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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. ! 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. A I A im Amm ‘V illpSSSli J K mmm ■> r T* sis mi * n : \iw» ’•t'i ass apt. * -• SS mm # ft u. LraKSSS & m o m% 1 '1mw3S i .-. r V,' - "jik Sg&iJR SmtoHK I , W II : j, ■•j# * ■JR* a ,V' M '{ ■r S#N gS?Ssw fi**- *. \Y an ffisi&wr. 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