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Show CZAR'S FCRTS ABANDONED. THE WEEKLY SENTINEL IliT JAEEJUK, VOCBTOn, Three Near Port Aithur Captured by . Ficji-.tJaps After an riUblMl All-da- It that mi at Til.'v i uud Sn Clio ('linn foils, f i ill tliiil part of li it Arthur wi-r- i u it nr'.l nil HuiuNy u'l'-light, bog: lining with siu UTAH STATU NEWS. The Sunday Kiln Vila of Sprlnsrllla tiave docid'il to git up a celebration for the Fourth. The citizens of Mantl are hustling for the Mark Hawk iiicar.ipmeut, and expect to land the prize. Thomas Joyce, the oldest resident of Weber county, died at Marriott on the 25th, at the age of 97. son of Joseph Hare, The of Park City, was kicked In the head by a horse, sustaining a fractured skull. The trouble between the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company and the Salt Lake linemen has been settled by arbitration. Last year there were employed 146 teachers In the various county school districts of Salt Lake county. This fall the teaching force will number US. Salt Lake merchants have practically abandoned the Idea of a half holiday on Wednesdays during the summer season, a number of firms retiming to close. A severe windstorm which visited American Fork last week did much damage to growing crops, while trees were blown down, doing much damage to telegraph and telephone wires. ' An i t an r all-du- y anilimy dull. So rin Chun, it Is aiii"(l, capturri, ami the other foils was first fell seen retreated The Russians The numwest, leaving forty dea-J- . ber of wounded had rot been ascerof the Japtained. Tho anese force consisted of all branches of tho service. The Jaiunese lost three officers and 100 men killed or wounded, and captured two guns and a quantity of ammunition. Another report says In fierce fighting which took place at the rear of Port Arthur Sunday, June 26, attack waa made simultaneously by the Japanese troops on three bills wblcb were strongly fortified. After an overwhelming bombardment the mikados men advanced and drove out tbe Russians. afli-rwuril- . INSIDE PORT ARTHUR. Chinese Refugees Tell of Conditions at the FortressA special from Chefoo to tbe Chicago Dally News saya: Eight refugees who left INirt Arthur In a Chinese Junk were picked up this morning. They belonged to the upper class. Tbe Information they gave seems reliable. They stated that the Russian ships consisted, when they left, of tbe following ships. In good condlton: The t, Czarevitch, Rctvlzan, Pobleda, Novlk Poltava, Diana, Bayan, and twenty torpedo craft and steamer boats. The torpedo transport Amur Is damaged and the battleship Sevastodamaged, but they can pol slightly soon be repaired. There are 12,0(10 sailors and 4,000 soldiers in the fortress. Women are largely employed as nurses. There are 250 artisans and 2,000 citizens. Those 2,000 have been drafted Into the army and are now drilling dally. There la plenty of food, hut the government Is controlling prices in order to preTho refugees asvent speculation. sorted that, owing to the Jeers of the army, the fleet was ferred to make Its recent demonstration on June 23 In order to preserve tbe morale of the - Fire destroyed the sheds, stables and hay belonging to Aleck Bartea of MantL The bucket brigade any further damage. Little toys and matches were the cause of Pere-sevle- pro-vente- d ihe fire. The city council of Mantl has decided that pure, clear water shall he what the citizens of Mantl can In the very near future. It Is (proposed to pipe the water from near-ibsprings. The oounty clerk reports that 7,107 pounds of grasshoppers hare been caught by Ephraim people, for which they have been paid 1 cent par pound by the county, and still there are plenty of hoppers In that vicinity. The hoard of county commissioners of Sevier county, as a board of equalisation, has passed upon the assessments of the county for this year. The total valuation, outside of some railroad property, is $1,932,269. The story comes from Modena that .aawmhile Indian Jack and his . squaw were working In the fields, their y ear-olson was killed by two older children, aged 4 and 7, who pounded the little one to death with rocks. ex-jge-ct y garrison. WILL NOT HELP HAYTI. Uncle Sam Will Not Interfere in Controversy Between Hayti and France. It lo said that the state department never hai taken the ground that the smallur republics ought to be protected by the United Statee as against reclamations by European powere for or contract violated obligations against proper demands arising out of violations in International obligations such as It la alleged la Involved In this attack on the foreign ministers. So If the demands made on Hayti by France and Germany are not excessive or oppressive In the Judgment of the state department, there will be no interference fay this government, but developments will be watched with keen Interest to see that the line is properly drawn, and unjie punishment Is not inflicted. It la Sot doubted that the Ilaytlen government will supplement Its Inadequate letter of apology by punishing the guilty guards when It realises that It cannot look for intervention by this country. 3-- d The articles of Incorporation of the Denver, Northwestern A Pacific Railway company, better known as the Moffat" road, have been filed with The Secretary of State Hammond. capital stoek of the company Is 0. A fatal accident occurred on the Lucin cut-of- f last week, when a lad, name unknown, was crushed to death under the wheels of a work train. He was riding on the pilot of the engine and fell off In front of the wheels. Forty cars passed over his body. ON THE IIUS I Ti-h- c ili-.- o y twei-ty-sev- funnel-s- s prao-tlcall- Victim of Blizzard Found After Long RUSSIA LOSKS A SHIP NEAR ENSUNK PERESVIET TRANCE TO PORT ARTHUR. The Sevastopol Also Disabled and Cruiser Seriously Damaged, the Escaping Japanese Vessels With Slight Damages. a The news comes from Toklo that Admiral Togo reports that on Thursday, June 23, hip patrol heat discovered the battleship Pereavlet and even other vessels, accompanied by nine torpedo boat destroyers, near the entrance to Port Arthur harbor. They warned him wirelessly and he Immediately advanced his entire fleet, except those engaged upon special duty. The Russians stopped outside the entrance to the harbor, and after nightfall a fleet of Japanese torpedo-boa-t destroyers resolutely attacked the Russian ships and succeeded In torpedoing and sinking a battleship of the Pereavlet type and disabled Ihe battleship Sevastopol A cruiser of the Diana type was observed burning, towed into the harbor on Friday morning, and It waa evident he had sustained serious damage. Tbe Japanese shlpa sustained little damaga Tbe torpedo destroyer Sblraknmo waa bit by a shell which fell In the cabin, and had three men killed and three others wounded. Tho Chldorl, n veasel of the same class, waa hit behind the engine room, hut no casualties resulted therefrom-- . Two torpedo boata were slightly damaged. Tho Japanese forces are twelve miles from Port Arthur, the whole male population of which, from the age of 15 upward, la under arms. The women are Misting In the work of oompletlng the defenses. Civilian cyclists occasionally establish com nlcatlon with tho outside world. n Victim Fixed the Noose, Stirling Dunham, a negro, charged with criminally assaulting tha daughter of John Wilson, a white man, near Bellfontalna, Miss, two weeks ago. and attempting to criminally assault three young ladles named Dunn near Europla, all during the course of the same day, waa hanged In the public square at Euro pia, Mias, Sunday, by a mob. The noose waa placed about the negros neck by the little Wilson girl, who positively IdenL.'.od him as her assailant The negro waa then plaoed on the back of a horse and at a signal from tbe leader of the mob the little Wilson girl led the horse from under him. -- . Over One Thousand Perished. .... That more than 1,000 persona perished la the burning of tho excursion steamer General Slocum la bow certain. According to an exhaustive report made by Police Inspector Schmlttberger on the number of dead, mining, injured and uninjured In tbe disaster It appears that 938 bodice have been recovered and that ninety-threpersons absolutely known to have been aboard the vessel are still unaccounted for, bringing the total mortality of the disaster up to prao-tlcall- y Search. e Mall advices from eastern Montana say: W. B. Foster, coroner of Daw son county, returned from Thompson 179 Creek, about eighty miles northwest 1,031. Those Injuredof numbered who 1,500 of and the fully throng from Glendive, where be bad been embarked on tho excursion of St. called by the finding of the body of Mark's church but 230 escaped withThomas McWilliams, who perished in out Injury. the storm of last March. McWilliams A Smzll-8lze- d 8crap. left Bar U." ranch on March 23 In a The Japanese legation at London buggy and waa caught In one of the worst blizzards of years. haa received a dispatch from Toklo Some time afterward his horse was announcing that a detachment of the found dead, but no trace of McWilTakushan army surprised and routed liams was discovered until his mummified body, enveloped In a fur coat, a squadron of Russian cavalry, ten was found by a boy herding sheep. miles northwest of Ban Tao Kow on He was religious In life and in death, the Ha Che Klao road at dawn June and the skeleton fingers were found The body was 23, and also ocennied the heights clutching a bible. Russians, buried fn a tarpaulin at the spot north thereof, expelling the field. who left sixty dead on the where he perished. Moat Important Contest of War ExBoy Kills Companion While Hunting. pected to Take Place Soon. A Philipsburg. Mont., special to the armies of General Oku and The Butte Miner says: James Connors, Kurokl. aggregating at least General aged 11, was probably fatally shot and Tom Turtle, aged 10, injured six divisions, are confronted by the while hunting gophera on a ranch huge force under General Kuropatkln. near Princeton, about alxteen milea The tension at Liao Tang la most from here. The shooting was done acute at the approach of the most by Arthur Scbeer, another boy, and Important battle of the war. In which was Young entirely accidental. times the number of troops enthree In Scheer. coming sight of a gopher, raised his rifle to shoot and the gaged at Klu Lien Cheng. Kin Chen weapon was prematurely discharged and Vafangow will take part The the bullet passed through Connors proximity of the rainy season makes body and then lodged in the body of the battle unavoidable. Turtle. Heavy Ralne Delay Harvest. Train Crashes Into Open 8witch, SevKansas wheat harvest win be The eral Passengers Being Injured. many daya on account of delayed A Billings special to the Butte MinIn some ralna. er saya that passenger train No. 41 Saturday's heavy wheat ta badly atate tho of the parts on the Burlington It Missouri was broken down, hut aa a whole ta not wrecked this side of Newcastle, Wyo, damaged, aa It waa not Monday morning, crashing Into an materially dead rlpa All the lowlands aronnd open switch and colliding with a train are covered with water. Llndahorg of stock cars on the aiding. Larry 1a In the center of the wheat Thle Holden and a waiter named Klnny were Injured. A great number of belt. Tha Republican and Smoky HH1 passengers were badly shaken up. rivers are rising at an alarming rate The passenger engine and a box car at Junction City. Much wheat will wero badly wrecked. be destroyed In that vicinity. one-hors- e TROUBLE Two children, aged 4 and 6, came near being burned to death In 8a!t Lake City, the mother having locked them In a room while she went out to work. The little ones got hold of the matches and started a fire, and were rescued by the lire laddies Just In the nick of time. A girl of John Klchclsen of Huntsville suffered a painful accident last week, by getting her hand caught In a feed cutter. The member was lacerated so badly that the doctor waa obliged to amputate two of the Angora. Nineteen marriage licenses were granted by the county clerk of Salt Lake county one day last week. This does not come up to the record established In June last year, when twenty-sicouples applied for and IN WASHINGTON. Coal 8 trike In That State Assuming Serious Proportions. The coal strike at the Issaquah Coal company's mine at Issaquah, Wash., It la assuming serious proportions. Ih now the Intention of the company, MAP SHOWING It is said on good authority, to Import miners to take tin? places of the strikers. If this is done the new men will lie neeompauled 'ey deputy sheriffs and violence may lie resorted to by the men who are out or their sympathizers. A majority of the strikers cwn their homes in Issaquah and depend sole'y on the mines to keep them going. They state frankly that they will not he driven from town. There are 150 men Implicated, and the question at stake is whether nr not the company will allow "shifts" between permanent men and those out of work. x received licenses In one day. Maurice M. Ranney, the waiter who waa mysteriously assaulted In Salt lake City last April, his skull being crushed by some unknown party, died at the state mental hospital last Saturday. The man never recovered his reason sufficiently to tell who his assailant was. Death Dealing Tornado. A tornado swept the city of Moscow, Russia. Wednesday night, causing enormous damage. Forty-fivpersons were killed and thirteen injured are being eared for In the hospitals. Two villages near Moscow In the track of the storm were destroyed. One hundred and fifty deaths are reported persons were there, while eighty-fiv- e hurt. The telegraph system was prostrated and railroad communlcatlou Is Hailstones weighing Interrupted. three-quarte-r of a pound fell during tho storm. . LOCATIONS WHERE NEW FIGHTS LAND ARE REPORTED. 6a-41n- a $100,000. D. A. Stark, pin-.sdn- g ' SEA AND reported. Kairhow, where a general engagement Is said to be on. Is but but twenty miles north of Tellssu, or Vafangow, where the Russians were miles southdefeated. It is thirty-fiveast of the port of Newchwang and about the some distance south of Indications are that Gen. Oku is pressing the Russians northward. with the intention, If possible, of flanking them and then permitting Gen. Kurokl, whose base is at Siuyen to attack from the front with his main army. It was reported on the 15th that the Japanese wero landtag a new army In the district between the port of Krwrhwana and Kairhow. Hal-Chen- On the map are Indicated points ebero new conflicts in the East are IRRIGATION IN COLORADO. Death of Colonel Brigham. death of the News has been received Thoueande of Acree in Uncempahgre at Delta. O., of Colonel Joaeph H. BrigValley to Be Reclaimed. ham. assistant secretary of agriculThe Gunnison river tunnel which ture. Colonel Brigham was chairman will furnish weter for the irrigation of of the government Iwarrt at the St. thousands of acres In Vnrninpahgre Louis exposltnn. He left Washington valley, says a Montrose, Tola., speTuesday evening for St. Imls to at- cial, Is assured by the filing Tuesday tend a meeting of thu hoard, and had of bonds aggregating $200,000, guarstopped off at Heda for a short visit. anteeing the entire subscription of For many years he has been promi- 80,000 acres bjr the governnent in iHditii-- iiml has occupied bis ment before required upon the proentering first administration position since the 7(1,407 acres have been Already ject. of President McKinley. subscribed. s ON e e The wool crop In Sevier county this season has exceeded that of any previous year. At the office of the Denver A Rio Grande railroad In It Is said that 725,000 pounds of wool have been offered for shipment, and between $90,009 valued at a boilermaker employed In the Southern Pacific shops at Ogden, was probably fatally Injured while engageda In cutting off locomotive, the the boiler head of head unexpectedly falling away, him to the floor of the pit, his 'head being badly crushed. Zachariah Kump, a pioneer of 1251, is dead at Chester, death being the result of injuries sustained on May 24. Mr. Kump waa standing upon a chair on the edge of the porch, trying to arrange a rope for a swing for the children, when the chair slipped from .wader him, injuring bis back. nKjtl i:i UMilfi".;illy il:(J Cliik Wiiii. Kl.an, Cl: Junction of thu i ni'inr's fire" by reCRISIS HAS BEEN Rt ICHED. Kl:o, since be maining at Ta Between Japanese might thereby ini.r.I the safety of Great Land Battle HOT TIGHT WHICH RESULTS IK Lis own and Russians Expected Any Mochartroops, as thu A JAPANESE VICTORY. ment. acter of the fighting at Ta pass aad Fc-Lieutenant Cencral Sakharoffs disShnl puss on Juno 27 shows that Five Battalions cf Russian Infantry the Japanese hive a very strung force patch, received in SL Petersburg MonDefeated by the Takuhan Division uncomfortably nnr the Russian flank. day night, confirms the belief that tfce great decisive battle of the camof the Japanese Army. KILLED BY TORNADO. paign between Central Kuropatkin'a l which lasted for Twister in Nebraska Plays Havoc main army anj the armies of GenAfter a hot erals Kurokl and Oku la Imminent hourH 27, tho Takustun i.n six With Lives and Property. Tbe three armies aggregate 300,000 division of the Japanese army A tornado which paused near men and their outposts are today in iMi'ip'd five battalions of Holmesvllle, Neb.. Tuesday, killed touch all along the line. The Japanese Russian Infantry, which, supported two persons, fatally Injured a third evidently tried to draw Kuropatkln as by two regiments of cavalry and si- and cansed tbe tevero injury of five far south ns possible, holding out as xteen gunn, occupied Fenshlllng, others. Incentive a check to the advance of miles northwest of Slu Tel. The tornado followed a sultry after Oku'e main army. The niissliiiis finally fell back In th noon and came In the shape of a Nothing is known In SL Petersbnrg The haped direction of Shi Mu Cheng. rloud. It struck several of the exact point at which Knropat-kinboot casualties a aggregated Japanese buildings before reaching the Harris force la concentrated, main 100 killed and wounded. Major Ota home. At the latter place part of though It Is believed that a large part waa killed during the battle. the family reached a cellar In safety, of the Liao Yang force has been but Mrs. Harris and her son, Lewis, moved to n point between Kin Chan BATTLE AT DALIN HILL. and a daughter were un- and Ta Tche Klao. Were Whipped at JUI able to escape, the children being Russians The loss of three vessels of the Port killed. Points by Their Brown Opponent!. Great damage waa done to crops Arthur fleet la admitted to he a seThe total losses In the Dalln Ml and stock farms, houses were de- vere blow, especially If not purchased fight are not yet known. Eighty stroyed but the occupants sought by greater loss to the Japanese than In cellars. Vice Admiral Togo. wounded have arrived at Hal Cheng, safetyHolmesvllle several buildings reported by In and on Sunday last a hospital train were blown to pieces and others unCAUGHT IN TRAP. with 200 passed, going to Liao Tang. roofed, but no casualties are reported. lasted the whole e tf The fighting Thirty-threWorkmen Meet Death aa BLAME IS FIXED. June 2G and June 27, and the Japanew Reault of 8ome Ona'a Carelessness. pushed the Russlais Coroners Jury Hold Officers of Gensuccessively Thirty-thre- e persona were killed by from three positions, occupying then an accident which took place near eral Slocum Were Criminally Rewith artillery as the defender! reSpanish Town, ten miles west of sponsible. tired. The Inquiry conducted by Coroner Kingston, Jamaica, in the mala conWounded Russians recounting tie Berry and a Jury Into the General Slo- duit of the West India Electrlo comtwq days fighting say that the Japan- cum disaster was concluded In New pany, which operates the etreet cars ese again demonstrated their reliance York City, Tuesday, and after nearly from KlngBtpn, and the shareholders on their artillery and that they were four hours deliberation a verdict waa of which are principally Canadians. greatly auperior, both In number if rendered In which the directors of the Nearly 100 laborers had been demen and In guns. Knickerbocker Steamboat company. tailed to remove sand from the enormous pipe which la a mile long and General Kuropatkln Will Withdraw Captain Van Schialk of the Slocum, which conveys water from the Intake of commodore the tha Captain Pease, Hie Army and Seek Better Field. companys fleet and others were held on the Rio Cobra to the turblnea of A dispatch from St. Petersburg criminally responsible. Warrants for the power house. The work had y saya: General Kuropatkln has decid- their arrest were Issued. The mate been completed when orders of to the the Slocum, according Jury, ed to withdraw northward. This more acted In a cowardly manner and tha were glvfin to allow a small quantity gives the Russians the advantage of misconduct of Steamboat Inspector of water to enter the conduit Through accident or carebeing nearer their base of supplies Lundberg, It was recommended, misapprehension, should be brought to the attention of lessness the full force of water was and places the Japanese at the turned on, and a mad struggle to esof having longer lines of the proper authorities. means of the manholes enThe charge In each case waa man- cape by with the result that thirty-fou- r communication. It Is pointed out that sued, was fixed Ball the by slaughter. Kuropatkln no longer prevents a coroner varying from $1,000 to $5,000. persons were killed. KILLED BY FIREWORKS. KAMIMURAS PLAN TO CUT OFF RETURN OF RUSSIA'S SEA Three Meet Death and Many Have Narrow Escapee. Three persons were killed and a half dozen were Injured as a result of the explosion of a small bundle of fireworks In the store room of the Diamond Fireworks company In Philadelphia. The dead: Jacob Jancovltch, aged 28 years; O. Berman, 27 years; Lena Sempson, 21 years. The fireworks concern occupies the first floor of the building. . The second floor waa vacant and the third story wan occupied by the French Hat and Bonnet Frame company. Jancovltch was the proprietor of the hat and bonnet concern and Berman and Miss Sempson were his employes. These three were the only persons above the first floor. About a dozen persons were employed by the fireworks company. RUSSIANS Knox and Cortelyou Take Leave of Their Cabinet Aeeociatee. Attorney General Knox and Hecre-tarof Commerce and labor Cortet-yotook leave of their cabinet assoTheir ciates at Tuesday's meeting. successors. Secretary Moody and Victor H. Metralf, are rxpeeted to take the oatha of their new offices next Friday, the beginning of the new fis-ePaul Morton. Secretary year. Moody's successor In the navy department. probably will not assume the duties of his office until next Monday. y u Hayti Must Make Amends. Advice from Berlin are to the effect that the government haa decided to send a warship to Fort au Prince, Hayti, after having agreed with the French government that a simple apology waa not sufficient reparation on the part of the government of Hayti for the recent stoning of the French and German ministers by the pnlace guard at the Haytlcn capital. Whnt form of expiation the two governments will demand Is not jet known, but Germany has decided to art harmoniously with Franca Child Perished In Blazing Building. In a fire which destroyed the home of Chapel Salcido, In the outskirts of Pasadena, Cal., Salcido's Infant daughter waa burned to death and hla wife severely Injured. The child waa asleep on the second floor when tha dwelling caught fire. Made frantic by Its screams of pain and terror, the mother fought her way through the flames to its rescue, hut was drivSalcido en hack, severely burned. was away from home at the time. The child's body waa consumed. |