Evening journal., 1905-02-27
WORLDS NEWS
WASHINGTON.

Congress will be busy this week COM
pleting the appropriation bills. Night
sessions viii probably be held.
Senator Quarles will not be eligible to
Wisconsin Judgeship until his term as
Senator expires.
The Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee is expected to report ON the
San Domingo protocol the first day of
the special session Of the Senate.
The Engineering Committee has
made a report to the Panama Canal
Commission recommending a sea level
canal with a thirty-five-foot channel,
$50 feet wide. to cost $3.50. 100000.
Senator Dryden will introduce a bill
in the Senate today for Federal regu-
lation Of insurance.
Senate conferees object to a blind
appropriation for Philippine fortihca-
tons.
The return Of Niedringhaus to JEFF
ferson City has started talk OF plans
to break the Missouri senatorial dead
lock.
RUSSIA.
In Poland and in the Caucasus the
strike situation continues extremely
grave. a veritable civil war prevailing
in cities from the Black to the Cas-
plan Seas. The Warsaw-V Vienna Rail-
road and the line to st. Petersburg are
alone in operation. The Government
has declared martial law on all rail-
roads to prevent further spread of the
strike. The strikers in Warsaw have
received additions to their number
among various classes Of workers.
Soldiers accompany policemen TO pre-
vent complications should the latter
join the movement.
Alexander Stolypin. Of the ST. Peters
burg Novoe Vremya. reviewing Rus
sias political situation. puts great
stress upon the part the Zemstvos play
lin the present crisis, and will play in
the future. He declares the Zemstvos
ultimately win win some form of con-
government. The progress
'sive mobiles in them are warning against
the unprogressive ones Of the bureau
Icracy. he says.
A report at odessa declares that the
Jews have been killed and thirty
wounded in an anti-Jewish riot at
Theodosia
THE WAR.
General Kuropatkin reports the loss
OF Tsinkhetchen. on the extreme eastern
position Of his left flank, followed by an
advance Of the Japanese TO assault his
main positions in the mountains fifty
three miles southeast OF Mukden. The
accurate artillery practice Of the Japan
ese suggests the presence of veterans
from Port Arthur. VladivostolS thus
far has observed no evidence of attack
Three ships bound there with coal. are
imprisoned i'm the ice north of Japan
Japanese warships are in readiness tC
seize them when it is possible Genera
IStoesseI and Madame Stoessel were
given an ovation at Moscow, which city
they passed on the way to st. Peters
burg.
FOREIGN.
It is announced that the Prince and
Princess Of Wales will visit India II
November next remaining until March
The Rev. John p. Rugh in a sermon
in Berlin, referred to the Kaiser's' in
vitation to American churches to joir
in the dedication of the Berlin dom, a;
a beautiful courtesy
MISCELLANEOUS.
The leaden coffin dug up in Paris and
supposed TO contain the remains oi
John Paul Jones proves to hold tbs
dust Of an Englishman. The searci
continues.
The Baltimore and Ohio has auth,
orized the purchase of $50 locomotives
and 10000 freight cars, at a cost o.
about st2OOO,OO0.
Miss Ottiline Alderman shot Ed
ward Barrow whom she found in hei
room. II Barrow survives he will bI
held as a burglar.
Estimates Of the losses in the Ho
Springs. Ark. fire are from S1,500,0o0 L
So 100000. The burned area viii be re-
built as soon as possible.
A mine explosion at Wilcoe, w. va.
probably killed twenty-three miners
Fifteen bodies have been recovered.
DIR. Woodrow Wilson, president o
Princeton University, In an address a
New Rochelle, favored more publicit.
in dealing with trusts.
Two employees Of a Boston depart
ment store were arrested, charged will
the larceny Of S5Oo0o.
Joseph L. Andara, agent Of Vene
zuela's revolutionary party, has arrived
in this country seeking to avert Unite'
Estates action in Venezuela pending tn
Tissue of the projected revolt the leader
of which promise satisfaction OF al
lclaims.
LouisviIIe's remarkable revival. dur
ing which 10 per cent, OF the city's non
believers protested Christianity ended
Under the new scale Of wages 70
bricklayers in New York they ca
make $1,000 a week
I The Standard oil steamer Atlai
with a barge IN tow. reached San Fran
lcisco from New York. completing I'll
longest tow OF. record