The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-07-29
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

M. Hayashi, the Japanese minister
to Korea, who has been absent in
Toxic, has returned to Seoul, Korea. G
At Pittsburg, Pa, the strike Of the
packing house employees advanced the
price of meat 8 cents a pound in a
day.
The Japanese have taken the
steamer Hsiping, recently captured
to Sasebo, to await the action of the
naval prize court.
At st. Petersburg eleven million dol
lars has been allowed by the govern.
nlent for immediate Improvements on
the Siberian railway.
The prices of meats in Milwaukee
were advanced from l to 9 cents per
pound wholesale. None of the Mil
waukee packing houses were affect
cd
In consequence of the presence at
sea of the Russian Vladivostok squad
ron the steamers Winghang, Heath
dene and LennoX have been ordered
not to leave Yokohoma.
The foreign military attaches as
signed to the second Japanese army
left Toxic. A great crowd assembled
at the Shinbashi railroad station to
bid them farewell. They are to sail
from Moji
About 800 Russian troops returned
to New Chwang. The Japanese forces
are reported to be six miles distant
The Russian gunboat Sivouch is now
high and dry in the upper reaches of
the New Chwang river.
Japanese war ships in the Gulf of
Liao-tung are stopping vessels cary
Ing cOntrahand Of war. They sank four
junks off the Chinese coast. All the
crews were lost. Other junks from
Chefoo for the Kwantung peninsula
with rice have been deprived of their
cargoes.
Lloyd's agent at New Chwang tel
egraphs that nearly every steamer ar
irving reports seeing mines. and that
navigation will practically cease I'M
less steps be taken to explode thsU.
Everything at New Chwang is per
fectly quiet. There is no trouble with
the Russian troops.
The bill of health of the Peninsular
and Oriental steamer Malacca, which |
left Port Said with Russian prize |
crew on board was marked Russia" |
The military critic Of the Russ thinks |
General Kuroki has delayed too long |
to be able TO strike Ga effective blow |
at Lao Yang, where General Kuo-
patkin now is too strong.
The commissioner of The general |
land Office at Washington has with.
drawn from public entry and sale H..
SEQ acres Of land adjoining the Owl
creek reservoir site, Rsp,l Creek dis.
trict. South Dakota. Tie action was
taken in further2nce Of an irrigation
prospect.
AS a result Of the butchers strike
there has teen an advance of from !
to > cents a pound in the wholesale
price Of meats in Philadelphia.
Meats at Syracuse. n. Y. were adj.
vanced l cent a pound Not more
than three days supply OF dressed
meat is in stoc,. at the local brsrches.2
The vice governor OF Elizabethpol
has been asssss,natcd The assassin
alton occurred at Adsshakent. a
small place il the southeast corner of
close to The Persian
frontier.
The British steamer Persia was
forcibly detained for an hour in the
Red Sea by the Russian volunteer
fleet steamer Smciensk, which trans
ferred to the Persia a portion OF the
Japanese mail seized on the Northern
German Lloyd steamer Prinz Helm
rich.
Larkin S. Campbell, Alfred L. Bailey
and Fred c. Cater OF Kansas City; N.
Clyde Mitchell. of Hayti. Mo-: Fred E.
johnson OF Malvern. and Lee c. Song
CT, of Wichita. Kansas. have been ap-
pointed assistant meat inspectors in
with the bureau Of animal
industry.
The steamer Flu Ping. from New
Chwang. reports that on July l6 the
japanese army was within fifteen
miles OF that CITY. The officers Of the
Russian gunboat Sivoutch have sad
He'd horses alongside ready 20 make
heir escape uD0a tie approach Of
he Japanese.