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i r .., . .1 - . . - ,--, i i. . .I. i T&U ARGUS o'er the people's rljrntb Tloth an eternal vigil keep iN o soothing strains of Mala' .-oi Can hill its hundred eves to Fleer Vc XV GOLDSBOKO. N. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 21. 19()4 NO 35 11 A ' 4 3 '1 4 4 :4 "4 IP MORE RUSSIAN 818 ARE PUT OUT OF ACTION AT PORT ARTHUR. A Battleship is Bad'y Crippled by Contact With a Mine and a Tor pedo Boat Destroyer is Sunk by the Japanese. St. Petersburg, April 14. Rear Admiral Prime Outkomsky wires from Port Arthur to-day that the Bezstrashni, one of the Russian tor pedo boat destroyers, sent out during the night to reconnoiter, btcame seperated from the rest of the fleet, owing to the bad weather prevailing, w as surrounded by Japanese torpedo boat destroyers, and was sunk in the fight. Five men were saved. Ad miral Outkomsky adds: "I have taken command provis ionally of the fleet since the disaster to the Petropavlovsk. During some maneuvering of the i battleship squad ron, the Pobieda struck against a mine on the starboard. She was able to regain port by herself. No one on board was killed or wounded. "The Pobieda is a battleship of 12,674 tons displacement and of 14, 500 horse power. She is 4011 feet long and is heavily armored with steel. She was completed in 1901, has a complement of 732 men, and her estimated speed is 18 knots. Tokio, April 14. 5 p. m. A brief report from Rear Admiral Uriu, of Wednesday's fighting off Port Arthur reached here this afternoon. It says Vice Admiral Togo's fleet attacked Port Arthur in the morning and succeeded in sinking a battleship of the Petropavlovsk class and one tor pedo boat destroyer. The Japanese sustained no losses. One Japanese was wounded. Chefoo, April 14. It has been learned from Japanese sources here that the attack on the Russian Port Arthur fleet yesterday morning was planned and put into effect in the following manner: At daylight the Japanese torpedo boats made a demonstration before the port and at the same time laid mines across the outer entrance to 'the harbor. They then retired and joined the main squadron. The squadron then advanced and as it drew near the Russian ships were seen coming out. The battleship Petropavlovsk struck one of the Amines laid by the Japanese torpedo boats and was destroyed. L.ett r to Porter & Godwin. Goldsboro, N. C. Dear Sirs: You want a cheap job of paint for a cheap house, don't you? It's Devoe. It's the regular thing in Devoe; there's nothing, in all paint, so cheap as Devoe. Oh, yes", you can paint with mud; but that isn't paint; you want it to look about right for a month or two. Paint Devoe; can't do it for less; there's nothing so cheap; say noth ing of wear, there's nothing so cheap "as Devoe. It goes so far; save gallons; no mat ter about the price, save gallons. A gallon of paint, put on, costs $4 or $5; save gallons. Devoe is your paint; save gallons; Devoe is your paint. Yours truly, F. W. Devoe & Co. New York. P. s. Smith &Yelverton sell our paint. 56 Asheville. N. C, April 13. The little town of Barnardsville, situated twenty miles north of Asheville, Sa-as almost wiped put by fire to-day, entailing a loss of over $20,000 and with but little insurance. The fire was finally subdued by the combined efforts of the people of the surround ing section. - L 0 INJURIES TO THE POBIEDA DECLARED SLIGHT! 0 A Correspondent Says That He Be lieves That the Entrance to Port Arthur Is Now Sealed Up. St. Petersburg, April 15. A tele gram from Admiral Alexieff from Port Arthur, to the Emperor, says that from 9:15 o'clock this morning to mia-day, the Japanese fleet in two divisions, bombarded the fort ress and the town alternately from the Liao Tishan promontory, firing 185 projectile?. The Russian squad ron, including the battleship Po bieda, replied from the anchorage by a plunging fire. The batteries aiso participated. The losses on land were seven Chinese killed and five soldiers and three Chinese wounded. The Russian warships sustained no damage and there was no loss of lift on them. The injuries to the Pobieda, which struck a mine Wednesday, are de clared to be slight. The explosion which injured her tcok place just at the water line. The correspondent of the Associ ated Press learns that twenty-eight officers were lost on board the Petro pavlovsk. London, April 16. The St. Peters burg correspondent of the standard sends a rumor to the effect that Vice Admiral Toga's fleet escorted a Jap- j auese landing of troops to the west ward of the Yalu river; When 12, 000 men had been landed the Rus sian troops, which were lying con cealed, suddenly attacked them, driving them back to the ships with heavy losses in men and guns. The Times this morning prints a dispatch from its correspondent at sea, off the coast of Korea. The dis patch is dated yesterday, and in it the correspondent says he believes that the entrance to Port Arthur is now sealed. Washington, April 15. The Rus sian Government has given notice that newspaper correspondents using wireless telegraph will be treated as spies and shot. This notice was served on the State Department by the Russian ambassador to-day. Sim ilar communications were made to all foreign officers. St. Petersburg, April 14. There are now only two undamaged bat tleships, the Peresviet and the Se vastopol, in the harbor of Port Ar thur, but some of the damaged ves sels have been repaired, although their exact number and condition are not known. Altogether ten Russian vessels have been damaged or lost since the outbreak of the war.. The disaster of Wednesday ends the hope that the ill-fated Port Ar thur squadron would be able to be come an aggressive factor in the op erations before it is reinforced by the arrival of the Baltic fleet. Until then the aim of the Russians will be to hold Port Arthur and conserve the remaining ships within the pro tection of its guns. General Kuropatkin is concentrat ing his second line of defence be tween Mukden and Liao-Yang. He will have 120,000 men there by the 24th of April. JUDGE PEEBLES AND BAR. "Wilmington, April 19. Judge R. B. Peebles announced at Whiteville to-day that unless something unfore seen occurs he will arraign attorneys ot the Lumberton bar before him up on contempt proceedings in connec tion with their late refusal to set a calendar for Robeson Superior court before him, at Fayette ville, upon the convening of Cumberland Superior court, May 2. A number of Lum berton attorneys were at Whiteville and expected the case to come up. SIP OF THE WORLD. i'TEMS OF INTEREST FROM DIVERS SOURCES. The Latest Telegraphic News oi the Day Boiled Down to a Focus For Busy Readers. Pollocksville, N. C, April 14. A fire last night in the business section of town destroyed property valued at $5,000. Cambridge, Mass, April 14. The Harvard 'Varsity baseball team left on its Southern trip this afternoon. They play the initial game Saturday with Georgetown. Washington, April 14. Senator Dietrich has been declared by a spec ial co i.mittee of Congress to be not guilty of any violation of the stat utes of the United States. Asheville, April 14. Governor C. B. Aycock is a guest of the Hon. Locke Craig and family at his home on Montford avenue. He will spend a few days here. His visit is purely a sjcialone. Charleston, W. V., April 14. The West Virginia Republican State Convention to-day instructed its del egates at large for Roosevelt for President and Senator Stephen B. El kins, for Vice-President. Fayette ville, April 14. The Davis Hotel, a wooden structure, on Per son street, was burned this afternoon. For a while a dangerous fire threat ened the town, but the firemen suc ceeded in confining it to the hotel alone. TO WED ENGLISH CAPTAIN. Miss Madelon Battle, a North Caro lina Beauty, Makes the An nouncement. The following special was sent from New York to the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot: "An, interesting Anglo-American romance has culminated in the an nouncement of the engagement of Miss Madelon Battle, the beautiful daughter of Dr. S. W. Battle, U. S. N., of Asheville, N. C, to Captain Mortimer P. Hancock, of the Royal Fusilliers. The announcement, made by the young woman herself, is doubly interesting in that it sets at rest the persistent reports of her en gagement to Cecil Graham, who was said to be a wealthy Englishman., "Miss Battle, who is a cousin of ex-Assistant District Attorney G. G. Battle, and was regarded as one of the most beautiful society girls in 'Dixie' land. Her reputation as a horsewoman was as great as that of her beauty. She has just returned from Bermuda, where during a short stay she met Captain Hancock, whose regiment is stationed there. No date has been set for the wed ding." ' HEROIC FUND. jittsourg, .fa., April lo. it was made known here to-day that An drew Carnegie has created a fund of five million for the benefit of "the dependents of those losing their lives in heroic efforts to save their fel'.O'-v men, or for the heroes them selve if injured only.' Provision is ais made for med tls to be given in commemoration of heroic acts. JAMES OSBORNE DEAD. Charlotte, N. C. April 14. Mr. James Osborne, a son of Rev. E. A. Osborne, archdeacon of the Episco pal diocese of Charlotte, died this morning at the home of his father, after a lingering illness. He leaves a wife and 'many relatives to mourn bis death. JflPS Fl TOJJND TROOPS. DRIVEN BACK BY RUSSIAN LAND BATTERIES. The Japs Tried to Land at a Point Between Port Arthur and the Yalu River Submarine Boats for Russia. St. Petersburg, April 18. An at tempted landing by Japanese troops on the shores of Korea Bay, between Port Arthur and the Yalu river April 12 was frustrated by the Rus sians. A Japanese torpedo boat flo tilla scouted the shores of the bay, but was received with such a heavy fire from land batteries at Taku Shan, Ching Tai Tse, Tchanhe and Bedzino that it retired. Vice Ad miral Togo's flagship then recalled nine transports which were on the way to laud troops. A squadron of ten warships protecting the trans ports were with them. The Rus sians have 20,000 troops concentrated at Taku Shan. Tien Tsin, April 18 From sev eral sources reports have been re ceived here saying that a Japanese fleet of over seventy transports is heading for Kin Chou, north of Port Arthur. St. Petersburg, April 18. The first of five new submarine boats building at St. Petersburg and forty wagon loads of ammunition were dispatched taHiay to the theatre of war. The submarine boat, which was sent off in sections, is elliptical in shape and fitted with an improved electrical apparatus for firing tor pedoes, which it is claimed experi ments have shown enormously in creased the offensive power of tor pedoes. In all there are fourteen subma rine boats planned or in course of construction at the Neva works here and it is expected that all will be ready for despatch to the Far East about the middle of July. CURE CATARRH BY BREATH ING. J. II. Hill & Son Offer to Return Money If Hyomei Treatmet Fail3 to Cure Catarrh Without Stomach Dosing. It lor a few minutes four times a day you breathe Hyomei, all ca tarrhal germs will be destroyed and the irritated mucous membrane re stored to health. With every Hyomei outfit there is a neat inhaler which can be carried in the purse or pocket. Hyomei breathed through this contains the same healing balsams that are found in the air upon the mountains, where catarrh is unknown, j It destroye3 all catarrhal germs in the air passages of the head, throat and nose, and makes a positive and permanent cure of catarrh. The complete outfit costs but $1, while extra bottles of Hyomei can be obtained for 50c, making it one of the most economical of treatments for catarrh. J. H. Hill & Son believe so thor oughly in the merit of Hyomei, that they guarantee to return the money if it. .fails. This is certainly the t-trongest evidence they can give of their faith in the Hyomei treatment. It enables any one to use Hyomei without risk of spending money for nothing. Ask J. H. Hill &Son to show you a Hyomei outfit and explain to you what a simple and easy way it is to relieve and cure your catarrhal trou bles. FOLEYSROHETTAR Cares Golds. Prevents Pneumonia R. R. WRECK III LUGAMA ENGINEER AND TWO OTHERS INJURED. Passenger Engine Wrecked, Four Freight Cars and the Depot Burned and the Track Bad ly Torn Up. Selma, N. C, April 19. (1 a m. Tuesday.) At 11:56 to-night pas senger train No. 35, on the Atlantic Coast Line, ran into through freight No. 8 at Lucama, totally wrecking the engine of No. 35 and injuring seriously the engineer, Waxsmith, whose home is in Rocky Mount. Others hurt in the wreck were the fireman of No. 35, Charles, injured in left shoulder and hip, and Postal Clerk T. M. Mitchell (colored), of Washington, hurt internally. None of the passengers were injured. The train, No. 35, dashed into the freight through an open switch. How it came to be left open has not yet been ascertained. As a result of the crash, the baggage car of No. 35 caught on fire and also four cars of the freight. From these flames were communicated to the station, which is now wrapped in a sheet of fire. No estimate of the amount of dam age can be had at this hour. About one hundred feet of the track was torn up, but all will be clear by six o'clock this morning. CONGRESSIONAL CONVEN TION. Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the Democratic Executive Committee of the Third Congression al District of North Carolina, held in Goldsboro on Tuesday, April 12, 1904, tke Congressional Convention of said district was called to be held at Goldsboro, N. C, on Tuesday, June 21, 1904, at 1 o'clock p. m. for the nomination of a Democratic can didate for Congress, a Democratic presidential elector, and the transac tion of such other business as may come before the convention. W. L. Hill, T. C. Whitakee, Ch'm. Sec'ty. INSTRUCT FOR PARKER. By 301 to 149 the Empire State Con vention Chooses Him as the Man For Whom the Del egates Shall Vote. Albany, N. Y., April 18. The Democratic State Convention for the election of delegates to the National Convention selected the following delegates at large: David B. Hill, of Albany; Edward Murphy, Jr., of Troy; George Ehert, of New York City, and James Ridgeway,of Brook lyn. As alternates it selected C. F. Bulger, of Oswego; W. Caryl Ely, of Buffalo; C. H. Arkerman, of B.ooklyn, and Francis Burton Har rison, of New York. The delegates were instructed by a vote of 301 to 149 for Alton B. Parker, as the State's candidate for President, Tammany was not treat ed as badiy as had been predicted, being allowed to name a delegate at large, Mr. Ehert and an alternate aud one of the two electors at large Harry Tayne Whitney, the other be ing John T. Woodford. The platform adopted is brief and in addition to instructing lor Parker compels the delegation to vote as a unit. AYCOCK AS VICE-PRESIDENT St. Louis, April 18. Commenting upon Governor Aycock's assertion that a Southerner should be nomi nated for Vice-President, the Globe Democrat of to-day suggests Gover nor Aycock himself as Vice-Presi dent. TWENTY-NINE killed. A .TERRIBLE EXPLOSION ON THE MISSOURI. The Battleship Was In Command of Captain William S. Cowles. Two Thousand Pounds of Powder Exploded. Pensacola, Fla., April 13. By the explosion of two thousand pounds of powder in the after twelve inch tur ret and the handling room of the bat tleship Missouri, Captain William S. Cowles, commtnding, twenty-niue men were instantly killed and five injured. The Missouri was on the target range with the Texas and Brooklyn at practice about noon, when a charge of powder in the twelve inch left hand gun exploded, ignited from gasses and dropping below ignited four charges of powder in the hand ling room and all exploded. Only one man of the entire turret and handling crew survives. Admiral Barker, the commander- in-chief, paid a visit to the ship and ater ordered a court of inquiry as sembled to make an investigation. Captain Cowles speaks in the high est terms of the heroism displayed by every man on board the Missouri. 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