The evening world. Newspaper, February 18, 1904, Page 1

q BATTLE O ND 3 NEAR YALU RIVER japanese and Russian Forces Which Have Been Rushing to the Scene of Conflict for Several Days Believed to Be Engaged in the First Great Land Struggle of the War. Popular Outburst in the Czar’s Capital Over Reverses Leads to Declaration that the Millions Which Have Been Spent on the Muscovite Fleets Have Been Wasted. LONDON, Feb. 18.—The great land battle at the border between Manchuria and Corea is betieved by experts to be raging to-day. Two mcnster armies are facing each other, and they have been swinging into striking distance for three days past. The Japanese have been landing troops in Corea by scores of ‘hou- sands, Transports have been running like ferries between Tokio, Kobe, Nagasaki and Sasebo and Corean ports. Every one of the transports was loaded down with Japanese soldiers. It is reported that the Japanese troops in Corea have reached the Yalu River, and that ie Japanese scouts are in sight of the Russian fortifications, The Russians have been active also. Hordes of troops have been hurried south by train and on foot. It will hardly be the policy of the Russians to attempt to make any advance on Corean territory in the face of the Japanese force. TWO IMMENSE ARMIES. None but the governing powers of the two countries knows how many ‘soldiers are in thes field in Manchuria and Corea. The Japanese! force is éstimatéd by outsiders at 100,000 men, all trained troops and splendidly equipped. It is supposed that Russia has at least that many troops in Southern Manchuria, with a big reserve force awaiting transpor- tation. Japanese strategy as worked out thus far indicates that the Japanese will make attacks upon :he Russian land forces at two points, the Yalu River boundary between Corea and Manchuria and the Liaotung penin- sula, upon which Port Arthur is situated. ‘f, by a combined sea and, land attack, the Japanese could possess themselves of Port Arthur, the } , railroad line from Harbin south would fall into their hands and the Rus- sian army in Manchuria would be between the Port Arthur force and the force coming north from Corea. Gigantic moves in the direction cf accomplishing this result have been made. The report that 3,000 Russian troops had arrived at Chin Tien Cheng, opposite Wiju, on the Yalu River, is confirmed, as is the report that the! (Continned on Second Page.) STOLEN JEWELS CLUE TO MURDER OF WOMAN Diamonds Known to Have Been in Possession of Henrietta Schwartz, Whose Body Was Burned by Burglars, Are Missing. ‘The opening of the safe of Henrietta Schwartz, the eccentric dealer in diamonds, who was burned to death in her apartment at No. 8 East Forty- second street, to-day, revealed the fact that two trays, one of diamonds, loose and in rings, the other of gold watches, Is missing. The value of the missing jewelry is placed at $8,000 by her relatives and the police have} been furnished with a complete description of it in the hope that it may be recovered.* The fact that this jewelry is missing lends strength to the belief that the woman was robbed and murdered before her flat was set afire. Gen, Kneeland, counsel for the Sohwartz family; Capt. Burfeind, ot the West Thirtieth street station, and David and Morris Schwartz, brothers of the dead woman, went to the IAncoln Safe Deposit Company's vaults in East Forty-second street this afternoon to examine a box that the woman had there. In this box they found a few trifling articles and the woman's will. In the will she bequeathed her property to the members of her famtly and asked that she be cremated. An attendant at the vault told the party that. on Thursday last Miss Bchwarts went to her box and removed $2,000 worth, of diamonds which she keyit there, She took them away {n-the little black | if bee whith she always carried with her. This bag was found afterward, empty on the floor of the apartment, near’ it's owner's body. From the vault the party went to the woman's flat with a safe opener. Mies Schwartz's safo, was opened, but nothing was found tn it gave a few | articles of silver. The two trays on which she Kept her diamonds, watches | and other articles of jewelry, were missing. ‘When the firemen got to Miss Schwartz's flat eurly yesterday her sate! was open. Battalion Chief Gray ordered it closed and sealed. No tnven- tory of what it contained then was taken. Since then a good deal ef jew-’! elry has) been found scattered about the flat, some of which was probably in the safe, But Mr. Gardiner; who has seen all that has been found, says that ‘none of it was what hs saw on the trays'last Friday. All of that la \that n jhgavy gale off PWRECKED ON STATEN ISLAND as This, Too, After the Bark Jute- opotis, Five Months Overdue, Had Encountered Fierce Storms and Many Periis. CANNIBALS AFTER THEM OFF A STRANGE ISLAND. Finally Reached New York Har- /bor, Only to Be Caught in an lee Floe and Jammed Upon a Friendly Shore. After a voyage of ten months as re- plete with adventure and trying experi- ences as ever filled the log of the fabled craft of Capt. Marryatt or Clark Rus- sell, the Standard O!1 bark Juteopolis made the ice-bound harbor of New York to-day, five months overdue, only to be caught in an ice-floe and stranded on the Staten Island shore. Although the big ship was almost a year at sea, and recorded among her thrilling experiences drifting in a dead calm about a strange island, from where ® flotilla of canoes filled with savages put out, giving the seamen of the bark the acare of their lives, Capt. Curd said this afternoon that his batUle with the flelds of ice in New York Bay was the most trying event of the voyage. ‘Tag Could Not Help Her. The Juteopolis arrived at the bar at 4 o'clock last Sunday afternoon, and after being buffeted about by huge cakes of ice tat filled the channel summoned to her assistance the great tug John Hughes. But the tug struggled in vain agtinst wind and tide to draw the bark over the bar, She tried Again on Mon- day, with the same success, On guy and Wednesday the fight was Unued,” but battle as the tux might she ‘ould not overcome the drifting ice which gtipped the sbip in its embrace, This morning, after a favorable tide and % driit of the ice, enabled the veesal to push her head toward ‘Tomp- Kipsttia, tbe (TM causht ty. ahother e of ice und hurl bi Isla shore. rr ik ‘h@ Juteopolis, left Lotlo, in ~ ippine Islands, on April 30 tant, anal 9 made her course up the Bashee Chan- Coast of Lu: Kor @ few days the bork driftea ane in Ught winds, making but little prog | ress. Then, according to Capt. (rd, she struck a blow that was little short of ‘@ monsoon and was driven south- ward toward the Caroline Islands, into the Doldruma, When off the Caroline Islands went tmto the doldrums and lay as if chained to the bottom. Week after | week the great sbip twisted and turned | in the ever-varying zephyrs, tnable to shape @ course, unill the crew felt that they were doomed to an eternal calm, Two months had passed before she got a capful of wind, which allowed her to drift along at a knot aw hour until she got through the Carolinas and headed for the Horn. While skipping along under this light breaze she picked up a small island inhabited, as far as captain or crew could 4naek out, by savages of cannibalistic tendencies. “I don't’ kndw thes nume of this {aland,” said Capt. Curd to-day, “but tt fairly swarmed with the most eyil- looking human beings I ever set my eyes on, These savgges put out from shore in canoes and made after us as we drifted-about fhj the tides, now and then picking up.a Uttle breete, which, however, kept veeytng around so that we could not for/the life of us shake pesky bit of {lan ‘ure They Were Cannibal “For twelve gays we waltzed about that’ istand pursued by awarms of cances. The siVages that filled those little boats céuld easily have poured themselves onto the ship and over- whelmed us,’ but somehow they were! afraid of usy | ‘We burned all sorts of strange lights and made gil manner of strange sounds | to keep up this scare, and the toot of | our foghomns and our nightly pyrotech- nics answered the purpose. As I say, this isla was strange to mo, and I nover r¢émember seing it on any chart. | 1 am syir they were cannibals, for they | had the cannibal type sticking out ail | over Ynem. “On the night of our twelfth day, and none of us had taken many peeps of sicap in the interval, we got a good southerly wind and salled up inwo the Kuytoensyatrageay uur, wasn we finaity wos. east wind there was dough “vind aboard to carry ua ‘ro the: Horn, 8 1 put in for Honolulu, which we made on Sept. v Yee the 10th, Prom sian ae made tho Delaware Breakwater in 137 days, Iwhtch was not bad tin he bark first touched the Delaware rders. She carried a ar and was orderea ceetepisa alone for, ote tnats wh struggle a wee Sind ane weow Nes and Analy ‘was ‘coy the services of a tug. Her toe the coast Was one of Unusual arash for the men, beoauso of tin rigor nooed Bathered on ‘Before reach ie. Dola wir water the Futeopott mits ia had encountered a atteras, In the course of which John Peterson, a. sailor, was j killed by & falling block: ‘this was the only accident of the remarknd' 00 Barats of |RUSSIAN TROOPS GUARDING “STATION | ON LINE OF THE MANCHURIAN RAILROAD. | PEGE DHOTDHHDPGDH HDHD OOOO POOLS OVOP IID HIT FPIDPDD. DOH 19 2-H 23-9-F99H6-4990909G9499 900 sasbesedseeceeoeeoeeeecees BDEOTIEE0O96O-06090O CANGSCECSOESECOESENEEDSNOSSIEESUSTEGESOAOANGEEEEENE ioe es | of the Tenderloin station, cally eg he seaseseneeiesaenrsoos+ $od00ee PK TAP OES YT 110°CLOC NIGHT EXTRA | PRICE ONE , CENT. POD TDTOHD9E PHTI3-33-999 = 206 CODPB42-2-2- 26-96 096-92 $4406 $964. 89209-06 4 eose COPOOGOELG PESOS EPS sa8o00@ genes: Oe Oe RDE bE EEE WOMEN IN PANIC FEE FROM FRE Blaze in the Furniture House of Hale & Kilburn, in East Four: teenth Street, Driyes Out Fifty Employees. Fire {n the basement of the five-story huilding at No, § East Fourteenth street oceupled by the f & Kilburh Manu- facturing Company. furniture dealers. and other small manufacturers, drove fifty employees in panle to the street late this afternoon, The fire started among ‘mattresses in the basement and did ‘about $1,000 damage. James Keating, the elevator boy, was the hero, He ran the elevator up and down, carrying out the inmates through the thick smoke and calling loudly that there was no danger. The fite ate up and the smoke of the building at No. 10 East Fourteenth street. ‘two women artists, Marie Garrettie and Chiamt Gillo, were’at work in their studios. The excitement was too much for them and they fainted. ‘They were K. carried out by | Policeman Fitzpa and rov Street. traMfe was held up. for 1 an honr, WOMEN TEACHERS. MARCH FROM FIRE hag and the twenty-two teacher: Public School No, 84, in West Fifty-nec- ond street, near Eighth avenue, Mscussing educktional matters in mbly room on the fourth floor this rHoon thick smoke began to drift in rough the open transoma of the doors and eriés of “iret were heard tn the atrect. The women teachers sprang to thelr et In alarm. Myre O'Callahan realized that there was n fire in the whoo}, but the puptly had been dismissed an hour before and he kept bis head. “Ladtes,” he sald quiotly, “here ta opportunity of khowing Wie vulue of our fire drill, ‘The men teachers with kindly step lo the platform, whi: will tniren duwn the states and out of the building. “Wake sour tine, Tiere tsno danger.’ ‘The women tdrmed murched ot throug pat, any, , disorder, vin turnd. wore in ine While) thes a the bullding the male. tea in an alarm and started to and wi "| ot the meeting spegt the afternoon at | Wy) Sand were occupied { FOUR HORI WIN FOR TALENT AT NEW ORLEANS Trogon, Gravina, Vestry and Bummer II, Carry Off Their Races and the Bookmakers Are Hit Hard—Presen- tation Wins at 13 to 1. \ RACE TRACK. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. | 18.—Sam Hildreth’s crack year-old Friar | WINNERS. \Gsed this morning, ran into the track fence and Injured himself so badly that ft 1s doubtful whether he ever racce again. Hildreth has been’ having all kinds of ard Inck ‘lately. Nearly all of his! horses aré laid up with some mouth disease, Hildreth himself ts sut- fering with malaria, He will probably 0 to Hot Springs and ship his stable | to Memphis... ‘Oppressively ‘warm weather prevailed | here to-day. One of the gayest crowds FIRST RACE—Trogan (6 to 5) 1, Ralph Young (5'to 2) 2, The Brown| | Monarch 3, SECOND RACE—Bengal (18 to 5) 1, Eclectic (4 to 1) 2, Prodigal Son 3. In | good THIRD RACE—Presentation (12 to 1) 1, Our Lillie (15 to 1) 2, Tom Kiley 3. FOURTH RACE-Gravina (5 to 2) 1, Lee King (7 to 5) 2, Miss Melton 3. rivate boxer In the persons of social ' prominence who ere entertaining ends from the North. Selene FIRST RACE. Seven furlongs ‘the track. All the 4 FIFTH RACE—Vestry (6 to 5) 1, Arachne (5 to 2) 2, Bud Emory 3. imate wh SIXTH RACE—Bummer il. (5 to 2) 1, Count 'Em Out (5 to 2) 2, Mac- Si beth 3, Cathe Cut, al FIPT| or BECOND RACE alien ee i One mile and A maternth al While: Principal William FF, O'Galla- Ke TA Vyrthe Heeira, th. the Wh st Pre m 1] re WEATHER FORECAST. ce eee SOUTETIEGICACT Forecast for the thirty-six hours ORR) e pn gen ER ending at 8 P, M. Friday for New York City and vicinity: Moderat- ing, with snow to-night; Friday snow or rain; winds becoming east to south and sched hs Mi A at | \Tuck threw his boy while being exer | aT DEAL IN Hd OFFICE. Ao DUN LOOKED ON George R. eisiids;; Peopele Proprietor of the Jen nings Patent Shade Company, Murdered by Frank McNamara, Who Came Here from Elgin. Ill, to Commit the Crime. BOY CHASED FATHER’S SLAYER of His Victim, but Refused to Give a Explanation —He Had Only Been in Brook- lyn an Hour Before the Shooting. | : pany, with a factory at No. 105 Liberty street, Brooklyn, was shot v out. warning, and for no known reason, late this afternoon and in: killed by a man who said he was Frank McNamara, superintendent of department in the Elgin Watch Factory, at Elgin, 11. The murderer was captured and locked fur in the Adams street si tion. office at the factory when at 4.45 o'clock a stranger eutered. TH® looked up at the Visitor, but Mr. Jennings was still bent over bis when the, visitor, without speaking a word, drew-a pistol from ‘his ¢ont pocket and fired, while young Jennings gazed at him, his speech KELL OVER IN HIS CHAIR. ‘The bullet struck Mr, Jenuings in the left armpit and he toppled in his chair dead, without a moan. Ben ‘The murderer turned and fled into Liberty street. Young Jennings pur sued, and catching the fugitive in front of the factory, struck him a dlo that sent him to carth, ; crowd, and the crowd sored upon the fallen man. They would have 1 flicted serious Injury to him had not a policeman frou: the Adams street station rushed in and rescued him, ; ‘The policeman took the murderer, who still retained the pistol, back into the fuctory, thinking that his vietim might be yet alive and {een him. The man surveyed his work without a word, He was t#ken to the © + Adams street station. REFU SED TO TALK OF CRIME, Capt. Hawkins questioned him closely, but could get nothing out ‘of him as to his motive in shooting down an apparent stranger. He was well ¢ressed and nbout forty years old. He said his name was Frank McNamara, and that he Was one of superintendents of the Elgin watch factory, at Elgin, Ill., and that he had ‘a wife and eight children ut No. 422 Hale avenue, that city. McNamara said he came from Chicago, arriving in New York on Tuge- © day; that he had been staying at a hotel in East Forty-second street, and had been in Brookiyn only an hour or so. ‘The murderer was locked up, and will be arraigned in Adams Street Court to-morrow morning. George R. Jennings was a well-known tusiness man in Brooklyn, | He lived with his wife and several chilaren at No, 373 Jefferson avenue, Brook- Eat wife was prostrated when information of the tragedy which had made her a willow was conveyed to her by friends. The body was taken to the Adams street station, but permission to remove it to an undertaker’s . and then to the home was granted by @ a Coroner. Rac YOUNG JENNINGS IN GREAT DISTRESS. Young Jennings was In great distress over the tragedy and was un- able to tell much about It. He said he knew of no motive for the crime, {ndeed, declared thatthe murderer was a stranger. ‘phe police think there Is some hidden motive and that McNamara came from I!lnois to New York #:r\the express purpose of killing Mr, and, Jennings. SHIPS DRIVEN ASHORE; BAY IS BLOCKED BY ICE ———_—_+ +. co, which arrtyed this morning, was cought, Dt now ites * will prob: vensels were driven ¢ Island shore Uni eavy few Moos tr worst te masted schooner, supnased te Red Nook, Brooklyn, drageg r and was forced by the. ite same reef, where she lee ato of the Justrobolis, La ree ed tramp oil steamship, with w black smokestack having: Hay own band around It, arrived ated DOR 3 this aterneon and anchored ols Ieton, She was forced from oi anchorage by the pressure of the und now Hes on a reef off Clifton, punted schooner 8 ten dcx * a gar upleton, dock by Shee it into jamin” smusheds Af rom the dock painted ved and aboard, | j the Stu Ath 1 coal bare heavily with wan seen drifdng out to sea pats | pluton, ‘The Amevican flag, upside [oe tying from the top of her fo sa signal of distress. ‘Me pilo sew Jersey and the wrecking Jig. Merritt mnt out to her ald, but t Merritt, ot caught tn’ the toe off Sta- and tne pilot a few] ¢ two men ’ a was held fast bowt hed a similar experience minutes later. A number of tugbouts put after the barge, but It was thought| ¢ they, too, would be Igebound before they! WAT ng her vould reach her, getting tree The four-masted ship Justrobolis, 190 aground,