New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-23
Ietp:31ork D;aiIn Gribrrsts
MONDAY. MAY %. 1904.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-General Kuropatl1in reported that
his advices led him 10 believe that two divisions
OF the japanese army were at Feng- W ans-
Cheng, and that another was between that town
and Siu-Yen. - Private advices which
reached St Petersburg from Vladvostok con-
firmed the reports that the Bogatyr had gone on
the rocks near the port. == The batteship
Orel sank at her mornings at Cronstadt on May
20 valves having been left open: the vessel was
raised. and an investigation is going on. ==
A shell from the Port Arthur forts struck the
Japanese destroyer Akatsuki. killing an officer
and twenty-four men. -- Admiral Skhydlo1I
arrived at NladiYostok and hoisted his flag on
the ROssia. == Japans new popular loan VIII
be issued at 90 to run for seven years at . per
cent. == The Papal Nuncio will not, il is said
leave Paris because of the recall of NJ. Sicard
the French Ambassador to the Vatican. -
The Moroccan government has agreed TO the de-
mands Of Fraissouli, the bandit who captured
Messrs Perdicaris and Marley. - The Turk
ish authorities said 10 be considering the de-
structiOn OF all the Armenian villages in the sas-
sun district
DOMESTIC-The Ohio Democratic Conven-
tion VIII meet tomorrow and Wednesday;
Hearst has 20 chance; il is believed that Colonel
Kilbourne of Columbus. ex-AttOrney General
Judson Harmon, of Cincinnati. will be Endorsed,
with Parker for second choice; Tom L. Johnson
is running Folk boom. == In an explosion
az a fireworks plant in Finday, Ohio. seven per-
sons We're killed, five We're seriously injured
that they expected 10 die and twelve or
fifteen others were badly hurt; the plant was de-
stroyed. == President Mellen Of the New
Haven road made an address at a testimonial
dinner given by the local lodge Of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen of the railroad for
Andrew =. Kelly, chairman of the grievance
COMMITTEES - The Department of Agri-
culture made public report giving S4,50OOOO
as q conservative estimate of the value of the
farm products of the country not fed to live
stock I'm 1903. == The quarterly statement Of
Fall River mill dividends showed that. despite
the high price of cotton, the factories had con-
finued TO operate at profit to stockholders:
the quarter gave an average Of Ito per cent on
a capital Of S21 .745.ooO ~ General Funston
gave out his own account Of how he swan the
Bag-Bag River, in the Philippines. - Two
girls were drowned in the Tombigbee River, at
Waverly. Miss. I'm rescuing fellow student at
the college there go Prominent Presbyterian
churches in Buffalo; II was announced that to-
day the question OF marriage and divorce would
be taken up.
CTTY-Henry D. Babcock, ST., died as the
result of accidental blow in a polo game.
80 A locomotive pushing a local passenger
train of the New-York. New-Haven and Hart
ford Railroad thrown by a switch after
the cars had passed safely, and ripped the sides
cut of three cars without seriously injuring a
Passenger. == The shipping strike threat
ened 10 extend to all the coastwise lines. 60
lawyer thrashed a merchant who had fol-
lowed his wife about on a feTryboat, and Magis-
trate Moss upheld his action = There were
FeVeral collisions and runaWays in Central Park.
:= Mrs. W. c Gotshall, while riding in an
automobile with her husband, struck by a
.tone thrown by hOodlum; her condition was
eTious. == soldier who was convicted of
reason for becoming lieutenant colonel in the
Filipino army was brought here a prisoner.
- A thief calling himself "Dr. c. S. Colder
repeated in Newark ruse he had adopted In
Brooklyn. -= An Italian. accused Of at
tempting to assault little girls at New-Rochelle
was rescued by the police from a crowd that
was preparing TO lynch him.
THE WEATHER-Indication for to-day:
Showers The temperature yesterday: Highest,
IS degrees; lowest, 50