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
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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
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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.
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town was in the hands of the lap- I
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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.
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. 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
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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.
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, 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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