The evening world. Newspaper, April 5, 1904, Page 2

NP AAMT ROVE USMS FROM WLU Czar's Forces Retired Before the Ad-| vance of the Mikado's Troops, 45,000 of Whom Marched Against the Town) by Three Routes. i FIRE IN SCHOOL 8) Mysterious 8laze Is Found in a Clothes Closet of No. 5 and the Lives of 1,500 Pupils | Were Endangered. } ALL MARCHED OUT SAFELY UNDER THE FIRE DRILL. |Blaze Was Discovered by Miss (By Associnted Press.) 1 SEOUL, Corea, Friday, April 1, via Shanghai, Apri! 5—The Jap- anese First Army, consisting of 45,000 men, including the Imperial Guard, | and the Second and Twelfth Divisions, which had been concentrated at Anju, is moving on Wiju by three routes. It was the advance guard, composed of 450 infantry and caval | ah WOHOFed Tete Sliven | i ulsed 600 Russians and occupied Chongju, sixty-five miles) 1 hool No. i, In Edgecomb avenue, ile Wiju, March 28. Lieut. eis and four Japanese were killed Te Cialeateeen ae teeta on that occasion and Capt. Kurowaka and eleven men were wounded. The were marched out of the building in less. Russians had ten men killed. ; “LONDON, Anyil 5.—Eigit weeks from the opening of the war’ sees Japon fighting apparently in complete possession of Corea ind | eres Sey ten) Renae Snr: : [was a fire in the buflding until afte the first stage of the campaign euded. they had reached the street and the According to the Daily Mail's Kobe (Japan) correspondent, who jengines arrived. The damage done by graphs under date of April 4, a Fingyaiig denpatch has been received there the fire was lent, but the blaze has nfirminz the report from Shanghai that Japanese scouts entered W.ju,|importance in that it is another of a il ieee y t he R ns lad apparentiy re-| secession of fires of a similar character . siJ1 o'clock A. M. Monday, and that the Russians had appa Corea, y kind ts to hand| !" schoolhouser of the cits . treated «yond the Yalu River, but no further news of any kind ts to han | pascal hp: ENG cl Al throwin, light on either land or sea operations. Everything, however, 1s ie achool is given over to boys anv regarded as sointing to the imminenca of important developments. The Daily Mail's Seoul correspondent, telegraphing Monday, asserts that. | the janding of Japanese truoos at Chinanno nas now ceased, but that the! tis guarded by a large fleet and the Japanese base has moved north from ingyang. Where only a few troo,# sow remain. | athe Morning, Post's ‘Lolio vorrespondent says Japanese torpedo boats | scouting at Port Arthur discovered unencumbered a channel 130 yards wide | \Mi+s which still admits of tha pussage of ve mar room on the # ‘The Times correspondent at sea on April 4, in a wireless message via. | emoke this afternoon and made Wéihaiwei, says: | vestiqatic She found the woodwork “tam cruising in the vicinity of Port Arthur and have discovered no jin a cloxet adoining ner room and used evidence of vessels of either belligerent, [he tmipression is gaming Keound| for the storage of the wrap. that the Russians were not totally shut March 27." The Times's Chefoo correspondent says the Liao River ts extensiv: mined and that twelve stone-laden junks are ready for sinking at the eu- trance to the river at a moment's notice. The guns of the Russian gunboat Sivoutch have been reshipped. MISSING GIRL ~ _ LOCKED IN STATUE I and She Took Steps to Save Children. F eof a fire in a closet on the second or. sle- the grammar cla e principal and sistant. principal Dowd, Found Fire in a Clonet. Henry Cassidy is la Whalen the as euchers in by the Japanese attach of} ablaze. One of the boys in the room was sent for to the principal with a written notier of the fire. Mr. Cassidy immediatel: sounded the signal for a fire drili three strokes of the bell repeated three| mes—meaning that the pupils should Jassemble and march out into Fag comb avenue. (“Thought Tt Was a Drill. i | There had been a practicn fire drill at! jdleminsal Ume at noon and the ehiidren thought this signal meant another artil 4x it was near the tine for the closing choot for the afterne Some of the bovs In Miss Fiastman’s room knew (het there was a fire, but they kept quiet about itand not the ellghtest dif | Heulty was experienced tn getting the} jehildren tn rafety from the building Janitor Dowd hurried to the scene of the fire with extinguishers, and until | two engines arrived in response to an| arn turned tn by (Conunued fron t Tage.) were walking along the Battery we saw the steamer Falcon getting ready | \. to start for Liberty Island and the Statue of Tiberty, “As TL atili had time, we thought we would take the trip over to the statue and then back on the same boat. When we arrived at Liberty Island | far captain of the boat said he would be there half an hour, and so we walked up into the statue. “Wewent clear to the top looked out of the windows in the eyes over. Miss Whalen they fought the blaze alone. Tha flames the bay and then started down. When near the bottom I found that I had| were vonfined to tne cioset in. which fupped my handbag somowhcre inside tho statue and we hurried on back| thes originated, up the #tal:s, loolting on ali tne iandings. Our boat tickets and my money Origin of Fire a Myatery. es Nether Mr, Caeaiay nor his teachers wea in the bag. M1 offes any explanation of the cause veothe fire. There had been no one in PRISONERS IN THE STATUE ie “On the landing where the door leads into the left arm T found the! nay bag. Johanna hid gone on ahead of me to the top, and as I found the bag closet so far as is known since when the teachers hung up the None of the young women hi she was looking out of the windows in the eyes. She called to me to come! notches in her pockets, and ft Is hard quick, and when I got thera we saw the boat rteaming away toward Man-|{/7rMe that ans of the boss should hattan on its last trip. There we wero alone, prisoners on that little Tae eet areal coctel avesan ical Jand. But, what was worse, when we got down to the bottom of the statue| have. atl ed in closets used f sloth ing of teachers or scholars Pwo boys were arrested in Brooklyn for artting fre ton eehos!, hur the Ares not Gense. The tast tire of the was in an old rchool in Brook the perfection of the fire all that averted a terrible toes of FELL 10 Ob again we found the docr Jocked from the outside side of the statue! | “Well, we had a box of carambis and we decided to look at the matter| philosophically. Wwe thonght it was better to be tocked insuie of the statue than outside, where we believed there whs nothing but a lot of soldiers, Woe went back up to the landing at the eyes again and sat down, having Made up cur minds to stay there all nighi. We looked out on the bay, saw the ships coming and going and watching the miniaturs cities lying belgs. ns| as the twillgat gathered over them. We commenced to count the lights! as they sprang up out of the gloom, and then Johanna startled me with. | *Here goes the last caramel!’ We were prisoners in- did Kh 0 DEATH AT LAUNCHING NOT 1 CARAMEL TO EAT! “It made me shiver. I had not had nearly enough to eat. It was my! Ginner time and I was hungry. But we had decided we'd stick it out. We! pledged cach other that we would not get hysterteal or faint /Old Man. One of Thousands “It was pretty dark when I crawled out of the window in the ey : aes BPN ee Coctured bul oh a Ue Krasee orclath cca eee ent exe ot! Watching the Virginia Take ("There I saw a Woman pass under a light near a building, so 1 knew, the Water, Toppled from Dry- | it would be safe for us to be down there also, and I set up a mighty and Johanna crawled ont and sho yelled, too. But we were too far! Idn't hear us aown below. then we crawled back in through the eye and felt our way dow: Dock and Was Killed. nthe, (Special to The Evening World) ] stairs until we came to a porthole down near the statue's knee, I should) S!WPORT NEWS. Va. Aprit 5.—| Imagine, and there opened the window and called again. The battleship Virginin was baptized . ‘ta sparkling wine and human blood this “Sergt. W. afternoon, Just as Miss Mathilda Gay and be came quickly, He got the custodian (o unlock the door and with | Montague, daughter of Gov. Andrew several officers aud a light they found us. | Jackson Montague, threw the beribbon- t im tes . | ote of champagne against the THEY FALL INTO GOOD HANI | side of the warship whieh was leaving PAT ison pai a alcy Wer Re iritan (the ways John Calhoun, of Richmoni We Weta taken efore Capt. @. C. Burnell, the military commandant of] ya. wr aged man anomie the apeet the garrison'on the island, and Jam sure a more gallant gentleman never! twee lived. When we had told of our misfortune he took us over to Mra. Naw-) tt! plunged headlong over the side ot{ dry-dock adjoining the dock | Tove's cottage, near the barracks, Dr. Newlove is in the Philippines, Mrs, "4" Newlove made us the finest hot dinner ! W. Greenwood, of Company ¥, of the Signal-Corps, heard we % the W Charleston, ner M1 or was pushed by | ever ate the surging dis not kiown. Ile “While we were at dinher the soldiers had been told that two lost | Was Instuntly killed | women were on the island, and they came around with an improvised band. 2h!!Y ¢ ain | persc brcinding | and serenaded ws, One had a banjo, another « mouth-harp, one a har-| jr ‘cite wine the anwentia monica, and another a zither, They were the only musical instruments on! which. but for the ¢ 1y attending tt, ithe island, excepting Mrs. Newlove's plano, | hag ive! mene: acintac tory sever nce | “Mrs. Newlove had a fino breaktast for us this morning, and when we) sMative MUPSUNE Atand mere Gov, | i had finished Capt. Burnel! came and said there was a boatman on hand {sation li ¢ Is of the ga | Navy Departme Who would take us to Ellis Island,” | This boatman was Old Bill Quigley, famous for thirty years as “The! Battery Boatman.” He had brought a light tender over early and Capt. , Eurnell had detained him and his rowboat to take the young ladies ashorc Antwerp Rotterdain, gould telephone her mother and where Miss Luehrs could report for work Port Au Prin San 4 Quigley took them to Hillis Island, and from there, after sending mes- Hong Mnede ‘Tampleo Bremen father was Virg'! Tojetti, the famous scenic artist from a family of ABMS: S paiuters. He was awarded three gold medals and many other prizes Marquétte, tng the old masterpieces in the Vatican at Rome. Routhampton Tojetti's sister, Mrs. Hall, wus engaged three years ago io marry f BY Waldron, feading man of the Murray Hill stock company. Dur= emment there was a hitch, and the engagement was broken. oman married Dr. Hail, a uillionalre. Apache. fate No, Brasil. ano WUKLD;: Eastman on the Second Floor | slaimed, children heard her cousin's groans aud, i “Finco by NEW INCENDIARY SLAYER QF IGS MABEL PAGE BAFFLES ARMY OF SLEUTH | $50,000, 100 Dete | Trace Is Found, ‘ (Special to The BOSTON, April 5.—The utter scive the mystery of the murder of |the police cuthorities to activity neve! lin New England. |reward. The father of the dead gii first streets, that a fund of $50,000 can be raised if it is deemed necessary, three minutes this afternoon be-| ON? WOMAN SUSPECT ELsMINATED. Two suspects engaged the attention of the police up to to-day, when Few of the children knew that there | one of them was eliminated from the case, Both suspects were women, and the one whose innocenc has been established was a frequent visitor | |to the house of Mabel Page. | alibi. It has The second suspect is a woman os such prominence that the police are slow to act. They know that a blunder will ruin the case against her, [girls in the primary class and boys in| and they fear to make a move without knowing their ground, | Suspicion was turned toward this woman because of statements she The janitor ts Pp. a has made to friends. These statements have been delved into by the in- vestigators. What these statements were have not been made public, nor lis it likely that they will be until t hi suspect placed under arrest simoiiea| Woman suspect placed under arres n an! hemmed about her. LOOK FOR MIDDLE-AGED MAN. ‘The police to-day turned thelr attention to a possible clue based upon jthe strange conduct of the well-groomed, middle-aged man who was de- acribed yesterday by neighbers as hay ahe Janitor and another was «ent {trom the sceno of the rnurder and in the direction of Wellesley apparently in a perturbed state of mind and ina ‘This man seems to have disappeared at the point where the road to! Wellesley crosses the electric railway A coincidence in connection with |Spurred by a Reward that May Reach Murderer of the Woman, One hundred detectives were put to work on the ‘problem of apprehending the slayer to-day. These men are working on a system, running down even the most} Pub-| trifling clues. They are spurred on to use their best efforts by the large ctives Hunt for the but No Evening World.) failure of all attempts thus far to Mabel Page at Weston has aroused r before known in a case of the kind rl has offered $5,000, and it is said been discovered thaf she has a clear hey have been proved true and the with a wek of circumstances closely ing been seen walking down the road condition of excitement. LUBSDAY mv iuNiNG, Ariat J, ivud THROWS ACID, THE PLEADS FOR MERCY . Droppin on her knees end wringins | her hand#, Mrs, Mary Murphy, twenty- ve years old, a widow, of No. 1105 Third avenue, pleaded with tears in her eyes before Magistrate Onmen, in Yorkville Poltce Court to-day, beggin that, for the children at home, she be spared from Prison on the chare of throwing tion of carboile acid on George We twenty-three years old, a clerk, th stree The woman also press the complaint “Far God's nuke,” “and for the sake of my tw do not have ine locked up, ¢ orge.” The woman in her plea to t trate made a ‘serious charge a Weider, which he denied, saying } been locked up for three weeks in the Tombs and that he was discharged yes- terday on arraignment.in Special Ses- sions. a ‘This morning. according to the com- plahiant, Welder was at Elghteenth sireet und First avenue, walling for a ear, when the woman spri 1m and threw over him the contents of a bottle that contained a dilution of car bolt The woman ran away, but was caught by a After her pathetle plea to the Court, Magistrate Ommen said it would be impossible for to con- tinue the examination, and he accord- ingly adjourned {t until to-morrow, sending the woman ‘to prison in default of $500 bail. BABY'S ECZEMA Top of Head Covered with Scales Which Peeled off Takiag Hair with Then. CURED BY CUTICURA running from Boston to Worcester. the suggestion that the murder may | have been committed by an Italian was the statement to-day of E. Edmunds, ‘a master mason of Auburndale, who home. He employed an Italian as a laborer at 3 o’olock Inst Thursday} «My afternoon. {s In charge of work near the Page On Friday the Italian disappeared. Mr, Edmunds did not learn | when the top of her head became cov- the Italian's name, nor does he know where the man came from. CHILD ENDS HER LIFE FOR LOVE Eva Packer. Just Graduated ; from High School and Ro-! mantic, Drinks Acid Rather, than Give Up Sweetheart. Conceiving the romantic Idom that slie would manifest her loyalty to her boy lover by ending her life rather than m, selection whom she had never seen, sixteen-vear- old Biya Packer committed suicide to- at No. arbolie Vv the Nar: af her home. Pitking avenue, by drinking ¢1 While dying in agony the girl ox- ‘T have been true to Jimmy.” She was protty and bright, having been graduated at the head of her class the Rrooklyn High Sehool, on Nos nvenic, last February, While hoot she had Med her mind with romantic teas by reading novels. rand sti} at = oO her aunt and uncle, Mr. Ro 1. Glickman, with whom she lived after the death ef her parents, she beg. ading novele when hardly A achoolhoy exhibit. eda s for her she return- ed Nis affection with an ardor that would have been remarkable In a wom: wm. and though this little romance ripened into a seomingly passionate love affair it was laughed at as a childish infatuation, Pleked a Sweetheart for Her, short U A bad been attr young girl prop that he make her his wife approved of the mateh The uncle and went 80 far as to arrange with the young phy- siclan the preliminaries to the mar- riage, He sald that he would give the girl a handsome dowry on her wedding day, The girl did not hear of this arrange- ent for her future antl a few da Aly she became de. ‘Thinking to overcome her . her Ie took her to. hie Leonard street, Manhattan, he set ber to work on his books This s 1 to relieve her distress, and to-day Mr. Glickman urged her to come to the store ¢ Tho girl said t i nele to New he shortiy nfte breakfast. Mra Glickman at about the same time went to Brooklyn to shop. Th Was no one at hme but two young ¢ Eacker girl and they dit not see leave the house and go to a Arg store, Whe tle of her selghboring lased a bot- The girl returned to the house and, tuking @ small Untype of herself and a bundle of letters, she crept into the cellar, ‘Then she drank the acid and fell groaning upon a heap of coal, Some Ume later one of the Glickman Into the cellar, found her, 3 were called and a physician AL for, When a doctor arrived the child was md aid and died declaring her loy- y sweetheart. In drinking ad spilled much of the face, burning deep scars ' pretty features and adding to her sufferings, i Clght street station, and the quickwitt- GIRL'S QUICK ACT SWES. FATHER Nellie Kenney, Aged 12, Does the Right Thing When She Saw Her Parent Swallow a Dose of Poison. By the prompt Kenney and M work of Patrolmen Inty of the Weat Sixty- ednens of Nellie Kenney, twelve years old, of M8 Went Sixty-seventh street, the life of the child's father, James Kennoy, forty-five years old, was saved this afternoon, he having attemptod sutelde by drinking carbolic acid, Kenney has been drinking heavy of late, and this morning lost his position asa flreman on that account, On his Way home he purchased a small vial of carbolte acid, Mrs, Kenney wax in the hall tal to a neighbor and Kenn self on the sofa in the daughter Nellie belng ot front of him, Laughed After Taking Kenney suddenly pulled the from bia pocket, pulled out. the And drank the ‘contents. Me the empty bottle Into his daughter's | lap, und laughted. The child did not walt to notify her mother or anyone else ii the house, but izing the bottle, ran as fast as’ sie able the West Sixty-eighth sR xhort distance away, She held up the bottle and gasped that her father had taken carbolic acid Patrolmen Kenney and MeGinty ran with the girl back to the flat. Pulll off their heavy coats, the two patri men got to work to save the man’s life With two spoons Wennes managed to seize the would-be suicides tongue and held it from his mouth, while MeGinty Alled him with as much milk as he could swallow. Girl Went for Sweet ot The little girl was sent to the drug store for sweet oll, and this was also forced down the man, Dr, Knipe arrived from the Roosevelt Hospital twenty-five minutes after the call had been sent in. aid that nothing more could be done as the man’s life 1 by the prompt action of the 1 the little girl. the Roosevelt id he would i tal and Dr. Knipe ntediy recover The physician complimented the Hitle girl on her agility. in notifying the Police. ——<—__- COMMISSION AT PANAMA, COLON, April 5.-The Pana manama Canal Comm omnilsstoners: th IT WON’T DO To have that trouble go on— it means Ruin. Stop Coffee Use 10 days. Postum How Six Years Old with ‘hic Hair and Clean Scalp. Cure Permanent, baby was about six weeks old ered with thick scales, which would peel and come off, taking the hair with It. It wonld soon form again and be as bad as before. I tried several things ail then went to the doctor. He said it was Eczema, and prescribed an olnt- ment, which did notdo any good. A friend spoke of Caticura Soap. I tried it and read on the wrapper sbout Cuti- cura Olntment as a remedy for Eczema. T bought a box and washed her head In warm water and Cuticura Soap and gently combed the scales off. They dit not come back and her hair grew out fine and thick She is now a year and a balf old and has no trace of Eczema.” MRS. C. W. BURGES, Iranistan Ave. Bridgeport, Conn., Feb. 21 Mrs. Burges writes Feb. 28, 1908: “My buby, who had Eezema very badly on her head, as I told yon before, after using the Cuticura Remedies was | cured. She Is now six years old aud | has thick bair and a clean scalp.” Tustunt rellef and refreshing sleep for skin-tortured bables and rest for tired, worried mothers tn warm baths with Cuticura Soap, and gentle anoint ings with Cuticura Olntment, purest of enollients and greatest of skin cures, tobe followed in severe cases by mild doses of Cuticura Kesolvent. 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