Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 80, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1904 — Page 1

IT? r Vi PRGES 3t PiöS . JL. n j DAILT ESTABLISHED 1SÖ0. V KJJLt, J V 1 KJ , ÖU. INDIANAPOLIS, SUNDAY MORNING, MAKOII 20, 1904. PRICE Ö CENTS. DIDN'T TEMPER ORATION TO CATHOLIC SENTIMENT; 1SRULED0UT0FC0NTEST State Will Not Be Represented Because Speech of Luther Feeger Is Censored. RUSSIANS -BAY JAPANESE II FED BY THGUSA mi at-. 9i M Bonds Shown to Be Held by J. Walter Brown and Bank President Brodrick. Two Divisions of the Pacific Squadron May Be United Anv Time. NOTRE DAME OFFENDED AVALANCHE OF DEBTS RUMOR OF A LAND FIGHT t Quaker School's Representative

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Religious Considerations, Says Representative, Oo Not Govern in the Present Agitation. Because Luther M. Feeger, of Earlham College, chosen at the recent state oratorical contest In this city to represent Indiana in the Interstate oratorical contest, which will be heM at Notre Dame May 4 has announced a refusal to modify certain alleged anti-Catholic statements in his oration, "Gustavus Adolphus," to which "objection was made by Notre Dame University, he will be disqualified to represent Indiana at the interstate contest, and this State will be without a representative. This decision was reached by the executive board of the State Oratorical Association after it had been in session at the Denlson from 11 o'clock yesterday morning un

til 8 o'clock last night, with only a short recess for lunch at 2 o'clock. The colleges ; voting affirmatively . on the decision were Dutler, Franklin, . Hanover, Notre Dame and Wabash. Karlham and De Fauw did not vote. Feeger. when seen last night at Richmond, said: "I will not make any changes In my oration and have'abandoned any idea of taking xart in the contest. I still main-" tain that the oration-is historically correct and that the board had no right to take the action it dl!." The statements to which objection was taken by Notre Dame are alleged by the. representatives oS. the Roman Catholic institution to be contrary to the facts of history and derogatory to the Roman Catholic Church. As the oration will be delivered under the dome of the Catholic institution, with the speaker a guest of the school, the representative of Notre Dame was instructed to ask the State Oratorical Society's executive board to request the Earlham speaker to change his oration in such "a manner as to strikte out the objectionable phrases, otherwise the Catholic institution would feel forced to withdraw from its membership in the state society. J'EEGER APFEARS BEFORE BOARD. Yesterday's "meeting of the executive board of the State Oratorical Society, which is composed of delegates from' the oratorical associations of the schools that compose the Indiana association, was called at Notre Dame's refiiu-st to consider the 3uestion on Its merits and to reach a final erUlon. At thd xnoAilng bet,, Ion both sides of the controversy were prfsented by the representatives of the two schools interested, Notre Dame and Earlham. The latter school was as earnest In the presentation of Its side of the case as was Notre Dame, asserting that history supports the statements made in Mr. Feeger' s .oration. Mr. Feeger himself was in the city, arid appeared before the board, while Notre Dame's side of the question was. presented by P.. V. Kanaley. ' B. V. Kanaley, of Notre Dame, who' 13 vice president. of the Interstate Oratorical Association, attended a. meeting of the executive board of that organization in Chicago Friday, and said yesterday that he Was informed at that meeting that the Interstate organization will support the Indiana as- . soclation In any action which it might take In the matter. At the same time Mr. Kanaley stated that It should be understood that any action which has been taken by the Indiana association wad not governed by religious considerations, but purely by considerations of courtesy. At the afternoon session Mr. Kanaley pointed our. definitely the lines of the oration on "Gustavus Adolphus" that Notre Dame considered should be changed, and the balincv of the time until adjournment was taken up by the board "with marking the objectionable words and lines. The decision finally reached was in effect a compromise, concessions leing made tö both Karlham and Notre Dame. The parts of Aie oration stricken out .are inconsiderable. NO CHANGE IN MANUSCRIPT. The resolution adopted' by the board was moved by Paul C. Snyder, Hanover's representative, and seconded by Thomas D. Lyons. Notre Dame's representative. It holds that It is the decision of the board "that Mr? Feeger be disqualified to represent Indiana at the interstate contest unless he agreees by March 26 to modify statements which the oratorical board considers discourteous to Notre Dame, and which the board holds would not affect the effectiveness of the oration. "Provided, however, that Mr. Feeger be allowed to submit, the speech without changa to the Judges on manuscript, but to . make the changes for delivery; The statements to be modified to be selected and Indicated by the executive board, and a copy of the oration marked and sent to Mr. liege r." lt was moved that should Mr. Feeger refuse to make the changes required and would therefore be disqualified. De Pauw's representative, Manford C. Wright, who stood second in the state contest, should be elected to represent Indiana in the Interstate contest. This motion was objected to by De Pauw's representative, as It would seem to be reversing the decision of the judges in the state contest, and was voted down by the board on the ground that It would be establishing a dangerous precedent. ' , EARLHAM WILL-NOT OBJECT. It was finally decided that, should .Feeger refuse to speak on the terms of the board, Indiana must be without a representative ti the interstate contest. From this decision of the board there is no aneal and there Is absolutely no prospect of a reconsideration. The members of .the executive board of the Stpte Oratorical' Association, which met at the Denlson yesterday are A. Van Nuys, of Wabash, president; John S. Van Sant. cf De Pauw. secretary; Cloyd Goodnight, cj Cutler: Mark U. Miller, of Franklin: Faul Snyder, of Hanover; Clyde Kennedy, of Karlham, and Thomas D. Lyons, of Notre Dame. PRINTER ACCUSED OF EXPLODING A BOMB Anarchist Who Caused the Death of One Man and Injury of Others. LONDON. March 20. A dispatch from Brussels say the police believe that the explosion r.f a dynamite bomb in front of the residence of the commissioner of police it Lieg Friday mornir.g. resulting In the wrecking of the house, the killing of an artrMerj- otTicer and the serious wounding Of hah a dozen other jx-rsons. was the work of an Anarchic printer, whom they nav arretted. This printer recently distributed hand bills urging the murder of uourieoi in revenue for the. expulsion of Anarchists from Belgium.

DIES OF POISON TAKEN IN HER BREAKFAST Cincinnati Woman Victim of Mysterious Enemy -- Husband and Daughters Also Suffer. SERVANT IS ARRESTED CINCINNATI. O., March 13. --- Mrs. Daniel D. Bowdle, of Ludlow avenue, Clifton, this city, is dead and her husband and two daughters are seriously ill from a poison which the woman and attending physician says is arsenic and which was taken with a breakfast food this morning. The food was purchased in the original package at a nearby grocery and prepared by tho family cook, Agnes Massing, who has always had the implicit confidence of the family. The cook ate none of 'the food, neither did the younger daughter of the family and neither became ill. The cook has been under close questioning by the physician and the police. Before Mrs. Bowdle died she told the physician that she had a box of rough on rats in a certain place. Search revealed that it had. been removed and that it was nearly empty. Mrs. Bowdle said she had not removed it and that it was full when she last saw It. The cook expressed great grief over the calamity, and there is nothing in her conduct or her relations with the family to arouse suspicion against her. Mr. Bowdle has been declared out of danger, but the two daughters, Mrs. Mary Garde and Miss Katherine Bowdle, are in a critical condition. Agnes Massing, the servant girl, .was arrested on a charge of suspicion tonight. The girl is an orphan, whose home is at Gwendoline, near Celina. O., and has been employed by Mrs. Bowdle for three years. The police say the girl has been taken into custody merely as a precaution, and that they are positive that Mrs. Bowdle herseif prepared the breakfast food which contained the poison. Two vessels were found in the pantry which contained the food. One was poisoned for rats and the other was filled with good food. It is the theory of the police that Mrs. Bowdle by mistake took from the wrong vessel. NONUNION DRIVER IS KILLED BY STRIKERS Kansas City , Cabman Decoyed to His Death --- Two Other Drivers Beaten. KANSAS CITY, March 13. --- Albert Ferguson, a nonunion hackdrlver, was shot and mortally wounded today by one of four men, rrobably strikers, who had decoyed him into the outskirts of the city. The quartet escaped. Ferguson answered a call from a downtown hotel, where the four men, one dressed as a woman, entered the carriage. When they alighted later they attacked and .finally shot Ferguson. In another part of the city Andrew Myers, a nonunion hackdrlver, was badly beaten by strikers, and at still another point a hack driven by a strike breaker wa demolished by union men. No arrests were made. Judge Phillips, of the United States Court, tonight granted a temporary injunction against the strikers. Ii restrains the members of truck drivers' union from interfering in any way with the business of transfer companies. The Employers' Association tonight offered a reward of $1.000 for the arrest and conviction of persons responsible for acts of violence. GIRL REACHES SAFETY OVER LIVING BRIDGE New York Woman Is Rescued from Burning Building by Two Brave Men. NEW YORK. March 19. --- During a fire which broke out in the furniture storebouse of R. J. Homer & Co. in West Twenty fourth street today one man was badily burned and another was seriously injured by Jumping from a window. Annie Helwig, who was working alone ha the rear on the fourth floor of the building, was cut off from the stairway. Two employes carried her to a window and forming a living bridge, helped her to an adjacent building. The interror of the building, a seven-story structure, was burned out from the second story to the roof. The damage was placed at $50,000, covered ty insurance.

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" Only a bunch of violets That I plucked for you," Yesterday 1 had ten dollars And now I haven't a sou.

HEARST MANAGERS ARE AT WORK IN FIRST DISTRICT Scheming to Name the Delegates Who Will Be Sent to St. Louis Convention. MEETING AT EVANSVI LLE Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE, Jnd., March 13.-Hearst managers held a. conference here tonight in the hope of being able to form a plan by which they may be. able to control the national delegates from the First district. District leaders came to confer with Edgar L. Mains, of Zionsville, president of the State Jefferson League, and Bryan leaders of Evansvllle. The out-of-town representatives were Letoy G.L. Leffel, of Mount Vernon; L. N. Savage, of Rockport; T. H. Cunningham, of Princeton, and Thomas Dillon, of Petersburg. The plan of the state leaders is to try and force the unit rule and they will as far as possible. Organizers have been at work in the First district for some weeks past. California for Hearst. SAN FRANCISCO, March 10. ___ At a meeting of the Democratic state committee today it was decided to hold the state convention at Santa Cruz on May 16 to select delegates to the national Democratic convention. A resolution was passed declaring it to be the sense of the committee that tho delegation from this State to the national convention should cast votes for W. R. Hearst for President. Democrats for Parker. NEW YORK. March 19. ---- Democratic county conventions held In Orleans, Chemung and Cortland counties today to choose delegates to the state convention instructed their delegates to favor Judge Alton P. Parker, of this State, for the presidential nomination. MISS DYE ENDS HER LIFE AT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, March 19.___ Miss Annetta M. Dye, a linguist in the Bureau of Animal Industry and a daughter of the late General William McE. Dye, at one time military instructor to the Emperor of Korea and the Emperor's adviser, and also commander of the army of the Khedive of Egypt, committed suicide to-day by shooting. Grief over the death of. her mother is supposed, to have caused the act. Miss Dye was born in Iowa and was appointed from Illinois. ASKED COURT TO THWART HIS CHILD'S ELOPEMENT Father of Girl Says Forty-Year-Old Swain Forced Attentions Despite Protests. MARRIAGE NOW PLANNED That an elopement might be frustrated and that his thirteen-year-old daughter be deprived of the attentions of Homer Fitch, forty years old, David II. Horger, 2020 Miller street, yesterday appealed to Judgc Stubbs, of the Juvenile Court, to intervene. Horger, the father of the infant brideelect, says that Fitch is a divorced husband and since his separation from his wife he has been boarding ät Horger's home; that he has been asked to leave, but has always obstinately refused. The father says that a recent attempt to get the boarder to leave got him into trouble and finally in the workhouse, from where he is now out on parole. According to alleged plans Fitch and the little girl were to get married March 14 and were then to go to the workhouse, where the father and prospective father-in-law was and bid him good-bye, but owing to death in the girl's family the alleged elopement has evidently been postponed. Mr. Horger was Informed that the Juvenile Court had no jurisdiction over the man, but that probation officers would be sent to see the girl tomorrow. Mr. Thompson Has Double Pneumonia. WASHINGTON, March 10.-The condition of Representative Charles W. Thompson, of Alabama, who in suffering from double pneumonia, is reported by his physicians tonight to be extremely critical. Late this afternoon Dr. Osler, of Baltimore, was called into consultation.

ROOSEVELT-FAIRBANKS .. INDORSED. BY TEXARS Ticket That Would Please Republicans of the Tenth Congres1 sionaf District.

ACTION IN OTHER STATES AUSTIN, Tex.. March 19. The Tenth congressional district . Republican convention to-day adopted a resolution indorsing Roosevelt and Fairbanks for the Republican national" ticket. A speech scoring the "I-ily white" movement was loudly applauded. Dispatches to the Journal from other dis-i tricts in Texas and from Alabama and Mississippi say the delegates were instructed for Roosevelt. For Roosevelt and Statehood. LAS VEGAS, N. M., March 13. The Republican territorial convention to-day Indorsed the administration of President Roosevelt and passed the following resolution unanimously: "We favor and of right are entitled to statehood within the' boundary lines of our Territory as they now exist. We hereby express our confidence that the national administration and Congress will deal with us in the question of statehood fairly and justly." , , ' Following are the ' delegates elected and Instructed for Roosevelt: Governor Otero Territorial Auditor Sargent. II. O. Bursum, W. E. Dame, W. H. H. Llewellyn and D. J. Leahy. BBSSSSSBaSBBBBBBSBBSBBBSSSSBBSSaBBBBBSSIBIBSSBBB' AN DREI V CARNEGIE HAS ' GIVEN FIVE MILLIONS Philanthropist's Gift and Its Purposes Will Soon Be Formally Announced. NEW YORK, March- 19,-Andrew Carnegie has given another $5,000.000 for educational pxirposes, says the Globe to-day, the fact becomiug known just previous to Mr. Carnegie's sailing to-day for Europe. The formal announcement of the gift and its purposes will be made in a few days. In the meantime nothing' can be learned beyond the fact, that the gift is for educational purposes. It is said the gift Is for the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburg, as Mr. Carnegie had guaranteed practically " unlimited funds for the benefit, of the fine arts department of that institution. MASKED MEN LYNCH TWO MOESJB MURDER Storm a Jail, Take the Prisoners to a Railway Bridge and Hang Them. OUTCOME OF OLD CRIME CLEVELAND, Miss., March. 19.-A mob of masked men stormed the jail here last night and secured possession of Fayette Sawyer and Burke Harris, two negroes, charged with the murder of Sid Killum, a negro porter on a passenger train near Hushpuckna, during Christmas week. The prisoners were taken to the scene of the murder and hanged from the railroad bridge, where their lifeless bodies were found dangling to-day. USE TELEPHONE IN EFFECTING A ROBBERY Four Men Steal $1,000 at Cleveland While Confederate Talks to Cashier. CLEVELAND, O.. March 19. Four men entered the office of the W. J. Morgan Lithograph Company, corner of St. Clair and Wood streets, this afternoon and engaged the cashier, the only employe present, in a conversation. A moment later, while the. cashier was answering a telephone call, supposed to have been made by a confederate near by, the men secured about Jl.OuO from tho eafe and disappeared.

Hearing of Elkhart Financiers Half Over, and Defendants Will Introduce Testimony. Attorneys conducting the trial in Federal Court of Justus L. Brodrick, late president of the wrecked Indiana National Bank of Elkhart, do not expect to jconclude the case until rioar the end of this week. Although it was expected that -Rrodrlck's trial would .last but a week, the evidence is only half in. It was said last night by attorneys "that the case will be finished in all probability by Thursday evening. The trial of J. Walter Brown, who is indicted in sixty-three counts for having aided in the ruin of thd Elkhart bank, was set for to-morrow morning, but was postponed yesterday until a week from Monday. Only a half-day's session of court was held yesterday and adjournment was taken at noon In order to allow Juror Anderson to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Arthur Tlmberlake, who died Thursday evening. " District Attorney Kealing and his assistant, J. J. M. La Follette, who are conducting the prosecution of Brodrick, said yesterday that they have about a half-dozen more witnesses to introduce before their evidence will .be closed. The defense will then present evidence and a day or two will be given to arguments. BUSINESS ASSOCIATE ON STAND. G. W. Fredericks, vice president of the Elkhart Taper Company, was the new witness on the stand yesterday. Brodrick was treasurer of this company, whose notes and bonds figure so largely in the assets of the bank.- Former 'evidence showed that the Indebtedness of this company to the bank was over 50,000. ' Fredericks said that three months before the bank failed a bond Issue of $100,000 was authorized in the face of this gigantic indebtedness and the bonds placed in. the hands of J. L. Brodrick. After some prodding by the prosecution, Fredericks testified that a few days after the bank failed, $33,(0 of these bonds were placed in his hands by either Collins or Brodrick to be held in trust. He also stated that $20.000. of the. bonds are held by J. W. Kills, president of the Elkhart Paper Company, who is now4 In California, and that J. Walter Brown is the holder of HO,00 of the bond3 while $1,000 are in the hands of the defendants' attorney, Judjare Van Fleet. Of these-bonds, thirty-live were found In the bank by the receiver after the failure. They were carried as assets. It is now charged that $25,000 of the bonds were placed there on the morning of Nov. IS at 2 o'clock, the -day before the bank closed, by Brodrick, who abstracted at that time an equal amount of notes, including those of Charles H. Wright and W. E. Burris. MORE STOCK THAN MONEY. Fredericks's testimony also brought out "that In 1002 Brodrick,- in a rlan to increase the capital sfock of the paper company from $50,000 to $200,000, had issued to himself $33.000 of stock In exchange for a note of $9,000 executed by him. A similar transaction, Fredericks said, was made by Collins. Although the capital stock of the company was never increased, the two men held $G6.0r0 of stock. Daniel C. Thomas, former teller in the defunct bank, who is now the government's chief witness, was again on the stand yesterday morning, and gave minute testimony, by aid of the bank's books, to entries and accounts of the deposits and cash. Several other of Friday's witnesses were also recalled yesterday morning. One of them. Miss Emma Goard, an assistant bookkeeper of the bank, identified entries In the bank's books. The. court adjourned at noon, and will reconvene at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning. STEEL 'COMPANY WITH $100,000,000 CAPITAL SANDIEGO.. Cal.. March 19. Articles of incorporation of the Pacific Steel Company were filed to-day. The company Is capitalized at $lX,O00.ono, of which $50,(ioo,ooo, all the preferred stock, has already been subscribed. The directorate includes Charles W. French, of Cleveland, O., and California capitalists. The object .of the corporation Is snld to be the construction of warships, steamships, locomotives and cars and the making of armor plate. The contract for the construction of the steel plant, to cost $30,000,000, has been, awarded.

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ACCIDENTALLY

KILLED I COMPANION Albert Williams Is Fatally Shot by Clyde Windsor Near Greenfield. VICTIM AN EX-SOLDIER Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENFIELD, Ind., March 13. While duck-hunting ten miles south of this city this afternoon Albert Williams, aged twenty-three 3'ears. was accidentally shot and Instantly killed by Clyde Windsor, aged sixteen. Williams was climbing a fence, when Windsor attempted to lower the hammer of his gun and accidentally discharged the 'weapon,- the load of shot entering Williams's back and penetrating his heart. Young Windsor waded Brandywlne creek and ran ta a farmer's" house for aid, but it was useless. Windsor is frantic with grief: Williams served three years In the United States army, returning from the Philippines last summer. Ills dead body was brought to the home of his mother, .Mrs. Gecrge Coalclazier, in this city. VERDICT OF SUICIDE IN MRS. BOWLEN'S CASE After an Investigation Into the death of Mrs. Mary Bowlen, who died Aug. 13, Coroner Tutewiler yesterday returned a verdict of suicide. At the time of the woman's death Dr. John Gels investigated and returned a verdict of suicide. The neighbors of the woman believed she had been murdered and Coroner Tutewiler reopened tho case. "

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' WILL SJGHCAIE HERE Members of the Subcommittee Will . Meet in This City ToMorrow. BOTH SIDES JUBILANT Interstate Movement Intact for Two Years Features of the Agreement. For the purpose of signing the Joint wage scale according to the terms of the operators' compromise, a meeting of the subscale committee, consisting of two miners and two operators from each of the four competitive States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and western Pennsylvania, will be held to-morrow at the Claypool Hotel. The men who ' will represent the competitive miners .and operators in the conference are: Frank L. Bobbins and G. W. Schluederberg, of the Pennsylvania operators; Patrick Dolan and William Dodds, of the Pennsylvania miners. ' J. II. Winder and H. L. Chapman, of the Ohio operators; W. H. Haskins and D. H. Sullivan, of the Ohio miners. W. S. Bogle and James McClelland, of the Indiana operators; George Hargrove and William Wilson, of the Indiana miners. H. N. Taylor and W. F. Lukins, of the Illinois operators, and Thomas Reynolds and W. D. Ryan, of the Illinois miners. The new scale which will be signed by the miners and operators will embrace a reduction from the present minim; scale of 5.55 per cent., as set forth' In the ultimatum of the operators. This Is a reduction of one-half the Increase secured by the miners at their conference last year, or a reduction of 5 cents per ton on screen mining and 3 cents per ton on the run-of-mine. This will make the new scale approximately -as follows: Pennsylvania, Ohio and the block district of Indiana, lump coal, S5 cents per ton; Indiana bituminous, mine run, 52 cents per ton; Indiana bituminous, lump coal, S5 cents per ton; Illinois bituminous, mine run, with Danville as basic point. 52 cents. TWO YEARS' CONTRACT. One feature of the new scale is that It will be a twoyears contract, and will assure peace and amicable relations In the mining industry for that period of time. Heretofore' all contracts signed by the miners and operators have been for a term of -one year. The two-year contract was made a part of the operators' ultimatum, it being stated by them that a reduction could not be granted unless the contract was made for two years. Who will benefit directly by the two-year contract-depends upon the fluctuation of the country's markets. Should wages fall greatly within the coming year the miners will receive a benefit. Should another wave of prosperity arise, boosting wages abnormally, the benetit will be derived by the operators. The object, however, of the biennial contract is to assure peace in the mining fields. Since the result of the vote of the miners, taken lat Tuesday, has become known, hopes and good feeling among both operators and miners have taken a bound. Operators, wherever sen, have cxpresHl great admiration for the national officers and leaders of the United Mine Workers because of the thorough work done by them in keeping down a strike within their own ranks. It is conceded that the action of the miners is the greatest compliment that could bo paid themselves and the operators. Mr. Tenant, one of the larger operators; was passing through the city yesterday. "I think one of the wisest moves made by the mine workers' leaders," he said, "was in setting the date of the, vote two weveks in the future and thus giving the men in the mines time in which to think of the step they were about to take. The action of the miners has saved the interstate movement; which was so terribly staggered by the deadlock, and I believe that two years of peace will restore It to the confidence of men. It cannot be denied though that the confidence placed in it has been partially shattered by the blow. The action of the miners is a tribute to their officers and the mining industry." MITCHELL PLEASED. John Mitchell Is greatly pleased at the outcome of the vote. It even exceeded his expectations and greatest hopes. Both Vice President Lewis and Secretary Wilson are also greatly pleased at the result. D. H. Sullivan, vice preslde'nt of Ohio, who is In the city, Is greatly elated at the showing Ohio made in the vote. He said last night: "Our vote certainly shows that the miners of Ohio have absolute confidence In their leaders." In proportion to its members Ohio cast the largest-majority against the strike proposition. A good many mine . workers from Ohio will attend the meeting of the subscale committee to-morrow in view of the fact that the Ohio state conference of the United Mine Workers' executive board of District 6 will be held in Columbus next Wednesday to fix the dates of the subdistrict conferences with operators, when the more minute parts of the wage scale will be adJusted. Ohio is considered the most complex State In the' competitive field because of the different grades, of coal found In Its conflne. For this reason it is necessary that ech subdistrict shall hold a conference and fix its rates according to its grade of coal. Operators and miners are expected to begin arriving at the Claypool this evening. It Is not probable that they will be here longer than to-morrow night as the signing of the scale Id but a formal duty. SETH LOW MEETS KING IN THE ROMAN FORUM Visitors Inspect Vases Found yi Cornerstone of Emperor Domitian Statue. ROME, March 13.-King Victor Emmanuel visited the Forum to-day to Inspect vases which had Just been excavated, concealed in the cornerstone of the famous equestrian statue of Emperor Domitian. This discovery is sal J to be the greatest made In recent years. Among the visitors present was former Mayor S-lh Low. of New York, and Professor White, of Harvard University, to each e-f whom the King spoke In the most cordial manner. On leaving the Forum, his Majesty said:- "It is most gratifying that the Roman Forum has become the cen ter of attraction to. and the meeting pl;vv of, the scientists and thinkers of the w world."

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CHINESE NOW A MENACE

Celestial Troops in Large Force Near the Zone of Russian Military Operations. ST. PETEHMUHC. Mnroli 20. It 1 reported lie re that the YIndiotoW squadron I a hont tn effect n Junction with the Port Arthur Jleet. The Vladivostok squadron la nnv nuppourd to he somewhere oft the Ivorenn const. Clli:i:-FOO, Miireh 1Ü.-A prluil ÜMpatcli received lierr from .Mukden Mate that n hntlle linn tnkeu pine' on the Vnlii, In which the Itualiina claim to have captured l,0O prisoner. This rumor has not been-confirmed from any source. ST. rr.TKRSninfi,- March 1J. Itiislan troops continue to pour Into north Korea. They are in excellent condition. It Is said here that typhus fever is raginc among the Japanese forces. 3It:Knn, Mnrch 10.-S far, every(lilnur Is itile here. Lights can ho neon at sen nlalilly off Meu-Chv nie From Port Arthur the enemy's fleet can sometime lie sighted, showing that it is still near Port Arthur. RUSSIA'S SQUADRONS ' MAY EFFECT JUNCTION ST. PETERSBURG, March 13. 11:5$ p. m. The whereabouts of the Vladivostok squadron la a secret, but there arc thore who believe that the Japanese may wake up to find that the two divisions of Russia's Pacific squadron have effected a Juncture. The Admiralty and Vice Admiral Makaroff. before he left for the far East, regarded the- fact that the fleet was separaten! as unfortunate for Russia's chances of success at tea. Realizing that offensive naval operations are Impossible under i present conditions', It Is believed that no opportunity will bo neglected to Join forces even at considerable risk. , The report that seven Russian warships were sighted the other day off (lensan, Korea, creates much', speculation as ta whether they could be the vessels of tho cruiser division from Vladivostok undrr Captain Reltrenstein. The number of ships said to have been sighted docs not tally with that of the Vladivostok division, which properly consists of four fast cruisers and the transport Eena. It Is learned, however, that the outbreak of hostilities found two ships of th volunteer cruiser fleet at .Vladivostok, and there Is reas'on to believe th'at these have since been fitted out with guns Ttaken from shore' batteries. It Is. therefore, possible that the hhipj sighted were those of Captain Rcltzensteln, whose object, if he ventured so far soutli along the eastern poast of Korea; could hardly be anything except to slip Into Port Arthur. If this is true, it Is thought the squadron must have already run the gauntlet of the Korean strait and ba close to Tort Arthur. In accordance with personal orders from, the Czar, the English language is now taught to the imperial page corps. lessons began this week. Staff orders. Issued at Harbin, which hav Just arrived by mall, show that Chines troops have moved much further north than was supposed. . General Tin Cheng has concentrated 8,000 men at Bodune, 10-) miles southwest of Harbin; General Ma has lO.ooo men at Kauppantze, while another 5,000 are at Tsln-Mln-Tun, fifty miles west of Mukden, and 10,000 at Ichan, all points on the western border of the zone of Russian military operations. These orders ar also significant Inasmuch as they lay stress on the holding aloof of the Chinese officers In Manchuria, the civil gorernor at Mukden having forbidden, the Chinese to supply catth?, food or fodder to tho Russians. The Governor of Hal-tfheng. Just north of Nieu-Chwang, although administering the affairs of a town situated on the railroad. Is also said to have ordered the people not to accept Russian money, and. according to native reports, he is organizing Boxer bands. The" native Governor of Klrin has issued a proclamation enjoining the observance of the strictest neutrality, but he refused to withdraw the troops la the neighborhood until Imperatively ordered to do so by the Russian headquarters. The government has forWddea the transmission of all cipher messages thrcüghout Russia and abroad as a military measure. The report that the government has purchased tho German steamer Kaiser Friedrich III, which was built for the North German 'Lloyd line, but failed to meet th speed requirements, is untrue. The Czar to-day impeded a cartload of little comfcrts that had been collected and prepared by his daughters, the Grand Duchess 0!ga and the Grand Duchess Tatlana, and their playmates, for woundeJ Russian soldiers. His Majesty caused th children much delight by theMnterest he manifested in their work, which had been done In a rom in the winter palace. Later the Czar spent two hours in golnff over dispatches regarding the movement ol th troops and the plan cf campaign. ORDERS ISSUED BY VICEROY ALEXIEFR ST. PETERSBURG. March 13. The text of a staff order, published at Harbin, Manchuria, has Just been received in St. Petersburg. It ays Viceroy AlexiefT defines and limits the military operations In Manchuria as follows: "The line of . the Mongolian frontier to the Intersection of the Llao river, thence to Sln-Min-Tung. thence southwest along the railroad to KoupangTzc, thence southeast along the railroad to Kin-Kow." The army organ publishes an order of the day issued by Viceroy AVxleft threat-

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