Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1904 — War News in Brief. [ARTICLE]

War News in Brief.

The Blacii Sea fleet may join the Baltic ships. Gen. Kuropatkin is holding hia center and right to allow the left to retire. Both armies are waiting for fine weather to make further carnage practicable. The Japanese are working out some flanking movements that may be heard from soon. Every one of the Cossacks commanded by Capt. Tourgenieff was wounded, and the captain fatally. The Baltic fleet will go East in two divisions, by the way of the Suez canal and Cape of Good Hope. The Eighth Russian army corps' is reported to have reached Mukden and Ku-ropatk-in will begin new plans. A correspondent with the Japanese army tells something of the progress of that army to its present position at Port Arthur. Japanese ostimnte Russian disunities at 00,000 and they admit about 40,000. It is thought the total may be for both armies 80,000. The Japanese protest against the use of Chinese clothing by the Russians has .reached YY’ushingtou and been forwarded to St. Petersburg. The German Red Cross Society will offer to establish a hospital nt Irkutsk and equip a train, and a similar offer will be made to Japan. To settle a wager made in the Union League Club, New York, a« to the color of Thomas Jeffersou’s hair, a committee visited the YVliße House and Inspected the famous oil portrait by Stuart, and decided the former President’s hair was of a sandy color, and not red. President Roosevelt has refused to approve the plan of the War Department to have the tailoring at -the Schuylkill arsenal done by contract instead of by the widows and orphans of the men in blue who now earn their firing by making the soldiers' clothes.