NAVAL BATTLE REPORTED Correspondent Sends News of Another Engagement. JAPANESE ADVANCE CHECKED. Forced to Retreat at Yin Kow Before Fire of Russian Artiliery— Commander Wounded. The Shanghai correspondent of the | London “Morning Post,” cabling under | date of July 15, says: “A naval en-| gagement took place to-day off Port | Arthur.” The correspcndent adds that the | Chicago “Daily News” dispatch boat | Fawan has been seized by the Rus- | sians and towed into Port Arthur. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says the war office announces the receipt! of a dispatch from Port Arthur con- firming. the report that the Japanese sustained considerable losses cn July | 11, the exact particulars of which have | not yet been ascertained. According | to the dispatch, the Russians recap-| tured all the positions lately taken by | the Japanese. The Tokio correspondent of the Lon- | don “Times” says that the St. Peters-| burg story of a Japanese repulse with heavy casualties at Post Arthur July | 10 is wholly discredited in Tokio, where no such repd:ts have been re- ceived. It is believed that the story originated in Shanghai. i General Samsonoff seriously check- | ed the Japanese advance in ne direc- | tion of Yin Kow July 11. His Cos- | sacks ambushed the Japanese column | and put 1,000 out of action. The Ja- panese attempted to advance to Yin Kow along the coast, but they were hindered by the marshy country, which also increased their difficulties in car- rying off their dead and wounded dur- ing the retreat. The Russians had expected a movement in this direc- tion and a company of cavalry with two guns lay in ambush in the high | grass, catching the Japanese in the most difficult part of the coast road and shattering their advance column. | | | The artillery fire of the Russians was | splendid, and the Japanese were una- ble to make an effective reply. were forced to retreat. losses were six killed and seven wound- ed. $79,000,000 INVOLVED. Judge Grants Injunction in Northern Securities Case. | At Trenton, N. J., Judge Bradfcrd granted preliminary injunction in the suit brought by Edward H. Harriman, Winslow S. Pierce and others, to re-| strain the propecsed pro-rata distribu- tion of the assets of the Northern Se- | This is a defeat] curities Company. for the Hill interests. The litigation turned largely on the | question as to the title cf the North-| ern Pacific stock which E. H. Harri- | man and Winslow S. Pierce put into the combination, and which amounted to | The contention of | the Northern Securities Company was | that the stock had become the absolute | property of the company, and that it] about $79,000,000. was perfectly legal for the Northern Securities Company to carry out the pro-rata plan of which the company had agreed. Harriman contended that by reason | of the corporation being declared ille- gal by the United States Court, title had not passed from Har- riftdan and Pierce, and in consequence they were entitled to have returned to them the particular stock they had put into the combination, and which ii- volved contrel of the Northern Pacific Company.. MAD MULLAH NEAR BERBERA. . Reported to be Within Fifty Miles of Capital of Somaliland. The Mad Mullah is reported to be 50 miles from Berbera, the capital of So- maliland. A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from its Aden correspondent, dated July 6, said that the Mullah’s forces had attacked the Somali, killing 50, levying on the natives friendly to the French and looting about 1,000 sheep and 50 cattle. They then retired, pur- sued by pioneers, who shot down 20 of the Mullah’s men. The correspondent of the same paper at Berbera main- tained that the whole of the Comali- land campaign had been fruitless, the Mullah retaining full control of his particular region. HEROIC GIRL SAVES LIVES. Plunges Into River and Rescues Man and Two Girls. At South Yarmouth, Mass. Miss Catherine Callaghan, of Boston, alone and unaided saved from drowning B. F. Wildes, a summer resident, and two young women who are in the em- ploy of Dr. Durrell and Judge McKim. The two girls.had gone in bathing at Bass river in front of Mr. Wildes’ cot- tage, and he sat on the veranda watch- ing them. The tide was running swift- ly down stream, but the young women, unconscious of the danger, struck out into the current, which soon forced them away from shore. They screamed frantically for help, and Mr. Wildes went to their aid. He endeavored to pull them ashore, but they clutched h#m in such a way as to render him helpless, and the three were drowning when Miss Callaghan went in after them. Being a strong swimmer, she soon dragged them ashore. Glassworkers Ultimatum. The United Glassworkers of Ameri- ca, which has been bitterly opposed to the operation of the plants of the American Window Glass Company dur- | ing the summer, has delivered an multimatum to the men employed by the latter, that unless they stop work within seven days they will not be pér- mitted to work in the hand glass fac- tories when they resume work in September. { under | and twisted, as though wrenched by a | ship as a prize. They | The Russian | | steamer Malacca was seized | Red sea July 16 by the St. Petersburg | on the ground that she carried arms | and ammunitions of war for the Jap- distribution upon | Supreme | BIG RESERVOIR BURSTS. | People Warned of the Danger Had | Time to Escape Drowning. With the roar of Niagara, the new reservcir of the Citizens Water Com- pany at Scottdale, Pa., burst at mid- night, and more than 200,000,000 gal- lons of water rushed down the valley, sweeping all before it, inundating crops and wrecking buildings in its path. It was discovered about 9 _o’clock| that the dam was in danger of break- ing, and messengers were hastily sent through the valley to warn the people. Hundreds of lives were thus saved, for a few hours later the whcle valley was wa . The break occurred at the north side of the reservoir, a section of the re- taining wall about 60 feet wide and 80 feet high, being torn out. The retain- ing wall was about 200 yards long, and the break is in the shape of an .im- mense V. More than half of the re- maining part of the wall lis cracked mighty earthquake. The damage to the machinery and reservoir alone will amount to at least $50,000. When the torrent swept down upon the valley buildings were torn from their foundations and car- ried on the crest of the great wave. Bridges were carried away and crops valued at thousands of dollars washed away. In the gorge just below the dam huge trees were torn out by the roots and stones weighing tons were overturned by the fiood. BRITISH SHIPS HELD UP. Stop Vessels and Cause Dissatisfaction. A dispatch from Aden to the London Daily Mail says that the captain of the British steamer Waipara reports that the Russian volunteer fleet steamer St. Petersburg signalled him to stop by firing across the bows of his ves- sel on July 15 while 20 miles off Jebel Zugur, in the Red Sea. The Russians examined the papers of the Waipara and declared that they would hold the Russians The ‘captain protested and was tak- en on board the St. Petersburg, where he gave the Russian officers a guaran- | tee that there were neither arms nor ammunition on board the Waipara de- stined for Japan. The vessel was de- tined for four hours and was then allowed to proceed. The captain confirms the report that the Peninsular & Oriental Company’s in the 43 YEARS AT HARD LABOR Extreme Penalty Meted out to| New Jersey Criminals. PRISONERS ALL PLEAD GUILTY. | Citizens Had Planned to Blow the Prison Open and Lynch the Culprits. Aaron Timbers, Jonas Sims and] William Austin, the three negroes who | confessed to assaulting Mrs. Elsie Bid- | dle, of Burlington, N. J., were sen- | tenced to 49 years cach in the State | prison at Trenton after a record-break- ing trial. The three men arrived in | Mi. Holly at 1:15 p. m. Less than | half an hour later they had pleaded guilty, been given the extreme penalty | for their crimes by Judge Gaskill and | were on their way to Trenton to begin their long sentence. | When the three men, handcuffed to | three detectives, stepped from the train there were at least 1,000 persons con- gregated about the railroad station. | Company A, New Jersey National | Guard, quickly opened a passageway and within five minutes the criminals were in the court house, When the negroes were brought before the court Judge Gaskill appointed counsel to de- fend the men. A brief consultation was held between counsel and the three men and it was announced that the men would plead guilty. Judge Gas- kill accepted the plea and in pronounc- ing sentence said: . “The judgment of the law and sent- ence of the court is that for the charge of assault, to which you have just pleaded guilty, each of you be confined | in the State prison at hard labor for | the term of 15 years; upon the charge of robbery, 15 years; upon the charge of assault with intent to kill an officer, 12 years, and upon the charge of rob- bing the house of William Streeker, seven years, making a total of 49 | years.” | . There was a meeting of 200 men held at Rancocas at which complete ar-| rangements were made to blow open | Mt. Holly jail, secure the three ne- groes and lynch them. rs DEATH OF PAUL KRUGER. | Former President of Transvaal Repub- | lic Passes Away. aneses government. THINK LOOMIS WAS KILLED. Wound on the Head May Have Beén Given Before Death. Ixamination of the body of F. Kent Loomis, which was found at Warren Point, about 15 miles from Plymouth, England, has given rise to grave sus- picions on the part of local officials that Mr. Loomis met with foul play. The wound behind the right ear ‘is described as being circular, large and clean and, it is said, was inflicted be- fore death. It is surmised that Mr. Loomis’ body fell into the water near the Eddystone Lighthouse, as Mr. T.oomis’ watch had stopped 10 minutes before the Kaiser Vilhelm II, passed that point June 20. Story of Japanese Loss Denied. The Japanese Imperial headquarters | staff officially deny the reports from St. Petersburg that the Japanese lost 30,000 men in a battle near Port Ar- thur on July 10 or 11. fired on either date. ceipt from Tokio of an omicial denial of the report of a Japaneses loss of | about 30,000 men skepticism as to the truth of he report Alexieff’'s headquarters has pervaded all circles. While not insisting on the accuracy of the figures, the gen- eral staff claims there is good reason to believe that a severe check was ‘in- flicted on the Japaneses in front of Port Arthur. Killed By Passenger Train. Mr. and Mrs. James Bolles, were struck by a passenger train on the Au- burn branch of the New York Central road, while driving across the tracks, near Canandaguia. Mr. Bolles was in- stantly killed. Mrs. Bolles was taken to a hospital, where it was learned she had received fatal injuries. Hot Wave Caused Death. | Sunday was the hottest day in many years in Chicago. ed 97 on the streets. As a result of the heat there are eight dead and a| score of prostrations. With the wind from the southwest blowing a furnace | blast off the Illincis prairies, Chicago has not so suffered in years. Many other cities reported the temperature | above 90. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The Shenango tin plant at New Cas- | tle, Pa., employing 2,500 men, will likely resume work Monday, July 25. It has been closed down three weeks. Fire destroyed the plant of the Alabama Ritt Flooring Co., at Mont- gomery, Ala., entailing a loss of $200,- (00, partially insured. The company was owned by Pennsylvania capital- Ists. Mrs. Benjamin Lewis, of Pittsburg, fell through a sewer at New Castle, Pa.. while attending a picnic and was badly hurt. The earth had been wash- ed away underneath by the breaking of a sewer pipe, but the break did not show on the surface until Mrs. Lewis | walked over it, when it gave way. Themes Porter, a Pennsylvania con- ductor, was killed at Clark’s siding, east of Canton. He had just stopped to receive orders at a and was stepping upon his train as it swung into a bridge. Projecting beams knocked him from the train causing] instant death. Fcr the murder of James Donnelly, a grccer of Bedford avenue, one the] | under one roof, owned by the Mer- | night of New Year’s eve, John Henry Johnson and Frank Ousley, both ne- groes, were hanged together in the county jail yard at. Pittsburg. Not a shot was | Since the re-| from Viceroy | The mercury touch- | telegraph tower | Paul Kruger, former President of the | | Transvaal Republic, died at Clarens, | | Switzerland, from pneumonia and su- | | pervening heat weakness. | Stephen J. Paul Kruger, the “lion | of South Africa,” was one of the most | picturesque gures of the last cen-' tury. A man of intensely religious | temperament, he had with it a rare] executive and martial ability, a wond- erful mental power and an ‘indom- itable will, and these quali- ties combined were what raised | him from the humble grass: | roofed cottage of a frontier grazier to | the occupation of the presidential chair. He was born at Colesburg, Cape | Colony, October 10, 1825. At 11 the] future President was working with his | father on the frontier; at 14, having | attained the years of majority, ac- | cording to the standard of his country, | he joined the army and fought in the | punitive expedition against the Mata- beles. From that time on his life was a military one. At 16 he was prcmoted to the post of field cornet and a few years later became a commandant. In 1883, the choice of his country, | the South African republic, fell upon him, and he was elected President. This post he held until 1900, when, the fortune of war turning against his land, he was forced to flee from the country and take refuge in Holland. | He remained either at Hilversum, Mentone or Utrecht until a short time ago, when he traveled to Clarenz in | search of health, but only to end his | life. disheartened and weary. The former President was married three times. His last wife died in the early part of 1901, and it is said that this sorrow in his declining years hastened the end of his own life. H. J. Richmond, a correspondent in Cripple Creek, Col, for a Victor news- paper, was deported from the former place by the citizens’ committee. { re eee ee seme | SLOCUM LEAD NUMBERS 958. gers on the Steamer Escaped. the excursion steamer General Slo- final report to Police Commissioner McAdoo of New York by the inspectors in charge of the investigation by the police department. Only 897 of the dead were identified, 62 were reported missing and 61 unidentified, while 180 jured. Assuming that the unidentified | dead are among the missing all but | one person has been thus far account- ed for. THREE MEN KILLED. Touring Car Plunges Onto Railroad in| Front of Engine. James Snyder of Brooklyn, Frank J. Correll of Amityville, and a man be- lieved to be J. W. Jewell of Brooklyn, were killed as the result of a collision between a big touring automobile and a train on the Long Island railroad at Merrick road crossing. Voted for Filtration. Pittsburg disapproved of the proposi- tion to issue $2,000,000 of bonds for | the removal of the Fifth avenue hump | and voted in favor of an issue of $5, | 000,000 for the building of a filtration { plant. | Ten Houses Burned. A block of 10 four-room houses, all chants Coal Company, was burned at | the company’s No. 3 mine, two miles from Salisbury. Pa. 1 | sarabia, | complete. | Only 235 Out of Nearly 1,400 Passen- | The total dead in the destruction of | cum on June 15 is given as 958 in the | were injured and only 235 out of near- | ly 1,400 on the steamer escaped unin- | At a special election the people of | Frosts and Lack of Rain Cause Failure of Crops. The prospective failure of the crops in some of the southern provinces of Russia, possibly attendant with fam- ine, and the necessity of adopting re- FAMINE FEARED IN RUSSIA. | lief measures, is beginning to attract attention. The governments of Kherson, Bes- | Taurida, Pollava and Khar-| koff are principally affected. In the dis-| | trict of Triaspol the peasants have al-| ready been compelled to harvest the] unripe crops to feed the live stock. | Committees have been appointed to re- lieve the distress, | The failure of the crops is attributed | to the early autumn frosts, insufficient moisture while sowing, the fluctuating weather of the winter, the total ab- sence of snow, the ‘heavy frosts which followed the late spring frosts in May and the infrequency of rains for the cereals and hay. In some districts no rain has fallen. In many parts of Bessarabia cattle] are being sold for almost nothing. MORE NORGE SURVIVORS Landed at Boston, Having Eesn Picked | Up by a Ship. On board the Cunard steamer Sax- onie, which arrived at Boston from | Liverpool on the 14th, were 27 persons | who were on the Scandinavian-Ameri-| can line steamer Norge, wrecked off | the north coast of Scotland while on a voyage from Copenhagen to New York. | The man who was the object of the greatest sympathy was Jeans Johan-| son a man of 70 years, who believed | | that he had lost his wife and four chil-| dren. He was given a message that his wife had been picked up and prob-| | ably some of the children. The old man | refused to credit the news. The sur-| vivors were bound for Western points. | A collection was taken up among the passengers of the Saxonia and about 3180 secured. GREAT STRIKE BEGINS. Over 40,000 Men Employed in Pack- ing Houses Quit Work. As the result of a stubborn disa- greement, chiefly over wages for un- skilled labor, one of the most exten- sive strikes in the history of the meat packing industries of the United States began in Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Joseph, Mo., and other cities where large packing plants are located. If prolonged, the strike is expected to cause widespread incon- venience, possibly equaling the an- thracite coal famine of two years ago. | The unanimity of the strike was| More than 45,000 employes are directly involved. In Chicago alone 18,000 men are on strike. BREASTPLATES FOR RUSSIANS. 100,000 of Them Are Ordered From An ltalian Company. The Russian Government has order- ed 100,000 breast plates from a com- | pany in Milan, Italy, engaged in the! | manufacture of the Beneditti cuirass. | The cuirass in question is a pliable | breastplate, weighing nearly 16 ounces and is almost half an inch thick. The inventor gave a demonstration of it last winter in the presence of the Czar at St. Petersburg. The present order is to be delivered by August 15 and the total price aggregates more than 500,000 roubles ($250,000.) The manufacturing firm, which em- ployes 250 workmen, keeps the secret of how the breastplate is made. GOOD LUCK FOR PREACHERS. Four of Them Inherit the Bulk of a $150,000 Estate. Rev. Reginald H. Potts, of Suffolk, | Va., and three brothers, all clergymen and members of the Virginia Metho- dist Conference, have inherited the bulk of a $150,000 estate left by M. R. | Harrell, who died recently at Williams- burg, Va. Fifty thousand dollars is left in trust to two sisters of the de- ceased, one the mother of the clergy- men; $3,000 to the two older children of Rev. R. H. Potts and the remainder to’ Revs. Thomas N. Edgar A. and Eugene J. Potts. Ninety thousand dollars of the estate is in cash and | bonds. Rev. Eugene J. Potts is exe- cutor. Maine Democratic Convention. The Maine Democratic gubernatorial was held in with 600 delegates in attendance. The resolutions reaffirmed and indorsed the platform adopted by the Democratic national convention at St. Louis, pledged support to its nominees, and demanded the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. The platform was adopted amid some confusion, an effort to have stricken out a plank calling for the resubmission to the voters of the pro- hibitory lipuor law being drowned I by cries for the previous question. | Cyrus W. Davis, mayor of Waterville, | was nominated for governor over | Samuel W. Gould of Skowegan. | convention | | 1 Russians Catpure Chinese Steamer. A report has heen received tnat the China Mining & Engineering Com- pany’s steamer Hai-Ping, from Shang- hai, July 8, was captured by the Jap- anese 10 miles north of Chefoo this morning, loaded war. Seven Men Killed. Seven men killed and two injured is the result of a premature dyna- mite explosion upon the New Canadi- an Pacific Sudbury-Toronto line near Romford. The dead are three Aus- trians, three Finlanders and the walking boss, H. Poole of Wakefield, Quebec. The bodies of the killed, ex- cept Poole, were literally blown to pieces. The accident occurred through placing dynamite in a hole which had been shortly before blown with | powder. with contraband of! PICNIC TRAIN WRECKED Misplaced Switch Causes Col-| lision with Freight Train. DAWSON DEFEATS TETER. : West Virginia Republicans Select a State Ticket. The West Virginia Republican State Convention, after being in session at Wheeling from noon continuously, ex- cept for a 50-minute recess, at 9:40 | p. m. nominated William M. O. Daw- | son of Charleston for Governor over TRAINS GOING AT HIGH SPEED. | Charles F. Teter of Philippi. The nomination was forced after a prolonged but futile effort of the Most of the Dead Occupied the Front jn io. en to secure an adjournment. Coach, Which Plunged Into the Wreckage. | as | withdrew him and moved that the Chicago, July 13. — Twenty persons were killed and about 25 ‘injured in 2 collision on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad at Glenwood, Ill, 23 miles south of Chicago. The collision occurred between a picnic train from Chicago, which was returning from | Momence, Ill, and a freight, into the rear of which the excursion train dashed at high speed. Among the dead are Carl Stewart, Mrs. Ellen Landers, Mrs. Emma Palm- | er, daughter of Mrs. Landers; Lena Palmer, daughter of Mrs. Palmer; Lena Hipelius, Mrs. Gerringer, Miss Gerringer, Walter Gerringer, Andrew Kramer, William H. Meyer, 12 years; John Poduda, 8 years; Mamie Poduda, 3 years; nine unidentified children. All the dead lived in Chicago, as do all the injured, most of whom are chil- dren. About 75 per cent of the injured sus- | tained fractured legs. In many cases both legs were broken. A misplaced switch threw the pic- nic train over on the southbound track and before the engineer could apply the brakes it dashed into the rear of the freight. The locomotive, the bag- gage car and the first coach of the pic- | nic train were demolished and all of the killed and injured were on the locomotive and in the two cars. The picnic was the annual outing of the members of Doremus Church. 200 ARE HOMELESS. Fire Destroys Many Houses in Mary- land Town. Two hundred persons in Millington, Md., are homeless and without shelter and food as the result of a fire which destroyed 39 dwellings and 17 places of business. The loss is placed at $150,000, with practically no insurance. J. P. Ahearn, president of the board of town commissioners, appealed to Wil- mington, Baltimore and Philadelphia for aid. Upon receipt of the appeal for aid from the authorities of Millington, Mayor Timanus of ‘Baltimore called a special meeting of the citizens’ perma- nent relief committee. Governor War- field received an appeal from Milling- ton for tents and at once ordered 30 to be sent. Mayor Weaver of Philadel- phia called a meeting of the citizens’ permanent relief committe. The com- mittee voted $500 to the sufferers to be disposed of at the discretion of Mayor Weaver. 200 LIVES LOST. Cloudburst Causes Great Damage Near the City of Manila. A cloudburst over the hills north- east of Manila caused a flood which has destroyed San Juan Del Monte. Two hundred lives were lost. The low-lying districts were inundated. The homes of Americans and foreign- ers were isolated. Transportation through the streets was carried on in boats only. . Rain has fallen for 27 hours, total- ing 171 inches. This is unprecedented. Communication with outside places is interrupted. The damage to property is estimated at $2,000,000. NEWS NOTES. At a recent race in England nearly everybody bet on Admiral Togo to win. But he was not even placed. Thirty-five hundred butchers, carv- ers, slaughterers, drivers, helpers and laborers in New York city joined in the great meat strike to-day. At Portsmouth, O., J. Eisman & Co.’s clothing factory was destroyed and a number of adjcining business houses damaged by fire. Loss, $80,000. “Al” and “Ben” Wade were electro- cuted at the Ohio penitentiary annex for the murder of “Kate” Sullivan, at | Toledo, in 1900. The Erie Railroad Company admits its liability in Midvale, N. J., wreck, and wants a settlement with friends of 16 victims. Waterville, | Three barns were demolished, six coal cars blown from the track and other damage done by a windstorm this afternoon at Barnitz, on the Phil- adelphia & Reading railroad, near Mt. Holly. Charles J. Denny, a former mem- ber of the St. Louis Municipal As- sembly, charged with bribery in con- nection with the city lighting deal, pleaded guilty. Charles Renner, an alleged compan- ion of Patrick Crowe, was captured at St. Joseph, Mo., after a desperate bat- tle with officers, in which he was prob- ably fatally shot. It is reported at Chefoo that the | Russians have blown up the Retzivan | and one other battleship which was badly injured. Fighting is incessant just outside of Port Arthur. Contracts made by incorporated la- bor unions with manufacturers prohib- iting the employment of non-union workmen are void, according to a de- cision announced by Judge Ludwig in the Circuit Court at Milwaukee. - | Eight men and a woman, all Ital ta31 | The roll gave Dawson a majority of votes, but was not announced, Congressman Dayton, for Teter, nomination be made by acclamation. The convention was fiercely partisan at times, speakers being hissed re- peatedly. The convention adjourned after the governorship nomination till next day, The State Republican convention completed its work Wednesday after a continuous session of more than 11 | hours. The salient feature of the plat- form, which was the last matter taken up, is its declaration for a reform in | the system of State taxation. The following candidates were named: Auditor—Arnold C. Scherr of Min- eral. Treasurar—Newton Ogdin of Pleas- ants. Attorney General—Clark W. May of | Lincoln. | State Superintendent of Schools— | Thomas C. Miller of Marion. Secretary of State — Charles W. | Swisher of Marion. Judges of Supreme Court — Frank | Cox of Monongahela, Joseph M. Saun- | ders of Mercer. | Presidential TElectors-at-Large — Dr. W. W. Monroe of Wood, and James A, | Lenhart of Preston. RAINS DAMAGE CROPS. Cultivation Prevent and Interfere With Harvesting in Many Sections. The Weather Bureau's weekly sum- mary of crop conditions is as follows: Unseasonably cool weather has con- tinued in the States of the Missouri valley and over the western part of the upper lake region, but elsewhere | the temperature has been very favor- able. . Heavy rains have prevented cultivation of crops and greatly inter- fered with harvesting in the lower Missouri, Central Mississippi and | Ohio valleys, and in portions of the | Middle Atlantic States and lake region, and much grain has been dam- aged in Oklahoma, Kansas and Mis- souri. Drouth prevails in the coast districts of Washington and Oregon, where crop prospects have been ma- terially lessened. Over the greater part of the corn belt corn has made vigorous growth, but continued rains have prevented cultivation, and much | of the crop is weedy. Winter wheat has sustained great damage from con- tinuous heavy rains in Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, where the unharvested grain was seri- ously damaged by rust and lodging, and that in shock by molding and sprouting. Harvesting was also great- ly hindered by unfavorable weather in the districts east of the Mississippi river, where, however, the conditions were much less serious than in the Sates of the lower Missouri valley. Harvesting has continued under fa- vorable conditions on the Pacific coast. | | ENORMOUS LOSS REPORTED. 30,000 Japanese Said to Have Been Killed or Wounded. A dispatch from a Russian corre- spondent at Mukden, dated July 12, says: “According to intelligence received here the Japanese last night attacked positions near Port Arthur and were repulsed with enormous losses, not less than 30,000, it is said, being killed or wounded by our mines.” It is repored in Shanghai that a battalion o. Russian infantry reoccu- pied a position commanding Port Ar- thur which had been captured by the Japs. The Russian cruiser Novik and three gunboats assisted the military forces and forced the Japs to retire. It is also reported that a great bat- tle was fought on the land side of Port Arthur on Sunday and that the Russian exploded land mines which caused fearful havoc. The casualties are estimated at 28,000. Boston Wool Market. The wool market is strong and act. ive, with the volume of sales remark- ably heavy. The leading quotations | are: Ohio and Pennsylvania, XX and | above, 34@34%c; X, 30@31c; No. 1, | 32@33c; No. 2, 34@35c; fine, unm- washed, 23@24c; 1%, 3 and 4-blood, unwashed, 27@28c; fine, washed, de- laine, 35@37c. Michigan X and above, 27@28c; No. 1, 29@30c; No. 2, 28@, 29c; fine, unwashed, 21@22c; %, % and %-blood, unwashed, 27@27%¢; fine, washed, delaine, 32@33c. Ken- tucky, Indiana, ete, 3 and 14-blood, 27@28c; braid, 23@24c. Territory, Idaho, fine, 17@18c; heavy, fine, 14@ 15c; fine, medium, 17@18c; medium, 18@19c; low, medium, 20@2ic. Fight in Servian Town. A serious fight between Socialists and army officers took place in the square of Kraguyevats, a garrison town of Servia. The Socialists were annoyed at the attitude of the officers toward civilians, and attacked the of- ficers, who were noisily celebrating the King’s birthday. The officers used their arms, and it is reported that 20 men were killed during the fight. | ians, were arrested in Philadelphia on | Raisuli Makes a Raid. | suspicion of knowing something of| According to news from the i i : : l e interior the murder of Antonio Manzzio, an | the bandit Raisuli and his tribe made | Italian laborer, whose body, sewed up in a mattress, was found on the banks | a raid on Ghard and after two days’ of the Wissahichon creek: Sunday | fighting Raisuli was victorious. The morning. Death was due to a stab | tribe looted many cattle vi ound. y tle. 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