Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 42, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 30 April 1904 — Page 2

ent. I-1 lb ho r* INDIANA. *&-. . CIRCLING THE GLOBE Ester Ready was killed, James Dunn, ex-chief of police, was perhaps fatally wounded and ex Sheriff David A. Osborn dangerously wounded at Corvallis. Ore., in a pistol tight, resulting from an atteuin( to erpeo. Ready for firing off a pistm in tlie street. The I’inebrook breaker of the Si ranton Coal Company was almost completely destroyed by fire at Scranton, l’a. The loss is estimated at $60,000. All the (506 men at work in the mine when the fire broke out. together with the mules, were got out in safety through the secondary openings. The (fraud Trunk elevator at Midland. Out., was struck by lightning and totally destroyed. It had a capacity of 500.000 bushels and was leased by E. If. Bacon & Co. of Chicago. The large grain boats Midland Queen. Midland King, Algonquin and Rosedale, lying alongside the elevator, were damaged. One man was killed. , Two companies of Japanese infantry forced a crossing of the Yalu river near Tchangdjiou, their movements being proat Tatung-Kan. They entreiTchetr tnemseives, and under the tire of their guns re-enforcements crossed. Four Japanese transports, conveying 4,0(H) Japanese troops, are reported sunk by the Russian Vladivostok squadron. That part of the Rosebud Indian reservation to be opened to homestead settlement under the law signed by President Roosevelt the other day embraces twenty-two townships in Gregory County, South Dakota, and is mostly range and farm land of a high class. The reservation borders on the Missouri river and twenty small streams flow through it. Pope Pius X., in a public letter to President Nick Chiles of the Western Negro Press Association, urges all Catholics in America to be duly considerate of negroes. Papal intervention in behalf of the black man was secured by President Chiles, who is also editor of the Topeka Plain Dealer. The letter contains the following passage: “His holiness, as the vicar of Christ, extends his care to every race without exception, and uses his good offices to urge all Catholics to be friendly to negroes.'' The clubs of the National League now . stand thus: W. L. W. L. New York.... 7 2 Boston •"» 5 St. Louis.... 5 3 Pittsburg .... 4 6 Cincinnati ... 6 4 Chicago 3 5 Brooklyn .... 6 5 Philadelphia.. 2 8 The table below shows how matters stand ,in the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston 8 2 St. Louin 4 4 Chicago 6 4 Cleveland .... 4 5 New York.... 5 4 Detroit 4 5 Philadelphia.. 5 4 Washington. .. 0 8 NEWS NUGGETS. Despondency caused City Attorney W. B. Henderson of Memphis. Teun., to commit suicide by shooting himself through the head. Four tramps, who left Winona. Minn., with two gallons of alcohol, were found ground to pieces on the railroad track I jnst outside the city limits. W. H. Johnson, accused of appropriating funds while secretary of the Min- * neapolis board of charities and corrections, was found not guilty after a six days' trial. Col. Leutwein, Governor of German Southwest Africa, cables that typhus has broken out in Major von Glasenapp s column. Seven deaths from the disease are recorded. Burial vault of Gen. Harry Livingston and his wife. “Lady Mary,” near Hudson, N. Y., was entered by ghouls, who stole the woman's body and broke the other casket. Gov. Herrick's veto of the Chisholm bill to legalize pool selling on the race tracks of the State means the end of the famous Glenville track in Cleveland as a grand circuit point. The decision of Judge Morris at Duluth against the Diamond Match Company. refusing an injunction against the Union Match Company, is regarded as a hard blow at the match trust. A New York phrenologist, who made a study of Russell Sage, says the financier’s master passion is a desire to conquer in the battle of life and not the abstract love; of hoarding money. The collapse of a cage in the Robinson mine at Johannesburg precipitated forty-three natives 2.000 feet to the bottom. All were killed. The bottom of the shaft is a quagmire of human remains. Lawyer W. E. Noxon of Minneapolis fell from his brother's yacht at New Rochelle. N. Y., and was drowned. He was suffering from partial paralysis and had just returned from Porto Rico, where he spent the winter. Owners of vessels in a maritime syndicate have put their crews ashore and tied up their vessels at Marseilles. France, declaring that it is impossible to maintain discipline on board the ships because of the socialistic spirit. Samuel A. Gross, the former Washington policeman who was convicted with Machen. Lorenz and others in the postal fraud eases, turns out to have been the man who offered $25 as a prize for the Best poem against profanity. Thomas Emerson, a negro. whose heart was pierced by a penknife nearly two months ago, has recovered after undergoing the operation of having the wound stitched and has been discharged from Jefferson hospital in Philadelphia. The dead body of Major James W. Davis, an old and prominent citizen of Omaha and a brother-in-law of the late George Francis Train, was found in an alley in the northern part of the city. Major Davis had been in the habit of using strychnine as a nerve quieter. Mayor B. B. Brown of Pueblo. Colo., was indicted on three counts alleging false pretences and one alleging forgery, all growing out of charges in connection with the city pay rolls. Alderman Thos. Flynn was arrested on twenty-three indictments of the same character. In all fifty-two true bills were returned. The interior of the large four-story building of the Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, N. J., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of nearly $500.000, with insurance of $250,<100. More than 5(Xk000 phonographic records and 25.000 talking machines were destroyed. The orbit, of the comet discovered by Prof. Brooks has been calculated at the students’ observatory of the University of California by Curtiss and Albrecht from observations furnished by the Lick observatory. The comet has a short period. It is about two astronomical units from the sun and the earth and is moving away from both. It was discovered in the further part of the orbit.

eastern. Mrs William R. Hearst gave birth to a child in Washington. It is a boy, and mother and child are doing well. John Baptise Aiello was hanged at ' Brookville, Pa., for the murder of Frank } Carfa on the night of May 2 last year. ■ Mrs. Sara Jane Lippincott. known to (he literary world as Grace Greenwood, ■ died fit her home in New Rochelle, N. Y., I aged 80. Hiram S. Cronk, the only surviving pensioner of the war of 1812, celebrated Jlje 1.01111 "nnitersarv of his birth at Albany. N. Y. Public school teachers of Pittsburg hare organized a union, which has for its purpose securing increases in salary and other benefits. Charles Wetmore, after playing a game of baseball at Winsted, Conn., went home in an open carriage. When he arrived his ears were frozen. In Jamestown, N. Y., the factory of the Empire Furniture Company was destroyed by fire. The loss will amount to SIOO,OOO, with insurance $(>5,000. New 1 ork is deluged by a flood of currency unprecedented in the history of finance. A correspondent declares the banks are bursting with their treasure. Miss Tisdale of Boston went on board a liner at New York to bid Ethel Barrymore good-by and remained too long. The ship sailed and carried her to Europe. United States marines from the , League Island navy yard, Philadelphia, found a frog hunter stuck in a bog up to his neck. He had been there two hours. Three firemen were killed and fifteen injured at Newark, N. J., by the caving in of a roof from which they were fighting a fire in the factory of Weimer & Co. The Allegheny County (Pa.) courts have revoked all brewery licenses for fifteen days because the brewers persisted in selling beer to unlicensed saloons. J. J. Boyle, 18 years old, and who un- . til 12 years old was a breaker boy in the Pennsylvania mines, has been elected a < member of the Society of Fine Arts in ■ Paris. A movement is on foot in New York to establish a dlinic for the treatment of the poor by hypnotism, the treatment to । be similar to that so successfully used in Europe. Frank McNamara, employed for fifteen years in Chicago, pleaded guilty of murdering Captain Jennings in Brooklyn in the hope of covering up his theft of $5,000 from his western employer. t WESTERN. I “Lord" Barrington was sentenced to death in St. Louis for the murder of his benefactor. The Great Luciu cutoff across Salt lake is declared unsafe and trains are about, to be taken off. An cast bound Santa Fe freight train was ditched by a washout at Floyd, Mo. Two men were killed and one fatally hurt. John K. Cowen,' former president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, died in Chicago at his sister's home. Hundreds of acres of wheat are being plowed up in Ohio. The farmers say the season has changed and that wheat is no longer profitable. An April blizzard, with six inches of snow, upset the plans of the world’s fair managers in St. Louis. The storm covered the East and South. The town of Marramec, located on the Katy Railroad in Pawneo County, Okla., was entirely destroyed by fire, with a total loss of $20,000; no insurance. The indictments recently returned against nine persons charging boodling were quashed in Kansas City, Kan., on the ground that they were improperly signed. According to figures compiled by the publishers of the 1904 directory, the population of St. Louis has increased 37.208 in the last year. The population now is 693.675. The general store of Sunthimer & Mast, at Shipshewana, Ind., was consumed by fire, entailing a loss of $16,000. The loss is partly covered by insurance. An earthquake shock was felt in San Francisco. It was sharp, but not severe, and lasted about three seconds. A slight tremor of the earth preceded the shock. No damage was done. J. J. Douthitt, a wealthy resident of Enid. Okla., was shot and fatally injured by his wife during a quarrel. Mrs. Douthitt fired three shots at her bus band, all taking effect. Prof. Sylvester S. Jackson, a musician of national reputation and for nine years director of musical instruction in the Detroit public schools, is dead at his home in Kansas City, aged 64 years. The library of the late Secretary John Sherman, some 5,000 volumes in all. has been delivered to the State library in Columbus, Ohio. It will be preserved intact as a memorial to the statesman. Edward Varcon anil Frank Hayes met instant death by being thrown from an ascending cage in the Crohondo mine shaft in Deadwood. S. D.. 600 feet to the bottom. James Mullis was badly injured. Dr. Ignatz Friedmann, a physician of Cleveland, was killed as the result of a collision between his carriage and a street car. Dr. Friedmann was thrown under the ciir wheels and his body badly crushed. • Farmers of eastern Washington control all of the wheat crop remaining unsold. aggregating 5.000,000 bushels. They are holding for higher prices and millers are declining to buy except for actual necessity. While inspecting the abutments of the Big Four Railroad bridge in the Whitewatqp river at Valley Junction, Ohio, James Downey, an expert diver of Cleveland. was suffocated to death by the fouling of his air tube. Chief Bemidji, the oldest and one of the best-known Indian chieftains of the Northwest, died at Cass lake, Minn., aged 85 years. He participated in many famous battles, and volumes Lave been written concerning him. The strike of the truck drivers in JKansas City, which has been in progress for several weeks, has been declared off by the Truck Drivers' Union, the strikers being advised to make peace. Much violence attended the strike. The floor in the Presbyterian Church at Seville, Ohio, gave way while the building was filled with people attending a funeral, and about 200 fell into the cellar. Many sustained bad bruises but no one was seriously hurt. More than 500 employes in the Norfolk and Western Railroad shops and terminals at Portsmouth, Ohio, struck and caused a complete suspension of operations in the shops. The grievance is over a change of working hours. In personal encounters at the railroad station and in a hotel in Denver, Colorado soldiers bayonetted Secretary Haywood of the miners’ federation and Captain Wells and two soldiers were knocked down by the labor leaders. C. E. Henderson, a Methodist minister 60 years old, who lost his pulpit at Stilt Lake City because of his age, won $1,500 at roulette at Butte, Mont., having

been driven to the game by his poverty and a hungry wife and children. •Jspeech in Chicago Saturday, evejjing William Mehnings Bryan scored the New York platform as being evasive and dishonest, and said none but “an artful > dodger” could stand on it. Judge Parker was said by him to be unfit. The Citizens’ Bank, one of the largest in Enid, Ok., closed its doors and Paul F. Cooper of Guthrie, the territorial commissioner, will take charge. Jhe failure yrsS effused by slow collations and inability to raise ready money. Michael Ries of Columbus, Nfont.. wHS acyosted by a stranger who attempted to rob him on the way to Bozeman on a freight train. A scuttle ensued, in which the stranger shot and killed Ries. lie then jumped from the train and escaped. The Farmers and Merchants’ Bank in Clay City, Ind., was entered by burglars during the night. The robbers blew open the safe and escaped with $6,000. The front of the building was blown across the street. The loss is covered by insurance. Assistant United States District Attorney Bert D. Nortoni of St. Louis has gone to Washington to accept the position of Assistant Attorney General of the United States for the Postoffice Department, formerly held by Janies N. Tyner. “Othello" was denounced as a “blood and thunder drama” by members of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Springfield, Ohio. They were dismissing the “James Boys in Missouri,” and will seek to prevent the production of the latter play. C. V. Taylor, president of the Morristown, Tenn.. National Bank, committed suicide in Hot Springs, Ark., by shooting himself through the breast. lie Jived long enough after the fatal shot was fired to make his will, disposing of a large estate. A masked footpad entered the Del Monte Club, on South First street, San Jose, Cal., and at the point of a revolver forced ten persons in the place to hand over their money and about $2,000 worth of jewelry. The robber, after a running tight, made his escape. The three ear barn bandits were hanged between 10:30 a. m. and 12 noon Fri day at the county jail in Chicago. The men met death apparently without a tremor. The order of the execution of the men was as follows: Peter Niedemeyer, Gustav Marx and Harvey Van Dine. Emil Roeski. the junior member of the Chicago bandit gang, three of whom were sentenced to the gallows. escai>ed the fate of his associates. The jury returned a verdiet that he pass the remainder of his life in the penitentiary. One man is said to have balked a death sentence. Roeski's attorney in formed Judge Kersten immediately that he would not ask for a new trial. He said he was satisfied with the verdict in that he had saved his client from the scaffold. Judge Kersten sentenced Roeski immediately after uttering a few statements in which he said that Roeski merited a worse punishment. A tornado swept through McPherson, Kan., demolishing six residences and injuring three persons, one of them seriously. S. W Rieff's house, barn, windmill and outbuildings were destroyed, and a young man was badly bruised. The wind then demolished the residences of Mrs. S. R. Fisher. Archie Brown and Peter Sellberg. Two of Mr. Brown’s daughters were hurt, n cook stove falling on one of them and causing serious injuries. Beyond McPherson the tornado followed the path of an old water course. The storm passed four miles cast of Salina, wrecking telephone and telegraph poles and farm property. It is believed that serious damage was done In the country uurth. FOREIGN. It is reported that eighteen conspirators have been hanged after their trial in connection with a Polish revolutionary plot. About 10(1 miners have been buried by an immense avalanche near the village of Pragelato, Italy. A violent storm caused the avalanche.

The Berlin Tageblntt has a dispatch from Rome reporting : n attempt t■> assassinate President Loiibet. who is in the Italian capital on a visit to King Victor. The plot was discovered and frustrated. Ihe greatest railroad strike in history is in full swing in Hungary, where the railway employes throughout the nation quit work together. Troops have been ordered out and great excitement prevails. A train on the Trans I’an. avian Railway was held up between Now S, n.nki and Al aseha by four arimsi men. who entered the mail ear and after binding the otlieials escaped w ith legist, red letters and valuables worth 85o.<Hk». Mbs Edith Briion: of New York committed suicide with a revolver in Berlin. According to the Lokal Anzeiger. she became engaged to a German engineer who went to New York to study engineering conditions. He returned to Berlin mid was taken ill. The young woman with her parents arrived after the engineer's death. Twenty-one Russians were killed by the explosion of a mine, while engaged in placing mines at Pori Arthut fr"tu a launch. From this it is believed that Alcxieff plans to close the harbor completely against Japanese attacks. Two beggars in Newchwang attempted to assassinate Gen. Kouropatkin. but were captured. A force of Japanese infantry was blown up by a mine, placed in mountain pass near Wiju by retreating Russians, and many were killed and wounded. Gen. Kouropatkin played a strong card by sending a force >f 2.000 Cossacks into Korea to make a flank movement against the Ja^. nese iu ci"..sing the Yalu river. IN GENERAL. Snow slides are reported from almost every point in the interior of British Columbia. Diplomats at AA ashington believe that Russia is ready to arrange peace, and that King Edward and the Czar are negotiating. The north-bound passenger train on the Mexican Central jumped the track near Zacatecas and eight persons were killed and thirty-five injured. Clear title to Panama canal has been passed to the United States by signing of documents in Paris by representatives of the United States and the canal company. The average man eats from two to three times as much as he needs, according to Prof. Russell H. Chittenden, who has conducted a series of experiments at Sheffield scientific school. As a sequel to the Toronto fire an advance of 75 per cent in the insurance rates in the congested district, or the business portion of the city, has been decided on by the underwriters. The interstate commerce commission report shows the number of casualties for October, November and December was 14,485, a decrease of 702. and 175 passengers and 1.937 employes were killed and 11,382 employes were injured, the total property loss amounting to $2,527,0W). which is a decrease of nearly $58,000.

WAR IN THE FAR EAST PROGRESS OF THE GREAT STRUGGLE UP TO DATE. Conflict Not Four Months Old nnd Russia Has Received Blows Which Have Staggered the Big EmpireLand Battles Expected Soon. The war in the far East is not yet four months old and Russia has been dealt blows which have given rise to a s-pirit of black pessimism throughout the big empire. Primarily the Czar's forces exhibited an unpreparedness for strife, considering the aggravated nature of the negotiations between the two powers, which has drawn on the Russian authorities the ridicule of the world's military experts and summary punishment from the duped, gentlemannered autocrat. Nor is this yet the worst. Taken by surprise, the squadron nt Port Arthur was given a terrific drubbing, which left two of the fleet of formidable battleships disabled and the morale of the fort's defenders considerably diminished. Since that first decisive blow the Japanese, whom the Russians had derisively termed “barbarians,” have demonstrated a sustained ability and strategy which strained to the breaking point the spirit of their phlegmatic foe. At practically every point have the Muscovite arms been battled nr defeated.;^ At the beginning of hostilities the Uzasi. fleet nt Port Arthur numbered seven stKach battleships, as many wellbuilt cruisers and a horde of smaller craft. T’iHs force, by the persistent hammering op the Japanese, has been reduced to two u (damaged battleships ami two or three cruisers. Moreover Admiral Makaroff, whose aggressive methods had revived hope in the Russian breast, has fallen n victim to the enemy's hire, anil paid for his error with his life. On land the Japanese triumphs, while negative in their nature, have been none the less positive in effect. With little >r no fight Ing the Russian custodians have been almost completely driven out of Korea, tlie disputed territory, and the Japanese outposts burn their campfires fearlessly on the banks of the Yalu. ready at the proper moment to cross that fateful stream and precede the invasion of Manchuria. possibly Siberia. l’he next move of the little brown people is problematical. A few military nu thorities bold that the Japanese armies should penetrate to Harbin, depriving the enemy so effectually of a nuni uient base of operation as to render a repossession of the lost ground tv hnically impossible. Other experts advocate a forward movement only as far as Mukden. believing jhat should the Japanese become tangled in the wilds about Harbin they would be forced to a retreat as disastrous as was that of Bonaparte from Moscow. Meanwhile the Russian Baltic fleet, which is the sole remaining inspiration of naval Russia, is preparing to leave via the Suez canal fu the far East, employing a devious rout. which will leave the Japanese undisputed ma-ters of east ern waters for at least two months. This in a nutshell is the situation. What w ill follow is sin er conjecture. Theories are as nnmriwis ns thvor sts and intrinsically about :■ valuable. The most intelligent Russians do not deny that their cause lias been s uil v w eakened and the subjects of the Mikado are proportionate*.. enthusiastic. As a result of this -^wakening. it -a safe prediction that” v aggression on the part of Rusair. b. been greatly postp.u.ed, and the tentative length of the war considerably extend'd. What bearing it will have on

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the ultimate issue is amdi । r pn :■ > ;ii not easy of sehition. Russia .* a nation <>t enormous resource* and wealth in teen nnd munitions. The Jo** > a tew million dollar* or a few thoust.nd in< s i an weigh little in the seal.- of the iu.2 uiitab e policies whieh St Pefo'-vbwg ha* 1 -W' ued for the hist ' etunry tui-1 a half. The future w -ll be 4. ■ rmim-d bv the Sillies* or fa. ire of Japan • - * :u the chain . f V I . -if * V ' . ' -Ve eh.U a--terized her ‘Hinpaigr- on tin- pre-viii. It has bcm si own ti the gm era * of the Mikado .and 1- ;<loi .I- ar- not w anting in mental pi i -pie: . and : : I is troops and sailors are hard ale! - 'i during fighters. Russia, however, is ;■< puted to be an iii'eru;. •aw-i I bioldog. ii«H knowing when she has been defe.i’ed ami I pressing forward ever t-> an im-xoral-ie । end. In the tediens. bloody eourse of the war. which n. y drag a huigth of, many year- instead ■ f u: nth*, many qualities nnd factor- now ib-rmant will have to be played '<• e-.hi’u*t im ere a permanent peace is e*:abii* LAUNCH BLOWN UP. Twenty-One Russians Killed V. hilt Laying Mines at Port Arthur. Twenty-one men were killed when a I Russian launch struck a Russian mine in Port ^Arthur h; rb- r 1 riday. Ihi laumt wa* engaged in plamig mines. | The ^t-v s ' f this latesl fatai i •iuv.t-ssness on Tf^e part of the defenders of the st roti; hold was eoiiveyed in the following dispatch from Vieeroy Aie.xieff to the Czar: “I respect fully report to your majesty that during :he placing of mines by some sfeam launehe* Lieut. Pei: and twenty men were killed through a mine exploding prematurely under the stern of one of the launches." The war commission suppressed part i of the viceroy's dispatch, w hich showed where the mines were being laid, it is believed the launches were employed in mining the entrance to the harbor in order to prevent the Japanese from forcing an entrance and attempting to destroy the remaining ships. It is evident from the closing of the entrance that Viceroy Alexieff has no intention of letting his ships go to sea again even against an inferior force, though this may not be the policy of N . ■ p Admiral Skrydloff. who will determine < n a plan of operation when lie assumes command. America Reserves AH Rights. Foreign Minister Lamsdorff has been notified that the United States reserves all the rights she may have under international law in the event of any Ameri can citizens being affected by Russia's decision in the case of war correspondents using wireless telegraphy. This notification does not involve a pretest against Russia’s course, it simply reserving whatever rights may exist* in regard to the yet unadjudicatcd question of the use of, wireless telegraphy In time of war,

MAP OF THE THEATER OF WAR; LOCAFION OF FROOPS OF CONTESTANTS M Ar " SK/wx M I 0 :«? © o

SSI ETNSIAN TBOOt»3 L_J JAPANEiSE TEOOFtS WWV INTBSNCHMErrre 0 lURTIFIZD PLACED —Chicago Tribune.

THE RUSSIA NAVY’S NEW HOPE IN THE WAR 1 r~—~-r„ I f \ I I wRJO®/ » 4 J A ADMIRAI. SKRYPI.OFF. I Admiral Skrydloff. the new command I er-in chief of Russia's naval forces at ' I the scene of the war. whose appointment ' | has created much enthu*i:ism. has said ' to his friends in St. Petersburg that > j when he arrives in the Orient he w ill attempt to unite the Port Arthur and । J Vladivostok squadrons at Port Arthur.

nud use the . oaibim-.] squadrons there as a tie mice t<» the Japanese until re-en-forcements arrive. RUSSIA ISSUES PAPER MONEY. Put* Ont i* 1 5,001),0<><) Against Gold War Finances. Russia l a* mace a new issue of $15.in paper currency against free gold in tlie S'ate Lank. At ti e ministry of li'.ic -e was >-xplained that it was an ordinary i-s,ie aud in no sense was force*!. Under the law paper is issuable ; to doable the amount of gold, up to Xiso iMHi.iMHi gold, in excess of which paper .-sued must be covered ruble for ruble. In the State bank there is. in i ai.-l fig ires. $ pHi.lMMi.ixHi in gold, which wov; 1 permit of an is-ue of $.550.000. | coo in paper, but the paper issue at present amounts to only $350.0iX).0u0. i Ail sort* of figures of the cost of the war .".re print.d abroad. Tlie St. Peters i ug correspondent of the A'sociate<l ; Press is authoritatively informed that the daily expenses are averaging $750.oo>i. and it is estimated that a year's expenditures for the war will total $250.- , 000.000. To meet this there existed a free balance of $50.(X)0.000, which was ; iiwreased ( to $ 1 15,(Xh>,000 by reductions 1 of the ordinary budgets, leaving ostensi- ' bly $135,000,000 to be found. But a I portion of this sum is made up by the increased earnings of tlie railroads owned by the government. It being in reality a question of bookkeeping, how the balance is to be raised lias not yet been det ermined. WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. |'i A dispatch from Port Arthur reports the complete destruction of a Japanese I column on the Yalu river. Viceroy Alexieff reports to the Czar | that a Russian launch, engaged in placing mines at Port Arthur, was destroyed by one of the mines hud a lieutenant and twenty men perished. It is said that on the eve of the dis- 1 aster to the Petropavlovsk Vice Admiral Makaroff telegraphed to the Czar that he was about to fight a decisive action with the enemy's fleet. The European Economist of Paris says that Russia is negotiating with the principal French banks for a loan of $150,1 OID.OOO on 5 per cent four-year treasury bonds, to be placed at 98. Rumors are in circulation that two beggars made an attempt to assassinate Gen. Kuropatkin while he was in Newchwang recently. The beggars were arrested and found to have knives concealed. It is said they were Japanese. Two suspected Japanese have been artested on the railroad near Vologda, in northeastern Russia. 302 miles from Moscow. with plans in their possession of Archangel and the famous monastery on the island of Solovetsky, in the White sea.

No attempt has been made to estimate the numbers of troops assembled in the various points Indicated on the map. Information as to the sizes of the Russian nnd Japanese armies and detachments has been too meager to permit of even a roughly accurate estimate.

WAR DURING THE WEEK. Little Sea Fighting—Russia Now Unable to Prevent Japs Landing. There was little sea fighting during the last week. The Japanese have been feinting up and down both sides of the Liaotung peninsula with transport fleets. According to the Chicago Tribune’s strategist, they mean to bewilder the enemy as to their eventual landing place, and, if possible, to weary him by inducing him to shift his troops rapidly from oue point ou the coast to another. The Russians wili be unable to prevent a landing. They cannot fortify aud garrison tlie entire south Manchurian coasL They will have to permit the landing, and thereafter try to make the Japs sorry they ever came off the water. The only naval exploit performed by the Russians during the week was the blowing up of one of their own launches, together with its crew of twenty-one men. The launch was lay ing mines in Port Arthur to destroy the Japanese. The battleship Fobieda. which was struck by a mine a few minutes after the sinking of the Petropavlovsk, turns out to have been hopelessly damaged. The main Japanese force is now at Wiju. spreading eastward a considerable distance. It is believed by the Russians that .i Japanese division is approaching the middle reaches of the Yalu with the intention of crossing there. The Manhnrian country opposite is much less billy than to the west. The position of this putative division is indicated ou the map w ith a question mark after it. It is believed that not over four Russian regiments remain on the Y'alu opposite Wiju. They will try to make the Japanese crossing as bhxHly as possible ind tl -n retreat. The Japs have seized the islands in the middle of the river, which at tin- beginning of the week were in the hands of their enemies. T'ne Ru«sian< have fortified tlie line lr>m Liaoy.'ing to Tenguangehi-ng. It is a strong position, both tactically and <trat gi<al]y. Lying in the hills behind i:u reiwhni -nts. it w ill be difficult to shove the Russians away from this line. Ou 'he other hand, it would be strategically dangerous to leave them there unmolested and proeeed across the Yalu southwestward toward Poit Arthur, hugging the a -oast. Stieii a maneuver would leave a strong force In the flank and rear of the ailvaming army. On the other hand, the ailvam ing army would not be in danger of having its communications cut. since its base would be the sea. But the Japanese want to hold Korea at all costs, even if they are beaten in Manchuria. If they advanced across the Yalu southwe*tw ar<l. with the Russians intrenched in the hills obliquely to their rear, they might he ent off from a return to Korea and from making their defensive stand there. The Japs have a fortified line from Gensan across to Chinnampo. behind which they meant to stick at all hazards, even if they had bad luck in the battlefields to the north. The main Russian concentration is now supposed to be at I.iaoyang. If the Japanese forces divide into two or more ■ ■ ' .. i a--- : • A&. 4*, KM ' : J - -- I.AST OF THE “KORIETZ.” Tae funnel of the sunken gmnboat sacrificed by the Russians at Chemulpo. armies, operating in separate parts of Manchuria, Kouropatkin might have a chance to throw his Liaoyang army first at one then at the other of his enemy's segments, beating each in turn. On land the Liaoyang concentration gives the Russians the benefit of interior lines. Cossack outposts have advanccf] uninterruptedly to within eighty miles of Gensan. on the eastern coast of Korea. This shows that the mysterious Japanese army which landed at Gensan did not march north., and that the reported land- ; ing at I’ossiet bay was either a myth or ' a feint. There are certainly no Japanese I soldiers iu that vicinity at present

ICONfiRKSi The general deficiency appropriation bill occupied the greater part of the Senate s time Friday, but before its con sideration Mr, Gallinger spoke in defense of the tariff policy of the Republican party. While the deficiency 121 was lu. ing read Mr. Cullom spoke on the Hitt Chinese exclusion bill attached by the House as a rider. He offered sm amendment to strike out several clause?. Mr. Lodge also offered an amendment excluding Chinese and other aliens whose immigration is encouraged by any transportation company. The bill for govermuent of the Panama canal zone was sent to conference. After devoting considerable time to conference reports on routine and private bills, the House listened to st • brush between Mr. Lind of Minnesota and Mr. Curtis of Kansas on the former's substitute for a resolution of inquiry as to the acts of the Dawes commission. Mr. Lind said the men sent as guardians of the Indians oi Indian territory had taken advantage of their official positions for loot and speculation. Mr. Curtis said the charges had not been proved. Mr. Lind's substitute, which asks the Secretary of the Interior for information as to what action has been taken in the Dawes commission investigation. prevailed. 97 to 91. The sundrycivil bill was sent to conference with Messrs. Hemenway, Gillett and Burton conferees for the House. Two hundred and thirty-three pension bills were passed in forty-five minutes. Considerate n—— ' of the Alaskan delegate bill was resumed, but was interrupted by Mr. Kitchin of North Carolina, who assailed President Roosevelt and Mr. Grosvenor, the former for his attitude on the race question and the latter for alleged change of front toward Roosevelt after his nomination for Vice President. In the Senate Saturday the Mann bill for th^ lowering of the tuum-is in the Chicago river was reported from the committee on commerce and was passed without serious opposition. Tlie Senate passed, after a long debate, the general deficiency bill, after killing the House amendment strengthening the Chinese exclusion law. The amendment was amended by striking out all except the fir-t section. which affirms all the exclusion laws now in effect. One amendment accepted was that excluding Chinese and other aliens from coming in under agreements between other countries and stermship companies. Laving special reference to a contract bet wen the Cunard Jine and Hungary to supply 3O.(K)O immigrants annually to the steamship company. The House agreed to the Senate amendment to the pension appropriation bill, and the conference report on the naval appropriation bill was adopted. Bills were passed for the protection of the public forest reserves and national parks and amending the act to extend the coal land laws |to Alaska. The bill for a commission to investigate the merchant marine was 1 passed after a long debate, in which Messrs. Hepburn and Cuckran were the I central figures. After passing a number of minor bills . I I the Senate Monday discussed and agreed | to the conference report on the navy appropriation bill, eliminating all differences between the Senate and Hov.se. It passed the bill crea mg the Davenport division of the soutl^^ jud.' ial distrb of lowa. Mr. Mi-Cumber called up : resolution for revision of rite )>en> laws, but it went to ‘catend^ w out action after Mr. Bailey interjee the remark that legislation was unnec sary under the present administration. Mr. Bacon spoke on trusts in reply to Mr. Dolliver's recent speech. An l our was given to memorial services for the late Represenra 4 ” e Charles W. Thompsou of Alabama. The House passed a large number of bills, including the Alaska delegate bill, a bill extending to Peoria. 111., the privileges i f the law governing the immediate transportation of merchandise without appraisement, and constituting t’oal City. 111., a subport of entry. The House disagreed to the Senate amendments to the eivergency river and harbor bill_ and refused to ask lor another confere.^ It disagned also to the amendments to the defi. .ency bill, which was sent to conferem e. A bill was passed providing for allotments to Indians in White Earth reservation. Minnesota. The bill prohibiting << lection of timber land in lieu of land in for-st reservations was passed. The Senate Tuesday passed the military academy appropriation bill, the i.sst of the supply measures. The inonts suggested by the cs-mmit’ee • » military affairs for a reorganization of the medic:’! and erdnance departments of the army and for the establishment ■ r a number of camp sites were throw:, out on points of order. Mr. Bacon eonrlmled his tariff speech. The debate 1« tv ■ ,-n Congre'smen Uoekran and Dalzell was the dramatic feature in the House. A resolution was adopted inquiring what action had been taken by the 1 tepartment of Justice against the >::•'• . s found guilty of violating the ai:ii-’r ;-t law. A bill regarding the employii.i of vessels of the United States i r ’ ; purposes was passed bj a s’>e : ; rty In the National Capital, The State Department has t the resignation of .Andrew _D. 1 ? ‘ ' ■ w . United States—..Tra; at Mexico. anil has accepted it. The Secretary of bar ha« di:< ;<•: that permission be granted to the army Young Men’s Christian A. it ■u> to establish its work at the vaian ts ] o-r; of the army in the United St. te> am! ' in the islands of Porto II •• and tae Philippines. Senator Simmons has ii:trodm> i a I II to create a permauo.it commissi i; investigate the several exi-< utive dep: rtments of the government and rep ri to each regular sc—ion of UenarD--By denying the petition of F. Augustus Heinze, of Butte. Mont., for a writ of certiorari, the I nited States Supreme Court refused to review the finding of the Circuit Court of Appeals f<,j- ;he ninth circuit in tlie case of ti e Butte ami Boston Consolidated Mining Co. vs. the Montana Ore Purchasing Co.. - d others involving ‘ho qrartz hs’e kr. wn as tlie Michael D. .it. John W. Kalita. United States j : Ige of the Second circuit at Honolulu, has been removed from office by President Roosevelt. Recently Judge K: Ina practically suspended the work of his ■ c::rt by adjourning ail pending criminM ..-es until Juv. • 6. the day alter tlie expiration of I.is term. It was stated at the War Department that Brig. Gen. Allen ot the J i.Uippine constabulary, had been ordered fneu Seoul. Korea, to his regular station at Manila at his own request, on the ground that the sources of information at Seoul regarding military operations are exhausted and consequently there is no longer any object in bis remaiuit.g there.