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ANOTHER TOWN
TAKEN BY JAPS
Niuchwang Wrested From Rus
sians By Soldiers of Mikado.
PORT ARTHUR HELPLESS
Czars Army Still Bdng Pursued By
Victorious Japs-Another Attempt
to Bottle Up Czar's Fleet.
The Chefoo correspondent of The
London Daily Chronicle cables the
following under Tuesday’s date:
“The Japanese landed troops and
attacked and captured Niuchwang
last evening, the Russians falling back
to protect the railway.”
The capture of Niuchwang by the
Japanese and the landing of a heavy
Japanese force at that point, together
with the Japanese succe sses along the
Yalu, puts Port Arthur in the great
est peril.
From Niuchwang the Japanese only
have to move 50 miles east to cut the
railroad between Mukden and Port
Arthur, completely isolating that point,
as the Japanese blockade is complete.
The Japanese forces at Antung and
those at Niuchwang are less than 200
miles apart, and by rapid marching
will be able in a very short time to
throw a line clear across the l.iau
Tung peninsula, caking all the Russian
forces south of Antung and Niu
chwang.
The capture of Niuchwang probably
throw a line clear across the Liao
Arthur Monday morning. Admiral
Tung Peninsula caging all the Russian
attention of the Russian forts while
Japanese transports passed.
A supplemental report was received
in Tokio, Japan, from Kurolci. It was
dated as follows:
“Y'esterday (Monday) the enemy of
fered a stubborn resistance against
our pursuit, adding about 300 to our
casualties. The enemy stood with
resolution until their artillery, con
sisting of two batteries, lost the ma
jority of its men and horses. They
then broke the breeches and, closing
apparatus of their guns, hoisted the
white flag.
“According to a captured Russian
officer, General Kashtalinsky, com
mander of the Third East Siberian
rifle brigade; the colonel of the Elev
enth and Twelfth rifle regiments, and
the commander of the rifle artillery
battalion were killed in the fighting
at Hamatan.
it seems that the enemy was en
tirely routed by our attack because
since yesterday, many have come >n
and surrendered.
“Our prisoners included 30 officers,
20 of whom are wounded, and 300 men,
100 of whom are wounded.
“A preliminary report from the
chief surgeon of the first Japanese ar
my shows that we had 798 men killed
and wounded. These casualties are
divided as follows: The Imperial
Guards, 132; Second Division, 359;
Third division, 31G.”
An Associated Press dispatch from
St. Petersburg says: The report that
Vice Admiral Togo had made another
attempt to block Poi't Arthur is con
firmed.
Vice Admiral Alexieff reported offi
cially that the Japanese sent eight
fire ships Monday night to block the
entrance of the harbor, but they were
all sunk by the Russian torpedo boats
and the fire from the land batteries,
leaving the channel clear. The vice
admiral also reports that the Russians
sank two Japanese torpedo boats.
Commenting on the Shanghai report
that United States Consul Davidson
I sproceeding -to his pest at Antung,
The Globe says:
: “The triumph of the open door has
begun d the United States have giv
en once more a sign of their clear ap
preciation of the real issues at stake
in the Far East. ■ *
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\ SUBSCRIBED THREE TIMES OVER.
Sreerf ^ ctl,ant * f° r Bonds of New York City
on Part of Bidders.
Bids- \ were °P ene d New York
Tuesday by Controller Grout for $37,
.
000,000 o/, city bonds at 3 1-2 per
•ent, fW.OGt 000 for ten years, and the
Balance for ft, ’ty years.
7 -? „ s over subscribed about
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tint J. w ’ ,::m - KJ -
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... . amount at
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GOBER IS THE VICTOR.
i Georgia decides State in Adjudicating Executive Committee Contested So
Primary Election.
The first contest, under the primary !
election law, in the history of Geor
gia, was begun at Atlanta Wednesday
at noon before tho state democratic j
executive committee when tbat body
was called upon to decide who was
entitled to the A judgeship v of the Blue !
Rid-ge circuit, . .. Newton A. Morris, or
George F. Gober. Both sides were rep
resented by able counsel.
Mr. Morris based bis contest on
alleged gross frauds in Fannin coun
ty, in the primary election of April
20, while Judge Gober made counter I j
charges as to Gilmer county.
Thirty-four members of the com- j
mittee were present when the meet
ing was called to order. The con
vention room at the Piedmont hotel
was filled with leading politicians from j
all sections of the state who came ;
down to attend the hearing. They ! j
;
were greatly interested in the argu- | j
ments which were made. I
Alter a lengthy session, lasting well j
into Wednesday night, Judge Gober
was declared to be the nominee of |
the party Tor judge of the Blue Ridge !
circuit, the contest made by Hon. N.
A. Morris being rejected.
This conclusion was reached alter
the committee had gone into secret I
session, it is- said, for the first time
in the history of the party, and after j
a warm discussion, during which four
teen votes were cast for a new pri
mary in the circuit, though twenty
members opposed this plan.
The resolutions favoring Judge Go
ber’s claims were introduced by Hon.
A. A. Lawrence, of Savannah, and
these were adopted by a vote of 23 to
12, after having been amended as pro
posed by Hon. Clark Howell, the
amendment being to the effect -that the
alleged frauds in Fannin county about
offset those in Gilmer county, and
that, therefore, the sum total of the
alleged frauds would not affect the
final result of the primary in the cir
cuit.
The aye and nay vote on the Law
rence resolution was as follows:
For the Resolution—Hamilton Mc
Whorter, A. A .Lawrence, Clark How
ell, M. J. Yeomans, L. D. Shannon,
Phil Lanier, J. S. James, S. T. Bla
lock, J. Z. Foster, S. P. Madiox,
Moses Wright, L. M. Heard, C. J.
Wellborn, proxy for M. L. Ledford;
R. F. Ousley, S. G. Atkinson, J. E.
Foye, J. S. Turner, proxy for S. T.
Wingfield; J. T. Oglesby, A. C.
Stone, H. J. Rowe, J. W. Goldsmith,
James Taylor, proxy for John A. Cobb,
and J. H. Witzell.
Against the Resolution—H. W. Hill ;
J. R. Gray, J. J. Spalding, Boykin
Wright, George P. Monroe, J. D.
Howard, C. D. Thigpen, J. R. I'hil
lips, M. L. Cornett, John Triplett, A.
H. Russell, W. C. Hamilton.
The contest excited great interest
throughout the state, as both men are
prominent in the political world, Judge
Gober having been prominent in poli
tics for many years and the judge of
the Blue Ridge circuit since 1892, and
Mr. Morris being the present speaker
of the house of representatives.
THE ITINERARY OF BISHOPS.
College at Waco Arrange Plan of Methodist
Fpiscopal Visitations.
A dispatch from W'aco, Texas, says:
The college of bishops, nine being
present, promulgated the plan of apis
copal visitation for the present year
and next year in the south as fol
lows:
First District—Bishop Wilson; Vir
ginia, Lynchburg, November 9; North
Alabama, Talledega, November 23; Al
abama, Selma, December 7; South Car
olina, Darlington, December 14. Bal
timore conference, MincheMer, , a.,
March 22.
Second District, Bishop Duncan —
Tennessee, Gallatin, October 5; West
ern North Carolina, Charlotte, Novem
ber 9; North Georgia, Marietta, No
vember 23; South Georgia, McRae,
November 3; Mississippi, Gulfport,
December 7
Sixth District, Bishop Candler —
North Carolina, Henderson, November
30. Florida, Orlando, December 7.
COTTON MILLS ARE CURTAILING.
Plants at Providence, Rhode Island, Begins
Working on Short I urn-.
The Crompioa company at Provi
dence notified its 700 employees of its
cotton mills at Crompton that the
plant he would shut down Thursday night
for remainder of the week.
Thereafter the concern will bd in
ope ratio nhbut V four days each week un
til ... there .. ia an improvement . . in . the „
market . , for . A. finished . , , goods. ,
Other conlierns 1 southern . New
m
‘’"'“o''- hnsland „ , hav| ■' ..ccided to cur.a.1 , .. pro
V
l U^UgB ET •aa a'gT ;
TO FORESTALL ROADS.
Western and Atlantic* Property of the
State of Georgia, May Be Ex
tended to Tide-Water.
An approval of the project to ex
tend the Western and Atlantic railroad
to tide water, a request that Atlan
ta ’ 3 case against the railroads because
of freight discriminations be present
to the interstate commerce com- I
mission, and „ , a suggestion .. to the ., mu
nicipal government to purchase Pied
mont P ark > 5f advantageous terms to
the city can be secured, were the
results of the monthly meeting of the |
members of the Atlanta, Ga., chain- | ;
her of assembled Tues- i 1
commerce, who j
day evening in the convention hall
°f the Piedmont hotel, |
The meeting was attended by about
two hundred representative business
men of Atlanta, members of the gen- j
eral council and railroad men. ses-! j
It was not until the heel of the
sion that the project of extending the |
Western and Atlantic railroad to the j
sea was mentioned. It was brought ,
up by Hon. Hooper Alexander, a re
cently elected member of the Georgia
house of representatives from DeKalb
county. He had listened -to the talks
of the Atlanta merchants regarding
the discriminations against them in
the matter of freight rates,
Referring to the fact that fre'ght
f rom Chicago is shipped through At
l anta to Jacksonville for $1.33 per 100,
while the rate from Chicago to Atlan
ta is $1.47 per 100, to the fact that
freight from New York city passes
through Atlanta to Savannah cheap
er than it can stop in Georgia's capi
tal, while freight from Savannah pass
es through Atlanta and goes to. Nash
ville for less money than it can be
sMppea from. Savannah to Atlanta,
IWr. Alexander declared that fie did
not know the reason for the failure
of the Georgia railroad commission
to prevent these things.
If the railroads were asked why
they charged less for hauling Chicago
freight to Jacksonville or Savannah
than to Atlanta, they would, he de
clared, reply that -they w r ere compell
ed to give those cities better rates
than Atlanta because of water com
petition.
“We have been told that we can
not bring the sea to .Atlanta. I say
we can. »>
Mr. Alexander then launched into
his subject. He sp-oke of the West
ern and Atlantic Railroad as a heri
tage from the men who had fought for
the independence of the state, stated
that before the civil war it had been
a splendid paying property, asserted
that it !
| was recognized by both sides j
during the war as -th ©backbone of the
Confederacy, declared that it was now :
| paying to its lessees about $909,900
per annum over its rental, maintained
that it is now the only thing + hat
stands between the state and an an
nu-al deficit, and declared that when
operated by the state its expenses had
been less and Its revenues more than
-
any other -railroad property in this ]
section. For proof of these facts he
referred to the records of the state,
Mr. Alexander was frequently in
terrupted by applause and the con
clusion of his speech was greeted by
prolonged applause. When Hon.
Hoke Smith introduced the fol
lowing amendment to resolutions he
had already presented the business
men began cheering and rmid cheers
it was adopted:
“Resolved, further, that we approve
the project to extend the Western
and Atlantic Railroad to tide water.
MOVE AGAINST WHITECAPPERS.
, Mississippi Deoutv Marshal Goes After
.Witnesses Wi'h Manv Subpoenas.
A deputy United States marshal,
arme( j wjth a bundle of subpoenas,
| ! left Jackson Wednesday for the white- ; ;
j capper districts of Lincoln, Amite and
Franklin counties. The object of the
j trip is to bring witnesses to testily
the federal grand jury now in
, sessio regarding the of
* acts white-
1 cappers in driving negroes from gov
e-rnment homesteads, and some sur
i prising developments are promised.
MAYOR FIRES POLICE BOARD
Chief Executive of New Orleans Hot After
Alleged “Grafters.
A dispatch from New Orleans, La.,
saj-s: Mayor Capdeville. has asked the
members of the board of police com
“loners of New Orleans to resign
as a result of the charges by Commis-
3ioner John A - Woodville that the
commissioners are ‘“grafters” and are
responsible for gambling houses and
1<)t ' l : ry &h0I>s '
The mayor s action produced K a sen *
sation. Riotous scenes attended „ the
meeting .. of . the .. , board, , and, , adjo.irn
° ’ on
i inent, Woodville was cheered and , car
rM atout bJ . a crowJ of „, s Sl , p .
porters.
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THREE MURDERERS DIE.
payers of Man and His Wife Expiate
Double Crime on Gallows at
Winchester, Tenn.
At Winchester, Tenn., Thursday
morning, Henry Judge, Joe Delp ana
John Evans were hanged for the mur
der of Simon Bucher and his wife ia 3 t
August.
The trap was sprung at 5:43 and
all three died without a struggle. The
condemned men exhibited the same in
difference and stolidity that marked
their conduct during the trials and
walked boldly and without assistance
onto the scaffold. Bach of them made
a short speeeeh in which they exnress
ed their preparedness and said theii
only regret was to leave their w;ves
and children. None of them made any
reference to the deed for which they
P ai( t the panalty.
The crime for which this trio of
white men paid the extreme penalty
was the murder of Simon Bucher and
his wife 051 the ath of last Au S ast -
It was Judge who conceived and
planned the deed, and his motive is
sa ^ to kave been prompted by a de
s ’ le to £6t rid of Bucher because he
had the oversight, on some mountain
lands upon which Judge wanted to
have the timber. Judge employed Ev
ans and Delp to do the murder. The
conspirators reached the Bucher home
late in the afternoon and asked to
be shown in the garden. Bucher led
the way and when a short distance
from the house was shot in the back
by Delp. Bucher dropped in his tracks
and was found the next day.
The assassins then returned to the
house, where Evans shot Mrs. Bucher.
Fire was then set to the house and
the murderers left both victims for
dead. The charred body of Mrs. Bu
cher was found next morning and upon
further investigation her husband wat
discovered in the garden near by. Bu
cher was conscious but paralyzed
in the lower libs, and his face was
badly scorched.
He lived long enough to make a dec
laration to a minister in whicn he
told of -the assault by Evans and Delp,
who were shortly afterwards appre
hended. They did not betray the arch
conspirator, but condential information
led the sheriff to suspect Judge, and
his arrest followed.
SOLDIERS UNDER SH? ! 01S CHARGE.
Attiilerymen at fort Screven Accused of
Assaulting Young Woman.
A special from Savannah, Ga, says:
Eight United States army artillery
men are in irons at Fort Screven, Ty
beeIsland - awaiting a courtmartiai or
trial by civil court They are charged
with criminal assault committed upon
a young white woman, Sallie Guest, of
-Douglas, Ga. The terrible story nas
been current in Savannah for some
days, the alleged crime havffig been
committed two weeks ago. The com
manding officer and other officers at
Fort Screven made every effort to sup
press the facts, and to prevent any
publication of the matter, and up to
this time succeeded.
They considered that the honor of
the army was involved and that the
story should be spared as far as pos
s ible ail publicity. They have not telt
disposed to condone the offense in
any degree intending that justice snail
be done. They had the eight alleged
culprits put under arrest at once. A
man who saw the girl after the out
rage declared that she was 17 years
old and that she had come from Val
dosta, G-a., at the solicitation of one
of the soldiers, who was from the
same town, and who was under prom
ise to wed her. When -the girl arriv
ed at the reservation she was met by
her lover. The story has it that there
was something to drink at hand and
that the young woman was unwise
enough to indulge in it.
She and her lover wandered off in
to the woodland of -the reservation
where he betrayed her. After having
worked his will upon the , unfortunate
woman he returned to the fort, where
he told rome of his comrades that
he had left the woman. Seven of them
then mad 0 their wav to her. where
they, too, it is declared, outraged her.
JOHNSON GRASS LAW UPHELD.
Supreme Court P. ssas Upon Unique Case
Sent Up from Texas.
The United States supreme court, in
an opinion by Justice Holmes, in the
case of the Missouri, Kansas and Tex
as Railway Company vs. Clay May,
sustained the validity cf the Texas
statute prescribing a penalty against
railroads in that state which p-v-mit
Johnson grass to go to seed on their
lines. The law was attacked as un
constitutional, but the ccmrt n-nheld
It as a measure for the projection «f
the people of the state against an in
! juricua plant.
■
Smugglers of London Cioth-j
“That ease in Boston a few
ago, *» said a. Nassau street da* n
“about several expensive su»ts Eas!
ter clothing being found in fke
of a Liverpool liner, waiting ho;j
steward who was going until the
them to smug
to American customers could
them ashore, i is part of a game '
over week here in New pi a
have York •
an association that has been ■
ing to stop it for years, but we Lav- ■
made much headway. The troi.M* ®'|
with the Boston man KM pro:)
that he _
was new at the game. You
can’t catch the old hands on the N
York liners like that, Of ew
well known Boston law course, the
yers to whom
■the three suits were addressed
not know anything about did
they them. Do
yvu suppose would hav e own^j
up if they did? The/ 7 won’t pay
them either. Those f 0r
suits are a d-ea)
loss to the London tailor. But
can gamble that the brought yon
man who
them ever will be out of the s
gling business after this. mug.
“Every spring and every winter
Eg Gilt's of „ fashionable . London tailors
stop at the uptown hotels and make
a display cf their samples. They
know their old customers, bu t every
new one has to have a bang up i atra
duction. .
It s like tne side-door busi
nes of a sal-oon cn Sundays, Them
are hundreds of men in New York wha
order their clothes in London every
year who have never crossed the
pond. They are measured hero, and
their clothes are delivered to New
York tailors who stand in with the
foreigners. The customer Stts his
clothes , at this tailor’s, free of duty
How, he doesn’t know. But he has
to pay the New York tailor for making
the alterations. After all, h e gets
little out of the deal but the London
cut, styles six months in advance o{
New York, and a suit or overcoat that
doesn’t fit. But they will do it.”
New York Press.
Cttumbus and the Gulf Stream.
It is curious to note in the history
of the gulf stream how great its influ
ence has been on the fortunes of the
new world. Before the discovery o'
America strange woods and fruits
were frequently found on the shores
of Europe and off lying islands. Some
of these were seen and examined by
Columbus, and to his th-c-ughtful mind
they were confirming evidence of the
fact that strange lands were not far
to the westward. Tnese woods were
carried by the gulf stream and by the
prevailing winds from the American
continent, so that in part the gulf
stream is responsible for the discov
ery of the new world.
AdmiraJ Evans telegraphs that tie
best single scores made in the annual
record target practice of the Asiatic
fleet. ju3t completed, were: In 11
minutes and 20 seconds, the best 13
^nch gun of the Wisconsin made 9
bits, the Oregon 6 lifts and the Ken
tucky 5 hits. The best 5-inch gun of
the Kentucky made 1-1 hits in 2 min
utes. Foreign papers kindly cony.
FIT.4 permanently cur -<1. No fits or nervous
ness after first day s use of I)r. Kline’s Great
NerveRestorer.$2 trial bottle and treats®fw
Dr. It. II. Kline, Ltd., CS1 Arch St.,Ph;la. Pa
Lots of neop’e come to grief by met. uj
trouble half way.
How to Clpnii
To clean delicate laces, take a largo c'M
far, cover with old cotton and spread thdsd
carefnlW on it. Fe 1 the bottle in warm Ivory
Soap ends and leave for an hour. If stains
are difficult to remove, pla^e in the sun ana
and thev will disappear. Binso by dipping
the bottle in clear water.
Eleanor R. Parkes.
Abort, the time love lets up on a nua
rhsumati.-im takes a fall out of him.
Ladle* Can Wear Shoes
One size smaller after using Aden’s Foot*
Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new shoM
easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, acoin,
feet, Ingrowing nails, corn3 and bunions. At
all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Don t »(••
oept any substitute. Trial package Free by
mail. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, 5- 1 -
After a man has been married about eO
long he'becomes acclimated.
Looms Large.
Worried by the frequent apP M lii!* f'
ance of typographical errors in
newspaper, a Kansas editor says that
a typographical error is a hard thing
to find in a proof, but in the printed
and completed paper it looms up like
a fat lady in a group of vegetarians.
Beware of Ointmentp For CftturrU That
Contain Mercury, ol
ns mercury will surely destroy t.ho
pmell and completely derange the whole sys
tem when enterin'? it through tho rauC0 >
surfaces. Suchartielesshouldneverb reputaM eU r‘
except on prescriptions from wfil do is t enI
sieinns, as the damage they derive j r
them. to the good Ball’s you can possibly munnfachi
Catarrh Cure, ‘‘'“,
by F. J. Cheney «V. Co., Toledo, O.. con
Co mercury, and is taken internally
dirrotly upon the blood imd Hall’s mucous Catarrh
of the system. In buying
b A sure you c-et tbe uenuine. It is taxes
tenmliv, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by *•
J. Cheney A; Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Drut-gists; price, 75c. per hot •
Take Ball’s Family Pills f or con stipate •
Looks Suspicious.
A Chicago man refuses to
In court whether he bad a bank tU "
count of $2,00();000 or cot. on Ike
grounds that he might Uu -iiuirkh 1
himself. Must not have had it. Aliy
much is iu ‘‘ J
man with that money •
danger of being incriminated. *
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