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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09
DEATH GRAPPLE
ON At MtkDEN
The Japanese and Russian
Forces Close Once
More.
GEN. KUR0KI IS IN ACTION
Is Trying to Intercept the Russian
Retreat-Presumed That Japanese
Are Making Final Effort to Annihi.
late Russian Rear Guard.

Paris, Sept. S-The st. Petersburg
correspondent of the Echo De Palisl
says: "A great battle is going on be-
fore Mukden. The First and Seven.
teenth corps are engaged against
General Kuroki.
General Kuropatkin with the bulk
Of his troops is moving toward Tieh-
ling"
st. Petersburg, Sept. Seen. Kuro-
patkin has arrived at Mukden.
st Petersburg, Sept. S.-From the
latest advices received by the war.
Office the authorities now believe that
the danger of Field Marshal Oyama
cutting off Kuropatkin has practically
passed. According to their calcula-
lions the whole Russian army should
reach Mukden today. Generals Kuro-
XII and Kuropatkin have been march
ing northward along parallel lines,
both armies being greatly hampered
by heavy roads, the Japanese in
rough region and the Russians along
fiat country.
St. Petersburg, Sept. S.-The bulk
of the Russian Manchurian army is
near Mukden, where, 1t now appears
General Kuropatkin has been since
Monday. His troops, it is under
stood, are not entering the city, but
are taking up prepared positions
around Mukden. While there is no
specific information on this point the
general staff believes that only a
small rear guard is in the neighbor-
hood of Yentai. No further fighting
of Importance is expected south of
Mukden. The critical stage is re.
garded as having passed and the an.
nouncement was made this afternoon
that the war office will no longer give
out two bulletins each day.
Toxic, Sept. 8.-No Official report
of the subsequent movements Of Gen.
eral Kuropatkin has been received,
but the Kokumin says it learns on
good authority that Kuroki, after tax.
ing the heights near Hell Ying Tai,
about fifteen miles northeast of Lao
Yang, occupied line from Yen Tai
to the mines by hot pursuit Of the
Russian on September and S. The
Russians, who are said to be concen.
II oICU k~SuLJ mllcS uOTlu VI xIl6O
Yang. are now retreating In the direc
ton Of Mukden. The pursuit was oh.
structed by the high millet. The
Russians destroyed their stores, but
numbers OF guns and quantities Of am.
munition and other supplies were cap
tured In the Notifications and near
the railroad station. The Nichi-Nichl
says it thinks the japanese casual.
ties may exceed those of the Rus.
SLAMS, owing to the latter having &C.
cupied fortified positions in superior
numbers.
The mikado has congra tulated the
forces on their brilliant victory in the
face of tremendous difficulties, adding
that the end of the war is still in the
distant future, and exhorting care
and patience.
Preliminary preparations for the
national guard were gazetted yeste>
day.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09
GIRL DIES OF TRIchINoSIS.
Unusual MaIady Attacks Jefferson
Family.

Jefferson, Sept THE death OF
Miss Kate Conant near this city mark.
ed the end of rare malady in Greene
county medical jurisprudence. The
young lady was afflicted with trichin-
osis, or pork poisoning, caused by
eating some ham which had not been
sufficiently cooked. She was i'll with
the strange disease about four months
and was the only one of the family to
die, although all were poisoned at
the time. Several consultations were
had upon her case by we'll known med.
ical men. They found the germs in
the form of little worms thoroughly
permeating the flesh, every tissue OF
the body seeming to be so filled with
them that medicine could almost avail
nothing. After heroic treatment they
disappeared into the joints, and hope
was had that she would recover. The
long strain was too much, however,
and friends and relatives were ob:igeu
to give up a long and severe battle
against the death angel. Rarely a
case has been cured, and then by
keeping up the patients strength un-
til the little worms had become en-
cysted and thereby rendered power.
less from further evil.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09
JAPANESE KILLED BY MINE.
Entire Column Of 700 Men Said to
Havo Been AnnlhiIated.

Che Foo, Sept. "a Japanese COL
umn numbering approximately 700
men, while marching along at night
on a road in the valley between Long
Hill and Division Hill, met frightful
disaster through the explosion of an
electric land mine, September i.
The mine was carefully laid by the
Russians three weeks ago. 1t covered
nearly a mile Of available marching
space. The explosive was placed at
the bottom. Rocks were placed next,
and on top of these clay was packed
SO carefully that the ground gave the
impression Of not having been dis
ttrbed. The indications of Japanese
activity In this vicinity put the Rus.
slams on guard. Near midnight the
outposts rushed in and reported that
the Japanese were approaching. The
Russians withheld their fire for some
time. Suddenly they threw search.
light up the valley. The Japanese
opened with rife fire. The Rus
SLAMS waited until apparently the
whole Japanese column was in dan
ger zone. Then the mine was ex-
pIodeI.
The force Of the explosion Knocked
number Of Russians down and the
sight OF Japanese rifles, water bot
ties, legs and arms hurting through
the lighted space made by search
light was an awful spectacle. Some
rocks landed inside the Russian lines.
There was one appalling moment
during which the garrison itself was
stunned, then death like silence.
The searchlight coldly lighted up the
road and hillsides strewn with dead
Tho following day the Russians
buried the dead, but owing to their
dismembered and mutilated condition,
the Russians were unable to accurate
ly estimate the number of killed. A
few Japanese escaped.
The foregoing Information is con.
tanned In small sheet issued Sep
TENDER by the Port Arthur Novakra,
a breakage in the press having made
1t impossible to issue full edition.
A Chinese arriving at midnight
confirms the above to tho extent Of
saying that he heard a report that
many Japanese had been killed by a
mine, but he did not learn the details.
On the nights Of August 26 and ~
similar disaster befell the Japanese
near rodut number 2. It is reported,
but no details have been ascertained.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09
JUDGE OLIVER OBJECTS.
Wants $4,000 Damages in Case Big
Ditch Goes Through.


Onawa, Sept. 7.-Addison Oliver has
fled claim fer damages in case the
Monona-Harrison county ditch is es-
tablished amounting to $4,000. The
judge objects to taking his land for
the proposed improvements and ques.
lions the right, power and authority
of this tribunal to take the same IN.
der these proceedings and the regu-
larity, legality and constitutionality
thereof; that said land, he claims, is
improved, used and occupied as a sin
gle stock farm and the wet and over
flowed lands are especially valuable
for grass, hay and pasture ir connec.
ton with the tillable lands He al.
leges that the lakes thereon are OF
real value for hunting, fishing and
ice, and as barriers against stock
answering the purposes of fences in
dividing the hay and pasture lands;
also that the natural and probable eff.
feet of the proposed ditch or change
of the West Fork river will greatly
increase the frequency, duration and
extent of the overflow on said lands,
and other reasons are given in the
typewriter pages of objections.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09
PREDICTS $40 wHEATINAY YEAR
Ex-senator Washburne, Of Minnesota,
Says Price Must Rise.

Ex-senator Washburne, Of Minnesota,
Says Price Must Rise.
New York, Sept. 9.-That wheat
will reach a price Of $1.20, If not high
er, was the confident assertion OF
former United States Senator w. d.
Washburn of Minnesota, who arrived
here on the steamship Minneapolis
from London. He said that prices IN
breadstuffs would increase throughout
the world.
I'm the United States" he said. THE
shortage will be heavy. I estimate
the worlds shortage OF wheat will
amount to 200,0e0,0oo bushels, OF
which this country Will suffer one
half. This means higher prices for
foodstuffs. and probably $3.50 or high.
er for wheat. The foreign demand
probably will be heavier than we can
supply"
The steamship Minneapolis and the
Holland-Amerfcan liner Ryndam were
in almost constant wireless commun-
ication during the trip and on Sep
TENDER 3 chess game was played
between the passengers of the two
boats. resulting in draw.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09
JAPANESE ACTIVE
ABOUT MUKDEN
Movement to North Causes
the Russians Much
Anxiety.
Is SHROUDED IN MYSTERY
There is Still Lively Anticipation Of
Great Battle - Reported, Without
Confederation, Gen. kuroki Has
Been Killed and Generals Captured

Mukden, Sept. 9.-The terrible
rains hinder the movement of both
armies, but there is an interesting
movement toward Telling, north OF
Mukden.
st. Petersburg, Sept. "a dispatch
from General Kuropatkin, timed $50
o'clock Wednesday evening, was re-
ceived yesterday. He reported that
General Kuroki's army was about
twenty-seven miles eastward Of the
railroad, and that General Oku's army
was twenty miles west Of the railroad.
The general staff expects that bat
tie will be fought.
Mukden, Wednesday, Sept. T.
News of fight at some point between
Sahke-eleven miles northwest Of
Lao Yang-and Mukden is hourly
expected.
Among the reports current here is
one to the effect that General Kuroki
has been killed and that two Japan
csc generals have been made prison
ers, but no one seems to know where
the reports originated and no confir-
nation is obtainable.
St. Petersburg, Sept 9.-General
Kuropatkin's official report, sent
from Mukden during the evening Of
yesterday, announcing that the whole
of his army had arrived at Mukden
and was taking up position around
the city, and adding that the army
had not lost gun during the retreat
relieved the public anxiety and put
an end to the many alarming reports
which had been current here. From
the generals report it seems evident
that Kuropatkin is tentatively pre-
pairing to meet the Japanese again
should Field Marshal Oyama continue
to press northward. Nothing more
important than rear guard action
marked the march to Mukden. The
region south of that city is now clear
Of Russians. 1t is evident that Kuro-
patkin is taking precautions to pre-
vent the Japanese from creeping
around his TANKS as he reports that
the Japanese are scouting wide on his
TANKS. The japanese moved up
about thirty miles on either side OF
the railroad with the view of sur
rounding Mukden, but whether Kuro-
patkin will accept an engagement or
continue northward win probably
depend at the decisive moment up
on the temper and condition of his
troops, who doubtless have been much
shaken by the long fight and the
hardships attendant upon the retreat
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09
FIVE FILLED IN EXPLOSION
Awful Result Of ExpIoslon Of Thresh
ING Steamer.

Mason City, Sept. IA threshing
steamer exploded at the farm Of Geo.
Halverson Monday afternoon and blew
five men q distance Of one hundred
feet in different directions, killing all
and horribly mutilating tho bodies
Abe Foster was blown into the straw
stack and cremated. The other dead
are Peter Daily, Christ Sunke. James
Seymour and Willard Dadlow.
Every man near the steamer was
hurled instantly into eternity. The
cause of the explosion is not known
definitely. The entire neighborhood
is in mourning and five funerals will
be held the same afternoon. 1t Is ex-
pected they will be held from the
same church and that the largest fun
eral attendance in the history Of the
county will be recorded.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09
sToRIETTES.

The presence Of Ethel BarrymorA
here recalls story told Of her father
Maurice Barrymore. 1t Is related that
while Mr.. and Mrs. Barrymore wers
living at the Baldwin Hotel, Barryi
more came home late one night. Al
he opened the door Of their room, Mrs!
Barrymore said: rs that you, ,Naurl
ice?" And Barrymore averted any
possible censure for his late hours by
asking, in that imperturbable way Of
his Whom did you expect, my dear?"
A New York woman, a worshipper
of Emerson, called on the philosopher
one day, and found him in his study
with a plate beside him on which was
a little heap of cherry stones. She
slipped one of these into her glove.
and had it set as the central part o.
a brooch, and surrounded by precious
stones. Meeting Emerson afterwart
she showed him the jewel, and tole
him it's history. "Ah!" said he, "Ir
tel my amanuensis of that He will
be pleased. The young man loves
cherries but l never touch them my.
self"
A politician, upon his arrival az
one Of the small towns in North Da,
kota, where he wasa to make speech
the following day, found that the two
so-called hotels were crowded to the
doors, and was compelled for that
night to sleep on a wire cot which
had only some blankets and asheet on
it. AS the statesman is fat man, hhe
found his improvised bed anything
but comfortable. "Well," asked a
friend, when the politician appeared
in the dining room in the morning,
"how did you sleep?" "Oh, fairly
WE'LL" replied the statesman, non.
chalantly, "but looked like waffle
when l got up"
A New York clergyman, who knew
Bishop Potter's father, thinks that
heredity may have something to do
with the idea that the bishop holds
regarding saloons. The question Of
high license was being discussed
when the elder Potter spoke as fol-
lows: Il don't know what your ex.
perience is, fellow-citizens, but in
tend to stand by mine. When l trav.
ell try to find the most comfortable
inns; and, as between a hotel with
bar and hotel without bar, give
me the former every time. Let others
do as they may; as for me and my
house, we'll keep away from temper.
ance hotels"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09
UP FOR CONTEMPT
Entire Administration of Boone Serv.
ed With Notices.

Entire Administration OF Boone Serv'
ed With Notices.
Boone, Sept. S.-The members OF
the city council, mayor, city treasurer
and city clerk, have been served with
notices in which they are cited to APP
pear before the district court at a.
m. on Tuesday, September 20, to
show cause why they should not be
punished for contempt of court.
Sheriff Foster served the notices on
the defendants in the action which
has created a sensation in the city
On June 7, 1904, Judge Evans issued
a writ of mandamus ordering the city
to pay the costs and judgment in the
Sudduth case The case Is one
for damages due to sewer outlet and
the judgment was for SITS and about
$500 costs,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09
RUSSIAN SHIPS WARNED
Must Not Interfere With Neutral
Shipping,

Zanzibar, Usland OF Zanzibar),
Sept. THE British cruiser Forte
early yesterday morning found the
Russian volunteer fleet steamers 81,
Petersburg and Smolensk within tho
three-mile limit and communicated to
them the orders Of the Russian eov.
eminent to desist from interference
with the neutral shipping. The COM
manders OF the Russian vessels said
they would forthwith proceed to
Europe.
A report was brought in Monday
by the German steamer Kronprinz
that the st. Petersburg and Suol.
ensk were coaling In the territorial
waters. The Forte Immediately pro.
ceeded to search for them and event.
uslly found the Russian vessels. rhey
were not coallng but after the cT,.4,r
Of the Russian government had been
delivered to them the Smolensk and
St. Petersburg Joined a German col.
lier and proceeded to Dar.Es.Selasm
on the African coast, Twenty-Five
miles south of Zanzibar. The Forte
stunned here yesterday afternoon.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09
cRAzED MAN KILLS HIS WIFE
Tells His Son She 10 Sick; Find Body
Of Father Later.

Clarion. Sept 7.-George Kaber,
AGED 50 years, one of Shippervilles
wealthiest citizens. yesterday request
ed his son to go to his mother. saying
she was not feeling we'll. When the
son went to her room he found the
old lady dead in bed with a bullet
hole In her forehead.
A short time later the body of the
father was found lying dead by the
old family spring with a revolver
wound in the side Of the head and the
,a7SSves 81 mr. nlnd.
While Temporarily insane, it is sup
posed that Kaber killed his wife and
then shot himself. The couple had
been married over fifty years. Mrs.
Kaber was "a years of age.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09
Women Decline to Testify.

Davenport, Sept. THE town Of
Buffalo has been agog With excitement
over the alleged attempt Of Gus Ster-
tenbecker, a we'll known resident, to
poison his wife and daughter Mon
day, After a family quarrel the vo-
mon were taken i'll with symptoms
Of arsenical poisoning. A physician
and stomach pump saved their lives.
The incident led to Stortenbecksr's
arrest for attempted homicide. How
ever, his wife and daughter refused
70 testify against him. and the trial,
which was attended by all the people
Of Buffalo. resulted in the discharge
of tho prisoner.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09
SHOT FOUR YEAR OLD SON
Clear Lake Farmer Accidentally Dis.
CHARGES Gum


Clear Lake, Sept. 7.-Albert Roen.
franz, a farmer living eight miles
northwest of this city, accidentally
shot his little 4-year-old boy through
the lung, killing the baby instantly.
A hawk lad been circling about the
chicken pen and the old rusty gun
vas gotten out to kill 1t. The baby
persisted in standing in front of the
gun 10 see it loaded.
The gun was rusty and harl to
break at the breech. His four-year.
old boy was cariously watching his
father load the gun with the shell.
and although his father turned the
u;uzzle sway from Inn the lad would
run around to see how the gun WAS
loaded
Not noticing the boy, he inserted
the shell finally and endeavored to
lock the barrel in place, when the
she'll exploded and the contents tore
away the shoulder and through the
little fellows lung, killing him In.
staN<ly.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09

The Delaware woman who is boast
ing that she has fed family of five
OF n cents day doesn't say so, but
It may be that she substituted saw.
dust for the customary breakfast food
and they didn't know the difference.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09

The editor OF the London Zines has
declined peerage because he wants
to be free from obligations to the gov
eminent and the crown. A good rea-
son. He might have added, however,
that he declined also BECAUSE he
didn't need an American heiress IN his
business. NJ
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09

A noted ornithologist says the 60
called English sparrow is wrongly
named. and that it should be called
the Russian sparrow. But this looks
like trying to pile more trouble on
an already afflicted country.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09
Republican Victory In Vermont

White River Junction, W., Sept. 8.
With only two small towns missing.
the republican plurality of 1880 IN
Tuesdays election is believed to be
within a few votes of the correct
figures. Four years ago 1t was 81.
312. .... a.......
The total vote for governor without
the two towns is: Bell, republican,
1881; Porter, democrat, 1892, re.
publican plurality of 31,44s. The
missing towns gave republican PIN.
rality last year Of So.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09

Naturally the czar doesn't mean to
reform all the evils that exist in Rus.
STA right away. He wants, of course,
to save something to be done when
the royal baby gets tooth.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09
Mere Girl Tries Suicide.

Audubon, Sept. 6.-Ida Livingston,
q 17-year.old girl, attempted to COM
nit suicide at the home of her broth
sr..n.law, William Hughes, near Ross,
By shooting herself with a revolver.
Che viii recover. The cause OF the
act is said to be her inability to get
along with her step parent.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09

In New Jersey the mosquitoes are
80 fierce that people are laid up in the
hospitals from their attacks, thus add
ing a new luster to the accident in.
surance proposition.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09

In West Virginia an eccentric cler.
gyman is to stand on a mountain top
and preach through megaphone. He
would do better to stand on his dig
nifty and sit down on his foghorn.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09

The worst case of marble heart.
on record is supplied by the story Of
Chicago man. who recently worried
the undertakes by Hviag sixteen
hours with a Dunet In that department
of his interior.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09

A New York banker recently got
nine years and six months in the pen.
Strange that men will persist in TAX.
ing chances instead of taking enough
to win the reputation Of being great
dnanciers.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09

Princeton professors are about to
make trip to Egypt for the purpose
of studying the pyramids. Presuma-
bly, they are familiar with the history
of the notable sphinxes of this coun-
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09

The Grand Duke Boris has been re
called to st. Petersburg in disgrace
Kuropatkin found it too much to con
tend with the Japs and with the grand
duke. too.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09

The optimistic person who thin.
he can change the popular pronuncia-
ton Of Niagara" to "Ne-a-gar-ra, +"
with the accent on the gar" is prob.
aoly the lonesomest man on the earth.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09

In spite of Mrs. Goelet's social
prominence her example of forgetting
q tin cup full of diamonds on the
kitchen table is not likely to become
fashionable.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09

One football victim has already beer
listed. Must the gridiron tragedies be
added SO early to the railroad anc
steamboat and other kinds of acct
dents?
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09

Thomas Bailey Aldrich has written
piay in verse. and it is to be put
on the stage. But this is not bravery
1t 10 mere reckless daring.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09

John Z. Sullivan, it will be learned
Nth regret, has had another bout with
his old enemy and been knocked com.
pletely OF his feet, as usual
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09

Shotgun in Hands Of Charles Chips,
DISCHARGED With Fatal Resuts.

Discharged With Fatal Results.
Monroe, Sept. 7.-Mrs. Charles
Chips was killed near here yester.
day by the accidental discharge Of
a shot gun in the hands OF her hus.
band. Mr.. and Mrs. Chips who live
on a farm about five miles north Of
this place. had started out for a drive
through the fields, and were taking
the shot gun with them.
Mrs. Chips was already in the
wagon, and her husband was climbing
in over the tailboari when the gun
was accidentally discharged.
The heavy load struck Mrs. Chips
IN the back Of the head. killing her
instantly.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09

John Burroughs may think that all
the cats ought to be killed, because
they hunt for birds, but doesn't he
love the little kittens?
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09

If an injunction will not stop a man
from drumming the scales on a piano
for fifteer hours at a stretch, there
are other weapons.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-09

That Connecticut Judge who par.
dons youths for stealing watermelons
could get the solid colored vote if he
we're running for office in Georgia.