HE EUGENE GUARO JAPANESE BATTALIONS MASSACRED I Gillespie Murder Trial. Rising Sun, Ind., May 21.—“1 dldnt' Are the ehot which killed my sister,” emphatically declared James Gillespie on tbe witness stand this morning. "Neither have 1 the slight­ est idea who did.” 11s denied having koncked his sister down in a quarrel. He said be went bunting tbe day be­ fore tbe murder with tbe ebotguo used io evidence. Left tbe gun with Earl Seward and did Dot see it again for two days. Russians Surprised the Presbyterian Synod New. Enemy Near 3 and consular officers as w>* as naval 1 handing of passports to the papal METHODIST officers, have been instructed by thia PORT ARTHUR i nuncio, while Deleasse was opposed. government to investigate ths report 1 No decision was reached. It is ex. that the Russiaur are setting and al­ pected the question will be reopened CHURCH lowing tu escape > eyond the three- at tbe next meeting. PROBABLY mile limit destructive mines which Paesident Roosevelt Back. are a menace tx veaxiia of any flag. CONFERENCE INVESTED Washington, May 25.—President Roosevelt returned this morning from Steamer Corwin Safe. Delegates Asking Leave of Absence to See Groton, Massachusetts. Sea’tle, May 24.—The only founds lion for the report that the steamer Corwin, from Sesttio for C-ipe Nome, had been wrecked oif Vancouver la- I laud is the fsc* that the vessel put into KeichiKan to readjust her cargo, I which wag top henry. Heavy Firing Indicates Attack by Land Million Dollar Fire. Atlanta, Gs., May 25.—A million dollar Ur is reported at u reçu wood, S. C , today. Buffalo, N. Y. Maj 24. —The most Typographical Union Election. Forces. important of matters discussed in Kinchau. Attractions. tills morning's .essiou of the Presby­ Indianapolis, May 24.— President Attention L- of G. A. R. terians was the overture from the Lynch was re-elected president of tbn synod of Asia asking relmse from its Typographical Union today by a ma. i That Russians Have jority of 7000. The Japanese are Reported as relations with the assembly, that it So Many Going Away That In­ At our regular meeting Saturday, Reports may be made one with the synod of Stripped Port Arthur and May 28, memorial services will be Leaving Feng Huang ability to Maintain a Quorum Wind Destroys Fruit Crop. India, already eixstiug. Referred to held for our decea-ed sisters and Dalny Banks o( the committee on foreign missions. Cher.g and Moving for Business Is I San Jose, Cal., May 25.—Tbe high comrades. A full attendance is de­ Money. wiud yesterday practically destroyed sired. Sisters are requested to bring Northward. Threatened. ► he cherry crop and the loss will ba flowers. MRS. D1MOND, Pres. REPORT OF BIG From twenty to Cbefoo, China, May 25.—Chinese fully two thirds. St. Petersburg, May 2!.—A Russian thirty-live niilliou pounds of prunes Los Angeles, May 24. — Inability to junks continue to arrive with tales of JAPANESE LOSS correspondent at Liao Yang tele­ transact business for want of a quo­ FRENCH VATICAN VHried assortment as to alleged move­ : are lost. _______________ graphs that according to Chinese re­ in the Methodist conference is ments of Japanese troops and war CONFIRMED rum ports a icrce of Russians under Gen­ threatened after Friday. Many dele­ eral Fok surprised and massacred gates are asking leave of absence to MISUNDERSTANDING seven battailous near KiDcban. The see Southern California attractions. rohoration. Japanese are reporter! as leaving Feng i Heavy tiring iu the direction of Tbe conference is balloting for tbe on Fifteen Thousand CasuJ.ics Huang Cheng and moving uorttn. editors of the church periodicals to­ Port Arthur is reported, indicating Japanese Side at Feng day. Pope Believes Matter Will Be that a land attack is being made, as | The election of editors resulted as Amicably Settled---France Re- RUSSIANS DES Hiring Cheng. Japanese fleet is not seeu in that fellows: W. V. Kelley, Methodist vicinity. Dalny refugees claim that calls Ambassador to the Review; J.W. Buckley, Christian Ad­ General Stoessel has taken all the London, May 24.—Tho Central vocate; Levi Gilbert, Western Chris­ money from Dalny and Port Arthur Vatican. News correspondent at St. Peters­ tian Advocate; D. D. Thompson, ; banks, and that depositóle are unable burg telegraphs that the Red Cross Northwestern Christian Advocate; Paris, May 24.- After the meeting^ to secure cash for their checks. has a leport. of a big Japanese de­ Geo. B. Spencer, Ceutral Christian Drove Japanese Away on the of the council of ministers today a| Rails Torn Up From feat. The casualties r^e the same Advocate; C. W. Smith, Pittsburg Russian Steamer Collision. Sixteenth- Cholera Raging as those given in tho Bonr» report Christian Advocate; D. L. Rader, note was issued otiicially announcing | the recall of the Frenen ambassador I Kieff, Russia, May 25.—The steamer of the Port Arthiu tight current yes­ Pacido Christian Advocate; Railroad in Front of at Feng Huang Cheng. Czar collided with a small vessel ti ls terday in which fifteen thousand morning. Tbe latter sank, drowniug Japanese and three thousand Ku-sians His Train J seven, while three hundred others Mukden, May 24.—The town of An- were killed. The Central News report I had a narrow escape. jn, Korei.was ittacked end destroyed es the tigh*. at Feugplac Huang Cl etig. on the 16th by the Russians. The Jap­ anese garrison tired its bouses and China Belligerent. Tokio, May, 24.-General Kuroki Ihe "Pilot” Train Ten Minutes stores and retire! in good order. reports that one section of iufantry Hongkong, May 25.—The viceroy I in Advance Was Wrecked encountered tbe enemy’s naval cav of Canton has demanded extradition at the Spot. from Macao of several fugitives from St. Petersburg, May 24.—The admi­ airy two hundred strong thiB morn­ justice. The domand may result in ralty denies the report of the capture ing, eight miles east of Knaitien. trouble with Portugal. Four Chinese of three Japanese cruisere by the The enemy fil’d in a northeasterly Berlin, May 25.—The Lokal Anzei- directio 1 leaving twenty dead. There gunboats and two destroyers have ar­ ger reports an attempt to assassinate Vladivostok squadron. were no Japanese casualties. rived at Macao to back the demand. the czar during hie majesty’s recent The Portuguese are preparing to re- trip, the plan being to wreck the im­ London, May 24. — The Centr«! gist extradiUon. perial train near Kremcutzchug by News correspondent at St. peterscurg TEMPERANCE MAN tearing up the rails. The pilot train, -wires that advices from Lia Yang sent in advance,was wrecked ten min­ SAW SEA SERPENT state that cholera has broken out at Japanese Investigating. utes before the czar's train was due Hundreds of Feng Huang Cheng Tokio, Japau, May 25.—According at the spot. Japanese are dying daily. to an official report 63 non-commis­ ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE CZAR I Seoul,May 24.--A force of Japanese Monstrous Animal Looked Like fans been diepatched from Gen San. Enormous Eel With Fin-Like -on the east co.ist, to dispose of the Ridge Extending Along Cossack raiders in northern Korea. Season for Macedonian Revolt Si • Its Back. ! 7-V-' I Sofia, May 24 — Sarahoff, the Mace- Vancouver, B. C., May 24. —Herald­ donian leuder, har crossed the fron- ing the silly season, Customs Office tier into Macedonia, It is believed Farrington claims to have seen a sea his prestige will cause a renewal of serpent disporting itself in Burrard the insurrectionary movement. Inlet Sunday. The saloons were all closed an J Farriugtcn is a temper­ Porto Rico Wants $5,000,000. ance man. Moreover, several others San Juan, May 24—J'he iDsular leg­ saw the serpent. ‘‘It looked like an enoimous eel, islature adjourned today, but was im­ mediately reopened tor tire first ex­ raised its head out of the weter to traordinary session, called to nego­ quite a belgnt and its steering appara­ tiate a loan of *5,000,000 in the tus was a fin-like ridge extending along its back. It remained on the United States. surface for quite a while,” says Mr. Farrington. Kauer as Stage Manager. None thought of captnring it until Berlin, May 24.—Composer Leon after it bad disappeared. Cavallo today banded the Kaiser bis new opera, "Roland of Berlin,” writ­ ten at the kaiser’s request after six SHIPBUILDERS years of work. The composer told the WANT SUBSIDIES emperor that it was his highest en deavor. Kaiser Wilhcim will super­ vise the staging of tbe opera and tbe rehearsals. New York, May 24.—Before the Mer­ chant Marine Commission, created Murder Suspects Arrested. by congress to investigate the decline Canton, Ohio, May 24.-The police of Arnei icau .bippiug, William Sewall, early this morning arrested two men shipbuilder, of Bath, Maine, this and a woman on suspicion of being morninz gave the hiftory of the firm connected with the murder of George Sewall Company, and F. Taylor, a merchant killed Satur­ of Arthur yards bad been closed a i said their day bight, whose common law wife, year and a balf bceause of lack of de- Grace Bortoff, has been under sur­ tnand. veillance as a suspect. He said the best remedy was tbe | granting of sutsidies by the govern­ ment, vessels built here cesting thir­ MINE SWINDLER ty per cent, more than in foreign while the cost of mainten JUMPED BONDS countries, ance was fifty per cent, greater. sioned officers and 220 bine jackets were drowned when tbe collision oc curred between the cruisers Kaeuga and Yosbiuo and the latter sank. Tbe government officials are making a searching examination of tbe oaus of the accident. THE OLDEST BELL IN AMERICA World’s Fair Exhibit Was Brought to New Mexico by a Priest With Coronada. St. I oais, May 25.—The oldest bell ( in the United States is exhibited in I ’the New Mexican building at the I World’s Fair. The relic was cast in MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS. 135b and was brought from Spain with Sirs. Davla, widow of Jefferson Iiavis, president of the confederate State! one of the first expeditions to Mexico America. Is nearly seventy-eight years of ape and Is in feeble health. Of by Father Juan de Padilla, one of the I ■r six children but one is living, Mrs I. A. Hayes of Cil< -ado. Franciscau Fathers who accompanied Cornnado. It was first hung in one Nast, Christian Apologist; Frederick it10 Vatican. of the mission churches established Muns Haus and Herd, German Chi oa one of tho sev«u cities of Cibola. cago Publication. Nine editors Wert Rome, May 2!.—Cardinal Merry Del From there it was taken to Grau Vai, papal secretary of state, is quot­ elected on the first ballot. Quivera, where it was hung iu the ed as saying that the holy see is con­ church of which the ruins are still fident that a satisfactory solution of visible. From Gran Qui vera it whh the French ’situation will be arrived COAL ROADS taken to Algodones,where it has bung I at, but sbouldjthe French chamber cf in the parish church ever since, 1 MVF^TIC i AT|()N rleI’,,,*e’ indorse the government's Gov. M. A. Otero, of New Mexico, «IH » LOI IUHI IOH ,extremc anti-clericalism, the pepe l obtained possession of the bell for ex- ' may submit the whole affair to the iilbltlou at the fair. Although the judgment of European powers. bell antedates tbe discovery of Amer­ Railroad Coal Combine Forced to ica by 137 yeart, it has been in almost constant use from the day it was cast Produce Contracts Fixing Per­ TRICK OF THE in Spain. centages for Carrying Coal. MORMONS I SUME ADVANCE More Reports of Great Losses Inflicted by Rus­ sians. St. Petersburg, May 28. -A dis­ patch says the best obtainable infor­ mation is to the effect the*: the Jap­ anese have resumed G.o rorward move­ ment, the ugh the bulk of the invad­ ing army is near Feng Huang Cheng. Reports of a serious clash near Kia Chou, Liu Tung peninsula, continue in circulation. The Japanese are said to have been defeated with great loss. Small parties of Japanese have been seen to the northeast of Mukden, Paris, May 25. — The Temps' St. Pe­ tersburg correspondent reports that General Kuropatkin mis succeeded in cutting the communication of the main Japanese force under General Kuroki snd tho second division under General Oku. YAZOO CITY CONFLAGRATION The Business Part of the City Wiped Out -Loss Over Two Millions. More Bombardment. New York May 24.—The Interstate Cbefoo, May 25. —Eight Japanese Commerce Commission today re-, battleships and cruisers bomiairded snmeA investigation of tbe complaint Preacher Says the Smoot Inues- Port Arthur Tuesday morning. I Freight Handlers’ Strike. by Hearst against the Reading and tigation Is to Gain And His Bondswoman, a Widow, New York, May 24.—Tbs success or other railroads carrying coal to the Fear More Boxer Business. lallure of tbe strike of tbe freight [ seaboard from tbe anthracite regions. - Publicity. Is Out Several Hundred Harbin, May 25. — Missionaries here handlers and marine tiremen of tbe < Under tbe supreme court decision ; Thousand Dollars. report a movement among the Chi­ boats and piers of tbe New York, , the commission will demand tbe pro­ Chicago, Mar 24. - The Reed Smoot nese in the northern Hhan Tang prov­ Naw Haven 4 Hartford railroad seems duction of the contracts refused last inquiry has been branded as a "Mor- ince resembling that which preceded year. ' to binge on the attitude of tbe Team- ' New York, May 24.—Richard C. mon trick” by John Merrit Driver, the Boier uprising. Flower, a mining promotor and al­ eters Association. Ail strikers' places speaking in the People’s cbnrch pa! have been filled. If tbe teamsters go New York, May 24.—Baer produced pit. Aocording to Dr. Driver, the leged swindler of many persons Rural Carriers at Junction. through the sale of worthless mining out tba situation will be,badly tan­ the contracts of the Temple company Mormons songbt an Investigation by Wsshlngt n. May 24.—Charlemagne gled. Tbe company refuses to discuss conjointly with the Jersey Central, stock, failed to appear for trial this the senate, their object being to gain {Tower was today appointed regular morning and bis bond of *2il,000, fur­ suco an emergency. All is quiet at Lackawanna, Erie, Susquehanna ana publicity th^t'wouIdTri’ng tbol'r doc” and John D. Tower substitn • ural Reading railroads. Tbe couu«el read trluel before the peopU- nished by Mrs. Cornelia Storrs, the tbe piers this morning. oarrlere at Junction City, Otb from each contract tbe percent».e of! .i)Xu e l. Paris, May 2 . >< n r ezuelan viee-co ul, this uro* nlng, t flora i-i hie a; ill », Ven­ i .ted X Io-