Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1905-01-14
TIE WORLDS NEWS
TEE wAR.

u tons and stores in Port Arthur,
declare Its surrender an inexplicable
mystery Food for two months has
been transferred. In addition to vast
quantities OF munitions OF war
Two thousand Cossack raiders at
tackled Newchwang and tore up sec
tons OF the railroad south OF Ldaoyang
The raiders were finally repulsed and
retreated, with Japanese in pursuit
The railroad was speedily repaired.
Rumors that Japanese warships are
In various parts of the Indian Ocean
continue TO circulate. The Russian
rear-guard squadron, after traversing
the Suez Canal, sailed toward Jibutil,
French Somaliland.
Russia's finance minister, in esti-
mates supplementing the budget. de-
clared that war expenditures and funds
available for 1905 total 500, OO0,O 900.
Hussla's protest against alleged vio-
lations OF neutrality by China was pre-
scented to Mr. Hay by Count Cassini.
WASHINGTON.
The Senate ratified the arbitration
treaty for pecuniary claims with the
Latin American countries, Haiti and
Dominican Republic.
Witnesses for the defense in the
Smo0t case testified that polygamy is
dying out in Utah. and that if it were
now taught it would cause a revolution
in the Mormon Church.
Joseph L. Bnstow, Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General, was appointed
special commissioner to travel about
the world to study trade relations in
connection with the Panama Canal.
Vespasian Warner, member of Con-
gress from Illinois. was appointed
Commissioner of Pensions.
In his letter to the Senate on the ar
bitration treaties the President said
they do not so so far as he could wish
in scoDe and object.
Mrs. Halle Ldnch, Of Elmer, n. j..
went to Washington to protest against
her removal as a rural mail carrier.
Unless a railroad rebate law is passed
at this session on Congress. an extra
session is certain. Samuel Spencer. be-
fore the House Committee on Inter
state and Foreign Commerce. said a
rebate law could not be made too dras-
tic to suit the railroads.
The Chinese Minister recommended
to his Government that the franchise
Of the Hankow-Canton Railway be not
Cancelled, as Americans had bought
back their stock.
The President transmitted to the Sen
ate a recommendation from Secretary
Hay for United States Court in China
and Korea
President Roosevelt sent the report of
the Panama Canal Commission TO Com
gress, accompanied by a letter in which
he recommended that he be invested
with complete control over the work.
and that the number Of commissioners
be reudced. The commissions report
covers the work it has done.
FOREIGN.
A new Danish Cabinet was formed,
the Minister OF Foreign Affairs being
Count RaIhen Levetzau, whose wife is
an American.
Authorities of the Congo Free state
denied the report Of a massacre of
whites and Catholic priests.
The American Government has de-
manded annulnent Of the sentence i'm
posed by the Haitien court on Jaeger
Huber for alleged completely in bond
frauds. Energetic intervention is
MISCELLANEOUS
The Missouri Legislative Committee
began am inquiry into campaign con-
tributions by brewers.
Archbishop Moeller, of Cincinnati, in
a pastoral letter denounced church fairs
and pienics, and prohibited wheels of
fortune and slot machines.
Hetty Green settled her suit against |
the trustees of her fathers estate for
1000.
The plan to consolidate Seaboard Air
Line properties and to provide addi- |
tional capital was made public by the |
committee.
Below zero weather prevails in the |
West and Northwest.
John j. Mitchell, spokesman for the |
new syndicate to control the Chicago |
street railway lines, said that there |
would be one company and one fare.
Henry Phipps. former Pittsburg |
steel manufacturer. will give 81 .0O0, 900 |
for the erection in New York city Of |
model tenement houses for the working /
classes.
The New York combination of theatre |
managers decided to refuse to admit a |
critic
An unconhrmed rumor in Washing
ton declared ]. p. Morgan had proffer- |
ed loan of 100000 to the Catholic
University.
Brodie L. Duke was brought into |
court in habeas corpus proceedings and |
was sent to another sanitarium 10 |
await thorough inquiry as to his SAN
ity.
An anti-distillery act IN the North |
Carolina Legislature provoked disclos- |
ures Of Democratic campaign methods |
in that State. Distillers have sued to |
recover contributions, alleging bad |
faith"
Massachusetts consumptive. TO cure
the malady. swims rivers and millponds |
daily and sleeps out of doors.
A girl ticket seller in an elevated |
railroad station bafiled burglars by |
locking the money in the safe and fir
ing a revolver.
ID. w. Lynch Co.. Grocers. Agents |
FOR Burnham's Clam Bouillon. Buchu |
Gin, Quinine Whiskey. N. w. Cor |
Fourth and Madison SITS, Wilmington,
Delaware.