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PUTS CITY IN PERIL i mr'i-i'v rYtwt BIG SLA BATTLE NEBRASKA NOTES 5HED8 FURTHER LIGHT ON THE WHITE MOB APPLIE8 TORCH TO MORMONS DISCIPLINED WHq Judge Paul Jcsson oponod tbo- SENSATIONAL REPORT IN CIRCU LATION AT LONDON. MORMON HIERARCHY. THE NEGRO QUARTER. DISOBEY ITS WILL. March term of court at PlattsmonthJ TheOxnard ilotol at Norfolk has WIFE of a polygamisi CHURCH ABOYfc ALL SHIPS FIGHT IN THE OPEN RUSSIA'S VLADIVOSTOK 80UAD RON ENGAGED. No fticiil Kcporl Ureal vpd tit. Toklu, Hut Attnck AdmllMil to Unvc Ru TluoU ,Ttijinn LONDON. Tho dally telegraph llils morning publishes a dispatch from Toklo, dated March 7, and say ing : "It is repotted that the Japanese fleet engaged the Rns!an Vladi vostok squadron at sea yesterday. The result of the engagement Js not annoonccd, but it is believ that the Russian ships were destr ;jod 01 c lpturcd. TOKIO, Tuesday, The rcpor or the naval attack upon Via divostOE. is nut confirmed oflicially, although the naval department ad mits that an attack was planned. A report is expected from the tleet com mander before long. VLADIVOSTOK. Despite the ap. pearance of the Japanese fleet of, the harbor yesterday, and the bom bardmcnt of Suniay, the inhabitants or Vladivostok arc in good spirits. Crowds promenade the streets as usual, including many woman. A performance at the theater is pro nounccd for tonight. Many suspected Japanese have bepn arrested, but when examined they were proved to bo Chinamen or Kor cans. Commanders of merchant vessels and pilots who have a thorough knowledge of the coast and of navi gation have been enrolled as ensigns in the navy. Snow has been falling for the last two days. president Joocnh Smith Admit log Father of Forty-two Chil dren, and Declares lie Xi J'rourt of Krery One RECALL THATCHER CASE FORMER FEDERAL TESTIFIES FROM ATTORNEY MEMORY. A San Domingo Battle. SAK JUAN, Porto Rico. A semi official letter received here from San Pedro do Marcoris, Santo Domingo, dated February 21), gives details of the bombardment of San Pedro do Marcoris February 27 by tho Domin ican warships Presidcntc and Ee trella. The captain of the presidents, a Spaniard, and sixty men on board her wero killed, only six of the crew escaping without injuries. In all seventy-four men were killed and tweuty-iivc wore wounded on the two ships. The insurgents lost thirty-six men killed or woundod. The Presi dent was driven away at daybreak February 23, the insurgents having biougbt npafleld piece during the night and unexpectedly opened fire on her. Several defeats of tho trojps of President Morales, with heavy losses have been reported lately. General Joso Amador, who captur ed at San Antonio'de Guerra quanti ties of provisions and clothing and 92,002 in wish, is now a prisoner at San Pedro de Macorls. Lynch Ohio Negro. SPRINGFIELD, O., - Richard 1lxun, a negro desperado, who shoe and fatally wounded Policeman Charles Collis Sunday monring, paid an awful penalty for his crime tonight. A mob battered in the : (loots of the Jail at a lato hour, drag ged the neg ro to tho yard, where ho ,was shot to death, then carriod the body to one of the principal streots ;of the city, hoisted it to the cross arm ul a telephone polo and for half an hour fired revolver bullets into ;lt. At b:30 Sboiiir Floyd Routzahan appeared on the jail steps and pleaded with the mob to dlsporsc, 'but he could be hoard with difficulty. Ills appeal was ineffectual and he was competed to go within. WASHINGTON. After bavin Josrph F. Smith, president of tho Mormon church, on tho stand for nearly live hours today before tins Vcnate committee on privileges an-1 Elections, which Is investigating the right of Reed Smoot to sit as a seni or, both the prosecution and the defense announced that they were through with him and anothor wit hess was called. This was Mrs. Clara Mabel Kennedy, who told some secrets of tho Mormon church, which, If not broken down will provo as Important us the statements pf President Smith that ho and other officials have boon persistently co- habltatlng with plural wives in vlo jatlnn of the law. Mrs. Kennedy Slid Bho was married by Br'gham iYounc. an anoslle of tbc church, to Games Francis Johnson, a polyga mist, since tho manifesto of 1080, and that sho has had two children by that husband. The marriage wai nreformed in Mexico, according to , tho witnesses, at tho homo of a hiRh olllcial of the church. With President Joseph F. Smith of tho Mormon church, again on tho stind for the defense tho becona weok of the investigation of tho Smoot cbbo opened today before the Benato commlttco on privileges and elections. Senator Dubois put into the record the census figures for Utah, taken In 1800, to show that instead of only 8 or 4 per cent in polygamy, as Mr. Smith had said, in reality thero weio about 23M per cent or tho Mormon population of an ao enabling them to be polygaraistB who wore in tuat state in 1890 Senator Dubois gavo it aB his opinion that thero baa been .no material reduction In the number of polyagmlsts sinco 1800. I Mr. Worthington conducted an ex amination of Mr. Smith to ascertain the process undergone In cases of ex communication. The witness explained tho manner In which the church Is divided into. wards and stakes, and the machinery of tho organization through which charges against any person have to be, brought and passed upon. lie said tho apostles have nothing to do with the Judicial aifairs of the church. They preach the gospel and send missionaries to other fields. Tho president, the apostles and high counsellors, formine what is known as "tho fifteen'1 meet once a week for prayer and consultation on matters generally relating to tho, church. The rutile elTort by President Brig ham Young in 1875 to have Bishop Jacob W. Weylor removed from tho leadership of a ward was related by Mr. Smith to show that the pres idency noes not oxerciBO po or over tho wishes of the people, and that the members of tho church bv tho freedom of their vote in reality form tho power of tho government. Sev eral other like advances wero related for the samo general purpose. Mr. Worthington read tho revela tion by Joseph Smith Jr., January1 10, 1841. nominating Brighara Young as president, and all the members of the high oouncil and the apostles. In this revelation was a command to 'accept them In general conference. Mr. hmltb doclired that even in tho original revelation naming u suc cessor to the first president it was in the power of tbc members to accept or reject. Witnruft TJd In ElTort to Frovi That Senator Keed Smoot In lipid In Same Hound by Apoxtle. Snctlntiii Partly UuriietL Mm a ThreHtt'ii Vengnnoo Oovurnor lU-npontl to Appeal for Troop. bqJ WASHINGTON . Ono of tho mos. interesting aud important featuro d the investigation of the Smoot cas before the senato commlttco on priv lieges and olectious was brought ou today in tho testimony of 15. U Critchlow, forraorly an asslBtan Uulted States attorney in Utah, win told tho story of the Moses Thatcho. cplsod. Accord'ng to his vcrslur which was borne out by olllcial ro cords. Apostle Thatcher poisistcc in continuing as a candidate for thi United States senate against th. wishes of a quorum of the apostle. and on that account w is held to b: 'not in harmony with his quorum.' Tho history of the campaign hcmatli agalust tho wishes of his fellow Mur mons, of his defeat and his subso quent trial before the committee o church officials was given in dotal and then Thatcher's submission ti the will of the ':hnich was read ano put in tho record of the Smoot in vestigation. Wl.tr. vnrtanf nflnn climunrl f. M n Thatchor, totally brokon in spirit nn bowing in absolutely to the mandate, of the church in that tho consent o an officer's quorum must bo obtaiucr in order that ho may continue it good standing. Tho purpose of tin testimony was to show that it wai necessary, according to the rules o! church, for Reed Smoot to have ob talncd tho consent of the chuich be fore he could have become a candl date for the senate. In addition to the Thatcher eplsod Mr. Critchlow gavo the history of tin prosecutions in Utah on charges o; polygamous cohabitation since thl passage of tho Edmuds law and tin legislation in tho territory and stati which effects Mormonism or polyg amy. His story was concise and in. terestlng and he was interrupted but little. Andrew Jensen, tho assistant hist torlan of the church, gavo tes'imonj showing the supremacy of the presi dent of the church. He related thl methods of the church, its control bj presidents of stakes and blsbopsi The president of the church, salt the witness, appointed the presidtn of the stakes, some lifty-threc ir number and these latter appointee the bishops, several hundred in num ber. The bishops could not act un til their appilntruent was approvet by the president of tbc church. Fire At Mate Normal. P'EllU, Neb.Firc discovered in the third story of the normal school building here caused damage to the iamount of 81000, before it was got (under control. Tho flames were discovered at n o'coick this morn ing. Tho west hall of Philo hall land the attic wero burning. The tire department from the city aided Uhe normal tire lighters and after an ihour's hard work tho fire was under (control. The cause of the lire is .'unknown. It Is thought the dam Wreck At Hullen. MULLEN, Neb.Thc Burlington! tastbound flyer was wrecked here at 1:40 this morning, and Brakeman Uharles Shaw killed. The only pas lengcr hurt wus James Mclntyre, a traveling man from Denver, who had his left thigh bruised, all the1 other passengers and the crew escap' Ing, miraculously, without injury, leceiving heavy jolts. The train was passing through here at a rapid rate when the light' tender flew tho track, breaking loose from both the engine ahead and tho baggage car behind, and shooting oil into the sand to the right a distance' of a hundred yards. The engine ran ahead over two. hundred yards before It could be, stopped. The baggage, the mail and the express cars, together with the Bmoker, two chair cars, the diner and the tourist sleeper were derailed 'and knocked from their trucks. The first three oars crashed Into the 1 platform and trie front of the depot, jail, telegraph and Fountain was strung uj Troops Quell "lob. SPRINGFIELD, 0.- Riotous con ditions this ovening were regardec by the pollco as more threatening than any time since the negro Dlxni, was lynched Monday night. Ttq companies of the Omaha National Guard are on picket duty and sever more companies aro expected. All saloons havo been closed all after noon and many other lines of buslncsi havo almost ceased. Fully 25,OOQ persons thronged the streots to-day, visiting the county pole at Main street Avenue, whore Dixon and tho burned out districts of tin lovee. At noon Mayor Howlus order led posted and printed In the rmwst 'papers a proclamation requesting everybody to remain off tho streetj jafter midnight, except in cases o urgent business, and to refrain from congregating in the streets In publM places. Any one found loitering ii public places In violation of this ro .quest will hi promptly prosecuted (The rnoh has at no time shown an' disposition to burn property othe than that ou the levee. War Developments. London has advlces.of land ongagc ments in nortnern Korea in whicl the Japanese were victorious. Grand Duchess Olga. a sister of th' tezar, is going to Manchuria to act a superintendent of the Red Gross. Japaneso forces have unexpectedly appeared near Antung.in Manchuria Of tho thirteen warships In Por Arthur harbor all but five are re inorted disabled SPRINGFIELD, O. intense ex cltoment prevails hero at nn early hour this morning which not ovon tho presence of seven companies of. tho national guard can allay. Tho excitement Is shared by all tho Busi ness men and property ownoiu of tho city, who fear that somo of the 'negroes will attempt to avongo tho burning of tho lovco district, begun bv whites tonleht. by firing tho down town business Iioubcs or thi ir hiracsin tlo resldonco district. Nota fourth of tho business district of tho city Is under patrol by either militia nr nonce, anu ic iookb us u uivau r ir'ard would havo to bo kept to pre vent further Incendiarism. It Is tbouuht. howovcr, that tho troops now on band will bo able to save tho western levee district In West Wash )ngton strcot, which tho lcade-re openly declared they would sot fire to as soon as tholr work In tho eastern half of tho street was com pleted. Ihcro is llttlo or no dla order, tho mob of 2,000 men standing quietly watching tho sproad of tho flames in tho neighborhood i.f Spring and Gallagher streets, and appar ently ready to help If it should Khow signs of sprcadlug beyond tho con fines they originally set for It. When tho leaders of the mob passed dowu East nigh strcot early last, ovening to begin the work of hurnine the levoo resorts, Father John (Jogan, assistant pastor of St. Raphael's church, got down on his knees on the sidewalk and Implored them to desist in tholr work as they might start a flio that they would never bo ablo to control. Tho incen diaries paused only a moment, a few nf thHin nursed him and then went quickly on to begin tholr task. Threats throughout tho day and eveniug to burn the leveo, the negro district of the city, confirmed Mayor, HnwliiR in his belief that more trouble might he oxpected toulght In consequence ho asked Governor Herrick for troops and five companies havo hecu ordered hero to rolnforcc the two local companies. Early In tho evening small groups of whites wero noticed gathered In tho vicinity of the levee district and nil diiv tho nolico wore called out to rf M aucment the night force. Appaicntly the negroes all over the cltv aro becoming intimidated, and their boasts mado in tho earlier part ot the evening aro no longer heurd rPhn rnninnnv of militia from Xenla, arrived at 1 :30 this (Wednes davl morning and wero immediately sent towards the levee by a clr- nif.min rnntn. The companies of local militia arc guarding the armory whera ammunition Is stored. They are commanded by Major Kirk natrlnk. The feellnc of unrest Js a oontuated by tho uncertainty of Vhat the mob Is going to do or here the trouhlo may next begin uqbI night thore was one mob and Ihelr purpose was to lynch the negro. iL'onliiht thero arc reported to bo mobs, undercover, ono of whites one of blacks and there Is a feel- hig that race war of sorious propor ions is Imminent. 'I d two Wi Many Wink At Law WASIIINGTON.-Scvcral olik-ou jr the Mormon church today testified in the Senator Reed Smoot case lefore the senate committee on rivileges and elections that they ad 'jural wives and had continued hi practice polygamous cohabitation ince tho manifesto of 1800. Just ji-foro the adjournment for the day die committee held an cxecutlivo Ksslon to have read tho unprintable l.'Stiraony in tbo Teasdale divorce .lisc. The prosecution said it had 10 more witnesses ready to put on lie stand on account uf the failure f several summoned officers of the orman church lo appear. Lorln Ilarmer formerly a bishop of he Mnrmon church today gavo the rst tfsitmonv in favor of the defense hat has beon offered thus far in the Ight days of tho hearings, lie said le was convicted of the crime of Idultery and that ho believed Reed moot was responsible for his arrest, the charge agairiBt Harmor was Inlawful cohabitation that was not Ills wife and not a prosecution on recount of conhabltaticn with bis flural wives. be n sold to IJ. F. Shod bjC A. Bar tliol mow. ! The Dole B'lorol eompABjr has been ncoioporated afc Bcatkfce with capital of $26,000. M r J.iinos Slander ot iMf toUc M a delegate to WorWa Rmdiy Softool convention nt Jerusalem. For stealing a meerschaum dijh at' Boatrleu, Olaudo Ourpcnior Dai been sent to jail for thrrlj duys. J. II. Sparks of St. Joaop.ljaa boen awarded tho contract m bHlWlnf tho bridges In Gage wanly. Walker Smith haa beoa apfolatct! postmaster at El wood, Gospcurwantj vlcu Alfred M. White veslgwdi. W. F. Ellis, n UnomM lor krt Ne braska Telephone conpftvy, badH ly injured by a fall at Jforlott Wed nesday. , John Clark of Stowc City t toeiug held In Jail at Norfolk n niaiutorji charge, brought by Fsfc I Rifb-j ardson. J. F. Swrrrt2, lor iwto rcsldont of Deatrico dW , l nw homo of pnoumoula. He Ttjeam of ago. Sovorolen Leetnaer O. g. BWc of the Woodman of tbp WAM lefiurod nb nn nncn meet I so last nJCHi as Ponder. T (3. Rullis. charecd with banl robbery at Lyons, was ycstoitlay takoa to that placo from Lincoln foi a pie-i llmlnary hoarlug. Bessie Webb, of Piuttsmoufth, toeW her suit against thcChicngo, lmlinH ton & Otiincy railroad for $61)0 dama-' ges lor tho death of hor husband. J D. L. Schcnfeldt of Petersburg has sold his largo stock of narawajro to John Brpoldlng. Mr. Blienfcldt will locate in ono of tho southern states.. Gray Yates of Omaha ploadeAflulltyj in the district court at Plnttsraoutbj to petit, larcouy and was scntenood to ton days In the county Jail by JmW Jcssun. David Quackonbush dUid at bii homo near Bcatrico. Ho came to, Ucitrlcc in 1800 and was 00 years of age. He leaves a wife and six chil dren, j A rural route will be established at Columbus April 1, with ono carrier,, embracing an arou of thUfcy-twft square miles and containing a popu lation of 4000. One of the largo refrlgoraipr ice houses of the Burlington at McCook was destroyed by fire last night. Loss $.-) 500. Moro than 2,000 tons of loe wero in the building. The Rev. C. R. Hamlin, pasior o( tho Plymouth Congregational rhuroa of Lincoln, has resigned, fco take ef-i feet .1 uno 12. He has not determined on his plans for tho future. Richard Danlols was yeateiday dis charged from dlstilct court at Dlalr,, alter pleading guilty to aaflaalt an battery. Wbilo awatlriK tifal ho w,v strickcu with paralysis. Real estate la active Hero spring, aod Js bringing god prices. The Hotel Riley block at FlaltemouU was transferred by like & Meyers of NownorttoJ. May Dolg of Hansas City for the sum of WS.OOO. While ongaged In a Qjuanol at Wa terloo, William McCUntock drew a revolver and attempted to shoot David Slboit. Tho'.bullet went wild. McCUntock was sent to Omaha for arralgnmeut. Miss Kathorino M. Shepherd of Lincoln has brought suit against tho Lincoln Traction company for 820,000 p.-isonal damages, alleged to have ueen received by being thrown from a street oar over a year ago. A sheep shearing plant Is in opera tion at Fremont. The powor is fur nlsned by a gasoline engine. Opera tors who can handle the machine got $s a day and can shear a sheep in three mlnutos. At a leap year party, at Norkolk, sixteen mulds escorted sixteen young mnu to the scone of festivities and took them home again. The prize was a cake with tho names or tht- slxtceu young women mm marriage license. The famous Miles' case from Falls City baB again reached tho supreme court, on an appoal by Samuel Miles one of the beira-at-lav?, who was de feated In the district court. The ap hasod oa the refusal of tha hower court W d pit as wly dlkotsn age will not exceed ftLQQQ, fcowplejkJr dnjspUlbJLnj it