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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-09-10
GEN. 'CRAkI,: PUSHES
his. FORCE ahead
PROGRESS OF MIMIC WAR MA
NEUvERS ON VIRGINIA, g.
BATTLEFIELDS.
BOTH OF THE ARMIES
ASSUME NEW POSITIONS
Hostilities Are Stopped by Gen. Cor.
bin to Relieve Men on the Firing
Line-Blue Army Obtains an Ad-
vantage Over Enemy.

Gainesville, Va, Sept. Seen.
Grant took up his task Of forcing Gen.
Bell and his brown army through
Thoroughfare Gap at midnight.
Fighting did not begin at that hour,
but the realignment of positions and
the assuming of new ones occupied
the forces of both armies until day
light. The imaginary requirements
of the blue army, to arrive during the
night from Fairfax Court House,
reached their destination and were
placed in position on Gen. Grants left.
Gen. Bell was officially notified of the
arrival of these requirements, on the
principle that he would have ascer-
tanned the fact through his scouts
were the requirements real. All of
the men in Gen. Grants command
who were ruled out Tuesday were
placed in the lines Wednesday as a
part of these requirements. And to
that extent they are not imaginary.
Bell Falls Back.
Gen. Bell, Notwithstanding the re.
pulse of the attack on his center,
which was in progress when the day
closed Tuesday at three o'clock,
deemed it advisable to fall back to a
shorter defensive line. This he estab-
lished during the night from Buck.
land, on the extreme south of the zone
through Thoroughfare, which is about
one and one-half miles east of the
Gap, to Antioch, on the extreme north.
The defense was established by day.
light, and it is on this line that Gen.
Grant is advancing. Barry's brigade,
of the brown army, holds the line
from auckland to Thoroughfare,
where it joins Regan's brigade, which
extends it to Little Bull Run on the
north. Smiths brigade completes it to
Antioch. Lees brigade is in reserve
near Thoroughfare.
Men Given Rest.
With practically continuous fighting
since eight o'clock on defense line
established by Gen. Bell Tuesday
night, on a line running north and
south through Thoroughfare, hostili.
ties were stopped by Gen. Corbin at
AooA wednesday III OlucI IudL Lu6
men who had been on the firing line
for practically SO hours might be re.
lieved.
Just before the recall was sound.
ed Col. Wagner, chief umpire, sus.
tanned the advance of the blue army
practically through Gen. Bells left
wing. This wol ID give the advantage
to the blue army on it's face, but there
are many other POINTS to be taken into
consideration which may have bear.
ing on the general resu j.
Besides this final movement a battle
was fought throughout the morning
in which two brigades of the blue
hammered one and half brigades of
the brown jusl to the north of the final
fanking movement. Besides having q
superior force the blue army masked
strong battery consisting Of 20 guns
which commanded the brown defense
line. Each side occupied slip of
woods and fought over an open space
Of about 600 yards, which sloped down
in the center. Time after time the
blue army ventured out into the open
only to be ruled back by the chief UNI.
pire. Twice hostilities were stopped
that decisions might be rendered.
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Cut in Pieces.

Okauchee, Wis. Sept. Gust after
stepping off an eastbound Milwaukee,
train standing at the station here, Gus
tav Stabbs, thought to be from Illinois.
was struck by rapidly moving west
bound train and literally cut to pieces
In sight Of passengers.
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Took His DUN TITO

Washington. Sept. 6.-John H. Brown.
Jr.. aged IS years, clerk in the bu-
reau Of supplies and accounts of the
navy department, committed suicide at
his room at No. Iowa Circle, by shoot
ing himself in the forehead. He died
instantly. He had been in Ill health
for some time and was threatened with
tuberculosis
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Murdered q Negro,

Montgomery, w. Va, Sept. 6.-Wade
Holstein, a passenger on a Chesapeake
& Ohio train, shot and killed Frank
Howard, a negro, because the latter
entered the train at Paint creek and
took a seat beside him. Holstein then
leaped from the rapidly moving train
and made his escape
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Intense Anxiety,

st. Petersburg, Sept. There has
been no news from Gen. Kuropatkin
since Monday afternoon. This is at
fributed to the interruption of direct
communication with the commander
in-chief, owing to the transfer of the
telegraph Office to Mukden, whittier
messages have to be sent by courier.
Ehe utmost confidence prevails at the
war Office that the Russian army is
slowly bat surely effecting the retreat
without serious risk of being cut Off
None the less intense anxiety is felt
throughout the whole nation, and this
feeling is shared by the emperor. His
majesty is unwilling at such juncture
to absent himself from Peterhof, and
has countermanded all proposed jour-
neys. He will not go to Warsaw OF
Libau, and remains closeted for hours
with his military advisers. 1t is be-
aieved that the outcome of these de-
alterations will be an order to mobilize
several more army, corps.
No Intention to Hold Yentai.
The following statement was OBJ
Nd1ECu IL Jill l1lS wal Oil1CC lGtlC uc0-
day evening: ono kilograms whatever
were received from Gen. Kuropatkin
to-day (Tuesday). 1t is inferred that
the only Russian troops remaining at
Nentai September are the rear guard,
whose mission is solely to retard the
enely's movement. 1t is quite con-
sistent from the position of affairs to
suppose that a portion of the Japanese
forces entered Yentai, there being no
intention to hold this point, as it is
OF no intrinsic Importance The stores
there have already been removed, and
whatever was not removed was burned.
IAN official telegram will probably ar
rive tomorrow "wednesday morning.
The transfer Of the telegraph Office
to Mukden has caused delay in the d.
rect transmission of messages"
A Russian correspondent sent a
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-09-10
Fatal Freight Wreck.

Dubois, Pa, Sept. flames Welsh,
brakeman, and Clyde Osterstuck, fire.
man, were killed and John Walk, fire.
man, seriously scalded Tuesday in q
head-on collision of freight trains on the
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg railroad
near Carman. All the men resided at
East Salamanca, N. Y.
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Eleven Lives Lost

St. John, N. F., Sept. 1.-THE mail boat
Virginia Lake, from Northern Labrador.
reports that the seaboard was swept by
fierce gale two weeks ago. Much dam
age was done to fishery property along
the coast and five schooners were driven
ashore, resulting in the loss of IL lives.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-09-10
Sent to an Asvium.

Boston, Sept. G.-Mrs. Minnie McKen-
zie, of East Boston, who barricaded
herself in her home and for six hours
Sunday defied the police, killing Patrol
man Alfred M. Sturdcvant, was formal
ly committed to the Worcester asylum
for the insane Monday.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-09-10
JAPS ARE IN hot PURSUIT
KURoPATKIN MAKES FRANTIC
EFFORTS TO REACH MUKDEN.
Exact Location Of Hastite Armies IN
known-Talk Of Evacuating
Mukden.

The dearth of immediate press and
official dispatches from the present &C.
tual seat of the far eastern struggle
continues. 1t is admitted by the Rus
Sian war office that no kilograms what
ever were received from Gen. Kuropat-
kin bearing Tuesdays date, the last
message to the emperor from the gen.
eral being dated September 5, and
briefly telling that the army was ad-
vancing northward, that it had extri-
Gated itself from dangerous position,
that there was constant cannonading
of the rear guard and that the losses
on that day were about 100. The sit
Nation, in the light of the latest in
formation, may be summed up as fol-
lows:
The Russian forces are pushing on
to Mukden, greatly impeded by heavy
roads and floods, conducting an order
1y retreat, and followed step by step
by the Japanese. Details of the fight
ing and of the exact position of the
opposing armies are lacking.
The report that Kuropatkin's rear
guard has been annihilated and that
the Russian forces are in danger of be-
ing surrounded is denied by the Rus
sian general staff. The Russian war
Office is entirely confident that the re-
treat is slowly but surely being eff
fected.
The japanese field marshal, in an
extended report of the fighting up to
September 4, says that the Russians
burned all the railroad bridges over
the Taitse river, and predicts that,
while the Japanese list of casualties
is not yet completed, the losses will
prove heavy.
Viceroy Alexieff is on his way from
Hardin to Mukden.
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Whipping Causes Death.

I Lewisburg, Tenn. Sept. 6.-John
Glazier, white. was whipped by white
cappers several days ago and is dead
of injuries. He had been arrested for
pistol carrying, and while on the way
to the jail was taken from the officers
by wlfltecaps and severely fogged.
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Burned to Death.

Anoka, Neb., Sept. 7.-Henry Toler
was burned to death while trying to res
cue his wife from flames which enveloped
her as the result of kerosene explo-
sion Tuesday. The woman is also fatal
ly burned.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-09-10
Andree Officially Dead

The Stockholm court has pronounced
the arctic explorer Andree to be dead in
law, the legal term of disappearance hav-
ing just expired. Andree left Sp1tz-
bergen on July II. 1897, with two COM
panions, in balloon, with the object Of
reaching the north pole
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-09-10
A Costly Fire.

Ell Paso, Tex, Sept. 2.-Fire at Juarez,
Mex, destroyed fully half of the business
houses of the city, including the Banco
de Minera and Picard Bros dry goods
house, one of the largest in northern
Mexico. Ell Paso's fire department sent
aid. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-09-10
Fairbanks in Kansas Civ.

Kansas City, Mo-, Sept. 3.-Senator
Fairbanks formally opened the repub-
lican campaign in Missouri Friday. The
ceremony took place in Convention hall
and that immense building was filled in
honor of the occasion
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Dropped Dead.

st. Louis, Sept. 6.-While walking
from the train upon which he arrived
from Atchison, Kan. to attend the meet
ing of the agents of the Burlington
route, H. B. Segur, generatagent at Atch-
ison. dropped dead from heart failure.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-09-10
Gave Themselves Up.

Statesboro. Ca, Sept 6.-Perry
Barnes, Henry Barnes and Wesley Wat
tiers, charged with the beating and kill
ing of the negro, Sebastine Mcbride, Au-
gust q, came in Monday and surren-
dered to Sheriff ]. e. Kendrick.
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Killed nv n Train

Charlotte, N. c., Sept. 6.-Prof. ]. r.
Bivins. head master of Trinity Park
high school at Durham, N. c., was
killed by train near Durham while
returning from his wedding trip.
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Indians Fatal Debauch.

Rolla, N. D., Sept. 3. - Six full-blood-
ed Indians of the Turtle Mountain res
ervation, were found dead Friday morn
ing from drinking wood alcohol or lem
on extract, and four more are dying. An
investigation by officials is now taking
place.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-09-10

II take trolley rides. excursion trips
and everything else to escape the heat
but it doesn't work. How do you man- Z.
age to keep so cool?"
"oh, l simply stay at ho4s."-N. \. I
Herald.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-09-10
War DUTY on Flour

Tacoma, Wash, Sept. 7.-Shippers
have been notified that. effective
October 1, a war duty of ten cents per
Jack will be, taxed On flour entering
Japanese ports. &
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To Erect Palace of Peace

Brussels. Sept. G.-The government
of the Netherlands has finally decided
to erect the palace Of peace given by
Andrew Carnegie in the woods Of
Scheveringen. on hill overlooking the
ocean.
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A Youthful Suicide.

Akron, o., Sept. 5.-After several sui
eide threats on the charge that he had
been beaten at home, Clyde McVettie.
eight years old, drowned himself in the
presence of several playnlates.
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Blow at Trading Stamps.

Detroit, Sept. 8. - The common
council by vote of 81 to adopted an
ordinance prohibiting the trading
otAmp business in this city.
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To Succeed Judge Parker.

New York, Sept. 2.-Judge Edgar NJ.
Cullen, of Brooklyn, has been appointed
chief judge of the court of appeals by
Gov. Odell, succeeding Judge Alton B.
Parker, resigned.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-09-10
LAWYER Is Chosen

New Orleans, Sept. 6.-The Fourth
district republican convention at
Shreveport nominated q. P. Mills. an
attorney. for congress.
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ON THE LEVELP
x:.IA TW
XGNSl ~

Mr.. Elephant-What's the mattsrI
Have you been i'll?
Mr.. Camel-Ill? Well, l should say
SO! I've been on the fat of my back for
three weeks
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-12-15
AMBIDExTERoUS PEOPLE.
Persons Possessed of Power to Write
with Either Hand Declare 1t q
Highly-Prized Faculty.

Gen. Baden Powell has long boon
able to write and draw with either
hand with equal facility. During some
maneuvers which took place when his
right arm was useless owing TO the
bite of dog, he wrote and illustrated
his daily reports entirely with his lett
hand.
Sir Walter Parratt, organist Of st,
Georges chapel, Windsor, can accom-
pany a full choral service with his lett
hand and his feet, and write letter at
the same time with his right hand.
Conjurers and jugglers must be able
TO depend upon the left hand as much
as upon tie right
All who possess ambidextral power
declare it to be q most highly-prized
faculty.
The Japanese appear to be the most
ambidextrous nation in these days,
though many orientals are able TO use
either hand with impartiality.
The shah of Persia signs his name
with either left or right hand; artisans
in the east are frequently able to work
with either hand with equal skill, and
they also bring both right and left feet
to their aid
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-12-15
DIG GOLD DESPITE WAR.
Americans in Korea Said to Be Pros
pering in Their Operations
Last Years Profits.

According tc a reDC:t receive. nv INC
state department from the American
legation at Seoul Korea, the Korean
gold mines CO; trc lea by the Orienta!
Consolidated Mining company are pros
pering wonderfully, in spite OF their be-
ing in the center Of the war zone.
A few weeks ago ]. Sloat Fassett anc
H. d. Perkins, of New Yorh, and Leigh
Hunt, formerly Of Portland. Ore. applied
to the United States government for pro-
lection for their property and employees
in Korea. In answer to- the represer-
tations made by the state department
the government was assured by both
bellieerents that the property was safe
from moIestatfon.
The report received from the Ameri-
can legation gives some figures from
the annual report of the Oriental CON-
pany. 1t shows that the company con-
trolls 800 square miles Of rich territory
in northwest Korea under a concession
obtained from the emperor by Leigh
Hunt. They are operating eight mines
besides number Of tributary mines
worked by Koreans. The total operat'
ing profit for 1903 was s762,315.S4.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-12-15
CAUSES RUSH FOR BRIDES.
Canadian Government Cuts Salaries
of Unmarried Men in Yukon
Territory $500 a Year.

Society in Dawson will be embellished
next winter by at least sorce of brides.
This situation results from the action OF
the Canadian government in mailing a
difference of $500 year in the salaries
Of married men and single men in the
civil service Of Yukon territory. Mar
ried men are paid that much more be-
cause Of the greater cost Of living where
there are two to provide for.
The new regulation became effective
on July 1, when the salaries of all the
single men in the Yukon territory were
cut $500 year. The result of this in
novation has been stampede for brides.
Many young men who have been content
to endure the hardships Of northern win
tiers in single blessedness, while their
sweethearts In eastern provinces await
ed their return In patience, have con-
cluded that, after all. Dawson is place
where 1t Is not good for man to live
alone.
Nearly every mail reaching Dawson
contains cards announcing wedding
ceremonies IN which government en-
ployes spending annual vacations in the
east are participants.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-12-15
THE ORIGIN OF STARcHINC
First Used in Flanders and Introduced
Into England with Run Of
Queen Elizabeth.

Starch originated in Flanders. It was
introduced into England, with the big
run, in the time Of Queen Elizabeth. It
was like our starch Of to-day, except
that It was made in colors-red, yellow,
green and blue. The effect Of this was to
tint delicately the white linen to which
the starch might be applied.
Before Queen Elizabeth's time ruffles
were made OF fine holland, which re-
quired no stiffening. Then the rufYs of
cambria came, and these must Of neces-
sity be starched. 1t is recorded that when
then queen had rufus made of lawn and
cambria for her own royal wearing there
was no one In England could tell how to
starch them. but the queen made special
inquiries for some woman that could
starch, and Mrs. Guilham. wife Of the
royal coachman, was the first starcher
In 1864 q Flanders woman. Frau Var
der Plasse, came to London and estab-
lished there q school for the teaching oil
starching. The school succeeded. and
the Flanders frau got rich. She charged
R5 lesson and an extra 20 shillines fol
recipe for the making Of starch out Of
wheat -four. bran and roots.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-12-15
TAKE UP BRITISH SPORT.
Wealthy Americans Are Now TAX
ing Shots at the Grouse Over
Alien Moors.

Americans who have gone to Great
Britain for the shooting season send
word that the sport is expected to be
above the average, the dry spring and
early summer having greatly favored the
Matching and raising of the young birds
in the preserves and on the moors. The
shooting was poor last year-the worst
since 1895 The advance conditions were
the same in both bad seasons, an I'M
usally heavy winter being followed by
freshets and protracted rains in the
spring, so that the birds were drowned
while Matching or else the young were
killed off by the wet The opposite con-
ditions prevailed this year
1t is becoming quite the usual thing
among American devotees of live bird
shooting to take run across the Allan
tic to get share of the English sport
with the grouse. partridge or phessants
and to join in the country gayeties
issued in by the shooting.
The signal was the start of the
grouse shooting on August 70, and the
birds will be fair game until December
TO- The red grouse is confined to the
British isles, and it is the best shooting
in the world, according to wing shots,
The law does not open on cartridges until
September /, and on pheasants until DC
tober l, both seasons closing on Feb
raury l.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-12-15
CANNOT LIVE ON AMAZON.
American Consul at Para, Brazil, Says
Existence Along the River
Would Be Miserable.

In a report to the state department
Louis H Ayme. the American consul at
Para, Brazil, after trip up the Amazon
river to inspect the agency there and
to gain some information as to the COM
mercial and other conditions, says that
q person hardly can make a bare living
on the banks of the Amazon. Il do not
say that the acquisition Of fortune or
competence is difficult. doubtful or i'm
possible" says Mr. Ayme. but that such
a miserable existence as would disgust
Digger Indian would be hardly obtaina-
BILE by one man in 10000 of such as are
thinking of coming here" The consul
says there is very little grazing land and
that little is held entirely by private
owners.
Mr. Ayme says he asked a man In
Manaos whether he thought young men
with small capital could do anything in
cattle-raising on the Amazon. The re-
ply was that 1t would be criminal to per-
NIT any young man with money and
energy to come and find the grave OF
both on the banks of the Amazon. The
consul says there are near the Amazon
some of the most beautiful and valuable
woods In the world, as well as fruits,
nuts, oils, balsams and gums, but they
are found as rarely as diamonds in the
gravel. Mr., Ayme adds that there may
be places in Brazil where colonists might
do well, but he does not know Of them.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-12-15
HE TRAMP EVANGELIST.
Wanderer Who Persuades Boys to Re
turn to Their Homes-Explains
His Method.

A new occupation for the man who
wishes to help, in this troubie-ridden
world. is that Of tramping for the pur-
pose of retaining other tramps. The
New York Evening Mail tells of one
such wanderer wnO has made it his
business to get acquainted with boy
tramps and send them back to their
homes.
He follows the scriptural injunction
to provide neither gold nor silver nor
brass" for his purse, neither two
coats, neither shoes nor yet slaves. !"
He is. in every practical respect, a
common tramp. and yet he has brought
at least 500 boys back to their homes.
His purpose now is to establish a
headquarters in New York, where boys
can be sent to await him while he
pilots others to their friends. He, be-
lieves that it is not hard to start a
vagrant boy homeward.
Talk to him little about his sor-
rowing mother" he counsels, his de-
serted father and the little sister, and
the chances are that he Will be
touched. Choose your chance when
other tramps are not about, and after
few condolences you will find that
you and the boy are conspirators in
planning his escape from the gang.
The very excitement and secrecy at
tendant on getting away are additional
helps"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-12-15
SOME FADS TN SODA WATER
information by the Knight of the
Fountain-Vanilla Remains
the Old Favorite.

Year In and year out, vanilla flavoring
Is the standard at the soda fountains.
chocolate is second, strawberry bad
third, and lemon Is somewhere in the
ruck among the also rams.
It depends good deal upon the
weather, but this is the norma PREFER
ence, says the mixers of the soda foun-
tains. to a Chicago Inter Ocean reporter.
The warmer the weather the sourer the
flavors demanded by the public.
On hot. muggy day, there Is great
run on lime Juice and phosphates of all
tlavors. On just comfortably warm days.
chocolate, strawberry and all the sweet
fayors are in demand.
Ice cream soda Is not liked 30 much
q II was few years ago. Among the
fancy soft drinks egg phosphate is the
favorite.
Every year few new health drinks"
are sprung. They rarely last more than
season. Sometimes. after rest Of a
year or two, q health drink that has run
its course is put out again under another
name.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-12-15
Tried To Lynch Au Engineer.

Joliet, H., Dec. II An accident
occurred to-day at Mine No, l In
South Wilmington, The engineer
Paul Leslie, failed to controlt the cage
IN which ten men were being lowered
The cage shot to the top ofthe tower
and the men we're thrown high in the
air. An Italian miner was crushed
to death. Another miner, John
Kucera, will die. Six Others were IN
iured. The men believe Le-lie had
pe.n careless and were trying to
lwnch the engineer whe officers ar
rived aud drove the crowd away.