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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1904-09-22, Page 7. llRAVY the tldxty.seventh diviek,n of the (hilt army ccop..cop..Sibeiitrt Road Blacked,. ,. St, Petersburg, Sept. 19, 7.30 a. mYe- hement complaints aro again being made of the freight blockade of tbe Siberian WITH NUMEROus L4AsuA ' railroad: in consequence of its monopoly by the military authorities. It is stated z t ods s est 1 a k- tla go tasted 1 arch f r Sa Lir E halin have not yet arrived. Many la - *Russian Generals Conducting Important Reconnaissances. The Czar •to Raise a Second . ,.M:anc uriant- Arrny. Complaints of a Freight Block - on the Siberian Railway. ' St. Petersburg, Sept, 19,—Tinter in the day a c> espatoh was. received from Gen. Kouropatkin announcing that Generals Rennerikampff and Samsonoff are con- ducting important reconnaissances, which have resulted in rather heavy fighting, with, many casualties. A despatch to a news agency from St. Petersburg to -day says the:reconnaissan- ces were towards the Japanese front and right flank, resulting in the Japanese being driven back. The Russian losses, according to this version, are said to be slight, and it is not clear whether the many casualties referred to by Gen. Kouropatkin were inflicted. • London, Sept. 19.—A, despateh..te, the Express from Tokio says that a heavy engagement with Gen. Kouropatkin's en- tire army has begun near Mukden. The Russian positions are being vigorously shelled. Field Marshal Oyama prepared on Friday to earry out the general staff's instructions to assault Mukden and en- deavor again to cut off Gen. Kouropat- kin's retreat. The Japanese front is 25 miles long. • Gen. Kuroki is onathe ex- treme right. He is not yet engaged. He is endeavoring to turn the Russian flank. Retiring, Upon Harbin. Tokio, Sept. 18. The Russians are re- tiring upon Harbin. Only two divisions, with the comple- ment of cavalry, are now south of the un river. It is reported that the Japanese have reached Hslinglungpao and Shiliho, 30 and 26 miles respectively from Mukden. A battle is expected at Shiliho. Forts are being erected by the Rus- sians on the northern bank of the Sun- gari River, defending the railway bridge over the river., Booms have been built, above and be- low the bridge and a constant water pat- rol is maintained. The Sungari River crosses the railway between Treling and Harbin. to construct railroad depots. JAPS REINFORCED. Both Armies Have Promised to Respect The Tombs of the Dynasty. St. Petersburg, Sept. 18,—Gen, Salclia- roff has reported to the general staff under date of Sept. 17: "The Manchurian army was nowhere engaged on Sept. 1a or 17. The arrival of considerable rein- forcements is noticeable at the advance posts of the whole of the enemy's front, and especially near the village of Biani- pusea and east of the railway toward the Yentas mines." It is announced from Mukden that both the Russian and. the Japanese gen- erals have promised to respect the tombs and palace there. -,111"-s- ARMY ASSURES THE CZAR vary slight damage and few easualties, The garrison is in good health. There is no shortage,of food•or ammunition; One of those who arrived is a Russian offi- ear who witnessed part of the Boor war. He takes a pessimistic view a +the situa- tion, and considers the outlook gloomoy. He describes the effect of the constant etrain on the officers and men, but said that the condition of the inhabitants is superior to the condition of those of Ladysmith after that place had been be- sieged for three months. He adds that fresh stores of coal have been placed on the warships in the harbor, which have been repaired as well as the facilities of the port kisould allow. Since the discovery that junks carry- ing provisions were running the block- ade the Japanese have maintained a more vigilant watch. Junks attempting to enter the harbor are now sunk with- out a. previous examination. The correspondent says he learns from another source that the bombard- ments are of short duration, but cover important movements of the Japanese, who have received more guns and• large reinforcements. Russian civilians arriving from Port Arthur state that tinr(od corn beef is plentiful. Twelve horses are slaughtered daily to supply fresh meat. Additional Chefoo despatches state that a junk containing a Cossack colo- nel and two German merchants brought mails from Port Arthur, after a three days' passage. They say that Gen. Stoessel, on Sept. 14, received an intimation from Gen. Kouropatkin that he must hold out until January, when important developments are expected, tin estimate was then made of the sup- plies in the fortress. The result was probably much overestimated, the estim- ates showing enough ammunition to last five months, and enough rico, white bread and other food for six months. Preparations are being made, in the event of the Japanese entering the town, to make the `last stand in the Golden Hill and Electric Hill forts, where there are large accumulations of am- munition and food. Gen. Stoessel recently warned the Europeans remaining in Port Arthur that they must be prepared to take a soldier's risk if the place fell, although he thought that contingency impossible. The report of the arrival of a ship of 6,Q00 tons, laden with flour, is, con- firmed. She flew the French flag. The gunboat Gremiastchy went out to meet her, but struck a nine and sank. The garrison Has been reduced to 8,000 men. the civil guards have been summoned to the forts to receive Gov- ernment rations, thus relieving the pressure on the town supplies. Fifty members of the guard, who were w6i1- known. residents of Port Arthur, have been killed. Gen. Stoessel has stopped the publication of the Novikral, the official newspaper. Only a few ladies are left in the place. The bicycle fac- tory is working day and night, turn- ing out bicycles for ambulances. Gen. Stoessel's wife is called "The Florence Nightingale of Port Arthur." That the Confidence He Placed in His She superintends the work of the Red Cross, and insists upon visiting the Soldiers is not Misplaced. forts during engagements, accompany - St. Petersburg, Sept. 18. ---Under date ing her husband. of yesterday, Gen. Kouropatkin tele- During the past month four Russian graphs to the Czar as follows: torpedo boats have•been sunk by mines. "The entire Manchurian army rejoices No details of the recent naval disas- £nexpressiblyot your Majesty's appreeia- ters are given to the public. The only tion of its labors and military deeds. We , . announcement made is that the ships aro all animated byone desire—to beat are in' neutral waters. ' the enemy and jstify ,the confidence Five hundred Chinese from Port Ar - placed in us by the supreme chief of the thur have arrived at Chefoo in the last Russians army,' who can feel perfectly few days. sure regarding his troops' future self- According to Lieut. Prince Radizivil, denial and devotion. Our departure from the temper of the belligerents at Port Liao -Yang under the conditions under Arthur has reached an absolutely morel - which it was accomplished was an abso- less stage. Prince Radizivil declares lately indispensable undertaking, al- that the men of both armies are abaci - though fraught with difficulty" lutely venomous in their antagonism. Lieut: Gen.S toessel has addressed his : ONLY THIRTEEN PRISONERS. garrison, saying that if the Japanese soldiers entered the fortress it tin - But General Oku Captured Considerable doubtedly would be impossible for their Ammunition. officers to control them and prevent a Tokio, Sept. 18.-- Marquis oyama,massacre. For this reason Lieut. -Gen. Commander-in-chief of the Japanese ''Stoessel is snaking no objection to civil- ians leaving Port Arthur. In conse- morningorin the field,n.telegraphed this ttence of the fact that flags of truce uhet Gen. Bent pad reported Lav- aro ignored, numbers of dead Japanese ing captured thirteen prisoners at the who have been lying in the slopes of battle of Liao Yang. Ile also gave a the hills of the northeast defences fordetailed list of the Russian stores whirl► weeks past are still unburied, and the Gen. Oku captured, as follows : stench in Port Arthur from decompos Thirty horses, 2,288 rifles, 170 am- its bodies is almost unendurable. munition wagons, 5,802 rounds of aril.- In the course of the assaults which 'esgreat surds lery,it 3o small arm ca ,9 g days 9d ,four last qutities of timber, flour, rice, forage, took place in the Y Au - engineering implements, clothing and as- gust two companies of Japanese sot- coutrentents. diers, according to Prince Radizivil, Marquis Oyama Commander -ht -chief found themselves at the mercy of the of the Japanese forces in the field, ra- Russians and hoisted a white flag. To pats that the Armies under Generals this, however, the Russians paid no at- 1i`uroki and Nod?u made no prisoners tendon, and continued to volley rapidly in the fighting before Liao Yang. into the helpless ranks of the troops Japanese. Gen. Kuroki ea tared forty horses, 800 Iinthe rear of the company that had 000 rifles, o> nds of rifle fle aminun tinds of brt't Red graph raised the white flag saw what r apparatus and various miscellaneous ate.- comrades had done, and p elements,. + their disapproval of the surrender by Gen. Nodzit captured 490 rifles, 1,164 firing ir ngs into t mtheiwr o r.ann s a rrlesul t•'of rounds of artillery, and 37,880 rounds of days afterwards the annnded ince in rifle ammunition, three heliographs, tele• y phortel, tools, and Iarge quantities of this area, raised fluttered handker- foodstuffs and timber. chiefs in their hands in pleas for help, Gen, Oku captured sufficient timber but the Russians were ,riraid to venture SIIORTAGE QF IiORSES, Gen. Iouropaticin's 'Transport Service in A Bad Way. London, Sept, 19.—A despatch to the Morning Poet from Shanghai sage that one of the reasons (len. Kouropatkin was forced to abandon and destroy his vast stores at Liao Yang was the want of transport, due to the non -arrival of thousands of horses. there. Those ani- mals had to rest at the depots at ved- ette stages of the journey. They were found to be susceptible of diseasese from which the local horses were fairly ex- empt. Of 4,000 animals collected. at Omsk two months ago, 3,000 were Bud- slenly attacked with partial or total blindness, requiring several weeks'treat- ment, A fearful epidemic of glanders is raging in Manchuria, $Go,000,000 A MONTH. Japan Spending $;5,000,000 and Russia $45i000,000. London, Sept. 18.—The following esti- mate of the financial position of the belligerents, though. necessarily based on guessworkas regards details, is gen- erally accepted as correct in its broad features. sepalsis believed to be spending L3,000,000 sterling monthly in her mili- tary operations. As ane national debt is small, her other expenditure is far below leer receipts, and her trade is in- creasing even while the war goes on. Her position is excellent, though she had to pay high for her first loan. Her recent successes will probably enable her to borrow more cheaply in future. Russia's war expenditure is estimated at £9,000,000 monthly, Her finances are far from sound at present, in spite of the vastness of her latent wealth. She has hitherto been living on the French loan raised in May, but an ukase has just authorized the issue of new rente bonds for £15,000,000. It is believed she hopes to negotiate a large loan shortly in Germany. SECOND ARMY. The Czar has Decided to Form a Second Manhcuri . an Army. St, Petersburg, Sept. 19, 1.57 p. m.— Acting upon the advice of his military advisers, Emperor Nicholas has decided to form a second Manchurian army. It will be formed of the corps which are be- ing sent to the far east, and Lieut. -Gen. Lineviteh probably will be given the com- mand of the second army. Gen. Kouro- patkin will become chief of both armies, but probably without the title of Com- mander -in -Chief. It is this impending re- organization which seems to have led to the constant rumors and reports afloat here of Kouropatldn's supercession of Viceroy Alexie.tf ne Commander -in -Chief 01 the army, .the latter's resignation, etc., but the Associated Press investih +,tions indicate that the above is the real situa- tion. The Associated Press is informed that Alexieff will continue to be Viceroy, and as such he eould not be subordinated an title to the commanding general. As has been heretofore stated •on high au- thority, the stories of Alexieff'•s inter- ference with Kouropatkin are entirely without foundation. On the contrary, Alexieff has always shown the utmost a-preeiation of the peculiar delicacy of his position as Kouropatkin's superior, The latest despatches received by the War Office here leave the situation at the front practically unchanged. There is no truth in the report, cabled to the Express, of London, from Tokio, that a battle is progressing at Mukden. There is nothing yet to show that Field Mar- . that Oyama • has begun to move in force. The reported fighting between the Jap- anese and Major -Gen. Mistohenko's Cos- sacks probably refers to the sharp skir- mish southeast of Mukden, news of ndlieh has already been cabled to the As- soeiated Press. . From Gen. Kouropatkin's telegram, which was despatched at 0 o'clock yester- day evening, it appears that Gen. Ren- nenkampf1 had recovered from his wound anti had resumed command of his troops. The reconnaissances disclosed a further increase in the Japanese forties at Yen tai and Bentsiaputze. The Russians have occupied several villages near the Japanese lines. t to Gen. Kouropatkin yesterday reviewed Among the henps, AT PORT ARTIIillt. of dead give succor. Ahe Prince caw two soldiers, one Russianandand the other a Japanese, 1y'- A Life ands Death Struggle Going .on ing ie a death embrace. Tile teeth of the Japanese was stork in the Arottnd theFortress. . Russian's ae ,sth tea t , while the Russian had London, Sept. 10.—The Shanghai orse- forced two of his fingers into the eye- • .,r,,, pendent of the Morning Post anys that sockets of bis antagonist. the Japanese resumed their bombard- The Prince cited this as merely an anent of Port Artier from the land Nide incident denoting the ferocity of the last Thursday, It is stated that the be- eonflist at fort Aitlntr. The prince will sieges are well supplied with provisions, leave here to -morrow to rejoin Caen. but their anon iuntion is running low. TCotropatkin. Many iunks tire Said to be running the Continuing his interview with the blockade, correspondent, the Prince said: A despatelt to the Deily Mail from "The stories in circulation concerning Chefoo says that four foreigners arriving the shortage of ammunition and prow - from fort Arthur this morning state sions at fort Attlntr are not true. There that there were intermittent bombard• is an abundance of ammunition for atzenis of the fortress dayand night dur- both targe and mall arms and plenty of ring the past 'week.bbeforts returning preserved food. The use of Chinese the fire. The fire of the Japanese caused shells was merely a saving measure." ealities in which winter communication is unsafe are rapidly running out of ab- solute necesaitites .of life and there le a prospect of much hardship if goods start- ed for the east under special permit of the authorities are not allowed to go through. Crew of The Novik, Sakahalin, Sept. 10.—Life here is pro- ceeding as usual. The population is busy harvesting crops, which are good. owing to abundance of rain in July, but the fishing is unsatisfactory. Captain Schultz and -some other offi- cers of the cruiser Novik, which was sunk after the sorties from Port Arthur, have arrived at Alexander, They were enter- tained at the Club and received with the greatest enthusiasm ,everywhere. The crew left on Sept. 13, Cruisers Successful Trials London, Sept. 19. A despatch from St. Petersburg to a news agency here says the Russian cruiser Izumrud, sister ship . to the famous Novik, has completed suc- cessfully her trials at Cronstadt, making 24 knots an hour. The Izumrud, accord- ing to this despatch, will join the second Pacific squadron at. Revel as soon as she is ready for sea. Contraband of War. St, Petersburg, Sept. 19.—The Russian Government's concessions to neutral com- merce in the matter of contraband of • war does not meet with the approval of the Novae Vremya, -which declares that the game of stopping neutral merchant- men is not worth the candle if Russia decides in advance to restore the contra- , band seized: The Orel. Barcelona, Sept. 19.—The Russian his- pital ship Orel has arrived here on her way to the far east. THE CZAR IS ADAMANT. War Will Be Continued so Long as a Soldier Remains Standing. • London cable: The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Express professes to have the highest authority for stating that the Russians will snub any foreign attempt at intervention. He says that when Prince Louis of Battenberg was representing King Edward at the chris- tening of the Carewitch he mentioned, while conversing with the Czar, that it was possible that a peace unfavorable to Russia wouldbe reached in the near fu- ture, ture, His Majesty replied: "So long as a Russian soldier remains standing or a rouble is left in the treasury I shall con- tinue the war against the Japanese, who forced me to take up arms. No disasters in the field can move me in this resolu- tion." It is believed that the Czar's utterance was made deliberately, with the inten- tion of having it repeated in England for the information of the world. THE•KAISER AND RUSSIA. Relations Between the Two Countries. • Growing Closer, London cable: •The Times prints an important article dealing with the understanding reached by Russian and Germany concerning the far east. The relations on this subject, says the writer, have been rapidly growing closer and more intimate between St. Petersburg and Berlin than between St. Petersburg and Paris. TJie Kaiser is convinced that the interests of Germany in the far east run parallel with those of Russia, and that therfore Germany has everything to gain from .the success of Rusin in the war, and everything to fear from her defeat. This, it is pointed out, is not a new idea, but it was only when the war began that the moment came for which the Kaiser had been impatiently waiting. It was when Rtussiti began to realize that the struggle was of unex- pected magnitude that the Kaiser took the initiative, in proffering to the Czar explicit assurances of support, amount- ing practically to a guarantee of immun- ity from all danger of interference by Europe, This enabled Russia, not only to withdraw from her western provinces some of her finest troops for the far east, but even to dismantle to some ex- tent the western fortresses in order to provide siegeguns for Port Arthur, Via- divostock, Liao -Yang and Harbin. The writer . instances the facilities Germany has granted Russia in acquir- ing war material at Essen and other workshops that are more or less under Government control, in the transfer of moi/ I►, p,,Tx North German Lloyd mad Ifanibtirg American steamer* to the Russian flag, in contracting for coal for the Baltic fleet, and other warsbipe, and even, it le stated, in allowing torpedo boats from Schichait to be transported in sec- tions over the frontier. '.lhe writer as- serts that arrangements were made be- forebxtnd at Rime -Chau to receive the Russian warships from Port Arthur, and to enable thein to coal with the ut- most despatch, as was done in the case of the Novik, although the others which arrived were so far in want of tempo- rary help that the Germans had no often but bo order that they be dismantled. it is believed that the neat step will be the floating of a large Russian war loan in Berlin. It anayy safely be asserted that the un- deratanding secures Russia Germany's support in IJ'e ultimate settlement of the :terms of peace, and for Germany, so far as Russia is concerned, a free hand in the future for carrying out her seheme of welt pantile on the lines of least re- sistance in China, that is to say, where it will come in contact only with British interests. UNTIL RUSSIA IS BEATEN, All Attempts at Intervention Will Be Unsuccessful. A Tokio cable: The Novikrai, Ad- miral Alexieff's organ at Port Arthur, reports that there has been no serious ehange in the conditions there since the general swains by the Japanese from Aug. 23 to Aug. 30. The paper de- clares there is no truth in the re ort that the battleship Sevastopol was dam- aged by a mine. - t Jewish high Reports from Chefpo state that ow- ing w ing to the bombardment of the western port at Port Arthur the Russians war- ships have been removed to the eastern port. A committee has been appointed to consider a revision of the laws effect- ing the introduction of foreign capital into Japan. The Nichi Niebi thinks that the pro. posed Chinese mission to Japan *has an ulterior object. It says that if .the object of the mission is mediation China is too late. All attempts of third parties to intervene in the struggle will be unsuecessfut until Russia is exhaust- ed. The paper adds that China -would better confine her attention to tate pre- servation of her own neutrality, thus limiting the area of operations. Commenting on. the report of the sailing of the Russian Battle fleet for the far east, the Jiji Shimpo urges _ .tante in the reduction of, Port Arthur, thus destroying Russia's principal naval base in the east. The Kokumin thinks that the silence of Great Britain and the United States regarding the new Ja Co agreement is a. tacit recognition pan's suzerainty in Corea a con- trol of Corean diplomacy a similar control of her fin mili- tary. Canadian Attache Home. Victoria, B. C., report says: Captain Ryan, of the Canadian permanent forces, arrived from Japan to -day by the SS. Maehaon, on his way home to Ottawa, after.spending some months at Tokio, as the representative of the Canadian mili- tia, Ile was despatched to Japan at the outbreak of the war, with instructions to make professional observations of the military movements of the Japanese army. In common with all the other military attaches from foreign nations, and the war correspondents, Capt. Ryan was detained in Tokio under repeated promises that he should be soon sent to view operations. He says that the Ja- panese fleet has suffered severely in the encounters with the Russian vessels of war, and that all the dry docks and re- pairing harbors in Japan are full of Ja- panese war vessels in various stages of repair. One big cruiser which was in the great naval battle off Port Arthur had all her funnels shot, away, and twenty-five shot holes in her hull. Had the water been rough on her voyage from Port Arthur to Japan she must have gone to the bottom. Captain Ryan reports that the Japanese themselves admitted gross blundering in allowing loaded transports to .leave Japan for Corea and other points without propel escort, and that the raids on the Via- divostock fleet filled all Japan with in- tense alarm. The report circulated by the Japanese war office that the rea- son for the unexpected stubbornness of the Russians in the recent fighting is the improvement in rifle shooting and steadiness in the troops is false as the Japanese are well aware of the fact that they are now confronted with regiments straight from Europe, and not undis- ciplined raw levies of Siberian peasants, hastily battalioned and hurried to the seat of war. Captain Ryan speaks bit- terly of the treatment accorded the at- taches and correspondents., 1 S MEN SHOT BEAD" IN A CRAP Dowie the First Apostle of the Christian Catholic -Church. Carlo, Ills. Sept. 19.—A negro em- ployed at Bryans' landing, four miles be. low here has been here and reported that in a quarrel over a erap game six men were killed, three whites and. three negroes. ,A white man who had lost his money in the game went away and summoning a party of friends re. turned to where the negroes were play- ing and demanded the money. A fight with rifles followed. Later a negro with his bead filled with abet and with his nose shot off arrived from the scene, He could give no inform- ation as to bow many were killed The First Apostle., Chicago, Sept. 19. Wearing a rich robe and mitre modled after those of an an - der r ig s priest, John Alexan- der Dowie has proclaimed himself "John Alexander," first apostle of the Christian Church. The announcement was made in the tabernacle at Zion City where seven thousand people had assembled., Dr. Dowie referred to the robes in assum- ing the office After quoting scripture in support of the claim, he had made to the title of the first apostle, he said: ""I did not ereat the •office. It was created by the Lord. 1 did; not create it any more than I designed these robes. If you are in doubt as to my authority to wear them, you will find it in the 28th chap- ter of Exodus, the pattern given by God to Moses when the high priesthood was established." Dr. Dowie wore a long garment of heavy whit satin, lined with white silk. Over this was a purple satin robe, fring- ed with gilt, of knee length. The "broi- dared coat," the richest feature of the custume, -was of white satin embroider- ed with geomatrieal patterns in purple and gold, the colors of the church. The girdle was there with Historical, but on the breast plate instead of the twelve jewels prescribed by the Jewish rittuitl, was embroidered a scarlet cross edged with gold, with beaddrsae consisting of a white silk mitre, er turban, ornaments ed with two purple bands. White silk hose an white canvass shoes, completed tbe costume. "The office of the first apostle is perpet al," said Dowie, after he had read several long passages from the scripture. "It should have been continued. Suooes• sons to the original twelve were chosen to the number of nine to fill vacancies caused by rnartydom or death. This as- sumption of the first apostleship is the finelstep in the organization of that which was planned by Jesus Christ." Found in .a Trask Chicago, Sept. 19. :Hidden in a trunk and almost suffocated, Calvin Linden, colored, who shot and killed Charles Meyers, a clerk, and wounded three other men Saturday night, has been captured at the home of his sister, Mrs Anna, Foster, of BIue Island. The woman guarded the trunk by sitting on it while the police searbed the house, and Lind- en betrayed himself by raising the lid for air as soon as his sister rose, and when the police were about to leave after an apparently fruitless search. Linden sub- mitted ub• mit ed meekly to arrest and declared he had killed Meyers in self-defence. Raided Chinese Den. Chicago, Sept. 19. =Detectives have raided a. Chinese gambling house and made 146 arrests. Six patrol wagons were filled with the prisoners. The .raid was the first of the kind for several years. One apartment was used for opium smoking. In the rear was the place for gambling. Hundreds of dollars were be- ing wagered when the detectives entered the room. Sixteen tables were in oper- ation, with an average of twelve slay. ors to a table. panese- roan TO of Ja• nd of her IRITIIRONErehmmat . P 9 to mecca and ' YAMED PRINCE PIEIJMONT. Chose That Title So as Not to VIE Atha uAR-I- GEWERAL �� op ,4,/ /////////,//; ROimivt, /1 t4 SVA RT a II tO kio 241-710 EASY.. 1 -t'ltitAdelpltia 1 ecoid. Antagonize the Pope. Rome, Sept. 20,—The majority of the people approve the action of King Vic- tor Emmanuel in not choosing the title of Prince of Rome, for the heir to the throne, born last night, as it would have mixed the Royal family in a party strug- gle, and would have embittered the con- flict between Church and State at a time when the Pope seems to be leaning towards moderation. It is believed that ;he title chosen, that of Prince Piedmont, will become fixed for all time for the talian crown prince, as is the title of Prince of Wales in England. To celebrate the birth of the heir, the King granted amnesty to all political pri- soners, also shortened by six months nany sentences for various crimes. • The »ince will be christened Humbert. King Victor Emmanuel has received the wenn- sit congratulations throughout the king- lom, and also most cordial despatches l ram Emperor Nicholas, Emperor Wil- liam, President Loubet, King Edward, and Emperor Francis Joseph. The Queen of Roumania sent Queen Helene a poem on the event. tprridWTIffitffil tWeafYYYWYYMMYIWYYYk ITEMS OF NEWS FROM FAR AND NEAR uw.v.iummuucyu.W Belgrade, Servia: King Peter will be crowned on Wednesday next. Milan.—It has been decided to con- tinue the general strike until Wednes- day.ns London.—Baron Eastings (George 'Tanners Asteley) died yesterday even- ing. He was born in 1847. Belgrade, Servia.--All the powers have instructed their Ministers bere to attend the coronation of Icing Peter, exeept Rus- sia, whose action has caused a sensation. New York.—Mrs. Ada Connors, wife of Capt. W. Connors, tetany years ego well known as a theatrical manager and later proprietor of the Ilotel St. James, is dead from heart disease in Brooklyn. Berlin. ----Emil Thomas, formerly one of the most artistic comedians on the Ger; man .stage, is dead. lie was 65 years of age. Herr Thomas made a tour of America in 1592-03. New York. ---Several unions which ivere expected to meet Sunday and declare strikes against the Building Trades As- sociation, for its refusal to end the ex- leting lockout against the Building Trades Alliance, failed to assemble. New 'York. --Leader Charles V. Mur- phy, of Tannnany Ball, end several hnn- d edt"antntany nen, including seer sf tlistriet Ieaders, left to -day for Sara- toga't.o attend the Democratic state con- vention, on three special trains, St. T.oui, Last week for the first time in the history Louisianab fthr Par. chase Reposition, the attendance for the `tix days 'mended one 1111111011. The react total re'ord of ndntiasians for the week 218±1 Chicago: The Tnter-Parliamentary 1'idnn, millet' is totirieg the e.,uuttry as s;•tir,ts of the nation, reached ('Iticaga • from Denver to -dry, On the trip from,, Denver the thing which impress.•d tt:e Iron. I'. Ii. I.nteltor2 has wrrltten to visitors- most 22'8a the sight of the vast onto; Mayor that the tiovernment, wnne turn fields of the prairie •eonntt;V. 'i'Tte a.lmltttnit na responslbilfCy ns to the tnIi - ltarty -made a tour of Chicago itt sits. with sq� r C1e$i tatioiio a m y the sottirlde 1ei1 lieges, and tvill go to Detroit, eecersare. Poisoned Himself. White .Plains, N. Y., Sept. 20.—John Wilkenson, alias "Tracy," who poisoned himself yesterday with • a mixture of sulphur and tobacco,"died in the hospital in the county jail to -day. Wilkenson committed several robber- - ies in Mount Vernon and vicinity and. when rune down by Detective Riley he shot the officer while on the way to the station house. He escaped and was hunted for several days until exhausted from hunger and exposure he sought re- fuge in a freight car and was there cap- tured. He had been indicted for as- sault and robbery and was, taken to court yesterday to plead. He almost collapsed when brought into the court room. After he had pleaded not guilty he was taken back to jail and the jail physician was called. Then it was found that he had taken the sulphur from five hundred matches he had obtained in some way and had dissolved the sulphur in water mixing with it a quantiity of to- bacco. The physician gave the man an emetic, but in spite of all efforts to save him he died. Wilkenson is said to belong to a respectable family in Buf- falo. BLONDES DISAPPEARING. Anthropologist Believes This Type Will Vanish From the Earth. Washington. D. 0., Sept, 19.—Otis T. Mason, anthropologist at the Smithson- ian Institution, states that "the blondes are a disappearing human type." He says : Blond women ere becoming scarcer every year, and to -day there are not nearly so many fair haired and blue eyed beauties as there were fifty years ago. In each successive generation there are fewer of them than • An: the, last . ,,Al- ready such a'thing as "s' real .done, purely -such, is so -rarely seen in this country as to excite' ieivai4„ and golden tresses are so infrequent that real ones are usually suspected to be dyed. In short, it has become evident that before long this :ype of feminine lovel Bess will have praetieally vanished from the ea.rtb. . "You may judge . how rapidly :the blondes are going when you consider the fact that wherever. a. ark. man marries o blond uton1i ,; or.'•uice. versa, sixty-six per eent. of the:children-befit,havo dark hair and•eyes, :; At that rate net many cos tturi '' wi 1' be required to sense . ouf q p the'fair tyype altogether. If • yrou • ask how this matter has been determined with such accuracy I will reply that it has been by including statistical obser- vations on the point in the censuses of nations." The fast that most persons have fair hair in early youth would seem to hull - cats that the American's ancestors were a fair-haired rase. This is borne out by history, though the Anglo-Saxons are sprung from such a mixture of racial stocks that it is not easy to assign to then a definite origin. A GAMING HOUSE. The Chaudiere Club Case Up at Ottawa. Ottawa, Out., Sept. 10. ----(Special.). Charles Belly, nn Ottawa hackman, and Albert Hillman, who at one time keptt a small hotel here, were arraigned in the • Pollee Court, charged with running a gaming house under the name of the t'h:tudiei•e Club. The ease was adjourn- ed until Friday iday next. Kelly and ..(Union are out on bail. The Canada Central fair opened hese today. The wenther is fine.