BOATS BATTLE AT SEA Mi Imitts Eacft Use • Vessel ■fT RiiT NEAK PORT AITBUR. Sb tauUa Tm^ Bm‘« ta ttc Eaftn* —«-TW? Wwt Putatly m A!Inapt to Qivt tfc* Japi Ite Slip F«v« Rw *toa Tmp«4» Bmu Retara u Part Artkar

London, (By Cable).—The advices from Port Arthur through Russian sources of the engagement outside the harbor between Russian torpedo boats and Japanese warships, supposedly torpedo boats or destroyers, in which a Russian torpedo-boat dektrojrer and a Japanese torpedo boat were sunk, seem to bear put the opinion of experts here that the Russian situation at Port Arthur is |>ecoining desperate. The continued Japanese attacks tfr haring the intended effect upon the town and the fortifications. Viceroy Alrzieff, in his report* to the Crar, while stating that "the results of the Aoaibatdnicnt were insignificant,” admit* that people in the town wete killed and wounded by the exploding shells. • f Admiral Markaroff, who has iust assumed command of the Russian fleet at Port Arthur, is apparently making bold.attempts to enable some of hit vessels, including torpedo boats, to Cabling from Yinkow a correspondent sajs the British and American gunboats at Kiuecbwang have received orders to leave immediately the river open*. At Liao Yang there a'C now 12,000 troops working night and day on the fortifications. A great fortified camp is being formed south of the town: it extends, three miles in

every direction.

The Russian force on the Yalu River now amounts'to atxooo men. As an example of the terrible power of the Japanese "Shunose” powder a correspondent of the Standard,\at Tokio, relates that a Russian sailor who was hurt in the naval fight off Chemulpo. and who has been broudlu to Matsuyama. Japan, has 160 wouufls. Loudon. (By CaMe).-The Bully Telegraph publishes a dispatch from Toklo,

dated March 7 and saying: 1 DC ixruaa mwMuci t"- v—,, •

“It is reported that the Japanese fleet irTivtll ^ Sow y ork afterhaving rescued

engaged the Russian Vladivostok squad- the crew of a dismasted bark in midtou at sea The result of the engage ocean awUuffrred an explosion which

ment is not announced, but it is believed j • ct lhc ® rC

. J. roved or Seveuty-ftve Carbondale (Mo.) dtitens the Russian ship, were d»troyed or . ^ ^ . negro from the Jail captured. ; at Murp'iysbcm. The sheriff fruatrmUsl Bt. Petersburg.—Tlie whereabonto of' the plan, however, and arrested four Captain ReiUenstcin - * Vladivostok prominent dtixeua. • squadron U carefully guarded by the Sceretarv of WarTaftbad s cenferenre

TIE BaEHETF MASSAOL frlnan Seattacad to Tvrsuty tears Far the

Kisheneff (By Cable).—The trial of prisoners charged with participation in the masaacre of Jews herj laat April is closed. After a fortnight's deliberation the court gave Judgment in the ca>e of Busncke and 57 others, of whom 18 were charged with homicide during the anti-Jcwish rioting and 40 with creating disorders. Ru*neke and Bodijan were found guilty of the murder of a Jewish couple named Forrarji. Rusneke wa* sentenced to four years' imprionment and Bodijan to 20

years.

Fifteen persons accused of rioting were each condemned to a year's imprisonment. amL three others to four roonlhs. Thirty-six of the accused were discharged. Two damage suits were not considered and 64 were disallowed. The damage suits were all brought by Tews. The final judgment will be announced formally April 25. NEWS IN SHORT ORDER Tte Utest Rappcaisg* CofcucS hr

Rafid Kcjdug.

One man was cremated and another seriously burned in a fire that destroyed the ferry steamer Shenango while'froren fast in the ice off .Con-

neaul,- O.

Miss Mary Wyker, of Erwinna, Pawho was shot by Paul Weaver because she rejected him, died from the injuries received. Col. William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) entered suit in Denver, Col., against his wife foe divorce, on the ground of

cruelty.

Burglars blew open the sa c in the Pennsylvania Railroad Station at Haverford, on the suburbs of Phila-

delphia. '

Mark Dunn was hanged at St. Joseph. Mo- for the murder of Alfred Fenton, a farmer, at Rushville, Mo. The cable-ship Scotia went ashore on Spanish Rocks, near Guam, and i§:

likelv to prove a total wreck.

The steamer Graf Waldersee brought to New York 1,800 Russians who fled to escape military service. The Auditorium Theatre in Chicago was allowed «o reopen, having been

pronounced s'fe from fire.

John White chief attorney of the Modern Woodmen, is dead at his

Pock Island, III.

The British steamer Cupe Corrientes

HANGING J0R_ BANDITS twit; hr farter a OkaRi Cv

Kan Riots.

OKE OTHER YEl~T0 IE TRIER. Jury Agrees eu a Verdict Altar Drdberatloi lor alley and a Nlght-Tte Coedaetead

Wbe Participated la Sem at TMr Crises

Ta Be Tried Separately.

Chicago, (Special). —- Hanging for all waa the verdict of the jury in the first murder case against the so-called "far-barn bandits," Harvey Vandinc* Peter Neidermeier. and Gustav Marx, who attempted notoriety by a desperate all-day battle that started in a "dugout” near Liverpool, Ind., where the trio had taken refuge after a aeries of remarkable crimes, including the murder of two eronloyes of the Chica'go City Railway at one of the company's barns in this city, the motive in each instance being robery. Emil Boeski, who was with the bandits in the dugout, and who participated in many of their crimes, is to be tried separately, not having been implicated directly in the particular murder for which his associates were first arraigned. The verdict of the jury was delayed somewhat on .account of a temporary division of opinion as to making the punishment alike for all the defend-

ants.

A confession on the part of Marx led to the discovery of the hiding place of the other bandits. Marx entered a plea of guilty and begged for mercy, while the other bandits attempted to ty^zen out a plea of innocence. Epilepsy. the result of heredity, was also pleaded in the case of Vandine. The bandits heard their doom stolidly. The mother of Vandine was in the court room. Niedermeier's mother was also present. Neither woman made anjs. out-cry. The mother of Marx did not appear. She was said to he at home in a state bordering on eollaose. . . Contrary to the general belief, it was Vandine's fate, and not that of Marx, that caused the delay in arriving at a decision. BIO FEtRY STEAMER BURNED. Was Frusta First la k* Off C<

Conpeaut, Ohio, (Special).—A large car ferry steamer, SKSnango No. I, owned by the Marquette and Bessemer Dock and Navigation Company, was destroyed by fire off this port.

WOMEN’S TERRIBLE FALL Bruys Saras Stories la s New Yuri Otflcr

New York (Special).—Miss Bessie Laiare. a stenographer, aged 23, was mortally injured by falling seven stories — from the eleventh to the fourth floor — in the building at 15

Dey street.

Her piercing scrcsms as she shot down the main light shaft of the building created a panic among the tenants. She had been sitting on a window sill and lost her balance as she turned to talk to someone in the room Her .fall *was broken at the fourth floor by a wire netting over a skylight. She was taken to the Hudson Street Hospital unconscious, suffering from a fractured skull and internal injuries. Miss Lazare lived in Brooklyn and was employed by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. LIYEVASMNGTONAFFAIRS Hi iucricu Sin Rulers ■ tfe

Philippines.

U. S. Officials Mast Be Discrtrt.

President Roosevelt, after a conference with Secretary of State Hay, iiwued the following executive order respecting tbc observance of the proclamation recently promulgated declaring the neutrality of the United State* between Russia'and Japan, the two romlwtant nations In the

Far Eastern war now in progress:

"All officials of the geverjment —dvfl, military and naval—are hereby dire ted

only to observe the Preside! *' ition of neutrality in the between Russia and Japan,

to abstain from cither action or speech which can legitimately cause irritation to either ol the combatants. The gov ernment of the United Stale* represents

l). S. AS PEACEMAKER eiports of iumtactiies.

SapfesliHs TR11 TRii bum let With Praia. BOW IT IS VIEWER W PARIS. The Mca of a Pronloeut Aacricas Railroad Mas Thai Franca sad (Jotted Sistos, Because of Their Fricadsbip Toward the BdHfe-euts, Are Best Qualified to MtlaM • Feu

Pjirit. (By Cable). — The informal suggestion that France and the United States act jointly as peacemakers in the Far Eastern war has been made within the last week, and although the officials consider that any peace over tures would be futile at the present stage of the conflict, yet the suggew tion leads .to the belief in high quarters that Fraqce and the' United Stato will become the eventual peacemakers. The suggestion came from one of the most prominent American railroad men, who probably ha* the largest railroad dealings with Russia ol

any American.

During a recent visit here he called at the American Embassy and other official quarters. In the course of his visit he strongly urged that France and the United States, by reason of their international friendship toward the two belligerents, were specially nualified to initiate ypeace movement The American believed Russia would gladly avail herself of the opportuni-. ty even now. and that international influened would favorbly .incline Japan. The suggestion was entirely unofficial and informal, but nond the le»»*Tt wa* expected that it would prove a germ for official action. However, no such official action i* likely a* thpresent time, as it is the accepted of the French and Amcricr

the people of the United State* n t only thontie* that neither of the beiligerin the sincerity with which It is co- ents would listen to anv peace over-

desvoring to keep the scales of neutral- tures.

ity exact and even, but in the sincerity ; As one of the highest officials sum-

with which It deplores the break ng out j nvrd up the sitn’tion

of the preuent war, and hope* that it will : .“The suggestion is worthy of conend at the earliest possible moment and I sideration as showing that the repubwitb the smallest possible loss to those 1 lies arc well Qualified to become the engaged. Such a war inevitably increases ; eventual peacemakers, but certainly and Inflames the susceptibilities of the : such a movement would be untimely combatants to anything in the nature of ' now. for both n»rties are in hot blood an Injury or alight by outsiders. Too : and. unfortunately, nothing will avail often combatant* make conflicting claims ''"ttil there has been some blood-

as to the duties and obligations of ncu- j letting."

PO.SSVLV.1U WEI S*™ OWM

Ions care it is difficult to avoid 'giving offet.se to one or the other party. To Big Expenditures ler Istorovcmctts East el such unavoidable cnuses_of offense, due | Plttsbcrj-

to the performance of natLinal dutv. there most not be added any avoidable

military authorities, but there is a strong impression here that when the se»en Japanese warship* up; eared off the harbor Bunday a..d Monday the Russian squadron vs* outside, perba) ’ ~ "

If the Russians wen- outside and the Japanese dctir.itely ascertained tbaf tart.

a big sea fight i» probably imminent, and it is considere:! certain ihat the Japanese rest ot the world,

in that ease »ill lie on and -iff yiadivn*. i A mnn u-hting his.pip-

Philadelphia. Pa.. {Special).—Not in

cansea. It is always nnfortunate to bring eluding the mnnejrito he spent on th* Old World antipathies and Jealousies Nf . w York tunnel and terrains! the Penn

Q oy nre ou row »p»..h e idte U anger and redlntmen^toward^ouT »y* T aoi» Railrosd Company, through th* resulting in the death of Fireman nation in friendly foreign lands; but in a board of directors,approved expenditure! Chas McCarter of Cheboygan, Mich- government employe, wfco e official poei for improvement* east of Pittaoorg In . ... _ t j,, -f r-,;. tion make* him ip some aense the repre- 1904 to aggregate at least *20,500.000. and the probably fatal injury of Lngi , aeIlUt j t( . of lhc ,*o p | e tbc mischief of Of this sum #5.000.000 will be spenl neer John Morrey. such actions is greally increased. A 1 upon new work, including the improving ... The boat was oue of the largest of < strong and self-confident nation should «nd enlarging of thetrack facilities in

m. Railroad men and financiers with ; ^cr kind on the great lakes, valued be peculiarly careful not only of the and about Broad Street Citation.this citr, .-.crenltAoTii-* railraod schemes id the j a| 5,^000. and hid a carryiflg capa- j right*, but of tbc suaceptibUitie* of its and #12.5 0.000 will be spent upon work Pni.rjipfr.es. c j (y 2$ C!ir g. The fire is supposed i neighbors: and nowadays all of the na- a« laid ont in the annual report. The Grand Duke of Oldenburg, who ; have resulted froth an explosion of j U >ns of the world are neighbors one to - The additional #2,000,000 is needed foi —' — ' the other. Courtear, uu-dcration-and improvement* that are nailed for from'

•clf-rcstralnt should nark international, timelo time. The director*, who were no less than private, ititerrouisc. in session about an hour consi3erin|

n New York with a number of promt- |

coast, co-operating with the Hwwiao land came In aec Niagrar F#:l untlcr winter oil in the engine-room. The vessel force near tue mouth of the Tumcn conditions, arrivid at New York on the j ternnted to make the trip from here

steamer KoeoiginUuift. to Port Stanley early in January, but A terrific gale, which came as climax i was caught in the heavy ice. She to a scries of snowstorms has cut off j finally succeeded in working her w. California from communication with the . beck intq the Conneaut Breakwati _

where she has remained frozen in by Or? the ice ever since. When the fire

,e RuaaanV; to jmsoUM in a v~. .

giving t attle if t.iey me .-aught in the bjic. IV . and four open aea. AH the harbors along the jpjtb. •

But-n-V-riM, whi. ^

rsx*r“ 1

Although the Japsne*e squadron Is,

•uperior in numbers and guns, consisting The Interstate Commerce Commission s battleship and four armored cruisers, ha, iasued an order dirocting a number .two of which are believed to be the Id- 1 of railroads to flic the names and to'Bzump and the Ynkumo, and two unar- , tious of all termina! connecting roads, “orril cruisers, the four armored cruisers Dr. Andrew 8. Draper, president of under Captain R. it/en»tein, the Russia. the University of Illinois, wa* elected Gromboi. Hunk and Bogatvr. arc among t -ommis*ioncr of education of New York.

.1°. I Tb, boud ol director, o! .to SSSSJS iTSd'TbiSbSrSl ! ."s

bb. cmi, tb.1 tbev mold OOI Ukc ,bo *- U1 "- «' pt««debL measurcof Rear Admiral Uriu'sahiii*. Mrs. Sherman Lye, accused of mail A naval service organ here argues Ifg to Rena Nelson a box of poisoned lengthily that the present Japanese naval , candy, was released from custody, disposition presage* a movement on a A number of securities of the United large scale in the Sea of Japan and the States Shipbuilding Company were sold

paper accounts for all the Japanese shine at suction.

except the battleship Yashinmund the j • Charles Edward Langham. father of

- ever since,

was discovered, it was fotyid that she was too far out to-be reached by the

local fire department.

Engineer Morrell was the only member of the crew awake when the flames broke ont. Finding that the fire was beyond control, he hastily aroused the others on board, and all escaped except the fireman. McCarter. Upon discovering that McCarter wa* still in the hold of the vessel Morrell returned to awaken him. He was caught by the flames, and before he could be rescued was so badly burned that he will probably die. McCarter’s body was consumed by the

flames.

HEAVY LOSS TO MINERS.

Washington, D. C., (Special).—The report of Edward W. Parker on the pro-

— - - , .—, u> u . u .b~, w. duction of coal in 1902, about to be issued

I 1 " 1 “'bjlbLUbltriSul-Laolo^Sbr,^.

reckoning the battleships Fuji and Shik- i ' I E 1 ™ » reriew of labor trouble* during ^ ‘T.lf'* <- h ^ge of the ^Porto Rico ShSoule ^ • nd ^ eir cffcct n P° n 11,0 ^dho* *bd^l Cn ‘ i ^ Tak Service, was arrested on the charge of . production. The report says:

* injured. j

CROPS IN FARMERS* HANDS. Between 700 a-d 800 delegates to the Worid’4 Fourth Buuday School ConvenJsaatlty of Wheal. Cen tmi Oats BcM 1 tion nt Jerusalem sailed from New York.

iTfc

•a March L Washington, D. C., (Bpedal).—The. March report of the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Agriculture shown the amount of wheat remaining in fanners' hands on March 1 to have been about 1X2.600,000 bushels, or 20.8 per cent, of mpared with 24.5

.General Kqropatkin, about to leave St. Petersburg for the Far _ East _fo take command of the Russian military forces, bade farewell to tbc Czar, and was presented with a sacred picture by the Municipal Council. The United States government will sustain the action of/Capuin Sawyer, of the gunboat Helena, in protesting against the sinking by the Russians of junks at, the entrance of Kiucb-

wang harbor.

,, . ... -s-r—r ‘ On account of conflicting reports 1 an p*r cent of tbc crop of 1KJ2 on hand, ^ lbe ion* of the Japanese 00 March 1, 19(0, and 2^* I*'’cent, of , commanders in Manchuria the Russian tbe^crop on hand on March 1. 1902. , corps which has arrived at Harbin will

rr f7.i i-’'•Jr ; ^ *****

I, 1903. and 23.2 per rent, of the crop of 1901 on hand 00 March 1, 1901 The corn in fanners' bands is eatimslrd at about H96,00u,0u0 bushels, or #7.4 per cent of last year’s crop, against

. oe oeiaincn mere.

; Th, ,r, in hniM

as cum pared with 30 9 per cent, of the W«ju which will coa otltoWon hand onTlarohUM.

».• per cent, of the crop of 1901 on

Band on Marot. I. 1903

"The trouble* in the aothra die district resulted in a decrease of nearly 40 per , cent, in production to the operators, as compared with 1901. Approximately 145,000 men were idle for 98 working days, and the public waa put to greater inconvenience and annoyance for want of fuel than had ever been known before in the history of the country. It is eatl-‘ muted that the total number of working days lost by th:s strike was I4.210.u00i which, nt an average of #2.50 a day. meant a loas of about $85,000,000 in W "K, strikes in West Virginia ware organized for the purpose of compelling the operators to recognise the union. The strikers carried tapir point in the Kanawha river, but in the New river district the strike failed of its purpose. The time lost In West Virginia in 1902 1 •##2.064 days.

, f.

United States in 1901. The estimated to** of tonnsgc for the State caused by the strike wa* about 4.500 000 ton*, al-

iiU. a, ^wa oi d,; -B*n WUI ™ ol SVu,

with 1901.”

No Pvact at fcwto iinf^i. Washington, (Special).—Very much belated cablegrams frunt Unked States Minister Powell, just received at th*

Stale

Bafccrs'Tnst Was S*ea KUM.

Newburgh. N. Y- (Special).— A Bakers' Trust, organized i^thi* city, lasted just 4 day and a half. Fur several weeks the dealers have been engaged in. organirit^ _to raise the pr^c of trend, and 00 Monday of this week the new sefir uo all bread and cake went up In cm qaence the dratm were hit hard.

Japanese official* at Tolcio believe that lack of ammuritinn was the reason that Vladivostok forts did not reply to the Japanese bombardment. At Nagsski repair* are being made

the rugageaivnt at Port Arthur. The trial* »f the rioters and deters af JCi»hmrff were concluded.

WK

(or the 1

• public Mmpiy refused u

hoy hi

w-iU.iUo.i-,

it Schoal Teacher Dyiaj and Her ArsriF

--j-.-.— - , , -ring Ui “All ihc officii,!* of the government— expenditures for the pre-ent year, havt dvil. military and naval—are expected before them a schedule of work to be so to carry themselves, both laac'and in done. The actual amount needed tc deed, as to give no causa of Just offense finish the work in band and to begin to the people of any f- reign and friendly new ImprovciuentaJs $18,500,000. power—and with all mankind we are At meetings of the dire* tors of th« now in friendshi . Pennsylvania cqSnpany and of the Pan

'•Tueodork RooeKVsLT.'' Handle company, EflSngton B. Morrit

. — 1 — . i was^dect«(La dire. tor to succeed L. F.

Use d American Ships. i Lonee. _

The House Committee on Merchant icAnncw cmccc iwviiup vwsfiFnv Marine and FUhericsnuthorized a f.vor- JEAi0USY CAUSES DOIBLE TRAGEDY,

aide report on a House bill providing v ,

that all supplies for the use of the army . \ . „ and navy of the United State* ahippeti | nut Dead By Hb Own out of the United Sutw ahaU be trans- French town, N. J., (Special).-Mis. c^s.r-t p ‘ U u“ 0 TS5.s^: ^ register. teacher of this place, is dying, and Paul The bill is to go into effect 80 days Weaver, an IS-rcar-old youth, i* dead, after its Damage A provirion lacor- “ lhc result of the latter* insane Jcal porated by the Senate in a bill of the OUB .v. which led him to make a murder nature passed by that body waa ous attack on the girl and then, when bt added to the House bill as an amend- pursued by a p>uee of his neighbon ment, to the effect thatshould the freight , and former friend*, t.ke hi* own life rate* charged be extortionate the Presi Weaver u*ed a revolver on tbc gin dent may suspend the operation of the “d !»««■ “«*1 «he same weapon on him act and open tie competition to the vc* *1»° “ooain - a rope about his neck sels of other countries. I to make sure that death would be bit

; portion.

Han. Ozarze W. Croft. I The attack on Mbs Wyker wns mad* As the result of blood poboning, emus- “ from u h ".

ed by a splinter in his hand, Hon. George William Croft, representative in Oongreas from the Second district of South Carolina, died at his boarding place. Sixth street Northeast. The immediate cause of death was given ns

heart exhaustion.

Several operation* had been performed In the hope qf saving Mr. Croft's ll'c, bnt without aval). He received the inlory nearly two months ago, but the' Wood poboning did not develop for some

time afterwanf

President Roosevelt has fixed the salaries of the Isthmian Canal Commbriouera at $12,006 a year and In addition thereto $15 a day while they are on the Isthmus. The Senate, In executive sets inn, confirmed the nomination of Heanry B. Richardson, of Louisiana, aa member of the Mississippi River Commbakm. Ha* N# Americas Wile. So much currency has been obtained In the pres* by a *tonr that the Emperor of Korea had married an American woman named Emily Brown that United States Minister Allen, at Seoul, has been obliged to print identical replies to n number of women cone* pond eat* denying the truth of the story.

duties at the Union school to her board tag house, the home of Hugh Furnea*. Hr fired three time* and two of tin bullets found their mark, intlictint wounda that are likely to end tn tin

young woman's death.

Early in the morning the mother of thi young man found his dead body bong ing from a noose tied to a rafter in * feed room on the homestead farm. He hat adjusted the rope while standing 01 some boxes and then shot himself in Uu

SAVfD TRAIN; LOST HIS LIFE.

Albuquerque, N. M-, (Special).—In a successful effort to save the Bants Fe'f fast California Limited from being wrecked. Jesus 8*1 amandin, a section foreman at Curbero, was ran over and

killed. •

Balamaadln was riding on bb railroad _otor when he heard the limited coming around n curve Just ahead. ■ -He stopped his car and could easily have escaped, but the car. if left on the track, would

have wrecked the train.

He succeeded In getting It off the track

Just as the train reached him, bnt w* unafil* to grt out of the way himself.

. .. ’

A Seven-Months' Pcrto4 That Brt«k* A# Rcccrt*. Washington, (Special,.— UnitedHtatee export* of manufacture* in January. 1904, and In the seven months ended wirin' January, 1904. show ■ larger total than over before in the same month* of the year. For the month of January they amounted to #88.218,852. while the blghwt January record on any former oecadon wa* that of 1900, when they weie «F3.V5»«.940. For the Keren month* ended with January they amount to $250,214,986, and the highest record for that aeven-month*' period in any preceding year wa* that ended with January, 1901, when the total wa* $239.564..064. Thu* the total for January b #2.500.000 in execs* of any Weeding January, and for the seven mflotha ending with January U about #11,000.000 more than in any preceding ►even month* ended with January. The*o figure* 1 re shown by an nualyria of tr.® January exports. Just prepared by tho Department of Commerce and Labor, through its bureau of statistic*. Presbeat Invited to Preside. Washington. (Specbl). — President Roosevelt ha* been invited to preside at a great popular meeting in the interest of home misMcns, to be held at Buffalo next May, during the sessions of the General Asscnjbly t.f the Presbyterian Church. The invitation was extended by 'he Rev S. V. V. Holmes, pastor of the Westminister Church, in Buffalo, through Rcpreientative Alexander, of that city. The President, who presided at a similar meeting in New York some years ago, did not give a definite response to the invitation, indicating that he would do so at t later date. His acceptance tv regarded as doubtful, however, as he has felt obliged to decline invitation of all kinds for this year. Shot By His Pbsymstc. Waynesboro, Pa.. (Special).—Gerald Middower. 11 years old. son of J. A Middower, was shot in the head at hi* home here bv Robert Frantz, aged 12 The lad* were playmates. They wen* to Frantz’s home, where the laltrr took a revolver from the drawer of his brother’s bureau and playfully pointed it at youne Middower's hea-f and shouted: "Hold up your hands!' The boys were standing only a few feet apart. The pistol was dischargee anJ the bullet entered Middower’s mouth, splitting the to-'cue. an.-* lod-ed in the b*--V part of his head, inflicting a serious, perhaps fatal wound. A BaaMt Tragedy. New York. (Special).—Robert Gray, a painter, and his wife Lizzie were found dead in their apartments he--the woman in bed with her sVi..i crn«h«d in and her husband in the bathroom, having apparently commif ted suicide by gas asphyxiation. The case is supposed to be one of murder and suicide.

Carlisle. Pa., (Special)—A massmeeting of the citizens of Carlisle waa held and $10,000 was raised for the erection of Dennv Memorial Hall, reC**t»t|v httmed. Rev. ' : ’|cs O. Nolf, , of Carlisle, oresid-d. Addresses we-c made by President Reed. _ John W. Welzel. Rev. G. M. niffemi—-fee and Gen. Horatio C King, of Brooklyn Congressman Olmsted sent his check for Scoo. During the coining week the town will be canvassed and the balance of the Jzo.ooo raised. Ate Wife and Child. Duluth. Minn.. (Special).—Gustave Brandon, who has been cruising between Tower and Koochiching, ha? arrived here on ht* way to Minneapolis. and confirms a report of alleged cannibalism on the Nett Lake rese.vation. Brandon was near Pelican - Lake when.he was told that an In din it had killrd^and eaten his wife and child. He savs hlsTtriotmation is unquestionably authentic. He was told that the Indian during a drunken spree killed both his wife and child, and later devoured parts of th it bodies to avert starvation. $24437,411 Less Earned. New York, (Special).—The second annual report of tbc United States Steel Corporation, dated March 1. bar just been issued. The statement is a voluminous one. Net earnings for the year, after deducting expenditure? for maintenance an-1 interest on bond? and fixed charges of subsidiary companic*, were $109,171,152, compared with $133,308,763 in 1902. a decrease >f $24.137At 1. The balance of net earnings for 1903 was $81.675.786. av against $108,532,374 in'1902.

'Ururaia, Persia, (By Cable)—New? has reached here that Dr. Labors (Labarer?) an American missionary, has been killed on the road to Khot. Rev. Dr. Benjamin Labaree, who i? probably referred to in the above disf itch. is one of the. best-known Prc*vterian missionaries in the Asiatic field, H»ving been stationed in Persia «nce 186a

ITnightstown. Ind., (Special).—The plant of the Knightstown Torpedo Company, two miles from town, wa* iestroyed by an explosion ««f nitro-gly-. cerme. Stephen Clark, an employe, waa bh>wn to pieces, s* were a team of horses and wagon. Vila** plate in this city was broken.