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Russia Is now counting hr chick
ens that were lost In the Tibetan
coup
A man who will put iron in a cork
life preserver would soap the horn at
a camp meeting
Third Secretary Journey now per
ceives that his idea of his own im
portance was an overestimate
Philadelphias fad is the cocktail on
wheels The cocktail on skates
would accord better with eternal fit
ness
Another Mullah is reported to be
loose in Somaliland But dont bo
deceived Insist on having the origi
nal Mad
Up in Vermont the rattlesnakes are
milking the cows Either that or the
Chefoo liar has established a branch
office there
The St Petersburg Novosti declares
that international law is a polite
myth well lets be glad its
polite anyhow
Its a cinch that the corset manufac
turers will put on a straight front
when it comes to a question of their
staying qualities
Tho death of Lafcadio Hearn is a
distinct loss to literature His talent
was exceptional perhaps it is not too
much to say unique
It is some indication of New Yorks
enormous thirst that she contem
plates the expenditure of 90000000
for a new water supply
John L Sullivan has again signed
he pledge John L could save a great
deal of valuable time by using a rub
ber stamp in his business
A contemporary philosopher ob
serves that you cant make your way
in this world by kicking Pernaps he
never saw a football game
Look out for bioscope pictures of
Vesuvius in action pretty soon now
No doubt dozens of men in this coun
try are already busy on them
The Hague conference might take
note of the fact that 95000 accidents
fatal and otherwise occurred on rail
roads in this country last year
Signs of the times When she is
carrying the package they are mar
ried When he is carrying one she is
thinking about getting a divorce
Poverty according to J G Phelps
Stokes of college settlement experi
ence in New York will one day cease
to exist So also in that day will
riches
It is a more hopeful and not more
hazardous enterprise for the duke oi
Orleans to try to reach the north pole
than to attempt to set up the throne
of his fathers
Evidently the Cleveland judge whe
holds that a man with a nagging wile
has a right to get drunk is of thai
school of philosophers who believt
that what is is right
President Eliot of Harvard says the
true gentleman will be deferential ic
age beauty and all worthy things He
probably classes the homely girls as
one of the worthy things
Marconi has been held up by a
policeman for violating the speed laAs
in running his automobile and was
unable tc pull any wires to save him
self from going to the station
The man who writes to a New Yorli
paper declaring that housework is al
the exercise that women need to makt
them beautiful strong and healthy
simply signs his letter Crank
There is a race horse that has been
given the name of Togo As soon as
the Togo 5 cent cigar appears the ad
miral may retire knowing that he has
reached the limit of earthly glory
A heretofore esteemed contempor
ary makes a great display of the an
nouncement that Chauncey Depew
has cracked a new joke Nothing
could be baser or cruder than this
France is about to have another
crisis Nobody seems to know what
it is going to be but it is bound to
come The people have stood the
present calm about as long as pos
sible
It is a sad fact that thousands of
substantial American citizens are
less interested in the announcement
that Mr Jeffries is going off the stage
than in the news that Mr Jeffries is
goini
on
James A Garland millionaire ot
New York who has just remarried
his divorced wife tried George Mere
diths scheme but found it didnt
work He discovered he couldnt get
any substitute for the woman he
loved
The statement that 150 Chicago
teachers are suffering from overstudy
is respectfully referred for cogitation
to that western university professor
wlio said the other day that school
teachers ought not to have sch lorg
vacations
iFIGHT CONTINUES
TIDE OF BATTLE NOW
MUKDEN
NEARER
FIGHT RENEWED DAY BY DAY
The Conflict of Saturday Continued on
Sunday with Kouropatkin Attacking
Russians Forced Back to the Sa
cYed City
MUKDEN There was a lull in the
battle Saturday but fighting was con
tinued Sunday on the right The
army is southwest of here ten miles
It is now certain that the army will
be able to extricate itself The losses
amount to 0000 It has been a big
ger battle than Liao Yang
Evening The firing to the south
west is less violent The men are
tired out and food has been insuffi
cient Every available gun and man
are being used The troops have be-
WHY
Attendance at Worlds Fair
ST LOUIS Mo The following
statement of the attendance at the
Worlds fair was given out Total for
week ending October 15 939774
total since the opening of the fair
14316230
Two Stories About Chinese
LONDON Bennett Burleigh re
ports from Shanghai to the Daily Tele
graph that the Chinese are becoming
restless and anxious to attack the
Russians The correspondent of the
Times telegraphs fromm Peking that
after traveling through the northern
provinces tf China he has arrived at
the conclusion that the reports of un
rest and anti foreign disturbances
have little foundation in fact and are
largely disseminated through the in
fluence of the Russian legation for in
terested motives
THZ ARMIES MEET
Eut at Present All the News is Un
official
ST PETERSBURG No official
news of the result of todays battle
south of Mukden is available at this
hour General Kuropatkin doubtless
has communicated his regular report
to Emperor Nicholas but the dispatch
was not sent back to the general staff
tonight So the latest word from Rus
sian sources is contained in the As
sociated Press dispatch from Mukden
As is natural the absence of official
news is pessimistically Interpreted in
many quarters but the general staff
though reticent counsel patience
pointing out that the offensive move
ment was planned on a large scale
and has not yet reached a stage where
a decisive reverse could have been at
tained
The frontal attack on thhe Yentai
mines developed a desperate battle in
which probably 100000 men are en
gaged but though t dispatches so
SQUADRON MUST LEAVE PORT ARTHUR
f 9A i AwV -v n SS
1 Kyi tr s
Admiral Wiren
Commander of Russian fleet
Birds eye view of Port Arthur showing inner basin in which the warships
have been lying at anchor and forts captured by the Japanese which
command the harbor Cross marks location of the basin and stars
show location of Etseshan Wolf Hill and Takushan forts Dotted
lines mark direction of artillery fire which renders the harbor unten
able for the fleet
haved most gallantly hurling them
selves repeatedly against impregnable
positions The heavy storm of Octo
ber 14 added to the misery of the
troops There is great depression but
solid tenacity among the men There
has been great sacrifice of officers
The plain occupied by the retiring
Russians is covered with bursting
shrapnel The gunners shovelled
shells into the breeches of the guns as
stokers shovel coal into furnaces
Howitzers are used by the eastern
army The Russian guns have super
ior range and burst shrapnel at 0000
yards There is a scarcity of reliable
maps Two divisional commanders
have lost their chieff staff officers one
of them being killed and many com
manding officers have met death he
roically leading their regiments
Shrapnel fell near General Kouro
patkin He showed desperate energy
and even in the darkest hour remain
ed hopeful The Japanese must feel
the strain
Sunday evening the Japanese seem
ed no nearer Fires are burning to
the south About twelve miles from
here the eastern army is retiring
without fighting
Russian Dead More Than 10000
WASHINGTON The Japanese lega
tion has received the following advices
from Tokio under date of October 1G
Marshal Oyama reports that the
number of Russians found dead on
the field in front of our right army
on the 15th amounted to 4500 beside
many more yet unaccounted for and
hundreds of new prisoners The esti
mated total Russian loss in this quar
ter alone exceeds 20000 The Russian
losses in front of our center and left
armies are being investigated
The number of Russian corpses
buried by us previously amounting to
2000 refers to the quarter of our left
army alone
Oyama further reports that he es
timates the number of Russian
corpses left on the field in front of
our center army at 2500
The total number of Russian
corpses so far ascertained reach SS50
The above does not include the re
sult of the fierce engagement with our
left army and many more yet undis
covered in all cuarters
far deal almost exclusively with this
feature of the battle it is pointed out
that there is a much wider field in
volved A fight on the Russian left
flank has not yet developed and pos
sibly here General Kuropatkin intends
to deliver his main blow What force
is pushing forward in this direction
behind the screen containing the col
umn at Shantintaidze is unknown but
the appearace tonight of a Russian
column at Tzeyanchan thirty miles
southeast of Mukden striking at Field
Marshal Oyamas communications with
the Yalu and the knowledge that an
other column is already across the
Taitse river gives evidence of the
wide nature of the turning movement
It is possible that the attack on the
Yentai mines may simply be intended
to hold the main Japanese force sta
tionary and that the outcome of the
Yentai fight may have little bearing
on the result of the general engage
ment
While it is now asserted that Gen
eral Kuropatkin enjoys a considerable
numerical superiority the main fear
expressed is that this superiority is in
sufficient to enable him to carry out
the big operations he has undertaken
Apprehension is caused by the To
kio dispatch saying that Field Mar
shal Oyama reports that he is gaining
ground and has cut off a Russian col
umn below the Taitse river It is only
natural after the repeated reverses
already suffered that Russians fully
realize how much General Kuropatkin
has staked on the assumption of tho
offensive The battle now in progress
undoubtedly will outweigh in import
ance the hard fight at Liao Yang For
Kuropatkin victory partial or com
plete is necessary
NEW PHASE OF MAIL SEIZURE
Pouch Destined to American Warship
Tampered With
WASHINGTON It developed Fri
day that a pouch containing mail for
the United States cruiser Cincinnati
then at Nagasaki Japan which was
aboard the British steamer Calchas
when that vessel was seized by the
Russian Vladivostok squadron had
been opened while in the possession
of the Russian officials subsequently
resealed and sent on to its destina
tion This information came to the
postoffice department Friday in a com
munication from the Japanese pota
administration in conformity with a
practice always followed when there
has been any mishap in the delivery
of mail pouches The matter will be
referred to the state department for
action as was done with the case of
the ordinary United States mail on
the vessel at the time she was seized
Chicago to Have Big Hotel
CHICAGO The News of Thursday
says that Chicago is to have the larg
est hotel in the world It will cost
10000000 be twcty two stories high
and dwarf in size and magnificence
it is promised any structure of the
kind ever erected The builders and
owners will be a syndicate of Chicago
and eastern capitalists headed by
Otto Young The hotel will occupy
property measuring 400 feet in length
by 171 feet in depth in Michigan ave
nue two blocks south of the Audi
torium
RUSSIAN REPORT
SOLDIERS OF THE MIKADO
SUME THE OFFENSIVE
AS-
BATTLE RAGES DAY AFTER DAY
Fighting of October 11 Furious and
Continuous Along an Extended Front
Russians Forced to Retire From
Some Positions
MUKDEN A Russian correspond
ent of the Associated Press gives the
following account of the battle
Up to the present time the battle
along the whole line has been one of
varying success We are now resting
cold drenched and weary from a heavy
thunder storm which began last even
ing and continued this morning We
hold positions captured and are wait
ing developments on the extreme east
The fighting on October 11 was fu
rious and continuous along a front so
extensive that it would be impossible
to give details from any one point
Judging from the sound the fiercest
action took place north of Yentai
where the Japanese themselves as
sumed the offensive Nearer the cen
ter it was quieter We moved for
ward occupying some of the small
passes
It should be pointed out that with
such an extensive front it is difficult
to say what position constitutes the
real center It would be more correct
to distinguish the center and flanks
separately of each division
Our losses on October 11 were com
partively small In the small division
where I was stationed the firing slack
ened toward evening but recommenc
ed after dark and continued with lit
tle intermission all night
On October 12 every one looked for
a crucial engagement but though
heavy firing developed the result re
mained undecisive The Japanese ad
vanced boldly and fought hotly on the
crtreme right at Yentai and further
toward the left All their attacks
were repulsed with great loss We
also suffered heavily The convey
ance of the wounded to the hospital
was extremely difficult owing to the
distance to the railwav
The division to which I am attach
ed deployed on October 13 opposite
two passes called Touminlinsky eight
miles north of Bensihu and Hua pass
five miles west each bounded by high
and almost perpendicular hills which
held Japanese Our troops had tried
on the night of October 11 to take the
passes during a storm Several com
panies went forward but they did not
succeed in reaching the heights Lieu
tenant Grozdieff who had already
been decorated with the cross of St
George for bravery led another as
sault and reached the Japanese
trenches at the top of the hill The
Japanese ran out of ammunition and
met our men with stones and clubbed
rifles in a bitter hand to hand strug
gle In the meantime Japanese rein
forcements and ammunition arrived
Lieutenant Grozdieff was shot point
blank in the chest
We were forced to retire Anoth
er piece of hard luck was that one of
our batteries having spent most of
the night in dragging its guns by hand
up an almost perpendicular mountain
and ousting the Japanese from the
crest after a hard fight was forced to
retire when a Japanese mortar bat
tery got the range of its position
We resumed the attack on Toum
inlinsky pass under a hail of fire suf
fering especially from two well con
cealed mortar batteries which we
were unable to locate
Captain Michels finally got the
range of the Japanese batteries and
two of our shells nut them out of ac
tion The Japanese then seemed to
lose their heads swarmed out of the
trenches and fled Our infantry occu
pied the position but it was a harder
fight than at Liao Yang
MATTER FOR HAGUE TRIBUNAL
Question of Mails as Contraband of
War May Be so Referred
WASHINGTON The state depart
ment expects to dispatch the papers
relating to the seizure of the mails
on the Calchas to the American em
bassy at St Petersburg As Ambas
sador McCormicc is now en route to
the United States the matter will be
dealt with at the embassy by Spencer
Eddy the secretary who will simply
submit the papers to the Russian for
eign office with a request for an ex
planation as to why the Russian naval
vessels have interfered with the op
erations of the Universal Postal
Union treaty There is little in the
way of precedent to guide the nego
tiations on either side in this matter
which probably will in the end come
before The Hague tribunal when it
is reconvened
German Miners Drowned
DESSAU Germany A sudden in
rush of water and mud in a coal mine
at Gerlebock district of Kcethen yes
terday imprisoned eighteen miners
who are believed to have perished
Against Gifts for Officers
WASHINGTON The attention o
Acting Secretary of War General 01
iver has been directed for some time
to a practice which has sprung up foi
presenting gifts purchased by civilian
contributions to army officers chang
ing stations and as a result a cir
cular has just been issued reciting the
provisions of the statutes prohibiting
the soliciting of contributions foi
such gifts from government employe
and feeling that this in spirit would
also prevent the acceptance by arm
ofpffirs of uresente from civilians
TWO TRAINS COLLIDE
Twenty People Are Killed Outright
in Wreck
WARREN3BURG Mo Twenty
oino persons were killed Kid sixty
njured by a collision of Missouri Pa
cific trains three miles east of War-
rensburg at 4 oclock Monday morn
ing The trains were the second sec
tion of passenger train No 30 which
left Wichita Kan for St Louis Sun
slay night and an extra freight train
The dead are in undertaking rooms
In this city and most of the wounded
are in the railroad hospital at Se
dalia Mo
The passenger train consisting of
two day coaches a Pullman car and
a caboose was loaded with Worlds
fair excursionists from southeast
Kansas and southwest Missouri The
regular passenger train No 30 had
been cut in two at Pleasant Hill on
account of the heavy load and an en
gine attached to the front car with
out a baggage car as a buffer The
extra freicht had sidetracked at
Montserrat for the first section of No
30 which carried signals that a sec
ond section was following This was
followed by passenger train No 50
wWch the freight crew took for the
second section of No 30 The freight
pulled out of the sidetrack and three
miles west met the second section
The impact telescoped the tender of
the passenger engine into the front
car which was loaded with passen
gers and it was here that tho sacri
fice of life took place The passen
ger conductor E L Barnes ran all
the way to Warrensburg and broke
he news of the wreck Every physi
cian in the town responded and hun
dreds of citizens hastened to the
wreck and assisted the wounded from
beneath the timbers of the broken
cars Twenty people were killed out
right and seven died before S oclock
The dead were placed upon flat cars
and brought to this city and Dr Bills
the coroner immediately impanelled
a jury and started on the inquiry
which is still in session The after
nocn was taken up in identiiying the
dead and Tuesday night the conductor
of the freight train was on the stand
He claims to have been dozing while
his train was at Montserrat and when
train No 50 passed Engineer Horton
believed it was the second section of
No 30 and thinking the track clear
pulled out on the main line
L C Dressel postmaster at Eaton
ville Kan was taken out from under
a heap of seven bodies and escaped
with nothing mere serious than a
broken leg
WYNNE IS POSTOFFICE HEAD
Appointed to Succeed the Late Henry
C Payne
Robert J Wynne is postmaster gen
eral by direct appointment of Presi
dent Roosevelt His appointment un
der the lav is effective until the end
of the next session of the senate t
is understood that Mr Wynne will be
1 PllVW
JPOBEPT J MTWE
succeeded in time by George Cortel
you
Mr Wynne was appointed first as
sistant postmaster general on April
17 1902 For nearly a quarter of a
century he had been a Washington
newspaper correspondent serving at
various times some of the most im
portant newspapers in the country
Bulge on the Wheat Market
CHICAGO The price of both De
cember and May wheat made a gain
of over 2 cents a bushel Friday as the
result of active covering by shorts
The urgent demand was due to a
scarcity of wheat for milling purposes
in the northwest and southwest and
to a report of the French minister of
agriculture estimating a shortage of
73000000000 bushels in this years
yield of wheat compared with last
years crop The high point on De
cember was reached at 113 In the
meantime May advanced to 5112
Dignitaries on the Ocean
NEW YORK The archbishop of
Canterbury and his party sailed foi
home Friday on the White Star line
steamship Cedric
Troops for Southwest Africa
BERLIN A circular has been sent
to the soldiers of the reserve in Ber
lin asking for a large number of vol
unteers for service hi German South
west Africa especially artillerymen
and men belonging to other technical
arms Tho circular indicates the
probability of heavy reinforcements
being sent to Southwest Africa Ca
ble communication with Swakopmund
have been restored Governor Lout-
wein cables that it is resorted that
the Goches and Hottentots have join-
ed in the insurrection
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WASH
BLUE
Costs io cents and equals 20 cents
worth 0 any other kind of bluing
Wont Freeze Spill Break
Nor Spot Clothes
DIRECTIONS FOR USES
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At all wiso Grocers
Mans Place in the Universe
What is man but the great musi
cian of the universe The universe is
a great organ with mighty pipes
Space time eternity are like the
throats of this great organ and man
a little creature puts bin fingers on
tho keys and wakes tho universe to
thundcrs of harmony stirring tip the
whole creation to mightiest acclama
tions of praise Charles Spurgeon
Peacemaker Is Stabbed
Seeing two men fighting in front of
his house M Dujardin of the Con
servatoire of Music Paris took his
violin and began to play in order to
soothe the combatantr by his music
But one of the men at onco furnde on
him and stabbed him and he was
taken in a dying condition to a hos
pital
The Swiss engineers have worked
out plans for tapping tho Lake of Sils
in the Engadine and letting the water
drop down the mountain side thus
creating a fall that would yield 50000
horse power During the tourist sea
son the lake would resume its normal
appearance owing to the necessity of
storing the water
Cculd Get No Rcct
Freeborn Minn October 17 Spe
cial Mr It E Goward a well known
man here is rejoicing in the relief
from suffering he has obtained
through using Bodds Kidney rills
His experience is well worth repeating
as it should point the road to healtlr
to many another in a similar condi
tion
I had an aggravating case of Kid
ney Trouble says Mr Goward that
gave me no rest day or night but
using a few boxes of Dodds Kidney
Pills put new life in me and I feel like
a new man
I am happy to state I have received
great and wonderful benefit from
Dodds Kidney Pills I would heartily
recommend ail sufferers from Kidney
Trouble to give Dodds Kidney Pills a
fair trial as I have every reason to be
lieve it would never bo regretted
Dodds Kidney Pills make you feel
like a new man or woman because
they cure the kidneys Cured kidneys
mean pure blood and pure blood
means bounding health and energy in
every part of the body
Drunkenness has been added to the
already imposing list of maladies
which oculists pretend to cure by the
relief of eyestrain
Many Children Are Sickly
Mother Grays Sweet Powders for Children
used by Mother Gray a nurse in Childrejis
Home New York cure Summer Complaint
FevcrishnessIIeadacheStojnach Troubles
Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms At
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