Show ON WITNESS STAND UT DENIED BEING OUT WITH A NEGRO holmes charged with assault with deadly weapon Is bound over to district court from tuesdays standard the preliminary bearing of edward W holmes colored charged with assault with a deadly weapon was beard in the police court this morning and after listening to the testimony judge murphy bound holmes over to the district court in alio sum of the complaint alleged that holmead assaulted one tom ross with a knife on the night of june 29 the first witness for the prosecution was dr driver he testified to having dressed the bound on the alde of ross head on the night ot the trouble and stated that it was his opinion that the wound was caused by some sharp instrument mr ross followed dr driver on the stand he stated that on the night ot the trouble he had been at liberty park and that on his ay home he bad stopped at the riverside saloon on leaving the saloon he came south along washington avenue and when near the taberna clahe met holmes who was using vile language to too women the witness remonstrated with holmes and the latter struck with some sharp instrument as own cross examined the witness at great length but did not succeed in adding anything new to the testimony tom romeo corroborated the testimony of mr ross mrs susan EI dridge and mrs kiln key who were supposed to be the two aomen to whom holics was talking when the trouble started denied ever having seen the man holmes before today after the testimony of the women the prosecution rested holmes on the stand in his own defense stated that he first met ross and his companions in the riverside saloon and that he had a few words with them there on leaving the saloon the men followed him and when near the corner of twenty first street he spoke to them in reply they called him a vile name referring to his color and one of the men drew a knife that scared holmes and he pulled a small pocket knife from his pocket and cut ross that ended the testimony and holmes was bound over as stated above intervention to prevent a conflict between nor way and sweden paris july ll 11 baron nelles de constant the french member of the hague peace tribunal has written a letter to premier urging french intermediation in the conflict between norway and sweden the letter says in part the governments of europe abstained from offering good of cices to russia and japan with the result that the united states has the honor of intervention previously the same european governments abstained from recognizing the existence of the hague convention thus leaving the united states the honor of initiating such recognition today a grave conflict has broken out between sweden and norway without thrusting ourselves into the conflict we cannot remain indifferent to conr duty to ourselves and to all europe to prevent the spread of a violent conflagration the relations ot france toward sweden and norway ensure a sympathetic welcome to bordi of conciliation from you I 1 therefore ask in the name of a great number of french and foreign parliamentarians that you give your powerful authority to this pacific effort which will receive an approving echo from the governments of europe and america RUSSIAN OPINION not favorable to united states government ern ment st petersburg july 11 the papers here generally consider that frances agreement with germany on the subject of morocco was wise the eremya considers that the situation between the two countries was not dissimilar to the situation which existed between russia and japan before the war and com menda frances prompt appreciation of her position france the paper says did not hesitate to demoye the minister who was dragging the country into war M a bruer on the staff of tho eremya Is publishing a series of articles piling abuse on the united states attempting to show that the united states Is dussias Rus sias real enemy that japan s her puppet and that a great mistake was made when russia agreed to the peace negotiations taking yace in washington where the american government can pull the strings the article displays gross ignorance of many elementary facts and the eremya does not endorse them editorially nevertheless th eless it Is pointed put that such publications unfortunately are creating a false impression of the united states rols |