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Show JAPS FORCED TO RETREAT. THE WEEKLY SENTINEL IS MAKING REAL WAR Cos- HAY JiUJUK, NMUm STAB alDCKTO . There ere come people who think the dentist, not the politician, haa the biggest pull. The latest news from the grafted aoee la that it haa taken root and la setting ready to bloasom. One reason that trusts are often dissolved is that too much water is frequently used in their composition. "A sneer never yet answered an argument," says the Hartford Times. And its foolish to try to argue against a sneer. Dr. Pearsons, the Chicago philanthropist, endowed three colleges in commemoration of his birthday. Long life to him! When Ume. Patti gives up $40,000 nee in her grip she surely intends to make anoihcr "farewell tour" in order to recover it Half a million talking-machin- e rec- ords were destroyed in a Camden, N. J, fire the other day without uttering a word of protest There Is something in the linger nail diagnosis. If you have aches all over you, and your nails are thin and brittle, you have rheumatism. Ton rant make a chicken thief believe that a bird in tlm band is worth two In the bush if he is caught with the goods on him. Town Topics. That separation of Weber and Fields, after twenty-livyears of partnership, seems something like the divorce of a couple 76 years old. Flanking Column Encounters sacks and Get Worst of Argument. Following on the heels of the newe of the disasters to the Japanese fleet the general staff aL St. Petersburg has received official advices of the defeat of the Jainnese force which was marching northward from Feng Wang Cheng for the purpose of executing a flank movement on Mukden. Details of the dispatch will not be made public until it has been passed on by the war commission, but to enough has been communicated make it cear that in order to save the from destruction themselves retreat to were compelled Japanese toward Feng Wang Cheng. Since General Kuroki sent a column northward to gain the road leading directly west from Mukden, General Kuropatkln has kept It under the closest surveillance, awaiting the moment when It should be so distant from the main Japanese army as to prevent its easy reinforcement. In observing this plan, the Russians withdrew, and the Japanese not finding a strong force of the enemy before them continued to adv&uce. When the time for action came General Kuropatkin let General Renncnkainpff loose from leash. General Rcnnenkampff had under his command only a few regiments, but they were the flower cf the Cossack cavalry. On May 18 he fell on the enemy, whose number haa not yet been revealed, with such vigor as to retirement compel the Jspancso twelve miles toward the bsse, near enough, it ia presumed, to have received reinforcements from General Kuroki, who must Immediately have been advised of the awkward GREAT BRITAIN'S TIBETAN CAMPAIGN ON IN EARNEST.. not think the government ought to be called on to give definite pledge as to what form of settlement would follow the conclusion of hostilities. Lord Tweedmouth (liberal) charged the government with wilfully sending Statesman Charges Government With out a mission and knowing the conWilfully Sending Out Miction and Knowing ths Consequencea Lord Hardwick, under secretary of war, replying to Lord Spencer, the liberal leader. In the house of lords, said Great Britain was now at war with Tibet, and until she had by force of arms vindicated her position be did sequences. Foreign Minister Lansdowne replied. He said that the government, having deliberately adopted an announced policy, it was not likely that It would be driven therefrom because the mission had been attacked by a "few rabid barbarians In regions adjoining the Indian frontier. It would be interesting to know how much Prof. Crittenden, since he discovered that people generally eat too much, has reduced his own dally bill of fare. An esteemed New York contemporIs discussing the question, "Why does popcorn popt It will be followed by a symposium on the topic, why la a gourd. ary It is unsafe to make a running comment on a baseball team or the weather. Either la likely to present a complete change of form without a moment's notice. One of the mysteries of nature is the ease with which song birds and game can be exterminated as compared wltb the difficulty In getting . ollLwgeyU The decision of a Philadelphia court that a wife does not own her bands pay envelope , the average wife. huswill not disturb All she wants is the contents Kansas City Journal. The Englishman who has been investigating the question decides that Ithere Is a measure of stern reality in Idreams. Any man who has paid or hls wifes spring hat will corroborate this. -- The news that a fortune of $1,000 awaits one missing Ceorce Miller 000 Is calculated to rains false hopes. But would have bean still worse If the lost heir had happened to be John Smith. it In one block of twelve houses In New Brunswick there are six brides. That block is a good deal more desirable now as a place of residence than It will he a few years hence. If they all stay there. The able but dyspeptic New York Poet still sternly declines to point with pride at anything In this reprehensible country except the occasional Imaginary fulfillment of one of Its mal predictions. dis- Novoe Vrcmya. which Is the name of one of Russia's leading newspapers, means The Times and The Vsemlrnaya means The World. It must be exciting when The World newsboys flock out with an extra. One of the Japanese officers who were killed at lort Arthur has been elevated to the rank of war god in Japan. Still, comparatively few of us would care to bo blown to pieces even for that high lionor. The eminent authority that described Uncle Russel Sago as a man who did not care for money for its own sake must have heard of the recklessness with which he sometimes spends $7.98 for a suit of clothes. It Is to he hoped that the fact that a defendant in a breach of promise ease need to send his sweetheart a million kisses in every letter will not be used as nn argument against the postage. feasibility of one-ren- t It would serve the convenience of CLOUDBURST BOMBARDED six-inc- KUROPATKIN IN TIGHT PLACE. there shows that the conflict between Viceroy Alexleff and General Kuropat-kiIs acute. The latter attributes the Russian defeat on the Yaln river to Viceroy Alexlclfs orders countermanding his previously given acGeneral Kuropatkin, cording to the Temps' dispatch, now propose the abandonment of Port Arthur, the Junction of Its forces with his army and the retirement of the united forces' to Harbin, maintaining that the present Russian force Is not sufficient to cope with the Japanese. The following-telegrafrom oral Kuropatkin to the emperor under Admiral Walker Opposes Prohibition date of May 16 has been given out at In Panama Canal Zone. Japanese Are Likely to Cut Off Hie Retreat Northward. It Is announced at Mukden that the main body of the Japanese forces is advancing on Hal Cheng (about ten miles southeast of New Chuang), ind Kal Ping (Kal Chon, about thirty-lv- e miles south of New Chuang), and that a smaller force Is marching In the direction of Liao Yang. Important i developments are probable. m - SL WITH ICE. Disastrous Hailstorm Causes Much Damage at Pueblo, Colorado. Tho heaviest hailstorm seen In Pueblo. Colo., for many years started at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. Hall that weighed more than throe ounces fell to a depth of an inch. Considerable damage was done and hundreds of windows wore broken. The prinefpal business houses the city having skylights and roofs are alt damaged, and many n chants suffered kisses of stock fi the hsll pouring through the hrol The fruit trees In skylights. vicinity are stripped and early vc tables pounded Into the ground, wl every hothouso within the storm i lus Is a tctal wrack. Some of the hailstones measu fourteen inches In circumference, several instances the largest sto punctured shingled roofs and through to the floor. Nearly Mil j sons were injured by being stn with big hailstones. JAP8 U8E HUMANE s. Yat-sushi- ro Petersburg: Various temperance organizations "Toward noon seventeei steamers hare to make the a campaign begun Flood Raging Sweeps Down Colorado approached Slung Yno Cheng and Panama canal zone prohibition terriValley, Causing Much Damage. President Roosevelt Is daily opened fire upon the town, while five tory. A cloudburst at the head of the vessels approached the shore. receiving letters to this end and Is At 1:30 p. m. three large steamers referring them to the canal commisCache La Poudre river caused that off the cape rad at 3:20 sion. Admiral Walker, chairman ol appeared stream to overflow its banka, and of the feasible p. m. the enemy landed at Huang the commission, asked sale of liquor meagre reports received In Denver in- Tsla the of prohibiting ity and a commenced march Tung dicate that great damage haa been In the direction of Kal Ping. by a congressional committed said that such a course would be absurd caused by the flood. The rush of the HARMONY LACKING. for the reason that it would be Imflood caus'd the dam which holds the possible to enforce the regulation. water of Livingston lake, slxty-flv- e Between The drinking on the atrip was not Complete Disagreement While the people use miles above Fort Collins, Colo., to considerable. Alexleff and Kuropatkin. and beer almost univerwines light and this added vclume of water break, A dispatch to the Temps from sally. there Is comparatively little wept down the Cache La Foudre, Vienna says Information received drunkenness. practically wiping out the towns of Livermore and La Porte, respectively COMBINED ATTACK ON PORT ARTHUR. fourteen and three miles above Fort Collins. It Is reported that one person was drowned at the former place. At Fort Colllna the river, which normally la about the width of the average mountain river, la now over a mile wide, and the Russian settlement, consisting of 300 families, is inundated. IN COLORADO. Land Batteries Silenced And Russian. Troops Driven From Thoir Positions. fleet the third Kataokaa Admiral Battleship and Armored Cruleer Strike Japanese squadron, began a fierce Minee of the defenses of During Bombardment of bombardment Port Arthur and Go to a morning. Raya Dalny Saturday the Bottom. Chefoo dispatch. The land batteries Russian were speedily silenced. Russian refugees who have arrived troops were again seen In the neighat Cbefoo on a Junk from Port DalnJ borhood and driven out of their poay that the Japanese bombarded sitions by sheila Under cover of the Port Arthur last Monday. Russian of- fire from the ships troops were landficers who were on Golden Hill de- ed and n combined attack on the c'.ty clared, according to the refugees, that was undertaken. There la every Induring the bombardment a Japanese dication that the town la now in the battleship and a cruiser struck mines possession of the Japanese. and sank. When the dispatch boat Fawan arThe warships reported to hsvt been rived off Dalny n heavy bombardsunk off Port Arthur are the battleship ment was in progresn As the chanShlklshlma and the armored cruiser nel was thickly mined by the RusAsama. The story Is not believed at sians, Japanese Admiral Kattakao had Chefoo, but the Russians who brought lsiued strict orders that the news insist that It is true. boats were to be excluded, and The Shlklshlma is a first-clas- s bat- It was impossible to get within the tleship of 14,250 tons displacement. roadstead. Hence an accurate report She Is 400 feet in length, 75 feet beam of the proceedings is Impossible. and has a draught of 27 feet and an InCHINESE AGAINST RUS8IA. dicated horsepower of 14,500. Her armor belt is 9.4 inches thick and her Reported That Wily Mongolians Have turret armor is 14.6 inches thick. She Begun Hostilities. carries four twelve-inc- h guns, fournews regarding the atDisquieting h teen guns and twenty quick-firerChlneM la shown In of titude the She has five torpedo tubes. Her from officers at the front dispatches speed Is reckoned at 18.5 knots, and Issued by the general staff at SL Petshe carrier a complement of 741 men. In addition to the further ersburg. The Shlklshlma was built on the of the ratting off of Port Ar details 1898. Thames In thur and confirming the report of According to a recent list of Japanese officers, I. Teragakl was In com- the Japanese advance npoa Liao Yang, these dispatches state specifimand of the Shikisibima. that the Chinese have comcally S. to same the list According menced hostilities against the Ruswas in command of the armsians. General Karevltch reMajor ored cruiser Asama. This vessel is of Her length ports that the Chinese attacked hls 9,750 tons displacement on Feng Wang Cheng road. Is 408 feet, beam 67 feet and her outposts General Pflug telegraphs that accorddraught 24 feet. Her Indicated horse- ing to reports of patrols and mispower la 19,000, and her speed 22 sionaries, the Chinese at Tapadzlatsi, knots. Her armor belt is 7.3 Inches 160 miles northwest of Mukden and Just outside the Russian sphere of Inthick. She carries four eight-inc- h fluence, are preparing to rise against h and nineteen the Russians and Christians generally. guns, fourteen As showing the extent of the hostile smaller ones. She was built in 1898. attitude of the Chinese, attention Is COMPANY NOT RESPONSIBLE. particularly called to the fact that the distance In an air line from the Important Opinion on Liability of point jvhere the Russian outposts were attacked and Tapadzlatsi Is 200 Railways for Damages. miles. The authorities say that, this The supreme court of the United matter affects not only Russlai, but States has laid down the principle th whole civilized world, aa It is that a telegraph operator for a rail- feared the rising will spread to other road company and a fireman on a parts of the empire. railroad engine are "fellow servants, CZAR URGED TO END WAR. and that the negligence of the former causing the death of the latter in the War Party Wants Him to Bring How tillties to a Close at Early Date. . operation of trains was a risk the fireman assumed and was not a ground On excellent authority it is assert for damages against the railroad com- ed In Berlin that there la n strong pany. possibility of peace In the far East -- The ease was that of Allyn A. What makes tho nowo- doubly Inter-Dixon against the Northern Pacific eating la the belief that the Rnsalan railroad for damages for the death of emperor ia now being urged by the her husband, C. A. Dixon, a fireman wnr party to end the struggle. who was killed in a collision by the The basis of settlement suggested Is the Independence of Korea under negligence of an operator. the protectorate of Japan, Manchuria to remain Chinese territory. The Wisconsin Has a Favorite 8on. of Manchuria has been guarThe supporters of Edward C. Wall anteed by a secret treaty between defeated the adherents of W. R. Japan and China. If a settlement Hearst In the Democratic state con- should be made it is said to be the desire of Russia that it be brought vention at Milwaukee, Wls., a reso- about Independently of England. lution Instructing the Wisconsin delFRANCE'S FAITH SHAKEN. egates to the national convention to vote for Mr. Wall being adopted by a viva voce vote. The convention Belief In Russias Prowess Receives Serious adopted a platform which recognizes A Paris dispatch says: French conthe last national platform as the code in Russian prowess is much fidence of national Democracy until a new as broken a result of the recent deIs platform adopted. Among other things the platform favors the en- velopments concerning the weakness forcement of laws against trusts, of General Kuropatkln's land forces. were tariff for revenue only; tariff on all The early Japanese successes beas It trust-mod- e merely preliminary. accepted articles; deposits of surplus public moneys in safe bank de- ing believed by the officials and public here generally that Kuropatkin positories; an income tax law and the was concentrating a vast force, apelection of United States senators by proximately 400.non men, which evendirect rote. tually would annihilate the smaller Japanese army. JEW BAITERS SENTENCED. Germans Think Russians Will Lose. Last of the Trials of the Kishnieff The Berlin newspapers of all parRioters. ties have begun vying with one anThe last trial of persons connected other in praise of Japanese military with the Jewish riots was concluded grains and in prophecies of the before the court of appeals at KishSevdefeat of the Russians. nieff. Georgitx and Rcdenkoff were eral morning Journals openly declare deprived of thoir civil rights, and sen- that the Russian canse Is lost, one that Russia will prefer tn tenced to eight months Imprisonment Intimating make an attemnt to recover her presfor disturbance of the peace; Koha-lleuhtige In another sphere evidently and Gnhcfl wore sent to a years moaning in southern Asia rather solitary confinement for attempted than to continue the struggle In homicide. Sibl'cff and were Manchuria Indefinitely. This change condemned to four years' penal servi- nf tone prevails among all classes in tude for murder. Berlin. SAID TO HAVE BEEN DESTROYED BY MINES. six-inc- FLOOD AT CHEYENNE. Several Lives Reported to Have Been Lost ae Results of Heavy Rains. The Crow river at Cheyenne, Wyo.. la running bank full ai a result of heavy raina. From eight to twelve miles of the main lino of the Union Pacific railroad and several miles of the roadbed of the Colorado A Southern railroad have been washed out. Several Uvea are reported to have been lost among the ranchers living along the Crow river. The river In Cheyenne has spread out over the lower s potions, flooding the dwellings and business houses. Telegraphic wires between Denver and Cheyenne are disabled. A Denver Newa special from Cheyenne, received by telephone, aays that lx persona are known to have been drowned, namely two Clayton children, Private Hughe of the Thirteenth artillery r ana two men, a 'woman and a child whose names have ' not been learned. ON DALNY. ts e i JAPS OPEN FIRE JAPS LOSE TWO SHIPS - Set-Bac- con-tinn- a f Japanese transports landnl Japanese lloi-- t lay behind the BULLETS. Japanese Take Option on Rice Crop of Texae. editors, compositors, proofreaders and readers alike If the American news- Surgeons Find They Leave Clean, Options on large supplies of rice Small Wound. papers would only agree upon a comin the Tuishina and Texas grown names Yankee of both Tho set for Russian plete army surgeons are have been secured liy rice districts the Japanese and the Russian war- praising the Japanese bullets. They a Japanese emit motor dtirlug the ships. inflict a small, clear wound, though two or three weeks, and conpossess good stopping effect. past If toe Italian chemist who thinks he they tracts aggregating shipments of ten Captain Vorobreff was has discovered a Hi cm leal combina- twenty bullets during the struck by carloads a week are knowu to have at lighting tion In liquid form that will prove a the Yalu river, hut he survived and been made. Monday J. I. Nishin, of substitute for kerosene oil is right, is expected to recover. Severn! gun- a Japanese firm, recently established he may be endowing universities or ners of the heroin Third battery are In Houston, held a conti-rencwith giving away libraries s doxen yean convalescent, though their Intestines Southern Pacific officials relative to were from now. pierced. transportation facilities. at Pitsewo and Kinchou, while tho promontory. General Mile: Would Make Road- Builders of Soldier Boys. In the fnt.'rnational good roads convention nt St. lands on Tuesday the principal speaker was General Nelson A. .Miles. He declared himself to lie thoroughly in sympathy with the movement for better roads, and in hls address recommended that S.'sid men In the army be used la times of Hacc as an engineering corps to iorntc the best and most feasible roads and cooperate with llie surveyors of the various state Little Danger of a Collision Between Peru and Brazil. According to cable advices received by Dr. Calderon, the Peruvian minister at Washington, tho war clouds are rolling back and there now ia little danger of a hostilo collision between Peru and Brazil. The ministers are to the effect that negotiations have begun at Rio de Janeiro under such favorable auspices as to warrant the belief of a completely satisfactory settlement of ths differences between the two nations. Predicts for Triumph Japan. Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clement Wilkinson. K. C. B., a retired officer of the British army, who haa Just arrived In New York City; exsympapressed strong thies. He said in an Interview that Russia is practically snre to be beaten hy th Japanese In the present st niggle. He was equally sure that Russia will not be able to recover her lost prestige. He said the sentiments he expressed were the sentiments of the English army and navy. Engineer Prisoner of Mexicans. Police Captain Frank W. Leo of Denver has received a letter from hls brother, Timothy J. Lee. formerly a resident of Denver, stating that he was practically a prisoner at Zacatecas, Mexico, and calling upon him to make efforts to effect his release. This condition was brought shout through the wrecking of a Mexican Central passenger train, nf which Lee was the engineer. Captain Lee hes requested Gcvernor Peabody to bring the matter to the attention of the state Stole Hit House While He 8lepL Rev. A. O. Swartwood. pastor of the Christian chnrah at Miller, S. D, says hls house and fence have been stolen from hls homestead west of Pierre. A man named Elrud went to bed the other night only to awake later with his home ten miles from hls land, thieves having six horses hitched tn the building and moving it west. The owner stepped out with two guns and ordered the volunteer house movers to return hls house to its original foundation, which they did. apologizing hy saying they did not know it was hie home. department Englishman |