Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1904 — Declare Japanese Ship Sunk. [ARTICLE]

Declare Japanese Ship Sunk.

The Russian authorities at Newchwang declare that a Japanese battleship hns been sunk by a submarine boat and that three sraft of this class are now at Port Arthur and another en route to Vladivostok by rail. A French priest just arrived at Newchwang from Mukdeu says 20,000 Russian troops are stationed there aud that an army of 100,000 men is at Liaoyang, with heavy reenforcements arriving daily. Fairmount College, at Wichita, is to have a new $20,000 men’s dormitory.