New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-20
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1904.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-Tbe Russian Foreign Office said
that the Malacca would be taken 10 Sebastopol
and the case submitted TO a prize court there.
- British officials questioned the status of
the Russian Red Sea volunteer fleet vessel
which seized the English steamer MalacCa; fear
of international complications over the seizure
caused a heavy fail in consols. = New
Chwang reports tell Of hard lighting at Tang
Chi, eight miles southeast Of Tashi-Chiao; the
japanese are safa 10 be awaiting supplies and
reinforcements. =-- General kurOk reporting
the Nao-Ifen battle. describes the action a
series Of hard fought small encounters; the
Russian losses gre estimated ~ 2.Vn the Jap
auese casualties being 90. =-= Chinese reach
ing Che-FoO from Port Arthur reported that
four thousand japanese were killed by mines
Ia one Of the eastern forts; the refugees also
brought word Of the sinking Of q merchant
steamer, possibly the Hipsang, by Russian to-
peGO boat. -= I1eutSlu adNlCes said about
1900 Russian troops returned to New-Chwang
on Monday; the japanese We're then reported To
be six miles from the town. --= Arnor max
ers met at London TO discuss the question OF
royalties; no new scale was adopted. -=
King Edward. accom- anied by Queen Alex
andra, went TO Live pool and laid the corner
stone OF the cathedral
DoMESTIC.-Those acquainted with the Presi-
dents plans asserted that he would make no
campaign buster about lighting The sO-callec
Beef Trust but would prosecute the government
case now pending solely as the facts 1ustlhed.
- The President received a delegation OF
Pennsylvania miners at oyster Bay; Elhu Root
ended his conference with the President. ==
Democrats and Republicans agreed that the
failure TO make Taggart chairman of the Ma
tional Democratic Committee would mean that
Parker had given up hope Of carrying Indiana
60 Chief Judge Parker received a dispatch
from Senator German declining an invitation to
visit Esopus William Jennings Bryan
passed through Chicago and said that he should
continue HIS efforts to tear the Democratic
party apart from the inside -= The striking
butchers IN Chicago sent a note to the employ
ers asking for another conference tomorrow;
contrary 10 all expectation there was nothing
belligerent about the note. == The strike OF the
employees Of the Orange County Traction Com
pany ended al Newburg each side making con-
cessions. == A couple at Pawtucket, r. l.. re-
ceived letter from Secretary Loeb conveying
the concentrations of President Roosevelt on
the birth Of their twelfth child. == A Harvard
student was drowned at Chatham, Mass, his
companion being saved.
CITY-Stocks closed strong. == Five per
sons were killed by heat in Brooklyn; a large
number Of prOstrations We're reported in the
metropolitan district. == The conferences of
Democrats i'm this city continued; the East
IL is not believed that he viii accept it; Tag
CARTS friends are fighting hard for him; Tam
many is making no OIertures to the Parker lead
ers. == A warrant was issued for the arrest
of H H. Rogers because a lineman of a COM
pany OF which he is president was shocked to
death on a wire whose insulation was poor
= Police Commissioner McAdOo caused hun
dreds Of telegraph messages to be sent 10 him
from the Brighton Beach raCetrack to discover
II the Western Union Telegraph Company was
giving preference TO poOlrOOm syndicates in
transmitting news Of the races. == Severe
riots and q panic occurred on a barge chartered
by negro church for excursion; police came
in launches TO quell the disturbances; many per-
sons We're slashed and hurt IN other ways.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Showers and thunderstorms. The temperature
yesterday: Highest 80 degrees; lowest. y.