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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1904-05-19, Page 24) TILE WINGRA I. TOLES, MAI 19, 1904,. To ADVERTISERS 2otiioe Of changes must be heft at this office not later than Saturday noon. The copy for changes must be left not later than Monday evening. Oaausd advertisements accepted lip to noon Wednesday of each week, ,,. E$TABI.ISHED 1872. THE WINfii A l TINES. U. a. sti,T.tO.TT, P1IBLISRIER AND PaorrosTOm TpUUR$DAY, MAY 10, 1904. DESPONDENT WOMEN. Find New Health in the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills,. A few years ago Mrs, James R. Stuart, of Tborold, Ont„ who is well known to most of the residents of that town, fennd her health severely shattered as the rebuff of an attack of anaemia, Ae told practically in her own words, Mrs. Stuart Nays: "My blood was turned to. water; I suffered from uerve racking headaches, and the least exertion would cause my heart W palpitates) violently as to render me afloat bre ithless, I NATES AND ciOMMENTS. wasted away in flesh and otten was sr weak that I could not walk about. I Twenty eight years ago Ontario hada was under the care of a good doctor, but licensed place for the sale of liquors to every 273 of its inhabitants, To•d:ty there is only one License to every 700 in- habitants. Its 1867 Outurio issued 6,125 licenses, iu 1903 the total issue numbered 2,900. We do our best to keep Canadian goods out of this. country, but we are rushing our people and oar money over the line in a lively fashion. Leet; year 30 000 .Americans, with their families, settled in Canada, chiefly as farmers. In the last few year.; x vast amount of our sap- iuP women." as I was not getting better, I grew melau- oholy and despondent, and felt I was becoming a hopeless invalid. At this. stage I was advised to use Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and I began taking thew, cliinkiug it would be u miracle if they ever helped me. To my great gratifica- tion when I bad been usiug the pills less than a month I found my health improv- iug. I used about a dozen boxes in all and found myself enjoying once more the blessing of good health. I had been reduced to almost a skeleton in appear. ance, and while taking the pills gained over twenty pounds in weight. I grate- fully recomtnend the pills to other fail- ital bas beau placed in all sorts of in- dustrial enterprises iu the Dominion Thus both farmers and capitalists, if we may believe the protectionists, have been at work to ruin the country that nurtured them. Even now their pro- ducts are knocking fur admission iuto the United States. The danger is lest this, iu time, uurupt those of us who have stayed at house. We shall soon forget that a bnshel of Manitoba wheat will create as much American to:tuhood in the counts aerus a bushel of Minneso- ta wheat. -New York Post. WHEN BUILDING WAS CHEAP. (Toronto News.) Li the 'lays wheu -The Grange" was built, houses were not dear in Turouto. That was in 1817. Anyone who has seen "The Grange" will have noted that this colonial facsimile of an English manorial =establishment is not only large, but well and solidly built. .A. visit to the interior tells the same story, and reveals a sort of Architecture which would have de- lighted the soul of au Anglo-Saxon king. In that rambling manor, with its panell- ed walls and dark, lofty eeiliugs, and heavy carved balustrades, are carloads of walnutand oak; timber enough, if sold for furniture, to build ten large up- to-date houses in Toronto, even at the present extravagant cost of baildiug. The walls ere solid, and the masonry in good condition. The outside pillars are stone. The building -now the oldest brick house in Toronto -looks as though it might easily stand another half cen- tury. Yet according to Mr. Goldwin Smith, the present occupant of "The Grange" this remarkable building was pat up for the fabulous sum of $4,000. A TEMPERATE COUNTRY. In a letter to the Brantford Expositor, Mr. George Johnson, Domiuion statisti- cian, says: "In answer to your letter, asking for Canada's expenditure in intoxicating li- quor compared with other countries, I have to say that Canada's liquor bill is $54,586,191, or $9.87 1-2 per head of the population. Similarly prepared, the lie quer bill of the United Kingdom is $36.- 29 per head or $1,506,085,189; that of the States is $1,935,827,421, or $24.75 per head, and that of Australia is $17.20, or $78,867,016." It will thus be seen, says the Exposi- tor, that John,Bal1's liquor bill is four times that of Canada, and Uuele Sam's two and a half times, while that of Aus- tralia is nearly doable. Under the circumstances, it isnot sur- prising that Messrs. Rowntree and Sher - well, two Englishmen, who nndertook to investigate the liquor problem the world over, were able to say of this coun- try: "The consumption of alcoholic bev- orazcs, with one exception, is smaller in Canada than in any other country for which statistical data are available, and it continues to decline." Kidney Disease and Rheumatism These terribly painful ailments ars thoroughly cured by Dr. Ohass's Kidney -Liver Pills. . Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are the great- est blood builder and nerve tonic kuown to medical science. Through their use pale cheeks are made rosy, dull eyes are made bright, and thin wasted figures made plump. Every dose crakes new, rich red blood that drives out disease ane strengthens every organ iu the body. You can get these pills from any dealer in medicine, or by mail postpaid, at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $3 50 by writ- ing the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. GREAT BRITAIN AND HER COLONIES. Lord Thring has au interesting article in the last number of the Nineteenth Century and After, ou the question of the fiscal and political relatiou`s between Great Britain and her colonies. He points out that the British Empire covers, in area, one-fifth of the globe, and is ninety-eight times the size of the mother country. Of her forty-three dependen- cies. Canada, the largest, is thirty times her size, and Gibraltar, the smallest, covers au area of but two square miles, Canada and Australia have, respectively, one-eighth and one.eleventh of her popu- lation. The whole commerce of the British Empire is eight hnudred millions of pounds sterling or four thoasiind mil- lions of dollars. Of this, three thousand millions of dollars are with foreign na- tions, and one thousand millions of dol- lars with her dependencies, divided equally between the self-governing col- onies and those not self-governing. Her commerce with Iudia amounts to $314,438,000, with Australia $227,242,315 and with Canada $137,856,280. Lord Thring is no friend of Mr. Chamberlain's fiscal policy, which he argues, from the above figures, would be (as foreign na- tions, India and the crown colonies and the dependencies are free trade custom- ers, and Canada and Australia the only protective ones) favoring customers of five hundred millions of dollars, and an- noying customers of thirty-five hundred millions of dollars. • Slate rheumatism arises from derangements of the kidneys it can never be cured untilthese organs are restored to health. 'By acting (Meetly as the kidneys Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills curs both kidney disease and thcumatism. •- Mas, Motr./la, Newmarket, Ont., states:- " tates:-"1 have used Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills foe kidney trouble, and would hot be without theist for a great deal. They have certainly dome me a world of good, and 1 would not ,teak of mins. any other medicine for an ailment ai this kind. •' My husband is troubled with sciatic thee- satathua and is using Dr. Chase's KidneyLiver Pills. They ate doing hire more good than any medicine he ever used, and we both heartily re- cennnefid them as an excellent medicine." Dr, Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills. the comfort ,of old ate. one pill a dose, 95 cents a box, at all +heists, Portrait and signature of Dr. A. W. tient ontrey box. !14a tttt+aset vast where fir, Date's 112 tltllr tlaetrs l *POW* Pointed Paragraphs. From the Chicago News. Pessimists are usually old bachelors who are glad of it, A sneeze is said, to be the explosion cf an undeveloped idea. Few women are mind readers, but nearly all woineu are mind speakers, Courtship and novels are more inter - sting than marriage and history,. A woman possibly may admit that she is 30 years old, but that she suores- never. The mau who gives your hand a cor- dial shake either has a full heart or au empty purse. A girl is always proud of her new hat until she meets another girl with oue that's more freakish. Little white lies live long and prosper. Its impossible to defeat an ignorant mun iu an argument. The world will forgive a man almost anything except failure. Schemers get into office when honest mon fail to do their duty. It is impossiole to patuh up a reputa- tion so the patohes won't show. A womau's idea of a compliment is to name her baby after a rich relation. If a mau who falls iu love at sight is wise he will take a second look before proposing Sometimes the breaking of au eugage- meat enables the parties to live happily ever after. IMMIGRATION MATTERS Much more important than it may appear at a glance, is the large number of immigrants who are coming to this country for the purpose of "hewing out a home" fez. themselves. There was a time whom this phase had to be taken in its literal sense, but it hardly applies at the present time, when settlers may go into a prairie country where there is no hewing whatever to be done. Last year 135,000 settlers found homes in this land of magnificent opportunities and marvel- lous resources, and it is said that they are landing at Halifax or Quebec at the rate of 3000 a week, to say nothing of the large numbers who are crossing from the neighboring republic. New settlers mean a great deal to a country like ours. Economic students claim that each settler is worth $1000 to a country, and if this be so it is easy to estimate the material vain alone of the immigration venting in. Farmers all over are complaining that they cannot get help, and for this very reagon agri- culture is suffering, one result here of being shown in the fact that dairying has fallen off enormously, and farmers are directing their energies in other directions, The American emigration, next to the movement of otu' Own people to the west, is the beat conceivable, be- cause the American settlers have not only capital, but what is venally impor- tant, they bave had prairie experience. To such large proportion has the move- ment from the States to the Canadian west reached, that the Atnerican govern- ment has taken the matter in hand, and is trying to check it, and it would not be surprising if they asked for the with- drawal of the different Canadian emi- gration agents wino are industriously laboring among the Americans. All the people coming here means the demand for manufactured goods; it means the better development of the country; it is the one thing necessary for our expan- sien and growth, and es there is no like- lihood of the demand for labor being affected by it, no check should be put upon it, but rather should it be enconr- aged in every possible way, Canada can yet pro-ide ketosis for millions, and We welcome to our inheritance every Irian, woman ani: child of good chiral• ter and ordii arrphysique. TOWN DIRECTORY, BAPTIs Cannon -Sabbath services at 11 a m and 7 p m. Snriday School at 2:80 p in. General prayer meeting .on Wednesday evenings. Rev. J. N. Mos Lean, B.A., pastor, Abner Cosecs, S.S. Superintendent. s9 Pitiful Helplessness Victims of nervous diseases are, most' to be pitied because their ailment usually terminates in mental or physical help- lessness. Paralysis, locomotor ataxia and iusanity eau only be avoided by by bulldiug up the rrervoua system at the first signs of trouble and there is no preparation so well suited for this pur- pose as Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, the great nerve restorative. .. In School Days. (John Greenleaf Whittier.) Still sits the school house by the road, A ragged beggar sunning; Around it still the sumaohs grow, And blackberry vines are running. Within the master's desk is seen, Deep -scarred by raps official, The warping floor. the battered seats, The jackknife's carved 'initial. The charcoal frescoes on its wall; Its door's worn sill, betraying The feet that, creeping slow to school, Went storming out to playing! Long years ago a winter sun Shoue over it at setting, Lit up its western window -panes, Aud low eaves' icy fretting. It touched the taugled golden curls Aud brown eyes fall of grieving Of oue who still her steps delayed When all the school was leaving, For near her stood the little boy Her childish favor singled, His cap pulled low upon a face Where pride and shame were mingled Pushing with restless feet the snow To right and left, he lingered - As restlessly her tiny hands The blue -checked apron fingered. He saw her lift her eyes; he felt The soft hands light, caressing, And heard the tremble of her voice As if a fault confessing. "I'm sorry that I spelt the word; I hate to go above you; Because" -the brown eyes lower fell- "Becouse, you see, I love yon!" Stili memory to a gray-haired mau That sweet child face is showing, Dear girl. the grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing! He lives to learn, in life's hard school, How few who pass above him Lament their triumph and Ms loss, Like her -because they love him. METHODIST Ogty 11 -Sabbath services:- at ervicesat 11 a m and 7 p m. Sunday School at 2:30 p m. Epworth League every Mon- day evening. Gel eral prayer sleeting ou Wednesday evenings. Rev. J. Be Gandy, D,D , pastor. Dr. Towler, 5, 5. Superintendent.. P1ttSBYTERIAN CHUROH-Sabbath ser- vices at 11 a in and 7 p m. Sunday School at 2:30 p m, General prayer meeting on Weduesday evenings. Rev. D. Perr•ie, pastor and S S. Superinten- dent, P. S. Lit.khtter and L. Harold, assistant S. S. Superintendents. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, EPIsroPArr-Sab- bath services at 11 a m and 7 p in. Sun- day School at 2:30 p in. General prayer meeting on Wednesday evening. Rev. Wm. Lowe, Rentor and S. S. Superin- tendent. John Taylor and Ed. Nash, assistant S. S. Superintendents. SALVATION ARMY -Service at 7 and 11 a m and 3 and 8 p nl on Sunday, and every evening during the weep at 8 o'clock at the barracks. Posy Orrice -In Maednnald Mick. Office hours from 8 a in to 6:30 p rn. Peter Fisher, postmaster. PUBLIC Llna.4RY-Library and free reading room in the Town Hall, will be open every afternoon from .2 to 5:30 o'clock. acid every evening from 7 to 9:80 o'clock: Miss Millie Robertson, librarian. Towr Cotnoii-R. Vanstutue, Mayor; Thos. Bell, Wal. Holmes, W. J. (Meer, Thos. Arut'tro'1g. G H. 0• Millikin. David Bell, Cnaacillors; J. B. Fer- guson, Qlerk and Treasurer; William Clegg, Assessor, Wm. Robertson, Col- lector, Board meets first Monday even- ing in each month at 8 o'clock. Smoot, BOARD. -.T. J. Homutll,(chair- man), Thos. Abrallam,R. A.Douglas, f3. Kerr, Wm. Moore, A. E. Lloyd. Dr A. J. Irwin, C. N. Griffin. Secretary, John F. Groves; Treasurer, J. 'B'. Ferguson. Meetings second TnesdLty evening in each month. • PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS. -A. 11. Musgrove, Principal, Miss Brock, Miss Reynolds, Miss Farqnharson, Miss Corny'', Miss McLean, Miss Matheson Mise Reid, and Miss Cummings. BOARD OF HRALTH-Mayor Vanstone, (chairman), C. J. Reading, Thos Greg- ory, Dr. Agnew, J. B. Ferguson, Sec- retary; Dr. J. R. Macdonald, Medical Health Officer The Complete Home -Maker. (Puck.) Mather never worries. since she has leered to lean Upun the "Household Hints" found in the Family Magazine. Father doesn't need to fret when cash he would invest. Just reads the "Hints for Business Men" -the writer does the rest. Sister Susan frets no more o'er nocturnes mach involved She reads the "Hints to Players," and the difficulty's solved: Brother Amos need not think of tie or coat or vest, He turns to "Young Men's fashions," and the column does the test. Christmas brings no' puzzles 88 to what to give each one, Read "Hints for Christmas Givers," and the worrying is done; Nor need we ever think of what shall be our bill of fare, Read "Little Hints for Menns"-and we find it written there. The church has grown old-fashionep since we all have come to read The "Helps to Quick Salvation" -of the O church there is no need. No doctor need we ever call, when any- one is i11 We simply read the "Health Hints" -and we find they fill the bill. Mother's reading "Household Hints" and uncle "Hints on Chess," Susan "Hints to Playsrs," and Berlinda "Hints on Dress," Amos "Hints on Fashion" and father "Hints on Cash," And the servants in fhe kitchen closely reading "Hints on Hash." Alas! Soinetintes t tremble, for did any- thing go wrong With all these "Hint" department we could never get along, And life would be a dreary WWII, were we deprived. I ween, Of this predigested theoght-food in the Family Magazise Where the Ladies Propose. Between the mountains of India and Persia is a powerful tribe among whom au extraordinary custom prevails. Wo- men's rights have apparently received full recognition, for the ladies of the tribe can choose their own husbands. All a single woman has to db when she wishes to change her state is to send a servant to pin a handkerchief to the hitt of a man on whew her faucy lights, and he is obliged to marry her, unless he can show that he is too poor to pur- chase her at the price her father requires. 1 Do you catch cold easily? Docs the cold hang on ? Try Shiloh's Consumption Cure The Lung Tonic • It cures the most stubborn kind of coughs and colds. If it doesn't cure you, your money will be refunded. Prices 25c , 50c. and 51.00 S. C WELLS & CO. Toronto, Can. ' LeRoy, N.Y. 7 ESTABLISSRED 1872 THE WINGIIA TIRES,. I8 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING --AT- The Times Office, Beaver Block 'RING HAei, ONARIO, Timms OF StraipaiPTION ,1 30 per annum in advance $1.60 if not No paid. No paper discon- tinued ti'4 all arrears are paid, except at the option of the publisher, ADVERTISING RATES. - Legal and other casual advertisements 8e per Nonpariel line for first insertton, So per line for each subsequent insertion. Advertisements in local columns are charged 10 eta. per line for first insertion, and 5 cent,. per line for each st&eequent insertion. Advertisements of Lost, Found, Strayed, Fauns for Sale or to Rent, and oftener, $1.00 for first month and 60 cents for each eu{isegnent month CONTRAOI RATlts-The following table shows our ratee for the insertion of advertisements for specified periods: - SPAM. 1 rrn. 6 MO. 8 MO. lar' One Column $60.00 $415.00 ;15.00 t6I'(' Half Column 85.00 18.00 10.00 4,ue Quarter Column 18.00 10,00 6.00 2.00 Advertisements without specific directions will be inserted till forbid and charged accord- ingly. Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance. Tam Jon DEPARTMENT 18 stocked with an extensive assortment of all requisites for print- ing, affording facilities not equalled, in the county -for turning out first class work. Lnrge type and approprinte cuts for all styles of Post - ere, Hand Bills, etc., and the latest styles of choice fancy type for the finer classes of print- ing. H. B. ELLIOTT, Proprietor and Publisher Cook's Cotton Root Compound. Ladies* iravortte, Is the only safe, reltelllo regulator on which woman can depend in the hour, and time of need." Prepared In two degrees of strength. No. 1 and No. 2. No. 1. -For ordinary cams is by far the beat dollar medicine known. No. 2 --Por special eases 1O degrees stronger -three dollars per box. Ladies -ask your druggist for Cook's Cotten Root Compound. Take no other as all Mils, mixtures and imitations are dangerous. No. 1 and No. 2 are sold • and recommended by all druggiate in the Do- sminion of Canada. Mailed to any address on receipt of price and four 2 -cent postage stamps. The Cools: Company, Wlndror, Ont. No. 1 and No 2 are sold iu Wingham by A. I. McCall & Co., W. McKibben, and A. L. Hamilton, Druggists. RAILWAY TI1!<E TABLES. T P KENNEDY M. D.. M.C.P. S. 0 t • Member of the British Medical As rooia- tion. Gold Mew:nines in Medicine. Special attention paid to diseases of Women and Child ren. Office hours -1 to 4 p. in.: 7 to 0 p. m GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM, TRAINS LEAVE role London 6.50 a m.... 8.10a:ni. Toronto & East 9 a.m6.58 a.m.... 8.06p.m. Kincardine..11.10A a.nt.., 1.40 p -m.... 8.88p.m. ARRlam Frtou Kincardine ...5.50 a.m0.00a'tn.... 8.Ii5 p.m. London ........ 11.10 a.m.... 7.85 p.m. Palmerston 11.10 a.m. Toronto & Just 1.40 p.m., A.M p.m. L. HAROLD,Ageut, Wingb,iro, ANADLiNPACIFW i'-Af*a rrlAIC'V$RAILroil AY. Toronto. and Zest 6.87 a.m.... SMI - ,1n, Teeewa$er .... 1.17 p:au... 40,4tt p.ts, .AiiniYa rltorr , Teetwntet+ add a.sr ft 4s p. tui. Tore Ste a J li 1'StIOtZR .Aa0.1,t._...41.101410:1.: wt. Wifuetbs . DR. MACDONALD, Centre Street Wingham, Ontario. DR. AGNEW, Physician, Surgeon, etc. Office -Macdonald Block, over W.McKibbon's Drug Store. Night calls answered at the office. T. CHISHOLM, J. S. CHISHOLM M.A., M.D., C.M., M.0 P.B.O. MR, MD,CM., M O P 8 O. DRS. CHISHOLM & CHISHOLM PHYSICIANS, SURGEONS, ETc. OrFro$-Chisholm Block, Josephine Street. Reslnasox-In rear of block, on Patrick St., where night calls will be answered. DR. BROWN, L. R. U. P., London England. Graduate of London, New York and Chi. taro. Diseases of Eye, Eur, Nose and Throat. Will be at the Queen's HIotel, Wingham, 4th Tuesday in each month. Hours from 2 to 0 p.m. R VANSTONE, • BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Private and Company funds to loan at lowest rate of interest. No commission charged mort- gages, town and farm property bought and sold. Office, Beaver Block. Wingham. JA. MORTON, J. BARRISTER, &c. Wingham, Ont. E. L. DIOKINSON DIIDL1tY Ho UM DICKINSON & HOLMES BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, Etc. MONET TO LOAN. Orvtcs: Meyer Block, Wingham. ARTHUR J. IRWIN, D. D. 8., L. D. S. Dental Colltor of ege wanl d Lgicentiatee of the Roval College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario. Office over Post Office, Wingham. TAT T. HOLLOWAY, D.D.S., L.D.S. F' �' • • DENTIST. Beaver Block, Wingham. D. D. S. -Toronto University. L. D. 8. -Royal College of Dental Surgeons. JS. JEROME, L. D. S. as n new method -for painless extraction. No cocaine. Special attention to the care of eluldren's teeth. Moderate prices, and all work guaranteed Omen.- In Chisholm block. next door to Hamilton's Drug Store. JOHN RITCHIE, GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT, Wingham, Ont. .ALEX. KELLY, Wingham, Ont. 1 LICENSED AUCTIONEER For the County of Huron. Sales of all kinds conducted at reasonable rates. Orders left nt the Trams office will receive prompt attention. JAS. HENDERSON, Wingham, Ont. LICENSED AUCTIONEER For the Counties of Huron and Bruce. Sales of Farm Stalk and Implements a specialty. All orders left at the TIMES office promptly attended to. Terms reasonable. 7� 8. SCOTT, Brussels, Ont. L' LICENSED AUCTIONEER Is prepared to conduct sales in this section. Special attention given to sales of farm stock and implements. Date., and orders can always be arranged at the TIMxs office. Wishart. FARMERS and anyone having live /deck or other articles they wish to dispose of, should adver tide the same for sale in the Timms. Our large circulation tells and it will bestrange indeed if you do not get a customer. We can't guarantee will sell because you may ask more for the article or stock than it is worth. Send your advertisement to the Truce and try this plan of disposing of your stock and other articles. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE TRADE MARKS DEa16Ns CorveloHTS Anyone sending a sketch and deseript sit Inn} gnlekty ascertain our opinion true whether M Invention is probably patentable. Cemarnnier, ttens strictly eunadentlal. Iiendbook on Patent*, sent fixe. Oldest agency for securingtents. Patents taken through Nunn pis Co. nodes specks! motto, without chaste, in the Scientific Americas. A hend*ereelyy llrertrated ereekly. Tartest err. ealatte* of any aei*mttee )•rnrnM. Terse, 83 4 es?tk5'sr��tnoo�tttbs,W Bahl byall .wsd eirsi StItion Reeser IDS Y tt,. es el:own D.b. SAD AND SOBER, TOO MR. OSLER EXPLAINS Communication With Port Arthur Only Acted As Financial Agent is Re -Established. For the Railways. BUT JAPS ARE VERY ACTIVE PERSONALITIES WERE MANY Russian Voellegs Are Consequently of a. Mixed Order -Rapid Japanese Advance -Lauding of Army at Takushan Is Indicated -A Number of Skir- mishes Are Reported- Bom- bardment of Port Arthur. London, May 11. -The Tokio cor- respondent of The Standard says under date of May 11. that the Lout- bardrnent of Port Arthur was re- commenced yesterday morning by the Japanese by angle firing and is still in progress. ' Communication Re -Established. St, Petersburg, May 11.-N iceroy Alexieff has telegraphed to the Em- peror as follows: "ituring the night of May 9-10 railroad conununication° with Port Arthur. was restored. 'The telegraph line is being repaired. As General Stoessel has not reported the investment of Port Dalny, the reports from abroad of its capture by the .Japanese are naw disbelieved by the general staff. Severe Engagement Reported. Shanhaikwan, May 11. -It is re- ported that the lire, Japanese army corps, having followed the Russians retreating from the Yalu ltiver, over- took them twenty miles south of Liaoyang yesterday and a severe en- gagement ensued. Lt. -'ten. Zsesalltelt Killed. Paris, May 11. --Tho Matin's St. Petersburg correspondent says it is persistently rumored that there has been a big fight near Maotienling Pass, between the Itussiaus and Gen - neral Kuroki's army. The Russians, he says, lost heavily, Lieutenant - General Zassalitch being among the killed. Sobered By Official Despatches. St. Petersburg, May 11. -The most ! important official news from tho front up to this hour is that telling of the complete re-establishment of railroad and telegraphic communica- tion with Port Arthur, though how it was brought about and whether a battle was necessary to accomplish it are mysteries which Viceroy Alexi- eff failed to clear up. Tho elation of authorities, a natur- al consequence of this achievement, is sobered by official despatches showing the activity of the Japanese in Eastern 3lanclitu•ia. The people naturally wish for more details concerning t he re-establish- ment of communication with Port Arthur. All they know definitely is that the railroad has been repaired. and that at ei o'clock yesterday af- ternoon the first despatch passed ov- er the reconstructed telegraph lines. daps ,.rent Activity. • St. Petersburg, May 11. -Tile gen- eral staff has received a despatch from Major -Genera) Karkevitch, dat- . ed May 9, which says: "Ort May 5 our scouts discovered at Liaoyahanlpuzo, fourteen chiles north of Takushan, on the left bank of 'J'alinhe River, a Japanese de- tachment one regiment strong. Dur- , ing a fusilade with a line of Japan- ese sharp -shooters, one Cossack was killed. "At Luanmyako, eight miles north of Takushan, on the same bank of the river, our scouts were subjected to firing front the right bank. "On the same day they ,net on the main road from F engwengcheng, four and a half utiles from Salitzai- pudza, on the Tal i ho River, and twenty-one miles north of Takushan, the extreme outposts of enemy's scouts, who hid in the mountains. "On the following day Japanese ,scouts appeared at Haudajou, six six miles south of Salitzaispudza, and in the valley of the Sedsoke River, near the mouth of Sedsek- hoghto. "According to Chinetti infortnation Japanese detachments numbering three infantry regiments in all, are in the mountains fifteen or twenty miles frorn ])oyanche." Jnps In Three Divisions. London, May 1.1. -The Shanghai correspondent of The Morning Post, under date of May 10, says that the Japanese army is advancing in three divisions -the first from Fengwang- chcng, and the third from Sulien- cheng to occupy J.i