REPUBLICANS' v GREAT VICTORY looseTelt'i Plurality in the Popular Tote Also a Record Breaker. BS ELECTORAL VOTE NOW 34?. n Solid South Brokeg In the Sweeping Re pablktsTldsl Wave tad the Uaprecedent id Majority (or Rooievelt aid Falrbaokt- Tbe Enormoua Pluralillea Still Rolling Already past the 2,000,000 mark, President Roosevelt's plurality in the popular vote continues to grow, ac cording to the latest returns. Pennsylvania leads the list of States with the magnificent plurality of 404, 55. This tremendous record, only a Jew votes short of the half million mark. Maryland is very close, with indi cations that the democrats will win one presidential elector. No State except Maryland is in doubt, and unless there are furtlicr changes the Electoral College will cast 342 votes fr Roosevelt and Fair banks and t.u fr Parker and Davis. In Congress there will be a Repub lican majority of 104, the victorious party holding .245 seats against 141 held by Democrats. Missouri is also Republican, and as candidates for the seat in the Senate now held by Mr. Cockrcll, Chairman Niedringhaus, Secretary Hitchcock nd Cyrus Walbridge, who was defeat ed for the Governorship by Joseph V. Folk, arc mentioned. There is now no further doubt of the re-election of Congressman Joseph W. liabcock, of Wisconsin, chairman of the Republican Congressional Cam paign Committee. His plurality is 281. The Montana Legislature has ap parently gone Republican. This in sures the election of former Senator Thomas Carter to the U. S. Senate. FIGURES OF THE COUNTRY'S VOTE. REPUBLICAN STATES. Elec- Pluralitirs. Pluralities, toral 1004. 1900. Votes California.... 100,000 39,770 10 Colorado 15,000 2g.66i 5 Connecticut... 38,197 28,570 7 Delaware 4,100 3.674 3 Idho 25,000 2,216 3 Illinois 225,000 94.924 27 Indiana 7 5,000 26,479 15 Iowa 130,000 98,606 13 Kansas 100,000 23,354 10 Maine 35,000 28,613 6 Maryland 126 13.941 8 Massachusetts 86.279 81,869 '6 Michigan 150,000 104,584 14 Minnesota 125,000 77,560 11 Missouri 10,000 '37.830 18 Montana 1,000 1 1,773 3 Nebraska 70,000 7,82a 8 Nevada 2,000 2,498 M. Ham 20,000 19.314 4 New Jersey... 60,000 56,889 la New York.... 174,691 143,606 39 N. Dakota... 20,000 15,372 4 Ohio 165,000 69,036 23 Oregon 40,000 13,141 4 Penna 485,41a 288,433 34 Rhode 1st.... 15,974 3.97 4 S. Dakota.... 40,000 14,986 4 Utah 15,000 2,133 3 Vermont 30,500 29,719 4 Washington... 30,000 12,623 5 W. Virginia.. 20,000 21,022 7 Wisconsin. . . . 75,000 106,581 13 Wyoming " 6,000 4,318 3 Totals 2,343,641 M5.454 343 'Indicates Bryan pluralities in 1900, which are not counted in the total of M5.454- m DEMOCRATIC STATES. Elec- Pluralitics. Pluralities, toral States. 1904. 1900. Votes Alabama 75.000 41,619 11 Arkansas 40,000 36,342 9 Florida. 18,000 20,693 5 Georgia 40,000 46,665 13 Kentucky 14,000 7,975 13 Louisiana 35,000 39,438 9 Mississippi... 50,000 45.953 o N. Carolina... 50,000 34,671 12 S. Carolina... 25,000 43,657 9 Tennessee.... 35,000 33,558 13 Texas 100,000 146,164 18 Virginia 35,000 30,215 13 Totals 497,000 590,937 133 The figures 590,927 show the total pluralities for Bryan in 1900, the plu ralities in that year of State which de clared for Roosevelt this year being included. Roosevelt plurality of the popular Tote, 2,326,046. McKinIcy's plurality of popular vote in 1900, 861,527. Roosevelt's plurality of the electoral vote, 310. McKmley's plurality of the electoral vote in 1900, 137. ROOSEVELT FAIRBANKS. Pea Pictures of tbo Prcsldeat aad Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt succeeded Wil liam McKinley as President on the death of the latter from gunshot wounds inflicted by Czolgosx Septem ber 14, 1901, having been elected Vice Tresident in the preceding November. His career in this exalted office is fa miliar to every newspaper reader, and it was largely upon his official acts that the managers of Alton B. Parker made their campaign. Statehood for Oklahoma. Guthrie, Ok. (Special). Returns irom 20 to a6 counties indicate the re-election of B. S. McGuire, Rep., as delegate to Congress by about I, Boo majority over Frank Matthews, Dem. Statehood was the issue upon which the campaign was fought in Oklahoma, and the result is an in dorsement of the Hamilton Bill, which has passed the lower house of Con gress and which provide joint state hood for Oklahoma and the Indian Territory in lono. A Big Froblkittos Vols, Chicago (Special). "Prohibition hit re welt satisfied with the show ing made in the election," said Oliver W. Stewart, national chairman of the party. "Returns received at national Headquarters in this city indicate that Dr. Silas C. Swallow, our Presidential candidate, polled at least 3,ooo votes, and the probabilities are that the final count will carry the number consid erably beyond these figures. Four of our candidates hive been elected to the legislature In Illinois. Into the 46 years of his active life he has compressed the combined ca reers of soldier, ranchman, legislator, statesman, reformer and politician. Not yet beyond middle age, he has won a place in the literary world as welt a those of politics and war. No one denies his versatility, his ability and his wealth of human in terest and sympathy, and the friends he has won arc sturdy and steadfast. He is a real exemplar of the strenu ous life. Born of a wealthy and distinguish ed family, he had the usual handicap 01 a prosperous youth. He was sent to a private school and was often call ed a. dude by the boys of the public school who saw him pass in a naity sailor suit. He had to endure ihe sneers of the boys like Napoleon at the military school of Bricnne. Fre quently he had to fight the boys who envied him, and sometimes these fights were of daily occurrence for .1 week. After a specially hard battle one morning young Roo-cvclt said to his companions: "Let's go aro'ind the block ami come back and lick 'cm. President Roosevelt ha- never com plained that the I'rcsidcncy is In strenuous. While it may wear hint out, he knows the position will never rust him. hach year adds to the responsibilities and duties of the po sition', and any President mut culti vate an even temper if he wants to live out his term. liven President Mc Kinley, who was noted for his calm and patient disposition, was almost worn out by its burdens. While President Roosevelt is of the nervous temperament and wastes much energy, he has the fortunate quality of being able to finish a piece of work and dismiss it. It is not his habit to worry over spilt milk or worry afterward for fear some other course might have been wiser. He reaches a conclusion, and when he acts upon it believes he has done his best. Mr. Roosevelt is a Mason, having joined when he was 42 years old the Matinecock Lodge, at Oyster Bay, shortly after he was elected Vice President. He took the first three degrees in that lodge in 1901. Last spring he accepted honorary member ship in Pcntalpha Lodge, of Wash ington, which was founded with Pres ident Garfield as a charter member, when the latter was in Congress. He is also an honorary member of Feder al Lodge, No. 1, the oldest in the Dis trict of Columbia. He is the first President who can lay claim to being a New York club man. Mr. Roosevelt belongs to the Century and University Clubs, as well as to the Union League and St. Nich olas Society. After he left Harvard he went to Europe and earned membership in the Alpine Club by climbing the Matter horn and the Jungfrau. Theodore Roosevelt is a member of an old Dutch family which was founded in this country about the middle of the seventeenth century by Klaas Martenscn Roosevelt. Born in New York city, October 27, 1858, he was prepared for Harvard by private tutors. Young Roosevelt was prominent in Harvard athletics and was one of the editors of the uuder gradtnte journal the AJvocate. A year of foreign travel followed his graduation in 18K0, and almost im mediately thereafter he entered upon a public career. His first position was that of mem bership in the lower branch of the New 1 ork Legislature, 111 which he sat during the sessions of 1882 and the two following years. He was an independent candidate for Mayor of New York city in 1886 with a Republican iudorsment, but was not elected. President Harrison appointed him a member of the Civil Service Com mission in May, 1889, and he served as a memchcr of the board and its president for six years, displaying dur ing the whole of that period a deter mined purpose to enforce the law. In May. 1895, he resigned to be come president of the Board of Police Commissioners of New York city, in which position he displayed equal fearlessness. On the inauguration of President McKinley, in 1807, Mr. Roosevelt re signed from the Police Board to be come Assistant Secretary of the Navy in which position he served until the outbreak of hostilities with Spain ind to his energy has been ascribe, by some the readiness of the nava branch of the service to enter upoi that brief and brilliant contest. When hostilities were threatened Mr. Roosevelt left the Navy Depart ment to become lieutenant-colonel of NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. President Roosevelt will recom mend to Congress that authority be given to the Philippine Commission to revise the tariff law now in force in the islands. The auditor for the Postoflice De partment, in his annual report, recom mends that fourth-class postmasters be paid salaries. President Roosevelt announced that John Hay will again be secretary of state in his next Cabinet. Gen. J. F. Wade, at commander of the Philippine division, submitted his annual report. New regulations bearing upon army uniforms have been issued by the War Department. The annual report of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, headed by Major General Gillespie, shows that an unusual amount of experimental work has been performed by the board during the past year. The bids for the new Agricultural Department buildings were opened, 20 bids being received. The total appro priation for th buildings is $1,500,- a regiment of Rough Riders, of which Leonard Wood was colonel. A part of this force embarked for Cuba with the advance guard of Shaftcr's army on June tj, iSqH, and took part in all the engagements preceding the cap ture of Santiago, including especialh the battle of Las Guasimas and Sa.l Juan. On July 11 Roosevelt succcedej Wood as colonel of the regiment. In September following Mr. Roose velt was made the Republican candi date for Governor of New York, re ceiving more than three-fourths of the votes of the convention. He defeated Augustus Van Wyck, the Democratic candidate, at the November election by a plurality of 18,079. At Philadelphia, June 25, 1900, the Republican National Convention unan imously nominated Mr. Roosevelt for the Vice Presidency. He was reluc tant to accept the nomination, but was forced to do so by a combination of Senators Piatt and Quay. Cbarlrt Warren Fairbanks. Always a zealous Republican. Vice President-elect Charles V. Fairbanks, even at a time when his law practice was a most exacting one, found op portunity to lend his services to Re publican campaigns in Indiana. His counsel was tought by party leaders, and before he ever held office he had spoken in every county of the State and was known personally to the vot ers. Senator Fairbanks became a posi tive force in the national Republican party from the time of the St. Louis Republican convention in 1896. Mr. Fairbanks' leadership in Indi ana was still more generally recogniz ed after he returned from the St. Louis convention. From that time until the present he has been the dominant fig ure in al political movements within the Republican ranks in the State. President McKinley at one time in vited Senator Fairbanks to become a member of his Cabinet. Vice President-elect Fairbanks comes from a long line of New Eng land ancestry. About a dozen years before the town of Boston was set tled there arrived from England one Jonathan Fayerbankc, his wife, four sons and two daughters. They were Puritans and for many generations their ancestors had been farmers. In the struggle between the Crown and the people they had been followers of Cromwell. They came to America in search of greater religious liberty. Fairbanks at college was a type of the country lad, 6 feet tall, rather awkward, slow of speech, and ambi tious to get through college and bc cftme a lawyer. He was of a serious turn of mind and was not given to college pranks, and seldom joked. After leaving college he went to Pitts burg, Pa., where for a time he acted as agent of the Associated Press, then in its infancy. After remaining at Pittsburg for a year or more, during which time he applied himself to the study of law, he went to Cleveland, Ohio, completed his studies and was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of that State after one term at a Cleveland law school. It was then he married Miss Cole, whom he had known in college, and decided to locate in Indianapolis for the practice of law, which he began in 1874. Prior to going to Indianapo lis it was suggested that he accept a nomination as prosecuting attorney of Iiis home county, in Ohio,' and enter politics, as did William McKinley. But he had no political ambition at that time and declined the offer. From 1874 until he was elected to the Senate Mr. Fairbanks was devoted to his law practice. He accumulated one of the most complete law libra ries of the country. His fees were un usually large for a lawyer of his day. He accumulated a comfortable for tune. The National Tickets. The following arc the tickets nomi nated by the different parties: Democratic President, Alton B. Parker, New York; vice president, Henry G. Davis, West Virginia. Republican President, Theodore Roosevelt, New York; vice president, Charles W. Fairbanks, Indiana. Prohibition President, Silas C. Swallow, Pennsylvania; vice president, George W. Carroll, Texas. Peoples President, Thomas E. Watson, Georgia; vice president, Thomas It. Tibbies, Nebraska. Socialist President, Eugene V. Debs, Indiana; vice president, Benja min Hanford, New York. Socialist Labor President, Charles II. Corrcgan, New York; vice presi dent, William W. Cox, Illinois. A Freoiled Woman's Deed, New Haven, Ct. (Special). In a desperate fight, lasting 20 minutes, Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes killed Cora Cassidy. Neighbors had vainly tried to separate the women. During the fight Miss Cassidy fell exhausted, and the other woman, grasping her by the hair, heat her head viciously against the floor, literally pounding her to death. At the end of the fight, when her victim had ceased to move, Mrs Barnes sank to the ground in a faint. Trala Rsa lata Wreck. Pittsburg (Special). An eastbound freight train on the Baltimore and Ohio road was wrecked just east of McKeesport, and before passenger train No. 3, from 'Cumberland, could be flagged it plunged into the wrecked cart which had been piled up on the westbound track. Engineer Samuel Bitts, of the passenger train, and his fireman, Samuel McMinn, were badly htirt, and bills may die. None of the passenger coaches left the track, and, although a number of passengers were severely bruited, none was seri ously hurt. EIGHT PERSONS KILLED About Thirty Others Injured in Kail road Crash. MISUNDERSTANDING OF ORDERS. The Lots of Property Wat Enormous, the Engines, Cars sod Coaches Being Complete ly Demollsbed-Wrecksge 30 Feet High The Track Was Tom Up sod Overland Traf tie Oelsyed For Sixteen Hourt. Salt Lake, Utah (Special). Eight persons were killed and thirty injured, two seriously, in a head-on collision shortly after midnight between Union Pacific westbound passenger train No. 3 and an eastbound extra freight train, a short distance from Granger, Wyo. Frank Nolan , of Cheyenne, mail clerk, was badly injured and may not recover. Three passengers in the day coach were injured, but not seriously. The track between Granger and Green River, Wyo., is part of the Union Pacific, but is operated by the Oregon Short Line. The wreck, it is said, was the result of an error in a train order by a telegraph operator. The freight train was given 30 min utes to make Azusa and meet the westbound s passenger, but the order delivered to the freight crew read "50 minutes," and the trains came, to gether af great speed. Both engines were demolished, the mail and bag gage . cars telescoped, and the day coach badly damaged, going in the ditch. The Pullmans did not leave the track. The track was blocked for several hours. Cheyenne, Wyo. (Special). A spe cial to the Tribune from Green River says that the operator responsible for the blunder that caused the collision near Granger shot himself upon hear ing of the disaster. FALL BLIZZARD CAUSES HAVOC. Snow, Hall, Rain and W ind Do Much Damage Sweeps East and South. Baltimore, Md. (Special). Winter weather was abruptly ushered in Sun day before the close of fall, and Balti moreans were treated to one of the most disagreeable days in the history of the city. The conditions were not merely local, for a large section of the country, so far as can be learned, suf fered the effects of a small-sized bliz zard, caused by the probable coming together of two storms, one from On taria and the Lakes, and the other from Florida. Snow fell all along the seaboard, from Norfolk to Block Is land, and a great storm hovered about the Adirondacks. Telephone and telegraph wires were broken down in all directions, and Baltimore had very poor service North and none at all South. For that rea son it appears that the Florida storm caused the main damage here. Wash ington was apparently nearer the storm center than Baltimore, for it is understood that the fury of the storm was much greater in that vicinity. However, in the extreme Northeast, at Block Island, the wind acquired a velocity of 76 miles an hour. There is no doubt that considerable damage was done in the storm-swept section, but this locality did not fare so badlv. beyond broken wires, etc. HELPLESS WOMAN TORTURED. Lighted Candle Held to Soles of Her Feet By Miscreant. Philadelphia (Special). Mrs. Mary Ross, widow of a Civil War soldier, was tortured and otherwise brutally treated by a negro, who forced an entrance into her home at Bridgeport, 18 miles from this city, and demanded her pension money and valuables. The woman, who is almost 70 years of age, was alone in the house, but resolutely refused to obey the intru der. Persistence in her refusal en raged the negro, who bound her hands and feet and tortured her by blistering the soles -of her feet with a lighted candle. Still she resisted, and then the negro searched the house. He found nothing, and, in his rage, he struck the helpless woman with a chair, rendering her senseless. She was found by a milkman, who notified the police. Because of her age the injuries Mrs. Ross received are seri ous, if not fatal. Fined on Installment Plio. New York (Special). Judge Sween ey, in the First Criminal Court of Newark, N. J., imposed an unusual sentence upon Mrs. Bucla McCarton, convicted before him of professional mendicancy. The sentence of the court was that she must pay a fine of 10 cents daily for a period of two. years, and that she must appear in the court each day to make the payment. Mrs. McCarton is thirty-five years old. The police say she is a member of the McCarton family, several of whose members were recently arrest ed in New York. Supposed Safeblowtrs Arretted. Chicago (Special). Superintendent T- ielman, of the Baltimore' and Ohio 1 ailway, reports tne arrest 01 nve supposed safeblowers at Chicago Junc tion, Ohio. The prisoners had revol vers of large caliber, dynamite caps and a bottle of nitroglycerin. The five men were taken to Norwalk, O. fncTa!! Industrial stocks show the biggest gaint now. Pennaylvania ex-dividend reached itt top price for the year. "General Asphalt hat $3,500,000 of quick assets," says one on the inside. A big union of Texas farmers hat decided to hold its cotton for la cents a pound. Another advance was made in the price of sugar, putting American granulated at 3 1-3 cents. The Tonopah Railroad, which wat completed only a few months ago, it being changed- from a narrow to a broad-guage line. New York banks during the week have apparently lost $8,600,000 of cash, indicating a rather poor bank state ment. 1 Deposits of securities under the Lehigh Valley Traction reorganiza tion plan will be received up to No vember 15. So heavy are the orders for car equipment by railroad that West inghoute Air Brake has put 1000 more men to work. KEWS IN SHORT ORDER. The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid Reading. . Domettk, ' The Chicago police were notified of the robbery of the Bank of Rio, at Rio, III., by eight men, who se cured $2,000 in cash and escaped. Joseph Marsdcn, a farmer, of Sus sex, W'is., made" so much money in election bets that he gave an oyster supper to the whole town. Mrs. Mary Zimmerman, of New York, after a quarrel with her hus band, drank cyanide of potassium anu died instantly. The small steamer Wyoming foun dered in Lake Huron. The crew was saved. A fire in Knoxville, Tcnn., caused a loss of $250,000. Six firemen were injured. A list of prizes has been arranged for the Elks' reunion in Buffalo, in 1905- United States consul at Belfast, W. W. Tonvcllc, died in Toledo, O. Bishop Warren, of Denver, speak ing to the General Missionary Com mittee of the Mptli Church in Denver, said he regarded the occupation of the Philippines by the United States government as prov idential. A boiler attached tp a threshing machine on the Samuel Kaufman farm, near Lanorte. hid. rxnlodi-H and killed Warren Rassitt in vr. old, and John Boltenhouse, (to years old, both of Elkhart. Six others were nun. Ir.idffe Rrawlrv. in tlii lTnitrH tnt,.. Court, In Charleston, S. C, signed an oraer directing the resale of the Dc Kalb Cotton Mills at Camden on De cember 21 at not less than $150,000. The schooner Wilson and Hunting was run down off Barnegat by the United States snnnlv and sunk. Captain Walton and his wife and two seamen were drowned. Herman Haas, charged with embez zling funds from the Corn Exchange National Bank of Chicago, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the peni tentiary for six years. Frederick Ewe, of Jersey City, who, with others, was arrested on a serious charge preferred by two girls, was found dead in his cell. A New York jury rendered a ver dict of $.15,000 to Mrs. Mary C. Ga Nun for the death of her husband in the Grand Central Tunnel. .Mrs. C. A. Curry was shot and killed and her husband probably fa tally wounded in a nistol dnol at their home, in East Pueblo. John Hodgson, brother of Frances Hodgson Burnett, the authoress, died a pauper in the City Hospital, in Knoxville, Tenn. Lawrence de Fabio shot Carrie Jim itz and her brother Frank in South ington, Ct., and then killed himself. Four tramps were burned to death in O. W. Haggerty's barn, which was destroyed by fire, near Altoona, Pa. Frederick Griebcl, of Ridgewood Heights, L. I, who lost all he had on the election, committed suicide. A misplaced rail caused the wreck of the Southern Railway's fast train near Cochran, Ga. The steamer Finance, owned by the Panama Railroad Company, from Co lon to New York, was brought into Savannah with rudder gone, by steam er El Paso. She had passengers an.l freight aboard. Preliminaries are being worked out by the Pennsylvania interests for the complete reorganization of the Van dalia Line, which was recently sold under foreclosure proceedings. F-dward Truman, aged 70, who wa a member of the noted Quantrell band, in Missouri, shot and killed James McCabe at Sedan, Mont., during a quarrel. Truman surrendered. Mrs. Charles Whittlesey Pickett dropped dead while reading a paper before the Hannah Woodruff Chap ter, Daughters of the American Revo lution, in Southington, Ct. Foreign. Three duels were fought near Paris, growing out of the assault on War Minister Andre in the Chamber of Deputies, November 4. Lieutenant Andre, son of the Minister, met Coum. de la Roehctulon, a deputy, with swords and was slightly wounded, and M. Syveton, who assaulted the Minister, fought Captain Gail with pistols, but neither was wounded. The Marquis d'Asmet and the Marquis d Fouquicrcs also fought a bloodies.-, duel. King Charles and Queen Amelia of Portugal, accompanied by the Portu guese Minister of Foreign Affairs, left Lisbon for England, where there wii! be a great naval demonstration ir. their honor. The American, Austrian, German, Russian and Belgian Ministers were received in audience in the Forbidden City, at Peking, and congratulated the Dowager Empress on her birthday. The French Chamber of Deputies, by an overwhelming majority, approv ed Foreign Minister Dclcasse's decla ration relative to the Anglo-French treaty on Newfoundland. ' A number of Russian peasant! of both sexet, convicted of belonging to the Skoptsi sect, the main tent of which is the extinction of the human race, have been exiled. It is declared in Vienna that the Czar and Emperor William will short ly meet for an important conference. Argentina appears jealous of Bra zil's intention to raise a loan of $50, 000,000 to increase her naval force, and the Argentine newspaper claim Brazil is ambitious of securing su premacy among the South American states. The Ecuadorian minister to Colom bia,' General Julio Andrade, hat sign ed at Bogota a treaty submitting the Ecuador-Colombia boundary dispute to the arbitration of Emperor William of Germany. The Danish government will accept President Roosevelt's invitation to participate in a second peace confer ence. Great Britain and Mexico have also indicated their willingness. A supplementary budget of $20,000, 000 for the expenses of the army jr Southwest Africa is to be presented to the Reichstag. The Chinese government is formu lating a scheme of state lotteries for the purpose of wiping out the indem nities granted In railroad corporations The prizes wilt aggregate $30,000,000 in gold. The United Statet hat demanded of Turkey reparation for the recent at tack near Aleppo by brigands upon a caravan belonging to the American house of MacAndrewt & Forbes. Russian Jews are reported to be pleased by the assurance of the new Minister of the Interior that he was aiming at equality for all elements in the population of the empire. FAILS IN MOVE FOR PEACE Now Looking to foiled States and - ureai cruain. RUSSIA REJECTS JAPAN'S OFFER. SI. Petersburg Official Say a Direct Proposal tor Arbitration Would Be Received, and Advices Frrm Li adoo telart Prof oisl Jutl Reacted Wat a Direct One-Roosevelt Will Take No Actios. Japan having unofficially and un successfully made representations to Russia looking to peace, talk of a joint movement by France, Great Britain and the United States with a view t bringing about negotiations between the belligerents is revived in London. In official circles in Washington,. how ever, it is stated that there has been no change in the altitude of this gov ernment' as to the matter. President Roosevelt will take no ac tion unless solicited by both Japan and Russia. St. Petersburg officials state that a direct proposition from Japan lor arbitration would be considered, and yet advices fr. in London say Ja pan's representations were direct. General Stoessel, commanding at IVrt Arthur, is repor'.cd in Tokio tc have asked the Japanese for an armis tice. The Russians have suffered heavy losses lately. A Japanese shell exploded several "land mines at Etze Mountain and some 600 Russians were killed. ' Repreccilationt Made loolficlally. London (By Cable). Japan unof fi,.:.,'i., i... .1. ..T...: nr,n ill, till- J t (II rSl 'II 1,1 IIOIIS XC I Russia looking to ccace. This action lias, resulted in failure, and such rep resentations, even privately, are not likely '.o be repeated. Although the suggestion of a pacific settlement was made unofficially, it actually had behind it all the weight of an offer by the Japanese govern ment. It was made direct to Russia No power acted as an intermediary. The proposition was put forward tentatively and unofficially, so thai the Japanese government would be in a position to deny any report that it was suing for peace. , The failure of these direct negotia tions, however, resulted in bringing intervention within a measurable dis tance. Foreign Secretary Lans downe's plea for arbitration at the Guild Hall banquet is taken here to be a pointed suggestion to the United States and France that the time if approaching when the powers must take some action. Japan Is Willing. It can be definitely stated that Lord Lansdowne made his speech with full knowledge that Japan will not resen: a proposition looking to peace frorr the three powers (the United States, France and Great Britain). There i a definite impression here that the in itiative will come from President Roosevelt, though the action would be joint. It is mooted that Lord Lansdowne only spoke so openly because he har good reason to believe that Mr. Roose velt, if elected, contemplated making an effort to bring the belligerents tc discuss terms of peace. Lord Lans downe's remarks are held by those in his confidence to mean that what ever the United States may do in the matter Great Britain will co-operate,, even in the event of France not par ticipating. It is known, however, thai Ambassador Cambon, who continues his work assiduously to bring aboul some arrangement, hopes for joint ac tion by the three powers. JUDQE WIN i REVERSED. He Had Decided the Chinese Exclusion Law Unconstitutional. Cincinnati, O. (Special). T h e United States Circuit Court of Ap peals reversed the decision of Judge Wing, of the District Court at Cleve land, in the case of Hung Chang, ar rested after he admitted he was born in China, and. was without the proper certificate to come to the United States. Judge Wing held the Chinese Exclusion Law to be unconstitution al, and rcleasrd the prisoner, whose whereabouts arc now unknown. District Attorney J. J. Sullivan car ried the case to the Court of Appeals '.icre. where he argued r.ot only the. -oitstitutionality of the law, but also showed that, the Northern District of Ohio might be invaded by Chinamen if the decision of Judge Wing stood. It was also argued that the case was one of Kreat importance on the de porting of Chinamen in all parts of the United States. HEREROS REVOLT EXPENSES. I German Reichstag to Be Asked to Appropil- ate $20,CDO,004. Berlin (By Cable). A supplemen tary budget of $40,000,000 for the ex penses of the army in German South west Africa as a result of the insur rection will be presented to the Reich stag in December. Even this sum embarrasrs the imperial finance min istry, which it striving to reduce the annual deficits and at the same time provide additional funds for various public works and for the army and navy. The progress in suppressing the native risings appear to be going on measurably well. About Moo rc cruils are going to Southwest Africa largely to replace the losses of the commands in the field from sickness. Far Agricultural Bslldinfs. 'Washington (Special), The bid for the new Agricultural Department buildings were opened, 20 proposal! being received. The total appropriation for the buildings is $1,500,000, of which between 9:50,000 to $300,000 wilt be used for mechanical equipment. The bids cover all work and materials con nected with the superstructure com plete and range from $1,225,000 to 400,000. . . Aastbw try Will Salt , . New Haven, Ct. (Special). Judge George W. Wheeler denied the de fendants motion in the Superior Court for a judgment on the pleadings In the suit of William J.' Bryan, executor of the estate of Philo S. Bennett vs. Delia A. Eigelow and others. This suit is one for, the construction of clauses of the will giving Mr. and Mrs. Bryan control of three trust fund of $to.ooo eaih. The suit will now oo fr filial on itt oitritt. j THE KEYSTONE STATE Latest News of Pennsjl?ania Told la Short Order. A contest hat been started for post master at Perkasie. The following are in the field: Joseph G. Moyer, the present incumbent; N. O. Crouth amcl, ex-recorder of Bucks County; Oscar H. Myers, and Samuel Bishop. William Wagner, of Plymouth, was arrested charged with having attempt ed to cash a forged check for $too at the Kingston Savings and Deposit nanx, v ilkes-ltarrc. He is 20 years old and it is said he wanted the money in order to marry. The Enterprise mine fire, Shamokin, is spreading alid causes much convern. The ground in the neighborhood ol the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks it sinking in many places. Watchmen have been placed on duty and tho t-acks are patrolled day and night. Perseverance Lodge, No. 21, of An cient York Masons, of Harrisburg, celebrated its 125th anniversary. A banquet was' held at the Board of Trade auditorium, and addresses were .made by Governor J'ennypacker, Ad jutant General T. J. Stewart and Rev, J. Wesley Hill. George Peacock, 60 years old, member of the firm of Peacock St Motz, wlii'e walking along a railroad siding ne.ir Flourtown, where his workmen were unloading coft coal, was struck on the left leg by a large lump of coal and sustained a com pound fracture. Charles T. Straughn, of Shenan doah; who was elected Controller of Schi'.yikill County at the recent elec tion, has announced his deputies a follows: Chief, Elijah Kantner, Cre spina; clerks, Frank Palmer, Potts ville; Joseph Carr, Frackville, and William Watson, Shenandoah; solici tor, C. A. Snyder, of Pottsvilic. Miss Christian B. Bassett, a Pott town public srhool teacher, has in stitucd suit against the Pennsylvania" Railroad Company to recover $.lo,oof damages for personal injuries said to have been sustained in the wreck af Stowc last April. John J. Fleischutt, -who was held responsible for the dis aster, is serving a two-month sentence1 in prison. Orders were issued from the Potts, ville headquarters to the thousands ol employees of the Philadelphia 6V Reading Coal & Iron Company in the anthracite region to attend lectures to be given by mining, electrical, ven tilating, pumping, lubricating and medical experts, who will travel through the region. In court at Ebcnsburg W. H. Buter baugh, convicted of having employed Curtis Sowers and Isaac Murphy td burn his store, in Johnstown, in order that he might obtain $600 insurance money, was sentenced to eleven and one-half years in the penitentiary. Sowers received a sentence of seven and one-half years, and Murphy, who turned State's evidence, escaped with three and one-half years. The Hilde brand family, who occupied lodgings above the store, narrowly escaped cre mation. Policeman William Boshcr and John Donohoc, of Springfield Township, raided the hay houses, in that vicinity in which tramp have been lodging for many months past. One dozen tramps were taken into custody and loJged in the police station at Ambler. They will have a hearing. The tramps were found snugly tucked under the? hay, and from the outside no one was in sight, but when Policeman Boshes started to run a fork into the hay, the knights of the road exclaimed, "We are your rabbits." The fifth annual convention of the Pennsylvania Shoe Manufacturers' Association, representing nearly io factories, was held at Reading. H. F. Algert, of Watsontown, is president. Reports were submitted showing that trade is in excellent condition with good prospects for the next year. Ex-Congressman H. D. Green deliver ed an address on "Reciprocity." Joseph Roman, an Italian, was stab bed so badly at Shenandoah that ha died. Half an hour later while tho police were seeking clews to the trag edy, Toney Passila, a friend of the dead man, got into an altercation with, three countrymen and he was stab bed six times. The assailants escaped. The police believe the men who stab bed Passila are the same that killed Roman. Mrs. William Carroll and he daughters, of Chester, were injured in a runaway. Their horse bolted and the wagon was overturned, throwing; out both women. Miss Margaret Car roll, the daughter, sustained a broken arm and collar bone. The Washington School Board de cided that any pupil of either sex in the town's schools found smoking cig arettes hereafter will be expelled. The board produced a roll of names of 150 pupils who had been found smoking. Those set to look over the conduct of the children reported that many; parties of school girls had formed lit tle smoking clubs and smoked ciga rettes each afternoon. Hundreds of bushels of apples are going to waste in the vicinity of Ham burg, as the high price demanded fof picking the fruit renders the crop unprofitable for the average farmer. George Groner, of Honesdale, aged 3o years was killed by falling from a cliff fiftv ft liicrh VI - tuaa truth. cring leaves from the hillside above, but lost his balance and fell to th rocks beneath. The State Supreme Court, aftet filling a number of decisions in easel from Allegheny county and othel western counties in the district, ad journed to meet in Philadelphia, o December 31. The No. 10 Ctlliery of the Penn sylvania Coal Company at Wiles Barre, wat cloted owing to a strike of the fifty driver boys, who objected to doing extra work without estra pay. The miners tried to inducethe boys to submit their grievances to a committee and remain at work,; but the boys refused. ' 1 A conference of representative ol ' the Gran J Army 'posts of Chestef county was held in West Chester and resolutions were adopted asking the County Commissioners to erect the $25,000 monument to the memory of the soldiers and sailors of this. coun ty who iiuahl in the Civil War tha ' project having been approved by tho court and the , Grind Jury, Officials of the Ellsworth Coal Com. pny.,'Washington, report that fifty Rui.in miners have quit work andj returned to their native land witn the?,' purpose of enlisting in the Russian army.