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ARKANSAS DEMOCRATIC
Jeff Davis Reelected by a Large Ma
jority Over the Republican
Asniranf.

Memphis, Tenn, Sept. 7.-IIarly re-
turns from the state election in Ar
kansas indicate the reelection of Gov.
Jefferson Davis. the present democratic
incumbent, over Harry Meyers, repub-
llcan, by the usua large democratic
majority.
The democrats easily elected their
entire state ticket. and the interest
centered in the vote in the large towns,
where the regular democrats were OPP
posed in many instances by independ-
ents. Returns are necessarily slow, as
many voting places are remote from
railroad and telegraph stations.
Little Rock. Ark, Sept. 6.-Addi-
tional returns from Yesterdays cleo
lions show that Meyers, republican
candidate for governor, has probably
carried Lafayette and Little River
counties by small pluralities.
Davis, democrat, is running behind in
some of the towns and cities. but is
making large gains in the country pre-
cincts.
John II. Page, secretary of the demo-
cratic state central committee, esti-
mates that Gov. Davis plurality will be
$4,000.
Chairman H.. l.. Remmel, of the re-
publican state central committee,
claims republican gains in a number of
precincts, and if the same ratio Of
increase continues he expresses the be-
lief that Meyers for governor will nave
q small plurality.
Specials to the Gazette state that in
Conway and Woodruff counties the ne
groes almost generally voted for Da-
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ARMENlANs BUSY AGAIN
they Are Said to Have Made a Sue
ccssful Resistance to the Turk
ish Soldjery,

Paris. Sept. IA Temps dispatch from
Constantinoplc by way OF Sofia says an
official report which has reached one Of
the foreign conauls there states that the
Armenian insurgents at Van. Asiatic Tur-
key, are successfully resisting the Turkish
troops, which until yesterday had been
unable to reduce or dispense them. The
Armcninns advanced to within about 100
yards of the French consulate. The pop
ulation OF Van is seeking refuge in the
schools and converts. 1t is expected Tur-
key will mobilize the fourth army corps
and draw troops from Asia Minor, in order
TO suppress the uprising.
1t was announced from Constanti-
nopic. September 9. hat a fierce fight
between the Armenian insurgents and
the Turkish troops had occurred at
Van August 81, and hat more than a
score were killed. About $50 Armeni-
ans raided the town. captured four
houses, and barricaded themselves. The
troops captured the houses II in the
fight which followed two soldiers and
twenty other persons were killed. The
authorities set fire to a number of adj
joining houses so that the troops might
be better enabled to besiege the in
surgents. 1t was said by the authors
ties that other Armenian bands We're
preparing TO cross the Persian frontier.
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AWFUL. CONDITION OF JAPs.
Men Without Food Two Days j
Trenches Filled with Water.

Men Without Food Two Days in
Trenches Filled with Water.
Mukden, Sept. 2.-(Delayed.)-After
six days Of battle, on he last three
of which the heaviest fighting occurred.
the Japanese on Wednesday abandoned
their direct attack on Lao Yang in
favor Of a flank movement.
The Russian artillery on Friday was
greatly aided by sending UP balloons
southeast of Lilac Yang, thus locating
the Japanese batteries. The Russians
were compelled to abandon a number
of guns.
On Wednesday the japanese shells
reached the railroad station and the
railroad bridge over the Taitse river.
Others fell as far north as Yentai. The
railroad is being used almost exclu-
sively by the hospital trains and for
the transportation of Japanese pris-
oners. The latter are in a dreadful
state of exhaustion. Many of them
have been without food for two. days.
during which d%ownpours OF rain filed
the trenches. Their shoes and clothes
are in tatters.
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K%u1opatkin's action in throwing the
bulk of his army across h river to
the right bank IL. order to protect his
rear and give him an opportunity to
try conclusions single handed with
Kuroki is considered to be brilliant
strategical stroke. The Russian force
left on the Lilac Yang side of the
Taitse is regarded as strong enough,
behind its fortified positions, to hold
Oku and Nodzu long enough to give
Kuropatkin a chance to strike Kurokt
and at the same time to protect the
must recross in order to follow up his
success in the event that he brushes
Kuroki. In case of a reverse the bridges
will also furnish ample facilities for
the Russian troops on the Lao Yang
side to rejoin the main army.
Yesterday afternoon k assaulted
one of the strong Russian positions on
the Lao Yang side which, 1t Is pre-
sumed, guarded the bridges. but the
japanese were %repulsed with exceed
ingly heavy losses, the Russians behind
their works suffering only slightly.
The Japanese are using siege guns on
the Lao Yang side.
Kuropatkin did not delay, after his
concentration on the right bank of the
river. Yesterday morning he massed
his artillery n at noon began to
lombard Kuroki's position preliminary
10 an infantry dtldCk.
The above was the situation when the
last report in possession of the war
office was sent. What the authorities
at Toxic regard. as a Russian concen-
tration at Yentai, was probably Kuro-
patkin's preparations for taking the Of
~fensive. Telegraphic and railroad COM
munication between the Russian army
and Mukden were still open this morn
ing. In military circles Kuropatktn's
tactics are approved n confidence Is
expressed in the issue. The failure of
sage OF Kuropatkin's main army across
the river is believed here to indicate
that the Japanese desire to cap as
much glory as possible If they sue
coed in taking possession of Lao Yang.
Neither Kuropatkin's decision to
make the crossing with his army, nor
the fact that the bulk of it Is over,
which was exclusively announced by
the Associated Press. was known to
the Russian public till his morning.
The war office declares 1t Is still
without official information in regard
to the, result of K~uropatkin's fight with
Kuroki. If the report of Kuropatkin's
returning turns out to he true. it is
considered possible that it may be due
to the appearance of another thanking
movement of the japanese higher up
and from the west. Reports that the
Japanese We're moving up the Liza
river toward Sinmintin We're persistent
just before the fighting began.
notwithstanding the lack of official
confirmation Of Kuropatkin's retreat,
the report has fallen like a cold douche
upon the general staff and the en-
peror who was going to Libau TODAY,
has postponed his trip on account of
the situation at the front.
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HOW sTAkELeERG ESCAPED.
First Siberian Army Corps Was Safely
Extrjcated.

ST. Petersburg. Sept. General Sta
lSelberG's First Siberian army corps,
which was reported yesterday by Cen
eral Kuropatkin as having been cut off
to the westward of Lao Yang, has
been safely eXtricated.
General Kuropatkin telegraphed at Z
p. m. Saturday evening h a the great
er portion of his army vas then south
of Yanti, about ten miles northeast
of LAO Yang, and the other portion Of
1t was crossing the Taitse river and
taking up a position on the right bank.
This message. which vas received by
the emperor early Sunday morning,
threw a more hopeful light OH the po-
sition of the Russian army and the au-
thorities gave signs of relief. There is
no attempt, however. to conceal the
gravity of the situation, in view of the
absence of news regarding what is hap
pening today.
1t is not clear from the latest tele-
gram whether the Russians are o n
tinuing their retreat, or if they have
been compelled to face their foe. The
gloomy report telegraDled by the Rus
sian commander in chief in the early
stages of the fight of Saturday last and
his bitter r~epreaches against General
Stakelberg are attributed to his cha
grin over the failure of his offensive
plans.
General Kuropatkin now telegraphs
that his only serious losses are confined
to Major General Orloff's detachment,
which was guarding the left flank at
Yentai. This detachment consisted of
mixed European detachments. and was
suddenly attacked by the Japanese in
fantry and artillery concealed in the
tall Chinese corn INC grass. The Rus
slams seem to have lost their heads and
to have retreated precipitately. The
Japanese inflicted great slaughter, Gen.
eral Orloff's regiments losing 1900 men.
No details are given of the escape of
General Stakelberg's corps from the
clutches of the enemy, but it is believed
1t owes its safety to the neglect or in
ability of the Japanese to follow up
their advantage.
General Stakelberg was allowed to
cross the river and came up with the
main army in time to enable the shat
tered remnants Of Major General Or
lofts detachment to retreat. The eX-
plot is likely to condone General Stalk
elberg's disobedience, III unless the
emperor forgives him he will have to
appear before a courtmartial and prob
ably will lose his command.
The war Office is able to make the
reassuring statement that the Russian
retrea: from Lao Yang did not involve
the loss of uns, and it also declares
that The abandoned stores at Lao Yang
We're set on fire before the Russians
crossed the TaitSe river.
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FROM GENERAL KuRoPATKlN.
Advices Touching on the SituatioI
North Of the River.

North of the River.
st. Petersburg, Sept. GA bulletin
just issued announces that Kuropatkin
has assumed the offensive, massing his
artillery and ~bombarding the Japanese
on Friday at noon. preparatory to an
attack on Kuroki's f1anklng army on
the north side of the Taitse river.
Kuropatkin telegraphs today that the
Russians advanced against Kuroki yes
terday and adds that the Japanese the
same day attacked the Russian right.
but were repulsed.
lows:
"A nightfall Thursday the Japanese
attacked u ~Skywantun position, but
were repulsed after a hot fight. They
renewed the attack at night, this time
with success. driving back a regiment
in the direction of Sakutun. The re-
treat of this regiment led to the evacu-
alton of the positions held by our other
troops Towards morning u troops
advanced gradually in order to retake
the Skywantun position. and at dawn
Friday I assumed the offensive against
Kuroki's army. At midday the heads
Of the attacking corps were in line and
preparations were being made to re-
take my artillery position that had
been captured during the night by the
Japanese. and the infantry is also ad-
vancing to the attack.
During the night the Japanese vic
lently bombarded the interior Russian
position inside the town of Lao Yang,
the railroad station. n the railroad
itself. Our losses were insignificant.
I have just received a dispatch from
the chief of the Lao Yang garrison,
timed 1885 a. m, to the effect that the
Japanese attacked the fort situated in
the center Of u position, but they
! were repulsed with very great loss. We
had six men killed in the fort"
A new phase Of the battle of Lilac
Yang is now begun. The main opera
tons nave been transferred to the
north bank of the Taitse river. where
Kuropatkin has assumed the offensive
hurting the bulk of his army against
Oyama's right under. Kuroki. and al
the same time holding the japanese
center and left. on the other side OF
the river. IN check with the force left
on the south bank for that purpose
The operations on the south side are
now regarded as being of secondary
Importance at the war office. where
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"REMNAn7 OF ROUTED ENEMY,

This Is the Characterization Applied by
Jap Commanders to Russians.
London, Sept. CA Toxic dispatch to
the Japanese legation here say Field
Marshal Oyama reports:
September 3. 9 a. m.-The remnant
Of the routed enemy fs still offering
some resistance outside Of Lao Yang.
Our central and left armies are at
lacking It,"
An earlier message from Field Mar
shall Oyama says:
The enemy in front Of u left and
September 2 to the right bank Of the
Taitse river, except a portion of his
forces occupying the defense works
from south to northwest Of Lao Yang,
and the heights northeast of Nutchang.
Our armies are continuing the attack.
Our right army occupied, IN the morn
ing OF the I'd. part of the heights west
Of Heiyingtai."
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%sAssoNEFF GETS AWAY.
Tho Murderer Of Won PIehwe Gets Out
of Prison. .sa

IE rLAElH 1895 H
London Sept. Ga special dispatch
from st. Petersburg says that by atdar-
ingly conceived coup on the part 81 his
friends, Sassonef, the murderer of NJ.
o Plehwe, succeededSiny escaping from
prison. sE 4qs - s@fE,
Early Saturday morning two men.
apparently officers Of high rank, ac-.
companied by an army surgeon and,
two gendarmes. presented themselves
at the prison with a note alleged Is be
from Minister of Justice OuravfeH, The
forged note sanctioned the removal Of
SassoneR, h assassinated Minister,
Of the Interior Won Plehwe with an In.
fernal machine a few weeks ago..
The Prison officials were completely
taken in and handed over the assassin.
who was at ono driven away In the
most deliberate manner. Nothkp8 has
been heard.since either OF the ASSASSIN;
or OF the bogus officers. The letter
presented at The prison was q clever,
forgery written upon official paper Cd
the ministry Of Justice.
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DOES NOT AFFECT WEST.
DonnelIy's View of the Return of New
York Strikers to Work.

lOIh " SvOiNs
Chicago, Sept. 1.-THE return to work
of the $500 strikers in New York will
have no material effect on the situa-
ton at the stock yards strike, accord
ing to President Donnelly of the butch
ers' union. In an address this morning
before 5000 strikers and their friends.
MIR. Donnelly declared that despite the
the union he would make no change in
his plans to tie up the meat Industry
of the country this week.
The action of the New York strikers,
who are said to have voted to desert
u.s." said Mr.. Donnelly. was not en-
tirelys unlocked for. Their grievances
were not as great as ours. as they quit
work merely in sympathy with the
strike Of the western butchers union.
Before next Saturday night 1 expect
there will be $4,000 more workmen in
volved in the struggle. and the product
of the New York plants will not break
the tieup planned for this week. 1t has
been predicted by many that the strike
would be called off before today, but
we are still in the struggle and will re-
main. 1t would not be fair to you il
/ called the strike off. You empowered
me to start it. and you will have to in
struct me by Il general vote to end 1t.
Let no lone be discouraged IL the fight
seems to drag along. We will be all the
SticiieCI, III VII oS>oAS 0SSNSA sSl.-
tilmcnt IL we stay out for seven or
eight weeks longer
c.. S. Schmidt. vice president OF the
Meat Cutters union in California, also
addressed the strikers. He, like Mr..
Donnelly, declared victory would follow
if the strikers would remain out about
W months longer.
The Sunday quiet at the stock yards
Was married by but n insignificant
disturbance.
Four switches on the Chicago juno
ton tracks in the vicinity of the stock
yards were TORI out last night, signals.
track and ali. by some unknown per-
sons in an effort to wreck trains carry
ing meat from the packing plants. The
absence of the switch lights was dis
covered in time. however. to prevent
AN accident. and a guard of policemen
has been placed along the tracks to pre-
vent any further attempt at train
wrecking.
Earlier in the day a meat train was
held up in the same spot and one car
was derailed and its contents confis-
Gated by a mob of several hundred men
who Hooked to the place as soon as the
accident occurred.
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is PRACTICALLY A DRAW
Old Wages to Prevail! and Men
to Be Taken Back So Far
as Needed.
STRIKERS TO VOTE ON 1T
Their Representatives Are Expected to
instruct Agents to Support the
Proposal for Calling OFF the
Strike.

Chicago, Sept. 6.-T'he Tribune Mon
day morning said as a result of the
conference last night between repre-
sentatives of the unions involved in
packing house strike and the owners of
plants. the strikers will meet today or
tomorrow to vote on the question OF
calling off the strike. and that they Will
be instructed to vote in the affirmative.
The chief points of the settlement are
said to be as follows:
The unions to call off the strike. The
packers to re-employ as many strikers
az possible. AS many new workers as
wish TO remain are to be retained.
Wages OF the skilled men to remain at
rate paid before the strike. Fifty live
stock handlers went back to work dur-
ing night
Both the labor leaders and the pack
ing house representatives We're reticelt
today in speaking about the reported
meeting between the packers and the
strikers. and while some admitted
there had been a conference others de-
MED it. but all refused to discuss it's
significance or the results reached.
louis Swift said: IF there vas a
meeting between the two parties T
heard nothing about it. Jul firm was
not represented"
Cass Schlmittal. first vice president Of
the butchers union. said: II am not in
q position to talk of the matter. There
may have been q meeting, but l cannot
say"
1T is alleged that Michael Killeon,
president OF the Live Stock Handlers
union: Nicholas Gier, president of the
Packing Trades council; John Floersch,
secretary of the council, and Donnelly.
were in i conference with w. L. kin
ner of the Union Stock Yards and
Transit company, and that possible
peace terms We're talked of. Donnelly
denied that the submission of the ques-
ton of calling off the tieup to a vote Of
the strikers had been definitely decided
upon.
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THE WAR GAME TONIGHT
At Midnight Bull Run III. Will Begin
to Compete With M%anchurian

Do;rcs,

Gainesville, Va. Sept. 5.-How the hos
tilities are to begin at midnight tonight in
the war game is the prevailing discussion
among military observers at h%eadquar-
tiers. The belief is entertained that the
Brown" army under General Bell,
charged with the duty Of holding thor
oughfare gap. will assume the aggressive,
move rapidly toward Manassas and frus-
trate. If possible. the ADVANCE of the
blue" army under General Grant. It
seems certain in any event that action
will begin and the war be on at midnight
without loss of a minute. The termination
of each days m%aneuvers has been fixed
at 3 d. m.
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STRIKE is OFF.
New York Butcher. Will Go Back to

Work Tomorrow.
New York, Sept. 5.-The union butchers
of the: New York and vicinity last night
declared the strike against the beef trust
at an end. All men for whom places can
be found will return to work Tuesday
morning. The decision was reached
through a referendum vote taken during
the afternoon and evening. The thirteen
localsaan Manhattan. Brooklyn, Jerseys
City and adjacent points, numbering $500
men, held meetings and the voting was
iinished late last night. AS soon as the
vote was counted the result was communi.
Gated to the executive committee Of the
unions. and the order was at once sent
out for every man to report for work
TunSdaX
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ST. Petersburg, Sept. 6.-All Russia
will learn by the morning newspapers
that General k~uropatkin's. army is in
full retreat to the northward. that Lao
Yang has been abandoned and that
General StakGlberg's corps is surround
ed and cut off.
The hopes of victory raised in Rus
sian breasts by the telegram from the
'commander-in-chief published yester-
day afternoon saying that the Russians
had advanced against General Kuroki
on Friday and that an attack on the
Russian troops had been repulsed
proved short lived.
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Wood River Rantists.

Bloomington, Ill. Sept. Sat the Wood
River Baptist association convention the
following officers were elected: Modera.
tor, Rev. Ernest Hall. Bloomington; as.
sistant moderator, Rev. S. P. Cheers, AL.
TOM; recording secretary, j. H. sIichols
Champaign; corresponding secretary. q.
c. Mason, Monmouth; treasurer, T. L.
Smith, Quincy.
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DAY OBSERVANCE
More General Today Than Heretofore,
Save in Chicago Where
II Was Limited.

Chicago, Sept. THE annual holiday
of labor was celebrated today by a pa
rade and picnics. The march, the chief
feature in former ears, vas a COM
p%aratively small affair. Reports from
other cities show the day was more
generally observed than heretofore, pa
rades. picnics and speechmaKing being
the features. At Kansas City Thomas
e. Watson. the populist candidate for
president. was the orator of the day.
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OF q" CARS
Sight People Hurt in Accident on tho
tho Oak Park Road in
Chicago.

Chicago. Sept. flight persons
were injured and six cars on the Chi
cago and Oak Park Elevated railroad
deIailed today in q head-on collision
at st. Louis avenue. The turning of a
switch Is said to have been the cause
OF the wreck. The police are searching
for Joseph O'Brien, a switchman, to
explain the accident.
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part to the discontinue of the assail-
ants.
Nevertheless the Lao Yang fortih-
cations finally We're evacuated and the
remainder of the reserve supplies de-
stroyed by fire. During the three days
bombardment the railway station and
the suburbs of the Chinese town suf-
fered most. The latter was abandoned
by its inhabitants after the town was
ablaze in many places. To the east, in
the neighborhood of Yentai station and
the coal mines, there was hot fighting
on Friday n Saturday. Both sides,
according to the latest information, are
quiet. 90 Saturday trains from Muk-
den went south as far as Yentai.
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St. Petersburg sept. Git is report
ed here, but not yet confirmed, that
was obliged to abandon 200
guns at Lao Yang. Some of them were
damaged in the fighting and the rest
were disabled by Kuropatkin's orders.
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o~CToGERARIAN's CRIME
Man 80 Years Old Shoots His Wife
Dead and Then Fatally Wounds
Himself.

Clarion. Pa, Sept. 7.-while tempor-
arily insane. George Kaiser. aged SO,
one of Shippenville's wealthiest citi-
zens, today shot and killed his wife and
fatally wounded himself. The couple
had been married over fifty years.
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Biz Celebration at Bloominaton.

Bloomington, ILL.,, Sept. 1.-The larg-
tory occurred today. about 5000 persons
being in line. Springfield sent 1000
marchers. while towns within a radius
Of fifty miles contributed 1000 more.
Charles j. Rieffler of Springfield, and
John b. Lennon, treasurer of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, were the
speakers.
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FIVE WERE KILLED.
Boiler Of a Threshins Engine Blows U
With Fearful Results in

Bricelyn. Mimi. Sept. 5.-The boiler of
a threshing engine exploded on a farm
near here today, killing Peter Daley,
Chris Sunde. James Seymour, Abe Foster
and Willard Gallyon. George Malverson
was badly injured.
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VAR %suL.LErINs.

Toxic. Sept. ct is officially an
nouuced thai the Japanese forces oc-
cupied Lao Yang at 9 o'clock Sunday
morning,