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m&m THE EYE VOLUME XXIII. MAYSVILLE, KY., FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1904. NUMBSR 129. NlNGr BULLETIN. RUSSIANS FLEEING iThey Are Retreating to fie North Across the River in Overcrowded Boats. LOSING HUNDREDS BY DROWNING, Tho Russian Forces "Which Are Massed in Northeast Korea Have Been Ordered to Advance. Japanese Troops Are Now Embarking From Korea and Possibly Are Being Reinforced By Forces on the Yalu River. London, April 22. 'A correspondent pi tho Times cabling from New Jchwang says that a messenger has ar rived there from tho Yalu river with tho information that the Russians are peeing north across tho river In over crowded boats and are losing hundreds "by drowning. l Paris, April 22. The St. Petersburg correspondent of tho Petit Parisian says ho has learned that Gen. Kuro patkln has ordered tho advance of the Russian forces which are massed In Northeastern Korea, and that a bri gade of Infantry, with 5,000 Cossacks, is within a hundred versts of the banks of the Tumen river. London, April 22. Tho correspond ent of tho Standard at Tlen-Tsln says that Japanese troops are now embarl. Jng from Korea and possfbly. are being reinforced by the forces on the Yalu river, from which the Russians have practically withdrawn. The Tokio correspondent of the Tel egraph says that Port Arthur is un doubtedly effectually blocked and that events are culminating around tho doomed fortress. St. Petersburg, April 22. The ad miralty, It is announced, intends to fit out two ships purchased from Ger many, which formerly were in tho trans-Atlantic service, together with a number of ships of tho volunteer fleet, with rapld-flre guns and to send them to the Pacific to prey upon Japaneso commerce. Tho admiralty believes that by this means it can "prevent the resumption of operations by the Jap anese commercial fleet and strike a hard blow ngainst Japan's hope of maintaining her resources for the prosecution of tho war. It is authoritatively stated that Rus sia has been offered, through a well known New York Arm, two 7,000 ton and two 3,000-ton cruisers belonging to a South American republic, but has declined the offer. In order to harmonize the army and navy operations Vice Adm. Skrydloff will stop at Llao Yang on his way to Port Arthur to confer with Gen. Kuro patkin. The admiral and the general aro warm personal friends and both Are completely independent of the viceroy. In spite of tho bad relations between Skrydloff and Alexieff pressure" is be ing brought to bear to prevent the viceroy's immediate return to the Rus--"elan capital. .WELL-KNOWN RIVER MAN DEAD. Commodore William J. Kountz Passed Away, Aged 85 Years. Pittsburg, April 22. Commodore William J. Kountz, ono of the most widely known men in Western Penn Eylvania, died Thursday at his homo In Allegheny after an illness of several weeks' duration. Commodore Kountz was born in Wollsville, O., in May, 1819. Ho took an active part in the civil war. For 50 years he owned and operated boats on tho western rivers and was known from Pittsburg to tho gulf and from Cairo to tho headwaters of the Missouri and Platte rivers. ,rjOR DEATH OF A MISSIONARY. A Claim For Damages Filed Against the Chinese Empire. Washington, April 22. Burton H. Loucks Thursday was granted by tho probate court ancllliary letters of ad ministration upon tho estate of Mary L. Partridge, deceased, and ho will, under this authority, file a claim with the state department against the Chi nese empire for damages for the death of Miss Partridgo, who was a 'mission ary in China and who was killed by the uprising of the Boxers in 1900. Vice Adm.- Stark'a Command. St. Petersburg, April 22. It is an nounced that Vice Adm. Stark, former ly in command of tho Port Arthur fleet, has been appointed to tho com mand of the 18th depot fleet and that Rr. Adm. Wlttsoeft has been appoint ed chief of staff to Viceroy Alexieff. Frankfort, Ky., April 22. The court of appeals Thursday reversed tho judg ment of tho Kenton circuit court in tho two cases of Central Covington vn. Honry Buss and Dressman vs. Busso. AN ANONYMOUS CARD. The Political Integrity of Ex-Gov. W. O. Bradley Attacked. Lexington, Ky., April 22. Through the instrumentality of an anonymous card circulated Thursday, a bitter at tack is made upon the political Integ rity and, sincerity of former Gov. W. O. Bradley. Reference in it is made to tho prosecution of John Ryan and John McKenna, the democratic elec tion officials, wHo were convicted of election frauds in London, but whose cases were dismissed by the circuit court of appeals in Cincinnati. The charge Is made that Gov. Brad ley was counsel for the defendant, and by securing their release he prac tically undid all the work of the re publicans looking for fair elections. Bradley's friends aro incensed, and say that being a lawyer he had a right to take any case worthy of his ability. LUCKY KENTUCKIANS. They Are Entitled to a Fortune of About $1,500,000. San Francisco, April 22. When Samuel Davis died on April 5, In Lane hospital, there was no one at his bed side who dreamed that the septuage narian had an estate of $1,500,000. He lived in one room at No. 408 California street. Ills most intimate friends were Julius Rels and Attorney J. F. Cowdrey. Davis left a will In his own handwriting, executed In February, 1898. It does not contain the name of a single devisee or dispose of any of his estate and simply names Rels as executor. The estate is worth $1,500,- 000 and the only relatives of the testa tor are Jane Davis, a sister; Mrs. Ma ry Stone, his niece, and Henry W. Da vis, a nephew, all living in Church ville, Ky. Train Wrecked the Station. Lcitohfleld, Ky., April 22. The Uli nois Central railroad station at this place was wrecked by a freight train that was switching. Four cars got beyond control and crashed Into tho station, wrecking the freight room, office and passenger's room. Several persons were Inside at the time, but escaped Injury. Four Men Killed In a Mine. Somerset, Ky., April 22. An explo sion occurred at the Stearns Mines Coal Co at Stearns, several miles be low here on the Cincinnati Southern railroad, in which four colored mn were killed and several others injured. Only meager details are obtainable at mis time. English Lad Will Not Start. Louisville, Ky., April 22. "I don't think I shall start English Lad in tho Derby here," said Trainer Billy Phil lips Thursday morning at Churchill Downs. "I shall undoubtedly send him to tho post during the meeting, but the chances are that it will-not be In tho Derby.' Left For the South. Louisville, Ky., April 22. The in spection party of Atlantic Coast Lino and Louisville & Nashville officials, headed by Henry Walters and Milton H. Smith, arrived In Louisville Thurs day morning and after Inspecting the properties here left for Nashville and Atlanta. Town Faces Double Danger. Owlngsvllle, Ky., April 22. Reports from Salt Lick, nine miles east of hero, say that a magazine containing about 400 quarts of nitroglycerin- has been surrounded by forest fires, and is in danger of explosion. Salt Lick Is a town of about 600 inhabitants. Options on Land For Terminals. Lexington, Ky., April 22. Options were obtained by tho Lexington & Eastern Railway Co. and the Chesa peake & Ohio upon property adjacent to their terminal In this city. Tho price to be paid is $43,500. The Pal ace Hotol is included. Sentenced to Ten Years. Hnevllle, Ky., April 22. Georgts Eaton, of Middlesboro, who turned state's evidence in the case of Georgo uray and Len Colgnn, two years ago, was convicted and sentenced to ten years In the penitentiary for an attack on a colored girl. Lost Her Diamonds. Covington, Ky., April 22. While at tending a meeting of tho Women's Press club in Cincinnati Mrs. Richard P. Ernst lost a chamois hag contain ing four valuable diamond rings. She first discovered her loss when she re turned home. Woman Ended Her Life. Covington, Ky., April 22. Brooding over tho death of a son, Mrs. J. L. Hughey, 50, wealthy resident of Boono county, Ky., hanged herself to a cellar beam at her home near Union. Mr3. Hughey was well known in Covington. "up Hi Enemy A person who wants you to lend him five dollars. Vienna (Ga.) News. TWO BILLSPASSED Pension Appropriation and Emer gency River and Harbor Meas ures Go Through Senate. ONLY TWO MORE UNDISPOSED OF. House Bill Increasing' Homestead En tries in Nebraska Received Favorable Consideration. The House Gave Evidence of Approach ing Adjournment of Congress By Passing a Large Number of Measures on Thursday. Washington, April 22. Senate The pension appropriation bill, carrying an appropriation of over $137,000,000, and tho emergency river and harbor ap propriation bill, which carries $3,000, 000, were passed Thursday by the sen ate, leaving only, the general deficiency and the military academy bills of the entire list of supply measures still to be considered by the senate. The house bill Increasing the size of home stead entries in Western Nebraska to G40 acres also received favorable con sideration, while the river and harbor measuro was under consideration, Mr. Gorman sharply criticised the failure to bring in a general river and harbor bill. Speeches were made on tho pen sion bill by Messrs McCumber and Scott, tho latter declaring 'that he fa vored a service pension of $25 per month. House Tho house Thursday gave evidence of approaching adjournment by passing a largo number of bills, among them being one to provide a temporary government for tho Panama canal zone. A rule was adopted after the democrats had forced a roll call for the consideration at any time of the bill creating a commission to In vestigate the merchant marine of the United States, and the bill was then laid aside. THE SMOOT CASE. Angus M. Cannon Gave Testimony Be fore the Committee. Washington, April 22. The feature of Thursday's hearing In the Smoot case before the senate committee on privileges and elections was the testi mony of Angus M. Cannon, for 23 years president of the largest Mormon stake in the world. The testimony was of a personal character, dealing with the conviction of the witness on the charge of polygamous cohabita tion and was dragged from him under protest that he be protected from any peril or liability to prosecution for what he revealed. When assured that his plur.ll marriages, under the statute of limitations, could not be used as evi dence against him, he answered most of the questions asked. The same frankness was not apparent, however, when tho witness was present to re veal the nature of the oath ho had ta ken In tho endowment house. Like other witnesses he declared that the sacredness of that oath prevented him from proclaiming It to the world. His testimony was no less sensational than that given by President Smith early In tho Investigation. He answered all questions of a personal character, but every admission was made reluctantly and replies to questions In regard to his numerous marriages were as near ly monosylablo as it was possible to make them. I . TO PROTECT MONUMENTS. Bill Appropriating $50,000 For the Pur pose Introduced. Washington, April 22. Representa tive Rlxey, of Virginia, has introduced a bill appropriating $50,000 to protect the monuments that have been or may be erected on the battlefields of Bui! Run, Va. The bill requires the pur chase for the United States by tho sec retary of war of tho ground on which the monuments are located, on which the first and second battles of Bull Run were fought For a commission of three to bo appointed by the presi dent, one of whom shall have been a union and one a confedorato soldier. To consider all plans for additional monuments which societies represent ing military organizations may desire hereafter to erect at their own ex pense Presented to the President. Washington, April 22. Baron Stern burg, the Gorman ambassador, present ed to tho president Eugen Zabel, tho principal editor of tho National Zei tung, of Berlin. Mr. Zabel is In the country to study economic and indus trial conditlbns. Kentucky University Won. Lexington, Ky., April 22. Kentucky unlvorslty defeated University of Cin cinnati 22 to 8 in a baseball game re plete with errors.! THE CAR BARN BANDITS. How Their Last Night on Earth Was Spent. Chicago, April 22. For a crime nev er paralleled In Chicago's history for murderous ferocity and mercllessness, the penalty of the law will be exacted 6f the car barn bandits on the scaf fold Friday. During the early part of the night the relatives of tho condemned men visited them and remained for several hours. A priest spent some time with Neidermeler, but ho refused to the last to accept any spiritual consolation, saying that he did not believe in it and would have none of it, unless the priest could show him some tangible evidence of another world. When the last death watch was plac ed before his cell for the night, Neider meler shook hands with the guard who was leaving, and said that he had been a "good guard" Inasmuch as he hail planned to trick him a number of times, but had been unable to do so. When asked If he would walk to the gallows, Neidermeler replied, "Certain ly not; why should I?" "There Is just one thing I would like to have," continued Neidermeler, "and that is a broomstick with a knife to sharpen it I would use it as a bayo net against my guards, and fight to the last in an effort to force them to kill me before I was hanged. I will not walk to the scaffold. They will have to carry me. Why should I help others to kill me?" ROTHSCHILD'S ROOM SEARCHED. Notes, Chattel Mortgages and Other Papers Were Secured. New York, April 22. Assistant Dis trict Attorney Kresel, together with three central office detectives, Thurs day night made a search of the apart ments in tho Ansonia hotel lately oc cupied by David Rothschild, former president of tho defunct Federal bank. When the search was concluded a pa trol wagon was called and three tin boxes, a satchel and a leather bag. fill ed with notes, chattel mortgages and other papers, were taken to police headquarters. Whether or not the notes and' mortgages had to do with the affairs of tho Federal bank was not learned. MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATS. They Elected Olney Delegates to the National Convention. Boston, April 22. By an overwhel ming vote the Massachusetts demo cratic convention at Tremont Templp Thursday Instructed four delegates ac large and 20 delegates from the vari ous congressional districts of (he stat to support Richard Olney, of this city, for the presidential nomination at the democratic convention at St Louis next July. Four delegates at largo pledged to the support of Olney were elected and the supporters of William R. Hearst, of New York, as the presi dential nomineo were defeated by a vote of about COO to 200. ABEEL FOUND GUILTY. Convicted of Forgery in the Third De gree By the Jury. Now York. April 22. James N Abeel, who through a letter purported to be signed by J. P. Van Every, vice president of the Western Union Tele graph Co., secured an Introduction to Miss Eleanor Anderson, a telegraph operator In the Grand hotel, under th. name of J. Ogden Goelet. jr., and sub sequently became engaged to her, was adjudged guilty by a jury Thursday of forgery in the third degree. The stat ute fixes the penalty for this offense at imprisonment for not more than five years. ROUGHLY HANDLED. Negro Accused of Insulting White Girls Terribly Beaten. Blacksburg, Va., April 22. A Negro accused of Insulting some young white girls was Wednesday, arrested and locked up. Thursday afternoon he was released and a number of the cadets of tho Virginia polytechnic institute entered by force a house in which ho was seen to go, dragged the Negro one. carried him out of town, tied him to a tree, stripped him to tho waist ami beat him with ropes and heavy switches until he was nearly Insen sible. Lad Attempts His Life. New York, April 22. Reed Harlow. 15, of Toledo, O., a son of Capt W. J. Harlow, of Cleveland, 0 was found unconscious in a Brooklyn lodging house Thursday, having been over come by gao, which had been left turned on apparently with suicidal in tent. Sixteen Men Drowned. Berlin, April 22. Tho Swedish steamship Dries sank, after a collision, with another vessel in the Baltic, off Swlnemundo, Prussia, Thursday. The' crew of 16 men drowned. EXCITING SCENES. P:nall Riot Followed the Arrival of President Mover in Den ver as a Prisoner. SECRETARY HAYWOOD ARRESTED, He Attempted to Converse With Mover and Struck Cunt'. Welles in the Face. He Was Surrounded With Angry Troopers and But For the Action of Orderly Givens Would Have Been Killed. Denver, Col., April 22. President Charles II. Moyer, of the Western Fed eration of Miners, who arrived In Deu ver Thursday in custody of stato troops after several weeks' incarcera tion at Tellurlde, where martial law i3 in force in consequence of labor troubles, was taken before tho state supreme court Thursday afternoon un der the writ of habeas corpus which had been Issued in his case. At the Oxford hotel he entered a hack with Gen. Sherman M. Bell and Capt. Buck ley Welles, the respondent to the writ, and the vehicle was driven rapidly, to the state house, followed by 32 armed soldiers, who guarded the entrances to tho court rboin while tho habeas corpus proceedings were in progress. Attorney General N. C. Miller and Attorney John M. Waldron appeared In .court for tho governor and military authorities and Attorney E. F. Rich ardson in behalf of Mr. Moyer. Chief Justice Gabbert and Justice Steele were on the bench, Justice Campbell being absent. The court heard arguments on a mo tion of the petitioner to be admitted to bail pending a decision on the ques tion of the court's jurisdiction and took the matter under advisement. Mr. Moyer was then removed to the hotol in custody of tho military. Defying the detachment of cavalry which brought Moyer to appear before the supremo court, W. D. Haywood, secretary-treasurer of the federation, attempted to hold a conversation with the prisoner while he was being la ken from the train at the union depot Thursday morning. Ordered to stand back by Capt. Buckley Welles, com manding the guard, he struck the offi cer in the face. In a second he was surrounded by a cordon of angry troopers who struck at him with the butts of their carbines and beat hhn with six shooters. That lie was not' killed by the excited soldiers Is duo to tlie action of Bert Given?, the or derly of Capt. Welles, who struck up the muzzle of a gun aimed at Hay wood and rescued him from his posi tion between two cars where tha guardsmen had him cornered. Placed under arrest he was put in the middle of a hollow square of mili tiamen and marched to the Oxford ho tel nc-nr the depot. Here he ngaiu showed fight and was beaten Into sub mission. His injuries consist of a deep cut on the Wt side of the head and one on the right side of his lioarf. which almost severed the lower lobe of his right ear. When a demand was made by Police Capt. Frank Lee for the release of Hay wood on the ground that tho military rule did not extend to Denver, Gen. Uell replied that ho Intended to hold Haywood as a military prisoner and would shoot any onp who attempted to take him, but nevertheless, under orders from Gov. Pnbody, Haywood was surrendered to Sheriff Armstrong and placed In tho county jail Thursday afternoon. Given a Ten-Year Sentence. Middlesboro, Ky., April 22. Georgo Eatlon, a white man, was given a ton year sentence for an attempted assault on a Negro girl. Three ex-confeder- ntcs were on tie jury. Salt T.ak'e, Utah, April 22. The slier Iff of Carbon county lias applied to Gov. Wells to send the militia to re store order In tho stronghold of tha coal strikers at Helper. Gen. Cannon will investigate the situation. Murderer Executed. Brookvillo, Pa., April 22. John Bap tise Alello was hanged hero Thursday for tho murder of Frank Carfa on the night of May 2, last year. Alello's ex ecution was twice postponed to hear appeals for pardons. Armed Posses Are In Pursuit. Austin, Tex., April 22. Armed pos ses are In pursuit of a Negro who, it Is charged, criminally assaulted and mur dered Lula Sanberg, a white girl, Thursday near Manor, about 14 mile? from this city. Des Moines, la., April 22. K. S. Blydenburgh, who waa convicted of the murder of his wife at Eldora, and who has had previous wives who died mysteriously, has appealed to tho Iowa aunreme cour.t for a new trial. CfaWHgM,