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NEWS OF THE WEEK Workmen in Russia are returning to work, the govern meat forcing conces sions from their employers in 8t. Petersburg and Moscow. I d a Condensed Form for Our President Roosevelt has signed the b ill providing for the construction anil maintenance of roads and schools and the care if insane persons in Alaska. Busy Readers. HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS Father Gopon, th priest leader of the strikers, is in the hospital recovering ‘ rom wounds. As Boon as well he will be court martialed and if found guilty w ill be hanged. A great battle has begun on the Hun A Resume o f the Less Important but river, Manchuria. Not Less Interesting Events Troops from European Russia are un w illing to fight and Kuropatkin advises o f the Past Week. peace. Several more cases of yellow fever The provincial council as warned the have been reported from the Panama czar to grant freedom or lose his crown. canal zone. A number of Moscow employers are Russians accuse British of inciting saving their factories by paying wages the riots and Great Britain has asked to the strikers. for an explanation. The Russian strike is extending rap A canvass of the Denver vote in the idly, but without disorder, though new Colorado dontest shows one-third of the trouble is feared. ballots to be fraudulent. I t is believed that Judge Swayne will not be convicted of the charges now The thermometer in Manchuria pending against him in the senate. where the fighting is now in progress Governor Trepoff, of St. Petersburg, registers 20 degrees below zero. says he w ill curb the agitators, main The residence of Governor Trepoff, tain order and make no concessions. of St. Petersburg, was almost demol Fire in New York among a lot of ished by a bomb. The governor w‘as rookeries caused the fire department a absent. desperate battle and destroyed »100,000 It is believed that Kuropatkin re worth of property. ceived orders from St. Petersburg to as The Russian strike haB spread to sume the offensive or else he would not have moved against the Japanese at nearly every town of importance in the empire. present. Lad rones ni the province of Cavite Twenty members of the Chicago Commercial cslub have gone to Cuba, are in a state of revolt. where they w ill devote two weeks to The Rogers Locomotive works, at studying the commercial possibilities Paterson, N. J., have been sold to the of the island. American Locomotive company. Edwin Stone, of Albany, manager of Frank P. Sargent, commissioner gen the Corvallis & Eastern raliroad, was eral of immigration, asks an appropria assaulted and tl>e room in which he was tion of »500,000 for thejimprovement of asleep set on fire. The flames were stations in various parts of the country. not discovered until, with the injuries Meetings throughout Germany de received from the assailant, they proved fatal. There is no clew to the mur nouncer! the coal mine owners, but they refuse to yield to the strikers. derer. The naval appropriation bill provides The bills providing dental surgeonB over »100,000,000. for the navy and to increase the effi The Russian strike has spread in ciency of the navy hospital corns will Poland and Baltic cities. a be reported favorably to the house. The Prussian government has ap pointed a commission to investigate the coal strike. C IT Y O F BLOOD. Chile has refused to sell war vessels Battle Rages in Warsaw Streets with No Respect to Age or Sex. to an American firm, presumably for one of the nations now at war in the Warsaw, Jan. .11.— Another day and Far East. half a night of horrors have passed. Secretary Taft wants a reduction of As this dispatch is sent, the city is tariff on Philippine products and de ruled by savage mobs and more savage clares the islands w ill ultimately be soldiers. Both are intent upon killing. No official statements are obtainable at given their independence. this hour, but when the cost in human Sympathizers with the Russian strik lives comes to Be counted there w ill be ers marched through the streets of found dead by the hundreds— men, Boston with a red flag, but they were women and children. not not allowed to make speeches. Everybody— young and old, men, The president has issued an order, women and children— was attacked by effective March 1, taking into'the com the soldiers and ruthlessly shot down. petitive classified service all customs One soldier aimed a sabre blow at a service positions in Alaska, except woman. In self defense she drew a re those restricted to navigation season volver and fired a shot, which went wild. A second later a volley was di only. rected at her, and she fell dead, riddled People fleeing from 8t. Petersburg by a score of bullets. This is but one for safety say the present half-calm is of a hundred instances. only a period of preparation for greater For the most part the soldiers who resistance to the government and that rode and tramped through the streets active smuggling of arms and dynamite during the late afternoon of Monday is going on across the Austrian frontier. were drunk. They seemed to take a A plot against the life of the czar has particular delight in attacking harmless been frustrated. persons. They killed for the mere Peabody declares he w ill ronitnue sake of killing. the contest for governor to the end. The new cruiser Maryland exceeded speed requirements on her trial trip. Officials in charge of the canal zone are employing drastic measures to stamp out yellow fever. The cabinet has discussed the advisa b ility of teaching jiu-jitsu in the m ili tary and naval academies. Labor Commissioner Wright says he believes both sides were to blame in the Colorado labor trouble. ARE BEATEN BACK DOINGS IN CO NG RESS. Wednesday, January 25. The house today passed the District J of Columbia and m ilitary academy ap propriation bills. The proceedings were almost entirely devoid of interest. The house passed the b ill extending the presidential succession act so as to in clude the secretaries of agriculture and commerce and labor in the order named. The army appropriation b ill was the cause of a lengthy discussion in the senate. The assignment of General Miles to service in charge of the Mas sachusetts state m ilitia being the main point of controversy. A number of cre Battle Carried On in Blizzard by Jap dentials of newly elected senators were anese When Forced to Fight presented. The hour of meeting to to Save Position. morrow was postpond until 1 o’clock, to allow many invited senators to at tend a wedding. Tokio, Jan. 31. — The troops which twice captured Port Arthur, once from Thursday, January 26. the Chinese and then again from the The agricultural appropriation bill Russians, have administered a defeat to wub considered in the house today, but General Kuropatkin’s army from which the debate turned principally upon the it cannot possibly recover during the topic of restricting _ railroads in the winter. Field Marshal Oyama has sent matter o? freight rates. The house a dispatch to the imperial headquar- adopted a joint resolution appropriat- ters indicating that the conquerors of ing »40,000 to defray the expenses of Port Arthur were sent by him to meet the senate in conducting the trial of the enemy in the bloody battle just de- Judge 8wayne. | cided, owing to their long practice un- The senate passed the army appro- der arms and their tried ability to priation bill after modifying the proviH- withstand the hardships of the awful ion concerning the assignment of retired Manchurian winter. The result of army officers to active service with mil- the struggle so far has proved the wis- itia organizations. This w ill relieve dom of his course. General Miles from its application. Every dispatch received from the The b ill transferring the control of J front tells of winter horrors such as no. forest reservations from the interior to j other battling army ever had to contend the agricultural department was passed. 1 with. Many inches of snow cover the i country as far as the eye can see. The J ridges are snow-capped. Avalknche Friday, January 27. ! upon avalanche has tumbled into the The Swayne impeachment rase was trenchs, inflicting untold suffering upon brought up in the senate today and af the soldiers therein. ter several preliminaries had been ar Field Marshal Oyama’s dispatches ranged the time for the real trial was have convinced the m ilitary autheri- set for February 13. The rest of the ties here that he was by no means anx day was spent in considering the joint ious fo engage in the battle, and, in statehood b ill. Gallinger addressed fact, permitted the Russians to take the senate in support of his amend- several positions in his vicinity to save ment prohibiting the sale of intoxicat the tnxips from the uns|>eakable strain ing liquors to Indians. of fighting in the storm. But the Rus The house today passed the agricul-! sian advance was made withh such en tural appropriation! b ill without ma ergy and determination by large bodies terial amendment. The usual discus of troops occupying miles of ground sion on the free Beed distribution was that Oyama finally decider! to accept indulged in. The house committee on the challenge. naval affairs today decided that the bill A large portion of General Nogi’ s should provide for two battle ships of army, both his regulars and his re 16,000 tons each. Three were asked serves, were placed in the vanguard. | for. The b ill carries approximately Among them were thousands of veterans »100,070,000. of the Chino-Japanese war, who, hav ing done service in Manchuria in the winter, were able to make progress and use their arms where less seasoned Saturday, Jan. 28. Eulogies upon the departure of the troops would have been paralzyed. late Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, The victory gained over the Russian particularly engrossed the attention of r'kht army is considered here even a the senate today. There were 16 greater feat than was the capture o f speeches by as many senators. After *’ort Arthur, for, while the battle the conclusion of the memorial serv- rakcd, there were no trenches to seek ices the senate adjourned out of respect protection in and every shot of the to the dead senator’s memory. enemy was made more deadly by the In a session of less than two hours indescribable cold. For this reason today the house passed 373 pension the news from the front that Field Mar- bills and received for the calendar the shal Oyama is now following up his naval and diplomatic appropriation advantage with relentless energy has bills. The session was devoted to leg been received with amazement. islation entirely devoid of discussion. Russian Advance Ends In Dis- astrous Defeat. AWFUL SUFFERING OF SOLDIERS All Agree with Hay. Berlin, Jan. 31.— The Russian gov ernment’ s reply to China's declaration that she has not infringed neutrality, nor [»ermitted Japan to do so, is a reas sertion that she has done so. The Rus sian note is such that it is inferred that Russia is not likely to carry the discussion much further. It is learned here that Russia found that all the powers, particularly Germany, held views identical with those of the United States on lim iting the zone of war and the keeping China out of it. Monday, January 30. The senate today agreed to, vote on the joint statehood b ill before adjourn ment on Tuesday, February 7, the amendments to be considered on that date under the ten-minute rule. The j larger part of the day was occupied in general debate on the statehood bill. Fulton offered amendments to the In dian appropriation b ill referring to the court of claims of Chinook and Cath- lamet Indians; also conveying title to Run Down by Cavalry. persons who have purchased grazing I-ondon, Jan. 31.— The foreign office iands from the Um atilla Indians. has received a telegram from Consul After a protracted debate the house B eef Trust a Monopoly. Gneral Murray, at Warsaw, reporting adopted the conference report on the Washington, Jan. 31.— The supreme that himself and Vice Consul Mucu- I executive, legislatve and jodicial appro court of the United States today decid kain were charged by Russian! cavalry priation bill. As agree« 1 to the bill ed the United States vs. Swift & Co., men engaged in clearing the streets of carries »26,132,242. A bill was passed known as the beef trust case, charging Warsaw. It appears that Mr. Murray dividing the state of Washington into conspiracy among the packers tef fix is partially deaf, and when he endeav- i two judicial districts, the Eastern and prices on fresh meats and like products. ored to make known his personality, it Western. The b ill extending to the | The opinion was handed down by was without avail. Ambassador Hard- Philippines the provisions of the revis Justice Holmes and affirmed the de inge has been ordered to make urgent ed statutes concerning the extradition cision of the court below, which was protest at 8t. Petersburg. of fugitives from justice was passed. | against the packers. J