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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-23
A Timely Word Of Caution.

A floor should never be swept in q
ro6m where there is contagious pa
tient. It should be washed with q
cloth and dipped in borax water, 90
that no dust annoys the patient and nc
assortment of germs are flung up in
the air, to drift out Of the window into
the hall en- route to fresh victims.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-23
A FUNERAL IN BEETLEDOM.
Busy Insects Dug a Grave and Buried
Dead Comrade with Neat
ness and Dispatch.

Aunt Lu" sends to the Wellspring
the following account of the burial Of
q beetle which she witnessed. All
that it needed to make 1t quite human
was that there should have been one
beetle with prayer-book and spectacles
to read the burial service:
Out in garden path one day. l came
across dead beetle-black and
smooth. No sooner had l seen IT.,
than two Of the same species came
out Of the grass at the side of the
path, and began vigorously to push
away the earth from around the little
creature. They worked rapidly, and
apparently with plan. My curiosity
was aroused, and I stopped to watch
the proceeding. At once, as though
called by wireless telegraphy, a dozen
or more beetles appeared from all d.
rections, and they Immediately began
to dig in. the earth, with great vigor
and alacrity, until they had complete
ly buried their comrade, and in few
minutes the ground was smoothed
over, and they had all disappeared,
hurrying and scurrying in all direc-
tions-gone in almost "the twinkling
of an eye," and there was nothing to
tell of that event in the beetle-world.
beetles are such poky bugs,
They walk around so slow,
It always locks to me as II
They don't know where to go.
But surely these beetles knew where
they were going, and their walk was
anything but slow. never saw such
quickness In the insect world.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-23
Alcohol Tor Lamp Chimneys.

A few drops of alcohol rubbed on
the inside Of lamp chimneys viii re-
move all trace Of greasy smoke when
Ster alone Is Of no avail.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-23
japanese Postmen on Wheels.

Japanese xostnen On Wueels.
Japanese postmen whose routes carry
them into the country use bicycles.
Their wheels are made by local manufac-
turers. who have appropriated improve
ments from both British and American
patents.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-23
Beetles are such poky DuSSs
Thav walk around so slow.
Country without Newspapers.

The empire of Morocco is the most
important state that is absolutely
without newspaper.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-23

A jewel of cook must be q sort Of
paste diamond.-C Chicago News.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-23

MRS. Fairbanks tells how ne.
glect of warning symptoms will
soon PROSTATE a woman. She
thinks woman's safeguard is
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
"DEAR MRS. PNKHAM: -Ignorance
and neglect are the cause Of untold
female suffering, not only with the
laws of health but with the chance of q
cure. I did not heed the warnings of
headaches, organic pains, and general
WEAKNESS, until I was we'll nigh pros
trated. knew had to do something.
Happily I did the right thing. l took
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound faithfully, according to
directions, and was rewarded in few
weeks to find that my aches and pains
disappeared, and I again felt the glow
of health through my body. Since I
have been we'll have been more care
full, have also advised a number Of
my sick friends to take Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and they have never had
reason to be sorry. Yours very truly,
MRS. MAY FAIRBANKS, 216 South 7th
St., Minneapolis, Mimi" (Mrs. Fair
banks is one of the most successful and
highest salaried travelling saleswomen
in the West. $4,000 forfeit If original Of
aboUe letter proving genunensss cannot be produced
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-10
JAPANESE IN AN AMBUSH.
Regiment Almost Annihilated While
Pursuing Retreating Russians.


ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. "a dis
patch from Simoulin. dated August l
and filed at Liaoyang on August o, re-
lates an incident which occurred dur
inc the pursuit of the retreating Rus
slams, between Simoucheng and Simou-
lin, on the Haicheng road. 1t says that
the Japanese pressed the Russian rear
from Simoucheng, but did not remain
in touch with it. Just south of Simou-
lin the road winds through valley
admirably suited for an ambuscade.
The Russians, with one battalion and
two guns, occupied the hills on one
side and placed six guns, carefully
masked, on the road in the valley. A
regiment of japanese, in close order,
hurried into the vallev and passed be-
meath the guns concealed on the
heights. Then the guns in the road
ahead opened and moved the ranks of
the Japanese, who stood. for some time,
apparently dazed, and then broke ana
ran.
They reached a small hill, but thls
position was untenable and the Jap
anese were doomed to destruction,
whether they advanced or retreated-
They tried to retreat, but were almost
annihilated by the Russian battery
which had shelled in the rear. A few
of the japanese succeeded in ascend
ing the hill and hid among the rocks.
The Russians expected that the ia
panese would be largely reinforced and
so did not remain. The sappers deco
rated the position with wooden guns
before thev retired. The Japanese re-
Inducements arrived in the morning
and shelled the dummy battery fierce
ly before they discovered its character.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-10
Chief of Police Asks the
Commissioners to Create
Additional Positions in
the Local Department
HUTTON SUGGESTS
AN INNOVATION
Charter Amendment Is Pro-
posed Providing for Ap-
pointment of All Magis-
trates by Superior Bench

The San Francisco Police Depart
ment will have a new office if the rec
concentrations made to the Police Com
missioners last evening are carried
out. The new position is that of Police
Inspector, to rank between the cap
tains and the Chief. Chief Whitman
made the recommendation, asking for
one inspector to every 500 patroimen.
This would mean two inspectors at
present. The Chief also advanced a
new schedule of pay Tor patrolmen.
1t was"an evening of surprises Com
missioner Hutton rose while the Chiefs
recommendations were being discussed
and said that he would advocate the
appointment of Police Judges by ma
jority vote of the Superior Judges. On
being asked his reason for proposing
this startling change, Hutton replied,
ITO keep the police courts out of poll
ties
Chief Wittman's proposed change
of salary will not affect policemen al
ready on the force. 1t divides patrol
men into three classes first, those
who have served five years or more,
who have served between three and
five years, to receive $S5; third, those
who have served less than three years,
to receive $50.
The Chief also proposed that re-
cruits for the police force be between
20 and 80 years of age and able to
pass the physical examination of the
regular army
The proposed schedule of salaries
for the police is as follows:
Inspectors, $4,000 per annum; cap
tatns, $4,000; lieutenants, 1920 (raised
from $40 per month"; sergeants,
$500, and corporals, S140O. The
Chief maintains that as Heutenants
are often forced to do captains work,
their pay should be increased.
The proposed changes will be fully
discussed at the next meeting of the
board. They are favored by its mem
bcrs excepting as to few details.
Hutton wants the age limits 21-30
years. Reagan advocates the mini
mum for third-class patrolmen to be
500 a month and to increase from
that sum in the ratio proposed by the
Chief
Policeman Thomas H. Dowd was
found guilty of drunkenness, neglect of
duty and making an illegal arrest.
Hutton and Howell voted for dismissal,
Reagan for 800 fine on each charge and
Drinkhouse for $50 fines. The matter
will be taken uD at the next meeting.
Patrolman Vincent B. Lewis was repri-
manded for failure to report for duty.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-10
MAKE CHANGES
IN THEIR LAWS
Members of the Interna-
tiOnal Typographical Union
Act on Important Matters

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 9.-The second
days session of the International Ty-
biographical Union convened to-day in
convention hall, with nearly the full
quota of 400 delegates present. The re-
port of the committee on laws was
given out.
OF this report the most important ar
ticle on which the convention passed
was that providing that in cities in
which a German union exists no mem
bers of the International Typograph-
ical Union shall be employed at Ger
man or English work at any other scale
than that demanded by the interna-
tional union.
The report of the committee on laws
was taken up for consideration. After
considerable discussion the following
proposition was adopted by viva voce
vote:
ANY officer or member of a union
who shall suppress or conceal from his
union or the executive council any in
formation concerning a strike or q pro-
posed strike shall, upon conviction by
the local union, be suspended orr ex-
pelled; provided also, that the execu-
tive council shall have power to deal
with violators of this law where the
local union does not act"
The committee on laws reported fa-
vorably on the proposition to repeal
section 13O of the general laws read
ing:
Members employed under permit in
non-union offices shall not engage in a
strike ordered by any other party than
the union they belong to-
The report was adopted.
After lengthy discussion the con-
vention voted to repeal a portion of
section 95 of the general laws, leaving
the section to read that foremen of
printing offices have the right to en-
ploy help and may discharge for in
competency. neglect Of duty, violation
of office rules or those of the chapel or
union, and to decrease the force.
The night session opened with the
resumption of the consideration of the
report of the committee on laws. The
committee recommended the repeal OF
section sc of the general laws, which
says:
'Foremen shall not designate any
particular day nor how many days a
man shall work in any one week.
By small majority the recommend
alton to repeal was voted down.
The recommendation of the COM
mittee that section 81 beHepealed was
defeated. This section prohibits the
practice by foremen of selecting their
forces from day to day or from men
not regularly employed in the office.
Sections 1O2 and 1O3, relating to the
practice of foremen of giving out six
day situations on seven-day papers
thereby controlling extra work, which
were recommended for elimination,
were referred back to the committee on
laws.
The convention reconsidered its
action, taken earlier in the day, in vot-
ing to abolish the enforcement of the
priority law and referred the matter
hack to the committee on laws.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-10
Kuroki's Right Flank
Attacked by Rus
sian Force.

GEN ERAL L KUROKI'S HEAD
QUARTERS IN THE FIELD, Aug. 8.
Unofficial reports were current yester-
day that large force Of Russians was
advancing to attack the Japanese
right. Heavy firing in that direction
to-day appears to confirm the reports
Russian soldiers who have been
taken prisoner say the Russians were
sometimes short of rations.
Two days of hard rains have fol-
lowed a fortnight of severe heat.
The Japanese losses in the fighting
of August 1 were $50.
MUKDEN, Aug. 9.-The Japanese
are using the Shanhaikwang- Yinkow
Railway for provisioning the army and
mobilizing troops for an attack on Sin
mintun, thirty miles west of Mukden.
This is a Chinese railroad, the use OF
which was denied Russia.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 9.-It is re-
ported in military circles that Lieuten-
ant General Iinevitch is marching with
troops from the direction of Vladivos-
tok, to create a diversion in the rear Of
General Kuroki's army with the object
of relieving General Kuropatkin's force.
SINTSfNTIN. (Sixty-six miles east of
Mukden, Manchuria), Monday, Aug. s..
A column of Russian troops, consisting
Of two companies of Cossacks, two
companies of sharpshooters, company
of infantry and a couple of mountain
guns, set out on August on the Sal
matsza road toward Tsianschan, thir-
ty-six miles southwark, and drove in
the Japanese outposts. A hundred men
stuhbornly resisted at three consecu-
tive passes, but were routed by the
Russian artillery. leaving ammunition
and equipment behind them. One Rus
sian was killed and four wounded. The
Russians pursued the Japanese as far
as TsiansChan.
LIAOYANG, Saturday, Aug. Gen
eral Kuropatkin is ready to defeat the
Japanese plan for cutting off Liaoyang
The Japanese forces are concentrated
i'll three groups-the first at Simou-
cheng. Haicheng and Newchwang; the
second threatening Liandiansian and
Liaoyang, and the third threatening
Sikseyan, Liaoyang and Mukden.
According to Chinese reports the
Japanese are massing in the direction
of SaimatsZa, evidently f1anking Lao
yang, and a strong column is ascend
ing the Lao Valley from Newchwang,
also for the purpose of thanking Lao
yang.
A reliable Chinese merchant declares
this column includes ten thousand chi
nese, subjects of Japan, from the
island of Formosa. This most unwel-
coma deveIoDment may induce other
Chinese to join the japanese. 1t is
hard TO tell a Formosan from a Man
churian.
ANsHANSHAN Chalf way between
Iiaicheng and Liaoyang), Manchuria,
Saturday, Aug. "a cavalry recon
noissance in force along the whole front
on August in the direction OF New
chwang resulted in the capture OF -FOUR
armed Chinese bandits. One OF theln
was carrying a Japanese rifle.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-10
POLICE FIGHT
WITH STRIKERS
Mob Attempts to Prevent
Removal of Meat and Off
GERS Use Their RevOlverS
RIOTERS RETURN FIRE
Bullets Do No Damage, but
a Number of BluecOatS Are
Struck on Head by Stones

. CHICAGO, Aug. s.-An attempt TO
move meat from the stock yards to the
Fulton market on Randolph street, a
distance Of four miles. caused a num-
Der Of nights tonight between the po-
lice and strike sympathizers, who at
tempted 10 prevent the passage
through the streets Of wagons bearing
the meat
Fully q hundred shots were fired by
the police and the members of the mob.
but nobody was hit. Twelve officers
were cut on the head by stones thrown
Q 10y rioters. A score of the rioters were
knocked down by the policemen and
were carried off by their friends.
Strike leaders spent the day in seeing
that the boycott against the retail mar
l<ets which have been placed under the
ban Of the unions was being enforced.
AZ some instances the strikers were
successful in cutting off the supply Of
ice, but in many Of the places the boy
cott did not work so well as expected,
the retailers being able to haul what
ice they required in their own wagons.
The packers assert that fully so per
cent Of the usual amount Of work was
carried on to-day. The receipts Of
livestock. while not large. still were al
most normal compared with corre-
spending days before the strike began.
The greater portion Of these arrivals
were purchased by the packers, and
before night had been slaughtered.
Between coo and zoo new arrivals
were added TO the packers force Of en-
plOyes to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-10
HAY AND LANsDowNE.
England in Accord With Americas
View as to Neutral Commerce.

LAlS1dIu III ACcOFQ Win America 8
View as to Neutral Commerce.
LONDON, Aug. 9.-Absolute accord
exists between the United States and
Great Britain in respect to the rights
OF neutral commerce, and when the
declaration of Secretary Hay was pub
lished yesterday the State Department
WAS Informed that it was in entire ac-
cord With the attitude of Great Britain.
In order that Russia might understand
the similarity of the British and Amer
lean views, Lord Lansdowne directed
the British ambassador in st. Peters,
burg to protest against the Russian
definition of contraband along the same
lines as the declaration transmitted
through ambassador Mccormick.
Great Britain would like the United
States to take steps to obtain an III
ternational declaration defining the
rights of neutrals, but it is not believed
at the Foreign Office that Secretary
Hay will do so, it being understood
that he proposes to retain complete lib
erty of action.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-10
TRIES TO BOOST BUSINESS
By ETOURISHING REVOLVER
Albert Steiner Threatens to Shoot
+ Robert Hicks Unless Latter
PatrOniZes Bar.

Albert Steiner, a saloonkeeper at
Seventeenth and Folsom streets, has a
peculiar and rather forcible way of
enticing wayfarers to buy drinks at
his Bar. Instead of coaxing them to
purchase a cocktail Steiner runs out
with a loaded gun and threatens to
start something if theNvictim does not
come in and buy
Steiner tried this yesterday on Rob
ert Hicks, and now he. is in Jail.
charged with exhibiting a deadly
weapon in a threatening manner.
Hicks drove up to the saloon yester-
day afternoon to give his horse a drink
at the trough. Steiner came running
out with gun in his hand and in
formed Hicks that he would be trans
formed into a Coroner's subject unless
he stepped into the bar and bought.
The timely arrival of a policeman
broke up the little fracas.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-10

SWEET SPRINGS, Mo, Aug. o.
After lingering for weeks between life
and death, former Senator George Vest
passed peacefully away to-day. He
had been so near death for the past
three days that the end came without
a struggle. He was conscious until
about 2 o'clock Sunday morning, when
he sank into a state of coma from
which he never aroused. He lost the
power of speech Saturday morning, but
for several days before that he talked
very imperfectly and during the last
thirty-six hours of his life his breath
ing was barely perceptible. The fiutter
Of his pulse was all that showed that
life still remained.
At the bedside when the end came
was his wife; Dr. Jarvis, the family
physician; Senator Vests son Alexan-
der; his daughter, Mrs. George p.
Jackson, and her husband; and Mrs
Thompson, a niece of Mrs. Vest
The body was taken to st. Louis this
evening for interment
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo, Aug. o.
Governor Dockery to-day issued a
proclamation on the death OF former
Senator George Graham Vest. calling
for the suspension of public business
on Thursday. August II, the day of the
funeral 1t says:
"Since the admission of Missouri to
the Union her sons have borne con-
spicuous parts in the great controver-
sizes, but among them none has
achieved greater distinction than our
distinguished departed Senator. In
deed, it was more than distinction. He
rose 20. greatness"
The committee appointed to attend
the funeral of Senator Vest as repre-
sentatives of the State is composed of
100 men prominent in all walks of life.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-10
MAY TAKE RUSSIAN VIEW.
United States Regards Sinking of
Prize Vessel as Permissible.

United States Regards Sinking of
Prize Vessel as Permissible.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9-The fact
that so far no proof has been pro-
duced before the State Department to
show American ownership of q sin
gle pound of the cargo of the Knight
Commander, the British vessel sunk
by the Vladivostok squadron, has
tended to diminish the interest here in
the financial side of that affair. But
much interest is manifested in the in
ternational question now under dis
cussion between Russia and Great
Britain as to the right of belligerent
to sink a neutral ship, even with con-
traband of war aboard, instead of TAX
ing her before a prize court
According to officials here, the
United States is so placed geographi-
cally that in the event Of war with
European power it might be necessary
for our warships to take the Russian
view of this matter-of the right to
sink-else any idea of taking prizes or
inflicting damage upon the enemy by
attacking its merchant shipping must
be abandoned, for it is stated to be i'm
possible to bring a prize across the
Atlantic with it's own coal.
However, the State Department has
not committed itself in this matter.
but is watching developments in the
negotiations between st. Petersburg
and London.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-10

with his family, from the Cripple
Creek district in consequence of re-
peated warnings.
Il believe my life is in danger and !
fear my store and house would be
burned If remained" said Donnelly
to-day.
The objection to Donnelly's presence
in the district comes from the foes. of
the Western Federation of Miners,
with which he has been an avowed
sympathizer since the deportation of
union miners began.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-10
STRIKERS SEIZE A TRAIN.
Drive on Non-Union Men and Set Fire
to the Car They Occupied.

Drive on Non-Union Men and Set Fire
to the Car They Occupied.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 9.-A mob Of
200 men and boys, packing-house strik-
ers and their sympsthizers, stopped an
incoming train carrying strike break
ers at Riverside, Kans., tonight, drove
the nOn-uniOn men from the train with
clubs threw their baggage into the
Kaw River and set fire to the car. The
police extinguished the fire before any
damage had been done. No arrests
were made.
The mob made a rush for the train
while il was running slowly over the
Suburban Belt Line tracks toward the
Schwarzchild & Sulzberger plant, the
destination Of the ike-breakers. AS
the members Of the mob climbed
on the train they subdued the train
men and set the brakes Of the fifteen
freight cars. bringing them TO a stand
Etill.
The breakers fed in terror,
some of them being chased for blocks,
but all escaped injury. After the es-
cape of the non-uniOn men the mob
dumped their baggage into the river
and set fire 10 the cars.
In the meantime a riot call had been
turned in and detail Of police hurried
10 the scene. Upon the arrival Of the
police the mob scattered In all there
were about seventy-fve strike-b break
ers, who are supposed TO have been
brought in from Northern Kansas.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-10
TURKEY MAKES DEMANDS.
Backed Up by Great Britain in Deal
ing With st. Petersburg.

CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug. 9.-In
connection with the volunteer fleet
question, the Porte, which is being
supported by Great Britain, has re-
minded the Russian Government OF it's
agreement with Turkey in 1891. This
agreement stipulates that vessels of
the volunteer fleet must not carry arms
and munitions Of war. The Porte also
demands that the vessels shall traverse
the BosphOrus separately.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-10
Rear Admiral Rojest-
vensky Hosts His
Pennant.

BERLIN, Aug. 10.-The St. Peters
burg correspondent Of the Lokal
Anzeiger says that Rear Admiral
Rojestvensky. commander Of the Bal
tic fleet, has hOisted his flag on the
battleship Souvaroff and that the fleet,
which consists of six types. including
eight battleships and nine cruisers,
will leave in the immediate future,
probably on August 16. The corre-
spondent says it is hoped that the fleet
will reach its destination within sixty
days.
The correspondent says It Is
reckoned that the arrival OF the Bal
tic fleet in the Far East will turn the
scales rapidly and end the war.
should Port Arthur still remain un-
captured.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-10
GERMANY PROFITS BY WAR.
Steamship Lines Accept Cargoes Re
fused by British Ship Owners.

LONDON, Aug. 10.-The Times
this morning asserts that within the
last ten days the North German Lloyd
line and the Hamburg American
Steamship Company freely accepted at
Antwerp cargoes for Japan, consist
ing of electric cables, machinery, iron
wires, plates and light rails. which
were refused by British companies on
the ground that they might be sus-
pected of being contraband of war.
The Times editorially demands that
the Government Immediately take
means to resist the Russian doctrine
concerning contraband of war, de-
claring that the subject brooks of no
delay unless the British Far Eastern
trade is to pass into the hands of Ger
man rivals.