Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 128, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1904 — Page 1

1 LI OUBNA H rav F.3T.i:usiiat isco. ) VOL.. LIV. NO. 128. '' INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY MORNING, -MAY 7, 1901-TWELVE PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS. OX RAILWAY THAIN3 FIVE CENTS. HEARST MEN MAKE NOISE, BUT PARKER GEIS SOLID PORT ARTHUR NOW IS CUT OFF IN REAR AND CORKED ON SEA FRONT; COMPLE TEL YISOLA TED B YEN EM Y IE

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Connecticut Democratic Convention Instructs Delegates to Support the New York Jurist. UXIT RULE WILL GOVERN Resolution Is Adopted After a Row Between Ex-Governor Waller and Dr. Brothers.

Neck of the Ltao- Tii7ig Peninsula in Possession of the Japanese, Who Have Seized the 'Russian Railway and Cut the Telegraph Line

ALMOST COME TO BLOWS Personalities Are Bandied and Radicals of Both Factions Create Tumultuous Scenes.

HARTFORD, Conn., May 6. In cne of the ft' Tir-lt pithfrins the party ever held in Ccr.r.f ctkut, the Democratic state convention t-'lay chose fourteen delegates to the St. Louis national convention and instructed tl.tr:. to vote as a unit for Alton B. Parker, of New York, as the presidential nominee. A clim ix came at the end of two hours' cf er.cry debate between Hearst and Parker dr!g;tts in what escaped by a hair's ti2!th of being a personal encounter in full view cf the convention between former Govfrr.nr Thomas M. Waller, of New London, and Dr. F. J. Brothers, of New Haven. The question being; debated was the substitution of the minority report of the committee tu resolutions for the majority report. The former report favored an unpledged trlegation. the latter a pledge for Parker ar.d the unit rule. Dr. Lrothers aid that if in the wisdom of Provence, Judge Parker might be taken away, it might happen that the Connecticut dtlt'ation would be swavpd undpr th unit rule to vote for Grovw Cleveland. He sar- i casticaiiy reierred to the latter amid iiiUch r.oie from the delegates. Personalities were handed back and forth, tl.e attack on Governor Waller accompanying charges that he had deserted the party in li. Much of the debate was unheard in the uproar, but the actions of the principals cou'd be seen. They were forced ilmost into personal conflict by the delegatts crowding about. A score of Hearst adherents tried to talk Governor Waller down, but Governor Wal-It-r strode back and forth before the delegates and -aid he would talk down any one who bobbed up .while he had the floor. "YOU WANT TO MUZZLE US." The chair was pounding and calling for crcler and it was with difficulty that any one in particular could be understood. Cries of "You want to muzzle us," assailed Mr. "Waller. He shook hfes fist and said that when the minority had finished its disturbance he would move the previous question. Delegates were on their feet on all sides, tut their Voices were indistinguishable in the tumult. Five minutes were needed to obtain order and then Governor Waller was recognized and he moved the previous Question. The storm broke again. Dr. Brothers requested the privilege of a?kir.g Mr. Waller a question and this was refused. He attempted to talk, approaching Mr. Waller in front of the stage. The ex-Governor pushed Dr. Brothers away. "I voted for you. Waller," said the doctor. "You began right," said the other. Dr. Brothers retorted: "I have been sorry ver since and want to wash the sin away." "Go and commit suicide then," said Mr. waller. Debates, left their seats and crowded about the stage. Policemen pushed their way toward the scene, while more delegates joined in the rush. Angry words were on Many tongues. Spectators expected to bee blows struck, but other delegates got be-, tween the belligerents. Several police officers had at length' succeeded in separating the crowd, when Dr. Brothers again got la front of Mr. Waller, who pushed him away; the situation was so strained that suddenly the convention came to a hush and seats were resumed by most of the delegates. Then Alexander Troup, leader of the Hearst forces, went over and sat i-eside Governor Waller, while Dr. Brothers returned to his delegation. HEARST MEN OUTVOTED. The incident was quickly smoothed over. The minority report was refused substitution. Cm; to 1S6. showing that the Hearst delegates were outnumbered. For first delegate at large Homer S. Cummins defeated Alexancv.-r Troup by a vote of. 231 to 127, Bryan F. Mahan was chosen as the other delegate at large by acclamation. The caucus selections for county and district delegates to the national convention were tnosen as follows: District delegates I. A. Suhivan. Hartford; L. A. Fisk, Branford; J.JI. Harriman, Norwich; James P. Woodf,J'1' Litchfield. County delegates Harry t. Dissen. West Hartford; James E. Mcabe Cheshire; John J. Walsh. Norwalk; ?, ; Sevens. Winsted; J. Tyler Flynn, Jli.udletown; Thomas F. Foran. New Loncon; Edward Mullen, Pitnam; Charles B. Pinny, Strafford. ioiiowing is the majority report of the committee on resolutions as adopted iu the convention: ,"WeV ll"e representatives of the Democracy of the State of Connecticut, in convention assembled, advise and instruct the delegates ele.ted by this convention to the lrnoeratie national convention to be held t bt. Louis, July 6. 1001. to act and vote a a unit in all matters arising in the said national convention In connection with the ui and majority of said delegates, and e runner advise and instruct said deleft es, Jo support in the national convention the candidacy of Judge Alton Brooks ."J' f New York, for President of the Lnlted States." The minority report of the committee, which was defeated, follows: Resolved. That the delegates elected by ini. convention to the Democratic national convention to be held at St. Ijuis. Julv 6. ii go as unpledged delegates, bethat an uninstructed delegation better represents the best Interests of the Jmocratic party." TlVO VICTIMS OF HOT WAVE AT MARIETTA Pamtcr and Factory Employe Prostrated and May Not Recover. MARIETTA. O.. May 6. -The temperature was not only high, but unusually oprr?sive along the Ohio valley to-day. Thore Were two heat victims here. Arthur Harris was overcome while painting a JJf and fell to the ground. William Holth tor OVfrcnme while working in a chair fac1 jy and became uncouscious. Neither is "Pitted to recover. pOUTICS AT SHOOTING HEAT IX W EST VIRGINIA tiozen Men Have Been Killed or Wounded During Campaign for Nomination. CHARLESTON. W. Va.. May 6. During political meeting to-night Jean Chandler fatally shot by William Leachman at the Patrick schoolhouse, where a meeting held preliminary to the Republican primaries to-morrow. More trouble Is exacted to follow this outbreak. There have n a dozen men shot in this State during th present contest for the Republican Gmlnatiea for Governor.

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FABULOUS SUI OFFERED . A LAFAYETTE OEIOCRAT FOR SUPPORT OF HEARST D. W. Simms Says Tender Was Made to Run for Governor in Hearst's Interest. BAD SPLIT IN TIPPECANOE Two Sets of Delegates Named by the Rival Factions in the Democratic County Committee. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE. Ind.. May 6.-Only the interference of the police averted a riot at the meeting of the Democratic county central committee this afternoon, held to name delegates to the state convention on May 12 The climax of one of the stormiest political gatherings in the history of the county was reached "when the Hearst faction in the committee tried to prevent, the Parker men " having a voice in the meeting, and Dan W. Simms, the leader of the Parker faction, shouting to make himself heard above the babel of hoots and jeers emanating from the Hearst admirers, declared that he had been offered a fabulous sum to accept the Democratic nomination for Governor of Indiana and assist in organizing the state Democracy for William R. Hearst. He declared that he had refused the proposition and had urged J. Kirby Risk, chairman of the county central committee and publisher of the Democrat, a Hearst organ, to discontinue his efforts in behalf of Hearst. Mr. Simms asserted that Mr. Risk had said that he had gone too far with his contract with the Hearst men to retrace his course. This sensational statement brought forth a storm of denials from Mr. Risk, acting as chairman, and his followers, and Mr. Simms was refused further recognition. James W. Schooler, a Hearst man, jumped' upon a table and called lor the selection of a set'of delegates. The Hearst followers in the hall cheered him and declared that the call issued by the chairman of the committee stated that the delegates would be selected by the committee. The Parker faction demanded a mass convention and at this point the meeting resolved itself into two distinct gatherings, the Hearst men, with Mr. Risk at their head, appointing a set of delegates, and the Parker forces, with William M. Blackstock- as chairman, also naming delegates. James Schooler interrupted Arthur D. Cunningham, a Tarker follower, as the latter was about to read a set of resolutions indorsing Parker. A clash followed and a squad of police separated the .belligerents. It looked for a moment as though a free-for-all fist fight were imminent and the Hearst and Parker forces both surged to the front of the hall. To-night both sides are claiming a victory and it is difficult to decide which has won. Mr. Simms firmly declared that -the delegates selected by his faction of the party Would attend the convention and Mr. Risk said that the delegates appointed by the committee constituted the only authorized delegation to go to the State meeting. PL ÜCKY BO Y. BE A T OFF A "STRONG-ARM" MAN Ohio Youth Saved His Money in Suburbs of Hartford City and Escaped to Town. Speei! to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., May 6. Covered with blood. Clyde Sours, a farmer boy who lives within a few miles of HIcksville, 0. stood in front of the Citizens State Bank here this mgrning. waiting to deposit his money, to escape being held up by a stranger whom he met at Fort Wayne. Sours had $200. and while standing on the street looking for employment he was accosted bv a stranger who claimed his home was at Marion. Ind.. and that his name was Mills. He Indaced Sours to come here, where he said he had relatives and h could secure work. On reaching here he walked Sours out the Lake Erie railroad.-and when about three miles out struck him with a club and took his pistol away from him. Ho demanded the boy's money and pointed tho weapon in his face. Sours knocked his arm in the air and knocked his companion down, then ran all the way to town and aroused the sheriff. It was then about daylight, and he stood in Xront cf the tauk until it ctsed.

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POLICE DRAGNET IS OUT FOR BUM'S ASSAILANT Many Loiterers Are Arrested in Effort to Apprehend Burglar Who Shot Patrolman. MORAN UNDER $500 BOND Prisoner's Face Covered with Wounds Recently - Inflicted . z Says He Fell from Train. The police are still untiring in their efforts to apprehend the burglars who are responsible for the sensational shooting affair on Williams street early Thursday morning, and are determined to bring Patrolman Burk's assailant to justice. Loiterers are shown the nearest way to the police station, and late wayfarers are apt to encounter officers who will demand an explanation. Many suspicious characters were rounded up yesterday, and the officers have at all times been especially on the watch for the men who answer to the description given by Burk and Mulvihill. Frank Moran, 314 Temple avenue, was arrested yesterday afternoon in a barrel house on East Washington street by Sergeants Scheigerf and Milam, and he is being held under a bond of $500 for loitering. On his forehead is a large cut and a large bump. Between his eyes is a rough, inflamed swelling, and both of his eyes are blacked. . Moran claims that he received his Injuries by falling from a Lake Erie freight train Wednesday morning while On his way to work. He states that he had been wording for the city, but after falling from the train returned downtown. He gave no definite 'idea of where he had been on Wednesday, and will be held until he can be further investigated. Patrolman Burk continues to rest comfortably at the hospital, and before many more days have passed physicians will be able to determine whether or not the wounds will prove fatal. It Is the opinion of some of the police officers that, instead of having three bullets in the lower portion of his body, one bullet caused all three wounds in Burk's body. It is their theory that the bullet entered from below and, after traveling several inches, emerged, to again enter the body at the groin. If this theory is proven correct the chances are with Burk, for the-bullet cannot, then; be far below the surface. VEIITZ MAY HAVE BEEII SLAIN BY MOUNTAINEERS Missing 'Millionaire's Riding Trousers Alleged to Have Been i Found in House. TWO MEN, UNDER ARREST BRISTOL. Tenn., May 6. There is strong suspicion that Silas Ison and Thomas Wright, the mouutAineers who were captured at Cumberland Gap, Tcnn., recently, after having been shot and wounded by officers, had a hand Iu the mysterious disappearance of Edward L. Wentz. the young millionaire, who has been Missing since last October. Three garments discovered In a hou-e at Glamorgan which Ison and Wright formerly occupied are believed to have been the property of Wentz. One of these, a pair of riding trousers, has orl it what appear? to be blood stains. The woman of the family now occupying the house declares the trousers are identically the same in appearance as those worn by Wentz. B URN ED TO' DE A TH IN HOTEL IN COLORADO Young Miner Is Killed and Six Others Have Narrow Escapes. SALIDA, Col., May 6. Raymond Zooks, a young miner, was burned to death and rix other persons had a narrow escape from being cremated In a fire that destroyed the Hotel Turrett, a two-story wooden structure at Turrett, a mining camp, twelve üiilsa north of Calida.

GUT FIRE CAUSES $30,000 PROPERTY LOSS Flames Destroy Stock of Wisconsin Paper Company on East Washington Street. BUILDING IS GUTTED Damage to the Schellhouse Block Estimated at $15,000," Fully Insured. Fire from an unknown origin broke'-out last night at about 10:30 in the warehouse of the Wisconsin Paper Company at 525 East Washington street; completely gutting the building and causing a property loss of about $30.000. For several minutes after the fire was discovered smoke filled the street, making progress impossible for pedestrians in the vicinity. Finally the. smoke was seen to issue from a southwest window of the building In clouds, which suddenly gave way to flames that leaped out through windows and roof, lighting up the sky for blocks around. The density of the smoke mäde It extremely difficult "to locate the source of the flames, and not until the flames had leaped through the roof could the lines of water be brought Into play; The fire was first seen in the southwest room of the paper mill, and it is supposed that the large amount of loose-paper there became ignited from a live electric wire, as there was no fire In the room, whatever, before the flames were discovered. The cloud of smoke that issued from the window in this room was first seen by Tom O'Brien, who turned In- the alarm. It was soon evident that the fire would bo of a serious nature, and a second alarm followed. The large building was soon a mass of flames from one end to the other. The largest losers will be Frank Shellhouse, the owner and proprietor of the building, the Wisconsin Paper Mill Company, and the Novelty Printing Company. Smith, .Day & . Co.. chair manufacturing, company, will suffer a slight loss from smoke and water, as will also Carlin & Lenox, who made storage use of the building adjoining. The loss on the building is estimated at (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COL. 5.) THIBETANS REPULSED AGAIN WITH HEAVY LOSS Attacked the British Expedition' at Gyangtso, but Were Severely Punished. TWO SEPOYS WOUNDED LONDON, May 7.-The Daily Mall's Simla correspondent says that 800 Thibetans coming from the direction of Shigatse, attacked the British mission at Gyangtse at dawn on April 5. The Thibetans were repulsed with heavy loss and fied. The British had only two Sepoys wounded. STEAMER KURFUERST IS A COMPLE TE - WRECK Went Ashore Near Sagres, . Portugal Crew and Passengers All Safe. LISBON, May 6. The German. -mail steamer Kurfuerst, .which went ashore four miles northward of Sagres, in the extreme southwestern part of Portugal, Is a total wreck. Her passengers and crew are safe. The Knrfuerst sailed from Zanzibar April 15 for Hamburg, by way of intermediate ports ard the Mediterranean. She was a steel steamer of 3,833 tons net. She was 410 feet long, 4& feet wide and 27 feet deep. The Kurfuerst was built In Hamburg in 1001. and was owned by the German East Africa line, of Hamburg. The vessel was employed in the service between Hamburg and the Mediterranean and ports on the cast coast of Africa, -

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: . v -y' r r i GRAND DUKE DORIS. Who Escaped from Tort Arthur Before the Place Was Invested by Japanese. FRIGHTFUL RESULT OF A MISTAKE BY RUSSIANS IN DILLSf MANCHURIA Two Thousand Infantrymen Attack 200 of Their Fellows, Supposing Them to Be Japanese. . ONLY TWENTY ESCAPE no Killed and Seventy Wounded Japanese Put the Blunderers to Flight. TOKIO, May 6. General Kuroki, In reporting yesterday, tells of a bloody encounter during the Russian retreat on Sunday last, when a large force of Russians mistook a small body of their own men for Japanese, killing and wounding ISO of them. General Kuroki ays that a Japanese patrol consisting of fourteen men reached Teng-Shang-Hong on the Sd Inst., when a Russian patrol posted on a hill south of the village attacked them. The Japanese patrol .thereupon turned and charged them, and after an Intrepid hand-to-hand affray the enemy was driven back in the direction of Feng-Wang-Chan. The Japanese patrol pursued them to the stream three miles fr-outhwet of Kaolimeu, where Russian sentries were dbcoered posted on hills on both sides of the road. " According to Information furnished by a native, a body of Russian Infantry two thousand strong, occupying a hill near Teng-Shang-Hong, on Sunday mistook a detachment of their own infantry, about two hundred strong, which was retiring, for Japanese troop3 and engaged In a battle. In the fighting which followed 110 men were killed and seventy wounded, and the Russian carts were stampeded, leaving their loads of stores behind. According to the story told by a captured Russian officer who participated in the battle on Sunday last, only five or six battalions of Russian infantry and two battalions of artillery were able to retire in order. The other troops ran away in a state of entire confusion. REPORT RECEIVED BY JAPANESE LEGATION WASHINGTON. May 6. The Japanese legation has received the following cablegram from Tokio,-under date of to-day: "General Kuroki, commandant of the First Army Corps, reports that on May 3 our mounted scouts, after a severe hand-to-hand fight near Feng-Huang-Cheng, drove back the Russians toward Feng-Huang-Chcng. Chinese say that on May 1 about two thousand" infantry, posted on a hill east of Feng-Huang-Cheng, fired upon three hundred comrades retreating from the Yalu, mistaking them for the enemy. They wounded one hundred and killed seventy. The rest of the body fled in disorder, abandoning commissary carts. A Russian officer captured there states that the only bodies which retreated in order on Mayl were five or six infantry battalions and two artillery companies. Two hundred more Russians killed and wounded Were found In the field, and others are being discovered." FIVE MINERS ENTOMBED III BUNK COAL MINE Rescuing Parties Work Night and Day, tiiü Victims Have Not Been Released. ONE MAN RISKS HIS LIFE SHAMOKIN, Pa., May 6.-Five miners are entombed and believed to be dead as a result of a fierce fire which is burning in the Locust Gap colliery of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company. They are: . . . JOHN BOGLAN. MICHAEL BOGLAN. JOHN DEBO. WILLIAM MASSAKIE. MICHAEL SHANNON. The fire started last night In the slope, and Massakie. Shannon and the Boglans were cut off from escape before they were warned. Rescuing parties were at once set to work and up to to-night their efforts to bring out the men have been unsuccessful. Debo, notwithstanding the protest of others, went far into the workings and has not been heard from since, and it is believed that he has succumbed to smoke and gas. The fire is burning fiercely to-night. Some of the officials think the men will be found smothered to death, while some of the miners are of the opinion that they aie safe in old abandoned workings. - . Fire at Summer Resort. WATERTOWN. N. Y.. May 6. Fire at Thousand Island Park, St. Lawrence river, to-day resulted in the destruction of nine cottages and threatened large hotel, properties located there. Six other cottases were partially destroyed. The loss Ls esUmated at partly Insured. . .

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JO,000 Men Disembarked at Pitsewo and Port Adams jro7?i Sixty Transports No Opposition Fight of AexieJf and Grand Duke Boris ST. FI2TRHSRI'I1C2, Mny G. 10:05 p. m A lispntch received tn-nlctit nyn that Port Arthur Ik cut oft from all oommutilcntioii ly Inuil, the .liipnui'p linviiig; tllNriiiluirked In It rear, occupied the rnilroml nnit cut the trieKrnph. Vice Admiral SkrydlofT, who Im en route tPort Arthur to (nkr command of the nnvnl force in the fur dint, therefore, mIU lc tinnlile to rench IiIn destination. The departure of Viceroy Alexleff and Grand Duke Ilori from Port Arthur vnM hurried, owtnf? to the possibility of the Interruption of railroad communication. The Japanese landed at two point north and northeast of Port Arthur. Transports disembarked force of the enemy at IMlnnvo nml Port Ailam. " The Japanese landed in snlllclent force to discourage the few hundred llusMinns watch In at Pitsewo from ofTcrln any resistance. From information hroiiKht to Port Arthur hy the Chinese, nitty transports at Pitsewo are disembark IiiK two II visions, nnmherltiK MK men, of which 10,0(M) were landed yesterday eveniiiK. Only a few 0 hundred Cossncks were at the bench when the Japanese appeared. They fired n few round and retired to the rnilrnnd. "While It 1 not officially admitted, it 1 believed here that the entrance to Port Arthur is sealed, at least for lurjje warships. Port Arthur is t;nld to be well supplied with provision.

"WASHINGTON", May G. The State Department ha received n cablegram from I'nlted States Minister Grlscom, at Tokio, confirming other reports of the landing; of the Japanese at Kin-Chau, forty mile above Port Arthur. This is the narrowest point on the peninsula, and consequently, the minister says, the railroad Is practically closed and the investment of Port Arthur has begun. Port Adams, where the Japanese landed, is situated about fifty miles from Tort Arthur, at the head of Society bay and on the railroad connecting Port Arthur with Mukden and Harbin. Consequently it as an easy matter for the Japanese to cut off communication with Port Arthur. Pitsewo oh the east coast, where the Japanese have landed, ls less than twenty miles from Port Arthur. The dispatch from Washington indicates a landing at Kin-Chau, or Kin-Chow. This place is located at the extreme eastern shore of the bay of the came name on the west coast and is directly across the peninsula from the Russian port of Dalny. It is about forty miles north of Port Arthur. The strip of land between Dalny and Klnchow is the narrowest point of the peninsula. Kin-Chow is about half way btwe. n Port Arthur and Port Adams, and also is on the railroad. It Is probable, however, that this landing refers to that at Port Adams, which is on an arm of the bay adjacent to Kinchow bay. MUKDEN, May C Viceroy Alexleff ha arrived here.

JAPANESE LANDED FROM SIXTY TRANSPORTS ST. PETERSBURG, May 6, 9:30 p. m. The ministry of war has received the following telegram from Major General Tflug, chief of the military staff: "According to the information I have received, seven of the enemy's transports, and afterwards about forty, appeared opposite Pitsewo on the evening: of May 4. "On the morning of May 5, the Japanese began to land at Pitsewo and on the coast near Cape Terminal (about fifteen miles southwest of Pitsewo) under cover of artillery fire. ' "At this moment about sixty transports weie observed bearing down upon the whole front and our forces retired from the shore. "All papers in the postofflce at Pitsewo were removed and the Russian inhabitants abandoned the town. "According to Chinese reports, by the evening of May 5 about ten thousand of the enemy's troops had landed and taken up quarters in the Chinese villages near the points of debarkation. "The enemy sent two columns of about one regiment each, one In a westerly direction and the other to the southward. "On May 5 a passenger train from Port Arthur was fired upon a mile and a quarter outside Polandien (about forty miles north of Port Arthur) by a hundred Japanese infantrymen occupying the heights east of the railway. The train carried many passengers, two hundred sick occupying an ambulance carriage flying the Red Cross flag. Two of the sick were wounded. The train succeeded In reaching Polandien. "Tranquillity prevails in the maritime province and In Yin-Kow." The Russian military authorities seem reconciled to the cutting off of their Port Arthur stronghold, but they are convinced that the fortress is impregnable against attacks by land or sea. Though the enemy may invest the place, the authorities here do not believe the Japanese will undertake to storm the position. It is believed the greater part of the troops have been withdrawn and that- Lieutenant General Stoessel's forces. Including the garrison of Port Arthur, does not exceed 23.000 men. The fortress is provisioned for a year. Further operations on the peninsula on a large scale are dependent upon the development of the campaign on the mainland. It is understood the landing at Pitsewo was preceded by a bombardment of the shore and was effected under the protection of the guns of the Japanese warships. No direct information has been received here as to whether General Kurokl's army has ad-anced from its position on the Yalu river, but it ls known that the Japanese are reconnoitering south of Fcng-Wang-Cheng and along the littoral, and a landing near Taku-Shan, in order that the enemy might establish itself on the right flank of the Russians, is confidered probable. A sharp lookout Is being kept northeast of Feng-Wang-Cheng to prevent the possibility of a flanking movement from that direction, but it is understood that no signs of the enemy have been discovered. PORT ARTHUR MAY STAND A YEAR'S SIEGE ST. PETERSBURG, May 7, 2:28 a. m. Japanese troops swarming across the narrow neck of the Llao-Tung peninsula, the railroad and telegraph communications cut and the Russian Ginraltar Isolated and left to its own resources all this the Russians seem to accept with great stoicism. These events have been anticipated since the outbreak cf the war, tea" the Authori

ties, In a sense, appear to Im relieved now that the blow has fallen. They assert that the fortress is impregnable and amply provisioned to stand a siege for a year, and that It can hold out until the time comes to relieve it. According to official information, the landing of troops from sixty transports began simultaneously at Pitsewo and Cape Terminal on the rnoraiug(of.Max-5 Jt-tejalso

! reported that troops are being landed at t Kiu-Chow, but this ls not credited, as the . Russians are known to have fortifications there, and it is not Iwlieved that the Japanese had the daring to land immediately under an intrenched position from .which the Russians could inflict severe injury on them. Complete details of the landing are lacking, owing to the interruption of communication. No resistance was made, the few Cossacks who observed the movement retiring when the warships shelled the shore preparatory to disembarkation. Ten thousand men were put ashore Thursday, and the disembarkation was proceeding yesterday at the time that communication ceased. It is believed that there are over 20,00 now on land preparing for a forward movement. Two Japanese regiments were hurried westward yesterday morning to cut the railroad and telegraph communication. One of these fired on a train conveying the wounded from Port Arthur. While the lauding was proceeding Thursday the enemy's ships, consisting of the battleships Mikasa, Hatsuse, Shlkishima, . Yashima and Fuji and the cruisers I wate, Idsumo, Adsuma aud Asama, made a demonstration off Port Arthur to prevent the possible egress of Russian torpedo boats. A number of Japanese torpedo boats were also observed off Hado island, in Pigeon bay. It was because he was convinced that Port Arthur was about to be cut off that Viceroy Alexleff. accompanied by his staff and Grand Duke Boris, left hastily. On Thursday several tralnloads of sick and wounded and other ineffectlves wer dispatched northward. It ls reported here that the Japanese ships bombarded Port Arthur early on the morning of May , and succeeded at last In closing the entrance, but no official confirmation of the latter statement can be obtained. The exact hour at which communication with the Russian stronghold ceased has not been established. The strength of the garrison at Port Arthur is not revealed by the authorities, who will only pay that it ls adequate for defensive purposes. It ls not believed that the force there exceeds lO.OuO soldiers, A large force Is not considered necessary as was shown from the recent withdrawal of seme of the troops, who were simply a drain on the resources of the garrison. ,The fleet must now take a secondary position, and the sailors will be used to man the shore guns If necessary. Vice Admiral Skrydloff and Vice Admiral Bazobrazoff cannot now reach Port Arthur, and probably will go to Vladivostok to Join the cruiser squadron there. Rear Admiral Wlttsoeft, who was left In charge of the, fleet by Viceroy Alexleff, will direct operations at Port' Arthur. Wlttsoeft ii a good soldier, and It Is believed he will render excellent service. Despite the greater number of Japanese, the general staff believes that their formidable fortifications still leave the defensiv superiority with the Russians, whose staying qualities, it is confident, will Insure their holding out as long as necessary. While the outr line of fortifications extends to Kin-Chow, unquestionably no determined effort will be made to hold them, nor Is It expected that a desperate attempt to retain Dalny will be made. The main defense will be of Port Arthur, where, since the harbor has been occupied by the Russians, steady work has progressed to complete the system of defense, which Is Just as effective on the land as on the sea Fide. Lieutenant General Stoessel will have supreme command at Port Arthur. He Is described asa high-class commander. Ilia recent proclamations show, that he is Imbued with a determination to hold Pert Arthur until the last man fs killed. OClctra cf the c'tzX ztzZ tzy tlt C3

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