MOVING UPON TIE PASS
Kuropatkin Reports Strong Japanese
Forces Advancing.
FLANKING MOVEMENT IS LIKELY.
On a Hondred Large Barges the Japs Are
Slowly Ascending Liao River Toward Tie
Pass— New Evident That Kuropatkin Will
Have to Fight Hard to Hold Evea That
Position—Japagese at Port Arthur.
Field Marshal
the positions of the Russian
Oyama reports that
Army in
the vicinity of Mukden are unchanged
According to Chinese reports the Jap-
inese have been compelled to evacuate
f.iaoyang because of its bad sanitary
condition, caused by the bodies of the
dead.
Russian Japanese movement
northward indicates an intention of
again trying to outflank the Russians
The’ Japanese are using 100 barges to
transport troops up the Liao River to
Tie Pass, intend to
Kuropatkin's at that
Kuropatkin in a re
and apparently
engage forces
fortified position
port to the Czar says stros
ments
a vad
vanced
ta:
JAPS MOVING UP TAITSE RIVER
Kuroki Off to the Eastward and Another Turn
ing Movement Looked For.
mon
mime
independ
nied the
south of L
that this f
“the fa
killed and w
ng, and that
at,
t
rt tha
advance
reported
’
continue
apanese are
How a Jail Prisoner Secured Salphur to Com-
mit Saicide.
Plains, N. ¥Y
Wilkenson,
White
John un
der indictment for burglary and at
tempting to shoot
died in the county jail here after drink-
ng a mixture of
tobacco with suicidal intent
(Special)
alias “Tracy,”
Detectiy ©
The sul
500 matches which he had saved
Wilkenson committed several rob
beries in Mount Vernon and vicinity,
ley he shot the officer while on the
way to the station-house. He escaped
and was hunted for several days, un
til, exhausted from hunger and ex-
posure, he sought refuge in a freight
car and was there captured.
Wilkenson is said to belong to a re
spectable family in Buffalo, N. Y., and
to have served in the United States
Army in the Philippines and in China.
————————— is ——
The General Forrest Memorial
Memphis, Tenn. (Special).—A per-
mit has been issued authorizing the
removal of the remaine of Gen. Na
than Bedford Forrest, the noted cay-
alryman, from Elmwood Cemetery to
a plot in Forrest Park set aside for a
heroic equestrian statue of the dead
soldfer, The statue will be put in
place in October, and the remains of
General Forrest and his wife will rest
Airectly underneath it,
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading,
Domestic,
Former Vice President Levi P. Motr-
ton and family reached New York
from Havre, They will go to Rhine
Cliffe, N. Y,, to attend the funeral of
Miss Lena Morton, whose body
rived from Paris several davs ago
The Burns faction of the Knights
of Labor filed a petition in the District
of Columbia Supreme Court asking
that John W. Hayes and others a:
sociated with him be adjudged in con
tempt of court
The of the Townsend
Downey Shipbuilding Company passed
authorizing Trustee
to appiy to the court for permission
to sell the property of the bankrupt
company,
All the Canadian
ers went on a ike. All the com
west line are affected. The
boilermakers expect the support of the
machinists
Two men,
ar
creditors
a resolution r1
| Pacific boilermak
str
believed to be
up the Rock Island express, were ar
rested between Brig and Way
land, Ia
The Ameri
clected Off
read
ublished t
mspiracy on the
ww Sores rese eed sa Pas . aw
WO apaniardas, natives of bar
. to assassinate President Roose
United pro
by
the
States,
the Pp
18
i a canard
Mexico
from Rio
that rain is
event it
“ther 5k
City of
Reports Grande
again
does not
more damage m overflow
of the Grande 18 bound to re
sult .
The Grand Jury returned an indict
perjury against Myron L
Barbour, one of the four persons ae-
of the murder of Miss Eliza
beth Gillespie last December.
John F. Wallace, chief engineer in
charge of the construction of the Pan-
ama Canal, left Panama for New York
to give out several important con
tracts,
A proposition has been made to es.
tablish a pneumatic-tube service be
tween Chicago and Milwaukee.
say
in the
or
and cease,
ess ir
of
cused
Foreign.
To protest against a conflict be
tween strikers and the police, in which
two strikers, a Sardinian and a Sicilian.
were killed, the Socialists have started
a gencral strike throughout Italy,
which began at Milan and threatens
to spread through the whole penin
sula,
According to the treaty between the
British and the Tibetans, prisoners,
some of whom had been in captivity
20 years, were released by the Tibe-
tans,
HELD UP BY BANDITS
Make a Successful Raid Near An jowa
Town.
Blown Up and the Contents Taken
Railroad Men.
Des
bandits perpetrated
Moines
, Iowa (Special).—Five
a successful hold
the (
and Pacific Rail
up of a
CARO, R
way ne
ir in
passenger
wk Island
ar Letts,
@in on
lowa, The state
rob
ugh the
ments of expressmen are that the
bers secured no mone thi
othcers assert that the
contained merchandise
company papers in transit, ¢t«
but no money
Three
«youl
* apllidl
h are po SCS
PHILIPPINES ARE PACIFIED.
Military Expert Believes the Forces There
Should Be Reduced.
t only {
Therefore, it
that
able mi
arrangements
re
able LOOM
made to bring home the troops in
i in
her regarded
cx
; %
Of the
(Generals { hatte C
'
tial to the situation
Cease fer
and Ww ade a8 rEsON-
Jewelry Thief Caught.
ind William J
Deevy, a detective of New York
department, arrested William
McKinzy, alias William J]. Valentine,
alias William Stewart, who is wanted
on a charge of having robbed New
York people of $120000 worth
jewelry. McKinzy acknowledge that
he was the futitive wanted. and told
what he had done with the jewelry
It had been sold, to said, in Albany,
New York, Chicago, and St. Louis,
Shot in a Railroad Depot.
Johnstown, Pa, (Special), Stephen
Fellows, a miner, shot his wife and 16-
year-old son Charles in the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Station at Barnesboro,
this county. The wife and son were
about to take the morning train for
New York, where they were going to
make their home with a sister of
Mrs. Fellows, on account of long:
standing family troubles, Mrs. Fel
lows will probably die. The boy has
a dangerous wound through the mouth.
Fellows was arrested.
Marien, (Special)
the
ALL CRAZY IN 700 YEARS.
Chicago Scientist Says People are Fast Grow:
: ing Mad.
Chicago (Special). Dr Jame
ynch explained his stat
all Civils
that zed men will
mn JOO years,
t
{
1
He mcerease
an as wage-¢;
In speaking
in the incre
cays
“The society woman ;
both live
exhaustion
woman
mistant
CENSUS OF COTTON GINNED.
Total of 390.414 Commercial Bales Prior to
Seplember.
THE PANAMA CAvAL.
American Machicery Will Decrease Cost of |
Construction. i
(Spe: RM
of the!
has been |
the |
He |
assist In
Ig engineer on
hief Engineer Wallace
Construction,
to
to supply
It
Panama Canal
is particularly charged
aqueduct
of Panama with water,
is proposed, in the interest of
of employes, to lay pipe
lines to supply fresh and pure water
to the great force of laborers at the
Culebra Cut and other camps along
the line of work Chief Engineer
Wallace has been making estimates
of the cost of the work he already has
done, with the result that he feels safe
in asserting that the cost of the canal
construction can be greatly reduced
below the French figures through the
employment of modern high grade
American machinery as a substitute
for manual labor,
—
an the |
ale
th
wil
the
FINANCIAL.
United States Steel's quarterly earn-
ings are now put at $18,000,000, a larg.
er figure than was thought of for.
merly.
Sixty-five railroads in July earned
net $25.123,301, a decrease of $1856
213. But gross earnings of forty
roads for August increased $1,583,346,
or about 3 per cent.
A bumper corn crop is what the
stock bulls predict, but the wheat bulls
say it will fall 300,000,000 bushels
short of the high record.
HIS TALE OF DEFEAI
Gen. Kuropatkin’s Account of Battle of
Liaoyang.
Themselves Throughout sod Did No
Leave a Single Field or Fortress Ou:
to the Japanese The Terrific Fight Abou!
Lisoyang.
St. Petersburg (By
Luropatkin’s official
iderable
A Desperate Battle
fices
vhietl swept a
¢ '
tata
from that seq
far. however
r
ported tise
rv
‘Aged Man Kills Child,
yt, to |
Chicago (Special) Io;
a crowd of and girls who
been annoying him Albert Marek, ar
Bohemian, leveled a small
at them and pulled the trigger. At th
of the rifle David Durham,
years old, fell with a bullet wound ir
} right temple, and he died earls
Wednesday. Marek barricaded him
self in his home until the arrival o
the police to escape the wrath
neighbors
Indictments Against Lynchers,
Huntsville, Ala. (Special). The spe
cial grand jury investigating the lynch
ing of Horace Maples, the negro whe
killed John Waldrop, has reported 1¢
bovs hat
rifle
it
his
0
of the mob. Arrests will
quickly.
Columbus, Miss. (Special).—Ip »
duel with shotguns about eight miles
from this city Rev. E. M. Young
hanse, aged 40 years, shot John Har
ris, aged 3B years, in the stomach
and the life of the latter is despaired
of. Rev. Younghanse received a
charge of shot in his side, but is not
seriously injured. The cause of the
shooting is not known, and the trag-
edy caused a sensation here. Rev
this city.
COMMERCIAL REVIEW,
R. G. Dun & Ty
view of Trade” sa
1 he
Past week
COTE
ing, milhin
appare]
107
kindred
hardwar
lines
mand,
Westers
:
keys
chit y
turkevs, 113001
PEAN
picked, 6G 1
CABBAGES
per 12
Ker
100, 1.84
Chicago CATTLE
steers, $4006.10; poor
3.50(@5.00; and
G35; cows, 1.35400
@ 4.50; 1.680225; bulls, 200
@400; calves, 3%0@6.25; Texas-fe
steers, 2.50@3.50; Western steers, 2.50
@4.00
HOGS-~Mixed and butchers, s.10
@s good to choice heavy, 5.20@
5.50; rough heavy, 460@cs00; light,
g.is8(@s5.6%; bulk of sales, 5.300548.
SHEEP--Sheep and lambs steady.
Good choice wethers, 1.5004.00}
fair to choice mixed, 3.000 3.40; Westy
ern sheep, 275(@4.00; native lambs,
400@s.ys; Western lamhs, 4006 35.75.
New York—BEEVES--Native steers
365@ 700; half-breeds, 3350 @ 400;
stockers, 3.20; bulls, 280@ 37%; cows,
1.25@3.28. Cables quoted live cattle
and sheep unchanged; refrigerator
beef lower, 0 cents per pound.
CALVES-—Veals, 15 to 25¢. lower;
Western calves, 20 to 318 cents lower,
Veals, s.00@5.171% grassers 365@3.75;
Western calves, soo@s.12';
SHEEP AND LAMBS Sheep and
lambs steady: medium common lambs
slow to asc. lower. Sheep, 2804.25;
choice, 4.50; culls, 2.50@300; lambs,
5.508 70.
a 00S—Good medium State hogs,
10.
Good to prime
to medium,
feeders. 2.00
heifers, 1.9%
gtockers
canners,
LL
io
WORLD OF LABOR
Rochester, N. Y., employs between
8,000 and 9,000 in the garment-making
industry.
There are 10,438,210 people engaged
$
States. i"
ga hbetship in the ade ions of
ermany has increased from A404
in 1804 A 887,608 in 1003.
The annual convention of the Do-
minion Trades and Labor Congress
will be held in Montreal, Canada, this
month.