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JAPANESE VICTORIOUS IN FIVE DAYS BATTLE OH] HEN CHENG, KEY OF TIE TAIL' POSITION, CAPTURED BY JAPANESE AFTER 1AM FOWIT BATTLE—CZAR’S TROOPS IN RETREAT—BUT KNHEI HEIR LOSS IN KILLED AND WOUNDED.

Tokio. (By Cable).—Alter five daps’ of fighting, largely with artillery, th* firat Japanese army, under Geflcfal Kuroki. has forced a crossing of the Yalu River, and with a gallant infantry charge, covering a frontage of four miles, it drove the Russians from Ckiutiencheng and the height* on the right bank of the Iho or Aida River, which enter* the Yalu from the north, almost opposite Wiju. The Japanese tnrnrd the left -flank of the Russian position, and in the battle they swept away the new front interposed bjr the Russians to check their onward movement. - The Russians* were also.forced to abandon Among They burned thk town* and retreated to Feng H

cling.

Japanese. 700 killed and wounded. - Russians, boo. „ _ Tne Japanese captured 28 quickfiriflg guns, 20 officers and many men. The Russians made two stands. The Russians say their forces engaged numbered less than S- 000 * n d that the’ Japanese ? greatly outnum-

bered them.

General Kuroki began the movement on Tuesday by ordering a detachment of the Imperial Guards Division to seile the Islind of Kurito. which is in the Yalu above Wiju «jnd a detachment of the Second Division, to seize the Island of Kinteito which is situated below Wiju. The detachment of ‘ the imperial guards met w;ith some resistance, bm it succeeded in clearing the enemy tjuf and occupied Kurito Island. The Russians abandoned the island of Kinteito when attacked,by the detachment of the second division. The actual losses sustained by the detachment of the imperial guards is not.known. as there is an error in that part of the message received here referring to the number killed, but 9 of the detachments were severely and tfl slightly -grounded The detachment of the second division which took the Island of Kinteito sustained no losses. During these movements on the islands the Russian* opened fire on the Japanese with eight 9VS centimeter guns from a hill behind Chiu Tfcn Cheng and two Hotchkiss guns, which were mounted on the bank of the river at Kosan. where the Russians seemed to have establislicd their headquarters. * One battery of Japanese artillery which had taken a position on a hill . to the east of Wiju, tired three volleys at Fosan, and at noon of Tuesday the Russian batteries behind Chiu Tien Cheng shelled Wiju. wounding one Japanese soldier with shrapnel. On Wednesday the Russians resumed the bombardment of Wiju. firing at intervals throughout the day. The Japanese artillery did not respond to this fire. General Kuroki has received reports to the effect that the Russians are fortifying the heights on the right bank of the Iho River. These new defenses are declared to extend from Chiu Tien Cheng through the village of Mokao to Koshoki. a distance of. three and a quarter miles. The reports of this fighting which have been received here do not indi-.

cate whether the Russians retired down the river or in the direction of Feng Haun Cheng, on the road to Li‘Th e 'Japanese captured Chiu Tien Cheng, 10 miles north of Antung, which is regarded as the key to the Russiaii position on the right bank of the Yalu River. It is reported that the Rusaians will retreat t6 Feng Huan Cheng, which is on the road l.iaoyang, Manchuria.

Died With the Ha*.

St. Petersburg (By Cable).—The operations of the Vladivostok squadron have revived the spirits of the people of St. Petersburg, who have been downcast since the destruction of the Pctrripavlovsk and the consequent confinement of the remnant of the Port Arthur fleet to the harbor. The fact that the navy is doing something pi an offensive character appeals to the popular mind, which has been unable to appreciate the reason for the inactivity of the fine ships of the

Vladivostok squadron.

The official report of Rear Admiral Yeszen to the Emperpr is as follows ‘‘During the night of April a6 twe Russian torpedo boats met at sea r......... v;..

lapauese military transport KinshiuMaru, of 4.000 tons, laden with rice and other military stores and about 1,500 tons of coal. The tramport was armed with four Hotchkiss guns of forty-seven millimeters. The Russians captured Cm board seventeen officers, twenty soldiers, eighty-five military carriers, or coolies, and sixty-five of the crew, who sqrrendered. The remainder of the men. who were to form a landing party, and who were left without officers, obstinately rfused to surrender or so on board Russian cruiser. Furthermore, they offered armed resistance to the Russians. In'the end they were sent to the bottom with the transport." He adds that there were aoo men

aboard the transport.

Admiral Yeszen also reports that besides <he sinking of the Japanese steamer ©byo-Maru at Wpn-San (Gen San) April 35 the Russians sank at sea the tame evening the Japanese steamer Nakamura-Maru, of aao tons,

whose crew was saved.

It is generally recognized that Rear Admiral Yeszen cannot do more than frighten the Japanese and compel them to exercise greater care in their military movements, aaVthe sinking of a few transports or even cruisers can have no permanent effect on the resuh of the war. Moreover, he is bound by his instructions not to risk his ships unduly, the intention being to keep them safe for an attack with the Baltic fleet when it arrives in the

Pacific.

■The possibility of a - Japanese attempt to mine the eptnances to Vladivostok, as was done at Port Arthur, is considered, but the conditions arc different, and besides. Rear Admiral Yeszen, with the lesson of the Petro-pavlov-sk disaster fresh in Ins mind, will observe the utmost caution. St. Petersburg is loaded wttL . _ mors regarding the sinking of Uie Japanese military transport" the Kin-shiu-Maru. One report has it thft 5.600 men were aboard the transport when she went down, but the *dtn.ratty insists that there were only

EIGHT KILLED IN WRECK f•rtf’s Fair Special Wreded m In* Houtaii Road. HAW MDEiS MISUNDERSTOOD. f/ntk Occam* Wkile the Trari Was (Mat at a High Rat* •( Spec*, aa* Oac a( the Can Was Thrawa a Haa*rt* Feet Fraw the Track.—Three of Dca* UaMcatUic* Passca-

Kimswick, Mo., (Special).—A misunderstanding of orders by the engineer of train No. t8 on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad running as a World's Fair special, resulted in a serious wreck at Wickes Siding, about a mile and a half north of here, in which 8 were killed and ty injured. The wreck occurred while the train, was going at an excessive rate of speed. There was trouble with a freight car on one ©f the fast trains, and it was necessary to abandon it on

Said** of WMsaalrr. Chicago, (Special).—George McKay, a wealthy real estate owner of New York city, shot and killed himself at the Auditorium Hotel. Death was •elf-inflected, as when found he sitting upright in a chair and a revolver was lying on the bed beside him. Relative* of the dead man are unable to astign a reason for the suicide. McKay, who made his home in New York, came to Chicago last Monday to attend to some business connected with his real estate. His boldines. which are said to he worth tolly $1,000*00, were all located is Chicago

to Port Arthur —« mm —mi arrived in Chicago Th* party is andcr the leadership of the Conn-

I years in Russia. Copatasa laA. c ns::

the main line near Wickc* Sitfirig. Order* were issued for all north!>ound and southbound trains io the switch at that point instead of the main line. Five trains passed the siding during the interval between the breakdown of the freight car and the arrival of No. 18. It i* stated by Conductor Austin that he read the order to the enginrifr and handed a copy to him. The officals of the road cannot account for the fact that* the train approached the siding at the high rate of speed it must have done to cause the damage it did. The engine turned completely t pinioning Engineer Bailey beneath tons of steel. Master Mechanic Taber who was riding in the engine, was also instantly killed. The baggage car was thrown nearly too feet from the wreck, and is entirely demolished. The two coaches directly in the rear of the baggage cat were also overturned and ‘badly wrecked. The sleeping car in the rear of the coaches was thrown on its side and damaged.

Canton, O, (Special).—Miners of the Tuscarawas district, about 3*00 number, quit work until an agreement is reached on the scale. The trouble is over the machine rate, which days’ conference in Canton early in the month failed to.pcUlc. That con. fcrence referred the whole question to a committee of five operator* and five miners, but so far the committee has failed to agree on a time and place of meeting. They will probably get together this week. There are about thirty-five mine* in lift district, located m Eastern Stark, Carroll asd Tus-

srawas counties. Sotaas FM at Fwl lea*.

Fort Scott, Kam, * (Special).—Fort Scott is cxpericfxetug th* tmom flood in Us history Man—to and Mill Crack, which runs mto the

NEWS IN SMORT ORDER. Tbs Latest Happiatafs Csa«raat* In Rapt*

Counsel for the Michigan Central Railroad Company filed a bill to prevent the ticket-brokers in Chicago from continuing their business, charging that they nave conspired to defraud railroad companies. Governor. Odell signed three portant hills affecting the business of corporations whose titles are misleading owing to the presence therein of such words as "trust," guarantee,” etc. A sweeping injunction was granted by Judge B. S. Banker, of the United States District Court in Alquerque, N. M., against the striking machinists and boilermakers of the Santa Fi Railroad. Tom Searcy, a negro, ao years of age, was lynched in a remote part of Helwood county, Tenn. Searcy attempted an assault on a nine-year-old girl. Capt. A. E. McDonald and his

Charles Rocker was found guilty of murder in Rock Rapids, la. He had killed August Schroeder, a farmer, and married the widow. The will of Jane H. Reamer, making many bequesta for religious and charitable institutions, was filed for probate in Pittsburg. A deputy sheriff took possession of the offices of Wooden & Co., members of the Consolidated Stock Exchange of NeW York. William Broderick, a well-known opera singer, dropped dead at the Burnett House, in Cincinnati, from heart disease. The United States Steel Corporation has bought the Clairton steel properties from the Crucible Steel Company. The subject of municipal accounting was discussed af'lhe fiaafsession of the Municipal League in Chicago. Harry Hart, a youth of 18, shot himself in the presence of his sweetheart in Mount Holly, N. J. H. E. Osgood, of Hiram, killed his wife and himself while on a train en route for home. The Standard Oil Company made cut of three cents in all grades of oi Four lives were lost by the burning of the Bryant House, in Lansing, Mich. Judge Atchison, of the United States Court in Pittsburg, dismisssed the habeas corpus writs secured for Lieutenant Drury and Private Dowd, U. S. A., held by the civil authentic, shooting William Ciowley. Albert Gallerton Shepard, 74 years old, of Wilkesbarre, ,Pa., died on hoard the Clyde Line steamer Comanche, which arrived at New York from Jacksonville and Charleston. The committee of arrangement for the Democratic National Convent met in St. Louis. The number tickets to be issued for the convention will not exceed 9,500. Thomas W. Lawson, the Boston millionaire, retired from hip stock exchange firm so that he may be. unhampered in his fight against “certain interests.” Edward Rogers an<P Thomas Tate

larceny of a pocketboox,. the pro-

a deal for two horses. At Athens, N. Y_, Andrew Jackson Duncan, Jr., of New York, nephi ' the late President McKinley, was ried to Miss Jessie Rand Van Deutcn. A misunderstanding of signals cause a railroad wreck at Charitiers Crossing, McKees Rocks, Pa., in which five persons were injured, one fatally. Clement Goyette was hanged - L’Original, Ont, for the murder of Daniel Colligan, a farmer, and his son, Thomas, on January 34 last. An ariempt was made at Jeffersonville, Ind.. to assassinate D. M. Rob-

.... of the families of Eskimos living in the Mackenzie Basin have been wiped out by the measles. Frederick Graber, made melancholy by the death of his wife, committed suicide in Camden, N. J. Major General Peter Joseph O haus arrived in New Yorlc aftei absence of 36 years in Germany, where he resides. He commanded one of the divisions of the Union ^.rtny the Civil War. Mrs. Lizzie Travers, on trial in Chicago with her husband for shoplifting, advanced through counsel the plea that under biblical laws she was compelled to obey her husband. In New York Gustave Fingbpsh, a German sailor, shot and wounded Adeline Buttner and then shot self, perhaps fatally.

Farriga.

The review of the French and Italian squadrons by "King Victor Emmanuel and President Loubet in the

Gulf of Naples was a brilliant event The United States battleship Kentucky, flying the flag of Rear Admiral

Evans, assisted Xing Edward and Queen Alexandra attended the Leopardstown racA, the smartest day’of the Dublin race week. Richard Croker saw his horse, American Boy, win the. April Plate. Nine-tenths of Femie, B. C, a town of ifioo. the largest settlement in Crow's Nest Pass district.' was de*troytd by fire. Estimated loi

$5<xy»a

Pan! Kruger, former president of the Transvaal, is reported to be afflicted with cerebral trouble and he »

>w extremely weak.

It is reported «t , sources that the Russian government ‘—‘ moderate the anfi-Jrwish

WORLD’S FAIR OPEN Tk Cercaoaies tf St Louis ar< taslngtM. ENORMOUS CROVDSATTIE OFENWf. Presides! RmsttcII I* Taath th* Dattss at th* WMU Haas*—Prstraa at th* Waft far th* Ex*rds*s

St. Louis, (Special).—At noon President Roosevelt pressed an electric button in the Green Room of the While House at Washington, which started the mz'thincry x>l the Wprld’s Fair at St. Louis, nearly a thousand miles away. The program for the opening ceremonies at St. Louis began at 9 A. Mwhen the officers of the Exposition, the national commission and the board of lady managers assembled in the Administration Building to march to the Plaza of St. Louis, where they took their places upon the platform erected at the base of the Louisiana Purchase Monument. A detachment of the Jefferson Guards, with a band and an officer of the United States Army, escorted the party. Representatives of foreign governments assembled in the Hal! of Congress at 9.15 A. M- and walked with a similar escort to the plaza. The state and territorial commissioners, with the governors of several states were in the United States Government Building and proceeded, to the plaza under escort of Jefferson Guards snd a military officer. The exercises were held in the open air, the audience occupying the broad Plaza of St. Louis facing the monument. President David R. Francis, of the Exposition called the assemblage to order at 10 o'riock, and after an invocation by Rev. Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus. of Chicago, concluding with the Lord's Prayer, tn which the audience joined, President Francis then delivered his address. From this point forward the program proceeded as follows: March—“Louisiana,” Van der Stucken. Transfer of the Exhibit Palaces—By the President to the director of exhibits, Mr. Frederick J. V. Skiff, with presentation _ of official com(hission and insignia of office. Address — The director of exhibits, Mr. Frederick I. V. Skiff, will present to the chiefs pf his division their official commissions and insignias of

- office.

Chorus—“Hymn of the West." words by Edmund Clarence Steadman;

music byjohn Knowles Paine.

Address—The mayor of the Cit^ of

St. Louis. Hon. Rolla Wells.

Address—The president -wL the Na- " on *l Commission, Hon. Tjiomas 1 nex , fiscal year have reached the start-

E. Carter. -• ‘

Addresses—By a United States sena-

LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS, Apyrspristteas Aaslyic*. Washington, D. C. (Special).—Representative Hemenwsy, of Indiana, and Representative Livington, of Georgia, respectively chairman and ranking minority members of the House committee on appropriations, according to established custom, made public statements dealing .with the appropriations provided at this session of Congress. Although the gentlemen agree as to figures, their deductions vary, for Mr. Hemenway’s statement appears under the caption "Good Government Housekeeping,” while Mr. Livingston heads his “A Congress That Has Done Nothing But Spend Money." According to the tables presented, the grand total of appropriations for the year 1904-190$ is $781.574.6.29. against $753/158,506 for the preceding

year.

After reviewing the expenditures •for the next fiscal year, Mr. Hemenway concludes: ■'The expenditures of our government in their aggregate, as exhibited by the appropriations of Congress, are large, and by unthinking persons are denounced, and yet according to the very best authority our national government is the most economically administered of any-in the civilized

world.”

A table to substantiate this state-

THE CANAL TRANSFERIED. Onat ScppUiiwB k Fauai leal Cauamua I; Da; aal IiskH FOtn MILLION DOLLjUS ADVANCES Dc«Af *1 th* Property. Archives IS*

los| l* th* latte* Stsus Vmitr ths Trsaslcr, tlsvc A Ires; Bees Tars** Over U th* KeprtscsaLves at Oar Oavcracat.

Washington, D. C. (Special).—Th* attorney general has received cablegrams from Messrs. Day and Russell, who went to Paris at Ijis representative to conduct the closing negotiations for the Panama canal property, to the effect th4^%he deeds of the property, archives and all other paper* and documents which will belong to the United States under the transfer have already been turned over _to them and that the purchase price ol $40,000,000 has been advanced to the canal company by a Pans syndicate of bankers. This syndicate, it 1* understood. offer* to pay over the money ; with a view to expediting the coiv summation of the sale on the assur-

ment i. ii.c .howin, ih« per cpiu 1 ““ ,h '

expenditures of the leading nation*, i draft of the syndicate on he Inite* The highest given is New Zealand, i States for the $40,000,000 would b* where the per capita expense is $30.38: honored on presentation at the treas-

the lowest ts the United State*, with 1 a per capita ihowing of 5? 97. , »r, ai Wa.ha,.™.

Of this total sum $26,801,843 was to I At the time the money was paid pay deficiences for prior fiscal years and ^yer to the canal company in Pans $56,500,000 is set aside for application i Maj. Mark Brooke, of the cncineei to the sinking fund- This leaves the : corps of the army, now in Colon. ^ total appropriation for the expenses was authorized to formally receive of the government fot the year 1905 the property on the isthmus in the $696,272,786. The total estimated rev- 1 name of the United States. \\ hethes enues for this period are $704-472/160. this transfer has actually been made or an excess over appropriations or by the Republic of Panama the de- • authorized expenditure* of $6,199^74^ Peripient of justice has not yet been Continuing. Mr. Hemenway says: ; advised, but it is assumed it will be “Experience has demonstrated that made within a day or two. Messrs one year whh another the actual ex- Day and Russell are expected to rependitures of the government are turn to Washington withing the nexB about 5 per cent, less than the appro- ten days and will bring with them the, priations made by Congress, and, an- ! title deeds of the canal property, •——tting that the coming fiscal year ! ^ Thouph^ sympathizing with the ^ef-

forts of the European holders of Co-

wilf**not prove 1 ~ ,

practically well established rule, it lombian bonds to induce the new si— is safe to assume that the apparent of Panama to assume some surplus of revenues over expenditures the foreign indebtedness oi Colomwilf be augmented by not less than bia, the state department has made $35,000,000. thus affording a safe mar- no move in that matter since the regin of at least $40,000.000" 1 tirement from Washington of M. Mr. Livingston, in his statement, Bunau-Varilla, the Panaman minister, compares the expenditures of demo- Before the minister left Washingcrmtic congresses with republican con- ton, Secretary Hay took occasion ur gresses. and adds: “The appropria- impress upon him the fact that contions for each of the fiscal years 1895 siderations of equity should moveand i8q6, as made by a democratic Panama to an assumption of someCongress, do not materially vary, as part of the national debt, but tljc will be seen, one from the other, ana minister was not particularly imaverage only $494,617,602 for each»pressed and no effort was made to year. , bring pressure to bear on the new “The table also shows that appro- government. The attempt to delay priations for federal expenditures the payment of the $10,000,009 to made under a republicao alministra- Panama by the presentation of the tion by a republican Congress for the old Colon fire claims probably will next fiscal year have reached the start- not receive the indorsement of the

ling sum of $781,574^29 or an increase department.

of $386,955/127 over the average of the Paris, (By Cable).—The case of last two years under democratic con- Colombia against the Panama Canal trol and arithin a period of less than Company, involving the former's right ten years. to bold 50.000 shares of stock, was “I do not question the honesty of again postponed for another fortnight,

these vast appropriations either in

COLOR PUT INTO MIS EYE.

tor and Representative James A. Tsskney on behalf ot the committee

of the United States Congress.

Address for the Exhibitors—Mr. Edward H. Harimsn. president New

York State Commission.

Musk—“The Star-Spangled Banner," 1 t4 j U; but f challenge the » Francis Scott Key. , , . I t h ' policy of the dominant , , Addresses—The representatives of the ; has made these enormous expendi-

President of the United States, the . turcj neC essary through the increase a /Urwirh Secretary of War, Hon. William H. 1 0 f th e military and naval establish- Philadelphia.(Special). A dispatch Taft. ments, the maintenance of which is «° ‘he Public Ledger from Boston

At the conclusion of the address by „ t h e expense of needed internal im- says:

ihfSecretaryofWar the President provement soch ms river and harbor “An operation which took place 4t of the United States, in the White WO rks and pnblic buildings. Dnnng c , r . .

ia ih, praanca oi mamD-r. of, th , ^aaioc^ch i. ja.i .boat .5 ,h ' E >'

the Diplomatic» Corps, chief jnstice c i ose tbe representatives of the pco- city seems to mdicate that the color ot and associate justices of the Supreme ; pi e have been denied consideration of the human eye can be changed by - Court, members of the Cabinet, the ■ t h e demands of their constituents all t h e use of needles, president of the Senate, the Speaker j along this line, and yet the appropria- nr Hrnrv H of the House of Representative* and ! tio „? f OT the ’.rmy ri.ow inTncrease u ^ Hen 7 other persons distinguished tn official j over what it costs in 1896 of $54^000,- Haskell and Dr. Heffertnan and the life, pressed the butfon connected by [ 000, and the navy the still greater in- patient was a young man who has wire with the Exposition grounds and ■ crease of $60000,000 u . been suffering for some time with an started the machinery, the same act “Whatever may have been the sins ■ . - . , unfurling flags on all the bnildings | c f commission of this Congress, they , ct o ,*' h c h partially distrojed the , and setting the great cascades in mo- i t r e as nothing compared to its sins of 'olor of his eye, but only in the

lightest degree affected its sight. ’The iris contained a white streak , ■ almost its entire width. Two drops _ of a a per cent, solution of cocaine . were put under the eyelid in prepata- -J ■ the operation. The instrit-; jj

and setting the great cascades in mo-| a re at nothing compared to its sins of c olor of his eye, but only in the ■ ‘‘on. I omission, denying consideration to all * " ‘ ‘ ’

The singing of “America in grand 1 legislation »o the welfare of great

chorns concluded the exercises. The parade of the Pike concessionaries, a gorgeous affair in which thousands of men, and women and animals took part, followed the open-

ing ceremonies.

masses of people.”

lions of the Sherman anti-trust act. The attorney general explained to them the disdneton between! what coaid and what could not be accomplished under the Sherman act, and particularly the distinction the courts have drawn between combination affecting production and com-

Minneapolis, Minn^( Special).— Miss Mabel Lane was bitten by a large black scorpion at her home, near Minnetonka Lake. Despite the pain of the' sting. Miss Lane seized a pair of hair curlers, wrenched the scorpion from her finger and placed in alcohoL Then she telephoned for a physician. Dr. Miles, of Excelsior, arrived at the Lane - residence and prescribed opiates to relieve the pain. He permitted the wound to bleed freely and Miss Lane is recover-

ing. Miss Lane, who had been in — — — ; .- --- -.-—-— Cuba for three months, returned home that a combination existed in the on Sunday morning. She unpacked *— : *

her trunk on Monday and removed a number of articles, including a pair of house slippers. It was in one of these that the scorpion had been

ought over.

E. * O. L»c—ttir Ex»m«i. Pittsburg, Pa., (Special).—Engine No. 3330, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, east-bound, exploded while passing Tenth _ street. Brad dock.

After Paper Trust

Conde Hamlin, of the Si Jlull JUI 4MC Pioneer P re **- Don C Seitz, of, the , | nenu consisted of five ordinary L New Y «Jt World, and John Norm, ci>mbric n « dle .. Thc , e w?rc . ,p p ijg| 2 of the Philadelphia Ledger and the lo ^ corne ^ m^ng , Urge number, New York Timet, representing the i ^ ho , w o{ (fie tiniest size. Minnte . American Newspaper Pnblsbers As-: titicl o{ Indi , ^ previously sociat.on, called on the attorney gen- 1 shaded to %be iri , u ne>r , y ■' » era) today and laid before him a com-! were rubbed into the plaint against, the so-caUed paper !^ it h the finger, and in this . manufacturers, trust, alleging noU- worked i nto each of the holes made

worked into e

hy the needle points.

“The physicians say the operation ' ■

was completely successful." TORNADO LEAVES DEATH AND RUN.

Nearly a Sow* *t Lives Last k la*bn

ichres the terrilory of its consumption, the attorney general

stated that he would have lade, and if it wet

lure of the charges could be sustained he would institute appropriate * i —— **

Pryor Creek, I. T., (Special).—Six' persons were killed by a tornado which swept through the country ■ about four miles south of here. : • V ■' Report* have been received that n number of others were injured, hot names of only two are known. J ‘~‘ The storm started near Chowtcai •be Missouri, Kansas and Texas B eight miles from here, and 1 to the northeast, catting a pal