Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905, August 11, 1904, Image 3
ARE DRIVING them ourj GREAT FIGHT ON ARMY IN DANGER DEAD MAN IS mourned spread rumors of fall' fTTEs i i fltTOBY tTIEMUING THE JATA KKE AbVAMfc. fiaaalaaa R,lat bnrtnolr, Bat r au!e la iUd.t aaparlar Fut -Uehua of Port Ar bar Takrn. TOKIO. -General Kurokl has ad tniolstered a severe defeat to the Russian force which defended the Russian east flank at Llao Yang, winning separate actions at Yushu iikzu and Y.Dgsa pass. These two places are tweuty-six milts apart, but the two atclons were fought at the same time. Tb Russians held itrong positions. The thermometer registered over HOdigrees Fahren beit and the soldiers suffered cruelly from heal eihaustlon. At Ymhilikzu tb Russians had two divisions of Infantry aud some artillery and U.ey resisted the Jap anese assaults vigorously. Both attacks were begun at dawn on Sunday, July 31. At Yushiiikxu the Japanese carried the Russian left wings, but on account of the strength of the Russian position th-y were unable to pros the attack The two armies rested .Sunday night facing each other. Stock Yards Goasip. OMAHA Neb. -The strike at the packing houses Of Chicago, Karsas City, South Omaha and other points shows no sen of a discontinuance. However, tha packers claim that they ate In better shapu than tlx y were a week ago and that they are now able Vi luridly without serious delay the moderate amount of sloe which Is arriving The packing houses are not In a position to prepare all the stock which normal receipts would bring to them, but each day a few more men are adJed to the number of employed and they are gradually getting back to their normal capa city. While the strike has extended to the skilled trades employed at the packing houses, enough experienced butcher are arriving from country points to take the places of the strikers, so that it will be but a short time before the olants at South Omaha, at least, can be run at nor mal capacity. Fill Their Places. CHICAGO. With Increased forces of skilled workers and their operat ing department more thoroughly equipped than at any time since the beginning' of the strike, the em ployers took a tlrm grip on the ma chinery of their affairs, and as a re sult the stock yards took on the old hum of activity to a great extent. Over 78,000 head of live stock was received hce. This Is an mcreasi of .19,00". head oer the receipts on a corresponding day last week. Such normal conditions have had a de pressing effect on the market, and when the train loads of animals began to pour into the yards stock men and traders feared a panlo but It did not occur. Bad as Toe Slocum. NEW YORK. -An Inspector who made a partial examination of the excursion steawur Grand Republic told the federal commission which Is Investigating the General Slocum disaster that the life-saving and lire fighting apparatus on the Grand Re public Is practically worthless. This steimerlsa sister ship to the Gen eral Slocum, which was burned in East river several weeks ago at a w of nearly a thcusand lives. She is Off tied by the Knickerbocker Steam ship company, which also owned the Slocorn. Divorced Man a Suicide. M'COOK. Nchr. -Sheriff Crabtrce, County Attorney Eldred and Coro ner Harlan of this city were sum moned to Danbury, this county, by a telegram annonunclog the death be suicide of Henry Snyder, a butcher who was divorced from his wife at the last term tf district court In this county. Snvder blew the top of bis head off with a shot gun and was found dead In his bed in a room in the rear of Is meat market. Speculators Expelled. KANSAS CITY, Mo. Five cattle speculators at the Kansas City stock yards were expelled '.from the Kansas City traders' exchange at a meeting of that organization. They wete chanted with "unbusinesslike con duct," In conspliing with three for mer welghmaslcrs of the stock yards company for the purpose of defraud ing country live stock buyers and commission men. Band II a Have Escaped PORTAGE, Pa. The aearch fot tbe highwayman who held up and probably fatally shot Paymaster Campbell and killed bis drlver.IIayea, a ems to he almost hopeless at far aa this plac la concerned. All night nd day a posse of men between 600 tod 600, surrounded Cedar swamp, where the fugitives are iuppoaed to be. However, many of the guard have returned and say the belief Ir that the Italians have escaped. Dr-t'lslVK KNOAUfcMKNT Or WAS uu'uam Btio ST. PETERSBURG EXCITED GETS SKITS OF riKRCK BATTLE UK toOTH KIULS. ttlmaHioMu Admn Ordarad hj tian eral Karokl Koiilim Dumb founded at Ntnnglh shown by Kuanij. LON DON. A dispatch to a news agency from Tokio says 'here is rea son tu believe that after two days' lighting the Japanese occupied Slmoucheng, thus cutting off Gen eral Stackenuerg from General Kuro patklo. ST. PETERSBURG. At last the decisive battle of tbe campaign seems to be In progress. Having completed his enveloping movement of thn Russian position, General Kurokl has ordered slmultineously an advauce from all points against Hal Cheng and Llao Yang. Fight ing is raging on both fronts, and still continues. The latest reports contain nothing yet confirmatory of the rumors t hat General Kuropat- kio lias been defeated. According to Kur.-.p;tkin's official dispatch to tbe emperor, the battle began fir the possession of the Important position at Slouchong, whirl) is located at the juncture of the Feng Wang Cheng and Siuyen road. Two sep arate armies were launched from the east, above the two roads, while a third under General Oku, moved up east cf the railroad from Ta Tche Klao to try to cutoff the Russian force there from Hal Cheng. If the latter move Is successful this force will be crushBL por tion of General kuroio's army at the s'inie time advanced against General Count Keller's position at Dkhavuen, cast of Llao Yang, try ing the lavorlte Japanese plan of outft inking him on the light Still further north, on the Salmayszu Llao Yang road, the Japanese moved forward against H.iutsiatse, twenty 8vo ml'cs from Llao Yang. At ill points the Japanese employed ar tillery to tbe best advantage. General Kuropatkln's situation will bo desperate 1n the evtnt of I Is defeat. The keenest anxiety Is felt at the war ofllee for news of the pro gress of the battle. The general staff seems utterly dumbfounded at the number of men the Japanese possess, and conse quently Kuropalkltis' statement that they are landing another heavy f rce at tbe port of New Chwarg adds to the solicitude. Defies lhe Crowd. From tli RlntP. Journal. NKHRASKA CITY, Nobr.-The town was thrown Into the wlldist excitement over the report that Jack Cjrr, a carpenter, bad shot and killed Chris Hartland, a hostler at tbe Atlantic house. It seems that Hartman was drawing water when Carr came up and shot blm four times without any provocation or even giving blm warning. Carr boarded at the hotel, but tbe men had never bad any trcuble. After shooting Hartman Carr went up to bis room in tbe hotel and locked the door. The police came and went upstairs and as soon at they tried the door Carr began shooting. He shot Chief of Police Schoonover In the right band and the officer had to retire Tor help, but Officer John Ingram stayed and when the murderer showed bis head out of the do ir Ingram began shoot ing at him. While the murderer was using a shot gun the ofllcor had nothing but bis pistol. Carr was taken to the sheriff's ofllee where he lies, It Is thought, mortally wounded. His victim, Hartman, died In less than twenty minutes after he was shot. It Is not thought that Carr can live. Carr Is said to be a user of cocane, and has beco acting strangely for sometime. Ills victim is a German, tlfly five years of age and Inoffensive. There are threats of lynching if Carr should survive. Bandita Cornered in a Swamp PORTAGE, Fa.-Pursucd by 600 oien, the three men who murdered Charles Hayes, driver, and perhaps fatally wounded Patrick F. Camp bell, paymaster for the Puritan Coal comoanr. about a mile south of this glade, are In biding in Cedar swamp. Small Tornado in Kansas KANSAS C1TY.-A small tornsdo and heavy rains prevailed in portions of Kansas and Oklahoma. Ten miles north of Norton, Kas., a totnado wrecked several farm buildings nesr tbe Nebrssta line, and killed a oumber of head of live stock. No person was hurt. Near Sallna, and Wellington. Kas., and Alva, Okla., t heavy rsm amounting to nearly (wo Inches fell and probably will benefit train. . routes or general kibopat KIM IM GKAI'I CIlRIL MUST FIGHT OR GO NORTH fAPAKI.SE CAX BEfirr HI AT AL MOST ANY TLB. Tract jror by t bin Nerchaat Pro neuoi'M Port Art our Marljr tfurriudwd tf lh ( rneuded. ST. PETERSBURG. -Although public attention has been distracted from tbe events of tbe war during tbe past week, first, because Of the fear of international compllcatlcns and second, because of the assassination of Minister of the Interior von Plehve, the situation at the front Is regarded as critical. The inoveloping movement of the Japanese armies of Kuropl and Oku around Genearl Kuropatkln's posi tion appears to be almost complete and tbe extended line of the Japan ese seem to be the only drawback to concerted action. It Is realized here that the Rossi in General must now either tight or withdraw the whole army northward. lie is being closely pressed at Hal Cheng. At the piesent General Kurokl's north ern column makes it extremely dan gerous to emaiu there, because while holding the position to give battle against the Japanese whose advance Is notoriously slow and careful, Gen eral Kurokl might push through and cut his. LONDON. The correspondent of the Dally Miil at New Chwang in a dispatch dated July 31 says that there has been heavy lighting for two days In the marshes south of Hal Cheng during the gradual re treit from Ta Tcho Kla-of 5,0(0 Russians forming the rear guard and that tbe peril of this force Increases dally. CUE FOO. A Japanese merchant has received word from a Chi ruse whom he trust to the elTect that Japanese have occupied every posi tion surrounding the be-leged for tress of Port Arthur with the ex ception of Golden Hill. The Chinese stated that both sides suffered tre mendous loss in the operations neces sary to bring about this slate of affairs. The members of trie Hus slao Intelligence bureau here, wblle denying the report that Port Arthur has been captured, are Inclined to believe the reports true to the ex tent that the Japanese have made great progress in their approaches toward the besieged fortress. The hotly of Russian refugees expected here today have not as yet arrived. Fatal Affray at St. Louis. FAST ST. LOUIS. 111. While Deputy SberlfT Louis litiurke was making an arrest William Langhlin, who Is said to be a strike sym pathizer, thinking that Knurke was arresting a striker Interfered, and liourke drew a revolver and shot McLaughlin, killing him instantly. A short time later, two unidenti fied negroes, said to be employed by the packing lnuses to take the place of strikers, became Involved In a quarrel with Otto Swartz and Bud McCandless, striking employes of Swift k Co. One of the negroes tired several shots and the white men were badly wounded In the legs. A pnsse of deputy sheriffs Is searching for the negroes 'lucre is no change inlheslrlke situation cither In this city or East Sr. Louis. The packers still say they are killing with added numbers of strikers returning to worn, while the men who are out declare their number has not been repleted by desertions. Martial Law at Bonesteel. HUN ESTEEL, S. D. Troops have been requested by Sheriff Taylor aud Governor Herreld hai agreed to send them. "From August 8 until Sep tember 10 the filing period, this town will be under martial law. The militia will arrive next week aud he on hand when the tiling begins. The guards are considered necessary to protect 1300,000 which will be brought to town each day. Sheriff Taylor formally takes charge here. It has been planned to meet every tr iln during tbe filing period with soldiers. Every passenger will be stopped at the town gates and made to prove tbat his business is legiti mate. To Stop the Deportations. DENVER, Col. -Attorneys II. N. Hawkins and John II. Murphcy, counsel for the western federation of miners, are dlvislng ways and means to enable the deported Cripple Creek miners to return to their homes. Papers are being drawn and applica tion will be made to some court, for an injunction restraining tbe cltl sen's alliance and mine-owners from Interfering with any deportees who return to tbe Cripple Creek district. IZR rKKStST IJf ITR-OM AUD VW-Lr AKFt-CTKJ. la Removed From flotuital to Mmb Cell Appointment of Mi-er This Wrck ST. PETERSBURG. M. voo Plehve, toe minister of the Interior assassinated Thursday morLlng July 2H, was burled tbe 31st and io every city of this vast empire church bells were tolled and masses and prayers said for tbe repose of the s iul of tbe murdered minister. The services here, which were ac cording to the rites of the orthodox church, were of an impressive and I posing character. At 11 o'clotk high mass was said in the statelv chapel adjoining the ministry of the Interior. Emperor Nicholas and tbe dowager empress stood with the broken hearted widow aud tbe child ren of the minister at the foot of a great mound of flowers on which rested the casket. To the right, on gold embroidered cushions, before a mass of wreaths banked to the cell ing were ranged the decorations which had been won by the states man during his notable career. To the left were the metropolitan of St. Petersburg and the officiating bish ops and priests In tbeir gold-em-blazonej vestmenls. A screen of dowers concealed the famous Imper ial boys' choir. Henvy Floods In the West KINGMAN, All?.. Heavy rains In the mountains east of Troxton sent down a wall of water thirty feet ilgh thioiii.'li the canyon, washing out the Santa Fe railroad tracks, embankments, bridges, telegraph po.es and ever) thing movable for a distance of twelve miles. Great steel bridges were taken from their foundations and piled up against the walls of the canyon. Massive stine abutments were crumbled and car ried away. RENO, Ncv. A wave of water averaging live feet In depth swept over Douglas and Slvler Peak, near Snodaviile, Nevada, due to a clood burst. On account of Interrupted communication it can not be learned whether any lives were lost In the (lood, though it Is known that a school house, three or four residences and a number of barns and smaller buildings fcave been swept away. The people of Sodavllle are now pre paring to flee to higher ground, having been warned that the Im mense body of water Is beaded to ward tbat towD. Held Up on the Highway. PORTAGE, Pa. -Charles Hayes, a driver employed by the Puritan Coal company, was shot and killed and 1'atncK tjampneii, tne enmpanys' paymaster, was fatally wounded by three men, who escaped after tak ing a satchel containing 13,000 with which It was intended to pay the coal company's employes at Puritan. The two men were passing In a buggy when the robbers, armed with shotguns, emerged from the woods near the road and fired at them. Armed posses are seeking the robbers and threatening to lynch them if captured. Campbell said he thought their assailants were Italians. Tbey began to use their shotguns, he said, be fore he and Hayes, who were both armed could get out their revolvers. Paves Way to Violations. WASHINGTON. --The comptroilei of the treasury is disposed to put a stop to open market purchases by government officials, except when they clearly come within the letter of tbe law. Io disposing of the ac counts of Pay Director Thomspoo, in charge of the Portsmouth, N H., pay office for the fiscal year 1903, In which open market purchases amounting to several hundred thous and dollars are shown, the comp troller says: "The purpose of advertising is to Invite competition by notifying those who have the desired articles for sale on tbe terms and conditions upon which the government will purchase. Experience has taught us that purchases should be made in no other time and circumstances admit of this method, but when this precaution Is generally neglect ed by a department fraud and scandle almost always follow as a matter of course." Collision Causes Death. NEW IIAVKN, Conn. -The White Mountain express from New York bound nortb over the New York, New Haven Si Hartford, ran Into a freight train at Cedar Hill station. Engineer Mclotosb Sellolowref of the express wai killed. The fireman was very badly hurt, and the baggagemaster on tbe train was slightly Injured. No passenger, It la said, waa in-lured. PORT A BTUl'K REPOKTKU TAKES BY I JAt-Ajt:E Biothing at Iondon Up to Midnight to frora It Trua Hear? Fighting Known, However, tif I .and nd On lb Seo. 6HANGHAI.-A telegram re ceived here from Wei Hal Wei con firms other telegrams received here from Cbe Foo to tbe effect that Port Arthur bas been captured. Tbe Wei Hal Wei telegram says also tbat the Brilisb fleet, which bas been cruising, will return there to morrow. At Wei Hal Wei there is a British wireless telegraph station, and the British warships are equipped with this means of communication. It is possible tbat Wei Hal Wei has been in wireless communication with tbe fleet and that the infor mation of the fall of Port Arthur was received In this manner. LONDON. A dispatch to Reuter's telegram company from Wei Hal Wei dated Friday says: "It Is supposed here that Port Arthur has been recaptured, as the British fleet is returning here Sat urday." Presumably this report is from the same source as the dispatch from Shanghai, reporting a Wei Ilai Wei rumor that Port Arthur bas fallen. Ihe only basis for the repoit known here is that when liussia no longer occupies Port Ar thur, iiie British ty the treatv, will evacuate Wei Ilai Wei to remove the stores, etc. from that place. The British China sea squadron left Wei Ilai Wei July 8 bo as not to be too near the scene of hostilities, owing f the fear that its presence n ar the gulf of Chili might be in terpreted as giving moral support to the Japanese. On July 18 the fleet was cruising In Yurg Cheng bay, sixty-three miles southeast of Che Foo. Yung Cheng bay is about thirty miles southwest of Wei Hal Wei. Helps Them to Get Away. EL PASO. Texas. Three Mexican prisioners charged with murdering ana robbing American prospectors In j Senora have escaped at Agua Prelta, a border town In Senora oppnsite Douglas, Arizona. It is said a woman liberated them after giving tbe guards liquor with which they became Intoxicated. Van Shaick is Indicted NEW YORK.-Captain Van Schaick and Federal Steamboat In spector Fleming and Former In spector Lundberg were indicted by the federal grand Jury in connection with the disaster to the General Slocum on June 15 last when nearly one thousand lives were lest. Van Schaick was tbe commander of tbe General S'ocum. United States District Attorney Burnett said tbat Indictments also were reported against President Barcbay, Secretary Atkinson and Treasurer Dexter of the Knicker bocker Steamboat company and Capt. John Pease the com mod ire of the company's fleet. Deported a Second Time CRIPPLE CREEK, Col.-Eatrlck McCarvel, one Of the men wbc were deported over the Kansas line by I the military early io June, returned I to Victor, where he owns property, ,, i ,i j , i mciuoing a sinaii nan Him a uusmesn block valued at 125,000. When Mc Car.vel stepped from the train he was taken In charge by Maj. II. A. Naylor, acting city marshal. McCarvel was allowed to attend to some business affairs, when be was placed on board the first outgoing train, with a warning tbat in future police protection would not be afforded him should be again return. Sheriff Power In Control OMAHA, Neb.-Sherlff Power swore In fifty-two deputies and went to South Omaha, where he took charge cf the strike situation, re lieving tbe South Omaba police of that duty. The sheriff, however, is working In connection with tbe police officials, and the deputies ' were assigned to different parts of the stock yards by Chief Briggs, i who placed them at adraotaglous places. j The first action of Sheriff Power I was to cause the arrest of thirty-two j men brought here from Colorado to j act as special officers. They were as vagrants and Mie authorities say they will be forced to return to Colo rado. Riot at Kansas City KANSAS CITY, Mo. -A riot oc curred In front of the Fowler pack- I Ing plant when a mob of five hundred strikers attacked a gang of non J union men wbo wcte leaving the plant. Stones were thrown and two I of tbe atrlkebreakcrs were Injured. John Richardson, was moss severely I hurt, sustaining a acalp wound and bruises. He was carried Inside and attended by a surgeon. A negro waa truck by a atone and severely Injured. Owing to tbe continuous rains the Salem Cbatauqua bas been called off. It was to have been held from Jul 23 to 31 inclusive. Edward J. Ryan, wbo bad been teiegrapb operator at tbe B. & M. round house for a long time, Died at tbe city hospital in Lincoln after aa illness of only twelve hours. G. R. Strotle was examined by tbt commissioners of insanity at Fair bury and sent to the hospital lor tbe insane at Lincoln. His unfortu nate condition is said to be at tributed to worry. Tbe southbound Union Pacific train due at Beatrice at 0:10 p. m. was delayed several hours one day last week by tbe engine tender leaving tbe tracks between Cortland and Pickerell. Tb3 3-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Zeel of Papllllon bad her hand badly burned and biuised and all tbe flesh torn from the middle finger by catching hold of a moving rope which was attached to a bay loader. During a bard storm tbe barn of George L. Coon, three miles west ol Falls CHy was struck by lightning. One horse was killed and consider able damage was done to tbe build ing. Mr Coon was near the barn at the time and received a shock, but no permanent Injury. The will of the late Alexander Mclntyre of Palmyra was admitted to probate in tbe county court at Nebraska City. The estate is valued at over $20,000 He bequeaths to Bellevieu college, Bellevieu, Neb., !2,0(0. Tbe remainder of the estate is left to his wife, brother and sis ters. Joseph W. Scott Is named In the will as executor. A well attended temperance meet ing was held at the Brethren church at Falls City. Those ptesent wire highly entertained and instructed by talks by W. H. Maddox, who has )ust returned from the national con vention at Indianapolis; Rev. Sel Ingh and Mrs. Sargent. Tbe tem perance cause is growing in this city and considerable good work li being done. Saturday, Ausust 8, will be a gals day at Firth. Tbe M. W. A. camp No. 39(56 is to hold a big log rolling anrl nlpnip. f?nnri fine;iipra a.111 ha on band. Tbe Panama band will furnish music for the occasion and Prof. Seidell's orchestra the muslo for the dance both afternoon and evening. Prof. Sexton will give a balloon ascension and parachute leaj). There will be games, sports and amusements of all kinds. Otto Mutz, son of A. C. Mutz. a nurseryman, of Auburn had a nar row escape from being run over by the cars at the Missouri Pacific depot. Young Mutz drove in be tween two tracks to unload some peaches and while there bis team became frightened at an engine that was switching on tbe other track. Mutz tried to control them but could not so be started to drive across the track, but before he got across tbe train struck bis wagon and completely demolished it. Muts escaped by Jumping. Tbe team was not hurt. Tbe Bartling Grain company's elevator at Paul, seven miles south of Nebraska City, burned to the ground. The origin of tbe tire is unknown, but is supposed to have started in tbe boiler room. Tbe interior of the elevator was a mass cf flames when tbe fire was discover ed, and as the village bas no fire apparatus tbe building burned to the ground in a short time. The build ing and its contents are a total loss, which will amount to about li,000, and is fully covered by insurance. President Bartling of the grain com pany says the elevator will be rebuilt as soon as possible and tbe work of clearing away tbe debris will begin at once. Henry Keller, living a few miles Aaof n r Wa hrtrt mat tsn.r.li n ill ra a vunv v T u i J JJ ill lb " 1 biJ wa serious accident wblle be was haul ing sand from tbe pit to his farm. He had hauled one load and had returned for another, and while shoveling In a pit tbe bank caved In, covering blm with about two and a half feet of sand. Mr. J. S. Ault, owner of the sand pit, saw the acci dent and went to bis assistance. It took blm Bome time to dig hlaa out hut when he was taken on be was found to be to a criti cal condition. He was taken to a doctor and It wap found tbat two ribs had been btoken and tbat ha bad very neatly suffocated. It if thought tbat be will recover. Tbe fair for Seward county tbli year w'll be beld daring the last week in September A large barn li to be built on tbe grounds and otber Improvements are on tbe pro gram. Tbe association la out of debt and bal about 11,000 in tba treasury. Tbe farmers this ye are taking more Interest In the en terprise than heretofore. Tbe busi ness men of tba town bave alto placed their shoulders to tbe wheel to make tbe meetlur a hummer.