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The Lee County Journal
2. TISON, Editor and Publisher.
Y 01.,, VIII.
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Skirmish in Korea Results in
Defeat of Cossacks,
FIRE WAS MOST GALLING
At One Time the Japanese Were
Forced Back, But Returned With
Renewed Energy and Rlnal.ly
: Forced Russians to Retire.
An Associated Press dispaich from
St. Petersburg says: General Kuro
patkin, in his first dispatch to the em
peror from the scene of war, announc
ed that offensive land operations had
taken place against the Japanese upon
the sixth anniversary of the occupa
tion of Port Arthur by the Russians.
The operations took the form of a
cavalry attack Monday by six compa
nies of Cossacks,led personally by Gen
eral Mishtchenko, against four squad
" Tons of Japanese cavalry, which the
general believed to be beyond Chong
Ju, but which he found te be in occu
pation of that town. '
Despite a cross fire which General
Mishichenke cieverly directed against
the ememy, he paid a tribute to their
tgeracity and their bravery, the Jap
anese only ceasing fire after a com
bat which lasted for half an hour. Be
fore tlie Russians could follow up their
advarfce, three Japanese squadrons
galloped toward the town, of which
two squadrons entered, while the
third was driven back in disorder,
men and horses falling.
The fire maintained on the town was
so destructive that the .Japanese
were unable to make an effective re
turn. '
Fyr:ther Japanese reinforcements ar
rived |an hour later, and, in view of
the superiority of the enemy, General
» Mishtchenko determined to retire, do
ing so without embarrassment, al
though he carried with him three kill
ed and sixteen wounded.
~ General Mishtchenko's Cossacks
thave been endeavoring for some days
to come in contact with the Japaneso
patrols, but the Ilatter refused to
fight.
The skirmish of Monday will have
the effect of encouraging the Russians
to retard as much as possible the
advance of the Japanese army.
General Kuropatkin’s dispatch re
porting General Mishtchenko’s opera
tions as published does not give the
place of its origin, but it is presumed
that the commander in chief ig either
at Liao Yang or en route to Niu
chwang,
GIRL FOLLOWED INSTRUCTIONS.
Littie One’s Lies in Court Came Near
Convicting Five Mtn.
At Chicago, Tuesday, a child’s testi
mony reversed, saved five men from
the gallows. This instanee of youth
ful unreliability under oath was in the
case of Willlam MeceCarthy and four
Polish young men on trial for mur
der, the witness being a little Italian
girl, Appolonia Starosta, who first
gave direct, straightforward eye-wit-
LEESBURG, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 8. 1904,
ness testimony, apparently establish
ing beyond question the guilt of the
men and then repudiated hor own evl
dence. : ;
In explanation of the remarkable
change of front the child deoclared
that she had been instructed how to
testify by the widow of the murdered
man. .
DANGER IN EIGHT-HOUR BILL.
Representative of Anti-Boycott Asso
ciation Warns Senators.
“There is involved in the eight-hour
bill the same dynamite with which
was charged the measure repealing
the Missouri compromise,” asserted
Daniel Davenport, representing the
Anti-boycott Association of America,
in the hearing of that bill Tuesday be
fore the senate committee on educa
tion and labor. He suggested this for
the «onsideration of the committee
and declared that if the bill was en
acted into law the effect of interfer
Ing with the inherent right of the indi
vidual would wreck the party which
fostered it,
CARACAS PAPER BIFFS BOWEN.
Charges American Minister With Prac
tice of Graft in Venezuela.
Secretary Hay has received a per
sonal note from Herbert W. Bowen,
the American minister at Caracas,
briefly locounting a recent experience
with President Castro.
It appears that a Caracas newspa
per publisked in an,apparently official
form the charge that Bowen had pock
eted several hundred thousand dollars
of Venezuela’s money. Bowen prompt
ly sent a personal note of protest to
Castro, calling on him to take action
against the paper.
BRYAN LOSES WILL CASE.
“Sealed Letter” Excluded from Ben.
nett’s Last Testament by Jury.
A finding that the sealed letter by
which Philo S. Bennett expressed a
~wish that $50,000 should be given tc
- William J, Bryan and his family was
‘not a part of the last will of Mr. Ben
' nett, was returned by the jury Thurs
'day in the superior court at New Ha
‘ven, in the trial of Mr. Bryan’s appeal
from the decision of the probate court.
I SUICIDED ON THE MAINE.
Chief Engineer of Battleship Sends
Bullet Into His Brain,
Lieutenant Commander Edgar Town
- send Warburton, chief engineer of the
battleship Maine, now in Pensacols,
Fla., harbor, suicided in his cabin on
board the vessel Friday. A bullet
from a 38-calibre revolver was sent
crashing through his brain, and death
resulled within forty minutes after
ward. No cause is known for the ac..
FLOOD OF PENSION BILLS.
House Disposes of Three Hundred and
Nineteen Within Two Hours.
A Washington special says: Three
hundred and nineteen pension bilig
were passed by the house Saturday in
two hours. Another hour was devoted
to rapid-fire legislation by unanimous
consent in which a large number of
bills and other matters of minor im
portance were disposed of.
PAYNE APOLOGIZESI
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Postmaster General Depre
~ cates Bristow Report. ‘
TALKS WITH COMMITTEE
Mr. Payne’s lliness is of Most Serious
Nature—A Member of the com
mittee Comments Upon
His Condition.
A Washington special says: On thg
request of Postmaster General Payne,
Chairman McCall, Representative Hitt,
Representative Richardson, of Ala
bama, and Representative Bartlett,
went to the Arlington hotel Saturday
morning and discussed with the post
master general, at his bedside, the
special report imvolving members of
congress in the matter of clerk hire
and leases at third and fourth-class
postoffices. 1
Mr. Payne has prepared a statement,
which he wished to go into the rec-f
ord of the committee, and which, al
ter final revision, was made publie.
The point-in the statement is that Mr.
Payne was most positive in his pro
test that the names of members
should not have been sent to the house
committee -on postoffices and post
roads. The report in question was
first submitted to the committee and
the second report, with the names
was sent to the capitol upon a tele
phone order from the house commit
tee on postoffices and post roads.
- During the day Chairman McCall re
ceived an explanation from the gov
ernment printing office concerning the
folio line at the top of each page cf
the report: “Charges concerning
members of congress.”
This line was, it is said, -a legiti
mate condensation of the substance of
the titlee page, submitted by the post
office committee, and is also justified
by the pay resolution, which contains
the word ‘“charges” in the same cou
nection. The lipe was made up lin
the printing office, as is the usual
custom.
The explanation from the public
printer also contains the statement
that the twenty-five advance copies
were in the hands of the postoffice
committee thirty hours before a cor:
rection of the line was ordered.
Payne is Seriously 111,
Postmaster General Payne is a much
sicker man than the public has been
led to believe Members of the houso
committee on investigation of the Bris
tow report who visited him Saturdafl
were shocked at his condition. One
of these gentlemen said to the corre
spondent of The Atlanta Constitution:
“He seems to me hardly alive. I
would not be surprised to learn of his
death at any time.”
Officials in his department are
aware of the serious condition of the
postmaster general, but are very loath
to discuss it. The report is that his
heart action ig very bad and that when
he talks of business matters with
those around him, which he persisis
in doing, it is a sort of dazed, semi
conscious, almost childish way.
ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY AT ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
It is, of course, certain that Post
master General Payne, will not be ia
the Roosevelt gabinet should the pres:
ident be re-elected. Indeed, there has
already been a quiet casting about for
a successor, but nobody has supposed
that Mr. Payne is now in such a pre
carious condition. Those who hav3a
seen him express the opinion that if
he does not dle in the near futuro hae
will certainly be unable to ever re
sume the active duties of his office.
DELAY IRRITATES PANAMANS.
New Republic Put Out Over Non-Pay
ment of Canal Money.
Great surprise is manifested in all
circles at Panama over the alleged
nonfulfillment by the United States of
the agreement on the exchange of rat
ifications of the canal treaty the Uni
ted States to pay the new republic the
sum of $10,000,000. It is said the de
lay of the United States to make the
payment has forced the government
of Panama to float a loan in Neow
York. :
TWO NECKS ARE SAVED.
Condemned Man Makes Confession in
Order to Save Innocent Parties,
Almost within the coilg of the hang
man’s rope Peter Neidermeyer, one of
the car barn bandits, made what he
declared was 2 {rue confessien-16-savs
two ‘other men from the gallows and
one from long imprisonment,
“I killed Patrick Barrett in his sa
loon at 4216 Wallace street last May,”
said Neidemeyer. “John Lynch and
James Sammons are under sentence of
death fo rthe crime and also Hugh
O’Reilly who has been sentenced to
the penitentiary, are innocent.”
FOR HEARST TO THE LAST,
South Dakota Democrats So Declare
in Their State Convention.
The South Dakota democratic state
convention at Sioux Falls, reailirms
the principles of democracy “as enun
ciated by Jefferson, Jackson and Bry
an,” and instructs the delegates to
the St. Louis convention to support
Willlam Randolph Hearst, “first, last
and a]l the time for the presidential
nomination,”
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POSTMASTER UNDER CHARGES.
Barnes is Accused by Step-Daughter
With Attempted Assault.
Jesse Barnes, postmaster at Anda
lugia, Ala.,, has been arrested on a
warrant charging him with attempting
to commit a criminal assault upon his
step daughter, a girl about 14 years
ola. The little gir] boldly makes thig
charge. This is the second Alabama
postmaster in the past two weeks to
be arrested charged with attempting
assanlt,
EMPEROR ACTS THE MENIAL.
Francis Joseph, of Austria, Washes
Feet of Twelve Old Men.
At Vienna, Thursday morning, Pm
peror Francig Joseph observed the an
cignt ceremony of washing the feet
of twelve old men in the crystal hall
of the Hofburg. The hall was filled
with distinguished personages, includ
ing members of the diplomatic corps,
and cabinet ministers, military officials
and court functionaries.
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