Show if they carry certain kinds of patent medicine washington sept li tha commissioner of internal bevenue today rendered a decision that will possibly a number of patent medicines composed largely of distilled liquors lie has reversed a ruling ot his department part ment made many years ago and now decides that the manufactures of these medicines must take out licenses as and liquor dealers and and others handling them wll have to pay the usual retail liquor dealers license the commissioner in a letter of instruction to collectors of internal revenue says that there are a number of compounds on the market going under the names of medicines that aro composed chiefly of distilled spirits without the addition of drugs or medicines medi cinea in sufficient quantities to change materially the character of the whiskey he authorizes collectors to impose the special tax on manufacturers of every compound composed of distilled spirits even though drugs have been declared to have been added thereto when their presence Is not discoverable by chemical analysis or it Is found that the quantity of drugs in the preparation is so small as to i have no appreciable effect on the liquors RESCUED WITH difficulty workmen were driven to roof of burning building chicago sept 14 fire did damage to the featherstone foundry and machine companas comp anys plant today the alro drove fifteen employed emp loyes 0 the foundry to the root of the buildings for a time it looked as though all would perish but they were finally rescued with great difficulty by firemen with ladders VOMITING FIRE new york sapt 14 the now york aads european edition publishes the following its correspondent at naples the eruption ot continues as in the last few days but without tending to any increases Inc on ihfe anther hand according to a telo gram to the mattana Matt lna strombole Strom boll Is causing great alarm ita crater vomiting a high pila of fire and dense accompanied by loud noises the ground presents numerous crevices and many bouses have been abandoned the custom house and semaphore stations have collapsed RUN DOWN BY STREET CAR aan francisco sept 14 prof B hoorman a well known artist from holland and a recent arrival in this city was run down and probably fatal ly injured today by a street car ha Is injured internally and may havo a fracture of the skull his left log is broken koonman Koo nuan it is said has gained fame holland his works as an artist in were well known and admired throughout and france he Is about 55 years 0 age ELEVEN PEERS ARE inquisitive tokio sept 14 p m eleven peers headed by prince aijo memorialized the government today crit incising its failure to prevent the re cent disturbances where the emperor resides and asking why the chief of the metropolitan police should havo been degraded while the home minister his superior is permitted to retain his post JAPS ARE organizing for the purpose of invading china and korea tokio sept 14 1 p 1 in evue ol 01 the strong of indignation pervading all classes ovet the terms of peace arranged with russia typical business men here are following a wiser course without repining over an accomplished fact an important organization representing eighty one leading business interests has been fo sed under the presidency of M dwade iwade a millionaire which alms to work for the development of home industries dus tries and foreign trade with redoubled energy A significant feature of the organization is that it consists of a wealthy and conservative element representing an enormous combination of capital its interests and energy will be principally directed toward ahe exploitation of trade with korea and china the organization is prepared to cooperate in this direction with foreign capitalists MURDERERS SAVED at the last moment they escaped the gallows chicago sept 14 two chicago murderers escaped final sentence to the gallons yesterday by a margin ot a moment after one of them had declared again and again that he grefor red hanging to life imprisonment the other had persistently averred his innocence no refusing to make the plea of guilty that vas necessary for the change 0 sentence to prison for life two urgent and excited lawyers worked with the convicted men and won them to confession just as judda barnes in the criminal court was starting to speak the words setting the date of execution john lorenz and john kl were the two stubborn prisoners they already had been convicted by a jury of killing fritz kruger on the night of I 1 march 18 1905 in a saloon CIRCUS performers DESTITUTE stranded in france and subsisting on charity new york sept 14 A number of the members of the mccaddon circus which was recently stranded at grenoble in southern france arrived here on the steamer ronia today four of 1 cabin passengers among i whom was C M mchood advance i agent of the circus the rest came i over in the steerage mcleod said the troupe had numbered about persons and that when it was strand i ed because ot a collection for rent levied by a french financial institution on the receipts ot tho show of the members were left destitute tha american consul at grenoble chaales P H naon cared tor them many members of iho circus are still at grenoble or paris so destitute that they depend for support upon private subscriptions af money PRINCES BODY AT tiflis Is not at peace even in death tiflis caucasia Cau casia sept 14 the body of general prenco formerly governor of baku was brought into this city by troops today and was buried without disorder occurring the late prynce was regarded with bitter hatred owing to the harsh measures which he adopted when he was bent on a mission to pacify tho caucasus the revolutionists threatened the local priests with death it they attempted to offer prayers over tho body and no one approach the house troops werey eventually dispatched to bring lira body to and it ans feared that disorders would occur at the funeral DENS OP robbers ROBBER 8 london sept IS tho petroleum review of the current week publishes a remarkable memorandum presented by the baku oil producers to the russian minister of fleance fl nance M it declares that on account of the utter helplessness of the police the producers are compelled to purchase safety from the inhabitants in the village of Bala kati romael and babral by periodical payments of large sums of money or that otherwise the aholo at the oil field region would suffer from their depredations the producers propose that the of these villages which they say are mere dens of robbers should te transferred elsewhere YOKOHAMA QUIET yokohama sept 14 the city Is quiet today under military occupation there acro several rowdy outbreaks during last night but rift damage was done thirteen arrests were made consul general miller is ot the opinion that there will be no demon str atlon against americans the taft party Is to arrive here on saturday MOROCCAN irions iT IONS new york sept 14 replying to a collective note addressed by the foreign legations the moroccan minister of foreign affairs has notified the representatives 0 certain powers that a detachment oc soldiers stationed two days distant from tangier has been ordered to transfer its camp to the environs of tangier says a cable dispatch from that city to tho new yerk herald As a further precaution tho tangier garrison of trained troops is being supplied with new modern armament and a corps of dussl infantry will be distributed as a reserve guard along the thoroughfares leading to the town these steps are directed toward tae of personal security menaced by recent events in the diplomatic capital ol 01 morocco |