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PLYMOUTH INDIANA. THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1904. NO. 25 VOLUME III

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"Yin Kow Reports What May Bö a Naval Engagement Six Miles South. 3TJT FOURTEEN SHOTS MADE OUT Haza Too Thick to See ThroughSquadron Sighted Off Kinchöw. Russian General Contradicts Report of Landings Made by the Japs, Who Arc in Force at Anju. Yin-Kow, March 22. Firing was heard off the coast, apparently about six miles to the southward, fourteen shots having been heard between 7 and 7:30 this morning. The morning .was hazy and It was Impossible to distinguish objects at sea. A credible report has reached here that two cruisers and five gunboats were off Kinchow yesterday.. Cronstadt, March 22. The Vestnik, the leading service organ here, surmises that the Russian Vladivostok quadron has gone to attack Mororan (in Valcano bay) and Otaxunal (in l3hikari bay), both in the Japanese Island of Yorzo. Russian General Reports St. Petersburg. March 22. The following official dispatch. Cuted Mukden, March 20, has been received: ""General Zhilinski reports as follows: 'According to reports received from the frontier guards on the Eastern Chinese railway everything is in order there. At Udyini station Captain Uksemoff, with seventy cavalrymen, has lriven off a band of 100 Chunchuses (Chinese bandits). The occupation of the towns of Anju and Ping Yang by the enemy's Infantry and artillery Is confirmed. Report of landing Contradicted. Thirteen of the enemy's transports recently unloaded at Chinampho. According to reports there have been no preparations for landing on the coast of Caoljao or opposite Kinchow. All reports appearing in foreign newspapers of the landing of Japanese troops at different points on the coast are inventions." ' " - RbmI Worries Over China. St. Petersburg, March 22. In government circles there exists a strong belief that the question as to whether China will observe her neutrality un dertakings will depend largely on the result of the first heavy land fighting. A big victory by the Russian army, it is believed, will insure the quiescence of the Celestial empire. Bass Want a Cinch on Land. Russia's present plans are based on the appreciation of the supreme importance of the first land battle, and no fighting on a large scale will take piace. If It possibly can be avoided, until the Russians feel morally certain that they can deal the enemy a crushing blow. TAKE SALT WITH THESE STORIES Batch of Ramon That Would Be of First Importance If True. London, March 22. A number of rumors are printed in the newspapers tiere this morning, but they must be accepted with great reserve. The Daily Telegraph's Tokio correspondent cables a newspaper report of the Japanese occupation of Port Arthur, after a combined land and sea attack Saturday and Sunday. It Is asserted that a division of Japanese landed on the Liao Tang peninsula Saturday, and engaged the Russians near Port Arthur, while the fleet bombarded from Saturday evening until Sunday morning. The same correspondwit reports a sharp encounter at Chyong Syong (on the Yalu river, about thirty miles northeast of vWlju), in which the Russians lost COO in killed or i rounded. The Dally Chronicle's Shanghai correspondent hears from New Chwang that the Japanese crossed Tatung pass, forty miles from Hal Cheng, and Jrat collisions occurred with the Russians. Reports from Seoul and Tokio are to the effect that Marquis Ito has arranged to lend 5,000,000 yen ($2,500,000) to Korea on easy terms. The correspondent at TIen-TsIn of The Dally ' Mall reports that Kataoka, a Japanese merchant ami Russian spy, has been killed by being burled alive, but that the Japanese authorities disavow any knowledge of his slayers. Half the Oncer Ashore. Can Francisco, March 22. C. H. Crowning, a British army ofücer who was In Port Arthur during the first Attack and bombardment by the Japanese fleet, has arrived here. lie said: "The story l true that half of the Zlussian oCcers were In town at the time of the torpedo attack. There X7zs ccsae sort of entertainment la Text Arthur that Light." CadsIUu Disguised as Plllsu. Ct Petersburg, March 22. OSci-J cdvlcts report the concentratica of Earned Mongolians dlrjnlsed as pilcriizs at Van Keren, south of Lake TiiXal, and a few miles from the c 1m frontier. Wciblzca, Uzrch 22. In nt:' :;n by Justice Kclzzza ttn Vzl.zl ' it:3 Ecrrtze court tss l2 c T '

TEIAL OP URS. BOTKIIT

gald to Hare Sent a Package of Poisoned Candy to a Woman at Dorer, Delaware. San Francisco, March 22. The second trial of Mrs. oCrdelia Botkin, charged with the murder of Mrs. John MRS. CORDELIA L. BOTKIX. P. Dunning at Dover, Del., by means o f poisoned candy. Is progress here. The testimony so far has traced the candy from the postoflice at Dover to Mrs. Dunning's hands. Miss Josephine Bateman said Mrs. Dunning g.V.e her some of the candy. Miss Bateman detected some particles Df gritty sulstance which caused her to throw the candy away. The substance was lump arsenic. FIFTY EUILDINGS WRECKED )ne Man Fatally Hart and Several Others Injured by a Storm of Wind and HalL nijrsinsville. Mo., March 22. Fifty buildings are partly wrecked, one man is mortally wounded end several others hurt; the town Is In darkness and the streets strewn with debris, as the result of a tornado and bail storm which struck this place. The hail on the streets was a foot deep within five minutes after the storm came, and some of the stones were as large as hen eggs. Dozens of trees in the town were blown clown and several horses were killed on the street. The grocery store of J. W. Enzley, in the business part of this place, was one building WTecked. John Holzen, a clerk, was mortally ijnured. It is estimated that 2,000 windows were broken by the force of the storm. More than fifty, houses have been unroofed. The most careful estimate of the financial loss here Is $40,000. Two other towns In this section were in the path of this storm and -are said to be -considerably damaged. They are Corder and Alma, each having a population of 500 or 000. . ' SPOOK DIDN'T SHOW UP Mott, the Banged Murderer, Seemi to llave Found Restrictions In Ghost Land. Washington, March 22. Louis II. Mott, the Montana wife murderer, who was hanged in Missoula, did not call on Representative Dfxon at 10 o'clock' Sunday night, as he promised to do before his execution. Dixon waited up for him at his house until well past 10 o'clock, although from the beginning he did not believe Mott would put In an appearance. Ever since Mott's promise the negro cook, bellmen, and others have been excited and It was with difficulty that the landlady of the house could per suade her employes to remain In the house after dark. On the Campaign Committee. Washington, March 22. Thirty-four of the forty-eight members of the Re-' publican congressional campaign com mittee, which will conduct the campaign for the election of Republican members of the Fifty-ninth congress, nave been chosen at a caucus of the members of the senate and house, Among them are Hull of Iowa, FordV ney of Michigan, and Babcock of Wis-' consin. Payne and Wilson Better. Washington, March 22. The post master general, who has been confined to the house with gout, and the sec retary of agriculture, who is ill with grip, are both somewhat improved. Secretary Wilson and Miss Wilson will make a short trip south 'as soon as the secretary of agriculture is able to travel. Filipino To Be Honored by Tale,' Washngton, March 22. Secretary Taft has cabled Governor Wright that Chief Justice J. P. Don Cayetano Arel lano will be presented the degree of doctor of laws at the commencement exercises of the Yale university to' be held on June 29, 1904, if he la present at thte eterclses. Bill to Aid Settlers. Washington, March 22. To create a colonization bureau and to provide for advances to actual settlers on the public domain is the -purpose cf a bill introduced In the senate by requect by Senator Hccr. It b tha cclaniiitioa scheme of the Galvation Army. Free Trade far the Vl.lllff.lMM. ti Washington, March 22. In his talk the house merchant marine com nettes Cecretary Taft raid his. great object tj to reduce tbe tariff against ths rhca at least to 25 per cent of C2 DIrj'.-y rate, though perse nlly he f avcrci f2 trada. PruCi iroplaCios for Kose. ll'Avzzlii March 22. Mayor Daxll 3. T- : I "s been for a fourth tic rcn!zit: ' t head the city ticket by V-2 C- : - convention. The plst f;r c : 7 other things, declares fcr a zzr 'l-l Hs-ting . plant t-1 d

CENSURE IS DEFEATED

With Nationalists Against Him and Mutiny in His Own Ranks Balfour Wins. LIB ER AX MOTION IS REJECTED Government Majority Being FiftySeven on the Transvaal Labor Question. London, March 22. The whips of fill parties in the house of commons were busy yesterday seeing that their forces were on hand, for the first real vote Involving the life of the government was to take place at the end of the debate on Campbell-Bannermann's motion censuring the cabinet for con senting to th Chinese labor scheme for the Transvaal. The vote was 299 to 242 in favor of the government a majority over all the opposition of 57. Campbell-Bannermann opened the debate. He said the Transvaal propo sition had sorely tried the people of the country; that Europeans in South Africa were all apposed to the Chinese labor scheme; that it was the greatest departure Great Britain had ever made from her principles, and that it was slavery and nothing else. See I y Deserts the Government. . Lytton, colonial secretary, made a reply, declaring that public sentiment in the Transvaal was overwhelming in favor of the measure, and that the Liberal leader's remarks were a series of gross misrepresentations. Major John Edward Seely was the next speaker. He hall hitherto been a con sistent supporter of the government. He said he believed the Importation of Chinese labor would render the Transvaal impossible as n white man's country. He announced that, therefore, he had tendered his resignation to his constituents, because he did not think it fair that he should vote against the government without giving his constituents an opportunity of turning him out if they did! not approve of his action.. Irishmen Object to Upi oar. The conclusion of Major Seelys epeech was lost amid a tremendous outburst of disapproval from the ministerial side. Premier Balfour, who followed Major Seely, was unable to secure a hearing, the Irish members protesting against the treatment of the major. WMisnuRedmocd-sald that Balfour should have insisted upon a respectful hearing for Major Seely, and when the premier 'said he had appealed for such a hearing Redmond withdrew his opposition and the house quieted down again to listen to Balfour, who in opiosIng the resolution said it was a question whether the Transvaal should be allowed to go through a grave commercial crisis rather than admit Chinese labor. BALFOUR ACCUSES IUE LIBERALS Says They Hare UoneJWhat They Are Now Vigorously Opposing. Liberal governments, be said, had in the past legalized the importation of such labor for British colonies and'the opposition was now reaping the bene fits of the evils which tneir own par ty had produced. In conclusion Balfour said that he sympathized with the views of Australia and New Zea land because' they were white men's colonies. In South Africa the prospect of a great preponderance of blacks would present a diflicult problem, but the difficulty Would not be Increased by the government's present crisis. If the leader of the opposition came into power, said Balfour, he would do exactly as the government was do ing, and would not indulge in vague and inappropriate speeches about slav ery. Should Sir Henry Campbell-Ban nermann's motion be carried It would tend to destroy or to Indefinitely retard the prosperity of the Transvaal. Herbert II. Asquith, in closing the debate, denied that any clear or over .whelming opinion in the Transvaal de manded Chinese labor, and he maintained that practicable and less ob jectionable alternatives bad been sug gested. He agreed that the economic position of the Transvaal was serious. but ' asserted that if healing forces were allowed to operateand fair wagea and good conditions were secured to white and black laborers alike the er! bus features would be removed. - Many of the Irish members had hurried from Dublin, where they voted In the bye-election for St. Stephens Green, In order to vote for the motion. In the division thirteen Unionist members. Including Winston Churchill, abstained from voting. Sixty-five Nationalist members voted against the government, the majority for which was larger than any In the several recent critical divisions. The result was received with cheers. , A similar motion was defeated In the house of lords by a vote of 97 to 25. " Uoddy" Ryan Get the Decision. . Chicago, March 22. "Buddy" Ryan was given the decision over .Jack O'Keefe after six rounds of fighting. O'Keefe appeared to have a slight advantage, during the first five rounu-, but in the last round he weat to pieces. , Xuid Withdrawn fron Entry. Washington, March 22. The commissioner of the general land c2ea has temporarily withdrawn from entry under the reclamation act two townships in The Dalles, Ore., land district, and three townships In tk3 LaQranie, Ore., district.

BURTON TRIAL BEGIrlS

Kansas Senator Before a Jurv on Charge of Violating Uncle, Sam's Statutes. GOVERNMENT CASE IS STATED Aoeesed Not Guilty of Crime Per SeView of Counsel for the Defense. St. Louis, March 23 The trial of Senator Burton, of Kansas, has begun in the United States court here, the Jury having been easily obtained and the opening statements made. Colonel D. P. Dyer. United States district attorney, made the statement for the government. He said that the charges against Senator Burton were based upon section 17S2 of the revised statutes of the United States. "According to the statute," said Dyer, 4,it is unlawful for any senator or representative to accept pecuniary fees for any service rendered to any. person or concern In any matter in which the government is either directly or indirectly interested. ;ot Unlawful in Itself. The government will endeavor to show by witnesses that the defendant accepted certain sums of money from the lilalto Grain and Securities company, of St. Louis, for his influence In certain matters pending before the postoffice department. In which the government was either directly or indirectly interested. It is not the "contention of the government that Senator Burton used hU Influence for any matter that In itself is unlawful." Dyer said the charge was that Burton accepted a salary of $000 a month to defend the company In government Investigation amd received Ave Installments of his salary while defending his client . . Other Side of the Case. Judge Chester H. Krum, leading counsel for the defense, admitted the employment of Senator Burton by the Rialto company. '"The agreement was that Senator Burton would be employed as general counsel, and that h' name would be used on the company', literature as a guarantee of Its reputablllty," said Judge Krum. "It wiT, ' be shown that Senator Burton hatf :u , sorted In the agreement in . exjw language that he, Senator Burton, not to be icqulred tö represent the company before any department of the United States government in any capacity." Continuing his statement Judge 'Krum denied-that any sums received! by Senator Burton from the Rialto company ; were compensation for any services other than those named in his agreement as general counsel. . Visits to the Department. Burton's visits to thepostoflice de-' partment Judge Krum said, were not made In any sense as counsel opposing the government and such he would prove. Several witnesses were put on the stand to Identify letters alleged to have been sent to the postoffice department and used by inspectors as a basis for the investigation of the Rialto company. After these letters were identifled court adjourned. WOEK OF A mSCBEANT ShooU Bis Divorced Wife, Kills One Child and Mortally Wounds Another, Then Dies Himself. t El Paso, Tex., March 23. Because hs wife, from whom he obtained a divorce a week ago, refused to remarry him or permit him to take their children to St Louis, where he had secured employment, Mas. Van Dervalt shot his wife through tue head and breast, "killed his daughter Cora, aged 5 years; mortally wounded his daughter Eleanor, and then blew out his own brains. Two Killed; One Fatally Hurt. Cumberland Md., March 23. Two trr.himen were killed andonewas fatally hurt near Oakland, Md., on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The dead are: Frank Fraley, fireman, of-Terra Alta, W. Va.; Wilson Richards, brakeman, of Cumberland, Md. G. W. Rice, engineer, of Keyser, W. Va., was fatally injured; Said to Hare Stolen f 1 00,000. Riverside, Cal., March 23. A warrant charging embezzlement of an amount said to aggregate over $100,000 from the Orange Growers' National bank, of Riverside, has been Issued for the arrest of H. T. Hays, former cashier of the bank, but he has not been apprehended. Bird Flies Away Home. New York, March 23. Hobart S. Bird, a former Wisconsin man.v who since 1808 has been publishing a paper In Porto Rico, ha arrived here after having sold his 10,000 plant for $4.000 and having been arrested six-ty-two times for criminal libel seven times la one day. World's Fair Fire Laddies. - Gt. Louis, March 23. A test fire ahrm was tumid In from the Varied Industries bulldiag In the World's fahr grounds and within three minutes twelve streams of waiter were la operation. The demonstration was made before a delegation of Insurance men. Ameer of Afghanistan Poisoned t ' St Petersburg, March 23. A dispatch received from Ashkaboos the capital of the Russian trans-Caspian territory, says a rumor is current there that the ameer of Afghanistanhas beca

POWDER TO BUR H

Seems .To Be the Situation with the Japanese Ships of War. fHEY POP AWAY AT PORT ARTHUR For a Few Hours and Then Disappear to the Unknown, Makaroff Claims to Have Disabled a Battleship it ussiens Lose Five Killed and Nine Wounded on Shore. London, March 23. A correspondent of The Times at Tokio, under yesterday's date, cables that it Is rumored! that the Japanese have succeeded In blockading the entrance to Port Arthur. London, March 23. A dispatch to the Reuter's Telegram company from St. Petersburg says: "Japanese torpedo boats appeared off Port Arthur at midnight of the night of March 2122, and the shore batteries and guardships shelled them for twenty minutes. The Japanese retreated, but reappeared four hours later, when they met with the same reception, and they retired again. Russlau Squadron Sails Out. "At 0 a. m. March 22 a Japanese squadron of two divisions, composed of four and eleven ships, respectively, and accompanied by eight torpedo boats, appeared, and the Russian squadron sailed out from the outer roadstead to meet them. No further details regarding the action are. obtainable. At 9 a. m. the' Japanese battleship, having fired several shots at Liaotishin and sheltered behind the promontory, commenced a bombardment of Port Arthur." Entrenchments at Anju. St. Petersburg, March 23. The following dispatch has been received frv Viceroy Alexieff. dated Mukden. " Tch 22: "General MUtchenkow rets that on March 17 our scouts proached Anju and observed on the eft bank of the Clterg Cheng river. opposite Anju, entreiu l.nients made by the enemy. Up to that date the enemy had not appeared at Ycng Pyon, fifteen miles nortleast of Anju. It Is supposed that there is one Japanese division at Anju and that the remainder of the first army corps is at Ping Yang. Japs Decline an Engagement. "In consequence of the report that two squadrons of the' enemy had arrived at Pak Cnong, fifteen miles northwest of Anju, 200 of orir cavalry was dispatched for the purpose of preventing the enemy from crossing the Tak Chong river. Our cavalry found three Japanese squadrons on the left bank of the river, but they' withdrew towards Anju on the arrival of our detachment, without fighting. The Japanese squadrons number about 190 each." MAKAROFF REPORTS THE FIGHT He Claims to Have Disabled a Japanese Battleship. St. Petersburg, March 23. The emperor received the following tele gram from Viceroy AlexiefT, giving Vice Admirnl Makaroffs report of the bombardment of Port Arthuron March 21-22: "At midnight of March 21 two of the enemy's torpedo boats approached the outer roadstead, 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 4 o'clock In the morning March 22 by three torpedo boats, which also were re pulsed. 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 boats, approached from all sides. At 7 o'clock our squadron commenced to leave the Loner harbor, the cruisers leading with the Askold, flying my flag, at their head, and the battleships following. The enemy's battleships approached Liaotishin and fired 100 shells from their 12-inch guns at Port Arthur and 103 shells at the environs of the town. "Out shells, fired at a range of eighty cables, were well placed. About 10 o'clock a Japanese battleship was struck by a shell and retired. We lost no men during the bombardment which ceaiied at 11 o'clock, when the enemy's ships reassembled, and after passing along the outer roadstead drew off without attacking our fleet" ' BEPORT FROM GEN. 8T OES SEI. Retrlzan Uses Her Gam Kassians SuCer Fourteen Casualties. Alexieff also sent to the czar the following report of General Stoessel of the bombardment: "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 twenty minutes. At 4 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 eleven ships and eight torpedo boats. Our squadron left the roadstead to met the enemy. "At 0 o'clock the enemy's tattle-

snips opened fire on Liaotishin, after which tbey took up a position behind the rocky eminence of Liaotishin and bombarded Port Arthur. The enemy's fleet consisted of six battleships and twelve cruisers, 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 southeast of Tort Arthur. "At 9:20 the battleship Retvizan opened fire over the crest of Liaotishin against the enemy's battleships-, which replied by firing on the town. ' Meanwhile our fleet formed up in line In the outer roadstead. 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 and nine were wounded. One soldier on the shore was bruised."

JAPAN'S PLANS FOR CORE A vFirst Thing Proposed Is a More to Eliminate the Foreigners. London, March 23. The Seoul correspondent of The Times says that while deprecating precipitancy In administrative reconstruction Japan recommends that Korea shall gradually eliminate foreign advisers of the government and appoint no more for the present. Many of the foreigners, who are mostly French, occupy advisory posts with emoluments aggregating $100,000, and half of these posts are absolute sinecures. The Japanese are displaying great vigor in the construction of a light rail way to Pang Yang and other strageüc projects, according to the correspond ent, who says that as an evidence of the thoroughness of her plans Japan is preparing for the possibility of military reverses in Manchuria, but that what ever happens she intends to hold fast to Korea. Japan has 3,000 engineers working on the railway and 100 miles of material obtained from disused lines in va rious parts of Japan are now awaiting shipment to Ping Yang. This scheme was designed to be completed by Sep tember next, and the roadxvill afterwards be made permanent and extended to Wiju. Accounting for Capt. Reltzensteln. Paris, March 23. The Echo de ParIs correspondent at St Petersburg says it is rumored in naval circles there that Captciin Reitzenstein's Vladivos tok squadron has been ordered to over take at a certain point In tbe Pacific the battleship and two cruisers bought from Chile by Japan and to capture them. PROCLAIMS REBELLION LATEST NEWS FE01I COLORADO Got. Peahody Sends Troops to TrinidadDeported Telluride Strikers Get an Injunction. Denver, Colo., March 23. A proc lamation has been issued by Governor Teabody declaring the county of Las Animas In a state of insurrection and rebellion. Subsequently an order was issued for 300 troops, under com mand of Major Zeph T. Hill, to pro ceed to Trinidad, the county seat. The men were instructed to gather aboard trains, and were given sealed orders and told to open them at midnight. In his proclamation the governor says that there exists In Las Animas county a certain class of individuals who are fully armed and act'ug together, resisting the laws of ne state and offering violence to dzens and property. The civil authorities of tine county are quoted as authority for the statement that no less than 1,500 un employed men are armed in apparent anticipation of an open conflict Montrose, Colo., March 23. On application of counsel for the Western Federation of Miners Judge Stevens has granted a temporary injunction against the members of the , Citizens' Alliance, of Telluride, and all others wiho may attempt to prevent the return to that place of union miners recently deported by a mob. Shelres a Temperance Measure. Des Moines, la., March 23. The house committee on the suppression of Intemperance voted to indefinitely postpone the proposed! state marshal law, which threatened to reopen the prohibition question In Iowa. The vote was 8 to 10 for postponement The plan was to appoint state marshals to enforce the mulct law. Ulght Hare Been a Gory Nose. VIncennes, Ind., March 23. Police Interfered In the eighth round of the boxing contest between Jack Ryan, of Indianapolis, and Billy Smith, of Memphis before a big crowd at McKinney's theater. Ryan and Smith were matched for fifteen rounds for points, but showed a disposition to mix it up. Guilty of Criminal Negligence. New York, March 23. The coroner's jury which investigated the collapse of the Darlington hotel, by which twenty-one persons lost their liveJ, charges Eugene F. Allison, one of the owners of the building, and hie contract tag firm of Pole & Schwandtner with criminal negligence. TTater Does $100,000 Damage. Janesville, Wis., March 23. Damage to the extent of $100,000 in Rock county has resulted in the last twenty-four hours from Turtle creek overflowing Its banks. Quarrel Was Fatal to Doth. Cincinnati. March 23. William Rogers and George Dawn were inctantly killed by an in-coming train at the Park street crossing here. The men were quarreling on the track.

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Heavy Storm Damage Don at Many Po n s in the Hooeier State. BOAT LOAD OF MIN IN PEELL Woman Attacks Beveridge for Alleged Frlendüness to tbe SaintsState News Notes. Indianapolis, March 23. Telegrme from Indiana towns tell of serious damage resulting from the electric storms and heavy rains. At Lafayette two houses were struck by lightning and almost completely demolished. Mrs. Anna Mack and her two sons and John and George Caine were badly injured by flying timbersand flame. At "Madison rain destroyed bridges, carried away fences and small stores and thousands of bushels of "grain. Several people narrowly escaped drowning. The town of Friendship, in Rlpiey county, is covered with water. A part of Bedford is Inundated and traffic on the Monon Is delayed several hours. At Brownstown the Baltimore and Ohio railroad track was washed out. Damage Done at Evansrllle. Evansville, Ind., March 23. A heavy ' rain, accompanied by terrific lightning, parsed over thU city and did considerable damage. The rain extended to points within a radius of fifty miles of Evansville. The river has been falling rapidly here for sfeveral days, but It Is expected that this rain will bring another rise. Two Farmers Killed by Lightning. Vincennes, Ind., March 23. William F. Cunningham and William B. Opp, farmers, living a few miles east of here, were killed Instantly by a bolt of lightning during a storm. Tbe horses which they were driving were also killed. Vincennes Men in Danger. VIncennes, Ind.. March 23. Arthur T. Cobb, II. L. Chauey and other Vincennes business men came near lcsing their lives by the sinking of the pleasure boat Naomi in the Wabash river. Cobb was piloting the boat through the locks at Mount Carmel. when she struck a check-dike and sank in three minutes in thirteen feet of water. Those aboard escaped In small boats. SHE MUMPS OV nEVERIDGE Stirs Up a Hornets' Ne t by Declaring Be Secretly Favors Seating Seuator Suioot. Indianapolis, March 23. Mrs. Darwin James, of New York, through Mrs. F. McCrea, of this city, has stirred up a hornets' nest by a letter charging Senator Beveridx e with secretly favoring the seating of Senator Smoot of Utah, and taking exception to his conduct throughout the entire trial. She says that "even in the committee room he has acted like the paid attorney cf the Mormon church." At the regular weekly meeting of the Methodist ministers Mrs. McCrea put the matter before the preachers, appealing to them to preach to the people, urging them by wire and mail to Influence Beveridgeto change his view and vote against Smoot being seated. Mrs. James Is the president of the board of foreign missions of the Presbyterian church In New York city. Other women in the anti-Beveridge crusade are with her. Assault on a Veteran. Marion, Ind., March 23. Fred Scott a member of the national military home, wandered Into the Zimmerman hotel, near the home grounds, stupifled and bleeding from wounds on his head and face. He was taken to the home hospital, where It was learned his skull was crushed. The police were notified and as a result a roadhouse rear the hotel was raided and four women and one man arrested. The women admitted that the assault was committed In the house. ' Judge Geodlng's Funeral. Greenfield, Ind., March 23. Th funeral of David S. Gooding, who died Sunday, will take place from the Meth-' odist church, of this city, at 2 p. m. today. The body lay In state from 8 o'clock until 1. Members of the Hancock County Bar association met at the court house at 11 a. m. and passed resolutions. Members- of the local bar, as well as of the bar from other cities in the state, made addresses, i i Will Return to the Pulpit. Greencastle, Ind., March 23. Rer. C. E. Line, financial secretary of DePiuw university, has resigned, to take effect etxly In April. He waiits to return to pulpit work in the Methodist church. He took his present office two years ago, and has been of substantial service In promoting the financial plans of the university. Nominated by Hammond Democrats. Hammond. Ind., March 23. Lawrence Becker was nominated for mayor of Hammond by the Democrats at exciting primaries over two other candidates. He will be candidate to oppose A. F. Knotts, the present Republican Incumbent, at the May election. Killed by m Piece of Cornice. Indianapolis, March 23. A heavy piece of iron cornice fell from the top of the fourth floor of tbe nubbaTd block and killed Worth Wright, of the real estate firm of J. R. Wright & Co. Mrs. Jchn Ray was slightly injured.

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