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The remains of Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., who perished in the interior of iLabrador last October, arrived at Hali­ fax on the Bteamer Silvia, which will 'proceed with the body for New York. Edwin A. Wolf of Philadelphia was •elected president of the Jewish Pub­ lication Society of America at the bien- jnial session at Philadelphia. Rev. Dr. jstolz of Chicago was elected an hon- i lorary vice president. Jeremiah Reardon, a Democratic [politician, and John Strobel, recently sergeant-at-arms of the house of dele- Igates, are under arrest at St. Louis pending an investigation into the mys­ terious murder of John Woo<^£. President William Ornstein of Cin­ cinnati, at the annual meeting of Dis­ trict Grand lx>dge No. 2 of the Im- Iproved Order o£ B'Nai Brith at In­ dianapolis, deprecated the mixing of religion with politics, which he said could do "our faith no good." The bull fighters who were engaged to give performances at the St. Louis exposition have left the City of.Mex­ ico for their destination. Dr. J. T. Todd, formerly a member of the legislature, ended a feud of twenty-five years by shooting and •killing R. T. Wall, a banker and brok­ er at Richards, Mo. Mr. Todd sur- Tendered, claiming self-defense. Arguments were begun Friday at Newark, N. J., in the suit of E. H. Harriman and W. S. Pierce to prevent the carrying out of the Hill plan for distributing the securities of the Northern Securities company. f John J. Donahue, aged 19, who dis- ' 'appeared from Sioux City, Iowa, a month ago, after embezzling, it is al­ leged, $5,000 from the J. J. Farrelly Commission company of Chicago, was arrested at Killarney, Ireland. Former Land Commissioner E. S. Boyd and Chief Clerk N. S. Mahulu were arrested at Honolulu on charges , iof embezzlement. Peculations aggre­ gating over $10,000 and extending back for four years are alleged. The Ohio Grand Lodge of Odd Fel- ,k>ws, in session at Youngstown, sus­ tained Grand Master Pavey in exclud­ ing saloonkeepers and bartenders from membership in the of&er, and up- Iheld his suspension of the Graton * lodge for refusing to expel two bar­ tenders and a saloonkeeper. Miss Anna Engel was fatally burned at Fond du Lac, Wis., while preparing •ome varnish and turpentine on a hot etove, preparatory to varniBhing the floor, the turpentine took fire and ig- nlted her clothes. Hugh Matthews, colored, was ex­ ecuted at Ellicott City, Md., for the murder of Hugh McAvoy, also col­ ored. Strong efforts had been made to secure his pardon, but Gov. War- Held refused to interfere. The cul­ prit made a gallows speech denying ihis guilt. Thieves entered the Roberts, III-, i postofflce, blew the safe and secured $275 in stamps and cash. They es­ caped on a railroad velocipede. William J. Bryan in an address to . 2,000 Democrats at Omaha, denounced z' the reorganizers in the party and c'. urged that they be whipped out of the organization. The Liberty bell will leave Philadel­ phia June 3 for St. Louis, where it will be placed on exhibition at the ex­ position, and will make short stops. en route. In a dispute over cattle at Buford, N. D., Andrew Nohle, vice president i of the Buford Mercantile company, was shot in the head and J. C. San- derson twice in the leg. - Harrison J. Barrett, in testifying in the postal trial in Washington, denied that he had ever received any favors from General Tyner in hia practice before the Postofflce Department. He said fraud orders had been issued • ^gainst several of the companies he < represented. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, In session at Los Angeles, CaL, unanimously adopted a resplution requesting President Roosevelt to urge an immediate decision by the 1 ^postal investigating committee in the. • case of Third Assistant Postmaster General E. C. Madden, who is an hon­ orary member of the organization. The courtmartial has completed the trial of Lieut. William B. Aiken at the Presidio, San Francisco, but the verdict will not be made public until it is reported to Gen. Mac Arthur. Justice Anderson of the district equity court at Washington signed the decree in the Knights of Labor case directing the Hayes faction to deliver immediately to the Burns adherents • all the property of the order. The Hayes faction gave notice of -an ap­ peal. The Allan Line steamer Hibernian, ,prblch went ashore during a dense fog Stony Point, at the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, is pounding heavily on the rocks and is being '* swept by heavy seas driven by a , , aputherly gale. iV/ Jealous without cause, Clyde Rob- ;•> Inson, aged 21, shot and killed hi3 19- : ^ear-old wife at Belle Vernon, Pa., ^ '1lfid then blew out "his own brains. The '» 1} ;*oman in falling plunged down a flight of stairs with the baby, which she was nursing, in her arms, but the €liild miraculously escaped injury. •fyV- Three hundred delegates were pres- f'i «Ot at the opening of the seventy-fifth annual general assembly of the Cum- berland Presbyterian church, in Dal- ' las, Tex.. Dr. B. M. Tinnon of Den .,<rer, the retiring moderator, preached v opening sermon. k ' 8 Chicago-- No. 2. St. Louis--No. 2, uH&c. Kansas City--No. 2 mixed, 1006)* Milwaukee--No. •>. 51@53c. Peoria--No. 3, OATS. Chicago--Standard, 43c. Dulutn--tl'sc. St. Louis--No. 2. 42c. Kansas City--No. 2 white, &0. Milwaukee--Standard. 44c. CATTLE. Chicago-- f2.100 5. TO. Kansas City-- St. Louis-- $2.2."'{?r>.65. Omaha--Sl.TMi 4.at>. New York-- JTfrSOO. St. Joseph--$1.7o®i 4.45. \ Buffalo--«£.05^4.S»>. / Pittsburg--13@5.50. HOGS. Chicago--$3.75®'4.T5. Kansas City--$3.T:iJM.60. St. Louis--J4.105i4.TO, 0 m a h a --$3. T S"!? 4.50. New York--J4.50(!7 .">.25. St. Joseph--?4.40.'ti 4.50. Buffalo--J2.T5Ji5.'>r>. , Pittsbursr---J2.50® 105. n ~ Iu SHEEP AND LAMBS. ChlcJlgro--$4.T5(gT.50. , Kansas City--$o.f*>ff5.90. St. Louis--?2.25'<riT.25. 1 ima ha--$3.2;Va6. T5. New York-- Kt. Joseph--Jo.25'ij G.75. Bu ffa 1 o--$2. ">< "if». 25. Pi 11 s bu rg--J2@^. 90. I UNTIL MAY 31 Illinois Republicans, Unable to Break the Deadlock! Adjourn. 1 EIGHTY-EIGHT OPPOSE M0TJ0N VERDICT OF GUILTY IN B00DLING TRIAL * Milwaukee Building Inspector Faces ||unishmept for Acceptiag a^jSri Strong-Voiced Dissenters Force a Roll Call on the Proposition, Which Re­ sults in 1,414 Ayes to £8 Noes, and Delegates Depart. Steve Boltrich was killed and his cousins, Peter, George and Nicholas Boltrich seriously hurt in a fight in a shanty at Enola, opposite Harrisburg, Pa. The men claim they were at­ tacked by a party of negroes, but the police believe they quarreled among themselves. Six persons wore injured in a head- on collision between two Indiana Traction Company cars near Daleville, Ind. The injured are Motorman Jo­ seph Martin. Mrs. Davidson, Mrs. Flora Mitchell, Mrs. King, Christian Jockerey and Mrs. Franklin. The Panama Canal commission soon will have to decide whether the eight- hour law applies to work on the canal and whether the eight-hour bill before Congress also will apply if passed. The application of either will extend the time of construction of the canal several years and add many millions to the cost. A block of coal ten feet thick was taken from a coal mine near Peters­ burg, Ind., and shipped to the world's fair at St. Louis. The vein from which the block was taken is more, than eleven feet in thickness. A. J. Walker and his wife, an aged couple living on a ranch near Mont­ rose, Col., were fatally injured in a runaway accident on a road leading into the city. Their horse became frightened and overturned the buggy. Walker's skull was crushed and Mrs. Walker's skull fractured. Edward and James Cant, aged 9 and 3 years respectively, were drowned in Pawnee creek, near Sterling, Col. Their parents made an attempt to ford the creek ar.i all were thrown into the water. The father, Frank Cant, suc­ ceeded in rescuing his wife and one child. The Cants recently came from Michigan. The British steamer Turret Bay struck off Cape North, N. S., and went to the bottom. Thirteen of the crew of twenty-two were lost, including Capt. J. W. Hayden, First Officer M. A. McCare, Chief Engineer W. H. Ad­ ams, Second Engineer H. S. Matthews and Boatswain George Johneon. Dr. H. von Kuppfer of the Lokal An- zeiger, Berlin, presided at the World's ' Press parliament in St. Louis. Ad­ dresses were made by J. R. Fisher of the Northern Whig, Belfast; William Hill of the London Dispatch; Dr. Shai- ler Mathews of Chicago, and John Temple Graves of the Atlanta News. Admissions that he had written a personal letter to Gen. Tyner concern­ ing the case of the Physician's insti­ tute of Chicago, for which he was at­ torney before the postofflce depart­ ment, were made by Harrison J. Bar­ rett from the witness stand in the postal trial in Washington. He insist­ ed that he thought there was nothing improper about it. A misunderstanding of orders re­ sulted in a collision between an Iron Mountain passenger train and a freight near Piedmount, Mo., in which Engineer Andrew Keith was killed and ten passengers injured. Al Giller, Peter Keyser and another man named Jackson have been drowned in Owen's lake, near Boulder, Col. They were fishing from a boat and during a high wind the boat was overturned. The heaviest hailstorm in many years prevailed at Pueblo. Col. Hail that weighed more than three ounces fell to a depth of an inch. Much dam­ age was done and several persons were slightly injured. "The saloon bulldozes and the church dozes," declared Rev. Dr. J. H. Lucas of Fairmont, W. Va., in an ad­ dress to the convention of the Metho­ dist Christian Endeavor Union in. Washington. He urged bolting polit­ ical parties if their tickets were not clean. The Society of the Army of the Po­ tomac at its annual meeting at Hart­ ford, Conn., elected Col. Horatio C. King of New York president. A reso­ lution was adopted favoring the move­ ment to hold a peace conference of the blue and the gray at Washington in 1906. That the Baptists recognize the unity of Christianity and are willing to work in fellowship with other de­ nominations was the statement made to the Baptist anniversary in Cleve­ land by President A. H. Strong of Rochester Theological Seminary. Secretary of the Navy Moody has returned to Washington from New^Or- leans. * Mme. Hengehnuller, wife of the Austro-Hungarian ambassador, !s seri­ ously ill at Washington, and her friends are becoming alarmed at her condition. The National Association of Manu­ facturers, at its closing session at Pittsburg elected David M. Parry of Indianapolis president; Marshall Cushing of New York, secretary, and E. H. Stillman of New York, treas­ urer. MaJ. Gen. Nelson A. Miles was the guest of honor at a reception given in Emporia, Kan., by the state Grand Army of the Republic. The Golden Rule dry goods store of Kokomo, Ind., has filed a bank­ ruptcy petition. Liabilities are $26^ 000 and a*sets $12,000. Springfield, HI., Dispatch: The Re publican state convention took a re­ cess Friday until May 31 at 2 o'clock. Only one ballot was taken at the morning session and the motion for a recess offered by Senator Gardner of Mendota was carried by an over­ whelming majority, only 88 votes be­ ing recorded against it. The dying moments of the conven­ tion were peaceful and happy. Almost every delegate in the hall, it is safe to say, wanted to go home, not caring for how long. An air of expectancy seemed to prevail, for the talk of ad­ journment had been heard on all sides. The fifty-eighth Fallot had been taken and Secretary Morrison had announced the result when Sena­ tor C. P. Gardner of the La Salle coun­ ty delegation, who is known as "Busty" Gardner, jumped to his feet and shouted for recognition from the chair. Chairman Cannon pointed his gavel at the delegate to let him know he had the floor. Moves for Recess. "Mr. Chairman, I move you that we now take a recess until Tuesday, May 31, at 2 o'clock," cried Gardner. A dozen delegates seconded the mo­ tion, while scores qt others shouted From Brewing Company. Milwaukee, Wis., Special: Building Inspector Michael Dunn was found guilty of soliciting and accepting a bribe of $1,500 from the Pabst Brew­ ing Company, by a jury In the munic­ ipal court. Sentence will be passed after th© motion for a new trial is argued. An attempt was made to have Dunn's bail renewed, but Judge Vinje remanded him to jail. The punish­ ment is a fine of not to exceed $1,000 or imprisonment not to exceed five years in the penitentiary. The fact that ball was refused is taken to In­ dicate that Imprisonment will bo a part of the punishment. Sllichael Dunn is one of the best known of the Democratic politicians of the city and the fact that he has been found guilty has renewed the interest in the boodle prosecutions. 'Dunn has been sheriff of the county and was private seeretar^ to Mayor Rose for some time before his appointment as building inspector. The conviction of Dunn has mgde the other city and county officers in­ dicted on boodling charges very un­ easy and it is cxpected that some of them will forfeit their bonds and not stand trial. The other trials will now proceed rapidly. TWO JAP WARSHIPS SUNK GOVERNMENT IS TO SELL LAN( Bids Can Be Made on 26,300 Acres In Oregon Indian Tract. Washington Special: The commis­ sioned" of the general land office has prepared rules and regulations for the sale$>f a part of the Grand Ronde In- dijrti reservation in Oregon, which have been approved by the secretary of the interior. The lands amount to 26,300 acres and are situated in thie tern part of Oregon within from fi' to twenty miles of the Pacific THE JAP-IN \ First i)isastef of Magnitude to the Navy of "Russians Safd to Have Been^' Again Defeated on Land. •*X\i t* , «>• : t JVcS<-;:4 Toklo, May 20.--Vice Adniiral Togo cabled the news of the first great dis­ aster to the Japanese fleet since the war began. Sunday morning, May 15, the battleship Hatsuse struck a Rus­ sian mine and sank near Port Arthur, and on the afternoon, in a dense fog, the cruiser Kasagi rammed the cruiser Yashino. The latter ship sank almost immediately. Vice Admiral Togo's official .report gives the following details: "At 1:14 o'clock on the afternoon of May 15, in a dense fog off Port Arthur, the Kasagi rammed the Yoshino, sink- from the entrance to the harbor the soldiers must have been landing ex­ tremely close to Port Arthur itself." A St. Petersburg Rejoices at Japanese Disaster. St. Petersburg, May 20.--The loss of at least two Japanese warships is officially confirmed, and it is believed that two more were sunk.- The Japanese admiral admits the loss of the battleship Hatsuse and the cruiser Koshino. Russian refugees from Dalny, arriving at Chefoo, de­ clare that the battleships Shikishima 350,000 rounds of ammunition, 68 horses, 10 wagons, and 1,244 coats and! 541 tents. ' At Fengwangchehg the Japanese! captured 350 shells for mountain guns, ; 188,000 rounds of rifle ammunition,: 1,720 coats, 40,000 loaves of bread, and other supplies, together with a quan­ tity of tools and telegraph stores. Russians Lose 300 Men In Fight Near Klnchou. Toklo, May 21.--The Russians lost 300 killed and wounded in the fight near Kinchou, on the Liaotung penin- COMPLETE MAP OF THE THEATER OF WAR BETWEEN RU6SIA AND JAPAN. K/S. 1ULPH A St. Petersburg Dispatch Says That the Japs Have Different New Places." umed Up "At Six 'No." Confusion broke out and the delegates began mounting, their chairs." Chairman Cannon put the mo­ tion and It was approved by a mighty chorus of "ayes." but he refused to decide against the "nays," who made a determined effort to lift the roof with their voices. "The chair is unable to decide and the secretary will call the roll on the motion to take a recess," said the chairman. Call of the Roll. Before one-third of the counties had been called it was apparent to all that the motion would be carried Hy an overwhelming majority. The deieghtes began leaving the hall without wait­ ing to hear the result of the vote. One delegate offered a motion to dispense; with further calling of the roll, but the chairman would not listen to the motion. By the time the roll was finished probably two-thirds of the delegates had deserted the battle­ ground. The motion was carried by a Tote of 1,414 ayes to 88 noes. "Home, S.weet Home." Chairman Cannon announced the vote and the band began playing "Home, Sweet Home." The few re­ maining delegates bogap» singing as they left the hall, an«l five minutes later the armory waa deserted. The "getaway" of the delegates be­ gan with the departure of the first train. Practically all of the delegates started home on the afternoon trains, but a few of them were unable to get seats and had to wait for' the night trains. CREASED RAILS DELAY TRAIN Chicago & Alton Passengers In Mis­ souri Carry Dirt and Sand. Mexico. Mo., Special. The west­ bound Chicago & Alton passenger train found itself in a queer predica­ ment Friday morning. Prank players crcased the rails on the heavy grade •^vtween here and Ivoulsi&na. TW; sand box refused to work. Passengers and wainmeu fln?.lly rescued themselves !•/ carrying dirt and sand and placing •t on the rails to the top of the h!!ls. The train was delayed forty minutes. coast. A portion of the land is cov­ ered with timber of a fairly good qual­ ity, and the remainder is of an agri­ cultural character. This land Is to be sold upon sealed bids to be filed in the Oregon City, Ore., land office Aug. 1 to 8. _ WlfCKqiA SIAN-MI ALMA tiLUTA rmmaiH tfiWN WM* ttw-c. HUATfeu YUAN 4M6- m-urn• TiWHtUNG, or i J.r&a-Pi flvc U. nftib- ti-M %%s IWCHIC SOK-Cto. ww-r* \Ut v. fim AMBfmn N6-JU rom-cm SUM •Arte ft/EN % StaMA G-NCU CHtMUi 1*01* ©73MIAN •TWK-VMA' MtizCMMh* t~y 'JiAO N-Ti WO-tVA* Yldtlu MQK> $&JCTY\ 7 'J'CAAVl. CWf/q cuQwrmt \ fOUTM % SfTATuTS tf/L£3 too • 3HJ-CHAV 153*" PROMOTER 18 FOUND GUILTY G. W. Rumble, Organizer of Mining Concern, Is Convicted of Fraud. San Francisco, Cal., Special: In the United States district George W. Rum­ ble was convicted of using the mail for fraudulent purposes. The case will be appealed. Rumble will be given his liberty on a bond of $10,000. Rum­ ble organized a corporation known as the Sunset Mining Company and as­ serted that there were twelve mines belonging to the promoters. During four years Rumble took up $335,000. Postal Inspector O'Connell asserts that Rumble cleared up $250,000 from the deal. Many easterners invested In the company. Insurers Make Mistake. La Porte, Ind., special: Addison J. Phillips, a former resident of Chicago, who, sixty-two years ago, was rejected by a leading insurance company as an undesirable risk, May 19 celebrated his eighty-second birthday anniver­ sary. / Gives $500 to Honest Man. Washington Special: M. P. Jones, negro, restored a lost bundle contain­ ing $88,000 in securities to the owners and received $500. IS FOUND GUILTY OF PERJURY ing the latter in a few minutes. Ninety of the crew were saved. "That same morning the Hatsuse, while cruising off Port Arthur, cover­ ing the landing of the soldiers, struck a mine ten knots southeast of the har­ bor entrance. It signaled for help and instantly struck another mine. It sank in half an hour. Three hundred of its crew were saved by torpedo boats." Later advices state that among those rescued from the sinking battle­ ship Hatsuse were Rear Admiral Mashiba and Capt. Nakao. The sinking of the Hatsuse was fol­ lowed by a naval battle. SEfie disaster to the Japanese battleship was wit­ nessed from Port Arthur and almost immediately a flotallia of sixteen Rus­ sian destroyers and torpedo boats dashed out of the harbor and attempt­ ed to discharge torpedoes at the Jap­ anese ships off the port. The Japanese fleet at once opened fire and the Russian flotilla retreated to the harbor within a few minutes. Russians Said to Have Been Defeated in Land Battle. London, May 20.--The Standard's correspondent at Tientsin cables that while the Jauanese fleet was covering the landing of troops near Kaichou May 16 a fierce engagement occurred at Hsienyencheng. Two thousand Russians were killed or/wounded. The Chinese governor at Chenchow has received news, the correspondent adds, that the Russians have de­ stroyed the railway between Tachi- chiao and Newchwang. There is no official confirmation of the Standard's sensational report of the loss of 2,000 Russians in the fight­ ing at Kinchau, but there is evidence in other dispatches that the battle must have been a severe blow to the Czar's forces. A cablegram from Tokio says: "The newspaper Asahi reports that when the Russians fled before the Japanese from Kaiping to Tashichao they aban­ doned a large quantity of army stores. Great events, apparently, are trans­ piring in the vicinity of Port Arthur, but they are being enacted behind an impenetrable curtain. Admiral Togo lifted the curtain only forvan instant when he reported that the Hatsuse stnick a Russian mine ten knots southeast of the entrance to the har­ bor of Port Arthur while engaged with the fleet in "covering the landing of soldiers." If the Hatsvise was lost ten knots Woman on Her Second Trial Doe.t Not Get Off So Easily as at First. Des Moines, la.. Dispatch: Mrs. Gal- laugher, tried a second time for per jury in connection with the murder of her husband, was found guilty. Mrs. GTllagher was charged by the state with having kiiled her husband and at tempting to burn the body. She charged the crixe to one Charles Hoi oday, a farmhand, and escaped. She was afterward trjed for perjury, but was acquitted. Acpuse Brothers of Murder. New York dispatch: James La- bretto lies dying in a hospital in Brooklyn with a bullet wound In the abdomen, and his brothers Michael and John are charged with the shoot ing in a gambling quarrel. .Turks and Armenians Fight. Baku, Caucasia cable: A serious fight occurred between Armenians and Turkish troops at Chelcuzan. The Turks \v>st 1,236 in killed and wound­ ed, while the Armenian leadar and many others were killed. Five Are Drowned. Falmouth, England, cablegram: The French steamer Circe reports having collided with the Spanish steamer Sestav. which sank. The Spanish cap­ tain and seventeen of the crew were saved. Five were drowned. Wife Tries 8uiclde. Terre Haute, Ind., dispatch: Mrs Lydia Stager, in a fit of despondency, attempted suicide by jumping in cistern, but was rescued. She is re­ ligious and grew despondent wbwi hei husband bought a saloon. and Fuji were sun. But the confirmation of the news that at least two Japanese warships had gone dowmt caused the greatest enthusiasm here. Without reference to its effect on the campaign the peo­ ple attribute the enemy's disaster to divine interposition in the Russian cause. "It is an offering to Russia upon the day of Ascension, and the emperor's birthday, and it is a-sign that God is with us," was the remark generally heard. If a stranger entered the city now he would find it decorated with flags and bunting and illuminated devices, as though in glorification of a victory, but this is not really so, as the decora­ tions are in celebration of the emper­ or's birthday. In naval circles the Japanese catas­ trophe is a matter for rejoicing, though regrets are expressed that brave men have lost their lives, just as Japan voiced its sorrow to the world when brave men went down with the Petropavolsk. But this feel­ ing of sympathy is swalloweU up in the greater thanksgiving for the blow inflicted on the sea power of the en­ emy. It is pointed out that the Hat­ suse was one of Japan's finest battle­ ships, and that the loss of two, and possibly four, warships at intervals of a few days cannot fail to deeply affect Japan and to influence the course of the campaign. Torpedo Boat Destroyer Sunk by Russian Shell. Tokio, May 23.--During the recon- noissance of Port Arthur, made by Admiral Togo on Friday of last week, a shell hit the torpedo boat destroyer Akatsuki, killing one officer and twen­ ty-four men. RICHES IN COTTON STALKS. Useful in the Production of Paper, Sugar and Other Commodities. A new source of wealth for resi­ dents of the southern states has been discovered. Some months ago M. W. Marsden of Philadelphia and Joseph Wile of Kentucky had a lot of cot­ ton stalks shipped to Philadelphia to have them analyzed, to find if there was something valuable .n them. They returned to Gonzales, Texas, re­ cently with samples of what *was found in them and exhibited them to a meeting of citizens. The stalks were found to contain from $2 to $4 worth of sugar to the ton, to make fine samples of paper superior to wood pulp, two pieces of material resembling celluloid, smoke­ less powder composition, alcohol and a valuable fertilizer. Mr. Marsden thought that an acre of average stalks would amount to about three tons and that In the south 70,- 000,000 tons of stalks were going to waste that were capable of producing that many hundred million dollars. These gentlemen show their faith Gen. Kuroki Sends Details of Losses in Yalu Battle. Toklo, May 20.--Final official re- pqrts from Gen. Kuroki .give the fol­ lowing details of Japanese and Rus­ sian losses in the battle of the Yalu at Kiuliencheng on May 1: Japanese losses: Killed, 5 officers and*218 men; wounded, 34 officers and 783 men. Thirteen ' hundred . and sixty-three Russians dead were buried and 18 offi­ cers and 595 men were made prison­ ers. The Japanese captured 21 quick-flr- ing guns, 19 ammunition wagons. 1,417 shells, 8 irfachine guns and 37,000 shells for these guns, 1,021 rifles and in their investigations by offering to erect a plant at Gonzales for the con­ version of the stalks into the various articles shown at a cost of $75,000, with a possible increase to $250,000 if the citizens would take $25,000 pre­ ferred stock. There is no such plant or industry yet in operation. Strong Drink cf South African Natives At a rocent meeting of an agricul­ tural society at Verulam, Natal, a speaker gave some interesting details ^regarding the deadly native intoxicant made from treacle. An analysis of this drink--which Is called lslt8himlyana--by an eminent doctor showed that it was 50 per cent stronger than any known alcohol. Four milk tins full given to a pig pro­ duced death In half an hout. This poisonous stuff Is taking the place of Kaffir beer, and is exterminating the population on the coast. Whole kraals, including women and little children 4 years old, have been seen reeling drunk, said the speaker, and the scenes of debauchery which followed cannot bm described.--Natal Meroury, sula, on May 16. The Russian troops consisted of the Fifth, Fourteenth and Sixteenth sharpshooters, with eight quick firing guns. They left on the field thirty dead officers and men. Ac­ cording to the prisoners, the enemy's casualties were over 300. The prisoner adds that one Japanese naval officer and thirty men are pris­ oners at Port Arthur. They are sur­ vivors of the last blocking operation. The following official report of an- j other engagement has also been is- . sued: "A section of infantry of the Liao­ tung forces went in the direction of Shanchusan to reconnoiter and met two sections of Russian infantry. The Russians were repulsed in thirty min- ptes. Our casualties were one officer and four men killed and on§ officer and eight men wounded. The Russian casualties were one officer and forty to fifty men killed. Kouropatkin Will Give Battle at Liaoyang. London, May 23.--Gen.* Kouropat­ kin apparently has decided to give battle at Liaoyang, and troops are be­ ing hurried to that point. Eleven military trains carrying Ural Cos­ sacks have arrived at Liaoyang daily for several days. A dispatch to the Standard from Japanese headquarters, date£. May 19, says: "Both armies are preparing for the next phase of the campaign. The Russians appear to be resolved to make a stand at Liaoyang. Their right front rests on Haicheng and crosses the great Pekin road at Rei- enchankung. It runs northeasterly as far as the Taitse river. Their cen­ ter i» protected by the difficult Mo- tien pass. The pasition, which is of great strength, is rendered more for­ midable by earthworks." The correspondent adds that the main body of the Russians cannot be persuaded to venture further. south pending strategical developments in the west. Rumored Sortie From Port Arthur Unconfirmed. London, May 23.--A dispatch from , St. Petersburg admits that the re­ port of a sortie by the port Arthur garrison has not been confirmed. It appears to have originated in the re­ ceipt of Lieut. Gen. Stoessel's report of the fight at Kinchou, this, together with the fact that Gen. Stoessel com-, mands at Pert Arthur, •giving rise to the rumor that the garrison had made a sortie. DICTIONARIES ERR TCO. Chicagoan's Collection Shows That Even Orthographers Stumble. ' A curious collection of old diction­ aries occupies a top shelf in a Chica­ goan's library. These dictionaries de­ rive their interest from the errors they contain. Thus, in the Bailey dictionary of 1674. the word "colibus" Is defined as follows: "Colibus--A humming bird, which makes a noise like a whirlwind, though It is no -bigger than a fly; it feeds on dew, has an admirable beauty of feathers, and a scent as sweet as that of musk or ambergris." The same authority thus describes the loriot or oriole: "Loriot--A bird "that, being looked upon by ^one that [ has yellow jaundice, cures the person and dies itself." Delplno's dictionary (1703) says of the leopard: "Lleupard, or leopard--A yellow beast, exceedingly swift, subtle and fierce, and of such a sweet savor that it allures other beasts to*It, by which means they are caught and de> Toured." mailto:13@5.50