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CZAR’S TROOPS
ON THE RUN
Japs Keep Close on the Heels of Re
treating Cossack Cavalry. I
VICTORY IS FOLLOWED UP |
j
Advantage Gained in Fight at Chong
Ju is Worked by Victors for Its
Full Worth.
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According to an Associated press
dispatch information has reached To- :
kio irom a private source that the Jap
anese troops, after dislodging the Kus i |
sians at Chong-Ju (about fifty mi'es
northwest of Ping-Yang), on March I
28, rested for one day and then ad
vanced to Yong-Chun (about forty-five
mih-s west of Chong-Ju), and after a j
brief engagement there they drove the j
enemy father north, the Russians re
treat ng toward Unsan, a town eighty
miles northeast of Yong-Chun. '
it has been learned in Seoul, Korea, j
that the Russian cavalry, in much d; e
tress, is retiring toward Wiju. They
are cutting down telegraph poles to
use as fuel and their horses are dying
for lack of proper food.
Fcrt Arthur Again Bombarded.
A dispatch to The Central News |
(London) from Tokio says the Japan- j
esc made another attack on Port Ar
thur the night of March 30-31. The
dispatch adds it is understood tbe at
tack was for the purpose of taking
soundings and ascertaining the effects
of the last attempt to bottle up the
Russian fleet. No details of the attack
are obtainable.
Heavy Japanese Losses.
The following semi-official dispatch
has been received in St. Petersbu r>
from Liao-Yang:
“In the first encounter with the Jap
anese in northern Korea, which was
crowned with victory for the Russian
arms, the enemy’s losses were ten
times those of the Russians. Accord
ing to Korean reports, the Japanese
buried fifty men, while 120 wounded
were removed with the help of 500
Koreans to the headquarters of the
Japanese main force. The confusion
of the Japanese was so great that they j
hoisted two red cross flags in token 1
of surrender.
“Throughout their war with China,
the Japanese never showed themselves
so distracted. The people here are in
high spirits over the news of the first
brilliant fight in Korea.”
ALLEGED PARTNFRS OF SULLY. !
lbe Collapse of Cotton Manipulator Being
Investigated 5>y Court.
The. examination in which Edvv’in
Hawley, the president of the Iowa Cen- j
tral railroad and the Minneapolis and *
St. Louis railroad, and Frank Ray,
head of several large tobacco compa
nies, the alleged partner of Daniel J. j
Sully in his cotton operations, are to j
be questioned, began at New York
Friday before United States Commis
sioner Alexander.
To ascertain fully whether or not
Hawley and Ray were practically Sal
ly’s partners, is the object of the ex
amination.
PROFITABLE INSURANCE year.
Amount cf Business Done in Mississippi in
1903 Was on Big Scale.
Insurance Commissioner Cole, of
Mississippi, gives out figures showing
the amount of business done by the
fire insurance companies in the sta f e.
The risks written amounted to $10,-
317,707, on which $1,972,749.07 was
collected, or more than $1 for each In
habitant of the state. The average
premium was $2.11 per hundred. Fif
ty-seven companies do business in the
state, and they paid losses to the
amount of $860,183.77, the loss in pro
portion to premium being 45.95 per
cent.
FIRST PARKER CAMPAIGN BUTTON.
’«iew York Congressman Appears on Floor oi
House Wearing Judge’s Picture.
The Parker presidential boom io the
first to he supported in congress by a
campaign button.
Representative Fitzgerald, of New 1
York, appeared in the house Thursday
wearing in the lapel of his coat a but
ton on which was photographed the
likeness of Judge Parker and a caption
declaring his candidacy for the presi
dency.
Mr. Fitzgerald was besieged by
many r.f his democratic colleagues for
buttons and supplied their wants to
t limited number.
MSS DES ™ K0REA
Advance of Japs Proving Disastrous
to Soldiers of Czar in the
Hermit Kingdom.
A special from Tokio says: The ad
vance guard of the Japanese army in
northwestern Korea occupied the
town of Sang Cheng Saturday after
noon without opposition.
Sang Chen is on the Pekin road, IS
miles west of Cheng Ju. and about 40
miles south of Wiju. When the Japa
nese drove the Russians out of Cheng
Ju last Monday the Russians withdrew
in two columns, one going over the
Koak road and the other over the Re
fcj n n> a d.
The Japanese advance from Cheng
Ju was made very rapidly. It was an
ticipated that the Russ ans •would re
sist this advance, but they failed to do
so, and now it is not probable that
there will be any further opposition
south of the Yalu river.
Cheng Ju. because of its superior
natural surroundings, is the strongest
place betweep Ping Yang and Wiju.
Besides these natural advantages there
is an old Korean fort there which, had
it been defended with spirit, would
have been hard to take. The Japanese
are gratified at the comparative ease
with which they drove the Russians
from this fort.
Russian patrols are reported to be
in the country east of the Pekin road,
but it is not probable that there is
any considerable force of Russians in
that section. The patrols are with
drawing gradually to the north to
warc j yalu
It is reported that the ice on the
Yalu is well broken and in the future
the river must be crossed in junks or
over pontoon bridges.
TIBETAN ARMY fXTLRMSNATEB.
Swords and Spears No Match for Deadly
Hail of British Bullets.
Advices from Tuna, Tibet, under
date of April 2nd, state that the Tib
etan general, the whole of his personal
escort and five high L’Hassa officials,
are among the hundreds killed in the
fighting of March 31 at Guru, Tibet.
The small British losses are ac
counted for by the fact that the Tibet
ans were so huddled together that the
majority were unable to either use
their swords or to fire. The swords
men in the front rank could not reach
the sikhs, who had fixed bayonets,
while the men in the middle of the
mob could not reach the enemy; but
many of them probably killed each
other in the excitement. The scenes
recalled old-time fights in cock pits,
the grim, determined faces of the Tib
etants lighted with savagery express
ing contempt for the Sikhs, whom
they outnumbered six or seven to one.
When the L’Hassa general heard the
first shot, the Tibetans with wild
shouts drew their swords, fired their
matchlocks and surged forward.
Those of the Tibetans who tried to
climb the wall were met with a terri
ble magazine rifle fire, but they did
not falter, those behind springing over
the heaps of dead and continuing to
fight until riddled with bullets,
When finally the Tibetans retired
they tramped back slowly and stead
ily, though followed by a hail of bul
lets. A mountain battery was brought
into action and tore the retreating
lines with shrapned. A terrible trail
of dead and dying marked the line of
march. At length the last wounded,
limping Tibetan turned the point some
400 yards from the scene of the grim
tragedy where the best of the Tibetan
army had perished.
HCR30RS SUFFERED BY RUSSIANS.
March of Tr >ops Across Frozen Regions
is trightfully Disastrous
Letters of Russian soldiers from
Lake Baikal and Irkutsk, the latter
now a great lazaretto, read like pass
ages from “Sergeant Bourgoynes’ Me
moirs" of the retreat from Moscow,
1812-1813.
The frost kills thousands, the wa
ters swallow up whole battalions at a
time, hunger rages, for food is ridicu
lously inadequate, and the clothes pro
vided seem a mockery upon the awful
wind and cold.
CARACAS PAPER ATTACKS BOWEN.
American Minister in Venezuela Charged
With Working a Graft
Secretary Hay has received a per
sonal note from Herbert W. Bowen,
the American minister at Caracas,
briefly recounting a recent experience
with President Castro,
It appears that a Caracas newspa
per published in an apparently official
form the charge that Bowen had pock
eted several hundred thousand dollars
£ Venezuela’s money. Bowen prompt
y sent a personal note of protest to
Cas tro, calling on him to t ke action
against the paper.
AN APOLOGY
FROM PAYNE
Attorney General is Sorry Over Re- ,
port of Mr. Bristow.
A CONFERENCE IS HELD
House Committee Calls Upon Hr.
Payne in Sick Room-His Con
dition Said to Be Serious.
A Washington special says: On tha
request of Postmaster General Payne,
Chairman McCall, Representative Hitt, ;
Representative Richardson, of Ala- :
bama, and Representative Bartlet
went to the Arlington hotel Saturday
morning and discussed with the post
master general, at his bedside, tne j
special report involving members of j
congress in the matter of cler-t hire
and leases at third and fourth-class :
postofiices.
Mr. Payne has prepared a statement,
which he wished to go into the rec
ord of the committee, and which, af
ter final revision, was made public.
The point in the statement is that Mr.
Payne was most positive in his pro- j
test that the names of members
should not have been sent to the house
committee on postofiices and post
roads. The report in question was
first submitted to the committee and |
the second report, with the names
was sent to the capitol upon a tele- -
phone order from the house commit
tee on postofiices and post roads.
During the day Chairman McCall re- ;
ceived an explanation from the gov- I
ernment printing office concerning the j
folio line at the top of each page ct i
the report: “Charges concerning ,
members of congress.”
This line was, it is said, a legiti- j
mate condensation of the substance of
the title page, submitted by the post- ;
office committee, and is also justified :
by the pay resolution, which contains |
the word “charges” in the same con- ;
nection. The line was made up in
the printing ofiice, as is the usual \
custom.
The explanation from the public
printer also contains the statement I
that the twenty-five advance copies j
were in the hands of the post office ’
committee thirty hours before a cor- -
rection of the line was ordered.
Payne is Seriously III.
Postmaster General Payne is a much
sicker man than the public has been
led to believe. Members of the house
committee on investigation of the Bris
tow report who visited him Saturday
were shocked at his condition. One
of these gentlemen said to the corre
spondent of The Atlanta Constitution:
“He seems to me hardly alive. I
wsmld not be surprised to learn of his
death at any time.”
Officials in his department are
aware of the serious condition of the
postmaster general, but are very loat h
to discuss it. The report is that his
heart action is very bad and that when
he talks of business matters with
those around him, which he persists
in doing, it is a sort of dazed, semi
conscious, almost childish way.
It is, of course, certain that Post
master General Payne, will not be ir.
the Roosevelt cabinet should the pres
Ident be re-elected. Indeed, there has
already been a quiet casting about for
a successor, but nobody has supposed
that Mr. Payne is now in such a pro
carious condition. These who have
seen him express the opinion that if
he does not die in the near future he
will certainly be unable to ever re
sume the active duties of his office
PANAMA WORRIED OVER DELAY.
Non-Payment of Canal Money Results in
Murmuring in Official Quarters.
Great surprise is manifested in all
circles at Panama over the alleged
nonfulfillment by the United States of
the agreement on the exchange of raw
ifieations of the canal treaty the Uni
ted States to pay the new republic the
sum of $10,000,000. it is said the rie
lay of the United States to make the
payment has forced the government
of Panama to float a loan in New
York.
A COLORED PRESIDENTIAL CANBIDAD.
Convention to be Heid by Negroes With
That Object in View.
W. T Scott, a negro, has announced
that preparations have been complet
ed for a national convention for the
nomination of a negro candidate fc-r
president. The convention w 11 be
held in St. Louis July 6, the date &e.
for the national democratic conven
tion. The name of the new party is
the National Civil Liberal Party, and
a platform will be adopted which, it
is said, will call for government own
ership of transportation facilities and
a pension lir-f foi former slaves.
Deepest Sere Hois.
The de3pest bore hole in the world
is one of 6,571 feet below the surface
of the soil made at Paruschowitz, near
Rybrick, Upper Silesia. The previous
record for depth was a 5,738 foot hole
drilled some years ago at Scbladebach,
near Leipsic in Saxony. The latter
bore hole was made in search for coal
measures, and eighty-three separate
seams, some of considerable thickness,
were penetrated.
LACKADAY, LADIES!
Cobwigger—Did the women’s clubs
have a harmonious convention?
Merritt—No. The only time they
got together was when they were hav
ing their picture taken.—Judge.
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An Eccentric Historian.
Like most men erf genius the rj
Prof. Mommsen, the great G J
historian, had striking er
One of these absent-minded eccentrfejfd
was
He permitted his hair to be H
off by f r w
a candle by whose light h e "
reading. But the most charact **
incident was his thrusting an Infan
into his waste paper basket
cried. Bismarck had <|
not nruch r?
epeet for Mommsen as a Public
but it would have gladdened Qua
Chancellor’s heart the old
to see the schok,
publicly reprobating the langua? e
the Kaiser not long c
ago. N o othe
man outside the Socialist ranks dared
have done such a thing in Germa.^,-