The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 26, 1904, Page 1

Rain Friday; southeast winds. Forecast made at San Pran- cizco for thirty hours ending midnight, Pebruary 26: San Francisco and vicinity— brisk to high A. G. McADIE, District Porecaster. J ‘ | AR R TEE THEEATERS. Alcazar — “The Albam Chut @rand—“Th henm: 'o-Day. bra—"The California—"“Human Hearts.” Ceatral—“King of the Opinm -Vaudeville. Columbia—"014 Pischer's—"Roly-Foly.” Gamekeeper.” audeville. Mr. ‘Band. Wrong e Kilties” . Vé?‘? @ Matinee Tivoli— Wher Johnny Comes | Marching Home.” | . SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY; FEBRUARY 26, 1904. PRICE FI\'I’. CEN RUSSIANS REPULSE ATTACK ON PORT ARTHUR; NORTHERN MANCHURIA INVADED BY THE JAPANESE LONDON, Feb. 26.---Following the disastrous attempt by the Japanese to sink merchant vessels in the harbor at Port Arthur, with the object of blocking the channel to prevent the escape of the Russian fleet, Admiral Togo’s warships returned early on Thursday morning and renewed the bombardment. Alexieffs chief of staff to the Czar reports a general repulse of the Japanese. heavy. Manchurxa with the ob;ect of getting behind the Russmn forces and cutting their base of supplies. MGHWAYVEN IPRISON & NIGHT CLERK Commit Daring Crime| in Portland and Get Away. Attempt to Plunder Safe in| Office of a Railroad Company. Employe in Freight Car After | o Force Him by Threats | to Open Strong Box. { PSS & patch to The Call N If M. E athern Pa- + #ad known company’s safe d be richer by About stepped nt- a up ugh his tch and some him into open the the rob- They safe and - did not & racting ——— BRYAN'S SUIT DEMURRED 70 BY BENNETTS WIDOW Nebraskan Consults With Probate Judge Cleaveland on Matters Per- taining to Document. w BISCOE UNDER ON THE OREGON | PAYMASTER ARREST Charge of Neglect Against Him Pre- nent—His Accounts gton Straight. vents Detac in Washi e detached at pres- 1 by the department n pl laced under ar- | a charge of neglec vesterday in The | Seawell Too HI to Travel. b. 19.—The United | xh p Supply, which | ¥ remain hv'e,‘ ernor Sewell’s , and it may be | continue on the isco. While the | some slight im- ing in port, it is 1 the Suppl:- for further orders can be Washington. Jett’s Attorney Indicted. Ky., Feb. 25.— The to-day returned indict- | nst B. F. French, attorney for Curtis Jett, and Ed Callahan. for- mer Sheriff of Breathitt County, on the charge of subornation of perjury in the late Jett-White trials. A brief dispatch from Viceroy Private advices from a Russian source declare the losses of the Japanese were More interesting than the Port Arthur battle is the confirmation of the news that a Japanese army has landed near Vladivostok to begin an invasion of northern Yladivostok itself may be attacked by land and sea. RUSSIAN W ARQHI PS IN THE PORT ARTHUR HARBOR RESISTING AN ATTACK BY THE J\P-\\EQE FLEET UNDER ADMIRAL TOGO. . Japanese Army Lands Near Vladivostok and Invades Northern Manchuria. Special Cablegram to The Call and New York Herald. the New York Herald Publishing Company. YINKOW, Feb. reports that the Japanese landed at Possiet Bag.and subsequently undertook operations st Hunchun and™eward Kirin have received qualified con- firmation from English missionary refugees who have arrived at Newchwang. These persons say the Russo:Chinese Bank has removed from Kirin to Kwanchongtsi, where commercial terests are seeking safety and defense. This reported advance ‘1:: produced consternation among European civilians residing n the line of march. It is reported also that the Russian Gov- ernment bureau at Vladivostok has withdrawn to Khabarovsk. Possiet Bay is in Russian Manchuria, about Seventy-five miles southwest of Vladivostok. Hunchun is on the left bank of the Tumen River and about forty miles to the west of Possiet is a big Manchurian town, and lies about 220 miles inland and to the west of Possiet Bay. Kwanchongtsi is about eighty miles west of Kirin. Khabarovsk is about 400 miles to the north of Vladivostok, with which port it is connected by a railway. ]O\DO\ Feb. dispatch : “NEWCHWANG, Feb. 25.—Rev. W. H. Gillespie, a mis- sionary, has arrived at Kwangcheng. He states that the Jap- anese have landed at Possiet Bay and south of Vladivostok and have advanced to Hunchun. The Russian garrison fled. The Japanese are marching on Kirin, from which women and civil- ians are leaving in'a panic.” The Mail, in commenting. on the foregoing statement that the objective pomt of the Japanese is Kirin, says that in that case a long march will have to be made over a very formidable country and through mountain chains in extremely severe weather, but that the very difficalty of the route may have led the Russians to leave it unguas ded. d In a cablegram.from Shanghai a correspondent of the Daily Mail reports the arrival there of the Japanese cruisers Idzumo, Suma and Akitsushima. The Tientsin correspondent of the "Continued on Page 4, Columns 2 and 3. .’,.*.\‘m\c in- Pay. 25.—The Daily Mail prints the following | l i r i | Copyright, 1904, by | SACRED IMAGE TO ACCOMPANY RUSSIAN ARMY M Russia has been sent to sburg and will be taken later to the Far East with the army. This image is csentation of the Virgin appearing to St. Sergius, and is always kept at the Troitzko Monastery. It is about one foot square and.is covered with pre- cious stones. The image has a remarkable history. It accom- panied Alexis, Peter the Great and Alexander I on all their campaigns. A silver tablet at- tached to it enumerates the bat- tles at which the image was present. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 25. Following the dispatch of Major General Pflug, saying the Jap- anese bhad agnin attacked Port Arthur on Thursday morning and had been repuised, Viceroy Alexieff has sent Ia an identical report to the Czar. The fact that the Japanese hiave renewed the attack is interpreted here to mean that they are determined to bottle up or destroy the Rus- sian fleet at Port Arthur, in or- der to give themselves freedom for land maneuvers to cat off or invest the city, or as a feint to cover'a new move elsewhere. General Kuropatkin has started for home to take leave of his mother before going to the Far East. He is quoted as hl‘ ing said: “This war may last eighteen months, but every arrangement has been made that no Japan- ese, after being landed, shall re- turn to his country.” Count Benckendorff, Russian Embassador to Great Britain, who returned here a few days ago from London, had a lengthy audience with the Czar to-day. Grand Duke Michael, heir presumptive to the Russian throne, and Gnnd Duchess Olga, his sister, went to the Chapel of the Savior M, o pray for Russian m. OSCOW. Feb. 25.—The most sacred image in +fTogos Warships Driven Back by Defenders of Rus-. sian Stronghold. Special Cablegram to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. ST. PETERSBURG, chief of staff of Viceroy Alexieff, to-day’s date: “The enemy again attacked Port Arthur from 1 to 2 o'clock this morning and was everywhere repulsed. Details follow.” No further official dispatches was received, but a Russian news agency announces that the Japanese attack was brilliantly repulsed and that the Japanese suffered heavy losses. PARIS, Feb. 25.—In a dispatch from St. Petersburg a cor- respondent of the Echo de Paris says the last, or reported sec- ond attack of the Japanese at Port Arthur, was repulsed bril- liantly. He says the Japanese were obliged to quit the road- stead. It is presumed that the entire squadron joined in the second attack, hoping to avenge the repulse of the preceding day. The Japanese are thought to have incurred further losses during this long fight. Admiral Stark has telegraphed that he expects a third attack. CHEFU, Feb. 235, 7:15 p. m.—Arrivals from Port Arthur report a naval engagement at the entrance of Port ‘Arthur harbor on Tuesday after midnight. The Russians received timely warning from three torpedo-boat destroyers, which met the Japanese fleet twenty miles off Port Arthur. The Japan- ese fleet approached to within eight miles of the entrance and commenced the attack. The first to retaliate were the forts, fol- lowed - by the Petropolavsk, the Novik, the Pallade and the Askold. " The engagement lasted until daylight, when the Jap- anese retired. 1 am unable to® ascertain -the details of the losses on-both sides, but it is szid the Japanese had two ships sunk and three disabled. The Port Arthur forts had five guns silenced. The damage to the town was serious. One shell struck amid the anchorage of junks, blowing many to atoms. The Newsky works and the engine works were struck three times. Several shells fell just short of the arsenal, but striking the mud wall surrounding it and doing no damage. Judging from Continued.on Page 4, Columns 5 and 6 .—DMajor General Pflug, the telegraphs as follows, under hicH MISER DIES AT A POR FARN Officials Find His Treasure in an 01d Trunk. ' Discovery of His Wealth Is Not Made Until Aiter His Burial. Body Now Rests in a Pauper’s Grave, but Will Be Exhumed When His Relatives Are Found. SRR L SEATTLE, Feb. 25 ly full of a red calice stock in an Francisco an ment of the s of forty years ago was the strang lection which met the eyes of the officials of the county poor farm yesterday when they opened the battered trunk of an old man who died suppose: a pauper, but really worth $600 in cash and about $7000 in securities, at that institution Febru- ary 4. The man was W' —A cigar box near. am Edgar. He be- m a garret wed to stand ee weeks. The ¢ i in a pauper's grave. s r the emp! dragged the trunk burn it and out supposedly the hidden wealth > worth- little fortune has been k and the investment tock has y the au- g made to if he has any, in or- may be turned over been communicated wi thorities. An effort is find hisirelatives, der that the | to. them. WALLACE HAM } BETRAYS TRUST Manager of Boston Branch of American Surety Company Is Arrested for Larceny it BOSTON, Feb. 25.—Wallace Ham, manager of the American Surety Com- pany’s Boston branch office, was ar- rested to-day on a charge of larceny, the total amount involved being $108,000 according to Chief Inspector Watts. Ham is 48 years of age. He is married and has several children. Although the sum mentioned in the warrant is $104,000, the American Surety Company in a statement issued to-day announced that the net shortage was $190,000, and that the accounts of St. Luke's Home for Convalescents and of St. Paul's Church, this city, for each of which Ham was trustee, were af- fected as well as those of the surety company. NEW YORK, Henry L. Lyman Feb. of 25.—President the American | Surety Company said to-day that Wal- | lace H. Ham had been the Boston agent of the eompany for nearly seven years and was highly recommended when he secured the position. The Boston | branch office of the American Surety Company is considered the most im- portant in the country and the volume of business which it transacts is enor- mous. It is said Ham has made a full confession. e —————— LIST OF ME KILLED AT JACKSON IS GROWING SALT LAKE, mh. Feb. 25.—Sam-~ uel Sortes, another of the Greek la- borers injured in the dynamite horror at Jackson, died to-day in the hospital at Ogden. This makes twenty-eight victims of the explosion. Nine of the bodies were interred at Ogden to-day with impressive ceremonies. Only twenty-four bodies have been 2 up to now. It was sup- :;:2:1‘::::( twenty-five were killed, but twenty-eight are known to be dead and four others are missing. C areful inquiry made by the Coroner and the jury show that half a dozen or more were killed in addition to those pre- viously reported