- "V pot,, w . . t • _ • . - - • ■ \ _ ' TVPKS OF THE JAPANKSI! I'LIIUT. !"W sur News. I j London, March 1. —A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph from Yin Kow, dated Febrtfciry 29, says: (■ "Fifteen Japanese warships furi ously bombarded Port Arthur from 10 until 12 o'clock this morning. The Russian cruisers Xovik, Askold and Bayan, accompanied by four tor ,pedo boats, steamed out to meet the attack. They were, however, forced to return. The Askold was ia a sink ing condition. The Xovik was badly damaged and a torpedo boat was sunk. The Russian battleship Ret vizan was again damaged. The Jap anese withdrew in good order." LAST REPORT OF ATTACK ON PORT ARTHUR NOT CONFIRMED St. Petersburg, March 2. —Direct telegraphic advices received here from Port Arthur las-t night make 110 mention of the bombardment of that place reported by the London Daily Telegraph. On the contrary, these advices «ay the Japanese fleet has disappeared from the horizon of Port Arthur. Port, Arthur, March 2. —The Rus sian torpedo boat which sought re fuge in Pigeon Bay February 26 was subjected to a terrific lire from the Japanese cruisers. One shot pierced her hull. The boat was beached, the leak was stopped, she was refloated high water and returned to Port tfert hur. Paris. March 2.—Auttioritative ad vices have been received in Paris tft the effect that the Japanese general staff left Japan yesterday for Che mulpo, Korea. This is accepted as showing that all the troops necessary for the forward movement have been landed in Korea, and it is expected that the movement of troops forward >v:!l begin the last cJ tins week. With respect to the Russian force which will contest the way it is said that there will be some surprise manifest ed nt the strength of the Russians. London. March 2. The Japanese legation has issued a long dispatch from the government nt Tokio giving Its reply to the Russian note to the powers charging the Japanese with opening hostilities without a formal Sold 11 1m Family to Hl* Brother. Norfolk, Va., March s.—When John Outlaw, of Currituck county, N, C., became tired of his wife and two chil dren some weeks ago be sold the trio to his brother, Jerome Outlaw. He received in exchange two fishing j nets. The matter was reported to the authorities and warrants were j •worn out. The trial occurred at Cur- | rituek. Wh/ii John Outlaw became I aware that there was a possibility of the transaction being annulled by court he gathered up his fishing nets end decamped. Jerome and Mrs. Outlaw were found guilty of illegal cohabitation, -*1 p j| Battles and Skirmishes of the i\ || Great Struggle Between * I Japan and Russia, 1 * * ; declaration of war. It g-ies details of Russia's preparations for war while 1 j delaying diplomatic negotiations and | contends that therefore the respon- ] j sibility rests with Russia and that 110 , declaration of war should have pre ceded hostilities. RUSSIANS FAIL TO DISCOVER WHERE JAP'S CRUISERS ARE St. Petersburg 1 , March 3. —In a dis patch to the czar, Viceroy Alexieff says: "Admiral Stark, telegraphing from j Port Arthur March 2, says the enemy ' did not appear off Port Arthur on j either February 28, February 29 or j March 1. Reconnaissances made by cruisers and torpedo boats over a j radius of 60 miles from Port Arthur also failed to discover the enemy's i vessels." Maj. Gen. Pfiug. Viceroy Alexieff's 1 chief of staff sends iu the following telegram, dated March 2. "According to additional Informa- j tion which has reached me, our pa- j trols, having passed the night eight i miles from Ping Yang, approached that town on the morning of Febru- j ary 2!>. They were closely pressing a ' Japanese patrol of seven oflicers. 1 Lieut. Lonehakoff attacked this pa trol with three Cossacks, forcing it > to retreat at a gallop towards the j gates of the town. "The presence of our patrols near j Ping ang caused great alarm ani soon the enemy's sharpshooters man- I ned the wall and towers and opened ; lire, expecting an attack. According to the report, our patrols approached j within 700 paces of the town, which they found to be surrounded by both old and new ramparts. These, how ever, were not yet occupied by the enemy, and it is supposed that the j Japanese have not more than 1,000 ! men in Ping Vang." London, March .1. —From Yin-Kow ' comes an unconfirmed report that ! "iOa bandits, armed with modern • rifles, have attacked a Russian post j to the west of Haicheng (Haioheng is ' ."52 miles east by north of New ; Chwang.) There was severe fighting, ! and both sides lost heavily. This re port Is discredited at Yin-Kow, bu» if it is true it indicates that a serious danger is confronting Russia According to the Daily Mail's ac- j count of this affair, six Japjauaso j found among' the bandits were killed, i RUSSIANS PREPARE TO RETREAT Yin Kow, March 4.—On account of j the impossibility of defending tha ! coast at Yin Kow until such time as a thaw permits the construction of entrenchments and forts, the Kus- ! sians have prepared to retire up the j main railroad line. There are prac tically uo defences herr and although the shifting of troops and artillery 1 to the small forts at the mouth of , the Lia river has the appearance of ; an intention to defend Yin Kow, the military authorities depend upon an ' inland engagement to put a stop to the Japanese advance. JAPS ARE FOXY. Tokio, March s.—lt is evident that several vessels laden with coal, pro visions and other contraband arti cles have recently effected the pas sage of Tsugaru strait and succeeded in reaching ladivostok. Their exact number and names are unknown, but it is stated that they included Brit ish, Norwegian and German vessels. ' Two of them are said to have carried cargoes of Australian coal. Japan evidently refrained from making u special effort to prevent their pas sage and it is not impossible that slio calmly permitted the delivery of the « contraband goods, calculating that they would prove useful to herself < at a later «tage of the campaign. •'] filled at til* Af(o of 131 Yearn. New Brunswick, N. ,T., March 2. Noah Raby died Tuesday in the Pis- ! caitaway poorhouse, of which he had 1 been an inmate for the last 40 years. , If he had lived until April 1 next, ac cording to his own statement, Raby ' would have been 132 years old. lie ' retained his memory and would re- ' call many incident*; of his long ' career until very recently. Raby is 2 said to have been born in Batontown, 1 X. ('., on April 1, 1772. He enlisted ins the navy in 1805 and served on the 1 ship Constitution and the frigatt? j s Brandywine, on the latter of which j 1 Farragut was a lieutenant. J I CAMERON COUNTY PRESS Til C7RSDAY, MARCH io u)o*\. The Vladivostok squadron con tinues inactive, though it lias ami»le supply of <**•.!< and the ships arc in pood condition. It has evidently j been instructed by the liussian gov : ernmentj to remain close to tlie j Vladivos ik batteries in preference ; to risking a fig-ht in the open sea. It j is declared to he only a question of ; time before this squadron will receive | the attention of the Japanese navy. St. Petersburg', March 5.-—There : exists a high authority for the state i nient that, Russia now has reason to j feel more tranquil regarding the at -1 titude of Great Britain. The real reason of the visit to St. Petersburg of Count IJenckendoriV, : Russian ambassador to Great I'ritain, \ was to assure his government of his j behalf that the suspicions harbored here concerning Japan's ally were ill founded and Great Britain, although i standing by the obligations of the Anglo-Japan treaty, would not move I unless compelled so to do by the en : trance into affairs in the far east of ! a third power. The following dispatch, dated March lias been received from Gen. [ I'flug, commanding the Russian j forces at Port Arthur: "All is quiet Jat Port Arthur and Yin Kow. Ac- I cording to information given by eye- I ! witnesses a Japanese cruiser having I ; three funnels lies near Chemulpo, be- | i tween islands, having recently sunk j j there." The reported landing of 2,500 .Tap | anese at Song-Chin, on the east coast ! ' of Korea, confirmed, j London, March s.—On the strength : of a statement made by a missionary, I ! the Shanghai correspondent of tlie j Daily Chronicle sends in a doubtful j report that 2S Japanese sailors have j landed at Teng-Chau. saying that j I t dock in the afternoon in Lincoln the weather bureau thermometer in dicated 79 degrees, the highest tem perature for March of tvhich there is record. One hour later it had fallen ao degrees and at 7 last night the reading 1 was lf» above zero, a fall in six hours of 63 degrees, i; descent, like wise that is without precedent, in the state. Throughout the afternoon and mght a tremendous gale lias been blowing. A COMRADE OF GENERAL GRANT Says:"l Do Not Believe Pe-ru-na Has a Superior for Catarrh." . ' . j »»■•»»■» »-> »»•>>» »■» »-» t « •»■»#># »■# » m 9 • o # ».# v " t I | BLNJAMIN F. HAWKES. | I 11 ) X * | * } Benjamin F. Havvkes, of Washington, D. C., Is One of the Three Living £ ! j Comrades of General Grant in His Cadet Days at West Point. jj | , In a recent letter from Cll G street, J S. W., Washington, D. C., this vener-$ able gentleman says of Peruna: "I have tried Peruna after having j tried In vain other remedies for ca- J tarrh, and I can say without reser- J vatlon that I never felt a symptom j of relief until I had given Peruna " the simple trial that its advocates ♦ advise. Ido not believe it has a | super/or, either as a remedy forca- u tarrh or a a a tonic for the depressed 4 and exhausted condition which Is 112 one of tlie effects of the disease." a —Benjamin F. Hawkes. | ISAAC BROCK, a citizen of McLen nan county, Texas, has lived for 114 years. 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This lc-adG to partial loss of hear?«s» ar.d taste, as well as digestive £«v~ turba'nees. Peruna corrects all this by its spe< iixx: operation on all the mucous membrane® of the body. One bottle will convince anyone. used and Peruna becomes a Jife-lcxs stand-by -with old ar,d you up. Mrs. F. E. Little. Tolona, 111., wrslear "I can recommend Peruna as a tj©o»cS medicine for ■ "•-***>! chronic catarrh of J TRAVELER m the stomach and I 1T er vr i-rv*v»rr ffl bowels. 1 have I AT | been troubled ee- | YEARS GF AGI- |s verely with It for ** over a year, aci nleo a cough. Kflwsay cough Is all gone, and all the cU_tr«ssieg: symptoms of catarrh of the stotraffb. and bowels have disappeared. I nU!. recommend it to all as a rare reinedy_ I am so well I am contemplating a {rip to- Yellow Stone Park this coming seaosa. How is that for one 71 years old?" 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