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I F l W7'SlW0l0 li li i i l.i i i w w ww? . w _ . Discovered in trie Mountains Near Big Stone Gap, Va. HE DISAPPEARED LAST OCTOBER Slch Yonnjj Man Went Ont Klclinj Alono "Where Squatter* Were Enemies and Was Never Azain Seen Alive?Mountaineer Offered to Release Him For 23,000 Kansom a Few WeoltB Ago. Big Stone Gap. Va.?There is a growing: belief that Edward L. Wenlz. son f the millionaire xnine owner, of Philadelphia. who disappeared on October 14 iast. and whose body was found here a few days ago. was held prisoner by mountaineers for months and murdered a few weeks before the body was discovered. It is now known that thi"? yery spot where the body was found iwas searched over scores of times by the smali army of men organized for the hunt for the missing man by his family. Several clues point strongly to murder, and new significance is attached to the offer made by an unknown mountaineer several months ago to release Wentz if a ransom of $23,000 ;were paid. At the time this man's offer was scoffed at, but he was followed Into the. mountains by detectives, who lost sight of him after trailing him for almost twelve hours. Three of Wentz's front teeth are missing, supposedly shot away. There | 1 - r- KJ- I arc several utues iu mo uuiato, n un.u, > ft is thought, were made by bullets. His revolver was found about twenty feet away from the body. Three of the chambers were empty. The holes in the clothing seem to how that at least three bullets were fired i*!to Wentz's body, ami that another knocked out his teeth. The opinion of the miners here is that Wentz . was carried off to the mountains by his enemies and held there a close prisoner until a few months ago. when ie was shot and his body takea here i?y night and throwa where it would fco found. Young Wentz had aroused bitter en? mity among many of the mountaineers. When his family came into possession of 150,000 acres and started extensive mining operations, scores of families who had squatted here and there refused to move away or to pay rent. Wentz was determined in mak ins tbcra bend to his will, and ortentimes lie rode past a cabin to see one or two gaunt mountaineers sitting outside with rifles on their knees. Shortly before Wentz's disappearance last fall the feeling against him grew intense. A band of moonshiners was broken up, with the loss of two lives, and somehow the mountaineers came to blame Wentz for tkis. Threats were made to him in person and through the mail, but he paid no hoed to them. He was told by friends unong th* country folk that if he gave !>nc o? hio enemies among the mountaineers an opportunity he would be hot down without hesitation, but Wentz laughed at all such statements, and went on traveling about the mountains without guard and armed ouly with a small revolver The growing belief that he was carried off captive into the mountains comes from observation of his clothes, which show tliat they were worn thin In actual service, and not by the elements. There is every evidence that the young man's clothes were worn uno * *<-! fhfl nAn/Ufinn Ui <1 MiUi I UUit" a^u, auu iuc wimtttvu of the body indicates that death ocenrred in the last four or five weeks. It is said that Dave Raleigh will receive a reward of $5000 for finding: the body. Iu all. $100,000 was offered for Information that would lead to the findins of Wentz. GOVERNMENT OF CANAL ZONE. Canal Commission to Have Legislative Authority. Washington. D. C.?President Roosorcli issued an executive oi'der. addressed to Secretary Taft. placing: the construction of the Fanama Canal under the direction of the War Department and civinsr detailed instructions for the government of the canai zone. The order first recites the provisions f the treaty with Panama, the gpooner act and the recent act placing ithe government of the canal under direction of the President. It also refers to the payments made to the Panama Republic aud the French Canal Company, which vested in the Uuited "States complete title to the land and property, of which possession had alreadv been taken. TL*? order appoints Major-General . {George TV. Davis, IT. S. A., retired, a member of the commission, to be Governor of the canal zone, and charges Jhim with the execution of the laws therein. Sharp Fight in Tibet. A dispatch from the British camp, 'Karo Pass, Tibet, says that a stiff fight jto drive the Tibetans from their positions two miles below the pass lasted for six hours. The Tibetans, numbering 1500, held the position with great; tenacity, and lost nearly 200 men before they were expelled. The British losses were Captain Bethune and three men liinea anu twenty-ocae men (wounded. A snowstorm prevailed during the fight. Forest Fires in Michigan. Great damage resulted from forest' Ires in the upper peninsula of Michi-S ' *an. loggers and homesteaders being the sufferers. The $40,000,000 Canal Warrant Paid. At the United States Sub-Treasury. New York City. Secretary Shaw turned ever to J. P. Morgan & Co. a warrant for ?40,000,000, in payment for the stock of the Panama Canal Company. The warrant is the largest ever drawn l>y the United States Government. Sheriff Commits Suicide. John G. Hofflhan. Sheriff of Greene , - County. Indiana, committed suicide at Bloomfield by shooting himself through the head. He had been despondent. The National Game. Lajoie is hitting the ball bettor than 'ever. The Pittsburg Club has released Pitchers Veil and Pfeister. Rochester has released Sam S. Grifien. the one-armed pitcher. Hemphill, Wallace and Gleason arc doing the best batting for the St. Louis Browns. Willie Keeler still has the art of dumping the ball down and beatiug it cut as of old. Frank Selee says that the greatest jnfielder of the season in his position JBllJ he Evers " HENRY M. STANLEY DEAC Noted African Explorer Passes Awaj ai His Home in London. Succumbs to Pleurisy an<l Heart Trouble-* His Oreat Work Opening; Darkest Africa?Served as a Confederate. U- ' London.?Sir Henry M. Stanley, thj noted African explorer, who had been ill with pleurisy, complicated witJj heart trouble, foi some time, died ai his home. Xo. 2 Ricbmoud Terrace. Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G. C. B. D. C. L. and LL. D.. the man who found Livingstone, who led the expe dition which relieved Emin Pasha and brought him out of a hostile country through the forests of the Congo to civilization, was a Welshman by birth His name was originally John Row *- - " ?" "ain n nnnrhnnsf* lanus. nao ... ~ . near St. Asaph. began life as a cabin boy, and got to New Orleans, where be was adopted by a merchant, whose name he took. He served in the Confederate Army and as ensign on the ironclad Ticonderoga. After the war he went as a newspapei correspondent to Turkey. In 18G9 James Gordon Bennett started him off for Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the explorer and missionary, of whom nothing had been heard for two years. He reached Zanzibar in January. 1S71. organized his search expedition and started for the inland in March, with 102 native followers. Pie found Livingstone at Ujiji, on the shore of Lake Tanganyika, in the following November, furnished him with supplies, explored the lake with him. and then left him just as Livingstone started out on his last expedition, in which he died. Stanley got back to England in March, 1872. and found himself famous. The British Association entertained him. Queen Victoria sent him a gold and diamond snuff box, and the Royal Geographical Society dined him. In 1S73 he was sent to Africa again and explored Lake Victoria Nyanza after great hardships. He descended * ' ~ ^ *? ** ."^ahaKIa 4-*', r\ a f airrhf roe UOUgO 1U a UJCLUUiakJic" my Ui U8"' mouths and got back to civilization on a Portuguese inan-of-war. He received the cross of the Legiou of Honor after that. ' Then, in succession, he explored the Congo, and founded the present Congo Free State, and Stanley Pool on the Upper Congo is named after him. His last great work was the relief of Emin Pasha. Several notable books of travel and exploration were v/ritten by him. After his return in triumph from the rescue of Emin Pasha he married Miss Dorothy Tennant, the eldest daughter of Sir George Tennant and au artist of note. He was elected to Parliament from the Lambeth division of London and took a prominent part there. He was sixty-three years old. DROWNED TO SAVE HER BOY. TTT rw? T.!fA r.V>r TTr>r? Hurnau ui?io lici vim uii'v & vi Infant Sou. Norfolk. Va.?Rather than see her two-year-old boy-drown. Mrs. Kate Dorman sacrificed her life. Mrs. Dorman. with her sisters. Mrs. Kuhn and Mrs. Landweher and Earl Dorman. two years old. were driving over Lynn Haven River, near Norfolk, in a carriage drawn by a mule. While on the bridge the animal became unmanageable and backed the vehicle and its occupants into the river. John Williams, a negro, was fishing in a boat some distance away. He heard the screams of the women and rowed to the scene. After a struggle he saved Mrs. Kuhn and Mrs. Landweher aud was in the act of saving Mrs. Dorman, when she begged the negro to save her boy. This was ? Kni- t?? flirt hAnf r?. illXULUlJUSli^U, UUL >1 UlU lUt uvruv ?v turned Mrs. Dorman bad gone down. BURNED TO DEATH. Steel Worker Slipped Into Hopper of Rod Hot Metal. Chicago.?On his way home to dinner Hans Anderson, an employe of the Illinois Steel Company, at South Chicago, made a mis-step while walking on the edge of a hopper of boiling metal. He slipped, but clung to the edge while his feet burned off; then, his strength gone, he slipped with a shriek to his death in the seething mass below. In a few moments his body was literally consumed. The tragedy occurred at midnight, and is considered one of the most terrible of all the instances of violent death that have been known among the steel workers at South Chicago. BANKER SHOOTS 2 MERCHANTS. One a Relative. With Whom He Had Quarreled?Slayer a State Leader. Luling, Texas.?S. M. Nixon, a member of the State Democratic Executive Committee and a wealthy banker, shot * J. XT 1^.,^ o ;ica Kuien iiuueit >v. .umuuc ?iuu kjvivnel John Veasey, both wealthy merchants of this place. The double tragedy occurred at au hour when few people were on the street. The affair has caused intense excitement owing to the political and business prominence of the men concerned. Nixon and Malone were related by marriage. They had a quarrel about four years ago over a business matter and had been bitter enemies ever since, so the tragedy was not entirely unexpected. Gold From Chiua. The steamer China arrived at Sau Francisco. Cal., bringiug $3,334,3o0 in gold yen from Japan. Coghlan to Command in Brooklyn. The Navy Department announces that Rear-Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan. until recently in command of the Caribbean squadron, will succeed RearAdmiral Frederick Rodgers as commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard upon the latter'? statutory retirement for age on October 3 next. Suicide in a Street Car. TV-mi M Mrmn> shot and killed him seif while seated in a crowded St. Louis car. News of the Toilers. There wore fewer May day strikes in New England than usual. The Italian laborers' union with 312 charter members has been started in Boston. Joseph F. Smith, a union cigarmaker, has been nominated for mayor of Kansas City, Mo. The Western Flint Glass Workers' Union has joined the American Federation of Labor. The United Garment Workers' International Union has increased in twelve from rMMV) to 50.000. jWHEAl PROSPEGTSARE BAD No Previous Record of Such Unfavorable Conditions. ! LARGE FALLING OFF IN ACREAGE i The Deimrlment of Agriculture's MonthI ly Crop Report Showed the Situation With Regard to Wheat to Be Extremely Bad?Due to the Destruction of Soed During the Hard Winter. i Washington. D. C.?Returns to tbe ' rliief of the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Agriculture made up to j May 1 show the area under winter j wheat in cultivation on that date to I have been about 27.0S3,r>00 acres. This j is 4,032.70) acres, or lo.4 per cent.. less I than the area sown last fall, and 5.427.000 acres, or 1G.7 per cent, less than I the area of winter wheat harvested last i year. Of this abandonment Indiana reports i 004.000 acres: Kansas. 713,000; Ohio, j 475.000: California (mainly the usual ! cutting for hay). 301.000: Oklahoma. 1 373.000: Texas. 299,000: Illinois. 209.j 000: Michigan, 259,000; Nebraska. 218,000, and Pennsylvania. Kentucky and Missouri each between 100.000 and I 200.000 acres. It is a noteworthy fact {that the whole of the thirty-one States 'having more or less winter wheat under cultivation report some abandonment of acreage. For the 27.0S3.o00 acres remaining: under cultivation, the average condition on May 1 was 76.5. which is identical with that reported on April 1 for the entire acreage sown. The general condition averages reported on May 1. 1903. and May 1. 1902. were respectively 92.0 and 76.4. the mean of the May averages of the last ten years being S4.2. The following table shows for the principal winter wheat States the percentage of the acreage sown last fall that is now reported as abandoned, also the a vera ires of condition on May 1. 1904, as follows: Abandoned States. Acreage. Condition, Kansas 12.5 82.0 | Missouri 6.6 84.0 I California 16.2 89.0 i Indiana 39.9 .TT.O Nebraska 10.4 82.0 ! Ohio 24.5 52.0 I Illinois 14.7 78.0 ! Pennsylvania 7.5 72.0 j Oklahoma 22.5 65.0 | Texas 20.4 66.0 Tennessee 9.8 81.0 Michigan 27.0 61.0 Kentucky 23.0 69.0 I United States 15.4 76.5 The average condition of winter rye | on May 1 was 81.2, as compared with ! 82.3 on April 1, 1904 : 93.3 on May 1. 1903: 83.4 at the corresponding date in 1902, and 89.5. the mean of the May averages of the last ten years. The average condition of meadow mowing lanas on ;uay i was oo.u, against 92.8 oil May 1. 1903: 8G.0 at the corresponding date in 1902. and 90.7. the mean of the May averages of the last ten years. The average condition of spring pastures on May 1 was 80.5, against 92.0 on May 1, 1903: S4.9 at the corresponding date in 1902, and 90.3, the.mean of the May averages of the last ten years. Of the total acreage of spring plowing contemplated. 57.3 per cent, is reported as actually done up to May 1, as compared with 57.9 per cent, at the corresponding date last year, and a ten-year average on May 1 of 70.3. The available records of the department show for no preceding year such uniformity of unfavorable conditions as is reported this mouth. LUMMITS tSUKUUAKl l.N SiifcHiif. Young Man Awakens to Find Himself Robbing Postoffice. Albany, Mo.?While asleep I-Iardin Hughes, the twenty-year-old son of Rev. Hughes, went upon a tour at 3 o'clock in the morning. The Hughes bome is four blocks from the postoffice. Mr. Hughes was awakened by his son, who told him that he had been walking in his sleep and had found himself 1 at the postoffice robbing the cash | drawer when he awakened. When daylight came it was revealed that Hardin ! had risen in his sleep, secured a brace ! and bit, gone to the postoffice, and, securing a box. climbed up high enough I to bore through the door two holes I that released the piate gi iss. Then i entering he went to the delivery window. climbed eight feet over into the private apartment of the office, and bored three holes into the cash drawer. Young Hughes has been a sleepwalker si-nce his childhood. A posti office inspector happened to be here | at the time, and will report the case | to Washington for action. i J. J. HILL'S SON SAVES LIFE. I Knocked Down by Auto From Whose Path He Snatched a Child. St. Paul.?At the risk of his own life j Louis W. Hill. Vice-President of the Great Northern Railway, and son of ! James J. Hill, saved a seven-year-old I girl from being crushed to death under I the wheels of a heavy touring motor ! car driven by Mrs. John Fichet. The i machine bad become uncontrollable. The little girl stood io the way of the auto. Air. Hill, dashing into the street, caught her by the skirt and dragged her out of harm's way. The side lamp of the auto caught his shoulder and in! tlicted a painful bruise, throwing him | to the pavement. Finds Ideal Woman and Weds Her. Pastor Brownback, at Reading, Pa.. ' who some time ago caused surprise by j publishing the qualifications his future j wife must possess, found his ideal iu a ] Newark woman. He has caused an j uiut-1 .-3UI [ILUJT UUUUUUClUg UI3 mari riage. Alexander's Palace Doomed. The .Servian Government lias decided to demolish the old palace at Belgrade which was tin* scone of the murder of King Alexander and Queeu Draga. Newsy Gleanings. Speaker Cannon was reported as displeased with his growing buoin for the ! second place on the ticket. ! Ex-President Cleveland in a lecture ] to Princeton students declared he did I not transcend his duty or authority ! by ordering out Federal troops durj ing the Debs riots in Chicago, i Deputy Excise Commissioner H. W. Mitchell for the Brooklyn district reports the receipts for liquor tax certificates for the coming year at $3,1 in /'OA (M.? A/U? <*- - JL1U.UOV, '?1?0,WV iU UAUITOD Ul '.UVOC IVl 11 last year. WALLACE TO BUILD CANAL Illinois Central's General Manager to Be Chief Engineer. Chicago Railroad Man to .Supprvtdo Big gest Enginflering Feat Ever Utulertaken?To Take Office on June 1. Washington, D." C.?Rear-Aamlral Walker, President of the Panama Canal Commission, received a telegram from John Kind ley Wallace, of Chicago, General Manager of the Illinois Central Railroad, accepting the appointment of chief engineer in charge of the construction of the canal. Mr. Wallace will receive a salary of $25.* 000 a year. Mr. Wallace will take up his work with i*je Commission on June 1. It has not been determined when he will visit the Isthmus, all matters of detail being left for a conference with the Commission. In reaching his conclusion to accept. Mr. Wallace gives up his prospects of promotion and a much higher salary than $25,000 a year, but he is doubtless influenced by (he fact that by taking the position of chief engineer of the Panama Canal his name will he attached to the greatest piece of engineering ever undertaken. It is estimated that about two years will be required to complete the surveys, make the estimates of cost, and decide on the final plans. In round figures the canal will cost $200,000,000, and will require ten years to complete. Aside from the engineers, machinists and other skilled labor the constructive work will give employment to 50,000 mea. pastor killed by pastor. Lutheran Minister Gets Charge of Buckshot While Out Hunting. Ogdensburg, N. Y.?The Rev. Gustave Poensgen, the German Lutheran minister at Ellerslie, Canada, was fatally shot while out duck shooting with the Rev. Mr. Henson. also of Ellerslie. Mr. Henso.n's gun was iu some unaccountable manner discharged, and Mr. Poensgen was struck in the abdomen by the charge of buckshot. He was .less than three feet away from the muzzle of the gun when it was discharged. He received a terrible wound and died while on the way to town, six miles distant. Mr. Poensgen was unmarried, and lived with his mother. Mr. Henson is prostrated with grief over the accident. tradin<5 stamp bill a law. Governor Approves Measure That Wa-s Bitterly Fought. Albany, N. Y.?Governor Odell signed the Newcomb Anti-Trading Stamp bill, which was frankly admitted as intended to curtail radically the trading stamp business as widely carried on in this State. The trading stamp companies fought it to the last day of the session, and before the Governor. The bil! requires every trading stamp, except those issued by individual merchants or manufacturers, to bear a stated face vnlue in terms of money and to be redeemable in cash or merchandise at the option of the holder. Boy Kills Little Sister. The ten-year-old son of John Schuster. of Dead Moose Lake. N. W. T.,,is accused of deliberately murdering his sir-year-old sister. The children had been playing together, when, without provocation or warning, the elder attacked the younger with an iron poker and beat out her brains. The boy showed no regret wnen asuea why ue did it, and said he wanted to see what it would be like to kill a person. The authorities have sent the boy to a Prince Albert hospital for medical examination. Edward L. Wentz Was Shot. Silas Ison and Tom Wright are under arrest at Tazewell. Va., on the charge of murdering Edward L. Wentz, whose body was found near the place of his disappearance. The arrest was made because of the finding of a tine English riding suit, similar to that worn by Wentz when he disappeared, at the home of the men. One theory is that Wentz shot himself either accidentally or intentionally. Jersey Republicans For Roosevelt. The New Jersey Republican Convention at Trenton was harmonious and enthusiastic in Its indorsement of President Roosevelt. The delegates were not instructed, but the platform ex pressed the hope, that they would support him. The delegates-at-large chosen are Senators Kean and Dryden, Governor Murphy and David A. Baird. French Horse Disease in Iowa. The investigation by the Department of Agriculture of the horse mal-idy which has broken out in Iowa has shown that the disease was brought to this country by horses imported from France. The malady, known as coit, is parasitical. The department is considering the question of shutting out importations of horses from France. La Follette, Tenn.i Nearly Wiped Out. The business section of La Follette. Tenn., was burned, and thirty-five -buildings were destroyed. Loss, $200,000; insurance, $00,000. The fire originated in the lamp room of the Cumberlaud Inn. All the guests escaped uninjured except Dr. W. F. Adams, who jumped from a third-floor window and broke a leg, and Fred Hall, who was badly burned. Rain in New Mexico. The eleven months' drought in New Mexico has been broken by copious showers. Dismissed From Army. President Roosevelt has approved the sentence of dismissal in the case of First Lieutenant Frederick W. Mills, Jr.. Seventh Infantry, who was convicted by court-martial of duplicating his pay accounts and with other viola- i tions of the regulations while serving iu the Philippines. Thread Mills on Short Time. Thread mills at Ilolyoke. Mass.. and t Willimantic. Conn., weiv ordered run j 011 short time. | College Note.?. Prof. A. E. Austin, of Tufts Col- ! lege medical school, will spend the J w.vf four montlis workinr in Ludwisr's i bioebemic laboratory in Vienna. The two thousand aturani of tho Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be askeil to sign a petition against merging the institute with Harvard UniversityjL W. H. Carpenter's gift of $00,000 to Columbia's Medical School will do good by improving a department of that university which is already lu a high state of efficiency. nil mad n/rMTo nr thr u/rru i i fflmuncYLmour mum F WASHINGTON ITEMS. Consul Hill, at Amsterdam, reports that Russian wheat is responsible for quite a loss to the American miller this year, as the crop was large in Russia. 3 and owins to the fear of war it was rushed quickly to inurket. The Uuited Statea Fish Commission is making arrangements to ship the young shad recently hatched to various sections of the country, where they g will be put in streams that have none . or where the supply is running out. United States Consul-General I-Iollo- n way, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, has re- t! ported to the State Department that ti minerals Containing radium have been jj discovered in the Province of Quebec. ^ Titrl era A rl t'npn to-flon 1 TVivic lfl in* K vestigating the love making of Lieuten- i, ant-Colonel W. P. Pitcher, growing out d of charges filed on behalf of Miss Caro. line Harold. n The Peruvian Legation in Washing- tl ton issued a statement in regard to the r quarrel between Peru and Brazil, and c the Brazilian Legation issued another t< statement on the dispute. h Theodore, Jr.. and Kermit Roosevelt. 11 who have been at home for several j weeks on account of illness, have returned to Groton. Mas3., to resume t( their studies. a Dr. Herran is to return to Washington as Colombian Charge d'Affaires, tl thus restoring friendly relations be- v tweenthe United States aud Colombia, cl OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. s The United States auxiliary cruiser Buffalo and the torpedo boat flotilla, r commanded by Lieutenant Chandler, ? arrived at Cavite. Philippine Islands. " The natives of the Philippines have ' expressed their gratitude toward their . entertainers and hosts in St. Louis, and also their appreciation of their reception at the Exposition. The Republican and Democratic del- g egates from Hawaii to their respective t national conventions here are prepar- ^ ing for the long journey. n The garrison in Guam is reported to c be in good health, notwithstanding the ( recent heavy rains and the hot season, d The native population of Hawaii is t decreasing at an alarming rate, ac- J a cording to recently compiled statistics, li Adolps Grant Wolf, of Washington. r D. C., was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Porto 11 Rico. He is thirty-six years of age 8 and a graduate of Johns Hopkins University. The Court of Claims decided that duties on goods imported into the Philip- . pines from the United States were rightfully collected under military authority. c i* . f DOMESTIC. T There has been a battle between cow- t boys and sheep herders near Laramie, Wyo., in which 3000 sheep were killed, r Thejnvasion of sheep me&ns the star* v vation of cattle, since, for-some reason ( or other, cattle refuse to feed where J sheep have been. . t Edward A. Gott, a well-known law- f yer. of Detroit,- Mich., formerly con- f nected with* the Wabash legal staff, committed suicide in his home. Mr. c Gott was fifty years old. Financial troubles are alleged to have beeu the ^ cause of his suicide. The National Labor Committee of the employing tailors decided to adopt tbe "open-shop" policy. James J. Hill and his wife gave $1,500,000 for the proposed Catholic cathedral in St. Paul, Minn. Evidence was produced before the Inter-state Commerce Commission in Chicago that railroads paid illegal rebate to certain trusts iu the guise of "switching charges." H. M. L. Hoyce, of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, died of hydrophobia three years after being bitten by a dog, his case being similar in all respects to that of his sister, who died seven years ago. The United States flag was hoi3led j j over the Panama Canal property. The Lincoln League, of Watertown, N. Y., unanimously adopted resolutions favoring the nomination of Elihu Root as Governor of New York State. While defending two women from the attack of the husband of one of them. Marshall Scheff, of Alton, 111., 1 killed Edward Cardwell. The Philadelphia Mint, which is 1 breaking all records in coinage, is turning out $3,000,000 a day iu gold eagles and double eagles. 1 A woman, believed to be Mrs. Fred- 1 erick Schmidt, of Brooklyn, N. Y., ! jumped into the river from the new ( Williamsburg Bridge. FOREIGN. 1 It is reported that Brazil is pressing 1 troops along the frontier where Peru- ( vian troops are said to have crossed the 1 1 line. France has decided to reject, both in ] substance and form, the protest made 1 by the Vatican against President Lou- 1 bet's visit the Quirinal. ^ The Acre dispute has broken out afresh in a critical form, Peru refus- t ing to withdraw her troops from the < territory claimed by Brazil, and Brazil threatening to eject them by force. . ( Eight hundred Tibetans attacked the British camp at Gyangtse and were re- i pulsed with heavy loss. The British \ had only two sepoys wounded. < A Dutch coiumu in Java captured an < Achinese position, killing nearly 200 < 1 natives. The troops' losses were severe. The English Bible Society has distributed 50.000 copies of the Gospels ] among the Japanese soldiers on the , way to the seat of war. . To encourage poor people to establish homes of their own, Norway has founded a bank for workingmen. It loans money at three and a half and four per cent., and gives the borrower fortytwo years in which to pay the loan. 1 . . . I Arrangements uave oeen mnue wuu ; French oanks for an issue of $100,000,000 Russian Treasury five per cent, five-year bonds. There will be no public subscription. Admiral Togo lost two irpedo boats and oicjlit "lire-ships" in a vain attempt to block Port Arthur. An attack was subsequently begun. German troops i? the field in Africa have lost sixty-three per cent, of ofli- j cers and thirty-live per cent, of privates, due to death, wouucls and illness. Franz von Lembaeh, the famous por. trait and historical painter, is dead. He was president of the Munich Art- i ists' Association. At the Welland County (Canada) Assizes the jury granted a verdict of .$3000 damages to the widow of the "baseball player Delelianty, formerly of the Philadelphia and Washington clubs, and $2000 to his daughter, acrinst the Michicran CeutraJ Railway* sJEWCHWANG ABANDONED tussian Troops Execute a P.etrograch Movement Froir the City. ( loving North Toward Harbin at a Re j salt of Yalti' lJefeat?Evacuate West- I em Half of reninsula. Newchwang. ? The R-issian General J Staff ha3 loft Liaoyang and goue to , lukdeu. According to the best information the Russians do not consider lieir floree sufficient to bold this secion of the country. They will proba- | Iy retreat to Harbin. The forts are | einor dismantled and all the guns are eing put on railway trains. All the | )cal transport has been coinuieneered. It is feared that if the Japanese do ot enter as soon as the Russians leave be brigands, who are now across the iver, near Yingkow. will pillage Newhwang. The foreigners are prepared ) resist them. The British Consul o f I'A.iiiaefArl fltnf o rrofoVitrv ha Ofinf ere. The Russians will probably destroy tie gunboat Sivoutcb, now in the river. . ) keep her from the bauds of the Japnese. Shanhaikwan.?The Russians are rerenting ou I-Iaicheng. evacuating the western side of the Liaotung penin- i ula. From Thursday to Saturday the 1 apanese landed 10,000 troops at Chin- | bau. 10,000 at Fuchau and 7000 at Pit- ( ewo. They hav? occupied Wafungtien and 'ulantien. They have destroyed miles 1 f the railway. Heavy firing has been 1 eard in the direction of Kaicbau, ' fhere Japanese transports were lately ighted. Sixteen warships protected he landing at Chinchan. their guns ( weeping the narrow isthmus quite lear. London.?The report, not officially oonrmed, out coming from many sources, hat Newchwang is to be abandoned y the Russians, is regarded as the i/YBfr intwpstine itf?m of MPWS .is in onjunction with the removal of Ihe Jeneral Staff from Liaoyang to Muklen, it seems to point to a general rereat northward as a result of the disstrous battle on the Yalu. Stress is aid upon the fact that evil political esults and loss of prestige will follow uch retirement, and that it must now >e attended with serious military dan;er. St. Petersburg.?General Kuropatkin las sent the following telegram under late of May 7: "Lieutenant - General Zassalitch tolay reports that the enemy's cavalry ind units of their advanced guard ocupied Feng-Wang-Cheng to-day. Two ompanies aud two squadrons of their orce proceeded toward Daliaudiapu[?se. Our cavalry and units withdrew oward Schlindjane (Shenndien?) "Scouts from Feng-Wang-Cheng rclort that two Japanese divisions adanced May G toward Feng-Wang'homr h-u tha main rnrid from Pinn din. A third division, advancing by he valley of the I River, occupied a1 losition near Khuandiapu-Tse and >osted batteries to fire upou FengVang-Cheng, counting upon finding tur troops there. "The Japanese advanced slowly and rery cau'.iously upcu Feug-YVangyheng." Tokio,?After sharp cavalry ?skirnishes at Erhtaitsu. Santaisu and (ther places, a detachment of infantry >elonging to General Kuroki's army ook Feng-Wang-Cheng. It was the sectnd line of the Russian defense, and a itiff light was anticipated. The Rusliaus, before retiring, exploded the nagazine, but left large quantities of lospital stores, but are being used by he Japanese hospitals. Refugees from he woods and small villages are conitantly surrendering. Every supplenental report received from General vtiroki increases the Russian casualies iu the battle at Kulicn-Cheng. on he falu River. The Japanese have juried about 14UU Kussians, anu uavc 03 of the enemy's wounded in 1 lie ield, hospitals. The Russians buried nany of their dead. It is estimated iiat the total Russiau casualties ex eed 2.")00. Over 300 Russiau prison;rs are-on the way to Matsuyama, vhere they are expected to arrive on Wednesday. [ilFE TERM FOR MRS. POWELL. lury Finds Slayer of Estelle Alhin Guilty of Murder in Second Degree. Dover, Del.?"Guilty of murder in :he second dejrree" was the return of he jury in the Powell murder case. She was convicted of killing her steplaughter. Estelle Albin. Mrs. Powell appeared to be almost )verconi(f by the announcement, hut VIr. Ward's closing .speech had prepared her for the worst. The verdict carries with it imprisonment for the est of her natural life, "immediately ipon receipt of the verdict Lawyer Ridgley asked that the jury be polled md each man responded: '"That's my verdict." There is general satisfaction with the inding. "The woman unquestionably had jreat provocation." was all Atiorney3eneral Ward would say. Nor did Mrs. Powell get many grains >f comfort from the charge of Chief fustice Spruance. The Justice said :hat no excuse, or palliation, or mitiga;ion of the crime of murder could he >ffered because of knowledge that an>ther had been illicitly intimate with jne's wife or husband. Tour Children Killed by Lightning. The farm house of Peter Schmitt, at Bessie, Oklahoma, was struck by lightning, and four children, who were lsleep upstairs, were killed. Killed by His Automobile. Overturned in his automobile. II. S. Ringi, of Chicago, was crushed into the mire of a ditch and drowned while ..nflj.J ill v-iin to vr?<5rlH? I U IS IJUUL'tT OU u3,,r.u A** ~ Liirn. Mooney Dies in tiie Chair. Allan Mooney, who shot and killed two women at Sa ramie Lake. N. Y.. ou Xovenibsr 4. I'.HKS. was put to death in the electric chair at Clinton Prison. Danucmora. News From tii-> Seat of War. Japan relies on disease, famine, and possibly a Manchuriau rising to harass her enemy's troops. it is asserted in Pekin Hint the Russians are about to declare martial law west of the Liao iliver. The Itussian battleship Orel ran on 1 a sandbank in the Neva, and uidiculiy is anticipated in floating her. nf thu TiliKSi.'Hl owners of vesseJs captured by Japan failed, and Japan -A'ill retain the prizes. ? Uussians say the Japanese outnumbered them in the recent battle and .were greatly superior in artillery. i ~' { Newspapers Aid Reform. 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