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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
Foreign.

King Edward and Queen Alexandra
of England came to Copenhagen to
attend family gathering on the oc-
casion of King Christians eighty-sixth
birthday.
Frederick Grculing, editor of an art
paper in Paris, was sentenced 10 10
years Imprisonment for he murder
OF Elsie Papesco, Roumanian singer:
NJ Pelletan, the French minister OF
marine, was sustained by a vote OF
confidence in the French Chamber
of Deputies.
Emepror William, on board the i'm
perial yacht Hohenzollern, left Gaeta,
Italy, for Messina, Sicily.
The antimilitary element in Berlin
made a demonstration upon the de-
parture of the soldiers for Southwest
Africa.
Bonaparte Wyse, original conces-
sionair of the Panama Canal, has
declared that he would appeal from
the decision of the French Court
King Peter has removed from his
encourage all those concerned in the
murder o, King Alexander and Queen
Draga.
Emperor Francis Joseph performed
the ancient foot-washing ceremonial
in the Crystal Hall of the Hofburg, in
Vienna.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
MUST FREE CORRESPONDENTS.
Secretary Hay Takes Prompt Action Against
Russia.

Washington, D. c., (SpeciaD,-Sec-
rotary Hay has instructed Ambassa'
dor Mccormick, at St. Petersburg, and
Minister Conger, at Picking, to take
immediate steps to secure the release
oil the two American newspaper cor
respondents now held by the Russians
1t New Chwang. The news that the
dispatch has been released, has
not been officially brought to the at
:ention of the State Department.
Secretary Hay acted upon advicess
from two sources-Consul General
Fowler, at Che Foo, and the proprle
tors of the Chicago Daily News. The
latter reported that their correspond
ents, Washburn and Little, were ar
rested at the entrace of New Chwang
harbor, on their dispatch-boat, the
Fuhwan, a British craft; that then
two Japanese servants were thrown
into Jail, and that the correspondents
we're only saved from the same fate BY
the energetic action of Mr.. Miller, the
United States Consul there.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
CYCLONE SENT HIM TO JAIL.
Wife Saw Her Deseraug Husbands Name ir
List 81 Injured.

Chicago, (SpeciaD.-The same cy-
clone that made James McInery home
less III Indiana Harbor last week
found him new home in the Indiana
Penitentiary. Justice, moving almost
as fast as the cyclone itself, has de-
creed that he serve FIVE years at hare
labor for biganly.
Had it not been for the storm which
destroyed McInery's house and left
him with slight iniories his where,
abouts might have nsver been known
TO the wife who has just brought abouf
his conviction.
Mrs. Divine Angles McInery. Of
Chicago, who claims that McInery de-
serted her in Hamilton, Ontario, II
years ago CHANGED ". see his name
published in the list O. injured by the
storm. The result wac the indentifica
ton and arrest Of Metnery, who two
years ago was marriee to girl in the
suburbs.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
RETREAT BEFORE JAPS
The Russians Yacate Country South Of
Yaln.
JAPANESE NOW OCCUPY sENdcHENG.
No Opposition to the Japanese Between Chem
in and Sengcheing Eighteen Miles West on
the Picking Road-Japanese Elated by the
Easy Capture Of the Strong Town of
chengju.

Toxic, (By Cable).-The advance
guard of the Japanese army in North
western Korea, occupied the town of
Sengcheng without opposition. Seng-
cheng in on the Picking road, IS miles
West of Chenju and about 40 miles
South of Wiju.'
When the japanese drove the Rus
slams out of Chengju last Monday the
Russians withdrew in two columns,
one going over the Koaksan road and
the other over the Picking road. The
Japanese advance from Chenju was
made very rapidly. 1t was anticipated
that the Russians would resist this
advance, but they failed to do SO,
and now it is not probable that there
will be any further opposition South
OF the Yalu River.
Chenju, because of its superior
natural surroundings is the strongest
place between Pingyang and Win.
Besides these natural advantages
there is an old Korean fort there.
which, had it been defended with
spirit, would have been hard to take.
he Japanese are SIdtlHcu DIT tiie CUM
parative ease with which they drove
the Russians from this fort.
Russian patrols are reported to be
IN the country East of the Picking
road, but it is not probable that there
is any considerable force of the Rus
SLAMS in that section. The patrols
are Withdrawing gradually to the
Northward, toward the Yalu.
1t is reported that the ice on the
Ya1u is well broken up, and in the
future the river must be crossed either
in hunks or over pontoon bridges.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
EXPLOSION KILLED SIX
Squib Factory Near Scranton, Pa,
Wrecked and Burned.
FIVE GIRLS ARE FATALLY INJURED.
With One Exception All Of flie Bodies Have
Been Taken from the Debris-The Bodies
Of the Dead Employees Were So Badly
Burned That it Was With Great Difficulty
That They Could Be Recognized.

Scranton, Pa, Specialists per-
sons are known to have been killed
and five fatally injured by an explo-
sion in the factory of the Dickson
Squib Company at Priceburg, near
here
The dead are:
Lizzie Bray, Priceburg.
Beckie Lewis, North Scranton.
Lizzie Matthews, Olyphant.
George Callahan, Priceburg.
Teresa Callahan, Priceburg.
Lillian Mahon, Priceburg
Those fatally injured are:
Mamie Gilgallon
Martha Haybrown.
Cassie Foultz
Mettie Hevron.
Oscar Ayser.
Twenty girls Awcrc employed in the
factory. What caused the explosion
is not known, but it is said that one
Of the girls threw squib in the stove
md that the force of the explosion was
so great that it wrecked the building
and set it on fire. The squibs are used
in coal mining.
The Dickson Squib Company oc-
.upied only the first floor of the struct-
ure, the Callahan family having rooms
on the second food.
1t was here that the two Callahan
children lost their lives. Thomas Cal
lahan, the father, was at work, and
Mrs. Callahan had just left the room
when the explosion occurred. The
children, aged 8 years and months,
respectively, were playing on the floor
Both were instantly killed. The build
ing caught fire, and the flames com
municated to two adjoining buildings,
one occupied as hotel and the other
as butcher shop. Both were de-
stroyed.
The bodies of the dead employees
were so badly burned that il was with
great difficulty that they could be
recognized.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
DETERMINED TO GET PORT ARTHUR.
japanese More Hopeful Than Officials will
Admit.

London, (By Cable).-It is believed
in diplomatic and naval circles here
and in St. Petersburg that the
Japanese are determined to take Port
Arthur and will continue to make that
the object of their offensive naval
operations. The opinion prevails that
Marine Minister Yamamoto's speech
before the Japanese Pertinent about
The difficulties encountered at Port
Arthur was dsigned to throw the
Russians off their guard, and that
the Japanese will do everything in
their power to take Port Arthur, be-
cause if they fail they will be reduced
solely to land campaign in Korea.
1t is reported from Seoul that the
Russians, March ~, killed the perfect
of Pakchon for not following their
instructions.
The Russians are also said to have
dispersed the Korean garrison of Viii
after divesting the soldiers of their
uniforms.
Detailed reports received by way of
Seoul of tie engagement of March 2S
between Russians and Japanese at
Chengju, Korea, say the fighting
lasted two hours, at the end of which
the Japanese forced the Russians to
retire toward Win. Two Russian
dead were left on the field, while other
bodies were carried off with the
column. A Japanese lieutenant (ka-
no) and four privates were killed,
while Captain Kurokawa and II pri-
Yates were wounded.
The Japanese are continuing their
concentration and gra iually advanc-
ing on their way to Win. their adj
vance guard being at Kasan and their
outposts 10 miles further North.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
Stabbed With Hatpin.

New York, Especially. = Detective
Mentally, who has been member of
the Jersey City police force for ~
years, is dying at his home of blood
poisoning. He was arresting woman
shoplifter week ago, when she
stabbed him in the right leg with a
hatpin. Mentally treated the wound
with home remedies, but three days
ago blood-poiscnihg set in Four
doctors--one from the Pasteur Insti-
lute-are laboriag to save his life.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
woodchucks Destroy Graves.

Middletown, N. Y, (SpeciaD.-
Thrown out of their graves by ground
hogs the bones of many heroes of
the Revolutionary War and the War
of 1879 are often exposed to sight and
plowed under by farmers IN the town
of Wawayanda, Orange county: In
this town there are rs burying places,
many of them dating back years be-
fore the Revolutionary War. Only
eight of the graveyards are cared for.
the rest being mainly the homes OF
woodchucks. There have been no
burials in these cemeteries for over
so years. Apparently there is no one
who cares what becomes of the bones
of those who fought for the indc-
pendence of their country.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
Congressional and Departments.

In the anthracite coal case the Unit
ed States Supreme Court decided that
the railroad companies must produce
certain contracts with the coal COM
panies that were called for.
The President has approved the
oourt-martial sentence of dismissal
from the Army imposed on First Lieu
tenant A. c. Sharfley and Second
Lieutenant Cakes.
Southland Parker Warner, of Wash
ington, son of Brainard H. Warner
has been appointed United States con-
sular agent at Gera, Germany.
Gen. Americas v. Rice. of Ottawa,
O., who had brilliant war record and
who held a number of government po-
sitions, died in Washington.
The United States Supreme Curt
decided that the city of Chicago had
the right to fix the price of gas at
rs cents.
Washington children had their usua.
Easter Monday egg-rolling trohc on
the White House grounds.
A favorable report was author
lied on the bill granting statehood &c
Oklahoma and the Indian Territory
and Arizona and New Mexico by
the House committee.
Members of the minority of the
House committee filed their reasons
for Directing to the impeachment OF
Judge Swayne, of Florida.
Senator Culberson, OF Texas, i'll
troduced resolution in the Senate
for a commission to investigate the
Postoffice Department.
The State Department has accepted
the resignation of Andrew ID. Barlow.
United States consul general at
Mexico.
The House passed the Sundry Civil
Service Bill and discussed the confer
ence report on the Army Appropria-
ton Bill.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
cessoeks Killed Is Bandits.

Lao Yang, (By Cable).-There is
an enormous movement of troops in
progress and trains are arriving
several times daily.
In the rear of Bidzevo so Cossacks
encountered strong band of Chinese
bandits and charged upon them, killing
20 and capturing 6. Three Cossacks
were killed and six were wounded.
General Linevitch has received tele-
gram from General Kuropatkin ex-
pressing satisfaction that so we'll
trained soldier is with the army.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
No Longer An Experiment.

The President sent to Congress a
long report on the progress of the
beet-sugar industry of the United
States in 1908.
The report was prepared by Charles
F. Saylor, special agent of the De-
partment of Agriculture, and includes
the results of personal observations
and investigations in the Sc factories
in the United States. Mr.. Saylor says
the industry can be no longer treated
as an experiment; that successful beet
raising and sugar producing is fact.
Four factories have been placed in OPP
Grafton since the last report.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
BLOWN UP BY DYNAMITE.
Careless Workman Strikes Cartridge With Pick.
Killing Three.

Brownville, Pa, (SpeciaD Cedar
Hill tunnel, from the Connellsville Gen.
trail railroad, two miles Southeast OF
this place, was the scene OF an ex-
plosion, in which four workmen. were
killed outright and six were seriously
injured. Three of the injured, it is
feared, will die. The workmen were
all foreigners. and went by numbers
instead of names.
The tunnel is being constructed by
Kellar & Crossan, contractors. The
explosion was caused by one OF the
workmen striking charge of dyna-
mite with his pick.
The dead workmen were terribly
mangled. The injured were taken
across the country to the Uniontown
Hospital
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
Operators Offer Rejected.

Altoona, Pa. (SpeciaD.-The miners
delegates unanimously voted to reject
the operators offer of $3.50 cents for
a pick-mined ton, but agreed to accept
O. Ia cents a ton, with SIS per
cent. reduction on other classes of la
Dor inside the mines. This action was
reported to the joint scale committee.
The operators were given half an hour
to talk over the situation. and they
asked the miners to consent to let the
scale go to a board OF arbitration,
which proposition the miners are dis
cussing.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
FACTS WORTH REMEMBERING.

There are no slums in Tokyo.
One in eight of all Americans was
born in Europe.
Tubercle bacilli will live for thirty
days in butter.
fessional fortune tellers;.
Colombia has reduced her standing
army from 1900 to 5000 men.
Farm land in England ranges in price
from 500 to $I2o per acre, -,
A well-constructed brick house VIII
out-last one built o; granite.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
Daluelrs Naval Pay Bill Killed.

The House Committee on Naval Al
fairs shas defeated by tie vote the
Dalzell bill repeating the law which
reduces the pay of naval officers IS
per cent when on shore duty. Secre-
tary Moody was before the committee,
and as result of the discussion of the
matter the whole question of the nav
al pay table was referred to the Sec
rotary for revision and suggestion by
future action by the committee.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
Burned Herself to Death.

New Haysh, Conn.,, (SpeciaD'-Mrs
Fannie Watrous, who came here from
Concord. N. H., to visit her mother,
in-lawf Mrs. c. Watrous, committee
suicide in an outbuilding in the r,eai,
of b8 Clinton street. She drenchec
thu woodwork and her night clothes
With kerosene and waited for. death
An incoherent note signed with hei
name and threatening suicide was
found on the steps of nearby house
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
Brakeman and Tramp Killed.

Terre Haute, Ind, (SpeciaD.-One
brakeman and two tramps were killed
and two engines and about forty cars
demolished in the head-on collision of
two Vandalia freight trains at Locust
Cut, eleven miles east of Terre Hapte.
The wreck is attributed to the mislin-
terpretation of train order.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
Americans in Trouble in Africa.

The Consul General at Cape Town
in a report to the State Department
says that business in the Cape of Good
Hope is in very depressed condition
and that there are thousands of Ameri-
cans in the country who are in I'M
fortunate circumstances.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-08
Dutch slay Five Hundred Ahinese.
Amsterdam, (By Cable).-A

Amsterdam, (By Cable).-A dis
match to the Telegram from Kots
Raia. Island of Sumatra, announced
that column of Dutch troops operat-
ing in Achin Northern Sumatral en-.
gagged a strong, entrenched body OF
Achinese in the Gajocloeas district,
with the result that SAL Achinese were
killed. The Dutch lost three men
killed and had twenty-five men
wounded.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-08-25
PLANT LICE IN ORCHARDS.
They Are Exceedingly Hard to Kill
and Ordinary Sprays Have Lit
tie Effect on Them.

Although plant lice probably often
occur in orchards, they are very sell
dom found in such numbers as to be
really troublesome or destructive. A
noted exception was the past season
In New York state, probably on ac-
tions, which seem to have prevented
the usual development of their nat
ural enemies. the lady beetles. There
are three kinds Of plant lice that may
occur on apple trees, namely Fitch's
apple aphis. the Rosy apple aphis and
the Apple Leaf aphis. The last is the
only one that lives on the apple all
the year round and is doubtless re-
sponsible for the remarkable amount
of damage done in western New York
during the past season.
AS these insects feed somewhat after
the manner of mosquito, by sucking
up the internal juices Of the plant
through long threadlike bill, there
fore the ordinary poison sprays, such
as bordeaux mixture or paris green,
have little or no effect on them. They
should rather be smothered and
drowned in emulsions Of kerosene,
whale oil soap or tobacco. A spraying
of this kind should be extremely thor
ough, as the insects are not killed un-
less hit with the spray, and they re-
produce very rapidly indeed
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-08-25
TWO STRAWBERRY PESTS.
They Are Called False Worm and
Leaf Roller and Are Very Hard
to Exterminate.

The Missouri station last year con-
Quoted some very interesting expert
ments and investigations in the de-
struction Of the two worst strawberry
pests In this country. the false-worm
and the leaf-roller The first is found
to have but one brood which matches
from the time the first blossoms ap-
pear till the berries are ripe. These
can easily be held in check by dusting
or spraying about the beginning and
middle Of this time. For the home
patch or home market, 1t is best to
dust the patch with pure, fresh
pyrethrum, which can be done at any
time, as It Is absolutely harmless.
This is, however the most expensive
and least effective of all the known
remedies. For commercial growers,
the best method is to use fresh pow
dered white hellebore in the proper
tion of one pound to every three gal
Ions of water. This should be sprayed
on before the berries are a third ripe.
so that the rains and dews will have
abundant time to dissipate any possi-
Bile harmful effects from it,
The leaf-roller probably has only
two broods in the north, but in south
ern Missouri 1t has three. This pest
has so many ways of protecting itself
that no kind of sprays or ordinary
remedy does any good. Fortunately
however, fire doesn't hurt the plants
any and does dispose of them very ef-
fectually. The plants should be
moved, dried, raked up on the rows
and If necessary assisted by the addi-
tion of dry straw and the whole
burned when the wind is in the right
direction. In the south this should be
done either in the middle of July, to
catch the second brood, or in the mid
die of September to catch the third
The plants will at once put forth a set
of fresh green leaves free from pests
Of all kinds; the next years crop will
generally be remarkably successful
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-08-25
Courtship In Thibet.

(W. G. Jameson Reid in August outing
The traveller cannot fail to be struck
by the hardness and misery of the
Thibetan woman's lot. Among some
of the tribes, wives are secured by the
simple method of making a foraging
expedition on some weaker tribe and
seizing as many women as may be de-
sired. This practice, however boldly
undertaken, is likely to mean the loss
of several lives, and is adopted only in
cases of the direst necessity. The
following method is more generally
employed: When a warrier, surfeited
with glory, desires a wife, he waits
upon the father of the girl who has
attracted his eye and makes an offer
of marriage. The father, after weigh
ing the matter carefully-for refusal
is liable to provoke long and disas-
trous feud-names a price which he
thinks consistent with the charms and
general usefulness of his daughter.
Then ensues a scene of the shrewdest
bargaining.
The wishes or inclination OF the
woman are never consulted but the
bargaining goes on for days, and even
weeks, until final settlement has
been arrived at. The preliminary
bartering having been completed, on
the day appointed for the wedding
the woman is placed either in the up
per limbs of a tree, while her mail
relatives remain on the lower branches
armed with thorn.sticks-or in the
back part of her fathers hut, while
the relatives guard the entrance in
similar manner. The suitor rides up
on his horse, arrayed in wedding fnery,
and announces his intention of seizing
his bride. In fact this is love-making
of the most strenuous kind, requiring
ardor and courage of the most ardent
sort on the part of the suitor, for in
order to reach his bride he is com
PEELED to run the gauntlet of the male
relatives, who beat him numerically.
If he is able to elude his opponents
and braves their chastisement, on
touching the foot of the girl he is
welcomed into the family and compli-
mented on the ardor of his passion.
Should he fall he finds himself in the
awkward predicament of being both
wifeless and out of the presents he has
made during the preliminary negotia-
tions.
Although parent may have sold a
woman to one man, it does not prevent
his redisposing of her to any suitor
who may come after, and who is looked
upon as legitimate husband as the
first one. All the husbands contrib.
ute to the wife's support.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-08-25

ground that he comes to realize how
powerful an enemy he Is fighting. The
army is SO large that he has no choice
but to fight it wholesale, instead Of
dealing with each one of the little
pests individually, as In the garden.
The common method of work Is to
apply paris green, hellebore or some
other poison which can be mixed In
liquid form and sprinkled on the
plants. 1t is well known that many
bugs escape this poison and continue
to live and breed. even when the plants
are dosed several times during the
season. It is to be hoped that the
new apparatus which we show in the
will prove more effective
and subject the bugs to treatment
which 1t will be impossible for them to
withstand. In this machine there Is
a gas-producing apparatus, designed
to generate a large quantity Of nox-
ious fumes. This gas is stored in the
reservoirs on the carriage, and the
latter Is then driven over the field
lengthwise of the rows of plants. II
will be seen that the semi-circular
shape of the reservoirs enables them
to nearly inclose the plant grOwths for
a considerable space Of time while the
carriage is being drawn along. The
gas in storage is poured from the
front of the hooded portion, and sur
rounds the plant completely for a pc
riod long enough to kill all insects
which are harbored therein.-Louis-
VILE Courier-Journal.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-08-25
Neat Packing Helps Sales.

Appearances count for much in mar
keting produce. Neatness plays no lit
tie part In selling the small things of
of the farm. We have seen good butter
fruit and poultry go begging for custom
ers, when placed on sale In slipshod
fashion alongside of an attractive pack
age of the above-named produce. A lit
tie time spent in getting things In shape
Is time saved-not lost. The grocery
man and merchant. In displaying goods
for>s sale, recognize this principle In ex-
hibiting their wares. Why should not
the farmer profit by their expert
snce?-Midland Farmer