Evening journal., 1905-01-28
TdE WORLDS NEWS
RUSSIA.

While no further encounters between
the strikers and authorities have oc-
CURED, dispatches from Russia indicate
that the strike movement is spreading.
At Mitau bodies OF strikers marched to
the shops and compelled the men who
were at work to leave. At Warsaw a
strike was begun and is spreading
rapidly. Two were killed and seven
were injured IN clash between strik-
ers and troops. A general strike has
begun at LODI.
At Moscow and ST. Petersburg the
authorities have the situation under
control and the day passed quietly. IN
the former city some men have re-
turned 10 work.
Advioes from st. Petersburg are %
the effect that the authorities regard
the danger Of a general tie-up OF Rus
sian industries as past and assert that
the attempt to convert the movement
into a political revolt has failed.
THE WAR.
The Japanese were repulsed in an
attack on the Russian right flank.
General Kuropatkin assumed the ag-
gressive, and drove the enemy from a
number Of entrenched villages and
finally captured Shallhe. The fighting
began on Wednesday, and was con-
tinued on Thursday and Friday. A
general artillery duel was i'm progress
when reports Of last night were filed.
The North Sea Commission will hear
In secret the story OF efforts of Rus
sian agents to get evidence at Hull.
CONGRESS.
The House passed the agricultural
appropriation bill.
The Senate discussed the Statehood
bill.
WASHINGTON.
The House Naval Committee COM
pleted the navy appropriation bill, pro-
viding for two new battleships.
The Senate will probably vote on the
Statehood bill February 4.
The President signed bill providing
for schools and other improvements in
Alaska.
The President viii appoint a board to
consider the physical development of
Naval Military cadets.
The Senate granted Judge Swayne
until February 3 10 answer charges
made by the House.
Baltimore witnesses told the Inter-
state Commerce Commission that with
out a dinerential on grain Baltimore
would lose all her grain trade.
Carroll ID. Wright, reporting on the
Colorado labor troubles, condemns
both the strikers and the Citizens ALI
anoe.
Secretary Hay will send to the SEN
ate a treaty to take the place of the
protocol under which the Government
intended to administer Dominican
| finances.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Chancellor Magic, at Trenton, ap-
pointed receivers for the Standard Rope
and Twine Company.
A man was found frozen in his sleigh
under ten feet Of snow, near Winsted
Conn.
At Governor Wright's request, Cen
eral Corbin will send infantry to aid in
suppressing ladrones.
Edgar l.. Fursman, ex-Justice OF the
New York Supreme Court; A. II. Hum
incl and Benjamin +. Steinhardt. of the
law firm of Howe & Hummel; Edward
]. Bracken, a detective, and Charles F.
Dodge were indicted I'm New York city
on charges of subornation Of perjury
land conspiracy i'm connection with the
Dodge Morse divorce case.
1t was estimated that the blizzard die
So 100000 damage in New York.
The armored cruiser Maryland. n
her trial run off Cape Ann, made 22.sC
KNOTS an hour
Judge Wing decided that the Inter
state Commerce Commission has nc
power to control classification OF
freight.
The committee on insurance law oi
the American Bar Association adj
journed after an exhaustive search
among the records in Washington.
William Walters, a gambler, shoi
and killed three others at Nogales, Ariz,
and committed suicide.
Warrants were issued I'm Buffalo fol
the arrest OF Arthur T.. Appleyard, o.
Boston; Richard Emory, Eugene A
Georger and Robert +. Schelling, o.
Buffalo. i'm connection with the failure
OF the German Bank there. The latte
three gave bail.
New York health officers say thi
Vaderland Is a clean ship.
An x-policeman of Chicago identi.
fed a photograph of Johann Hoch al
the likeness Of Hatch. who was janito
OF Holmes castle, and who is sough
to answer for deaths Of women.
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