THE ALLIANCE HERALD
T. J. O'Kecfo, Publisher.
ALLIANCE,
NEBRASKA.
Tho most remarkable thing nlout
flsh stories is tlint thoy arc sometimes
true.
A Now York woman hit a stroot-cnr
conductor, which shows that downtrod
den woman will Anally turn.
Russia's lack of foresight In over
looking thoso doublo back notion Mis
souri catapults Is costing her dear.
Susan I). Anthony's sister has paid
her taxes undor protest, but that Is
moro than somo men can bo got to do.
Tho man who makes hay whllo tho
sun shines let In a position to lend
monoy to tho follow who writes poetry
about It.
Slnco Gov. Odell refuses to let tho
corporations have Niagara falls, thoy
will havo to water tholr stocks with
something else.
Eminent defenders nnd opponents
of tho higher criticism nro having n
hot fight In tho newspapers. Why do
tho heathen rago?
It Is said that tho horso has grcator
pulling strength, In proportion to his
wolght, than any other animal. How
about tho octopus';
A lG-ycar-old lady has secured a dl
vorco In Chicago. With such nn early
start It Is to bo hoped that sho may
succeed In living It down.
Tho editor of the London Medical
Press says that rats and mlco aro
good eating. Wo understand now tho
reason for tho unrest In China.
General Ma Is said to havo com
mand of tho 5,000 Chlneso regulars
now on tho march. Thero's no doubt
about It. Mas are always In com
mnnd. Undo RuBsell Sago thinks no man
ought to pay moro than fifty cents for
n straw hat. Well, n 50 Panama on
n fifty cent head does look a llttlo mis
placed. Tho principal part of King Ed
ward's Job appears to bo to visit
around among his relatives and try to
keep them from declaring war on ono
another.
Scrmdns nro now being delivered
by phonograph down In Now York.
But a grcat many prominent cltlzons
will continuo to get thdlrs by wireless
telegraphy.
In vlow of tho fact that tho "Pil
grim's Progress" Is about to bo dram
atized, tho critics aro sharpontng up
tholr pencils and a fow of them aro
reading tho book.
Tho thoughtful Cincinnati Enquirer
says "a gatno of baseball is not in tho
naturo of things a religious festival."
Every offlco boy knows It is often in
tho naturo of a funeral.
Perhaps tho English educator who
talked about tho "feminised" Ameri
can youth saw roiiio of thoso queer
things In baggy trousors, dinky coats
nnd cap's like clam shells.
Tho members of tho W. C. T. U.
won't agrco that tho Boston man who
bought six quarts of whisky for 45
cents at nn express company's un
claimed packago salo was lucky.
We do not doubt tbo assertion of
Dr. Rondthalcr that In Philadelphia
you think of your grandfather. Tho
atmosphoro of tho placo conduces to
thought of thoso who aro at rest.
Panama now talks of disbanding its
nrmy. This would soem to bo an easy
matter. All that is necessary is to
charter an omnibus and dlstrlbuto tho
soldiers around at their several
homes.
A Junkman down In Bridgeport,
Conn., cut a telephone cablo that con
tained 100 wires, and when tbo tele
phone people found it out thoy said
something much moro expressive than
"Hullo!"
Bibb county, Ga., has a record of a
hundred divorce cases at ono term of
court. Tho cllmato of tho Dakotas
would seem to havo been Instrumen
tal in shifting tho dlvorco center to
tho southeast.
Do not scoff at tho Chicago woman
who declares that sho used to weigh
224 pounds, but has taken off seventy
pounds by mental action. Many a
woman has taken ten years off her
ago In tho same way.
Mr. Otto Nordenskjold, who onco
tried to find the South polo , has fail
ed to land tho chair of geography 'In
Stockholm university. Tho candidate's
proved Ignorance of exactly where tho
pole is doubtless told against him.
A man who Bigns himsolf "Dr. M.' A.
Lee, B. S. A. B. M. D. ' advertises in a
North Dakota paper that he desires to
become a member of tho stato legisla
ture. He must think North Dakota is
getting right up Into tho Massachu
setts class.
"A woman should be first a home
maker," says Mrs. "Bob" Burdetto,
who has Just declined to be a candi
date for the president of the national
federation of women's clubs. "That Is
the first article of my club creed," sho
adds. Lucky "Bob!"
LOSS OF THE JAPS
TEN THOU8AND MEN FALL IN A
LAND ATTACK.
LOSS OF THE RUSSIANS 3,000
This, However, to an Unconfirmed
Dispatch from Russian Consul at
Che Foo Japanese Are 8ald to
Hnva Lost Three Moro Cruisers.
ST. PETERSBURG It Is reported
that Foreign Minister Lamsdorff has
received a message from tho Russian
consul at Uho Foo snying that tho
Japanese havo made n land attack on
Port Arthur nnd that In doing so they
lost 15,000 men killed and wounded.
Tho Russian loss is placed at 3,000
men. Tho ultlmato outcomo or tho
lighting is not stated.
Tho St. Petersburg correspondent of
tho Paris Matin snyB that It is per
sistently rumored that tho Vladivo
stok squadron has enptured thrco
crtitscrs that wcro bought by Japan
irom Chile.
Tho St. Petersburg correspondent
of tho liondon Contrnl News says
that thero was an explosion Monday
on board tho battleship Orel at Cron
Btadt and that ten stokers were kill
ed. Tho vossel, tho report says, waB
damaged nnd It will tnlco weeks to
oiTect ropnlrs. Tho explosion, accord
ing to tho dispatch, was tho result of
an accumulation ot gas In tho bunk
ers, U11K FOO Tho cnptaln of a Hub-
THE JAP - IN -
A St. Petersburg Dispatch Says That the Japs Have Turned Up "At Six
Different New Places."
slan merchantman, who left Port Ar
thur on Mny 2U, and Is among tho
recent arrivals from Dalny, said In
nn Interview that tho whole Japanese
fleet had not returned to Port Arthur
slnco tho 15th Inst., when, besides
the battleship Hatsuso, another big
vessel struck a mlno and was towed
away disabled. Gunboats- nnd tor
pedo boats returned off tho port on
tho 20th lnst., when tho Russians
succeeded In sinking a Biuall gunboat
nnd two torpedo boats. Tho Rus
sians nro now confident of holding
Port Arthur with tho 30,000 men sta
tioned there, exclusivo of the navy
and tho crowds of mechanics working
upon the damaged warships, all of
which, except tho Czarovltch and tho
Rotvlzan, nro reday to rojoln tho fleet.
Theso will also bo ready for sea serv
ice by Juno 1.
The entrance to tho harbor has
been cleared and small boatB now pass
In unci out freely from Port Arthur
to Dalny.
Tho forts on tho land sldo of Port
Arthur havo been completed nnd nro
now areoared for a severe contest.
Of tho few soldiers left at Dalny,
tho majority havo gone to Port Ar
thur, and tho only defenses left there
now aro tho mines In tho harbor.
Tho attempt of tho Japancso to
lnnd troops In tho Kin Chnu gulf on
the ICth Inst, failed owing to insuffi
cient water to float tho boats.
There has been no fighting in tho
vicinity of Port Arthur up to Satur
day Blnco tho Kin Chau fight on the
15th Inst, when two squadrons of
Japanese cavalry were wiped out,
only eight men of wtilch escaped.
Miss Roosevelt Off for 8t. Louis.
WASHINGTON President Roose
velt arrived here from Groton, Mass.,
whero ho participated In the prize
day exercises of tho school at which
two of his children aro students. Miss
Roosovelt, accompanied by "Xfrs. WatJ
uio ui iui3 tuy, mil mr ai. ixmis.
Invited to the White House.
WASHINGTON President Roose
velt on Monday extended an Invita
tion to tho Methodist Protestant con
ference through Representative Ad
amson of Georgia, to bo received at
tho White houso Thursday afternoon.
Tho invitation was accepted. A spe
cial committee of fifteen was author
ized to deal with tho question of
church union. Tho cooperation of
the conference was asked in a move
ment for an expression from all Pro
testant denominations on the ques
tion of remarriage after divorce.
EIGHT-HOUR LAW.
Contractors and Laborers Deeply In
terested. WASHINGTON Ono of tho most
Important questions with which the
Pnnnma Canal commission will short
ly havo to deal Is whether tho pres
ent eight-hour law, net of August 1,
1892, nppllcs to tho construction ot
tho Panama canal, and whether, if
passed, tho olght-hour bill now beforo
congress will so apply. Net only aro
thousands of prospective contractors
and subcontractors vtlally interested
in a decision on theso points, but also
tho public at large, ns tho application
of cither tho presnt laws or tho pend
ing bill would extend the tlmo of con
struction nt least two years and In
crcn80 its cost by many millions of
dollars. It Is understood that tho
American Anti-Boycott association,
which Includes In its membership
many builders and dredgers and oth
ers who may become directly or indi
rectly Interested In canal contracts,
will undortako to secure a decision
from tho proper ofllclnls. In this
event Mr. Dnnlel Davenport of
Bridgeport, Conn., tho oxccutlvo
ngont of tho association, who has
boon so prominently identified with
tho opposition to tho eight-hour bill,
will havo charge of tho case.
Tho leaders of organized labor nro
also looking Into tho mnttor carefully,
for although tho canal will bo located
far from tho United Stntcs, it will bo
dug on Amcrlcnn territory, or terri
tory under tho Jurisdiction of tho
United States, and bo constructed
and owned by tho government, and
tho application of tho eight-hour prin
ciple to n goverment work of this
magnltudo would not only bo a
THE - BOX.
triumph, but havo a far-reaching and,
they believe, wholesome moral effect
On tho other hnnd, thoso who, llko
Mr. Davenport, regnrd tho present
eight-hour law ns vicious, and tho bill
for its oxtonBlona ns socialistic, hold
that undor no circumstances should
either bo so applied.
It Is argued by somo that as tho
canal zone is entirely under tho con
trol of tho canal commission, acting,
of course, under tho supervision of
tho secretary of war, and by tho di
rection of tho president, tho eight
hour act of 1892 does not ex proprio
glvoro apply to tho zone, and that un
til congress shall detormlno other
wise tho matter rests entirely with
tho commission. It Is further repre
sented that as tho canal will neces
sarly bo constructed so largely by la
bor other than from tho United
States, tho commission will not re
strict such labor to eight hours a day.
But whllo It is not probablo that tho
commission would undertake to en
force this law should the canal bo
constructed directly undor its super
vision, what tho prospective contrac
tors want to know is whether they
would bo exempt If tho work should
be done under contracts and they
should bo fortunate enough to securo
some of them. In the absence of an
authoritative opinion in advance they
fear tho question might be raised at
a later tlmo by tho labor organiza
tions at homo and thoy might ba
heavily mulcted.
Bryan Wins In Primaries.
OMAHA. Bryan democrats carried
every ward in tho city whero there
was a contest In tho primaries held
yesterday for the selection of dele
gates to tho county convention, May
28. Tho defeat of tho Success loaguo
peoplo was decisive, tho Bryan dele
gates rccolvlng 80S votes to 501 for
tho opposition In tho seven contested
wards In Omaha.
Lincoln Trying to Secure Convention.
LOS ANGELES, Cal. Tho Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers contin
ued In session, being still occupied
with matters of comparatively minor'
Importance. Only a briof session was
held. Tho delegates loft late in tho
day for an excursion to Catallna is
land. They will not return until Sat
urday afternoon. Already activity Is
being manifested by delegates from
several towns to secure the location
of the next biennial convention. Mem
phis, Tenn., and Lincoln, Neb., aro
making a systematic campaign.
THAT COAL TRUST
INQUIRY OF THE INTERSTATE
COMMERCE COMMISSION.
fHOMAS FIXE8PRICE OF COAL
Bays He Would Make Cost More Than
It is If He Could What Fixes the
Price and How Far the Public Are
Willing to Pay the Same.
NEW YORK President Thomas of
tho Lehigh Valley road, in his testi
mony beforo tho Intcrstato commcrco
commission, which Is conducting an
inquiry Into tho alleged coal trust, Bald
that ho fixed tho prlco of tho coal of
tho Lehigh Valley Coal company that
Is sold at tidewater. Asked if it was
not a fact that according to his an
swers it was quito posslblo tho public
had to pay what all tho railroads de
manded and not what any ono railroad
demanded, Mr. Thomas said:
"You don't bellovo that any moro
than I do; nobody believes that in a
country of froo mon a necessary com
modity would bo kopt from them by
unfair prices."
Mr. Thomas said that ho conferred
with President Baer of tho Reading
and other railroad officials beforo is
suing tho circular of prices to provail
beginning April 1, but denied that any
agreement was mado regarding prices.
"I mado no concealment of what I
was going to do," ho said. "Nor did
they conceal anything."
"Would you ralso the Lehigh Val
ley's prlco if you thought you could
get tho lncrcaso?" ho was asked.
"Yes, sir; I would."
"Do you think you could maintain
an advanced prlco If your competitors
did not follow suit?"
"No, sir; I do not."
In reply to questions by Commis
sioner Prouty, Mr. Thomas said it
would bo Impossible arbitrarily to fix
tho price of coal.
"What dotcrmincs tho price if tho
railroads do not fix It?" Commis
sioner Prouty asked.
"Tho willingness of the public to
pay tho price and tho ability of tho
railroad to produce it at that price"
President Thomas said thero could
bo no reduction from present prices
because, of commercial conditions, and
when Commissioner Prouty aBked him
to deflno thoso conditions ho said that
interference of politicians caused tho
big strike; tho arbitration commis
sion imedlntoly imposed obligations
upon producing Interests; tho mines
wero growing deeper and moro ex
pensive to operato and maintain; all
grades of labor were at hlghtfr wages.
Theso wero but a few of tho general
conditions.
Local conditions, ho said, in tho ag
gregate soem to havo increased tho
cxpenso bf operating. To Commis
sioner Clements, Mr. Thomas said
thero had been no chnngo by any rail
road from the circular prices because
tho conditions of trade had not war
ranted it Ho cald that reduction in
tidewater prices would mean a reduc
tion In miners' wages, according to
tho terms of tho decision of tho arbi
tration commission.
OVER A QUARTER OF MILLION.
Number of Persons, in the Employ of
the Government.
WASHINGTON. A bulletin was Is
sued by tho censiiB bureau Wednes
day which gives the total number of
employes in the executive and civil
servico of tho United States as 160,
383. Theso figures include only those
employes who nro required to take an
examination.- About 85,000 po3tmas
ters aro excluded, as aro about 15,000
employes at small salaries in tho field
branches of tho war department, about
10,000 employes at navy yards, who
aro classified, but appointed under
navy yard regulations, and a few thou
sand in othor parts of tho service.
Of tho 150.383 given, 25.C75 aro em
ployed in tho District of Columbia;
137.01G aro males, 135,575 aro native
born, and 102,431 aro engaged in cleri
cal work.
RUSSIANS MASSING TROOPS.
Armies Are Being Concentrated
Around llao Yang.
LONDON Tho New Chwnng corre
spondent of tho Daily Mail, in a dis
patch dated May 23, says that coinci
dent with tho Japanese advance in
tho direction of Liao Yang thero has
been a concentration of all tho avail
able Russian troops between Llao
Yang and Mo Tien pass, and that the
fortifications of Llao Yaung aro being
feverishly hurried. Tho railway be
tween Tatschltsla and Llao Yang Is
still intact, but every preparation has
been mado for Its immediate destruc
tion in tho event of tho necessity for
a retreat to Mukden.
Tho correspondent says that under
cover of a continuous naval patrol,
secret landings aro In progress on tho
coast of the Llao Tung peninsula.
Upon Conclusion of the War.
PARIS Tho St. Petersburg corre
spondent of tho Echo "do Paris says:
"I am ablo to affirm that Russia is
preparing to mobilize 2,000,000 sol
dlors In Eurojj on conclusion of tho
war with Japan. Foreign Minister
Lamsdorf has Informed several mem
bers of tho diplomatic corps that he
was uneasy on tho subject of China.
Russia, ho said, had adhered unre
servedly to tho terms of Secretary
Hay's note, but if China should vio
late, or permit tho violation of neu
trality, Russia would act."
JAPS CAPTURE KIN CHOU.
Said to Have Stormed the Place to
Get Possession.
LONDON A dispatch to tho Cen
tral News from Tokla says tho Japan
ese havo stormed and captured tho
town of Kin Chou, nbout thirty-two
miles north of Port Arthur.
In an earlier mossago tho Toklo
correspondent of tho Central Nows
cabled that Japanese spies had ascer
tained that the Russians had thirty
guns nt Kin Chou nnd numerous mines
nnd wire entanglements at all points
whoro a Japanese attack was expect
ed. Tho correspondent of the Central
Nows at Toklo cables that tho Japan
eso attacked Nan Qwan Ling on tho
narrowest path of tho Kwan Tung
peninsula yesterday and drove back
tho Russians " by main force.
Tho attack on Kin Chou, tho "dis
patch adds, was begun at dawn today,
nnd by noon Kin Chou was In the
hands of tho Japanese, who occupied
tho castle.
Tho fighting continued during tho
aftornoon and was of the most desper
ate, character.
BRYAN SAYS NO COMPROMISE.
Emphasizes the Fact that There is No
Middle Ground.
DALLAS, Tex. In an Interview glv.
en aboard tho train between ParsonB,
Kan. and Dennlson, Tex., William J.
Bryan stated to a staff correspondent
of tho News that thero was no middle
ground on which tho opposing factions
of tho democratic party couuld com
promise. Ho emphasized the state
ment: "Thoy cannot go together," saying:
"You might as well start two men
out from the samo point In oppostto
directions and expect them to go to
gether." Asked as to whether ho would abide
tho result at St. Louis ho Bald:
"Things havo not developed far
enough to tell. No ono can answer
such a question Intelligently until a
platform and a candidate are known."
Ho also criticised Judge Parker's si
lence. COME WEST FOR CHANCELLOR.
Takes President of Coe College at Ce
dar Rapids, Iowa.
PITTSBURG, Pa. Dr. Samuel
Black McCormick, president of Coo
college, Cedar Rapids, la., has been
elected chancellor of tho Western uni
versity of Pennsylvania. Dr. McCor
mick is a trustee of Bellevuo college,
Omaha, and president of the board of
trustees of tho Theological Seminary
of Nebraska, at Omaha. He was born
at Irwlng, Pa., In 1858, and received
his education In western Pennsylva
nia. Ho was admitted to tho bar in
Allegheny county and practiced law
here. Later ho studied theology. It
Is believed ho will accept tho position
here, as ho had been advised by tho
trustees that ho would be elected.
Four Men Killed In Storm.
SPALDING, Neb. Four deaths havo
resulted from a storm in this vicinity
Tuesday. John Pollard, 30 years of
age, and Edward Benhamton, aged 20,
lost their lives by' driving into a wash
out in Freeman creek. Tho body of
tho latter has been .recovered, but
search continues for the former. Pol
lard was a married man and came
hero from Schuyler two years ago,
having purchased tho Charles Meo
han place. His companion was at
tending school In Spnulding. Ben
hamton havo a mother living In
Omaha.
Looks Into Cattle Rates.
DENVER, Colo. The cattle grow
ers' Interstate executlvo committee
received word that tho Interstate
commerce commission had Issued an
order to proceed of Us own motion to
Investigate tho freight rate situation
and tho servico of railroads In livo
stock shipments in the west and
northwest. Tho hearing will bo hold
in Denver, but the exact dato has not
been fixed.
Nuncio Ready to Go.
PARIS According to rellablo in
formation, the Vatican authorities
havo instructed Monsignor Lorenzelll,
tho nuncio at Paris, to leavo Paris If
ho is able to foresee from tho discus
sion In tho chamber of deputies of
the difficulties between the Vatican
and Franco that It is tho intention of
tho government to give him his pass
ports. Came Near Being Serious.
BEATRICE Whllo rowing on tho
Blue river three boys went over tho
dam south of Court street. The boat
becamo unmanageable when within a
fow feet of tho dam and turned, Bplll
lng the boys Into the water about
nine feet below. No injuries result
ed. Racing News is Barred.
At some of tho public libraries In
London tho racing news Is carefully
blacked out of the newspapers be
fore they aro put upon the files for
reading.
Sun Worship Fast Is Fatal.
CHICAGO Miss Eloise Reusse of
St. Paul, Minn., who becamo Insane
here while undergoing tho ordeal of
tho so-called "sun worship fast," Is
dead in tho State Hospital for the In
sane at Elgin. Dr. Frank S. Whitman,
superintendent of the hospital, says
death was duo to acute mania, induced
by starvation. During the fast, which
Is said to havo last forty-one days,
deceased Is said by the hospital au
thorities to have been subjected to
torture by means of needles and the
application ot lotus oil
IMPORTANT MOVE
SAID TO ABOUT TO BE MADEBY
GENERAL KUROPATKIN.
THE RUSSIANS ARE EXCITED
After Engagement with Korean Troops.
They Burn the Shrines Telegraphic
Communication with New Chwang,
Interrupted.
ST. PETERSBURG Thero aro in
dications that General Kuropatkln is
preparing to make a very Important
move against tho onemy.
Ono of tho reasons for this belief:
Is the suddenly increased restrictions
upon the war correspondents at the
front.
The prevailing belief hero Is that
General Kuroi's army is in difficulties.
SEOUL, Korea A telegram has
been received hero from Gen San, on
tho cast coast of Korea, saying that
tho Russians, after tho engagement
with Korean troops at Ham Heung, on
May 19, burned tho Bhrincs nnd tho
royal mausoleum which woro erected
there by tho founder of tho present
Korean dynastv in tho year 13G5, and
which wero regarded by tho Koreans
as sacred. This apparent wanton des
ecration of tombs In a land imbued
with the spirit of ancestor worship
has caused excited denunciation oE
tho Russians on the part of the Seoul
officials. (Ham Hcung is on tho coast
of Korea and about fifty miles north,
of Gen San.)
Tho Cossacks which aro believed to
be at Kyong Song have, according to
Korean reports, about twenty guns
with them. If this is true this artil
lery probably is composed of trans
Baikal horso batteries, several oC
which were attached to the First corps
at Vladivostok beforo tho war.
A Japanese who has returned here
from Yongampho reports that thero
aro only a fow Japanese troops there.
The people are quiet, but they do not
welcome the Japanese occupation be
cause of the severity of tho military
authorities. Tho Russians left many
thousand feet of useful timber at
Yongampho.
Thero are not moro than 8,000 sol
diers In tho garrison at Seoul. Bar
racks which heretofore wero filled are
now vacant, tho troops having gone
north to Anju. The local gendarmes
are being transferred to Yongampho,
Wlju and An Tung.
ST. PETERSBURG Telegraphic
communication with New Chwang is
interrupted, and private messages for
points south of Llao Yaag are refused
hero at the telegraph office.
Tho nature of the Interruption with
Now Chwang Is not known, but the
cause for refusing messages south of
Llao Yang is the complete absorption
of tho lines for military purposes.
SLAUGHTER IN THE PHILIPPINES
Fifty-three Men, Women and Children
Are Massacred.
MANILA A report has been re
ceived here from Camp Overton, on
tho island of Mindanao, dated May'lS,
stating that a massacre had taken
placo on the 12th Inst, near Mala
bang on tho southern coast of Minda
nao. FIfty-threo Filipino men, women
and children, employes of the United
States military government at Mala
bang, and their families, wero sur
prised at midnight whllo asleep by
the Datto Alls and a band of 'Moros
from tho Rio Grando valley, and
slaughtered.
Tho chief and his followers es
caped before tho alarm could be
given.
Details of tho massacro are meager.
Major General Wood has been In tho
Interior of Mindanao since May 12.
Cablo communication between Manila
and Mindanao is interrupted and the
wires aro down in tho interior of tho
island. The report of the massacro
was received by mail from a corre
spondent at Camp Overton.
WHEN FRANCE MAY MIX IN.
If China Gets Aggressive There Will
Be Trouble.
PARIS Tho Solr claims thta it has
learned from a trustworthy sourco
that Lieutenant General Baron Freder
icks had another member of tho Rus
sian court, who recently visited Paris,
camo on a secret mission which had
for Its purpose the seeking of tho In
tervention and effective support of
the French government In tho event of
China adopting an aggressive attitude
toward tho Russlaus in Mnachurla.
Tho paper alleges that the government
gave formal promise of compliance
with Russia's request.
Russian Story Is Not Conlrmed.
ST. PETERSBURG The report ca
bled to tho Associated Press that tna
foreign office had received a telegram
from the Russian consul at Che Foo.
reporting that the Japanese had made
a land attack on Port Arthur and had
lost 15,000 men killed and wounded,
and that tho Russians had lost 3,000
men, Is true, but as nothing conlrma
tory has been received from any other
source tho report is not given cre
dence. The consul in his telegram
said his information was obtained
from Chinese sources.
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