The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-09
AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL.

Japanese, before Lao Yang. up to the
morning of the LIST, was very meager.
All that came filtered through Russian
sources. All pointed to a supreme ef-
fort. and in view of the immense num-
bers of men engaged, the results, e.
known, will be staggering.
The city of Jaurez, Mexico, across
the river from Ell Paso, Tex, was
threatened with destruction by fire on
the first. One block OF the best busi-
ness houses had been burned, and all
efforts of the fire department appeared
futile. The loss will be heavy.
Senator Patrick H. McCarren carried
IS out of the 81 districts in the Kings
county IN. " primaries contest on
the 30th. AS a result McCarren will
control all of the Kings county dele
gates to the democratic state conven
ton.
At G~royeton, Va, on the Both, was
dedicated a monument 10 the memory
of the confederate dead who fell in the
first battle of Bull Run. Addresses
we're delivered by Gov. Montague, Gen.
Henry C. Corbin and ]. B. McCabe, ].
L~eeSburg.
Gov. Peabody of Colorado has hon
ored the requisition made upon him
by the governor of Texas for S. E.
Bruner, who is wanted in Tarrant
county, Tex, on a charge of assault
With intent to murder.
DR.. Baldwin. the expert on skin dis
eases. of Chicago, and DR.. e. S. Baker,
Of Jacksonville, state health inspector,
who were sem to La Sale, H., to In
vestigate sensational reports OF the eX-
:stence there of a case of Asiatic lepro-
sy, have notified the Illinois state board
Of health that the S is not leprosy.
Former Sheriff Robertson, who was
forced by the Citizens Alliance OF
Cripple Creek. Col. to resign during
the recent outbreak there, has filed
suit to GUST his successor.
Japanese strategy in turning the
Russian left flank resulted, on the LIST,
in the abandonment of Lao Yang by
Gen. Kuropatkin, who crossed the
Taitse river in order to check Gen.
Kuroki, who had thrown a force across
the river and was threatening Kuropat-
kin's rear.
Some idea of the fiercenesS Of the
fighting around Lao Yang may be
gathered from the estimates Of losses
during two days fighting, which total
about q, 900. The Russians lost heav-
lily in arms, ammunitions, cannOn and
wagons.
A Toxic dispatch of the I'd said that
the Japanese left began pressing the
Russian right toward Tatzao at dawn,
the Japanese right being engaged in
tho neighborhood of Heiyingtai.
King Edward has approved the APP
pointment of Earl Grey as governor
general of Canada, to succeed the earl
Of Mimic.
A dispatch from Vienna says the
husband of the Princess Louise Of
Saxe-Coburg, has offered $4,000 for
the recapture of his wife. who escaped
from her keepers at Bad Elster, Sax
ony. The Austrian and German po-
lice are searching for her in co-opera-
ton, and are using bloodhounds.
News from the sea- of war in the
far east, up to the morning of the Sd,
indicated that Gen. Kuroki, command
ing the right wing of the Japanese
army, was trying his utmost to cut
off Gen. K%uropatkin's retreat to Muk-
den. Kuroki had captured a portion
Of the heights commanding Heiying-
tai, and hoped then to dominate the
railroad.
Advices from Toxic, up to the morn
ing of the Sd, gave an idea of the ter
rible slaughter in the battles around
Lao Yang. The Japanese generals
reported losses, from August %, ag-
gregating 10000 men, and according
to their estimates the Russian losses
must have been greater.
Judge Parker's abandonment of his
proposed visit to the st. Louis e
is said to be the result of
brought to bear upon him by
several of the most prominent men in
the democratic party, notably Henry
President Donnelly, of the butcher
workmen, on the I'd, declared a boy
colt against ali meat, in every city in
the United States, announcing that
the United States, announcing that
union men would quit in all packing
establishments at $50 p. m. on the
Sd, regardless of where live stock is
secured.
The monthly report of the chief Of
the bureau of statistics of the depart
ment of agriculture shows the aver
age condition of cotton on August 25
to have been 84.1, as compared with
GIG the previous month, 81.2 on Aug
ust Is, 1908; 60 on August 26, 1902,
A south-bound State street cable
struck an iron pin in the cable
slot at State and Root streets, Chica-
go, on the LIST, and was hurled from
the track. The a was filled with pas
sengers. At least ten were hurt in the
panic that followed.
The new United States mint in
Denver, Col, vas opened, on the LIST,
with a presidents salute Of 81 guns
and raising of the American flag owe
the building by George E. Roberts, d.
rector of the mint of Washington, D. G.
A passenger train, e%ast-Dound on the
Santa Fe, collided with a freight head
on near Williamsfield, H., on the LIST.
The crews of both trains escaped; sew
eral passengers were hurt, but none
seriously.
Judge Alton B. Parker will not visit