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Show mi ASSGQAIU) PRESS SERVICE. TElECRAPlilC VOL. L TRAIN ttab forecast Fair Today and NO. 91. OGDEN CIVIL IS IN HOUSE HELD UP At Last Moments Express Messenger on Southern Pacific is Killed by Democrats Stopped It From Being Passed. SEALED HAS CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY MORNING, 'L LETTER 0 - WEIGHT Cl ii. and OVER BRITISH CLASH FALLS WITH SEVEN DEAD THIBETANS Patterson Three Are Precipitated 210 Feet Their Advance is FOUR DYING Opposed and Twenty Girls Were Employee Over the Shoshone. fighting Follows. Men in Skiff Go to Woman's Rescue, Bjt Lose Their Own Thibetans Are Worsted In Two Encounter' They Wore Armed With Ruaoian Guns and Ammunition. Dixon Boise, 1.1a., March 31. Three persons plunged 210 foot to their death over the Shoshone falls of ihu Snake ricr about 'J uYioik last night. They were: Alias Marie Willis. Samuel Graham. An unknown man. Miss Willis sometimes ran the ferry Tuna, British India, March 51. has hueu received hero of severe fighting, the Thibetans having attacked the British mission under Colonel Yuunghusband. Theft were two engagements and the Thibetans were repulsed with heary loss. The British raptured the Thibetans camp at Geru. While tho British advance had practically been unopposed, the expedition suffered great hardship from the Intense cold and It waa sometimes found Impossible tt work the Maxim guns and rifles owing to tho congealing of the'oll. The country waa of the bleak est, without a sign of V4gotallon aud the expedition had to face piercing winds and clouds of dust, while there waa a heavy fall of snow last night. At eight oclock this morning a flying C4ilumn starled to recuniudter the Thibetan camp at Geru, whereupon a general from 1'Hasua with a quaint retinue, came to interview Colonel Young husband. The general asked the eotonel to retire with hia mission to Yalung for tho purpose of carrying on negotiations, threatening an attack if the mission proceeded. Colonel Younghusband replied that negotiations had been proceeding fruitlessly for fifteen years and that retirement was now impossible. The Thlbitan general withdrew and Colonel Younghusband ordered his troops to endeavor to disperse the Thllwtans blocking the road, without firing upon them. Fur a time the tactiea ot the British were successful, but after a while the attitude of the Thlbetano became so threatening thal Colml MeDouald decided uniu the necessity of disarming them. The Thibetans numbered almit 1AOO and their resistance of the effort to disarm them led to a smart engagement. The situation for a tow moments was rritlcal, Colonel McDonald and Colonel Younghusband being only a few yards from the advancing Thibetans. Revolvers and bayonets were used and then a rifle fire waa resorted to, at which the ThiN-tanfled, hut not before several casualties resulted In tho British ranks. The correspondent of the Dally Mail with the mission was severely wounded. The Thibetans lost heavily owing to the Inferiority of their weapons, which were matchlock rifles, but they displayed the greatest courage, many of them coming on even after they bad been seriously wounded. After tha action (here were heaps of dead, a long trail of dead and wounded extending to the rear. After a short halt the advance continued. Nearing the Thibetan camp at Geru a second action took place In which the artillery played the largest part. Finally the Thibetans retreated over the hills with the exception of about GO, who obstinately held the village, which waa finally taken by a bayonet charge. Among the Thibetans killed was the L'Hassa general, the military comand the mandant of Pliari and representative of the Golden Monastery. to whose Influence and violent hostility the existing difficulties were largely due. losses are believed to The ThiN-tahe over 400, while the British casualties were about a dozen. The British force returned to Tima this evening, and stated thal rifles the Russian Imperial stamp and Russian ammunition were found on the wounded Thilulan officers. Scranton. Pa.. March 31. Six person were ki llid and five fa: ally Injured by an explosion in the factory of the Dixon Squill company at l'rirrhurg, near here, today. The dmd ure; Li..ia Bray, Pricehiirg. Have hiefthange of Bennett. Satiay PRICE FIVE CENTS. 1904, 1, THE LAND LAWS Was One of Instructions to Mrs. Senators By Factory. Ccnj.fimcntb. Mr. liltrbrock. Democrat, Nebraska, Bryan Cannot Force Her to Obey Inmade an unsuccessful attempt to struction of Her Dead HusbamL amend the bill by providing that no salaries shall be paid to United States district attorneys who for six months Sacramento, Cal., SI arch 31. Just after the passage of the bill shall fail be (ore 11 o'clock tonight aa the south -- to proceed by suit in equity or crimNew Haven. Conn., March 31. A hound train reached Copley, near Kes-wlr-k, inal proseemiou against persona, firms anti-tru- st that the scaled letter by which or finding the corporations violating three men boarded the train and law. ihllo 8. Bennett reimrtcd a wish that soon cut the train In tail, taking the Imi (WO should Mr. Benton. Democrat, Missouri, IngiCen to William J. mg! ne and the express car down the terrupted the reading of the bill to Bryan and his family was not a part track a short distance. They atopiied call attention to the remarks of hlinself of the last will of Mr. Bennett was returned by the jury today in the the engine and demanded that Express and Mr. Hemenway regarding the apcourt, in the trial of ATr. Bryan's Messenger O'Neill open the express car. propriation for furnishing the White He refused, whereupon they blew up House. He said he did not want to appeel from the decision of the probate court. This finding, which upthe express car with dynamite and debe put In the attitude of having sugliberately killed ONeill by shouting gested that a 160.000 White House holds the decision of the probate court, him through the head. The liandita stable waa desired when there was no waa given in accordance with instructhen robbed the express car of Its con- foundation for the statement. He then tions to the jury from Judge Unger, tents, but It is not anown how much asked for the estimate of the secretary who presldeJ at the superior court of the treasury, which includes $60,000 trial. Judge (lager's ruling on a questhey got After robbing the express car the for a White House stable and reading tion which has never before come dimen cut the cab loose and getting on testimony of Colonel T. W. Simmonds, rectly before the courts of Connecthe engine compelled Engineer Joesink superintendent of public buildings and ticut, decided that the letter could not be admitted aa evidence in the trial. to go ahead. When near Keswick the grounds, calling attention to the defollowed men dropped off the engine and dis- plorable condition of the present The deciaiou argument table. He also referred to a supple- which had occupied most of the two appeared in the night with their plunder. mental estimate of 130.000 for the pur- preceding days of the session regarding It ia difficult to obtain particulars. chase of land uixni which to erect the the admission of this letter as evidence, counsel for Mr. Bryan contending that There Is no telegraph operator at Cop- stable. Mr. Mann made a point of order it should be admitted, while the atley and news from that point ia telephoned to Keswick and from there which waa sustained against the last torney! for Airs. Grace I. Bennett, the telegraphed to Sacramento. The en- paragraph in the bill providing that widow and other neira, presented opAa Mr. Bryan's gine has orders now to run on to this government carriages used for public posing arguments. city to rsrry up the sheriff and a purposes shall have painted thereon appeal was based on the exclusion of the name of the department to which this letter as a part of the debate In posse of armed men. they belong. Air. Hemenway got the probate court, the decision that It k, Redding. Cal.. March 31. B. II. around a point by offering a substi- could not tie admitted aa evidence practhe engineer who was forced to tute different in language, but preservtically concluded the proceedings in draw the train robbers to Keswick ing the requirements of the original the superior court and the jury waa elation, arrived hers with his light en- liaragraph. The substitute waa agreed diet against Mr. Bryan. gine at midnight to take back Sheriff to. An appeal will be taken to the suRichardson and a posse of eight men. The use of public carriages for pri- preme court by Mr. Uryana Mr. Joesink says that after stopping vate purposes Mr. Baker characterized on the ground that the letter should at Copley the noise of drawing water aa graft." be admitted as a part of an established drowned the noise of the shots that The House then reverted to the por- trust. In must have been fired the express tion of the hill which waa temporarily An interesting feature of the day's ear. as W. F. O'Neill, the messenger, passed over relating to the coast and proceedings was a statement which wai killed by bullets. Presumably the geodetic surveys. Mr. Robinson, InMr. Bryan made in court that he waa three masked men attempted to rob the diana, charged malfeasance in the con- willing to give a bond that In no case express car and the messenger made a duct of tbla office which .he said, hail would the money mentioned In the fight.' The And. that Joesink knew of approached a acandal. He offered an sealed letter go to himself or family was after ONeill was amendment requiring that the allow- without Mrs. Bennett's consent. 'ihe hold-u- p killed. He and Ills fireman, J. K. ance shall not he made unless supJudge Gager said In part: The sealed I utter has lwen offered Siary, wore coniiel!ed to dismount. ported by properly authenticated They, with E. A. Bissell. engineer of vouchers. as a part of the will of Mr. Bennett, the second engine; A. Raymond, a . Mr. Robinson's amendment waa dis- the will itself having first been adfireman; Jack Depanger, conductor of agreed to. mitted and proof having been made the train, and a brakeman were conn Under a point eg order the proviso that, the letter waa found with the man-back to the to liellc.l express prescribing the method of appointment will. Its admissibility is purely a car, where they saw O'Neill dead. The and allowances for special agents and question of law fur the court. No quesrnhlieni tried to force 0NoM'b helper, otbera in connection with the tlmlier tion arises regarding the effect of the who was in the liaggage car, to open depredations waa stricken out. as also letter aa creating a trust or does any Iho safe, hut the helier showed that was the proviso to the paragraph for question arise at thla time aa to Mr. lie could not do so. Then the robbers transcripts of records and plat a in the Bennett's intent Iona nr the compelled the party of seven to place general land offli-e- , restricting compenunder which the letter was several sticks of giant powder on top sation of clerks to 83 a day and pro- written. The question uiion the face of the safe. Then they had a heavy viding that only of the ap- of the papers, as it now stands before box of dynamite, to which a fuse wss propriation shall ho spent in any one the court, is, did Mr. Bennett take such ordered attached. Then all but one of month. steps as under the laws of this state the robbers left the car. He lighted An amendment waa agreed to ap- made the letter, prims fade at least, the fuse. The party had Juat reached propriating 190,005 for new machinery, a part of (hla will? The statute as to the locnmotlve when the explosion oc- furniture, etc., to complete the equip- the execution of wills provides that no curred. It. wrecked the entire car. ment necessary to Inaugurate a coin- will, or rodldl, shall lie valid to pans Engineer Joesklnk la not certain that age press at Denver. any estate unless it be in writing, subthe robbers got any plunder. He was The bill was about to be passed when scribed by the testator and attested by made to get upon hie engine and stay Mr. Suiter forced a roll rail on a mothree witnesses, each of them subscribthere until further orders came. They tion to recommit with instructions to ing in his presence. were for him to carry the highway- strike out the paragraph relating to The first oliectlon is that the admen south. His engine had been unthe appropriation of $130,000 for rent mission of tbla letter would violate coupled. he knows not by whom. He of the New York custom house, which this statute, because the letter Itself complied with the order, hut was not paragraph he assailed. The call re- Is testamentary In character and not allowed to even take his fireman along. sulted In 84 yeas, 93 nays and 7 pres- executed aa a will. The robbers stood at his back on (he ent, 8 leas than a quorum. Mr. Wil"But there are other grounds of obtr1(i down, thejr rifles pressing against liams then moved to adjourn, which jection upon which the assumption that him. and he dared not look around. waa carried. an extraneoua testamentary document, He saya if they had any plunder he Amid applause on the Democratic may be incorporated in a will and so did not see it. They told him as they aide the House at 5:40 p. m. adjourned entitled to probate are equally fatal to pulled out from the scene of the hold- until tomorrow. the claim of the appellant. The sealed up that they wanted to he carried to letter la not described in the will with Keswick station, five miles south, but sufficient certainty; the language of A. DISCHARGED F. as they neared that station hey told . REI!IZEJ8 the will la for the purpose set forth the engineer to run beyond to n couple In a sealed letter which will be found of hundred yards south of there where with thla will. Nothing whatever to Liaa bridge spans the river, which Is Just He and Associates Are No Longer identify It; no ear marks upon it ble for Contempt Charge. of east the track. When he stopped which will show that it waa the letthey alighted on the river side. To the Butte. Mont., March 31. Late this ter that, the testator had In mind when west of the track at that point Ilea the afternoon Judge Beatty signed an or- he put his name that will and it was smelter town of Keswick. The robbers der for the discharge of F. A. He) use. witnessed. "It Is also a grave question here evidently wanted to convey the Impres- J. H. Trerlse and Alfred Frank from sion that they would cross the river on the contempt proceedings instituted whether the letter is referred to as althe bridge The officers believe they some time ago by the Butte and Bos- ready in existence. And the letter itmade straight for Keswick. Engineer ton company and argued at Helena le-fo-re self, it will 1 observed, refers to the Joesink barked his engine to Keswick the Idaho judge when he waa sit- execution of the will as a pant comslat ion. reported and received orders ting there on a former occasion for pleted transaction. to run to Redding and get Sheriff Judge Knowles. The defendants at the I have said that the intention ot Richardson and eight men. At 12:30 Helena hearing were adjudged guilty the testator Is of no consequence if' he started back with hla heavily armed of contempt In stopping the progress he does nut do those external acts crew. of insiiertors who had been appointed which the statute requires to make a by the court to lnsert the workings valid will. But suppose that In a matCHIEF ENGINEER BERRY. of the Rants and Johnstown claims ter not clearly within the four cornere that were thought to lead into the of the will he has disclosed an intenHe Praltea the Engineers Who Built Michael Davit, which waa under Injunction that, a given paper should not hare force or he used as a part of a tion. the Union and Central Pacific. Mr. Helnze was fined $2,000 and each probated will. The resea, it seems tq Thief Engineer Berry of the Union of the other defendants were fined me, must he rare, if they exist at. ail. Pacific was In Ogden yesterday, in $500. Collection of the fine was hold where such a paper would be or should in abeyance with instructions that If be Incorporated in a will. commenting upon the Ogden-Lurl- n Now upon this scaled letter 4 is cutoff the rejiorter referred to the the Inspection waa allowed to proceed common belief that the Central Pariflr the Bums would not have to be paid. found this direction: .Mrs. P. 8. Benpeople failed to avail themselves of The decision was appealed from and nett to he read only by Mrs. Bennett, the way across the lake because they the circuit court, of appeals at Ban and by her alone after my death. P. were not opposed to securing the Francisco affirmed by Judge Beatty. 8. Bennet. And at the end of the About March 9 the inspectnra were sealed letter Mr. Bennett uses this greater mileage of the Promontory hill route. He said it was a common error again stopped In their work end the language: I have sent, a duplicate ot o underestimate the difficulties con-iro- defendants were arrested and brought tbla letter to Mr. Bryan and It Is my Ing the pioneer railroad engineers before Judge Knowles for contempt. desire that no one excepting yon and and that their accompli sb mentis were Judge Knowles let the parties go on Mr. Bryan himself shall know of this wonderful considering the obstacles parole pending a hearing before Judge letter and bequest. For thla reason I they ha! to overcome. The water Beatty, who waa to arrive here about place this letter In a relel envelope route was an undertaking too expentwo weeks later to hear the contempt and direct that it. shall lie opened only sive at that early and time was matters. The marshal's return was by yon and read by you alone. day an essential consideration. "In my judgment." saya Judge Garead today, stating the fane as to the the in ion Pacific and CentralAlthough Pacific Inspectors being stopped on March 9 ger, "no language could lie more conkave been virtually rebuilt in the past and stating further that after Judge clusive upon the question that Mr, years, such men as Colonel Dodge Knowles let the defendants go on pa- Bennett himself did not treat this letdeserved the highest praise. rols they had not interfered with the ter aa a part of a technical will or as testamentary In a legal sense, but. only Inspection. LOSSES AT CHENG JU. The defendants were discharged, as a letter of private lust ruction to Mrs. Bennett." from past liabilities. Seoul. March 81. Detailed reports received here of the engagement of BRITISH REVENUE DECREASES. March 28 at Cheng Ju say the SMOOT HEARING POST-fighting lasted two hours, at the end of which PON ED. London. April 1. Commenting on the Japanese forced the Russians to the decrease In the revenue for the Washington, March 31. Sub- retire toward Wiju. Two Russians year, as shown by the returns issued poenas have been sent out for dead were left on the field, while othwitnesses to appear before the Ihia mornings papers estiyesterday. er bodies were carried off with the mate that the budget deficit will apSenate committee on privileges A column. inlieutenant Japanese and elections In the Smoot proach 335,000.00(1. The repayment of name! Kano and four privates were $15.04 Ri.ooo advanced to the level will qulry on April 2"th. a postpone- while killed, meut ticing made from the 12ili. Captain Klirokawa and to he met by some leave eleven privates were wounded. t form of increased taxation. Joe-sin- ' s one-twelf- th n! APRIL FATAL PLUNGE Robbers. fc-- Weather Lives. Holder of Public L.mds Is said to Have Palo for Lobby Woik. Squib Company's Plant Wai Blown Up by Squib Being Thrown In Fire. r.O-'i- 31. The atten Washington was divide J today tion of the between the ! tnr the reis'ul of the desert laud, tu" l.u.bcr anil stone snd minuiatlun laws and the homestead the postofflec impropriation bilL The repeal h:i. was taken up only for the purpoic of discussion and Mr. Clark of Wyom'iiK was the prim-lpa- l He imitcsted the position speaker. taken by Mr. (iiiim that there have in the administrabeen great fra-iition of the laud laws in the west. He n declared that thore is a lobby In In th- interest of the repeal bill and engap-in a short coltoquy with Air. Paltcixm, during which each characterised the statement ot the other as untrue. 'ihe general debate on tha postoffleo bill waa confined largely to a speech by Mr. McCreary and Interruptions by Republican Bi'natore. Mr. McCreary charged in the main that the policy or an early adjournment of Congress had been ailoptrd In order to avoid legislation now desired by the Republican leaders. Air. Clark criticised the operation of the forest reserve law, saying that unof the area of hla der It own county had been withdrawn from entry. Thla was nut the fault of the law, nor were the frauds committed under the desert land law or the timber and stone art chargeahlq to the law. Aloreover. he did not believe that the frauds are as extensive charged. Fur himself, he was not willing to admit that the people of his stale are engaged in theft. He admillcd the great benefit of the immssiead act. in Ihe past, but contended that, unaided by (Rher laws, thin could not be used as a vehicle for the settlement of the arid region. Mr. Clark spoke of the work of the commission recently sent into the west to Investigate the uiHTStlona of land laws, and commended the President for his course In this matter, saying that it Is a sufficient defense against the charge of impetuuelty made against the chief executive. He rharged the agitation for a repeal of the land laws to the owners of large bodies of railroad grant lands In the west The effect of the repeal, be said, would be to take out of ihe market every acre of public land. But the public lands still would lie sold. Mr. Clark said, and he outlined a system of substitution by means of forest reserve scrip secured through the dlsjiositiim of railroad lands In forest reserves for other lands, saying that If Air. Gibson's bill should become a law iho value of all thla land would be doubled. He added: Never in the history .of land legislation has there been such determined. such a barefaced lobby, aa la behind this legislation, and which has been pressing it for the past three years. It is no secret that one of the largest holders of these lands recently has boasted at a public banquet that he had contributed $25,000 for the. purposes of this bill." M t. Gibson and Mr. Patterson both demanded the name of the man in question. but Air. Clark declined to give It to the Senate, saying ho would not enter Into personalities of that charac-te- r in the Senate, but he would give tile name (o any Senator who might Watdi-lngto- two-thir- wish H. "I think," said Mr. Patterson, "that the uanu' should be given here; that man should lie known and he branded, throughout the country." Proceedti!!!. Mr. Patterson demanded that Air. Clark should say who constitutes thn lobby hero In the Interest. of Hu repeal bill. Air. Clark again declined, but aaid the Hcmi'o'- from Colorado knew who boat at this point. Last night Alias Willis look the boat In response to a call. On ihetretiirn she found the guide roiie wss not working propGraham and the erly and pul bai-k- . other man. seeing from the opposite side that there waa trouble, took the hotel skiff and ensued to the ferry boat. They took Miss Willis off and Aa started back to Ihe south hank. the Nut mured the shore it fllldd and went down, all three being lost No trace of the liodtea had been found today. 8pllntera of the boat, were found in the river below the falls and It ia supposed the bodies were carried over the retaracL CHINA AND THE WAR. Paris, April 1. The Journal thla morning prints an Interview which Its correspondent at HI, Petersburg has had with Secretary Ou of the Chinese legation there, who la to daily communication with Pekin. Tha secretary said that China waa determined to remain neutral so tong aa the Chinese frontiers were respected. Considerable excitement, the secretary said, haJ been caused by the Chinese who are creating disturbances within the area of military operations. All wss quiet in Southern China where the relations lie tween the Chinese and European residents continue to tie good. The secretary added of the reports to the effect that, the Japanese enlisting Chlneea wss untnie. NOMINATED FOR CONGRESB. Wichita, Kan., March 81. The state Boi'lallsta nominated a full state ticket In convention here today. Tenth Ohio district, Henry T. Republican. Ban-no- s, Bakersfield. Cal., Alareh 31. This afternoon the entire force of boiler makers' heliers in the employ of the Southern Pacific at Kern walkeJ out of the shop on strike and up to a late hour had not returned to work. The exact grievance of the men la not known. SEPTEMBER DATE OF FIRST BIG BATTLE. Paris, March 31. The St. Petersburg correspondent of Ihe Echo De Paris saya that the wife of one of General Kuropatkin'a orderly officers has received a telegram from her husband saying that the general staff does not believe that there will be any great battle before September. Russian troops In Manchuria, including Port Arthur and Vladivostok, now number 245,000 and the total may be three hundred thousand by the end of April and 500,000 by September, when, if the Japanese have not crossed the will adYaln, General Kuropatkin vance and drive them out of Korea. The only fear in high quarters, accord-into the writer, is the inability of China to restrain the mesa of her troops or to prevent troops landing In a Chinese port in iho event of Japanese g wrasse. General Kuropatkin has telegraphed General Mlshtchenko to avoid any engagements in which the security of the Russian side should lie uncertain. WILL RENEW HER NAVY. Berlin, March 31. That Japan already is planning for a rapid renewal of her fleet aa soon as the conflict with Russia is ended, Is inferred from cnnslltnt'-- 'lie lobby. a journey mado by the Japanese naval Air. Pat'c-'Oreplied promptly: atlach4'. Count Taklkawa, and a numSenator front Wyoming ber of higher Japanese officers to the When it says that 1 know who eonstitnt4s the St4ttin Shipyard today. They made a lobby of which he complains, lie speaks careful Inspection of the yards, noting justification. the rapacity of the building of the varhastily wl without There is m" one word of truth in that ious craft, particularly toriiedo boat. sialcmi'i.t Mr. Clari replied that he had meant merely Pi ? that Air. Iaitersnn mu! the House of Representatives who have nlisei d the lobby, and he with- have demanded an investigation and drew tin s element that the Colorado reform have been coinw:ll;il to abanhad positive knowledge don that request and themselves have Senator hal . had to go before an Investigating comof Its Replying Mr. Patterson admitted his mittee. The policy of the Republican party sympathy ilh a movement for the repeal of the land laws, and said that In regard to Immigration and statethis sympathy was due to the fact that hood of Arizona. New Mexico and Okhe lives in a public land state, and had lahoma waa severely criticised by Air. who said Republican had oppori unity to observe the opera- AlcCreary, tions of tle'Se laws. He expressed the pledges had lieen broken. The reasons opinion Ih'il eight out of ten acres of he said are that the Republicans are laud in Colorado and Wyoming had getting Ignorant foreign votes and fraudulent fear they will not get the votes of the been secured through new states If they are admitted. means. I know nothing about Mr. Dolliver spoke of the charges Mr. Claik: conditions in Colorado, hut what the of corruption which the Democrats Senator saya about Wyoming Is un- were making. AH tlese, he said, had ' been founded on Mr. Bristow's report, qualifiedly untrue." ' which was a great tribute to the inWith this the Incident closed. The post office aonronrlation bill was tegrity of the department. Mr. Patterson interrupted that the taken un. Mr. McCreary read from recommended of the President In re- Investigations by the m gard to the first assistant postmaster, Messrs. Conrad and Bonaparte had not office and of indirtmerts l4on undertaken. general's Mr. Dolliver contended, however, sealnst TVs vers. ATachen. Tvner and other offie'als to show conditions In that they had been made by the deth department which he said war partment In full. The conference report on the ranted and made necessary an Invesappropriation bill waa agreed tigation. 'll bar been a strange spectacle." to ami after a brief ex4ctitive session said Mr. AlcCreary. "when members of the Senate, at 5:15, adjourned. agrl-rnltur- New s flOJDS Much VISIT EASTERN MONTANA Haa Been Done, But Damage Worst la Over. Buckie Lewi, North Scranton , Lizzie Matthews. Oliphaut. George (allllian, Priccburg, Teresa (Yillitiau, Priccburg. Lillian Mahon, Prlceburg. Twenty girls were employed In th fai lory. What mured the explosion la not known, but It la said that one of the girls threw a squib into a stor and that the force of the explosion waa wi great that it wrecked the build Ing and set fire to it. The squlba are used In coal mining, Lizzie Howry, one of the girls In jured, died tonight, making the nnm her seven. Russisis ARE IMPRISONED Largest Battleship Cannot Now Leave Port Arthur. Latest Account of Togo Bottling-U- p Schema Bay Harbor Will Soon B Blocked. London, April 1. A eorrripondenl of the Time at Sea, in a wirelesi telegram via describing the last attempt to bottle up Port Ar thur, saya: "After the bombardment of March 22nd, Vice Admiral Togo waited until better weather before reattemptlng td bottle up Port Arthur. The same ot fleers who accompanied the prevloiil attempt on February 24th, were choaeiH but the crews and stokers were selected from new men. The men disappeared at. midnight and the sea waa like glass when th desperate enterprise was lie gun. When within two miles of the goal the frenzied motions of a searchlight showed that suspicion had been awakened, aud suddenly a solitary gun announced that th Japanese had been discovered. Th Russians sprang to the guns of the bat t cries and lu three minutes the Japanese craft wore encltecd In a semicircle of gun flashes. The sea wa churned to a turmoil by failllug shells, but there was no hesitation. The tor pedo boats opened out, and the transports with the men standing at the life boat stations steered directly into the inform). There was then only a mile to traverse, and the safety fuse were ready. "It was just at 3:30 in the morning when the t'biyii Maru led with a searchlight twaling upon her. and she was a target, for a hundred gun, toward the mat side of the entrance. The fuses were set and the crew pushed off just In firm. It was a moment of The rhnrge exploded, sinking her 100 yards from a point of tho side, of the rn'ranoc. The Fukul Maru next passed on the port side of the Cbfyo Alaru and drop-jie- il anchor. Just as the officers and crew pushed clear there was a dull explosion. She had been struck snd funk in the exact place which (he Japanese desired, by a torpedo within mis-pens- e. the harlor. "So close were the defending (lest royers that the Yeneyama Alaru wa fouled by a Russian destroyer and her crew was scorched by the flamu of til discharge from a Russian It was a horrible nieloci, but ihd Japanese kept their presence of in mil throughout and their steadiness was shown by the fact, that, before she bad been fouled by the destroyer the Yeue-yarn- a Maru passed to the starboard of the Chiyo Maru and then heiwpn her Butte, Alont., Alareh 31. Reports received from Eastern Montana fur (he past, few days state that owing to melting snows and rain rivers and riveks in that section are overflnoding: their lank. At Ghuidive the Yellowstone Is gorged and fesra are entertained for the safety of tho new county bridge erected a few months ago at a cost of $100,000. The ice in the Tongue river, four miles above Miles City, at Its junction with the Yellowstone, has and the Fukul Maru, and reached th been piled high for several weeks, center of the channel, where she was causing the water to overflow the hit by a torpedo, which sank her on banks and Awidlng the town about two the west side of the channel, her bow weeka ago and again today. The ire pointing toward the shore. Not a man finally broke up today and all danger on the transport was drowned. la thought to he past Considerable 'The enterprise failed completely damage waa done to property In the to block the channel, because tbrna town today, people being forced to were only four transports. It is probleave their homes In boats. Northern able, however, that the channel ha Pacific trains are suffering great de- been rendered impracticable for the lay on account of washouts and soft large battleships, and it la certain that tracks east of Billings. All train are the Japanese will not rest until tht from six to eight hours late. Indianapolis. March IL Heavy rains have Increased the flood danger In the southwestern part of Indiana. Vincennes, Mount Carmel. New Harmony, Graysville, Princeton, Evansville, West-poand all of Lawrence county. 111., are suffering from the high water. Westport has been completely abandoned. Hundred of refugee are living in school house and barn. Livestock i quartered in hay loft and railOne road traffic la at a standstill. death by drowning la reported near Vincennes rt channel ha been dosed. The maneuver waa covered by a tor pedo division, which, running in closet endeavored to draw the fire of the land batteries from the main enterprise This division remained in action until all the crews were rescued, and just before daybreak wa engaging a Ru elan destroyer, which remained at the entrance, firing torpedoes during the night. The scream of escaping steanc proclaimed that the Russian boat had been damaged in her vitals. At daybreak the flotilla drew np under cover of the fleet, which wa wait lug ten mile outride." |