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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 $50,000 to Mr. Bryan and his family. IN THE PUBLIC EYE. y i k k ★ t ••• -M W r /’■' ■ K{ v • -- v ' * ■v&vy-'/. •U £>$>>>' iy/v.O; •••*.- ///; .* mm mm iCgg m »V m m?' s m V-;' x> >> 5S&cK - v •■■■*■■■■* Si : >’ Sill & r : r>': & •••. .v.-tv m v-v mmMk :••• /.-V ‘v'.‘ i • ’ '• • W. /■ ^ '■ft y/; ;y : m i'WW'.VWMg mmm .■j ^. 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 i 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 }£j$L //a' I jsmssm ^nbMw . ''53SSW i -v/o c~v // wV o cXW 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 W ORLD T ELE6BAt||, 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 come to 4* "k m JZ.U- WY i R8 & mu mm m k f 3 XT. M rvTvp •$. lap f M/i Sl^ through the air. He says that he wJ 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 iLr»#l ~ T \\ / Vh \V % ft. A 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» . Iveller that in mm v'l ■Ik i 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' FISHERIES iH lOMlU-loHs of poUHDS^ i-i i—i—i 'OO „ 1 SALMON OYSTERS * COD HERRING LAKE HERRING ALEVIVES , SHAD HAKE SQUETEAGUE CLAMS CRA8S 0LUEFISH m HALIBUT SB CARP LOBSTERS SS CATFISH KS Sl’CKEKS fl MACKEREL m SHRIMP O FLOUNDERS S f LAKETROUT WHITEFISH 1 STURGEON I }* HADDOCK 1 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.