KIN CHAU CAPTURED After Terrible Struggle Russians are Repulsed. «THE FIGHT LASTED 18 HOURS. Japanese Division Destined to Attack Port Arthur Landed on Liao- Tung Peninsula. After the bloodiest battle since that of Sedan, which settled the outcome of the Franco-Prussian war, the Japanese flag is flying over the fortifications of the Nanshan hill, high above Kinchau and on the road to Port Arthur. After 18 hours of continuous battle mnder heavy fire of both small arms and artillery, the Japanese army cap- tured and occupied the fortified city of Kinchau, then stormed the heights of Nanshan, and though repeatedly driven back, finally drove the Russians back on their fortress and gained abso- Tute control of the fortifications on the hill. Although no official reports of the casualties on either side have been re- ceived it is said on good authority that the Japanese loss was 12,000 men. An equal comparative loss on the part of the Russians would put their num- ber of dead and wounded at at least 8,000, bringing the terrible total dur- ing the day's fighting up to 20,000 men. The Russians are said, however, to have suffered heavier casualties than the Japanese, who have taken guns and other material and a few prison- ers. The Fifth Japanese division of vet- erans, which is destined for the storm- ing of Pcrt Arthur, already has land- ed on the Liao-Tung peninsula. The battle was resumed at dawn on Thursday. Three Japanese gunboats then entered Kinchau bay and in co- operation with the artillery on shore, shelled the Russian positions on Nan- shan hill. A Russian gunbeat in Ta- lienhan bay steamed close to the shore and shelled the Japanese left. From dawn the batteries on both sides hammered away at each other. At an early hour the Japanese infantry moved forward and at 5:20 o’clock Thursday morning then entered Kin- chau, the Russians retiring to the south. The fighting continued into Thursday night, the Japanese préssing to the south and storming Nanshan hill. They followed the retreating Russians through the southern hills. RUSSIANS HANG 600 PERSONS. Hangings in Cronstadt, Moscow and Other Cities. The London “Standard” publishes a dispatch from a Russian correspond- ent containing most sensational state- | ments regarding the alarming condi- tion of Russia as a result of the war. The correspondent asserts that dis- turbances in various cities have been followed by wholesale executions with- | out any civil trial. It is stated that 600 persons have been hanged in Warsaw alone and that many others have been hanged | At the lat. | in Cronstadt and Moscow. ter place the troops buried 80 coffins containing the bodies of those who | had been hanged. The bodies were buried secretly, in the dead of night, presumably in the woods. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. Paul Emmert, kilied by a street car at Zanesville, O. He was deaf and evidently did not hear the car approaching. The body of an unknown man was! found in Big Stillwater creek, mnear Dennison; O., by two boys. Nothing was found by which he could be iden- tified. The factory of the Hartford City '(Ind.) Flint Glass company was total- | ly destroyed by fire. The loss is given at $20,000. The plant *was owned by R. K. Willman and I. L. Gadbury. Michael Dreenner was killed by a trolley car near Connellsville, Pa. He was 40 years old and leaves a family. A barn belonging to D. S. Reynolds, at Volant, Pa., was struck by light- ning and destroyed. The loss is about $3,000. A snowfall of six inches is reported | in Montana and the northwest terri- tory. Samuel Black McCormick, of Cedar Rapids, Ia. was elected Chancellor of the University of Western Pennsyl- vania at a meeting of the Board of Trustees. Six prisoners, John Everett, Frank and John Taylor, John Patrick, Charles Hall and James Abrams, dug through the steel ceiling and a brick | wall in the Greenup, Ky., jail and es- caped. The President has appointed Com- | mander Samuel W. B. Diehl to sue- ceed Captaih Samuel C. Lemley as Judge Advocate General of the navy | when the latter’s term expires, June 3. ' Rear Admiral Barker has reported his arrival with the Kearsarge, Ala- bama, Maine and Jowa at the Azores. | One of these vessels probably will be | prdered at once to Tangier in connec- | tion with the kidnaping of Perdicaris. | While attempting to rescue Arthur Truby from the bottom of a well that twas being dug on the property of homas D. Mellon, a contractor, of Springdale, Pa. Gideon King Marsh- all and Ferdinand Pilette lost their dives. \ M. E. Elections. The result of the ballot taken by the Methodist general conference for editor of the Epworth “Herald” shows the election of Dr. S. J. Herbin By an bverwhelming majority. Ballots were taken for publishing agents of the INew York and Cincinnati book con- terns. For the New York agency omer Eaton and G. P. Mains were the only candidates voted for. H. C. Jennings and E. E. Graham were elected publishing agents of the Cin- ginnati branch. 70 years old, * was | | taken to Navarette. | MERCHANTS ARE CONSERVATIVE | | Better Movement of t Pig at Pittsbu and Coke Production Is cr at Maximum. Advices from special correspondents | of the International Mercantile Agen- | cy indicate that there has been further improvement last week in distribution of merchandise at prominent western centers, and generally better jobbing | trade at Omaha and simiiar points of | distribution, where sales are being pushed successfully. Uncertainty has given place to comparative assurance in quarters where new ventures could scarcely obtain a hearing a few weeks ago. But merchants everywhere are con- servative, buying closer than a year ago. In both lines indications point to heavy trade in fall goods. Boots and shoes are passing quickly into the hands of consumers, returns in this line being for the most part abnormal- ly heavy. Enlarged distribution of foodstuffs is noted at Chicago. Tieup in lake traffic is becoming more serious, with no prospect of less- ening the congestion and little relief from the railroads. Rail tonnage shows a small decrease in territory where the roads might be expected to benefit as a result of the water blockade. New England advices sug- gest serious interference with gen- eral trade unless idle longshoremen resume work. Other than this, the la- bor situation is less troublesome than a year ago, although the laying off of many thousand employes by the different railroads involves complica- tions which cannot be accurately reck- | oned with at this time. Iron and steel continue to show a halting tendency, with some better movement of pig iron at Pittsburg and coke productions almost at maximum. In finished lines the pipe trade is showing marked activity with improv- ed inquiry for boiler tubes. . The weather during the week has been favorable for crops throughout the west, southwest and northwest. Although reports of crop damages come from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan! and Oklahoma, other sections, notably the Missouri valley, Rocky mountains and Pacific coast, have experienced satisfactory temperatures. The weather has been rather unfavorable | for new cotton in parts of Texas. The situation in other sections of the south is, however, satisfactory. Corn and oats are being harvested in some sections of that state. Rice and sugar cane are in good state, and business governed by crop conditions shows up | well in all branches. SURVEYS IN'25 YEARS. ! i | falling into the river, others landing | | What the United States Geological Bu- { reau Has Done. | The United States Geological Survey has just passed its quarter-century mark, and in celebration of the event has prepared a monograph of the achievements by it during that period which monograph is to be distributed | in conncction with the ‘Government { exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition. Since the establishment of the sur- vey a complete topographic map has been made of 929,850 square miles of the area of the United - States. In| “other words, the survey has finished | the mapping of 26 per cent. of the | area of the country, including Alas- ka, or 31 per cent. excluding Alaska. | This great map, of which nearly one- third has been completed, has neces- sarily been published in the form of an |atlas. The completed part consists of 1,327 atlas sheets, printed in three {colors from color-plate engravings. | | The topographic maps of the survey | have greatly expedited investigations made by. cities of their water supply | and have been of the highest value to railway companies and State high- | way bureaus. ! Perhaps the immediate value of the! | survey’s work to the people is best shown by the aid it renders in de- veloping the mineral resources and in! forwarding important engineering pro- | jects. The investigation of the mining | geology of Leadville, Col., has, for mn stance, guided exploration and secured economical mining in a district that] has produced between $200,000,000 and | $309,000,000 in metals. It has also taught the mining engineer and the miner the practical importance of geo- logic study in their work. The geologic mapping of surface formations has been extended over about 171,000 square miles, and 106 | geologic folios have been published, while nearly an equal number are in various stages of preparation. Each of these folios complete history of the topography, geology and mineral resources of the area described in them. | - ABA NDONS PORTAGE LINE. { Pennsylvania Does It Wnder Necessity of Reducing Its Expenses. Shertage of traffic and consequent necessity for reducing expenses on the ! Pennsylvania railroad are the reasons given for the closing to through traffic of the New Portage branch, built with- in two years at a cost of $5,000,000. | This latest retrenchment order takes | effect at once. No date is fixed for re- opening the line. The New Portage line was built to | supplement the main line and to give! an alternate route between the summit | of the Allegheny mountains at the east end of the Gallitzin tunnels and Pitts- burgh. It was conceived and built | to relieve the main line through Al- toona in the movement of cecal and | other heavy traffic. | REVOLUTIONISTS VICTORIOUS. | Dominican Troops Defeated and Gen. Cabrera Killed. .A serious battle was fought on May 26 between the Dominican troops and the revolutionists at Esheranza. The revolutionists were victorious. Many were killed or wounded ch both sides. Gen. Raoul Cabrera, minister of war, who commanded the government troops, was killed and his body was -Joseph O. Price, | will recover. | was shattered | Russiang present a practically | | head. | sons living in rural he had written to many of these per- i profit in interest of | conscicus condition. | later. * TEN KILLED BY EXPLOSION et on the Ohio River Was | Wrecked and Sunk. CAPTAIN AND PILOT KILLED. Force of Explosion Shattered Windows in the City of Louisville Four Miles Away. The towboat Fred Wilson was torn | to fragments, 10 men were blown to pieces, and 16 others injured by a tre- mendous explosion of the boat’s boil- Of the injured The force of the explosion was so great that it shattered windows and awakened the occupants of houses in Louisville, four ers on the Ohio river. one will prebably die. miles from the scene. The dead are: Pa.; Albert H. Miller, pilot, Pittsburg; W. A. Holland, guest of Capt. Braddock, Pa; Pittsburg; Tyrone, Pa.; J. C. Johnson, engineer, Pittsburg; ton, cclored, fireman, Middleport, O.; Joseph Warren, colored, fireman, Mid- dleport, O. The injured: Tobias Letzicouch, deckhand, Wellsburg, W. Va.; prob- ably fatal; Carl Cody, cabin boy, Brockton, O.; blown 125 feet to shore, | serious; William M. Timmons, Pitts- burg; John Miller, Allegheny; William Miller, Allegheny; Middleport, O.; Emma Williamson, chambermaid, Pittsburg. Nine others slightly injured. All the injured except Only three bodies have thus far been recovered. The bodies of the other seven victims are thought to be pinned under the wreckage and may not be recovered for several days. The Fred Wilson was the property of the Monongahela River Consolidat- ed Coal and Coke company, of ' Pitts- burg, and at the time the accident oc- curred was arranging her tow near Riverview. park, about 60 feet from shore. No explanation of the cause of the accident has been offered. One theory is that there may have been an excess of mud in the boilers. There was not the slightest warning preceding the terriffic explosion and | so great was the pressure and so large | the great boilers that the big steamer | into small bits, while | the crew was blown into the air, some on the embankment, while some less | fortunate were caught in the wreckage | ! and killed instantly. The upper works of the steamer were torn entirely away, while the | hull was so badly shattered that it] sank to the bottom instantly. GREAT LOSS REPORTED. and Japanese Meet Terrible Slaughter. The Shan Khai ent of the London “Daily Chronicle” sends - a report received from New Chwang that on May 23, thinking that the Japanese had retired from Feng Wang Cheng, 15,000 Russians from | Hai Cheng and Liao Yang marched to- | They were surprised by 30,000 Japanese in the, ward Feng Wang Cheng. Tatung pass. The Russians casualties were 4,000 and over 1,000 Russians | surrendered. The report does not] state the Japanese losses. The Tokio correspondent of the] “Daily Express’ says it is reported un- officially that the Japanese have cap- tured Kin Chou and are now attacking Dalny. The Tokio correspondent of the “Daily Mail,” under date of May 26, says: “According to a reliable report the Japanese occupied Kin Chou to- | day.” China Hesitates. A Peking correspondent says the | var party is making strenucus efforts | to induce the Government to give up Government seems undecided as to taking such a awaiting before shaping its neutrality, but the step and is, for the moment, events in Manchuria its conduct. SOLD BOGUS STOCKS. New Jersey Youth Admits Mails to Defraud. Charles L. was committed to jail at Newark, N. J., in default of $1,000 bail on a charge of swindling. | United States Murphy admitted that he had purchased a mail order list firm that furnishes addresses of per- ‘When arraigned before sons asking if they did not wish to purchase stock that would yield “A 50 per cent.” He remembered selling P. J. Robb, of Salem, O., the complainant against him, $75 worth of “Lunar Oil stock.” This stock, he admitted, existed only in his imagination. ern Union Telegraph “Marconi Wireless” the transaction ending on the receipt of the money. stock When asked to-day where he got the | idea of selling bogus stock, Murphy | “I have read considerable and | I learned about such operations that | But I did not expect so many | | answers.” said: way. Mother and Son Drowned. Mrs. Joshua Whedber and her 3-year old son were drowned at Merchants Mill, N. C. Mrs. Whedber, her son and Mrs. Diana Whedber, her mother, were driving in a carriage and the horse, becoming frightened, began to back into a deep lake. All three occupants were thrown into the water. Mrs. Diana Whedber was saved. She was found floating on the lake in an un- She was revived captain, Braddock, Price, William Quinn, stew- ard, Pittsburg; Hugh Hoskins, cook, deckhand, Patrick White, deckhand, Pittsburg; Sherman S. Shibler, second William Thorn- Albert E. Stewart, Letzicouch With | Kwan cerrespond-! Using Murphy, a country youth Commissioner White- from a districts and that He also sold West- | and | stock, his part of | REVOLTING CRIME Body of Dead Man hacked to Pieces and Burned by Wife. Ida May de Kay, the daughter of Mrs. Kate Taylor, who is undergoing a second trial for the murder of her husband, Lafe Taylor, at Monticello, N. Y,, told the story of the killing of her stepfather, as witness by herself. The girl asserted that her uncle, Pet- er Yarkins, was at the Taylor house on the night of the murder, and as- sisted Mrs. Taylor in dismembering { the body. | The girl related the details of the disposition of the body, which were of the most revoiting character. Her mother, she said, cut off Taylor's head with an ax and put it in the stove. Then the older woman took a lighted lantern and swung it around three times from the doorway. This brought Peter Yerkins to the house the witness continued. He asked if Lafe was dead and received an af firmative answer. Mrs. Taylor again took the ax and tried to cut off one of Taylor's legs, then laid the ax down before she had succeeded. Yer: | kins took the weapon and finished cutting off the leg. Ida says she went | to bed and left Yerkins and her moth: er together with the body. When she arose the next morning Yerkins had disappeared and her mother was stil) burning the body. At the previous trial it was brought out that Mrs. Taylor hacked the trunk of the body with the axe. The bones she pounded to a powder, which she fed to the chickens. The skull was brought back to the house and con cealed in the kitchen stove. FURNACES WILL CLOSE DOWN. Proposed Reduction of 20 Per Cent ir United States. Within the next 30 days the produc tion of pig iron will, it is stated bry leading dealers in New York, be great ly curtailed at the furnaces in al parts of the United States. The pro posed reduction, which is not by united action, is various estimated af 20 to 40 per cent of the present out put. The furnaces to be most quick ly affected are those which have beer in operation the longest, as the new furnaces have more modern machin ery and equipment and can turn out iron at a lower cost than their older competitors. The production of pig iron during 1903 was 19,000,000 tons Experts assert that unless there is great improvement in the near future the total for the current year will not exceed 14,000,000 tons. It is stated that the first curtail ment will be made in about threes weeks. the Chicago district, producing about | 600 tons of pig iron a day, will ther be closed down and others are ex pected to follow rapidly unless the demand becomes much heavier than | | at present, OHIO DEMOCRATS. | State Ticket Nominated—Delegates to National Convention Unin- . structed. | The Democrats, at their State con vention in Columbus, nominated the following ticket: Secretary of Siate—aA, P. Sandles, Ottawa. Judge of Suateme Court—Philip J. Renner, Cincinnati. Clerk of Supreme Court—Perry M. Mehaffy, Cambridge. Dairy and Food Commissioner— Quentin M. Gravatt, Wooster. Member of Board of Public Works— William H. Ferguson, Springfield. Electors-at-Large—John A. McDow- ell, Millersburg, and A. J. Pearson, Woodsfield. The following are the National dele- gates-at-large: William S. Thomas, Springfield. John A. McMahon, Dayton. Charles P. Salen, Cleveland. Edward H. Moore, Youngstown. ! The alternates-at-large are: William H. Decker, Paulding, John Sheenan, Cincinnati. Joseph A. Phelan, Columbus. David L. Rockwell, Ravenna. The Nationa] delegates were unin- structed. and are bound by the. unit rule. | It is reported that Russia has ob- tained consent from Turkey to the passage through the Dardanelles of the Black Sea squadron, now mobiliz- ing. ARMY OFFICERS SENTENCED. Lieutenants Harris and Fisher Dis- missed From Service. The war department has received | from the division of the Philippines two cases of courtmartial, in which the officers tried are sentenced to be dismissed from the service. First 1jeut. H. L. Harris, Jr, Twenty second infantry, was tried for drunk- enness and disorderly conduct while on duty. He was appointed a cadet to the military academy from New Jersey in 1894. Second Lieut. Samuel H. Fisher, Twenty-eighth infantry, was tried for duplication of his pay accounts. He was appointed from the army, which he entered as an enlisted man in 1898. He is a native of Virginia and was commissioned from that state in February. 1901. CURRENT EVENTS. The strike of plumbers and steam fitters in Detroit was settled and 40¢ men resumed work. : At Boone, Ia., Curtis Galpin was fa tally wounded by an unknown assas | sin who lay in wait in Galpin’s barn. | The 900 handlers of iron and heavy | hardware in the wholesale and retail | stores of Chicago struck .for higher wages. Polotzk Ignintz, a well-known for eigner, of Dunbar, Pa. was killed while at work in the Mahoning mines of the Cambria Steel company. According to the latest reports the | Japanese camps are infected with cholera and there is an average of 100 deaths daily. The strike at the Standard Steel Car works at Butler, Pa., has been settled, and the plant will be run full turn | again. ’ One company’s furnaces in’ TEN MINERS MEET DEATH Fumes from Engine Overcome Them While in Car. FOREMAN IS AMONG THE DEAD. Accident First of Its Kind in the An- thracite Region and Is Unex- plained. Ten miners were suffocated by gas and sulphur fumes from a small lo- comotive in the workings of the Sum- mit Branch Coal Company at Wil liamstown, near Harrisburg, Pa. The dead are W. M. Golden, assist- ant superintendent; George Raidle, master mechanjc; John Kpurney, Jo- seph Punch, Enoch Morgan, Albert Nau, Fred James, Adam Scoppenheim- er, John Fredench, Samuel Fredench. The accident was one of the most peculiar that ever happened in the anthracite mines, and so far it is un- explainable, according to mine ex- perts. The tunnel in which the disaster occurred is one mile in length, and is used by the coal company to cojy- vey the coal mined in the workings in the Bear valley to the breaker in the Williams valley. The men em- ployed in the mines in the Bear val- ley, who reside in Williamstown, have made a practice for years to ride to and from their work on the trips of cars that are hauled between the two valleys by small locomotives. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon General Inside Foreman Golden and about 50 miners boarded a loaded trip which was about to be hauled from Bear valley to Williamstown. Everything .went all right until about half the journey was made, when some of the men attracted the attention of the engineer, who at once stopped, and it was found that nearly every man in the party on the cars had been overcome by the gas and sulphur which emanated from the stack of the locomotive and floated back over them. The engineer crowded on all steam possible and the unconscious men were hurried to the Williamstown end of the tunnel with all the speed pos- sible. Here help was summoned and the men were taken to the surface, where a corps of physicians made every ef- fort to resuscitate them. Aid came too late for Foreman Golden and the other victims. | The tunnel has been in constant op- | eration for more than 40 years, and | this is the first accident of any kind that has happened in it. It is par- fectly free from mine gases and the | ventilation is so perfect and the air! current so strong and steady that be-| sides being used for hauling cars the tunnel] has formed one of the intakes that furnish air to the mines, No trou- ble has ever been experienced before from gas from the small mine loco- motives and the officials are entirely at sea as to the cause of the tragedy this evening. Thirty-five of the remaining men in the car were also unconscious, but the physicians managed to revive them and they are now considered out of danger. M. P. General Conference. With enthusiastic appaoval the Methodist. Protestant conference re- ceived the proposition for anion, embracing their denomination, ithe Congregationalists and the United Brethren. pointed to take the matter under Immediate consideration that decisive action may be had before the end of the conference. The cenference unan- (mously indorsed the inter-church movement for uniform laws on mar- riage and divorce, and authorized a committee of three to represent the denomination in this regard. Dr. M. T. Jennings, of Pittsburg, was re-elected editor of the ‘Methodist Recorder,” and Rev. Dr. C. E. Wilbur, of Pittsburg, was re-elected editor of! the Sunday school publications of the lenomination. Torpedo tests will be begun by the 1avy next month at Newport and Sag Harbor. CAPITAL NOTES. Secretary Hay has decided that, notwithstanding Belgian capitalists’ Interests in it, the United States will protect the Canton-Hankow railway, in China, as an American enterprise. Agricultural Department figures give $4,500,000,000 as a conservative astimate of the value of United States farm products exclusive: of those fed to live stock in 1903. The Republic of Panama will try to invest $6,000,000 of the $10,000,000 re- ceived from the United States in mortgages on New York property. Commander Peary expects to take | with him to Greenland in July a party of consumptives, who, it is thought, will profit by the Arctic air treatment. The First National Bank of Cape May was closed by order of the con- troller of the currency. was recently “reorganized ter a consultation with Bank Examin- er Buck, decided to suspend business. It is said that the depositors will be paid in full. the former president, it is caused the present trouble. stated, / Anju Destroved. The Russians on Mav 16 made a sudden attack upon the town of Anju, Korea, from the village of Haitchien, | and captured the town, destroying it. | The Japanese garrison set fire to the | houses and retired in perfect order. After Russian Raiders. A Japanese force is marching in the direction of Gensan to deal with the Russian raiders in Northern Korea. A company of Japanese from Fusan yes- terday routed a company of Cossacks at Sementsu. church | A committee of 50 was ap-| Rev. | The bank | and the present officers of the institution, af-| Financial difficulties of | a, TWENTY HURT IN WRECK. | Passenger Train Crashes Into Freight Cars at East Liverpool. Westbound passenger trains 363 on the Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad in rounding a curve above the regiroad station in this city this afternoon ran into a number of empty freight cars which a shifting crew had left stand- ing on the main track. Twenty per- | sons were injured, some of them quite | seriously. Those worst hurt are: Engineer Harriscn Headley, East Liv- erpocl, badly bruised and shoulder hurt; Fireman A. J. Williams, Cleve- land, crushed and bruised in jumping from cab; Conductor H. McKee, Bel- laire, bruised; Express Messenger Johnson, Cleveland, bruised, safe over- turning on him; Mrs. J. A. Cotton, col- ored teacher, North Carolina, head and shoulders bruised; James Costello, Cleveland, severe cut over eye; Miss Minnie Wright, teacher, Harrisburg, Pa., teeth knocked cut; Mrs. “Dan” Dutach and child, Pittsburg, severely bruised; Mrs. Isabella Townsend, Tarentum, Pa., head badly cut, teeth knocked out and hand crushed; John Newman, head cut; Frank Miller, Pittsburg, neck sprained and face cut; W. W. Harker, pottery manufac- turer, East Liverpool, bruised. COLOMBIANS INDIGNANT. Will Not Receive Diplomatic Repre- sentative From This Country. The Colombian government has not yet gotten over its indignation be- cause of the secession of Panama, nor its anger against the United States for having so promptly recog- nized the new republic. Just before Congress adjourned the President nominated W. W. Russell, secretary of the legation at Panama, to be minister of the United States at Bogota, to succeed Minister Beau- pre, who left there because of the failure of the canal treaty negotia- tions with Colombia. The Colombian government, has, however, notified the United States through A. G. Sny- der, United States charge d’affaires at Bogota, that it will not receive Mr. Russell nor any other diplomatic rep- resentative from this country. Mr. Russell was about ready to start for his new post of duty, but, because of this complication, has been direct- ed to remain in Panama for the pres- ent. OLD OFFICERS RE-ELECTED. Amalgamated Convention . Adjourned After Three Weeks’ Session. After having been in session fpr nearly three weeks in Cleyeland, the thirty-ninth annual convention of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers adjourned, af- ter re-electing Theodore J. Shaffer as | president and choosing Detroit as the next convention city. The other officers were re-elected as | follows: Secretary-treasurer, John Williams, Pittsburg; assistant: secre- | tary, M. F. Tighe Pittsburg; editor and manager Amalgamated Associa- tion Journal, Ben I. Davis, Pittsburg; Elias Jenkins, Youngstown; John J. Hagen, Piqua, O.; delegate to the con- vention of the American Federation of | Labor, Daniel B. Sullivan, Oakland, | Cal. M. E. General Conference. | | J. R. Day, Chancellor of the Syra- cuse University was the eighth of the new bishops elected by the M. E. General Conference, but he declined the office. The ballot taken for mis- sionary bishops resulted in the elec- | tion of Dr. I.-B: Scott, of - Louisiana (colored) as missionary bishop to Africa, and Dr. W. F. Oldham and | Dr. K. E. Robinson as additional mis- sionary bishops in Southern Asia. The | conference finally disposed of the | question as to whether the Methodist church would return to the rule of | limiting the tenure of pastorship, by adopting resolutions that no change be made In the rule adopted four years ago, which provides for an unlimited tenure. 280 Seamen Lost. Of the complement of the protected cruiser Yoshino, sunk recently in col- lision with the cruiser Kasuga, 60 non- commissioned officers and 220 blue jackets were drowned, and 48 com- missioned officers and men were res- | cued. TOWN ALMOST WIPED OUT. | Two Hundred Buildings Destroyed With Loss of $1,000,000. Fire destroyed every business house of any importance, together with a large number of private residences, the principal hotel and the passenger | depot in Yazoo City, Miss. a town of 6,000 people. The fire started in the | morning and burned until 5 o’clock in the afternoon, destroying a total of 200 houses. The burned district is three blocks wide and 12 blocks long. The estimates of the loss are between $1,600,000 and $2,000,000. In the after- ncon the fire jumped a bayou and spread to Latonia, a residence suburb, where it destroyed some of the finest homes. About 60 families there are | homeless to-night. A man named Chambliss was killed by falling walls, and Mayor Holmes was badly hurt. The residence of Con- gressman John Sharp Williams is re- ported to have been destroyed. 1 Rear Admiral Cooper, commander- in-chief of the Asiatic squadron, has requested that he be relieved of that | command and placed on the retired | list in the early fall. Boston Wool Market. { The demand for old wools in the | market has been unusually quiet the past week. From the manufacturers’ | standpoint the situation is no more | favorable than at any time during the | spring. Some current quotations fol- {low: Ohio and Pennsylvania, XX and | above, 32@33c; X, 29@30c; No. 1, 31 @32c; No. 2, 31@32c; fine, unwashed, 22@23c; YY @3 and Y%-blood, unwash- ed, 243;@25c; fine washed delaine, 33@34c; Michigan, X and above, 25@ 26¢; No. 1, 29@30c; No. 2, 28@29c; ed. 24% @25c: I P1 Nev. sold Gua ay cane Fre GU
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