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BICJ AP REV ERSE * Unconfirmed Report of Another Bloody Conflict, 17,000 ARE SLAUGHTERED I Report of Sea Fight Also Current, But . No Confirmation Can Be Had. Other Items of War News. ?. ^ A dispatch, to The Central News (London) from St. Petersburg says a rumor is current there that a sec > ond battle has been fought at KiulienChens, in which the Russian loss was 7,000, the Japanese loss 10,000 men , and resulted in the Japanese being driven back in disorder. The dispatch adds that no conflrma* lion of this report is obtainable. Naval Engagement Reported. There were persistent rumors in St. Petersburg Thursday of a naval engagement between the Vladivostok * and Vice Admiral Kamimura's squaarooi, bat no confirmation of the report lad been received up to Thursday '?*& The admiralty says no further news has been received here from Port Ar** thur. iv. Cannonading Off Genaan. fA dispatch to The Central New3 (1/mdon), dated ;at Seoul Tuesday, *" t* .. Tfeavy cannonading was heard oil ' Gensaa (on the east coast of Korea) \ 'Monday and this morning. ^ I "It is supposed that Rear Admiral Uriu's fleet has succeeded in engaging i the Russian Vladivostock squadron.' * a To Isolate Port Arthur. * A Tokio dispatch says: It is officially announced that Japanese forces * have begun landing on the Liao Tung ?. peninsula. The place where the landi me is occurring and the number of J j men being 1-nded is withheld. i A special of Thursday from Port Arthur says: The Japanese squaaron :3 is behind the Lian-Shan promontory V south of Port Arthur. Transports with Japanese troops hare arrived at Pitsewo, northeast of 4. Port Arthur with 'he object of making | a landing. ? .y Railroad Guards Doubled. Advices from Harbin, Manchuria, state that the forces guarding the Si? t berian railway have been doubled at ; each station and bridge and companies of mounted frontier guards make ?*. * i daily excursions on either side of the | railway for a distance 15 miles. The object of these excursions is to clear the neiehborhood of Manehurian "hrtsrands. collisions with whom had be .. come increasingly frequent. * ; ' JUDGE GARY PASSES AWAY. V " ' <*r. - . Distinguished Citizen of Georgia and ^ South Carolina Dead in Augusta. Judge William L. Gary died in Augusta, Ga., Thursday afternoon after as illness of about one year's duration. ^ The announcement oi nis aemi3e came as a great shock to all Augustus, who-, loved and honored the gal-, last Sooth Carolinian, whose adopted hove was Georgia. There was no man in the city or county better known or more ardently admired than Judge Gary. His humanity was of the broadest and most generous % gauge, in appearance and action he was the,typical South Carolina gentleman of the old school, brave as a lion, courteus at all times and generous to a fault. He shirked no duty ^ and his hand and heart were ever ready to extend aid or sympathy to those who. needed it. As a presiding officer of the superior court he was dignified and firm, yet he always tempered justice with mercy. He went about his labors in a most businesslike manner and overworked himself in clearing congested dockets. N GREAT DEMAND FOR BONDS. Obligations of New York City Gobbled v Up i.ike Hot Cakes. Bids 'were opened at New York % Tuesday by Controller Grout for $37,000,000 of city bonds at 3 1-2 per cent, $10,000,000 for ten years, and the i balance for fifty years. *<- The issue was over-subscribed about seven times. The comptroller said ^ that J. W. Seligman & Co. and Ed ward Sweet & Co. probably will get the $10,000,000, having made ten single bias aggregating that amount at rates ranging from 100.88 to 101.53. DEATH CLAIMS PARKS. New York Labor Leader Victim of Consumption in Sing Sing Prison. Sem Parks, the New York labor leader, who was sent to Sing Sing prison some months after his convicV tion on charges of extortion ,d:ed in the prison Wednesday. He had consumption at the time of his conviction, and had failed rapidly since he was sent to Sing Sing. i ^i "ThrS necks broken. ! ^t Winchester, Tennessee, Trio of Murderers Pay Penalty for Heinous Double Crime. At Winchester, Tenn., Thursday morning, Henry Judge, Joe Delp ant. John Evans were hanged for the murder of Simon Bueher and his wife last August. The trap was sprung at 5:48 and all three died without a struggle. The condemned men exhibited the same indifference and stolidity that marked j their conduct during the trials and walked boldly and without assistance onto the scaffold. Each of them made j a short speeech in which they expressed their preparedness and said tneii only regret was to leave their wives and children. None of them made any reference to the deed for which thej paid the panaltj\ The crime for which this trio of white men paid the extreme penalty was the murder of Simon Bucher and his wife on the oth of last August. It was Judge who conceived and planned the deed, and his motive is said to have been prompted by a desire to get rid of Bucher because he had the oversight on some mountain lands upon which Judge wanted to have the timber. Judge employed Evans and Delp to do the murder. The conspirators reached the Bucher home late in the afterroon and asked to be shown in the garden. Bucher led the way and when a short distance from the house was shot in the back by Delp. Bucher dropped in his tracks and was found the next day. The assassins then returned to the house* where Evans shot Mrs. Bucher. Fire was then s^t to the house and the murderers left both victims for dead. The charred body of Mrs. Bucher was found next morning and upon further investigation her husband was discovered in the garden near by. Bu-1 cher was conscious but paralyzed in the lower libs, and his face was badly scorched. He lived long enough to make a declaration to a minister in whicn he told of the assault by Evans and Delp, who were shortly afterwards apprehended. They did not betray the arch conspirator.- but coDdential information led the sheriff to suspect Judge, and his arrest followed. CHARGE AGAINST SOLDIERS. Eight Artillerymen Accused of Criminally Assaulting Young Girl. A special from Savannah, Ga., says: Eight United States army artillerymen are in irons at Fort Screven, Tybee Island, awaiting a courtmartial or trial by civil court. They are charged with criminal assault committed upon a young white woman, Sallie Guest, of Douglas, Ga. The terrible story has been current in Savannah for some days, the alleged crime havfhg been committed two weeks ago. The commanding officer and other officers at Fort Screven made every effort to suppress the facts, and to prevent any publication of the matter, and up to this time succeeded. They considered that the honor of the army was involved and that the story should be spared as far as pos sible all publicity. They have not telt * * x - VIA. nfp^nca in disposed l(J tuuuvuc iuc any degree intending that justice snail be done. They had the eight alieged culprits put under arrest at once. A man who saw the girl after the outrage declared that she was 17 years old and that she had come from Valdosta, Ga., at the solicitation of one of the soldiers, who was from the same town, and who was under promise to wed her. When the girl arrived at; the reservation she was met bj her lover. The story has It that there was something to dr!nk at hand and that the young woman was unwise enough to indulge in it. She and her lover wandered off into the woodland of the reservation *? vVior Aftpr havine wnere ac uciio;tu "v.. ? ? worked his will upon the unfortunate woman he returned to the fort, where he told some of his comrades that he had left the woman. Seven of them then made their way to her, where they, too, it is declared, outraged her. JOHNSON GRASS BARRED. United States Supreme Court Sustains Law of Lone Star State. The United States supreme court, in an opinio^ by Justice Holmes, in the case of the Missouri, Kansas and Tex" """ m--. as Kaiiway company vs. u-iay .viaj, i sustained the validity of the Texas i statute prescribing a penalty against \ railroads in that state which permit Johnson grass to go to seed on their lines. The law was attacked as unconstitutional, but the court upheld it as a measure for the protection ol the people of the state against an in jurious plant.. SULLY ORDERED TO COURT. Deposed Cotton King to Tell About j Affairs of His Company. At New York Wednesday Judge Holt, of the United States district court, on a petition presented Dy Receivers Henry W. Taft and David H. Miller, made an order directing Daniel J. Sully to appear in court and he examined concerning the acts, conduct and property of tha alleged bankrupt firm of Daniel J. Sully & Co. FLAGNOW^LOATS! Over Uncle Sam's Property on Isthmus of Panama. TRANSFER IS PERFECTED Stars and Stripes Wave Over Canal Zone and All Property Therein Contained?Commission Meets in Washington. """ 9 Advices from Panama state that the United States canal commission Wednesday took formal possession of the | canal route and of the property oi the ! Panama Oanal Company. William W. Russell, the " retiring minister to Panama (recently appointed United States minister to Colombia); Secretary Lee, of the United i States legation, anil Dr. Pierce, superintendent of the* sanitation work, were among those present. TTrom riot? th? s>ono1 trrvrl-o Tsrtll K? * ? ~ under the direction of Major Bark Brooke, of the engineer corps of the United States army, who represented the canal commission at the ceremony of the transfer. Immediately after the transfer the United States flag was hoisted ever j the legation and c?ver the canal of* flees in the cathedral plaza. Knox Reports on Transfer.. A Washington special says: The president has received a lengthy report from Attorney General Knox on the Panama canal transfer. This report gives the details of the aryangements made with Morgan & Co., to finance -the deal in Paris and make the payments for the canal properties. In connection wi :h these payments, it is said at the treasury department, that Morgan & Co. will be designated as disbursing agents of the government and following the invariable rule in such cases, they will be required to depesit $40,000,000 bonds as security to the government. The payment will be made as soon as the bonds have been received.wnich probably will be in a day or two.. Canal Commission Meets. There was an inforpaal executive conference cf the members of the ! isthmus canal commission at Washington Wednesday at which a number of matters of interest were discussed. It had been intended to elect a secretary, but this action was not taken at the forenoon session. It was stated that no matters of interest to the public were in shape to be given out. RUSSIA CLAIMS VICTORY. _____ 7 Great Slaughter of Japs Offsets Rout of Czar's Forces. The gloom which prevailed in St Petersburg Tuesday says an Associated Press dispatch, was almost com- j pletely dispelled Wednesday morning j when the people read the story of I the glorious fight made by General j Zassalitch's hand::ul of rough regi- j ments against the flower of the mikado's legions at the Yalu and of the utter defeat of Vice Admiral Togo's new i attempt to seal the entrance to Port Archur. It is now plain that not more than 8,000 Russians were actually engaged in the fighting at, the Yalu against the Japanese army, of a total strength of between 3U,UUU ana *u,uuu. me losses on both sides, which are expected to reach 1,000 and possibly 1,200 in the Russian force and twice that number for the Japanese make it one of the bloodiest fights in history. At the river crossing the Japanese dead lie piled up literally in heaps, ana General Kuroli's success was purchased at such a heavy cost that the Russians are disposed to regard it as rather a defeat thsn a victory for him. General Kuropatkin's dispatch shows that the Russians fought with such bull-dog tenacity and bravery j against overwhelming superiority of I enemy that the latter's nominal vie- J tory was eclipsed by the prowess of the czar's soldiers. DEAD MAN GIVEN JOB'. Selected as a Reading Clerk of Re publican National Convention. A dispatch from Detroit, Mich., says: James H. Stone, who was today selected for one of the assistant reading clerks of the republican national 1 convention, has been dean ior a ,ium ; ber oil months. He was a prominent J ! citizen of Detroit Colonial Dames in Session. The national society of the Co'onial Dames of America met in biennial convention in Washington Wednesday. : There were 175 delegates present. NEW MALADY KILLS BABES. Seven Little Ones Succumb to Disease that Baff.es Doctors. Seven children have died in New York city within the last few days and many others are suffering from a new disease. The doctors have been wholly unable to diagnose the disease, but they believe it to be due to germs arising from the walls of old tenements, the lower floors of which are being rebuilt into stores.""*" HON. W. T. R?VtLL DEAD. Weil Known Georgia Editor, Legislator and Teacher Passes Hence After i Brief Illness. Hon. William T. Revill, of Greenville, Ga., representative-elect to the next state legislature from Meriwether .county, and keeper of public buildings and grounds, at the capitol, died Monday afternoon at his home in Greenville after an illness of four days of pneumonia. Mr. Reyill was one *of th6 best known men in Georgia, and had he lived, would very probably have been an active candidate for speaker of the lower house. For thirty-two consecutive year3 he had been the owner, publisher and editor of The Meriwether Vindicator one of the influential-journals of the state and one that is everywhere regarded as a model of weekly newspapers. In ability Mr. Revill was recognized ^SSSggS"/ ' ' ' V:.* *?c ' '* * ": ' " *' -'&* > '' :' !- '?" , ^ TAFTT(T CONTROLi ! I Canal Work is Turned Over to War Department. IS ORDER OF PRESIDENT! I I Conference Is Held in Washington, a< 1 Which Regulations of Commission in Great Undertaking Arc Decided Upon. I A Washington special says: Presi- j dent Roosevelt held a long conference j Monday with Secretaries Hay and Tatt j and Attorney General Knox, at which j the regulations to govern the isth- j mian canal commission were determined on finally. Secretary Taft gave a brief resume of their provisions at the conclusion of the conference. Wnile j the creation and work of the commis- j sion is committed by lav/ to the pres- ! ident, whose authority in that- regard | is practically sup:erne, the president j by the regulations directs that the commission shall exercise its powers under the direction and supervision of the secretary of war. General Geo. W. Davis, the army member of the commission, is appointed governor of the American zone on the isthmus. Until the expiration of the fifty-eighth congress, the isthmian commission will * exercise executive authority over the American strip. Governor Davis is given authority to appoint one judge who shall exercise judicial authority. If in the opinion of the commissioner an additional judge is necessary to the proper conduct of the judicial work on tie isthmus tne regulations confer on the commission .authority to appoint him. . Secretary Taft explained" that it manifestly would be impossible for the president In the execution of his duties to give that personal attention to the canal work which is absolutely necessary and as the war department hitherto has exercised supervisory control over public, civil and military works and governmental control over the territory dependent upon the country, it was deemed advisable that the isthmian commission should operate under the direction of the war department. What particular bureau of the war department the commission will be under has not yet been determined by Secretary Taft, but he indicated that it might, not be the bureau of insular affairs, which> he Intimated, already had enough work on its hands. Under the operation of what is known as the dockery law, the auditing o? the commission's accounts will fall to the duty of the auditor of the state department, but beyond the mat ter of auditing, the state department will not be charged with any : control over the commission. The commission itself will establish an elaoorate system of bookkeeping, through which its accounts may be handled very reasonably by the state department auditor. The committee will report directly to the secretary of war as often as he may direct, upon all phasej of its operations. It will be under the same soft of control of the secretary of war as in the Philippine commission. All directions concerning the operations of the commission are set out fully in the regulations, 'and a recitation is made of all the operations leading up to the acquisition of the canal property and appointment of the commission. The details still remain to be worked out, but they are largely administration in native and are not regarded as essential :'to the regulations themselves. ~ f RUSSIAN STOCKS TUMBLE. j Y. tTY n ?? .4 | Reverses on the Yalu Put Check on Buoyancy of Trading. The disaster to Russian arms on the Yalu put a check to the recent buoyancy on the London stock exchange, but as the Paris market, although depressed, did not give any evidence of a scare, the fall in prices on the exchange during the past week was nvt great. Japanese securities rose to about the same extent that Russians fell. WARSHIP TO NIUCHWANG. American Vessel May Be Sent to Manchuria Port for Protection. The attention of the state department has been -drawn to the possibility of rioting and looting at Niuchwang In the indefinite interval of ?aie between the expected Russian withdarwal and the Japanese occupation of the port. Secretary Hay Monday had a consultation with the president respecting the advisability of again send ing a warship to N'iuchwang- to safeguard American interests and as far as possible to prevent outrages on other foreigners. MAKE RAID INTO KOREA. Russians and Manchurian Bandits Occupy a Tcwn in Hermit Kingdom. Associated Press advices from Seoul state that the Japanese consul general at Gensan telegraphs that a force or Russians, number unknown, accompanied by Manchurian mounted bandits, crossed the Yalu above Wiju, advanced southeast and occupied Chang-Jin KM) miles west of Song-Jin, May 5. as among the foremost men of his time. He was graduated from Emory College, at Oxford, in the same class with Bishop Haygood, Dr. J. S. Hopkins and other distinguished men, taking first honor in his class. After graduation he taught school for a considerable period aT points in Alabama and Georgia, and numbered among his pupils many of the men who afterwards took high rank in the councils of the state and nation. The late Governor W. Y. Atkinson, Governor J. M.. Terrell and Warner Hill are among those who were his pupils. Mr. Revill had long been identified with public matters, having served in the general assembly and having always, taken an active part 1n questions before the people. His memory was a wonderful one, and he could recall at a moment's notice events In the careers of almost any public man. He was a prominent church member, belonging to the Methodist denomination and was also a Mason. News of the death of Colonel William Revill was received at the capital and among his many friends in Atlanta with expressions of the most profound regret. At the capitol particularly did the announcement cause sorrow. Governor Terrell, a lifetime friend of the departed, and In boyhood a pupil of his in Ti-as norhsns the most aaariev wx, T* pv* ? ?Ww ed of all, but the sorrow was general throughout the building, for Colonel Revfli had endeared himself to every official of the state. Before the governor's office was closed for the day the following executive proclamation was issued: "State of Georgia, Executive Department, Atlanta, Ga., May 9, 1904. "Whereas, information has just been received of the death of Hon. William T. Revill, keeper of public buildings and grounds, at his home in Greenville; and, "WTiereas, in all-the relatio'na'of life as educator, legislator and state of ficial he discharged the duties thereof in a faithful and efficient manner; and, "Whereas, in his death, the people i of Georgia have lost a distinguished citizen and this department a valued official;- therefore, in view of this long career of usefulness as citizen and public servant, it is Ordered, That the state flag be dis played at half-mast for a period of ten days, and that the offifr&'s of thi3 department be closed during the hours set apart for the funeral services. "J. M. TERRELL, Governor." RUSSIANS KILL THEIR OWN MEN. Mistook Comrades for Band of Japs and Shot 180 of Them. General Kuroki in reporting to Tokio, Thursday, tells of a bloody encounter during the Russian retreat on Sunday last when a large force of Russians mistook a small body of their own men for Japanese, killing and wounding 180 of theim Warrant Drawn for $40,000,000. A New York dispatch says: The treasury warrant for $40,000,000 on account of the Panama canal purchase was given to J. P. Morgan Co., by Secretary of the Treasury Shaw Monday afternoon. IS PRESIDENT'S SUGGESTION. Postal Clerks With Families to Support Will Get Preference. "Hereafter preference will be shown to clerks who are married, especially those with large families." The above notice was posted in the DesMoines postoffice Saturday. Postmaster McCay stated the order came from the postoffice department at Washington, and is in line with a suggestion from President Roosevelt and his large family idea. TO SHIELD GUILTY SON. Father Secretly Buries Little daughter Who Was Foully Murdered. Word has been received in Winnipeg, Manitoba, from Moose Lake Inat John Schuster, age*" 15 years, mur dered his 8-year-old sister by beating out her brains with a poker. The boy's father, it is alleged, with the hope of hiding the crime, buried the body,. but the matter becarrknown to the police, who arrested the hoy. -Pgffl PORT ARTHUR LOST J Russian Stronghold is at Las|| Surrounded by Japs. || ALL COMMUNICATION CU|| Hcsts of Mikado's Forces Are Debstlfrls ed on Both Sides of Liao Tung jJj Peninsula Without Encounter-. Jij| ing Opposition. ,-i A special from St Petersburg 8ajp?? Japanese troops swarming across narrow neck of the IJao Tung peitfb-J| sula, the railroad and telegraph copMK munications cut and the Russian GbPs braitar isolated and left to its resources. All this the Russiansseeqeff to accept with great stoicism. These events have been anticip^MK since the outbreak of the war and.tMH authorities, in a sense, appear to jMraf relieved now that the blow has 1UmH| They assert that the fortress Is pregnable and amply provisioned |m|| stand a siege for a year, and that JHi can hold out until the time comcs|jK| According to official information Jtfrjail 1?ji - * x -? * lauumg (JJL troops zrom sixty tfMHgg ports began simultaneously at Htiijrrl wo and Cape Terminal on the monil|j ing of May 5. it Is also reported troops are being landed at Kln-Cl?pM but this is not credited, as the Bjw|5 sians are known to have fortiflraUa?9|| there and it is not believed thatvflBB Japanese had the daring to land t?||| mediately under an intrenched tion from which the Russians oOm^ inflict severe injury. ||i It was because he was convtm|j9vj| that Port Arthur was about to be'lajMfl off that Viceroy Alexieff, accompatSK^ by his staff and Grand Duke Boris, Jjjgi^ hastily. On Thursday several loads of sick and wounded and oUtgKH Innffectives were diapatpt?d nor^B3 Harbor is Blockaded. It is reported in St Petersburg thflijl the Japanese ships bombarded PajKH Arthur early on the morning of SuR&j 6 and succeeded at last in .ck?i|jn|s the entrance, but no official connSEa ation of the latter statement can MjP| The exact hour at which comnaM^S cation with the Russian strongh<jlBjf| ceased has net been established. " ^11 The strength of the garrison- 'jjjBpS Port Arthur is not given by thdrjjwH thorities, who will only say that ItlHia adequate for defensive purposeSiJasifl is not believed that the force tMRl exceeds ten thousand soldiers. ^ A larger force is not considered ttMpjj essary, as was shown from the rdcwlj^ withdrawal of some of the troops wWBjH were simply a diain on the resoaiqMplB ^ ? IV A mmmml MAM T V% A 4 miiof ISMHRI uj. iae garxi&uu. j. uc ucci uiuot take a secondary position, and the ors will be used to man the shore g|9Kn if necessary. Despite the greater number of anese, the general staff believes thaffig their formidable fortifications '||9Hg leave the defensive superiority wSH the Russians, whose staying quafltftMBa lit j 1- AMr Afl lAtf?9E?u! will iittjure men uuiumg vui> oo as necessary. Vice Admiral Skryloff, who is Wpp ronte to Port Arthur to take coznmlm^ cf the naval forces in the Far FniffiBi will he unable to reach his destfigQH BRITONS SLAY TIBETANS. -MM ~~~ Repulse Band of Natives Who MaflBL* Firce Attack. The London Daily Mail's^ Simla ctfgHH respondent says that eiglit hundrcfnra Tibetans coming from the directifllBB of Shigatse attacked the British sion at Gyangtso at dawn on Apd^H 5. The Tibetans were repuisai^M with heavy loss and fletl. )||1 The British had only two sepoglBB Dead Man in City Reservoir. 9 A watchman at St. Louis discoverjwgpv the body of an unidentified man the settling basin of the city watfl|9&j works. It had evidently been in t?|iwjjj water for some time. "|Sx| . * ygg REUNION APPOINTMENTS.'19 Sponsor and Maids of Honor and tor Named for Nashville Meeting. General William E. Mickle, adjutaka^g general of the Confederate Veteran%||i annoinces by command of General phen D. Lee, the following appol^^H ments for the Nashville reunion: Miss Corinne Tebault, of New C>*??? leans, sponsor for the south. Miss Mary K. Ewell, of NorfoH^H Va., and Miss Elizabeth Thomas, - of Nashville, Tenn., maids of honor. : ^^ Rev. Randolph H. McKim D. Dn Washington, D. C., orator. REPORT TUBERCULOSIS Raleigh, N. C., Inaugurates Strict Pre* ventive Measures. The board of aldermen of Raleigt^S N. C., have adopted an ordinance quiring physicians to officially repoe^^s all their patients who have tuberc??j|| losis, and proviison is made for infecting all premises where there *P*6s| such patients. It is said that Raleigh;^ Is the first city in the south to take7?^ these preventive measures. .-;:M