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JAPS ASSAIL Russians Routed at Frightful of Life to Attackers. TWELVE THOUSAND DIE Kin=Chou Captured After Stubborn Resistance. Daring Soldiers of Mikadc Faced Big Odds. A dispatch to The Central News (London) from Harbin says the Jap anese losses during the fighting at Kin-Chou are said to be twelve thou sand men killed. It is said these fig ures have been confirmed by an of ficial dispatch. Japs Nearing Port Arthur. A special from Tokio under Friday's date was as follows: “The Japanese are now within twelve miles of Port Arthur, and the Russians suffered heavier casualties than the Japanese who have taken guns and other ma terial and a few prisoners. A further surprise is predicted as Japan is now increasing her efforts in all directions. The Japanese captured many guns at Kin Chou. tt Was Sanguinary Conflict. The latest reports received in Tokio indicate that the storming of Nan Shan hill Thursday was a bloody af fair. The Japanese first centered their fire on the Russian batteries, in which they were aided by four gunboats from Kin Chou bay. They succeeded in silencing many of the enemy's, guns. The Russians had constructed a se ries of trenches around the hill on a terrace protected by wire entangle ments and other such devices. The Japanese made a series of rushes, but they were in vain. The deadly rifle and cannon fire of the enemy checked them repeatedly. Finally, at 3 o’clock in the after noon, the Japanese reformed and stormed the crest of the h'll The Rus sians held to tneir position doggedly and it was 7 o’clock in the evening be f°re He .Tup ° nese finally gained pos session of the ridge. A Japanese officer of high rank made the following statement to the corre spondent of the Associated Press: “The Japanese in attacking Kin Chou and Nan Shan hill had to fight against rest odds. The Russians were in full command of the stragetical advantages afforded by nature, and these advantages were augmented by the new'est inventions for defense. The forts on Nan Shan hill w’ere armed with heavy guns. The Japanese had only field guns, heavy guns being un available on account of the difficulties of transportation, “Our army deserves great credit for having driven the Russians from this stronghold; it w r as a feat previ ously considered to have been impos sible. “I fear our losses have been heavy, but we have gained the strongest point barring our way to the invest ment of Port Arthur.” The Japanese swept the Russians from Kin Chou Thursday morning and in a desperate night attack storm ed the almost impregnable position of the Russians on Nan Shan hill, west af Talienwan. The battle raged in the hills all through the night and telegrams from the Japanese headquarters reported that th eengagement was still in progress and that the Japanese are still pursuing the Russians south of Nan-Shan and the head of Talienwan bay. The Russians had made elabo rate preparations to check the Japan ~ MANY HUNDREDS ARE DESTITUTE. Authorities at Yazoo Citv Compile a List of Sufferers from Recent Fire. Amass meeting composed of 100 leading citizens was held in Yazoo City Friday and a committee, headed by Mayor Holmes, was instructed to inquire into the number of people ren dered destitute by the recent fire. The committee reports that ^00 families have lost their homes and one-half of this number destitute. The committee declined to make appeal for oi ide aid, but announced that contributions wiil be received and distributed. ! ese movement south on the Liao Tung ! peninsula toward Port Arthur. They had fortified the high ground on the south shore of Talienwan bay, i their works extending to the east and ! the west. The extreme Russian right j I w'as at. Hushan Tao and the extreme left t Nan Shan hill. This hill was , . .. e , p ar ...... 0 T e mt , s ® I . of batteries, strongly - emplaced, - nes crowned its crest, while rifle pits ex tended around its sides. Mines had been placed lower down on this hill i and around the base, on the northern and eastern sides, were stretched well made wire entanglements. A not her line of defense protected with wire entanglements extended j from Yen Chia Tung, near the head of Talienwan bay. due north of Lia i Chia Tien, w'hich lies south of j Chou. A strong Russian force posted at Kin Chou. Blockade at Port Arthur. According to a special from Tokio 1 Vice Admiral Togo has established a complete blockade around the south ern end of Liao Tung peninsula. This j completely the envelopes Port. Arthur from j seaward and probably marks tthe opening of the final investment of the town and its fortifications, : WITH A VOICE UNANIMOUS j j Presbyterians in Session at Buffalo Union of the Various Bodies. A special from Buffalo, N. Y., says: j The general assembly of the Presby ! terian church in the United States, by j i an overwhelming voice committee Friday, adopted Hie report of the on union ! with the Cumberland Presbyterian church. The resolutions adopted in cluded not only favorable action on the report, but recommended certain other steps to be taken to secure the union of the churches and to make plain the position of th echiirch. The question of proposed basis of union will now * go to the presbyteries of the general assembly. If it is approv ed by a vote of two-thiras of them the necessary steps will be taken at the next general assembly to effect the union. ! The announcement of the result was 1 received wiih great cheering. The ! vote was taken on the following prop ' ositions of James D. off att; ! a a Shall the adopted? re* port of the joint com naittee be i “That tlie question of basis of union ' be sent down to the presbyteries be j fore “That April the 1S05, report for of action. the presbyteries shall be submitted to the general as sembly in 1905, and if approved by a two-thirds vote, the necessary steps shall be taken if the way be clear, to complete this union. That the as sembly places on record that its re vision of the confession of fair.h in 1903 has not impaired the integrity the system of doctrine taught in holy scripture. I talk reverts to gorman. Marylander Discussed es Receptive • didate f >r 5 7 re'd mcy. The Atlanta Constitution’s ington correspondent wires the ing to his paper: “No recent political event has traded as much attention here Washington as ihe Maryland ic convention of yesterday. are pointing to the platform as ideal statement of the campaign from the democratic standpoint and is inevitably being compared to resolutions adopted by the New democrats at Albany. “Beyond this, however, stand great maniiestation of over Senator Arthur P. Gorman, taken together with the high mentary resolutions adopted is strued as meaning that the of his state intend to present ! Gorman as a receptive candidate t h e presidential nomination. i SULLY DEMANDS HIS COTTON. 1 Receivers arc Asked to Buy 593,000 of boot Staple. ; A sensation was created in | exchange circles at New York Gay when the suspended firm of D. * Sully & Co., made a demand ; I the receivers now in charge of ! firm’s business that they buy | bales of spot cotton. D. J. Sully & Co. claim that ! were not notified by any of the ! ers that their cotton had beet l ou^- and they, therefore, wish the i eeivers to buy ir 190 000 hales ( of | tual cotton. j* «j* Epitomized Items of Interest Gathered at Random* Savannah Wants Judge Speer. The board of directors of the Sa rannah chamber of commerce has named a committee to invote Judge I Emory Speer, of the United States ! court of the southern district, to take ! up his residence in Savannah, should he decide, as it is reported he will, to leave Macon. * * * Chautauqua Will Be Great. The arrangements for holding the Chautauqua in Dublin. June 19-24, are i being rapidly completed. All of tlie . „ bee ed Thls 0ve i „ j special trains will be run to Dublin | by the Wrightsville and Tennille and I i Macon, Dublin and Savannah roads during Chautauqua week. * » * Ten Years For Carter. At Valdosta, J. C. Carter, the young white man who was tried in the supe rior court and found guilty on the charge of attempted assault, was sen tenced by Judge Mitchell to ten years i in the penitentiary. He is now' in jail | in default of $1,000 bond. The mo lion made by his attorneys for a new trial will be heard later. * * * V.'aycross Seeks Charter Change. A movement has been started in Waycross to have the charter chang ed, that the water works commission • of the city may be elected by the | people. Since the organization of the commission twelve years ago the members have been appointed by the ordinary. A petition requesting Rep resentative Spence to have the char ter of the city changed has been cir culated. and there are many signers. * * * Now Under Regular Charter. ! Formal organization of the John B. Gordon Monument Association was perfected in Atlanta the past week by the acceptance of the charter, the adoption of by-laws and the election of officers and directors. The officers chosen were President W. L. Cai houn; vice president, Alien D. Can dler; secretary, Joseph T. Derry, and treasurer, E. H. Thornton. ; New subscriptions aggregating about $100 were reported, about half of them in cash. One of the subscrip tions of $25 was recorded on the j minutes as having been received from ' “ a former abolitionist, who, since liv ing in the south,has formed new ideas j the negro question.” j cn * * * Important Ruling on Rates. In a recent ruling upon rule G of the state railroad commission, that. i body decided that the railroads in the state c a n reduce rates between . ' certain points in the state in order to 1 put them on a basis of equality with the ! points similarly s-ituated outside ! state, without having to lower rates i t(J other points on such lines, which are not similarly situated. | In other words, the Central of Geor gia is permitted to reduce the rates on certain commodities betw'een At lanta and Savannah in order to put Atlanta on a basis of equality with i Nashville and other similarly situated . without being required to ; points, , lower its rates between Atlanta and any intermediate points on its line. * * i Admits Charge of Infanticide. Omer J. Coney, a young maa well , known in Laurens co y, was arreat ed a few days ago charged with the murder of an infant found in the Oconee river. Coney made a confes sion to officers, in which he stated that he put the child into a saclr and then threw it into the river. When examined by the coroner and a jurv, the infant showed evidence of having been mutilated—its throat was cut or stabbed. Coney denies any knowl edge of'this feature of the case. j ; The young man was married four months ago into one of the most prom inent families in Laurens county, and the people of Dublin are almost un nerved bv the shocking and unmen tionable features connected with the affair. * # Primary Returns Compiled. Chairman E. T. Brown, of the state executive committee, has just co piled the returns from the recent s ^ a p e primary of April 20. The returns show that State Trenc urer R. E. Park led the state ticket j with a total vote of 169,867. The vote Tor Governor Terrell was 168,461. In the race for chief justice of the 1 supreme court Chief Justice T. J. Sim mons carried eighty-nine counties and ( forty-eight, Jus j Judge R. B. Russell , tice Simmons’ majority in votes being 21,160. For prison commissioner Chairman Joseph S. Turner carried 107 counties and Judstm M. Strickland, of Griffin, thirty, Chairman Turner’s majority in votes being 22,118. The preparation of these Chairman Brown, of the state commit tee. has been at work upon them last P ; x weeks; in fact, since the primary WC.3 held cn Apr: ! 20th. The Law as to Fishing. Now' that the fishing season opened the attention of anglers is ed to the following sections of | new state law; “5. That it shall he unlawful j all y person to put walnut leaves, nut hulls, devil shoe strings or poisonous substance whatever in of the waters or running streams this state, such as lakes, ponds, places or creeks, which will be to drive away or poison the fish 1 said waters. • * 6. That it shall be unlawful catch or take any fish with any seine ’ net or like device from any of __ ----- waters of tils state between the of June and the 1st of in each year, provided that the visions of this act shall not be strued to forbid the catching of j by means of cast nets or with or line. * < 7. That the catching of in the waters of this state with or other devices, is absolutely hibited for a period of four years the date of approval of this act. “8. That the use of dynamite or other explosive and destructive stances for the purpose of killing is hereby prohibited.” • * • Lays Embezzlement to President. After one of the most sensational trials ever held in Columbus, the jury m the case of J. Perry Greene, ed with embezzlement, brought in verdict of ‘‘not guilty,” reaching verdict after one ballot. The charge of embezzlement was brought by President John F. Weath ers, of the Columbus Showcase Com pany, for whom Mr. Greene had work ed as bookkeeper during 1903, it being alleged that he took $1,300 of the company’s money and then made the books balance by ‘ making false en tr i es The defense was extremely sensa tional, Greene charging that President Weathers, himself, had been system atically robbing the company, and that he tried to make a scapegoat of the bookkeeper. Greene talked to the jury an hour and a half, and made a dramatic assertion of his innocence, and an equally' dramatic accusation of President Weathers,who sat a few feet from him. Pointing to Mr. Weathers, Mr. Greene exclaimed: “Gentlemen, there is the guilty man. He stole this money, and is trying to shift it off on me. Nobody knows bet ter than John F. Weathers that I nev er took a cent of money of the Co Iambus Showcase Company. He won’t look me in the face. That man has tried to rob me of all I have— my character.” # * j The University Law schcol. j Among the institutions that have j ^ad a marked influence upon the his po r y 0 f Georgia is the state law school established in 1859 on motion of Gov ernor Herschel V. Johnson. Over eight hundred lawyers have received their training here in the last fifty years. The school has been the training camp of our eminent ju rists and the success of its graduates is the strongest argument for train ing of a good law' school in preference to that secured in the lawyer’s of fice. In the law school the training is sys tematic and thorough and the young sindent must measure his strength daily with his fellow students, As an eminent writer said: “The law school leads the student readily to survey law as a science and imbues him with the principles of ethics as its- true foundation. Dis puting, reasoning, reading, discours ing, became his constant exetcise. Members of the bar of the future, to succeed, must have a scientific, well directed and comprehensive training in a law school.” The state law course embraces two years of text book study, lecture courses, study of cases, moot courts and legal exercises. It gjves the most thorough preparation offered in the South Atlantic States in daw and al ded subjects. The students meet in daily classroom exercises on the Uni versity campus, and are an integral j part of the student body, subject to regulations and enjoying all the ! principles of the libraries, dormitories j | an q lectures. They form associations Georgians with hundreds of young and with the great body of alumni j friendships invaluable to the young ” lawyer, whether considered from f social, business or professional stand point. The degree of bachelor of laws of the University of Georgia is conferred upon those completing the course. Some students take the first year's course in a lawyer’s office, stand an examination upon the same on enter i ing the law school and taking the sqc ; ond year in class. This plan reduces expenses, and combines the office and class room methods. The State University l a% - Soho jilstly won first place for the ing of Georgians for hoQ( profession of law' and a young should count i u a privilege j, ' his name the graduated to ; among i famous old school— J. g g^. Morgan Completes Canal Transk J. P. Morgan & Co. innaunoj New York Thursday that the fers of gold incident to the vj - of the $40,000,000 purchase nx>ri the Panama Canal Company 1 have been completed. THIRTEEN HEN KID Boilers of Tow Boat at Louisvil’e Blow Up and Wreak a Carni of Death. »i A specialj^rom LouisviK " Thirteen persons wer e killed, fatally injured and five hurt a explosion at boilers which tend molished the towboat Fred W lib Riverview park: The dead are: Captain Joseph unknown white man, believed a Pittsburg insurance agent, t ing with Captain Price; • w Quinn, steward'; Albert Miller, Sherman Shively, second engi first cook; Joseph Warren, col William Thornton; John Patric | four W'hite deck hands, names j unewn. 1 e i son vtthe property i ' onongiahela Coal and Coke Ooa I an( * Pittsburg several d'ayj j " ^ £ltX Ganges, twelve coal boat j ‘ <>u r bound for Louisville. ^ !e arr ived at her destination m iGnight, had proceeded down! r *' ei an( l wa ® about to tie up ex Plosion occurred, ^ ie cause *-he a'Ccident is khowm. The boat had just put to the to ’ w i nro a landing w ^ en explosion occurred. 1 j Sykes, first mate, could give n Planation of the cause of thej Gent. He and Chief Engineer were the only men cn the bead soaped injury, ^' ne I >ol ^ ce an G Hospital ambui aR G the automobiles of the mo newspapers carried a corps of; c i' ans an d nurses, to the scene, i 1 four miles from the heart <j c residence ^- The of injured Colonel were John taken H. A; n i proud | until they could be bettor ; at hospitals. Mr. Whallen’s i J which is about ^50 yards iron ; mer - waa badly damaged by d P ! -°siion, but one of the fami-y injured. The front doors were spl ; e; h the chandeliers in the U room w’ere shattered and near, ! window in the house was broi.e, The Wilson was built eighteen ago and was reconstructed m r* I year. She was valued at $25,000. length w r as 175 feet and 30 fee: , The Wilson was literally bU pieces and her hull sank in h of water. Two heavy pieces o boiler were found almost 500 from the bank and her flag boats the top of a tree near Riverside^, wihere it was blown with a F-k wreckage. MARYLANDERS FAVOR GGRVA Democrats in State Convention Strang Preference for Fevorde 1 rpj^ ( ] emc , cra tic state convent Mary5and met in Baltimore Thu j I adopted a platform and elected j gates to the St. Louis convex j United States. Senator Gorina: : a delegate from Howard count; j jjj S en t ry j D t 0 the convention laaj the s i gna ) f or enthusiastic »F? j as wag every remark made h | ge a , a ior during the proceedin'© 13 ' rp,j ie pi a tform by the convent’) m ittedly embodies Mr. Gorman pii™ f' what, the national ; ion 0 should be, he being a member resolutions committee. It is no to national issues and practice dorses the line of action f rtemccrati peering cons E j th0 . c duri the late KG , s c,; on 0 f cons j It calls for moderate tariff ne independence for the and Filipp'^ ki cimy in expenditures crookedn . on tion of all alleged f e the postoffice and other gove deparl/ments and severely cl the present, ’adiministration. While the delegation to - not instructed except to * was j a unit, it is admitted 'hat this request c- f was followed at th 8 tor Gorman the convention instriK- ben'j ■ ly in the humor to - When delegate moved to so n a Senator Gorman protested motion was withdrawn. The convention adopted a commending the “boldness ans with which our signallized senator, Hon.J P. Gorman, has t N to his former field of his leadership and distinguished services. »»