The Newark journal., 1903-05-22

tho latter part of this month
 In a clash between blacks and whites in St. Tamulany parish, La, four negroes, al members of g family named Fierent, were kill ed.
 Miss Ellen Stone, the American missionary captured and held pris- oner by brigands while in the Turk ish empire, has written letter to the state department asking that a demand for indemnity be made upon the Turkish government.
 The British attleship Common wealth, the largest vessel of the kind in the world, was recently launched at Goyan, on the Clyde. She is of 16,350 tons displacement, her engines are to be of 1S,000 horse power and will carry a crew of 755 men.
 The state department has inform ed Gov. Doekerv of Missouri that it cannot grant his request to se- cure the extradition of Ellis Vain wright, millionaire brewer of St. Louis, who Is wanted in connection with municipal bribery and who Is now residing in France, the extra dition treaty not including the of fense of bribery.
 The volume relating to appro- priations made and new officers created during the last session of congress has been completed. A summary of the appropriations shows a grand total of S753,05S,- 506. In addition to the specific ap- preparations made, contracts are au- thorized to be entered into for cer- tain public works requiring future appropriations by congress, in the aggregate of S36. .9s9, ,s59, the prin- cipal item of which is S20, ,426, ,000 for additions to the navy.
 President Diaz of Mexico has consented to accept the office for another term of four years. He has been at the head of the govern ment of his country ever since 1876, when he was first elected, except for one four years, when he was nomi- nally in the background, but wher he, in reality, ruled through tn man who k,-ld -tlasa ,oEssss aency v. , y removal of the barrier to r9-elec- tions which took place at that time permitted him to enter the executive office at the end of the term of his representative, and his country has kept him in office ever since.
 Four employees of the Adams Ex- press Company at Cincinnati were poisoned by drinking from a bottle of whisky that in some way was broken, and one of the men died in a short time The whisky was sent from Memphis to the address of Mrs. Kate Nobbe of Cincinnati. An investigation revealed that the whis- l ky contained arsenic. Mrs. Lucy Mccormick of Memphis was arrest ed on the charge of expressing the whisky. Mrs. Nobbe and Mrs. Me Cormick were formerly friends, but became enemies through jealousy of the attentions paid the former by Edwin Pell of Memphis, for whom Mrs. Mccormick kept house. | Japanese arsenals are being work cd day and night and all prepara tions are being made for war in' case Russia persists in her apparent intention to occupy Manchuria. The North China Daily News reports that there has been continuous flow of Russian troops travelling by train from Harbin to Port Arthur, while other large bodies have been moving to the eastern borders of Manehuria, camping in the vicinity of Yalu river, which divides that country from Corea. The warlike movements are causing great alarm to Chinese officials, and an unnam- ed Chinese official Is quoted as say ing that the Russians are preparing for the inevitable struggle with Ja- pan, a day which all Chinese off cials believe to be not far distant. One report that has caused great excitement in Japan is to the effect that Russia Is endeavoring tc make an agreement with China regarding Manchuria.
 As a result of a small riot be- tween whites and blacks at Fremont, O.. Otto Miske. white, is dead and Wheeler Kimber and Lorenzo Mar tin, colored, are in jail, charged with murder.
 Mrs. Alex Lawton of Sacramento, Ky, defended herself from assault by white man named Ross Rich ards by filling his body full of l buckshot. The woman was alone