Evening journal., 1904-08-30
Tiff WORLDS NEWS
ME wAR.

Japanese attack SOulN OF LldogdNHs lut
days dispatches throw no light on
events about the city. The Russians
occupy a semi circle with a radius
of about six miles from Llaoyang. and
are said to be awaiting battle. A fur
ther retreat northward, however, is
possible.
The Japanese have resumed the as
sault upon Port Arthur.
The steamship Arabia is at Shanghai,
having been released by the Russians
at Vladivostok.
The British cruisers from Cape Of
Good Hope are reported TO have over
hauled one Of the Russian cruisers
which have been stopping shipping Off
the African coast.
The Russian cruiser Don is in the
port Of Vigo, Spain, and has demanded
five days In which to make repairs.
Madrid officials have been called upon
to pass upon what threatens to be
breach of neutrality.
WASHINGTON.
Complaint was made 60 the Inter-
Stale Commerce Commission Of dis
elimination by the Southern and Sea-
board Air Line Railroad Companies
others in the same State.
POLITICAL.
Senator Fairbanks. Republican Vice
Presidential candidate. made his first
speech of this campaign at White River
Junction, VI
Chairman Babcock, of the Repubn-
can Congressional Committee, declared
that this is the closest Congressional
campaign since 1898.
The Democratic organization COM
pleted arrangements for the fall cam
paign, and set September 10 as the date
for the primaries.
Senator Latimsr, of South Carolina,
visited Rosemount and conferred with
Judge Parker.
FOREIGN.
The Haitian Chamber of Com
lmunes again placed blame for the de-
terioration Of public finances on NJ.
Bijou. Minister of Finance.
Reduction of government subsidies
to mail-carrying steamship companies
tied up by the strike of Marseilles dock
laborers may compel companies to
yield.
Bgr. Geay Bishop of Laval, who fig
ured in the French-Vatican rupture,
has gone incognito to Rome to submit
himself to the Church
Binang. a city of 1000 inhabitants,
Island of Luzon, Philippines. was de-
stroyed by fire. one hundred perished,
| five thousand were rendered homeless.
The American school for boys at
Erzeroum, Turkey, was destroyed by
fire due, it is believed. to accident.
The photographer Rocchiggiani, ar
rested in connection with theft from
Cathedral of Ascon Of priceless cope,
which came into possession of J. Pier
pont Morgan, committed suicide in his
cell.
Professor jerks, Of Cornell, is home
ward bound from China after efforts to
impress upon that country the wisdom
Of adopting the gold standard.
! Paraguayan rebels are preparing for
a land attack on government forces,
and are rapidly gaining ground.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The imminence of a collision between
automobiles at Newport caused Miss
Alice r Roosevelt to faint.
Citizens of Menominee, Mich, are to
lpre.ent Miss Gertrude Sawyer with a
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Bay, that State.
Creditor banks petitioned for re-
ceiver to take charge Of all the assets
! Of Thomas f. Waggaman, treasurer OF
the Catholic University of America.
In "A sermon at the University of Chi
cago Professor Mahany, of the Uni
versity of Dublin, declared that Chris
| ltian beliefs were traceable to ancient
nations and the writings in the Bible
to heather sources.
The International Dental Congress
assembled in st. Louis.
Mayor +. e. Eatonhead, retired
larmy officer, committed suicide in De-
troit.
The North Atlantic fleet of battle
ships arrived off Martha's Vineyard
after cruise in European waters.
Rev. 4. $. Leland and two other mer
were arrested at Cripple Creek, Col.
lin connection with an assault upon the
sheriff and his deputies.
Christian Becker, who masquerade
las "A woman for twenty years and was
lonce a cook i'm President Roosevelt'
family. was sentenced 10 four months
i'm the penitentiary after trial in New
Rochelle. n. Y.
Richard Siegman, a stockholder, filed
suit at Trenton, n. j., charging MartiI
Maloney and other Directors of thu
Electric Vehicle Company with illegally
declaring dividends amounting to SION
500.
The District Court, i'm Denver, over
ruled the motion Of Mrs. Genevieve c
lPhpps to quash the summons in he
husbands suit for divorce.
Chicago meat packers again refused
Ito treat with strike leaders.
, Copper sulphate will be tested for de
struction OF algae and disease germ
lin water supply of Washington City.
A. L. Scott, negro murderer, died II
Jail at Fitzgerald, Ga, as a mob wa
lcrying for his life. He had been NOR
tally wounded I'm resisting arrest.
Camps of several summer resident
on the upper Saranac Lake, in the Adj
rondaclSs. have been ransacked by rob
'bers.
Postal inspectors assert that Mis-
Grace Decker, former postmistress o
a Staten Island village, opened letter
and hid them.
Five Pennsylvanians fall heir t
$3.50 600 of Jacob NJ. Funk's estate q
, Iowa.
Railroad Man Thrown from Car.
Being thrown from tricycle. car o