Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-04-28
TRIED TO KILL
GEN. kUR0PATK|N.
Two Supposed Beggars At
tempted to Assassinate
Him.
KNIVES INSIDE THEIR ROBES
Suspicious Movement Noted by
Watchful Guard-Premature Explo-
sion of Russian Mine in Port Ar.
thur Harbor Kills Twenty Men.

st. Petersburg, April 23.-Rumors
are in circulation that two beggars
attempted the assassination of Gen.
eral Kuropatkin when he was in
Niuchwang few days ago. 1t is
said that the beggars succeeded in
approaching the general and were
talking to him, when a guard noticed
that one OF them put his hand inside
his robe. The men were seized and
searched and knives were found up
on them. 1t is said that the men were
Japanese.
The rumors cannot be confirmed
tonight.
st. Petersburg, April 23.-The EN-.
peror has received the following tel.
egram from Viceroy Alexien, bearing
yesterdays date:
Il respectfully report to your ma
jesty that today during the placing
Of mines by some steam launches,
Lieutenant Pell and twenty men were
killed through mine exploding pre-
maturely under the stern Of one Of
the launches"
st. Petersburg, April 23.-Viceroy
Alexieff's announcement of the de-
struction of launch and the loss Of
twenty-one men by the explosion Of a
Russian torpedo at Port Arthur has
added to the gloom which has pre-.
vailed since the disaster to the Petro-
pavlovsH.
we are paying the price of care.
lessness," said a member of the ad.
miralty, land previous disasters.
seem to teach nothing"
The war commission suppressed
part of the viceroy's dispatch, which
showed where the mines were being
laid. 1t is believed that as launches
were employed they were mining the
entrance to the harbor in order to
prevent the Japanese from forcing
an entrance and attempting to destroy
the remaining ships.
1t is evident from the closing of the
entrance that Viceroy Alexieff has no
intention of letting his ships go to
sea again even against an inferior
force, though this may not be the.
policy of Vice Admiral Skrydloff,
who will determine on plan of oper-
alton when he assumes command.
st. Petersburg, April 23.-An official
telegram received here says the Rus.
sian scouting parties report that rhe
Japanese are concentrated in cOnsid-
cradle force, with war material and
pontoons, at and around 'Wiju. Shots
were exchanged south Of the river
Pomakua, where a Russian detach-
ment of two officers and thirty-two
men lost three killed and the two
officers and thirteen men wounded.
The Russian force regained the Rus
sian side of the river under the pro-
lection of two guns.
London, April 23.-Rumors of Sc
we're fighting on the Yalu are repeated
in various forms and from various,
points. For instance, the Shanghai
correspondent of the Morning Post
says he hears that the first Japanese
army has crossed the Yalu almost
without opposition and the Daily
Chronicles correspondent at Seoul
says that heavy fighting has occurred
but that for strategic reasons 1t Is
impossible to send particulars. No
authentic news, however, has reach
ed London showing that anything mas
happened beyond skirmishinS.
According to the Daily Telegraphs
st. Petersburg correspondent, the
Russian strategists are reluctantly ar
irving at the conviction that General
Kuroki is engaged in the adventurous
plan of advancing along the middle
reaches of the Yalu river, via kang
&c, and despite enormous dificultles,
is moving his army over the noun
tain paths, his purpose being to out
flank the Russian position on the
right bank of the Yalu.