Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-04-15

| tinues, fear the approach of the Jap
anese. The price Of food in Harbin
is rising and the value of the rouble
is falling.
st Petersburg, April 15.- An inn
perial ukase, issued here directs that
the $5OO,OO0 obtained by the reduction
in the estimates for the expenditure
of the imperial household shall be
state treasury. These resources are
now being utilized for war purposes.
st Petersburg, April 15.--P Persistent
/ rumors are In circulation that Grand
Duke Cyril is dead, but the correspond
| ent of the Associated Press can secure
| no confirmation. On the contrary,
Lieutenant General Prince Galitzine,
master of the Grand Duke Vladim1r's
household, is the Associated Press au-
thority for the statement that the
telegram received this morning re-
ported the condition Of Grand Duke
Cyril as being better.
/ st Petersburg April 15.-The wife
of Captain Jakovleff, the commander
| of the Russian battleship Petropavlo-
vsk, has received telegram from
Rear Admiral Grigorovitch, the COM
mandant at Port Arthur, saying that
her husband is wounded in the head
and that several of his ribs are brok-
en-. He was unconscious until yester-
| day but is improving.
Lieutenant Jenish, who is one of the
/ nffi ooVc of tho T0nfwn1a uI0uSIr xxy hf xrnpo
saved, lost his father when the war
ship Roosalka sank in the Baltic,
/ eleven years ago
The Russian ironclad Roosalka
foundered off the coast of Finland,
September 10, 1898, as the result of an
| explosion, according to report, result
| ing in the loss of about 200 officers and
men.
Tien Tsin, April 15.- Tt is asserted
here that the reason of the delay in
the movements Of the Japanese army
in Korea is that over twelve per cent
of the troops are suffering from
malignant sickness, described as being
aspecies Of beri-beri
\ Paris, April 15.--Information re-
ceived in government quarters now es-
tablishes the fact that naval battle
occurred between the Japanese fleet,
consisting of fourteen warships, and
the force under the late Vice Admiral
NTakaroff. From this the officials
strongly incline to the conclusion that
i the destruction Of the Russian ships
| and the loss Of the admiral resulted
from a naval engagement. However,
the only definite official information
is that a battle occurred. and it is be-
lieved that the Japanese submarine
boats took part in the engagement and
caused the destruction Of the Russian
ships.
st Petersburg, April 15.-The naval
staff has no Information confirming
last nights rurnor that the Japanese
have succeeded in blocking the en-
trance of the harbor of Port Arthur
Grand Duke Cyril Is being brought
back to Russia by command of the
emperor.
The admiralty authorizes the Asso-
ciated Press to deny Vice Admiral
Togo's claim that the Japanese sank
the Petropavlovsk in a fight off Port
Arthur. The officials declare posi-
lively that there was no naval engage
ment, excepting the torpedo boat de-
stroyer fight. either preceding or fol-
lowing the loss Of the" flagship.
Russia has formally acceded to ia
pans request. made through the Unit
ed States. to allow six hundred Japan
ese refugees and the Japanese consul
ar staff of the Island of Sakhalin to
return to Japan. They will be taken
off In neutral ship. which will be ar
ranged for by the Washington author
tiles.
Washington, April 15.-The Russian
government has given notice that
newspaper correspondents using wire
less telegraphy will be treated as spies
and shot.
Washington, April 15.-Count Cas-
SIM. the Russian Ambassador, has
formerly expressed to President
Roosevelt the coincidence OF his gov
ernment on the accident sustained by
the Missouri In turn the president
has expressed his deepest sympathy
for the loss sustained by Russia in the
death of Vice Admiral Makaroff and
the sinking of the Petropavlovsk.
1
} ceived at the foreign office here says
that the imperial palace at Seoul,
Korea, was completely DESTROYED by
! fire last night. The fire began in the
evening and lasted throughout the
night. Only the ruins Of the palace
| remain. The emperor and his wife
succeeded in escaping to a nearby
refuge. The report does not mention
any loss of life. nor does 1t give the
: cause of the fire. but the recent politi-
; cal unreast in the Korean capital leads
to fears that the destruction of the
palace was the work OF the rebellious
element.
i st Petersburg. April 15.-There are
now only two Russian battleships in
the harbor at Port Arthur which have
not been damaged. These ships are
the Peresziet and the Sevastopol
Some of the damaged ships, however