Liaoyang (By Cable).—The seven
days’ gigantic conflict around Liao-
Kuropatkin's
Manchurian armies and the Mikado's
yang between General
three armies under Marshal Oyama,
in which the combined fighting
strength was nearly half a million men
several thousand guns, has cul-
minated in a decisive victory for the
and
Japanese.
Kuropatkin is in full re-
treat northward, after sustaining enor-
General
mous losses, including more than 15,-
000 men killed and wounded, the First
Siberian Army, numbering 25,000 men,
General Stakelberg,
off, and his strong-
position
commanded by
surrounded and cu
ly fortified
stores and guns abandoned
valuable
Jefore
wit!
Russians
fire
evacuating Liaoyang the
up the
to the bui
blew magazines and set
ldings containing the
Lat
army
stores and provisions, er the Jap-
nese entered the city
The
miles
Russian armies are now about
north of Liaoyang, but it
doubtful Kure will
' 1 vinfarced
until rentorced.
20
is whether patkin
make another stand
He will probably continue on to Muk-
den.
General Kuropatkin blames the dis-
aster to the First Siberian Corps
der General Stakelberg for ]
obey his orders and cro
River
decided the whole
to the
The
about
»
when the
northern side
Japanese losses
Liaoyang ted at
O00
The
dishearteni
men
reir
fison, which
relief from
Japanese
are rted
ropatkin © have
from the
they were Saturday
rep
eXiri
rer los
yes
sso
were
ese official
Czar's forces did n
premature
repor®
out a desperate struggle
According to Genera
report of Saturday evening
part of his army. inch
berg's co i$ MOVIng
tion of T
Liaovang to cover the
the river Saturday and oc
right bank Kurog
reached Tiehling north of Yentai
eighteen miles south of Mukden
as asked the Czar to
Sixth Army Corps to
Orloff's det;
was guarding the Russian
Yentai, suffered enormous
regiment losing 1.300 men
tle Thursday before
3,200 Russians fell.
TOTAL LOSSES GIVEN AS 55.000.
er
roe
ukden te
retrea
unied
* $
satin 1aet nioht
pat¥n ia nignt
General
Int
he bat
last
Japs Estimate Their Share at 25.000. Fiere
Battie Continues.
Cable) A
of the progress
Tokio (By
tional details
few
battle of Liaoyang reached
a late hour Saturday
to press
miles northeast of liaoyang, seeking
grou whence their guns will domi-
nate the railroad.
The troops under General
are jaded and weary. They have been
marching and fighting since August
23, but in spite of this they attacked
with spirit,
The Japanese are confident that they
have already swept back the strong
Russian force with which they have
been engaged, and it is probable that
when the details are known it will
be found that a great tragedy was en.
acted along the Taitse river.
The Taitse is flooded and cannot be
forded. General Oku, in command of
the Japanese left army, has directed
his energies to forcing the Russians
to the river, and it is probable thay
many were drowned there,
Vik
A private dispatch received here re-
ports that great fires are raging at
Liaoyang. This statement is nat con-
firmed officially.
The fires are believed to result from
the Japanese shelling or from the ef
forts of the Russians to destroy their
stores preparatory to the evacuation
of Liaoyang, with the additional hope
of injuring the city as a future Japan-
ese base
Unofficial estimates place the
sian forces in the vicinity
vang at 15 divisions of 15.000
each, or 225,000 men.
ably excessive, but it is evident that
numerically the Russians exceed the
Japanese
The opinion that the Russian casual
Rus
men
30,000 is confidently expressed in high
quarters here. Neither Field Marshal
Oyama nor the Japanese army com
sian losses
It seems that the Japanese avoided
a direct assault upon Liaoyang itself
but devoted their energies to the
off the Russian retreat
yang strongly fortified, and it
probable that the Japanese will n
attack the city directly until they have
succeeded in isolating it
Should the Russians abandon Liao-
vang the Japanese will, of c«
ter
The fate of the great bulk of the re
treating Russian army hinges
cut
to
is 18
i"
flank.
Lisoyang dnd Its Fortifications.
Liaoyvang General
| ven
as f
The
t
In aband
Kuropatkin
ig
certain
on,
y Ri
up a
far 7
£0
Indians Micers a
$a fast
nd Operators.
New Mint Opened.
Denver. Col. (Special)
States
salute
by
the
George E
mint
til wis
itil July
of
begin coinage us
no appropriation
fIgress as
of coinage
has
Child Accuses Stepiather,
Mahony City, Pa
ranony { Special)
that An
ad killed
Reading railway
tt-vear-old Katie
came forward a statement
he was murdered and his
of th
mplicates her stepfather, Joseph
klewicz, and A
men have been placed under arrest
i
3
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HONY oeen
(cerlaitis hb
Gerlaitis | by
’
pas
senger tran
with
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John Acepawich
Bank Officer Gone Wrong.
Watertown, Mass. (Special).--Na
A. Frye. for eight years treas
urer of the Watertown Savings Rank
was arrested here charged with em-
blezzling $12,000 from the inetitution
According to the bank officials, Frye
has made a written confession admit.
ting the larceny.
Explosion ln Powder Works
Punxsutawney, Pa. (Special)
Eight hundred kegs of powder ex.
ploded in the pressroom of the Laflin
& Rand Powder Works, two miles
east of here, instantly killing one
man, seriously injuring three others
and causing costly destruction of prop.
erty.
than
FINANCIAL.
Low priced railroad stocks are still
the favorites for bull purposes,
United States Steel preferred was
tipped yesterday for a good advance
and it had it.
New York banks have lost this week
by the principal movements of mon-
ey $4,872,000.
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash.
ington bonds that were put out by
Sailer & Stevenson at 104% are now
109% bid.
First Alaskan Cablegram.,
Dallas, Tex. (Special).—Col. W. G
Horslay, of Greenville, Tex, received
the first cablegram ever sent over the
new Aslaska submarine cable which
has been laid from Seattle, Washing-
ton, to Haines, Alaska. Colonel Hors.
fay’'s son Herbert, a sergeant in the
United States Sighal Corps, who has
had charge of the construction of the
cable, after sending greetings, an.
nounced that he would visit his Texas
bome in November.
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Resting,
Domestic,
President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, has refused to
call a meeting of the National Execu
tive Council to recommend
sympathetic action of unionists in sup-
port of packing-house strike.
The Northern Securities Company
filed in Trenton, N. J, an answer to
the suit of the Harrimans to restrain
the company from carrying out its
proposed plan of distribution of its
Assets,
formed
other
cided that operators who a
in wheat, oats!
modities cannot enforce
against th caught in
Judge Joseph Sheldon,
h
h
corner r
the squeeze.
of
t date of the People's Party for gov-
ernor of Connecticut by the state exec.
utive committee
win were he he enr-
d
oner’s jury for
esponsible by t
. Police C
328,120
vew York police
ork
er has asked for
| support of the N
{in 100%
The
pany,
{ 3
i n
nson-Dunbar Mills
rth Adams, Mass,
cOtion goods,
To
y .
of No
| facturers of
an assignment
A Wabash train
an ran
a Crossing
St 1
inte
uis, kilh
-
nKg 7
14-
in
and injuris several
ig 45
‘111 Bruner and J:
| farmers, were k
I
somer
N. Trahan,
Meche, ;
und int
agreement |
wer +} i
tween the Coal
ne
rkers
th
minew
Fire
at 3
vuemps
disappearance of
r of { L.itera-
unard Mne steamer
i is a
urrent
mys
1
Department,
notified
Rosa Stern, d
the Was gion rabbi
t to take her life by
and w Fist 3
(x. Simo
Lewis
Stern, made an
ittemp
“i
Dr
Marshal B. Hammond shot
led Bud Tucker and
nded Jim Tucker in a street duel
lorale, Ala.
wage Edgar
was appointed
York Court «
ceed Judge Parker
gers
h
Appeals, to suc
Vii,
¢
¢
"
son, indicted New York for the
murder of Caesar Young, was fixed as
$20,000
The United States army transport
Thomas sailed from San Francisco,
Carrying 300 army recruits to the Phil.
ippines :
in
Foreign
The Uruguayan War Minister, com-
manding the government troops, re
ports having won a Jecisive victory
over General Saraiva, the leader of
the Uruguayan insurgents.
The German Crown Prince Freder-
ick William 18 reported to be engaged
to the Duchess Cecelia, sister of the
reigning Grand Duke of Mecklenburg:
Schwerin,
The French census shows an ine
crease of 444.613 in population in 10
years, a smaller percentage than in
any other European country,
George T. Watson and William Fife,
Jr, have decided positively that they
will not design another cup challenger.
Li Hing Jouei, viceroy of Foochow,
and Wei Kovang Tao, vicerar of Nan-
king, will exchange posts,
W PERISH IN A FIRE
The Victims Were Mostly Women and
Children,
The Male Occupants Were on the Roof sand
WEATHER RETARDS CROPS,
Heavy Ralos in the South Conditions in the |
Corn Beit, |
Washington, D. C. (Special).—The |
weather Bureau's weekly summary of
crop conditions is as follows: i
weather has pre-
Although cool
i
fi
Repairing Being iu Progress in the Lower
Part of the House.
New York (Special).—Fourteen pér-
ns were killed and nearly a score
ijured in fire in a five-story double
Attorney
the
4 -
gtrect at an
mg. It
fires in the lo
tenement
in
our in
maorn
the worst
that has occurred
’
several
ycars,
was slight,
led and
"
fact that most
the building,
Stree! custom
tin in
Japar
at
purpose
hoon
absurd
the war
All
(area
yas clearly
wernments
and
im
the Rg
Britain
time agreed
£,
up
ate when both
When that time
noth
i"
w
b €
iC
-
srr rent § pd
gerentis ges ea 11
naturally
- s 5
to preciude
there Was
ther neutral governments
from pdrticip
patting
ing
Six Perish in a Fire,
low Creek, Ohio (Special) Six |
fis were burned to death and sev
terribly injured by a fire and gas
place. The house
“ling was Mnited by a!
intense heat
well near the
oyed the der
tO a tank
lefore the
zed their |
ION occurred
thrown all over |
escape was cut |
The bodies were recovered after
occupants of the
flanger a ter
The blazing oil wa
the house and their
Blown Up By Mive
Tokio (By Cable). Admiral Hoso-
ya, commanding the third Japaneso
squadron, reports that last Wednes
day morning a number of vessels
weighed from Port Arthur and en.
gaged in clearing away mines. The
Japanese watched their operations sea.
ward, At 2:25 P.M. a steamer struck
a mine and was blown up. The disas-
ter occurred one mile below Cheng.
tungshan, and it was plainly visible,
The number of lives lost is unknown
Five Dead and Many lojured.
Finlay, ©. (Special).—~Five are]
dead and an equal number seriously
injured as the result of a premature
explosion of a quantity of nitroglycer.
in near Upper Sandusky. The acci
dent occurred while McKay, an oil
well shooter, was engaged in lowering
the notroglycerin. At the time his
assistants, Lookabaughs and Fox,
together with the others, were grouped
about the well, The cause of the ex:
plocion is wnknown,
crops, as a whole, has experienced de-
Much of that
in the previous
and ling
1
1g
cided improvements.
prostrated by
WEEK in
straightening
ley the
favorable
Crop
h
winds
Indiana ie 18
In {4
temperature hb
, and the
toward
more rapid
Mississ.pp
corn
8
vai
ne
Alissoun
as been more
aagvancement o1
been
maturity ha
than in th
as
Vilssour:
ng
winch
Disap
reported
i Iregon
Biew
v v
Up His Owns Min,
Another Boxer Ourbresk.
Shangha By Cable)
is reported fro
uthwestern part
21% miles from
American
and
evacuate
Over 20
cluding
buen obliged
NR massacre
-
part of the Boxers, who cal
Miissinnar:
women children, have
Tamglu
Lia iN
a mtended
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS,
American ordnang
an opp riunmty 1
UsSian warships to
f the Carnegie and
plates
inister Bowen reported to the
Department that Venezuela is
. Off more speedily
he was expected to do
Brigadier Carr reported a
marked improvement in the discipline
of the troops of ‘the Department of
sisal pr oy ‘
Juggments
General
Quartermaster General Humphrey
mes
quartermaster of the Philippine Di-|
vision i
Plans are being arranged at the
Navy Department for a reorganization
of the battleship squadron
Labor Commissioner Carroll D
Wright will resign at the end of the |
year.
United States Minister Barret has
made a special report warning in.
tended comers that there is no boom
in business on the Ithmus of Panama
In his annual report General Mac.
Arthur complains that soldiers return
ing from the Philippines are robbed
and beaten up in San Francisco
Officials of the Agriculture Depart
ment denied that there was a leak in
the promulgation of the government
cotton report.
The report to the Board of Visitors
to the Naval Academy recommends
the restoration of the four-year course
Brigadier Generals Carter, of the
Philippine Army, and Lee, of the De.
partment of Texas, say that the anti.
canteen law has been a failure
Several changes in the faculty of
the Georgetown University are an.
nounced. :
NINE PEOPLE KILLED
A Head-On Collision on the Grand Trusk
Railroad.
CONDUCTOR OF TRAIN DISAPPEARS,
Disobedience of Orders Couses a frightial
Catastrophe in Canada-—In Addition to the
Nise Dead, Twenty-three Sustained Severe
Iojuries— One of the Tralus Contsined 8
Thousand Excursionists,
betw Cer
nireal
maxes
why Conc
the exc
make the
10 EXTEND TEE STRIKE.
Important Mcv. By the Chicago Meat Workers
Doancily’s Plans.
f ihe « ntry
Will Go Out.
anect nn a
15.000 Men
of § w
the:
We
ng the sto
the yards
blocks away
Strike-breakers
leave the yards
181s against them
GHeCsLay
sed
several
They were greeted by cheers by the
umion pickets
Hope to Create Meat Famine.
The manager of the Union Stock
take the places of deserting weighers,
and that so of such men are available
at once He said that further
trouble was expected in handling the
stock
The packers say it is Donneliy’s
aim to create a meat famine, which
he thinks would arouse the public to
such a pitch of indignation that a set-
tiement would be force
40%
a
End of Career of Dr. Herrsa
New York (Special) Dr. Thomas
Herran, who represented Colombia at
Washingtbn for several years, up to
the time of the Panama incident, died
at Liberty, N. Y. He had been Mt
for sometime, and went to Liberty in
the hope that a sojourn there wonld
aid in the restoration of his health
Dr. WMerran was educated in the
United States and devoted his life
largely to his country’s foreign serve
we. .