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EVENTS OF THE DAY
Review of the Import,
lags of tfce Past Wook,
la Coadoaaod Porn, Moot
cAkely to Provo li
Secretary of State Hay is again ill
with the grip.
r
Port Arthur forts are running short
of ammunition.
Interior department officials ser­
iously object to Roosevelt’s new for­
est reserve order.
Russia will consider the granting of
cable concessions by America as a
breach of neutrality.
Contrary to rumors circulating, Ex-
President Kruger, of the Transvaal,
is in the best of health.
Clarence Mackay proposes to organ­
ize a trust to handle the companies
originated by his father.*
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The report of the American com­
mander at Chemulpo shows that RUs*
sian criticism was unwarranted.
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An Alabama Negro, who shot two
mail clerks, has been run down, and
is now in jail guarded by state mili­
tia to prevent lynching.
A bill has been Introduced in con­
gress to allow the Philippines to is­
sue $10,000,000 of non-taxable bonds
for public improvements.
The house has passed a great num­
ber of pension bills.
Russia has issued a proclamation
setting forth the contrabands of war.
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xtisfled European
France is now
drawn into the
powers will not
war.
Advance guard of the two armies
meet near Ping Yang and a slight en­
gagement followed.
Russian demeanor toward Ameri­
cans at St. Petersburg is no longer
one of friendliness.
Land office clerks deny on stand
that speculator Benson paid them for
inside information.
Russia has a force scattered from
Wiju, on the Yalu river, to Jokunshan,
on the bay of Corea.
Japanese expect their fleet to con-
tiue its attack on Port Arthur until it
falls or is made untenable.
Orégon senators have opened a fight
on the Frye shipping bill, declaring it
discriminates against the Columbia.
A determined effort is being made
to increase the salary of rural mail-
carters. A t their present pay they
only make a bare living.
The house has passed the naval ap­
propriation bill.
Chicago strikes involving 23,000
men are greatly feared during March.
Ex-minister of France says her navy
is too weak to attempt to aid Russia.
Seattle, Feb. 29.—Fourteen people
lost their lives as the result of the
lire on the Pacific Coast Steamship
Company’s steamer Queen from San
Francisco to Seattle, early yesterday
morning. The origin of the fire is as
yet unknown. It started in the social
hall of the vessel at about 4:30 in the
morning, and raged for three hours
before it was got under control.
When the conflagration was first
discovered, the life boats, containing
the women and children and many
men,* were launched, but three of
these, owing to the heavy seas, were
capsized, spilling the passengers in
the water and causing the loss of their
lives. Three men, waiters on the ves­
sel, were suffocated before they could
reach the outer air in safety from
their bunks in the glory hole in the
after part of the ship, and one woman
died from exposure.
According to the stories told by
passengers and crew of .the Queen,
which arrived in this port at 5 o’clock
this afternoon, the vessel was off T il­
lamook and about 30 miles from land
when the fire was discovered. There
was a heavy Bea on, and the ship
was pitching badly. When smoke was
discovered coming out of the social
hall on 1 the aft of the main deck of
the vessel the crew Immediately rout­
ed out and the hose manned, while the
stewards went from cabin to cabin
waking up the passengers. There was
no disorder, either among crew or pas­
sengers.
RUSSIAN
SCO UT8
D R IV E N
BACK
Japanese Encounter Infantrynjen
Neighborhood of Ping Yang.
in
Tokio, March 2.— The first shots of
the war on land were exchanged yes­
terday at Ping Yang. A small detach­
ment of Russian infantry, evidently
scouts, appeared this morning to the
northward of the town. The Japan­
ese outposts opened fire from a range
of 1700 meters, and the Russians re­
tired. The telegram reporting the in­
cident fails to mention any casualties.
It is presumed there was none, on ac­
count of the small number of men en­
gaged, and the distance separating
the opposing forces.
It is anticipated here that there will
be a small engagement soon some­
where in Northern Corea, where the
Russians are scouting over an extend­
ed area, close to the Japanese posi­
tions, but a general engagement is not
expected to occur for some time.
The Russian force south of the
Yalu River is inconsiderable, its
greatest strength seeming to be in the
vicinity of Wiji. North of the Yalu
the Russian army 1. con.ta.tly in-
creasing In numbers, and is being
mobilized, but the chances of its as­
suming the offensive are still slight.
Corea has decided to order her Japan is constantly strengthening its
trooops to join the Japanese forces in position and increasing its . force in
Corea.
the field.
RUSSIA*« AQAIN LOSE IN BATTLE
?A T PORT ARTHUR.
One
Boat task sad Two Battle«
stales Badly Damaged — Attacking
Pleat Which Withdraws la Oeed Or­
der. is Met
Sooa leek Shelter.
London,. March 2.—A dispatch to
the Daily Telegraph from .Yinkow,
dated February 29, says:
Fifteen Japanese warships furious­
ly bombarded Port Arthur from 10 un­
til 12 o’clock this morhing. The Rus­
sian cruisers Novik, Askold and Bay-
an, accompanied by four torpedo-
boats, steamed out to meet the at­
tack. They were, however, forced to
retire. The- Askold was in a sinking
condition. The Novik was badly dam­
aged, and a torpedo-boat was sunk.
The Russian battleship
ftetvlzan
was again damaged. The Japanese
withdrew in good order.
This battle shows a repetition of
the now familiar tactics of Japan, and
it is presumed the attack was made in
bad weather, previous telegraphic ad­
vices having reported a severe gale
raging at Port Arthur. As usual the
Japanese did not remain long enough
off the harbor to enable the gunners
at the fort to get their range. Again
at the time the three cruisers, the
Bayan, the Askold and Novik, came
out to meet the attack, and this sug­
gests that either they were the only
effective ships there, or that the
larger battleships were unable to get
out.
Many alleged dispositions of the op­
posing forces are published this morn­
ing, but they differ too much in de­
tail to be of any* great value.
A dispatch from Shanghai to the
Daily Chronicle says the Russians are
transferring the guns from the dis­
abled ships at Port Arthur to the
forts there.
A dispatch from Chefoo to the
Standard, dated February 29. says a
Japanese cruiser and torpedo-boat en­
tered that harbor without lights at 1
o’clock on the morning of the 29th,
and it is believed they embarked the
Japanese who took refuge there after
the attempt to bottle up Port Arthur.
A Tokio correspondent . of the
Times cables that the steamers stink
by the Japanese on either side of the
Russian battleship Retvizan at Port
Arthur practically obstruct the en­
trance to the harbor.
N O T R £ L I8 H E D BY RUSSIANS.
Chinese Troops Are Consentrating to
the Westward of Mukden.
FIRE R U IN « CAPITOL.
Madison, Wisconsin, Feb. 29. —The
fire nt the Wisconsin i stats capitol
building caused a loss of $800,000.
The fire means the building of a new
capitol, a special session of the legis­
lature and the probable renewal of the
agitation in favor of the removal of
the capitol from Madison to Milwau­
kee.
The fire was caused by defective el­
ectric wiring. A t 8 o’clock it had com­
pletely ruined the east and west wings
containing the senate and assembly
chambers and the departments of the
tax commission, the adjutant-general,
railroad commissioner, state school su­
perintendent, superintendent of pro­
perty, ooard of agriculture, state nor­
mal school, commissioner of fisheries,
fish and game warden, state board of
pharmacy, state land office, dairy and
food commissioner, state treasurer,
commissioner of labor, governor, sec­
retary of state, *state board of control
and insurance commission, the su­
preme court, law library, and the state
library commission.
rracticSily all the valuable state
records are bellved to be safe. Most
of them remain in masonry and steel
vaults in the ruins.
Fire apparatus was sent from Mil­
waukee.
Governor Schofield maintained in­
surance on the building throughout
his term totalling $600,000, but the
last legislature instituted an insurance
fund and directed the state’s officers
to allow the insurance policies to
lapse.
In June last there lapsed $510,000,
and in December $90,000. There is in
the insurance fund at the present time
about $6000 to meet the loss.
The fire practically devastated every
portion of the capitol building, with
the exception of the north end. This
was saved, but is in such a delapidat-
ed condition that this portion, togeth­
er with the standings walls, will have
to be torn down.
Governor La Follette was early on
the scene, and by his coolness and
self possession did much to enforce
order among the workers. All the
contents of the immense law library
were carted out, together with a large
quantity of other books and papers.
The priceless records stored in the
Grand Army room also were saved.
Chief Charles Bernard was over­
come by smoke and fell from a ladder,
receiving serious injuries. He is un­
conscious.
From an original cost of $60,000 in
1837, appropriations from time to time
for new additions made the tost of
the state capitol to date about $900,-
000.
R U 8H TR O O P 8 ON.
Liao
Yang, March
2.—General
Mishtchenko, 'with a detachment of Japanese and Russian Armies Draw­
mounted
Cossacks,
has
reached.
ing Together.
KashnJa, Corea, and is expected at
Wei Hal Wei, March 1.— A lengthy
Ichio Yang at once. His men and
horses are in good condition and he is description of the progress of the Jap­
well supplied with provisions.
anese operations in Corea has been re­
concentration
Chinese
ceived over the new wireless tele
. The
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district of Gubantsa, is not relished
by the Russians. War material is being muplo and Wei Hai Wei. During the
Brought up and the militia posts are past few days but few troops have been
being strengthened. It is doubted if landed from transports^the chief work
the attitude of the population can be
relied upon. The people at several having been the landing of supplies
points refuse to sell produce to the and 4500 ponies. These latter will be
Snowstorms are raging used for the transport of artillery and
Military experts predict a great J A P A N E 8E S H IP S H E A D IN G BACK Russians.
here
and
the
frost is intense. The by the corps commanders. It is esti­
battle bn the Yalu river and a Japan­
railroad
is
working
perfectly and mated by the Times correspondent
ese victory.
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troops are arriving uninterruptedly. that there has been landed, since the
Leave for Port Arthur.
President Roosevelt has issued a
Their health and spirits are excellent. Japanese invasion began a total of 20,-
proclamation putting the Panama
000 soldiers, including the entire
Wei Hai Wei, March 2.— A portion
canal treaty into effect.
Twelfth division and a part of the
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Second
division. The Imeprial guards
By the collapse of a high scaffold at off the Shantung coast this morning.
who
are
expected to constitute the ad­
Russian
M
ilitary
Authorities
Have
No
the Chicago postofflce one man was
vance,
have
not as yet arrived. The
The
warships
are
believed
to
have
killed and 35 others narrowly escaped
Fears fo r Port A'rthur.
artillery consists of six batteries at­
been
coaling
and
replenishing
their
his fate.
Moscow,
March
2. — Interest tached to the Twelfth division. The
Dissolution of the English parlia­ supplies of ammunition preparatory throughout Russia is now fixed on guns are chiefly of the rapid fire va­
ment is at hand and King Edward is to rejoining the ships at Port Arthur Port Arthur, and speculation as to the riety, and designed especially for
prepared to have Lord 8pencer form and renewing the bombardment of probable fate of that supposedly im­ mountain use. When in shape for
pregnable fortress takes the widest transportation, five ponies are requir­
a new cabinet.
that port.
ranged""—
ed to transport each gun and carriage,
Min Mong Chul, the new Corean
Receiver Booth, of the Roseburg,
The publication of General Stos- and the„ members of the batteries are
Oregon, land office has severed his Minister to China, who is proceeding sel’s order to the troops, while it has declared to be unusually expert in
connection with the lumber company, to Pekin, paid an official visit to the had the effect of arousing enthusiasm the use of the arms.
thus removing the objection of Roos­ British Commissioner at Wei Hai Wei in Russia, had also attracted atten­
It is reported that roops are being
today. He expressed the opinion that tion to the tremendous strategic val­ landed teAm all bodies along the coast
evelt to his re-appointment.
the new Japanese-Corean treaty will ue of that fortress and to the crucial
Ten children were badly burned at greatly strentghen Corea and give the part it playa in Russia’s plans for the immediately soutn of Wiju. Thse can
easily reach the Pekin Toad, along
a fire In a church in Cincinnati.
country renewed life for the future.
defeat of the Japanese in Corea.
which the Rusians are reported to be
Coreans, he said, recognize Japan’s
While the failure of the Japanese encamped. By landing troops here
''The president has fixed his signa­ honest intentions regarding their fu­
attempt to bottle up the fleet evoked instead of at Chemmpo the Japanese
ture to the Panama canal treaty.
ture welfare, and he considered that sarcastic comment from the Russian commander succeeds in placing them
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China 1 b sure to Join Japan as soon the future development of Corea Is press as to the Japanese cunning and five days nearer the scene of prospec­
now assured.
Japan will prevail the miscarriage of the enemy’s plans, tive hostilities. Eight thousand Japa­
as her army wins a great victory.
against Russia, he said, and Corea the Russian military authorities are nese regulars, accompanied by a
Russia is very angry with Britain will do all in her power to bring this pointing out that this attempt having, mountain battery, are reported to be
over Lansdowne’s book on Thibet.
about.
been defeated, therefore it must fol­ advancing beyond Seoul towards Ping
low Port Arthur is impregnable and Yang, at which ' place 350 Japanese
Russian merchants have adopted a
the Japanese can never capture It.
No
Great
8ea
Battle.
scouts are encamped.
policy of retaliation against America.
Tokio, March 2.— As the campaign Original force of Rebels Was 3000.
The Panama canal company will in
Russians Route Japanese.
Manilla. March 2.—General Leon­
no way block the trahsfer of property progresses it seems that the chances
St. Petersburg, March 1.— A dis­
are growing slimmer for a great ard Wood reports, under date of Feb-
to the United States.
pitched battle on the open sea be­ inary 15, an engagement with Datto- patch received here from Lioa Yang
The senate has passed the agricul­ tween the fleets of modern battleships M oto 8, under Hasan, on the Island of dated February 28 says that Chinese
tural and legislative, executive and which the world has long awaited. It Jollo. Lieutenant West and six pri­ on the Yalu river report that an ad­
Judicial appropriation bills.
is believed here that the Russians vates were wounded. One has since vance guard of Ruslan cavalry, which
lack the strength t o ' assume the of-
has penetrated Corea for a distance
The house has turned down amend­ ensive and that they will probably d:ed. The Moro loss was heavy.
of about 200 versts across the river,
Hasan
succeeded
in
making
his
es­
ments to strike out a battleship and stick to Port Arthur doggedly to
cape. His original force of 3000 has had :an encounter with a detachment
cruisers from the naval appropriation await a Sea and land investment.
now been reduced to 15. The island Is of Japanese and that the Japanese
bill.
Whoever wins the war.iPort Arthur now under control of the American were compelled to retreat and fled,
Japanese forces have landed at Pos­ will undoubtedly cease to be an im­ authority, and Influential Moron are leaving their horses, which were seiz­
ait bay and advanced to Hun Chan. portant base. The fortifications will aiding in the pursuit of the outlaws. ed by Cossacks. General, Linevitch
The Russian garrison on their ap­ probably be dismantled.
The members of the constabulary despatched cavalry and a body of in­
proach fled to Kirin without firing a
who revolted at Vlgan are all in cus­ fantry in pursuit and with an order
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shot.
tody.
----------- to occupy Northern Corea.
Odessa, March 2.—The orders that
Russia is pouring troops into Port
W ill Not Advance fo r Month.
were issued a week ago to the two
Chinese Troops to the Front.
Arthur at a rapid rate.
Paris. March *2.—Reports received
regiments of infantry at Kishlnef and
Pekin, March 1.— Since February 23
The United States has ordered the one at Bendory have been rescind­ from Russian sources state that the
four troop trains have left Pao Ting
troops to Panama to relieve marines.
ed, and the commandants of three Russian land preparations In Man­ Fu for the Northwestern frontier. The
churia will not be completed for a
Two members of a desperate robber regiments have been ordered to fibld month, and the general advance can- last contingent- leaves today on two
their
commands
in
readiness
(or
ac­
trains, completing the force of 10,000
band have been captured in Califor­
tion with contingencies in the Bal­ ndt be ordered before that time. It troops. These troops are all regulars
nia.
that
whatever and their equipment is excellent. They
kans. This Is construed as meaMng is then expected
Russian military officials are confl that the Russian government now ground the Japanese have gained will will be replaced by troops from Shan
dent the war will be over by Septem­ considers war between Bulgaria and be overcome and they will be finally Tung province.
Turkey as Inevitable.
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annihilated.
ber.
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FOUR SHIPS LOST
Wisconsin Must Reconstruct Its Fins
•ta ts Building.
JAPANESE FOOL RUSSIANS BY USE
OF SIQNALS.
Torpedo Boots at Fort Arthur Captured
and Crews Mode
Ooos to HoiMs—B
5trtct|y a Naval
SL Petersburg, Feb. 29.—A
dis­
patch from Port Arthur, data Febru­
ary 26, says:
“ A t 1 o’clock this morning several
Japanese torpedo boats were sighted
from here, with their sails set for the
purpose of disguising their character.
The battleship Retvlsan and the shore
batteries opened fire on them and con­
tinued firing until daybreak without
any visible result
“A fter daybreak a Japanese squad­
ron, apparently conveying troops, was
sighted. A t a quarter past 11 th«i
squadron came nearer and an engage­
ment, which lasted 40 minutes, en­
sued. There was’ no damage. Few
shells fell In Port Arthur. It Is ex­
pected here that the Japanese will at­
tempt a landing soon.
“ An Inspection of the Japanese fire,
ships sent into this harbor on Febru­
ary 24 shows they were loaded with
coal and kerosene and that electrical
Infernal machines had been placed in
the midst of the cargo.”
BIG L 0 8 8 BY F IR E .
by a
$3,500,000.
Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 29.—A t sun­
set tonight ten engines were pouring
streams of water on the ruins of most
of the retail dry goods quarter of
Rochester. Three of the five depart­
ment stores in Rochester were con­
sumed in today’s fire, which caused
al oss of more than $3,000,000. The
Sibley, Lindsay A Curr Company, the
largest retail store in Rochester, was
destroyed. Of the loss, $735,000 rep­
resents buildings and the remainder
stocks and furnishings. It is said 2500-
persons are thrown out of work by
the fire.
The burned region lies on the north
side of Main street, between St. Paul
street and Clinton avenue, north, run­
ning from St. Paul street almost the
eutire length of the block. The fire-
started in the store of the Rochester
Dfy Goods Company and worked west,
burning only one store east of this es­
tablishment, that of the Walkover
Shoe Company, before its progress
was checked in that direction. Next
was the store of the Beadle-Sherburne
Company, which was destroyed. Then
the marble block occupied by the Sib­
ley, Lindsay A Curr Company, waa
destroyed, and finally the 13-story
granite building, the lower portion of
which was also occupied by the Sib­
ley, Lindsay A Curr Company and the
upper part by offices, was attacked.
Only the front wall o f the Marble
building is standing tonight. The
shell of the granite building is intact,,
and the floors are in place, but the
building is gutted.
The Sldley, Lindsay A Curr Com­
pany’s six-story wholesale building,
together with the stables in the rear,
was destroyed, with all its valuable
contents, this loss being placed at
$1,460,000.
Rochester, New York, 8wept
F IN D 8 A L L G U IL T Y ,
Jury Renders Verdict In Famous Pos­
tal Fraud Case.
Washington, Feb. 29.— “Guilty as in­
dicted,” was the verdict announced by
the jury in the postoffice conspiracy
trial shortly after 8 o’clock tonight,
stating at the same time that this was
the verdict as to all four defendants,
August W. Machen, ex-general super­
intendent of the rural free delivery di­
vision; George E. Lorenz, of Toledo;
Samuel A. Groff and Diller B. Groff, o f
Washington. The jury had been out
nine hours.
In the dimly lighted room sat tho
four defendants, who, after the case
was given to the Jury, bad been placed
in the custody of a United States
Marshal and confined to the limits o f
the City Hall. Each wore an anxious
look, and a death-like silence fell on
the small crowd which had been per­
mitted to enter the room as the clerk
inquired of the foreman if a verdict
had been reached. The jury to a man
rose ,and as the words “Guilty as in­
dicted” fell from the foreman’s lips
defendants and their counsel seemed
appalled.
Russians Evacuating Dalny.
London, Feb. 29.—The
reported
landing of apanese at Possiet Bay
near Vladivostock has not yet been
confirmed. The Shanghai correspond­
ent of the Daily Telegraph has sent in
news of Japanese military operations.
He asserts that Russians are evaouat-
Lig Dalny. The Russians boast that
they have mined the breakwater
wharves and railroad sidings at Dal­
ny, in order to prevent the Japanese
from making use of these facilities.
This correspondent reports that the-
Russians have supplies for only five
months at Port Arthur.
France and 8paln Sign fo r Arbitration
Paris, Feb. 29.—The foreign office
announced today that a treaty of ar­
bitration between France and Spain
bad been signed today. The terms
are identical withth eercent arbitra­
tion treaties
concluded
between
France and Great Britain and Italy
and Great Britain.