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Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
CLAIMS RUSSIA VIOLATES
TREATY LAWS
Correspondent Reports Steamers Car
rylna Arms Pass DardanelIes.

London: The Daily Telegraphs cor
respondent at Port Said asserts that
the Russian volunteer steamer Voron-
eta, which has passed the DardaneIles
as a transport, has three submarine
boats on board, and that the Yaraslav,
which passed the Dardanelles SINH
larry, has a large arament Of Hotch-
kiss guns.
Evidently once through the canal, Z"
says the correspondent, they will
emulate the volunteer steamers st.
Petersburg and Smolensk."
The correspondent at Moscow of
the Daily Telegraph claims authority
for the statement that General Stoes-
SETS dispatch, sent by the torpedo
boat Rastorophy, informed Emperor
Nicholas that the Port Arthur garri-
son was being starved out. with other
frank details Of its actual condition,
showing that the fall Of the fortress
was inevitable.
Japs Make Attacks on Lone Tree Hin.
St. Petersburg: Official advices only
bring affairs at the front up to No
vember %, and the absence of official
news of a later date, either from the
Japanese of the Russian side, arouses
the belief that more important opera
tions than heretofore may be pro-
crossing.
Reports from correspondents at the
front relate renewed skirmlshing. cul.
minating on the night of November
20 in a fresh attack on Poutiloff DOne
Tree) Hill, in which the Japanese
were repulsed with heavy loss. and
also a severe fight with Chinese ban
dts near Kaiuan, in which 200 Chi
nese were killed.
A Japanese column of two com.
panies attempted to penetrate the
Russian eastern flank on November
20, but was met by two squadrons of
Russian cavalry and driven off with
severe loss.
According to a telegram from Sc
bastopol, portion of the crews of the
Black Sea feet mutined, November
%, under the influence of the revolu.
tionary propaganda. The mutiny, 1t
is added, was quelled by force of
arms. and several of the mutineers
were wounded.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
RIehard N. eerunua Is Dead.

st. Louis: Funeral services over
the body of Richard M. scruggs, the
well-known philanthropist ami mer-
chant, who died at his home, No. s617
Olive street, Tuesday morning. as the
result of pneumonia, contracted while
visiting the Worlds Fair last Wednes-
day, took place at $3.50 o'clock Wed.
nesday morning In Cook Avenue NJ
e. Church, South. After the services
the body was conveyed to the Union
Station to be taken at noon to Lynch
burg. Va. for burial in the family lat.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
FRANCE DETERMINED TO
MAINTAIN HER PRESTIGE
Enmity for Germany Evidenced in Pro-
posed Naval Budget.

Paris: M. Bos, reporter on the naval
budget, submitted his report to the
chamber of deputies Monday. 1t is
noteworthy as indicating that France
still regards Germany as an enemy.
NJ. Bos remarks that France, whatever
efforts she make, will never rival
Great Britain at sea any more than
Great Britain will be able to organize
an army as strong as that of France.
Moreover, all danger of conflict with
Great Britain is happily at an end. 1t
is therefore, between the German and
French navies that comparison must
be made. This shows that four years
hence the two fleets will be practi-
cally equal, but with the development
of the German naval programme,
which extends from 1907 to 1917, the
balance will be removed to Frances
disadvantage.
Referring to the rapid growth OF
the German navy, and still more rapid
growth of the American navy, NJ. Bos
points out that France, from being the
second naval power in the world, may
in the near future become the third
and perhaps the fourth power. She,
however, has no aggressive designs on
anyone, and can, therefore, without
hatred, witness the development of
other navies and resign herself to
seeing the flags of Their nations on
the seas of the world more frequently
than her own. Nevertheless, she must
not be left behind by foreigners. es-
pecially by Germany. to the extent of
sndangering her independence. She
must keep her feet powerful enough
to inspire respect and to make the is
sue of a conflict depend on Frances
support or abstention.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
NAN PATTERSoNS DINNER
is OF PRISON FARE
Actress on Trial Refuses Restaurant
Food for Thanksgiving Dinner.

New York: Hundreds Of baskets OF
food were distributed among the poor
families in the lower section Of the
city Thursday, and liberal Thanks.
giving dinners were served to the
needy in many quarters. At the Bow.
cry Mission alone plans were made to
serve dinner to 1000 homeless men
at night.
Scores of similar institutions had
the city's unfortunate ones for their
guests.
In the Tombs prison, Nan Patter.
son, the young woman on trial for
the murder of Caesar Young, the
wealthy horseman, ate her dinner
alone.
Miss Patterson received several
presents from her friends. Among
them was a iVe-pOund box of candy,
which she shared with the fifty.seven
women prisoners in the Tombs.
Warden Flynn offered to have Miss
Patterson's dinner sent to the Tombs
from a restaurant, but the prisoner
refused, saying: mo; I'll take prison
fare"
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
JAPANESE MOVING
ON RUSSIAN REAR
Russian Detachment at Da Pass Flee
at Enemy's Approach.

Toxic: The Japanese Mail conjec-
lures from various reports that the
Japanese left has reached King Lung
Tien, northwest of Mukden.
The Japanese at Port Arthur now
occupy positions in front of the Sung
Shu and Err Lung forts, where they
are completely sheltered from the
Russian FIRE. The garrisons must now
await the blowing up of the scarps
for the final struggle with bayonets.
The abandonment of the north fort
at Tung XII Kwan is attributed to the
bombardment from Pa Lung Shan.
The fortification of Lao III Shan is
being pushed rapidly. Naval guns
are being mounted there. 1t is probable
that the Russians will make their final
stand at Lao I'll Shan. The Peh Win
and Pehy forts are not yet subjected
to the direct fire of the Japanese.
These forts, together with those at
Golden Hill and Tigers Tail, may
make long resistance. The Russian
garrison at Possiet bay has been
strongly REINFORCED. The Russians
are constructing defense works on
the north banak of the Tumen river.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
CAR MUST YIELD
TO NEW DEMANDS
zemstvo Member Says That War VIII
Eventually Follow Refusal.

St. Petersburg: The final article Of
the zemstvos memorial, as it will be
presented to the emperor, is as fol.
lows:
In view of the importance and diff
ficulty Of the internal and external
situation through which Russia is pas
sing, this informal conference express
sed the hope that the sovereign power
will summon freely the elected repre-
sentatives of the nation, in order, with
their cooperation, to obtain for tie
fatherland an evolution of the state
in the direction of establishing a new
basis of law for mutual cooperation
between the imperial authority and
the people"
A delegate said:
I'VE are not revolutionaries. We do
not believe the people are prepared
for a republic. We support the mon
archial idea. but we believe it must
be a constitutional monarchy, and
that the emperor must choose be
tween the moderate programme we
offer or eventual revolution. II there
is no result now We will continue the
work of agitation by education. There
will be larger and stronger meeting
next year. If the meeting is forbidden
in St. Petersburg, then 1t will take
place in Moscow. Kieff or in an open
field IL necessary. The movement will
gather Roadway as time elapses. We
have risked our liberties and we shall
not retreat. The law which makes
agitation for a change in the form Of
government punishable with penal
serVitude is stin in force. We are all
amenable. but so long as Prince Svia-
topolk-Mirsky is minister we know we
are safe"
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
SAYS ZEIGLER REPORTS
ARE EXAGGERATED
AdJutant General Scott Declares That
Union Miners Camp Is a Menace.

Springfield. ILL.,: Adjutant General
Scott returned Friday morning from
Zeigler, accompanied by Lieutenant
Colonel Snand of his office, who went
there with fifty rifles and 5000 rounds
of ammunition. requested by Sheriff
Stein of Franklin county, with which
to arm special deputies.
General Scott says Sheriff Stein
stated there had been no use of his
enlisting deputies into service, as he
had had no arms for them previous
to the arrival of the States arms.
He also says that some of the re-
ports of the firing at Zeigler early
in the week were grossly exagger-
ated and that no one was killed.
He declared that the existence of
the union miners camp at Christie
pher, only three or four miles from
Zeigler, is a menace to the peace of
the community, and that it should be
abolished, but says the. matter lies
wholly in Sheriff STEMS province
The arms are in Sheriff STEMS poses
sion
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
CODY BANDITS MAKE
ANOTHER WYOMING RAID
Secure Large Amount From Saloon
and Gambling Hall.

Cheyenne, Wyo.: The two bandits
who made a descent on the First ma
tional bank of Cody two weeks ago
and killed Cashier Middaugh, COM
mittei another bold robbery at 4
o'clock Tuesday morning, when they
held up the inmates of Edwards sa-
loon and gambling house at Thermop-
oils, Big Horn county and secured a
large amount of money, watches and
jewelry. The outlaws wore masks, but
were recognized as George Merritt and
his partner, who killed Middaugh. They
were mounted on fast horses anad es.
capped to the Bad Lands along the Big
Horn River, south of Themopolis.
Posses were quickly organized and
started in pursuit, but the robbers
reached the mountains ahead of them.
These desperadoes doubled back on
their trail from the Hole in the Wall"
country after the Cody robbery and
took refuge in the Owl Mountains,
south of Thermopolis, where the Of
ficers had prepared to capture them.
Feeling runs high in Big Horn county
and If the robbers are caught it is
thought they will be punished without
waiting for the courts to convict them.
The rewards have been increased and
additional posses will assist
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
CAR CONFERS WITH zEMSTYOISTS;
SEES LEADERS AT PALACE

st. Petersburg: The unexpected
may happen after all The meeting Of
the zemstvo, first Russian congress-"
as 1t is now called, may, indeed, mark
the beginning of new era for Rus
STA. Emperor Nicholas, inltiator of
the plan for universal disarmament,
may turn back on the reactlonaries
and crown his reign by granting to
his subjects the constitution which
his grandfather had already prepared
when he fell by the hand of the as
sassin.
The basis of such a possibility is
the significant fact that late Friday
afternoon the emperor received in the
palace at Tsarskoe-Selo M. Shipoff of
Moscow, NJ. Petrunkivitch Of Tever,
M. Rodzianko of Ekaterinoslav and
Count Heiden, four prominent mem
bers Of the zemstvo congress, and
listened at length to their vf0ws.
1t develops that when Minister of the
Interior Sviatopoll-Mirsky presented
the zemstvo memorial and resolutions
the emperor was deeply impressed, as
well by the contents of the documents
as by the character of the signers,
that he Immediately expressed the
desire personally to receive q deputa-
ton of four
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
main strlkea strest car.

Cleveland, o.: Sixteen persons we're
hurt, two probably fatally, Friday,
when a passenger train on the Penn
sylvania Railroad crashed into a troll
ley car at Bedford, o. The trolley car
was filled with passengers. The pas
-senges train was running fifty miles
an hour. 1t struck the trolley almost
In The middle anad carried a portion
.of the car a quarter of a mile. A
number of the passengers in the troll
ley car were thrown some distance
as the result of the collision.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
BREWERY WORKERS LOSE
FIGHT IN FEDERATION
No Control over Engineers, Flremen
and Transfers at BrewerIes.

San Francisco, Cal: After spending
almost the entire day Friday in a bit
ter debatD, the difference between
the brewery workers union and the
International brotherhood of engin-
GERS, firemen and teamsters were set
tied by the American federation of
labor. The vote on every point at is
sue, with one minor exception, was
against the brewery workers. The
brewery. workers union insisted that
all firemen, engineers and teamsters
employed about breweries should join
and come under the jurisdiction of
the brewery workers union. The rep
resentatives of the International bro
therhoods of engineers, firemen and
teamsters objected to this and intro
duced a resolution to the effect that
all workers in breweries be organized
according to their respective crafts,
and asked the convention to vote that
all engineers, firemen and teamsters
aow in the brewery workers union,
shall leave the same and join organi-
cations of their respective crafts.
This decision permits the engineers,
firemen and teamsters to elect wheth-
er or not they shall secede from the
brewery workers union.
1t was charged during the debate
that the brewery workers union had
filled the places Of engineers and
firemen on strike in st. Louis and
Belleville, ILL.,, with nonunion men,
and thereupon organized the latter.
1t was requested that the American
federation of labor compel the strik-
ers to be reinstated, and the conven-
ton so voted. The convention like
wise voted that all injunctions pend
ing or obtained by the brewery work
ers' union against other Organiza-
tions be withdrawn or dissolved.
Santiago Iglesias, representative
from Porto Rico, addressed the dele
gates on the condition of the working
men in his native land. He averred
that 900 Porto Ricans died every
month from starvation.
A resolution to do away with the
Washington lobby committee was
voted down after the Socialistic dele
gates had made speeches in favor OF
its passage. The Socialists were
opposed on the floor by President
Gompers. The latter bitterly de-
nounced the Socialists for what no
termed their sneering TRADES.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
FEDERATION VOTES
TO KEEP MILITIA
Charges Of Treaehery Against Com.
pers and Mitchell Withdrawn.

Sn Francisco, CAL: Disputes occu-
pied most of the time of the delegates
co the American federation of labor
in Tuesdays session. There was a
ripple of Mondays exciting proceed
ings when, upon the opening of the
session, two resolutions, introduced by
delegate Victor Berger, leader of the
Socialists, were presented for consid-
Grafton. One of these provides for
adjustment of the militia as it now
exists in the United States and the
substitution Of the Swiss system. The
convention overwhelmingly defeated
the measure.
The socialistic second resolution
asked the federation to go on record
as being in favor of petitioning Con-
gress to pass bill providing for an
old age pension for working men.
This measure was also defeated.
The convention accorded Delegate
Victor Berger the floor under a sus.
pension of the rules that he might
make a statement regarding the as
pensions cast by the contents of a
printed slip from his newspaper office
on President Gompers and John Mitch
ell. Healing balm was poured on the
wounds when Mr.. Berger stated that
not only did he deny the authorship
of the slip declaring that Samuel
Gompers and John Mitchell were trait
.ors to the cause of labor, but that he
knew nothing of the charges and was
not in sympathy with the same, and
regretted the incident that caused the
i'll feeling Of Monday.
John Mitchell thereupon arose and
asked to have stricken from the re-
cords the statement made by him to
the effect that unless Mr.Berger proved
his charges he must stand before the
convention stamped as a liar. The
convention gave its unanimous con-
sent to this procedure amid applause
and ended the bitterest controversy
yet waged on the floor Of the con-
Vention.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

The zemstvoists, therefore, went to
Tsarkoe-selo by imperial command.
At their audience, It is said, they ex.
planned fully their position and re.
iterated the views expressed by the
memorial that the salvation Of the
empire from ruin by revolution lay
In the adoption of the general ideas
expressed in the memorial The
emperor was greatly impressed by
what he heard and asked many ques,
lions. While H. Is said he gave no
indication of his purpose, except the
sympathy he displayed, the ennis
sarles when they returned to St.
Petersburg were in high spirits. Nat
urally they declined to say anything
for publication regarding their visit.
The news that the delegation had
been given an audience by the en-
peror spread like wildfre through the
city Friday night and created ire
mendous excitement, rejoicing among
liberals and amazement among the
uncompromising supporters Of the old
regime. Later in the day the report
was current that an immediate eff
feet of the zemstvos' meeting would
be the realization of the plan for CIV
ing two elected zemstvo representa-
tives seats in the council of the en-
miro
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
UnvelI Mckinley Memorial.

San Francisco, CAL: A monument
to the memory Of President William
Mckinley was unveiled Thursday at
the main entrance of Golden Gate
Park. 1t is a symbolical statue of the
Republic, modelled by Robert Aitken.
a sculptor of this city Rnd cast in
bronze. The figure. on q granite ped
estsl, represents a womana of heroic
size, with large sword in one hand,
and an uplifted palm in the other,
The presentation was made by former
MayoT James D. Phelan
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
MILITIA RIFLES
SENT TO ZEIoLER
Il 10 Feared That Deputies Are IN
able to Maintain order.

Carbonate, ILL.,: Lieutenant Colonel
Shand OF the Adjutant Generals of.
fee, in response to the request OF
Sherif Stein Of Franklin county,
reached Zeigler Thursday with fifty
Krag-JOrgeuson rifles and 500 rounds
of ammunition.
The situation Thursday was criti
cal. The cOlliery, the stockade, the
railroad and the citizens Of the town
of zeigler have been kept I'm a state of
constant fear, owing TO the desultory
firing which has marked the nightly
attacks Of unknown persons, claimed
by Letters officials to be union min
ers.
The mining Of coal is practically
abandoned temporarily, owing to the
excitement and the apparent inability
of Letter to keep men there. The
union miners have kept up a constant
campaign of persuasion against him,
and have been successful in inducing
nearly all of the imported men to
quit
Some idea of the wide scope of
territory over which this trouble ex-
tends can be CLEANED by a brief de-
scription. On two sides of Zeigler is
a woody tract, quite thickly studded
with underbrush. The contour OF the
land is admirably fitted for ambushing
and to protect the town from maraud-
ing an unusual number of men must
be constantly kept on duty night and
day
To the southwest the Little Muddy
river runs, and it is here the water
supply of the town and the plant is
secured.
Just across the river from the
pumping station is an unusually thick
growth of timber. The railroad runs
through miles of woods-both the Illi-
nois Central and the st. Louis Val
ley-and here again scores of men
must be stationed if the possibilities
Of train wrecking and attacks on
nonunion men are properly guarded.
One-half mile from Christopher and
four miles from Zeigler is stationed
Camp Tanner, where for months the
uhAoAA AlAACAo haNO bNNh AANAhbs uGg
disavow all knowledge of the attacks
and claim that every man in the camp
is accounted for as soon as trouble
begins.
The most plausible theory adopted
of the several attacks that have been
made, based on an intimate knowl-
edge of the situation. both from the
miners and also Letters side, is that
the men engaged in the ambuscading
are nonunion men, whom Letter has
brought here to do his work, and who,
when conditions were brought to their
attention, have been most bitter in
denunciation of his methods.
A large number of them have pub
licly stated that they were never paid
for their work fully; that conditions
were misrepresteted. They are of u
class that bodies no good to a COM
munity.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
WIIhemlna Awalts czar,s AetIon.

The Hague: The government has
notified the American charge d'affaires
here that Queen Wilhemina win be
glad to see the second peace confer
ence meet at The Hague and that the
United States may count on the CO.
operation Of The Netherlands so soon
as Emperor Nicholas, the originator
OF the work begun In 1899. and other
powers have given their adhesion to
the proposal.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
Banks Condition Pleasing.

Washington: The call on national
bank repositories for 25 per cent of
Government deposits has created no
furry, and, according to Secretary of
the Treasury Shaw, indicates an ex'
cellent financial condition generally.
The circular call issued several days
ago has brought only one request for
exception thus far, and that from
bank which has a small Government
depOsit.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
Asks Receiver for Traction Company.

Lexington, KY: George G. Webb
has been appointed receiver Of the
Blue Grass traction company, which
was incorporated here three years
ago by Senator George B. Davis Of
Dertolt, Mich, with a capital stock
of 100000. Outstanding claims
against the company will reach
about $4,000.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
Evans 20 Succeed Barker.

Washington! Rear Admiral Robley
D. Evans, now president of the light
house board, will be appointed to the
supreme Command Of the North Allan
tic feet when Rear Admiral Barker
retires. next March. Rear Admiral
Davis win be second in command.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
Sues for $4,000 Damages.

Vincennes, Ind: The Vincennes
Board of Trade and the Central Car
and Foundry Company are defendants
in a suit for $4,000 damages, brought
by William L. Staley of Terre Haute,
builder of the plant. Staley also wants
a receiver appointed and . $4,000
mechanics lien foreclosed.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
Panama Wages Reduced.

Panama: The Panama railroad, ow-
Ing to the increase in the value of sill
yer coinage, has reduced the wages
of its laborers. The basis for the
reduction is that the gold dollar is
equal to two pesos Should the la
borers not accept this reduction, the
company intends to brings Fortune
island laborers to the isthmus.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
Morgan Buys $4,000 Residence

New York: ]. Pierpont Morgan has
bought the residence belonging to Mrs.
Arson Phelps Stokes. which was held
at $1,200,0OO. Mr.. Morgan has gradu,
ally acquired all of the Madison ave
nue. and most Of the Thirty-sixth
street frontage In his block.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
Appointed Land office Register.

Washington: It was announced at
the Interior Department Friday that
Richard T. Morgan of Ell Reno. .
prominent statehood enthuiast. has
been appointed Register of the Wood
ward Land Office in Oklahoma The
position pays $4,000 per annum.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
peported Chinese Aboard.

San Francisco, CAL: Two hundred
and fifty-one Chinese arrived from the
st. Louis Fair Tuesday in charge of
an immigration inspector and a strong
guard. They were Immediately trans
ferred from Oakland Mole to the
steamer Coptic which sailed Saturday.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
Funeral Service Stopped by Fire.

Evansville. Ind: The funeral Of
Harrison Whiting in Gibson county,
Ind, was delayed three hours Fri
day while the mourners stopped to
save the home of viii Volkmann from
destruction
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
LeVee Camp Foreman Shot.

Memphis, Tenn; NJ S. Howard.
foreman in a levee camp near Helena,
Ark, was brought to Memphis Friday
morning, suffering from a g0nshot
wound in the spine. The wound was
inflicted Saturday by man who re.
fused to follow HoWard's orders.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
WeIbY sueeeedn YOUNG.

Denver Colo; Arthur Earl Welbyt
was Friday appointed general super
intendent of the Rio Grande Western
Railroad, to succeed Joseph Fl, Young,
resiRned.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
Think Greek Steamer Is Lost.

ConstantiRople The Greek steamer
Elpis, long overdue, is now regarded
as lost. II is believed she sunk in
recent gale in the Black Sea and that
her entire crew and a number of pas
senegeFs were lost.