Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 35, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 March 1904 — Page 2

Slijt ^aocprndcnt. W. A. KN DLEY, Publisher, WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. SUMMARY OF NEWS Charles F. Aldrich, a twin son of Thomas Bailey Aldrich, the author, is dead at Saranac Lake from consumption. He was a Harvard graduate and hud entered a business career in Boston, which he was compelled to relinquish two years ago. Claims exceeding $3,000,000 against the defunct E. J. Arnold Investment Company of St. Louis will be quashed if the order of the referee in bankruptcy in the test case of Dr. A. W. Williams of Little Rock to recover an investment of $8,250 is sustained. Springfield, Ohio, is guarded by six companies of militia, following a night of race rioting, caused by the negro lynching of Monday night. A mob of 5,000 whites invaded the levee district, fired volleys of shots through the houses and burned an entire block. The southbound limited express on the Alabama Great Southern, running sixty miles an hour, collided head-on with a north-bound Southern Railway freight near Kewanee, Miss. According to reqo passengers were killed, but five employes lost their lives, Lmn-MeCes, a theatrical agent, died at his home in New York from the supposed effect of “knockout drops.’’ Just before he died he gave the name of a young woman with whom he had been on friendly terms for about a year, who, he said, was responsible for his condition. Among the passengers on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm IL, which arrived in New York Tuesday, was a woman believed to be Mrs. Florence Maybrick. The -woman was met at the dock by Mr. Armstrong, formerly Mrs. Maybrick's attorney: two of his assistants and a man said to be Col. Ingraham, a cousin of Mrs. Maybrick. Timothy Noland, night engineer of the Michigan City, Ind., Electrical Company, while engaged in adjusting a brush on a heavy circuited dynamo with his right hand, accidentally placed his left hand in contact with the machine, forming a circuit which charged him with 4,000 volts of electricity. Instantly he fell dead at the feet of a companion with whom he was conversing. Dressed in the costume of Columbia, which had just won the first prize over hundreds of competitors at the masquerade ball at the North St. Louis Turner Hall, Mrs. Joseph Sailer suddenly threw up her hands, sank to the floor and died from heart disease. Mrs. Sailer had been dancing constantly and her husband had urged her not to overtax herself, as she occasionally suffered from a weak heart. Much mystery is thrown about a jewel robbery which occurred in New York City Feb. 22. Diamonds and other jewels valued at $50,000 were taken from the home of one of the wealthiest persons in the city, but the name of the victim and all details of the robbery have been concealed and news of the robbery became public only through the circulation by a detective agency of a list covering the missing articles. Further than this, however, the agency refused all pare ticulars. Mark Dunn, convicted of the murder in Buchanan County, Mo., of a wealthy farmer named Fenton two years ago and ^7' sentenced to be hanged at a very early date, escaped from jail in St. Joseph. Dunn got possession of two revolvers smuggled into jail in an oil can and forced the death watch to submit to being bound with wire he had used in making baskets. He held the watchman prisoner all night and forced him to call the jailer soon after daybreak. When the jailer appeared at the door Dunn threatened to kill the death watch unless the jailer turned him out through the wheel. To save the watchman, the jailer did as ordered. Then the murderer forced the -jailer and his brother, a deputy sheriff, to enter the jail, locking them in and escaping with the key. Brevities, The Japanese are reported to have engaged the Russian Vladivostok squadron in the open sea and to have sunk or captured the entire fleet. In a holdup at North Bend. Wis.. S3OO was stolen from the store of Heineck & Patterson. A clerk was about to close the place when a masked man stepped into the store, grabbed the money and disappeared. Albert Lane of Houston. Minn., died at the county hospital in Chicago from injuries sustained in jumping from a window on the third floor of McCoy's Hotel. The man is thought to have been temporarily insane. Fire which started at 2 o’clock in the morning destroyed the seven-story building at 207 and 209 Madison street. Chicago, occupied by the Western Salvage Wrecking Company, causing a loss estimated at $130,000. W. D. Romain, aged 40 years, a traveling man. whose home is in New Y'ork and whose mind had become deranged by fever, committed suicide in St. Barnabas Hospital. Minneapolis, by sending a bullet into his brain. The Miles Block, in Oto. lowa, in which is located the opera house, and occupied by six firms, and three vacant buildings, were destroyed by fire. Mayor Hills and Frank O’Meara were severely burned by an explosion. Thirty thousand dollars disappeared from a New York bank while alterations were being made in the office. Finding of $3,000 under the floor led to the discovery of the loss and futile search for the rest of the missing money. The New Y’ork Sun. the newspaper founded by Charles A. Dana, is said to have been sold to Thomas B. Wanamaker of Philadelphia, son of former Postmaster General John Wanamaker and owner of newspaper properties in the Quaker City. The much-talked-of duel between the Italian fencing master Pini anil Baron Athos Di San Malato was fought at Neuilly, near Paris. It lasted two hours, and fifty minutes and was stopped because Baron Di San Malato's hilt had raised a large blister in the palm of his hand. Mrs. Carrie McNamar. widow of James M. McNamar of Toledo, owner of the American District Telegraph Company, has begun suit to recover her husband’s interest in the company, which, she alleges, was bought with her money, but which he willed to Martin J. Carney of Chicago and his children in trust. A tremendous earthquake, which did great damage, occurred at Lima, Peru, Friday morning. Nothing comparable with it had been experienced in the last thirty years. Lima is somewhat subject to earthquakes. The most destructive was in 1746, when more than a thousand persons perished and the city was nearly destroyed.

| Progress of the War I C a 000000 000’0oo o o o o oo OO O 0-0 THE fogs of doubt and uncertainty hung as heavily last week over the seat of war in the far East as at any time since the beginning of hostilities. No official news of land movements was permitted by either Russia or Japan to leak out, while the operations on sea by the Japanese, with the exception of an occasional attack on Port Arthur, were carefully screened. As a result the .war correspondents in the East are forced to send out uncertain rumors, without having the time or opportunity of investigating them, and thus much that is unreliable is finding its way into the history of the present struggle. Were all the reports of Japanese successes true, Russia would scarcely have a boat afloat in the East, outside the Vladivostock licet, and that, too. according to early reports, was blown up in the Tsugari straits. Some of the Russian vessels at Port Arthur must have been destroyed several times. Whatever may be the truth of these reports, it seems conclusively established that the Japanese failed to block the harbor at Port Arthur, els? lite Russian cruisers could not move so freely from the inner basin to the roadstead. Relative to the immunity of the Japanese vessels under Russian fire at Port Arthur, the reports do not by any means agree. Two separate reports came from Chefoo that two Japanese warships, after the bombardment of last week Thursday, were towed in a disabled condition to Susebo for repairs, and a paper published at Tien-Tsin states that the battleship Yashima and the cruisers Asama and Tokiwa were damaged and that two torpedo boats were destroyed. According to a Chefoo dispatch the Russians discovered a sunken Jananese torpedo boat in the outer harbor. Later the Japanese bombarded Port Arthur again and the cruiser Askold bad a gun dismounted and two men injured. The Russians deny the loss of a torpedo boat in Pigeon bay. They state that a Jananese shot pierced the hull of a torpedo boat, but that the leak was »iuppe«Lattd tne returned to Part ArtluiL/mder b>.owr Meantime, according to reports, xvlncn"Tieither country Japanese have extended their sea operations to the north and are said to be blockading the Russian naval base of Vladivostock. No reports confirming the landing of the Japanese in force at Possiet bay. seventy-five miles south of Vladivostock, have been received. The object of this movement, it was said at the time, was to advance into the interior, some 220 miles to Kiriri, which is a town situated on a spur of the railroad running to Port Arthur. The country between Possiet bay and Kirin is mountainous and poorly supplied with roads, so that the Japanese, if such a movement is K>eing conducted, must have at their disposal a strong force. In pushing on to Kirin the Japanese would flank the Russian army being concentrated on the Y’alu river, and they would lay their own base of communication exposed to the Russian troops at Vladivostock. At the same time they would be advancing directly into the teeth of the heavy reinforcements which Russia is pouring down the Port Arthur branch of the Manchurian railway. There seems to be the same dearth of positive information regarding land operations as sea movements. No two reports agree as to the strength A i I IS n I ram I RUSHING TROOPS TO SCENE OF WAR. Russia has strained every nerve to get troops into Korea. Her Cossacks are the flower of her army. They are said to be the finest cavalrymen in the world. This is a sketch of a regiment of Cossacks entraining at Irkutsk for the scene of conflict. of Japan's forces in Korea or of Russia's in Manchuria. Probably outside government circles the knowledge does not exist, and neither government is outlining either its land strength or its plans. That the Japanese are availing themselves of their temporary mastery of the sea. hastening rc inforcements to Korea, is certain; that Russia is straining every nerve to hurry her troops from Europe to the East is equally so. Advance parties of the Japanese and Russians are getting glimpses of each other in Northern Korea and mounted Cossacks are reported as seizing telegraph lines wherever they penetrate. Reports state that Russian mounted cavalry (presumably Cossacks) have appeared at Anju and that a strong force has been dispatched to Eastern Korea. Both sides are apparently maneuvering for position, and it is probable that somewhere near Ping Yang the first serious engagement on land will be fought. The Japanese are said to have landed 120,000 troops in Koren, and trans ports are leaving Japanese ports at regular intervals with reinforcements. Russia is moving much slower than Japan in this military movement. Gen. Kouropatkin, who will have supreme control of the land operations in the East, will not leave for the front for a couple of weeks yet. as it is his wish to have 400,000 troops at his disposal before actively entering on the campaign. That Russia does not intend to force the fighting is evidenced by the notification given to our Ambassador at St. Petersburg relative to the American officers who are to make observations with the Russian troops. They are not expected to attach themselves to the Russian army before April 15. Meantime there seems to be a consensus of opinion among military experts that Japan is preparing for an investment of Port Arthur by sea and land. In fact, in certain quarters the belief is strong that the movement for the land investment is already under way. The Russian commander, Gen. Stoessel, who directs the garrison, has issued a proclamation outlining this purpose of the Japanese, and called upon the troops to fight to a finish. "I. as commandant,” he said, “will never give an order to surrender.” In case of investment, it is interesting to know how well prepared Port Arthur is for such a siege. At the outbreak of the war all civilians were ordered out, so that there would be as few mouths as possible to feed. According to one report, Port Arthur is provisioned for eight months. Should it be able to hold out even for one-half of that time. Russia should be able to pour enough troops down the Liao-Tong peninsula to end the land invest--1 ment. But it is the belief of military and naval experts that Port Arthur is vastly more vulnerable than it was thought to be when Russia secured a twenty-five years’ lease of the place from China and began to fortify it It is estimated that Russia has 200 guns in position in its forts. g . ' - ' - - - The Whitehead torpedo, the terrible engine of destruction and terror of modern warfare, used by the Japanese navy.

ENTIRE ARMY CALLED OUT. Czar Issues an Imperial Order Y hich Will Mobilize All Russia’s Troops. The Czar has issued an imperial order which practically calls out all the troops at Russia’s disposal aud orders them to prepare for immediate service in the far East. The ukase caused much comment in the capital city, not particularly among army and navy officers, but it awed civilians. It foreshadows a long war and indicates that the government is fully aware of the difficulty which will attend the expected triumph of Rusaian arms in the conflict with Japan. Officially the order seemed an innocent one. It summoned the reserve subalterns and first-class reserve men of European Russia to the colors for a six weeks’ course of training. A similar order was issued to the naval reserves. On the face of it this order does not seem to mean much. But military men and diplomats know it means that everything is being made ready for the mobilization of the entire Russian army. The order was undoubtedly a shock to civilian Russia. When the war started it was fully believed that the victory over Japan was a matter of but a few weeks. As the days passed and news of Russian victories did not materialize, the public laid it simply to the supposition that the Czar’s navy and troops were waiting only until they felt that they could deliver a erushing blow to the forces of the Mikado, and thereby end the war in a few months at the most. But this order opened the eyes even of the civilians —the military contingent had long realized that the war would be a long aud costly one.

JAPANESE DREAD DALNY. Mines Extending Far Into the Harbor Keep Warships Distant. In Port Arthur, officers, marines coolies and everybody else have been working day and night at the railway

and docks in connection with the transportation oi provisions and munitions of war. The soldiers of the forts have worked like , horses, harnessing I themselves to carts and drawing them. The Japanese have shown considerable respect for Dalny on account of the important submarine mines laid

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there and which extend far out to sea. The floating mines in the neighborhood of Dalny are also calculated to keep the Japanese at a respectful distance from Port Arthur, It is rumored that the Chinese generals, Chang and Ma, may have protested against the neutrality of China and have written to Pekin begging the government to form an alliance with Japan. Told in a Few Line* Fearing violence, the Czar has issued a decree forbidding patriotic celebrations in the streets. A cable to a Paris paper states that Chinese generals, Ma and Thiang, desire permission to aid Japanese.

KEEP pIaNS SECRET. Bi< Movement of Troops in Preparation for Decisive Fight. A Nagasaki cablegram, via Shanghai, Bays that an extraordinary movement of Japanese troops to the coast is now com-

pleted. It includes the first reserves. The second reserves are now being mobilized at Tokio. The Sendai and Kumamoto divisions of the army, the best fighting men in the serv ic e, already have been transported to Chemulpo, which will continue to be the principal base in Korea.

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Fusan will he made the secondary base for the dispatch of troops along the east coast and for Vladivostok. The railways have been wholly monopolized by the transportation of these troops. The men fit, 'AI MANCHURIA*. RAILWAY GUARDS, nre not permitted to leave the trains, even dining and sleeping on board. The civilian traffic between Tokio and Kobe has been reduced to a minimum. Immense activity prevails at all points of embarkation. At Kobe and other ports tons of food of all kinds and other supplies have kJen collected. The censorship has becole increasingly strict and all correspond Pits have been ordered to firoceed from .Nagasaki to Tokio on pain of instant dismissal. The officials have made use of every device to mystify the public. They even go so far as to place wrong numbers on troop trains in order to mislead everyone as to the strength of the forces sent to the front. The plan of campaign is not known outside a select circle, consisting of the Emperor, minister of war and some half a dozen heads of the army staff. Even cabinet ministers are kept in the dark. BAIKAL NOT CONQUERED. Frozen Lake n Serious Obstacle in Way of Russinn Troops. The reassuring statements published by the chief of the Russian transport service regarding the transport of troops across Lake Baikal are entirely dis< redited by indepetilent witnesses. According to a Russian informant there is no reason for dWtbting the reports that ninny hundrecAof soldiers have been rendered unfit f ’ service by the hardships endured on t march over the ice. The casu this authority adds, have been x ‘ increased by inadequate Clothing a K food supplied the soldiers. To before setting out on the m; V‘, th® lake are served early itk. < writing at Baikal station merely win A and dry bread. At a half way wo^An barracks they receive a basin of hot' wheaten gruel cooked in salt water '^Vhout the addition of any fut. au<l in tue evening, at the end of their toilsome |joumey of forty seven RUSSIANS IMPRESSING CHINESE. miles through wind and snow, they are again provided with tea and dry broad. Many of the men before reaching the barracks manage to sell their thick high boots of felt for bottles of vodka, with the result that their feet are frozen and cases of drunkenness on the march are by no means rare. Stragglers of this description are necessarily left to their fate unless they can be placed by compassionate comrades on pack sleighs. In view of the reported completion of the railway across Lake Baikal it is significant to leant from more than one touree that an entire goods train rerently sank, ouing to the impossibility of suddenly bringing the locomotive to a halt. The engines have now been replaced by horses. This precaution is necessitated by the rifts in the ice. ARMY READY. Ministry of e»' Declares Troops Await Invr^.on of Manchuria, It is stated iff the ministry of war that Russia's preparations to meet the Japanese at any point in Manchuria are sufficiently advanced to insure their completion before the enemy cau effect an invasion of any consequence. It is expected the Japanese will attempt to advance along the Muotienling line toward Liao Yang. Muotienling is considered impregnable, unless the position is flanked by a force landed in the region of Newchwang. To prevent such a landing Admiral Alexieff is exerting every precaution. In the event of his failing, the Japanese will find the Russians in force at all points commanding the road toward the rear, and an army defending Muotienling. The Russians have converted south Manchuria into a wilderness of trenches and earthworks. MARCH AND RIDE BY TURNS. The Russian Soldiers Do Not Make Through Trip by Train. The wife of a Russian officer of high rank, who has just returned to St. Petersburg from Port Arthur, leaving that town the day after the first attack by tb.e Japanese, says that innumerable troop trains passed her all the way, this method of transportation being supplemented, so far as possible, by the soldiers marching and entraining alternately. When an east-bound train arrives at a wayside station the soldiers detrain to march to the next stage, their places being taken by men who had been marching from the last stage. The soldiers are thus ke£& in better condition.

•! WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. | About 25,000 tons of British coal are now being loaded on Japanese steamers at London for Japan. Japanese mobilization is unaccompanied by the flaunting of banners, music or demonstrations. Japanese officers and sailors who manned the fated transports at Port Arthur expected to meet death. Tokio banks report the national loan of 1 (K).OIK),00!) yen (-10.500.0U01, has been covered nearly four times. All the Americans formerly at SunChun. with the exception of one family, have arrived at Ping-Yang. 'Die first complete train traversed Lake Baikal on the ice railroad Tuesday. it consisted of twenty-live ears. A further consignment of guns and ammunition hits been dispatched from St. Petersburg to the far East. Japan, finding that she has no use for so many auxiliary cruisers, will return many of them to the merchant marine. Russia will consider the proposed cable from Japan to Guam contraband of war if the United States gives consent for its construction. Russians are advancing on Korea and troops already have penetrated south of Anzu, while a landing has been effected on the cast eoast. Orders to Consul Edwin Y”. Morgan to proceed to Dalny were recalled by the government, the right of Russia to object being recognized. Alexieff has issued a proclamation to the Chinese in Manchuria warning them that they must aid Russian forces or extermination will follow. That the nations of Europe nre abandoning their fear of complications growing out of the war is shown by France and England resuming work on their treaty. A committee of Slavonic citizens of New Y'ork City, headed by Francis J. Nekarda, announced their intention of raising $200,000 as a war fuud in aid of Russia. The Red Cross Society at St. Petersburg has ordered its Siberian agents to prepare 1,000,000 additional pounds of

WWW lUSSIANS REPAIRING RAII.ROAD. grain and large quantities of meat and sterilized milk. The Czar was overcome with emotion at the friendly spirit shown in Emperor William’s recent letter to him on the war in the far East. When he read it he burst into tears. Apparently official utterance in a Berlin paper states that the policy of the German government is not to stir up strife in the war. and that peace iu the Balkans !is its aim. A witne-s of the engagement between the Russian cruiser Novik and the Japanese fleet in tlie harbor at Port Arthur praises the handling of tlie cruiser and the daring of its crew. Japanese have landed 20.CKX) troops at C.hemulpo and are confining disembarkation to that of transports and supplies. Eight thousand troops believed to be marching toward Ping-Y'ang. An exhibition is being arranged nt St. Petersburg of all the Russian art objects which it was intended to exhibit at St. Louis. The proceeds will be devoted to the Red Cross Society. Novoe Vremya, an important Russian newspaper, castigates Secretary of State Hay for his recent diplomatic work and charges that the Washington officials are showing hostility to the Russians. The Russian government earnestly desires the conservation of the old friendship with the United States, and the report on the Vieksburg matter cans. 5 a reaction from the general bad feeling. Viceroy Alexieff reports to the Czar that the Japanese attempted to send a fleet of four ships laden with inflammables into the harbor at Port Arthur. They were destroyed by the Russian guns and the convoy was driven back. Tlie price of horses is rising rapidly at Irkutsk in Siberia. Over S4O is now offered, while a week ago S2O to $25 was the price. This is explained by tlie demand for horses at Lake Baikal and the probable requisition for the army. Pilgrims from various parts of Russia are arriving at Saroff to solicit the intervention of St. Seraphim in behalf of their relatives. St. Seraphim was canonized by the Czar last summer on account of his fame as a miracle worker. Prince Lobanoff, the governor of the Russian province of Tambovo. has issued a warning to the peasants against selling horses to dealers, who are now trying to buy 3,(K)0 horses, ostensibly for tlie British army, but really for the Japanese. Seven wounded engineers arrived at Sasebo from the stone-laden merchant steamers sunk off Port Arthur Feb. 24. They report that the sinking of the vessels was managed by wires connecting them with the Japanese torpedo-boat destroyers. The Hebrew community at Grajevo, Russia, crowded the synagogue Saturday to pray for a Russian victory. The rabbi compared the Japanese to the Amalekites, “the memory of whom would be wiped out.” The congregation raised a subscription for war purposes. The railway between Samara .and Zlatoust. European Russia, and the Siberian lines, with all the territory appropriated by the government for the purposes of these railways, have been placed under martial law. in order to insure the regular running of military trains. The prices of provisions at Irkutsk. Siberia, are rising by leaps and bounds. A fortune of SIO,OOO was made iu a few days by a man who bought up all the available felt used for lining. The government ordered the inside of railroad cars lined with felt and the authorities were forced to buy all the speculator’s stock at double price. The Nobles Club at Moscow has voted $50,000 for the navy fund and $25,000 for the Red Cross Society. A tobacconist named Bostanioglo has given 2,000,000 cigarettes and a sugar refiner, M. Tereschhenke has donated a car load of sugar for the Red Cross Society. Grand Duchess Serge is sending a field church to th-e front for the use of the army.

FIRE ON STRONGHOLD JAPANESE FLEET IN BOMBARDMENT OF VLADIVOSTOK. Mikado’s Boats Direct Guns Against Czar's Northern Stronghold for 55 Minutes -Land Batteries Fail to Re-ply-Five Persons Arc Slain. A fleet of five Japanese battleshipr and two cruisers appeared off Vladivostok at 1:25 o'clock Sunday afternoon and bombarded the town and shore batteries for fifty-five minutes. The fleet approached from the direction of Askold island, at the eastern entrance to I suri bay. about thirty-two miles southeast of \ iadivostok. Entering Usuri bay the enemy formed in line of battle, but did not approach to a closer range than a mile and one-third. They directed their lire against the shore batteries and the town, but no damage resulted, as most of the 200 lyddite shells bailed to burst. The Russian batteries, Kmimanded by Gens. Veronetz and Artauionoff, did not reply, awaiting closer approach of the enemy. The Japanese fire ceased at 2:20 p. m.. and the enemy retired in the direction of Askold island. Simultaneous!}' two torpedo boat destroyers appeared near Askold island and two more near Cape Maidel. The Japanese ships were covered with ice. The attack resulted in no loss to the Russians, but cost the enemy 200JKK) rubles ($100,000) in ammunition. Most of the projectiles were six and twelveinch shells. The population of Vladivostok was warned in the morning of the presence on the horizon of a hostile fleet and the prospect of attack during the day. but it remained tranquil. First dispatches from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg denied any losses to the Russian forces from the Japanese bombardment. Later in the evening it was admitted that perhaps a few Chinamen had. been hit. Later at night private dispatches were received to the effect that five Russians were killed, four sailors and the wife of an engineer. It is apparent the Japanese were' afraid to risk exposing their ships to the plunging fire of the land batteries and it is considered probable that the attack was really for the purpose of drawing the fire of the Russian forts, compelling the Russians to disclose the position and caliber of their guns, and also for tlie purpose of ascertaining whether the Russian squadron is in port. If this was the object of the Japanese it is believed to have failed signally, as the batteries did not fire a shot, and if the squadron is in port it could not be seen from the Japanese position in the bay of Usuri on account of the high land which rises from the coast on that side, obstructing the view of the harbor. JAPS MINE YALU RIVER. Mancha Cavalry, Superior to the Cossocks, to Joiu the Japanese. The London Telegraph's Chee Foo special says that the Russians have constructed a number of forts on both sides of the Y'alu. The Japanese have blocked up several entrances to the river with toi pedoes. Great confusion prevails at Port Arthur. The Russians arc showing the utmost dislike for English and Americans and are causing all but a few to leave. Germans and Frenchmen are allowed to remain. Here is the present condition of affairr Although Japan lost a small cruiser and the machinery of a battleship was damaged and another vessel was injured, the latter probably is now repaired. When the rigor of winter moderates it is anticipated the Japs will occupy territory near Dalny. In the meantime the Japanese are making an advance in strength along the Pekin road from Seoul. Having secured the Y'alu they will threaten Kirin, cutting the railway and menacing Vladivostok, while another force deals with the LiaoTung peninsula. Japan's first big land victory, which is likely if she keeps troops in a rough country where the Cossack cavalry is of no value, will mean the unauthorized rising of the Chinese, whose Manchurian horsemen are braver riders and fighters than the Cossacks.

I Religious | t News and Notes J — _ — The first manual training school for । Sudra children, the lowest caste in India, i is to be established at Benares. The Moody Cdportage library contains 4.075.99 S volumes. 1.429.234 of which are । copies of Mr. Moody’s own works. The Rev. Arthur E. Mann of Buffalo, ' N. Y'., has started for Shanghai. China, to be a teacher in St. John's College. Both the Queen of Holland and tb.e : Queen's mother have contributed to tlie ; funds of the Salvation army in the Neth- , erlands. The Rev. Dr. Henry H. Jessup of i Beirut, Syria, for forty-eight years a i missionary in that land, has returned to ; New Y'ork. Dr. F. E. Clark, the Christian EnI deavor leader, was given a reception in ' Boston prior to his starting for a tour | around the world. The Rev. Joseph Mangin of Lowell. Mass., has just celebrated his half century as a priest of the local provincial of the Oblate order. Miss Anna Barbour has offered a site to the Paterson (N. J.i Y'oung Women's Christian Association upon which to erect | their proposed building. St. Joseph's Church, a $50,000 edifice I presented to the Italian colony of New i Rochelle, N. Y.. by Adrian Iselin, has I been consecrated by Archbishop Farley. W. M. Porter, a young minister of the j Indiana Methodist Church, has disapI peared from Indianapolis, and it is reI ported that he has enlisted in the navy. Bishop Gore of Worcester, Mass., says he sees no serious Christian argument against cremation, and from a sanitary point of view it has enormous advantages. The railroad department of the Y'oung Men's Christian Association has issued a pamphlet. "Progress.” telling of its growth. The railroad branch had 43,000 members in 1901, and has uow 62,348. Miss Edna Hall, a talented woman of Guthrie, Okla., has entered the Quaker ministry and has accepted a call to the church at Liberty, in M oods County, her territory. B> the will of the late Mr. John Marnham, who died at Boxmoor. England, the London City Mission receives a legacy of £3,000 and the Baptist Missionary Society receives a similar sum. The Rev. 11. B. Frissell. principal of the School for Negroes at Hampton. Y'a., I says it requires SSO.OOO a year for the | support of the school. There are 1.200 I scholars living on the ground and be--1 tween 3,000 and 4.000 coming directly i under his crje.

! COMSS 7»( Practically the entire time of the Senate Friday was given to consideration of the question of the selection of a site for a naval training station on the great lakes. Most of the Senators from States bordering on the lakes participated in a controversy over an effort to seeure as an amendment to the committee amendment a provision autliorizing the appointment of a new commission to select a site. This amendment was offered by Mr. Quarles (Wisj. and its origin was duo to the fact that a former commission had given preference to Lake Bluff. Hl. Mr. Foraker contended for the advantage of Put-in-Bay, Ohio. The committee amendment was modified so a« to make it apply to all of the great lakes and not alone to Lake Michigan. The House had under consideration the Indian appropriation bill, the reading of which for the purpose of amendment was pending on adjournment. During the general debate Mr. Martin (Rep.. S. D.i spoke on his resolution directing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to investigate the causes of the differences which exist between the price of live cattle and dressed beef. Mr. Hodges (Rep., lowai spoke in opposition to the “lowa idea.” Mr. Robinson (Indj declared a monopoly exists in the coal business in the Indian Territory, and said the subject should be investigated - . The Senate Saturday agreed to the report of the conference committee on , the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill. A bill was passed authorizing the President to extend an invitation to the international Congress of hygiene to meet in Washington in 1909. The naval appropriation bill was taken up. and the discussion assumed a polit- ; ical aspect. Mr. Clay held that the Monroe doctrine was not in danger, ami that nothing is so likely to make trouble with other powers as an immense navy manned by many ambitions men. Mr. Depew replied to Mr. Clay and declared that the country will have a large merchant marine some time and should have a navy big enough to protect it. The House passed the Indian appropriation bill after some controversy relative to provisions affecting tribes in the Indian Territory. An unsuccessful effort was made by Mr. Stephens (Texasi to eliminate the provision for continuing the Dawes commission another year. Among the important amendments adopted were those removing restrictions on the disposition of lands of allottees in the Indian Territory who are not of full Indian blood and vesting .authority in the Secretary of the Interior heretofore resting with the Dawes commission in the matter of the sale of lands belonging to the Creek Indians. The provision authorizing the renting of certain lands in the Indian Territory which have been allotted to full blood Indians of a number of tribes was stricken from the bill on a point of order. There was a spirited contest over the question of the maintenance of a warehouse at Omaha. The i members of the Nebraska delegation were opposed by Mr. Mann (III.) and Mr. Sherman (N. Y'.). but the former won their fight in behalf of Omaha. i The Senate Monday passed the naval appropriation bill. The principal question debated in connection with it related to the price and method of supplying armor plate for battle ships, growing out. of an amendment suggested by Mr. Patterson providing for a government armor plant. He ultimately withdrew the. amendment, but offered several others on the same line, which were laid on the table. The credentials of Senator-elect Dick, of Ohio, were read. The report of the Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads on the Hay resolution, .-. owing the use of ‘'influence” of m-mbers of Congress to secure salary increases for | postmasters and similar efforts in connection with leases and rents of postI office buildings, was submitted a the ■ House. An agreement was reai'hed to postpone action until Wednesday, and ‘ 4JMX) copies of the report were oi lered I printed. The committee urged that tlie i resolution be’tabled, and there will lie three hours' debate before action is takI en. The postoffice appropriation bin was i taken up. and Mr. Moon appeal'll for a I general investigation of the affairs of the department. The House without debate unanimously adopted the resolution directing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to investigate the cause- for differences in prices between live cattle and dressed beef. The Senate Tuesday spent m ittime discussing committee amvu mien: ~ i t<> the army bill concerning provisional I troops in the Philippines and ’ . consolidation of the Adjutant General's office with the record and pension office. Both were accepted. The bill was amend ed so as to provide for an ir.< " : -e in the engineer corps. The d:- i>i the bill was not completed. The fortifications bill was reported from the committee on appropriations, with ■ net increase <»f SSOC>.(KK) over the bill pas-ed bx the House, making the total 57.G37. 192. The lime of the House was devoted to the consideration oi claim bn s. an 1 thirtyqwo were passed. * »•: • r- 7: - to tlie granting of an American reg -ter to the ship Beaumont, formerly a Brit isb craft, wrecked off the < • ...-t . Nova Scotia, and later rebuilt by an Amer: can. gave rise to considerable debate, but was accepted. Speaker t': :.:? n. in ruling on the conference report 011 the legislative, executive and ju '.i' ia’ appropriation bill, stood by a former prece dent, holding that conferees could — • insert new matter, and the bill wa- - :it back to conference. Tn the National Capitol. Panama treaty ratification- Lave been exchanged and the United States now has clear title to canal zone across the isthmus. Little legislation for the Pbi-ippines is expected of present Congres.-; Republicans do not desire to propose 1 gisiation on eve of national campaign. Tlie Senate committee on appropriations reported the legislative, executive ami judicial appropriation bill. It carries $2>.73G.233. a net increase iver the House bill of 5447.575. Wm. Jennings Bryan called on Secretary Hay to thank him for letters which the Secretary gave him on bi- recent trip to Europe, and which proved of i great assistance to Mr. Bryan. Representative Burton exploded a | bombshell among his Republi* an < olSeagues in the House by attack ng the naval increase program in the appropriation bill. Representative Dayton practicallv read him out of tlie party. The War Department issued a circular I calling for proposals for the pu.ihase 1 of s3.<hh<JXK» worth ot Philippine temporary certificates, proposals to be opened April 15. These bear 4 per cent interest and rim one year.