The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 26, 1905, Image 6
is in General
By Morgan Robertson.
less. They are nearly
I more effective. Then,
oppose them, they
protect them; and, a.c
boats, all they need is
I improved destroyer mi
I fort as does the big ai
with the additional sp
farther apart withou
blockades, the only practical method <
farther at sea. safe from the fire of fort
As for the future value of conveyii
sending soldiers across the sea to cer
land? With twenty submarines in pla
"siother ship" to supply food, water anc
lings, and with one fast surface craft f
slip by the one battleship, could hope t
la*. warcraft, slower than the scout.cou
surprise; which It is ascout's business t
Jul. will need to be faster than the see
this is physically impossible, invasion 1
to say that, if Russia, at the beginning
Tines the cost of two of her bottled-up
could have landed on Korea and rema
sines of fifty miles of submergence, &i
tacbed to every seaport, no transport 01
proach an enemy's coast.
The battleship, with its seven or ei
comes, is an expensive investment. T
sot advocate its development, ^o one
twice as long and broad and deep^f tho
se? of armor and weight of guns.%3Tet
still farther, it will cease to exist, t^oi
armored cruiser; then, as the speed an
and perfected, by the fast protected cr
speed and rision of this deadly, unseen <
in time and place finally encompasses
way as is probable, and adopt the sub
and become submergible surface boats.Our
Attitude '
New
By John Bassett Moore, LL. ;
MaaM NY exposition of the .
I I would be incomplete 1
I I of the United States
TV I governments?a rule i
trine. In Europe, go
^ I mate or illegitimate, t
MM the regularity or the
rulers. The attitude
was early defined wh<
proclaimed a republic. On that occasio
letter to Gouveneur Morris, of March
said: "We surely cannot deny to any n
eminent is founded, that every one ma
form it pleases, and change these forms
act Its business witn ioreign nations mi
whether king, convention, assembly, co
may choose. The will of the nation is tl
In a word, the United States maintaine
title to recognition is not theoretical lej
of its existence as the apparent expone
principle, which is now universally acct
nition can properly be accorded only v
at rated its ability to exist Rccognitio
revolution savors of an act of interveni
its merits, as is clearly set forth in Pre
4. 1904. in relation to the recognition <
Magazine.
rBull Fight
In Spain Young c
the Matador.
By S. L. I
AX y los toros! Whei
fl understand what this
K I pleasure-loving people
I bull ring is half in sh
I I shady side is dear, th<
JP I every corrida, but Pc
m annual visit to the st
lowed Holy Week,
great Sunday Juanna
two to Pedro's solitary suit before its <
new tie or a new waistband to celebrat
had some noticeable piece of finery fre
their breakfast with them to eat in one
bottle of wine which cost in English me
they would have good seats on the si
they should not miss any piece of wo
that day, when seats and finery and wi
m ?-41?AmAimio/1 tr\ ten
lur, SUUIVdUlCO auiuumiu lu
mod such a sum is not lightly spent fi
cigar making. It was a red-letter day.
and generous bloodshed. Twenty horst
the sum total of slaughtered things, and
there were compensating joys in life af
Tffow We W
* Amer
By General Charles King,
HE American soldier 1
E ft are not his best frient
8 I docs not Sct from
111 better loved by their
S S fi denounced by the pre:
? newspaper coaching a
I m and^of these he has f
a??Mr.,i.infe thoritv. His real \vi
while serving. but 2f
serred as a soldier. In view of the in:
ment may seem incredible, but let any n
front his commanding cUicers. as to Lis I
the round of business houses in Chiear
for employment, and note the result. Ii
tiered out of the shop. "We have noT
"He tcvst have been goo;! for nothing c
4ier," is generally the idia.?The Wori
en The Submarine
Service. c
ixist, forts to repel them will be worth- ^
as expensive as battleships and much
, If transports have no battleships to
need have no battleships to
s for a base for scouts and torpedo
coal and an admiral to report to. An
iy carry an admiral, not in such comad
roomy battleship, but faster. And,
fort available, coalinc stations may be ^
t hindrance to fleet operations, and
of naval offence, may be maintained
s and the attacks of submarines.
:g transports, what will be the use of
tain death within a short distance of
ce of each coast defense-ship, with a
1 supplies for every Ave of these duckor
a scout, what transport that might
o land her soldiers? And what invadld
catch her, or destroy her except by
o prevent? Transports, to be successHits
that will report them; and, since
>y sea will come to an end. It is safe
of the war had expended upon submabattleships,
not a Japanese regiment
ined a regiment. With cheap submald
four hundred of surface action atr
slow-going battleship would dare apght
1 ndred men to die when disaster
hose who advocate its continuance do
argues for the buildings of battleships
se that now exist, with twice the thiclc,
if the big battleship be not developed
r a time, its work can be done by the
d vision of the submarine is increased
uiser and faster destroyer; aqd if the
enemy that strikes out of the unknown
the destroyer, these, too must give
marine features of their vanquishers,
-World's Work.
?
C UiJUVJLt U I
E
' Governments;
* :
American doctrine of non-intervention
that failed specially to notice the rule Jj
with regard to the recognition of new
vhich is indeed a corollary of that docvernraents
had been treated as legiti- a
iccording to what was conceived to bo 1 t
irregularity of the succession of their t
of the United States 01 this question ' c
?a the National Conven ton in France , t
n Jefferson, as secretary of state, in a v
12, 1793, which has become a classic. 8
ation that right whereon our own gov- I
y govern itseif according to whatever \ ?
at its own will; and that it may trans- ; r
rough whatever organ it thinks proper. > t
mmittee, president, or anything else it i a
he only thing essential to be regarded." : c
d that the true test of a government's , 1
;itimacy of its own origin, but the fact J *
nt of the popular will. And from this i r
jpted, it necessarily follows that recog- [ *
. hen the new government has demon- j s
n extended at an earlier stage of the | g
ion, and as such must be defended on
sid?nt Roosevelt's message of January I
ot the Republic of Panama.?Harper's ! 1
! c
t
the Thing j
ind Old Worship j r
0!i
5ensusan. \
n you have lived awhile in Spain you \
cry means, the cry of a sun-stricken. 1
not free from the lust of cruelty. The
ade and half in blinding sunshine, the [
e sunny side is cheap and crowded for ! .
dro and Juanna could only afford an .
jnny side, and this luxury always lo!- j
To be sure it was an event. On the c
would rise early and devote an hour or c
Dwner was auake; he generally had a t
e the happy day, while Juanna herself
sh for the occasion. They would take-;
of the public gardens and enjoy their I
rney rather less than threepence. Then |
inny side close to the barrier, so that
rk however delicate. The expense of !
ne, oranges and sandwiches were paid j
. nearly six shillings in English money,
'om the proceeds of paper selling and
a day of ample food and endless sun
;s and six bulls would sometimes make
then Pedro and Juanna would feel that
ter all."?Metropolitan.
rong the ?
ican Soldier I j
U. S. A.
las ms own lacas 01 wno are anu wuu | is
and best officers, and these ideas he *
> papers. No ofl'cers were ever much '
men than two cr three systematically
?s. He knows t is rights and needs no
s to his wrongs?when he has them?
ewer than most men from those in au ungs
are not. as a rule, encountered j
ter serving and because of having
numerable pensions we pay. this stat
>an armed wcth an admirable torti?i- <
Sdelilty, intelligence acd sobrief / 1
o and many another city I wr '
a nine cases oat of tea he i-- ouJ- 1
ex-soldiers," if off iswer. :
Ise oTIf^i^evcr weald .a a soJ- ,
d i odt*}. (
SHOT AT THE m
i Bold Attempt to Assassinate The
Russian Monarch
iALUTING GUN RAINS GRAPE SHOT
>nly High Aim and Weak, Scattering
Charge Prevented a Disastrous Conclusion
to the Ceremony cf Blessing
the Waters of the Neva.
St. Petersburg, By Cable.?The fesIval
of the Epiphany, the blessing of
he waters, had just concluded at 1
('clock Thursday afternoon, when similtaneously
with the salute fired from
he St. Peter and St. Paul fortress a
ain of bullets swept over the little
hapel built over the frozen Neva in
ront of the winter palace, where Emjeror
Nicholas and every member of
he RomanofT family were participatng
in the service. The missies went
ligh, entering windows of the splendid
ow of salons along the water front,
rom which the Empress, the ladies
>f the court and the members of the
liplomatic corps and high dignitaries
if the State, army and navy were witlesslng
the glittering spectacle below,
fortunately the bullets passed over
hAheads of all present, striking the
ipAsite wall and clattering down on
0 parquetted floor of the white saon.
Everybody had been laboring unler
a more or less nervous strain beause
of the strike situation, and the
vindows were hastily vacated, and the
[reatest excitement reigned within
he palace. Lieutenant Fulton, chief
?f police of St. Petersburg, himself
>icked up a missle in the white salon,
t was the size of a bird's egg. The
lolice chief was immediately surounded
by officers cf the guards, who
examined the bullet and expressed the
(pinion that it had come from a shraplel
which might have been fired from
he battery located on the bourse esilanade
and which replied to the saute
of the St. Peter and St. Paul forress,
explaining that a gun might
iave been charged with a loaded carridge
by mistake.
In the meantime there was no evl[ence
outside of what had occurred.
The crowds of people who formed
(lack lines along the qu2ys, the palice
bridge, the slcps cf the bourse,
,nd every other point of vantage in
he white Arctic landscape did not bcray
the slightest excitement. Neither
iid the imperial party in the chapel
lelow. Although the actual ceremony
?as ended, the Emperor remained
ind accompanied the Metropolitan
jnd clergy a& they circled the pavillion
iround-the chapel to blecs the gorgeous
standards of the famous guard
egiments stationed there. Then the
trocession moved back to the palace,
md the original program was carried
mt. The Emperor displayed splendid
lerve. He did not show a trace of
;xcitement. He received the diplonats
in his usual cordial, gentle manler,
reviewed the guard regiments on
ho square behind the palace, and subequcntly
had luncheon served in the
State dining room.
Additional particulars show that the
irapcror had a miraculous escape.
There is uo doubt that the missies
aine from a gun of the bourse batcry
which was loaded with grape, not
vita shrapnel. Soma cf the bullets
ictually struck the little open chapel
n which the Emperor was standing,
:ut the staff off cne cf the ctrader 1s
md fairly riddled the basement vinlows
of the palace, killing a policeran
outriglu and wounding an officer
;nd three marines. Had the gun
;ecn aimed a little lower (he charge
>f grape might have viped out tho
vholc Romanoff dynasty.
Two investigations are proceeding
nciependently, and both are guarded
vitn the utmost secrecy.
Military experts say indications
H)int to a charge consisting of grape
laving been inserted surreptitiously
c a saluting cartridge. If this was
he case, probably only one men was
uvolved. Cert&iuiy if there was an
ottcnsive, deep-laid plot, cr if an ofli*er
was involved, it was badly cxe utcd.
Fall River Strike Over.
Boston. Mass., Special.?The strike
v.q enftnn mill nnpriitivps at Fall
/I IUV VVVWU ****** ?!?? -? ?? ? w
liver, which effected about 25.000 per;onB
and has been in progress for six
nonths to the great hardship and sufering
of Fall River's people, was setled
through the mediation of
Governor William I* Dauglass. Unler
the terms of the agreement ac:epted
by both manufacturers and operatives
at the conference held at the
state House today, the strikers will
eturn to work at once under the 12'?
lt:r trill it'uuvuuu, a^aiusi nuau iuvj
truck last July, and with no discrirailation
because of the strike. No rate
)f wag s -was established, but it was
tgreed that the Governor shall invesigato
the matter of margins between
he -rest of cotton to the mill owners
ind the selling price of the cloth, and
submi* *'is conclusions as to an average
- jin. upon which the ma"- ' fure<
to pay a divident or per
lent .vages earned fro*- ..e present
ime April 1st. p sides regard
he o ome of tb .1 aerations as a
ricto
Lee's' Birthday.
P . a, Special.?Elaborate prepir
*Js have been made by the local
ier of the Daughters of the Concderacy
to celebrate the anniversary
)f the birthday of General Robert E.
L<ee. The guests will include a cumjer
of prominent ex-Confederates and
?tliers who will make addresses. Reports
received from chapters from all
jver the South give plans of an rntsually
elaborate celebration of the
lay by Daughters of the Confederacy.
W1TB OUR NATIONAL LAWAUiEIS
The Senate and House Regularly at
Work?What They are Doing.
Would Tax Indian Lands.
The consideration of the sta.ehood
bill was continued iu the Senate and
Mr. Stone spoke for two hours in opposition
to it The proposed remuneration
to American fur sealers who suffered
losses because of their suppression
also was debated at some length,
but no action was taken on it.
Mr. Stone proposed an amendment to
the Statehood bill providing that all
allotted lands shall be subject to taxation.
He said the bill as it stands
confers upon the Indians of Indian Territory
the rights of citizens, while relieving
thom nf the duties of citizen
ship. Mr. Ballej took a similar view.
The Senate adjourned.
Swayne Case May Be Postponed.
In view of the prospect of an early
presentation to the Senate of the
House's articles of impeachment of
Judge Swayne. many Senators have
been engaged today in considering that
question, and Senator Piatt, of Connecticut,
chairman of the special committee
acting for the Senate, has taken a
leading part in the work.
Some of the Senators, especially
Messrs. Frye and Hale, of Maine, advanced
the opinion that the case might
be postponed until the best session,
but, after an exhaustive examination
of precedents and consideration of the
case, Mr. Piatt announced his inability
to agree with them. He said he did
not believe that, out of justice to
Judge Swayne, the inquiry should be
postponed for any length of time after
it is brought to the attention cf the
Senate, and he doubted whether, if this
point was eliminated, the Senate
could make the postponment. It might
be competent, he thought, to defer
trial after organising the senatorial
court, but if that course should be
decided upon, the preseiit Congress
would terminate, new men would come
in, and it would be necessary to reorganize
the court at the beginning of
the next session. For these and other
reasons, he concluded that there is no
other way open than to proceed immediately
with the consideration of the
case. Senator Spooner and other senatorial
lawyers concurred in this ODin
ion.
Those who advocated postponement
take the ground that, as the Senate is
a continuing body, it is competent for
it to defer action until next session, if
It so desires. They also say that, with
only six weeks of the session left, it
will be extremely difficult for the Senate
to enter upon the Swayne trial,
and also continue its consideration of
legislative business.
Speaker Cannon did not name the
committee to present the articles of
the House, having received information
from Senators that they desired to have
the matter delayed. There is a prece:
dent for delay in presenting articles iii
impeachment cases until the day before j
the expiration of the terms, which
throws the trial into the next Congress.
It rests with the House, however, to
decide what cousse shall be pursued.
Debate on the fhyayne impeachment
case occupied the House until after 5
o'clock Monday. The arguments were ;
exhaustive, dealing with many of the
legal phases of the charges against '
Judge Swayne. The Senate resolution \
fixing Wednesday, February 8th. as the |
time for counting the electorial vote j
for President and Vice President, the ,
proceedings to take place in the hall :
i of the House, was adopted. The Bur- ;
! lesnn resolution diirectina the Director ]
; of the Census to eolloef and publish i
I additional statistics relating tcf cotton, i
: was reported by Mr. Crumpacker. o!
j Indiana; amended so as to provide that |
I th? statistics of the consumption of j
| cotton, the surplus of cotton held by j
I the manufacturers and the quality of ,
cotton exported shall be summarized j
i as of September 1st each year so as |
! to show the cotton production and con- |
j sumption of the preceding year. Mr. j
| Livingston, of Georgia, charged that
: if corton reports were made at the i
j time stated, that a break in cotton .
prices would result upon each occa- i
j sion that such reports were published.
In most emphatic terms Mr. Madclox. [
, of Georgia, declared that cotton farmj
ers shou!d?protect themselves by form- j
j ing a trust and withholding reports j
: from the government. Everybody, he j
j saia. was in some sort of a trust
! against the fanner and that he must i
fight the devil with fire. After some j
further discussion, in which the reso- !
lution was favored by Mr. Williams,
of Mississippi, the resolution was
agreed to.
! _Thex executive, legislative and
; judicial appropriation bill was sent to
! conference with Messrs ' Bingham, of
! Pennsylvania; Littaue, of New York,
and Livingston, of Georgia, as conferees
on the part of the House.
Army Appropriations.
The House of Representatives com
pleted consideration of the array appropriation
bill and will vote on the
1 measure at the oeginning of the ses
sion vomoiTOW. Ia tho debate Resident
Commissioner Degctau. of Porto
Rico, made bis first speech in the
House. He look occasion to praise
the United States for its attitude to- 1
1 v.ard his island home. Incident ... i
he saw no need for the nur^raDance j
of the provision?' -egiracut of troops ;
ic the island. A v.gorous attack was
1 i made, but to no avail, tn the army
j transport service, by Mr. Humphrey,
! of Washington.
| Mr. Clark, of Missouri, quoted re- I
i marks of Mr. Slavden. of Texas, stating
that if it were not for the personal
interest of some legislators in some j
1 of the officers of the Porto Rico regiment,
it would have been disbanded
three years previously. "That condition
of affairs is a disgrace to the
A ?fnnirro? " nVSOl'tCd Mr.
I -MillVI iVU.il vvuotvww, ?
Clark.
Mr. Degetau. in arguing that the,
necessity for maintaining tho rcgi'
ment did not exist, reviewed tho his- j
tory of his country to show that it I
had accomplished many reforms, such,
I for instance, as the abolition of slavery,
without disturbance. The people
i did not need the example cf military
| discipline, ncr did they need the ixu(
1 picssion calculated to be created by
i tho military uniform. "We need no
I
American regiment, or any other regl- "I
ment. We are all Americans who |
have won our American citizenship."
Hearty applause followed Mr. Degetau's
conclusion.
The amendment striking out the ap- A
proprlation for the regiment was defeated.
Mr. Humphrey declared the
tianspcrt service was fotten and a
rational disgrace. He declared it cost
$1,500,000 more than if the service ?
were performed by private shipping. ^
The House adjourned.
The House Committee on Interstate ^
Commerce will give a hearing to the j
AAwnnnlflo whloh firA nf. I
pnvave tm tumi/uuivo ** - ^
letted by the Stevens bilL
NEWS THKOliGNOUT THE COUNTRY
b;
Paragraphs of Minor Importance c:
Gathered From Many Sources a
?
/
Through the South. cl
At Newport News a lake submarine 8
boat was tested. ^
It is believed at Charlottesville that s
McCue will make a confession of hav- p
Ing murdered his wife. "
h
Miss Helen Turner, of Lexington, t(
while horseback riding in Botetourt j,
county, was shot through the body by .j
a highwayman, whom she fired at *,
A memorial fund to W. H. Baldwin
was started, to be given to Booker 0
Washington's Tuskegee Institute, and g
(72,500 has already been subscribed. j,
Mrs. Mary M. Daily, wife of John W. o
Daily, died Monday at her home, l;
Bioomery, near Charleston, W. Va.,
after a lingering illness, aged 62 years, c:
E
Washington Happenings. d
Sixteen Wlls, providing for felght- tl
rate legislanon, have been introduced a
In the House of Representatives. a
More than half of the $7,000,000 ap- a
propriated for the payment of the Friar 11
kinds in the Philippines has been paid ^
out to the Catholic orders, and the title u
to the land has passed to the Philift- ^
pine Government 6
The Beef Trust, according to a
Washington dispatch, is sending letters
to Congressmen asserting that It 0
is not a monopoly or unlawful combi- u
nation.
a
The United States Supreme Court re- ^
versed the decision of the district court fi
in St. Louis and granted Senator Bur- n
ton, of Kansas, a new trial.
Debate was resumed in the House of a
Representatives on the Swayne im- ^
peachment case. p
A resolution was agreed to in the e
[louse providing for the collection of
additional cotton statistics.
The Senate discussed for several
hours the Statehood bill, speeches *
being made by Senators Simmons and N
Kcyburn for the elimination of Arizona j
Rom the bill. a
In the North. j
The deadlock in the Delaware Senate n
vas continued at Dover, the naming of
the Secretary of State having no apparent
effect. b
A committee of the Missouri State
Senate reported that Thomas K. Nied- ?
ringhaus did not, as required by law
file a complete statement of receipts oi *
the Republican State Committee, of
which he is chairman. ?
Thomas H. Carter, Rep., was elected t<
r*nitrtH Smatnr hv the Montana fc
Legislature.
A caucus of Republicans of the Nevada
Legislature chose George S. Nixon
for Senator.
t:
Civic organizations in New York Q
have formed a central council so that
ail may work in harmony for the city's n
n eifare. ri
Some of the most notorious garnbling
houses in Now York were closed h
and the apparatus confiscated by Dis- h
trict Attorney Jerome. 6
s
The defense at the trial of Charles L. 't
Tucker for the murder of Mabel Page r
outlined Rs case at East Cambridge, r<
Mass., and Tucker's mother testified. p
The Philadelphia police decided to ''
*cnd Gessler Rosseau to New York for
trial in the Umbria Infernal machine
case, and Chicago police said the man
lived in that city under the name of
Russell. . a;
Mrs. Brodie T. Duke suddenly dlsap- ^
peared from her hotel in New York
and is believed to have left the city. t:
tr
Foreign Affairs. ^
General Kuropatkin reports that the
Cossacks lost 18 killed and 59 wounded "
In their raid in rear of Marshal Oya- j ?'
man's army.
Correapon dents at Port Artnur say >
the city was not in desperate straits tl
when it surrendered. . R
I
Delegates representing Spanish labor
organizations met at Barcelona and ^
voted in favor of calling a world-wide ?(
strike as a pretest against the Russo- i fi
Japanese war.
German ccal miners declared a gen- ^
eral strike. tl
It is feared that M. Rouvier's ill ij
health will be a drawback to his ac- t.(
ccptance of the French Premiership.
The will of William H. Gaylord, of r
South Hadlcy, Mass., who died a few
hours before his wife, disposed of
an estate valued at $300,000, and
among the public bequests is $25,000 11
for the South Hadley Public Library,
with 50 shares of stock in the Heme Y
National and City National Banks of t
Kolycke, as a fund for the mainten- fi
rncc of the library.
The Stonewall Band. West Augusta v
Guards, Staunton Rifles, the Staunton c
Military Academy and the Camo o? c
Confederate Veterans attended special
rervices at the Second Pre3byterian b
Church in S;av.nton oa Sunday. ' I
{Somewhat Uaosaal Oecirreice hiVH
Doited States Sesate ^
AYS BIS ACCUSERS ARE
lr. Mitchell of Oregon, Take* . the
Floor in the Senate and Vigorously
Replies to the Charges Against Him.. ?|j
Washington, Special.?The usual:
pcctacle of a United States Senator
xplainlng on the floor of the the Sente
charges made against himself in a. ' ' ?
ourt of law in his own State was.
itnessed in the Senate when Mr. Mitbell,
of Oregon, arose in his seat and
poke of the Indictment recently reirned
against him by an Oregon
rand jury. The Senator had not ?
reviously appeared in the Senate
[nee the indictment was returned and
e was received by his fellow Sena)rs
with many evidences of good will.
Ie was much afTected, his emotion at
mes being such that he read his
Latement with great, difficulty.
Mr. Heybum concluded his speech
n the statehood bill, and Mr. Stone
ave notice of a speech on his resoltion
for an investigation of charges
f corruption in the campaigns of (
896 and 1904. J
Senator Mitchell went over the
harges and his connection with S. A.
i. Puter and Mrs. Emma L. Watson,
eclaring, concerning the charges, that' . 3
ley "are absolutely unqualifiedly and
rtociously false, and I here and now ;
eflnltely and defiantly denounce their
uthors, and each and every one of
aem, and brand them publicly as ma-\ 1
clous and atrocious liars.*' He furler
asserted that no evidence "other v
ban that of condemned thieves, for
ers ana perjurers" could be brought
3 sustain them. He declared in spe-. *
iflc terms that he had not received
r accepted $2,000 from Puter for the
se of his influence with the land of- '
cers. He said he had helped Puter,
s he had many others, in the expediion
of their cases, before the land ofce,
and had not received any reumeration
whatever. He did not
now at the time that the Puter enries
were fraudulent The Senator ,<
ttacked Francis J. Heney. the United ?tates
attorney in the land fraud cases../ .
ccusing him of offering clemency to
uter and others In return for tboir
vidence against the Senator.
Tried to Cut OffRusslan*.
St. Petersburg, By Cable.?Genera!
r ltmnofVin toloonnlilnw
^..v^v^u, kvivgiayuiug IU LXiij^Cl Ul
ficholas, reported an attack of a strong
apanese detachment of cavalry an*
rtillery to cut off the column of Gcnral
Misthchcnko's cavalry, January
4, as the latter was about to retire '
orthward. The Japanese, under cover
f a mist, outflanked the Russians. A
attle ensued, the Russian artillery inicting
heavy losses on the Japanese) ,
t short range, and then retiring. The
iussian losses were five officers and
0 men killed or wounded. General
luropatkin ijlso reported the return
f a Russian patrol, after blowing up
tie railroad and destroying a mils of
slegraph two miles north of Tatche- .
iao.
59 Persons Drowned.
Christiana, Norway. By Cable.?"ifr-niue
persons perished as the result
f an avalanche of rocks at N'acsdal,
orth of Eergen. Sunday. A mass of *0
cck was suddenly precipitated into
eonvand lake from* the neighboring
ills causing an immense wave 39 feet
igh which swept the neighboring
hores. Houses, people and cattle were
wept away by the rush of water and
: is known that 59 persons peai3bed.
hus far only four bodies have been
'covered. A great storm today stop
ed the relief work as the surroundig
district is unable to send help.
Fre*h From the Wires.
Rev. Thomas J. Ducey, in a sermon
gainst trusts, denounced Standard
il.
Secretary of War Taft, in hi3 letter
ansmitting the commissioner's report
) the President, urges a strict reguition
of the opium traffic.
The Pure-Food bill will become the
ufinished busiues3 in the Senate when
ie Stalehood-bili is out of the way.
Representative Hepburn has drawn a
ill which is understood to embody
le Ideas of President Roosevelt in reard
to freight-rate legislation. The
II! will be pressed at this session.
Congress may order an Inquiry into
lo publication of the Jefferson Bible,
3 ascertain the ownership of the plate3
rom which the book was printed.
The Statehood bill will be kept ta
he front in the Senate thi3 wejk.
here Is said to be strong objeciton'to
tie union of Arizona and New Mexico
lto one State, and this feature of the
il! will encounter strong opposition. A
i?mpromise is said to be possible.
His children, sister, brothers and
ector visited J. Samuel McCue in his
ail cell at Charlottesville.
The most Important matter before
he House this week will be the Swayne
a.peaahment case.
There is a strong movement in the
Vest Virginia Legislature for the esablishment
of the dispensary system
or the sale of liquor.
Tangier oystermen, charged with re*
olt against the State authorities, got
ff with small fines in the trial at Acomac
Courthouse.
Miss Turner, of Lexington, was shot
iy a tramp, who attacked her on a
onely road in Ectetourt count'