The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-08-11
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Brief Summary Of Most
important Events
Of Each Day.

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The Russian Vladivostok squad
ron has captured another British
steamer, the Calcnas, and towed her
| into port as prize.
Train on Rio Grande railroad
plunges through bridge into raging
torrent near Pueblo, Colorado, and
from 80 to 100 people lost their lives
! by drowning.
Both America and England have
given. stern warnings to Russia re-
specting recent seizures and sinking
of neutral vessels. The matter prom
! ises to lead to serious trouble.
~-Recorts from all sections of the
south show that enormous damage has
! bsen done by the recent heavy rims.
| -Advices enanating from Shanghai
state that General Stoessel mas suicid-
ed, and that many thousands OF Rus
slams are i'll and wounded at Port Ar.
thur.
! "A movement is started in Eos
ton to erect monument to Ell Wnat- !
ney, inventor Of the cotton gin.
Run on Chicago bank by strikers
and their friends is alleged to be re-
suit of conspiracy to wreck the sasti-
tuticn.
The Japs are advancing on Muk-
den and a simultaneous attack on tnat
city and Liao-Yang is probability.
Thomas E. Watson will be notified
of his nomination for president by
populists at New York on the 18th
! inst
President Roosevelt, who has ju-
risd1ction, has refused to interfere in
case of negro in Washington sentenc-
ed to hang for criminal assault.
| The sending of American war
ships to Turkish waters has frighten-
ed the sultan into making more prom
ises.
Joseph NJ. Brown, of Marietta, has
been appointed on Georgia state rail-
road commission, to succeed Gunby
Jordan, resigned.
The japanese forces are marching
on Mukden, and the greatest battles
of the war are expected in that vicin'
ity.
General Rafael Reyes assumed Of
fee at Bogota as President OF Colon
bia Sunday.
AT Indianapolis, Wednesday, Chas.
". Fairbanks was formally notified OF
his nomination for vice president oy
the republican national convention. Inc
notification address was made by Elihu
Root.
in riot at stock yards in Chicago
Wednesday night two policemen %nip
pes whole army of strikers, beating
fully fifty CT them to the pavement
with their clubs and arresting twenty
eight.
Baseball in Atlanta Wednesday
broke up quorum in Georgia house OF
representatives, these being only seV-
enty-two members present.
| 1t is rumored On the stock es-
| change in London that Japanese dis
! covered $4,000 coo in an abandoned
Russian camp.
On Sunday and Monday General
Kurcki administered a severe drub-
bing to the Russian forces, winning
separate actions at Yuskulikzu and
! Yangse Pass.
Wife of General Miles died sud-
denly Tuesday at West Point, N. Y.
while ,;ne and her husband were WIS.,
iting their son, who is a student in
the military academy. She was 81
years old, and her death is the culmi-
nation Of a series of attacks of heart
trouble.
The Russian press is filled with
eulogies of the late Lieut.. General
Count Keller, who was killed by a
japanese shen. He was considered
to be one of the most dashing COM
manders in the Russian army.
1t is rumored that George Foster
| Peabody, OF Brooklyn, N. Y, will be
selected as treasurer of the national
democratic committee.
In a dispatch to the car, dated
August 2. General Kuropatkin says:
"Our troops have retired from Hal
Cheng along the road toward Anshan-
shan. The movement was accomplished
in perfect order and the enemy df! not
| disturb u.s."
The Russian Vladiycstok squad
ron returned safe to port Monday af-
ternoon They captured during their
cruise steamer Arabia and destroyed