The evening world. Newspaper, February 25, 1904, Page 2

)! 4 fined to nec shélls fn the town. The Japanese, it is said, are using shells charged with a very high | explosive and are using every effort to drop them in the basin holding the bay and the town. Part of the Japanese plan is now believed to be to concentrate such a heavy fire on the inner harbor’that tne warships there will We forced to put to sea and fight in the open. A CONFESSION OF WEAKNESS? . Official St. Petersburg is undergoing mingled emotions just now.” While the defense put up at Port Arthur has encouraged everybody and caused the Czar to telegraph .warm congratulations to the Viceroy and officers on land and on the warships at Port Arthur, especially over their frustrating of the Japanese attempt to block the mouth of the harbor, the withdrawal of Admiral Alexieff to Harbin is generally looked upon | as an admission of weakness. Some go So far as to say that it indicates the inability of Port Arthur | to make a sustained defense. JAPS FAIL TO CLOSE UP PORT ARTHUR. (By Associated Press.) PORT ARTHUR, Feb. 25.—At about 4 o'clock yesterday morning the Japanese made a desperate attempt to block the entrance of the inner | harbor and dock. With this object four merchant steamers accompanied by torpedo vessels were sent from two sides toward, the entrance of the chantiel. The movement was pérceived by the Retvizan, which was lying in the channel, and which opened fire immediately. At the same time the} guns of the forts on the Tiger peninsula, Golden Hill and Electric Clift: were turned upon the enemy, and a furious cannonade ensued, tasting |” ‘until 5 o'tlock in the morning. Then the firing Su Lasaslte and became | desultory. The Japanese had failed to effect their purpose. All four steamers aweré unk. They are lying in the folléwing positions: One behind Golden Hill, -ne near the Retvizan and two between che entrance of the ‘channel and the Lao Thie Shan peninsula. Two of the vessels are still urning. ... The cruisers Bayan and Novik pursued the Japanese torpedo flo- tilla, It is said that one cf the torpedo boats was sunk. At about 9 o'clock on the morning of Feb. 24 a Japanese squadron of considerable size approached Port Arthur and the Bayan and Novik Were ordered to face the Japanese ships, which, however, did not open fire, and afterward steamed away in the direction of Port Dalny. The cruiser ae has entered the dock here. a op oe RUSSIAN BALTIC “ FLEET WILL GO EAST. (By Assoclated Press.) ST, PETERSBURG, Feb. 25.—It is now said that the Russian Bal- tic squadron, comprising eight battle-ships, two armored cruisers, three protected cruisers, two large transports and thirty torpedo boats, will leave for the Far East at the end of June. | » It is added that it will be commanded by Rear-Admiral Rojestvensky. RUSSIAN PLANS FOR COREAN ARMY. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 25.—According to information received | by well-informed military men the Russian army which is intended ta te in Corea will consist of an advance vanguard of two regiments ‘of Siberian sharpshooters, a vanguard of sixteen regiments of infantry, with ninety-six quick-firing guns, three batteries of mountain guns and a Corresponding force of cavalry. The main body will consist of forty regiments, cavalry, with three hundred guns. It is added that no important military operations will he possible be- fore the melting of the ice, and that the present operations will be con- 'y pg petel ons. sae mons! including Cossack + = RUSSIANS PUSHING ~ THEIR WAY SOUTH. (By Associaied Presa.) SEOUL, Feb, 25.—Russlan videttes advanced south of Inju have cut the telegraph wines between Anju and Ping Yang. Japanese staff officers here confidently predict that a battle will ve fought within a week. The battle-ground will undoubtedly be in the vicinity of Sere L where the Japanese won their greatest land victory in the Chinese war. | The Japanese troops are marching in great force into Northern Corea, VHE WORLD: HURDYAY EVENING. the fire of the Japanese must be very destructive" if they can land the JA PANESE ATTEM PT TO BLOCK PO RT he OM * FEBRUARY 25, 19 1904, ARTHUR FOILED BY THE RUSSIANS. (Drawn from Cabled Descri 2, HELD WCE FLO STEN DAIS Crew of Schooner Calvin P. Harris Helpless in Long Island SOOor Gory Sound, in Constant Peril of Going to Bottom. NEW LONDON, Conn., Feb. 2,—Tho schooser Calvin P. Harris, from Ston- ington, Me, for Philadelphia, loaded with stone, wag brought in here by tho tug Nottingham to-day after floating helpless in Long Island Sound for six- Aaron 8. Higgins, . wald the vessel sailed on n Stonington. All went well until Feb, § at noon, when about ilfteen miles ¢ of. Execution Light, the schooner was caught In a field of float- ing lee ar Jed with it to. the master of} * Middle Ground, yout thirty-three mijos to the oastward, mn attempting to nold the boat two and sitysseven fathoms ain whieh deft. th wind and thd hooner was well pr w did not lick fond, but Wore in voonstant peril ot thelr Uy fearing seas the lee would crush in the schoaner's sides, ehoor istoned a AN ALL-STAR ast Old Favorite Play to Be Pros! iso. she was | Cornelius Vand old orlainal Statan Island colony, duced by A. M. Palmer at the New Amsterdam Theatre with Notable Company. H WAS cussing this afternoon the House took up Cons gressmi out the item for the 16,000-ton battle. shin, Phe motion was lost cy for mu twe ‘Tie mo | Mee, Mrs. one y WW wastritis, Mrs. a few ot My Mrs. | will he } ment w A. revival of “The Two Orphans,” | with an all-star cast, Is what A.M. | Palmer !s going to offer the New York | public at Amsterdam ‘Thoa- try beginning Mareh 28, compan rot been Kot together |tor a p noe Joseph Jefferson revived “Rivals” a number of | ars age How long the old favorite, wh wil iirst produced in dus city i Lh Theatre, The Roads {vom here to the north are in terrible condition and the maren | ** "gs attended by the greatest dificulties Russian troops have advanced as tar south as Anju, and are kecping communication open between that point and Wiju. Russian spies are re- ported in the vicinity of Pingyang, | A Russian force is reported to be concentrating at Possiet Bay, in Rus- |low sian territory, to the south of Viadivostok, and from there scouts are pene- trating into Corea The scouts have cut the telegraph line between Seyong- chin and Gensan Ping Yang is about 100 miles outh of the Manchurian border, COREAN TREATY MAY NOT BE RECOGNIZED. (By Associated Press.) PARIS, Feb. 25.—It is the belief in the highest official quarters that the powers will support the Russian view of tho invalidity of the Japanese treaty with Corea, so far as it creates a Japanese protectorate over Corea, | owing to the Emperor being under duress. But, {t 13 said, no immediate action on the part of the powers is required, as the question of the recogni- tion of the protectorate will definitely arise when the terms of peace are onsidered. In the meantme official opinion here is strongly sympathetic with ‘Russia's porition, and it 1s considered that Russia’s not to the powers pro: testing against ¥apan’s violation of Corean neutrality fully protects Russla International rights, as the protest antedates the offciol announcement Of the conclusion of the treaty. “The Foreign Office considers the announcement confirmator: the view that Russia's protest to the powers was designed to reserve all her jrights and to prevent international acceptance of the treaty establishing o | |protectorate as announced in these despatches yesterday. é COREAN DICTA TOR.) (By Assoclated Press.) . iy the ‘Alctator of Corea, and considered a friend of Russia, was ‘the Japanes» when they entered Chemulpo and on the same nignt ‘d of.a warship, whi him to Ja; board fn Sh Ahts-oe! — AME Ra a ae 6 1ST, at the Union Square MN be kept_on the boards will depend patrons of to-day Two Orphans June Ar dam hents the staee nent of Wiliam Seymour, fol- Tei Kyrle | Pier \d Rite “isiah Brochant Marianne.» 4 the original Production png played the to be. tagon by feyel Mackey was the Bierve: by James other mM {in the original preasion Mc Mr \ | kin ix suc i ne _ Stuart Robson ‘ogswell by Mr. | | ————— | MANUFACTURER ACCUSED. | | William F Dantell Is Arrested, wed of Grand Larceny, William F. Dantell, a manufacturer, f No. @ West Twelfth street, was ar- ralxned before Magiat ts Mayo tn the Court to-day, charged with grand Tarcenys He was hold ite shou bal toe examination intel ts chargsd with having Ind Dudiey Hi. Buller, of Hempstead, on January 4 Tast ‘to caah a worth eat Veo, ot fl Wall strost | a MRS. LUPO DISSATISFIED. inks Her » Severe, | Mrs, Della Lupo, Ace) who was convicted |}! TROMBONE WAS STOLEN. | lants against Forrest then turned to seo | Such a notable Jamen Nowers Charged with Steal- ithe prisoner, patroment from Saloon, No. fall fol Jettorse in his | nue, E Mr. the or | tion 0 | widow 4 Qrmenta Root Suce erett and Bllot Sun rises lyn Cit ONGRESS FAVORS NEW WARSHI Motions to Pea Out Items in Naval Appropriation Bill for} Big Battle-Ship and Two Ar- mored Cruisers Defeated. HINGTON, the Naval Feb. | 95.—After Appropriation in Burton's motion, to 63 to 12%, of ersman Kitenin Wed to. strike armored ntion Wits CAS ORL S510 1s Kt ou pray u to 12. hel tp) am of Gnatritin, Anna Van Buzer sold, died at her rosidence ‘orty-mixth street, yesterd: strike rth Co 37,500,000, rn) dis- bill Aro® Isic tions for The Rial World ty Artist Biederman.) 9 io C4OOO4 * 2 : WORTHLESS CHECKS SHOWN IN COURT | Frederiok Forrest Settles One and Vanishes Just Before Wife Makes Charge of Non the Isthmian Republic Now ji: Support Against Him. Frederick Forrest, forty-nine years of age, who gave Iix address as No, West Sixteenth aires, before Magistrate in Jefferson Market Court, to a charge of grand larceny pre Paul Effen-| burger, who conducts a cafe, lives at No. 108 West Eighteenth street, affenburger allegcd that he cashed a worthless cheék*for. Forrest in the sum \ot Forre: Attack Root, elghty- ay of oot was the wife of George V. niece of bilt, mme mouths ago the golden w and Mrs, Root was c Hot leaves: th Hoot had row 4 Al be int Feowers, Sixth ov rotrial by om Market aged thirty-three, ue, was held in Magistrate ¢ Police Court, to- saloon on lower Sixth ay on, testified to having seen Roge th loon with the trom! possession, ————$—$—5——— e in Brooklyn, kivn, hillips was a hatter and o ganizers of the Hatters’ ¢ North America, He and several grown children. SHIPPING NEWS. ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY. 6.40/Sun set PORT OF NBW YORK, ARRIVED. INCOMING STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. pool, Exyptian Prince, Rhein, Bremen. nisea Sof manslaughter In the first degree und ’ ced to eighteen years’ imprison- ment for killing her husband, | will | OUTGOING STEAMSHIPS, taken to Auburn SAILED TO-DAY. \by Auburn Keepers. ane Lupo _refuned to wee any day in the Tambs, but sent doy ne to: aevere, Prison on Saturday | Pring Ow Vind ri piemunte” that she considered the fontence™ toy Brau ti aa Ales" Hanvade Chi ‘ane, 5.40) Moon sets lore ind was one of the Only adding | ot 3500 | in, day, | vrged with having stolen a trombine from a enue last Friday night. ‘The trombone be- | longed to Albert Riskholz, of No, 44} nauing | Charles street veph McNally, a bartender tn the bone LABOR LEADER DEAD. | John Phillips Breathes Hin Last at) | John Phillins, sixty-seven years old, "| president of the Central Labor Union, of Brook): and Treasurer of the Hat- ters’ Association of North America, died to-day at his home, No. 71 Greene ave~ after a brief ilness. ne of Assocla- leaves a 143 Barbados. Kansas City, Savannah etown, Norfolk. ,_ Invento Fay, of the Jefferson Market Court on ® warrant Isyue Magistrate Breen. It was explained to the Court that Mr, Eftenburger desired to withdraw the harge and accept payment for th check in full, The Magistrate allows Forrest to pay Effenburger the $29.86, but this had np sooner been done and Forrest discharged from custody, than} several other cheeks were handed up to the Court by attorneys standing on the bridge, While the Magistrate wan taking an sof tue number of checks that | y in front of him a jady brushed up! the bridge and sud am this man's wife and 1 wish to “[make a charge of non-support against | him,” ‘The lady and the numerous complain- but he had disappeared ‘hurriedly Ieaving the court, accompan- Jed by a till, well-gowned woman, Magistrate Crane told the varlous com- plainants to make their charges and the matter of considering the issuance of warrants would be taken up. On Mrs, Loulsa Forrest's complaint of non- sunport a warrant was tmmediately Is- sued and the officer with the warrant soon afterward left court. Counsef for Forrest said his client would have enough money left after settling up the business to pay all his creditors, ———— TWO HELD IN MURDER CASE. of Chinaman, James Dufty, Thomas Kane and Will- iam Green, who were arrested yesterday by the detectives, working on the mur- der of Bam Lee,"the Chinese laundry- man, of No, 2027 Second avenue, were arralgned to-day before Magistrate Flammer in the Harlem Police Court. Detective Summer said he had no e dence against Green and he was conse- quently discharged. Duffy and Kane were remanded with- out bail for examination, Saturday b' which Ume the detectives say they’ will have Important evidence to present. While Duffy was in court he was served with @ warrant sworn out by his mother on Fob. 1, charging him with disorderly conduct, ' She sald he had beat her and left the house at that date. ——<—<— BLOOD SHED IN JAP WAR. Snohs Uned @ Mallet to Empha Gilbert Montgomery, thirty-tly. old, was sitting at a table w | friends in the Orlando Cafe, Union Squart at East, to-day, arguing one of the mooted battlos of Port Arthyr. | There was a divergence of opinion, some No. loud and angry talk and a polft ference on the part of John Sachs, who owns the place, Menigomery” engaged Mechs in fsti warfare and then the latter, to end tin daring stroke, rover the head with a ‘Ties kook Montgomery where they dressed his wounds, Was packed off to Jefferson Market Court, where he was held In $1,000 had] to await (he outcome of the in to Fells ciaiAue SMR O) Oure « iis i Gaw aa lone in One Day eee seen s was arralened| and who! was arrested by Cotrt OMecer) Suspected of Implication in Killing: 10 inter- Sachs uries| Really hs POD Dd HD & 4 e| BODTEPODOOLOLOSHOSH 72OG9HOHFHHGHOOCHHIHGHHHOO ID ROOSEVELT SIGHS PANAMA PAPERS Between United States and Ready for Presentation. | WASHINGTON, Feb, 25,—President Roosevelt to-day signod the ratifiea- tons th bo exchanged between the United States and the Republic of Pan- ama on the Isthmian Canal treaty, The exchanges will be mado at the | State Department between Secretary |Hay, acting for thé United States, and M. Bu viueVaua, the Minister of Panama, The Presi Ween dent himself does not sign Subsequently a proclamation will be | Issued by the P: {conclusion of+the convention and put- ting it Into effect. Senator Kittridge, of South Dakota, a member of the Senate Gommittee on Interoceanic Canals, was present when the President signod the documents of jPatification and was presented with the used by the President in affixing| his signature to them. oa | JUSTICE PUNISHES LAWYER.! © | a hundred yards Ratifications fo Be Exchange. resident announcing the| FUSE WAS LAD TD START BLAZE Powder Train That Led to Tank and Police Notified. | STOREKEEPER HELD UNDER Neighbor Declares Suspicious; Actions of Two Men Led Him to Investigate, and He Re- ports Startling Find. N, NEWARK, J, Fe tempt was made to burn a business block on Halse irket streets, within of the main square of the city, and Morris Blerman, a member of @ firm known os the New York Fifth Avenue Talloring Company, is under arrest on suspicion of kngwing some- thing about the affair. The Chester Row consits of four-story |frame buildings, numbered from 161 to | tween Bonk and (179, having large plazas in front. Henry Mitsky, a newsdealer, who has [a store on the ground floor of one of » {the buildings, told the police to-day > |that he went into his yard lust night, when he sw two strange men in the cellar under D. D. Harrison's paint store at No. 173 The cellar exteads under No. 171, which is oceupled by the |New York Fifth Avenue Tuiloring Com- pany. Mitsky went ant to the sidewalk to |1ook into the cellar from the front, and said he met Henry Colton, a partner of Blerman, there, He told Colton, he de- clarcd, about the two men, and Colton, according to his story, considered that they were his customers and all right. Then the men came out and went away with Colton, so Mitsky states. Mitsky Ipoked into the cellar again and saw what looked Ike a cord hang- Ing from the ceiling, He entered, and found that the supposed cord was a fuse and that it was burning. He quickly extinguished {ft and made a turther examination, He found, he says, that the fure was [Pua iaat to Jong thin stick. At che top end of the fuse was a bunch of huatches and a quantity of loose Ussue r, is hun, the top of a gasoline and about The tank was on 2 inches from it. mporary shelf which had been made te placing a board across the tops of wo six-foot tanks containing turpen- tiie and alcohol, ‘The covers of these tanks had been remoyed. | Mitsky pulled down the apparatus a jran with e Headquarters. De = } teetives “wer He ned to the case and j the Tre ue of heir Investigation was the ur of Bierman-this afternoon, Colton ¢ nid not be fond at his place jof business or at hig home, No. 3 ton street When MRsky made his discovery the epubllean Indian League was holding a meeting on the fourth floor of the building, and there wash large attend- ‘The police say that If the fuse 1 done its Intended work the ma stiirway of the building would quic ily have been ablag ck Of houses wax hullt of yel- ie, and the police argue that all would have been destroyed. SAYS CLIENT IS INSANE. ZT, Recorder Gol Anked to Appoint a Commission for Olney, Application was made to-day to Re- corder Goff, in General Sessions, to appoint a commisston to examine into [the sanity of Dr. Charles ®, Olney, an (Finen Plaintift('s Attorney 810 for Inventor, who iB awallng trial on a Sharp Practice, \« Olney Penance ident of Wi wuntles Ghone ey, Who ix a resident of Worcester, ain Se ps aemeupcen | Mass., patented a number of electrical H i} xAB appliances now in. co 0) e, many jon the general subject of lawyers and | APManees Nw ih fomemon ise, many | thelr ways, It was all over the case of ;Muruno d'Ambra versus Societe Dal- vant Volta, in which the plaintift ts | suing for $51, which he claims is due him for sick benefits, Davd Hershfield, who represents the defendants, sald that he eame into court four minutes after the case was called Jon the day set for trial and that he } found himself defaul Rosario Mag- j slo was the plaintiff's attorney, and he was represented by clerk that day, which happened to be one of the worst of the winter, and delayed Mr. Hershfield while on his way to the court, Justice Marehn sald after the appll- cation to open the default had been made: “Tam going to break up these prac- tices, It 1s @ sad state of affairs when such actions as this are tolerated, The Practice of the Inw must have degen~ erated indeed when one lawyer will fort to such tgneminious means to ds- feat the ends of justice. I shall re- open this case and charge the plaintift's attorney $10 for costs." —<—<—<——_—_-- TO BREAK UP ICE. Attempt Made to Resume Naviga- tion Between Here and Newark. The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company and the MercKiants' Express and Transportation Company, of Newark, have united with the local steamboat companies to force a passage through the heavy pack ice in the Kill von Kull and Newark Bay so that navigation between the two cities, which has been suspended since the winter set in, may be resumed, ‘Phe raftroad company sent out two of {tx most powerful tugs to-day, while i like number were tho | transpor' tation concern, lark end five boats were started. ——— MAN LOOKED SUSPICIOUS. despate by, Stranger Held for Investigation, Supreme Court Justice Forbes walked Into the Weat Sixty-elghth street a tlon to-day and told Sergt, Lanergan | »lthat 9 susplclous-looking man hanging around Seventy-fourth street, hetween Broadway and West Knd avi Policeman vestigate, the” corner of | Seventy-fourth ‘nd Broadway was a man \sald his name was Kdward Rel ar ee most indignant when Questioned the policeman, but gave his address No, $82 Broadway, In his Pocket, Waa a, letter. froma ‘prisoner in the ae aking for, tosaceo, and stamps. | He wae ) the Cent ‘ral, Omeemnen aro From the News| Supreme Court Justice Forbes Has was | 1 oleman Was sent out ) jarrested five weeks ago for forging a jeheck on the Garfield National Bunk. 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