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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-17
Japs Did Not Do 1t.

St Petersburg, April 16.-The assertion of Vice Admiral Togo that he sank mines off Port Arthur at midnight on Tuesday has elicited an authoritative statement that not a single Japanese torpedo boat approached the entrance to Port Arthur at that time.
 The informant of the Associated Press had access to all official reports, but ad- mits he cannot explain the Petropavlovsk explosion. An admiral has given a version of the affair, confirming that of Vice Ad- miral Togo. He declares that Japanese torpedo boats came up the previous even ing and laid mines along the shore south of the entrance to the harbor.
 He says the torpedo boats were seen to make off in a different direction from tha. in which they came. The Russian flag ship, he says, drew out of the line as the squadron re-entered the harbor, thus get ting among the Japanese mines The the cry that the disaster to the Petropavlovsk was caused by a submarine boat, which has been secuted by the admirality, is re- vived by a statement published in the Novi Krai on March A that sentry cut ter stationed in the roadbed reported what looked like submarine vessel two miles off shore
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-17
Could Not Find 1t.

Launches from a torpedo boat were sent out to investigate but found no trace of the vessel. The same issue of the Novi Krai contained reports that Japanese torpedo boats were firing white head torpedoes at a range of a mile at the warships guarding the entrance to the harbor Several spent torpedoes were picked up by the Russians. It is not impossible that one of these whitehead torpedoes exploded against the battleship Pobeida.
 Lieutenant Dokielski, an officer of the Petrapavlosk died of injuries yesterday and several other survivors are not ex- pected to recover.
 Four hundred and fifty of the naval re- serves whose terms of service expired in 1903, left this evening for Port Arthur. to replace the men lost by the explosion of the flagship and another detachment will leave tomorrow.
 Baron Schilhng, torpedo expert, has gone to Vladivostok to take charge of the submarine boats there Other sub marines are going out in sections The admiralty admits buying four large Ger man steamships which will be converted into cruisers. It is believed that the ad- miralty is negotiating also for the pur- chase of four similar vessels from the United States.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-26
PREDICTS BOOM IN IRON.
6. A. St. Clair Asserts That Advanced
Prices are Assured.

George A. St. Clair, one of the in
dependent operators of the range
with headquarters at Duluth, sees
promised revival in the iron bust
ness, predicting that 1--WE are on the
verge of one of the biggest revivals
in the iron business that the coun-
try has experienced in a long time"
In citing his reasons for his be-
lief Mr. St. Clair says:
ain the first place the railroads
must soon enter the field for rails
and other iron and steel equip
ments that go with that commodity.
The wants. of the railroads are en-
ormous and increasing all the time.
The roads have been holding back
on account of high prices for rails,
but there are signs of an adjust
ment on that score and there is
every prospect that the orders will
soon be placed freely. Add to the
business which the railroads will
furnish to the iron and steel trade
the general business of the states
and the prospect for strong revi,
val is to my mind almost certain
ty.
Then there is the Panama and
Erie canal expenditures, and the in
creased demand for structural steel
for the rebuilding of Baltimore to
be considered. The war in the far
East and ST wheat, with a prospect
of high prices for the new crop, are
going to turn millions of dollars
into the channels of business in
this country and help to give the
iron trade abnormal proportions.
. Then there is the great cotton
crop in the South to be reckoned
with. 1t represents $60O,OOO,O00. -.
"The entire country is prosperous,
and farmers are we'll fixed and they
are going to be we'll to:do for an in
definite period. The more I think
of it the better satisfied I am that
the iron industry of the United
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-26
Council Chambers, Virginia, Mimi,

Council Chambers, Virginia, Mimi.
Feb. 10, 1904.
Resolution appointing consulting engineer
for the city of Virginia.
By Alderman Conrad MattsOu:
Resolved by the city council of the city of
Virginia, that John D. Lamont be and he is
hereby appointed consulting engineer of thu,
city Of Virginia., and he shall have supervi-
sion and general charge of all engineering
work required by the city. in the manner and
as provided by Chapter Fourteen of the char
ter of the city of Virginia, which appoint
ment shall continue during the pleasure OF
the council. .... .s.. u - ...%
The said consulting engineer shall have
authority to appoint an assistant, for whose
work be shall be responsible, and whose sal
ary shall be sixty cents per. hour for each
hour spent in actual employment on work for
the city. No. & -. i. L ~. <, :.s sEs % ~:
The said consulting engineer shalt receive
as salary for his services the sum Of one dol
lar per hour for each hour spent in actual
employment on work for the city.
Moved by Alderman George. supported by
Alderman Wiggen that said resolution be
adopted. =.
Ayes-Aldermen Bush, Mattson, wiggcn,
George. johnson, Mr.. Presidents. -" =
Nays-Nonc. r. -
P. A. CoFFEY,
Attest President OF the City Council.
A. N. THOMPSON.
City Clerk.
Approved Feb. "A. 1914. ..-. 4. ..@..
NJ. L. FAY,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-26
: DEPOT HOTEL DAMAGED.
Fire Does Considerable Damage t
Railway Structure at Biwabik..

Tire UOcS: CONSTRUCTIVE Udmd9e "
Railway Structure at Biwabik.. :
The depot hotel at Biwabik was
damaged by fire on Friday last to
the extent of about $4,000, the loss
being fully covered by insurance.
The origin of the fire, which was
discovered at about 11:OO a. M, is
supposed to have been a defective
aue, as the flames were first dis
covered in the hall on the second
floor.
The hotel was built in '89 by the
railroad company, for the accom-
mediation of employees who make
Biwabik headquarters, and was run
under lease by P. J. Carrla. The
damage was confined mostly to the
second and third floors of the
structure, which will at once be re-
built
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-26

! For rates and information call on S.: r.
T. W. LUsK. Agent
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-26
1.-THE Northwestern LINE"
fastest Trains, Shortest Time, Best
Service.

fastest IrdlnS, shortest lime, BEST
Service.
The only line running solid trains
between Duluth and Chicago with
out change of cars.
Chicago service.-Fast mail train
leaves Duluth p. M, arrives Chica-
go a. m. following morning, max
ing close connections for all points
east and south.
St. Paul and Minneapolis service.
1-"Tw1light Limited" leaves Duluth
4 o. M, arrives St. Paul and Mime
apolis early same evening, making
close connections \for all points
west. :,-
Sleepers, observation cars, dining
cars and chair cars on these trains.
For tickets, sleeping car reserva-
tons or steamship tickets aud res.
ervations to all points in Europe
call on or write to D. A, Blakeney
city ticket agent, 405 West Superior
street, Duluth, MINI. $40
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-26
Escaped From Tower Jail.

oscar Simonson, bound over at
Tower on charge of holding up a
lumberjack and relieving him OF
the princely sum of IS cents. broke
the lock to his cell in the Tower Jail
Sunday night and effected his es.
cape.
Range officers have been notified
to keep look out for the man, but
so far as learned no clue has been
discovered.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-26
ca rs

yhrougi the effects Of . head end
collision On the Powered Simpson
logging road north Of ibbing on
thursday last, the log shipments
will be retarded for some time, it
being given out that it will take
three weeks to clear away the
wreckage and repair the engines.
The trains met on wye, both going
full speed, the engineers and fire
men seeing their danger in time to
jump and escape injury. Eight
loaded cars of logs were smashed
in the wreck.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-26
Pot Hunter Pulled.

Deputy Game Wardens Atkinson
and Corbett on Tuesday arrested
Chas. Viggerstaeff at Nashwauk ON
the charge of killing game out of
season. Viggerstaeff is said to
make practice of hunting for
camps, and when arrested had a
portion of deer carcass in his pos
session.
He drew prize of sixty day
sentence in the Itasca county Jail.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-26
ROCKEFELLER ASBESTOS KING.
Has Cornered the Worlds Supply
and Will Exploit 1t.

q
modify, is now controlled by the
Standard Oil company. The cor
poration has contracted for the en-
tire output of the Ontario asbestos
mines, from which comes all except
small per cent of the asbestos of
the world.
The plan is to make the asbestos
industry proportionately as vast
and wholly as monopolistic as the
coal oil industry. John D. Rookie
Teller and his associates deem that
they have found new field for their
gigantic operations.
Asbestos, in their hands, is to be
material employed for a hundred
new purposes. Railroad coaches
are to he lined with it, and fireproot
furniture is to be made from it.
AS an indication that there is no
exageration in this outlook, the cor
poration has prepared plans for
asbestos cars built with steel frames
for the underground system of the
Rapid Transit company of New
York, which it will submit shortly.
1t has also been given the contract
for lining with asbestos large part
of the tunnels of the same system.
These two uses for the fireproof
mineral are sufficiently opposite to
show the scope the new industry
will have. For the cars, asbestos
boards, tougher than oak and in
dustructible, are employed. For
the tunnel lining, plaster of short
length asbestos fiber mixed with
! pulp is used.
Only the best quality of asbestos
fbers several inches long-can be
put into the planks. The remnants
will do for the plaster.
The asbestos planks, experiments
have shown, can be shaped and
used exactly as wood. They may
be sawed, and planed, and polished;
they will bear weight and will stand
wear. They are much lighter than
wood.
1t is said plans will be made for
the Pullman company for fireproof
sleeping cars of this order. Tests
are to be made as to what would
happen to an asbestos car in the
event of a collision. The planks, it
has developed, shatter, but do not
splinter. The claim is made that
injuries would be lessened in con-
sequence, in addition to the guaran-
tee that the wreck would not take
fire.
The process of making asbestos
timber is not unlike that of making
paper pulp, only it is asbestos and
clay instead Of wood which is put
through the process. =,
Asbestos is mined in compara
lively small quantities at several
places in the United States, but the
principal source of the supply is in
the eastern part of Canada, where
one Canadian family of five men,
bers own the land where it is found
most abundantly. After having
had many offers refused the Stand
ard Oil company bid 100000 for
the property held by this family.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-26
. Che City Council
Official Publication
%%cf Proeeeding$@~


Regular meeting OF the city council of the
city of Virginia, Minnesota.
Council Chambers, Virginia. Mimi,
Feb. 49, 1904.
Council called to order by the president.
Roll call.
Present-Aldermen Bush, Mattson, Wiggen,
Johnson, Mr.. President-5.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT George.
Minutes of previous meeting were read
Moved and supported that the minutes of
the previous meeting he approved as read
and placed on file.
Carried.
Alderman George takes his seat in the
council.
Communication from ThOs. F. McGilvery,
relative to final estimate on sewer, was read.
Moved by Alderman George, supported by
Alderman johnson, that the communication
be laid on the table.
Carried.
Liquor license applications OF And. Sand
strom and B. F. Smith were read.
Application of J. A. Jones to be appointed
bill poster was read.
Moved and supported that ordinaQce No. Al
| receive it's third reading.
Carried.
The clerk then read the ordinance.
Moved by Alderman Bush. supported by
Alderman Johnson, that the ordinance be
adopted.
Roll call on the adoption Of the ordinance
was as follows:
Ayes-Aldermen Bush, George. Johnson,
MIR. Presldent-4.
Nays-Aldermen Mattson. Wigsen-2.
V,bo thon (locla rcd tho Orflina moo
| ADOPTED.
receive its third reading.
Carried.
The clerk then read the ordinance.
Moved by Alderman Bush, supported by
Alderman Johnson, that the ordinance be
adopted.
Roll call on the adoption of the ordinance
was as follows.
Ayes-Aldermen Bush, Mattson, Wiggen,
George, johnson, Mr.. President-6
Nays-None.
The president then declared the ordinance
adopted.
Moved and supported that ordinance No. AZ
receive it's third and final reading.
Carried.
The clerk read the ordinance.
Moved by Alderman Johnson. supported by
Alderman Bush, that the ordinance be
adopted.
Roll call on the adoption of the ordinance
was as follows:
Ayes-Aldermen Bush. Madison, Wisgen,
George, johnson, Mr. Presidento6.
Nays-NOne.
The president then declared the ordinance
adopted.
Moved and supportedthat ordinance No. 4S
receive it's first reading.
Carried
The clerk read the ordinance.
Resolution.
Council Chambers, Virginia, Mimi,
Feb. &c. 1904.
To the president and city council of the city
of Virginia, MINI.
Gentlemen-We the undersigned commit
tee on finance, would respectfully report that
we have audited the following bills and offer
the following resolution for adoption.
E. G. BUSH,
P. A. COFFEY,
GUST JOHNSON,
Committee.
Resolved that the following bills be allowed
and the city clerk be and is hereby instruct
ed to draw orders on the city treasurer in
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-26
=
The City Council
- Official Publication -
Of Proceedings. 20

Council Chamber, Virginia, MIMI
Friday, Feb 10, 1904, 7:3O p. m.
Adjourned meeting.
Council called to order by the president.
Present-Aldermen Bush, Nlattson, Wiggen,
George Johnson, Mr.. President-6.
Absent-nOne.
Written opinion of Francis w. Sullivan,
attorney, relative to sewer work and con-
tract, was read.
Moved and supported that the communion
ton be placed on ile and the clerk acknowl-
edge the same.
Carried.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-26

[statesSis soon "a 90 greater
activity and prosp peri than ever:
: It is the only business in the
country that is depressed, and there
is every reason to believe ii will not
continue that way #f5.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-26
Great Northern Railway.
1.-THE Way to the West"

Lv. Duluth Ar. Duluth.
$40 am. St. Paul and MINNEAPOLIS r. 6:1O am
3:45 pm. Gopher State Express - 900 pm
*1l:l5 pm. st. Paul and Minneapolis + 9:25 pm
@Dally Except Sunday
Twin City sleepers ready at o m.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-19
JAPANESE WERE
BURNED TO DEATH.

London, Dec. ia special dispatch
from Toxic reports that the Japanese
naval bombardment on Saturday sank
a Russian torpedo boat at Port Ar
thur.
According to the Daily Telegraph's
Che Foo messenger from the Japanese
lines at Port Arthur, the Russians had
prepared around the fort at Panlung
a moat 900 yards long and thirty feet
wide, which they filled with petroleum
to depth of several feet, then covered
it with wood and straw.
In the course of attack upon the
fort early in December the Japanese
storming party sank into this morass,
which the Russians fired with an cleo
trio fuse. The fierce conflagration
lasted all night and day, and hundreds
OF japanese were burned to death, but
the second night the trench had dried
up and the Japanese advanced in small
detachments, protected by large wood
en- shields and engaged in a savage
bayonet fight
The Japanese, the report continues,
captured the position, and made prison.
ers of 152 Russians. +f'
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-19
LEADERS WOUNDED
OR UNDER ARREST.

st. Petersburg. Dec. 1S-The reported
disturbances to-day were confined to
Moscow. The Socialistic revolutionary
party in St. Petersburg has decided to
abstain from further demonstrations
many of their leaders having been ar
rested or wounded on Dec. II, and no
further trouble is likely unless mob
ilization of reserves is proclaimed for
this city or in the event of the fall
OF Port Arthur. Meanwhile a group
of lawyers is collecting evidence upon
which they purpose to institute pro-
ceedings against the police for the al
legged ill-treatment of prisoners in the
affair of Dec. IL.
A meeting of 404 under graduate
girls of the medical institute to-day
passed resolutions of sympathy with
Sasonen, who on Dec. 13 was SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for life for the
murder of Minister of the Interior Won
Plehve. Another resolution adopted
demands legal reforms. The meeting
wound up with shouts of Down with
autocracyl" and Long live freedom!"
At a banquet of engineers tonight
resolutions similar to those adopted by
the Zemstvoists were passed.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-19

flats of their swords. The mob fought
stubbornly, but finally broke and
sought shelter in the side streets
Here the police were again severely
pressed. The detachments stationed at
the openings of these streets to keep
people out of Tverskaia street. were
caught between the retreating mob on
one side and throngs of curious spec
tators on the other.
Many of the demonstrators who
broke through the Gordon of police pa
raded in side streets in smaller groups.
waving flags and singing. A crowd of
800 collected in front of the theater
where revolutionary flags were hoisted
amid shouts of Long live freedom!"
The police were not prepared at this
point and the crowd gathering vol
ume, moved from the square to Neg
lima street and Koominestlxi bridge,
the chief street in Moscow. where the
police met them. Another stubborn
fight ensued, ending as the first had
done, with three blank volleys and
sabre charges
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-19
ADAMS LOSING VOTES.
His Plurality in Colorado Is Being
Cut Down.

Denver Coll, Dec. 1S.-Alva Adams,
Democratic candidate for Governor in.
the late election, has lost 1882 of his
plurality of 5,275 in this county by the
action of the Supreme Court in order
ing the election commission to elimin-
ate five precincts from the returns.
His plurality in the state, however,
still stands at about 10000.
By the Supreme Courts orders the
Democrats lose their senators, who
were apparently elected in this city,
and the Republicans gain control OF
both branches of the Legislature with
a majority of thirty on joint ballot.
They are planning to submit to. the
Legislature evidence of frauds in Den
yer and ask that body to declare Gov.
Peabody elected.
The Supreme Court is to be reorgan-
ized April mex. by consolidation
with the appellate court and will con-
sist of seven judges, two of whom are
to be appointed by the Governor.
H. M. HANNA. an expert, has ex-
amined the ballots of precinct 3. ward
4, submitted to him yesterday by the
Supreme Court and will report to-mor-
row that 240 of the 371 ballots found
in the box are apparently fraudulent.
William J. Kindel Supreme Court
watcher, has testified that City De-
tective Green, one of the four men on
trial for contempt Of court in the pre-
cinct, instructed repeaters, many of
them women, but did not in any man.
ner interfere with the watchers or
voters in general.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-19
300 STUDENTS WERE
ARRESTED BY COSSACKS.
Denomination Resulted Disastrous
ly for the Demonstrators.

ly for the Demonstrators.
Moscow, Dec. 1S.-The police and
Cossacks to-day dispersed demon
stration Of 1900 students. who had as
sembled in the principal streets and in
front of the Governors palace. Three
hundred of the students were arrest
ed and sixty were injured.
The police had orders to exclude
demonstrators from the precinct OF
the palace of Grand Duke Sergius, but
the demonstrators ignored all warnings
and pushed along Tverskaia street,
shouting, down with the war!" and
singing revolutionary songs. They
stopped in front Of the palace and
refused to disperse.
After few blank cartridges had
beed fired from the revolvers OF the
police the latter drew their swords and
with the assistance of gendarmes and
Cossacks, drove the demonstrators,
students of both sexes, into the neigh
boring streets, including the Boule-
ward Pushlxin, where the struggle was
continued around Pushkins statue.
The general public did not particle
pate, but appeared to disapprove OF
the demonstration. The students had
counted on the corporation of the
workingmen, but employers, by
threat to Withhold the customary new
year gifts. induced the men to alb
stain.
The demonstration lasted from noon
till nearly evening. Probably 5000 peo-
pie actually participated. Many per-
sons we're wounded and more were ar
rested. As far as is known none OF
the rioters was killed. One policeman
is reported to have been fatally in
jured. Many on both sides were
roughly handled.
The authorities knew I'm advance that
trouble was impending, and many
houses along Tverskaia street were
specially guarded and extra policemen
we're on duty In the streets. Several
squadrons OF mounted gendarmerle
we're concealed IN the court yards of
houses. ready for an emergency. The
crowds began 10 collect az midday IN
Tverskaia street. students. young men
and women, mixing with the general
public. The thor0ughfare was soon
congested with a mass of moving hu-
manity. which c0nverged on Strastnl
Square. where 5000 persons assembled,
many armed with clubs and carrying
hags.
The crowd. singing, moved towards
the palace Of Grand Duke serglua. the
governor general OF Moscow. The p0-
Ice attempted 20 block the street,
whsreuDon the trouble began IN earn
est. Sticks and afonea were freely
used by The mob, which threatened
~ again break through the ccrdon.
Tho police nrtd several blank y0lieya
ana meuatea msn ehsfssa. nsinH tha
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-19
DO NOT FEAR THE SUIT.
Georgia omcinIs Think There Is no
Danger from Iowa.


Atlanta, Dec. 1S.--Gov. Terrell anil
other state officials have no fear of
the scheme to bring suit on Georgia's
repudiated bonds, as is disclosed in the
dispatches from Sioux City, la. 1t is
not believed Iowa will lend itself to
any such plan as was followed by
South Dakota in the North Carolina
case.
Georgia officials scout the idea of
citizens who hold repudiated bonds be-
Ing allowed to intervene in the suit
of one state against another, as has
been suggested, for that would be
tantamount to a citizen suing the state,
which Is prohibited by the constitu-
tion of the United States.
John James of Philadelphia, in a let
ter to Gov. Cummins OF Iowa, states
that he Is willing to donate to that
commonwealth ten bonds of 81 900 each
of a Southern state, not named, II the
state wants them.
He says he has owned them many
years; that the interest has been re-
pudiated for thIrty-nine years; that a
private citizen cannot sustain suit to
collect them. but as one state can sue
another, the state of Iowa could bring
suit and collect the amount.
He adds that the accrued interest
amounts to 1876 per cent. OF the princi-
pal.
IL is said the bonds referred to were
issued by Georgia.