Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 1, 1904, Page 6

mo "herald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. One beauty about mimic warfare is: that no large pension list follows in its wake. ‘We may be shy on wheat, but who ares so long as the apple crop is larger than usual. Other ambitious prize fighters are trying to find out what brand of gum Champion Jeffries chews. That foxy young czarevitch got his pa to abolish flogging before he was old enough to get his share. With 2,000 men killed in one battle the Uruguayan revolution promises to rise to the dignity of a real war. There are some new rules in foot- ball this year, but the old directions for first aid to thé injured still hold good. Those who thought the Uruguayan revolution would not amount to much forgot how many political jobs are at stake. Three hundred gypsies landed a few days ago at Ellis island. This is the largest Romany Rye crop thus far re ported. Last month there were only forty: two suicides in Chicago. The forti- tude of the Chicagoese is something’ marvelous. An eastern scientist asserts that the woodpecker has a nerve extending the entire length of its bill. Just like the gas collector! Oklahoma day was a great success at the world’s fair. After all, what is so great an attraction as a bunch of beautiful women? Lewis Nixon is making ships fot the czar; his partner will make ships for the mikado. Uncle Sam’s boys always strive to please. The latest thing in drinks is the “Jeffries punch.” Properly landed under the belt it is said to give one the blind staggers all right. The New Jersey cranberry crop this year will be only about half as big s il was a year ago. Bad news for New Jersey, good news for Cape Cod. Nicaragua and Honduras are threat- ening to go to war, but may thiak bet- ter of it and agree upon a postpone- ment until they can get somebody to look. One of the Chicago papers prints a two column article on “Learning the Art of Conversation,” but what people realy ought to learn is the art of keep- ing still. The report of a battle in Uruguay, ich 6,000 men were killed and nded, lacks one important ingre- dient. It doesn’t bear the Chefoo date mark. in w wo “The great czar is, after all, only ‘a forked radish, with a head fantas- tically carved,” says the New York American. St. Petersburg . papers will not copy. Panama has invested $4,000,000 of her $10,000,000 in New York real es- tate. Now what will she do if New York gets recalcitrant some day and refuses to pay the rent? Queer coincidence! Gustave Fran- >, special envoy of King Leopold, o has been sent over here on a “peace mission,” arived here on the lay of the Munroe-Jeffries fight. King Edward has conferred -the in of the Royal Victorian Order mperor Nicholas and Emperor ancis Joseph. This is the modern y of putting emperors in chains. journals declare that n cloaks will reveal the figure. f when the figure is revealed the man that has to pay for it will fre- juently do a good deal of grumbling. We are told in the beauty columns that a young lady can as easily ac-\ guire the graceful round as the un- eful flat waist. It is also probably nuch more agreeable in the acquir- The fashion It is said that a diet of apples is sure cure for alcoholism. Then think of the heroic attempt your little boy is making to refrain from being a drunkard when he fills up on the half- ripe fruit. A Los Angeles woman who fs build- ing a house insists that the workmen plane off the boards they use. She says her sense of modesty *will not al- low the use of undressed lumber in erecting the structure. A Pittsburg man, mistaking a police sergeant for a hitching post the other evening, tied his horse to him. He must have been a foolish man. Hitch- ing posts don’t lean against buildings for the purpose of catching up on sleep. A new member just “initiated” in the New York stock exchange had his coat ripped up the back, his collar and necktie torn off and his hat pushed over his eyes and then knocked off and trampled on. Is that sort of thing teally funny? : . JAPS TO FLANK . | RUSSIAN LEFT GEN. KUROK!I MAKING AN IMPOR- TANT MOVEMENT EAST OF MUKDEN. FORCED FROM SINTSINTIN JAPANESE OUTPOSTS HAVE BEEN IN CONFLICT WITH COSSACK FORCE. Indications: are discerned at St. Petersburg that the Japanese are plan- ning a ‘flanking movement against Gen. Kuropatkin’s left, to compel re- tirement from Sintsintin. Gen Kuroki is supposed to design crossing the Hun river at a_ point considerably east of Mukden, from which he is ex- pected to move down that stream and co-operate with an army from Sian- chan, while Generals Oku and Nodzu hold Gen. Kuropatkin south of Muk- den. Japanese attacks on Da pass and Sanlungku are regarded as con- firmation of this theory. Outposts of Generals Oku and Nodzu have been in conflict with Cossacks between Bentsi- aputze and the railroad. No news has been received from Port Arthur. Crisis at Port Arthur. London, Sept. 28. — A cablegram from Chefu says a crisis has been reached at Port Arthur. Since the last assault the Japanese troops have made rapid progress on the chain of earth- works extending from Pigeon bay to Ttkushan. Large siege guns have been mounted which exceed in number and effective range those employed in any previous siege in the history of war- fare. Further reinforcements of men, guns, stores and ammunition are arriv- ing constantly, day and night, for the Besieging Army. Nothing is being left to chance in preparations to render the next attack successful. That attack, if one may rely upon what is learned from Japan- ese official opinion, is to be made with the object of driving out to sea the re- mains of the once formidable and still powerful Russian fleet from its pres- ent shelter in the east port. The Jap- anese assault will be directed against the strong forts west of Port Arthur, which command every part of the har- bor. At present the imprisoned ships are safe, but will try to leave before these positions are taken. TO Force a Speedy End of the War. With the purpose of forcing the war with Japan to a speedy termination, the emperor of Russia has taken steps to reorganize and reinforce the fight- ing force in the Far East. A second army is to be created, under command of Gen. Grippenberg, a veteran of many wars, and it is expected that within a comparatively short time there will be armies aggregating 600,- 000 to 700,000 men ready to take the aggressive against the Japanese. It is believed that Grand Duke Nicholas Michaelovitch will be made command- er-in-chief of the Russian armies in the Far East, with a soldier of more varied experience as his chief of staff. Will Not Attack Mukden. At Mukden it is believed that the Japanese will not make a frontal at- tack upon that city, but will seek to engage the Russians north or north- east of there, a purpose dictated by strategic reasons as well as by the desire not to offend the Chinese by making the sacred tombs of the em- perors the scene of bloodshed. Japs Take Important Forts. Chefu, Sept. 27.—As a result of the battle before Port Arthur which began on Sept. 19 the Japanese succeeded in capturing several important positions and the Russian tenure of the big forts guarding the north, northeast and west sides of the town is seriously threatened. Shinese information places the Japanese losses under 3,000 for the three days’ fighting,/and this comparatively small casualty list jis due to the excessive care used by the Japanese in making their prepara- tions For the Advance. Russian sources, however, claim to have inforniation that the Japanese losses were unusuaiiy severe, amount- ing to fully thre times the number mentioned above. Possibly the most important capture during the three days’ fighting was that of Fort Kuro- patkin, which, while -of minor value with regard to preventing the entrance into the town of the Japanese, had been constructed for the purpose of protecting the source of the garrison’s water supply. ‘ne control of the water supply is now in the hands of the Japanese. : Most Furious Assault Yet. Paris, Sept. 24. — The Matin’s St. Petersburg correspondent telegraphs as follows: Telegrams of which the general staff have as yet no .knowledge reached the emperor at 4 o'clock this morning. I can affirm that they con- cern Port Arthur, regarding which place the greatest anxiety prevails at court. The Japanese are now engaged in a general assault which Is More Furious than its predecessors, attacking the town on three sides simultaneously and employing their whole forces, be- ing determined to finish the business. Russian mines blew up whole battal- jons. Gen. Fock especially distin- guished himself, directing the fire from the wall, which the Japanese reached after indescribable massacre. The whole squadrons of Admiral Togo and Vice Admiral Kaminura’s squadron are aiding the struggle, which, it is feared here will. be final. The besieged forces are Fighting as in a Furnace. A perfect storm of shells is falling on the town, port and fortress from the whole hill and roadstead. Gen. Stoes- sel is going from fort to fort, encour- aging the defenders in their desperate efforts. In St. Petersburg details con- cerning the tragic event, which will perhaps terminate by a glorious fall of Port Arthur, are entirely unknown. At court hope has not yet been entire- ly abandoned. Japs Moving Against Enemy. St. Petersburg, Sept. 24—A detach- ment under Gen. Bennenkampf, while reconnoitering yesterday, lost two of- fficers and nine men killed and had three officers and twenty-three men wounded. Gen. Kuropatkin telegraphs that the Japanese continue. their attempts to turn the Russian left, but without success. According to the latest information received by the war office, Field Marshal Oyama’s advance forces are still thirty miles south and southeast of Fushun. The war office does not expect a battle at Fushun until after a series of rear guard engagements. Gen. Kuropatkin announces that the Japanese army at Bentsiaputze is be- ginning to advance northward. The outposts yesterday tried to capture Kaoutun pass, commanding the road to Fushun. The Russians are offering a stubborn resistance, which is likely to retard decisive operations. Russians Hold Passes. Kuropatkin has placed strong forces astride the Mukden and Fushun roads to Bentsiaputze. The Russians also are holding all the passes of the Da range, eastward of Bentsiaputze. A dispatch from Harbin announces that another Japanese regiment is moving further eastward, but it is re- garded as improbable that the Japan- ese will move in considerable force from Dziantchan along the roads lead- ing to Mukden, Fushun and Sintzin- tin. Severe fighting is probable before the Japanese succeed in reaching the Hun river. Japs Advance Slowly. The Japanese advance toward Muk- den continues slowly, according to in- formation received by the authorities. Both official reports and press dis- patches place Marquis Oyama’s ad- vance guard thirty miles south of Mukden, while stories printed in the foreign press that a great battle at Mukden already has begun are dis- proved by the actual development at the scene of operations. There is no question in the minds of the Russian authorities of the impor- tance of Mukden to the Japanese as a winter base. It is believed that the Japanese will exert every effort to push out the Russians, but it is thought a serious struggle for the pos- session of the town is still several days distant. Japs Get Forts. London, Sept. 23.—During the scar- city of news from Mukden, attention is again reverted to Port Arthur. Ac- cording to the Morning Post’s Japan- ese informants, two of “Kuropatkin’s forts,” which the Japanese are said to have occupied in the vicinity of Shuishiying, are Nantsai and Chang- kiatun, and their value to the besieg- ers consists in the former being close to the Antsushan forts and the latter to the Dragon Hill forts, the Object of the Japanese being td thrust a powerful wedge in the gap between the eastern and west- ern fortifications, through which the railway passes to Port Arthur from the north. \ Antsushan overlooks this gap, and though the Japanese failed to pene trate it sufficiently in the assault of three weeks ago, the persistency with which they returned to the charge is ‘held to prove that the taking of the gap is as sessential to the Japanese plan of campaign as it was a decade ago. 5 ~—e—e—enerrns 000000000 nnenennonnn BULLET IN THE BRAIN. Winnipeg Boy Accidentally Shot by Companion. ~ Winnipeg, Man., Sept. 27—The son of I. W. Martin, manager of the Gur- ney Stove and Range company, was shot through the head yesterday after-' noon and will die. A small rifle in the hands of the boy companion was acci- dentally discharged while they: were shooting in the suburbs and young Martin received the charge in his -braim. The boy is thirteen years old. CHILD ON THE FENDER. Duluth Motorman Prevents a Fatal Accident. Duluth, Sept.* 27. — A sensational rescue with a street car fender oc- curred on Lake avenue south last evening. George, the five-year-old son of.Charles Linnell, 727 Lake avenue, suddenly. appeared on the track in front of a swift moving car. Motor- man John Larson dropped the fender and caught the child, which was un- hurt JAPANESE GAIN IMPORTANT AD- VANTAGE AT PORT ARTHUR. MAINTAINING STRICT BLOCKADE FORWARD MOVEMENT AGAINST RUSSIANS AT TIE PASS IS IMMINENT. JO CHECK FLANKING MOVEMENT GEN. KUROPATKIN IS FORTIFYING FAKOMAN AS PART OF HIS PLAN. Shanghai, Sept. 28.—The Japanese have succeeded in cutting off the water supply at Port Arthur. They are maintaining the strictest block- ade at sea. The Russians north of Korea are marching toward the south. Battle Raged Intermittently. Chefu, Sept. 28. — Chinese say that the battle which begun Sept. 19 at Port Arthur continued intermittently until Sept. 24. In defending one fort the Russians rolled bean cakes down on the massed Japanese. These bean cakes are very heavy and are pressed into the shape of circular grindstones. Significant Movement. St. Petersburg, Sept. 28.—The war commission adjourned early last even- ing without issuing further news from the front. The Mukden telegram to the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger reporting that the Japanese had crossed the Hun river fifty miles above the city is believed to refer to scouting parties of Japan- ese whose presence there was report- ed in the Associated Press dispatches of Sept. 26. The movement of Japanese forces on the Liao river, which was reported in a dispatch from Gen. Sakharoff to the general staff on Sept. 26, is All the More Significant since Sianchin is the starting point of roads leading to Tie pass, Mukden and Sinmintin. The announcement that the Russians are fortifying Fakoman, twenty-five miles northeast of Muk- den, shows that Gen. Kuropatkin is preparing to check the flanking move- ment on Tie pass from the west in case Sinmintin should have to be evacuated. The entire absence of news from Port Arthur, it is feared, indicates a closer blockade there. Hitherte dis- patches from Gen. Stoessel have been coming through semi-weekly. The admiralty has not received any details of the reported Sea Fight Off Aniva, at the southeastern extremity of Sak- halin. The Vladivostok squadron, it is understood, is still in the harbor. The cannonading at Aniva was prob- ably a Japanese attack on blockade runners. A telegram received here from Ba- toum reporting that reservists are be- ing transported along the Caucassian coast, brings the first intimation that troops are being mobilized. There are only two army corps in the Cau- casus, and one of these has apparent- ly been ordered to the Far.East. In the Cause of Peace. London, Sept. 28.—The Daily Mail’s correspondent at Geneva states that Premier Gioletti’s projected visit to Chancellor von Buelow is connected with the cause of peace in the Far East, and that he intends visiting all the Europezn courts. PRINCE WANTS A DUEL. Brother-in-Law of Princess Louise Is Asked to Fight Philip of Coburg. Vienna, Sept. 28. — It is rumored that Prince Philip of Coburg, husband of Princess Louise, who recently eloped with Count Keglevitch-Mat- taesch, has challenged Count Elemer Lonyay, Louise’s brother-in-law, to a duel. Philip is said to have been dis- pleased by the action of Countess Lonyay in permitting the publication of the contents of a telegram sent to Emperor Francis’ Joseph, especially before the prince himself received a copy of it. SHOT HIMSELF DEAD Because Woman He Loved Refused to Recognize Him. New York,, Sept. 28. — Because a young woman with whom he was in- fatuated had refused to recognize him when they* met in a fashionable cafe last night, Carlo Frederiques von Bauditz, a wealthy young Venezuelan, shot himself in his apartments at the Hotel Endicott. VESUVIUS QUIETS DOWN. Throws Rocks Only About a Hundred and Fifty Feet Now. Naples, Sept. 28.—The eruption of Mount Vesuvius has greatly dimin- ished. The stones ejected from the crater do not now rise beyond a height of 150 feet. The authorities have relaxed the restrictions placed upon the people when the eruption was at its worst, and people are per- mitted to ascend the mountain. Many + Americans are making the trip to in- pect the voleano. Nothing Serious Will Result From Gurney Episode. Washington, Sept. 28.—The fine im- posed upon Hugh Gurney, third sec- retary 6f the British embassy, by Jus- tice Phelps at Lee, Mass., will be re- funded, the justice and the common- wealth will apologize and the incident will be closed. ‘Merely a tempest in a teapot,” as an official stated. How- ever, the usual ponderous machinery of the government used in cases of threatened international complica- tions was put in motion to prevent any possible friction as a result of the incident. The attorney general yesterday, at the request of the state department, telegraphed United States Attorney Moulton at Boston to take the necessary steps to secure Mr. Gurney in all his legal rights, to make a full investigation of the facts and to report the matter to the depart- ment at his earliest convenience. PROXIES ARE NABBED. Student Accused of Running Syndi- cate for Less Bright Men. New York, Sept. 28.—Isidor Fingal and Louis H. Lobar, students at Co- lumbia university, were arrested yes- terday charged with taking regent’s examination as proxies for others. The complainant against the young men is Charles F. Wheelock, chief ex- aminer of the examining bureau of the state department of education. Mr. Wheelock said: “There is a regular syndicate of bright young men who will pass an examination for anything for prices ranging from $20 to as high as $300. We have been trying to break it up, but have always heretofore let them go. This time we intend to push the case as far as we can, and make an example of these two alleged offend- ers. This is the first arrest that has ever been made on this charge.” RACE WITH FIRE KING. Blaze on Passenger Boat Causes Great Excitement. New York, Sept. 28. — Racing to reach her pier before a fierce blaze raging in her forecastle should spread |} to other parts of the boat, the steam- ship Allegheny steamed up the bay yesterday. While the excited passen- gers were being landed: the crew, which had been unable to fight the fire successfully, awaited the assis- tance of the fire boat New Yorker, which was soon playing two streams on the flames. There was considera- ble excitement in the harbor as the burning boat raced past, with the smoke pouring through port holes and companionways. Passengers on the ferryboats crowded to the nearest vantage point to watch the spectacle. MYSTERY IN SHOOTING. Story of Man Critically Wounded Not Accepted by Police. Sioux City, lowa, Sept. 28.—The po- lice are endeavoring to unravel a mys- tery involving the shooting of Ed Williams, who is lying at the point of death at the Samaritan hospital with a ragged wound in_ his left breast where a load of bird shot was fired Saturday night.. Williams was found lying in a pool of blood in a down town street. He said he had been shot by a saloon man, but the police have discovered circumstances which indi- cate that Williams and another man approached the home of a wealthy hermit named Baptiste Bertram, a Frenchman, Saturday night, and that one of the men was shot. SCORE HURT IN WRECK. Passenger Train on the lron Moun- tain Road Meets With Accident. St. Louis, Sept. 28. — South-bound passenger train No. 17 on the St. Louis & Iron Mountain railroad, was partially derailed yesterday near Vul- can, Mo., 125 miles from here. Twen- ty p ms were injured, none of whom is thought to be seriously hurt. The cars derailed were the baggage, chair car, coach and sleeper. The wrecking train with the general superintendent of the road and phy- sicians, has left St. Louis.. Informa- tion is awaited at headquarters as to the extent of the damages and the names of the injured. FIRE CAUSES HEAVY LOSS. Damage to Wholesale Carpet Building Reaches $250,600. Keokuk, Iowa, Sept. 28.—During a terrific electrical storm early yester- day a bolt of lightning struck the Collins-Heatslip wholesale carpet building. As a result the structure was completely dectroyed by the fire. The loss is estimated at $250,000. Lady Curzon Is Worse. London, Sept. 28.—A dispatch from Walmer castle to a local news agency says: “It is learned on good authority that Lady Curzon has undergone a change for the worse and that her condition is critical.” Fire Destroys a Mill. Harrisburg, Sept. 28. — Fire early this morning destroyed the four-story hosiery mill of W- H. Shaeffer at Wi- coniscc, a mining town near here, to- gether with twelve other buildings. Loss estimated at $100,000. Confesses to $10,000 Theft. Des Moines, Sept. 28. — William Smith and Charles Jennings yesterday confessed to the theft of $10,000. worth of diamonds from O. Cohen of this city last June. The men got fourteen years in the pen. i |PLOT TO WRECK A BATTLESHIP VANDALS WOULD’ HAVE _ DE- STROYED THE WORK OF MANY MONTHS. TO RUIN HULL OF CONNECTICUT OBSTRUCTIONS PLACED ON WAYS FROM WHICH IT WAS TO BE LAUNCHED. PLOT IS DISCOVERED BY DIVERS ARMED WATCHMEN ON GUARD TO PREVENT ANOTHER ATTEMPT. New York, Sept. 28.—With the in- tention of ruining the hull of the bat- tleship Connecticut, which will be launched at the New York navy yard Thursday, some person or persons placed an obstruction on the ways. When it was placed there or by whom is not known, for it was not discov- ered until divers were sent down to make an investigation. This investi- gation was made as a precaution and the naval officers then learned that an obstruction had been placed on the ways that would have destroyed the work of months. | Officers at the navy yard would not discuss the matter at all yesterday, and it would not have become known if, in addition_to the special guard of marines, twe watchmen had not been stationed at the stern of the vessel With Loaded Revolvers and instructions to fire at any suspi- cious object in the water. It is be- lieved that the obstruction was brought to the yard and placed in po- sition from a boat. As is usual before a large ship is launched divers were sent dowh to see that the w were clear. They went down for the first time on Sat- urday, and since the obstruction was found they have been making the most careful examination. They will be sent down for the last time to-day before the ship is launghed, and Naval Constructor Baxter, who has charge of the launching, will be satisfied that everything is all right before he gives the signal which will send’ the great battleship into the water. M’'COY GETS DECISION. Twenty-Round Fight Twin Sullivan. Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 2 McCoy given the dec Jack (Tw Sullivan of Boston at the end of| the twenty rounds at the Pavilion last night. The fight was a With Fierce fierce one from the start, both men taking advantage of every rule that was short of actual fouling. McCoy punished Sullivan. severely, having his nose and mouth bleeding in every round after the fifth. Barring the un- fair tactics of the men, which did no damage, the fight was a good one. Sullivan appeared to be in the better condition, and although he was groggy at the end of several rounds and down for the count in the twelfth, he recuperated quickly and came back in each successive round strong. Mec- Coy tired after the twelfth, but was so much the better ring general and boxer that he was able to take it easy whenever he ch WARSHIP IS LOST AT SEA. British Torpedo Boat Destroyer Meets With Peculiar Accident. London, Sept. 28. — The British torpedo boat destroyer Chamois has been lost off the Island of Cephalonia in the Mediterranean. All on board were saved. The Chamois was 216 feet long, was of 360 tons displace- Waodassoy payeo1pul g0e‘¢ pur yUEw and carried a crew of y-two of- ficers and men. She was built in 1896 and carried one 12-pounder quick- firing gun, five 6-pounder quick-firing guns and two training tubes for 18- inch torpedoes. While going at full speed on a trial a screw blade came off, pierced the bottom of the destroy- er and she sank. Two of the stokers were scalded. ELEVEN VESSELS WRECKED. Driven Ashore by Heavy Gale on the Coast of Labrador. St. John’s, N. F., Sefit. 28. — The steamer Virginia, from Labrador, re- ports that the coast was swept by a heavy gale last week and that eleven vessels, mostly fish-laden, were driven ashore, the greater portion of them being totally wrecked. Seven sailors belonging to two craft were drowned. The crews of the other vessels wrecked, reached shore. ACCIDENT AT LAUNCHING. Two Hundred Persons Thrown From a Platform and Many Injured. Milford, Del., Sept. 28.—Two hun- dred persons were thrown from a platform and fell thirty feet at the launching of the schooner Charles J. James yesterday. Fifteen of them were seriously injured. A‘spike which held the platform gave way and the entire structure fell. Physicians of Milford were summoned, and with nurses and others who volunteered their services, attended to the injured. | wom a