The evening world. Newspaper, July 30, 1904, Page 3

t : i IG BATTLE RAGING, «AAPG HELO IN CHECK "Russian Southern Army Resists an Assault Which Lasted for Four Hours, but Finally Stops the Advance of the Enemy at Haicheng. ¥ Forces of the Mikado Resumed the At- tack Later, and at Last Accounts the Fight Was Still in Progress—Ter- tible Loss on Each Side, j (Opectal Cable Despatch to’ The Brening World.) ( Copyright, 1904, by the Press Publishing Company, New York World.) LONDON, July 30.—Despatches from Haicheng bring the news Phat a decisive battle 1s in progress in which the Russian Southem army Is making a-most desperate effort to hold-in check the advance of the Ja This battle began at 7 o'clock yesterday morning with a heavy ar. HMlery fire, buf in a short time almost the entire forces of the two armies were engaged. Protected by the big guns which had been skilfully placed, the Japanese infantry advanced along the line of the railroad in an endeavor to cut off the Russian Southern army and isolate it from the other army under Gen, Kuropatkin, For four hours the terrible conflict lasted, the Japanese steadily push- he and occupying advanced positions. It looked as though theif move would be successful, but finally, with a desperate resolve, the Russian forces were rallied and at 11 o’clock the Japanese advance was thecked. There was an appalling loss on each side, After the Japanese were checked in their forward movement there jwas a short cessation of general fighting. Later in the day the Japanese resumed their attack and when the latest news was sent from the front the battle was still raging. —_————+ $9 _______ VLADIVOSTOK FLEET RETURNING TO ITS PORT. TOKIO, July 30—3 P. M.—The Vladivostok squadron passed Tsu- garu Straits on the way to Vladivostok at 4 o'clock this afternoon, JAPANESE HAVE NOT CAPTURED PORT ARTHUR TOKIO, July 30.—Port Arthur has not fallen, The dental is made here yMicially because of the rumors that have reached here and the inquires made from hundreds gf sources, In addition to this bit of information !t is estimated that the Viadi- vostok squadron in its raid down the Pacific Coast on the shipping has caused the detention of 200,000 tons of chartered shipping for ten days and the loss will amount to $7,500,000, The raid was @ most disastrous one, The last heard of the squadron it was heading homeward, and it {s hoped the raid is over and shipping will be resumed on the Pastern coast. The Pacific Mail Corapany's steamship Korea will be held at Yokohama, and the steamship Siberia at Koke until thelr safety is assured. ‘The German Mail Steamship Company Is using Kobe as a terminal tor the transshipment of passengers and cargo. OKU REPORTS HIS LOSS, The Japanose casualties at the battlo of Tatchekiao, as reported by Gen. Oku, were 12 officers and 136 men killed and 47 officers and 848 men wounded, a total of 1,043 killed or wounded. Gen. Oku estimates the Rus- sian loss at 2,000. —_——$—<— $$ SAYS ITALIANS — PAYMASTER AND KILLED SOLDIER, OANERSHOT DOWN Capt. Burfeind. Hurries Back} Robbers Riddied Victims with from Vacation to a Bullets and Escaped to the Strange Murder of James} Woods with $3,000 Which the Hammett in Westchester. Men Were Carrying. Capt. Burfeind, of the Westchester itation, hurried back frm Canada, where he has been enjoving a vacation, to-day and took persona! charge of the fovestigation which Dis aleuths are making into the murder of Private] as the result of a hold-up and murder James Hammett. of the Blehteenth! which occurred on the township road Coast Artillery, se body was found leading from (his place to Puritan short. In Westchester k with a knife) ly before noon to-day. wound through the heart The two in a buggy were taking a “L have made a thorough tnvestiga-] @tchel containing $3,000 with which to tion of this matter,” sald the Captain] Pay the coal company's employees at to-day, “and am satisfied that Hammett | Puritan from the Adams Express Com- wae billed In a fight with Italians. | PAny offices here to the coal town, when He was very drunk: and quarrelsome|®* 4 Point about three-quarters of a mile and I belleve thaighe was making tvs] Ut Of Portage they were suddenly fired way to Fort SchuWer when he got Into] Upon by @ party of three men armed trouble with some of the Italians who] With shotguns. live in the colony near the creek. Hays fell to the bottom of the bugyy, Capt. Burfeind's devectives were #-| pierced by thirty-seven buckshot wounds PORTAGE, Pa, July %.—Charles Hays, a driver employed by the Puritan Coal Company, is dead and Patrick Campbell, the company's paymaster, lies fatally wounded at the Altoona Hospital ng through the colony to-day closely rationing every man in It. Arrests in his neck and breast, and died about ertcpecmed by to-night. half an hour later, Camptell was hit in —a——- the shoulder and fell trom the bugey ‘Awaymen came out from th | SINGING IN THE PARK, | piace ot Liding'in the woods tothe ant of the road, secured the satchel of —_—_— money and made their ove: Paited German Socteties to Join) Though weak {rom the ipa Campbell made «is way to farmers in iy Co house, where he told his story, Five hunared members of the United] driven to Poriage, where Be renal ferman Singing Societies of the city] Surgical attention Hil jain the band in the regular Sun Pi Papi Me the murder and robber ay afternoon concert on the Mali In| Spread quickly, and organized | poss faut ane Useeegrow. “A. tr were soon searching for the robbers in as been erecied for the singers, Tee people are a excited over the - Pisce Will be held from 4 t 61 rage and threaten 10 lynch the perpe- Pk es | traitors if they are captured. Campbell waa \aken to Altoona on the day ex- press, He is jerously wounded, there being Afteen bullet wounds in his face, head and body. Two shots pterced hia rigtt lung, another hit his mouth and two struck in bis forehead. Camapell ie ane of ane, heat, known mining experts in the Central Pennsyl- vania teik Tt Is believed the robbery was committed by persons who knew the paymaster made regular trips to Portage every two weeks for the money to Pry, hia men. the miners heard of the hold-u they or; ye searching parties ‘and unt. of blood SEARCH rst tnt Pa in The World these OF A last two weeks. 764 more than the second | BUSINESS? chy semper. TUCKAHOE TRACY “What's your name? asked him. he replied. or any old thing.” P “Give me your first name,” Clark sald, “No, 1 don't care to.” On the police court sheet he was entered as “John Tracy,’ chester, He ts poorly dressed and had only) seven cents when arrested like a tramp, and It {s believed he ts nothing but a piain hobo In hard luck “why,” said he, “the Mount Ver- non policemen fired fifteen shots at me and they could not hit me. 1 didn't even have to dodge the bul- lets. Look at my gun; fashioned bulider ! that (t hi “| will commit you to the W Jail to await the action of Jury,” sald Judge Simpson. oner was hurriedly taken to the W! Plains Jail. BION L. BURROWS Rapid Transit tary Has Nervous Bion L. Burrows, Secretary Mr. Burrows ed with iewspaper work confidential clerk t William Lb. Strong. Hedges, See > cocary Was appointed City M 1s the position of secre! he held until the end of M. term, He was th di Be of the Rapld Transit Commissior Mr. Burrows has worked unceasingly | for five CLOSED DOORS AT FORT LEE. |County Prosecntor Checks Wide- Owing to the number to keep their front. ¢ after on Sunda: has been sent t loons, and it Is saic teotive will be on duty to-m Joona wide open, Now they to do business through ¢ as do other place: THE WORLDi SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 30, 1904. POLICE COMMANDERS FROM SEVERAL PRECINCTS WHO WERE SWITCHED AROUND TO-DAY BY COMMISSIONER M’ per —_———— WI RS HARKINS: F Pouce Caer. i GES DAE Outlaw that Led the Westches- ter Police on Such a Hard Man-Hunt Refuses to Tell Who He Is in Court To-Day. oo “I have nothing to say. I have no name. I am half dead. Yes, I walve examination.” This was all that the Dandit who was captured by a Tuckatioe policeman after he had shot Detective Reilly and had been chased by two posses for two days In the Tuckahoe woods, during which a score of shots were fired at him, would say when ar- ralgned before City Judge Simpson at Mount Vernon on the charge of at tempted murder. ‘Woak from hunger and suffering from hia long exposure, the Westchester des perado, say where he hails from, had to be half carried and led by Detective At well and Policeman Charles Embert to the police court, The station-house |s two blocks from the court the prisoner almost fainted from ex- haustion after he had walked this Us| siation—the new Tenderloin—to the West Thirty-seventh street station, tance, He was heavily hand ho refuses to give his name oF mi, and followed crowd of men and bo ndit to the Court-House, Keeper Marsh “Never mind my name, it is an old- 3 two chambers —<——— jon Seere- ontration, the Rapid Transit Commission, is iM with nervy prostration, Ho was removed to a ganitarium at Summit, N. early this week to Lake the mit} and open alr cure,” but bas not been benefited. # atone thn Mr, Burr appoir ‘8 without a holtday Open Sunday at Kesort. that have been sent to Prosecutor Ko: ter, of Bergen County, the saloon-keep- ers of Fort Lee and Caristadt will | that the order Is carried out Most of the population in the two will have side doors in th punty mm CONTRACTOR A SUICIDE. KINGSTON, N. Y.. July %—John Mitchell, @ wealthy contcactor cf this city, committed suicide to-day by shoot- x himself through the head. Last ‘ebruary he injured his head and since then he has acted strangeiy at times preparing piiné for work 90 large conWacts in New York. hie cael SLEUTHS SCARE Disguised as Flour Bags, They “Drop That!” Screaming “Ghosts!” Colored work for the profession of highway- Man Fails in a Heap. ichael Devanney 17 CAPTAINS IN POLICE SHAKE-UP (Continued from First Page.) “Coons Itke coffee because it's biack. Hist! Look for the coon and you land Office Moe!" Burke | building of the new reservoir, has pro had amtggled themselves into the cot-| Med homes for the marauders. fee and flour house of Joseph J. O'Don- Filled Up with Tramps, They were] Maly in the spring the houses began jon a ati) hunt for the thief who for/to be occupied by tramps. Many of Capt. Hayes is sent from the West Forty-seventh street| months had been surreptitiously re-| them wei moving forty prunds of coffee a night from the premives under cover of dark and his place in the Forty-seventh Street Precinct is taken hy Capt. Hus 24%». sey, Capt. Hayes has asked for a transfer several times. time for sleep in his busy station, Capt. Hussey is a Republican, tf a Man-| dlue serge sult, Carey a dark drab] of them at their Botter disguise] for their kind, Small robber! themseives as animated flour bags! No] and ocansiong) hold-ups, but the real sooner said than done. The contents of ies of ti two bags of flour the slewtha sprinkled] litt: ol over themselves. They stood breathiesa| ‘his place as Sleuths Arthur Care: ohue at No, 101 Front street lay | i The 4 He bad’ ttle | ict ee eee ey port me Bill, John, Jack | hattan police captain can be said to hold political aMilations, Koad neeaprbelll 9 serst.| HARD PILL FOR CAPT, KEMP. The man treated worst of all appears to be Capt. Charles Kemp, of the eighth street station, who {8 sent to Hunter's Point. He isa Wed him the “Outlaw of West-| young policeman and was very energetic in a hard precinct to handle . Capt. Kemp has no political pull. A Capt. Burns, during his command of the Church street station, has Me looks | oon a terror to the pool-rooms, and his precinct is regarded as reasonably In the East One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street precinct, to which he has been transferred, there is a nest of pool-rooms with political back- ing, and it is supposed that he will be instructed to suppress them. WILL SOON GET BETTER JOB. Capts. Foody and Cooney were transferred out of Manhattan by the na! Reform police administration, They have many Influential Tammany | “ro? Lo It is not thought that Capt. Cooney will pymain Jong iu the Grand “Ghosts Central Sub-Station, where there 1s nothing to do Dut receive complaints of lost baggage and direct wandering farmers. It may be simply a coincidence, but there appears to he a political yr to some of the Brooklyn transfers, Capt. Devaney, who fe shifted to ) important Butler street to regulate wagon traffic on the Brooka pe” e, is an avowed follower of Senator McCarren, Capt. Murphy, traus- |!" &* io the Adams street precinct—the Brooklyn Tenderloin—while oa-| tensibly a Republican, 1s, hand ja slove with Tammany influences, The Commissioner did not appear at Headquarters to-day. He made the announcement of the transfers through his secretary, Mr. Howell, who gave out the following typewritten statement signed by the Commissioner at the same time. “This is in no sense a general shake-up. | some changes that I am convinced are necessary for the greater efficiency of the force and which I concluded ought to be made now, WILL HOLD THEM TO ACCOUNT, “Tl have given Capts. Hussey, Burns and Dillon three very important precincts and I will hold them responsible for good results. ccond Precinet (West Forty-seventh street station) one of the mportant precincts-ip the city, and in some ways quite as much 80 as the Tenderloin, “The Captain in that precinct must be firm, courageous and {mpartial, and, of course, thoroughly upright and possessed of good judgmént t. Hussey, and {t will be his fault and not mine and the po-| West Sixty A tall, dark figure approached "| friends n't you real ghosts?’ he man k on the way to the station-house. | grew bolder Ww vn | the nerve t Brooklyn, was hy hve roa rs e bail in the Centre Street Pe there to give up at least $1. Five thous. VERY ILL. gave by Magistrate Breen to-day HUNT FOR MISSING CHARITY RECORDS Commissioner Tully Begins In-'t vestigation of His Department) It is merely the making of I consider the Under the Administration of Homer Folk. Chartties Commiss! gun an Investigation tn relative to @ number o: expect good work from Ce if good results are pot Dillon is a young officer and showed good capacity thi when drilling the forces for the annua! parade. send Capt Burne to the Thirty-second. Precinct (East One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street station) with confidence that ! will get good results from him “LT have filled the vacancy caused by the death of Capt. Schultz by send- ing Capt. Deevy there, and 1 will find another Captain without making| ‘ *| promotions to fll the vacancy caused by the death of Capt. Short i} motions, therefore, are at this time necessary.” SEEK NEW HEADQUARTERS. ; CHILD'S FATAL FALL. Girt Tumbles Dies of lajories, While at play, Rachael Devarser, one year old, fell down two fights of stairs at her home, No, 2197 First avenue. The child was teken to the Herlem Hospital, mogning, His precinct is a very im- recent investigat The matter was ref son, Seeretary of the Dem- Fr the committee, In catered eo stamped under foot and generally de stroyed. The investigation said. would reach middie of next week. He said that no decision would be reached as toa selection unt!} Chairman Tareart’s return here next week, where she died this WAR BANDITS | Nearly Two Score Arrests in the Croton Valley. Where There Has Been a Reign of Terror and Many Holdups. ALLEGED “BLACK HAND” KING IS CAPTURED. Conditions of Lawlessness in District Close to New York Have Been for Months Al- most Incredible, The first blow at the condition of brigandage which has existed in the Croton Valley for the past month» haa been struck by the Westohester County oMeials, and es the result of the drag net thrown out by Sheriff James F. Merritt nearly two-score arresta have been made, among the prisoners being one Antonio Filparo, who ts eaid to be the King of the Black Hand Soctety and the tnetigator of most af the crimes whioh have been committed throughout w alley during the past fow weeks, Filparo was captured In bed to-day in his shanty near Croton Lam by Under Sherif? Lane and Deputies Kuss and HIM, At his bedside was a Winchester rif_e, fully loaded, and two revolvers, A black mask, such as many of the ma- raud have worn on the robbing ex- peditions, was also found in honty, and the of: are satisfied that in Fil- paro they have the mainspring of the) bandit organization which has terror iaed the community #0 long. Keign of Lawlesancas, wooo SHER MES SEEDOEI ASSASSNATORS Whispering Which, Wassenberg- er Pointed Out Cringing Dess peradoes Who Confessed They Were Hired to Kill Him. WEREN'T UNION SLAYERS, BUT CUT-RATE KIND, For $10 They Offered to Separ- ate Tailor from His Life, and Gave Him His Choice of Difé ferent Styles of Death. ‘The Essex Market Court listened © remarkable story to-day invetving $10 worth of assassination, Jouph Wasserberger, a tailor, of We % Attorney street, the began the tale fearfully. He behind all the doors of the court-reom, under the cuspidors, glanced furtivelgt ‘at the ceiling and slid up to the bar, “Your Honor,” he whispered, “these, two men,” pointing to two shrinking Agures at the bar, “came up to me from right out of the street, and they sags. jWasearberger. 1 will cost ‘ ive! “Birat I beging to laugh, with quickness, ‘If I could cheap I am a rich man,’ men they make thelr ey gOes on: “Wi been hired to blow you up; shoot you to “Then £ don't lat why and ‘who ls iw **Ladal ate Pincus, of Stanton ‘The conditions of affaire in the Cro-| let you “itve. We are i ton Vadley, right on the very borderd of New York City, have been as bad sea rin oy alan is s OConnor for the past month as they pomsibly| and [ say to him: ‘Oh, #0 to live. If I don't could be. Lawlessness haa reigned and| 7 thousands of dollars in money and prop-| The Gettenmia he ‘erty baa been stolen. There have been) makes a noise that But when he sees over $90 hold ups, not mere demands for] Bit hs” Ae tee ey searsgne ears y money umbacked by violence, but real im wild Western hold ups at the polmts of| two men who wih have revotvers. In broad daylight men have peated, and we fx it to make made @ turn in the road to, find the This prelude, as it developed, seives looking down the barrel of a] corroborated ty Capt O'Connor, be rite and have been compelled to dis-| felted, the piel mint tne fogs t of instant death, ed tallor to make an , gorge for fear en jor make Mee 6 Mostly Bad Italiane Most of the men engaged in this work have been Italians of the bad class. Many of them got Into the val-| around the corner for and ley originally as members of the work- 5 wort “Then I tells him my met the two men at Ri tor streets later in the evening, gave Wi reer two FS to the all and he and Detect’ ‘Th appointment was made j ing ange, Dut speedily quit honest] {0 Arrangement, ane ce rng was turned over to the two men and assassins, They have preyed| does, They saw, the poiice tirst, have proved easy victims, aa they, bet- ter than any one else, know the weight tat le to be attached to the threats of men of this class. The abandonmeng of scores of houses by farmers and others because of the still stocked with food and it didn’t take long for the tramp tem of telegraphy to spread the far and wide of the largesse at hand. With marvellous rapidity the wander- ers came in, until 8 at this ideal spot began error did not bey unt) the if italian rm picked out rendesyous and began from tt. their operat when @ stealthy approach was heard.) ‘hese men began with the ual Nothing but the tread of the watchman] blackmailing tactics, They sent anony- outdoors disturbed the midnight still-] mous messages into the road and ree- ervoir camps demanding money from individuals on pain of death. They were It} suocesstul in getting money for awhile; had let itself into the warehouse with a| then: some of The foremen of the . discovered what was going on P he men not to give up any more. ues he'll take us for skeletons | vised the holdups began. Man when he spots us.’ sald Human Flour on gun 'eas vaviela 0 the road, and id not several men were kidnapped Nook hosts,” said Human Flour Bag | set free until thelr friends and relatives 0, had sent $@ to the gang as ransom en pile a bane of hy bed the tall, | money. jzure was a it ti It is said that the thieves even went foreamed | go far as to use @ pretty young Italian and fell to the floor all a} girl, the daughter of one of them, to lure Italian workmen to their camp, Heo sald he was John Robberson, the} and in this way they made a number of colored asestant Janitor of the build-| prisoners whg were obliged to disgorge at the point Df a gun. inimuae for along time, the bandits bolder, and several days ago had ik into a camp of elghty- ‘and force every “man and dollars in salaries were pald out in one day this week to the workmen in the valley, and it is estimated that before nightfall the Black Hand gan had in one Way and another got-dl, of this. ‘The county authorities regarded the of such lawlessness as being ex- ted, and for a long while kept hands off, but they were finally 4 to act, There came to Sheriff t a weeping Italian Woman who ed that the Black Hand men fied her husband that unless 0 in time @& auon proved ory to be true, and a little ques- foning among the reputable Italians proved that it was generally believed mong them that se Ttalians who ve disappeared & J explanation during been killed b ders in the ¢ to this fang ans. Sheriff Made Big Raid, Sherif Merritt a wt last night a Ital 5 mn snowed e tat was they yielded * gang. a. was mothe n a Ney we Ttallans, who ery culmination the|now about making complalui, will agree to appear against the men. fi provorcis. id ran. Capt, O'Connor ai principally on thelr own people, whol testive Raton rave chave well boul st side, ‘To No. 170 Rivington pireet the policeman chased the ugitives i prodigious tread that the ment. Up seven flights of stairs he fol lowed the men, the staircases under his weight. The fugit! have escaped had they not become volved in the scuttle Aa they crawling out Capt, O'Connor nt twe feet Pe inder hi tremendous weight hi ives down the ladder and desce: of stairs with a noise that neighborhood. sserberger, who dancing about delightedly, was 9 by the descending mass and down three more flights caught his feet. The pri soribed — themsel jacob twenty-three years old, of No, folk street, and tke berg. Clinton street. The ec! phatically that Mr. Pincus, of Banton treet le 4 ooetes them $10 to put to the J $4 tote treet falled 40. Fe Ay Pincus, and the men were as narra ot rae cast, ti ¥ sical charge being an attempt tort 10 rom ‘Wassenberger. t Court heard this adjourned the case for a breal when he could examine Into calmly. ———— IMPHIPODS BY THE MILLION IN RARLER ent, Known in the Vernacular ® } Physicians of Harlem have Giscor ered that the upper reaches of Mans” hattan are in the throes of an ephiemie of saltatorial amphipods, The saltatorial amphipod is fat worse than the mosquito. He is ap Insect dreaded of women and babies, upon whom he now ts descending {@ myriads, All lem and great districts im ‘are scratching. altatorial amphipod, the dectors vou, Is a pultcld insect. whate at may be. head Is armed with a madibular apparatus, Worse than that he has a suctorial Even more terrible he has a pulem irritans, the saltas “¥ i An Invitation lx ' is extended to all 4 | Visitors and Straagers jz in the city to VISIT LJ This Unusual Store, fy “One of the Sights ot New York.” J Japan, China, india, Turkey.}} oe ! as the Wicked Flea, 4 5