The Gainesville star. [volume] (Gainesville, Fla.) 1903-19??, 1904-09-13
Cream of News.
Brief Summary Of Most
Important Events
Of Each Day.

people.
The Brotherhood Of Railroad
Clerks Of New Orleans Is much alarm
ed over the sudden appearance Of a
large number of female employees in
the accounting departments OF the
Illinois Central and New Orleans,
Northeastern.
"A strike Of the negro toamsters
who haul cotton is in effect at New
Orleans, efforts to bring about q COM
promise Of the differences between the
draymen and the teamsters having
failed.
Tho battle of LiaoYang, which
began with q japanese advance on Au'
gust "a, the day Of the christening
Of the czareyitch and concluded Sat.
urday, September s, with the retreat
of General KuropNtlsn, is believed to
have been the longest and bloodlest
Of history.
Officials Of the agricultural
department at Washington deny the
accusation emanating from Savannah,
Ga, that there has been a leak in
the cotton report issued by the depart
ment
Detectives are searching the pawn
shops of New York and other eastern
cities for a pearl necklace that dis.
appeared in Los Angc es, California,
last May. It is valued at $4,000.
President Donnelly, Of the Butch
ers' National organization, ordered q
boycott against all meat and announc.
ed that union men will quit in all
packing establishments regardless Of
where the live stock is secured.
japanese Field Marshal Oyama
telegraphed Toxic Sunday morning
saying After TIE fighting Of last
night and this morning Liao.Yang fell
into our hands, Our casualties are
believed to be very heavy"
Five are dead and an equal mum.
Der seriously injured as the result of
a premature explosion OF a quantity
OF. nitro.glycerine near Upper Sandus.
ny, Ohio, Sunday.
Emperor Nicholas Sunday after.
noon received a telegram from Gener.
al Kuropatkin asking for the imme.
date dispatch to the Far East Of the
sixth army corps.
President Gompers, Of the Ameri.
Can Federation Of Labor has refused
to call a meeting of the national ex.
ecutive committee to recommend gen.
erh sympathetic action Of un!onism
In support Of the packing house strike.
"A London dispatch says. Bobby
Walthour, of Atlanta, Ca, won the
hundred kllometer motor paced pro.
fessional championship of the world
from Simar, Of France at the Crys.
tai Palace Saturday, by four and three.
quarters length. The time was 1888
80. This event was tie feature of
the day
Seven persons were killed and
twenty'four injured-several fatally.
In wrecking Of a suburban street car
by a Wabash passenger train at a
street crossing in St. Louis. The
train struck the car sQuarely in the
center The occupants had no chance
to escape.
Fire has swept the entro business
portion of Gem, Idaho, and a large
part of the residence district. entail.
ing a loss Of $4,000, destroying near.
~ one hundred houses and rendering
scores Of people homeless.
About 900 more men have gone
on strike in the Coal Creek district.
augmenting the number of strikers N
l,25O. Every mine in the district ia
closed, with the exception Of the
slatestone mine, Of the Knoxville Iron
Company.
AT Rolla, N. Oak, six full.blooded
Indians Of the Turtle Mountain reserv.
alton were found dead from drinking
wood alcohol or lemon extract. and
four more were in a dying condition.
AT Houston, Tex, respondent over
III health and lack of work, Charles
schroeder blew out his wifes brains
and then turned the pistol on hlmself
on the top of his head.
New York men who have been
paying alimony to former wife, mar
led after getting her decree, are re-
oicing over the new state law which
has gone into effect and cuts off tho
income Of thousands Of Divorces nov
wing with their second husbands.
because State Treasurer Kemnn
II Wisconsin, was unable TO furnish the
Soo'OoO additional bond demanded o,
Inn by the governor, the latter has
ormally declared the Office OF sta,s
reasurer vacant under the statutes.
Norfolk, Va, capitalists bav.
ormed a 100000 company for the
urpose OF Gultiyating a 15.OOO.acre
'act OF land in eastern Virginia and
aroma to grow grapes for wine
manufacturing.
Fire at Memphis, Tenn, DESTROYED
roperty In the Wholesale district ap. Q
roximating in value $4,000 :
me bIue and Brown armies al ,
.anassas began the war game IN
'rnest Monday morning