Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 3, 1905, Page 1

QENERAL NOGL Victorious Japanese Commander Port Arthur. | | § | ssoae at R Tokio, Jan. 3.---Jap:in is in possession of Port Arthur. and officers will be permiited to retain their side arms. The Japanese troops took possession of nearly all of the forts of Port Arthur today. By the terms of the surrender, Russian officers and officials will be permitted to return to Russia upon parole All Japan is wild with joy over the greatest military success of modern times. i s : STORY OF THE FALL Defense Incredibly Heroie— Besiegers Suffer Unheard of Losses. Port Airthar has surrendered. Ex- hausted months of almost constant fiehting, decimated by disease and cas- ualties and hopelessly sealed in its rocky fortress, the gallant garrison has vielded to its gallant besiegers and the el is now written of the most dramatic war incident of modern times, At 9 o'clock Sunday night General Nogi, commanding the Japanese army of investment, -eceived from General| commander at Port Arthur, | ng that he found further | s and asking for a 2 to arrange terms of capitula. The note was simple and divect se general immediately sioners to confer with tion i the Jap named comm representatives of the Russian com- mander. They mel at noon Monday and arranged the conditions to surren- de e nature of the terms agreed upon < not yet known, but dispatches from Tokio indicate that they will be of the most magnanimous character, The emperor of Japan himself, through the chief of the imperial staff, has given public & expression that “General Stoessel has rendered commendable service (o his country in the midst of | difficulti and ‘that it is his wish at militayy honors be shown him.” A dispatch from Tokio quotes military Opinion as believing that the entire garrisen will be allowed to march out under arms and may be sent to Russia on parole. Late dispatches from Japan bLavc shown that the gallant delense of Stoessel and his men has nowhere been given a finer appreciation than in the land of his foes and it is more thau likely that Japan will embrace the opportunity to show her magna- niwity and admiration of the gallantry Ob Poit Arthur's detenders by allow- i tuew all the honors which war mits a victorious army to bestow su the vanquished. STORY COF CPERATIONS CONE OF REPEATED FIGHTIN(Ll The siege and the defense of Rus- sia’s stronghold in the Far Kast have been marked by bravery, gallantry and desperation unequalled in modern war fare and hardly excelled in mulita history. Ihe story of the operations around Port Arthur is one of repeated fighting, both by land and sea, of the nost despy i aracter. m that the woild ringing un- erwhelming circumstances veen dwarfed by the generally tlicent conduct of both torees. v sea there have been torpedo boat 1es of superb recklessness and big have ploughed through mine siul ficlis with heroic disregard to give le or in wild efforts to escape. | the Japanese have hurled y la themselves against positions declared to be impregnable. They have faced and scaled rocky heights crowned with batteries and crowded with de- fenders, suffering losses that military experts say would have appalled any European army. in' the doomed fortress its people have lived under a vast rain of shells end shrapnel. Scanty rations, be- sieged on every side, knowing that hope of success or escape was vain, the garrison has fought with a stub: bornness that has evoked the admira: tion of the world. They met the untir- ing saults of the Japanese with a grim valor that gained every praise of their foe and the fighting has been waged with a relentlessness that often refused truces to bury the dead and collect the wounded. Over corpse- filled trenches men have fought hand to hand with cold steel and clubbed guns and at short range have hurled at each other hand grenades filled with bhigh explosives. The whole story is one of undaunted courage and sublime bravery. What Port Arthur has cost in human life and in money no estimate of even IN NIGHT AND DAY Pert Arthur a Hill of Shot and Shell During Past Week. Chefoo, Jan, 3.—The Russian offi- cers who arrived here during the day from Port Arthur on the torpedo boat destroyers which escaped from that place have a single word for what the fortress has been for the past five days, during which the Japanese have bombarded and assaulted incessantly night and day. They use that word unprofanely and convincingly, declar- ing that the horrors witnessed were beyond any description. There was not a single spot in the town which was safe from shrapnel. Many of the hospitals were hit and the wounded refused to stay in them. Some lay in the streets on heaps of debris,-exposed to, the bitlerly cold weather, and some staggered back to-the front, hurling stones and defying the Japanese till taken prisoners or death came merci- fully to end their sufferings. There were five days and nights of this state of affairs. The stock of ammunition, which had been carefully husbanded for months, was almost gone and it was all too evident that Japan was about to grasp the prize which had cost her an army of men and countless treasure. The capture of 203-Meter hill by the Japanese was the garrison's first vital wound. Then came the cap- ture of Rihlung, Sungshu and Panlung mountains. General Stoessel had an- nounced that he would fight to the last. “His plight Sunday night,” said Cap- tein Kartow, commander of the tor- pedo boat destroyer Vlastni, “looked like the last.” There was no stopping the Japa- mnese, who died in droves, with eyes fixed on Liaotie mountain. Stoessel had killed a Japanese army and ex- hausted his ammunition, “but,” said Captain Kartow, “they became more furious, ferocious and fateful than ever.” So the white flag went up. French Gardinai” Geaw Rheims, Jan. 3.—Cardinal Benedict Mary Langenieux, archbishop of Rheims, is dead, aged eighty years, He was created a cardinal in 1886. which no word has come, must have been frightful. RUSSIA’S PACIFIC FLEET PRACTICALLY WIPED OUT. The defense of the position, which fell to her as' a heritage after the Chinese-Japanese war, has cost Russia practically her entire fleet in those waters. Her ships lie from Port Ar- thur’s inner basin to Chemulpo, in Korea, and along the Shantung penin- sula, battered hulks of once proud ves- sels; or, ignominiously dismantled, are interned in neutral Chinese har- bors. Save the three or four cruisers and some lesser craft that lie in the icebound refuge of Vladivostok not a warship now flies the Russian cross in the waters of the Northern Orient. And Japan, too, has had her losses in the long drawn out operations. Mines have struck from Admiral Togo’s fleet list many fine ships and smaller ves- sels since the morning of Feb. 8, when he hurled his fleet at the Russian ships in Port Arthur’s roadstead. The siege of Port Arthur properly dates from May 27, when, after engag- ing the first army landed by the Japa- nese at Pitsewo, Stoessel was forced back from the neck of the Kwangtung peninsula. The Japanese landing was begun on May 5 and the Russian com- mander elected to give battle at his northernmost line of defemses. The engagement was a severe one and drove the Russians back to the first of the main defenses of the position, A few days later, on May 30, the Japa- nese occupied Dalny and on June 14-16 General Stakelberg, advancing to the relief of the Port Arthur army, was defeated by General Oku at the bat- tles of Vafangow and Telissu. With Togo’s ships lying like watchdogs around Port Arthur's seaward side and Nogi advancing slowly but relent- lessly by land the famous stronghold Was under siege, and from then on un- approximate correctness can be made. The losses have been appalling. 1t has been reported that in some engage: ments leading up to the recent capture of 202-Meter hill the attacking Iorce» by lost as high as 40 per cent of the force engaged, while the garrison’s losses, ot til General Stoessel, on New Year's day, sought terms of capitulation, the operations have been marked by al- most ceaseless fighting, bombardments flget alternating with desperate y land, or assaults by the att combined naval and military forces. DEFENSE USELESS Stoessel Sues for Terms to Save Needless Sacri- fice of Life. Tokio, J Geneial Nogi has re ported as follows: “At § in the afternoon of Jan. 1 the enemy’s beazer of a flag of truce came into the first lice of our position south of Sus! n and handed a letter to our officers. The same reached me at § o’clock at night. The letter, signed by Ceneral Stoessel, is as follows: “‘Judging by the general con: of the whole line of hostile positiosus- bheld by you I find further 1esistance at Port Arthur useless and for the pu:- pose of preventing neelless sacrifice of lives 1 propose to hoid negocations With 1eference to capitalation. Shouwia you con it o the same you wil blease appomt commissioners for dis- cussing the order and couditious re- garding capitulation and aiso appoint 4 place for such commissioners to meet the same appointed by me. “'I take this opportunity to convey to your excellency assurances of my respect.’ “Shortly after dawn I dispatched our hearcer of a flag of truce with the following reply, aduressed to Stoessel: “‘I have the honor to reply to your proposal to hold negotiations regard- ing the conditions and order of capitu- lation. For this purpose I have ap- pointed as commissioner Major Gen- eral Ijichi, chief of staff of our army. He will be accompanied by some staff officers and civil oficials. They wiil ommissicners Jan. 2, noon, iying. The commissioners of both parties will be empowered to sign a convention for the capitulation with: out waiting for ratification and cause the same to take immediate effect. Authorization for such plenary powers shall be signed by the highest officer of both the negotiating parties and the same shall be exchanged by the re- spective commissioners. | “‘1 avail myself of this opportunity to convey to y: exceliency assur- ances of my respect.” SQUADRON AT MAUAGASCAR ur ROJESTVENSKY'S DIVISION AN. CHORS IN RCADSTEAD OFF SAINT MARIE. Tamatave, Madagascar, Jan. 3.—Vice Admiral Rojestvensky's divisi second Pacific squadron, con: five battleships, thiee ciuis. transports Kamschatka and and the hospital ship Ore), anchor in the roadstead of Saint Marie dur- ing the day. The dispatch boat Libau afterwards visited Tamatave to file dispatches. She will rejoin the divi- sion later. The Libau reports that the Russian warships are in excellent condition despite the severe storms they have encountered. Tamatave is the chief port and cap- itol of the island of Madagascar. It Is situated on the east coast in about 18 degrees 10 minutes south. Saint Marie is an island north of Tamatave and not far from Madagas- car. The chief town of the island is also called Saint Marie. It has a good harbor, EVACUATED BY RUSSIANS. Suddenly Cease Firing From Keekwan ) Mountain and Vicinity. Tokio, Jan. 8.—A dispatch from the Japanese army before Port Arthur re- ceived at noon Monday says: “The enemy’s forces occupying Keekwan mountain and fort, following an explosion at 12:30 a. m., opened a sudden and fierce rifle fire, which: sud- denly stopped. Our scouts were dis- Dpatched to the scene and immediately afterwards found the ememy evacuat- ing these places. Our forces imme: diately occupied' these two forts and also the heights known as M and N, south of the forts. During the morn- ing almost all the enemy’s ships, larse and small, were blown up in the en-- trance and inside the harbo; offensive movements ha pended pending th JOYAND SORROW Tokio Wild—;fll Joy;sfi*-. render Kept From Russian People. Tokio, Jan. 3.—Tokio is wildly joy- ous over General Nogi's telegram an- nouncing that General Stoessel had sent a letter relating to the gurrender of Port Arthur. Newsboys crying ex- tras were the messengers who carried the news to the holiday crowds in the streets. The people grabbed the pa- Ders and repeated the'cries. Thus was the news carried thrfiughuut the city and within a few minutes the firing of aerial bombs and daylight rockets be- gan in various parts of the city. Bauds appeared and a score-of small proces- sions formed and surged through the principal streets. Japan has paid a heavy price for the Russian fortress. Tha prospect. of its early possession cheered"thd pevple as 1o other event of the war has done. PUBLICATIGN FORBIDDEN. Russian People Not Aware of the Fall of Port Arthur. St. Petersburg, Jan. 3.—The news that Guneral Stoessel, after sustaining eleven months’ siege, has at last yield- ed to the inevitable is not yet known to the Russian public, the announce- ment being forbidden until it is offi- cially confirmed from Russian sources, But the best informed circles at the war office, which are in possession of unpublished portions of dispatches taken by the torpedo boat destroyers to Chefoo describing the state of af- fairs in the beleaguered garrison, ac- cept the news as true and it is not too much to say that it was received al- most with 2 sense of relief, and the fact that the remnant of the heroic defenders is not reserved for sacrifice at a final storming and perhaps to be subjected to horrors -and excesses does not meet with a word of criticism in Russia. Even in defeat General Stoes- sel’'s wonderful defense of Port Arthur has earned for him an imperishable name in Russian military annals. Ever since confirmation was received of the ‘estruction of the Port Arthur squad- ron it had been felt both at the ad- miralty and at the war office that the main’ reason for the sacrifice of the last man in the defense of the fortress had gone and the progress made by the besiegers during the past fort- night culminating in the capture. of Wantai (Signal) hill, which broke the chain of inner eastern forts, made it certain that the end was at hand. ESCAPE TO CHEFOO. Four Russian Torpedo Boats Disarm at Chinese Port. Chefoo, Jan. 3.—The Russian tor- Dedo boats Skory, Stratni, Flastni ana Serdity, now in port, have been dis- armed and the Japanese destroyers Which followed them in have left the harbor. : The departure of the ships was de- cided upon at the council of war at Which it was determined to negotiate for a surrender of the fortress. Rear Admiral Wiren asked General Stoes- sel's permission to'save the destroy- ers, ete, which was readily granted. The destroyers, a transport and a launch crept out of the harbor between 6 and 11 Sunday night without encoun- tering the Japanese. It was deter-| mined to disarm the four destroyers,' ‘which lashed themselves together. { In the absence of a Chinese warship the commissioner of customs took charge of the Russian craft. The lat- ter ordered the crews of-the torpedo boat destroyers and & number of in- valid Russian soldiers who were on board of them to go to the Chinese fort, where quarters for them . are available. : JAPANESE ARE DRIVEN BACK ATTACK RUSSIAN POSITION AT MUKDEN IN EFFORT TO BREAK CENTER. & . Mukden, Jan, 3.—A heavy cannonade and rifle fire commenced on the Rus- sian center early. in the morming an MILLIONS AT STAKE Every Mortgage in South Da- kota Affected in a Big Suit. Sloux Falls, S. D., Jan. $.—The t. ing of mortgages amounting to mil- lons of dollars under the laws of South Dakota is dependent upon the outcome of a suit which is to be dis- posed of during an adjourned term of the staté circuit court, which is now in session in Clay county. Last spring the. county ‘commission- ers of that county, in accordance with 2 law enacted by the last legislature, assessed mortgages to the value of $700,000. The holders of these mort- gages allege that the law under which theso assessments were made-is un- constitutionat and.void.. . They therefore ‘instituted an action against the county commissioners. If, as the resulf of the suit, the law is declared constitutional mortgages will in future be assessed by the assessors of practically every county in South Dakota. DR.. CHADWICK MEETS WIFE. Pathetic Scene in the County Jail at Cleveland. Cleveland, Jan. 3.—Dr. Leroy S. Chadwick arrived in this city during the day and was immediately driven to the county jail, where he was reg- istered as a man against whom the law has a suspicion. .- Dr. Chadwick was then escorted to the woman’s ward, where he met his wife. Mrs. Chadwick flung herself into her husband’s arms and both wept con- vulsively. Mrs. Chadwick tried to im- bue her husband with the thought of her innocence of ahy wrongdoing. His only response was, “I hope so.” “Trust me, trust me,” was the con- stant cry of the woman. The doctor was dazed for a moment upon reaching the turnkey’s room. Emil Hoover had arrived at the jail while Dr. Chadwick was with his wife and was awaiting his stepfather in the office. The man grasped both hands of the boy and searched his face for a moment before either spoke. “Bmil,” slowly said the dostor, “it has been a long time since I saw you. Many things have happened since then.” The boy made no response to his stepfather’s remark and they started to leave the jail. “Has your regard for Mrs. Chadwick changed since her ?” began a questioner of Dr. Chadwick as they were leaving the jail. “I cannot say. anything,” interrupted the physician. “You will haye to talk with Mr. Dawley or Mr. Kerruish.” “There will be no statement,” said Mr. Dawley; “so you may as well let him rest.” 2 SHOT DEAD BY HER RIVAL. Indiana Woman Killed by Another Woman at a Dance. Logansport, Ind., Jan. 3.—TFlorence Mitchell shot and killed Ella Swisher during a dance at a roadhouse three miles from here. Both are young wo- men belonging to respectable families. Miss Swisher had danced repeatedly 'HILL BEATS HARRIMAN Struggle of Railroad Giants Results in Hill’s Victory. 5 Philadelphia, Jan. 3—The injunction restraining the Northern Securities company from distributing certain stock of the Northern Pacific pro rata among the stockholders was today dissolved by the United States Circuit court in this city. This is a victory for Hill oyer Harriman. FATALLY WOUNDS HIS WIFE. Missouri Man Then Suicides in Sight of a Crowd. Kansas City, Mo, Jan. 3.—After at- tempting tlie life of his wife, Mrs. Lizzic Gleeson, and in the belief that he had succeeded in hisefforts to kill her, George Gleeson, a liveryman of St. Joseph, leaned far out.of the Becond-story window of his motherin- law’s home here and cut his throat Wwith a razor from ear to car in sight of several hundred persons who had been atiracted by Mrs. Gleeson's Screams. There was no witness to the first pait of the tragedy except fhe young wife, who is now dying in the city hospital. Mrs. Gleeson was terribly wounded. Her throat and face were slashed with a razar-and ber hands and arms were badly cut while she struggled with the desperate man. After cuiting his throat Glee- son knocked down Mrs. Rudden, his mother-in-law, “when she tried to in- terfere and, rushing outside, - was chased two blocks by the crowd be- fore he fell- exhausted and succumbed to his wounds. The couple had been Separated and Gleeson had followed his wife here from St. Joseph in an endeavor to effect a reconciliation. When the woman refused to return home with him he attacked her. Gleeson was twenty-eight years old. His wife is cighteen years old. PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED. Enginéer Killed and Many Passengers Injured. Clarksburg, W. Va, Jan. 3.—The Pickins and Fairmont accommodation train on the West Virginia and Pitts- burg division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad ran into a landslide at Craddock, W. Va., and was wrecked. The engine plunged into the West Fork river and Engineer Carrico of Fairmont is pinned under the engine, fatally injured. Many of the passen- gers were bruised and shaken up, but none were seriously injured. The mail and baggage cars are buried under rocks and dirt and dynamite is being used to remove the debris. NINE ARE BURNED Fire at Morris Run, Pa., Wipes Out an En- tire Family. Elmyra, N. Y. January 3—Frank M. Newske, wife and seven children were today burned todeath in a fire at Morris Run, Pa. POLITICIAN SHOT DEAD. 8t. Louis Man Killed After Shaking Hands With lg,i: Slayer. St, Louis, Jan: 3.—Thomas E. Ga a local politician, was shot and killed by Henry B. Lut7, who was soon aft placed under - arrest. According witnesses Gavin and LutZ had shaken'. hands and wished each other a happy. new year when the shooting decurred. The ‘Bead body of.an unidentified man was found during the day. The police believe he was killed by a stray bullet fired. by some new year’s revel- ler. i COVERED WITH BURNING OIL. Wife Throws a Lamp at Her Husband and He Is Cremated. Boston, Jan. 3.—Thomas Morrissey is dead as the result of burns re- ceived during the day and Eleanor Morrissey, his wife, who threw a lighted lamp at her husband, is under arrest. The woman claims that she threw the lamp in an attempt to de: fend herself from her husband’s as- saults. The lamp broke against the wall and the blazing oil showered up- on her huspand. THREE LITTLE GIRLS DROWNED. Ice Broke While They Were Sliding on a Pond. St. Louis, Jan. 2.—Three little girls, Nancy Lucas, aged ten; Hazel Rollins, aged twelve, and Mertle Rollins, aged fourteen, were drowned mear Nor- mandy, a suburb, during the day. They ventured upon the ice of a small, deep pond, and were merrily sliding ‘when suddenly the ice broke and they plunged beneath. Their bodies were recovered. 7 JAP. WARSHIPS IN SIGHT. Interesting Developments Expected at Chefoer Chefoo, Jan. 3.—Three Japanese tor- pedo boat destroyers, after entering the harbor and making a demonstra- tion, joined other Japanese warships waiting outside. The opinion is general that interest- Ing developments are likely to occur during the night. Masks at Peterson’s. iP Al re-inventory ; [ ididd] with C- L. Morgan and, when leaving the dance hall, kissed him. As sie did so Miss Mitchell drew a revolver and fired at the girl. The second shot was fired as she went through the door and the third, which penetrated the heart, was fired a moment later. Miss Mitchell escaped but was. cap: tured on a train bound for Chicago. She i3 now in jail here charged with murder. SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED. Great Western Tr: Wrecked at Har- & lem, 1. 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