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Show news notes jrwiiT TAGIL, Province of Pcrmk, Russia, May 28. The local police have discovered hundreds of skeletons of children In a loft on tho premises occupied by an old midwife. mid-wife. WASHINGTON, May 2S. Reports received re-ceived here from tho far East dwell at length upon the torrlfio power of the Japanese Shlraoae powdor, tho naturo of which la an absoluto secret. It Is not used to propel tho shot, but for bursting chnrges in tho array and navy oxploslvo shell. COPENHAGEN, May 2S. Burmolster & Wain of Copenhagen today received an order to build two first-class cruisers for tho Russian Government. The vessels will not leave Denmark before the closo of tho war. ST. PETERSBURG. May 23. Emperor Nicholas received tho news of tho result of the fighting at Kin Chou and In Its vicinity at tho palace of Tsarskoc-Selo. Ho at once sent for War Minister Sak-harkoff, Sak-harkoff, with whom his Majesty, with tho members of his military cablnot, wont over the dispatches. HALIFAX, N. S., May 23. An agent has left horo for New York to cloeo tho salo of tho Mngdolena lslandB by tho Government Govern-ment of Queboo to an American syndicate They are rich In Iron and mangancao deposits, de-posits, and the herring Ilsherlca aro valuable. valu-able. PEKING, May 2S. Thero has been issued is-sued an Imporlnl decree ordering tho establishment es-tablishment of a Red Cross society In China, and that it Join tho international convention. The num of 100,000 tacls from tho Imperial treasury has boon dovoted to tho society. THE HAGUE, May 2S. A revolt that began in a village north of Sldoarko, an island of Java, Dutch East Indies, and wns started by fanatics yesterday, has been quelled by troops, who killed seventy-two of tho rebels and arrested a dozen of tho ringleaders. SEOUL. Korea, May 23, Tho kindliness of tho Japanese to their prisoners hero has been exemplified by tho sending to their homoa of two wounded Co?sacks photographs, photo-graphs, Bhowlng them to be allvo und safo. ST. LOUIS, May 23. The informal opening open-ing of tho Mexican and Netherlands pavilions pa-vilions took place today, representatives of foreign govorumonts, Mexican vinltors to tho fair, officials of tho exposition and Invited guests being present. WASHINGTON, May :S. Rear-Admiral Jewoll reported by cubic to the Navy department de-partment today tho arrival of the Luro- Sean squadron under his command, cm-racing cm-racing tho Olympic, Baltlmoro and Clove-land, Clove-land, at Horta, Azores. SAN FRANCISCO, May 23. On Monday next (Memorial day) tho grain trado of the merchants exchanpo will bo closed, and as business In nearly all llnru of produce pro-duce will bo suspended, thero will bo no market reports. NEW YORK, May 28, Amonjr the passengers pas-sengers who arrived today on board tho atoamer Lucanla from Liverpool was John. Barrett. United Stateo Mlnlstor to Panama. NEW YORK, May 28. Hereafter all the pucih-cart peddlers doing business In New York will bo required to display their photographs on tho Bides of their carts. GREENVILLE, Pa., May 25, Tho United Presbyterian gonoral assembly today to-day decided to co-operate with tho Utah Gospel mission and to equip and maintain a gospel wagon. Rov. J R. Mllllgau was elected to represent tho church. WASHINGTON, May 23. Tho Methodist Metho-dist Protostant conference today cleared tho way for union between Itself and tho four denominations with which negotiation negotia-tion aro ponding by tho adoption of a supplemental report from Its committee on union. PHILADELPHIA, May 23. Tho closing session of the Mcrchnnt Marino commission commis-sion was hold today In tho rooms of tho Hoard of Trade. Edwin S. Cramp, vice-president vice-president of tho Cramp Shipbuilding company, com-pany, declared himself In favor of differential differ-ential duties as -a means of rovlvlng com. rnerco. NEW HAVEN, Conn,, May 23. Yale having accepted the challcngo to compote with Harvard against Oxford and Cambridge Cam-bridge athletes about July G, tho teams will sail during tho first week In July. MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 2S.-Frank Nlesor.iw.Hkl, a member of tho Board of Public Works, tonight was found guilty by a Jury of accepting a brlbo of 3400 In connection with tho awarding of a contract con-tract for a city school building. CHEFOO, May 23. A fleet of steamers arrived today from Ncwchang and reported report-ed that no signs of tho Japanese fleet or transports woro apparent on tho western coast of tho Llao Tung pcnlnsulir. Everything Every-thing at Ncwchwang was reported quiet. Two Japanese crulsersi aro off Port Arthur Ar-thur today. PITTSBURG, May" iS.-Charlcn Parkin, a retired Iron and steel manufacturer, who has been termed tho father of tho cruclblo steel Industry In tho United States, died today, aged CC years. WASHINGTON, May 28. Lieut. T. O. Emmons, retired, has been assigned to special duty at Valdcz, Alaska, whore ho will study tho natives of that region and gathor Information for tho bureau of ethnology, BERLIN, May 23. Capt. Dannhauer, correspondent of tho Lokal Anzelger In German Southwest Africa, cabling from Windhoek, says that LlcuU-Col. JVon Eatoroff learned that the Horeros wore trekking westward to Watcrbcrg on May 24, and that ho hurried to Otjoraasu by forced marches, surprising tho enemy, which had intrenched there. LONDON, May 23. Play for tho SL George's vase, a gold trophy, was concluded conclud-ed nt Sandwich today. Tno courso was thirty-six holes, two rounds, and the winner win-ner was John Graham, Jr., of tho Royal Liverpool Golf club, with a score of 15-1. PARIS, May 23. Tho Matin's Peking correspondent says: Tho war party Is making strenuous efforts to Induce tho Government to glvo up Its neutrality. Four censors havo submitted to the court a report which has bcon drawn up with this end in view, but tho Government seems undecided. PANAMA, May 28. Alejandro Guardla hns bcon appointed Consul at San Francisco. Fran-cisco. A law establishing a national real estato and mortgage bank has been passed. The capital of the bank will be $i:00O,O0O. DANVILLE. Va., May 23. Howard A. Cobb, managing buyer of tho American Tobacco conrpany and brother of J. B. Cobb, vice-president of the American Tobacco To-bacco company, and president of tho American Cigar company, died suddenly today. NEW YORK, May 23. Total Imports of dry goods and general merchandise at tho port of New York for tho week ending today were valued at Jll.4S7.OI6. NORWICH, Conn.. May 23. At a hearing hear-ing today In the Superior court an Injunction In-junction wa3 granted restraining the People's Peo-ple's Savings bank of Pawtuckct, Conn., from paying out any money. President E. H. Knowles of the bank testified that Treasurer J. E. Brown had confessed to him that ho was a defaulter to tho extent of about -520,000. CHICAGO. May 2S. City Building Commissioner Com-missioner Williams today formally refused re-fused to giant a permit for tho reconstruction recon-struction of tho Iroquois theater, In which hundreds of peoplo perished by fire. t ST. LOUIS. Mny 23. After two days' discussion of tho matter, tho Episcopal diocesan convention of Missouri, by a good majority, voted against tho use of the revised re-vised version of tho Blblo in tho prescribed pre-scribed service of tho church. Laymen ero stronger than tho clergy In making tho voto decisive. HONOLULU, May 23 Tho United States bospital ship Solace arrived hero this morning from San FranclBco. Sho Is tho first steamer to bo reported hero by wireless wire-less telegraphy. Sho mado connection with the local wtrolcas telegraph Instruments Instru-ments when twonty-threo miles out at sea. WASHINGTON. May 23. Whether tho balanco of political power is with tho church or with tho world was discussed by tho Mothodlst Protestant conforenco today, and tho conclusion reached was that with tho united voto of tho church, ndded to tho temperanco voto outsldo of tho church, tho liquor quostlon could bo controlled. CinCAGO. May 2S, Photographic production pro-duction of tho spectra of the sun and tho brightest stars Is about to bo undcrtaKn by Prof. Gcorgo E. Hale, director of tne Yorkes observatory, on Mount Wilson, near Pasadena, Cal. TOKIO, May 23. Tho Japanese troops havo swept all tho Russians from their defenses west of Tallenwan bay. It la now Improbablo that the latter will bo capable of offering any further serious resistance In the territory north of Port Arthur. BOSTON, Mass., May 23. About forty delegates attended the annual convention of tho Actors' National Church AUIanco here. VIENNA, May 23. Emperor Francis Joseph Jo-seph has appointed Kins Edward a Field Marshal of tho Austro-Hungarlan army. SAN FRANCISCO, May 23. Rlvoal Luo Marie, a boatswain on tho French bark Marechal Davout. which loft this port late last evening, fell from tho rigging and was Instantly killed. SAN FRANCISCO, May 2S. Tho stcam-or stcam-or Siberia, which arrived horo today, brought $2,000,000 In gold from Japan. |