e—— . CITY OF MEXICO, July 26.—The Govern- ment has issued a decree granting to the rafl- roads such an increase in their passenger and freight rates as will practically put them on the same basis as ‘hough their receipts were in fifty-cent dollars. ADVERTISEMENTS. The Tyfold Collar The picture shows how the collar is cut out on each side to allow for adjusting a neck tie without springing the col- lar open. The collar comes close togetfler in front, it keeps the tie in place and you don’t see the cut-out part. 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