KIDNAPPED BY BRIGANDS. Texas Railroad Man Held By Mexicans for STRIKE AT VLADIVOSTOK MANY PERISH IN FLAMES FACTS FAVOR DREYFUS | ~~ WLITIA CALLED out | To Protect 8 Colored Man in Jal at Meri- Five Japanese Battleships Bombard at Long Range. LAND FORCES MOVING THAT Wa) Russians Claim That Most of the Lyddite Shells Fired by the Japs Falied to Burst Russian Batteries Did Not Reply, the Gen: Awaiting Closer Approach of the Japanese Cable) A fleet of d two cruisers 2PM re batteries Vladivostok, (By five Japanese battleships an Appear J off this pat ( bombarded the town ar for 33 minutes The fleet tion of trance to Ussari Bay. southeast of Viudivostok Ussuri Bay the enemy formed in line of battle, but did not wh to range than five and one-th from the direc the approached Island ud about ¥2 miles Askold nt east en nppr ird miles They directed their fire against the shore bat teries and the town, but no damage re failed to burst Artanoff, did not reply, awaiting a closer approach of the Generals Veronets and enemy. The Japanese fire ceased at 220P M, and tle enemy retired in the direction of Askold Island torpedo-heat destroyers Askold Island Maidel. ered with ice. The attack but roubles ($160,000) in ammunition Simultaneously two appeared near and two more near Cape The Japanese ships were cov resulted in no loss to the 200 000 Most of the projectiles were 6 and 12 inch shells. Russians, cost the enemy was of presence Viadivostok the horizon The population warned of the on of a hostile fleet and of the prospect of an attack during the day, but the people remained trynquil. Viceroy Alexieff's Report. Petersburg, (By Cable A com munication from Viceroy Alexieff to the Czar from Mukden bearing Sunday's date says “I most humbly inform Your Majesty that the commandant at the fortress at Viadivostok re that at S50 A. M seven vessels were sighted south of Askold Island. At 9.45 they were seen to Le warships making for Askold Island About noon the enemy's squadron was midway between the coast and Askold Island, making for Ussuri Bay. They were out of reach of the shore batteries At 1.30 the cuemy opened fire. Two ves sels in the squadron were probab first-class cruisers ldzum and Ya but the names of the ther vessels usknown.”’ >t Wirts 1s + iy thie Sr vim RUNO, are Five Killed By Japanese Fire. By Cable here con erning the of Viadivostok by a Jap not mention any Russian St. Petersburg dispatches received bombardment anese fleet do los: es, but priv were Killed —f anengineer It is apparent the Japan to risk exposing thei ing fire of considered | Was really | the fire of the Rus caliber of Official RA VICES Say int five ur sailors and the wife Lhe wrpose of tussian squad BATTLESHIPS BLOCKED wi Te I» : Wrecked Russian Warship Lies io Way at Port Arthur. London, (By Cable Little change in the Far Eastern here. It is apparent are busily engaged in situation : that t transporting their is reported he Japanese and td wor forces into Korea iis work i facilitated by the enfores the navy. According to the Schast dent of the Daily Graphic Admiral 8 lof has learned privately from Arthur that the Rassian battieship vizan lies in such a position bl effectually the exit of battleshi the harbor, the passage being practic anly for cruisers he correspondent that Russia's new battleships now t g on the Bal tie will not be ready for ve commis sion before the end of Aucu The Japaneic official + of Japan's financial and commercial terests in England declares that his pov ernment foresaw the possibility of coal being ded] f d inactiv lated contraband of and that it has been collecting large stores of Welsh steam coal for that it has a supply sufficient for the nccds of the navy for years to come DROWNED IN BRIDGE COLLAPSE. Structure Was Weakened By a Cloudburst and Goes Down, Cleveland, 0O., (Special were drowned and four others injure a result of the collapse of the bridge spanning Yellow Creek, near Irondale, on the Cleveland and Pittshure Railroad The men were on two locomotives that attempted to cross the bridge close to gether, Most of the men lived at Wellsville, O, Of the 11 men making up the crews of the two engines all went down exeept one man left at one end of the bridge as a flagman, War VEArs, 80 Six were returning to Wellsville for water when the sccident occurred. tolen Meat Killed E ght, Birmiagbam, Ala, (Special). Eight negroes are dead from eating poisoned hog meat that was stolen from the smoke. house of Thomas Perkins, a white farmer residing near Bt. Stephens, Ala. The farmer had been constantly robbed of ‘his winter supply of meat, and put rough ,onrats on a quantity of it, which he Facsd where the thieves were up to get a ey got it, and the result is that a aumber are dead. her negroes were made ill, but will recover. St. Petershusg, The fol By lowing dispatch, dated has I commanding the Russian forces at Arthur ‘All is quiet at Port Arthur and Yin } KhOW “According to information given by eve - witnesses, { three funnels lies near Chemulpo, be | tween islands, having recently there.’ A correspondent of Mail jeabling from Chefo date of March 1, said, among other things, that i he tle entrance 15 Daily the 1 unael had seen a Japanese cruiser of | Nitatuka type beached at the of Namyang Creek, which miles south of Chemulpo Japanese naval vessels of the Niiataka {type have three funnels i NEWS IN SHORT ORDER The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid Reading. is about Domestic. After 100 vears' existence as a financial institution the Marblehead (Mass ) Na tional Bank closed its doors to publi business, and its affairs will be liguidated “us rapidly as possible the explosion of the boiler of a saw* mill at nwood, Pa, P T Brown the proprietor, and his two helpers, Wal ace Tice and Robert Compton, were in stantly killed Charles Lasek, who while ninioned ‘under Hotel Darlington, died 5 on Gree life the “40 had rétained the ruins of New York, for after being taken out in nOUrs A consolidation has been formed of the car-service associations of Pittsburg Philadelphis, St. Louis and Denver Two hundred marines left the League Island Navy Yard for San Francisco, en route to the Philippines The establishment of mestic announced at thi versity of Chicago Dominick Antell killed Miss Nellie Flanagan in New York and then shot himself Robert McMahon, a brother of Benia niin McMahon. of New York suicide in Waterloo, Ia cyanide of potassi Clayborn W. Mer George H Hut bad, N. M WAS murder Richard Sibley ' mols led a college of de science is Uni committed by taking itn hant, . MIDs d Les la manufacturer of a large importing in Boston, a petition in bankruptcy xashe, 1. T one SEES concern In a race riot at Bo white men were killed and w hi man t usly wounded Ang Iwo pegroes seri Dun Cushing was captured by brigands Devils River, Tex, is all night horseback ride near and released after 1 is A number of lives have been lost & much property destroyed by prairie 1 Oklahoma and Indian Territory tender Nina f sexes fires "he crew of the lighthouse FRE ( Eureka, Humbolt oc Dr Charles B law of Congress: at Duluth, Mion Edm ine minstrel tion of Disting an 1 Philade iph # Dick i dee i od 8 Ww As inred ates dennte Rocky Mountain, oved by fire was New le vy | near his rt ransp Sherman ‘ 108 W hite i341] of i the rs who secured his military release fre m of a forged Fran prison« Alcatraz Is'and hy pardon, hus been CISCO means oe $ i 5 § Arrested at San Foreign. British and German vessels laden with coal, provisions and other contraband articles have reached Viadivostok, Japan the reason that they to her at a later stage of the campaign, probably when the Japanese make an attempt to bottle up the Russian squadron at that port not interfering for may prove useful The State Department has informed the New York Presbyterian Society, as well as the Baptists, that Minister Allen, in Korea, has been instructed to do all he can for the American missionaries in that country. The Russian the King's letter emphasizing Great { Britain's complete neutrality during the war. United States Minister Thomas and Mrs. Thomas gave a brilliant ball in the apartments of the American Legation at | Btock holm, : American marines are guarding prop. {erty of the American Mining Company | in Korea. Lima, Peru, was seriously shaken up | by an earthquake, the worst that has oc- cursed there in 80 years. | The French Foreign Office does not | credit reports that China is about to join | Japan in the war, It is also announced i by French officials that they have not been asked to cede any islands to Russia for coaling stations. The Russians are making every effort to prevent a blockade on the Siberian Railroad. i | v By Prairie Fires. | Six Deaths | Others Rumored Definitely Reported and Three Thousand Square Losses in Kansas, from Deg ruction Miles Devastated Lawton, Ok Special Reports ceived here indicate wmve heen burned to square mii es of territory Comanche ¢« pra mnties swey Hundreds of people are homeless bie t the extent i£ imposst y estimate accurately financial loss of { been lost by | Foll | ard injured D Harmond, living east of Lawton burned to John Harmond, AN Crawf { ously burned Mrs Her Lawton burned: one At Ho the « county the fire appre destraoving the stables and 15 15 houses and Spreading to owing to the wide affected Li other se country ves have also fires in tions wing is a partial list of the k Cann derson and two cannot Kiown the face hart unty seat of i ily ached from cast BUSINESS borses residences buildings the Nre swept 75 000 acres of government mili tary timber BRIIOUS Rani the southwest and and Indi school reserve, destroying several Indian ahd 49 head of ¢ tward the fi; reseryy in nment cu houses YY 1 tthe Spreading wes miles of the Homes ing he barns an this district that five ed to have perished t their property thiree have been learned follows Doc and John Harmon, a man named Fischer The other names have od Late at night ie fire southward toward this 11 5, 000 pee pleof the iy mes covered strict. destroy 1 It was ad di HNes int Fe PR in profed LWO Were wie £ t vet been 1 * with the Bp pros hing Hames of the fire was full wd camg in a irned the MITOErs of COLLAPSE OF A SKYSCRAPER. Between Thirty and Forty Killed, Injured snd Missiag Ella “i Lacey ITS, 8 v chester } une TWO KILLED IN RACE RIOT. Negroes Resist An Attempt to Drive Them Out of Town Ww hite two ne wounded in riot mt B White Midland Valley railroad, at a camp ashort distance from Bokashe attempted to drive the negro laborers from the town The negroes resisted and g pitched battle followed, in which Hopper and Butler were killed and three others wounded Negroes are reported to have fortified themselves in a strong posi jon in the woods and seem determined to resist to the utmost efforts to dislodge them White laborers are making wild threats of vengeance white man and A TACE (ashe, 1 laborers on the A Mill Operative Scalped. Covington, Ga, (Special ).--Mrs. J W Worsham, wife of the superintendent of thé Covington Cotton Millis, suffered from a distressing accident, as the result { of which she may die. While in the | basement of the mill her hair was caught torn from her nose to the back of her neck. Twelve Lives Lost in Fire. Roberval, Quebec, (Special). Twelve lives were lost in a fire which destroyed the home of Thomas Guay at 8t. Felicien. When the fire was first noticed by neigh. bors, who live at some distance, the house had been burned to ground. in it at the time were the eight small children of Thomas Guay, Mrs. Phillip Gagnon, and her three small children. All were burned to death. Both Gagnon and Guay, the fath were absent, worki in he woods. ns b ng Ransom, Daniel Cushing, cn for the has been kid He was was fotind at Devi! Houston, Texas (Special) brother of E. B gineer of mainten<ne of way ! app tl forced to write a ne by Mexican brigands te, which tacked to the d f his cabin river the FE. B Or « next Cushing left horder to inves morning G1 8 8! tigat {angers have been put on The note written by Cushing dictftion stated tut of 10,00) was demanded for his H Live ens af the y niext Tue Cushing's w fe and ed upon the in Del money mu Mexican sch day nicht ateh and Masonic pin wer he had evidently hastily i them in the f that his assail t bi pla sol hose found wnere bedi robbers No American Mave Dealers im the Philippines. Funds for Panama Canal. ry Shaw tified all specin national bank depositaries that they will be required to pay, on int of thi Panama Canal purchase, 20 per cent. of their holdings of government funds on or before March 25. The 20 per gates $30 000,000, leaving sbout $20 Secrets has t RECO cent aL gre 000, 000 to be supplied from t Ticasury It has been decided hereto the depositary have nations! hank New York city pay their individual propor tions over to the New York meet at this time and ister CARDAI company i { at Puris the due it by call is i itional turies outside New York Subtreasury it once Lo the pavment to pay Lhe new s 40 000 DOO due Panama hank deposi Vviea Paris however, of news iter in the French meeting of it feat i FOTIA re day COM pany # (1ire ies necesss itie to thi States it was thoug $ ’ ve nt ! ARO pavments fl 3 1 to the Republic about April | Laid on the Table ormsaiion tte has nh fiden eport of Lhe informa i made lemands of ay on the Ihe rt ret ie} rized necepted make Gistrihnate wm which aid Wants $2,000 to Unveil Statue me Shaw House an War In expense f ded; ing th tatue of Fre thie Great to be placed on th rround of the War Col Otol transmitted to the retary : S (HY) Torin tf hie .. In : fras thie erick al | uns eiled honey other expenses Ubscene Literature in Commerce. senate Committee or i favorable bill making the act preventing 8 ate transportation « { obscend applicable to foreign commerce and all territory under the juri of the United States Inte restate nryey ordered § rey ft on inter literature sdiction Congressional and Departments. Judge Pritchard overruled the motion for a new trial made in behalf of Samuel! A. Groff, one of the convicted defend ants in the postoffice cases, and sen tenced him to two years in the Mounds ville Penitentiary and to a fine of $10,. 000. An appeal was taken A provision forbidding rural letter carriers from cking out their salaries in has been added to the Postoffice appropriation Bill reported to ‘he Navy Department has made ar rangements for the trial of several wire. less telegraph systems between the New York Navy Yard and the station at The minority report of the House committee urged a complete investiga. partment. M. Buntan Varilla, the retirin minister, paid a farewell cal State Department. Henry T. Reed, of Cresco, Ia., was selected by the Towa delegation to be recommended for United States district Judge for the Northern district of lowa. It is generally admitted that Senator Fairbanks is a candidate for vice presi- dent on the ticket with Roosevelt, Argument was made before the House Committee on Labor in opposition to the Eight hour Bill. The Army Appropriation Bill as reo. ported to the Senate carries $77,020,042 Panama at the Reasons Advanced for a Revision of His Trial. OFFICIAL RECORDS ARE FORGED. Dated While Dreyfus Was on Devils Island «Traitor in the French War Office Revealed «Hearing on Appeal Before Court of Cassa tion Attracts a Large Crowd. ible non-commissi private soldiers, laws i number of women Freintives « Lawyer Mor: aver, reporter ¢ f the partment It was court that eiiged DY Drevius Fearing § ’ { dings tl £ een ¢ NOCOSSUTY tt thers the . F. ABELL DEAD. fresidemt of the AS. Abell Ex- pires-His Work for the Company “San. bell was educa i in the Baltimore and als sr Jerusalem Mills d Unive of Mu bed of publi in Harford gler going of Mary berry Mt rsitly side the Cathedral 11 thre ug tac were in what is now street, which has sine 0 Baratoga st been « ret Many prominent men of Baltime cated at this i Old Dal's is of & later generation of iT school, the 1 familiar by 10 even Thos $100,000 For Murder. stor Ks Special reelf and Court tr hie Circuit rgis, Alexander Hargis ward an and B. ¥. French for bot i 1 in her 100 (00 alleges ndants entered int Curtis Jett y murder her husband, the farcum. Callahan was formerly of Breathit county Jett and are now in jail in Louisville ang Hold-Up in Massachusetts, Mass held up Consolidated Clinton Special Two masked mes an eclectric car on the Railway ut South Lancaster. The men were armed and the 20 passengers in the car were muck freightened H. LL. Sauler, of Lancaster, knocked one of the highway men off the car and a fight followed, during which two shots were fired by the strangers. The highwaymen made their escape. No one was seriously in jured. Worcester Assautted By Boy Strikers. Chicago, (Special). Edward Tenney, ern Union Telegraph Company in place | of striking messenger boys, was attacked | Jouny men, who knocked him down and stabbed him. A watchman at Fenny A A A FINANCIAL. AAS The Erie statement for January, to be issueti ens ly in the week, is expected to show a decrease in net earnings of be. tween $700,000 and $1,000,000, Judge Gildersleeve has signed the or. der authorizing the Boston & Montana to pay its dividends, amounting io over $3,000,000, to the Amalgamated. The New York Su has paid Tit nst m apancse yen at Sen Francisco, pan dian, Missiesippl. Miss, ¢ ‘ tal Clerk Meridian ine of Pos much excitement red] murderes RUSSIANS LEAVE YIN-KOW Unable to Defend the Coast Without Forts and Intreachments. By MUST HAVE CLEAR TITLE No Will Be Paid to Panama Lio: Then Mooney money woul shit sR elapse ched The ent re subject of the cays nstraction was discn phases of ; the eet 1x gel 11 if pected that work it Is said tol will go t on {0 Inspect thorou, nd to start the preliminary struction his connection ofore ted will mediately imisgion } ! it was decide mignt orders issued indicated 15¢ to countermand the Third United States Infantry to go isthmus to relieve the marines guard duty there. For somet marine detachment will const guard on the isthmus, This gover 18 opposed to g two jurisdic tions on the isthmus, and he vessels must remain there it was thought best to allow the marines to continue to do land duty It is the carnest wish of the President and the members of the Cabinet that ne unnecessary delay should occur in the beginning of work on the canal, and it is their intention to press it with the ut most vigor. Reyes Defeated. Bogota, Colombia, (By Cable). — The result of the gresidential election is that though Gen. Josguin Velez has a majo: ity of 11 votes over Gen. Raphael Reyes, the fact must be officially declared by the electoral commitiee on July 8 next. Complete calm prevails here, establishing as 1 naval $75,000 For Liquor Seting. Dallas, Texas, (Special). The grand jury of Bell county is making a ernaade agaivst violations of the Local Option law. More thas 2,300 indir*ments have been returned against illicit hquor sellers, and of the total number 1,147 bile pre against one may, Piimpton Morgen. In each conviction Macgan is being assessed money penalties srounting to $63, 1a ing the total sities appr ximate §75,- to the fi es his cumula. A total of mure than ment. !
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