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POST. TK weather today : Fcr North Carolina: For Raleigh : Rain, warmer. TEMPERATURE; .Temperature for tht past 24 Hours: mAiiuuiut r3i Minimum. 38. Vol. VIII RALEIG-H. N. C.f WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1905 No. 83 - IH v . . . . - tails of Great Battle BJeai The Russian Counter Attacks Delivered Unsuccessfully. Japanese Force Menac ing the Russian Line of Retreat-Mukden lav be Aban doned tfashhigton, March 7. Further de tails of the great battle near Mukden were given in a report received at the Japanese legation today from Tokio. It js daud March 7, and is as follows:, In the direction of Kingkong, the :0ren!y near Tita, fifteen miles south east of FushiW delivered on March .6th repeated counter attacks, but was re pulsed each time, while our attacks on the enemy near Manchuntan, fifteen milCS fOUttl 01 r U&nuii, ia piugn-ooiiis favorably despite the enemy's stubborn resistance. In the evening we occupied ,the hei.dit two iriles south of Machun tan. In the direction of Pensihu our detachment occupied- on the 6th of March the heights ranging south of Faitsukou, which is six miles, south ot Machuntan, driving the enemy towards Sachiatzu, two miles southwest of Machuntan. On the night of March 5th the enemy's counter attack in front was repulsed. In the direction of Sha ko, in the district lying east of the railway, the enemy's counter attack on the night of March 5th on the northern end of Tungchiafeng was repulsed. Otherwise no change in the situation In the district west of the railwav an engagement is now proceeding with the enemy, who is posted on the line ex tending from east of Hangchengpao to Erhtaitzu, and who is offering s,tout resistance. On the right bank of Hunho the enemy, about one division strong, with seventy guns, appeared in the vicinity of Tashichiao, but was re rulsed." Tokio. March 7. West of the railroad the Japanese operations are more ac tive, the Russian resistance indicating gradual reinforcement. The most notable feature is the re pulse of a counter attack made by a division of Russian infantry, supported by seventy gunS in the .vicinity of Tashichiao, which is west of Mukden and ten miles to the northward. It is helieved from this that the Japanese forces arc rapidly menacing the Rus sian line of retreat. It is stated on high authority that General Kuropat kin was ignorant of the advance of the Taft Arran&esa Members of Congress With Wives, the President's Daughter, Washington Society Girls and Others Going to the Philippines : Washington, March 7. The party which win accompany Secretary Taft ?n his trip to the Philippines next sum nr.wlii include some of the most Prorcinent men in congress. Invitations have been sent out by Secretary Taft l thirty or more, and a number of fay "lable responses have been, received. Among (hose who have promised to go f.ro Speaker Cannon, Representative 'nOlrs. inn of Mississippi, Repre sentative and . Mrs. Sereno Payne of ew York, Representative Gillett of Jjassachusetts, and Representative I'ourk Cockran of New York. These J'ople have already consented to take "10 triD amn and Foster are among the probabilities. There are also others on y10 liSt who have not yet responded, ,nany 0f whom are expected to accept 'frttary Taffs invitation and go. -Mlss Alice Roosevelt, Mrs. Taft, Miss Eoardman, a Washington so-flt-'ty Eirl, and Col. Clarence R. Ed- Jis, chief of the bureau of insular "airs, v.ill also go. The party will ,(,ave Washington about the last of ' Ulie and will probably be gone three months. wfcis expccted that the trip by the ASislators through the government '"ssions in the far east will have " wholesome effect upon legislation at lir; next congress when various mat prs of importance pertaining to tke 1hilippines will be-up. The PWilppine mmission will have complete charge of the-party while it is in the archi- The party will . leave San Francisco r.babiy on a transport, if not, on one 'r the Pacific liners, early in July, and v 'h so to the islands via Hor-olulu, - wpping there briefly. It Is expected uut Governor Carter will make ar MwMen flying column on the extreme west of the Japanese line and concentrated his forces against the Japanese centre and right, leaving the Russian right insufficiently protected. The expe dition to Sinmintun, the oper ations of which are i here con sidered of much importance, will, it is said, assault the central front of the Russian position vigorously on both sides . C the railway. Well in formed per? ons say that the Japanese are adeptir? tactics the opposite of those chey ,ued at Liaoyang. Tbe newspaper accounts of a Rus sian retreat yesterday anv of General Kuropatkin's council witn one hundred officers on a train before his reported withdrawal northward are based upon Chinese reports and have not been con firmed. It Is reported that the Russians are preparing to abandon Mukden and Fushun and retreat to Tieling. It is believed that the possession of the city of Mukden and the line to the river Hun by the Japanese is assured. , p.c'ncrai Tr,ir.rtr.Q iH sAome Ho usine all his resources to protect Fushun and , keep his line of retreat open. Dispatches to the Jiji show that the Japanese, Sunday evening, were with in five miles "of Mukden on the west and south. -Their heavy artillery was driving the Russians from-the shelter of 'the walls of Mukden toward the north. General Kuropatkln has trans- f erred his headquarters to a" railroad j car - j The Japanese left pushing further ! north, had completed 4the practical en- velopment of the Russian centre and t risht. The Russian main force at Fushun was showing signs of a retreat upon Tiellns. More Favorable to Russians Paris, March 7. The reports pub lished here of the operations about Mukden were more optimistic this mornihg. The . Echo de Paris says that things appear to be going better for the Russians. The Japanese, It is believed, have been stopped by the Russian second line of defense, x and a decisive success by one side or the other now seems impossible! Both sides are exhausted and the Japanese attacks are growing much weaker. It Is believeji that the end of the battle is near. Already the Russians have lost 40, 000 men and the Japanese 60,000. St. Petersburg, March 7. The fight ing around Mukden was renewed this morning at daybreak. General Kuropatkin, In a dispatch ; dated March 6, says: "I counted thirty dead Japanese officers and 2,000 men in front of the Goatu Pass position. The Russians buried many bodies." Junketing Party rangements for a big reception at Hon olulu. A our of the principal points of interest in and about Manila will be made, and then the principal cities of the islands will be visited. On the re turn trip, there will be opportunity for a brfef side trip to Japan. - While in Manila Secretary Taft will act upori several matters of importance, particularly" the concluding of arrange anents for the building of the new rail way lines in the Philippines. Congress provided that the Philippine commis sion could guarantee four per cent, in terest on the . bonds of the company given the concession. The commission is now negotiating with prospective concessionaires, and by the time Sec retary Taft reaches the Philippines the matter will probably be ready for his final approval. .The party, will be by far the most prominent that, has ever gone from this country to the Philippines. NOT A CONSPIRACY ' - Mrs. Chadwick Scores an Im portant Point Cleveland, Ohio, March 7. The de fense in the trial of Mrs. Chadwick scored an important point this after noon when A. B. Marshall of the First National Bank declared on the witness stand that Mrs. Chad wick's dealings with the 'Oberlin bank were unusual, but not Irregular. This testimony is In line with what counsel for the defense is striving to prove, viz: That Mrs. Chadwick did not conspire to wreck the Citizens National Bank of Oberlin. The defense claimed that even if she did act fraudulently and dupe Beckwith and Spear, that is not a conspiracy. A number of witnesses testified to day. The proceedings brought out lit tle of importance. The directors ot the Oberlin bank testified' that they knew nothing of the loans to Mrs. Chadwick until the bank had failed, as the minutes did not show any such transactions. ' Carnegie was "riot in court today, and the probability is that he will not be called upon to testify,-although he will be detained until the case is concluded, It is not the Intention, of United States? Attorney Sullivan to use Mr. Carnegie except in rebuttal. : , "v The case will probably go to the "jury Friday. ' . One of the witnesses, created some thing of a surprise by testifying that the Oberlin Bank was to honor checks signed by "Cassie L. Chad wick" or "C. L. Shippen." He testified that Mrs. Chad wick told him this. She wrote the latter signature, the witness testified, on one of " the bank's signature cards in witness' presence. Charged With Sedition Manila, March 7. Justice Toribio of Meriveles has been arrested iri Manila on the charge of sedition. It appears that he was the head of a . conspiracy to start a revolution. He addressed a wild appeal to Senor Santos, gov ernor of the, province of Albay, south ern Luzon, boasting of his strong fol lowing and Urging that the towns se cretly prepare to overwhelm the scouts and constabulary and kill the American oppressors and neutral na tives. Senor Santos informed the government and Toribio was imme diately taken into custody. The attorney general has -gone to Malabon to . prosecute Jose Del Rosa rio, a brother-in-law of ex-General Trias who is accused of instigating an outbreak In Cavite. It is declared that he sacrificed his sister in his attempt to overthrow the influence of Trias. Little Trace of Poison Honolulu, March 7. Results of the cnemists analysis of the internal or- sans of Mrs. Jane Stanford, as given to the coroner's jury today, show pretty clearly that the theory that the woman was given strychnine cannot be estab- lisned- The bicarbonate of soda, which was declared to be heavily doped with strychnine, proved to have only one- half a grain of strychnine to eleven teaspoonfuls of soda, an amount which would not have produced death. The chemists testified that their analysis of the organs showed purple stains, which are indicative of the presence of strych nine, but this stain was slight and could have been caused by a slight dose that would not cause death. It is probable that unless new facts are discovered no one will be arrested and no trial will ever be held. NEW COMMISSIONS Members of the Cabinet Take the Oath of Office .'-.' Washington, March 7. All the mem bers of the cabinet received new com missions today and took-the oath of office. When McKinley's first cabi net was sworn in the members as- sembled in a bdy and the oath was administer wth a good deal of formality, loday there was . no formal ceremony, and the oath was administered to each in his own office. Secretary Hay sent for William McNeir, assistant librarian of the state department, who is a notary pub lic, and took the oath in the presence of only Mr. McNeir and Mr. Babcock, Mr. Hay's private secretary. The oath was also administered to Secretary Shaw by a clerk in the treasury department, who happened to be a notary. In this case there hap pened to be a number of visitors in the ante-room of the secretary's office, and all were invited to see Mr. Shaw take the oath. A notary from one of the war de partment bureaus administered the oath to Secretary Taft just before he went to the White House to attend the regular cabinet "meeting . Nearly all the othor members of the cabinet took oath .this afternoon in stead of in the morning. There was an exception in the case of George B. Cortelyou, however, for he was not already a member of the cabinet, and Collision in the Mew YorK Subway A Strikf! RrAflkr Mntnrmnn seats, the window glass was shivered -M..w. Responsible for a Smash up in Which Nearly Thirty People Wre Wore or Less Injured " , New York, March 7. At least twenty- nine persons were hurt, many badly, In a rear end collision between local trains in the subway at the Twenty third street station this evening. It Is not unlikely that several of them may die. A Broadway local, with one of Farley's strike breakers handling the controller, crashed into a Lenox avenue local that was standing at the station ready to take on passengers. The mo- torman of the rear train was not hurt and he escaped. : John W. McManus. conductor of the Broadway local, was arrested. He was , brought here from St. Louis. The rear car of the Lenox avenue . local was of steel, and the one im- mediately, in front was the old wooden kind. When the Brfladway local hit , the train ahead the impact- sent it funding back fifteen feet .or so. ..The j passengers were knocked out of their it seemed nore appropriate for him to qualify ucore attending the regu lar semi-weekly meeting of the presi dent's official family which took place at 31 o'clock. Mr. Cortelyou was sworn in as' postmaster general in his office at the post office department. The oath was. administered by T. E. Roach, the department notary, in the presence of the members of Mr. Cor telyou's immediate family, the re tiring postmaster general, Mr. Wynne, and few 'other persons. May Defer His Trip Washington, March 7.-rPresident Roosevelt i is doubtful as to the pos sibility of leaving Washington for his contemplated trip to the southwest as early as March 27, which was the date selected some time ago. Unless the Senate should conclude its work on the ' Santo Domingo treaty very promptly -it is probable that the presi dent will be obliged to postpone his departure from Washington for a week. The reunion of the Rough Riders was to have been held at San Antonio on the 31st of March, but the event will be postponed in case the presi- dent is junable to leave Washington by the 27th. - bb 1 Judge Reagan's Funeral Palestine, Tex., March 7. Mrs. John ' H. Reagan has refused the request of the legislature that the state be permitted to conduct the funeral of her late husband and have the body lie in state at Austin, with the inter ment in the state cemetery. Mrs. Reagan said her husband had expressed a desire to be buried at Palestine. The funeral will be con ducted Wednesday by the Masons, the officiating officer being Henry graph sends a series of reports, some Bates Stoddard of Bryan, past emi- j avowedly, and others apparently,-from nent grand commander of the grand Chinese sources at YingkoW? represent commandery of the United States. ling the Russians to be in flight. Ac The funeral will be attended by cording to these reports Mukden has Governor Lanham, a majority of the been completely evacuated. The' two members of the legislature and promi- Japanese wings are five, miles in the nent Texans from all portions of the j Russian rear, cutting off - and envelop state, special trains having been an- ling the whole Russian right and part nounced for several roads. jof the center. The Jf panese guns are DAYTON FOB JUDGE Successor to Judge Jackson Who Will Retire Washington, March 7. Representa tive Alston G. Dayton of West Vir- ginia, who has for years had to fight correspondent at Mukden as follows: for' his life to get back to congress, "It Is thought today will decide the but always managed to land, was most momentous battle of the war. It named by President Roosevelt today looked like the turning of the tide all to succeed Judge J. J. Jackson In the yesterday. Nogi's men threw them- northern-district of West Virginia. selves frantically against the Russian Judge Jackson, who retires, was the intrenchments on the plains four miles oldest judge in active work in the west of Mukden station. I never saw world. He had been on the bench for the Russian troops so cool and deter more than forty years, and is more mined. General Kaulbars' line held than 83 years of age. fast, then slowly pushing forward, Judge Jackson was appointed by driving the Japanese out of important President Lincoln in 1862, and has villages and positions. I was with one served: continuously ever since. corps and saw it capture a village. The Other important nominations were men marched . calmly into the place re sent to the Senate by the president gardless of a terrific storm of bullets A 1 . 1 1 toaay. Among tne numoer were. Treasurer of the United States Charles H. Treat of New York. Second secretary of embassy Craig W. Wadsworth of New York, at Lon don. Third secretaries to embassies Louis Einstein of New York, at London; William Blumenthal of New York, at Paris. Secretaries to legation Charles S. Wilson of Maine, at Greece and Mon tenegro and the diplomatic' agency in Bulgaria; Henry P. Fletcher of Penn sylvania, at Lisbon. Secretary of legation and consul general Thomas Ewing Moore of District of Columbia, at Roumania and Servia. Second secretary of legation Wil liam Phillips of Massachusetts, at Pekin. and a number got slight cuts and bruises. The blow drove the steel rear car of the Lenox avenue local against the wooden car with terrific force. Fifteen or twenty had been riding on , the plat forms of these two cars and they were the ones who suffered the most. The platform of the wooden car was crush ed in and the back end of the car was shattered. "While the steel car resisted I the impact and was little damaged save for a smashed platform, the pas sengers caught the full force of the collision. They were thrown against the sides of the " car, hurled against seats and cut by broken glass. In both trains the passengers were badly frightened and unnerved, but be haved with remarkable coolness. The lights of both trains went out. The Broadway train went dark when the crash came, but several cool-headed men struck matches, held them up and called out for everybody to keep quiet as the danger was over. Several passengers broke, windows and climbed out; others jammed their way to the platforms, and then ran across the tracks to the opposite side of the tunnel. There wasi. however, nothing which could be described as a panic. , A; policeman sent in a call for re serves, and ambulances a ad turned m a fire alarm. The injured were soon on their way. to the nearest hospitals. eeK's FiglntiE Witlhioiiiit lestuilts A Reports From the Operations Near Mukden Are Indeffl- nite and Partly Conftic ing Both Sides Wearing Out London, March 8.--Neithr the offi cial nor unofficial dispatches available here make clear the actual position at Mukden, Nothing from General Kuro patkin has been issued later than his dispatch on Monday, in which he de tailed a series of incidents showing that the fighting had been severe, at many Pints- Field Marshal Oyama's dispatches are more indefinite than those of the Russian commander in chief. The chief interest islhj the dis- patch from Mukden reporting fightng north of that city, but there is nothing I to show whether the Japanese have Sot behnd the Russians or whether the sounds of nghtinrare due to the chun chuses taking advantage of the situa tion to harry the Russian lines of com munication. Some of the official dispatches sug gest that the battle, which has already lasted more than a week, will most probably end In a stalemate owing to the exhaustion of the opponents. I The Tokio correspondent of the Tele- I puuiiag a, ictiiuio ill c iiiiu (.lie icucai- j ing army. . Both Russian wings are now undoubtedly outflanked. The cor- : respondent sends more of the same kind of reports which are not sup ported from any other source. From the Russian Viewpoint Chicago, March 7. The Daily News tonight publishes a cablegram from its and shrapnel that greeted them. Both ! c,aa can,aa v. oHno. tv, wna that this was the decisive battle and both seemed determined to win at all hazards. "The Japanese position is perilous. Co nsul Sharp, is a ative Gudger May Exercise the Functions of Judge in Pan amaSettle and Others in Grooming for the . Western District Attorneyship BY THOMAS J. PENCE Washington, March 7. Special. The information was obtained at the state department today that Hunter Sharp of North Carolina, who was appoint ed consul at Kobo Japan, yesterday, entered the consular service in 1886 during Mr. Cleveland's administra tion and that his promotion is the result of the good record he has made. Mr. Sharp is a native of Hertford county. ' He took courses at Trinity college and the University of North Carolina. He first went to Japan as marshal of the United States consular court at Osaka and Hiogo. This was in 1886. In 1891 Mr. Sharp was made vice consul, and yesterday he was promoted to the consulship, a very de sirable berth;" No provisions having been made by congress for the government of the canal zone, Secretary Taft of the war department was confronted with the grave question as to whether he could , continue to administer the af fairs of the territory, and that ques tion he has decided in the affirmative. This action was necessary to prevent a state of anarchy, for such would have been the condition without any form of government and police pro tection. The failure of congress to pass the joint resolution continuing existing conditions on the isthmus makes void the appointment of H. A. Gudger of Asheville, N. C, as a judge in the zone, but the president under They seem to have thrown, away tho extreme caution they have hitherto ex hibited. Nogi has pushed Bis army al most to the Russian centre and is al most surrounded. It seems a though the Japanese must win the vlctoiy or be captured, Nogi's right wins struggled in vain to keep the railrpad bridge across the Hun river. Aft'r a day pp most desperate fightlnpr honcrs last night rested with the Russians." t . . ' Fiank Movement Continues Mukden, March 7. The Japanese are continuing their flank, movement. One division is known to be extended to wards Tieling. The sound of the fight ing can be heard from a far distance north of Mukden. Meantime the Japa nese do , not cease their attacks on the Russian front. The Russians still hold the centre, but to the southwest they are withdrawing to their, second posi tions. The Russians have been forced to fight, mainly on the defensive, for a full week, and their resistance is be ginning to fag. The ground is yel frozen deep and it is impossible t make fresh trenches. The country around Mukden is strewn with dead animals. . Hurried burials of soldiers are continual and increasing. West of Mukden, where three days ago there were only bare fields, there are the huge camps of the Russian right wing, which has been thrown back by the Japanese advance. The enemy attacked at two o'clock this morning the Russian position on the Hun river, moving from Machiapu. Later the fighting moved north almost to the Sinmintun road. Numbers of wounded Chinese refugees are arriving here and also many wounded Japanese and Russians. Air are given similar treatment. Today May Decide the Battle London, March 8. A dispatch to the Times from St Petersburg says it is officially declared that the Russian communications are unbroken, but there are persistent rumors that the Japanese have cut the telegraph wires north of Mukden. The general staff says that today or tomorrow must de cide the battle. There is the greatest confidence in General Kuropatkin's ability to Inflict a severe, if not a crushing, blow on General Oku, or at the worst to withdraw northward safely. According to General Masloff, the Japanese have vainly repeated their Liao Yang tactics. General Kuropatkin, this time refused to leave his positions at a mere menace of cutting .his com munications. General Oku, after eleven days' fighting, is now within a few miles of Mukden, but his army is as exhauted as it was at Liao . Yang in August. Another high official ccstHera the situation hopeless. He says that General Kuropatkin's only alternative to disaster now is to retreat to Tieling. If he could have launched his mass of cavalry against the exhausted force he must have won. but he wasted his cavalry in fruitless reconnoissances. The correspondent adds that the wai council met informally Tuesday. Its formal meeting was postponed until the battle is over. of Hertford. the ruling of the secretary of war, can continue him in the capacity of judge, though he will be in reality a police official. Mr. Gudger's friends are satisfied that he will get the judgeship as soon as some form of government is permanently establish ed in the canal zone by act of con gress. This will probably be in the fall. The appointment of Charles W. Anderson, a negro, as collector of in ternal revenue for the second district of New York, which was sent to the Senate this afternoon is causing no little comment, among northern Re publicans, who have rejoiced over similar appointments in the south. For instance, Senators Piatt and De-pew,- who were enthusiastically for Dr. Crum as collector at Charleston, have gone on record as opposing the nomination of Anderson, but announce that they will not fight confirmation. The appoint of Anderson, New York Republicans here say, will raise a howl among the Republican workers ot New York, who, however much they appreciate the support given the ticket by the black wing of the party, do not approve of $4,500 jobs being handed out to colored meru These Republi cans are getting powerful little com fort from Democrats, many of whom observe their discomfiture with rtal pleasure. The Hon. Thomas Settle Is a oanfii date for the district attorneyship 'in the western district. There are ethe Republicans grooming for this fight, which will not be without Its interest ing features. "Archie" Graham, vrha has been signed as a utility outf elder for the New York -Nationals, is said 'te-be a graduate of the University cf North Carolina. Strange of the earn team is also a University of North Caro lina player. Representatives Wohb, Small Thomas are the only raeaibws ot tha House from North CarotfK in tao city, and they expect to return home tomorrow. i , S. ' i V I .