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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1904-12-01, Page 7FIERCESTRU661413 GOINfi only forty recce apart it email trett• ,cluee but they do not lire at aatelt other. Olio 'Japanese ticittry fell atileep At his post, and a Ittlealan Seidler left the troll - cites, crept up and titole hie gull and re. ON AT PORT ARTVIU .Thpanese at one time attempted. to dig trendies 10 paces away front the Rue. turned without awakening him. The 0 aians, but they were driven off, Pocket Stoves for Heat. ,.........-,... X Japanese Swordsmen Forge Themselves Into AgeNtirtravoogwvidis 1 Che Ozer Receives Four of ' a Russian Port.' light enowlitorm yesterday left two in. chee of MOW Oil the ground, Aloof( the the Zemstvot▪ sts, 010.1,7. GIES EAR TO THEIR PETITION. Kouropatkin May Make An Effort o (love Southwarci„ French Chamber of Peac Deputies Discuss the e Terms. Tokio, Nov, .1,7,—A report was recei ad here late last night stating that speciel detaehment of Japanese swordi men, under lafajor-General Nakamura, ef • fected an entrance into a certala for tit Port Arthur at 9 o'olock Mat night and •were fighting fiercely at "the tim •tthe despatch was sent. Another de tachrnent, under Major-Generat Saito •entered the Russian camp' through th fortificatlorts. , • A New Attack. . Tokio, Nov. 27a—Linierial headquarter dms just issued. the followipg an •• a • nouncemen.t: • v. War, Mit inventing means for the pur- . a pose where they did not exist. • Lansdawne Issues Warning. '• • London, Nov. 27.—Fereign Minister t Lansdowne has written a letter to the , chamber of- Shippiog; 'Chamber of oomineTe, and other similar bodies: 0 giving either Warning with reference to British colliers. and the Russian , Battle squadron, explaining that Brit- , ish milers chartering their vessels for . teach, purposes as follewing the Russian fleet with coal and supplies might ren- der themselves liable ..te. proeeedings un- , dor the Foreign Enlistment Act, the am- . plicablo sections of which he (Noted Lord "Lansdowne then: refers to the . fact that a •siiiiijar) question atose Mir- ing the Franco-German War, when Mg „Gladstone laid down the 'principle that such colliers would to all intents and 'purposes, beemne'titore ships to tLe fleet. ' "Therefore," concludes Lord Lans. downe, "althou,gh neutral. traders may trade dontraband at the risk of cap- ture, they. should bear in mind the con- ditions of the English laws." s • • vale works for our attack having been nearly cmpleted against Sungshu Moun- tain (Port Arthur), and the forts lying oastward therefrom, a general assault ;vas made on the afternoon of Nov. 28, but owing to the enemy's stubborn re- etsbance otna,objeet dies not yet been accomplished. s s alle fighting still continues." 4ts Means' Life or Death. ' • Tokio, Nov. 27.—Discussing the wins on the eve of the assembling,. cif the. ,1aiet , to -day, Premier Katsuragnitt: s .11a • 'Russia mitt see that the war can- not be. 0071011(ted Ljw 1 s.,. 0,4 battled. With us the wax onans life or Death, .and net sane of -.our 0,000,000 brethren remains ignorant of the -vital isaue at etike, • "We are preparea to sacrifice. our last Man and our last cent for thie war." • Firing it Port Authur. ; St. P,etersb.usga Nov..27.—A great bona bardment of Port Arthur imuederstood to have opened Saturday niorninga In a telegram sent through on. Kou- tope-thin, Gen. Stioesitel reports• that. an attack made by the .Japanese on Port Arthur on Nov..21 was repulsed. RIOTING AT SEBASTOPOL, • -- Seamen, Aroused by Orders to Keep Out •-• of City; 'Attack the. Barracks. • St. Petersburg, Nov. 27.—A brief ac- count of serious disturbances amoog the seamen at Sebastopol has been tia- lowed •to • reach -shore.- a Disorders oit hirge scale are expeeted. -Orders were issued last Friday for- bidding the men in thesnagal barracks from entering the teivn. At .o'eloek about, twenty gathered at the closed gates of the ,epeondgaterracks, -mate& an .uprottia artd,aintaallaligawandow penes,' • The crowd grew larger and bean wrecking the' 'quartets' of 'the'"Officeis whose in•en refused to join in the out- break. The eloters, many of whom were in , naval dress, afterwards marched to the ' first ba,p-acks, where...able) menarefused to ...join:at:beim aadnelsiits ,grtolually rata stored order, adirleaot:thein using bale cartridge, and. severely wounding many oZ theanoters. The outbreak is sdae to political agi- tation, Many prect.antationsagyangbeen • found: The'rietiets were lackirmant or-' •ganization, or order would not have been so quickly restored. • - • , , Didn't Fire on Fishing Boats. "P"••,. Liman, _Nov. 27.—The skippers of 'steam fishing boats that arrived at Lowestoft yesterday report that the sup- plementary squadron of tlte Baltic fleet . passed through the fishing grounds the North' Sea at midirighttlfriday .aitd used their searchlights 4reelyi TO MOVE SOUTH. Armies Net to Remain olt Defenslye Until Spring: , London Nov. 28..-LTIre 'St. Veteriburg. cerresponilent of the Daily Telegraph says no one believes that the armies in Manchuria will remain oil the defensive. until Spring. Officers of the general staff affirm thalaGeoglaoutagmtkin roust make an effort to move southward (lur- ing the winter. _Therefore -the reinfotees merits arriving 'Weekly life' sent to tini • front instead of winterhe, in the. rear. Gen.' Kouropatkin„ :it is lahleved„.iow possesses many advantages over . Field Marshal Oyamita Whose,' nag pf comirnmia cations has donblea eine& the mouths of the Yala and Liao Rivers have been frozen, • The Russian .6einmunieetions have greatly improve,d since. the comple- tion of the railway Around Lake..Baikal, aglaForty thousand 'troops ean now be cora veyed monthly to the front. • BRITISH AID FOR RUSSIA. • Destroyers Allowed to Coal at /tOrt Said. London, Nov. 21.—The progress of the war has sunk for the time 1ring to a piece of minor 'priblie consideration in England am Eurape. One point only is arousing' indignant eomment in 'Lon- don, mutely, the announcement that the destroyers of the Baltic fleet were al- lowed to take coal from transports alongside at Port Said. ' . It is recalled that during the Span. ish-Americao War it 1898' Great •131.1t- ttin forbade Admiral Camara to coat the Spanish fleet in the same waters. She aow refuses to impose the same re - strietions in behalf of her ally Japan Which she tnade foe the benefit of the United States during the Spanish war, It is no a known whether Japan has as yet protested, but the action of the British authorities is already denounc- e by Englishmen as perfidious and as ttaestablisliing a, &Leprous precedent. Paton Suyenuttsu fit tut interview yesterday said that it was strongly feIt in Japan that Europe generally was assisting Russia in a way tlint JApan liad never dontemplated. Everi Etta - land had been reudering much indirect assistance throtigh Ito in - gamed the ease of the %Me fleet, which mild not have gone to sea with- out the itesirstance of the subjecte of neutral powere, which assistance Ilan been more or leets offiehilly tonnived Certainly the fleet could not have gone far without English coal. Ito thoaglit Great Within should have prevent,. 1 such wholesale tniffie in contraband 41 . FIGHTING IN MANCHURIA. . - 2 Kourapat,klitalleports Jags Everywhere t Repulsed. Petersburg, Nov. 27.—Oen. Hour°. patkin telegraphs • a. • description of. a Japanese • Attliek on Nov. 24, against a Russitoi detachment near *tension - ten on the front of the left flank. - "The fighting," • Cen, Kouropatkin says, "was fierce, almost amounting to a bayonet engagement, but the • enemy were. (storyteller° fepulsd, and suffered severely. The, attack was renewed the following 'mornings the Japanese having been reinforced, but again was repulsed, and at 4, o'clock. in the 'afternoon -a bliz- ard and fog greatly hindered artillery fire. The Japanese centinued to advance, undet cover of the fog, but (Mr forces held their positions, and the firing sub- sequently slackened. The Russian losses were nine killed and fifty, :wounded... 'On . Nov.' 20- the Jitpanese resumed the offensive and endeavored to en- velop out • left flank whilst advancing against our centre. "I have received no later reports." Gera • Koutopatkia also discaibes the bayoneting of twenty Japanese belong- ing to a patrol during reconnaissance on'the night of :Nov. 25th. tops of thoridgest 'winch in Many p aces I form the advenced line of Con. ICurolii'a) army, tlio mow is deeper. Ihe Soldiers are living in earthenburg tom And snug shelters coustruetea of corn:italics, aird are able to keep is through the footing nights. It ni im- possible to build camp; fires in the tren- ehes and bil'Oliaa lyitinn sight of the en- emy. For wain% the soldiers depend on charcoal fires in "shibachis" (pocket stowle). Some supplies of charcoal were brought*from Japan, but most of it has been purchased in Manchuria. The army has employed many coolies cutting trees and making ebarcoal Mite early last summer, foreseeing the present need of it. wheft.se...aurar...irset NEWS IN BRIEF The Times' British trade reports show con- tinuance of recent f8VOrlablO Qouditions. The safe in Price'e store at Rosser, Alan., was blown open and robbed of ONO. George hfcWilliam, wholesale fruit mer- chant,. Toronto, died after a brief Illness. • The Sultan ordered vigorous measures to suenrese tbia Bulgarian revolutionary move- ment. Former Queen Natalie of, Servia, was in. kired in a carriage accident at Biarrits, France. Two feet of snow fell at .Seaforth Sunday, sannodwalfalgrts of Western Ontario report heavy A syndicate of western American capital- ists has taken out a license to mine en The Elkhorn Valley Bank, of O'Neil, Neb., failed to open for business on Saturday. and Its president and the • cashier could not_ be ;Id. 'Rosie Lusander, of Philadelphia, aged 5 years, was shot and killed by her husband, o whom she had been married but two months, • Expresses IlisSympathy With Their Action, Excitement in St. Petersburg Over Ozar's Act, St. Petersburg, Nov. 29, 2.50 aan,— The unexpected may happen after all. The meeting, of the Zemstvoists, "First Russian Congress," as it is now Called, may indeed work for the imagination of a yew era for Russia, Emperor Nicholas, the initiator of tag ,plan for universal diaarnument, limy turn bis baek upon the reactionaries and crown his reign by granting to his subjects the constita- tion which his grandfather had, already prepered when he fell by the bana of an assassin. The basia of such a possibility is the aignifleant fact that late this afternoon. the Emperor received in the - palace at Tsarskoe-Selo, M. Shipoff, of 11108. - cow; M. Patruukevitch, of Tever; Rodzianko, of lakaterin-slav, and •Count Heiden, our prominent members. of the Zemstvo Congress, and listened at length to their views. Ib developed that when Miniater of the Interior Sviatopolk- Mirsky presented the Zemstvo memorial Hunter's name, in the Rainy River district. J and resolutions on November 24, the Om- peror was so deeply impressed as well by the centents .ofatheadocuments, as by the &ander of the signers, that he immediately expressed the desire to per- sonally receive a edputation of four. The Zemstvdists therefore went to Tsarskoe-Selo by Imperial command. At their audience it is understood. they explained fully their position, and. re- iterated fulfa• their position, and, re- iteraoted the yiews expressed by the memorwial, that the salvation from ruin by revolution lay tu the adoption of the general ideas expressed in the me- morial.- .The• Emperor was greatly im- pressed by what he beard, and, asked many questions. While it is • under- stood that be.gave no indications of his pinposes except the .sympathy he eh - played, the deputation. when it return. to St. Petersburg was in high spirits, but naturallyall declined to say any, Writ, for publication : regarding . the Tho 31011 'S that the. delegation had been given -an audience by the 151m - peter spread like wildfire through the city last night, andcreated a tremen- dous sensation, rejoicing -among Lib- erals and amezement among the uncom- premising supporters of the old regime. Earlier in .the day the report was cur- rent that an immediate -effect of the Zemstvos' meeting would likely be the realization of a plan for giving two el- ected Zemstvo representatives scats. in the councils of the empire. 4 • er • • FOOLED WEALTHY BANKERS. • JAPS REPORT VICTORIES. a Several Attacks by Russian Infantry Repulied. Tokio, Nov. 27.—Manchurian head- quarters, reporting to -day, says: "From the night of Nov. 25th until the morn- ing of Nov. Nth a body of the enemy's *teary Attacked mu: troops ivaa the Of.,Sinattungtun and. Shadtaou, but qie attack was completely repulsed by us. "The enemy's artillery, posted to the east' �f'the Te. afouoteiea , vigorously • Shelled the vicinities ;ne,a Menehoantzu and Ktichiatzu, from .2 o'clock itt the afternoon of Nov. 20th, but we suffer- ed no damage, - • ._,"Qa the right .bankaf• the Ilun, River a body of the enemy's cavalry attack- ed afanichies _on Nov. 250, but was driven back by our force. "On Npv. 24th tlio enemy set fire to ShautzainiceS and 'inost• of the village was Inuated." JAPAN'S PEACE TERNS. Discussion Discloses. What Purports to • gbq tib Nation's Demands. • Paris, Nov. 27,—In the Chamber of Deputies. the Foreigiallinisteg M. Del - °ass°, protested egainst the crtticiain of ther Franco-Russum allience in the re- porla oU the •Coininittee on the Foreign Budget, which contains a number of . allusions unfavorable to Russia. Re - 'faring to 'these, M. Deleasse said: ".`Never lute the alliance been more ne- ceakry and beneficial. Never has there arisen a better occasion for proclaim- ing France's unavastering fidelity to the alliance, Which has to powerfully safe- guarded the, mutlial interests of the two eountries." This is significant of the firm attitude of the Government against the Social- ist opposition' to Russia. The committee's reportcontains the following 'specific etatenient in connec- tion with the Russo-Japanese war: "Already Japan : lute inade known the conditions on which she is ready to close hostilities. These consist in the return of Manehuria te China, the dismantling of .Port Aaiun: and the establishment of Coteau independence with the right of Itipenese to minim, land. • Russia's refusal of the 'foreging conditions shows it is. her ,purpose to retry on the con - filet to the end." 'Witco a correspoodant enquired at the ,Vereigat Office What. authority there was forthcaitaternent, it was explained that the conditions were not officially made known by the Japanese Government, but by the Japenese Ceinmercial Association, representing: the powerful, progressive element, and having strong influence with the nevi -trim -newt. Therefore it was believed to toned Japan's °Meet wishes, *ea*. TALIt X`ROI THE TRENCHES. Rival Armies so Close That They Ex- change Compliments. Madera Nov. 27. -7 -At Linshinpu, of which town the northern half is in Rim. siert hands aria tbe southern is held by Japanese, the trenches are 120 pates apart, and it is possible in the silence of the niglit to distinguish the voices of the Japanese. Sometimes men on both sides strike up a conversation, putty of the Somme:se speaking excellent Russian. The Soldiers good naturedly abuse 'one another and pass invitations to COMO Arid taltO dinner and ten. Often the 'Tap- anese tentalize the Runt:ins by show- ing them that they have vodka to drink, mut of whieh the Thiseirms have none. The Japanese continually Allowed the 'Russians to gather fuel on neutral gramel n Lbisliiitpn vhen they were imarnied. Theo they ntiddenlY fired, kill- ing two Ituseirtne and wounding one. Rtiesiati and Jaraneffo pickets ere now Guy Roche, the gambler, who, it is alleged, was shot by Frank Felton Thursday after- noon in. Broadway, died In the New York Hospital. The statue Which Noya Scotia is erecting to Hon. Joseph Howe at Halifax, will be un- veiled on Doc. 13th, the centenary of Mr. Howe's birth. The body of Itov. George FeelnlYer. a su- perannuated Inethodist minister of Baltimore, was found in a reservoir connected with a sanitarium in a suburb. John Baldwin, who received a bullet weund during the street 41101 in the Bowery, Now York, between members of rival aocietlea of Chinamen, is dead. Fire in the Queen's County Court HOWie, New York, paused damage estimated at $400000, and for a time threatened the admin- istration building and the Jail. Reports reaching the French Foreign Of- fice show that fourteen treaties of arbitra- tion have thus far been signed between the various powers of Europe and by America. The texts of all the treaties aro practically identical with that of the French treaty with Great Britain. Cyrus II. Kendall, assistant foreman of the testing department at the General Elec- tric Works in Schenectady, N. Y., and whose home 18 at Norfolk, Conn., was instantly kill- ed by coming in contact with a Ilye wire car- rying 2,300 volts. Ire was 22 years old, and was a graduate of Yalo. A: meeting of the Ontario Alliance Battu - Hee will be held to -morrow afternoon to draft a manifesto touching the temperance situation in the Province as it stands after the recent political conventions. Later in the week it isprobable that the manifesto will be issued to the public. Or. Bruce Smith, Inspector of Prisons, states that considerable progress has been made in the transference of insane persons from the Jens to tho asylums, in accordance with an order recently issued by the Provin- cial Secretary's department. He thought tho work would be completed before Christmas. SNOWDRIFTS INKNGLAND. Some Trains Were Snowbound for Two Days—Bad Time in London. New York, Nov. 27.—A special cable to the Herald from London says: From dense fog to hard frost, accompanied by bright, clear, bracing air, followed by (heavy snowstorms which held up rail- way trains in some cases for two nights; from that to sudden thaw, which .thsap- pointed the hopes of skaters and con- verted cetuttry roads atul Lindon streets in particular into masses of muddy slush, with every appearance of the return o the fog—such has been the kind of wea- ther which has been experienced during the last week. • Thursday especially wasa terrible day • . for London. The heavy snow which had fallen during the nigh and the keen frost rendered theastreets almost impassable fat ,braffic. Horses were. am falling 'about the streets in the nioat distressful manner. Exciting stories come from the north of trains caught in snowdrifts. The LI)11• don and Edinburgh express, driven At full speed, failed to pierce .the deep drift and stuck fast. The passengers readied Edinburgh nine droure bac, an unusual experience inthiateuntry,"but it was the fate 'of ether trains, in Durham and Nor- thumberland, to be +held in drifts from Tuesday until Thursday before they eould be dug out. . fa 4 a " GIGANTIC PRAUD. • • Over One Million Stolen From the Rothschilds. New York, Nov. 27.—A special cable to the Sun from London says that ihe Wood Street Smelting Works, which for many years were operated by the Roths- childs as a gold refinery, have just been closed in disgust by the great financiers, because of gigantic frauds, of which they bave been the victims. It was 'as - covered. a few weeks ago that Blumeu- thal, the head of one of the departments and the bullion buyer of the firm had defrauded the concern out of about X250;000 aud fled to the entinent. ilia operatioas date from the close of the Boer war. At that time Blumen- thal speculated heavily in commis and Kaffirs. it was thought in the street that he was' operating in behalf of the firm, but this was not eo. He lost heavily and then commenced his fradu- lent operations by adultering gold in the smelting works and by osther ereok- ednese, The discovery of the frauds was Made a few weeks ago and he ala sanded. The Rothschilds, n.ccording, to their custom, refused to call in the pollee and. (good this braneh of the businese, throwing fifty craftsmen out of work. saa - • • GAS HO'OBE EXPLOStOlt On Dead and Forty Others More Or Less Hurt hi New York. • ..ew York, Nev. 27.—One man is dead, three are in a hospital suffering from bunts end lacerations, mad several others at e less eetiously hurt no the, result of 1131 eeplosion early to -day in the gement- Mg home of the enneolidated Gate Com- pany's plrmt in West 41t1t etreet. , Mere were 40 WOrkInelt in the generat- ing hoese, and all were either knocked down or were 'blown ngainst the walla. Jamea Kama 27 ;lean of age, received a fractured Anil. surd two hours litter The cause of the esplosion is not known. a Man trlaeVe the sitganca water, Ito House railroad erossing, New Yoek, diale relief the mortality this winlerbeen found alive, Woodstock Woman Fascinates Men and Obtains Money. Cleveland, 0., Nov. 29.—A Canadian woman prominent in society here as the wife of Dr. Leroy S. Chadwick, a lead. ing physician, and possessed of lustrous black eyes, and magnificent presence, has obtained from bankers and capital- ists, by some mysterious power, over a quarter of a million of dollars, without a vestige of security. The Chadwicks have lived in a spa- cious brick mansion on Euclid avenue for years and moved in the highest social ch•cles. Their surroundings were luxurious, and invitations to their en- tertainments sought after eagerly • by the very elite. Last week Herbert B. Newton, capi- talist, of Brookline, Mass., began suit against Mrs. Chadwick for $100;000, al- leged to have been obtained under false pretenses. The palatial residence was at once closed, the Chadwicks vanithed, O deputy sheriff took possession • and amazing revelations followed thick and fast. It was discovered that Mrs. Chadwick was IMO other than Mine. Lydia De Vero, of Toledo, who was sent to the Ohio. Penitentiary for 10 years in 1800 for a big forgery in which a Toledo mil- lionaire was involved. She served three years and was released on parole. She then met Dr. Chadwick and was married to hint in Windsor on Aug. 26, 1897, by Rev. J. R. Gundy. • Mrs. Chadwick's maiden name was Annie Bigley. She was born in a small town near Woodstock, Ont., about 47 years ego, of peer bat honest parents and in one of her letters to the prison officials after being paroled, she stated that she was staying with her mother, Mrs. Ann Bigley, in Woodstock. She was tried for forgery' in 1879, but ne- imitted and her wondrous eyes at that time gave rise to talk. that she was possessed of occult power. She late since been known at different times as airs. Hoover, under which name • she married Dr. Chadwick, Mrs, Bagley, Ls,. dia D. Scott and Lydia Chinon. • afrs. Chadwick is now said to be stay- ing at the Hoffman House, New York, while her husband and stepdaughter are on the continent, The suits entered against het are as follows: H. IL New- ton, $100,000; Euclid Avenue Trust Co., $38,231.32; American National Bank, $28;808.25. Savings Deposit Banit, $10,- 000; Total $207,839,57. • 4 0-4- NATMIn EXPOSES A CRIME, Curieus Circumstances About Indiana Murder just Revealed. Ilartfora City., Ind., Nov. 20.-- Mut the hand of Providence, guiding the steps of a muskrat to a plitee of saf- ety, filling a dumb animal with the feer of a remembered danger and directing the flight of a wounded bird, helped in the detettion of the murderers of Isalwaid P. Sanderson? This is a pop- Martin Conway, of the"' township Finds in the Counties of Mityo toot MI- uktr question it: this county. way nre already feeling the pin.ch of perty-owner, lit -ed on a farm ten miles Engine Crew Scalded.: etarvation. The potato crop, winch is I the chief staple of the contry, is a pita 0 a* Edward P. Sanderson„ a large pro. maned Janne of the men from the factory. After nmt atiVicility"the body was re. moved it was found tie, hare Wen weighted with a seventy-five polind „ , stone, Wilielt WS attached to It by a strap. bullets had been fired lute the brain, • " - man, and examination showed that two Tile body was that of the Miming BADLIT BEATEN By TRoops. • before it Ives placed in the pond, To find mit where the murder took place, ble horse wits bitched to Ilia buggy . One Woman Knoutect to Death and Others and a, eircultouFi dew) WS made to the home of the neighlhor. Then the road :WAN followed that Sanderson travelled • Dragged by Hair of Head and Beaten, 031 the night of his disappearance. 'Pt an abrupt turn the horse sbowed Biro of fear, Ile pricked up Ins ears, turned to the side ef the road and Wowed un- willingness to proceed. .. The, elicit was examined and in the dust at. the side .of the road were build severe' little balls of duet athich are believed to have been made by drops of blood. which, flowed from .Sanderson's wounds. Four men were hunting later in the neighborhood of the Sanderson home, and ono of them shot and wounded a quell. The wounded bird fell in the yard, ana svhen the hunters went in to get, it fluttered antler the house. One of the men followed it, and as he crawled through an opening in the foun- dation, he discovered two tin cans filled with dynamite. A fuse left them to /m- other .opening in the foundatien Each can contained -about five, .pounds of the explosive and it WA plain that it bad been placed there with the • it- tentiou of blowing up the house. The euthoritiee were notified and started an investigation to find where the explosive and the cans were bougat. They are reticent, but believe that the same men who murdered Sanderson placed the dynamite under his house. NORTH SEA COM1V1I$SION. Text of the Agreement Published by the Foteigu Office London, Nov. 27.—The Foreign Office has issued the text of the tonne of the reference to the North aeo, Con -tiniest= The first "iiistiele.s provides that the comuission shall cousist of a British, • Russian, French and American naval of- ficer of high rank. in the event of their failing to agree upon the fifth member Emperor Francis Tozeph sell! be invited to select him. • • Great Britain and Russia. will each appoint a legal assessor, and also an agents . offically empowered to talce part in the labors of the commission. The second article .provides. that tbe commission shall enquire into and report on all the circumstances relative to the Cossacks Tom the Reservists From the Arms of Their Wives and 'Children. Russians Believe Pacific Squadron Will Beat Togo, and Japs Will Then Sue for Peace. •l'rew York, Nov. eff.-,-Intariated by the unvaillingnese of the Polish troops to leave their wives and children, the Russian authorities at Kutno, rnwn on the Polish front, ItaYee egetalina to a Berlin despatch. to the Times, treated the people in a manner almost incredibly cruel, It is known that a woman has been knouted to death and that a number of others have been Injured. .Some of the prisoners were tortured into 1.111C0110Ci011eneSS. Details of the brutalities are lacking, hitt it seems that Cosseeks tore the reserves from the arms of their wivei end chihlren and then knoutea the womezi who followed their husbends into the etreets, .In cases. where re. servists could, not be found their wives were dragged by their hair ioto the streets and then beaten. The thief official of the district and the colonel of a regiment are said to have looked en while thie was being Mitre. A girl who had assisted in distributing Socialist tracts was treated in an atrocious manner. RUSSIANS AT THE FRONT. Believed That Secend - Pacific Squadron Will Rest Togo. Berlina 'Nov.. 213.—:a. despatch .to the Lolatl Anzeiger, from Mukclen, under yesterday's date, says : Lt is believed at headquarters that thesalapanese wilt make extraordinary efforts to win a land victory before the .arrival of ilic army and is the only inediii.m of trews B.ussian second Pacific squadron. Tim mos -entente of the fleet are reported in haindiryed.th number of which was printed each isixe- of the ninny gazette, Sun The paper is eimulated throughoutthe tile one believes we are following sear Wont lan- suorly the Russia fleet with Welsh coals an allow the fleet to coal at Port Seal, „..t.s iun a torpedo boat to Rusaia, claim." from the outer world. As soon as it appears, the privates gather in groups, while one who ean do so, reads the whole ldriTartellecosn.Qvifitele76(1 ltilltaetnitnbge. aile:111.:als(o)ii, Trained /3ody the second. Pacifie squadron 'will end the of JaPaneee Swordsnien crease of japancee inflitenee• in the i o. terests of •China's welfare." ,Letter From Doyle. London, Noir.--28.—Sir A. Conan, Doyle,. inaeglettete to the Times, asks if there is no-lan. to fetch the Men who, it is al- leged, ran the torpedo boat Caroline to Libau,, adding ;••• ..,".atre have' earned throuehout• our history the reputation of being an nnetable _sally, We chart:den- ial Prince 'Eugene and we abandoned Freaerick the Great in midst of it joint war. L canforgive it...Japanese who, seta FORT STORMERS. to Capture Port, Arthur Fort; s North Sea incident, particularly on tile war, New York, Noy. 28.—telative to the and the degree. of blame attaching to the - be beaten on the sea and seek peace. as they believe the. Japanese will. • . • , - . • Oa • fences atgiaort Arthur, A 'forgo despatch question of where the responsibility lies Japauesa general. assault upon the de- subjects ,or the subjects of other eoure cently against••nurauders. Twelve Cos-. Severe meaeures hate been taken ee- unofficial advices from the besiegedbcity subjects of the two high contracting to . the Tinted gays, ,that, wordily, to ' tries in the event of their responsibility sacks of one regiment were sentenced the Japanese escaladed the parapets if being establiebed by the etiquiry. to death. One was shotsin front of the t11° ro-• • the forts and transported mountain and The third and fourth articles provide brigade, while the sentenaes of field guns, which they employed against ' that the commission shall settle the de- notating eleven were commuted to peual the enemy. The attack was .thrected end Russia shall supply the commission tail* of its procedures and -Great Britain servitude'. • Discipline generally is good. Patriarchal relations exist between the , against Sungshan, Erhlungshan end the to their Utmost.- ability 'Witli all means offieers and men and the •former are do - of facilitatiog the enquiry and for gle- vete:Ling itself :thoroughly and appre. gating coirettly the matters in dispute. The fitth and sixth articles provida. (.bat the emimission shell meet in Paris. as s000 us possible and present reports signed' by all tha members. -. • . The seventh article provides' (.bat the eommission shall' take all its decisions. by a majority 1-ote. • • The eight oatiele provides that Great' Britain and Russia shall each bear on reciprocal terms the expenses of the en- quiry previous to the assentbling of the commission, and shall equally share the subsequent expellees. • . o • o, • TWO CHILDREN PERISH. •••••—• Mr. James Bowen's- Honse at Brandon Burned With Fatal Results. Winnipeg, Nov. 27.—The house of Jtones Bowen, painter, was destroyed by fire at Brandon ysterday, and his two little children, aged four and two years, respectively, were burned to death. Bowen had left the children taaying downstairs when he went to work about 10 o'clock. Mrs. Bowen went over to a neighbor's a short distance away, and mg. everything postale for the latter. s _ ' • JAPAN AND CHINA. ----- Japanerie Progressives Want More Jap- anese Influerree in Chinese Affairs, • London, Nov. 2. ---The Tokio cones- ponaent 'Of 'the Times says : "Both Um great political parties have issoodanani- festos declaring the resolve to mint am- ple supplies to prose.ente the war to the end. Both least anion 'a' ti -policy towards Corea and for opening Man- churia to foreign trade, but whilst the leader of the Seiyukai (the party felted - ed by Marquis Ito) merely speaks of prosecuting Japanese continental and 111, north fort of each lackwanshan. Gam - mantillas amoo. the Associated Plass de- spatch :het -bodies of specially trained swordsmen were at the treat of the Japanese troops who charged into the Russian forts and engaged defenders, the Times says. the information con: - firms various vague -reports that have come from Japan in recent months. The reports told of a corps of "fort stormers" that hod been formed in the Japanese army. It had been trained for years and its special province in. this war was to capture Port Arthur. Of the nature of this body no corre- spondent has been permitted to speak, as it was evidently intended to surprise the Russians. Probably the troops holism, to the Sa- dhstrial 'enterprises in China, the pro- . murai class and are descendants of the greseives explicitely regret the weakness . inen who,se skill in wielding the sword. of Chinese diplomacy and • -urge an in- has never been surpassed. es 1 so al • womo.1111.1•14••••••••••••• will approximate. that 'of the 'plague UNITED STATESNEWS 3•*°"' • John Olatnineig the c Mei-giber -of 'Par- liament for Mayo, said to a correspond- - ea last night: falling incessantly sincp, Saturday, and "Without adequate and speedy relief to -day about two feetgovers the ground. tcpcit-e is nothing ' for my people but Many country roads' Are blatked, ani •1 ca It 1 The locat means of relief are ax- during1Cighs are itt use for the first time this • mus et, and recent Government efforts her absence the fire broke out. vag. to belp the people failed became they Before ft wed noticed- the •house was Sti '' a were. =demi:ate.' ' mass of. Dames. The fire brigade were lin 011ie, .—The Oberlin N—ov.. 28 . . John Dillon, M. Ps last night, sent a. soon on the scene, tina an attempt was °I"r-----, National Baak was closed to -day. The aletter to the Council a Coonty fayes New Creed. me.' ....le mode to rescue the children, but it was action was taken 84 it TeSlat of a meet. turging it to call mass ineetiege n Order too late. The bodies were found side to attract the attention at tee Govern- ing of the directors by side wrapped ill the bedclothes in a mist to the state of .famine and the 3W• corner of a room oa the ground floora • Auburn, Cal., Nov. 28.—The money, . .. cessity of measures of im diat -relief. the bed, in which they were apparently 0 lying, having dropped through the tipper floor. The loss on the house is $1,500, with no insurance. .. DISCARDED THE CONFESSION. • • - a 7_ • Union Theological Seminary Adopted' a Corry, Pa., Nov. 28.—Snow has been Pittsburg, Nov. 29.—Itev. David Schley Schaff, professor of 'Church his- tory at the Western Theological aemin- :try, Allegheny City, to -day confirmsd the report that the Union Theological Seminary of New York had discarded the Westminster Confession of Faith and unanimously adopted a new creed. Dr. •Schaff, who. recently returned tram New York, said the action was taken last week when the Board of Directors received two gifts of $125,000 each, The Westminster Coafessiott of Faith, he said, was a part of the charter of the seminary, end the members of the board had been obliged: to sign the charter. Sentiment had been growing against the Confession and the break Wns finnlly made last week. The givers of the $240,000 to the Union Theological Seminary, following an annomeement of its Attitude toward the Westminster Confession of Faith, is one. of Ore worst We iaVC ad in a are *lords K. Aesop and the widow long time. We have not a single eine, of William Earl Dodge.• and have not been ttble to establish any ea• ARM CAUGHT IN BELT, motive. It seemed. probable at first.that tthe woman had been robbed, but we lia.ve , now eceounted for practically all her Ellice Township Mali Killed While Oper- •money. There was no evidence of erim- ating Thresher, inal assert% and we have been unable to Stratford, Ont, Nov. 27. ----An aeciderit I find anything about the woman's num- which proved fatal oecarrea on Sam- , ner of life that avetila indicate a motive." :day afternoon at the farm of Stewart es • - Campbell, on the Northern gravel' ?AMINE IN IRELAND. road, .7ohn Conway, with his brother, amormtnig to $0,000, of which the Placer The Galway County Council bas County Bank was robbed last May, has adopted resolutions urging the Govern - been found in a cowshed on the Weber inent, in view of the pressing need, to Blace. The money was burled in an old afford assistance by providing relief five -pound lartlean. Adolph Weber, who : works, especially in the congested dis- is antler arrest on the charge of murder- tricts, and by supplying cheap potatoes ing parents, brother and sister, has Sor the coming season. The -Council the de. been formally charged with having aleo • Is.ielignarpeisuteeitIlt, tarfl lani gne 1%11 erre siPliltirlYegess: ' Reports from mime districts of Ire- land state (.bat the pineh of hunger is Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 28.—The Cont- already' severely felt, especially on the mennal Appeal says, m substance: Mayo seaboar a. A. bank with a capital stock of $1,000,- ' 000, to be known as the tankers' Say- ROASTED HER INFANT. trigs Bank and 'Trust Company, be organized in 'this city within five months. • Control Salmon Output. held up the bank. New Tennessee Bank Portland, Ore., Nov. 28.—It is believed that another combination to control the salman output of the Pacific coast is be- ing formed, D. Cudahy and other packers being interested. A Murder Mystery. - Leicester, Mass., Nov. 28.—When the state pohee resumed work on the Brig- „sh bum, The Odd was alive, but ham murder ease this morning, State parts of its body were badly limed, and Detective Murray, of Worcester, made it died in atiespital later. the following statement: I°.?'? Itwestigation resulted the arrest of Tau Falglehardt, who to -duty said she was the mother of the bay, end confessed that she carried it to the cellar aud potted • the bodg to the heat of the fur - wee. The child's cries, she feared, ac- cording to the 1)400 story of this con- fessioe, would awaken the house, while the. oder of binning flesh was the cellar, so she desisted. Thinking the baby dead, she threw it in an ash barrel, 4-0 a LAWLESSNESS IN CAUCASUS, Forgers Made Away With GOventer and Then Threw the Body in an Ash Barrel —Mother's Inhumanity. New York. Nov. 27.—According to the police, Ida Englehart, a German woman under arrest in Paterson, N. has con- fessed that she roasted her infant be- fore a furnace fire until had been fa- tally burned. Site \MS employed by Moses '1'. Laforge in Paterson. Yester- day Mr. Laforge found the infant in an -- was miming a threshieg outfit, and Worst Year in Decades in Western while he was engaged in adjusting a belt his arm was drawn in. Ito w881 Counties, terribly injured, his Scalp and the bone , Dublin, Nov. 27. ---The western coun- of his left Ing being laid bare. Ite. ties of Ireland ttre for the first time in ;,I.iecitdrs hot f tlatege,evlemnlitillagl...rielileeneansde(10 ag'04.11S1 irr. decades on the eve of a famine, Thott- judge Who hiprisoned Them. Kutais, Transeetteasia, Nov. 29.---A (sensational story of lawlessneesaift the Caura.stis has Pat been brought to light by a brutal murder in the •eentre of the ' town in daylight of the chief witness against a band of expert fiwgers, wha were disentered fite yeara ago forging for I" itl happened A Aunt Mstanee ssitalt .ot al- , yenta is a gona spun% of revenue to the .patente of II ibility, alleeel. to :have Pattie' Nov. 27.--A eeriona tuaillent • able failure, and the peat, which in dry from this city, Ile dieappeared arra for a week persistent search watt made ployed in a feetoty near litre took 1118 rout.° branch of -the G. T. 11. The (Town 1 tomes rams. lanriale yesteraay morning on the To. 1 poor steeple, is useless owing to the eon- liven issue,1 by a former Icing of :inn- ' grellia, a formeily indepelident prinel- ' . 1 . 1 , disappearance and went itt the direction sheet of an engine dropped, wadding I It ia the worst semen known in the polity of Caucasus, Georgia. hutch basket, a week after Sanderson's of an old gravel pit \Yid& had become Engineer Fent. of .allandale, and Fireman ' western counties stet* 1870, whieli pre- The batia inelteleil many high 4112 11 filled with water. Mt sat down to logealema paataaa, Ilpittliignsvelo tall:anbanly ittlotaltittatryinartrenritzt . vared the Nor fa tiw TAtrid 'League. who sold :the titles of nobility. The le '.11 eat his lunch, avid. ft muskrat ran past ...—... 'riots, who hava labored among the ers were imprisoned lay the alevernor gni him. Ito followed it mid it, disappeared -moan mamma, ae mama, ag v., 1;:911.1e ifor n. • 1014,0711 •vrisis In worse iltan that of and the leaders of Clio foreers 'were then generation, -state that the it el'Ildge, both of whora 411011 soddenly. at the edge of the penal. Ite •wae about and Win. G. tiereoe, et vrieoashi 1, la, ant saa-etnan.ittalileY tPrioittegeilrf PSitgrigibri" aal;..' ItIvilistel0dvilaliolioarlieut zilltatal.titT: it".1:att'anitrlitelel.lo, to turn away, when he saw (be hew of Y.; Wlire 1:ille4 by a train at the. '4VTuute rules% the titivernment providee 'intutostilownel Itilllst,11 in the Illaela .4e:1, Das