The Globe-republican., 1905-03-23

LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

A dispatch from Changtufu reports
that General Kuropatkin left there
for st. Petersburg
The senate in executive session
ratified and made public the eXtradi-
ton treaty with Uruguay which was
concluded March II.
The railroad situation in southern
California has greatly improved and
all trains are moving, though some
what behind schedules.
The United States collier Ajax has
arrived at the Norfolk navy yard from
the Asiatic station after two years
service in the Orient.
The lower house of the Minnesota
legislature passed a bill which ap-
propriated $4,000 for a Minnesota ex-
hibit at Lewis and Clarke exposition.
In the recent fighting around Muk-
den General Oku's army lost 10000
men and it is estimated 1t has inAict-
ed a loss Of, including prisoners, Of
$4,000.
The secret police of Moscow have
discovered an organization acting in
conjunction with the revolutionary
party in London, and 800 persons al
ready have been arrested
John w. Gates when asked regard
ing the statement that he was inter
ested with the Cudahys in a project
to construct pipe line from the Kan
sas oil felCs to Port Arthur, Tex,
said he had not heard of such
q move
The mystery of the letters address,
ed to the Emperor by Revolutionares
which are constantly found in the
palace of Tsarskoe.Selo, has been
solved. The solution came about
through the arrest of a page named
Vcrkhovsky, who was examined
few days ago on complaints of his
fellow pages and declared to be men
tally disordcred.
The statement made by the cap
tain of the British steamer RICHMOND,
bound from London to the Nrient,
which put in here short of COIL Snd
which was suspected Of carrying %r
supplies for the Japanese gover3
nent, to the effect that his destinS T.
lion was Manila, resulted in an inve&' =
legation by the federal authol Ties.
The vessel left this harbor and ii is
she is bound for some
Japanese port. 1t is said the Rich
nond would not have been permitted
10 leave here for Manila if her cargo
consisted Of war material.
A commission has been appointed
lnder the presidency of General Roop,
member of the council of the en-
lire to investigate the surrender OF
Port Arthur and act as a court to de-
ermine the responsibility Of Genera!
Stoessel.
The strike in Paris of French coach
builders operatives is increasing in
Intensity. The masters have an
bounced that having made all conces-
;ions possible they will close their
Works until the men return to work
n sufficient numbers to enable them
o resume business.
In Warsaw the directors of the
Iistula railroad have asked for
roops to guard the bridges between
,iedlce and Maxim because of the re-
.eipt of letters threatening their de-
truction. There has been revival
If strike agitation in the LODI dis
rict.
The Merchants exchange has &C.
eived advices from Unga, Alaska,
lated March 49, via Valdez, March
7, stating that the schooner Pearl,
which sailed from here December
asst, for Sanak, Alaska, had not yet
rived
In New York the final step in the
many gambling house raids by Dis
riot Attorney Jerome's men in recent
months, under the Bowling law, was
aiken when over 100000 worth of
ambling paraphernala was taken
rom the criminal court building and
urned.
Secretary of the Treasury River
las overruled the order of the assist
mt secretary admitting two-piece
Inglish cottons under the same pre-
erentia rates as given to whole
width cottons made on American
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