Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 43, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 May 1904 — Page 2

ent. * UliNlior. INDIANA. AROI ND THE WORLD Supt. (Jeorge Hall of the Bessemer mills of the American Steel and Wire Company in Cleveland, was instantly killed as a result of being struck by a rapidly moving crane in one of the mills, tllall was 40 years of age. His body was badly mangled. The steamship City of Atlanta, built for the Ocean Steamship Company, was launched at Chester, Pa. It was christened by Miss English of Atlanta, Ga. The City of Atlanta will carry passengers and freight between New York and Southern ports. .y - Mrs. Alexander Ericson, wife of a farmer, residing six miles from Duluth, ’ J rescued six children from death in a fire which destroyed their home. While her •y husband was away and she was in the barn ahe saw flames pouring from the house. She crawled through a window, saving the children. One of Chief Judge Alton B. Parker’s horses plunged through a large window in Lexington avenue. Albany, and crush- - ed out the life of Lottie Brier, a 5-year-old girl. While being clipped the horse took fright and jumped through a plate front The Brier child had just before the window. . —4^men^u_Ta gom a for years' as n’Wermlt and crazed by the memories — yf his murderous career, ’George Taylor, who, with his brother, butchered the five members of the Meeks family in Missouri nearly ten years ago and then escaped from jail while under sentence of death, has finally been captured. Caban cutters fired upon and captured the American schooner Irene, claiming that she was poaching on the Bahia Honda sponge reefs. The captain of the schooner claims that she took her cargo on at the Isle of Pines and was en route to Key West, having put in at Bahia Honda for water. The schooner was struck by several shots and damaged. Reports from Chefoo state that the Japanese forces landed at Yiukow on Sunday and advanced, capturing Newchwang Monday. The Russian garrison fell back to protect the railway. The Japanese made an unsuccessful attempt to block the harbor of Port Arthur by sinking eight tire ships. The Japanese are reported to have lost two torpedo boats, i The Supreme Court of Ohio has decided the Russell inheritance law. passed at the last session of the Legislature, to be constitutional. The law exempts all estates or inheritances under $3,000. On all estates of more than that amount 2 per cent is levied by the State Auditors, and it is estimated the tax will bring the Statg addjtjon^l rq^nue of approximately $500,000 annually. - 1 The Secretary of the Interior has set aside, provisionally, the sum of $1,(>00.000 for the construction of the Pathfinder reservoir on North Platte river in Wyoming. Construction will proceed contingent upon favorable reports from engineers in the field as to various details still under consideration, and particularly as to whether an adequate area of irrigable land can be found in western Nebraska. The clubs of the National League now stand thus: W. L. . W. L. New York... 10 3 St. Louis 7 6 . 2 j Brooklyn .... 8 5 Boston 6 8 Cincinnati ... 9 7 Pittsburg .... 5 9 Chicago 7 G Philadelphia.. 2 10 , The table below shows bow matters stand in the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston 11 3 Detroit 77 New York... 7 5 St. Louis 6 6 Philadelphia.. 7 5 Cleveland .... 5 7 Chicago 9 7 Washington • . O 12 BREVITIES. The Union Trust Company has been appointed receiver for the Home Heating and Light Company at Indianapolis. Lizzie Bauer, of Eden Valley, Minn., and Miss Theilen, of Shakopee, were drowned at Shakopee in the Minnesota River. Safe blowers wrecked the postoffice building and safe at Hanna, Ind., secured SI,OOO in cash and postage stamps, stole a horse and buggy and eluded pursuers. The farmhouse of Peter Schmitt, at Bessje. 0. T., was struck by lightning and four children, aged 8, 6. 4 and 2. were killed. The children were asleep upstairs. The Office, Tomiinson and Harrison buildings, and a smaller adjoining structure at Birmingham. Ala., were burned, causing a loss of SIIO,OOO. The insurance is about SBO,OOO. Opening day of the St. Louis world's fair brought 187.793 persons within the exposition grounds, according to President Francis’ official figures. Chicago's first-day record was 137.557. Horace B. Shattuck of Low-ell. Mass., doing business as Horace B. Shattuck & Son, one of the largest hardware companies in New England, filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities $239,469, assets $270,873. D. P. Evans of Bowling Green, Ohio, started from the City Hail in Cleveland for San Francisco, pushing a wheelbarrow, to_ pay an election bet. Evans wag^^to»^wr»rTh'at Mayor Johnson would be elected Governor of Ohio last fall. In St. Paul the District Court decided that the clause in the will of the late Mrs. Fanny S. Wilder, creating a trust fund of $2,000,000 “for the worthy poor’’ is valid. Eleven nieces and nephews of the deceased contested the will. The Guggenheif Exploration Company has closed a deal for 60 per cent of the Velerdena Mining and Smelting Company's properties in Mexico, paying $5,000,000 in cash and guaranteeing to expend $1,000,000 more in improvements and development. William Connard, who was convicted of murder in the first degree for having killed his wife, was sentenced at Cass Lake, Minn., to hang. Nikolai Hill was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree and sentenced to State's prison for twelve years. He killed Richard Sanger in a lumber camp. The largest deposits of pitchblende in the United States have been discovered in Gilpin County, Colorado, and scientists are investigating with the idea that the beds contain a rich supply of radium. Gilpin County has been a heavy producer ot gold for forty years. After five days of fighting, largely with artillery, the Japanese army under Gen. Kuroki forced a crossing of the Yalu. driving the Russians from their fortified position by an infantry charge covering a frontage of four miles. The Japanese losses in the final struggle Sunday on the Yalu were about 700 killed and wounded and the Russian losses 800 killed and wounded.

EASTERN. Measles is epidemic in New Y'ork, 8,166 eases having been reported iu the twenty five days beginning April 1. John Kendrick Bangs and Miss Mary Blakney Gray were married Wednesday in All Angels’ Church iu New York City. The barge Carrie, coal laden, was abandoned off Seagirt, Md., with seven feet of water in her hold. All hands were saved. Hiram Cronk of Albany, N. Y.. who claims to be a veteran of the war of 1812, is being furnished by nature with new hair an^i teeth. Marville and Constance Allen, aged 12 and 8 years, were burned to death by the destruction of their home at Austin, Fa., during the absence of their parents. The International Kindergarten Union, at Rochester, N. Y., elected Miss Annie Laws of Cincinnati president. Mrs. Mary Boomer Page of Chicago was elected auditor. Mrs. Henrietta De Witt was arrested at Sidney, N. Y., charged with the murder of her 17-year-old daughter, Florence Mackintosh, by poisoning her with arsenic. Fireman Jacob Letts was killed and a score of persons were injured in a rearend collision between two express trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Elizabeth, N. J. James Loeb and ten friends, it is said, will give $1,000,000 to endow a conservatory of music at New York, the interest from the fund to be used to pay salaries of instructors. Fire in the six-story building occupied by the Anthony & Cowell Furniture HGopyiapy iti.J’cavjdencv^ JJ. X.^caused jy Foss of $650,000 and nearly cost tTieTives of ten firemen. Gov. Peabody of Colorado honored a requisition from New York for the return of Mrs. Mabel L. Wyllie, charged with embezzling $3,900 from an estate at Washington. N. Y. Charles Kelly, engineer on ferryboat America, dropped dead in engine room and collision with Brooklyn slip resulted in which passengers were panic stricken. Several persons were hurt. Under a resolution adopted by the New York board of education woman teachers in public schools may now contract marriage without the alternative of resigning or being dismissed. Miss Elizabeth B. Grant, niece of Antonio Marian of Santa Barbara, Cal,, and Newport, and Stewart Edward White, the novelist, were married in Trinity Church, Newport, R. I. WESTERN. Four grain elevators in Mount Vernon. S. D.. were burned Wednesday. Loss $50,000. H. E. Osgood of Hiram, Me., shot and killed his yvife and himself during a quarrel on a train. "Mother” Jones was arrested at Price, Utah, after having broken quarantine and exposing many miners to smallpox. William Chounard was found guilty of murder in the first degree by a jury at Cass Lake, Minn., for the recent killing of his wife. (Jen. U. S. Grant's former residence in Galena, 111., was presented to that city by Gen. Frederick D. Grant at the commemoration of the war hero's birthday. Eight persons were killed and sixteen injured in a railroad wreck near Kimmswick, Mo., while on their way to attend the opening of the St. Louis world’s fair. Two Italians were electrocuted at the quarries of the Columbus, Ohio. Stone Company as the result of a telephone wire falling across a highly charged feed wire. Four men, employes of the Davidson & Mcßae ranch in Aitkin County. Minn., were drowned by the overturning of a duckboat in Rice lake, eight miles southeast of Kimberly. Miss Julia Ten Eyke Mcßlair of Washington, hostess of the Woman's Building, was badly injured at the St. Louis world’s fair by being run over by a runaway horse on the grounds. A new kind of accident was invented in Winona. Miun., tjie other day. A peanut roaster blew up, doing $1,500 dam»age and injuring one person Agitation has begun for a city peanut inspector. In San Francisco Police Judge Cordon held Mrs. Cordelia Botkin to the Superior Court for the murder of Mrs. Joshua D. Deane by menus of poisoned candy mailed from San Francisco to Dover, Del. Charles Rocker was found guilty at Rock Rapids, lowa, of the murder of his employer. August Schroeder, a farmer, in 1900. and whose wife he subsequently married. The jury fixed the penalty at death. * Under a decree of divorce at Kansas City, granted to Mrs. Daisy Hayes, James A. Hayes, the defendant, is restrained from visiting his children within forty-eight hours after taking a drink of liquor. The deck of a ferryboat conveying people out to midstream from St. Louis to see the gunboat Nashville, anchored in the Mississippi, collapsed while a large crowd was aboard and thirty-one persons were injured. As evidence in the trial of an editor who criticised his sermon, the Rev. R. G. MacLeod repeated the sermon in court in Tekamah, Neb., at the request of the judge, to show that he did not advocate saloons. A scaffold on the Fraternal Aid building at Lawrence, Kan., broke and precipitated a dozen workmen to the ground. John Steiner was instantly killed and Lou McLoughlin and C. E. Clawson were badly injured. Julien and Louis La Chappelle arrived iu Duluth, Minn., the other day in a most unusual manner for this time of year, having marched thirty-two miles on Lake Superior from their home at Brule, Wis., on snow shoes. While subject to a severe coughing spell in his office, Dr. W. J. McGee, chief of the anthropological department at the St. Louis world's fair, strained a ligament in his left side, and, it is thought, fractured a rib. Fire at Moline. Hl., destroyed the Dimmock, Gould & Co. sawmill, about 8,000,000 feet of lumber, a large stock of doors, sash and building material, and several Burlington and St. Paul freight cars. Loss $175,000, insurance $30,000. Sitting in an armchair in front of a mirror in his room in the Auditorium Annex iu Chicago, George A. McKay, formerly a banker, placed a revolver to his head and fired. Death was instantaneous. No motive for the suicide is known. Gov. John G. Brady of Alaska, who is in St. Louis to attend the opening of the world’s fair, was knocked down by a bicycle and thrown in front of a rapidly moving street car. He barely had time to throw himself off the tracks before the car passed. The 12,000 truck teamsters of Chicago will not strike. By agreement their demands will go to arbitration and the business interests of the city will be spared a conflict which would have meant immeasurable harm to Chicago as a distributing center. J. Frank Ha-nly of Lafayette was nominated for Governor by the Indiana Republican convention on the first ballot,

and the platform, indorsing President Roosevelt and instructing the delegates • to vote for his nomination in Chicago, 1 was adopted unanimously. The passenger train of the Great Northern running from Duluth to Larimore, N. D., ran into a burning bridge over Clearwater River, near Crookston, Minn., resulting in serious injury to twenty-five or more people, but no one was killed so far ns known. , The menagerie train of Campbell Brothers’ circus caught fire in Paw-nee < ity. Neb. When the blaze was extinguished three elephants, a cage of monkeys, four camels, three water buffalo, two grizzly bears and numerous horses were found to have been burned to death. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis was opened with addresses by the officials in charge of the enterprise atid by representatives of nation, State and city. The electric impulse which started the machinery was transmitted by President Roosevelt from the White House. C. David Frey, a butcher of Los Angeles, was shot and killed by A. Carpenter, a special officer of the humane society. The shooting occurred near Tropico, on the outskirts of Los Angeles, and resulted from a raid by half a dozen humane officers on a cocking main at that place. At Nine and Canal streets. Cincinnati, Caesar Saeger shot and killed Marte Gurtner and then shot himself. He is not expected to live. The couple were lovers, but had frequent quarrels, and the shooting took place when Miss Gurtner told Saeger that slipway truing to N“W York to live J Ordering guards to fire upon convicts who had assaulted him and his assistant. Superintendent Griffiths of the territorial prison in Yuma, Arizona, risked being killed himself and prevented the rioters escaping. Five convicts were wounded by shot and one was stabbed by a life-term convict, who saved the life of Griffiths. Three men and a boy were burned to death in a box car in the Northwestern yards in Council Bluffs. They are believed to have been tramps trying to steal a ride. The car was found to be on fire while being switched and the cries of the men for help were heard by trainmen. but all four victims succumbed to the flames before they could be reached. The car was filled with bedding. The ear in which the men were riding was picked up at Wood street. Chicago. Four lives were lost the other night in the burning of the Bryan House, a threestory brick structure on East Michigan avenue, Lansing, Mich., the first floor of which was used as a machine shop. One fell from an upper window soon after the tire broke out. and died from his injuries at the hospital. The other three victims were burned to death, their charred bodies not being found before daylight made possible a search of the ruins. Several other boarders and two firemen were cut and burned, but their injuries are not serious. A large tank of gasoline | in the basement of the building exploded ; a few minutes after the tiro broke out. ! scattering flames all over the building i and making it iinpossibb to give assist- I to the inmates. The money loss is about I $5,000. FOREIGN. Nearly 200 houses of the town of Buc zacz, Austria, were destroyed by a fire. About 3,000 of the inhabitants are homeless. Edgar Fawcett, the American author, died in London, after having been un- i conscious for several days. Death was caused by cirrhosis of the liver. The caving in of a coal mine nt To- i clnn, Seville, Spain, buried many miu< s. Fifty bodies have been recovered. Ten of the miners were rescued, but all of them are badly injured. Antonin Dvorak, the composer, formerly director of the Conservatory of Music. New York, died suddenly in Prague, Bohemia. of apoplexy. He was born nt Nelnhozeves, Mullhausen, Bohemia. Sept. 8, 1841. J. Pierpont Morgan is believed in financial circles to be about to retire ; from the business world, his gradual relinquishment of the role of diiector in railway affairs being interpreted ns a preparation for his withdrawal. King Edward ami Queen Alexandra had a great popular ovation iu the streets of Dublin while on their way to lay the foundation Stone of the Royal College of Science. Troops lints! the route, which was crowded for hours before the royal cortege arrived. The London Standard's Tien tsin cor respondent reports that a strong secret society movement, anti-governmental and anti-foreign, is in progress in the vi< mity of Tsinan-Fu, 175 miles south of Tien tsin, and that the people are flocking to the cities for safety. The Norwegian bark Lapwing. Iwrnnd from St. Thomas for Blaye. France, which arrived in Hamilton, Bermuda, a few days ago, was burned, the tire, being caused by an explosion of naphtha on the vessel. The crew were asleep at the time and were compelled to jump overboard to save their lives. IN GENERAL The president of the Carnegie hero ! fund commission says it will be a tear before the commission is organized and : ready to pay. Twelve thousand machinists and mem- i bers of allied unions on the Santa Fe j system have struck. Recognition of the । unions is the bone of contention. The Grand Trunk Pacific bill was read a second time at Ottawa, Ont.. Wednesday night. The government had a majority of 44. The construction of the new transcontinental railroad now is assured. All the Eskimos living in the MacKenzie basin except ten families have been killed by the ravages of measles, says the Dawson City News. Before the epidemic there were forty or fiftyfamilies of 200 or more persons. Official reports show that the unprecedented speed of 109.4 miles an hour has been made by the Michigan Central train carrying President Ledyard and President Newman to Chicago. The time was made between Brownsville and Springfield, Ont. Nine-tenths of Fernie, B. C., a town of 3,000 population, the largest settlement in Crow’s Nest pass district, was destroyed by fire. The estimated loss is $500,000. The water supply failed and the fire burned itself out. Nearly the whole of six blocks was destroyed. The Panama Canal Company has been paid its $40,000,000 in Paris, and the title to all the company’s property now is held by the United States government. This action was a coup on the part of ' President Roosevelt to prevent delay, but the New York banks are deprived of their expected part in the transaction. ' The last hope for a peaceful settlement of the differences between the Lake Car- ' riers’ Association and the Pilots and ! Masters’ Association vanished in the ab- ‘ solute refusal of the Carriers' Associa--5 tion to grant the demands of the masters and pilots. The result is a complete tiei up of traffic on the lakes, which will ini volve millions of dollars and keep thou- , sends of men idle.

JAPS WIN JIG FIGHT. — I ROUT RUSSIANS AFTER FIVE DAYS’ BATTLE. I Storm Fortifications and Sweep Back Czar's Host of 30,000 Men—Killed and Wounded in Both Armies Number ut Least 1,500. After five days of fighting, largely ■with artillery, the first Japanese army, under Gen. Kuroki, has forced a crossing of the Yalu river, and Sunday morning, with a gallant infantry- charge covering a frontage of four miles, it drove the Russians from Chiu-Licn-Cheng and the heights on the right bank of the Iho, or Aida, river, which enters the Yalu from the north almost opposite Wiju. 'Pho Japanese turned the left Hauk of the Russian position and in the battle of Sunday they swept away the new front interposed by the Russians to check their onward movement. Killed and Wounded Number 1,500. A supplemental report from Gen. Kuroki covering Sunday's lighting says: "The Russians ini.de two stam I’. 1 ’. 'i he enemy’s strength included i- 1 thv Third division, tu o regime'^ 3 Bie Sixth division, , w <'ay U i r » brigade, about forty quick-firing ns • ei B' ht machine guns. We h *®i>»aken twenty-eight quick-firing guns.kp/ n . v rilles, much ammunition, more officers and many non-comm' officers and men as nqisoners. L I;informed that Lieut. i<ffn, »the second Siberian at corps, and Major" Kashtulinsky w< f .^wounded. Our casualties number if^t 7<K> and the Russians' loss is morHhan 8(X) men.” Benin Battl£>undry Mornin r. A bridge across the main stream of the Yalu Just above Wiju was completed at 8 o’clock Saturday night and the Second Japanese division and the Imperial Guards immediately began crossing. They advanced and occupied the hills back of Kosan. facing the Russian position on the right bank of the river. All through Saturday night regiment after

— ■ - - ... . 4 TOGO’S ROSE PLANNED TO LORE OOT THE ROSSIANS. PORT -J® pqkt baX'.’i JAPANZZ£ OLCOY FIUT H rLIIT g The clever ^use atr -' pt ■! by Adm :al logo at Port section shows itself mar the port, entices the enemy out Arthur on tbep th of Apr !, win :, t! . m • rop l ' "'kv is and then moves round in a circle, the enemy following, blown up. H sbjiwn <ii tin d; nr m It was 1:s purpose, it M,anwbf!e the large, -notion of the blockading fleet has will be rememkHTed, to lure the Russian squadron into a ircled round to the south of the harbor, where it is joined battle. Only pqirt of the Japanese fleet was visible that by the decoy section, vhieh has been moving after it. The morning, after It bad sunk the d« strove ■ Bezstrashni, the enemy, which has been pursuing an apparently weaker remaiml.T bong neo .;.si by the I.- Miands of Li io ti -han force, finds itself shut out of its harbor by a fleet of overprotnontory. southwest ward of P-rt Arthur. Explained whelming strength. From Admiral logo's own account It wl’hout technieaHties. the stratage a is ; .s follows; The is plain that he was trying this ingenious ruse, but the liftbloekading tl-.-t divides itseif Into two soctions. which k«s.p ;ng of the haze revealed his hidden fleet and caused Adin touch by me ins of W--.t< • graphy rhe smaller, tulral Makaroff to retreat to the protection of the forts.

regim* lit of Japam S'ldiere p»-uml ' ’ across the bridge and nt a late hour i Saturday i ■ <i. K< : to the general st' IT . f the army : “I w ill [ attack th-' • i .-my vn Mai 1 at daw ' True t<> 1 promise. Gen. K-imki at dnih-' • <i• t- r-J al i. ■ .it U<’r' ■ ' •• Russian j eition between Ghiu-Lwii i Cheng :.1.1 V-d G. ■_ To this fm* t e, Russians made r<; y with all their bat ■ terics. At 7 o'eh <k iti the morning the Rus- , sinn ba u ry : t Ynkoslm was silenced and half nn hour Inter Cen. Kr.reki ordered his line, MMdiihS for four miles, to nt- | tack. The Japanese infantry on the word of criiiman 1 charged acn-s tie Ihn. waling that stream breast deep. I and beg .it storming the heights at fifteen minutes past s At 9 o'clock they had swept the Russian lino back across the plateau. The Russians were forced to abandon Antung. Thev burned t! e town and rewife I 11 VICE At)’.? AL KAMIMURA. treated to Feng-Huan-Cheng. The Japanese now control the estuary of the Yalu. Humor of the War. Japan has away of living up to the first rumors. Russia may learn after awhile to keep its rapid-fire guns in the safe. Evidently Japan is trying to get even with Russia for sinking that transport. To vary the monotony. Port Arthur may now prepare to be pummeled on its landward side. If Russia really wanted the Japanese on that side of the Yalu it has them there now, all right. At least, the warring powers might submit the spelling of Manchurian proper names to arbitration. Perhaps the Czar is glad now that the man who held him when be wanted to go to the front was so strong. While the Russians had planned to retire, they seem not to have planned to take most of their field guns with them. Having seen the Japanese at close range on land, the Russians now know that they are all they have been painted. That able military expert who compareO tho Yalu battle to Waterloo must be a little shy of historical knowledge about Waterloo. , —* *—<l — ~ * I <

SCENE OF BATTLE I ^4 WHIRC UAF3 CeCOOID I rm; mt J SCENE OF FIRST BIG LAND BATTI.E. RUSSIANS SINK A SHIP. NTadivostok Squadron Enters Korean Port and Destroy Jap Vessel. The Russian Vladivostok squadron suddenly became aggressive and Mondaymade an attack on Gensan, a Korean port 350 miles south of Vladivostok, and sunk a Japanese merchant vessel that was lying at anchor in the harbor. The cruisers Russia and Gromoboi participated in the attack. They were accompanied ’by*rrThi-rd cruiser, not yet identified, and by two torpedo boats. After firing several shots they entered the harbor, ordered the crew of the Goyo Maru ashore and then sunk her. A detachment of marines was landed, but was recalled and the warships steamed outside of the harbor. The arrival of the Russian cruisers off the unprotected town created great consternation, as no preparations had been made for defense. The Vladivostok squadron had not been heard from for several weeks and was supposed still to

be in the northern port. There is only a small Japanese force in Gensnn and there arc m> harbor fortifications. It is tlo-ugl.t the Russians wore on the search for unprotected Japanese transports laden with troops. The sudden activity of tho Russian I fleet that h s been s.> long inactive gives a new phase to the situation. The question of most interest now is what course will the Russians take on leaving Gensnn. If they attempt to join the fleet at Port Arthur news of a naval battle may l e expected. ns the Japanese are in force in the Yellow sea. • WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. The Chinese in Manchuria are praying for a Russian victory. It is asserted on the best authority that the Russians are about to enforce martial law west of the Liao river. The Japanese are stated to be laying a new sort of automatic mines floating just below the surface several miles out from Port Arthur. The Dowager Empress of China has ordered the provincial governors to abandon her birthday celebration and to use the money to equip 72,000 troops immediately. Cautain Jakovleff of the Russian battleship Petropavlovsk soon will be able to start for St. Petersburg- His broken ribs are set and the fracture of his skull is healed. The Japanese steamer Kinshiu Maru, which was sunk by the Russians near Gensan. resulting in the drowning of 200 Japanese troops, was attached to tire fleet as a dispatch boat. The case of the captured Russian steamers, taken over by the naval court of appeals at Sasebo, has been dismissed. The captured Russian officers now held in detention at Sasebo will not be released. The Japanese schooner Chihaya, which has arrived at Gensan, rescued a boat load of forty-five soldiers and nine members of the crew of the Japanese transport Kinshiu Maru, which was torpe- I doed and sunk by the Russians. There are persistent rumors of fighting on the Yalu river, but the Associated Press is informed that no serious engagements have taken place and that the fighting has been limited to affairs of outposts, the Russians contesting and harassing the Japanese advance. Several American financiers are now in Paris. One of the most prominent said that a Russian loan probably would be made before long at 5 per cent, for three years, the bonds selling at between 97 and 98. The total amount is understood to be between $150,000,000 and $175,000,000. The Japanese legation in Washington has published the correspondence that took place preceding the beginning of the war. The purpose is to disclose officially the Japanese attitude and especially to point out the efforts made to force Russia to an early and conclusive answer to the Japanese proposals relative to the evacuation of Manchuria and the neutralization of Korea.

MIKADO'S SHIPS SUNK. Destroyers and Fire Vessels Lost la Attack on Port Arthur. Vic&ryy Alexieff reports that two Japanese torpedo boats and eight fireships were sunk by the Russian squadron while they were attempting to block the harbor entrance. Few details are given, but it is said that Vice Admiral Togo made another desperate effort to bottle up Port Arthur, and that a section of the Russian fleet was sent out by Alexieff to meet the Japanese fleet, which consisted of a number of fireships convoyed by two torpedo boats. All were sunk by the Russian torpedo boats and the lire from the land batteries, leaving the channel clear. The Russians succeeded in saving a few members of the crews of the tire ships, including two officers. The fire ships were discovered, by means of the searchlights of the batteries and guard ships, creeping toward Port Arthur from the east and southeast shortly after midnight. The torpedo boats and torpedo-boat destroyers were ordered out, but none of the larger warships. Admiral Alexieff himself went out on board the coast defense vessel Otvashni. The guard ships at the entrance of the harbor and the forts opened a fierce fire on the fire boats, which lasted until 5 o’clock in the morning, when the last fire shin went down. The official report does not specify the exact spot where the steamers were sunk, but it is plain that a Japanese attempt to cork the entrance to Port Arthur has failed again. The steamers were armed with Hotchkiss and Maxim guns and responded hotly to the Russian fire. JAP TROOPS KILLED. Mikado’s Soldiers Tziired O-ver Mine Placed in Mountain Pass. A mine laid by the retreating Russians in a mountain pass south of Wiju exploded while 1 Japanese infantry was passing over. Many Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded, but details are unobtainable. The second Japanese army corps landed at Chusan consists of three divisions, which are proceeding immediately to Wiju. No attempt has been made yet by the Japanese to cross the —r ... .— .-7.-..-.-“ 7- “ .77 77 --_-..7._777 7 . 71

Yalu. They are awaiting the concentration of a strong force. The Russians are actively engaged in const rm ting fortifications in the mountain passes north of the Yalu.

Wants No Mediation. In the most categorical terms Russia has officially notified the world that she will not accept mediation to terminate the war with Japan. The official notification declares: “Everything within the limits of possibility was done by Russia to salve the complications which had arisen in the far East in a peaceful manner, but after the treacherous surprise on the part of the Japanese which forced Russia to take up arms obviously no I friendly mediation can have any success. Similarly the imperial government will not admit the intervention of any power whatsoever in the direct negotiaCITY OF CHEMULPO. tions which will occur between Russia and Japan after the termination of hostile operations in order to determine the conditions of -peace.” Telegraphic Brevities. Western railroads retuse to furnish passes to live stock men. They say they cannot afford to give them something for nothing. C. C. Coleman. Attorney General of Kansas, was arrested, charged with kidnaping the baby of a Methodist minister at Topeka. The fire in the Gulf Refinery property at Port Arthur, Texas, was got under control. Three steel oil tanks and their contents were destroyed, causing a loss of $125,000. Robert J. Wynne. First Assistant Postmaster General, has been suggested for Postmaster General to succeed Postmaster General Payne if he resigns. Frank Caddy, Grand Rapids. Mich., while at Hot Springs. Ark., jumped from a third-story window of St. Joseph's infirmary and was killed. He was despondent over illness. George H. Knaebel. treasurer of Santa Fe County, N. M., has confessed to being a defaulter in the sum of probably s2o.^ 000. He ascribes his embarrassment to the slump in cotton following the Sully failu re. Active preparations are in progress for the resumption of work at the Pencoyd iron works in Philadelphia. The extensive plant is controlled by the United States Steel Corporation and has been . practically idle for several weeks.

|CONGRESSg The attention of the Senate was devoted Wednesday to consideration of reports of conference committees, set speeches, passage of bills to which there was little or no objection, and an executive session. Final conference reports on the sundry civil, general deficiency, postoffice and the military academy appropriation bills were agreed to practically without opposition, and Mr. McLaurin on the old age pension order and trusts and in criticism of the President. The bill creating a merchant marine commission was passed. A resolution authorizing the continuation during the recess of the inquiry into the right of Mr. Smoot to his seat in the Senate was favorably considered during the day. The House agreed to conference reports of the postoffice, military academy, sundry civil, general deficiency appropriation bills and others of less importance. At 6 o’clock the House took a recess until 9 o’clock, when it reconvened and adopted the conference report on the emergency river and harbor bill. The shipping bill was passed. The Senate met at 10:30 o'clock Thursday morning and immediately agreed to the conference report on the river and harbor bill. The Philippine bond bill was read, the House measure being substituted for that of the Senate. Mr. Lodge said he would uot press it for passage at this session. The conference report on the Panama government bill was adopted. A concurrent resolution to adjourn at 2 o’clock was adopted and at 1:25 o’clock the Senate went into executive session to consider appointments. At 1:52 o'clock the usual resolution offering the thanks of the Senate to its president was introduced by Mr. Gorman and at 2 o’clock the president’s gavel fell, adjourning the session sine die. Although it was admittedly the last day of the session, the House galleries contained only a sprinkling of spectators when work was resumed at 10:30 o’clock in the morning. A number of conference reports on minor bills and that on the Panama canal zone government were agreed to. A vote of 162 to 97 was recorded in favor of the | bill readmitting three naval cadets susi pended for hazing, but the bill was dei seated, two-thirds not voting for it. Mr. Williams, the minority leader, introduced the resolution of thanks to the Speaker and at 2:10 o'clock the House adjourned without day. In the National Capital. The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the Traders’ National Ba»k of Clarksburg, W. Va., to reopen. Secretary Hitchcock ordered that onefourth of the bids in the Indian warehouse business shall be opened at St. Louis. The Senate received a petition of the Cliamber of Commerce of the territory of Alaska, requesting an appropriation of j $250,000 for the purchase of a site and I the construction of a capitol building at ' Juneau. j Representatives Wm. Alden Smith of ! Michigan and Sulzer of New York ap- ' peared before a sub-committee of the ■ House committee on postoffices and post i roads, and argued in behalf of their bills I adding S2OO annually to the salary of । the three classes of city letter carriers. The House committee on merchant mai rine and fisheries authorized favorable ■ reports on Senate bills revising the laws ■ regulating steamboaVTu£p'€«ti«ii and supplementiug "the crimping” legislation by , making it unlawful to collect any fee ♦ or charge from a sailor for shipping him. The case of James M. A. Watson, accused of embezzling $73,000 from funds I in the custody of the auditor of the Disj trict of Columbia, was ended by the disj charge of the jury and the arrest of one of the jurors, Arthur L. Orrison. for contempt of court. Orrison was given two months in jail.

Through the Swedish legation here the State Department has received officially the thanks of the government of Sweden and Norway for the protection accorded vessels of that nationality by United States warships in Dominican waters during the many revolutionary disturbances there lately. Senator Proctor introduced a bill to authorize the President to reward distinguished or especially meritorious service rendered by certain officers of the active list of the army. The bill provides for the creation of a ‘‘distinguished service list” to include five colonels, six lieutenant colonels, eighteen majors, ten captains and five first lieutenants. Senator Dillingham reported favorably a bill to amend the immigration act. Its principal provision is that at least one inspector and one surgeon shall be assigned to each of the principal foreign i ports of embarkation for aliens destined ।to the United States. The officers selected will he members of the consular service, but will serve under the commissioner general of immigration. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals sustained Justice Pritchard of the criminal court in holding that the statute to punish conspiracy covers the charges made in the indictments against former Assistant Attorney General James N. Tyner and former Law Clerk Harrison J. Barrett of the Postoffice Department. These indictments were returned as the result of the postal investigation. The Lattimer good roads I J’ j * ported favorably by the ^‘l tee on agriculture early ill 5sion of Congress. An agreement to ’that effect was reached at a meeting of the committee. It was decided to amend the bill by fixing at SIOO,OOO the minimum appropriation which each State shall receive first, the balance of the appropriation to be shared by each State in proportion to its population. Told in a Few Lines. Cincinnati has the tallest concrete building in the world. It has fifteen stories. In eight months the French have bought 6,000 tons of American chopped apples for cider making. The average annual dividend on the capital stock of American railways is 2.61 per cent. The deaths by violence in Chicago during 1903 numbered 2,571; of these 492 were suicides. The cost of living in Tamatave, Madagascar’s metropolis, is double that in New York. An authority puts the total annual expense of printed forms of advertising at $600,000,000. It is not mere endurance, but right endurance of affliction that brings blessings.—J. 11. Evans. The receipts of the Cuban government last year were $18,007,302 and its expenses were $15,933,646. The smallest bird is an East Indian humming bird. It is a little larger । than the common house fly.