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/ # ] LANCASTER ENTERPRISE. Vol. XIII. LANCASTER, S.C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1904 No 48 JAPAN SINKS TEN RUSSIAN WARSHIPS. Six Transports and Whalers Cap tured?All This Hone In Twenty-four Hours London. Feb. 10. ? A dispatch from Tokio, under date of February 10, says: "Ou Monday a Japanese squadrou escorting transport met*on the way to Chemulpo. Corea, the ' Russian gunboat Korietz, as the latter was coming out of port The Korietz took up an offensive attitude towards the Japanese "vessels and fired on the Japanese torpedo boats. The latter dis charged two torpedoes ineffectively and then the Korietz went back to her anchorage inside the port. "Early in the morning of Tiles day Admiral Urik commanding the Japanese squadron formally called on the Russian warships to lo;iT7t> llhomnlno -- ? J W V/UVUI uipw uriui O IJ UU I The admiral added that if his demand was not complied with he would be compelled to attack them in the harbor. The two Russian warships left the port at about 11 30 a. m., and a battle ensued outside the Polynesian island. After about an hour's engagementthe Russian warships sought refuge among the islands Towards the evening the Russian Cruiser Variag sank and about 4 a. in. today, Feb. 10, the Korietz was reported to have also sunk. having been blown up. There 9 were no casualties on the ,Japa nese side." A summary of the "losses su? tainod by Russia in the first 24 ^ h<uirs of the war with Japan show that ten Russian warships were placed out of action in one way or another and that the .Japanese did not lose a ship. A special dispatch from Tokio brvs the Japanese have captured three Russian transports having on hoard about 2,000 troops. A dispatch from Port Arthur says the Japanese fleet returned there Tuesday afternoon and again bombarded the Russian fleet and forts, but that it soon withdrew. The losses to the Rus sians were small. During the firing a Japanese cruiser was grounded. Tokio, Feb. 10.?Japan seized Masampfco Sunday and dispatch ed a heavy force there. Japan will fortify the port and e>tab iin h iiHViii aixl military I asr thorn. Miisamphn is an exceed inglv important point aa it controlc the Oorean channel and i? an excellent hnso for operations in the flit lire. St Petersburg, Feb. 10?T! e intone indignation wit11 which the news ot "the stab in the back" inlllcted by Japan was re chived here seems to be general throughout Russia. The whole emoire is tired by the war fevpr. * There was a great scene at the P naval academy today when the czar personally advanced the senior class to the rank of otli cers. The czar who wore an adnqirapR uniform, in addressing ?l... .....1 ~ ? :J . nic raum? MM Ml . "You are aware,gentlemen,that two Maya ago war waa declared upon us. The insolent foe came by night and attacked our strong hold and fleet. Russia now needs her navy as well as her army. 1 have come today to promote you to the rank of midshipmen. I am confident that like your revered predecessors you will work for the welfare and glory of our beloved fatherland and devote - all your energies to the fleet over * which flies the flag of St. Andrew." According to the Ohee Foo correspondent of the Daily Mail the lack of preparation on the 4* part of the Russians at Port Arthur waa due to the fact that all (lie naval and military officers were attending a circus peiformance at Port Arthur, which did not terminate until early Tuesday morning;. According to the correspondent of the Paris edition of the New York Herald at Chee Foo t he Japanese torpedo boats succeeded in entering the outer har bor by a ruse ; they used the Russian flashlight signals. This correspondent adds that three Japanese torpedo boats were, sunk with great loss of life. The correspondent of the Standard at Tokio sends in this morning an entirely new account c4 the Port Artlinr encounter lie says Admiral Togo's tleet ar rived on Monday night and found the Russian squadron drawn up in battle formation outside the harbor and under the shadow of the torts, the destroyers being ???????????? i before purchasing, by our Mr. the entire lot to be just what wi fast, so como alon<? now if you \ load. Wo also have some splem combination animals. Oall ant whether y<j^i want to buy or not Heath Banking 55 ? B < :(j i *? ?i | As My Tin Q In Lai I And I have a few ; N have got to go rega | Nov/ is Yc & to get goods at b.... . , y I here is no use t J\ prices, for when ;|^ see for yourself tha Q Selling at> an X Thanking yon, o jS favors, I remain, ; V Yours, I r. m i&S5^SNS//?i t spread out in front over a dis-j [lance of five miles. Admiral' Togo^decided on a right attack land opened tire at 11 o'clock. While the cannonade was hottest a number of Japanese torpedo boats crept alongside close in shore at the loot of the cliff and succeeded in the darkness in getting between the Kussian ships and the land. Hero they lay unnoticed until the Russians began to give way before the Japanese ?? i ?-* - mo itim miumii, 10 re-enter the harbor. The Japanese torpedo boats then opened lire at com paratively close range and sank two battle ships and one cruiser close to the entrance of the har bor. The effect of this coup was the retreat of the remainder ot the squadron into the harbor. Legal Blanks at this office. TULES! Mules! 1 ________ We have just received another carload of the finest i Mules ever brought to this market. Every animal was carefully selected in person, J. O. Elliott, ami wo guarantor* n say they are. They are going vant to ho suited out of this carlid horses?saddlers, drivers and 1 let us show you what we have, & Mercantile Co r"" 5 S 1 s ie is Short 1 goods left, and they irdless of prices, and ^ -i y\ir Chance your own prices. Lv fci or me to give you you come you will (jj V t I am d Below Cost ^ ne and all, for past \\ i & s ILES f J:. A Max fit i M There is a qi Baking Powcf the food mort wholesome. H of Royal has physicians, ar ingly endors< mend it. ROYAL BAKING PC if,485,53 7 It.U.KS. I liat is tIn* Si/i* of (ho i'rnp us Shown by limner's l{?pnrt. Washinir''??n, F? h 12.? Tlio i i><>i t issued hv I li?' (?imis118 lOin-m I'uesday ??i In* <i ii .iif if \ ol cui1 ginned from I ho growth ol 1901] up lo and including .1 muarx Id. 1004, shows fliit '{0.171 ginnor h-s wore np'T'ilcd and I hat lh?->?? tinned 9.850.277 commercial hailos. Counting round I>m'o< o 1 all" hailes 'lie nnmhor is 9.485. 537, which com|iaro<< with 8.904, 503 and 10,588 250 hales I?> 1).oumlxii' 1 > I Hll>) .... I M I ? * ail <sv ft 1?J, i "" .J , >t 111 & It# it 14. 1003, respectively. Soul l> Carolina lias 3,108 uin neries; 788 707 square Oales.9 Oil Sea Island crop hales and 708,7 H commercial bales were handled One Dose Convinces. Mozley's Lemon Elixir act* gentlv on the bowels withotn any unpleasant effect. It is ? perfect liquid laxative. 50 ceno per bott)3 at all drugstores. The supply hill passed by tin house last week provides foi taxes for Lancaster county as follows : For ordinary county purposes IA mills; for interest on railroad bonds issued in aid ol (lb em w an I (Mm?a.>r I* I 'i mills. Total, 15A mills. Km the pavmout of interest on town ship bonds 1 ssm?41 in aid of tin Charleston, Cincinnati and Chi cago Railroad tiio following special t.axes are hereby imposed: In Pleasant Hill township, mills ; in (Jills Creek township, 5 mills; and in Cane ('reek township, -1V mills. The total tax in (Jills Creek township will be 21^ mills, in eluding the 4-mill graded school tax. State ok Ohio. City or Toledo, j Lucas County. j-ss. KUANK J. CHENEY mattes oiitli that he 1) senior partner of the tlrm of F J. CHENEY A Co , dolnp business In the Cttv Of Toledo County arid Stale aforesaid, and that said llrn will pay t he sum of ONE HUNDRED DO I. f.AKS for each and every case of CATARRH that cannot bo cured by the use of HALL'S CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before mo and subscrtb'd in mt presence this 5ib day of December, A D 1886 I???I A. W, OLEASON. < Ska i. > 'Notary Public. Hall's Catarah Cure Is take Internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surface* of the system. 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