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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1904-05-06, Page 2WHEN JAPS Shantung promontoryand exploded it with a shot. EJECTED It is known that the storm and M /pin ents Theme K it:wited many anilines. 11 F on THE CONTINENI e e W1 r Will End, But Not Until Then, Say Russians.. `Kin's Edward's Overtures Taken in Good Part by the Czar® id' Seoul, Corea cable announces — The EE German steamer Amigo has arrived at (Chemulpo with bullion from the Ameri- leaai mics at Unsan. It is reportedthat hthe Imperial Japanese mint at Osaka alas guaranteed to supply monthly the !specie necessary to insure the running Eof the British mines at Eunsan, con- itracting to take the total bullion out - :put from the mines. The wage pay- xnents of the mines amount to about. '$7;500 per month. The mint will pay, in the value of gold, the difference be- ..tween the mines' bullion output and the amounts advanced. The uninterrupted output of both the American mines at Unsan and the British mines at Eunsan is assured while the Japanese are para- mount. Chinese Neutrality. Paris cable — Mr. Ou, first secretary of the Chinese Legation here, in an in- terview on the danger of Chinabeing drawn into the Russo-Japanese war, said *at Gen. Ma was not a very important personage, and had never been in com- rmand in China. He is in command of the regular troops in the Province of Pe Chi 'hi, under the Viceroy of Tien Tsin, ,who would incur the death penalty if he ;acted without the direct orders of the iPekin Government. which, the secretary -said, was determined to maintain ncu- etrality. Moreover, Gen. Ma had not more tthan 1.55,000 troops, which there was no reason to suppose were i11 disposed to- wards Russia. Aske point blank whether he slid not , foresee the danger of complications, the ',secretary admitted that the Chinese po- le were favorably disposed toward the Tapanese, and in this fact there might be a possible source of trouble. If the bnddhist priests and the secret societies tetirred up a revolt, and the rebels at - ;tacked the Russians, the latter might consider the Imperial Government res- ponsible. "lf we should be treated as bel- ` ligerents,' said the secretary, neve would be obliged to defend ourselves. That would be the only event in which we would make common cause with Japan.". NO MEDIATION. • King Edward's Efforts Unavailing— Every Jap Must Be Ejected. St. Petersburg cable — While King Edward's sort to restore peace between Russia and Japan has failed, it is never- theless regarded as highly significant in diplomatic circles. It is the first tangi- ble evidence of a change in the relations between Russia and Great Britain. The King, however, has never approached the Emperor, no matter how indirectly, on the question of peace. If further attempts at mediation be made, it is necessary, say -the diplo- mats, that good relations between Rus- sia and Great Britain be assiduously cultivated, and the believe that no one appreciates this better than Ring Ed- ward. The attitude of the Emperor is thor- oughly approved, a person in authority voicing the opinion of his colleagues saying that mediation cannot be ac - (opted, and that Russia -alone will de- termine when it is time to stop fighting. That time, he says, will not arrive until every Japanese soldier has been C1ected from the continent. Image of the Virgin. St. Petersburg cable says — Soubnofl who has been awarded $12,500 for im- provements in submarine boats, in an in- terview, says: "There is less danger in navigating a submarine boat than a torpedo boat, and during a battle the former is safer than other vessels," • Admiral Vorkovsky has showed the Empres a miraculous image of the Virgin which the Russians fervently bope is go- ing to turn the tide of battle at Port Arthur. The Admiral told the Empress the story of the image, which accurately depicts the Virgin as she appeared in a vision to the sailor, a veteran of the siege of Sebastopol. Two months before the outbreak of the present war the 'Vir- gin carne to the sailor in a dream and said: "Many woes are going to befall Port Arthur until any image is sent there. Then Port Arthur will be victori- ous." The sailor went on a pilgrimage to the great monastery of Kieff, and told his dream to the good pilgrims there. Each of them gave five kopecks (2if rents) to have the dream depicted, but the artists who made the image refused to receive payment. The image was eventually sent to Admiral Verkot- sky as senior admiral. It represents the Virgin hearing an image of Christ, with an archangel on either side, and God. the Father above, saying: "There can be but one flock and one shepherd." War Correspondents. Port Arthur cable says—The regula- tions to be observed by war correspond- ents with the _Russian army are publish- ed in to -clay's issue of the Novi Kral. Correspondents of foreign newspapers must have letters of recommendation from their Governments to the Russian Foreign Office, and every correspondent must promise in writing not to divulge secret despatches or criticize the .orders of those in command, and must similarly agree to give a true account of events. They are warned that in the event of infraction of these regulations, indiscre-- etion, or want of tact, they will be sent hone. All correspondents are prohibited from visiting the admiralty docks, work- shops or naval establishments, or from using boats in the barbers or roadsteads of Port Arthur, Correspondents must undertake not to ask that exceptions be made in their fa- vor, and on arriving at the front must report to headquarters with their cre- dentials and an authenticated. photo- graph. The headquarters stall will then assign the correspondents to the various staffs or districts. The rest will depend on the staffs concerned. Correspondents will be held responsible for their ser- vants. Before they can stay at any fort the consent of the commander must be obtained. Correspondents are required to wear distinguishing badges on the left arm. Code messages are prohibited. All mes- sages will be censored at headquarters by the staffs of the Manchurian and Amur armies; by the administration of the various military districts. and at Barbin by the Governor, while censor- ship will also be established at the Island of Sakhalin, Yin Koh (the port of New Chwang), and at Port Arthur and Vladivostock. Skrydloff is Off. " "" St. Petersburg cable says—Vice-Ad- miral Skrydloli' lett at. Petersburg for Moscow .to -day. His departure was marked by scenes similar to those which accompanied the farewells of the other comrmmnders. There was a large crowd at the Nicholas Railroad station, includ- ing Grand Duke Alexander Michaelo- vitch, brother of the Emperor; Marine Minister Avellet; •admiral Rojestven- sky, the commander of the Baltic squad- ron. and other °Mieials. • Many ladies presented the admiral with bouquets. The Arehimandrite Cor- nelius bestowed on Admiral Skrydloff a. sacred image of St. Alexandria Nevosky. the patron saint of St. Petersburg, and delivered an address, saying the faithful members of the Orthodox church would pray the Almighty to protect the admiral against danger and to give him victors. Admiral Skrydloff was sprinkled. with water from the miraculous spring of St. Serphim, the hermit of Saroff. Amulets were also hauled to the admiral, and he was presented with an icon containing relics dating from the thirteenth cen- tury. The departure of the admiral's train was marked with a great demon- stration. Seeking Transports. Tokio cable says—The latest version of the Russian visit to Gensan states that three cruisers accompanied the tor- pedo boats, they waiting off the port until the later returned from wrecking the Goyo Meru. The appearance of the warships created consternation among the Javanese civilians at Gen- san, and they immediately fled. It is reported that one of the cruisers, the description of which suggests that she was the Gromoboi, entered the harbor subsequently, and still remains there. It is conjectured that the cruisers are seeking unescorted Japanese transports. NOT A JAP RUSE. Speculations as to Where the Enemy Will• Strike. London cable says—The surprise visit of the Russian warships to lxensan is generaly regarded as disposing of the re- cent reports that the Vladiv-osLock squadron is blockaded in the northern naval port by one of the Japanese squad- rons. It is taken for granted that the. Russians came from Vladivostock, and that it would have been impossible for them to have made the 350 -mile voyage unseen if the ,Japanese had been any- where about, is obvious. The suggestion of a Japanese ruse to lure them to their destruction is made, but the absence, of precise information concorme g the iden- tity and number, of the .Russian vessels which appeared at Gensan renders spec- ulation futile. It can be assumed, how- ever, in view of their unopposed en- trance, that the theory that a large Japanese force has disembarked at Gensan and is making that place its base is altogether wroiig, as if such a ease the Japanese could not leave Gen- san unguarded. The entire, position in Eastern Corea is obscure. DERELICT MINES. Sailings Beyond ChemuIpo Cancelled in Consequence. Tokio cable says—The Japanese lines operating steamers on the Yellow Sea and Gulf of Li -Chi are cancelling their sailings beyond Chcmulpo, Corea, ou account of mechanical mines adrift from Port Arthur and Port Dalny. A cruiser discovered one 40 miles off the Several of thein have ben discovered and destroyed, but it is feared many are still being carried southward by the currents. Even in daylight navi- gation is dangerous, because some of PO lm)ines float slightly submerged. Various expedients for freeing the sea of these derelicts, mostly imprac- ticable, . have been suggested, includ- ing a search by neutral warships, out- side of the zone of operations: No Important Engagements. New -Chang cable says—The Russian authorities here deny that there has been any important. engagements recently on the Yalu, but they report the destruction Of a few Japanese junks by the Russian volunteers. The Japanese' have not arrived at the Yalu in knee, according to the Bussiene in New-Chwang, nor have they crossed the river at any point. The Russian forces are still in possession of all points on the west Or Mauehurian side of the river, which they occupied originally, and consequently the execution of the plan of falling back on Feng Hung Cheng. and Liao Yang, which is attributed to Gen. Kouropatkin, the Russian com- mander-in-chief, has not been begun. Not Going Just Now. St. Petersvburg, April 20.—The report that the Baltic fleet is to leave Libaux on Thursday for the for cast, is incor- rect. Some of the ships are just going into commission, and these being com- pleted cannot be finished before July. The Admiralty is giving earnest con- sideration to all questions in connection with the despatch of the ships to the far east. Vive-Admiral Rojestvensky, 'svho will command it, and Rear .admiral Wirenius have been in consultation. All idea of following the northern route has been abndoned.. Indeed, it never was seriously considered. Adrniral Bojestvensky orig- inally favored the Cape of Good Hope route, but it is more probable now that colliers and supply ships, well protected, will go by that route, and that the bat- tleships and torpedo boats will pass through the Suez Canal. The two divi- sions will rendezvous in the Indian Ocean. For the flyer fleet to proceed by way of the Cape of Good hope would in- volve to much time, the expenditure of a Iarge quantity of coal. and the fouling of the bergers and bombs of the fighting ships, which it is important to avoid on account of the lack of docking facilities at Port Arthur. It is understood that Admiralty now entertains no fears regarding the re- strictions imposed by the Suez Canal regulations, although Admiral Wirenius complained of the strictness with which the neutral canal was enforced. There is evidence of a more friendly disposition on the part of the British authorities. It is understood that they pointed out that they would have to hold contraband of war arriving at Liv- erpool from Alitericia, if landed. At the Milne time it wits suggested to the Rus- sian Consul that the transhipment could take place in the harbor and the authori- ties at Liverpool even placed a barge at the consul's disposal. Russian Forces Concentrated. St. Petersburg cable — Advises from Mukden iudieate that the Rassians have completed the conecntration of their forces on the Mukden-Liao Yung -Yalu and the Mukdon-Port Chwang lines. Forty thousand men are occupying for- tified positions along the Yalu River, and 200 are 'posted at. Take -Shan, at the head of Corea Bay, where the Japan- ese bare threatened to make. a landing. The Russians also occupy the banks of the Tureen Rivers from the Russo -Cor - can frontier to Lake Tai and Tju (Paik- tou-San), on the Manchuria-Corean fron- tier, near the mount of the Yalu. De- tachments of Russian cavalry and light artillery hold the towns of ilio -Lien Masan and Sciuuluyan along the river, and points on the east coast of Corea offering facilities for landings. • Souropatkin's Strategy. St. Petersburg cable says — General Kouropatkin has played a strong card in the game of strategy. A large por- tion of Gen. itennenkampff's Cossack cavalry division has been thrown across the upper reaches of the Yalu, and a considerable force of cavalry which crossed the Tureen some time ago is moving down to the southwest to effect a juncture with it. Together with this force he will threaten Lieut. - Gen, Inouye's flank when the Japanese are ready to cross lower down on the Yalu, Being composed of cavalry, with a few mountain guards, • Rennen- kamnpfl"s force is very mobile. Unless it is dislodged it will compel the Japan- ese to leave a very strong army .to guard the communications, whereas if a Japanese force was sent to drive it out it would bare to move directly away from the main army, while the Russian army, if compelled to fall back, ran recross in the direction of the Rus- sian troops concentrated in Manchuria. The Attack en Wen San. Seoul cable says—(Delayed in trans- mis:iou.)--lt,'hell the nttack on Won 'San (Gensan) was rade this morning the towspeople took refuge in the hills, and the garrison prepared to resist a possible la.di.ng party from the Russian. cruisers, wgieh were sighted in the town and which were expected to complete the ruthless destruction of harmless 'crafts. The destroyers, however, retired with- out damaging the town. '1.'he attack was regarded as being al- lied with the Song -Jin expedition, as designed to discover the Japanese strength on •the east coast, and as being a diversion of the Yalu River cam- paign. • The garrison at Wort San, numbering 80 men, were reinforced during the past week, and has thrown up earthworks and has artillery sat its disposal. While the Japanese authorities con- sider the situation serious, no appre- hension is qstcrtained as to the result. BORDER RECORDI New England More Wicked Than the Woolly West. Fifteen Wanton Murders Were Committed During March. In Only Seven Cases Have Arrests Followed Crime. Boston, May 2.—The murders of a month- have shown New England forth to the world as a much more dangerous place than the traditional wild and woolly west. Fifteen shocking murders in one month—most of them absolutely without visible motive—have gone far to spoil the reputation for quiet and peace which leas always been given to this section. In only seven cases out of fifteen have the police made arrests. The first murder was on March 1. On the morning of that day a brother of Mrs. Celia Marshall Smith, a wa- man OS years of age, who lived at Lon- donderry, N. Ii., found her brutally killed. Her head had been beaten to pieces with a bludgeon, and a knife had been trust into her body. Suspic- ion fell at first on the brother himself; later upon a farm hand known as Carle Brigham, who fled almost immediately and has not been caught. Robbery was the apparent motive for this crime, for at was thought that Mrs. Smith was wealthy and that she kept her money in her sleeping room. Two days later came another murder, this time in Beverly. A bartender named Joseph A. Hastings went over from Salem to Beverly and shot and killed Mrs. Dora Trask, a woman with whom he was insanely in love. Hast- ings himself was married, and Mrs. Trask had spurned his attentions. Hastings made no effort to get away, and was caught the same day. A quarrel over a girl led to the nnar- der of a mill worker in Taunton, Mass.,on the Sth. Pantiles Calavritimas shot and killed his cousin, Constantine Chi- poura. He was taken in Binghamton, N. Y.. a few days afterward. ,On March 11 Estell Taylor, a colored woman, was shot and killed by Joseph Seaton, a colored man, in Springfield, Mass. Seaton was arrested and did not deny the Murder. The next. which was discovered on March 14, though it was probably done several days before, was a sinister mys- tery. Nareisse Genoin, a Canadian wood chopper, who had been working in Mendon, a little village near the Con- necticut line, was discovered dead in a 'disused barn. His throat had been cut and his skull bad been beaten in brutally. On that very clay a water -front fight resulted in the death of Ernest Fron- hoffer, a sailor, at Providence, R. I. There was a fight, a shot was fired, Fronhoffer fell. That was all, but the sailors, who were about four, were ar- rested, and with Joseph Vera ,of New Bedford, were held as witnesses. This was merely a drunken riot. Fifty dollars looks very large in north- ern New England, and the man who kill- ed Charles nlcLanc, of Worcester, Vt., could have got but little more than that sum. McLane was known to have re- ceived shortly before his death 590, and he bought a suit of clothes and some household supplies out of the money, He lived alone, and when smoke failed to appear from his chimney on the morn- ing of March 14, neighbors broke in and investigated. They found the old man under his own bed, with. his skull beaten to pulp, -apparently with a club. It was eight days before New England had another murder. This time Eman- uel Burnett, colored, janitor of a Bos- ton apartment house, objected to his wife calling on a man. The two quarreled through the streets of Boston at mid- night, and Burnett shot his wife in the doorway of the house where the moan Ey- ed. Burnett was arrested. The very next night three men wan- dered around Lynn all evening, holding up with a revolver the proprietors of poolrooms and restaurants. They ate and drank and played pool. When the pro- prietors asked for money earnestly the revolver was produced and the saloon men backed down. The astonishing thing is that none of them set the police af- ter the hold-ups, who went on with their game. At 10 o'clock they were quaareling with a waiter in n. restaurant. John J. Tucker, a teamster, •stopped outside on the walk to ace what was going on through the plate glass window. • George F. Eltz, of Providence, did not approve of the acquaintance between Mrs. Eltz and James E. Tandy and shot him, so that he died. Eltz was arrested. Frank Brown. a scene painter, his wife and her son, William E. Wilson, lived to - ;ether in a fiat in Rosindale, a suburb of Boston. The son was subject to epi- leptic fits, at times having to be locked up, and always losing memory. On March 23 all three were home in the fiat. Brown and his wife were killed and it was thought Brown had shot his wile and then Icir'led himself. It then develop- ed later that he could not have done this, and the son was arrested on sus- picion. On the sante day, Sunday, two little boys were left alone in their father's hoarse in Randolph, Mass. They were Har- ris and Parker Dexter, aged 14 •and 11, the sons of the engineer of the town pumping. station, Their mother etas ill in the 'homeopathic hospital in Boston, and the father went to visit her, leaving the boys at dinner. ,Mr. Dexter bad been gone less than an' hour when Harris Dexter apepnred at a neighbor's house, crying out that Parker had been shot by a man who had run in upon them as they sat at dinner. ]'.f Harris Dexter tells the truth, a dangerous maniac is at large in Massachusetts, and no man's life is safe. KLONDIKE tiOLD OUTPUT. Mr. J. J. Rutledge Places the Total*. at $125,000,000. Vanco!utll r, El. CNS MEW 2, .- Malt, advices from Dawson state that Ur. J. J. Rutledge, who lately made an investigation into the output of the panadian )Kondilre, astimatea tile - total amount of yellow metal shipped south from the northern capital at. $121,000,000. This is in his opinion. a conservative figure, for it is based almost entirely on statistics of the express packages sent td San Finan-• cisoo for the Amerioan mint. Not a gent of this $125,009,000 worth of gold was taken from ]tile Alaska. camps, , The estimate prepared by Mir. Rut. - ledge has been a surprise even to the most sanguine I' londikers, for it wins generally supposed that the Can- adian Yukon had proven anything like as rich in virgin gold as the .figures given above indicate it to be. A re- markable and noteworthy feature of the investigation made by Mr. Rut- ledge is the fact that he discovered the output of the 1Sondike to he con- stantly on the increase. REMAINS OF A MAMMOTH. An Interesting Discovery on Quarts Creek, Yukon. Vancouver, B. C., May 2.— Word has just coma from Dawson that Governor F. G. Congdon, of the Yukon Territory,. paid a visit to the spot where gold hunters recently discovered the huge re- mains of a mammoth on Quartz Creels. Mr. Congdon found the tusks and skull intact, and with them three ribs. ft is expected that the remainder of the skeleton may yet be found in the vicin- ity. The parts already found are un- damaged, and it is hoped that when other sections of the frame are gather- ed up the whole may be put together. The remains he exactly in the pay - streak of the gold -bearing gravels, two feet above bed rock and forty feet be- low the surface of the ground. The points of the tusks extend upward, and touch the upper layer of muck. It is argued that, as the skeleton lies in the gold -bearing gravels, the animal must have died ages ago, at the time the. auriferous deposits were being made, It may' be that the animal antedated the gold deposits, but the fact that two feet of the gold graves is beneath the bones and much of it above would seem to indicate that both belong to one age or period. TO STOP PETER'S PENCE. Rome Authorities Considering a Plan to Equalize Burden. Rome, May 2.—A commission of car- dinals is now devising a plan to do away with the uncertainties of the contribu- tions received from every part of the• world as Peter's pence, and to equalize in proportion to the income of the churches the amounts contributed. France has nearly ceased to subscribe for the expenses of the church, and It- aly's, Austria's, and Spain's contribu- tions are so insignificant that almost the whole burden of supporting the central authorities of Rome falls upon the Cath- olics of the United States and other -Eng. lish speaking countries. The plan is to obtain yearly from the Bishop of each diocese a detailed state- ment of the total income of his district, together with the estimated income of each parish, convent, monastery or reli- gious institution in his territory. It is planned to impose a small percentage or tax, proportioned to the income of each diocese, which in turn shall levy upon each of its ecclesiastical institutions. CANADIAN FIRE RISKS. British Insurance Companies Do Not Like Them. Lo'nllon, M!ay 2.—It is =ideastViod that the British companies will have to ,paly! about ]laic a mdllion pounds - for the Toronto fire. The National, of Ireland, having entered into ar- rangements with the Western of Toronto, eseapea the payment or about £40,000. Canadian insurance has become so bundenlsome that the question of revising rates is be- ing seriously considered, according to an authority; on the subject, 'who say's that though preenium:n are now aiOnio seven timer higher than in the 'United Kingdom, the ;yield in pro- fits is notaltogether satisfaotorsa A WIFE'S NOVEL PLEA. Compelled Under Biblical Law to Aid Husband in Secreting Stolen Goods. Chicago, May 2.—The novel legal plea that a wife is compelled under biblical laws to obey her husband, even if the husband commanded her to aid him in secreting stolen property; was advanced to -day by counsel for Mrs. Lizzie Travers, who is on trial here with her husband, Edward Travers, for shop- lifting. Travers is from New York. Mrs. Travers confessed that she :and :her hus- band had stolen from a number of de- partment stores. Mr. Carnegie's "hero fund" makes no provision for that greatest of all heroes, the man who attends to his own busi- ness, obeys the law, tells the truth, ob- serves the codes of morals and religion, pays his debts,' lives Wrcnin his incomea. supports his family and does his full duty to God, the State and huma.ity.