The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-10-14
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Nor OF Less Interest Con
densed Throughout the State.

anese positions all along the line.
The Car reviewed the Baltic fleet
at Reval last week and it sailed tor
Liban.
John Collingshead, the English au-
thor and journalist, is dead, at the
age of II.
Henry B. Metcalf, who was vice.
presidential candidate on the pro-
hib;tion ticket in 1900, died at his
home in Pawtucket, on Monday.
The headquarters for Thomas T.
Watson, populist candidate for pres
ident. were opened on Tuesday at the
Hoffman house in New York city.
Fifteen hundred miners, employed
bv the Massilon coal company, went
on 2 strike on Tuesday, and have de-
termined to continue a fight to en-
force their demands for higher wages.
Henry H. Rodgers is being sued oy
the receivers of the Bay State Gas
company, OF Massachusetts tor three
million dollars.
Cont:aband of war, including ma
terial to make powder, will be car
ried by the Japanese steamer America
Maru from San Francisco for japan.
It is reported at Toxic that the Jap
anese recently sank three Russian
ships by fire from their land batter
les in the harbor of Port Arthur.
Rumors of a secret understanding
between Russia and Germany, cover
inp the war in the far east have again
been revived.
There is rejoicing throughout Rus
sia over the announcement that Gen
eral Kuropatkin has assumed the OF
fensive.
Gems valued at 5000 were stolen
on Monday night or early Tuesday
morning from a large firm in Chicago.
The thieves made, good their escape
By the collapse of building which
was being built in Santiago, Chlll'
on Monday. over fifty were killed out
right, and many others were injured
There was a wreck on the Mis-
souri, road on "Wednesday near the
place of the terribly fatal wreck OF
few days ago. 1t is reported that
no lives were lost.
John Haywood Johnstone, member
of the British parliament for the Hor-
shan division of Sussex, is dead. He
was born in 1850.
The Russian wa Office estimates
Marshal Oyama's total strength at
100000 men, Of which 10000 are
posted between the Hun river to the
west, and Bensiaputze, eastward.
According to Chinese reports, the
Russians are entrenching and build
ing heavy earthworks south OF Muk-
den. They are also fortifying Iron
Mountain, near Tie Pass.
Niuchwang is taking on the aspect
of Japanese city. many merchants
theatrical performers and even
Geisha girls have arrived there r. m
Japan.
The international congress for mil
itary surgeons is to be opened this
week at the St. Louis exposition.
Many southern men of high medical
reputation will be present.
A pleasure yacht was sunk on Mon
day in small lake near Chicago and
three persons were drowned before
help could be sent to them. There
were several others in the craft who
were barely saved.
John Alexander Dowie has de-
nounced Alton B. Parker as the prod
igal son in disguise. He made other
sensational statements Of a seml-po-
Iitical nature during his sermons this
week at Zion.
There was a great fire in Winni-
peg. Canada, on Wednesday morning
which destroyed four business blocks
in the heart of the city. Several mil
lions worth of property was Destroy
ed but no lives were lost.
Wednesdays reports from the seat