Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 41, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 April 1904 — Page 2

- noent, lublisher, . 4 INDIANA. Y7 Y AY v EVENTS OF THE WEEK Jen Niguri Buobrowsky, a Boliemian, who is believed to be g miner from Eve: feth, Miun,, died at a New York police station. The police believe Bubrowsky's death was caused by “knockout drops,” administered to aid in the robbery of the ; vietim, 1 The wholesale district of 'l\)l‘u]lln,‘ Canada, was swept by a ('nnflngruliwn| that destroyed $10,000,000 worth of property. Thirty large buildings were wrecked, and the fire was stopved only when it reached the water front, where it burned itself out. James Grubb, janitor of a New York apartment house, is under arrest, charged, on the word of his 14-year-old daughter, with having attempted to poison his six children, of whom she is the eldest. Grubb’s wife died recently, and hLe is said to have behaved oddly since then. In a riot in Pensacola, Fla., in which bluejackets from the warships and a few artillerymen from Fort Barrancas attacked the police one enlisted man named Banks of the Seventh artillery was killed _and four bluejackets from the lowa and 2y ‘3' f» : yer “U"A’ '-at«,}!;-"r‘ oi. t i" w» v;"' 0] ket \‘ :t“ “ St RIS St s R ey, 1R PP e . Prank Parks, 24 vears old, shot and - seriously wounded his wife's parents, Mr. ~and Mrs. Sherwood Crooks, in Zanesville, Ohio. He was about to shoot his wife, but she held her 17-months-old baby in frout of her as a shield and Parks was afraid to shoot. He then tried to shoot himself, but desisted upon his wife's uppeal. He fled. Geological survey statistics made pub- + lic in Washington place the world's production of petroleum in 1902 at 185.151.089 barrels. Os this the United States and Russia produced 91.44 per cent. For vears Russia has led in point of production, but an increase of 19,377,722 bar- “ rels in the production of the United States in 1902 and a decrease amounting ~ to 4,628,515 barrels in the production of Russia caused these two countries to change places and put the United States at the head of the”list. The'scare caused by the breaking of R gas main valve near.the Westchester Lighting Company’s station at Mount Yernon, N. Y., is over and there have ~ been uno serious results from the accident. The breaking of the valve reduced | the pressure so much that the gas went out a!! over the city and Pelham and houses in which the occupants had retir- l ed leaving the gas turned on were filled with the fumes. Many persons were made sick by the escaping gas, but no one was seriously affected. The clubs of the National League now stand thus: B wiW. T W i New York... 4 oOPittsburg .... 2 3 sSipemnaty ... 3 2Boston ... 2 3 St. Louis.... 3 2 Brooklyn ..... 2 3 Chicago ..... 2 3 Philadelphia.. 1 3 The table below shows how masters stand in the American League: W. L. W Li SPatan. . .ci.. 5 IChjocsgo ..... 2 3 - Philadelphia. 8 1 New York.... 2 3 \‘,gwito sree s 3 2 St. IAO“iS. S e m‘%&&«lwya 2 Washington... 0 5 Tl L e e & waari‘?s‘%‘{«i&-fi;?éi ; £l BRS R L ~ aur the usual fall fairs and festivals in. - Kansas are being abandoned for this - President Roosevelt received the mem‘bers of the Harvard basebali team, and during the recgption Senators were compelled to wait. The South Sharon, Pa., tin plate mill has resumed operations, giving employment to over 1,000 men. This is the first time the mill has been on full time for eight months. 1t is reported and generally accepted as true in St. Petersburg that Viceroy Alexieff has resigned because of appointment of Vice Admiral Skrydloff to suecceed Makaroff, and for fancied slights. Mrs. Laura Rebrach was shot and killed in the streets of Pittsburg by Mrs. Hugh Beninger, who had found her strolling with Mr. Beninger. The husband was wounded, but not seriously. Albin Kaksa, a gray-haired Civil War veteran, ouce an officer of the Austrian army, walked all the way from Galveston to Omaha. A longing to spend his ~ last days in a soldiers’ home brought him. The House of Representatives has passed the statehood bill, making the State of Arizona of the territories of Arizona and New Mexico and the State of Oklahoma of Oklahoma and Indian territory. The steamship Gaelic, which arrived at San Francisco with $2,900,000 in gold the other day, was in danger off the Japanese coast from two waterspouts, which passed within a few hundred vards of the vessel. A report from Millertown, Tenn., is that Huston Jennings, a farmer, cut his wife’s head off with an ax. Later he | shot himself and is in a critical condition. Jennings has been jealous of his wife several weeks. The large shoe factory of 1. M. Reynolds & Co. was burned in Brockton, Mass. 'The loss is estimated at £IOO,OOO ~Tand the insarance at $82,000. The fire followed a terrific explosion which wrecked a part of the factory. Gov. Herrick of Ohio has signed the Brannock local option bill and it is now a law. Under its provisions owners representing 55 per cent of the property frontage on any city block can vote out saloons in their territory. Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota used a ‘“swear word” in debate in the | Senate and convulsed the dignified members when, in telling of the hardships the settlers of Alaska had endured, he exclaimed, ‘“We have not done 4 — thing.” In the Common Pleas Court in Sandusky, Ohio, Judge Reed ruled that the Ohio State medical law is unconstitutional because it limits the right to practice without the use of drugs or medirines to osteopaths, and by the rule of exelusion Christian Scientists are prohibited. The Yukon country is rich in diamonds, rubies and sappnires, according to reports received at Dawson, where an expedition is being formed to explore the region for gems. According to reports reeeived from there the gizzards of wild birds have been found to contain gems of the purest rays. Fire in refinery No. 3 of the Gulf Re- ! fining Company at Port Arthur, 'J'exus,‘ following a double explosion in the agitators, resulted in the loss of refinery No. l 3 and the partial loss of refinery No. 2. About 50,000 barrels of oil were destroyed. It is thought the loss on oil, ma chinery and buildings will amount 8 $300,000.

EASTERIN. | Exposition Hall in Philadelphia, where | the Republican national convention of 1900 met, collapsed, injuring several workmen, | Clyde Ore, 35 years old, who hails | from Wisconsin, shot and killed Addie Blossom, 238 years old, in Batavia, N. Y., f | and then killed himselt. | ‘ ['rank A. Munsey, after trying for ! | more than two vears to make a sm-(-vss‘ of the New York Daily News, admits | defeat and will retire within a month. Sawmuel Andrews, partner with John D. Rockefeller and Henry M. Flagler in the creation of the Standard Oil Company, died at the Hotel Brighton in At- l lantie City, of pneumonia. ’ The large flouring mill of the Miner- | Hillard Company at Miner's Mills, near | Wilkesbarre, PPa., was totally destroyed by fire, together with two grain elevators and two houses, Loss, £150,000. Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by her two sons, Theodore, Jr., and Kermit, returned to Washington from Groton, Mass., where the Roosevelt boys have been attending school. Both boys have the mumps. The first trip through the New York subway in a regulation motor car with passengers was made Wedaiesday from 135th street to a point downtown, August Belmont and John B. McDonald, with twenty other persons, were aboard. In a battle at Hazleton, Pa., in broad daylight with five highwaymen John Gaffney, aged 18, shot'and killed two of his assailants and put the others to flight. e carried $3,000 for the pay | G&ige B, Hodgdon’ Wta i™Y from the Bigelow Carpet Company and $14,000 from the Clinton Wire Company. Hodgdon was bookkeeper for Charles I. Fairbanks, who is treasurer of both companies. Judge Alton B. Parker was named by the New York State Democratic convention as its choice for the presidency by a vote of 301 to 149. The unit rule was adopted in spite of the opposition of Tammany, although the tiger is given one of the delegates at large. A tentative agreement has been reached in New York to prevent the marriage of a divorced person by a minister of another church at a conference of Bishop Doane, Bishop MeVickar, Bishop Coadjutor Greer, the Rev. Dr. John Fulton of Philadelphia and Francis Lynde Stetson. Delegates also were present from the Presbyterian, Methodist Reformed, Lutheran, Baptist, Congregational and Reformed Presbyterian denominations. WESTERN. Daniei Kis of Cleveland drank a quart of whisky on a bet, and it killed him. Twelve prisoners confined in the military guardhouse in Des Moines escaped : by sawing their way out with a case knife. In a class rush between Nelson and Willis business colleges in Springfield, Ohio, Edward Stumps shot William Circle because he snatched away his colors. Amar Nath, an Indian prince from Lahore, was knocked from a bicycle and probably. fatally injured in Lafayette, Ind. Nath is a junior student at Purdue University. Fire of unknown origin gutted the Commercial Hotel, a three-story brick building and an old landmark in Mouroeville, Ohio. Barney Sickinger, a guest, was suffocated. ‘Rena Johnson, the 12-year-old daughter of Mr., and Mrs. Charles Johnson, residents of Sioux Falls, 8. D., is dead ‘as the result of a chunk of belogna lodging in her windpipe. - ?ifbke_gggrev Denker, the last of the men " who served on the jury which convicted the Haymarket anarchists in Chicago, died April 8 an inmate of the State in- - sane asylum at Elgin. ~ In Salt Lake, Utah, a nail was drawn from a point close to the heart of lLouise Cherry, aged 16 months, by means of an electro magnet. The child swallowed the nail two weeks before. - In Kansas City a duel between George Waring, son of the city health officer, and William West, a negro, resulted in the death of the negro and thirteen kuife wounds on Waring's body. The will of the late Rev. Charles Stroud, filed for probate in Springfield. Ohio, bequeaths the entire estate, valued at $300,000, to Wittenberg College, a large Lutheran institution there, The plea that lier husband snored so loudly that she could not sleep did not suffice to secure a divorce for Mrs. Albert Phenix of Omaha, and her application was refused by the aunthorities. Harry McAleer, who in 1889 murdered \Frank Evans, a Horton (Kan.) man, was arrested in Fort Scott on the street, and made a full confession. Remorse of conscience caused him to confess, he said. Jealousy made Mrs. C. J. Stone of Ogden, Utah, poison her husband and then commit suicide in the same way. The bodies of both were found in a room. together with letters indicating the manner of death. In a head-on collision hetween two passenger trains on the Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railroad at DBlue Ash, Ohio, one man was Kkilled and two sericusly injured. James DBaker, engineer, was killed. The Iroquois Theater in Chicago has been sold to Rich & Harris of New York and Boston. The playhouse will be reconstructed, refurnished and opened early next fall as a vaudeville theater under another name. John Bennett, a negro, aged 25, was electrocuted at the annex of the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus for the murder of his wife at Oberlin, Ohio, last December, because she had left him and refused to be reconciled. | The St. Louis Court of Appeals has decided that when hop tea causes persons who drink it to become intoxicated, the presumption that hop tea is beer is strong enough to warrant a conviction of the person selling it without a license. Mayor Jones of Toledo, the *‘golden rule advocate,” has made the employes of the 8. M. Jones Company a gift of SIO,OOO worth of stock of the company. The gift is a clean present, the Mayor stating that there are ‘“‘no strings” to it.

One woman is dead and six more were probably fatally hurt in a fire panic in St. Vincent’s hospital at Indianapolis. Rescue of the endangered invalids was marked by many acts of heroismm. The Occidental Hotel also was destroyed by flames. The coal operators and miners signed an agreement in Des Moines, under the terms of which Towa mines will be operated for the two years dating from April 1 last. The scale was finally ratified by the miners’ branch of the joint conference by a vote of 139 to 119. The miners returned to work. Because his age would not permit him to saw aud split wood as rapidly as he did in his youth, William King, 85 years old and worth $500,000, cut his throat with a razor in Portland, Ore. The sharp edge of the steel caunsed him to involuntarily throw his head back, and that may save his life. Articles of incorporation have been filed with the Secretary of State in Pierre, 8. D., for the National Fesrmers’

e ———————o———————_——————————————————————— Excliange, with South Dakota headquare ters at Pierre and affices in Chicago, and a capital of $50,000,000. This corporation has for its purpose co-operation in the handling of all products of the farms. Judge James P’helan in Detroit discharged the jury in the murder trial of George W. Parker, dismissed the emirel present panel of 200 jurors drawn for the recorder’s court and ordered 150 new talesmen drawn. Judge Phelan denouneed the employment of men to ascertain the sentiments of talesmen before cases came to trial. The Ohio Legislature has agreed upon a compromise on the Brannock distriet local option bill for municipalities, and it will be signed by the Governor. The bill provides for local option elections by distriets in municipalities on petition of 40 per cent of the electors. When an election is held the result will control for a period of two vears. John A. Sheridan, former member of the St. Louis house of delegates, whose appeal from the verdict in a lower court convicting him in the boodle cases is before the Supreme Court, and Thomas E. Kinney were arrested and are held in connection with the assault o Charles O’Brien, editor and publisher of the American ('elt, who is dead. O’'Brien was found unconscious the other night. He suffered from concussion of the brain, and as complications arose the physicians had little hope of his recovery. Senator Dietrich of Nebraska has been declared by a special committee of Congress to be not guilty of any violation of the statutes of the United States or of ‘any corrupt or unworthy conduct relating either to the appointment of Jacob (OERAT Masiiz of e AGI At iRcE Neb- | to the United States for a postofich. e committee which investigated the charges against Senator Dietrich was composed of Senators Hoar, Platt of Connecticut, Spooner, Cockrell and IPettus. Three members of the committee are Republicans and two Democrats. The report is unanimous, Peter Niedemeyer, the leader of the Chicago car barn bandits, condemned to die on the gallows, made two desperate attempts at suicide. Niedemeyer had planned carefully, but was unsuecessfid. First he masticated and swallowed the lieads of seventy-five or 100 sulphur matches. While the phosphorus was burning his’ stomach he sawed at the radial artery of his left wrist with a sharppointed lead pencil. Striking a bone in the wrist, he gave up trying to sever the artery and turned his weapon to the large veins on the outer side of the left forearm and with jabs and a see-saw motion he lacerated the flesh and muscles of the arm and tore open the veins, leaving a large jagged wound exposed, through which the blood gushed in streams, dyoing his bed clothing and running down io\'vr the cell floor in pools. FHis second attempt came after the wound had leen dressed and closed by County Physician McNamara. Niedemeyer was lying apparently unconscious in the hospital under a guard’s care. His right armn and hand were hidden by the bed clothing and with hardly a discernible motion, he slipped the bandages off his left arm and with his sharp finger nails attempted tol tear away the threads in the wouund, but he was prevented from doing it. | FCREIGN. ! Hadji Mohammed Bui Abdulial, the Madt Mullah, against whom the DBritish have been conducting a campaign in Son:aliland, bas escaped into Italian terri- | tory. | Twelve thousand Japanese troops, landing near Wiju, are reported ambushed by the Russians and driven back to their ships with great loss of life and ammunition. Vassili Verestchagin, +he Russian painter, was Vice Admiral Makarofl's guest on the Petropavliovsk when the Russian battleship sank off Port Arthur. 1t is reported that he was lost with the ship. The British torpedo-boat destroyer Teazer crashed into sea wall at Portsmouth and sank, while engaged in mock attack on the harbor for the edification of Prince Henry of Prussia. The crew was saved. A special dispatch from St. Petersburg says the son of Gen. Kazarkoff was killed in his room at the Hotel Du Nord as the result of a dynamite outrage. The police, it is added, discovered documents revealing the author of the outrage. Col. Marchand, who in an open letter concerning his tender of resignation from the French army declared that he had been slandered and was suffering from military ostracism, has been placed under arrest. He will be confined for thirty days. The Russian battleship Petropaviovsk was sunk off Port Arthur by a mine or torpedo and SOO of her crew, inciuding Vice Admiral Makaroff, drowned. Grand Duke Cyril, in linc to the Russian throne, escaped death, but is reported seviously injured. The Russian tfleet was being driven back by the Japanese squadron when the Petropavlorsk was suuk. IN GENERAL. The United States is arranging for the payment to Cuba of 58137.000, which amount was incurred by Cuba in purchasing private properties within the sites of the United States naval statious at Guantanamo and Bahia Honda. The midwinter dances of the Nome Indians have resulted in buryving alive a number of their female offspring. Moved by an inherent dislike for girls and also by some strange superstition, the savages buried the daughters of their people when only one week oid. Andrew Carnegie has established a “hero fund” eof 35,000,000 to reward those in peaceful vocations who perform heroic acts, for the relief of those injured in efforts to save human life, and to eare for and educate the families of those who sacrifice their own lives for others. The battleship Missouri and the 600 men on board were saved after the explosion Wednesday by the heroism of a gunner's mate, who, seeing.the flames threatening the powder magazine below decks, jumped into the magazine and closed the door. The dead now number thirty-three. Twenty-seven State Legislatures, comprising all the St:x.tafs in the Mexican republic, having ratified tho. new constitutional amendments extending the presidential term from four to six years and creating the office of vice president, Congress will now formally declare that the organic law has been thus amended. Twenty-nine men were killed instantly on the United States battleship Missouri at target practice off Pensacola, Fla., by an explosion of powder in one of the turrets. Hasty firing is believed by naval officers to have heen the cause of the explosion, which is the most disastrous in the history of tha navy with the exception of the blowing up of the Maine. Commander Peary anusounced the oth; er day that it would be impossible for him to start for the north pole this summer, as the guarantee fund of $200,000 had not yet been fully subscribed. He will send a preliminary expedition north in July to establish a coal depot on the coast of Greenland, opposite Cape Sabine, and soon will let the contract for his own ship, in which he will start for the pole with his main expedition in July, 1905,

N . \ YNNI | RUSSIA ?‘ SAD WEEK. HOODOO OF BAD LUCK STiLL PURSUES CZAR’'S FORCES. Disaster to Petropaviovsk Caused by a Jap Countermine—Togo Lnred Admiral Makaroff from Shelter by Tampting Bait—Russians in a Panic. The hoodoo es bad luck still pursues the Russians ig their naval operations in the Fast. Last week was a calamitous one for them. The Port Arthur fleet, which at the beginhing of the war consisted of seven battleships and about the same number of cruisers, has been reduced to two undamaged battleships and to two or three cruisers. ‘The persistent hammering of the Japanese has so weakened it that its only hope of safety is to remain in the harbor, protected by the guns of the forts, and await the arrival of the Baltie ficet. That fleet, on which the hopes of the Russians are centered, ought to be leaving soon for the Orient. The chimerical project of sending it by way of the Arctic ocean has nor been entertained. The vessels wiil pursue the customary ronte. When the l‘m:'()p:!\'ln\"k was sunk by a Japanese counterinine the Russians lost the best hattleship ©ft to them after the disablinggof tb- Retvizan and Czareviteh. Thed et over T men, and among tlleu‘iugt who counted for more than all tll"{{{/“lé}‘s——.\dmil':‘.i Makaroff. :e giped he could not, cven Wflband skillful seaman, have fabnfi‘t%yt with a crippied fleet. On r}""h} Admiral Togo again bombarded P, Arthur, to what purpose is unknown. 3robably the = immensely strong forf@ %ions have not heen damaged by hi-}fil‘(-. On this oceasion the Russian fleefdid not venture out into the roadstead,! akit has usually done. After the sinking i the Petropaviovsk nud a - torpedo hoitand the injury received by the PobiedaiVedunesday, no more chances - will be takp. It is reported that Ad- - mirat Togois still benr on blocking the entrance tathe harbor by sinking mer-

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l m‘,‘""_.::‘:_‘::::: Aet e i chant vessds, e is one of the pl‘l‘&i.\!‘, ent men who usually earry through their plans sooner or later. : | On land, the war moves slowly. That | [ may be due in part to the condition of | the roads g northwestern Korea. Men | who ser\’vfi the army of the Potomace | and have @™ ely recollection of Virginia | mud will + "1 huve to be told what a draz { bad road: mmon the movemeunts of an ALY, Iy nallese are apprrently add i ng te b -rees on the Yalu, but they | do not Vhiave made a serious ;’.i-: tempt 1o erg M‘ river. NoO Bews comnes ; from the cofhhs;m‘.u‘wms who were allow- | ed to joir. the army operating in Korea, | and the natural conclusion is that th.-!, Japanese are not yet ready to force the fighting. | The Japanese holkl most of Koaorea. They have a grip on the terrvitory which I was the eause of the war. If Russia had conveded to Japan exclusive control ! over Korea there would have heen no fighting. It is impossible, however, for the Japanese to stop at the Yain fortify themselves, and prepsre to resist a Russian attack. They must move on into Manchuria. The military experts dis- | axree as to what should be their objective | points. It is the belief of some that the Japanese forees should and will push on | to Harbin, far in the interior on the Sungari river., They argue that if the Japanese were to defeat the Russians and occupy that peint the Russians weunld not be able so find a new hase of opera tions and supplies anywhere east of Lake Baikal, and wonld be at a terrible disadvantage when they resumed fighting next vear. Other experts aver that if the Japanege were to march to Harbin they would march back from there in as bad shape as Napoleon's troops did from Moscow, and that it will be madupess for the Japs to ditempt to go any farther than Mukden.| The Japanese are layving their own plans and Kkeéping their own counsel Many things the experis said they would do at once they have not done. They have made no attempts to storm Port Arthur or to effeet a landing on the Liaotung peninsul® in order to isolate that place, nltlmnzfi apparently nothing is more desirzlhl@t‘ The Japanese plan of campaign is sfill a sealed book. ___.—(,«___.._.__..-.___..__. ‘ PANIC I%iflUSSIAN CitY. Viadivostok ¥s Facing Famine and MW snts Have Fled. The popul;xfi' .g‘!!t‘u.\{'fndi\'nstolg is in want of the iy [ Wecessary kinds of provisions afiMomvmmu'n of fioaded rivers which int: Fupt communications it is impossible tgfnmish them supplies. There is also a seu"‘ity of money. Many inhabitants, particilarily the women and children, are leaving the city, abandoning their property, which they are unable to sell. Half of the houses in Viadivostok are empty and the civilian population is already reduced to 5,000. * Authentic advices from Seoul declare that the Japanese are in complete control of Korea and that the Russian scouting parties have retired across the Yalu before the Japanese, who occupied \Wiju practically without resistance. The Japanese army is divided into two forses, one for expeditionary purposes and the other for occupation. The former, numbering 45,000, is advancing to the Yalu and the latter, consisting of 15,000 reservists, is making far-sighted communication arrangements with the headquarters at Seoul, where there is a garrison of 4,000. The headquarters of the transport service is at Chemulpo. | Railroad building ard road grading is progressing rapidly. The fortification of Kojedo island at the mouth of Masampo harbor, which protects the southern terminus of overland communication, also guards the passage to Vladivostok and Port Arthur, through Broughton strait. Forty transports off laiju are supposed to have landed part ¢f their forces at Takushan and it is the evident intention to disembark a second army at Yongampo preparatory to attacking the Rus- | sians on the Yalu

S TSN, . RBTSI K AN — —————— e ————————————————— ———e —————— JAPS LURE TO DEATH. TL.atest Disaster to Russian Warships Is Fully Explained. The Japanese are elated over the suecesses they have won at DPort Arthur. They are also proud of the achievements of Vice Admiral Togo, particularly of his newest strategy of counter-mining the enemy’'s harbor and decoying him across this field of mines to an equally dangerous flank attack. The success of the system of placing deadly counter-mines is due largely o a series of careful observations made by the Japanese during their previous attacks on Port Arthur. The Japanese saw the Russian fleet leave the harbor and return to it several times, and they discovered that the Russian warships followed an identical course every time they came out or went in, evidently for the purpose of aveiding their own mines. The Japanese took bearings on this course. When the destroyer divisions of the Japanese torpedo flotilla laid the counter-mines during the night of April 12-13 they placed them along this course. The laying of these counter-mines was exceedingly perilous, because, if any Japanec=c boat with mines on board had been struck by a lucky Russian shot she would have been annihilated. The weather ot the night of April 1213. favored the work. There was a heavy rain, the night was dark and cloudy and the Russian searchlights playing over the channel failed to reveal the presence of the Japanese destroyers. Rear Adimiral Dewa was in eommand of the Japanese squadron which decoyed the Russian ships over the field of mines. His squadron consisted of the cruisers Chitose, Yoshino, Kasagi and Takasago, all unarmered vessels, which presented a tempting bait for the heavier Russian ships. Vice Admiral Tego directed the flank attack. He had the battleships Hatsuse, Mikasa, Asahi, Shikishima, Yashima and Fuji. He waited thirty miles out at sea until Rear Admiral Dewa signaled him by wireless telegraphy to come in. Ilis vessels then dashed at full speed toward the entrance of the harbor. All the battleships under Viece Admiral Togo are capable of a speed of eighteen knots and they quickly covered the distance.

l It is not elear what warned the LRussians that they had been trapped, but {t!w,\' probably discerned the battleship i squadron on the horizon and retreated iprt*ripit:lh'h‘ to the harbor. Vice Adi miral Togo did not sueceed in preventing } the Runssians from entering, but did force ;lhem to a disastrous retreat; which end;m\ in the destruction of the etropavi lovsk and the disabling of the Pobieda. z After these occurrences the cruisers Nishin and Kasuga were used to bom{bard Tort Arthur. They possess the Ihi:lu\st angled guns in the fleet, capable { of throwing shells to the elevated Rus’s:i:m landd works, which are bevend at- ‘ tainment by the average naval weapon. i Expressions of regret at the death j of Vice Admiral Makaroff are gzeneral in i Tokio. Speaking for the naval staff, '('nm!nundvr Ogasawara was published a y lengthy statement in which he laments j!!m death of the Russian vice admiral i and pronounces it to be a loss to the | navies of the world. Commander Oga- | sawara reviews the life, professional ca- | reer and the personal attributes of Viee [.\!lmixul Makaroff and declares that he | is entitled to be classed with the best ;:nhnir:xh‘ in the worid. | The Koryn Maru, which participated in the latest attack on Port Arthur, is a ‘turpm]u depot-ship, under the command of Commander Oda, Oda is a mine ex- { pert and the success of the Japanese { counter-mining operations was due large- { Iy to his ingenuity and bravery. 1 s e i KOREAN PALACE BURNED, Imperial Family Flee from Fire of Inl cendiary Origin., The imperial palace at Seoul, INorea, l was destroyed by fire the other night. Yi-Hi-Young, the Emperor; Empress Om, } Yi-Ni-Ek and the imperial household escaped to the American legation. The fire was of incendiary origin. The British legation was saved by hard work on the | part of the Japanese, French and Italian | soldiers. These forced an entrance to the pajace inelosure and tore down the smaller buildings in juxtaposition to the palace. The palace cost about $250,000 when | built. No estimate is given as to the vaiue of the contents. Several of the officials are free in their assertions that the fire was the work of persons recently returned to Seoul after banishment. These persens,” forming a guild, were banished by royal edict a month and more ago, out recently returned and have <ince been suspected of intrigue with proRussian influences. However, the suspicions directed toward the members of the | guild come from those officials pronouneed in their pro-Japanese sympathies. The Korean Emperor will occupy thae American legation for the present. Japanese troops are now guarding the imperial inclosures and the buildings S rTIITIIrIiIILTLiLiTTTUTTLIuTTThTTLTTY . i! WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. “ : NSNS NSNS Frequent skirmishes are reported between Sakju and Wiju. More Russian eavalry has been dispatched to the far East. It is believed in Tokio that fighting has commenced on the Yalu river. According to statements made by IKoreans, the Russians are utilizing trained dogs to act as messengers and order bearers. A report from Gen. Kouropatkin says fifty Japanese scouts were drowned or shot to death in an engagement on the Yalu river opposite Wiju. A dispatch from Harbin says that the Pekin government is showing a more con- | ciliatory spirit and that the local Chinese authorities are posting neutrality proclamations daily. The foreign office at St. Petershurg denies the report circulated by the St James’ Gazette of London that CGrea: Britain and Russia have reached ajy agreement covering the Thibetan expeds tion.

tREAT TORONTO FIRE | GREAT TORONTO | ! AN ! BUSINESS AREA OF CANADIAN ‘ CITY WRECKED: | Damage Done Will Reach $10,000,004 ‘ —Ruin Overtakes More than Thirty Big Buildings Water at Last Stops Course of Flames. ! s % Flames that swept the wholesale di.v‘ trict of Toronto, (anada, Tuesday night | with startling rapidity destroyed nn.mg than thirty of the leading business build- | ings. The properiy loss will reach £lO,- | 000,00 C. From the Cuirie warehouse, | in Wellington street, where it originated, i the fire spread quickly to the west, con- ’ suming eight big buildings in less than an s hour. Then the flames made a clean | sweep up Wellington street, leaving dwi vastation on both sides of that thoroughfare. The contiagration raged down Bay ' street, destroying every building on both ‘ sides of the street from the National | Club to Front street. Nothing could n-.-l sist the sweep of the fire as int rushed down Bay street toward the lake. It stopped only when it had reach>d the water. ‘ Help irom Outside. Appeals were sent early to cvery s:m‘-‘ rounding city where fire apparatus could be obtained, including London, Montreal, Hamilton and even Buffzlo, N. Y. Little 1 assistance arrived for several hours, and | by the time it came no number of men and no amount of fire apparatus could have checked the march of the flames. the spread of the fire, but though many frame buildings and several huge business bfocks were demolished, the flames leaped the great gaps and licked up building after building. At 11 o'clock the fire was believed to be under control. but a rising and shifting wind turn-

ed the torrent of flame down Bay street. | and it was after that that the greatest ; damage was done. Many Small Fires, ! The fire started at 9 o’clock. Throughout the course of the contlagration high ! winds carried huge brands to far-away sections of the city, causing many incip:- ; ent fires, which were fought by bucket | brigades of the householders. ail the fire- | fighting force being engaged at the scene -of the eonflagration. The firemen made the fight of their lives. Several engine companies at times \‘ were believed lost under falling debris, | - but all emerged safely, and so far as is l known only one man is unaceounted for. | He is George Dowkes of Montreal, who was with Fire Chief Thompson of Toronto aiding to direct the work of the | [ firemen on the room. Thompson was cut l off by the flames and jumped to thel ground, escaping with a broken leg. A' mass of wires broke his fall. Dowkes | has not been seen since. t Almost the only building which defied | the flames was the Queen's Hotel, in' Wellington street. There the work of | the firemen seemed to avail to some extent, and the fire was stopped at that point, but it swept across the street and ’ added blocks to the blackened trail of ruined buildings. i Repelled by Heat. ! The heat in the streets was so fierce that the fire-fighting forces were unable to appreach near enough to the fire to do good service, and were forced to do the most of their work from side streets. When the fire reached the lake fireboats aided in preventing it from extending along the water front, as was feared by the firemen. STATEHOOD BlL(L IS PASSED. House Adds Oklahoma and Arizona to the Union Group. ‘ Some progress toward adding two! stars to the flag was made Tuesday! when the National House of Representa- i | tives by a vote of 148 to 104 adopted the | | statchood bill making one State of In- | | dian and Oklahoma territories and au-& ! other of Arizona and New Mexico. One | State will be known as Oklahoma, with the capital at Guthrie, and the other as Arizona, the capital of which will be Santa Fe. Oklahoma will not become a | State until all the Indian treaties have | been extinguished, but Arizona will hei admitted as soon as the new constitution | | has been ratitied by the people. i ‘ Until the next census is taken Oklfl-% | homa will be entitled to five representa- | | tives in Congress, while Arizona will be | ‘givon only two. Os course each State | i will bave two Senators. The Governors | | of the States, the Legislatures, and the | ‘ mémbers of the national House will be | i elected on the day set for the ratification E ’of the constitutions of the two States. | Polygamy is forever prohibited in oitheré 101‘ these States. An appropriation ofi !'.‘5.'),(\)4).000 is made for a public schooli system in Oklahoma, and 5 per cent of | i the proceeds of the publie lands \\'ithin} | the State of Arizona which are sold sub- i { sequent to the admission of the State | | will be devoted to the public schools. The ; [l)(’flln(‘]‘:lti(‘ minority opposed the adop- | ! tion of the measure, and the vote casti { was divided on party lines. ! ! The measure now goes to the Senate. ! ‘ but there is no intention on the part of ‘ | the leaders of that body to adopt it at | this session. An attempt will be made, however, to put it through next winter. | § CHURCH AND CLERGY. § D LR LB UO LD LD LB LR | \ PN AN ’ | Bishop McCabe recently dedicated a | l new Methodist church at Chillicothe, Mo. | The Rt Rev. G. TI. Ormsby, bishop | of Spanish Honduras, is at present in this country. t The Rt. Rev. Thomas Fielding Seott, t the first bishop of the Episcopal Chureh in Oregon, was sent to that field in 1853. | Both the Queen of Holland and the | Queen’s mother have contributed to the | funds of the Salvation army in the Neth- . erlands. ‘ The Rev. David Hogan of Vernon | County, Me., has performed, :n's"m!ingi to his record, 1,007 marriage ceremonies | during his long ministry of sixty-cight | years. ; Plans for a big Jewish technical school i for girls, to cost $275,000 and to hei built at the corner of Second avenue and | Fifteenth street, New York, have been | made. { Among strange legacies may be classed | that of a Vermont man who left SSOO to | his church, the income to be used in | sweeping the snow off the church pave- | ment. Mgr. Saratini, apostolie visitor to Mex- | ico, recently appointed by Pope Pius, | will reach that country within a short | time. His mission will be entirely eccle- | siastical. | Dr. W. B. Slutz of Pittsburg is preach- | ing a series of Sunday evening sermons | on “The Power of the Gespel Illustrated | by the lives of McKinley, Lincoln and ! Washington.” i Archbishop Guidi, apostolie delegate in | the Philippines, has informed the Vati- | can that he intends to convoke on St. | Peter’'s day. June 29, an ecclesiastical ! national Filipino council to establish f rules for the Catholic hierarchy ia the | archipelago. i

SN ALY ™ ORI I S % - ’ Wi b L & L 24, 53 2 - > A"5 :A 2N 3 o¢ ‘ — 4 !“"(\(V?rv\-\ o ':0}1 P UTR T IRNEFIIYS ‘ The Senate devoted almost the entire day Thursday to the bill for the govern-!x-wut of the Panama canal zone. Mr. Morgan’s resolution calling on the Attorine‘v General for information on the eoni tract for the purchase of the canal was | referred. In executive session the nomi- ’ nation of W. . Crum to be collector of i‘(-ustoms at Charleston, 8. C., came up, innd went over out of consideration for Mr. Tilbnan, who was unable to speak because of illness. A reselution was adopted authorizing the lowering of government dams in the Illinois river. The Senate accepted the invitation to attend the opening of the world's fair and provided for representation. ‘il'he House passed the Philippine bill by a vote of 139 to 123, W. A. Smith of Michizan voting with the Democrats. In the debate Mr. Williams of lliinois predicted great scandals from the ailministration ot the measure. A resolution to permit Col. T. W. Symons of the engineer corps of the army to serve as consulting engineer on internal improvement in the State of New York was passed after bitter ¢pposition by several members. The closing hour of the session of the Senate Friday was enlivened by a speech by Mr. Bailey on the subject of civil service. In plain terms he declared him- = civil service and avowed himself a spoilsman. Mr. Hale spoke in =zccord with much that Mr. Bailey said, but added that Congress could not be induced to change the law even though convinced ' that it should be changed. The Panama. { canal bill occupied the major portion of

the day and was passed without division. It was amended so that all salaries or other compensation fixed by the commis-' sion shall be subjeet to the approval of the President. The postofice appropriation bill was referred to a couference committee. The House passed the Mann bill ordering the lowering of the Chicago river tunnels. Consideration of the general deficieney bill was resumed and the President’s recent pension order avas attacked by Mr. Undeinvood (Ala.). The entire day in the Senate Saturday was given to the consideration of a bill for the modification of the agreement with the Indians of the Devil’s Lake reservation in North Dakota for the sale of their lands. Messrs. Dubois and Teller opposed the bill because it did not provide for the acquisition of the lands in the reservation under the homestead law, and it was defended by Messrs. IHansbrough, McCumbes and others. No decision was reached. Mr. Morgan called up his resolution for the discharge of fthe committee on interoceanic canals from consideration of a resolution of in- - quiry concerning the Panama canal, introduced recently, but his resolution was voted. down. A partial report {rom the conference on the naval appropriation bill was received and further conference ordered. The routine work on the genral deficiency bill was nearly completed in the House. Preceding this the I)istrict of Columbia was legisiated for in several minor matters. The feature of the session was a speech of eriticism on “Theodore Roosevelt, the Repubiican Presidential Candidate,” by Mr. Patterson (Tenn.. A bill was passed to validate certain homestead entries and extend the time to make final proofs there- jt . . The Senate Monday continued consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill, but did not conclude it. Several bills were passed.. Mr. Doeolliver intro- | duced a resolution directing the Secre- | tary of Commerce and Labor v make a *report show,’ng comparisons of the independent incorporations since 1004 with the so-called trusts and combines. The House passed the last of the supply bills of the government, the general deficiency appropriation measure. after a stormy ; session, which lasted until after 8 o’clock. { The contest was a party one over the de- ’ ficiency appropriation for peusions. which i the Democrats ineffectively tried to i amend by ineorporatinz as a law the re- | cent exeeutive age disability pension orider. They finally secured a roll call, af- | ter the Speaker had deelined to recog- { nize Mr. Moon, who had intreduced the | measure, but when the vote had heen | taken all further oppesition ceased and !the bill was passed. Mr. Hitt's Chinese ie.\'clusinn bill was accepted without ob- | jeetion. The conference report on the § army appropriation bill was agreed to. t i l In the Senate Tuesaay Mr. Morgzan | presented a memorial from Congo Free lSt;m* missionaries asking an investigation into the conditions in their territory. {The matter was referred for investiga- { tion. The army appropriation bili was | passed. The sundry civil hill was taken %up. involving the question of additicnal ; accommodations in the way of oflices and ! committee rooms. One provision wus for an addition to the east front of the capi'tol and another was for an outside Senate office and committee huilding. The former provision was fought by Mr. Dacon, who declared an addition would be sacrilege. and the latter was opposed by | Mr. Berry. who said a separate ofiice !Wflfl]d be extravagant. By a strict party | vote of 147 to 104 the House passed the | bill providing for joing.statehogd of Ine idi:m territory and OKlaho:na h { name of Oklahoma, and »f AWCCTTand New Mexico under the name of Arizona. t)[r. Williams of Mississippi declared the majority had no idea that the lieasure Iw.mld become a law at this session, as it ! had not been drawn in such away as to | command the votes of the minority. Dei nving that the Republicans had heen f,gnilry of had faith. Mr. Dalzell said the { bill would take its course as a pariy i measure. i In the National Capital. { The internal revenue tax of © cents ! a pound on leaf tobaceo is eliminated by !the terms of a bill on which favorable i action was taken by the internal revenue ;sub-committee of the House on ways i and means. { A pathetic message came over the ; cable to the State Department from { United States Consul Fee at Bombay, { India® as follows: “Daunghter dead—i plague; wife attacked.” Mr. Fee is a na- | tive of Ohio and was appointed in 18399, ? Henry Dodge of New York is vice consul | at Bombay. | By a party vote the House committeo ;nn ways and means voted down motions ! made respectively by Representative ; Williams (Miss.) and Representative i Clark (Mo.) to favorably report bills i placing salt. coal, hides, woo! pulp, ag- | ricultural implements and other articlks g.m the free list. | Mr. Hemenway informed the House { that the estimate of SGO.OOO for White | House repairs was sent to Congress i without President Roosevelt’'s knowl- { edge. uand the President had stated $35.,{Ut") was suificient. Mr. Hemenway also Esmted that the DPresident did not ask | for a $90,000 stavle, as had bcen rel ported.