Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1904 — Page 6

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

LEHR HAS DOG PARTY

CANINE PETS OF ••FOUR HUNDRED” ARE INVITED. Guests Enjoy Delectable Spread and After Dinner Chase Mild-Mannered Cats Over Drawing Room Furniture — Vote Suspicions Against Burglars. The waning season in Newport, R. 1., has become frightfully dull. Even the dogs of the fashionable .set were yawning, full of ennui. So Harry Lehr hit on the brilliant plan of celebrating the third birthday of Mrs. Lehr’s small Pomeranian dog, “Mighty Atom.” So “Mighty Atom” invited to dinner seven dogs of equal breeding and good maners. Of course, Mrs. Lehr's Pomeranian graced the head of the table. The seven were placed on* high chairs, and behind them were seated their mistresses, who were assisted by five butlers in serving the delicate menu. Veal cutlets formed the first course. The dish was delightful. So frankfurters were served next. At last came salads, ice cream and chocolate. At last directly to honor the host, a birthday cake was brought in. On it was delicate,.ly frosted the following inscription: “Mighty Atom,” the Pride of Arleigh; three years old.” Three lighted candles illumined it. Cigarettes were on the table, but the dogs have not yet been educated down to them, and they soon sought the splendid drawing room. There their good breeding even could not hide the fact that they were bored. So Mr. Lehr hit upon a splendid scheme to enliven the scene. Several cats of nature not too brutal were introduced into the drawing room. “Mighty Atom” and his friends enjoyed themselves hugely chasing the cats under sofas and over .chairs, until the dogs’ owners feared their treasures might exhaust themselves.

STRIVING FOR PENNANTS. Standins of Clubs in the Two Principal Leagues. Following is the standing of the clubs in the American League: W. L. W. L. New York. .104 45 St. Louis; wv7B 72 Chicago ....80 58 Brooklyn 57 03 Cincinnati . .82 64 Boston 54 94 Pittsburg ...81 64 Philadelphia. 49 99 Following is the standing of the clubs in the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston 89 57 Philadelphia. 76 66 New Y0rk...87 56 Detroit .... .60 84 Chicago ....86 61 St. Louis.—64 81 Cleveland .. .80 62 Washington. 34109 ARRESTED ON BALLOT BOX TEST. Whole Town Unites in Suspecting Same Men in Burglary Case. Suspected by every citizen in the town, William Robinson and his son-in-law, Claude Wilson of Pulaski, Pa., have beep arrested charged with burglary. Their arrest was brought about by popular vote, the citizens being requested to drop a ballot bearing the names of the men they suspected of the burglary into a ballot box. The vote was unanimous for Robinson and Wilson. A search of their premises disclosed lost property. Twelve Perish in Flood. Half the town of Watrous, N. M., was destroyed by the flood and at least twelve persons were drowned. Many persons were rescued from trees aud housetops. In the Gallinas canyon the dams of the Aqua Pura Company broke. The loss to the town will exceed SIOO,000, and the railroad loss is equal to that of recent floods in Arizona.

“Hello Girl” Now an Heiress. Miss Clytie Griggs, a young telephone girl in Kansas City, was notified by attorneys in Cape Nome, Alaska, that she Lad fallen heir to mines and mining stocljs valued at $500,000. the estate of her cousin, Mrs 1 . Lillian Warner Moore, who died there some weeks ago. She will go north to claim the property. Toledo Furniture Store Damaged. The retail store and warerooms of Keiper Brothers, furniture manufacturers, at 127 Q-1312 Dorr street, Toledo, Ohio, were damaged $175,000 by fire. The insurance is estimated at 60 per cent, or $105,000. Jefferson Quite the Stage. Joseph Jefferson, after more than seventy years on the stage, during which time he has become one of the most honored and beloved members of the dramatic profession, lias decided absolutely never to resume his theatrical career. Collapse Causes Many Injuries. More than 150 persons, clergy and parishioner's, were injured in Adams, Moss., when a platform collapsed during the ceremony of laying the corner stone of a new Roman Catholic church.

Dari*’ Letter la Out. The letter of Henry G. Davis, accepting the Democratic nomination for Vice President, han been made public. He sees hopes of victory and declares the present administration is extravagant. Brakeman’s Double Crime. Edward Thompson, a railroad brakeman, shot and perhaps fatally wounded Edward Wade at Glen Ridge, N. J., and later committed suicide by shooting in a patch of woods some distance away. Bryan Now a Grandfather. Mrs. William Homer Leavitt, formerly Ruth Bryan, daughter of William Jennings Bry»n, has given birth to a daughter in New Orleans. Killed in u Carolina Crash. The Atlantic coast line’s Florida limited crarfied into a Ichul passenger train out of Charleston, 8. C., five miles from the city. A fireman was killed and several persons were injured. Czar’s Portraits Damaged. Detectives are seeking culprits who mutilated several valuable portraits of the Osar, hung iu the Russian section of the varied Industries building at the world’s fair in Bt. Louis. The paintings of Emperor Nicholas had been torn from the and stamped upon.

DROGRESS OF THE EASTERN WAR

In some respects the strategical, situation of the armies In central Manchuria Is now similar to what It was six or eight weeks before the battle of Liaoyang. Tiding and Mukden, the Russian positions, now’ correspond to Llaoyang, Haicheng and Tatcheklao then. The Liao valley and the Mongolian frontier He to the west of the Russians, as before, while to the east are the same mountain ranges with the Japanese forcing one after the other the passes that command the most important roads. We still have the great weight of Oku’s and Nodzu’s armies grimly astride the railroad, preventing any possible expedition to “the relief of Port Arthur,” and at the same time ready to deal the sledge-hammer blows that will force the Russians still farther northward when the time comes. We still have Kuroki in touch with the Russians on the east and doing the most important work over the mountain trails. During the week General Kuropatkin has reported In repeated dispatches the progress of a part of Kuroki’s force along the roads from Bentslaputze to Fu-ling and to the Fushun mines, which He respectively ten and thirty miles east of Mukden. Kaotou Pass, where there was a skirmish, seems to be on one of these roads, while an official Russian dispatch from Harbin reports a fight on the south bank of the Hun River on the road leading to Fu-ling. The Japanese are said to have had two divisions here, rather a large number of men, and to have been repulsed. Farther east, on running northward from Salmatse, the Japanese advanced to an attack on Da Pass. An official telegram given out at Tokio tells of the Japanese capture of Tlellng, which may be one of the passes just mentioned, or some other, as it clearly cannpt be the City of Tieling nortlr of Slukden.

How far and how fast these movements will progress cannot be told, as that depends on factors of weather, transport and men, concerning which we are but poorly informed. We may expect, however, in due time to see Mukden abandoned without hard fighting, much as Haicheng was abandoned when the Russians were concentrating on Liaoyang. If this Is not the case it will probably be because Kuropatkin sees hope of retaining for a while longer his control of the important Fushun coal mines. The opening of the clrcum-Balkal railroad during the week will mean much for Russia, as her re-enforce-ments can now be sent forward teethe full capacity of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, and not merely to the capacity of the steamers and ice-breakers across the lake. If we had any solid facts to go on the news from Tort Arthur would probably be vastly more interesting and important than that from the armies farther north. But we have still nothing but rumors gathered at Chefoo from refugees from Port Arthur and Dalny. The accounts agree that another general assault has been begun, with Japanese successes at several points, and we are also told that Port Arthur is iu desperate straits for food, for water and for coal. But what weight to give to the reports we do not know. For some reason the Japanese government has thus far declined to publish any account of the fighting at the southern tip of the Liaotung peninsula. So what is happening must be pieced out from the story of Lieutenant Radzlwill, who reached Chefoo with dispatches from Stoessel, and from “reliable Chinese,” who, in mili-

HARVEST OF DEATH.

Attacks on Port Arthur Are Marked by Terrible Slaughter. Twelve thousand fresh Japanese troops have arrived to re-enforee Gen. Nogi in his siege of Port Arthur. A new battery of field artillery has also been turned on the city, according to official reports received in St. Petersburg. Since the last terrific assault, in which the Japanese lost heavily, there has been an ominous silence. Viceroy Alexieff, in a message to the Czar, declares the food supply of the garrison good, the defenders in excellent spirits, but that the water supply is causing concern to the commanders. Terrible havoc is being wrought by land mines. Both sides, under cover of darkness, are undermining the fortifications. Quantities of slutnose, the deadly Japanese explosive, have killed many Russians. The losses of the besiegers, however, are terrible. Thousands of dead bodies have impregnated the very sir with death. Due to this, the health of the entire garrison is menaced. It is also understood in official quarters that fresh Japanese re-enforcements are continually arriving outside the besieged city. Despondency in St. Petersburg regarding the situation in Port Arthur is becoming more pronounced daily. Grounds for this feeling of pessimism have been added to in the past few days by the entire absence of news from Gen. Stoessel. Heretofore the Russian commander has been able to get some word through by means of vessels to Chefoo, but it is now irtated the Japanese blockade is perfect and all Junks or other vessels coming oift of I’ort Arthur, or attempting to enter the port, are sent to Dahiy. Indications point to a hard - winter campaign In northern Korea.

tary matters, are the most unreliable people on earth. There is no one so afraid of powder and ball as the Chinaman. When he sees or hears an outpost skirmish it seems to him like the last desperate general assault, and when he reaches Chefoo he reports of “halls of shot,” “cyclones of shell.” and ‘earthquaking mines.” In the latter part of August the Japs took four outlying forts in front of Rihlung and Kikwang. They immediately set out to strengthen these places, and made them into most respectable fortifications. When the next general assault starts, these forts will try to silence the guns of their Russian opposites before the infantry come info’operation. If the new Japanese forts can obtain a preponderance over Rihlung and Kikwang those places may possibly fall to general assault. But the -whole operations at Port Arthur up to the present date merely confirm the old lesson that defenses adequately manned by resolute troops cannot be taken by frontal attack. The Japanese are desperately brave; they are especially good on the offense. They started at Port Arthur flushed with victory. They considered the place as holy and and went at it like crusaders. But they have come nowhere near storming It. Strong forts containing good men cannot be stormed. The fall of Port Arthur Is evidently one of the vital links in the Japanese chain of strategy. Time and again have the Japenese movements been evidently thrown out by the persistent and unexpectedly successful defense of the Russian fortress. In their Intended calendar of war the fall of Port Arthur -was set for a date some months back —probably in June. Then from this June fall they educed a long train of consequences, such as the destruction or capture of the Russian fleet, -which would allow part of the Japanese fleet to go home, repair, take on new guns in place of those worn out by constant firing, rest up its men, while the remaining ships sealed up Vladivostok. Meanwhile Nogi and his 80,000 men would be released for other work—perhaps at Vladivostok. Kuroki and

War News in Brief.

Port Arthur’s fate is said to hinge on a single fort that the Japs are trying to capture. The people of Japan plan sacrifices at home to enable the nation to prosecute a long war. Oyama’s cavalry has entered the Pu valley. which leads to the railroad north of Mukden. The Japanese have landed many troops in Korea for an advance toward Vladivostok. Port Arthur’s plight grows worse, the city being absolutely cut off from the rest of the world. Fresh troops are being added to the Japanese garrison at Bentsiaputsze, now the headquarters of the army. A mysterious foreign cruiser was sighted off San Francisco and is supposed to be tile Korea, n Russian raider. Marshal Oyama is bending all his energies to a flanking move of vast proportions around the east side of Mukden. Ta Pass was taken by the Japanese after a slight engagement. The islanders are advancing on Tieling along the Liao river, according to a report from Harbin. At Mukden it is believed that the Japanese will not make a frontal attack upon that city, but will seek to engage the Russians north or northeast of there. The line of the Japanese army at Mukden is sixty miles long, stretching from a point near Fushun on the east to a point just south of Mukden and near the Hun river on the west. Major General Orloff, who was blamed for the Russian defeit nt Liaoyang, will be detached from the Mancllurian arjpy by order of Gen. Kuropatkin. He may be retired summarily or given a new command in Russia.

SCENE OF PANIC IN PORT ARTHUR.

The wide sweep. of the Japanese eastward turning movement Is Indicated In the map. Using the Taitse River as a means of transit, Ovama is dispatching troops to Sianchan, thirty miles northeast of LiaoYang. The appearance of Japanese near Kaolau Pass also is significant, and might be taken as a design to cross the Hun nt the Fushun ford. At Port Arthur the line of Investment is drawing closer. The location of Fort Kouropatkln, which is reported captured, is pointed out. Almost directly eastward and westward are Rihlung and Antseshan forts, the loss of either one of which would be a serious blow to General Stoessel.

Oku obviously tarried long waiting for Port Arthur to fall. And by their tarrying they wasted much valuable time and probably inflicted a less severe whipping on Kuropatkin than would have been possible earlier. Stoessel remains a great big spoke in the Japanese wheel.

“JAPS” TAKE DA PASS.

Important Point Forty-five Miles from Mukden Captured. The Japanese at last have begun the offensive. They have captured Da Pass and are pressing on Gen. Kuropatkin’s left flank. It is believed the Russians abandoned Da Pass without serious resistance. Several other passes of the Da range east of Bentsiaputze, twenty miles southeast of Mukden, are also in the hands of Japanese. Kuropatkin evidently is drawing in his forces to the less mountainous country northwest, where he may decide to give battle. Meanwhile sharp fighting is regarded as imminent southeast of Mukden, whence the Japanese are expected to deliver their main attack, the flank movement from the west being of secondary Importance. x Da Pass, or Ta Pass, meaning Great Pass, is situated about forty-five miles southeast of Mukden and about the same distance northeast of Liaoyang. It is about twenty-five miles south of the Hun river. The Japanese attacked Da Pass, which was occupied by the troops of Gens. Mishtchenko and Sanisonoff, Sept. 24, but, according to dispatches from Harbin, were repulsed twice.

Czar to Reorganize Army.

The Czar, spurred by repeated defeats at the hands of the Japanese arms on land and sea, has decided to reorganize the Russian army. Gen. Grippenberg has been assigned to command the second division of the Manchurian army, nnd is placed on equal footing with Gen. Kuropatkin. Seven hundred thousand men may soom be ready to take the aggressive againisf the Japanese. It is believed that Grand Duke Nicholas will be made coinmander-in-cliief of the Russian armies in the far East.

SENATOR HOAR DEAD.

LONG SUFFERING OF STATESMAN ENDS PEACEFULLY. Passes Away at His Home in Worces-ter-Venerable Man for Years Was Prominent in Nation’s Affairs-His Career Briefly Sketched. George Frlsble Hoar, senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, died at his home in Worcester at 1:35 o’clock Friday, morning. The end followed a period of unconsciousness that had continued since early Tuesday and came so gently that only the attending physicians were aware of the exact moment of dissolution. George Frlsble Hoar, grandson of Roger Sherman, who signed the Declaration of Independence, was born at Concord, Mass., Aug. 29, 1826, studied in early youth at Concord Acadeniy, graduated at Harvard College in 1846, studied law and graduated at the Sane Law School, Harvard University; set-

SENATOR GEO. F. HOAB.

tied at Worcester, where he practiced; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1852 and of the State Senate in 1857; was elected Representative to the Forty-first, Forty•econd, Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses; was an overseer of Harvard College, 1874-1880; was re-elected in 1896; is President of the Association of the Alumni of Harvard; was one of the managers on the part of the House of Representatives of the Belknap impeachment trial in 1876; was a member of the Electoral Commission in 1876; was regent of the Smithsonian Institution in 1880; has been President and is now Vice President of the American Antiquarian Society, President of the American Historical Association, trustee of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology, trustee of Liecester Academy, is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, olh the American Historical Society, the Historic-Genealogical Society, the Virginia Historical Society and corresponding member of the Brooklyn Instltuteof Arts and Sciences; is a trustee of the Peabody fund; has received the degree of doctor of law’s from William and Mary, Amherst, Yale and Harvard Colleges. His father, Samuel Hoar, was driven out of Charleston, S. 0., in 18|4, when he went there as the representative of Massachusetts to guard the. interests of free negroes- He was proild of his ancestry, proiid of his State and Imbued with the traditions of both.

Senator Hoar had been in the United States Senate continuously since March 5, 1877, and had been a potent force in shaping legislation and in the councils of his party. True, he had been out of line with the administration more than once, but he always managed to get back Into the fold before election day. The venerable Massachusetts Senator was a thorn In the flesh of the administration in the months following the acquisition of the far-away islands by this country by reason of his terrific arraignments of the Republican party for its policy ,ln the Philippines and other possessions. The fund of Information of all kinds bearing on the subject and the logical way in which his views were presented won many converts to his way eff thinking. Then as the election day approached he left his adherents high and dry, as far as he was concerned, t?y falling into line and swallowing the Philadelphia platform with hardly an audible murmur. Senator Hpar had a finer literary sense than almost any other man in public life. His bible and his Shakespeare and the classics were dear to him. His taste ran in channels somewhat out of the common. That appealed to him especially which had the flavor and the sweetness of the past. George Herbert, Isaak Walton, Dr. Donne were among his familiars. He loved to ramble through the byways of literature. For him to visit England was a delight While not much of- a collector of books, he had at home In Worcester 4,000 or 5,000 volumes, fondly chosen, It Is true, but containing few rare editions or choice bindings. He took pleasure In gathering autographs and manuscripts of certain sorts.

Notes of Current Events.

The Newfoundland Legislature has been dissolved and a general election will occur Oct 81. The International Steam Engineers decided not to issue special charters to German locals. The plate glass factory of Zahn A Bordey at Oarlton, N. J., was burned. Lose is SIOO,OOO. The Bearer Brook colliery of 0. M. Dodeon A Op. at Hasleton, Pa., was tied account of a strike by the breaker boy*.

Two of a Kind.

When Frank Norris, author of "Th< Octopus,” wag a Harvard freshmato be did not attend recitations as sedw lously as the faculty desired, fits had an aversion to mathematics ana to one or two other of the dryee branches of learning, and was too rrs* quently to be found, In pleasant weather, on a certain bench, under a| certain elm, with pipe and book. There was an Instructor whose window looked down upon young Norris* favorite seat One day this Instructor/ leaning fax out, called: “Mr. Norris, I never look out of thia window but I see you Idling down there on that bench.” Norris replied: —.— “Well, Mr. Blank, I never look mi from this bench but I see yop idling! there at that window.”

Sure Cure at Last.

Monticello, Miss., Oct. 8. —(Special.) —Lawrence County Is almost daily In receipt of fresh evidence that a auto cure for all Kidney Troubles has at last been found, and that cure If Dodd's Kidney Pills. Among those who have reason to bless the Great American Kidndy Remedy is Mrs. L. E. Baggett of this place. Mrs. Baggett had Dropsy. Dodd’s Kidney Pills cured her. “I was troubled with my kidneys,” Mrs. Baggett says In recommending Dodd's Kidney Pills to her friends, “my urine would hardly pass. The' doctors said I had Dropsy. I have taken Dodd’s Kidney Pills as directed and am now a well woman.” Dodd’s Kidney Pillsj cure the kld J neys. Cured Kidneys strain all the Impurities out of the blood. That means pure blood and a sound, energetic bodyj Dodd’s Kidney Pills are the greatest tonic the world has ever known.

$85,500 in Gold Coin

Will be paid in prizes to those com-’ Ing nearest at estimating the paid dotendance at the St Louis World’ll Fair. The above amount Is deposited with the Missouri Trust Company, as per the official receipt of the treasurer of that financial institution and publlsln-! ed In the schedule of prizes announced 1 elsewhere In this paper. TheWorld’lf Fair Contest Company, Delmar and Adelaide avenues. St. Louis, Mo., iff offering these prizes and there is Up' doubt of the cash being In bank to pay' tjhe lucky winners. The contest closeg October 15th. i

Hard to Explain.

A lawyer who appreciated a first* class joke on himself was at the Gals House last night Phil B. Nelson, ci Roanoke, Va., is his official title. “When a barrister of only a few months’ experience,” said he, “I had occasion to examine a negro witness. I was getting along fairly well until I asked the negro what was his occupa. tlon. " Tse a carpenter, sab,’ he said. “ ‘What kind of a carpenter?’ 1 asked. " ‘They call me a jack-leg carpen* ter, sah.’ “ ‘What is a jack-leg carpenter?’. “ ‘He is a carpenter who is not a fust-class carpenter, sah.’ “ ‘Well, explain fully what you understand a jack-leg carpenter to be,’ 1 Insisted. “ ‘Boss,’ said the witness, ‘I declare I dunno how to ’spin in any mo’, ’cept to say it am jes’ the same difference *twixt you and a fust-class lawyer.’ ”

Poor Place for Poets.

Poet —I’m going t» leave this offensively practical country. It’s no place for poets. Friend—What’s happened? Poet—Yesterday I visited all the newspaper offices I could find In a suburban town, and at last succeeded in persuading an editor to take a poem at fifty cents. Well, I’d hardly reached the curbstone before I was arrested by the authorities for peddling g >ods without a license.

CAN DRINK TROUBLE

That’s One Way to Get It. Although they won’t admit it many people who suffer from sick and other alls get them straight from* the coffee they drink and it is proved if they’re not afraid to leave it to a test as in the case of a lady in Connellsville. “I had been a sufferer from sick headaches for twenty-five years and any one who has ever had a bad sick headache knows what I suffered. Some-, times three days in the week I have to remain in bed, at other times I couldn’t lie down the pain would be so great. My life was a torture, and if I went away from home for a day' I always came back more dead than alive. , • “One day I was telling a woman my, troubles and she told me she knew tbatj it was probably coffee caused It. She said she bad been cured by stopping coffee and using Postum Food Coffee’ and urged me to try this food drink. “That’s how I came to send out and get some Postum and from that time I’ve never been without it, for it suits my taste and has entirely cured all of my old troubles. All I did was to leave off the coffee and tea and dripk well made Postum in its place. This change has done me more good than everything else put together. “Our bouse was like a drug store, Sir my husband bought everything be heitTd of to help me without doing any. good, but when I began on the Postum my beam ches ceased and the other troubles quickly disappeared. I have a friend who had an experience just like mine and Postum cured -her just as it did me. “Postum not only cured the headaches but my general health has been improved and I am much stronger than before. I now enjoy delicious Postum more than I ever did coffee.’’ Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek; Mich. “There’s a reason” and it’s worth finding out / —“*'*’l