The Russion Losses Placed at [16 Stories Received at St. Petersburg Rather Conflict: ing Russians Said to Have Broken the Japanese Line Near Port Arthur and Driven Them Back. St feature of information Petersburg, (By Cable.) WAr News Was the ment that General Stoessel had made the day's credited by govern- a successful sortie trom at of the Japanese killed or wert resulting in the defe with the wounded. 116 killed or According to loss over 1,000 1088¢8 the m ment was out by a combina tion with a train bring In War mau- i General s being elegraphy. route be nmtions and supplies Stoessel's force, communication maintained by t The Japanese barred tween the train and force, whereupon the Russians ed and routed the engagement force, together with turned to Port Arthur. Accounts, however, conflicting, as to whether the the train is correct jut tion is described as } } hantly rried out General Stoessel, it new of hand, in order to cover ing part in the troops fought the Japanese the enemy I tance The message from his accou Kinchou M« the sortie al The Russian ed by two ja batteries lost Ing an General Japanese beliey » enemy s rested that this attack was { ei troops in cessiu WITrCICSS the General Japanese fram, re the are somewhat there 1s some ment the opera- g been brid e Russians i and yYersion avis by th 1s sand guns bef he force [he bravery, his re tak Russi ussia breaking distribution sortie with general staf ut i 16x 1s 1 arrange MUSIY wilh sian mine expects fight at Japanes be ex ters of 1 to resul or the their § Dhispa the n estima: of the ering have su mact tion a decisive favorable daily inc enabled their po the recent ment of compelled : Russians’ Lose at Viadivostok. {able} A the St. lames Gazette from (By anaon, y sustained difficult to keep her which is a new vessel in the Neva recently, floated ; GIRL BLOWN THROUGH WINDOW. Negro Threw Sweepings of Guncotion Factory into Fire. Newark, (Special). —A ter rific { the plant wanufacturers on Dawson street, destroyed the structure and damage: throughout the d the amount The only person who was was Florence Wrigley, 15 years of 57 Dawson street, an employe of the Armitage Varnish Company, whose plant adjoins that of the Petre foid Company. She was blown out of the building to a ‘distance of 35 or 40 feet. She was badly hurt and was taken to St. James’ Hospital, where it was said her condition is critical She had several serious cuts on the head. The most remarkable escape from injury was that of the negro to whose carelessness the explosion is ascribed The man is known only as “George,” and since the explosion occurred he has been diligently avoiding all in- terviewers, "FINANCIAL. ex binldimg on of nearly St10.000 old, Upwards of 400,000 shares of Lake Superior stock will not pay the as- sessment, It’s a dull day now that doesn’t see a new low record for United States Steel common, The West Philadelphia Trust Com- pany has declared a semi-annual divi- dend of 3 per cent, Allegheny Valley's report for March shows a decrease in net earnings of $45,008, and the decrease for the firs three months of the year was $128. O55. Cable). Tokio London (By reports from and St. Peters | the ve or six warships in the past IC They as the : an would appear that lost h davs are hecoming almost as mn but destroyed any of sw mines, although it clear whether a Russian or a Japanese is responsible their aster An off ral Togo saga and 1CCTS are COrresnd 1 i reported ndents pat K Lig Cable Wi “ered with the intents ying a vement A correspondent at states that the Japanese numbered and the Russians and 12.000, th ce HO miles west I hese of tia. Ott f the opt aggerated All Cre are ik “oon fell back 12 to 15 miles near their base, at Feng Wang Cheng Without a hight the Russians have evacuated Kaiping, 35 miles south of Niuschwang. Three Laborers Drowned. Concord, N. H., (Special) workmen were drowped by the up setting of a boat in the Merrimac river at Garving Falls, five miles south of this city. One of the men was Eh White and the other two were Ital jans, Four laborers the river on their way to their place of employment when the boat was overturned. Bal¥more, Md, (Speciai)—Baltj- more indorsed the $6,000,000 dock loan Tuesday by a vote of 31,500 to 9.212. Its majority was 22,384--proportion. ately one of the largest recorded in the history of Baltimore. Not even the most sanguine had expected more than 10,000, Three and one-half votes were cast for the loan for every one againkt it. It was a victory for pro- gress and a greater Baltimore of the most sweeping and umcertain sort. Like a flood it swept away all doubt and hesitancy, : . NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid Reading. Domestic. The National and International Good Roads Convention, in St. Louis, Mo the discus work of continued ding the The IEWEIry 01 sion of plans {or improving roads police have wered that was sgolen fram the “Lady Mary’ Livingston, Hudson, N newspaper tOpIcs I’s Press Parham rece some coffin on below Papers on suggested that f peace be em- in assisting local authorities ting go International Navigating Com steamer the Conemaugh has not been heard from since she sailed from Seattle to New York on Decem- re 12 The battleship Rhode Island was launched at Quincy, Mass, The water was not deep enough, and she stuck in the mud. The dissolution bond i roads I'he pany s second or syndicate of the conversion tion took effect The Rosebud be thrown open to settlers The General Federation of Wo- men's Clubs is holding its seventh biennial meeting in St Louis, A monument to Gen. Rufus Putnam, of the Revolutionary Army, was deds- cated at Sutton, Mass, - on One of the first official acts of the Czar upon his return to St. Peters- burg will be the reception of Sir Charles Hardinge, the British am- bassador, Dominican government troops rout. ed the insurgents at Guayacanes and five revolutionary generals fled to the consulates for protection, The Red Star Line steamer Haver- ford, while leaving her dock at Liver- pool, was blown against the pierhead wall and subsequently came to anchor in midstream. ENDED WITH A BULLET The Suicide of a Ruined Georgia Financier. HIS TWO BANKS HAD FAILED. Mr. J. C. Plant, in Whom the People of Macon Had Unbounded Confidence, Could Not Sur- vive the Loss of His Wealth and Credit Shot Himself on the Porch of His Home Deficit Found in Private Bank. re TREATMENT FOR LOCKJAW. Physician in New York Hospital Adopts Ger man Method, soulder, the to we mp he able to leave LIFE IN PRISON FOR 83. But the Burglary Was Louis Oliver's Third Offense. Marquette ce in Wiest It burglary of third i was hig $9317 Judge Wiest sad wided that where been twice arrested sentenced for life. He sentence was not made mandatory, but he believed that in this case it was justified ‘Since Oliver was first sentenced, in 1881." said the Judge, “he has been under arrest more times than he can He has served 13 years for burglaries. 1 believe the statute re- ferred to was framed for the purpose ridding society of just such men as 1 consider Oliver to be.” This Party Warmly Received. Detroit, Mich, nal special from Romeo, Mich, says that sixteen members of a charivari statute pr mer had he jile tell obertson, a farmer living six miles from here, who was recently mar- ried, were wounded when Frank Mec- shote from a shotgun at serenaders, is unknown, was seriously wounded and may die, and two young women named Borland, who live near the Robertson farm, were among the wounded, A A Get-Rich-Quick Man Sentenced. St. Louis, (Special). — Arthur F. Mclntrye, president of the defunct Merchants’ Brokerage and Commis. sion Company, one of the “get-rich- quick” concerns brought into promi. nence by the downfall of E. J .Arnold and John J. Ryan, was found guilty of using the mails to defraud by a jury in the United States District Court, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of 18 months, Mcintyre was indicted last Tanuare, LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS, To Make the Titie Cleer. Secreta of A Acting ry State nade the ig statemer Wn complete] “Al arising out ideration actually been paid treaty, the | the Jepartment mder advices iO in turn ork Subtreasu £ Ky Haver that they after they got NE picture after fectiy force were charging around with gore in ti to wreak oil the evildoers It 1x sad that the ' District the fined sonation : And jaliea Jean C. Havez 15 for a year i Of more agers agent of “He Cert'ny wd-By, Ba ivrics, pre £s Lay sical and newspaper m fear of the Dockstader operate the Capitol New Minister From Persia. Through the Belgian Department Shah Morteza Khan, of the Mimstry of at Teheran, as Persian t y Washington, in place of Isaac who has been appointed mun to Vienna Congressional amd Departments. The State Department has instruct. ed Consul Gummere to demand of the Moorish government that it takes the Moorish government that it take to secure the re- tease of lon Perdicaris, the American State that the formed the named Bureau Affairs ster 1 Khan, ster necessary to acceed to the captors’ terms. Admiral Chadwick will receive The State Department has been ad- vised of the appointment of Morteza as Persian minister to the United States. President Roosevelt signed the com- 372 army officers The Department of Agriculture has issued a report showing the increased consumption of cotton in the cotton states. Harrison J. Barrett, ong of the de- fendants in the case charging him and Tyner with conspiracy to de- fraud the government, went on the stand in his own behalf, Rev. Dr. 5. 11. Lucas, of Fairmount, W. Va, spoke on “Christian Patri otism” before the Methodist Prot. estant Christian Endeavor Union, in Washington, The board of trustees of the Carne- gie Institution effected a reorganiza- tion under the new incorporation as the Carnegie Institution of Washing ton. Their Recovery is Impossible. Employes Assembled for Duly At Least Twenty Persons Were on Their Way to the Factory When the Explosion Occurred The Property Loss is Estimated at $60,000 pir a re CLOUDBURST WIPES OUT TOWN Two Are Reporied as Practicaily Destroyed see One Persop Kitied. rhe the La Porte miles 1s reported at the out thre owned whick the over river, width of now settlement es, 15 ame dwell been swept In severa unable carried learned’ Life were were been 3 £5 of CARNEGIE HERO FUND. Commission Now Has Custody of §5.000,008 iw * Bonds. : A mect eis a Fund s attend membership Taylor, Com i wa : u i i 181% HY has custody of the $5,006 Jonated by fund Mr. Carnegie having commission that thro the colony of Newfoun land kad beer omitted as a participant in the Hers Fund a resolution was adopted cor recting his original memorandum of 000 in bonds Carnegie to endow instructed the h on oversigh? A set of resolutions were adopted expressing to Mr, Carnegie the grate ful appreciation of the high homo conferred upon the commission in ew Mr. Thomas Lynch, chairman of the committee on organization, presented It provides that the com mission shall be known as the “Car negie Hero Fund Commission,” which shall administer the Carnegie Here Fund. The fund became operative April 18, 1004, and no applications ow account of heroic acts performed pros to that date will be considered. Lynched By Mob. Weldon, N. C. (Special). A negrer tramp was lynched at Seaboard, No C., by a crowd of his own race for an assault upon a seven-year-old me gro child. A policeman was on his way to jail with the man, who gave his name as Dick Whitehead, when he was overtaken by a mob of negroes, who tore the prisoner drom the offi cet's buggy and hanged him to = wasrhy trea
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