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JAP VICTORY Russian Army Driven From Kiao Tung. RESISTANCE WAS STUBBORN Muscovites are Believed to Have Lost 1,000 Men, While Victors Lose Half as Many. Tokio, July 25. General Kuroki after a severe fight, occupied Kiao Tung -on July 19. The place had been forti ed by the Russians, who defended it stoutly. In the fighting General Kuro- ici'a troops drove the Russians from their strongly fortified position on the Chi river, which is northwest of Mo Ten Paes and east of An Fin, inflicting upon the enemy more serious losses than they sustained themselves. The fight began on the 18th and ended on the 19th. The Japanese lost 424 men killed and wounded. The Russian losses are estmated at 1,000. General Kuroki began his advance early in the morning of the 18th. The fighting continued until dark, when the Japanese forces bivouacked. 'The Russians made two counter at tacks, but were repulsed in each case. The Japanese renewed the attack at midnight, posting their artillery in the valley below and on the high ground to the south of the Russian po sition. The main Japanese body was assigned to attack the Russian center, a small detachment sent toward the right flank and another to watch the enemy's left flank. - After these positione had been taken the fighting ceased for a time, but it was resumed at dawn. The Russians had 32 guns in action, and they vigor ously ehtelled the Japanese. To this fire the Japanese replied, and the bom bardment lasted for four hours. Dur ing this time the Japanese infantry moved forward and the flankers had succeeded in scaling the heights on the Russian right by 3 o'clock in the after noon, at which hour the main force was ordered to storm the Russian cen ter The Japanese artillery protected ttis movement splendidly, but the in fantry met with a severe fire and lost heavily in training the heights. The final successful charge was deliv ered at 5 :30 in the afternoon. The -Japanese succeeded in partially cutting off the Russian retreat, and this soon beame a rout. The enemy retired in two directions, to the northward and to the eastward. The Russian forces -engaged included, in addition to the artillery, seven battalions of infantry .and a regiment of Cossacks. NO MORE RAIDS. Russia Will Release Malacca and Put End to Red Sea Incident. . St. Petersburg, July 25. The steam ier Malacca is at Suda Bay, Island of -Crete, where, under an agreement reached by Great Britain and Russia, he will be perfunctorily inspcted joint ly by the Consuls of the two countries -and released unless palpable contra band of war intended for the Japanese hall be found, in which case the contra band only will be held. British gov ernment stores aboard the vessel will .not he examind. The Russian reply to the Brittish protest was handed to Ambassador Hardinge in the afternoon. Russia agrees that the Malacca shall not be brought before a prize court, and un dertakes that no incident similar to this will occur in the future.. A claim for damages as a result of delaying the steamer will be presented in due course of time through the Brit ish embassy. Th captain of the St. Petersburg, in his report, gives as his reason for sum marily making a prize of the Malacca the fact that the British master of the Malacca declined to produce the mani fests of his cargo. Torpedoed by Accident. Tientsin, July 25. A letter was leceived here today from Niu Chang aying that the commander of a Rus sian torpedo-boat had reported that while in the gulf of Pe Chi Li he had .accident ly torpedoed a British steamer. It is surmised here that the vessel le ferred to is the llipsang, nowive days overdue from Nu Chang. The llipsang belongs to the Indo-China company. It is reported here that a heavy bom bardment of Port Arthur occurred yes terday and heavy gun-fire was heard at liiu Cbuang the same day. Case of Senator Burton Up. Washington, July 25 Justice Brew er, of tlie United States supreme court has granted a wiit of error to the United States district couit for the eastern district of Missouri in the case of Senator Joseph B. Burton, convicted in St. Louis of accepting a fee for serv ing before the postoffice department -while a member of the United States senate. The ase will be reviewed by the United States supreme court, prob ably in the fall. Panama Now Gold Standard. Washington, July 25. The Panama caaal commission today received infor mation frdm the government of Pana 'V tne ratification of the money cyetem of the new government in ac cordance with the agreement ' reached by the joint commission. Panama is now a gold-standard country. ALARM IS KEEN. British Press Sees Peace Hanging in the Balance. London, July 23. The authoritative assurances that the Malacca will be re leased, cabled by the Associated Press from St. Petersburg to the United States, do not appear in the British morning papers. Special dispatches to a somewhat similar effect from St Petersburg do not allay the alarmist views of the leading organs which con strue Premier Balfour's post-midnight announcement that the government had received no confirmation of the report ed release of the Malacca to mean that the incident remains unsettled. , Another cause for great apprehension is the broader "question of Russia's right to send vessels of her volunteer fleet through the Dardanelles. A etrifc ing evidence that the danger of the situation has not been mitigated in the least, so far as British official an 1 pub lic opinion is entertained, is afforded by the Daily Telegraph, which, under a targe heading, "An Acute Affair," de clares that "relations between Great Britain and Russia have reached the state of an acute crisis, but behind the incident of the Malacca is the far larger question of the status "of the so-called volunteer fleet. "It has, we believe, been made clear to the czar's government that the trans- foimation of merchant vessels passing through the Dardanelles into armed cruisers cannot be recognized under any pretext whatever as justifying Russia's interference with British shipping. It is-not impossible that as a concession to Russian dignity, the-government may offer to permit the Malacca to put into some neutral port where her cargo may be examined and the statement verified that whatever munitions she carried were intended for the use of the British China squadron." TRY TO DRAW TOGO AWAY. Vladivostok Fleet Hopes to Weaken Squadron at Port Arthur. St. Peterbsurg, July 23. The news of the first appearance of the Vladivo stok squadron in the Pacific since the outbreak of the war, telegraphed from Tokio, causes no surprise at the admi ralty here, although it is said Vice Ad miral Skrydioff purposely has not noti fied them of the squadron's departure in order to prevent the possibility of the information leaking out. Vice A Imiral Bezobrazoff s action in giving the slip to Vice Admiral Kami- mura and passing Is gar straits is re garded as evidence of the insufficiency of the Japanese naval forces. It is probably the purpose of Admiral Bezo brazoff to raid the coast towns of Ja pan, capture merchantmen, make a naval demonstration off Yokohama, and generally create a panic among the population, in order to compel Rear Admiral Togo to reinforce .Admiral Kamimura, and thus weaken the fleet off Tort Arthur. The idea that Admiral Bezobrazoff would seiiously attack large ports of Japan is, however, 1 ejected, owing to the danger from submarine boats, mines, torpedo boats and shore batter ies. The report is current that the Vladi vostok squadron is homeward bound under orders to effect a juncture with the first division of Vice Admiral Ro- jestvensky's Baltic squadron, which is ready to go out on a trial trip in the Baltic. ON TO MUKDEN. Japanese Break Into the Enemy's Left Plank. Liao Yaang, July 23. News was re ceived from Ta Tche Kaio yesterday that the Japanese had broken through the Russian left flank between Lieuten ant General Count Keller's position and that of General Rennenkampff, and that they we'e marching on Mukden. The rumors to this effect are persist ent, but there is no official confirma tion of them. Confirms Japanese Victory London, July 23. According to a special dispatch from Moscow, the Rus sky Listok of that city confirms the As sociated Press report from Liao Yang that the Japanese have broken through the Russian left flank and are march ing on Mukden. More Men Charged With Outrage. Cripple Creek, July 23. Informa tion charging Pearl Skelton with mur der and complicity with the Independ ence depot outrage on June 3 was filed in the district court today. It was an nounced that informaiton making sim ilar charges will be filed against Wil liam A. Akreman, F. H. Mulaney, A. L. Nugent and William Gaffney later. Frank J. Hangs, local attorney for the Western Federation of Miners, said today that none of the men arrested for the killing of Rosie Magee on June 6, in the Victor street riots, was guilty. Increase of Capital Stock. Louisville, July 23. At the stock holders' meeting of the Southern Pa cific held at Beechmont today, 1,520, 000 of the 1,978,000 shares of stock were represented by proxies in the hands of Judge E. P. Humphrey, who acted as chairman. A resolution in creasing the capital sto k of the com pany 1100,000,000 by the issue of pre ferred stock was adopted. Attorney J. B. Weaver acted as secretary. None of the other stockholders was present. Hears She Will Release Ships. Paris, July 23. Information reach ing government quaiters here leads the officials to believe that Russia will re lease the British and German merch antmen seized in the Red sea, as a means of averting .international com plications. - ; 'J.- j FAVORS FORCE Russian Acts In Red Sea Arouse Ire of British People. ' FOREIGN MINISTER IN DILEMMA Realizes That the Policy Fostered by the King Will Be Repudiated Press Is With the Public. London, July 22. The Associated Press. tonight interviewed many promi nent persons connected and in close touch with the government relative to the seizure of British vessels by steameis of the Russian volunteer fleet in the Red sea. As a result of these inquiries, there is shown to be a hos tile feeling against Russia, of a strength and bitterness almost without piece dent. Tne most conservative men, who have been in the service of the government for many years, and, who openly deplored the haste with which they thought Great Britain bad plunged into the Transvaal war, tonight frank ly declared for a policy of reprisal against what is regarded as Russia s vi o'ations of treaty and her piratical at tack on British commerce. lhe warlike tone 01 such papers like the Times, the Standard, the Morning Post, and the Daily Tele graph, which m national crises hither to almost invariably have advised cau tion, has had its inevitable effect There has been stirred up a storm of indignation among all classes in the United Kingdom, the strength of which the government itself can scarcely gauge. Those who deplored the out break of the war between Japan and Russia and insisted publicly and pri vately that Great Britain, crippled fi nancially, after her South African ex periences, must not, at all costs, be drawn into the Far Eastern struggle, are among the most outspoken cham pions of a physical force that will pre vent the repetition of the Malacca in cident in the Red sea. Those few officials at the foreign office who are in full possession of all details of Great Britain's desire to ar rive at an entente with Russia are in despair. They realize that the policy so carefully fostered by King Edward and Foreign Minister Landsdowne will now be indignanty repudiated by all parties in the house -of commons, and involve with the public the downfall of any ministry advocating it. Every nerve will be strained, how ever, by tne foreign omce to secure from Russia an explanation that will pacify the aggrieved feelings of the British public, and no step will be taken officially that will tend to preju dice subsequent diplomatic negotiations looking to the settlement of all im portant qutstions now outstanding, be tween Russia and Great Britain. , BIG STRIKE ENDS. Packers and Union Have Agreed to Settle Trouble by Arbitration. Chicago, July 22. The strike of the packing-house employes begun nine days ago, and which has demoralized the packing industry through the coun try, was settled here tonight at a con ference between representatives of the packers, officials of the Meatcutters' union and representatives of all the allied trades employed 'at the stock yards. The whole controversy will be submitted to a board of arbitration, both sides agreeing to abide by what ever decision this board may raech. Pending the decision of the arbitra tion board, the men will be ' taken back to wora as rapidly as possible by the packers, and it is agreed by the packers that all the old employes., are to be reinstated within 45 days from the date work is resumed. If any of the former employes are still unim ployed at the expiration of that time, such persons aie to have the privilege of submitting their cases to the arbi tration board for settlement. The strikers will return to work as soon as they can be notified of the peaceable adjustment of the trouble, and it is expected that by tomoirow morning everything will be " in normal shape at all the plants in the different cities where the employes were on strike. Japs Retreat After Hot right. St. Petresourg, July 22. The czar has received the following dispatch from General Kuropatkin, dated July 19 : "There has been no special change in the situation since July 17. "At 5 o'clock in the afternoon of July 18, Japanese advance forces of considerable strength were observed in the direc tion of Sikseyann, on the Liao Yang Saimatsza road, moving against a de tachment of our treops. After two days' .fighting, the latter force is re treating toward the village of Houtsi- atsze, east of Anping." Shoot Japanese from Trees. Ta Tche Kiao, July 22. All is quiet in this region. Neither side is moving. The only activity is at the outposts. The Russian sharpshooters are having good practice sniping the Japanese from the mountain sides. Small detachments creep out at night, steal up to the Japanese pickets in the darkness, hide themselves in treetops and there await sunrise. So soon as the light is strong they get fine shots before the pickets can get away. May Intercept American Steamers. Paris. July 22. The Temps, diecuss- ine the passage of the. Vladivostok squadron through the Straits, of Tsur garu, saye its purpose is either to attack the unprotected cities on the eastern coast of Japan, or to - intercept .Ameri can merchant steamers, which are sup plying Japan with all Kinds of provis ions through the port 01 ioko. . . LION. LIES IN WAIT. Warships Will Compel Russia to Give f ? Up Oriental Liner. London July 21. It is believed by leading naval officials here, who, are cognizant of certain sweeping orders is sued yesterday by the admiralty, that the .British government intends to com pel Russia, to surrender the Peninsular & Oriental liner Malacca, seized as a prize of war by the Russian"cruiser St. Petersburg, and en route to Libau under a prize crew.' It is also gener ally understood in naval circles that no other British ships will be stopped by the Russians after the British cruis ers reach the scene. The orders to commanders of the lat ter vessels are declared to be short, bat explicit, and provides that British .veS' sels shall be free to navigate Eastern waters, without recognizing the war- Bhips of any other power, or the right to search them for contraband. One of the developments yesterday was the detachment by Admiral Dqm ville, commanding the Medterranean fleet, of his two swiftest cruisers to pro ceed at full speed to Port . Said, which is at tne northern end of the Suez ca nal. It is understood that these two vessels will arrive at Port Said before the Malacca, and be there when the latter emerges from the canal. It is considered likely that they will compel the Russians to give up their prize, al though, of course, their future action is carefully guarded, and laymen can only conjecture and reason from the at titude of the naval chiefs. Naval officers generally agree that such action can be confidently expected, and they are for the most part now dis cussing the probable attitude of Russia when the Malacca is taken by force. . FLEET ON RAID. Vladivostok Ships Enter Pacific, and Take Japanese Steamer. Tokio, July 21. The Vladivostok squadron has overhauled a Japanese steamer eastwaid of Tsugar straits. The name of the vessel captured and her fate has not yet been learned. The Vladivostok squadron, unac companied by torpedo boats, entered the Pacific ocean today at 7 o'clock. Its destination is unknown, but it is suggested it possibly plans to raid the east coast of Japan and then either re turn to Vladivostok, escaping to the southward, or attempting to form a junction with the Port Arthur fleet. The squadron was discovered in the straits of Tsugar at 3 o'clock this morn ing, steaming rapidly eastward. At 3:30 A. M. it was reported off Tappicape, and at 7 A. M. observers at Hakkodate discovered and reported to Tokio that it was thensteaming east. Warnings have gone out to shipping along the eastern coast of Japan and merchantmen are hurriedly seeking cover. , It is expected that most of the shipping will be warned before the Russian ships can inflict serious dam age, if a raid i,s intended. Ordinarily, a lack of ccal would pre vent an extended cruise, but it is possi ble that 'the Russians possess a collier at a rendezvous in the Pacific ocean. ARMIES MEET NEAR TONG SCHU. Russian Losses Put at 2,100, Jap anese Losses at 1,200. Chicago, July 21. A special to the Daily News from Niu Chwang says : Hard fighting has been going on for several days in the neighborhood of Tong Schu, eight miles east of Ta Tche Kiao. It is rumored that the Russian loss in last ngbt's engagement was 2,- 100 and the Japnaese 1,200. The Jap anese also have been in active contact with the Russians east of Hai Cheng, where there have been many minor ac tions. AH along Kuropatkin's flank and front the Japanese are moving into po sition but the general attack is being postponed until supplies and reinforce ments come to the front. Progress along the muddy roads and mountain passes is slow. Liao Said to Be Sealed. London, July 21. The Times' Tokio correspondent, cabling under date of July 19 says: "Japanese military critics anticipate renewed efforts by General Kuropatkin to recover the Mo Tien positions, which are essential to the security of his army if it . remains in the present position." The corre spondent adds that it is rumored in Tokio that three Japanese torpedo boat destroyeis have sealed the Liao river, where the Russian gunboat Sivoutch and a Russian torpedo destroyer are anchored. - Pbrty-Six Clerks Employed. Yankton, S. D., July 21. Seven thousand people registered for 'Rosebud land here today, and the rush tomorrow will be etill greatei. The Milwaukee road divided its morning train into Bix sections and the evening train into two. The total registration at Yankton alone is now over 40,000, and will reach the 60.000 mark before closing Saturday. Forty-six clerks are now employed, and this force will be increased indefinitely to take care of the people. Russia Is Pleased. St. Petersburg, July 21. The United States has informed Russia that she will be glad to join Great Britain: in the protection of the seals at the-Kom- mander islands. This act will doubt less make the best impression. It is understood that Russia will communi cate her answer in a tewdays. Another Russian Cruiser Passes. Constantinople, July 21. A Russian cruiser has just passed through from Odessa with several guns covered with canvas on her deck. She also carried torpedo tabes, i '?X$. ? SHOT AS i- pr EXECUTION OF TWO JAPANESE OFFICERS AT KHARBIN. An eye-witness of the execution of the two Japanese officers, Colonel TJkoko and Captain Otti, at Kharbin, has furnished an artist-correspondent of London Graphic with an illustrated account of the scene. The two officers were caught -attempting to blow up. the railway bridge over the river None, in Manchuria, and were brought before a court-martial, which sentenced them to be hanged as spies. General Kuropatkin, however, ordered that they should be shot Throughout their trial and the preliminaries to the execu tion the two men displayed the utmost courage. On the execution ground both officers requested that their arms should not be tied to the boards behind them, and Captain Otti asked that his eyes should not be bandaged. Colonel TJkoko, who was a Christian, received the holy communion from a Russian priest, and made a will leaving a sum of a thousand roubles to be devoted to Red Cross work. "Both of the officers," writes the correspondent, "died like heroes." Few true stories of merited commer cial . success Illustrate the value of pluck and perseverance more clearly than that of Thomas A. Edison and the Incandescent electric light It was on October 16, 1878, says uassiar b Magazine, that Mr. Edison decided he had reached conditions under which a carbon filament, might be made into a lamp. Accordingly a cotton thread was laid in a hairpin-shaped groove in aTiickel plate, nut in a nickel mold and covered with charcoal and cooked five hours, it was then thoroughly carbonized, but unhappily it broke to pieces when the inventor attempted to take it from the mold. Repeated experiments brought simi lar failures, until late at night on the 18th one was rescued Intact; but It broke while being fastened to the con ducting wire. Neither Mr. Edison nor his assistant, Charles Bachelor, had had any sleep since beginning work two daya before; but they determined to keep at work and, make a lamp be fore they slept. On the 19th they made several fila ments, but all broke in the clamping process. On the 20th one was success fully clamped, and hope ran hh?h that the lamp would soon be Gone; out as it was being carried from the shop where it was made to the glass blow ing room to be sealed in a globe a breath of wind caught It and blew it away. Mr. Bachelor was dismayed and dis gusted. Both men were exhausted and almost discouraged, but they kept at work. At last, on the morning of the 21st, the fifth day since they had slent. thev had the happiness of see ing a lamp finally completed and light- The two men then went to bed and slent several hours. When they awoke the new lamp still burned. . Mr. Edison increased the current, and the lamp burned more brightly far more brightly than they had dared antlcl: pate. It was the first modern, incan descent lamp. Mr. Edison believed it was a successful one, but It lasted only two days, and then burned out. At. once a host of employes went to work carbonizing every available sub sance in search of a better filament. In the midst of the work a passage in one of Humboldt s books, describ ing a certain kind of bamboo fiber, suddenly occurred to Mr. Edison, and suggested to him that the vegetable strand would be just the thing. At nnni he hunted up the passage and reread it. Then he began a search for the proper bamboo. A corns of trained investigators was sent out all over the world on this search, and scarcely a region of the known surface of the globe was left un visited. A hundred thousand dol lars were spent in this way before William Moore found the proper bam hnn in Northern Japan. To Insure a good supply, he bought a tract of land and put it In charge or two native farmers. Then with the bamboo fiber began new experiments, and In the spring of 1881 the first really successiul In candescent lamp was made. - It burn ed at slxteen-candle-power for nearly sixteen hundred hours, and its success was thus assured. In the following year a hundred SPIES. thousand of those lamps were made, the shape and construction being grad ually modified as Improvements sug gested themselves, until the present common style of lamp was the result Ten years from its first construction four million lamps a year were being made, and eleven years later, in 1903, America alone required forty-five mil lion to fill Its needs. Western America vs. Eastern Asia. That great changes are taking place in the currents of Pacific 'ocean commerce, to be followed fast by still greater, is rapidly becoming manifest Increasing production In our own Pa cific States requires Oriental markets, and Is finding them. Railroad develop ment both in America and Asia, and Increasing use of steam on the ocean, are effecting great changes in the courses of the trade of all countries In touch with the Pacific. More than fifty steamships now sail regularly from the porta of California, Oregon and Washington to ports in Asia or in the great Pacific Islands, and of "tramp" steamers and sail vessels a continually growing fleet Between porta of British Columbia and porta of Asia, Australia and New Zealand there is similar movement It In cludes not only the local commerce between countries that border on the greatest of oceans, but carries also a heavy trade from the Orient by rail way across America to our Eastern States, and even to Europe, from West to East over the Atlantic. Everything favors the growth of . this commerce to very large propor tions. There is promise of develop ment of an International commerce on the Pacific which, within the next half century, may rival that on the Atlantic. For the active theater of the world's new effort is now eastern Asia and western America. The two hemispheres, heretofore scarcely at all in communication except across the Atlantic, are now rapidly developing an intercourse over the Pacific, which is to effect large transformation or at least to become a great additional factor in the commerce of the world. Century. A Hard Problem. "Is this Mme. Pompon?" breathless ly inquired a man who had climbed several flights of stairs and been ad mitted into a darkened parlor. "It Is," replied the stately person- age whom he addressed. "The famous clairvoyant and for tune teller?" "The same." "Do you read the mind?" "With perfect ease." "Can you foretell the future?" "The" future holds no mysteries that I cannot unravel." c "Can you unfold the past?" "The record of all things past is to me an open book." "Then," said the caller, feverishly taking from his pocket a handful of silver, "I wish you would tell me what it is that my. wife wanted me to bring home without fail this evening and. name your price. Money is no ob ject" ' Odd. "That's Brightley; he raised quite a! fortune on a patent mud-scraper." "He doesn't look very prosperous." "No, he afterward sunk it all in a sky-acraper." Philadelphia Leaser. 1