The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1904-07-16
WEEKS D0INGS
oeueral Review Of Important Happenings
% the Past Week In Brief and
Comprehensive Form

Port Arthur officials claim the Jap
knese army Is too, small to take the
fortress.
Mayor Jones, Of TOLEDO, Ohio, IL
very low and his death Is expected at
any time.
Employees Of all the big packing
plants have gone ON strike. Forty
Thousand rnen are affected.
Washington officials believe climax
In approaching Mt Port Arthur such ar
marked the passage OF the Yalu.
During heavy wind storm at st.
Louis one man was killea and five
others injured. Many buildings we're
nnroofed.
A number Of Japanese transports
have been sighted off Kinchon. II Ia
believed they intend to make land
ing at Yinkow.
Sixteen persons we're killed and about
three score injured In rear end col
ison between trains on the Erie rail
road at Midvale, N. j..
After a day Of hard fighting at Kali
chou the Japanese were surprised next
morning to find that the Russians had
evacuated the town during the night.
number OF foreign AT aches and
newspaper correspondents have been
informed that they can 20 TO the front
July 20. This causes many to believe
that severe lighting will take place
then.
Kuropatkin may retreat further
north.
The capture OF Kaichou will permit
OF the Japanese armies combining.
#. G. Robertson, OF Washington,
made the speech placing Ex-senator
Turner In nomination for vice presi-
dent on the Democratic ticket.
Six OF the 10 passengers on the III
lated steamer Norge, who landed on
the Farce islands, were In such an ex.
hausied condition that they we're una
BILE to speak.
William Clark Crittenden, student
of the University OF California. has
been selected az the first Rhodes
scholar at Oxford to represent Califori
mia. Seven candidates passed sue
cesaiul examination. Massachusetts Ii
the only state where as many men sue
ceeded In passing the qualifying exam
nation, eight having been successful
there.
Topeka believes that the worst Of ths
flood 10 over.
After severe fighting General Ok
has occupied Kaiping.
The Democratic platform as adopted
contains no financial plank.
The Japanese have captured 10 guns
and 90 prisoners near Kaiachou.
The British feet has left Wei Ha
Wei hurriedly under sealed orders.
Cholera Ia spreading rapidly II
Northern Persia. There are 800 dying
daily.
Good weather again prevails II
Manchuria and there Is probability 0
uSAf} hghNhks
In short but severe engagement a
Hoang the Russians we're driven Of
with loss OF 800.
The Japnaee are advancing alon
their entire front between the coas
and the Chinstan valley.
DR.. Swallow, candidate for presiden
on the Prohibition ticket has invite,
Bryan to join that party.
Alaska Indians, Jealous OF whit
mans property, started fire that de
stroyed the village OF Point Gravina.
A division of the Baltic squadron
will sail from Cronstadt July 2s unde
sealed orders. Complete mystery sur
rounds her destination.
Japanese generals are proving them
selves great strategists.
A japanese gunboat struck mine Of
Talien Wan bay and was lost.
Russia objects to the presence Of
British gunboat at Niu Chwang.
The Democratic national convention
denied vote 10 the Philippine dele
gates.
The car fears revolution In Rus
sian Poland and state OF siege will b
proclaimed.
The Russian war office admits that |
battle OF consequence has taken plac,
near Lao Yang, but has no advices al
TO the outcome.
A waterspout, accompanied by 1
terrific wind, passed through Clinton
o. T., killing six persons and injuinl
several others
Japanese and Russian ships have en-.
gagged in battle in the Corean straits
and it is believed two OF three Of the
former have been lost.
Russian officials claim that the heavy
rains in Manchuria will do much TO-
ward giving them tbs upper hand
One man was killed, another fatally
injured and score of others slightly
injured in a collision on the Readin
railroad at suburb Of Philadelphia.
The correspondent Of a. Paris paper
says be saw at Kronstadt the Ameri-
can built submarine boat Protector.
de states that be was also shown two
other submarines Of American manu-
facture.
A San Francisco man may start 9
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