FIRST BATTLE ON LAND.
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Sharp Fight Between Cossacks |
and Japanese at Chong-Ju.
RUSSIANS WERE SURPRISED.
They Found Mikado’s Troops
trenched in Town Instead of
in the Open.
En-
The first real land battle of the war
has been fought. The Russians and
Japanese troops, in considerable
iorce, met for the first time near
Chong-Ju, about 50 miles northwest
of Anju yesterday, and after a fight
asting an hour and a half, the Rus-
sians were forced to retreat. Their
loss was three killed and 16 wounded.
The battle which was fought on the
sixth anniversary of the Russian occu-
pation of Port Arthur, was a cavalry
attack by six companies of Cossacks,
led in person by Gen. Mishtchenko
against four squadrons of Japanese
cavalry which he believed to be in-
trenched beyond Chong-Ju, but which
ae found to be in occupation of the
town.
While the report made to-day to the
emperor by Gen. Kuropatkin
mates that the Japanese gained no
great advantage it acknowledges that
the Russian forces were obliged to re-
reat and that they finally reached
Nusan, about 35 miles northeast of
Chong-Ju, carrying their dead and
wounded.
Gen. Mishtchenko pays a tribute to
the tenacity and bravery of the Jap-
anese, the first detachment encounter-
ed by the Russians only ceasing to
dire after an engagement which lasted
aalf an hour.
The Japanese cavalry squadrons
dashed to the succor of their fellows
in the town, but one squadron was
badly cut up by the Russians. After
the engagement had lasted an hour
and a half and before the Russians
could follow up their advantage, an
additional Japanese reinforcement of
‘our infantry companies were seen
coming up and the Russians were
[orced to retreat.
Considerable loss of life on the part
of the Japanese force is evident from
the statement in the report that the
Red Cross flag was hoisted from two
points in the town and men and
horses were seen to fall among the
cavalry reinforcements.
Japanese Meet Hardships.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
London “Daily Mail” says the Jap-
anese troops in Northern Korea are
ancountering many difficulties. The
army numbers 190,000 men, and their
long marches are beginning to tell
on the men. Eight per cent of the
croops are sick and unfit for fighting;
zonstant stops are made to attend the
sick. The army has for some time
been awaiting an advance by the Rus-
sian forces, but upon it being heard
that the enemy had abandoned its in-
tefition to meet the Japanese army the
mikado’s troop began a rapid advance | aged 65 years.
nto central Korea, where a large body
af Russians were reported ‘to be en-|
ramped.
INFANTS CREMATED.
Horrible Practices Charged Against
Philadelphia Woman.
Startling evidence of the manner in
which live babies were burned was
given at the Ashmead inquest in Phila-
delphia in the alleged “malpractice
syndicate” case. David Monsier, 1739
French street, an alleged physician, |
swore that he saw Mrs. Ashmead go
to.the cellar of her home with an
apron filled with newly born infants, |
several of them alive and crying, and
tnrow them into the blazing furnace.
“That’s the way she disposed of
them,” declared the witness. “I have
heard them cry as they were thrown
into the fire.”
Dr. Joseph H. King, of 2210 North
Tenth street testified that he occupied
>ffices in the building.
“1 asked Mrs. Ashmead what she did
with the babies,” added Dr. King, “and
she said she wrapped them in news-
papers, let them die and then threw
the babies into the furnace.”
FOREIGNERS BUTCHERED.
Americans and Europeans Attacked by !
Chinese Outlaws.
Tientsin advices by the Oriental
steamer Chronicle tell of a Chinese up-
+ising especially directed against-the
‘orefgners near Guo-Tuck-Fu in Shant-
ing, and also in the vicinity of Lo-An-
Fu in Shang-Si.
Twenty-seven foreigners, European
sr American, are believed to have
heen murdered by the cutthroat horde,
these including a Frenchman named
Periot and a young American engineer
iamed Bolton of Boston, while an
italian railway expert has been shock-
ingly maltreated. Troops had been
dispatched on the 14th, to suppress
:he uprising.
Ameer Not Poisoned.
The Ameer of Afghanistan, who was
srroneously reported to have been
poisoned, is quite well. He is residing
at the Baghbala palace, outside of Ca-
sul. The Ameer’s brether, Nasruliah
Kahn, in a quarrel with a half brother,
Mohammed Umar Khan, is reported
to have been severely wounded by a
revolver shot.
Condemned to the Mines.
Captain Irkoff, of the Manchurian
commissariat service, sentenced to Z5
years’ penal servitude for having sold
information to Lieutenant Cclonel
Akasi, ex-military attache of the
Japanese legation at St. Petersburg,
will be sent to quicksilver mines.
Four men, Tuhis Slingeriand, Abra-
nam Slingerland, Peter Piersna and
John Brandt, Ww drowned in Lake
Calumet by the capsizing of their
boat.
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MARAKOFF’S FLEET NOW AT SE
| Japanese Attempts to Close Entrance
to Harbor at Port Arthur
Proved a Failure.
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Japanese troops are reported to
have pursued the Russians beyond
after their victory at that
place Monday. There is a rumor that
the Cossacks ambushed and destroyed
53 of the enemy.
The Japanese
report of Monday's
| engagement differs somewhat from the
| official Russian
inti-*
statement. The lat-
ter described it as a Russian attack
on Chongju, while the Japanese say
that they did the attacking and drove
the Russians out of the town. The
Japanese admit a lcss of five killed
and 12 wounded.
The American and
lowered at
British flags
Newchwang by the Rus-
sians when they declared martial
law there are to be restored. The
Consuls protested against the Rus-
sian action. The United States gun-
boat Helena is to leave the port for
Shanghai and will take away any
American citizens who desire to go in
view of the probable hostilities there.
The Russian fleet is now reported
maneuvering outside Port Arthur,
showing the complete failure of the
last Japanese attempt to close the
port by sinking fireships in .the chan-
nel. Admiral Makaroff is said to be
giving the forts some lessons in
firing on an attacking fleet. There
is no information as to the where-
abouts of the Japanese warships.
The Japanese advance occupied
Haiju, a seapcrt south of Anju, March
le
A reliable report from the Yalu
river states the troops on the Yalu do
not exceed 40,000. Travelers report
having seen troops under strenuous
march along the Feng-dung-Cheng
road, footsore and weary. The bridges
which are largely temporary are part-
ly inundated owing to the melting
snows and rains.
The captain, an oiler and one pas-
senger of the Japanese coasting steam-
er Han-Yei arrived at Teng-Chow and
reported that the Han-Yei had been
fired on and sunk by the Russian fleet
near the Mictao islands March 27.
The remainder of the crew and pas-
sengers, Chinese and Japanese, 17 in
number, were taken prisoners by the
Russians. .
The captain, who has arrived here,
says he mistcok the Russian warships
for the Japanese fleet until he approach-
ed to within one mile of them. Then
the Russians boarded and removed
the passengers. The captain, the oiler
and one passenger were in bed and
| were not taken off.
The Russians then sunk the steamer
and the three men clung to floating
wreckage until rescued by Chinese
fishermen.
BURTON HARRISON DEAD.
Was Private Secretary to Jefferson
Davis and Shared His Im-
prisonment.
Burton Norvill Harrison, husband of
Mrs. Burton Harrison, the authoress,
and father of Congressman Harrison,
of New York city, died in Washington,
During the Civil war
Mr. Harrison was private secretary to
Jefferson Davis and shared the im-
| prisonment of Mr. Davis rather than
| forsake him.
Mr. Harrison was sent to prison in
Washington and finally sent to Fort
| Delaware, where he remained in soli-
| tary confinement until 1866, when he
| was released. During the latter
| months of his imprisonment he stud-
| ied law and later went into the office
| of former Judge Fullerton, in New
| York, where he had since continued
| in the practice.
Mr. Harrison was largely instru-
mental in the prosecution of the
Tweed ring.
Negro Presidental Candidate.
W. T. Scott, a negro has announc-
ed that preparations have been com-
pleted for a national convention for
the nomination of a negro candidate
for President in St. Louis, July 6, the
date of the National Democratic Con-
vention. The name of the new party
is “The National Civil Liberal party.”
A pension list fer former slaves will
be advocated. S. P. Mitchell of Mem-
phis, Tenn. is president, and I. L.
Walton of Washington, D. C., vice
| president.
| IEh al LL
Boston Wool Market.
A steady demand holds in the wool
market, both domestic and foreign.
The call for medivm and low wools
is’ active, but the scarcity of the do-
mestic product has turned the at-
tention of buyers to the finer wools, or
foreign crosshreds. Current quotations
may be summarized as follows: Ohio
and Pennsylvania, XX and above, 34c;
X, 30@31c; No. 1, 33c; No. 2, 32@33c;
fine unwashed, 23@24c; ¥%-blood un-
washed, 251% @26c; 34-blocod unwash-
ed, 25@26c; Y4i-blood unwashed, 25%
@26c; Fine washed delaine, 35@36c;
Michigan X and above, 27@28¢c; No. 1,
29@30c; No. 2, 28@29c; fine unwash-
ed, 21@22c; %-blood unwashed, 25@
2514; 3-blocd unwashed, 25c.
Long Sentence for Ham.
Wallace H. Ham, formerly Boston
manager of tne American Surety com-
pany, of New York, was sentenced to
serve not less than 15 nor more than
20 years in the State prison at hard
labor. Ham last week pleaded guilty
to the embezzlement of nearly a quar-
ter of a million dollars from the com-
pany and from St. Luke’s Home for
Convaleseents in Roxbury.
Famous Necklace Recovered.
The famous diamcnd necklace be-
longing to Princess Alice de Bourbon,
formerly the property of Marie Antoi-
nette, which was recently stolen, has
been found in a Paris pawnshop. Des-
pas, the Belgian engineer who obtain-
ed the necklace from the jeweler with
whom it had be deposited by the
Princess, by means of false creden-
tiais, has been arrested.. He obtained
from the pawnshop an advance of
$6,500 on the stolen property, which
is valued at $160,000.
TRAIN ROBBED BY BAKDITS
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Boarded Cars and Shot Messen- |
ger in the Fighl.
MONEY RUINED BY EXPLOSION.
Southern Pacific Express Train Held
Up and Safes Dynamited and
Looted.
The Oregon express, south bound,’
cn the Southern Pacific, was held up |
by three masked men near Keswick, |
garly Friday morning. They killed W. |
J. O'Neil, the Wells-Fargo Express
messenger, and carried off the con-
tents of the express box.
When the train pulled in to Copley |
the highwaymen emerged from the
brush. They first encountered a
tramp, who was attempting to steal a
ride. He was forced at the point of
a rifle to enter the smoker. Mean-
while one of the robbers knocked on
the door of the express car. Mes-
senger O'Neill asked him some ques-
tion. The reply was evidently sat-
isfactory, because O’Neill slid the
door back about 18 inches, when a
rifle bullet was sent through his
body. It passed near his heart and he
fell back dead. O’Neill was not arm-
ed. Fe evidently believed that the
knock came from a member of the]
train crew.
Then while one robber remained on
the lcokout the other two marched the
engine crew to the express car. The]
rcbbers all the time used vile lan-
guage and discharged cccasional shots |
from the rifles. This apprised the pas-
sengers of what was going on, but
they remained in the cars and were
not molested. Colford, helper to Mes-
senger O’Neill, was armed with a
shotgun and tried to shoot one of the
robbers, but the cartridge failed to
explode. Colford pluckily stood his
ground and started to put another
shell into the gun, but the robbers
leveled their rifles at him and com-
manded him to lay down his gun or
be killed. Engineer Bissell also urged
Colford not to make a fight, arguing
that if he did they might all be killed.
he robbers now compelled the two
firemen and the brakeman to climb in-
to the smoker. Because Brakeman
Stone was not quick encugh one of
the robbers hit him over the head with
a rifle, inflicting a severe scalp wound.
When the bandits found that Col-
ford could not open the sates they
used dynamite, first removing the body |
of O’Neill, which lay near the safe.
There were two safes in the car, a
heavy through safe and a smaller lo-|
cal safe. The local safe was blown to
atoms and the top of the through]
safe was blown off. Tiny pieces of |
greenbacks and twisted coins covered |
the floor. It is certain that the rob-
bers did not get a great amount of
plunder although their blundering
work may have destroyed thousands
of dollars.
After robbing the express car the |
men cut the car loose and, getting on
the engine, compelled Engineer Joe-
sink to go ahead. When near Keswick
the men dropped off the engine and
disappeared in the night with their
plunder. . .
S. D. Barstow, superintendent of the
western division of Wells-Fargo & Co.,
said that there was not much money
in the express safes blown up by the
robbers at Copley. There were no val-
uables from the east in the car.
BRYAN LOOSES HiS CASE.
Jury Finds That Sealed Letter Is No
Part of the Wiil.
A finding that the sealed letter by
which Philo S. Benneit expressed a
wish that $50,000 should be given to
William Jennings Bryan and his fam- |
ily was not a part of the last will of |
Mr. Bennett was returned by the jury |
in the Superior court at New Haven, |
Conn., in the trial of Mr. Bryan’s ap-|
peal from the decision of the Probate |
court. This finding, which upholds the
decision of the Probate court, was
given in accordance with instructions
to the jury from Judge Gager, who
presided at the Superior court trial.
Judge Gager’s ruling cn a question
which has never before came directly
befcre the courts cf Connecticut de-
cided that the sealed letter could not
be admitted as evidence in the trial.
QUESTION OF NATIONAL AlR.
“star Spangled Banner” is Only Air to
Be Played on Warships. {
Hereafter “the Star Spangled Ban-
per” will be played cn board naval
ships at both morning and evening col-
ors, in accordance with an order ap-
proved to-day by the secretary of the
navy. Heretofore “The Star Spangied
Banner’ has been played with the rais-
ing of the flag in the morning and
“Hail Columbia” with the lowering of
the colors.
Some confusion arose in the navy, it |
is said, as to whether the latter was
a national air and the matter was]
brought to the attention of the de-
partment. Secretary Mcody in approv-
ing the order substituting “The Star
Spangled Banner” for “Hail Columbia”
for evening colors, did not pass on the
question as to whether the latter was
a national air, deeming that a matter
for congress to determine.
The New York Legislature passed a
bill authorizing the payment by the
State of New York of a pension of
$72 per month to Hiram Cronk, the
last American survivor of the War of
1812.
26 Railroads Accused.
Eight specific charges, each one
pcinted out as a violation of the Sher-
man anti-trust law, has been brought
against the 26 leading railroads run-
ning inte Chicago in a bill prepared
for the Chicago Coal Shippers’ associa- |
tion to be filed in the United States
circuit court. The action is an at-|
tempt by the coal men tc put the Chi- |
cago Car Service association cut eof
business, on the ground that it is an
illezal combination of railroads.
| Laura Matthews,
CAUSED NINE DEATHS. |
Frightfully Fatal Explcsion Caused by
Careless Girl. |
To amuse herself and scmewhat an- |
noy her fellow workers, Beckie Lewis
threw an unfilled squib, or fuse, into
| the stove in tne Dickson squib factory |
at Priceburg, near Scranton, Pa.
There was a little explosion and tae |
squib hopped out of thé stove and into
a pail of liquid sulphur standing close
by. Then there was another explosion,
followed by a third, when 200 pounds |
of powder in the place blew up, tear-
ing the building into fragments. The
following were killed and so mutilated
and burned as to be hardly recogniza-
ble:
Beckie Lewis, aged 17; Lizzie Bray,
aged 16; Lillian Mahon, aged 17;
aged 18; Lizzie
Howey, all employed in the factory
and residing in Priceburg; George and
Theresa Callahan, children, who lived
with their parents in rooms over the
factory.
Mary Gilgallon, forewoman in the
factory, so badly injured that she will
die, and Cassie E. Faulds, Annie Hef-
The windows of all the buildings for
blocks around were shattered. Fire
broke out in the debris immediately |
after the explosion and before it was |
extinguished destroyed what was left
of the squib factory and also burned |
the Wayne hotel and a butcher shop
adjoining. All the buildings were
owned by Anthony Peterson.
Three more deaths occurred on the
following day, making nine fatal cases
so far.
FLOODS IN OHIO. |
Much Damage Reported From Many
Towns—Trains Delayed.
Ottawa river, which runs through
the center of Lima was higher than
has ever been known, flooding a large
portion of the town. There are 2,000
people either homeless or confined to
the second stories or roofs of their
homes. Fully 500 houses have been
washed frecm their foundations.
In many cases where people lived in
one-story houses they were taken from
roofs by rescuers, just before the build-
ings collapsed and were swept away.
A report from Alliance says: The
Cleveland & Pittsburg tracks cof the
Pennsylvania company are under wa-
ter for 10 mileg south, while all trains
are lost hereabouts. The New York
Limited, eastbound, is stalled at
Wocster, while another passenger
train started around to Pittsburg via
Cleveland, and has been lost track of.
The Mahoning river at this point is the
highest ever known and is still rising. |
Washouts clear to Canton have put |
the tracks in such shape that railroad |
men say it will be days before trains |
can run. The big Pennsylvania bridge
here, on which men have been work-
ing for a year, went down into 20 feet
of water in the Mahoning river. |
At Canton Ralph Edelman, aged 18 |
years, son of Mrs. Saville Edelman, |
was drowned in the swollen waters of
Nimishellen creek. He fell in and was
carried away by the swift current,
while throwing stones at floating ob-
jects carried down by the flood.
Reports from Mansfield, Findlay,
Piqua, Troy, Wooster and many other |
points tell of serious damage and dis-
comfort on account of high water. |
STOLE MORMON WIVES.
Mexican Bandits Make Raids on Mor-
: mon Colony.
Prospectors {from the lower Sierra
Madre mountains, Mexico, *southwest
of El Paso, bring the story of a raid
made by Juan Colorado and John Red-
head upon Don Felire, a newly form-
ed Mormon colony.
The noted bandit and his band pil-'
laged the seitlement, carrying away
three of Elder Hirmam Johnsorn’s
wives, one of whom is the favorite of
his large household. A posse of Mexi-
cans, rural police and a squad of Mor-
mons, who as a vigilance committee
styled themselves Avenging Angels,
pursued the bandits for 36 hours and
finally surprised them in the fast-
nesses of the Sierra Madre mountains.
A fight took place in which two of
the outlaws were wounded. The band
fled, leaving the women. They had
be=n kept two days in a cave, where a
considerable amount of bullion treas-
ure was found which is believed was
stolen from a pack train recently.
A NEW REVOLUTICNM.
| Generals Desert Morales for Vasquez.
Jiminez Abandons Town Dur-
ing Attack.
A dispatch from Monte Cristi, San-
to Domingo, reports that Gen. Epifanio
Rodriguez and Clena Navarro attacked
that place and that Gen. Jiminez be-
ing without ammunition, abandoned
the town and embarked cn the Ger-
man steamer Hispania for St. Thomas.
The news is confirmed by the Domin-
ican consul here.
It is rumored that Gens. Rodriguez
| and Navarro, having abandoned Presi-
dent Moraes, are trying to start a
| movement in favor cf former President
Horatio Vasquez. They are now be-
lieved to be marching on Santiago de
lc: Cabellero and Porto Plata.
A score of Dominican refugees, ar-
rested here, were sent back to Santo
Domingo by the Dominican consul.
Rapid Fire Legislation.
Three hundred and nineteen pen-
sion bills were passed by the house
Saturday in two hours. Another hour
was devoted to rapid fire legislation
by unanimous consent in which a large
number of bridge bills and other mat-
ters of minor importance were dis-
posed of.
Russia Buys Warships. |
It is stated that four ships of the |
| cruiser type built for the Turkish gov- |
ernment by Germany and also two |
cruisers built by France have been |
purchased by Russia at the price of |
$20,000,000, the terms being that all
be delivered within a short period. An |
American house is going to supply
| tinned provisions to the value of $1,-
125,000 roubles.
The carpenters of the Beaver Valley
went aut on a strike for an advance in |
wages from $3 to $3.25 a day.
i forces,
| fron and Oscar Ayser, foreman, were
! badly injured, but will live. |
| George B. Young,
| Gould advisor.
| times it has been announced that the
| war was ended, but the Achinese will
| not stay whipped, and in a few months
| port.
| believed to be imminent in Northern |
CONTENDING FOR CONTROL
Rockefeller and Morgan Carry
Securities War Into Courts.
LARGE AMOUNTS ARE INVOLVED.
Rockefeller Interests Demand Return
of the Stock Held for the Oregon
Short Line.
.
Unable to settle their difficulties in
the stock market or through arbitra- |
tion, John D. Rockefeller and J. P.
Morgan have carried the war for pos- |
session of the Northern Pacific rail-
road to the courts.
Refusing to accept the distribution |
of assets by the outlawed Northern Se- |
| curities Company, as ppanned by J. P.!
Morgan and J. J. Hill, E. H. Harri-|
man, manager of the Rockefeller
has asked the United States |
court to compel Morgan to hand back |
| to kim the identical Northern Pacific
stock which he testified under oath
Morgan clubbed him into depositing |
in the merger. |
Harriman’s petition was filed in St. |
Paul late Saturday night. It was serv-
ed cn H. G. Grover, E. W. Bunn and
attorneys for the
Northern Securities Company, and is |
returnable at St. Paul April 12.
Vill’am D. Guthrie, Morgan's law-
yer, signs the petition, with judge
John F. Dillon, the great Rockefeller-
Beth are formally at-
torneys for E. H. Harriman and Wins-
lcw S. Pierce, who bring the suit as
trustees for the Oregon Short Line, in
whose treasury the Rockefeller shares
of the Northern Securities stock are
held.
The joining in the same petition of
adverse lawyers is done to give the
action the outward appearance of a
friendly suit, but the battle will be
waged none the less fiercely because of
this action. Harriman, as before said,
has sworn he was clubbed ‘into the
merger, and Rockefeller has ordered
him to get the stock back again.
The formal demand is made now
that the Oregon Short Line, as a stock-
holder in Northern Securities, be per-
mitted to intervene in the suit just
decided by the supreme court, and
have the decree modified so as to
compel redistribution of original
stocks put into the merger.
This suit explains much of the fev-
erish buying of Union Pacific stock by
Rockefeller and Morgan forces the
last two weeks. It was decided 10
days ago to carry the battle to court,
and this has now been done.
THIRTY YEARS’ WAR.
Battle in Which Hundreds
Killed in Sumatra.
Coming after the slaughter of Thi-
betians by the British forces under
Colonel Younghusband on the “roof of
the world,” the killing of hundreds of
Achinese by the Dutch in Northern
Sumatra has caused considerable com-
ment.
¥or 30 years the Dutch have been
fighting the Achinese in the northern
part of the Island of Sumatra. A dezen
Were
after each defeat have once more
taken the field.
This long war has been marked by
many bloody battles, and charges of
cruel treatment of native prisoners
have often been made against the
Dutch. Holland has held the major
portion of the island as a colony, but
has never been able to establish her
authority over the fierce tribes of
Achinese in the north.
The Dutch fight the natives in
squads and the war is one of extermi-
naticn, no quarter being given to those
who fall into the hands of the Hol-
landers. One thing that the Dutch
have discovered in their two centuries
of rule in Sumatra is that there is no
such thing as making the natives sat-
isfied with their form of government.
The Dutch have been in possession of
Sumatra and Java since the seven-
teenth century, yet in all that time the
natives have never let an opportunity
pass to attempt regaining their inde-
pendence.
Senator Dillingham introduced a bill
to amend the immigration act of 1903.
It permits aliens to pass through the
United States without payment of]
head tax. Aliens, having once paid |
the head tax, may pass through for-|
eign territory, and again enter the
United States without payment of the
tax.
PROGRESS OF THE WAR.
Japanese Troops Moving Toward the
Yalu River.
The Japanese army in Korea is mov-
ing steadily toward the Yalu river
along the Peking or main road. The
Russians offered no opposition to the
occupation of Sengcheng, 18 miles
from Chongju, where the last engage-
ment was fought. Dispatches from
Korea credit the Russians with much
heavier losses in that ‘engagement
than they admitted in the official re-
| whose name is unknown.
CANAL CASE SETTLED.
Nothing Now Stands in Way of Com
pleting the Deal.
The attempt of the Colombian gov:
ernment and others interested in de
laying the purchase of the Panama ca:
nal by the United States government
was killed by the civil tribunal of the
Seine in Paris, when the suits brought
by the republic of Colombia and Na-
roclecn Bonaparte Wyse to enjoin the
transfer of the canal company’s prop-
erty to the United States were declar-
ed not receivable and the plaintiffs
were ordered to pay the costs.
This decision practically enus the
litigation in France, and it is now safe
for the United States government to
make the payments to Panama out
lined by the recent treaty with the
new republic. No obstacle now exists
here for the transfer of the canal con-
cession from the company to the Unit-
ed States.
THREE PLUNGED TO DEATH.
Rescuers and Woman They Tried to
Save Go Over Falls. >
Three persons plunged 210 feet to
their death over the Sheshone falls of
the Snake river. They were Miss Ma:
rie Willis, Samuel Graham and a man
Miss Willis
operated the ferryboat at this point.
Wednesday night she took the boat
across in response to a call. On the
return she found the guide rope was
not working properly and put back.
| Graham and the other man, who were
on the opposite side, took their skiff
and crossed to the ferryboat. They
teok Miss Willis off and started back
to the south bank. As the boat neared
the shore it was caught and taken
over the falls. No traces of the bodies
were found.
LEFT HEAPS OF DEAD.
Tibetans Attack British Force—Four
Hundred Slaughtered.
News has been received of severe
fighting, the Tibetans having attack-
ed the British mission, under Colonel
Younghusband. There were two en-
gagements and the Tibetans were re-
pulsed with heavy loss. The British
captured the Tibetan camp at Gur.
A second action tock place in which
the artillery played the largest part.
Finally the Tibetans retreated over
the hills with the exception of about
60, who persistently held the village,
which was finally taken by a mounted
bayonet charge.
The Tibetan losses are believed to
be over 400, while the British casual
ties are about a dozen.
The British state that rifles bear:
ing the Ruszian imperial stamp and
Russian ammunition were found on
the wounded Tibetan officers.
Other Tibetans used old matchlock
rifles, but they displayed the greatest
courage, many of them coming on af-
ter they had been seriously wounded.
After the action, there were heaps of
dead, and a long trail of dead and
wounded extenced to the rear.
MOUNTAIN DISAPPEARS.
Lake Mow Occupies Site of Peak in
State of Maine.
The story of a guide, confirmed by
a party of woodsmen, is that Bald
mountain in Maine disappeared on the
night of March 21, the date of the
New England earthquake.
Bald mountain was in the Tobique
valley a few miles from the New
Brunswick line. At its base were boil-
ing springs and nearby an extensive
deposit which analysis has shown to
be composed of melted rock and earth,
all indicating the presence of an ex-
tinct volcano. Now, where Bald moun:
tain stood, is only a large shallow lake,
and the theory of the woodsmen is
that the subsidance of the mountain
March 21 was the cause of the earth
quake.
NEGRO SHOT WHITE BOY.
Another Negro Wounded hy Officers
in Making Arrest.
During an altercation in the streets
of Indiana, Henry Jemison, an 18-year-
old white boy, was shot down by
Charles Fisher, a negro. Within half
an hour a posse of nearly 100 Indiana
citizens, headed by Sheriff Joseph Neal
and Deputy Sheriff George Roff, moved
upon the negro quarters at the “Y,”
one mile from Indiana on the Pennsyl
vania railroad branch.
Fisher was captured shortly before
midnight in a shanty along with four
other negroes. One of them was shot
through the back by Deputy Sheriff
Roff while attempting to escape
through a window.
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CURRENT EVENTS.
Emil Paur, the newly elected con:
ductor of the Pittsburg orchestra,
cabled an acceptance of tae position.
Deputy Jailer Martin Conover was
killed near Columbia, Ry. by Albert
Burton, whom he was attempting to
arrest.
John H. Coe, said to be a son of
John W. Coe, a New York State Sena.
tor and politician, was found dead at
San Francisco.
It is announced here that Joseph E
A battle of some magnitude is
Korea.
The opportunity for an easy capture |
of Newchwang by the Japanese has |
passed. ussia now has a strong gar-
rison and 100 big guns there to oppose |
Troops are |
the |
way from Harbin down to Haicheng, a |
a landing by the enemy.
encamped along the railway all
{ew miles east of Newchwang.
The presence of Chinese troops on
the Manchurian border is looked upon
as a menace to Russia, despite China’s
declaration of neutrality.
Confessed Robbery.
George W. Wilson, a. young man of
Pittsburg, went to police headquarters
in New York city and acknowledged
that he was guilty of connection with
the theft of an express package ‘in
Pittsburg. The package contained $1,-
180 and Peter Munze, who assisted
Wilson in the robbery, is in the peni-
| tentiary.
Schwab, president of the American
Stee] Foundries company, would soon
| resign owing to pressure from powers
in the company.
As a fast express train on the
| Queen and Crescent railway . wag
rounding a curve near Titusville, Ky.;
it struck a cow, knocking the animal
against Norton Morgan and his 14
year-old son, Oscar Morgan, killing
both of them.
Russian Warship Rammed.
A private telegram from Port Ar
thur dated March 29, states that while
the Russian battleship Petropaviovshk
was maneuvering in the inner harbor
there she rammed the battleship Se
| bastopol, seriously damaging the lat
| ter. The naval staff denies knowledge
| of such an accident.
| The Russian police have apologized
and have rehoisted the United Stated
flag over the correspondents’ mess at
| Newchwang.
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