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RUSSIAN TY I N STRAITS
Military Experts See no Way of
Escape for Kuropatkin.
JAPANESE HAVE ADVANTAGE.
Russian Army Driven from Defenses
at Liac-Yang and Cut off
on All Sides.
The Russian army after being driv- |
en back from the outer defenses of
Liao-Yang to the works of the fortress
itself, abandoned it and crossed to the
right bank of the Taitse river to meet
General Kuroki’s army, which has suc-
ceeded in crossing the river and is
furning the Russian left flank. It is
also reported that the Japanese have
occupied Liao-Yang, and that railroad
communication between Liao-Yang
and Mukden are interrupted.
According to telegraphic advices re-
ceived at Tokyo the Japanese army
corps on the left, by fierce and re-
peated assaults, took possession of
the heights which the Russian right
occupied. Thereupon all the Rus-
sians south of Liao-Yang began to re-
treat. The Japanese army Js now
pursuing.
At daybreak September 1 the Jap-
anese army on the left delivered a
fierce and successful assault against
the heights to the west of Halinintun,
and the high ground to the west of
Shecushanpao.
It pierced the
later forced the
Russian troops from their
the right and center.
Field Marshal Marquis Oyama tele-
graphs that his losses in ‘these as-
saults were heavy
It is believed
Kouropatkin has
feated and that the
Lido-Yang is a matter of hours.
The resuit of this pursuit and the
result of the fierce battle waged on
the eastern line where Kuroki is as-
sailing the force .which has long
sgreened Liao-Yang, together with |
the abandonment of the Russian right
center on the southern line exposes |
the Russian left.
It is the opinion of certain members
of the general staff at Washington |
city, who have famil fethemselves |
with the trend of events in the far |
cast, that the Russian army, now in |
Manchuria, is doomed to capture. Un- |
Tess Kuropatkin surrenders, say the |
experts of our war bureau, he will]
see his really fine army exterminated
by the constant pounding of the Jap-
anese, who now are in such position
as to be practically irresistible
The officers of the general staff say
that from what they can gather from
recent gispatel from the seat of
war, the Japanese have the Russian |
completely surrounded on all
which might afford any hope of es-
cape, and that the only country now
open to Kuropatkin is wholly impossi- |
ble for a military operation involving
a successful retreat in the face of a
determined foe.
MORE OVENS FIRED.
Russian lines and
retirement of the
position .on
General |
that
been
Substantial Evidences of the Improve-
ment in Trade in the Coke Regions.
The coke trade shows signs of a de-
cided improvement. Orders were is-
sued during the week for the firing
of almost 3,000 ovens in the Connells-
ville and -Masontown fields, of which
number the latter field has about 500
oyens. The Frick Company blew in
a ‘large number of these ovens. Pro-
duction increased over 13,000 tons last |
week and shipments show a gain of
over 16,000 tons. This apparent dis-
crepancy is due to the large amount
of stock coke lifted.
W. Peck Nominated.
Geo. |
After struggling for hours over ma- |
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jority and minority reports in plat- |
form, the former of which was finally |
adopted, the Democratic State con- |
vention of Wisconsin, nominated a |
State ticket headed by former Gov-
ernor George W. Peck, of Milwau-
kee, for Governor.
SIX BURNED TO DEATH.
Whole Family Wiped Out by Burning
of the House.
H. S. Fling, his wife and four chil-
dren were burned to death in a fire
which destroyed their home at 1 |
o'clock in the morning near Lowther,
in Calhoun county, W. Va., and two
other persons sleeping in the house
were so severely burned that they are
not expected to live. The locality is
far from telegraph and telephone com- |
munications. The names of the in- |
jured are not known, but it is said
here that one of the two are expected
to die from their injuries is Robert
Alexander, Jr., of
With the house
derrick and boiler e at an oil
well belonging to Johnson, Upham and
Ralston, of Parkersburg, were destroy-
ed and the supposition is that the fire
was caused by an explosion of gas
from the oil well.
gas from the well proba-
bly crept along the ground until it
reached the house, where a light was
burning: Not a sign of the house
was left standing, and the family were
al] killed almost instantly.
Fifty Firms Are Affected. {
Seven hundred tinsmiths and sheet |
metal workers of Philadelphia, went
out on a strike for an advance of 5 |
cents an hour.
were paid at the rate of 371% cents
an hour. They are asking for 421%
cents an hour, the work day to remain
at eight hours. Fifty firms are af-
fected by the strike. statement was
issued by the employ to the effect
that the umion refused to accept an
agreement or to submit the same to
iing’s,. 8
arbitration. |
- |
| more remote requirements.
sides |
| to {all three stories.
Parmerly the men |
MANY FAILURES.
During the Month of August Commer- |
cial Insoivencies Exceeded
$10,000,000.
According to reports from branch
| offices of kK G. Dun & Co. throughout
| the United States, commercial insol-
| vencies during the month of August
were 900 in
in amount of
comparing with 812 in the correspond- |
ing month last year, when the amount
| involved was $10,877,782. Manufaet-
uring disasters numbered 158;
| against 241 a year ago, and liabilities
| were only $3,030,570, compared with |
$7,748,685. The numerical increase
was provided by the trading class, 682
largely exceeding the 544 in August, |
1903, while the indebtedness was $3,-
728, 468, against $2,946,352 last year.
The improvement over 1903 as to lia- |
class |
was almost offset by the largely un- |
bilities in the manufacturing
favorable showing in the third divi- |
sion, which embraces brokers, dealers |
in real estate, transporters others |
than railways and similar concerns |
not properly included in either of the |
two principal classes. Here there |
were 20 suspensions, with liabilities |
of $3,732,460, comparing with 27 de-|
faults for only $182,745 a year ago. |
Five banks were forced to suspend for
$883,000, against eight failures in this |
class last year, when the amount in-
volved was $871,075. In addition |
there was one bankruptcy of a large |
stock company, probably due to over-|
capitalization, which did not stop the
operation of the various plants, and
hence cannot fairly be included with
the manufacturing suspensions.
Confidence increases each week as |
a larger proportion of the agricultural |
vield is placed beyond the reach of |
injury and industrial undertakings
are less interrupted by labor contiro-
versies. It is not to be expected that |
the business world , will suddenly |
abandon its conservative attitude, |
purchases being still restricted large-
ly to such needs as are clearly dis-|
cerned, but there-is evidence of a
| growing disposition to. provide for
Failures this week in the U nited
States are 222 against 205 last year,
226 the preceding week, ‘and 181 in
the corresponding week .last. year.
Failures in Canada number 25 against
30 last week, 24 the preceding week, |
and seven last year.
RUSSIAN ARMY DIVIDED.
Said to Have Forced Fleeing
Troops Into Swollen Stream
by Hundreds.
dispatches from the far e
cate the ono tits a
been ‘scparated by the Russ
Japs
ast indi- |
y has
ian Comn-
mander-in-Chief. Kuroki is attack-|
ing the section north of the Taitse
river; OXku is assaulting that part
south of the river and at Liao-Yang.
TWO separe actions are in progress.
It appears from dispatches from
Tokio touching upon the situation
about 1.ao-Yang that General Kouro-
patkin made a most disastrous move
Thursday night in attempting to get
his army across the Taitse river to
the north of I1.iao-Yang, for he has
put his force to a great disadvantage
in separating it.
These dispatches say General Kuro-
ki is delivering a tremendous attack
cn fhe Russian forces, north of the
river, while on the south side General
Oku’s forces, which compose the left
cf the Japanese armies, are attacking
the Russians and driving hundreds of
them to death in the river, which is
a swollen torrent. This would .indi-
cate that the Russians,
in their con-!
fusion, amounting practically to a
rout, have congested: the bridges
which cross the river.and are fighting
a Jjcsing rear guard action. Oku ap-
parently has them ot his mercy. The
Tokio dispatches say that when de-
tails are known it will likely be found
that a great tragedy has occurred on
the northern side of the Taitse river.
Tokio believes the Russian Ics i
so far have been 30,030 and the dis-
patch says the Japanese commanders |
have already reported losses of 25.-
000. The ‘Russian losses August 31
and September 1 are officially given
as 5,000. i
ice of Tubes Cut.
Representatives of the steel tube
interests met in New York and de-
cided to reduce the price of tubes $5
per ton. This reduction. it is stated,
is made in > nticipation of a reduc
in prices of steel billets next
ion
week.
ELEVATOR CABLE PARTS.
Two Killed and Six Injured in Acci-
dent in Chicago Store. |
Two people were killed and six seri-
| ously injured by the falling of an ele- |
vator in the store of Sears, Roebuck
& Co., of Chicago.
The passenger elevator ordinarily
| used was out of repair and the freight
| elevator
was used during the day by
the customers and employes. While
a load of passengers was being car-|
ried up the cable parted, allowing the
elevator with its load of 10 people
The conductor,
Fnillip Caldwell, was instantly killed, |
and Mrs. Kate Hays, 40 years old, was
so badly hurt that she died in the
hospital. Six others were injured
but not fatally. 4
Eloping Princess at Italian Resort.
Princess Louise, of Coburg, who
eloped several days ago from Elster,
with Lieutenant Mattasiteh, has ar-
rived at Como, accompanied by the
count. The couple are staying at the |
Hotel Plinius under the name of Von |
Ruff and wife. The princess looks |
to be in excellept health. She says |
she will prosecute those responsible |
for her imprisonment.
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Soldiers Must Stand Civil Triai.
Herrick and Prosecutor |
Foster, of Athens, O., joined in a
to the Secretary of War, as
seven members of the Fourteenth
ry, now under arre 1
in the murder of (
of Warren, O., at the
maneuvers, be sent at once to
for trial by civil authori
War Department has ex
desire to have the men t
civil law, but for some reas
delivered the accused.
Governor
Athens
Athens
lies. The
i the
Clark,
not
nwnber and $10,491,498 |
delauited indebtedness, |
| sition near Liao-Yang, were mistaken |
| the armies
| side,
| rendered a decision in whieh he stat-
{| ed that premiums charge
| legal rate of interest is usury and can-
| 000, with $6
DETECTIVES MOBBED.
PROGRESS OF THE WAR
| Russiah and Japanese Armies
in a Decisive Struggle
One Killed and Two Injured in Alle-
« gheny City.
Following a hearing iefore Alder-
man Walter Wadsworth of Allegheny,
in which Harry W. Starkey and his
brother, Nelson C. Starkey,
| of the Allegheny County Sabbath Ob-
servance Association, were held for
court on charges of perjury and con-
Desperate Attempt of the Japanese to | spiracy to indict, the former shot and
| Take the Fortification Against | killed ‘ome man and injured another.
| Fearful Odds. | The shooting took place while a
| hooting, howling mob of nearly 1,000
| people were following Power Tor rance
Gamble, chief detective for the asso-
| ciation, and ® his two subordinates
o h £ | irom the alderman’s office.
{ 10, Her struggle on the plains © Harry D. Knox, 35 years old, mar-
Liao-Yang. The battle began on the | ried was shot through the abdomen
30th ult., the Japanese with 1,200 | and died on the way to the Allegheny
guns searching the Russian position, shen) Hosvusl, a ® 1
3 2 e injured are George anoute,
but efforts to turn the Muscovite aged 35 years, supposed to be a driv-
flank were repeatedly repulsed. er of an ice wagon. Power T. Gam-
Report from Tokyo tells how Jap-| ble, of No. 502 Lowell street, Pitts-
anese captured An-Ping, after a three- | burg, badly beaten about the head and
| days’ battle and the loss of 2,000 men. | Pody and cut apout the pais. Made
Two Japanese companies, which | DiS escape after the shooting
succeeded in occupying a Russian po |
SLAUGHTER AT PORT ARTHUR.
Russian and Japanese armies, esti-
mated to total 500,000 men, are locked |
| in death
70 DROWN IN POLAND.
Envi anuibilated: by | Ferryboat Capsizes and Out of 100
The Japanese forces engaged in | Only 30 Are Saved.
this battle can only be estimated, | A dispatch from Berlin says a tele-
| but they are believed to number about | gram received from Lodz, Poland, an-
200,000 men. General Kuropatkin js | nouncing that a ferryboat capsized on
known to have six army corps, besides | A . =
147 squadrons of cavalry, bringing up | the river Kamien, wesulting in 70
the Russian total to about the same | Persons being drowned.
number that the Japanese have. How | Thirty of the passengers were
compare with regard to Saved. Itis added that the boat was
artillery is not definitely known. | licensed to carry only 30 persons.
A special] courier ‘from Port Arthur ETE
brings accounts of the fighting as |
published in copies of the Novji Krai, |
which is edited by Colonel Arwetiff. Dr. R.
The paper states that at 11 o'clock or A. H. McKee for
the night of August 24, the Japanese | stock market.
concentrated a great force of infantry | john A. Green, of Stone City, was
opposite a redoubt battery on a moun- nominated for Congress by the Dem-
tainous position. | ocrats of the Fifth Iowa district.
Lying Dong, the Japanese began to | Light snow fell at Virginia, Minn.
greep along Lg dings, ‘ The Ruma | on Tuesday, Crops, flowers and garden
hi IRL as produce were damaged. Heavy frosts
RATT 7 aint 2 3 “yin. | are reported” from ° other western
The Japanese rolled down the hill-| Meosaba ranbenpOints
dead and wounded, their rifles| ~ ->9 9 geno "
rattling after them. At midnight they | Antonio Giorgia was put to death
advanced again with reckless bravery. | in the electric chair at Auburn, N.Y,
One company penetrated the line of | for the murder of John VanGorder and
defences, bnt the Russian infantry, | his half-sister, Miss Farnham, at West
shouting. drew their bayonets and = Almond, N. Y.
nihilated the enemy. Factory No. 12, of the American |
The main body of the Japanese re-| Window Glass Company at Muncie,
| treated over the and then threw | Ind., was destroyed by fire. The |
| searchlights over the scene. More | loss is $50,000. The plant had been
troops advanced, stumbling across the | idle for two years.
dead and wounded. The Russians The largest sugar factory in Ger-
waited until they we 100 yards | many, named Kulmsee, near Thorn,
away, then fired their machine guns, | West Prussia, was burned,
which were protected by armor plates, | 5 Joss of $1,250,000 The fire caused
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
S. Sutton, of Allegheny, sued
$100,000 lost in
be
3
detectives |
NINE KILLED IN A WRECK
Head-on Collision of Trains on
Canadian Grand Trunk.
MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT DEAD.
Passengers Were Party of Sightseers
on Their Way to Exhibition
at Sherbrooke.
Nine people were Killed and 23
others injured in a head-on collision
on the Grand Trunk Railway near
Richmond, Quebec. The trains in-
volved were a special excursion from
Montreal bound for Sherbrooke and
passenger train No. 5, running he-
tween Island Pond, Vermont, and
Montreal. The collision, it is claim-
ed, was due to neglect of orders on
the part of the train crew of the ex-
cursion train, which left Richmond
without awaiting the arrival of the
passenger train.
The excursion train was running as
the first section of the regular Grand
Trunk Portland express, which usual
ly crosses the Island Pond train at
Richmond and was running on its
time. This makes it all the. more
inexplicable why Conductor Atkin-
son, in charge of the ‘excursion
train, did not wait to make the usual
crossing. Atkinson disappeared
shortly after the wreck occurred.
The excursion train, made up of
10 coaches and a baggage car, car-
ried about 1,000 persons bound for
the “exhibition at, Sherbrooke. The
Island Pond train was composed of
five coaches and a baggage car and |
had only a small number of assen- |
gers. The excursion train had barely
cleared the Richmond yard when,
rounding a curve, it met the Island |
Pond train running at a high rate of |
speed, Both engineers reversed, .and, |
with their firemen, jumped, escaping |
with minor injuries. The shock of |
the collision was plainly heard in'|
Richmond, more than a mile away. |
| Both engines were locked firmly to- |
gether. 'Pheibaggage car of the ex: |
cursion train; was picked up ‘and
‘dropped om top ef the smoker follow-
ing it, and it was in these two cars|
| that the greate r number ‘of fataiities |
| occurred.
Among the Killed all. of whom were
Canadians is J. B. Blanchet, who was
elected to represent St. Hyacinthe |
| ini the Canadian House of Commons |
and mowed the enemy down like reap- | a rise in the sugar market at Ham- |
ers cutting grai
Once more the Japanese endeavor-
ed to storm the fort. There was a
fight and the
burg.
The Pacific Mail
steamer Manchuria
Company’s new
sailed for the
wnd-to-hand naxims : \ .
i phang The fittowd or pam Orient with the members of the Phil-
3 ow 8 1 ind 0 To the | IDDINE Commission, returning from
Yow rpon Tow; Ianc ~° | their visit here.
and dead were mixed to- X 2 "
The Minnesota Democratic State
were the infantry
engaged that men
at one another.
chine
fired point bla
Fendall G. Winston, of Minneapolis,
for Lieutenant Governor.
The Russian losses in the fighting
of August 25 and August 26, east and
EDITOR PERISHED AT SEA.
Jumped Overboard
Either Fell or
from Steamer. |
3 4 T | or wounded. The great majority of
C,. B. ork of Kings Bridge, New
York city, editor of two magazines of ae casualties were sustained at An- |
New York, either fell or jumped over- 8: :
board from the steamer Prince Albert, By the dropping of an
midway between Ostend and Dover | from the seventh floor
elevator
|
|
Le
involving | '23t Spring.
800 'KEGS OF POWDER EXPLODE.
One Man Kilied, Three Injured and
Buildings Wrecked.
Eight hundred kegs of powder ex-|
ploded jn the press room of the Laf- |
f
convention nominated John A. John- |
son, of St. Peter, for Governor and | i
| three others and causing costly de- |
| struction of property.
| south of Liao-Yang, were 3,000 killed |
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of the Park |
| square,
on the evening of August 30. His | building, at Fifth avenue and Smith-
mysterious disappearance, recalling | field street, Pittsburg, five persons
that of Frederick Kent Loomis, was | Were injured, but it is thought that |
reported on the arrival of the steam- all of those injured will recover.
er at Dover to the American consul, Thomas N. McCauley, of New York,
Mr. Prescott, by B. W. Ordway, of 1903 | organizer and former President of the
Dean street, Brooklyn, in whose com-
pany Mr. Spahr was making a tour
of Europe far the benefit of his health.
in the hands of a receiver, is under
arrest charged with larceny of $4, Sa
by C. S. Wilsox, of Hamilton, Ont,
former stockholder.
Five hundred steel] care riveters em- |
Baltic Brings in 3,124.
What was said to be the largest |
number of steornge passengers ever
brought irom Great Britain ijn a sin-|
gle vessel, arrived at New York, Sept- | for higher wages.
ember 1, on the steamship Baltic, | getting $1.80 a day
no 13 ia’ ovearold fess Ag s :
After killing his 2-year-old gen at | New tracks will be laid. The im-
1 on ol Bran I: : , :
Long Br aneh, N: J., Thomas Hauld | provements will make Alliance the
schmidt, a gardener, ended his OWN | jp e0gt freight transfer point on the
life. it
| system.
| By recent order of the War Depart-
| ment, Columbus is made
1p | Quarters for the United States Ma-
rine Corps Recruiting district, with
substations at Pittsburg, Wheeling,
Cincinnati and Dayton. Captain E.
E. West in charge.
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,
passed his 78th birihday on the 29th
of August.
BIG ORDER FOR CARS.
NEWS NOTES.
Harvey Haverick, of Akron, O.,
years old, was drowned in the Ohio
| canal. He was in bathing and was
seized with cramps.
Mt. Vesuvius is again in activity.
Flames, ashes and stones are arising
from it to a considerable height and
a wide stream of lava is issuing from
the crater.
Two locomotives were demolished
in a rear-end collision of two Cleve-
land Terminal and Valley Railroad
freight trains at Akron, O. No one
was injured.
James Glas
Standard Steel Car Company Will
Build 1,000 for the B. & O.
The Standard Steel Car Company,
which has its works at Butler, Pa.,
received an order for 1,000 40-foot
drop-end gondolas from the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. The gondolas
are to be built after the latest designs
of the car company and contain a
number of improvements.
The order calls for delivery in Oec-
tober and November. There ' are
enough orders on the books of the
company to keep its plant in partial
operation to December 1. The plant
has not been working up to capacity
for several months, owing to the gen-
eral dullness of the railroad equip-
ment business.
300 Families Homeless.
, master plumber of the
Pennsylvania Lines West, who shot
himself accidentally while hunting
near Woo r, O., is in a critical con-
dition. His right foot had to be am-
putated.
Judge J.
A. Kohler, of Akroa;, O.,
=~
by build-
ing and loan associations above the
not be collected.
Fire completely destroyed the ce-
ment plant of the Struthers Furnace
Company, five > EY
town, O. The
,000
Oho looted the je
| We. 0. Wi Hexen at Cosh a Forest fires have destroyed the
escaped without I lue. | hamlet of Little Bay, N. F., and 300
The Big Four is planning to shorten | families are homeless. Two men
I and In- have been drowned. The steamer
ine between
Prospero embarked the women and
for Harn children. The men are fighting the
Hous- | flames in an effort to prevent the
th {oing | fire from covering a wider area. The
| government is providing food, shel-
fer and other assistance.
muel Walke a > | oan
er, TO net =" The Paraguayan revolutionists have
from apoplexy. 70 | captured Villa Conception and 400
vears old and liv | men with arms and ammunition.
International Mercantile Agency, now |
|
7
ployed by the Pressed Steel Car Com- |
pany at Schoenville went on a strike |
They have been |
for ordinary and
|
improvements in the Alliance yards. |
the head- |
lin & Rand powder works, two miles
east of Punxsutawney, Pa., instantly
killing one map, seriously injuring |
Leonard Bair
man, unme
The injuried a
| intendent of the pr
er; William Vandyke, engineer, will
recover; : Sheridan Calhoun, beiler
tende ‘beliey ved to be fatally hurt.
The press room, about 40 feet
was totally destroyed. Leon-1
ard Bair was in the building at the |
time of the explosion. When his
body was recovered from the ruins
it was found part of his head had
been blown away. No other part of
his body was in the least mutilated.
The three other men were in an en- |
gine room 200 feet from the press
room. Each was severely cut and |
bruised by flying debris, and all were
knocked unconscious by the force of
| the explosion.
Other buildings in the factory en-
closure. were wracked, and every |
building within a mile wag damaged.
The residence of Powder Boss Spe-
21 years old, a wheel-
z killed.
l.ot Bair, super-
mill, will recov-
rieq,
a 06( a h 9 or . wn k c 3 o
which brought 2 20 60 passengers in the | | $2.25 for flat cars. _ They ask ‘forall 4 2000 feet from .the plant, was
"| steerage, in addition .te 671 in the | uniform scale of $2.25. l'ruined. The Speno family is visiting
i Ttsige ohii 24 : : Sh a Gi
cabins, axing ? toral os 124 DEI | The Pennsylvania Company has the | in New Jersey, and the house was
Sons a 1C I U¢ crew 1 Pry ay “iv :
sons on board, including . work well under way for extensive | unoccupied. In many homes every
window glass in the house was shat-
tered.
The shock of the explosion caused |
every building in Punxsutawney to
| tremble on its foundation.
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TRAGEDY OF GRAND BANK.
Thirty-One of Fishing Crew Lost, One |
by One, While Trawling. f
The Canadian Schponer Troop, from
the Grand Banks fishing grounds, re-
ports that on Fon) 20 the fishing
schooner Coleraine reported having |
spoken a French barkentine, name un-
known, 170 miles off Cape Race with
only three men left out of a crew of
34, the others having been lost while
fishing with their dories.
The French Captain begged Captain
Zimmerman to board his vessel and
help him to reach this port, but the
weather was too stormy
compliance with this request, and it |
is feared that the French vessel and |
the remainder. of her crew have per-
ished.
Fire Destroys 180 Hogs.
The large packing plant of Street |
and Cockran, in Baltimore, was total-
ly destroyed by fire, the loss being |
estimated at $125,000. The buildings,
a large stock of meats and 180 hogs
were entirely consumed. Several
firemen received minor injuries, none
serious. The fire was caused by the
explosion of ammonia tanks.
RUSSIAN SHIP DESTROYED.
Strikes Mine While Clearing Chan-
nel at Port Arthur.
A Russian steamer engaged in clear-
ing the channel at Port Arthur struck
a mine and was destroyed last
Wednesday.
Safe Crackers Make $1,000 Haul.
Safe crackers robbed the safe in
Etham’s furniture house, Titusville,
Pa. of more than $1,000 in cash. and
came near wrecking the building.
{ gotiations
| Ow
to permit! ger at Pekin.
GOOD WEATHER FOR CROPS.
Corn Shows Decided
Outlook for:Apples Promising.
The weather bureaus weekly sum-
mary of crop conditions is as follows:
While the latter part of the week
was abnormally ool in the Ohio val-
ley, lower lake region, Middle Atlan-
tic States and New England, the tem-
perature, as a whole, was favorable
for maturing crops. Occasional
showers occurred in Central Califgr-
nia, and there was more than the
usual rainfall in the Western plateau
districts. Freezing temperature. is
reported from Central Wyoming and
light frosts from Colorado, Montana
and portions of Ohio, Pennsylvania
Improvement.
has prevented rapid development of
corn in the Ohio valley and lake re-
gion, the crop as a whole has exper-
ienced decided improvement. Much
of that prostrated by winds in the
previous aveek in Indiana and Iilinois
is straightening. Early corn has al-
ready matured in Southern Missouri
and is ripening rapidly in Nebraska
and South Dakota, cutting being in
progress in the first named State and
in Kansas. The week was practi-
cally rainless in the spring wheat re-
gion of Minnesota and the Dakotas,
affording favorable weather for harv-
esting and thrashing. Some early
wheat in the northern portion of
North Dakota is yet unripe, and rust
is still damaging late wheat in that
State, and much of the crop will not
be cut. Disappointing yields are
generally reported from Idaho, Wash-
ington and Oregon.
The outlook for apples continues
promising in New England, New York
and the upper lake regions, but unfa-
vorahle reports continue {rom the
States of the central valleys. Ex
cept in portions of New England ull
the Middle Atlantic States, where
| blight and rot are reported to a great-
| er or less extent, an excellent crop of
i potatoes
is indicated. Good prog-
ress has been made with fall plowing
throughout the central valleys and
Middle Atlantic States.
KONGO STATE BUILDS FORTS.
| Believed to Apprehend a German
. Invasion.
Official information: from PEritish
Central Africa, ‘says that the Kongo
| Free State is constructing forts of
considerable magnitude on the west-
ern shore of Lake Tanganyika and
that one of these forts,
equipped with 20 guns,
hours of the German Irontier. It
is believed that the Belgians appre-
hend a German invasion. A number
of natives who are German subjects
have been expelled from the Kongo
Free State. It is understood that ne-
regarding the matter are
proceeding between Berlin and
Brussels.
The west shore of Lake Tanganyika
belong to the Kongo Free State, the
south shore to the British Central
Africa and the east shore to German
Hast Africa. The area of the lake
is estimated at 14,000 square miles.
TWO WERE KILLED.
Ran Away and Dashed
Train at Crossing.
A horse driven by Dr. and Mrs. A.
G. Miner, ran into a Baltimore and
Ohio passenger train at Tod avenue
crossing, Warren, O., and they were
both killed. Flagman John Cohen
Horse into
| made futile efforts to prevent the aec-
cident, but the driver could not con-
trol the fractious horse. Mr. Miner
was a prominent physician, 68 ‘years
old, and his wife was 65 years old.
Both had large property interests in
Niles, their former home. No chil-
dren Survive them.
‘FIND. GREAT GOLD MINE.
Japan Preparing * Open Fields Esti-
mated Worth Half a Billion.
Following an ‘inspection
has issued a proclamation making
complete preparation to develop gold
fields recently = discovered in the
province of Iwate. The engineers
estimate that these fields will yield
gold to the value of $500,000,000. It
is estimated that the annual yield of
the mines will be $15,000,000.
TROUBLE IN CHINA.
Boxerism Revived and Missionaries
Flee for Protection.
A revival of boxerism is reported
from Tamingfu, in the southwestern
part of Pechili province, 215 miles
from Tientsin. Aver 200 American
missionaries, . including women and
children, have been obliged to evacu-
ate Tamingfu owing to an intended
massacre on the part of the boxers,
who call themselves “Tsaiyun.”
The telegraph company refused to
transmit a message from these mis-
sionaries to American Minister Con-
Fortunately, however,
an English friend ‘in Honan forward-
ed their message, whereupon Yuan
Shika, viceroy of Pechili province,
dispatched urgent orders for their
protection.
‘In view of the fact that the local
authorities gave them .no protection
and there was no hope of continuing
their work, the missionaries came
out. They traveled in safety.
|
Fifteen head of horses were burned
in a fire which destroyed the stables
of Charles Marshall, on Lake street,
Allegheny.
Church to Sell Live Stock.
The trustees of the United Pre esby-
| terian Church at Taylorstown, Pa.
| have devised a mew way to raise
money .to repair their chureh. A big
| harvest home picnic is to be held in
foe Snodgrass woods. After dinner
there is to be an auction sale of live
{ stock and other articles which have
been contributed by members of the
church and others. Already a big
tS
lot of stock has been donated, be-
sides many useful articles for farm
use.
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