EVACUATE NIUCHWANG
Continued Retreat of the
Forces.
ALL OF THE FORTS ARE DISMANTLED.
Russians Evacuating Western Side of the Liso-
tupg Peninsula— Plow Up the Magazine at
Feng Wang Chang Before the Arrival of the
Russian
Occupation of That Place. .
able)
the
Niuchwang, (By ( There
every indication
1 3 4
have decided t Niuchwang
Forts have be d and
have been board
artillery
trains. All the local t
commandered by the
been
authorities There
native rumor that Japanese troop
in Foochau side
the
miles north
west
llaot and about
report lacks ¢
The
Russians
not at
wang
ACTruss
pillage
dents ar
gands
British ¢
gunbodt b
The Russi:
the gunboat
The vessel
Japanese
ably was
Arthur
They
and killed
€5¢C
It 1s
Alexieff
to his d
He bare ly
the Japan S¢
munication
The Rus
moved fr
Russians
situation
part some
consider
sufficient
country
sian troog
The
are |
gives
they
ment at the
The Ru
ward Haic
of Niuch
wester
insula
On
week
at Kind
chau Bay
upied
and FV
miles of
Heavy
direction
troops have
The is
plete. Sixteen
tected the |
chau B
over ti
soldiers
Russ an
fighting
tran t
Food
troops
lear 1s
leave
once
requeste d
E
N 1¢
vably will destroy
hwat
utch before leaving
1 <
used
Thu
+1
occ
Valley.
Liao, is
is ab
Kinkow
Port Arthur
Railway.
Evacuatio
Russians wi
cupation by
Niuchwang
other impos
grip on the
Some
ent theater «
ered from th
Port : uchwang
miles: from Port Arthur
650 miles; f Harbin
tok is 3z0 miles F
Bay to Pingyang
BODY OF E. L. WENTZ FOUND.
distances in the pres
ions may be gath
ng hgures
:
The Young Philadeiphia Man Mysteriously
Disappeared Last October,
Richmond, Va,
ial from Big Stone Gap, Wise county,
says:
“The body of
mysteriously d
1903, was f
within a nul
was last
“The body, which was lying on the
ground in plain »
of preservation suff
fication.’
Young Wentz the of a
Philadelphia millionaire and was in
charge of his father's mines in Wise
Sine el
Soumy: his disappearance more
than $50,000 has been offered for news
of him.
The case has attracted a great Jeal
of attention, and various theories have
been advanced from time to time as
to the gauge of the young man's sud
den and complete disappearance
Several persons reported having
seen young Wentz after the search for
him began, but in each instance the
reports have proven untrue
Mr. Wentz, the father of the unfor-
tunate man, exhausted every means
to locate him and spent thousands of
dollars in the search, to which was
given the entire time of a brother
of the lost man,
Fire Wipes Out Village,
Utica, Mich., (Special).—Seventeen
business places and ten dwellings
were destroyed in a fire which wiped
out half of this village. Practically
nothing could be done in the way of
fighting the fire until the arrival of
an engine and company of firemen
from Detroit, as Utica has scarcely
any fire-fighting apparatus, The fire
started in a barn of the Exchange Ho-
tel William Upton, a capitalist, is
one of the heaviest losers by the de
structine of property.
(Speci A spec-
tober
Vie
where
is.
w,
he
seen
ew, a state
dents’
was in
ent for
was son
| NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapld
Reading.
Domestic,
Charles S. Reber, formerly a book
keeper tor McNeely Company, manu-
facturers of kid, in Philadelphia, was
| committed to prison in default of $6,
i . harged with forgeries aggre
Rating 325,000
Bishop Stephen N. Merrill, of Chi
cago, senior member of the board of
bishops, presented a petition to the
Methodist General (
onference, in Los
Angeles, 1:king to be retired from ac
tive
The executive
National Civic Federation meet
ting in New York adopted resolutic
eulogizing the late president of
Federation, ator H
Dr.
president of
{ ary of the
United Sta
Lang
Capt
irs
000 bail, ¢
)
service,
committee Of
at a
His
the
Ser anna.
Vv
logical Semin-
Church of
his home, 1
Emanuel
Fhe
Reformed
tes, died at
Pa
i John 1}
| ye fighting
| Seminole
i Rey ogel
the
aster,
I 1
fallam, vetera
Blac)
Wars,
He was Bo yea
Three New Y
i firms were expelled fro
Stock EE x«
the
Mexican
3.1 3
Oshkosh
more
lated nange
ractices
at Mineral
had
nnand
a
ere
coniercnce
payment
‘anama Lana
Lom
progress
Lf lution of
was
the Mace
ton the
with
powers might
a grave problem
Edwarl, Queen Alexandra
Princess V
from
ictoria returned
Ireland
London their tour of
Andrew (
annual
Institute
The Venezuelan Congress has
ferred dictatorial powers upon
dent Castro,
The Dutch forces
Atchinese position at
arnegie presided at
meeting of the Iron
mn London
con
Presi
captured the
Tiantoe, Java,
Atchinese were killed The
casualties were 7 killed and §
and 38 men wounded
J. Pierpont Morgan stated in Paris
the Morgan Company fiscal agents
| for the payment in Paris of the $40,
{ 000,000 to the Panama Canal Com
| pany.
| It is reported in Vienna that there
| were serious anti-Jewish riots in the
| Bessarabian town of Bender, and that
| the mob entered houses anll threw
| women and children out the windows,
| Financial,
Since April 7 $18.725000 has been
| exported,
Snow makes a bullish report this
week on the wheat crop.
Details of United States Steel's ab-
sorption of the Clairton Company
were perfected yesterday,
President Ripley has won a victory
for the Atchison by getting a drastic
injunction against strikers,
Cincinnati has had a spasm of econ-
omy. City Councils reconsidered a
$1,000,000 loan and will borrow only
half that snm,
i
CONFESSED TO FRAUDS
Charles Cunningham and Associates
Guilty in Land Cases.
ALL ESCAPE A PRISON SENTENCE.
Oregon Sheep King, Who Was Leader of Con-
spiracy, Must Pay $5,000, While His Tools
Escape for $100 Each Convictions the Out
come of the Trial of Land office Receiver
Thompson The Benson Case Will Follow.
Portland, Oreg., (Special) The
cases of Charles Cunningham,
Eastern Oregon sheep king;
Glen H
V. Sailing, l
Jones, and
with
Shelby Dallas
charged
of public lands,
were
nexpected conclusion by
leas of guilty being made when these
were arraigned in the Un
States District
Court here
Mark Shackelford was the only
Of guity, Ri }
later
charged tor
i i
picad
commenced
Ws
$5.000
ed
CASTRO MADE DICTATOR.
Unusual Powers Conferred on the Vencruclan
President.
sw Com
ic into
ident a
term of six irs, In vd of four
Dictatorial were
conferred « Castro in
new «
probably
n order
n
hat he
force
“ sheets
natal
may
Minister From Panama.
11 + 1 | 9 z 1
Mr. Russell,the American
IC representative
Hay Panamaian
has decided to appoint
Dom Obaldia as
Panama the United
Russell added that Senor
child of the master
Obaldia was a senator from the De
partment of Panama in the Colom.
bian Congress which rejected the
Hay-Herran Treaty; that he was gov-
ernor of Panama at the time of the
independence movement last Novem
ber, and is now second vice president
of the Republic. The new
to leave Panama for Wash-
Secretary
gO
De
minister
States
vernmemt
Jose de
£ to
Mr
fe and
and wile
Tibetans Attacked British Column.
(Special), — The
Mail's Simla corrgspondent says that
Roo Tibetans, coming from the direc.
tion of Shigatse, attacked the British
mission at Gyangtso at dawn on April
§. The Tibetans were repulsed with
heavy loss and fled. The British had
only two Sepoys wounded,
London,
Portland Exposition Raises Money.
Washington, D. C. (Special).—Sat-
isfactory evidence has been presented
to the treasury department by the di-
rectors of the Lewis and Clarke Ex-
position of Portland, Ore, to the ef-
fect that they have complied with the
law and have $600,000 cash, subscrip-
tions and appropriations. Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury Taylor ac-
cordingly has issued orders for the
preparation of plans for the govern-
ment exhibit,
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS,
We Now Own Panama Canal,
The President has received the fol
lowing report from the Atte
the Canal
“Department of Justice, May 4,
“The
“1 have
have
rney Gen
fer
1004
eral on Panama tran
President
made
Panama
gan & Co
been desig
new
i Mor
have
1
the transfes
States t
ited {
Us
“The $40,000,000
&
Morgan
$40,000,000 Wi i
nited States
(ry
Ke
VET
jess ated
sates they
£.40,000,000
government
madt as
been red
be in a da
Consular Appointments,
! Ng consular
by the
appoint.
President
Pennsylvama
] h: James H
Munich to be c«
ivers, Canada; Lec
at Three Rivers, to be
Dawson Cny
Dent, recently appointed con
at Dawson City, has tendered hie
resignation and it has been accepted.
Mr. Wright resident of Phila
delphia and was for some years pri
vate secretary to Senator Quay.
1
hree
. now
is a
Dr. Herran to Return,
Through Mr. Andrews, the Colom.
bian consul general in New York, the
State Department has learned that
Dr. Herran, the Colombian charge,
who formally withdrew from Wash
ington about two months ago, will
capacity, indicating a complete res.
toration of friendly relations between
| the United States and Colombia.
Secretary of New Commission.
| Mr. Winthrop L.
| ton, has been appointed secretary of
| the Merchant Marine Commission, ap-
| pointed at the last session of Con-
| gress. Mr. Marvin is a newspaper
| cially adapted to the work.
Congressional and Departments.
Maryland G. A. R. men are in-
dignant at Corporal Tanner, now
register of wills in the District of
Columbia, for removing Col. John R.
Rouzer, of Frederick, from the office
of deputy register.
The trial of former Assistant Attor.
ney General Tyner and his assistant,
Harrison Barrett, was continued be-
fore Judge Pritchard,
The Navy Department has declined
to grant a third trial for the cruiser
Denver, which was delivered to the
government.
of
PORT ARTHUR BESIEGED!
i
Communication,
Arthur with the Russian Military Base,
Having seized It at Points About Forty Miles
From the Port About 30,000 Japanese |
Landed and more to foliow.
seven of tl
afterwards
Hisew y
Site
of May
dat P
“ave Term
isewo
ise wi
the
{town
r hinese reports
the evening « ay § about
the enemy's ¢ had
taken up gn the (
10.000
t Aad
1t of deb
NOTED ITALIAN,
lages near the
DOWNFALL OF
A Former Prominent Cabinet Minister Guilty
of Theft.
Cable)
the i
2
of
the par-
adminis.
Rome (By There was
sensation In hamber
great
Deputies at the conclusion ol
liamentary inquiry into the
tration of Signor Nasi, former minis-
ter of public instruction The in
quiry proved Nasi guilty of the misap-
propriation of large sums of money,
the falsification of documents, the sup
pression sf evidence and continuous
peculation,
The law courts presented to the
chamber a demand that they be al
to proceed against Nasi and
the discussion of this
Meanwhile the news that Nasi had |
deciared guilty of the charges
him spread, and the former
against
fled.
minister, believing all to be lost,
was believed he was destined to be-
come premier. The result of
safliamentary inquiry into his conduct
as caused great excitement,
wo" ss
A Horrible Death.
Chicago (Special). —Making a mis-
step while walking on the edge of a
vast caldron of boiling metal, Hainey
Anderson, an employe of the Illinois
Steel Company at South Chicago,
clung for life to the end, while his feet
burned off. Then, his strength gone,
he slipped with a shriek into the seeth-
ing mass below. In a few moments
his body was literally consumed. One
of his fellow-worknien fainted with
horror st the spectacle,
DEATH BENEATH AUTOMOBILE.
Fiancee Witnessed Tragedy.
~While his
YyOUng we Han
11
Chicago, 111. (Special)
and another
1ift the heavy vehicle,
was
to
ingi, of Chicago Heights,
+ 3 f
iricaq
<
st}
ail
the mi of a
de re
in
verturned automo
PERU WILL RESIST.
Foreign Minister Pardo States Position of iis
Country.
Dynamite Used in Bank
(Specia
nally
at andi ne d
Edgar Fawcett Dead.
London, (By Cabie) Edgar
ett. the American
after having been
1 day Death
liver
Yor
rh
the
born New
wis a RE
New York
%
SEVEeTRY
He had
for VEATS
FACTS WORTH REMEMBERING
The radium resembie
quinine,
Japan produces one-twelfth of the
world’s raw silk
The Romans had no hinges; their
doors turned on pivots
There one leper for every SoC
of the world's population
The coal mine employes of Great
Britain number 8320060
The Siberian sable, unless protected
by law, will soon be extinct
Americans buy about $500,000 worth
of licorice root annually in Smyma
The licorice from it is used almost
salts closely
is
Of the four great lumber districts
of the United States, the Southerre
pine region stands first. In it are 43
per cent. of the sawmills and hall
the lufbermen.
The production of all the petroleum
oil fields east of Indiana is falling off
in spite of large numbers of new
wells. This is true of the Russiap
fields as well,
The deaths from bubonic plague iv
India are from 30,000 tO 40,000 per
week. In Johannesburg, South Afri
ca, 128 cases and 70 deaths have oc-
curred in two weeks,
The loss of the government through
the sale of land at $250 per acre,
under the timber and stone act, is es-
timated by the Commissioner of the
General Land Office at $100,000,000
to §115,000,000.