Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-14
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Koreans from the Russian frontier
say there are 5000 Japanese in
Seoul
The desperate character of the fight
ing in the Russo-Japanese war is
shown by the repeated bayonet charg-
es, the Russians ousting the Japanese
from the trenches.
The Japanese government is said
to have placed an order for 10000
cavalry horses with a New York firm
which supplied many cavalry horses
to Great Britain in the Boer war.
Prof. Adolf Lorenz the other day
entertained about seventy members
of the Anglo-American Medical So
ciety, and their wives, at his new
country home at Grifenstein, on the
Danube, at Vienna.
The immense elevator of the Bos-
ton G Main railroad company, one
of the largest in the world, together
with three freight houses, is de-
stroyed by fire. entailing a loss of
100000.
The latest reports from Manchuria
indicate that military operations are
greatly hampered by the rainy season
which makes the roads quagmires and
| the transportation of heavy artillery
| a practical impossibility.
At the German embassy a state
| ment reported from Toxic that Ger
| many had agreed to allow the Port
| Arthur squadron to seek refuge in
| Kiao-Chou, the German port on the
Shan-tung peninsula, was denied.
The return of the vladivostook
squadron is awaited anxiously. The
| squadron may not return for some
time, as when it left this port it was
provisioned for a long cruise. Vice
Admiral Bezobrazoff is in commando
| The trans-Mississippi convention
| of the international association of ma
chinists organized at Denver, Colo,
July 5, with Fourth Vice President
Wilson, of San Francisco, as chair
man, and Samuel Grace, of Omaha,
as secretary.
A rumor is current that General
Kuropatkin has defeated General
Kuroh in great battle, but the Rus
SLAMS lost 1900 men. Another ru-
NOR adds that General Mistchenko
has won a victory, taking an entire
Japanese brigade prisoners.
General Oku sent dispatch giving
further accounts of Russian brutal
ity. He says the charges against the
Japanese are totally unfounded. 1t is
the Russians, he declares, who have
cruelty mutilated the Japanese who
fell into their hands wounded.
A Russian arriving at Che Foo, who
left Port Arthur on July 2, says that
the only damage done to the town
during commandments has been the
destruction of two houses. There has
been no loss of life. Refugees are
not allowed to leave Pigeon bay.
They must come direct from Port
Arthur. This leads to the belief that
the Japanese are in the vicinity Of
Pigeon bay. All business is now
stopped in the town.
In confirming the appointment of
Prince John Obenlinsky as Governor
General of Finland the Emperor sent
an autograph letter to the prince rel
ative to the situation there.
At Lao Yang rain is again falling
in torrents and the thermometer reg
to the south and east are like iron
barriers. The japanese are quiet and
seem to have vanished along the Rus
sian outposts.
The Russian volunteer feet steam
ers st. Petersburg and Sevastopol
have passed through the Bosphorus
from the Black sea. The Sevastopol
was flying the Red Cross flag and her
hull was painted white. The vessel
took on board a quantity of stores.
All doubts as to the safety of tie
Peresviet, which, according to report,
had been torpedoed off Port Arthur,
is removed by the receipt of tele-
gram from the captain of the battle
ship, saying the ship and all on board
are well.
General Piet Cronje of Boer war
fame, and Mrs. E. Stertzel, the widow
of Boer soldier, were married. The
ceremony was performed in the Boer
camp on the worlds fair grounds in
st. Louis, and was private. A. public
reception was held after the days
performance.
A sail boat containing seven pleas
ure seekers was capsized in Muske-
gon lake July 4, and four Of the &C.
cupants were drowned in view OF
hundreds of people.
The Russian newspapers are be-
ginning to discuss the article on the
Russo-Japanese war by Count Tolstoi,
recently published In the London
Times.
There is talk in diplomatic circles
of possibility of peace between Rus
STA and Japan. Internal conditions
in Russia are such that they give
grave concern to the government. 2
1t is reported that Russia has,
through France, offered to surrender
Port Arthur to Japan. together with
its ships and arms there, providing
the garrison is freed. A confrma
ton of the report is impossible, and
it is generally regarded to be I'M
true.
/ w. H. Quinn, bookmaker at
the horse races at Vancouver, B. c.,
while driving in a hack with three
others, was held up at the point of a
revolver by a highwayman and So.
COO in bills and silver taken from
him. The. highwayman escaped