Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 26, Number 2, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 16 March 1904 — Page 2

THE EYES OF THE JAPANES E ARMY: CAVALRY SCOUTINI

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PORT ARTHUR IN VERY BAD WAY City Said to Be in Flames and Deserted by the Russians—Togo Tells of the Bombardment.

Tokio, March 14— It 'is persistently xumored that the Russians have virJnaliy evacuated fort Arthur and that Dalny has been destroyed. Tientsin, March 14 —An unconfirmed report has reached here that Port Arthur has fallen. Uundon, March 14.—A dispatch to the 'Central News from Tokio says: "It is asserted here that the Russians virtually have abandoned Port Arthur.” Town on Fire. "London. March 14.—The Daily Mail, •dispatch boat entered the mouth of *fie harbor at Port Arthur Saturday morning. The town was on fire in ■three plaees; the forts apparently abandoned; there was no sign of life or the flutter of a flag. Dalny Almost Destroyed. In a dispatch from Tokio, dated March 13, a correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that in the latest attack on Port Arthur two Russian torpedo boat destroyers were sunk, and great damage was done to the docks, forts and arsenals, including the explosion of a powder magazine. Dalny is reported to have been almost entirely destroyed. Several guns were dismounted, and the crew of four torpedo boats in the inside harbor are said to have deserted. Like a City of Death. "In a dispatch from Chefoo, dated >larch 13. a correspondent of the Daily Mail describes an inspection of Port Arthur made on the 11th instant from a boat. The new city seemed to be on fire; three columns of smoke were ascending from it. The Bread Hill fort appeared to have suffered terribly; the defenses were shattered and the earthworks torn up. No guns were visible. The line of forts on the Tiger's Tail also appeared to have suffered damage. At sunrise- no sign of life could he seen anywhere. and Port Arthur looked like a city -of death. Losses at Port Arthur. Tientsin, March.l4. at official who was an eye witness of the Itombanimentof Port Arthur on Wednesday and Thursday isto the.effect that the Russians had 25 killed on the baitleship Sevastopol, 20 on the Retvizan and 20 in the town. The Russians claim to have sunk a Japanese cruiser. "The latest reports place-.the Japanese loss at nine killed, five seriously wounded and 17 slightly hurt. The Japanese Heel was r.ot damaged in (he fighting. London, March 14. —Special dispatches from Tokio and Yin-Kow give reports of heavy Russian casualties at Port Archly. amount img to 40. men killed and 100 wounded, lint they are so conflicting that It is not wise to give them much credence. Russians Burn Wiju. Seoul, March 14.—1 tis reported that th'e Russians have set fire to the town of VYiju. on the Korean side of.the Yalu Tirer. and have retreated across the riter into Manchuria, A complete Russian evacuation is proceeding, due to the Japanese advance northward. In a calvary skirmish at V. atan. north of Aitju. Korea. March S. 4he Russians wete driven hack. Their Gen. Boynton Dead. Augusta, Me,, March 10.—Gen. Henry JJoynton, of Maine, an offierr who won distinction in the civil war, -died here Wednesday of heart disease. He was 172 years of age. Gen. Boynton took a prominent part in rescuing Kansas from border ruffians and pro-slavery in 1830. Dust Storm Damages Wheat. Abilene. Kan., March 10.—One of the worst dust storms in many years swept over the central part of Kansas Wednesday. The wind, was terrific. It Is beJieveriThat wheat will be badly damaged.

losses a-re not known. St. Petersburg, March 12.—The emperor has received a message front Viceroy Alexieff which says: Admiral Makaroff, commanding the fleet, reports from Port Arthur under date of March 11 as follows:. “Six torpedo boats which | went out to sea the night of March 10. four of them being under the general command of Capt. Mattoussevitch, encountered the enemy’s torpedo boats followed by cruisers. A hot action enstjed in which the torpedo boat destroyer Vlastini discharged a Whitehead torpedo and sunk one of the enemy's torpedo boats. On the way back the torpedo boat destroyer Stereguschtchi, commanded by Lieut. Sergueieff, sustained damages. Her engine was disabled and she began to founder By eight o'clock in the morning, five of our torpedo boat destroyers had returned. When the critical position of the Stereguschtchi became evident I hoisted my flag on the cruiser Kovik and went with the Novik and the cruiser Bojarin to the rescue. But as five of the enemy’s cruisers surrounded our destroyer, and as their battleship squadron was approaching, 1 did •not succeed in saving the Stereguschtchi, which foundered. Part of the crew was made prisoner ar.d part was drowned. “On the ships which participated in the night attack out* officer was seriously and three others were slightly wounded, two soldiers were killed and 18 were wounded. Bombardment of Port Arthur. “At nine o'clock 14 of the enemy’s ships asembk-d Ijefore Port Arthur and a bombarument was begun with the heavy guns of their battleships squadron at long range* This lasted until one o'clock in the- afternoon. It is estimated that the enemy fired 154 12-ir.ch shells. 'The damage to our vessels was Insignificant, and they are again, ready for battle. Our ] losses were one officer slightly wounded j and one soldicer killed and four soldiers wounded.’’ Admiral Togo Reports. Tokio, March 14.—Admiral Togo's report of the fourth attack tin Port Arthur j by the Japanese fleet on March 10 reached j Tokio late Saturday afternoon. It is as

DALNY. THE COMMERCIAL PORT IN MANCHURIA.

Buried Beneath Sliding Snow. Helena, Mont., .March 8. —Buried unfeet of enow where it may never he found is the body of John Street, one of the beet known trapuers of the northwest. Str-eet. and several companions were at Mount Cleveland, south of the international boundary, when suddenly the snow beneatri them began to slide. There was a frightful roar and an instant later Street fell from the sight of his companions. An overhanging ledge of crusted snow on which they had been standing had fallen, dropping straight! down a distance of 3,000 feet.

follows; “Our squadron as prearranged attacked the enemy at Port Arthur on March 10. Our two torpedo flotillas reached the mouth of the harber at Port Arthur at one o’clock on the morning of the tenth. Finding no enemy and waiting until dawn, one flotilla engaged in sinking special mines in the harbor entrance. Notwithstanding the enemy’s fire our flotilla succeeded in sinking the mines. The other flotilla met the enemy’s torpedo flotilla, consisting of six boats, in the Lao Thie Shan channel south qf Port Arthur, at 4:30 o’clock. A hot engagement occurred at close range for 30 minutes. The enemy then took flight. Damaged Russian Ships. “Our fire greatly damaged the Russian ships, one of which was badly crippled by a shot through the boilers, and another was observed to be on fire. So close were the two flotillas to each other that our destroyers, the Asashio, Kasuml and Akatsuki nearly touched the enemy’s ships and our crews could even hear the cries of agony of their Injured men on them. We sustained some damage and loss. The Akatsuki had a steam pipe broken and .four stokers were killed thereby. Our loss was seven killed and eight wounded. Among the latter is Chief Engineer lvlinamisawa, of the Kasuml. ( Fought for an Hour. v—“Our other flotilla while leaving the harbor entrance observed two Russian torpedo boats coming from seaward and immediately engaged them, the battle lasting one hour. After causing them severe damage one of them effected its escape, huf our destroyer.-the Sasanami, captured the other boat, which proved to be the Stereguschtchi. Notwithstanding the land batteries pouring a heavy fire on our flotilla, the captured vessel was taken in tow. Owing to the high scathe tow line soon parted and the Sasanaml found it necessary to take the crew from the Russian boat and abandoned tffie Stereguschtchi, which finally sank at 10; 30 o'clock. “The enemy's cruiser's, the Novik and the Bayan. steamed out of the entrance of the harbor toward u§, hut observing the approach of our cruiser squadron, retired to the harbor. Our flotilla suffered some damage, hut not heavy. The Sasanam! and the Akatsuki had two sailors killed and Sulo.Lieut. Shima, of the Akatsuki, and three sailors were wounded. Port Arthur Bombarded. “Our main and cruiser squadrons arrived off Port Arthur-at eight o’clock, and the cruiser immediately advanced toward the harbor entrance to protect the torpedo flotilla. The main squad-.

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GEN. KUROPATKIN. Commander in Chief of Russia’s Manchurian Army. ron advanced near Lao-Thie-Shan and opened an indirect cannonade against the inner harbor from ten o’clock to 1:40. "According to the observations made by one of our cruisers facing the entrance. the bombardment was remarkably effective. During our cannonade the enemy’s land batteries, fired, but none of our ships suffered any damage. Another cruiser squadron went to TalienWan and bombarded the enemy’s fortress on Samshantao, damaging the buildings thereon. . The cruisers Takasago and Chihaya reeonnitered the west coast, but did not find the enemy. " The Russian torpedo boat ‘ destroyer damaged in the third attack on Port Arthur was found to beJJrtTWntishiterinuy, which had been completely sunk, the mast only being visible,above the water. "Our squadron stopped fighting at two o’clock and returned tp the rendezvous."

Case Given to Jury. Chicago, March 12.—The fate of Harvey Van Dine, Peter Niedermevjr and Oustav Marx, the three men om trial for tHeir lives for the murder oil Frank Stewart at the Chicago City' railway car barn, is in the hands of the Jury. At 12:20 o’clock Friday Judge Kersten finished his instructions to the 12 men who must decide whether the murderers shall die on the gallows or drag out the weary years of their existence in the penitentiary. The jurors then retired to begin the consideration of their verdict.

MOB APPLIED TORCH. Whites Attack Negro Quarters in Springfield, O.—Buildings Burned —Troops Ordered Out. Springfield, 0., March 10. —On Sunday Police Sergeant Collis was killed and Mamie Corbin wounded by Richard Dickerson (colored). Monday night Dickerson was lynched. Tuesday night “five colored.joints" on the levee, in which desperadoes stich as Dickerson reveled, were burned. Notwithstanding the presence of ten companies of troops and Gov. Herrick offering the mayor and sheriff the full military power of the state, open warnings were given Wednesday that the trouble would never cease until all the “colored joints” at which there had previously been so much trouble were “cleaned out.” Mayor Bowlus held a conferende just before noon with city and county officials and prominent citizens at which it was decided to close all colored re sorts. Threats had been made that "Honky Tonk hall.” the Atlas hotel and the Elliott and the Montgomery saloons would be the next to he burned, and all of thesgj places at noon were ordered closed and their owners and other leaders to leave the city ’at'bnce. The colored proprietors readily assented. The colored people were seeking protection Wednesday. Even with all these places, where negro men and women congregated for drinking and all sorts of gambling, closed, there is still apprehension of further trouble: z - CATTLE ARE SUFFERING. Conditions Among Animals in South Dakota Reported as Most Deplorable. Belle Fourche, S. D,, March 10.—Conditions among range cattle in this region are almost beyond belief. Not since 1880 has there been so much suffering, and if March continues with any severity the percentage of loss will almost equal that of the memorable winter of 17 years ago. The greatest suffering has been caused by tjje lack of water. The animals spent hours at a time along the water courses and various pools licking the ice in a frantic endeavor to relieve their parched bodies. Places are frequently found where the ice is drenched with the blood of the animals from their lacerated tongues. Every day is adding i.ts quota to the number of carcasses over the plains, and it is impossible to form any estimate of the probable loss, Thousands have drifted into this vicinity from North Dakota and Montana, and feeble efforts are being made to find food enough to sustain them until spring. Sheep have generally wintered well. STILL IN FARMERS’ HANDS. Enormous Amount of Wheat, Corn and Oats Not Placed on Market. Washington. March 11, —The March report of the bureau of statistics of the department of agriculture shows the amount of wheat remaining In farmers' hands on March 1 to have been about 132,600,000 bushels, or 20.8 per cent, of last year’s crop, as compared with 24.5 per cent, of the crop of 1902 on hand March 1, 1903, and 23.2 per cent, of the crop of 1901 on hand on March 1, 1902. The corn in farmers' hands is estimated at about 839,000,000 bushels, or 37.4 per cent, of last year's crop, against 41.6 per Cent of the crop of 1902 on hand on March 1, 1903, and 29.2 per cent, of the crop of 1901 on hand on March 1, 1902. Os oats there are reported to be about 273,700.000 bushels, or 34.9 per cent, of last year’s crop still in farmers’ hands, as compared with 36.9 per cent, of the crop of 1902 on hand on March ,1, 1903, atid 30,6 per '•ent. of the crop of 1901 on hand on March 1, 1902. SCORES PERISH IN WRECK. Steamer in Storm Off Coast of Cochin-China and 100 Persons Are Drowned. London, March 10.—A special dispatch from Paris-announees' that the French steamer Cambodge (Os 2,355 tonk, which left Rangoon February , 17 . for Ooehin-Cbina and European ports), has been wrecked in a storm off the coast of Cochin-China. The dispatch adds that it is believed a hundred persons perished in the wreck. ’ Four Burned to Death. Harrisburg, Pa., March 11.—Four unidentified men were burned to death In a box car containing gasoline which caught fire at Branch Intersection, ten miles east of this City. Thursday. Two others, George Klinger, of Harrisburg, and William C. Lyter, of Lewiston, barely escaped with their lives, their bodies and clothes being badly burned. Sacrifices Life for a Child. Portland. Ore.. March 10. —In a heroic attempt to rescue Oza Brown, a little girl who had fallen into the Willamette river from a steamer, Sumner Smith, the 21-year-old son of W. K. Smith, one of the most prominent capitalists of this city, Tuesday night sacrificed his own life. The little girl was saved, but Smith was drowned. Blast Furnace Resumes. Pueblo, Col., March 12. —Blast furnace ’C,” attheMlnnequasteel works.has been blown in. This Is the first blast furnace to be put into operation since the shutting the works last November, (although the auxiliary plants have been put into commission for the past two months. Business Block Burned. Lawton, Okla., March 12.—Fire at Frederick, a small town five miles west jf here, destroyed an entire block of business buildings, causing a loss estimated at J 100,000.

Jews horribly oppressed They Are Not Allowed to Exist Under Sanitary Conditions '“•lli'lfussia. It was recently mentioned in the London Telegraph that the Russian medical congress, which met at St. Petersburg at the end of January, was dissolved by the police, on the ground that it trenched upon politics when it resolved that a regular and systematic campaign against tuberculosis could only be carried out in Russia on condition that “personal freedom and the freedom qf speech of the press and of meetings were granted.” Such freedom as (halt suggested does exist in theory, so far as hygienic propaganda are concerned. It Is possible to deliver lectures on ventilation or on the best method of keeping dwellings clean, but whenever any systematic effort of this sort is made the organizers immediately fall under the suspicion of the police. These benevolent and charitable endeavors are' ascribed to some political motives, and a scientific lecture on sanitation may land its author in Siberia. The special correspondent of the Lancet writes: "Worse than this, however. was to follow. The medical men had not only the audacity to demand that their freedom to teach the laws of health should be absolutely guaranteed, but they actually touched upon the burning question of the treatment of the Jews. By the ‘Laws of May.’ which Emperor Alexander 111, signed on May—3;—lß92, the Jews were no longer allowed to reside in villages, but only in towns or burgs. The police were apparently left to decide whether a place was a village or a burg. If they chose to call it a village. then the Jews might be driven out in 24 hours. Thus, for instance, In 1895 ail the burgs of the provinces of Poltava and Tchernigoff were declared to be villages, and the Jews had to leave in 24 hours. The results of this unnecessary haste are appalling. “The Jews have to sell their property at a ruinous sacrifice, and thus poverty is added to the overcrowding of the ghettos in which they are cqmpelled to live. The vice governor' of Kishineff some time ago gave orders for the evacuation of a burg which was henceforth to bo qualified as a village. The subordinate who lived on the spot immediately requested that this rigorous measure might be be deferred, as a severe epidemic of smallpox prevailed at that time. "This very natural protest was. however. unavailing. The Jews were all forced out of their houses, and, whether ill or in good health, they were crowded together into carts and driven into ICishir.eff. It was mid-winter. Many of the children died on the road, ar.d the epidemic of smallpox was introduced into'the town of Kishineff. “Tlien there are laws which forbid the Jews to bathe In lakes or rivers? nor are they allowed to go to seaside watering-places, to sanitariums, or to mineral wells. The congress, therefore, passed a resolution demanding that patients, even if they are Jews, should be allowed to seek the benefit of such places. “At present a Jew may not live in the more healti.y or suburban parts of his town, but must inhabit the ghetto; though his life might be saved by a change of air, still he must remain In his ghetto. If he desires to seek the advice of a medical practitioner who lives in some other town he cannot do so unless he first obtains a special authorization from the police.” Sixtus V.’s Salad. When Pope Sixtus V. was an obscure monk he had a great friend in a certain lawyer who sunk steadily into poverty while the monk rose to the papacy. The poor lawyer journeyed to Rome to seek aid from his old friend, the pope, but he fell sick and told his doctor to let the pope know of his sad;state. “I will send him a salad,” said Sixtus, and duly dispatched a basket of lettuce to the invalid. Wjhen the lettuce,,was examined money was found in the hearts. Hence the Italian proverb of a man in need of money—“He wants one of Sixtus V.’s salads.” . THE MARKETS. NjS’w York, March 14. LIVE STOCK-Steers J 4 5o # 5 30 Hogs, State, Penn 5 80 (<p 5 85 Sheep s 3 50 (ft 5 25 FLOCK—M4nn. Patents.. 5 15 #• 5 5u WHEAT—'May 1 1SWlV 99% CORN—Juiv 'SB # 5874 RYE—No. 2 We5tern......... 78 # 78% OATS- Track White .52%# 53 RI TTER 14 # 24 (’HEESE H>%# 12 EGGS 19 @ *2l CHICAGO ! CATTLE—Fancy He; ves $5 65 (it 6 CO Ft.tJ Texas Steers €3O \i l 50 Medium Beef Steers.. 2 85 (a 4 40 I Heavy Steers 5 1.7 #• 5 (‘>o —t—a.ves ........ - --- --- 2 7iL # 6 to HOGS—Assort Hi Light r. 20 #530 Heavy Packing He aw Mixt tl 5 20 # 5 50 SHEEP 3 • (it 525 RI TTER- Creamery 14 # 23% Ha.iv 13 V*# 21 EGGS-Fresh I<%# 17% POTATOES (per bu.) 87 # 93 MESS PORK —May 14 00 <n'U 35 LARD-May 7 35 #7 47 GRAIN-Wheat, May 95 # IM>% Corn, Mav 44%# 447 k Oats. May 40%# 41Vi Hark \ Feed 36 # 30 Rye, May 68%# 68% MILWAPKEE. GRAIN-Wheat. No. 1 Xor’n % 90 # 1 (0% Corn, July 50%# 51% Oats, Standard 42%# 43 Rye, No. 1 70 & 71 KANSAS CITY. GRATN—Wheat, May $ 85%# 85% Wheat, July 80%# 80% Corn, May 44%#) 44% Oats, No. 2 White 42 # 43 ST. LOFIS. CATTLE—Beef Steers $3 00 <ri 5 25 Texas Steers. Grass 3 20 0 4 30 HOGS—Packers’ 5 05 #5 35 Rutchers’ Best Heavy — 5 30 # 5 55 SHEEP— Natives 4 25 #5 00 OMAHA. CATTLE—Native Steers...,. $3 50 #5 25 Stockers and Feeders 2 75 # 4 25 Cows and Heifers 2 70 # 3 70 HOGS—Heavy 5 25 # 5 35 SHEEP-Wethers 4 10 #' 4 10

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