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MIANS FORCED BUCK Hot Fighting on the Sha River, fri Which Japs Won Gallantly RETREAT ON ; KUROKI'S FRONT Another K I lle<l? lleller In St. V'/toribvrg That Woul<l A?? ?n??p? - inlenin C.'olit ??ry r Over On* lluntlrnl M en Hn 'jne AllwcJ*. 1 jiwyv ng. ? The Russians began retlr li? & from Oeneral Kuroki's front after 'Celling the posit'.on? of the .Japanese lino ?west of Till Mor/itnln. The one nny'H butteries ? have. beeji withdrawn mioye than four m Ijes.-^ind the cavalry divi.-ion, which v^ts on the ri^ht llank of iJeuernt- Kuiy&i, was lost, to VJfcw. T'le activity /of t he YoAMan forces v.as eonlined west of tfr,e railroad on (joneral Okr.'s front. Vuissian batteries shelled the position* ?f Wan to Mount ain Nand^, at Liny' dentun. A forre of cava." ry est inij? ipd ?t (JOO, with two eon"|?itnles of infantry and a battery of mounted r\" t tilery attacked ChitaRse after dnyK on t]u? right bank of the Hup. T'.ic Russians appeared to have res ^r \'f s, hut the Japanese gaVrlson, ok to entrenched positions, was r,bi\> to hold t lie town until reinforced (rom (Jeneral Oka's een'.nv At day Light the Russians were driven north. Hosing more than 100 i'i dead, one KUli .?and seventeen prisoners. The enemy iseeined to he a.t'.acklng H i various ?points In -? ma 1 1 ietu'-hwents, but its goneraj movement bndhceu abandoned. Toklo. Japan. ? '/h* Manchuvian nnny Ilea ?h pja r t er s ' t a plied that several serious took place at night and t he foll'r /In-, movnlnn north of the Sha River on both banks of the lluii. The Vussian batteries from I'u lil.iff :.lou jtr>ins *.? the wesjt shelled the Japanese pi>f* ,.ons, while detachments of ca v: a*y attacked the outlying vil lages by the advanced forces of /Icn- /*r. 'Ok\\. A severe assault on Clii 1 ?? 1* /tk ?' was rcnulsed. but only after hours ol lighting, mostly in th.e ?fy<vk. The Janane.se defenders at llrst iist- heavily, hut at S o'clock in flic iiuornintr the attacking force was put to .'flight. The movement against (Jeneral Kuroki's right, which developed Into a serious engagement, lias been aban doned. The Japanese hold all their po sition"; and have moved north to V\nt '/.) *ass. V Petersburg.? According to (len Vrul Kuronatkin's latest reports, which fudkate tlie wound i ng of a third Rue 151 a n iTeneral. Dembowski, the opera tions at Sandipau and the fighting at :sha River have been inomeiitarily sus pended. The Russians successfully re pulsed the latest attack of t lie Japan ese eastward with heavy Iosp, The rohl was still intense, there being tweu Jty-foui' degrees of frost. Thero wero indications that the Japanese wero 'lU'iyinrina to break the inactivity on Ihelr own account as soon as the ?weather moderates. The War Office <ty<?U?K closed no further faefcs regard ing tha report that timers! Ivuropat* 'kin was about to give up his. command could be obtained. It was not credited here. iNniAxs At the Inaugural. ?2(XKJ~to Bring Geronimo and Others to . T ' Washington, r. Washington.. I). ('.? The Inaugural i ?Committee appropriated $2000, or as iunclj thereof* as may bo necessary to pay the expenses of six noted Indians Jn Coming here t<? participate in Presi dent Roosevelt's inaugural parade. The Indians, who. according to the present plan, are to rendezvous at the Indian school nt Carlisle. Pa., and who JU'e to he accompanied by 350 cadets 5in(l a hand and six attendants or In terpreters. are Geronimo, the old Apache chief, now at Fort Sill, Okla homa; Quanah Parker, a Comanche, nt Anadarko, Oklahoma: Buck Skin ?Charlie, a Ute, at Durango, Col.; Little Phlme, a Pigeon or Blackfeet, at "Browning, Mont.; American Horse, a Cheyenne, at Rushville. Neb., and Hol low Horn Bear, a Sioux, at Valentine, Neb. '.These Indian warriors will ride In dian ponies in the parade, PREACHER BY SPECIAL TRAIN. Missed it fyjular One. But Kept His En gagement?Talked on Perseverance. ' Wilmington. Del.? The Rev. Oscar B. Hnwes, of the Unitarian Church, in Germautown, Pa., had an engagement to preach in this dty. He missed a train in Philadelphia, and to keep his engagement hired -an engine and one car, and was brought here on the spe cial in twenty-eight minutes, beiog iiearly one mile a minute. The sermon was on the subject of perseverance and tbfc necessity of do ing whatever one sets out t<i do. The text was i^icrely a coincidence. TO T11Y GORKI IN ASSIZE COURT. Says Governor-General Trepoff. lint1 Denies That Gapou is Arrested. London. Eng. ? The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Chronicle says that in an interview (Joveruor-Ueneral Trepoff confirmed the report that! Maxim Gorki will Ije tried in the Ai Klze Court. Re denied that l'ather (iapyu has wbere he was ASTONISHES JAPAN. Hi*. Statement to Workmen Thought Strangely Undignified. apan.?Tbo Japanese press roopdIy astonished by the to the striker*' depu tation that Svuii'i donieatlc troubles Hare h*tn fomented by tbe country. ?t? should ro te considered It their tut PECUUAR TRAIN WRECK XI ? Boiler on Passenger Lodtomotiva Bursts, Throwing1 Train OffTraok. K?*?t ApproachlnK tiuff?lo Hpucliil Hit* th? Wr?ck*d ICuKlur, Killing Two ami Injuring * 8<oM Other*. TtUca> N. Y.? Two killed inul a score Injured Is the result of a fearful wreck about '2 o'clock in the morning on the New York Central Railroad, three miles west of this city. ?UMic holler of the engine drawing tlnrwestern train '23 from Boston, Mass., and New York Cltyv exploded. The loconiothe top filed over on the cahthound track .lust as Buffalo special Train .'10 approached from the west, running at high speed. The train was derailed and thrown in n ditch. John Brennau. fireman of train 'JK. and John Allen, of train 'i.'i, were both Instantly killed. Justice \V. H. Hooker, of the State Supreme Court, Kredonla, N. Y., was sliirhtly injured. There were seven or eight I'ulltnan ears on the special, hut the train was not heavily loaded. On leaving the tracks .lie cars rolled over a slight embankment and all the passengers were hurled from their seats. As the cars rested on their sides in the dttch the passengers crawled through the windows and those who were not hurt proceeded to give aid to those fastened in the wreck. Calls were at once sent to nearby towns for surgeons, and many hastened to the scene. The passengers suffered severely from the cold. When the holler of the locomotive ex ploded the engine was thrown upon the east bound track and several of the cars were derailed. No one was badly hurt on* train No. 23, and a number of the male passengers were getting ready to Investigate the trouble when (he ranidly running Buffalo special from the west thundered upon the mass of broken steel from the exploded boiler. It had fallen directly upon the easthouud rails, and the engine of the special was partly wrecked when it struck. The train was shunted off the rails, but fortunately the embank ment was only two or three feet high, and the Pullman coaches only tipped over upon their sides. The car in which Justice Ilook.r wps riding was thrown at least forty feet from the track and one side par tially torn away. The Justice was wedged in between broken seats, and was not released for a considerable time. Strangely "enough, it is said by the hands, there was no greftt panic. This train was in charge of Conductor J. H. Iiittle, who sahl that in the car In which ho was at the time there was hardly a scream heard. They were waiting, he said, to see what was com ing next. Many of the injured were taken to the sanitarium at Whitesboro pending the arrival of surgeons at the scene, and others were hurried to hospitals In the city. ESCAPE PRISON ON LOCOMOTIVE Two Prisoners .Tump Engine and Make Wild Ride of Five Miles. K ) Houston, Texas.? Knocking the engi neer of a locomotive unconscious with blows with scoop shovels, two life prisoners, both murderers, jumped into the cab, pulled wide the throttle and sped out of the yard of the Huutsville Penitentiary, amid a shower of bullets from the wardens. The convicts aban doned the engine after a wild dash of Ave miles, and were caught hiding tn a thicket. One of the men was shot through the lungs, and his companion would not desert hint. DIES AT ENTERTAINMENT. "Ave Maria" Being Sum?'* When Woman in Audience Swooned. New York City.? At on entertainment In Arlon Hull, Brooklyn. Mrs. Eliza Alster, a widow, ""df Held avenue, Brooklyn, swooned and died shortly nfterwnrd In th? d>'Pssl,ig room. Mrs. Alster was1 setting in the third row from the staj;e. J It was whilw the Bremervonler Mnenilerchor was sink ing tho "Ave Maria" that she col lapsed. * THIRTY SAVED FROM ICEBOAT. Vessel Had Cone to Delaware Break water to Clear the Passage. Lewes, Del.? Thirty men narrowly escaped drowning at the Delaware Breakwater, and, after being rescued l?y tugs, they were forced to walk to shore over the lee floes. The men were Captain Jacobs and twenty-nine men, of the Philadelphia City ieelioat No. :t, which came from Philadelphia to make" a channel for vessels Icebound at the Breakwater. FRENCH STEAMSHIP WRECKED. Alexandre Bixio, From Colon For . _ ^ Havre, Lost Near Nantes. Paris, France.? The Compagnie Gen erale Transatlantique steamship, the Alexandre Blxlo. Captain PI ton, from Colon and West Indian ports for Havre, has been totally wrecked near Nantes. There were no casualties. State Forest Report Out. The report of D. C. Mlddlcton, State Forest, Fish and Game Commissioner, was made public at Albany. N. Y. GENERAL MATSUMURA DEAD. Jap Commander at 208 Metre Hill Suc cumbs at the Front. Toklo, Japan.? General Matsumura, -who commanded the Japanese, opera* i tlons at 203 Metre Hill, and who was appointed to the command of a dlvlslou in recognition of Ills services In that engagement, has died at the front from congestion of the brain. "Pittsburg Phil" Interred. ? Tlltabwg PhlV^tbe" notations gata Mw. wiHtMIt Alkrtw. J?. BATE BILL 111 BE PASSED Republican Conference Decides to iPush Railroad Legislation! MADE A PARTY MEASURE ('?iiililrHit A Victory t"'or )toui?? Tout Vote Stood 107 to 44 ? Itvaolut'mi A<lo)itfil Instructing the (.'nntmltteo on Itulri to I'rovld* Kur a Vote o(l tlw inn. r ?** * " Washington, IV t\ Tlu> Republican members of the House of Kepresenta tlves decided In conference to pass a railway rale regulation hill. No partic* ular liill was indorsed, but it is proba ble that tlu> measure Introduced by Hepi'ofteii tu live I'ownseHd-, a new mem hoi' from Michigan, which gives the Interstate* Commerce ( 'oininission the right to tlx rates ami wen ton a , court tif transportation to pass upon appeals from the commission's rulings, whleh i received the vole of the majority; wi!! | he adopted. II nyny he amended, as | forty or fifty Republican members who lire unwilling to he houml hy the action i of the conference, do not like the Townseml hill as it stands. The Penn sylvania Rc|mbHcans are nil opposed to it. They decided to voir- against P.. The Republican conference was h.id In the hall of the House and was ;>~cll httended. The Pennsylvania delega tion made an effort to secure adjourn ment so as to allow tpore time /or considering the subject. That propo sition was voted down, 107 to 11. When that vote was taken several members of the Pennsylvania delega tion quit the meeting, but all except Mr. Mahon returned. The l'ennsy Iviinians roi'ced a declara- \ lion front t'hairinan llepburii of the Interstate and i'oreign Commerce Com Inlttee that the meeting \Viis hot a caucus, but li conference, and for that Veason tlie approvul of the program by it does not bind any one. The aellon was merely advisory, Mr. Hepburn held. Had the meeting been called a caucus, the Pennsyl vaniaus would have bolted. The action taken hy ihe conference is regarded as a victory for President Roosevelt. His supporters had the votes to turn the so-called conference into a caucus, thus making its action binding, ''but they did not choose to use their power. Tliey believe that they will be tiblfl to pass the Hill with out the assistance of the Republicans who are objecting so vehemently. They hope, however, that the objectors will not become bolters on the linn I vote. .0 Atchison Found Guilty. Washington, I>. C.? "Flagrant, wilful Ami continuous violations" of tlirt law during the past five ; oars is the way In which 1 ho Atchison, Topokn and Santa Fe Railroad Is arraigned In n de cision promulgated by the Interstate Commerce Commission ou "the alleged ?.inlawfnl- rater/ and practices" of that road In the transportation of coal mine supplies, Involving also the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. The main points of the deelslon. summarizing the way In which It is alleged the law has been violated and disregarded, are as follows: "The act to regulate commerce re quire* carriers to publish and acUiere to their tariffs. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Hallway Company has for the last five years wilfully and continuously violated the provisions of this law In the ??espects above stated. "February 11), 1901$, tho so-called 'El kins bill' was enncted, providing that carriers should in no case transport traffic until a tariff had been published, and that the published tariff should be observed, and providing a penalty of not less thanf/$1000 nor more than $20, ?00 for eacl\?offense. x "The provisions of this statute ex tend both to the railway company which erants and the party which re ceives the concession. Both tho Santa Fe and the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company systematically and contlnu- i ously violated flip provisions of that act in the particulars mentioned from the day of its passing down to Novem ber 27, 1004, when the tariffs under which this coal moved were reduced in all cases $1.15." BRYAN GIVES $2300. Helps to Raise $20,000 For Illinois Col lege, of Which lie is n Trustee. Jacksonville. III.? Illinois College is now richer by $20,000 as a result of the visit of \V. J. Bryan. Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Mr. Bryan took tho initiative at a meeting of the board In raising funds for tho college and headed a subscription list with $2500. John A. Ayers. William Brown, Julius E. Strawn, M. F. Dunlap. Andrew Rus sel, Judge Owen P. Thompson, Thomas Worthington. Judge Charles A. Barnes and other members of the board fol lowed the example of Mr. Bryan with subscriptions of varying amounts, and when the board adjourned additional funds I o the sum of $20,000 were an nounced. * . ? NEW MITCHELL INDICTMENTS. Six Charges of Bribery in Connection With Land Frauds. Portland. Ore.? The Federal Grand Jury indicted United States Senator John H. Mitchell for bribery on t>ix counts/ 111 connection with the land frauds investigation. ' State Senator George C. Brownell was indicted at the same time on four charges of subornation of perjury. Report From Jap Surgeons. Reports of aurgeons of General Oku's army ahaw that since the beginning of the Campaign about ftOOO men were killed and 30,000 wounded, of whom sixteen per cent, bare ~dted.~ There were only forty death* from alckncu. Cardinal Dertfes Charge*. Cardinal Gibbous denied Senator Bard's charge that the Catholic Church had attempted to Influence his condnct retarding distribution or fundi .Tor la dim ?CfcOOl#. FOUNDSLAIN IN HIS SLEIGH lieoige Williams, of Watch ung-, N. J, Murdered in a Lonely Spot, tlfrtl'lfo IV. Wood; tiuppmed to H? Siiftet. Int From A |> litt ??! n, Arrmtcil Far til inn In N?vt V?nk? New York City.? Telling a <1 i i ? t ???1 Story with li i h mustache removed, tioorge If. Wood, who is wanted In connection with tin1 murder <?f George William*, a gioeor, at W.-.b'hunu. N. J., was locked ii |> in Headquar ters. Wood scorned to he mentally d Is* ordered, and 1 >i*. George M. Mali, a ft or a i > examination, said ho was not umlop tho influence' of drug?, hut was appnr* L* 1 1 1 1 v mflVring from aphakia. Tlio Detective lturcaii railed up Chief of I'olieo lvioly, of I'laintiold, N. .1., who road off a description of the al leged murderer <if Williams. It tallied with the description of Wood except at to age. Wood says ho i? twenty-six years old, hut tho man who saw tlir supposed nii'^'loror of Williams thought (he man was thirty five years old. Tho murderer was described as bavin# a mustache. Wood was clean Phavoih hut ho said ho removed his mustache on tho day of the murder. Plainllold, N, ,1. ? Sitti'v.' ,w>lt upright in his sleigh, dead, with a hullet in ii is hack, showing ho had heon murdered h.v a coward who had tired at him from behind, Georgo Williams, of Watch nog, thirty-two years old, was found at noon on the road to Millington. "Killed hy a highwayman for ids money," was the first Judgment, for Williams, who was a prosperous ;to eer, had hooti known to carry goodly Mini.*. Hut that simple explanation failed and mystery shrouded tho east! tvli^li search of his pockets revealed inls Cash and piiperS untouched. About Id o'clock a. m. a stranger a lighted from a IMaintield trolley ear near tho Washlngtonvllle Hotel ami i lit HI i rod at that plaeo where he could get somebody to drive him to a Mr. I'ollOek's house on the road to Milling ton. lie was directed to George I temb lor,, in Watchung. but Dcmbler was not at homo. (Jeorgo Williams consent ed to drive the stranger to his destina tion. .The two started off togclhel' in a sleigh. That was tho last seen of Williams alive. At nooil Eugene I'opo, passing along the t'oad, came upon tho sleigh and its ghastly freight. The spot where the crime was committed Is snr? rounded on either side by a dense wood. I'ope rushed ,ty John Miller's farm house near by aiWl gave nn alarm. An examination of Williams' pockets showed a wallet containing chocks on I'lainlield banks and a poeketbook with a large sum of monvy. Williams con ducted a large bakery in Brooklyn un til two years ago, when he removed to Watchung and opened a grocery storo. NEW YOItlv CO HON Ell GUILTY. Jury Convicts Dr. Jackson of Demand* ^ ing a Bribe From Lawyer. ? New York City.? Coroner Moses 3. Jackson was found guilty by the Jury that has been trying him for soliciting a bribe to secure the abortion of a Uom icide ense. The jury recommended mercy. The crime of which he l&convlctcd is punishable by a maximum of ten year* imprisonment ami $5000 tine. His con viction will vacate his office and lis qualify him forever from office hold ing in this State unless the judgment Is reversed. The Governor appoints ids successor to serve until the cud of the year. Dr. Jackson was convicted on tho charge of soliciting a bribe of $.r>0U from Benjamin Boas* to clear "Dr." John W. Alexander, who was arrested on the charge of having caused the death of a woman by a criminal opera tion. Jackson was sent to the Tombg to await sentence. MRS. ROC.fcRS OETS REPRIEVE. Vermont Sheriff Feared Dtlay Until Hour For Execution. Windsor, Vt.? The messenger bear ing the reprieve of Mary M. Rogers, (he convicted Bennington murderess, to June 2, front Oovernor Hell to Sheriff II. II. Peek, dhl not arrive until the morning of the day set for the hang ing. His coming ended the anxiety of the Sheriff that the reprieve might not reach him before li o'clock p. m., which had been the time set for the execution. The death warrant was read to Mrs. Rogers, according to law, and was fol lowed by the reading of the reprieve. For the first time the prisoner showed emotion. Tears ran down her cheeks, and she was unable to speak. SUBMARINE BOAT'S RECORD. The Simon Lake Steams at Six Knots When Submerged. Newport News. Va.? ' The Lake sub marine bout Simon Lake X., in her dual test in James River, made a record for submergence. She tilled her superstructure in nine and one-half minutes, the previous record, made by a French type, being fifteen minutes. She was then submerged to a depth of thirty-eight feet and rose to the sur face again in thirty seconds. I The ves sel's speed was nine and one-half knots on the surface, eight and one-half with decks awash, and six knots when sub merged. ? Commander Land. of ilie Ar gentine Republic >\a>:': C?pt. Dechalr, of the British Navjr, and two other for eign officers were aboard during the tests. The boat has been stJld to a foreign government and will soon bo dis mantled and shipped. Strike Oil Near Shreveport. Crude petroleum has been found In paying quantities attSddo City, a few miles from Shrevuport, I>a. Last July a company of Shreveport men began drilling. They kept working against obstacles, until last week, when oH in vast quantity was discovered. The best quality of gas was found as well. Hungarian Cabinet Resigns. Premier Tlstn presented the resigns ttofl.of llic Hungarian Cabinet to Ult Emperor. WASHINGTON. ' 'J he House ( 'oiuinit lee on tin' .1 ml UN I wry by a vote of eight to ll v?* ordered | a la volatile report on the Clayton hill j repealing the ltuukrupuy law. A ml- i nority report will be made lo tins House Ity Mr, I'dwci.v of Massjichu Si- lis. Senator Plait's hill relieving auto- i mobile owners of the necessity of draw iii); gasolejio I ?t*l ?????* itoarding fcr- ) ry boats | mi ssed ili?' Senate. Display of fiiivc, it is feared in Wash- | Ington, may In- the only moans of bring- I ing the Venezuela!! Government to lis ten to claims of American citizens. Tlir State Depart nieiit lias amended t lie protocol umler which it is pro posed to administer liscal affairs in Santo Domingo. Speaker Cannon declined to attend President Koosevelt' dinner to the Supreme Court .Indices because lie was unwilling to concede social prece dence to t lie .1 nst ices. The President asked Congress to pro vide for the collection of divorce sta- j tistio. President lloosevelt and members of tli?' Cabinet madn gifts to the Hanna memorial fund. o( it A i it i j * r k I i INI, A X t is, Tlie production of rubber bus proved commcivhilly successful in Hawaii. Fifteen American warships sailed from Luzon, 1' I . soiitliward lo main tain neutrality in the archipelago. General Co'.bin. comma uding the Philippine Division. announces the death from acute septicaemia at Camp r.umpus of First Lieutenant Morton L. Avery. 1 'hilippine Scouts, who was wounded in action at Dolores Itiver, on January I". A force of constabulary commanded by Lieutenant Mulder lias killed live sub leaders of the ladrones in the Isl am! of Negros k i i d tie headed Papa Jsio, their leader. Papa lslo was called the scourge of the island. Foi' ten years lie was engaged in pillaging haciendas ami kidnaping farmers for ransom. A reward of $2<M)0 was on his heat*.. Montalon, the La drone leader, has hamstrung a liatangas native who had shown himself friendly to Americans: the man's lips were also cut off. Governor La mot lie, <>i the French Protectorate of Cambodia, was In Ma nila. officially Investigating the Orien tal colonies, lie savs that Americans arc* pursuing a new theory with ex traordinary liberality. The boldest plans are energetically executed. Re markable activity characterizes our public works. The universal extension of (lie school system at enormous ex Dense is, perhaps, premature, lie says. However, more has been accomplished in the Philippines in live \ ears than in twenty years in any of the other Orien tal colonies. lie consid?rs that the Philippines have a brighter future than Java, which is more successful from an administration standpoint, but does not -otPYate the natives. DOMESTIC. More tlinn n million fish ojSfgs and a large conslgnmont'oC game for brood ing purposes! will be rent to New Zen land. Ten oik. given 1>y President Roosevelt, aro among the animals. Caught robbing the Brooklyn Navy Yard. James Sebrey was shot and in stantly killed by Private L. T. Milton,^ a sentry. : ? Arrest od for arson, sixteen-year-old Raymond Bowman confessed setting lire to eight jilaeos nt Charleston, S. C. "Within ninety minutes an issue of fJTH.OOO.OOO four per ?ent. refunding bonds of the Southern Pacific Railroad were sold in New York City. * New York's grain export trade is threatened by rate war between Gulf and Atlantic ports. Mrs. Flower, of Pittsburg, Pa., daughter of Charles Lock hart, is ready ' to go Into court and contest the will of her father, which disposes of an e*Uto of $150,000,000. The farmers of South Carolina are up, in arms against the "fertilizer tvu^t." the Virginia-Carolina Chemical n Company. Some of the legislator* would have the State establish a plant to manufacture fertilizers from the phosphate rock owned by the State. Fifty feet of five-inch iron pipe fell through a skylight into the otllce of the manager of the Hotel Manhattan, New York City. No one was Injured. New York City advertised for bids for a municipal lighting plant. Leader Williams again was defeated as a champion of General Miles, for ty-three Democrats voting against liim. President Newman, of the New York Central, was eicctnd President of the "Big Four" and Michigan Central Bail way Companies, in pursuance of a plan for the consolidation of the Yaudcrbilt system. Some Investors In the $5, 000.000 La due Gold Mining Company, of Yukon, ! which proved a bubble, talked of suing Senator Dcpew and others of the orig inal directors. FOREIGN. Arbitrators in the suit of the Bold Company against the Newfoundland Government granted an award of over $1,500,000 to the company for the loss of telegraph rights. Prince Ghica, of Hontnania, who has been chosen chief of the Albanian committees, announced that his elec tion marked -lt^e beginning of a revo lution to free th?'e?uujry. The agitation in Pola*Tf<lj increas ing. strikes having closed tufr'-coal mines and sugar factories: troops tired on a mob nt Lodz, killing six persons and wounding forty-eight, according to a dispatch fi'ou.i that city. Americans ac<l fciifcllshniea in Mos cow *ent their families out of Russia, t fearing an impending revolutionary storm. Kut^mtkin returned the offensive after three days' rest. ? Grippe:>h5rrg "hsked the-Ciwr t\ retim bim>?C<<nmioatid <H the sooond at my 4u - Manchuria. / The Chilean legation at Paris llenles that ll has eede>\ I4n*terl?tfnd to Kngland or that niwtt -"Britain ha* bought Ualapagos Islands, Panama Ja itrlclljr fibl?ninf.Uie J?.tr tal treaty _ ? 1 won H \rfany N?w?y 'tenia Gathered From j RlJSSiail OCfiCOT Falls ViClilll 10 Allgry^ all Sections. \ Populace General Cotton Market. Middling. Oalvoflion, firm 7 3-lti New Orleans. li t*nt 7 l-l?i Mobile, (Inn 7.00 Savannah, quiet 7.00 Charleston, steady 7 00 Wilmington, steady Norfolk, steady 7 V* Baltimore. nominal 7Vi Now York, quiet 7.15 Boston, quiet 7.15 Philadelphia, steady 7.70 Houston, steady 7 3-lt> Augusta, steady 7 3-16 Memphis, firm j 7V{? St. Louis, firm 7'k Louisville, firm 7% No Compulsory Education. The house by a decisis e vote killed tho compulsory education bill. While hours have been spoilt in debate on other matters of far loss serious Im port, the members of thej^onae seemed unwilling to discuss this measure, in iess than an hour it was numbered Among the good which lie burled In the archives of the house. Those who voted in favor of striking out the ri! actiug clause and thus to kill the bill ? were: Speaker ^nith and Itepfosen tatives Ardrofl Ashley, Maker, Balloil tlne, Banks, Bonmsuard, Bradham, Brant, Brantley, Browning, Callisou, Clifton, Cloy, Colcock, Cot bran, Do:ir, Hukes, Karhardt, Opting, L. B. Ftlie redge, K. ,|. lCthoredge, Faust, l-'ord, Foster, Frasyr, Cause, Graham, 1). I* Green, Hamlin, Harrison. .^Jlpxley, Houiphlll, 13. Herbert. Higgles, Kir ven, La Fit to, Lnney. r*rtwson, 1, ester, Lomax, McCants, Maesey, Miller, Mor rison, Name, Parker, Prince, Pyatt, UawIlnfiOii, Richardson, Seabrook, Shel don, Stoll, Strong, 'fribble, Veriier, J. J. Watson. Webb, Whatley ami Wliu berly. Those who favored the bill and voted nay on tho motion were: Messrs. Arnold, Pass, Price, Pruce, Culler, Davis, Headlamps, DeVore, Fdwnrds, Frost, Gaston, J. P. Gibson; W. J. Gib son, Gray, W\ McD. Green, Gyles, Hall, D. 0. Herbert, Hoy ward. Hut to, Keenan, Kirby, Little, Lvon, MeColl, MeFaddin, McMastej*. I/iban Mauldln, T. J. Mauldln, Moses, Nicholson, Ott.s, Patterson, ritUuan, pollock. Poston. Ulley, Sanders, Seller^' Slnkler, Splvey, Taylor, Toole, Turner, M. W. Walker, J. M. Walker, and Yeldell. Killing Near Honea Path. Greenville, Special. ? Sheriff Gllreath was notified that a man had killed his wife in the Princeton neighborhood during Thursday night. Ho at onco dispatched Deputy Sheriff Ballenger to the scene of the crime. The murder occurred pbout one-half mile from Princeton and nine and a half mlleB from Momea Path. Dennis Wood, a white man, tenant on a farm( killed his wife, who was said to have been half-witted. It la said that Wood heat her first and then shot- her, tho wo man only living a few minutes. The couple have four or five children. The tragedy oceurrcd at 4 o'clock. The man was arrested and Is now in tho Greenvlllo county jail. Burned to Death, Aiken, Special.? A telegram was re ceived here stating that Mr. Ooorge P. Ashley was burned to death In the office car attached to the railroad cftmp of W. J. Olliver & Co. at Wyckliffe, Tenn., at 2.30 o'clock Thursday morning. Mr. Ashley is an Aiken boy, about 27 years of age, a son of Mrs. 9. J. Ashley and a brother of Miss Annabelle Ashley and Mr. Charles Ashley, now a studont at South Carolina college. Mr. George Ashley had been In the employ of W. J. Oliver & Co., and had workod his way up to a responsible position with that lar^e firm of railroad contractors. No further particulars of the tragedy were given in the telegram. Will Rebuild Mill. nennettsville, Special.? The manage ment of the Southern Cotton OH com pany say that tho mill here, which was burned last Wednesday, will be rebuilt at once. They say that Marl boro Is one of their best counties, both for buying seed and selling meal and other fertilizers, and they cannot af ford for a single season to pass with out a plant In operation here. The new building and equipment will prob ably bo much larger and more modern than the old one. South Carolina Items. At the next term of tho court of general sessions of Horry county, which convenes on Monday, William T? Bell will i>e tried for tho murder of Mollle C. Bell on Tuesday, November 1, last year, in Bayhoro township, near Zoan Dostoffice. George C. Bell, Julius Wa terman Bell. C. B. Van Bullock and James M. Bell will be tried at the same time as accessories to the crime. Wil liam T and George C.. Bell are In the county Jail. William is held with out boil and George's bail was fixed at $3,000 and he was unable to get bonds men. Julius Waterman and James M. Bell are out on bail in the sum of $1,000 each. C. B. Van Bullock is also out on $500 b^nd. Dougan A Scheftall and Soloipos Scheftall, wholesale merchants of Sa vannah, have pur phased I ba White 8tone Lit hla Springs property and will at once begin Improvements and v In* novations looking inward the establish ing of a modern tourist hotel In Spar tanburg county. It la understood that the conal deration was $150,00. / ^ if ta probable that J. & McDonald of Wlnnsbofo will be appointed to ae< as special judge to preside over the rmr*Ur tmrm fflMrt Tfctft) begins la the city aext Mch? day. 110 WAS A FINNISH PROCURATOR A Prominent Member of the Govorn merit Party f-alls Beforevthe Bullet* of a Caller at His Residence in Heitflnfors ? Deceascd"s Son Shoots Down Assassin, Who Now Lies ? Guarded in a Hospital. llelslngfors, Wy Cable. ? - Soisolon Soininen, Procurator General of Fin land, who, before be was ennobled, wan Known by (he name of Johnson, was assassinated Monday by a young man, whoso identity up to the present timo has not b<?eii determined. Hoiniuen's son was also wounded. The motive of the crime apparently wan puroly political. (he slain oflleial being a prominent member of the government parly. The murderer appeared at the Pro curator's residence at 11 o'clock Mon* ? day and sent in a card bearing the name of Alexandre Gadde, who la in the Russian service. The young man, who was smurtly drosscl in an officer's uniform, was promptly admitted to the officials private study, ami on his on* trance fired four shuts from a revolver, one of the shots piercing the breast of the Procurator, who expired almost im* ' mediately. Ills >>011, hearing the shots, rushed in from an adjoining room ami fired three or four shots at ill# father's' assailant, whopo right leg was broken below t'ie knee by a bu'Jlet. He wan also slightly wounded in the shoulder, and a finger of his left haudk was struck. Tho assassin fired tho 0110 bullet remaining iu Ills revolver at Kolnlncn's son, wounding him slightly In tho calf of tho right leg. He then endeavored to escape, but fell uncon scious to the floor In the ante-rbom. There ho was seized. Dr. Wasnstjerna tvus called immediately, but found tho Procurator beyond need of his services. Tho assassin was removed to the sur* ? glcal iiospltiil, where he lies guarded ?? by police, answering no questions, and evidently unconscious, ills recovery, however, is thought to he certain. l.'p to the present, the authorities have been unable to identify him. Ho" Is of dark complexion, and apparently between 25 and years old. Cannot Walt. v: ... St. Petersburg, IJy Cable. ? Tho dock yard authorities at crnnstgar am com~ pleting tho preparations for active ?' service of tho battleship Alexander II., the cruisers I'amyat Azova and Admlr* al Kornlloff and i|ie g^i n boat .z Ores* jastchy, which, with tho new battle* ship Slava, will form tho second dJr! . vision of tho third Russian squadron. These re-en for cements are expected to sail at the end hi next May. The Admiralty, confirms the state? ment that- the first division of this squadron will lejfve Ilbau Ift the mid dle of February,/ but It is pointed out that Admiral /Rojestvensky will be unable to awpft Its arrival, because he will have ttf cross the Inftfen Ocean before the monsoon season, which be gins In March, and renders nav)?atlon impossible for^rpedo boater small cruisers and coast-defeaaer vessels. Admiral Rojestvensky will proceed W the far East at the end of February, after the arrival of Rear Admiral trovsky's division. Kuropatkin Has Not Resigned. 4 St. Petersburg, By Cable.? The an' ? l ?? - a*. "fivymVMIi 49 HUlMUi MMMI-ilMlV UMV " slightest information has been re? eelved at the War Office regarding the alleged illness or resignation of Gen oral Kuropatkih. On tho contrary, the War Office's Information indicates no change whatever In the headquarter'* staff in Manchuria and that the de? ~ parturo of General Gripenberg for St? Petersburg is due to illness. The version of the departure of Gen. eral Gripenberg now given in the best informed official circles is that the general left the front because he ex? ceedcd General Kuropatkln's orders in pushing beyond Sandopas, and need* lessly sacrificing thousands of men'. This led Kuropatkin to demand Grip* enberg's recall. Gets Federal Office. Washington, Special. President RoohovcU Intends to give Gonoral Thomas L. Itosser, of Virginia, a Pod oral appointment, probably the post mastership at Charlottesville or tho Internal rovonUO eollertorship at Richmond. Rosser was tho youngest __ hrigadlor general in the service of the Confederacy and served also as a vol? untee?* officer In the Spanish AmorlcAu. i war. /, Chinese Placing Revolt. Pekin, By Cablo. ? Advices received ' here from several of the provinces are to the effect that the Chinese reform association is rapidly, completing plans for a revolution against the presen t em pross of China during the celebration ' of the Chinese new year which occur* this month. As an Insult to the oni:.. press the members have been ordered to cut off their $ues. The plan .is to placo tho younff emperor, tittle Juoof Suey, on tho throne. In the mean time, precautionary measures are bd Ing taken by the government, although . it Is Copied that there la auy ^no*t ?vf ot a contemplated Is auy kne 1 upria^fc. Live l|em? of New* Prince Sviatopolk Mir sky. Ru Minister of the Interior, retired. to sttMrf the HMMfttl e Sr. v.'. ~ 7 1 -a ~ oroacar. 1 'St.' Aefu Ttm wrtgned an Pi Hungary and Count Jnlfaa J to lO^a^ be hU ?ii<*esadt. WUcWd CreWfc]