Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 25, Plymouth, Marshall County, 23 March 1905 — Page 6
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EASTERN. Edrd Leonard and James Craig, two employes of the Farbrikord Company of Newburg, N. Y., were killed by an explosion of soluble cotton. The collapse of five buildings under construction in New York is charged to faulty construction and the sudden change from cold to warm weather. i Negotiations are on, it is reported, for the purchase by an eastern syndicate of
the Monongahela Hun Consolidated Coal and Ooke Company from the Pittsburg Coal Company.
The executive council of the American
Federation of Labor, in session at Wash-
mgt . adopted a resolution favoring is-
suin a charter to the Internationa! Association of Longshoremen.
Mary Deluka, a 4-year-old Italian girl, MM M -
J 27th. 6th.
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PAST AND PEESENT
AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL
CORNERS OF THE EARTH.
ieiejjraphlc Information Gathered
by the Few for the E ii ightenment TaJ of ?"5,000; fully insured.
of the Many.
brother, who had defended, her until beaten into insensibility by her assailant. By the passage of a bill by the Delaware Legislature the pillory, long an institution in Delaware, has been abolished. An effort was made to abolish the whipping post, but it was unavail
ing.
A fire ia the threading department
ot the bpang-Chalfant mill, at Etna. Pa.
destroyed machinery and stock to the
The
origin of the fire has not been ascer
tamed.
Erie'Train Jumps 1 rack.
New Jersey is the object of a savage
attack by Lincoln Steffens, who calls it
SS.l'Sl?111?.?0-7' no R the the traitor State of the Union" and de
Pacific Express, while running at the rate
or sixty miles an hour near Winfield Station, a few miles from Hammond, Ind., plunged down a twenty-foot embankment, injuring twelve people, two of whom may
cue. l ne wreck was cansrni hv the nnrii
clares in a magazine article that it has
sold out the nation to vicious corpora tions while shielding itself.
A youug womau was apparently mur
dered in a hotel in Newark, N. J. The
iarv reservoir under the er. cnrt( v H H f nn. I woman w supposed to have been choked
pinp: into a switch which caught the front ? fath by a male companion, who left trucks of the tender. The fjigine remained . not5 locking the door behind on the track, but six cars toppled over and him one saw him leave, rolled down the embankment. Engineer Fhe and water damaged Music Hall
alnitz and Fireman Gorman remained at block, in the center of Provid price. It. I
their pOits and escaped injury. to an amount estimated at $100,000. The
principal losers are the proprietors of
Aeronaut Killed. the lrovidence public market and the
W. A. Middlekarf was killed and L M atow estate, owner of the builcung,
Odell seriously injured internally bvfailinir A threatening fire broke out on the
outof a balloon while giving a double ascen- Hansa line steamer Wildenfels of BreSion at Wallace, Idaho. Both men were nien, in Boston, causinz daniare to its
seated in a parachute, and when they had cargo estimated at $50.000, and for three
ascenaea --uuieet, the lower part of the bal- hours kept a large division ot the fire
loon tore away, ihe parachute failed to department throwing water into the hin.
a -9. a m I "
wpen, ana Dom ien among the spectators
wnn ternnc force.
WESTERN.
A younsr bov was
. caught by the falling balloon and badly lr: ) 111 r I .
irrnTtlA. v fKd"ün eariy every Done Rev. Dr. C. C. Rawlinson of Kenton. WnvL y en,Wh,le de11 had noue Ohio, was unanimously elected president
of Hiram (Ohio) college.
Twelve persons were injured, three
probably fatally, in a wreck on the Erie
railroad near Winfield, Ind.
Three men were seriously injured, one
Vesuvius in Eruption.
A dispatch from aples sa vs : Vesuvius
Is again in eruption, and is throwing out burning lava, red hot stones, and a hisrh
column of smoke, while detonations are them fatally, in an explosion in a heard at long distances. The eruption is dome at the Central blast furnace at
aiiriDuiea to an earthquake, which was Cleveland. Ohio.
Acu lur eiginy miies. Jiany loreisners. m- The lower house of th Minnt
eluding a number of Americans, have been Legislature passed a bill which appro-
tiiuutru uy um magnmseni spectacle, but priates $15.000 for a Minnesota exhibit are unable to approach the crater because at th T.
x luv 4iuiui:nse quaniuy ot incandescent Portland.
."l 3 CIlllllCU. I nil. i. . ....
Auuiuus ML, x epper, agea minion
aire member of n fnmniw n-h5L-r firm nf
Jlcl omo,e Xeain. Lexineton. was married in Snrirurfi.!,!
Master Mechanic Lewis Wilson, of the. Ohio, to
1 1 A r . . - I ' " J .- -
oiasi iurnace department of the Clairton Trov dence. R. T
fcXw i 1 r?.1M mei a rles J. and Frank M. Hlinka. uorriDie ueatn. hen an oil line with 500 h
unds pressure burst and set fire to the found dead in their office in Chicago
to r;;;" .h-rw -t11 rounds supposed to have been in
v v J V. IUI Ulvl
A tornado struck Porch, a small town
near Hobart, Okla., killing one man. J. E. and Charles Jones were fatally in
jured and sixteen o:hers hurt. Sixteen
houses were demolished.
The Colorado Legislature declared
Peabody elected Governor after he had
given a pledge to resign at once and sur
render the place to Lieut. Gov. McDon
aid. Adams surrendered the office.
A new geyser has made its appearance
in Norris Basin, Yellowstone Park. It
he was drenched with burning oil. His
eyes were ourned out and staggering to the front of ihe building he fell to the ground, fracturing his skull.
Nevada Tragedy.
Clyde Taylor of Reno, Nev., a cousin of
L. t. II. Taylor, chief engineer of the
reclamation service in Nevada, was shot and fatally wounded by a highwayman while out driving. with his affianced. When held up Taylor drew and fired his pistol at the bandit, but ais aim was nnor. The
highmayman promptly killed Taylor and nas been nameJ the "Skyrocket," and
ahot at his com panion, but missed her.
Sugar Trust Throws 3,000 Men Out of Work. Over 3,000 men have been thrown out of
employment as the result of the shutting down of the plant of the Havemeyer sugar
rennery in Brooklyn, jr. 1 . Xo official ex planation is given of the shut down, but i
is said that decreased consumption of sugar, growing out of the advance in price, was
the cause.
Drought in Hawaii Forest Burning. Honolulu special: It is reported by wireless telegraph that a forest is burning at the Olaa homesteads, Hawaii. A forest
fire is raging also at Wahiawa, tiiis island
and is visible from Honolulu. The drought
continues. The fires do not threaten the
cane fields, but valuable forests and tho
cattle of IIa waii Island are suffering.
Rich Chambermaid.
Savings of nearly $14,000 were amassed
hy North Kelly, a chambermaid at the Cur tis Hotel of Lenox. Mass., who died re
cently. The accumulation represents the judicious investment of New Yorkers' tips
during a period of twenty-five years. Her
personal property was $11,399 and her real
estate 52,500.
Van Wert Man Gets Seven Years in
Prison. J. W. Whiteman of Van Wert, Ohio, exClerk of Courts, who served from 1899 to 1902, was sentenced to seven years in the peni
tentiary for embezzlement, having been
convicted Dy a jury.
Monroe-rille Hm Disastrous Blaze.
A disastrous fire of unknown origin totally destroyed the Erwin & Wright drug and department store at Monroeville, Indentailing a loss of about $25,000, half of
which is covered by insurance.
Bed Key Ilotel Barns. The Commercial Hotel at Red Key, lad., erected a year ago, at a cost of $10,000, was totally destroyed by fire.
Train Robber is Captured. a report from Chattanooga, Tenn., states that the west-bound passenger train on the Southern Railroad was held up at Lookout Station, at the foot of Lookout Mountain. The express messenger was knocked senseless. The man who attacked him was captured by officers soon after.
Held Up for f 10,000. J. E. Daley, an Oakland, Cal., liveryman, who was acting as a messenger for the Central Bank of Oakland, was held up and robbed of $10,000 while on his way to the Standard Oil Refinery at Point Eichmond. Missouri Senator la Elected. I la a scene of riot and but fifteen ruintites before the time for final adjournment, the Missouri Legislature elected Major William Warner of Kansas Citj United BMtes Senator, ending the deadlock which had existed since Jan. 1& Two Men Fall from Calloon. W. A. Middkkarf was killed ft cd L. ILOdell seriously injured Internally by falling from a balloon whila Eirinj a double ascension la Wallace, Idaho. Doth ccn were seated in parachjtts, aad rrhen they had ascend;! 200 feet the
lower part of the baln trra r.vay. Tfca Eirachutea failed to c:a.
its coming is believed to mean the death
of the "Constant" geyser in the same basin.
The national retail hardware dealers'
convention in Minneapolis renewed the opposition to the parcel post proposition
and came out strongly in favor of a reduction in first-class matter. The next convention will be held in Chicago. In a scene of riot and but fifteen min
utes before the time for final adjourn
ment, the Missouri Legislature elected
Major illiam Warner of Kansas City United States Senator, ending the dead
lock which had existed since Jan. 18.
jlayor h leischuiann of Cincinnati issued an order directing the police to cause the removal of all slot machines in Cincinnati. It is estimated that 10,000
of these machines are operated there.
doing a daily business amounting to $35, 000.
The household property of Mrs. Cas-
sie L. Chadwick was sold at auction in
Cleveland to A. D. Nelson of New York
for $25,200. There were twenty bidders
Mr. Nelson bought the Chadwick prop
erty for an art gallery in New York
City. Fire in the Victoria Theater buildinz
in Dayton, Ohio, caused the dismissal of
the auuience in the third act. There was no panic, the assembly passing out quietly. Miss Rose Coghlan in Diploniacy" was at the theater. The loss is estimated at $3.000. John Schneider of Kansas City and Joseph Martin of Moline, 111., held up and robbed Edgar Montague of Janesville of a gold watch and $5 in money. Within- ten hours' time the men were arrested, tried and sent for two yearn each to State's prison. H. Clay Pierce, reputed to be a multi
millionaire, has organized his estate into a trust, the first corporation of the kind In Missouri and possibly in the country formed primarily to safeguard the interests of the organizer's heirs. It is capitalized for $5,000.000.
The Commercial Bank of Macksburg,
Ohio, a State institution, has closed its
doors. It was heavily involved in the failure of the Commercial Bank of Cam
bridge. Depositors will be paid in full, the stockholders being the only losers.
A receiver will be asked for.
Wesley Deamer of Iloytville is in jail
in Toledo, Ohio, threatened by a mob
because he tried to kiss another man's wife in church. He wan sitting beside Mrs. McCracken in a pew when sudden
ly he threw his arms about her and essayed his osculatory operations.
Brig. Gen. Frank D. Baldwin, who
has been in command of the Colorado department of the United States army, has been advanced to the command of the southwestern division, with head-
Quarters in Oklahoma City, Brig. Gen.
W. S. McCaskey being appointed to succeed him in Denver. :
Captain Kirkman of the Twenty-fifth
Infantry is face to face with a crisis arising from his connection with the recent suicide in Omaha of Mrs. Bessie Chandler, wife of a brother officer. ' Unless he is able to secure the acceptance of his
resignation he will be tried by a new
court nixrtiil at Fort Niobrara, llarch
I. While the south-bou-i "Owl" train on
the Southern Pacific was held up by the Cood north cf Lei Anie! Urs. Ciruth-
crr, XT IT j a Los Ax-cl; civil c'.rtcr, j
gave fcwth to twins. She. was attended
by two physicians who happened to be
among the passengers, and mother and children arrived in Los Angeles in good
neaita the other day. Hounded by loan sharks to whom he had assigned his wages for a long period in advance, and finally discharged because of this by his employers, Frank Dunham, an engineer on the lines of the Illinois Central railroad, committed suicide in his home in Chicago. Dunham, who was 47 years old, locked himself in a bedroom and turned on the gas. An order has been received from the Prairie Oil Company to take up all pipe line laterjsoff the Standard six-inch main west of the Santa be tracks between Humboldt and Chanute, Kansas, except one. This is a practical abandonment of the field and moans withdrawal of a market from all companies in the Chanute field whose oil tests thirty de
grees.
Fire, believed to have been of incen
diary origin, destroyed the entire busi
ness section of Shannon City, Iowa, en
tailing a loss of over $00.000. partially
insured. Two business blocks. Wilson's
and Fisher's, and a number of smaller' husiLss houses, including Logan's drug",
store, the Sheldon Sons newspaper! office, barber shop and the telephone'
exchange, were burned. The fire started
iu the Wilson block.
The lody of a young woman about 22 years old was found near the obscure street known as "Lovers' Lane," in Cin
cinnati, where the bodies of three other
young women who had been attacked
and murdered were found a few months
ago at short intervals. The police believe the murdered girl found at this
time is a victim of the same man for.
whom they have been searching. Her
clothing was of fine quality, and she had
died from a stab wound ove; the heart. The murderer of the girls never has been
discovered.
uwuers of rafting steamers on thi
Mississippi river are either remodeling
them or are selling them for other purposes. The business of this craft is so far gone that there are now many more boats than are needed to handle the business. It is estimated that during the coming summer there will be less than 40.000,000 feet of logs brouehS
down, while in past years the run hai been many times that amount. One hi
one the mills are closing, some of .them in Clinton, Iowa, having abandoned saw.
mg permanently.
Opium placed in a cigar given him bz
a young woman with whom he quarreled, is believed by the police of Flint, Mich., to have caused the death of William S, Goodspeed, 10 years old, an employe o the Flint wagon works. Dr. J. C. Met Gregor testified at the coroner's inauest
that the youth's death was due to opium, poison. Dr. Samuel B. Given, in whosq office Goodspeed was taken ill, testified the young man had said he believed his, condition was the result of smoking a
cigar. The young woman with whom Goodspeed is said to have quarreled will be subDoenaed n
John White, an employe at the North
American Chemical Company's plant in
Bay City, Mich., discovered unconscious
and bleeding near his work the othea
night, on recovering consciousness told a sensational story of a half-hour's battl with an unknown masked lunatic, whq attacked him with a butcher knife White states that the masked man en-;
ered the room where he was working
and told him plainly that he was going to kill him. He then produced a butchen
knife and took after him. White jumped
over large potash pans, followed by hi$
pursuer. Ihree times the weapon was
brought down on the fugitive, once on the fleshy part of his right leg, another
time across the left arm and a third
troke cut a large hole in his can. White.
finally ma Je a dash for the door, closely: pursued. The man with the mask foU lowed hin 300 yards and then slunk away in the darkness.
AX-
Iii STITES SHE
The battle of Mukden was one of
the. greatest of the world's history In
the number of men engaged, the ex
tent of the battle line and the long duration of tho fighting. Trobably it was also the greatest, or rather the most terrible, in the number of cas
ualties. . There are those who believe that it was as great as the greatest in the importance of the Issues that are at stake. Surely these are super
latives enough for one battle In this
"prosaic" age.
Oyama won the battle of Mukden more by tactics than by strategy.
Strategically the battle presented few
features not familiar to all students of
war. It possessed but one plement of
surprise Nogi'a sensational march around the Russian right wing and even that might have failed had Kuro-
patkin's scouts been properly led.
What Kuropatkin had not provided
against, however, and what his divis
Ions could not cope with were the
masterly tactics with which Oyama's simple Straten was executed. From the beginning; of the battle on Feb. 17.
when Linevitch vainly tried to turn the
Japanese right sixty-one miles south
east of Mukden, until March 5, when
alliums exhausted tu visions were crushed at the Imperial tombs, eight
miles north of Mukden, Oyama's gen erals moved with the precision of au tomatons. Kawamura's sweeping ad
vance to Da pass Kuroki's bold cross
ing of the Sha Nodzu's impetuous as
sauits on Poutiloff hill Oku's ham
mering blows at Chantan Nogi's dramatic march around the Russian right all were timed and executed with a precision that proved that a master mind was directing the keyboard of battle. How the Battle W9 Fought. On Feb. 2S Gen. RennenkampfTs vedettes along the Taitse river report
ed a suspicious movement of Japanese
around the left flank of the Russian
position. Thereupon Gen. Linevitch. commanding the Russian left wing, ordered two divisions of Cossacks to move out from Tsinkhetchen to hold two passes to the east and south of
that stronghold in the hills. At that time the Russian front extended from
Haba and Vanzc passes, sixty-two
miles southeast of Mukden and thirty-
live miles east of lentai, in a north
westerly direction to the Sha river, then westward to Its confluence with the Hun river and beyond to the Liao
river. Here was an intrenched front
of 100 miles.
On Feb. 19 the Cossacks in the
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JAPANS a ' ":!SmStt ) PÜCHIATSUÄ. -r-PS y S J0 KIRIN ' ' JLu U-twT
LINE OF KUROPATKIN'S RETREAT. The map shows the location of Tieling, or Tie Pass, whence the Japanese dislodged the retreating Russians after severe fighting. Tieling is an important walled town, and is considered to be a strategic point of great value. It is about thirty-five miles north of Mukden. The next large city north of Tieling is Kaiyuen, thirty miles away. Nogi's army is believed to harre made the attack from the west that compelled Kuropatkin to evacuate Tieling. It will be remembered that Nogi's turning operations west of Mukden practically surprised the Russians, and also compelled the retreat from that city. A few days ago Kuropatkin telegraphed that the Japanese had procured new levies, as several of the men killed were found to be wearing new uniforms. Military experts are inclined to believe that the fighting north of Tieling is being done by fresh troops from Japan, and that the exhauster and harassed Muscovite forces are in great peril. Kuropatkln's retreat northward, it is said, may become a parallel to the disastrous retreat of Napoleon from Moscow. The stars In the map mark the location of towns also mentioned in connection with the victorious operations of the Japanese.
I SPECIAL SESSION.
TIE PASS IS TAKEN.
Japanese March Into Stronghold Fol
lowing a Bloody Battle North. Tie Pass has been occupied by the
victorious forces of the Mikado, aud Karopatkin's army, disorganized, hungry, and beaten, has entered upon its long, hopeless flight over the 300 starving
miles to Harbin.
It is generally believed in Tokio that
this last defeat of the general of the
Czar is, in all probability, the practical finish of his beaten army, and though
but little news of a definite nature has
been received beyond the bare announcement of the capture of Tie pass, it is
recognized that the task of transporting such a beaten and disorganized mass across the desert to Harbin is one be
yond the power of any general
With but 100,000 men left who are fit or active service and with a number of
wounded equally as large, it is easy for
FOREIGN.
A violent explosion occurred in Theater square, Moscow. Several persons, one of whom was injured by the explosion, were arrested. Gen. Booth of the Salvation army sailed from Jaffa, Palestine, for Australia, and before leaving the holy land
maae a special plea for outcasts. Japanese troops have enniAi tj
Pass and the Russian army has retreat
ed northward; a rear guard tight Tuesday is sa.d to have cost Japanese 1,000 men. Fragments of a German heroic epic of the thirteenth century, dealing with the love affairs of Alexander the Great, have been discovered near Wurzburg by Dr. Hefner, a chaplain. Invasion of the United States by a Venezuelan army of CO.OUO is the latest dream of President Castro's fiery adviser, Col. Juan Bautitia Lamede, who in a pamphlet just out seriously urges this. The marriage of Guglielmo Marconi and the Honorable Beatrice O'Brien, fifth daughter of Lord and Lady Inchiftuin, attracted many people to St. George's church, Hanover Square, London, Thursday. The British ship Khyber has been totally wrecked off the Cornish coast. Twenty-three of her crew were drowned and three were saved. The Khyber sailed from Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 28 for Queenstown. With the Japanese hanging on the heels and flanks of the remnants of the broken, defeated Russian army, Gen. Kuropatkin, the old idol of the private soldier, has been dismissed and disgraced, and Gen. Linevitch, commander of the first army, is appointed to succeed him in command of all the Russian land and sea forces operating against Japan.
IN GENERAL
It is reported in the City, of Mexico
that the Hidalgo railway is to be sold to a New York syndicate.
The Secretary of State and Mrs. Hay
have left Washington for Europe, to be absent about two months.
' The Mexican government has sent a
commission of telegraphers to the United
States b study telegraph methods. The United States Senate adjourned
after reaching a decision that the San Domingo treaty could not b' ratified.
It is said by persons in authority that
George B. Cortelyou, Postmaster Gen
eral, will not resign the chairmanship
or the uepuDiican committee.
Weekly trade reviews report an in
crease In the volum of production nd
distribution, with active retail busine
and a new mgn recoru lor Dank deposits.'
"Graft" has made Its appearance in
the Panama canal work, says a , wellknown Washlngtou correspondent, pay rolls being padded and supplies manipulated. These conditions may hasten' the reorganisation of the commission by the
rresiaenx.
Sir William a MacDonald. the min.
localre tobacco manufacturer, laid before the Protestant committee 0f the eon mi
of public instruction la llontreal, Que., a proportion to endow an agrlculturai training college and a college for the training of school teachers ia the sum cf C2, CCO, CC0 to C ifCC0,CC0.
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ARMY HEAD DISGRACED.
Gen. Kuropatkin Dismissed bx Czar Without a Word of Praise. With the Japanese hanging on the
neeis and flanks of the remnants of the broken, defeated Ptussian army, Gen. Kuropatkin, the old idol of the private soldier, has been dismissed and disgraced and Gen. Linevitch, commander of the first army, is appointed to succeed him in command of all the Russian land and sea forces operating against Japan. The word disgrace is written in large letters in the laconic imperial order gazetted, which contains not a single word of praise, and also disposes of the rumor that Kuropatkin had asked to be relieved. The Russian military annals contain no more bitter imperial rebuke. While it was known that the war council had already decided to supplant Kuropatkin after the Mukden disaster, the decision to confer the task of saving the remainder of the army on Linevitch iu the very midst of its fight came as a surprise. It transpires that Emperor Nicholas Tar Mien?f 'l ,f.Gea- Dra-miroff 5 J Umister Sakharoff determined that the step was necessary when it became apparent that Kuropatkin, while coSen! tratmg for a stand at Tie
unaware that the Japanese had worked around westward nin
allow! himself to beTrpriseS LOU H?hlfe5K Grippenberg
i v j " paiwns railing mentality also had influence. uiy
Under the circumstances tw0frt s
was considered imperativ in
exceedingly perilous position of the army wn!UIf Vf ill commani to Linevitcli who alone had been able to brW nr Z
army m order after the battle of Muk-den.
The task confided to T,;.;
withdrawing what is left of tu
army of 350,000 men to Harbin is a desperate one. He is hemmed in on all sides. Gen. Kawamura presumably is pressing northward through the moun
tains eastward, ready to swoop down. Gens. Xogi and Oku are on the west of the Russian forces; the whole line of the railroad is threatened, if not Alrendv
cut, and Chinese bf ndits are even reported to be in the rear of Harbin. Napoleon's plight in the retreat from Moscow with KutusofTs Cossacks harassing
the starving, freezing Frenchmen, was
naraiy as bad or dangerous.
GENERAL KUROPATKIN, TIi Da SPACED-RUSSIAN COMMANDER.
passes beyond Tsinkhetchen were at
tacked In a snow storm and driven back across the Taitse river. On Feb.
22 they were driven intc Tsinkhetchen
Gen. Kuropatkin hurried re-enforce
ments to his left wing, drawing large
masses of troops from Gen. Kaulbars. commanding the right wing of his
army. There were indications that an
attack was threatened on Gen. Bilderling, commanding the Russian center, south of Mukden, so his force was left intact. It was not until Feb. 2S. how
ever, that fighting began along the whole line. On tho right flank the combatants were so near each other that the Russians flung hand grenades into the village of Sandipu, forming
Gen. OLu's left position. Both on the Russian right and center Kuropatkin's
forces won some temporary successes
The next day, however, Oku began to
put heavy pressure upon the Russian
right, capturing some walled villages. Gen. Oku turned the Russian right flank on March 3. The next day Kuroki's forces defeated two Russian divisions and forced their way across the nun river to the east of Fushun. But the terrible revelation of March 4 was the sudden appearance of Gn. Kogl, with his Port Arthur army from the direction of SInmlntIn, attacking the Russians from the north and northwest Not until then had Oyama revealed the design of the great battle. That the battle ot Mukden is the greatest in the history of war may readily be believed. In round numbers the Russian force engaged was 375,000, with 1,500 guna. The Japanese army 13 believed to have exceeded theca figures la strength by perhaps 40,000 men.
Ten Dollars a Year. A Russian correspondent of the Lou
don Statist, vouched for by that journal as "in a position to have the very best
information," asserts "that the average
revenue of a peasant in Russia is only
$1U a year, of which sum he has to pay
$4-50 for the needs of the government.
How a man can live on less than 3
cents a day in Russia or in any other
cold climate is not capable of explana
tion. The strikers in Warsaw, the cor
respondent says, work 00 hours a week.
and weavers there earn only S3.00, while
other workers get less. They are not al
the Japanese to see that their victory-1 lowed to form labor unions. Agricul-
fiushed 3rmies have the Russians prac-tural laborers receive very much lesi
iicany at tneir meiO- and the Donula-1 pay,
iion or AOKio is already eagerly awaiting
Developments Tr .sday make it plain that there is little chance that the San Domingo treaty will be ratified. Party lines were drawn sharply in the discussion of the treaty by the Senate in executive session, and the support of several Democratic members, on which the friends of ratification were depending, apparently is not to be had. The Democrats will return to the fold, and on both sides it is admitted there is little prospect the convention will be ratified. The Republicans have counted as certain the totes of Senators McEnery and 1- oster of Louisiana and Clark of Arkansas. Senator Gormau? the minority leader, gave notice that these Senators are now pledged against the treaty. It is not expected that Mr. McEnery or Mr. Clark will return to Washington to vote, ihe discussion took on a decided partisan basis. Senators Teller, Morgan and other Democrats criticised the administration severely. Senator Teller asserted that the administration could not be blameless in permitting Commander Dinlingbam to exercise so much authority. ur SPnt!r defended the coarse of the Department of State. Senator Foraker and Cullom followed along the same lines. Senator Bacon started to address the Senate, but was seized with gastritis and was unable to go on. The Senate then adjourned. In the course of the Senate debate Wednesday on the Dominican treaty Senator Heyburn of Idaho made an ex
tended argument in favor of the annexation of San Dominzo. He declared the
destiny of this, as well as other islands, was to be under the control of the United States. Senator Teller introduced a resolution of inquiry, asking the State Department for information concerning relations with the Dominican government Voi-'eei1 JuIj J' 1904 and March 1. lOOo. Senator Cuh'om objected to the reading of the resolution, declaring the matter pertained to executive session. 'The Senator cannot take me off the floor," said Senator Teller, warmly. He insisted that his resolution be read. The resolution directed the State Department to send to the Senate copies of instructions given to Commander Dillingham and Minister Dawson regarding Dominican affairs, and all communications relating to the treaty. The Senate then went into executive session until adjournment. Senator Morgan made a sensational speech in the executive session of the Senate Thursday, in which he charged that William Nelson Crowell of New York was a prime mover ia a scheme to influence the United States in the financial affairs of San Domingo. Crowell. he alleged, was acting in the interest of a syndicate which holds a mass cf claims against Latin-American repjublics, including a large part of the debts of San Domingo, and also was trying to defeat a plan of Mr. and Mrs. Reader of Alabama to obtain certain concessions from the Dominican government The Senate did not devote its entire time in executive session to the San Damfnm totr
The Nicaraguan extradition treaty was ratified and the Russian corporation treaty discussed at length. The Newlands resolution calling on the
if not incompatible with public interests'
to send to the Senate certain information regarding Dominican affairs, was adopted.
In the executive session of th Son.f.
Friday Senator Morgan continued his speech, in which he disclosed the details of certain concessions sought in San Domingo by a Mr. and Mrs. Reeder, operating as the Reeder syndicate. Before the doors were closed he offered a resolution calling for an investigation of Dominican affairs and of the "facts in connection with the negotiation of the protocols by the Senate committee on foreign relations. Later in the secret session he challenged the Senate to adopt the resolution. He said that if this were done the charges he made Thursday connecting William Nelson Cromwell of New ork with a movement to bring about the offering of the offices of the United States to adjust the financial affairs of the. Dominican government would be proved. Senator Morgan spoke until 4-43 p. m., when Senator Foraker took the floor in defense of Mr. Cromwell He read a telegram from Mr. Cromwell, denying he had had anv rfe.nl in
m. jcsiueui iu. oraies in concessions.
connection with
what they believe is sure to coma the news that Oku. Xogi and Kuroki have hemmed ia the fleeing Kuropatkin on the
desert beyond Tie pass, that the Russian star has forever set in the far East and that the flower, of Janan's blood and
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? WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. C
The Russian war office will send 400.
UUU more troops to Manchuria.
Russia is sending a steady stream of
war material to the Indian frontier.
Grand Duke Vladimir says Russia will
send another army to the far East
Russians are charged wrJi burning
wounded Japanese soldiers in Manchuria.
Thousands of Russian soldiers were
captured by the Japanese when Mukden fell.
Gen. Gripenberg, in an interview at
St. Petersburg, bitterly assailed Gen.
Kuropatkin.
The Russian government paid to Great
Britain $325,000 in settlement of the North Sea claims.
The British steamer Easby Abbey.
from Cardiff, bound for Vladivostok, was
seized by the Japanese.
Gen. Stoessel, the hero of Port Ar
thur, met with a cool reception upon his
arrival in St Petersburg.
Russia urged China to protest against
the violation of the neutrality of Chinese territory by the Japanese.
The disaster to the Russian army has
revived talk' of peace in Europe. The opinion prevails that peace is inevitable.
The Japanese steamer Osaka Sho-
tears has come to the fruition of suprem
acy.
The Russians burned the Prester nor- shen Kaisha sank while entering Osaka
tion of their stores and supplies before harbor, and over one hundred lives were
evacuating Mukden. iiost.
The Japanese wcupied Sinzchinsr The . British sttamers Apollo and
March 13. Singching, or Yenden, Is tit-1 Scotsman, with contraband cargoes for
uated about eighty miles almost du tzzX I Vladivostok, were captured by Japanesa
of Mukden. I war&hics.
The Senate adjourned sine die Saturday afternoon after formally reachin- a decision that the San Domingo treaty .could not be ratified. The Teller resolution, requesting the President to send to the Senate certain information relating to San Domingo affair, was referred to the committee on foreign relations after an extended debate. Mr. Cullom then moved that the Senate go into executive session. Mr. Morgan endeavored to call up his resolution asking for an investigation of San Domingo affairs by the committee on foreign relations. Mr. Cullom, however insisted upon his motion, and at 1.-09 the doors w?re closed
i In the National Capital. The Senate began its session by passing a bill for the incorporation of the American academy in Rome. s Faivae, governor of the western district of Tutuila, with hi. connty chief! has expressed to President Roosevelt his satisfaction at the kind administration of Commander Edmund B. UaJerwood the retiring governor of Tutuila of the Samoan group. The President tanked him through Commander C. B. Moore the present governor of Tutuila. ' The President has appointed H. K. Gudger of North Carolina, consul general at Panama, to be judge of the Supreme Court of the P?.nama canal zone. The Senate committee on finance reported favorably . the nomination of Charles W. Anderson, colored,, to be collector of internal rev.-aue for the second district of New York. The recommendations for improvements in the system of physical training at Annapolis so that athletics shall be compulsory for the entire four years' course have received the indorsement of the officials of the Navy Department Chairman Illkins of the Senate committee on interstate commerce has announced that the committee will begin hearings on . the railway rate subject April 17. . The President sent to the Senate the nominations for district judge of Edward Whitson, eastern district of Washington, and for brigadier general on th re
tired list of the army of CwL Allen Smith,
Allegations of partiality, trrar,
insulting conduct are made against th
mail bag repair shop of the PostoSce Department by Samuel L. Wilson aa employe. Superintendent Csvcre 'anrt
Timekeeper Garvey denied V.2 cirr-cs.