Sev ess i EE A Soo a Gs CARS GUARDS TO FRONT The infant Czarevitch’s Honorary | Command in Division. FOUR RUSSIAN SHIPS DAMAGED. Japanese Land Batteries Said to Have Done Effective Work on. Vessels in Harbor. A special dispatch from Mukden, dated October says there has beeu Bo change of importance in the gen- eral situation there. The blockade ai Port Arthur appears not to have been 80 effective recently, as a number of messengers have slipped through. Latest advices stated that the fort ress has sufficient ammunition and provisions to enable the garrison to hoid out nine months. It is reported in “Tokyo that the fire of the Japanese land batteries severely damaged four Russian war- ships in the harbor of ‘Port Arthur. It is stated that one of the vessels was completely wrecked. The names of none of the ships were given. There is still an absence of serious fighting about Mukden, though the outpost skirmishes continue. OKku is steadily pushing his advance lines closer to the railroad and Nodzu's divisions are slowly moving toward the Hun river. Both of these com- manders apparently are awaiting rd from Kuroki indicating that he is ready to strike. Gen. Zaroubaieff Mukden, in the absence of Kuropat- kin. who is said to have gone to Tie] Pass. Gen. Rent uncted to 1 right wing a field now with will depend the decision of Japanese attack. The first troops of the Imperial Guard left St Petershurg for the front. They consisted of the Second | division of the Finland Guards. of | which the infant czarevitch is the} 1el. ! honorary colione Prince Mirsl {he interior, has from Odessa in which the internal unrest in the empire was discu and the best methods by over. It is no secret that ous outbreaks are giving his ma- "jesty and his new minister very Seri ous concern, and it is recognized that unless some means can be devised for at least temporarily ending the | se discatisfaction which has led to the outbreaks, that Russia will he seri- with ously handicapped in, the war Japan. TO BUILD NEW VESSELS. Steel Corporation Preparing to Handle its Own Tonnage. The Pittsburg Steamship Company, States | the marine wing of the United Steel Corporation, will place con- for five] ery at tracts within the next week stee} freight carriers for dc : the opening of navigation in 1905. The United State pacity to 16,000,000 tons. ROBBER IMPRISONS GIRL. Steals $1,700 from Bank and Locks Assisiant Cashier in Vault. A robber walked into the savings pank at Treynor Ia. and at the point stant cashier, Miss Frances Flood, to take $1,700 from the cash drawer and vault and put the money in 2 bag he carried. Then he drove the young woman into the big vault and locked her in. Later customers heard the girl’s screams for help and released of a revolver, compelled the as her from the vault. MONT PELEE IN ERUPTION. Volcano Emitting Stupendous Black Clouds and Balls of Fire. The captain of the British steamer Sibun reports that when the steamer passed the island of Martinique on September 30 Mont Pelee was in full eruption. The spectacle was witness- ed by those on board the Sibun at 95 o'clock in the morning of the day mentioned, the volcano emitting stu- pendous black clouds and balls of fire. This accounts for the dust clouds reported to have been seen throughout the Windward islands. Early in May, 1902, Mont Pelee broke into violent eruption, wipi out the city of St. Pierre and reach- ‘ing other-towns nearby. The loss of life on that oceasion was estimate d at 10,000. FIETY KILLED BY EXPLOSION. Destruction of an Ammunition Maga- zine at Sebastopol. was destroyed. Recluse Found Dead. ° Charles Traylor, who lived alone | upon his farm near Jacksonville, W. with a bullet in his head. It is believed he was murdered. Traylor was 60 It was known he had at feast $600 cash and probably more in the house. The money cannot be covered. Va., was found dead in his hot years old. sound. No clue has been dis Mrs. Emma Ewing Palmer, last of is dead at the two “ossified” sisters, Sherburne, N. Y., aged 50. COL GAS CAUSES DEATH oir orimenn o mame. Kin Gives Orders for | Heroic Engineer Gives Up His o 2 on October 6 the Russi: Woodstield, (0O.). postofi postoffice, worked coid 1 int . 1 1 s ald to be In| the safe and teok the $5,000 consigne command of the Russians now about | : The "money was 1kampff has been 1in-| over the Japanese y cost, and is in the practically all the | Russian cavalry for that purpose. | Upon the result of his scout in force} Kuropat- | kin as to where he will meet the] the new minister of ; held several consul- tations with the czar since his return | it would seem, were all friends and | ; . would seem, were all friends and y5,0nt a number of stones to this Madge Corcoran, sed which it can | be met and overcome Were talked | the numer- | address not known; THIRTY LIVES ARE LOST. Estimates Place Damages to Property | las, Tex., concer bridges are gone, and and Santa Fe trains s Steel Corpora- tion is preparing to be in a position to handle all of its own ore and it is | estimated that nine steamers will have to be added to the fleet. In 1302 the steel company used 13,000, 000 tons of ore and had a carrying capacity of 10,000,000 tons. The five new steamers will increase the ca- Reports indicaie ed sections mentioned. Operator Forgot Order. on the Panhandle with a light freight engine, John Rauch, fireman Sweeney, Harry Sloan, and J. A. Wells. os chris tower had been instr Wheeling express the light engine arrived, tut went off duty and forgot to give the AMISH: SCHOOLS MUST CLOSE. Parants Prosecuted Patronize Public Schools. promised to abolis believe that the worid was recognized schools. A telegram {rom the {Russian {ron- tier reports that 50 persons were | killed by fire and an explosion of an ammunition magazine at Sebastopol. | An immense amount of ammunition ets Six Months. States Passes Away. Henry C. Payne, postmaster gener- al of the:United States. a member of the National Republican committee, a stalwart of his party, with the his | tory of which, both jn his home State SIX PERISH IN TUNNEL. i and nationally, -he has been identi fied for many years, died at his rr | apartments at the Arlington hotel, aged 60 years, The end was peace i Tul. cuers Are Suffocated. Mr. Payne had been in poor health | for at least two years, but his last . | illness covered. only seven days, an Six employes of the Grand Trunk! atrack of heart trouble last week railway were suffocated ito death by' precipitating. the end at a time, cos! gas in tht St. Clair tun-| when, after a rest, he seemed (0 have nel, under the St. Clair river between | recovered a small measure of his Pom Huron and Sarnia, Oatario. A vitality impaired by years of arduw coal train broke in two in the tunnel! ous labor. Death came after nearly and three of the train crew were! six hours of unconsciousness. suffocared while part of the train lay Henry Clay: Payne was born at stalled; the engineer lost his life Ashfield, Franklin = county, Mass. when he returned and endeavored to, November 23, 1843, his parenis be- push the stalled cars back to safety, ing Orrin P. and Eliza Payne. He and two other rescuers perished in was educated in his native town and vein attempts to penetrate the gase- at the academy of Shelburne Falls. ous atmosphere of the great tube. where he was graduated in 1859. He The dead are: A. S. Begg, Port entered business life at once at Huron, superintendent of terminals; Northampton, Mass., but in Septem- Engineer John Coleman, Port Huron: ber, 1863, removed to Milwaukee, Conductors J. B. Simpson and D. T. Wis, where he had since made his Life for Others. Long Train Breaks in Two and Res- Tinsley, Brakemen Thomas McGrath home. Up to the time of his appoint: and D. A. Gillis, all of Sarnia. ment as postmaster of the city. he _——— was connected with the dry goods ® FIVE MEN DROWNED. firm of F. R. Sheridom & Co. His ——m first active appearance in politics was Victims Belonged to the Crew of the in the Grant-Greely campaign of Gunboat Vixen. 1872, when he took part in the organization of the Young Men's Re- ‘2 men were drowned in Pensa- : publican club. € bay by the capsizing of a sail- boat in which they were returning SOLD HIS AUNT'S JEWELS. fron Pensacola to the navy yard.] ~ 0 0 oe The dead are: Otto BPBrunse, water : : tender; Richard Lewis, machinist; Young Man Arrested in Huntington. H. D. Hartley, fireman: W. G. Foster, W. Va. After Long Chase. fireman, and N. McGinnis, aa oiler. After working secretly for six The boat contained nine men, months Chief of Police Davis of eight of whom were members of the Huntington, W. Va., unearthed dia crew of the gunboat Vixen. Four monds valued at $6,500, stolen from were rescued by a crew from that | Mrs. Theodore A. Piatt at New Or vessel. who heard cries of distress leans last March. Walter Piatt, a and rowed half a mile to the spot nephew of the owner of the dia- where the boat capsi monds, disappeared at the time of the EINE theft. WHISKY KILLS FIFTEEN. The young man was heard of in . St. Louis, then Cincinnati, later in Huntington and word was sent Chief Davis in April. He secured fowl Fifteen persons have died in eight; diamond Tings, the lost, of the Stolen days in the neighborhood of Forty- jewels, wile Waiter Piatt i Jacked third and Forty-ninth streets, on! ub. Young Dian represented himse)s erty avonne. Now Vorh The 15 as the son of a wealthy diamond en enue, Hew OFA ¢ : | proker in South Africa, that he cola Coronar at Work to Find Man Who Supplied Drink. TRambers of =n Hnorganized suicide | country and was willing to dispose .ot club. hey all drank the same| nem at a bargain, as he was finan whisky. The sympathetic survivors | .jally embarrassed. Several society artendo 4 +s S00 @ ” hr : My attended the Tuneral of each who | jaaders purchased stones, thinking tied until the last one when there | hey had bargains. Te NO. Sur Sos, . All of the diamonds were bought Loroner Scholer Says an epidemic back with money furnished by Mrs of alcoholism prevails in this vicinity, ! piatt. The arrest has caused a sen and that someone has been selling a, sation in society circles here, where particularly deadly whisky. Autop-| the young man spent money lavishly. sies have been performed on all the ——— ee bodies. The Coroner says alcoholism CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LEGAL was the cavse of deaths. | mg aT LE New Hampshire Supreme Court De: WATER SUPPLY FAILS. | cides a Case Consequences of Long Con- The legality of the practice of hristian Science in New Hampshire tinued Drouth. in the Chartiers valley ared was upheld by the Supreme court of from the most severe famine | the State in a decision handed down years. Canonsburg is the! in the suit of Mrs. Jennie Spead, to fferer. The water company | recover damages for alleged injuries ‘ely shut off the water from | 2S the result of treatment by Irving ns, and the electric plant has | W. Fomlinson, a Christian Science down, leaving the town in ab- practitioner, also of Concord. Mrs. solute darkness. Houston and Mead-! Spead claimed that Tomlinson had owlands are almost as badly off, as failed to cure her of the illness for wells have gone dry. ; | which he treated her, and that her The Pittsburg Coal Company at] cute was greatly delayed by fhe time he Midlands is supplying the town | spent m taking his treabment. wells drilled for boiler supply. The gue vas qacided In Tavor oF ington is the only town in the the defendant in the lower cont valley which is well supplied, the re-| hut: the plaintiy 2ppenied ie hn cent completion of a 304,000-gallon | promo Count now firms the decision Tay ow Ln Pe | and dismisses the bill. In substance reservoir giving the city reserve sup- and dismisses in : ' the court holds that the practice of Tere Christian Science is legal, and that : er patients who have resorted to such Killed at Christening. treatment cannot recover any dam- One man is dead, another is fatally ages in case the practitioner. uses injured and two more are seriously the Christian Science method of a result of a riot following treatment. ~The plaintiff claimed ( ening celebration among Ital-| damages on three grounds—negli- ians employed in the stone quarries | gence, deceit and breach of warran- at Pemberton, on the Pennsylvania ty. railroad east of Altcona. The dead: ————— er Francesco Ambraski, 27 years old. Crew of Fourteen Drowned. The injured: John ski, 24 years The Norwegian bark Sir John old, and the seriously injured are | [awrence, from London, has struck Dominick Ambraski, brother of the| on sunken rocks outside the harbor dead man, and John Nuzi, slaver of | at Frederickstad, and has broken up. raski. The crew of 14 were drowned. Serious hurt Killed His Father. Town Without Municipal Tax. Maj. Bright, a wealthy rarmer liv- It has been discovered that Barton: ing near Findlay. O., was shot and | ville, I1l., where the State asylum for killed by his son Carl, aged 15. incurable insane is located, is the i and son had quarreled fre-. only incorporated town in the United quently and violent threats had been | States that does not have to levy a made. The father went to a room | municipal tax. The population of « with the Bartonville is only 300, but the town h a haich-!| collects $4,000 annually in saloon li- where the hoy was sleep intention of killing him wit et. The lad awakened ir time to | censes. seize a shotgun and bww off his . ’ head. | On Verge of Starvation. LT At a meeting of the Manchester TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | city council it was announced that Miki {i : owing to the hard times and depress amienae Xey. oi years 1 as Fx x 3 : 1 . Diet ael Mikey, 50 years-old, a Slav |, in the cotton industries between laborer, stepped in front of a Pan- hil 50 08 . handle freight train at Newark, O., 40,000 and 50,000 people in the poor and was killed. { er parts of the city were practically ed in a firei on the verge of starvation. Similar | conditions prevail in London and other large cities of the United Four persons peri which destroyed the Tracey Hotel in = St. Joseph, Mo. ~ 1 Kingdom. ‘harles Saunders and Mrs. Ela > Dom, pa H nond_ of Newd Del., were in- ; | : : kins Earthquake Feit in Italy. te ¥ killed by ‘a tr while cross- G y A strong shock of earthquake was : hp 3 | experienced in the south of Italy, ac Phe ® IhiePnationd! Peace Congress | .ompanied by floods of rain. The Boston adopted resolutions calling greatest force of the earthquake was Russia and Jap to end the ;.1t ip Calabria. Three houses fell at war, and upon the signaiory DOWerS| gayjly and many others were render of The Hague convention to put an | ,q° ypsafe. Fortunately no one was ie ng the track in a carriage. end to the strife ! hurt Niasess ti Er Massachusetts Repyblicans. a Conspiracy Nipped. Massachusetts Republicans nominat- What the United States Customs ed the following ticket: Governor, | officials declare is a widespread con- John LL. Bates, Boston; lieutenant gpiracy of Chinamen in Philadelphia, r ry . tis h. 1 r 3 od ry governor, Curtis Guild, Jr. Boston; | New York and elsewhere to smuggle { secretary of state, William M. Olin, | gpjium into this country became Boston; auditor, Henry E. Turner, | publicly known through the arrest Malden; attorney Parker, lancaster; rer, A. B.| g large quantity of the drug in a Chapin, Holyoke; elect arge, | Jaundry at 3707 Spruce street by William W. Crapo, New d, | three local and four New York cus Herbert | o¢ two Chinamen and the seizure of Fight Occurred. STOESSEL’S MEN HOLDING OUT. Russian Commander Says Japanese Lost 10,000 Men During: One Week’s Fighting. A london news agency sent out a dispatch dated Tokio, October 5, saying: “It is reported that the Rus: sian squadron made a sortie from Port Arthur, and that a great maval pattle occurred. No details are giv- en.” . It is .reported that the Japanese advance posts have been driven back | river and Bensihu. Lieut. Gen. Stoessel says the Jap- | anese losses were 10,000 during the | attacks on Port Arthur from Septem- | ber 19: i to September 22. He | reports that no incident oc- | curred from September 23 to 30, axcepting outpost skirmishing. The | last Japanese attack to which Gen. | Stoesse]l refers was on a rill called | High mountain, south of Inthan. He | gives instances of the heroism of | the defenders; especially the case of | a lieutenant, who threw hand bombs | into Japanese trenches, .causing a| panic. { Gen. Stoessel's dispatch, which was | dated September 30, says: “On the night of September 23 the Japanese after being repulsed by Lieut. Poggor- sky, fled in panic. They are now ments. The bombardment was the buildings within the fortress.” GROWING CONFIDENCE. Increased Volume of Buying. The Iron Age says: The growing confidnce in the general business situation and in iron circles in par- ticular is beginning to show itself in an increased volume of buying. It is not very much to brag of yet, but it looks clearly as though we were at last heading in the right direction. The railroads are buying somewhat more freely. Some pretty good or- ders for rolling stock have been plac- ed, among them one lot of 3,000 steel cars for the Erie road. In the aggre- gate the orders for steel rails in small lots figure up rather surpris- ingly well. ; The lake shipbuilders have taken five additional vessels, making a to- tal of nine for which the material, aggregating .about 30,000 tons, has the United States Steel Corporation contemplates placing an order for four or five large carriers at an early date. The disposition both of sellers and of buyers is still to proceed very conservatively until the future has shaped itself. Thus, in, staple lines like in wire products, the leading in- terest will not sell beyond 60 days, and in other branches a similar at- titude is maintained. No individual large transactions lines, but there is quite a good in- quiry and a fairly large tonnage is being figured on. MAY FORFE!T CHARTERS. Attorney General of West Virginia Brings Suit. canse of an alleged deficiency on the statute. to the ass the settlement. OHIO’'S WHEAT CROP. a Good Average. bushels short of a good average. $3,000 in Diamonds Stolen. nessed the robbery. Portuguese Troops Slaughtered. and Edwin TU. C is. Boston | toms inspectors ed all along the line between the Hun | working very actively and are ap-| proaching by a tunnel and entrench- maintained both upon the forts and | Situation in Iron Circles Indicates] been placed. It is understood that! are reported in any of the finished A suit which will work the forfeit- | ure of the charters of some 12,000! corporations, which are well known | and located in every State in the | Union, has been brought in the Cir- | cuit court of Charleston, W. Va., by | the Attorney General of West Vir- | ginia. The suit was instituted be-! part of these 12,000 corporations to make reports and appoint the statu- tory attorneys as required by the There is only one way in which! these corporations can now save! themselves, and that is, according | stant attorney general's statement, by paying a large fee for Report Shows Product Is Short of The crop report issued by the State | poard of agriculture gives discourag- | ing figures regarding wheat in Ohio. | The report says that the wheat area harvested was the lowest in 25 years with the exception of 1896 and 1900. Of the wheat area seeded last fall, for the harvest of this year, it is sstimated that 18 per cent, or 338,- 128 acres, were plowed in the spring. The wheat crop for 1904 shows only 18,693,067 bushels. This is less than one-half of a full crop for the State, the product per acre being about four Albert B. Gaines, president of the Jefferson Hotel Company, St. Louis, reported to the police that his room in the hotel had been entered and $3,000 worth of diamonds belonging to his wife stolen. Mrs. Gaines wit- The minister of marine announced in the chamber that a detachment of Portuguese troops, belonging to a col- umn operating in Portuguese West | Africa against the Cmanhamas, was| surprised by the tribesmen while crossing the Cunene river. The de- -achment, which numbered 499 | »fiicers and men, lost 254 killed, in- | LOREE RESIGNS. Rock Island Meeting Results In Disagreement. wy . » % Lenor Fresnell Loree, the highest salaried railroad president in the world. suddenly resigned as the executive head of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company. His retirement came at the conclus- ion of a series of stormy sessions with the owners of the Rock Island properties lasting through an entire week, and at which radical differ- ences regarding policies developed and failed of adjustment. Mr. Loree’s resignation came as 2a sensational surprise to the railroad world. Nine months ago he was in duced to leave the presidency of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad by the payment of a cash bonus of $500,000 and a five vears’ contract at an an- nual salary of $75,000. This contract, liberal in its terms as to be al- most beyondieredit, provided that in the event of his leaving the service of the Rock Island his salary should continue during the life of the con- tract and that in the event of his death his widow should continue to receive it. FIVE PERSONS BADLY BURNED. One Expected to Die as the Result of an Explosion. A terrific explosion took piace at the Scottdale, Pa., plant of the United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Company. Five persons were badly burned, one of whom i3 likely to die. The injured are: Mike Shulic, a Polish laborer, aged 25; badly burned about the head and body, expected to die. William But- ler, foreman, aged 50; entire upper portion of his body burned. August Peterson, ‘cupola man, ' aged 60; severely burned about the head ard face. William Whiteside laborer, aged 80; face and hands badly burn- ed. Nicholas Andrew, laborer; hair burned from head, face cut and otherwise injured. The explosion was caused by water being in the bed under. the cupola when the bottom was dropped after a cast. The coremakers’ shed was blown to pieces. Boston Wool Market. A free movement of wool continues in the Boston market. Some stocks of low for this early in the season. This is especially true of medium grades. Territory wools are selling actively at firm prices. Pulled wools are steady. ‘There is little doing in foreign Wools on Spot. leading quotations follow: Ohio and Pennsyl- vania XX and above, 34@35c; X, 30 @31c; No. 1, 33@34c; No. 2, 33@ 34c: fine unwashed, 24@25c; 14, % wool have become surprisingly and 1% blood unwashed, 28@23c; unwashed delaine, 26@27¢c; fine washed delaine, 36c. Michigan X and above. 26@27c; No. 1, 30@31c; No. 29@30c; fine unwashed, 21@22¢c; NEWS IN BRIEF. Three men were kilied and a num- ber injured by the wrecking of a stock trail near Bismarck, N. D. The Spanish Institute of Social Re- forms voted for the prohibition of bullfighting. Owing to the hard times in England thousands of persons in the cities are on the verge of starvation. English prelates were hooted by anti-ritualists at the annual Church of England congress in Liverpool. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin decided that the La Follette ticket should go in the Regular Republican column on the ballot. William Herman, a bartender, was found dead in the basement of a Detroit saloon. His head had been nearly cut off and the cash register in the saloon had been robbed. George Washington Curray, the colored former Representative of a South Carolina district in Congress, has been appointed fourth-class post- master at Huger, Berkley county, S. C. Failures this week in the United States are 222, against 223 last week, 225 the preceding week and 239 the corresponding week last year. Fail- ures in Canada number 25, against 18 last week, 30 in the preceding week and 17 last year. In succession to Mr. Payne, George Bruce Cortelyou, former Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor and now Chairman of the Re- publican National Committee, will become Postmaster General. Richard Cottingame was fatally shot from ambush on Big creek, four miles from Hazen, Ky. John Morrison, who killed W. T. | Floyd Saturday at Kershaw, S. C, was taken from Jail and hanged by a mob. The Nicollette Hotel at Minneapo- lis, Minn., has been sold to the United States Realty Company of New York for $400,000. Major General James F. Wade, the retiring commander of the Philip- pine division, sails for home on the transport Thomas October 15. Pend- ing the arrival of Major General Cor- bin, who succeeds to the command of the division, General lL.eonard Wood will act as commanding general. The suit of the Modern Woodmen of America to collect $100,000 from the estate of the late E. H. McCutch- eon, a banker at Holstein, Ia., has been dismissed. Upon McCutcheon’s death it was found that his bank was insolvent. He was a leading Woodman and had $100,000 of the order’s funds in his bank. In the Iroquois Theater {rial at Chicago, Business Manager Thomas J. Noonan and Stage Carpenter James E. Cummings have been grant- ed a change of venue +{o another county. P. P. Maury, representing an im- porting drygoods firm of New York, was found dead in the bathroom ad- joining his room at the McGee Ho- tel, St. Paul, Minn. Death had been caused by suffocation, the gas jet in : = a - the room being turned on. Maury’s cluding 15 officers and 50 wound-| geath is thought to have been acei- ental. — mag ®. No SI Jos . Stree Lodg Ne with have ‘loo ities. brai walk the Ey] shou extre smar circu sive after aslee or a rapic up a retir circu