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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
RUSSIANS BEGIN ADVANCE
Kuropatkiu Orders Aggressive Move
ment Of His Armies.
DECLARES IT IS NOW THEIR TIME.

In a Long Message to His Soldiers He
Praises Their Past Enorts and ProPh-
estes Coming Victories = Large Re-
inforcements Give Aided Strength to
the Cars Already Huge Armies.
st. Petersburg, Russia private
dispatch from Mukden states that the
whole Russian army has begun to adj
vance. The japanese have been out
manoeuvred atBoniaputse, which place
they have tvacuated 1t was occupied
By the Russians, apparently without SCI
rious fighting.
According to less reliable news the
Russians captured the Shaho and YEN
tails stations after sharp engage
ment The Japanese centre, consisting
Of the Fifth and Tenth divisions, under
General Nodzu, was compelled to aban-
don its positions and retreat
Toxic, Japan. lit is reliably reported
that the Russians south of the Hun
River have been greatly increased in
numbers, indicating that counter at
tack is contemplated
London, Eng.-The new phase of the
Manchurian campaign that was fore
Swallowed in recent cable dispatches
seems to have begun with the abandon
ment of General Kuropatkin's defen-
sive tactics and general advance
against the Japanese positions north OF
Liaoyang.
There is no official confirmation from
either side Of this movement, but inde-
pendent stories from several sources
concur In stating that such an advance
has commenced and the issue of Cen
eral Kuropatkln's stirring address is
regarded as equivalent to corrobora-
ton.
The criticism most to be regarded
here views General Kuropatkin's al
tered tactics as likely to lead to COM
paratively early decision. The sugges-
ton is made that General Kuropatkin's
advance was ordered by ST. Peters
burg.
This idea is based partly on the COM
mander-in-chief's significant mention
of Port Arthur, and partly on the fact
that Immediately after the decision to
send second army to Manchuria he
apparently is about to risk everything
on an attack.
The Japanese, according to Mukden
telegram. appear to be relying upon
holding their position at Liaoyang and
the hills to the eastward of Yentai,
which were General Kuroki's late bat
tleground. They have not yet been
seen acting on the defensive, and the
outcome of the next few days opera
tons is awaited with eager interest.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
THE NEBRASKA LAUNCHED
New Big Battleship is christened
at Seattle Wash.
She Toox rne water Eleven Minutes Be.
fore the omciaI Time--No Mishaps
Occurred-Miss Mickey the sponsor.

Seattle, Wash. The battleship Ne
braska tore loose from the checks that
had restrained her and slid swiftly into
the water eleven minutes ahead Of the
time set for her launching.
A great multitude had assembled in
the 5ayIy decked shlpyards Of the Mo
ran Brothers Company to witness the
plunge, which had been scheduled for
2.13 o'clock. The Nebraska is the first
| battleship constructed on the Pacific
Coast north of San Francisco, and all
the leading army and State officials in
the forts West were on hand, in addi-
ton to all Seattle and sightseers from
all over the State and far beyond its
borders.
Governor John Ell. Mickey, Of Nebras-
ka. and his party were chatting on a
stand erected near the ways. Attor-
ney General Prout had finished an ora
ton, and Congressman Humphreys
was preparing to deliver one in turn.
Miss Mary Main Mickey the Govern
or's daughter, to whom had fallen the
honor Of naming Uncle Sans newest
warship, was receiving instructions
from the shipyard officials as to how
, she was to perform the ceremony.
W0rkmen below were weakening the
supports in preparation for the signal
to release the steel-clad monster.
OF a sudden the noise of saw and
hammer and the hum of the great ami
mated crowd were dominated by an
omin0us cracking and swapping Of tim
bers. Warning shouts rose from the
workmen deep down in the network Of
the ways. The battleship began to
move, gathering momentum as she
went.
'sWhoar' yelled the yard officials
helplessly.
A great roar went up from the crowd:
"She's off She's OFF,
Quick as fash Miss Mickey grasped
the beribboned champagne bottle, and,
darting forward, hurled it against the
hull, crying as she did so:
Il name thee Nebraskal God speed
thee for the honor Of the Nation and OF
our dear State
As the foaming wine spattered over
the steel cheer, started by the Gov.
ernor, was taken up by the other in.
vited guests, and the immense crowd.
Hats We're flung into the air, flags and
handkerchiefs waved and fiuttered, and
the bandsmen in attendance, having
recovered from their surprise, grasped
their instruments and joined in the
ovation with the strains Of '',The Star.
Spangled Banner"
The battleship glided calmly out
onto the waters Of Puget Sound with.
out single mishap to dampen the en-
thusiasm evoked by her premature
plunge.
The battleship Nebraska has a dis
placement Of $4,000 tons; her length is
AL feet 3 inches; beam, rs feet 215
inches; draught, % feet 9 inches; indi-
Gated horse power. 10000 and speed,
10 knots. Her main battery consists of
four Pinch guns, eight 8-inch and
twelve 6-inch guns.
In her secondary battery she carries
fourteen 3-inch guns, twelve 3-pound-
ers. sixteen small guns and four 21-
inch torpedo tubes.
She has two superposed turrets and
two waist turrets. Her armor con-
sIsts Of belt eight feet wide and two
inches thick.
She will have a complement of forty
officers and 772 men.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
KILLED HIs COMPANION.
Fatal Shooting While Two Young Men
Were Cunning For Ducks.

Bath, Me.-Jerzy Hall was killed in
stantly at o'cloeg a. m. by his COM
panion, William Palmer, while cunning
for ducks in Merry ALesting Bay. The
young men We're out scwlling in small
boat. Both had agr-A$d that Hall
should fire the first shot and Palmer
should fire two. AS PalWer went to
discharge the second barrel Of his
gun Hall suddenly lifted hts head, re-
ceiving the full force of the discharge
In the back of the skull.
Palmer was nearly overcome by the
accident, but managed to scuii about
two miles to shore. Hall was tweAaty-
one years old. He was general favor
lite about the city. Palmer Is only
seventeen years of age and is nearly
crazy with grief
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
FOREIGN.

General H0seyawa, who is return
Ing to Korea. Is expected either to dis
band the Korean army or place it I'm.
der Japanese command
King Leopold of Belgium was crit
icised for his policy in the Congo Free
State at meeting held in connection
with the International Peace Congress
in Boston. Important resolutions were
adopted.
The Franco-Spanish agreement rel
alive to Morocco was signed at Paris.
Spain adheres to the Anglo French
agreement Of 1904.
Four of the Russian warships in
Port Arthur, it was reported in Toxic,
have been badly damaged by shells
from the Japanese siege guns, and one
Of these vessels was said to be
wrecked.
Further retrenchment is being
planed in the Japanese prefectural
expenses already reduced $4,000 600
since the beginning of the war.
Count Olxuma. in Toxic. told the
United Clearing Houses of Japan that
the Germany Emperor was counting
In favor Of Russia, and babe them
prepare for long war.
The Norwegian bark Sir John Tau
renee, from London, England, struck
sunken rocks Off the coast of Norway.
and the crew OF fourteen men were all
drowned.
Engagements between outposts were
reported through st. Petersburg. The
japanese were forced back ait Hunli-
pou; the Russians at the Yental mines.
Basle's Theatre, the finest in swift
zerland, a cable dispatch states, was
destroyed by fire.
Russian war Office believes Japanese
are preparing for general advance
on Mukden.
M. Guyot, the French statesman, in
an interview, praised the Monroe Doc.
trine and called the American peril
economically beneficial.
Chinese bandits under Japanese OH
GERS are said to be opposing Russians.
A Somaii Mullah is reported from
Alden, Arahia, to have attacked and
robbed the Ogadain tribe, killing 60l
men.
Ambassador Mccormick will sail fol
home on October IA, and expects to BIZ
away from ST Petersburg for sia
/ weeks.
Nine Yvette Guilbert, a special cabI.
1 dispatch says, is kept Ia Europe by en-
/ gagements for the next six months.
4 Desperate attacks BY the Russianl
1 to retalze positions captured BY iii
/ japanese, thus Insulting q Mater sup
! Ply, are reported
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
T.. F. Loree, executive head of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail-
road, resigned.
A whale rammed and sank schoon-
er in the North Atlantic, the crew es-
Gaping.
In the arrest of Thomas Dugan New
York detectives believed they caught
thief who robbed banks by using
the garb Of clergyman, and who is
wanted for swindling the Peoples Ma
ti0nal Bank of Boston.
Six men were buried by the caving
in of mine in Georgia.
A crowd of a thousand persons
chased for a mile through Brooklyn,
N. T., streets negro who had stabbed
woman.
The Supreme Court of Alabama rem
dered a decision which leaves one
third Of the State without courts.
Rear-Admiral Rodgers retired, and
Rear-Admiral Coghlan took command
at the New York Navy Yard.
New York Day at the st. Louis Ex-
position was appropriately celebrated.
A Coroner's Jury found that an I'M
known person or persons shot to death
Frank j. McNally. saloonkeeper, Of
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, sculptor
of the Statue of Liberty, in New York
Harbor, died in Paris, France, aged
seventy years.
1t was announced at Hartford, Conn.,,
that by the will of Miss Maria Terry.
who died in Venice, Italy, recently, the
Hartford Hospital would receive about
100000.
in the bottom Of the battleship Con-
necticut in the latest attempt to wreck
her was the work Of some person or
persons on the outside Of the ship.
Governor Odell and his staff were in
St. Louis to participate in the observ-
ance Of New York State Day at the
Fair.
BY the will of IT, G. Vets Yale Uni
versity obtained for Sheffield Scientific
School $250,000.
]. q. Schermerhorn, of New York,
announced that his son Amos was OPP
Grating the automobile of Hugh Cur
ney, the British Embassy's Third Sec
rotary, in Stoekbridge, Mass, on the
occasion of the alleged violation Of
speed ordinance.
To great throng in Trinity Church
the Archbishop Of Canterbury preached,
enjoining upon the strong and sue
cessful the duty Of caring for and up
lifting the weak and poor.
/ The Salvation Army has inetaIlad n
store in New York City at which man
or woman may purchase complete
bridal outfit Of clothes for ninety mine
cents and another where furniture for
three-room fiat may be had for So.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
Prominel / People.

King Edward VII. goes 70 church
regularly
Dr. Jameson, the Cape Of Good Hope
Premier. is now in London.
Justice Wills. Of Great Britain, Is
said to contemplate retirement.
Edward 81. Hartman went to Wall
Street as a broker while in his teens.
Friends Of lord Curzon predict that
he VIII vet be the Grand Lama Of TT
bet
Admiral George Dewey recently com
pleted fifty years active service Id the
United States Navy
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
From the Seat Of war.

Four warships bought from Argen-
tine BY Russia arrived at Libau.
Shanghai sent report that the Port
Arthur heet would attempt to reach
Using Chau.
SIX Russian generals and thirty nine
held officers were among the killed or
wounded ait Liaoyang
The Russian auxiliary cruisers st.
Petersburg and SmoIensk reached Suex
and entered the canal.
Reports from Yladivostok says the
Russian cruisers Bogatyr. Rossla and
Grcnobol are 1T for service again.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
The National Game.

McGraw says there is still ten years
of fast bali in Dahlen.
Manager Selee signs for one more
leading high-class batsman like Frank
Chance.
Barney Dreyfuss is ready to buy
Catcher Peitz If Cincinnati is tired Of
the veteran.
The Cleveland Club has gotten Out
fielder Claude Rossman back from the
Holyoke Club
Grlmshaw, the new Boston player.
has hit for 31t fos BuTalo, and is the
anlv 800 man nn the team.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
eE5. &c ne
We,ek3
WASHINGTON.

Thomas A. Edison caused the Post
Office to issue fraud order against his
sons company.
President Roosevelt, acting on Sec
rotary Hays advice, decided not to
call a congress Of peace until the end
ofsthe Japanese War. Then It may be
asked to meet in Washington.
Miss o. 4. Cameron, employed as a
copyist in the Patent Office, has estab-
lished a new speed record by writing
$4,000 words on a typewriter in a de-
partmental day of seven hours. The
previous record was held by Miss Mary
Briefly, who copied $1,000 words in
seven hours.
A wireless message from the iceland
summoned Washington doctor to at
tend Miss Henrietta Seawell, sister of
Miss Molly Seawell, author.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
Newsv Gleanings.

Locusts have become plague III
Spain.
British coal is now shipped to Jeru-
salem.
The war has already cost Japan
$500, 100000.
Many people were killed this year In
gathering edelweiss on the Alps,
Ex-senator wi 4. Chandler broke an
arm trying TO start his automobile at
Warner. n. Fl.
Ia q tlt Of melanchoIla Mrs. Bessie
Peck drowned her three-y ear-old
daughter and herself at Kansas City.
no.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
Seven Men Lost with Bridge

Seven men are missing Of party on
eight who went down with the wagon
bridge between Lexington, Oklahoma,
and Purcell, after battling with the
swift rush of water for many hours
in a vain attempt to prevent the bridge
from being carried away. The bridge
was the only connection between tEE
two towns.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
Higgins Notified.

AT Olean, N. Y, Lieutenant-G Governor
Frank w. Higgins, the Republican
candidate for Governor Of New York,
and his associates on the ticket chosen
at the Saratoga convention were for
mally notified Of their nomination. The
ceremonies took place at Mr.. Higgins
home at 4 O'clock D. m.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

Governor Winthrop's policy to in
sure an honest election in Porto Rico
has been approved by the Executive
Council, which has appointed 1347
election judges to bipartisan boards.
The Republicans bitterly oppose this
action, asserting that as they are the
dominant party they are entitled to a
majority Of the judges. They also OBJ
ject to Americans acting as judges Of
elections. The action of the council
insures impartiallty.
All but one Of the visiting Filipino
delegates on return home favored inn
mediate steps toward independence.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
KOREANS MUST GET HAIR CUTS.
Imperial Edict Issued Aimed at For
eign Office officials.

Toxic, Japan.--A dispatch from Seoul
says that an imperial edict has been
issued commanding the officials con-
nected with the Korean Foreign Office
to cut their hair short.
Another edict announces that owing
to the treasury being empty the Gov
eminent intends to borrow 10000, 900
yen in Japan. Capitalists will shortly
start for Korea to investigate mining
banking and other prospects.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11

Fifty passengers were thrown into
panic when the ferryboat Hamburg, of
the Lackawanna line, collided with the
tugboat w. Cleary, in the Hudson
River between New York City and
Jersey City.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
SENATOR HoAR BURIED.

ing House in Concord, Mass.
Concord, Mass. lin the historic Meet
ing House Of the First Parish Of Con-
cord, where George r. Hoar worshiped
as young man and which he always
revered, the last services over his body
were held. The burial was in the fam
lily lot In Sleepy Hollow Cemetery,
where so many of ConcOrd's eminent
men and women are inferred.
During the hours Of the service bust
ness was suspended, while the schools
and public library closed for the after
noon, and all the flags were at half
mast.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
MONT PELEE ACTIVE AGAIN.

Captain Of British Steamer Reports
Seeing an Eruption From His Vessel.
Kingstown, st. Vincent. The captain
Of the British steamer Sibun, which ar
rived here, reports that when the
steamer passed Martinique, Mont Pelee
was in full eruption. The spectacle
was witnessed by those on board the
Sibun at 2 o'clock ON the morning of
the day mentioned. The volcano emit
ted tremendous black clouds and balls
of fire. This accounts for the dust
clouds reported to have been seen
throughout the Windward Islands.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
Mayor Mcclellan Sued.

Hal Bell, ex-CiyiI Service Commits
sioner, sued Mayor Mcclellan, Of New
York City, for damages for alleged
Islander contained In Colonel McCleI-
lan's letter to him in connection with
the dismissal of the board
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11

Amundsen's Expedition Safe.
Cptain Amundsen's expedition, which
left Chrlstiania in 1908 to reach the
North Pole. was reported in safety
from Davis Strait.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
Harcourt,s Body Buried.

The body Of Sir William Vernon
Harcourt was buried privately in the
family vault at Nuneham, Oxford, Eng
land Memorial services were held in
London.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
special Low Rate via the Nickel Plate
Road

To points In the West and South
west. Round trip Housekeepers' and
One-way coionist tickets on sale March
18th ana April 9th and 18th. Also Set
tiers 0ne-Way tickets to points In
Minnesota, North and South Dakota
and Wyoming, each Tuesday during
March and APRIL Write r. e. Payne,
General Agent, 29l Main street, Buff
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
Flood IN Texas.

Thousands Of acres of cotton lands
~ Texas were under water from an
overflow Of the Pecos River Farmers
were driven from home and much live.
stock was drowned.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11

Postmaster-G General Payne Buried.
The body Of Secretary Payne, late
Postmaster General, was buried al
Milwaukee, Wis.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
Russian Steamer Destroyed.

The Japanese Navy Department re-
ported the destruction of another Rus
sian steamer used in clearing mines
from Port Arthur entrance.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
More Shins For Ianan.

1t was reported that the Japanese
Government has decided to place at
once contracts for twenty warships,
some of them in the United States.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11

Porter Expresses Our sympathy.
Ambassador Porter has expressed to
Nine. Bartholdi the sympathy of the
United States upon the death of her
husband, the late NJ. Bartholdi, sculp-
tor Of the Statue of Liberty" in New
York Harbor.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
HURT IN TROLLEY ACCIDENT.
Car Runs Away at the Top of Steep
Hill and Jumps Into Creek.

Hill and Jumps Into a Greek.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y Six persons
were injured, three seriously, in a troll
ley runaway accident at Highland, OPP
posite this city. A car on the Highland
division of the New Paltz Traction
Company's lines became unmana geable
at the top Of steep hill and jumped
over twenty-foot embankment into a
creek.
1t is said that the sand box did not
work. The brakes were tightly locked
when the rescuers came upon the
scene. The indignation against the
company in that vicinity was intense.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11

Early in May, 1902, Mont Pelee broke
into violent eruption, wiplng out the
city OF st. Pierre and damaging other
towns near by. The loss of life on
that occasion was estimated at 10000.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11

Mouse Scares Hundred Women.
A mouse put 100 women to flight in
the Grand Central Station, New York
City.
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Carnegie Writes Peace Congress.
Andrew Carnegie sent letter to the
international Peace Congress, in Bos-
ton, Mass, advocating trust Of world
Powers to enforce universal peace.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
Floods Destroy Road.

Five miles of Santa Fe Railroad
tracks in New Mexico were destroyed
by floods. Twenty lives were lost.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
Big Japanese Loss.

Twenty thousand Japanese fell in the
latest Intellectual attempt to storm Port
Arthur
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y : - III q Ut = tIIVI At 15UIIVu
The funeral Of the late Postmaster.
General Payne was held at Washing
ton, p. @. President and Mrs. Roose-
Welt sat with Mrs. Payne at the ser.
vice.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
.Archhishon of york Hooted.

The Archbishop of York, bishops and
clergy were hooted in the streets of
Liverpool, Eng, by the followers Of the
late John Kensit.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11

$4,000 For Foreign Missions.
The Christian and Missionary ALI
ance received pledges for $TO,700 for
foreign missions.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
Princess Louise Sane

Princess Louise of Coburg was pro-
nounced entirely sane by an alienist OF
Rome, Italy, DR.. Bossi.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
HeaYy storm Abont Honduras.

Advices to Mobile, Ala, tell OF a
heavy storm and cloudburst. practi-
cally destroying the banana crop
around Puerto Cortez, Honduras.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11

Count Okuma predicted that the war
with Russia will last two years and
will cost Japan 81 600, O00, 900.
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Eleven Hurt in Wreck.
Eleven men were injured in the Erie
wreck at Port Jervis, N. X.
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wreck on Augusta Southern.

A passenger train plunged through
burning trestle on the Augusta
Southern. One man was killed and
eight others were hurt.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11
Carnegie to Be Honored.

On Andrew Carnegie will be con-
ferred the Bessemer medal, which has
been given to but Ave Americans.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-10-11

Eleven soldiers were killed and many
injured by the blowing up of maya.
zine in a Belgian fort
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King Peter Of Servia was amounted
at zicha by the Metropolitan with i'm.
posing religious ceremonies.
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In Long Message TO His Soldiers He
Praises Their Past ETorts and Proph-
estes Coming Victories Large Re-
Inducements Give Aided Strength to
the Cars Already Huge Armies.