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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-08-03

St. Petersburg, Aug. 2, 2.36-s. m.
The greatest anxiety prevail here
for news of the general advance
against the southern and eastern po-
sitions of Gen. Kuropatkin's- army.
The public believes that the decisive
battle of the campaign is being fought
but this has not yet been determined.
Indeed the Associated Press hears
from the keenest military attaches in
st. Petersburg that for several days
the main body of the Russian army
has been moving north towards Muk-
den and that when the present line to
the southeast is forced the japanese
will find that they have crushed only
the shell. Should this prove to be
so, Gen. Kuropatkin will doubtless
be obliged to destroy the immense
quantity of sores accumulated at Liao
Yang. Shrewd military critics, how
ever, do not believe that Gen Kuropatkin
can escape a general engagement. His
army forms a wedge with Gen. Oku
hammering away at the point and
Gems. Nodzu and Kuroki operating
with driving movements of great force
against the sides. If one of the latter
should break through the southern
force would be doomed.
The general staff seems amazed
at the immense strength of these coop
Grating Japanese armies Thee Japa-
nese evidently have succeeded in con-
cealing the real number Of their men
and guns which the general staff now
believes must be in excess Of 300, OCO
men with between 800 and 400
guns.
While Gen. Oku is holding the
Russian army at Hal Cheng in check,
Gen. Nodzu is evidently trying to work
around the vital position at Simou-
cheng. At the same time Gen. Ku-
roki is trying to flank the first Sioer-
ian army corps, which was command
ed by the late Lieut.. Gen. Count Kel.
ler, at Yanzalin on the main Feng
Wang Cheng road, and is also pushing
strong column through direct to-
ward Lao Yang on the Saimatsze
road. There isa road leading north from
Simoucheng which strikes the Fene
Wang Cheng- Liao Yang road west o1
Yanslain. If Simoucheng should be
forced rapid advance along this road
would pocket the first Siberian army
corps.
The report received from Toxic late
tonight that Simoucheng had actually
been forced did not become generally
known. The general staff remained
in session until almost 2 a. m., and OF
adjournment it was stated that nothing
beyond the days official dispatches
had been received. It is thus impossl
bic to confirm or deny the Toxic re-
port.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-08-03
DAILY MARKET REPORT.

Special by Ware & Leland's Private
Wire.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.

American ordnance officers would
like an opportunity to see the damaged
Russian warships to compare the eff
cheney of the Carnegie and Bethlehem
armor-plates.
Minister Bowen reported to the
State Department that Venezuela is
paying off judgments more speedily
than she was expected to do.
Brigadier General Carr reported a
marked improvement in the discipline
of the troops of the Department OF
Dakota.
Quartermaster General Humphrey
has reprimanded Col. John Glenn, chief
quartermaster of the Philippine Di-
vision.
Plans are being arranged at the
Navy Department for reorganization
of the battleship squadron.
Labor Commissioner Carroll D.
Wright will resign at the end of the
year.
Several changes in the faculty OF
the Georgetown University are an
nounced.
The report to the Board of Visitors
to the Naval Academy recommends
the restoration of the four-year course.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
Llaoyaog and Its FortIfIcations.

In abandoning Liaoyang General
Kuropatkin has certainly given up a
formidable position, so far as fortifi-
cations are concerned. The works
around the city were said to be mar
wells of engineering skill. with gal
leries for the protection of the gun
ners connected by telephone and de-
Tended by wire entanglements and
mines.
In his hasty retreat from Liaoyang
General Kuropatkin must certainly
have been forced to abandon valuable
stores and also the emplaced guns.
To abandon such position appears,
Notwithstanding the explanations of
the Russian War Office, to have been
a desperate move upon the part of
the Russian commander-in-chief. and
only made.as last resort, in the hope
of preventing his army of 10000 men
being surrounded and cut off by the
three Japanese armies.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
WEATHER RETARDS CROPS.
Heavy Rains In the South-Co Conditions 10 the
Corn Belt

Washington, D. c. (SpeciaD.-Tne
weather Bureaus weekly summary OF
crop conditions is as follows:
Although cool weather has pre-
vented rapid development of corn in.
the Ohio valley and Lake region, the
crops, as a whole, has experienced de-
cded improvements Much OF that
Frustrated by winds in the previous
week in Indiana and Illinois IS
Strengthening. In the Missouri val
ley the temperature has been more
favorable, and the advancement or
the crop toward maturity has been
much more rapid than in the Cen
trail Mississippi and Ohio valleys.
Early corn has already matured in
Southern Missouri, and is ripenlng
rapidly in Nebraska and South Da-
kota, cutting being in process IN the
first-name State and in Kansas. The
reports indicate that from three TO
four weeks of favorable weather VIII
be required to mature the late crop.
In Northern Alabama and in the
southern portions of Mississippi and
Louisiana cotton has improved, and
the crop is in good condition in Ok
lahoma and Indian Territories, but
elsewhere the reports generally indi-
cate unfavorable progress. Deteriora-
ton from rust and shedding is re-
ported from nearly all districts. Heavy
rains have proved injurious in portions
of Florida and Georgia, while over a
large part of Texas the crop has sui
fered decidedly from drought. In the
aforementioned State boil worms con-
time destructive, and boil weevils are
puncturing nearly all squares in south
western, central, eastern and coast d.
visions, and are causing much dam
age as far north as Dallas. Kauf-
man and Hunt counties. Picking is
in full progress IN Texas. and is gen
eral in the southern portions of the
central and Eastern districts.
The outlook for apples continues
promising in New England, New York
and the upper Lake region. but I'M
favorable reports continue from the
States of the central valleys.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
NINE PEOPLE KILLED
A Head-0n Collision on the Grand Trunk
Railroad.
CONDUCTOR OF TRAIN DISAPPEARS.
Disobedience Of Orders Causes Frightful
Catastrophe In Canada-In Addition to the
Nine Dead, Twenty.three Sustained Severe
Iniuries-0ne Of the Trains Contained
Thousand Excursiouists.

Montreal (SpeciaD. = Nine people
were killed and 20 others injured in
headon collision on the Grand
Trunk Railway, near Richmond. Que.
The trains involved were a special
excursion from Montreal bound for
Sherbrooke and passenger train No.
5, running between Island Pond, VT,
and Montreal.
The collision. it is claimed, was due
to neglect of orders on the part of
the train crew of the excursion train,
which left Richmond without await
ing the arrival of the passenger train.
The excursion train was running as
the first section of the regular Grand
Trunk Portland Express, which usu-
ally crosses the Island Pond train at
Richmond. and was running on its
time. This makes it all the more
lnexplicable why Conductor Atkinson,
in charge of the excursion train, did
not wait to make the usual crossing.
Atkinson disappeared shortly after
the wreck occurred.
The excursion train, made up of
10 coaches and baggage car, car
ried about 1000 persons bound for
the exhibition at Sherbrooke. The
Island Pond train was composed of
tive coaches and baggage car and
had only small number of passen-
gers.
The excursion train had barely
cleared the Richmond yard. when,
rounding curve, it met the Island
Pond train, running at high rate
OF speed. Both engineers reversed,
and, with their fremen. jumped, es-
Gaping with minor injuries. The
shock of the collision was plainly
heard in Richmond. more than a mile
away.
Both engines were locked firmly
together The baggage car of the ex-
cursion train was picked up and drop
ped on top of the car following it-a
smoker, and it was in these two cars
that the greater number of fatalities
occurred.
The most graphic account of what
followed the collision is given by ].
A. Denault, a Montreal banker, who
was seated in the smoker of the ex-
cursion train.
when the shock came" he said,
II was hit on the head and momen-
tarily stunned When l came to my
senses I appeared to be lying I'M
derneath pile of kinsling wood, from
which | could not release myself. The
cries of the wounded were pitiable.
felt something wet s7turating one
leg of my trousers and for mo-
ment thought that / had been badly
wounded Looking down saw that
the body of man was lying across
my feet. He was groaning. and, in
minute or two, said he was dying.
Then he was still. When relief came
he was dead l was lucky enough
to escape with only few Commissions"
Other passengers told similar stor-
les of their escape, but the trainmen
had nothing to say, pending the in
quest.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
AMERICA URGES ACTION.
Grand Duke Holds Ont Against Hays View
Of Contraband.

St. Petersburg (By Cable).-Foreign
Minister Lamsdorff is being pressed
by Ambassador Mccormick for an an
swer to the representations OF the
United States in regard to the car
goes of the Portland and Asiatic Line
steamer Arabia and the British steam
er Calchas, both captured by the Vlad-
livestock squadron, the Calchas while
bound from Puget sound for Japan.
1t is understood that the United
States now goes to the extent OF ask
ing for the release of the cargoes. The
Foreign Office is unable to give
definite response to the representa-
tons pending the decision of the COM
mission which is examining the ques-
ton of contraband of war. The COM
mission is not making much progress,
owing to the position taken by Grand
Duke Alexander Mikhailovitch. head
of the Department of Mercantile Ma
rine and brother-in-law of the En-
peror, and Grand Duke Alexis, the high
admiral and uncle Of the ruler, who
are standing out against the Ameri-
can and British view of foodstufs as
conditional contraband, on the ground
that if the contention is allowed it
would be idle to attempt to stop con-
traband bound for Japan. as every
pound of foodstuffs which does not
come under the head of absolute con-
traband would be consigned to pri-
va.e firms or persons in Japan, or else
be sent to an intermediary port for
transshipment.
Count Lamsdorff and Professor De
Martens, professor of international law
at the University of St. Petersburg,
who is president of the commission,
are trying to overcome the objections
of the Grand Dukes. The indications
now point to considerable delay in the
settlement of the question.
The Foreign Office has been in
formed that the instructions of the
Russian government not to interfere
with further neutral shipping have
been communicated to the volunteer
fleet steamer St. Petersburg in South
African waters. The Smolensk re-
ceived similar instructions. The in
structions are understood to have been
delivered through Russian and not
through foreign agency, and reached
them both, it is stated here, at known
rendezvous off the African coast.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
PREPARING TO HvAcUATE MUKDHN.
This Would Mean Abandonment by Russians
of Southern Manchuria.

Mukden (By Cable).-Preparations
for the evacuation of Mukden are
proceeding.
The Japanese advance is within 80
miles.
St. Petersburg (By Cable).-It is
impossible to obtain any statement
from the. authorities regarding the re-
ported preparations for the abandon
ment of Mukden.
This is the first intimation that such
a course is contemplated. If it turns
out to be true, it means the abandon
ment of the whole of Southern Man
churia and the winding up of the pres
ent campaign.
In fact, should Mukden be evacu-
atcd, there would be no point for win
fering the army of quarter of mil
lion, with its many wounded, short
of Hardin.
On the other hand, the evacuation
of Mukden would give Field Marshal
Oyama commodious winter quarters
and the practical control of two lines
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
No Mediation Now.

Berlin (By Cable).-The German
Foreign Office, taking note of the
fresh assertions that the neutral pow
ers are comparing views with the OBJ
ject of offering friendly mediation in
the war between Russia and Japan,
says that such an idea is absurd at
this moment, as the Russian purpose
to continue the war has been clearly
made known. All the governments
understood that Great Britain and
France, at some time agreed upon,
would offer to mediate when both
beligerents desired it. When that time
arrived naturally there was nothing
to preclude other neutral governments
from participating.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
Ia PERISH In A FIRE
The Victims We're Mostly Women and
Children.
TENEMENT HOUSE A DEATH TRAP.
The Male Occupants Were on the Roof and
Leaped to Neighboring Fouses-Women
and Children Found Their Egress Cut on,
Repairing Being 10 Progress in the Lower
Part OF the House.

New York (SpeciaD.-Fourteen per-
sons were killed and nearly score
injured in fire in a fve-story double
tenement in Attorney street at an
early hour in the morning. 1t was
one of the worst fires in the loss Of
human lives that has occurred on
the East Side in several years, al
though the properly loss was slight.
The dead include four women, one
man and nine children, ranging in age
from 8 months to IL years.
Many of the injured were taken tc
hospitals, and it is thought that sew
eral of these will die. Among the
injured were FIVE fremen, who were
on fourth floor balcony, when it fell
with them.
The small number of men among
the killed and injured was due to the
fact that most of the men who lived IN
the building, following the Attorney
street custom in hot weather. were
asleep on the roof, while but few OF
the women and children were there
Those on the roof were unable to es-
cape by descending through the burn
ing building, and made their way to
safety over neighboring roots. Mean
while the members of their families
who had remained in their rooms
found escape cut off, and panic reigned
throughout the structure.
The fire started about 8 o'clock in
the morning, and there was consid-
cradle delay in sending in an alarm.
although the district is one of the
most thickly populated in the crowded
East Side of New York.
When the fremen reached the scene
some of the tenants were jumping
from the windows and from the ends
of fire escapes that reached only to
the second floor; others were crouch
ing in the smoke in the small rooms
and narrow halls Several ambulances
were called, and the surgeons were
kept busy caring for the injured.
A number of daring rescues were
made by fremen and police, and the
conditions under which they worked
were unusual and difficult The loss
of life was due chiefly to the fact that
alterations were being made in the
tenement building. The basement and
the first floor, the latter about six feet
above the sidewalk level, had both
been cut through, the front and rear
walls having been removed, and the
upper floors being supported by steel
beams. The exit from the upper floors
was by way of small stepladder.
The fire is supposed to have been
caused by the explosion of lamp that
had been left to light the hall on the
second floor and the sleeping tenants
were not aroused until the hallway
was ablaze and escape through the
building cut off.
The fire was soon extinguished and
the search for the dead began. Police
reserves had been called out, and with
difficulty kept back the crowd that
had gathered from the densely popu-
lated neighborhood while the bodies
were being brought down to the street.
Most of the dead were found on the
two upper floors.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
Indiana Miners and Operators.

Terre Haute, Ind. Especially The
joint meeting of the state executive
boards of the Indiana miners and OPP
orators adjourned, after failing to
agree on the questions of stable bosses
being members of the union and the
eight-hour clause applying to night
fremen. The first will be referred to
President Mitchell again, he having
formerly ruled that bosses should be-
long to the union. The second ques-
ton goes over to another meeting.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
Blew Up His Own Mill

Meridian, Miss. (SpeciaD. = Moses
Graham, owner of the Highwood lum-
Der mill, in Jones county, deliberately
dynamited and wrecked the machinery
of his mill rather than accede to the
demands of about 100 employees for
higher wages. The mill had been
shut down for two months on account
of the strike. The strikers lived on
Grahams land. and when ordered off
camped in tents on his border await
ing the opening of the season.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
First Alaskan cabIegram.

Dallas, Tex. (SpeciaD.-Col. w. G.
Horslay, of Greenville, Tex. received
the first cablegram ever sent over the
new Aslaska submarine cable which
has been laid from Seattle, Washing
ton, to Haines, Alaska. Colonel Hors-
lays son Herbert, a sergeant in the
United States Signal Corps, who has
had charge of the construction of the
cable, after sending greetings, an
nounced that he would visit his Texas
home in November.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
Blown Up By Mine.

Toxic (By Cable).-Admiral Hoso-
va, commanding the third Japanese
squadron, reports that last Wednes-
day morning a number of vessels
weighed from Port Arthur and en-
gagged in clearing away mines. The
Japanese watched their operations sea-
ward. At 2:25 P. NJ. steamer struck
a mine and was blown up. The disas-
ter occurred one mile below Cheng-
tungshan, and it was plainly visible.
The number of lives lost is unknown.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
FINANCIAL

Bachman is the inside house in
Warwick Steel. He has bought the
stock this week.
Tube manufacturers reduced the
price S. ton owing to the cut IN
steel.
There is an estimated short inter
est of 1000, oooshares of United States
Steel. No wonder the stock rises.
Uncle Sans August cotton report
makes the condition S4.I compared
with a ten-year average OF 1872.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
End Of Career Of DR.. Herran.

New York Especially DIR. Thomas
Herran, who represented Colombia at
Washington for several years, up to
the time of the Panama incident. died
at Liberty. N. Y. He had been i'll
for sometime, and went to Liberty in
the hope that a sojourn there would
aid in the restoration of his health.
DIR. Herran was educated in the
United States and devoted his life
largely to his country's foreign serv-
ice.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
Five Dead and Many Injured.

Findlay, o. (speciaD.-Five are
dead and an equal number seriously
injured as the result of premature
explosion of quantity of nitroglycer-
in near Upper Sandusky. The acct
dent occurred while Mckay. an oil
we'll shooter, was engaged in lowering
the notroglycerin. AT the time his
assistants, the Lookabaughs and Fox,
together with the others, were grouped
about the well. The cause of the ex-
Dlosion is unknowp.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
Another Boxer Outbreak.

Shanghai (By Cable).-A revival of
Boxerism is reported from Tamingfu,
in the southwestern part of Pechili
pi ovince, 2I5 miles from Tien-tsin.
Over 20 American missionaries, in
GLIDING women and children, have
been obliged to evacuate Tamgfu, ow-
ing to an intended massacre on the
part of the Boxers, who call them
selves "Tsaiyun."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
Six Perish In a Fire.

Yellow Creek. Ohio Especially Six
persons were burned to death and sew
eral terribly injured by a fire and gas
explosion at this place. The house
of Henry S. Fling was ignited by a
street lamp and the intense heat set
fire to the rig of gas we'll near the
house. The flames destroyed the der
rick and communicated to a tank,
which was full of oil Before the
occupants of the house realized their
danger terrific explosion occurred.
The blazing oil wae thrown all over
the house and their escape was cut
off. The bodies were recovered after
the fire was subdued.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
A Bad Man Hanged.

Clearfeld, Pa. (SpeciaD Henry C.
Fitch, colored, was hanged here for
the murder of John Williamson on
September 2o, 1903. Fitch attempted
to rob Williamson. who resisted. and
was shot to death. Recently Fitch
made confession in which he claimed
to have killed negro at Red Star,
W. Va; shot a man at East Liverpool,
O., and murderously assaulted another
at Coraopolis, Pa.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
Child Accuses Stepfather.

Mahony City, Pa. (SpeciaD.-After
a coroner's jury had decided that An
thony Gerlaitis had, been killed by a
Philadelphia and Reading railway pas
senger train. II-year-old Katie Miller
came forward with a statement that
he was murdered and his body placed
alongside of the railroad track. She
duplicates her stepfather, Joseph Zu-
klcwicz, and John Acepawich. Both
men have been placed under arrest
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09

The Uruguayan War Minister, COM
handing the government troops. re-
ports having won a decisive victory
over General Saraiva, the leader oil
the Uruguayan insurgents.
The German Crown Prince Freder-
lex William is reported to be engaged
to the Duchess Cecilia, sister of tho
reigning Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin.
The French census shows an in
crease of 444,6I3 in population in &c
years; a smaller percentage than in
any other European country.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
New Mint Opened.

Denver. Col. (SpeciaD.-The new
United States mint in this city was
opened with a presidential salute of
FL guns and raising of the American
flag over the building by George E.
Roberts, director of the mint. The
mint will not begin coinage until July
I, 1905, as no appropriation has been
made by Congress as yet to cover the
cost of coinage.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
RUSSIAN ARMY IN DANGER
Japs Threaten to Surround It--Rear Guard Reported
Almost DeStroyed---A Desperate Race
to Reach Mukden.

of railway. The KinchouSimmintin
line, tapping rich Chinese territory,
stops little short of Mukden, with
which it is connected by good wa
gon road.
The report of the prospective evac-
uation of Mukden, if we'll founded,
would indicate that the vrippling eff
feet of the Liaoyang fighting on Ku-
ropatkin's army is more serious than
has as vet been intimated.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
Explosion In Powder Works.

Punxsutawney, Pa. (SpeciaD.-
Eight hundred kegs of powder ex-
ploded in the pressroom of the Latin
& Rand Powder Works. two miles
east of here. instantly killing one
man, seriously injuring three others
and causing costly destruction of prop
erty