Ir ROJESTVENSKY IS BLAMED “Opening of Fire Not Justified” Says Commission. WAS RIGHT IN BEING CAUTIOUS. Me Torpedo Boats in the Viciolty of the Hull AS" NEWS IN SHORT ORDER, The (atest Happenings Condensed for Rapid Reading, Domestic, Mos 1 lair Harr: & $4 Alieboro, The Ix frying to Hie of find from Robert LOM th dent f of Facts Are Sustained. Par mur tak: ity boats S10n dence jestven boats pre will be settled by tween England and The report was re French mi A be sor th Lie LEE Ne Consul at Niuchwang. Niuchwang (By Cable Ti can Consulate at } of local English also representing Netherlands. In of terests mn Manchuria, loca a any 4 in cal residents at the only treaty port the Russian raids might at any bring the fighting to Yinkow at a time when it is felt that a strong man's ens would be necessary Four Bursed to Death, Parkersburg, W. Va. (Special). Four lives were lost in two fires near Park. ersburg. Samuel White, his wife and 10 children and Jacob Ice were sleep. ing in Mr. White's home, at Pink. Cal- houn countv, when fire was discovere | at 3 o'clock. Mr. Ice and two of th White children were sleeping upstairs and were burned to death. The rest of the damily escaped. Murderous Yaqpis Caught. La Colorado, Mexico (Special). ~The Mexican forces under Ceneral Torres, numbering 300, killed Yaquis and taken 1G, prisoners in two days’ battle with the savages mountains east of this camp, It is said 300 warriers were surround: ed by Torres in the Mazaton Mountains, About 100 of these broke the Mexican lines and escaped, but the main force was driven back with heavy loss ind finally surrendered, : iN Hress about have 40 mn ine hundred Won d in the ” Fhe were peop! rac ri honses plu ide The prefect of police and several lead 1m have been se Revolutionary are being circulated Six North German Lioyd sailed from Bremen the past week, in all Booo emigrants, Hungarians King Frederick, of Saxony, reproved Dr. Koerner for severe measures taken against the King's divorced wife. and fy ’ i { M maniiesiors steanu RT- eC: iv most at court, The trial by court-martial has been ordered of Captain Davidoff and three other officers and three men in connec: fion with the firing of «hot in the di rection of the Czar at the ceremony of blessing the Neva. The gigantic work of piercing the Simplon Tunnel through the Alps has been completed. The tunnel! is 12 miles long and the work has cost $15,000,000. Troops guard the Warsaw-St. Peters- burg Railroad to prevent the sirikers cutting off communication. The rail- road strikes continue to spread | | One Square Mile of Hot Springs Swept By Conflagration. | Hote! Guests Driven Out By the Flames Wind Caused the Mayor Belding Siicoring the Destitute. Conirel Leads Work of LL ASSESSED AS METAL. TAL Lander Protest Pending Genera; Appraisers’ Action. i00 BODIES RECOVERED. Virginia City Mise. Birmingha { Spe ithe recovery of 100 fated ne at \irgimia Yer vido until WwW seem confident CVO more bodie and it ix possible this decreased by three or Of fescue “@ ed row. Mine officia { that than are in the number will sour Pipes ng oul 100 feet Was not More mine, iy iM ie ne 0 y Walicn in aeep in the lifts, LOT places is The remaining bodies are all thought to be under water, and it may be several davs befor 3 covered BOTY Wale pi wey alt Te Lace at $2767 a Yard. York (Special) «At the closing of Henguiat sale in the American Art Galleries unusually high prices were paid for the old laces, A buyer who was understood to be acting for one of the Goulds gave $6,000 for two amd one-half yards: of rose-point Venetian lace and $3000 for another iece a lntle less than three yards long. he same buyer gave $3000 for an lial ian velvet cope and $2400 for a Span \¢ i tw SCE ION the ish velves wall hanging. { : LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS, Special Session of Senate Called. ! Prefident issued a proclamation ung the Senate in HEEKION o'clock noon on March 4 next t it) LF snmunications as may be mad § special dent Army Appropriation Bill iit Leal Tebacco Trust? JAPANESE MAKE ATTACK The Czar Determined That the Var Shall Go On. PEACE TALK INOPPIRTUNE. News From the Front by the War Party st Court That Field Marshal Oyoma Is in Dasger of Defest Japs’ Turning Moves, Say Japasese Will Be Defeated. THE MINSTREL'S REVENGE. Killed the Msn Whe Stole His Killed Himse!t, Girl, £3 WILL COST FIFTY MILLIONS proposes ' CONCINSION as He stofh C Cases Notes of the Departments nt Roosevelt attend commencement ex of Clark University, Worcester, | n June. Hon Carroll D. W right, | Or, is pres | nw wi i 2 the Preside has accepted nvitanion Crees Mass bills, th Bill Con passing a number of sent the Panama Canal amended to conference and began sideration of the Sundry Civil Appro- priation Bill. Four hours for general debate was allowed. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, president of Jamestown Exposition Company, called upon the President m behalf of pend. ing legislation for Exposition The House of Representatives turned the annual appropriation of 8130600 for the rental of the old New York custom. house by the City National Bank, a Standard Oil concern. The Senate adopted a resolution re ported by Mr. Lodge from the Commit tee on Rules directing the: sergeant -at- arms not to permit flowers 10 be brought into the Senate chamber, The rate committee of the Interstate Commerce Committee will ask the Sen- ate 10 give them an opportanity during the recess of Congress to prepare a rail road rate hill After Houvsee Hs ¥ the Seaboard, Sry Sead 194 the Carnes of the road = a ODA ¥ VERT mm wet $20.000.000 Prominent Georglan's Suicide. {+a : Ww { Special) Co best South Te arden { of the ance men mn ihe guished ont suicide at his is known for the a Hartford (Crd 1 i 3% *\ YY shooting “oh reason act. Ye repr sented Indictments for Peonage. Montgomery, Ala (Special) Th grand jury for the middk ported a number of tr peonage and whitecapping sheriff cently disappeared, was indicted for pe onage. The jury investigated vive hyieh ing case, but failed to retnrn an todict ment. It is alleged (hat several mo the district of Alabama re charging 8. D. May, county, we bills of Crenshaw who re wil nesses were spirited away. TWENTY-THREE MINERS ENTOMBED, Fifteen Bodies Taken From Skat: st Wilcox, Biueh {sult of fa { ¥ { RAILROAD CLEARING By Weans it is Hoped Milljoos Evers Its Cashier's Slayer Mdentifi Wili Beck Pay 520.000 7 People Win From Combine Proprictor Was Killed. Moa Fought Duel With Keives. £) (Specs iy sind 3 Wibhe disappeared old Nis ct her FINANCIAL i.c was & large sells SOO ET New York banks have los {week SLtaL000 cash, Philadelphia bank clearings were $20. | 012.000, an increase of $2,230,000. Philadelphia's Rapid T'ransit’s Car | Ings in January were $55,000 greater than {in the same month last year, { Sume peopie think that Armour and jot Liates is the real power back of the of American : dus Hig thie
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