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anion with Sweden public. NEWS OF THE WEEK and establish a re The greatest battle of the war has begun in Manchuria, the Japanese out flanking the Russians. — In a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. The b ill dividing Oregon into two judicial districts has been killed and a similar Washington bill passed. Dr. Louis Wilcoison, who was charged with having a United States bond, stolen 20 years ago from the released on ! Manhattan bank, has been $10,000 bail, and w ill now seek for S. W . Millecr, from whom he obtained A Retume o f the Less Important but the bond. Not Less Interesting Events Fire broke out in the New York ju venile asylum, but all the 1,200 child o f the Past Week. ren were taken out in 15 minutes and the flames were soon extinguished. HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS The senate w ill not increase the Co Riots at Baku, Russia, have caused lumbia river appropriatons. 1,000 deaths, and twice as many were wounded. Joseph W . J. Lee has been named, for consul general at Panama. Railroad strikes have cut off Poland The Panama canal commissioners and all southwestern Russia from the have violated the law in buying sup rest of the world. plies without advertisements public for Following an operation for appendi bids. citis, Sidney Dillon Ripley, the finan George S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, cier, is critically ill at his home in formerly secretary of the treasury, is New York. dead. The state assembly of Wisconsin has Pe isants are joining in the strike passed a b ill prohibiting the sale of movement in Poland and are burning giant firecrackers and other dangerous saloons. explosives. The Russian officers who broke their Twenty-one buildings in the heart of paiole have been ordered back to Han Cape May Courthouse, the county seat Francisco. of Cape May county, J., were de The final settlement of the Klamath stroyed by fire. irrigation scheme has been postponed It seems that the decision of the until Ap ril. North sea commission w ill let both The Russian government has adopted nations down easily, not being a de strong measures to keep the railways cided report either* way. in operation. The freeizng of the Chesapeake bay The Russian Third Pacific squadron has caused an oyster famine in Boston. has passed Cherbourg, France, on its The work of rescuing the dead from way to the Far East. the Virginia mine, in Alabama, is pro Gorky, the priest strike leader, has ceeding slowly. Foul gas greatly hin been released and re-arrested, to be ex ders the work. The fourth day after iled from St. Petersburg. the explosion 92 bodies had been recov Eleven persons were killed and more ered. than 50 others injured, some probably A ll talk ot peace i« scouted by both fatally, by the collapse of a floor in a ! Japan and Russia, and both nations New York colored church. are preparing for a decisive battle. Starvation Alaska. threatens Fairbanks, King Alfonso, of Spain, is to marry Princess Victoria, of Prussia, daughter Secretary Taft w ill speak at the Lewis of Kaiser W ilhelm . and Clark fair. Oil men of several states have united Compensation fo r Packing Company. Washington, Feb. 24.— The senate to fight the Standard Oil company. committee on claims has reported fav Northwest senators have asked an in orably without amendment, the claims crease in river and harbor appropria of the Wales Island Packing company tions. and recommends the passage of the bill, Automobiles are to race from the At- I which awards to the packing company alntic coast to Portland for the Lewis $01,689. Wales island became Cana and Clark fair. dian territory under the settlement of A big ice gorge has carried out a the Alaksan boundary question in 1903, Union Pacific railroad bridge on Loup and it was estimated by the State de partment that the amount awarded by river, at Columbus, Nebraska. the b ill is a minimum valuation of the St. Louis financiers are interesting loss sustained by the company by the capital for the construction of an elec charge. tric road from St. Louis to Kaansas City. WarshiDt Bombard Rebels. Constantinople, Feb. 24.— Extremely What is believed to have been Paul Jones' body has been found by the alarming reports are current here con searchers in the old St. Louis cemetery, cerning the situation at Batoum and Poti. I t is alleged that some vessels in Paris. of the Black sea squadron (Russian) The secretary of state has received have bombarded Poti. An English for presentation to President Roosevelt merchant who has just arrived here a large photorgaph of the empress dow says he was obliged to flee from Ba ager, of Chin. toum, where his life was menaced by The Japanese have captured a Rus strikers and his office destroyed. This sian position of importance after an merchant says the authorities of Ba awful battle. The losses of both sides toum are powerless. The strikers are w ill reach into the thousands, but it is all Georgians, and are estimated to believed the Japanese lost the most number 40,000. men. It is believed that Judge Swayne w ill be acquitted. John D. Long Bays <the Monroe doc trine is carried too far. The blockade of Vladivostok is now complete, but food is not scarce. King Edward favors Irish liberty as a step to Anglo-American alliance. The caar has yielded to the railroad strikers and traffic w ill be resumed. Norway threatens to dissolve her I Rumors o f Great Events. St. Petersburg, Feb. 24. — A second day has passed without dispatches hav ing been given out from General Kuro- patkin. which is interpreted to support the rumors that great 4events are in progress in Manchuria. The war office, however, steadfastly - maintains that there is no important news and that there have been no developments since the last dispatches made public, in which the commander-in-chief re ported all quiet. Thursday, February 23. Without a dollar being added or sub tracted the river and harbor appropria tion bill passed the house today, after t ie session had run well into the even ing. Toe total amount carried by the bill is $17,234,657. It was impeded by the offering of amendments, but only those presented by the committee were adopted. The last testimony in the interest of Judge Swayne in the impeachment against him was today presented to the senate. The b ill providing a form of govern ment for the Panama canal zone was Must Act B efore Snow Melts — May passed early in the day. AIMING AT MUKDEN Japanese Strike Decisive Blow at Main Position. OYAMA ORDERED TO ADVANCE Attempt to Isolate Vladivostok At Same Time. Tokio, Feb. 28.— Following the cus tom of the Japanese government, the officials at the war office refuse to dis cuss the present movements in Man churia, but there is a general air of confidence among the higher officers, who are absolutely posted on the situa tion, which is believed to indicate that General Kuroki has again scored a com plete success and that official announce ment may be expected very soon. Up to midnight Monday no particu lars of the fighting had been given out, but it was stated that, so far as was known, only the right and center of Marshal Oyama’ s army had been engag ed and that the conditions on the left are unchanged. It is the general opinion among the best informed experts in the Japanese capital that the present movement, be fore it ends, w ill result in the capture of Mukden. It is known that orders have been sent to Field Marshal Oyama, telling him that the time is ripe for taking the Russian main position, as, if action ¡ b postponed much longer, the spring thaws with their resultant floods w ill be upon him and it w ill be im possible to do any fighting until the roads dry up. There is, of course,a possibility that the present movement may have for its object, as well as the capture of Muk den, the isolation of Vladivostok. In view of the recent reports that the port was being blockaded by sea by a Japan ese squadron of torpedo boats and pro tected cruisers^ there can be little doubt that, if Kuroki crushes the Rus sian left, such troops as can be spared w ill be assigned to a special campaign against the Siberian stronghold. D O ING S IN C O N G R E S8. Tuesday, February 21. The house today passed the P h ilip pine tariff bill, practically as it came from the committee. The river and harbor appropriation bill was then taken up but it was soon laid aside and several measures were passed, the most important of which was the authorisa tion given the secretary of war to return to the several states the Union and Con federate battleflags. The senate committee today reported that it would be impossible to act on the railroad rate b ill at this session without ignoring the railroads. Con sideration of the Indian appropriatoin bill was begun. A short time was given to the defense of Judge Swayne, and the senate began the consideration of the bill for the government of the isthmian canal zone. Wednesday. February 22. Government ownership of railroads was discussed by the senate today in connection with the purchase of the Panama railroad, while the b ill for the government of the canal zone was under consideration. Consideration of the b ill was not completed when the senate adjourned. A number of witnesses were exam ined in behalf of Judge Swayne in the impeachment proceedings against him. After a brief but spirited debate the house today sent back to conference the army appropriation b ill. A ll sen ate amendments were again disagreed to, excepting one appropriating $85,- 000 for continuing the cable from Valdes to Seward, Alaska. Friday, February 24. The time of the senate today was divided twtween the> Swayne impeach ment trial and the motion of Beveridge to appoint conferees on the joint state hood bill. I t is the expectation that a vote on the Swayne matter w ill be reached Monday. No agreement was reached in the appointment of state hood conferees. A resolution was introduced in the house directing the attorney general to proceed against the armor plate trust. A number of pension bills from the senate were considered, altogether 125 being passed. Four hours was given to the sundry civil appropriation bill. Saturday, February 26. The house today divided its time be tween legislation and patriotic exer cises. An hour and a half was spent in passing minor bills. The same period was devoted to the sundry ap propriation bill, without reaching a conclusion. Legislation then gave way to speeches by several members honor ing the memory of Houston and Aus tin ; when the marble statues of each, given by the state of Texas, were ac cepted . Some sharp criticisms of the presi dent’ s policy towads Santo Domingo and in enlarging the navy wail indulged in today by senators on both sides during the debate on the naval appropriation bil. A vote on the Swayne impeachment case w ill be taken Monday. Monday. February 27. Charles Swayne, district judge of the- Northern district of Florida, was today acquitted by the senate of all 12 ar ticles of impeachment against hipi. President Roosevelt’ s policy of build ing up a great navy came in for more criticism today in the senate when the naval appropriation b ill was under con sideration. The bill was passed, carry ing appropriations of $100,300,000. The house agreed to the conference report on the army appropriation b ill. The sundry civil appropriation b ill was passed, carrying $45,272,280. Awful Crimes Stain Baku. Baku, Feb. 25. — The town is now- quiet. A ll the Armenian shops have been closed, but the banks are doing business under m ilitary protection. Order has been restored at Balakhany, but at Romany today strikers attacked two factories and as a result 30 persons were killed or wounded. In Baku many terrible murders have been committed. Manager Adamoff, of the Naphtha Re fining works, his wife and children, were burned to death. Pastes Taken by Japanese. Mukden, Feb. 28.— The Russians re port that the Japanese are in posses sion of Taling, and also the pass be tween Taling and Katouling. The pos session of Taling threatens Fusharnk, Tiepling and Hiegesway. Taling is re garded as of the same consequence to the Japanese in their operations against Mukden as was Motienling in relation to Liao Yang. In case the Japanese push on to the southeast, their operations w ill be in the hills. Anti-Salt Trust Measure Killed. Topeka, Feb. 28.— A house concur rent resolution calling for an investiga tion of the salt trust was defeated by a vote of 57 to 19. It was necessary for the resolution to receive a two-thirds vote, or 63 votes.