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"-;T / i-S" ' 'g II Mis BEATEN I I < Jap Armies Snatch a Great Victory. I < A KlOPiy ill fee Annihilation of the Czar's i : Forces Seems Imminent. t * Liao-Yang Eclipsed. K A dispatch to a Loudon news agency from Mukden, timed 2 p. in. Friday and received by way cf Paris, says the Japanese have gained a great victory and that the Russian lines are withdrawing slowly northward, having suffered heavy losses. The battle continues and dispatches are strictly cenSrV k sored. v " On both sides there have been such losses in kllied and wounded as mark the contest one of the bloodiest battles in history. Already the losses at Uao-Yang have been approximated, [. and the indications are that they will be exceeded, that of the Russians up to noon of October 14 being estimated at 15,000. The Russian advance has been con>? verted into a stubbornly fought retreat. The result, according to the Russians, is still to be determined. ' Reports from the Russian left wing are lacking, leaving room fbr question v If that part of Kuropatkin's army is not in worse extremity than the center and right were at any stage of the battle. On both sides the soldiers have shown the utmost tenacity and bravery whole regiments have gone down before the fire of the enemy. In official circles of St. Petersburg there is a disposition to argue that even should General Kuropatkin be obliged | to retire upon Mukden, his position I Kin oa If wo a whon I IT 1U UU 00 1C?T viak/xv HO AV V* U.W the order was given on October 6, and that, on the other hand, the Japanese powers or future resistance will have been materially weakened. \ * According to a Mukden dispatch the fighting raged aK day Friday with the same bitterness as on the previous days of the engagement and the result is still in the balance. The losses * on both sides are enormous, that of the Russians being 15,000. Wounded soldiers are being brought in from all directions. The roads are crowded with long trains of wagons, iistsg3.se end transport wagons, as well as ambulances, being pressed into service. Even across the fields you meet them taking the shortest and quickest road for help and shelter, j, , It is the most pitiajle feature of the bloody drama being enacted at the i. front, when stiffening with wounds, painracked bodies sink into the roadside affer the suprort of the danger i and glory of the active fight have been , withdrawn. I . ? The London Daily Chronicle's cor* respondent at Yentai, telegraphing on October 12, via Fusan, Octooer 14. says: T>??nr?'n m a Hoolr foila/? Atrovtr. I i- V XUC uudo:an cuava where and they are in full retreat all along the wnole line, pursued by thb Japanese.' Thirty Russian guns we/b captured. The Japanese turning movement is pressing the Russians hack to Mukden. The Russians made sixteen counter attacks with sp^ndid bravery, sacrificing themselves" freely, but ! unavailingly." Guns and Ammunition Captured. Advices to the Japanese legation in , London say that the report of MarSuis Ovama giving details of the operations below Mukden on Tuesday and Wednesday, which were previously described in the Associated Press dispatches from Tokio, seems to make the total of Russian guns captured > thirty-eight and ammuniiTon wagons cwenty-four. POLICE ARREST EACH OTHER. / After Bloody Scrap Both March to Station Arm in Arm. Officers Phillips and Doyal, two Atlanta policemen, appeared at headquarters Friday afternoon, each under arrest of the other, and told a sail story of how they had disputed and # "fit." Officer Doyal showed the effects of the encounter, his face being bloody. Shief Ball immediately suspended both men for fighting while on duty and ordered them to appear before the recorder for trial for disorderly con duct. COTTON WAREHOUSE BURNED. Four Hundred Bales of the Fleecy Go Up tn Srr.cke at Perry. R. L. Marchman's iron warehouse at ' Perry, Ga., was burned Sunday afternoon about 3 o'clock. Origin of fire is unknown. There was 400 bales of * cotton burned, with about $13,000 insurance cn cotton. The less on the building is $1,800. Mr. Marchman was doing business on the same lot when his warehouse and 300 bales of cotton were burned Janurary 15, 19C3. ' .. . I VOTERS "SCRATCHED" JUDGES. ] Peculiar Variation in Figures Cast For Georgia Judiciary. Consolidation was completed Thursday by the secretary of state of the returns for superior court judges, voted for in the recent Georgia state election. Judge J. H. Martin, of the Oconee rirvniit the ticket with 61.041 votes, the lowest vote given was tor Judge L. S. Roan, of the Stone Moun tain circuit, GO,432. Returns from all of the 137 counties had been received during the day, and those gave the total vote for Secretary of Sta' e Philip Cook, who led the ticket, as 70,266. Attorney General John C. Hart received 6S,024 votes; Comptroller General William A. Wright, 6S,0S0; State Treasurer R. E. Park, 67.9S3; Commissioner of Agriculture O. B. Stevens, 67,926: State School Commissioner W. B. Merritt, 67,93(5; Prison Commissioner Joseph S. Turner, 67,9S7; Chief Justice Thomas J. Simmons, 65,962; Associate Justice William H. Fis% 65,939; Associate Justice Joseph R. Eamar, 65,803; Associate Justice Beverly D. Evans, 65,906. Secretary Cook does not consolidate the vote for governor, as that is done by the state legislature. It is understood, however, that the governor received about 66.000 or 67.000 votes. The total vote for the state ticket will amount to about 70,000. - It will be noticed that the vote for the superior court judges is nearly 10,000 behind the ticket, which is rather a remarkable defection in view of the fact that none of them had any opposition. It can be accounted for only on the theory that many voters thought they were expected to vote only for the judge of their own circuit and scratched all the others. This becomes more evident when it is CQnsiderevi that each superior court judge led the ticket in his own circuit, but fell behind in the others. In Irwin county, for instance, Judge Martin received 679 votes, whfle none of the other judge were voted for at all. Another interesting fact is that in Gilmer county, which went for Hon. N. A. Iorris . in the primary, Judge Gober led the ticket among the judges by 444 votes, The total vote on the constitutional amendment regarding local taxation for school purposes in the 137 counties was 30,555 for ratification and 20,411 against ratification, a majority of 10,144 in favor of the amendment. An interesting fact in this connection is that Whitfield is the only county in the state in which there was not an adverse vote to any of the four constitutional amendments. They were given in that county a total of 987 votes. JOKE ENDS IN TRAGEDY. Youth Attempts to Scare Brother and is Instantly Killed. Near Tifton, Ga., Thursday afternoon, three sons of J. R. Owens were returning: from a neighbor's, where they had been picking, cotton, when the two smaller ones, Barney, aged about 15, and a younger brother, ran on aliead of the older boy, Jack, aged about 17. It was near dark, and when, within about two hundreds yards of the house, Barney told his brother to go on and he would hide and give Jack a scare. He concealed himself behind a fallen tree near the road, and as Jack came along, he made a slight noise. The older boy could just catch a glimpse of a sleeve and part of nis hat below the log, and thought in the dusk it was a polecat. He supposed both his brothers were at the house long before, indeed, took no thought of them at all. He always carried a gun, and raising the weapon fired at the object under the log. Going to see what ne had shot, he found his brother writhing in the agonies of death, the entire charge of No. 5 shot having taken effect in the left side of his head and his left snoulder. To Fight Saloons in Alabama. Representative Anti-Saloon League men all over Alabama will assemble in Birmingham, to launch an organized movement against the saloon in Alabama. WANT COLLEGE IN ATLANTA. Mississippi Presbyterian Synod Favors Georgia Capital as Location. The leaders of the Presbyterian church in Mississippi are anxiously awaiting the decision of the chancery court of Montgomery county, Tennes see, on the injunction proceedings instituted to prevent the removal of the Southwestern Presbyterian University from Clarksville, Tenn., to Atlanta, Ga. The injunction writ was given a hearing several days ago, and is now under advisement. QUEER DISEASE ATTACK CATTLE Affected Animals Show Symptoms Similar to Hydrophobia. A strange disease is afflicting cattle and hogs around Alapaha, Ga., seven teen miles east of Tifton, in Berrien county. They are attacked very much as if with rabies, and will fight or run at anything in sight. They -foam at the mouth and exhibit every symptom, apparently, of hydrophobia. M / - . V. A -A::-; OYAMA IS PLEASED Progress of Fight Satisfactory to Jap Field Marshal. RUSSIANS DRIVEN BACK I i i Advantages Gained by Kuropatkin's Forces are Lost and Positions Abandoned?Fierce Fighting on All Sides. Thursday's dispatches state that no appreciable progress has been made in the projected advance southward of the Russian army under General Kuropatkin since the initial success of the movement in the capture of Bentsian- j utze. Fighting of the most stubborn description continues along the entire front. Field Marshal Oyama reports the capture, of 30 guns from the Russian's and claims distinct successes in forcing the Russians to retire from some of their advanced positions. General Kuropatkin's report to Emperor Nicholas is couched in guarded terms and claims nothing in the way cf accomplished results. Reports from the Russian military commander at Port Arthur show that the Japanese have brought a shell fire to bear on the inner fortress. The garrison, however, is represented to be hopeful of the outcome of the siege. News from Japanese headquarters is to the effect that the victory of the | Japanese ien army weuuusuaj waa a decisive one. The Russians fought bravely and several times attempted counter attacks. The Japanese repulsed them every time and continued their steady advance. The left wing of the left army threatened to envelop the Ru^ian right, compelling the Russians to retreat. The Japanese artillery, including the batteries captured from the Russians, did their usual splendid work in shelling the trenches and the retreating Russians. A Tokio special of Thursday says: It is reported that the Russians are 1 *U? + C I i Clli iUg diuug luc culixc uuiit aau cuai the Russian force at Benzihu is probably enveloped. General Oku has captured twentyfive Russian guns, making a total of about thirty Russian guns which have fallen into the hands of the Japaneso since the battle began. A Mukden special says: The battle south of this place continued throughout Wednesday with ever increasing fury. In respect of desperateness, bravery and bloodshed, it far exceeds even the battle of Liao-yang. Towards evening the Japanese repeatedly assumed the offensive. The fight continues today with unabated fury and determination. It is now the fourth day of the battle. A Tokio dispatch under Thursday's date is as follows: The latest telegrams from the front-indicate the continuation of Japanese success. General Oku's left army alone bagged 25 guns. The Russians made two desperate counter-attacks against the Japanese left, but were repulsed with heavy slaughter. The Japanese commanders in their reports give expression to their ad miration of the valor of the Russians. It is yet too early to measure the results of the tremendous struggle which has been waged for the past three days south of Mukden, but all reports reaching Tokio Indicate that General Kuropatkin has been decisively whipped and severely punished. The Russian commander was evidently caught while making his dispositions with'his forces scattered and he was beaten before he could, recover. Much depends on the ability and resolution of the Japanese In applying and following up their advantages. Kuropatkin may turn up in favorable ground and succeed iD beating back the Japanese onslaught, but the tide seems against him.' The Japanese have begun a desperate effort to turn the Russian right, and if -this effort should be successful, it will, carry disaster to the Russian arms. elopers die together. With Hands Clasped Robert Gill and Bessie Stone a ft Found Dead. Miss Bessie Stone and Robert Gill, who eloped f/ >m Ashland, Va., Tues-' day, were found dead with their hands clasped, near a pond in that vicinity Thursday by a searching party. ? 1 1 . it. _ 1 5 i t_ A Dunet noie in me neau 01 eacu told the story of supposed double suicide, or murder and suicide. Miss Stone was shot behind the ear and Gill in the forehead. Gill had taken off his coat and vest. The indications'are that he killed the girl and then shot himself. MAMMOTH DEAL 1N TIMBER. Chicago Parties Buy 600,OX) Acres of Mississippi Pine Lands. The Edward Hines Lumber Company, of Chicago, * has closed a deal in Jackson, Miss., for the purchase of 600,000 acres of pine timber lands m Harrison and Pearl River counties." the price paid 'being about two and -one-half million dollars. This is the largest timber deal made in the state for many years. \ INSULTER SHOT DEAD, Irate Husband Goes Gunning for Citizen Who Called at His Home During His Absence. > -j- _____ Hotirv A. Videtto, a well Known ana popular citizen of Augusta," Ga., is dead in the city hospital from a wound in the spine, and H.- D. Chapman, assistant ticket agent at the union depot, is in jail, charged with tne shooting, all of whicn is the result of an insult offered by Videtto to Mrs. Chapman Friday morning. Videtto went to the Chapman home while the head of the family was ai work and made improper advances to the pretty young matron of not more than twenty-one years of age. She told her husband of the episode anti in an altercation that followed in the store ot the dead man Friday night the shooting took pjace. In an ante-mortem statement made at the hospital, Videtto admitted having gone to the home of Mrs. Chapman and made the proposals alleged. He said, however, that he did it on account of loving messages brought him by Mrs. Chapman's servant and which the servant said were sent oy Mrs. Chapman. He said the appointment for him to call was made by this servant. He admits that when he called Mrs. Chapman repelled him indignantly and denied that she had ever sent any messages. He then apologized ancr"T?egged her to say nothing to her nusband. Chapman says that he was summoned to his father in law's house from his work Friday morning and found his wife there very hysterical. She to?;' him what had occurred and her statement coincides with that of Videtto, except that Mrs. Chapman claims that she faced Videtto and the servant and that the servant denied absolutely ever having given Videtto any message. Chapman says he consulted with his relatives and went to Videtto's store' to horsewhip him. Videtto admitted what he had done and offered full and complete apolc\y, but Chapman insisted on the horsewhip. Videtto says he started to telephone the police and was shot in the back. Chapman says he thought that Videtto was going to his desk for a gun. Videtto requested in his ante-mortem statement that Chapman not be prosecuted a:a'd Chapman regrets the trouoie. Videtto leaves a family with children almost as old as Mrs. Chapman. Both parties to the shooting are well known and popular. TREASURY DEFICIT SHOWN. Expenditures Grow as.Revenues Decrease?Ninety-Five Millions Off. Ellis H. -Roberts, treasurer of the United States, has submitted to Secretary Shaw the annual report on the transactions of the treasury during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1904. The net ordinary revenues are show^ to have been $540,631,724, a decrease of $19,764,925, as compared with 1903 and the net ordinary expenditures $582,402,321, an increase of $76,303,314. In the receipts the principal fall ing off was $23,205,017 in customs, while in the disbursements the important increases were $11,423,446 in commerce and labor, $60,788,580 in treasury proper, and $20,338,067 for the navy.' Unusual expenditures were $00,000,000 on the' account of the Panama canal and $4,600, loaned to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, which latter has now been nearly all paid. But for these the recorded deficiency of $41,770,571 would have been changed to a surplus of $12,829,428. In consequence of the deficiency in the revenues the cash in the offices of the treasury and mint declined during the year from $170,020,562 to $137,520,264, and by October 1 to $125,964,888. The available balance including deposits in national banks and other credit, was $238,688,144 on June 30, 1903, and $151,419,162 on October 1, 1904. Many Rural Routes in Carolina. The number of rural free delivery mail routes in North Carolina has reached 726, this showing a growth of nearly 50 per cent in twelve njonths. MULES COLLIDE WITH MOODY. Attorney General Comes in Contact With a Runaway Team. At Washington Friday, Attorney General William H. Moody, who re . i turned eariy in tne aay irorn a campaign trip, met with what might have been a serious accident not long after his arrival. While he was taking an early morning horseback ride, a team of runaway mules collided with his h'orse near the department. The collision was of such force that the attorney general was thrown to the pavement. Fortunately, he alighted in such a manner as to sustain no injury beyond a shaking up. COTTON OIL MILL BURNED. Tons of Seed and Cords of Wood Also Destroyed. The Jersey cotton oil mill at Jersey, Walton county, Ga., ten miles north of Covington, together with 100 tons of cotton seed and 1,500 cords of woon, was destroyed by fire at 4 o'clock Thursday morning. By hard work tne ginnery and oil tanks were saved. | Eli****M-1 niiinmiiHj \-i *' ^ f Cream of News.f t * Brief Summary of Most Important Events / of Each Bay. | . ?Ten million one hundred and j seventy one thousand is the figure ! at which the agricultural officials of | the cotton-growing states, in session, at Baton Rouge, La., estimate the ' cotton crop this year. ?The will of the late Postmaster General Henry Payne has been filed for probate in Milwaukee. The estate is estimated in value at $700.000, on which it is said $600,000 is personal and $100,000 real estate. ?The Southern Railway announces | that the new doubl-e track between Washington city aiid Orange, Va., | which has been constructed by this company is open. The distance between Washington and Orange is 85 miles. ?The first snow of the season fell at Albany, Schenectady and a number of other places up the state In New York on the 12th. It melted, however, as fast as it fell. ?Plans have been adopted for the memorial to Andrew H. Greene, known as the father of Greater New York, who was murdered at the door on his home by a negro last year. ?King George, of Saxony, after a long illness, is dead in Dresden. Prince John George, who succeeds him, and the Princess Mathilda were at the bedside. ?Admiral Dewey has again offered to assume command of the combined fleet of the Carribbean and direct the winter maneuvers. If his services can be spared from the presidency of the^ general board at that time, Secretary Morton will accept the admiral's offer. ?A movement has begun in Ralieg'a N. C., which has the ardent support of the state officers, for the erection of a statue of the late United States Senator Matt W. Ransom. ?Three United States soldiers were killed and eight injured, one fatally, by the premature explosion of powder as a ten-inch mortar was being loaded at Fort Bank, Winthrop, off Boston harbor. ?J. M. Culp, fourth vice president of the Southern Railway, has been elected to the office of third vice president. ms headquarters will be in Washington. ?The president is preparing to redeem his promise to the delegates to the inter-parliamentary peace conference to secure another meeting of plnipotentiaries of the powers signa- j tory to The Hague convention. ' ' ?D. O. Poolman, with several aliases, is under arrest at Mansfield, O., charged with numerous embezzlements and forgeries, by which railway companies were the chief sufferers. -' ?Miss Bessie Stone and Robert Gili, eloped from Ashland, Va., were found dead with their hands clasped near a pond in that vicinity by a searching party. A bullet hole in the head of each told the story of supposed suicide. ?Commemorative of the four hundred and twelth. anniversary of the landing of Columbus on the Island of Salvador, exercises were held at the world's fair October 12 in honor of "Italian day." ?Baron Egmont August Karl Thasf>ilo von Tresckow, aged 64 years, a Prussian nobleman, died at his home on Hobkirk, hill, Camden, S. C.. a few* days ago. , ?General Kuropatkin'3 southern advance has been beaten back and his army is in retreat. He is, however, fighting doggedly, so as to spare the Russian army from utter rout. ?Representatives of the Mormon | Chur^i of Utah are negotiating for ! the purchase of a tract of 300,000 acres ofl and in the state of Tabasco, Mexico. I '?The bag factory of William Scull & Co., at Camden, N. J., wholesale dealers in coffee, tea and spices, was gutted by fire. Loss $100,000. ?The house of deputies of the Episcopal general convention, in session at Boston, as a committee of the whole, voted 214 to 191 in favor of reporting to the house the canon amendment ??Tc^lding the re-marriage Qf any divorced person. ?Two more alleged wMtccappers are in the toils of the law down in Lincoln county, Miss., David and Sam Posey having been arrested and lodged in jail at Brookhaven cn the charge of shooting into the house of Professor Z. B. Greaves, a prominent citizen. ?The Edward Kines Lumber Company, of Chicago, has closed a deal in Jackson, Miss., for the purchase of 600,000 acres of pine timber lands in Harrison and Pearl River counties, the price paid being aoout two and onehalf million dollars. I ?The North Carolina state pension board finds there are 15,316 Confederate pensioners this year, who will receive a total of $200,000. Widow and fourth class pensioners get $14 a year. . * ' ANCIENT TARIFFS KNIFED -|| Georgia Railroad Commission Reveals > Some Interesting Racts Regard- - ing Old Standard of Rates. ^ 'fjS Some interesting flgures have been prepared by Hon. Joseph M. Brown, .iaM of the Georgia railroad ocmmission, going to show that the standard tariff || which was fixed by the commission TBK some twenty-five years ago, is really not now effective because the railroads themselves have cut and slash- ;-3 | ed it to suit the occasion and their Commissioner Brown takes, for oxample,. a series of important rates. those which haye figured largely in the rate contest now going on before \?j^m the commission in behalf of Atlanta and other points in the state. For instance, the standard tariff fixed by the commission between Savannah and Atlanta is as follows: ' ^lapl Class 1, $1; class 2, 91 cents; class 3, 73 cents; class 4, GO cents; class 5, ||||| 48 cents; class 6, 41 cents. But these are not by any means the rates in -'?fB existence from Savannah to Atlanta, v^gSJI the railroads having made a schedule' %? via of their own, which is as follows: Class 1, 09 cents; class 2, 66 cents; class 3, 51 cents; class 4, 43 cents; class 5, 35 cents; class 6, 33 cents. It will .-iffiBja be seen that these rates are from 20 ot 40 per cent below those fixed by the commission. In the reverse direction from Atlan- -'^8 ta to Savannah the discrepancy is :j|g even greater. In other words, Atlanta J can ship to Savannah cheaper, than she can get goods shipped from that city. The standard tariff made by the commission is the same in both v?W directions, but the difference is made ; by the railroads. The standard tariff 'Jj -<J?| on the first six classes from Atlanta I j|H to Savannah is the same as that giv- |9|9 en above from Savin Rah to Atlanta. ^ -^8 But here are the rates charged by the railroads ^ from Atlanta to Savannah: ,,j|' flaH Class 1, CI cents; class 2, 51 cents; -mIIm class 3, 50 cents; class 4, 46 cents; yjpjM class 5, 39 cents; class G, 30 cents. Many pther examples might be glven. The commtesion's tariff between:jfljM Savannah and Rome is on class $1.10; the rate charged by the rail- ;|aH roads is 74 cents. . The commission's;^ 9j rate between Savannah and Athena^ 9 is >1; the' railroads charge G9 cerii^JB B The commission's tariff from Savaa^K||n nah to Columbus is 9C cents on class ^ v#H 1; the railroads charge 69 cents. From Savannah to Macon the commission's tariff is 88 cents on first-class; the j| "-M8 railroads charge 64 cents. * Discrepancies of this kind might be multiplied ad infinitum, but they\^'IM| are sufficient to show that the railroads have manipulated the standard 'ja tariff as fixed by the commission suit their own conveniences. And yet B every time the question of rates comes >ms|M to the front the cry is "Let the standaad tariff alone." % Jy|H And'so it was whan the Savannah .^Scommittee urged that the standard 'JIM tariff should be let, alone, Commte^M jfcj sioner Brown presented these and oth-*B^9 er figures to show that the railroads |sBilM themselves had not let the standard -J rJBj tariff alone. The railroads, Commissioner Browq ;'qf said, were created by the state of./JM|?0 Georgia. Shall it be held that the cre-vS'.'-'^S ator cannot do what is permitted to the created? If the railroads can reduce the standard tariff at will and s j matp if suit their own purposes, can- ; not the railroad commission order reductions In that same tariff where, to |9 its mind, the occasion for them arises? The railroads do not seem to think Jg :3a so; hence the contest that is now in progress between tnem and the state in the United States court. MUST GO TO THE PEN. ? - KS Three Men Guilty of Issuing Fraudulent Naturalization Papers. ' The United States court of appeals at St. Paul has handed down an ?piniop affirming the verdict of the United '| VSM Scates district court in St. Louis, in finding John P. Dolan, Frank Garrett, and Thomas E. Barrett guilty of aiding and abetting, in ^902, in securing Ijffl fraudulent naturalization papers for a ^ number of Italians. The sentence of a fine of $1,000 each -.si and five years' imprisonment at hard labor was also affirmed. CHILDREN DIE IN FLAMES. . "JrJS Holocaust in Tenement District of Brooklyn Caused by Incendiaries. Six lives weer lost, nearly a score bf persons were injured and -the loss of more than a hundred tnousand dollars were endangered in an early morning tenement house fire in the Williamsburg section in Brooklyn, N. Y.,? MbnWith one exception all the dead are children, and of eight who "were so badly hurt that they were removed to a hospital, the oldest is a fourteen- '~0 year-old- girl. Incendiaries are thought been responsible for the fatal fire. STEAMBOAT INSPECTORS FIRED. Vajlf President Removes Official Because of X-^l the Slocum Horror. >^g President Roosevelt, Monday, removed from office Robert S. Rodie, supervising inspector of the steamboat In- M "M spection service, second district, lo- .&? . 'J cated at New York. This action was taken on the account of the disclosure in the report of the national com mis- 'laali sion, appointed to investigate the General Slocum disaster. ;