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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
SMALL AFFAIRS AT FRONT.
Russian Scouts Said to Invariably show Their Superiority.

Mukden, Sept. 2S. Many skirn1ishes and reconnaissances are reported to. headquarters here, but, except for these, quiet still prevails. Fighting has taken place and the Russian scouts have almost invariably shown them selves superior to the Japanese, both in riding and lighting.
 The Japanese movement Up the Taitse river appears to be by a comparatively small force.
 Raiding parties from the Russian army bring in many prisoners. Beauti- ful autumn weather continues.
 Achievements are arriving rapidly. Over 1000 convalescents have returned to duty.
 The railway is in good working con- dition. Officers are distributing the re- serve stores that were brought up from Liao Yang, as adequate supplies are now coming in from the north.
 Details of the fighting near Inpu, be- tween Bertsiaputze and the railroad, on September 25 show that General Mis- chenko's scouts, accompanied by bat tery of artillery, attacked Japanese position where were a battery of artil- lery, two squadrons of cavalry and two companies of infantry The Japanese were shelled out of their position on a hill and suffered heavy loss. As they retired the Russians occupied the hill until nightfalI, when they retired under cover of darkness, having lost only three men.
 The march of General lRennenkainpff s Cossacks around the Japanese right flank, which was mentioned in these dispatches on September 26, was 8 most remarkable performance Accompanied by battery of artillery, the Cossacks covered eighty miles in fifty two hours They struck the, enemy north of Bent siaputze on September 29 and thence continued south, circling the Japanese right flank and coming unexpectedly on the Japanese line of communications near Bensihu, on the bank of the Taitse river, September p, inflicted consider able damage. The Japanese were thrown into great confusion. They lost only two killed.
 Dr. Matveieff, who was captured by the Japanese at Liao Yang, says that the Japanese are suffering severely from dysentery and that they begged his assistance in combating the dis ease. Japanese officers of the staff are excellent linguists, and many of them speak English and German, as well as some Russian. The Japanese army is living almost entirely on rice and pre- served foods, but it is comfortably equipped, many officers having even arm chairs among their baggage.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
EOMAN GIVES MILLION
 IN PUBLIC REQUESTS
yILL OF LATE MRS. SARAH E.
 POTTER, OF BOSTON

ew Bedford Given s25o,OOO for Pur-
 chase of Books for Library-Ad-
 ditionaI Gifts of ssO.OoO and s25,OOO
 Given Respectively to St. LuI<e's Hos-
 pitaI and Society for Relief of the
 Aged of That CIty-Harvard Gets
 s5O,00O for HerBarium.
 Boston, Sept. 2S.-Public bequests az +egating over s1,OOO,OoO, the largest eing a gift of s25O.OOo to the city of
 ew Bedford, Mass. are contained in he will of the late Mrs. Sarah F. Pot er of this city, which was filed for robate this afternoon.
 Mrs. Potter died last Friday at her 1mmer home at Beverly. To the oston Medical Library is bequeathed
 50, 900; to the Kindergarten for the Hind at Jamaica Plains, $100,00O, and 5OO00 to each of the following:
 Harvard university, Boston Home for |lCuIdDt0S, 1I1OSpllSl SOItdSoo AOA OAAAA ren at Baldwinville, Mass, Free Hos ital for Women at Brookline, and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.
 There are numerous other public be- 'uests in the document, including 1ree of s2o, 900 each, ten of $10,0O0 each Ind eleven of $5,OOO all to New Eng nd charitable institutions.
 Tn addition to the $250.OO0 to the city I New Bedford, the income of which to be expended in purchasing books br the public library. St. Luke's hos ital in New Bedford is bequeathed 50, 1000, while the Association for the selief of the Aged, in the same city, is eft S25,OOO.
 Mrs. Potter was born in New Bed prd.
 The money bequeathed to Harvard University is to be applied to the work 'f the Gray Herbariun, to which Mrs. otter contributed during her life. With one or two exceptions no special Dnditions attach to any of the be- 8uests.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
EPISCOPAL CONVENTION
Question of Dividing the New York
 Diocese.

New York, Sept. 2S.-save for two questions, the business of the Episcopal convention to-day was largely of the routine order. The only question upon which there was any considerable dis cussion was on dividing the New York diocese. On motion of Dr. W. R, Hun tington, of Grace church. New York, chairman of the committee on division. the question of division was postponed. The second question to agitate the con- vention was the revocation of the act Of the convention last year in raising the age of the admission of daconesses to the church school from twenty-three years to thirty.
 Rev. pr. Rainsford championed the cause of the young women and urged the convention to place the age of ad- mission at twenty three, as it had orig finally been. He repudiated the idea that the age of thirty should be adhered to, because a woman knew her own mind then and had passed the change able age.
 Dr. Rainsford's argument prevailed, and a motion to make the age of adnis- sion for a deaeoness twenty-three years prevailed without a dissenting vote.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
IN HIS oWN DEFENSE.
+oung watson coolIy Tells of the Mur-
 der of Henry osborn.


 Hartford, Sept. 2S.--The young negro Watson, accused of the murder of Hen osborn, was put on the stand in his Iefense to-day and in a cool manner bld of the murder. He corroborated he statements of the police concern hg certain minor details and then re- hted the story of the shooting. He lnd that he entered the house of MT. osborn the night before the shooting Ind that the following morning he went lpstairs to ask MT. Osborn for money lue him. He said there was a dispute lver the wages and that MT. Osborn threatened him if he did not go away. There were some hot words, witness laiming that his former employer tried b force him down stairs. In the scuf- Ie he pulled his revolver and fired four |hots, believing that if he didn't pro- ect himself he would be hurt. He said ie did not mean to kill him at first. Watson answered all the questions Isked of him in a deliberate manner Ind seemed not the least disturbed at my time during the afternoon. He 5as on the stand at the adjournment f court when the direct examination Eas concluded. He will be cross-ex- mined tomorrow.
 Chief Gum of the police department 5as another witness this afternoon. He old the court of the confession made b him by Watson in the police station oon after the negro was arrested.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
poNNELEY DENIES IT
Never Received Letter Purported to be
 '. Written hy Roosevelt.

Washington, Sept. 2S.- Secretary Loeb tonight made public a dispatch from United States Attorney Bethea at Chi cago regarding the letter purporting to have been addressed by President Roosevelt to Michael Donnelly, .of Chi eago, president of the Butchers and Meat Cutters union. and severely ar raigning labor unions. The dispatch says that MT. DonnelIy received no such letter. The telegram follows:
 "Chieago. Sept 2S, 1904. "Hon. William Loeb, jr., Secretary to the President, Washington, D. C.:
 T have seen Mir. Donnelly. He, of course, received no such letter as that referred to in the morning papers, and expresses his desire to find the person who first printed it as a genuine letter and wishes to do anything in his power to counteract it's extended effect. ! IS. H, Bethea,
 Limited States Attorney
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
NAUTICAL SCHOOL FAILs.
sIocum and Norge Disasters Bring Ruin
 to New Project.

sIocum and Norge Disasters Bring Ruin
 to New Protect.
 Providence, Sept 2S.-George H. New hall. of Providence, was to-day appoint ed temporary receiver of the Nautical preparatory school of this city, The appointment was made by Judge Til- linghast in the appellate division of the supreme court on a petition brought by George H. Eiswald, stockholder, on the ground that the corporation is in solvent. No statement of assets or lia-. .bilities was available to-day seeber Edwards, of this city. attorney for the school, said that the trouble was due to a failure to secure the enrolment of a sufficient number of students to make the enterprise possible, parents having refused to permit their sons to go to sea after the General Slocum and the steamship Norge disasters. The project was to take cadets to sea on a ship owned by the school.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
MURDER COMMITTED
 AT KOSHER ABATTOIR
BOT SHOOTS DOWN AND IN-
 sTANTLY KILLS BUTCHER

Rabbi Narrowly Escnpes-scere of the
 Crime Just Over Hartford Town Line
 -Boy Captured Several Hours After
 While Standing Under an Electric
 Light-Admits the Crime-ThOught
 to be of Uns0und Mind.
 Hartford, Sept. 2S.-Louis Mazenter, twenty-two years old, a butcher, was shot and instantly killed this afternoon by George Lefebzre, a boy of fifteen years old, while he was working in an abattoir in Wilson's station just over the Hartford town line. The victim was given no warning, the shot being fired as he was dressing a steer with his back turned to the gun. Lefebzre was arrested at Park and Putnam streets i'll this city about 9:3O tonight and later admitted that he killed Ma zenter, but said that the shooting was accidental He said that he was ac- customed to shoot birds in. the vicinity of the building where Mazenter was working and that he supposed the gun went off before he was ready to have 1t. Lefebzre is alleged to be slightly un- balanced and his story of the shooting was disconnected.
 Mazenter and a rabbi named Sibow- lowsld went from this city to Katzen- steins slaughter house early in the day. Shortly after a steer had been killed and hung up this afternoon the TO lsI,i sold ts 60 xxy O o41,, h, x,r Before he could utter sound the gun was fired and Mazenter dropped in his tracks. The rabbi ran out of the build ing but could find no trace of the boy. On account e the distance the police were some time reaching the scene of the shooting and when they arrived there they found the gun in a tobacco shed near by. It was taken to Lefeb- zre's house, where his mother identified it as that of her son. Although a search of the premises was made no trace of the boy was found
 A poor description was given the po~ lice, and 1t was only by chance that Detective Sergeant Dietrich saw they boy under the electric light tonight. The shooting occurred at 3:S0 o'clock. Fefebzre stated tonight to the police that as he was coming toward this city in a trolley car he passed the police wagon carrying half dozen police men to the scene of the shooting. The boy will De taken to the town court iii Windsor tomorrow morning. where he will stand trial as the shoot ling occurred in that town. He was locked up tonight in the local police station without bail.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
SIX VERT FAST RoUNDS
Good Go Between Hughey McGovern
 and Tommy Murphy.

Philadelphia, Sept. 2s. Before crowd that filled the National Athletic club tonight Hughey McGovern and Tommy Murphy of New York fought six of the fastest rounds ever witness ed in this city. Under the law no de- cision can be rendered here, but 1t was the opinion of the spectators that the bout was a good draw.
 There was only one knockdoWn dur ing the entire contest and that was at the beginning of the first round when Murphy went down from right swing; to the jaw. He was up again in a mos ment, however, and returned the blow with another which opened cut over McGovern's eye. Murphy was the ag- gressor at the start but McGovern did not seek to avoid him at any time and the exchange of blows was rapid and severe all the time the men were on their feet.
 At the end of the bout both showed signs of weariness and distress, but neither had at any time secured de- ciside advantage.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
CONNECTICUT HAD X
 VERY NARROW ESCAPE
DESTRUCTION NOT FOUND UNTIL
 LAST SATURDAY.

Its Nature StIn Held secret-was Not,
 However, Bomb-Not Placed by n
 Competing Firm of ShipbuiIders--
 Trouble Probably Due to CareIessness
 of WOrImen-Not IaIicIous-BattIe-
 ship Ready for Launching To-day.
 New York, Sept. 2S.-By the discovery and removal of an obstruction on the ways, the officers of the Brooklyn navy yard are now in position to look to a launching of the battleship conneeti- cut tomorrow which will be as success ful as it might have been disastrous.
 Concerning the nature of this obstruc- ton, of which they had no knowledge until last Saturday, those in charge of the launching maintain a strict silence. feet in the work of the men caused the conditions which fostered anxiety until the obstruction was removed. Reports that bomb would have been exploded, or that the whole bottom of the yes sel would have been ripped out, had the discovery never been made, are pos- itively denied by those best qualified to speak on the subject.
 An officer who is in a position to dis cuss the matter with authority, but who is compelled by service regulations to request that his name be withheld, said:
 An obstruction under water was cer- tainly found few days ago, when a final inspection of the vessel was be- ing made by divers. This obstruction was of such a kind that had it not been discovered until tonight or tomorrow morning it would certainly have delayed the launching of the battle ship. On the other hand had it not been discovered prior to the launching, the serious results predicted by at least two of the morning papers would not have occurred. The bottom of the ves- sel could not have been torn out by the obstruction which we found, all though it is possible that when she would have been started on her quick journey to the water she might have left the ways.
 While I am forbidden to make pub- lie the exact nature of the obstruction, I do not mind telling you that It was neither a bomb nor spikes (both of which have been asserted to have been discovered), nor was it a large los or pile.
 Above all things, desire to say most emphatically that the suggestion that the obstruction had been placed where it was found by a competing firm of shipbuilders is as absurd as 1t Is un- true. We have the strongest kind of evidence that this is not true.
 Furthermore, the guard around the vessel has not been increased as re- Eported, nor have electric lights been strung around the vessel as a result of the discovery. For some time past, since the vessel reached a certain stage of completion, it has been guarded, and | lighted with electricity, This Is no new departure.
 At the present moment the Connect- icut is ready for launching, and think will be launched quite successfully. When 1t was reported that the obstruc-
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
HAEVAKD INSTRUCTOR KILLED
Arthur D. wyInan Struck by Auto .& Driven by Student.

s Cambridge, Sept. 29.-Arthur D. Wy man, an instructor in the chemical lab oratory of Harvard, and a son of Chas. r. Wyman, the Russian consul at Bos- ton, was struck and fatally injured by an automobile just before midnight last night. He died at the Stillman inf1rm- ary at Harvard three hours later. The automobile was owned and operated by Leon Strauss, student of Harvard.
 The accident occurred on Massacu- setts avenue. MT. Wyman, in company with another instructor. R. c. Wells, was taking a walk, and was crossing the street near the Harvard bridge when the machine suddenly appeared and struck MT. Wynan before he notic- ed his danger. s-- -e -
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
INVESTIGATION IEGURNEK CASE
Report to be Made to state Department by Governor Bates.


 by Governor Bates.
 Boston, Sept. 2S.-After the meeting of the executive council to-day, Judge Phelps of Lee, Lieutenant Governor Guild, and Assistant Attorney General Nash held consultation which lasted some time. The Gurney incident was discussed at length. While the confer ence was in progress Governor Bates telephoned from East Boston that he would soon arrive at the state house
 The governor arrived at 10:30 o'clock, and, after being informed of the status of the case, he took personal charge of it.
 It was after the noon hour when the governor and the attorney general end- ed their discussion, and Governor Bates began the preparation of communi- cation to the state department. Some time before the conference closed Judge Phelps left the state house by a private exit. Shortly after o'clock Governor Bates stated that the investigation had been completed, and that the state de- partment would be advised of the re- suit. Out of courtesy to the government officials, however, the governor declined positively to intimate what action had been taken, or to disclose the contents of his letter to the state department.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
MANY TYPHOID CASES.
New York Threatened With Serious
 Epidemic of the Fever.

New York Threatened With Serious
 Epidemic of the Fever.
 New York, Sept. 28.-Greater New York is threatened with what may be the severest epidemic of typhoid fever in it's history. Not only are the num- Der of typhoid cases reported for the three weeks of September ending last Saturday greater than that of any month last year, but since the. begin. ming of the summer the death rate has been so much higher than formerly that the health department is now thorough- ly alarmed, and is bending every ef- fort toward checking the disease.
 { For the three weeks just ended the total number of cases reported at the health department was Al. The fatali- ties numbered S4, or a death rate of nearly twenty per cent. Last year dur ing the worst month October the largest number cl cases in New York was 324, and the highest death rate during any time of the year was thir- teen and four1tenths per cent.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
Wu Ting Fang,s Mission.

St. Petrsburg, Sept. 28. Information received here tends to confirm the re- cent Pekin report that Wu Ting Fang, former Chinese minister to the United States, will be sent on a special mis- sion to Europe and America. The state ment that it is China's purpose to have him consult Japan and Russia regard ing Manchuria is incorrect. His mis- sion will be to sound the neutral powers on the subject of China's interests in the peace negotiations at the close of the war.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
For Fraudulent Use of Mails.

Putnam, Sept. 2S.---Robert J. Warren, of this place, was arrested late this af- ternoon at the request of Postal Inspec- tor Pendleton, of Boston, the complaint being served by Deputy United States Marshal Bishop. The charge is fraud ulent use of the mails, and 1t hinges, 1t is understood, with some dealings that Warren, under an assumed name, is said to have had with Chicago firm.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
MINEOLA PEoPLE OBJECT
Protest Against Use of Roads for Auto
 Race.

New York, Sept. 2S.-A protest was filed with the Nassau county supervise ors at Mineola, +. l., to-day against al- lowing the use of the country roads for the Vanderbilt cup race to be held oc- tober 8 under the auspices of the Auto- mobile Club of America. The protest was filed by the Peoples Protective as- sociation of Hampstead.
 The petitioners declare they are at a loss to understand by what right the supervisors, elected by the people of Nassau county to care for their inter ests, can wilfully and with knowledge of the great loss to the residents of the county give away such privileges.
 Unless we hear from you at once,'' say the petitioners, I've will take other means to uphold our interests in the matter
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
.Disagrees With Father.

St. Petersburg, Sept. 2S.-6:2O p. m.-- Count Tolstois son, Leo, in an article in the Novoe Vremya takes position diametrically opposed to his father. He has just returned from seeing off his brother, who is departing for the front, and writes of the touching scenes he witnessed at Tamboff as the reserve men left for the Far East. But, young Tolstoi says, nevertheless the peasants are all united in agreeing that the war must be fought until Japan is subdued.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
Tolstoi's Brother Dead.

Moscow, Sept 2s.-count sergius Tolstoi, the brother of Count Leo, is dead. He was the very antithesis of Count Leo. residing on his estate in lordly style, and living the life of a veritable, self-indulgent epicure, while his brother, clad in homespun, leads the life of an ascetic. Count Sergius had two daughters, who were admirers of their uncle and whose ideas they adpot- ed in refusing to marry, one of them selecting a coachman as her mate
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
QUESTION OF MEDIATION.
Semi Oficial Italian Organ Denies Ob-
 ject of Meeting.

Rome, Sept. 2S.-A1though a portion of the Italian press insists that the meeting of Premier Giolitti and Count von Buelow, the German chancellor, at Homburg was connected with the sub jeet of mediation between Russia and Japan, the Capitale, a semi-official or gan, gives voice to the contrary view and says: "Not only the Italian but all European governments consider that mediation is impossible now, when Rus sia fully trusts in her ability to turn the tide of battle in her favor and while Japan does not wish to lose the fruits of her victories"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29

csc were unable to remain in the three supplementary forts which they cap tured and that they retired at 1 o'clock on the afternoon of September 26 after enduring several days of terrific firing from the inner forts. He adds that the Russians attempted to bury the dead on both sides at night, because the de- composing bodies seriously menaeed the health of the garrison. The Rus sians allege. that it is the deliberate policy of the Japanese to undermine the health of the Russian troops by means of the odors from the decompos- ing bodies and that for this reason they fire on the burial parties.
 One Chinaman who was a member of burial party says that the Japan ese fired when he and other Chinese att tempted to bury the dead He adds that when the wind carries the odors toward the Japanese the latter retire.
 Chinese say that the most severe at tacks were made on the supplementary forts of the Itz and Anshu mountain forts. The Russians had undermined the ground and several hundred Jap anese were blown up on September 2S. Reports received from the Miaotato is lands mention terrific report which shook the houses there on that date
 The Russian ships, it is reported, took no part in the battle. From thir- ty to fifty shells fell daily in the Chi nese new town. One shell tore the rud- der from a torpedo boat destroyer.
 The Russians are now building new fort at Liaott promontory, bearing on the island side. Its construction indi- cates that five large guns wilr form the nucleus of the battery.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
gNAToR HoAR IN LAST SLEEP.
rails to Rally from stupor--Cannot
 Take Food.

Worcester, Mass, Sept 28. United states Senator George F. Hoar's condi- ion continues most critical. He has lot rallied from the sleep and stupor nto which he fell Tuesday afternoon, md 1t is feared that he is in his last
 leep. He partakes of neither food nor punishment, being too weak to swal- DIV. The attending physicians said late o-night there is absolutely no hope, Iut are unwilling to venture an opin- on as to whether he will die during
 he night or live possibly for two or hree days. The remarkable vitality le has shown during his present illness nay be sufficient to fight death until
 he last of the week.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-29
Rishon Hnrtzell,s Opinion.

Richmond, Ind, Sept. 2S.- Bishop. Hartzell, for twenty years Methodist bishop in Africa, has delivered a strik- ing address here. Bishop Hartzell de- clared he hoped to see the time when the American flag should float over portion Of African territory and that Africa can be divided by the great na- tions of the earth without war.