The log cabin Democrat., 1908-03-05

ed to death for the surren- der of the Port Arthur fortress to the Japanese, has petitioned Emper- or Nicholas for a full pardon. The court recommended that the death sentence be commuted to ten years imprisonment in a fortress and that the general be excluded from the service.
 An Australian electrician has in- vented device for destroying wire less messages during times of war. It consists of revolving tower from which flashes of varying strength are thrown out. By this means all re- ceiving instruments within a wide radius could be so deluged with fash es that the operators would not be able to distinguish messages.
 Almost crazy from avoiding arrest, Robert Mum confessed to a friend at Pueblo, Colo, that he had killed a man, whose name he did not know in a saloon fight in Litchfield, H., July 4, 1907. The friend notified an officer and Mum was placed un- der arrest and repeated his confes- sion. The Litchfeld authorities have been notified.
 The entire extreme northern sec- ton of Tampa, Fla, was destroyed by fire which broke out in a board- ing house early Sunday, and ragged uninterruptedly for four hours. The area burned covered 5 acres, or IS and 1-2 city blocks and 30S build ings were destroyed, with a total loss estimated at $600,000. One woman is dead from excitement.
 In a quiet way naval officers in Washington are endeavoring to ar range a most agreeable surprise for Admiral Evans when the fleet under his command passes the Golden Gate, completing the Pacific cruise. It is proposed to greet the rear admiral with a commission as vice-admiral of the American navy.
 Four men were stabbed in a man. ner that is likely to prove fatal, fif- teen others, including a policeman, were severely cut, and several others slightly injured in a riot between two factions of Polish celebrators. The fight marked the end of wedding festivities in the saloon of Joseph Kuta. ,3 Front street, Chicago.
 Earle Anderson, negro living east of Oxford, Miss, shot and kill ed his father-in-law, Cornelius Tur- ner, and also killed the two-year-old baby of his father-in-law and shot at his mother-in-law and wife. He had separated from his wife and she was with her father when the killing oc- cured.
 George Rogers who was with Ad- miral Farragut in the battle of Mo- bile Bay was found dead at Mobile, Ala, at his home, by members of his family. He formerly resided at New Haven, Conn.,, and was mem- Der of the Grand Army of the Re- public.
 Physicians of Marietta, Ohio, are much interested in the remarkable case of Mrs. Frank Stage, from whose body BIO pieces of glass have worked out through sores all over her person. It is believed that crushed glass was placed in the woman's food.
 Advocating Sunday baseball, Rev, William H. Van Allen, rector of the exclusive Church of the Advent, and one of the most prominent divines in Massachusetts, caused a sensation at a legislative hearing of the church at Boston.
 The Rose bill providing for coun- tv local option throughout the state of Ohio, passed the house at Colum- bus, by vote of 19 to 36. The bill has passed the Senate.
 If plans of W. W. McLarin of Ensley, Ala, are feasible, it will be possible to coal on the sea battle ships even in stormy weather by means of balloons.
 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. the prime minister of England, has suffered a relapse as a result of see inp npODle and transacting business