LIMITS OF WAR ZONE Broken Bj Cossacks f bo Raided Sooth of Liaoyang. THEY MAY FALL INTO A TRAP. JipiMH Contend That China's Fallnrs 10 Enlorc Neutrality Releases Them From Obligation 10 Observe Rtttriclloo, Which Saul Ignores Japan Determined to Pro ltd Herself. The extensive raiding operation of General Mistchenko's 20,000 Cossacks in the rear of the Japanese forces in Man churia and the Cossacks' invasion of neutral Chinese territory appears 10 threiten a general violation of the agrej tnent by both belligerents which will call for prompt action by the powers to pre vent China being dragged into the con test. Reports received m Tokio say that the Cossacks have deliberately broken th; limits of the war zone. Japanese offi cials, while regretting the extension of belligerent Urtitory. declare that step must be taken to stop the raiding ex peditions. While the Russian War Office wi!' not admit tint Mistchenko's cavalrv movements are more than raiding expe ditions, it is believed that they are pre liminary to extensive operations which may seriously damage the Japanese lines of communication, providing the Japa nese do not catch them in their town trap. That the Japanese "are as wary as ever is indicated in a dispatch to Lloyd's News Agency, London, from Yinkow, which gives a report that Mistchenko's raiding force was cut off on its way hack by S.ooo Japanese despatched from San lihoo by General Oku. The Japanese ara pushing sapping operations toward the Russian lines at several points in Manchuria. Jarsa Will Also Break the Limit. Tokii , (By Cable). Later reports from Neuchwang indicate that General Mistchenko's Cossacks, in their recent raiding southwest of I.iaoyang, deliber ately invaded neutral territory, and broitc the limits of the war zone. The reported Russian note to the pow ers calling attention to China's non enforcement of neutrality is regardii here in some quarters as absurd. It is felt that China's weakness and constant failure to enforce neutrality must re lease Japan from obligation to observe restrictions which Russia openly ignore?. While the extension of belligerent ter ritory is to be regretted, it is felt that Japan must take steps to protect herself against the rtpetition of raiding expe ditions, the y-ccess of which depends on the violation of neutral territory. Great Operations Are Impending. St. Petersburg (By Cable). The War Office does not admit that the appear ance of General Mistchenko's cavalry southwest of L'aoyang is more than a raiding expedition, designed to strike the railroad at several points and interrupt the transportation of General Nogi's guns from Port Arthur to Manchuria; but from certain indications it seems possible that it is preliminary to an oper ation of magnitude. General Mistehen ko ha over 20,000 horsemen, and, mov ing rapidly, might be able to seriously damage communications in the rear of LiaoyaiiR. The tone of dispatches from some Russian correspondents vaguely hints at very important developments, and the military writer for the Novoe Vremya expresses the opinion that the long calm since the battle of Shakhc is about to be broken. It is also noteworthy that there have been no official dispatches from General Kuropatkin for two days. London, (By Cable). The tone of the rescript addressed by Emperor Nicho las to the army and navy is regarded here as putting an end to all present hopes of the possibility of mediation for peace and as indicating the likelihood that General Kuropatkin soon will re aume the offensive. PERISHED IN Bl'RNINQ HOUSE. New York Lawyer, Whk His Wile, Two Children and Servants Killed. New York Special). William T. Mason, a lawyer, and his family, con sisting of wife and two children, Ellen, four years old, and Marion, six months, with a servant, A.nnie Wells, lost their lives in a fire which partially destroyed the brown-stone dwelling occupied by them at 133 West One Hundred and Thirtieth street. Although neighbors sny they heari! cries of "Murder!" and "Burglars!" the police found nothing to indicate that the fire was not accidental. The whole family rppears to have been suffocated, The bodies of the father and youngest child were untouched by the flames, and those of the others were probably burned after they had died. A policeman and a neighbor who heard . the cries attempted to get into the house bv breakina windows of the parlor Hoor, but were driven back bv the smoke. The firemen were unable to enter until after the lower part of the house and the halls had been burned out. The charred bodies of Mrs. Mason, the servant and four-year-old child were found in a closet under the roof sen through v. hich they are supposed to have been attempting to escape. The bodies of Mr. Mason and the younger child were in a bedroom. ' Woman Perished la Fir. W'altham, Mass. (Special). Mrs. Mary Craig Lovell, wife of F. C. Lovell, was burned to death in the Hotel W'al tham, where she and her husband, F. C Lovell, of Boston! were guests. Mrs. Lovell was on the fifth floor when the alarm sounded, and after the fire her lifeless body was found at the foot of a stairway. Margaret Connor and John McDonald were severely burned, and - many guests escaped by means of lad den. Throws Under Car Wheels. Champaign, 111. (Special). Ralph C Robots, of Keokuk, Iowa, captain of the University of Illinois baseball team, was killed and several students were slightly injured in a wreck on the Cleve land. ... Columbus, Cincinnati and St. -Louis Railroad at Rising The wreck was caused by a dining car leaving the track. Roberts was standing on the steps preparing to jumy. He was thrown under the wheel". He was re turning to the university after a short Tucatkm. MWS IN SHORT ORDER. The latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid Reading. Domestic. The man who was killed while at tempting to force an entrance into the home of the Lance brothers, near Mon aco, Pa., has been identified as Arthur S. Harris, of Midway, Pa., a young man who had borne a spotless reputation. Practically all the 600 miners who will take part in the Convention of the United Mineworkers have arrived in Indianapo lis. President Mitchell's message is ex pected to make important recommenda tions. President Robbins, of the Armour car lines, declares the charges made against the refrigerating company are based on testimony that is prejudiced and biased and in manv respects false. Minnie A. Worth, wife of Gorham A. Worth, a wealthy New York btoker, se cured a divorce from him as the result of a sensational episode in which Mr. Worth and Mrs. Kmil Schacfer figured. The heirs of Jonathan Clark, a mil lionaire contractor, of Chicago, have sued Miss Caroline Patterson, who was his sweetheart, for $.100,000, which they charge she secured from him. The renort of the Philippine commis sion was submitted to Congress by Sec retary Taft, with a letter commenting on it principal recommendations. Mr. Calvo, the Costa Ric.in minister, declared that the American Panama Company had no legal right to its al leged concession in that country. William T. Wardwcll, former trcaS' urer of the Standard Oil Company, has given 5.100.000 lor a sue ior a nca v,ross hospital in New York. Hugh Wallace and William Foraker, hoys, about 12 years old, were drowned in Como Lake at Smyrna Del., by the breaking of thin ice. Mrs. Mary D. Winter secured in Read ing, Pa., a verdict for ftoo damages against Levi R. Stoudt, a Center town ship farmer. Mrs. Mercedes L. Miles, of Brooklyn, filed a caveat against the probating of the will of her husband, Col. Thomas C. Miles. W illiam T. Mason, a lawyer, of New York; his wife, two children and nurse were burned to death in their home. Alfred Yandcrbilt is reported to have made millions by buying bargains in stocks whctl the market was depressed. The land has been donated which will enable Princeton to get $385,000 from Mr. Carnegie to build a lake. The President has accepted Mr. Wil liam Williams' resignation as commis sioner of immigration at New York. A number of philanthropists in New York have inaugurated a crusade on the vicious cadet syxtem. Archibald G. Looniis, whose name has been frequently mentioned in connec tion with the booming of the Montreal and Boston Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company stock by the failed firm of Munroe & Munroe, has ten dered his. resignation as vice president and director of the National City Bank of New York. The resignation will be accepted. During habeas corpus proceedings m the case of Brodie L. Duke, of Dur ham, N. C, in New York. Mr. Dclancey Nicoll, representing Mr. Dukes family, said they were anxious to rescue him from the associations of criminals. Mr. Duke will be examined by an insanity commission. A sleighing party was run down bv a trolley car at Altoona, Pa. Twenty-one persons were injured. An intoxicated driver is blamed for the accident. By rare nerve and pluck, Miss Ellen Deming, aged 23 years, prevented two burglars from robbing a station of the Brooklvn Rapid Transit Company. J. W. Bess was hanged at Lexington, Ky., for the murder of Mrs. Martha McQumn Martin. A New Jersey justice of the peace has decided that kissing is not a pun ishable crime. All grades of refined sugar were ad vanced 10 cents per too pounds. Forty cases of smallpox are said to exist at Horton, Kan. The first snowstorm for two years pro vails in Oregon. Sehna Variona and Charles Hincs coal miners, were caught tinder a fall of rock at the Hazle Mines Colliery Pa., and instantly killed. The Commercial Exchange of Phila delphia adopted resolutions asking the railroad companies to return to the old gram rates from the West. K. H. Sarasohn, the pioneer Jewish newspaper publisher of the United States, died at Ins home, in New 1 ork, ot pneu nioiiia. Former Gov. Silas Garber, first govcr nor of .Nebraska under the new consti union, died at his home, in Red Cloud, Neb. Fire destroys! the Academy of Music block in Chelsea, Mass., and cause the serious injury to several persons. Foreign. The political parties in Panama have akcd the United States Minister to wiiln'-aw the suggestion he made to the W asiniigtoii government that the f line tn. 11s ot the governor ot the canal zone and minister to Panama be confined in the person of the governor. rreniitr t. unities and his ministers notwithstanding their successful strug gle in the Chamber of Deputies Sat nr day night, have decided to resign, and their decision is hailed by the opposition as a victory. Three Hungarian martyrs were beati fied at St. Peter's, in Rome, in the pres ence of 1,000 worshipers, including many Americans. 1 he j'ope during the cere mony, appeared fatigued. The fishing steamer Columbia was lost off the coast of British Columbia, but the crew was saved. The religious orders are urging the Vatican to press for payment of the money awarded by the United States for the purchase of the friars' lands in the Philippines. While General Trepoff was bidding farewell to Grand Duke Sergius at Mos cow a young man fired three shots at the General, all of which missed. The American Chamber of Commerce in Berlin has instituted a movement for a reciprocity treaty between the United States and Germany. The French Sabinet situation is re garded with satisfaction at the Vatican. Dr. Paaschc, second vice president of the Reichstag, denies that he said in a recent speech that Germany and Great Britain had been on the verge of war in the latter "part of December. The German forces in Southwest Africa have lost 54 officers and 752 men killed in battle, died of disease or murdered by natives. The reported retirement of United States Consul General Evans, at Lon don, has been received with regret in that city. Contrary to expectation, the French Cabinet crisis did not reach a decisive issue Mi the Chamber of Deputies. DYNAMITER CONFESSES Rosseau" Admits Two Attempted Outrages. IS A FANATIC ON ONE SUBJECT. fl Ortels the Witnesses who Came Prom Washington sad New York to Identify Him as tht Mas Who Tried to Blow Up tht Frederick the Great Status at Waiblagtoo. Philadelphia (Special). Gesslcr Ros seau, who was arrested in this city on Thursday with an unloaded infernal ma chine in his possession, admitted to the police that he is the man who attempted to destroy the statue of Frederick the Great in Washington last Tuesday, and also that it was he who sent the trunk containing an infernal machine to the British steamship Umbria, at New York, in May, !',?. The prisoner, whose right name is not known, made these admissions in the office of Captain Donaghy, of the Phila delphia' Detective Bureau, after he had been identified by persons brought here from New York and Washington, for that purpose. He gives no reasons for the attempted outrages, except that "there are too many foreign affairs in this country." After having Rosseau under fire all afternoon, the police class ed him as an American patriotic fanat ic." The prisoner gave no information oluntarily to the police, he admitting only those things which the police had fastened on him. Both the Washington and New York authorities want the man, and it is possible that he will be urncd over to the police of the latter citv. The apprehension of Rosseau was due to the disappearance of Owen Kelly, wealthy Irish-American, who is promi nent in Irish-American societies in this country. Kelly disappeared on October 25, and from time to tunc the newspa pers, particularly of the East, have pub- l.shcd articles on the mysterious disap pearance, these, the police believe, un doubtedly attracted Rosseau s attention. On Thursdty he called on Patrick Kelly, the brother of the missing man, nd offered to take him to his brother n New York tor $500. tie said ne and Owen belonged to secret societies nat were organized for the purpose of blowing up British ships in American ports. The valise he carried, he said, contained txplosives. Patrick Kelly no tified the police, and Rosseau was taken nto custody. I he valise contained an nfernal machine of the clock-arrange ment variety, but 110 explosives. About the machine was wrapped a Washing ton newspaper. This gave the police the clue that he might know something of he explosion at the statue of Frederick the Great, and his picture was, taken and sent to both the Washington and New York authorities. In the meantime he was also suspected of knowing some thing of the steamship Umbria inci dent. Sundav Capt. Robert Boardinan, of the Washington detective force, and Al fred Carte:, colored, and George H. Ha zel, cabmen of Washington, who saw the man who attempted to blow up the statue, and Detective Sergeant Arthur Carey, of New York, and a Mrs. Curry, who keeps a hoarding-house in the lat ter city, arrived here for the purpose of identifying the prisoner. When Ros seau was brought into the office of Cap tain Donaghy. Hael said: "I guess you know me," to which the prisoner re plied: ''How do you do?" Rosseau bowed to Carter and then greeted Mrs. Curry. Having satisfied themselves beyond doubt that the iden tification was complete, the police offi cials of the three cities set to work in obtaining a confession from the pris oner. As stated before, he said nothing voluntarily to incriminate himself. In reply to a question, he admitted the attempt on the statue. He said he had manufactured the infernal machine him self, and that it consisted of a candle, fuse and "dynamite engine." Where he made it he would not say. It was his intention, he said, to blow up the statue at nightj because he did not want to hurt anybody. Because of the ice in the Potomac River he failed to find anyone who would row him from Seventh Street Wharf, Washington, to the Atsenal, which is on one bank of the river, and he had to change his plans. The failure to destrcy the statue, he said, must have been due to the melting tallow spoiling the fiife or interfering with the dyna mite. Rosseau then gave the police the in teresting information that he had intend ed making a second attempt to blow up the statue, this time with a time-clock machine. As it was difficult to get past the sentries i.ftcr nightfall, he intended going to the arsenal about dusk, ar range the infernal machine so that it would exi.'lodc about midnight and then hang it oil l'e statue. This ii the substance of his admis sion concerning the statue, according to Captain Donaghy. Immlf rants Pour In. New Yoi't, (Special). The official records at Ellis Island show that for the first month of the new year immigration to this country is likely to exceed all records. From January 1 to to the arrivals number 14,000. I'or the whole month of January, 1004, the arrivals were only ig.ooo. Deportations for the same period are also record-breaking For the first to days of the new year 478 persons have been deported from Ellis Island, against 70 persons have been deported from Ellis Inland, against 70 for the same period in 1004. Judgment for Mrs. Marcum. Winchester, Ky. (Special). The jury in the case of Mrs. Abrelia Marcum who sued Judge llarp. former State Senator Alexander llargis, Sheriff Ed Callahan, of Breathitt County, and At torney Fulton French for $100,000 for alleged conspiracy with Curtis Jet t and 1 homas White to slay her husband, James It. Marcum, returned a verdict for $S,ooo against James llargis and Sheriff Callahan and found for the de fendants in the ca.e of French and Alexander llargis. American Cltitto all ed. London (By Cable). A dispatch from Tangier to the Times says : "The vice consul at Alcazar reports that there has been serious intertribal fighting and that one protected American subject has been killed and much property be longing to Europeans looted. Recommends Whipping Post Satfni. Ore.. Special!. The I.eirit.l ture listened to the reading of Gover nor Cham'wrlaiV message. It carried a recommendation that a,' law be passed establishing whipping posts tor the pun uhmsut m uowieiuers.i N9 NEW TRIAL FOR MXUE Supremo Court Refuses to Grant a Writ of Error. HE WEPT MFN THE NEWS CAME. Prisoner Removed lo Steel Cage al Charlottes ville and Preparations Begun lor His Exe cution, January 20 Virginia Snpremt Court Uuanlmoui In Ita Oplnlon-Saya He Will Not Attempt Sulcldt-Tbt Governor His Last If ope September 4. Mrs, Fannie M. McCtie murdered. September 7. Ex-Mayor J. Samuel McCuc arrested, charg ed with the murder of his wife. September 8. Verdict of coro ner's jury made public, charg ing McCue with the crime. September 22. McCue ar rainged in court at Charlottes ville. October 18 Trial of McCue begun before Judge Morris. November 5. Jury, after 20 minutes' deliberation, brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. November o. McCue sentenc ed to be hanged in Charlottes ville January 20, 1005. January 12. Supreme Court of Appeals refused writ of error in McCuc case Richmond, Va., (Special). James Samuel McCue, former Mayor of Char- lottsvillc, will be hanged January 20 for the murder of his wife, Fannie Crawford McCue, unless the Governor intervenes. The State Supreme Court of Appeals unanimously declined to grant a writ of error. , Medic's only hope now is that Gover nor Montague will interfere, but there seems little reason to believe that he will interpose, although it is possible that the Governor will reprieve the pri soner for a short time to give McCue an opportunity to prepare to meet his fate. The decision of the court was an nounced by its president, Judge James Keith, who said from the bench when court opened. "In the case of McCue vs. the Com monwealth, the judgement of the Cor poration Court of CharhMtsville being plainly right, a writ of error is denied." The decision came as a surprise to the legal fraternity, the prisoner's petition having been skillfully prepared by his attorneys, J. L. Lee and Tinsley Cole man, of Lynchburg. There were 45 assignments of error, one being on a point hitherto not raised the right of jurors to read the daily papers during the progress of a case. It will be remembered that Judge George W. Morris, who presided at Mc Cue's trial, allowed the jury to read the papers, but cautioned them to avoid the portions relating to the trial. The de fense claimed that the juryman could not help seeing the headlines over the McCue matter, and that they were in fluenced thereby. The failure of the court to grant a writ of error on that ground is taken to mean that hereafter juries in mur der cases can read the papers. It is expected that counsel for McCue will begin at once to lay seige to the Governor to induce him either to grant a reprieve or to commute McCue's sent ence to life imprisonment. Counsel for McCue gave 45 reasons why he should be granted a new trial by the Supreme Court, as follows: That Henry L. Lyman, a member ot the grand jury that indicted McCue, was ineligible to serve, being a non-resident J that the court submitted to a jury the question of Lyman's eligibility. The hird and fourth items refer to different phases of the same objection. That J. Y. Stockdcll should not have been accepted as a juror, there being doubts of his impartiality. That Judson. B. Wood was accepted after having expressed an opinion. 1 hat Frank K. Tyler was excluded for declaring he would not convict on cir cumstantial evidence. From the eighth to the fifteenth item the exceptions relate to testimony of witnesses alleged to have been improperly admitted. Exceptions from the sixteenth to the thirty-third item relate to the impeach ment of the young son of the prisoner, William McCue . They claim that the Commonwealth having introduced this witness, had no right to put on other witnesses to impeach him when he did not testify as they expected. Eception 34 relates to the admission of evidence as to the prisoner's manner to his wife on a specific occasion. Exceptions from 34 up to 40 relate to the admission of testimony. No. 40 is in regard to the jurors being allowed to read the daily papers. The next two ex ceptions relate to refusal to grant certain nstructions and the amending ot others, No. 44 is that one of counsel for the prosecution improperly stated before the jury that he had refused a large fee in order to prosecute McCue. n I he last exception was to the court s rcfusig to set aside the verdict. A Physician's Suicide. Charlotte, N. C. (Special). Dr. Al bcrt G. Carr, one of the most promi nent physicians in the state, committed suicide at Durham by shooting himself through the head. Dr. Carr had been in failing health for several months, and during the last few days had been suf fering from insomnia.. He was active in his practice, however. He was 54 years old and was a brother of Gen. Julian S. Carr, one of the Wealthiest men in North Carolina, and was him self very wealthy. Railroad Official Killed. Mobile, Ala., (Special). A north bound passenger train which left Mobile over the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City railroad ran into a washout four miles south of Beaumont, 'Miss., and the engine, baggage and passenger coaches were overturned. General Passenger and Freight Agent L. B. Sullivan, who was making an inspection tour on the engine was instantly killed. Engineer W. A. Crawford, his colored fireman and a colored porter were injured. Diamond on Cat's TsIL Galesburg, Mich. (Special). Through the discovery of a diamond ring im bedded in the tail of a family cat, owned by William Ward, of this city, steps were taken to secure the releass from the state reformatory of William Hen derson, sent there two years ago on the charge of stealing the ring, which mys teriously disappeared from the dress ing table of Mrs. Ward, two years ago. Notwithstanding a thorough search, the ring remained missing until Friday, when it was located imbedded in the long hair of the cat's tail. LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. Mr. Brlstow Quits. Joseph L. Bristow, fourth assistant postmaster general, tendered to the President his resignation as an officer of the Postal Service, to take effect oil the 20th inst. By an executive order President Roosevelt designated Mr. Bristow as a special commissioner to make an investigation into the present trade conditions and freight rates be tween the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts and between the West Coast of South America and the East Coast of the United States and Europe, to determine the liest policy of managing the Panama Railroad. Mr. Bristow's resignation from the Postal Service was not a surprise, and came as a result of transfer of postofficc inspectors from him to the Postmaster General. The announcement came at the con clusion of an extended conference be tween the President, Secretary Taft, Mr. Bristow and Senator Long, of Kansas. The text of the order issued by the President follows: "It is ordered that Joseph L. Bris tow, of Kansas, he appointed a special commissioner for the purpose of visit ing the potts of the Pacific Coast, the Isthmus of Panama, New York , and such other ports as may be necessary to make an investigation into the pres ent trade conditions and freight rates between the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, across the Isthmus of Panama, and be tween the West Coast of South Amer ica, and the East Coast of the United States and Europe, for the purpose of determining the best policy to be pur sued in the management of the Panama Railroad Company. The Reciprocity Triples. Consideration was given by Presi dent Roosevelt and Senator Cullom, of Illinois, chairman of the Senate Com mittee on Foreign Relations, to the arbitration treaties now pending before the Senate. The President indicated to Senator Cullom his earnest desire that the treaties should be ratified without material amendment.- He reiterated to the Senator his purpose to withdraw .'he conventions from the Senate rather than permit their emasculation. He pointed out that the' treaties were sub stantially identical, and that the repre sentatives of the powers with whom they had been negotiated bad agreed to their terms, notwithstanding the fact that in some instances changes, which subse quently had been withdrawn, were sug gested. At the conclusion of the confer ence Senator Cullom said he hoped to c able to obtain favorable action on the treaties by the Senate, and was inclined o the opinion that they would be rati fied without serious objection or amend ment. New Coast Defense System. The President issued a most, import- tnat order appointing a board, consist ing of Secretary of War I aft, l.ieut. Gen. A. R. Chaffee, Maj.-C.cn. George L. Gillespie. Assistan Chief of Staff ; Brig.-Gen. A. W. Greely, Chief Signal Officer; Bri.-Gen. William Crozier, Chief of Ordiance; Bri.-Gen. J. P. Story, Chief of Artillery; Bri.-Gen. Alexander Mackenzie, Chief of En gineers, and Major George W. Gocthals, General Staff, to revise the report of the famous "Endicott Board" of 1885. which formulated a system of coast defense for the United States. The new board is to make recom mendations to complete i'e policy of the Endicott Board for the protection of the coasts and harbors of the United States. In view of the many important changes in ordnance and mines during the last 19 years it has been found necessary to have this new board, which will bring the work of the Endicott Board tip to date. Inauguration Plans. The inaugural committee decided that there shall be no Sunday concert at the Pension Office Building following the inaugural ceremony, and that three concerts will be given Monday, March 6. It was stated that the number of troops and civic organizations combined in the inaugural parade would approxi mate not more than two-thirds of the number four years ago; that all the or ganizations would follow close-column formation, permitting the parade to pass within three hours instead of six hours, as was the case four years ago. The project "of erecting an amphitheater re viewing stand 011 the white lot, south of the White House, probably will be abandoned and the usual line of march followed. Postal Inspectors I mis ;rref. Postmaster-Gcr.cral Wynne has issued an order transferring the entire corps of postofiiee inspectors from jurisdiction of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General and placing them immediately under the Postmaster-General. The action is taken on the ground of s.ibserving the best interest of the Government. It is also based on the fact that the inspec tors of the other executive department', of the Government are directly under the head of the department. The or der affects over 200 men scattered. Notes ol the Departments. The motion of Representative May nard, of Virginia, that the House Com mittee on" Industrial Arts and Exposi tions recommend an appropriation of $2,500,000 for government participation 111 the land portion of the exposition to be held in commemoration of the settle ment of Jamestown, Va., was discussed by the comuii'tee. Mr. Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern Railwv.y, continued his state ment on the hill regulating railroad. rates before the House Committee 011 Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Fourth Assistant Postmastc Genera! Bristow has resigned, lie was appoint ed a member of a pccia! commission by the President to facilitate trsde across the Isthmus of Panama bv rail. The gross postal receipts for the 50 largest postollices in the country for December, 190.1, as compared with De cember, loo.i, iiow net increace of about 9 per cent. If the business of the War Depart ment will justify it, Secretary Taft will make an official vijit of inspection to the Philippine Islands durirg the coming summer. The President appointed Vespasian Warner to be commissioner of pensions, Mr. Warner is now a member of Con gress from Illinois. In the House Mr. Sheppard, of Tex as, introduced s hill prohibiting con gressmen who ride oil passes from drawing mileage money. The armored cruiser Maryland, bu;lt by the Newport New Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, will have her official trial on the 25th iust., over the old Cape Ann course, off the coast ot Massaclm setts. The Maryland is required to maintain at) average speed of 22 kiots an hour. GENERAL NOGI'S LOOT LIST Fifty Forts and Four Battleships Cap tured at Port Arthur. TOTAL OF SIXTY-FIVE VESSELS TAKEN. General Nogi's Headquarters' Stall at Port Arthur Art al Present Devoting Tbelf Ener gies to Dispatching the Prisoners to Japan, Placing the Wounded la Hospitals and Clear ing tht Way lor a Thorough Investigation. Washington, D. C, (Special). The Japanese Legation has received a cable gram from Tokio, saying that General Nogi reports that the delivery at Tort rthur has been completed. It includes the following : . PcrniancnJ forts, 50; guns, 546, of which 54 arc of large caliber, 140 of medium caliber and 343 of small caliber; cannon balls. 82,670; ammunition, 30, 000 kilos; rillcs, .,5.252; horses, 1.020; battleships, 4, except cvaslopol. wmcn is entirely sunk; cruisers, 2; gunboats and destroyers, 14; steamers, 10 besides small steamers. ,15 of which will he serviceaDie after little repairs. Jops Had to Fight 5),000. The Japanese achievement at Tort Arthur is ihore remarkable in the light nf further invest iuations. I he original Russian strength is now estimated to have hern almost 50,000 men. It is an nounced at the army headquarters that in addition to the prisoners already re ported, aliout 13,000 wounded combat ants eventually will be brought to Japan. General Nogi's headquarters staff at Port Arthur are at present devoting their en ergies to dispatching the prisoners to Japan, placing the wounded in hospitals and clearing the way tor a tnorougn in vestigation of the spoils of war. Con fused reports reach Tokio of the con ftitinn of thp ritv buildings. It is said that General Nogi will not return to Tokio at present. Russian Captives In Japan. Nagasaki. (By Cable). The steamers Kanra and Siinnki have arrived here with l,fxx Russian prisoners of war and 50 officers. All the prisoners have! been quartered at Inasa, a village nearby, where has also been prepared a lodge lor ucncrai Sloessel. The Russians officers arc allowed much liberty within the bounds of the town, but they arc under police escort. General Stoesscl and staff will sail for Europe on a French mail steamer this wek . , 11 The Russian prisoners arc unfcignedly pleased at the end of the hardships of the siege and the considerate treatment of their victors. Mncsrthur to See the War. Washington, D. C, (Special). Japan has given the United States Army, ihropffh the State Department, permis sion to send Maj.-Gen. Arthur Mac Arthur, now in command of the Pacific division, with the Japanese armies in Manchuria an observer. General MacArthur will be accompanied by one aide. The greatest secrecy has been main tained by the War Department relative to the request by this Government to be allowed to send an officer of the high rank held by General MacArthur with the Japanese armies. General Mac Arthur did not himself request the de tail, but. because of his great experience and wcll-reccgnized ability as a strate gist, the General Staff decided to send him with Marshal Oyama. General MacArthur will leave San Francisco immediately for Japan and will then proceed to Manchuria. He will be the highest ranking foreign officer with the forces of Japan. Doubasioll Doesn't Deny It Paris, (By Cable). Admiral Dou bassoff was requested to indicate whether hij recent interview in the Echo de Paris, which attracted so much atten tion owing to the fact that the Admiral was looked upon as having indicated that peace between Russia and Japan vvs probable 111 the near luturc, was correri. He refused to frunish any in dication concerning the correctness of the interview and said : I do not wish to provoke a press con troversy. Consequently I neither deny nor affirm the words attributed to me. All I can say is that in order to deny the Echo de Paris interview a news paper should have serious reasons." $20,090 PAID FOR A PINK. F. f. V e.-soo Buys The Exclusive Right lo "The Sporl." Boston, (Special). For a pink which 'r.n won prizes at several horticultural shows in different parts of the country F. R. Pierson. a millionaire resident of Tarrytown-on-the-1 ludson, has paid W. B. Arnold, a Rockland llonst. $.'o,ooo. Mr. Pierson will cultivate the pink ex tensively on his estate on the Hudson. The flower is an offspring of the fam ous pink for which Thomas W. Lawson paid $25,000 a few years ago. It is the 'result of a three years experiment iv Mr. Arnold and was cultivated in, a bed of Lawson pinks in the Arnold green houses. The Lawson flower is brilliant pink in color, "lhe Sport, as Mr. Arnold has named this one, is of pure white, with carmine tracinRs through the petals. It has a large stem and is more robust than the famous Lawson flower. Mr. Arnold considers his pink a freak. "When I saw it first among the Law- 011s. he said. "I recognized it as some thing extraordinary in the horticultural n-or d. and I watched it nay and nig.it until it became the flower it is today." To Mark Railroad Employes. New Haven, (Special). Announce ment was made by the management of the New York, New Haven and Hart ford Railroad .Iirt a -new system of merits and demerits as applied to at taches in the operating department will be adopted early in the- present year, More than 8,000 employes will be affect ed. By this system a certain number of demerits- publicly posted, will suffice to cause an offending man's dismissal. Train Collided la Fog. Las Vegas, N. M., (Special). Santa Fe passenger train No. 4, the California limited, collided head-on with a freight train, 30 miles south of Raton, N. M. Several members of the crew are suppos ed to be dead, among them a fireman on the limited. A negro barber was killed. Many of lhe passengers were bruised, but none seriously hurt. The trains met in an unusually heavy fog and neither engine crew had any warn ing of their danger before they came to gether. WILL NOT INSURE CRIMINALS. Olflclals Testify In I200.0M Coateated Policy f J. L Blair. New York, (Special). Officials of two large insurance companies declared that because the strain on the mind of a criminal tends to shorten his life, they will not accept policies from members of the criminal class, and that had they known that James L. Blair hact embezzled and committed forgery and other crimes they would not under any conditions have accepted him as a risk. Maintaining that he was a criminal and1 concealed the fact, they now refuse pay ment on a policy for $200,000, which he carried for almost two years. The statement, conccrnin cntnma.s was- given at a hearing before Judge Scho- . field, of Missouri, a master in chanchcry appointed by the St. Louis' courts to take testimony 111 the suit of James L. Blair's widow for the recovery of the sum her husband was insured . Dr. B. Simons, medical director of the Mutual Life nsurancc Company, tectificd that he examined Mr. Blair on January 8, too2, at which time Mr. Blair said he wished to take out a large policy. In all of his statements Mr. Blair intimated that he was well able to pay for such a policy. The insurance company now claims that he represented his income at $100,000 a year, which was untrue. The witness explained that the com pany objected to taking risks on crim inals, because even though the strain due to fear of detect i"-i vas not there, the life in a peniter ry tended to make a high mortuary record, both through the vigors of penal life and through the new strain which constant confinement produced. In his statements he was substantiated by George E. Tarbel, vice-president of the Equitable Life. Statement For Veneiuela. Paris (By Cable). The Venezuelan) Legation has giveii out a denial of the reports circulated in Europe that com plications between the Unjtcd States and Venezuela are imminent. Rome ( By Cable). The Tribune publishes n semi-official statement to the effect that Italy has not designated the United States government to act for her with regard to Venezuelan matters, and adding that Italy and the United States, will act jointly in .Venezuelan arlair only as regards questions of mutual con cern. Four Burned In Wreck. Piggott, Ark., (Special). Four per sons were killed in a rear-end collision between a freight train and a switch engine on the Cotton Belt railroad at this place. The four who were killed were passengers who were riding ii the caboose 011 the freight train. The caboose was set on fire and the bodies of the victims were burned to a crisp. The bodies were burned so badly that they could not be identified. Porte Restores Bib!, a. Constantinople, (By Cable). The in tervention of the American Legation has been successful and the Bibles seized at Mersina and -Trcbizond have been re stored to the American Bible Society's agents. An iradc which doubtless will be helpful in tranquilizing Macedonia authorizes the return of 3,000 Bulgarian refugees to their homes in the vilayet of Adrianople. To Make Paper In Newfoundland. St. Johns, Newfoundland (By Cable). Sir Alfred Harmsworth, Leicester Harmsworth, Harold Harmsworth, and Miles Beet on, all of London, England, have incorporated here as the Anglo Newfoundland Development Company, with a capital of $5,000,000, for the manufacture of pulp and paper in this sland, having acquired large properties here. Operations will be begun early in the spring. New Jersey Pnstofflcs Robbed. New York (Special). Interrupted while rifling the postofiice at Atlantic Highlands, N. J., after blowing up the safe with dynamite, several burglars shot at and scared away a citizen who inter fered. Then they gathered up money and postago stamps to the value of more than a thousand dollars and made good their escape. FINANCIAL. An order to import 4000 tons of pig iron has been given. Ontario & Western for five months of this fiscal year gained $245,?58 in net earnings. Russia s new loan of $81,000,000 has been issued in Berlin at 95. United States Steel bonds arc again higher than the preferred stock. Northern Pacific has ordered 30,000 tons of steel rails from the United States Steel Corporation. Winter wheat reports from the West are satisfactory. An appeal to the United States Su preme Court is E. II. Harriman's deci sion in the Northern Securities case. It would not suprise the railroad world to sec the Eric leased to the Uinon Pacific or the Rock Island people. Receiverships come high. Wall Street hears that the expenses of the United States Shipbuilding reorganization will be $500,000. MUCH IN LITTLE Ether was first used in surgical opera tions in 1846. s It requires 3,300 silkworms to produce one pound of silk. Iron was discovered in Virginia (the first metal found in America) in 1715. l he custom of numb' ring houses in cities did not begin in Europe till the eighteenth century. Birmingham manufacturers of coffin furnishings complain that American competition is injuring them. General Kuropatkin is using a 20 horsepowjr automobile in inspecting his extended lines about Mukden. The government of Java, Dutch East Indies, is in the market for large quan tities of bridge material for the ',t.Ue railroads. ' , The Siamese State Railway Adminis tration at Bangkok Administration ut Bapgkok, Siam, is asking public bids for steel rails and considerable quantities of rnilway material. A company was recently formed in London, with a capital of t,5oo,ooo, for the purpose of exploiting gold mine;, in Chilccito, Province of Rioja, Argentine, Republic. , , The Aatec Indians of Mexico are noted! for their strength. An Atec porter has! been seen to take a task of claret weigh-1 ing 400 pounds on his back and ca-iy it quits s distance. .
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