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MAYSVILLE, KY., MONDAY, MAY 9, 1904.
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JAPS VICTORIOUS.
It is Reported JThat There Was
Severe Fighting at Feng
l Wang Cheng.
r1 MANY PRISONERS WERE TAKEN,
TJio Russians Are Retreating Toward
Jlai Cheng-, 82 Miles East by
North of New Clnvang-.
Heavy Firing Was Heard fn the Direc
i tlon of Kal-Chau The Isolation
of Port Arthur Is Now
J Ijj- Complete.
Shan Hal Kwan, May 9. It Is re
ported here that there has been se
vere fighting at Feng Wang Chang, In
"which the Japanese were victorious.
They took many prisoners.
The Russians are retreating toward
Hal Cheng (32 miles east by north of
New Chang), and are evacuating tho
western side of the Llao Tung penin
sula. On Thursday and Saturday of
last week the Japanese landed 10,000
men at Kinchau bay, 10,000 at Foo
Chau hay and 7,000 at Pltsewo. They
occupied tho towns of Wa-Fung-Tlen
and Pu-Lan-Tien and destroyed sev
oral miles of tho railroad.
Heavy firing has been heard In the
direction of Kal-Chau, where Japanese
troops have been seen recently.
Tho Isolation of Port Arthur Is com
plete. Sixteen Japanese warships pro
tected the landing of troops at Kin
Chau hay, directing a sweeping fire
over the narrow Isthmus before the
soldiers disembarked. Seventy-five
Russians who were wounded In thl3
fighting were brought on tho last train
to arrive there. Food Is scarce at
Mukden; the troops are eating bean
cakes.
,The Russians are preparing to evac
uato New Chwang and that city Is In
a turmoil of hurried flight.
Che Foo, May 9. A private telegram
has been received here confirming the
report that the Japanese have occu
pied Feng "Wang Chang. The date of
the occupation Is given as May 6. Ev
erything was quiet here Sunday.
Tokio, May 9. A detachment of the
Japanese rtrmy operating on the Llao
Tung peninsula, dispersed small bands
of Russian troops on Friday and cap
tured Pu-Lan-TIen, a railroad station.
Tho Japanese destroyed the railway
and telegraph, thus severing the Rus
Blon communication with Port Arthur.
.. St. Petersburg, May 9. Two official
dispatches calculated to Increase the
depression existing among all circles
In Russia were given out Sunday
night. From the point of view of the
progress of the campaign the most Im
portant is that regarding the captur-j
by the Japanese without opposition of
Feng Wang Cheng, on May 6. The
Hecond gives details concerning the
killed, wounded and missing among
the- troops tinder the command of
Lieut. Gen. Sassalltch as the result of
the fighting on the Yalu,. the number
of which totals 2,397 officers and men.
A SIX HOURS' FIGHT.
Nearly 200 Tibetans Were Killed By
the British Force.
British Camp, Karo Pass, Thibet,'
Friday, May 6. A stiff fight to-day to
drive the Tibetans from their posi
tions two miles below the pass lasted
for six hours. The Tibetans, number
ing 1,500, held the positions with great
tenacity and lost nearly 200 before
they were expelled. Tho British
losses were Capt Bethune and three
men killed and 21 men wounded.
DURING A DEMONSTRATION.
Twenty-One People Killed and 40 In
jured In Toklo, Japan.
Tokio, May 9. During a popular
demonstration Sunday night In honor
Df victories achieved by the Japanese
forces, 21 people were killed and 40
Injured. The killed and Injured were
mostly boys who were caught against
a closed gate at .an angle, in the old
palace walls by tie throng and crush
ed or drowned in an old moat.
Dalny Captured By the Japs.
London, May 9. The Morning Post's
Shanghai correspondent reports that
Dalny was captured Friday, while the
Tokio correspondent of the Daily Tele
graph,, cabling under dato of Sunday,
Bays: "Dalny was Invested yester
Say." Consisted of Three Divisions.
St. Petersburg, May 9. Tho corre
spondent of the Novostl at Llao Yang
telegraphing May 8 says that tho first
Tapaneso army which occupied Feng
Wang Cheng consisted of three divis
ions which marched In two columns.
' Noted Publisher Dead.
Chicago, May 9. A dispatch from
Los Angeles announces tho death at
Pasadena. Cal., of Andrew McNalljv
JAPANESE PEOPLE.
Surprising Economy Is Observed In
Every Place.
Richmond, Ind., May 9. Guerney
Dinfoid, a Fi lends missionary in Ju
pan, writing to relatives here, says
about the war situation in Japan:
A remarkable thing is-tho surprising
Economy which is observed in every
place. People are not spending more
money than is absolutely necessary.
Related families who havo occupied
two houses are closing one and two
families enter ono house. No one is
putting out money for repairs, etc. To
such an extent is economy practiced
that it seems to threaten productive
Industry and bring trouble upon labor
ing classes. I tell them that it is
folish to do so, for while the general
claim Is made that this is done for
economy to save money for the war, In
reality it is extravagance, because by
the stopping of the regular channels of
Industry the necessary funds and pro
visions can, not be produced. It is
said that at present the emperor is
eating only one dish, a rice bowl, and
that his food is the same as that given
to the soldiers. He is doing this, they
Eay, to set an example of economy and
show sympathy with the-people.
ATTEMPTED ROBBERY.
Mrs. Senator Foraker and Her Niece
Were the Victims.
Los Angeles, Cal., May 9. A thief
skulking on the porches of Hotel Llllie,
after a set of diamonds worn by Sena
tor Foraker's niece, Miss Ethel Mario
Foraker, of Cincinnati, fell Into the
hands of a plucky hotel man with a
gun.
Hotel Llllie fronts on Central park
and many wealthy people spend the
season there, rich picking for
thieves. Among the guests are Mrs.
James Foraker and Miss Foraker. As
tho two ladles were dressing for din
ner they were alarmed to see a strange
man skulking about the upper veranda
in front of their room and trying to
peer in. They were terribly frightened
and snatching up their jewels rushed
from the room.
In the hall they met Guy K. Wood
ward, the proprietor. Woodward used
to be a deputy sheriff, and is a man of
personal daring. Taking a gun Wood
ward ran upstairs and caught the man
trying to escape from the porch
through the hall.
THE TWO CONVENTIONS.
Demand For Press Seats Far Exceeds
the Capacity.
Washington, May 9. The demand
for press seats at the two national con-
vention far exceeds the capacity of the
Bpace set apart; for the newspapers of
the country. At the Chicago conven
tion there will be 290 seats In the
press reservation, and already there
have been received 1,300 applications.
The demand for seats at the St. Louis
convention also is far in excess of the
capacity of the space reserved for the
press. At the recent meeting here of
the sub-committee having charge of
the seating at Chicago, It was decided
that notice shoul be given that appli
cations not received prior to May 20
shall be given no consideration.
MISSING MILLIONAIRE.
The Body of E. L. Wentz Was Discov
ered Near Kelly -View.
Richmond, Va,, May 9. A special
Sunday night from Big Stone Gap,
Wise county, Va., says: The body of
E. L. Wentz, who so mysteriously dis
appeared October 14, 1903, was found
Sunday afternoon near Kelly View,
within a mile of the place where he
was last seen alive. The body, which
was lying on the ground in plain view,
was in a state of preservation suffi
cient for Identification.
Young Wentz was the son of a Phil
adelphia millionaire, and was in
charge of his father's mines in Wlso
county. SInco his disappearance moro
than $50,000 has been offered for any
news of him.
DEATH OF GEN. GROESBECK.
He Served In the Philippines, Spanish
American and Civil Wars.
St. Louis, May 9. Brig. Gen. Steph
en W. Groesbeck, U. S. A., retired,
died Sunday of pneumonia at the
home of. his brother-in-law here. Tho
origin of an illness of several months
was traced to exposure in Cuba dura
Ing tho Spanish-American war. Gen.
Groesbeck served with distinction as
a union volunteer in tho civil war and
was prominent as a regular army- offi
cer in Cuba and in the Philippine is
lands during tho Spanish-American
war.
Pittsburg, Pa., May 9. Two Negro
roommates fought at their boarding
house Sunday over a woman and as
tho result Louis Solomnn received so
voro pistol wounds from which it is
not expected ho will recover.
DISASTERS ATSEA.
Two Sailing Schooners Have Been
Given Up as Lost With
All on Board.
FORTY-TWO BELIEVED DROWNED.
Portions of the Wrecked Vessels Wero
Ticked Up South of tlio Columbia
River by Another Ship.
The American Schooner Arthur Mc
Ardle W,as Wrecked on Egg Is
land, Bahamas Captain and
Seven Men Escaped.
Vancouver, B. C, May 9. The seal
ing schooners Triumph and Umbrlnn,
of this port, have been given up as lost
at sea with all hands. Capt. Hann, of
the sealing schooner Jessje, which has
Just arrived from a cruise along the
coast from California to Queen Char
lotte islands, picked up south of tho
Columbia river broken scaling boats
and canoes, part of a schooner's rail,
davit and other tackle belonging to
the schooner Umbrino. When last
spoken the sealer was headed for the
west coast of Vancouver island to
land her men, who was very ill. Since
then she has not been heard of and Is
long over due. Tho Umbrina was
owned by Capt. Peppet, now In East
ern Canada. She carried a half white,
half Indian crew, 23 all told, and was
one of the largest of the fleet In
Queen Charlotte sound. Capt. Mann
found a schooner's boom with sail at
tached and from Indications known to
him he believes It belonged to the Tri
umph, also long overdue, and not
amongst the fleet now bound for the
Siberian coast The Triumph carried
a white crew of 19 and was the oldest
and largest of tho Victoria sealers.
The owners have abandoned hope.
New York, May 9. The Ward line
Bteamer Santiago, which arrived Sun
day from Tampico, Havana and Nas
sau, brought Capt. Sheppard and sev
en seamen of the American schooner
Arthur McArdle, which was wrecked
on Egg Island, Bahamas, on April 23,
and became a total loss. Tho crew
stripped the wreck of all the available
property possible and took to their
boats, went to a village on a nearby
Island, whence they obtained passage
on a small sailing craft for Nassau.
The McArdle was bound from Phila
delphia for Havana, with a cargo of
petroleum.
Other passengers on board the San
tiago were Sir Gilbert Carter, govern
or of the Bahamas; Lady Carter and
daughter. They are In transit to Lon
don. HALF A VILLAGE WIPED OUT.
Seventeen Business Places and Ten
Dwellings Burned.
Utica, Mich., May 9. Seventeen
business places and ten dwellings
were destroyed in a fire which wiped
out half of this village Sunday. Prac
tlcally nothing could be done In the
way of fighting the fire until the ar
rival of an engine and company of fire
men from Detroit. This village has
scarcely any fire fighting apparatus.
Tho fire started in the barn of the Ex
change hotel. William Upton, a cap
italist, who Is one of the heaviest los
ers by the destruction of property, fell
from the roof of a building and at a
late hour Sunday night had not recov
ered consciousness. Ho suffered se
vere and possibly fatal Injuries about
the head. Tho property loss is esti
mated at $100,000.
Fugitive Accidentally Shot.
Pittsburg, M$y 9. During a iaid on
a "speak easy," on the Allegheny
wharf, Lee Covert, a young man, at
tempted to escape. Officer Labello
fired a shot into the air, and in his
endeavor to catch Cobert, fell, acciden
tally discharging his revolver. Covert
was hit by the latter bullet and Is dy
ing at the hospital Sunday night
Theater Gutted By Fire.
Denver, Col., May 9. Tho interior
of the Curtis theater, which had Just
been newly equipped, was destroyed
by firo that started on theN stage. All
the traveling equipment, costumes and
scenery of the May Howard Extrava
ganza Co. were burned.
Died From Hydrophobia.
Chicago, May 9. Charles Carruth,
who was hurried to Chicago from
Cleveland, O., suffering from hydro
phobia, as tho result of a dog bite ho
sustained three weeks ago, died hero
Sunday at the Presybterlan hospital.
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Glass Works Destroyed.
Coudersport, Pa., May 9. Firo raged
in tho Barrow glass works Sunday
night nnd the plant was practically
destroyed. Tho loss will bo from ?50,
000 to'$75,000. Ono hundred hands aro
thrown out of employment.
SUMMER CAMPAIGN.
University Students Will Go Into tho
- Mountains as Missionaries.
Lexington, Ky., May 9. Fifteen
students of Kentucky university will
go Into the mountains of Kentucky
this summer as missionaries under the
auspices of tho American Board of
Christian Missions. This new depart
ment of the board, existing only in
Kentucky, was began last summer.
Several mountain churches have been
organized. Plans are carefully pre
pared for the summer campaign. The
expenses and small salary will be paid
the students, most of whom have had
experience In preaching. None will go
to Breathitt county.
A SHORT COURTSHIP.
Five Minutes Sufficed For a Boarding
School Girl.
Bowling Green, Ky., May 9. Tho
marriage of William Royster, of Alvln,
Tex., and Miss Fannie Bohannon, of
Beech Grove, Ky., was solemnized at
Evansvllle, Ind., Magistrate Schrader
officiating. Miss Bohannon was at
tending boarding school In Bowling
Green, Ky., and while seated In a city
park talking to spmo girl companions
met Royster, who Is a traveling man.
Within five minutes after meeting
they were engaged and went to Ev
ansvllle to bo married. The father
of the bride is a wealthy farmer near
Beech Grove.
SIX HUNDRED FEET.
From a Cliff a Nineteen-Year-Old Ken
tucky Boy Fell.
Frenchburg, Ky., May 9. Sam Y.
Metzger, aged 19, of Salyersvllle, fell
from Donathan Rock Sunday evening
and was fatally injured. . Donathon
Rock Is an Isolated cliff rising to an
altitude of GOO feet above the town.
Young Met7ger and some other boys
were ascending the cliff when Metzger
lost his footing and fell 05 feet to a
ledge. Not a bono was broken nor
was thero an abrasion of the skin.
The injury was internal.
Say He Has-No Authority.
Louisville, Ky., May 9. The state
ment of Chairman Allle W. Young that
under no circumstances will he recog
nize the Louisville delegation to the
democratic state convention, should
tno delegates be friends of the prepent
city administration, has led Loulsvlllo
democrats to look up the party law.
No rule can be found directing the
chairman of either the state central
or the state executive committee to
call the convention to order.
Serious Trouble Is Expected.
Madisonvllle, Ky , May 9. A teport
from Wheatcroft says that serious trou
ble Is expected at any time between tho
union and tho non-union coal miners.
As a result of the operators of tho
Wheatcroft Mining Co. endeavoring to
displace the former and lnbtall tho
latter, serious developments are ex
pected, as both sides are very de
termined. Special Judges Appointed.
Frankfort, Ky., May 9. Gov. Beck
ham appointed J. J. Osborn, of Cyn
thiana, special judge to try the con
tested election cases of Speed Guffy
against Nat Howard, In Butler county..
The contest is for the commonwealth
attorney's office. He also appointed F.
R. Feland, of Lawreneeburg, special
judge to try cases In Henry county.
In the Oil Fields.
Lexington, Ky., May 9. Operation?
In tho oil fields of Kentucky during the
past few days show a great activity.
Tho completions for a week past ap
proximate IS, with three dusters.
Wayne county furnished nine com.
plctlons, with, a new production of
about 4"G0 barrels.
The Money Is Raised.
Louisville, Ky , May 9. Louisville
democrats have raised enough monev
to pay the expenses of tho democratic
state convention, which will be held
In this city Juno 8. The convention
will be held either in Macauley's thea
ter, tho Horso Show building or at
Phoenix hall.
Knocked Out With Shovel.
Mayking, Ky., May 9. While Wil
Ham Sergent and Wiley Jenkins wero
engaged in a row over tho settlement
of 'a bill in tho Sorgent home, Mrs.
Sergent struck Jenkins three perhaps
fatal blows across tho forehead with
a shovel.
Tax Suits Dismissed.
Louisville, Ky., May 9. Judge Greg
ory's decision dismissing tho back tax
suits brought by Revenue Agent Frank
Lucas against the state banks was
sustained at all points by Judge Mulr
In an opinion rendered at Joint ses
Blon, New dhwang, May 0. It Is reported
hore that Viceroy Alexleff was slight
ly wounded prior to his departure
from Port Arthur. Ho barely escaped
trom there beforo the Japanese closed
tho lines of communication,
DIVORCEfESTION
The Inter-Church Conference on
Marriage and Divorce Sends
Out an Appeal.
CONSISTS OF 14 DENOMINATIONS,
It is the Jlcfrhuiiiifr of a National
Campaign of Education on
the Subject.
Action Looking Toward the Preven
tion of Remarriage By Ministers
Has Been Taken The Mem
bers of the Conference.
Philadelphia, May 9. The Inter
church conference on marriage and
divorce, a body representing officially
14 leading denominations, has Issued
through its secretary, Rev. William H.
Roberts, D.D., an appeal to tho pub
lic, calling attention to several aspects
of the divorce question.
The paper Is the beginning of a na
tional campaign of education on the
subject to bo followed by efforts to ..se
cure tho enactment of laws In tho
state legislatures, and ultimately It la
thought of an amendment to the con
stitution of the United States.
Already action has been taken by
the conference looking toward the pre
vention of tho remarriage, by minis
ters of other communions, of divorce
and whom clergymen of their own
faith have refused to marry.
This movement Is the first occasion
of any sort on which the representa
tives of great denominations have offi
cially come together. The members of
the conference Include:
Protestant Episcopal church In the
United States; Presbyterian church.
Methodist Episcopal church, Method
ist Episcopal church south, Reformed
Church of America, Reformed church
in the United States, United Presbyte
rian church, Evangelical Lutheran
church, the Baptist church south, the
Congregational churches, the Unlver
saltst churches, tho Unitarian church
es, the Reformed Presbyterian church,
the Cumberland church, tho Alliance
of the Reformed churches holding the
Presbyterian service.
FOUR MASKED ROBBERS.
They Held Up a Railway Station and
Robbed the Passengers.
Baxter Springs, Kan.. May 9. Four
masked men entered tho Frisco rail
way station here Sunday and, with
drawn revolvers, demanded that tho
passengers get In line. While threa
of the men covered the crowd with
their revolvers the fourth man search
ed every passenger, taking all articles
of value he found. They then stolo
the contents of tho depot safe, robbed
the conductor of a passing train and
escaped on a handcar.
COLORED HIGHWAYMEN.
They Killed Ivan Kruzer and Badly
Wounded Two Men.
Pittsburg, Pa., May 9. 'As the result
of a hold-up by three Negro highway
men, Ivan Kruzer was killed and his
brother Jacob and Mike Dllllan wero
badly Injured. The Injured men were
all employes of tho Ambrldge plant of
the American Bridge Co. Later Chas.
Jackson, Walter Obey and Chas. Moy
eis, all of Allegheny, weie arrested
and Identified by Jacob Kruzer an'l
Dilllan as the men who attacked them,
WANTS HEAVY DAMAGES.
The Widow Sues the Jokers Who
Killed Her Husband.
Ledora, la., May 9. A sequel to tho
death of Jack Goodlow, the aged Negro
who was made the victim of a piactlcal
joke at Hamburg, la., a few days ago,
and who died as the perpetrators of
the Joke were pretending to burn him
at the stake, occurred when Mrs. Good
low,, the widow filed a notice of on ac
tion for damages in the sum of $5,000.
Result of An Old Feud.
Lullng, Tex., May 9. S. L. Nixon,
a momber of tho state democratic ex
ecutive committee, and a wealthy
planter, shot and, killed R. W. Mnlone
and Col. Weosy, two prominent citi
zens of Lullng. Tho shooting is said
to have grown out of an old feud. .
County Treasurer Killed By Constable
Caldwell, Tex., May 9. County
Treasurer B. B. Hunt was shot and
killed by Clint Stuart, a constable,
who has surrendered. Stuart has de
clined to make any statement asldo
from setting up a claim that tho kill
ing was in solf-defenso.
Newport Is Mentioned.
Louisville, Ky., May 9. Tho Kingbts
of Pythias board of control postponod
until August tho selection of a city for
the proposed state home. Newport is
prominently mentioned.