Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-04-01
THE JAPS DEFEAT RUSSIANS
CARS TROOPS RETREAT FROM
cONG-JU AFTER CONFLICT.

Other War News--sohsme OF Pow
ers Agreed to by sultsn-lord Cur
ION Gets English Post-Radium
Will Not Help the Blind.
The Russians were defeated Mon.
day. March 2s, In a land engagement
with the japanese at the town Oh
Cong-Ju.
six companies OF Cossacks, led by
Gen. Mishtchenko attacked TOUT
squadrons Of japanese cavalry. which
were occupying the town. the COM
bat lasted an hour and haif' Al
though the Russians had the advan-
tage of position, and cut the enemy
with a whitening fire, the Japanese
fought CALAMITY. They were compli-
mented for their bravery by Gen.
Mishtchenko in his report Of the en-
gagement.
Before the Russians could follow up
their advantage three Japanese
suuadrons arrived, two Of which sue
ceeded in entering the town. On the
arrival of further Japanese re-en-
forcements, the Russian forces re-
tired, carrying with them three killed
and 16 wounded. The Japanese loss
is not known.
II Is believed that japan has some
new and important move TO conceai
from the fact that the authorities have
refused correspondents the use OF field
telegraph lines and that all dispatches
must be sent to Toxic by mail.
Foreigners will not be permitted to go
to the front, though native newspaper
men will be allowed to do So The
Russians at New Chwang, Wednes-
States flag on the correspondents
mess to be hauled down: but have
promised to restore 1t with military
honors.
Cambridge won the annual boat race
by four lengths between oxford and
Cambridge on the Thames at London,
Saturday March %. Time, %
minutes. "a seconds.
II is now announced that II was not
the Russian torpedo boat destroyer
Shori that was blown up by floating
mines in the harbor of Port Arthur,
March 16. but the armored cruiser
Bayan. Almost the entire crew of 700
were killed.
NJ. Jokoff, the official of the Russian
war office who was last week arrested
and later confessed to having sold
government secrets to NJ. Kurino, Jap
anese minister. was hanged Saturday,
March rs, at fortress of Peter and |
Paul, St. Petersburg.
A cyclone caused widespread ruin /
throughout the island of Mauritius |
March 81 and %, doing an enormous /.
- A,
sons are known to have been killed |
and thousands are without food or
shelter. Crops, houses, bridges and !
telegraph lines are destroyed.
The famous diamond necklace,
valued at $4,000, once the property
Of Marie Antoinette, now belonging TO
Princess Alice de Bourbon, has been
stolen. II was deposited with a
well-known Paris jeweller. who gave
L TO a person calling himself a con-
idential messenger for the princess
out who was thief.
Lord Curzon of Kedleston, viceroy
IF india, has been appointed lord
warden Of the Cirque Ports This
means $4,000 sinecure to Curzon
ind an official residence at Walmer
'astle in Deal, England. His Ameri-
an wife. who was Miss Mary Letter
II Chicago, is said to prefer an Eng
ish home to life in India, even with
$4,000 viceroyalty.
The manuscript of Millions Para
Use Lost" has been sold to an Ameri-
an collector. whose name and the
mount paid are not disclosed. The
london Daily Telegraph regrets that
he heirloom was not preserved for the
british nation, and says: Let us be
thankful that Westminster Abbey and
I. Paul's Cathedral are not portable,
DR. otherwise they would be purchased
y an American millionaire"
Professor Greeff. principal of the
We hospital attached to the Berlin :
University, has studied, at the wish
Emperor William. at st. Petersburg
lie report that blind persons in some
ises are able to see objects illumi- q
ated by radium rays. After numer- y
Us experiments he found that those
hose optic nerve had not been des- &
Dyed could distinguish objects in 81
ont of a screen made fuorescent by
idium. but he also found that they v
,uld distinguish objects on a semi IL
ansparent screen Illuminated by an
binary lamp. He concludes that IL y,
absolutely certain that ths Mind a,