The leader., 1904-09-03
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
AND FOLrrTCAI.,

worlds lair, talked ngures TO the
American Institute of Bank Clerks, on
the 25th. He conflded to them that the
daily cost Of operating the plant Is
SS1 900, and that, including the repay
ment of the government loan at the
rate of 100000 every two weeks, the
diurnal cost is $65,000.
The Harvard club, Of San Francisco,
has awarded to Yasunosuke Fukukita,
Japanese graduate Of Stanford uni
versity, scholarship at Harvard uns-
versity.
A battle, which was begun, on the
Gath, between the japanese and Rus
SLAMS to the southeast of Lao Yang.
was still in progress on the night of
the 26th. The Japanese. at last ac-
counts, were advancing from three di-
reotions along the entire line Of the
Russian eastern front, and the advance
was being stubbornly resisted
Philip Weinseimer, president OF the
New York Building Trades alliance,
was arrested, ON the Goth, on a new
indictment charging extortion. 1t is
alleged that he squeezed $500 out Of q
contractor not to call strike.
Salvador Carrasco, the Philippine
constabulaTy sergeant who committed
suicide, because of inconsistencies, at
the Worlds fair, was buried with mill
itary -honors in the jefferson Barracks
cemetery on the 26th.
Jose Pardo, who was elected presi-
dent of Peru in June last, will be in
augurated September "a.
David B. Hill, in conversation with
friends in Albany, N. Y, on the 2Sth,
announced that ne intends to retire
from politics January /. next.
August Moller, Jr., American vice
consul to Chile, is dead.
An imperial decree has been pub
hshed that, in commemoration of the
cZarOvitdh'S birth, sum of money
shall be assigned from the imperial
privy purse of Russia sufficient ito
found IL scholarships
Blinded by the dust of his opponents
machine, Barney Oldfeld, professional
racing chauffeur, drove his automobile
at a 60-mile-an-hour rate through the
fence at the Fair grounds track in ST.
Louis, ON the 18th, before $4,000 per-
sons, killing one man, fatally injuring
another, and sustaining slight injuries
himself. His machine was practically
demolished
Vala, considered the most valuable
Aberdeen Angus cow In the country, and
lJ1kSI Sotf mn ri ah laH To
on the 28th, She was owned by w. B.
Seeley, of Mount Pleasant, La, who
was shipping her from the Iowa state
fair at Des Moines, to the Minnesota
stats fair.
John Mitchell, president of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America, arrived
in New York on the American liner st.
Paul, on the 27tt, after a two months
sojourn abroad.
At Helena, Mont, on the goth, James
w. Hathaway, postmaster of the house
Of representatives Of the Fifty-1rst
congress, died. aged 60 years.
Mayor Rolla Wells of St. Louis, at
the head Of delegation Of Worlds
fair officials, called on Mayor Harri-
son Of Chicago, on the 29th, to ask the
mayors attendance at the exposition
on October 8, which has been oficially
designated Chicago Day" The invita-
tion was accepted.
Gen. Kuropatkin's army, after hav-
ing fallen back and concentrated on
Lao Yang, which is. said to have
been deliberately fortified, was report
ed, on the 18th, to have begun to re-
tire on Mukdsp,. 1t being said that
Lao lang lay too low for successful
defense.
Gen. Stoessel, commander of the
Russian military forces at Port Ar
thur, has reported to the emperor that
the garrison has already suffered Sc
verely, and intimating that it is hard
iy possible to hold out for more than
a month or six weeks.
B. w. Snow, the Chicago crop ex-
pert, estimates the years wheat crop
at little over 500,000,000 bushels and
the corn crop at 100000 bushels
Threshing returns show much of the
wheat shrunken from rust in Ohio,
Indiana. Michigan and Nebraska. and
bleached or otherwise damaged by
harvest rains in Missouri and Kansas
Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, re-
publican candidate for vice-president
of the United States, delivered the first
Icrmal speech of the campaign at
White river Junction, VT, on the 29th.
A large crowd from Windsor county
and from western New. Hampshire was
present.