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IS DEMANDED Japs Issue “Ultimatum” to the Port Arthur Garrison. THE RUSSIANS SAY NAY Nervy Forces of Mikado Confident of Capturing Fortress--A Call-Down for Chim. An Associated Press dispatch of Wednesday from Tokio says: The commander of the army besieging Port Arthur reports that Major Yanio- I lta, a member of his staff was dis patched under a flag of truce to the outposts of the Russians, where he j delivered to a Russian staff officer the [ the ! offer of emperor of Japan granting the removal of non-combatants. He also demanded the surrender of Port Arthur. | Stoessel Will Not Yield. | The announcement of the mikado’s | | ■ offer to allow non-combatant.s to leave J Port Arthur, coupled with tlie demand I for the surrender of the garrison I ; causes a revulsion of feeling in St. Pe- j tersburg, according to the Associated Press. The w r ar office is without official confirmation of the summons served on General Stoessel, hut not the slight- j est idea exists in military circles that he will yield so long as food and am- j munition hold out without a fight, even to protect defenseless women i and other non-combatants from the I i horrors of bombardment. Japan Scores China. The Associated Press at London learned Wednesday afternoon that Ja- : pan has made a demand on China in rhe nature of an ultimatum that she force her neutrality in the case of the cruiser Askold and the torpedo boat destroyer Grosovoi, now at Shanghai. Japan pointed out that tha time limit, twenty-four hours, permitted by inter national law, had expired and that Ja pan therefore was at liberty to take such action as may seem to her expe dient. At the Japanese legation in London it was expressly stated that the Tokio government had no intention of re maining quiescent if Russia attempts to compel China to give asylum to her men of war and authorize repairs at her ports which would enable them to resume belligerent operations. Shotild China fail to comply immediately with Japan’s demand the division of Japan ese warships now in the vicinity of Shanghai will, the legation declares, be instructed to enter the port and •capture the Askold and Grosovoi, as was done in the case of the Ryeshitel ni. Japan has made no secret of her intention, but has not consulted the powers, believing that the matter is one which concerns herself alone. Ja pan is prepared, the legation further asserts, to recognize Chinese neutral ity only so long as it is respected by Russia. With regard to the Ryeshitelni. Ja pan, it is asserted, is determined not to comply with the Chinese demand submitted in compliance with the.Rus . sian note, that the vesel be returned to Chefoo. Japan insists that to all in tents and purposes Chefoo has been a Russian base during the war, Chinese junks having been fitted out there and sent through the Japanese blockading ! vessels to Port Arthur. i No answer has yet been given by Japan to the Russian protest in the case of the Ryeshitelni, but when it is made it will be communicated to all the powers. Closing in on Pert Arthur. According to news received at Che Foo Wednesday, the Japanese line has been drawn still closer around be leaguered Port Arthur. Passengers on board the steamer Tecima, which anchored off Port Ar thur Tuesday night, witnessed the bombardment from Pigeon Bay. The Japanese shells were visible during their whole course. They coursed eomet-like to the town and the explos ions were marked by great splashes of fire, which shot up into the sky. AGED NOVELIST PASSES AWAY. Colonel Prentiss Ingrah'em Dead at His. toric Beauvoir, Miss. Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, of Chi cago, said to be the author of more than 1,000 novels, is dead at Beauvoir, Miss., aged 60 years. Colonel Ingra ham was born at Natchez, Miss. As a young man he served in the Confederate army as colonel and after the war bdgan writing stories which were published in various weekly pa pers, and in book for Hi. Later he turned out a novel every few weeks. CHINA BLUFFED BY JAPS. Russian Warships Using Neutral Forts are Ordered to Move Out Instantcr. A Washington special sa>'3: Con- | sul Genera! Goodnow has cabled the I j state department from Shanghai that j the Chinese taotai there has reporter A ! : against the claim of the Russian con sul general, and decided that the tor- ; pedo boat destroyer now at that port J must go out or disarm immediately, , and that the cruiser must do likewise. ! The state department has also re- j ceived a cablegram from Chefoo, dat- ! ed Friday - the substance of which is: | “™ 3 morn5n S 3evea Japanese de- j stroyers enter « d the harbor and met | an unknown steamer entering, which j they captured, Two Japanese cruis ers are outside the harbor.” The dispatch ig so wordeJ as t0 leave in doubt one of the most impor tant points connected with the seiz ure, namely, the exact spot at which it took place, and whether without or within the 3-mile limit. Naval offi cers familiar with the harbor of Che foo state that there are two entrances from opposite directions, and it is in ferred from the above that the Jap- j anese squadron approached through one of these entrances to find the un known steamer referred to coming through the other entrance. The im pression here is that consequently the seizure took place within the Chinese territorial waters. The incident is re garded as an evidence of the deter mination of the Japanese naval offi cers to disregard niceties in dealing with this question of Chinese neutral ity. RUSSIANS IN DESPAIR. Advices from St. Petersburg state I that a feeling almost akin to despair reigns in the much-tried Russian ad miralty. The official report of Vice Admiral Skrydloff, coming on the heels of the known losses sustained by the Port Arthur squadron in its desperate sortie of August 10, and the anxiety over the fate of the warships still unaccounted for, not only con firming the sinking of the Rurik, but showing that, the injuries sustained by the Gromoboi and Rossia in the fight with Vice Admiral Kamimura’s squad ron were even greater than anticipat ed, completes the crushing nature of the blow to Russia’s ill-starred naval forces in the the Far East. So far as the immediate future is concerned the admiralty does not dis guise the fact that the Vladivostok squadron is destroyed. The effect upon the public is also most depress ing. The only consolation found is in the words of praise bestowed on the officers and men and the unequal character of the fight. Russian naval experts by the system of co-efficients figuring that inferiority of the Vladi vostok squadron in armor and guns was 69 to 200. In some quarters of the navy there is also a disposition to censure Rear Admiral .lessen for abandoning the Rurik, even though standing by her would have meant that the Gromoboi and Rossia would have shared her fate. The chief mys tery at the admiralty here is why Vice Admiral Kamimura drew off when Ad miral Jessen’s ships were at his mer cy. The only explanation is that his squadron miu't havte suffered 'such frightful damage that it could not con tinue the battle, It is confirmed that the losses of officers and men on board the Rossia and Gromoboi were 50 per cent cf the former and 25 per cent of the latter showing the dreadful havoc caused by the fire from the Japanese ships, even at a range exceeding three miles. Pri vate reports say the decks of the Ros sia were veritable shambles. RUSSIAN VESSFL SUNK BY MINE. Small Gun Boat Whelmed by Accident Off Laoti Promontory. A Tokio dispatch of Friday says: A Russian gunboat of the Otvajui type, struck a mine and sank off Laoti pro montory. the extreme southern point of the Kwang-Tung peninsula, on which Port Arthur is situated, at S o’clock on Thursday night. WORK OF FLASH-IIGHr POWDER. Amateur Chemist Causes a Disastrous Ex plosion While Fxperimenting. At Chicago, Friday afternoon, Geo. L. Englis, an amateur chemist, while endeavoring make photogiaphic , j to a flash light powder, brought about as explosion that fataily injured him, se verely hurt his wife and destroyed his residence, which he had lately erect ed at a cost of $12,000. The explosion forced the floors and roof upward so that the house resembled a dome. The detonation was heard for a mile. IN THE PUBLIC EYE S vr ■Vi •■•Sr 'M -I m, * | M§sl - ■ : 1 S: •.NV.V.XC vriv.'v'”^ •••; & i? SMI ||f|; >v Si; V ■J- •* A <: mvm • "■* V •V. mmm m •:«:s 4 ' i «■- si < v tsusssm MM GROVER CLEVELAND. CREEPERS FOR THE AUTO. Designed to Prevent Slipping of the Wheels. An account of the “side-slip” contest which was held a few weeks ago by the Automobile Club de Saine-et-Oise was given in these columns, and we are enabled to present some views of the winning device. The “anti-skid & II l f t i v ■ \ ANTI-SKIDDER DETACHED, which won the prize is known as As will be seen from the two illus it consists of a number of plates, connected at their extrem by two encircling chains, The are corrugated on their inner apparently with the object of any “creeping” upon the It is claimed for this device it cannot leave the tire; that it gas VA 'J i it, p 0 r :: T, ■ anti-skidder in place. cannot heat, and may be removed or affixed in a few minutes. When not in use it can be roiled up into a very small compass, and therefore takes up very little room on the car. It is said a( j d considerably to the life of the tires, and to constitute an absolute protection against puncture and side slip, without reducing the resiliency of the tire. E. Phillips Oppenheim, a popular English novelist, is visiting this coun try. He is not a stranger here, as he married a Boston girl several years age TO MINIMIZE FOIIOST USES. New Deviees For Suppression of Smoke and Spark Nuisance. Among the numerous causes of for est fires probably the most prolific means of all is the shower of sparks which are thrown high in the air from locomotives. Various remedies for this danger have been suggested. Legal pressure has brought into the field nu merous spark-arresters, notably in the Adiroudacks; but great damage was done before these were finally put into anything like general use. An other arrester has recently been sug gests, which is now in use on some of the Western railroads, although for a different purpose. This device is sim ple in construction, inexpensive and adaptable to any style of locomotive. It consists chiefly of a specially con structed hood, which is extended above the top of the stack, at the height of about two feet, and interferes but lit tle, if at all, with the draught. Its motive consists solely in deflecting the sparks downward, so that they fall harmlessly on the roadbed. Even in case of a high wind the cinders are so effectually deflected downward that ft ';• SPARK DEfLECTOR) FOR LOC?MoTI\AcV it H ■ l I », T I \ i 1 a. they will scatter only a very short distance. When not in use this device is released from its upright position where it is held by a spring, and tliei it reclines to the side of the stack. Philadelphia Record. Canadian Bison. The woods of northern British Amer ica are still infested with a queer species of bison, known as the “woods buffalo.” It is much larger than the bison of the plains. :* Mg is mm' mm ■ \ -sr •v /•' • /• ' ; a ■* ■; & v m * JOSEPH F. SMITH, President of the Mormon Church. 4 d I V mu ... * i V y\5 ' m ■ mill KNEW HER DICTION Yl’V Was it exaetiv y Proper to farewell tour?” tall "Certainly,” answered the donna, ”1 never fared better ?! life.”—Washington star. 4 THE GROCER c explains The Housewife—“It see Ills that all that new maple : has such sugar y 0 U me an old flavor " The Grocer—“Indeed. Well i ,• that’s easily explained 1 J .v the fact' its made , from the same old tr Cleveland Plain Dealer. THEN HE I T. “Yes. I’m disappointed m i tl - shoes,” said Borem. “It's flueer no days how one’s things wear out be one knows it.” “Yes,” replied Miss Patience pressing a yawn, “especially on it 1 come.”—Philadelphia Ledger. HER STYLE. “You know tier to speak to, thea “Oh, no!” “I thought you knew her o well.” “So I do. I wouldn't say I k: her ‘to speak to?- but I know hei be talked to death by. • v -Cat Standard and Times. FULLY COMPETENT. ; Counsel—“Do you understand the! ture of an oath?” Witness—“Sir?” Counsel—“Do you understand the ture of an oath, I say V” Witness (impressively)—“Sir, I jj driven a keb in this city for nigii forty year.”—Pick-Me-Up. HE DARED. A 7K ■ Ik ir 4 He—“You know I have inherit! million dollars?” She—“Gracious! And do you go out without your guardian?" WHAT SHE SAID. a When you proposed to Mbs Da atts, did she spring the this-is-so-a den gag?” asked the innocent suliij anite. »* No,” answered the drug clerk didn't. She merely looked at meal time, and then said, ‘Well, "'out that jar you?’ ’’—Indianapolis Sun. IN A TIGHT PLACE. Landlord raised your rent?" a Yes.” “Going to move?” “No.” a Why not?” *. Well, I can’t get back at my h rnt landlord in that way without joy to some other landlord ivlio also raised the rent.”— Chicago Fos) SURE INDICATION. Bilkins must have done hornet notable one way, or the other, l 1 haven’t yet heard about it.' How do you know he's done then?” “I met about seven of his acq 0 * ance this morning, and each ore ferred to him casually as •M Bilkins!’ ’’—New Orleans T it crat. "*■! : L ■ i' DEEP Mrs. McCall—“Putting away v • old sealskin coat, eh? They’ra <Pj looking camphor balls you’re stow away with it. *’ balls? Mrs. Kute- u Camohcr I W much! These are live moths, them to get i:i their work oa this thing, husband will have o ^ so my me a new one uent winter.”—LJ* • phia Press. MORE THAN MAKING GCC Hungry these tii: ^ ‘0 Guest— .. ----- Are _ fashioned buckwheat cakes’ J’ oU ise on the bill of Fare?” j Waiter—“Yes, sir. Au.-thirj natter with then?” only “ Hungry Guest—“Nothin a t s: arc too old-fashioned, When buckwheat cakes ns these wen’ rogue, people hadn’t lean rd hoit make then."—Chicago AnhU-U- -