Ligonier Banner., Volume 39, Number 1, Ligonier, Noble County, 31 March 1904 — Page 6

cy g L.t - & The Ligonier Banner LIGONIER, = - -~ INDIANA. : MARCH... 1904 Sua. | on. | Tues, Wed, Thu. | Fri. | Sat. 1| 2| 38| 4| 5 6| 7| 8| 9|10(11|12(} 13|14(15/16;17|18/19 {|20|21|22 23“24 25|26 2712812913031 @ @ @N%h: Pad |{ Commnndér Peary will not start on his expedition to the north pole until the summer of 1905. . On account of the rigorous weather in that region it is thought the pole will keep until then.

Rev. William Shenk, an Indiana minister, will join a circus this spring, but the report that he goes as an equestrian is incorrect. Whatever may be said about his change of profession, he is not a backslider. = -

“I am glad to meet so famous a Russian,” said the czar. - “I am not a Russian, but a Pole,” said Paderewski. “Get out of the country,” said Nicholas, “and never come back any more!” And now Ignace Jan will give some benefit concerts for the Japs. . .

. Kiazirn Bey, governor of Jerusalem 2ud Palestine, has promised to come to the St. Louis world’s fair, but says it will be inconvenient for him to bring his 30 wives. In this respect he will confornr to the American custom. Qur polygam-. ists do not_take their wives with them when they travel. .

. How to prevent half of the 1,000,000 immigrants to the United States from settling in the cities of New York, Pennsvlvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey is the latest problem in immigration. To -scatter these newcomers to the west and south is one of the remledies proposed. fHoW to carry it out is not decided. = :

- Rus¢ia has dug up a prophet” who predicted the present. war, that the czar would go to battle, that he - (the prophet) would go with him, and that they “would rend the cloak from off England’s shoulders.” Wouldn’t it be well to look up the records and find out what the views of Mother Shipton were on this subject? 3

" The Canadian trappers -last fall predicted the severest winter for two generations, and they guessed right. Their forecast was based on the fact that the fur of lynx and fox was unusually long. This showed that additional protection was considered mnecessary by nature. TWhat is naturé, and how did nature know what was coming? And yet there are people who deny there isa Wisdom behind these things. ‘ Since the youthful “car barn bandits” of Chicago have given up hope of escaping the death penalty for their crimes they have been .seeking fame by confessing to a large number of murders. It is probable that they did not commit these crimes, but they are anxious to go down to history as bloodthirsty outlaws. It is a pitiful exhibition c¢f misdirected ambition and energy. : : 4 — ! ' The little republic of Panama does not propose to be burdened with a big military establishment. It offers for sale the two gunboats which constitute its navy and which in size and capacity rank about with an ordinary harbor tug, and it.has fixed its standing army at 250 ‘'officers and men—now . that the Colombian invading host of 100,000 has failed to materialize and the 900 who did show up have gone back to their cigarettes and their bullfights.

. The offers by Americans to fit out privateers under the Russian flag, to prey upon’' Japanese commerce, do not —reflect much credit upon fellow-citi-zens anxious to engage in such an enderprise. If there are any such—and St. Petersburg dispatches vouch .for the- fact—they were ignorant of Russia’s treaty obligations to discountenance .the prisateering practice. The czar’s governmyent was one of the sign--ers of the decraration of Paris of 1856 - by which this form of legalized piracy ‘i3 abolished fwrrever. :

A ministerial association in Michigan has asled congress to deprive Utah of her etatehood. Those ministers must be somewhat ignorant concerning the constitution of the United States. We may wish we had never admitted her; we may swear to be more careful whom we admit hereafter; but there is no constitutional warrant for putting a state_out of the union when it wants to stay in. Article 5 says: “No state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the sepate.” Is it likely that Utah will consent? :

In 1840 the total value of American exports was $123,668,000, or $7.25 per capita. For the fiscal year ended June 20 last the total value was $1,392,231,000, or $l7 per capita. The population has increased 470 per cent, and the exports over 1,000 per cent. The average American is a better wealth producer than his father or grandfather. The United States stands at the head of exporting countries. The united ‘kingdom is second with exports valued at $1,379,200,000; Germany third with $1,113,000,000; and France fourth with $820,000,000. i

There was a Smith family reunion at Salt Lake City on the oecasion of the return of President Smith, of the Mormon church, from Washington, where - he had been to testify in the Smoot case. President Smith was met and welcomed by his five wives and 32 out of his 42 children. A report says he kissed all his wives, iingering a little longer with one or two of them than with the _others; also that he waded in to greet all the children in like manner, but gave it up before he had made much of a score. Buf perhaps some of the “kids’ got away. ; - -

The I:nportant Happenings of a Week Briefly Told. IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION. All the Latest News of Interest from Washington, From the East, the : West and the South.’ THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES, * FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. ﬁsnmmary of Daily Proceeaings in the Seriate and House. | ‘On the 22d the senate spent the greater part of the time on the Indian appropriation bill. In the hguse outside of a few routine matters the entire day was devoted to further discussion of the post office appropriation bill. I On the 23d the senate further considered the Indian appropriation bill. Charles Dick, successor to the late Senator Hanna, of Ohio, took the oath of office. In the house the post office appropriation bill was further discussed. On the 24th the senate passed the Indian appropriation bill. In the house eight ‘pages of the post office appropriation bill were disposed of and the question of an investigation of the post of‘fice department was defeated. '~ FROM WASHINGTON. The Northern. Securities company’s new plan is announced as a stock dividend of 29 per cent. through the distribution of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern stocks held by their merger. ° The secretary of the interior announces that relentless war will be carried on against all persons guilty of land frauds. e

- The president, in a letter of instruction ito the Panama canal commissioners, directs that the work be pushed forward as rapidly as possible and with all the economy consistent with thoroughness.

One hundred and ninety-four delegates pledged to Roosevelt have thusfar been chosen to attend the national convention in Chicago. The president will press a- button at the white housé which will start the machinery of the St. Louis exposition on April 30. . :

With the latest news by wireless telegraph a daily newspaper is to be issued cn board all trans-Atlantic steamships, beginning in May. . A number_ of wealthy Japanese have arrived at Seattle, Wash., and will visit the principal centers of the United States to inspect industries and practical workings of the laws. 5 : THE EAST. . i In Brooklyn, N. Y., Christian Kirschoeffler, a boarding house keeper, shot and killed his four-year-old son, fatally wounded his wife and then committed suicide. Jealousy was the cause. At the age of 74 years Chapman Freeman, who represented the First district of Philadelphia in congress from 1874 to 1878, died in Strafford, Pa. In New York receivers for the business of D. J. Sully, the fallen cotton king, were appointed. In Lynn, Mass., 33 shoe manufacturers Jocked out their men because of a proposed strike. _ ’ At the age of 42 years A. J. Colborn, Jr., former national president of the Patriotic Order of Sons of America, died at his home in Scranton, Pa. April 12 New Jersey democrats will hold their state convention in Trenton. One of the last survivors of the Greely arctic relief expedition, George E. Yewell, died in Baltimore:;

. WEST AND SOUTH. In a battle between blacks and whites at St. Charles, Ark., three negroes were killed. : : In Keokuk, la., orders have been issued to open the United States-Des Moines Rapids canal for navigation on April 1. - 3 -San Miguel county, Col., after ten days of civil control, has been placed under martial law again to prevent armed bands of strikers from destroying property. : Fourth Nebraska district republicans have renominated E. H. Hinshaw for congress. ‘ At his home in Cincinnati Robert Allison, aged 74, pioneer type founder, dropped dead. . Republicans of the Twelfth Indiana district nominated Lieut. Gov. Newton W. Gilbert for congress. B The doors of the national bank .of Holderville, I. T., capitalized at $50,000, have been closed. :

Gen. Miles wants the national prohibition convention, set for June 29 at Indianapolis, postponed until conventions have been held by the republican arnd democratic parties. . :

Near Holdrege, Neb., prairie fires did great damage to property and caused the loss of three lives:

At the University of Michigan 58 freshmen formed an organization to secure revenge upon sophomores who caught and sheared them.

A cyclone created havoc in the suburbs of Chicago, causing the loss of at least three liv®s and great damage to property. o The republicans of the Second Indiana district have nominated John C. Cheney, of Sullivan, for congress. Charges against Judge Swayne, of the Florida district, were filed with the house committee by members appointed to investigate. 2 )

Robbers took $7OO in money and stamps from the post office at Piper City,

Gearge Kelch killed Isa Matthews because she refused to marry him and then killed himself near Georgetown, O. At Terre Haute, Ind., Jerry Duggins was convicted of the murder of Mrs. Sarah Ramsey ad her two children and sentenced to be hanged. J. L. Broderick, president of the wrecked Elkhart (Ind.) bank, ended his trial at Indianapolis by pleading guilty to embezzlement, .

- Soldiers were on guard in mining districts in Colorado where trouble is expected from striking miners. At Grand Rapids, Mich., six houses were completely wrecked and their inmates injured by a tornado. At Muskegon several buildings were unroofed.

Great damage was dohe by a storm which, swept the entire. southeastern section of Wisconsin. . . Rains checked the prairie fires at Holdrége (Neb.) and vicinity after a loss of property of $lOO,OOO. . Advices from North Dakota and Montana say snow has fallen to the depth of two feet. ' In Minneapolis 18 flour mills have shut down indefinitely, throwing thousands of people out of work. : FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Advices from Nagasaki sgy that great Japanese forces are massed for a landing at the mouth of the Tumen river for an invasion of Manchuria and an advance on the Russian base at Harbin. At the same time the columns north of Ping-Yang will attack the Yalu river line.

Germany and France fear that China will intervene in the war, and that negotiations are drawing gradually to a climax.

A report from Tokio says Port Arthur was blocked by the Japanese, who sank seven merchant steamersin tlie entrange @n the night of March. 22. The steamers were escorted by 16 Warships and 3,000 Japanese officérs and sailors volunteered for the expedition. Russia was making hurried plans to resist an attack at New-€hwang.. : The death of Sir Edwin Arnold, poet and orientalist, author of ‘“‘Light of Asia” and other notable poems, occurred in London, aged 72 years. - In London Queen Alexandra visited the Alexandra institution planned to afford the poor cheap meals, and dined with the factory workers'at a cost of nine cents. ’ LATER NEWS. In the senate on the 25th a resolution was adonted to consider whether an amendment to the rules concerning impeachment is desirable. In the house the. post office appropriation bill was further considered. : -

Prairie fires which have raged in Holt, Rock and Wheeler counties, in Nebraska, for two days were threatening a nudmber of small towns.

The worst blizzard of the season raged at Bismarck, N. D., and snowdrifts from three to six feet deep stopped busihess. ; Refusals of miners in joint.conference at Des Moines to arbitrate questions affecting the wage scale may cause a strike of 30,000 men. Forty of the largest factories in Grand Ranids, Mich., were cbliged to close because of a flcod, and thousands of men were out of work.

Engineer Edward French and Brakeman Frank E. Young, of Jackson, were scalded to death in a fweight wreck near Niles, Mich. ' A Russian officer was sentenced to penal servitude 25 years for selling military secrets to Japan.

Conservative estimates of the damage caused by the flooded rivers and creeks of lower Michigan, place the property loss at more than $1,000,000. Two lives have been lost.

The Pennsylvania Railroad company’s freight station at Twenty-ninth and Market streets, West Philadelphia, was «destroyed by fire, entailing a loss estimated at $35,000. : The empress dowager has' negatived a proposal made by Gen. Yuan Shi Kai and Gen. Ma that China conclude an open alliance with Japan in view of Russia's repeated violations of Chinese territory. - -

In the ranching country around Medicine Hat and Moosejaw, Manitoba, 40 per cent. of the cattle have been lost in the snow and will likely perish. “Jimmy” Britt was awarded a decision over “Young Corbett” in their San Francisco fight after they had battled full 20 rounds. Britt rallied in the last three rounds and won out. The house committee on judiciary, in recommending the impeachment of Judge Charles Swayne, charged him with being harsh, tyrannical, oppressive and uﬂnjust\iﬁ his decisions, and hints at corruption. b

Representatives of 200 educaticnal institutions of the middle states met in Chicago and regommended drastic rules to purify intercollegiate athletics. MINOR NEWS ITEMS. Moses B. Clements, of Portland, Me., left his entire fortune, $lOO,OOO, to charity. : e Ruel H. Fletcher, master of the Thorndike school, Cambridge, Mass., has just celebrated his fiftieth anniversary as a teacher. - Dr. P. T. Hale, of Owenshoro, Ky, has been elected president of "the Southwestern Baptist college, of Jackson, Tenn. i - R. S. Long, of Pittsburg, is one of the 36 survivors of the 616 delegates to the Philadelphia convention which nominated Fremont in 1856.

The battleship Illinois arrived at Néw York with a brick' and cement wall built in her stern to keep the water from entéring through a hole in her hull. ) ;

. Benjamin Wood Davis, of Cincinnati, willed $140,000 to various. institutions, but as the will was made less than a year ago the bequests are void. The newspaper libel law enacted by the legislature of Kansas of 1901 has been declared unconstitutional by the state supreme court. Japan is not in need of any foreign loan for the time being, home subscriptions and a raise in taxes being sufficient to prosecute the war for the present. : Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and Episcopalian clergymen in Chicago declare St. Patrick quite as much a member of their churches as of the Roman Catholic. s

On the steamer Lowther Castle, which arrived in Boston from the far east with a million-dollar .cargo, were two wild animals, a young lion’ and a hyena, for President Roosevelt from King Menelik, of Abyssinia. Marvin Shearer, a one-armed man in" Akron, 0., has made a clock which records hours in different cities, regis-~ ters changes in temperdature and hurlnld‘ity, and shows. historical pictures.

The previous high record of a winter’s snowfall in Chicago has been jsurpassed by nearly three inches for the present winter. Total fall for this season is 59.4 inches. :

Right Rev. Louis Maria Fink, bishop of Leavenworth diocese of the Catholic churech, died at his home at Kan~ sas City, Kan. : .

SEVEN SHIPS ARE - SUNK IN CHANNEL Japanese Said to Have Successfully Blocked Harbor at Port Arthur—Fierce Bombardment of the City, L

London, March 25.—The Daily Telegraph publishes ‘a dispat¢h from its Tokio correspondent under Thursday’s date which says: “On the night of March 22 the Japanese fleet renewed the attempt to bottle up Port Arthur: Sixteen warships escorted seven merchant steamers to the mouth of the harbor and under cover of the bombardment the steamers ran in and were sunk in desired positions. Three thousand Japanese officers and blue jackets volunteered for this duty. An official report is expected.” : Port Arthur Bombarded. St. Petersburg, March 23.—The emperor has received the following telegram from Viceroy Alexijeff: “Lieut. Gen. Stoessel reports that at midnight of March 21 Japanese torpedo boats were discovered by our searchlights. Our guard ships and fort batteries opened fire upon them, the firing lasting for 20 minutes. At four o’'clock in the morning the attack was renewed. At 6:30 o’clock in the morning four of the enemy’s ships appeared from the south, followed by the whole squadron of 11 ships and eight torpedo boats. Our squadron left the roadsted to meet the enemy. At nine o’clock the enémy’s battleships opened fire on Liaotishin, after which they took up a position behind the rocky eminence of Liaotishin and bombarded Port Arthur.” Five Killed. :

A later dispatch from the viceroy to the emperor says: ‘“According toa supplementary report from Lieut. Gen. Stoessel, the enemy’s fleet consisted of six battleships and 12 cruisers. About nine o’clock in the morning the fleet divided, the battleships and torpedo boats taking up a position between Liaotishin and Golubinaia bay (Pigeon bay), while the cruisers formed up in two divisions to the south and southeg#t of Port Arthur. At 9:20 the battleship Retvizan opened fire over the crest of Liaotishin against the enemy’s battleships, whichreplied by firing on the town. Meanwhile our fleet formed up in line in the outer rpadsted.- About 11 o’clock in the morning the cannonade slackened, and the Japanese fleet reuniting, drew off slowly to ° the southeast, and, at 12:30, had disappeared. During the bombardment five soldiers were killed angt nine were wounded. One soldier on"the shore was bruised.” - ® : Makaroff’s Report. Another telegram from Viceroy Alexieff to the emperor gives Vice Admiral Makaroff’s report as follows: “At midnight of March 21 £wo of the enemy’s torpedo boats approached the outer roadsted, but were discovered by the searchlights of the batteries and fired upon by the forts and by the gunboats Bobr and Otvazuy. They were obliged to retire. A second attack was made at four o’clock in the morning by three torpedo boats, which also were repulsed. At daybreak three detachments of the enemy’s fleet, consisting of six battleships, six armored cruisers, six second and third class cruisers and eight torpedo bodts, approached from all sides. At séven o’clotk our squadron commenced to leave the inner harbor, the cruisers leading with the Askold fiying my flag, at their head, and the battleships following. The enemy’s battleships approached Liaot*shin and fired 100 shells from their 12-inch guns at Port Arthur and 108 ghells at the environs of the town. Our shells, fired at a range of 80 cables, were well placed. About ten o’clock a Japanese battleship was struck by a shell and retired. We lost no men during the bombardment, which ceased at 11 o’clock, when the enemy’s ships reassembled and after passing along.the outer roadsted drew off without attacking our fleet.” Forces Ready to Move. London, March 24.—1 f to-day’s newspaper dispatches are reliable, the advance of the Japanese army northward may be expected soon. The Nagasaki ‘correspondent of the Express says the censorship allows hjm to state the war department now has completed all details for the movement of the main columns of invasion into Manchuria. It is stated a great force has been massed for an advance on Harbin, starting from the mouth of the Tumen river, below Possiet” bay. Heavy columns also are concentrated north of Ping-Yang for an offensive move on the Yalu river. The Tokio correspondent of the Daily Mail says he understands operations will begin about a week hence with an advance on the Yalu river.

Japs R.Eady to Invade Manchuria. .Nagasaki, March 25.—Japan has completed all details for the invasion of Manchuria. A great force has been massed, it is said, for an advance upon Harbin, starting from the mouth of the Tumen river below Possiet bay. . Many columns also have been concentrated north of Ping-Yang for an offensive movement against the line of the

Riot at Political Gathering. Salem, 111., March 24.—A riot marked the gathering of the republicans of Marign cdunty in convention here, during which delegates charged upon each other with uplifted chairs, and it was not until Deputy Sheriff Sim Cox drew a revolver and commanded ornder that peace was restored. Opened to Foreign Trade. Seoul, March 24.—An imperial edict has been issued, opening Yongampho to foreign trade. : Collides with Snowplow Train. Helena, Mont., March 25.—A GQGreat Northern passenger collided with a rotary snowpl_ow in. a deep cut near Browning Thursday. One passenger, Engineer Carroll, Brakeman Driscoil and the porter were injured. A wrecking train was sent to the scene. All trains are meeting with some difficulty owing to the strong wind which is drifting snow badly. & Gov. Cummins 111. ! Des Moines, la., March 25.—Gov. Cummins is suffering from a severe attack of pneumonia. The disease reached a critical stage Thursday. :

Yalu river. The foremost Japanese force in northern Korea occupies a a front from Anju toward Mokiosan, some 50 miles south of the Yalu. Japs Preparing to Land in China. St. Petersburg, March 25.—The war office is in receipt of persistent reports that the Japanese are nreparing to land on neutral Chinese territory, on the west coast of the Gulf of Liao-Tung, either at Tien-Kian-Cheng, in KinChau bay, or at Shan-Hai-Kwan. Although slow to believe that Japan deliberately . contemplates a violation of her pledge in respect to neutral Chinese territory, the reports received at the ministry of war are so specific that they compel consideration. Sets Patriotic Example. St. Petersburg, March 25.—The devotion of the young .empress to the work of the Red Cross society has aroused the enthusiastic admiration of the Russian people. She has thrown’ herself heart and soul into this work, even perconally assisting in the prep‘aration of bandages and other supplies for the sick and wounded. As-an evidence of the interest and activity of the empress, she started work at eight o’clock Thursday morning and did not stop until three o’clock in the afternoon, not even taking time for lunch. T Japf Land Troops. London, March 21.—Japan haslanded or attempted to land troops at Helena bay, half way between Port Arthur and Newchwang, and only six miles from the railroad. This news comes from St. Petersburg. Itis admitted thatthe Russian war department was startled by the intelligence. Russian troops are now being hurried to Fuchow, 22 miles south of Helena bay, to resist the expected landing. Newchwang is being hurriedIy placed in a positicn of defense, as a Japanese force is expected to land on the coast west of that city. Russians Deny Reported Victory. St.- Petersburg, March 21.—The reported Russian victory on the Yalu river, in which it was claimed 1,800 Japanese had been captured, frankly is declared to have been impossible. At military headquarters it is pointed out that to inflict such a crushing defeat on the Japanese the Russians would have had to have been numerically enormously superior to the enemy, which the Russians in Korea are not.

. May Effect Juncture. St. Petersburg, March 21.—The whereabouts of the Vladivostok squadron is a profound official secret, but there are those here who believe that the Japanese may wake up some morning to find that the two divisions of Russia’s Pacific squadron have effected a juncture. It is betraying no confidence to state that both the admiralty and Vice Admiral Makarofif, before he left for the far east, regarded the fact that the divisions were separated as most unfortunate for Russia’s chances of success-at sea. - Realizing that offensive naval operations are impossible under present conditions, it is believed that no opportunity will be neglected to repair this initial misfortune, even should it involve «considerable risk. : g ¢ Is Rejected. : London, March 26.—The Daily Telegraph prints a dispateqhr from its correspondent at Shanghai which says that the empress dowager has negatived a proposal made by Gen. Yuan Shi Kai and Gen. Ma that Cnina con~ clude an open alliance with Japan in view of Russia’s repeated violations of Chinese territory west of the Liao river. ) /| Expect Land Fighting. . Tokio, March 26.—1 t is the conviction among those who are well informed as to the situation that land fighting is immediately ‘pending. The government continues tb withhold all news of the movements of the army and fleet. ; . . Cossacks Chasing Japs. St. Petersburg, March 26.—Two divisions of Cossack .cavalry have been sent to intercept 8,000 Japanese infantry between Chasan, 30°miles southeast of Anju and Yangtok, in hope of capturing them before they can join the main army at Pingyang. New-Chwang, March 26.—The Russian official reports of the bombardment of Port Arthur by the Japanese fleet last Tuesday are substantially confirmed by a refugee from Port Arthur, who reports that the Russian gunners profited by the Japanese initiative and returned their fire over the Liaotoshin promontory. The refugee further states that more stringent restrictions on the merchants of Port Arthur are now exercised, rezdering entrance to and exit from the city almost impossible. Military and civil passes are no longer accepted. Seoul, March 26.-—Japanese scouts report that they have discovered that the Russian troops are south of the Yalu in much stronger force than was thought.

-Drowned While Bathing. Laredo, Tex., March 24.—Santiago de la Hoza,a newspaper man of Mexico City and a prominent member 6f the liberal party in the republic of Mexico, who had been stopping in Laredo for the past few wezks, was drowned in the Rio Grande river while bathing. i ~ Banker Dies. Mankato, Minn.,, March 24.—Stephen Lamm, president of the First national bank and one of the wealthiest citizens of Mankato, died Wednesday of paralysis. 2 Important Art Sale. New York, March 256.—Tw0 old masterpieces, a .Corot and a Diaz, have just been sold by dealers here to Ch2rles P, Taft, of Cincinnati, brother to the secretary of war. The price was approximately $llO,OOO and the sale represents one of the most important art transactions of recent years in this country, | Beneficial Rain. Salina, Kan., March 25.—The only rain of consequence in months fell throughout central Kansas Thursday, thoroughly soaking the ground. Wheat was badly in need of moisture. :

RACES AT WAR. Nine Negroes Said to Have Suffered " Death at Hands of Arkansas Mob. - De Witt, Ark., March 26.—A race war has been in pdogress at St. Charles, near here, for several days. Five negroes who had been arrested as a result of the race troubles were taken from the guards by a crowd of men and shot to death. The five victims were James Smith, Charley Smith, Mac Baldwin, Abe Bailey, Garrett Flood. Two more negroes implicated have been captured and it is thought they will be lynched. With the lynching of these five the news, heretofore suppressed, became public that four other blacks have been lynched. The authorities apparently are powerless to uphold the law.

The trouble gréw out of a quarrel between a white man named Searcy, his brather and two negroes, Herry and Walker Griffin. The negroes attacked the white men, and afterward knocked down Deputy Sheriff Kirkpatrick when he sought to arrest them. The negrees then gathered and defied the officers, declaring that ‘‘no white man could arrest them.” .Their demonstrations aroused the fears of the citizens of St. Charles, and they telephoned to this place for a posse to come and protect the town. b o

P. A. Douglass, deputy sheriff, went out with five men Wednesday morning. Constable” L. C. McNeeley went forward with a posse to capture the Griffin negroes. The constable met three negroes—Randall Flood, Will Baldwin and Will Madison—in the road. The negroes attempted to draw their pistols, but the posse fired, killing all three of them.

Thursday 16 men left this place for the scene of the trouble., Large crowds gathered in from Roe, Ethel and Clarendon. During the day, while the sheriff’s posse was searching for the Griffin negroes, they were fired upon by a negro named Aaron¢ Sinton from ‘ambush. Three of the posse were hit, but the sh6t used were small angd no serious damage resulted. The posse returned the fire and the negro was shot down. Several other shots were fired into him, killing him instantly. ; CONDITIONS HOPEFUL. Dun and Bradstreet Report: Better Trade Outlook, but Some Delay on Account of Labor.

New York, March 26.—R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade- says: “Little net change in trade conditions is noted for the past week. Storms and floods did much damage to property and threatened agricultural prospects at 'the start, but subsequently the weather improved and the outlook brightened. Spring trade is expanding, although still backward to some ' extent, and new labor controversies have added to the number of unemployed, despite an amicable arrangement of the sheet and tin plate scale. Building operations *would be vigorous if employers and wage earners could adjust differences. Inquiries for structural material are ot of proportion to new permits, which is probably due ‘to the fact that there is much resumption of postponed work. Railway earnihgs in three weeks o Mar¢h are only 1.4 per cent. smaller than a year ago, and far in excess of any preceding year. ‘Bradstreet’s says: “Better weather has helped fetail trade, theréby strengthening the tone of wholesale and jobbing business, hitherto rather pessimistic because of backward spring demand. " Distribution as a’/ whole, however, is not up to a year ago. Additional favorable features are.the unquestionably better winter wheat condition, due to general rains throughout the southwest, and evidences of further activity and strength in the iron and steel trades. Weather conditions also have allowed of increased outdoor activity, notably in building, but signs of increased tension in labor matters cofistitute a drawback at several large centers. -

CORBETT IS CONQUERED. Jimmie Britt Gets Decision Over {Champion at Close of TwentyRound Battle. San Francisco, Cal., March 26.—After 20 rounds of terrific fighting, Jimmy Britt, the California lightweight, Friday night received the decision over “Young” Corbett, of Denver, the featherweight champion of the world. The battle was fought before a crowd of 7,600 at Woodward’s pavilion, and was probably the hardest pugilistic struggle ever seen in this state. ' For .the first four rounds Corbett had a slight advantage ‘in hard milling, then Britt took a brace and for three rounds he had all the best of it, leading his supporters to think at one time in the seventh round that he was about to finish the champion. . The closing rounds saw a wonderful rally by Britt and he had so much the better of the milling in the last three rounds that Referee Graney gave him the decision. In the eighteenth round Britt had Corbett groggy and holding on. The scene during this round was one wonderful uproar. Britt’'s friends, who a few minutes before had been in despair, were mad with joy, and the shouting was tremendous.

Defense Begins Case. St. Louis, March 26.—The defense of United States Senator Joseph R. Burton, of Kansas, against the charge that he illegally accepted fees from the Rialto Grain and Securities company of St. Louis, was begun when the United States district court reconvened Friday. On motion of Judge Krum, senior counsel for the defense, and after much argument, the court ruled that as the third count in the indictment alleges practically the same charges as are made in the first, the third count be quashed. This leaves six counts against the defendant. i . An Important Decision. Madison, Wis.,, March 26.—Judge Dunwiddie decided in favor of Insurance Commissioner Host against the Equitable Life Assurance society, holding that under the Wisconsin law the company must gfstribute it§ surplus among policy-holders at least once every five years. Honor Accepted. : Winona, Minn., March 26.—President J. F'. Millspaugh, of the Winona normal, has accepted the election to the presidency of the Los Angeles normal, and will leave in July. !

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