Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 26, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 November 1894 — Page 2

tfbefibe bounty fjemoftat M. MoO. 8TOOP8, Editor tad Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. Pittsburgh is to adopt the St. Louis plan of transmitting mails between the main poet office and sub-stations by electric street cars. Tin Chinese government has allowed all steamers to carry cargoes of rice, but the permission came too late to prevent a winter famine. In consequence of the receipt of an urgent telegram from the czarina the prince and princess of Wales started for Livadia, on the Slst, traveling night and day. A special from Shanghai to the New York Herald says the young empress committed suicide. She was rebuked by the emperor, who slapped her face, whereupon she took poison. The national telegraph lines in Argentina have been placed under censorship owing to reports of troubles in the north provinces, where, it is alleged, the governors have been deposed. Dr. Robert E. Peterson, father of Mrs. George W. Childs, and at one time a partner of Mr. Childs in the book business, died of apoplexy at Asbury Park, N. J., on the 80th, aged 82 years. . Franklin Murphy, a wealthy manufacturer, the chairman of the republican state committee of New Jersey, has decided to become a candidate for United States senator against Sewell.

Failures throughout the United States during thg week ended the 2d, were 249. against 358 for the corresponding^ week last year. In Canada the failures were .50, against 28 last year. What appeared to be positive news of the loss of the ship Ivanhoe, which sailed out of Seattle, Wash., on September 28, coal-laden, for San Francisco, was received at Port Blakely on the 1st. The postmaster-general has issued a circular offering rewards for the detection, arrest and conviction of highway mail robbers and post office burglars during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895. . In the Vermont state senate on the 1st, Senator Hazen introduced a bill to incorporate the Nicaragua Co. for the purpose of building a canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific through Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The province of Quebec, Can., has revoked its stumpage dues on lumber exported from that province. Accordingly " lumber from Canada, by the terms of our new tariff, will come into the United States free. Gens. Wen and Yeh, who were recently disgraced for cowardice at Ping Yang, were reported, on the 1st, to have arrived at Tien-Tsin, but were afraid to proceed to Pekin because of' the anger of the emperor. The monthly treasury statement, issued on the 1st, shows a deficit for the month of October, just passed, of $13,680,858.58, and for the fiscal year to date of $15,000,000, as against $25,000,000 for the corresponding period last year. Alexander III., czar of all the Russias, died in Livadia, Greece, on the 1st, after a painful illness caused by a complication of diseases, surrounded by most of the members of his family, upon each of whom he bestowed his blessing. Thomas M‘ Latimer, an old established dry-goods merchant of Allegheny Ci|y, Pju, whose stock was seized by the sheriff, on the 3d, says that he did a business of $92,000 this year, yet, owing to the shrinkage ? in values, did not clear a dollar. The annual report of Dr. W. T. Harris, national commissioner of education, says that 23 per cent of the population attended school during some period of last year. The average period of attendance in the year, however, was only eighty-nine days for each pupil;

It was reported, on the 2d, that the British consulate at Callao, Peru, had been taken possession of by revolutionists and the consul made a prisoner, his wife and daughter killed and the consulate burned to the ground. ’Five British war ships were said to be hurrying to the scene. Thk post office department has declared to be fraudulent fifty-six companies at South Bend, Ind., engaged in selling prepared medicines. The department has also been informed of other companies located at Cairo, 111., engaged in this business, and is conducting an investigation. It was reported, on the 2d, that the prince and princess of Wales were summoned to Livadia to strengthen the hands of the czarina in her effort to control the young czar and prevent him from renouncing the throne, which, it'was said, he was desirous of doing and retiring on an annuity. A bio storm raged in the vicinity of Three Rivers, Can., on the night of the 81st. Five canal boats, loaded with lumber, and moored at the mouth of the Nioolet river, broke loose, and three of them are supposed to have sunk. The other two went aground opposite Three Rivers. Lumber was strewn all over the river. * It cost $2,399,502 to feed the army during the fiscal year ended June 80, 1894, according to the annual report just made to the secretary of war by Brig -Gen. John P. Hawkins, commissary general of subsistence. The other -expenses of the commissary department bring the total amount expended -during the vear up to 82,627,170

ClJBRENT TOPICS THE HEW8 IH BETET. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Honore Mkrciicr, ex-premier of Quebec, died, on the 30th, at Montreal, Can., after a long illness. Thomas Sharp was arrested at Johnson Springs. Vu., on the 39th, for poisoning his wife in Kentucky. A Kentucky officer caught Sharp as he was going to a mill with a turn of corn. Sharp had walked all the way from Kentucky to Goochland, where he had formerly lived. The town of Rising Sun, O., was totally destroyed by fire on . the 29th Rising Sun has a population of 1,500 and is the center of the oil operations in northwestern Ohio. The loss can not exceed $50,000. Bill Cook, the leader of the Missouri Pacific train robbers, sent a message, on the 30th, to Marshal Crump, of Fort Smith, Ark., that he was after his deputy marshals, only two hours behind them and expected to overhaul them soon. , ' Three men were killed in a wreck on the Beech Creek railroad near Clearfield. Ra., on the 29th, an examination of whose effects showed them to be a gang of burglars. They were otherwise unknown. The Zambesi, formerly a ‘Northern Pacific steamer, but recently purchased by some wealthy Japanese, ran into the Japanese war ship Tsubukan in Kobe harbor last month and sunk her.

The president has appointed James P. Willett, of Washington, postmaster of that city, to succeed Henry Sherwood, whose commission has expired. A new petroleum well has been tapped St Baku. Asiatic Russia, at a depth of seventy fathoms, which discharges 3,200 tons daily. Thirteen battalions of Hunanese troops left Han-Kow, on the 30th, for Chin-Kiang, whence they will proceed overland to Peking. At Fredericksburg, Va., Charles Searcy, the alleged Aquia Creek (Va.) train robber, was taken before Judge Fitzhugh for preliminary examination on the 30th. On the warrant being read, Searcy waived examination. The case was sent to the grand jury and Searcy was re-committed to jail. Col. Jacqves, the London agent of the American claimants of the Townley estates, who is in custody on charges of fraud, was again arraigned in the Bow-street police court on the 31st, and fully committed for trial. The members of the diplomatic corps in Buenos Ayres, representing the foreign monarchies have agreed not to attend the festivities of the 15th, the anniversary of the establishment of the Argentine republic. Two dynamite bombs, filled with scrap iron, weie exploded outside of two of the police stations in Milan, Italy on the 80th. The fronts of the buildings were wrecked,but, fortunate ly, no one was hurt. Seven persons were asphyxiated and another fatally injured hy jumping as the result of a fire in a New York tenement on the 30th. The emperor of China has summoned the viceroys, governors and other officials before him to learn why a small country like Japan cannot be exterminated. Fifteen inmates of an insane asylum at Doenkoeping, Sweden, were cremated in the burning of the institution on the 31st. The British steamer Tormes foundered off Pembroke, Wales, on the 80th, and fourteen of her crew were drowned. On the 1st President Cleveland issued his annual thanksgiving proclamation. In his annual, report to the secretary of war Gen. Flagler, chief of ordnance, makes a strong point on the insufficiency of the appropriations for arming and equipping the militia. He says there is an urgent demand from most states to have their arms changed for a later and better model. Two bobbers broke into a Polish residence at Mahanoy City, Pa., early on the morning of the 31st, and were attacked by two boarders, John Frank and Joseph Breniski. The robbers drew revolvers and commenced firing. Frank was shot through the left breast and mortally wounded. Breniski was shot in the leg.

XUAtl. VUni ]UCV/LA«II U1CU ttt 1JUU1L* ville, Ky., on the Slst, aged 63 years. Maj. McClarty was the founder of the Louisville clearinghouse, and was one of the best-known men in the financial circles of Kentucky.” He served in the confederate army as a soldier in the famous Orphan brigade. Fire in the shops of the Newburyport (Mass.) car factory, on the 81st, destroyed the large wooden structure. The flames communicated with the large five-story wooden shoe factory of Burly & Usher and it was burned. Several frame dwellings were also burned. The loss will probably exceed $80,000. A serious epidemic, pronounced by the physicians to be “continual malarial fever,” has broken out among the students of Wesleyan university, Middleton, Conn. Several students have been sent to their homes, and one case has developed into typhoid fever. Preston West, 94 years old, died, on the 31st, at his home in Charleston, Ind. He ranked as one of the bestknown turfmen in the country, and was the father of O. O. West, Sr., also well known in turf circles. Mr. West was a Kentuckian. An official examination shows that the Parthenon at Athens was seriously damaged by the earthquakes that occurred last spring. The structure is reported to be in a dangerous condition. Measures to restore it will be taken immediately. A notice was posted in the Lehigh Valley shops, at West Chester, Pa., on the 31st, informing the men that, commencing November 1, a reduction of 20 per cent, in their wages would be made. This is the third cut within a year. It is said! that the force now at work on the Gulebra branch of the Panama canal will soon be inu*-.ased to 1,000 men.

William Jollies and George Bttculand, miners, Vrere drowned, on the 31st, by a rush Of water from an old working, while they were cleaning up an old gangwajv in the mines of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Co., near Manticoke, Pa. The Sioux Indian murderer Two Sticks received his sentence at Deadwood, S. D., on the 31st, and will be hanged in that city on December 28. This will be the first time an Indian has been legally executed in the state. Charles Whjcinson, for five years assistant cashier of the First national bank at Huntington, W. Va., who was to have been married to the daughter of the cashier during the holidays, is said to be a defaulter to the amount of 910,000. Count Endo Stoi.bebq has been appointed Prussian minister of agriculture, domain and forests, to succeed Herr von Heiden-Cadow, whose resignation was announced on the 31st. Lbonabd F. LeChavaueb, one of the pioneer residents of Ocean Grove, N. J., and the owner of LeChavalier hotel at that place, died on the 1st, aged 75 years. Fifteen Thousand Japanese soldiers were reported, on the 1st, to be in China. The Japanese have placed three bridges across the Yalu river. Twenty boys celebrating Halloween halted in front of Mr. Haywood’s home in Independence, Mo., at midnight of the Slst Haywood raised a window and fired both barrels of a shotgun into the crowd, and five boys were dangerously wounded. Callus Mueller, for twenty-five years chief clerk of the Northern Illinois prison, and who introduced intc the prison the Bertillon system ol measurement of prisoners, shot himself through the heart on the 1st. The funeral of the late Premier Mercier took place at Montreal Can., on the 2d. The attendance was enormous, representatives being present from all parts of the dominion.

On the 2d, President Cleveland received a personal message from the new emperor of Russia announcing the death of his father and his succession to the throne. The post office at Pertti Amboy, N. J., was robbed of SI.700 in stamps and $400 in money on the night of the 1st. The safe was blown open and completely wrecked. The weekly statement of the Bank of France, issued on the 2d, shows an increase of 8,200,000 francs gold and a decrease of 2,240,000 francs silver. The Japanese were reported, on the 2d, has having taken a second fort at Port Arthur. The general attack was expected almost immediately. Twelve Russian war ships were at Che-Foo on the 2d. The English fleet, including more than twenty war ships, was mobilizing at Shanghai. The French cabinet met, on the 2d. and framed a message of sympathy tc be forwarded to Emperor Xicholas II. of Russia. Sii men were frightfully injured by the fall of a scaffold in the Erie railroad train-shed at Jersey City, N. J.. on the 2d. They were painting tht iron trusses and fell a distance of fifty' feet. One of the injured men died soot after being taken to the hospital. Joe and Patsy Beck, two of tht Cook gang of outlaws terrorizing tht Indian territory, went into Oklahoma, on the 2d, to steal fresh mounts and were captured by a posse of citizens of Cushing. Both were in the Rc4 Rock train robbery and Chandler banl raid, and have been notorious desperadoes for years. LATE NEWS ITEMS.

This ctmtupluu cyclist, ArtHur Zimmerman. has sailed from Genoa, Italy, for New York on the Augusta Victoria. Zimmerman left America on May 8 for Paris. He has ridden in thirty races abroad and has won about $30,000, holding the championship of France and Italy. Thk weekly statement of the New York associated banks shows the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $4,660,635; loans, increase, $1,129,300; specie, decrease, $171,000; legal tenders, decrease, $387,200; deposits, increase, $809,700; circulation, decrease, $101,900 The annual report of the third assistant postmaster-general shows that the postal revenues from all sources for the year ended June 80, 1894, were $75,080,479, and that the total expenditures were $84,834,414, an increase of expenditures over receipts of $9,343,985. M. Fkkriter, a contractor, and Paul Grant got into a political discussion on the street in Richmond, Va., on the 3d, which ended in Ferriter striking Grant two light blows in the face with his fist Grant sank to the pavement and died in a few minutes. Philip A. Hoyne, of Chicago, a United States commissioner, who had been suffering from dropsy and kidney complaint for two weeks, died at 3 a.m. on the 3d. He was 70 years old, and had been a resident of Chicago, for more than fifty years. A bomb was exploded, at midnight of the 4th, in front of the house in west London occupied by Reginald Brett, son of Lord Esher. Though the door was shattered and the windows were blown to powder, no one was injured. Advices received at Yokohama, on the 4th, describe the capture of Kinchow, a garrisoned walled city, by the Japanese, under Field Marshal Oymia, simultaneously with the taking of Talienwan by the Japanese fleet. Duncan H. Campbell, whose inventions have revolutionized shoe manufacturing in this country, died in Pawtucket, R. I., on the 3d. He was born in Scotland in 1838, and was brought to this country when 8 years old. A special cable from Kiel, Germany, to the New York Herald says: Enke’s comet, on its return, has been discovered by Prof. Cerulli, at Teramo. The comet is very faint. On the 3d the associated banks of New York held $63,304,375 in excess of the requirements of the 25-per-oent. rule. Frederick Lovejoy, vice-president and general manager of the Adams Express Co., died in New York on the 3d.

OVER THE STATE. News Briefly Told from Various Towns in Indiana. Mrs. Cougar RmIcHmL Marion, Ind, Nor. 1.—The attendance at the state suffrage convention Wednesday was declared the best that it has ever been. Addresses were made by Abraham Corelli, of Mount Lebanon, Syria, and Charleton Edholm, of Chicago. The resolutions adopted congratulate the men of Kentucky upon the defeat of Congressman Breckinridge and demand the right to vote in presidential and municipal elections, and pledge support to Mrs. Gougar in the test case which is to be brought after the attempt to vote next Tuesday. The following officers were elected: President, Mrs. Helen M. Gougar. of Lafayette, who has filled this office for seventeen consecutive years; vice president, Mrs. Mary G Hay, Indianapolis; treasurer. Dr. M- A. Jessup, Friendswood; secretary, Mrs Iva Wooden. Indisnapolis: executive committee. Mrs. Caroline Hodgkin. Richmond: Mrs. M A. Tompkins, Elkhart; Mrs. Sylvester Johnson, ■ Irvington, and Mrs. Iaabella Saylor. Huntington; legislative committee, Mrs. Helen Gougar and Miss Mary Hay. The convention adjourned in the evening. Addresses were made by Mrs. Gougar and Miss Henrietta G. Moore. Big Banks Consolidate. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 1.— The Meridian national bank and the Merchants’ national bank, two of the oldest financial institutions in the city, were consolidated Wednesday. The name of the Merchants’ national bank will be retained. John P. Frenzel, of the Merchants' national bank, was elected president of the new bank, and Otto N. Frenzel vice president and A. F. Kopp and Oscar N. Frenzel cashiers. The capital stock is to be $1,000,000, of which $300,000 is to go to the stockholders of the Meridian national and $400,000 to the Merchants* national. The balance is offered for subscription. The deposits of the two banks, according to the last statement, amounted to $3,800,000.

Last Of Thru*. Columbus, Ind.,Nov. 1.—Dr. Orpheus Haines, 84 years old, near W hite Sul- ! phur Spring’s, is dead. He is the last of the three men charged with the custody of Martin Reeves, a horsethief who was arrested during the early ’60s and sent to Leavenworth. His captors started with him, but afterward returned and reported the prisoner had escaped. Although this was doubted no inquiries were made and no one cared. A few days before his death the old man said the thief was shot and the body buried in the Shepard graveyard in the woods. 5 Ask for a Pardon. Columbus, Ind., Nov, 1.—A strong petition was recently presented to Gov. Matthews asking him to pardon William Schreiber, sentenced to fourteen years in state prison at Jeffersonville, October 27, 1890, for robbing the First national bank of this city of over 8100,000 cash and securities and fleeing to Canada Thanksgiving eve, 1888, after close of business, he being the confidential clerk. A special agent was sent here to feel the public pulse on the question. Schreiber is slowly dying of disease. Boon for Glass Manufacturers. Anderson, Ind., Nov. 1.—A big glass sand deposit was found in this county Wednesday on James Ford’s farm in Stony Creek township. It covers several Lores, and it is estimated that it will furnish all of the Indiana glass houses with material for ten years. It is a great find for Indiana manufacturers, who have in the past been greatly handicapped by having to ship sand for 200 miles. The sifting was a great loss. The sand is of a superior grade, and will make the finest glass. Died of Rheumatism. Greexsbubq, Ind., Nov. 1.—James Hart, one of the most prominent citisens of this place, died Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock of muscular rheumatism. Fifty years ago he commenced life as a poor boy and worked his way to wealth and distinction. He was a trustee of the Third national bank of this city and gave a hearty support to all public enterprises.

Women Arrostea tor spite. Columbus, Ind., Nut. 1.—Misses Delia Farley, of this city, and Josie Duval, of Indianapolis; were arrested at Nashville, Brown county, Wednesday morning, and placed under $50 bond for disturbing the religious services at the M. R church in that place Sunday night The affair has created a profound sensation, as both women are highly connected. The arrest was the result of spite work. Crock Facers Matched. Logan sport, Ind., Nov. 1.—A match for $1,000 a side and all' the gate receipts has been arranged between Coleridge, 2:09%, and Reward J., 2:10, two of Indiana’s best pacers, both owned in this county. The match will be decided at the driving park in this city next Wednesday. At a Barbecue. Peru. Ind., Nov. 1.—Gen. Black and Senators Voorhees and Turrie were among the speakers at the democratic barbecue and clambake in this city on Weenesday. Fear Foul Flax. Anderson, Ind., Nov. 1.—George Collier, a well-to-do citizen of this city, is missing, and it is feared he has met with foul play. . , Died Suddenly. Fort Watns, Ind., Nov. 1.—Mrs. A. CL Harper, of this city, died suddenly at Fremont, O., Wednesday of heart disease. __ Coetly to Utah Territory. Washington, D. C., Nov. 1.—The annual report of Gov. Caleb W. West, of Utah, charges the Southern Pacifio railroad with being responsible for dumping the California industrial army upon the people of Utah. He says the expense for the maintenance of Kelly and his men was about $3,000, and unless the territory is reimbursed it will fue the Southern Pacific company.

OFFICIAL REPORTS T Of Third Assistant Postmaster-General Crain and tlw Judge Advocate General— The Poet Office Department Over Nine Millions of Dollars Short of Betas Self* Supporting—Coarte-Bfmrttal Daring the Washington, Nov. 4.—The annual report of the third assistant posmastergeneral has been made to the postmas-ter-general. It shows that the postal revenues from all sources for the year ended June SO, 1894, was $75,080,479, and that the total expenditure was $84,324,414, an excess of expenditures over receipts of $9,243,935. The total number of special delivery letters mailed was 3,435,970, and the net profits of the system amounted to $82,487. The number of letters and parcels registered during the year at all post offices was 15,050,554. The losses during the year averaged about one to every 16,300 pieces. In the issues of stamps, stamped envelopes and postal cards, there was a considerable falling off. The total issues numbered 3,668,819,014 pieces, of the value of $70,239,910.65. The postage on second-class matter amounted to $3,547,903.06. The total weight of this matter, including that part of it which by law is mailed free, was 299,753,301 pounds. “ «The total saving on the several contracts for stamped paper, as compared with previous arrangements, during the periods the contracts severally run, is shown to be about as follows: On postage stamps, $275,000; on stamped envelopes, $906,000; on postal cards, $262,000. Total saving, $2,443,000. The number of newspapers and periodicals admitted to the mails during the year was 6.003, of which 4,604 were new publications.

Military Jurisprudence. Washington, Nov. .—The annual report of Col. Lieber, acting judge ad-vocate-general of the army, shows that during the year six commissioned officers were tried. The record in four of these causes were sent to the president for action and two of them were settled in the - department. Seven cadets of the military academy, 2,173 enlisted men and three military convicts were tried by general court-mar-tial, making a total of 2, ISO trials by general courts-martial, against 2,11)8 for the year 1893, a decrease of nine cases in favor of the year 1894. The number of trials by inferior courts-martial for this year was 15,086, against 14,188 for the year 1893, an increase of 98 this year. Of the 15,086 there were 880 ih the department of California; 2,103 in the department of Colorado; 925 in the department the of Columbia; 3,429 in the department of the east; 1,99? in the department of Dakota; 1,978 in the department of the Missouri; 1,778 in the department of the Platte; 1,077 in the department of Texas, and 933 at posts not in these departments. Of these trials 529 were for conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, 518 for desertion and 896 for absence without leave, and the remainder for violations of the various articles of war. Col. Lieber makes no recommendations whatever._ ROASTED CADAVERS. Ghuatly Consequences of s Fire at Indianapolis, Ind., lu the Iudiaua Medical College—The ^Scottish Kite Building. With All Its Costly Masonic Paraphernalia, Recently Purchased, Also Helped Feed the Flames. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 4.—At 8:30 o'clock a. m. fire started in the building occupied by the Indiana medical college, at the comer of South Pennsylvania and Maryland streets. In a few minutes the whole building was in flames, and the efforts of the fire department to head them off were without avail. The fire quickly spread to the Scottish Rite building adjoining, where THU FINE8T MASONIC PARAPHERNALIA in the west was reduced to ashes. This outfit had but recently been purchased, and the estimated loss to the masons by reason of its destruction, together with the five-story building and all the other contents, will reach $100,000. The Indianapolis Gas Co.’s offices occupied the ground floor of the corner building, the medical college having the two floors above. Every section of this structure was leveled to the ground and . ,

A GHASTLY FEATURE OF THE .DISASTER was the fact that eighteen bodies stored in vats for dissecting purposes »were burned to a crisp. The stench of burn* ing human flesh was nauseating. The bones of the cadavers dropped into the cellar and presented a sickly spectacle. The fire was still burning at nine o’clock. The total loss is about $175,000, and the insurance, exclusive of that on coutents, $60,000. RUMOR OP A MAR BURRED. Persons who witnessed the fire say that a man appeared at one of the upper windows of the medical college building, and that he went down with the roof and floors when they collapsed and tumbled into the basement. At 10 o’clock, however, the body had not been found, and if it should be, it i& very doubtful whether it could be discerned from the charred bodies of the eighteen cadavers that went down with the ruins at the same time. No missing men have been reported, and it. is hardly believed that any lives were lost. __ Snow la Michigan. Calumet, Mich., Nov. 4.—A heavy snow-storm prevailed throughout nearly the entire upper peninsula Friday. Snow on a level is now 3 inches deep. LAMENTABLE FAILURE Of George W. Irwin A Co., Descrettonarp Pool Operators, at Pittsburgh, Pa. Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 4.—The lamentable failure of George W. Irwin & Co., the big discretionary pool operators, has spread consternation among the depositors of the firm and filled the hearts of the other pool men with dismay," The failure is the most disastrous of any that has occurred, inasmuch as the number of persons concerned is infinitely larger than the investors with all the other no^- »»t together

HEAVY FIGHTING la the Coutrj Jut North of Port Arthur^ la Which the Japanese Wla Again— Kinchow, a Walled Town. Cnpltnlates After a Pow Honrs of Vigorous Attack—Tallenwan Captured by tha Japanese FleetGreat Rejoicing. Yokohama, Nor. 4.—Advices received here from the front show that there has been heavy fighting in the. country just north of Port Arthur. The dispatches received are brief atai^ are silent on some important points. It appears that Field Marshal Oymia. divided his forces. While one division landed on the east coast of the peninsula north of Talienwan, another division was detached, with orders to effect a landing near Klnchow and to ' proceed thence and join the main body of the army. This operation was a complete success. The Japanese encountered no Chinese war ships, and the transports reached Kayenko and disembarked . troops, guns, horses and munitions in safety. Kinchow, which is a walled town, and which was believed to he held by a large garrison, was immediately attacked. The outer defenses were carried by the Japanese after a few hours’ fighting The Chinese made little further resistance, and the Japanese were soon masters of the placeYesterday was the sixty-second an- % niversary of the birth of the Mikado. There was great public rejoicing over the victories thus far won by the Japanese army.

Up to the tune of sending' this dispatch there has been no confirmation of the report of the capture of Port Arthur. “*■ A dispatch to the Times from TienTsin saj’s: Fen Haun Chen, has been burned. The Chinese defense of Moukden has collapsed. Cold weather has commenced and $now has fallen in Manchuria. The Japanese cleverly landed at Pitzwo while making a demonstration off the coast of'Shantung and cut the wires, thus preventing the news of their position reaching the Chinese. The admiral of the Chinese fleet with fourteen vessels besides torpedoe boats, afterw&gds started to attack them but wj*|j®vecalled. Prince Kung, the emperor's uncle, has been appointed dictator, thus indicating the further centralization of authority. The Manchu princes favor reforms, but . the Chinese oppose them. COSTLY-FLAMES. Six Firemen Injured During • Conflagration ;at Louisville, Ky. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 5.—Six firemen were hurt, two probably fatally, by falling walls during a fire that originated in the store of the Singer Manufacturing Co., 552 Fourth street, yesterday afternoon. Their names are: Valentine Riehl, captain truck No. 2, head crushed, may die; James Mannix, pipeman engine No. 3, left leg broken and internally injured, may die; Edward Riehl, ladderman truck No. 2, hip, arm and shoulder badly bruised; John Morton, captain engine No. 3, bruised about head and body; John Cline, pipeman engine No. 3, bruised about head and body; Fillmore Tyson, assistant chief, slightly inured. The losses by fire and water will amount to 561,000, divided as follows: Singer Manufacturing Co.,, $30,000; T. E. Lindsay, paintings and moldings, $10,000; D. E. Shoup, $10,000; Avenue theater, $1,000; building, $8,000, other tenants of No. 552, $2000. Insurance, $30,000. The stage of the Avenue theater was filled with smoke, but the matinee audience was dismissed without disorder. _ S>. Two fireman Injured In San Francisco. San Fkancisco, Nov. 5.—Fire yesterday morning destroyed the two-story brick structure. 432 to 436 Pine street, occupied by Goldberg, Lebenbaum, Bowen A Co., wholesale and retail grocers; the San Francisco Press club, a phonograph company and Bolton A Strong, printers. Loss, $300,000; insurance, $250,000. Two firemen were injured by falling timbers, one, Thomas McElroy, having a leg broken and the other, George Cashin, having a knee hurt and his head mashed. °

NICHOLAS II. Eip«tt«d to Reach St. Petersburg at the End of the Week. London, Not. 5.—The Daily News correspondent in St. Petersburg says - that Nicholas II. is expected to reaeh St. Petersburg at the end of the week, after a day’s sojourn'in Moscow, where he will receive the homage of the officials and conspicuous citizens. All taverns in Moscow have been closed. A mob has been in front of Dr. Zacharin’s house all day shouting that he is a poisoner and the murderer of the czar. The government caused much needless suspicion and excitement by withholding the news of the czar’s death until the morning of the following day. Prof. Lcjtien Describes the Immediate Cause of the Osar’s Death. Berlin, Nov. 5.—Prof. Leyden has telegraphed to a medicgi friend here that the czar’s death came from complications due to infraction of the left lung. Obstructive clots were conveyed into the lung owing to the failure of the circulation three days before death. The czar died during an - attack of dyspnoea, Leyden says, sitting up, surrounded by his family, and fully conscious till the last. Vienna and Berlin newspapers commend the dignified, promising and pacific tones of Nicholas IL’s manifesto. FREE SPEECH DENIED. The Speaker Driven from the Rostrum bp a Mob and a License Refused. Elmira, N. Y.v Not. 5.—Victor M Ruthven, of Buffalo, was advertised to speak in the advocacy of A. P. A. prin. ciples yesterday, and came near being mobbed. His afternoon remarks brought together 1,000 angry men, whochased him to his hotel. For several hours a mob of many hundred people hung about the hotel, and the authorities finally refused to give Ruthven a license to speak in the evenings Ha was spirited away last sight.