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Wily Japs Try the Hobson Game at
Port Arthur and Badly Fool
Their Adversaries.
Old Hulks Were Sunk In=
stead of Japanese War»
ships, as Reported
From Russian
Sources.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Paris says: Additional details of the
Japanese attempt to close the entrance
of the harbor of Port Arthur have been
received from most authoritative quar
ters.
These say the Japanese sent five
or six old transport hulas, convoyed
by torpeifb boats, to Port Arthur, with
the evident purpose of sinking the
hulks at the entrance to the harbor,
The battleship Retvizan discovered !
their approach, and her fire on them
was strongly seconded by that of the
shore batteries north of Port Arthur.
The report adds that two Japanese
ships were wrecked and lie in Tiger
bay; that along the shore another Jap
anese ship was burned, and a fourth
lies wrecked on the shore outside Ti
ger bay. '
It is now known that these wrecks i
are not warships, but hulks, designed j
to be sunk at the entrance of the har
her. The wrecks are said to- be all
a considerable distance from the har
bor entrance, which remains open.
This report gives no in?&vma*'jn |
concerning the Japanese fleet, which
is said to have supported operations
against Port Arthur. j
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JOY IN ST. PETERSBURG.
A St Petersburg cablegram says: !
Beyond the bare announcement from i !
Major General Pflug, the chief of staff
of Viceroy Alex-ieff, nothing is known
in regard to the renewal of the attacic
on Port Arthur by the Japanese flem.
The report of Major General Pfiug is j
as Unions.
“The enemy again attacked Port i
Arthur from 1 to 3 a. m„ and was re j
pulsed. Details follow.
caKon This of indefinite wild scenes bulletin 01 joy was in the St. oc- e- j
tersburg. The people cheered as if |
the entire Japanese fleet had been ;
sunk. The fact that the Japanese have
renewed the attack is also interpreted |
m St. Petersburg to mean that they j
are determined to bottle up or destroy
the Russian fleet at Port Arffiur in or |
der to give themselves freedom for
and maneuvers to shut off or invest
the city, or as a feint to cover a move- !
nient elsewffiere.
JAPS PENETRAtE MANCHURIA.
Gillespie, missionary, has 1
Rev. W. H.
arrived at New Chwang missionaries from the fol- in- j j
tericr ,and other are
lowing. He states the Japanese havs
landed on Manchurian soil at Possiet
Bay, south of Vladivostock, and ad
vanced to Hunchun. The Russian
garrison has fled.
The Japanese are marching on Kirin.
from which the women and civilians
are leaving i!i panic.
Native reports in Yinkow say the
Japanese have landed at Possiet Bay
and subsequently undertaken opera
lions against Hun Chun, and toward
Kiren, have received qualified confirm
ation from English missionary refu
gees who have arrived at New Chwang.
The above dispatch seems to be the
most significant yet received from the
seat of war. Possiet bay, where the
Japanese are reported to have made
a successful landing, is less than 100
miles south of Vladivostock, one of the
termini of the Trans-Siberian railway,
This movement of the Japanese en
dangers not only Vladivostock, but
Harbin and Mukden.
EXCHANGE OF RATIFICATIONS
Formally Perfected by Setntary Hay and
Vunau-Varille.
A Washington special says: Secre
tary Hay and Minister Bunau-Varilla
Friday exchanged ratifications of the
Panama canal treaty, The exchange
marked the close of diplomatic negotia
tions looking to the acquirement by
the United States of canal rights on
the isthmus. What re-mains to be done
now is nothing more than tne adjust*
ment of certain legal questions by the
law officers or this government; the
state department has filled its function,
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I GEORGIA is htWSt t- r-1wrp+
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Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random* I
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Barnesville Chautauqua in July. ;
At a meeting of the Barnesviile I I
Chautauqua Association, it was unani- I
mously decided to hold a session of the
Chautauqua this year, beginning Sun
day, July 3, and closing tne following
Saturday.
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Widows to Get Pensions.
Attorney General John C. Hart, in
response to questions asked by Pen
sion Commissioner John W. Lindsey
has rendered an opinion, tne result of
which will be to give the indigent wid
ows their pension money this year irj
! spite of the fact that the fund appro
prated for their payment has been ex
hausted.
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Valdosta’s New Directory.
The new Valdosta city directory
which will be issued about April 1,
will give Valdosta a population of
more than 9,000. The work of compi
lation TTLis been completed and the can
vassers have something over 3,200
names of people over 18 years of age.
Using the multiple of three—a conser
vative estimate—shows more than 9 ,
000 people in the corporate limits of
the city.
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Burton’s Sentence Reduced.
The motion for a new trial in the
case of R. H. Burton, who was con
vieted of manslaughter at the last term
of Muscogee superior court, at Colum
bus and sentenced to sixteen years in
the penitentiary, has been withdrawn
and Judge Butt reduced the sentence
from sixteen to twelve years. Burton
is 57 years of age and the sentence is
practically for i~s lifetime. On Sep
tember 5 last he stabbed to death hie
16-year-old sen, Jesse, because the bc-y
cursed him in the presence of his
mother, a ,i(i, jjt is claimed made an
attack on him,
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Atlanta’s Present Population. !
The 1804 city directory of Atlanta
has just been issued. It contains 41,
348 names, which, using the multiple
of 3 2-5, gives Atlanta a population of
140,582. This is a gain of about 15,
000 in population since the last city
directory was issued. The increase
however, is conceded by the manager
of the directory to be more than that,
for the reason that h? has left out ol
the city directory this year about 2,000
names of negi o men and women, who
have no permanent abiding place, who
were entirely irresponsible and who
were thought to be unfit to have their
names in the book.
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Scctt Works on Brown Rot. |
Farmer State Entomologist W. M. |
Scott, wffio is now m the employ of the
United States government, is in Geor
gia making an investigation of the
brown rot, which affects the pea:h
trees. Mr. Scott is very familiar with
the diseases of the peach trees in
Georgia and can do valuable work for
the government. He came to Georgia
from Virginia, where he investigated
the diseases of apple trees.
Mr. Scott was warmly welcomed by
the state officials. He was connected
with the state as entomologist for
many years and did splendid work to
ward stamping out the San Jose scale.
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A Railroad News Item.
The Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern
railroad may enter Atlanta on tracks
of its own, instead of coming from
j Marietta over the tracks of the West
; ern and Atlantic railroad. The water
works department of Atlanta has been
asked to allow the Atlanta, Knoxville
and Northern to cross the water main
on Chattahoochee avenue just as the
Seaboard Air Line has done, and as
surances have been given by General
Manager Park Woodward to- the effect
that the water board would grant the
same concessions to the Atlanta, Knox
ville and Northern that have been
granted to'the Seaboard.
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Held on a Murder Charge.
John Dyal, formerly a section boss
of the Atlantic Coasb Line, has been
arrested and is in jail at Hinesville.
charged with the murder of Section ;
Boss Leland Murray, who was assas
sinated from ambush. The arrest v. as
made by officers of the Coast Line. 1
The arrest of Dyal was upon circum
stantial evidence. He was in the em
ploy of the company up to the time of |
the recent, strike of maintenance 0 !
way employees, and it is said that he
had been heard to make threats.
The assassin fired on Murray from
ambush, striking him in the face and
killing him instantly. Murray’s men
started TSward him, whereupon the as
sassin fired upon them also, one of
the negroes being hit in the arrn.
The railway authorities at Savannah
wrJTe immediately notified of the as
World May Become !n
vclved Over Struggle
in the Orient, Think
Many Observant
Diplomats.
i
In diplomatic circles at St. Peters
burg the impression prevails that the
fianies of war raging in the Orient will
eventually spread over the world.
There is a growing belief that ther*
is an understanding between Russia
and Germany relative to the develop
ments of the war, and the diplomatists
are giving more attention to the likeli
hood of other powers becoming in
volved.
France’s enormous financial invest
in Russian funds and enter
prises are estimated at close to $ 2 , 000 ,
u t> 0 , 000 , and it is feared tnat in case of
Russian reverses which might threaten
t ' !e empire, Prance m ay be compelled
to go to the support of her ally.
There are suspicions as to the mo
tives of Great Britain of a character as
to cause complicating in that direction.
It is strongly intimated that, the return
of the Russian ambassador to Great I
Britain, Count Buct»enaerfi, to St.
Petersburg >\as not solely to the lat
ter ’ s de P artur e for the Far East, but
that it was also to consult with the
Russian foreign office relatives to the
British expedition to Thibet 1
The Russian government is angry
a ^ language used by Foreign Min- j
ister Lanadowne as printed in the re
cent British blue book on the subject
Thibet, and Ambassador Bucken
derff may receive instructions to reply
in kind, if exchange on the subject
continues.
The cond: - ions jn the BaIkans are
^ considered extremely critical and
altogether the diplomata feel * 1 1 1 at if
the danger of a g ene ral conflagration
ig tQ be avoidedj every energy should
be directed not only to limiting the
gphere of operati0ns> but toward an
attejnpt at med iation. They are dis
cussing the subject with great earnest
negs R jg not believe(1 that Russia
wB j be c qi S p 0 sed, while smarting under
t h e humiliation of defeat, to accett m
tervention . but once a decisive vic
, g achieyed the diplomats arc
inciined to believe that owing to the
czar , g gincere avers!on to war. he will
we]come good offic , s
The Novoe Vremya declares Great
Br - tain , g faiIure l0 prote6t against
0 yiolatlon of the nsutrality o{ K o
rea, whose inviolability was guaran
teed by the Anglo-Japanese treaty,
proves that the treaty was directed
scdG ] y against Russia
BELIEVE JAPS SUCCEEDED.
Naval experts in London are of the
opinion that the Japanese fleet lias
succeeded in bottling the Russian
squadron in Port Arthur and that the
latter’s effectiveness as a fighting ma
chine is gone.
The experts base their opinion on
the fact that the stone-laden barges
sent in by tbe Japanese were sunk by
the Russian fire at or near the mouth
of the harbor and must prove an m
surmountable obstruction to the egress
of such ships as make up the Port Ar
thur squadron.
If the Japanese have really succeed
ed in their design of blocking the har
i bor entrance, the fall of Port* Arthur
must follow- before a great while,
1 In all quarters there is extravagant
praise of the manner in which the
! Japanese carried out their plan,
The British foreign office has re
ceived an official dispatch saying that
not one of the Japanese torpedo boats
was injured in the attack on Port
Arthur on Wednesday, February 24.
DEATH IN OPENED COFFIN.
Typhoid Germs from Dead Body Decimate
Sioux fails family.
The opening of the coffin of a Sioux
Falls man who died In Louisiana of
, typhoid fever hag practically wiped
out th efamily of James Dougherty.
The body of one of Dougherty’s sons
was brought to Sioux Falls rrom imu
isiana, where he died of typhoid fever,
ver. The family opened the coffin.
Since then three other members of
j the family have d ! ed of typhoid fever,
while the two others are seriously ill
j with the same disease.
tassnat on ana ai once onerea a re
ward of 51 - 250 for the £rre£t of tTle as '
sassin -
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Gordon Fund Increases.
Reports from numerous commiftees
were received at the meeting of the
central executive committee of the
Jo no B. Gordon Monument Association
in Atlafita a few days ago.
In the first place, all of the Atlants
committees were heard from, and
nearly all of them came forward with
add.tional subscriptions. Soma $ 7 UU
or $800 in new subscriptions were re
potted, bringing the totai now actual
ly subscribed, about $3,000.
President W. L. Calhoun read re
ports received by letter from quite «
number of the committees in various
Georgia cities. These have just about
had time x since their appo-intteent to
organize, but they all report an enthu
siastic readiness to take hold ot the
work and push it in their respective
communities. President Calhoun alsc
read extracts from letters received
from other states'"showing that there
is good prospe\? of receiving substan
tial additions to the fund from many !
sections of the soutn. Several soutn- j
ern jjapers have taken the matter up {
and are calling for subscriptions t ^ 1
the fund. j
President Calhoun said he estimated
$30,000 as the amount which would be
needed to build the statue contem
plated.
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State Building Contract Let.
The contract for tne Georgia build
ing at St. Louis has been let by the
state commission to James Lawrence
Brown & Co., of St. Louis, the work to
be completed by April 30 next, in full
time for the opening o£ me exposition.
This conclusion was reached only af 1
ter an all day session of the commis- j
sioner of Agriculture O. B. Stevens, j
Commissioner General Dudley M. i
Hughes, Vice Commissioner Hugh V
Was/ington, Assistant Commissioner j
Glascock Barrett and Captain H. H.
Tift, of Tilton, president; oi the G
gia Saw Mill A: ds.J datjon. These com
missioaers conferred with representa
tives of two firms Brown & Co. and
Broderick &■ -Ting, with the result that
they secured the lowest possible price
CP some $ 2,000 lower than the first
bids.
The result of the work or the com
mi:, si oners is that a building which
will be a reproduction oi “Sutherland,"
the home of the late General John B.
Gordon, will be put up for the state on
the fair grounds at St. Louis, and will
be ready when the fair opens for use.
The building will be the exact size of
Sutherland, instead of being a reduced
production, as was contemplated some
weeks ago.
The total cost of the building, inchm
ing the material, which was sab. .rib
ed by the lumbermen ci Georgia, and
the furnishings, will be between $17,- ;
000 and $18,000. In addition to this, It
is estimated that the ccFI o e maintain- !
ing the building during the life of the j
Louisiana Purchase exposition w i;i 0 - be ;
about $2,500. j |
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Methodists to Have Hospital. |
By filing an application for a chart I
in the Fulton county superior cour‘ at
Atlanta, the Methodists of Georgia
have taken definite action in the mat
ter of establishing a large charity hos
pital and training school for nurses m
the center of the city to be run in con
junction with the Wesleyan taber
nacle.
The application for a charter 5 s
made by such well known Methodists
as Bishop Warren A. Candler, George
Winship," Rev. M. J. Cofer, Colonel H
Warner Hill, Dr. Floyd McRea, Colonel
George M. Napier, Henry S. Johnson,
Asa G. Candler, J. iv McEachern Dr.
L. C. Fisher, S. B. Adams, Kev. W. B
Lovett, W. P. Wallis, Q. G. Goodrich
and Robert T. Daniel.
These applicants also compose the
board of trustees which will control
the hospital when erected.
The application for the charter
states that the object of the hospital
is the “promotion of the Christian re
ligion, education and charity particu
larly for medical and surgical treat
ment of all diseases and infirmities ot
every kind whatsoever.’’
It is also stated in the application j
of those desiring to be incorporated
that it is their wish to have a training
school for nurses in conjunction with I
the hospital and they pray the court to
allow the granting of diplomas tc
young women graduates. ^
. The concern is to have no capital
stock, but asks for the privilege of buy
ing and selling real estate. The hos- i
pital will depend largely upon contn
butions for its maintenance.
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College Training.
From recent statistics we learn
that there are 695 colleges and univer
sities in the United States, with a to
tal enrollment of 6,000 students or
one student for 1,100 of the population.
When we consider how few go to col
lege and how great is the percentage
of success among these, the value of
college training ig made manifest. In
all ranks, in all sreat nlaces the names
1
i or the immortals are in the
of 5 n to 1 jn favor of co]i
j state affairs e J- <- rv.
university m
! ar °® ma i° r itj of import:. taut
t
lE 116 mmist;ry tQe Si'ad; ttSie.-i
ory and Mercer ,
and the I
fill the chief appointments
the largest farmers . :>
are
and in the great army of n
.
j men llcld n f ar!y 100 per
Lr e positlons assi 'gned to genr-ri
116 armj and tiavy none but
men ed apply. r
I ne The great Ic-j
^oth sides of the civil war wertJ
le S e men. The cTvil service
imperative for any hoping may
one -,
cur3 a really valuable Position
*k e government ,,
to have a col! Opr fi
ca ^ on in order to pass the
Nations. The demand rigid
is evr
^ or trained intellect, men wh
think, who can originate, who
t> rm g thin or 3 to pass, who can do th
an< ^ know why they do them. 7
,
man d is not so muen for the
manufacturing of machinists or p>
but for highly skilled. f i!bv
utre( i intellects ot broad, d eep hud
istic culture, Sam Spencer said i
he could find many four-do!lar-aj
men for the shop, but the m on .1 oi
perior mental training and exticri
force were at a premium. I
young man recently who came
to install a $45,000 electric plan 1
was only thirty, yet he was cc
salary equal to that of a eongri
man. In reply to my question y
his preparation he said that h ie 1
graduated from Princeton with dj
A degree, then took a two
course in a tf nical school, and tl
begar work for the General Ef 1
Co, sorting brass mouldings, In a
years he had passed our hundreds;
had but the mechanical skill to aaa
some machine. He had the cultm
make himself at home in any <
and the mental trainin 1 r that mads j
valuable in conceiving and e Dnfj
great undertakings. In Geo
masses have sca-eely begun to nil
c'ue thi valve oi college tidal
Nothing can equalize opportunism
much as the years spent in the j
nest mastery of the college ear; j
J. S. STEWART,
m; PBOTEC fk)N OF kom.
la .ame?-.: Govern .tent VV.II I'r.tTcrlake
Guarantee integrity ot Hermit tiingtioi
A Washington special says: , 0 ,a
tary Kay has received informal
that Japan has negotiated guarantl a : |
with Korea whereby she
the independence and integrity
Korea.
This is regarded in official circles
Washington as o»» of the eleven
of the many startling diplomatic nu
that have been made in comic
with the whole eastern question
sheet is to place Japan cn a h C r ■'
al lane, for ii is understood this h
ty announces to the world that < v a
she prevails in her struggle with
sia , involving military occupation! advanil
Korea, Japan will take no
of that fact, out will mafmtim the
dependence of the hermit kingdom.
On the other hand, the Russian ni
complaining o itfce violation of K<
neutrality by Japan is believed here:
be intended to pave the way or futt
heavy reclamations, indeed, invo-v:
the seizure of Korea and its anne:
tiou for violation of neutrality in tl
event that Russia triumphs in the col
ing struggle. Contrasting the two 9
sitions, an official here points out fij
the attitude of Japan toward Kv:
was very similar to that of the Unit
States to Cuoa when the republic q
cupied the island with its milks
forces, only to withdraw them and frl
Cuba after it had rid her of Spanij
control
ADAMS SWORE UNDER DURESS.
Committed Perjury Because County Ofl
cials Threatened to Give Him 1 rouble.
There was a sensation in the coul
house at -Cynthiana, Ky., Tuesda:
when A. C. Adams pleaded guilty
perjury, while a witness in the •R £
White case, and given a minifi 111
sentence of bne year.
In making his confession AcM
said he had perjured himself on a| j
count of the fear of being killed
Breathitt -county afterwards if he
tilled to what he knew. He said
, r had to
him that he must aid Jett in P roVl ;;
an alibi or lie and his family
suffer.
JAPANESE OFFICERS SWUNG UP*
Were Caught Trying to Burn a Bridge in t
Guise of Coolies.
The Japanese who were hanged *•
Russians in Manchuria for attempt - 1
to blow up the railroad bridge ov
the San Gari river, were disguised ‘
coolies. They were arrested just -
they were about to make the attorn?
Inquiry revealed that they were D
anese officers of the general sD
namely, Colonel Assai, of the eng LJ
and Lieutenants Zonelonischa u u
eers,
Kaeurta, of the Sappers,