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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01

of the western defenses of the fortress.
Within the last month we have ad-
vanced from mere guesswork to def
mite knowledge of the progress Of the
siege. IS the result of the trickling
stream Of dispatches which the Jap
anese staff has allowed to be published.
We no longer talk Of the possibility of
Port Arthur falling any day. but rather
of the probability that this or that one
of the sixteen forts, or groups Of forts,
which make up the main defense of the
city, will be taken.
It is worth recalling that the Port
Arthur forts can be divided in gen.
eral way into five groups. There is
first the exceedingly strong Liautie-
shan position, at the extreme end of
The promontory, some twelve miles
southwest of Port Arthur. This has
not vet been under fire at all. Then
there are the forts on the Tigers Tail
peninsuIa. These also have been free
from attack. Thirdly, there are the
forts of which Golden Hill and Elec-
tric Cliff are the best known, COM
handing the harbor entrance and
strung along the shore to the east of
the city. The guns Of these forts have
engaged Admiral Togo's feet whenever
thew had q chance, but they do not
seem to be mounted so that they can
be used against land attacks. A fourth
group comprises the forts on the north
eastern ridge, the Sungshu fort, the
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01

A Russian torpedo-boat DESTROYER vas
chased into Chefoo harbor by a Japanese
boat.
1t is reported that the Russian cruiser
Gromoboi struck rock near Vladivos-
tok, and was badly damaged.
Gen. Stoessel is reported wounded and
in the hospital, and the soldiers would
like to surrender if they were not afraid.
Gen. Balashoff, head of the Red Cross
Society at Port Arthur. charges the Ian
anese with violating rules of civilized
warfare.
The japanese are using a long. saus-
age-like missile in their attack on Port
Arthur. The missile bursts and gives ont
sickening odor.
outposts of opposing armies at the
Shake river are in constant conflict. and
daring deeds are the rule. One town 4
shared by the opposing forces.
The crew of the Russian torpedo-bos,
destroyer at Chefoo say they were
threatened by japanese and feared they
would be made prisoners; therefore thev
blew mp the ship.
The forth side Of Ehrlunr fcrt. An I'm.
portant link IN Port Arthur's defeo.e
was blown up BY the japanese. several
hundred Russians being killed, accor,dbaa
to Toxic dispatch to Rome
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01
PRO GGRRESS OF THE MAR

Rihlung Ehrlung) forts. the Keekwan
forts and the Kinkeeshan forts. The
fifth group is to the west on the Chair
hills, comprising the Else, Antsz and
Wangtai forts.
Gen. NOgi seems to have decided
definitely 10 enter Port Arthur over the
| ruins of the Keekwan, Ehrlung and
Shungshu forts. His men are lying
in tunnels within a few hundred feet
OF the walls of these forts. The Rus
slams are confined within the walls, and
while their guns are still powerful to
check any Japanese assault up the
| hills they can do nothing against the
| men tunneling beneath them. Almost
| any day we may learn that the jap
anese have exploded their mines and
burst out of the ground into one Of
these forts, there to fight hand-to-
hand struggle to the death for posses
sion.
But even if the Russians are driven
| out of one fort and their cannon and
| ramparts destroyed, that will not mean
Japanese occupation. Apparently all
the forts in the group must be taken
in this way before the Japanese can
enter into occupation. And after this
will come further strategical problem
to bring about the reduction of the
| Golden Hill and Chair Hill groups Of
forts. These tasks accomplished, Port
Arthur will have fallen. But even
then Stoessel, with the remnant Of his
men, may hold out longer, if he sees
| fit, on the Liautieshan promontory.
With the fall of the Merchandising
shu forts the Russian fleet will proba-
bly, be compelled to take its final choice
Of dooms, either self-destruction in the
| harbor or a rush into the waiting jaws
of Togo's keet. The Japanese are con-
fident that they can force this dilemma
long before Admiral ROjestvensky' S
squadron reaches eastern waters.
1t is easy to understand why the
Japanese wish to settle the Port Ar
thur matter. In the first place its cap
ture will release soldiers for service in
northern Manchuria. In the next place
the Russian feet is moving eastward.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01

Late last week that section of the
fleet which is taking the Red sea route
began passing through the Suez canal.
That route will also be followed by the
division made up of cruisers and tor
pedo boat destroyers, which was the
last to leave the Baltic. 1t will be in
the North sea soon.
The battleships under the immediate
command of Admiral Rojestvensky,
which stopped ten days ago at Dakar,
Cape Verde, TO coal, are on their way
down the African coast, and If they
give the preference to French ports for
coaling purposes the next report con-
corning them may come from Loango,
in French Congo. Golfers are await
ing them at Madagascar, another
French possession, and possibly will
proceed there from Loango without
stopping. 1t is rumored that Diego
Suarez bay in Madagascar is where
the different sections Of the fleet will
unite and prepare for the last stage of
the journey.
When Port Arthur falls Admiral
Togo will be relieved from blockade
duty, which cannot be abandoned. II
will be possible then for him to 20 out
to meet the Russians-to go as far as
Formosa perhaps. Until the siege ends
he will be kept in Korea bay. The
plan Of the japanese naval campaign
hinges on the operations at Port Ar.
| thur.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01


Six negroes held up Pennsylvania ex-
sress train and boarded it at Greensburg,
Pa, but aed before an attack by the
/ trainmen.
DR.. G. A. Flower of Kittanning, Pa,
who befriended Hindu boy at the Chi
cago worlds fair, has been discovered by
the youth, now a wealthy prince, and has
been given $4,000 and a lfe position as
q reward.
The jurors at Paterson, n. j., In the
case of William T. Richards and Ernest
Heller, charged with manslaughter In
having caused the wreck at Midvale July
10. in which sixteen people lost their
lives, failed to agree.
John Schroeder, aged 2, miraculously
escaped death when he fell from an
upper window of his home in Hoboken,
n. j., into the big bass horn carried by
musician in a wandering band playing
below. He was unburt.
Miss Elizabeth Henkle of Wakefield.
Mass. is believed to have committed
suicide at sea. She was a passenger on
the steamer Princess Anne, from New
York, but when the steamer reached Nor
folk, Va, she was missing.
A number of men blew up and prac-
tically destroyed the building of tt
Southern Maryland Savings Bank in
Plata. Nd, robbing it of $4,000. L
robbers made their escape after cuttin-
the telegraph and telephone wires.
On charge of manufacturing counter
felt silver dollars William Bartlett, Har-
~ Seitz. alias THE Mouse" and Charles
Clifton, known as ''Bunco Charlie" were
arrested in a basement in Philadelphia
and held in bonds Of $1,000 each for trial.
A handsome memorial tablet erected
to the memory Of twelve Frederick
county judges who, on Nov. %, 1853,
drst officially repudiated the British
stamp act, was unveiled in Frederick,
Md. Gov. Edwin Warfield and other
prominent men were in attendance.
Five Italians per--Aed in a fire which
destroyed the old Noble grain warehouse
1t North Bend, Pa, where sixty or more
italian railroad laborers have been sleep
ing. One of them was washing a pair Of
overalls in n pail of gasoline when a
spark from his pipe fell into the pail.
While crossing the tracks Of the Nau-
satuck division of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad in Water
bury, Conn, the automobile Of Frank B.
Bristol, a prominent manufacturer, was
struck by a passenger train. Mr.. Bristol
was thrown some distance down an en-
Sankmeut and instantly killed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01
PRESIDENT AT THE FAIR.
Roosevelt and Party View the Big Ex-
position in a Day.

pocltiOH III d Ddys
Presidents day at the Louisiana pur-
chase exposition dawned with clear skies
and brisk wind, ideal weather for car
| rying out the strenuous program arrang-
ed for the nations chief executive.
Although President Roosevelt was not
officially greeted by the exposition man.
agement until after O'clock, the grounds
were thronged long before that hour.
The presidential special train arrived
in st. Louis at $40 Saturday morning
and was taken at once to the worlds
fair grounds. Extraordinary precautions
were taken to prevent accident after the
special arrived within the jurisdiction OF
the st. Louis Terminal Association, two
hundred and fifty men having been sta
toned along the right of way. Two COM
panies of the Sixteenth infantry guard
ed the train when it reached its destina-
ton and no one was allowed to approach
within one hundred feet of the darkened
Pnllmans. The distinguished party was
early astir, preparing for their day of
record-breaking sightseeing.
The presidential party breakfasted in
| their car, which was surrounded by
great crowd. Although kept at a dis
lance, they were able to see the Presi-
dent, who sat in full view before one
OF the windows during the meal. He
seemed as much interested in the crowd
as they were IN him.
| After breakfast was finished, Presi-
dent Francis, Mayor Wells and COM
mittee of exposition officials and direc-
tors appeared at the car to pay their
respects to the chief executive. The re-
ceptlon was very informal, the party
walking through the car and meeting the
| President.
Carriages were then taken and the
| party proceeded to the Liberal Arts
building, which was the first great ex-
hibit palace to be seen. The route of
| the procession was thronged with people.
who gave the President an ovation and
| Kept him busy responding to cheers.
| Each of the exhibit palaces that the
President visited was closed to the public
| from the time he entered the building till
he issued therefrom. His view of the
| various buildings was necessarily hur
ried, as he had arranged to see the big
show in day, beside giving some of his
time to the football game on the Stadium
| gridiron.
What healthy and optimistic Ameri-
be done properly in six weeks, President
Roosevelt did in eight hours. He saw
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, peek
ed into its every nook and corner, went
through all the great buildings, visited
the structures reared by foreign coun-
| tries, received a car load of gifts, made
speech or two, spent an hour on a
neighborly visit in the Filipino section,
and closed his schedule at shutdown not
half tired but wholly pleased. After a
short rest he made ready for the ban
| quet in the evening, which was given in
the Tyrolean Alps concession.
Mrs. Roosevelt was at the Presidents
side most of the time. So were Miss
Alice Roosevelt, Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas
Robinson, Secretary and Mrs. Loeb and
Surgeon General Rixey, who formed the
Washington party.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01

The armies of Kuropatkin and Oya-
Shakhe river, where they have been
stationary for a month. There are
occasional reports from Russian
sources of Japanese setbacks and re-
pulses, at various points, but the jap
anese are silent as to their doings and
their intentions.
All that is positively known is that
both armies are receiving REINFORCE
ments. Since the completion of the
missing link in the Siberian railroad
around Lake Baikal the Russians are
able to send men to the front with
greater rapidity and in larger numbers.
Both armies are using the spade in
cessantly, and are protected now by
systems of elaborate and seemingly i'm
pregnable works.
1t is winter in northern Manchuria,
and the difficulties in the way of a for
ward movement when the forces are
so nearly equal as they are appear to
be insuperable. Snow and frost are
dangerous enemies to affront 1t seems
as if both armies had resolved to stay
where they are during the winter.
What their losses from disease and
cold will be during the season may be-
come known next spring.
Spasmodic bombardment and persist
ent tunneling have been the character
istic features of the siege of Port Ar
thur during the week. Specific items
of news have been in consequence few.
The Japanese succeeded in occupying
the counterscarp of Sungshu fort, one
Of the strong positions on what is call
ed the northeastern ridge, and they
made similar gain at the Ehrlung
fort. A smell blew up a magazine in
the city and started a confagration
that lasted two days. A Russian coun-
ter attack in front Of East Keekwan
fort was failure. There is also a
story, though not a very definite one,
Of an attack by a Japanese company
on detachment of Russians in an out
lying position in front of Etseshan.
This last story is the only one that in
dicates activity in the neighborhood
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01
In GENERAL.

The steamer City of Seattle, bound
from Juneau to Skagvay, went ashore at
Eagle river. No lives were lost.
Jimmy Michaels, the famous cyclist.
known all over the world as the "Welsh
Rarebit," died on the French liner La
Savoie, en- route to New York
The Quebec provincial elections result
ed in the return of thirty-one liberals
and six conservatives. Thirty-five lib
erals had previously been elected by ac-
clamation.
The cruiser Pennsylvania in her trial
trip broke all records for speed and
economy in fuel consumption on heavy
fighting craft and becomes the new queen
of the American navy.
Startling increase in crime in The
limited States is shown by s. s. McClpre
who attributes grave conditions to the
misrule of criminal oligarchy." genera
disregard of the. law and failure TO on.
force the statutes.
The American-German arbitration
treaty was signed Tuesday at the Stat
Department in Washington BIZ SecretarS
Hay and Baron Sternberg, the Cerms :
ambassador. 1t is identical with the
American French treaty.
DESPITE appeals made by wom.r,,
clubs. the w. c. T. u, and religion,
bodies and church societies, it is the nres
emf intention of the Senate COMMITTEES =,
privileges and elections to recomman;
that Reed Smoot be allowed to retain hi,
seat in the Senate.
Four men were drowned by the ovar
- - q ferry near po-<
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01
Little wiIIie,s Sad Finish.

After goring to death 1O-year-old Will
liam Joseph of Huntington, W. Va, an in
furiated bull tore about the lot in which it
was confined bearing upon its horns the
lifeless body of its victim. All plans to
extricate the little body designed by the
frenzied people who had hastily gathered
70 the scene, were futile, and it was neces-
sary to shoot the bull. Six shots were re-
quired to bring him down. The boy had
gone into the lot despite the warning of his
parents, on whose farm the tragedy was
enacted. The animal became enraged at
the sight of red hat that the boy wore and
charged upon him.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01


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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01
CONCERNING PEOPLE, PLACES
AND DOINGS OF THE WORLD.
Courts and Crimes, Accidents and
Fires, Labor and Capital, Grain.
Stock and Money Markets.

Train Rolled Down an Embankment.
Thirtyfive persons were injured by the
derailment of passenger train No. on the
Mobile & Ohio Railway, one mile east of
Columbus, Miss. The injuries of none. it
Is thought, will prove fatal. The place
where the wreck occurred is on a perfectly
straight track, on an embankment twenty
feet high on both sides. No definite ex-
PLANTATION has yet been given as to the
cause of the accident The combined bag
gage and express car rolled down the en-
bankment and the other two coaches, both
passengers, were torn loose and fell down
to the bottom of the embanknent
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01
Canadians Seize American Fishing
Craft.

Ten American fishing craft, including
eight sailing vessels and two steamboats,
have been seized by the Canadian fisheries
protective cruiser Curlew, and fined for il
legal fishing in the Canadian waters of a
tributary of Passamaquoddy Bay near st.
George, N. B. For the first two offenses
each boat was fined 800 and for the last
$500. In addition to this all seines and fish
were confiscated. 1t is understood that the
fines will be paid and that the entire mat
ter will be disposed of without involving
any international question.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01
Mime. Humbert Insane.

Paris special: Therese Humbert, who
is confined to the prison at Rennes, has de-
veloped such a mania for writing abusive,
incoherent letters to officials concerning
the supposed dissipation of the Crawford
millions that the authorities are consider
ing her transfer to an asylum for the in
sane
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01

HorribIe Story of Human Suite ings.
A story Of sickness, hunger and starya-
ton has come to the state department at
Washington, from Mr.. Norton, the Ameri-
can consul at Harput, Armenia, in report
upon the condition of the Sassoun popula-
ton in the Mush district. The consul says
of the 10000 survivors of the recent mas
sacre few have saved anything but their
lives. Nearly every house in the region
was ransacked and burned.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01
AROUND A BIG STATE.
BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDI-
ANA NEWS.

What Our Neighbors Are Doing
Matters of General and Local Inter-
est-Marriages and Deaths-Acci-
dents and Crimes-PersonaI Pointers
About Indianiana.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01
Third Time the Charm.

John Eagan of Stamford, Conn.,, was
born to be killed on a railroad. A train
cut off one of his feet four years ago. A
few months afterward a locomotive struck
him and so injured his brain that he was
very absent-minded. While his wits were
wandering Eagan walked across the tracks
near Stamford station. An express train
struck him and killed him instantly. He
was factory worker q years old.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01

Auburn, CAL, special: The money,
amounting to $1,000, of which the Placer
County Bank was robbed last May, has
been found in 'cowshed on the Weber
place. The money was buried in an old
five pound lard can. Adolph Weber, who
is under arrest ON the charge of numbering
his parents, brother and sister, has been
formally charged with also having held up
the bank.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01

st. Louis NO. special: During the per-
Torrance at Paris, on the Pike at the
worlds fair, one of the ropes broke during
q trapeze exhibition and A Gibson. the
performer, was instantly killed
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01

-Four hundred miners Of the Morgan Run
and Wade mines, near Coshoct0n, Ohio,
who have been idle since May because of .
difference relative to the use Of certain
scale, returned to work, pending the ar
bitration of the differences.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01
Find Mummies in a Cavern.

Miners have broken into a cavern con-
tanning two dozen mummies near Silver
City, n. NJ. Buried with the mummies
were stone weapons and instruments show
ing that they belonged to prehistoric
race. The mummies were apparently
about five feet tall in life. Their heads
were small and their arms long. The cave
was about 100 feet below the surface of the
earth.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01

Hunters returning from the mountains
n Indian territory report the s,eer dying
with black tongue. One hunter recently
returned from the mountains IN the VI
entity Of Antlers; /. T., reports seeing
dozen deer that had died with this d.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01

Socialists Caused Trouble in Vienna.
Vienna special: Socialists to the num-
Der of 10000 made demonstration against
the government before the residence Of
Premier Won Koerber and other ministers
and then tried to invade the town hall.
A strong force of gendarmes dispersed the
crowd. Several persons were injured, in
Guiding five policemen. Five arrests were
made
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-12

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 This expert advertising service costs the advertiser nothing extra. It saves the advertiser both work and money, and 1t places their ads. in the best paying mediums. "The time to advertise is when you want more business The Massengale Advertising Agency do both local and foreign advertising. They write advertisements. design advertisements, place advertisements, check advertise ments, save advertisers money, increase their business. They occupy about half of the seventh floor of the Austell Build ing, with a handsome suite of rooms for the different departments, equipped with the latest system" for handling business thoroughly and expediently. They have taken on an extra force of ad. writers, designers, bookkeepers and stenograph- CTS, employing corps of twenty experts In their various lines. Every advertiser should get in touch with this agency If he wants the best results for his money"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-12
Our Daily Sport Story

over her forehead and saw her pretty lips part in one of the most taking smiles or pearl I've ever seen, the vision van ished behind a curtain and I saw it no more for three or four days.
 In the meantime I wore my back-col- lar stud in front, mixed up my cuff but tons. went without my suppers and all that sort of thing trying to get off to catch another glimpse of Blanche. I had learned her name within an hour of the time first saw her looking down at me and learned, too, that she lived alone with hher mother in the upper part of the tene- ment. As pretty as a picture didn't ex- press anything in speaking of hes unless you added that it was a picture by one of the old masters, sir"
 But. sir. if you could see her today as she was then. you would understand. As 1t is I can hardly tell you any more of how she looked to me, and not to me alone. sir. but to others as well, who gazed upon her in the old days
 "In the next week I passed her on the street two or three times and she did not so much as deign to glance at me began to think I must have been mis- taken in believing was the object of her smile the week before. But one night as she was walking home unescorted, Blanche Stirling was accosted by a half drunken fellow. In an instant. as it were, had him by the collar and he was thrown into the street with no gentle hand. I can be tolerable rough at times, sir And Sergeant Bryan smiled as he bent his right arm in the manner of youngsters who show off their muscle. '
 ''Then came another of those entranc- ing smiles, and I tell you. sir, IsactualIy felt faint all over. Just the way Elijah must have felt when they lifted him up to Heaven in a golden chariot. Blanche thanked me very prstily. and invited me to call ct the house the following day. if l were off duty. in order to allow her mother the opportunity of thanking me more fully. You may believe that I ac- cepted the invitation with an eagerness that she saw was too real to be as- sumed.
 The man who wouldn't have yielded to that invitation under the same circum- stances would have had to have a harder heart than the folks in Seabury, of whom 'tis current Tumor that they stone the funerals that pass their doors so that in that place no undertaken can be hired to use an ordinary sort of hearse. sir. The next day the Widow Stirling re- ceived me pleasantly and might say al.