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m-; Ivuropatkin's Formic Yang are B; > TOWNISEVACUATEDI Retreat is Reported as Being j ; in Progre ss?Greatest Conflict in World's History i in Point of Num- I j ( bers Engaged. i * v . , 1 ? Thursday's news from the seat cf j war .closed with the receipt of two I dispatches, giving information of a mosif significant character as bearing ? on the domination of Manchuria at the closa'of'flie pfeseht campaign. ? T^e first came from the Associated Press cornospcmdent at St. Petersburg, filed there at 10:16 p. m., and said ithat General Kuropatkin hid withdhCTm his whole army to the north hank of the Taitse river, so a& to meet <5in(?raa KurokTs flunking c. from movement, ine imxavm** , this dispatch was that Liao-Yang had j . been, evacuated, that city lying on the t left &r -south bank of th& river. Nothing to confirm this was received until several^ hours later, when a dispatch from the Associated Press correspondent at St. Petersburg, dated September 2, and timed at'1:26 a. m., Friday morning, said "that the news of the evacuation of Liao-Yang and the withdrawal of the Russia army to the right bank of the Taitse river had caused intense excitement." Late Thursday night the St Petersburg correspondent of the Associated Press obtained an opinion from - the , war office that the withdrawal to the ' right bank of the Taitse river became ! > necessary so that the Russians would j be able to repel a blow in that direc- , tion and that General Kuropatkin's ! movement was the carrying out of a ; well-defined idea, rather than a re- J treat. The same dispatch points out I without comment that the Japanese ! took advantage of General Kuropat- j kin's withdrawal to occupy the city | of Liao-Yang. The second dispatch which may have a significant bearing on the cam paign is that filed at Mukden at 9:27 p. m. Thursday, sayirig that the train service between Mukden and LiaoYang was interrupted and it may mean the cutting of railroad communication which would deprive General j Kuropatkin of a ready opportunity to | retreat to his mere northern base at | Mukden. As pointed out in the St. ! i * Petersburg dispatch the Mukden cor- ! p respondent does not mention whether the telegraphic communications are open. 1 > The News at Washington. The Japanese minister a.t Washington received the following dispatch from Tokio Thursday night: "Accord-! ing to telegraphic advices received at i headquarters this afternowi our army corps o nthe left, by fierce and repeat? ed assaults, tock possession of the heights which the enemy's right oc- j cupied. . Thereupon all the enemy | south of Liao-Yang began retreat. The ; Japanese army is now pursuing. ; Kuropafkin Isolated. A dispatch sent out from Mukden j dated at 9:27 p. m. Thursday, was as j follows: "The train service between j Mukden and Liao-Yang is interrupted. ; The roi-ds are impassable. A late- viispatch is as follows.1 Tie , Japanese left began pressing the Rus- i sians toward Tatzsho at dawn this (Friday) morning. The Japanese right is engaged in the neighborhood of, Heiyingtai. i I The Japanese casualties since August 29, are ofiiciaily estimated at ten thousand. , EXCESSIVE RATES ALLEGED. Cotton Mills in Augusta Territory File Suit Against Railroads. Suit has been commenced before the interstate commerce commission * by all the cotton mills of the section around Augusta, Ga., against the n 11 :i 4%^ * Pnnf.4 SOUlneru Idiiwa), tux: nuauvii; Line, Seaboard Air Line, Central of Georgia, Clyde Steamship Company, Old Dominion Steamship Company ard Ocean Steamship Company for a reduction of the present rate on cotton goods shipped out of the Augusta : * cotton mill territory and for the recovery of excess rates that have been charged during the last ten years. / WAGE SCALE REDUCED, Non-Union Miners at Coal Creek Lay Down Picks and Shovels. About 150 non-union miners, employed by the Coal Creek Company, in its Fraterville and Thistle mines, went on a strike Thursday morning. Geo. Camp, superintendent of the mines, no' tifiel the men that the scale of wages wouTd oe reduced. The miners refused to accept the proper reduction. I '"W mm \ lable Lines at Liaoidly Broken. Excitement in St. Petersburg. The news of the occupation of LiaoYang and the withdrawal of the Russian army to the right bank of the i Taitse river reached only a small section of the people of St. Petersburg at a late hour Thursday night and caused intense excitement and disappointment. The majority of the inhabitants retired to rest, believing that Russian : arms had again been successful and 1 that the Japanese attacks had been repelled. Ugly suspicions, however, had been rife during the day, owing to the absence oppress telegrams from Liao- 1 Yang, leading to the belief that the communications had been cut by General Kuroki. The following statement was obtained by the Assocated Press from the "war office at 10 o'clock p. m.: , "General Kuroki's army crossed !n force to the right bank of the Taitse river 2nd it, therefore, became necessary for the Russians to be in a position to repel a blow in this direction. "In view of this development in tne , "pperations General Kuropatkln decided to abandon his positions on the left tank and to concentrate his whole ar- J my on the other side of the river. This , position is the strongest, both in char- , o A+AT? on/1 in ftfn Tfin frroof fcona TV ill CkVCCl c.uu JU oil,?- ? ioo^?o ? ??* ( be finally decided'there. 5 ' j "By withdrawing to this petition the Russian army avoids the danger of be- , ing divided by the river and enjoys , the advantage of compactness. . "General Kuropatkin's move, there- , fore, Is not to be considered as a re- ( treat, but rather as the carrying out ] cf a well-defined Idea." The News from Tokio. j A Tokio dispatch of Thursday night says: At daybreak the Japanese army < on the left delivered a fierce and sue- I cessful assault against the heights to the west of Hsinlingtun and the high ground to the west of Skushanpao. It pierced the Russian lines and later , forced the retirement of the Russian troops from their position on the right and center. Marquis Oyama telegraphs that his losses in these as- \ saults were h5avy. It is believed that i General Kuropatkin has been sweep- j ingly defeated. , Japs Caught in Pitfalls. The battle Wednesday was of the 1 most desperate character. It raged ' continuously from dawn until midnight and the slaughter must have i been immense. i At 8 in the evening, after holding j his outer positions all day in the \ face of the most desperate charges, i General Kuropatkin gave the order to i retreat upon the main works about i the city. The Japanese assaults during the day had been directed principally against the Russian center a lit tie east of Maietung bill, near the rail road and three miles southwest of Liao-Yang. Nothing approaching the < severity of the infantry and artillery fire had been heretofore experienced in war. As soon as the Japanese found that the Russians were retiring from their i outer positions southward, they resumed the attack there, although it was lien ;quite dark. Thus pressed, the , Russians arrested their movement to ( the rear and again faced the Japanese. . With a view of eventual retirement from their outer positions, the Russians had dug a large number of pits ,-with. stakes concealed in their bot- ' | terns. The pits were fuliv concealed \ among the high Chinese corn. When J i the Japanese charged after the Russians they fell into the pits in hundreds and were engulfed and impaled on the stakes and t'neir lines were M < thrown into confusion. When the Russians faced about and returned to ' their old positions they found these death trap3 filled with dead and dying. 1 | HAVE MONEY IN PLENTY. I Georgia Banks Refute Report of Comp- j trcller of the Currency. Reports from all parts cf Georgia j are to the effect that the banks j throughout the state were never in j i better condition to meet any coming jv : demands for moving crops, than they j ; are at the present time, notwithstand- j i ing the report cf Comptroller of the | i Currency Ridgsiy to the contrary. More than this, the bank officials in ! : all parts of the state say that the de- j 1 mand this year will not be nearly as ' rrr/aot ta<it vonr heranso thp farm ! crs and planters have considerable ready money. j HITCH CAN'T ATTEND. : Captain Will Not Accompany Troops to Manassas Maneuvers. Captain R. M. Hitch, of the Oglethorpe Light Infantry, will not go to ] Manassas for the maneuvers. ' ; Captain Hitch announced to his com- ( ; pany that on account of His duties in 1 j connection with the court of inquiry ' that it would be impossible for him | to go with the company to Manaasaa. STATISTICS LEAK CUT. Chcrgs is Made that Crookedness Ex* is,ts in Agricultural Department at Washington. The publication of the monthly cotton report of the department cf agri- j culture at about 1:30 o'clock on the \ floor of the Savannah, Ga., cotton exchange Friday demonstrates that the exact figures of the report had. been known in Savannah half an hour hefore the receipt of the official report. The knowledge aroused great comment among the members of the exchange and a meeting of the committee on information and statistics was called. The committee sent the following telegram to Hon. James E. Wilson, secretary of agriculture, at Washington: ( "The committee on information and statistics of the Savannah cotton exchange begs to inform you that the exact figures of the agricultural bureau on cotton was here at least thirty minutes before publication by the department. We respectfully ask for an investigation." The comment of the members of 1 the cotton exchange took the form of expressions of this nature: i "If that's the way the agricultural department and the reports are going to be run, they had better abolish . them." i "This state of affairs could not exist 1 imder any other form of government than the present republican administration.^ . . "The evidences of a leak in the denotement nf tho statistician of the bU- i reau of agriculture have never been more pronounced than they are today, though since the practice of getting out a report cn the state of cotton charges of a leak have been made. The getting of the Information in Savannah over half an hour before It was supposed to be released at Washington seems to show pretty conclusively that the members of the local i cotton exchange have good grounds tor their indignation. . i A telegram was soon forthcoming < from the secretary of agriculture who wired Chairman Hunter, of the exchange. simply stating that it was mpossible that there could be a leak. WROTE SPEECH FOR HILL. An Enterprising Reporter Author of 1 "Roosevelt Fraud" Paragraph. An invetsigation by the Associated ! i Press discloses the fact that a number of serious errors were made in its < report of Senator D. B. Hill's speech at Deposit,* N. Y., on Thursday, August 25th It seems that a reporter of a local democratic paper on whom the Asso- J ciated Press depended upon for a report, failed to attend the meeting, but instead, he invented a speech for Senator Hill, which contained several statements wholly misrepresenting - * ? 5 - ?? ? ~ ~ J A TTO _ cue senators views ?uu qiwic at rianee with his utterances Among the phrases thus inserted as a part of the speech was one to the effect that j Senator Hill had charged President I Roosevelt with being a "fraud;" Sen- < ator Hill said nothing of the kind. This correction is made without the ! knowledge of Mr. Hill or any of his friends, but in the interest of accuracy for the Associated Press. ' SIX PEOPLE Dir. IN FLAMES. Oil Explosion Results in Holocaust at Yellow River, Ohio. Six persons were burned to death i-< and four terribly injured by a lire and | eil explosion at Yellow Creek, Ohio, j : The dead are: Mrs. Henry Fling, two children and three unknown men. The house of Fling was fired by a street lamp and the intense heat set | 1 fire to the rig of an oil well near the j : bouse. The flame; destroyed the der- J rick and communicated to the tank, 1 which was full of oil. : Before the occupants of the house 1 realised their danger a terrific- explosion occurred. The blazing oil was thrown all over the house and escape was cut off. The bodies were recov- J 2red after the fire was subdued. TO TEACH WILD FILIPINOS. Igcrrotes and Moros to Attend School ' at World's Fair. Arrangements liave been completed by the World's Fair management at ] St. Louis for the teaching of the Igcr- 3 rotes, Moros and Negritos the English , language, an da school will be regularly conducted at the Philippine reservation until the close of the exposition. The Negrito is cue of the most 1 primitive races known to the ethnologist and efforts to instruct the members of the tribe in English will be 1 watched with interest. RUSSIANS LOSE MANY GUNS. Report that 200 Were Left in Possession of JaP" at Liao-Yang. It is reported in St. Petersburg, but not confirmed, that General Kuropatrin was obliged to abandon two hundred guns at Liao-Yang. Seme of them, it is added, were damaged' in rhe fighting and the rest were disabled by order of the Russian commander-in-chief. INJOINS PLUMBERS Law is Invoked Against an Alleged Conspiracy. AN IMPORTANT MOVEMENT Charge Macte that Association Exists to "Freeze Out" All Master Plumbers 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, of Atlanta, and their agents, officers and employees, from seeking to prevent supply houses from dealing with M. C. Vandiver, the plaintiff in action. The temporar yinjunction was granted until September 2<?, 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 plaintiff that the Association of Master Plumbers has as one of its objects the "freezing out" of all plumbers and *- A ?1- - * +V,? coiuraciurs wnu uu uui ueiuug iu mc i association, and that supply dealers are not allowed to sell to outside plumbers, under the penalty of having all trade of members of the association withdrawn. ? M. C. Vandiver, in his petition, asks that the following parties be enjoined from operating against him through the supply houses: The Association of Master Plumbers of Atlanta; the State Association of Master Plumbers of Georgia, D. 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 Atlanta. 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, 19011, 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, rha plaintiff says: "The principal means used by de fendar.ts in their conspiracy to destroy petitioner's business was to threaten to withdraw .their patronage 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 o 1 the ur.ion, unless said houses or firms refused to sell petitioner, or any other ' plumber not a member of said associa- ' tion, material. < It is further alleged by the petitioner that he is at present doing plumbing work on a hotel in Louisville and the contract is worth $40,000. and that after he began the work he was re- i fused material because of the action j of the National Association of Master } Plumbers. -He exhibits a letter from 1 a supply company, in which he is told 1 that he could avoid ail further trouble ] by joining the Association of Master < Plumbers, of Louisviiie. fire rages in liao-yang. Such is Unconfirmed "report Which Has Reac-hed Tokio. A private dispatch received at Tokio Friday reports that great fires are raging at Liao-Yang. This statement t [s not confirmed officially. \ A few additional details of the prog- 1 ress of the battle at Liao-Yang also ( reached Tokio at a late hour of the ] day. ] General Kuroki's right is continuing ( to press the attack at Heiyingtai, ( seeking ground whence their guns , will dominate the railroad. < ] -IAlt "TRUSTY" LYNCHED. Negro Attacks White Girl With Knife and Mob Gets Him. At Laramie, Wyoming, Joe Martin, colored, was lynched by a mob of 300 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. I NEGROES AT MANASSAS.! I Presence of Company of Colored Troops at Maneuvers Cause Trouble at the Very Start. A very bitter feeling exists between j the regiments of southern troops and ! the colored contingent from Connee- I ticut attending the maneuvers at Ma- j nassas. Standing in a cluster of excited offi- ? cers, an officer in a Maryland regiment said: "It's all right as long as they keep the negroes 'on their side of the fi-eld. I don't see what they j wanted to bring them here for anyway. The negroes did not amount to much in war except as a casus belli. Now they rub them under our noses in the army maneuvers and give them a camp next to ours." A boyish looking subaltern belonging to a Georgia regiment entering along the road Monday met a squad of colored troops under command of a colored captain. It is the custom ! for subalterns to salute. The colored officer looked at th eGeorgia boy fixedly. The boy cantered on without recognizing him. On account of thi3 bitter feeling ev ery militia company is being searched for ball cartridges. Army officers throughout the field are greatly oxcited over the ill feeling engendered by the presence of colored troops, and are taking steps at this late hour to relegate them to guard 0uty at camp during the maneuvers. The r.Mef feeling developed Monday at General Grant's camp between soldiers of the First South Carolina infantry, the First Texas infantry and the First Georgia infantry on the one side and the colored Connecticut regiment. Many of the southern soldiers have declined to salute negro officers. It was discovered that in spite of precautionary measures taken,) ball cartridges have been brought iuto the two big camps. A rigid inspection was ordered Monday night and the belt of every soldier will be inspected before the companies go into action. Orders for a rush to positions were given in icth maneuver camps exactly at midnight Monday night. The "Blue" army, under General Grant, was put under way to attack the "Brown" army, inder General Bell. Ths orders of General Bell sent his forces towards his adversary at double quick. It is his desire to reach a position neir the center of the maneuver field and stop the attacking force, whose dut yit is to force a passage through Thoroughfare Gap. Careful estimates of these marches indicate that at. davhrealc a collision between the opposing forces will take place somewhere near Groveton, a memorable spot in the Bull Run field. From this first collision the "Brown" army can fall t ack, if necessary, to successive positions towards Thoroughfare. The plans of neither commander have been divulged, but the problem makes plain to military strategists the course that will be followed in all' likelihood. no thought of yielding. Russia Determined to Hold Out Against Defeat by Japs. Careful inquiry in official and diplomatic quarters in London establisn the fact that no hope prevails of ths termination of the war at this moment as a result of the series of victories obtained by the Japanese at Li30-Yaag. Russia, it is stated, emphatically doe3 not find the moment opportune to accept the good offices of any power. Japan, on the other hand, is known o be less discontented with the present situation, and would be willing to enter peace negotiations if Russia iculd be induced to do so. But Rusiii feels, according to statements made 'reely in Russian diplomatic circles that she cannot afford to accept peace until she has completely vindicated her military prestige, thereby reasserting ber influence in central and far eastern Asia. davis wins. in arkansas. Whole Democratic State J'cket Goes Through by Big Majority. TTariv returns from the state elec Jon in Arkansas indicate the re-elee:ion for governor of Jefferson Davis, the present democratic incumbent, Dver Hon. Harry Myers, republican, 1 by the usual large democratic major- i ity. The democrats easily elected their ' sntire state ticket, and the interest centered in the vote in large towns, i where the regular democrats were i Dpposed, in many instances, by inde- j pendents. CZAR GOING TO FRONT. Rumor to That Effect is Again Current in St. Petersburg. A St. 1'etersburg special, under Tuesday's date, says: The report thar the em^ercr will go to the front is again revived and seems to have foundation. it i3 known th:t the imper.aJ train has been fitted out for a long journey. " ' ''''' RACE TO MUKDEN 1 Japs Closely Prass Fleeing Army of Kuropatkin, RFAR GUARD RATTFRFn 1 I L. | 1 ? ? Vt W IIIS W t f 9 mm m w mm ^ ... Report that Retreat of Czar's Forces .Jm is Being Cut Off and Whole Army is in Danger of Being Surrounded. The forces of Kuropatkin and Oyama ere racing for Mukden. This much -%& stands out in the news of Monday and ^|| is indicated in a report forwarded tp St Pets *s burg by Kuropatkin, who 'jig says that his retreat--is being conducted in perfect order, though the Japan- . ./a| ese on Sunday repeatedly attacked his rear and continued the attack u?til Monday. The result of the race is in Joubt. The united Russian forces are now north of Yentai, a station on the rail-. way about 10 miles northeast of Liao Yan^ They are pushing on to Muk- . .-|IM den, to which the hulk of Japanese ;JS forces is marching direct, after." having swarmed across the Taitse river." A strong Japanese flanking column is about thirty miles northeast of Liao ' Yang and trying to get between the "Russian fnrces and Mukden.? t With this race in progress - there ' ?&& was a brief dispatch from Mukden :WM shying that preparations for the evac- J " uation of that place are proceeding. ' This report, if well founded, as is, pointed cut in the Associated Press |lf| St. Petersburg dispatches, would yB mean the sure abandonment of the -Jm: whole of southern Manchuria and the : f winding up of the present campaign. ;~9| It was reported in St Petersburg at a late hour Monday night that Kuro- ^ ;J|8| patkin's rear guard had been almost annihilate! and that the main Rus- v |;J| Sian anuy was in danger of being surrounded. -^9 Kuropstkin, in his report, makes no mention cf the abandonment of 20? .*Js| guns at I iao Yang, a rumor to which > M effect is in circulation. Advices from Port Arthur by way of Chef :o bring the fighting there up to September 2 and say the Japanese :jjK losses were heavy.'' \ News from St. Petersburg. ||| A special from St. Petersburg under *9^ Tuesdays date says: A summary of -'J?' the war situation to date shows that the whole Russian army, or at 'least M the main portion of it, is already above Yentai station, and is pushing -S on toward Mukden. Field Marsiiai uyamas enure army has crossed the Taitse river and vlB part of :< is hanging on to Kuropat- Js kin's hank. A strong flanking column on the east is pushing rapidly north in the- fan effort to l e2d off the Russians. *|l| Against this column Kuropatkin has vija sent out a strong cavalry division ot ,?j the norheast. which it is believed is .-5 already in position to check the Jap- v*j|M anese flankers, while to the westward Kuropatkin is moving a division towards Simintain, -30 miles west ot Mukden, to meet any interference jt9| that may be attempted from the di- ' iBj rection cf Yinkow or Niuchwang. -jgl Oyamr.'s advance is reported to be : engaging* the Russian rear, but it is 'Ja not ex.cected to develop anything 31 more serious than a series of rear guard actions tending to harass Kuropatkin's letreat. v|l ACCUSED MEN SURRENDER. An Aftermath of the Muchly Discuss* ed Statesboro Trouble. "Jjj Perry Barnes, Henry Barnes and -m| Wesley .Matters, charged with the ..M beating ?nd killing of the negro Se- - ^1 bastine McBride^ surrendered to Sher- V'-JI iff Kendrick at Statesboro, Ga., Monday. "CAS nilARn DECIMATED. - ":*H Japs Inflict Heavy Loss on Fleeing .]:0: Army of Kuropatkin. A St. Petersburg special, under Moa- ;^| day's date, says: "It is reported at a late hour that . : General Kuropatkin's rear guard has " & been almost totally annihilated, and . | [hat the main Russian army is in danger of being surrounded. Both ar- | oiies are racing for Mukden." 9 ,i|| A dispatch from Mukden, under same date ,is as follows: "Prepara- |j ticns for the evacuation of Mukden are proceeding. The Japanese are within thirty miles." '"^BE CHINESE REMOVE BODIES. Japanese Dead Lay in Great Heaps at % Port Arthur. Advices from Port Arthur say that r following the terrific bombardment of the fortress for the five days ending * v ^ September 1, heaps of Japanese bod- ' rjll ies were removed by the Chinese un- M der orders given by the Port Arthur authorities.