Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-03-23
Warsaw, Mo, March 1s.-Dr. Robert

Warsaw, Mo. March 18.-Or. Robert
 Mace, veterinary surgeon, opened an
 office here about six weeks ago, play
 ed poker and managed to get into debt
 to a number of business men and
 farmers. He also wooed and married
 a young girl of good family who was
 captivated by his good clothes and
 mystified ty his title, ID. V. s."
 Within a week after his marriage he
 deserted his wife. Sheriff McDade
 sent notice to the police in various
 portions of the state offering a reward
 for his capture, and received notice
 from an officer in Brookfield that the
 doctor had been captured. He re-
 turned today with his prisoner.
 The doctor has been twice married
 within three months, and was arrested
 in the company of his first wife, daughter of Dr. Scott of Brookfield. New York, March 18.-The suspen- sion of Sully, the famous cotton oper- ator, was announced on the cotton ex- change today.
 This announcement came close along with decline of price in future con- tracts.
 Sully has been leader in the bu Il l campaign in the cotton market and l during several weeks there has been a !. steady decline.
 Day after day new level has been reached despite all of the bull buying.
 The profits of his old deals are | known to be enormous, but presuma- ply all of these have been used to | bolster up his present deals.
 After the suspension was announced | Sully locked himself in his office,and | declined to give out any statement. | Wild guesses are made as to his liabil- ities. All are agreed that they must be we'll up in the millions.
 The announcement of his failure on the cotton exchange was the signal of a scene of wild excitement, in which all the brokers on the floor joined.
 A wild shout went up as membesr joined in a rough and tumble fight after which the floor was cover ed with broken chairs, and fragments of torn clothing, while members emerged in a very much battered and bruised condition.
 A member of the cotton exchange estimates that Sully's total holdings are three hundred thousand bales on which he has lost in the past week s5, 900, GOO. The net decline in cotton as a result of the failure amounts to from 62 to l96 points. The sales are estimated at one million five hundred thousand bales.
 St. Petersburg, March 22.-United States Ambassador. Mccormick has not been instructed by the state depart ment, at the request of NJ. Takhira, the Japanese minister to Washington, to ask the Russian government what facilities will be afforded to the forty thousand Japanese in Siberia to re- turnto Japan, according to informa- tion here coming from the Japanese now in Siberia.
 New York, March 22.-David Miller and Henry Taft were today appointed receivers for the Sully company, the cotton brokers. They are required to give bond in the sum of { two hundred and fifty thousand dol ( lars.
 Washington, March 22-The interior received, today, the fol lowing dispatch from Portland, Ore gon, dated today, and reporting the latest developments iD the investiga- tion of public land frauds in the west 1 "Chas. Cunningham, a millionaire stock man of eastern Oregon, and six bomesteaders procured by him, were indicted today for conspiracy"
 New Orleans, March 1S.-The an- nouncement of the failure of Broker , Sully created a tremendous sensation on the floor of the cotton exchange here today sending the whole ring i into wild panic. There was instant o ly big drop in cotton, and shortly after it was reported in the market, , down to ten dollars bale. z
 Manila, March 19. News of an i'm [ portant military engagement has just t been received here from Cotsbato, V province of Mindanao.
 On March 45O troops, under the ( of General Wood, attacked b and captured Fort Datto Ali, who has P resisted the anti slavery law.
 His defensive works were all des- .royed, and two thousand MOros made [ l retreat with loss of one hundred. S
 The Americans sustained DO losses. 5
 Twenty four cannon and forty six c antacas and large quantities of am- V intuition were captured and the forti- v ications were razed to the ground. a
 Bedding, Cal, March 2l.-The Ore v yon express, disobeying an order to top at Sisson, ran south from there asst night and collided with and wrecked freight train at Cantara, a C mall station between Sisson and :, seriously injuIing two men 2 md wrecking both trains. q
 Washington, March 2l.-The su- ,reme court of the United States to- a lay granted the petition of the United r, States to intervene in the case of the ti tate of Kansas vs. the state of Colo O ado involving the use of the waters of G ne Arkansas river.