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mtJkralii ] price one dollar peb tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.' single copies five cents. VOL. 23. SMITH FIELD, X. C.. FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1904. NO. 9. JAPAN WINS BIG BATTLE. General Kuroki Whips Rus sians at Yalu River. The Old Bear Retreats With Loss of Over 800 Men and Many Guns?Japanese Loss 700 ? Killed and Wounded. Tokyo, May 1.? Afterfive days of fighting, largely with artillery, the first Japanese array, under General Kuroki, has forced a crossing of the Yalu River, and today, with a gallant infantry charge, covering a frontage of four miles, it drove the Russians from Chiutieucheug and the heights on the righr bank of the Iho or Aida River, which enters the Yalu from the north almost opposite VViju. The Japanese turned the left flank of the Russian position, and in the battle of today they swept away the new front inter posed by the Rusbiaus to check their onward movement, k The present position of the VJapanese is a dominating one, ?and they may force the abandon ment of the defenses erected by the Russians at Autung and and other points lower down the river. LOSSES, 700 JAPANESE, 800 RUSSIANS. rm. T . . . i? . ... . ? a. .. .1 b. me .1 apauese iiisM's in Louu,y b battle were about 700 killed and wounded. Tbe Russians lost over 800 men. The Japanese captured 28 quick-tire nuns, 20 officers and many men. The Russians made two stands. Their force engaged was about 30,000 men. General Kuroki began the movement on Tuesday by order ing a detachment of the Imperial Guards division to seize the islaud of kurito, which is in the Yalu above Wiju, and a detach ment of the second divisiou to seize the lsluud of Kinteito which , is situated below Wiju. The de tachment of the Imperial Guard met with some resistance, but it succeeded in clearing the enemy out and occupied Kurito island. The Russians abandoned the island of Kinteito when attacked by the detachment of the secon 1 division. Over 3.000 Dead in Battle. St. Petersburg, May 3.?In a report received by the Emperor from General Kuropatkiu, under today's date, it is stated that at least trom 3,000 to 4,000 men were killed' in the Yalu River tight. After haying defeated General Zassalitch on Sunday, at the Yalu. General kuroKi, with the Japanese army, pursued the Russiaus on Monday between Antung and Fengwungcheng, re sulting in the loss of 300 men on the Japanese side and the sur render of two batteries of Rus sian artillery, alter the Russians had sustained heavy losses. Three hundred and thirty Rus sians were made prisoners. General Zassalitch has fallen back to the walled town of Feng wangchen, where, it is said, there are 50,000 Russians. The .Jap anese army advancing on Feng wangcheiig is believed to consist of NO,000 men, and it is much stronger in artillery than the Russian force. The Japanese fleet under Vice Admiral Togo made an attempt early this morning to block the harbor at l'ort Arthur by send ing in fire ships. Viceroy Alexieff reports that the attack was suc cessfully repelled, eight tire ships being sunk, and that he is in formed that two Japanese tor pedo boats also were sunk by the Russian fire. His report does not state definitely whether the harbor is still open. Alexieff, as Viceroy, has hith erto always sent his reports to the Czar. Today his report was addressed to the Grand Duke Alexis, High Admiral of the Fleet. This indicates that he is report ling simply as Admiral in com 1 mand of the fleet at Port Ar thur. The commissioners of Hender son county have decided to built a 140,000 court house. More About Yalu Battle Toko, May 3 ?A supplemental report from General Kuroki, dated to-day, says: "Yesterday the enemy offered a stuborn resistance against our casualties. The enemy stood with resolution until their artil i lery, consisting of two batteries, I lost the majority of its men and horses. They then broke the breeches and closing apparatus of their guns and hoisted the1 white flag. "According to a captured Russian officer, Major General Kushtaliusky, commander of the Third East Siberian Rifle Brigade; the colonels of the Eleventh aud Twelftn Rifle Regiments, and the commander of the RiHe Artillery Battalion were killed in the | lighting at Hamatan. "It seems that the enemy was entirely routed by our attack, , because since yesterday many have come in and surrendered. Our prisoners include 30 officers, 20|of whi m are wounded, and 300 men, 100 of whom are wounded. "A preliminary report from the chief surgeon of the First Japa nese army shows that we had 70S men killed and wounded. These caualties are divided as follows: The Imperial Guards, 102; Second Division, 350; Third I Division, 210." Losses Over Two Thousand. St . Petersburg, May 5.?(3:47 I a. iu )?The Russiaulosses at the: battle of Kiu Tien Cheng werej 2,000 men and forty officers? far greater than previous reports indicated. This is the official estimate of1 Major General Kashaliusky, who directly commanded the division that suffered the brunt of the at , tack and whose report was re j eeived yesterday by the Emperor Many are inclined to place the Russian losses even higher. Gen eral Kashaliusky mentions also | that more than 700 wounded j had arrived at Feng Wang Cheng and these may not be in cluded in his report. He made! no attempt to estimate the' Japanese losses, merely statiug I that they must have been colos sal The magnitude of the Rus ; sian losses had an almost stun ning effect on the authorities and aroused general grief, mitigated ! only by satisfaction at the bra very displayed by the Russian troops. Not for a moment was there any intention to pay such a ter rible price for delaying the enemy's crossing the Yalu. Many Bills Introduced?Few Passed. The total number of bills in troduced in the House during the session just ended was 15, ."*>76 and in the Senate 5,687. Most of these were of a private nature, involving appropriations ' for claims or pensions. The total number of private laws approved by the President up to noon today was 1,441, the total number of public laws ....-J ??.!. . <...*..1 i loi, aiui uie tuiai nuuiuei ui resolutions which have become law 27. The aggregate number of bills was not above the aver age of a long session, but the number of private bills passed was far in excess of those gener ally enacted during a similar term. The total number of re ports on bills in the House alone was 2,943, or nearly double the usual number. The amount of public business transacted was far below the average ?Wash ington Dispatch, April 28. Quick Arrest. J. A. (lulledge of Verbena, Ala was twice in tne hospital from a severe case of piles causing 2d tumors. After doctors and all remedies tailed, Itucklen's Arnica Salve quickly arrested further inflammation and cured him. It conquers aches and kills pain. ?25c. at Hood Bros., Druggists. The State has chartered the International Railway Signal Company of Winston, with a caniial of $250,000, to equip railways with a new signal sys tern. PRAISE OF JUDGE PARKER John Sharp Williams the Minority Leader Points to Candidate And Issues. Representative John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, the Democratic leader of the House, believes that the nomination of Judge Parker at the St. Louis convention is assured He thinks that, with the adoption of a platform combining: nothing; but live issues, the Democrats can win next lull with Parker at the head of the ticket. ?'It seems clear to me now", said Mr. Williams, "that Judge Parker will be nominated bv such an overwhelming vote that there will lie substantially no opposition when the time for the convention arrives. "Individually I favor his se lectiou. 1 favor him because he comes from the rigrht section and the right State. lie is the logical candidate, geographically and politically. I favor him because1 he seems to be an eminently conservative, careful, and healthy minded man. I favor him be cause, although he ,u",s differed with a majority of 'tne , ,,rty upon some great questions, notably one great question, he was still a Democrat, in spite of his difference, and thought Demo cracy, even with one or two planks wrong, infinitely better to the country than Republicanism. 1 think Parker is a fundamental Democrat?an anti-Federalist by ! nature. He is a Democrat by temperament, as well as by study and association. That goes very far with me. PARKER ALWAYS HEOCLAR. "I have heard it questioned that he is a regular and orthodox Democrat; it being asserted that he failed to support the Demo cratic ticket of 189U and 1900. I know that he has been regular at all times. I know it from a letter that he wrote during the campaign rtcently and I know it: from his own personal assurauces of the fact in a talk 1 had with him. > "I believe that if the Democracy J can win at all it can win with Parker.And moreover, I believe that with a good, brave tight, with a sound and unequivocal platform asserting Democratic policies in connection with real and living issues and ignoring dead issues, the Democracy stands a better chance of witi ning than it has etood since Cleveland was elected in 1892. It ought to win, and it ought to win because Democrats are now together. We may not be united upon everything that has oc curred or every political issue, but about the things that are now issues having become such by ap plication of fundamental Demo cratic doctrine to present actions and conditions, we are unit ed.''?Washington Post. Another Wreck on the Coast Line. Train fast West India limited mail, and the second section of train 208, north-bound vegetable freight, both ou the Atlantic Coast Line, had a head ou collision at 4:45 o'clock this morning, a mile of Scranton, Williamsburg county. The im pact was so great that the big locomotives, as they went to gether, 'reared up' and turned crosswise of the track. The mail car was broken in half. Persons on the passenger train were not hurt. One of the engineers and his fireman and a mail clerk were slightly hurt. Engineer McMillan, of the freight, places the cause of the wreck on the tact that his watch had lost time, and he was twenty minutes slow. Fie had reached Scranton, where he should have sidetracked for the fast mail, he running a north bound freight, but thought that he had time to make the siding at Cowards, and pulled on for that point. A mile from Scranton he struck the fast mail going south, The night was foggy, and Engineer Mc Millan was not certain whether the lijfht he saw ahead was a bead light or not until the two trains struck. Nobody was seriously hurt; both Engineer Mills, of the fast mail, and McMillan,of thefreight, put on emergency brakes, and that broke the force of the blow very materially. Both engineers and firemen jumped and are I bruised from their fall Thej narrowest escape of all was that of the mail clerk, who was in the corner of t.ie mail car that was smashed. When the engines struck they turned both together towards the pine woods and a car followed them The end of the mail car, which was next the eugine and the first box car of the freight were smashed. The mail clerk was R B. Tharin, of Washington. Heand his weigher, ?I. K. Thomas, of Washington, were bruised, but both could walk when they returned here. They were sent on by way of Sumter with the tram.?Florence (S. C.) Times BOth. Receivership Again Asked For. A second proceeding looking to the appointment of a receiver for the Atlantic & North Caro lina Railroad Company, was bp gun before Judge Purnell in the United States Court here yester day, the complainant i.i the new proceeding being John P. Cuyler, of New Jersey. On complaint of Mr. Cuyler Judge Purueil issued an order for the defendant rail- j road company to show cause May 21st why a receiver should not be appointed to take charge nlr oft'iirij nf tha onmnunr V/I (IH, U 11 I 11 1 O V/l IUU UV/llJ | MV1JJ ? Counsel by whom the com plaint was prepared and tiled were Fleming & Fleming, of New York, and Capt. \Y. H. Day and Col. Thos. Argo, of Raleigh.? Raleigh Post, 3rd. Heavy Fighting in Balkans. Constantinople. May 1.?Ac cording to official advices there has been serious fighting in the Sassuu district of Asia Minor between the troops and 2000 Armenian insurgents. The troops lost 20 killed aud 23 wounded. Twelve villages ia the I'alori district have been destroyed, but whether by insurgents or Kurds is not known. There are 10,000 troops in the disturbed area. Private advices say Kurds at tacked two villages north of j Sassun, losing 20 killed. Mr. Bryan's Inconsistency. Tnere is no consistency in Bryan's present opposition to .1 udge Parker aud iiis desire to have him on the ticket with him in 1000. at which time he said the .1 udge was eminently fit to be President. In 1900 Bryan was sure of the first place. He did not care who had the second place, provided it were some one who would help him to carry the election, and Judge Parker would have made the Bryan ticket a little, less objectionable in the East. Now Mr. Bryan has no chance of getting the first place, and he is determined that no one who can be elected shall get it if he can prevent it. Bryan's status as the hoodoo of the Democratic party is pretty secure. If some one else should now lead it to victory that place would be abso lutely safe. Besides, Mr. Cleve land has expressed his high re gard for Judge Parker, and Mr. Bryan's antagonism to the Judge has developed rapidly since that incident.?Philadelphia Record. A Sure Thing:. It is said that nothing is sure except death and taxes, but that is not altogether true. Dr. King's New Discovery for Con sumption is a sure cure for all lung and throat troubles. Thous ands can testify to that. Mrs. C. B. YanMetre ofShepherdtown, W. Va , says "I had a severe case of Bronchitis and for a year tried everything I heard of, but got no relief. One bottle of Dr. King's j New Discovery then cured me absolutely." It's infallible for Croup, W hooping Cough, Grip, Pneumonia and Consumption. Try it. It's guaranteed by Hood Bros., Druggists. Trial bottle free. Reg. sizes 50c, fl.00. STATE NEWS NOTES. Short Items of Interest Clip ped and Culled From Our Exchanges. The State has chartered the Greensboro Heal Estate and Loan Company, with a capital $100,000. The State has granted a char ter to the Eastern Land, 1.um ber and Manufacturing Company, of Wheaton, Heaufort county, with an authorized capital of $100,000. The comptroller of the treas ury has authorized the First National Hank of Sanford, N. C., to remove to Lillington, Harnett county, under the title of the National Hank of Lillington. The State has chartered the Laxo Drug and Chemical Com pany of Durham, with a capitul of .*275,000; also the Planters' Cotton Seed Oil Company, of Rocky Mount, capital $50,000. The State has chartered the Lawing Bobbins Company of Charlotte, with a capital of #10, 000; also the Gastonia Furniture Company, capital $50,000; also the Buffalo Lumber Mills Com pany of Elizabeth Citv, capital $25,000. w. H. luch, about 2.> years old, a Orakemau on tbe South ern, with a ruu between Danville and Spencer, was caught between two cars at Spencer last week and instantly killed. His home was at Danville, where he had a wife and two children. The case of the Corporation Commission against the Atlan tic Cost Line lh Wake Superior Court ended last Saturday, the jury sustaining the Corporation Commission. The Commission ordered the Coast LKie to run a train from Rocky Mount to Sel 111a to connect with the South ern's tram due at Selma at 2:25 P. M. The Coast Line appealed to the Superior Court. The Judge has not yet rendered his decis ion. A summary of national banks organized since March 14, 1900, up to the preseut time was issued last week by the comptroller of currency. During the period fifteen national banks have been organized in North Carolina with a capital stock of $485,000; only two were organized with capital stock exceeding $50,000, while the thirteen with hss than that amount had a total capital stock of $335,000. At the Federal Court at New Berne last Week 11. C. Hodges and A. J. Clark, postmaster and j assistant oostm ister, respect-j fully, at Mineola, Beaufort Coun ty, were convicted of engaging in a scheme to deceive people through the mails in regard to counterfeit money. The victims of the fraud were found in New York, Texas and other States. Hbdges was sentenced to 18 months and Clark to 12 months in the penitentiary, and the pun ishment was light enough. f Durham, .V C., May 2.? ?>uit has been instituted by J. W. Coble against Dr. N. M. Johnson, county health officer, J. W. Allen, chairman of the board of county commissioners, and the board of commissioners for $5, 000. Coble was sent to the pest, house by Dr. Johnson. He re mained there with small pox patients but came away without breaking out with the disease. A few days later he broke out with the eruption and was again sent to the pest house. He claims that he contracted the disease by being forced to stay with pa tients, and wants damages from the county. Plade Young: Asrain. "One of Dr. King's New Life i Dills each night for two weeks has put me in my "teens' again" writes D. H. Turner of Dempsey town, Da. They're the best in the world for Liver, Stomach 1 and Bowels. Durely vegetable, j Never gripe. Only 25c at Hood Bros. Drug Store. Nyal's Liver Regulator at Hood's JAPANESE DIE FIGHTING. Report From Tokyo on Sinking of Transport by Russians. The Japanese Legation at Washington Friday received the following official report from Tokyo on the winking of the transport Kinshiu Maru: "Tokyo, April 29.?As Ninth Company, Eighty-seventh In fantry Regiment (peace strength about 150), were returning to Gensan in transport Kinshiu Maru, registered tonnage,2,1589, after reconnoitering Yiwou and neighborhood of Hangvoiigdo, they were stopped at ll:10p. m., April 25, off Sinpo, by three Russian cruisers and torpedo boats. The Russians then ap proached her. Her ship's cap tain, accompanied bv the super intending naval officer and two other officers, went aboard the Russia, where they were detained. The enemy gave an hour's res pite for surrender, but soldiers in strict discipline obeyiug offic ers' order refused. At 1:550 a. m., the enemy discharged a tor pedo, whereupon our soldiers, forming themselves into lines on deck, exchanged fires with the enemy, during which many of our officers and men perished. At about 2 p. m , another tor pedo was discharged, and, hit ting the engine-room, split the transport in two. Some coolies and merchants bad previously taken to boats, and were subse quently joined by some soldiers after the explosion. The boats were then rowed westward. au<J-- ' after indescribable sufferings, the men reached Siupo on the 27th. There were forty-fr'a petty officers \ and privates, six coolies, en)jAJ three merchants. Most of ctew and coolies appear to have been taken by the enemy. All mili tary except the abo' e mentioned survivors believed to have died. Of the company lost there were two captains, two first and one second lieutenants, one ensign, seventy-three privates, and two interpreters. Of the surviving soldiers, ten are sliirhtly and one seriously wounded." Walter Fuller for Sheriff. Smithtield, N. (J., May 2, 1904. Editor Smithfield Herald: 1 will write a snort piece for your paper, it it does not find its way to the scrap basket, as 1 have heard a goo deal of talk ? about the office of Sheriff of old Johnston, We have as good as any county can boast oi, but 1 hear he is out of the race. If so 1 think ti e county could do no better than nominate W. L. Fuller their eaudidate for that office. The best test of a man's real worth is the estimate in which the people among whom fie lives holds him. Measured by this standard, W. L. Fuller our candidate for the nomina tion for Sheriff is all O. R. We have lived in Smithtield for six years and in the county for thirty years, and it is safe to say that no man has been reared among us that has more en dorsed himself to the people of .lohTiMtnii pnnnfv tlukii \V I. Fuller. He is recognized by all aw being a gentleman in every sense of the word. He is a tine business man, his sympathies and efforts are always with the oppressed, he abhors injustice and is opposed to those who seek to use the government to enrich the few at the expense of the people. His popularity among the masses of the people of Johnston county is deserved and if elected Sheriff no county can boast of a truer and better Sheriff. A. B. Sasskii. ?Mr. Wiley H. Whitley, a highly esteemed citizen of Wilders township, died of heart trouble last Saturday. He had been complaining for a week or more but had been in care of the doctor for only three or four days. He was nearly seventy nine years old. He was buried Sunday at the Woodard grave yard. Many will regret to hear of his death. 10 K Stoves, Smithfleld Hdw. Co
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