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The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
RUSSIAN CENTER is BEARING
BRUNT OF JAPANESE ATTACKS
IN DESPERATE STRUGGLE
PORT ARTHUR is YET HELD
RUSSIANS STAND
AGAINST ENEMY

Linti PrOmOntOry Not Attacked by
the japanese Because 1t Is Re-
garded ns ImpregnabIe from the
Sea Side and the Japanese Are
Unable to Move Against Ii from
the NOrth-Japanese Fire Upon the
City Is Accurate and DeadIy-Dead
stored in Warehouses for Burial.
Che Foo. Aug. 22,- -Noon-The Chi
rese just arrived who bring the latest
information from Port Arthur confirm
the statement that the Liati promon-
tory was not assaulted for the reason
that it is impregnable from the sea
side and the Japanese are unable to
move on it from the north.
The Japanese main attack has been
the heaviest against the Russian cen
ter and right, particularly against the
center fronting which the Japanese
have taken up a strong position at
Shushiyen.
Pigeon bay had been the scene of
fighting several days before the final
assaults, the Japanese never being
able to hold long any territory they
might gain. Their attacks were made
mostly at night, during foggy days and
misty mornings.
Civilians are allowed to leave the
bomb proofs during the lulls in artil-
lery fire, but these intermissions are
rare, and everybody is worn and anx-
ious over the situation. An unusually
large proportion of young company Of
ficers have been killed, which is par
TALLY owing to their duties and to their
reckless daring.
While the Russians apparently be-
lieve they will hold the Japanese in
check. their confidence in their sue
cessful resistance is not absolute. The
Japanese have guns mounted on nearly
all the hills which formerly formed
Russian outposts. The Japanese fire
is accurate.
The hospitals and Chinese houses at
Port Arthur are full of Russian
wounded. The narrators say the dead
unready for burial are stored in ware
houses and are then buried on the out
skirts of the town, quicklime being
used freely to prevent infection.
Three large ships and two gunboats
are being repaired in the dockyard
and basin. the other ships being he
mind the shelter of the Tigers Tail
peninsula.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
GALLANT FIGHT OF THE
GR0M0B0I AND RoSSIA.
Freaks of the Jnpanese shells ana
Their FrightfuI Destructiveness

Freaks of the Japanese shells ana
Their FrightfuI Destructiveness.
Vladivostok, Aug. 22.-Repairs to the
cruisers Rossia and Gromobof are pro-
ceeding rapidly. 1t is believed IL will
be possible to complete them without
docking the vessels and that thew viii
therefore. take comparatively short
time.
There is a big reserve of naval guns
mere all ready for installation and Of
hcers and men have been already
chosen from the Siberian reserves to
NIL up the places of those who were
killed or wounded in the fight with
vice Admiral Kamimura's squadron.
Some Of the Japanese shells perform
ed queer actions. On the Rossia. a
shell bursts in a clothes cupboard Car
ments there in were torn to shreds. but
mirror was not scratched. Photo
graphs and knick-knacks on writing
table nearby were not disturbed.
In another part of the cruiser the
walls were blackened by the smoke Of a
fierce fire in which eight men were
burned alive, yet an almanac on the
wall was not even scorched
Aboard the Gromoboi a shell entered
the ward room and wrecked the furni-
ture, but a parrot cage was untouched.
1t was deadly work on the upper deck,
where the gunners were without pro-
lection, and shells striking burst into
a thousand fragments, killing and
wounding men until the deck became a
veritable shambles-strewn with dead
and dying and slippery with blood. Not
a single gunner protected by easements
lost his life. The value of protective
armor was demonstrated whenever pro-
jectiles struck the armored portion OF
the vessels.
There were many deeds of heroism
during the five-hour battle, but the
greatest praise OF all belongs to Capt.
Dabich of the Gromoboi. who remained
at his post on the bridge from the be-
ginning to the end of the fight. When
wounded I'm the back. he persisted in
resuming command directly the wound
had been dressed. but yielding to the
entreaties OF his officers, he sought
shelter in the coming tower. No soon
er had he entered than she'll struck
the foot Of the tower glancing upward
to the over-hanging cover and enter
ing through the peed-hole. killing a
Lieutenant and two quartermasters.
wounding two lieutenants and again
wounding Capt Dabch In the head and
breast Not a single man IN the tower
escaped.
There being no one 10 steer the ship
the captain. severely wounded he was
Continued on Fifth Page.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
PARKER WILL NOT
DO ANY STUMPING.
Positively Asserted That He win
Make no Campaign Speeches.

mike no OAnl Da1Sn speeches.
Esopus. N. Y, Aug, 22.-It was made
plain at Rosemount to-day that there
is no certainty of Judge Parker MAX
ing any speeches in the West, in con-
nection with his st. Louis trip or at
any other time or place The principle
on which Judge Parker will act in
the matter was learned from an inti-
mate associate of the judge, who
said:
Judge Parker has no faith in the
utility of speech making for it's own
sake and will make no speeches any
where for the mere purpose of appear
ing in any given locality. He believes
a stumping tour by a presidential can
didate to be improper, and he will
undertake no such tour. The only con-
dition upon which he VIII make any
speech anywhere will be the fact that
he has some definite thing to say, and
that he is convinced by his own rea-
son that some given time and place
best suits the saying of it there and
then. You may say, with utmost con-
fidence, that under no other conditions
will Judge Parker make any speech
anywhere"
Former Secretary of the Treasury
John G. Carlisle is passing the night
at Rosemount. Judge Parker met him
at the station. The judge said to-
night that Mr.. Carlisle had come at
his request to talk over various things
pertaining to the campaign. Mr..
Carlisle said he did not know whether
he would take an active part in the
campaign, but was at the disposal of
Judge Parker.
With former Representative r. w.
Taylor of Ohio. who was in charge of
the prosecution of Brigham H. Rob
erts of Utah, Mr.. Carlisle is associated
in a similar prosecution of Senator
Reed Smoot and it is supposed that the
Mormon question was under discussion
tonight.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
TWO WERE KILLED
BY A WIND STORM.
Thirty Others Injured and Much
Property Destroyed.

Watertown, S. D.. Aug. pa severe
wind storm swept over a region in
Hamlin county in the northeast part
of South Dakota last night. killing Mr..
Erickson of Willow Lakes, and Mrs.
H. S. Childig of Bryant, and injuring
thirty persons.
Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Smith of Willow
Lakes and Mrs. Schilling's son and
daughter were probably fatally in
jured.
The greatest damage was done at
Willow Lakes and Bryant.
At Willow Lakes every building was
damaged Three churches, a school
house and all the elevators and livery
barns are lying in heaps Of ruins. The
Great Northern depot was thrown
across the railroad track and seventeen
box cars We're turned bottomside up.
The Methodist CHURCH is upside down
on the parsonage.
At Bryant, also in Hamlin county
the property loss is not so heavy.
The loss TO farmers by damage to
their crops will be heavy.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
NEGRO WAS SHOT TO DEATH
AND BURNED AT THE STAKE
CEDARTOWN PRESENTS
A LYNCHING HORROR
f3-YEAR-OLD GIRL
e THE NEGRO'S VICTIM

Child Was Assaulted After She Had
Protected the Negro, Jim Glover,
from the Attack of Her Fathers
DOg-AII Day the Negro Was Pur-
sued-After His Capture He Was
Identi1ed-MOb Shot Him ana
Dragged the Body to the Public
Square and Burned 1t.
Cedartown, Ca, Aug. 22.-Jim Glow
er. a negro, was shot to death tonight
near the home of the 13-year-old white
girl he had assaulted and his body
then dragged a distance of about q
mile into this city and burned at the
stake on the public square.
A mob estimated at 500 composed the
shooting and burning party.
The crime for which the negro was
thus punished was that of committing
criminal assault upon little Levia
Reeves, the 1S-year-old daughter of a
well-known farmer.
l. lie lIuC SlOIy VI llC GllIlIS 10 llle
most revolving that had ever been
given to the public from this imme-
diate section of the country. After
the little girl had protected the negro
from the attack of large dog owned
by her father he followed her to the
pasture where she was taking a COW,
caught her, choked her to insensibility,
ravished her and left her bleeding and
unconscious in a corn field. This oc-
Cured early this morning.
Bloodhounds had been on the ne
gro's track all day and he was cap
tured some distance away late this
afternoon, and carried to the home of
the girl, who unhesitatingly Unidentified
him as her assailant.
In the meantime a crowd of fully
800 persons had gathered and sum
mary justice was meted out to the me-
gro as soon as it was learned that the
young girl had positively identified
him as the right man. The negro con-
fessed his guilt. Immediately the crowd
took him away from the posse which
had captured him, and his body was
riddled with bullets.
The crowd continued to gather, and
when the march back to the town with
the dead body in tow began, it ap-
peared as if fully 1000 persons had
joined the procession. By the time the
crowd reached Cedartown, several hun
dred more had been added to the
crowd
About 1000 persons witnessed the
burning as best they could in the
bright moonlight in the most conspic-
uous place on Main street.
The town is in fever of excitement
tonight. but it is thought no trouble
will follow
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
THE CHICAGO PACKERS
WANT AN INJUNCTION
To Prevent the City from Moving
Employees from Plants.

Employees from Plants.
Chicago. Aug. 22.-Chicago meat
packers to-day asked for an iniunc-
tion, preventing the city of Chicago
from interfering with the housing of
employees in stock yards plants during
the continuance of the butchers strike.
The injunction was asked in the
name of the Hammond Packing Com
pany and it insisted that the compa-
nies were violating no law and were
acting entirely within their rights.
No decision was reached.
The packers have issued an official
statement defining their position in the
stock yards controversy and declaring
that they will not enter into any agree
ment with the striking butcher work
men. In reviewing the causes leading
up to the strike. the packers point
out that they offered to submit the
entire matter to arbitration, and that
their offer was refused. It says ne
gotiations with an organization which
violates agreements is a waste of
time.
Practically every striker at the stock
yards went on duty as a picket to-day,
all working under a thoroughly or
ganized plan. Each squad has a
specific territory and each man has
specific portion of a division. A
largely increased number of police
men were assigned to the packing
house district to-day by the chief of
Police.
Colored ministers and officers of col
ored organizations were reported to-
day to be making q secret investiga-
tiOn of conditions in the packing plants
with view to urging members of
the race to quit work should allega-
tions concerning conditions there be
found true.
''These colored preachers" said John
Floersch. one of the strike leaders,
"are following the lead of the Greeks,
whose priests are urging all Greeks
to cult"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
End to shlpbuiIding LITIGATION.

New York, Aug. 22.-Judge La
comoe. in the United States District
Court to-day signed an order dismiss
ing the complaint and cross bill filed
py the New York Security. and Trust
D'npany against the United States
ahlpouilding Company and Charles NJ.
S'hwab. The discontinuance was
reached upon the consent OF counsel
iepresenting the complainant and both
uetendants. This puts an end TO the
'''lsation against the shipbuilding
company and Mr.. schwab.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
MALARlAL MOSQUITO
FOUND AT KEY WEST

Washington, Aug. 22.--Passed Assist
ant Surgeon Gardiner reports to the
Public Health and Marine Hospital
Service the discovery at Key West OF
mosquitoes OF the genus anopheles. He
regards the discovery as an important
one. in view OF the fact that for years
Key West has enjoyed immunity from
malaral fever, and systematic search
Of the island heretofore had failed 10
demonstrate the presence Of this mos
unitn.
Measures for determination are rec
ommonded.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
28,000 JAPANESE HAVE
LOST THEIR LIVES.
Account of the Heroic Defense of an
Attack on Port Arthur.

Attack on Port Arthur.
Lao Yang. Aug. 22.-The following
is supplied by a Russian correspondent
of the Associated Press:
with each additional report from
Port Arthur wonder increases both at
the persistence of the Japanese attack
and the heroic stubbornness of the de-
tenders of the fortress. The Japanese
are literally throwing away thousands
OF lives in the hope of shaking the
courage of the Russian troops.
Mai Gen. Fock says he is confident
the fortress cannot be taken, but that
if it is taken the whole Japanese army
will have to immediate itself on the
slopes of the fortifications.
There were five desperate assaults
on Green Hills. July 26. the Japanese
returning each time with apparently
inexhaustible reinforcements. On the
final assault, however. the Japanese
broke badly, throwing away their
guns, cartridge belts and even their
boots to facilitate their flight and
leaving 1000 dead or wounded.
"Our surgeons worked heroically,
impartially aiding Japanese and Rus
SLAMS. The Japanese were so touched
that they tearfully thanked the Rus
sian surgeons.
THE assault on Green Hills was re-
peated on July 27, and there were fire.
quent hand-to- hand encounters, the
Russians leaving the trenches to fol-
low their enemies.
1.-The assaults of July 2S and July
20 on the Wolf hills were not followed
up, the Japanese being too severely
shaken. We evacuated the Wolf hills
chiefly for strategic reasons, as the
hills made the line of defense too long
to effectually Withstand the furious at
tacks of the Japanese.
"The assault of July 30 was made in
the darkness of night in the hope of
surprising the Russians. Sixty thou
sand men were hurled against our 49,
900, but we drove them back again and
again at the point of the bayonet. 1t
was another Shipka Pass.
"The japanese poured in fresh bat
talions and the slopes, covered with
the dead and the dying, literally ran
with blood.
"Our Thirteenth Regiment was fore
ed from its position. but the Four
teenth Regiment came up. and with
the bayonet again dislodged the vic
tors.
"As near as can be ascertained, this
assault cost the Japanese 10000 men.
"The japanese losses since the siege
began have been $4,000 men. The ex-
plosion of one mine wiped out 500.
This was an awful sight. A volcano
of stones dismembered the bodies of
the soldiers, while the sky was lit
up with purple glare and the mud
walls of the Chinese village were
throw down by the shock. After this
fight Gen. Stoessel collected 10000 Jap
anese rifles.
1.-The japanese installed twenty siege
guns on the Wolf Hills. Aug. s. Four
of these are 12-inch guns. They have
not yet reached our shore batteries.
which are still out of range. but they
have damaged the drydock and the
railway station.
"The japanese are mapping the town
by sections for the purpose of bonn
bardment, and they are assisted in
this task by a Chinese engineer, who
recently deserted to them.
"The Japanese fire an average Of 800
shells daily. and they keep up their
fire both day and night"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
THREE DROWNED WHEN
SMALL Boat CkPSIZED.
Hat Blew Overheard and This
Caused the Disaster.

Boston, Aug. 22.-By the capsizing
of a small catboat off Boston light this
afternoon three persons lost their lives.
The drowned, all of whom lived in
Cambridge, were:
Carl Lindquist.
Mary Ancorson. step-daughter Of
Lindquist.
Ralph Jacobson.
The Gloucester fishing schooner VIII.
liam II. Cross rescued Harriet Ancor-
son of Cambridge and Carl Umbert Of
Quincy.
The part was sailing about I'm the
harbor in the catboat Viscen when A
hat blew overheard. Umbert, who was
steering the Viscen, maneuvered the
boat until the hat was within reach.
All OF the party then rushed to the lee
ward side OF the boat. the rail went
under the water and at the same in
stant a sudden squall capsized the
craft.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
stnnchaeId Is willing.

Rochester. y. Y. Aug. 22.--J. 3.
stanchheld OF Elmra, former candi-
date for Governor, has written a let
ter TO Charles J. Bissell Of this city.
In which he announces that he will ac-
cept the Democratic nomination for
Governor Of this state II Il Is offered
him Mr.. stanchheld has been promi-
nently mentioned as a candidate. but
has not heretofore expressed his will
ingness 10 accept q nomination
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
BRITISH GUNB0AT HAS
RUN FOUL OF A ROCK
1t Is Feared the COIumbine Will Be
Total Wreck.

st. Johns, N. F., Aug. 22.-The Brit
ish gunboat Columbine one of the YES
sells of the squadron patrolling the
Newfoundland fisheries, struck on
rock to-day in Snooks Arm, Green bay,
and it is feared that she will become
a total wreck.
The whaling vessel Cabot vainly
tried to pull the Columbine off the
rock.
The gunboat Fantime left here to-
night for the purpose of trying to re-
float the Columbine, and if that should
be impossible, to save her gear.
The Columbine, formerly the Hiar-
ia, is a single screw steel vessel and
was purchased by the British govern
ment in 1897 to assist in the super
vision in Newfoundland waters. She is
of 26O tons displacement, is 1873 feet
long and is capable of making knots
an hour. She was built in 1889.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
STEAMER VICTORIA
SAW BATTLE RAGING.

Che Foo, Aug. %. p. m.-The
steamer Victoria, which arrived here
this evening from New Chwang re-
ports hearing spasmodically heavy hr-
ing at Louisa and Pigeon bays, re-
spectively. northwest and west OF Port
Arthur between 10 o'clock last night
and In the morning She saw search
lights playing freely and akyrocketg
signalling az ! o'clock this morning
The ship WAS too FAR away to hear or
see anything further.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
REAR ADMIRAL STIRLING
KILLS A SENSATION.

Shanghai, Aug. 22.-Rear Admiral
Stirling says that the trip of the
American torpedo boat destroyer
chauncey from Woo Sung to shang-
hal yesterday was to carry dispatches.
Her movements had no connection with
the arrival of the japanese torpedo
boat destroyer.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
MRS. B0TKIN SENTENCED
FOR LIFE FOR MURDER.
Judge Told Her He Was Sorry He
Could Not Hang Her.

Judge Told Her He Was Sorry He
Could Not Hang Her.
San Francisco. Aug. 22.-Mrs. Cor
della Botkin was sentenced to-
day by Superior Court Judge
Carroll Cook to life imprison-
ment in the state prison at San
quentin for the murder of Mrs. John
P. Dunning, in Dover Del. by means
Of poisoned candy mailed from this
city.
In passing sentence. Judge Cook ex-
pressed regret that he could not i'm
pose the death penalty, as the jury in
ITS verdict had fixed the punishment.
Mrs. Botkin received the sentence
without evidence of emotion. An ap-
peal to Supreme Court will be taken
by Mrs. Botkin's attorneys.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
OFFERS REWARDS FOR
LYNCHERS' CONVICTION.
Governor of Alabama Wants to stop
Illegal Executions.


Illegal Executions.
Montgomery, Ala, Aug. 22.-Acting
Governor Cunningham to-day offered
rewards for members of the mobs, who
have participated in three recent
lynchings in the state, $3.50 for the
first conviction in each case and 500
for the next two.
These cases are the lynching of viii
Roberts, July 6. in Pickens county,
Rufus Lessuer, Aug. 16, in Marengo
county, and that of Will Avery last
Saturday at Cordova. He said;
Il expect to use every particle of
power the laws of the state give me
to prevent lynching and to punish
those who take part in illegal execu-
tions Of whites or blacks charged with
crimes"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
ST. PETERSBURG SAYS SHIPS
WILL BE DISARMED.

St. Petersburg. Aug. 22.-The cruiser
Askold and the torpedo boat destroyer
Grozovoi will be disarmed. The Admi-
rally realizes that it would be folly to
send the ships out to face the Japanese
squadron in the offing, and as an
nounced in these dispatches last week,
has already decided that the ships shall
be disarmed.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23

lei Paso. Tex. Aug 22.-Silver City
n. M,was swept by a flood last
night. after severe cloudburst in the
mountains above. No loss Of life has
been reported. but 90 Is believed that
0ftv houses were washed away
The Santa Fe Railroad is washed out
iu many places and seven bridges be-
tween silver city and White Water are
out
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
Cnnaition or Hnnr-

Worcester, Mass. Aug. 22.-The fol-
lowing bulletin was issued from the
home Of Senator George r. Hoar. at 3
O'Clock by his son, Gen. lockwood
HOar "The Senator Is asleep. He
has not had quite so good an afternoon
az he had yesterday His condition
has not materially changed. The PROS
pect IN he will have a quiet night"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
ROOT HAS TOLD PLAT
HE WOULDN'T ACCEPT.
Clear. Plat Says, That Root win
Not Run for Governor.

New York, Aug. Ex-senator Platt
said to-day that he had received a let
ter from Elihu Root, declining to be the
Republican nominee for governor.
"I received Mr.. Roots letter two
days ago" said Senator Plat. "As tar
as I am concerned, it settles the ques-
tion. don't believe that his being the
nominee of the party is in the range Of
possibility now. He writes me that he
will not accept II he is nominated, and
nothing could be more positive or
final.
Il am I'm favor of an open convention.
Gov. Odel says that he is. or
course we all have our preferences, but
/ do not believe the candidate VIII be
selected until the convention assemblies
In SnratOga.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-23
TWO TRAMPS KILLED.
Engineer Fatally and Conductor
Seriously Hurt.

Portsmouth. o., Aug. 22.-Two Nor
iolk and Western freight trains col
iided at the Kenova entrance to the
Ohio river bridge. Twenty-Five cars
We're wrecked and one engine.
Two tramps were killed and buried
under the wreckage. Engineer Staten
was fatally and Conductor Hensley
seriously hurt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-08
GIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE.
Lieut.. F. s. Carter Ordered Before
Naval Retiring Board.

Secretary Moody has ordered Lieutenant
Commander Fidelio s. Carter of the navy
before the naval retiring board for ex-
animation to determine his fitness for fur
ther active duty. This officer, who stands
near the head of his grade, was recently
examined for promotion and the examin-
ing board reported him professionally and
otherwise unfit for advancement. The ap-
proval of this report would have involved
his discharge from the naval service, but
In order to avoid that contingency. the Sec
retary ddsapproved the report as to moral
disqualification and referred the case to
the regular retiring board In case of a IA
vorabie report by that board the officer
will be placed on the retired list
Several months ago he was court-mar-
tailed In connection with the grounding OF
the gunboat Piscataqua,~ under his COM
mand, in Chinese waters. The sentence
of dismissal was commuted by the Navy
Department to reprimand