New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-01
Gxlp-llprk Zlssiln G4ibmits
MONDAY. AUGUST !, 1904.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.


FoREIGN.-Heavy fighting has been going on
for two days, dispatch from New-Chwang
Gays. between q force Of FIVE thousand Russians.
forming the rear guard Of the army in retreat
10 Hai-Cheng, and the troops OF General Oku.
&C. Chinese reports are 10 the effect that the
forts on Golden Hill alone remain in the pos
session Of the Russians. -- The Russian gen
eral stan made the announcement that the Jap
nnese were still eight or ten miles from the fort
ress and that none Of the land defences had been
taken. 49, General SakharOff reported no
change in the Russian main positions though
the japanese were concentrating on the south
srn front. =-= The body OF NJ. PlehYe the Rus
sian Minister of the Interior vas buried At St
Petersburg with impressive ceremonies; the En-
peror was present At the funeral service; II IS
expected that a successor to the murdered Min
sister viii be soon chosen. -= The text or the
French note severing relations with the Vatican
was made public: MOnsignor LorenZelli. the
Papai Huncio. has left Paris for Rome. go
The British Minister al Caracas has strongly
protested. in The name Of English bondholders,
Egsinst the seizure of asphalt property --
The German Minister AT Caracas is said 10 have
presented an ultimatum demanding payment
OF interest on the award made in 1913.
DOAIESTIC-Orders have been given for
S50OisOO worth of supplies for the Hartman
railroad lines; these include sixty thousand tons
OF steel rails at 81 ton and one thousand steel
cars. == Train robbers dynamted TWO cars on
Rock Island train II New-MeXico; posse IS
pursuing the men. Chief Judge Parker at
F,sopus pass.d the quiefest dav since his nom
1nation; he attended church in Kingston with
members Of his family; il was announced that
DIS GlOlnef MOulQ remain AZ ftOSeinConl ugll
after the notification on August 10. == The
steamer City Of Rockland, which went aground
Eear Rockland, Ne, was foated in the teeth of
dangerous southwest gale. and was beached for
temporary repairs. The third annual Old
Home week opened IN Massachusetts. -=- Five
services wsCe held at the Bible Conference at
East Mortified. Mass. -= The engagement of
q Belgian count and a Philadelphia girl was
announced al Bar Harbor. =- Ex-Governor
Patrisor Of Pennsylvania Is critically Ill with
pneumonia. complicated by heart trouble
CITY-Archer NJ Huntington. it was learned
has founded the Hspanic Society Of America:
ne plans 10 erect building in Audubon Park
in which he will house his rare Spanish treas
ures. and TO which the public viii have access.
- There was talk Of a big lockout TO intro
duce the open shop in the building trades. ==
The legs Of a man who was caught between
train and the platform al the One-hundred-
and-twenty-seventb-s station Of the Second
the pueilist, at the cali Of q priest. carried a
sick woman, weighing 100 pounds, down a flight
Of stairs to an ambulance. == woman who
lives AT the Hotel Endicott said she might
formerly occupied by ". c. Whitney. -
Magistrate Crane discharged thirty-four pris-
oners because the policemen who arrested them
were not on hand 10 make the complaints =
The noise made by a butcher in cleaning his
block caused the police TO hunt for a murder.
drowning. === DIR. Dean Richmond Ba bbitt
declared the public's rights were violated when
strikes occurred that involve the neCessaries Of
life. == Much excitement was caused AZ
church fire in Brooklyn, the reserves being COM
PEELED TO use their clubs on the Italian parish
ioners.
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for TO-DAY:
The temperature yesterday: Highest. s. degrees;
lowest, 40.