Hlaalh 150UES WARNING Noctifies Powers that Uprising in China is Feared. THINK SITUATION SERIOUS. Should Chinese Troops Make Hostile Move Czar's Troops Will Cross Liao River. » Russia’s formal notification to the powers of imminent danger of a gen- eral uprising in China as a result of the Japanese in China, will threaten all interests, coupled with general protest against China’s repeated vio- lation of neutrality in connection with Japanese operations, is really a warn- ing to the powers that Russia regards the situation as extremely serious and considers that the time has come for joint action by the powers for the protection of their own interests. For herself Russia considers that Japan has broken the pledge she made with respect to Secretary Hay’s note at the beginning of the war, and further per- sistence in this course will, she con- siders, absolve her from further obser- vance and leave her free to act for her own protection, The present note followed the pre- liminary warnings addressed to the powers, one in October and the other in November, “neither of which was heeded.” It has an entirely different ring, setting forth breaches of Chinese neutrality, including the Ryeshitelny case and also the use of the Miaotao islands, belonging to China, as a base for the Japanese fleet; the constant dispatch of contraband from various Chinese ports, the employment of Chi- nese soldiers in the Japanese army and the hiring of Chinese bandits to attack Russian communications. Should Gen. Ma or any Chinese troops now move Russia will feel free herself to cross the Liao river into the neutral zone. As for the powers, Rus- sia belicves the situation has become serious owing to the stimulus given anti-foreign agitation in China by the fall of Port Arthur. In diplomatic cir- cles great importance is attached to the note. and in the general opinion it is designed ®o induce Secretary Hay to initiate steps to bring joint press- ure to bear in order to prevent the ex- tension of the zone of activities. ORDERS 4,000 STEEL CARS. Will Be New Equipment and Not Re- newals of Old Cars. It was announced at the general of- fices of the Panhandle railroad that the company had placed an order for 4,000 steel cars with the Cambria Steel company and Standard Car com- pany for delivery in February and March, 1905. The order entails an ex- penditure of $4,500,000. There will be 1,500 all-steel self-cleaning hopper cars, 1,500 drop bottom cars and 1,000 straight gondola cars. The order is the largest ever placed by the Pan- handle company, and is made in an- ticipation of an enormous trafic dur- ing the coming year. The order is all additional equipment, and no renewals of old cars. INAUGURAL PROGRAM. MODIFY No Sunday Concerts and Parade For- mation Will Be Smaller. The inauguration committee decided that there shall be no Sunday concert at the pension office building, follow- ing the inaugural ceremony and that three concerts will be given Monday, March 6. It was stated that the number of troops and civic organizations, com-| bined, in the inaugural parade would approximate not more than two-thirds pf the number four years ago; that all the organizations would be in close formation, permitting the parade to pass within three hours instead of six hours, as was the case four rears ago. Plunder of Japanese. Gen. Nogi reports that the Japanese captured at Port Arthur 546 guns, 82,- 670 shells, 30,000 kilos of powder and 2,226,800 rounds of rifle ammunition. TAYLOR'S GRAVE NEGLECTED. Relatives Will Repair it in Case the Government Will Not. J. J. Taylor of Chicago, a relative of President Zachary Taylor, has arrived in Louisville to investigate the condi- tion of the grave of his distinguished relative. The grave is at St. Matthews near Louisville. It is the intention of Mr. Taylor's family, in the event of the refusal of the government to repair the grave, to expend a sum of money sufficient to put it in a condition befitting the last resting ple of a president of the United States. Five Dead in Wreck. A Santa Fe passenger train collided head-on with a freight train mear Pa- ton, N. M.: The known dead are A. M. Cochran, fireman, of Raton, N. M.; 0. Greunberger of Raton; Philip Frein- ensehner of Chicago, barber on compo- gite car. A late report from ‘Wagon | | | tional facilities for rapidly handling | to Rhode | change, in all $12. Mound states that five persons were! killed, but no additional names were given. A negro waiter is reported missing, and several tramps who were stealing rides on both the limited and freight, may have been killed. Russia Issues Circular. ssian government has issued to the powers, calling their The Ra ja? 2 circular attention to alleged violation of Chi- r. and citing numerous nese neutra the war in the F ove that China obligations. T circular the cot instances East tent I¢ FISHERMEN TO CLEAR HARBOR. e¢ Say Conditions Were Bet- ter Than They Hoped. s reported that 100 fishermen e sent to Port Arthur to assist in clearing the harbor and vicinity of A naval officer who has returned to Tokyo from Port Arthur, discussing the conditions at the fortress, says: “The condition of the warships and in the town was much better than I had hoped for. Evidently there was much fortifving done at Port Arthur after the siege commenced. The works on 203 Meter hill were not per- manent and. the trenches there were similar to those used by the Boers during the South African war. It seems that the Russians had no gen-| eral electrical scheme or movable en- gines or dynamos for searchlights. GOV. LAFOLLETTE'S MESSAGE. It Took Him Near Three Hours to Read it to Legislature. The main feature of Gov. Lafollet- te’s message, which he read personally to the L iture of Wisconsin, was a demand for an appointive freight rate comn i the last of the big reforms asked by the Governor. The message occupied three hours in read- ing, nearly half being devoted to the railroads. The Governor als urged repeal of the mortgage taxation law, the enactment of an income tax, and better protection against railroad ac- cidents. WRECK COUNTY SAFE. Robbers Escape by Stealing a Horse and Sleigh. Safe robbers wrecked the safe in the office of the Fulton County treasur- er, at Wauseon, O., and secured $5,- 000 of the county funds. The safe was blown to pieces by the dynamite. he treasurer had deposited $200,000 tax money in the banks of the town, which accounted for so small a sum in the safe. The looters, four in number, stole a horse and sleigh and escaped. Bristow Gets New Job. Joseph L. Bristow, fourth assistant postmaster general, tendered to the president his resignation as an officer | of the postal service to take effect | on the 20th inst. By an executive or- | der issued late this afternoon Presi- dent Roosevelt designated Mr. Bristow as a special commissioner to make an investigation into the present trade conditions and freight rates between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and between the west coast of South America and the east coast of the United States and Europe, to deter- mine the best policy of managing the Panama railroad. Big Oil Strike in Louisiana. Drillers employed by the Union Sul- phur Cempaay at the mines 12 miles west of I e Charles have struck oil at a depth of 1,200 feet. They were boring for sulphur with no thought of cil when the fluid immediately began to gush 40 feet above the derrick and is going at a 5,000-barrel-a-day rate. Nothing like a gas blow-out accom- panies the gushing. No Hope for Pattrovick. The final chapter in the Ferguson murder closed when the remittitur in the case of Milovar Pattrovick was re- ceived from the State supreme court. the tribunal sustains the finding of the lower court. This means Pattro- vick will he compelled to serve out his term of 20 years in the Western penitentiary. TERSE TELEGRAMS. T. K. Neidringhaus, candidate for United States senator in Missouri, is charged with accepting $21,000 from brewers to apply to campaign fund in his name. The United States Steel Corporation is spending over $5,000,000 for addi- iron ore from its mines in the Lake Superior region. The corporation ex- pects to bring down at least 18,800,- 000 tons of ore the coming season. Arthur Turner, a brakeman on the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling rail- road, was killed by his own train at Holloway, O., by falling between cars, Turner was married only a fev weeks | ago. Burglars fcreced a rear entrance in- | s department store at New Castle, Pa., within half block of police headquarters, and stole goods ar i | | | | | Andrew Carnegie has given $50,000 for a library at Lawrence university, the Wis i hodist college at Appleton, Wis, : on the new structure will comm ein the s : o ng. a 11 to the rhland Avenue was attended by more than 3,500 Se sons, resulting: in a net profit of be-| tween $20,000 and $25,000 for the chari- | ties to be b fitted. A passeng train over the Mobil into a washout four mi B. Sullivan, tour tour, nced in « or DYNAMITER IN GUSTODY A Fanatical Patriot Confesses to Two Atempts. HAD ONE MACHINE WITH HIM. Was Identified as Man Who Tried to Blow Up the Monument cof Fred- erick the Great. Gessler Rosseau,; or G. Russell, as his proper name is supposed to be, a man arrested in Philadelphia with an infernal machine in his possession, confessed to the police that it was he who in 1903 sent a box contain- ing 100 pounds of dynamite aboard the Cunard liner Umbria, and more re- cently attempted to blow up the stat- ue of Frederick the Great in Wash- ington. Moreover, he told the police that the infernal machine which he had when arrested was intended for use in making a second and as he hoped a successful effort to destroy the statute of Frederick. The police characterize him as an American patriotic fanatic. Rosseau or Russell admitted these facts after he had been identified by a negro cabman named Carter, who drove him to the Frederick statue on the day the attempt to wreck it was made. Carter, in company with a white cabman named Hazel, met Ros- seau at the railway station. They both positively identified him and he admitted the recognition, greeting them cordiallv. He was also identi- fied by Mrs. Curry of 336 West Thir- ty-first street, New York, as a man who had lived with her at the time the Umbria’s destruction was attemp- ted. Dstective Sergeant Carey of the New York bureau of detectives iden- tified him on description. After Rosseau had told his story it was announced by the police that he would be sent to New York to stand trial in connection with the Umbria case, where he can be given 20 years inp prison. For the attempt on the statue he would only be given six months. Advices from the Chicago police show that Rosseau had been making infernal machines and probably using them for a period of 18 years at least. They have looked into his record and found that in 1886 he lived in Chica- go and bore the name of Russell. At various times he consulted mechanics in the neighborhood of his lodgings and at different places had specially constructed contrivances ne#ded in making his clockwork dynamite ma- chines. At that time the Chicago police say he appeared to have con- siderable money and the impression among the few who knew him was that he was inventing a gambling device. DEALT IN DIAMONDS. Mrs. Chadwick Is Said to Have Smug- gled $250,000 Worth. Investigation into the charge that Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick smuggled large quantities of diamonds, gems and other precious stones into this country has developed the fact that the woman dealt in precious stones to an almost fabulous extent. In order to make a case on the charge of smuggling it was found necessary for the government authorities to trace all the deals for diamonds and jewelry made by Mrs. Chadwick both in this country and Europe. The statement has been made by Collector of Customs Leach that considerable more than $250,000 worth of jewelry and precious stones handled by Mrs. Chadwick have been traced and positively located. The regular custom rate of duty VESSEL IS BLOWN UP. Survivors Tell of Thrilling Experience in Mid-Ocean. Seven survivors of the ill-fated Nor- wegian ship Marpesia, which was wrecked at sea on Christmas day by an explosion of naptha, resulting in the death of 11 members of her crew, arrived in New York on the steamer Trinidad from Bermunda. They had been rescued by the Dan- ish steamer Gallia, which happened by just at the moment when the Mar- pesia was blown into a shapeless mass, and the seven men who survived the shock were taken from the sea where they had sought the only ref- uge that remained to them, after the explosion. They were landed at Ber: muda by the Gallia. The Marpesia sailed from New York for Cette, France, on December 9, with a cargo of naphtha. One gale succeeded another, and soon the cases of naphtha began to wash back aad forth and to give way under the strain, and in a little while the freed naph- tha was floating around on top of the water in the hold. Gas from the fluid accumulated steadily, and by Christmas day, the Marpesia was a loaded bomb. Sud- denly there came a terrific report, the forward deck shot up into the air with a crash and a roar, and in a mo: ment the entire ship was wrapped in flames. These of the 18 men on board, who had not been caught in the first burst, threw themselves over the side of the flaming ship into the sea. BULLION SOLD FOR LEAD. . Trio Arrested for Theft of Silver Con- signed to Mint. In the arrest and confession of William Burroughs, George Rodgers and William Majors, the police of East St. Louis, have cleared up the mystery surrounding the robbery of a bonded car in the railroad yards there, of $24,800 worth of silver bull ion consigned from El Paso to the United States mint at Philadelphia, more than a month ago. The men are teamsters. Part of the bullion was recovered the day after the theft, but the remainder is now supposed to have been used in a lead foundry, having been sold at one cent a pound, in mistake for the baser mefal Felberbaum, a junk’: dealer in St. Louis, has been arrested, charged with receiving stolen property. Efforts are now being made to trace the bullion ‘which Felberbaum asserts he handled for lead. CHADWICK DIAMONDS FOUND. Customs Officers Get on the Track of Sparklers That Dodged Duties. Officials of the customs depart: ment have succeeded in finding more than $50,000 worth of imported da monds and jewels owned by Mrs Chadwick on which it is declared no duty was paid. Most of these valu ables, it is stated, are held in Cleve land as security for loans. As the sums loaned on them were generally far below their appra d value it is believed the present hold: ers will suffer little, if any, loss by paying the duty, which the local col lector of customs has announced they must do. BOILER BLOWS UP. Engineer and Fireman Kiiled and Cab Passenger Injured. The boiler of a locomotive of the east bound express on the Erie blew up while standing at the Creston sta- tion. Frederick Keller, the engineer, of Galion, O., and Fireman Halfick, of Galion, were killed and Joseph Newman of Elmira, N. Y., will prob- ably die. The cause of the explosion is not known. Aside from the engine, which on diamonds and jewelry brought to this country is 10 per cent of the val- ue of the goods. Figuring on this basis, the government authorities ex- pect to realize between $8,000 and $10,000. duty has not been paid will be turned over to Mr. Loeser to be distrubuted among the Chadwick creditors. Henry Phipps gives $1,000,000 and associates with himself other men who will donate toward a fund to erect model tenements in New York. PRIESTS AND NUNS KILLED. Butchered by Cannibals, Feast on the Bodies. The Rev. M. L. Stillson,. a mission- e South seas, who arrived ancisco on the steamer Dor- details of an outrage by on the island of New. Brit- h occurred in October. man control, rose and at- knives. wvely, but all were butcher- r the cannibals feasted on Mr. Stillson is stationed SITUATION IN THE FAR EAST. Reports reach Tokyo that Gen. is 1ko, in. his recent raid in ria, invaded the ‘neutral zone. St. Petershurg newspapers charge , | ‘Great Britain with allowing Japan to Jackson & Kansas City railroad ran | 1 3 el se a British island for a base. ers under Gen. Stoessel at ir commands to < naval officers were drunk the time. an Martyrs Beatifiod. negarian martyrs, Poucrez, Ch i beatified presence i Any The rest of the proceeds | from the sale of any jewelry on which | Who | that the savages, who are | Catholic mission and kill- | sts and five nuns with | The missionaries | were generally useless, | ants, | was completely demolished, none of the equipment was damaged. Traffic was blocked for four hours. Nogi and Stoessel Decorated. IImveror William has conferred on Gen. Stoessel and Gen. Nogi the ord- er of “Pour le Merite” in recognition of the bravery of themselves and their i troops at Port Arthur. His majesty has asked the Russian and Japanese Emporors to authorize Gens. Stoes- sel and Nogi to accept the decora- tions. WASHINGTON NOTES. The resolution granting temporary | oecupaney of a portion of the Wash ington Monument lot for an American railway appliance exhibition in con- nection with the meeting of the Inter- rational Railway Congress was passe Z finally determined to ele- vate her ation at Wash t an embassy, and will send her ter at London, Mr. Nabuco, as her first Ambassador to this country. The scnate confirmed the following i nominations: John B. Robinson, mar- shal for the Eastern district of Penn- sylvania; Robert W. Tayler, district judge Northern district of Ohio. Surrogate Edgar Jackson appointed Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of President Theodore Roosevelt, guardian of her children, Kermit and Ethel C. in connection with the legacy of 85.- 000 left to each of them in the will of | James King Gracie of Oyster Bay. Senator Smoot’s friends in the Utah Legislature have succeeded in nomi- nating George Sutherlapd, another Mormon and a son-in-law of the in- famous John D. Lee, who was exe- cuted for the Mountain Meadow mass- acre, to succeed Senator Kearns in the United States Senate. Taft to Visit Phi If the business of the war depart- ment will justif f will make an offici | to the Philippine { summer, PIY Francisco for Manik DEFENSE OF MORMONISH Former Senator from Idaho Com- mends Some Featurss. NEITHER DRINK’ NOR GAMBLE. | More Respect for Man Who Takes Plural Wives Than One Who De- serts Them. Testimony intended to prove that the Mormon morale is of the highest type, and to refute the word of wit- nesses. who have declared the con- trary to be true, was offered by coun- sel for Senator Reed Smoot. W. J. McConnell, formerly a United States Senator from Idaho, &d twice Gov- enor of his State, and Representative Burton L. French, a member of the present Congress and re-elected for another term, were the day’s witness- as. i; It was the opening session of the defense in the Smoot investigation. Senator P. C. Knox, a new member | of the committee, attended for the first time. There is a sentiment in the committee in favor of pressing | the investigation to a conclusion. Both witnesses to-day denied many statements directed against the Mor- mon church and its alleged interfer- | ence in political affairs. Former | Gov. McConnell said that the Gen- tile members of the Idaho Legislature have not as high morals as the Mor- mon members, and that if it were not for questions of geography and knowl- edge of legislative needs, the inter- | ests of the State would be better | served by an entire Mormon Legis- lature. The examination was conducted by Waldemar Vancott, of Salt Lake, who | is associated with A. S. Worthington, of Washington, as counsel for Sena- tor Smoot. Mr. McConnell described his occupation as former merchant, half politician and lawyer for his friends. He was a Senator of the IFifty-first Congress, and was Gover- nor of Idaho from 1893 to 1896, in- clusive, serving two successive terms. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. The witness was asked to describe the political conditions. He said he had lobbied before the Legislature when the first effort was made to dis- franchise the Mormons. He declared that he was prejudiced against Mor- mons, that he found that most of the Gentiles were practicing “the science, which in our country is called poker.” He said he had never known Mormons to gamble and drink. He followed this imony with a-review of his PREPARING FOR WAR. Shipments of Arms. and Ammunition Made to Salonica. The active preparations already re- ported to have been made both in Turkey and Bulgaria for a possible war this year are fully confirmed by a private letter received in London from a minister accredited to the Bal- kan courts. This minister, who has just completed a tour of the Balkan capitals, writes that the Turkish and Bulgarian governments are energeti- cally preparing for eventualities. Large shipments of arms and ammu- nition have been made and recruits from Asia Minor are arriving at Sal- onica weekly for service in the Turk- ish army. The Bulgarian and Greek bands in Macedonia are increasing daily and are fighting each other and the Turks. This three-cGPnered ‘guerilla warfare threatens fo assume the bloodiest phase in the spring. YELLOW FEVER IS BANISHED. Cuban Health Official Praises Ameri- cans for Their Success. The feature of the formal opening of the annual meeting of the Ameri- can Public Health association in Havena, was the address of President Dr. Carlos Finlay, the yellow fever expert, and chief of the Cuban health department. Dr. Finlay paid a tribute to the accomplishments = and sacri- fices of American experts, who have banished yellow fever. Dr. Benjamin Lee, secretary of the Pennsylvania board of health, com- mended Dr. Finlay for his service in discovering the mode of propagation | of yellow fever and developing the heory patiently, despite the calum- nies of his compatriots. Mrs. Clark's Jewels Found. Buried in a glass jar in West One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street, near Central avenue, New York, detectives have found more than $23,000 worth of jewelry, the property of Mrs. Ambrose | Clark, daughter-in-law of Mrs. Potter, wife of Bishop Henry C. Potter, which were stolen from the Clark home on July 7, 1904. Lodged in a cell at police headquarters is William Cole- man, most of whose 60 years of life have been spent in penal institutions. Last week detectives saw Coleman dred and Fifty-fifth street, where he began digging in the snow. The de- | tectives went to the place, where they discovered the jewels. Coleman was arrested to-day, near the spot where the treasure was hidden. The Anthracite Fatalities. From official information furnished by the mine inspectors of the four an- thracite districts scattered throughout the Wyoming valley it is shown that in all 587 men and boys were killed acqu ance with Mormons during the ag ion & inst the religion in Idaho. He assisted in bringing about the repeal of the test oath of citizen- | ip and afterward went among the | on a lecture tour. He had] red the people, he said, and | their morals were of a high, praise- worthy character. PILLAGE AND MURDER. Six Thousand Workmen in Revolt in Russian Oil Fields. More than 6,000 werkingmen are in open revolt in the Baku petroleum dis- trict. Forty Cossacks have been kill ed in conflicts: with the men and & hundred severely wounded. The Government authorities say they have been incited by Anarchists. It is giv- en out that some of the men who struck for better pay and shorter hours have already returned to their tasks, while more will" do so to-mor- row. Nevertheless, the reign of terror con- tinues. The revolting warkmen pil age and murder day: and night and many of the more than 200 oil wells they set fire in their rage are ‘still | burning. The Government has been utterly unable to suppress the upris ing, which has taken the wildest, most unrestrained form ever known in Rus- sia. Thirty-two American a large amount. The damage already which will run up into millions, has been done to wells, warehouses, tanks and derricks. Charges Against Swayne. The select committee of the House appointed to draft articles of impeach ment against Federal Judge Swayne | completed its work by the preparation | of 12 articles of impeachment. They embrace obtaining money pretense, using the DIC a receiver appointed by himself, and without making compensation to the company; for disobeying the i requiring him to lve in his dis for “unlawfully and fining and imprisoning E. T. Davis and Simeon Belden, attorneys-at-l for alleged contempt of the circuit court of the United States; for unlaw- fully committing to prison Ww. y O'Neil on the charge that he had com- mitted contempt of the district court > of the United States’ i -— £3 2 <-> $180,000,000 for Postoffices. The House Committee en Postoifices and Post Roads has completed the postoffice appropriation bill and will report it to the House next week. The approximate amount carried is which is $180,000,000, sreater than the current appropria- tion. An increase of $5,000,000 is made for the rural free delivery ser- vice. Only $50,000,000. Directors of the Penn i road Company de da shareholders at the March 14 to c« ase in bonded indebtedness, believed to be more than $50,600,000. er an incre owners of | wells in the district are sufferers to | by false} erty of of bankrupt corporation in the hands cof | 1 | | i | | | | { { i A | so fiaformed the Senators and Ren- maliciously | | $10,000,000 | or injured in and about the mines dur- ing the year 1904. There were 199 | fatal and 338 non-fatal aceidents in the four districts, leaving 10) women as widows and 212 children orphans. Eugene V. Debs has pianned to build a mpnster international labor union on § socialistic basis. | THe Pennsylvania presidential clec- tors met at Harrisburg and cast their votey for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Bdth the cecal miner and mine-own- ers throughout the Rhenish and West Phalian districts are preparing for a gengral strike. Joan Blake, a plumber, of New Florence, Pa., was struck by a train cast| of the Blairsville intersection and was killed. The College of the Jesuit Fathers at Jienfuegoes, Cuba, has been destroyed by fire. Several firemen were injured. The | loss is $60,000. No insurance. Four men were instantly killed and | two others injured today at a shaft | which is being sunk at Rockland, | Mich, by the Victoria Mining Com- { pany. | © The president sent to tha scnate | the foemination of David E. Thompson of {id i to be ambassador ex- ldinary and plenipotentiary to Brag. epator Penrose introduced a bill providing for the payment of the | clair)s of New York, Pennsvivania {and [Delaware on account. of advan- ces dnd expenditures for the war with Great Britian from 1812 to 1815. Levi P. Morton, former vice presi- dent] of the United States, and form- vernor of New York, is the giver 2 5600,000 contribution to the fund for |he tion of the cathedral of S Divine in New York Wants Tariff Revised. Pi>sident Roosevelt favors the | earliest possible action looking to a i revigion by Congress of the tariff, He resgutatives who were in conference with him at the "White House last | Sathzday, and he h | position to others ence He will eail Congress into extraordinary 5 Boon as the committees have in- dicated that they are prepared to s mitia tariff measure for passage ASS. ub- Two Senators Elected. Frank P. Flint, Republican, of Los Angéles, "Cal... was elected i States Senator to succeed The Bard. The General Assembly ele iam B. Bate, to succeed United States Senator ssee. The Republican ed for Congressman W. Exposition has Surplus. The Louisiana Purchase Expositi d St of ear company. exposition cxpensg go tp a brick wall in West One Hun- Ty @ “Piliewy J UP one col H anc |B pia FERRE
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