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The Weekly ri une. VOLUME XVI.- GREAT FALLS, MONTANA, FRIDAY , SEPTEMBER 21, 1894. BA FLE AT LAST Japanese Generatlship Accomplishes a Most Decisive Victory in Cores. CENUINE SURPRISE PARTY The War Virtually Ended Unless China Gets Another Army Into Cores. LoNDON, Sept. 17.-A dispatch from Seoul dated yesterday says that during the evening of Thursday last the Japan ese column from Pung San made a re connolseance in hope of drawing the fire of the Chineseo forts and ascertaining ac curately their disposition. This done, the Japanese tell back in good order with little losse. Friday night, the dis patch adds, all the Japanese corps were in position for a combined attack. One general column was threatening the Chinose left flank, the Pung San column was facing the Chinese center, and the Hwanzu column was operating on the Chinese right The latter column was reinforced before by a detachment of marines and blue jackets from the fleets stationed at the mouth of the Lae Tong river. The Chinese utilized their old de fenses at Ping Yang and threw up new works and their position was exception ally strong. The battle opened Satur day morning at daybreak with a direct 'ANNONADE L'1'ON THF. IIllNEt:E works, and this fire was continued with out cessation until afternoon. The Chinese fought their guns well, replying effectively to the Japanese fire. At 2 p. In. a body of Japanese infantry was thrown forward in skirmish order and kept up a rifle fire upon the enemy until dusk. All the tiring during the day was done by the Pung aln column. The Chinese defences suffered exceedingly from the Japanese fire, but it is doubtful it the losses on either side were great, as the troops, both Chinese and Japanese, took every advantage possible of shelter, which the earthworks on one side and the nature of the ground on the other offered. The flank attacks upon the Chinese post did not develop material advantage during the day, although the Japanese gained some in position. The tiring was continued at intervals throughout the night. The main two flanking columhe of the Japanese drew a cordon around the Chinese troops and at 3 o'clock Sunday morning the Japanese attack was delivered simultaneously and with ADMI RABLE PRECI ION. TheChinesew ere utterly unsuspicious of an attack from the rear and became panic-stricken, and were cut down and bayonetted by hundreds. So well was the Japanese attack directed that the Chinese were surrounded at every point and eventually sought safety in flight. Defending the intrenchments were some of Viceroy Li Hung Chang's picked Chi nese troops, drilled by Europeans, and these soldiers made a determined stand to the Iset and were cut down to a man. The Pung San columns, swarming over the damaged defenses of the Chinese front, completed the rout of the Chinese and the whole cf the latter's position was captured by the troops of the Mikado. Half an hour later, after the early morning attack commenced, the strongly defended position of Ping Yan was in the hands of the Japanese troops. It is believed the Chinese position at Ping Yen was defended by 2,000 Chinese, of whom only a few escaped. An im mense amount of provisions, ammuni tion, arms and other stores, in addition to a hundred flags, were captured by the Japanese. It is estimated the Chinese lost 1,400 men KILLED, WOUNDED AND PRISONERR. Only thirty Japanese were killed and 270 wounded, including eleven Japanese officers. The Japanese when this dis patch was sent, were in active pursuit of the fugitive Chinese, and as nearly all the latter were without arms. they will undoubtedly surrender as soon as the Japanese overtake them. As far as active operations of the Chinese in Corea are concerned, the war is practically at an end and unless China succeeds in getting another army into Cores, that country will remain in the undisputed posseeeion of the Japanese. It is hoped the victory may serve as a basies for peace negotia tione. G000) RIDDANCE. One Hundred Chinamen Lel.ve New York for China. NEW YORK, Sept. IT.-About one hun dred Chinamen made a picturesque eight in the Grand Central station as they waited to take the train in the first stage of their journey to China. Apparently they did not fer that the Chinese em paor would appropriate them for war arle. William L. Green, agent of the Canadian Pacific railway, laid out the route which will take them to Prescott, Ontario, where they will board the Cana dian Pacific cars. Thence they go to Vancouver, B. C., and take the Canadian Pacific steamer to Hong Kong. A pOMOT.ION. Oeneral Miles to Have Charge of the At lantl Department. CHCoAGo, Sept. 17.-It was definitely announced ay that Gen. Nelson A. Miles will be transferred to Governor's Island upon the retirement of General Howard, November 8. It is said General Ruger will succed General Miles as ma jor general for the department of the Missouri. The Mystle Link. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Sept. 17.-The, sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows met this morning at Lookout Inn and were welcomed by Governor Turney and Mayor Ochs. The response was made by Grand Sire C. T. Campbell. OHRE OVER THE (GREAT DEFEAT. lBrecklnridge Men Now Claim theft Serious Frautld Were Comllmitted. LFeIxNITO. Ky., Sept. 17.--The fol lowing are the latest figures obtained from the count of Saturday's primaries: Owens, 7,:90; Breckenridge, 7,670; Set tle, 3.405. Owens' plurality, 320. The correct returns, which will be reported today will probably vary this but little. More Over the Defeial. NEw YORK, Sept. 17.-Col. Brecken ridge's defeat- was a severe disappoint ment to Col. Thompson, who waee coun sel for the Kentuckian in the suit brought by Miss Pollard. Col. Thomp son said at the Hotel Waldorf today. "it seems that the enemies of Col. Brecken. ridge have triumphed. No man has been more shamefully misrepresented and villitled and all because he would not elevate his mistress to a place above his children in his household." "Do you think this means the end of the colonel's political career?" was asked. "It seems as it it might be, at least in Kentucky. But he gave his opponents a game fight. He had the praying wom en and the machine against him and yet was beaten by only a few hundred votes. Frauds Claimed. CINCaNNATI, Sept 17.-A special from Lexington, Ky., says there is intense ex citement today over the belief that the Breckenridge managers are not prepar ing so much for a contest as for the dis trict committee, which will meet at Frankfort next Saturday, and which may declare Breckenridge the nominee by throwing out certain precincts on the charge of fraud. Breckenridge men claim they have discovered numerous clerical errors in their favor, reducing Owens' plurality to less than 8. In one precinct, Owens' home, they claim over eighty fraudulent votes were cast, or a miscount to that extent. Desha Breck enridge telegraphs from Georgetown that the frauds at that place will more than overcome the estimated claims of the Owen men. Town Wiped Out By Fire. NORTH ENa, O. T., Sept. 17.-Fire de stroyed last night almost all that has been accomplished in this town for the past year, The origin of the fire was in cendiary. TIOUBLES NOT ENDED. A BHud of Avengers Said to Be ou the Trail of Easta. SAN S3ALVADOi, Sept. 19,-Personal enemies of Gen. Antonia Ezeta say that it he is set at liberty by the United States courts he will be assassinated by friends of the people he has evrongea. The report of the commission which has been investigating the financial acts of President Carlos Ezeta's administra tion will show large misappropriations of the public funds. Vice President An. tonio Ezeta does not appear to have taken mouney out of the treasury, but he profited by contracts. The report will be used in the presidential campaign against the partisans of the Ezetas. Provisional President Gutlerrez says the country will require four years to recover from the wastefulness and mal versation under previous administra tions. AFTER Il(l lFISH. Orand ,Jury Commiderlug the Conductl( of Sugar Trust Bolaes. W.rhs.INOTON, Sept. 18.-P-resident Henry 0. l]avemeyer and Secretary John E. Searles of the sugar trust, are in imminent danger of indictment. The circumstances of their refusal to enlighten the sugar trust investigating committee upon the subject of campaign contributions have been brought to the attention of the grand jury, now in ses sion. Testimony has been submitted and the jury is expected to act within a few days. The general opinion is that indict ments will be found, as was done in the cases of other recalcitrant witnesses be fore the senate sugar investigating oom mittee. ON THEIR TRAIl Two Bandits Killed and As Many Wounded, While Trying to Rob the Santa Fe. "DAD" PRESCOTT WOUNDED The Robbers Were Met With a Vol ley of Buckshot, and Took To the Woods. GuRIN, Mo., Sept. 18.-The Colorado & Utah express on the Santa Fe road was held up by robbers at 3:20 today. As the railroad and express officials had a spy on the trail of the bandits when they stopped the train they were met with a hail of buckshot and bullets, and it is said at least two are dead in the sur rounding woods, while as many others rode for the rendezvous, twenty-one miles away, riddled with bullets. They shot "Dad" Prescott, the engineer, be fore they even gave him a chance to hold up his hands. His wound, it is believed. will not prove fatal. When the train left Chicago at 5 o'clock last night the railroad and express detectives, all walk ing arsenals, climbed on at every station. Among them were Chief Detective J. J. Konney of the Santa Fe and J. A. Mat thews, who has been acting as a spy $r two weeks and getting news of the rob beres' plans. The latter brought the newo that the robbers early in the day decided to leave their hiding place, near Memphis, at 8:30 last Light and make their third attempt to get rich at the ex pense of the express c )mpany. They expected to make a IIA[t 'F AlT IEAT s$0,000. At Fort Madison, la., Division Super intendent ,-tockton of the Wells-Fargo express got into the treasure car. lHe carried a sawed-off Winchester that once belonged to Bill Dalton. With him were four men. Detectives Kinney and Montgomery boarded the engine, while Superintendent Stockton and two good shots tarried in the express car. In the forward end of the smoking car, shut off by a partition from the rest of the car, a dozen men were placed. Each had a gun with every cartridge loaded espe cially for the event with a dozen buck shot. At 2 o'clock, when Sheriff Saling of Scotland county climed on board, all the details of the surprise party were ar ranged. According to the report, Mat thews, the spy, would endeavor to be the one who flagged the train. If so, one tor pedo would precede the swinging of the lantern. Orders were given that no matter if every one of the robbers got away there was to be no shooting to en danger the life of the spy, who had in fact taken his life in his hands an order to frustrate the attempted robbery. In the little compartment filled with armed men the lights were out and the windows up. In each seat were two men sitting sideways, the muzzle of their guns pro truding just a trifle over the seats. Be side them stood others, with Winches tenr at half-cock, resting across their arms. As out from between two high embankments, just one mile from Gorin, sped the train, there came the looked for signal, and not fifty yards away was a swinging red light. Within twenty sec onds the train was at a standstill. Out from the dense undergrowth, north of the track, came four forms, the face of each hidden by a black mast. One rushed to the engine almost before his companions could reach the express car. Within ten feet of the tender he pointed a rifle at "Dad" Prescott, the white bearded engineer, and as he shouted, "Hold up your hands," pulled the trigger. "Dad" tell to the floor with a bullet in the right breast. With one bound, Kenney gained the top of the tender, and bringing his gun to his shoulder sent a shower of shots almost into the face of the man. How the fellow managed to move is a mystery, but he did and and made for the woods. The shot which laid Engineer Prescott low was the signal for a fusilade and also a sig nal for the hasty retreat of the robbers to the shelter of the timber. They fired two shots, but although the men were leaning from the car windows and pul ling triggers as fast as possible, while others were after the robbers on foot, they failed to hit a man. The place where their horses were tied was soon found. A cut hitching strap showed that one man at least had life enough to escape. The search for the dead and wounded was postponed until daylight, but the chase after the one or more who escaped was started within ten minutes. It is not likely that the passengers in the rear end of the smoker, those who were dozing in the chair cars and a half dozen wakeful ones in the sleepers will ever forget their experience. With the first shot every man near the window opened it and looked out. Within a second he drew his head in and dropped on the floor. The cry "Train robbers" wenslDrougn the train and women went dowa on their knees and screamed. Twins before last night's attempt the baani started for the spot selected for the robbery, but each time a copious fall of rain bafllied them. The Santa Fe and Wells, Fargo officials received a "tip" of the contemplated raid nearly three weeks ago, and every night since not lees than a half dozen secret service men have been on the train until the danger point *on passed. Abrams Will Die. ManPacs, Mo., Sept. 18.-W. E.. Mc Daniel, who advised the officers of the plot, time and place of the robbery, went last night with C. E. Abrams, Overfield and two others to Gorin. As the train neazed Gorin the engineer noticed that the switch signal light had been re moted. He heard a torpedo explode and saw tl.' signal flag waved. He stopped the train at once. Abrams, leader of the galg,ran to the engine and called out: "We'"egotyou. Hold up your hands!' The e.gineer was a little slow in re eponding and Abrames'shot him. l)etec tive Kinney, who was concealed in the tender, arose and shot Abrams in the shoulder with a double barrelled shotgun loaded with buckshot. Abrams and the other robbers started for the brush. Abrams' horse was killed. The officers ecoused the brush but did not find the robhbrs. They came to Memphis this morning, got out warrants, located Abrams andOverfield and brought them to jail. Abrams will die. The otticers refuse to give the names of two others implicated. All are residents of the county. Abramns aInd Overfelde Captuired. KIOKIUK, Ia., Sept. 18.-Five farmers living three miles north of Arbella. Mo., are the men who held up the Santa Fe train at Uorin last night. Two, Charles Abrams and Lincoln Overtield, were captjred this forenoon at Memphis, Mo. Abrams was wounded in six places and cannot recover. Ierllhnes to Run. Az.an y, N. Y., Sept. 18.-Governor Flower announced today that be is nota candidate for renomination. He made known the determination after a long int. : . with Senators Hill and Mur phy. Governor Flower said: "I am convinced that my nomination would not be so likely to command the full vote of the party as would the nomination of some other democrat, and Iam too desir ous of party success to be a candidate under these circumstances." To Be Tried for Murder. WICIIInrw, Kan., Sept. 18.-Sheriff Woodcock and Deputy Dill Lee have ar rived from California in charge of Jim Talbert, alias Jim Sherman, who led the cowboys in the attack on Caldwell, Kan., thirteen years ago, when a number of citizens were killed, among whom was Mayor Meagher. Talbert will be tried for his murder. COMPLETELY KNOCKED OUT. Breckenlridge Will Never Aga.in Appear in, Congress. WAsuIN.(TON, Sept. 19.-A Kentuckian in Washington, holding one of the high est official positions under the adminie tratiou, said tonight that, in hia opinion, Col. Breckinridge would never again ap pear in the house of representatives. He had it from a close friend of the silver-tongued orator that Breckinridge had declared that unless he could come back to Washington with the indorse ment of his constituents written in hib face he would not come at all. Tin Workers Declile. PI'llelsuhell, Sept. 19.--The vote of the tinplate workers of the United States on the manufacturers proposition to reduce wages 1:, per cent has been completed. The men decline to accept a reduction. MiniIer Dernlly KnIeo. it. W\V.eslolsroN, Sept 1!.- Secretary Gresham has received two cable tele gralms from the seat of war In the orient. One from Minister I)enby, dated today. reads: "Naval engagement off North Corea 17th. Five Chinese and three Japlanese vessels reported destroyed. Fleet at Port Arthur." Another from Minister I)enby dated yesterday reads: "Telegraphic communication between Pekin and the Chinese army in Cores cut otf by the Japanese." SENSATION IN ROME. Arre.t of Anarhllist al)pp)led to lie After tile Ioper. Rom.e, Sept. l!.-Two suspected an archists were observed, the Tribune says, by the pontifical patrol, Sunday night. lurking about the Vatican garden, where the pope often spends the day. The patrol finally captured the men as they were scaling the wall. It is not known that there was a plot, but many believe that the prisoners wera eugaged in an. attempt to kill the The police refuse to divulge anything they know. FOR FREE SILVER Ohio Democrats in Their State ('on vention Declare For the White Metal AT THE GOOD OLD RATIO Gathering in Which There Was Con siderable Interest and Excitement. COLCMUUS, O., Sept. 19.-The demo cratic state convention met at 10 o'clock, with Frank Iurd of Toledo, as tempor ary chairman. In sounding the key note of Ohio democracy Hurd said that "free wool was worth more than all the other provisions of the new tariff law." lie gave the credit for it to Prelsident Cleve land, Secretary Carlisle, Senator Brice and the democratic congressman of Ohio. The platform proposed praises the efficient, economical and honest admin istration of President Cleveland: de clares protection a fraud and favors such further reduction of the tariff as can be made, to the end that purely protective duties be abolished. The business fail ures, strikes, low wages, and low prices of farm products are enumerated as re sultsof the McKinley law. "We dissent," says one plank, "from the president's view, construction and treatment of the silver question, and believe that .liVER .1110 ,1) IE I: t'STOilEI) to the position it occupied as money prior to its demonitization by the re publican party, and to that end we favor the unlimited coinage of silver at the legal ratio of 1L; to 1. and with equal legal tender power. The platform de nounces the American Protective asso ciation. It favore liberal pensions, the corrupt practice law, limiting the amount of money to be ex pended by candidates and the law prohibiting free passes on the railroads. The minority of the committee on plat form reported in favor of adding to that document the proposal to elect Urited States senators by the people. F. M. Gor man, Tomo Johnson, V. R. Kline, A. J. Pearson, J. Tyler, Frank Hiurd and John H. Clark of the committee on platform offerred another minority report to the effect that the democrats of Ohiofavoreu honest money, the coinage of gold and silver interconvertibility without lose, and opposed the proposed coinage of these metals metals at 16 to 1. I I ll{. VIrC i.-ClENE occurred during the discussion of the discussion of the proposition to elect sen atore by ballot. John H. Clark of Ma honing declared in bitter terms that the senate was a millionaire's club. The con vention applauded loudly. Mr. Brice sat upon the platform looking as pale as marble. When Clark sat down, Tom Johnson said he did not believe Brice brought his way into the senate. This made the matter somewhat personal and great confusion followed. Tie chair ruled that the proposed amendment was not in order. The anti-free silver propo sition was defeated by a vote of 4608 to 319. The convention, by a vote of 407 to 328 declared in favor of the election of United States eenatore by the people. This is regarded as tantamount to an indirect censure of Brice. Milton Turner, the one armed soldier, was nominated for secretary of state. Other nomina tions are: Judge of the supreme court, James D. Ermiston; member of the board of public works, Harry B. Keefer; state commissioner of public schools, Dr. J. A. Leech. Minst He Tough. W.Nh';iowrox, Sept. I).1--A recently published book entitled "IP Christ Came to Congress'" has been detained in the mails, pending an investigation by the poetonfice of the alleged obscenity of the publication. The author it M. W. Ilow ard of Alabama, who expects to be noum inated for congress by the populists. Ah NTHiI LIH iEiti A SI E' M F:. Allanto:, Negroes s5,1, I, lie EI:lnthu.-l. i, It E lglraste . liI: cuevnutA, Ala.. Sept. I1.- Thous ands of negroes in Alabama are enthusi astic over the scheme to migrate to Liberia, and at a meeting held among the leaders of the race in Pine Apple yesterday a committee of reputable col ored ministers was appointed to go to Liberia and arrange with the ruler of that country for the settlement of the colonists there. J. i. McMullen. of this city, president of the International AMi gration Society and vice president of the African Steamship Company, the lat ter having been recently organized with a large capital, is now in Philadelphia, and word comes from him that the first vessel will sail early in October with 400 colonists from Mobile and New Orleans. Hundreds of negroes in South Alabama are selling thiir farms and crops preparatory to going to LI. beria. The migration scheme will be worked on a big scale, and it is expected that the committee of ministers, who will go over at once, will return within three months with a favorable report, when the tide of emigration will begin to flow in earnest if the ruler of Liberia keeps his promise and will give each col onist twenty acresof lands and imple ments with which to cultivate it. A LUCKY FRIEND. Beoulles Hell to the Fortune of a Min nesota Millionare. ST. PAUL, Sept. 1:!.-Lyman C. Dayton one of the founder. of St. Paul, whose estate is valued at several millions, died suddenly at Aberdeen, S. D. Mr. Day ton had been a sufferer from partial par alysis for years, and Saturday he had his right leg amputated. Mr. Dayton came to St. Paul in 1849 from Provi dence, I. 1., and with his father pur chased y40 acres of land in the center of the town. At the opening of the James river valley in 1881 he made extensive purchases of town lots in Aberdeen, Mil bank, Watertown and other places. At the present time one of the most cele brated cases in the land department at Washington, is his contest for a large part of the townsite of Aberdeen. While living in New York he married a grass widow who was passing under a ficti tious name. lie afterward discovered that she had a son, now a prominent business man of New York, to whom she left her pr.perty O'ItleI at b'1re - million. Mr. Dayton made his will Fri day, leaving all Lie property to a single heir, an old friend of his family, whose name his attorn-y refusec to divulge. TheT ork EIll.i.et to hle ('ompltd llli Five" Mollth. W~A.sIINs.iri,. Sept. li. =Th', work of the eleventh censut i iiabout completed, the work on population in vital statis tics being all that remantins to be done. The portion of the work on population remaining uncompleted is that on occu pations. The vital statistics are made up largely from the figulres on population and have been held back on account of work in that division. Chief Clerk Down thinks that in less than five months the work of the census will be completely closed and the present force of 400 em ployee reduced to forty or fifty at the outside. These will he experts who will have charge of the pro fe from the print ing office. An additional supplement to the compendium of the census is yet to be issued. But while the census work proper will thus be ticished in a few months, it may be several years before the work of printing is all donr,e and the completed work publibl.ed. The comple tion of the work at so early a period is unusual, and to Sperintendent Wright's skill and experience in handling statis tics this is largely attributed. IN MOiRAL. t'HICAtGO. Omfer,, anld al:HIn0,ler I dgItale in a Pit(ched ItarIt . Citu.,.,o, S'.pt. 11.-.A pitched battle between Pinkerton men and attaches of Harry Varnell's gambling house, at Mad ison and Clark streets. was fought yes terday afternoon during a raid on the place. Varnell's was tilled when a score of detectives, headed by Matt Pinkerton, entered. The occupants armed them selves with chairs and other weapons and charged the intruders. Drawing their clubs the officers resisted the at tack for fifteen minutes. Many combat ants were knocked down and pounded. The detectives finally conquered, mak ing numerous arrests. The V'arnell peo ple retaliated by causing the arrest of Matt Pinkerton. lVarnell is ex-warden of the county poor Louse and has served a term in the penitentiary for "boodling." FORTS \1 II.i. 51 AItANiIIINEII. Helena. Got il Its 1, Work ,,nt tihe tithet I.nenllitie.. W -1InItroN, Se'pt. 1l.- General Armu strong, ansistant commiesioner of indian alfaire, speaking of the charges of United States troola and the abandonment of several military poste in the west, says it will have rio eltect wiatever upon the indians. "There is more oanger," he said, "fronl the anarchists to Chicago than all the Indians in the far west. In dian wars are a thing of the past. With railroad facilities troops can be trans ported from large poets more quickly than they can march from any of the little posts which have been abandoned." Death of a Veteran. Gut'A\nI FORKs, N. I),, Sept. 19.-Blake ly D)urant died today. He was the body servant of Gen. Sherman, and was fre quently mentioned in the latters me moirs. He was the. "Old Shady' of the familiar war melody. Insurgents Inot Shot. Rio Dr. JANT.r.o, Sept. 19.-Prseldent Peizote has officially denied the report circulated by a news agency that Ad minral Da Gms and other oeoesm had been shot a the fortrees at Santa ora O, Fi ai's It m .. .. .. w we star egaie Awed .-