HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1904-04-07, Page 7THE CONTENDIN6 ARMIES
NEAR1N6 EACH OTHER.
Impending Battle Near the Town
of Wiju.
Japanese Getting Ready
Strike at the Yalu River.
to
Rtissip's Policy is to Lure the
'Japanese Army on to Harbin.
; :London, April 3a -A. fierce lead ent tin troop's WPM detrained there 'at the
Northern
r
ate of over 2,000 daily, with horses.
gagement s imminent
in
i
In the last three weeks 28 batteries
Corea, Two thousand Russian troops,: have readied Inainin. From thee() sixty
including Cossacks, and infantryraen, guns have arrived. at Yin-Kow, making
are entrenclied skint the Efate an ,-theQ. total of nearly 100 gum; them,
mouth side of Wiju, while the twin Is
filled with the Car's aoldie, ready
NOT AN EASY. TASK.
t •
and eager for battle. 7Stiong Russian Landing at New-Chwine a DitneUlt
ootposts are also entrenched at other
. Undettaking.
points along the Yalu, determined to _
new-nhwang, April 3. -The Russian
&lye back the Japanese, should the position here is being strengthened every
hitter give them loam and attempt to na,y. A fortnight ago the Japanese could
oi.oss the river. •• . -hate landed with: comparative ease, but
. The Japanese array is advancing now a landing could be effected only with
northward front Ping -Yang and Chong- great difficulty. The railway from Han
Ju, and probably is -within a few miles bin to Hai -Chong is lined. with camps.
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AS SEEN THROUGH THE EMPEROR'S GLASSES.
'Aftet: Do Mar in Philadelphia Recent.
of desnaten lvill give the least possible ieff passed through Tashih Chiao to -day. ure is somewhat below that a March,
clue to tne district from wbich they He is reporten to lie returning from his 1003.
were sent, The determination to main- visit to Pert Arthur. Two severe etathquake shocks were
tau.Press Boat Relased
e'secrecy as to the disposition of felt yesterday at Tetair-Inhan-Shura,
e,
troops is carried through to the min- capital of the Province Of Dagliestaia
utast detail. Newelawang. APtil 3. ---Tho Press boat Caucasus
Nothing will be allowed toleak out Fawan, placed under arrest yesterday,
of the Russmnahnese. r• •- -nunenee, era plentiful in Manehurin Thn-tinnnenrinn e-belp the to: infer Ruwas released to -day by order of General .Ald. William L. Bell was appointed
tax collector last evening by the Toronto
That the Japanese armies have been Russians are encouraging future supplies sla s Plan of campaign, and to act an Kouroptitkin. The Inman was detained Council, only, .tour menabersopposing
placed in the positions outlined by the' by paying farmers hall the price in .ada cordinglY. Utz man 18 in the 102nd Rem .becanse she had passed between lines, the apnointment.
Military Council at Tokio is evidenced vance for their 1904•produce. The. stor-
by •the fact that the Government has ies of ill-treatment of natives aud prom -
allowed the newspaper correspondents iseuous cammandeeting appear to lie un-
to leave the. capital for the front. The founded. There is not the slightest sign
work of . the transports in landing Of ill -feeling on the part of the natives
tioops ,in. :Corea .- evidently . ban :been . town* tlieRnsinans.nrbe coacantrathait
completed, and tlie next imnortent er troops along, the railway hes been ad
piece of news from the Far East un- rapidthat it is impossible now for the
doObtedln wifl cork- from Northern Japanese no earrn the war into Mancha-
Ooree, almostany (ley.,
rita.with ony nor of success.. m -t
1110 READY TO STRIKE late
that is possible. or them to dons tea-
Pent Within anil poSsibly Vitidivos-
tock....Even that is daily becoming More
- difficult.
, .From Three Directions. • '
napanese. In a Position to Attempt to .,
. rope the Yell. • . .
. . . London, April 4.-A despatcli to the
London, Aptil 4.n: -The Times valeta a
Daily Telegraph from Shanghai says it is
, despatch from WeiallanWei, daten Sat -
reported that the Japanese .are operat-.
urday, summing- up the • land position. ing in an irregular area, the corners of
It 'says, the 'first Japanese army corps
whieli Etre intended to be Anhui& &W-
under Gen. Inuaoki, is now in a position
Kirin and Vladivostont. One
New -
to attempt to force .the Yalu River Cinnann)
force of 105,900 men landed opposite Tak-
whenver -eon wherever it me.y select to when, and is marching north and north.
strike, bilt itnseems that having secured west. A second force of 40,000 tended in
the 'necesnarn strategic position, Gen, , Northwest. Owen and ieninitchieg west-
Infiroki awaits the developmeet of the ward. A twit force, the nuniber of which
seeond Japanese -mobilization before •
is -unknown, landed •in Northwest Corea,
making a deeisive move. This develop- . and is marching. westward. It is aunties-
ment in already under way, but it is ed that another force will attack New-
impessible, to say where until the blow Chwalig from tbe southwest News of an
has actuelly tallen. Meanwhile the Jar. eaigagement is daily expected.
mese And Russian outposts are.in conn
gent touelnalong the line of the Chertgni '
ere bave been.
ADVANCE ON PORT ARTHUR:
Chang River. Thno serin_
iment he may send a postal card to tell listing come indirectly from Cliemulpo.
lus mothet :how be is, but he may not She was released on condition that she
let her know the whereabouts of his regi- leave port Her release was brought
ment or need anything in is sealed coact about by U. S. Consul Miner, who has
in the way of desmiption or. vorament; the confidence of the Russian author-
nothiag,, 111short,boymul nthe • politico ities. Though of Brinell ownership, the
that he is •tvelt or otherwise, • British Consul declined to act in the
it is one of the advantages of General .ease of the Yeavan. Therelease of the
Kouropatkin'e Stepping direct from the Fawau immediately, before the ease was
control of the Ministry on War to the
:command of the Amin in the far east
that the .strategy and the leans are
being worked out by ane mind. acting
without interference; The present Minis-
ter of War fills the part of acting chief
of the de.partmeut„ andnis whole task is
to facilitate the field operations Of his
predecessor.
oils conflicts. As a rule the emmtry in a
_
Twee Columns of Japanese en Route to
winch the treops are now operathig baS "
beeh studied with a vicar to rendering That Place.
the Cossacks less valuable than well . Lennon, •April 4n -The Shangliei eon
trained infantry,. - respondeut to the Standard says that
The •latestntrustnnitthy news: regard- i persons 'who have arrived front Manchu-
ing tbe Russian hied forces isto the .
o report that the Russian forces are
effect that 'the *Main concenttation is nstill inadequate to defend the country
on the line fronr -Liao-Yan no Han between Kirin . and. Port Arthur, upon
Cheng, •southaofaMulalen. The arrivals which the Japanese are sloany advancing
from the north and the men taken from 1 three columns. The Russians- are said
Port Arthur garrison :are concentrated to be badly fed, and totaly hacking in the
thereat convenient :points for despatah fighting spirit. The Japanese .cavalry is
to the -tralit RiVer. There is also a Me, admitted to be inferior to the Russian,
bile force in readinelis to. meet other but 'their infantry and artillery • •are
threatened Japanese advances or a greatly superior.. The Japanese officials
landing. , am in daily expectation of a serious en -
A despatch from Tokio says.: The gagement in Southern.Manclnia, but no
advance guard of the Japanese army deeisive attempt to capture Port Arthur
in Northwestern Corea occupied the will be made until the railway in effect -
town Of Seng-Clientanneeterday after- web,. poled,: • .
noon without opposition. Seng -Cheng . Japanetee Fleet Intact.,
is on the Pekin road, eighteen miles
-tangy,. Lonaon, -Apia 4. -The Seoul- cones-,
west of Chong -Ju, and about
miles south .of Wiju. Whea tine tenn, pendent of the . Daily Telegraph, ia
n de •
Jap-
anese aroveatun Russians out of alanig.: ,spatch dated April 1, says that the Jap-
anese fleet is stilnintaen aria is watching
Ju last, Menden. :the Russiane. withdrew'
in twin eoluniiisn -one goiagn. over tae. Port Arthur. Only a narow passage into
the -harbor there is new left.
Koalcsan road and the other over the
from Cliong-Ju area made very rapidly. GEN. MA'S ARIO.
Pekin road. Tbe Japanese advance
It was anticipated the Russians would
IS so, lion, ze not pronable that Object. •
resist this advance, but they failed' to Russians Are Worried as to Its Possible
Ann it
there 'tvillate tiny :father ...opposition
LondonApril 4. -The
eolith of tne Tani River. .. . • ' , Harbin cone -
Chong -Su, because On its simerior 110,. spondent of tbe Chroincle, in a despatch
dated Saturday, points out that' the*
turan suiroininings, in the strongest
ever'y •dean lost by the Japanese gives,
place between ,ring -Yang andWing-
there an advantage to the Russians, neverthe-
Ilesines‘ these natural advantages, less de patience of Gen. Ma; command -
is an old 'COMM fort them; Whiehi lnul - ing a large Chinese force close to the
it been, defended with spirit, would., have
Chincenbutelnuitui frontier, where he tan
bent lard to take. The Japanese Inc nuance the rear of the Russian army,
gratified it the .tompiinative, ease with hinders the letter's movements. It ap-
"
wbieb. they drove the Russians - from pears, certain that •en understanding
this fort.
exists between Gen. Me and. the Japan-
,
• .
411198ittil patrols are reported to be in ese, but it is now less complete, as the
the nountry east or the Pekin road, but
. Japanese are not doing 'et:awn' as was
. a . War Notes. . .
An attempt will be made to raise the
ships sunk by the Japanese at Port An ,
thur. 'There has been no further attack
on the town.
Letters '. from Port ..Anthur prove iiii-
quettiOaalln thet the Russian cruiser
Boyarin drink a Mine and was totally
destroyed two days after the steamship
Yenisei; .tybile haying mines. in the har-
bor, met .with a similar fate. Only three
Were -drOvrnen. in the loss of the Boy-
atrarin; attaclie, who recently returned to : is saki . to have been insignificant. Vice -
Henry Allen, the United States mina . the bombardment's of Inc Japanese ilea
Vice -
Scout from Ping -Yang, speaks highly of roy Alexieff will return to Mukden. on
the condition et the Japanese troops. An Tuesday. The coal sales of the Haiping
average of only 13 inen fell out of eadi Mining Company for the past week
battalion on the march from .Seoul to show a record of over 22,000 tons, vehicle
Ping -Yang. • considering the existence 'of war, is ,re-
• The St. Petttsburg coriespoodent. of ' wined as highly satisfoctory. It is gen-
the Paris Figaro, who says he had an erally believed that the Japanese will
cess to a detailed lig of Russian troops not attack Newehwaug. It le thought
tlitit nave been sent to the 'far east, says tbat their opportunity has passed. The
that on, March 18, there were in Mau- Russian forces are teeny and prepared
'cluiria 177,000, infantry, 17,000 cavalry, te defend the place. The task of the
and 2:66. guns. •Ot this number 25,060 ;nen Japanese, if they should be eventually
and fdur batteree. are gnerding the tail- successful, is becoming daily more (life -
way.• By June 28. there 'will be in the eon
field 130,000 more infantry, 30,00 eon-. '
A Sinful Stelae.
Otte 0.0. go guns. . .. .. ,, . . _ ,,
Gen. 'Lcivagkoff, 'ctireetor
°I Rtts"'s peasant in the .Province of Vladimir has
'St. Petersburg, April 4.--S. Metatinaa
trefisport service, denied reptnis of till
sent 20 roubles to the Enaperor, in a bet-
inaneqaticy of theinitroade 'in Sibexia an
Manchuria, and -of. epidemics among the
"Most. honest,. most autocratic, mot
ter addressed:
troops.
'A letter.' neceived. • ftoni 171a th
merciful, great Lord Emperor, our little
&irk.
father, Nicholas Alexanclrovici."
ebntainviome 'harrowing Oeteileao
licanbardnient A stint entered. a Jelicer;.
The letter is signed, "The tinperor's
er's house and literalyntore a, \rennin 7..
most sinful slave." . .
h.alyes. . . 'nbtertial LOW at New-Chwang.
it is net probable• that there is R11y
considerable fdree`of Russians in that
section. ,The patrols are withdrawing
gradually to the northward; toward the
Yalu. •
It is repeated that the ice on the
Yalu is well breken up, anni in the
future therivet twist be crossed either
in junks or over pontooa bridges. '
Mor Troops Landed.
Lona on, April 4.-A despatch to the,
Daily Telegraph from Seoul says that
in the course... of the engagement, at
Choionnp. onnnlencli 26 there whs mint
fighting; .the • townntselt ft is as.
serten tit Seoul that 400 Russians were
killed or wounded, and that it nmnber
vete cAptured. The Japanese losses
tire given as 30. The Russian losses at
Kasen on March 20 are estimated at
900. A great body of Japanese troops
have gone north frote Chinampho and
other harbors.' Troops and stores in
Inge quantities itre arriving in Chin.
ampho, where a tramway litis been laid
from the landing place for two miles Olt
gther sideof the roadway. Thousarids
of coolies ate adding te the huge piles
of war anaterial.
forced. upon the negmzance of the Brit-
ish Colman contributed. to the ameliora-
tion of a new situation wbich hanarisen
in the past two days through the arrest
and detention. for some hours of it Brit-
isb conductor of the Chinese Railway at
a station on the west sue of the river,
outside of the or aus inci-
dent; together With the detention of the
Inwan, las prolonged .the stay of the
British gunboat Espiegle, which is inter-
preted by some as British reconsidera-
tion of niaissian ,jurisdiction over New-
chwang, as provided in the declaration
of martial law.
• Alerieff at Port Arthur.
Tien.Tsin, April 4. -It is stated. that
Viceroy Alexieff, who for the past four
dans has been at Port Arthur On a. visit
ot inspection, has found everything- high.
ly satistactory. The damage thine by
expected. Nevertheless, Gen. Ma s pres-
ence in quarter where he •insists upon
remaining, is intolerable to the Rus-
sians. The orrespondent adds that the
importonee ot this point cannot be ex-
aggetated. '
Chinese Dread of Russia.
London, April 4.-Tlies Standard prints
a Tokio despatch saying that there is
growing irritation at China's inability
to enforce her neutrality. The Miriam
Government is apparently! unable to
thane off4ts dread of Amin ais
known by its leek of power to. compel
the Russian gunboat Mandjur to leave
Shanghai Or to chive - the %whim%
from the tight Side tithe Liao River.
Resales Stiatenic Plan.
Paris, April 3. -The ottani()
of one Of the embassies says it is clearly
part of Gen. Kouropatkiine strategy to
permit the napanese to have a number
or sinall victories in Nordern Corea
so AS to draw there nertlivrara tiewatd
Harbin.. Ile adas: 'These Were. the
Russian. teaks during the Tutitisli Wen
they permitting the Turks to .win
skirinisnes, which . drew them forward
untit the 'Rinsing were massed at
Edwin E. Anderson failed to appear
yesterday in Toronto to answer the
charge of keeping it bucket -shop. Ris
bail was estreated.
The U. S. General Board of Apppreis-
ers has decided that Canadian tossed
pulp wood shall continue to enter free of
duty, •
.......... .
.-1111S MAN COULD THINK
BUT COULD. NOT TALK.
The United States has confirmed the
the nomination of S. H. Shank, of In-
diana, to be consul at Winnipeg, Mani-
toba. .
It is annommed from London that
Prince 'Alexander of Twit,- D. S. O., has
bAerejnnypconortpeds. to. the staff of the first
The British Antarctic steamer Discov-
ery and the relief steamers Morning and
Terra Novas have arrived at Lyttleto
New Zealand, .
In New York State ,luring February
there were 12,749 deaths, an excess ol
2,000 over the average for the month. of
the last ilve years.
The Grand Excautive of the True Blues
yesterday passed a resolution replying
to the statements.made by Orange Grand
Mager McMillan at Brantford.
II: James Palmer, Liberal member in
the Nova Scotia Legislature forthird &s-
trict of Queen's, resigned his seat- at
yesterday morning's session of the Leg-
islature. • ,
Al. Adonis, who has now been in Sing
Sing Prison for a year on an indeter-
minate sentence with a- yeat's mini-
mum, .after- conviction , under the anti -
policy law, luts petitioned for a parole., ,
•The Hart's River Association, at its
meeting in Toronto yesterday, passed a
resolution favoring the immigration of
former British soldiers, and also diaap-
ptoving of loreig,ners who decline to bear
ArmS. •
The old man who died sudddenly ot
Front and Sherbounie atreets, Toronto,
on Thursday morning, was James David-
son, who for the past 28 years made Ids
home with Donald. Eraser, of Kirkfield,
Ont.
Marjory McDonald, a Canadian girl,
fell 10-0 feet. through an. elevator shaft
at 88 St. Paul street, Rocheater,. N., Y.,
yesterday. afterimon, and was instantly,
killed. It was her first day of work at
the place;
etersnurg, Apia 4. Regerding the An old. mite, Otis White, of Ransom-
, .
ising..-nal hinn St p .1 ^
•
tet• received 'here from •Icebe, Japan,
Shanghai, April nnt,Eve . .
deelaration of. martial law , at New- pea' Point yesterday by . deliberately '
ville N. Y,, committea suicide at Pros-
Chwang, an official of the Foreign Office
sainynis otthioeu,attopnedneisui%rai aevoext .02.00 Oni more0 Ot lir u0h04pe f ir,
is quoted. by the Nottosti: ;
nThere is no question of Russia's right dmorifersc.1 was earned over the Ameri-
welkin,* into the rapids, where he sat ,
0
a:311%1garrison inc en caltasinaet tolife the third ere?
screed, "iminbering 120000, men, whielt siege. This is purery an internal Russian A celebrated Breslau surgeon is ex -
to dean New-Chwaug in a state of
have not been :called to the colors. The affair. We need no approval of our aa- pected to make at the annual German
exact number of troops win& nave left tiene in this matter, nor will we notice Surgical Congress the first announce -
any protests, it made, which ii highly inent of an invention providing for the
anaoptankilfooNrvilt:fiebiurtvatrilicousenduersotintertsitou usual
improbable.. Manchuria was declared to exposure of the human lungs for opera-
tion ,been landed,- and has . been eaten- be the possible scent of war, Lula where, tive purposes.
liana= in northwest Coreo, in ,whicinits ever our troopa are..We have the right
to ad as we think. We have a garrison by an outgoing Peunsylvania Railroad
TWO women were struck and. killed
main base ,is at Chiittimpho. The Jap- to
general *staff atilt carefully guards. , at New-ChwAng, and consequently can passengen train at Jersey City yester-
the plan of campaign, but it is generally ' take any steps there we think neneSSartr,"
f day, ':.i'lley were Mrs: josephine Stein -
believed that it will operate ' three
. • • graver rind Mrsa. Minnie Langlield, both
New :ft,iive.wwairft.sea.wmr.
Assaulted oy Thugs and Deprived of the Power of,Speech
Hospital. Nurses are Teaching Him to Talk.
Part of a Knife Blade Which Has Been in a Colored Man's
Head for Twenty Years Now Removed.
One of the Chicago Car Bandits Confesses to Murder to
' Save Other Two Men From the Gallows.
armies, each nominally numbering a
000 men, the second army landingvrest
of the Yalu River, and the third army
east of NeW ‘Chwang. The landing of
t two armies wil be easily an
NEWS IN BM
on jersey City.
Louis Eumene, one- of the two men
who escaped from St. Vincent de Paul
Penitentiary, Montreal, on Monday, was
caught last night at Plattsburg, N. Ya as
Seattle, 'Waslia April 4.--4. special
from Nome says: Geunt and Countess
Marocankowiii have been brought to thin
eity, and the .count, has been placen -in
and the countess in a hospital. The
cotiple are enargen with robbery, and
the countesa also • is cbarged with 'as-
sault, with. intent to kill Capt. William
Galpin, formerly northwest mounted
captelo.
The counteee is stiffering from. nerv.
ous prostration, due to troubles arising
She WO it woman past her youth. but
she was remark:now well presierved.
thmigh nearly 40 years old, she looked to
be not much ramp than a woman of 30.
In the handsome viiia at Weston sbe liv-
ed with her aged father, Edward Page,
and ber brother, Harold, who bolds a re-
sponsible position in the Boston office of
the New York Ceara! Railway Company,
and to wbom she acted the part of it
mother. They had occupied the villa for
Yuclaairslives, largely among books, but Miss
There 'weer nothing eecentric about fa-
ther and de:tighter. They were perfectly
over the normal in then habits and in their con-
/134ga theft of an unpublished duct in society. They lived quiet and reg -
Page was well known in her OW21 church
circles and active there. Silo was inter-
ested in the society of the pretty sub-
urb of Weston and was Millar mem-
ber of it.
manuscript, entitled "The Dawson
Window." Gelpin avers he is the au -
then. arta the cotintees as vigorously
asserts' 11 15 hers. At Holy Cross Mis,
gob, on: the Yukon, the 'countess tried
to shoot Grannie bun missed.
:sari vraAt;.6Ps:owilAerivCiolm4b......iney.raucis L.
Dupont, of ' Wilinington, Del., is here.
bIlieneiks avdneimsborwItahetboigbpecitmvaaeker
deal to absorb the only remaining COM-
pany.here ontstanning.. Besides owning
thirtn-four, American companies, the
combine has just pnrcbased all but 20,-
000 of the 180,000 _shares of the Inter-
national Powdet Coinpany, tibial has
valuable plants in: Europe and. Great
Britain. The contracts of the combine
intOuSliColnl:nnnun,ition to the Russians and
Japanese .are said to run up into the
Neidermiena Confession.
Chicago, Ill., April 4, -Almost
the cods of the hangman's rope, Peter
Neidennien: one, of the ear barn bandits,
has made what he declares to be a true
confession to save two other men from
the gallows and one of Jong imprison-
ment in the penitentiary. "I killed
Patrick Barrett in Ids saloon at 4,210
Wallace street, last May," said Neider-
mien "John Lynch and : james Sam-
mons, who are :under sentence of death
for tbe crime, and: also Hugh Reilly,
who bas been sentenced to the -peniten-
tiary, are innocent 'They Ilan nothing
to do with the rain
"I make this statement solely to save
innocent nice." On the strength of
Neiderinier's statement the attorneys
for the convicted men win to -day apply
for a writ of habeas corpus.
Took Blade From Brain.
New York, April 4.-A despatch to the
Herald from New Haven, Conn., says:
Part of it long blade, which was imbedded
more than 20 years iu his skull, pene-
trating an luck into the brainn, and be -
toning encysted, has been removed from
the head- of Christopher Osborn, colored,
at Grace, Hospital. In a quote' with an-
other ne.gro 20 years ago, Osborn was
stabbed in the liead, and the blade of the
knife was broken off. He suffered no in-
convenience uatil a few weeks ago, when
he was attacked with eonvulsions, and
paralysis set in. The physicians at the
hospital say Osborn wilt recover.
Teaching Hita to Talk.
New Inirk April 4. -Efforts are being
made in it New York hosttal to teach it
man 30 years to talk. a e .subject lost
his faculty of speech through. it blow on
the bead delivered by thugs. Words of
one syllable are spoken to him, and he
is made to repeat them until they come
tripping off his tongue. He is being care-
fuly led 'from speaking single words to
putting. them together into sentences,
and it is expecte(' that in a few months
he wilt be able to talk as well aa would
be expected of a nominal child of three or
four years old.
The man was assaulted two months
ago. At the hospital a fracture of the
saltoulal made. necessary the removal of the
re inches of bone which pressed on
the brains. The operation was entirely
successful, but, although 'the man evi-
dently could think as formerly, he
could not frame his expressions or write.
After all efforts of the doctors bad prov-
ed fruitless, the muses took op the
An Old Offence.
Kokuk, Iowa, April 4. -The trial of
Charles Calekley for an offence commit:
tea. 30 yerces ago, commenced to -day.
Gantlet, shot and:killed Constable Reuben
Fenstonnuiker, at Arlington, Iowa,. on
ha0d1dItilfs til'aufbgabgteer7tass Anootivreerelluewhoug. Ngm'et
past early youth sometimes, deeeloped
tendencies to be a recluse. The life of
Lather and daughter was wholly iti every
respect the commonplace life of the other
gentle -bred venom; in the Boston sub.
urbilie only other member of the fain/1y
was the maid, Amy Roberts, whose day
off Came,, as usual, on Thursday, March
.31. On thet day the aged Mia -Page bad
gone late town on business. Harold was
at nis desk, and .Amy Roberts herself
left the house a little 'before noon- The
crime is, therefore, believed to have been
committed during the daylight bouts of
that afternoon.
Alone, therefore, in the suburban villa
was Miss Page. There 'Would seem to
be notbing to alarm her in that position,
however. The house is by no means in
it lonely place. The Titles of many other
neighbors are in sight and. within sound
of a cry for assistance
Then the murderer came. From the
time judged 'between death and: tlae hour
of the finding of t'he body, it is believed
that the murderer came to the house
about 1. o'clock in the afternoon. •
Whatever his oriental motive -mur-
der in any event -he bore to Miss Page
8. IneSSage well ealculated to distant), he.
to disarm her of all question or din
trust of him. It was just such a *m-
it:go that might naturally come in an
bezniriolrehger Harold, who had been serionnly
etlioeldY. ber that he was sent limn •
if not mortally, wounded in a railroad
accident -and was, from his bed of pain,
crying for her to come to him. There is
evidence of this in a note written by the
dead woman, found upon the parlor
table, which read:
"Harold has been injured, and I have
gone to the Massachusetts General Hos-
pital to see him.* "Mabel"
, Miss Page had attired. herself for the
street, and had on her outer coat; her
hat and a Inc collard.
On her father's return be called for
Ins daughter, but getting no answer,
sought her room. What he saw stag-
gered him, and be asvooned. She lay
fully nressed upon the ,floor, her arms
flung out, het head thrown back, and it
great, gaping wound in her throat.
The old man ran out ("lathe house and
made his way to the home of Dr., Frost,
The physician was not in. Aged Mr.
Page was too weak to go further. He.
could only sit dazed and. faint until .Dr.
Frost 'returned, which watt at about 4
o'clock. The physician went back to the
in -fated house with him.
An examination showed. that Miss
Page had not died by her own hand -
that such an explanation of ter death
was wholly impossible She lad died, it
was plain, either by the hand of 4 Add.
dened nend or by the hand of a fright-
fully coon deliberate and thorough as-
8ulisseinr. body was stabbed in six plugs.
The weapon used was two-edged. It
might have been a stiletto. It might
haTTlembewenouandfisiew.ere all over her body:
There were wounds in her breast, a
great gash at her back between the
Shoulders, and a third. brutal wound in
t h T he abdomen.
ot .
ether sent for Chief of Po-
llee Collins and. the investigation began.
Robbery was not the motive, as not
• one of the young woman s jewels-.
Ibe complished, for the light cruiser squad- gatasetiiisewsisomr.644.444
be stored off a train tvlueli Ito Ilan IOTA t'ulle8110i8OleittsdmbPeeten ajatillibaeirtty.uDuirinag worth thousands of dollars -naves miss -
toils cananroteet* both intivements. xt
Yaht fOrCe he Russian to alitin- Messrs. Robertson Sr, Coughlin have mixer. 33. C., with specimens of gold
graph Creek, 13, has arrived at Van- known. Having sett a
aft hap mep inve td,e rf121 leo! alei stlit aieintrs diiiiretiaeraisedemivo;ivalavtastalkic.igoti etc.
stances indicate that the mutderer
ing. Nor were the valuable jewels or
boar& at St. John's, Que.
Japan force west of the mouth of the incorporation.
. n pioneei ra o Tele- watch she wore disturbed. The eircum-
either knew the family or was acquaint -
is thought that the loncling:of a, heoxy; •The Penny 13aiilt of Canada is seeking Jack Hyla d ' *t d • f
purpdse 'of opposing thanrossing • near the junction of the ',aka and Deese was arrested and breugh donee that the woman fought for her
from the latest find, IncNahanni River, ing notice on the poision list, Caickley
don the fortifications Whicli they haVe, been appointed city solicitors of Stran ed with their movements. There is evi-
been eroding north of the Yalu for the ford, t to Iowa for
first army of aspen from Corea,. hfarconi, the ,wireIess telegraph in. Rivers, Northern British Columbia. AN HEIRESS KILLED. life dearly and -caught at the double-
• 'Of the
in, Milau, Italya _ . Springbank, has been committed for trial Robbery Was Not the Motive, as No was dealing bier death. blows. The palms
edged. weapon with which her murderer
nnijulictioin theAhird army stelligieg The eost of Mr. Chamberlain's visit At Coign**, N. W. T., clutrged with As- jewelry Was Taken.
vases in her screams would have been. heard by
of her 'hands were torn end cut. She
great Jayanese fOrceS Will operate could have made no otitery, Inc surely
eastward -from New Chwang, 'seizing .so. to Send Africa:was pad. out of the slating Ernest Cashel to eseape. Carnet Poston, April 3.-:-Mainen to rank with
cutting the railroad, and then engaging; Minn' funds. ..
• was at Smith's house when the police
will sail' froin Liverpool for Montreal'. - eaned on Dec. 13, but the latter told the most celebraten murder
in broad daylight, none has been found
Main ' Bilsiiiatt -position. . The Japanese them that the munieder was not there. cliniinal awaits, if not &dined to be neighbors.
placed in the list of 3iorror mysteries . And though the• crime was committea
in a . tinning movement against the The new Alban Line turbiee -Steamer
are toinident.thEtt the ItesSienS Will be it September. that remain unsohred, is the atrocious
.the hOUSC. The day was rainy, a
negotiations for the settlement of of Leonidas Hubbard, jun., the. intrepid nestling and stabbing to enith of Miss who Stav a. Men either entering or leav.
it is known to very few that the wife
:nimble to transport supplies eufficient German a "
r an Bntain are about to r
to maintain in Maneburia a fence larget - anan
various differences. . Labrador, while tri an. expedition for sonte villa in Ueston, a suburb of this senn-fog Ittiug over the trees, the lawns
explorer, wh0. died of '.t 21'. in Mabel page,. in Ion father's' home, a hand- hig
tants iteeesaary td gusail the railrned
. Newfoundland will not :
- Onting, is a resident of Peterboron Ont., City. and the street, and thin aided. the mule
than 300,000 men, The heavy detach-
ana supply' beads Willi, it is claimed,. re- ,d.irlin Putisa ht
duce the Russian iightnig force to about
after the' elections. where the deepest sympathy is felt Her father, Edward Page, is a wes.lthy - deter somewhat in escaning, for the
for her in her tragic berea•vement. retired iromnaster. An aged man, las streets Wert neserted.
la nerves aria health itave been alike shat- •Atthough A strting force of deteetivee
isenss confederation, with CAnada uutil.
n00,000 men. The Japanese are rectuisn
The quarantine la the Ontario Agri- tni 08tate ngent$
vett Mon, the 7.year-ola Son Of a toren by Ins daughter's tragic fate. One ni working on the case, the only due so
.
tioning thoesande of liorses, and it is waa fatally shot yes-
deterinination alone anteing WM in life fitr that. .has been obtained was given
meg of artillery will .rieeomparly each
littatti- eultural College, Guelph, for the small- tertian Aftetnom at Vaneouver, D. 0.,
pot: ease has been removed. -Wit the man who did the murder shall to -day by Charles Colton, conductor of a
emanate it With MB life. This is no idle trolley car running between Auburndale
ptobithiti tbot a eOrigiderahlO
Artily. Though the horses of the Jepson The, Be 1.1 1 •td•
destro lib: mi nig at 'Montreal wAS \nate playlog with sonic other boys who
ese cavalry seem infexior to those of y fire yesterday. The steelos . dTtlit, febtvn111°iotti rer nefrteear bh els-
cash reward to tui ii Atha will bring the eiterimon late Im had as a pagenger
1101 it and to -day he intimated a $5,000 ontl. Boston. Ife says that oh Thursday
the Russian the naptinese racers say of Re Yet 111.1,ailti l'ita:tiitYhrtitidele.
it is also anticipated that than t eater, is seriously ill with fever at A rancher named Charles Smith, of
veml tenants were burned. s niurderet of his kid to the seaffoltl. front the 'Weston. line. a num about 43 or
Before the Plead. they will satisfaetorily Actomplish the
Six thouetinal iniiiiigrants readied Wit- fr D. AfeNicliol, general manager of Thia iS the Strange Case of the Alma 130, whose right hand was stained with
and Japanese sourced ShOW that ar illery, is deptitting Incthe front. The . title 6. B., stat t, t t
the Corea Will SO Btu ate tip es r tipeg during tbis past manta This fig- blood, both on the palm and back.
• Anal/ea° movement. in eta bition that they will adopt the cry '011. guns seem lila, but it is believed that an., tartan tbe C. In It and the Canadian . _ _ _
neNotiations littvebeeali eaal;Arield oliat beim- d'r t`r rttge"'
Plevna. Several victories m Northern a n o
tk pl n ed f r tliem nfueb, Japanese
London; April 4.-liews front Minion • out an 6 .711.
none nnd roue surprise is aapreased to Itarbinn NvInch IS the point to w lie I, the Japtinete lave a nuinber of batteries
4., Syonshken, Which Itppear0 On mnst, ThttPe
Sapanese are anxious to secure igill1 be -
territory. . , Manoeuvres. It, ACtit5 .eatitin that Viee•Ailinirkl
shuts. •
whielt .generally overs a tont &Lida of
or Seventy.iiVe Mile*. r . Vt. I'eteretang, April 5. -Many mil- 70 i
go s failure to effectually dispose of
London, Aptil 4.-4 despatch td the' l'Imt4 er Peeteet'de nre behlg Ptinte4 by the linssian fleet at Port Arthur has
panv lfon from pirigNong Boys mat prier of thiS War... Departmmt teir . e delayed the Javanese land operations.
issued to the soinie.rs in 1 mane aria. A geftere thaw is now proeeeding in,
75 miles from its month. On them. Ana on them on y will the
soldier* be allowed to tomniunicate Corea ana Manchuria, rendering the
country roan impassable, and nutting
the itussiann hold the Yalu Inver for
Daily Arrivals 4,6*(1. with their families. it impossible to conduct general. mill.
tondolit. April 4.-A. despatch to the Tb& ova Will bear it time (lath, lay oporatioris until tile ground Third_
Morning Fest front Yinnnow stye did showing where the senders wrotr. but on
trustworthy information comes from the no pittee date; and tliev will bo so. 'Paned Through.
torrlosqlbriliefe iildiolittlis tat itt ilar. tary postai auntnrities that the tinie NeweltWarig, knit I. Viceroy Alex.1
'interior tn. Vie effect thilit widle the , handled hi trarelmismion hy the roil'. . ,
that the Jtitesiaits ring to tlefena Gen, Nouropatkin seeke to lore them./ egad in teagt1 te tile best. European '
attillety. Ivan also possesses 4
Sonchoit. It is believed thet the IIISSIA MOVING IN SECNECY. large number of excellent mountain bat.
terics, wideli in a roil& country will
9.8 fore the flooding of thil Yalit Biter, Elatorete Plane to Rid* Ifer Armrs have aistinet advantage later tile INA-
.0.,06.A0.- .,, Northern fot tun a , rights- ti e
aribiggia'rrtnim dames Bey Railway - from Toronto to
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ntral Vermont Ititilivay litidge,
. the Uil s the Itielmiien Inver near
sebegof.:1411.14.3whiptil:attneinkti.ttilapetri Eivir.61.;ye4tlyritatsa. yOareirio'rientlin'oa,\VItiobvyltiltirtlintioc:: .
'''''"I't ""' i'''ka" ft . t .n. Ima ossea safely over,,
imwtioia.miavklialonram,.. a et a rat . , .. ,
EvetylriteliOnartinteed Five 'vans out of seven in ti; fine iron
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Get waive:is, rrims.tbent or .. ,
IT,41.111g•ttAggrattra, The Toronto illuietion Couneil. at
their meeting on Wednesday inglit of '
A.,r0,th4,114118bia r., &trans Alla net week. Wilt receive tt represutative
a tad ri tdekde. Votrn4 Wahl- '
Vanilla. tv,-tyWlylip-Agt,IIMA2. ' - - 1
111".° 4° iev" 4'4" "'HI ' petitnon of ratepayers, requesting that .
?of M*."'..t""1113 t" nntn, a. outwitted of the Council be ap-
4co tam %.. valininicimi.wr..,
"' 141" ' C ntrol of tile City Council for tho
.-moilooe. wosikebikicts rott ! 0
,.."L4, 5 pinpose of aisenssing the question of
ViitVii:'-eri. --"IL.thr7 annexation of the OW* to TorOtItti.
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