Show NEWS SUMMARY japanese captured 25 pris boners at port arthur the total num her ot inhabitants Is 35 of whom 20 are sic john aleia ader dowie has gone to mexico for the purpose of inspecting an extensive tract of land on which he expects to build a second zion city the savings bank of iowa was dynamited at night and the build ing badly wrecked it Is not known how much was secured by the burg lars the british consul s residence out side tan ler morocco was athael ed by insurgents during the night of jan uary 4 guards drove the attackers away john hathaway a negro who sev eral years ago rated high as a jockey was hanged at winchester ky for the murder of etta thomas his sweet heart it Is said that twenty four persons lost their lives in the mountains dur ing the recent blizzard in switzerland fourteen of the casualties being on the st bernard pass by the backing of a work train into a freight standing on the northern central track near york pa eighteen men were injured five so badly that their recovery Is doubtful justice greenbaum of the new york supreme court has denied the application of nan patterson for ball pending a new trial on the charge of the murder of caesar young white jetton a negro less than 18 years old who with a negro compan ion assaulted a farmer named near spring hill arl has been taken from a constable and lynched the fall of port arthur has taken the heart out of the approaching fes of the kisslan christmas it Is even proposed to dispense with the illuminations and decorations reports from all the mine in cors in the anthracite region or pennsylvania for the year 1904 show that mine workers were killed ir the region leaving widows machine agents to the num her of have decided to inaugurate a strike in new york city nothing of the kind has ever occurred before in the profession and no union had been thought necessary one person was 1 llred another was mortally wounded and two others were wooded less seriously during an at tempt by the police to capture harry feenberg Feln berg wanted on a murder charge in chicago last week in the united states district at little rock ark judge baber de dared void the amendment to the constitution of arkansas which requires the payment of a poll tax as a qualification tor voting william rapson of jollet ills after family quarrel fatally shot his son herbert after which the old man called herberts wife out to the barn shot and hilled her and then shot and fatally wounded himself the british government has offered adolph beck 25 in compensation tor wrongful imprisonment beck was wrongfully convicted in 1896 of ob money and jewelry from women under false pretences the supreme court of nebraska has declared unconstitutional the sugar beet bounty law enacted at the legis session of 1895 the law pro vided a bounty on sugar manutau aured from nebraska grown beets miss muriel byram an heiress known as one of the most beautiful women in chicago society was found dead in her boudoir with a bullet hole through her neck it Is believed she accidentally shot herself while clean ing a pistol statistics regarding trade between canada and japan show a decline during the past year the value of canadian goods exported to japan and of japanese goods brought into can ada were considerably less in 1904 than in 1903 lying across the threshold of his home with a bullet hole in his brain james reed aged 80 years was found at his residence in brooklyn a victim it Is believed of robbers he lived alone and was known to have a laroff sum of money the news of the fall of port arthur was received in rome at first with in credulity pope pius on hearing the news exclaimed let us hope that it Is an augury that the end of the war Is near now that both nations have proved their metal james gallespie who with his sis ert mrs bell and mr and mrs myron harbour was indicted for the murder of his twin sister was found guilty at rising sun ind and sentenced to life imprisonment the other defendants are still to be tried mrs margaret trailer 83 years of age who tor several months had predicted that she would die as ane bills heralded the dawn of the new year died at the home of her daughter in east st louis while the bells were ringing in the new year A fifty ton flywheel in the national tube works company plant at me Kee aport pa burst and completely krecl ed the contiguous mill one man was killed outright and four were seriously injured eight hundred men will be thrown out of employment the navy department has issued an statement commenting in detail pon the naval operations in the far astern war and giving it as the offic lal opinion of the department that the absolute superiority of the battleship in the war has been demonstrated A project has been inaugurated by the members of the class of 1880 in harvard college alio class of which resident roosevelt is a member to aise a fund for the benefit of the in it is hoped eventually to alse a fund approximating |