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Lil!. -I 1 iWimTMwiii - ^ the Mchenry puiroealeb McHENRY PLAINDEALER 00. i|>' lfcHENRY. ILLINOIS. TT)T] nr\p^ftminrr™\ TOLD IN George Ms KitzmiUer, aged 50 years, * coal operator of Blaine, W. Va., . dropped dead in the lobby of the Eu- taw House in Baltimore. A few min­ ted before he had been talking to the tierk, apparently in the best of health. The annual meeting of the southern Illinois synod of the German Evangel­ ical church will convene1 in Nashville, 111., May 18 for a live days' session. There will be 200 delegates from the Various churches, extending as far - north as Quincy in this state, and also . leveral delegations from the state of 'riiouisj&na, which is in this synod. ; Leonard Johnson, alias Dutton. was ; arrested in St. Louis and taken to St Charles, Mo., where he was identified ;;3by Wabash Station Agent Thomas • Calvin as one of the gang of traiit .Tobbers who held him up last August The count of votes cast by the "Amalgamated Window Glass Workers • for president, counted at Cleveland, •howed no election, and a second bal­ lot was odrered. A. L. Faulkner of Dunkirk, Ind., led over fourteen other - candidates. Ambassador McCormlck has gone to Paris to select his future residence there. The Flovilla, Ga., bank was entered ; And the vaults wrecked with nitro- ( - glycerin. The robbers secured $4,000 ' to cash. Ambassador Clayton, who has been suffering from a severe attack ot Icryngitis in Mexico City, is conva- |t scent. Creditors of the Arnold Brewing Company of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., kave asked for a receiver for the con­ cern. The liabilities, it is claimed, lire about $85,000 and the assets about 165,000. John Benton, aged 70 years, deliber­ ately walked to his death near Hanna, to led., stepping in front of a Pere Mar- duett e passenger train. Adjutant General Scott of Illinois made the final payment to the troops that had been on guard at Zeigler during the mining strike. The total amount paid out was $20,000. The Jury in the Sanderson murder ease at Bluffton, Ind., returned a ver- #ict of guilty against the defendant, William Cook. His punishment is fixed at imprisonment for life. > Governor Broward has appointed lames B. Taliaferro to fill the ad in­ terim term as United States senator from Florida. Vice President Fairbanks will be the guest of honor at the annual din- icei of the Ohio society of New York on March 18. Announcement is made that the post of consul general at Shanghai Irill be offered to Colonel James Linn llodgers of Columbus, O. Juan Francisco Echeverria has Ibeen appointed secretary of the treas­ ury and finance of Costa Rica by president Esquivel. Senator Echever- fSa was educated in the United States. President Castro has recalled Gen- •ral Antonio Velutini, second vice president of the republic, who about ;:|wo years ago was appointed fiscal •gent of Venezuela in Europe to -ar­ range for the unification of the V£ne- •tuelan debt. 6 President Conrad Schaefer of the ^American Stock Growers' association bas issued a eall for its first annual convention to be held at Denver ;.4lay 9. Stella Pirtle, 12 years old and laughter of Andrew Pirtle, died near Murphysboro. 111., as a result of slip­ ping and falling on a bucket she- was carrying. Miss May Malone, daughter of ex- Bberiff James B. Malone, and James Sordon Spencer of Chicago were mar- fied by Rev. J. H. O. Smith at Val­ paraiso, Ind. Baron Moncheur, the Belgian min­ ister, presented to Secretary Hay the new first secretary of the Belgian le­ gation at Washington, Mr. Belcoigne, . -- who comes from Corea. ' Dr. Charles A. L. Reed of Cincinnati, * member of the joint commission ap­ pointed by the United States and tho republic of Panama to adjust property values in dispute, has returned from .the isthmus. Hiram P. Thompson, a captain in ihe civil war and a prominent archi­ tect, died at Fond du Lac, Wis., of blood-poisoning, resulting from car- fcuncle. S':.v ^ A verdict of manslaughter was • found at Rock Island, 111., against Henry Vermeesch for killing John O'Connor of Bloomington in a saloon fe'r. row in East Mollne. V John S. Johnson, accused of the murder of Patrick J. Doyle in a quar­ rel over a dice game Aug. 10, was con­ victed in Milwaukee of murder in the gg;.. second degree. jp,' Ernest F. Dubbert, aged 19, Wiled himself at Ottumwa, Iowa, with car- jr^v" bplic acid less than twenty-four hours • V' after his marriage to Miss Minerva 1! % Fuqua. He died in his bride's arms. Roll Parr, a well-known young man of Burlington, Iowa, was crushed to death in a freight wreck. President James M. Taylor of Vas- sar college announced an advance in the rates, due to the increase in the , cost of education and the cost of liv­ ing. The tuiticn fee is advanced from $100 to $150 a year and board from $300 to $350 a year. The National Lumber Dealers' as- Ecclatton opened its annual conven­ tion in Philadelphia with 350 members ii. attendance. Two robbers blew open the postof- fice safe in Earlpoint, a suburb of Atlanta, Ga., securing $1,500 worth of stamps and $20 in money Rider Haggard, the author, who comes as a special commissioner to inquire into the conditions and char­ acter of the agricultural and industrial land settlements organized in Ameri­ ca by Ihe Salvation Army, arrived at New .York on the steamer Teutonic. HIDDEN PUZZLE PIOTURE. a. - Lovers, travelers And poets clamor tobeheard. Find a Traveler apd a Poet, NATIONAL SuLflnS Wednesday, March 1, 1905. The senate passed three appropriation bills, the postoffice carrying $181,526,843. the pension $138,000,000, and the river and harbor $38,350,899 (including immediate ap­ propriations and continuing- contracts). Conference reports were agreed to on the military academy and agricultural appro­ priation bills. The Philippine import tariff bill was passed, and the Indian ap­ propriation bill sent to conference. The bill for the government of Hawaii rela­ tive to the election and appointment of local officers was passed. In executive session the international sanitary treaty was ratified, as also was one for the re­ pression of trade in white women. Sena­ tor Dolliver introduced a resolution for a joint commission to investigate railroad . rates. A message was received from the president urging the adoption of pend­ ing legislation to prevent the spread of contagious diseases of animals from one state to another and to foreign countries. At the night session the sundry civil b'll was considered. As reported from the senate appropriations committee it carries $67,473,550, an increase of $2,181,- «"0 over the amount voted by the house. The postoffice appropriation bill, passed with amendments earlier in the day, was sent to conference. Tributes were paid to the memory of the late Representative George W. Croft of South Carolina. The house agreed to the conference re­ ports on the diplomatic and consular. District of Columbia and military acad­ emy appropriation bills, which passed the'se measures. The Indian and post- office appropriation bills were sent to conference, and conference reports on the fortifications and naval appropriation bills were received and ordered printed. The senate amendments to the Philip­ pine tariff bill and the bill relating to the inspection of steam vessels were accept­ ed. finally passing these measures. The general deficiency bill was passed at the night session. It carries a total of $31.- 224,079. Thursday, March 2, 1905. The senate passed the sundry civil ap­ propriation bill, carrying about $68,000.- 000. and the bill for the incorporation of the American Academy at Rome. The conferees reported a disagreement on the Panama canal zone government bill, the house Insisting on its provision for abol­ ishing the canal commission, and another conference was ordered. A conference on the river and harbor bill was ordered, and the appropriations committee report­ ed the general deficiency bill. Senator Heyburn called up the pure food bill, S«nator Piatt offered several amendments to the measure, which, he admitted, would leave little of the original bill. Senator Dolliver's resolution for a joint commission to investigate railroad rites was referred to the interstate commerce committee. The . general deficiency bill, carrying $29,769,466. with amendments, and the house bill for the celebration of the anniversary of the first English set­ tlement in America were passed. The resolution instructing the interstate com­ merce committee to sit during the recess was adopted. The conferees on the In­ dian appropriation bill made a partial re­ port and a further conference was or­ dered. The house agreed to the conference re­ ports on the fortifications and agricul­ tural appropriation bills, while the con­ ference report on the naval appropriation bill, after being partly agreed to. was sent back for further conference, as also was the Panama canal zone government bill, after the house had insisted on its disagreement to the senate amendments. Vnder suspension of the rules a bill was passed appropriating $250,000 for govern­ ment participation in an exposition on the waters near Hampton Roads to cele­ brate the first permanent settlement of English-speaking people in the western hemisphere in the vicinity of Jamestown. Va. The sundry civil appropriation bill was sent to conference and a further con­ ference on the Indian appropriation bill was ordered after a partial report had been agreed to. The house passed bills authorizing the secretary of agriculture to establish quarantines in the several states and regulate the movements of cattle, and providing for an additional Justice of the supreme court of Arizona. Friday, March 3, 1906. The senate agreed to final conference reports on the Indian, postoffice. paval and sundry civil appropriation bills. A partial report from the conferees on the river and harbor bill was accepted, and a further conference ordered. The joint resolution continuing in force the Spooncr law for the temporary government of the Panama canal zone and for continuing the work on tho canal was unanimously adopted. A bill was passed permitting two young Chinamen to receive instruc­ tion at West Point. The conference re­ port on the river and harbor bill was agreed to, passing the measure. The con­ ferees on the general deficiency bill mart" a partial report, which was accepted, and the conferees were ordered to insist on the senate's position in opposition to the house mileage amendment. A Joint reso­ lution was passed authorizing the ac­ ceptance of Yosemlte valley as an addi­ tion to Yosemlte National park. The house agree^to conference reports on the naval, InAnn. sundry civil and postoffice appropriation bills, which finally passed^jthose measures. A partial report on the river and harbor bill Was adopted Reservation Oil Leases. Washington dispatch: Secretary Hitchcock has sent to the house in response to a resolution the names of sublessees for oil on the Osage Indian reservation, together with forms of the original lease and subleases*. - and a further conference ordered, and the general deficiency bill was sent to con­ ference. Resolutions were adopted 'au­ thorizing the president to invite the in­ ternational prison congress to hold its eighth meeting in the United States in 1910. and authorizing the secretary of war to deliver a condemned cannon to the Q. A.' R., to be manufactured into badges and buttons. Bills were passed authoriz­ ing the secretary of war tb sell magazine rifles for the use of rifle clubs, and em­ powering the president to allot tribal funds to Indians sufficiently advanced in civilization. The house receded from Its disagreement over the mileage provision in the general deficiency bill, thus pass­ ing the measure, and adopted the confer­ ence report on the river and harbor- bill. A joint resolution authorizing special licenses permitting restaurants, barber shops and certain other places to keep open Sunday, March 5. for the conveni­ ence of inauguration visitors, was passed after it was explained that the privilege did not include saloons. A bill was passed fixing the compensation of criers and bailiffs in the United States courts at $3 per day instead of $2. v Saturday, March 4, 1905. The Senate convened at 10 o'clock, with practically no business before 11. A resolution was adopted to provide for the expenses of the inauguration, and a res­ olution of thanks to President Pro Tem­ pore Frye was presented by Senator Gor­ man and unanimously passed. Senators Allison and Bate, who were appointed members of the joint committee to notify the President that Congress was ready to adjourn, reported that the President had no further communication to mnke. The oath was administered to Vice President­ elect Fail banks, who, at the conclusion of his speech, declared the Senate adjourn­ ed sine die. Immediately following the new senators and old senators who had been re-elected were sworn in. The Sen­ ate then proceeded to the outside plat­ form to "execute the order for the inau­ guration of fne President." The House met at 10 o'clock, continu­ ing the legislative day of March 2. The conference report on a bill prohibiting the selection of timber lands in lieu of lands in forest reserves was adopted. The usu­ al committee was appointed to join a committee of the, Senate to notify the President that Congress had completed its business, and then the House, at 11:10. took a recess of twenty minutes, during which a "joint caucus" was held to present loving cups to Speaker Can­ non and John Sharp Williams, the minor­ ity leader. Upon reconvening appoint­ ments were announced of visitors to the military and naval academies, temporary committee on accounts, commission to examine into publift printing and the com­ mittee to attend the opening of the Port­ land. Oregon, exposition. A resolution of thanks of the members, "irrespective of party," to the speaker was unanimously adopted, and the House adjourned sine die. Expenses for Federal Judges. Washington dispatch: The temper of the house regarding the Swayne in.peachment verdict was shown when amendments were attached to the gen­ eral deficiency bill restricting the $10 a day limit for expenses of United States judges so that expenditures above $5 a day shall be certified upon proper vouchers, with the further pro­ viso that in case a judge presents a false claim for expenses he shall be fined not loss than $100, and impris­ oned for not less than ten days. Money for Wisconsin. ' Washington dispatch: The comp­ troller of the treasury received the decision of the auditor for the war department on the claim of the state of Wisconsin for interest paid on bonds issued to raise money to aid the United States in the civil war. The state has already been paid $458,677 and the comptroller finds still duo $725,981. No Money for Rental. Washington dispatch: Fearing that long contests might endanger some of the supply bills, the senate committee on appropriations left out of the sun­ dry civil service bill the item for $130,600, the annual rental paid to the National City bank of New York for the custom house. Panama Supreme Judge. Washington dispatch The presi­ dent has appointed H. A. Gudger of North Carolina consul general at Path ama, to be judge of the supreme court of the Panama canal zone. Was Standard Oil ^Foe. Asbury Park, N. J., dispatch: George Rice, for many years well known *b an independent oil operator in the Ohio field and a bitter enemy of the Standard Oil company, is dead from" an attack of the grip. Milner to Lea*: South Africa. London cable: Premier Balfour iufonhed the house of commons that Lord Milner, the British high commis­ sioner in South Africa, had to his regret announced that he would not remain in South Africa. •* • James B. Duke Seriously III. New York dispatch: James B. Duke, president of the American To­ bacco company, is ill at bis residence here with blood poisoning. The trou­ ble came from a corn. 8igns Army ^Appropriation Bill. Washington dispatch-: President Roosevelt. Thursday signed .the army appropriation bill, the second of th€ big measures to reach him in complete form. Buys Big Herd of Buffalo. Lawton, Okla., special: Ranch 101 In the Ponca reservation has pur- Chased from a halfbreed Indian at Mis­ soula. Mont., a herd of twenty full- blood buffaloes and will maintain tbem for breeding purposes. Poisons Wife and Children. Connellsville, Pa., dispatch: John Marzt, a bartender, is in jail at Union- tewn in connection with the poisoning of his wife and three children. All four were made 111 by drinking coffee which contained arsenic. Center of Town Sinks. Wilkesbarre, Pa., dispatch: A seri ous cavK-in under the center of the town of Minooka, near here, has caused a depression in Cemetery street of five feet for a distance of two blocks. "'•jry. r. Fran Bope Retires From Mini Cincinnati dispatdh: Rev. .Frank D, Eope of Zanesville, at his own request, fas been deposed from the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church by Elshop Boyd Vincent. "WHAT THEY SAY. ft Is not often In these busy times that we can take the opportunity to comment favorably upon things la general which coma to our attention and appeal to us Ita a satisfactory way. We give thanks, too, often, perfunctor­ ily, not meaning what we say. This, however, was not at all the spirit In which the following letter was re­ cently written to a ticket agent of the Rock Island System: "Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. --- 1908. Dear Mr. ----: We arrived here Saturday safely and enjoyed our trip va§y much on the Golden State Lim­ ited. All of our party voted this train the finest that they have ever traveled upon. The accommodations were first class In every respect--the Sleepers, the Observation Car, the Diner, the Buffet-library smoker; with bath and barber could not have been Improved upon. The entire train crew were gentlemanly and very obliging--doing all ihey could to make everybody en­ joy themselves and feel at home. I shall try to get my friends and rela­ tives to take this* train when coming to California." " Mr. John Sebastian, passenger traf­ fic manager, singles this out as one of the many commendatory letters that have been received in his office. The Golden State Limited is maintain­ ing first place among transcontinental limited trains. H Barileat Green Oaloai. The John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., always have something new, some­ thing valuable. This year thejfi offer among their new money making vege­ tables, an Earliest Green Eating Onion. It is a winner, Mr. Farmer and Gardener! JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND 16C. and they will send you their big plant and seed catalog, together with enough seed to grow 1,000 fine, solid Cabbages, 2,000 rich, juicy Turnips, 2,000 blanching, nutty Celery, 2,000 rich, buttery Lettuce, ~ 1,000 splendid Onions, 1,000 rare, luscious Radishes, 1,000 gloriously brilliant Flowers. In all over 10,000 plants--this great offer is made to get you to test their warranted vegetable Beeds and < ALL FOB BUT 16c POSTAGE, providing you will return this notice, and if you wdl send them 26e in postage, they will add to the above a big package of Salzer's Fourth of July Sweet Corn--the earliest on earth--10 days earlier than Cory,Peep o' Day, First of All, etc. [ W .N.U.J MAY YET MAKE DIAMOND8. Inventors Hope to Eliminate Silicon' frofn New Carbon Compound. • Utilization of waste products has taken a long step forward, according to the inventors of a new furnace, as by their method of combustion the well-known abrasive, in its present chemical combination of silicon and carbon, is simply a byproduct and until its identity with the commercial product was established was given away for ornaments, valued because of their attractive crystalline forma­ tion and peculiar coloring. Since its value was indicated the waste has been subjected to all sorts of tests and in some Instances has shown a slightly greater degree of hardness than the carborundum pro­ duced by means of the electric cui> rent applied at enormous voltage for a number of hours, which is slightly less than that of the diamond. This fact has started investigations which lead to the hope, based, it is said, on good foundation, that the sili­ con may be entirely eliminated .from the product, leaving it pure carbon, chemically the counterpart of the dia­ mond. It is asserted that with a proper selection of materials for com­ bustion in the furnace this result can be obtained, and while the carborun­ dum at present produced has a high commercial value the investors are not inclined to rest content with thai 1! anything more valuable is in fight THE TRICKS. Coffee Plays on Soma. It hardly pays to laugh before you are certain of facts, for it is "some­ times humiliating to think of after wards. "When I was a young girl I was « lover of coffee but was sick so much the doctor told me |tp quit and I did but after my marriage my husband begged me to drink it again as he did not think it was the coffee caused the troubles. "So I commenced it again and con­ tinued about 6 months until my stom­ ach commenced acting bad and chok­ ing as if I had swallowed something the size of an egg. One doctor said it was neuralgia and indigestion. "One day I took a drive with my husband three miles in the country and I drank a cup of coffee for dinner. I thought sure I would die before I got back to town to a doctor. I was drawn double in the buggy and when my husband hitched the horse to get me out into the doctor's office, misery came up in my< throat and seemed to shut my breath off entirely, then left all in a flash and went to my heart. The doctor pronounced it ner­ vous heart trouble and when I got home I was so weak I could not alt up. "My husband brought my supper to my bedside with a nice cup of hot cof­ fee but I said: 'Take that back, dear, I will never drink another cup of cof­ fee if you gave me everything you are worth, for it is just killing me.' He and the others laughed at me and said: *• " 'The idea of coffee killing any­ body.' " 'Well,' I said, 'It is nothing else but coffee that is doing it.' "In the grocery one day my hus­ band was persuaded to buy a box of Postum which he brought home and I made it flor dinner and we both thought how good it was but said nothing to the hired men and they thought they had drunk coffee until we laughed and told them. Well we kept on with Postum and it was not long before the color came back to my cheeks and I got stout and felt as good a3 I ever did in my life. I have no more stomach trouble and I know I owe It all to Postum in place of coffee. "My husband has gained good health on Postum, as well aa haby and L and we all think nothing In too good to say about it." Name given by Postum resembles that at IJaoyafig, th«f Jap­ anese making a costly "demonstra­ tion" to hold the Russians in their fortifications on the center and throw­ ing away the lives of thousands in or­ der to give the flanking force an op­ portunity to administer a telling blow. A feature of all accounts of the fighting reaching St. Petersburg la the emphasis laid on the awful car­ nage. There Is reference after refer­ ence to dead' piled high on the ground over which an attack was delivered, strewing breastworks, almost hiding a.batis from sight, and even, being used by the Japanese to construct hasty intrenchments. The Russian losses on both flanks are conceded to be enormous, but it is claimed that the defenders of the center suffered comparatively little by the Japanese bombardment and beating off the Jap­ anese attack. The attacks delivered by Gen. No- gl's soldiers were marvelous, in view of the forced marches which they made for six days, recalling the rec­ ords of Stonewall Jackson's "foot cav­ alry." They entered the battle with the greatest dash and fought day aft­ er day with vigor; but those of them who. Were taken prisoners dropped to the ground utterly exhausted and hardly able to speak. They had not eaten for two days, which accounts in part for their utter fatigue. Gen. Kouropatkin's line of commu­ nications has not been touched, though it is in extreme jebpardy. His right flank is bent so sharply back­ ward that it may necessitate the abandonment of the Poutiloff and Novgorod hills, to which the Russians are stil firmly clinging. The Rusian left also has been so sharply repulsed that a correspondent compares the entire position to the letter "C." The Japanese possibly are pushing northward at tangents with both flanks. A flood of dispatches came through, but they were mostly old., referring to the fighting On the left flank and Gen. Llnevich's losses. JN DIRE STRAITS Japanese Troopi Skillfully Turn Both Wings ot Kouropatkin's Army, Though Movement Imperils Their Own Linei CRM. Kouropatkin's army is fighting at bay six miles west of Mukden in a desperate effort to prevent ,Nogi's veteran division from Port Arthur from breaking through to the railroad, thus barring the road of retreat to Tieling. The fate of Russia's army In Man­ churia depends on its ability to check Nogi's advance. Kouropatkin's right wing has been crushed and thrown "back upon Muk­ den by Oku's Impetuous advance from the southwest. The Russians lost an eiionnous quantity of stores. To the south the Russian center has, been battling day and night since Wednesday to hold off Nodzu's divi­ sions. It is reported that Nodzu has taken Shahopu by assault and that the Russians have been compelled to abandon their heavy guns along the Sha river. To the east, Linevitch is holding Kucoki's main force in check, but it is reported that a division of Japanese cavalry, with twelve guns has swept northward, far to the eastward of the 'Russian left, in a wide turning move­ ment. 1 " The carnage has been frightful. It Is estimated that 100,000 men have been killed and wounded since the general action began on March 1. The battle has been raging along a front of sixty miles since Wednesday, March 1. It has not been one battle, but four. Official reports to St. Pe­ tersburg are meager, but apparently what has happened is this: Kuroki advanced in force along the roads leading to Fuchun, and Gen. Linevitch fearing that his position was about to be turned called for rein­ forcements. Kouropatkin sent him an army corps (50,000 men). In the meantime Nodzu began re­ peated attacks on the Russian center, pressing Shahopu, Poutiloff and Nov­ gorod so vigorously that Kouropatkin was compelled to hold his center in­ tact, unable to divert any part of it to the right wing or the left. Then, while the Russian center was held in a death grapple with Nodzu, Oku attacked the Russian right wing and in three days drove it back upon Mukdea. While these three battles were in progress Nogi, with the First, Sev­ enth and Ninth divisions, from Port Arthur, swung from behind the screen of Oku's army and by forced marches reached a position six miles west of Mukden. Kouropatkin hastily collected a few divisions and what guns he could spare and sent them against Nogi. If Nogi shakes off his enemy his road to Tieling Is open. Only a miracle of courage and gen­ eralship can save Kouropatkin's army. Sunday morning it was believed that at the worst Kouropatkin, if driven out of Mukden, could withdraw his army, guns and stores to Tie pass, forty miles north. Sunday night the fear was openly voiced that Gen. Nogi will be able to reach the railroad before Kouropatkin can extricate his army from below Mukden. Deepest gloom pervades army cir­ cles in St. Petersburg. It is believed Kouropatkin is on the eve of a tre­ mendous disaster. A council of war was held Sunday at Tsarskoe Selo. It is said that the czar opposed ending hostilities, and declared that he will continue the war even If it is necessary to retreat across Lake Baikal. It is added, that Grand Duke Nicho­ las, and most* of the other grand dukes and Gen. Dragomaroff opposed Gen-^f", Kouropatkin's methods, whereas the emperor favored the commander-in- chief and was also the warmest sup­ porter of Gen. Soukhomlinoff. The fate of Gen. Kouropatkin and his army hanga in the balance, de­ pending on the resuft of the fighting almost in the outskirts of Mukden. According to latest reports Monday morning the fighting went well for the Russians, who beat back the wave that threatened to roll over Mukden as it had moved the fortifications of Pott Arthur, but nothing is knowa as to what is going on beyond the line of breakers, whether part of Gen. Nogi's force is in full career for Tie Pass or whether the Japanese have staked all in a cast against Mukden. The imminence of the peril on the west wing has withdrawn attention from the operations on the center and left, where the fighting has been ex­ tremely heavy, and on the left espe­ cially, where the Japanese gains are sufficiently great to cause apprehen­ sion to themselves. Military critics at St. Petersburg point out that the Japanese have put themselves in a critical position by the extreme extension of their lines, laying themselves opea as they did at Liaoyang to the possibility of a most effective counter stroke and probable defeat if Gen. Kouropatkin should be able to lauaeh a column against a weak link in the chain. In other respects the situation also DELICATE * SKIN-1' ddkato (tea roubles* and cnt^tioM or dm raticU Give Czar More Time, The' leaders of the workmen have halted operations until they learn the outcome of the war council to be held at Tsarskoe Selo. It is asserted they will compel a complete cessation of work next Sunday, when the people will understand the* situation in Man­ churia. Everything was quiet Sunday, con­ trary to expectations, and the streets were filled with the usual Sunday throngs. At night there was occa­ sional window breaking at the Baltic iron works and at several private fac­ tories, but the disorders were quelled by Cossacks without shooting. Grand Duke Alexis, chief of the naval staff, has left for France. His arrangements indicate that he does hot intend to occupy his residence at St. Petersburg for a long time. The Russ and the Viedomostl did hot appear Sunday, owing to the fact that the printers are on a strike. An imperial rescript issued Sunday announces the retirement of M. Tchertkoff and the appointment of M. Maxinovitch as governor general of Warsaw. In recognition of M. Tchert- koff's fifty years of self-sacrificing service to the crown, he is appointed $ member of the emperor's house­ hold. It is learned that the manifesto is­ sued by the Czar last Friday morning surprised the ministers, Vjbo only learned of the fact from the news­ papers. They were so annoyed be­ cause they were not consulted in re­ gard to it that they authorized: M. De Witte, president of the council, to in­ form the Czar that they disclaimed all responsibility for the manifesto, and, moreover, that they assumed that, as the manifesto was issued without their being consulted, it ind!-- cated that their advice was not want­ ed. The ministers, it is stated, further threatened to resign, but the Czar, who was greatly perturbed, assured them that no slight was intended, and announced his willingness to ,sign forthwith the Rescript promising the representative assembly which had been drawn up by the council after weeks of deliberation and submitted to his majesty on Thursday. It was the knowledge of the exist­ ence of the rescript, it is said, which induced M. Pobtedonostaeff, procurat­ or general of the holy synod, to hur­ riedly approve the draft of the auto­ cratic manifesto which he persuaded the czar to sign and issue in order to forestall the rescript. Unrest Prevails at Lode. Strong military patrols guard the streets at Lodz. There are 7,000 workmen from the Poznanski cotton mills on strike. The outlook Is not promising. The workmen are indig­ nant because several mill owners are remaining abroad, and threaten to cause trouble unless the latter return. MEXICAN VOLCANO IS ACTIVE Mount Colima Throws Out Smoke and Causes Villagers to Flee. Guadalajara, Mexico, dispatch: A great column of smoke has been pour­ ing from the crater of Mount Colima volcano for several days. Loud sub­ terranean rumblings and sharp explo­ sions are heard and the people of the towns of Tonda and Zapotitlic are in a state of panic, many of them having abandoned their homes ! and sought safety at a greater distance from the volcano. Hopes for Statehood Agreeifient. . Washington dispatch: Senator Bai­ ley declined to press a motion to dis­ charge the conferees on statehood bill in the hope that some agreement might be reached before adjournment to jMwe the measure. • < :W ':- Laborer 8laln at Steel Chicago dispatch: Benjamin Bar- cody was killed in the Illinois steel mills at South Chicago. Sarcody was blasting iron ore when a piece of the metal struck his head, killing him. QUIT EVEN IN ANNUAL DEBATE Iowa and Minnesota Universities Dis­ cuss Federal Freight Rates. Iowa City, Iowa, special: The an­ nual debate between the University of Iowa and the University of Minne­ sota resulted in a draw, only two judges being present. The question concerned the fixing of freight rates by federal authority. Minnesota was represented by Raymond P. Chase, Jesse G. Steenson and Bernard Rob­ inson, and Iowa by R. G. Swaine, Ray files and A. C. Gordon. Makes Haste to Re-arm. 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