BOATS BATTLE AT SEA | THE KISHENEFF MASSACRE. : { Prisoner Sentenced to Twenty Years For the Japanese and Russians Each Lose a Murder of Jewish Couple. Vessel. Kisheneff (By Cable) " . Lo charged HOT FIGHT NEAR PORT ARTHUR. | in the | April 1s massacre ! deliberation ment in the with of Jews After a court Of prisoners participation here last fortmpght’s gave judg Busneke and cle sed. the case Six Russian Torpedo Boa's in the Engage- ment They Were Probably Making en At. tempt to Give the Japs the Sip Five Rus- sian Torpedo Boats Return to Port Arthur Harbor. we 4 homicide during the anti-Jewish riot mg and with creating Rusneke and Bodijan were found guil ty of murder a Jewish couple named Forrari 40 disorders the Of London, (By Cable) The advices Port Arthur sources of the engagement out Rusneke vea years pedo Fifteen were each ¢ wa ntenced t« mprionment a 4 & 0 through Russias ; : from through Russian rd nd Bodilan to the DCTSONS ad useaqd te war ships, harbor between Russian ondemned to a prisonment, and three others Thirty-s1 the ischarged S111 boats and Japanese sup 1 $e lestroyers » posedly torpedo boats o { 1 ’ . mont in ry ] ' X of which a Russian damage not ¢ 141 04 were damage re isallowed stroyer and a Japanese we seem to bea here that at Port were sunk, suit were opinion of experts by Jews. The final juden ed formally April 2 sian situation Arthur ent will be announc becoming desperate 5 NEWS IN SHORT ORDER The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid Readiag. ‘he continued Japanese a having the intended town and t Alexieff, while stating that he fortifica in his rep dment 1 t h Eomba wer mits that killed shells. Admiral comma people wounded Domestic. anda assumed at Port bold vessels, attempts escape. Cabling from dent says the gunboats ed river of Iie 12, day on fortified of the every di The Rt River now As an ex of the Jap correspond kio, rel was hurt mulpo, and Matsuyama, Jag Ooraers Qn WwW London, (By Cable graph publi dated March 7 “It is reported that the Japanewe fleet 0 0 © Virk vibg resc Viadis result ‘orrientes ed engaged the Russia mid The ment is not an the captured.” St. ron at sea sion which nounced, b Russia ships were Petersburg Reitzer squadron is « Captain autho military impression h J pang t VAT bor Su squadron w ast, CO force river are ails for Although tl superior in num of a battleship and two of whi h 1 zuamo and the mored cruise: under Captain Gromboi the finest constituting ous fightin not certain measure of A naval i lengthily that the j disposition presage large scale in the paper account except the ba Armored cruiser 1 protected cruiser reckoning the battleships Fu jshima, the armored Asama and the protected shibo as being injured CROPS IN FARMERS HANDS. Ses of J + rt Hi 8 for all the, ttleship Kiw and five Thine false in prisonn Between 700 and World's Fourth Sunday School tion at sled from New York Jerusalem The Quantity of Wheat, Corn and Oats Held on March L Washington, D. C March report of the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Agriculture the amount of wheat remaining i ers’ hands on March 1 to have been ab 152.600 000 bushels, last year's crop, as yer cent. of the ore arch 1, 1903, and 2: crop of 1901 on hand The corn in Foreign. or 2 18 per cent compared with 24.5 of 1902 on han 3.2 per cent on March ¥ farmers hands mated at about 8239 000.000 bushel 37.4 per cent of last year’s crop, agains 41.6 per cent. of the crop of 1802 or on March 1, 193, and the crop on hand on March | Of oats there are repor 275,700,000 bushels, or Jast year's crop, still in farmers’ hands, as compared with 36.9 per cent. of the crop of 1902 on hand on March 1, 1908 and 30.6 per cent. of the ere p of hand on March 1, 1902, 134] : SH.2 per cent 1902 to be tf GO + ls 4.9 ver cen orf { todd about hel 1 kin eve as the rea forts did not re bombardment Bakers’ Trust Was Soon Killed. Newburgh, N. Y., pecial Bakers’ Trust, organized in thi lasted just a several weeks engaged in price of bread, this week the scale « bread and cake went up. In : quence the dealers were hit hard, for! ithe public simply refused to buy som | ithem, and on Tuesday the combine! dissolved, ammupion divastok Japanese (5 re are being made at wer damaged in at Port Arthur, organizing raise the The tricis of the rioters and mur and at Kishinel were concluded. man was sentenced to 20 years | the murder of a Jewish couple. | Emperor William left Berlin for a trip of six or seven weeks’ in for al during which he will visit other monarchs. aaski day and a h i the dealers have ngagement on Monday new all i Conse (HANGING FOR BANDITS i | Penalty for Murder at Chicago Car Barn Riots. (ONE OTHER YET Jury Agrees on a Verdict After Deliberating | for a Day and a Night The Condemned | Men Hear Their Fate Stolidly Emil Roeskd, | Who Participated in Some of Their Crimes | To Be Tried Separately. i TO BE TRIED. Chic IRO, {1 the ve irst murder ¢ b Peter ASE agains ar-barn bandits,” Neidermeier wh no attempte d notaorie ty 1 ate all-day that “dugout” near 1 | the trio had taken refuge i of remarkable crimes i murder of two emnloves of the ( ilway at one of the bandits in th i in BIG FERRY STEAMER BURNED, Was Frozen First in Ice Off Conneaut, Ohio Firemen Perished. # HEAVY LOSS TO MINERS. of the thracite Strike. Geological Survey's View Big An- Fhe re sihiles in the anthra “ite district re of nearly 40 per duction to the operators, as } wi 1901] Approximately 145.000 men le for 98 working days, and the public was put to greater incony and annovance for want of fuel than had ever been known before in the history of the country It is esti mated that the total number of working this strike was 14,210,000, average of #250 a day. ut R35.000.000 in (ig LN th i were id onieney days lost by which, at mennt Wages Fhe strikes in West Virginia were or ganized for t pur of compelling the operat recognize the union The strikers earried their point in the Kanawha river, but in the New river district the strike failed of its purpose The time lost in West Virginia in 1902 was |, days, or nearly twice as much as that lost by strikes in all the United States | $141 The estimated loss of tonnage for the State caused by the strike was about 4, 500, 000 tons, al though, on actount of increased activity in other portions of the State, there was no actual decrease in output as compared with 1801." an fi Oss of nho ihe rs Rg n No Peace at Santo Domingo. Washington, (Special). Very much belated cablegrams from United States Minister Powell, just received at the State Department, report a big battle across the river from San Domingo, March 4, in which the insurgents were worsted and fled, leaving their guas and ammunition on the field. The in surgents, however, were reported to have been in possession of the Town of Azua. The United States ship To- peka touched at San Domingo March 8, and proceeded to Azua. WOMEN'S TERRIBLE FALL. Drops Seven Stories in a New York Office New York Be Lazare, a stenographer, aged 23, by cleventh (Special). —Miss falling sex to at mortally injured the the stories from fourth Dey street Her down the main light shaft of floor in building PICTCINE SCreams had been sitting on a wind lost to was broil cn at the She and her balance she tur: 8OMEeGn( the room im aourth foo i wire netting over kviight. a sky the Hud suffering She taken to sOn St wis a fractured skull and internal Miss Lazare Tived Brook! in by 1 LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS No American Slave Dealers Philippines. U, S. Officials Must Be Discreet. after a conference pre Mui gus United All ofl iiary only between Russ tain fron iich can War to ahs » either i ¥ CE Use of American Ships. M ere Croft. d Hon. George W. As el by a William ( the died at Northeast Wi the re ning hand resentat CARUR Hon George ve Congress from south Car place, Sixth mediate cause of heart exhaustion Several operations had been performed in the hope of saving Mr. ( 1i% tut without avail. He received the in jury nearly two months ago, but the blood poisoning did not develop for some ti ne afterward lina, street iN death given roft's Salaries of Canal Board. President Roosevelt has fixed the sal aries of the Isthmian Canal Commission ers at $12,000 a year and in addition thereto $15 a day while they are on the Isthmus The Senate, in executive session, con firmed the nomination of Henry B. Rich ardson, of Louisiana, as member of the Mississippi River Commission. Has No American Wife, So much currency has been obtained in the press by a story that the Emperor of Korea had married an American wo man named Emily Brown that United States Minister Allen, at Seoul, has been obliged to print identteal replies to a numberof women correspondents deny Congressional and Departments, The House Committee on Merchant | Marine and Fisheries authorized a favor that all supplies for the nse of the Army and Navy shall be transported either in ships belonging to the government or in ships of American register, i President Roosevelt fixed the salary of | the Isthmian Canal Commissioners at | $12,000 per annum. The battleship squadron has left Guan. tanamo for Pensacola to engage in target practice. i | EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES. U.S. AS PEACEMAKER| Suggestions That This Country Act | Records. With France. | Washington, (Special HOW IT IS VIEWED. IN PARIS. sod in the seven mo Breaks AB late 1904 +3 I nited indanus ended farger total of in the seven months w than the they ye high former orca. Man That France and United Sates, Be cause of Their Friendship Toward the Belligerents, Are Best Qualified to initfate a Peace Movement. i on 1900. when they wele Shot By His Plaaymate. PENNSYLVANIA WILL SPEND $20,500,000. Big Expenditures for Improvements East of Pittsburg. 2 rg A Double Tragedy. ri } $16 900 For Denny Memorial Hall CAUSES DOUBLE TRAGEDY, JEALOUSY Young Scheol Teacher Dying snd Her Assail ant Dead By His Own and $24,137,611 Less Earned. “ g woman's death the mother of the man found his dead body hang wwe tied tos rafter ina feed room farm. He had adjusted while standing on boxes and thea shot himself in the in the morning young ) ng ing from a n« Tr » i f homestead Top on Lae the ®ONE head American Missiogaay K filed. Vers 3 SAVED TRAIN; LOST HIS LIFE. Killed n !reventing a Wreck on the California Limited, NM 10 save Ina Fe's being section Spe jal the Santa from Albugue rque, succesaful effort £. id agt Californias Limited Salamandin Was rin Jesus at { a over wrecked, foreman killed Salamandin was riding on his railroad motor when he heard the limited coming around a curve just ahead. He stopped his car and could easily have escaped, but the car, if left on the track, would have wrecked the train He succeeded in getting it off the track just as the train reached him, but was urbero and . . . Explos’on at Torpedo Plant. “§ wor fa | Suse of ¢8 F this city was “ wn “ ao” Ninn $100,000 For Murder. FINANCIAL. Winchester, Ky., (Special) Mrs, Ara. bella Marcum. for herself and children, | the Circuit Court against Jas. Hargis, Alexander Hargis, Edward Callahan and B. F. French for £100,000 | She alleges in her petition that the defendants entered into a con. spiracy with Curtis Jett and Thomas | White te murder her husband, the late gross earnings for February will show an J. B. Marcum, Callaban was formerly | fe —_ of over S500, 000 and that South Sheriff of Breathit county. Jett and | ern Pacific earnings will show a gross White are now in jail in Louisville. {increase of over $800,000, , The weekly statement of the Imperial Bank of Germany shows a decrease of 48,500,000 marks in cash It is reported in raibosd circles that the Union Pacific, llinois Central and Chicago & Alton will be merged unless { the Northern Securities decision is abso. | utely against the company. It is understood that Union Paelfie
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