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RUSSIANS A Togo Swoops Down m the Straits of K His Great Flee NINETEENARE SUNK Three Battleships, Admiral , xi-i Q GGGAfon l> cuugauuii. and. u jvw Captured?Not a Single Jap Warship Injured. Togo has met and vanquished Roj- : estvensky. The embargo on naval news was raised at Tokio Monday ; morning and the Associated Press announced that the the great naval bat- ; ile was fought Saturday and Sunday in the Straits of Korea, the Japan- : ese obtaining a complete and over- ; whelming victory. Rojestvensky's ; fleet, composed of his most effective and powerful ships, was completely shattered. Further .advices confirm the magni- ; tude of the disaster suffered by the Russian fleet, and point to the fact ' that the Russians' hopes, so far as t.-o? ic nnrioprnpd. now lie in I ClliO ? Cii. AW , whatever may be accomplished by { the oft-beaten army in Manchuria. An official report received from Tokio by the Japanese legation at Washington ; ony Monday evening, says that the i Russian losses definitely known include two battleships, a coast defense ; ship, five cruisers, two special ships, and three destroyers sunk, and two < battle ships, two coast defense ships, < one destroyer and one special service < ship captured, while over 3,000 pris- i oners have been taken, including Rear Admiral Nebogatoff. Vice Ad-* i miral Rojestvensky appears to have i escaped. The Japanese, at last ac- l counts, were still pursuing the Rus- ; sians, and it may be some time be- 1 fore the final result is known. According to Associated Press reports, the number of Russian vessels destroyed or sunk up to late Monday < night stood a nineteen. None of thb ; Japanese warships were injured. ] How Conflict Began. < According to the correspondent of 1 The London Daily Mail at Seoul, : Korea, early on Saturday. morning, < Vice Admiral Togo, with practically i all the powerful fighting ships of the i Japanese navy, was at Masampho, Korea, when wireless signals from his < scouts between Tsu and Quelpart Islands announced the approach of i the Russian fleet in full force. A few hours later, the scouts reported that the Russians were not ascending the western channel as had been anticipated, Hut they were com- i ing up the eastern channel, which : caused some surprise. Admiral Togo immediately started at full speed around the north of Tsu islands, and, when he doubled ' the island, he saw the Russians com- 1 ing in two columns. He then brought a terrific fire to bear on the flank of the port column, and as the Russians fell into disorder, then forced them steadily eastward towards the Japanese coast, where they were attacked by every vessel that flew tie Japanese flag. Repeated torpedo attacks were delivered, some of them with greatest success. The vessels which escaped, the correspondent says, will probably be able to reach Vladivostok. Nicholas Weeps Over Disaster. A St. Petersburg special says: After waiting vainly all day and evening j for direct news from the scattered j remnants of Vice Admiral Rojestven- j sky's destroyed and beaten fleet, the j Russian admiralty at midnight no j longer attempted to hold out against the overwhelming evidence pouring! in from all directTons that the fleet ! on which all their hopes were centered, had suffered a greater disaster than did the combined French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar. More bitter even than defeat is the ' Japanese claim of the virtual annihi- j lation of the Russian fleet with prac-! tically no loss on their side, and many ! officers cling doggedly to the belief i that Vice Admiral Togo must have j suffered heavily. With every ship of Rear Admiral j Nebogatoff's reinforcing division, eith-! er sent to the bottom or forced to ! strike its flag and only six oT Rojest- j FOUR PICNIUI\fcK5> UKU w Two Men and Two Women Lose Lives in James River. Frederick Lee, Frank Gray, Miss I Lou Rhodes and Miss Sarah Gates, all j of Springfield, Mo., were drowned in j the James river, near the city, Sun- j day. They were members of a picnic par- J ty, and their boat capsized while they j were trying to cross a mill pond, j um Upon Rojestvensky orea and Shatters t of Warships. vensky's original sixteen fighting ships absent from the list of vessels sunk or captured, and with the Japanese pursuit still continuing, no naval authority has the temerity to dream that Russia can again attempt to wrest the mastery of the sea from Japan in the present war. The captured vessels alone will furnish Japan with ready-made reinforcements, which will be more than a match for the fourth Pacific squadron now about to sail from Cronstadt. The emperor was completely prostrated by the news, and, according to reports, he broke down and wept. The effect of the disaster will be a terrible blow to the government. The futility of trying to stagger on, on land, is everywhere recognized, and the cry for "peace at any price" is sure to be raised. This time, it is believed, the government cannot resist such a cry. Indeed the radical liberals are openly rejoicing in this hour of their country's humiliation. They declare that the disaster means peace and a constitution, and that the deaths of thousands of their fellow-countrymen and the loss of over a hundred million dollars' worth of warships is not too big a price to pay. The friends of peace in the government are already reproaching the war party with forcing the issue between Togo and Rojestvensky. When the fleet appeared in the strait of Malacca they tried vainly to persuade the emperor that the time was opportune for the opening of peace negotiations, but the war party convinced his maj esty and Rojestvensky, for tne nonor of the navy, insisted that- the fleet should be given a chance to retrieve the disasters suffered on land. Diplomats entertain no doubt that the belligerent faction will continue to urge that the war be fought to the bitter end, but the friends of Russia abroad, and especialy France, are now bringing overwhelming arguments to bear in favor of peace. Japs Rejoice Greatly. The news of Togo's great victory over Rojestvensky set all Japan in a wild delirium of joy. While there never has been a doubt in the minds of the people of the ability of Togo to smash the Russians when they met, the long delay and impenetrable secrecy maintained had caused a condition of nervous tension, which has now given way to unconcealed elation, which grows as the magnitude Df the victory becomes apparent. The last doubt of complete Japanese success has been removed by Togo's magnificent victory, and it is said, on high authority, that the land opera tions will be pusned witn great vigor now, and an effort will be made, without delay, to cut off the entire Russian army in Manchuria. List of Ships Sunk. In the battle fought Saturday in the Strait of Korea, the Russian battleships Borodino and Alexander III, the armored * cruisers Admiral Nakahir, Dmitri Donskoi and Vladimir Monomach, the coast defense iron clad Admiral Oushakoff, the protected cruisers Svietlana and Jemoituchig, the repair ship Kamchatka and the cruiser Irtessin were sunk. The battleships Orel and Nicholdi I and the coast defense iron ciads Admiral Seniavin and General Admiral Upraxine were captured. According to later advices, the Japanese, in addition to the ships already named, captured the Russian battleship Sissoi Veliky and the Russian flagship was seriously damaged. Reports were current on the stock exchange in London purporting to be from authqritative private sources that Admiral Rojestvensky's private ship, Kniaz Souvaroff, was among the vessels sunk, and that the Japanese were following up the Russians and picking off their ships one by one. Greatest Since Trafalgar. A dispatch from Berftn, Germany, says: Naval critics in the evening papers accept, without reserve, the dispatches f*rom Tokio and build on them the view that the war nas en:e:v:a upon the last phase in which the Japanese command of the sea will continue unthreatened until the end. The battle of Saturday is called the greatest fleet action for a hundred years, or since Trafalgar, and is classed as being immensely greater than the Adriatic sea fight in 1S66 or the naval battle of Santiago in 1898. TORNADO SWEEPS WEST. Many Towns in Indian Territory Hard Hit by Furious Storm. The towns of Platter, Woodville, Call, Roberta and Colbert, on the Frisco railroad, in Indian Territory, were visiK?l by a tornado early Saturday. Only meager advices are procurable, owing to communication being cut off. A section foreman walked to Red River bridge and gave the first news of the storm. ! JAIL AWAITS STRIKERS, } I i | Heads of Labor Unions in Chicago Stand Chance of Being Imprisoned for Contempt of CojrL Final rejection of union teamsters' demands, especially those of the express drivers, was officially announced a: Chicago Wednesday by the employers. The employers demand unconditional surrender. The employers sent their goods all over the city under police protection without. encountering violence. The strilze in the lumber yards n-itVi crroat raniditv and near* ly all lumber business is at a standstill. Some few lumber yards are still in operation, but their volume of business is small. A number of planing mill and sash and door factories will be compelled to close entirely if the supply of lumber is not largely increased. One cause for the lack of energy on the part of the employers in the lumber yards during the day was that the city was unable to afford drivers police protection. Mayor Dunne provided against this contingency by issuing a call for 1,000 extra police, who will be sworn in as soon as applications are filed by suitable men. This will be the second 1,000 extra policemen sworn in since the beginning of the strike. Sheriff Barrett also swore in several hundred deputies, the largest number at any one time since the strike began. President C. P. Shea of the teamsters' union, James B. Barry, busiless agent of the express drivers' unon; Bernard Mulligan, president 01 :he express drivers' union, and John 3. Donahue, a member of the express Irivers' union, will appear before fudge Kohlsaat, in the United States :ourt. Attorney Mayer, acting for the employers' association, will ask that ;he men be sent to jail on a charge 3f contempt of court in refusing to answer questions before Master in Chancery Sherman, wnich questions ihey had previously been ordered to answer by the court Twelve Indicted for Murder. The grand jury indicted twelve men n connection with the death of Chas. Carlstrom, the member of the carriage makers' union, who died aa the result of the beating he received at ihe hands of thugs, hired bjr-the offitials of the union, according to their own story. The indicted men are George Meller, formerly president of the union; Henry J. Neuman, secretary; Chas. J. Casey, business agent; six members of the executive committee of the union, and Charles Gilhooley, Mareus Looney and Edward Feeley, the ihree men who, it is alleged, were tiired by the officials of . tie union lo beat men who did not go on strike or took the strikers' places. ir The indictments charge manslaughter and conspiracy to commit bodily injury. The autopsy showed thatths ieath of Caristrom was due directly :o pneumonia. The physicians de:iared that the disease was probably (he result of injuries he received, but .t was no tthe direct cause of death, +Via mon nnnM nnf therefore. he AUU IU^ UiVU VV??V4 ? >? ? ?. ? ? charged with murder. OHIO DANK CLOSES DOORS. Cashier Leaned Too Much Money to the vice President The Canton state bank, at Canton, Ohio, with individual deposits of more than $600,000, closed its doors Wednesday. The failure was brought about by heavy loans to W. T. Davis, vice president of the bank, by the cashier, C. B. Bachtell, without the consent of the other directors. PRESIDENT HOLDS ALOOF. Not Disposed to Interfere m Insurance Company Row. An effort was made Wednesday, at Washington, to induce President Roosevelt to take an interest in the affairs of the Equitable Life Assurance society. Clarence Whitman, president of the Merchants' Association of New York, had a conference with the president on the subject, but was given rule encoui^gement. TAFT LAUNCHES HIS BOOM. Was Hero of the Hour at Ohio Re? publican State Convention. A special from Columbus, Ohio, says: While the big secretary of war, in his keynote speech at Wednesday's republican convention, careruiiy refrained from saying anything bearing upon his own political future, he was in reality the hero of the hour, and his presidential boom may fairly be said to have been launched. The republicans of Onio were represented by more than 1,100 delegates when the state convention to nominate governor and other state officers was called to order. DEATH GRIPS A ROTHSCHILD. Head of Great Banking House in France Passes Away in Paris. Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, head j of the French branch of the banking house bearing the name of Rothschild, and governor of the Bank of j France, died in Paris Friday morning j from acute bronchitis aggravated by j gout. The eminent financier had been j sinking slowly for many days, it THE TARIFF NO BAR j ! I I To Purchasing Canal Mate-! rial in Foreign Markets I IS DECLARATION OF TAFT j I Congress Was Asked to Lay Down i Rule, But Refused, and the President Will Act on His Own Initiative. The celebration of the twenty-fifth j anniversary of the Cincinnati Commercial Club closed in that city Friday night with a notable banquet, where the speakers discussed vital questions of the day. The cities which were represented at the banquet were Boston, Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati. Secretary of War Taft made the principal speech of the evening. The secretary said in part: "If the Panama canal were inside the territory of the United States, of course all the material used on the canal could pay duty or be bought in the United States, but as the construction of the canal is a number of days' journey from the tariff wah of the United States, it presents exactly the same as is presented in the i case of the Philippine Islands. Now, I if congress wants to pay more than I France was willing to pay, then they j are welcome to do so, but in the absence of a rule we feel we must carry out the rule that applies. That rule requires that the prices and quality being the same, we must buy Amer- ' ican goods. In the absence of a rule, we feel bound by our trust to build as cheaply as possible. We submitted the question to congress on this line, asking congress to lay down a rule. If there is no rule, we must build as a business man wouia. i>uw, mere is no question of protection or free trade; it is merely our duty under the law as it stands. If the rule or law is changed, then we must change." He then spoke of the relation of the government to the railroads. "I cannot but think," he said, "the discussion which is now going on has had a much wider scope than is nec- . essary. The question is the passage of certain legislation and the discussion is properly narrowed by consideration of what that legislation is." He explained the present statute on inter-state commerce, calling attention to its references to "unreasonable" rates, and the position of the interstate commerce commission on that matter. He stated that the measure proposed is a very moderate measure, and it is unfair to denounce it so severely as had been done. He beiieved the changes proposed by the Esch-To^nsend bill would result in good. He was willing to admit our debt to the railroads for | building up the country, but he main- j tained that that should not give them j freedom from control. If somebody j must look Into the justice of. rates, that somebody must be competent and of authority to require reasonable rates. Further, he held that it would ! greatly relieve the courts to provide a court to consider railroad rates.' Rebates were a matter that should be prepared for, even though he had been informed there were no longer any such things as rebates. He insisted that the railroads should not antagonize, but that they owed something to the government to see that conditions of prosperity continued. ULTIMATUM GIVEN BY HOTEL. I Management of the Piedmont in Atlanta Defies Chamber of Commerce. An ultimatum from the Piedmont hotel, to the effect that it will continue to charge double rates during conventions, promises by other hotels of Atlanta that they will not advance rates, but will reduce them if it becomes necessary to secyre any large convention, and the adoption of a resolution declaring that the chamber of commerce will, in future, lay stress and emphasis upon the "liberal spirit and ample service" of other ! hotels, "with a due statement of the rates" of the Piedmont hotel, were I the features of a meeting held Fri- j day afternoon. The meeting was called for the pur- j pose of having the hotel and restaurant men of the city reach an un- j derstanding with the chamber of com- I merce regarding the rates that will in future be charged in order that every j one might work together for the upbuilding of the city and the securing ! of other conventions for Atlanta. A letter to this effect brought j from the Piedmont hotel the state- j ment that the management of that j place would continue to charge during ! conventions the double rates that ob- : tained during the convention of the ' National Association of Manufacturers. i GINNERS' REPORT POSTPONED, j Will Await Statement to Be Issued by Southern Cotton Association. Announcement is made by President J. A. Taylor of the National Cotton Ginners' Association that the organization will postpone the issuance of its acreage report. "We will make it a conditional report later in the season," he sajd, "as the Southern Cotton Association will bring out one on May 30." RIOTING IS RESUMED. Chicago Police, With Clubs and Drawn j Revolvers, Charge Mobs?Nobody Seriously Hurt. Rioting broke out afresh Triday in the strike at Chicago, and although no body was seriously hurt, there were a number of vicious fights in the lumber district, during which the police were compelled to use their clubs, and in one instance revolvers, in order to disperse the mobs. The worst fight in the lumber district occurred at Twenty-second streew and Ashland avenue, where a crowd of men and boys had all through the morning hurled stones and clubs at every passing lumber wagon. Finally, a wagon, on which Police Officer Bagenski was a passenger, came along, anH fho rnnh preerpr? it with the usual volley of stones. They also threatened to attack the driver, and the situation was so serious that the officer, drawing his revolver, fired six shots at the crowd, which broke and fled in wild confusion. 'None of the bul-. lets hit anybody. , During the evening general rioting was 'prevalent throughout the lumber district, and particularly in the territory near the intersection of Thirtyfifth street and Center avenue. The lumber wagons returning from making deliveries were attacked by crowds at every available opportunity. Large numbers of men, armed with clubs, slung shots and bricks, accompanied by jeering women and excited children, filled the sidewalks along Center avenue, Thirty-fifth street, Loomis street and Arch'er avenue, awaiting the passage of wagons, which were believed by the crowd to be unguarded. At Archer avenue and Loomis street two trucks appeared with one policeman on each. The trucks were immediately bombarded with bricks and stones, and scores of air rifles were brought into play. A bullet from one f these weapons seriously wounded Policeman James Fitzpatrick in the right hand. The two policemen drew their revolvers fired over the heads of the rioters, holding them at bay until the drivers managed to reach their destination. The strike spread during the day hi a small degree throughout the building trades. There were a number of instances where woodworkers refused to receive the material delivered .by non-union teamsters and walked out. This move in many instances was made by the men individually. There was no official action taken by any of the material trades unions looking to active sympathetic support of the teamsters' strike. Several of the labor leaders in the ranks of the material trades declared that there is no prospect, in their opinion, of any complete tie-up of the building trades by a strike of the men. There is no movement on foot at present looking toward a settlement of the strike. Mayor Dunn? talked as though he had abandoned hope of a settlement. CHURCH UNION FAILS. Proposition of Presbyterians to Federate is Laid on the Shelf. The forty-fifth general assembly of the Southern Presbyterian church adjourned at Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, Moderator Plunkett declared the convention dissolved at 5:30, and at thv. same time called the next session to meet at Greenville, S. C., at 11 a. m., on the third Tuesday in May, 1906. The discussion of the quesiTon of federation with other branches of the church was long drawn out, and when the end came it was as far from final settlement as at any time during the [ debate, which preceded the vote, j There is an irreconcilable element in the church that forcefully manifested | itself, which is opposed to federation, | and there is an element slightly i stronger that favors it, but neither side could muster the necessary strength to definitely settle the matter. In the end, the question, by a vote of 93 to 81, was merely referred back to its committee, to which were added three members. The committee was instructed to bring another plan of federation before tne next assembly. JAP FARMERS FOR TEXAS. Colony of Thousand Yellow Men to Be Settled on Rice Fields. Japanese colonization is contemplat! ed in Texas by a wealthy Japanese ag| riculturist who recently visited the 1 United States, according to a report submitted to the department of commerce and labor at Washington, Friday, by Fred D. Fisher, the American consul at Tamsui, Formosa, who based his announcement upon recent puuncauuns in j-apaucac papers. iue report says that 1,000 farmers are to be collected in Japan, and that as a first undertaking 9,800 acres will be cultivated in Paddy fields in Texas. FOUR HUNDRED MULES BURNED In Fire That Destroyed Stables in ( East St. Louis. Over 400 mules perished in a fire that destroyed the sales stables of Maxwell & Grouch and Sparts Brothers at the National stock yards in East St. Louis. The total loss is esI tlruated at $100,000, said to be cov' ered by insurance. It '.s net known 1 hew the fire originated. t MAYOR HAS NERVE Philadelphia Chief Executive Forces Officials Out. INSTALLS HIS OWN MEN War Over Leasing of City Gas Plant Reaches an Interesting and Acute Stage?People Are With the Mayor in His Contention. At Philadelphia Thursday Mayor Weaver took forcible possession of the offices of director of public safety and director of public works. Neither Director Smyth nor Director Costello offered serious resistance. Four detectives are now on guard at the offices. Accompanied by his counsel and four detectives, Mayor Weaver went to the office of Director of Public Safety Smyth. He informed that official that he had been dismissed and that his presence in the office was a trespass. Director Smyth with- r."| drew from the office. The mayor placed two detectives iH charge, and then went to the office of Director of Public Works Costello, where the same ceremony was repeated. Mr. Costello also quit his office and detectives were placed in charge. Rumor was current that the republican organization leaders intend to impeach Mayor Weaver. With this end in'view, it is said, a special meeting of selected council will be called for the purpose. Malfeasance in office is the ground upon which the impeachment proceedings will be based. The organization leaders claim they have the proof to sustain the -recharges. x A writ of special supersedeas was granted during the day by Chief Justice Mitchell and Justice Potter of the supreme court to former Judge Gordon, counsel for Mayor Weaver, in the injunction proceedings brought before Judge Ralston in the court of common pleas to restrain the mayor from removing from office Directors ^ Smyth and costello. The writ removes the injunction granted Wednes- | day and allows the directors to resume their duties. * ."its Acting on the writ of supercedes*, the' new directors at once assumed charge of their offices. . In the meantime the supreme court- |j investigates the matter. A dramatic incident of the day was the ovation given Mayor Weaver by 'several thousand persons on his way from the city hail to the Union >J League for lunch. It was a sensational demonstration and looked-upon by these opposej to the lease as an i Indication of the trend of popular sentiment. SHEA. UPHELD BY JUDGE. . President of Teamsters' Union Es- J capes Jail?Others Get Sentences. In court at Chicago, Thursday, C. jj P. Shea, president of the TeamsTers' 3 Union, was upheld by Judge Kohlsaat . J Union, was upheld by Judge Kohlsaat of the federal court in his refusal tv * answer questions before Master in Chancery Sherman which might tend to incriminate him. Shea is now un- * der indictment in the criminal court, and Judge Kohlsaat declared that answers to some of the questions put to him might prejudice the hearing of this case. In the same decision which excused ftfcpo thp rmirt rHIPH Rarnarfl Mulligan, president of the Express i Drivers' Union, and John Donehue, a member of the same union, had refused to answer questions which could not In any way connect them with any criminal proceedings, and they were, therefore, in contempt of court. He ^ sentenced both men to Jal* but allowed them to remain in nominal custody in the hands of United States Marshal Ames for five days, In order that their attorneys might perfect a review on habeas corpus proceedings before another federal Judge. POTTER BACK IN DAVI8B0R0. ???? yt,a Alleged Defaulting Ex-Caehier Gives Bond and is Released. Maro S. Potter, who is charged with embezzling upward of $20,000 of th? funds of the Davisboro, Ga., bank, was released at Sandersville Thurs- day on a $15,000 bond, signed by his relatives, after having beem under surveillance at the Sandersville hotel Bince Tuesday. Potter left immediately for Davfth boro in company with his fatEbr-in law. ' V? POOR, SHATTERED HEART. Gay Widow Seeks Breach of Promise Damages from M-illionaire. Damages aggregating $250,000 as _ compensation for alleged breach of promise of marriage was asked by Mrs. Katherine Poillon, ki a suit against W. Gould Brokaw, the millionaire clubman, which was begun in the supreme court at New York Wednesday. t uJi ym