PCRT ARTHUR HAS FALLEN Reports That Admiral Togo’s At- tacks Have Been Successful. CAUSED DAMAGE IN THE CITY. Russians Said to Have Lost Sixty-Five Men During the Fight—Japs Lose Some Men. An unconfirmed report has reached Tien Tsin that Port Arthur has fallen. A dispatch to the London Central News from Tokio says: “It is assert- ed here that the Russians virtually have abandoned Port Arthur.” The official and private reports both indicate that Admiral Togo’s fourth attack on Port Arthur 6n Thursday last wag the most effective since the first assault of a month ago. One Russian torpedo boat destroyer was sunk and several Russian torpedo boats seriously damaged. The fortifi- cations and city were subjected to a heavy bombardment lasting nearly four hours. The naval bombardments of the land works have generally been ineffective, yet the peculiar typograph- ical conditions of Port Arthur make immunity from serious loss from bombardment almost impossible, Admiral Togo’s torpedo flotilla open- ed the action by boldly steaming in under the batteries and successfully placing a numper of mechanical mines at the mouth of the harbor. Following that there was a desperate bow to bow encounter between the torpedo boat Jestroyers, in which the Japanese | appear to have scored a clear victory. Then followed a long-range duel be- tween the cruisers, ending in the re- tirement of the Novik and Bayan, the only Russians engaged. Inner Harbor Bombarded. The closing action was the bombard- | ment of the ‘inner harbor by the Jap- | anese battleships. The latter took a position southwest of Port Arthur and used only their 12-inch guns. There | were 24 12-inch guns in the squadron | of six battleships, and each gun was fired five rounds making a total of 120 huge projectiles that were fired at the city. The bombardment was de- liberate and carefully planned. In or- der to aid in perfecting the firing, Ad-| miral Togo stationed the cruisers in a | position due east of the entrance to the harbor, and at a right angle to the battleships. The cruisers observed the range and effect of the firing and signaled the results and suggestions by wireless telegraphy. These obser- vations and reports greatly aided the gunners in their efforts to make every shot count. Admiral Togo was unable to definite- ly learn the results of the bombard- ment, but later private reports indi- cate that much destruction was caused in the city, where a series, of fires broke out. There was also damage to batteries. Capt. Shokiro Asai, commanding the flotilla of torpedo boat destroy- ers, which engaged the Russian de- stroyers, is the hero of the attack. He had only three destroyers, but attacked the Six Russian destroyers, ordering his craft to close in with the enemy. He steamed so close to the enemy's de- stroyers that they almost touched, and a most desperate conflict ensued, from which the Russians retired badly disabled, CHICAGO BANDIT CONFESSES. Aided in Killing Five Men and Hold- ing Up Express Train. Gustav Marx, one of the three car barn bandits now under sentence of death, in Chicago, declared in a con- fession that he was one of the three men who held up the Chicago and Northwestern express train at Tower, W, near DeKalb, four years ago. The crime has passed into history as one | of the most desperate ever committed | in or about Chicago. Marx says both | his confederates in the crime are dead and refuses to give their names. One of them, he declares, died with his | boots on.” The railway authorities | admitted a loss of $102,000 by the rob- | bery. Marx says the robbers secured | only $8,000, the rest of the money | having been destroyed by the explo- sion of dynamite used to crack the] safe, | Marx admits the killing of five men | in his career of crime. “Besides John | B. Johnson, killed at the car barns, | Detective Quinn, killed at the time bf | my arrest, and Otton Bauder, whom Roeski is generally supposed to have killed. I have killed two other men. | Eight years ago Neidermeier and I] went to Janesville, Wis., to rob a train. A track walker came upon us. I shot him and we threw his body into the | Rock river. The other man whom I killed I had done criminal work with in Michigan. “Neidermeier and I were there last fall. He knew too much about me, and I killed him and left his body lying in| the suburbs of the camp. Both these | crimes can be verified by the police.” Ethiopian Treaty Ratified. The Senate in executive ratified the treaty between the United States and Ethiopia, which was negotiated by Menelik II, “King of Kings of Ethiopia,” and Robert P. Skinner, con- | sul general and plenipotentiary. The treaty is to last 10 years and provides for trading posts and telegraphs and other means of transportation Menelik’s provinces. St. Louis Exposition Opening. The program for the inauguration | ceremonies opening the Louisiana Purchase exposition on Saturday, | April 30, probably will be officially an- | hounced this week. The greater por- tion of the program has been complet- ed by Col. E. C. Culp, chairman of the | committee on ceremonies. The cele- bration will be exclusively an exposi- tion affair as to participants and will be confined to the grounds. The pro-| gram, it i i 2d rompletec exposition ppen. in | |. within a few feet of the | habitants are under canvas. The Government is | rendering assistance. { FARMERS HOLD GRAIN. Report by Department of Agriculture for Month of March. The March report of the bureau of statistics of the department of agri- culture shows the amount of wheat in farmers’ hands on -March 1 to have been about 132,600,000 bushels or 20.8 per cent of last year’s crop, as compar- ed with 24.5 per cent of the crop of 1902 on hand on March 1, 1903, and 23.2 per cent of the crop of 1901 on hand March 1, 1902. The corn in farmers’ hands is esti- mated at about 839,000,000 bushels or 37.4 per cent of last year’s crop, against 41.4 per cent of the crop of 1902 on hand on March 1, 1903, against 41.6 per cent of the crop of 1902, on hand on, March 1, 1903, and 29.2 per cent of the crop of 1901 on hand on March 1, 1902. Of oats there are reported to be about 273,700,000 bushels or 34.9 per cent of last year’s crop still in farmers’ hands, as compared with 36.9 per cent of the crop of 1902 on hand on March 1, 1903, and 30.6 per cent of the crop of 1901 on hand on March 1, 1902. THRASHED BY JUDGE. Fines for Contempt of Court Failed to Quell Disturber. After twice fining Arthur Hirsch, president of the Independent Steel Company, for contempt of court, and the offender showing no indication of mending his ways, Justice John R, Mc- Donnell, of Chicago, left the bench and assaulted Hirsch. The justice did not bother to adjourn court. Constables, policemen and wit- nesses were paralyzed for a few mo- ments. Meanwhile Mr. hirsch was in keen distress. He had been “hooked” on the jaw and smashed in the eye, and was almost “out.” Then two policemen seized the justice and escorted him back on the bench. ] “Call the Necl case,” he said to his clerk. McDonnell once fought three rounds with John L. Sullivan. FOUR MILLION ACRES BOUGHT. E. H. Harriman Said to Be Interested in Mexico’s Biggest Land Deal. The largest land deal ever made in Mexico is reported from Lower Cali- fornia, where a solid tract of 4,000,u0v acres of grazing and agricultural land, comprising the Flores Hola estate, has just been sold to a syndicate of New York men. E. H. Harriman, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad, is said to be interested. The new owners have made applica- tion to the Mexican Government for concessions for the establishment of large irrigation and other industrial works on the land. Ask $5,000 for Hurt Feelings. Miss Edith Hanna, of Beaver Falls, Pa., hag brought suit against James Paw, of Pittsburg, a widower, to re- cover damages, sustained .to her feel ings by the refusal of Paw to carry out an alleged promise of marriage. Miss Hanna thinks that as Paw is a man of moderate means she should have $5000. Paw is a street car con- ductor and is now in the Beaver jail. | Paw confesses innocence of any mat- | rimonial intentions. He says that he| has three small children, which after | his wife’s death about 18 months ago, | were placed in the Protestant Child- | ren’s Home, in Allegheny, where Miss. | Hanna was a nurse. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. A 2-year-old son of Theodore Wallis was burned to death at his home, near Hebron, O. : Foster Bauers, 13 years old, died at South Fork, Pa. from a rifle shot wound accidentally inflicted by a com- | panion. Over a million dollars worth of prop- | erty has been destroyed in the Wy- oming valley, Eastern Pennsylvania, and 2,000 families rendered homeless. Ad unknown coicred tramp, sleeping | on the coke ovens at Redstone, near Uniontow, Pa. was run over by a| dimkey car and killed. | A broken flange wrecked a freight train at Jamiesonville, Pa., on the Bes- | semer and Lake Erie railroads. The train crew escaped injury. | “Matt” Kramer, of North Industry, | 0., nearly died from a dose of am-| monia taken by mistake for a prescrip-| tion left on the same shelf. ; Philip McCormick, 16 years old, o East Liverpool, O., was shot twice in | the shoulder, the wounds being inflict- | ed, it is alleged, by an Italian during a fight. A DOUBLE TRAGEDY. and Takes His Own Life. In the yard of the African Method- ist Episcopal church at Donora, Pa. vestibule door, “Bert” Washington, colored, shot | and killed his wife Saturday night. Washington then turned the gun on himself and fired two shots through his head, dying almost instantly. Wash- ington’s body was not found for about half an hour after the shooting, it hav- ing rolled between the church and an outbuilding. Jealousy is said to have caused the crimes. | The murdered woman was the daughter of Rev. O. T. Davis, pastor | of the church in front of which the | shooting occurred. Italian Villages Destroyed. There are continual slight earth- quakes in the Abruzzo. Six villages | have been destroyed and the former in- | No lives have been lost. | guns in perfect order.” bOY | pouble Execution Is Fixed to Take | has fixed May 5 as the date of the exe- | Negro Kills His Wife at Church Door | cution of William Hartley and James | Edwards. | will be the first double hanging in Alle- | ism Stock Sells for Two Cents a Share. | A block of bonds and stock of tnc | United States Shipbuilding Company, | lic auction in New York a week ago and then withdrawn, were sold at the Real Estate salesroom Adrain H. Muller & Son, and a new rec price for the stock, at least, we stablished. The common stock nts 8 share and the preferred stock 10 cents | a shara which were advertised for sale at pub- | of Port Arthur : : { Thursday is to the effect that the Rus- SEAT DAMAGE BT FLODIS Dwellings and Stores are Swept Away Along Susquehanna. ONE MILLION DOLLARS LOSS. Bridges Destroyed—Ice Piled 20 Feet High on Railroad Tracks and Traffic Almost Stopped. From all points along the Susque- hanna river reports of damage by flcods and ice gorges are coming in. There can as yet bs no real estimate of damage done, though it is safe to say that the loss to railroad companies, mines and other industries in the Wy- oming valley alone will reach $1,000, 000. On the west side of the river at Kingston, Dorranceton, West Pittston and Wycming the aftermath shows a condition of affairs that has never been surpassed by any previous flood. The Northumberland bridge at Sun- bury was destroyed. The Pennsylvania railroad put a force of 3,000 men at work to clear the tracks of ice from Bainbridge to Fal- | mouth. The road from Columbia to Port Deposit will not be open for | several days. From the upper end of | Washington borough to Safe Harbor there are from 10 to 50 feet of ice on the tracks, and the situation below Safe Harbor is but little better. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal | and Iron Company posted notices at its | colleries suspending operations. Dr. Paul A. Hartman, representa- tive of the state board of health in| Harrisburg, has been commissioned by Dr. Benjamin Lee, secretary of the board, to investigate conditions in the flooded portions of Middletown and to report promptly to the state board. Precautions will be taken to prevent an outbreak of smallpox among. the flocd sufferers in the lowlands. Late reports from Catawissa, Bloomsburg and Berwick report the | conditions slowly improving. The | Pennsylvania Railroad Company has a force of 300 men removing the ice from | the tracks of its branch road between | Wolverton and South Danville. Very little progress was made and traffic | will not be resumed over this branch | for some time. - | At Safe Harbor nine dwellings were | demolished and a number of others damaged by the flood. The general | stores of John Tripple and William | Rowe, with stocks valued at $4,000 each, were swept away and everything lost. The big four-arch stone bridge of the Port Deposit ‘Railway at the mouth of the Conestoga creek crumbled before the ice. The large county bridge at the upper end of Safe Harbor was demol- ished, as was also the bridge over the mouth of Pequea creek. TORPEDO BOATS FIGHT. Russians Attack Japs Off Port Arthur and Each Side Loses. The Russian torpedo boat flotilla left Port ‘Arthur at daylight on Friday morning and attacked the Japanese fleet. One Japanese torpedo boat was sunk and one Russian torpedo boat destroyer the Bez Poshtchadni, was sunk. The fate of the latter’s crew is not known. Viceroy Alexieff has sent the fol- lowing message to the Emperor: “In the fight between our torpedo boats and the Japanese cruisers on March 11 Capt. Matteussevitch, Ensign Alex- androff and Mechanical Engineer Bli- noff received slight wounds, and En- sign Zaeff wag severely wounded in the head losing his right eye. “Phe commandant at Port Arthur reports the following details of the bombardment of the fortress there on March 10. As soon as the enemy open- en fire our batteries replied. Six of the enemy’s ships remained behind the | Liao-Tishin promontory and opened fire on the fortress over that shelter. They ceased bombarding at 1:15 p. m. The enemy fired about 200 projectiles. One shell from battery No. 15, on Elec- | tric cliff, damaged a Japanese cruis- | | er seriously. The results of the bom- bardment were insignificant; six sol- diers were wounded. Three inhabi- tants of the town were killed and one seriously wounded. According to Gen. Stoesseél’s report, the officers and sol- | diers in:the shore batteries displayed | exemplary courage and fired their TWO TO BE. HANGED. Place on May 5. Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker Should no further respite be granted either man their execution gheny ccunty since 1876. Hartley was | convicted of the murder of Ernest O. | Johnston, a railroader, by shooting him | in the barber shop of Henry Jouver, | March 28, 1903. Edwards, who is a | negro, pleaded guilty to a charge of | murder for the killing of Clinton Banks near Bridgeville July 4, 1203. Says Indian Ate Wife and Child. Gustave Brandon, who has been cruising between Tower and Koochi- | ching, confirms a report of cannabal- | on the Nett Lake reservation. | Branden was near Pelican Lake when he was told that an Indian had killed and eaten his wife ad child to avert starvation. He says his information is unquestionably authentic. A party was sent to the Indian’s cabin and will bring him to Nett Lake if possible. Sixty-Five Russians Killed. Information from an official who was an eye witness of the bombardment on sday and cians had 25 killed on ttleship Sevastopol, 20 on the Ret an and 20 in the town. The Rus 1s claim to have sunk a Japanese cruiser. The Russi preparing for the defense of N i ible ang, finding it i | and peasantry of MANCHURIAN LINE MINED? Japs Intend Destroying Whole Raik way, Says American. “The Russian trans-Siberian rail road from Port Arthur to Lake Baikal has been honeycombed with mines for more than a year,” declared Charles Kleine, assistant inspector ol customs at Shanghai, who has arrived in New York on the Cunard liner Ivernia. “What the bribing of the Russian foreman did not do the Japanese did through their best engineers, working as common coclies in the construction gangs. “As a result it would be folly to call it a railroad. Its rails are so light that they will not support more than five cars; its cars are so light that they will not carry a heavy gun; its en- gines so light that they will not draw five cars more than 17 miles an hour. The sleepers, logs and saplings, un- seasoned, cut along the line of the route, untrimmed and unbarked, are thrown under the 20-foot rails three (more often two) to every 20 feet of rail; and the rails are barely held to- gether by single rivets, without fish plates. “Not only have the disguised engi | neers worked at the wrecking of the enemy’s road, but they have formed espionage corps among the mandaring Manchuria and have surrounded the Russians in Port Arthur, Russia can safely send troops to Port Arthur, but the Port Arthur troops cannot utilize the road to retreat. For a2 | soon ag they embark the line will be blown up by the Chinese allies of the Japanese and the Russians will find themselves attacked front and rear without a line of communication. “Even if they are allowed to reach the Baikal lake they will be driven in: to it before assistance can reach them. “Five ‘cars, holding 500 men alto gether, traveling at the rate of 20 miles an hour, could never ‘escape from such a mobile force as the Jap- anese. Even in the event of the mines not operating, such trains could be smashed by shell before they got out of range. “The mining of the road is nothing more than Russia could have expected. But with colossal stupidity she thought herself wonderfully clever in pushing her line, in time of peace, to her war camp at Port Arthur. “From the time of the starting of that road, the Japanese were alert awaiing its approach to the danger line. Then they threw their corps of engineers, educated at the schools of Yale, Harvard and Columbia Univer: sities, into the gangs of laborers and began to build up her network of es pionage and plan the mines along the lines. Every military plan of the Rus: sians became known to the Japanese They were everywhere as servants, coolies, slaves, humble and obedient. The coolie frequently was the son of an honored member of the Mikado’s Council. “Already the effectiveness of the mining has been tested at Dalny where a bridge was blown up mysteri: ously. SIX KILLED IN COLLISION. Head-On Collision on the Alabama Great Southern. Six persons killed, three fatally hurt, two less seriously injured, and a limited express train and -a freight train partially destroyed by fire, com: prise the results of a head-on colli sion on the Alabama ‘Great Southern railway near Kewanee, 17 miles north of Meridian, Miss. The dead are: Engineer P. H. Lar kin, of the express train, Birmingham; Robinson Riggs, mail clerk, Chatta: nooga; D. D. Nicholson, mail clerk, | Chattanooga; Henry Banks, colored, fireman on express train, Birming ham: Mail Weigher Davidson, Chat tanooga; colored fireman on freight train, name not given. The trains involved were the south: bound limited on the Queen & Crescent system, and a northbound Southern railway freight, both trains using the same. tracks between Meridian and York. The express train was late and running 60 miles an hour. The wreckage took fire, the mail car, com- bination baggage and express . car, smoker and six freight cars being de stroyed. Both engines were totally .wrecked. NEWS NOTES. Mrs. Gustave Stanson, of Elgin, Ill, shot her husband and son and then killed herself. The Grand Trunk railroad share holders ratified the agreement with the Canadian Government for the construction of a grand trunk line to the Pacific. Foreign residents of Nagasaki who have arrived at Vladivostok report that all the Japanese docks are mak- ing repairs to the ships damaged in the engagement at Port Arthur. Two men were killed and six injur- ed in a snowslide at the Queen of the West mine, in the Cornucopia district 60 miles east of Baker City, Ore. The slide razed the shaft building and bunk houses and swept the occupants down almost to the bottom of the canon, hundreds of feet below. The Kansas Republican State con: vention nominated the following ticket: Governor, Edward W. Hoch; Lieutenant Governor, David W. Han: na; Secretary of State, J. R. Burrows; Auditor, Seth G. Wells; Attorney Gen: eral, C. C. Coleman; Treasurer, Thom- as T. Kelly. Twenty bodies have been recovered from the wreck of Darlington Hotel building, in New York. The cold in Northern Italy is so intense that the Tosa falls, near Simp- lon, probably the grandest among the Alps, are frozen hard. Among the sidelights of the Smith testimony it has been developed that nine Mormon apostles have a total of 27 wives; that Smith has 21 male chil- dren and an equal number of females by his five wiv that his net income is $75,000 a year and the expenses of five families are $20,000 annually. JAPS SAID TO BE VIGTORa Reported Defeat of Russians on Korean Soil. PORT ARTHUR SHELLED AGAIN. Disabled Russian Warship Retvizan Repaired and Said to Be in Fighting Trim Again. A dispatch from Wei-Hai-Wei, dated March 9, says: “It is reported on good authority that a collision be- tween Japanese and Russian troops has occurred near Hai-Ju, Korea, 54 miles northwest of Chemulpo, which resulted in the defeat of the Rus- sians.” The Japanese are now reported in Manchuria, where they are said to have taken Feng-Wang-Cheng, 50 miles north of the Yalu.” The news comes from several sources, and the Russians are reported falling back, with some loss in the skirmishing. Washington hears of the Japanese advance from the commander of the United States gunboat Helena, at Yingkow, the port of Newchwang. He adds the information that the Japanese landed at Takushan, west of the mouth of the Yalu river. Heavier fighting is expected when the invaders get closer to Liao-Yang, where several thousand Russian troops are concentrated. There is an unconfirmed report of a renewal of the bombardment of Port Arthur and Dalny on Talienwan bay | by Admiral Togo’s squadron. Tokio | has no definite news of the movements of Admiral Urui’s ships and the Czar’s Vladivostok squadron. The hole in the hull of the Russian battleship Retvizan, which was made juring the first attack by the Japanese, has been repaired and the battleship has been refloated. She is now anch- sored in the inner roadstead alongside the Czarevitch. The garrison at Port Arthur is 40,000 strong, and there are provisions enough to last two years. Trains on the Manchurian line are running regularly in triple sections, at 20 minute intervals. SAFEBLOWERS’ RICH HAUL, Postoffice Safe Robbed of $1,000 in Cash and Valuable Papers. Safeblowers made a rich haul in the town of Chester, W. Va., opposite East Liverpool, O., gaining entrance to the postoffice undetected. The safe, con- taining over $1,000 in cash was com- oletely shattered with dymamite, Post- master W. C. Johnston made an es- timate of the losses and gave them as follows: Stamps, $737; money order depart- ment, $95.24; postal funds, $132; money held for Mrs. Russell William- son, $19.18; funds of the Ben Hur lodge, $25. Added to these amounts were 200 money order blanks upon which $20,000 could be realized, it be- ing possible to convert each blank into an order to $100. . The postmaster also lost many val- unable papers, being a justice of the peace and having in his possession numerous legal documents. The door of the First National bank, of Chester, was found open next morning, giving rise to the suspicion that an attempt was made to loot it, Naval Bill Becomes a Law. The. Senate passed the naval appro- priation bill and then took up the army bill. The principal question debated in connection with the naval bill related to the price and method of supplying armor plate for battleships, and it grew put of an amendment suggested by Mr. Patterson, Democrat, Colorado, providing for a government armor plant. Steamer Sunshine Burned. The steamer Sunshine, plying be- ‘ween Memphis and Cincinnati, . was iestroyed by fire near Tiptonville, Tenn. The crew escaped, but both poat and cargo were lost. The boat was :he property of the Memphis and Cin- :innati Packet company and was val- ged at $20,000. The Sunshine was »uilt eight years ago at Pittsburg and was one of the staunchest boats in the packet trade. CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. A soft-coal strike, involving 200,- p00 men, is expected to begin about | April 1. . Mayor Maybury of Detroit, warned | ;he management of a local burlesque | rouse that they must not allow Mrs. | Kate Soffel to appear on the stage. | The Mayor stated that the penalty! would be forfeiture of the theater’s | license, Collision Delays Target Practice. A portion of the United States At- jantic squadron which was to have joined in the target practice at Pen- sacola has been detained at Guanta- namo owing to the court of inquiry being held to determine who is to | blame for the recent collision between | the Missouri and Illinois. | American Nurses Sail for Japan. Forty American nurses, in charge of | Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee, president | of the Spanish-American War Nurses’ | association sailed from Seattle on the | Iyoc Maru for Japan. Upon arrival in | Japan they expect to be assigned to | futy with one of the divisions of the | Japanese army. YOUNG MAN CUT IN TWO. | Instant Death in Attempt to Board al West Penn Freight Train. Earl Getteman, 20 years old, of Ford City, Pa., was cut in two at Freeport by a freight train on the West Penn railroad. The young man attempted to board the train when it was running at a speed of 20 miles an hour. His father identified the re-| mains "and took the body home burial. for | church government. REED SMOOT TRIAL, Testimony Brought Out by Senate In- vestigating Committee. One of the most interesting and ime : portant features of the investigation of the Senator Reed Smoot case hefore the Senate Commiittee on Privileges and Elections was brought out in the testimony of E. B. Critchlow, formerly an assistant United States attorney in Utah, who told the story ‘of the Moses Thatcher episode. According to his version, which was borne out by offi- cial records, Apostle Thatcher persist- ed in continuing as a candidate for the United States Senate against the wishes of a quorum of the apostles and on that account was held to be “not in harmony with his quorum.”" The history of the campaign he made against the wishes of his fellow Mor- moms, of his defeat and his subsequent trial before a commission of church officials, was given in detail, and then Thatcher's submission to the will of the church was read and put in the re- cord of the Smoot investigation. This recantation showed Thatcher totally broken in spirit and bowing absolutely to the mandates of the church in that the consent of an officers’ quorum must be obtained in order that he may continue in good standing. The purpose of the testimony was to show that it was necessary, according to the rules of the church, for Keed Smoot to have obtained the consent of the church before he could have be- come a candidate for the Senate. The committee brought out a va- riety of testimony, of which the most sensational was given by Francis M. Lyman, president of the Twelve Apostles of the Mormon Church and the man chosen to be the successor of President Smith. His admissions were similar to those previously made by Mr. Smjth pertaining to the He is more free of speech than the president of the church and his testimony, though not materially differing, caused several of | the apostles present to shake their heads at the witness for the purpose of compelling more discretion in answering questions. Charles E. Merrill, a son of Apostle Merrill was called to the stand. He said he was the son of his fathér’s third plural wife and dis himself a polygamist. He said he was married first in 1887 to a wife that died in 1889 and that he married his “legal wife,” Chloe Hendricks, in 1891, and had five children by her. He married another wife in 1888, the ceremony be- ing performed in the Logan Temple by M. C. Edwardson. He has had four children by that wife, the oldest of which is 9 years and the youngest 214 years. Their mother’s name was An- na B. Stoddard. Several * officials of the Mormon church testified in the Smoot case be- fore the Senate committee on Priv- ileges and Elections that they had plural wives and had continued to practice polygamous cohabitation since the manifesto of 1890. Just before ad- journment the committee held an ex- ecutive session for the purpose of hav- ing read the unprintable testimony in the Teasdale divorce case. COSSACKS COMMIT OUTRAGES. Women Are Assaulted and Then Mur- dered by Russians in North- ern Korea. The London Daily, Telegraph pub- lishes' a dispatch from Tokyo dated March 7, saying: “It is reported that the Japanese fleet engaged the Russian Vladivostok squadron at sea yesterday. The re- sult of the engagement is not announc- ed, but it is believed that the Russian ships were destroyed or captured. News has reached Osaka of an en- gagement between Russians and Jap- anese a hundred miles from Vladivo- stok. The Russians fled, abandoning arms and stores. A telegram was received at the im- perial Korean palace, Seoul, stating that several hundred Cossacks plun- dered the gmall North Korean town of Kang-Kae, seized all the grain, hay and provisions they could find and as- saulted and ‘murdered a number of women. The local Korean soldiery exchanged shots with the marauders, then retireu. Several Koreans were wounded. H. C. Price, a Baltimore and Ohio railroad engiueer, is dead at his home in Cumberland, Md., from injuries re- ceived in jumping from an ‘engine which was running away. Boston Wool Market. There is a firm tone in the wool market, with a fairly steady demand in progress. The market for territory wools is steady, with old values held. Pulled wools are quiet but firm. For- eign wools have a large call. The lead- ing quotations follow: Ohio and Pennsylvania, XX and above, 34c; X, 30@31c;, No. 1, 33c; No. 2, 32@33%; fine unwashed, 23@24%c; 14-blood, unwashed, 25% @26c; 34-blood, un- washed, 256 @26¢c; ¥%-blood, unwash- ed, 25% @26c; fine washed delaine, 35 @36c:. Michigan X and above nomin- al; - No. 1, 29@30c; No. 2 28@29¢: fine unwasned, 21@22c: : Trust Company Closes Doors. The doors of the Standard Trust company of Butler, Pa., were closed and a typewritten statement was posted to the effect that by order of the board of direetors the institution was closed temporarily and that all depositors would be paid in full. The Standard Trust company is capitalized at $125,000, the stock being held by Butler and Pittsburg parties. Clinton D. Greenlee is president and Charles | A. Bailey is cashier of the concern, Wireless Tests in the Navy. The Navy Department has made ar- rangements for the trial of several wireless telegraph systems between the New York Navy Yard and the station at Navesink Highlands, N. J. The system which produces the best results will later be tested between shore stations and ships and between ship and ship. The other day the Minneapolis, at Guantanamo, made connections with the Yankee, 80 miles away. > : ne rr « - known tionist how si fnflam: use of table C “ DEA enjoyed that I we {pot thir [bad col |menstru jmation ovaries. ‘and ke was cal ton, Ky Ser proving Fr i Fri To tli fered from * Bloo and ~ indo all tt CUR. and force Ever tatio "hast filled of Sir : Here! daily by al Skin a sin one « suffic most wher Bold thto SEN D 8’ ‘of 50 will attra Ashtabul
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