THE J APS STORM ED NANS HAN Repeated Fierce Charges By the Japanese Crowned With Victory Splendid Maneuvers. ALL-DAY BATTLE BETWEEN THE LAND FORCES. Kiachou and All the Heights About It Taken bj the Japs, Who Are Now Forcing the Russians Toward Tort Arthur The Russians Pour a Deadly Fire Into the Plucky Japanese Storming Force at Nanshan Hill. Tokio, (Py Cable). In a desperate and daring assault the Japanese have dislodged the Russians from Kin-Chou and swept them back to N'anshan hill, an almost impregnable position, This was later stormed, and a fierce bat tle that raged r.early the whole of Thursday .-and Thursday night cul iin?.tcd in victory for the Mikado" troops. The Japanese losses were heavy and there is no reason to doubt that the Russians suffered severely. At least 10,000 Japanese are reported lost, while the Russians are believed to have lost fully as many. The latter have been forced back toward Port Arthur, at which point the Japanese column is aimed, and which may now be considered to be absolutely cut off by land and sea. The victorious arms are pushing for ward to pen the Czar's forces on the Liao-Tung peninsula into Port Arthur, where it is planned to capture that place and its defenders by process of seige or by a forcible demonstration made simultaneously from all direc tions. Preliminary to the successful assault upon Kin-Chou and N'anshan lull the Japanese for several days had made various saiiies and feints in learning the character of the defenses of the enemy. The real battle began Thursday morning, and the fragmentary tele grams t'rom Japanese headquarters re port that the engagement is still in progress and that the Japanese arc still pursuing the Russians south from Nanshan and the head of Talieuwan bay. After the preliminary skirmishing of several days, on Wednesday morn ing at 5. ,30 the Japanese attacked Kin Chou, and for three hours they had an artillery duel with the batteries on Manshan hill. The Russian gunners searched the Japanese lines with their fire, but failed to inflict much damage. The battle was resumed at dawn on Thursday. Three Japanese gunboats then entered Kin-Chou bay and in co operation with the artillery on shore, shelled the Russian positions on N'an shan hill. A Russian gunboat in Talienwan bay steamer close to the shore and shelled the Japanese left. l'"rom dawn the batteries on both sides hammered away at each other. At an early hour the Japanese in fantry moved forward and at 5.J0. on Thursday morning, they entered Kin Chou, the Russians- retiring to the south. The Japanese then pressed to the south and ftormed N'anshan hill. The battle at this point was a bloody affair, and it was there that the great loss of life was suffered on both sides. The Japanese first centered their fire on the Russian batteries on the hill, in which work they were aided bv four iMinhoats from Kinchou bay. They succeeded in 'ileiuing many if the enemy's guns. The Russians had constructed series of trenches around the hill on terrace protected by wire cntangle- mnts and other such devices. The Japanese made a series of rushes, but they ere in vain, and the deadly rifle and cannon lire of the enemy checked them repeatedly. Finally, at .1 o'clock in the after noon, the Japanese reformed and stormed the crest of the hill. The Russians held to their position dog redly and it was 7 o'clock in the even ing before the Japanese finally gained possession ot the ridge. The Japanese followed the retreat ing Russians through the southern hills. The flight of the demoralized columns is described as having been precipitous after the unsuccessful stand of the Russians at what they be lieved to be their invulnerable position at Nan-Shan. The Russians are retreating toward Nanquan Ling, where it is understood a second line of defenses unless they have been entirely disordered by the defeat at Kin-Chou and N'anshan. The Russians had a series of mines planted at Tafangshan station, on the railroad, which were evploded. The Station was destroyed. The Japanese forces were under fire lor sixteen hours The general staff here has received telegram., from the commanders, com mending the bravery and fortitude of their men. Admiral Toio's Report. Tokio. (By Cable). The following report has been received from Vice Admiral Togo: "The gMidio-jts Thukishi. fiyn, Amagi and Chokai and the first tor pedo boat flotilla, under Captain Nishiyania, reached Kinchou Flay on the evening of Wednesday. From dawn on Thursday the vessels co operated with the army in bombarding. Suchaton. The Amagi and the Chokai went 111 close and bombarded all day. At II o'clock in the morning the enemy retreated from Suchaton. but they continued to fire from a position behind Suchaton. Sank By Submarine Boat. Niuchwang, (By Cable). The Rus ian authorities hrre declare that a Japanese battleship has been sunk by a sub-mar ne boat, and thai three craft . of this class are now at Port Arthur and another en route to Vladivostok by rail. A French priest just arrived from Mukden says 20.000 Russian troops are stationed there, and that an army of 100.000 men is at Liaoyang, with heavy reinforcement' arriving daily. Sully's Assets. H.IU.6Z7. New York, (Special). The sched ules of Daniel J. Sully & Co. were tied in the United States District Court. . The show liabilities of $.V kM.m6 "! assets of $4,ll9,6i7. Of the liabilities .tfAi i secured, $?.I47. 060 unsecured and $50,000 of inorted paper which should have been paid by others. The assets consist of notes 01 $50,000 stock margins, $ig,loo rep resenting $i,yjB,5o. The State Department ha been ad , vised of the appointment of Morteza Khan as Persian minister to the .'oiled utes. London, (By Cable). The Shan Khai Kwail correspondent of the DaiJy Chronicle sends- a report received from Niuchwang that on May 23, thinking that the Japanese had retired from Feng Wang Cheng, 15,000 Rus sians from llaicheng and Liaoyang inarched toward Feng Wang Cheng. They were surprised by 30,000 Jap anese in the Tatung Pass. The Rus sian casualties were 4.000 and over a thousand Russians surrendered. The report does not stale the Japanese los-CS, The Tokio correspondent of the Daily Express says it is reported un officially that the Japanese have cap tured Kinchou and are now attacking Dalny. The Niuchwang correspondent of the Daily Mail in a dispatch dated May 23, says that coincident with the Jap ane4: advance in the direction of Liaoyang there has been a concentra tion of all the available Russian troops between Liaoyang and Maotien Pass, and that the fortifications of Liao yang are being feverishly hurried. The railway between Tatschitsia and Liaoyang is still intact, but every preparation has been made for its immediate destruction in the event of the necessity for a retreat to Muk den. Kinchou la Hands of Japs. London, (By Cable). According to unofficial advices from Tokio, the Japanese have stormed and captured the important town of Kinchou, about 32 miles north of Port Arthur, ani that a large Japanese force is now within 10 miles of the lattter Russian stronghold 1. ,.'... .1,,,,.. ...,,l 1. t,..nr.c I,-,... !fiiwti :it I'a L-11 ..ti it f Iiia. iliirrl r( ftiic I ureal force, mainlv 'infantry, is march- ing from Takushan northwest toward Stnveii and two-thirds is moving 1 southwest toward Port Arthur Through Chinese sources it is stated (I,... .Iia I ,1,. .... Liit ITIAn in n I battle at Kinchou May 18, and that ' the Russian losses were not so heavy. , The Russians had .10 guns at Kin- ' chou and numerous mines. 1 There has been heavy fighting not 1 only at Kinchou, but at several points in the southern narrow part of the l.iaotung Peninsula, and the losses on both sides were up into the hundreds. , Dispatches from St. Petersburg state! .1,.,. tl.. ,;iiiuru Qinliriiir-s Hn notiusuanu, me weii-Kiiowu uicaincai believe Kinchou can be taken with out lengthy siege operations. The correspondent of the Central News at Tokio, however, cables that the Japanese attacked Nan Qwan Ling, on the narrowest part of the Kwan Tung Peninsula, and drove back the Russian by main force. The at tack 'Mi Kinchou. the dispatch adds. 1 . .1 1 1 ,u w.cs im uuii ,11 iiuwu mill i' it. iii- . town was in the hands of the lap- I ,, u . ,i, ....iu Tlie fiuhtinir continued during the after noon and was of the most desperate character. Port arthur was again bombarded May n, anil it is possible the Jap anese iiave made a general attack there, both by their land and 'ra forces. General Ku-oki has reported to the Japanese authorities at Tokio that on Wednesday, alter the battle at To Pu the enemy's cavalry took up a posi tion at I'.i Tao Sti. The Japanese thereupon attacked and routed them. Natives report that three of ihe enemy were killed and iS wounded. During the afternoon a Japanese p trol rapt ured one of'icer and one private. INSANE MAN ATTACKS SLtEPIMi FAMILY. Helpless V ic Ims Cut and Slashed With a v Hatchet To Will Die. Scrantoii, Pa , ( Special ). Stephen llagerty, aged J' )ear, who has shown signs of being mentally un balanced, made a murderous attack on lour members of I, is family at their home, 111 llawlcy. Pa., with the result that two ot his victim-, are un conscious unci not cxpi'Ced to live, and th- other two are seriously, though not luces-arily fatally injured. II: g iiTtv . eciired a lather', hatchet, with which he attacked his brother n thony, who lay a.lei p in a room down tairs. lie struck him twice. Leav ing Anthony for ! ail the in sane man rushed np.la.rs to ti e room occupied by liis sisters. W inifred an. I Bridget He attacked thim as he had Anthony, cru-lung Bridget's skull 'd breaking Winifred's collarbone. occupied by his brother Kugeiie and F'atrick. '1 he former attempted to e,. liaggertv next proceeded to the room ape. but 11 blow on the head fractured his skull By this time the lather had been aroused, and lie and Patrick threw themselves upon Stephen, over powering iinn. I The pl.y .niars have litt'e hope that! Kugeiie and Bridget will recover. j Several weeks ago Mrs Hannah O'Keefe. who lived next door to the I llaggcrty's was murdered, her body j being horribly mutilated. John Stellzi was tried for the crime and was De limited last week. It is now believed liaggerty was the murderer. Losses la Tomstoes Caused Suicide. Chicago, 111., (Special). "Suicide while temporarily deranged" was the verdict of the coroner's jury at an in tiet here over Ihe body of W. A. Duncan, of Syracuse, J. Y. Duncan jumped under a Lake Shore freight train. F. Skeel, a friend of the de cedent. tcMified that Duncan, who was 0 years old, had invested $,000 in a tomato farm at Jacksonville, Fla., which was destroyed by a washout a few weeks ago. Safeblswer Gels Toenly Years. Montgomery, Ala., (Special). J. E. Callahan, of Cincinnati, who. with Al Fert Driscoll, was convicted of safe blowing at Montgomery and who it wanted in other parts of the country for the same offense, was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary, the extreme penalty.' ' Sis" Prisseers Break JalL Portsmouth, O-, (Special). Six prisoners, John ( Everett, Frank and John Taylor, John Patrick, Charles Hall and James Abrams, dug through the steel ceiling and brick wall in the Greenup (Kyi) jail and escaped. Hiijoslhounds r after them. NEWS IN SHORT ORDtR. The Latest Happenings Consented (or Rapid Reading. Domestic Judge Lacombe, of the United States Circuit Court, in New York, dismissed the habeas corpus writ se cured for John E. Benson, the Cali fornia cattle king, indicted for Je frauding the government. Amos Stillnian, who claimed the credit of running the first ferryboat between New York and Brooklyn and the first stationary engine in Chicago, died in Blooinington, III. Prof. William II. Pettee, senior professor of mining engineering at the university of Michigan, dropped dead at his home, in Aim Harbor. J. P. Morgan & Co. announced that the transfer of the $40,000,000 in gold incident to the Panama Canal pay ment has been completed. Fall River cotton manufacturers have started a movement for a re duction of 10 per cent, in the wages of cotton textile operatives, A great mob gathered about Mis Alice Roosevelt on the World's Fair grounds. Verona Flecnor, under sentence of death, committed suicide in Morgan town, Ky. Robert 1". Knox, a college man, was convicted of forgery in Portland, Ind. At Buffalo, N. Y., the Presbyterian General Assembly adopted, by a two thirds vote, a resolution which pro vides that Presbyterian ministers be enjoined from marrying divorced per sons who are ineligible in the churches belonging to the lntcrchurch Confer ence. Kothchild, the convicted New Y'ork banker, decided to serve his term of nine years rather than have other in dictments pressed against him. Nonunion men are taking the places of the strikers who were in the em ploy of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Twenty persons were injured near East Liverpool in a wreck caused by a passenger train running into some freight cars. Rev. J. A. Boyd, colored, was arrest ed while preaching in his church-on the charge of stealing from a mail pouch. Te General Federation of Clubs, at St. Louis, adopted resolutions against divorce. Broom manufacturers are said to be trying to form a trust. j Two Iowa farmers were killed by j lightning. nev. jamcs it. i-'ay, wno was on. Saturday elected lushop by the Methodist General Conference, in Los i AnKlcs' , resigned. Ihe Conference "luefinitcly postponed the election of his successor. The Congressional Merchant Marine v.ommissio-1 began in New i ork hear- ,ns on xh'. l'tion with a view of , recommending remedial legislation '.'r u,e present 111, satisfactory condi- ! tln.s- , , , I . l,le threc-maMed schooner Fanny , A,le'e- lad.n wl,h f" merchandise j for Cape .Nome was set on fire by an j rxplosion 1 Mid I burned to the waters, el?e at f.;'n Francisco. I Mrs. Frank Burt who shot her! manager, has been arraigned on a charge of shooting with intent to kill. Frank II. Slydcr, superintendent of county schools from to ifsy.1, com mitted suicide in he attic of his home, near Chambersburg, Pa. Peter (). Elliott, the crank who caused a stir several weeks ago among the White (louse police, committed .suicide in .Minneapolis. 1, 1 1 1 11 1' - 1 . l1 Kothsch.ld. the New Wk bank president convicted ot larceny. was sentenced to lime years 111 tue state prison. The General Federation of Women's Clubs resumed its sessions on the World's l air grounds, in St. Louis. The Du.ikards. or German Baptists, in conference in Cartilage. Mo., de cided to drop the name of Dunkards. 'I he annual meeting of the Ameri can Baptist Home Mission Society was helil in Cleveland. The Pennsylvania Railroad ha. laid riff 500 additional employees at the Altooua shops. It has been ascertained that the victim of an alack by an unknown assailant in New Haven. Ct., was Miss Lmilv B. Richards, daughter of Proffcssor Richard, of Vale Scientific scin 10. Harry D. Bahcmk, a Yale fresh man, died at l is home, in New York, from the effects of a blow from a polo mallet riceived during a game with the Princeton team. Judge Macl.eau, of the Supreme Coint of New York, appointed a referee to examine into the charges oi iraud made by Zokan Doetue in the Nordva diiorcv ca'c. Brigadier General I llusion explains that he did not s,iiu across the K10 Grande, but did swim aero s the Bag Bag River difnig the Filiplro War. Fourth -.istant postmaster Gen eral iritow is on an .'i-nn'tion tour in Te.sas. He is looking i p the work ings of il.e rura'. tree-ery sjs tein. toreijru Sir Charles I lardinue. the new Brit ish anilias-ador to Kiissnu, presented his credentials to tne Car. a id f. is bebevi d in St Petersburg t.'.at the way will s.dii be opened tor unproved ' ril;"t"" between the two c ! 1,1 hattle between the pi r.r.ries. omintcan troops and the revolutionist at F.hesoiia. on tlie road from Monte Cristi to .Santiago, many were killed and wounded on both side. Gem ral ! Raotil Cabrera, mii.ister 1 i war, com manding ti e govern!. I'm troops, was killed. Ihe budget coniTiif.ee of the Aus- 1 trian delegation, pa sell the extraordi nary cred.ts for the :ur.", and navy,' totaling $.(,;.ooo 000 An extradition triaty between the' United State, jtnd Panama was signed 1 ill tne lity ot i a iama. ; .The Osservatore Rotniiiio, the Vat-, ican organ, published an oft cial state- i ment of the conversation between Car- dinal Merry del Val and M . .sisurd, I the French ambassador to the ati ran. to show -hat the position taken by the French government was not justified. The government of Panama has granted a is-year concession to the operation of wirele's telegraph sys tem. The British stamer Tweeddale sailed from Hongkong for Durban, Natal, with 1,055 coolies. A dispatch to the Tarit Temps from St. Petersburg says General Kuropat kin has cut the land communications between the armies of General Kuroki and Oku. ' Of the complement of. the cruiser Yoshino, recently sunk in collision with the cruiser Kasuga, 6j noncom missioned officers and ijo blue-jackets were drowned. Russian officials declare that the Si berian porti opened by imperial decree will not be closed upon the Conclusion of the war. , The Russians are reported to have burned the Korean tdwmcs auj the royal mausoleum tt llajnlicung. WERE BLOWN TO DEATH Mysterious Explosion of Boilers on Towboat. FOURTEEN AREJ5EAMW0 INJURED. Captain sod His Guest Among Victims of the Disaster The Forte of the Explosion Was T.rrific, and Its Ceuse Is Unknown The thief Engineer Ssys Everything Was Appar ently All Right. Louisville, Ky., ( Special). Thirteen persons were killed, three fatally in jured and five hurt by an explosion of boilers which totally demolished the nwboat F'rcd. Wilson oft Rivcrview Park, near here. The Wilson was the property of the Monongahela Coal and Coke Com pany, and left Pittsburg with 6 barges, M coal boats and 4 flats, bound for Louisville. She arrived here about midnight, haJ proceeded down the river and was about to tie up when the explosion occurred. The cause of the accident is not known. The boat had just put about to back a tow into a landing place when the explosion occurrred. Henry Sykes, first mate, could give no explanation of the cause of the accident. He and Chief En ginneer Walker were the only men on the boat who escaped injury. Neither man could give the names of the deckhands, nor did they know the name of the passenger who was making the trip with Captain Price, save that he came aboard at Pittsburg and that they had gained the impres sion that he was in the insurance bus iness. He is described as a man past middle age. Herman Shively, second engineer, was blown through the side of the Wilson and landed 25 feet away on top of a shanty-boat. Father Cunningham was one of the first to arrive at the scene of the ex plosion and gave extreme unction to several men who were dying. The police and hospital ambulance and the automobiles of the morning news papers carried a corps of physicians and nurses to the scene, which is four miles from the heart of the city. The injured were taken to the residence of Col. John If. Whallen until they could be better provided for at the city hos pitals. Mr. Whallen's house, which is about 150 yards from the river, was badly damaged by the explosion, hut none of the family was injured. The front doors were splintered, the chande liers in the drawing-room were shat tred and nearly every window in the house was broken. Colonel Whal len sent the first word to the city and used his private yacht in rescuing those blown from the boat. The Wilson was built 18 years ago and was reconstructed in part last year. She was valued at $.25,000. Her length was 174 feet. She was literally blown to pieces, and her hull sank in 18 feet of water. Two heavy pieces of her boiler were found al most 500 yards from the bank, and her flag float's from the top of a tree, where it was blown with a piece of wreckage. Thirteen of the crew who were saved are more or le.-s injured. TYNER AND BARRET INNOCENT. Jury Brought In Verdict of Not Gu Ity Twenty Two Minutes After Ret ring. Washington. D. C, (Special).. Within twenty-two minutes of tie retirement of the jury in the case of James N. Tyner and Harrison J. Bar rett, tried on charges of conspiracy in connection with their duties as law officers for the postofuce department, a verdict of not guilty was returned. The throng which filled the cou-t-r 10111 throughout the argument 10 the jury hardlv had time to leave the building before the jury was back and the foreman announced that a verdict had been 'cached. General Tyner, ex pecting a much longer wait, had been wheeled from the room, and his nephew and codefetidant hastened to give an order which caused him to ret urn. Genera Tyner appeared greatly ex cited a he attempted to face the jury, and when 'he verdict was returned he broke down completely. Several of the jurors wept with him and all of them shook hand with him. RUSSIA HANGS 600 SUSPECTS. Some Wholesale Executions to Check fiisordcr al Home. London, (By Cable). The Stand ard prints a number lf mailed re ports showing a serious condition of internal atfairs in Russia. The infor mation of the writer. evidently rests largely on hearsay, but it harmon izes w ith numerous other accounts ap pearing fron time to time in the Luropei.il press. They say that the recent disturban ces in Warsaw arc rumored to have been followed by wholesale executions by administrative order, without civil trial. It is staled that (100 persons were hanged in Warsaw alone. There if frequent intelligence of persons suddenly disappearing form various towns, presumably on sus picion of being implicated in political plots. To End Red Cross Dispute. Washington. D. C, (Special). Members of the board of trustees of the American Red Cross Society con vened hen to consider plans for the harmonizing of the differences be tween the opposing factions in the Society. Former Secretary of State John W. Foster was invited to at tend in the interest of the remon strants, but he declined. 1 Infernal Machine In Refinery. Waukc(,an, II)., (Special). A care fully made iiu'ern il machine was found Monday in the yards of the big War ner sugar refinery and the polite are convinced an attempt was made to blow up the factory. An explosion followed by a $.(oo,ooo fire occurred in the plant recently and it is now be lieved it was incendiary. Four lives uir lost then and there would un doubtedly have been more victims had j the bomb exploded. As Inlerveollos Rsmor. Paris, (By Cable). The Soir says it has learned from a trustworthy source that Lieut-Gen. Baron Fred ricks and another member of the Rus sian court, who recently visited Paris, came on a secret 'mission, which had for its purpose the seeking of the in tervention and effective support of the French Government in the event of China adopting an agressive atti tude toward the Russians in Man churia. 'Ihe paper says the Govern ment gave a formal promise of compli ance with Russia's request. LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. Objects to a Minister. To the regret of the officials here the Colombian government maintains its attitude of coldness toward the United States, and in spite of the un official efforts of United States rep resentatives to restore the diplomatic relations to the old cordial basts, the Bogota government insists on holding aloof. It was supposed that when Mr. W. W. Russell, a native of Rockville. Md., and ''hnrge at Panama, was ap pointed Minister to succeed Mr. Ar thur M. Beaupre at Bogota the past would be forgotten and with new rep resentation for the United States in Colombia Dr. Thomas Hcrran would return to V --hington and there would be full restoration of the diplomatic relations. Now, however, the State Department has learned that an inti mation had been conveyed to Mr. Sny der, United States charge at Bogota, that the Colombian government would rather not receive Mr. Russell as mi'i ister. It is distinctly stated that there is nothing personal to Mr. Russell in this attitude by the Colombians, for any minister would be objectionable at this moment, but it is simply an il lustration of the resentment felt by Colombia toward the United States. It is said at the State Department that Mr. Russell will avail himself of a leave of absence already granted to him to returifc to his home in Wash ington, and at the expiration of the legal time, if the Colombians are in the same state of mind, another, and perhaps better, diplomatic post will be found for Mr. Russell. America Will Warn. The State Department is preparing to make representations to St. Peters burg regarding the carelessness of the Russian a.tthorities in Manchuria in allowing mines to float on the high seas, to the great danger of all peace ful shipping. The question of how far Russia had violated the rules of international law in sending floating mines to sea with out proper guardianship was recently considered by the General Board of the Navy, of which Admiral George Dewey is president, at the request of the State Department. At the same department's request Sccreary of the Navy Moody has instructed the United States naval attaches in Tokio and St. Petersburg to ascer tain definitely whether the mines which have been reported afloat ill the Gulf of Pechili belong to Russia or to Japan. The inference is that they I arc Russian, and when it is aenniteiy I learned that such is the case repre sentations will be made by the State Department to the St. Petersburg gov ernment through Ambassador McCor mick. j It had been the intention of the au- thoritics to wait until some accident I, ......a., ...1 o, M iiuntrul tl-iitt ilirniii'h onp of these mines, but upon further con sideration it has been decided best to take action before any serious catas trophe occurs. In the meanwhile it is understood that Great Britain is pre- ! pared to take similar steps, and there is also a possiouny inai juyau win make representations to the neutral nations in regard to the case. . 1 . A. AAA AAA - , nearly yi.uiiu.uuu ,tic-xs' According to a bulletin issued by the Census Bureau jo.t44,7Ho telegraphic messages were sent over American i w ires in 1002. The bulletin places the number of 1 telegraph companies in the country at 2 and gives the total mileage of wires operated a 1.J4S.O0J. The par value of the authorized stock was $c).S70. jjs. The gross income for the year wa- ?Jf .1'iO.jlQ. The total divide nds for : e y.-ar .'mounted to $0.04110 .ir.il the net surplus to $J.077.KiJ. The canitalizatio.i oi the l'o:.-;l Company, which is only $11x1.000. being merely nominal. Is excluded from the total capitaliza' ion a given by the bulle tin. Virginia Company's Claim. Attorneys representing to Bon 's ack Company, of Virginia, have ap pealed to the State Department to prefer a claim against the Mexican government for $7,500,000 and the case is under consideration, with the pros pects that it will be referred to Am bassador Clayton for preliminary re port. The company's claim is based upon the use by Mexican companies of its : patents for manufacturing cigarettes. and. it is ..Ueged, the Supreme Court of Mexico has denied justice in this mutter. leating brazil's Coffee Fields. The Senate committee a: Ftio, Bra zil, report to the Sti'te Deparment thai the station laborers, who consti tute half of the workers on the coffee plantation in San 1 aulo are leaving Brazil for the I'niled Slates because thev are not paid their wages, owing to the depressed state of coffee-growing interests To Pay Mail CarrLrs Monthly. In aceordai ce with a verbal report made by a ic -ial 01 -limit; ee appointed by the secretary ot the treasury all 1 slur loiuc carriers, contractor and mail passengers carrying mails be 1 tween pustolV.ccs and railroad stations I and steamboat wharves w ill be paid monthly instead of quarterly begin ning July I. Cannot Construct Colliers. The navy department announced that it does met ce its way clear to construct the two colliers authorized liy Congress at the last session to be constructed in government yards, I since no appropriation was made for the construction of slips requisite to the work of building ships. The col liers were designed to carry 5000 tons of coal and to cost $ I, .250,000 each. Congressional and Departments. The Postoflice Department has de clared to be contrary to law a scheme instalment bouses bad adopted to locate its debtors who had lel't. The President has appointed Com mander Samuel W. B. Diehl to be judge advocate general, to succeed Captain l.emiy. The Methodist Protestant Confer ence received and referred to a com mittee the proposition for union with the Primitive Methodist Church. This makes the lourth proposition for union submitted to the conference. Rear Admiral Yates Stirling will in the fall succeed Rear Admiral Cooper in the command of the Asiatic Siiadron. A census shows that the total num ber of employes in jhe executive civil service of the United States is 150, JS.V Lieut. Frank I. Evans, sou of "Fight ing Bob" Evans, will be assigned to the comand of the Sylph. Rear Admiral Cooper request to be placed on the retire list. Chief Wilkie, of the Secret Service, reports tho arrest of three person ac cused of smucgling opium between SriitlU and Portland. TEN MEN KILLED BY OAS Fifty Men Were Riding Through Tunnel When They Were Overcome. ALL WERE RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS. Mysterious Fatality to a Tunnel of the Summit Branch Coal Company According to Cus tom the Men Were Behind One of the Little Mine Locomotives When Discovery Was Made. Wilkcsbarrr, Pa., (Special). A telegram received at the Susquehanna Coal Company's offices in this city states that ten miners were suffocated by gas and sulphur fumes from a mall locomotive in the workings of the Summit Branch Coal Company at Williamstown. Dauphin county. The accident was one of the inor! peculiar in the history of the anthra cite mines, and no reason for it can be assigned by the officials. The victims include Michael Gol den, general inside foreman of the company, and nine miners and laborers. The tunnel in which the disaster occurred is one mile in length and is used by the coal company to convey the coal mined in the workings of the Bear valley to the breaker in the Williams valley. The men employed in the mines iii the Bear valley who reside in Williamstown have made a practice for years to ride to and from their work on the trips of cars that arc hauled between the two val leys by small locomotives. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon General Inside Foreman Golden and about fifty miners boarded a loaded trip which was about to be hauled from Bear valley to Williamstown. Everything went all right until about half of the journey was made, when some of the men attracted the attention of the engineer, who at once stopped, and it was found that nearly every man in the party 011 the cars had been overcome by the gas and sulphur which emanated from the stack of the locomotive and floated back over them. The engineer at once crowded on all the steam possible, and the un conscious men were hurried to the Williamstown end of the tunnel. Here help was at once summoned and the men were taken to the surface, where a corps of physicians made every pos sible effort to resuscitate them, but aid came too late for Foreman Gol den and the other victims. The tunnel has been in constant operation for more than forty years, and this is the first accident of any kind that has happened in it. It is perfectly free from mine gases and the ventilation is so perfect and the air current so strong and steady that besides being used for hauling cars, the tunnel has formed one of the in takes that furnish air to the mines. No trouble has ever been ex perienced before from gas from the small mine locomotives, and the offi cials are entirely at sea as to the cause of the tragedy. FLAQ OF LEWIS AND CLARK. Official Symbol Chosen for Exposition at Portland. Portland, Ore .(Special). An offi cial flag for the Lewis and Clark Ex position has been adopted. The de sign is in four colors red, white, blue and icllow symbolical of Eng land. France. Russia and Spain, the countries which first sent exploring expeditious to the grc-it Northwest. The yellow also brings out the Ori ental feaii'c of the Imposition. The lare field is of bright yellow, crossed by red bars, with the official symbol of the Exposition, Sacajawa leading Lewis and Clark to the West in the center. The small field is of blue. In ihe center is a spray of Ore gon grape, the State flower of Oregon. Around this are five stars, repre senting Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, the States of old Oregon. 'Sua Worship" Killed Her. Chicago, (Special). Miss Eloisc Rensse of St. Paul. Minn., who became insane here while undergoing the or deal of the so-called "sun worship fast," is dead at the State Hospital for the Insane at Elgin. Dr. Frank S. Whitman, superintendent of the Hos pital, says death was due to acute mania induced by starvation. Dur inp the fasi, which is said to have last ed 41 days, thev deceased was sub jected to to-ture by means of needles and the application of lotus oil. Americas Shot In Paris. Paris, fBy Cable). The youngest son of Dr. John Evans, a leading American, has been found dead from a bullet wound. Evans, who was 22 vears old. had just returned from Nice.c-to which place he had eloped with a South American woman, mar ried and the mother of two children. A number of mysterious features are connected with the case, but -the police, after an examination, are satisfied that death tesultcd from suicide. Bank President Indicted. Sioux City. la., (Special). W. E. Brown, president of the defunct First National Bank of Storm Lake. Ia., has been indicted by the federal grand jury on a charge of embezzling $74,000 of the bank's funds, lie also i charged with making false reports to the comptroller of the currency concern ing the condition of the hank. Shot Ouards and Killed Himself. Columbus, O., (Special). F.ank Green, a convict at the Ohio Peniten tiary, shot Guards Henry Gcarhart and Albert Hublcr and then filled himself. Gcarhart is shot through both lungs and cannot live. Hublcr is shot in -the, arm and will recover. No one knows the cause of the tragedy or where Green procured the revolv er. He laid in wait for his victims, and without a word fired on them. Two Olrls Drowned. Steubenville, O., (Special). A dou ble drowning occurred in Big Yellow Creek at Hamniondsville. The dead are Annie Piatt, aged 14 years, and Sadie Hardie, aged !3 years. It is not fully kuown how the drowning oc curred; but tho girls are supposed to have gone wading in the stream, as they had their shoes off when found. It is probable they ventured out too far and were swept away by the swift curreiiV Tb b'Jd'ts ovr4. YAZOO CITY BURNED. Mayor Holmes Injured and Analhcr Man Killed' Battling With Flam s. Jackson, Miss., (Special). All the business houses of any importance,' a large number of private residences,' the principal hotel and the passenger depot in Vaoo City, a town of 6.000 people, forty-five miles from Jackson, were destroyed by fire. The fire started at S.,to o'clock A. M., and burned until J o'clock P. M., destroying a total of joo houses. The financial loss will be the heaviest in the history of Mississippi since the war. and has been estimated to be from $l,j-,o.ooo to $.,ooo.oor. The fire was three blocks wide and twilve long. Tlie city was putting in a new sys. tern of w-iter works and the old sys tem, which had h'-en wooden mains, was w holly inadequate to meet the de mands. Pipes hurst all over the citj and it w as impossible to get the water, even to the first Honrs of buildings. The lire stated in the residence of Mr. Wise, and though there is sonict dispute as to how it originated, the general belief is that it was caused by defective electric wiring. Early in the day the authorities o Jackson were called on to render as sistance, and did so by .-ending a hose cart i'fd one of the Urge engines, tin run of forty-five miles being made in forty minutes. The Jackson firemen worked hard, but could do but little good. A man named Chaiubliss, a citien of this place, was hilled by falling walls, and Mayor Holmes was very badly hurt. Anionj; the . homes destroyed was that of Hon. John Sharp Wiil'-nns, the democratic leader in the i.nvet branch of Congress. In the afternoon the fire jumped a bayou ard reached I a'onia, a resi dence suburb, where it destroyed snme of the finest homes. Governor Va-dnnian ordered out the Greenwood militia company, directing it to go to Yazoo City to protect prop, ertv. He and Adjutant General Fridge followed on the next train and arc doing what thev can to relicvt the sitnacion. The only communication with Yizoo City is by "menu of a long distance tel ephone which District Manager Naff rigged upon a fence. Among the buildings which wero not burned are the Yazoo courthouse' and the Ricks memorial library. Bothl were in the path of the fire, but for some reason escaped. According to the latest advices re ceived the banks succeeded in saving their money and securities, the vaults of the banks in which they were lock ed being fireproof. The government1 funds in the postoflice were saved in a like manner. DAUGHTER TELLS STORY. The Killing of Lafe Tsylor Recounted By Ids de Ksy. Monticello, N. Y., (Special). Ida May de Kay, daughter of Mrs. Katcj Taylor, who Is undergoing a second trial for the murder of her husband s Lafe Taylor told the story of the killing of her step-father as witnessed by herself. In her testimony the girl asertef that her uncle, Peter Yerkins, was at the Taylor house on the night of the murder and assisted Mrs. Tayor in dismembering the bodv. She testified 1 that she was awakened from sleep, I by a shot. Going into the next tooih I she saw Taylor holding the door lead-, I ing into the kitchen with 0111 hand an trying to pull on his boots with the other. She saw her mother trying to open the door in order to get at het husband. 1 The witness said she went out on the stoop, for a few minutes. She told, of hearing a second shot, and goingi in saw her father's body on the Hoots with her mother standing over it with! a revolver in her hand, which she tried' to fire again. The girl related the details of thsaj disposition of the body, which wercj of the most revolting character. Her) mother, she said, cut off Taylor's head wdth an ax and put it in the stove. Then the older woman took a lighted lantern and swung it around- three times from the doorway. This brought Peter Yerkins to the house, the witJ, ness continued. He asked if Lafcj was dead ?nd received an aftirmativa answer. Mrs. Taylor again took the ax antl tried to cut off one of Tavlor's legs; then laid the ax down before she. had succeeded. Yerkins took the a and finished cutting off the leg. Ida says she went to bed and leHj Yerkins and her mother together with) the body. When she arose the nexl morning Yerkins had disappeared an her mother was still burning the bodyj At the previous trial it was brought out that Mrs. Taylor cut up the trunk! of the body and put it in a cloth sack and placed the sack in a wash tuW which was put in the cellar. Mrs) Taylor took the ashes and bones from the stove and pounded up the bones, and fed them to the chickens. Th skull was not burned and it wa( brought back to the house and put in the stove i gain. Names of New Warships. Washington, D. C, (Special). The, r.ew vessels for the navy authorized by Congress at its last session have been named as follows: The battles ship, New Hampshire; cruisers, North Carolina and Montana; scout cruisers, Chester. Bennington and Salem; coW liers, Erie and Ontario. FINANCIAL Western reports are all favorable on the wheat crop. The Panama Canal payments, both to France and Panama, are completed. Porto Rico wishes to borrow $s,ooo( 000. Another chance for the Amen can investor. It is said that the Elkins estate if. now trying to market a very large block of Philadelphia Traction at 96. If Lehigh Valley doesn't get thuf dividend in July, those who are pay ing 36 for the stock now will be disJ appointed. Estimates of Reading's net profij for April are $47.1.000. Cotton continues to tumble. Pros specie for the next crop are good. - "I think the call for an assessment of $5 on Eastern Consolidated will b made next mouth," says a director. There i. coming' from India block of it .000 shares of Lake Sim perior, which will be admitted to the) reorganisation. It is owned by E;ig lishmen, Once more New Jersey refuses It) appoint anr.thcr receiver for Asohulr, The rompany is well supplied with re reivers now and tho thing it wants H )
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