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ir ROJESTVENSKY « ¥ HEADING FOR PHILIPPINES Russian Admiral Fears Tor- pedo Attack in the For- mosa Straits, GOING NORTH OF LUZON. Through Ballintang Channel in Leaving China Sea for the Paoitic, MORE WARSHIPS FOR HIM. Bauadron at Cronstadt Quite Ready for Battle Bervice—Han Too Many Men. ST. PETERSBURG, May 16—After- moon.—The naval game in the Far Hast fs watched with intense interest, but the Admiraity is able to throw little leht ‘en the situation. It gives no confirmation of the Tokip Beport that Admiral Rojestvensky re turned to Honkohe Bay (a short Os tance north of Kamranh Bay). The Ruasian Admiral is keeping his move- ments and plans secret, not communt- eating even with the home authorities, ‘The many wild reports emanating frcm Tokio are attributed to the agi+ ated state of mind of the Japanese ever the rewult of the coming battle ‘The story that sailors from the crews @f the interned Russian ships at Bhang- bmi are being sent tv complete the com- plement of Rojestvensky's fleet is non- genwe, aa ie the provious ptory that a Jarge number of mercenaries were ehipped at Madagascar, ‘The Admiralty considers theme te no berm mow in divulging the fact that Rojestvensky’e ships are overmanned instead of undermanned, as when they feft Libau chere was oetill hope thet Chilean and Argentine warships could be purchased and portions of the orews Gesigned for them were cared on beard the Russian fleat, Many naval men inclined to the opin- ton that Rojestvensky wil] pass out of the China Sea into the Pacific, through the Ballintang Channel (north of the Istand of Luson, Philippine Islands) and give Formoma a wide berth instead of @ailing through the 200 mile stretch of @e Straits of Formosa in which the Russians might be subject to e tor- pedo attack, Another division of reinforcements for Rojestvenaky is almost ready at Cronstadt and will be sent om under @he' command of Rear Admiral Par- enago. It will consist of two fine new Dattleahips, the Slava and the Emperor Alexander I1., two cruisers, a torpedo cruiser, @ gunboat, @ transport and @everal minor units. The division is mow engaged in speed trials and manoceavring off Cronstadt. _—— KAISER’S TALK EXCITES RUSSIANS. 8T. PETERSBURG, May 1¢—Ihe Russian press ie considerably exercised ever the reports of Emperor William's fecent @pecch at Strassburg, Aleace- Lorraine, criticising the Russian officers @t the front, and the German Ambas- @ador Count von Alvensleben has taken pains to lesue an official denial of the @oouraey of the reports, CZAR’S TROOPS AGAIN FIRE ON JEWS. WARBAW, Russian Poland, May 16.— ‘A gathering of Russian and Jewish Boolalista on Nalewki street was dis- persed at midnight by a volley from an infantry patrol, The police previously had fruitiessly tried to disperse the demonstrator and Anally summoned « military patrol. ‘The latter fred at the crowd, wound- ing « few peraons alightly, JAPS CONFISCATE DUTCH STEAMER. NAGASAKI, Japan, May 16.—The Dutch steamer Wilhelmina, captured by & Japanese torpedo-boat destroyer Jan, 1¢ in Twushima Btrafts while on her way to Viadivostok with Cardift coal, has been declared confiscated by the Prize Oourt at Sasebo, where sho Was taken after her seizure, —_—. JAPANESE STEAMER SUNK BY A MINE. TOKIO, May 16-8 A. M.—The eteamer Kilo, of 1,178 tone capacity, struck a mine and sank off Port Arthur on the might of May ll, The crew was rescued and taken to Osaka, —_—.— STRANDED JAP SHIP WAS NOT DAMAGED. TOKIO, May 16.-/The steamer Nikko, @ Sava) auxttary, te ashore at Fusan, @be bas not sustained damage and it ta expected that\she will be floated at full tide, eee FIREMAN OF WRECKED L. |. TRAIN TO LOSE ARM. Acoldent to Race- James Demilt, fireman of the race , tack train on the Long Island Rall- ‘ road Wrecked at Woodhaven Junction TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 190. ST NT ET ee GEN. MILES WOULD LIKE Id CONTINENTAL ARMY, 48, (J General J 4 WAM les A recctamendation has been made by the hero of Indian wars to Gov, Douglas of Massachusetts to dress the Stete militia in a parade cos-| tume of continental cut, knee breeches and corked hat, This shows Gen, Miles as he would appear in such a costume as head of the Massachusetts militia, LOOKS LIKE A PLOT TO PUT THE WICKED WISE Biblical Correspondence in Newspaper Personal Column Causes Grand Rush of Scripture Searching—Solomon’s Songs Used in Manner Which Causes Butters-In to Think They Have Been Stung, summer, But my guess {s that this Is all a plot to get mtay-at-homes to read the Bibdie,"' But the answer in to-day's peraonal columa cleared up matters for thowe who have been reading Solonmon's ecngs and wondering what Woat Twen- ty-elghth street firm they are produced by, Tucked in between a oall from « istraught lady for a sign of life and the modest request of @ loan of $800 by a lady with a title was the Bibijoal Fesponse fo rthe Solomon's eongeter to address St, John, chepter xiii, verse 86. Another scramble for Bibles and the thing was pinin, The verse read: “By this ehall all me know that ye aro my disciples, if ye have love one to another,’ “Btang Again.” “Stang again!” went up the cry the curious and the text reading pro- moters, If such they are, must have chuckled. In hope of locating the per- sons involved in Solomon's “Songs in. Owing te-a deep laid plot to lure the wicked Into a reguier’ course of daily religious reading one of the six best- read books of the neck has teen the Bible, Texts and passages have been mibed and placed under the micro- pope for hidden meanings to the prob-| able delight of the perpetrators of the soheme, The mine was laid when the follwing appeared in the personal col- umn of a Sunday paper: | “Solomon's Songs, chapter 6, verse 0, Randwiched In between some common placo advice on a law cage and the heart- cry of @ Lady who wished to mect @ Gentioman understanding New Thought, the brief mention of Sqlomon's Songs caused the lazy ones who had etayed home from church to sit up and make a hasty reach for Bibles, or, at least, those who had them, Others went call- ing on friends In hope of locating the meuning, Every one remembered that Rolomon was one of our moat tropical Oriental writers and looked, for some- , Yoxtigators, who went back a yerae or man who ihad been searching through |prom{aing—the answor was "do the New Testamont an hour discovered the passage, this rewarded him: This Is What He Rea the bed of spices to _ fhe, bed of spices to gather illtes, sf Wag keblical quntation penponal becomes ® YoRue young people will, be ma lates for’ Cone: Pky 3 "My dove ;my undefled ts but ene; | Verbs, Chapter i, vere 2c 'The conioa ghe in the only one of her mother; she are but fecdle follt, yet they make thelr Is the choice of her that bare her. ‘The ; houses In the rocks."" And ¢o forth ad da ° | ub. saw her and blessed her} | And it the couple who are keeping yea, the queens and the concubines, and} the feverish public ‘Tanning. to the hbaltadi neighbors looking up texta wish to gl ” ish to giv bged Pengeaictiy after injecting a [Sidtle hint not to, butt in, “they fare hereby recommended to Proverbs Chap: kilowatt of Consolidated into his arm | ter 8, veraes 29 and 31, Hoarken fo : "Dovie | the, volee of Solomon deducted to viotin musie this: “Dovie |e tere are three things which go may be @ runaway girl whom tho fam- | wall, yea. four are comely In goin re greyhound, an he gont also’ W fly want to come home MAN FOUND DEAD ON DOOR-STEP OF FLATS Believing Him Asleep Pansserby Slaps Him on Shoulder and Body Falls Over, Teaac MoCracken, of No, 221 Lexing- ton avenue, wes passing the Princeton flats, at Park avenue gad Thirty-fourth street to-day, when he noticed a man Apparently asleep sitting on the door- step, Walking up to him McCracken sant; "You oughtn't be sleeping hero | old chap,” and lapped him’ on the shoulders, ‘lo MeCracken's horror the | Vody fell over lifeless. ~ in Policeniat, Sullivan was called and The pure, clear rom the most care! ork State, ! } he whole family, and summoned an ambulance from Builevue, | | ‘rocers, “ Waen it was discoverer that the man wn, into | qr A delightful, wholesome, satisfying, health-giving beveray re for pools, Refreshing, A KAISER’S TROOPS ROBBED IN A STRANGE LAND, RAISE HIS FLAG | ON CHINA SOIL Japan Sees Probable Grab at Territory in the qT Move. MAY MIX HIM IN WAR. Germans Occupy Haichou, in the Province of Shantung, a Desirable Trading Point. | Following the Indo-China Compil- cation, Toklo Takes Exceptional Interest In the Action, TOTO, May 16.—It 1s reported that Germany has despatched a force of troops to and occupied Haichou, in the southern portion of the Province of where they raised and sa- . Hatchou ts on of the old chan- nel of the Hoang River, Germany‘s object and intentions are not clear, Tt is suggested that she ts seoking an extension of her interests in China and is taking advantage of present political conditions, bit explanations may event- ually clear up the eltuation. Tt t# feared thet any changes in the existing status quo of China, coupled with the recent Indo-China incident, may mertously complicate the war elt- uation, Tt Js seml-oMclally announced that the Japanese Government has received conflicting reports relating to the Haiohou incident, one being to the ef- fect that the Germans occupied the |place and raised and ealuted thelr flag | 4nd another to the effect that the Ger- |mans were merely engaged in survey- ing. Pending the receipt of full and oor- rect tnformation the Government here refrains from discussing the matter, SHANGHAL May 16.—The rumored Janding of German troops at Haichou and Klangau, near the southern border of the Province of Shantung, is very doubtful. The rumor possibly originated from the presence of a German gunboat in the harbor on @ surveying expedi- ton. BERLIN, May 16.—The Foreign Office replying to an inquiry regarding tho excitement nt Tokio over the report that German troops had occupied Halohou, in the eouthern past of the Shantung insula, saye the report 4s wholly incor- reat, and one of several reports destsied to make It appear that Germany fs at- tempting in Shantung what Russia did in Manchurka. ‘the German Government {# doing nothing in Shantung outside of fulfiiury ner treaty agreement with China, whio! fact has been communicated to both the Washington end Tokko Govern- t mthe, ign Office regards ‘The Forel these re- ports as-eprand to mislead the opinion of the world cuncerning Germany's Aime and acts. — ARTIST BRANDT’S WILL IS FILED. Codiet! Which Was First Recorded Gives Paintings to Georgia Academy. (Special to The Evening World.) MOUNT VERNON, N. Y,, May 16— After a delay of two months the will of Can Brandt, the famous artist of Hastings-on-the-Hudson, who dled in Georgia, was filed in the Surrogato’s Court of Westchester County to-day. The estate, including a country house at Hastings, is inherited by the widow, Isabel N. Brandt. In his will Mr. Brandt says that it Is his desire that none of bis pictures shal! at any time be sold at public sale, The will was signed in 1897, and the widow is appointed exeoutnix, Contrary to the usual custom, a codicll was filed first. It was thought thet the will had been lost, but it was found hidden in a vault of the Lincoln Safe Deposit Company in Manhattan, In the lengthy codicil, which takes praference over the will, Mr, Brandt Temoves all doubt as to the ownership of certain pictures and works of art other than those bought by him for ac: count of the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sclences and those painted by him for that academy and already presented to it. He bequeaths the famous paint- jings to the ni r of twenty-four to the Georgia Historical Society of Sayannah, Ho alo gives to the academy a num- ber of pictures which were in his studio at Hastings at the time of his death and which ane worth thousands of dollars, ‘The tax affidavit does not show the value of the estate, A 210-Pound Giri, Sophonisba Benini, a peisant girl who has been discovered in the Itallan yil- lage of Copparo, near Ferrara, although only thirteen years old, stands five feet high, welghs more than 210 pounds and is fifty-eight dnches around the chest, The Peerless Home and Temperance Drink. nice of big, round, sound apples, selected ully cultivated and famous orchards of New rellshed at feast or fireside. Sold by all tizing, Steril. lom= Alcoholic, . lo bd EXPLANATION |S EXPECTED, | arrest among graves of e odays ary with the tleket and $1 In| Hille Cen of a ge p name of the ¢team- |!nz young woman who had beor nd some ‘ing there fe nights. Able to She presented |}! | bur ite h, as simpte ied as Fafdands. he @ child, she had been swindled by some 1 * palleeman | one In Chicago, who gave her a worth took an often af the Ine, who | lew plece of paper as a steamship Mai Ml Me ohne wns, worth len. ileket in exchange for her savings of vkIvn. She wot a) Job three years, Refused at ve but hasn't had any. ehip on which she hoped to sall, she Wissingct . Wandered the streets of Brooklyn for |tury." whe mall Goan, Ieeenee teed six days, sleeping in the cemetery at sh an interpreter to-day. night. | 1 Kd so quiet And pencetul T The woman ts Mra, Annie Anderson, 1.0) and laid dawn ee tee eae She 1s twenty-nine years old. She came! herent MAP NIRHE Tear EAI ote jhere three years ago and went to Chi- for T owould liked to WOMAN SLEPT ot BY GRAVES. 1 revealed steamboat Uekst > story has bes Bhe landed mere six | When you the world and nieo cago, She worked tani and saved a \lttle money, Part of this she lost and her fllustons about America having been i diapelied she decided to spend the rest vita nthe lis q 4 the woman com dn getting back to her old home Jal ivasted hor A chateof Vagtatey wi Sweden, made, but when Mag Furlong, Sho eays she went to a ticket agent In Chicago and he took all her money but $2, giving her a train ticket to New York and what purported to heard her sory he directed the probe ton oMecer of his court to take charge of the case, ‘I'he officer, Mrv. ‘Pietjen. found her @ geod place with a family in be a last New York. PRESIDENT POLK’S NIEC Suffered Several Years— Was Cured By Pe-ru-na. “l Hold Peru-na In High Esteem And Am Always Ready To Say A Good Word For fi MRS. 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