Kuropatkin's advance south from
Mukden against the Japanese army
was seriously contested six miles north
of Yentai station , where a bloody bat
tle raged. The Japanese on Sunday
fell back along the entire front , and
the Russian advance guard crossed the
Schili river , .half way between Muk
den and L5ao3'ang , which is shown in
the map. Re-enforcements enabled the
Japanese to push back the Russians on
Monday , and the latter renewed the
combat the next day , the rosnlt being
in doubt. In the meantime it is said
the east and west flanking movements
by the Japanese continued. Tho tri
angle bounded by Yentai , Linoynng
and Sikwnnlun , which is well forti
fied , is believed to be tho position Field
Marshal Oyama had chosen for a de
cisive battle.
After driving back the left Japanese
flank and assailing tho right Hank oil
Marshal Oyama's army , the Russians
met changed conditions Wednesday.
Fighting so severe that even hardy vet
erans were appalled occurred near
Yentai , held by the Russians. Tbe
heights above Yentai were shambles.
Progress of the artillery was impeded
by corpses. Russians and Japanese
.were mingled in the same masses of
the slain , where vantage points were
taken and lost within hours by the
enemies. Leading the Japanese to the
assault , their dashing commanders
were killed by dozens.
The whole fierce fight culminated
when the Russians broke and charged
on the Yontai mines. Cries of "Ban
zai ! " by the Japanese were answered
by the crash of artillery aud the inces
sant roar of machine guns. The dead
ly fire continued during the night ,
when flashes of fire , not men. were tar
gets. When Kuropatkin's lighters , un
der the wounded Gen. Danieloff , reach
ed and occupied Yontai , only the dead
defenders remained.
Both armies , totaling half a million
men , engaged in a death grapple. The
Hun river intervened between two of
the attacking columns , and its banks
SITE OF THE GKEAT BATTLE.
Russian shelter trenches half way up
the hill , but , according to General
Stoessel , were driven out the follow
ing night. The general reports the ces
sation of infantry attacks and the re
sumption of bombardments from Jap
anese long-range guns , coupled with
further activity in the building of zig
zag trenches as a preliminary to new
assaults.
The Muscovites seem to have aban
doned their purely defensive attitude
of the early months of the siege and
now make frequent sorties. That they
have been forced to this by the tight
ening lines is probable , for their coun
ter-attacks , even though successful ,
must result in a heavier loss to them
than to the enemy. And whenever the
JAPAN PREPARES FOR LONG WAR
Dcci'dc3 to Sacrifice Men and Wealth to
Push Campaign to Success.
A Tokio dispatch says that an increas
ing feeling of sobriety and seriousness
marks the popular attitude toward the
war. It is doubtful whether the masses
appreciated in the beginning the serious
ness of the task of expelling Russia from
Manchuria. They had confidence in the
ability of the army and navy to reduce
the fortress of Port Arthur , destroy the
Russian fleet and crush Gen. Kuropatkin.
The prolongation of the siege , the losses
before Port Arthur and Gen. Kuropat
kin's escape at Liaoyang have brought
a general appreciation of the magnitude
of the national task and dissipated the
growing hopes of an early peace , based
oa the confidence of sweeping victories.
Events at Port Arthur and Liaoyang
have impressively warned the Japanese
people to prepare for a long and trying
war. Confidence in the final outcome ,
hoAvever. remains unshaken , and the na
tion has resolutely settled down , prepared
to make sacrifices and pay the price that
success demands.
The strain of the war and the drain on
the country's resources have not yet been
felt to any extent among the people.
Some lines of business are suffering , but
the aggregate foreign and domestic trade
exceeds that of 1903. The crops , par
ticularly rice , are the largest ever known.
There is general confidence in the abil
ity of Field Marshal Oyama to drive
Gen. Kuropatkin into Harbin and suc
cessfully to resist a reinvasiou of Man
churia. Tihe early possession of Port
Arthur is also confidently expected.
Death from wounds nnd sickness has
overtaken thousands of Japanese soldiers ,
but their vacant places have been quick
ly filled with the supply of able-bodied
men anxious to fight equal to all possi
ble demands. Munitions , supplies and
money in hand indicate the ability of
the country to wage war without embar
rassment and vigorously for another year.
"War News in Brief.
The Imperial Japanese Relief Society
has $400,000 on deposit.
Part of the Russian Imperial Guard
has started for the far East.
TJie British steamer Chenan was
JAPAXESE POSSESSIXG A COMMANDING HEIGHT XEAR PORT ARTHUR.
were reddened by the blood of the con
tending troops. The Russian casual-
tics were especially horrible in their
number.
A brigade of Russian infantry , with
2,000 cavalry and two guns , marching
to strike Gen. Kuroki's fiink : , crossed
the Taitse river. The Japanese cut off
the retreat of this force and tried to
annihilate it. The Russians attacked
Slenchuang , thirty miles northeast of
Saimatzc ami almost due north of
Fengwangcheng , evidently with the
object of cutting off Japanese com
munications with the Yalu river. Gen.
Danieloff , who succeeded Gens. Trous-
eeff and Romanoff in command of the
Sixth Siberian rifles division , was
wounded in the log. With olood soak
ing his uniform , he continued to lead
his troops until exhausted.
The battle commenced along the line
of the railway with a terrific artillery
fire on both sides. The railway lino
almost to Yentni was in possession of
the Russians. The station itseif was
damaged beyond recognition. The
sound of cannonading was audible for
forty miles.
The fighting commenced early in the
morning. A bombardment of five
hours' duration forced back the Jap
anese lines along almost the entire
front and opened the way for an in
fantry attack. About neon tho Japan
ese began to retire. Their flanks and
center wero stubbornly defended and
the battle increased in intensity , con
centrating about the YcMitai coil mines ,
where firing continued until darkness
fell. As a net result of the1 day's events
the Russians drove in the Japanese
left , while the right clung to its posi
tion , but maintained itself only with
-difficulty.
From Port Arthur General Stoessel
&as sent an account of tiie fighting of
Sept 19 to 23. He says that lli > Japa
nese attacks were made simultaneous
ly from the north and west. In the
attack from tho north the Japanese
completely demolished the redoubt pro
tecting the waterworks and apparently
remained in occupation of the spot.
The fighting on U\s west was waged
especially around High Hill , near Fort
Etseshan. The Jaoancse occupied the
Japanese can exchange man for man
at Port Arthur they gain the advan
tage , since they can bring up new
troops almost indefinitely , while the
Russians cannot re-enforce at all.
The Baltic squadron has not sailed ,
though its imminent departure is again
announced. The restraining fear is
that Port Arthur might fall before the
advent of the fleet , which would then
be in danger of annihilation. It is now
evident that if the fleet had left early
in the year Russia might have gained
the mastery of the sea and the entire
GENERAL KUKOKI.
fortune of the war have changed. But
hindsight is always better than fore
sight. It could not be known early in
the spring that Stoessel would make
such a gallant defense.
Japan is evidently prepared to put
in the Held an army surpassing the
most sanguine prophecies. The new
conscript law will add C.OO.COO soldiers
between the ages of 20 and 35 years
to 'the Mikado's forces and raise the
total to over 1,000.009. It is doubtful ,
indeed , whether Russia can ever sus
tain : it the far eastern end of her em
pire an army of 1,000.000 men. Xeither
side has had anywhere near enough.
The end of the war is not in sight.
Japanese are anxious to take Port Ar
thur by Nov. 5 , the Mikado's birthday.
searched by a Japanese cruiser near Che-
foo.
foo.A
A fleet of eighty junks is engaged in
attempting to run the Port Arthur block
ade.
Japanese have seized the British
steamship Sissian for carrying flour for
Port Arthur.
It is reported that the Japanese in
Manchuria are suffering from privations ,
cold and hunger.
Fears are expressed in St. Petersburg
that Kuropatkm has undertaken a move
ment too great for his army.
It is reported that the health and gen
eral condition of the Russian troops at
thofront are remarkably good.
Emperor William sent a "good-luck"
message to the Russian fleet , and it may
cause a protest by Japan.
Gen. Tasagawa will take charge of tha
Japanese troopa in Korea and the Ko
rean army will foe suppressed.
Preparations are being made to es
"
tablish "mi-underground winter quarters
for the Russians about Mukden.
Activity in China means either danger
to foreigners or preparation to resist Jap
anese aggressio7i after the war.
The Japanese gunboat Hciyen was
sunk by a mine near Port Arthur and
nearly all of heicrew of 300 men drown
ed.
Russian papers say that Japan must
be crushed so that she will never be
able to renew her operations on the con
tinent.
Japanese at Yentai retreated before the
Russian advance on Sunday , but were
re-enforced and drove the enemy back
on Monday.
Kuroki is said to have crossed the
Iltm river above Fushun ford and is
marching direct oa Tie Pass. The Cir-
cuin-Baikal railway is open.
Count Okuma , leader of the Progres
sive party in Ja-pau , estimates that a two
years' war will cost Japan one billion
dollars , meaning a per capita tax of $20.
More than 100,000 mc\n ore believed to
have been engaged in the fighting at Yen
tai. Another fierce engagement has de
veloped twenty-seven miles southeast of
Mukden.
St. Petersburg military officials do no *
regard the Yentai battle as a general en
gagement , as Kuropatkin's entire army
has not reached the battle line. The de
cisive engagement Is expected soon.
TWO TRAINS CRASH
MISSOURI PACIFIC EXPRESS AND
FREIGHT COLLIDE.
Tvrenty-scvcn Are Killed and Ti
Others Terribly Injured Accident
Occurs NearVarrensbuTR , Mo.-
Coaches Filled with Kxcuraiouihta.
The second section of Missouri pas
senger train Xo. 30 from Wichita ,
Kan. , to St. Louis , carrj'ing World's
Fair excursionists , was wrecked in a
head-on collision with a west-bound
freight train east of Warrensburg ,
Mo. , eighty miles southwest of Kan
sas City , early Monday. The forward
coach of the passenger train was tele
scoped and both trains were badly
damaged. Twenty-seven persons were
killed outright and thirty were in
jured , some of them , it is believed , fa
tally.
Travel to the World's fair has been
so heavy that all roads recently have
been sending out many of their trains
in two or more sections. The wrecked
train , which was the second section of
Xo. 30 , was made up at Wichita Sun
day night and , as is the custom , it
picked up many additional coaches
along the line in Kansas. The last
coach taken up was at Pleasant Ilill ,
Mo. , at about 4 o'clock Monday morn
ing. AU of the coaches were crowded.
Both trains were running at a good
i\ite of speed when the wreck occur
red. Dawn had hardly begun to break
and neither crew was .aware of the
approach of the other train until they
werealmost upon each other. The im
pact of the collision was terrific. The
sleeping passengers were hurled in
every direction. Most of the killed
were in the forward coach , which was
well crowded with passengers.
The spot where the wreck occurred
was in a narrow cut and this fact ,
with the darkness , added to the diffi
culty of the situation. The greatest
confusion ensued after the first lull
following the crash and the groans of
the injured were added to the escap
ing steam of the wrecked locomotives !
Relief Hurried to Scene.
It was some time before word was
sent back to Warrensburg and news of
the wreck was spread. Relief trains
carrying physicians were sent out as
quickly as possible from surrounding
towns and everything possible was
done to aid the injured.
It was some time before the dead
and injured could be extricated from
the debris. The * dead were carried up
the track and laid in rows in an open
space until the relief train arrived ,
while the injured were cared for as
well as could be.
The freight train was an extra. Its
crew had , according to the story of the
conductor of this train , been instructed
to take a siding and let the passenger
train pass. The first section of the
passenger train had gone by when the
freight pulled out The passenger
train bore no signal of second section
to come , lie asserts , and he had no rea
son to believe that another train was
due.
due.The
The scene of the wreck was on the
down-grade on either side of which
there was a steep rise. Both trains
had put on extra stram to carry them
up the opposite lull , and when they
met at the curve at the lowest point
they were running at a terrific rate.
The passenger train was made up
of three coaches and a Pullman , with
no baggage car , the front coach being
next to the tender. The freight train
was a heavy one. When the trains
met the lieavy freight train pushed
the passenger engine back into the
first coach. The tender of the passen
ger engine literally cut the coach in
two in the center and never stopped
until it had ploughed itself half-way
through the car and its passengers ,
killing those in the forward end in
stantly and mangling all within reach
in a most horrible manner. Half a
dozen who were not killed outright
were so terribly injured that they died
before they could be removed from the
debris. Many of the dead were almost
unrecognizable.
A census was taken of the population
of Buenos Ayres. Oue million were re
corded.
A treaty has been exchanged between
Thibet nnd Great Britain , both sides re
leasing prisoners.
The Japs have taken possession of the
coal mines at Yentai , where their main
force is now stationed.
Nicaragua and Honduras have settled
their differences and Honduras has with
drawn her troops from the territory of
the former.
At a recent concert in Warsaw the
hall was suddenly invaded by spiders ,
which , attracted by the sound of a vio
lin , caine from cracks and crannies in the
building. The other lovers of music left.
The only Persian newspapers which
resemble those published in other coun
tries are those issued iu ludia aud Egypt ,
which copy English models. The lew
papers published at Teheran contain lit
tle beside the Shah's proclamations aud
pictures of prominent ollirials.
An officer sent to investigate the af
fairs f a government form in the Trans
vaal , near Potchefstroom , found an ex
pert at $4.000 a year , an assistant at
? 2,000 and another at Vi-u00 in rlrirge
of 200 chickens. Similar maimge'iieut
had resulted in a loss , to date , of Sl.
ooa
GET RICH ON Ol ! _ .
Smalt Fortunes JJcin Made by
Indiana Karmcf .
Oil has been one of Indiana's < -liIof
tjes for nearly live ye.ir.s. but it
only recently Mint anything like a
boo-in pr/vailed in the counties where the
production is largest. Oil has boon pro
duced in Delaware , Madison. Grunt. Jay
and Randolph counties iu paying quanti
ties ever since natural gas began to
"play out. "
Even no\v in a section of country HO
miles square , filled with oil drillers , spec
ulators and owners of producing terri
tory , there is none of that wildncss that
lias characterized other parts of 'the
country in which the drill has struck
nay sand. Xo one has made a million
and none expects to turn out a fortune to
that amount , but there are numerous in
cidents where families have been lifted
trom poverty to afiluence. The wolf has
been driven from the door and now con
tentment reigns where once nil was dark.
Mr. a.ml Mrs. Elijah Guff of Liberty
township , Delaware county , will not have
to give up their farm and go to the poor
house. Elijah > Goff is 84 and ms wife
is 94. For years theyhave been hope
lessly in debt aud less than three month ?
ago their guardian was contemplating
the step of taking them to the infirmary.
The guardian , who is aiso the county
auditor , shrank from telling his aged
charges that the mortgage holders would
wait no longer and that they must leave
the home which they had 50 years ago
found in the wilderness.
One day a party of oil drillers came
to the farm. They obtained the guard
ian's consent and then sent a drill down
through'the earth. Day after day the
drill pounded away. The old man and
; his wife sat in their front yardand
watched the work. Mr. Goff could not
quite comprehend what was being done.
One day there was a shout from th >
drillers. They had struck oil. The old
man and his wife will not have to go 'to '
the poor 'house. The leases on the farm
of f > (5 ( acres will yield them an income
of Iii50 ! a month. The oldman. . too , will
now have a phaeton , a thing he in his
childish old age has long coveted , but
which until now his guardian could nev
er promise him.
Samuel A. Winget had struggled for
years against poverty on his little farm
near Parker City. His income had nev
er been more than $300 a year and as his
children grew to young manhood and
young womanhood lie longed to see them
get a good education , but he almost de
spaired. The drillers came. They want
ed to put down a test well. The well
was a success. One month 'later ' the rural
carrier brought Winget ail envelope con
taining a check for $ u' > 0. He handled
k with trembling hands. lie realized
that if the well held out ho was a rich
man. It 'means ' so .much . to his wife and
children. He is now receiving checks
monthly of from ? 400 to ? r 00.
Ttlie cases of many others are similar.
Kind fortune has smiled , not on the
wealthy speculators , but upon scores of
hard-working farmers. Men who once
went to scan only 'the ' hog and grain
markets now receive the oil quotations
by wire. It is a sure-thing game for
thorn.
JUDGE DENOUNCES MOB.
Instructs Federal Grand Jury to In-
EvestiKate Killing of Nejjro.
Judge Thomas G. Jones of the United
Plates District Court in hicharge tn
lhe jury at Huntsville , Ala. , declared it
to be tlie duty of that body to return in
dictments against the lynchers of the
negro Maples under certain conditions.
Maples was in the Huntsville jail , accus
ed of a grave crime. A mob of whitd
men attacked the jail , set lire to it , se
cured possession of Maples and hanged
him.
Judge .Tones asks the jury to put this
question to itself after hearing the evi
dence in the mutter : ' 'Would a white
m. . : ! . under the same circumstances ,
charged with the particular offense upon
the sKiie victim , have been attacked or
murdered by this mob ? " In arriving at
an answer the jury is advised to con
sider what was said by members of the
mob as well as what was done. If it
shall decide that the mob woald not have
murdered Maples if he had been a white
man , says Judge Jones , "then every dic
tate of humanity and justice demands
that you return true bills against the
members of the mob. "
Here for the first timea federal judge
has held that a mob which murders a
negro because he is a negro as well as
because he is charged with a crime lay ?
itself liable to punishment under federal
law. The tliirteenth and fourteenth
amendments to the constitution are re
lied upon to uphold the view that it is
the nation's duty to protect its citi
/.ens from violence aroused by race ani
mosity. The point thus raised is impor
taut.
Interesting ; Ne-rva Items.
The Piedmont clothing plant , Cha"
lotte , X. C. , worth $90,000 , was burned
Two blocks of buildings in Oakle ; .
Kan. , were destroyed by fire that cause
§ 73,000 loss. Several hotel guests ha
a narrow escape.
A monument marking the birthplace
James Knox Polk , eleventh President (
the United States , was unveiled nea
Pineville , X. C.
Gov. Mickey of Xebraska admits 1.
uses railroad passes , but says he won'
approve a law making their issuance <
acceptance a misdemeanor.
After a running exchange of sho
threealleged highwaymen , Henry Lesl
William , ivrepts and James Orris , wo
lodged in jail at Tarentum , Pa.
Hilary Altaian , diaries Altman a'
Iver Harney arc being held in Florida t
the Georgia authorities in connect !
with the Duncan-Altman feud murder
Mrs. Carrie Xation. Mrs. Lucy V\
holte. Mrs. Lydia Mounts and Mrs. M :
McHenry broke two plate glass wind
in the Mahan Wholesale Supply G.
pany's warehouse in Wichita , Kan. , ; i
weretaken to jail.
Two freight trains on the Buff.
Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad en
od at Slum ford's Station , X. Y. , ki !
Charles Tanner of Rochester , a con
tor , and Thomas Dundon of Roche-
a fireman. Four others were iuju.
Disobedience of orders is charged.
More than 5.000 farmers , represeir
sixteen counties in the dark tob.
givwing counties of Tennessee and 1-
tucky , met iu Guthrie , Ky. . and adoi
resolutions asking the federal gr
juries througho.tt the two States to
vestigate the alleged ruinous compoti :
of the tobacco trust.
One Hundred Years Ago.
All communication between Holland
and England was stopped , letters to
Rotterdam being seized and convej'fd
to the French general.
The French licet at Boulogne aguiu
was attacked unsuccessfully by tho
British.
Both England and Russia declined
to acknowledge the new title of "Em
peror of German } ' , " which the ruler oC
Prussia assumed.
Tho crops in the Mont Blanc prov
ince of France were destroyed by
freshets.
Seventy-five Years Ago.
Dr. Alexander Duff , the first mis
sionary af the Church of Scotland , sail
ed for India.
Locomotive steam carriages wero
tksed on the railroads in England for
the first time.
A workingmen's college was estab
lished in London by Frederick A. Mau
rice.
rice.An
An explosion caused a great fire at
Sateshead , England , fifty being killed ,
and the money loss being over § 5,000-
300.
Fifty Years Ago.
A motion to impeach the government
svas carried by the Danish house of
commons by a vote of SO to G.
A. II. Reeder ( Democrat ) , first Gov
ernor of Kansas , arrived at the capital
of that State.
The ships of the allied forces wore
greatly damaged by fire during tho
bombardment of Sevastopol.
Abraham Lincoln challenged Stephen
A. Douglas to a joint debatein tho
canvass for the Senate.
Forty Years Ago.
Col. Robert G. Ingcrsoll addressed n
mammoth union meeting at Bryan
Hall , Chicago.
Harrison II. Dodfl escaped from con
finement at Indianapolis during his
military trial at which much was de
veloped concerning the operations oj
the Knights of the Golden Circle.
Federal troops and militia were im
der arms all day and night at Mem.
phis , Tenn. , expecting an attack by
the Confederate force under Chalmers , ,
A letter from President Lincoln , urg
ing the adoption of an anti-slaverj
clause was read at a mass meeting in
the interests * of a new State constitu
tkm in Baltimore , Md.
Elections in Ohio , Indiana and Perm
sylvania were a decisive victory foi
Lincoln nncl the administration of thi
war and rebuke for the peace party.
Ifcfrty Years Ago.
A building at Aspatia , Spain , used
by the Carlists to manufacture am.
munition was blown up with great losi
of life.
William H. Wickham was unanti
nionsly nominated by Tammany Hal/ /
for Mayor of Xew York.
Shanghai dispatches announced thi
declaration of war between Japan and
China.
A report of the Illinois board 01
equalization said there were eighty-five
corporations in Cook County and about
100 in the State.
The Sultan issued a decree forbid-
ling the exporting of cereals from Mo >
rooco for three years.
Bryan Waller Proctor ( "Barry Corn
wall" ) , the English author and poet ,
lied.
lied.President
President Grant visited Vanita , I.
T. , and addressed the Cherokee In-
lians.
wenty Years Ago.
The fourth annual convention of the
rganized trades of the United States
> nd Canada opened in Chicago.
An entire freight train on the North-
rn Pacific road near Duluth waa
'irown into the St. Louis river and
'ie crew drowned.
The University of Kief , Russia , waa
oaed , and 1GS students were arrested
larged with being nihilists.
Marion Hendershot was lynched by
mob at Troy , Ind. , for the murder of
s mother.
Vigilance committees of Oregon re-
irted the State and surrounding ter-
ory free from horse thieves , fifty of
Iiom had been lynched within a half
ar.
n Years Ago.
The Japanese attacked the Chlnse
Wiju and captured the town. The
inese were reported to have taken u
nd on the north branch of the Yau.
) .ivid B. Hill , for the third time , ac-
ted the Democratic nomination fo ;
vernor of Xew York. '
) liver Wendell Holmes , the author
1 humorist , died at his Boston ,
ass. , home.
