TS PWR SIX KILLED IN A COLLISION Two Electric Cars on Lake Shore Line Crash Together. CAUSE OF WRECK UNKNOWN. Men and Women Were Crushed Un- der Heavy Timbers and Pin- ioned In. In the most terrible accident that the Lake Shore electric railway has ever known, six persons lost their lives and 18 persons were injured, several of them fatally. The eastbound limited, which left Norwalk, O., at 4:45 o'clock p. m. crashed into an electric package car at Wells Corners, three miles from Norwalk, about 5:50 o'clock. How the accident occurred is not known now and perhaps never will be. The Dead: Clarence Ketcham, New London, O., Thomas Sweeney, Toledo, O., Neil Sullivan, Binghamton, N. Y., Ralph Williams, Toledo, O., W. P. Stevenson, Cleveland, W. W. Sher- wood, Cleveland. The freight car stopped at Berlin- ville, about five miles east of where the accident occurred, to leave some freight and started west again. Both cars were running at a high rate of Bpeed. The freight car cut almost through the limited, and the -wonder is that anyone escaped alive. The spot where the accident occurred is a lonely one, and it was some time before .assist- ance arrived. The sight immediately after the crash was beyond description. Men end women were imprisoned beneath heavy timbers and were screaming and groaning with pain. Willing hands soon carried .out the wounded, but many were pinned. under , the heavy timbers of the freight car, and it was necessary to, jack the car up and saw a way through before the dead could be taken out. . .. Supt. Strélau of. the Fremont divis- ion of the road was on the scene with- in an hour after the accident apd is in charge. . Neither the motorman nor the conductor of the.limited was in- jured to any extent. The dead were taken to Norwalk. . SLAUGHTER IN MISSISSIPPI. Two White Men and Three Blacks Have Been Killed. As aresult of a fight which occurred on the Sims and Williams’ plantation at Trail lake, Miss., 30 miles east of Greenville, John Sims and his man- ager, named Cato, ‘were killed by ne- groes and three of the negroes have been killed also. It is feared further trouble may ensue between the whites and blacks. i The slaughter - started about 10 o'clock at night, when Sims and Cato were shot down ‘in their store by a negro named Sam Clark. Sims was engaged in checking up his cash when Clark came in. Berore he could make any kind of a move Clark raised a Winchestér and fired, the shot taking effect in the back. Sims died instantly. Clark turned om Cato, the man- ager, and shot him in the right side. Cato staggered out of the back of the store and as he reached the door 8B negro convict guard named Van Horn, who was apparently in waiting, struck him over the head with a rifle, Cato died at 7 o'clock next morning. News of the tragedy was sent to Greenville and Sheriff John Crouch with a posse went to the rescue. Van Horn and Clark had made their es- cape before the posse arrived, but the trail of Van Horn was found and he was tracked about a quarter of a mile into the wood. Here another negro convict guard named Mayfield inter- fered with the posse and he was shot down in his tracks. Van Horn was captured and taken to Leland, 14 miles distant, where he was kept in jail all night under a strong guard, but at 8:30 this morn- ing he was taken out and lynched by a mob. While the sheriff and posse were busy with Van Horn, Clark returned to the Sims store with the intention, it is said of killing Buck Williams, the other partner; the bookkeeper, named Crow, who was also at work, and others. Crow had armed himself, as had also a negro who worked about the place, named Aaron Fuller. When Clark made his appearance he was shot and killed by both Crow and Fuller. It is believed at Trail Lake that the shooting is the outcome of a meet- ing held in the vicinity of Trail Lake by a negro secret society. HOUSE WRECKED. Woman and Child Injured by an Ex- plosion. While attempting to burn a flue out with miners’ powder, Mrs. John BPo- logne, of Florence mine, near Punx- sutawney, Pa., was the victim of an explosion, which may kill her and her 18-mcnths-old child. Mrs. Bologne took the powder from a four-gallon can and after placing some of it in the stove pipe set fire to it, thinking it would clear the flue, A slight explosion followed which threw sparks into the can, when a second ex- plosicn occurred which wrecked the house and blew the woman and baby out through the door and several feet away from the building. The woman’s clothing was on fire when two neigh- bors came to her assistance. While they were trying to assist Mrs. Bo- logne a second can of powder explod- ed and they were also badly burned. Admits Shortage in Accounts. Jesse B. Baker, a bookkeeper form- erly employed by the National How- ard bank, of Baltimore, was arrested at his home charged with embezzle- ment. He admitted that there was a shortage in his accounts of between $10,000 and $12,000. Baker disappear- ed two weeks ago, but returned to Baltimore a few days ago and was arrested. Commissioner Rogers com- mitted him in default of $10,000 bond. { TERRIBLE NEW WEAPON. Baltic Fleet. The correspondent of the London | | Mail at Paris says: | { “It is stated that Capt. Oda, the in-| | ventor of the mines which destroyed | the Petropavlovsk, has devised a new | engine, a cross between a torpedo and a mine, charged with an enormous quantity of nitroglycerin and driven by an oil motor. As soon as the] Baltic fleet is located in far eastern | waters this invention will be set for | its destruction. Positions are being | prepared in Formosa and the Loo! Choo islands. Apparently the torpedo mine will be steered by wireless elec- tricity. | “Precautions will be taken to guar-. antee the safety of neutrals, which, will be warned off by Japanese cruis-| ers. There will be no risk of live mines remaining adrift on the high | seas, the explosion occurring after a| given time.” of | | | | 2 Will Be Used to Destroy Russia's! | SERIOUS FLOOD. Cloudburst Blots Out Farms and Sweeps Houses Away. Enormous loss in crops and farm ' animals is reported for 25 miles along the Lycoming valley, from Ralston to Williamsport, Pa., by a cloudburst over Bradford and Lycoming counties. Whole farms have been practically carried away, landmarks have been biotted out and houses have been car- r.ed from their foundations. The cloudburst sent a wave of wa-' ter 12 feet high down the Lycoming creek. Just south of Canton the creek rose nine feet in an hour. An entire block of wooden houses in Can- ton was carried into the middle of the street. | The Northern Central and the Sus- quehanna & New York railroads are blocked. AN AGREEMENT REACHED. Strike of 8,000 Coal Miners Thought to Be Ended. The joint scale committee of the miners and operators of the Fifth Ohio sub-district, reached an agree- ment which will probably bring to an end the strike of 8,000 miners which has been in progress for several weeks. The agreement will be sub- mitted to the miners and if accepted, will be ratified at the joint confer- ence of the miners and operators in the afternoon. Both sides refused to make the terms of compromise public in advance of its presentation to the joint conference. The trouble hinged upon the control of the engineers, firemen and other outside workers by the miners’ organization, JAPS NEAR PORT ARTHUR. Mikado’s Guns Now Frown Down on Beleaguered City. The Rome correspondent of the Cen- tral News telegraph: “A Tokyo dispatch to the Giornale d'Italia says that the Japanese have occupied the first line of the outer fortifications of Port Arthur after a feeble resistance.” . The correspondent at Tokyo of the News Agency Liberas says that four divisions of Japanese troops have oc- . cupied Kwan-Tung heights, on which they emplaced heavy artillery domin- ating Port Arthur. The same correspondent adds that the Russian squadron attempted a | sortie. but was forced to return, be- ing threatened by the Japanese fleet. $2,000,000 TO FOUND SCHOOL. Institute To Be in Memory of Pio- neer S. G. Reed." Mrs. Amanda W. Reed, who died at Pasadena, Cal, a few days ago, has provided in her will for the found- ing of an institution at Portland, Ore., to. be known as Reed Institute, in memory of her husband, the late Si- mon G. Reed, a pioneer and capital- ist of Portland. The bequest will amount to about $2,000,000. Her will specifies that the institute shall combine instruction in the fine arts and sciences and manual training, and that it shall be conduct- ed with especial regard to the needs of young men and young women com- pelled to earn their own living. Electric Bolt Kills Four. Three children were killed and a man was fatally injured by an electric shock which partially destroyed the home of John Gentry near Tennyson, Ind. during a storm. TERSE TELEGRAMS. Hundreds of Italian immigrants are in danger of starving at Montreal. Sir Henry Irving annouced that he would retire from the stage in 1906. The first train over the Wabash from Pittsburg to St. Louis is sched- uled to run June 26. Orders were given at the Vatican that all persons admitted to audience with the Pope must kneel. Thomas H. Riegel, for many years note clerk at the First National Bank of Easton, Pa., committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. It is announced that the Erie Rail road company intends beginning op- erations at once in opening up 5,000 acres of coal land near DuBois, Pa. It bas been discovered that five ivory statuettes, valued at $500, have been stolen from the Holland section in the east wing of the Art palace, at the World's Fair, the thief substitut- ing imitations in place of the articles removed. Georgia Negro Lynched. Arthur Thompson, a negro, shot and killed M. L. Dudley, a young white man, at Arlington, Ga. A crowd of men captured the negro, lynched him and riddled the body with bullets be-| fore midnight. Dudley was a man-| ager of the City Electric Lighting plant, and Thompson was a fireman | at the same plant. » | Thirteen suits for divorce have been | entered in the Butler county, (Pa.) courts, 1 | Fire Destroys Mammoth Distillery | yards ‘ward Simatsi, ' brisk in the United States. PERISHED IN THE FLAMES at Peoria, lllinois. MANY HEAD OF CATTLE LOST. Firemen Had Trouble to Get Near the Buildings and a Strong Wind Was Blowing. An explosion which occurred in the 11-story warehouse of the Corning | distillery at Peoria, Ill., the second | largest in the world, completely | wrecked the building. The ruins im-| mediately took fire and communicated | to three adjoining buildings, burning | them to the ground. Ten men were | buried beneath the ruins and burned | to death, and six others were seriously | injured. The loss on buildings and | whisky stored will approximate 81,- 000,000. The fire spread to the stock- | district, where a dozen large] cattle barns filled with cattle for mar- | ket were burned. The dead are: Frederick Knoll, Louis Behrend, John ! H. Breker, John Zimmerman, Louis Sax, William Finley, Jr., E. Brown, M. Crowl, John Leppin, William Field. The cause of the explosion cannot yet be determined. The warehouse containing in the neighborhood of 30,- 000 barrels of whisky, was instantane- ously a seething caldren. Large streams ran down grade toward the river, and in a short time there was a foot of whisky in the cattle pens east of the warehouse. The firemen had -great difficulty in fighting the flames. The- two fermenting houses were soon food for the flames. They were two structures of good dimensions and both of them were practically de- stroyed. The firemen got near the fire with difficulty and the water had little or no effect. A high wind was blowing and fanning the flames in the direction of the Monarch distil lery, and for a time it was fear- ed that the fire would sweep along the entire river bank. However, the heroic work of the firemen began to tell and at 7 o’clock the fire seem- ed under control, with no likelihood of a further spread. This was the third catastrophe in less than a year which has overtaken the distilling company. ~ Russians Twice Beaten Back. The Japanese and Russian forces located north of Pulandien, which were in a series of brushes during the early part of last week, had another encounter last Friday near Chuchia- tun. The Japanese cavalrymen met the Russians at noon. The Russians num- bered 2,000 men, and were composed of infantry detachments of cavalry and artillery. They were pressing the Japanese cavalry when the Japanese assembled their entire froce and en- gaged the enemy. The Russians drew off gradually and at 5:30 in the afternoon retired to Telishu. ! The Japanese suffered: four . men | killed and four men wounded. A report has been received from General Kuroki, saying that Friday last a detachment was dispatcaed from Ai-Yang-Chang (Ai-Yang-Pien- men?) to the northeast of Fangwang- cheng to make a reconnoissance to- 35 miles north of Fengwangcheng. This detachment en- countered 600 Cossacks and after ‘a engagement the Russians re- treated. General Kuroki reports that the Russian loss was heavy. . The Jap- | anese suffered one man killed and three wounded. Thibetan Generar 1s Killed. The British expedition in Thibet has captured two four-pounders from the enemy and a Lhassa general is re- ported to have been killed. Thee Thibetans have refused to forward to Lhassa the letter from Col. Young- husband, the political agent with the expedition, fixing the latest date on which the British are prepared to meet and negotiate with lama and Thibetan delegates at Gyang-Tse be- | fore advancing on Lhassa. MOB TOOK REVENGE. Burned Building Because Bull Fight Did Not Take Place. Incensed over their failure to see a | “genuine Spanish bull fight,” which | the authorities had ordered stopped, a riot was started in an arena near the World's fair grounds at St. Louis by a crowd of 2,500 men and boys, who were unable to get their money back, and the building was burned to the ground. Four men were placed under arrest by the authorities of St. Louis county, charged with destruction of property. The crowd, thinking these | men were connected with the show, made an attempt to mob them, and in their encounter with the deputy sheriffs a number were roughly handled. The building is said to have cost $2,500. It is a total loss. lilinois Deadlock Ended. Charles S. Deneen, of Chicago, is the Republican nominee for Governor ot Illinois. The choice was made on the seventy-ninth ballot, after a con- test without a precedent in the his- tory of the Republican party in the State of Illinois, possibly in its history Nine Reported Killed. | Nine persons are reported to have been killed and many injured in a col- lision of passenger trains on the Mis- souri Pacific r ] near Martin City, 15 miles th of Kansas City. The trains, which met headon, were westbound Colorado Limited No. 1, and the eastbound Ho gton, Kan- sas accommodation, No. 36. Margaret Swack, 16 years old, was killed by a train at Cumberland, Md., while returning home from work in the Cumberland glass works. | the garrison. | Sweeps ‘son, of Fayette county, Pa. TELLS HOW SCHEME WORKED. | | Three Other Men Who Escaped to Croatia Were Implicated in Crime. Milovar Kovovick, under sentence of death for the murder of Contractor Ferguson, has made a complete con-| fession. The admissions were made Sunday! afternoon by the Croatiion to Chief of | Detectives McQuaide, of Pittsburg, and several others through Interpre-| ter Winkler, | According to Kovovick, Milovar Pat-| trovick, declared guilty of murder’ in the second degree for complicity in the crime had nothing to do with it beyond a guilty knowledge. Kovovick stated that there were! four men implicated in the crime, three of whom have now returned to Croatia. He described the laying of the mine and gave all details. The first plan was to shoot him, but this was considered crude and the dynamite mine in the road was then adopted as the best plan. On the morning of September 25 Kovovick and his three companions laid the mine beneath the small cul- vert in the foot of Seminary hill, and { then awaited the approach of their victim. Kovovick and another man were on the west side of the road hidden in a clump of bushes along the fence. A third man was hidden hind the stump and touch battery which hurled Fer doom, while a fourth was the road acting as lookout. Kovovick stated, was at bh used in case the dynamite fa the work. When Ferguson and hurled from the buggy Kovov the men hidi i Ing with him ran into the road, and picking up the satchel full of money, ran over the hill. Kovovick claims that his accom- plices will never be caught, for they left him immediately, starting for Europe and are now hidden. Kovovick admitted having money changed at the First National bank, of Pittsburg, but says the fact that he paid Pattrovick what he owed him brought the latter into suspicion in the case. | HARD FIGHT AT HA-GHENG ss { Kuroki’s Army Routs Russians | Inflicting Heavy Loss. | | JAPANESE TERROR STRICKEN. A Body of Cossacks Slash and Cut Them to Pieces With Their Lances. Gen. Kuroki’s forces have complete- ly defeated the Russians under Gen. Kuropatkin in a terrific battle at Hai- | Cheng, south of Liao-Yang. The loss of life was heavy on both sides. Whole squadrons of Cossacks were made prisoners by the Japanese and many guns were captured. After holding the Japanese in check against heavy odds for several ‘hours the Russians, under the fierce on- slaught of the mikado’s men, gave way and abandoned their positions, retreat- ing toward Liao-Yang. Great quanti- ties of stores and ammunition fell into the hands of the Japanese. i The Japanese lost 200 killed and a number of horses in the fight at Va-| fangow May 30. The Russians open- ed fire at 8 in the morning. After two hours and a half long range firing, the Japanese, under General Akkiama, prepared to charge the force which | had been harassing them for 21 days. In the meantime Gen. Samsonoff was approaching Vafangow with. a strong force of cavalry. The fourth and sixth companies of the Eighth Si-| berian Cossacks furiously charged the | Japanese cavalry with lances, attack- ing both flanks. In a few minutes they literally cut the whole squadron into pieces. This was the first time lances were used and they struck terror into the enemy. In some cases the lances pierced the riders through and wound- ed their horses. Some of thé lances, could not be withdrawn from the bod- | ies into which they had entered. The Japanese infantry, numbering four battalions of 300 men to a com- pany, and eight squadrons of cavalry, | attempted to advance, but the Rus- GUARDS KILL PRISONERS. Soldiers Shoot. Men at Columbus and Fort Snelling. John W. Manning, a prisoner at the United States barracks, at Columbus, { O., was shot and instantly killed by Private Speck, one of the sentries at Manning was held awaiting trial for desertion, having enlisted fraudulently three times and deserted twice. His last enlistment was at Johnstown, Pa., and he was then sent to Columbus as a recruit. Being identified as a deserter, he was placed under arrest, awaiting trial by court martial. While at work he at- tempted to escape. Failing to stop at the command, he was shot through the head, dying instantly. | Two military prisoners’ ‘at Fort Snelling, Minn., made an attempt to escape, and one of them, a military convict named Wilson, was shot dead by private Kennedy. The other was retaken latter. TORNADO | INJURES TWENTY. | Down Buildings “in Path Several Blocks Long. / | Reports from Tekamah, Neb., which | was struck by a tornado, indicate that 20 persons were jnjured, some of them seriously. The storm wrecked most of the buildings in its path, which was a block in width and several blocks long. The opera house, two general | stores, and several residences were de- | stroyed.. A high school commence- ment rehearsal was in progress in the opera house when the storm struck the building, carrying away the roof and partially wrecking the walls. A num- ber of pupils were injured. The prop- | erty loss is estimated at $50,000. A tornado at Cold Water, Kan., wrecked many barns and destroyed much farm property. Mrs. H. Pritch- ard was struck on the head by flying timber. A tornado 10 miles southeast | of Dodge City did heavy damage to farm property and crops. | The vinage of New Liberty, I11., is | reported to have been destroyed by a tornado, but no lives were lost. U. 8S. Demands Release. | The administration at Washington | has ‘decided to land marines at Tan-, gier and engage in a puntive expedi- | tion against the Moroccan bandits if | the latter fail to accept reasonable terms for the surrender of Ion Perdi-| caris and his stepson, Varley, or if | they injure them or put them to death. Cutting Down Expenses. : Announcement was made at the gen- eral offices of the southwest system.of | the Pennsylvania Lines at Columbus, that 1,100 shop men would be laid off to cut down expenses. Of this number | 425 are employed in the Columbus shops. It is also announced that 462 | men in the maintenance of way de-| partment of the Pittsburg division | have been suspended for the same rea- | son. © Fire destroyed the plant and ware- | house of the Alabama Cordage com-| pany at Montgomery, Ala., entailing a loss estimated at $400,000, which is practically covered by insurance. | Gov. S. W. Pennypacker has fixed July 8 for the execution of John Jack- Boston Wool Market. Old wools are now practically clear- | ed up in the local market. Some of the largest buyers have been picking up available lots, though the market on the whole is quiet. Current quotations are: Ohio and Pennsylvania, XX and above, 32@33c; X, 29@30c; No. 1, 31 @32c; No. 2, 31@32c; fine unwashed, 22@23c; 14, 3g and 34-blood, unwash- ed, 25@25%c; fine washed delaine, 33 @34c; Michigan X and above, 25@ 26c; No. 1, 28@30c; No. 2, 28@29c; fine unwashed, 21@22c: %, 3% and 14- | 2 | terially through such a course. | were once entered upon. { Rev. Mr, Chisholm, a sian batteries opened and the enemy | was forced to scatter and retire. | A Cossack who had lost his lance and sword, wrenched a sword from a| Japanese officer and cut off the of-| ficer’s head. The Cossacks picked up| boots which had been taken off by the | Japanese in order to facilitate their | flight, and flourished them on their lances as trophies. The Japanese used the Boer trick of displaying dummies, but the Cossacks did not waste a shot on them. General Sakharoff has telegraphed to St. Petersburg as follows: | “According to reports, the Japanese | commander in the action of May 30 near Vafangow had three battalions of infantry in reserve. Our losses were 17 men Killed and 23 wounded. The | | | Japanese losses were very considera- ble. One. squadron of the 13th Jap- anese cavalry was annihilated in a hand to hand encounter and another squadron which came to its assistance, suffered great Joss from the fire of our frontier guards and rificmen. We cap- | tured nineteen horses.” IRON AND STEEL. + Th ra : | Buyers and Sellers at a Dead Lock 2 as to Prices. : The apathy The Iroh Age says: {of the 4ron and steel trade, is ' almost universal, and. in’ the case of many producers has reached the point where an entire cessation of = operations is being prepared for by working up such raw material as is -on hand and filling such qrders as are still on the books, Resistance to a further decline is becoming more obs- tinate in those branches in whi_.h the market is open. Buyers seem ainmost | unanimous in the opinion that value must crumble further, so that there is practically a deadlock. If sellers fet that concessions would bfing our a good tonnage some of them might be more inclined to recede, but the con- viction seems general that actual con- sumption could not be stimulated ma- There is the fear, tco, that it might be dif- ficult to check serious cutting if it WOUNDED BY BURGLARS. Clergyman Shoots One of a Gang At- tempting Rgbbery. As the result of two attempts at! burglary and a running revolver duel beween five burglars and three po- licemen,. two men are dying at Falls Creek, Pa., and three robbers are now in the Brookville jail. For the second time in 12 months Postmaster Leahy was robbed, and as a consequence of | his resistance was fatally wounded. In the second robbery of the night Presbyterian minister, fatally wounded one of the bandits while he was breaking into the minister’s house. To Cut Off Russians in Korea. Advices received in Washington re- port the departure from Japan of an-| other army division. While its des-| tination is not stated its is conjectur- ed that these troops are about to close | in the Russians’ rear in Northeast Korea, cutting off the raiding parties | which have threatened General Ku- roki’s communications. There are no less than 15,000 soldiers in the expedi- | tion, | Public Debt. | The monthly statement of the pub-| lic debt shows that at the close of] business, May 31, 1904, the total debt, | less cash in the Treasury, amounted to | $975,301,631, which ‘is an increase for! the month of $56,440,576. This increase is accounted for by a corresponding decrease in the amount of cash on hand due to Panama canal and St. Louis exposition payments. The Agricultural Department has found in Guatemala a red ant that is destructive of the cotton-boll weevil. Japanese 1 300 TORTURED BY ROBEERS. Aged Man’s Feet Burned Till He Plead for Death. Bound, gagged and tortured until he revealed the hiding place of the money about his home, was the experience of David C. Leasure, a wealthy farmer, living near Rochester Mills, Indiana County, Pa. Five masked men enter- ed the Leasure house, bound Mr. Leasure, his wife and a girl employed | By them. The intruders then demand- ed money from Mr. L.easure, who gave them $10 and declared that it was all the coin he had about the building. The thieves became enraged at se- curing so little booty, fastened Mr. I.easure to the floor and removing his shoes tortured him by placing burning paper against his feet. While the torture was going on the men demanded money, but the farmer insisted that he had no more cash | about him and plead with the robbers to kill him outright or cease torment- ing him. He offered the men silver- ware, “jewelry and other valuables about the house, but they refused it all and continued their demands for money. “Where is the cash you got for that load of lumber sold last week?” asked one of the thieves as he applied the burning paper to the farmer’s feet. Mr. Leasure said that he had received a check for the lumber and that it was deposited in the bank at Indiana. Un- able to secure more money or infor- mation concerning his wealth from the man the robbers left the house. SUSTAINS THE “OLEQ” LAW. In Ohio Case It Makes No Difference If Product Is Colored. The supreme court of the United States, in an opinion by Justice White upheld the constitutionality of the oleomargarine law. McRay’s counsel argued ‘first that, although the ‘“oleo” was colored to look like butter, the color was ob- tained by the use of butter, which was itself artificially colored, buf the use | of which as an ingredient in the manu- facture of ‘“oleo” was authorized by law; and, second, that the tax 10 cents a pound was prohibitive and confisca- tory and an attempted Federal usur- pation of the police powers of the State. The court said that the tax contemplated the finished product and not the details of manufacture. If the “oleo”- was colored it should pay the higher tax, and if uncolored the lower tax, regardless of how obtained. As to the amount of the tax the court sald it .was seftled ‘that the court could not consider the amount of any tax fixed by Congress, this be- ing a-purely political function. CONTINUOUS FIGHTING. Escape Defeat by Arrival of Reserves. Continuous fighting has talzen place northeast of Feng-Wang-Cheng and on the railvay above Kin-Chau since May 27. "A sharp action has taken place eastward of Simatsi, 35 miles north of Fong-Wang-Cheng, | which lasted from ‘the morning cf May 27 until daylight, May 30. Both sides suf- fered severely. Detailed fizures, are lacking. The crngagement resulted in the | Russians retiring on Simatsi, followed | cautiously by Japanese detachments. Thyee companies of Japanese are re- ported to have ambushéd a patrol of the Nerinsky regiment near Huan- sian. Severe fighting is reported along the railway between stations Vfangoy and Vfandlen. The Japanese suffered heavily and would have been anni- hilated‘had not infantry reserves come up and forced the Russians to retire to Vfangoy. Pattrovick Convicted. The jury in the case of Milovar Pat- trovick, tried for the killing of Con- tractor Samuel T. Ferguson, at West Middletown, ‘Pa. on September 25, last, after being out more than 41 hours, returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree. The finding was a compromise vewlict and was brought in only after hundreds of ballots were taken. J. E. Mercell, cashier of the defunct Highland Bank, at Troy, Kan., pleaded guilty in court of embezzling $300,000 of the institution’s funds. CAPITAL NOTES. Rear-Admiral Chadwick, pursuant to orders, has sent the cruiser Brooklyn to Tangier, Morocco, in connection with the Perdicaris abduction case. Minister to Argentina Barrett re- ports that that country promises to become a serious competitor in cotton raising. Bridge Was Washed Away. Owing to the washing away of a | bridge in the Norfolk and Western railroad, near Batavia, in Clermont county, O., the engine and baggage car of a passenger train fell 385 feet into the stream below. The engineer and | the firemen saw the break in time to jump into the water, and after consid- erable difficulty they reached the shore. No one was hurt in the wreck. Mayor Commits Suicide. Mayor Robert M. McLane of Balti- more, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head this afternoon at his home, 29 West Preston street, due it is generally believed, to mental] col- lapse over the rebuilding of burned Baltimore. TORNADO WRECKS A CHURCH. Many Mourners at Funeral in Wrecked Structure. A tornado which * struck ga little town of Selden, Kan. on the Rock Island railway, demolished g church, five dwellings and much farm proper- ty. A funeral service was being con- ducted in the church at the time and persons were in attendance. A dozen persons were nurt. 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