The Herald, 1904-12-23, Page 2iur TASK
NEAHLY [JDEU
The Fall of Port Arthur Al-
most at Hand.
Gen. Stoessel Holds but Few
of the Forts.
Kouropatkin's Troops Have
Lots of Foodi,
A Chefoo cable: Gen. Nogi has de -
tided not to give the Russian garrison of
Port _Arthur any respite from the ham-
mering of his guns, according to news
received here yesterday, and has already
begun the task of driving the weakened
remnants of Stoessel's force from their
last refuge, in the Liueti Fort, which
is believed to be the strongest of all the
Port Arthur forts.
The Russians, however, have not en-
tirely abandoned the forts on the north,
but they hold on £he Erlung and. Keck -
wan Forts is said to be su slight that
their abandonment is only a question
of a few hours.
Desperate fighting hos marked the ef-
forts of the Japanese to carry these
forts, and the losses on both sides are
said to have been enormous. Nogi, de-
spite assurances from Japanese sources
that the fleet having been destroyed the
effort to carry the fort I;v assault would
be abandoned, continues to launch col-
umn after column against ordinarily im-
pregnable positions, and by sacrificing
thousands of men has gained line after
line of the Russian fortifications, until
'Liaoti Mountain and Tiger Tail are prac-
tically the only Darts of Port :Arthur
remaining to the Russians.
Baltic' Fleet's Progress.
Lisbon. Dee. 1:1. --_A telegram from
Mossamedes states that twenty-one ves-
sels of the Russian Ilaltie fleet arrived.
there to -day-.
1liossamedes is a town of the Portu-
guese colony of Angola, on the west
coast of Africa, and has a fine harbor.
It is between thirteen and fourteen hun-
dred miles north of Cape Town.
Woman Not Shot as Spy.
Vladivostoele. Dee. 13. --There is abso-
lutely no troth in the report. which was
}mb)ished in the 'Unite+. States on Dee.
10. that the daughter of n ,Tapanese offi-
cer had been sb-ct as a snv by order of
the military authorities here.
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LOTS OF FOOD. •-'"
General Kouropatkin Fos an Abundance
of Supplies.
A St. Petersburg cable: The R:usko-
Slovo, one of Russia's rtaunehest Gov-
ernment paper:, goo,; to considerable
pains in refuting the recent statements
that the troops`s•ntth of Alnkdeh were
underfed, and that on many occasions
they had gone for clays It a time with
only one meal a stay. This ee^.iditiort
of affair, w11,4 „nen as the root of the
discontent wltieli p,e vatl••1 in the Ru --
shin army, and the clue• do i e rre4'tnnd-
ent of the Iluskn Sl v o rl fru e the try'tlt
of these repots in detail. adding an in-
terview with the lead of the Ptissran
commissariat. -\ moue; others, it con -
tans the following partie•rlars:
Bread is dlistribule l to the troore
every clay, no matter how great the dif-
ficulty is in retic nine; the men. cxe.•nt
on those clays when military nilasation; i
are in progress. and then the troops are
supplied with bi.euita and tea.
"The commissariat has at its disposal
some tens •af thousands of rattle. but
up to the, 'present time the forces have
not drawn upon the department in thi:
respect, purchasing what cattle they re-
quire in local markets. Orders have been
given for large quantities of frozen meat
to be prepared at Omsk. At Nikoladeff.
on the Amur, stores •nf fish have. been
prepared, as well as 4,900 tons of butter.
"One hundred thousand tons of pre-
served vegetables are ready for rise in
the hospitals. Tea is on sale at the
front.
"Owing to havoc wrought by rains.
the transports have been suspended for
some time, but now they are proceed-
ing in good order, and. at I1lagovest-
chesk there are already nearly 40,000,000
ponds of wheat, which will be trans-
ferred to Harbin as soon as navigation
has been reopened. The troops are
also allowed brandy, but only on special
orders from commanders of army
corps."
JAPS KILLED ATTACHES.
Startling Story Told by a Russian
Secret Agent.
A. London cable.: The Standard gives
prominence to a despite -1i from its Copen-
hagen correspondent:, who asserts that a
Russian secret agent in London has sent
to St. Petersburg information obtained
from Japanese doeiunents confirming the
reports that the Japanese killed Capt.,
De Cuverville and Lieut. Gilgenheim,
the French and German attaches who
left .Port Arthur in a junk last August
and who leave never since been beard. of.
,A.ccording •to the correspondent, the junk
;sailed out under the French flag. The
Japanese torpedo boats did not notice
tthe signals, and fired on the junk, killing
iLieut. Gilgenheim,- the German attache.
find two Ohinese. The junk stopped. ,nnd
ale was hoarcded by men from a Jap-
anese Bruiser, who subsequently released
'er, but directed the 'torpedo boat to
srn.k her, although they knew Capt. De
•Ouverville was on board. The c:tptaun of
thb cruisee elnaired to avoid trouble
when be found the German attache
had been killed. The correspondent's
informant says- that; the Tokio author-
ities tri ee ordered Viscount Hayashi,
the :Japanese \sinister at. Loudon, to
cornmunivate to the English new.; -
papers 'tdie fact that a ,junk flying the
1'reneh flag had been sunk while try-
ing to escape from Port Arthur, but the
Minister refused to do so.
The saute informant reiterates the re-
port, and give; the alleged details of four
Japanese torpedo boats fi•olu England,
accompanied by seven hired trawlers, at-
tacking the Baltic fleet on the Dogger
Bank, professing that he gleaned the
information from a report made to Tokio
by Viscount Hayashi.
MORMON OBLIGATIONS.
Horrible Penalties of Mutilation of the
Person.
\Vashingion, Dee. 10.-- When the
Smoot investigation was resumed. to-
day J. 13. Wallis, a Merman from Salt
Lake, testified that be joined the Mor-
mon Church in 1881 in London and came
to the United States in 1S90, settling
m Utah. The witness said he never
believed fully in celestial marriages to
the dead and four times had stood as
proxy for four marriages of living wo-
men to dead men.
Nearly all of the obligations were that
those who took part would not reveal
anything they saw or heard on penal-
ties of mutilation of the person, and
every one who passed through the tem-
ple, said the lritness, was compelled to
agree to the conditions laid down by
the priosts. The penalties agreed to
were given by )Jr, Wallis as follows:
That the throat be cut frnnt ear to ear
and the tongue be torn out: that the
breast be out asundor and the heart
and vitals be torn from the body, ete.
Another obligation was one that We
would "never eease to importune high
heaven to avenge the blood of the pro-
phets upon the nations of the earth
or the inhabitants of the myth."
George II. llrannluall. President of the
Brigham Young t`riversity, testified
Chet he had two wives, married before
1800. Senator Smoot is a member of
the unirer:ity hoard, but was not pre-
sent when witness was elected Presi-
dent. Senator Smoot frequently aci-
cl•e.•sed the, students and always urged
then: to obey the laws.
WORSE THAN SLAVERY.
Drew York Manufacturers Accused of In-
human Conduct to Children.
New York. Dee. 1o.---rwo men sum-
moned to the 3etfer•son Market Court
yesterday-, while being charged by Miss
1. F. Foster and Louis A. Havens, fae-
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tory insepectors, with violating the child
labor law, were arrested by Detective
Flood, attached to the di. triet attor-
ney's office, on warrants issued by .Mag-
istrate Cornell. They were Robert
Bresch, manager of the estate of C.
Poyet, a wholesale Bandy manufactur-
er, and William Reed, member of the :
fii•nt of heed ann. Keller, manufacturers
of woven wire mats.
Brascll was charged by• the factory
inspectors with employing children un-
der 10 years of age without a certificate
frons the board of health; with failing
id keep a register of the name, address
and age of each chill, and with per-
rtn iting c•:iilclren to work nnorc than nine
11011rc dew.
O11 Le ,brr 5th, Miss t n -tel alleged,
she • foe ill two yonngir1 iivixia
Kaakio. 14 years ole. and 1.., c serine
innegau. 13 ye015 old, tY •'.;i1ic; 0" hours
in as.imok of six days, -making an aver-
age of over 11 hours a d.a: for '3. The
children. :\lis.s Fc -.ter forthalit l cid.
were :7;r1. 1.e11 cents rash time they
spoke, while at work and two e•aits for
every five minutes of t11.1in The
two Orli 31is-i Foster referred to were
m Cox1•t.
Miss Foster •1ecu;e:l Reed of permit-
ting suhael Short, jun., 7.3 years ohs,
of Eighth avenue, to work without a.
eertificate.
Magistrate Cornell ordered eomplaints
drawn against the prisoners and paroled
them in custody of counsel until tomor-
row.
NEW LABOR COMBINE.
Central Organization of Built'ang Trades
Unions of Greater Nevr Ycrk.
New York, Dee. 10.—The new building
trades board Diet yesterday and decided.
on a mune and considered a constitution
submited by •conunittee appointed sev-
eral weeks ago. The name of the new
board will be the As:tocinted Building
Trades of New York and Vicinity. Four
more unions joined the board at the
meeting, leaking 38 talions in all, with a
membership of 80,000. This is the larg-
est central organization of building
trades unions ever formed in New York,
and takes in the laborers as well as the
skilled nuen.
Tile action of the employers toward
the constitution, which is to be submit-
ted to a referendum vote of the unions
if finally adopted, will decide the new
body as to whether it sl.rii antagon-
istic to the employers or nut. l.f the
lluilding 'Trades Employers' Asociation
in willing to confer with a committee
of the unions to draw up a joint arbitr-
ation agreement in the place of the pre-
sent one, there will be no trouble. If
it refuses to Meet the committee it will
mean otherwise.
A board of representatives within the
body has been provided for. All proposed
new agreements as to horirs of work or
wages roust be passed on by the full
body between October 1 or April 1 be-
fore being submitted to the employers.
In reference to strikes, the proposed
constitution says shalt it will take a
two-thirds vote of the body to make
thein binding. This will not prevent a
nnfion from ordering a strike on its
own respont ..y,tbut in such case it
shall not receive support of the -body ex-
cept by unanimous consent. ,As { -
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tion regarding non-union men, the con-
stitution says:
"It shall be the special duty of this
body to use the united strength of all
trades represented herein to compel all
non-union men to conform to and obey
the laws of the trade to which they
should properly belong. and, if necessery
all affiliated trades shall on a two-
thirds vote of the body cease work. Any
trade refusing to comply shall be fined
$500. Any building trade that is not re-
presented in this body shall not be pro-
tocted on any building or job until af-
filiated with it. except by unanimous
vote of the body."
NIPPED ITT THE BUD.
Uprising Against Fcreigners in Henan,
China, Forestalled.
New York, Dee. 10.—The European
edition of the herald has the following
from its Pekin correspondent c The Pe-
kin Gazette this morning publishes a
special report of Viceroy Yuan concert-
ing anti -foreign societies in Nonan pro-
vince. The leaders have all been ar-
rested. An edict removes the local,
civil and military mandarins at Minh -
slang for negli."ence and orders the Gov-
ernor of Hou., 1 to reform the adminis-
tration of the, province.
This afterntan an Imperial decree
was issued a:ctishing the Governorship
of two pruvi.,,is, Ilupei and Hunan. '1lie
Viceroy of Ifupei is directed to assume
the duties of Governor of Ilupei in ad-
dition to his own duties. The Viceroy
of Hunan aid Kweiehan likewise as-
sumes the duties of Governor of Hunan.
These important measures in economy
are in harhlony with recent edicts, re-
quiring the abolition of useless offices
and the reduction of expenses.
SENT POISON BY POST.
Cake Accent. hied by a Card With
Julie's Love.
P ui . Dee 19.—A strange affair is
being inre:(.sgetcd by the police at the
village i f Anrh. A few days ago Mme.
Claude, e. i'or•hian lady, received by post
a cake, tc;; .'.,cr with ., c:,rd inscribed:
"With Jtt]ia's Novo.'
The card p..rportjd to be written by
31me. Claude's sister. The lady and her
husband both partook of the cake, and
shortly afterwards they showed signs
of having been poisoned. A dog and
some fowls which swallowed some of
the crumbs died.
Thanks, however, to the kindly ser-
vices of a neighboring doctor, M. and
Mme. Claude recovered. The sister de-
nies all knowledge of the cake.
It is a curious coincidence that some
time ago a similar cake was sent to an-
other. family in the same village, end,
but for the fact that it was tried first
on a dog, they would have beep poisoned,
as the dog died.
REVOLUTIONISTS WIN.
President Ezcurria, of Paraguay, Forced
to Resign.
Buenos Ayres, Dec. 19.—A. treaty of
peace between the Government of Para-
guay and the revolutionists was signed
last night by President Ezcurria and
Gen. Ferreira.
The treaty marks the complete
triumph of the revolution and is based
upon the resignation of President Ezeur-
ria and election of Senor Gauna, a sup-
porter of the revolution, to the Presi-
dency. Minister of the Interior Emilio
Perez and Minister of Justice C•ay etomo
Carreras, both members of the present
Government, will be nominated by the
revolutionaries.
The present artily will be dissolved to
be reorganized later by officers of the
military school. The revolutionary
forces will be dispersed only after the
constitution of the new Government
and army and the amnesty of political
offenders.
SURE THE EARTH IS FLAT.
Lake Michigan Navigator Says He Can
Prove That the Sun Do Move.
Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 10.—Capt. C. H.
Francke, commander of the big steel
freighter George Stone and Well known
on the Lakes, believes that the "earth
is flat and that he can prove it," He
is also certain that "de sun do move."
According to Capt. Francke the earth
is a plain as flat as a panellise. The sun
cuts a circle over the earth, presenting
alternately a bright disk and a dark
disk, producing day and night. His ex-
perience as a navigator has impressed
these truths upon his mind, and he says:
"1 can prove 'em, too. Sail to the
north or south and you strike ice. Sail
to the east and west and you do not
find it, beearse 00 one can sail due east
or west. There is one magnetic pole
right in the centre of the earth. Sailing
to the east or west the deflection of a
needle of the compass is such that a
vessel merely sails in a circle about this
central Hole.
"If you go up in a balloon on a calm
day and remain up for several hours you
will alight in the same spot as when you
went up. Now, if the world were re-
volving at a speed of 34.000 miles a day.
you ought to be some 10,000 miles away
front your starting point."
A GENTLE NEGx1TIVE.
"I ani going to give • you a unique
Cbrristneas rresent," said the sigh-
ingswain to tire fair young girl.
` Olt', how kind of you," 1s:uuhed the
maiden.
"Yes,' he stammered ; `eyes, I—I am
going to give you myself.."
Here Elio knitted her brows in per-
pdexity.
"What are you thinking 2" he
asks, timidly.
"I was just vonc]ering 1f 1 could
exclt;•tnge you for something useful
after Christmas."
GENERA2 NOGI,
Commander of the Japanese Forces Before Port
both hie Sons in the war.
A.tthur, who has lost
NEU
DVERU
OTTA'JL
Receives Hearty Greeting
From All the People.
Presentation of :Civic Address
and His Excellency's Reply.
Reference to National Char-
acter by the Governor.
Ottawa report: In the radiant sun-
shine ,of a Canadian winter day the
Governor-General, accompanied by Lady
Grey, and the Ladies Sybil and Evelyn
Grey, arrived this morning, and were
heartily welcomed to the capital.
Mayor Ellis and the city fathers this
afternoon drove down to Rideau Hall,
where they presented to their Excel-
lencies a beautifully engrossed address
of welcome. Mayor Ellis, who wore
his chain of office, read the address,
in reply to which His Excellency spoke
in part as follows: 11Ir. Mayor and
gentlemen,—The extremely kind and
friendly terns of the address so cour-
teously presented to me by the Mayor
on behalf of the corporation of the city
of Ottawa, and the welcome with
which you and the people of . Ottawa
have received us, have touched and
moved Lady Grey and me more than I
can say. Pleasant as is the knowledge
that your hearts are favorably disposed
to us, I am well aware that the real
reason for the cordial welcome t hat
we have received from the people of
Ottawa is because I have the great
honor of coming among you as the rep-
resentative of His Majesty. The way
in which you have received us is the
proof of your knowledge that our be-
loved sovereign takes the deepest and
most lively interest in the well-being
of Canada, and in everything that is
calculated to promote the happiness
and prosperity of her people. It will
be my proud and fortunate privilege
to forward to His Majesty the King
your confident assurances that you are
happy and contented, and the assur-
ances that you are enjoying the pros-
perity which is the result not only of
your own energies, but of the free and
liberal conditions under which you live.
It will also be my proud duty to in-
form His Majesty the King that you
are able to give your testimony to the
glad and hopeful fact that racial and
religions prejudices no longer exist in
your broad Dominion, and that the
energies and aspirations of your peo-
ple are being directed in the path of
moral, social and intellectual progress.
It will, I am certain, be a source of
the greatest satisfaction to our sov-
ereign
owereign to know that his French-Cana-
dian and other subjects in the Domin-
ion are in hearty co-operation in
working out together the magnificent
destiny which awaits this country, and
in malting available for the uses of
mankind the immense resources with
which ilii -1 country has been endowed
by a bountiful Providence.
But there is one asset which you
posFess eves more important than those
to which I have referred—than those
of area, riches, mystery, scenery and
climate ----namely, that which is repre-
sented by your national character. If.
you do not jealously guard the sacred
fire of that asset, the others to which
I have referred will be as dross and
as the crumbling clay. If, on the
other hand, you keep, as your address
informs ore you will keep, the charac-
ter of your people high, strenuous) virile,
imaginative, heroical and imperial, no
one can venture to set a limit to
the degree of the influence which will
be exercised on the future of mankind
by the great Canadian nation, composed
as it is of all that is best in England,
Scotland, Ireland and France, and privi-
leged as it is to be a factor, and a fac-
tor of ever increasing importance, in
that British empire, representing al-
ready over 400,000,000 beings, which is
the greatest and most magnificent or-
ganization that has ever attempted to
be the instrument of God on this earth.
There is no reason, gentlemen, why the
sons of Canada, if they are worthy of
their fathers and of the country to
which they belong, there is no reason
why they should not in the lifetime of
your children by reason of their num-
bers and of their character exercise an
all powerful and in the time to opine per-
haps a controlling influence on the de-
velopment of the majesty and destiny
of the empire whose standard is right-
eousness and whose faith is duty.
1 HE ATE 'SOME OF IT.
leers• Newwed—I bought this cake
at the church bazaar. What do you
think I gave for it?
Mr, Newwed—X can't 'say, but the
woman who sold it to you ought
to get about tool years.