The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1904-10-28
NEWS AND NOTES.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Metcalf has called a meeting of the
supervising inspectors OF steam vessels
stationed in all parts Of the country,
to be held in Washington, October %,
to draft a bill containing more drastic
provisions relative to the installation
of safety appliances aboard steam YES
sells.
The enforced cessation OF operations
in Manchuria by the Dad weather. after
the Japanese offensive had practically
exhausted itself, gives both armies
chance to breathe and pull themselves
together. and would -;eem TO insure as
much benefit to one side as to the 9TH
er for practical purposes.
A correspondent of the New York
Herald. cabling from Sheng Ting. on
the 18th. said that il was reported that
Gen. Kuroki was dying from dysen-
terry.
The administration at Washington
has been impressed by certain press
dispatches from st. Petersburg and
Toxic indicating that both belligerents
we're feeling the strain and might IA
vorably regard a move for peace among
the other powers. President Roosevelt
will seize the opportune moment to
urge peace.
Three men killed ana Is more or
less seriously wounded is the result
of tragedy and subsequent encounter
with soldiers by three desperate bri-
gands at Mexico City, on the 18th.
A rumor from Vienna, on the 18th,
says that a Cunard steamer from
Fiume, Hungary. was sunk IN storm
off the Spanish coast with 200 emf
grants on board.
Reports from the seat Of war in the
far east say the roads nave been ruined
by the heavy rains. but the stubborn
armies continue their struggles. The
Russians, on the 18th. admitted that
their losses had never been less than
, ZOO a day during the nine days fight
ing. and those OF the Japanese could
hardly have been less.
A Shanghai dispatch of the 18th said
it was reported there that the Japan
csc had sunk the Russian cruiser Bay
an by fire OF the land batteries having
range over Port Arthur harbor.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says:
Russia. as the emperor announced
will only make peace direct with ia
pan. No Intervention of an outside
power can be tolerated. If Japan de-
sires to end the war, she must apply
direct through such mediary as she
may choose-the United States. if she
prefers-but no representations not
coming directly from Toxic would even
be answered.
The n. 4. Patterson tobacco factory
at Richmond. Va. was practically de-
stroyed by fire, on the night of the
18th, involving a loss of about $780,
0Oo
Helen Keller day at the Worlds fair
in ST. Louis, on the 18th, was one of
the most interesting events of the fair.
Miss Keller was the center of interest
for thousands who desired TO see the
young woman who had overcome the
deprivation of her faculties of sight
and hearing. Not the least interested
was Miss Keller herself. who entered
joyously into everything that was
done.
Fire, on the 18th. destroyed the prin-
cipal business section of Sturgess,
Miss Every store but one was burned.
In a rear-end collision on the CIeve-
land & Pittsburg road near Alliance.
o.. on the 18th. Fireman Washer and
Brakeman Lally were killed. Twelve
cars were wrecked.
Fire. on the 18th, destroyed the new
freight sheds Of the Nashville. Chat
tanooga & ST. Louis railway at Nash
vile, Tenn; loss, 100000.
Pope Plus. or the 10Th, received
Archbishop Chapelle. of New Orleans.
the papal delegate for Cuba and Porto
Rico. in private audience.
Rain has put a thorough stop to
heavy fighting between the armies of
Oyama and Kuropatkin. Both sides
are now resting.
The remains of King George of Sax
ony were laid TO rest. on the 18th in
a vault of the Catholic court church
at Dresden.
The ST. Louis Hay & Grain Co. on
the 10th. filed with the interstate com
merce commission at Washington a
complaint against the Chicago. Burling-
ton & Quincy railroad. alleging excess
sive charges on car loads OF nay.
The cannon ball train. south-bound,
on the Illinois Central. was wrecked
at Tillatoba. Miss. on the goth. Jump
ilE the lTdch dI lItSAle. SeNenlN-HNe
passengers were aboard. but three
postal clerks only were hurt
1t now transpires that Thomas Lane,
who was shot and killed by Myrtle
Eberly. in st. Louis. because he re-
fused TO make good his promise to
marry her, had wife and daughter
living in Cambridge. Mass.
Robert s. Mccormick. American am
bassador TO Russia, arrived in New
York. on the goth. on the steamer
Deutschland.
Fire. on the goth. destroyed several
business houses at lakewood. Tex,
Loss, $4,000; insurance unknown.
Matthew r. Cunningham. recorder OF
Mclean county. H.. sent his wife to a
neighbors, in Bloomington, on the
Goth. and then. taking a revolver laid
down on a couch and shot himself
through the head. Cunningham was
accused of being short in his accounts.
Timothy J. Lee the American loco