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i __ CHIEF EVENTS Of the War Between the Russians and the Japanese. WHICH IS NOW ENDED. j < 14, It Lasted Five Hundred and TwentySeven Days. Tbe First Blow Struck at Port Arthur by the Japs, 1 y wi... u/?.? \ i_ TV III/ 1TCIC T IklUIIIJUS 111 Nearly Every Battle. s War began Feb. 8, 1904. 1 Duration 527 days. i Cost to Russia $1,876,000,000. c Cost to Japan $1,500,000,000. i Russia's casualties lu battle 420,000. f Japanese casualties in battle 170,- t 000 i Russian warships lost or captured I 73 C Japanese warships lost or captured I 12. < Value of Russian ships lost $150,- i 000 000. 1 Value of Japanese ships lost $15,- t 000,000. i Japan broke off diplomatic relations t with Russia on Feburary 7, 1904, 1 *after being convinced that fuHhor ne- ? gotiatlons rewarding the integrity of * China in Manchuria and K^rea and f respective spheres of inlluence in those t couutrles were useless. c i'he first blow fell next day. Ad- t ~miral Togo, in command of the lirst 1 Japanese tleet, reached Port Arthur, v sent in his torpedo boats and destroy- r ers, and during the night and early 1 morning, sank the cruiser Pallada and ! drove the battleships lletvizin and c xe*arevlieu agrounu in a oaaiy dam- r aged condition. The Russians were completely taken by surprise. t From that time a series of victor- t les crowned the Japanese arms. Port c Arthur was effectively blocked, and v the entrance almost wholly blocked by 1 sunken merchant steamers. Ou April t 13th Admiral Togo decoyedothe Rus- J sian flagship Petropalovsk u| r mines that had been planted and fthe war- k ship was sunk in three minutes. Ad- 1 miral Makaroff, commanding the Rus- ^ sian ileet, and 700 of his officers and c crew went down with her. The fam o ous Russian war artist, Verestbhagln, was among the lost. Grand Duke 1 Cyril was saved. i The Japanese continued to bombard e Port Arthur, and in Juno the Russian u fleet attempted several times to es t capo. In these attempts the Russian y fleet was almost annihilated or driven s disabled to neutral ports. With the K capture of Port Arthur later on, the a Russian sea power in the far East was a reduced temporarily to zero. t The bailing of Admiral Rojestven- c filri/'fl UQklf. O nrl Kit* " * w?j u ?w J? ijuuu CIUU ilia 3UU3C4UUUI complete defeat In the battle of the t Sea of Japan are occurrences of so a comparatively recent date as to ne t cessitate no review of that memora- b ble, but one sided conflict. n JAPS WIN ON LAND. a On land the Japanese were uniform- t ly victorious in the important battles, a Victories at the Yalu, Kinohau, Tel t issu, Motien Pass, and Llao Yang fol- b lowed in rapid succession. In all these battles the fanatical bravery of the Japanese won over the slow, but 0 Stubborn Russians. The battle of t Llao Yang was the largest of the war j to that time. Half a million men, 0 about equally divided, and 1,300 guns a wero engaged, and for a week the des- (_ perate tignting went on. Gen. Kurokl v had the Japanese right, attempting a v flanking movement; Gen. Oku held ^ toe center, aud Gen. Nodzu the left. (_ All were und^r command of Field n Marshal Oyama, Japan's greatest sol- t dier. c Gen. Kuropatkln clung toJiisstrong t position with desperation,'bringing up f nil his reserves. The slaughter was e dreadful and the Japanese attack con- v tinuous. a Finally, on the nfght of September ^ 4th, Gen. Kuropatkiu said he could ^ hold out no longer and withdrew his ^ weary army across the Taitse river, N leaving Llao Yang in flames. Con- j. servatlve estimates of tue casualties f were; Russians, 10,000; Japanese, ^ ? C% A/v A rn. -r iz,uuu. ine Japanese captured many Russian guns and some supplies. The siege of Port Arthur was a long and bloody one, but the Japanese final v ly triumphed after a total loss in kill d ed and wounded estimated at 111,000 t men. The Japanese captured upward t of 30,000 men and immense quantities g of guns, small arms and (Ammunition. 1 MUKDKN THE GKEATK8T BATTLE. 1; After tne fall of Port Artnur, Mar- s shall Oyama had been drawing his d troops into position for the battle of e Mukden, which it was real zed, would C be the great land engagement of the C war. The forces engaged were three t armies of Russians, numbering 376 1 battalions of Infantry, 171 batteries b of artillery, 178 sotnias of cavalry, I numbering 300,000 rifies, 34,000 gun c ners, with 1,368 guns and 26,700 sab- a 6*8, an aggregate of 361,600 men. It difficult to speak with aouraoy of the Japanese numbers, which comprised sixteen divisions. A division J.1 Siay oomprise anything from 10,000 ^ tit 30,000 men. It may be assumed Jj mJf drey averaged 26.000, making " iPw^anese arms 400,000. The total J fsiK* engaged stand at the enormous J1 figure f*t 761,600. The flvq armies en- ~ gttyd for nineteen days, fighting over * ai front of 100 miles. Thp'Russians left r. some 30,000 dead. They U&d over 100,- 1 C )0 wounded and lost 60,000 prisoners, 8 with enormous quantities of foodstuffs v Aft ind war material. Tba Japanese caslaltles totaled 50,000. Qeu. Kuiopatkln was recalled tbe lext clay. Gen. Llnevltcb succeeded llm, but nu Important engagement lad been fought up to the slgnlug of the treaty of peace. The war has lasted 527 days. Its estimated c mt to Russia is very close to SI 900,000,000. to Japan $1,400,)00,000. The Russian looses In killed ind wounded aud prisoners were 420,* )00; Japanese losses, 170,000. Ruisia ost by capture or sinking in battle 73 ihips and the Japanese 12. The value )f Russian ships was $150,000,000 and ihe Japanese $15,000,000. INDIANA MAGNETIC FIELD. Territory in Which Lightning Cuts lUp Many (^uoer l'mnkH. A mysterious magnetic lield in the louthwestem part of Lake county is detracting no little attention among ooal scieutitic minds and arousing nuch interest because of queer pranks jut up by lightning in that neighborhood. The territory covered by the itrange and weird electrical manifestations embraced only a few square niles in West Creek township, one of the south tier of townships, and is located a few miles north of the great Kankakee marshes. More havoc is jreated annually in this one spot, vith a radius of less than two miles, than in any four entire countries in this part of the state. injury unmnerstorm in the vicinity s sure to pass over the spot, no matter in what direction the wiud may ie, and Its passage is sure to be markid by terrific bursts of lightening. At light time the displays are at times jrand and magnificent, yet terrifying ?o the bravest heart and extremely langerous. Bolt after bolt of molten Ire -is shot from heaven to earth, ighting the country up for miles vith a dazzling glare of light. So nuch havoc has been wrought by ightnlng that some insurance comi.inies refuse risks in the district and ithers are about to impose additional ates to cover the extra cost. Four large hay barns within a half nlle radius were struck Monday and >urned, causing a loss of $1,200 Only me of these, that of Henry Brant, vas insured, and It only for about lalf its value. The others, belonging o Yolner Foster, William Ilatton and ames llaydeu, were uninsured. It has been fouud impossible to :eep a telephone service in operation n the terrirory, as every storm that utsses leaves wreeKeo lines and blackned and shattered polee as a remlndr of the lightning's wrath. Numerous horses and cattle have leeu killed, and there is not a bulldog or a tall tree that does not bear vidor.ce of the destructive forces of lature's electrical energy. Throe faalitles havoocoured in the last three ears, and every inhabitant cf the pot has left the lightning force to a reater or Ices degree. It is said that , wireless telegraph would be inoper,tive and messages Intercepted by he weird forces that seem to lie conealed in the ground. Even in fair leather a telephone system using the he ordinary grounded wires is useless nd even a metalic circuit is onerafci.d. u& the most plausible one seems to ie that a large body of strong magetic ore crops out near the surface nd attracts the electrical forces of he clouds. Another theory is that large body of metoric ore lies in his neighborhood and is the attractrig medium. __ Boy ItoaNtml Alivo. At Hannibal, Mo., Lee Christian, leven years old, was roisted alive in he street by another boy named Mojain who dashed a can of gasoline ver the clothes of young Christian nd then applied a lighted match. Ihrlstian was playing in the street pith several other boys, when McLain talked up swinging a gasoline can. tfter twice threatening to roast the Ihrlstian boy alive, McLain finally Qbde his word good. He unscrewed he cap of the can, rushed up on Christian and drenched him from head j foot with gasoline. Before the un ortune lad could get away he touohd a lighted match to his trousers phich were sooked with the ilutd. Intantly the boy was enveloped in lames. He fell to the ground, screamrig in agDny and lighting the fire, lany persons ran to his rescue and ucceeded in extinguishing the ilames. ilvery stitch of clothes were burned rom young Christian's back. He will Id Fight at Mothbr'H Grave. A dispatch to The State says there ras a serious row near Claussen Frilay afternoon between three negro mothers, who had assembled to attend he funeral of their mother. Tne neroes were Josh, Charles and Lucius larrison. Charles was probably fataly shot by Josh and Luoius was cut eriously by Charles. The negro who id the shooting was arrested in the dge of Florence by Sheriff Burch, Ihief Koopman and Deputy Harrall. lharles Harrison, who was shot hrough the stomach, was brought to Florence and an operation performed >y Drs. nicks, Smith, Young and ..evy. There Is thought to be little hanoe of his recovery. The fight was ,bout a watermelon. Georgia It Prospering. The state tax returns for Georgia lave increased 133,903,871 to date. )ne hundred and twenty-two counties tave sent in their digests and only [fteen more remain to be heard from. Che counties which have not yet sent n their digests are Baldwin, Burke. 3obb, Early, Floyd, Franklin, Glynn, Ireene, Gwinnett, Lee, Marlon, Tatlall, Walton, Ware and Wayne. Capt. larrison of the comptroller's office tates that in his opinion the increase rill reach $40,000,000. A SAD CASE. Young Bouzard, Dispenser at Fort Motte, Has Been Arrested For Kotnic Short In His Accounts Two Thousand Two Hundrod and Fifty Dollars. H. F. Bouzard, late dispenser at Fort, Motte, was arrested on Monday at the Instigation of the American Surety company, the complaint having been tiled by Solicitor P. T. I Hidebrand. He was carried before Magistrate Brunson who tixod his bail at $2,000. Bouzard was abort In hla accounts and was checked up and olosed out on the 19th of last April. The prosecution has been delayed In order to give the accused opportunity to prove himself inncoent of the charge aa he claimed that he could do. But checka alleged to have been aeut have never been received. The amount of the abortage is $2,271 81. Bouzard Is about 30 years of age, a very Intelligent young man, and was married lens than a year ago. Under the laws of South Carolina it is the duty of the county board of control to take the initiative in criminal pro ceedings against defaulters in county dispensaries, and the complaint was signed by H. C. Pauling, O. A. Stro man and II. it. Gibson, members of the county board. The witnesses uamed in the comolalnt are: A. H. Dean and It. W. Nichols, inspectors; II. C. Pauling, chairman of the county board; M. II. Mobley, b jokkeeper in the commissioner's oilloe, and J Fuller Lyon, bookkeeper in the State treasurer's ctllce. The first intimation the c llicials of the State dispensary had of the irregularities in the Fort Motte dispensary was on March .'10, 11)04, when Capt, A. H. Dean, inspector, examined Bouzard's accounts. On this o casiou a shortage of over $L,O0O was discovered, but before Capt. Dean could complete the investigation to his own satisfaction he was called away to look after some other business of greater importance. Mr. W O. Tatum, the commissioner of the State dispensary, detailed Inspector It. W. Nichols to proceed to Fort Motte with instructions to open every package of goods in the warehouse of the dispenser at that place. Accordingly, Inspector Nichols com menccd his investigation of this matter on April 14, 1905, at which time Bou/. ird strenuously oppos?d the opening of numerous boxes and barrels In the back rows of the store room, assuring Inspector Nichols that they were "all right" because Capt. Dean had examined them, which statement proved to be false. In spite of Bouz ard's importunities iMr. Nichols proceeded to open every package in r lie establishment in the presence of Mr. H. C. Pauliug of the board of control, who had been summoned to assist in tiie veriticition of the inspector's iig* ures in the account of stuck then on hand. Mr. Pauling, by the way, la an uncle of Bouzard's wife. At the conclusion of his labors Mr. Nichols dis covered a shortage of $2 271 81 which which increase was occasioned by his iinding over $000 wortli of empty cases in the back rows Strange to say, Bouzard insisted that lie did not know how thoeo empty boxes and barrels got there. This, too, in the face of the fact that no person but himself worked In that dispensary. Bouzard did not undertake to resort to the old trick of an alleged "robbery" to cover up his shortage, but boldly asserted that his accounts would balance if he cou'd obtain credit for live remittances which lie claims to have made by express to the State treasurer, from whom, he alleges, be had not been able to obtain a receipt, although he had written to that functionary in regard to the matter. When the treas urt-r was advised of the situation by long distance telephone, he replied that the five "remittances," aggregating $1,549 22, were not received and that Bouzard had been so informed. No such shipments of funds in packages or by money orders can be found in the record* of the Southern Kx press company. This, it will be observed, still leaves adetielt of $722 50. When Bouzard was confronted with this damaging evidence he stated that he had sent the State treasurer s veral hundreds dollars in checks, obtained by him from various sources and none of them had been acknowledged by that official. At this juncture Inspector Nichols urged Bouzard to furnish him with the names of the persons from whom these checks had been obtained, so that duplicates might be issued, but Bouzard said he could not recollect the name of a single person connected! with the alleged check transactions. The American Surety company of New York belli# on Bjuzard's bond in the sum of $3,000, Commissioner Tatum sent a notice of claim In this case to Messrs. Moss & Llde, attorneys for the bond oompany in Orangeburg, from whloh place it was forwarded to Mr. Marlon M. Jackson, general attorney for the surety company with officers at Atlanta, Ga., who did not reoelye from the State the sworn statement of loss until June 21. The delay in transmitting the formal claim was occasioned by the confused condition of Bouzard's account. Mr. Jackson arrived In Orangeburg on June 26, at whloh time he reoelved a call from Messrs. Glaze & Brantley, attorneys for Bouzard, who asked further time to enable them to Investigate the alleged Irregularities in the tffioeof the State treasurer respecting the missing remittances said to have been made by Bouzard. Mr. Jaokson declined to grant this request, stating that It was a matter resting entirely with the State. It was then asked whether the sure ty company would remain neutral, providing the State made no demand for payment, until the attorneys for the . accused had had an opportunity to examine the books of the State treasurer and of the State dispensary commissioner with a view to sustaining Bou zard's claim as to remittances and the reducing the amount of the alleged shortage. At the earnest solicitation of Bouzard's attorneys Mr. Jackson went with them to the State dispen , Nary commissioner and the attorney general. Mr Jackson then stated to them that the American Surety company wished to pay the olaim, whenever the State asked it, and explained that a delay had been requested of h?s company but It had been declined upon the ground that it was a question between Bouzardand the State with which the surety company had nothing to do, and that the only course left to Mr. Jackson was to pay the claim when requested by the State and then deal with the accused. Bozard was then given until August 10th to adjust the matter. On the latter date Attorney Moss advised Mr. Jackson at Atlanta, Ga.. that Bouzard's attorneys reported that nothing practical has come out of their Investigation. They found that Bouzard had sent live statements, claiming certain remit tances had been sent State treasurer, but that none of these remittances had been received by the State treasurer, the amount of these remittances aggregating $1,649, 22. On the recommendation of Attorney Jackson the claim for $2,271 81 was immediately paid hy the American Surety company to Mr. W. (). Tatum, commissioner of the State dispensary. TTT Tt Tf m r i ii r\i ~ - w HI AiiJCi JUIi JfiiitiSJSUii ( So it to Heat dilute toiiH Asked the Mayor of Ntwborry, The Newberry News and Herald propounds a few searching questions to the mayor of that city. "We are willing," says the Editor, "to admit for the sake of argument that possibly our moral acumen?tho right to know the distinctions between wrongs?Is possibly not quite so acute as that of cur distinguished mayor and for that reason we humbly Implore the privilege of making an Inquiry without the intent of condoning wrong doing in any shape or form. We stand for the moral purity and uplifting of this community as strongly as does our dlstiriguished ? mayor, that is in proportion to our ability to do so. "Now wo would like to know where lie draws the distinction between a little social game of cards that Is not | disturbing any one and betting on an intercollegiate game of baseball, right out in the open, or possibly he and his vigilant policemen did not know such a, taunt; vvaa ko'uk uu tne p&se summer. Is a social game of cards more heinous in his Bight than a bucket shop where a man can go and gamble on the market and lose from $100 to any amount before he can turn clown the steps. ''And has he not licensed the bucket shop to do business in this city at so much per year and does he not know that gambling is going on there every day on a large scale, and does he consider that right and proper. Does he consider this right and a little game of cards so heinous that he must make an eavesdropper out of his policemen to tind out if gentlemen are playing a social game of cards. Understand that we are not saying either one Is right but we are asking a higher authority for information and to draw the distinction of moral turpitude. "Is a man a 'gentleman' who puts up a hundred on the cotton marketer an intercollegiate baseball l/ama ami the one who plays a social game of cards a gambler. That is the question we put to our distinguished mayor. If he allows ano licenses the one why is he so anxious to rectify the other. Is it a mora' and legal question or what?" We will await the auswer of the mayor with interest. Like the EiPor of the News and Herald we would like to have a little light on the questions he propounds. We are old fashioned possibly In our notions, but to our mind gambling is gambling no matter where It is done. At any Mmckn. A dispatch from Portsmouth, N. H., says a series of earth quake shocks, the severest ever experienced In tnls section, were felt here late Wednesday evening. Buildings trembled perceptibly, dishes were shakon from shelves, and in many cases people rushed In terror from their houses into the street. There were three distinct shocks and in each instance the tremor was accompanied by a sound like distant explosion. The lirst impression was that the powder magazine at the navy yard had exploded, and hundred of queries along this line were received at the yard. There had been no explosion, however, unci one huooks were reit along the entire New Hampshire coast line. Bargain Seekers Hart, At Indianapolis, Ind., fifteen per* sons, twelve women and three men, were injured in a rush for bargains at a Washington street store where some kitchen utensils'had been advertised for sale at a low prloe. Before opening time two thousand persons beselged the doors, knooklng down and trampling on each other in their anxiety to secure the coveted bargains. Just as the crowd was admitted a woman fainted and fell. Others, pushed and struggling behind, knooked two other women down. Then many fell over the prostrate bodies of the bargain seekers. When the police arrived they werj compelled to)use their clubs to clear the store. BANK OF OON W A CAPITAL STOCK, .$20,000.00 TOTAL ASSET! OFFIC B. a. COLLINS, President. C. P. QUATTLEBAUM, V-Pkes. 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