THE RUSSIANS PILLAGING Koreans Fleeing From Their Homes Near Anju. RUSSIANS ARE SOUTH OF THE YALU. Japanese Scouts Report the Russian! la Greater Strength South of the Valu River Than They Expected A Japanese Mlnltter Informs Parliament el Conditions About Port Arthur. Seoul, (By Cable). Two Jetaeh mcnts of Russian troops, one estimat ed to number 500 and the other 200 men, are reported to be pillaging the country around Anju. The native Ko reans in fear are fleeing south. Anju is 40 miles north of Ting Yank, and about 00 miles south of the Yalu River. In order to provide for the require ments of the army of occupation the Japanese authorities have decided to extend the fishery concessions in the Korean provinces of Hwang 1 1 at, Chy ung Chyong and Ping Yang. Japanese scouts report that they have discovered that the Russian troops arc south of the Yalu in much stronger force than was thought. Blockading of Port Arthur. Tokio, (By Cable). The house of Representatives listened to a signi ficant speech by M. Yamamoto, the minister of marine, and passed with out a dissenting voice a vote of thanks to Vice Admiral Togo and his officers for their service to the country. In his remarks the Minister of Marine said it was no new thing to be prepared for emergencies 'in time of peace, but that since last October the Japanese Navy had been under the necessity of increasing its strength and had been constantly ready fur action on account of the actions of Referring to the result of the work of Vice Admiral Togo and his fleet, M. Yamamoto told the House of Representatives that t block a port successfully the hlockaders should be at least twice as strong as the de fenders of the port. He said the latest reports showed that the Russians had four battleships, five cruisers and 10 torpedo-boat destroyers afloat at this time, from which it must be concluded that the work of repairing at Port Ar thur was being carried forward effi ciently. The latest attack on Port Ar thur had enabled the Japanese to observe the actual strength of the enemy. PANIC IN COUNTY HOSPITAL. Many Patients Supposed to Be Very III W ere Run Out. Escanaba, Mich., (Special). In a fire at the Delta County Hospital over 60 patients were thrown into a panic and many were forced to leave the building in their night clothes. So dense was the smoke and so rap idly did the flames gain headway that the attendants were unable to control the frightened patients, and many who were thought to be at the point of death arose from their beds and es caped from the building by ladders and fire-escapes. Many stood about the outside of the building nearly 30 minutes, dressed only iit their night clothes and in snow up to their knees before they could be taken to nearby homes. The fire was under control within an hour, but it is feared that many of the pntients who were suffering from typho d fever will never recover from the effects of the exposure. PANAMA DISBANDS TROOPS. Only One Battalion Remains Under Country'! Colors. Panama, (Special). By recent de crees, the second battalion of Pana tntn troops on the isthmus is disband ed, leaving only one battalion under the colors, and the vessels forming the Fanaman navy are offered for cale. Owing to the recent fire at Bocas del Toro, the four government secre taries have been sent there by Presi dent Amador to study the means to be taken to repair the damages sus tained by the town. They sailed from Colon on the United Fruit Company's steamer Preston, taking with them some relief supplies for the inhabi tants who suffered from the confla gration. President Amador gave a banquet to Second Vice President and former Gov. Obaldia. William W. Russell, the retiring secretary of the United States Legation, and recently appoint ed. Minister to Colombia; Col. J. R. Shalcr, the superintendent of the Panama Railroad Company; Senor Arango, and other prominent persons were present. Johosoa's Murder Avenged. Washington, D. C. (Special). Unit ed States Minister Powell cables the State Department from San Domingo City that President Morales has cap tured and caused to be promptly exe cuted Gen. Nicholas Anas, the insur gent leader who was tried by drum head court-martial and convicted of killing Machinist Johnson in the steam launch of the United States steamer Yankee a few weeks ago. Tornado la Arkansas. Fort Smith, Ark., (Special). Pas cngert on a belated train on the Ark ansas Central railroad reported a destructive tornado in a strip of coun try near Spring Hill, Ark. Several persons are reported injured, but so far as can be learned no one was killed. L. W. Seamans, of Kansas City, a passenger, says that as far as the eye could reach t.te destruction ap peared complete. Not a tree was left standing and houses were razed. OasoHa Caoses Big Firs. Landing, Mich, (Special). The Grand river has rcachej the highest point in its history here, and the flood has caused heavy damage. The water has overflowed for two blocks to the westward of the river, and the lowlands on the east side of the stream are alt flooded. The Kala mazoo street bridge went out during the night Gasoline floating down on the flood from a leaking tank into the boiler fires at the Gates and Edmonds Gas Engine Company's plant resulted in Arc that gutted the plant. The loss is- 30,ooo. . NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid Reading. Domestic. At a meeting of the Hanna Memor lal Chair Association, at Cleveland. CV, among the trustees selected were Gov ernor Derrick, Secretary of State Hay, United States Senator Dick; Governor Durbin, of Indiana; John Mitchell, president of the United Mincworkers. Snowdrifts block railroad traffic in Manitoba, Montana and North Dako ta, and floods in Michigan arc causing trouble. Numbers of towns are inun dated and families homeless. The sugar imports at New Orleans have grown to great proportions since the reduction duty on Cuban imports went into effect. The body of Anna Newkirk, who nai neen. missing trom her home, near Salem, N. J., since January 12, was lound floating in a creek. The American Locomotive Company discharged one-half of its employee in 111c Dcrainoil snops. Wallace H. Ham pleaded guilty in Boston to indictments charging him with the larceny of $2.38,000. The various transatlantic companies came to an agreement to restore the eastbound steerage rates. Colonel Clotigh, vire president of the Northern Securities Company, denies that a new company is being planned. In spite of official denials, there arc indications that differences exist between the Union Pacific and the II ill-Morgan interests. Evidence was given in St. Louis in West Chcinsford, Mass., are on a strike charged with having illegally accepted fees from the Rialto Grain and Securi ties Company, of St. Louis. Three hundred quarryworkers em ployed by Winston Locher & Co., at the trial of Senator Burton, of Kansas, against an order fixing 10 hours as a d::y's work. Samuel C. Hazzard, of Pottsvillc, Pa., was sentenced in Minneapolis to two years in the penitentiary for bigamy. One life was lost in the fire that raged on the Ncbrask prairie between Atlanta and Looniis. Kighteen Minneapolis fiour mills shut down indetlinitely. Wrecks, landslides and snowslidcs in the snowshed region of the Sierra Nevada Mountains have impeded traf fic, carried away telegraph wires and cut off telegraphic communication with the Last. Alexander Pclmsley, a chemist, was killed by the explosion of a quantity fit" flash powder while experimenting in Philadelphia. The public schools of Chicago will be organized into minature national, state and municipal governments. The National Hank of Iloldcnville, one of the largest in the Creek Nation, suspended payment President Roosevelt delivered a lec ture to a number of young indians on the evils of gambling. The East-bound Pittsburg and Buf falo express ran into an open switch at Northeast, Pa. Officers were elected at the annual meeting of the Disciples of Christ, held in Chicago. P'acario Sakay, the so-called presi dent of the Filipino republic, has been killed. Three persons were killed by illum inating gas m a New orl; tenement house. Andrew Carnegie, with his wife and daughter, sailed for Cherboug from New 1 ork on the steamer Jst. Paul. A woman was saved by a living bridge from a seven-story building in New lork which was gutted by tire Three whitccappcrs were sentenced to the penitentiary for intimidating colored workmen in Helena, Ark. The plant of the Bayway Refining Company in Elizabcthport, N. J., was destroyed by hrc. F. Henry Richardson, editor of the Atlanta Journal, died at his home, in Atlanta, Ga. Two negroes accused of murder were lynched by a mob near Cleve land, Miss. Andrew Carnegie has given another $5,000,000 for educational purposes. Michael Brush, a burgler, shot Po liceman Hugh J.Knright and Jacob I'achman in New York. The latter is dead and the other mortally wounded. The colored people of Kcnntt Square, West Chester, are fighting tor coeducation of the races. The whites want them to have separate schools. George Mcritt Clark, of Buffao, a well-known member of the American Water-color Society of New York, died at his California home. John Malinkcn, who claimed the body of an Iroquois Theater victim as a relative in order to enter suit, was arrested 111 Chicago. The borings of the rapid transit sub way were completed between the Port George terminus and the City Hall, in New York. Charles W. Eliot, president of Har vard University hince 18(19, celebrated quietly the seventieth anniversary of his, birth. Foreign. A dispatch from Colonel Leutwein announced a fight at Omatako Moun tain, in which the Hereros were re pulsed with the loss of 10 men killed. General Reyes, who left Paris last night for Colombia, intimated that he would accept the presidency of the new republic. An agreement has been reached for the organization of a Macedonian gendarmerie under European officers. Josef Rebicek, for six years con ductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Berlin, is dead Two French anarchists were arrest ed in Liege, Belgium, and confessed being bomb-throwers. Secretary Wyndham, in the British House of Commons, stated that ap- thcations for advances under the Iris'i and Act amounted to $10,000,000 from 4,152 tenants, on 200 estates that had been received. Prof. Carl Schumaun, cuator of the Roval Botanical Museum, is dead. An Italian parliamentary-committee will inquire into accusations against Signor Nosi, former minister of public instruction, who is charged with mis appropriation of funds. it is stated that the proposed en- ?:agement of the German Crown 'nnce to Princess Alexandra of Brunswick and Luneberg was pre vented by the young lady's father, the Duke of Cumberland. Mass and Moranne, the bicyclists who purjured themselves in the Fair case in Fiance, were sentenced each to thrts years' imprisonment. SCORES INJURED IN STORM Indiana Harbor Merchant Struck Dead and Fifteen Customers Hurt. MANY HOUSES WEmTbLOWN DOWN The Number of People Injured at Indians Harbor Will Probably Approximate 25. All Three of the Hotels In the Place Were Badly Damaged, Green s Hotel In Partclulsr Being Badly Wrecked. Chicago, lll.,(Spccial). One of the most severe storms this city has known in many years, passed over Chicago the other night. Great damage was done in the sub urhs to the south of the city and con siderable loss was sustained north of the city proper. One life is known to have been lost and many persons were hurt. The storm did not strike the bus iness portion of the city in its greatest force. The town of Indiana Harbor, twen ty miles southeast of Chicago, on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad, was the heaviest sufferer. One man, B. Barker, the proprietor of a dry goods store, was killed, and fifteen persons who were in his store when the storm struck were injured, some of them seriously, although none of them is expected to die. Barker's store was entirely demolished. Eighteen resiliences were blown down and several persons were hurt in the ruins of their homes. It is almost impossible to obtain full details at present because of the condition of the telegraph and tele phone wires, nearly all of them being down for miles between Chicago and Indiana Harbor. The wires of the electric lines were knocked down and the power was shut off, making it impossible for any body to reach the place save on the regular trains of the railroads running through the place. The number of people injured at In diana Harbor will probably approxi mate twenty-five. All three of the hotels in the place were badly dam aged, Green's Hotel, in particular, be ing wiecked. One two-story frame building was turned entirely over. The storm created havoc in the town of Hammond. Ind. A number of resi dences were badly damaged and two people were injured, but not fatally. One end of the large plant of the Re public Iron and Steel Company was blown down, causing a loss of at least $.25,000. A number of business houses were unroofed, and the citv was in total darkness. So many of the electric light wires were blown down that the au thorities compelled the company to shut off all power, lest lives might be lost through contact with live wires. In the freight vards of the roads run ning through Hammond great damage was done. Many cars were unroofed fr blown over, and the yards in many places were piled with wreckage. In Grand Crossing, eight miles south of the center of the city, a number of buildings were wrecked, freight cars blown about the yards and the tracks of the railroads covered with debris to such an extent that the majority of incoming trains were compelled to call upon their passengers to assist in re moving the wreckage from the tracks so that the trains could proceed. To the north of the city the storm was also severe, much damage having been done in the suburbs of Evanston, Rogers rark and I hornton. REBELLION IN COLORADO. Governor Peabody Has Ordered More People to Teluride. Denver, Col., Spccial). A special train bearing troops left Denver for Telluridc. The entire force of three hundred men will be under command of Adjustant General Bell. Governor Peabody stated that he will declare San Miguel county in a state of insurrection and rebellion be cause of the representations made to him by public officials and citizens of the two, who declared that a body of men were arming outside the county to join with men within the county for the purpose of destroying pro perty and inflicting personal injuries on persons in Telluridc A dispatch received from Tellur idc contained the news that twenty Philanders left that place. It is in ferred from this fact tht the deporta tion of strikers and their families has been resumed by the millitary. Rescued Her Pupil. Chicago, (Special). Plunging into the Des Plaines River Miss Louise Jackson, a school teacher of Mayvvood a suburb of Chicago, rescued one of tir fulfills flip liltlp ftmitrhtpr of Snm. ucl G. Kline, alter the mother ot the"'s c"url nu lle government. child had fainted and two boys who had acidcntally knocked the little one into the river had run away. Unaided Miss Jackson fought her way through the swift waters of the Des Plaines, which is at a higher flood stage than for years, and it was only after she had slipped back into the river from the crumbling bank several times that the heroic young woman brought the little girl safely ashore. Sulton ol Sulu Yields. Manila, (Special). Maj. Gen. Wood reports from Jolo that the Sultan of Sulu has accepted the abrogation of the Bates treaty. Evidently the Sul had expected its abrogation since hos tilities began last fall. Killed By Schoolboy Friend. Columbus. Ga., (Special). A dis patch from Chiplev says that a fight occurred at Whitesville between two sixteen-year-old schoolboycwhich resulted in the death of one, Tom Haralson, son of T. W. Haralson. Robert Maddox, son of T. J. Maddox, was the other participant. Young Maddox struck young Haralson with a large stick, fracturing the skull in two places, from the effectj of which Haralson died a short time afterward. The cause of the fight is unknown. The two boys were intimate friends. An American la Command, San Francisco, (Special). Officers of the steamer Coptic, just arrived, saw the Russian gunboat Mandjur ly ing in the river at Shanghai, and re port that her commander is a Capt. Carter born in the UniteJ States, but a Russian by naturalization. When ordered to leave Chinese waters, Capt. Carter emphatically refused and in vited somebody to make him move. At last accounts he was still at Shang hai with his gunboat. A Japanese bat tleship and a cruiser living the same flag passed out of the river whila lie QtHr wm It Shanghai. LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. Prosecution Hands Brief I s to House Sub committee on Judilciary. Sweeping Charges Against Swayne. The evidence in the impeachment proceedings against Judge Charles Swayne, of the Northern district of Florida, taken in Florida by the House subcommittee of the judiciary com mittee, and including the brief of Judge Swayne before the committee in his own defense and that of Judge B. S. Liddoii for the prosecution, was furnished to the committee in printed form for the first time. The document consists of 300 printed pages. The charges against Judge Swayne, which undoubtly will be set forth in the report of the committee to be filed by Representative Palmer, arc concisely stated by Mr. Palmer as fol lows: Non-residence in the Northern dis trict of the state of Florida. F'or unlawfully imposing a fine and imprisonment of one E. T. Davis and 5. Hclden in tool. For unlawfiillv committing to prison in 1002 one O'Neal for alleged con tempt of court. F'or conduct unbecoming a judge in appointing one Tunison in 1000, know ing him to be a man of bad character. F'or refusing a fair hearing and trial to one Hoskins in 1902. In his own defense Judge Swayne filed with the committee letters of in. dorsement from seventeen lawyers and nve otner person, not attorneys, written in November, 1807, recom mending to President McKinley hi.t appointment to succeed Justice F'ield of the Supreme Court of the United States. He also filed twenty-four letters, mostly of Florida attorneys, written in February, i8ijq, recommend ing his appointment to the position of circuit judge of the Fifth circuit, which nau just uecn created by an act ot Congress. In his brief Judge Swayne reviews his life briefly, stating that he was born in Delaware in 1842, read law in Philadelphia, and was admitted to practice there In 1885 he moved to Sanford, F'la., where he practiced law until appointed to a bench in 1889. His appointment was a recess appointment which was not confirmed until April, 1 BOO. Judge Swavnc said he never was a registered voter, nor had he paid any taxes in l'lorida. He said that he had spent his summers mostly in Dela ware, but had understood that the summer months were the proper time for his vacation. His recollection was, he said, that no one ever had been injured because of his absence trom l'lorida and that the business ot his court had i.ot suffered. Judge Liddon, in cross - examininu Judge Swayne asked him if he did not understand the laws of Florida to be that a man could not hold office there unless he is a qualified elector. Judge Swayne admitted this. Judge Swayne, in commenting upon the proceedings against him. said to the committee that they were due to but two causes: The malice of the man O'Neal, who was sentenced, and the intense do hti- cal feeling engendered at that ocriod. There never would have been anything ot tins had it not been tor these causes." In summing up against Judge Swayne, Judge Liddon declared him guilty in the following instances: I. That he has been, until after the adoption of the resolution the ba.,is of these pdocecdings, in 100. a non resident fit mis district, and that in convenience expense and iitjury have resulted to litigants in his court by reason ot sucn non-residence and by absence from his district. 2. That he has appointed and main tained as commissioner of his court one B. C. Tunison, a man of bad repu tation, and has so conducted himself as to create at least a general impres sion that his court is dominated by said Tunison in administration of jus tice therein. 3. Maladmisistration of bankruptcy matters before him, whereby the as sets of bankrupts were absorbed in costs and expenses. 4. That he has been guilty of cor ruption in his office and oppression in the following instances: W. H. Hoskins, against whom in voluntary proceedings were brought; against Samuel Belden and E. T. Dav is, who were most wrongfully and un justly punished for alledgcd contempt; against W. C. O'Neal upon a charge of contempt, and against one C. D. Hoskins the two last mentioned hav ing died while such proceedings were pending. 5. That he corruptly purchased a lot of land in litigation before him and afterward tried another case be tween practically the same parties in volving the same lands, and directing the jury to bring in a verdict in favor ot the title which he had purchased. 0. He has appointed as court com missioner one John Thomas Porter, who maintains an office at Marianna while his residence is at Grand Ridge. lourtccn miles distant, thereby causing great inconvenince to parties before 7. lhat h corruutlv lobbied with J. M. Barrs to prevent the redisrict ing of the state. Congressional and Departments. The annual report of the Census Bureau on cotton spinning showed a decrease for the year from the total of 1002. Its publication caused an ad vance in cotton on the various ex changes. The House Committee on Appropri ations completed the Sunday Civil Ap propriation Bill and reported it to the House. The bill carries a total of $55,623,001. Complaint was made to Secretary Hay that native children, in the Congo Free State were mutilated by Belgian officials. The Postoffice Appropriation Bill was passed by the House, the sec tion being adopted increasing the rural letter-carriers' salary from $600 to $720. Representatives of Southern cotton interests protested before the Senate committee against the pending Eight hour Bill. Arg tent was also made against the bill bciore the House Com mittee. The House committee authorized a favorable report on the F'rye bill extending the coastwise laws of the United States to the Philippine Is lands, July 1, 19x15. It is rumored that Secretary Moody will retire from the Cabinet to enter a law firm in Boston. The President will preas the button in Washington and start the World's Fair machinery in St. Louis. The State Department has receive I formal notice from the Chinese gov ernment denouncing the Chinese ex clusion treaty. Senator Gorman introduced a bill in the Senate which will enable the Wabash Railroad to enter Wash ington. The Washington Police Trial Board recommended a fine of $40 a month in the case of Samuel A. Groff. AFTER SULLY'S BACKERS Sensational Developments Expected at Investigation LOSSES FELL ON SOME OF BEST HOUSES Creditors Express Belief That Books of the Cotton King Would Enable Them to Reach the Men Responsible for the Sully Contracts A Statement by President McDougall, of the Cotton Exchange, New York, (Special). R. P. Mc Dougall president of the Cotton Ex change, made the following statement relative to the conditions of the mark et: "The loses in consequence of the failure of D. J. Sully & Co. fall on some of the most conservative houses in the trade firms that were well able to stand them without inconveni ence. "There is no warrant for anv furth er apprehension especially as consum ers are making inquiric for spot cot ton, which introduces an element of safety and stability that has been lacking of late." It was said on the Cotton Exchange Thursday that sensational develop ments are expected when the receiv ers begin their investigation of Sully's books. These books, it was reported, contain records of the transactions made by Sully for at least two of the capitalists who arc said to have backed the Sully deal, and the creditors ex pressed the belief that these records would enable them to reach the men responsible for the Sully contracts. In a general way prices worked up ward until May reached 1.1.65 and July 1378, net gains of about 20 points, when rumors that New Orleans bulls were in difficulties caused a re newal of liquidation and a break to near the low point of the morning. The improved tone of the market was partially attributable to a reas suring statement of the president of the exchange to the effect that the losses resulting from the Sully failure fell upon the strongest and most con servative houses in the trade and that they were able to sustain them with out inconvenience. The fact that the 2 o'clock call passed without further incident also had a reassuring effect. The market ruled very firm in the late trading, with May selling up to 13. 85 and July to 14.05. The close was practically the best, with prices at a net advance of 22(45 points. The sales of the day were es timated at 500,000 bales. JEALOUSY DROVE HIM TO CRIME. Shocking Double Tragedy in a New York Boardlnghouse. New York (Special). Insanely jeal ous of his pretty wife, who was 12 years his junior, Christian Kirschoffcr, 40 years old, a boardinghouse-kecper, of Williamsburg, shot her and their four-year-old son. He then fired a bullet through his own brain, dying instantly. The boy died soon after and the wife has little chance of re covery. AH .those who knew the couple unite in saying that there was ab solutely no ground for Kirschoffer's suspicion of his wife, as she always ap peared devoted to him, stayed closely at home and attended to all the details of management of the boardinghouse. There was no witness to the trag edy, but Fanny Cury, a servant em ployed in the house, heard the shots and ran to a bedroom on the first floor, where the shooting occurred, in time to sec Mrs.Kirschoffcr lying across a window ledge, while on the floor was the body of Kirschoffer. Not far from his father lay the child, who had been shot in the head and was un conscious. MORMONS EXCLUDED. Indiana Congregation to Fight for Use of Schoolbouse. Indianapolis, Ind., (Special). By a decision of the Circuit Court the Mor mons of Perry county are excluded from the schoolhousc, where they have been holding their Sunday services. The case has been appealed to the Su preme Court to test the right of the township trustee to exclude a church society from a schoolbouse on Sun days during the school term, where permission has been duly obtained to use the schoolbouse for holding relig ious services "when unoccupied for school purposes." The Perry county Mormons have been holding prayer meetings in the schoolhousc for several years without objection of the township trustees, but several weeks ago, when the eld ers began to teach the Mormon doc trines, the trustees applied for an in junction. Scarlet Fever Germ. Chicago, III., (Special). To search for the scarlet fever germ in a series of experiments on apes is the object of a trip to Europe about to be un dertaken by Dr. Ludwig Hektoen, head of the McCormick Memorial In stitute for Infectious Diseases. The institute was endowed by Mr. and Mrs. Harold I". McCormick, who lost a son through scarlet fever. Dr. Hek toen will sail for Liverpool April 1. After two months spent in the hos pitals there experimenting on monkeys he will visit various hospitals on the Continent. $400 For a Kiss. Shawnee, Okla., (Special). A jury in the District Court, after being out twenty hours, gave a verdict in favor of Mrs. Maud Bell Lees, of McCloud, against Ewers White, president of the Oglahoma board of agriculture, for $400 and costs. Mrs. Lees alleged that White had attempted to kiss her, and that her husband, at her request, had caught him in the act and mauled White with a poker. All parties are married and prominent. Scandal la Tokyo, ; Tokoyo, (By Cable). A legislative scandal is threatening in connection with the proposal of the government to create a tobacco monopoly. It is alleged that certain members of the Diet agreed to support the movement to increase the compensation paid to manufacturers for share of the in crease secured. It was originally pro-; posed to pay the manufacturers a sum equal to three years' income, and it is said that the illicit project was to se cure four years' income. The police arc invalidating tht puttier. PORT ARTIilR SHELLED AGAIN. Threatened the Deatructlon of Russian Fortl and the Town. London, (By Cable). While tht ;t ports from Tokio that Port Arthut had been occupied by the Japanese were premature, the latest dispatches from St. Petersburg show that a Japanese fleet of 6 battleships and 12 cruisers, together with 8 torpedo boats were engaged Monday night in an other tremendous bombardment that threatened the destruction of Russian forts and the town. It is probable, as reported from To kio, that the Japanese made an im portant movement by land upon the Russian base at the same time. Naval experts here believe thai these latest attacks will hasten the fall of the Russian base A dispatch to Renter's Telegram Company from St. Petcrsburgh says: "Japanese torpedo boats appeared off Port Arthur nt midnight of the night of March 21-22, and the shore batteries and guardships shelled them for 20 minutes. "The Japanese retired, but reap peared four hours later, when they met with the same reception, when they retired again. "At 6 A. M. a Japanese squadron of two divisions, in all consisting of (3 battleships and 12 cruisers, and ac companied by 8 torpedo boats, ap peared, and the Russian squadron sailed out from the outer roadstead to meet them. "At 9 A. M. the Japanese battle ships, having fired several shots at Liaotishin and sheltered behind the promonotory, began a furious bom bardment of Port Arthur." TO ROB THE FIRE VICTIMS. Chicago Prisoner Confesses He Tried to Claim Bodies Thai Bore Valuables. Chicago 111., (Special). A gruesome polt to get valuables found upon vic tims of the Iroquios fire was admit ted to the police of this city by John Mahnken, who was arrested several days ago and who was accused ol seeking to get possession of tl.e body of Mrs. Amelia Mueller, of Milwau kee, and also that of Mrs. F'rank R. Grccnwald. On Mrs. Mueller's body was $400. On Mrs. Greenwald's fin gers were several valuable rings. .Mahnken s story implicates a man who claimed to be a physician. Mahn ken knew him as "Dr. George." The New York police are said tc have information that a man answer ing to the description of "Dr. George' has been implicated in several life in surance swindles. He is also said tc have left Chicago to escape detectives from a Southwestern state, who wanf him for similar crimes. Mahnken employed an undertaker tc bury the body of Mrs. Grccnwald whom he had falsely identified as that of his aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Kouth, 0 .Montreal. His confession is in the hands of the police. "lvisitcd Jordon's undertaking es tablishment," he said, "and cried as real as any person would that had lost a dear relative. I identified the body and a sheet was placed over it. Latet I was informed that the body had been positively identified as that ol Mrs. Mueller, of Milwaukee. Another body was marked No. 34, and I iden tified that one, and it was laid asidt. "I went then to where the unclaimed valuables were taken, and there I broke down again and wept. "Then we buried the body at Elm wood. It was later identified by Mr. Grccnwald as that of his wife, and was disinterred and reburried. " 'Dr. George' I never learned his last name then advised me to start a suit for damages, and that was what I was about to do when arrested." Mahnken is 28 years of age. DREAM COST LEOS. United States Army Officer Thought lle Heard Charge Ordered. Galveston, Tex., (Special). Lieut Barton E. Gardner, United States Army, on a furlough from his com pany, in Arizona, and a passenger ou an eastbound Southern Pacific train, going to visit his mother, in Massa chusetts, met with a peculiar accident As the train was ncaring the depot in Flatonia he was seated in the chaii car. He awoke as the brakeman called out the name of the station and jump ed out of the window. He rolled un der the train and both legs were cut off. Immediate medical attention wai given and the patient is resting well, with good prospects of recovery. Gardner said that when he heard the brakeman announce the station lie dreamed his captain commanded a charge and it was this hallucination that caused the accident. FACTS WORTH REMEMBERING. New York City has 120,000 tele phones. The tolls of the Suez Canal in 190J were $21,800,000. About 43,000 people in Great Britain wear glass eyes. Red and black are the common colors of deep sea animals. Hollow steel spheres are in use in Sweeden for billiard balls. The basis of most Indelible inks i the ordinary nitrate of silver. Belgium alone has $330,000,000 in vested in Russian factories and rail ways. The Chinese and Japanese make many articles of furniture out of paper, Twenty million rabbits were export ed from Victoria, Australia,' last year. The Russian consumer pays fot sugar three or four times the export price. It is said that salmon, pike, and gold fish are the only fish that never sleep. The cost of cleaning the streets ol Paris is 12 cents per square yard per annum. Alloys of iridium and assmium are now very generally used to point gold pens. In all countries more marriages take place in June than in any other month. Of the 4,500 paper mill in the world, Asia has but nineteen and Africa but four. The cost of living In Tamatave, Madagascar's metropolis, is double that in New York. The murders in the United States in 1903 numbered 8,976; the legal exe cution numbered but 123. The receipts of the Cuban govern ment last year were $181007,302 and its expenses were $15,933,646. American locomotives are used on tne Yafa-Jeiuisalem Railway, although it is owned by Frenchmn. , THE KEYSTONE STATE Latest News of Pennsylvania Told in, Short Order. At the first meeting of .hc cw or ganization, the State Fisheries Asso-J ",iation, at Harrisburg, Luther1 dichacl of North Water read a paper in the "Cause of the disappearance of Slack Bass in the Delaware River,', n which he declared that it is a raro hing now to catch a black bass, and all hat are caught are of a large size, bus 'cry few small ones are being caught, This scarcity of small bass he. attrib ites to the pollution of the streim resolution was adopted urging the text Legislature to appropriate a suf icient sum of money to propagate lack bass upon the same basis at .rout arc now. During the discussion if the resolution it developed that in til patts of the State there has been 1 gradual disappearance of bass, and :hcy are found in very few streams. Because the firm of N. B. Yant Co., Pittsburg, structural iron work ;rs, refused to lure extra men to da job which the union claimed should De done by men other tharo those regu larly employed in the shops of th firm" the head of the firm, N. B. Yant, was assulted. He was kicked nd beaten. Following this assault a; dozen men at 2 o'clock A. M. des molishcd a partly completed shop; which the firm is building at Beaver and Western avenues ini Allegheny, Men from the shops were sent to? , erect the steel frame of the new shop, The union demanded that its member be employed to do the work, clai.nina. that it was not properly the work ol shop employes. Two hundred and fifty employes of the billet mill of the Pennsylvania' Steel Works, Harrisburg, quit work! because a recent reduction of tho working force caused additional work. The company immediately closed thr mill. More than 100 Harrisburg mers chants have signed an agreement' tiot to use trading stamps after May 19. Ground has been broken for a Baptist Church at Spring Mill. The. pastor, Rev. Charles Dover turned' the first sod. Governor Pcnniypackcr has appoint ed Luther C Smith, of Drifton, trus tee of the State Hospital at Hazeltotv vice Arthur McClcllan, deceased. The , Schuylkill County Ministerial Association tendered a farewell ban iiict tf) Rev. Dr. J. T. Satchell, who leaves Pottsvillc to take up a Method dist Episcopal pastorate in Easton. Samuel A. Crozcr, the Upland philanthropist, has purchased grouuff which is to be used for an entranci to Crozer Park, and lie has donated the property to the Park Commisf sinners. Mr. Crozcr will have tho roadway constructed at his own ex pense. Charged with abusing and neglect' ing her three children, Lizzie, li vears old ; Joseph, 8 years old and, James, 2 years old, Mrs. Mary GrilTnl was arrested at Chester. Magistral Smith committed the three children to the Juvenile Home. According tq the evidence the woman had married three times, each of the children hav ing a different father. A committee of high school boy! is canvassing the town of Bloomsburg to secure the signatures of parents to, a petition in which they seek to sccurd shorter afternoon sessions. Half of the town has been canvassed and but twenty parents have refused to sign the petition. While Edward Smith, a farmer of Nichols, was felling a large tree it struck another small tree which fell on Smith. He was unconscious for some; time, and since he recovered he has no recollection : his life for the past forty years, but otherwise is in good physical health. Electric light apparatus, which was installed in Shamokin in 1883 and which is said to be t'c f"'st success ful three-wire incan:cscn system in the world, has been '.hipped to St Loin's for exhibition at the Exposition. The members of Company G,F"ourth Regiment, are dead-locked over tho election of a first Lieutenant to suc ceed Lieutenant Phaon E. Sheidy,1 elected to the cantaincv. Serceant James Fetter and Warren Barto are the contestants. Reports of mine inspectors for tho bituminous districts comprising the Irwin field show that the output of this field last year exceeded 15,000, 000 tons, an increase of 3,000,000 ton over the preceeding year. Several distinguished Magyars visiu ed South Bethlehem to investigate tho condition of their countrymen in that vicinity, in tne party was Baron. Griska, secretary of the Austrian Em' bassy at Washington. Denny Court, a negro settlement it! West Chester, two squares from ther court house has been placed under" quarantine, a case of smallpox having; been discovered there. Wholesale vaccination followed. Mayor Howard II. Houston, tof Chester, has signed the ordinance in creasing the salary o fthe chief of police and the commissioner of high ways from $1000 to $1200 a year; A negro named Cook was ar rested in Chester charged with steaU ing four bags of flour from Andrew Bell's feed store. The alleged thief was tracked to his home by a trail of flour which leaked from a hole itV one of the bags. Lancaster county is making a great record in the matter of free rural' mail delivery. There are now in operation sixty-seven routes; five; will start on April I, and six on April is, making a total of seventy-, eight routes. During the past yea there has been an increase of twenty eight routes. Daniel J. Donovan, of Glendon, near Easton, was found drowned in the Lehigh River. It is thought that he fell over a retaining wall in tho darkness. What is believed to be one of tho largest black snakes ever seen in Berks county was killed on an island r.f John Henderson in the Schuykill' River. A Blue bird alighted on the 'head of a horse driven by Adolph Erjgharf and frightened the animal. It rair away and crashed Into a tree box. Enghart was removed to the hospitar with a broken ankle and other injuries) While playing at Mogeetown, Michael Frederick, 5 years old, found a cartridge. A few hours later th child put the cartridge in a dishpail and began shaking it and finally ho placed it on the hot stove about which his mothei1 was working. The carM ridge exploded, ploughing along tho. woman's arm and tearing her fact and nose, j t The rush of Russian's to secure naturalization has spurred other alien residents to apply for citizenship; Two hundred Italians of Pottsvill and vicinity have organized a society pledging encouragement to naturliza- -tiou.
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