Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1904 — Page 5

ONE ON THE JAP

Coes Up Against the Czar’s Boats with Fire Ships. MILS TO MAKE CONNECTION And Has to Drop an Enterprise That Proves Too Hot. Kawians Sink His BlgtTorpedoes and Drive Him Off—Some of the Mikado’s Men Drowned. St Petersburg, Feb. 25.—Rumors •re in circulation here Thursday afternoon to the effect that a bombard•sent of Port Arthur is now going on. Seoul, Feb. 25.—Russian vidcttes. advanced south of Anju, have cut the telegraph wires between Anju andi Pang-Yang. St. Petersburg, Feb. 25. The Port Arthur correspondent of The Novosti telegraphs that at Port Arthur the Japanese lost steamers (number not stated) and one torpedo boat. “At the moment «f writing,’’ the correspondnt continued, “twent-three Japanese vessels are visible on the horizon, and cross firing has begun in which the Russian er misers Bay an, Novlk and Askold are participating."

St Petersburg. Peb. 25, 2:45 a_ n». — A telegram from Viceroy Alexleff to the czar says: “At a quarter before S In the morning of Feb. 24 numerous Japanese torpedo boats attempted to attack the battleship Retvizan and sink her with large steamers loaded wiih inflammables. Hie Retvizan was the first to observe the torpedo boats, and opened a strong fire on them. She Wes supported by the land batteries. She destroyed two steamers near the entrance of the harbor: they were coming directly towards her. AiullmU Departed Slowly. •One of them went on the rocks Bear the lighthouse on Tiger peninsular. and the other sank under Golden Bill. The Retviz.tn observed four steamers In a sinking condition, and eight torpedo boats departing slowly to rejoin the waiting Japanese warships. A portion of the crews of the Japan* se vessels was drowned. The grounded steamer fcs still burning. The enemy Is observed in the offing of Port Arthur in two lines. Japanese Crews Got Away. “The Japanese crews saved them*•elves in boats, and it is possible that some of them were picked up by the enemy’s torpedo boats. lam proctedIng to examine the coasts. The entrance of the harbor Is open. I attribute the complete derangement of the enemy’s plan to the brilliant action and destructive Are of the Retvizan. Floating mines are still visible In the roadstead. I have recalled the three cruisers sent in pursuit of the enemy In Order, In the first place, to clear the roadstead of floating mines. We had no losses.” • FOUR TORPEDO BOATS TAKEN.* Jtpi Cm Russian Signals to Approach Enemy’s Warships. Nagasaki. Feb. 24 —By skillfully counterfeiting the Russian signals Admiral Togo’s squadron was enabled Monday morning to approach so near the Russian fleet at Port Arthur that In the sharp engagement that-followed four of the Russian torpedo boats were captured and two of the big warships badly damaged. Such is the report that reaches here and it is credited by naval officials. Admiral Togo has never left the vicinity of Port Arthur since the first attack, but has kept liis vessels In readiness not far from the Russian stronghold for an attack Whenever the time seemed propitious. Details of Monday morning's engagement are lacking, but it is said that the attacking fleet succeeded iu getting within a short distance of the enemy’s vessels before they were discovered. The captured torpedo boats „were quickly taken out to sea, their crews placed on board the Japanese cruisers as prisoners of war and Japanese crews were placed In charge of the swift-sailing little craft, which will hereafter become part of Admiral Togo’s fleet It is said that ht the attack on Port Arthur Feb. 14 the Japanese sunk or destroyed two Russian battleships in addition to the torpedo boats previously reported, ST. PETERSBURG REJOICES. Failure of Japan’s Latest Coup at Port Arthur Creates Much Elation. 8t Petersburg, Feb. 25.—N0 further details were available Thursday morning of the unseccessful attembpt of the Japanese to bottle np the Russian fleet at Port Arthur by stoking big merchantmen at the mouth of the harbor. The <tef details contained in the official dispatches indicate that the coup was planned, according to the nsuai Japanese tactics, to take place during the night: that it was desperately pushed and backed by eight torpedo boats, which continued fighting until daylight, but, that it failed completely. Great praise la given to the Russian ' battleship Retvizan, which lay outside ( the harbor entrance, for her gallant j

arork to beating off the enemy. Her part in the action shown that the reports of. the Injuries which she Is said to have sustained In the attack of Feb. 8 were grossly exaggerated. The official dispatches do not make clear the exact number of ships sent In for the purpose of blocking the throat of the harbor, or whether the four vessels destroyed were beached by the fire from the shore.

CHINESE NEUTRALITY. Minister to Germany Believe. It I. Only of » Temporary Kind. Berlin, Feb. 23.—An interview attributed to the Chinese minister here quotes that diplomat as having proclaimed that China’s neutrality is only temporary; that no one, even the astutest diplomats, can tell what change a day will bring forth in China’s attitude. The minister is quoted as saying: “It should never be forgotten that the war will be fought out in Manchuria, on Chinese territory, and that the excitement of the Chinese people wiil increase as the war progresses. Naturally, therefore, the Chinese government may be expected on any one day to decide that its continued neutrality is neither possible nor desirable. Thirty thousand well-drilled Chinese jroops are already stationed in the province of Chili ready at a moment’s notice from Pekin to enter Manchuria. Our nation admires the Japanese and sympathizes decidedly with their efforts."

JAPANESE ARMY THE BEST. Landing Operations Show Organization Superior to That of Other Nations. Wei-Hai-Wel, Feb. 24.—Feb. 19 tbe steamer Haimun entered Chemulpo anchorage, being the first privately owned vessel to arrive since the engagement Feb. 9. The Japanese are landing an army corps of three divisions. The twelfth division Is now disembarking. The present base is Chemulpo. The regiments on landing wiil advance to Seoul. Small detachments have already been dispatched north to establish forage depots. A general advance along the Pekin road to PingYang Unexpected shortly. The disembarkation methods excite great admiration from the British officers, who state that they are an improvement on anything in experience and believe they demonstrate an organization superior to that of any European power. Japanese Officers Hanged. St. Petersburg, Feb. 25. —The Japanese who were hanged by Russians in Manchuria for attempting to blow up the railroad bridge over the Sangarl river were disguised as coolies. They were arrested just ns they were about to make the attempt. Inquiry revealed that three of them were Japanese officers of the general staff — namely: Colonel Assal of the engineers and Lieutenants Zoneloinseba and Kaeurta of the sappers. They i were at once hanged from the gilders of the bridge.

Jap* gdu Beef from America. Nagasaki, Feb. 25. —The Japanese government baa seized 670 tons of mesa beef which was shipped from San Francisco on tbe steamer Corea Feb. 2 and which was consigned to tbe Russian government at Vladivostok. It is tbougbt that tbe Japanese government will purchase the beef. Declined to Invite Cleveland. Jackson, Mass., Feb. 25.—8 y a vote of 42 to 33 tbe lower house of the Mississippi legislature defeated a resolution to invite Former President Cleveland to address tbe body. Japan Guarantees Korean Integrity. Washington, Feb. 24. —Secretary Hay has received Information that Japan has negotiated a treaty with Korea, wbeTeby she guarantees the independence and integrity of Korea.

FUNERAL OF SENATOR HANNA

Borne City of Dead Statesman Bestows on Him Last Honors—Body Deposited In Crypt. Cleveland, 0., Feb. 20. The nation, state and home city of Senator Hanna have bestowed upon him their last honors. Funeral*services over the remains of the dead statesman were held in St. Paul's Episcopal church, commencing at 1 p. m. Shortly after the noon hour the casket was taken from the Chamber of Commerce auditorium and the funeral procession took dp its slow march to the church. The service was most solemn and Impressive and outbursts of sobs could be heard at frequent intervals from all parts of the church. The body, accompanied only by the family, pallbearers and Bishop Leonard proceeded slowly out Euclid avenue to Lakeview cemetery, where a final farewell of the dead was taken In Wade Memorial chapel. The services consisted simply of a prayer by the bishop. The body was deposited in a crypt in the chapel to await burial at the pleasure of the family. Decision Affects Many Settlers. Vancouver, Wash., Feb. 25.—The recent decision of the supreme court of the United States in awarding the “overlap lands” to the Northern Picific railway will affect almost 2,000 persons In this country. The contested grants comprise all the odd sections in the northern and western portion of Clark connty, most of it being fine timber, grazing and farm land. On this land the government has issued I,B9spatents, and many of the patentees have made their homes thetr for years, besides Improving the property. Brooklyn Firs Wipe# Out $380,000. New York, Feb. 22. The factory of the Frazer Tablet company, at Eighteenth street and Eighth avenue, Brooklyn, was completely destroyed by fire. Loss, $350,000; insurance, $250,* •00.

TWO CLAIM THE JOB

Office of County Clerk the Prize That the Courts Will Award. \ LAW IS VERY MUCH MIXED UP Forger Confessss His Crime and Asks for the Limit—lndiana State News Notea. Brownstown, Ind., Feb. 26.—1 t will soon be left to the supreme court to decide wiio is clerk of the circuit court of Jackson county. The four years for which the present incumbent, Jas. W. Lewis, was elected 1 expired Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock. John Tinder, the clerk-elect, presented hla certificate of election, and other necessary papers, but Lewis refused to give up tbe office. Tinder then made a demand, but was refused. He made another attempt later with the same result, and he will then sue for possession. Law Is Not Clear. The matter is very complicated. Under the old law Lewis’ term would have expired Wednesday, but the legislature of 1901 passed a law'Retting the time for term* of county officers to begin Jan. 1, which extended Lewis’ terms to Jan. 1, 1905. However, the law of 1901 designated the office of county clerk instead of the clerk of the circuit court, and raised a question as to its legality as to the clerk’s office, and as a result Tinder made tbe race for the office in 1902 and was elected.

Legal Opinions Clash. The legislature of 1903 then passed a law repealing that part of tbe lawregarding county clerks, andi likewise the election of clerks chosen in 1902. Tinder has an opinion from ex-Attor-ney general William L. Taylor, stating that he is entitled to the office, while Lewis has on opinion from Attorney General Miller that be, Lewis, is entitled to the office. And Will Clash Some Mora. Both men have employed legal counsel, and the matter will be carried at once into the circuit court now in session. An early decision is asked, so that it can be appealed to tbe supreme court Both men want to do what is right but individually each believes that he Is entitled to the office. lIK FOR THE LIMIT Forger Who Admitted His Gnllt la aa Affidavit Is Sent Up for Fourteen Years. Indianapolis, Feb. 26. —“I want the longest sentence you can give me,” said John L. Milton to Judge Alford after an affidavit charging him with numerous forgeries bad been read to the court He was sent to the Jeffersonville reformatory for fourteen years. Milton, without previous intimation, came before tbe court with John Spa hr, an attorney. He had engaged Spa hr to prepare the affidavit alleging offenses of which the authorities had been Ignorant Many merchants had been his victims, but Milton’s father had always covered his losses, liilton was satisfied with tbe sentence, saying that be preferred to reform in a prison rather than at home.

Crashed Under Ice Cream. Crawfordsville, In<L, Feb. 26.—Harry Call and Harry Lowe, young men of Ladoga, were seriously Injured In a peculiar manner. They were going to a country wedding, seated on the back scat of a broad wagon and on the road the vehicle broke down. The two boys fell out backward, and on top of them fell a heavy freezer of Ice cream, prepared for the .wedding feast Both boys were badly crushed. ETCMTttI* Wntnr Supply Impure. Evansville, Inch, Feb. 26. proclamation which has been distributed by the police the city department of health and charities warns the citizens of Evansville against using the present water supply unless It la first filtered and boiled. Special caution Is recommence to factory employes whose only supply of drinking water Is obtained from the city faucets.

Renomlnation of Laidli. Frankfort, Ind., Feb. 26. —Representative Charles B. Landis, of the Ninth Indiana district, was renominated by acclamation by the Republicans. The resolutions Indorsed the national and state administrations. Landis in his speech favored an enlarged navy and said: “In the eyes of the American people. President Roosevelt is already renominated and elected.” Woman Horsewhip* >Fni h-r.J Vincennes, Ind., Feb. 26.—Mrs. Mantel 1 arekman, wife of a prominent farmer of Harrison township, this county, belabored Rev. EL E. Jenkins, pastor of the Free Baptist church at Monroe City, with a buggy whip for alleged trespass. Mrs. Barekman was fined on the charge of assault and battery, and later filed suit against Jenkins, Quaker Eduaator Dead. Richmond. Ind, Feb. 26. —Professor W. B. Morgan, late of Richmond, one of the foremost of Quaker educators, died at Lowell, Kan. He was prominent In the movement that brought about co-education In Quaker schools.

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

Matters of General Interest Taken from the Wires. Some of the Happenings of the Past Week Given in Condensed Paragraphs for Busy People. Thursday, Feb. 18. All the Presbyterian missionaries In Korea are reported as unmolested. Minister Allen, at Seoul, cables that Wiju has been declared open to the commerce of the world by the Koread government. Eleanor Duse, the actress, is seriously ill with pneumonia, saya a dispatch from Genoa. Measles is the latest mishap to befall the Maine, which has been ordered to Guantanamo to isolate her crew. The second trial of prisoners connected w r ith the Ivischeneff massacres will begin on Monday at Kischeneff. Seneca lake, in New York, is frozen from shore to shore from Starkey to North Hector, for the first time since 1885. The national woman suffrage convention, at Washington, has adjourned ahie die.

Friday, Feb. 19. Six hundred delegates are in session at Tuskegee, Ala., considering the education of the negro in the south. The Wyoming anti-gambling law of 1901 has been sustained by a decision announced by the supreme court Doctor Jameson, of Transvaal raid fame, is to form a cabinet.for the Cape Colony. • Samuel Harper, son of President Harper, of the University of Chicago, has compiled a Russian grammer. Austen Chamberlain has informed the commons that there is no intention of again imposing a tax on grain. Representative James M. Miller has been renominated by the Republican convention of the Fourth Kansas district Mexico has officially declared her neutrality in relation to the war In the Far East

Saturday, Feb. to. National Association of Photographers will hold its next annual convention at St Louis, Oct 3 to 8. There is a report at London that the dowager empress of China is dead. Baltimore banks are lending money' freely to merchants to replenish their Btocka Tbe Fifth Ohio district Republican convention refused to instruct for Roosevelt A big oil strike was made on the farm of Jacob Birdick.flve miles northeast of Oelina, O. The well is rated at 400 barrels a day. George Gardner, of Lowell, defeated “Kid” Carter, of Brooklyn, in a sixround bout at Milwaukee. , The Presbyterian union is to be effected on the doctrinal basis of the confession of faith of the Presbyterian church as revised in 1903.

Monday. Feb. 22. Rev. William Rupard, aged 79 years, died suddenly of heart failure at Lexington. Ky. He bad been s Baptist pastor there fifty-one yearn General Charles Dick seems to be the almost certain successor of Hanna in the United States senate. Dr. Amador has been elected and inaugurated first president of the new republic of Panama. The cushions on which General Grant partook of a Japanese banquet are still preserved at Nagasaki. Fourteen lives were lost and twenty persons injured in a fire in a celluloid factory in Paris. The czar will go to east and take personal command of the army in the spring, according to a Rome newspaper.

Tuesday, Feb. 23. The civilians at Vladivostok have been ordered to leave, owing to the scarcity of food. The body of Henry Hazleton, of St. Louts, who had been missing since Dec. 20, 1903, has been taken from the river Seine at Paris. His death is a mystery. The Heber City branch of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad is completely blocked by a huge snowslide In the canon below Primal Veil falls. Chekib Bey, the Turkish minister at Washington, believes war in the Balkans is impending. The Canadian government will grant New Zealand the tariff preference of 33 1-3 per cent In return for the New Zealand preference. Wednesday, Feb. 24. The building of the railroad along the southern shore of the Crimea with Russian state funds has been postponed on account of the war. The annual schedule meeting'of the National Base Ball League ha* been called for Tuesday, March 1, at New York. * An exhibition of 150 of Whistler’s paintings is open at Boston. The situation in the Balkans la considered st Rome to have improved. Don Jaime, son of the Spanish pretender, will serve Rossis against the Japanese. For the third consecutive time Wylie O. Grant and Robert Leroy have won at New York the Indoor tennis championship of the United States. W. K. Vanderbilt Jr.; Dr. and Mrs. W. Seward Webb, and several other New York society people are at Havana and have engaged all the rooms In a small select hotel near the sea front

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and General (Jossip of the National Capital. It that tbe absence of forty members of the Senate and House at the funerrl of Mr. Hanna in Cleveland would result in a semi paralysis of Congress, or at least in confining its discussions and business to pension bills and other personal claims what the abbatoir men would call the “bi-products” of legislation. But matters were very lively notwithstanding tbe important hegira. Before the funeral train reached Ohio the Panama canal question was tip again in the Senate and Mr. Spooner had the gratification of hearing his own voice for three Or four more hours, and insisting, against the declaration of the most skillful engineers of the world, that the Panama route was better than the Nicaragua. Senator Morgan dipped into bis inexhaustible tank of information and vastly puzzled and embarrassed the Wisconsin man with questions which he could not answer. In the House, discussion centered on the fortifications bill. John Sharp Williams, Democratic leader, asked that such a fundamental measure as the fortification of the Philippine Island be postponed till the Republicans should decide what was to be the future of that archipelago. The bill passed, however. t t t Two special trains went to Clevland at the expense of the government to participate in Mr. Hanna’s funeral. In the first went his family and personal friends, some thirty or forty escorting the body. The second carried eleven members of the Senate with their clerk personal servants and the Senate barber, and thirty Congressmen and their clerks and messengers. All of the trains were Pullman sleepers and they were all fitted up with buffet cars provisioned abundantly at the expense of the government. The cars which carried the Senators was divided into ten large staterooms extending from side to side and one Senator was assigned to each. Everything that men desire to eat or to drink was provided free in unlimited quanities. The Speaker of the House selected the funeral committee of Representatives. Mr. Frye, of Maine, President pro tempore of the Senate, designated the Senators who were to have the pleasure of a free trip to the Ohio metropolis. He took two Senators each * from Maine, Rhode Island and Indiana; Massachusetts was slighted, much to the disgust or Senator Lodge; Illinois had no representative, and Senator Cullom remonstrated Several Representatives and at least one Senator were so anxious to go and stand by the bier of Senator Hanna that they were finally included ou their personal request, so that the dead statesmen has received all the official tears to which he was entitled. These committees are made up of generally sober men, so that no scandal is likely to lesult except the scandal of paying out SIO,OOO or $12,000 of government money for an excursion and parade when a committee composed of one member from each house would have been ample. Is this abuse never to end? t t t A Washington spectacle which excites both envy and admiration is that of a young fellow perhaps not thirty years old, acting as private secretary to a big Secretary who is a, member of the Cabinet. This specimen of the jeunesse

E. J. MURRAY Will, until permanently located, make his headquarters in Lee Jessup’s carpenter shop on the corner of Washington and Weston streets. All work in the Heating and Plumbing line promptly attended to. My best references will be to have you interview the people I have done work for. I will » gladly quote you rock-bottom prices on Wood or Galvanized Stock Tanks, Pumps, Windmills, Etc. Kindly seeking a part of your patronage, Bell ’Phone 223.

doree has a salary of $2,500, en-< joys the luxury of a magnificent private office, has his own stenographer and sumptous typewriter, comes mostly from Ohio, aud “has, at his behest, and at the expense*of Uncle Sera, a smart hors# and carriage costing SI,OOO, which he c-ouid not keep at less than S6O a month, and a coachman who is on the government pay-roll., t t t Mrs. Roosevelt’s transformatioa of the White House seems to be a failure. It cost $500,000 and ths walls of the annex already, in less than two years, show large fissures, and evident signs of disintegration. In one place the plaster has cracked frdrn floor to ceiling. The ugly little box built for ths Executive office, which cost $63,000 when the White House was “renovated,” is now obviously crumbling away and will probably have to bo torn down within tws or three years. t t t One of the most interesting and valuable sections of the exhibit which the Fish Commission is this city will make at St Louis, consists of tha food products now manufactured from fishes collected from all parts of the world. Every part of a fish is now utilized for food, for oils for glues, for ths arts aud sciences and for fertilization. The exhibit will be larger than that at Chicago and with much finer aquaria. Some of these will be for salt-water fish, the sea water being brought from the Atlantic in tank cars.

FARM LOANS. We make farm loans on the most favorable terms and in the shortest time obtainable anywhere. Loans on city propebty are mads by us for one, two, three, four and five years, with privilege of partial payments on any interest payment day; also loans on personal security. Call at our office and seeds we cannot make just tbs kind of a loan you are needing, or call us up by telephone as we have both the long distance Bell and Independent telephones in our office. Austin & Hopkins, Rensselaer, Indiana. Come to The Democrat offica for horse bills. RUN DOWN BY A FREIGHT TRAIN. Earl Park, Ind., February 22. Henry Alders, a well known German farmer of this vicinity, was killed by a Big Four freight train near here yesterday. His bodr was found by the engineer of an east-bound passenger train, and was brought here. A bottle containing whiskey was in bis pocket. Don’t pay fancy prices for your daily papers or magazines. ThA Democrat can furnish you with the Chicago American or Examiner for $2 60 per year or the Inter Ocean, Tribune or Chromch for $3.35, and they will come regularly to your address (througn ths postoffice) on the early morning train, so yon can get them when going for your morning mail. Don’t Forget the New Lumber Yari Where you can get all kinds of Lumber, Lime, Hair, Brick, Cement and Plaster; also the celebrated alabastscent Wall Plaster. I solicit a share of your trade at my old stand. Respectfully, Hiram Day. Craft's Distemper and Cough Cure ASpeeiflcfor Distemper, Coughs,Colds, Pink Eye, and ell Catarrhal diseases of horssa, Priee, We, |IM per hntWa, Sold br A. F. Lunar.