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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
RUSSIANS IN TRAP.
Japanese Make False Retreat and
Lead Foe Into Ambush.

Information has been received
Though heretofore reliable chan
nels that part of the Japanese
force left at Pu Ian Tien to check
mate the Russians southwark move
ment to relieve Port Arthur was
attacked southeast of Shungnmao
yesterday. After slight fighting, the
Japanese made a false retreat, the
Russians hotly following them, when
the japanese made flank movement
catching the Russians in a trap The
Russian losses are placed at 500 men,
They then fell back on Kai Chou and
began to retreat along the Baimatgu
Tsaichou road.
About 1000 Russian infantry from
Kal Chou passed through New Chwang
this morning, accompanied by a large
supply and hospital train. Several
cars contained bandaged men. The
troops appeared to be tagged out, and
showed every indication of long
forced march. The officers refused to
furnish any information, but a non.
commissioned officer told q cores
pondent of the Associated Press that
all the troops were retreating from
Tsaichou. The Russians have aband.
oned the ground mines eight miles
south of here.
News has reached Tokyo of con-
siderable victory gained by Oku's rear
guard below Kaiping. A mixed body
of Russians of about 5000 men made
an attack on the Japanese but were
beaten back with heavy loss. The
japanese field artillery supplied with
Shimose shells was particularly ef-
fective.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
TERse TELEoRAMe.

A large delegation of Christian
Scientists went from Boston to visit
Mrs. Mary Eddy in Concord, n. II.
Joseph Roncak, about 80 years old,
was run over by train at Gibson
ton, Pa, and killed
Elghty-seven warrants are out for
miners who are accused of completely
in the explosion at the Independence
station and the rlotlng at Victor, Col.
Joseph Darwin, an Italian was elec.
trocuted by coming in contact with
a live wire in mine near Steuben-
vile, o.
William Morris, a farmer, living
near Warrington, w. Va, committed
suicide by jumping into a WELL He
was about 60 years old.
Tufts College conferred on Julia
Ward Howe and Secretary OF the Navy
william H. Moody the degree of doc.
tor of laws.
1t was announced that there will be
an advance in the price of glass dur
ing the summer months. The amount
of glass on hand is less than in form
er years.
Members of the Pittsburg branch
of the Daughters of the Revolution
have offered to purchase the site OF
Old Fort Necessity. near Uniontown.
Pa. 1t is proposed to erect and main.
tain a monument.
The Republicans of the Ninth Vir-
ginia district in convention at Taze-
we'll renominated Col. G. Slemp, of
Wise county, for Congress by accla-
nation.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
Assassin Commits Suicide.

Gen. Bobrlkoff, governor general Of
Finland, was shot and mortally wound
ed at the entrance TO the Finnish
senate at Helsingfors. The assassin
a man named Schaumann. a son of
Senator Schaumann, Immediately com
mitted suicide. Bobrikoff was shot in
the stomach and neck. The attack on
Bobrikoff Is ascribed to Finnish pa
triotism. Schaumann is believed to be
a member of what is known as the
Finnish patriotic party.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
SUNK BY ToRPEDoES.
Two Japanese Transports Destroyed
and 1000 Men Lost.

and 1000 Men Lost.
All doubt as to the sinking of the
transports Hitachi and Sado by the
Russians has been removed. Three
hundred and ninety-seven survivors of
the Hitachi have arrived at Moji and
l5S survivors of the Sado have arrived
at Kokura. The survivors report that
the Sado and Hitchi were sunk by tor.
pedoes.
Details shows that the Hitachi and
the Sado met three Russian warships
near Xxi island at 10 o'clock Wednes.
day morning. The Russians fired on
the japanese ships and stopped them
and soon afterward they torpedoed and
sank the helpless transports.
1t is reported that the transports
carried only 1,400 men. II this is true,
the loss in lives is probably less than
1000. The transports. however, had
many horses and large quantities of
supplies on board.
The captain of the Sado and several
other men were captured. More than
100 men escaped in the boats and land.
ed at Kikura.
A message has been received here
from Hagi saying that the survivors
Of the Hitachi had drifted north to
Shimonoseki and been saved. The
transport Izumi is still missing
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
GREAT LAKE STRIKE OVER.
II Involved More Than 100000 Men
Indirectly.

After six weeks of tle.up on the
Great lakes that has practically in
volved only 1000 men, but indirectly
more than 100000. who have been idle
because of its existence, a cessation
was brought to the strike by the sur
render of the masters. who, with the
pilots, have been holding out for a
more uniform scale of wages this sea-
son than was offered by the Lake Car.
rlers' Association, whose boats were
most affected by the difficulty be-
tween the vessel owners and their en-
ployes. The strike was declared off
by Paul Howell, district captain of
the Masters and Pilots association.
The strike has been one of the most
costly in wages and time lost and
stagnation to business that has oc-
CURED in recent years.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
ANCIENT cAPsTAN FOUND.
Archaeoiogist Discovers Mechanism,
1000 Years Old.

Signor Giacomo Bori, the archaeol-
ogist, who is directing the excavations
Of the Forum at Rome, has found a
heavy capstan with eight fixed levers
of wood, The wood is perfectly pre-.
served while the iron fixtures have be-
come oxidized.
The discovery Is considered of the
greatest Importance as being the first
known mechanical contrivance dating
back 1000 years. The capstan, which
was found almost intact, has diam
eter of over two yards. Signor Boni
has ordered the capstan covered with
a special preparation for the purpose
of preserving the wood.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
College President Reslqns.

President A. f. Turner. d. D., who
has been at the head of the Waynes.
burg college for the past four years.
has rendered his resignation to the
board of trustees and accepted the
presidency of Trinity university. Wax
ahachie. Tex. The trustees OF Wayn-
esburg college have accepted DR.. Tur-
ner's resignation and will shortly ten
der the presidency to prominent man
in the Cumberland Presbyterian
church.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
Wool Market.

The interest in the local wool mar
ket is now centered in the new do
mestic goods. which are constantly ar
riving from the West. The trading in
these woods, however, has been slight,
partly on account of the ruling firm
prices. There is little interest in for
eign grades. Leading quotations fol.
low: Ohio and Pennsylvania Xxx ard
above, 33QS4c; X, 30Q31c; No. l,
s2c; No. 2. S1Q32c; fine unwashed,
22@23c; u. Is and M-blood. unwash-
ed, 26Q261sc:
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
Revives Whipping Post.

Police Judge John ]. Riley, of Lex.
ington, Ky, revived the old whipping
post regime when he sentenced Simon
whipped in the public square. Scearce
had struck a small white boy. The
Court decreed that the boys mother
take the negro to the public square
and give him 20 lashes with buggy
whip. which she did in presence of a
large crowd.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
cHARRsp BODIES IN HATcHwAv
Heroic Work Of Rescue Rendered by
Crews Of Other Vessels in
the River.
OFFICERS OF sLocuM ARRESTED.

At least 500 members and friends
of the st. Marks German Evangelical
Lutheran church congregation and
Sunday school of Sixth street, New
York city, lost their lives shortly af-
ter 10 O'Clock Wednesday morning in
the swirling waters of Hell Gate or
on the fre-swept decks of the Nam
MON excursion steamer General Slo-
cum. Nearly all the dead are women
and children.
The number of bodies up to Fri
day evening was $50 and over 400 are
still missing.
Tho various officials whose position
brings them into touch with the disas.
ter still adhere to the belief that when
all is told il will be found that be-
tween 800 and 1000 persons perished.
Over 1000 passengers comprising
The distressing concentration of the
blow of the disaster is shown by the
fact that in one apartment house in
East T. ghth street there are 80 dead,
while in a Rivington street house IS
bodies await burial.
Police boats and other harbor craft
still maintain their patrols of the wa.
ters OF the East river in the vicinity
of the accident, in the hope Of recov.
ering bodies.
At various hospitals where the in
jured are 1t was said their conditions
was satisfactory. There are now only
So victims OF the disaster in the hos
pitals.
a picnic party from st. Marks Ger.
man Lutheran church, were starting
for a days outing. when flames sud
denly burst out, started by the over
turning of pot of grease in the kitch'
en-. Famed by the breeze, the flames
spread with awful rar!dlty and within
a few minutes nothing was left to the
passengers except to choose between
death by fire or drowning.
Wild with terror, women and chill,
dren jumped overheard into the East
river. They did ;ot wait for life pre-.
servers, but In n mad rush to escape
the flames showed others against the
frail railing of the decks. which gave
way. They were drowned
The fire started in the forward part
of the General Slocum which is a
Crd1t ABOUT ZOO rect long. IL spread
with such rapidity that the efforts OF
the crew were utterly inadequate to
cope with the flames and in few
moments the fire had been communi.
Gated to all parts of the boat.
At the extreme eastern end of Ran
dall's island, off One Hundred and
Thirty-fifth street, there Is a stretch
of water known as the Sunken Mead
ows. At this point, just as crowds
were watching the gaily decorated
steamer from the shore, the Gen
Slocum took fire, and as the age of the
vessel, she was built in 1891, had re-
suited in the well.seasonlng of the
wood, with which she was almost en-
tirely built, she was soon mass OF
flames.
The fire is said to have broken out
in lunch room on the forward deck
through the overturning OF a pot o.
grease. The wind was high and al!
efforts to subdue the fire were futile
At One Hundred and Thirtyfourth
street there are several lumber yards
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
RUSSIANS FLED.
Leave 1000 Dead on Field and Re.
treat In Disorder.

A dispatch to the London Daily Ex-
press from Tokyo, dated June 10, says
news has been received there, but has
not yet been officially published, of
great japanese victory near Flu.
Chou, on the railway, 10 miles north
of Port Arthur. The Russians, it Is
added, were overwhelmed, ,lost 1000
men, left all their guns on the field
and retreated in disorder
The Daily Chronicles correspondent
at Tokyo cables the same news, add
ing that the Russians to the number
OF 1000 men are now in full flight to-
ward Tashi-Chau and Kai-Chau.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
Wants $4,000 DAMAGES.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
and the Pullman Palace Car Company
We're jointly sued for $4,000 damages
in the Superior Court of Maryland for
the death Of Lewis j. Bennett, Pull
man ralace-car conductor 1t Is alleg-
ed that Mr.. Benefits death was due
TO the negligence Of the defendant
companies and their agents in failing
to properly care for Mr.. Bennett and
render him medical attention.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
DR.. MoHat Goes to Europe.

Rev. DR.. James ID. Moffat, president
of Washington and Jefferson college,
and Mrs. Moffat, together with the Rev.
John Macklin, professor of Greek in
the same institution. and Mrs. Mack
lin left for an extended European tour
DR.. Moffat will make an address on
June 29 before the Pan-Presbyterian
alliance at Liverpool.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
KEYSTONE STATE CUL[INGS
KILLS WOMAN AND SELF.
clandestine Correspondence said to
Have Caused Double Tragedy
at Lewiston.

w. A. Sheaffer, "a years old, form.
er saloonkeeper OF Singsville. o.. shot
and killed Miss Flora Wagner, former
ly Of Harrisburg. and then blew out his
own brains at Lewiston. Three bull
let's from a 3S-calibre revolver entered
the womans face and neck Gertrude
Snyder and Bessie Hannah, who wit
messed the shooting. say that Sheaf-
fer had repeatedly threatened the
womans Life II she did not cease
clandestine correspondence with
man at Three Springs, Pa. Coming in
TO the house Sheaffer caught her with
a letter He pulled revolver and
began shooting.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
Revolution Rlnenlnn.

News has been received from Porto
Cortes, Honduras, OF the assassination
of General Venegas, commandant at
Yoro, a small interior town, during a
politi riot. The killing OF the COM
mandant has had the effect of hasten
ing the revolution that has been
threatening for some months.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
Llahtnlna Kills Army officer.

At FIT. Leavenworth, Kan. Second
Lieutenant Nathaniel L, Bower of the
engineer corps was on the firing line
of the rifle range with his men watch.
ing the targets when he was killed by
lightning. The holt came from an al
most clear sky. Lieutenant Bower was
a Pennsylvania and was graduated
from West Point in 1901. He was en-
gagged to be married soon to a Miss
Nickerson.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
Illinois for Hearst.

The State Democratic convention
nominated Lawrence B. Stringer. of
Lincoln, for Governor, and instructed
the delegates TO the st. Louis conven-
ton to vote as unit for William r.
Hearst for the Presidential nomina-
ton.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22

Eleven stores, practically the entire
business section Of Crowell, village
on Green river. in Ohio county, KY,
have been destroyed by fire. Loss
$4,000.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
loMie Leaves Enaland.

Disguised with the inhospitable re.
ceptlon he received in London. John
Alexander Dowie suddenly determined
to leave England and started for Bo-
logne, France, with his wife and son.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
NEWS NOTES.

Fire at Spooner. Wis. destroyed a
block and half of business houses.
Loss 100000.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-06-22
United States circuit Judge Thay,

United States Circuit Judge Thayer
ISSUED n writ of habeas corpus for c.
II. Mayer, president of the Western
Federation OF Miners, returnable July
., in the st. Louis. Governor Peabody
OF Colorado and General Bell, his Ad-
jutant axe summoned to appear at the
same time.
Fergus County argus., 1904-07-20
DOM PAUL KRUGER DEAD.
Former President of Boer Republic
Dies in Obscurity.

Clarens. Switzerland, July a.
Paul Kruger, former president of the
Transvaal republic, died here at 3
o'clock this morning from pneumonia
and supervening heart weakness. Mr..
Kruger lost consciousness Monday.
His daughter and son-in-law were
with him at the time of his death.
He had been in poor health since his
arrival here al the beginning OF last
month and haa been out but once.
The body today was embalmed and
this afternoon The remains were plac-
ed in a vault pending the funeral ar
Tangements.
Application will be made to the
British government for authority TO
transport the remains to the Trans
yaal. In the meantime they viii be
temporarily inferred here.
Mr.. Kruger. who was living at the
Villa due Boichct. had been gradually
failing for a long time. but he was
able to attend the affairs. read the
newspapers and receive visitors un-
til Monday.
A change for the worse set in on
Sunday. He became unconscious
Monday and remained so until death.
Besides the nurses Mr. Kruger was
attended by his own physician. DR..
Hymann, and his secretary, Mr.. Hell
del.
On several occasions Mr.. Kruger
had expressed desire to be buried
beside his wife, in his own country.
Fergus County argus., 1904-07-20
Among the Mines
Devoted to the Large Min-
ing Interests OF FERGUS
County General Notes.
Work Will Begin Soon.

Z. j. Morrison came in Saturday ey,
ening from Townsend. where he has
been for the last week looking after
his mining interests. In speaking OF
MS plans he said that everything look.
ed favorable for the beginning of the
work on the large placer deposits on
Indian creek by the first of Septem-
Der. He has had great success in
New York in interesting eastern cap
ital in the scheme and he says that
everything points toward an early be.
ginning of operations.
The deposit lies in the bed of In
dian creek about two and one-half
miles from Townsend and covers some
hundreds of acres. The assays show
that some of the deposit will run from
$21 to 1881 a ton and the whole
amount will run on an average of$1.-
35 cubic yard from the grass roots
to bed rock with an average depth of
twelve feet.
A stock company will be organized
very soon and Mr.. Morrison will have
charge of the mining operations. 1t
is the intention to put on three shifts
OF seven men each.
Electric power will be used to run
the machinery and 1t is estimated
that it will cost less than $500 a ton
to work the deposit. The power will
be furnished by the Missouri River
Power company.
Fergus County argus., 1904-07-20
BIG MAN is DEAD.
Canadian Eight Feet Tall Dies in ST.
Louis,

LOUIS.
Edward Beaupre. aged % years,
who claimed TO Oe the tallest and most
evenly proportIOned man in the
world, died OF d hemmorrhage al 49,
80 O'Clock yesterday morning, says a
ST. Louis dispatch, in an ambulance
on the worlds lair grounds while be
ing taken to the emergency hospital.
Beaupre had been IN the city but a
short while. ana since his arrival had
been employed as a side attraction al
Fairyland. on the Pike. II is said
that he came here with the eApccta-
tion of applying for the privilege OF
exhibiting himself in a booth Of his
own on the Pike.
Beaupre was feet 2R2 inches tall
and weighed IL the neighborhood OF
800 pounds. tie was OF Canadian
birth, the eldest son of a family oi
giants. He Is survived, 1t Is said, by
a 20-year-old brother feet inches
In height. The giants remains were
removed from the Emergency hospl.
lal Yesterday 10 the undertaking
rooms Of EboIlc q keyes, ITO st.
Ange avenue. whore an inquest was
held in the afternoon. The coroncr's
verdict was death due 10 tuberculosis.
Beaupre's body will be- shipped at
noon today 10 Willow Bunch, North
west Territory. Canada, by William
Burke. manager uI the show with
which the giant wa connected.
Beaupre's reach between the tips
of his outstrctcncd arms was 9S inch
es. He wore 4 No. % shoe, 10 hat
and p collar. \ special casket for
Tho remains hAa u bo made last
night. also a loN 10 hold the coffin.
Fergus County argus., 1904-07-20
Paying Mine Not Reauired.

By a decision handed down by
Frank ID. Miracle and Receiver George
o. Freeman of the Helena land office,
which has been affirmed by the COM
missioner of the general land office
at Washington, new and important
rule has been established to govern
in determining the character of land
in contests between mineral and ag-
ricultural claimants. says the Helena
Record. The decision is one of the
most important rendered by the local
office for some time aud the position
taken by the officials Is entirely orig
inal with them.
Heretofore the rule has been that
where a controversy existed between
persons in reference to a piece of land,
one claiming it under an agricultural
entry and the other under a mining
location, the mining claimant in Or
der to prevail was required to show
that the land produced mineral in
paying quantities as present fact.
Thus il was made necessary for a
mineral claimant to possess paying
mine in order to establish his right.
BY the new rule made by the local
Fergus County argus., 1904-07-20
REPORT OF
THE ASSESSOR
Good Gain Made by Fergus County
Notwithstanding Reductions of
Stock Valuations.
VALUE OF MORTGAGES HIGHER
Gain Due to the Fact That the Assess
ment is More Exaet-Railroad
Property Not In.

The report OF Assessor Pick has at
last been turned in and II shows that
the county is in pretty good shape,
Notwithstanding the fact that valua-
tions have been reduced Cattle were
valued last year at s23 a head. but
this was reduced to SIS this year on
the showing OF a number of stock
men that they sold cattle last year at
$40 head, Sheep valuations were
reduced this year twenty-five cents a
head and the valuation on rams fell
Fergus County argus., 1904-07-20

$l.0o. The loss was made up. how
ever by thcre being more stock in the
county this year than there was last.
a great difference will be noticed in
the valuations OF the mortgages. In
1903 the value OF asScssablC mortgag-
IS was sG9GiG. as against S2iO.72j in
1904. This great advance is shown
to be due To the fact that last year
some mortgages escaped the assess.
or, but this year he feels that every
thing is included These figures do
not include bank mortgages. which
are not assessable. but are only those
held by residents of Fergus county.
Another great difference is in the
value Of the net proceeds of mines
which shows a gain for 1904 over 1908
of s27l,Si7. This is good gain and
one that should come every year. The
assessor wishes especially To call the
taxpayers attention to the classified.
ton of farming utensils and machin-
cry. In former years the assessor
was in the habit of including all farm
machinery under the classification of
farming utensils. This year mowers.
binders. threshers and the like are
all put down under the head OF ma
chinery so that to find the compari-
son in the two years the farming ma
chinery and utensils should be added
together.
AS the books stand now there Is
clear gain over last year OF siS9,9i2
without the railroad property. The
state board has not fixed the valuation
on that property yet, and 1t is esti-
mated that the gain VIII be 100000
more The condensed report follows:
Fergus County argus., 1904-07-20
DEPUTY WANTED.
Citizens Of Kendall Ask Commission
ers for an Officer.

Arthur Kelly. of Kendall, was in
town Friday in the interests of a dep
uty sheriff appointment in Kendall
He says that the need for such an
officer in the mining camp Is a great
one, as the condition there Is deplor.
able. Many good citizens Of the
place says Mr.. Epily. say that IL
something is moi done by the com.
missioners to give them some pro-
lection, they will move their families
away There are fights on the street
every day and a woman is not safe
from insult when walking alone on
the main streets Of the town. Just
last week a little six year old girl
was assaulted by some Tuffian and
the residents OF the town have decid.
ed that If something Is not done by
the county very soon they will take
things into their own hands and rid
the camp of the Objectionable char.
acters.
A constable is not wanted but a
Fergus County argus., 1904-07-20
MURpERERs RETURNED.
Billings Men 5roughr From Re

Billings Men Brought From Red
Lodge TO Billings.
Billings, July 14.-orton o. Mosier
and Edward Grady. the men who held
up the owl saloon and murdered Rob
ert T. Hannah, were brought TO Bill.
ings by Undersheriff Thomas Sayles
and Sheriff Potter this evening and
placed in the county Jail They have
been held at Red Lodge since being
arrested as the officers considered il
better for thelI safety To keep them
out of this city for some time. They
will be tried in next term OF the dis.
trict court,
Fergus County argus., 1904-07-20
Hereford Cattle.

Pure bred bull calves for sale.
will also have a few cows and heifers
for sale every year. This Is a good
opportunity for anyone wishing to
start herd of high class cattle. In.
spection Of my stock Is invited and
all inquiries and correspondence will
receive prompt attention.
DUANE BUTTERFIELD.
Stanford, Mont.
Fergus County argus., 1904-07-20

Bitters and it's the greatest medicine
on earth for that trouble. A few bot
ties of il completely relieved and
cured me" Just as good for liver
and kidney troubles and general de-
bility. Only soc. Satisfaction guar
anteed by Delzell Drug Co.
Fergus County argus., 1904-07-20
arlltallY Tortured.

A case came 10 light that for per-
sistent and unmcrn.Ipl torture has
perhaps never been equaled. Joe
Golobick of Colusa. Cal, writes:
For IS years I endured insufferable
pain from rheumatism and nothing
relieved me. though tried every
thing known. | came across Electric