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PUTISMOUIH JOIRMAL R. A. BATES, Publisher. I'LATTSMOLTH. NEIiRASKA. Brief Telegrams In tho religious communities where the tiso of meat is forbidden appendi citis Is unknown. The records of the weather bureau conflict with the popular belief In tho equinoctial storm. It Is stated that f.00 Doer families are expected to establish a colony near MoBquit, Mex. Russia bought from the United States In 1903 nearly twenty million dollars worth of goods. Tho propellers of tho fast auto boats revolve 1,250 times a minute, giving a peed of 25 inl!s an hour. It Is stated that over 2,700 tons of dust fjooted from the Soufrtcru vol cano in St. Vincent have fallen on tho island of licrbados. Thu appointment of Trof. George E. Woodbeny as teacher of English lit erature .-t Amherst college Is of inter est in nil Academic circles. Tho state council of Switzerland unanimously passed a bill making tho glorification of anarchists a crime, punishable by imprisonment. Anatolo lA'Uoy Ilcaullcu, the econo mist and publicist, has left I'nrls for tho United Slates. Ho will deliver a Bering of lectures at Harvard. Tho St. Petersburg correspondent of the I-xiio de Paris says that a French agent is negotiating for tho sale of Argentina warships to Russia. Tho possibility of Chinese laborers being used in the work of completing tho Panama canal is unfavorably com mented tipon In tho newspapers there. The Newfoundland legislature was prorogued after passing a farewell ad dress to Governor Sir Cavendish Hoylo, who will leave the colony next month to become governor of Mauri tius There Is a strong feeling in England against the payment of members, on tho ground that It would tend to ore ato tho class of professional politicians Been In foreign count lies and our colo nies. The members of tho Isthmian com mission have returned to Washington from a tour of Inspection of the re cently acquired canal property on the Isthmus and will meet there next week. John Shepnrd, the well known Ros ton merchant, celebrated his fifty years' entry Into business by giving $5,000 for the endowment of a free bed at the Massachusetts general hos pital. Severnl of tho public schools of Al bany N. Y., are to have gardens this spring, cultivated and tended by tho pupils, under the direction of the teachers. Vegetables and (lowers will bo grown. Theodore Pldrook, n Washington (N. J.) farmer, claims to have tho old est plow In America. He has also many other old farming implements, and tho lot will bo shown at the St. Louis fair. Moro than half a century after the death of Edgar Allan Poo a society celebrating his memory has been cre ated, and signalized Its formal Inaugu ration by an Informal banquet In New Pork City. Tho war department has decided to rehabilitate old Fort Omaha and estab lish a signal station training school at the old fort. Tho grounds nro com modious and are said to bo well adapt ed to tho purpose. According to a statement Issued by tho department of concessions of the World's fair, it will cost 520 for the total admissions to all the attractions on tho Pike. The total cost for tho Chicago Midway was $35. According to a dispatch to tho None Frio Tresso of Vienna, nn earthquake, April 4, killed twenty-five persons, In jured forty, destroyed 1.500 houses and caused great distress In tho vilayets of Kossovo and Salonlca, Macedonia Tho endorsement of Houston Stuart Chamberlain's book on the "Founda tions of tho Nineteenth Century" by tho German emperor, who has given away hundreds of copies of It, has Mlrrod up much opposition to It In Berlin. Nearly fifty persons appeared In court In Chicago to testify against A. A. Campbell, who, they alleged, se cured money from each of them on pretense of getting them positions as guards at the tauisinna Purchase ex position. A delegation of Now Yorkers pre sontod to Mayor M.Clellan tho other lay n photographic reproduction ol the democratic electoral ticket for tho Ktato of New York of tho year In which Ills father, General McClellnn, ran for president. Christian P.nsch, the oldest student In Germany, w ho has been enrolled In tho classes In chemistry at tho Uni versity of Glesscn since 1S71. Is dead at tho ago of 51. Death was the result of an Injury to the brain received In a student duel. United States Minister Powell, who lias been 111 for some time, rabies tho state department from San Domingo that ho is about to leave that capital for Port an Prince, llaytl. to secure medical treatment not to be bad In Fan Domingo. The people of Pnrl.t will honor Geoi;,o Sand by erecting a statue of tho great writer to Ptand In tho Place do Vosges, near tho Victor Hugo Mil rum, Durlna tho year 1002:5 there were 4.4o2 beekeepers, with 32.125 hives. In tho state of Victoria. Australia. They produced UW.POl rounds cf honey and 23.001 pounds of wax. Tho president sent to the senate tho nomination of William Miller Collier of New York to bo solicitor for the de partment of commerce ami labor; also several promotions In the navy. Dr. William A. Evans, who Is among those talked for the presidency of the University of Illinois, is n well known physician of Chimin. I to Is 43 years eld. A GREAT BATTLE IN WHICH JAPANESE TROOP3 ARE VICTORIOUS. CROSS RIVER AND TAKE HEIGHTS After Five Days cf Preliminary Fight ing Mikado's Men Begin Decisive Battle Turn teft Flank of Russians Near Wiju and Capture Position. TOKIO Advices received here sttte that tho twelfth division of the Japanese army forced a crossing of the Yalu Just above Wiju, Just beforo dawn Sunday morning. The second pontoon bridge across the river near Wiju was completed at 8 o'clock Sat urday night and the Imperial guard of tho second division crossed during the night. The Russians' left flank has been turned and a general attack yegan at dawn today (Sunday) nearly all tho Japanese batteries on the south bank of the river and a flotilla of gunboats cooperating with the army. The Japanese have the advantage of positions and numbers and are confi dent of routing tho enemy. Auvlces from the front say that Japanese forces bean an attack on tho Russians on tho Yalu river last Tuesday. - The battle was continued Wednesday Thursday, Friday and Sat urday. On Thursdav the Japanese effected a crossing of the Yalu and secured a lodgment on the light bank of tho river. The fighting on Saturday ves at lo;g range and there was a duel with heavy ge.ns across tho river. Fighting was resumed at daylight to day (Sunday). The Russian force Is estimated at 30,000. The Japanese loss is reported to have been small thus far. TOKIO Supplemental reports from General Kuroki covering Sunday's fighting say: "Tho Russians made two stands. The enemy's strength Included all of the third division two regiments of the sixth division one cavalry brigade, about forty quick-firing guns and eight machine guns. We hnve taken twenty-eight quick-firing puns, many ritles, much ammunition, more than twenty ofllceis and many non-commissioned officers c.id men as prisoners. "I am informed that Major Kashtal Inskl, commander of tho Third East Siberian rifle brigade, and Lieutenant General Sasulitch, commander of the Second Siber'an army corps, were wounded. Our casualties number about 700 and tho Russian loss is more than SOU men." COUNTRY NEWSPAPERS GOT IT. S. F. Smith, President Central News paper Union, Davenport, is Short. $50,000 Trust Funds. DAVENPORT, la. Statements and old papers filed for record with tho recorder of Scott county show Samtiel F. Smith, ex-mayor of Davenport, trus tee of Davenport Carnegie library, publisher of the Daily Republican, and son of tho author of "America," short In his accounts with trust funds of $50.0011. Smith signed over to W. C. Putnam and A. W. Vanderveer all of bis property In Davenport, Including stocks In local companies and real es tate. Mr. Smith has long held tho confi dence of the people. His residence Is the finest in tho city. It Is rumored that tho greater part of the shortage was caused by the at tempt of Mr. Smith to establish a bouse to furnish ready-printed sheets for country newspapers. The Central Newspaper Union was started about three years ago by J. X. llranda as manager ar.d Mr. Smith as financier. Tho business was run for three years nt a loss. It Is stated that the total loss up to the time he sold his Inter ests was In tho neighborhood of ISO, ooo. Smith Is 111, his daughter Is In a hos pital and his w ife nearly heart-broken. Smith has made a full confession. BECAUSE SHE VOTED FOR SMOOT Mrs. Coufter of Ogden Will Not Be Allowed to Address Federation. SALT LAKE CITY. Mrs. Marry G. Coulter of Ogden, a prominent Utah club woman, will not bo allowed to make nn address at the biennial con ference of the Federation of Women's clubs on May 17 next because she voted for Pmoot while a member of tho last legislature. Mrs. Anna D. Nash of Boston, chairman of tho do mestic science department of the federation, the subject on which, It la asserted, Mrs. Coulter was to speak, says repeated requests have been made by Mrs. Coulter's friends ask ing that she be Invited to mnko nn address, but on account of general opposition of club members of Utah, based on Mrs. Coulter's supuort of Smoot, tho requests had been refused. Mrs. Coulter Is a gentile. Act of an Insane Mother. CLEVELAND, O.-Mrs. Caroline Volkman. who Is bellnved to be In sane, threw her three children. Annie, aged 11, Willie aged 5, nnd Otto, nged 2. Into Lake Erie Sunday afternoon and then Jumped In herself. Fortun ately, boatment were nearby nnd tho w hole party were rescued without any III effects. The children were sent, to their heme nnd the mother Is locked up. pending examination regarding her sanity, ivunestle troubles Is said to have made her temporarily mentally Irresponsible. Discuss Past Privileges. CHICAGO. Repren utatlves of western railroads met In Chicago to consider the question of grantt'ig re turn pnsses to live Flock shippers. At tho morning meeting It was agreed that the Iowa lines should comply with the laws of that state by grant ing transportation within that state, but not on Interstate business. Later It wns discovered that two or three lines wire pledged to tho Iowa stale commission to grant return passes to stockmen ,,n nil Chicago husp?ss and a sec. 'iid meeting was held. u;r.K C THE CAL. Thcutairfs cf Applications are Re ceived. WASHINGTON :l;iu e the return cf Admiral Vu!!.ir and General lUvu tf tho Lthru.i.-T a taxi tounilaskn to WLshin.-vr. from l'ana;::& thov have been t-ugaged in work preliminary io the nie nag of the commission next v .k. Dur.ng the aluvnco of the com r.!.i;ion, rpplnaiion for positions on tho cnntl force were received by tho thousand. Thus far it has nut been determined how tho canal work will be t'.o.ie, notice the commission Itself does not know yet Just what positions It will have at Us disposal. The probability now Is that the greet bulk of the work will he dene oy contract. It has been suggested that a construction company be organ bed to undemke the work under the supervision of the commission. Tho organization or several companies, each to di a specified portion of the work, also has been suggested. In the anthracite coal rate Inquiry against the Philadelphia & Readlns Railway company tho Interstate com merce commission Friday entered an order reopening the proceeding for fur ther investigation. The commission has set the case for hearing at New York on May 4. The committee directed by congress to investigate and report on the best methods of restoring the merchant ma rine of the United Slates Friday chose Senator Gallinger fur the chairman ship. At Friday's cabinet meeting Secre tary Wilson reported that the depart ment of agriculture had granted per mission to the Venezuelan government to Import Into the United States 1,000 head of Venezuelan cattle. Of course the customs duties will have to bi paid on the cattle. They will be ship ped to New York, consigned to an ab battolr. No breeding cattle are to bo among the number Imported, the idea being to use them exclusively for food. The deportment Is exceedingly careful about nil importations of live stock and each head of cattle imported from Venezuela will be rigidly Inspected. Postmaster General Payne returned Friday from Charleston. S. C, nfter an absence of several weeks spent In cruising along the Atlantic roast nnd in West Indian waters. Ho Is Im proved In health, though still complain ing of a slight attack of gout In ono foot. Tho treasury department forwarded to the secretaiy of state for trans mission to J. P. Morgan & Co. of New York, financial agents of tho Repub lic of Panama, a warrant for $1.000.0('0 on account of the Panama canal pur chase. SHAW CALLS FOR THE CASH. Banks Requested to Put Up Money to Pay for Panama Canal. WASHINGTON. Tho secretary of tho treasury ha3 isued a call direct ing national tank depositaries to transfer to the assistant treajirer at New York City on or before May lo, 1004, an aggregate amount of $12, 000,000. The call on each bank Is for 10 per cent of tho public deposit cf such bank as it stood before the recent 20 per cent, call, thus making a total withdrawal of ;I0 per cent of public deposits. Today's call, however, ex empts all depositaries whose author ized balance bevfore the recent call was less than $100,000. It also ex empts a few banks having active ac counts were their authorized balnnco Is not greater than the convenience of the treasury department in trans acting public business required. With these exceptions, thocnll applies to ail depositaries, permanent and tempo rary. In view of tho plethora' of money in all the central reserve cities, it U probable that an additional call of the same character will bo Issued, payable about. Juno 1. This would supply the amount of tho draft unon tho treasury made by the payment for tho isthmian canal right-of-way, and would afford a working balance of $50,000,000 actually In the treasury and sub-treasuries, as at present. FRENCH SYNDICATE PAYS IT. Advance tho $40,CCO,000 to the Pana ma Canal Company. WASHINGTON The attorney gen eral has received cablegrams from Messrs. Day and Russell, who went to Paris as his representatives to con duct the closing negotiations for the Panama Canal property, to tho effect that the deeds of the property, arch ives nnd nil other papers and docu ments which will belong to tho United Suites under the transfer, have al ready b;en turned over to them and that tho inrchnsc price of $l(i,(iiio,0(i0 has been advanced to the canal com pany by a Paris syndicate of bankers. This syndicate, It Is understood, of fered to pay over tho money, with a view to expediting the consummation of tho sale, on the assurance of the attorney general that tho draft of the syndlcnto on tho United States for tho lio.iieo.iiini would be honored on presentation at tho treasury at Wash ington. i . Fred Grant Makes a Gift. GALENA, 111 Tho twelfth annual celebration of General U. S. Grant's birthday wks held hero Wednesday, a large nudlcr.ee filling Turner ha!!.' lllshop Samuel Fallows of Chlcngo made the principal address and paid a glowing tribute to iho grout com mander under wh im he fought. Gen eral Fred D. Grant nnd V.r,. W(T0 among thoe present. Tho feature of tho day was the presentation by Gen eral Grant to the city of Galena cf the resldt nro formerly ow ned and oc cupied by his distinguished father. Kindergarten Union Adjourns. ROCHESTER. X. V.-The eleventh annual i env. ntim of the Internation al kliiib ruir;! u union ndjoiirncl nf. ter cl""tlng Miss Annie Laws of Cin cinnati president ami Miss Stella L. Wood of M in :;t n polls secretary.. Pearson Is Chief Engineer. ST. PACL.-U. p. ivars(m has been npMilti'u! c'lbf engineer of tho Xorthcri Pacific Railway company to nuccced W. L. Darlin. who resigned scvetal ini'it. furo. Mr. Pcr.ncii 1.: b.'n a'-tin chi-1 engineer. ATTACK ARTHUR JAPANESE ENGAGE FORTS WAR SHIPS. AND HAVE CAPTUREDJKEW CHWANC Reported that During Attack Russians Fall Back to Protect Railroad Kour opatkin Reports Loss Between Three and Four Thousand Men. Pronress cf the War. Reports indicate that the battle on the Yalu was a complete defeat for the Russians. There is au unconfirmed reiKirt that the Japanese have captured New Chwang and that the Russians have been routed. In another sea battle of Port" Ar thur the Japanese lost a number of vessels. Fireships were sent into the harbor, but failed to accomplish the purpose intended. " From 3,000 to 4.000 Russians aro re ported to have been killed in the bat tle on tho Yalu. Another Japanese fleet is reported to have been sighted off Port Arthur. PORT ARTHUR A Japanese squad ron appeared off Port Arthur after daybreak and engaged the forts and war ships. The fight is still proceed ing. Thirty Japanese prisoners have been captured. At 1 o'clock In the morning five Japanese torpedo boats were sighted. Tho Russian land batteries, tho gun boat Gillak with the coast defense vessels Grimlschi and Otvashni open ed flro and compelled them to retire. Immediately afterwards other Japan ese ships were sighted on the horizon. They were headed by a ftreship, which was sunk near the entrance of the harbor at 1:20 a. m. After an Interval of twenty-five minutes two more fire ships camo on and were sent to the bottom. At 2:15 four moro fireships ap proached. Three of these blew up on our mines. Two of those sank Imme diately and the other two fireships were sunn by the batteries and war ships. The protected cruiser Askoid partici pated in tho firing. Fifteen minutes later three more fireships arrived. One of them blow up on a mine, tho second was wrecked on the shore and tho third was sunk by tho Russian sheels. The crews of tho Japanese fireships which wore sunk while attempting to block the channel tried to save them selves in boats In wh!(h they put out to sea. A majority of them were kill ed by the Russian machine guns and rifles. Some of the survivors were picked up. At daybreak a number of Japanese were seen clinging to tho masts and funnels of the sunken vessels nnd these were rescued by the Russians. Thirteen of tho wounded Japanese have since died. Tho Russian.! rum. plied the survivors with food and clothing nnd tho wounded were taken to the hospital ship Mongolia. During the morning ton of tho en emy's torpedo boats remained In tho offing and were fired on at long range. At 5:30 o'clock it was signalled that uiere was a Japanese fleet In tho vi. cinity and thnt two of the launches had been run ashore. Tho town Is quiet. Largo crowds w.Hoh,i the morning's operations with great Interest. Forty Indictments Returned. DENVER The irr.,,,,1 i . , . - j"i re turned forty Indictments against twenty-slx persons, nlloclne election frauds. Amontr In the nuilctmoma nro .TmM..0 u. t'lo, county clerk; Walter H. Lowery" supervisor: Char!.- u rwi ' alderman; John D. Ross, alderman: litis Kappa nnd John k.n,iri.i, .i.... 'v r, Uf- uty corn-tables; W. A. Dolllson, can didate for alderman on tho republi can ticket: John Hall, a ward worker. and William Altmnn now ,l ...i' Jews Attacked In Synagogue. VIENNA Reports nro current i...r that there were six antl-Jewlsh riots in tne town of Render Anrll :m it i stated that the riotlnir In clay forenoon while tho congregations were in tho synagogues. The mob mulshed the windows of houses n the Jewish quarter and threw women and children out c;f the windows. A girl was murdered In n ni..t revolt ing manner. Cossacks restore,) r. dor. Tho outbreak Is said to have been duo to the anger of t!. r,.W(1 over tho Russian reve-ses In the rast In the Nation's Strong Box WASHINGTON - Today' Mate. nient of the treasury balances In u,o general fund, exclusive of the i;o. ooo.iiiKi Kid reserve In the division of redemption, shows: Available rash balance, ?::ti.iy2..W2; gold, tip;.,,,. Stock Growers Organize. DENVER. Tho Cattle Growers' In terstate Executive commit lee was or panled at a convent Ion here and the following officers were elected: Chair man, William M. Turney of Texas; vice chairman, William A. Harri of Kansas; secretary, Fred II. Johnson of Denver. Denver wns selected as tho headquarters. J. J. Dickinson, representing- the government In tho beef trust liivsetk-atli.ns. was prest m. The gathering was rnllcd to (,, ft" permit ni tit rri.anlznilon of v K((u.s men we.t of the Missouri. Attendance on Opening Day. ST. LoriS-Tho totnl attendance a tho Louisiana Purchase exposition on tho opening day. April :tu, j was officlallv announced Tuesday nkht as is'.'n persons. of ,n(!( number K.s.l;':! were recorded admin- Klollt,. Jap Securities Marked Up. LONDON Japanese bonds w.ro narked up ll4 on the itock eeliui;e Tne.ay t;lM Japanese mu-e.-mrn, while Russians were down. DRIVE ENEMY SEFOEE THEM. Russians are Unable to Check Advance of Jaos. WASHINGTOX.-The Japanese le gation here received the following offi cial cablegram from Tokio: "General Kuroki. commanding the First army, reports tram Chin Lien Chang that on May 1 the Second and Twelfth divisions and the Imperial guard, forming the First army corps, had advauced notwithstanding resist ance on tho part of the enemy, by three roads, driving the enemy before them, and at 8 p. m. occupied the lino extending from Aniung to Linshu Kon. Tho Imperial guard surrounded tho enemy on three sides, and, after a severe fight, captured twenty guns, with horses and carriages, and more than twenty officers nnd many men. Tho general reserve corps advanced by the Lla Yang railway. The enemy was composed of the whole Third di vision of the Twenty second and Twenty-fourth regiments of the Sixth infantry division of sharpshooters, General Mistehenko's cavalry brig ade, with about forty Kuns and eight machine guns. The enemy lied toward Zeng Huang Cheng. Our casualties will not. exceed at most 700. Twenty eight quick-tiring guns and large quan tities of small arms and ammunition were captured. Our heavy Held guns were very effective. A Russian offi cer who was taken prisoner says that both of tho commanders of tho army corps and the division were wounded and that tho Russian casualties ex ceeded 800." SECRET OF AERIAL FLIGHT. Prof. Alexander Graham Bell Claims to Have It. WASHINGTON i'rof. Alexander Graham Hell gave at Columbia station an exhibition of tho tetruhedral kite. which he believes to bo the secret of aerial navigation. Tho demonstration was made to tho members of tho Na tional Geographical society, of which Prof. Hell was formerly tho nresldent. The wind was light and therefore the trials were not as successful as some which have been made In private, con cerning which much ban been writ ten by the inventor nnd other scientists. Three slxt eon-cell kites, each said to have a sustaining power of seventy five pounds, wore sent, to heights vary ing from four to eleven hundred feet, but tho wind was so uncertain that the tests were not regarded as satis actory. DECIDES IN FAVOR OF BANK. Ruling of Judge In Phillips Case a Blow to Small Creditors. CHICAGO. Tho suit brought, by the trustee of the George Phillips com pany to recover from the Hank of Montreal $2io,(io(i. which the mem bers of the firm had deposited shortly beforo tho collapse of tho corn corner in liii2 came to an abrupt ending In the United States circuit court today. Judge Seaman took the case from tho Jury and announced a decision in fa vor of the bank. The court held that a bank wns not in tho samo class as other creditors of a bankrupt. The decision practic ally means that tho small creditors of the Phillips company will receive hit a slight percentage on claims, while tho banking Institution comes out. al most entirely whole. JAPANESE NOW ON RUSSIAN SOIL Minister McCormick Learns Number of Those He Is Caring For. ST. rETERSIU'RG As a result of his Investigations Ambassador Mc Cormick finds that exclusive of tho 570 Japanese In the Islands of Sagha lin tho total number of Japanese in Dllsslan Is "51, of whom Gil are In the province of Amur, chiefly nt Port Zeya. 280 In tho province of Prlm orvsk, chiefly at Nlkolalovsk. 'and a major and his officers with five sol diers, two merchants and an Interpre ter, under arrest as spies. They aro all being concentrated at Stretnsk, whence as soon as nnvlgntlon is opened they will bo forwarded to Irk utsk; from there they will go to Her lln. via tho Illnck Sea. tho Russian authorities desiring to transport them so far ns possible by wnter. MORE STRICT LIQUOR LAWS. Eight Hotels and Twenty-three Drug Stores Clo3Cd in Boston. P.OSTOX. l!y order of the police board women will bo 1 arred from drinking liquor In tho saloons of tho city beginning Monday. Eight lintels will be closed, nnd. pending an Inves tigation, fifty drug stores will not bo opened tomorrow. Twenty-three drug stores already have had their drug gists' certificates ennrellod on nocount of alleged violation of the liquor laws. It Is understood that the union Is the result of personal Investigations ninde by Judge Emmons, chairman of the police board. Thinks Un ted States Is Wise. LONDON. The best military ex perts are disposed to await further In formation before attaching undue Im portance lo tho result of Iho battle on the Yalu river. Commenting on Iho Shanghai report that United States Consul Davidson Is proceeding to his post at Aniung, the Globe says: "The triumph of iho open d.mr has begun and tho United States has given once moro a sU-'ti of Its appreciation of real Issues of war In the far enst." Tho Globe then Invites the Uritlsh foreign office to show similar activity. Missouri Inquiry at An End. WASHINGTON. Thnt no further proceedings bo taken Is tho recom mendation of Iho court of Inquiry ap pointed to Investigate the explosion of the nflerturret of tho Missouri on April X The court finds the ex plosion wns dun to a "flnro back." mused by an explicable combination of usually Intent pises In smokeless powder. The officers and crew of Iho Missouri net only nro relieved from nil responsibility for iho accident, but nro warmly commended for the brav ely they showed HOLD OF THE JAPS SAID TO HAVF THE KEY TO THE SITUATION. RUSSIANS' STUBBORNLY RESIST They Are, Hovvever, Driven Out ot Two Important Position on Yalu by Overwhelming Forces Heavy Fight log Near Chen Tien Cheng. CHICAGO A Daily News special from Kobe says details of the heavy lighting in the neighborhood of Chen Tien Cheng received there Mondav morning state that the Russians nmdt a most stubborn resistance to the Jap anese advance, but were driven sue cessively out of seven lines trenches. of ST. PETEUSIU'UG At 2:00 Mon- ilm- nflKrniHtit rliii A s;;Millt ed Press was Informed that beyond the fact of the retreat of the Russians before overwhelming superior forces of the Japanese on the Yalu river, no de tails have been received since the re port of General Sassuliteh, command er of the Second Siberian army corps, of iho retirement from Knlien Cheng lo Antr.ng. It Is quite possible that the loss on both sid"s during, the week's lighting may reach the figures given by the Japanese, us tho reserves were not brought up to support the Russian position at Kulien Cheng, where the fighting was the heaviest. The Russians made a special effort to hold as long as possible the heights of Cho San, on an Island opposite Ku lien Cheng, whence their jtuns com manded a considerable stretch of the river to I he souNi, but a Japanese bat tery on a hill above Wiju dominated the position, which tho i Russians eventually were forced to relinquish, thus losing the key to the rller. The desperate character! of the struggle there may have been due to the necessity for gaining time for I bo withdrawal of the Russian detach ments above and bo'ow. General Sassuliteh was in command of the entire force on the Yalu, which extended along a front of fver thirty miles, with reserve supportts fifteen miles back. The whole. af ording to the best Information obtn nable. did not exceed IV.imii) men. the actual force engaged i .'bat was not known at present, though probabM it was not more than 5, 000 men, if i lurge. No confirmation has ye cclved of the reported ( was so been to pi tire of twenty-eight Russian quid firing gunr, or of the wounding of GeuJ ral Sassu- litch and General Kashtalj latter in command of tho nsky, tho Third tiivi- sion. East Siberia t the Yalu river, or the burning of An ung. It Is confirmed lhat n village of huts was set. on lire by a shell. Tho statement that Iho Russians havo fallen back so far ns Feng Wang Cheng Is declared to bo untrue. The advance has retired and will continue to retire beforo the main army of the enemy, according lo the Russian pro gram, but It will keep In constant touch with the enemy, and skirmish ing of a more or less serious charac ter Is expected ns General Kuroki ad vances. This 's considered absolutely necessary In order to always know exactly where tho main army of tho enemy Is. At tho army headquarters hero there is not tho slightest evidence that the Russians consider they have sus tained reverse. The crossing of tho Yalu by tho enemy was taken as a matter of course and as part of the program. Tho losses are regarded as pawns In the real game which is to follow. VOTING TRUST TERMINATES. Stockholders cf Erie Do Not Care to Continue It. NEW YORK J. Plerpont Morgan and the other voting trustees of tho Erie railway company notified holders of the preferred and common stock of that company that a sufficient nmount of tho present voting trust certificates have not signified their de sire that the voting trust should be extended, consequently the trust ter mlnates finally on May 1. On and nf ter that date Morgan & Co. will cease to transfer to present voting trust certificates and have arranged with the railroad company for the delivery of Its stock In exchange for the trust certificates now outstanding. Irrigation Plans for Nebraska. WASHINGTON. The secretaiy of the Interior has set aside, provisional 1), iho sum of $1,000,000 for the con struction of the Pathfinder reservoir on tho North Platte river In Wyom ing. Construction will proceed con tingen' upon favorable reports from engineers In the field as to various details still under consideration, and particularly ns to whether an ade quate urea of Irrigable land can be found Jn western Nebraska. The reservoir will be of sufficient capacity to supply nil of the land under it In .Wyoming. Tco Many Correspondents. WASHING"! ON. Tha great num ber of newspaper correspondents dis patched t.) the far enst has over whelmed the Japanese government, and United States Minister Grlscom on Thursday cabled the state depart ment from Tcklo thnt further appli cations In behalf of correspondents for permission to arcompnny tho Jap nnci'e forces In the field cannot bo granted. It Is estimated that there ate nlrendy at least 2'0 American nnd European correspondents travel ing with tho Jspunose army. Jaos Publish Their Side of It. WASHINGTON The japatiese lega tion has published the correspondence thnt t'tok place between Ilaron Koni urn, Japanese minister of foreign nf fairs nnd Mr. Kurlno, Japanese niln Isier to St. Petersburg, preceding tin beginning of the Rimso-Jnpnne-c nr. The purpose of the publication Is to disclose officially the Jr.panesenltltude and especially to point out the efforts to fort e RuiKla to an early and con clusive ni:over to the JnpMif-o pro popali relative to tht evacuation nf .Manchuria. bchool Children's Benefactor, Charles M. Schwab will sinm ico cue of his cherished schemes reali .ed. For th rev years the steel magnate has bttu planuins a children's health and fun resort for New York. The re tort is Ku-a'ed on Stateu Island and consUis of mi extensive park In which aro all sorts of contrivances for min-iutfi-ini; tit (lie iileNHiiro of little one A big boat will ply between here and tho city, and tho plan is to take about 1 IHHI children every day in summer and bring them back in tho early evening. Trained nurses, guards and privuto policemen will see that tho visitors aro properly cared for. Iu tho bis pavilion every day a lunch will bo served, and tho rest of tho tliut will bo spent mostly In bathing, wad ing and playing around in the sand. Electricity Prevents Collision. The lialtle is equipped with Pi electrical device for preventing col lisions with other vessels. The mo ment another ship enters the "mag netic Held" of the ltallic the needlo of tho indicating; instrument points in tho direction of the ves.el ap proaching of being overtaken, and the) steersman knows nt once what courso to take. Even the rhythmic bents of an unseen steamer's screws are reg istered by means of this delicate ap paratus. Another safeguard Is nn eb'ctricnl contrivance to show if tho ship's llghla are burning pnqviiy. "Black Teeth." Emigrants from southern Italy aro, many or them, disfigured by what If known as "black teeth." The teeth of thoso persons aro affected durinir the period of growth by some gaseous constituent of drinking water, proba bly from Impregnation with volcanic vapors. ' The oiToet gives u sinister look -to nn otherwise handsome face, but fortunately does not, it seems. affect the strength or durability of the teeth. Rheumatism In Utah. Frisco, Utah, May 2nd. There Is a great deal of Rheumatism In this and neighboring states, and this puiulul disease lias crippled many a strong man and woman among au otherwise healthy people. Recently, however, thoro has been Introduced Into Utah a remedy for Rheumatism which bids fair to stamp out this awfully painful complaint. The name of this new remedy Im Dodd's Kidney Pills, and It has al ready wrought some wonderful cures. Right here In Frisco there is a caso of a Mr. Grace who had Rheumatism so had in his feet that ho could hardly walk. He tried many remedies In vain, but Dodd's Kidney Pills cured him. His wife rayr, : "Wo both had Kid ney Trouble, nnd my husband had tho Rheumatism so bad that ho could hardly walk. Wo used Dodd's Kid ney pills with much benefit. Wo havo tried many remedies, but none havo done us so much good as Dodd's Kid ney Pi!:.." Similar reports come from nil over the state, and It would seem as if Rheumatism had nt last been con quered. He Was Still Mad. One day, during a lecture, a Har vard professor, with n peppery dispo sition, grow furious because of soino interruption, nnd slumming down his book with ntt exclamation of rage, rushed from the room. The hoys were very much distressed by his action, hut did not know what to do. In a few minutes, however, the pro fessor apparently came to the con clusion that he had done a foolish thing, for he returned and resumed his lecture without a vyord. Anxious to show their good will and to atono If possible for iheir rudeness, the boya took advantage of a good point in tha lecture to applaud tuinultuously. "No, r.o, no!" exclaimed tho professor, holding up his hand with a gesture of protest, "I want you to understand that I'm ns mad as h 1 yci." Representative Clnronco D Van Duzer says that n miner once told him of tho red man's greed for whisky. "I wns riding over tho plains once," he said, "with a pint bottle sticking out of my breast mcket, when an Indian met mo, nnd, seeing the whis ky, wanted to buy it And do you know what that Indlnn offered me? Well, sir, he offered mo bin buckskin breeches, his shirt, his saddle, his blanket nnd his pony nil for a pint, of whisky What do you t'v.tik of lhat?" "And you did sell," asked Van Duzer" "No," said the miner, "1 didn't it was my last pint. SOAKED IN COFFEE. Until Too Stiff to Bend Over. "When 1 drank coffee I often had sick headaches, nervousness and bil iousness much of iho time but about 2 yenrs n go I went to visit, a friend nnd got in iho habit of drinking Pos tum. "1 have never touched coffee nlnco and tho result has been that I have been entirely cured of all my stomach and nervous trouble. "My niothir was Just the samo way, we all drink Postuni now nnd hnvo never hud any other coffee In the house for two jears and we are all well. "A neighbor cf mine a great coffeo drinker, wns troubled with pains In her side for yenrs nnd wan nn Invalid. She was not able to do hi r work qt,,i could not even mend clothes or do any t ti I.iK nt nil where she would havo to bend foward. If she tried to do a little hard work she would get r.uch pains thnt she would havo to Ho down for the rest of tin day. "I persuaded her nt last to stop drinking coffee and try Postuni Food Coffee nnd she did ro and sho hns used Postum ever since; tho result hns been that sho can now do her work, ran sit for a wholo day and mend and rnn Few on tho mnchlno and she never feds tho least bit of pull, n he r side, In flirt she has got well and It shows coffee was tho cause of tho whole IniiihV. "I could also tell you about Severn t other neighbors who havo been cured by quitting coffeo and u.ilnir Postum iln Its place." Name gives by Postum !Co.. I'.attle Creek, Mich. Look in each pkc. for the famous lit;Iu book, "Ti.e Road to Wullvlllo."