Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1904 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. CEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

TALK AND FEATURES.

BOTH ARE TRANSMITTED BY NEW TELEPHONE. Appliance Invented that Enables Peraons Using Wire to See Each Other’s Fqces—Boy Bookmaker Held for Theft of $25,000. A telephone arrangement by which a person speaking may also see the face of the person at the other end of the line •has been invented by J. B. Fowler of Portland, Ore. Two months ago Mr. Fowler conceived the idea which, followed out, resulted in an apparatus which he exhibited Friday for the first time. How far it will be possible to see the faces over the wire is yet to be demonstrated. To the observer appears an apparatus much resembling the front end of a large camera. There is also a telephonic transmitter. To see over the wire one puts his eyes to the tube which corresponds to the lens of a camera. Miss Lillian Fowler went to the other end of the wire, twenty-five feet away in another room, and where any reflection by mirrors was out of the question, and her face showed as distinct and clear as in a miniature painting. As she spoke her lips were seen to move. The observer was in darkness, that he might see the more clearly.

STRIVING FOR PENNANTS. Standing of Clubs in the Four Principal Leagues. The clubs of the National League now stand thus: W. L. , W. L. New Y0rk...99 35 Louis..... 65 67 Chicago SO 52 Brooklyn ....50 84 Pittsburg ...77 52 Boston 45 88 Cincinnati \a.73 59 Philadelphia. 41 93 The table below shows how matters stand in the American League: W. L. W. L. New York.. .SO 50 Cleveland ....69 60 Boston 81 52 St. Louis 56 74 Philadelphia. 72 54 Detroit .' 56 76 Chicago . .77 58 Washington.. 32 09 Standings in the American Association are as follows: W. L. W. L. St. Pau1....94 50 Louisville ...78 69 Columbus ...85 61 Indianapolis. 68 83 Milwaukee ..85 63 Kansas City.sß 90 Minneapolis. 78 64 Toledo 42 lOS The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Colo. Springs.B2 54 Des Moines... 74 68 Denver .....82 56 St. J05eph....53 86 Omaha S 3 59 Sioux City.... 42 93 ‘ hold BOY FOR $25,000 THEFT. Arrested at Race Track, Where *He Thrived as Bookmaker. Charged with forgery and the embezzlement of sums amounting to .$25,000, Frank O'Donnell, an IS-year-old Brooklyn boy. was arrested at the Brighton Beach race track upon the complaint of Edward H. Floyd Jones, a lawyer, in whose office he was employed until a few days ago. Young O’Donnell was found by the police to be doing a good tgisiness as a bookmaker, having in his employ half a dozen sheet writers and runners. He is charged with raising his salary cheeks and altering figures in the books of an estate. Jewish Massacre in Germany. More than fifty Jews were killed and 100 were seriously wounded in the German town of Sasuovitch by a mob which attacked its victims on the Hebrew New Year. The brutality of the mob is said to rival the Kishineff massacre in horror.

St. Louis Day at Exposition, St. Louis day, the banner event of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, brought out a crowd of 385,000. Parades, speechmaking, song and tireworks contributed to the success of the occasion. Negro Woman a Lawyer. For the first time in the history of Kentucky a negro woman has been admitted as a member of the bar, and licensed to practice law. She is Mrs. S. J. S. Wite of Louisville. “The Breakers’’ in Ashes. The Breakers at Long Beach, Wash., one of the finest summer hotels on the north Pacific coast, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is $07,000. There were no guests in the hotel. Italian King Grants Favors. The King of Italy, in honor of the birth of a son, granted amnesty to deserters, shortened the terms of punishment for certain crimes and gave $200,000 toward a fund for aged workmen. $2,076,000 for Monastery Lands. The Philippine civil commission is preto pay to the Augustinian order of friars $2,070,000 gold for the lands in the islands held by the order. Halifax Saved from Destruction. A sudden veer of the wind saved the business section of Halifax from flames which destroyed $500,0U0 worth of property on the water front. Car Barna Destroyed. Ten firemen were injured in a blnze »Inch destroyed the Union Traction Company's barns nt Western avenue and Flournoy street, Chicago. Prince Bismarck Die*. Prince llerl>ert Bismarck, son of the “iron chancellor," diet! in Frederichsruhe after a lingering illness. Death of Ex-Gov. W. G. Rich. William G. Bitch, ex-Governor of New Mexico, is dead at Engle, Sierra county, near which place he was engaged eil in ranching. Mr. Bitch was born in 1830 in New York ami was educated for the law. —rt , Students In Fierce Fight. Six students were injured, one of them probably fatally, in n class rush between freshmen and sophomores nt Wittenberg College, Springfield,.Ohio. John Snyder of Springfield was kicked in the stomach •“ d Jk - ” “

PROGRESS OF THE EASTERN WAR

Mukden, the ancient royal city of the Mancinis, is the focal point for the world-wide attention centered in the Russo-Japanese war. In successive stages tlie field of operations has swept across Manchuria. Liaoyang recently was the stage for great events. The battle fought there, even though but fragmentary facts are known, is conceded a place among the world's great military struggles. Kuropatkin, in a masterly retreat, forced upon him by the strategy of the enemy, covered forty miles of sodden roads, saving his army and artillery from total disaster and reached Mukden. Will he make a stand here, or will his weary army take up tlie march again to a position farther north? This is tlie question of the hour. A few miles north is Tie Pass, a position adapted by nature for defensive operations. This, say rumors, is in reality to be the scene of the next great battle. In fact, a desperate battle has already been reported here, but this is now denied. Mukden*..which in times of peace has at least 260,000 inhabitants, is situated in tlie center of an immense alluvial plain, about three miles from the Hunho, a tributary of the Liao river. It is about forty miles north of Port Arthur, forty-two miles north of Liaoyang and 350 miles south of Harbin. General Kuropatkin discovered, early in March, that Harbin was too far north to serve as a military base for the campaign in Southern Mancuhria, and he selected Mukden for his headquarters; because it is favorably situated on tlie railway and on tlie Pekin road. The city of Mukden has an outer wall of mud, and a lofty quadrangular inner wall three miles in circuit, built of brick, flanked by lofty towers and pierced by eight gates protected by lofty brick bastipns. This wall, on which three carriages could drive abreast, protects the commercial and official part of the city, and is densely crowded. Mukden, besides being tlie great grain emporium of Manchuria, is the center of the Chinese fur trade, and attracts buyers from all parts of the world. It is the ancient royal city of the Mancinis, and the former burial place of tlie rulers of China. About the city and- about the tombs centers the veneration of China's millions. Aside from this, Kuropatkin may not only avoid battle at Mukden, but may be compelled to abandon all hope of further resistance until after the winter months. His army, repeatedly defeated, is badly demoralized, say rumors. Its morale cannot but have been affected, and though its valor has been unmistakably proven, the task of again facing the fanatical desperation of tlie Japanese might prove too severe a strain. ’ Two months of autumn remain for fighting. Nevertheless, it is more dhan probable that the battle of LiaoyaAg marks the last important struggle of the present year. The rains now preyent operations. The plan of the Japanese will not develop until transportation becomes possible over the roads. A determined advance on the part of the enemy will in all probability be followed by a prompt northward movement on the part of Kuropatkin. In that event, the winter will find this situation: Tlie main Russian army will be centered at Harbin, with tlie rear guard at Tie Pass. The main Japanese army will be quartered in and about Liaoyang, with its advance guard at Mukden. Rumors have come

COURSE WHICH THE RUSSIAN BALTIC FLEET WILL TAKE.

The course that the Russian Baltic » ( fleet, which has started for the far East. will probably take is indicated in the map. The length of the journey is more oca<• *» X’JL than half the distance around the world, for 12,270 nautical miles or 14,110 statute miles separate Port Arthur and Cronstadt by the shortest sea route. At an average steaming rate of ten knots, not including many stoppages for coaling, it would take fifty-one jdays for the fleet to get within sight of the beleaguered fortress. Between Gibraltar and Port Arthur there are at least twenty ports at which, in time of peace, the ships could coal, but-vhe ports being in neutral hands this is forbidden in present circumstances. Any adverse weather will cause great delay, for the larger ships must hold back for the small craft, of which there are many in the new fleet.

from Toklo of a winter campaign. Those familiar with the rigors of the Manchurian winters doubt that such course could be seriously considered. Japan could well afford to grant a period of rest to an army which has accomplished fairly marvelous things In seven months of fighting. All is speculation, however, and no definite word may be uttered until the armies again move and their plans ac-

FIELD MARSHAL OYAMA, THE HERO OF LIAOYANG.

tually develop. Meantime, ancient Mukden rivets attention. It is impossible to ascertain what has happened during the last week between Liaoyang and Mukden, except in the broadest outlines, and even as to these there is uncertainty. We know that Kouropatkin lias been

THE SITUATION AT PORT ARTHUR.

withdrawing his army northward, but how far he has taken it we cannot tell. We know that Kuroki has been in touch with his rear guard to the east at least part of the time. We have had it officially stated several times that the entire Russian army was in Mukden or north of there, and concurrently we have had

scraps of Information to indicate that the movement was not yet completed. Rumors even of pitched battles fought by the Russian rear guard are still coming. We may disregard as manifestly erroneous all stories from hysterical correspondents and army officers in Mukden of fighting close In to that city, and we can similarly disregard the report that Kuroki's and Oku’s forces are respectively twenty-

seven and twenty miles to the east and west of Mukden. The other day there appeared three circumstantial accounts of the battle of Liaoyang, telegraphed in by correspondents who had been present. Two of these correspondents were with Oku’s, or the left, army, while one was with Kuroki’,s, or the right, army. All three of them agree that the battle was fought with desperate bravery on both sides. The Russians exhibited a new ability to hold the Japanese. Oku, on the left, assaulted again and again—on one occasion thrice during twenty-four hours. He lost regiments at a time, yet he kept on. In the opinion of the Chicago Trib-' une, if the Japs had tried to take Liaoyang exclusively by direct assault they would have failed. But the flanking movement of Kuroki, who threatened to get behind the Russians, compelled them to evacuate the town. The critics who have eyes only for Oku’s army, and see it battered and bruised in its direct assaults, must not forget that Kuroki could not attempt bls flanking movement from the east unless Oku should press the south in sufficient numbers to keep a large number of Russians employed there, and so prevent them from being sent to interfere with Kuroki’s flank march. But the Japanese did not surround and capture the Russian army. That is a thing not often done. Kuroki, marching from his bridges across the Taitze, had twice as far to go to reach the railroad above Liaoyang as Kouropatkln, who was in Liaoyang and on the railroad. In addition, Kouropatkln has steam to increase his mobility, while Kuroki must plow his men and transports over wretched, muddy footpaths. Small forces in good positions could delay Kuroki; there were no forces on the railroad to check Kouropatkln. In every war of history a victory such as Oyama won has been called “sweeping.” He forced the Russians out of a strongly fortified place, chased them to Mukden, forty miles northward, and It is reported that they are still going, and propose to make for Tlellng, forty miles north of Mukden. This retreat is directly away from Port Arthur. The Port Arthur situation remains obscure. There has been some heavy fighting. The Japs gained a few advantages, though probably at a heavy cost. The Russians are now forced to distill sea water because the Japanese have cut off the last remaining fresh water spring of the Russians, which was at Fort Etse. Etse and the adjoining forts are not occupied by either side, since these positions nro dominated by batteries of both sides,

War News in Brief.

Russian officials state that the loss to Kuropatkin’s army at Liaoyang was less than 17,000 men, 4,500 being killed. The Japanese are said to be levying taxes in Manchuria and to have taken entire control of finances and customs in captured territory. Much bushwhacking is going on upon the road sotrth of Mukden, and many Russian soldiers have been killed from the fields of Chinese corn. Oyaina reports that a large Russian force faces him south of Mukden and that the Russians are fortifying both banks of the Liao river at Tie Pass. Chinese bandits again are active, frequently attacking the Russian railroad line north of Mukden. Bushwhacking causes constant losses to the Russians. Information coming from an authoritative source in St. Petersburg is that the Russians will winter at Harbin, but the fact that there probably will be two months of good weather for military operations before extreme cold weather sets In leaves room for a revision of this purpose in the light of events that may transpire.

WHEAT CROP HIT HARD.

Government - Report Shorn a Loss of 150,000,000 Bushels Since July 1. The wheat-crop this year.is 115,000,000 bushels less than that of last year, and from 115,000,000 to 150,000,000 bushels less than estimated two months ago. The government, crop report says that spring wheat has fallen away to the extent of 63,000,000 bushels since the report made on Aug. 1. The winter wheat crop Is unchanged, but the loss here occurred previously. Two months ago there were various estimates on the total , wheat crop—spring and winter—and the government figures of 638,000,000 bushels, exactly the same as last year’s crop, were Ipwer than that Of the grain trade, which said 675,000,000. Splitting the difference, one may say that the shrinkage in two months may have reached 150,000,000 bushels. But, using the government’s figures as a basis, the falling off in the last two months has been at least 115.000,000 bushels. Approximately 30,000,000 bushels of this loss was to the winter wheat crop, which suffered from floods during harvest time in Kansas and Nebraska. The remainder of the loss of 85,000,000 bushels was doubtless due to black rust and to blight spring wheat States of the Northwest. The report is sensational in that it puts the United States directly in the balance as between an exporting and an importing nation. If the per capita consumption in this country were as great as in France there would be no doubt that this nation had passed definitely for the year out of the exporting column. The latest estimates on this score, however, put the average in the United States at 5.25 bushels. On a population Of 85,000,000 our bread alone would use up wheat to the amount of 446,250,000 bushels, and the seed requirements are estimated at 75,000,000 bushels more. These items aggregate 526,250,000 bushels, leaving nothing at all for warehouse and mill reserves or to carry over until next crop. Taking wheat and corn as the staple grain for comparative purposes, the following figures in the last fourteen years will be interesting: Wheat, bu. Corn, bu. 1004 .523,400,000 2,327.350,000 1003 638,000,000 2,244,000,000 1902 670.000,b00 2.524,(KM),000 1901 748,000,000 1,523,000,000 1900 522,000,000 2.105,000.000 1899 547,000,000 2,078,000,000 1898 675,000,000 1,924,000.000 1897 530,000,000 1,902,000.000 1896 428,000,000 2,283.000,000 1895 467,000,000 2,151,000,000 1894 460,000,000 1,212,000,000 1893............396,000,000 1,619,000,000 1892 516,000,000 1,628,000,000 1891 612,000,000 2,060,000,000 1890 399,000,000 1,489,000,000 The following table shows for each of the States having 1,000,000 acres or upward In corn, the condition on Sept. 1 in each of the last three years and that on Aug. 1, 1904, with the ten-year September average: TenSept.l, Aug.l, Sept.l, Sept.l, year 1904. 1904. 1903. 1902. aver. Illinois ... 86 89 77 94 84 lowa 85 87 67 91 79 Kansas ... 68 70 72 91 68 Nebraska.. 87 88 80 101 70 Missouri .. 7-f 74 76 102 80 Texas .... 86 89 91 37 75 Indiana ... 80 91 76 99 87 Georgia ... 81 89 89 66 87 Tennessee. .90 96 91 72 83 Kentucky . 89 95 81 82 84 Ohio 78 86 67 93 84 Alabama ~ 93 93 99 54 84 N. Carolina 96 96 86 88 87 Arkansas .. 87 91 90 90 79 Mississippi. 92 95 98 60 81 Virginia .. 98 97 88 84 87 S. Carolina 91 93 83 81 83 S. Dakota. 80 86 89 78 75 I. Territory 92 93 84 88 86 Oklahoma .87 89 72 80 62 Wisconsin. 78 84 72 83 84 Pennsylv’a. 94 90 79 IX) 86 Minnesota. 80 80 73 89 85 Louisiana. 87 90 99 61 85 Michigan.. 73 75 79 70 82 U. S ....84.6 87.3 80.1 84.3 79.®

MANEUVERS AT BULL RUN.

Regulars and State Troops-Drill on Historic Battlefield. On a strip of laud eight miles wide and twelve miles long, in Prince William County, West Virginia, watered by the streams of Bull and Broad Run, the largest body of troops ever brought together in the United States in time of peace recently assembled. The soldiers of the regular army and of the State militia were brought together for drill in army maneuvering and to acquire an experience which cannot be gained with a small number of troops. On this historic battle field of Bull Run the soldiers were divided into two large armies and bloodless war was waged. Gen. Grant and Gen. Bell were the commanding officers and fwenty-six thousand men took part in the drills. They were about &nefourth regular and three-fourths militia, and they represented about one-quarter of the State and national forces included in the seacoast territory from Maine to Texas, or the Atlantic division as it is officially designated. Gen. H. O. Corbin was in supreme command. It is expected that the recent maneuvers will be especially beneficial to officers. Many of them are skilled in the manipulation of small bodies of men, and have a good theoretical knowledge of how a campaign on a larger scale should be waged. The necessity of supplementing theory with practice has long been recognized in the War Department and ' the recent drills are the outgrowth. In order to obtain the use of the ground where these maneuvers took place the government leased the land of the farmers owning it and agreed to pay 20 cents an acre for all land used for maneuvering purposes, and 15 cents extra per acre for all land used for camping purposes. The government further bound Itself to pay for all damages to crops, fences and buildings. The maneuvers were participated in by the sons of men who forty years ago put up fights which were anything but shams.

Miss Kate Carl, an English artist who has been commissioned to paint a portrait of the dowager empress of China, describes Tsi An as “a shrewd, tempestuous old lady, with the soul of a tigress in the skin of a woman.” The richest women in the United States are said to be Mrs. Cornelius Van* defibik, Sr., $80,000,000; Mrs. 0. P. Huntington, $75,000,000; Mrs. R. J. 0. Walker (daughter of William Weightman), $50,000,000; Mrs. Henry C. Potter. $45,000,000; Mrs. Ogden Goelet, $40,000,000, and Mrs. Hetty Green, $30,000,000. The greatest Roman Catholic heiress in England is Lady Margaret Stuart, sister of the Marquis es Bute. The biggest part of her income consists es ground routs in Jerusalem.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

Dun’s review of Chicago trade says: Considering the enormous

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financial loss incurred and the privation caused within the last two months, the decision of the packinghouse strikers to return to work has removed a most serious obstacle to business. This clearing of the industrial atmosphere encourages renewed effort among the manufacturers, and it may suggest the early termination of labor controversies -which are impeding progress in the production of machinery, woodwork and clothing. Notwithstanding these interferences the manufacturing situation presents evidence of widening activity. Demand exhibits distinct improvement in the leading departments. Rail mills secured additional contracts, and there are indications that further heavy requirements soon must be provided for. Lower cost has stimulated the buying of wire product and structural forms, while shipbuilding contracts will absorb large tonnage of plates. Distributive trade sustains the advance noted last week. Conditions have been favorable in tlie prominent retail branches, and merchandise stocks were satisfactorily depleted. Visiting buyers thronged the jobbing markets, bringing gratifying reports as to the business outlook in their localities. Grain shipments, 3,595,145 bushels, are 10.5 per cent over those a year ago. There was more urgent use of cars to market farm products, receipts of which are the largest in several years. Board of Trade operations were less susceptible to crop damage rumors and values of breadstuffs closed but slightly changed over a week ago, although there was downward tendency. Live stock receipts, 203,191 head, were under the number expected. Choice held steady, but values advanced, for hogs 40 cents a Jiundredwclght and for sheep 25 cents.

According to Bradstreet’s commercial report, trade, crop and

Nev York.

industrial developments have been generally favorable this week. Distributions on fall and winter trade account have enlarged at most markets, the corn crop has progressed another week toward final maturity, which, however, this year is later than usual, and several industries hitherto greatly depressed or operating on short time have resumed running full. The industrial situation Is slightly less strained than it was, and tlie beef strike Is now ended. In iron and steel past and prospective price reductions have encouraged inquiry, consumption Jias finally overtaken production and stocks Of crude material are smaller. With the beginning of the cfop movement, which is reasonably heavy for this period, has come Improved collections and better railway earnings returns. August results point to a 6 per cent increase in gross receipts over a year ago. All In all, the prospects continue favorable for a fairly active trade in most lines, but nothing in the way of record-breaking is looked for In general business or in crop outturn. ■ 1

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Catjtle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.85; hogs, shipping grades, $4.40 to $0.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.75 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.14 to $1.10; corn, No. 2,50 cto 52c; oats, standard, 82c to 33c; rye, No. 2,72 cto 74c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $12.50; prairie, SO.OO to $10.00; butter, choice creamery, 16c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 17c; potatoes, 87c to 4Oc. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.85; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $0.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.12 to $1.13; corn, No. 2 white, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c. St. Louis —Cattle, $4.50 to $6.25; hogs, $4.00 to $5.75; sheep, $3.00 to $3.85; wheat, No. 2, $1.13 to $1.14; corn, No. 2, 50c to 51c; oats. No. 2,31 cto 32c; rye, No. 2,70 cto 71c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.00 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $0.15; sheep, $2.00 to $3.30; wheat, No. 2, $1.16 to $1.18; ebrn, No. 2 mixed, 54c to 56c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 32c to 34c; rye, No. 2,78 cto 80c. Detroit —Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.60; sheep, $2.50 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2, $1.21 to $1.23; com. No. 3 yellow, 56c bo 57c; oats, No. 3 white, 32e to 33c; rye. No. 2,78 cto 79c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, sl.lß to $1.19; corn, No. 3,55 cto 56c; oats, No. 2 white, 82c to 84c; rye, No. 1, 75c to 77c; barley, No. 2,54 cto 55c; l>ork, mess, $10.77. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, sl.ll to $1.12; corn, No. 2 mixed, 55c to 56c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 32c; rye. No. 2, 76c to 77c; clover seed, prime, $7.15. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $6.00; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; latnlw, fair to choice, $4.50 to $6.25. New York—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.55; hogs, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.40; wheat. No. 2 red, sl.lß to $1.20; corn, No. 2,58 cto 59c; oats, No. 2 white, 37c to 88c; butter, creamery, 10c to 11A.J eggs, western, 17c to 22c.