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Phonographic reports of Emperor
William's voice, on metal matrices,
will ho the first deposits made in the
phonetic archives that are to be kept
at Harvard university, and in the con
gressional library and the national mu
seum at Washington.
At the annual meeting of Lloyd's
hank, limited, in Birmingham, the
chairman, in reviewing the year, re
marked that the English municipalities
now owed the enormous sum of $1,750,-
900,000. Much of this had been wast
ed. Their extravagance had been ft)
ureat that the money market was now
'practically closed to them."
During January and February 400
jtcres of high-grade cotton will be
planted in Antigua. There are now
4,000 acres under cotton cultivation in
the smaller islands of the West In
dies. During the summer a sample of
Sea island cotton was received at
Liverpool from Barbados, and it was
declared to be the best cotton ever
seen in England.
The total coal production for the
United States up to December 31, 1902,
is estimated at 4,600,000,000 short tons.
That means that a pyramid built of
this material as high as Pike's peak
(14,108 feet), would have for its base
a rectangle 1.14 mile square. If the
coal were spread out over the states
of Rhode Island and Connecticut it
ivould cover both of them a foot deep.
An interesting addition to Wyomi
ng's exhibit at St. l>ouis will he fur
nished by Netta Green, principal of the
public schools of Meeteetse, Wyo. It
s a relief map of the state, 12 feet
square, made from all the newspapers
of Wyoming. The paper is reduced to
t pulp, and while still moist is molded.
The map is almost completed, and lo
cates every mountain and stream in
the state.
In spite of the reduction of trans
portation charges of 10 cents per ton,
the receipts from the traffic of the
Suez canal for the year 1903 are only
a little loss than those of the previous
year, so that a further considerable in
crease of traffic can be stated. The
receipts were $20,700,000 or $20,000
less than in 1902. If the tolls had not
been reduced the traffic would have
yielded a revenue of $21,800,000.
Several years ago mongooses wore
Imported into Cuba to kill rats on the
sugar estates. They have now become
so numerous and aie destroying so
much poultry that the government is
offering 25 cents for each of the ani
mals dead or alive. The experience of
Cuba with this animal is the same as
that of Jamaica, where it is such
a pest that means of getting rid of it
has been a serious question for a long
time.
Six hundred and sixty men. women
and boys employed in the woolen fac
tory of T. K. Taylor, at Batley, Eng.,
received $5 each from Mr. Taylor as
a reward for abstaining from tobacco
for the last 12 months. One hundred
and forty-one men and boys and 519
women had kept the pledge which they
were invited to take a year ago. As a
result of the year's experiment. 40 of
the men have decided to give up tobac
co altogether.
On the East Side, New York, and at
the North End, in Boston, the schools
in the poorer districts are kept open at
night to give the children of the crowd
ed tenements a clean and comfortable
pl£ee to study their morrow's les
sons, with some one to help them on
difficult points. The children resort
to these evening study rooms in sur
prising numbers, and the teachers help
them patiently and encourage thern to
further effort toward a fair education.
Each crew of a naval vessel consists
of seven men besides the captain of
th© turret, who has general charge.
There are two guns in eaeh turret, so
that when in action there are in a tur
ret 15 men. At each gun there is a
pointer, a trainer, a sight setter, a
rammer man, a hoist man, a breech
lock man and a loader. Each has his
station, and the seven men practically
become part of the gun, working to
gether like a machine.
Where is New Yorker who will
not say that be knows a good thing
when he sees it? Well, there were a
few who fell far short of this estj*.nato
4he other day, when a man stood on
the sidewalk in front of the Hoffman
house offering to sell a twenty-dollar
gold piece for a dollar. Tne experi
ment is an old one, but despite the
peddler-like importunities of the
money merchant, he didn't n. a!;" a
sale, and he was twice threatened jvith
Arrest in the bargain.
JAPANESE INFANTRY SCOUTING IN NORTHERN KOREA. _
if INCIDENTS offHE WAR™"™™"""™]
II , JUyTWKIjX RUSSIA AND JAPAN j
London. March 22. — A number of
rumors are printed in the newspa
pers here this morning, lint they
must be accepted with great reserve.
The Daily Telegraph's Tokio cor
respondent cables a newspaper report
of the Japanese occupation of Port
Arthur after a combined land and sea
attack Saturday and Sunday. It is
asserted that a division of Japanese
landed on the l.iao Tung peninsula
Saturday and engaged the Russians
near I'ort Arthur while the fleet bom
barded from Saturday evening until
Sunday morning.
The same correspondent reports a
sharp encounter at Chyong Syong,
(on the Yalu river, about :») miles
northeast of Wiji) in which the Rus
sians lost 600 in killed or wounded.
The Daily Chronicle's Shanghai cor
respondent hears from New Chwang
that the Japanese crossed Tatting
Pass, to miles from llai Cheng, ami
that collisions occurred with the
Russians.
St. Petersburg. March 22. — In gov
ernment circles there exists a strong
belief that the question as to whether
< hina will observe her neutrality un
dertakings will depend largely on the
result of the first heavy land fighting.
A big victory by the Russian army, it
is believed, will insure the quiescence
of the Celestial Empire, but there are
grave fears as to what might happen
in the event of a signal Japanese suc
cess in the early stages of the land
operations.
Irkutsk, Siberia, March 22.---Eigh
teen trains bearing goods of the Red
Cross Society have been held up to
allow military trains togo through.
It is estimated that 4,000 men are
reaching Manchuria daily.
ANOTHER NAVAL BATTLE
St. Petersburg. March 2:i.—The etn
peoror has received the following
telegram from Viceroy Alexietf:
"Lieut. (Sen. Stoessel reports that at
midnight of March 21, Japanese tor
pedo boats were discovered by our
searchlights. Our guardships and
fort batteries opened tire on them,
the fire lasting for 20 minutes. At I
o'clock in the morning tlie attack was
renewed.
"At 6:30 o'clock in the morning
four of the enemy's ships appeared
front the south, followed by the
whole squadron of It ships and eight
torpedo boats. Our squadron left the
roadstead to meet the enemy.
"At it o'clock the enemy's battle
ships opened fire on Liaotishin, after
which they took up a position behind
Die rocky eminence of Liaotishin and
bombarded Port Arthur."
A latter dispatch from the viceroy
to the emperor says:
"According to a supplementary re
port from Lieut. (Jen. Stoessel, the
enemy's fleet consisted of six battle
ships and 12 cruisers. About i)
o'clock in the morning the fleet di
vided, ihe battleships and torpedo
boats taking up a jposition between
Liaotishin and Golubinaia bay
(Pigeon bay), while the cruisers
formed tip in two divisions to the
south and southwest of Port Arthur.
"At 9:20 the battleship Retvizan
opened tire over Ihe crest of Liaoti
shin against the enemy's battleships,
which replied by firing on the town.
Meanwhile our fleet formed up in
line in the outer roadstead.
"About 11 o'clock in the morning
the cannonade slackened and, the
Japanese fleet reuniting, drew oft
slowly to the southeast, and at 12:30
had disappeared.
"During the bombardment five sol
diers were killed and nine were
wounded. One soldier on the shore
was bruised."
London, March 23. —A correspon
dent of the Times at Tokio under
yesterday's date cables that it is ru
mored that the Japanese have suc
ceeded in blockading the entrance t,>
Port Arthur.
THE JAPSTN KOREA.
London, March 24.—The stringent
Japanese censorship is likely to be
(•eorxlii iCc|]iit>Hcaiun Convened.
Atlanta, Ga.. March 24. After a
turbulent session which lasted far in
to Ihe night the Georgia republican
convention adjourned after passing
resolutions calling on congress to
punish the states which have passed
laws resulting in the disfranchise
ment of the negro, and sidetracking
a resolution for the nomination of a
state ticket. The administration was
endorsed and a personal eulogy paid
to President Roosevelt. The courts
who have convicted parties of peon
age were congratulated. Four dele
gates to the republican national con
vention were selected.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1904.
relaxed early in April, says the well
informed Daily Telegraph's Seoul
| correspondent. This coincides with
numerous indications of the iiu
| mitience of laud operations.
in the meantime the veil has not
j lifted and not a word has yet issued
] concerning the last bombardment of
1 Port \rthur. The rumored naval bat-
I tie of March is is also totally uneon
i firmed.
A scries of messages dated between
j March 111 and March IT sent by a cor
respondent of the Daily Mail at
: Chinanipho, Korea, describes the pcr
-1 feet organization and arrangements
|of the Japanese in Korea. Klaborate
! preparations have been made for
I landing troops and advancing them
through the country, and pontoon
bridges and stables are built wlter
' ever they arc necessary. The great
est difficulty facing the Japanese is
I the commissariat, as owing to 1 e
! poor food supplies of Korea it is on'y
| possible at present to maintain »it,-
l 000 men.
The Japanese hold two enormous y
1 strong positions, at Ping Yang and
|on the Mioako-San range, between
Ilwang-Ju and Seoul. The latler. the
I correspondent says, is probably im
pregnable and secures Seoul from
1 land attacks from the northwest.
In the event of defeat it is intended
j to hold the passes at Kazan. 1 litis pro
jecting the Ping Yang valley. The
j Japanese troops are suffering from
j dysentery and pneumonia and many
I of the cavalry horses, which the cor
j respondent says are poor, have died,
! but the army is full of spirit.
The Russians intended to make
j Anju their base, but owing to the de
i lay in the arrival of reinforcements,
I they were afraid they would be ctit
lolT and so retired. Meanwhile the
Japanese advanced to Ping Vang by
| forced marches, the troops being al-
I most without equipment.
Seoul, March 24. -The Tong links
j are giving trouble in the northwest-
I ern part of Korea and are making
overtures to Russians.
A detachment of Japanese from
Gensun engaged a body of Tong links
near Satnung with the result that 24
Tong links were killed or wounded
j und 35 were captured.
St. Petersburg, March 24.--The
| correspondent of the Novi-Krai, of
| Port Arthur, who is proceeding to
| the Yalu river, writes that he saw
crowds of Chinese coolies throwing
up earthworks on the impregnable
| heights at Kin Chou, (north of Port
j Dalny). This shows that the Rus
' sinns are determined to resist the
Japanese attempt to land on the
neck of the Lino-Tung peninsula.
PORT ARTHUR"BOTTLED UP
London, March 25.—The Daily Tele
graph publishes n dispatch from its
Tokio correspondent tinder yester
day's dnte which says:
"On the night of March 22 the Jap
| anese fleet renewed the attempt to
| bottle iip Port Arthur. Sixteen wor
ships escorted seven merchant stenm
| ers to the mouth of the harbor and
I under cover of the bombardment the
steamers ran in und were sunk in de
sired positions. Three thousand Jap
anese officers and blue jackets volun
teered for this duty."
St. Petersburg. March The war
• office is in receipt of persistent re
ports that the Japanese are preparing
to land on neutral Chinese territory,
on the west coast of the Gulf of
Lino-Tung, either at Tien-Kian-Cheitg,
lin Kin-Chnu Bay, or at Slian-Hai
j Kwan.
Although .slow to believe that
Japan deliberately contemplates vio
lation of her pledge to respect neu
tral Chinese territory, the reports re
ceived at the ministry of war are so
specific that they compel considera
i tion. The presence of disguised Jap
anese soldiers acting as spies along
the Shan-liai-Kwan road has been es
tablished, and Russian agents report
that there is every indication of an
intended landing on the west coast of
I.ecdN Will ICcMign.
Pittsburg. March 25.—An important
change in the official life of the un
derlying companies of the Cnited
States Steel Corporation is the resig
nation of First Vice President \Y. M.
j Leeds, of the American Sheet and
j Tin Plate Co., effective April 1.
| Charles \Y. Bray, the present chief en
! gineer of the company, who is one of
I the leading mechanical engineers of
' the tin plate industry, is to succeed
i Leeds. Ti.e change 's said to be due
j to the desire of Mr. Leeds to retire
I from business on account of ill
| health.
the Gulf of Lino-Tung. The informa
tion conveyed by these agents seems
to coincide with other information
indicating a complete change in the
Japanese plan of campaign, or of its
entrance into a second stage prac
tically involving flic of
further heavy landing of troops in
Korea.
According to advices received by
the government there are only about
70,000 Japanese troops in the Hermit
Kingdom at present. It is considered
possible that the Japanese reckoned
on a complete mobilization there
much sooner, but that tiie difficulties
met with in transporting troops from
Japan ami over the roads in Korea
proved more serious than expected
anil the Japanese found themselves
unable to deliver a frontal attack in
Manchuria before the Russian troops
arrived in sufficient force to check
t hem.
At any rate the latest advices indi
cate that the Japanese will not send
many more soldiers into Korea. They
may make a diversion at Possiet, Bay
in the direction of Vladivostok, but
their main objective henceforth will
be in the <iulf of Liao-Tung.
REFUSED JAPAN'S OFFER
London. March 26.- The Daily Tele
graph prints a dispatch from its cor
respondent at Shanghai which says
that tile empress dowager has nega
tived a proposal made by Gen. Yuan-
Shi-Kai and Gen. Ma that China con
clude an open alliance with Japan, in
view of Russia's repeated violation of
Chinese territory west of the Liao
river.
HOSPITAL ABLAZE.
Iniiiiile-. ol tin Buktltution nl Hncnna
lui Mere Forced Out Into tile Snow.
Kscanaba, Mich., March 26.- In a
fire Friday at the Delta county hospi
tal. over 60 patients were thrown in
to a panic and many were forced to
leave tile building in their night
clothes.
So dense was the smoke, and so rap
idly did Ihe flames gain headway that
the attendants were unable to con
trol the frightened patients, and
many who were thought to lie at the
Aint of death arose from their beds
escaped from the building by lad
ders and fire escapes.
Many stood about the outside of
the building nearly 30 minutes, dress
ed only in their night clothes and in
snow up to their knees, before they
could be taken to nearby homes.
The fire was under control witliin
an hour, but it is feared that many
of the patients who were suffering
from typhoid fever will never recover
from the effects of the exposure.
WHIPPED BY A MOB.
\ Highway mull mu Taken from Jail,
l'linlnlied und Tlieu Net Free.
St. Clair, Mo., March 2(i. —Forty
masked men, many of them carrying
shotguns, broke into the jail here
Friday and, securing Winn Davis, ar
rested on the charge of highway rob
bery, took liitn from the jail, wliipped
him nearly to death and then released
him.
Deputy Sheriff S. P. Weatherford
attempted to stop the mob from en
tering the jail, but shotguns were
levelled at him and he was forced to
step aside, the mob telling him be
w< II Id be shot if he did not obey. One
of the mob remarked "we do not in
tend to have cases from this county
pending in the •supreme court."
Apparently the mob assisted Davis
iu his escape, for the authorities were
not able to find trace of him after
wards.
Itllr.znrd Tied Ip Itiillroadn.
St. Paul, March 26.—The Northern
Pacific, Great Northern and Soo
lines had a hard time of it yesterday
ii■ North Dakota and Montana. The
storm raging there is fierce. None of
the three railroads moved btisincsM.
Will Not IM-criminate.
Chicago, March 26. —A question
which for several months has been
agitating the stove manufacturers of
the I nitod Slates was definitely set
lied here Friday at a joint meeting
of the Stove Founders' National De
fensive Cnion and the Iron Molders'
Union of North .America, when the
Molders' union through its executive
committee made a formal agreement
to refrain from discrimination in anv
manner against the product o.' the
members of the employers' associa
tion. regardless of whether it was
uiaue by union Jabor or not.
tells how any young woman may be per
manently cured of monthly pains by taking
Lydia EL Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
"Young "Women: —I had frequent headaches of a severe nature,
dark spots before my eyes, and at my menstrual periods I suffered
untold agony. A member of the lodge advised me to try Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, but I only scorned good advice and
felt that my ease was hojjeless, but she kept at me until I bought a
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change my opinion of tho medicine, as each day my health improved, and
finally I was entirely without pain at my menstruation periods. lam most
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Details of Another Case.
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