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rf TWO BIG ARMIES !
( NOW LOCKED IN A DEATH STRUG
GLE FOR SUPREMACY.
THE SECOND DAV'S CONFLICT
Nearly Half a Million Men d
In i1 Battle That May Mean a C.'ur.h.
" : ' ) , . . . Ing Defeat for One Side or the '
Other
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S'l' PETERSBUHO-Wllh the
knowledge that the Russian and Jap
1 "nese armies about I.lao' Yang are I
t locked In death struggle ] the tension
In St Petersburg lEI' strained 10 the
I utmOfit. It Is believed here that the I
fight cannot stop short of the crushing .
Ing defeat of one side or the othct'
All reports so far arc favorable to
thn Russians , though the suspension
at nil news for many hours has been
exceedingly trying ! and has given rise
to several ! rumors , somewhat tempoI"
'ng ' , the earlier cnthuslaHm It II
stated officially , however , that the report '
port that the railway and telegraph
have been cut north oC Llao Yang Is
1. untrue
A member of the general staff said !
to the Associated Press at midnight :
f , "I I can assure you that up to this hour
r" communication with Llao Yang has
. not icon Intt'rruptetJ Genci'al Kuro
, I patkin has taken particular precautions . .
Ions t against any attempt 10 cut the
. , . rallwR While it Is always possible
' " that. a ! mall raiding party might slip
through the Russian patrol or that
; hired Chinese bandits might cut the
wire , It Is a fair supposition that this
has not been 110ne "
The highest ] military authorities
here consider that the most critical
stage ot the battle has not "ct been
reached , and they believe the fight
, may continue for some time before
nlther side acknowledges defeat. This
ia an important consideration hr the
light of which 10 interpret any im
. . . . . . .r , mediate neWt It Is thought here ] that
In view or the numbers engaged : , the
desperateness of the assaults and the
length oC the line ( about seven miles ) .
I the losses In the two dl\rs' : fighting
cannot fall short of 10,000 on each
lilde Both sides arc straining every
, nerve , realizing ] that the fortunes of
WAr for a whole ] year are In the scale ,
and neither side Is In the mood 01' the
.
, position to spare men In the effort to
achieve a final vlctorj'
_ The battle of Llao Yang will probably .
ably rank as one of the great sanguinary .
ary battles of hlstol"Y It Is estimated
bj' the general staff tint the Japan
esn armies engaged number seventeen .
' teen divisions cf 15,000 men each ,
01' allowing for Inefficlents , about
. . 40,000 men Each division has thirty-
, ' " six guns , and there are two independ
, eat artillery \ brigad.s of 100 guns
. each , making u total of about 800 guns
, The estimates of Russian correspondents .
spondcnts range at from 600 to 1,000
. , ' . ' t , guns per side
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; " . In the preliminary fighting on Monday -
t. day the Russians captured 200 prisoners -
: ; , ' : ' onel'S , who have already arrived at
Harhln , and report persists that they
. . . captured over forty Japanese suns 'es'
terday
General Kuropatldn's effective
forces are variously estimated at from
170,000 to 200.000 men
The Japanese Wednesday morning '
attacked three sides of the Russian po-
Rltlon. One oC the Associated Pre
' , ' " . correspondents also mentions a Japanese ,
. -0 anese movement to the northeast oC
-
J' i'f' * Llao Yang , showing that the Japan
ese were undoubtedly trying to work
" around Kuropatkln's rcal' r ,
, , . . - - One ot the surprising phases oC the
situation Is the endurance of the men
They have been engaged desperately
for two days , after : more or less severe
"Pore fighting under unfavorable condl'
tions every day sInce August 24. It
would seem that human endurance
f could not persist much longer ] without
respite of some sort !
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A CLOSE CONGRESS.
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Chairman Babcock Discusses the Political .
IItical Outlook
WASHINGTON-Chnlrman Joseph
W. Babcock oC the republican congressional '
Alonal committee expressed the opinion .
Ion that the present Is the closest !
congressional campaign ho has ex
l1erlencell since 18f1S
"What are thG conditions which
make the campaign closer this year
than It. has been since 1S98 ? " 1\11'
Babcock was all.etl. :
"Thoy differ ; 11 iOlllltles , " he 1'0'
eponded "In some the conditions 1'0.
suit from the character of the national : .
I tlonal cl1npalgn In others the con-
dltlons are almost entirely ] ocal. ]
Then , In Home cases , the difficulty is
over the kind of men for cqngress
"In Nebraska ' six
! : ! , where there are
members of the house to light for ,
the democrats lye ! aballlloncd the
national campaign They have fused
with the populists 011 the legislative
tickets , but nol on presidential elec- ]
tors We redeemed four of those
districts two years ago , hilt they have
been going one way or he I oilier by
very narrow margins-not. hj' 200 01'
300 or 400 , bill in some Instances hy
twelve 01' fifteen 01' twenty \'otes
Now , the congressional committee
has to go In there without the usual
support from the national ] commit-
tee "
'fhm'l : II nor much Interest In Campaign .
lalrn literature , " continued Nr. Bab- .
cocle. "We are sending out speeches
on the tariff and Rome matter relating .
ing 10 the Panama canal ; ; also 1\ few
democratic speeches , like that of
Bourke Cochran , on the tariff nut
We have not had 1\ real campaign or
e since 1896 I have never
sent out RI many documents In any
one year as then ,
"We expect to have a good deal of
speaking There are about a dom
of the leading republican members or
the house on whom we are reylng ]
Chief among them , of course , Is
Speaker Cannon , who Is a splendid
vote getter on the slump , lie Is going
to start out soon by special train and
will he accompanied on a part of his
I trip bj' Representative Watson of In-
liana and on the rest oC his trip by
Representative Adam Dede or lh1l1c.
sota. "
CONTENDING FOR SUPREMACY.
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The Two Great Armies Now In Deadly
, Conrli , : t.
LONDON-.A dispatch from Line
Yang to' n news agency says :
"The Japanese artillery fire only
ceased at 8 o'clock this enmlng The
casualties have not been : lSC , rttined. : ?
"The Third Russian corps ) repulsed
a hot Japanese assault , the Japanese
being hurled back by bayonet charges ,
first by the Twentr.tbjl'd , and then
hy the Twer.tj'fonrth regiment , which
repulsed the enemy 110 less than six
times
"Two Tapanese companies which
succeeded In occupying a Russian position .
sltlon were mistaken for Russians and
annihilated by Japanese artillery fire.
"At 4 o'clock In the afternoon the
, Japanese concentrated their fire un n
Russian southern detachment and also
tried to outflank the detachment from
the right under the protection of the
hatteries
"One company after another was noticed -
ticed running swiftly to the westward
In an attempt to outflank the positions .
tions , but a Russian regiment and n
battery were ordered to advance and
succeeded III forcing tin enemy to
retreat In dl801'dedl' , evacuating positions -
tlons they previously had gahwd
"There has been an Immense expenditure
pendlture oC ammunition throughout
the dar , especially on the southern
front against the Russlan-'hlrd corps.
A "It is believed that the Russian
losses so Car have not been very heavy ,
except to the regiments which sus
tamed bayonet charge& & All the ; men
serving one Russian gun except one
were killed by shuvnel.
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\ NEBRASKA STATE NEWS
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THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA .
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The peach crop about HUl11bolc1t. IN
being harvested and Is very fine
A party Of twenty 1i'I'c11101tle1'H left l
'l'omont I to attend the conclave of
Knights Templar at San Ji'ranclsco
gl'vln Corey , the youngest Ron of
A. Corey , It prominent fal'merI'ln \
, north of Sutton , dropped lend < < while
playing In the j'1H'd
Announcement was mode 11 , the
populist state central committee that
Pr'csldentlnl Candidate Watson had
been secured to make four speeches ! In
the state during the camll\lgn
Miss Annetta Sprung , who taught
German In the high school at Platts-
p10uth Ins year , haH resigned to ac.
cept a similar position In the schools
of Lincoln No one has yet been selected .
lected to flll the \lClmcj'
Reuben Newton and Bill Bennett
broke jail at Butte , undoubtedly aH'
alsted , as the window bars w'reJrok. \ .
en from the outside and the locks on
the steel cages where the men were
confined were taken off and are mila
lng' Considerable damage was done
to the Jail
, John Wiggin . for thirty years 1\
resident oC ColumhuH , IA lying 1 ! at his
home In critical condition a8 the
result or a stroke of IlI\1'alj'slR His
Ilhj'slclans say that Iw has practically
no chance to l'eCO\I' dir. Wiggins
18 liii ' old and for '
i years , many years
was engaged In the live stock busl-
ness at Columbus
The farmers organized a branch or
'Farmers' exchange at nee , Seward
county , last week , with toO subscrib
ers The president Is 0 E. Redford ;
secretary , Jo' E Bek ; trustees , , I. E.
Ioravlc , 0 E Bedford and U. .1.
Batetlelder This Is the fifth branch
or the company to bo orrranlzcd In
Nehraska Other hranchcs are In
Richardson and Otoe counties
Two boys named Smith and .
Icy ! , whose homes arc near COl'tland ,
Jeft ] home about It week ago , taking a
team belonging to a relative of one
of lIlem They told their parents
that they were going to the Blue river
on a fishing trip and nothing has been
heard of them since their disappear- !
ance Sheriff rrrude has been requested
quested to join In thc search for them
The dedication of the new M E
church at Dorchester took llnce ] lust
sundaj' HeG , W. Abbott oC Geneva .
nO\'Il , Neh" , preached the dedicatory
bel'mon , At tine close of the sermon
thc pastor , He v , rl' , A. Hull , stated the
cost of the building to he 'fjOOO To
this the audience responded cheerfully ,
fully , and In just eight mlnuleR over
$0400 was raised and ' ' ' '
, everybody joined
In singing the doxologr
John L Pope , the engineer at the
Harris brick yard just south or Fremont -
mont , was caught in the fir wheel of i
his engine and ao badly Injured that
he died In a few minutes A boy bj'
the name oC Stout , who was lu the
engine room at the time , Rayn that
Pope turned on the steam a little and
then took hold of tire spokes 01' rim
of the fly wheel ] to start . it. lIe slipped .
pCII and his left arm went under the
belt , drawing his body \1P against the
wheel and breaking his ncck
There are 163 cases ! to go on thc
nupreme court docket for the Septem-
her term. This Is twenty-threc more
than the number of cases on the
docket for thc September term last
year , and proves ! ' conclusively that the
litigation In the supreme court , instead .
stead of failing ort , Is Increasing at
u. famous rate. With this great increase -
crease in the number oC cases which
must be disposed of , there Is a prospect -
pect or another glut such as that
which existed three years ago when
Il took the average litigant from two
to three rears to have his case determined -
mined In the supreme court
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ARGUE FOR ASSESSMENT RAISE ,
Attorney General Attempts to Defeat
the Church Howe Injunction.
A UBU fiN-Tho case ! wherein IIou
Church 110"0 obtained a t01l11101'r
' ' clerk
Injuncllln restraining the county
front extending ou the tax rolls the
Ii per cent increase made by the Stat ©
Board of Equalization dune on fOI'
hearing on tIle motion thou . hy tha
attorney general and county attorney
to dissolve the temporary order ho
fore , .ludgeV. ' , II , ellignl' or the d18 =
trlct. court. Attorney General Proul
and his deputy Norris ! : Brown together
el' with County Attorney Quac1ten.
hush , argued the case In support 01
time motion , and Edgar I.'erneau alit ?
n A. Lambert represented the plain ]
tiff. The first contention or the attorneys -
neY8 for the defense was lint tits
court had no jurisdiction of thin case :
that the hoard acted judicially , and
Its action waH final and coUld not he
ro\'lewetl by 1\ court of equity This
contention was overruled hr the court
which annonnced that In a proper
case It court of equity would grant
roller The case waR hen I argued on
the clllofliiou whether ! the petition
stated a cause for action fHIII a'lteth-
' there ' ' ' In the bill
eJ' was mummy equity ,
and on this 1luIHO Iho court tonic the
. case under advisement and will ron ,
clor sin early IleclHlon '
One of the con tentionmm of the 1'll\ln.
.
tiff ' : If ! that the authorities cannot lax
.
1\ man on IL valuation 01' his JH'OPOI'I
for more than the I.ruo'alue thereof ,
and that any law tint permits It , 01'
any attempt 10 do HO is illegal and
In violation of I hl constitution
The motion to dissolve ! II' In the na '
hire of a demlll'I'CI' , and the attorney
general announce < < l his intention
stand on his motion , should Il ho O\'CI'o
ruled and alto the case 10 the supreme
11'fme court , where he hopes / to get R
speedY hearing
Alleged Forger Arrested
YORK , Neh-On August 2:1 : n tuna
stopped at ho t 'sliIUr hotel and reg
IRtered as E. II , Seaman and 'WIfe lIe
remained one day and when he called
for his hill lll'csented check upon a
leading lumber ] firm of Davenport , la .
and payable at the CItizen ! : National
bank of that city. The draft waR
protested ] and the hunk notified herO
that It was a fOl'gcry 1\11' Miller at
once began the search for dine man
who al.rt1ed : his name E. H , Seaman.
lie was traced frolll here to HastlngR/
Sutton and Fall'l11ont , where he took
the train for 1"alrhlll'Y Tine sheriff
of Jefferson county was notified and
on his arrival at. that place he was
arrested and llll1ceel In Jail ,
FlaQman Has a Close Call.
KIM HNI Y-Gcorge Smith , n Union
Pacific Jlagnu\11 I1t the Central aver
rote crossing , met with a pulnful accident ,
cldent , and at the same time land an
exceedingly narrow escape from he
Ing crushed beneath th wheels of A
locomotl\'e He attempted 10 step
upon the pilot of I1n approal'h 10
comotl\'e nail missed his footle g. Ills
foot was caught beneath the pilot
and while he held on ho WaR dragged
for some distance , his foot hein _
turned and the side and tOll oC It
ground Into the gravel beneath th { :
pilot.
Wreck 8)1118 : Wheat
GHAl"TON-As a freight train
from the west was slowing ; lip ) for
this station a car of stone destined
here for street crossings , broke down
Four cars followlllg were demolished
and the contents. wheat and corn ,
scattered about. The front trucks
were torn from another car of wheat
I I which remained on the . track. Pas'
I senger train No 12 , coming just at.
terms the " "reclbacked to Sutton and
, went around by way of Lushton
