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v J " V " * / FORT MILL TIMES. VOL. Xlll. FORT MILL, S. tWEDNESDAY, MARCH 2.1,1904. NO. I. IN BATTLE ON Russians Take On? Thousand Eight Hundred Japs NO DETAILS GIVEN OF ENGAGEMENT - I It Mcvs lleirn an Affair of Advance (iuards?N.ws of the flattie Come* 1 I i en Purely Ku??ian Sources. c: * Poof' Ma roll 19. -A private dis- ' ? i?. '<-li received here from Mukden i >t I.--- that a battle lias tak?*u plan* ou j tii - Ymc In which th* Russians claim j i>. b^v. r.apti it-d eighteen hundred i 1 l>i''HTS Jipan to Levy War Taxes. T.ib.o, Special. Th*' sove nnient has J not 4 :!|y disclosed the proposal con- ; < . n!i the war taxes to b submitted '1 tbi special diet. but it now appears u- ffu ugh it will not propose any , chuio'i in the tariff in suvar, but will :.-t-:?d recommend a dotwstie tax on the is previously stated. It now sc. ti . probable that the only change t'fit in the ciist nrri* isrllT u.ill !u> an is . reascd duty on kerosene and t ..pi; stNo discrimination will bo made ifjiis.: ' Husslau kerosene. beraufce that i i ad? is chiefly In the hands of the Hrii:-h merchants. It is anticipated t'ta there will he a serious contention . tic diet over the taxes on sugar and >i!k and dealers in the former eom- | mo.iijy are strongly agitating for a re?incti? .1 in the rate. Party committees ? rt-s daily discussing the ta>; i vals and tile l?elief tvi PunriiKJiul V a- lie* government will be forced to '> several features of t'heir plans, i If tobacco mono|K>ly is enacted it climated that it will be ten years b f?*r> it. is filially completed, although ;tic gotornmont counts upon earnings iro ' it in 1904 amounting to twenty- i our million yen. gradually ncreasing . i.to 1 !H14, when it is estimated they i will amount to forty million ypn. It estimated that it will'cost the | government eiglit million yen to pur- i ' iu.' ihe plants and stock retiuired to onsMumate the combine and fully ' i i:v- million yen to compensate the owner. 1 -INCLE SAM" TO THE RESCIE | NN'il' interfere in lirhalf of Japanese In Siberln. \V..M.:ngton. Special.- Russia will be a k? by the I'nited States to treat k'tui.y the Japanese non-combatants i vho nave been left in Sibeivia :?nd T<H enable them to make their way back to Japan. M* Kogoro Takahira, tlie Japanese i i. *> r. called at the state department i tc't c. and informed the officials that ! he had re eived reports that between i ?' it.. 1 .">0 Japanese non-combatants .an iu suffering condition in several S l>< -:an towns. The minister requested iWashington government to use Its -cm' offices to a-slst the suffering j Jap.Mieso to reach llerlln where the ! Jr.]..rac.se- minister will take them in I charge. The state department acted promptly ,:iu a cablegram lias been sent to Mr. 1 rmick the American anihn?*?r?or I ii r-i. Petersburg inviting him te cell i t< attention of the imperial govern-; men! to the matter in the confident : i'op* that the Russian officials wlR ';ke mmediate steps for the relief c>f i the Japanese. In flarbie Mall to l)w?ll. Sr.- annah, (!a.. Special.?The city I outicil has let a contract for the con ; *l met ion of a new quarter of a million ilol'-ar marble city hail to the Savantud. <"ontracting Company. Tito build- I inc .s to he completed in 12 months. : Atlanta. New York, Augusta and St. I.im;/contractors were among the blri5dster Urged Rrother to Kill. Na.-hvillc, Tenn., Speciul.?Death by I hant :ng is the sentence passed upon j Ton. Cox for the murder of Policeman ! Her. Dowel!, on the night of December , tl last. Cox is the first white man that! hrtf be n sentenced to death in this 1 county for nearly thirty years, and the , ciisr is one of the most remarkable in ! the criminal'annals of the State. Dt well arrested the sister of Cox on ' ihe afternoon of the killing for Inter-' f. ring wtth an ofllcer, and the woman j wt> charged with inciting her brother ' V J V , ; YALU RIVER .lap Tobacco Monopoly. St. Petersburg. Special.?Tlic repiescntations of United States minister to Japan. Mr. Griacom. concerning American interests by the creation of a Japanese tobacco monopoly, will. The Novoe Vrcniya says, sharpen American-Japanese relations. It. considers the tobacco monopoly absolutely necessary lor Japan in the present condition of her finances, but says the cotnpcnsa ti i:i claimed by the Americans would more than cat tij> the income from the monopoly in the tlrst years, but creating "or Japan a situation, th "full meaning of which it is probable Is quite appreciated at Washington." Newspaper Aden Turned Down. Tokio. Special. The British minister refuses to endorse th application ef llalcs. the correspondent of The Daily News, to accompany the Japanese army, giving as his reason that the reports Hairs sent from the Transvaal during th Boer war were slanderous of the British army. The Japanese government requires that all correspondents should have the endorsement o the resident minister of the countri s they represent. Males will therefore he excluded from all connection with the army movements. D.II..I. > 11 annua i?uul> l/OHia^CU. rit. Petersburg. Special.?The correspondent c?f the Associated Press learns that (luring the last bombardment of l'oil Arthur two Japanese shells fell in the works of the dry dock hut failed to explode an l did not damage the dock. The hole in the Russian protected cmiser Pallada. the repairs on which will soon be completed, was 1" feet in diameter. l)atto Put to Plight. Manila Special.?News of an important military engagement has just been received from Catabalo. On March 7 detachments of the 17th and 23d infantry, troop 11 of the ltlh cavalry and Gatcley's battery, in all 4:>0 strong, under command of (ten. Wood, attacked and captured the cotta (fort) which was held by the Hat to All. who resists the anti-slavery law. His defensive works were destroyed, and their abandonment forced by the accurate tiro of the battery. 2,000 moros matte tneir rot real with a losr. of 100. The Americans sustained no losses. Severe Penalties for Pillaging The army organ publishes an order of the liny issued by Viceroy AlexiefT. threatening tiie most severe penalties against soldiers Injuring private prop"Vty or officers permitting the same. WORLD'S COTTON CROP Estimated at *7,170,765; Valued at $750,08.1,451. Washington. Special.?The world's cotton crop for ll>02-'03 is estimated <y the Department of Acrieutnlre at 17. 17'J.7t>5 bait's, valued at $750,082,4.11. This is based on the latest data available, the figures In most instances represent inpf the cotton appearing in commercial channels. With the exception of 2.087.M*.l bales of the East India crop, which averages 400 pounds per hah', the bales are of an average weight of 500 pounds. The total includes estimates of the Chinese and Korean crops. White Cappers Convicted. Helena. Ark.. Special. ? Federal Judge Jacob Trieber on Saturday passed a penittentiary sentence upon three white cappers who were convicted in the Federal Court of a conspiracy to intimidate negro workmen at a saw mill. Appeal to the Supreme Court of the United Slates was tulcen. the purpose being to test the constitutionality of the 14rh amendment to the constitution. Postponed Again. Washington. Special.?-The cases involving the suffrage provisions of the new constitution of the State of Virginia were reached ir the call of the United States Supreme Court Saturday an hour before the rcgulRtfetlmc of adjournment, but owing to the fact that tl>o court will not meet again to hear argument until April 4th. the hearing in those eases was postponed until that date. f-.arthquake in New Knelnnd. Rosiou. Special.?An earthquake Sunday morning caused a tremor throughout the entire eastern neetion of New Kngland. Beginning at St. John. N. H.. the seismic vibrations traversed the State of Maine, causing gome slight damage to buildings in Augusta. Hunger and Perl land. The shock was felt plainly as far south as Taunton, In this State. Reports from Manchester, N. II., and Springfield, Mass.. state that the vibrations were felt distinctly In those two cities. At Augusta. Me., lamp chimneys were broken ur.d crockery was smashed. The vibrations lasted several seconds. CONGRESSIONAL DOINGS The Lawmaker* TaJk of Variou< idlings. In the Hoit-'e during (lie discussion of the postoffit-e appropriation hill. Mr. Spipht. of Mississippi, discussed the negro question. He said he desired to vindicate tho South from the charge <>( barbarism. In the South, ho said, tin negro had been denied the right to votr and to hold office, but not the right to vork for an honest living, as had been done in the Northern States. "We sometimes kill them for outrageous crimes," lie said, 'but never because they want to work." As for lynchings. he said that sometimes they have unnecessary occurred in the South. He referred to the Wilmington. Del., lynching last year, and to the subsequent attack on the negro settlement. This never occurred in the South, he said. "When the guihv wretch has nnbi the penalty of his awful crime. that is an end of it." he continued: "the mob i- satisfied and does .not wreak indisfiminate venbeance upon the innocent, because they bel >ng to tlie same race as the.criminal." He said that, tinlike the people of tlie North, the people of the South "don't go out with a torch in one hand and a gun in the other, and. pointing the gun at defenseless women and children, shoot them as I they flee for their lives." He said thi-t j had occurred in New York, city in 1900. I and lie referred to a number of lynchI ings which had occurred la the North. ' including those at Danville. III., and Springfield, Ohio, and sail, "such race j prejudice finds no place in Southern j hearts." Mr. Spright continued: "So far as I j em concerned. 1 am opposed to mob i Violence as a general proposition. 1 do I not think that lyncliings for any other [ crime than the nameless one against ! I womanhood ought ever to ooc tr. In all j I others the courts of the country are j | ample, and generally, with us. swift to j pUMI.Sll. "But in tlx* one class of crimes so brutal and destructive of all that it: <l?ir to an enlightened people, no one with a spark of manhood in h m can doubt that instant death to the perpetrator should follow upon the aseerta'nment of the guilty facts. The poor, i su ffering woman who has been the vieI tiai of the devlish lust of a brute, white j ot black, should not be compelled to j appear in court and repeat hefote a jury the horrible details of the outrage." Mr. Spiglit recited thnt the burning at the stake of "such brutes" was not ! confirmed to the South, but bad occurj red in the North as well. Mr. Spight spoke of th attempt of certain white persons to put the negro < n a social equality with themselves and referring to the occasion wfcen ltonker Washington dined at the White Mouse with Pr sldent Roosevelt. said I { "this one incident had done more to in! (lame the passions of the negro and | give bi n a perverted idco ??r in'< it-?. > j portanoo ant] his near .pea ranee to | socdal equality than anything that had I hutn done for the lest ten years. He said Booker Washington had sat down ! to dinner with the President "as graciously as if he had been the Governor ot' New York." He was. lie continued, i so: ry that Washington did not have I I i- ore sense and self-i nspect than to a- - j : ecpt the invitation. It would have been : j infinitely to his < red it had lie declined, j j ' 'I he more the negroes ar nut on n so i r'al equality," ho vigorously asserted, i , "the more dangerous becomes their j 1 position and the surer death by vio- | ! lcnc > will overtake them sooner or I later." Mr. Spright referred to the arrest in | Iiidiaiioia. Miss., of white agents of . Cincinnati picture company who were > | selling to the negroes indecent pie- j i tores. In bis opinion the agents should ! ; hr.ve been lynched. | The granting of subsidies to rail- j | vends for carrying the :nnil> was vig otously opposed by Mr. Robinson. of! j Indiana, who characterized them as a j i stain and blot upon the hill, j Mr. Sibley, of Pennsylvania, contend- i I ?<1 that to denV the subs! ly would 1;** doing a manifest injustice to the interests of the South. A heated discussion followed, which was pmticipated in by Messrs. Lamb, of Pennsylvania: Holliday. of Ind'ana. and (laines, of TenI nessee. Mr. Robinson had charg'd the ! Republicans with being responsible for the subsidy, which brought from Mr. I.: nil) an emphatic protest. Although the Louisville & Naslivilie Railway, one of the roads benefited by the subsidy, passed through his town. Mr. CJaincs excitedly de dared the subsidy to be "a legalized steal." Mr. Finley. of South Carolina, said thrr^ wro rumors of the abuse o* the Danking privilege. and Iho commission should look into that matter. .Mr. Sibley of Pennsylvania. suggestrci to Mr. Finley that if he personally knew of any stub abuses ir was his unty to call specific- attention to the individual. Mr. Finley declared he wis not making charges against members of ComKresr,. hut had rea I the statements in th* public press. He said the public; n o i was saturated wiiii :he charge that there was corruption in the Postoffice Department, and tiie only thing 10 do was to investigate it. If there was scandal to bo uncovered "the rascals and grafters." he said, '"would be enmeshed in the toils of the law." In a speech charac terized by intense vigor. Mr. Flood, of Virginia, asserted that the credit for the establishment of" the rural free delivery service belonged to tlie Democrats. If had. he said, been ' claimed by Mr. Perry ?>. Heath, former First Assitant Postmaster General. "I f.m not."' no said, nstonisneu tnsi it gentleman who was willing to rob and plunder his government ant' permit other people to rob and plunder the government he had sworn to protect, should rob a nolitiral opponent or the. credit to which he wes entitled." In th Senate. By the action o* :hc Senate in cxeei:l a t'.e session Friday lion. Leonard Wood became a major general. taking tin; tank from August S. 19011. the day President Roosevelt ninde th^ prnnui. thai. The contest against his > onllrivution has been a uotabt one. beginning soon after Congress convened in --pedal session and eonLtiuiny vat.il today, when, by a vote of tr. ?.> it'., the nomination was confirmed. The bite Senator Hannn was recognized a- the leader of the forces opposed to ('. :>. I Wood, and had it not been for his death before the disposition of the ease it is conceded that the vole would I have been much closer, it. has not been believed at any time since the contest opened, however, that the tight against tonfirnmtlon would have been sin -ess;'ul. Only two Republicans remained in the minority. They were Senator Scott r, member of the military affairs om- , rnittee. who opposed the nomination while it was pending in the cumniittec, and Senator Kittredge. Five Demo- 1 eratlc Senators voted wit it the major- i ty in favoi of confirmation. They were j Senators Cockrell and Pettus. who as members of the military affairs com- 1 inittee heard all the testimony offered avainst (len. Wood, and Senator Pat- < lerson, Clarke, of Arkansas, and Dubois. The negative vote on the confirmation was as follows: New s in Notes. Senator Tillman's 1 practically disappeared and he lias recovered so greatU from his attack of 1 the gri;>p? that ii is expected ho will < leave Washington for the South nut | later than the end of the week. Chief Justice ("Mark, of the North Carolina Supreme Court., on Tuesday bound V. 11. Me Bee over to court on a $2,000 justified bond for conspiracy in the A. & N. C. Railroad receivership ' matter. ( Carnegie Library for Winthrop. ^ Rock llill. S. C.. Special.?President I). B. Johnson, of Winthrop College, has been notified by Andrew Carnegie 1 that he would give $20,000 for a school i library on Winthrop campus. No definite plans have been made for the ^ site, or in fact any of the details, but 1 a great deal of atteution lias always ! been paid the library in this institu- ; tion, and it is now one of the best and most complete in the State, and so the , now building will be given a prominent place, und it is now an assured thing. l or n Relict I uml. Gainesville, Go.. Special.- P. X. Parker, chairman of the relief committee ( of Gainesville, lias made u;i itemized report to the pubiie. aiiowlus file i\>- 1 ceipts ami dishurscui nts of the relief ft.ml donated ??? tii storm sufferers June 1 Thi." report shows thai the total amount eretved and disbars- ' ed was $o">,921.(18. Th rejtort also ( shows that tho total number killed, in- ( e'.edinK those wlio diet! from tho ef H cts of the storm, '..as 112. and that the i ital xtumiter wouniled were ".5r?. 1 IAOOR WORLO. Railroad linpiplgemeu. <m' Ruflaln, N. V., are now organized. Montreal (Canada! (irctm-n have I teen granted an increase of u n per cent, in their pay. Thirty-eight thousand persons work in various industries in the Chicago stock yards. Coal operators in Wise County, Virginia, have made a twelve per cent, wage reduction, affecting hundreds of men. The garment workers, the painters, eigamnikers. bookbinders, doakmuk- 1 ers. tailors and many other unions admit women to tnetnltershlp. A general defense fund of Sl'm.OOO is , being raised by lite Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Kail- , way Employes of America. There l;ns been an increase of foftytv.o per cent, in the membership of i the stationary firemen's unions of Mas- i saehnsetts since last August. t There will he no clianges in the ' wages of bricklayers this year. The date for either the union or employers ! to ask for a change has passed. Several postal clerks' unions have ' been chartered by the American Fed- , eratlon of I.nl?or, and now it is pro- ] posed to form a national union of the , calling. I Owners of (lie Oenaby and C'adeby ] collieries have sued the Yorkshire (England) Miners' Association for dam ages resulting rrom the long continued strike at these collieries In J1K)2. The amount claimed is $7r?O,t)00. The Kxeeutive Hoard of the Interna- i tlonal Teamsters' Union has decided ( that a local, before it can go out on a sympathetic strike, must have a twothirds vol- of its members, iiultd'setl : 1 by a two-thirds vote of the joint con- ! < ferouee of tl?t vicinity, and in addl- ; tlon the consent of the Kxeeutive i i Hoard. What James G. Blaine Said. 1 .1 amcb G. Maine onco said: "The 1 farmers of th>* repui.lic will control < lt? destiny. Against the storms of popular frenzy, against frenzied mad* ness that seeks collision v. ith estab- j llshed order, a.tainst the spirit of anarchy that would sweep away the landmarks and safeguards of Christian aociet.' and republican government, the farmers of the United States 1 will stand ?s a shield and bulwark, < themselves the willing subjects of i law." To strengthen this bulwark is i the work of tha KranRo. If tho quoted , remarks are true, then the work of the RrangD appeals to the patriotism of all. 1 A PENSION RULING. A Scheme to Reduce the Expenses cf the Depigment REGULAR RATES ARE INSTITUTED It is Claimed tlie Order \N 111 Save the Oovertiinent nt I..*ast $300,uoo a Year. \ Wednesday special from Washing ;<>n say a: Commissioner of Pensions Ware, with the approval of Secretary Hitchwk. promulgated the most important pension ruling that luis been issued in 1 long time. It directs that beginning April 13. next, if there is no contrary evidence and all other legal require m.Tui* uavf unen njci. claimants iur pensions under the general art of June .17. 1890. who are over t>2 years old shall be constituted us disabled one-half in ability to perform manual labor and shall b?* entitled t<? $t> per month; over 86 years, $S; over t>8 years, $10. and over 70 years. $111, the usual allowances at higher rates continuing for disabilities other than age. This order will not be retroactive. Cotomissioner Ware Just before leaving for a trip South for his health said Lho order would save both the old soldiers aud the government a great dec I of money ami time. He said it. was based on the Mexican war pension legislation of 1887. approved by President Cleveland, which placed all the Mexican war veterans on the pension roll S9 years after the close of the war. Vt the expiration of service a Mexican war soldier was entitled to a pension at f.'J years, and no other requisite for drawing a pension should exist except, age. lhat to soldiers of the civil war who fought vastly more and longer, at least as good a rule ought to anolv. "The order could not have been Issued earlier because it is only now that the ::3 years lixod by the congressional limit has boon reached. The > i \ i I war ended April 13, 1 S'i.1. llenee the thirtynine >enrs would expire ou the 13th of next /lionth." Mr. Ware said the order would sav< the government at bast $300,000 a year He was not able to say what expein ? tiie hill would entail in the shape of additional payments. "The extent to which it will augment the necessity for further appropriations cannot be told. It will, without doubt, increase the payments to some extent, hut no one Is able to tlx the amount. The bureau has not considered that as the proper element of consideration. I do not think. however, tb'd the increased expense in the long run will be very noticeable, because the death rate is always to be considered, and tho^c is also to be considered the fa t that, the ones to whom we give the pension without proof other than their tgen. would have prove themselves anyhow. under former circumstances, as ratified to the pension by reason of their disabilities." More Refugees Arrive. New York. Special.*- The HamburgAmerican liner llluteher, which arrived here, brought 1.7ti."> steerage passengers;. the majority of whom were refugees from Russia who (led the i-ouniry to avoid serving in the army. >! xny of them gave accounts of their rseajMi across the Rusisan frontier similar to those related by the men who fame last w 'el, on the Graf Walde.v ?*. Some of them were camped for two w el s near the frontier waiting for a ehance to get away, one relator saying that bis party, consisting of 127. waited twelve days in a thicket a short ilisLa'ice from the line while negotiations were in progress with the customs guards to let them cross the frontier. Anot her said that his party of ten were roneealrd for four days in the hay and draw stacks of tho frontier post, where they eventually crossed into Prussia. It was said that there are thousands along the frontier waiting 'or a chance to got across without passports. Mystery As to Whereabouts. Tokio. By Cable.?Tokio i-t unadvised regarding the naval plan., and movements of the Russians. and is in loubt whether the remnant ? f their lleet is st'.II at Port Arthur or i ; en route to Vladivostork. I.ate Wodneslay afternoon a telegram reached rl^e Navy Department saying that seven Russian ships have been reported .1 passing Fort Basareff The report was .not circumstantial. It 'lid no* rive the character of the shins or the llmtton In which they w??re sailing [I Is anticipated that the Japancs' by their activity, will speedily dotorm no he whereabouts and intention:; <>i ti>" Russians. Vurdamun'* Veto Stands. Jackson. Miss., Special.?'n.D lowr. House indulged in a spirited debute >n the veto of Governor Vardeman, of ho 1)ill for an appropriation for tir. jeneflt of negro education. The vote .0 pass the hill over the Governor's teto wa3 lost hy a vote of Gi to 4S, 72 iroteg being required. The bill thereFore Is dead. n I A VIGOROUS ATTACK Report Indicates That Japanese Have the Best of the Fight OIITC AN INTFRFSTINti nftfllWFNT TlK" I'lucky Japs Seem to Hav? (iiven Russia a Knock out Blow at Port Arthur In the Fourth Attack ?>(i That Town. Toko. By Cable.?Official anil prinvt?? reports both indic-ato that Admiral Togo's fourth attack on Port Arthur on the Ioth instant was the most off?v tire since the first assault of a month ago ttnc Russian tor^do boat destroyer v. as sunk and several Russian torpedo boats seriously damaged. The fort.lfiI at ions and city were submitted to heavy bombardment lasting nearly tour hours. The naval bombardments of the land works have generally been ineffective, yet the peculiar topographical conditions of Port Arthur make immunity from serious loss from bom | uarduicm almost impossible. AiltniraJ | Toro's torpedo flotilla opened the action bv boldly steaming in finder the batteries of mechanical mines in tha harbor. The . losing action was the bombardment of the inner harbor by the Japanese battleships. The latter took n position southwest of I'ort. Arthur and used only their twelve-ineli guns. Tbei"? were twenty-four twelve-Inch Runs in the squadron of six battleships, and each Run tired five rounds, making a total of 1-0 huge projectiles that \\?re tired at the city. The bombardment was deliberate and carefully planned. In order to aid in perfecting | the tiring Admiral Togo stationed the < misers in a position due oast of the et.trance to the harbor, and at right angles to the battleships. The cruiser* observed the range and effect of the tiring and signaled the results and suggestions by wireless telegraphy. Admiral Togo was unable to learn definitely the results of the bombardment but later private reports indicate thai much destruction was caused in the < ;ty where serious rires broke out. There also was damage to batteries. ('apt. Shokiro Asai. commanding tin flotilla of torpedo boat destroyers, had only three destroyers, but nttacked the six Russian destroyers, ordered hi? craft to close in with the enemy. He .steamed so close to the enemy's destroyers that they almost touched, and a most desperate conflict ensued, from ) which the Russians retired badly dlsI aided. The Japanese flotilla which sunk tit# mines at the mouth of the harbor later engaged two Russian destroyers. Tliii flotilla was commanded by Command er Tstieliiya. Admiral Togo's object in s? -tiding cruisers to Talien Wan Bay was to encompass the destruction of a slenal station mine depot at Sam I Shnnto. This object was achieved and the hulllings were demolished. Rear Admiral Dewa and Urin participated in the operations under Admiral Togo, the details of whose opera tions became known in Japan only I Sunday. The news created intense pd thusiasm. Admiral Togo's report carae I last night, and but ii was withheld ortil shown to the Hmperor. Admiral Togo is permanently numbered among the heroes of the empire,* The latest report places the Japanese le-s at nine Killed, five seriously wounded and seventeen slightly hurt. The Japanese fleet was not damaged in the fighting. Amer cans Remove. Chenuilpo, By Cable.?The United States cruiser Cincinnati returned here with a number of American refugee* from the American Company's ml net at Pnsnn and missions in tliat vicinity. The party consists of three men and "JJ women and children. All are well They praise the Kindness <if the officers of the Cincinnati, who gave np their cabins to them. The refugees traveled from Pnsan to Chinnampo la carts hearing American flags and were error ted as far as Ping Yang by a hand from ill" mines. They were unmolested. Near Anjit they met two small groups of fossa: );?. During the party's stay ai Ping Vang the Japanese officials requested them to wear badges l.c-.rin ' tlie American colors, in order that hey may be allowed to leave and enter the town freely. The party was stoop* d live times by Japanese sddlers, of whom the party saw great numbers along the road to the coast. The J.ipewse treated them very fourteen.dj . Balfour Defeated. I/ondon. Special,?Picnoicr Balfour's government was defeated in the 'ionsn of rem mono by the combined Liberal %ni?d National vote. This reverse was 1 10 to the prohibition by Mr. W'wynham. chief secretary fur Ireland, of the Irish Nationalist schools. Mr. Halfotir ihou,;h defeatrd by n majority of 11 on this question, does not regard tn? vote as one i.f want of conldenco and he will not resign on this account. Ills .Irterminatton not to resign was strengthened by (be fact that shortly titer the foregoing defeat he was al/ls to ?c?'?ro a majority of 23.