The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1905-03-16

LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF,

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= district court and member of ii
:. State Bar Association, is dead
J Sioux City, lao aged G5 years.
| Dowager Empress Marie Feodoro
Z ma of Russia will soon leave st. Pc
crsburg for Denmark at the urgeE
request of King Christian, her fail
er.
General Kuropatkin has lost 80
guns and 10000 prisoners, besides
about the same number killed O.
wounded, according to a military clul
report,
Henry Norcross Mum, editor of the
Scientific American, is dead at his
home in New York. He was a mem.
Der of the firm which publishes that
paper.
Active trade in smuggled arms be.
tween Ostrowo, Prussia, and Kalisch,
Russia, has been broken up by the
combined efforts of the Russian and
German police.
E. E. Snyder, the DIN, Iowa,
banker who assigned last December,
has disappeared. A warrant for his
arrest has been issued Snyders
liabilities amount to $145,O00, mostly
bank deposits.
Almost everybody says the battle
of Mukdon should end the war, but
add that as soon as hostilities end
the government must prepare to re.
sumo the struggle in the future The |
general depression is very acute.
The French geographical society
has awarded to Henry Vignaud, secro.
tary of the American embassy, the
Jomard prize for historical and geog.
raphical researches. The prize con.
Sists of a collection Of valuable old
maps.
Fire has broken out in the main
lod Of the British steamer Heath.
urn, which arrived at Manila Janu.
Try 81 from Barry, Wales, and is
preading The cargo is being dis
harged and the holds are being
CODED.
The treasury officials in comment.
lg on the decision of the United
tates court at New York in the case
the American Sugar Refining
ompany against the United States,
atcd that the government would
Ike an appeal from this decision. {
he question at issue is as to the ex- |
It date when the Cuban reciprocity i
eaty went into effect. If yester-
lys decision is sustained the gov. v
nment will be compelled to refund t.
Iout s5,O0O0OO paid by the Ameri. Il
n Sugar Refining Company as Gus, "
ms duties on sugar imported from a
lba. e.
According to Count Cassini, the -
lsSian Ambassador, the latest Rus. -
IN reverses will have no effect in -,
stening the inauguration of peace ~
assures. He said AFTER Lao q"
ng there was talk of peace. Rus. ..
Is answer was to send reinforce. =.
,nts. Like Lao Yang, Mukden is II,
other retreat and Russia will again ~
swer with large reinforcements, &c
Of peace not a word. - "
Prince Ferdinand Of Bulgaria has ~
lived here from London He play. .'
the part of engine driver between '"
ais and Paris with great skill.
'rivate advices say that 900 off,
$ of the Manchurian army have IN
ned a round robin demanding that
leral Kuropatkin conclude hostili.
because of threatened famine. be-
, troops are discouraged as re- VIII
of the chronic failure of their ter
rts. sw
Iinister of War Teraoutchi has his
graphed congratulations to Field ste
'shal Oyama and all officers and ant
of the army on their great vic. Gle
:. Oyama, replying, ascribed the dea
DRY to the Emperor and the ers
,ery Of his officers and men, ger
he Japanese army under General
0ki has broken through the Rus. T
lines on the Hun river east Of Mai
den. A large part Of General Of
oppatkin's army is trapped be- Ber
N the forces Of Generals Kuroki ago
Nogi. r.
rumor Is current that the Gar INN
summoning a special
Gil to consider conditions for
G. The informant states that "
does not necessarily mean that rate
2 will follow, for after taking the talk
on of his advisers, the Car may tor
e to continue the struggle. Com