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.