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NEWS OF THE WEEK la a Condensed Fcrnj (or Our Busy Readers. HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS A Resume of the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. Nine miners were smothered in a coal mine at Garfield, Pa. Many Japanese soldiers commit sui cide when defeat seems at hand. Chinese have reported to Kuropatkin that the Japanese have lost 203-Meter hill, but the latter cliam not. It is officially reported in Paris that the attorney general has recommended a retrial of the Dreyfus case. The Japanese are reported to have raptured another tort at Port Arthur, with heavy loss to the Russians. A pang of bell boys, organized to steal the property of guests has been discovered in the Chicago downtown hotels by the police. Four Denver men have lxen found guilty of repeating at the November election and sentenced to sis months m jail and to pay a $100 fine. Robert S. MeConniek, American am bassador to Russia, who has been on a two months' vacation in the United States, has returned to his post. Two of the largest plants of the Illi nosi Steel company in South Chicago are to resume operations the first of the year. Their reopening will mean employment to at least 3,000 men. The sultan of Morocco has issued an order expelling all foreign missions, delegates and employes at present at tached to his rourt at Fez. He is afraid his brother will be made sultan. It is probable that a part of the new Russian loan will be placed in New York. The present war in the Far East has proved itneresting relative to the value of the balloon in time of war. Ab erak in the Pacific coast sugar pool is looked for. Sir large firms of San Francisco have withdrawn. The cotton manufacturers of Fall River, Mass., have refused the offer of the union to arbitrate the differences between the two organizations. The postmaster general has removed two rural mail carriers charged with efforts to influence legislation. One was from Colorado and the other Ohio. But one bid on the govrenment con tract for more than 2,000,000 feet of lumber to be used at Manila, was found when the bids were opened at Tacoma. It was from a Tacoma firm. The 1905 fair will contain 2,500 in dividual exhibits. There will be 25 exhibit buildings. The fair site covers 182 acres of land and 220 acres of water. The project of the exposition will involve an outlay of about $3, 000,000. Dispatches from Western Pennsyl vania are to the effect that industrial activity in many centers is threatened on account of the protracted drouth. Unless conditions change soon it is pos sible thousands of men may be thrown out of employment in the mills, mines and coke fields. Claims against the Russian govern ment on account of the North sea affair aggregate $600,000. The Minnesota state board of pardons has released the brother of ex-Mayor Ames of Minneapolis. Governor Bates, of Massachusetts, has tendered his good officers and urges a termination of the Fall River strike. One of those accused of illegal voting at the recent eleciton in Denver was a girl who is said not to have been of age. Mukden has recovered from from its panic caused by the retreat of the Rus sian army and the Manchurian town has resumed its wonted aspect. Many witnesses wanted in the Smoot investigation have fled to Canada and cannot be reached. Those who have testified say that polygamy is openly practiced,by the Mormons and many plural marriages have occurred since the manifesto was issued. The Chicago university has just re ceived gifst amounting to $437,370. Eight persons were killed in the wreck of the Crocker hotel in Minne apolis. The sultan of Morocco has removed foreigners and will take charge of his own army. There has been a great increase in the number of accidents on railroads during the past year. The Federal grand jury is now in ses sion at Portland behind closed doors, investigating various land frauds. BLUFF IS CALLED. England Can Have War Quickly, Says Kaiser Wilhelm. Berlirt, Doc. 24. Sensational corre spoudonco has passed between the tier man and British governments during the last four weeks with reference to the warlike and provacative attitude adopted toward Germany by the semi official British press, especially the Army and Navy Gazette. The kaiser took a hand in the negotiations and made his vigorous personality felt in a positive way. He instructed that the British cabinet should bo informed in effect that if England wanted war it could have it immediately, if it was not desirous of such an event the talk which Germany considered ail' , affront must stop. Both Count Wolff-Metternich, Ger man amlvassador in London, and Sir F. C. I-ascelles, British ambassador at Berlin, were called home by their re spective governments to discuss the situation. The publications which indmed the German government to assume its strong attitude were a series of articles in the Army and Navy Gazette, culmi nating in the declaration that the kais er's navy was so rapidly lnvoming a menace to Great Britain that war would better bo declared now in order that the German tloet might lie de stroyed before it should Uvome a still greater danger. Both Premier Balfour and Lord Lans downe have Ihhmi told that Germany is impatient of this distrust of its naval policy, which it accuses the National Review, the Army and Navy Gazette and other papers of generating among the British eople. The Fatherland wishes Britain to understand once for all that it has not the slightest inten tion of abandoning the development of its navy and its merchant marine at British Wheat, no matter how mucij of a bogey they constitute. LONDON IN A BLACK FOG. Traffic Almost at Standstill Through out the Metropolis. London, Dec. 24. London was en veloped today in a black fog, more dense than anything witnessed during the last two years. In many places the traffic was almost completely stop ped, and the greatest care was neces sary to avoid accidents, a numlier of which have already Wen reported. As night closed down and the density increased, vehicle traffic in the most crowded sections of the center of Lon don was completely suspended. Some of the scenes witnessed were pitiful, some were ridiculous, and the whole was extremley weird. There were in stances in which women became hys terical, and even the police lost their sense of direction, and omnibus drivers became confused and drove on the side walks, until finally all traffic was held up. At the main crossings and on the streets leading thereto, long shadowy lines of omnibusses, cabs and wagons loaded with Christinas packages stood motionlses. The most brilliant elec tric lights only served to make the darkness visible. Torchboys were very busy. BRITISH DOCKING CHEAPER. Attention of President Called to Con ditions at Bremerton. Washington, Dec. 24. President Roosevelt's attention was invited today by Representative Humphrey, of Washington, to a telegram received by Mr. Humphrey from some of his constituents, protesting against what is declared to be exorbitant tonnage rates charged at theBremerton naval station for the docking add repair of vessels. The telegram calls attention to a charge of 10 cents a ton for the docking of the steamer Shawmut, the owners declaring that they could have the work done at the British dock at Esquimalt for 3 cents at ton. The charges at the American station result, Mr. Humphrey says, in a large amount of such work going to the British sta tion, to the detriment of the Ameri cans. This matter will be considered by the officials of the Navy depart ment. Examination of the Nigretta. Tokio, Dec. 24. The examination of the cargo, passengers and crew of the British steamer Nigretta, which was seized by the Japanese cruiser Tsu shima is progressing at Sasebo. Seem ingly it is undetermnied whether parole-breaking Russian officers, are on Ward the Nigretta. The Japanese are investigating this feature of the case because of the question of the ability of the Chinese officials properly to con duct the internment of Russians who seek refuge at ports in China. It is considered vitally important. Philippine Tariff Bill Ready. Washington, Dec. 24 Secretary Taft and Colonel Edwards, chief of the in sular bureau of the War department, today practically completed the work of putting the proposed revision of the Philippine tariff in shape for presenta tion to congress in the form of a pre pared draft of a bill. ENVELOPED IN A FOG Easiness Is Very Generally Sus pended In England. THAMES IS JAMMED WITH SHIPS Link Boys With Torches Furnish the Only Useful Lights in London No Sign of Pall Lifting. London, Dec 2fl. There is as yet no sign of the lifting of the fog which envelops the kingdom. The aWeuce of wind throughout Great Britain is al most unprecedented, and meteorologists do not expect any change in the con ditions for another 24 hours. Consid ering the almost insuperable difficul ties attending locomotion of any form, the number of fatal accidents has Wen remarkably small. The congestion and suspension of business are very general. So far as Itmlou is concerned, the tuW railways are the only concerns Wnelittod, and their daily traffic is reaching record figures. A condition resembling chaos pre vails in the postal service. All rail way trains are many hours late and many trains between London and the suburbs occupy a couple of hours in making the distance of eight miles. Mail boats in all directioons are sim ilarly disorganized. Onlv two vessels entered the port of Loudon yesterday, a condition of affairs such as has not occurred for til) years. The mouth of the river is jammed with vessels loaded with perishublo foodstuffs of all de scriptions. The streets of London present re markable scenes. Nothing is visible except link Wys torches and the occa sional flare of big creosote lights which the authorities are beginning to employ to assist traffic. HEADS OFF LANDGRABBERS. President Hays Has Cold Water for Rush to Port Simpson. Vancouver, B. C, Dec. 20. With the idea of preventing any rush to Port Simpson or Kitten island, C. M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway, has publicly announced that the mere filing of plans with the railway department at 'Ottawa does not signify that either of those places will W selected as the terminus of the line. Said he: "It simply supplies the gov ernment with information regarding what the company may ultimately re quire." .Mr. Hays lias again declared that it may be some time before defi nite announcement can W made as to where the British Columbia end of the new transcontinental line will be situ ated. He said in an interview: "We have not definitely determined the Western terminus. We always say Port Simpson, but when we make use of that expression we mean any point within 50 miles of the place. There are three or four inlets, all of about equal merit, that wo might use, but before we reach a decision quite a num ber of hydrographic surveys must first be made. Nothing has been done along that line on the Pacific coast for a number of years." As for the prairie section of the line, preparations are well under way for commencing construction at Winnipeg, both east and west, as soon as the snow goes in the spring. -Mr. Hays has stated that the financial arrange ments necessary to the successful flota tion of the scheme have all been made, and the outlook for the satisfactory in auguration of the big work is very bright. Weakened and May Be Dissolved. San Francisco, Dec. 26. Purchases of the four sugar jobbing firms which have seceded from the Pacific Traffic and Commercial association, aggregated approximately 40 per cent of the sugar bought by the asosciation from the re fineries, and the dissolution of that organization seems presaged. The four firms are Haas Bros., Tillman & Ben del, Sussman, Wormser & Co. and the Lewin-Meyer company. Whether or not the association is able to carry on, it will be considerably "weakened by the loss of these firms. Torpedo Boat Sighted. St. Petersburg, Dec. 2(1. According to a local paper a number of English fishermen have appeared before the Russian consul in London and have de posed to have seen foreign torpedo boats among the Hull fishing fleet. Their depositions, it is added, will be sub mitted to the international commis sion, now in Paris, the circumstancse under which they were obtained Wing explained. MOROS AT PEACE. Slave Trade In Philippines Put Down ' by General Woed. Washington, Dec. 22. General Wood, commanding the department of Mindanao, Philippine division, in his annual report to the War department, said that the troops at the department have Wcu in the field a greater portion of the year, quelling armed uprisings and preventing slave trade and kindred abuses. He says that in almost every instance actual fighting was initiated ly the Moros. "Conditions among the Moros throughout the department are gener ally peaceful," says Genreal Wood, who adds: "The establishment of civil govern ment and the extension over them of certain laws and regulations has can six 1 some excitement and at times serious resistance, especially the law prohibit ing slavery. In some sections active hostility has been engendered by our presence, especially in the Lake 1-anuo region, where almost constant murder ous attacks on workingmen and soldiers were the rule until the effects of the recent expeditions to the Tarca side of the lake, combined with expeditions to other sections of the I jinao, were felt by the Moros." The power of the Moros of that see Hon, he says, has Imh-ii completely broken. Continuing, the report says: "In Join affairs are quiet. The prompt crushing of the Hassans upris ing has made a deep impression on the people, and the abrogation of the Bates agreement has done much to bring to an end the unfortunate conditions which existed under it." Dato Alis party, the report adds, is the only band of Moros now openly hostile, and it is small and is Wing followed by troops and scouts. General Wood says it is Wlieved there will not W any very serious resistance of au thority by the Moros in the future, but there will lie constant police work. FAVOR MUNICIPAL CONTROL. New York Citizen' Union Committee Adopts Resolutions. Shanghai, IVc. 22. A report bus reached here that the captain of the Russian torpedo boat destrover Grozo- voi, which was dismantled at Shanghai, August 20, lust, has Wen discovered on board the British steamer Nigretta, which was seized bv the Japanese pro tected cruiser Tsushima off I'lsan, Co- rea. Charts ami documents which would have Wen of incalculable value to the Russians are said to have Iieen found on the captain's person. The report, which is generally cred ited here, somewhat conflicts with that contained in an earlier dispatch, in which it was stated that Captain Rcit- zenstein, of the cruiser Askold, also disarmed in August at Shanghai, was the officer who hud attempted to reach ladivostok on the Nigretta. In either case it is Wlieved the Japanese will hold the Chinese authorities strictly responsible for the escape of the officer from Shanghai. Great Britain is also likelv to be re quired to clear herself in the mutter unless the rumor circulated here is cor rect that the captain disguised himself as a French officer and in that manner secured passage on the Nigretta. CAPTURED AT SEA. Russian Officer was Carrying Valuable Papers to Vladivostok. New York, Dec. 22. The city com mittee of the Citizens' union has adopt ed resolutions favoring an extension of municipal control of public utilities, a municipal lighting plant, purchase of electrical conduits and the grant of power by the legislature to the city to biii Id and operate lighting plants, gas and electric. The committee adopted the report of the committee on franchises, which favors presenting to the legislature the constitutional amendment proposed by the "Tilden commission" of 1875, which was that the legislature shall have no power to pass any law "for the opening, making, paving, lighting or otherwise improving or maintaining streets, avenues, parks or places, docks, wharves, or for any other local work or improvements in or for such purposes shall be, by law, conferred on the city government." Potatoes for the Starving. Greeley, Colo., Dec. 22. Mayor II. C. Watson issued a call today for a mass meeting Saturday next to consider a proposition to donate a large quanti ty of potatoes to the starving poor of Irleand. Similar meetings will be held at Fort Collins. It is believed the farmers of northern Colorado will contribute several bunded carloads of potatoes if the trans portation were ar ranged for. The government will bo asked to furnish a transport to carry the potatoes from Galveston to Ire land. To Meet Baltic Fleet. London, Dec. 22. The Daily Mail's correspondent at Hong Kong says he has learned on trustworthy authority that a powerful Japanese squadron of battleships and armored cruisers is proceeding south, accompanied by 15 colliers and transports, to attack the Russian Baltic squadron. F. P. MAYS Federal Grand Jury Charges Him With Fraud. HELD TO BELONG TO LAND RING McKlnlsy, Putsr, Ware and Others In dieted with Him State Sena tor Denies Any Guilt. Portland, IVc. 23. The grand Jury of the United States has said that Franklin Pierce Mays, state senator and attorney, of Portland, is guilty of conspiracy to defraud the government out of a portion of its public lands sit uatcd in township 24 south, range 1 east, and has linked with him as fellow-conspirator the names f Horace, ti. McKinley, S. A. H. Puter, Mario L. Ware, Kmma L. Watson, I). W. Tarpley, RoWrt Simpson, John Due and Robert Roe. Judge Bellinger, at the request of iVputy District Attorney Henry, fixed the lmd of Mr. Mays at $4,1)00, the same in amount as has Inh ii asked of the other defendants. The bonds in the previous cases were allowed to stand against the new indictment in the case of the rest of the defendants. Mr. Mays is very indignant at the unfair treatment which, he says, has been shown him by the government attorneys. He asked that he W al lowed to go before the jury, declaring that he would W able to explain any testimony brought against him, and to show that he was not criminally con nected with the Putcr-Wntsoii ring, but' that he bad aroused their dis pleasure and was beinsg foi,-;sl to pay for it. He will maintain his inno cence in the courtroom ami is confi dent that he will W able,toshow that there was a mistake made in his case when the indictment was returned against him. DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Monday, December 10. No business of importance was trans acted in either house today, the entire time they were in session Wing taken up by discussion of minor measures. Many senators and representatives were absent. Adjournment was taken until edncsdiiy. Wednesday, December 21. After a session of four minutes dera tion the senate adjourned today until January 4 next. The proceedings con sisted of a prayer by the chaplain, the reading o( the journal of Monday brief session and the receipt of a num lier of nominations from the president. In the house a bill was introluced to "secure the full use of the I'nitod States rural mail equipment and to place the rural service on a paying basis." Two bills were introduced providing for a place to care for lepers. The house then adjourned until Janu ary 4. CHINESE ARE IMPLICATED. Japanese Accuse Enemy of Enlisting Coolies In War. General Oku's Headquarters, Dec, 23, via Fusun. It is believed by the Japanese that the Russians are em ploying Chinese to damage the Japan ese lines of communicution, and they have no doulit that Chinese were em ployed by the Russians to burn tho magazines at Lino Yang The Japan ese say that if they arrest any Chinese engaged ill so fulfilling their obliga tions to their employers they will exe cute them, as a winning to other Chi nese against a repetition of the offense. The Japanese believe that these measures are required to wipe out tho Russian system of employing Chinese for such work. They say they know that tho Russians are spending enor mous sums for this purpose. Squeezing the Poor Chinese. London, Dec. 23. The correspondent at Pekin of tho Times, telegraphs Ai follows: "China having consented to pay tho indemnity (growing out of the Boxer troubles) in gold, tho ministers of Russia, Germany and France are now disputing among themselves as to what fresh terms they can extort from the Chinese and seeking to force an arrange ment whereby certain banks will make further profit out of the indemnity. Great Britain supports China, who counts upon America and Japan to se cure a just settlement." Work Given to Widows. Washington, Dec. 23. Secretary Taft today issued unorder directing tho quartermaster general to award the making of some 55,000 pairs of trous ers for the enlisted men from the army at the Schuylkill arsenal, Philadelphia, to seamstresses in that city, mainly the widows and orphans of soldiers, thus settling a question raised some time ago, so far as the present lot is concerned. INDICT