The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 01, 1904, Image 3
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I Cream of News. |
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Brief Summary of Most
Important Events
of Each Day.
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?A through freight from Raleigh
to Monroe on the Seaboard Air Line
was wrecked at Peedee, N. C., by
running into a washout. The engin
'* & eer, Alex. Adams, and Fireman Sheppard
were killed, being buried under
the wreckage.
^ ?Mrs. Hannah Claspy, aged 80
years, was burned to death in her bed
at her son-in-law's house in Harlem,
N. Y., as a result of smoking a pipe
in bed.
?The Texas state health depart$
ment has been notified of the breaking
Out of yellow fever in the government
military post at Brownsville.
?President )Michael )">cnneily, of
the striking butchers, at Chicago,
states that it will probably be of no
avail to make a proposition of any
f sort to the packers.
?The saw mill of White & Wheless,
at Aldens Bridge, La., has been
destroyed by fire with a loss of about
$100,000, covered by insurance.
?Judge Bennett, of Prairietown, S.
D., is dead of heart failure. He weighed
440 pounds and was known as the
4 largest judge in America.
?Forest fires have destroyed the
stamp mill of the Goat Mine at Bar- j
row, Whatcom county, Washington,
and all of the improvements on the
5 Whistler mine in the Slate creek dis- j
trict. The loss is estimateu at. *zou,000.
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?A shipment of $1,000,000 to Cuba
; * was made by the National City Bank
of New York Saturday. j
?At High Bridge, Ky., Miss Sarah j
Burns and two little girl companions
were caught upon railroad bridge by
swift express train. Through rare
presence of mind of Miss Burns all
three swung from ends of cross-ties
^ until train passed. |
?It is given out at both democratic !
and republican headquarters that
Tom Watson, populist nominee, will '
- only campaign in the doubtful states, j
?Czar Nicholas scorns any proposition
looking to peace, and the pow- '
ers have been made aware of the
$ fact
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i ?The repeated assaults on forts
around Port Arthur are causing tre-,
; mendous lossses to the Japanese. !
Their determination to capture the
stronghold is unabated.
j ?After an interval of rest the Japs
have returned to the task of annihilating
the Russian forces in the interior (
of -Manchuria.
?It Is reported f-rom St. Peters- !
burg that Samsonoff, the assassin of
$ M. Von Plehve, has been sentenced !
to death and that the sentence is '
now before the emperor.
?Despite stories of the possibility :
\ of Sunday opening at the World's Fair |
it has been declared by a represen- j
tative of the exposition company that :
such a suggestion is absolutely futile, j
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?Robert Parrott, discoverer of the
famous Parrott mine at Butte. Mont., i
died in Ees Moines Saturday in mod-;
erate circumstances at the age of 75. .
* He did not profit greatly by his discovery
and his estate will not e'xceed !
$6,000. He sold his mine in a few years
ago to Marcus Daly.
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?Edward Hines, of the Edward
^ Hines Lumber Company, of Chicag.), :
has just completed the purchase of
50,000 acres of yellow pine land in ,
Mississippi from Comstock Brothers,
of Detroit and Alpena, Mich. i
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?The prefect of police of St. Petersburg.
has forbidden ladies to wear
naval cloaks, which had become fashionable
since the Chemulpo fight.
?By a referendum vote the miners
x of the Crooksville, Ohio, district, haye
rejected the proposition of the opera- j
4 tors and the strike will continue. The
men have been out over five months.
Over 2,000 miners are involved.
?The 800 miners of the Barnum j
colliery of the Pennsylvania Coal Com- !
^ pany, at Pitston, Pa., who have been j
out on strike for two weeks, have '
returned to work.
?The Illinois state auditor of public
account has issued a permit to j
* John F. Sinne, Charles F. Strubitz I
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and John B. Farrell to organize the !
first Union Labor Bank at Chicago, \
-with a capital stock or ?zuu,uuu.
?Japan has addressed a circular note ;
to the powers informing them that j
unless Russia forthwith disarms her j
warships in Shanghai, Japan will be
forced to take whatever steps she ]
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NEGRO STRIKE BREAKERS.
Two Car Loads from Georgia Towns i
En Route to Packing Centers.
Two car loads of negroes gathered ;
from various points in Georgia, passed
through Chattanooga Monday night en I
route co Chicago, where they will work !
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j, + In the packing houses. They were
gathered from small towns by agents),
'electorsturned down
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Georgia Stste Democratic Committee
Declares Eleven Ineligible on
Account*of Holding Offices.
j Eleven democratic nominees for
| electors and alternate electors? for
| Georgia have been declared ineligible
; to hold these offices, the tribunal
; passing upon their qualifications beI
ing the democratic state executive
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| committee at a mccuug m nn?u?
! Saturday.
The eleven nominees were proj
nounced ineligible on the ground tnat
( they already held state oifices, the disl
qualifying offices being three notary
| public commissions, two colonelcies on
! the governor's staff, one membership
; of a city board of education, two may|
oralties, two county court solicitor|
ships and one membership in the state
i senate.
j The men deprived of their nominv
! tions, together with the offices for
! which they were nominated by the
| democratic state convention, are as*
follows:
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J. H. E3till, Savannah, elector from
: the state at large, and excluded be;
cause he is a member of the Savan'
nah board of education,
i R. J. Bacon, of Albany, alternate
; from the second congressional dis}
trict, excluded because he is a notary
public.
; Graham Forrester, of Lumpkin, alternate
from the third district, exclua
ed because he is solicitor of the cour.
ty court. ' .
j J. R. Madden, of Concord, elector
from the sixth district, excluded because
he is a member of the governor's
staff.
i M. J. Head, or Tallapoosa, elector
i from the eighth district, excluded because
he is a notary public.
I F. B. Shipp, of Greensboro, elector
from the eighth district, excluded
because he is mayor of Greenesboro.
I Mr. L. Ledford, of Blairsville, elector
from the ninth district, excluded
because he is a member of the present
state senate.
i T. W. Wet>b, alternate from thai
ninth district, excluded because he is
a member of the governor's staff.
Ira E. Farmer, of Thomson, elector
from the tenth district, excluded because
he is mayor of Thomson.
R. N. Hardeman, of Louisville, alternate
from the tenth district, excluded
because he is solicitor of the
county court.
. A. T. Woodward, of Valdcsta, elector
from the eleventh district excluded
because he is a notary public,
j This action followed after a lively
debate, during which several committeemen
contended that to deprive the
eleven men of their nominations for
electors and alternates would exceed
all bounds of prudence and place Georgia
in a class all to herself.
The exclusion of the eleven was
based first on a provision of the con
stitution of the United States and sec
nmi on a section of the nolitical code
of the state.
Elections for their successors were
then held, and resulted as follows:
George B. Monroe, of Buena Vista,
to succeed J. H. Estill; J. M. Strickland,
of Spalding county, to succeed
George B. Monroe; W. D. Kiddoo, of
Randolph county ,to succeed R. J. Bacon;
John W. Forrester, of Lee, to succeed
Graham Forrester; George Collier
to succeed J. R. Madden: John
F. Madden, father of J. R. Madden, to
succeed George Collier; John W. Dais
,0 succeed M. J. Head; Lloyd Thomas,
of Tallapoosa, to succeed J. W. Bale;
M. G. Michael to suceed F. B. Shipp;
James B. Park, of Greenville, to succeed
M. G. Michael; Samuel C. Dunlap,
Sr., of Gainesville, to succeed
M. L. Ledford; William Butt, of Blue
Ridge, to succeed T. W. Webb; W
M. Wheeler, of Hancock, to succeed
Ira E. Farmer; P. B. Johnson to succeed
R. N. Hardemhn: Frank Spain
to succeed A. T. Woodward; 0. M.
Smith, cf Valdosta, to succeed Frank
Spain.
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General Kuroki has joined forces
with General Oku in an attempt to cut
the Russian line Detween Anshanshan
and Liandsiansian.
REFUSES TO PAY COURT COSTS.
Alabama Won't Stand for Expenses
in Case of Colored Citizen.
The governor of Alabama has re
.fused to pay $93 costs in tfie case 01
Dan Rogers, colored, against the state.
Rogers was convicted of manslaughter
and carried his case to the supreme
court. EtailiDg there, he took it to the
supreme court of the United States
and had it reversed on the plea that
vio negroes were on the jury. The
$95 is costs of the last named court,
which there is no way to force the
state to pay.
FEUDISTS FIGHT IN ARKANSAS.
One Killed and Three Badly Wounded
in a Shooting Bee.
James Rushing was stabbed in the
I heart and killed, Henry Thompson
1 shot in the forehead and fatally
wounded and John Hickock and Maey
Dushing badly hurt in a free fight on |
the outskirts of Alma, Ark., Friday j
night. The fight is said to have been
the result of old trouble.
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GEORGIA TAX RATE!
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Amount is Fixed at Even j
$4.80 on the Thousand.
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|IS LESS THAN LAS I YfcAK
Aggregate Tax Returns of State This ;
Year Amount to $530,734,947, an
Increase of $26,122,C0P
Over 1903.
Georgia's tax rate for the year 1904
has been fixed at 4 S-10 milis?$4.80 on
every $1,000?a reduction of 2-10 mill
from the rate last year and 1-2 mill
from the rate in force at the inaugirration.of
Governor Terrell.
The fixing of tke tax rate is placed !
by the law in the hands of the gover- )
aor, comptroller general and the state j
i treasurer. This board met Thursday
in the office of the governor in Atlanta,
deducted from the total appropriations
the amount to come from the rental
of the Western and Atlantic railroad j
and from special taxes and then figured
the proportion between the balance
of the appropriations and the total
taxable property returned this
year. This proportion was the tax
rate?that i3 for every fil,000 of property
$4.80 must be paid in order to
realize for the state an amount equal
to the appropriations after ihe revenue
from special sources had been deducted
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The aggregate expenditures of the
state will be about the same this year
as they were last year?$4,021,324?but
the aggregate taxable property has unitor<rnna
tt <rrf>nt inrTMSP. The a2T2Te
0- ?WW- ,
gate taxable property, according to i
the 1903 returns was $504,017,947, |
while this year the aggregate re
turns' amounted to $530,734,- I
947, a gain of $26,122,000. This includes
the property or railroads and quasi
public corporations, as well as the
property of individuals and corporations
that do not make their returns
directly to the comptroller general.
The board considered ail these figures
and found by calculation that a
rate of 4 S-10 mills would bring to
the state in revenue the sum of $2,-1
157,551.S7, or a little more than the ;
amount needed to cover the appropria- I
tions for the year. The remainder of
the appropriations will be met and j
paid with the funds arising out of the
rental of the Western and Atlantic
railroad and special taxes.
According to law, however, specified
| portions of this rate an; for specified
I purposes, as follows: 3 mills for the !
I general fund, 1 6-10 mills for the school j
I fund and 2-10 mills for the sinking i
fund. Thus divided the rate will bring J
to the three funds respectively the ;
sums of $1,529,219, $S49,1S3 and $106,- j
147.
The fixing of the rate was largely a j
matter of arithmetic, but the friends j
of Governor Terrell feel gratified that j
in hi3 term of office tne rate nas oeen j
brought down a half cent on $1, or -50 i
cents on every $1,000.
The rate fixed applies only to the !
taxes to be collected for the year 1904 i
and immediate notice will be given to |
| the tax collectors of every county in j
i the state.
WYNNE BEHIND BARS.
Fifth Member of Counterfeiting Gang
in Atlanta Jail. v
William L. Wynne, who is charged i
with making the plates from which !
the counterfeit money was printed in |
Atlanta, reached the city Thursday at j
noon from St. Louis in custody of a ;
United States officer. He was taken to j
the Tower and locked up.
Assistant United States -Solicitor j
Camp and Captain J. M. Wright say j
! they heid a talk with Wynne immedi- i
ately after he reached Atlanta, and
that he made a full confession to then, j
When seen by a reporter of The Con j
stituticn, Wynne refused to make ar.y j
statement.
Wynne was given a preliminary ;
trial in St. Louis, and was held in de- j
fault of a $5,00? bond.
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BOTH BOYS DROWNED.
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Youth Gives Up His Life in Attempt
ing to Save a Younger Brother.
Two boys, sons of Mr. Carter, ol [
Cromers Mill, Franklin county, Ga., j
were drowned while bathing in Nails
r>rppk- Tnpsdav. Thp vounsrer on? wnfi i
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was 11 years old.got into deep water !
aiid could not swim. His brother, who j
was 13 years old, saw that the boy ;
was drowning and went to his rescue i
The drowning boy clasped both arms!
around the neck of his brother, and
both were drowned.
TRAP GUN GETS BURGLAR.
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Negro Meets Death While Robbing 3 !
Store in Alabama.
Jim Streeter, a notorious negro burglar,
was killed early Friday morning
by a trap gun in a store of R. F. Lacey
& Son. at Powderly, Ala., a suburb J
of Birmingham. The store has been j
burglarized rej>eat dly during the past
few months.
Some weeks ago a bear trap was
set in th? place, and Ollie Gray, a negro
burglar, was caught in it, and is
now in jaii.
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INJOINS PLUMBERS
Law is invoked Against an'
Alleged Conspiracy.
AN IMPORTANT MOVEMENT
Charge Matte that As:ocia'jJon Exists
to "Freeze Out" All Mastor
P'jmbers Who Fail to
Join the Combine.
One of the most important injunctions,
from a commercial standpoint,
that has ever been in the courts of
Georgia, was granted by Judge J. H.
Lumpkin, of the Fulton county superior
court at Atlanta Monday morning,
when he restrained the Association of
Master Plumbers, cf Atlanta, and their
agents, officers and employees, from
seeking to prevent supply houses from
deling with M. C. Vandiver, the plaintiff
in action. The temporar yinjunction
was granted until September 24,
when the case was set down for a
final hearing.
The injunction is national in interest,
as the Master Plumbers' Association
has state and national branches.
It seems from the petition of the plai-ntiff
that the Association of Master
Plumbers has as one of its objects-the
"freezing out" of all plumbers and
contractors who do not belong to the
association, and that supply dealers
are not allowed to sell to outside
plumbers, under the penalty of having
all trade of members cf the association
withdrawn.
M. C. Vandiver, in his petition, asks
that the following parties be enjoined
from operating against him through
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of Master Plumbers of Atlanta; the
State Association of Master Plumbers
of Georgia, I). A. Farrell, of Fulton
county, being president thereof, and
against the National Association or
Master Plumbers of the United States
and against D. A. Farrell, the vice
president thereof, and against the
General Supply Company, with offices
in Atldnta. The plaintiff states:
"Your petitioner was engaged in the
general plumbing business for the
public in the city of Atlanta, and had
established a well-paying business until
the Association of Master Plumbers
of Atlanta, composing nearly the entire
plumbing trade there, formed a
conspiracy or' illegal combination,
known as the Association of Master
Plumbers, of Atlanta, on or about July
6, 1902, the purpose being thereby to
destroy your petitioner's business and
the business of any other plumber not
a member of said association. The
purpose of said conspiracy was, by
destroying the business of your petitioner
and a few other plumbers engaged
in the business in Atlanta to
thereby cut off competition and monopolize
the trade in order to raise and
control prices and make extortionate
charges to the public for plumbing
work."
In section 6 of his petition, the
plaintiff says:
"The principal means used by defendants
in their conspiracy to destroy
petitioner's business was to
threaten to withdraw their patronago
from the wholesale and general supply
houses who handle the plumbing materials
in the city of Atlanta and the
state of Georgia and other states of
the union, unless said houses or firm.",
refused to sell petitioner, or any other
piumoer not a mzmuar ui saui
tion, material.
It is further alleged by the petitioner
that he is at present doing plumbing
wprk on a hotel in Louisville and
the contract is worth $40,000, and that
after he began the work he was refused
material because of the action
of the National Association 01 Master
Plumbers. He exhibits a letter from
a supply company, in which he is.told
that he could avoid ail further troublo
by joining the Association of Master
Plumbers, of Louisville.
ANOTHER TRAGEDY IN BULLOCH.
Negro Man is Taken From His Home
and Whipped to Death.
Sebastine McBride, a negro man
living near Portal, in the upper part
of Bulloch county, was taken out of
his house Saturday night by a mob of
five men, carried out in the woods and
whipped severely and then shot, from j
the effects of which be died soon after-!
wards.
Before death came, however, he re-1
lated to a number of white men andj
colored people the manner in which j
he was handled and told the names of |
three of his assailants. j
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JAIL "TRUSTY" LYNCHED.
Wofm Attacks White fiirl With Knife I
and Mob Gets Him.
At Laramie. Wyoming, Joe Martin,
colored, was lynched by a mob of 30U
men in front of Judge Carpenter's
house Monday night. Martin was a
trusty in the county jail. He attacked
a white girl, Delia Krauss, in the jail
kitchen and slashed her face and arms
with a knife. 1
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[banks and the crops.]
Demand for Money in Some Section*
of South Will Be Greater Than
La_t Year to Move Staple.
The following statement was issued
| by the comptroller 01 the currency ai
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i Washington Saturday:
For tlie purpose or' ascertaining the
general condition of tne national
banks and their ability to meet the
demands upon them incident to the
annual movement of the crops, the
comptroller of tne currency, undei
date of August 4, 1&04, sent to the national
bank exaxmnsrs, with the exception
of those whose districts are comprised
within tne blew England states
and the city of New York, a circular
lettc-r of inquiry.
| Replies have been received from
! nearly ail examiners, and tne result of
this inquiry may De summarized as
follows:
The demand on the banks will be
about the same as last year, and about
the same time, with the exception of
those in the following states:
Aiabama, F.onda and Georgia, Ohio,
Minnesota and Wisconsin, wnere it
will be greater and irom two to three
weeks earlier, and m Indiana and Missouri,
where it will be less and a little
later.
The banks are generally as well, but
in most cases better prepared than
they have been in the past year or
torn tr> mppr rho demands made UDcn
them. The banks in the following
states are better prepared:
Arizona, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois,
Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland,
Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New
Mexico, New York, New Jersey, Nebraska,
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
South Dakota, Texas, Tennessee,
Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, West Virginia,
Wyoming and Washington.
The banks in the states of Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indian
Territory,' Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri
and Oklahoma are not as well prepared.
While the banks will depend mainly
upon their deposits with reserve
agents to supply funds for moving the
crops, the amount of money to be borrowed
will he about the same this
year as last. There will, however, be
some increase in the amount borrowed
by the banks in Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Arizona, Indian Territory,
Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico
and Oklahoma, and a decrease by
the banks in Delaware, Maryland,
Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey,
South Dakota, Texas and Virginia.
DESERVES CARNEGIE MEDAL.
Young Woman Accomplishes Heroic
Feat Upon High Railroad Bridge.
Miss Sarah Burns, of High Bridge,
Ry., is worthy of a slice of the fund
for heroes and heroines set aside by
Andrew Carnegie. Friday afternoon
Miss Burns, in company with two little
girls, Margaret and Mary Sweeney,
aged 10 and 12, respectively, were
walking across the railroad bridge.
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Southern lightning express was heard
approaching, and before they could
recover from their confusion the huge
monster had almost reached the massive
piers at the edge of the bridge.
There seemed no hope, but collecting
herself, Miss Burns sought about for
means of escape from what seemed
almost certain death. Taking the children
in her arms she quickly carried
them to the edge of the trestle and
lifting them over the ties helped them
to secure a firm grip on the roughhewn
blocks of wood.
She then lowered herself over, and
! all three hung suspended 285 feet
above the Kentucky river, while the
massive train, with its cargo of human
freight .passed over them, the
occupants of the train little knowing
of the peril of three lives below them.
; As soon as it had passed Miss Burns
again lifted herself above the ties and
helped the little girls from their perilous
position. None of the trio was
| any worse for their awful experience,
although it took some time for them
to recover from the nervous effects of
the shock
CONSTABULARY AMBUSHED.
1 Superior Force of Bandits Whelm Milbf
tary in Philippines.
A Manila special says: A detail 01
the native constabulary has been ambushed
on the island of Leyte by a
superior force of bandits. Captain H
Barrett, of the constabulary, was killj
ed in the fighting.
j There has been trouble in the prov1
ince of Misamis, island of Mindanao
j where bandits have looted several
! towns. The native authorities were
! defied and Pablo Mercado and his fam
iily were*kidnaped.
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I NEW COTTON GOES TO RUSSIA.
First Shipment cf Season from Gaives- j
ton Goes to Foreign Ports.
Saturday the first cotton of the
new crop to be cleared for foreign
ports went out from Galveston. The
cotton is consigned to three different
ports, all in Russia. Reval, Russia,
I will get 300 bales; Riga, Russia, 100
yales, and 100 bales for St. Petersburg.
Consignments will go via Bel-,
fast.
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JAPS ENTER WEDGE
Kuropalkm's Lines Reported . -J
Hopelessly Severed.
SOME LATE WAR NEWS M
Czar Scorns Peace Propositions and 1
Will Never Negotiate While Army
Reverses Are Being Daily
Recorded. .JH
An Associated Press dispatch from J
Liao-Yang says: General Kuroki has
joined forces with General Oku In an >
attempt to cut the Russian line be* ^
tween Anshanshan and Liandsiansian. "M
The battle of August 25 raged along,;|jg
the eastern front. A strong Japanese . M
force attacked the Russian position M
at Miao-Pas3, 11 miles east of Anshan- v'-3|
shan, and at Sandiatzi and Tsegow
(Dagow), 12 miles southeast of Anshanshan.
Nine batteries of six guns each bombarded
the Russian outposts. At this .cj|y
point the combat repeatedly developed >,1|3
into hand to hand fighting. The Rus- M
sians stubbornly held the outposts the r|8
whole day, falling back on their main
position at night. The chief artillery
engagement was in front of Liandiansian,
the Japanese concentrating the -yl
fire o! ten batteries and simultaneous ;
advancing on Torintspu, 4 miles south- IjgB
east of Liandsiansian, but they were 'aa''
anested by Cossacks who were after- ^ r
wards reiniorcea oy mianiry auu artillery.
The Japanese resumed *the .JB
bombardment of August 26, devoting /J?
most of their attention to Liandsian- .;$
sian. The Russian field guns were
very effective. They dismantled 32 .JB
Japanese guns, mostly mountain ;&??
Advices from Tokio say: The gen- .'-Jgj
eral staff maintained silence through- -|OTj
out Sunday concerning the fighting in
the vicinity of Liao Yang. It is report- . 'M
ed that General Kuroki has seized and /JjH
cut the railroad south of Mukden, thns jjM
separating the Russian forces and-cut- Jjaj
ting Liao Yang off from a direct line -jj||
of retreat, but confirmation of this --'Jf
report cannot be obtained. /
The Russians retired from Anshan- ^
shan Saturday after a fight which com- M |
menced on the morning of Friday, and
continued in a desultory manner all
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Czar Scorns Peace.
The Associated Press at St. Peters-'tjfl t'
burg learns that Emperor Nicholas ./|?
only recently announced in the most j'$m
positive terms that he would ndt permit
peace negotiations, even should "|g l
Port Arthur fall and General Kuropat- /f|/
kin be driven back to Harbin. This /JS
fact, well understood in official circles,
has prevented the British government ^|8
from taking any steps in the direC- ' "/||
tion of mediation/ It is known in 8?
Petersburg that Germany understands
this attitude of the emperor as well 18/
as Great Britain. .
The report from Paris that Emper- JjBj
or William is prepared to suggest
peace is dismissed as groundless for
the present at least. If General Kuropatkin,
however, should win a decisive
victory at Ldao-Yang, which, in
measure, would restore Russian pres- IB
tige, it is believed that the restoration ||H
of peace would undoubtedly be facill- -|9
tated- ggw
To Assemble Second Army.
A dispatch to The Tageblatt
lin) from St. Petersburg, says the Rus- -"jB
eian government is determined to assemble
a second great army in Man- -iS
churia, consisting of three or four ^
corps, under the command of General /$9
Baron Kaulbars or General Soukhomlinoff.
Its headquarters will be at -||g
Mukden. The object of this step is
to meet the situation that will arise
should Port Arthur fall, thus releasing
the beseiging armj for operations d
northward. The Tageblatt's corre-r
spendent names the various commands
out of which the new army
will be formed, and says he believes :\|g
that more rapid transportation of -%.M
troops will be possible, owing to the ^
approaching completion of the railroad
around Lake Baikal.
TWO TOWNS PAY NO TAXES.
Dispensary Profits Cover AM Neces*
sary Expenses Incurred.
Comptroller General Wright has received
a letter from the mayor of ' M
Bronwood, in Terrell county, Ga., in
which he states that the tax rate of jg
lals town for the year 1904 has been ^<35
fixed at .00, the dispensary of the >|J
town paying all the necessary ex
penses.
The same state of affairs exists in
Whigham, in Decatur county, where
the dispensary pays all the taxes of
the town.
CANNOT REMOVE SHERIFF.
In Case Kendrick is to Blame, Gover- :
nor Cannot Punish.
It has developed that even though ithe
couft of inquiry, or any other
court, civil or military, should place |
the whole blame of the Statesboroi -|||
Ga., lynching on the shoulders of Sher
iff Kendrick, of Bulloch, county. Gov- yM
ernor Terrell is not authorized under
the iaw to remove him from office./