The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 15, 1904, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1904. MIKADO e TO THE .BE ORDERS CAPTURE OF PORT ARTHUR AT ANY COST REINFORCEMENTS SENT SIEGING ARMY Qperations Against General Kuropatkin Will Be Suspended Until the Russian Strong- hold Is Taken. CHEFU. Aug. 15—A Chinese junk just arrived reports that the Russians | Catholic Mission in Honolulu as the end the Japanese at Port Arthur on ";]-r lé'nn. August Driier‘- lh‘; s W R R N o] We y German sugar planter o August § agreed Lo a short armistice 1030, 5; " ag 5 memorial to his late | hter, Juanita, who died recently TERSBURG, Aug. 14.—The|in California. has received the follow- corresponden worthy author- s ordered that pension of oper- d it is quite panese force will thur within a few s that 1y has as taken bodies, y two ge lar the heights between Lungwungtao n- Bay and the other on the Guns have been st of the Wolf RSBURG, Aug. 15, »m the official report i affair and the flood ms from Liaoyang and actual news from the jved. There is a Port Arthur has be confirmed. additional news regard- ing reabouts of the vessels of 1 ¥ squadron, save that telegram which is atches, that at Port Arthur is a des- Apparently the Japanes all tion '3 their energi of the fortre heavy reinforc ions against Gen- d it is believed that been accomplished the ng will be suspen Friday, Aug. 12.—The particulars of the k on Port Arthur on given by a Russian corre- pee nese on July 25 sent a sum- = fortress to surrender and « [ their intention to T On the following morning at ncentrated the fire Hill. Many of with melinite, noxious gases. Their supplemented by the and the Japanese in- d forward to attack the of the Green Hill position. a perfect cloud of shells bardment was the heavie: g the siege. During the day artillery sent in from 25,- 0 round: failed utterly despite the k they on were off men tenaciously. the attackers were forced back ision to abandon the Woif ew of this attack and that on s of the line was made on the troops fell back to Port in the interest of the question of an i to bury the dead, who were n the field in enormous numbers.” OYANG, Saturday, Aug. 13.—All on the Eastern front. Ap- the Japanese are not attempt- quiet par 4ng any further advance on Liaoyang, b it are tu 1l their attention to ning which there is uneasiness. ming in of several Port Ar “wr during It is said that on the Japanese had before 100,000 men and 450 guns, hich are howitzers. ning fifty of w Tt is reported that the Japanese are occupying Yinkow with a small force, mn of 3000 is moving e Liao River. but up that the GERMAN PLANTE GIVES CATHOLICS NEW CATHEDRAL Handsome Sacred Edifice of Blue Island Stone to Be Erected in Honolulu. | HONOLULU, Aug. 6.—An imposing ,000 Catholic cathedral of blue is d stone to take the place of the present old cathedral of historical as- nents have lefl{ one | P N R Naval Cadets to See Service. VALDIVOSTOK, Aug. 14. — The commandant of the port has notified the pupils of the upper class of the naval schools to hold themselves in readiness to assist either in the forti- fications or on the vessels of the squadron. A portion of the lower classes also may be called out. —— Cruiser Stops a British Steamship. PLYMOUTH, England, Aug. 14.— The Peninsular and Oriental Line steamship Oceana, from Bombay to London, reports that a Russian cruiser | stopped and examined the British { India Steam Navigation Company’s | steamship Goorkha on August 11 near Sagres, in the extreme southwest of Portugal and four miles southeast of | Cape St. Vincent. The Goorkha was | allowed to proceed. B Japan’s Empress Warm Hearted. | CHEFU, Aug. 15.—It is said here f«h:u the Empress of Japan suggested | that the Japanese arrange with the Russians for the safe departure of women and children and non-combat- ants from Port Arthur to Dalny. Editor’s Wife Called by Death. SONOMA, Aug. 14.—Mrs. Kate Gran- ice, wife of H. H. Granice, edito: of the Sonoma Index Tribune, died at her home here very suddenly this after- noon, after an illness of one week. Mrs. | Granice was born in San Franciscc in 1861. She was a prominent Woinan's Club member and was a delegate to the late Federation of Women's Clubs that | convened in St. Louis last May. ————— American Fleet at Cape Town. CAPE TOWN, Aug. 14.—The United States South Atlantic squadron, con- sisting of the cruisers Brooklyn and Atlanta and the gunboats Marietta and Castine, commanded by Rear Admiral Chadwick, arrived here to-day. From Cape Town the squadron will go to St. Helena, thence to Bahia, Brazil. — e Death of Marie Coustier. * ALAMEDA, Aug. 14.—Marie Louise Coustier died at the home of her pa- rents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Coustier, in this city last night. Miss Coustier had re- sided in Alameda the greater part of her life. She was a native of France, | aged twenty-three years. —_—————— | Distinguished Engineer Dies. | NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—George | Clinton Gardner, the distinguished | rallway man and engineer, is dead at his home in Richmond Hill, aged 70 years. His father, Colonel Charles K. Gardner, formerly was adjutant gen- eral of the army. —_———— Will Not Change System. CITY OF MEXICO, Aug. 14 —Rumors having got into circulation that before long the Government will carry‘through a plan of monetary reform, placing Mexico on a gold basis, it is now au- thoritatively denied that any change in the currency is likely to occur soon. —_————— Says He Was Robbed. John Morrison, living at 161% Clara street, reported at the Southern station late last night that he had been beaten and robbed of $4 80. ‘He says he was on his way home when |he was attacked by several men on Fifth street, near Clara. He later went |to the Receiving Hospital to have | bruises on his face dressed. ——————— Improvements planned in Rio de Jan- eiro involve a street length of nine miles and the destruction of 1656 build- i ings. —_————— You may have observed that a bachelor can hold a baby almost as i awkwardly as a woman can throw a | stone. 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TOKIO, Aug. 14.—The Navy De- partment has issued the following | statement covering the Chefu incident: “According to reports received to date the Asashiwo and Kasumi, be- longing to the first destroyer flotilla, Captain Fujimoto commanding, were dispatched in search of the enemy’s ships scattered during the engagement on the night of August 10. They found & vessel resembling one of the enemy’s destroyers and gave chase, but lost her in the darkness. DEMANDS ARE IGNORED. “Continuing the search they dis- cov d that she had entered the port of Chefu. I “The Japanese ships waited outside the port, but the Russian failed to leave. “Captain Fujimoto, fearing Iits escape by night, if possible, to attack merchant vessels, entered Chefu with the two destroyers and found the Rus- sian destroyer Ryeshitelni remaining undisarmed. “Lieutenant Terashima was then sent to the Russian vessel with a mes- sage to the effect that the Japanese commander expected him to leave by dawn or surrender. “The Russian commander refused to comply with either demand and while the conference was still going on .he was heard instructing his men to blow up the ship. “At the-same time he caught hola of Lieutenant Terashima and threw him overboard. “Qur interpreter was next thrown overboard by some Russian sailors and others among the sailors showed signs of resistance. “While this was progressing the SALT LAKE FAST DRYING Systematic Surveys Show Its Level to Be Lowering at a Very Remarkable Rate FELL FOUR FEET IN 1900 ientists Figure Its Lease of Existence to Be Between Thirty and Fifty Years Yet Statistics indicate that Great Salt Lake, the Dead Sea of America, is doomed—that it is gradually drying up. The opinion now almost universally prevails among scientists that this mysterious body of water, located at an altitude of 4210 feet above sea level and a thousand miles inland, and which has but a single rival, the Dead Sea of Palestine, is certain within the course of half a century to disappear from the map. Some scientists, who have made a careful study of the fluctua- tions of the lake, even declare that it will be dried up within a quarter of a century. Varlous statistics of climatic condi- tions, including precipitation records, are complete for Utah back to 1863, with scattering accounts for many pre- ceding years, and it has been possible from these data, although the problem is far from being a simple one, to arrive at these and other conclusions— conclusions so well founded, as shall herein be shown, that the predicted destiny of the lake cannot well be dis- puted. The lake is subject to annual fluctua- tions, which, up to the 1st of July of each year, give a rise of water level usually amounting to about twelve inches; after July 1 it begins to fall, and the fall is invariably greater than the preceding one. We have statistical proof that this has been going on for thirty-five years. In the meantime, however, in addition to the lake's an- nual fluctuations, there have been wet and dry cycles which temporarily affect the lake’s level to a very great extent. During one of these wet cycles the level may rise several feet, but, like the an- nual rises, it always fails to reach the mark set by the preceding ome. In drawing conclusions these facts must necessarily be taken into consideration. From the close of the year 1886 to the close of 1902, sixteen years, there has been a total fall of eleven and a half feet. While this is considered alarming, measurements show that the shrinkage has been even more rapid during the past three years than for any other like period in the sixteen, the average fall being one foot per year—that is, one foot after deducting the preceding annual rise. At this ratio in forty years the level will be a cor- responding number of feet below its present standard, which means that the lake bottom will practically be a dry, salt desert. The water in what is known as the north arm is now a little less than forty feet deep, and this is considered the deepest portion of the lake. This is one way of reckoning the time until the Great Salt Lake will cease to be. Here is another: 5 Sixteen years ago, in 1886, the area of the lake's surface was estimated at about 2700 square miles. Taking twen- ty feet as the avérage depth at that time, we have 1,505,433,600,000 cubic feet as the contents of the lake. To-day, according to recent surveys, the lake has an area of about 2125 square miles. Multiplying this number by eleven and a half, the number of feet in depth of the water that has disappeared and not been replaced, gives 669,778,400,000 cubic feet as the quantity of water less than what it had sixteen years ago; or, leaving 835,655,200,000 cubic feet as the lake's present contents. At this ratlo of decrease in quantity in less than twenty-five years the lake will be waterless. 2 s To show the effect of cycle fluctua- tions and how the lake is steadily shrinking despite temporary .a e i forward magazine exploded, killing and injuring some of our men. We then captured the destroyer and re- tired. “Our loss by the explosion was one man killed and four men mortally wounded. “Lieutenant Terashima, our inter- preter and nine others of the board- ing party were wounded.” RUSSIA MAKES PROTEST. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 14—By command of the Emperor, Foreign Minister Lamsdorff has 'instructed Nelidoff, the Russian Embassador in Paris, to request France, on behalf of Russia, to- lodge a strong protest with the French Minister at Tokio, Harmand, against what is described as an outrageous violation of Chinese neutrality and of universally recog- nized principles of international law involved in the Japanese attack on the Russian torpedo-boat destroyer Rye- shitelni in a neutral harbor. The foreign powers have been in- formed of the Russian declaration and the Russian Minister in Peking, Paul Lesser, is charged to protest to the Chinese Government with reference to the serious consequences the viola- tion of neutrality which she permitted may entail. The Emperor has recefved the fol- lowing telegram from Captain Shes- taskovsky, commander of the Russian destroyer Ryeshitelni: “On_August 11 I arrived at Chefu from Port Arthur with the Ryeshitelni, bearing important dispatches, having effected a passage through two block- ading lines. 3 “According to the orders of Rear Ad- miral Grigorovitch, I disarmed the ship and lowered my flag. All formal- ities were duly carried out. “On the early morning of the 12th I was in port when I was piratically at- tacked by the Japanese, who had ap- proached with two torpedo-boats and a cruiser, and who sent a party under an officer as though to enter into pour- parlers. Not having arms to resist, 1 ordered the making of preparations to blow up my ship. p “When the Japanese began to hoist their flag I insulted the Japanese of- ficer by striking him and throwing him J TOKIO ISSUES A STATEMENT ABOUT THE CHEFU INCIDENT Makes the Claim That the Russian Cruiser Ryeshitelni Had Not Disarmed and That Her Crew Attacked the Japanese Party Sent Aboard. . into the water. I then ordered my crew to throw the enemy into the sea. Our resistance, however, proved unavailing and the Japanese togk possession of the boat. “Explosions occurred in the engine- room and in the fore part of the ves- sel, but the Ryeshitelni did not sink and was taken from port by the Jap- anese. I hope they will not be able to take her to one of their ports. “My officers and crew have been saved with the exception of an engineer and a stoker. Four others were slightly wounded. s “Naval Ensign Petroff, who resisted the hoisting of the Japanese flag, re- ceived a severe blow in the chest with the butt of a musket, causing an in- ternal hemorrhage. I received a wound in the right thigh from a bullet. “The conduct of the officers and crew vas' above all praige. The Imperial Vice Consul extended the greatest hos- pitality and sympathy to us.” The Emperor has received a supple- mental report from Viceroy Alexieff, stating that the commander of the Ryeshitelni had surrendered to the Chinese admiral the breechlocks of the guns and all arms aboard and lowered his ensign and pennant. WILL NOT BE RETURNED. CHEFU, Aug. 14.—The Russian tor- pedo-boat destroyer Ryeshitelni, fly- ing the Japanese flag, was sighted near the Elliott Islands on the even- ing of August 12. She” was being towed by a Japanese torpedo-boat de- stroyer. Japanese arriving here from Dalny communicated with the destroyer es- corting the RyeShitelni and they were informed that a careful examination of the Ryeshitelni after her capture by the Japanese showed that the Rus- sians had not rendered her completely | ineffective before her capture. A tor- pedo’ was still in a torpedo tube, its propeller only having been. removed. The torpedo, towed by might have been used effectively _against the Japanese. It was also claimed that, whlie the breeches of her guns had been unhinged, several remained on board. The Japanese Consul here states that his Government has no idea of returning the Ryeshitelni. chart has been prepared indicating the action of the level for the past forty years, commencing with 1863. The level then stood at two feet above the zero point. For the four yea following the precipitation was very great. In consequence of this the level went up at almost the rate of two feet a year until 1868, when it stood at 13% feet above zero—the highest level on record. Then there was a turning point, and in the next five years there was a drop of 7% feet. Again there was an increase in the precipitation, and the lake's level rose until in 1875 it reached 12% feet above zero. 4 It is from this year forward that the real shrinkage of the lake becomes evi- dent. A steady decline has been in progress since then, and only once has there been a rise of any consequence. It began in 1883 and continued until 1886, when the level registered at 9 feet above zero. Now the precipitation pre- ceding this rise was only 1 inch less than that which preceded the rise of 1875, yet there was a difference of 312 feet in the two water levels. In 1900 the greatest fall on record was registered, and during the year the; level went down nearly 4 feet. This oocurred despite the fact that the rain chart shows that the precipitation for five years preceding this time was above the normal. The lake now stood at 1 foot below zero. During 1901 it fell only 2 inches, but again in 1902 it took another downward leap, reaching 3% feet below zero. In June of the past year, 1903, the season at which, accord- ing to previous records, the level usually stands at the highest point, it was 3 feet 9 inches below zero, and still falling. The annual rise this year amounted to about 1 foot, as usual, and yet it is more than 2 feet lower than it was this time last year. The precipita- tion this year, too, has been much greater than it was last. It is therefore seen that the total fall from 1886 to June of the present year amounts to 11 feet 9 inches—a fall that has occurred despite normal precipitation. Such has been the rising and falling of Great Salt Lake since the white man has become its observer. Its actions before that time can only be summarily told by the lake’s surroundings; and a geological investigation of the nine mountainous islands within the lake and of the higher elevations inclosing it discloses evidence that once the level approximated about 600 feet above the present surface. This evidence is in the nature of anclent water marks on the sides of the elevations. —_—————— FLOW OF CALIFORNIA RIVERS. The following table gives a comparative statement for two years of the estimated flow of certain California rivers in cubic feet per second, or second feet. The figures for the last year may be revised by later measure- ments. The figures are by W. B. Clapp, bydrographer, United States Geological Survey: TUOLUMNE RIVER AT LA GRANGE. Second Feet. DATE, This report Includes water taken out in Mo- desto and Turlock Irrigation District canals. SACRAMENTO RIVER AT IRON CANYON. Second Feet. July 31, August August August August August August TULE RIVER AT McFARLAND'S EETIre RANCH. Second Feet. 1904. DATE. Al Second Feet. 210 1135 - 010 1408 850 1640 850 .| 1374 790 1205 780 1215 TREASURES LOST INSEA DEPTHS Vast Wealth Has Gone Down in Midocean Disasters to Lie Till Water Dries Up LARGE SUMS RECOVERED Modern Methods Enable Men to Reach Hulks That Before ‘Were Too Deep for Divers Every reader of the newspapers has heard from time to time of the efforts being made by divers to reach the wrecks of vessels that in years past have gone to the bottom of the ocean carrying with them large amounts of coin and bullicn. The most recent search of the kind is one undertaken by Greek divers under the Turkish Government and the treasure discover- ed in the Russian admiral’s ship sunk at Tcherman at the time of the naval battle of 1770, when the Turkish fleet was completely destroyed. The search has continued with striking success. These fortunate divers have become rich, but the Turkish Government has also obtained some large amounts, in- asmuch as it has reserved for itself the lion’s share. The fact is that the Rus- sian vessel, which sank in a depth of thirty ‘fathoms, abounds in pieces of gold and silver. At first the divers paid attention to the former cnly, of which they found full sacks. These pieces are mostly single, double and quadruple ducats. GET A RICH REWARD. It already has been announced that on the first shipment to Constantinople the divers obtained for their part the sum of 276,000 francs. The daily work of the divers amouns to from 5000 to 10,000 pleces of gold. A special boat of the admiralty, manned by officers of the Turkish navy and by a Govern- ment inspector, is stationed continually at this point. Each sack drawn from the water is registered and the pieces counted and a receipt given to the divers. It appears that tke bottom of the sea {s strewn with silver pieces, which have the dimensions and the weight of French crowns of 5 francs. Besides this money, the divers have drawn up various other precious objects, gold and silv.r crosses, jewels, images, swords, canes, especially an evangel, of which the binding of gold is orna- mented with precious stones of great value. This is not the first time that such enterprises have been undertaken for the purpose of discovering riches buried in the sea, but they have sel- dom yleided the desired results. MANY FORTUNES GONE. It would be difficult to give even a summary of the innumerable fortunes engulfed. Among others an English bark, which foundered in 1799 off the coast of Holland, had on board ingots of gold and silver valued at about $30,000,000, of which a very small part was recovered. The Royal Charter went down near the Moelfram with a cargo worth about $2,000,000. The greatest fortune engulfed was in the shipwreck of the French sailing vessel off the coast of Trafalgar. It carried a ton and a half of gold plates and five tons of silver plates, whose desti- nation was the famous cathedral of St. ey —-m.——hsn de Malte. There were also a - | . _|large number of precious stones, de- signed to embellish some relics con- tained in the cathedral, as well as to ing to iers of the order and kept by them in their chapeL.—Exchange. A second one acted as escort. | rowboats, | TOGO'S FLEET Special Cable to ! TSINGCHOU, Aug. 14.—I have ob- jtained the following details of the | 8reat naval battle off Port Arthur: The Russian fleet, comprising six | battleships, four cruisers and eight | terpedo craft, left Port Arthur on Au- gust 10 at 7 o'clock in the morning. ‘A Japanese fleet, consisting of ur | battleships, two cruisers and thirty- {two torpedo craft, met the Russians { thirty miles from Port Arthur. The battle was opened by the Japanese j between 11 o'clock and noon and last- | i ed until sunset, the Japanese being { reinforced soon after the fighting be- | gan. | The Russian battleship Cegarevitch became surrounded by four battle- | ships and two cruisers near Shantung | Promontory and received a terrible | fire. Shells were rained upom her from all sides at close quarters and the roar of the cannonade was deafen- ing. The Japanese also suffered heav- ily. A twelve-inch shell struck the | conning tower of the Cesarevitch, and, | rebounding with terrible force, killed Admiral Withoeft. Three of the battleship’s officers and twelve men were buried at sea. Her gun crews were annihilated at their work and the deck gear was curled into fantastic shapes like pleces of tin. The debris was carried hun-| dreds of yards. Eventually the Cesarevitch got away and arrived at Tsingchou at 11| o’clock on August 11. Her second ad- | miral is now in the hospital. One of her sailors was buried ashore and an | impressive scene was witnessed at the funeral, which was attended by eGr- man sailors. The survivors of the Cesarevitch say Admiral Withoeft was torn to pieces by the shell and his body was swept overboard, only one of his legs being found. They describe the scene as an ‘ inferno and say men turned gray from | their experience. Admiral Withoeft | said just before he was killed: “This is our last fight, men; brave.” The orders of the officers could hardly be heard for the roar of the guns. At 4 o’clock on the afternoon of Au- gust 11 one torpedo-boat arrived at Tsingchou, badly damaged. A half hour later the Novik came in. She | was uninjured and had no dead aboard. She took on coal and left port again at 3 o’clock the next morn- | Ing for an unknown destination. | R o ADMIRAL TOGO'S LOSSES. be Japanese Casualties in the Naval Bat- | tle of Wednesday. TOKIO, Aug. 14.—The following | casualties have been reported on the Japanese side during the action of | August 10: | The battleship Mikasa had four of- | ficers killed and twenty-nine men se- | verely wounded. Six officers and twenty-nine men slightly wounded. | The armored crujser Yakumo had | one officer and forty-nine men killed | and one officer and eleven men wounded. | On board the armored cruiser Nis- shin ten men were killed and seven officers and nine men wounded. The armored cruiser Kasagl had | two officers and fifteen men wounded. | Torpedo boat No. 38 had one man | killed and eight men wounded. it S CRUISER ASKOLD TO DOCK. | Badly Damaged Warship Will Be Re-! paired at Shanghai. SHANGHAI, Aug. 14.—It is expected that the Russian protected cruiser As-| kold, which arrived at Wusung on Aug- | ust 12, will dock to-night. | A press correspondent to-day visited the Askold. There were many evidences of a hurried flight and a running fight. Many of the men on the Askold spoke highly of the bravery of the Japanese and of their readiness to fight. They have no misgivings as to the ultimate result of the present conflict, however, and this in spite of the disastrous first six months. They consider it impossi- ble for “‘great Russia” to succumb be- fore “little Japan.” They say that for every man who dies another one comes out, that for every ship lost another one will come over the seas, and that ultimate victory is certain. Twelve men and one officer were killed on board the Askold and about fifty men were wounded. Those who are badly wounded have begn taken to| a hospital here, and the captain of the | cruiser has told them to be ready to gail in a week's time. In view of the condition of the Askold (she has nearly 200 shell holes in her) it is difficult to understand why her casualty list was not greater. The work of repairing the cruiser is proceeding night and day. The crash of hammers and the noise of men working on métal is heard constantly. In ten days she can be sufficiently patched up | to render her seaworthy, but full re- ; pairs would take much longer. | An eight-inch armor-piercing shell entered the Askold forward om her starboard side, about two feet above the water line, and lodged in a coal bunker. A twelve-inch shell exploded in her starboard hammock netting amidships, the fraghments riddling and destroying four metallic lifeboats. An- other twelve-inch shell entered a state- room on the starboard quarter, cut its way across the deck and exploded in { the officers’ quarters on the port side of the vessel, destroying everything i within reach. The deckhouse on the superstructure, under the forward bridge, was riddled by the fragments of a shell which exploded in the for- ward funnel. All the searchlights on the cruiser are damaged beyond repair. | The torpedo netting was cut up by a shell and is practically useless. The bottom of the Askold has several old and new injuries, one torpedo having ! made a big hole through her side into | a bunker, which, happily, was fairly 1 water-tight. The cruiser’s steering gear tis reported to have been damaged, but her engines and boilers are in practi- cally good condition. The Russian torpedo-boat destroyer Grozovoi, which also reached here on August 12, has no serious damages, but is inexpressibly dirty and neglected. She was towed up the river to-day and took a position alongside the dismantled Russian gunboat Mandjur. The forty-eight hours granted the Grozovoi expired at 2 o’clock this after- noon. The Taotai of Shanghai has re- peated his demand that the vessel leave or disarm. The propability is that she will disarm. The hospital-ship Mongolla, which left Port Arthur on August 10 with ‘women and on board, has not ‘been spoken. ‘The steamshlp Gaelic has sighted the Riissian cruiser Novik between Shang- The Call and New York Herald. New York Herald Publishing Company. i | | [ DAMAGED IN THE SHANTUNG FIGHT Japanese Warships Do Not Escape Unscathed in Terrific Combat With Vessels of the Port Arthur Squadron. Copyright, 1904, by the ward. The Novik, it will be remem- bered, sought refuge at Taingchou, but | left there at the expiration of twenty- four hours. The loeal authorities are anxious and shipping is disturbed MAKES A GALLANT FIGHT. Russian Flagship Surrounded by Six Japanese Vessels. CHEFU, Aug. 14.—Details naval battle of August 10, wi of ch have reached here, show that the Russian battleship Cesarevitch made a re- markable struggle. When the battle cpened six battieships n ers and torpedo-boat destroy- on both sides were ordered out of range. When the fight had been under w for some time the eruise raft became engaged. Finally the urrounded by four hips and two crujsers. e en- hours of terrible fighting . The shell which killed Ad- miral Withoeft rehounded from a tur- ret. A message from Tsingchou says that ssian vessels now in that port have not been dismantled, as their in- juries allow them to remain until re- pairs are made. — Burglars Took the Frame. An American has brought from Paris a story of Rodin, the sculptor. “Rodin,” he says, “was presented | with a raw daub of painting a month or two ago by a conceited young stu- dent. He accepted the painting grace- fully, but he was much annoyed a week later to hear that the student was going about declaring: “ ‘Rodin says the painting I gave him is better than the Degas over his chim- ney." “Rodin decided to take down this conceited young llar. So, meeting him one day at the Cafe de la Paix, he said, in the hearing of a good many mutual acquaintances: “‘My house was robbed on Sunday night. Did you hear about it? “‘No,” saild the youth. ‘Was much taken?’ “ ‘A half dozen suits of clothes, some silver and—you knaw that painting of yours? Well, they cut it out of the frame and—' “ ‘Hurrah!” the youth interrupted, ex- cited and pleased. ‘“Why, my fortune’'s made. The newspapers—' “‘They cut the picture out,” Rodin continued, ‘and went off with the frame.” "—Boston Post. —_————— Phonographic Improvements. At the recent Royal Soclety conver- sazione in London an interesting mod- ification of the phonograph was shown by T. C. Porter. The trumpet was re- moved from an ordinary phomograph and the diaphragmn covered by a small chamber, through which a mixture of eoal gas and air was passed. The gas | was led from the diaphragm through two rubber tubes, at the end of which were small burners. The burners were set at an angle to each other so that the resulting jet of gas was spread into a sheet. 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