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' The News and Herald. WINNSBORO, a. C. Wednesday, March 16, 1904. AN OHIO MOB Shot a Negro to Death, Then Hanged Him and Shot Again. NEGRO KIU.D A POLICEMAN. The Jail Was Stormed by the Mob, Who Took Their Victim Out and Shot Him to Death. Richard Dixon, a negro, was shot to death at Springfield Ohio, Monday night by a mob, for the killing of Policeman Charles Collis, who. died Monday from wounds received at the hands of Dixon on Sunday. Collis had gone to Dixon's room on e negro's request. Dixon said his istress had his clothes in her passes 'sion. Cillis accompanied Dixon to the room and in a short time the man and woman engaged in a quarrel which resulted in Dixion shooting the wo man, who is variously known as Anna or Mamie Corbin,.in the left breast, just over the heart. She fell uncon scious at the first shot and Collis jumped towards the negrn to prevent his escape from the' room. Dixon then fired four bills into Collis, the last of which penetrated his abdo .men. Dixon went immediately to po lice headquarters and gave himself up. He was taken to jail. -As soon as Collis' death became known talk of lynching the negro was heard and Monday night a crowd be gan to gather about the jail. THE NEGRO SHOT TO DEATH. At 11 o'clock the negro was taken from the jail and shot to death in the jail yard and the body was taken from there to the corner of Main street and Fountain avenue and hung to a tele graph pole where the mob spent the next half hour riddling the body with bullets from several hundred revol vers. The mob forced an entrance to .the jail by butting in the east doors 'ith a railroad iron. At 10.30 o'clock e mob melted rapidly and it was e general opinion that no more at empts would be made to force an en trance. Small groups of men, how ever, could be seen in the shadows of the court house. two adjacent livery stables and several dwelling houses. At 10.45 o'clock the police were sat isfied, that there was nothing more to fear and they, with othe'r otilcials and newspaper 'men, passed freely in and gut of.the jail. .Shortly before 11 -o'clock a diverson was mde fiby a small crowd moving from the east doors around to the south entrance. * The police followed and a bluff was made at jostling them off the steps leading up to the sonth entrence. The crowd at this point kept growing, -while yells of "hold the police," "8mash the doors," 'lynch the nig ger" were made, interspersed wibh re volver shots. AUl this time the party with the heavy railroad iron was beating at the east door which soon yeilded t,. the battering ram as did the inner lattice iron east door, and overpowered the sheriff ,turnkey and handful of deputies and began tbe assault on the iron turnstile leading to the cells. The olice from the south door wire called inside to keep the mob from the cells and in five minutes the south door had shared the fate of the east one. MOB OF TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED. In an incredible short time the jail was filled with a mob of 250 men with all the entrances and yard gates blocked by fully 2,500 men, thus mak ing It impossible for the militia to have prevented access to the negro, had it been on the scene. The heavy iron partition leading to the cells re sisted the mob effectually until cold chisels and sledge hammers arrived, which were only two or three minutes later In arriving. The padlock to the turnstile was broken and the mob soon -filled the corridors leading to-the cells. Seeing that further resistance was use -less and to avoid the killing of inno cent prisoners the authorities consent ed to the demand of the'mob for the right man. He was dragged from his -cell to the jail door and thence down the stone steps to a court in the jail yard. Fearing an attempt on part of the police to rescue him the leaders formed a hollow square. NIXE sHOTs IN HIs BODY. Some one knocked the negro to the ground and those near to him fell back four of five feet. Nmne shots were fir ed into his postrate body. and satisfi ed that he was dead, a dozen men grabbed the lifeless body and with a triumphant cheer the mob surged mnto Columbia street and marched to Fountain avenue one of the principle streets of the town. From here they marched south to the intersection of Main street, and a 'rope was tied around Dixon's neck. T wo men climbed the pole and threw the rope over the topmost cross-arm -and drew the body about :S feet above the street. They then descended and their work was greeted with a cheer. The fusjiad~e then begun and for :30 minutes the body was kept swaying back and forth from the force of the rain of bullets which has poured in on it. Frequently the arms would fly up convulsively when a muscle was struck, and the mob went fairly wild with delight. Throughout it all perfect order was maintained and every one seemed in thte best of humor, joking with his mnsit neigabbr wrhIle reloading hia AN T17INDENT ACT In Reference to the Purchase of Com mercial Fertilizers. To remind purchasers of commer cial fertilizer of their privileges under the law we reproduce an act of the , Legislature, approved February 19, 1900. If there has been any acts, amending or abrogating these statutes we have failed to see them. An Act, To Provide a means whereby any purchaser, in This State, of any commercial fertilizers or Ma nures, may have the same analyz ed by Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical College, free of costs, and to provide a penalty for deliv- a ering fertilizers or manures short in -A ingredients appearing on sack or vessel holding same. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of b South Carolina: That from and after t the passage of this Act, any citizen of v this State who shall purchase any t] commercial fertilizers or manures, ti shall have the same analyzed by Clem- 11 son Agricultural and Mechanical Col- n lege by taking a sample of same with- t) in ten days of receipt thereof from at j least ten per cent. of such fertilizers z, in the presence of at least two disin- d terested witnesses. One to- be chos rn 1y by the purchaser and one by the seller b who shall certify that such sample ti was taken from such fertilizers or ma- u nures, which certificate, with the a sample, shall be sealed by a third dis- h interested party in the presence of p said witnesses; and directed to Clem- t1 son Agricultural and Mechanical Col- n lege. - Section 2. The said college shall V have the said sample a~alyzed free of o cost, and within three months after a receiving the sample, supply the pur- o chasers of such fertilizers or manures li with a certificate giving the per cent. n of the different fertilizing ingredients s] of same, signed by the Chemist of h Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical a College, which certificates shall be ad- si missable as eiidence in all suits rela- t tive to such fertilizers or manures whether the same be instituted by (I vendor or purchaser of same. e Section 3. That any vendor of com- ti mercial fertilizers or manures whose C goods or wares fall short to the ex- h tent of ten per cent. in any fertilizing o) ingredient guaranteed by the analysis d, appearing on the sack or vessel hold- si ing same. when delivered to the pur- C chaser, shall forfeit one-half the sale o price thereof, to be recovered by suit h or set up as a counter-claim to an ac- g tion for the purchase price of such d fertilizers or manures. - Section 4. Be it further enacted: That if any seller or vendor of' ferti lizers or commercial manures shall re fuse, decline or neglect to chose a writ- t ness, as provided in SectIon 1, after a having been notified or requested by the piircii;&,J to do,.then hf r . they shall have forfeited their ,rights ' so to do, and the purchaser shall select 11 two witnesses, who shall select the b third witness, who shall proceed to b take samples as hereinbefore provid- I ed. All samples of fertilizers drawn under the provision of this Act shall s' be subject to such other rules as mayi be prescribed by the Board of Trus-n tees of Clemson College not inconsis- r~ tent with the provisions of this Act.n Section 5. All Acts inconsistent d with this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved the 19th day of February A. D. 1900. r A Berlin Tragedy. A dispatch from Berlin, Germany, t says Lieut Carl Beseke, (retired,) hi after a long and steady decay of for- t tune Wednesday took his last money i and gave a splendid dinner in honor c of his nineteen-year-old daughter's birthday. Beseke then poisoned his a wife, daughter, two spus, respectively t 12 and 16 years old, cadets at a mili- o tary academy, and himself, with syan- v ide of potassium, which he seemingly si iserted in the mouth of each, in the r, form of a pill, after they had gone into a drunken sleep. q After a brilliant career and mar- e riage with an heiress, Beseke had v reached the end of his fortune and f his goods were to be sold by the sher-' iff. He won the iron cross during the c war of 1870-71 with France, married n the daughter of a rich hotel-keeper, s ~hereby having toleave the service, as h he married out of his castle, and a started a newspaper. The lieutenant t wrote well, buG the paper was not suc- a cessful, and he became sales agent for l a manufacturer and then manager of 'j a map-making enterpris . He lived beyond his nleans for thirty years. p Last night the Beseke-family had a Ii box at the Iroquois. At 10 o'clock f dinner was ordered in from a caterer.I Beseke was especially gay and tender, i and pressed his wife and his three i children to drink lots of champagne. r He died holding his wife's hand tight-i ly. d__ _ _ _ _ _ How Abiout Ohio? At Chicago Wednesday nighit in a meeting preliiminary to the general conference of thie' A frican Methlodist church.i. I ishop Chatrles S. Sm ith. of Detroit Nich., urged that the Unitedi States should aegu ire thei island o1 Sani lomingo as a place of refuge for the negro race. Wh o are passive aind non-resent fu in the face of such ba r barit ies as the reen hurning of col oredi people in G eorgia arid M ississip pi," he arsked. A nu mber of the higher oflicials of the A frican) church were present at the meeting and the speech of Bishop Smith was loudly applauded. A Fatal Fight. In a fight near Valden, Miss., Aaron Stewart and his son on one side and W. -W. Hill and two sons on thei other, on Wednesday, Hill and one ji on were killed and his other son was ~I seiously wounded. The fought wit pitaZt aon a banndan7 U1n. a A WILD MOB. "he Homes of Negroes Burnt ii Ohio by White Men. l'OTHE NIGHT OF TURMOIL. overnor Herrick Was Very -Slow in Ordering Troops to The Rescue of the Colored People. A dispatch from Springfield, 0., tys intense excitement prevails here b an early hour Wednesday morning hich not even the presence of seven )mpanies of national guard can allay. 'his excitement is shared by all the usiness men and property owners of le city, the fear that some negroes ill attempt to avenge the burning of ie levee districts by firing the down )wn business houses or their homes i the residence district. So far the egroes have not tried to make good ieir threats to dynamite the county Lil to "even up" with Sheritf Rout Lhn for permitting the negro mur erer Dickson to be taken by the mob [onday night without the shedding of lood to sa're him. Not a fourth of ie business district of the city is nder patrol by either militiaor police ad it looks as if a clcse guard would ave to be kept for several days to revent further incendiarism. It is iought, however, that the troops ow on hand will be able to save the estern levee district in West 7ashington street, which the leaders penly dec'ared they would set fire to ; soon as the work in the eastern half f the street was completed. There is ttle or no disorder, the mob of 2,000 ien standing quietly watching the )read of the flames in the neighbor ood of Spring and Gallagher streets, rid apparently ready to help if it iould show signs of spreading beyond e confines they originally set for it. When the leaders of the mob passed Dwn off of East High street early last vning to begin the work of burning ie levee residences, Father John ogan, assistant pastor of St. Rap ael's church, got down opi his knees i the sidewalk and implored them to sist in their work as they might art a fire they would not be able to )ntrol. The incendiarists paused ily a moment, a few of them cursed in and then went quickly on to be n their task. So far the tire loss es not exceed $30,000. DETAILS OF NIGHT OF TRIAL. Threats throughout the day and hursday evening to burn the -levee. ie negro district of the city, confirm I MIayor G. 3. Bowlus in his behalf atmore trouble wash ilng Thurs ek: for troops. Two companies krom ayton and one each from Miamis irg, Urbana and Columbus. have ien promised to reinforce the two cal companies. Many of the negroes of the city were irely and moody Thursday night, and ,was realized that only a spark was eded to set off the magazine of a ce war. At 9:30 o'clock Thursday ight the crowd gathered in the .levee istrict numbered 1,500 and one or yo revolver shots had been fired at mdom. By 9:30 o'clock a crowd of 2,000 ien had assembled along the Big Four ilroad tracks almost blockading fashington street which is known as he.levee from Fountain avenue. Two undred negroes were clustered >gether just west of Fountain avenue, 1 the levee district near the place lled flonkytonk. The negroes were unusually quiet nd seemed to be waiting for a start >be made by the white men. The ther crowd was boisterous and there 'ere frequent yells and several pistol :ots heard, although no one has been sported injured so far. At 11:20 the threat of the 'nob, fre uently made throughi the dlay and vening, was finally made good and a olume of flame was seen to shoot up ~om the rear of a place occupied by Les'' Thiomas, a saloon keeper. Pre eding the firing of the building, the iob at a distance of a hundred feet, ot at the front of the building for a af hour, but it is not known whether ny of the occupants had remained in he building anid if they did whether ny fatalities resulted from the shoot g. The fire spread both ways from ~homas' place. it is understood that the negro opulation is highly incensed at Sher. I Routzahn for not using greater rce in protecting Dixon. Sherifi toutzahn had been warhed that the astant the torch 'was appiled iin Vasingtoni street he had better re ove his family from the jail as that rstitution was to be immediately ynam ited. Throughout the (day there has been vague unrest in every 'iuar~teX of the it. The body1 of ti hevniched negrc vas taken from the I ac cuaph pole at oclock Thursdayt' moruiig an placed. he. forenoon fuly iui 0) people san~ he boily and stood about the city in7 -roupos. The police anud oflicials were vorried,. but did niot seem to kniow hat was best to do. A t noon th~e undertaking omeie wao osed( Thei crowds (ild not1 disperse, nd n~body seemed to be working. At ightfall there were reports of threat ned trouble fiying thick and fast and ,le crowds in the streets grew larger t was rumored that the negroes would ttempt to burn the city and the in urances men appealed to Mayor Bow. us to protect them. The police were n a state bordering on panic after heir hlorrible experience at the jai) be night before. The company of militia fromi Xeni wrrled at. 1:-30 (I~arina mornind and were immediately sent towards the levee by a circuitous route. Company M. of the Fourth regiment, of Xenia, and Company D. of the Third regiment, of Urbana, are now picketed along the Big Four railway Lrack,4acing the burning district along East Washington street. There are 225 enlisted men In each. At 12:45 o'<'lock three cars attached to the eastbound Big Four train brought Companies G and K, of Day ton, and Company H, of Miamisburg. They were stationed at various points to prevent ingress of either negroes or whites and so far as their scanty num bers would permit, will forestall any efforts to burn the immediate business district. At that, however, there is grave danger of the fire starting in the great outlying districts, among the factories or dwelling houses and ten times the number of troops now on hand would be entirely insufficient to prevent incendiarism. The fire in East Washington street has burned out exactly the district the mob should go, and there is now no danger of it spreading either fur ther east or west or to the north where the fashionable East High street district, including St. Raphael's Catholic church was for a while in imminent danger from the spread of the flames. Charles Jackson, aged 19, a negro, flourished a big revolver in the pre sence of a small crowd of whites in Primrose alley and within two minutes a mob of several hundred surrounded him and he was hidden by the police to save his life. He was held at headquarters all night, the police fearing to remove him to the county jail. DISPENSARY APPOINTMENT. A Large Number Held Over and Few .Changes Are Made. The new state liquor commissioner, W. 0. Tatum, of Orangeburg, Tues day announced his appointment for the te . There are a number of chang and transfers, but several men are retained, and the result will be somewhat of a surprise to those who thought that the new commis sioner, would make a 'clean sweep. Mr. G. H. Charles is retainee as clerk of the board of director. Mr charles has served in this office a long time and is fully up to its duties. The book keepers, Messrs. M. H. Mobley, B. A. Hawkins and W. M. Elder, all remain, as does Mr. T. W. Collins as invoice bookkeeper in the commissionser's office. Mr. C. J. Lynch, former ship- 1 ping clerk, is displaced by Mr. L. L. Baker, and Mr. 3. H. Olaffy, of Or- I angeburg, is ipade superintendent. ~ Both of these men, have been .dispen- .J sers, the former in Batesbufg. Mr. I T. E. leckson, .former superinten- C ~dsplacing Mr. W. W. Harri. Mr. I Dickson has been in the dispensary a number of years. Mr. W. J. Powers I onti1nues In office as shipping clerk, blut Mr. Thomas Reasoner is displaced 1 by Mr. W. H. Sondley, a new appoint ment. 1 Mr. J. E. Ehrhardt retains bis po sition as assistant superintendent, as does Miss E. P. Barrigan as steno grapher to the commissioner. The inspectors,' Messrs. W. J. McCartha, A. H. Dean and C. L. Brown have been retained, but J. C. Richards, of1 Kershaw, formerly a member of the legislature is appointed in place of N. H. Stausel. No appointment has been made yet for the inspectorship now cccupied by Z. T. Searson. A new ottice has been created by Commissioner Tatum, that of stock bookkeeper, and this place is to be filled by J. T. Parks, of Orangeburg, the editor of the Orangeburg Patriot. This ottlice is made because of the enormods amount or stock bandled. A Good Man Gone. The Colukbia State says "it was' but a week ago that many friends were called upon to mourn the death of Mrs. 0. A. Darby, and now comes the announcement of the death of that faithful servant of the South Carolina conference. Rev. 0. A. D~arby of Sumter county. It was feared that the blow ,eaused by the death of his wife had affected hm very greatly, and while the news of Dr. D~arby's death was not expected it did not create such a shock as it would other wise. The State Wednesday night received a telegram from Mr. E. 1). Snithi of Lynchburg stating: "Rev. 0. A. Darby died suddenly Wednes day afternoon at 7 o'clock. His wife died suddenly just ten days ago. lie was in apparently good health up to the time of his death. Funeral at Washington Street church at noon Wanted to Lynch Him. A special frorh Murpheysboro, IIl., says that seventy-five Carbondale cit ize ns attempted Thursday morning to ake a negro from jail to lynch him. The sherifif frustrated their plan, and rrested four prominent citizens.' Sheriff Thorpe was apprised of the mob's departure for Ctrbondale, and, ith a deputy, waited on the second floor of the jail. When the mob ap proached the jail they were covered with guns from the windows above. and hurriedly dispersed. Vaughan is charged with criminal assault, his vic~ im being a Carbondale school teach r. __________ _ Don't Blame Her. At New York, Mrs. Eva A bernathy, who, according to her husband, is only 26 years old, was put in the psy chopathic ward at Bellevue Hospital last night. She lives at 126 West Thirty-first street. Her husband, a porter, said that she had been maade insane by the care of their thirteen hildren, all of whom are alive. She ha ade threatshe sid, to llhr alt. 00TT0O PRODUCTION. 5ome Thoughtful Remarks on the Subject from Southern Field. The Southern Field says the South n times past has grown too much cot on, grown it unadvisedly, as well, in he case of hundreds and thousands of ndividual farmers and planters, with )ut intelligent cultivation. Always he great money crop and the one asiest to market, as well as the one bout which so many, especially the iegro farmers, know most, men have een kept raising it to their own etriment. The trouble was not that he world's production of cotton was oo large, but that the whole atten ion was given to cotton, season in eason out, while the farmer had to pend money for hay and other feed or his stock and for all that his family sed, instead of raising on a portion of is farm the farm produce and forage which he needed, thus making the otton crop cost much more than it ught, while the land was being im overished by the non-rotation of rops. With cotton his only crop, nd a cash outlay necessary for all pro isions and forage, the smaller farmer ad to market as soon as the crop was nade, with the result that the lowest >rices resulted. Disaster necessarily )ften followed, especially in the years f general panic and depression, yrFen ,he demand for cotton declined. The >ast few years, however, have been )etter for cotton growers. Two years -iave been rich ones for him, and all ,he indications are that they must .ontinue so. The time has arrived when more otton must be grown to supply the Norld's demands. The yield of cotton as not increased of late in ratio to ,he increased demand and consump ,on. Two years of short crops have naade this especially evident, and peo )le are heard speculating as to the upply of the future. Several things iave co-operated in bringing about his change. One of the influences is he great development of the textile dustry in the Southern States, which as made a home demand for raw cot 4n, at the same time the manufac urers have been extending the markets 'or their products, thus diminishing he amount available for export, ssening the supply of foreign mills, vhich ha re not been able to find one sewhere. Undoubtedly, too, recent dvances in textile manufacturing, by vhich new uses have been found for otton, have had much influence upon he demand for the staple. The continued non-rotation of crops ias destroyed for a time a good deal of tton .land fnd thus cut down the 'ield.: The. wal~tening of Southern arers to tevalue a diversity of rops has reedthe screage. he seardiolabor :catised ieasreb I ~fthe yboth *ir afd xiegroes fok wns, the'f tories, the mills, mines nd other work, has helped to lessen he acreage and decrease the yield. Phe result of all this has been to put he price of raw cotton where it be ngs and make the cultivation of it e of the most profitable of all kinds f agriculture, and also to cause wide ~pread discussion as to the future sup )ly .of cotton, as well as regards the bility of the South to greatly increase ts yield. The poorest crop of cotton he South has had for years, that of L903. from the high prices, meant at east $500,000,000 to her people, mak ng it the most important of all .gricultural crops. The question as to the ability of the outh to produce the cotton of the vorld, or the most of it, bears directly ipon the question of the value of the rop to the producer. The South will ncrease the acreage in cotton this ,ear very materially. This will natur 1ly follow the great profits from the rop of last year. Much land which 'as been devoted to other crops will gain be put in cotton, but this will 2ot make such a great difference as at irst may be thought. Many farmers who have learned to diversify crops ave seen the profit in the practice rd will not abandon it. Many have teft the cotton fields for good. To in ~rease the cotton crop to its proper ze two things there must be, a great r care in cultivation and an influx of ~otton growers, small cotton farmers, r of cotton field laborers. The pre sent situation makes a fine opening for the intelligent farmer from the North or Europe. It adds greatly to the opportunity in the South for good farmers. These should be farmers who will not make cotton their whole rop, depending entirely upon it and 3ending their money out of the coun try for their food, their forage and even for their stock, but farmers who will diversify their labors and make otton simply one of their uany pro ducts. There is no derth of good cotton lands in the South. nor of lands for general farming purposes. Some cot ton lands have run down until often they fail to yield pr'etitably, just as ~akota whreat fields have run dlown fr'o cont inuous crop)s of wheat. The South is not a one-crop country; on, te contrary, it is the best country in le worldi for diversitied crops. The 01( cot torn :ands in most cases simply need a rotation of crops and~ toe right kind of farming to make them yield, n.teadi of :!0I 1ts., from 500 to 800O or more pounds per acre. There are millions of acres too which have never had a plow on them. When it is remembered that farm lands in the South are cheaper than in any other section of the country, it will bye seen what an opportunity is open to the immigrant from other States. The Northern man can raise otton successfully; and while he is doing It he can sell his extra produce to other cotton planters who follow the e crop. MAKES GOOD START. New Russian Sommander' at Port Arthur Uses New Tactics. ATTACKS THE JAPANESE FLEET And Sinks Oi'e Torpedo Boat and Lose. One Torpedo Boat Destroyer. The Ja pa Were Surprised. The Rusilan torpedo boat flotilla left Port Arthur at broad day light Thurday morning and attacked the Japanese fleet. One Japanese torpedo boat was sunk and one Russian tor pedo boat destroyer, the Bezposht chadni, was sunk. Admiral Maka roff inaugurated his assumption of the command of the Russian fleet at Port Arthur by a complete change of tac ties. As soon as he appeared he or dered the removal of the battleship Retvizan, which was stranded at the mouth of the harbor and barred the channel at certain stages of the tide, making the egress of battleships im possible. Thursday morning he e rected a sortie,-ot the torpedo boat flotilla, supported by part of the Rus sian squadron, against the Japanese. WHAT ALEXIEFF SAYS. Viceroy Alexieff has sentthe follow ing message to the emperor: In the fight between our torpedo boats and the Japanese cruisers on March 10 Capt. Mattoussevich, Ensign Alexandroff and Mechanical Engineer Blinoff received slight wounds, and Ensign Zaeff was severely wounded in the head, losing his right eye. The commandant at Port Arthur report the following details of the bombard ment of the fortress on March 10: 'As soon as the enemy opened fire our bat teries replied. Six- of the enemy's ships remained behind the Liao Tishin promontory and opened fire on the fortress over that shelter. They ceased bombarding at 11.15 p. m. The enemy fired about 200 projectiles. One shell from battery No. 15, on Electric Cliff, damaged a Japanese cruiser seriously. "The resultsof the bombardment were insignificant- six soldiers were wounded. .Three inhab itants of the town were killed and one was seriously wounded. Accord ing to Gen. Stoessel's report the offi cers and soldiers in the shore batteries displayed exemplary courage and fired their guns in perfect order." A MORE DELAILTE REPORT. "Admiral Makaroff, commanding the fleet, reports from -Port Arthur, under date of March 10, as follows: "Six torpedo boats which weeliet to sea the night of,,March:.1, fpurdo~ them being .inder theggnral ~ ir d e tnemyv tarbedo.. folwdby crulsers. ' Ahot atib ensued in rhich' the uorpedIo boat destroyer Viastini discharged a white head torpedo and sunk one of the enemy's torpedo boats. On the way back the torpedo. boat destroyer Stereguschtchl, commnanded by Lieuit. Sergueleff, sastained damages; her engine was disabled and she began to founder. By 8 o'clock in the morning five of our torpedo bost destroyers had returned. When the critical position of the Stereguschtchl became evident, I hoisted my flag on the cruiser Novik and sent the cruiser Boyarin to the rescue. But as live of the enemy's cruisers surrounded our destroyer and as their battleship squadron was approaching, I did not succeed In saving tbe Stereguschtchi, which foundered. Part of the crew was made 'prisoners and part was. drowned. "On the ships which participated in the night, attack one officer was seriously and three chers were slight ly wounded; two soldiers were killed and 18 were wounded. At 9 o'clock 14 of the enemy's ships assembled before Port Arthur and a bombardment was begun with the heavy guns of their battleship squadron at long range. This elasted until 1 o'clock in the afternoon. It is estimated that the enemy fired 154 12-Inch shells. The damage to our vessels was insignifi cant, and they are again ready for battle. Our losses were one officer slightly wounded and one soldier kill ed and four soldiers wounded. The Illumination of the sea at night by the searchlishts mounted at our bat teries was most satisfactory and sev eral times isolated shots from our batteries forced the enemy's torpedo. boats to retire. "With the announce ment of the bombardment at dawn the guns of the fortress replied to the enemy's fire. 'The crew on board all the ships engaged gave proof of re markable coolness in action. Below decks the work of the day followed Its ordinary course in spite of the shells falling between tne vessels and cover ing them with fragments. "A bom bardment at such a distance must be considered ineffective, but the Japan ese cruisers Takasigo is reported to Ihave been seen to suffer serious dam age. the extent of which, however, it was impossible to ascertain at a dis tance of five miles. M1any shells were tired at a range of 7 1-i miles." Oughct o Have It. Mrs. Mamie Bonds has filed suit for divorce in the district court of Beau mont, Texas, alleging that she recent-. ly became converted to the Baptist faith, and that her husband, J. T. IBonds, persistently, and without any 1valid and legitimate reason, refuses to permit her to be baptized, causing Iher great mental anguish and fear of losing her soul, causing her to he es tranged from her husband by reason of his scoffing remarks, and that life with him is unbearable and a prsecu aion.