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ESCHTOWNSEND i BILL TO THE FORE Hepburn Measure Gives Way to New One Slated to Pass the House. HEPBURN A PUZZLE TO RATE BILL'S FRIENDS Aids in Framing- Legislation but Takes Name from the Bill Presented. By W. W. Jermane Washington, Jan. 31.Represents dav night, Saturday night, and again two ot these conferences, and it seems tion of a rate bill was gone over thoroly, and Hepburn aided in every -way possi ble in the perfection of the measure which was reported to the houae at 5 p.m. insisted, however, that the re ported measure should not be called the bill and that Townsen i make the committee report to the house. This was agreed to. Hepburn's Action Puzzling. Whv Hepburn has talcen his name fi om the measure which is to go thru the house this session is unknown. It is apparent that he is not miffed. His action vesteiday in helping frame the bill and make it "water tight," and his pievious conferences with the president, all indicate that he feels favorable to ward this legislation, and is willing to aid carrying out the president's wishes. It mav be, howeverV that he feels he cannot afford to have his name coupled with a measure which is not at this time to be, enacted into law. may want to wait until an extra session, or until some other time, when action by both houses seems likely. This is tho only motive which his friends can now discover for his withdrawal of his name from the bill reported yesterday. Like the Hepburn Bill. The Esch-Townsend bill as finally agreed to in committee is so similar to APPROVED RATE BIKL IN-HOUSE fHr &>- state s-nd foreign commerce committee he~wiTTnot* puH^he strine.""""""' regarding railroad rate legislation. This marks the culmination of a situation .rer"myntal%?uS find difficulty in discovering the few points of difference. The Hepburn bitl provides for the abolition of the present interstate commerce commission and the reation of a new commission in its stead. The Esch-Townsend bill, on the other hand, retains the present commis sion and adds two members, increas ing it to a commission of seven. The president is known to have favored the Hepburn provision, and not that of the Esch Townsend bill. The Hepburn bill provides for nine new circuit pidges, five o? whom are to constitute the proposed court of ap peals from decisions of the interstate commerce commission. The Esch Townsend bill also creates a court of circuit judges, and'adds five new pulges to the total number, instead of nine. The two bills are almost identical on the point of conferring new powers on the interstate commerce commission. They are also almost identical as to what these new powers are to be. The Hepburn bill provides for the sus pension of orders of the interstate commerce commission pending appeal to the supreme court. The Esch-Townsend bill does not provide for such suspen sion. With the exceptions above noted, it is said bv members of the house commit tee that the two bills are identical. Stevens on the Sills. Representative Stevens of Minnesota, a member of the committee, who has been giving the closest attention to this proposed legislation, said to the Jour nal correspondent today: "T think great injustice has been done Colonel Hepburn, chairman of the committee, by some of the newspapers of the country, as well as by some of those people who are advocating rail road legislation at this time. It is not true that he has been standing in the way of action by the committee or the house, or that he is in any sense antag onistic to the president's well-known policy. On the contiary, he has been from start to finish doing all that he could to perfect a satisfactory bill, and. yesterday afternoon committee he personally led the fight against the democratic members who were seeking to obstruct. N ot only that, but he made many valuable suggestions to the committee yesterday, and on previous occasions, as to important changes in phraseology. All these suggestions were in the utmost good nature, and were accepted by the committee without a dissenting vote. Colonel Hepburn's ac tions in. connection with this bill have been from every point of view com mendatory, and I shall take occasion to say so during the debate on the floor of the house." Mr. Steven* is as much in the dark as the other members of the commit tee as to why Hepburn withdrew his name from the bill which was reported yesterday, but is inclined to think it was because he knew there would be no legislation at this time, and he did not wa nt his name attached to some thing which was sure to fail. Mr. Stevens, however, has nothing from Hepburn sustaining this or any other explanation. President I Pleased. President Eoosevelt informed his call ers this morning that he is greatly pleased at the action of the house com mittee on interstate commerce in report ing the Esch-Townsend bill. does not expect legislation at this ession, but thinks the action of the house in passing a bill at this time will help insure action by both houses later *n makes it plain that he thinks this is perhaps the greatest question fiow confronting the American people, and that he will continue to urge it congress until definite results are se cured. Senator Gamble today introduced a resolu tion donating a condemned eannor. to the South J}dl,ota university as a memorial to men from tie state who served In the Spanish war. s__~ i THE PLANS OF LA FOLLETTE Hundred-to-One Shot He Doesn't Pull String on the Sen atorship. WONT LOOSEN GRIP ON HIS STATE MACHINE New Governor a Good Man Future of the Stalwarts Seems to Be Absorption. From a Staff Correspondent. Madison, Wis., Jan. 31.Governor a toilette has mystified the politicians a Th notic Mlnch has been exciting a good deal oi continuteo tt belecrislaturein active shaping the attention here for seveial days. Fri- cour$ gi 8 i a no sur During the committee meeting yester- Everyonen elswej,n feels morally certain that dav, which lasted seven hours the ques- 1 ^:A4l^^lith|.imitetioi is statement he made is regarded as that he will tion. Having won the fight fo th primar la Suuda\ night, hsch_ and Pownsend had centerinrg hies energieys on reduction of conteiences with the president at the lailroad rates. will hend everyn White House. Hepburn was in at least, erg ge a i oen- acommissionc passe stat i ot iTroad that he has cheerfully consented to i powerra what has taken place,"and in fact di- The'governor's friends say they are rec eel it. hi the witnhg full tak tn e'natorship. he will Before the senatoria.l election, it was said he was not a candidate. I a sense that was true, for lie never asked a single member to vote for him. Just the same, the entire force of the La Follette machine was employed on ported measure snou not caiie a tn the legislature, and the governor did government of the 1036 shares of the Hepburn bill, but the Esch-Townsend nothing to ston it 1 Some nf Ms friends i xiivi rt -i,voo snares or xne i,.if, _.i *i.x ,i noining to stop ix._'thoome oi irienQB- were supporters of favoritnisson can didates. They had nothing against a Follette, and he was their second choice if the election of their own man was im possible. They caucused with the Quarles men, and hoped until the last clay to head off La Follette. The after noon before the caucus they counted noses for the last time, and found that their maiority had melted away. The caucus itself was a "band-wagon" affair. Now everyone understands that the pro gram has been from the start to replace QuarleB with a Follette, and then to beat Spooner four years from now. La Follette will go to Washington, but he will not relax his gTip on the state situation, by a single pound. holds it together by the power of his personality. Should he drop out, and leave state matters to his friends, the La Follette forces would begin to dis integrate. N other man could main tain the discipline he wields. has some able lieutenants, and some one of them will be agreed on to run against Spooner in 1908, but none of them will succeed him in the active leadership of the party. Jaoies O. Davidson, the" present lieu tenant' governor,- is^ a clean, eapable and experienced man, and he will make a good governor. ut he is not a a Fol lette. has been active in the fight for twelve years past. A home he is proprietor of a generr! store, and from the store he went to the assembly, serv ing at the sessions of 1893, 1895 and 1S97. There he introduced a bill to tax exDress and telegraph companies, led the fight for it, and secured its adoption in 1897. was nominated and elect ed state treasurer in 1898 and again in 1900. In 1902 he was nominated and elected lieutenant governor, and again so honored in 1904. a Follette's shadow lav athwart Quarles' path then, and the lieutenant governorship was plainly a stepping stone to the governorship. But in the disciplined camp of the "half breeds" there was not a word of oppo sition to Davidson. There are a number of able and ag gressive men in the La Follette camp\ Among his lieutenants Attorney Gen eral Sturdevant and Speaker Lenroot are looked on as coming men. And there are numerous other active young fellows coming to the front. One story, which is here branded a pipe,'' had it that the governor was going to turn down the senatorship and give it to Isaac Stephenson of Marin ette, the veteran lumberman, who has been the heaviest contributor to the La Follette eompaigns. According to this storv the seat had been promised Stephenson, who was represented as being very sore. The faets, as under stood by well-informed men here, are that Stephenson gave up his senatorial ambitions some time ago. and is entire ly satisfied to see La Follette win. wanted it badly when Quarles was elected two years ago, but he is get ting old, and'if La Follette had wanted to give it to him, he could not have controlled the members to that extent. Future of the Stalwarts. One of the questions of the hour i s. What will become of the stalwarts? The stalwarts themselves are wondering. When they bolted last spring, they maintained their convention to be the convention of the republican party. The national convention indorsed that claim. The supreme court of the state refused to indorse it, but without going into the merits of the case. When they came to the polls, they mustered only a corporal's guard compared to Vhe La Follette candidates. It is absurd now to claim that they are the simon pure republican party. They failed to make eooci. and republicans, outside would laugh at the handful of voters setting themselves up as the only true repub lican partv. Apparentlv the only thing left for them to do is to give up their separate organization, come into the main tent and take part in the next campaign side by side with the hated "half breeds," hoping for a brighter day when they can once more get a voice in part.y leadership. It is either that or turn democrats, and the time is not propitious for changing polities. So the less violent stalwarts seem prepar ing to bow to the will of the majority, and act as republicans with the La Fol lette organization. A plain sign of this was seen in the vote for senator, when several stal warts cast their votes for La Follette. Among them was Senator Whitehead, who was the stalwart candidate against La Follette in 1902. Charles B. Cheney. REPUBLICAN CAUCUS CALLED. Washington, Jan. 31.The republican leaders of the house have decided to call a caucus of the republican mem bers 6f that body to decide on a pro gram for railroad-rate legislation. The call will be issued in the near future. The flurry over the appointment of James A Martin as postmaster at St. Cloud was" settled yesterday, when the senate confirmed his -opi natto. CONGRESSMAN J. J. ESCH, Whose Name, with Townsend's, Is on I New Railroad Bill. f't'V'i 4 ROOSEVELT TO BE BDILDER OF CANAL House Will Soon Have Bill Abol ishing the Panama Canal Commisison. Washington, Jan. 31.The house committee on interstate and foreign commerce today authorized a favorable report on the Mann bill abolishing the Panama canal commission and placing the government of the canal zone aatl tho work of constructing the canal., En tirely in. the ha nds of the president. Added to the bill as an amendme nt is the bill introduced by Mr. Mann providing for the acquisition by the stock of the Panama Railway company, now held in private ownership. GETSTMORCE TO MAKE A DEED Sioux City Man Sells Lot Great Northern Without Wife's Signature. to Special to The Journal. Sioux City, Iowa, Jan. 31.To en able him to sell his property to the Great Northern at a good price Thomas* Melham procured a divorce from his* wife and asks the Great Northern to pay the costs of the divorce proceed-' mgs and also the cost of another wed- Mrs. Melham is in Europe and her husband sent her money" $b/*e$iBe I101&& a^-sigtt%^Mie^^^^th^B6ier ty, mi' she did not .come. The deeel had to be executed, so Melham declared he would get a divorce and then it would not be necessary for his wife to sign. This was accordingly done, but Mel ham demanded that tries road pay the expense in addition to the price of his lot, $450, and also the cost of remarry ing his wife when she returns. NEW BAR TO BAD BOOK TRADE. Washington, Jan. 31.A bill was passed prohibiting: express companies engaged in interstate and foreign commerce from carrying obscene literature. It extends to other carriers the provisions regulat ing the transmission of such matter thru the mails. The bill had passed the house. CAPT. HOBSON'S FATHER DEAD. Greensboro, Ala., Jan. 31.Postmaster James M. Hobson, father of Captain Richmond P. Hobson, died at his home here today at the age of 68. f"l~ vvvvrvvvvrvvrvv vvrvvvvfcjrwvvrvvvvy vvvy v#vv vvv _sW*-*^ 1 BLDEI RD HOCH 26U WEDDED Chicago King of.Bigamists Ar rested i$7 Wew York as He .WooeijKiiol^er Woman.,* LIST Off HOOK'S WIVES. Madeline Schmltt, first wife, mar rlage In GSrinany. Julia Stelnbrecher, 333 Belmont avenue, Chicago died suddenly. Mary Wernicke Rankan, 377 Ward street, Chicago living. Mary Becker Schultz, Argos, Ind. disappeared. Minnie Podalatci, .3921 Wentworth avenue, Chicago} living. Mary Hendrlckson, 5912 Union ave nue, Chicago living, Janet Spenser, 6167 Wentworth ave nue, Chicago believed to be living. Emllle Ftscner, 3? Wells street, Chicago died. Ella Welker, 6030 Union avenue, Chicago died Jan. 10, 1905. Nathalia Irgarig, 111 Best avenue*. Chicago believed by the police to, have married Hoch. Martha Hertzfeld, 198 Ontario street, Chicago disappeared. Mrs. Marlanna Hoch, Cleveland, liv ing. Sophia Pahnke, Batavla, III. living. Mrs. Hessier, Wheeling, W. Va. thought to be remarried. Callie Charlotte Andrews, known as Mrs. Dewitt C. Cudtjey. HuWa Stevens, Chicago abducted and later married deserted after three hours. Mrs. Hoch, living at 1266 West Fif teenth street, Chicago died suddenly. Mrs. Hoch, a sister of Mrs. J. H. Schwartzmana., Milwaukee died. Mrs. -HochJganother sister of Mrs. Scbwartzmdnp Milwaukee died. Mrs. HocWJNorfolk, Va. died. Mrs. Hoch^reene, Iowa Is believed to be lining, Mrs. f^. lng marries Caroline Si Philadelphia^ Mary/Qoer|S" cago living. Jj Mrs. Hofch Buffalo. Mrs. Hoch ston. Justlna L04 appeared. nnor, Milwaukee llv och as "Janr.es." Lfer,,3034 Stiles street, 'lng. J0g Eugene street, Chi- lelleved to have died at slleved to live In Evan- $ r^ ller, Elkhart, Ind. dls- 1 X^icagdVjr^. 3LChief of Police gpTeojl |ffl^^deelared his belief that jManf $Wffi| Hoch, alleged to have been ^vcmSfim over a score of women, 1 Arrested in New York. The king of all bigamists and alleged poisoner of wives, was arrested in New York last night while trying to secure passage to Europe. True to his reputation as a man of Continued on 2d Page, 5th Column. *.t_r fe^atW^ DEHORNING THE BEEF TRUST. fty'\__&.:^^ CAPTA22T OLADQ, Russian 9aval Officer, Who Tells of the North Sea Fight. ,f3K\',"5y":KJ! *\t%jc SAW SEA FULL OF TORPEDO-BOATS Russian Captain Tells North Sea Board They Attacked from All Sides. Paris, Jan. 31.The Russian officers formerly with Vice Admiral Rojestven sky's squadron, began their testimony before the international commission in quiring into the North sea incident to day. N oath was required, the offi cers speaking on their honor, pedoboats, he saw the outlines ot a strange craft, and heard shots. There upon he sent a wireless message to the flagship saying: nTorpedoboats I i HOCH'S JLLEGED CRIMES Murder by fjplson, eight cases. Bigamy, twnty-1jwo eases. Embezzlement, thirty-three cases. Abduction, fine charge. Confidence game, thirty-nine cases. Obtaining money under false pre tenses, thirtyanlne oases. Larcenyv asfbailee, two cases. Forgery^ tvW cases. 'Pecjuryj, twenty-seven cases. Practicing Jhedlclne Illegally. Hypnotlsmjas an,aid tor all the other crimem, $ &&Jjelve. of therar 4"fi?et we coald ^JflUScLfe to ahve Hoch indicted by tht^g|and jury today op chargeso wife aBandonment and big amv. The complainants were Mrs. Amelia Augusta Fischer Hoch, Mrs. Anna eHdnriekson Goch and Mrs. Ma rie Goerk Hoch. was found, how ever, that in bigjamy cases the wife cannot testify against her husband* and that witnesses to the marriages must be secured before action can be taken. A the marriages took place in various parts of the country, time will be re quired in which to secure witnesses to give testimony against Hoch sufficient to indict him. follow us." The flagship answered: "Beport how many torpedoboats follow you." Captain Wallerond answered: "We proceed with lights extinguished- They attack us from all sides at a distance of about ten cable lengths." The Kamtchatka proceeded,- but Cap tain Wallerond did not see any more strange craft, and did not hear any fur ther shots. Captain Clado of the admiral's flag ship gave a circumstantial recital of his seeing two torpedoboats. said: I first saw a strange craft thru my night glass, and then the search lights convinced us that it was a torpedoboat. A the same time, the signal officer re ported another boat, which almost col lided with LS. W maneuvered to avoid a collision and escape the tor pedo, which might be discharged. The searchlights then disclosed a torpedo boat immediately in front of the flag ship, about fifteen cable-lengths away. W saw this one much better than the other, as the searchlights lighted it up. The torpedoboats gradually drew off. At first we coal distingu3h only their bows,, but we afterwards saw them com pletely The'' first boat disappeared, after three or four minutes. The sec ond was visible much longer." SINGER, A LIYING TORCH, RUSHES ON THE STAGE Cincinnati, Jan. 31.As the play goers in a local theater awaited the ap pearance of Mamie Mayburn, a concert singer, she rushed out of her dressing room 1 VWVJPV atyy:yva_rw :""vfarvs rs&\ Uncle SamCut 'em off short, WiUia_a.E-CfiS__aiEybBU_ a living torch, and ran screaming thru the theater. Several men threw coats over her, and a pail of water final ly put out the flames, but the singer, burned from head to foot, and suffering terribly, is dying in a hospital today. Only the prompt action of men' in the theater prevented a dangerous panic. SAY MEATS WILL BE CHEAPER NOW Local Butchers Predict End of Sway of the "Beef, Trust." RESULT OF DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT Small Packers Will Be in a Posi tion to Enter the Market. Now that the supreme court has de cided against the "beef trust," the day of the small packer and cheaper meats for everyone is at hand, in the opinion of the meat dealers of Minneapolis. Already, small packers thruout south ern Minnesota and Iowa, and owners of modest abattoirs have entered into communication by wire or otherwise, with Minneapolis meat dealers, and the butchers infer that the result will be cheaper meat, accompanied by the odd condition of better^ prices for cattle. Meat has been reasonably cheap in Minneapolis thfs winter,but there is a gy eneral suspicion that this was intended the packers to forestall criticism dur ing this crucial period. Local meat dealers say it is difficult for an outsider to realize the grip the packers have on the meat trade, and they do not expect an immediate reduc?f^ tion in prices. BI jj.j^$. $'*$'&$'*$% CIVILiWAR EXISTS IN POLISH CAPITAL -& combination works xThae? S Captain Wallerond of the transport S _,. ii,. x,_x _._,.., Kamchatka testified that during the bot Z?Sio ^xi,--.y ay evening, while on the lookout for tor-1 work together to keep prices of cattle Tf down and then, turn round and boost the price of the product, so that going and coming, toll is paid into the treas ury of the packer. So tight is the hold the packers have on the retail trade that dealers are loath to discuss the situation for publi cation. "Just to show you," said one prom inent meat dealer, who did not wa nt his name used, what a hold they have on us, they can dictate to us not only where we shall buy, but also where we shall sell. I have been buying of a small packer in Iowa. recently wrot me that he had received letters saying he would have to ask a certain price or stop taking orders. has stopped. "Following the butchers' strike meat was cheaper because the packers had no use for the cattle sent them. This gave the small abattoirs a chance. But the prices have come up again. Now the small packer can't get any stuff. What chance has he in a mar ket where the buyers for the big pack ers are on hand, ready to take every thing in sight at any price. Most ot them have, accordingly, gone out of business.'' Washington, Jan. 31.President Eoosevelt is expressing great pleasure in the decision of the supreme court the beef trust case. regards it as of great importance in opening the way for larger federal control over in terstate commerce by congressional leg islation. As to the prospect of criminal prosecu tions, federal officials are exceedingly cautious. Officials of the department of justice said today that the matter would be determined by the president and his cabinet advisers. The impression prevails that no at tempt will be made to punish the pack ers for violations which have occurred during the past three years, which have elapsed since the injunction was granted. The packers will be giv en the benefit of any doubt which thev might have entertained as to the legal ity of the injunction. But now that the law is known to be valid, no offenses will be condoned or overlooked. Government officials will keep a sharp lookout from this time on, and anything savoring of conspir acy which will admit oi conclusive proof, will be made the basis of crim inal procedure. The -packers or their managers may be hauled into court to answer to the charge of violating the blanket injunction which now rests over them, forbidding the, maintenance of a conspiracy in restraint of trade. I smjoiyaannouncin,saythet. OYER BEEF ifilSif Packers Will Be Held to Strict Account if Law Is Not Obeyed. By W. W. Jermane. EUROPE'S MILLERS OWN TO YANKEE SDPREMACT From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building Washington. Washington, Jan./31.James H. Wor man, American consul at Three Rivers, Que., says in today's consular report: "From personal information, I am able to state that millers of Europe, es pecially of the continent, have iong recognized the American flour mills and their product as the best in the -world, and that during the present year many millers from the continent, ostensibly visitors to the St. Louis exposition, came to the United States mainly to visit our factories and to acquaint them selves with the methods by which the pre-eminence was gained." GOVERNOR CUMMINS ILL Relatives an- Friends Worried by His Present Attack. Special to The Journal. Des Moines, Jan. 31.Governor Cum mins is confined to his bed by an attack fi grip which may turn to pneumonia. The governor's friends are worried, be cause it was mat at this time last year that he was stricken. After his last illness Governor Cummins was left in a weakened condition from which he has never fully recovered. Private Secre tary John Briar said last evening that the governor will not .give up his many engagements to speak next month un less it is absolutely necessary. NEGRO TO HAVE POST IN SOUTH. Washington, Jan. 31.It was an nounced today that Walter L. Cohen, a n&grp, will be, reappointed as register of the land office at New Orleans. Fair tonight and Wednes day. Today, max. 8, min. 8 lie low a year ago, max. 14, min. 9 below. ALL-NIGHT FIGHTS DEADLYINWARSA Scores Shot Down by Russian. Po lice and TroopsSoldiers Also Killed. CZAR'S GOVERNMENT IN* FEAR OF WIDE REVOLT Maxim Gorky Will Not Be Hanged, but Will Soon Be Freed. fit SITUATION SUMMARIZED BY ASSOCIATED PEESS The storm center of the Bussian labor disturbances now seems to be, Poland, where the situation is re ported in today's dispatches as be ing increasingly serious. Minor col lisions between the police and the populace are frequent in Warsaw, where the number of killed is esti mated to be about 100. The mobs are pillaging shops and all indus trial concerns are closed. Semi official reports received in Paris regarding the general conditions in Russia are described as very unfa vorable. The Associated Press cor respondent in St. Petersburg cables that Maxim Gorky, the author and reform leader, who is under arrest, is in no danger. I is expected that he will be released In a few weeks. The Japanese are taki ng advan tage Of Russia's internal troubles and, by means of letters thrown into the Russian lines, are endeav oring to dishearten the troops, jj. Special to The Journal. Berlin, Jan. 31.Dispatches to the Zeitung from Warsaw report that a condition of civil war exists in that city. The rebels have wrecked the tele phone exchange and poured tons of pe troleum in the streets, which they have set afire. A woman posted on a balcony in front of her house picked off with her rifle Cossacks who were trying to drive the strikers from the streets. A Cos sack finally shot the woman, but his own life paid the penalty. The mob fell upon him, dragged him from his. horse, and beat and kicked him to death. Fighting around the barricades con tinued during the night. In one sec tion *at Izetochowa the rebels are mas ters of the situation, the police having fled. Hu ge placards have been posted 'i i establishment of a rev*w olutionary municipal regime. j, Scorea Shot Down. ^^M L6n30n Jan 31.A dispatch from Warsaw hat neither' Polish nor Russian _ewspapers are appearing to day. The chief oY police announces that thus far sixty civilians and fifteen policemen and soldiers have been killed, and a hundred rioters have been wounded. There are undoubtedly many more wounded, as many of the injured" lie concealed in their homes. Three hundred persons have been arrested for looting and 150 for rioting, 60 are held as revolutionists. Some barricades have been erected in the streets. The revolutionists appear to be better armed than the police. Shot Dead in Streets. Warsaw, Jan. 31.Several persona were killed and many were injured in encounters with the troops and police in various parts of this city yesterday. The First Aid society has suspended operations, telephonic communication is interrupted and the conditions thruout Warsaw are such that it has been im- Eossiblevictimsfar er of thus to ascertain the num- order of the chief of police the doors of houses are kept closed and are only opened to admit people living on the premises. Two additional regiments of infantry and two regiments or dragoons have ar rived here. DRIVEN TO DEATH I N SEA _Tu__re~s of Russians Slain orrrownea by Troops at Riga. New York Sun Special Service. London, Jan. 31.The Berlin corre spondent of the Daily Express tele graphs: Details of the fighting at Riga, which have reached here, give a terri ble pictur eof the brutality and callous ness of the troops. When the soldiers were called out the crowd was doing no damage and the strikers might have been prevailed upon easily to disperse. The troops, however, awaited no or-* ders, held no parley with the workmen. A soon as the detachment arrived on the scene of disturbance the order to fire was given, and scores were slain. The ranks of the strikers being thus broken, the soldiers advanced on tho double quick, and firing air they came drove them terrified dirorder. Some escaped down side streets, but the bulk of the crowd was driven to ward the harbor. When they emerged on the quay an other detachment of troops and a squadron of mounted men cut off their retreat on both sides. The main body of troops, still firing, continued to advance rapidly and lit erally drove the unhappy men by hun dreds over the side of the quay a'nd into the Baltic sea. Many were rescued with the aid of boatmen, but scores were drowned nn fler the very eyes of the soldiers *nd their officers. The town was horror*, stricken by the dreadful spectacle. PLEAS FOB GORKY'S LIFE Literary Men in New York Beg Czar to Spare Bussian Writer. New York Sun Special Service. New York, Jan. 31.Because of th anxiety among literary men for Maxim Gorkv, the eminent Bussian writer, the World has sent a cablegram ta Emperor Nicholas of Russia, expressing the hop^ that summary punishment would no' be visited upon the author. Members of the Author's club a deeply interested in the fate of Gorky who is a prisoner in the fortress of S^( Peter and St. Paul, at St.* Petersburg, because of his prominence in the r^ cent uprising in Russia. Gorky has many friends in Bui Gorky has many friends among the lit erary men in this eity, and they a*