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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1904-04-22, Page 2GREAT BATTLE AT SEA NEAR PORT ARTHUR. Japanese Scouts Surprised and 50 of Them Shot or Bayoneted. Japanese Anxiotis to Wary the First Land Fight. A late. St. Petersburg cable says: One soldier lost his life. The Japanese Rumors afloat are taking definite shape, pursued the Russians in a boat, but ;indicating that there has been a fight were in turn attacked by a Russian boat, which had come to the rescue !at Port Arthur, but no details are ob- of the swimmers, The Japanese were ;ttdinable, except that the Petropavlovsk all killed and their boat sunk." 'has been sunk, probably with the loss The result of Gen. lirasnalinski's Of almost her entire crew. - MAKAROFF A PRISONER. reeonnaissanee, after encountering the Japanese on Samalind Island, is not explained. It may be pointed out that London cable: The Westminster an attack on Wiju was probably not intended, but the topograpby of the country tends to favor night reconnais- sances. 1Yiju lies in a hollow, two miles from the river, from which it is separated by a rather step hill. Gen. 1%ourplh:rtlsn s report to the Em- peror of the annihilation of Japanese official-iufoririation from 11iukden states toys, to which the snarl had beeo detachments on the Yalu River is a that the Japanese fleet is cruising in dragged dottln! many steps: matter of general satisfaction in offs• the direction of New-Chwang• The body of the watchman, wel- cial circles. One feature of the rhes- New-Chwang, April ].2.•—'. he British sage which is not pleasing; to the au- .+unboat Eslrieglc, which has been sta- tering in Plated, was founts by Gazette publishes this afternoon a Paris rumor that Vice Admiral Makaroff has been taken prisoner. RUSSIAN VESSEL BLOWN UP. ...A. St. Petersburg cable says: Another report is teethe effect that the telegram which Grand Duke Vladimir ;received was from,, Grand Duke Boris, 'brother of grand Duke Cyril, announce ' fig that tht Petropavlovsk, of which thorities is the action of the Corms, tionecl' here during the winter, left to- up o up by was ing officer, had been blown in revealing to the Japanese the res up striking a Russian mine, only four 1 P day. The departure of the Espiegle re- officers escaping. The Grand Duke epee of the Russians at Yongampho, gloves a cease of embarrassment to the Cyril's wound was stud to be slight. and the belief prevails that the Cor- Russian authorities, and enables them The telegram, according to this re- eans are not unfriendly to the Jap to put into execution a system of mar - port, did not mention the losses sus- cense, as bas been announced. Incl- tial law consistent with the demands of •tained by the crew. dents such as that at Yongampho the situation. The Espiegle was the last indicate ' that the view held of the foreign warship at New-Chwang, the GREAT LOSS OF LIFE RUMORED. Corean attitude is a mistaken one. United States gunboat Helena having St. Petersburg cable: The city is left some•ten days ago. full of rumors of the destruction of The Japenete alie a te. to Corea, M. 'Hayashi, has requested the Corean (eovei'rlinent to facilitate the plans of Gen. If:iragnelis, the commander of the Japanese forces ut• Seoul, for the thor- ough sanitation of 'Seoul and the other Nage terns of Corea, so as not to ex. pose the Japanose neaps to the ravages of cholera and other diseases. • AT NEW-CiI.WANG. Russians Alert, Resistance Will Be - Determined. A .London cable sap; i Reports frohu New-Ghweng.indicate that the Russians there are very*. alert, expecting an at- tack in the neighborhood. 'rime correspondent of the Times, , et New;Chwarig .states that the Russian fusilade Sunday night, owing to 'their mistaking signals. resulted in the sink- ing of a junk with thirty-five hands on board, in addition to the casualties previously reported. A despatch to the Morning Post from Now-Ohweng states that the Russians regard the next ten days as critical, believing that if the expected attack in the Liao valley is delivered, it will be within that 'period. The New-Ohwang correspondent of the Express, referring to the same idea, says that the Rusian resistance will be very de- termined. The whole line from ' Ping to Liao-Yanrr is held in great force. The best defensive points have been coni;inually strengthened. There is a great concentration of troops at Tashiehia, the jnnotion of the railways. Nearing New-Chwang, Paris cable: A despatch to the ry that 1'ennps, from tit. Petersburg, to souse,, says GED WATCHMAN /AS MURDEREO r Struck Down by Unknown Assassin While on. Duty, John Thomas Had His Head Crushed With Hatchet.' Trail of Blood Marked Scene of a Desperate Struggle, Phadadelpbim April 18—��1'urprised at robbery a man or several men, .with a hatchet, horribly murdered John Thio7n'as, an old and faithful watchman iu Houston Hall, Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, last evening. The victim's ,bead was frightfully hacked by the rain of blows that had fallen on it. The attack was evidently made at the head of the stairs leaning to the basement: of Houlston Hall, and the body* tvaS Sound in orie of the .bowling .al - 1,b b ' William Shields, an orderly of the University Hospital, on Bowling Alley No. 1. Groans were still coming from the bleeding form,and, from reflex action, the battered head of the murdered man gloved convul- sively several times before the body became quiet. No more sickening sight could be imagined than that which met the eyes of Orderly Shields Innen lie turned on the electric light (ire fit- ly above the dying man in the bowl- ing alley. There had been no light in 'the place, and only by the merest . ubalice sfeblelds ;w,ent to tile :mot at; w;hicii the ,victim' of the murderous assault lay. The bleeding form was close tot the ;wall separating tee al- leys Frohn the cigar stand and the lower hall and nearer the line at the players' end of the alley. Two pools of bloat' marked ;here the head had rested, and for twenty feet or amore, near the snail, there ;was a smear., of blood indicating that the body had been drugged. Tried to Save His Life. Close by was a heavy iron poker, taken from the firejlaeo in the bil- liard roam!, on the first floor, with which Thomas had evidently tried to defend himself, and the hatchet used iii committing the murder was found later on the first floor,tlrust under the cushion of a. wall seat, The fact that some ling had god wrong at the Houston Club was dis- t() Both�;covered at a quarter after seven o'clock in the evening 'by William' 0. Milton, a senior in the College department, who resides in one of the dorm'itori•es. Ordinarily on Sun- day evenings Houston Hall is closed, and Milton, -noticing that the build- ing; was :amen and that there were lights upstairs, thought lie tvduld In- vestigate. Thomas then had been on duty only lite :minutes, and 'Milton, a,5 he walked into the building, heard coming from 'tbe basement what he knew at once were groans. Ho hesitated about going down- stairs, where all was dark, and turner( at once and hurried across Soutar street to the University Hos- pital. There Shi lis woes encountered, and the orae.ly burred to the club Reuse, and, striking snatches ak he went, descended the broad flight of stairs to the basement. (When he lead turned on the light the cause of the groans was revealed in the finding of the eiy.n+g gran. Resident phyeit•ians from the hospital were at onm es 'inion- od, but when they arrived Thomas was expiring, and he died in a few mantes,t Murderers Were No Doubt Rob Uers The crime was, without doubt, brought about by the interruption the first-class battleship Petropav STORM ABOUT TO BURST. The last of the merchant steamers left New-Chwang today, and the ship- 'lovsk, with great loss of life. The re- Outpost Incident Merely Regarded as ping companies have notified their ;ports cannot be confirmed or traced to Precedent Rumblings. agents to send no more vessels there, tan authoritative source. The Emperor consequently it is expected that hence- forward com'emetically at will he aetically at a standstill. The streets of 'IV`etiw- Chwang are no longer lighted at night, and the movement of boats on the river at night is prohibited. has received an ; official telegram, which is now being. deciphere.d - .The Petropavlovsk, which ha& twice ,previously been reported damaged in Japanese attacks on Port Arthur, seas a (first-class battleship of 10,960 tons dis- :placement, and 14i213 indicated horse power. She was 367 feet long, had 6e Moot beam, and her armored belt was of about 16 inches of steel, with ro inches of steel armor on her turrets. Her arm- ament consisted of four ie -inch, rz 6- (inch, 34 smaller guns and 6 torpedo 'tubes. Her complement, when fully manned, was 7oo men. She was built in • London cable: The silence regard- ing the movements of the Russian anal Japanese forces is compared here with the stillness that precedes a cyclone. Speculation is focussed on. the probabil- ity of the quarter where the storm will burst. The outpost incidents in tbe neighborhood of Wile are merely regard- ed as precedent rumblings. The unofficial telegram from St. Petersburg reporting the movements of the troops and the fleet do not deserve much attention, in- asii ucli as Jimmie is avowedly not cen- soring despatches to foreign newspap- ers. The immunity of •Port Arthur from another attack is ascribed hero to the prevalence of rough weather, which has compelled Admiral Togo to seek shelter at the Elliott islands or elsewhere, pos- sidly with a fleetof transports to guard. GRAND DUKE CYRIL WOUNDED. St. Petersburg cable: Grand Duke Vladimir, uncle of the Emperor, has re- ceived a telegram, announcing that his son, Grand Duke Cyril, has been wound- ed at Port Arthur. A. service of thanks- giving because his life was spared has been held at the Grand Duke's palace. at A Chefoo cable says: :Che captain of the steamer Lockshan, which arrived to -day from New-Chereports be heard heavy tiring between 5 and 7 o'clock this morning in the direction of Port .Arthur. The firing was continu- ous, but no ships were visible. From the direction of sound he judges that there was fighting at the entrance of 'Port .Arthur. The Loekshau was the •ilast foreign vessel to leave :view-Chwang,' sailing at tbe same time as the Brit- ishatm-boat Espiergie, at 1 o'clock yes- terday afternoon. A. correspondent at Tenchow, 40 idles northwest of here, telegraphs as follows: "Sounds of heavy firing were heard at half -past six o'clock this morning. The firing evidently was being done between here and Port Arthur. It is believed at Tent; -Chow that the long - expected sea fight among the Miatao Islands has taken place. "The Japanese battleship Asaii, flying an admiral's flag, was seen. off Chefoo yesterday, going to the west, and there is no doubt that the remainder of the Japanese fleet was in the vicinity of Port Arthur. The Russian fleet also was seen outside of Port Arthur yes- terday." FILLED WHOLE PARTY. Japanese Scouts Ambushed by Russians and Slain. St. Petersburg cable: Gen, Kouro- ppatkin, in a despatch to the Emperor, bearing to -day's date, says that Gen. lheasnalinsky, on the night of April 8, ordered a detachment of sharpshooters to cross to the left bank: of the Yalu, opposite Wiju. The sharpshooters land- ed on the island of Sasnalind and sur- prised a patrol of 50 Japanese scouts just As the latter were approaching the east side of the island in three boats. THE FIRST FIGHT. Victory of Vital Importance Sides. cable: The Japanese array having driven the Russians front Corea and advanced to the Yalu, the fleet. im- portant battle may be expected- there. The enemy is reported to be strongly fortifying and concentrating on the op- posite bank.Great importance is attached in .Ta - pan to the result of the first battle, be- cause of the moral effect it will have on the respective armies. It is well under- stood that Russia will make a supreme effort to regain her prestige by means of a victory on land. japan also, in view of the effect on the attitude of the Cor - Bans and Chinese, as well as upon Ilex own troops, considers it of vital import- ance to win the first fight. The Russians are greatly han.dieapped by the difiieulty of conecntrating their troops off' the line of railway. Consid- ering the condition of the roads, the Jap- anese advance has been rapid. Russia having lost the opportunity of opposing iho Japanese in Northern COMM, opinion herr, is divided as to whether theltnssians can make an effec- tive stand on the Yale, or whether a more decisive :action will occur nt the border passes near Fonhwang. The Minister of Marine has arranged to Mae. ten morn war:chips plaeecl at the disposal of Admiral Togo. Fire Curtain at the Yalu River. London cable: A news agency de- spatch •from St. Petersburg says that the military administration recently de- spatehed to the troops on the Yalu River appliances and materials which Rill en- able them to obstruet by fire a Japan- ese attempt to cross the river. The pro- eoss 15 a military secret that has been acquired by the' overament trona its in- ventor, Who is '1 eolonel of engineers. The first test, which cost 40,000 roubles ($20,000), was earned. out years ago, during the manoeuvres at Tsarskoe-Selo, in the presence of the Imperial family. Sappers threw across a river n pontoon bridge. Then a small oily patch appear- ed in the middle of the stream, close to the bridge. Tiltsgrndnall' grew large, Mid at the end of three minutes it was 200 yards in length. Flames then burst out, and soon attained an immense height constituting a formidable curtain, which completely hid the bridge. The flames rapidly reaelhrd the height of a seven - storey building, throwing out such in- tense heat that the onlookers near the shore were au:alslc to remain. Even the Emperor and his suite, at a distance of a. grinder of a mile, were incommoded by Lite • heat. After working for eight minutes, the apparatus was stopped. The flames (Bed out in two minutes, and it was seen that the bridge had been com- pletely destroyed. The apparatus, which was invisible to the spectators, was six miles frons the river, to which It trans- mitted a liquid, prepared by a secret process. through tubes buried is the earth. If the Russians sueeoed in estab- lishing the apparatus and tares on the banks of the Yalu, a crossing will'• be absolutely impossible, so long as they are wonting. hall seat under which the blots* soaked hatchet had been plaoetl. Ti.ere are two theor.es X•egardit the murder. One is that but one man was concerned in the crime„ atxiotbtit that tihere were two mens.. However st was, 'phorias undoubted- ly put up a, )n,uwi y fight and lsei was; only overcome sifter a most v:tciouas• attack. The signs of• a. terrible struggle was everywhere to be seen, not only in the extent of the blood stains anct of the area over wiiiett they were spread, but in the• l and;tioe of the building generally.. At the top landing of the s+taim an overturned brass comp dor mane - ed the first signs of a. struggle or a, hurried. flight, and there were• marks of shoed that seamed to in- die.ate a struggle. On. the stairs is trail of 'blood leit to the basement, and there, in the ball, in front of the cigar stand and book room,. Were splatters of blood forming tsrc+ hoots. These manes were directly la' front of the cigar stand and book room, wiinOh is a section screened eft from: tlhe rest of the hall by an or- namental Iran grating. In front o, the locked iron grating door:ass f was an overturned chair she -win that•someone had come from behind. the grating and had leaped from tIs top to the hallway leading to the first floor. In the first place to man had gotten behind the screen, apparently by climbing over 110 grating doorway, and by tearing ' down ornamsnta•l iron' scroll vvotk:k. This scroll still hangs a nwreck oet- wardly, from the grating and the• mean evkiently, lead haat come Damn the cigar stand when; he was heard by Thomas, and perhaps, made lxiin- self heard by, leaping to the floor froom grating. That bis. object Wer first of all robbery, was seen when: it was found that the casb register behind the stand *svgs open, and that it had been rifled of its contents, Persons holding the belief that two 'mien were concerned in tike rob- bery( believe that 'Tihomasi, encount- ered one man on the stairs as the other fello* was trying to get outb of the cigar -stand enclosure, be- low. Other Persons who viewed the scene of bloodshed were of opinion that bat one roan was concerned in the assault and 'that be met Thomas at the bottom of the stairs. Thomas head no revolver, and this sole protec- tion was the poker.: lie took from the billiard room. t The hatchet used In the murder is the property of 'the Ilbuston CIub and is marked "Bath" That this was the w'eapon`ilsed indicates to the po- llee that t'ile crime was committed byt Some person familiar with tbe building, for the hatchet had been 'taken from a closet in the check- room adjof'ning the ;swimming pool in Cm basement. In order to get into this check-naam it ,is necessarn to crawl through a door -way;, scarce- lyl three Teet •high, and This door and the closet were found wide open. A. towel used by the murderer or 'murderers in wiping the blood thorn his hands was also taken front this check -room; it is said, and it was resod 'b'ylthe man or men before they went into the toilet room' to wash a'tca:y more Of the fblood and to dry their hands on 'towels there. • FIGHTING BEGUN. Russians Strongly "Posted on the North Bank of the Yalu. ARTILLERY QUELLED RIOT. Peasants of Samovar Stormed Town Hall and Burned Public Records. • Vienna, April IS. A political meeting a t Samovar, near Ageaur, .Croatia, yerstrd,ty .ended with deri- of a robbery at the basement elgar Inas rioting. A glob of peasentey Stand. It is eviieet that the robLers stormed the Town Hall, carred out I knew lionoton Hall was deserted on thepnbl'c recurtls soil burned them S'nr:day nights. Thomas telioved the in the street, llei'r Ia.ip:rch, a &i (lily watchman' at 7 o'clo k in rho puty tvl,o tied proticic•1, a t Itis meet 'est nilig, end, a.ecordtng in ,haUca- ing, and the town notary 'tuts o se 'flan ,Iwai ' Itrac!e l' l y sans, •:srunu;sl . • j aolae In the 1haSemeni Its lie WAS vc;rc;ty Deafen' ititerin at • the time clack, just A Tokio ethics says: Although nothing .t, battery or weerern di,v..rs se d g' g official is given out, fighting is reported the rioters. ]th the .ounrsr, of tl:r, th the head of the broad, winding to have begun on the Yalu River,evlxere 5ueg;1: a ri I, we''s alcet'.lenta'ly dls j 4aire lestdisne to she lotwlin.1 sllevaa (Its lie contrary. statements, the Rus- c.:lhars:el an.1 abus et p'a'.se1 .tbtou;;h ani to lhh 055iinmine • po.rl.• This i.= sians are believed to be strongly posted, a. sol'l er and wounded a woman. • thcuzht :13 be to, b'cense the -closet occupying a large past, of the north '.011' althorn::1.5 0' Asir am have de- to Which the clock is situated was 1, fo.sn�.i wide o;he,i when the detectives bank, with the intention o£ o�iposiug Ilse asp':tt ]t�:rd a. (irtus:hnreat of in1'szntry Japanese crossing. .The foreigo military to Seinatar in order to prevent a mads a march of the oremises. attaches have been warned to be ready g to start for the front, azul. it ie expected that they will go in a few date. There The Russians allowed the Japanese to nye four British attaches, including fieri. land and then fired, on then. Nearly Iain Hamilton, two American, one Ger- all the Japanese were shot, bayonetd span and one IIrencti attache. or drowned and their boats sunk. The FLAT -CHESTED SOLDIERS. Russians sustained no losses. "Non-commissioned Officers. Lomb- kinewind Souhaselanear distinguished themselves in tho'fight. "On the following day the Japanese lowered their flag at Wijii, and their outposts, which lately have been seen,st fell ba.. "On the night of April 'a, fear Rus- sians crossed the rant at Yanampo (Yongampho?) and made towards a •Ittissian village, where they, found a squadron of Japanese cavalry. They re. Corean Infantry Start Out AgaYnst Chinese Bandits. Seoul cable: About 600 flat -chest- ed, sandal -shod infantry left Seoul to- day for the northern part .of Hamhi- nnthe Province (on the frontier of e Kirin district es. Manchuria), to keep in order the bandits who are constantly embroiled with the Chinese settlers in the Tamen region, which. has reculted in diplomatic representations on the attained there tsvelve hours, when the,,' subject from Chian, et is considered Were betrayed be Coreans and fauna doebtfltl whether these troops will themselves obliged to swim the river, reach their destination. fears beano e:- ther bout having struck a sandbar. pr•csed that they Will desert. recurrence or the disorder.. TO BE REMODELED. Forces hi India Must Adept 'System Suited to Onangsd Conditions. Simla, .April le.—General Kitchener, commanding the forces in India, 'has • issued an army order, based on con- clusioes formed after making, a tour of the garrisons of the country. 110 deeinies that the army must1adopt a system of training suited 'to 'tate e},••,h.,ed en'olitions, and abandon ob- solete traditions, It was not to Im assumed that it was necessarily able to cope with any enemy. • All ranks require .increased knowledge, and im- proved martial qualities. Gen: Kitch- ener condemns the present military arrangements, in Tedia and announces - arrangements which the Government has saneticned, 'Thomas its thought than to have t;on•o to the billiard -room, close by, and to have taken from at fireplace the heavy iron ;broker used at the grata.. Then the i.k tlrotrgitt to Ihave Warted downstairs to investigate. Whether or not he ss•as met on the stairo and etrnek , s it matter of a:onj;ctu.o nl.la u lr tame it e many drop+ of Wood l upon the staffs and at the 'basement landing. Tlso old man had been .~truck again and again with a hatchet until iris brains oozed 'out and even splinter's or bones. frons •his droll: fell upon the floor,, The murderer or murderers( ran, tap - stairs, stopp:rlg in the toilet 'Dont at the r:ght or the centre stairway to Wa,sth bleed sta;ns away i 1 a mar - bin basin. Drop of blood were left on the marble , to allow, What murderer lend done, and lb tell-tale create town 1, w'.th the marks of fresh blood upon it, was found upon the. • , Brains Were Beaten Out. Thomas' bully' presented a most harrowing sight. A proof of blood. with bits of brain and bones, lay's tender his bead, and nearby there was another pool in vv'hieh ire bad lain, but from watch he]lad been drag- ged. All the brains bad oozed oat of nus &mill—hacked, as it was, into an• artful masse-andthefiendisih mur- derer had alsto chopped a finger front his lest hand.The left-hand trousers pocket was turned inside out, apparently with robbery as the intent, and all that ' was found in his pockets were his gold spectacles and a box of matches. A w silver atch and a plated gold chain, believed to have belonged to the murdered man, were •found in the South street doorway of the hall. Identification of the body was not made until halt -past 10 o'clock, whets the bowling alley attendant arrived. and said that it was that of Thomas,. and that be resided in the neighbor - stood of liia.rin,g and Fortieth streets. Thomas was; at one time a 'preacher,. and he is isaid to have been about 6i5, years old. NEGRO ADMITS CRIME, Former Employee Says He Was Attacked by O►3 Watchman,. Philaidelpilria,, Pa., April 13.—The• inylstery surrounding the murder c5f John Thomas, the 'night watchmais at the Houston Club of the Univer- sity; of Pennsylvania last evening,. Inas cleared up 'byl Ibo arrest and' eonfessl.on of Lawrence Gibson, alias. John Oakley, who was •for, a number of years employed as a utility mane man at Houston hall. Gibson, a West India negro, was arrested at hips home early; in the. day and denied all knowledge of the crane, mail late in the afternoon, when he broke down and confessed to. the murder. Gibson says he 'went to Houston ldiall to call on Thom.n,s. The watch - gran, Gibson enyls, lllrely mistook him for a thief- and attacked him. In the struggle be unintentionally, killed the. old man: 'Tho pollee do not believe the story'. Superintendent Quirk is el the opin- ion that revenge for being diemisied from' Houston Hall was the motive for the murder. Cxiboon, whose come plexian is so light that he easily; passed as a White man, misrepre- een'ted lhhnself a.s a student at the university, and married a young white woman three weeks ago. When the deception was discovered he was discharged from i1 uston Xi=_all. How the expooted to get re- venge and bis meson for attacking the watchman the police decline to '1',lae autlrooa•ltie.s said to -night that Gilman is wanted in Jamaica Van. Borne offence.