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Show s X THE WEEKLY SENTINEL MT YOCITOR. ..... J4KEMAN, HUIltM IT PATH OF 8TORM IN A It NEWS SlIiM.UA II Y. The population of Korea Is 1 5.t0T. 000 in round numbers, and It Is about battle may occur TORNADO OF MINERS FIGIIT ifto return, a pitched they persist in their purpose.. Governor Peabody declare he will PRAIRIE FIRE IN NEBRASKA MEN DRIVEN FROM TELLURIDE take steps to prevent the marching of BRINGS DESOLATION. WILL RETURN HOME. armed bodlee of men Into Telluride. WILL Chicago and. Adjacent Tu&wns Visited by Small Cyclone. One of the u.ost sveie storms the city i.as known in many years passed over Chicago Thursday night. .Creai Will Ba IN PATH OF CYCLONE. Accompanied by an Armed damage was done In the suburbs to and Pitched Battle May Escort One Man Mortally Wounded and Fifty of the city. and seuth the Occur aa Result of Such Action. . much loss was sustained by the Buildings Wrecked In Missouri t.o-tto of the city A special from . HigginsvlUe, Mo, the people living saya fifty proper. The stoini did not strike the are partly buildings business portion of the city in its wrecked, one man la mortally wound- ev cted from the TeRuride, CoIo..!ed ers and othera h greatest loree. towa an organization of bush ls in The town darkness. BtrwK Harbor, twenty district, by the gtrewn ness men has abandoned the attempt wtll deLrla aa miles southeast of Chicago, on the the result cf a tor- to appeal to the governor for pntec- - Dado and n Miehi-a& Southern rail Lake Shoie hail.tora wfck.h gtnick thla 0 ter trying In vain. for thrue . rfrad, wasThe heaviest stiffener. Oar .Lon,.. place to an obtain audience him with days The bail on the streets was a foot mat1, I.. Barker, tin: proprietor of a The members of the committee Lave deep within fire minutes after the diy goods stole, was killed, and fif teen people who we e in his Etore departed for Ouray, where the 'de- storm came, and some of tbe hailWeen the st(, in Mni-k- , weie inji.ieil, ported men are making preparations stones were phenomenally large. Dozsome )f tiiom sei initsly, although to march to Telluride, accompaiKd ens of trees In the town were blown none of them are expe terl to die. Barby an armed escort provided by thn down and several horses were killed kers store wns entirely demolished. Eiehtceil residences we.e blown miners unions of Ouray, Sllverton, in the street. down, and a number of people were Durango and Ophir. Aa the citizens It is estimated that 2,000 windows hurt in the ruins of tli'dr homes. who drove the miners out of TellurMe were broken by the storm Mere than declare that they will not be permitted fifty houses have been unroofed. RACE RIOT IN ARKANSAS. M large as the state of Kansas. An anti lynching crusade has bepn Inaugurated by the United Confederate Veterans of Grenada, Miss. Owing to the discontinuance of the trips of the volunteer fleet steamers, no tea Is coining from Ceylon by water. A tornado struck the village of Ney-lanTexas, demolishing a number of houses and damaging a number of outbuildings. The Midland steel mill at Muncle, Ind., is to resume operations, the 000 employs having accepted a 20 per cent reduction in wages. The worlds cotton crop report for Five Negroes Taken From Officers by Moj and Shot to Death. 1002-Is estimated by the departA special from He Wilt, Arkansas, ment of agriculture at 17,179.705 bales, says five negroes, who had been arvalued at $750,082,451. as a result of race troubles at An outbreak of the bubonic plague rested St. Charles, were taken iron the has occurred In the. Indian coolie secby a crowd of men and shot guards tion st Johannesburg. Thirty deaths to death. have occurred In a week. The victims were Jim Smith, CharThe reverert windstorm since 1880 Smith, Mac Baldwin, Abe Bailey. ley occurred at Salem, Ore., on the 19th. Flood. Garrett Connldcable damage was done and This makes nine negroes that have numerous narrow thre escapes been killed within a week from Injury. of rare troubles. The Killing of RanDavid Carrod, a re'ected suitor for the hand of Annie Maxwell, daughter dall Flood, Will Baldwin and Will Wedof a wealthy farmer living near Lin- Madison by a constable's posse was while tbe posse morning, nesday coln. Neb., fhot the girl dead and seeking two negro ((lenders named killed himself. Tho Serious riots have occurred at Griffin, began tbe slaughter. Search for the Griffins was continued beAgram. capital of tween students for and against Rus- and Thursday a sheriff's posse was sia. Sver-- i rtudents on both sides fired cin by a negro, Aaron Sinton, frt m ambush. The posse returned were wounded. the fire, killing Sinton. One mn wns killed, several more or less rerlotmly Injured and one white Macedonian Revolutionists Quiet at woman wounded In a fight between Present. negrnn. and (touty sheriffs about to the dispatches received According two miles from Bessemer, Ala. '' from Constantinople, the porte and DIet"ous prairie fires In the vicin- tho authorities have ity of Hemineford. Neb., have de- reached an agreement In regard to ranch sheds, barns and tho organization of the Macedonian stroyed groves of timber and ruined the gendarmle under union officers, so it grazing for the nest three years. is believed that it will not be long beA bad freight wreck oecurred at fore the reform scheme for Macedonia a few rollea Is recognized Lucerne, a small byhe emperois of west of Knllspell. Mont., In which one and Austria at their meeting at Itallnn laborer was killed and fourteen Muerseteg, Syria. In an Interview at of his companions more or less seri- Sofia March 24. .Boris SarafolT, the Macedonian leader, said his party inously injured. Bobbers blew the First National tended to await the result of an introduction of he reforms before bank building at Fir,hN'h..Jo piece. an sUemptlo loot' theMsafe, but BRITT GIVEN DECISION. failed to secure the treasure. They were scared away by citizens without Idol of California Given Decision Over securing any bootyv Young Corbett. A mob of masked men stormed the James Britt of Califoinia wns given Jail at Cleveland, Miss., and secured the decision over William Roth well Fayette Sawyer and Burke Parris, known as Young Corbett") of negroes, charged with the rfiurder of a (better Colorado la a twenty-u.uncontest at ne.r-- 0 end porter, hanged them from Woodwards the railroad bridge. pavilion in Sun FranThe attempt of the disinherited rel- cisco, Friday night. Up to the sevenatives to break the will of Mrs. Abide teenth round Corbetts ad. at 're was but in that round Britt ralH. H. Stuart, a club wo- apparent, lied and rainel right and bu on a. man of Oympl.a, Wash,, and secure a rus portions of Corbett's anatomy, division of the $100,000 estate left by forcing the champion to clinch to save himself. her, has resulted In failure. John H. Wood, the convict who Judge Swain to De Impeached. killed J. F. Rutherford last August "Resolved. That Charles Swayne, during the Folsom (Cal.) prison outof the court of (he Unitdistrict Judge break. has been found guilty of murder In the first degree. Wood was one ed States la and for the northern of Florida, be Impeached of high of the leaders of the outbreak. misdemeanor. This is the recomAt Mountain View, Wash., the home mendation of the house committee on of Bertrand Drake caught fire while the judiciary to the house In the rehe was lighting the heating stove, and port of the committee filed by Reprewas totally destroyed. His two sentative Paimer of Pennsylvania, daughters, aged f and 9 years, who chairman of the subcommittee which were asleep upstairs, were burned to investigated the case against. Judge Swayne. J death. The Servian foreign office having DESTRUCTION WAS COMPLETE. asked Russia when she would accept volunteers from Servla, the emperor Ctrip of Country in Arkansas Swept By a Tornado. replied that he would accept the sr- A special from vices of 500 Servians snd 500 BulFort Smith, Ark., garians Immediately. Their enlist- says: Passengers on a belated train ment begins Immediately. on the Arkansas Central railroad reA dispatch from Butte, Mont., says port a destructive tornado In a strip that the city, which started to slide of country near Spring Hill, Ark. Sevdown the mountain several years ago, eral persons are reported injured, but has Just made another move, a num- so far as (an be learned, no one was A passenger says that as far killed. ber of large buildings within the ter- as the eye could reach the destruction ritory show cracks, due to the move- appeared complete. Not a tree was ment of the earth. lelt standing and houses were razed. Democratic county conventions held In Orleans. Chemung and Cortland Stockmen of the West Will Wage War Against Beef Trust. eourtles, New York, to choose dele The Denver 'News says that the gats i to the St Louis convention, In strueted tbelr delegates to favor stockmen of the wed, backed by the Judge Alton B. Parker of New York powerful National l ivestock association. mean to carry out their project for the presidential nomination. of .establishing an indopen.e t parkThe Japanese authorities have oring plant to fight tli" beef tin t, is dered the newspaper correspondents at Pingyang and Anju to return. They evidenced ly the option that has hem also refuse. to honor the permits for- taken ui n the parking plant of Hold of Kansas City. This opt.i n merly given for correspondents to acIs now in the hands of Vice-Pe- t "t to and are the front, company troops L. F. YfK;n an-Treasurer F. W. holding them at Seoul. Fiato of the organization. A deal for 5,000 tons of barley has Strikers Preparing for Trouble. been closed at San Francisco with John Ciaik. Jr., sen of the sheriff agents of the Russian government for the use of Russian troops In the field. of Las Animas county, 4LV lora lo, In a Both Russian and Japanese agents statement made in Iueblo regarding have been negotiating In this market condith ns in Tiinidad. saM there was for some time past. an iubsi lute necessity fi r martial law Marco Brovlch, a mint," employed as the first out!. real; which In the Minnie Healy min at Butte, j has been brewing voul.l put th s tui committed suicide by Jumping from tion boyrsul c ntrot of tno sheriff t level and landing on a the 'Regarding statement'' (hat the bulkhead 750 feet below. Brovlch re- - i strikers are antic I, Mr. Clark sa.d "About where is armed.every striker he--inn that distiut cently returned from Alas They have shipping ip It Is reported he lost $1,900. arms for scveihl weeks ta COMMANDERS OF RIVAL FLEETS. vfei XJLfef w' Crnfla-Shvont- . Austro-Hungaria- n et-t'- - i Rou-mani- a ; well-know- dls-trt- Ja-ro- h 700-foo- . past., Admiral Urlu la, according to the best obtainable Information, In d of the Japanese squadron whWh bombarded Vladivostok and io SeapCb(na for tha RussUn.quadi(Miaymmnd(l Sy Cap. If H has not already met and- - destreyea 1, aa reported. Admiral Urlu la a graduate of the United States naval academy and his wife was graduated from Vasaar. com-tnan- 1 WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS. bound together refilled the cells just vacated. Korean Prisoners Confined at 6eoul It ls probable the representatives of Being Executed. the foreign powers will Investigate, Numerous executions at the Seoul and. If justified, take action. prison are reported to be due to the movement of the supreme court In the Kuropatkin Preparing for an Active direction of clearing out the place. Campaign. Tho total In three nights past has been The first headquarters of the Mansix prisoners decapitated and thirty-eigh- t churian army after General Kuropat-kln- s arrival will be at Liao Yang, the hanged. Many of these victims had been in Jail for years without general having selected that point Instead of Mukden whence to direct the trial. Iiao Yang Is ten miles Some were former students In operations. Japan, others were thieves, high- west of the railroad, being connected embezzlers of waymen, public with the main road by a special line funds, political offenders and traitors. which will be completed by the time As the bodies were carried out strings General Kuropatkin arrives, and has of ten or twenty condemned men many advantages over Mukden. I FLAME Japanese Make an Attack at Midnight, But Little Damage Is Done. A dispatch to Reuters Telegram Three Deaths Reported, While a Nurr company from St Petersburg says: "Japanese torpedo bests appeared off her of People1 Are Missing, and Port Arthur at midnight of the night Lois Run Will Into Property of March and the shore batthe Thoueands. teries end guard ships shelled them for twenty minutes. The Japanese reA dispatch from Loomis, Neb., says: but reappeared four hours A prairie fire Is raging through this treated, when they met with the same later, section of the state and already three when they retired again. deaths are reported, while a number reception, . "At S a. m. a Japanese squadron of of farmers are missing. Losses In two divisions, corr posed of. feur and houses and stock run far toward he eievear ships, and accompanied -- by 1 $100,000 mark, and the fire centimes eight torpedo beats, appeared and the with unabated fury. Russian squadron sailed cut from the August Qlsen, an aeed farmer. Is outer roadstead to meet them. known to have been burned to "No further details regarding the and two of bis hands are missing. action are obtainable. At 9 a. m. jthe James Lewis and WilMam Anderson, Japanese battleships, having fired sevranchmen, are also dead. A number eral shots at I lao Ttshin and shelof cowboys are reported, missing from tered behind the promontory, comdifferent directions. menced a bombardment of Port The flames are past all hope of control, and are leaping across the prairie at race horse speed, burning everyMARTIAL LAW IN COLORADO. thing In their path. The Burlington railroad has sent a Governor Declares Las Animas County In State of Insurrection. special train with fire fighters from Holdredge to assist the ranchmen in A proclamation has teen Issued by saving the small towns In the path of Governor Peabody of Colorado, declarthe flames, ing the county of Las Animas in a From Loomis to the Platte river, fif- state of Insurrection and rebellion. teen miles, the whole country will unSubsequently an order was Issued for doubtedly be swept clear by the fire. 300 troops under command of Major Further to the west, toward which Zeph T. Ilill to proceed to Trinidad, the. blaze Is sweeping, the prairie the county seat. - In his proclamation country extends for nearly. 300 miles. the governor says that there exists In There are no streams of note along las Animas county a ccitain class of this courfry, and the fire may sweep Individuals are fully armed and who to the bend of the Platte river In that acting together, resisting the laws of direction. the state and offering violence to citiMILITIA FCR TRINIDAD. zens and property. The civil authorities of the county are quoted as auSystem ef Deportation Will Probably thority for the statement that not less Be Inaugurated. than 1 500 unemployed men are armed About 400 members of the national In apparent anticipation of an open guard reached Trinidad, Colo., Wed- conflict. nesday, and will be distributed among I as Animas county forms the larger the various coal camps In Las Aniof the southern Colorado coal portion mas county. The governor has infields, where the members cf the Unitstructed Major Zeph T. Hill, com- ed Mine Workers of America have mander of the force, to use such been on a strike for several months. means as he may deem proper, actWill Investigata the Beef Trust. ing In conjunction with or Independently of the civil authorities, to reTho department of commerce and store peace and good order. labor, through the bureau cf corporaThe coal miners in the Trinidad dis- tions, ls making an investigation into trict have been on strike for several the operations of the beef months, chirring that they suffer trust. A part of the investigation is abuses In the weighing of coal, the being conducted In accordance with a company store, and other ' matters. resolution passed by the house of repThe Colorado Fuel & Iron company resentatives recently. Prior to the and the Victor Fuel company have adoption of the resolution the departdeclined to treat with or recognize ment, through Its regular channels, the existence of the union. The men had collected and tabulated certain belong, to the. United Mine .Workers. information regarding the beef tru Labor leaders express the opinion that The resolution, which was drafted by the purpose of sending a military Martin of South DaRepresentative force to I as Animas county Is to Inaugurate a series of deportations such kota, requested the department ofas have been carried out at Telluride. ficials to ascertain, If possible, the cause of the difference in price beto Fight It Out on Japan Propo-e- s tween beef on the hoof and dressed Plains of Manchuria. beef. It was pointed out that western The Times this morning publishes tockmen believed that they were bean opinion of a correspondent that ing discriminated against by the trust. Japan will land her main army at Rockefeller Has Enough. Newcnwang, which willhe formed into a magnificent base, and that she also John D. Rockefeller, the world's probably will seize Haicheng (fifteen richest man. whether ruling sovereign miles eastward and on the railroad), rr privato citizen, has set January as an additional base, and without next as a definite date for retiring seriously attacking either Port Arthur trom active business. He will then or Vladivostok, will fight out on the have reached his (Uith year, and he plains of central Manchuria. las informed the members of his tnl-ne.'It ls almost certain. In the corre(ahinet that fiom thr.t date his spondent's opinion, that the war will iuceessor will be his only son. John D. be a long one, and that at the worst Rockefeller, Jr. An Intimate friend of Japan will maintain a way to retreat Mr. Rockefeller said this concerning overland into Korea. If she secures his yearly Income: Mr. Rockefellers Newchwang. he says, her prestige will wealth is so great that no one may be and he adds that the know accurately what his income is southern Manchuria waterways of If you should fix the sum fetal at will be of inestimable value In somea year It would be ns accurate what counterbalancing the weakness of Japan In her cavalry. an estimate as could be made. 21-2- d(-at- s esta-dshe- COMMANDER NAKAYAMA. UEUT. MIURA. ill $ d, Chicago Suburbs Swept by Flood. Much damage was caused In Chicago suburbs by spring floods Weds nesday. the worst la years. 3 he river reached a record mark, and at Romeo Lemont, Willow Springs. River Forest Rnd other towns In the Desplanes valley bridges were wrecked or weakened by thffhlgh waters. One man was drowned as a result of the flood. Farm houses at Lemont, situated on the edge of the valley, are standing In water which reaches up to the windows. Des-plane- Com-rnand- er HUNTER MURDERED. Found In His Cabin With Bullet Hole In Back of Hit Head John Spltta!, a hunter and trapper. found dead in his cabin on Lulu Island, ten miles from Vancouver. He had a bullet hole in the back of his head. The door of the shack was found secure on the outside with a locked padlock. Spjttal's two guns were missing, and there was a strange coat In the room where the body was found. No gun was found Inside the Tfcere is co cllle ,0 the ttur" derer. -- Battle Between Whites and Blacks In Arkansas. Three negroes we? killed la a battle between blacks and wnltes Wednesday at St. Charles. Arkansas. . posse of deputy sheriffs was engaged' In a search" for two negroes who had seriously wounded two white men in a fist fight at St. Charles, and while passing through a section of they were fired at from a thicket by a party of negroes. The whites returned the fire and Instantly killed Garrett Wood, Will Madison and Will Baldwin. He was killed In the engagement at Port Arthur Feb. 9. He was a member ef Rear Admiral Togos staff, and was second In command of the battleship Fuji, an .which he met his death by a Russian shell. The ship was damaged, but not disabled. From the He was one cf the officers of the Japanese battleship Fuji, under Nakayima. He was standing an the bridge with his commanding officer when a Russian shell Struck pear them, killing both. From the Leading Japanese newspaper, leading Japanese newspaper, JIJL Shimpo- - Their Ships. of the raids that the jBPan' uoces that Pir 10 Japanese fleet are actively proceeding. In order that the vessels may be ready to meet the Russian Daltic Beet. The battleships Mikasa and tlatsuse and the armored cruiser Iwate are in dock, as are also several cruisers and torpedo Itoats. It Is Intended, according to the Information received from the Japanese legation, to have the fleet la pefect condition t by the end of Jane. , : Japanese Repairing Tbe correspondent F,are at Ron,e 8aya ea legaUon thera BATTLE OFF PORT ARTHUR. a j 6enator Dick Dens Toga. The opening ceremonies of the senate Wednesday were marked by the official Introduction to that body of Charles Dick as the successor of the late M. A. Hanna aa a senator from Ohio. The oath of office was administered by President Pro-teFrye. The senate again spent the greater part of the-daconsidering the Indian approoriatlon bill. Three hours of time was given to discussion cf a claim of $30,000 for sewlces rendered the Choctaw" Indians. It finally was TORNADO IN ARKANSAS. Cne Life Lost end Great Damage to Property. A Little Rock. Aik., dispatch says A tornado did grent damage to prop, erty and r aused at least cne death, in central Arkansas. At Fcurcheo Da- four miles frem Little Rock, a negro nhool was blown down and a pupil was killed. la the section twenty mileR north of Little Rock great destruction of property ls reported. The storm did much damage to property In Little Rock. bo-m- The Race Question in Texas. In the Republican state convention held at Dallas, Texas, Tues lay, the feature noticeable was the absence of negroes, who have heretofore taken a prominent part In the convem.or.s. While the regular convention was being held there was held a session, composed chiefly of negroes, with a few whites, and a lx it fiom the regular convention was effected, two white and two negro delegates leing obcco to represent the Mate at large in the natonal convention at Chicago. Japs Becoming Civilized. legislative scandal is threeten'n-In connection with the prcp( sal cf the to (rente a toJapanese gc vemr'-'-i- t bacco monopoly. It is a'io'c that certain members of the (MM support a move-ro- t 'o in i cop Jo o pti A ; 1 pen.-atjor- factutets ftr s shat" It'' cf ti e secured. It was t; ci'.'niy n the piem'scf-e-- s f yeais irrrr-ness It is r;d :h-- - th- was to re-re i?j- years 0-pa- --- v e- im-erc- t t of ' |