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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-14

NILlSd UOLr Ems FUN ULEIN EOkhVs
Olympic Tourney Will Have Cham
pion Maxwell and Low.
Glen Echo is quite certain of securing at
least two of the best amateur golfers in
England for the Olympic tourney. which
will take place on its links next Septem-
Der.
Robert Maxwell, present amateur cham
pion of Great Britain. and John Low, cap
tain of the Oxford and Cambridge team
which visited st. Louis last year, are the
men who surely will be seen at Glen Echo.
make a tour of Irish n Scotch links
with Eben NJ. Byers Of Pittsburg. twice a
~semifnalist in the American amateur
championship. and another crack Pitts
burg golfer, F. Oden Horstman. The par
ty will be accompanied by Mr.. Horstman's
two sisters. and will do an automobile
trip of the noted Scotch links, then cross
ing from Glasgow to Ireland for a visit
to Portmarnock and Portrush.
journey in easy stages to Sandwich, which
will be reached In time for the amateur
championship. The party. will play In
team matches throughout the trip. and
Some time after the amateur champion
ship Messrs. Hunter. Low and Maxwell
and others. perhaps, will sail for this
country with Messrs. Byers and Horst
man.
The result of Byers's play abroad will
be of extraordinary interest, and his vic
tory in the Ekwanok open tournament,
when he defeated co~nsecutively four of
the strongest players on the visiting Brit
fish team last summer, may fairly be ac-
counted the greatest single achievement
of an American golfer.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-14

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Clark Grifiths. manager OF the Greater
New York ball team. has signed Catcher
Jack kleinow to a contract for next sea-
son. Kleinow played last year with the
Toledo team OF the American Association
and was the star backstop of the league
Manager Selee picks the following as a
safe pennant-winning team: Pitchers. Nc
Ginnity. Mathewson. Moore. Wicker, Don
ovan. Dineen: catchers. Killing, Criger. Sui
Ivan: first base, Chance; second base. La
joie; third base, Collins; shortstop. Wag-
ner; outfield. Clark, Beaumont. Donovan.
Manager Hanlon does not think this team
would be invincible.
A change in the baseball rules which
is likely to be adopted by the National
League this year has to do with practice
Just before daily games Ebbetts of the
Brooklyn club advised that this sort of
practice be prohibited on account of the
danger o: spectators being hit by the ball.
He suggests that all such practice be back
of the outfield.
President Comiskey's White Stockings
present a mystery. or series % mysteries.
at this season hi might defy the efforts
Of 4 Sherlock Holmes to u%nravei. says the
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-14

his $500 back. He emerged about Mn
minutes after he came in. He backed
through the door. with the silk hat in his
hand. and bowed gracefully as he went.
murmuring softly. so sorry to have
troubled you, Mr.. Morgan. Hope you will
excuse me- Then he went on his way,
without any $500. and Morgan grinned
once. shut the door. and forgot Mccoy
forever. Bluff Pierpont Morgan? The Kid
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-14

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bugle and cold, clammy eye as he'd have
in front of two Jim JeffrieS at once"
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-14
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ic Conditions of America Are Opposed to 1t - How British
Runners Are Developed.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-14

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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
START MORE TROUBLE
JAPANESE MAKE GENERAL AT.
TACK UPON PORT APTHuR.
Brown Men Have Been Preparing Tor
Nineteen Days for Assault, Effort
Being Made to Capture North
east Main Forts.

Authoritative information has been
received at Chefoo of a general attack
upon Port Arthur by the Japanese
forces, which began Teusday before
daybreak and continued until dark
All indications point to an effort to
capture certain of the northeast main
forts.
This Is the attack for which the
Japanese have been preparing for the
past nineteen days, with slight hope
Of success. AS forecasted in these dis.
patches, the Japanese attack on Port
Arthur is directed against the north.
east front. The main object Is to cap
ture the Notifications on Kikwan
mountain, Rihlung mountain and the
intermediate forts.
The foregoing comes from Russian
of standing whose previous informa.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
MUST TAKE MUKDEN
OTHERWISE JAPANESE WILL BE
WITHOUT WINTER QUARTERS.
Little Brown Men Will be unabis to
Stand the Severe Weather Unless
They Are Properly Housed.

The opinion prevails in st. Peters.
burg that the Japanese must try for
the possession of Mukden, as other.
wise it will be difficult for them to
provide the army with winter quarters.
Lao Yang does not afford sufficient
accommodation, although many houses
escaped destruction in the recent bat.
tie. Movable huts are quite insult.
able for the housing of the Japanese,
owing to the severity of the climate.
The average winter temperature Is
forty degrees below zero and the cold
is intensified by continual winds and
an almost entire absence Of snow. In
spite of this, however the campaign
will probably continue during the win.
ter If the Japanese succeed in getting
into Mukden. In this contingency
General Kuropatkin, for various rea.
sons will not be likely to allow the
Japanese to remain in undisturbed
possession of this point which is I'm.
portant, not only from strategic, but
q political point of view.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
TIRED OF LYNcHiNGS.
Governor of Georgia Tells His People
Some Plain Truths.

Governor Terrell of Georgia, speak.
ing of the possible result of frequent
lynchings in his state, says:
1.-THE people of Georgia should real.
ize that unless these lynchings are
stopped there is grave danger of their
leading to legislation by congress
which would take the matter out of
our hands and cauSe offenders to BID
tried in the United States courts. OF
course this would be an interference
with state rights, but congress would
seek to justify it on the ground that
the state courts had failed to afford
any remedy. The governor of Geor.
gia, under our present laws, is power
less either to punish officials who are
derelict in the performance Of their
duties, or to enforce the laws against
the leaders of mobs. These are mat
tiers which are entirely in the hands
of grand juries and the courts, and
over these the governor has absolutely
no authority
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
cREMATEU ALIVE.
Horrible Death Of a Nevada Painter,
Who Was Literally Roasted Alive.

Horrible Death Of a Nevada Painter
Who Was Literally Roasted Alive.
A special dispatch from Reno, Ne.
vada, says John Stafford, an employees
of the Standard Mining company, 10
Gated near Brodie, just over the Ne
vada line, met a frightful death. Stat
ford was literally roasted to death in
the interior of a big pipe line. Though
living when reached he died some time
afterward after suffering terrible
agony.
The young man. was engaged in
painting the interior Of big pipe line
being constructed by the company He
was using parafine paint. In some
manner the infiammable fluid caught
fire. The interior was soon mass OF
flames. Fellow employees were at
first attracted to the scene by the
smoke, and later by the young mans
cries.
1t was found necessary to burst the
pipe before he could be rescued from
the blazing furnace.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30

AS fortified by the Chinese two
walls surround the town of Mukden.
The outer is composed of mud and is
fifteen to twenty-five feet in height.
The inper wall is constructed of stone.
freely embrasured for the use of can
non. Little is known as to the add.
tional Notifications the Russians have
built since it became evident to them
last spring that they might be com.
pelled to fight for possession of the city.
It has ore defense, however, that Is
highly important. This is the Hun
river, which skirts the town about
three miles south of the outer walls.
From Mukden to Telling is thirty-fve
miles, and from Mukden to Hardin
500 miles. Mukden is the capital OF
Manchuria and the birthplace OF the
Manchu dynasty. 1t contains the
tombs of many Chinese emperors,
which are held in the highest venera'
ton.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
ALL RUSSIA ANXIOUS.
Public Feeling Aroused to High Ten
sion Over Port Arthur.

Public Feeling Aroused to High Ten.
sion Over Port Arthur.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg
says: Interest is again concentrated
upon Port Arthur, owing to the receipt
from foreign sources of news that a
general storming of the Notifications
there has begun.
The kilograms brought to Chefoo by
Prince Radziwill have not yet reached
the war office. 1t is understood that
these dispatches contain details Of the
landing of strong Japanese reinforce
ments at Dalny, which would tend to
confirm the belief that it is the inten.
ton of the japanese to storm the fort.
ress, and that the warships will prob
ably take part in the attack. In this
event Rear Admiral Wirens's division
will doubles go out and engage the
Japanese fleet.
All Russia Is anxiously awaiting
news from the beleagured garrison.
Public feeling has been aroused to a
high tension by the dreadful picture
given by Prince Radziwil of the suf-
rings of the Russian army there.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30

ton has been correct. He adds thai
the attack at the end of August
which was reported as two separate
assaults, really constituted ten days
battle, the fighting being the heaviest
during the first three days and the last
four days of that period.
Although the Japanese retired Au.
gust 81 along the greater part of t.. ell
line, they remained in four supple
mentary forts on the northeast front,
which they had captured from the Rus
SLAMS. These include two first forts
fifty yards from Rihlung mountain and
two others at a somewhat greater dis.
lance.
Since August 81 the Japanese have
bombarded very slightly, while the
Russians have been throwing approx
imately 1000 shells daily, chiefly
against the four Japanese positions
mentioned. Small sorties, as referred
TO by the Novikrai of Port Arthur, in
the efforts to recapture the positions,
have been of almost nightly occur
renee and have been uniformly unsuc
cessful.
During the fighting in August the
attempt to capture Kkwan mountain
cost the Japanese an entire regiment
This statement has been absolutely
umental proportions of the task which
the Japanese have set themselves in
attempting to capture the fortress
which is composed of many forts
equally strong.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30

up by quicksand. Her mother fell un.
conscious and is now in dangerous
condition.
The little girl was at play only few
feet from home, near the shore Of the
sound, when she stepped into a murky
pool left by recent rains. The water
was only two or three feet deep, but
the bottom Of the pool was quicksand.
The woman screamed and then
swooned.
Workmen from her husbands fac.
tory rushed to the scene and the
woman was restored sufficiently to te
what had happened. The men set tc
work to rescue the child, whose body,
being light, had not sunk entirely.
Several men went down, but were res.
cued by their comrades. and finally
the child's body was recovered.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
PREPARING FOR TROUBLE.
Japanese and Russians Getting Ready
for Big Fight at Mukden.

for Big Fight at Mukden.
Whatever may be happening in the
far east there is little definite infor
nation from any quarter, The armies
in the vicinity of Mukden appear to be
limiting their activities at present to
feeling the positions of their adver.
saries. 1t is supposed to be the plan
of the Japanese to possess themselves
of the passes of the Da mountain
range before making direct move
ment on Mukden. Strategic and pc.
litical considerations seem to make it
essential that General Kuropatkin
make a stand there and prevent the
town from being made the winter
headquarters of the Japanese, while
the lack of adequate facilities else
where for the housing of troops dur.
ing a rigorous Manchurian winter
make it necessary that the Japanese
bend all their energies to the capture
of that town.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
Crank Attempts to Call on President

A man who is regarded by the secret
service officials and by the authorities
of Oyster Bay as a dangerous crank
was apprehended at Oyster Bay, Tues
day. He is J. e Reeves, medium
sized, roughly -attired man about 4C
years old. He was making his way te
Sycamore Hill, when he was arrested
He told officer Tyree, who apprehend
ed him, that he wanted to see the pres.
ident on important business.
To the justice Reeves said that six
years ago he died in a Jersey City hos.
pital and went to heaven in an auto
mobile. While there he received an
important message for President
Roosevelt, which he was directed to
deliver personally. Reeves was ex.
amfned by two physicians, who de-
clare he Is insane.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30

likely to pursue tactics quite different
from those essayed by the Japanese
at Lao Yang, and it is expected that
the attack will come upon the Rus
sian front and TANKS, rather than in
the form of an enveloping movement.
Definite information from Port Arthur
is very meager and inconclusive, and
minor successes there are reported.
Russian spies allege that consider
able force has been detached from the
Japanese army which captured Lao
Yang and sent back in aid of the oper-
atoms against Port Arthur. The for
nation of several Russian rife brl'
gades for service in the far east has
been ordered
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
IN SUNNY SOUTH.
Fiendish Work Of White Men Down In
the State of Georuia.

SIC oAdSC VI NSOt 9ids
The negroes recently dismissed by
the court at Talbatton, Ga, on the
charge of belonging to Before
Day club" were followed on their de-
parture by a hack carrying four or
five white men. About a mile from
town the hack party met negro boy
named Jack Troy. In passing some
one in the hack shot him, wounding
him so seriously that he is not expect
ed to live. Six miles from town the
hack party called Ed Martin, a negro,
from his house and made him get into
the hack, where one of the party shot
the negroes eyes out, and he is also
not expected to live. These negroes
were not charged with being members
of the Before Day club" SEeriff
Richards with deputies and posse
have gone to Prattsburg to protect the
negroes there.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
ORDERED TO THE FRONT.

Sudden Call Issued to Guard Regb
ments Stationed at st. Petersburg.
There is a story afloat in St. Peters
burg that a sudden call has been is
sued to officers of the guard regiments
stationed at st. Petersburg to report
for service at the front. According to
report the order directs that out of the
total of fifty-six officers of each regl'
ment one should be chosen by lot and
drafted to serve with regiments now
in the far east. 1t is stated that the
order has aroused great discomfort
Whole regiments are anxious to go to
the theater of war, but the officers in"
tensely dislike the prospect OF the or
CARNATIONS being split up. 1t is Inn
possible at this time to obtain an at
thoritative confirmation or denial or
the report.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
laps MOVE UPON MukpEN.
A Great Battle 10 Believed to b
Imminent.

Imminent.
A dispatch from Mukden, under date
of September 20, says the Japanese
are advancing upon Mukden with
eight, and possibly nine. divisions. and
that a great battle is imminent.
The sensational announcement that
General Kuroki has crossed the Hun
river unopposed and that the whole
Japanese army Is advancing upon
Mukden is not believed in st. Peters
burg.
General Kuropatkin announced only
two days ago that there was not a
single Japanese east of Bentsiaputze.
How, 1t is asked, could General Ku-
roki, with 100000 men, slip past Gen.
eral Rennenkampff's Cossacks and
cross the Hun river near the Fushan
coal mines, thirty miles east of Muk-
den? Fushan is situated on the road
from Bentziaputze, where General Ku
roki crossed the Taitze river. This
road Is carefully watched by General
Kuropatkin's outposts between Muk.
den and Sintsintin.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
Manchus viii Ask Aid of the Foreign
Powers.

1t continues to be reported in Shang.
hal that the Manchus at Pekin are
anxious to secure the assistance OF for
eign powers to compel Japan to re-
store Manchuria to China without con-
diticns and that they are still urging
that a special mission be sent to the
European courts with this object in
view. 1t is added that If these repre-
sensations are not successful a re-
newal of the anti-foreign agitation is
not impossible and the mission of Tie
Kiang (the Manchu official from
Pekin who has been in the southern
provinces for some time), in collect
ing funds to reorganize the Chinese
army is, therefore, regarded with sus-
picion.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
Inhaled Fumes of Nitric Acid.

Four firemen of Denver, Colo, are
in precarious condition from inhaling
fumes CT nitric acid, carboy of which
was burst by bolt Of lightning, which
started a fire in the etching room Of
the Post Printing & Publishing COM
pany. At the time of the fire none OF
the men fe.t the effects very severely,
and all returned to their post of duty.
But in the night the terrible action Of
the fumes on their lungs began to
make itself manifest, and man after
man sickened. There were two fire
alarms in the night, to which the men
responded, though some of them were
so sick that they lay down in the
wagons while the horse ran with them
TO the fire. Two Of the men died the
next day.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
Street Car Hits Box Of Dynamite.

An electric car, containing thirty.
two persons, was broken to pieces in
Melrose, Mass, by striking fifty
pound box of dynamite that had fallen
off an express wagon. Six persons
we're killed outright, three more died
of their injuries within an hour, and
nineteen others were taken to the hos.
pitfalls suffering from severe injuries.
At least score of persons in the i'm.
mediate vicinity Of the explosion were
hurt by flying glass and splinters.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
Under Order Signed Innovation In Pos.
tai Service Occurs.

Under an order signed by the Post
master general on Tuesday, an limo
walton was made in the postal service
by which identical pieces Of mail mat.
ter of the third and fourth class may
be mailed without postage stamps
affixed thereto. Congress, during the
last session, made provision for the
transmission in the mails of quantities
Of not less than 1000 identical pieces
Of the character of mail and the pres.
ant order is in pursuance of that act
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
Reckless Driver Causes Riot.

An unknown man in a buggy was
attacked by a mob Of 500 persons al
West Twelfth and Halstead streets
Chicago, after he had run down and
painfully injured Molly Newkowsky
aged 6. Hundreds of Ghetto Jews, eel.
ebrating the feast of Yom Kippur, pur.
sued the buggy for blocks and bonn.
barded the driver with bricks and
stones. till the police, brought by a
riot call, fought their way through the
crowd with clubs and rescued the
driver. A score of persons were In.
jured.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
Tried For Burning Man at Stake.

The trial at Indianola, Miss, of G..
c. Eastland for the murder Of Luther
Holbert and his wife by causing them
to be burned at the stake, has been
suddenly ended. After the evidence
was all in, Senator McLaurin made a
motion for peremptory instructions to
the jury for the discharging of the
prisoner on the ground that no evil
dence tending to prove that Eastland
had been in any way a party to the
lynching had been introduced. The
court discharged Eastland.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
Fast Train Goes Into Ditch and Many
Passengers are Injured.

The Pullman section of the east
bound Atlantic express on the Union
Pacific was wrecked six miles west OF
Junction City, Kans., shortly after l
o'clock Wednesday afternoon by rails
spreading. The train was travellns
about forty miles an hour Three Pull
man cars left the track and the one
at the rear of the train rolled over
fifteen-foot embankment, turning over
three times. There were thirty-tWc
persons in this car. Six Of them were
seriously injured and the rest receives
slight but painful injuries.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30

While out riding at Havana in his
automobile Herbert G. Squiers, the
American minister, was stoned by
some unknown persons The stoning
occurred in the country district and
the miscreants escaped in the dark.
ness. Mr. Squiers has complained tc
the government and the latter has or
dered the authorities where the stone
throwing occurred to make an inves
tigation.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
Indian Chief Shot.

At the fishing grounds, few niles
below Weiser, Idaho, the CHIEF OF 'he
Umatilla Indians, about zoo OF "hom
are camped there, is lying at the point
Of death from a pistol wound. ne 10
sunnosed to have been shot SATURDAY
morning by one OF the trlpe; ,,o Ou ron.
indians will give no information re YIN =,
corning it. Several of them we a,,rad
the city Friday evening and proo the,r
whisky and when they left for tneal
camn were intoxicated, and shots were
heard by residents living along 'n'
route to their camp.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
DAILY SkiRMlSHES.
Japanese Are Closely Pressing Rus
slams and Pig Battle is Looked For.

Japanese Are Closely Pressing Rus
slams and Pig Battle is Looked For.
Advices from General Kuroki's
headquarters state that the Japanese
are slowly pushing northward. The
outposts are in touch near Yen Tai
and skir1;shes between outposts and
patrol parties occur daily. 1t Is be-
lieved that the Russians are gathering
a force at Yen Tai preparatory to
make strong stand for the protection
of the coal mines.
The Japanese are rapidly changing
the gauge of the railroad from New.
chuang and probably 1t will be in
operation to lao Yang in a fortnight.
They are rushing forward supplies Of
ammunition.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-09-30
Kentuckians Are Looking for Trouble.

The hearing of the feudal troubles
has been transferred from Jackson to
Lexington, KY, by the indictment
there of William Britton for killing
James Cockrill, town marshal of Jack
son, two years ago. William Britton
has been arrested ten miles from
Jackson by posse on the charge Of
completely in the murder Of James
Cockrill at Jackson, KY. He made no
attempt to resist arrest. A posse of
Britton's friends have left Jackson to
rescue Britton and If possible keep
him in Breathitt county.