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* VOL. I. NO. 33. CAMDEN, S. C.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER J5,1904. SI .50 PER YEAR. KUROPATKIN IN IOKDEH St htoslMi Ukva It bfeUager hlnger Fru Ur+L WILL KEEP TOWAKB TIE MOVII. TW Baft af tfca NmMh Amy b lifMM to Ba Itoar MaMca ui tb? BauM* Has Alttdy Paaac* Thraagb? Aaxktjr ?! Kas ?toa Officials Ji?aa? Still At tacklsf Part Arthar. St. Petersburg (By Cable).?The general staff is not displaying great anxiety over the alarmist reports that General Kuropatkin is in serious dan ger of being cut off. The members also decline to say, even if they know, whether General Kuropatkin purposes taking his army north of Mukden. An officer of the general staff said: "I believe it is safe to say that Gen eral Kuropatkin's army is now out of danger. Our advices since Monday in dicate that the fighting is of an insig nificant character, and 1 do not be lieve that the tired Japanese troops are capable of seriously threatening the line of retreat. The greatest diffi culty our army is now having to con tend with is the terrible roads, owing 'to the recent rain. "Oilr information is that the bulk of the baggage has already passed through Mukden. This is the usual procedure in the case of any retreat." Kuropatkin's movements, after all, must depend chiefly on the tactics of the Japanese, with whom lies the ini tiative. If the Japanese continue to press north in the hope of cutting off the Russians and bringing them to bay, then Kuropatkin will be obliged to move north to circumvent them. But both armies already arc terribly axhaustcd, and if they again come into contact the result will depend largely upon which of them is able to throw the mo.st fresh reserves into the fight. If there is a race northward, it is ap parent that the greatest danger will conic at the narrow define of Tiehling, north of Mukden, but the authorities seem fairly well satisfied with the situation and are confident of its ulti mate outcome. Generals Kuroki and Kuropatkin have been inarching northward along parallel lines, both armies being great ly hampered by heavy roads, the Jap anese in a rough region and the Rus sians along a flat country, but em barrassed by the high Chinese corn, which prevented marching on the side of the main roads. No difficulty is be ing experienced at the Hun River, a few miles south of Mukden,, -whtrt bridges had been provided Jor cross 1 ing the stream. ' There has been constant fighting at the Russian rear and along the east ern wing, but so far as known by the War Office nothing of importance has occurred since the retreat began. The general staff naturally is reti cent about Kuropatkin's plans, espe cially whether he intends t?> stop at Mukden. His decision probably will depend upon the intentions of the Jap depend upon the intentions of the Japanese. Contingent preparations will probably be made to evacuate Mukden, and there is considerable evi dence that Kuropatkin, if compelled to go north, will make a stand at Tie ling, where the Russians wintered last year. Tiding is 40 miles north of Mukden. At this point there is a nar row defile, with the Liao River 011 one side the mountains running al most down to the railroad 011 the other. Steps are being taken to guard against a possible attempt to cut the line there. Another Blf Baltic. Paris (By Cable).?The St. Peters burg correspondent of the Echo vie Paris says: "A great battle is going on before Mukden. The First and Seventeenth Corps arc engaged against General Kuroki. "General Kuropatkin, with the bulk of his troops, is moving towards Tie ling." London (By Cable).?The Daily Telegraph's Seoul correspondent says there is an unconfirmed report there that the Japanese have landed several fresh divisions of troops in the vicinity of Possiet Bay, cutting off the re treat of the Russians in Northeastern Korea. HarataH By the Japs. Mukden (By Cable).?Part of the Russian army which is coming tq Mukden by wagon road is in danger of being cut off. All dny and night Monday the Japanese in the hills on the east road shell jd the Russian troops. In one instance the Japanese infantry attacked a large force of Rus sian infantry and artillery which had taken to the hills, running parallel *.o the Japanese, in protecting the flank of the retreating army. Troops, guns and transport are pour ing into Mukden by train and road. Considerable transport was left be hind. The main Russian army, pushing northward, is evacuating Mukden. New Mtat Opeaed. Denver. Col. (Special).?The new United States mint in this city was opened with a presidential salute of at guns and raising of the American flag over the building by George E. Roberts, director of the mint. The mint will not begin coinage until July I, 1905, as no appropriation has been made by Congress as yet to cover the cost of coinage. Thieve* Loot a Pettolllce. Charlotte, N.' C. (Special).?Burg lars made a raid on Yadkinville, Yad kin county. They blew open the safe of County Treasurer J. A. Logan in his store and secured between $S,ooo and $to,000. The safe in the postofficc was also blown open. Postmaster Mackic reports that over $410 was stolen. The burglars secured tools from a blacksmith shop in the town. County Treasurer Logan offers a re ward of $2,000 for the capture of the burglar)* and money. REVS IK SBHT MML It was staled that Assistant United States Treasurer Hamilton Fish had been agreed upon as Republican nom inee for goviruor of New York. General Manager Jenks, of the Car negie Steel Company, at Youngstown, O., has declined to have another con ference on the wage scale. Charles F. Ehrenfort, proprietor of the Mineral Springs Hotel, at Willow Grove, .reported that his place had been robbed of $2,000 cash. Six masked robbers looted the safe of the Lehigh Valley Traction Com pany at Souderton, Pa., of $700, the Labor Day receipts. A chemical laboratory was opened in New York by the Department of Agriculture for the examination of im ported foodstuffs. Th Cuban Senate has ratified the treaty of extradition recently con cluded between the United States and Cuba. The State Department at Washing ton has been officially notified of the conclusion of the Japan-Korean treaty. The annual convention of the News dealers, Booksellers and Stationers' Association was begun in St. Louis. Fire threatened to wipe out a sec tion of Woodsidc, a suburban town on Long Island. President Gompcrs, of the American Federation of Labor, has refused to call a meeting of the National Execu tive Council to recommend general sympathetic action of unionists in sup port of packing-house strike. The Northern Securities Company filed in Trenton, N. J., an answer to the suit of the Harrimans to restrain the company from carrying out its proposed plan of distribution of its assets. The Superior Court in Chicago de cided that operators who formed corner in wheat, oats or other com-1 modities cannot enforce payment against those caught in the squeeze. Judge Joseph Sheldon, of New Haven, Ct., was selected as the canJi | date of the People's Party for gov ernor of Connecticut by the state exec utive committee. Engineer Johnson and Conductor Ir win were held responsible by the cor oner's jury for the train wreck at Tin taluta, N. W. T. The New York Police Commission er has asked for $13,328,129 for the support ot the New York police force in 1905. ,.S The Johnson-Dunbar Mills Com pany, of North Adams, Mass., manu facturers of eotton goods, has made., an assignment. A Wabash train ran into a street car at a crossing in St. Louis, killing 7 persons and injuring 25, several fa tally. Will Bruner and Joseph N. Trahan, farmers, were killed near Rayne, La., by Homer Mechc, a drunken man. Charles Rothermel and his wife were frightfully slashed in Philadelphia by their maniac son Edward. Mrs. George Packer was murdered in Clarkton, N. C. Her mutilated body was found in the woods. An agreement lias been reached be tween th<: coal-mine operators and the mitieworkers in Montana. Fire in the wholesale district of Memphis, Tenn., destroyed property to the value of $800,000. Plans have been arranged for in structing the primitive Filipinos ^t the World's Fair in English. Clark Caryl Haskins, the electrical inventor and writer, died in Chicago. Fire completely destroyed the ce ment plant of the Struthers Furnace Company, near Youngstown. O. The j loss is placed at $120,000, with $60,000 j insurance. Six persons arc dead and four dan gerously injured as the result of a dwelling-house fire, followed by an oil-tank explosion, at Yellow Creek, O. The Chicopee (Mass.) Manufactur ing Company has shut down its en tire plant until September la on ac count of the state of the cotton busi ness. Former Judge Lyman S. Bur, of New Britain, Ct., was arrested on the charge of embezzling $5,493 from the estate of Timothy W. Loomis. The imperial express on the Cana dian Pacific was wrecked at Sintaluta. N. W. T., and five women passen gers tn the tourist car were killed. Philip Caldwell, elevator conductor, was killed and eight persons were in jured by the falling of a passenger elevator in Chicago. Dr. W. E. Woodcnd, the bankrupt Now York broker, arrested on the charge of grand larceny, was dis charged. Twelve lr-vdred and fifty miners have gone on ^'rikc in the Coal Creek District of T-. :inessce. Canadian authorities seized the American fishing schooner Samosct off North Sydney, C. JL Six Indians of the Turtle Mountain Reservation were killed by drinking wood alcohol. The Chicago and Alton Railroad has passed to the ownership of the Union Pacific. Foreign. The Gazette announced that King Edward liad conferred the chain of the Royal Victorian Order on Em peror Nicholas and Empress Francis* Joseph. The Trades Union Congress in ses sion in Leeds, England, passed a res olution asking for the appointment of a minister of labor, with cabinet rank. The Norwegian relief steamer Vin cola reported at Ilammerflst, Norway, having met the Zicglcr relief steamer Erithjof August J7 It is denied in official circles that an uprising similar to the Hoxcr inove mcnt is imminent in China. In a hot fight between Armenian In surgents and Turkish troops at Van more than a score of persons were killed. MR. 1XUE UNDER ARREST Hast Aaswer to Ckarge of lirieriif Bs Wife. FOUEIIAT0I ?F C1AHLOTTESYILIL Takes tat* CatMjr at the lastsacs af C?a* ?oawealtk's Attoeaey Fraak Oilaer?Affect tag Sceac at His ResMeaco Hfcta He Was Separated Fran His CklMrca?The Accase4 Declares Tkst Hs Has CssiaritteS Na Crtae. Charlottesville, Va. (Spccial).?Ex Mayor J. Samuel McCue was arrested at 5:10 P. M. at his rcsidcnce, on Park street, by Police Officers D. C. Grady and H. N. Eubank. The ar rest was made on a warrant sworn out by Commonwealth's Attorney Frank Gilmer before Acting Police Justice Archie D. Dabncy at 4:50 P. M., who charges Mr. McCue with the murder of his wife, Mrs. Fannie Mc Cue, at her home on the evening of Sunday, September 4. Immediately upon the issue of the warrant Officers Grady and Eubank drove to the McCue residcncc, and, without ceremony, entered the house and proceeded directly to the sitting room, where they found J. Samuel Mc Cue, his brothers, Edward McCue and William McCue, and the children of the man whose name had 'been on every tongue here for three days. Officer Grady, without preliminary statement other than the usual greet ings, produced and read the warrant. When the warrant had been read Mr. McCue said: "By the grace of God T will come out all right. Do your duty, gentle men." The chil.lren had begun crvinir as they realized the situation, and, turn-1 ing to them, the prisoner, himself weeping, said: "Do not be uneasy: I <nm not afraid of the consequences if I get a fair trial. I have committed no crime." The father against whom the awful charge of wife-murder had just been lodged then kissed the children good by. all weeping at the affecting sepa ration. and then turning to the offi cers signified his willingness to ac company them, and with them and his two brothers left the room. The prisoner, the two brothers and A. D. Payne, a liveryman, then got in a vehicle and drove to the jail, two Mocks distant, where the prisoner was locked up. THE ART OF HOUSEKEEPING. Aa laportsat Work lsstltat*4 By the Chicago Board of Etfscstloa. Chicago^CSpeciat).?Perfect house keepers will be graduated from the Chicago public schools soon, if the aims of the Hoard of Education are attained. The expectations of the board mem bers are based on a course of study in cooking and sewing, just completed by R. M. Smith, supervisor of the manual | training and household arts depart ment, after a year's work, and which has been given out to the teachers in the different branches. Conking and physiology will be taught, together by the new system. House sanitation, including the chem istry of housecleaning, also will be taken up. The classes in sewing will he taught how to patch, to make but tonholes. to sew 011 buttons, to darn and to hemstitch. Then they will b? given instruction in cutting and mak ing garments. Finally they will be told how to shop, how to select suita ble material and how to calculate the amounts necessary. Judge Gray Will Accept. Wilmington, Del. (Special).?Judge George Gray announced that he would consent to the request of the concilia tion hoard of the United Mine Work ers Association that he arbitrate the dispute about the check-weighing sys tem in the Pennsylvania anthracite field. As will he remembered. Judge Gray was chairman of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission appointed by President Roosevelt last year to ad just the mining troubles in Pennsyl vania. A Bad Man Hanged. Clearfield, Pa. (Special).?Henry C. Fitch, colored, was hanged here for the murder of John Williamson on September 29, iqoj. Pitch attempted to rob Williamson, who resisted, and was shot to death. Recently Pitch made a confession in which he claimed to have killed a negro at Red Star, W. Va.; shot a man at East Liverpool, O., and murderously assaulted another at Coraopolis, Pa. Child Accoaea Stepfather. Mahony City, Pa. (Special).?After a coroner's jury had decided that An thony Gerlaitis had been killed by a Philadelphia and Reading railway pas senger train, it-year-old Katie Miller came forward with a statement that he was murdered and his body placed alongside of the railroad track. She implicates her stepfather, Joseph Zu klewicr., and John Accpawich. Both men have been placed under arrest. Shot His Wile and Himself. Now York (Special). ? George Schmidt, a carpenter, in a fit of jeal ousy shot his wife three times in the body. Believing he had killed the woman, Schmidt shot himself in the left breast. Both are itv the hospital in a critical condition. . ? Blew Up His Own Mill Meridian, Miss. (Special). ? Moses Graham, owner of the Ilighwood lum ber mill,. i'i Jones county, deliberately dynamited and wrecked the machinery of his mill rather than accede to the demands of about 100 empires for higher wage*. The mill had been shut down for two months on account of the strike. The ftrikers lived on Graham's land, and when ordered off camped in tents on his border await ing flu- optnivg of the acason. IlIST DELIVER SOLDIERS tegiUrs to Testify it Atkeas Shwtiag IBrty. TIE WITNESSES SEEK A TKAMSFOL OatCMM ml tkt Attack By a My ?! Ret alar Hi Win u4 UpM a MIMtU PravMl Oaari at Atkeas. OHt, Rtccatty, Attested By the KUUef a( Oae at tke Qaari Washington, D. C. (Special).?As an outcome of the attack by a body of regular soldiers and militiamen upon a militia provost guard at Ath ens Ohio, recently, attended by the killing of one of the guard, the fol-1 lowing telegram was received from the Governor of Ohio: Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 6, 1904. Hon. William H. Taft, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.: The prosecuting attorney ?>f Athens coun ty on the 30th asked for delivery of seven men of Fourteenth Battery Field Artillery, located ?t Fort Sheridan The request has not been granted. I respectfully urge immediate consid eration. We have direct evidence of their comrades implicating these men and they should bp delivered to the civil authorities in the ends of jus tice. Will you not assist? I again request assurance of department of transfer of members of Fourteenth Battery testifying. The men request this for their own protection. There will be but six of ?uch requests. MYRON T. HERRICK, Governor. Acting Secretary Oliver immediate ly replied by telegraph as follows: WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, September 6, 1904. Hon. Myron T. Herrick, Governor of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio: Reference your telegram 6th instant, just re ceived, requesting delivery of the men at Fort Sheridan implicated in the Athens disturbance and the transfer of men testifying, the department re ceived a telegram fr >m commanding general Northern Division 011 August .28, stating that I. M. Foster, prose cuting attorney, asked to be author ized to assure meml>ers Fourteenth Battery Field Artillery that if they give testimony againstguilty comrades they will not have to serve "in that battery again, to wtfich reply was made on August 30 in accordance with recommendation of Judge Advocate General that no such authority or as surance could be givct; that such wit? nesses of said batter\ as tnay be re quired before tourtf oi Ohio be di 'rcct?d <0 pw^etif"thftil^elvrk to prop er authority to "ji've their evidence and that question "t transfer of these men be left for future consideration, according to best interests of the serv ice. On August 30 telegram was re ceived from Mr. Foster giving names of men he desired, and this message was repeated to the commanding gen eral Northern Division on the 31st with directions to take necessary ac tion toward complying with Mr. Fos ter's request. The commanding gen eral Department of the I.akes has to day been directed l?v wire to deliver at Fort Sheridan t!ie additional sol diers desired upon demand of proper authorities, with a view to their ap pearance at preliminary hearing be fore committing magistrate. Depart ment will take pleasure in co-operating with civil authorities in bringing guilty parties to trial. ROBERT SHAW OLIVER. Acting Secretary of War. PANAMA BOUNDARY LINE. Minister Barrett Will Try to Avoid Friction With Colombia. Washington, D. C. (Special).?The State Department is watching with in terest developments on the Isthmus connected with the establishment of the eastern boundary between Panama and Colombia. It seems that while the geographers have drawn an arbitrary line begin ning at Cape Tiburon, on the Gulf of Darien, as a matt?T of fact, no sur vey ever has been made; and whilo the old treaties sp^ke of the bound ary as lying on the watersl\jpd cros?? ing the Isthmus at that point, even the existence of that shed never ha| been determined. There is ample room for controversy between Pan ama and Colombia as to the exact lo cation of this boundary, and report* reaching Washington that one side or the other had invaded the disputed territory have given rise to some ap prehension of serious friction. This was one of the subjects which Sec retary Hay charged Minister Barrett with the attempt to adjust as far as he could by sound advice based upon such inquiry as he could make. It if more difficult to address the Colom bian government, owing to the partial i absence of diplomatic relations with j that country, and the officials here feel that if there should be any genu ine friction, both Panama and Colom bia \Vould be glad to listen to Ameri can advice. Succeeds Von Plehve. St. Petersburg (Special).?Senator Plr.tonoff. a member of the council of the empire, has been appointed min ister of the interior and chief of the Russian police, in succession to the late M. Plehve. FINANCIAL. Bachman is the inside house in Warwick Steel. He has bought the stock this week. Tube manufacturers reduced the price $5 a ton owing to the cut in steel. There is an estimated short inter est of i .000,000 shares of United States Steel. No wonder the stock rises. Uncle Sam's August cotton report makes the condition ^4.1 compared with a ten-year avcragu of 7J.2. BOOB SWEET HOT. A nmwH latOt at Orcca Skoals. Oaaa River. W. Va. Huntingtor^ W. Va. (Special).?As a result of an attempt to collect a long-standing bill by a clerk in a country store at Green Shoals. 20 miles south of here, on the Gban River, two men were killed. One was fatally injured, another serious in jured and two more men who es caped and have disappeared are sup posed to be injured. The fight may result in another bloody feud being added to those already existing in this part of the country. Two brothers of John Lambert, who engaged in the fight, are believed to be wounded, but escaped to the moun tains. The fight started over an attempt of Lambert, who was clerk in a country store at Green Shoals, to coilect a long-standing account against Adams. The men engaged in an argument over the amount several days ago. Adams was with friends at the time, and, after heated words, struck Lambert, who was alone. Lambert did not fight, but Wednesday, while with his two brothers, be came upon Adams in company with George Mead. The fight was renewed upon sight, all the men being heavily armed. The firing opened in the street and the men were almost enveloped in a cloud of smoke. Bruntfield rushed between the factions with his hands uplifted, unarmed and crying, "Stop, boys, stop!" Caught between the crossfire of the two opposing fac tions, lie dropped to the ground dead Adams, just before Brumfield came upon the scene, had been shot to death, four bullets having pierced his body. Mead was lying on the ground with two bullvts in his body and fir ing as he lay on his side. After the death of Brum field the men broke away and all attempted to escape. John Lambert was found ly ing on the mountain side almost sense less by a deputy sheriff and members of a posse and placed under heavy guard. Mead was carried into a near by house and is dying. The two brothers of John Lambert, who are wounded, escaped to the mountains and are being hunted by several posses. There is much talk of lynch ing the Lamberts if they are cap tured. RUSSIA READY TO MAKE CONCESSIONS. Answer to United States and Oreat Britain Concerning Contraband. London (By Cable).?The prelimi- J nary representations made by Count Benkcndorff, the Russian ambassador, to the Foreign Office indicate that Russia is on the point of making sub stantial concessions to the United States and Great Britain regarding the question of contraband of war, as a result of the submission by For eign Minister I.amsdorff of the re port of the general commission to Emperor Nicholas, together with in formation transmitted by Ambassa dor Benkendorff showing the views of the British government. ' The Russian Foreign Minister is ex pected to present to the British gov ernment, through Sir Charles Hard inge, the British ambassador to Rus sia, Thursday the formal reply of the Russian government. It is under stood in official circles here that Rus sia, while not acknowledging herseli at fault for the captures made by bet ships in the past, will in re specifically describe the conditions under which certain goods, such as foodstuffs and cotton, become, in her view, contra band. The British Foreign Office is satis fied from the representations made to it that such substantial concessions will be made by Russia as will lead to an easy settlement of the vexatious question. Stole Labor Day Receipts. Lnnsdalc, Pa. (Special).?Six mark ed robbers visited the Lehigh Valley Traction Company* car barn, at S<>n derton, a few miles above here, and after beating and gagging four em ployes, blew open a safe and escaped with between $700 and $800. the Labor Day receipts of the company. The men were all armed, and when the employes of the company attempted to resist they were assaulted with blackjacks and then bound and gag ged. There were two safes in the office, but otdy one of them was broken open. Told to Stop Raids. St. Petersburg (By Cable).?The foreign office bus been informed that the instructions to the Russian gov ernment not to further interfere with neutral shipping has been communi cated to the volunteer fleet steamer Petersburg in South African waters. There is no news of the Smolensk, which is to receive similar instruc tions. The instructions sent to the steamers are understood to have been delivered through a Russian and not through a foreign agency, and reached them both, it is stated here, at 3 known rendezvous off the African coast. Batted Ball Kills Boy. Chicago (Special).?Wendell Mil ler, 12 years old, son of George M. Miller, president of Ruskin University at Glen Ellyn, 111., was killed hy a batted ball while watching a base ball game. Miller was sitting in the grand stand when the ball struck bin on the temple. He died in three min utes. . , First Alaskan Cablegram. Dallas, Tex. (Special).?Col. W. G llorslay, of Greenville, Tex., received the first cablegram ever sent over the new Aslaska submarine cable which has been laid from Seattle, Washing ton, to Haines, Alaska. Colonel Mors lay's son Herbert, a sergeant in the United States Simml Corps, who ha had charge ?>f the construction of tin cable, alter sending greetings, an nounccd that he would *-twt h'# Texas hoiu* *v November. 14 PERISH IN A FIRE Tie Victims Were Mostly Woae* aid ChOdrea. TENEMENT HOUSE A DEATH TRAP. Tbe Male Occapaata Were the Raaf a ad Leaped ta Neighboring Mouses?'Waaea aad CMMrea Faaad Their Egrcaa Cat OK, Repalriaf Beiag la Pragreaa la the Lowcj Part ol the Haaac^ New York (Special).?Fourteen per sons were killed and nearly a score injured in a fire in a five-story double tenement in Attorney street at an early hour in the morning. It was one of the worst fires in the loss of human lives that has occurred on the East Side in several years, al though the properly loss was slight. The dead include four women, one man and nine children, ranging in age from 3 months to u years. Many of the injured were taken to j hospitals, and it is thought that scv- I eral of these will die. Among the j injured were five firemen, who were on a fourth floor balcony, when it fell j with them. The small number of mcr. among j the killed and injured was due to the I fact that most of the mer who lived in the building, following the Attorney j street custom in hot weather, were asleep on the roof, while but few of j the women and children were there. | Those on the roof were unable to es cape by descending through the burn ing building, and made their way to safety over neighboring roofs. Mean while the members of their families who had remained in their rooms found escape cut off, and panic reigned throughout the structure. The fire started about 3 o'clock in the morning, and there was consid erable delay in sending in an alarm, although the district is one of the most thickly populated in the crowded East Side of New York. When the firemen reached the sccnc ?ome of the tenants were jumping from the windows and from the ends of fire escapes that reached only to the second floor; others were crouch ing in the smoke in the small rooms and narrow halls. Several ambulances were called, and the surgeons were kept busy caring for the injured. A number of daring rescues were made by firemen and police, and the conditions under which *hey worked were unusual and difficult. The loss of life was due chiefly to the fact that alterations were being made in the tenement building. The basement and the first floor, the latter about six feet ?hove the sidewalk level, had both ieen cut through, the front and rear wails having been removed, and the npper floors being supported by steel beams. The exit from the upper floors was by way of a small stepladder. The fire is supposed to have been rattsed by the explosion of a lamp that had been left to light the hall on the second floor and the sleeping tenants were not aroused until the hallway was ablaze and escape through the building cut oflF. The fire was soon extinguished and the search for the dead be^an. Police reserves had been called out. and with difficulty kept back the crowd that had gathered from the densely popu lated neighborhood while the bodies were being brought down to the street. Most of the dead were found on the two upper floors. No Mediation Now. Berlin (By Cable).?The German Foreign Office, taking note of the fresh assertions that the neutral pow ers ar*? comparing views with the ob ject of offering friendly mediation in the war between Russia and Japan, pays that such an idea is absurd at this moment, as the Russian purpose to continue the war ha* been clearly made known. All the governments nnderstood that Great Britain and France, at some time agreed upon, would offer to mediate when both ?eligerents desired it. When that time arrived naturally there was nothing :o preclude other neutral governments from participating. Six Perish In a Fire. Yellow Creek, Ohio (Special).?Six persons were burned to death and sev eral terribly injured by a fire and ga? explosion at this place. The house of Henry S. Fling was ignited by ? ?treet lamp and the intense heat set lire to the rig of a ?as well near the house. The flames destroyed the der rick atid communicated to a tank, which was full of oil. Before the occupants of the house realized their danger a terrific explosion occurred. The blazing oil wr thrown all over ?he house and their cscapc was cut iff. The bodies were recovered after ;hc fire was subdued. Blown Up Ry Mine. Tnkio (By Cable).?Admiral IIoso ya, commanding the third Japanese M|uadron, reports that last Wednes day morning a number of vessels vveighed from Port Arthur and en gaged in clearing away mines. The Japa ?.lesc watched their operations sea ward. At 2:25 P. M. a steamer struck i mine and was blown tip The disas ter occurred one mile below Cheng Mimjshan, and it was plainly visible. The number of lives lost is unknown. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. The War Department has promised to co-operate with Governor Merrick, of Ohio, to punish any regulars who participated in the attack on the guardsmen in Athens, O, American ordnance officers would like mi opportunity to see tT.?? damaged Russian war-hips to compare the effi ciency of thCarnegie and Bethlehem armor-plate*. Plans are b?ing arranged at the Navy Department tor a reorganization I of vb? battleship squadron. WHERE THE ICE CROWS WILD. , I tore the tinted (lories of the flower# m they smile In the sun-defying meadow or the shsdy; forest lisle: And when the killing frost has come I seek them once again. In a snug conservatory 'neath the air-tight window pane. But, dear an are their beauties, I would fain forsake them all When the mercury, once docile, starts to shake itself and crawl. I'd cease mv cold-wave hoping?hoping bul to l?e *>eguiled? And start for old Alaska, where the ic# grows wild. Oh. puny little prism! On my doorstep you repose; Wher" the iceman daily leaves you as along the line he 2oe?. And you seem, when thirst is raging. and I call you to the drouth. Like a snowHake in an oven, as I put you in my mouth. Aad I long to leave tlie flowers and their sweetness to the hoes: To shun the treacherous breezes which go ni siting through the trees; To find the land of plenty, where the cold in chunks is piled. To dwell in old Alaska, where the ice grows wild. ?Washington Star. "So you wont to Dr. Portal's piano recital, oh ? Tell me, what do you think of his execution? r,> be thoroughly frank with you. I think he thoroughly deserved it."-Brooklyn Life. Oh. what .i curious world thi?ei* Alan struts with pride immense. Ho walks like thirty millions when He feels like thirty cents. Cincinnati Connncrcial-Tribuiit. Mrs. Iloupock?"This paper says that married women live longer than siugle ones. Mr. lienpeck?"Heavens, wo man. Cant you think of something pleasant to talk about?"-Ilarper's Ba zar. Tom?"So Miss Turner refused you. eh? I>id she give you any reason for doing ?? .lack?"Yes. indeed: two of them." Tom?"What were theyV" Jack?"Myself and another follow." ? Superior (Wis.) Telegram. "I guess Mr. Olden doesn't feel as young as he did several months a??," remarked the observant man. "Why do you think so?" "He used to joke with that undertaker who lives near him. but he doos-n't do it any more." Is sleeplessness contagious? Wliv Am alv/|ys Jbfo tb catch It: ? Philadelphia Ledger. "Why can't you marry me? it's true. I'm not enormously rich, still I lia\e an income plenty l>ig enough to support lis nicely." "Yes. but think how ridiculously small the alimony allowed out of it will be."?Town Ton. ics. ' IIow did Eunice look at her wed ding to-day?" Mrs. Taylor?"Oh. k1i? looked well enough: but she acted at though it was her first wedding! II gave the whole affair a distinctly crude nppcara nee."?Boston Tran script. Customer (angrily)?"I.ook at thoM hoots! 1 only bought 'em a week ago!" Shopman?"Ah! you must have beer walking in them." Customer?"Why. of course!" Shopman?"Ah. well, w? only deal with carriage people here." ?Ally Sloper. "Why did you quit the Rlehieya Jane?" "It was the stinginess of 'cm. mum. I was a lookin' out me kitchee window one day. when the mistreat comes in and gays that she'd give a penny for me thoughts; and thoin mil Uouaircs. mind you!"?Detroit Tree Press. Mrs. Sweetly?"My daughter, yoc know, has Jnst graduated from musi? school. Did you enjoy her piano re cital last evening?" Mr. Bluntly "Oh. yes. I was born near a holler factory, and my mother always said I Inherited a fondness for noise." he troit Free Press. "Napoleon" In Japanese. An interesting case was brought nnd won by a Japanese in a London court the other day to recover from a pub lishing Arm the sum of ?20, part of au agreed price due him for translating five volumes of a Japanese life of Na poleon into English. The plniatiff'* case was that lie estimated the work would total 20,000 words, for which tlif publishers agreed to pay ?25. The work completed, however, it totalled only 13,000 words, and the publishers re fused to pay. Asked how lie could * make so great a miscalculation, the Japanese s;iid it was difficult to ex plain. but. as an instance, "N:ipo!?o? was four words iu Japanese." Howling One? Illegal. Bowling, now so popular in this country, was once prohibited by law. It was formerly known as "nine pins'* when only nine pins were used. (I became the rage In England and waf prohibited there by Edward IV. The* the game was brought to this coutk try and was also made unlawful l^ several States hero. I But to avoid the law the enthusl* I asts added one more pin. making II j "ten pins" and became so popular tlia* *ho ban against it was removed. Itr j late years it has become known i bowling because of tho Ilea v\ bowled down the nll-ys. . 1 ?. A Klfflicrmrn'ji fndian fishermen to the number of f>0o on the Skecua Hivov. British Co lumbia. are on strike for ten rents a li*h. the canneries refusing to glva more than eight and a half rents. In dian women have also r?f?#<>d to work I In the canneries unless the dtuiaud of the strikers is mu*