Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 123, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1904 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL,' VviONDAY, MAY 2, 1904.

the Russians retired down the rlveivpr In the direction -of Feng-Huan-Cheng. on the road to Lioa-Yanjr.

RUSSIANS ADMIT THEY SUFFERED-A REVERSE ST. PETERSBURG, May 1 The general staff has Issued the following account of the affairs on the Yalu river on April 23 and SO: "Prom General Kuropatkln's telegrams it appears that the Japanese, having crossed to the right bank of the Yalu near the village of Slndiagu, occupied the villages of Khussen and Litzaven. General Sassulitch, with the view to reoecupy Litzaven and the heights near Khussan, ordered, on April 20. a thorough recon-r-oiiancc of the position which the Japanese occupied and then sent a detachment commanded by Staff Lieutenant Colonel Lind to attack the enemy. The positions near Litzaven and Khussan were defended by a Japanese force consisting of two battalions of the Fourth Regiment of the Guard, with mountain guns' and a small force of cavalry of the Guard. With the assistance of our artillery from rotietlnsky, our troops dislodged the Japanese from their position, losing two sharpshooters killed and thirteen bounded. The Japanese left on the position they vacated ten dead and twenty-six mounded. They also carried away a number cf their wounded and others scrambled down the cliffs to the Yalu. The enemy Euccteded In removing their mountain guns. "After occupying the heights near Sindiagu, where our troops came under a heavy fire from a Japanese battery posted north of Wiju, two of our guns shelled a pontoon bridge and compelled the Japanese to dismantle it. The Japanese troops at Litzaven and Khussan retreated partly to the Yalu and partly northward. LTp to the present ten carbines and many cartridges and maps have been found on the Japanese positions. "Conspicuous gallantry was displayed by the light Infantry of the Tenth and Twelfth Regiments under Lieutenant Yantchiss. "At 1 "o'clock on the morning of April 23 a Japanese force of 1,&)0 infantry, with twelve guns, bgan to cross the river at Ambikhe and Schogapoudzy. Near Ambikhe there was a small Russian detachment under Lieutenant Colonel Goussev, which was compelled to retire under the eu3tained tire of two Japanese batteries of tlx guns each. Four men were wounded and Lieutenant Colonel Gousseve was bruised on the head and left arm. Our mountain guns were unable to return the enemy's fire on account of the excessive range, and reinforcemnts were sent to the detachment with orders to drive the Japanese beyond the Yalu. General Mistchenko reports that Japanese warships at the mouth of the Yalu on April 2ü opened fire on our troops, the cannonade lasting for twenty minutes. No damage was done. All Is qui;t at YinKow. "On April 30, from 10 o'clock In the morn- ' lr.g until 5 in the afternoon, the Japanese shelled our position at Turenchen from , their batteries on the left bank, where they had posted twenty-four field guns and twelve 120-millimetre siege guns, which were cleverly mounted Jn masked earthworks. They fired a minimum of 2.000 projectiles. Our troops held stubbornly to the position at Tuerenchen. "On the morning of April SO the Japanese recrossed the Yalu at Sindiagu, attacking our troops posted on the heights near, the village of Khussan and turning our left flank. Owing to the great superiority of the Japanese forces we retreated to a position near the village of Potietinsky. "Our" losses at the Tuerenchen position were Lieutenant Pakhaloff killed and Lieu tenant Colonel Mahler, commanding a bat tery of the Sixth artillery brigade, seriously wounded in the head; Colonel Mester, Cap tain Vorobieff, Captain Sapejnikoff, Lieu tenant Philadelphoff and Captain Atra cchenko wounded. Lieutenant RutropofC. of tho Twenty-second Regiment, was seriously wounded in the head on the pontoon, near Khussan"Our losses In men have not yet been lejilQy: .ascertained, but up to the present "1 Is only known that three are killed and nineteen wounded." Serious Loirm Admitted. ' ST. PETERSBURG, May 1. The general staff account of the operations on the Yalu river to-day Is as follows: "At 4 o'clock this morning Japanese field batteries with 4.7 guns opened a terrific fire n our position at Turonehen and on our troops posted near Potietinsky. "The overwhelming superority of the .Japanese in artillery, and the heavy losses their fire inflicted on our troops occupying those positions made it clear to General Sassulitch that it was impossible to hold Turenchon. Consequently the troops were crdered to retire from Turenchon while still holding the Potietinsky road. "When General Sassulitch dispatched his telegram the Russian troops were retiring in good order from Turenchen and Schakheday to their second position and the battle was continuing at Potietinsky and Tchinsu." SkrydlofT Yet lias Hope. ST. PETERSBURG. May 2, 2:25 a. m. Vice Admiral Skrydloft has telegraphed General Kuropatkin as follows: "I hope that the combined efforts of the navy and the army, the latter under the guidance of 'Skobeleffs right hand, will vanquish the foe to the glory of the Em peror and cf Kussia. LOSSES WERE SMALL; SUCCESS IS COMPLETE WASHINGTON. May 1. The following "telegram, dated May 1, has been received at the Japanese leg-ution from Tokio: "General Kurokl, commanding the first army, reports that on the 26th of April preparations were made for laying bridges across the Yalu. On the same day detachments of the Imperial Guard and of the Second Division attacked and dispersed the enemy on Islands in the river and occupied the islands. In those engagements sixteen . of the Imperial Guard were seriously and nine slightly wounded, while there were no casualties in the Second Division. The enemy retreated, carrying many dead and wour.ded toward Chiu-Tien-Chang. A Ruscian cavalryman taken prisoner said that the Twenty-second, Twenty-third and Twenty-seventh Infantry Regiments of the Easttrn Siberian Sharpshooters, formed the van of the Russian force. Lieutenant Senyoloff, commanding the mountain scouts of the Twenty-second Regiment, was found dead, and was buried at Wiju. Ninety-five dead horses were found. "From noon of the 2oth until the 27th the """enemy fired intermittently on Wiju, but no reply was made. On the 26th two gunboats, two torpedo boats and two steamers detached from the squadron of Admiral llosoya ascended the Yalu and exchanged shots with the enemy on Antzu-Shan and silenced him. The detachment suffered no damage. On April 25 two infantry companies of the Impei lal Guard reconnoitered llu-Shan and i part of the company was detached to Sitzu-Yuen, from which place the enemy fled, leaving five. dead. The rnemy tired at long range from the neighborhood of Chiu-Tien-Chang on Wiju, without much effect on our works. "Ou April ?J th Twelfth Division commenced tiri.ii-'lnp the river at Suki-Chin and completed the work early on the morning of, the 30th. and the army crossed. From lf:40 a. m. to 1:30 p. m. there was severe tiring on ail sides, but the enemy was soon silenced. Our losses were five officers slightlr wounded, and of noncommissioned rhcera and men. two killed and twenty-two .wounded. At X p. m. of the tame day the bridge over the main stream was completed, and the army, crostdugr. advanced upon Hu-Shan. Ou the same day the detachment from Admiral Hosoyas squadron advanced below Antung-Sien and fought at close ranjfe with 4X of the enemy's Infantry and cavalry. The enemy's artillery clso directed a heavy fire against the detachment, but retreated after about an hour's firing. There were no casualties on our tide. On May I. at daybreak, our forces commenced canaourtülng, and silenced the enemy's artillery on the hill northwest of Yu-Siiu-Kou. and at :'M all divlfions advanced to iLe attack -and by & a. m. took possessio!

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MAP SHOWING THE YALU RIVER AND FOUGHT. CROSS MARKS (xxx) SHOW AND MANCHURIA. of the heights, extending from Chiu-Tien-Chang to the north of Ma-Kou and Yu-Shu-Kou." FIGHT NOT DECISIVE, SAYS ST. PETERSBURG ST. PETERSBURG, May 2, 3:30 a. m. The first Japanese army, under General Kuroki, consisting of the Guards and the Second and Eighteenth Divisions, according to official and private advices from the front, crossed the Y'alu river yesterday about thirty miles above the mouth of the river, near Kiutien-Tse, where the river bends abruptly to the eastward. For three days less that 5,000 Russians, under Generals Sassulitch, Mistchenko and Kashtalinsky, have been strung along the Manchurian side of the river and have been harrasslng and Impeding the crossing of the Japanese very successfully, despite their hopeless inferiority In men and guns. On Friday the Japaneso who had occupied the heights near Litzaven and Kossen, above Antung, were dislodged and driven back to the river with considerable loss. They were compelled to dismount their pontoon bridge In order to save it from destruction. . Saturday a gunboat flotilla at the mouth of the river and all the field guns posted on the Korean bank opened a bombardment and scattered the Russian positions on the Manchurian 6ide. The bombardment was maintained intermittently for seven hours, twenty-four field guns and twelve 4-7 guns participating, over 2,000 shells being fired. The Russian reports pay tribute to the fine masked position of these guns. In two days fighting the Russians lost two officers and five men killed and six officers and thirty-six men wounded. On the morning of May 1 it became apparent that the bombardment of Saturday was a preliminary to the crossing on Sunday, when the Japanese opened again with their batteries, pouring an intense fire into the Russian lines, which caused, great losses. The Russians had no intention of trying to prevent the Japanese crossing, their sole object being to retard and embarrass the movement as much as possible. With a comparatively insignificant force, , this having been accomplished. General Sassulitch, menaced by the overThelming force of the Japanese, retired in perfect order to his second position, a short distance away, which the Japanese immediately attacked and where fighting is now in progress. The report from Tokio stating that the Russians were contesting: the passage of the river with a force 30.000 strong. leads the authorities here to believe that it was put out for the purpose of acclaiming the crossing as a great Japanese victory, whereas they are certain that it cannot possibly warrant such a claim. The Russians believe that it will require another week to get General Kuroki's army completely across and ready to advance on the Peking road. The fact that the Russians have retreated to positions back of Turenchen, where there is more fighting, shows that they have built intrenchments, which the Japanese are under the necessity of taking before they can push on. Consequently, continuous fighting and skirmishing will occur, the plan of the Russians being to hang on the flanks of the enemy and anno- and worry them to the uttermost. Nothing really decisive, however, is expected until the Japanese advance shall encounter the Russian position in the mountain passes of Feng-Huan-Cheng. It is even considered possible that the Japanese may be able to turn the Russian position there, but all this Is provided for in General Kuropatkin's plans. MORE MINES LAID OFF PORT ARTHUR TORT ARTHUR, May 1. Details of the demonstration off Port Arthur on Ajril 27 disclose the desperate ingenuity of the Japanese. Their squadron set afloat a string of connected rafts carrying burning materials. About 1:40 o'clock in the morning, when five miles off shore, the combustibles were fired, the wind and waves bringing the burning floats toward the harbor. Under cover of this screen of fire eight Japanese torp-io boats, towing a launch filled with mines, slipped around to a spot near where the Petropavlovsk was sunk, but they were detected by Russian searchlights when the bajtteries opened fire and drove them off, but not before the mines had been sown. The mines have since been destroyed. The Japanese, knowing that the Russians would intercept wireless messages, tried a neat trick to deceive and worry Viceroy Alexieff. For several nights in succession they sent by wireless telegraphy orders to prepare for a landing, to send in fireships, to attack with submarine boats, etc., but no action was taken, though the Russians were kept on the alert. JAPANESE EXPECT TO LAND ON LI AO -TUNG CHEE-FOO, May 1. It Is expected here that the Japanese will land on the I.laoTung peninsula near Taku-Shan, if they Nhave not already done so. It is learned from Chinese who have arrived from Taku-Shan that on April 22 four Japanese warships, twelve torpedo boat destroyers and some torpedo boats approached Taku-Shan. Seventeen officers and a party of men landed. They were discovered by the Russian coast guards, who tired on them. The Japanese then returned to their ships, which were still off Taku-Shan when the Chinese left there on April 23. There are some grounds for the belief that a number of transports joined the Japanese fleet at a rendezvous on the west side of the bay of Korea. nunalnii Hod a Narrow Karaite. ST. PETERSBURG, May 2. 2:30 a. m. Information received here shows that Rear Admiral Messen, commanding the Vladivostok squadron, had a narrow escape while on his raiding expedition. By means of a wireless telegraph message which he Intercepted, the admiral learned that he was surrounded by Japanese warships, but owing to a dense fog he was able to slip into Vladivostok harbor unobserved. WnnU Ills Wounded Removed. MOSCOW, May 1. General Kuropatkin has telegraphed the marshal of tha nobility 'reu,uesUnj that the staffs of bospi-

WIJL. WHERE THE RATTLE IS DEINO THE FRONTIER LINE BETWEEN KOREA tals equipped by the nobility assist in removing the wounded from the front to the rear of the army. Fori CauMed Japanese Fallare. TOKIO, May 1. 9 p. m. The latest Japanese naval movements against Vladivostok failed of success because of the dense fogs which prevailed in the vicinity of that port. PAN ANTONIO DVORAK IS DEAD AT PRAGUE PRAGUE, Bohemia, May 1. Pan Antonio Dvorak, the composer, formerly director of the Conservatory of Music, New Y'ork, died suddenly here to-day of apoplexy. He was born at Neetaoin, Mullhauscn, Bohemia, Sept. S, 1SÜ. DEBS AND HAt) FORD TO BE Oil SOCIALIST TICKET National Convention at Chicago to Name Candidates and Adopt Platform. MAY TAKE IN NEGROES CHICAGO, May 1. The Socialist party met here to-day and organized a convention which will nominate candidates for President and Vice President and frame a national platform. The convention consists of 230 delegates, every State in the Union being represented, with the exception of Arizona. William Mitty. national secretary of the permanent socialistic movement, called the convention to order at 10:30 o'clock this morning and introduced the temporary ofcers chosen, James F. Garvey, of Haverhill, Mass., chairman, and Charles Dobbs, of New York city, as secretary. The committee on credentials was selected as follows: Delegates Carver, Missouri; Hayes, Ohio; Kronenburg, New York; Titus, Washington; FloäYen, Colorado; Bistorious. "Wisconsin, and Leo, New York, the latter being made chairman of the committee. The committee on rules was made up cf Delegates Seymour, Stedmao, W. I. Gaylord, Taft, Robbins. Work and Stobodin. After organization had been completed the convention adjourned until this afternoon, when the temporary organization was made permanent, and in addition Frank K. Waldhorst, of Birmingham, Ala., and I. B. Cross, of Madison., Wis., were chosen as reading clerk and assistant secretary of the convention. The chairman's permanency is but for individual daws of the convention. No other business of importance was transacted and the convention adjourned until to-morrow. The nomination of Eugene V. Debs for President and Benjamin Hanford, of New Y'ork city, for Vice President by the convention seems already assured. The question of embracing the negroes throughout the country in the socialistic movement It is said will be settled before the convention takes final adjournment. The delegates were entertained to-night at a banquet at which Kugene V. Debs was the principal speaker. His address was purely along socialistic lines, the trusts and both the Republican and Democratic parties being bitterly scored by the speaker. MAY DM IS CELEBRATED III CITIB OF EUROPE Socialists March to Residence of Premier Maura After Listening to Violent Speeches. . MADRID, May 1. Ten thousand Socialists celebrated May day with a demonstration at which violent speeches were delivered. Afterward a crowd numbering 20,000 marched with banners to the residence of Premier Maura and to the town hall, where they demanded an eight-hour day and protection for workmen. BARCELONA, May 1. May day was signalized here by a general stoppage of work, most of the business places being closed. The workmen held many meetings for the purpose of discussing labor questions, at several of which disturbances were caused by Anarchists. BERLIN. May 1. Complete tranquillity characterized the celebration of May day here. Many Socialist meetings were held. A section of the press publishes May day articles especially in connection with Emperor William's Karlsruhe speech, which has made a deep impression throughout Germany as foreshadowing the possibility of serious political developments. VIENNA. May 1. May day was celebrated by an unusual concourse of workmen in the Prater, a park and forest on the east side of the city. It is estimated that 20.000 marched in the procession, this great number being brought out owing to the fact that the day fell on a Sunday. The utmost quiet and good order prevailed. FRENCH ELECTIONS QUIET. Rcballots Necessary in Twenty-Six Paris Districts. PARIS, May 2. The municipal elections of jesterday were carried out quietly, with the exception of slight disturbances in a few provincial towus. The provincial results are only incompletely known. In Paris there were tifty-four decisive contests, resulting in the re-election of the retiring councilors. In the remaining twenty-six districts second ballot will be necessary, which it is expected will slightly increase the ministerial clement iu the council. SkrytllofT Is MnklnK Hnte. SEBASTOPOL. May 1. Vice Admiral Skrydloff is" hastening his departure. He will leave for the far East on May 5t instead of May J, as he had Intended.

T VIEWS T OF EFFECT OF London Papers, However, Coincide in the Opinion It Will Give Japan Great Prestige. . WATERLOO AND PLEVNA Telegraph Compares It with Them in Its Ultimate Effect Missing Japanese Armies. LONDON'. May 2. No independent accounts of the nghtiug on the Yalu have reached London, and various opinions are expressed this morning regarding the importai'ce of the Japauet? victory. It is considered iu some quarters that it was never the intention of the Russians to hold the right bank of the Yalu, except for tactical purposes, and that the real struggle has not yet been reached. All the papers, however, recognize that the success of the Japanese will greatly enhance their prestige. , The Telegraph, in an editorial, takes the rather extreme view of comparing tho capture of Chiu-Tien-Cheng to that of Waterloo and Plevna, and says that the present misfortune is even more serious because the Russians have been driven from a fortified position in spite of every advantage conferred on its defense by modern weapons. The right, the editorial says, "must modify forever the destinies of Europe and Asia." The Daily Mail's Nieu-Chwang correspondent hears that the Russians are accumulating great quantities of stores at Tien-Ting, forty miles north of Mukden, as their princlial base of supplies. The news of the very serious losses suffered by both sides arrived too late to ivpear in the London morning newspapers and these losses are not yet mentioned in dispatches from Russian sources. A dispatch from Mukden says General Kuropatkin arrived there yesterday (Sunday) morning and left in the afternoon. His destination is not stated. The Tlmes's military correspondent, pre suming that other important Japanese op erations will coincide with the Chiu-Tien-Cheng affair, points out that the world Is completely in the dark respecting the second and third Japanese nrmies. The second army left Japan in the latter part of March under General Oku, the correspondent says, and so fur no one has been able to locate it. "It has vanished into space," says the correspondent, who points out that the third -army embarked quite recently. SHARP FIGHT OCCURS THE SASS0UI1 T Armenian Rebels and the Sultan's Kurds in Collision, the Latter Losing Heavily. VILLAGES ARE BURNED CONSTANTINOPLE, April SO. (Delayed in transmission) According to official advices there has been serious fighting in the Sassoun district of Asia Minor, between the troops and Armenian insurgents numbering 2,000. The troops lost twenty killed and twenty-three wounded. Twelve villages in the Talori district have been destroyed, but whether by insurgents or Kurds Is not known. There are 10,000 troops in the disturbed area. Private advices say that the Kurds attacked two villages north of Sassoun, losing twenty-six, killed. The Sassoun district of Asia Minor became notorious In 1S34 because of a series of massacres of Armenians by Kurds. In the same year there were massacres of Armenians in the neighboring districts of Bitlis and Mush. RETAIL GROCERS TO MEET IN CONVENTION Delegates Gather at San Francisco to Take Action on Several Important Matters. SAN FRANCISCO. May 1. Several hundred 6f the Eastern delegates to the seventh annual convention of the National Association of Retail Growers of the United States, which will open to-morrow, arrived to-day. The convention will last four days. The convention managers are looking forward to decisive action on several matters of general concern to retailers throughout the United States. One of these is the parcels post bill, which the retailers oppose. Another Is the pure food bill that has already passed the lower house of Congress. This is strongly favored. The convention is expected to take action looking to the enactment of uniform legislation .by the States for the better protection of retail merchants, the garnishment law of Minnesota being the ideal aimed at. It Is also hoped to affect the organization of mutual protective associations, to do for the retailers what the Dun and Rradstreet commercial agencies do for the wholesalers, in advising as to responsibility of customers. EUGENIE'S MISSING JEWELS RECOVERED Society Woman Stole Them from the Duchess D'Albe Just Before Latter's Death. PARIS, May 1. After the death of the Duchess d'Albe at tho Hotel Bristol last March it was found that a casket containing jewels valued at $30,000 was missing. The lost jewels included a diamond earring, the wedding gift of Emperor Napoleon III to the Empress Eugenie, which later was presented by the Empress to her niece. The Spanish embassy communicated with the authorities concerning the missing casket and the police have now traced the theft to a society woman who visited the duchess during her last sickness. The jewels have been recovered, and it is probable that the family of the duchess will refuse to prosecute the accused. BALL PLAYER KILLED BY A BATTED BALL BALTIMORE. May 1. Frank J. Duncan. twenty years old. was hit by a batted ball in an amatour ball game to-day and died in the hospital to-night. Connemville Team Wins. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CONNERS VI LLE, Ind., May 1. The ball season opened to-day with an attendance of 1,200, and a victory for the home team, the Cincinnati Grays being the victims, Pruit, the local pitcher, having seven assists. Score: R II E Cincinnati 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1-3 2 7 Connersville ...0 0 2 0 0 0 S 0 S 5 5 Batteries J. "Walber and Schier; Pruit and Roster. Confrrrncc to Settle n Strike. NEW PHILADELPHIA. O.. May I.-A conference will be held at Canton Wednesday to endeavor to settle the differences between the miners and operators of this section and prevent the spt-t-adln: here of the strike that already Involves S.OO") men in the southeastern district of the State. If the conference fails, 2,jjQ nuu will go out.

VICTORY

DISTRIC

OF nnyMinniB Great Disasters Recalled by the Destruction of the Battleship Petropavlovsk. MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDIES LONDON, May 1. The Instantaneous destruction of the battleship Petropavlovsk by a mine or torpedo off Tort Arthur is a catastrophe which stands almost unique in naval annals, saya II. W. Wilson, in the Daily Mail. There have been occasions upon which a larger number of lives has been lost in naval warfare at sea, but never have s many men met their fate in so terrible and mysterious a fashion. From what accounts have reached us and it is doubtful whether we shall ever have much more satisfactory ones, since all the men in the lower part of the ship went down with her it would appear as though the mine exploded 'right under one . of her magazines, and that all the powder and explosives stored in this magazine were detonated by the flash and concussion. The accounts speak of a tiame of fire being seen rising from her. With 'a, torpedo or even a submarine mine there is not usually any flame visible; hence the probability is that one at least of the magazines exploded. In that case she met the fate of the Maine. At the time when the Maine was lost it was denied in England and maintained in the United States that a powerful mine or torpedo exploding under the ship's magazine would lire the magazine. The Maine was anchored in Havana harbor, when on the night of Feb. 15, 1S, at 9:40, a noise like a shot was heard and a sheet of flame and smoke was seen by observers on other ships to rise from her to a prodiguous height, accompanied by a fearful uproar. The ship In the glow of the explosion seemed to break in two, and a heavy shock came through the water. There were two distinct explosions, parted by a brief interval oi time. The Maine at once settled on the bottom, and with her went down 254 officers and men. Of 100 who escaped, fifty-nine were wounded. Subsequent investigation by divers rendered it almost certain that a mine had exploded under her, and had fired the forward magazine. How the mine got there and who exploded it are mysteries to this hour, probably will never be disclosed. LAST MOMENTS OF THE MAINE. In this case there is a volume of evidence as to what happened on board, which may serve to illustrate the last dreadful moments of the Petropavlovsk. One man who was down In the lower part of the Maine saw-"a blue flash; there was a continuous trembling of the ship, and a terrible report. It seemed as if the whole earth had opened up." He escaped by a simple miracle before the inrush of water, but another man with him was cut off in the darkness and confusion of that Interne and perished. Another man was asleep when "I was thrown up in the air and I came down feet first. I heard the rattling and the roar around me, but it was pitch dark, and I couldn't see anything. I had to feel around. I heard the men groaning around me. I felt a hoie, and I crawled through that." Yet another man who was sleeping just over the place where the explosion occurred "heaid a terrible crash, an explosion I suppose it was. Something fell, and then after that I got through somewhere In a hot place. I got burned on my legs and arms, and I got my mouth full of ashes and one thing and another; then the next thing I was in the water." Another witness was thrown forty feet and received but insignificant injuries. Every one felt a heavy jarring shock Just before the violent explosion, and then a sense of the ship falling away from underfoot. In our own navy we have unfortunately experienced many terrible disasters since the change of Fails to steam. The greatest of all was the loss of the flagship Victoria on the afternoon of June 22, 1W3, in the Mediterranean, with her admiral, Tryon, then commnnderin-chlef in the Mediterranean. Like Admiral Makaroff, he was a brilliant officer, and was regarded as the best leader that the British navy at that date possessed. TUE VICTORIA RAMMED. In executing an evolution the Victoria was rammed well forward by the Camper-' down. For some seconds before the actual collision it was seen that a disaster was inevitable and both screws were started astern, while collision quarters were sounded, which meant the closing of all watertight doors and the getting ready of the collision mats. After the collision had occurred and the Camperdown had backed out, the Victoria instantly began to fill. The party with the collision mats could do little, as the forecastle was already under water. Apprehending the calamity which actually occurred, the crew were fallen in on deck, but no order was giv,en to the men below to save themselves. In those last moments of the doomed ship the engineers, and stokers of the royal navy were faithful to their trust. Captain Bourke looked into the engine rooms and could see that the men were steady there at their posts. On deck the crew remained fallen in, without flinching, till, as the inclination of the ship grew and the deck sloped steeply the order was given to jump. Then, and not till then, the lines of men broke and leaped over the side as all, the cumber on board fell with a rattling crash, which will long linger in the memory of all present in the Mediterranean fleet on that disastrous day. Ten minutes after the collision the end came. The bows of the Victoria dived; the stern with, screws still revolving rose out of the water; there was a mightly uprush of air and a great disturbance of the surface, and the finest battleship in the navy vanished. Of her crew of 653, 321 went down with the ship, including among them the admiral and Midshipman Lanyon, who remained by his flag-officer to the last. Three hundred and thirty-eight were picked up by the boats of the fleet, which were upon the scene in less than five minutes. THE GROSSER KURFUERST. A catastrophe similar to that which befell the Victoria was the loss of the German ironclad Grosser Kuerfuerst, rammed by the Koenig Wilhelm in the Channel on May 6, 1S78. The ship went down in less than five minutes from the moment of being struck. The boats of the other ships were slow' in getting to her, and of her crew of 497 only 216 were saved, three of these afterward dying from exhaustion. In September, 170, our own navy suffered as serious a blow when the new ironclad Captain capsized during the night in a gale and took with her to the bottom all but eighteen of the 500 officers and men on board. As she capsized the survivors deposed that they heard the cries of the' astonished stokers coming up from the stokeholds above the tremendous roar of escaping steam. At the battles of the Yalu and Lissa there were four ships sunk or blown up with most of their crews. At Lissa the Italian battleship Re d ltalia was rammed bv the Austrian battleship Ferdinand Max; she heeled heavily to starboard, then lurched to port, paused in her roli, settled, and vanished with 430 officers and men. In the same action the Italian armored ship Palestro took fire and blew up with 250 men, of whom only twenty were saved. At th Yalu the Chinese ships King-Yuen and Chih-Yuen were both sent to the bottom with every soid on board. A catastrophe which hs not yet been mentioned was the torpdoiu of the CMlian battleship IUanc-o Encalada in Caldera hay by the Ralrnaccdists on April 23. l&oi, when the ship went down so quickly that 1S2 officers and men were drowned out of a crew of 2S. The shock caused by the torpedo in this instance was so violent that it threw a heavy gun off Its mount, and is said to have killed several men. Six men in the enRin?rom were killed or wounded by fragments of iron and machinery blown Inwards. tnnnrd Line Ordern Ship. 1X5NDON, Mar 1. The Cunard line has placed orders with North HritUh yards for two fast vessels,. which will be buiit under tOci'uxncut supervision.

MOURNFUL

LATE EX-QUEEI1 ISABELLA; IIICIIITSJF HER LIFE Emily Crawford Tells of Her Decline in Health and Loss of Portliness.

WAS A GENEROUS WOMAN Special Correspondence of the Journal. PARIS. April 13. I think I informed you some time ago how Queen Isabella bad shrunk so greatly as to be little more than the shadow of her former self. She used to be of colossal portliness, without being tall In proportion. The form of the features and the whole character of the physiognomy have altered not less than the figure. She looked a little withered old woman at peace with herself and the world, and at length resigned to let her white hair appear under her widow's cap. Rather curiously she felt reluctant to cast eff her weeds in sign of mourning for the nominal husband frcm whom she officially separated thirty-four years ago. Since then he visited her once a year, the 10th of October, her birthday anniversary, if she happened to be in or near Paris, and she went to see him on his birthday anniversary, which fell on May 15, when the grounds cf his residence at Ormessou, seven miles out of town, were in their fresh summer bloom. The visit on either side had an air of ceremony, and a large party sat down to lunch at a handsomely laid out table. Perhaps she retained the widow's weeds to the end in sign of contrition. She had a singularly forgiving disposition and once the storm of resentment blew over felt glad to confess herself in the wrong and tc make atonement for her offenses, real or imaginary. Nobody injured her more than Serrano, one of her early favorites, whom she made marshal, Duke de la Torre, captain general of Castille, commander-in-chief, and endowed with confiscated abbey lands, lie headed the revolution of 1S6S which drove her into exile. After her son's return to Spain as King he found It necessary for some reason or another to send the marshal as ambassador to Paris. Of course, he was obliged as soon as he had presented his credentials to Marshal MacMahon, then President of the French Republic, to call on the ex-Queen, the mother of his sovereign. The ambassador, fearing the embarrassment of a meeting for the first time since he had turned against Isabella, thought of feigning illness to avoid the ordeal, but the Duchess de la Torre would not let him. He therefore proceeded in his official uniform to make his call, made a low bow. made a second step further forward, bowed still lower and proceeded to address her with due solemnity. HOLDS HAND FOR SALUTE. Using the verbal liberty that Spanish etiquette allows to sovereigns, she cut him short with: "Oh, Serrano, my boy, how old you have grown! Sit down there near me nearer still so that we can talk of the flight of time. I am glad the King has given you the opportunity to call on me." With that she held out her hand to be kissed, and again pointing to a seat, asked the ambassador when he had last seen her children and how they did. They had all gone back to Madrid. In the short and friendly chat he entirely forgot that he had ever acted as an enemy of the Queen. She had completely set him at ease. She knew how to mingle dignity with good nature and with good fellowship. There was something very taking and peculiar in this blending. The falling away in flesh of which I have spoken indicated the beginning of the end. With every pound of flesn that melted away there would have been a corresponding reduction of vital force. She began to find railway journeying too fatiguing and could not mount easily into railway, cars which are placed high above th? platforms. This prevented her going to Schlangenbad and Schwalbach to take waters that had never failed to do her good. Her four last summers spent at the chateaux she hired near Compeigne, Chantilly, Fountatnebleau and Montmorency were near enough to her town house to go to them In a motor car. Still she felt no need for consulting a. physician until she caught a cold last February that degenerated into grip and deprived her of all strength. The illness first appeared during a call of Marquis del Muni, the Spanish ambassador. He found her in the room with the wide window. After a little friendly talk she said: "I feel so chilly. I had as you entered a shivering fit that made me imagine I had been attacked with ague from which I always escaped even when I was so Imprudent as to go in October to Aranjuez." . The ambassador observed that the Queen seemed to him lightly clad In such cold weather, and proposed that she should wrap herself up well with a shawl. She took his advice. When the lady in the next room brought a shawl of Pyrenean wool the ambassador wrapped it round the Queen, and she gayly said: 'I really feel less chilly." Conversation went on and Isabella ceased to rub her hands to warm them. At this point the chamberlain announced the Empress Eugenie, who had come to ween with her former sovereign about-the death of her niece, the Duchess Alva. RECKLESS OF HEALTH. Not to appear to receive her with famil iar friendliness, which might seem disre spectful, the Queen cast off her shawl, and, going out on the landing place, stood on the top of the stairs to await the Empress. The ambassador found the cold air that rushed up trying, and feared for Isabella. She remained in the cutting draft some time, as the Empress mounts stairs with difficulty, and the lift was out of order. During the visit the Queen had a violent fit of coughing, and when the visitor de parted another fit or still greater violence. The marquis reproached her with sacrificing too much to ceremony, to which Isabella replied: "You see, the poor Empress was once my subject, and she might fancy had I asked her to excuse my not going to me top oi me stairs mat i aid not sufficiently forget our former relative positions. Misfortune makes us all touchy." a third nt oi cougning cut tne Queen short. It was 'followed by a state of weakness re sembling syncope. Senor del Mori remained with her until she seemed better. She laughed at his look of alarm and reminded him that she had entered, last October, her seventy-fourth year. At her aea she must not expect to be always well. She hoped not to be obliged to countermand a concert which she hoped to give to bring out some Spanish artists before the afterJiaster season. "They have delightful talents," she ad ded, after a spasmodic attack of rmh ing, and a concert here might secure them good drawing room engagements." Isabella had a heart of singular warmth and generosity and it gave her pleasure to nejp Biruggiiiiu persons, sne stood by Spanish artists and there could be no bet ter juuge oi musical taient. She managed to rise at the usual hour every morning and to attend mass. But her strength viihu ran down from day to day and the puNe grew thin and flickering. Dr. DIelefoy saw a used-up constitution in the svmptoms and too great weakness to throw off the poison wnicn j,rip leaves in tne organism. Iter easy-going epicurean di?noition helped her to live to an old age and to keen . . : . u . . . nrivuus uit.irifs vi a uiäiance. As she always stood well with her banker, she enjoyea ireeaom ior peeuniarv difficulties In spite of her prodigality and verv trenn. ine charity Isabella died worth lO.t 1K) francs in safe investments and with a t,alace which fiif uuusiu ior u.rjj,u"U irancs in 13. and which has increased in value, the avenue in1 which it stands being now in the very center of the aristocratic Paris-West on the southwestern fide cf the Arch of Triumph. The Emperor Napoleon. to oblige her. isolated the grounds in which this palace stands by making a new street to serve as a boundary. EMILY CRAWFORD. Chlcutro Fnctory II ti rued. CHICAGO, May 1. The entire plant of tho Wolfe Manufacturing Company. 12) to 145 Rees street, was destroyed by tire to-night. Loss. $35.000.' The company was one of the largest rr.anvfacUirtrs of ice plants In the middle -West It linn in ii Medical Co mm nn tier. ST. PETERSRURO, May l.-(Io il Trepoff has been appointed to command .ie medical department of the Manchurian army. 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