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Belleville Daily Freeman 9 BELLEVILLE, KAXSAS.J FRIDAY, 3IARCII 24, 1905. VOL I. NO. 32. TEX CENTS PER WEEK The Hounds Arrive Belleuille City New Ownes a.

Fine Pair of Thor-bred Blood Hounds. Russians to Fall Back Correspondent Says General Linevitch Needs 200,000 More Men Reinforcements are Arriving at the Rate of 1,200 a Day M3THER F0RCET3 EAEE Illinois Woman Leaves Infant on Train and it Makes a Trip Into Iowa. Hillsdale, 111., March 24. The six-weeks-old babe of Mrs. E.

Merry-man arrived home here after having been carried 200 miles by rail before the anxious mother discovered what had become of the child. Mrs. Merry-man and her baby were visiting in a nearby town. On returning home the mother was met at the train by her aister. Mrs.

Merryman was so anxious to get home that she forgot about her sleeping infant and hurried away. After a time she went to the bedroom where she thought she had placed the child, but the infant was gone. Mrs. Merryman, after collecting her thoughts discovered she had forgotten the baby. Telegrams were sent after the train and in Iowa the child was found still sleeping.

In the care of trainmen the babe was promptly sent home. fleet seen was Admiral Rojestvensky's they must already be within some 600 miles of Colombo, and hence must have left Nossi Be much earlier than supposed. Two German steamers left Jibutil at midnight of March 22, with provisions for the Russian squadron. St. Petersburg, March 24.

The pos-j ibility that if the Russian army should be unable to hold the lower line cf the Sungari river at Chenchiawatzu It may- be compelled to retreat not only to Harbin, but also further westward along the railroad, abandoning to the Japanese northern Manchuria The hounds which Marshall Waller has been trying for some time to get for the city of Belleville have already arrived and are as fine a pair of dog flesh as you ever saw. Now it will not be necessary for us to explain that we are not strictly up to date on dog parlance but you can see that we are very anxious to impress upon you the fact that the dogs are good ones and warn you of the danger in which you are placing yourself if you do not mend your ways. The dogs are both young but Mr. Waller guarantees that they have good smellers and when he puts them on track of a criminal that they will not lead to the popular minister's or the favorite editor's door. That is all the guaranantee we want in this blood hound business for we have all the mistakes and errors to answer for now that we can stand and don't want those of a dog added.

PEARY'S NEWSHIP LAUNCHED Is Christened "Roosevelt" and is Best Arctic Vessel Ever Built. Bucksport, March 24. Commander Robert Peary'3 Arctic exploration steamship was launched suc-cussfully. It was christened by Mrs. Peary.

The vessel was designed by Naval Architect William E. Winalt of New York, and, it is claimed, is the result of all that experience in Arctic navigation to this date can suggest. It is considered the strongest in construction, most powerful and best equipped craft for combatting the Arctic ice ever built The vessel is described as "a three-masted fore and aft schooner-rigged steamship, with auxiliary sail power." Its principal dimensions are: Length over all, 182 feet; beam, 35.5 feet; depth, ,16.3 feet; mean draft with stores, 17 feet; gross tonnage, 614 tons, and estimated displacement, about 1,500 tons. Its model Is similar to modern built steam whalers, but rather more sharp, the particular features being its long, high raking bow, overhanging stern and general wedge shape at the sides, in order that it may be lifted free if nipped in the ice. The steamship was built of white oak, the frames being triple and close together, with double planking, making the walls from twenty-four to thirty inches thick.

The keel is sixteen inches thick, bin false keels and keelsons form a backbone projecting six feet under the entire length of the vessel. The bow is backed by twelve feet of solid dead wood. Its engine and boilers will develop from 1,000 to power. Its cost when ready for sea will be $100,000. The funds for the vessel's construction were supplied by the Peary Arctic club of New York.

ana uo itussian mariume Amur yrov-iaces as well, is the latest, startling tews from the front. The strategic weakness of General Unevitch's position as he falls back northward is made clear by a Gunshu dispatch to the Associated Press, in which it is pointed ont that unless the Sungari lines, a scant 100 miles below Harbin, can be held, it will be Japanese Turning Movement. Gunshu Pass, March 24. Reports persist of Japanese turning movements on both flanks of the Russian army. Chinese state that the Japanese have recruited many Chinese bandits and that probably they are now able to count a superiority in cavalry, as well as infantry.

Captured Japanese report a terrible affray in the streets of Mukden on March 10. when a big detachment of Russians, the last to leave the city, were entrapped by Chinese bar.dits and a few Japanese soldiers, who closed the city gates and blocked the narrow streets. According to the report, which is r.ct confirmed, not a Russian escaped. "Buffalo Bill" Loses Wyoming Court Finds ThatHe is Not Entitled to Divorce-Rules for Defendant in all Points Man Hunt on McNeill's Island. Tacoma, March 24.

Deputy marshals are searching every acre of McNeill's island for Albert E. Bell, the mail pouch robber and bank swindler, who escaped from the federal prison. If Bell has not been taken from the island by confederates, his capture is certain. Pulajanes Are Quieted, Manila, March 24. General Allen of the constabulary, in command of the federal troops on the island of Samar, reports that the uprising among the Pulajanes is now under control, and that the majority of the regular troops will be withdrawn.

Major General Corbin and General Allen are now at Samar, holding a conference regarding the measures which it will be necessary to take in the future. SAW Germany Arouses Turkish ir. London, March 24. The coTesponl-ent at Constantinople of the Daily Telegraph says: "The council cf ministers is deliberating on the German note vetoing, with threats, the purchase of war material in France. The greatest indignation is expressed at Germany's high handed action." Whitman Acquitted on One Charge.

Buffalo, March 24. Alonzo J. Whitman of Dansville, N. a former member of the Minnesota legislature, was acquitted on a charge of grand larceny. There still are five indict-meats against Whitman on charges of grand larceny, forgery and attempted larceny.

They Hog It All Concordia People are Still Having Trouble Over City Election Mrs. Cody a Devoted Wife. "She was an over-indulgent mother and wife, who always took pride in his success and always looked forward to his home-coming and made great preparations to receive him," said Judge Scott. "She entertained his guests with cordiality. She did not use profane language.

The poisoning of his pet dogs was accidental. She never spoke disrespectfully of him to his friends or guests. She always accompanied him to the depot on his departures and was there to receive him on his returns. In her home she has a large statue of him in the hall; in her bedroom she has his portrait, done by a famous painter; on her stand she has his photograph and the dishes she used were souvenir ones stamped and etched with his portrait. Such, in brief, is the character and conduct of Mrs.

Cody extending over a long period of her married life. In return for this wifely devotion the plaintiff has been cruel to her and heaped indignities upon her. Even if it ware true that the defendant had at times been impatient with him, and such impatience has been considered as indignities, it is also true that she has had much to contend with. Some Allegations Not Sustained. "There are some allegations in the answer that are not sustained by the evidence.

From the testimony it does not appear that the plaintiff was so addicted to gambling as to impair his business abilities or trustworthiness. He did not use intoxicating liquors in such quantities as to interfere with Seven Injured in Runaway Accident. Wheeling, W. March 24. Mrs.

Shane Bell and Mrs. John Morris will probably die and five others are severely injured as the result of a runaway accident at Bellaire. The worst injured were in a carriage driven by Jacob Duke, returning from a funeral. The horses became frightened at a train and dashed into a carriage containing the other injured, driven by Robert Brown. The wheels caught and Duke's carriage was thrown over a thirty-foot embankment.

judges on the recommendation of the officers of the County Central Committee, where there was no city central committee. Evidently where the party has no city party organization the recommendation of the county committee is of no force or effect in city election. Special to Daily Freeman Concordia, Kansas, March 23. The county attorney of Cloud county today received an opinion from the Attorney General, in which he upheld the action of Mayor Wheeler in refusing to appoint Democratic election Sheridan, March 24. The district court here refused the petition of Colonel William F.

Cody (Buffalo Bill) for a divorce. A decision in the case was not expected before tomorrow, but the court room was filled with residents cf Sheridan and the surrounding country when it was given. After the reading of the depositions was finished the lawyers for both sides announced that they would submit the case without argument. After a short recess, Judge R. H.

Scott asked the attorneys for tbe defendant, Wilcox and Halligan of North Platte, to amend their answer in the case by striking out those sections which dealt with charges against Miss Isbell, Cody's conduct in Chicago and his early excesses at Fort McPherson. When this was done the court found entirely in favor of the defendant, Mrs. Louisa Cody. Judge Scott's opinion. Judge Scott delivered an opinion of considerable length, reviewing the allegations and evidence and giving hi3 "The first cause of action in this case," Judge Scott, "is the charge of poisoning on Dec.

26, 1900. The evidence wholly fails to support this issue, but shows the defendant was trying to rescue the plaintiff from a state of intoxication and administered not poison, but remedies which she deemed beneficial to him. His inability to speak on this occasion did not come from these remedies, but came from his excessive use of intoxicating liquors at the banquet board, and was as humiliating to the defendant as to the plaintiff. The unhappiness caused by the actions of the plaintiff is shown by the letter of their daughter, Arta Thorpe, whose beautiful character shone out from her unhappy home and the words of her letter written before her death. 'Oh, papa, why did he do My heart is just broken over it.

Oh, why did he do Judge Scott also found that the charge of unbecoming actions on the part of the defendant toward the colonel's guests was not proven, that there was no evidence that she had even threatened her husband's life and that when attending the funeral of her daughter, Arta, at Rochester, in February, 1904, she offered a permanent reconciliation and no answer ever came to this. 1LA.P SHOWING THE RUSSIAN LIKE OF RETREAT. difficult to maintain a position farther back before Harbin, with the front of the army paralleling the railroad, the practicability of a turning movement to completely sever communications and isolate the army miles from home is too serious for Russian consideration. In view of this possibility the dispatch alluded to suggests the advisability of immediately providing Vladivostok with war munitions and supplies for a two years' siege. The correspondent estimates the number of reinforcements needed to give General Linevitch the requisite superiority in force at At the general staff the view that Linevitch may be compelled to abandon Harbin and retire towards Lake Baikal, leaving Vladivostok to its fate, is regarded as almost unwarranted by anything that is officially known there, it being pointed out that Field Marshal Oyama will have a long and laborious task to bring up en army of 300,000 or 400,000 men.

Meanwhile Russian reinforcements are arriving at Harbin at the rate of 1,200 men per day. Nevertheless it is significant that there is now a well marked peace party at the war office. It is announced here that all the women have been ordered to leave Vladivostok. Standard Gonfe ith Gov. Hog the transaction of his business." i An exception to the ruling of the court was noted by Judge Ridgley, General Council for Oil Combine Says We Don't Want to Punish State Want Fair Deal.

attorney for Colonel Cody, and his request for sixty days for filing a petition for a rehearing was granted. The-motion for a new trial will be argued at the next term of court and in case this is denied Cody's attorneys will take the matter to the supreme court of Wyoming. Bryan Elected President. Lincoln, March 24. The Nebraska Democratic Editorial association, which concluded its meeting, elected W.

J. Bryan president. Mr. Bryan made an address, in which he said the present outlook for the Democratic party was the most encouraging for years. An extended address was made by Louis F.

Post, editor of the Chicago Public. Americans Dined at Havana. Havana, March 24. The climax of the enthusiasm over the visit of the American squadron was reached at the luncheon in the National theater to the American officers by the Veterans of the Revolution. Forty naval officers and nearly 200 leading Cuban veterans were seated.

Prominent among those at the speaker's table were Minister Squiers, Commanders Colby, Cowles and Arnett, General Maximo Gomez, members of the cabinet, the governor of the province and the mayor of Havana. All the boxes and most of the galleries were filled with ladies, who frequently joined in the applause. railroad nployes who went on strike two weeks ago, many of whom are now in actual want. Mr. Belmont promised to discuss the matter with the officials of the committee.

Test Legality of Oil Refinery Bonds. Topeka, March 23 State Auditor Wells announced that he would refuse to register the state oil refinery bonds until ordered to by the supreme court This will force an immediate test of the legality of the bonds. The auditor's action is friendly and is taken for the purpose of giving tha. toads a jsroDer standing. Russian Second Pacific Squadron.

London, March 24. No further news has been received here throwing light on the movements of the Russian second Pacific squadron. The report from Port Louis, Mauritius, that during the night of March 16 a Russian torpedo boat, preceding a squadron of warships, had been sighted by a vessel arriving there from Colombo, Ceylon, is considered too vague to afford basis for judgment, but if the Topeka, March 24. A. D.

Eddy of Chicago, general counsel of the Standard Oil company, conferred with Governor Hoch regarding oil legislation in this state. Mr. Eddy asked that no receivership proceedings be started against the Prairie Oil and Gas company until the ouster case against the same company, now in the supreme court, be decided. Mr. Eddy said the Standard would show evidence in its favor during the hearing of the ouster case.

Governor Hoch would make no promises, saying that he would act as the best interests of the state appeared to demand. Mr. Eddy assured Governor Hoch that the Standard was not trying to punish Kansas, and only wanted a square deal. Train Wrecked by Rockslide. Spokane, March 24.

Great Northern westbound passenger train No. 1 was wrecked by a rockslide near Katka, Ida. Engineer Owen Jones of Hillyard was killed. The engine plunged into the Kootenai river. The baggage and mail cars were smashed and caught fire.

The passengers were badly shaken up, but none was seriously Frozen to Death in Blizzard. Westcliffe, March 24. The tiody of Mrs. Henry Fall was found twenty miles from Junkin Park. She had been frozen to death.

A thirteen-year-old son was lying beside her, frozen stiff, but still alive. It is believed that he too will die. the mother and son left Junkin Park to walk to Westcliffe and were overtaken by a blizzard. "Beef Trust" Inquiry Twelve Witnesses ExaminedRigid Censorship Allows the Public Very Little Information SgHooI Election School Election in Territory Adjacent to Belleville at the Superintendent's Office. same business at Kansas City.

The session proved more satisfactory to the government officials because a form of questioning the witnesses was adopted and the work was accordingly carried on more rapidly. Swamped with names of would-be witnesses, District Attorney Morrison announced that if twenty-five or fifty witnesses give evidence sufficient for indictment, the investigation will' close with their testimony. To Christen Kansas With Oil. Topeka, March 24 The battle ship Kansas will be christened by breaking a bottle of Kansas crude oil over its prow in the place of a bottle of champagne, as is the usual custom. This is the idea of Governor Hoch.

Accident in the Subway, New York, March 24. Motorman James Daly was seriously injured, several persons were slightly hurt and traffic in the subway was blocked for half an hour during the rush hours as a result of a rear-end collision of two trains at One Hundred and Sixteenth street. The accident is said to have resulted from a misunderstanding of signals by the motorman. Pago Murder Still a Deep Mystery. St.

Louis, March 24. All the efforts of the police to solve the mysterious murder of Mrs. Mary B. Page, an aged fortune teller, who was found bound and strangled to death in her home last Monday, have proved fruitless. A number of lodgers in the house and others held by the police on suspicion have been released, and there is no one in custody.

Want Subway Strikers Reinstated. New York, March 24. August BeK mont, president of the Interborough Rapid Transit company, was appealed to by the united labor organizations to. reinstate the subway and elevated Chicago, March 24. Twelve cut-of-town witnesses, supposed to be men employed by various packing firms and retail meat dealers, have thus far testified before the special grand jury which is hearing evidence against the so-called "beef trust." Although the censorship against any publicity of what transpires in the jury room is as strict as on the first day of the investigation and witnesses have been so thoroughly coached that they fear to make their names public, it was learned that during almost all of the session District Attorney Morrison sought evidence concerning the price retail dealers in meats were forced to pay the packers and the price some of the packing concerns have been paying the littl raisers for beef on the hoof.

The three most important witnesses before the grand jury along this line were R. C. Howe, general manager for Armour Co. at Omaha, and T. W.

Kelly, retail meat dealer at Cedar Rapids. and Robert Hall, in the Death of Josiah E. Sherry. St. Louis, March 24 After an 111-J55ss of ten weeks, Josiah E.

Sherry, president of the Sherry-Bacon Grain company, and one of the leading corn experts in the country, died at hi3 home here. Mr. Sherry was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, in 1842, and for nearly forty years he had been identified with the grain business in the west. Two Children Perish in Fire. Howard City, March 24.

Two children of Mr. and Mrs. George Hysell have been burned to death in their home at Alanson, where the father is a mill employe. The mother, when she discovered the flames, rushed out for help. The roof fell in Just as sh returned and th children parlshed.

There will be an annual election held in the city of Belleville, at the office of the Superintendent of the city school, on the 4th day of April, 1905, between the hours of i o'clock p. m. and 5 o'clock p. for the purpose of electing1 two members of the Board of Education for the adjacent territory to the city of Belleville, in school district No. 14.

One member of the Board of Education to to be elected to serve for the term of two years and one member of the Board of Education to be elected to serve for the term of one year, to fill vacancy. D- Y. Wilson, Secy, Board Education. Endorse Stock Growers' Association. Fort Worth, March 24 The Texas Cattle Raisers association "adopted resolutions endorsing the American Stock Growers' association, organized at Denver, and advising all to Join.

It also endorses the giving of more power to the Interstate commerce commission; objects to a national organization composed of associations; condemns South Dakota cattle regulations, saying the federal laws were sufficient. Chinese Smuggled Over Border. Tuma, March 24. Twenty-four Chinamen were discovered ia a boxcar in the Southern Pacific yards. They had been smuggled over the Mexican border at El Paso and were on their way to Los Angeles.

Alfred Griffin, United States Chinese inspector, was notified and took them into custody..