Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1904 — Page 5

POWDER TO BORN

Seems To Be the Situation with the Japanese Ships of War. THEY POP AWAY AT PORT ARTHUR

For a Few Hours and Then Disappear to the Unknown.

M&karoff Claims to Have Disabled a Battleship—Russians Lose Five Killed and Nine Wounded on Shore.

London, March 23. A correspondent of The Times at Tokio, under yesterday’s date, cables that it is rumored that the Japanese have succeeded In blockading the entrance to Port Arthur.

London, March 23. A dispatch to the Reuter's Telegram company from 8t Petersburg says: “Japanese torpedo boats appeared off Port Arthur at midnight of the night of March 2122, and the shore batteries and guardships shelled them for twenty minutes. The Japanese retreated, but reappeared four hours later, when they met with the same reception, and they retired again.

Rmslin Squadron Satis Ont.

“At 0 a. m. [March 22] a Japanese squadron of two divisions, composed of four and eleven ships, respectively, and accompanied by eight torpedo boats, appeared, and the Russian squadron sailed out from the outer roadstead to meet them. No further details regarding the action are obtainable. At 9 a. m. the Japanese battleship, having fired several shots at Llaotisbin and sheltered behind the promontory, commenced a bombardment of Port Arthur.”

Entrenchment! St Anju.

St Petersburg, March 23. The following dispatch has been received from Viceroy Alexieff, dated Mukden, March 22: “General Mistehenkow reports that on March 17 our scouts approached Anju and observed on the left bank of the Cheng Cheng river, opposite Anju, entrenchments made by the enemy. Up to that date the enemy had not appeared at Yong Pyon, fifteen miles northeast of Anju. It is supposed that there is one Japanese division at Anju and that the remainder of the first army corps is at Ping Yang.

Jap* Decline u Engagement.

“In consequence of the report that two squadrons of the enemy had arrived at Pak Chong, fifteen miles northwest of Anju, 200 of our cavalry iwaa dispatched for the purpose of preventing the enemy from crossing the Pak Chong river. Our cavalry found three Jnpanese squadrons on the left bank of the river, but they withdrew towards Anju on the arrival of our detachment, without fighting. The Japanese squadrons number about 190 each.”

FROM THE JAPANESE FRONT Organization Is Perfect, but Food Hard to Get in Korea. London, March 24. —A series of messages, dated between March 10 and March 17, sent by a correspondent of !The Daily Mail at Chinampho, Korea, describes the perfect organization and arrangements of the Japanese is Korea. Elaborate preparations have been made for landing troops and advancing them through the country, and pontoon bridges and stables are ini lit wherever they are found to be necessary. The greatest difficulty facing the Japanese is the commissariat, as owing to the poor food supplies of Korea It Is only possible at present to maintain 90,000 men.

The Japanese hold two enormously Strong positions at Ping Yang and on the Miokak-San Pange, between Hwang-Ju and Seoul. The latter, the correspondent says, is probably impregnable, and secures Seoul from land attacks from the northwest. In the event of defeat it is intended to hold the passes at Kazan, thus protecting the Ping Yang valley. The Japanese troops are suffering from dysentery and pneumonia, and many of the cavalry horses, which the correspondent eays are poor, have died, but the army la full of spirit. There probably are 20,000 Japanese at Ping Yang, which the correspondent points out might easily have been taken when the Russian scouts first arrived, there being then only 250 Japanese soldiers. The Russians intended to make Anju their base, but owing to the delay in the arrival of reinforcements they were afraid they would be cut off, and so retired. Mean'While the Japanese advanced to Ping Yang by forced marches, the troops being almost without equipment.

MAKAROFF REPORTS THE FIGHT He Claims to Have Disabled a Japanese Battleship. St. Petersburg, March 23. The emperor received the following telegram from Vieeroy Alexieff, giving (Vice Admiral MakarofTs report of the bombardment of Port Arthur on March 21-22: “At midnight of March 21 two ©f the enemy’s torpedo boats approached the outer roadstead, but were discovered by the searchlights of the batteries and fired upon by the forts and by the gunboats Bobr and Otvazuy. They were obliged to retire.

A second attack was made at 4 o’clock In the morning (March 22] by three torpedo boats, which also were repulsed. ‘At daybreak three detachments of the enemy’s fleet, consisting of six battleships, six armored cruiaers, six second and third-class cruisers and eight torpedo boats, approached from all sides. At 7 o’clock our squadron commenced to leave the inner harbor, the cruisers leading with the Askold, flying my flag, at their head, and the battleship* following. The enemy’s battleships approached Liaotishln and fired 100 shells from their 12-inch guns at Port Arthur and 108 shells at the environs of the town.

“Our shells, flTed at a range of eighty cables, were well placed. About 10 o’clock a Japanese battleship was struck by a shell and retired. We lost no men during thebombardment,which ceased at 11 o’clock, when the enemy’s ships reassembled, and after passing along the outer roadstead drew off without attacking our fleet.”

JAPAN’S PLANS FOR COREA First Thing Proposed Is a Move to Eliminate the Foreigners, London, March 23.—The Seoul correspondent of The Times says that while deprecating precipitancy in administrative reconstruction Japan recommends that Korea shall gradually eliminate foreign advisers of the government and appoint no more for the present. Many of the foreigners, who are mostly French, occupy advisory posts with emoluments aggregating SIOO,OOO, and half of these posts are absolute sinecures.

The Japanese are displaying great vigor in the construction of a light railway to Pang Yang and other stragetic projects, according to the correspondent, who says that as an evidence of the thoroughness of her plans Japan is preparing for the possibility of military reverses in Manchuria, but that whatever happens she intends to hold fast to Korea.

Japan has 3,000 engineers working on the railway and 100 miles of material obtained from disused lines in various pnrts of Japan are now awaiting shipment to Ping Yang. This scheme was designed to be completed by September next, and the road will afterwards be made permanent and extended to Wiju.

JAPANESE IN SIBERIA. Comparatively Few Remained After the Breaking Oat of War. St. Petersburg, March 23. —United States Ambassador McCormick has not been Instructed by the state department, at the request of M. Takahira, the Japanese minister at Washington, to ask the Russian government what facilities will be afforded to the 40,000 Japanese in Siberia to return to Japan.

According to information received here comparatively few Japanese are now hi Siberia. Most of them left there just prior to or after the breaking out of the war. The United States embassy, which is charged with safeguarding Japanese interests, has thus far responded to the appeals of a score of Japanese coming from Siberia through European Siberia. ' The last batch of twelve, from Irkutsk, was sent to Berlin Saturday. Not one of them has been molested, but it is considered safer that the Japanese be placed beyong the region of possible danger. No appeals lihve been received from the few Japanese residing in St. Petersburg and other cities of European Russia.

Gunboat Mandju Defies Chinese.

San Francisco. March 25fe»—Officers of the steamer Coptic, which has just arrived, saw the Russian gunboat Mandju lying in the river at Shanghai, and report that her commander is a Captain Carter, born in the United States, but a Russian by naturalization. When ordered to leave Chinese waters. Captain Carter emphatically refused and invited some one to make him move. At last accounts he was still at Shanghai with hie gunboat. A Japanese battleship and a cruiser flying the same flag passed out of the river while the Coptic was at Shanghai.

Haws from Vladivostok.

Vladivostok, March 24. While the situation here remains quiet it is not expected that Vladivostok will continue to be much longer free from tbe vigorous operations of the Japanese. In anticipation of the appearance of the enemy and of a possible siege, a ladies’ circle has been formed which sits six hours daily at tbe ministry of marine preparing bandages of linen for sick soldiers and sailors.

Fleet Breaks Through lee.

London, March 21.—The report comes from St Petersburg that tbe Vladivostok sqoadron dynamited its way through the ice in the harbor last Tuesday and put to sea. The report states further that it is conjectured at St Petersburg that the fleet has gone to Sagbalien Island. Naval experts be lieve Admiral Reitzenstein wij try to effect a juncture with the main squadron at Port Arthur.

Accounting for Capt. Reitzensteln.

Paris, March 23. —The Echo de Paris correspondent at St Petersburg Bays it is rumored in naval circles there that Captain Reitzenstein’s Vladivostok squadron has been ordered to overtake at a certain point in the Pacific the battleship and two cruisers bought from Chile by Japan and to capture them.

Winner of the Revolver Cup.

New York, March 23. —Sufficient returns have been received by the officials of the United States Revolver association to show that the winner of the revolver cup in the recent match is S. E. Sears. He made a total of 477 out of a possibly 500 in thirty-three minutes. 1

PRAIRIES ARE AFLAME

Four Hundred Square Miles Swept, with the Help of a Heavy Wind.

TWO DEAD MEN; TWO MIBSING

Much Destruction of Farm Prorerty, Including Live Stock—Towns in Danger.

Holdrege, Neb., March 24. —A terrific prairie fire, driven by a gale of wind, Is raging along the line of the Burlington railroad between here and Atlanta, a distance of seven miles. A farmer nemed August Olsen was burned to death, and two other persons who are missing are believecr to have lost their lives in the flames; The Burlington road sent a special train to Loomis, seven miles northwest of here, to prevent the fire ravaging the town. A strip three miles wide and ten miles long has already been burned over, and a large number of farm houses, barns and tfther buildings, and a great amount of live stock have • been destroyed. Charles Peterson and Wallace Johns lost their residences, and several farmers were entirely burned out.

Wind Fans the Flames. Wind carried the flames across the countryat a great speed, and all efforts to stop their progress have thus far provqd futile. The farmers and citizens from the towns along the burned and threatened strips are out fighting the fire, and the railroad company has a large gang of section hands assisting them. The loss thus far has been very heavy, but cannot be estimated.

Four Hundred Square Miles of Fire.

Bassett, Neb., March 24.—A disastrous prairie fire is raging in Rock county. The fire originated in Loup county, and driven by a high wind burned a strip from five to ten miles wide from the south line of the county to the railroad near Newport, a distance of forty miles. Thousands of tons of hay, many residences and outbuildings, and much stock has been destroyed. An armyof men and ten teams are fighting it. A special train carrying seventy-five men was sent from Long Pine and Bassett to assist the town of Newport, and it is now out of danger. No fatalities have been reported, but several of the fire fighters have been injured.

Another Life Reported Loit.

Loomis, Neb., March 24. —A prairie fire is raging two miles west of here, burning a strip four or five miles wide, destroying nearly everything in its path. Consderable live stock is reported lost in the fire. No definite report has been received- from the place where the fire originated. One man, name unknown, is reported to have lost his life. A heavy gale is blowing from the south. All attempts to check the fire are fruitless.

FIFTY BUILDINGS WRECKED

One Man Fatally Hurt and Several Other* Injured by a Storm of Wind and Hail.

Higginsvilie. Mo.. March 22.—Fifty buildings are partly wrecked, one man is mortally wounded and several others hurt; the town is in darkness and the streets strewn with debris, as the result of a tornado and hail storm which struck this place. The hail on the streets was a foot deep within five minutes after the storm came, and some of the stones were as large as hen eggs. Dozens of trees in the town were blown down and several horses were killed on the street. The most careful estimate of the financial loss here Is $40,000. Two other towns in this section were in the path of this storm and are said to be considerably damaged. They are Corder and Alma, each having a population of 500 or 600.

Duggins Thankful for the Gallows.

Terre Haute, Ind., March 24.—The Jury in the trial of Jerry Duggins for the murdeT of Mrs. Sarah Ramsay and her two children, Burle and Marie, rendered a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Judge Piety lusmediately sentenced Duggins to be hanged before sunrise on the morning of July 8 at the Michigan City prison. “All I have to say is that I thank yon all,” was Duggins’ reply after the sentence had been pronounced.

Sullivan May Lose His Sight.

Boston, Mass., March 24.—John L. Sullivan has been ordered by bis physician to go to Hot Springs as soon as he Is able to sit up. He is still confined to his sister’s home and is in danger of losing bis eyesight. He believes he contracted the disease in his eyes from germs in a towel used in a New York hotel. Both eyes are badly swollen and inflamed and the former champion cannot see to read.

Iskay Killed and His Band Captured.

Manila, March 24.—CapOn Dewitt, with a detachment of constabulary and Lieutenant Pitney, with a detachment of scouts, have Just encountered Macario Sakay, tbe so-called president of the Filipino republic. Sakay with fifteen of his followers were killed and the remainder of ” the band captured. There were no casualties on the part of the Americans.

Estimate as World’s Cotton Crop.

Washington, D. G., March 22. —The world’s cotton crop for 1902-63 is estimated by the department of agriculture at 17,179,765 bales, valued at $750,082,45L This is baaed on the latest data available, the figures In most instances representing the cotton appearing in commercial channels.

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, March 17.

Andrew Carnegie declares he has no Intention of endowing a theater in this country or elsewhere. Jan Kubelik had to flee while giving a concert at Ling, Austria, when a German mob, incensed over the language war, stoned the hall. The Dietrich investigation at Washington has closed until Saturday, when one more witness will be beard.

The Duke of Cambridge, cousin of the late Queen Victoria, is seriously 111 at London. He is very old. Cameras, not mounted on tripods, will be allowed on the St. Louis World's fair grounds without charge or limit.

Friday, MWrch 18.

The battleship Illinois is at New York with a hole in her hull where the Missouri rammed her by accident. Balfour has accepted Campbell-Ban-nerman’s challenge to consider a vote of censure and fixed March 21 as the date.

Paderewski, the pianist, has been expelled from Russia, it is reported, because he declared that he was not a Russian, but a Pole, when complimented by the czar. James J. Hill,president of the Northern Securities company, favors the nomination of Grover Cleveland for president by the Democrats. “Roosevelt and reciprocity” is Governor Van Sant’s political war cry.

There is a dearth of house servants In Memphis, Tenn., according to a letter received by Mayor Harrison, of Chicago.

Saturday, March 10.

A resolution has been adopted by the New York-Chicago good roads convention at Erie, Pa., favoring a national highway between the two cities. School was suspended at Colorado Springs, Colo., because of the antics of 100 pupils who attended arrayed in grotesque green costumes in honor of St. Patrick’s day. The bill appropriating $250,000 of state funds to relieve the destitution caused by the late Baltimore fire, has been passed by the Maryland senate. It now goes to the governor. Ex-President Cleveland quietly observed his 07th birthday at home at Princeton, N. J., yesterday.

The condition of Postmaster General Payne is reported to be satisfactory.

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Senator Tillman has gone to bis home at Edgefield, S. C., to spend two weeks.

Monday. March It, The Republican convention of the Tenth Missouri congressional district nominated Richard Bartholdt to succeed himself as representative. The annual opening of the Yosemite park to visitors will take place April 1.

The California Democratic central committee has indorsed Hearst’s candidacy for president. Democratic convention In Orleans, Chemung and Cortland counties, New York, instructed delegates for Judge Parker for president. Michael Davitt is seriously ill at San Frnncisco.

Miss Ethel Harte, Bret Harte’s daughter, has gone on the concert stage. Orders have been issued for the organization of a marine guard of two companies for duty at the Louisiana Purchase exposition. The lowa legislature passed a bill creating a state hospital at Knoxville for the treatment of inebriates.

The belief is general that the Japanese are making a general movement northward in Korea.

Tuesday, March 29.

D. J. Sully, the suspended “cotton king,” says lie will resume very shortly, he is sure. Congressman Butler Ames will act as head waiter at a society frolic in the festival of nations at Washington. Senator Platt and Governor Odell declared peace after tlieXew York conference.

The Hearst campaign is to be extended to senatorial and county conventions.

Chicago and London are in a race to show' the lowest death rate, the figures for last year being respectively 15.34 and 15.02. Joseph Meyer, of Cincinnati, aged 27, died in the arms of his mother aboard a train In the station at Asheville, N. C. He was en route home to die.

Wednesday, March 23,

James K. Taylor, supervising architect of the treasury department, estimates that plans for government buildings cost from 3% to 4 per cent, of the total cost.

Marines at League island navy yard are disgusted with the new regulation uniforms and especially with trousers which have no pockets. Some tax-dodger, conscience-strick-en, sent $lO to the county treasurer at Chicago with the request that it be given to charity. Mayor McClellan, of New York, is confined to his Lome by a severe attack of grip. Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, widow of Dr. M. T. Scott of Lexington, Ky„ committed guieide at her residence by shooting.

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AUTHOR EDWIN ARNOLD DEAD

British Litterateur and Journalist Paaator Married n Japanese Girl Later In His Life. v

London, March 25.—Sir Edwin; Arnold, the famous Journalist and author,, died at his London house yesterday a* the age of 72 years. His intense in-

SIR EDWIN ARNOLD.

terest in the war betweeu Japan anti! Russia and liis concern over the welfare of the mikado’s people,, among whom his best days were spent, are believed to have liastened the end. Although Sir Edwin suffer 3d ia.. hate years from partial paralysis, he- was, not taken seriously ill until last week. The funeral will take place Mart 2S and the body will be crematad'. at' Woking. Sir Edwin spent many years offhis life in the Orient, one of his greatest works, “The Light of Asia,” bitog written in Japan. He took high ion* •ors at Oxford and was an expert in Oriental languages, especially SaririLIn 1881, while on a visit to Japan, Vigrieved and shocked his family by marrying a Japanese girl,but her demotion to him won over his family. Tkka was his third wife. He was decora by Servia, Persia and his own eoMtry, being knighted in 188 S by Quecau Victoria.

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