Show 1 X ROUTE D BY JAPANESE TWO THOUSAND COSSACKS ARE PUT TO FLIGHT engagement take takes place Nor theatt of feng wang cheng in which drown brown men man geem to have had beet sect of argument A detachment of japanese troops attacked and defeated 2000 cossack a at at yang pien plen moa ilea east cast ot of pong fong wang cheng chong saturday the engagement began at IQ 10 30 and ended at 1130 11 30 a m the japanese lost four men killed and twenty eight wounded the russian casualties are not known general oku la in command of the japanese annles operating ting against port arthur reports that the russians have abandoned cheng ko chen pau huang shan and liu shu tun no Ru Ruael salans ans have been seen east of chen ku chen pau general Naka muras detachment which occupied liu shu lun friday captured four russian guns SENATOR QUAY DEAD ono one of tho mot most noted public men of ie me day passe passes away colonel matthew stanley quay senior senator from pennsylvania died peacefully at beaver deaver pa on an friday afternoon after an illness s which had ben boon more or less 1 persistent bior the lasi iasi year which took p turn for the worse ten days ago and which the doctors diagnosed as chronic matthew stanley quay was born bom at Dills billsbury bury pa september 30 1833 he atter attended ded the public schools und and jefferson college graduating in 1850 and in 1854 was admitted to the bar ho ile was va colonel of the one hundred and thirty fourth pennsylvania volunteers and military secretary to the governor of pennsylvania during the civil war F from orn 1866 to 1867 quay was a member of the state legislature nd I 1 f TP T P V 1812 1872 he was elected secretary ct cf the commonwealths commonweal thi a position which bo he held hold for six years lie ile waa reorder of and chairman of the republican fate state committee during the following year and in 1879 wae was again elected secretary of the commonwealth mon wealth homing holding thu domce tor for three years he was delegate to the republican national convention in 1872 and and also tram 1880 to 1892 tho the last state domce which be he held bold was that of state treasurer in 1885 lie ile waa was elected united states senator from pennsylvania by tl U a 3 republican party and took his ewt march 4 1887 he was wall chairman of tho the republican national committee in 1883 1 quay was united states senator for or two terms from ISS 1887 to 1899 in the latter year ho he was tried for misappropriation of the public funds and acquitted april 21 and on he same day ho he was appointed united states senator by governor stone ot of pennsylvania it Is announced by the family of senator quay that carrying out the senators dying request ther would be no ostentation in connect i ith the funeral this thin compels ane lal of a request by the masons for a masonic funeral CRUSHED BY STREET CAR child killed kilted and three men man injured in salt bait lake city memorial day in st lake city was marked by three str car one of which resul re tei tally alonso worthen the fivey five ye y td id son 1 ier and mrs t V it worth 1 9 ans 1 as killed in the evening while curlier lii in th the e day andiew and lew godfrey aged 18 att rs sustained a broken leg in the morning arthur drown brown a drugS druggist was rendered unconscious by a fall f from rom a moving car shortly after 10 i sunday night might hyrum S gillies suffered the loss lose of his right foot falling in front of his own car while dizzy I 1 methodists ADJOURN mot most remarkable gi gathering in church churchs history at an end it was as after midnight on sunday when the general conference of tho the methodist episcopal church closed ita its session at log los angeles the conference just closed has accomplished complis hed much for tho the interest of the methodist church and will go 90 down in church history as one of the moat most important in the point polut of legle legis dative action the action of the general conference IQ in retiring five bishop bishops and elert ing ln eleven others probably attracted the wide widest tt attention of any other eingle ringle happening but there were many other subjects that affected the great membership of the church and which were watched with deep inter cst est among these were the decision to stand by the present attitude of the church on the subject of prohibited amusements tho the mousa to return to the time limit of pastoral ser service rice the exonerating of certain theolog theological lesl schools of the harrt of heretical teachings tho the unification of the methodist publishing houses the of the boards of ot church benevolences providing means of support for super annulated bishop bi thop creating a commis sion on t vire tho the commission ap pointed tour four years ago to bring tho the various branches of methodism closer together in the use of common prayer book hymnal and catechism a referendum referendum of the much discussed question of a colored bishop and many other matters of smaller importance wanamaker kep to succeed quay A washington special says president roosevelt lost a great leader in n senator matthew S 8 quay and now there la is wondering Y vo yo o will become the real spi spokesman kesman for the administration in pennsylvania few doubt that former postmaster general john wanamaker will step to the front and make every possible effort to organize a domino domin nt it party in the keystone state his ambition to go to wash ington as a united states senator so strong in other years has not lessened with age and it is expected that mr wanamaker Wana maher will soon b L planting his forces so as to take ad leo of the loss by the quay fao f action of its leat leadership enship ha will at it tempt to wrest the scepter from his political foemen and become the gnit I 1 am for the party in that stab MAW A which passed about two miles south of guthrie oklahoma did much damage to growing crops while ave bouses houses were |