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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-05
London Telegraph's War Ex-
pert SaysJap Victory at Liao
Yang Not Complete
NOT COMPARABLE WITH SEDAN
If kuropatkin's Army Escapes to the
North oyama Will Have Only Won
a Series Of Tactical Battles-Failed
to Shorten War by Shatterins Rus
sia's Eastern Army.

London, Sept. demonstrating how
strongly the Daily Telegraph has lately
enthused on Japanese success its edi-
torial this morning on the Lao Yang
situation is particularly interesting. 1t
says:
THE probability, on the whole, is
that the Japanese will not achieve a
complete Sedan, and that General Kur-
opatl1in will escape to the north with
force sufficient to serve as a nuclus
for the organization of second cam
paign.
IF this should be SO, the Japanese
will have won by magnificent efforts
q series of tactical victories. They will
have strengthened to an invaluable eX-
tent their defensive position for future
contingencies, but they will have failed
to realize their strategical object.
Instead of shortening the war by
breaking the fighting organization of
the enemy, and SCATTERING, as it were,
the foundations of Russa's military
position in the far east, they will only
have driven their adversaries back one
stage.
$50 long as Russia keeps Hardin, the
loss of $4,000 men, more or less, will
be Of comparatively little Importance"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-05
GIVEN AWAY !
IN SOUTH AMERICA.

Bolivia is hardly an inviting country
for immigrants. On it's million square
miles Of territory it has less than 2.0O0,-
600 inhabitants, and far and away the
largest proportion of these are Indians.
1t has no seaport, it's agriculture is In
a very backward condition and the
character of the population is well I'M
dictated by the fact that its postoffice
handles less than one and a half let
tiers per inhabitant per year.
Nevertheless Bolivia wants immigra-
ton. and in a recent communication to
the consuls abroad the government has
urged them to give careful attention TO
the subject.
Natives and those settlers who con-
tribute to and increase agricultural and
other industries" can get land free.
Others can buy land at auction sales
and pay in five yearly installments.
Settlers within forty miles OF towns OF
villages can obtain land in lots OF SIX.
ty acres. Each settler can buy three
such lots and one more for each malt
child above fourteen. He must bind
himself to cultivate at least one sixth
of each lot within four years.
Lands more than forty miles from
settlements will be sold in concessions
as large as 100 square leagues. The
purchasers must cultivate one-tenth OF
their lands in four years, and they muss
also establish five families on each
square league within that period, but
for each family established per cent
will be deducted from the annual dues
on each square league.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-05
WOMAN FIGHTS POLICE
Insane Wife Attempts to Kill Husband
and Then Barricades Herself Ten
Policeman Held at Bay for Five
Hours-One MortaIly Wounded

Boston, Sept. 5.-During fit Of in
sanity Sunday Mrs. Minnie Mckinzie
tried to kill her husband at her home
in Falcon street, East Boston, then
killed Patrolman Alfred M. Sturdivant
and finally FABRICATED he self IN the
front room of her tenement where she
remained for more thar Eve hours
standing off ten policemen. She was
finally captured by the use OF formal
dehyde injected thru bullet holes in
the barricaded door.
When overcome by the fumes she
was found to be armed with Two large
revolvers and large amount of am
munition. During the barricade she
fired more than fifty shots many going
wide into a crowd Of five thousand
persons, who gathered abou. the
house.
Mrs. Mckenzie is "a years Old. and
of powerful frame. She became vio-
lently insane after the dinner hour,
and securing a revolver of heavy cali
bre, began shooting at her husband.
but none of the shots took effect. MIC
Kenzie informed the East Boston po-
lice and four patrolmen went to the
house When they arrived Mrs. Nc
Kenze had retired to a front room
locked the door and barricaded 1t with
bureau.
The officers got the door partly open
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-05
DON'T KEEP LETTERS
AND AVOID TROUBLE.

TO keep private letters is to act in
very unfair manner to your corre-
spondents. circumstances are always
changing, and it is impossible to fore
cast events even few months ahead.
Here are few examples Of compli.
cations likely to arise from this prac-
tice:
You have written certain letter in
absolutely good faith, without bias
stating facts; your letter has been kept
by your correspondent, and at his death
it falls into the hands of the very per-
son about whom you have been asked
to state an opinion. He is able ITO pay
you back for that honest answer, and
he does so.
Such an instance has occurred lately.
The friend who received the communi-
cation, for which he asked CONFIDENTIAL
ly, would have been intensely grfeved
to think that he had injured his corre-
spondent's chances in life by preserv.
ing his letter, yet SO it proved.
The man in question was not con-
nected with either when the commu-
nication was sent, yet within short,
time he had acquired controlling in
terest in property from which they
both Tin different ways) derived the
main part of their income.
The great fact to be borne in mind 1s
that we never know into whose hands
the letters may ultimately fall Now.
as the communications are private. 1t
it fair to subject them to the chance
Of being made public? Is that acting
justly toward your correspondent?
In the case of the letters Of eminent
persons the matter may assume diff
ferei,t poet; it may be that the pubs
lication CT certain letters may act as
guide for less eminent people. Be that
as it may, in the case Of ordinary peo-
pie the proper course-the only fair
course-is to destroy the letters which
you receive, so that there may be no
risk of their getting into the hands OF
INSCRIPTIONS persons.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-05
and Gospel Of Dissent;
Deer Rueaas Shoulders He Plays Mankind
Manknd

trio author was so enraged at the fail
ure Of The world to grasp his true
meaning that he abandoned fiction and
wrote npthing but religious, social and
philosophical treatises. 1.-THE Kreutzer
Sonata was published in 1888 and
raised Ia storm of indignant dissent on
both sides of the Atlantic. Then Toll
stoi resumed the writing Of fiction deal
ing with religious and political sub
iects. Resurrection" was not relished
in Theological circles, nor was a drama
entitled "The Corpse" which followed.
It's parefaced arraignment of existing
religious institutions was too much for
the holy synod to endure in silence.
The sentence Of communication
which had threatened Tolstoi for more
than thirty years was launched.
When he was thirty-eight years OF
age Count Tolstoi was married to So
phie Andreyevna Behrs of Moscow, the
daughter of an influential Jewish fam
lily. This estimable woman has borne
her distinguished husband eight chill
dren and has made his family life
exceptionally free from personal dis
comfort 1t is declared in Russia that
,rrolstoi's only domestic grievance has
1oeen that the countess would not per-
init him to make himself utterly UNI
happy. Latterly it has been his habit
to attire himself in the coarse garments
of moujik-blouse. cowhide boots ana
ali-and sit on a wooden bench and say
pessilnistic things against the way OF
the world. If he had his own way he
would also dispossess himself OF all
earthly belongings and accept no per-
sonal emolument from his writings.
Fortunately for him and for his family,
the countess is an excellent business
woman. and she has devoted herself to
the family finances. with the result that
poverty has found no foothoid IN the
Tolstoi household. His children 90 not
inherit his taste for self abnegation,
and all of them are fond of society
One of his sons. Lyof, has obtained
considerable prominence in the literary
world, chiefly as a dramatist.
COLLINS w. BROWN.
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coronation he was most efficient. ably
sustaining the feeble primate, DR.. BEN
son, in his trying part. He had been at
Lambeth for so many years that 1t
seemed like going back home when he
was appointed to the primary.
TO Mrs. Davidson even more than to
her husband did the return to Lambeth
seem like going home The beautiful
scene of her childhood's happiest hours
Here she had seen her father grow Old
and feeble, and here, also, she had lis
tened to the speech pf his talented
Scotch secretary. The position Of the
wives of the bishops and archblshops OF
the Church of England has always been
an anomalous one. There seems TO
have been no provision made for them
These estimable women certainly re-
ceived no recognition in the reorgan-
ization Of things spiritual at the time
Of the Reformation Henry VIII. was
too much distracted with his own mari
tai infelicities to provide wives for his
clergy. Queen Elizabeth, although she
enjoyed making the pope's adherents as
miserable as possible, did not view with
marked favor any attempt to change
the established order in regard to the
church's observances. It is matter OF
record that she treated the wife Of the
then primate with the utmost contempt.
On the occasion Of a visit to Lambeth
she declared that she did not know how
to address her OF, what to call her and
ended by turning her royal back on the
discounted dame.
Although Mrs. Davidson was the 1nti-
mate friend Of queen Victoria and has
alws.--s maintained the most cordial re-
lations with the present king and his
'nily, her position is not much less
anomalous than that of Queen Eliza
beths prelate'g consort. The archbish-
op is always my lord" and your
grace" but his wife is never anything
but plain 'MFs. Davidson"
CHARLES MERCER.
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F, sire on account of the endeavor of an
Asiatic race to Illustrate his ambitious
designs. He does not hesitate to call
the Russian sovereign to account be-
cause in this call to murder as he
| puts it, the car has asked the divine
blessing on the most horrible crime in
the world. Then he calls attention to
the fact that the Japanese emperor has
proclaimed the same thing in relation
to the Russians.
| A calm perusal of the correct trans
lation of Tolstoi's latest message to the
world easily convinces one that his
quarrel is not with Russia, but with
the world. What he wishes to attack
| is not the civil condition of his native
land, but the crimes and follies of the
modern world as they appear to him.
His constant question in recent years
has been why, having the Sermon on
the Mount, we do not live up to it.
Tolstoi is too great preacher to be
satisfied with Russian congregation.
He has something to say to the world,
and he knows that it will listen. He
has long since reached that delectable
stage in which he believes in himself.
He has SO much faith in his own teach
ing that it makes him appear intoler-
ant. He has the same sense of being
in the right that Savonarola had when
he went to the stake.
This remarkable Russian was born
| in 1928 on his fathers estate in the
| government of Tula. AT the age of fif-
teen he was studying the oriental Ian
guages at the University of KaZan At
the age of sixteen he began the study
of law, and he received his diploma
shortly afterward. His father left him
an ample estate, and he lived on it until
1851, when he went to visit his brother
who was an artillery officer in the eau
casus. He was so delighted with the
life in the army that he joined an ar
tillery regiment and was attached to
the army of the Danube during the
Crimean war. During this period he
wrote for publication and soon achieved
a reputation for his mastery literary
style. Even at that early day he be-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-05

should intervene between the death of
a sovereign and the accession of his
successor, an event which has seldom
occurred The latest case of the kind
was at the death Of Queen Anne. 1t
was some days before the news could
be received by the heir, the Elector
George of Hanover, and In the mean
time his grace of Canterbury was vir-
tually king.
The archbishop is entitled to a sti-
pend of $4,000 a year. This is not paid
from the national treasury, but comes
from the revenues Of the church. which
is quite as rich today as it was in pre-
Reformation times, yielding an income
of about 100000. In addition to his
comfortable salary, the archbishop has
the use of an official palace within the
cathedral precincts of Canterbury and
of magnificent palace in London on
the banks Of the Thames in Westmin-
ster. This residence, Lambeth palace,
has been the London home of the arch
bishops of Canterbury since the twelfth
century, the only interruption having
been in the protectorate of Oliver
Cromwell, when the chapel was turned
into a dancing hall and the remainder
or the palace was nlred out TO all SOfIS
of shopkeepers and small merchants.
In Lambeth palace the archbishop
dwells in great state during the season.
DR.. Davidson is a Scotchman. He
was born in Edinburgh in 1S48. He was
educated at Trinity college, Oxford. and
after ordination became the secretary
of DR.. TAFT, then prinate, whose daugh-
ter he married. After DR.. Tait's death
he remained at Lambeth as the secre-
tary to the new primate. Archbishop
Benson. Some years later he was ap-
pointed to the see of Rochester, mainly
through the influence Of Queen Victo-
ria, who was firm friend and generous
patron of the talented Scotchman. In
1895 he was translated to the see of
Winchester, which was regarded as a
nc table promotion. At King Edward S
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-05
F(|RIY.INO ARE Killed.
Sundays Record of Accident
Shows a Frightful Casualty
List In America
FOURTEEN DIE IN NEW YORK
Burning Tenement House Which Was
Being Repaired and Remode'ed
Causes Loss of Lives and Many In
Juries-six Persons Burned to Death
at st. John, N. B.

Chicago. Sept. 5.-Dispatches to the
Associated Press tell Of forty-tWo
deaths in accidents Sunday besides
scores of injured.
Fourteen persons lost their lives and
scores were injured in tenement house
fire in New York.
Five were drowned in Lake Erie
by the capsizing of launch.
Five were killed and five injured
in an explosion at Upper Sandusky,
Ohio.
Six were burned to death in a fire
at st. John. n. b.
Two soldiers We're killed near Char
lotte, N. c., while en- route to Man
assas.
A fisherman fell overheard at Pc
waukee and was drowned.
A boy was shot at Savannah, ILL.,,
while stealing grapes.
The bodies of two women killed in
a street car accident in st. Louis were
identified
In Chicago three persons were killed
and several injured.
New York, Sept. 5.-Fourteen per-
sons were killed and nearly score in
jured in fire in a flve-story double
tenement in Attorney street at an ear
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Iy hour Sunday morning. 1t was one Of
the worst fires in the loss of human
lives that has occurred on the east side
in several years altho the property loss
was slight.
The dead include four women, one
man and nine children, ranging in age
from months to II years.
Many of the injured We're taken to
hospitals and it is thought that several
of these will die. Among the injured
We're five firemen who were on fourth
floor balcony when it fell with them.
The small number of men among the
killed and injured was due to the fact
that most of the men who lived in the
building, following the Attorney street
custom in hot weather, We're asleep on
the roof. while but few Of the women
and children were there. Those on the
roof were unable to escape by descend
ing thru the burning building and made
their way to safety over neighboring
roofs Meanwhile the members of their
families who had remained in their
rooms found escape cut off, and panic
reigned turnout the structure.
The fire started about o'clock in
the morning. and there was consider
able delay in sending IN an alarm al
tho the quarter is one or the most
thickly populated in the crowded east
side When the firemen reached the
scene some of the tenants were jump
ing from the windows and from the
ends of fire escapes, that reached only
to the second floor, others were crouch
ing in the smoke in the small rooms
and narrow halls. Several amhulances
were called and the surgeons were kept
busy caring for the injured.
A number of daring rescues We're
made by firemen and police and the
conditions under which they worked
were unusual and difficult. The loss
of life was due chiefly to the fact
alterations were being made in the ten
ement building. The basement and the
first floor, the latter about six feet
above the sidewalk level, had both been
cut thru, the front and rear walls hav-
ing been removed and the upper floors
being supported by steel beams. The
exit from the upper floors was by way
of small step ladder.
Twelve families lived in the house.
and it is said that the tearing away
of the lower floor was done so quickly
that certain of the tenants who wished
to move from the building were unable
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-05

| to get their furniture out, and thus
| were compelled to remain.
| The work of alteration had compelled
| the partial removal of the lire escapes,
and when the fire began the panic
stricken tenants found fire escapes thai
| led to the second floor and no further
| The work of the tiremen was greatly
hindered, but over twenty persons
were rescued by them from the fourlh
and fifth floors Many persons re-
ceived injuries by jumping to the sides
| walk and to the stone paved court
| from the ends of the cutoff lire es-
| capes.
| Firemen Work Heroicaly.
The fire is supposed to have been
caused by the explosion of a lamp that
had been left to light the hall on the
second floor, and the sleeping tenants
were not aroused until the hallway was
ablaze and escape thru the building
cut off.
The fire was soon extinguished, and
,, the search for the dead begun. Police
reserves had been called out and with
difficulty kept back the crowd that had
gathered from the densely populated
neighborhood, while the bodies were
DGlllS Drought uOWD 10 lHe street.
Most of the dead were found on the
two upper floors.
While the search Of the building was
going on, four firemen were at work
on fourth floor balcony, when it gave
way. Another fireman on the balcony
on the floor below was also carried
down, and was probably fatally in
jured. The other four were hurt, but
will recover. Two of them fell on a
pile of bedding in the court yard and
their injuries We're caused chiefly by
the ironwork Of the balcony falling on
them.
FIVE ARE BLOWN TO PIECES.
Charge of Nitroelycerine Which Was
Being Lowered Into We'll is Elk
ploded.
Findlay, O.. Sept. 5. - Five persons
are dead an an equal number serious
ly injured as the result of a premature
explosion Of nitroglycerine near Upper
Sandsky Sunday. The dead:
Melen Lookabaugh, Findlay.
LATE M'Kay, Findlay.
Joseph Fox, Lima.
Corinne Wise. Upper Sandusky:
Emanuel Urcan, Cincinnati
The injured:
Ernest Wise, leg mangled and inter-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-05

A dispatch to the Standard from To-
kio says the Russian strength north Of
the Taitse river is being steadily re-
inforced by arrivals from Mukden.
Thus it is feared that the greater por
ton of Kuropatkin's army may escape
to the north.
Those in Toxic who are well inform
ed believe that the Russians will offer
no serious Resistance to the Japanese
advance south Of Itch pass.
Foreign observers in Toxic are great
ly struck by the calm way in which the
Japanese public has received the news
of the victory over the Russians.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-05
Fearful Odds AGAINST Him.

Bedridden, alone and destitute
Such, in brief, was the condition of an
old soldier by name of ]. ]. Ravens,
Versailles, Q. For years he was troubled
with kidney disease and neither doctors
nor medicines gave him relief. AT
length he tried Electric Bitters. 1t put
him on his feet in short order and now
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from his social pronunciamento-for
such it may truthfully be termed-he
had no good word to say of his coun-
try and was impelled by the logic Of
events to say many bitter one. The
full text and more reliable transla
ton indicate that the earlier extracts
were selected and edited under mark
e5ly tl-RusSian auspices and did not
in any reliable fashion reflect the great
agitator's real position.
OF course he is bitter against Russia;
that he always is, and no one expects
him to be otherwise. This time how
ever, he is not scathing and drastic
against Russia alone. The truth of the
matter is that Tolstoi has long since
exhausted his vocabulary of invective
against the shortcomings of his native
land. His latest diatribe, caustic and
radical as ever. is directed against all
lands-all lands that go to war. His al
ways graphic denunciation of the prin-
ciples underlying warfare is as much
for the kaiser as for the car, and the
mikado may rghtfully appropriate his
share of it.
Although the aged nobleman is the
father of a son who has gone to the
front in a blaze of publicity and with
the bravas and godspeeds of the nation
still ringing in his ears, he sees no
merit in it. He sees no good in any
thing as it now exists in Russia. He
begins by pointing his scornful finger
at the car as the man who recently ex-
horted all mankind in the interests of
peace and speedily followed his peace
ful overtures with hypocritical plant
to the hooking nations that he had
not been able to attain his hearts de-
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A Bow. Wild Ride For Life.

With family around expecting him to
die, and a son riding for life, eighteen
miles, to get DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, w.
H. Brown, Of Leesville, Ind, endured
death agonies from asthma, but this
wonderful medicine gave instant relief
and soon cured him. He writes: Il now
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refusal ot Wall street support.
regarded as possessed OF Tar rtG q
influence In that quarter He Hor
orally supposed to be the mediun
which the great financial interesnney
be reached. rca
Tareart is aware OF this. and
week Il lis said appealed to some of
chief democrats outside of New "
to prefant his reinforcement.
Colonel Gufey is a Visitor.
Colonel James GufYey, Of Pittsburs:s
who holds the keystone state democt
rccy in the hollow Of his hand, came
to town today and made his first y!sis'
to national headquarters. John p. Hop
kfns chairman Of the Illinois state
connnaittee; James X. Jones, of Arr
ka nsas, ex-chairman of the national
copmittee; and National Committee
man Roger G. Sullivan, accompanied
Mr.. Guffey
They went first to Taggart's room
ard were closeted with him FOR an
hour. Then they went in body to
She mans room and remained long.
hopkins, hailing from Chicago, Is In
lerested in the establishment OF wes-
fern headquarters, but wants it In his
city and not in Indianapolis, as Tag
CART wishes.
Immediately after the conference
Taggart was asked IL the question Of
western headquarters was in fair
way toward settlement.
mo; can't say 1t is.' he replied.
On Tuesday Taggart announced the
matter would be decided shortly, but \
change seems to have come over the
situation since.
Meanwhile the funds are being COLI
lected slowly and the work of organi-
zation In the doubtful states is lag
q