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Twelve of Rojestvensky’s Battle
Ships Sent to the Bottom.
REPORT IS OFFICIAL
Tokio Dispatch Says Togo
Met the Enemy in the
Strait of Korea and
Won a Great
Victory.
A Tokio dispatch issued at 1:15
Monday morning was as follows: “It
is officially announced that Admiral
Rojestvensky’s fleet has been practi¬
cally annihilated. Twelve warships
have been sunk or captured, and two
transports and two torpedo boat dt
Rtroyers sent to the bottom.”
Good Work of Torpedo Boats.
The belief in naval circles in Wash¬
ington is that the Japanese resorteu
to a free use of their torpedo boats
in their attacks on the vessels of Vice
Admiral Rojestvensky’s fleet.
The Japanese have a large num¬
ber of torpedo boats la their fleet,
and they demonstrated their effect-
iveness in the operations around Port (
Arthur. Naval officials here express
the opinion that it was unlikely that
such serious losses as those reported
could have been inflicted by ordinary
lire.
Togo seems to have decoyed Rojest¬
vensky Into the narrow straits of
Korea, where the Japanese torpedo
boats had the Russians at a great
disadvantage.
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coil Tokio saving
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sources
Attack Began at Night.
The London Times’ Tokio corre¬
spondent says that telegrams from
apparently trustworthy sources show
that Vice Admiral Rojestvensky ap¬
proached Tsu island in the forenoon
of May 27, during a fog, which clear¬
ed up in the afternoon, when the
Russians wore sighted by the Jap¬
anese. There was a strong breeze
blowing from a high sea.
A dispatch to The Times from Paris
says that a private telegram from
Chefoo, probably from Russian
sources, reports that Rojestvensky be¬
gan to force • passage of the Korea
Strait Saturday night without lights In
two linos, one on each side of Tsu
Island.
Heavy firing is said to have been
heard in the strait between 9:30 and
10:30 o’clock at night, when It ceased.
The Russian fleet braved Admiral
Togo in his lair and also fell into
a trap by entering the Straits of
Korea on the final stage of its long
journey from the Baltic Sea, whence
it sailed in October last, for its sub¬
stituted destination, Vladivostok, its
original objective polut, Port Arthur
having in the meantime fallen into
the hands of the Japanese.
No sooner had the Russian admiral
entered the Korean Straits than the
contest for the supremacy of the Qrl
entai seas, on which hangs the out
come of the Far Eastern struggle, be
gan in earnest.
All. the dispatahes received point to
a Japanese victory, though It is not
yet known whether the full force of
Vice Admiral Rojestvensky’s fighting
ships took part in the contest.
The first information came in a
dispatch tram fhe American consul
ai Nagasaki to the state department
at Washington, tolling that the
nnese had sunk one Russian battle
ship, four other warships and a re
pair ship in the Korean strait, and
this was followed by a dispatch, re
coivod by the state department, the
date of which is not given, that the
“Japanese government had made the
announcemont that its fleet had on
caged the Russians in the Strait of
Korea Saturday and had held them.”
The News in St. Petersburg.
A St. Petersburg special says: li.
this momentous hour the czar, the ad
mlralty and the Russian public are
PRACTICAL GIRL.
“Why do you waste so many hours
on beautifying devices?" inquired the
old-fashioned woman. ‘"V\ hy not de¬
vote that time to thinking beautiful
thoughts?”
‘‘Oh, fudge,” retorted the modern
damsel. “My beau isn’t a mind read¬
er.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
BABY CAME NEAR DYING
From an Awful Skin Humor— Scratched
Till Blood Kan—Wasted to a Skel¬
eton—Speedily Cured by Cuticura.
“When three months old my boy broke
out with an itching, watery rash all over
his body, and he tvovud scratch till the
blood ran. We tried nearly everything,
but be grew worse, wasting to a skeleton,
and we feared he would die. He slept only
when in our arms. The first application
of Cuticura soothed him so that he slept in
his cradle for the first time in many weeks.
One set of Cuticura made a complete and
permanent cure. (Signed) Mr*. M. C.
Maitland, Jasper, Ontario.”
An Interesting Relic.
One of the most interesting relics
of old literature is a volume bearing
•the date, 1796, and containing copies
of the original official letters writ¬
ten by General George Washington
during his command of the Contin¬
ental forces of the Revolutionary
War. This volume was brought to
light by George W. Stevens, of Au¬
gusta, while looking over some old
letter’s and papers which occupied
one corner of an attic. No reading
matter is extant which will give one
an understanding of the private life
of Washington and an appreciation of
the emotions and hardships which
were begotten in the throes of the
birth of Freedom. These letters are
copies of'the letters which had been
preserver! in the office of the secre¬
tary of state at Philadelphia, and Mr.
Stevens shows the volume with a
great deal of satisfaction.-
waiting breathlessly for the Japanese
to furnish authentic news of the fate
of Vice Admiral Rojestvensky’s fleet,
in which fhe hopes of the Russians
are centered.
The report sent to Washington by
the American consul at Nagasaki, of
the sinking of five Russian warships,
including a battleship and repair ship,
was accepted as the most definite and
most authentic piece of news received
up to midnight and undoubtedly pro¬
duced a bad impression. The fear
was expressed that the battleship
sunk might have been Rojestvensky’s
flagship, the Kniaz Souvaroff, on
which the Japanese undoubtedly
would concentrate their fire.
The sinking of the repair ship Kam¬
chatka, which was filled with the
most modern machinery, might, it was
thought, prove later to be a more
severe loss than that of a warship,
hut at the admiralty, where crowds
congregated Sunday afternoon and
evening, the opinion was expressed
that If Rojestvensky had cleared the
gateway to the sea of Japan with no
greater loss than that reported by the
American consul, the passage had not
| been dearly purchased, especially if
later reports should prove that the
Japanese losses were anything like
equal proportionately.
Probably no one In Russia display¬
ed such intense as
peror. Early Sunday morning he sum¬
moned Grand Duke Alexis, his admi¬
ral; Admiral Avellan, head of the Rus
sion admiralty department, and Admi¬
ral Wirenius, chief of the general stair
of the navy to Tsarskoe-Selo, and re¬
mained up to a late hour of the night,
impatiently awaiting Information and
pouring over charts.
Great Interest in Paris,
Intense interest has been aroused
in Paris by the news that a naval
fa ftttle has been fought between the
.--.wo...,
w quarters are without
the latest advices, most of the infor¬
mation reaching Paris coming through
the Associated Press dispatches for¬
warded from the United States. These
dispatches are prominently displayed
In the evening editions of the news¬
papers and are eagerly commented
on.
The News in London.
Many dispatches from Tokio and
other points appearing in I..ondon
newspapers of Sunday were filled
with more or less authentic details of
recent movements of Vice Admiral
Rojestvensky’s ships, and surmises
and rumors of the results of the bat¬
tle between the Japanese and Russian
fleets.
According to The Daily Telegraph,
a private telegram was received in
London Saturday night in a very high
quarter to the effect that Vice Ad¬
miral Togo had gained a great vic¬
tory.
JUDGE RANOOIPH MEETS DEATH.
Well Known Alabamian Shot and Killed in
Montgomery bv Cousin.
Judge Francis C. Randolph, one of
the best known men in Alabama, was
shot and instantly killed Saturday af¬
ternoon by John Randolph, a second
cousin, in front of the latter’s office
in Montgomery.
are several rumors as to the
cause of the tragedy, the one given
most credence being that Judge Ran
dolph had demanded a loan of money
from his slayer with the accompany
j ing threat that unless the loan wa c
; forthcoming violence would ensue.
J Judge Francis C. Randolph had ltilb
ed two men, one in Alabama and an
other in Colombia, to which country
: lie fled. For the homicide in Ala
‘ in
bama he was acquitted, but Co¬
lombia he was sentenced to deal'll,
i He was in close confinement there for
several years, during which time his
friends throughout the state were
exciting every effort to have the
death sentence commuted. Judge Ran
>lolph finally obtained his liberty anti
returned to Montgomery,
Scion afterwards he was tried on
thirteen charge of embezzlement, al
legod to have been committed during
his incumbency as probate judge of
Montgomery county.
Since liis return he has been
drinking freely, and it is alleged that
on several occasions he has threaten
ed the lives of Montgomery citizens.
MORE RACKET IN CHICAGO
Strikers Become Obstreperous Again
and Police are Forced to Use
Their Revolvers.
Rioting broke out afresh T riday in
the strike at Chicago, and although no
body was seriously hurt, there were
a number of vicious fights in th*
lumber district, during which the po¬
lice were compelled to use their clubs,
and in one instance revolvers, in or¬
der to disperse the mobs.
The worst fight in the lumber dis¬
trict occurred at Twenty-seoood street
and Ashland avenue, where a crowd
of men and boys had all through the
morning hurled stones and clubs at
every passing lumber wagon. Finally,
a wagon, on which Police Officer Ba
genski was a passenger, came along,
and the mob greeted it with the usual
volley of stones. They also threaten¬
ed to attack the driver, and the sit¬
uation was so serious that the officer,
drawing his revolver, fired six shots
at the crowd, which broke and fled
in wild confusion. 'None of the bul¬
lets hit anybody.
During the evening general rioting
was prevalent throughout the lumber
district, and particularly in the ter¬
ritory near the intersection of Thirty
fifth street and Center avenue. The
lumber wagons returning from making
deliveries were attacked by crowds
at every available opportunity. Large
numbers of men, armed with clubs,
slung shots and bricks, accompanied
by jeering women and excited chil¬
dren, filled the sidewalks along Cen¬
ter avenue, Thirty-fifth street, Loomis
street and Arch'er avenue, awaiting
the passage of wagons, which were
believed by the crowd to be un¬
guarded.
At Archer avenue and Loomis street
two trucks appeared with one police¬
man on each. The trucks were im¬
mediately bombarded with bricks and
stones, and scores of air rifles were
brought into play. A bullet from one
of these weapons seriously wounded
Policeman James Fitzpatrick in the
right hand. The two policemen drew
their revolvers fired over the
heads of the rioters, holding them at
bay until the drivers managed to
reach their destination.
The strike spread during the day
in a small degree throughout the
building trades. There were a num¬
ber of instances where woodworkers
refused to receive the material de¬
livered by non-union teamsters and
walked out. This move in many in
stances was made by the men indi-
NO INCENTIVE TO PUNCTUALITY.
“Pop’s goin’ to give me a watch,”
said Willie.
“That will be nice;” replied the
aunt, “and it will help yotl getting to
school in the morning.”
“Yes, that’s so, ’cause when I get
to school I can look at the watch and
3 ee just how late I am.”—Philadel*
phia Ledger.
THE OLD STORY.
“That woman looks quite young to
have grown daughter.”
“Yj I wouldn’t tell her so.”
” r
* h&i’W i cinch vnu’-ll have to
ng -yarn explaining tnaT
ried at fifteen.’
RD FOR HIM.
“Reall; remarked the lazy cad,
‘‘I’ve bee 1 ondering what to give up
during
“Well, 1 emarked Miss Pepprey,
“you migl give up your seat in a
street c; occasionally.”—Pliiladel
phia Press.'
800K OF BOOKS.
Over 30,000,000 Published.
An Oakland lady who has a taste for
good literature, tells what a happy
time she had on “Tho-Road to We!!
ville.” She says:
“I ilrank coffee freely for eight years
before I began to perceive any evil ef¬
fects from it Then I noticed that I
was becomin, very nervous, and that
my stomach vas gradually losing the
power to properly assimilate my food.
In time I got so weak that I dreaded
to leave the hijuse— for no reason what¬
ever but because of the miserable con¬
dition of my nerves and stomach. I
attributed the trouble to anything in
the world but coffee, of course. I
dosed myself with medicines, which
in the end would leave me in a worse
condition than at first.p I was most
wretched and discouraged—not 30
years old and feeling that life was a
failure!
“I had given up all hope of ever en¬
joying myself like other people, till one
day I read the little book. “The Road
to Wellville." It opened my eyes, and
tau^lir. me a lesson I shall never forget
and cannot value too highly. I imme¬
diately quit tb • use of the old kind of
coffee and began to drink Postum Food
Coffee. I noticed the beginning of an
improvement ir. the whole tone of my
system, after only two days use of the
new drink, and in a very short time
realized that I could go about like
other people without the least return of
the nervous dread that formerly gave
me so much trouble. In fact, my nerv¬
ousness disappeared entirely and has
never returned, although it is now a
year that I have been drinking Postum
Food Coffee. And my stomach is now
like iron—nothing can upset it!
“Last week, during the big Conclave
in Ran Francisco, I was on the go day
and night without the slightest fatigue:
amd as I stood in the immense crowd
watching the great parade that lasted
for hours, I thought to mysolf. ‘This
strength is what Postum Food Coffee
has given me!’ ” Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek. Mich.
There’s a reason.
The little book.“ The Road to Well¬
ville,” may be found in every pkg.
KattroacL and Frogr***.
In his testimony before the Senate
Committee on Interstate Commerce at
Washington on May 4, Professor Hugo
R. Meyer, of Chicago University, an
expert on railroad management, made
this statement:
"Let us look at what might have hap¬
pened if we had heeded the protests
of the farmers of Now York and Ohio
and Pennsylvania tJn the seventies
when grain from the West began pour¬
ing to the Atlantic seaboard) and acted
upon the doctrine which the Interstate
Commerce Commission has enunciated
time and again, that no roan may be
deprived of the advantages accruing to
him by virtue of his geographical po¬
sition. We could not have west of the
Mississippi a population of millions of
people who are prosperous and are
groat consumers. We never should
have seen the years when we built
10.000 and 12,000 miles of railway, for
there would have been no farmers
west of the Mississippi River who
could have used the laud that would
have been opened up by the building
of those railways. And, if we had not
seen the years when we eouid build
10.000 and 12.000 miles of railway a
year, we should not nave to-day, oast
of the Mississippi, a steel and iron
producing centre which is at once the
marvel and the despair of Europe, be¬
cause we could not have built up a
steel and iron industry if there had
been no market for its product.
“We could not have in New Eng¬
land a great boot and shoe industry;
we could not have in New England a
great cotton milling industry; we could
not have spread throughout New York
and Pennsylvania and Ohio manufac¬
turing industries of the most diversi¬
fied kinds, because those industries
would have no market among the farm¬
ers west of the Mississippi River.
“And, while the progress of this
country, while the development of the
agricultural West of this country, did
mean the impairment of the agricul¬
tural value east of the Mississippi
Hirer that ran up into hundreds of
millions of dollars, it meant, inci¬
dentally, the building up of great man¬
ufacturing industries that added to
the value of this laud by thousands of
millions of dollars. And, gentlemen,
these things were not foreseen in the
seventies. The statesmen and the pub¬
lic men ©f ibis country did not see
what part the agricultural develop¬
ment of the West was going to play in
the industrial development of the East
And, you may read the decisions of
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
from the first to the last, and what is
one of the greatest characteristics of
those decisions? The continued in¬
ability to see the question in this large
way.
‘The state Commerce Commis-
eion neVef can see anything mor
that the farm land of some farmer
is decreasing in value, or, that some
man, who has a flour mill with a pro¬
duction of fifty barrels a day, is being
crowded out. It never can see that
the destruction or impairment of farm
values in this place means the building
up of farm values in that place, and
that that snifting of values is a neces¬
sary incident to the industrial and man¬
ufacturing development of this coun¬
try. And, if we shall give to the Inter¬
state Commerce Commission power to
regulate rates, we shall no longer have
our rates regulated on the statesman¬
like basis on which they have been
regulated in the past by ike railway
men, who really have oeen great states¬
men; who really have been great build¬
ers of empires; who have had an im¬
agination that rivals the imagination
of the greatest poet and of the great¬
est inventor, and who have operated
with a courage ami daring that rivals
the courage and daring of the greatest
military general. But we shall have
our rates regulated by a body of civil
servants, bureaucrats, whose beset¬
ting sin the world over, is that they
can never grasp a situation in a large
way and with the grasp of the states¬
man; that they never can see the fact
that they are confronted with a small
evil; that that evil is relatively small,
and that it cannot be corrected except
by the creation of evils and abuses
which are infinitely greater than the
one ibat is to be corrected.”
A BORN DIPLOMAT,
He—Miss de Jones—Clara—I never
loved any one but you. Will you be
my wife?
Sbe—But I’ve been told that you
proposed to four other girls within
a month.
He—True, darling; but I did it
merely for practice, so that I wouldn't
blunder in proposing to you.—Chicagu
Journal.
THE LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE
RAILROAD.
Best Line to Confederate Veterans
Reunion, Louisville, Ky„ June 14-
15-16, 1905—Very Low Rates.
Stop ovcts allowed aZ Mammoth Cave,
America's Great Natural Wonder. Pass
through the Historical Battle Fields. Rates
open to all. Tickets sold June 10th, 11th,
12th and 13th. Ask for tickets via L. & X.
Full information furnished on application
to J. G. HOLLENBECK,
District Passenger Agent,
Atlanta. Ga.
no official ae
tion taken by any of the material
trades unions looking to active sym¬
pathetic support of the teamsters’
strike. Several of the labor leaders
in the ranks of the material trades
declared that there is no prospect, in
their opinion, of any complete tie-up
of the building trades by a strilTe of
the men. There is no movement on
foot at present looking toward a set¬
tlement of the strike. Mayor Junn©
talked as though he had abandoned
hope of a settlement.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH UNION FAILS.
The Proposition to Federate With Other
Branches is Laid on the Shelf.
The forty-fifth general assembly of
the Southern Presbyterian church ad¬
journed at Fort Worth, Texas, Friday,
Moderator Plunkett declared the con¬
vention dissolved at 5:30, and at tlm
same time called the next session to
meet at Greenville, S. C., at 11 a. m.,
on the third Tuesday in May, 1906.
The discussion of the question of
federation with other branches of the
church was lone drawn out, and when
the end came it was as far from final
settlement as at any time during the
debate, which preceded the vote.
There is an irreconcilable element in
the church that forcefully manifested
itself, which is opposed to federation,
and there ie an element slightly
stronger that favors it, but neither
side could muster the necessary
strength to definitely settle the mat¬
ter.
In the end, the question, by a vote
of 93 to 81, was merely referred back
to its committee, to which were add¬
ed three members. The committee
was instructed to bring another plan
of federation before tne next assem¬
bly.
P0TFER RETURNS TO 0AVIS90R0.
Alleged Embezzling Cashier Gives Bond and
is Released from Custody.
Maro S. Potter, who is charged with
embezzling upward of $20,000 of th„
funds of the Davisboro, Ga., bank,
was released at Sandersville Thurs
day on a $15,000 bond, signed by his
relatives, after having been under sur¬
veillance at the Sandersville hotel
since Tuesday.
Potter left immediately for Davik
boro in company with his fatubr-in
law.
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