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BOTH FLEETS
KNOCKED OUT
Japs Attack and Whelm Vladivo
stok Sqjadron.
NOW MASTERS OF THE SEA
Hot Fight Lasting Five Hours Took
Place in Strait of Korea and Rus
sians Were Badly Whipped.
A Tokio special says: Vice Admi
ral Kamimura encountered the Rus
sian Vladivostok squadron at dawn
Sunday north of Tsu Island in the
strait of Korea and attacked the ene
my at once. The battle lasted for five
hours and resulted in a comple:,* Jap
anese victory. The Russian cruiser
Rurik was sunk and cruisers Rossi i
and Gromoboi fled northward after
having sustained serious damage. Vice
Admiral Kamimura cables the navy
department that the injuries inflicted
upon his vessels were slight.
JAPS extremely happy.
Flags were flying, lanterns glimmer
ing and cries of “Banzai” were ringing
in the streets of the Japanese capital
Sunday night in honor of the victories
g. ined at sea by Admiral Togo and
Vice Admiral Kamimura.
Underneath the jollity of the popu
lace is a feeling of deep satisfaction
and gratification at the disposal of a
desperately serious problem of the
war.
The Russian squadron, which con
fronted Admiral Togo, refused battle
It was stronger than Admiral Togo’s
squadron in battle ships and armored
cruisers and had it elected to fight, the
result might have altered the fortunes
of war. The strength of the squadron
which opposed Admiral Togo compell
ed him to draw vessels from the
squadron under Vice Admiral Kami
mura and this left the Japanese navy
powerless to operate against the Rus
sian Vladivostok squadron and unable
to prevent the raids of These vessels.
The raid conducted by the Vladivos
tok squadron in July was extremely
expensive and not only was retaliation
tempting, but it was demanded by
commercial interests.
The navy, however, grimly refused
to mfcke a diversion and stuck to Port
Arthur. It was confident that the ha-
bor soon would be untenable for the
Russian warships, that it eventually
would get a fair fight in the open sea
away from the Russian land batteries
and that the Japanese would win.
These calculations of the navy were
correct, aad the Russians with the
chances even have been hopelessly de
feated.
Admiral Kamimura, after many
months of waiting, finally got his
chance at dawn Sunday off Tsu islan!
He sunk the Russian cruiser Rurik
Rud sent the cruisers Gromboboi an*
Rossia fleeing back from the fight.
The best possible naval force that
Russia can now concentrate at Vladi
vostok is four cruisers.
In the fight of August 10 the squad
ron under Admiral Togo was practical
ly uninjured. The battle ship Mikasa
suffered the most, but she continues
on the fighting line.
The cruisers Yakumo, Nisshin and
Kasaga also were hit, but temporary
repairs already have ben made and
they are fully serviceable.
The following casualties have been
reported on the Japanese side during
the ae’ion of August 10th:
The battle ship Kikassa had four of
ficiers killed and twenty-nine men se
riously wounded, Six officers and
twenty-nine men were slightly wound
ed.
The armored cruiser Yakumo had
one officer and forty-nine men killed
and one officer and eleven men
wounded.
The armored cruiser Kasuga had
two officers and fifteen men wounded.
Torpedo boat No. 8 had one man
killed and eight wounded.
NOW UP TO UNION MINERS.
Oferators in Birmingham District Resume
Business on “Open-Shop" Plan.
Since the 1st of July the miners’
union of the Birmingham district and
the operators of the three largest fur
nace companies in the district have
been trying to come to an agreement
on the wage scale.
overtures have been brought to
an end, and commencing August 10th
the mines of the Tennessee Coal, Iroo
and Railroad Company, the Sloss
Sheffield Steel and Iron Company, the
Republic Iron and Steel Company and
the one-stack furnace Companies be
came “open shops,” or non-union
WORK OF CONSPIRATORS.
Murder of Hodges Family Laid to
Machination of Alleged Black
Mafia Band.
Will Cato, arrested as a principal in
the murder of the entire Hodges fain
ily, near Statesboro, Ga., has confess
ed to the existence of an organized ne
gro band in Bullock county, whose ob
ject is the killing and robbing of white
people. It is called the Before Day
Club, and hold nightly meetings in iso
lated plates. Cato names Will Rainey
as a member who assisted in killing
the Hodges and afterward firing their
house. Other prisoners have given
the name of the ringleader and told
where the records of the club, hidden
in an old iron safe, may be found.
A meeting of citizens, held Sunday,
decided to see that there would be no
violence, but the presence of military,
it is feared, would be provocative of
disorder.
All the negroes arrested on suspi- i
cion will be probed thoroughly in or
der to get complete information about j
the Before Day Club. It is asserted |
that information now in hand is suffi- I
cient to convict more than Reed and
Cato of murder and arson, and others
of lesser crimes.
It is believed that it was a con
spiracy to kill the family, and the Be
fore Day Club are at the bottom of it.
Four miles from town, Sunday even
ing. a mass meeting of one hundred
farmers were held and they decided to
wait until all the facts were brought |
out before any definite action was ta- I
ken. Thousands of people are attend- ;
ing the trial.
WATERY GRAVE FOR TEN.
distressing Accident Mars Racing on Po
tomac River ^ear Washington.
Ten persons were drowned as the
result of the capsizing of a naptha
launch on the Potomac river at
Georgetown, the western section of
Washington city, during the annual
Potomac regatta Saturday afternoon.
Four other persons who were on the
launch escaped. The accident was
the worst in the history of Potomi?
river racing.
Only a few' of the thousands of peo
ple that lined the shore witnessed the
accident, but the police immediately
set to work to recover the bodies.
Many of the spectators, including offi
cials of the district government, pro
tested against the continuance of the
racing, in view of the tragedy, but the
officials in charge decline to stop the
sport, saying that it wms inexpedient
because people had come on from nu
merous other cities to take part, and
that the regatta was the result of long
laid plans, in which many outside in
terests were concerned.
There was a great deal of criticism
of this decision. The cheering fo*
the competing crews, as they passed
the scene of the tragedy, and the
shrill and deafening whistles of the
pleasure craft, continued while the
bodies of the unfortunate victims were
being grappled for, dragged into view,
and sent to the police station.
ARMISTICE ARRANGED AT PORT ARTHUR.
Order is Issued Giving Non-Combatants
Opportunity to Vacate Fortress.
The emperor of Japan has issued an
order for the removal of all non-com
batants from Port Arthur if the Rus
sians wish to avail themtelves of this
privilege before the besieging troops
deliver their final assault .
The armistice was probably arrang
ed either to deliver the message or
for the removal of women and chil
dren.
FUSION EFFECTED IN NEBRASKA
Populists Given Five Offices on State Tick
et and Democrats Three.
After a long session at Lincoln,
the democrats and populists of Ne
braska completed their state ticketa.
The division of offices gives the pop
ulists five and the democrats three.
George NV. Berge, populist, of Lincoln
was nominated for governor.
The completion of fusion is a vie
tory for William J. Bryan, who wai
opposed to Thomas E. Watson, t,h*
populist candidate for president.
CASE GOES AGAINST BRYAN.
Nebraskan Wiil Not $50,000 Bequeathed
by Millionaire Bennett.
A decision adverse to William J.
Bryan in the contest over the will of
the late P. S. Bennett, of New York,
and New Haven, Conn., was handed
down Saturday afternoon by the su
preme court of errors, after an, all-day
session. The decision virtually denies
that Mr. Bryan is entitled to the $50,
000 mentioned in the sealed letter
written by Mr. Bennett and address
ed to his widow to be read by her af
ter his death. By this lettdr the widow
was asked to give $50,000 to Mr. Bryan
and his family.
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ARTHUR J. BALFOUR,
Premier of Great Britain, whose unexplained conduct at the time of Mr.
Chamberlain’s retirement and vacillation in regard to the preferential tar
iff scheme have led to ruinous dissensions within the party. He is a
scholar of note, but has never been popular as a leader.
FOR AN IDEAL CITY
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The Hexag-onal Plan Suggested as That
Best Suited For All Purposes.
More attention is being given to-day
to the systematic planning of cities,
with a view of affording the most con
venient means of getting from one
point to another, and at the same time
of gratifying a growing demand for
artistic effect. In an article in the
Craftsman, Charles R. Lamb gives the
subject a thorough discussion, and
after reviewing a number of plans of
arriving at these ends, comes to the
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THE HEXAGONAL PLAN OF A MUNICIPAL
EXTENSION.
following conclusion: Municipal art
must have for its foundation practi
cability. Its very essence is dependent
upon the harmonious relations be
i tween this and beauty, and, therefore,
a city planned to be developed in ar
tistic and esthetic directions must be
based upon the most practical plan.
And what is such a plan? To tpe
writer's mind, all forms of rectilinear
plans must be discarded. Tlie cuttin o . r
of these with diagonals is. after all,
but a makeshift. If not an oblong or
a square, what form would be the
I basic one upon which to found the
city? After the fullest consideration
of all the possibilities that geometric
I figures give, the writer is tempted to
suggest the scheme shown in the ac
companying diagram, the hexagon.
This permits the development of the
city to the utmost that might be possi
^le within many decades, because with
j the hexagon, the great advantage of
! the diagonal is secured, and, at the
j j same time, secured intervening for playgrounds spaces which and
can be
: park areas, betw*een the large central
I areas, which. In turn, can be used
for groups of civic buildings in certain
parts of the city, and, again, in other
parts of the city seats of learning,
recreation, business in all its forms,
banking, publishing, tbe newspaper in
dustries, and the thousand and one
trades, wdiich, in their turn, seem to
be desirous of grouping themselves
around a common centre.
The more this plan is studied, the
more it will be found to approach tbe
Idea of practicability, primarily in re
gard to shorter distances that a person
W’ould have to w*alk or drive from any
one point to another. The sub-division
of the interests into groups by a divi
sion of the park area, is to be distinctly
commended from its sanitary point of
view, as these interruptions of natural
TESLA’S TOWER FOR
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The marvelous constr a
the accompanying cut
great scheme by which the eetri
Nicola Tesla, says he v il i]
operation before a great
which he calls world telegrat
From this tower, which he h
building at Wardenclyffe. a «
and, for on i 0 Is
some time, and which toV* hi"'
recently completed, he hopes
world and receive irrespective raesages of from all ove.'!J “
dis taiiee or ijJ
tervening obstacles. Th e construct;
of the upper part of this tower is
to be so delicate that it will dp
the slightest impulses that toe
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be able to deliver the electrical curteq
anywhere and in any amount by ha| th]
use of certain artifices which he
discovered and which lie will maid
known in due course.
While Air. Tesla has been responsibll
for a great many electrical inventions
some of which were of a revolutionizl
ing nature, he has made a great manj
promises which he has failed to fo] re]
deem up to the present time and
this reason some of ltis electrical aJ
sociates have referred to him as J
“very promising young man.’’ It worJ liaj
been .said that in bis present
he is receiving support from .some vert Itij
wealthy and influential persons.
said that through his connections™
George Westinghouse he has .T, Pier
pont Morgan among his supporters.
THE <KEdN\S FLOOR,
While carrying on her work for till
Bureau of Fisheries, says the Nations
Geographic Magazine, the Albatrosi
has made more than 10,000 soundings
and more than 400 dredgings, and has
brought up from the bottom of the se;i
hundreds of tons of fishes and othei
animals and mud.
The greatest depth from which til!
Albatross has secured any life wai
417.”, fathoms. This was in the Sontl
Pacific between Tonga and Ellice Is!
ands. The dredge brought up silisiom
sponges, radiolarians and brown to!
eanic mud. The greatest depth frou
which she 1ms brought up fishes ii
2949 fathoms, or about one and a tllir
miles. This was in the edge of
Gulf Stream off the coast of \ irginia
The deepest sounding ever made bj
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the Albatross was at Station 4010,
Guam, where the enormous
4813 fathoms, or nearly five and a bat
miles, was found. 1)
The depest sounding even m ade
vessel by tbe U. S. Nei'o " 1
any was
on'the Honolulu Manila cable surve
with apparatus borrowed from
batross. When near Guam the .
got 5269 fathoms, of 31,014 ieot.
sixty-six feet less than six miles
Mount Everest the highest liol
on earth, were set down in this
it would have above its summit
depth of 2012 feet, or nearly halt
mile of water.
RE/T/ ON MIS TrfU-.
An interesting photograph of tta
Tasmania wolf, taken by Mr K.
Keller, is reproduced herewith fm ^
foreign natural history journal. ^
lustrates the observation made ’J
the resting position ti» .
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TASMANIAN WOLF AT BEST.
stiff tail is used to support the
Mr. Keller says: “I have not see
interesting fact recorded else'' ie j[
that it IS ’ ffe
is, however, possible of the
known among students
of this animal.
foilage give the greatest advantage
to the inhabitants of each quarter.
Esthetically, the grouping of the pub
lic, semi-public, and private buildings
around common centres largely -in
creases the architectural and artistic
possibilities over the accidental oppor
tunities offered by the ordinary plan
of the city; while the angles caused
by the hexagon permit interesting
variety in the treatment of the street
facades over that developed by a
straight and continuously curved
street. Of course, such a plan is
assumed primarily for a level country,
and must be modified when the con
formation would indicate distinct
changes in levels. This is indicated
here, because the method of procedure
with most city officials is to force any
scheme to comply with differences in
the elevation.-—Philadelphia Record,
OIMQHT IN OVIR WATER/.
The vast amount of nutritious, whole
some and delicious foodstuff resulting
from the fisheries of the United States
is not generally realized. Some con
ception of it may be had from an ex
amination of the diagram here shown
from an article in the National Geo
graphic Magazine by Dr. Barton War
ren Everman, of the Bureau of Fisher
ies.
The total catch of food-fishes in the
United States and Alaska, as shown
Yield or 24 of the prinopal'
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THE FISH CATCH OF THIS COUNTRY.
by the last census, was 1,733,314,324
pounds, valued at $45,531,163. The
number of men employed was 214,056
and the capital invested was $72,261,-
646. The salmon pack of Puget Sound
alone in 1901 exceeded $4,500,000, an
amount more than four times as great
as the entire silver output of the whole
region drained by the Columbia River.
The salmon output of Alaska for 1903
is valued at $10,000,000, which exeeeds
by more than $2,500,000 the amount
which Alaska cost us, and if we add
to the salmon the value of the cod,
halibut and other fisheries of Alaska,
the total greatly exceeds all the other
resources of Alaska combined.
A thousand million miles are covered
by the various trains of this country
in the course of a year.