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Show DROWNED THEMSELVES RATHER THAN SURRENDER. tray WYOMING KANGE WAR bis Japanese Fight to Last and Choose Shrouds in Watsry Crave Rather MASKED Than Captivity. A Toklo dispatch says: Seventy three Japanese either kl.lod themselves or were drowned cn the transport Klnshlu Maru, which was sunk by a torpedo from the Russian cruiser Rossia at midnight of April 2Cth, while off Gensan, Korea. While the Klnshlu Maru was sinking the soldiers on board rushed up on deck and fired volleys from their rifles Into the Resits, and several of them committed suicide. Three small boata floated free from the wreckage of the transport, and were the means of saving forty-liv- e soldiers and nine of the passengers and crew. Two army captains and three lieutenants were among the drowned. Some of the survivors made the land in the boata and were brought Into Gensan. It ia uot known hero how many men the Russians took from the transport, or rescued after she was sinking. It la poslble that moro survivors will bo found, as one of the Klushlu Marus boats Is still missing. CONGRES8 HA3 ADJOURNED. ConSecond Session of Fifty-eight- h Passes Into History. gress The closing of the second session conOf the house of the Fifty-eight- h gress was made notable by the demonstration which was evoked by a resolution offered by Mr. Williams, the minority lender, testifying to tho courtesy and impartial manner in which Speaker Cannon had presided over tho house. The resolution was not of the perfunctoiy kind, but was expressive of the kind fee.lng which men In the house cf all parlies entertained toward him. In a graceful speech the speaker declared bia appreciation of the resolution. were Many conference reports in had been to bills which on. greed dlsptate between the two houses. The only debate of any importance was on the bill providing for the restoration to the naval academy of three cadets who had been dismissed for having, the house 'voting overwhelmingly , against the bllL In the senate, Mr. Allison, chairman Of the committee on appropriation!, submitted a scries of tab.es, prepared by the clerks of the appropriation committees, showing an Increase of 928,000,000 over the appropriations for the last session. He gave the principal items of Increase, ns follows t For the navy, 110,000,000; on account of the postal service. Including rural free delivery, $8,000,444. He ' also stated that there la an Increase of 88,832,000 in the permanent annual appropriations, the chief Items being $7,000,000 for tho bank note redemption fund, and the next most Important item ben ing $3,250,000 for the irrigation fund. The senate at 1:26 p. m. went Into executive session, and when at 1:52 the doors were reopened, Mr. Gorman offered the usual resolution expressive of the thanks of the senate to the president pro tem., Mr. Frye. The resolution prevailed unanimously. Mr. Frye responded briefly and waa loudly applauded. The chair then declared the senate adjourned alne die. SHEEP SLAUGHTER MEN NEAR LARAMIE. the Camp and Tie Herders to Fence, After Which They Proceed to Destroy Flocks and Burn Wagons and Supplies. Raid Cyrus IngGlburaen, foreman of the Stevens ft Maxwell sheep ranch, twenty-fou- r miles south of Ijiramle, Wyo., reported at that place Tuesday afternon that fifteen masked men raided bis sheep camp, on Weaver ranch, six miles from Tie Siding. The foreman and two herders were tied to a fence, after which the raiders killed 300 bead of sheep from a bunch of 3,000 bead of sheep from of 3,000 breeding ewes ranging on land owned and leased by Stevens ft Maxwell. the Wagons containing food supply of the camp we-- e burned. QUARRELED OVER 8HEEP. Man Killed In Nevada as Result of Dispute Over Range. C. W. Griswold shot and instantly sheep. Norton told film be sheep were and asked him to ft over night with him. Griswold eused Norton of having his sheep Griswolds land. Norton denied t charge, Griswold claims, called him liar and pulled a gun on him. Gris-wolgot on the opposite side of hit' horse, took his rifle from the saddle, shot under the horse and killed Nor ton. There were no wltnessea e cept one Japanese herder, who saw the affair, and he claims Norton did not pull any gun or make any attempt to do so. I MEDIATION EXPECTED. i Russia Likely to Accept After a LaiW Victory. While King Edwards move to rt store peace between Russia and Japs) has failed It Is nevertheless regardel as highly significant In diplomatic ch clew, according to a SL Petorsbury dl patch. It Is the first tangible evident! of a change In the relations betwocs Russia and Great Britain and thou tho latter has never approached the emperor, no matter how Indirectly, cn the subject of peace, if the situation between the two countries was whit it was before the war began, even entente, prior to the Anglo-Frencdiplomats believe that, despite tlo declaration of Russia that she w.ll never accept intervention, the . door can be oiened for negotiations When the campaign baa progressed for none time and Russia has bad an opportunity to wipe out the atlng of the dis- killed William Norton of Toano, Nevada, on Tuesday. Mr. Griswold owns some land about twenty miles south of Toano and is running a herd of cheep there. Tho Norton brothers have a lot of government land leased In the same locality. Griswold rodo up to where Norton was herding his sheep and asked if he had seen any asters at Port Arthur. h MARSHAL YAMACATA. IN PATH OF STORM. JAPANESE BOAT SUNK RUSSIANS GETTING EVEN WITH LITTLE BROWN MEN. Transport Containing 600 Men Bound for Korea Sent to Bottom by Russian Submarine BoaL Tho St. Petersburg correspondent of the Paris Journal reports that a Russian submarine boat has sunk a Japanese transport which waa conveying 600 men to Korea, and that all the troops were lost. The Japanese troops which crossed the Yalu north of Eultjiou (Tchangd-Jiou-) charged, during the nights cf the Russian position near April Lizaven a, a village on the Manchurian bank of the Yalu. They were repulsed, but their loss la not known. Two gunboats steamed up the river to the support of the Japanese, when a Russian field battery opened lire upon them, resulting in a duel which last for twenty minutes. The Russian fire waa too hot, and the gunboats were forced to setam out of range. 26-2- Orobrf-Wardel- dt Chlno-Japanes- Re- Miaaiaaippi on the Rampage. A SL Louis dispatch says: Flood conditions slong the Mississippi and north are improving. The break in the levee above Venice has spread the water over a large area and removed the danger of the flood forcing the valuable embankments protecting property In that vicinity. Below East e St. Louis there is a break in the road, and the little town of Rush The resiCity ia nearly inundated. dents wore forced to desert Uielr homes. Con-logu- n, Grcss-War-del- reels-matlo- Sheriff K. A. Denholm waa shot through the head and seriously injured at Tacoma, Wash., by a supposed maniac who the previous night shot and killed an English tramp and wounded a boy companion of the tramp on the Indian reservation beDentween Tacoma and Puyallup. holm was trying to gain admittance to the cabin where the crazy man was biding. The murderer may be an exconvict who la in hiding. father. At Fairfield, I. T., several business houses were destroyed and six persons killed outright Three of those Injured will die. Farm houses and haras in the path of the aterm were demolished, and there waa a terrible loss of farm stock. . A dispatch from Pine Bluffs, Ark., says a tornado passed over Jefferson county, killing two children and doing MADE DESPERATE FIGHT. heavy property damage. At Sherrill many buildings were blown down. Police Battle With a Negro for Over A tornado passed three miles eaBt Ten Houra. of Mexia, Tex., Monday, demolishing After a fierce battle between the po- four residences and did much minor lice and a desperate negro, lasting damage. Miss Jennie Shanks waa from 10 oclock p. m. until 8 o'clock probably fatally and several others a. m., Wilson Anderson, the man who seriously hurt caused the trouble, waa shot and killed 6I1UATION CRITICAL IN HUNGARY by four officers at Oakland, Cal. Anderson drove a white woman and Premier Threatene to Place Entire a colored porter out cf the house at . Kingdom Under Martial Law. Fourth and Broadway, where he lived, The Hungarian situation la regardat the point of a pistol. Policemen ed in Vienna as alarming. The Socialto summoned were Ford Sherry and ists threaten to proclaim a general arrest the negro. "When they appeared and. in auch an event. It is said strike, at the door Anderson fired at Sherry, in circles, Count Tisza, the political am. effleer'a the bullet grazing the will put the whole Hungarian premier, The negro then barricaded the doors martial law. under kingdom at and windows of the house and fired excitement appears to be Popular the premevery one who approached reaching a dangerous point, and tho ises. About twenty police officers surcritical condition of affair is further rounded the house, and during the Intensified by the near approach cf was up, kept night a running battle Labor day. Following the tragic event over a hundred shots being fired by at market town cf Elesd, near the the police. At dryllght It waa feund in which a Socialist that the desperate negro was still commander of the gendarkilled the alive. Every time he appeared at a of twenty-tfollowed the merie, killing by window he waa met with a volley of hree rlotera and the wounding of bullets from the weapons of the poa general the by gendarmes, forty lice. Chief Hodgkins endeavored sevbroken out at trike has eral times to get him to surrender, The shops, cafes and restaurbut the desperado refused to leave the and even the schools, are ants there, house and directed his attack qn every closed, and the business life of tho disofficer who came within shootng town Is entirely suspended. Five thousand teamsters at Budatance. The police finally made a 16,000 workmen at Debiecseln, a In pest, man the charge and captured chief town of the Halduck district, Ho had nine bullets the frfngccfadUlon. and a large number at Szeficdin, the tn his body. capital of the county of Czongrad, are now on strike. Troubles are also AN ANARCHI3T PLOT. feared in other towns. Attempt to Blow Up Russian Warship at Cronstadb A sensational story Is afloat at Cron-ataof an attempt to destroy the battleship Alexander IIL According to the reports, a sailor saw a stranger, wearing the uniform of an officer, going down into the engine room of the batOne of the most remarkable men pan, the General Grant of Japan and followed him and aaw the of the age is Field Marshal Mar- tho Napoleon of Japan. In local con- tleship, attaching something constranger quis Arltonlo Yamagata, commander flicts in the mlkadoa empire and in e in chief of the Japanese army, under the war of 1894 he nected with wire to the dynamos. whose direction the land forces of haa made a record that military men After the stranger left the sailor exthe mikado are preparing for a deadly envy, and now at the seasoned age of amined the attachment and found It with Russia. Statesman, 71 he again takes up the baton to to be a bomb. The sailor at once cut grapple diplomat, soldier, organizer, reformer, win, if possible, more enduring re- the wires, ran up on deck to tell what ha has been variously called the nown in a triumph over the leglona had happened and found that the Japanese Moltke, the Bismarck of Jar of the czar. stranger had hanged himself. The TOWN IN ASHES. crew of the Alexander III were inWHERE LARGE FLEET OF JAPAN E8E TRANSPORTS WAS REPORTstructed not to speak of the occurrence ED RECENTLY SIGHTED. 'Fire Causes Loss of Half Million Dot-- . and it la said the stranger was a mad lara In Britsh Columbia Town. man or a member of some revolutionNine-tenth- s of Fernie, B. C., Is In ary organization to whose lot It had ashes. Fernie ia a town of 8,000 popfallen to blow up the Alexander IIL ulation, the largest settlement In the throws Nest Pass district. The water Bay State Is for Olney. almost failed and district conventions to Democratic lire the supply pracelect delegates to the national contically burned Itself out. Nearly the whole of six blocks were destroyed vention at SL Louis were held in the and the loss ia estimated at $500,000. fourteen congressional districts of the Six hotels, two wholesale houses, etate of Massachusetts, Tuesday, and Christ church, and virtually all the rein all but four the district delegates tail stores in town were destroyed. either pledged or were favorable to the nomination of Richard Olney for the Very few residences were burned and there were no casualties. A rainstorm presidency were chosen. Of these delare claimed for Olsaved the balance of egatee twenty-on- e the town, inhouses. ney, six are conceded to Hearst, the The through wetting while one Is unpledged and surance companies will probably lose To the Olney forces must be $350,000. Already preparations are beadded the four delegates-at-large- , ing made to rebuild. elected and pledged to him at the state convention. WOULD NOT SURRENDER. Washington Murderer Shot While listing ArresL fleet of seventy to one hundred transports, escorted by Japanese warships, is said to have been sighted north of Port Arthur by a steamer bound for Newchang from Chefu, at a point marked on tho map by a square pierced by an arrow. Its direction, according to the report, was toward Ylnkow, which is Just south of Newchsuo, at the entrance to that port) Tears 8aved His Eyesight Planned to Marry Fifty Men. saved the eyesight of Charles Tears Mrs. Elizabeth Kalmick, aged 24, a been has and Solomon, newsboy elegantly attired, pretty arrested at Sioux City on suspicion of New York City. Solomon saw a of having worked wholesale marriage bottle lying in the street and smashed frauds. Her capture came about it with a stone. It was Ailed with through the inability of Albert J. carbolic acid and the fiery liquid flew Schwartz of Fianklnton, 8. D., to find up in his face. He suffered terribly her. She had agreed to meet him and cried pitifully. Dr. Kcrnau, bom there and marry him for $100, which the Presbyterian hospital, said he ho paid. Mrs. Kalmick admitted, it la could save the boys eyesight, as the aid, that she was corresponding with lads tears prevented the acid from Any men, with a vickr of matrimony. doing its greatest harm. (A sixteen-year-ol- PALL OF SOCIETY MAN" Many Persona Killed by Tornado In Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas. Six people were killed by a tornado which swept through the county about four miles south of Prldr Creek, L T., Sunday night Reports have beei received that a number of others were injured. The storm started near Choteau, on the Missouri ft Texas, eight miles from Prior Creek, and swept to the northeast, cutting a path from one-hal- f to a mile wide, and about twenty miles long. The Abbott home waa demolished and the four members cf the family Instantly killed. The storm then struck the Dealy home, blowing it to pieces, killing the young son and probably fatally Injuring the I d , Dervishes Defeated by British. A report haa been received in London of the rapture of Illlg, on the coast of Somaliland, from the dervishes. Three bluejackets were killed and six wounded. Rear Admiral romander-ln-chic- f of the East African station, who personally commanded the landing force, and the lighting, which occurred April 25, was at close quarters. The dervishes de-- i fended their stone scarlhas and tow-- ! era determinedly, hut the British stormed their stronghold and drove them out with heavy loss. Crum Not Confirmed. The nomination of William D. Cram ot he collector of the port of Charleston, S. C.. was considered Wednesday In an executive session of the senate lasting from 4:35 p. m. to 9:15. A failure to eon firm the appointment re-suited. At the conclusion of argu ments by Senators Galllneer. Spooner, Hale and Aldrich for confirmation and Senators Daniel. German and Clay against confirmation. Senator Cock-- : roll suggested the senate proceed to legislative business and the suggestion was adopted. n. TURKS AND GREEKS COLLIDE. at Smyrna Which May sult in Serious Complications. An Affray Re- TURNS BANDIT AND IS KILLED IN FIGHT. Former Well Known Citizen of California Town Holds Up Fashionable Club House, But Fails to Get Away With Booty. A masked man, armed with two revolvers, entered the rooms of the Del Monte Social club in San Jose, Cal., at Jin early hour Sunday morning, and, after lining up against the wall six men who were in the rooms at the time, took u diamond ring valued at 8900 from one of tho men, grabbed then $350 or $400 from the table, tacked cut of the room. After a pursuit by citizens and police lasting over an hour, during which over thirty hots were exchanged, the robber was finally killed. Upcn investigation the dead man waa found to be Bert Thorn-dyka prominent young man of San Jose. Thorndyke was one of the best known young men in the city, be having resided in San Jose for years He Is well connected, his mcther-in-labeing Mrs. G. M. Brace, a wealthy widow residing on Stockton avenue, with whom Thorndyke, his wife and little child lived. Thcrxdykea mother is a wealthy widow of Stockton. He has a brother who Is a prominent artist on the New York American. Formerly Thorndyke waa engaged in business with E. H. Wempls & Co., grocers, and for the past year has been a partner and foreman of the A. C. Kcton ft Co., large printing establishe, ment TORNADO IN KANSAS. Number of Homes Destroyed and 6everal Persons Injured. A severe tornado struck McPherson, Kansas, Sunday afternoon, demolishing six residences and causing more or less other damage to property. Three persons were injured, one seriously. Much damage waa done In the county north of McPherson. Beyond McPherson the tornado followed the ground, taking the path of an old water course. The tornado passed four miles east of Saline, wrecking telephone and telegraph poles and farm property. Efforta made to follow the course of the storm by telephone were made, hut all the wires are down. It la a miracle that great damage waa not done at McPherson and many persona killed, as the tornado barely missed the thickly settled residence district. A WHAT CONGRESS ACCOMPLISHED Important Action Has Been Confined to Cuba and Panama Canal. The important legislative accomplishments of the sessions of the Fifty-eightcongress were confined to two subjects Cuba and Panama. The reciprocity treaty between the new island republic and the United States, initiated by President McKinley, was made operative by a legislative enactment The ratification of a treaty by the aenate and the subsequent initiation of legislation of the government for the canal zone commit the United States to the construction of the Panama canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. h An affray between Turkish gendarmes and Greeks is reported from Smyrna, In which M. Bel Yannis, secretary of the Greek consulate, was slightly wounded. Serious complications may ensue. A Greek squadron haa sailed for Smyrna. It appears that Del Yannis endeavored to open the shops cf Greek merchants which had been closed for nonpayment cf taxes. This was opposed by the gendarmes. A straggle ensued. M. Del Yannis was wounded and he fired on the gendarmes. The Turkish SKIRMISH ON THE YALU. authorities imprisoned M. Del Yannis and two consulate guards, who were Russian Detachment Nearly Cut Off only released after the interventicn of by Japanese. the French consul. Official dispatches received in SC STEAMER SENT TO BOTTOM. the Vladivostok Squadron Is Ravaging the Coast of Korea. A dispatch from Toklo, under date of April 25, says: The crullers Rossia and Gromobi of the Vladivostok squadron participated la an attack on Gensan. They were accompanied by a third cruiser, not yet identified, and by two torpedo boats. Later they entered the harbor, ordered the crew of he Goyo Mara ashore and then sunk her. A detachment of marines was landed, but waa recalled, and the warship! steamed outside the harbor. The Japanese and many Koreans fled when the Russians approached. Late telegrams say that the Russian squadron remains off the harbor of Gensan. THE DEADLY AUTOMOBILE. Big Machine Runs Into Ditch, Killing One Man, Injuring Another. George Holcombe ia dead at Trenton, N. J., and Captain E. Y. Breyse of the Second regiment, N. J national guard, is still unconscious as a result of an automobile accident. Breyse lost control of the machine and It ran into a ditch. Holcombe and Breyse, who were in front, were thrown out on their heads and both sustained concussion of the brain. Breyse's recovery is a matter cf considerable debate. GOING TO THE FRONT. Foreign Officers Will Leave Tokio for Korea Next Saturday. The foreign military observers assigned to Japan's first army in Korea have been ordered to leave Toklo for the front next Saturday. In addition to the attaches already mentioned, the following will accompany the party: Captain Hoffman of Germany. Captain Gyarmata of Austria. Captain Da pour of France, Major Cavigha of Italy, Colonel Gertsch of Switzerland and Captain Hergurdt of Sweden Petersburg regarding fighting south of the river Pemakua reported last Friday, in which a Russian detachment suffered three men killed and two officers and thirteen men wounded, say a Japanese barge and other boata emerged from the month of Pomakua and attempted to cut off the Russian retreat. The barge waa sunk by the Russian guns. Captain Smelfien, wbo commanded thv troop-lade- n detachment, haa died of his wounds. Lieutenant Puskin waa the other of- ficer who waa wounded. FATAL 8TREET FIGHT. One Man Killed and Two Badly Injured at Corvalls, Oregon. Ester Keady is dead, James Dunn, of police of Corvalls, perhaps fatally shoe and David A. Osburn, of Benton county. Is dangerously shot as the result of a pistol duel that took place at Corvalls, Wash., early Sunday morning. Keady was drunk and resisted arrest, shooting Osburn, when the other officers interfered end a general fight ensued. Burt Turney, aged 22, is in custody as an accessory with Keady. Keady is about 18 years old and belongs to a family locally prominent ex-chi- iff Breach Between China and Russia. The statement la made that Chine haa taken quite a definite stand within the last few days. This may Involve serious consequences to the relations between Russia and China. Chlna'a action, it la noted, follows the report that Viceroy Alexleft had requested the retirement of the Chinese troops. It la also reported that the Chinese minster at St. Petersburg will be recalled. Although the latter report Is denied, there is reason to believe that it has some foundation. |
