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VOL. n SESSION OF THE FIFIY-OGHTH CONGRESS CLOSES JHGOOITHUHOB Minority Leader Williams Pays Tribute to the Speaker and the Latter Replies. MEMBERS SIXG SONGS After Mr. Cannon Announces Adjournment and File Slowly from the Hall. PRESIDENT AT CAPITOL Signs Bills While His Family Listens to Debate Hemenway 's Work as "Watchdog." Eprlal to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. April 2S. It Is universally conceded that not only has Congress sdjourned its long session earlier this year than at any time since the civil war days, tut the closing scenes were in better temIer and amid more Rood feeling than would naturally he. expected in the face of a presidential campaign. The Democratic minority played no politics in the closing hours," as they did at the end of the last Congress. The past few days have been given over to partisan discussions and the making of campaign literature, but except for the unseemly controversy between Representatives Dalzell and Cockran the line - up or the la t day's battles were pood natured. Moreover it was easily demonstrated to-day, in the character of the resolutions advanced by the' Democrats, tendering the thanks of the House to Speaker Cannon, that for once, In the later life of the popular legislative branch of government, there was a tone of sincerity In the resolutions, and the Democrats united with their Republican brethren In supporting the resolutions, with a manifest air of meaning what they said In the vote. It was one of the moat Interesting and notable demonstrations of its kind seen In the House in many years. Speaker Cannon has wou the hearts of the Democrats. In respect to the results of the special and first regular session of the present Congress it is particularly notable that the Republican majority in Congress and the administration have achieved a notable victory In being able to accomplish practically everything that was mapped out for the session. This is an admirable condition for the dominant party to be In while confronting the election of this year. A vast array of important and necessary legislation was enacted, much of It of special interest to many States. The chief work of the session, however, was the acquisition of the Panama canal and the passage .of the requisite legislation for making payment for the property and giving control on the canal xono of territory to the President of the United States This accomplished, the Republican leaders ad dressed themselves almost wholly to the work of recognizing the present condition of the federal treasury, which-. is depleted es a result or sweeping reductions in internal revenue taxation, by holding down to the lowest possible notch the aggregate appropriations during the session. In this- they were signally successful, and the only complaint the Democratic leaders have to make against the showing In this behalf Is that the Republicans were niggardly in making appropriations for river and harbor improvements and for public buildings. In respect to both of these matters the Republican leaders contend that am J"le provision has been made in the legisation of this and the last Congress. One of the principal accomplishments of the Republicans in the session which closed to-day was to keep appropriations within reason. And in this connection it is only fair to say that no man in the House contributed so much to this result as Representative James A. Hemenway, of Indiana, chairman of the House committee on appropriations. It is due to his good Judgment and excellent management that $50.OüO.000 was shaved off the estimates and that the appropriations at this session as compared with the preceding one were reduced about $20.0u0.0uu. Chairman Hemenway has performed his duties as the 'watch dog of the treasury" in such a manner as to call forth commendation from both sides of the House and without leaving any of those sore spots which usually follow the defeat of pet projects of individual members. . Indiana took a most important part in the deliberations of the session of Congress lust closed. Her senators were conspicuous In the work of the upper house, and in the , lower branch, by virtue of positions of com'jTiittee positions of the first rank, the voice Ol muiaim iias ueen nearu in connection With all the important legislation disposed of during the past six months. JOHN E. MONK. 'INCIDENTS OF THE CLOSING OF THE HOUSE Associated Press Dispatch. WASHINGTON. April 2S.-The second session' of the Fifty-eighth Congress adjourned at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The closing1 hours of the House were made notable by the demonstration which was voked by a resolution offered by Mr. Williams, the minority leader, testifying to the courtesy and Impartial manner in which ßoeaker Cannon had presided over the

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3 liouse. ine reaoiunon was noi or tne perfunctory kind, but was expressive of the i kindly feeling which men in the House of , all parties entertained toward him. In a graceful speech the speaker declared his appreciation of the resolution. Many conference reports were agreed to on bills i which had been in dispute between the two

houses. The only debate of any Importance 1 was on tlon to , who hi was on the bill providing for the restorathe Naval Academy of three cadets had been dismissed for hazing, the ( House voting overwhelmingly against it. The members, after the speaker announced final adjournment, joined in singing: pa- ' triotic airs and slowly nied out of the hall after shaking hands with the speakec and bidding him good-bye. j Mr. Williams prefaced the resolution of ir thanks to Speaker Cannon with the state'ment that in the exercise of a personal, though not a political parliament privilege that was very welcome, he desired to offer to the House and move the adoption of a resolution. "That resolution I will read tow," he said, and he read as follows, Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, in the meantime kaving taken the chair: "Resolved. That the House of Representatives return its thanks to its speaker, Hon. J. G. Cannon, of Illinois, for the fair and Impartial and able manner in which he has presided over its deliberations and for the sturdy common sense and Kintal good humor which have been displayed by him and which have induced the members of the House itself, in a degree almost unprecedented, in imitation of him. to display the same sterling American characteristics in their deliberations and mutual dealings." A PRETTY TRIBUTE. .Mr. William!", following the reading, which was punctuated with general applause, said that it was a great thing- to be speaker of the House of Commons of, the a r i.1t 1 , k a. . American jtepuimc, uui iaai u was a realer thing "not to perAilt the fact of 4COXTIX UD ON PAG 5. COL. 5.J

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Vi V. I i SENATOR WILLIAM B. ALLISON. TOTAL OF $781,574,629 APPROPRIATED BY THE C0HGRES8JÜST CLOSED Messrs. Hemenway and Allison Make Statements in Behalf of Republicans. CAUSE OF THE INCREASE Nearly $27,000,000 Due to Deficiencies, and Large Amounts Charged to Special Purposes. WASHINGTON. April 23. The Republican and Democratic views of appropriations made thus far by the Fifty-eighth Congress were presented to the House to-day by Chairman Hemenway. of the appropriations committee, and Representative Livingston, cf Georgia, the ranking Democratic side member of that committee. "Good Government Housekeeping" Is the caption chosen by Mr. Hemenway to represent his views. "A Congress That Has Done Nothing But Spend Money" is the heading of Mr. Livingston's summary. After reviewing the expenditures for the next financial year Mr. Hemenway concludes: "The expenditures of our government In their aggregate as exhibited by the appropriations of Congress are large and by unthinking persons and especially by misguided newspapers are denounced as extravagant, and yet, according to the very best authority, our national government Is the most economically administered of any in the civilized world." A table to substantiate this statement Is given, showing the per capita expenditures of the leading nations. The highest given is New Zealand, where the per capita expenditure is 530.3S, the lowest is the United States, with a per capita showing of $7.97. The total . appropriations made by this Congress aggregate, according to Mr. Hemenway, $781.574.629; of this sum $26,S01.843 was to pay deficiencies of prior fiscal years and $56,5uo,000 is set. aside for application to the sinking fund. This leaves the total appropriation for the expenses of the government for the year 1D06 $693,Z2,i6. Th3 total estimated revenues for this period are $701, 472,0)0, or an excess over appropriations or authorized expenditures of $6,199,2S4. Continuing, Mr. Hemenway said: "Experience has demonstrated that one year with another the actual expenditures of the government are about 5 per cent, less than the appropriations made by Congress; and, anticipating that the coming fiscal year will not prove an exception to this practically well established rule, it is safe to assume that the apparent surplus of revenues over expenditures will be augmented by not less than $35,000.000, thus affording a safe margin of at least $40,000,000 between revenues and expenditures with which to meet all legitimate deficiencies that may arise and that may have to be provided for next session and also affording a considerable sum to be devoted to the sinking fund." LIVINGSTON'S STATEMENT. Mr. Livingston in his statement compares the expenditures of Democratic Congresses with Republican Congresses and adds: "The appropriations fpr each of the fiscal years 1895 and 1S06 as made by a Democratic Congress do not materially conflict as will be seen, and the average only'$434, 619,602 for each year. The table also shows "the appropriations for federal expenditures made under a Republican administration by a Republican Congress for the next fiscal year have reached the startling sum of $7S1.5"4,629 or an increase of $2S6,955,OS7 over the average of the last two years under Democratic control and within a period of less than ten years. "I do not question the honesty of these vast appropriations, either in their aggregate amount or in their details; but I challenge the wisdom of the policy of the Republican party that has made these enormous expenditures necessary through the increase of the military and naval establishments, the maintenance of which is at the (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5, COL. 3.) MOTHER MAKES MISTAKE THAT COSTS TWO LIVES Woman Who Uses Gasoline for Kindling Is Dead and Child Is Dying. DOG KILLED IN HOUSE Sjxlal to th Indianapolis Journal. GOODLAND. Ind., April 2S.-Mrs. HerferHn was burned to death here this afternoon and a two-year-old child so badly burned that it will die. It is supposed that the woman mistaking gasoline for kerosene poured it on kindling which covered smoldering coals. The child was picked up In a dying condition in the yard, where it had ruu after the explosion, and the woman was found dead on the floor. The explosion was terrific, shattering the window glas3 and killing a dog In the room. . BANDMASTER TAKEN BACK INTO THE UNION William Weil Pays $1,000 and Agrees to Conform to Rules at World's Fair. ST. LOUIS. April 28. William Weil, official bandmaster of the world's fair, who was recently expelled hy the musicians' union, has paid a fine of $1,000, and by agreeing to conform strictly to union rules, has been reinstated as a member of the local union. Mr. Well also agreed to employ only St. Louis musicians In his World's Fair Band.

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F rnnii nnnnT rnu ntAnb Anuouunn ALL OVERTURES OF PEACE Midd!e-of-Roaders the Only Ones to Attend Populists' State Convention. INDIANA MAN TO LEAD Indorse Williams, of Vincenncs, for Presidency and Name National Delegates. TURN DOWN AGREEMENT Other Faction Fails to Appear at Meeting, but Given Places in Delegation. Creating so little stir In comparison with the great Republican gathering of the two days previous that their presence in the city was known to few people outside their own ranks, the Topulists of Indiana held a state convention yesterday at 11 o'clock, at the Hotel English, and named delegates at large and district delegates to the national convention, which will be held July 4, at Springfield, 111. Resolutions were adopted indorsing Samuel V. Williams, of Vincennes, for the nomination for President, and the delegates were instructed to do all In their power at Springfield to bring about his selection for the place at the head of the Populists national ticket. Mr. Williams was put at the head of the Indiana delegation to the national convention. The other delegates at large were: Fred J. S. Robinson. Cloverland; Adam P. Hanna, Waveland; Flavius J. Van Vorhis, Indianapolis; A. G. Burkhart. Tipton; John W.. George. Frankfort; H. J. Osborn. Veedersburg; Parker T. Brown, Whlteland; Robert Todd, Miami; Thomas Wads worth, Raglesville. DELEGATES ARE NAMED. The district delegates named were: . First district, S. M. Holcomb, Fort Branch; Second, W. B. Wolfe. Oaktown; Third. T. C. Zlnkans, Washington, and D. M. Litchlyter, Huntlngburg; Fourth, W. T. Carmichael, Walesboro; Fifth. Dr. 11. T. Knightly, Greencastle; Sixth, D. F. Boger, Shelbyville; Seventh, John Medert, Indianapolis; Eighth, W.' E. Hurley, Anderson; Ninth. W. B. Gill, Ladoga; Tenth. J. C. Smith, Monticello; Eleventh, William Smith, Logansport; Twelfth, Hiram Mains, Fort Wayne; Thirteenth, John Maugherman. South Bend. The convention was called as a joint convention of the Middle-of-the-road and FuElon wings of- the Populist party, but the Fusionists were conspicuous only by their absence, and there were strong Indications that the party can never be united along the line planned at the St. Louis conference that resulted in a joint call for the Springfield national convention. Several weeTks ago the leaders of the two wings of the "party in this State held a meeting, at which they ratified the St. Louis call and agreed to get together In the selection of delegates to the national convention. Yesterday's convention was called in pursuance of this agreement, but the Fusionists have apparently reconsidered their decision to join with the Middle-of-the-roaders. Fred J. S. Robinson, the chairman of the state organization of the Mlddle-cf-the-roaders, presided as chairman of the convention, while J. C. Smith. Monticello. the secretary of the state committee, was made the secretary of the convention. Adam P. Hanna. the state chairman of the Fusionists, was not present, nor were any of his followers. However, the Middle-of-the-roaders showed that they were acting in good faith in the proposition to get together, by placing several of the Fusionists on the delegation to th national convention. Mr. Hanna, John Medert, of this city, Hiram Mains, of the Twelfth district, and John Maugherman. of the Thirteenth, were among the Fusionists thus recognized. By this action the leaders of the other wing hope to forestall any move on the part of the Fusionists to send a delegation composed solely of their own men to Springfield. HEARST AFTER POPULISTS. It Is generally understood that the defection of the Fusionists is due to the work of the manipulators of W. R. Hearst's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Hearst, It Is said, hopes to capture the Populist national convention, and secure the presidential nomination by that party three days before the Democratic national convention is held in St. Louis. Such a coup would, his managers believe, make him a much stronger candidate for the Democratic nomination, for he could make the bid for the Democratic nomination then on the grounds that he was the only man who could bring the Populists to support the Democrats in the national campaign. The Fusionist wing of the Populists is eager to take up Hearst, but the Indiana leaders of the Middle-of-the-roaders say they will have none of him. They say further that if Hearst Is able to pack the Springfield convention and capture the nomination for President they will lead a TjCÖlsTINUED ON PAGE 2. COLTT) HIS-LIFE SAVED, DRUNKEN MAI! ASSMS RESCUER Man Pulled from Under Wheels o Fast Train Tries to Kill Flagman Who Saved Him. ATTACKS POLICEMAN After' a fierce struggle with Flagman William Rubenstein, who had Just saved him from being crushed under the wheels of a Lake Erie passenger train, Thomas Simms. 914 Fort Wayne avenue, tried to annihilate Blkeman Lowe and Bernauer, but was overcome and landed in Jail on a charge of drunkenness. Slmms was discovered on the Lake Erie tracks at Pine and Ohio streets by Rubenstein. A fast train was bearing down with the N-H clanging wildly. Simms paid no attention to the warning, and was Jerked off the- track by Rubenstein. who himself was struck by the train and slightly injured. Simms then attacked his preserver, but did no greater damage than to leave four long scratches down one side of bis face. The blkemen had been summoned, and arrived in time to be made targets for bricks and stones which Simms hurled in all directions. Several of the missiles nearly struck the men. Patrolman Miller took a hand in the fracas, and helped to load the prisoner into the patrol wagon. He was carted away yelling .that he only wanted to live long enough" to kill Lowe and Rubenstein. TWENTY KILLED OR WOUNDED IN A FIGHT SALONICA. Macedonia. April 28. A fight between Greeks and Bulgarians occurred April 25. Twenty men wero killed or wounded.

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KANSAS m MAN SLAIN BY A WESTERN "KILLER" Dick Malloy Second Victim of Burgoynefs Bullets Within Six Weeks. , SLAYER IS A POLITICIAN KANSAS CITY, April 28. Dick Malloy, a saloon keeper, was shot and killed to-day by William Burgoyne. Burgoyne is known as a "killer" to the police of many Western cities. Six weeks ago he shot and killed Fred Hunne'. a switchman, in a fight in this city, but was discharged at his preliminary hearing. Burgoyne is also known as a politician In St. Louis. Since coming to this city two years ago he has held several municipal positions. Burgoyne shot Malloy without warning, but the shooting was the renewal of a previous quarrel. HAYWOOD WILL NOT BE TAKEN TO TELLURIDE Warrant Charging Him with Desecrating the Flag Is Annulled. TELLURIDE, Col., April 28. Upon the order of District Attorney McClelland, the warrant Issued by Justice Lilley for the arrest of William D. Haywood, secretarytreasurer of the Western Federation of Miners, on the charge of desecrating the Hag was to-day annulled. This disposes of any attempt on the part of .the civil authorities to bring Haywood to Telluride. The action of the district attorney came as a surprise to the people, and no explanation has been offered. MANY SPANISH MINERS . ENTOMBED AT TOCINA Fifty Bodies Already Recovered from the Pit Ten Men Arc Taken Out Alive. MADRID, April 2S. The caving in of a coal mine at Tocine, Seville, to-day buried many miners. Fifty bodies have been recovered. Ten of the miners were rescued, but all of them are badly injured. DR. M'GEE BREADS RIB IN A COUCHING FIT ST. LOUIS. April 2S. While subject to a severe coughing spell In his office in the Anthropology building. Dr. McGee, chief of the anthropological department at the world's fair, strained a ligament in his left side, and, it is thought, fractured a rib. STATE SOLDIERS TO CAMP Oil UHCLESAM'S PROPERTY Fair Grounds .Too Small and Site Furnishes an Excellent Rifle Range. INSPECTION OF LAND Brigadier General McKee, Quartermaster General Perry, of the Indiana National Guard. Captain Cheatham, U. S. A., and General Manager A. L. Drum, of the Indiana Union Traction Company, will to-day ride over the new army post site for the purpose of considering the natural advantages of the place, with a view to holding the next state encampment of the I. N. G. there. The encampment will be in July. It Is said that the new post site offers exceptional advantages for carrying out various military maneuvers, and that the tpot is an ideal one for rifle practice. These things enter largely Into the consideration of a suitable place for the encampment, and General Perry Is of opinion that the site will be chosen. For the first time in years the guard will be given target practice. The fair grounds are too small to furnish a range for practice. ' SLAYS RIVAL AND . FLEES TO MOUNTAINS MIDDLESBORO, Ky., April 2S.-George Matthews killed Green Henderson in a quarrel over a young woman and fled to the mountains. Henderson Is prominently connected at Tazewell, Tenn,

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Now, All Together. E SHE HAD A "COMMAND I! Demented Woman Kills Child and Carries Corpse Home in Her Anns. CALMLY TELLS OF DEED Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSON VILLE, Ind., April 2S. Laboring under the hallucination that it was the Lord's command that she drown her ten-months-old baby. Clara Cooley, daughter of a well-known farm?r of this county, carried the little one a . distance of two miles to-day to the banks of Silver creek, where she carried out what she believed to be the divine instructions. After holding the infant under water until life was extinct she carried the tiny corpse in her arms to the home of Leonard Brown, where she calmly , related what she ha.d doie. Coroner Coots, of this city, was notified of the case. No attempt has been made to arrest the woman, as she Is believed to be demented and not responsible for her actions. She Is twenty-seven years old, and until this occurrence her sanity had never been questioned. THREE GENERALS SLAIN IN BATTLE Government Troops Sustained Heavy Losses in Recent Attack on Jiminez's Forces. ST. THOMAS, D. W. I., April 2S. A German steamship, which has arrived from Monte Christi, Santo Domingo, reports that 300 government troops were engaged in the recent attack on the Jiminez force at Guayacan. After a fierce battle the government troops were defeated. Their losses were forty-one killed and sixteen wounded. Generals Cabrera, Aroya and Luna were killed. Twelve of the Jiminez force were killed. j INCREASE IN NUMBER OF MICHIGAN MEN Official Figures of Registration This Year Show 3,957 Students Enrolled. ANN ARBOR, April 2S. The official figures of registration this year at the University of Michigan were given out tonight.' The total number of students enrolled is 3,957. as against 3,702 last rear The literary department has 1,422 stud'ents' the engineering 825, the medical 418 and the law department 865. the remaining students being scattered among the pharmacr, homeopathic and dental departments and the summer school. THIEVESTEAR UP CARPETS III A SEARCH FOR PLUNDER Woman . Returns Home to Find Negroes Ransacking Her House from Top to Bottom. STEAL A GOLD WATCH The home of Mrs. Georglanna Warfield. 1641 Yandes street, was completely ransacked by burglars last night, and a gold watch valued at $125 taken. Mrs. Warfield had been at a neeighbor's house, and returning home alone, saw a strange light inside. She made no noise, but stepping up to the front door, looked in to see two negroes prowling around, one of them carrying a lighted lamp In his hand. She called out for them to get out of her house, but they paid no attention to her, and continued their hunt for valuables. Not until Mrs. Warheld unlocked the front door and started to open it. did the thieves become frightened, and seek safety in flight. The house had been searched from top to bottom, trunks were opened, drawers pulled from bureaus and thrown upon the floor. Even the beds had been torn to pieces and scattered through the rooms. Shelves had been stripped. The thieves had even looked under the carpets. Entrance was effected at the back door, and it was here that the two men made their escape. Mrs. Warfield saw the burglars distinctly, and remembers havlnpr seen one of them before. She gave the olficers a good description, and they expect to land the men without difficulty. Blkemen Iowe and Bernauer investigated the case. and. from the description given, the district patrolmen arrested two men. Harry Wood, 1511 McGuflin street, and Leslie Stark. 1320 Yandes street, upon suspicion. Mrs. Warfield called at the Jail last night, but when the men were lined up before her they' were not the two wauled.

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MINERS HAVE NOT ENDED GREAT COLORADO STRIKE Reports from the West Denied by , Officials in Session Here. TO CONSIDER IT TO-DAY A report from Salt Lake City last night stating that a private dispatch had beeu received there to the effect that the executive board of the United Mine Workers of America, which is in session in this city, had decided to call off the strike in District 15, which Includes Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, caused general excitement throughout the country and especially In Indianapolis, where the newspaper offices were besieged with telegrams asking for confirmation of the news. However, the Salt Lake City dispatch proved to be unfounded. President Mitchell or Vice President Lewis could not be found last night, but G. W. rurcell, of Terre Haute, a member of the executive board, emphatically denied the story. After being shown the telegram Mr. Purcell said: "You can emphatically deny that report as it is entirely unfounded. The executive board has not even discussed the Colorado situation yet and will not come to It until 9 o'clock to-morrow morning. We will then take the situation under full consideration and our action will be in determining what our future policy in the strike will be. At this time no one can tell what our policy will be and that report is premature and entirely false." Throughout Colorado the greatest excitement prevailed last night as a result of the telegram. Papers from ail of the larger cities sent telegram after telegram to Indianapolis to know the truth of the report, which had spread like wildfire. Great interest is centered in the action of the executive board on . the present situation of the Colorado strike. LIBERALLY ENDOWED MUSIC CONSERVATORY New York to Have an Institution Founded by Wealthy Men. NEW YORK, April 28. New York Is to have a liberally endowed conservatory of music within a few months if nothing occurs to change present plans. James Loeb, a son of the late Solomon Loeb, it is announced, will give $500,000 as a nucleus 'of such an endowment, and ten of his friends, it is also understood, will each subscribe $50,000. Among those interested la ' the project is Andrew Carnegie, who is said to have offered to the conservatory the use of Carnegie Hall. The funds arising from interest on the endowment will be largely used for salaries, and they will be made sufficiently large to attract the best musical educators available. The new conservatory will not be a free school. The running expenses of the institution will be met from the tuition charged. TOLD WIFE OF CRIME TO MAKE HER OBEY Houston Claims He Boasted of Murder to Frighten Woman Who Accuses Him. CHICAGO, April 2S. Louis Houston today confessed to the police that he had told his wife he had committed a murder in Liggett, O., and that a man was now serving a life sentence In the Ohio penitentiary for the crime. Houston denies that the story is true, and says he told It to frighten his wife so that she would obey him. He said that his wife had taken the opportunity to get revenge because he had Caused her arrest on a charge of bisramv. The foimer Mrs. Houston is now Mrs. Frank Walcott, and she is under arrest with her second husband. They have been married less than a month. Mrs. Walcott denied that she was ever legally married to Houston and says he deceived her by having a friend perform a mock marriage ceremony. ESKIMOS SUCCUMB TO RAVAGES OF MEASLES All but Ten Families in the Mackenzie Basin Wiped Out. WINNIPEG. Man.. April 28. All Eskimos living In the Mackenzie basin, except ten families, have been killed by the ravages of measles, says the Dawson City News. Before the epidemic, there were forty orpfifty families with a total of 150 to 200 or more persons. The great ravages of the disease and the awful results are told by Bishop Breynat, who has Just reached Dawson by long and tedious Journeying from the south of Mackenzie.

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ON ItAILV.'AT TTIAINS F1V K CENTS. 21 JAPANESE PREFER LOOKER TO E BY Official Report on the Sinking of the Transport Kinshiu Maru by Torpedo Boats. OFFICERS AND THE CREW, Accept Terms and Are Saved, but Soldiers Stand by Their Colors to the Last. SHOTS AT PORT ARTHUR Japanese Torpedo Boats Wake Up Alexieff Rumor of Heavy Fighting on the Yalti. SHANGHAI, April 2t, 2 p. m It la reported here that the HnsMinn linT offered a. dinantrou repulne after tun clays fighting on the Ynlu river. The Japanese forces croimed the river and the Hnsaiana retreated. ST. rETCnsnillfi, April 20. The Olflclnl Messenger pnhllnhes n circular, iiinnl ly the ForrlRn ORlee to Rnmnlnn representative abroad, de elarlntc eateRorlenll y that Ituaata will not accept mediation to terminate the war, which, the circular declare, xrnm forced on her. Neither will Ilnia, it la declared, allow the Intervention of any power whatsoever In the Runwo-Japaneae ncjcot latloti nfter the war. LOXDOX, April 20. The Telegraph Tokio correspondent naaerta that the IlnHlan crnlsera slipped pant the Japanese squadron during a foK and regained the harbor of Vladivostok. This la the only additional news that has reached London concerning the Vladivostok squadron. ST. PETERS mm G, April 2S Two hundred Japanese soldiers, who refused to surrender, went down with the transport Kinshiu 3Iarn, which was snnk by. torpedo boats belonging? to the Vladivostok squadron. PORT ARTHUR. April 2S Japanese torpedo boats were slKhted at ltlO o'clock this morning, covered by a Japanese squadron. A few shots wee fired without damage, nfter which the Japanese ships disappeared southward. YESZEN'S REPORT ON SINKING OF TRANSPORT ST. PETERSBURG, April 2S.-Rus?ian torpedo boats belonging to the Vladivostok squadron sank a Japanese military transport, the Kinshiu Maru, of 4.00 tons, during the night of April 25, with all on board with the exception of . seventeen officers, twenty soldiers, sixty-five pf the crew and eighty-five coolie carriers. The others, 20) in number, who refused to surrender, were sent to the bottom of the sea. The official report of Rear Admiral Ycszcn to the Emperor Is as follows: "During the night of April 26 two Russian torpedo boats met at sea the Japanese military transport Kinshiu Maru of 4,000 tons, laden with rice and other military stores and about 1.WJ tons of coal. The transport was armed with four Hotchkiss guns of 47 millimetres. The Russians captured on board seventeen officers, twenty soldiers, eighty-five military carriers, or coolies, and sixty-five of the crew who surrendered. The remainder of the men who were to form a landing party and who were left without officers, obstinately refused to surrender or go on board a Russian cruiser. Furthermore, they were sent to the bottom with the transport." Admiral Yeszen also reports that besides the pinking of the Japanese steamer Goyo Maru at Won-San (Gen-Ban) April 25 the Russians sank at sea the same evening the Japanese steamer Nakamu Maru of 220 tons whose crew were saved. The satisfaction of the people of St. Petersburg at the exploits of the Vladivostok squadron is tempered with admiration for the bravery of the Japanese .oldlers who were on board the sunken transport Klnshiu Maru and who preferred to drown rather than to surrender. The Admiralty admits that the men acted heroically, but holds that Admiral Yeszen had no other alternative than to sink the transport, since he could not spare a prize crew or hamper his swift squadron with a slower steamer. It is pointed out that ths officers on board the Kinshiu Maru appreciated the situation by accepting . imprisonment rather than death. In the case of the smaller Japanese transport sunk by the torpedo boats at Won-San the crew were sent ashore because there was no accommodations for them on the torpedo boats. The crew of the Japanese steamer JCakamura Maru as well as the Japanese of the Kinshiu Maru who surrendered, have been taken to the Russian cruisers. The Admiralty here professes Ignorance as to the future plans of Admiral Yeszen. but it is believed he is in communication with Vladivostok by wireless telegraphy and la not likely to be surprised by the Japanese squadron sent to prevent his return. Was a Schooner of 5.000 Tons. TOKIO. April 2S. The Kinshiu Maru was a vessei of 5.000 tons, and belonged to th Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The vessel formerly ran between Japanes ports and Embajr. CZAR IS SAID TO BE WROTH AT YESZEN ST. PETERSBURG, April 23. 2:03 a. m. The operations of the Vladivostok squadron have revived the spirits of the people of St. Petersburg, who have been downcast since the destruction of the Petropavlovsk. and the consequent confinement of the remnant of the Port Arthur fleet to the harbor. The fact that the navy Is doing something of an offensive character appeals to the popular mind, which has been unable to appreciate the reason for the Inactivity of the fine ships of the Vladivostok squadron. It is generally recognized that Rear Admiral Yeszen cannot do more than frighten the Japanese and compel them to exercise greater care In their military movements, as the sinking of a few transports or even crullers can have no permanent effect on the result of the war. Moreover, he Is bound by his instructions not to risk his ships unduly, the intention being to ke-p them safe for an attack with the Baltic fleet whtn it arrives in the Pacific. 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