Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 26, 1894, Page 1

f HE OMAHA ESTABLISHED JU E 19, 1871. 1894, 26, SINGLE COoPY HOW PORT ARTHUR FELL Details of the Japs' Gallant Oharge and the Chinese's Desperate Resistance, DESPERATE FIGHTING ON BJTH SIDES Every Inch of Ground in Fortified Places Well Dofended for a Time, but the Valor of the Japan- eso Frevailed. LONDON, Nov. 25.—The Times this morn- ing publishes a dispatch from Hiroshima, glving the report of Field Marshal Count Oyama, whose army captured Port Arthur. The report says: ““The second army began the attack on the landward forts at Port Arthur at dawn, November 21. The Chinese offered a very strong resistance until finally we selzed the forts to the west of the cavalry and artillery parade grounds at 8:30 o'clock. We took the forts on Golden Hill at 4 o'clock. In the afternoon of November 22 all the other forts were taken. Over 200 Japanese officers and men were kilied or wounded. The Chinese loss and the number of prisoners is still un- kncwn. The spolls are abundant, and in- clude a specially large number of guns and a quantity of ammunition, ““The Chinese garrison at the lowest esti- mate was 20,000, A Cheefoo dispatch to the Times says Port Arthur is still burning. Twelve Japanese warships have been sent there. The Chi- nese fleet fs at Wei-Hai-Wel, A Shanghal dispatch to the Times states it is reported from Nes-Chwang that the Chinese army commanded by General Sung has been divided. One part is firmly hold- ing Mothienling and constantly repulsing part of the first Japanese army. The other part is making a forced march to Port Arthur to attack the Japancse there. A part of the first Japanese army is following the Chinese on the way to Port Arthur. ADMIRAL ITO'S REPORT A dispatch from Hiroshima, Japan, gives the text of the dispatch sent by Admiral Ito, commander of the Japanese fleet, from Port Arthur on Saturday. The dispatch says: “This place was captured by Marshal Oyama on Thursday, The united squadrons stood off shore, merely attracting seaward the attention of the coast batteries. Since Fri- day morning the men of the flect have been hard at work removing the torpedoes and protecting the mouth of the entrance to the forts. The dock yard, arsenal and ships in the port have been handed over to the Jap- anese navy department. The dock yards and arsenal are in perfect working order.’” A dispatch boat left Ping-Yang inlet this morning for Port Arthur, conveying the em- peror's congratulations to Count Oyama and his thanks to the troops. A dispatch sent from Port Arthur via Hwang-Ju Thursday has been received here. It states that the Chinese fought vigorously. The Japanese 108t 250 men Killed or wounded. The Chinese loss was over 1,000, HOW THE LINE ADVANCED. The dispatch adds that for over a fortnight past Count Oyama's army has been steadily marching in two divisions down the penin- sula to Port Arthur. No organized resist- ance was offered by the Chinese troops for three-quarters of the march. Since then, however, there were occasional brushes with the enemy, who retired in good order. In the afternoon the forts and village of Shuisy- Ching were. captured. Both divisions moved | forward during the night. arly in the morning the right division crept up the range of low hills to the northwest of Port Arthur and carried them with a rush. Guns were then dragged up and fire opened on a strong redoubt, 1,000 yards distant, The encmy re- turned the fire briskly. The Japanese infantry advanced against a well directed fire without faltering. Shortly before 9 o'clock the fort was carried by storm in a most gallant fashion. The Chinese stood for a minute or two against the final on- slaught, fighting flercely. Then they fled to- ward the dock yards. The right division then advanced in force against the Kokinsan fort, Which was armed with several Krupp guns, which were well served. Scores of men were killed or wounded in this brief advance, DESPERATE FIGHTING. At noon the fort itself was stormed and captured after a short but desperate fight. By 3 o'clock In the afternoon the right di- vislon was In full possession of the western part of the stronghold. Meanwhile the left division had been flercely engaged on the southeast, where (he ground was less difficult but far from easy. Their progress was m mentarily checked by a heavy fire from three forts that were connected by trenches, These forts wero strongly held and were well placed on the highest ground in the vielnity. The Japanese artillery and the Chinese guns in | the forts kept up a steady fire. The first as- sault was splendidly delivered, the Chinese being driven leadlong from the works after making a gallant stand. By evening Port Arthur was in possession of the Japanese, but the enemy still had some elght or ten redoubts, with a total of about twenty guns, on the coast line. The Japan- ese bivouacked on the walls of the captured forts. . Early on Thursday Lacmu and the upper forts were attacked In succession, all being captured without serious loss on either side. Several Chinese were taken prisoners. The Japanese have taken elghty guns and mor- tars that were in use in the captured forts and redoubts and many others that were found in the dock yard They also cap- tured an immense quantity of ammunition, completely equipped torpedo stores and large quantities of rice and beans. A dispatch from Shanghal describing the fight says that the chief stand was made at the chain of forts At Hanshin-Chang, overlooking the narrow! channel leading to the inner port. Hundreds ©of Chinese were killed there, A dispatch to the Times from Hiroshima ys that the Tonghaks have renewed their activity in southern Corea. The Japanese are assisting the Corean troops In suppressing the trouble, A dispatch recelved here today from Shanghal states that Chinese officials are “telegraphing notices broadeast, saying that the reports of the downfall of Port Arthur are falsehoods. The place, they say, is de- fended by 30,000 brave soldiers. JONN BURNS IN DEMAND, Many Anxlous to Hear the Labor Leader on His Visit to this Country. LONDON, Nov. 25.—A pompous interview with John Buras, the member of Parliament and labor leader who is to sail today for the United States to attend the conference of the Federation of Labor at Denver, Colo., and-to inquire Into certain municipal matters and labor qusetions, was published today. Mr. Burns 1s quoted as saying: T shall visit Chicago and Boston and hope to be able to visit Washington. 1 have already fifty invi- tations from every type of public men, some trades unions and others from philanthropic socletiés. There is one from H. D. Lloyd He promises me an audience of 20,000 people. ‘Your coming here,’ he writes, ‘at this mo- ment Is providential.’ STATIONS RESIST THE TAX. Mob Attack an Ofcial’s Residence in the Provines of Rowme. ROME, Nov. 25.-The town of Alitrl, in the province of Rome, was the scene today of a rlot similar to the one that occurred at Buta and growing out of th¥ same cause, the im- position of Octroi duties. A mob, number ing 600 persons, mostly peasants, and in- cluding many women, attacked the mayor's vesidence with stones. The police were powerless to quell the disturbance, and it Was necessary to call out the mili before r could be r d. ight Earthquakes. RBOME, Nov. 25.~There was a repetition of the earthquakes at Messina lust evening, | Amalgamates one violent and two slight shocks being felt. The people were again thrown into a state of panic. There was also another shock at Reggio where 80 much damage was done by previous shock FRANZ JOSEPH AND WECKERLE TALK. Political Affairs of Hungary Disenssed— Marriage Bill Kecelves Koyal Sanction, LONDON, Nov. 25.—A Vienna dispatch to the Standard eays that Dr. Weckerle, the Hungarian prime minister, was today given an audience by Emperor Francis Joseph, The audience lasted an hour and a half. The en- tire political situation in Hungary wes dis- cussed. It is reported Dr. Weckerle obtained the royal sanction to the civil marriage and the other religious laws. It is further re- ported, however, that Dr. Weckerle was in- formed by his majesty that he would be re- quired to reform his bill, before the consent | to_the religious measures would be given. The dispatch adds that Franz Coack, whose actions have caused comment, is seriously 11l Uganda's New Bishop. v. 2.—Rev. Bmile h college, Birmingham, consecrated Catholle Hanlon of England, bishop of Uganda. 2 “rench Scholar. PARIS, 2—Jean Victor Dury, the well known French historian and a former minister of public instruction, died today. Prince Bismarck Quite TiL, ARZIN, Nov. 25 —Princess Bismarck has i grown worse and Dr. Schweinenger has been summoned to attend her. e HORRIFYING ACCIDENT. Three People Hurled from a Bridge and nstantly Kiile CUMBERLAND, Md., Nov, 25.—This morn- ing, about 8:30 o'clock, a most horrifying ac- cident, resulting in the death of threa people, occurred on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, at South Branch bridge, about eighteen miles east of this cily. The unfortunate persons were Isanc Taylor and wife and Miss Kitwell. They were on their way to church at South Branch and when near the middle of the bridge crossing that stream they were over- ken by train No. 47, coming west. All three were hurled from the bridge, the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor alighting on the bank of the stream, while that of Miss Taylor landed in midstream, and was recovered some distance below. All were dead when found and badly mangled. Pz LG T ATV, FOR RADICAL KEFORY Russian Americans in Chicago Declare for a Coustitutional Government. CHICAGO, Russian-Americans gathered in Central Music hall this after- noon to plead for constitutional government for their brethren in Russia. There were over 1,000 Russians and Poles in the hall where the exercises b They listened attentively to the addresses, which ar- raigned the present form of government of the czar and scored the existing institutions Judge Shepard presided and ad- ere made by Prof. Hourwich, C. 8. Rabbi Hirsch and other’ well gentlemen. Bishop Fallows also The numerous grievances of the Russian people were made the subject of a series of resolutfons which were “adopted. It is the intention of the socleties under auspices the meeting was held to s mesting the forerunner for a ar movement in this country for the ng of constitutional government for Russia, dresses Darrow known —_—— SHOT THE WRONG PEOPLE. Alabama’ Drputies Espace Dangerous Out- laws but Citizens Suffer. MEMPHIS, Nov. 2.—Deputy States Marshal A. T. Wood and A. Lellan went to Brookside, Ala., y to arrest several parties charged with ing liquor without license. Four men had been arrested and the officers were after others. *Last night they lay In waiting near the Schloss Iron and Steel company, ex- pecting the others wanted to pass that way. The officers soon afterwards changed | tlons, and three citizens who were near but ‘had nothing to do with the passed near the place where the had been watching and were mistaken for the officers and fired upon by unknown per- sons, supposed to be the alleged liquor deal- Laurie McDonald was fatally wounded, M. Stewart, a storekeeper, was shot in the temple and’ dangerously wounded, and o miner named Duntz was Shot in the fore. head and serlously hurt. The parties who did the shooting escaped. P TRIAL ARMY CHURCH. United P. Mc- terday ell- INDU St. Louis Mas a Branch of a Noew Institu- tion in this LOUIS, Nov. e, A new church has been organized b modeled after the church of the same name in Lo Angeles. Organized two years ago by a small band, it has grown to a membership of 10,000, Bellef in a Diety, in the divinity of Christ or in a future state is not required of its members, Its avowed design is “to meet the social, indugtrial, intellectual, moral and spiritual demands 'of such liberal and progressive minds as do not find these demands suffi- clently met in any of the existing organiza tions to satisfy th present and appre lecturer is Lewis . the Industrial army., LUCK OF TWO MINE ST, They Discover a Voritable Bonanza Caseade Mountuins. SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 25.—Michael Shu- man, a well known mining man, returned today from his mines in the Okacagon o He reports the finding of a veritable #old mine al the very summit of cade rang ntaing, near Slate Tw Anacortes, faron the lucky Shuman say boys, after a work with the crudest of imple- have cleaned up $12,000, with plent ame vich dirt in sight. Neatly all era in that section of the country ocked to the new #ldorado and jout claims, in the the Cas k. you finders. woek' ment of the the have stake el YOMING IRON, 13 of Ore Dally to e o Pueblo. Nov. 2.—(Special.)—Mr. Lewis of the Mining exchange of Denver, Colo,, leased for three years the Good Fortune, Apex and Bluebird mines, situated in Whalen canyon in the Hartyille iron and copper mininig district, located in the north- ern part of Laramie county, Wyoming. He began work on the 2th inst. The contract calls for 300 tons of ore per day, to be In manufacturing steel rails. The ore is hauled fourteen miles by teams (o the Chey- enne Northern and shipped via Cheyenne to Pueblo, Colo, - STRENGIH OF Furnlshes & Tabulated of the Vote. NEW YOR Nov, 235.-The World of to- morrow will give a list showing the number of votes cast for the populist party in all the states at the last general election, as compared with the same in 1892, The World will also say: In 1892 the populists polled altogether 1,041,- 021 votes for president. Between 1893 and 1884 there was no general elections, the re- turns of which can be compared with (he year preceding, This year the populist vot was 1,636,000, a gain of nearly 800,00 vole in two years. Tin Plate Worke PITT A A bill In sauity was filed In court vesterday by association against President Kronemyer and Secretary John Jarret of the Tin Plate Manufacturers assoclation and the United States Tin Plate Manufac- turing company, for an injunction restrain- ing the defendants from operating the Demmler Tin Plate works at lower wages than named in the wage schedule of the tin plate workers, and asking that the con- ot between the workers and the manufac ers be declared in force. This is the nd ever filed, & miNiNG w LUSK, Wyo, POPULISM. New York World Contract. here USE AND ABUSE OF THE MAILS Annual Report of the Postmaster General Makes an Intoresting Showing, HOW DEFICITS ~ MAY BE AVOIDED Bogus Periodieals Devoted to the Advers tisements of the Publishers to Be Shut Out of the Privileged Class in Fuature, WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Postmaster Gen- eral W. 8. Bissell has submitted to the pres- ident his annual report, ending June 30, 1894, He ‘briefly outlines the policy of the depart- ment in the following: : “In general 1 would recommend that the first and important thing to be done Is so the law on sccond-class matter o as to place the Postoffice department immediately on a self-sustaining basis, “Second, avoid expensive experiments, like (he postal telegraph, rural free delivery, ete, “Third, develop the postal service on ex- isting lines of administration, viz., extend free delivery in cities that now enjoy it, accord It to towns already entitled to it under the law, and quicken railroad trans- portation, “Fourth, revise and reclassify organization of the railway mail service and re-classify clerks in postoffices, “Fifth, provide for district supervision of all postal affairs by appointment of expert postal officials from classified service, as rec- ommended in my last annual report.’” Mr. Blssell first discusses the effect of the continued depression upon the postal revenues and says: “When adverse business conditions prevail an ordinary establishment may over- come them in part by economies of manage- ment and retrenchment in expenditures. Not 0, however, with the Postoffice department of the government; it cannot and should not stop to consider little economies. Its duties and obligations to the public become at once intensified an enlarged.” The revenue for the year was $75,080,470; expenditures, $84,324,414, leaving a deficit of $9,243 The estimates for the current year ending June 30, 1895, are: Revenue, $84,427,- 748; expenditures, $90,390,485; deficiency, $5,- 737. The estimates submitted to the sec- retary of the treasury for the next fiscal year are: Revenue, $86,907,407; expenditures, §91,- 059,283; deficlency, $4,151576. SOME ECONOMY PRACTICED. This annual deficiency, the postmaster general says, could be overcome by the in- crease of postal rates, but he does not be- lieve this advisable. Economy has been practiced, but nevertheless great care has been taken that it should not affect the eficiency of the service. The ecouomies have consisted mainly in reletting contracts for mail transportation and in the cost and amount of supplies; also in the abroga- tion of seven of the eleven steamship con- tracts, which will mean a total saving of the ten years of the contract’s life of $14,431,325. Mr. Bissell recommends the experimental free delivery projects should be discontinued and thinks that free delivery in rural di tricts is not needed or desired by the peo- ple. Both of these projects were originated by his predecessor. He refers to the war made by the depart- ment on lottery schemes passing under the name “‘bond Investment companies’” andsay it has becn waged successfully. He recom- mends the enactment of laws covered in bills now pending before congress for the fur- ther suppression of lotteries. Of the obstruction of mails by strikes th postmaster general says: “In my last re- port I called attention to the necessity for legislation such as is now recommended by the superintendent of the mail service for the punishment of train wrecking and for legislative determination of the defiaition of a mall train. Such legislation would be of great advantage to the postal service.”” One of the most important and interesting features of Mr. Bissell's report is its dis- cussion of class matter. In his last report he referred to the great disproportion of growth of second-class mail matter, MUST BE CHANGED. He has made a thorough Investigation dur- Ing the year, upon which he says: “The effect of all this upon my mind is a conviction tha the statutes and the precedents upon which the business now rests are defective; that they embody the only great abuse at present existing in the postal service, and that, as this business is growing all the time, some remedy should be applied.” He gives figures for the past six years showing that in 188§ the weight of second-class matter carried was 143,000,000 pounds, and in 1893 it was 000,000 pounds. During the year 1894 there was carried 451,000,000 pounds of all mail matter, of which 299,000,000 pounds was sec- ond-class matter the total postage received being §16,207,572, an average of § cents a pound. Returns from postmasters show that the amount upon which postage at the rate of 1 cent per pound was paid was 254,000,000 pounds, the remaining 45,000,000 pounds being matter carried free in the county of its pub- lication, The cost of carrying the second- class matter was $20,320,000, while at the rate of 1 cont a pound the collections were $2,647,- 000, and $500,000 special local rates in carrier cities, leaving a net loss to the government of $16,973,000. After giving these figures general continues: ‘‘This to transportation alone. distribution and delivery I will not attempt to estimate, but any one can see that these items of expenditure would largely swell the loss. to the postmaster caiculation applies The separate cost of ABUSE OF THE MAILS, “I do not advocate a change of rates now upon legitimate newspapers and periodical magazines. My purpose Is to urge the with- drawal of the postage rates from the large cities and the pretended periodicals that are uow improperly enjoying them. he most consplcuous class of these pre- tend=d pericdicals are what are now generally Wiown as serial paper covered books. They are In no sense serial, however, except in name, being usually given some such general designation as the ‘Fireside Serles,’ *The De- tective Library,’ or some other title of like character. They are nothing but books, pure and simple, and many of them very trashy books at that, each one distinct in itself, the ‘series’ never being devoted to anything in particular, having few subzcribers and with 70 real subscription price. *“Another class of publications now enjoy- ing the low postage accorded to second-class matter is what has got to be known as the ‘house organ,’ being simply a puper or pam- phlet devoted mainly to the advertising of somo mercantile, manufacturing or other es- tablishment, but purported to be devoted to trade, claiming a bona fide 1ist of subscribers, and nominally conforming to other conditions of second-class matter, The bogus trade paper not devoted to the advertising of any particular house s another illustration of the same abuse of the malls. Of great mo- ment in connection with the abuse I am dis- cussing is the privilege given to publishers of newspapers and magazines—the first be- stowal of which was under the act of March 3, 1885—to mail sample coples thereof at the pound rate of postage. “But for this too liberal privilege T am in- clined to think the illegitimate trade papers would never have been admitted to the mails as second-class matter.” AS TO FRATERNAL PUBLICATIONS. After commenting on the great increase in the malling of fraternal insurance publications ~ as second-class matter and showing the ecormous increase of them since the act of congress ad- mitting them, Mr. Bissell suggests the remedy in thefollowing: “If it be the policy of congress to continue the privileges of sec- ond-class rates to benevolent or fraternal so- cleties then the remedy 1 would suggest would be an amendment of the law limiting the rate to them and to legitimate news. vapers and legitimate periodical magazines. T believe one yeur's experlence. under such Mimitations would demonstrate that all legit- imate newspapers and periadioal magazines may be transmitted through ol mails from publishers into the hands of wdbscribers free of all cost. Y The postmaster general does mot favor the postal telegraph, a system advecated by his predecessor. The conditions. in ahis country, he says, are such as would enormously in- crease the large deficit. He takes as exam- ple the system in Great Britain, which is a comparatively small tefritory, and shows that the postal telegraph entafls a total an- nual loss of $2,000,000. He points out that in a country where the territory is so large the cost of a postal telegraph would far ex- ceed any fossible receipts or benefits, Mr. Biss:l gives the following daily average business of the department, which shows the vastness of the postal service: DETAILS OF THE WORK. Number of miles of post Toute run, 1,100, 000; number of stamps manufactured, 8,300,- 000; number of envelopes manufactured, 1,800,000; number of postal cards manufac- tured, 1,600,000; number of pleces mailed, 15, 700,000; number of letters mailed, §,400,000; number of pleces of mail matter distributed nd redistributed by rallway postal clerks, 500,000; number of pleces handled in dead letter office, 24,000; dally transactions in money order business, $1,100,000; dally ex- penses, $231,100. The postmaster general belleves in civil service in the Postoffice department. He says: “If the system has produced such good results in the clerical force of the depart- ment it is reasonable to inquire whether something like it could not be applied with dvantage to the lower grades of postmasters, or more than one generation the American people have been trained to regard the post- office as inseparable from the varying for- tunes of the two great political parties, and, in somo instances, even as legitimately fol- lowing the vicissitudes of mere factions witl- in a party. This fallacy is to be deplored The intelligence of our people has long out- grown the notion that any ane political party enjoys monopoly of administrative talent. The local postoffice is closely connected with the overyday life of the people who patronize it, and nothing is further from the principles of home rule and majority rule than to force a change for political reasons. This is what happens and is bound to happen as long as the postoffices remain in the public mind, and hence in the practice of the government, associated with politics, MIGHT DIVIDE THE SERVICE. “The public mail service must be either taken out of the political field aitogether and surrounded with the same conditions which conduce to the health of a private business or be divided for administrative purposes into two sections, the one political and the other non-political, each under a separate head, so the executite authorfty on the non- political side shall not be reguired to give any of his thought to the improvement of the postmaster service."” Mr. Bissell referred to the bfil now pending in congress to relieve the ppstmaster gen- eral of the responsibility of poftoffice appoint- ments. Commenting upon thi bill, the post- master general says: “Whether such a plan is er:is not the best that can be devised, it {s but the formula- tion of a plan which is entitipd to the most earnest, careful and immedate consideration and may become a foundation/ upon which to build. ~What is earnestly desired, and what daily appears miore of a necessity, is legls- lation of some kind which Mill insure an improvement upon present | mothods.” Mr. Bissell closes his report,with a request that a new building be provided for the Post- office department. He says interest on the construction of an adeqnate building would be less than tte amount of gent paid. . FOR SEACOAST, RIFLES. Simple Device In tha Wa¥ ing Carringi WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—After long ex- periment and much competition the army ordnance officers have found a type of dis- appearing carriage for the ten-inch seacoast rifies which, in gimplicity of operation and cconomy of power, fills the requirements, It is what is known as the Buffington-Crosser carriage, the invention of two expert ord- nance officers. Some timg ago proposals were invited for the construction of ten of these carriages, and today the bids were opened. The general interest in the matter was indi- cated by the unusually large number of bids and by the attendance at the opening of many representatives of the bidders. Con- trary to expectation, the lowest bid came from a western firm, the Kiltsy Manufactur- ing company of Cleveland, at $12,350 each. Other bids ranged as high as $22,000. Disappear- S e Transferrod the Chinamen. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Some days ago there arrived at the port of San Francisco a number of Chinamen “who claimed the right to land as merchants. Their proof, however, was deemed msuilicient by the authorities and the case was taken to the court and a writ of habeas corpus asked for. This was denied on the ground that the appeal did not lie from local officers, except to the secretary of ' the treasury whereup n an appeal was taken to the si- preme court of the United States. In the meantime, the vesscl which brought over the Chinamen had discharged her cargo and was ready to return, but, to avold tiking them back to China, her officers secretly put them aboard another vessel of the same Iine then lying in the harbor, It is under- stood the “treasury will insiitute charges ainst the ship company for violation of the law in this transfer. Prominent Mathematician Dead. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2%.—James Main, a well known mathematician, 1s dead, aged $1 years, He was at one time professor of mathematics in Edinburgh university and was by the British governmeént to Cape Town, Africa, to conduct important astronomical observations, He came to the United States and for many ye was employed in the coast geodetic survey South Dakota Postmaster Named. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—The president has appointed Frank M. Stover postmaster at Centerville, D. ——t AMERICAN LINER LOST, Grave Fears that the Indiapa Will Never Reach Port. PHILADELPHIA, Noy. 2.—The fcan liner Indiana, Captain Townsend, Liverpool and Queenstown for this port, with crew of seventy men and 140 steerage pas- sengers, has not turned up and is now al- most six days overdue. . The uneasiness felt for the ship was Increased by a report made by Captain Hunter of the Blitish steamship Galvin, which ached Girard point today. aptain Hunter says that on the 20th inst., while weathering a terrifigy galc, they ob: served on a crest of o wav passenger vessel's life boat., It was painted white and the figure was plainly visitae on one end. On the other side were lette no doubt the name of the ship, in la 12, longitude 61. Pllot Schellenger, who w in' charge of the Galvin, sys the raft ae scribed by Captain Hunter ciosely resem- bles those carried by the American line boats. Close to the raft was floating n wooden buoy. The Galvin met terrific gales from the 15th to the 20th inst. The Rea steamship Pennsylvania, ‘from Anm- is also five days.overdue. ———— CHARGED WITH CROOK Amer- from werp, DNESS, w Harbor Lines Sald to Have Leen Fixed by o Dishonest Commiission. TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 25.—City Attorney Wickersham has filed the sult prepared by Attorney General Furnéss of the state ask- Ing that the locations of the harbor lines for the Tacoma hurbor be set aside ground that they had been fixed for col- lusion and fraud on the part of the state land commission with the Tacoma Iaud company and the Northern Pacific Rau- road comnany. An order was granted by Judge temporarily restraining the loca tide land “appralsers from _adopting the state land commjesion’s harbor line locu- tions. ‘The sult 1§ the result of the fallure of the city to come to an agreement with the two corporations mamed respecting out- lets for city streets to xleep water. The suit attacks the conatitutonality of the law relating 1o the state land commission. If the law is to be invalidated the harbor line locations of over a dozen cities and towns on Puget sound, Gray's harbor and Willapa harbor must be set aside, Taco, Stilleup board of a 'part of | on the | ARMENIA'S HEAVY BURDEN Appeal to America in Behalf of the | Stricken Nation, MOVE TO CREATE A NATIONAL FUND All Who Sympothiz . People Asked Penny with the Oppressed to Contribute Now for Thelr Im- mediate elief, MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. The following Thanksglving proclamation from Armenia to | the people of the United States been recelved: “Thrice Blessed People of the Land of the Free: You are thankful that the lives of your forefathers were spared and God estab lished here a great nation, standing upon | libirty and freedom of conscience, “Today there is an ancient Christian na- tion sitting around the smouldering ruins of her homes and mangled thousands of dead. She s robbed of her liberty, but| keeps the freedom of conscience by martyr- dom. You have read and you have been horrified at the inhuman crueltics per petrated upon the helpless people of Ar- menfa—men, women and children, brought up like vourselves in Christian gentleness and purity. The glory of their martyrdom shines over the world and the erime against humanity, “Tho horror of the slaughter and bestial cruelty and foulness of the outrage chilled the heart and polluted the ear of Christendom. 1 ask the whole American people to declare to the world on this, the | day of their glad Thanksgiving, b ni- mous vote, their horror and consternation at the brutal slaughter of thousands of Ar- menfan families and the crushing of merc and justice with one blow before the eyes of the civilized world. I ask them to cast that vote, not on paper, but on good Ameri- can cents—a dime, if they will—but at least one American cent from every man, woman and child whose heart has ached for the stricken Armenfan nation. To look upon the cent or dime era they cast it and to see the United States encircling liberty and exultant in the glory of their inheritance, to dedicate that sacred symbol for a mighty protest against all oppression and in token of warm sympathy for a bleeding nation. MISERY OF THE ARMENIANS, “Today, as you rejoice, ye people of the United States, freemen of whatever condi- tion, united in the glad gatherings of the home, think, I pray you, think once of Ar- menia’s ruins, drenched in the blood of her slaughtered children; think once of the horror still crushing the heart of the people that remain, and when you realize that it is pos- sible for you to help and deliver them, I know you will do this little work on a glad day heartily as to God. In the name of the horror-stricken women in Armenia 1 appe to the women and wives of America, and ! through them to the sons and brothers of their love, for if they will call this vote will be cast and shake the world, to an ever- lasting glory to the womanhood of America. “In_ the name of the martyred Christian church of Armenia 1 appeal to all ministers of the gospel ai members of all church and Christian organizations to help swell the num- ber of the cents which will roll over the continent of Europe, a mightly wave of scath- ing condemnation of the foul murder of a people in this enlightened age, and ‘of the swelling tides of this nation's thanksgiving there will peal forth such an anthem of hope as will be a message to fainting Armenia that the spirit of liberty upon earth is not dead, but fs living in the bosom of the Ameri- can people. NATIONAL “Added to the is the ARMENIAN FUND. stupendous power of that voice will be the creation of a national Ar- menfan fund. It will be the life blood of Phil-Armenian assoclations, which have striven to have purity of life, honor and property assured to the people in Armenia. Pending united organization of all friends of Armenia and the appointment of officers and trus- tees, the following honored gentlemen will act as trustees of the fund: Mayor of Minneapo- lis, William H. Eustis; George A .Pillsbury, . C. Chamberlain, president of the Security bank. Men of like natlonal repute will be requested to become temporary trustees in New York. The trustees will hold the fund inviolate, to be used for two definite cbjcets only First, to secure the protection of the Ar- menian people in Turkey from further out- rages. “'Second, to promote the cause of establish- a righteous government in Armenia. Europe has no regard for Armenia, be- cause she has no armament except the sanetity of the home and the brave hearts of her men and women. America recognizes no mightier armament than that. I ask you to declare that to the world by accepting the bonds of Armenta. 1 pledge to you the honor of a nation of 4,000 years honest, toilsome life, that Armenia will redeem her bonds to keep them in eternal memory of a_glorious day when a mighty nation stretched forth a gentle hand and lifted up in her arms a trampled and bleeding sister to shelter her from threatened death. ASKING FOR A CENT. “We ask for a cent, a dime or a check as a Thanksgiving vote of abhorrence of the massacres and of sympathy for aficted Armenfa. It can be mailed to either Secu- rity bank, Minneapolis, Minn., ern National bank, Wells, Fargo & Co, cisco. Remind others to do likewise “Oh! 1Is it not a little to do in a thanks- thrilled day for so royal a service of the cause of justice for the oppres Send a card with your name and mention of amount to the secretary, Minneapolis, and he will Kkeep it in the annals cf our new life for a thousand years to come. “To the editors of America T appeal with yearning. You, honored sirs, are the gate- keepers of the nation's heart. Wil you not hold this signal for the rescue of a nation. I pray you, display this proclamation, and every inch of bold type will be a blaz- ing protest against foul murder and horri- ble desecration of sacred homes, and every reader will cast a burning vote. 1 invoke the rich blessing of heaven upon the press America. To you, noble of the United States, mother Armenia ‘would send the soul's blessing for Jerusalem of old, ‘Peace be within thy walls and prosperity Within thy palaces'—the homes of the liberty-loving people “Yours in the rvice of humanity, “HERANT MESROB “Secretary Phil Northwest.” CHICA in God and KIRETCHJIAN, Armenian Assoclation of the ARMENIANS & They Denounce the Ferocity of the Turks and Demand Fair Play. CHICAGO, Nov. 25.—The Armenians of this city today held a meeting for the pur- pose of expressing their opinion the Armenian massacre, Nearly the whole Armenian population of Chicago were pres- ent, and many of them were very emphatic in denouncing the Turkish government Hampartzoom de Garabedian acted as chair- man. In his opening address he referred to the terrible massacres, in which their meth- ers, sisters and brothers were brutally killed by ‘the Turks. M. Torniak made a flerce attack upon the cruelty which, he says, ex ists in the Turkish government. H. Sarkis- lan read a paper, the subject of wiich was “The Reasonableness of the Armenian De- mands, Which is Independence." He sald: “All we desire is that Turkey shall grant us such liberty as was granted to the Bulgarians some years ago. We are willing to pay the sultan a tribute for cur independence, and I think the atry of Turkey, as well as the entire world, ‘vould benefit by it. The people massacred during on | alleg | priest the last seventy-five years in Lydia and Bulgaria number over $0,000 Resolutions were adopted praying for the moral and financial assistance of the Ameri- can people and appointing a committee to plan and arrange for a mass meting of the citizens of Chicago, to whom avpeals will be made for expressions of sympathy and moral support were passed, ARMENIAN CHEISTIANS, Wholesale Slaughter of this Cla: Prevented in the Future LONDON, Nov. 25.—The Anglo-Armenian assoclation of this city regards the personnel of the commission appointed by the porte to investigato the alleged outrages in Armenia as unsuitable for the mission. The commis sion includes Bulah Pasha and Hafiz Tewfik asha, Members of the Anglo-Armenian as soclation do not believe that they will do more than recommend the wholesale arrest and trial of those Armenians who were fortunate enough to escape to the mountains. Advices recelved by the Anglo-Armenian as- soclation today indicate that the Turkish ar- tillery, without discrimination, fired on the Armenian women and children, as well as the members of the Kurdish tribe. Russia Is al- ready moving actively in the matter of the 1 purpose of demanding an investigation into past atrocities and preventing attacks on the Armenian Christians in the future. Detailed instructions to this effect have been sent to the Russian envoy 3 iy AT A CHURCH. TO PROTECT o e BATTLE Oficers Wounded Whom They Kill MEMPHIS, Tenn.,, Nov. 25.—A battle oc- curred at a church near Carrolton, Miss., to- day between officers and a murderer, and as one man is and two others Ben P. Chatham, the marshal of and N. Brewer, a deputy sheriff, for Bnona, ten miles south to arrest Claude Moss, who is charged with murder at Monticello, Ark., and who had been a fugitive from justice for more than a year. Governor Stone had hon- ored the requisition of (ke governor of Ar- kansas and had ordered the sheriff of Carrol county to arrest Moss and deliver him to the Arkansas officials. The officers learning that Moss, who had vecently grown bold, would probably attend church at Enona today, left for that point, and reached the church just as the minister was beginning services. Moss and his companion were standing near the church when Chatham and Brewer approached. Moss threw his hand to his Lip pocket, as If to draw his pistol, when Chatham grabbed his hand, and Brewer also grabbed him Moss being a stout and powerful young man resisted the officers, when both officers pulled their pistols. They scuffled with Mos. until they reached the church door, thirty feet away, when Moss had succecded in wrenching Brewer's pistol from his hand, and fired it at Chatham, but Brewer knocked the pistol and caught the bullet in his arm, inflicting a serious wound. He then rammed Brewer's pistol In Chatham’s breast, and pulled the trigger again and again, but Brew- er’s hand caught the hammer, and the pis tol only snapped. His hand, however, was terribly cut. By this time Chatham had freed his pistol from Moss’ hand and fired two bullets into nim, killing him instantly, S Tntense excitement prevailed at the church and scores of women fainted. — A8 TO THE IVANHOE'S FATE, No Further Denlal that the Steam Battored to Picces. SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 25.—A speclal to the Post-Intelligencer from Victorfa. say: the wreckage reported ashore on’the fiorth- western end of Vancouver island is that of the ill-fated Ivanhoe is now proved be- nd a doubt, and when the steamer Mis- hief returns it is more than probable thut Captain Foote, her master, will have defi- nite news of the fate of this long missing vessel. The coasting steamer Maude re- ned tonight fro , having r north as Kyuket sound. weather during the trip was oo rough to permit much investigation, and the cap- tain had not heard before starting of the reports brought by the steamer Mystery last week. Almost his first words on land- ing were ‘of the Ivanhoe, “I guess there 18 no further hope of the Ivanhoe,” he said, “she made another one of the 1ng list of 'yessels battered to picces on the west coast of this island. When w were at Barclay sound we heard Two white miners called last Tuesday an Indian's hut near the entrance of sound, and hanging on the wall, the first thing 'they noticed in the place, was one of the Tvanhoe's life buc There was no doubt as to the identity, a5 the ship's name and her port were clearly marked, They waited for some time for the Indians to re. turn o they might question them concern- ing the buoys, but all hands were away, and there was no knowing when they would be back. The men looked around, but conld see no_other signs of wreckage, #o they came down end reported wuat ‘they hag n_to me, requesting that 1 make known fact on reaching port. 1 had eard the wreckage found there i Two by @ Murderer, a result dead wounded, Carrolton, left today of Carrolton, r Was the would app r borate it, its identity as th the Ivanhoe, VOYER'S SUN DEAD. Caught Cold at a Foot Ball Game Two Weeks Ago. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mas: race Nathaniel Pennoyer, only son of GOVERNOR P Nov. 25.—Ho- aged 19 years, the vernor Pennoyer of Ceegon, died here last evening of typhoid fever. He was a member of the freshman class at Williams college and had been sick about two weeks. He caught cold at the liams-Cornell foot ball game at Alb mber 10, and was ta ry. He was morning, when acute peritonitis set A telegram was sent to his parents early in the week and his mother had got as far as Chicago when news of her son's death reached her. She will await there for the body, Young Pennoyer fitted at Lawren: ville, N. J., and was a classmate Perry, the youngest s of Prof. Perry of thig college, H ssed the ex: ination for the Sheflield scientific school, but decided to ¢ Williams He was an exceptionally bright student, very popular with his ¢ nates, and a member of the Alpha Delpha Pi fraternity, At a recent cliss election he was chosen vice president of the class of '98. He was an earnest Christian and deeply intereste in religious work Thiz evening funeral seryices wer the college chapel. Rev. Mr, R ducted_the Episcopal ceremony dent Carter gave an addres the ability and high character of the de ceased. This evening the freshman cl; escorted the body to the station, where It was placed on the express for the west. A member of his fraternity will accompany it to Chicago. A G COSTLY BLAZE AL KANSAS CITY, P held In lwick con and Pres referrin Tifteenu Residences Destroyed in an Aristos cratie Portion of the Cit KANSAS CITY,» Nov., 2. ifteen resi- dences, occupying the square between Twen- ty-ninth and Thirtieth streets and Garfleld and Euclid avenues, were completely de- stroyed by fire which bre it about noon today. Most of the houses destroyed were costly structures and were located in one of the most aristocratic portions of the city The hougehold goods were also destroyed, Some of the occupants of the burning dwell- ings tried to save t furniture by carry ing It out to the street, but the fAames were %0 fierce that the furniture caught fire and nothing was saved. The loss will aggre- gate $55,000, with about $10,000 insurance. St Pl FRISCO FRIEST FOUND DEAD, Father James O'Connor Slept While the Gas Was Escaping, SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2.—When an at- tendant at the parish house of 8t. Franciy lled Rev. Father James O'Connor for early mass this morning he found the dead In bed, with the room filled with escaping gas. In turning off the gas last night by a mechanical device It is pre- sumed he unconsciously turned it on_again Father O'Connor was i1 years old and a na- tive of Cloyne, Ireland.” He had only cently been attuched o 8t. Francls, hav traveled over the continent on & roving commission on account of his health, FIVE CEN FOR THE GOOD OF THE WEST | Seventh Annual Ression of the Trans mississippi Congress at St. Louis, SOME HEAVY QUESTIONS FOR DISCUS3SION Silver, Irrigation of Arid Lands, Disposition of 1n ands and Antis Option Legislation and Other Sub- Jects to Be Considered. ns and Pablic ST. LOUIS, Nov. 25.—Tomorrow the seve | enth annual meeting of the transmississippl congress will be called to order at Entertain- ment hall Exposition building. About 400 of the 600 or more delegates who will be in attendance are already here and the others | are expected to arrive on the morning trains. This wHl be the most notable gathering in this city during the present year. Daily sesslons will be held, commencing Monday important organization has ever met in this city, and for that reason, coupled with the knowledge that it is composed of the repre- sentative business men of the west, the peo- ple of St. Louis are hos their entertainment. Numerous local com- mittees been at work for some time completing the arrangements for hoiding the vention and looking to the welfare of the delegates, and thelr reception. The basis of representation is ten delegates from each western state or territory, to be pointed by the governor, one delegate from each county, to be appointed by its commis- sioners or judges, one delegate from each city and an additional delegate for cvery 10,000 population, to be appointed by the | mayor, with no more than ten delegates | from any one city; each commercial body or | business organization may appoint three | delegates and one additional delegate for | each 100 members, The sessions are held each year just prior to the convening of the national con- gress, the Intention being to thoroughly dis- cuss all matters in which the western states and territories are directly {nter- | ested, and pave the way for legislation in | the national congress. ~ As the delegates {are supposed to directly represent the peo- | ple, they will, business men who have the commercial welfare of the west at heart and who are in no way guided by political influence or selfish motives, indicate to west- ern congressmen in what particular meas- res the western people are most directly concerned. At the coming sessicn for discussion are: The remon ation of silver; frrigation of arid and other lands; the disposition of Indian and public lands} the Nicaragua canal; a national bankrupt law; the imprevement of western rivers and’ harbors; anti-option legislation; mining laws and admission of territories (o state- hood. The Ulah delegation held a meeting at the Planters’ tonight and organized with Shurt- leff as chairman and W. H. Culwer as secre- tary. Among the more prominent delegates who are already hers are: Governor Waile of Colorado, Ex-Governor Prince of New Mexico, Delegate-elect Cannon of Utah and A. C. Fiske of Denver, president of the Bimetallic league, Hon. Thomas Patterson, editor of the Den- ver Rocky Mountain News, who was ex- pected to make the principal speech on the silver question, cannot be present. A tele- meam_ was received tontght ‘Trom Mr. Patter- son stating that owing to the serlous iliness of his daughter he could not be present. It is expected Congressman W. J. Bryan of Nebraska will take Mr. Patterson’s place. itably providing for have everything Is in shape for | l \d ending Friday. It is the first time this | the chief subjects MQUALD SCORES IRELAND, Bishop of Buffalo Denounces the St Prelute from the Pulpit. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Nov. Bishop Me- Quaid, at the Roman Catholic cathedral in this city, preached a sensational sermon this morning, in which he denounces the action of Arehbishop Ireland in coming to this stute and taking part in the last poiitizal cam- paign. He said that in Lis forty-seven years of priesthood he had never put himself under obligations to political party, and for twenty-seven years he had never cast any vote out of anxiety, and no man could say that he had voted for ont party or the other. Following is an extract of the sermon: “Having said this much by way of pre- face, I will now advert to the late scandal which caused these remarks. Every Cath= olic having respect for his bishop and priests and the honor and good fame of his church must have been pained and mortified when he learned during the late political eam- paign that one of our bishops, the archbishop of St. Paul, cast (o one side the traditions of the past and entered the political arena like any layman. The newspapers were care- ful to keep the public duly informed of his arrival in New York weeks before the elec- tion, of the appearance on the platform at ravfication meetings, surrounded by the leaders of the republican party; of his views on political questions, expressed through in- terviews carefully prepared for the press and of his mingling in the crowd of excited poli- ticians and partisans on the night of the election. ““I ccntend that this coming to New York of the archbishop of St. Paul to take part in a political contest was undignified, disgraceful (0 his episcopal office and a scandal in the eyes of all right minded Catholics of both parties. It was furthermore a piece of meddlesome in. terference on his part to go from his state to another, break down all discipline among our priests and justify the charges of those inimical to us that priests are partisans and use their offices and opportunities for political work. “If Archbishop Ireland’s course had made him as conspicuous In favor of the democratic party, he is just as blameworthy in my esti- mation. If his conduct was not censured and condemned it would not be possible for me to restrain the priests of this diocese from imitating his example and descending from the pulpit to the platforms and marshaling their parishioners to the polls on elec fon day. Not one of them but has an equal right to turn electioneering agent for cne party or the other and abSent himself from the parish «d himself from his raul Miners' Drylng House Struck by a Slide and Ten Buried. JATTLEw Wash, Nov. from Monte Cristo says: A struck the drying house of Mountain mine Friday and miners. The alarm was given and a force of twenty-five men et about to rescue the prisoned men. When Louls Irikson's 't were reached by the shovelers he was found head downward, and was taken out ad. Willlam MeCarly was struck on_the i of the head by a brick or stick; Wil- m Kelley was struck in the face; . 1, Smith fell on a stove, burning his forehead, but not seriously. Four men were cut pain- fully about their heads. All the men were rescued but two. A speclal snowslide Pride of the buried ten e i IDAHO MINERS STRIKE, Manager Refuses to Grant the Dem the Men. SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. %.-A speclal from Wardner, Idaho, says: The union miners employed by the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines have gone on a strike. The " miners made the following demands: laximum wages of 0 per day shall be paid to all underground men. There shall no discrimination in the employment of men now In the country shall ference. No man shall be im- ported for the purpose of working the mines. All differeaces shall be submitted to_arbitration Manager Bradley refuses the demands of Everything is gulet, the miners, e D Movements of Ocean Steamships, ds of New York—Arrived—Lucania,