Evening journal., 1904-09-29
TdF WORLDS NEWS
THE WAR.

THE WAR.
Outposts are fighting along the en-
tire front before Mukden. The Japan
ese advance is most deliberate.
Recent assaults on Port Arthur are
reported to have resulted in the Jess
of z 1000 men to the japanese.
Japan will float a new domestic loan
Of $i0,000,OOO.
WASHINGTON.
state Department officials expressed
the opinion that the Gurney case would
soon be settled satisfactorily.
Captain Hemphill. will be asked to
restore the punch bowl presented to the
battleship Kearsarge by the Emperor
.of Germany
Inspector Robert L. Green expects to
secure conviction in land fraud cases.
General Corbin visited Washington
yesterday preparatory to starting for
the Philippines.
Serious Irregularities are alleged
against Consul General John Goodnow
at Shanghai.
POLITICAL.
The forged" letter of President Roose-
welt originally appeared in the New
York Evening Post as a sample Of
what the Post thought the President
should do.
Speaker Cannon charged Judge Par
ker with pervertng President McKin-
lley's reciprocity speech.
NEW JERSEY.
Atlantic County Grand Jury found
ten bills of indictment against persons
who participated i'm the recent Lee
Edge primary elections and also pre-
sented the City Solicitor Of Atlantic
city to court for his action on the night
in question:.
FOREIGN.
The Duke of Orleans has asked per-
mission to use the Arctic steamer Fran
for a voyage Of exploration in 1905.
Bubonic plague has broken out on
the steamship Bishopsgate. arrived in
the River Tyne from Argentina. via
Hamburg.
Count sergius Tolstoy brother Of
Count Leo, is dead.
Mediation is declared not to have
been the theme Of the two days dis
cussion between Italy's Premier and
the German Chancellor. The purpose
of the interview is not disclosed.
King George of Saxony Is much
weaker. Members Of the royal family
have gathered at Pillnitz.
Lady Curzon's condition was re-
ported to be much improved.
MISCELLANEOUS.
owing to a notion that a teacher
was a negro, pupils of a Chicago pub
lie school went on strike.
nfoHnp Doffar. o.lTaT ~, tI,o ,I1~.,-r~ 20
fight divorce in his report to the Dio-
cesan Convention in New York.
]. Engle Cochran, Jr., of Chester. Pa.
was held in Chicago on the charge Of
obtaining $4,000 under false pretenses
while acting as a promoter.
Judge c. d. woodward Of the NIu-
nicipal Court Montpelier. VT. COM
mitted suicide because of opposition
to his reappointment.
Columbia University conferred the
degree Of IL. ID. on the Archbishop OF
Canterbury.
The American Bar Association elect
ed officers at st. Louis. and adjourned
sine die.
Chancellor McCracken, New York
University urged students to form q
political debating club and brighter
lut QulltHt AAtSlAtilAldA campaign W.
have had in half a century"
A plan to double New Yorl1's watei
supply. now under discussion. involves
the expenditure of $4,000.
John w. Foster ex-Secretary Of Tho
Navy. speaking before the Congress oil
Lawyers and Jurists at st. Louis. sug-
gested the disarmament of all nations
At the Third Eucharistic Congress in
i
a suggestion to send resolutions de-
lnouncing the French Government to
the President of the United States.
Senator Hoar was still alive late
last night. but unconscious.
Portraits of the Tsar at the Worlds
Fair were mutilated by vandals.