THE FOREST REPUBLICAN. Published evory Wednesday by J. E. WENK. Office in Smearuaugh & Weuk Building, KLM BTKKKT, T10NKHTA, PA. RATES OF ADVERTISING: One Skjuare, one inch, one week... $ 1 CO One Square, one inch, one month.. .'1 00 One Square, one inch, 3 months 5 0!) One Square, one inch, one ye:ir 10 00 Two Squarea, one year 15 00 Quarter Column, one year :'. 00 Half Column, one year 50 00 One Column, one year 1U0 00 Legal advertisement ten veins per linn each insertion. We do flno Job Printing of every de scription at reasonable rates, but it's cash on delivery. FORE ICAN Trrma, 91.00 A Yenr, Hlrlclly la Advance. No subscription received fur a shorter period tlmn throe months. Correspondence Holicited, but no notice will bo I Si; en of anonymous comimin I ga llons. Avays give your name. VOL. XXXVII. NO. 1. TIONESTA. PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1G. 1901. $1.00 PER ANNUM. Republ ST BOHOUOH OFFICERS. llurqcA. F. It. LaiiHon. (hHHCitmen. Dr. J. Ci Dunn, O. O. UHNton, J. II. Miiho, O. K. Weaver, J. W,- lenders. J. T. Dale, W. F Killmor. Juntir.es of the I'eaceO. A. Kandall, 8. J. Nntlev. Constable S It. Maxwell. Collector H. J. Sutley. . Xvhooi IHrectorsL. Fulton. J. O. Hcowdtin, J. 10. WenK, It. L. Haslet, E. W iliiwinan, Geo. llolemanw FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS. i JemfceroOni're.w Joseph O. Sibley. Member of tieniUeJ. KP. Hall. . Assembly C. W. AmsJIir. n-esident JudieW. 51. Llndsey. . Associate Judges-t-K. H. Crawford, W. H. II. Dotterer. ProtKowtury, Register S Reeorder, Ce. J. O. Hoist. .'!.. IT duo W Nrllillt, VVeaamer Frd. A. Keller. Commissioners C. Bnrhenn, A. K. Shipo, Hmirv Wuingnrd. District' Attorney H. D. Irwin. jury Commissioners V.riwsi Sibble, I,o wis Warner. ' ixtroncr ur. o. w . mm row. County Auditors W . H. Ktlles, leo. W. lloleinan, It. A. McCloskey. County Snivelor 1. W. CUrk. County Superintendent K. E. Stitzln- ger. Itrnulnr Term of t'ourl. Fourth Monday If February. Third Monday of May. Fourth Monday of .September. Third Monday of Novombor. Church npi Hiibbnlh Hrhool. ilivtnrUn Sabbath School at 0:45 a. ht v uui.tiHtli Si-hool at 10:00 a. m. i.uj.li I tier V II M. K. Church every Sab- 'i evening by Hev. O. II. Nlckle ...... .li..,. in iim b . ri. i nurcii everv bbal.li evenintrt the usual hour. Rev. A V.l.i.lM..r I'oHtor. ' H ..r.i..u iii rim PriiHbvtnrlaii Church every Sabbath morning and evening, Kev. li. W. Illingwnrth, l'astor. The regular meetings of the W. C. T. IT. are bold at the headquarters on the Becond and fourtn Tuesdays of each in. nth. BUSINESS QJRECTORY. PP . N KSTA LOIN 1 H, No. 309, 1. 0. 0. F. 1 Ments every Tuesday evening, In Odd Fellows' flrall, Partridge building. IfHMtKST LODGE, No. 184, A. O. U. W., 1 Meotsnvery Friday evening lnA.O.U. W. Hall, Tionesta. C APT. GEORGE STOW POST. No. 274 O. A, R. Moeta 1st and 8d Monday eveningjln each month, in A. O. U. V. Hall, Tionesta. CAI'T. GEORGE STOW COUPS, No. 137, W. It. C, meets tirMt and third Wednesday evening of each month, iu A. O. U. W. hall, TionoHta, Pa. rpiONESTA TENT, No. Iti4, K. O. T. 1 M., meeis and 4th Wednesday evening in each month in A. O. U. . hall Tionesta, Pa. r F. HITCH FY, ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW, Tloneata, Pa. c UKTIS M. SHAWKEY, ATTwttN K Y-AT-LA w. Warron, Pa. Practice in Forest Co. AO .BROWN. . - ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW. Olllce in Amor Hiiildimr, Cor. Elm and Bridge Sts., Tionesta, Pa. W. MOKKOW, M. D., l'livsician. Surireon A Dentist. Olllce ami Uiwldeiice three iloors north of Hotel Agnew, Tioinwta. ProftwHional calls promptly responded to at all hours. u K. F. J. BOVAKD, t Physician A Surgeon, TION EST A, PA. DK. J, C. KUNN, PHYSICIAN AND SUKOEON. I I . I I T It 1 f 'C llltl,uiniii.Bl.ia Hllll I'uuvrini, , v. ...... , Tionesta, Pa. Professional calis prompt ly responded to at all hours of day or night. Residence Elm St., between Urove'a grocery and Oerow's restaurant. D K. J. B. SIOOINS. Phyfiician and Surgeon, OIL CITY, PA. It. LANSON. . . Hardware, Tinning A Plumbing. - ' Tionesta, Pa J. SET LEY. k5. - J US I ICE OF THE PEACE, Keeps a complete line of Justice's blanks for sale. Also Blank deeds, mortgages, etc. Tionesta, Pa. HOTEL WEAVElt; E. A. WEAVElt, Proprietor. This hotel, formerly the Lawrence IIousn,"hii8 undergone a complete change, and is now I'urniKhed with all the mod ern improvements. Heated and lighted throughout with natural gas, bathrooms, hot and cold water, etc. The comforts ol guests never neglected. OENTKAL HOUSE, W O EKOW,ifc (1EKOW Proprietor. Tionseta,- Pa. This is the inostcentrally located hotel in the place, and has all the modern improvements. No pains will be spared to make it a pleasant stopping place for the traveling public. First class Livery in connection. piIIL. EMERT x FANCY BOOT A SHOEMAKER. Shop in Walters building, Cor. Elm and alnut streets, Is prepared to do all Kinds of custom work Iroih the finest to the coarsest and guarantors his work to give perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten tion given to mending, and prices rea sonable. r ORENZO FULTON, 1j ' Manufacturer of and Dealer in HARNESS. COLLARS, BRIDLES, And all kinds of HORSE FURNISHINMOODS. TIONESTA. PA" 5. H. fill & SOIL GENERAL MERCHANTS, Furniture-. Dealers, AND UNDERTAKERS. TIONESTA, PENN FIERCE FIGHT AT SEft. Rnssian Torpedo Boats Attack Japanese Fleet. Japanese Advance In Manchuria. Lynching and Riots In Ohio Indig nant Congressmen Grain In Farm. ert' Hands Women Opposed to ' Smoot Buffalo Bill Seek Divorce The story of the fierce fight off Port Arthur between the torpedo flo tillas which viccurred Wednesday and the bombardment which followed on Thursday morning shows that the col. Ilslon' between the torpedo flotillas had occurred accidentally during tho night while the Russians were scout ,iig in search of the enemy. Aa far as is known this is tho first time torpedo boats have engaged each other at sea. Although the odd were against the Russians, as the Jap anese flotilla was supported by the cruiser squadron, the Russians made a heroic dash for the foe and apparently had the better of the combat, sinking a Japunese torpedo boat, until the cruisers got within range, and one of the latter's shells crippled the Stero guschtchi. Not much Importance is attached to the later bombardment on account of the great distance of the enemy from the batteries. Their cruiser took refuge behind the Llao Tishin promontory, fearing to expose them selves to the direct fire of the forts. On tho ships which participated In the night attack one officer was seri ously and three others were slightly wounded, two Boldiers were killed and 18 were wounded. Port Arthur Badly Pounded. According to the St. Petersburg cor respondent of the London Telegraph v.igue rumors are current there that latur telegrams describe the bom bardment of Port Arthur as much inoro serious than has been admitted officially. Special dispatches from Toklo and Yin Kow also give reports of heavy Russian casualties at Port Arthur, amounting to 40 men killed and 100 wounded, but they are so conflicting In details that it is not wiso to give them much credit. In a dispatch from Toklo dated March 13, a correspondent of the Dnlly Telegraph says that in the la test attack on Port Arthur two Rus sian torpedo boat destroyers were sunk and great damage was done to the docks, forts and arsenals, Including the explosion of a powder magazine. Dalny is reported to have been al most entirely destroyed; several guns there were dismounted and tho crews of four torpedo boats In tho Inside harbor are said to have deserted. The Dally Telegraph publishes a dispatch from a correspondent at Yin Kow who reports that the Russian battleship Retvizan, at Port Arthur, was hit five times by Japanese projec tiles, and that there were 20 casual ties on board. This correspondent declares further that the presence of the Japanese at Feng Huan Cheng (the Manchurlan town about 45 miles northwest of Wlju) has been confirmed. In a dispatch from Chefoo, dated March 12, a correspondent of the Daily Mail describes an Inspection of Port Arthur made on the 11th inst. from a boat. The pew city seemed to be on fire; three columns of smoke were ascending from It. The Bread Hill fort appeared to have suffered ter ribly; the defences were shattered and the earthworks torn up. No guns were visible. The line of forts on the Tiger's Tall also appeared to have suf fered damage. At sunrise no sign of life could be seen anywhere nnd Port Arthur looked like a city of death. Japanese Flanked the Russians. According to the Tien Tsin corres pondent of t.ie London Telegraph tho Japanese advanced from the Yalu riv er, captured Fung Wang Chang and drove out the Russians in the vicinity to the Tau Ling eastern pass, and aro in force 70 miles east of New Chwang. The Russians with 35,000 men are entrenched strongly at Liao Yang and Hal Cheng, where fighting is Imminent. Some small engagements already have been fought, tho Russians retiring with losses. This correspondent says further that the Japanese are using the same tactics and advancing along the same route they had followed during tho Chinese war. The Yin Kow corespondent of the Paris edition of the New York Herald also vaguely reports the Japanese to bo 50 miles northwest of Antung and well to the westward of the Yalu river. To some of the military critics it Is Inconceivable that Japan can . really have executed such an unexpected and successful turning of the Russian position on the Yalu river, which" It Is thought would have necessitated the employment of a much larger forca Mian It Is believed Japan can possibly have at this point. The Dally Telegraph says that if the news of this strange and marvel ous collapse of Russian power on land Is true, there is nothing to prevent the Japanese from seizing Mukden and the railroad. There has boon nothing to compare with this move since Na nnlenn sHeserd Europe by appearing In tho plains of Italy from the Alps. Its effect throughout the East will bo stupendous. Lynching In Ohio Town. Richard Dixon, a negro, was taken from Jail In Springfield. O., and shot to death in the Jail yard by a mob. HU body was then taken to tho corner of j Main street and Fountain avenue anil hung to u telegraph polo, where the mob spent the next half hour riddling the body with bullets from several hi" 'red revolvers. l).xon shot Policeman Charles Col 11s while they both were In the form er's room in a hotel. Dixon had de cided to quit the place and fearing trouble with Anna Corbln, a woman with whom ho was acquainted, he asked Collls to go to the hotel with him. While in his room Dixon and Miss Corbin quarreled and Dixon Is said to have shot h;r in the breast. The policeman then attempted to ar rest Dlxon when the latter fired Into the officer's body Inflicting fatal wounds. Collis died on Monday and scores of people became aroused over the tragedy. The race aisturbances which havo terrorized the town for the last three days since the murder of Patrolman Collis and the subsequent lynching of the negro Dixon, who shot Colli3. are held well In hand bytho 13 companies of militia. ' While a special grand Jury will sit Monday to Investigate the lynching. It Is thought that it will be Impossible to Indict either the leaders of the mob which did the lynching or those re sponsible for the fire. The funeral of Collis was attended by an Immense throng of psople. Indignant Congressmen. That ar. investigation of the post- office department by the house will result from the publication of tht report involving members of congress in that connection, was indicated by every expression possible short of a vote. With a whirlwind of protest the report was taken up by indignant mem bers, their personal connection with !t explained, and epithets hurled at Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Brlstow. Mr. Kitchin charged General Bristow with having deliberately suppressed Important facts for the purpose of giy lng a false impression to the country and said BrNtow had undertaken "to blackmail congress, to silence con. gress." Mr. Williams, the Democratic leader, urged a complete investigation of the whole postoffice department and re ceived the hearty applause of both sides of the house and galleries. The house of representatives after indulging in seven hours of explana tion, accusation and vituperative d nunciatlon, ordered, with only two negative votes, an investigation of postal affairs, so far as members of the house are concerned, by a special committee of seven member3 to be appointed by the speaker, who like wise are to examine into the origin of the Brlstow report so far as It con cerns members of the house. Increased Acreage of Cotton. Bradstreet's summary of the state of trade Rays: Weather i mdltions have Improved, and with them jobbing trade at load ing Western points. The Iron trade also shows a gain in pctivity and in prices of crude material. Ihawbacks to general spring trade outlook are found in the slowness of Eastern buyers to take hold of spring goods and In serious floods. Southern trade advices all point to nn enormous acreage going into cot ton. Texas planters are making good progress and a 10 per cent Increase In acreage Is looked for. Business failures for the week end ing March 10 number 200, against 195 last week. 176 in the like week In 190n. 224 In 1902, 207 In 1901 and 190 In 1900. Grain In Farmers' Hands. The March report of statistics of the department of agriculture shows the amount of wheat remaining In farmers' hands on March 1 to have been about 132,000,000 bushels, or 20.8 per cent of last year's crop, as compared with 24.5 per cent of the crop of 1902 on hand on March l;-1903. The corn In farmers' hands Is esti mated at about SH9,000,000 bushels, or 37.4. per cent of last year's crop, against 41. C per cent of the crop of 1902 on hand on March 1. 1903. Of oats there are reported to b3 about 273,700,000 bushels or 31.9 per cent of last year's crop still in farm ers' hands, as compared with 3G.9 por cent of the crop of 1902 on hand on i , Buffalo Bill Petitions For Divorce. A petition for divorce filed In court of Big Horn county, Wyo Jan. 9 last, by Colonel William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), has Just been made public. Tho complaint charges cruelty and alleges that on Dec. 20, 1900, Mrs. Cody at tempted to poison the plaintiff. An other ground on which plaintiff asks a decree is that the marital relations have been Intolerable to him by hW wife's refusal to entertain his friends at his former home at North Platte, Neb. Mrs. Cody, who is at North Platte, denies her husband's charges and will content the suit. Colonel and Mrs. Cody were married at St. Louis, March C, ISfifi. Women Opposed to Smoot. At a meeting in Washington of the executive board of the Na tional League of Women's ongani7.i tlons of America a resolution was adopted requesting that on Sunday, March 27, or as soon thereafter as pos sible, every clergyman in the Unites States ask every man to write to his senators requesting them to vote against the retention of Mr. Smoot In the senate. Bill Against Monastic Orders. Premier C'oombes of Franco has brought forward a bill suppressing all tho schools of monastic orders and pio hfliitin monks nnd nuns from teach ing except in private. NORTHERN -SECURITIES. Merger Case Decided In Favoi o' th; Government. Majority Opinion Declares That Con gress Has Supreme Power to Regu. late Interstate Commerce, and That the Anti-Trust Law of 1893 Is Constitutional. Washington, March 15. In the United States supreme court yestei day, an opinion was delivered in tha merger case cf the Northern Securi ties company vs. the United States in favor of the government's contention that the merger was illegal. Tht opinion of the court was handed down by Justice Harlan and It upheld th Jecreo of the circuit court for the dis trict of Minnesota In every particu lar. Four of the justices dlssente from the five constituting the major ity. Close Shave For Government. Very soon after Justice Harlan had concluded his presentation of the case It became evident that the court had divided on the questions at issue and as other opinions were announced it developed that there not only had been a very close shave for the gov ernment but that one of the members of the court who cast his vote with the majority entertained opinions of his own, which fact rendered the division all the more marked and Interesting. This was Justice Brewer who while h concurred In the result announced In an Independent opinion of his own that he held the view that previous anti-trust, decisions had been more sweeping than was Justified. Four of the nine Justices dissented outright These were Chief Justice Fuller and Justices White. Peckham and Holmes The fact was noted by several per sons that the argument in the case was begun Dec. 14. just three months previous to the decision. For so lm portant a case this Is considered a very brief Interim between the argu ments and the decision. The case was brought by the United States against the Northern Securities company, a corporation of New Jersey; the Great Northern Railway company, a corpor ation of Minnesota; the Northern Pa cific Railway company, a corporation oif Wisconsin;-James J. Hill, a citizen of Minnesota, and William P. Clough. D. Willis James. John S. Kennedy, J. Tlerpont Morgan, Robert Bacon George F. Baker and Daniel Lamont citizens of New York. Its general object was to enforce as against the defendants, the provis ions of the statute of July 2, 1890. commonly known as the anti-trust act, and entitled "An act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful re straint and monopolies." . The Majority Opinion. Justice Harlan reviewed the facta as disclosed by the record In the case. Of the government's case he said: "The government charges that If the combination was held not to be In violation of the act of congress, then all efforts of the national government to preserve to the people the benefit of the competition among carriers en gaged In inter-state commerce will be wholly unavailing, and all transconti nental lines, indeed the entire railway system of the country, may be ab sorbed, merged and consolidated, thus placing the public at the absolute mercy of the holding corporation." Of the railroad case he said: "The several defendants denied all (he allegations of the bill Imputing to them a purpose to evade the provis ions of the act of congress or to form a combination or conspiracy having for Its object either to restrain or to monopolize commerce or trade among the states or with foreign nations. They denied that any combination or conspiracy was formed In violation of the act." Justice Harlan camo Immediately to the judicial consideration, his opening sentence indicating the decision. He said: '"In our judgment the evidence fully sustains tie material allegations of the. bill and shows a violation of the act of congress. In so far as It de clares Illegal every combination or conspiracy in restraint of commerce among the several states and with for eign nations, and forbids attempts to monopolize such commerce." He said It was indisputable that upon the principal facts of the record, under the leadership of Hill and Mor gan, the stockholders of the two rail road companies having practically parallel lines of road, had combined under the laws of New Jersey by or ganizing a corporation for the hold ing of the shares of the two companies upon an agreed basis cf value. "The stockholders of the two com panies disappeared, as such for tho moment, but immediately reappeared as stockholders of the holding com pany, he said. Necessarily by this combination tho holding company In the fullest sense dominates the situa tion and the constituent companies cease to be in active competition for trade, the jiwtlee wrote. These constituent companies havn become "practically one powerful con solidated corporal Ion by the nnmi! of a holding corporation, the principal, If not sole, object for the formation of which was-to carry out the purpose of Ihe original combination under which competition between the e in t il iient companies would cease." Ho said th.! stockiiol i. is of 1111 t vi old companies aie now nnit"d in tlvi Interest In preventing all competition between the two lines nnd that th" would "take cue that no poisons art chosen directors if the holding 'jo:u jany who will permit competition be tween the constituent companies. "No scheme or device could more certainly come within tho words of the act, 'combination In the f-)rm of a trust or otherwise in restraint of commerce among the states or with foreign nations' or could more effectively and certainly sup press free competition between the constituent companies. "This combination is within tho meaning of the act, a 'trust'; but If not, it Is a combination cf restraint of interstate and international commerce and that is enough to bring it under the condemnation of the act. The mere existence of such a combination and the power acquired by the holding company as trustee for the? eombina tion, constitute a menace to, and a re straint upon, that freedom of com merce which congress Intended to rec ognize and protect, and which the pub lie is entitled to have protected. "If not ' destroyed, all the advant ages that would natural'y come to the public under the operation of the gen eral law of competition, as between the Great Northern and Northern Pa cific Railway companies will be lost and the entire commerce of the im mense territory In the northern part of the United States between the Great Lakes and the Pacific at Puget sound will be at the mercy of a single hold lng corporation, organized In a state distant from the people of that terrl tory." Controlled by a Single Person. He agreed with the circuit court that the combination placed the con trol of the two roads in the hands ol a single person, and second, that it destroyed every motive for competi tion between the two lines by pooling their earnings. He deduced from the consideration of precedents the following propoRi Hons a sapplied to the present cape: "That although the act of congress known as the anti-trust act has no reference to the mere manufacture and production o" articles or commodi ties within the limits of the several states It embraces and declares to be lllegal every contract, combination oi conspiracy, in whatever form of what ever nature, and whoever may be par ties to it, which directly or necessarily operates in res'.rain of trade or com merce among the several states oi with foreign nations. "That the act is not limited to re stralnts of interstate and Interna tional trade or commerce that are un reasonable In their nature, but is di rected against all direct restraints, reasonable or unreasonable, imposed by any combination, conFpiracy oi monopoly upon such trade or com merce. "That railroad carriers engaged In inter-state of international trade or commerce are embraced by the act. j nat combinations even among private manufacturers or dealers whereby inter state or International commerce is restrained are equally embraced by the act. Free Competition Prescribed. "That congress has the power to establish rules by which inter-state and international commerce shall be governed, and, by the anti-trust act, has prescribed tho rule of free com petition among those engaged in such commerce. "That every combination or con spiracy which would extinguish com petition between otherwise competing railroads engaged In inter-state trade or commerce, and which would in that way restrain such trade or commerce is made illegal by the act. "That the natural effect of competi tion is to increase commerce and an agreement whose direct effect Is to prevent this play of competition, re strains instead of promotes trade and commerce. "That to vitiate a combination, such as the act of congress condemns, it need not be shown that such combina tion in fact results or will result in total suppression of trade or In a com plete monopoly but it is only essential to show that by its necessary opera tion It tends to restrain Inter-state or international trade or commerce or tends to create a monoply in such trade or commerce and to deprive lh3 public of the advantages that flow from free competition. "That the constitutional guarantee of liberty of contract does not prevent congress from prescribing the rule of free competition for those engaged In inter-state and international com merce. "That under Its power to regulate commerce among the several states and iforeign nations, congress had au thority to enact the statute in ques tion." Justice Harlan directed a very largo share of his opinion to the right of federal control over state direction in Eiich cases. Speaking of the state's rights plea of the railroad representa tives he said: "This view does not Impress us. By ts very terms the act regulates only commerce among the states and in tin foreign states. By the txplicit word" cf tho constitution that instrument and the laws enacted by congress in pursuance of its provisions, are. the su preme law of the land supreme over the states, over the courts, and even over the peoplo of the United Stales. 'An net of congress, constitutionally . passed under its power to regulate commerce among the stales and will- foreign states. Is binding upon all a.-; much so as if it wore embodied in terms in the ein'.titution iis-df. Not ?von n state1, f til ! less one of !l ; ar tifieial creatures, ,-in stand In the via; Df Its enfoic -ment." Court of Ap;':nla r-ilsndar. Albanv, March 15. Court of a pp '.!!; nlendar '.'or Man h 15: Nos. 575, 573. )7J, 5S0, 581, 410, l i.'! and 172. BRIEF NEWS ITEMS. Pointed paragraphs Chronic ling the Week's Doings. Long Dispatchns From Various Patti of the Wuld Slisrn of Their Padding and Only Facts Given in as Few Words as Possible For the Benefit of ti:e Hurried Reader. .. Peter Schrora of Ruthton, Minn., Is dead of shock resulting from an oDera tion to remove three false teeth from his stomach. Dr. Andrew II. Draper, president of the Illinois university, will be elected commissioner of education of New York state by the legislature. The Jamestown, N. Y., common coun ell has rescinded the city ordinance giving the board of health authority to rfiake vaccination compulsory. Dr. John H. Pryor ol Buffalo has been appointed superintendent of the New lork state consumption hosnltal at Raybrook, Essex county, in the Ad- irondacks. The Japanese naval department an nounces that 13 Russian warships, ren- resentlng a total of 94.000 tons, have been damaged since the opening of hostilities. Thursday. Japan warships bombarded the forH at Port Dalny and then attacked Port Arthur on the night of March 8. It is reported that a fight has oc curred between Coreans and Russians on the Ccrean side of the Tumen river, A Paris dispatch says that 100 per sons perished In the wreck of the steamer Camboge off the coast of Cochin-China. Eight companies of Ohio militia are on duty at Springfield, 0 on account of race war 'following the lynching of the negro Dixon Monday. The flood situation near Harrisburg was less threatening, but at and near Wilke3-Uarre the danger was Increas ing. There were heavy freshets in various parts of New York state. Stockholders oi the Grand Trbnk railroad, meeting in London, ratify the agreement with the Canadian govern ment for the construction of a new line across the Dominion. Friday. Jesuits may now re-enter Germany, as the bundesrath has passed a bill re pealing the exclusion law. The Japanese fleet again appeared off Port Arthur Wednesday at mid night and bombarded the forts until S next morning. Four unidentified workmen were burned to death in a box car contain ing gasoline at Branch Intersection, 10 miles east of Harrisburg, Pa. A dispatch from Tien Tsin says the Japanese had advanced across the Yalu and had driveu the Russians from towns occupied by them and taken up positions east of Niu Chwang. Governor Odell has sold his hold ings In United States Shipbuilding company securities at a loss of $125 000. He Is now In a position to push the proposed legislative Investigation. Saturday. Former United States Senators Ed ward Murphy and David B. Hill patch ed their differences to help the Par ker presidential boom. Activity of the Mormon church In state and national politics was the feature of the senate committee's hearing in the Reed Smoot Investiga tion. The Russian torpedo flotilla left Port Arthur Friday morning and at tacked the Japanese fleet. One Jap anese torpedo boat and one Russian torpedo boat destroyer were sunk. The recent experience of Rochester and Baltimore with various styles and Flzes of fire hose couplings Is the basis of a bill by Assemblyman Moreland, requiring standard uniform hose coup lings. Monday. Niagara reservation commissioners and representatives of business men's association protested against the bill in the legislature giving the Niagara and Ontario Power company increased power. Charles Goodman, who fell from a third-story window at the Hotel Ken more In Lockport, badly fracturing his skull, died at the Flagler hospital. Postmaster Fisher of Hastings, Neb., denies in the Dietrich Investiga tion at Washington that he gave a note In payment for his nppolntmenc. Death on the gallows is the fate de cided on for Harvey Van Dine, Peter Neldemeyer and Gustav Marx, the Chicago carbarn slayers, whose esca pades were attended by eight murd irs. Tuesday. Gustavo Mark, one of the carbarn bandits sentenced to death In Chicago, confesses to killing live men besides the one for whose murder he is to bo i xecuted. The Reorganized Mormon church, which Is strongly anti-polygamy, opened Its new building in Brooklyn and attacked Apostle Smith and his principles. George Gath. an engineer on the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg rail road, was held up and assaulted Sun day morning, receiving Injurls;: which may prove fatal. A dispatch from St. PvicnUirg says there Is no truth In report that, tho Russians have abandoned Port Arthur. Japanese reports say that thft last bombardment was very effective snd that Ihe town Is burning. BABY LEFT AT THC'fl DCOn. Childless Rich Coup!: Get C.-.: '.'.'o- man Neighbor Nov A:k3 For One. Pittsburg, March 14. Mrs. Tho.raj Rohan of 1023 Hill struct, V.'i!!:ir,s burg, answered her doorbell about :) o'clock Saturday evening. On lirr front porch she found two basket!. One, lined with silk, contained a child, to which waa pinned a las. with tho words, "three months." Ths o'.her basket contained garments. The baby Is a fine boy. Mr. f:nd Mrs. Rohan are a wealthy couple who have been marrlsd nine years, bur. have no children. Wiii!'1 nrvspapor reporters were Investigating tho story, Mrs. Jeannette Green, a neigh bor oif Mrs. Rohan, was vlsitins t'.iu baby. She told ihe nowepapor r...;.i that Santa Clans hnd never i;top:e-l at her homo since she had been mar ried and requested that they place a notice In the p.ipers to n--U the pcruon who left Mrs. Rohan a I.aby to please leave one on her dooiv.op. Mrs. Rohan burned tho clothes o the child so that they could p it be Identified and said that 'ihe will 1:??: the boy. A SHERIFF'S PERPLEXITY. White Man and Negro Are to Die oa the Same Scaffold. Pittsburg, March 14. Sheriff Dick son has received an order fro:,i Gjvor ror Pennypacker to hang William L. Hartley and James Edwards on tha same day, and 13 much disturbed owy it. "Under the circtimsUncos," ho s:iid, "it strikes me as entirely improper that the two men should be hanged at the same time. One is a wbiie man and the other a negro, and there is a natural prejudice against associating the two races. "They were never together In their life, and that Is another reason why they should not meet death together Of all places In tho world, the scaffold is one where nothing that cju! 1 offend the condemned man should ba dono. There is more thaa sentiment In this, there Is humanity." JAIL BREAKERS SENTENCED. Prisoners Held In Check by Warden's Wife to Serve Long Terms. Norristown, Pa., March 14. George Bond, the jockey who murderously as saulted Warden Gotwals and Under Keeper Beckwlth, to e?enpo jail, was sentenced to 11 years In the Ear.tern penitentiary. William Cornwell. who took a hand in the attempted jail breaking, pot 12 years. Bond escaped four years addi tional Imprisonment by an error in the Indictment, which tailed to includfi Beckwlth In the murderous nssiult. The men's plana for freedom were frustrated by the bravery of the war den's wife, who held them in cheek with a pistol. Gorges Frozen to the River Bottom. Wilkes-Barre, March 11. Tho only place on the north branch of the Sus quehanna where more Hood damage Is threatened is along the Wyo:niiu: valley, where three large ice gorg; choke the channel of the river nnd threaten to spread the waters over this city. Pittston. Wyoming, Forty Fort, PlainviUe, Dorraneeton. Kings ton, West moor, Edwardsvill - Bro:;'..tn and Plymouth, if there is a steady rain end thaw. Engineers Inspected the gorge They found the gorge below thu dty to be solid and apparently frozen to the bottom of the river. The passing out of the gorges farth er down the river remove, 1 the (lun ger there. The railroads I'm 1 they have to blast a way through the mounds of Ice with which their tracks are blocked and it will be some weeks before all the repairs are made. Shoots His Father. Waynesburg, Pa., March II. Al pheus Huggins, a wellknown farmer near Garaids Fort, Greene county, was shot and seriously wounded by his son, Charles. The father, it is Mil had driven his wile and smaller chil dren from the house, and they sought refuge at the home of the oldest son, on the same farm, the father follow ing. One of the children was s"iu U: summon Charles from a .sugar carip and be secured a shotgun and re spnnded. At bis approach the fathet advanced, unheeding the command tc halt, and received a charge of shot in the face, neck nnd arms The sou Is under bond for court. Continued Heavy Traffic. Philadelphia. March II. Leading railroad officials from diliierent auc tions of the country who nt tended ihe. Pennsylvania railroad meeting list week express the greatest ciai'doeee. In the continuance of u heavy tiiilroil tiafflc. Even some of those Wio were disposed to a different vi3v :omo weeks ago have dung I their minds and the opinivu !-' now general thm business will be luge and profitably throughout the spring and early suiu mer. General Tracy Selli Out. Middletown, N. Y Mnrd 1-1 -General B. F. 'f't tcy, secretary of tin- ikivv i.nder President lUivi . e i an I for a number of year.4 a pronilne;,: breeder of trotting horses. 1ms disp d of hi racing stock and retired per" -ei, n:'.y from tho business. He vi'!. Ie.-v, -retain his pt-upeity n u" Goshca, where many tided hore.; have bfen foaled. West Newt -hi John C. I.nudspar !?or, a deaf mute, was Instantly killed by the Pituhiu'tt and Lake Krio pS train
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