The evening world. Newspaper, February 15, 1904, Page 2

a safe (isange. It was reported that the port of Hakodate yen - ed, but this hts been denied. was bom: ing clties and shipping, end this was followed by the fals: news that the had been destroyed by mines. It is likely that the Russian squadron do a great deal of damage before tha Japanese aré in postion to-check ik The nearest available Japanese fighting naval forte is off Port Artiur, hundreds of miles from Northern Japan, but the Japanese seaport towns are well protected by fortifications and mines. The coast of the upper west sideof Japan is menaced by th's flect. There ts a Russian fleet of war vessels coming up the east coast of | ‘Asia, under the command of Admiral Virenius, amd a Japanese fleet is waiting for it. miral Virénius’s detachment somewhere out in the Pacific, and that the, combined fect will go to the assistance of the Russian vessels hemmed in at Port Arthur. JAPANESE REFUGEES GET ROUGH TRBATMENT. (By Asgogiated Press.) » NEW CHWANG, Sunday, Feb. 14.—About @fty Japanese mile men an Ly Henty,” B, ordaged awomen, and arrived here jm custody. The American Consul, | Miller, procured the releasg of the women, but Viceroy Alexi rearpest and transportation, together with ajl the Japanese in Man- ag f $0 Port Arthpr. ey 2 ler dased hig act{on on assurances the Rupsians gave ‘the Jabp- ry H'ttht afl Jppangse subjects would bp puotdcted apd permitted to leave when they desired. There are numerous Japanese complaints of Russign {l!-treatment. 1s said that 400 Japanese refugees from Harbja and ewewhere, who arrived A Mukdon Feb, 10, were arrested and that many of them were severely apd detaiped until they had pyrchased thejr release. When they . Uberaten the Japnncse were sent in oper trucks to Tal-Hth-Ghoy, they. were again maltrerted ang sent gn ta Port Arthur. Some ¢f ‘wonddn wore sent to New Ohweng. Consul Miller took the women lender his protection and sent them to Shan Ha! Kwan. OUR CONSUL ENTERS PROTEST, bf . Miller protested to the civ administrator against the cruel treat- it of the Japanese refugees by Russian saldiers and requeated @ censps gil Japanese transported to Port Arthur. The Congul himself was menaced by @ Cogsack without provocation and | officer commanding nt New Chwang expressed his regrets and promised | to severely punish the Cossack. Detter protection to the refugees. Independent naval officers say the Teareviteh, Retvinan, Paliada and | Noyik, damaged in the first nayal battle off Port Arthur, canngt be repaired | th time to decide the command of the sea. They alsd say the Rus#ian land forces are demoralized. They are trying to watch the entire coast. ) The officers of the Russian gunboat Sivoutch, at New Chwang, deslare they are prepared to blow up their vagsel in cage of danger. They are em- loving a searchlight all night long over the surrounding plains, FOREIGN SHIPS ORDERED AWAY. ‘Tae constant telegraphic interruptions threaten to complete the isola- tion of the war zone, except by despptch boats. Asimiral Alexieff has for- bidden all ships to enter any of the ports of the Ligotung peninsula. It to) understood that his object is to carry out the defenses of the harbors, which ‘Bitherto have been negelcted. Foreigners are not permitted to move with- out military permits. The foreign missions at Mukden, apprehending @ Chinese outbreak, are ending the missionaries with families away. The reports that Japanese ships have been using pearchlights off New Chwang and off the coast near Kin Chou gre Chinese fictions. There are about 2,000 Russian troops now at New Chwang. RUSSIA BOTT_ED UP IN PORT ARTHUR. CHEFOO, Feb. 15.--The Russiqns are now penned up in Port) ‘Arthur. Land communication to the north has been eut off by a seetion of the 12,000 Japanese troops landed at Pigeon Bay. The harbor of Port Arthur is blockaded by a powerful Japanese flezt, ‘and the Russian warships, with the commanding Admiral and the garrison, fre securely bottled up. Three Russian torpedo-boats have bean sunk by mistake by the guns of the fortress at the entrance to Port Arthur. They were mistaken for Japanese vessels. This information comes from a high and reliable authority. It is believed that the Russian torpedo-boats displayed the regular fights, The Japanese torpedo-boats, which made the first deadly attack aw the Port Arthur squadron, displayed the same lights. ‘Sse gunners in the fortress believed another ruse was on, and! Thinking they were Japanese boats, trained their guns and fired on them. | Consternation spr’ ‘ through the fortifications when the fatal mis- | dake was discovered. . The same authority which brings this story says that the Russian ‘Admiral has ordered the arrest of a number of Russian ofticers and men ;. \ i When came the report that the Russian commander had started down ; the Porifie Oczan on the enst coast of Japan with the iatention of destroy.’ It is believed that the Viddivostok squadron will jain A& | thel? way to Tientsin were arrested at Tal-Hih-Chou Feb, 12 with’ thelr | It | The givil adqninistyator promfaed to afford } ’ 1 Propp states that the Japa THE WORLD: MONDAY SVEMING, PERRTARY 15, I9: , REGIMENT OF SIBERIAN RIFLES IN MANCHURIA, CRACK RUSSIAN TROOPS N PEt MOOS ELAEETS OF OOISEC OE SE SOOEETY PELOGGVG OTE GHEHOOT HH OW ON THE YALU RIVER, OD YUE OUYSSHOOOYIOOVUEOD 4 if 3 Hf BE5S01OOSODOIDOTSODIDCRSS & HOOSOOOOSY 30009800400 $0080090 |\SOIL Now HELD BY JAPAN OR RUSSIA NOT NEUTRAL, (By Aesogiated Press.) LONDON, Feb. 15.—Answering & question in the House of Commons to- day as to whether the British Goyernment was taking steps to secure ay arrangement for the penbruligation of New Qhwang during the war, the Woreign Under Secretary, Marl Percy, replied that the Government did not consider it to bg practicable to noutralige apy terripory in the actual oceupa- ! tion of either of the belligerents, The White Star line steamer Majestic, which 1s to sail Wednesday from Liverpool for New York, will take among ber passengers the Harl of Caith- |neas and Gen. Sir WilNam Nicholson, Director-General of Military Intelli- Ropoe of the War Qifice, and Gol, J. A. 1, Haldane, of the Gordon High- landers, wha will aqeeppapy the Japanese armies jn the fleld. Home Secretary Akers-Douglas, confirming ‘lhe Associated Press de- spatches, announced in the House of Commons to-day that the British Goy- ernmept not pyly had not been eppryached with a suggestion that It should consent to the Russian Black Sea flect passing out through the Dardanelles, ‘ut there was no regson whatever for sunposing that Russia contemplated such a violation of her treaty obligations to the Buropeag powers, A dggpatch to the Re ‘grim Company from the Publishers’ @ Minister at Seoul has wired the Mikado of the arrest of Yi Yong Ik, Corenn Minister of Finance, who Is practically dic- tatar of the country and is most friendly to Russia, $< RUSSIANS ARE UNDER j GUARD IN SEOUL. (By Agsoclated Press.) SEOUL, Wednesday, Feb. 10 (delayed in transmission).—The Russtan Consul at Chemulpo is now guarded by Japanese troops. ‘To-day all the; other Russians fn the city have besn ordered into one large house, where jthey will be detained, awaiting action of the authorities as to their disposal, | ‘The Ru Jan Minister at Seoul has been requested by the Japanese Minister, through a neutral Legation, to withdraw, and he has consented to do so.! | He will probably leave Seoul to-morrow. There are now on board the French cruiser Paschal 214 Russians, of whom two commanders, fourteen officers Mad thirty-one men are wounded. | Six wounded men have already died. Tt is knéwn that the russian crutser Variag had forty ‘en and one officer, a count, killed during the recent en- gagement off Chemulpo. This officer was a midshipman named Niron, and} Tet Muron, as stated erroneously in a previous despatch, ‘The Variag hag, pixty-four men wounded, among them Capt. Rudenf, who was in comman@ ‘for gross carelessness. TAPANESE SLAUGHTERED -BY SABRES OF COSSACKS' Me OHEFOO, Feb, 15.—A brilliant land and naval manoeuvre by the) Japanese has been met with severe losses and the temporary defeat of tye tfbops and ‘ships which attempted to land a force on the neck of the penit- ula of Port Arthur to cut off the Russian stronghold. Of 600 Japanese troops landed at Talienwan Bay, on the eastern side of je peninsula, near Dalny, only 190 came back. Four hundred and ten were Sabred by the Russians in a flerce hand-to-hand conflict. Simptangously the Japanese, under cover of the heavy gums of the Reet, effected a landing at Pigeon Bay, on the western side of the Port Ar- thur peninsula, but were driven back with considerable losses, BANDED 12,000 TROOPS, » These dispatches are from official Russian sources and are inclined to give preference to the Russian arms, but among the military experts here there is little doubt that the Japanese were repulsed in their efforts to get in back of Port Arthur for the purpose of cutting off the Gibraltar of the Bar East. In Pigeon Bay It is reported that 30 Japs were killed, but thata force 42,000 was landed and that many of these troops are still there waiting a chanee to reach the narrow strip of land through which the Manchu- wa Railroad enters Port Arthur, The Japanese Navy has Pigeon Bay sealed, and the remnant of the lan Navy in the hanbor of Pow Arthur is securely bottled up there. of the cruiser. His wound are not considered serious, The Russian dead, with the exception of the you offiver who fell on the bridge, were locked up {n the cabin when the Varing went down, Seyera] men were seen on Loard tne Korntz, it is said, an instant before jane blew up. The Russians claim that the Japanese Pred first, despatching two tor- pedoes af the Korletz when she tried to leave the harbor on the 10th, The} | Japanese claim, in turn, that the Korutz fred first. The nese have demanded the use of several Government buildings in this city to be used as barracks for the troops, On the Bneglish and Ital- ian cruigers there are many Russian refugees, just how many ts not known. Only the wounded are on the British vessel, 3+ RUSSIAN CAPTAIN’S , | fall of the tw& Lhe dovd men are | reached eleven floors in the rear, ‘yp to the ¢ime that tt gave way bofora THREE PLUNGE 10 DEATH AS WEAK WALL CRUMBLES Accident on the Eleventh Story of a Building in West Twenty-First Street — Panic Among Women Who Saw It. three men, gaid to be Ritt. reachad seroys the top of the wall to get @ brigk that was lying there. In doing this he put the. entire weleht of his bouy Against the wall It crumbled like ¢0 much paper, the other men say, and Ritt shot outward tn a second. Mantell and Murgee werg the two men ciosegt to him and they dumped forward to grab Bit, ln doing so they struck the wall themselves, and In Three men were carried to instant death to-day by ‘the collapse of the upper part cf the rear wail of the par tially completed building at No. 2 East Twenty-trst street. Two of the loat their lives while trying to save the first man, and the south was almost carried down eleven storivs to® the ground while attempting to check the y hem. Hobert ck, of No. RITT, GUORGE, way with them, Hobert Smolick, of No. Sixth street. wan: “ELL, JOSEPH, of No, 408 East et. of No. 530 Bast layer, made a grab for the two men/ and caught hold ‘of Mantell'g foot, He Was fast belng dragued Wo the also himself when hyp let go to syve hig own Ufe, and whe last of t fhe three men dis- | floor of this same build y ies and girls employe Ae COs, CLORRAtitNeL sy saw tho hetiling fall of, of bed Shree men and set up A penis followed nha ne FeRtice F aegsudd a run down the stairs tn ine Street. ‘Two policomen ran in and pugceedéd in uigting the pa costr! en poople, i altberbre two ithe worpen had Sant nd several ot been brplse By fi athe wi LA airs, Ming part o! fay down the ‘The Foreman Arrested. The police arrested Carlos Koeth, the foreman fi charge of the brick-work- and Jocked him up in the West eth street station, fete Fuohs, contractor, who is putting up tb the ding, could make no explanat the weak condition of the new Koeth, who was seen before his Ered naid it must have been dae t an ine ferior quailty of mortar. DESERTS WIFE AND SIX. ‘Woman Obtains Warrant tot Ar- rent of Husband. Mrs, Nellio Cunningham, of Ne, 4401-2 Warren street, Brooklyn, surrounded] The men who were Killed were threo of 4 party of nine bricklayers who were at work conypleting the brick work on! 0 the eleventh ido in the rear of the building, The building bas only gone! up seven storics in the front, but had | The} bricktayers were inside of the wall they. wore working on, standing on boards throwa across the girdera on the top| e. floor, Crumbled Like Paper. The wall these men were puflding had reached a height of three and a half feet aobve the eleventh floor, A half a foot more was to be added and the men were hurrying the work. 50 ras could be learned to-day the new ull had thown no sikns of weakness some fi Be Sermun yay the woight of one man. One of the BIG FIRE-STOPS TWO COMPANIES baby in arms to a girl fifteen years old, obtained trom Magistrare Tighe to-day in the Butler Strect Court a warrant Peabody Insurange Concern, of aah ene He Urata. Meenas ey aged twely ne eet out crys me there again,” ha 2 One the brie x Ronn xe Mamas t en sent to ef i Bit nd just ng often ran awase me Baltimore, Is in Receiver’s Hands, and Fireman’s Applies} for Similar Disposition. page ame ria ae i .| its already weakened condition it gave) 214 East Twelfth street, another brick-| by her breed of six, ranging from a, SURRENDERS AIS SEA CONGRESS Shafroth, of Colorado, Declares that Fraudulent Ballots Elect- td Him and Yotuntarity Makes Way for His Opponent. APPLAUDED FOR HIS ACT BY BOTH SIDES OF HOUSE. Proper Representative from Denver District on Admission That Gauged a Sensation. WASHINGTON, Feb. 45.+Reprosenty- | live Shafreth, pom tho Denver (Gol,) istrict, voluntartly relinquished his seat in the House at the convening of that body to-day. The contest for his seat by Rabert bajlots, he epid, reyeaged frayd In twen- ty-nfpe precincts, If he wag a judge on the hench he would haye to find against | himself, and he invited the Elections | Commitkee to present a resolujion geat- ing Bonyage, The statement created a sensation, atl st Its conclusion long applause waa hear? on both sides of the House. _ Chairman Olmstead, of the Kleetions Committee; considering the case, paid a high tribute to Mr. Shafroth, saying although the action was 9 surprise, the case showed that the frauds *~ the feleetion were not chargeable in any way to Mr. Shafroth. ‘The Héusg unanimously agreed to a resolutfon deelaring R. W. Honynge en- titled to his seat from the First Colo- rado District. “GHANCE FOR ALL TO | BECRACK SHOTS New York State Rifle Associa- tion Formed for Purpose of Fostering Practice by National. Guardsmen and Civilfane. Profictency tn riffe shooting being the most important qualification in modern warfare, the New York State Rifle Ay sociation, with Major-Gen, Chgrles F. Root, of the National Guard of New York State, ag Its first President, bew beep formed for the purpase of foxter- jag rifie and pistal practice by members and ex-members of the Netiona] Guard and clvillags of this and other Stules, ‘The other officers of the rifle associn~ tion are: Lteut.-Col, J, Hollis Wells, Firat Vice-President; Cal. Dantel Appar ton, Secohd Vice-President; Col. George R Dye, Third Vice-President; Capt. Edwin Gould, Fourth Vice-President; | Henry D, Muller, Fifth Vice-President; ir, W. B. Short, Becrataty, and Capt. J, Philip Benkerd, Treasurer. ‘The Executive Committee of the ‘Rifle Association held a meeting to-day at which the initiation fee was set at %, the annual dues $3 and lif mem- bership $45, Applicattons for member- ship showld be made tp Da W. B. | Short, the Secretary, at No. a8 Lenox avenue, thig city, The Bxeputive CCommittee also ape proved of this statement: “It ts proposed. to hold es ae early fs aeaniene yee Gi oi Hee | Xysoclation. will be artic oe | attention {s called to the fict that courtesy of the State anthoritics Creedmoor Range will ye opene certain. specified times to gil mambers. civilians as ayell as Nat®nal Guurs- men, and that the other State rat AM be placed at thelr ,. Bowral ibe Wa ke, Pts ens * assoclit Eye ization the strength of am organiza’ jot ms Kind Hes in numbers the Ex- | ecutive CCommittee earnestly requests 1 { subject or in’ Improvh in the Robert W: Sonynge Declared the, W. Bonynge and the examination of) i | CA fancy hosiery ou sale te-day at 25¢. a pajr—the lot about equally divitled between 5o0c, and 75c qualities, There’s a story im that, Last month a firm offered us the samples their whole- sale salesmen had shewn for the coming season—20,000 pairs, for they’re probably the i ie importers of high grade osiery in’ this cogn- try. 20,000 pairs is a good many, so we hesitated and |took half; didn’t qpite real- ize, until it was uppacked, how unustally attractive the hosiery was, But of those 10,000 pairs, ‘over 8,000 were snapped up \the first day we ever advers tisad them, and we soon had left only the demand fof more, So the other 10,000 pairs go on sale to-day. Hardly any two pairs alike being samples. 50 and 75c. values—noth’ ing less. 25 centa, Rocsrs, Prer & Courany 258 Yrvad' Aiea. Raeute — = Oculists. 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Beliaief, of the Kerlets, wolting to relatives , said: “Iam ready to go to sea at any minute, From day to day we have heen expecting a fight with the Japanese. We expect sua-| den nottacks, without a previous declaration of war, The wooden fittings are being taken ashore, We have no armor; strength Is only in the} wuns and the courage of our men. We Russians often depend on courage and the outcome is all rigut. It may happen that ft wit! not fail us now. I shall do all pessible, If they send us to the bottom, say a good word for us,” REPORT THAT THE CZAR’S our out opposition, and it may be that they will conduot iheir land from there against Port Arthur, itech boat arriving here from Port Arthur says that it was a el cavalry which made the dash against the landing Jap- dden and severe that the Japanese were completely ds of thelr number were killed with the anbtys Evadigipine Se tending MIND IS UNBALANCED. (By Publishers’ Press.) BERLIN, Feb. 16.—There is a wild report here that the Czar hes gone mad, It purports to be based upon advices from St. Petersburg, but the al- Jeged advices cannot be traced. ‘Phe report has it that the Czar is overwhe|mod by the reverses suffered i a os ren Se tne sur saa nothing to. unr Tee erates e lout eee Se eaaaiarmmmentu dat oy icasaneary bak} ) Xs ‘Czor im not m the best of health, CHARGED WITH USURY. Man and Woman Held in $500 Bail for Examination. Mary Rygn, of No. 908 West Fifty-ntth street, and George Mooney, of No, 122420 West One Hundred and Fifth street, were arraigned lay before sheet ee Wyatt 4 Speglal even ghagged with ic, oF oe are Tigte Went im the exo. of onty $200,000. apptation for a recetver was made day by the Firemen’s Ingurance Com- Meta of Baltimore. The application will be beard Feb. 2 Both companies Inst week retnsured thelr rigks not affected by the fire in outside companies, All the savings banits opened for bust- ness to-day notwithstanding the legal holfaay. The withdrawals were small and deposits were made in all of them, The Clearing-House Association report- ed clearings to-day of nearly $9,000,409 Rd Dedensen oe qvar G00», falar Mand pald ba oe inveix instalment i A in $13.20. The prisoners we! LAWSON DECISION STANDS. $00 ball cach for ¢: fnadon on Fee Ww, PANAMA pany 3! VOTE NEXT WEEK. Justice Rich Dentes Motion for Nevw]- Trial for Divorce. Justice Rich, in Pert VI. of the Bu- preme Court, Brooklyn, denied to-day a motian for a now trial made by coun. Celorado City of Attia ined ei Deol pase ua. ll iyerpoo), _ Baie {pivenpoals OUTQOING | STRAMSHIPS. 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