Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1905 — Page 2

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

ANOTHER GIRL SLAIN

BODY FOUND IN CREEK IN CINCINNATI SUBURB. Young Woman Thought to Have Been Fourth Victim of “Lovers' Lane" Murderer Body of Supposed Murderer’s Accomplice Taken from River. The body of a woman, evidently the ■victim of a murder, was found in Bloody Run creek, in North Avondale, a suburb of Cincinnati. A knife wound over the heart was the evident cause of death. The corpse had probably been in the water for several weeks, and decomposition was so far advanced as to render identification difficult. It is the theory of the police that the murder was committed in another portion of the city and that the body was concealed, in a sewer and was washed out by the recent high waters into Bloody Run creek. The body is apparently that of a woman of 22 years. The police say that the only chance of identification will be through the remains of the clothes, as the features are entirely indistinguishable. MURDERER KILLS ACCOMPLICE. St. Paul Slayer Makes Away with One Who Assisted in Another Crime. The body of a. young man. alleged accomplice of Edward Gottschalk, who is charged with the murder of Christian Schindeidecker in his East Seventh Btreet butcher shop Feb. 18. was found in the Mississippi river at St. Paul by the police, who have been dragging the river for days on the supposition that after having assisted in the murder of Schindeidecker Hartmann was then killed to prevent him from giving information about the murder. No doubt can exist that young Hartmann was murdered. Upon his feet were tied two heavy flatirons to keep the body from rising to the surface. On the back of the head was a cut, apparently made with a flatiron.

TWENTY-FOUR DIE IN MINE.

Rescuing Party la Overcome by a Second Explosion. Fourteen men, comprising a rescue party which went in the Rush Run and Red Ash mines near Thurmond, W. Va., to bring out the bodies of the ten men ■who perished in an explosion the previous night, were caught by a second explosion Sunday and were killed to a man. The twenty-four charred and mangled bodies are still in the mines, which are joined together. Soon after the rescuing party entered the mine the gas which had accumulated ignited. Those who escaped being mangled by the force of the impact were killed liy the after damp. New Railroad Bridge Opened. The new East Omaha bridge over the Missouri river of the Illinois Central railroad, connecting Omaha and Council Bluffs, was formally opened Saturday in the presence of a party of Illinois Central railroad officials, local‘railroad officials, members of the Omaha and Council Bluffs commercial clubs and invited guests. Thieves Get Summary Justice. John Schneider of Kansas City and Joseph Martin of Moline, 111., held up . and robbed Edgar Montague of Janesville of a gold watch and .$5 in money’ Within ten hours’ time the men were arrested, tried and sent for two years each to State’s prison. Missouri Deadlock at an End. In a scene of riot and but fifteen minutes before the time for final adjournment, the Missouri Legislature elected Major William Warner of Kansas City united States Senator, ending the deadlock which bad existed since Jan. 18. Torna-lo Sweeps Porch, Okla. A tornado struck Porch, a small town near Hobart, Okla., killing one man. J. E. and Charles Jones were fatally injured and sixteen others hurt. Sixteen houses were dehiidished. Gen. Joseph R. Hawley Dies. Gen. Joseph R. Hawley, for nearly twenty-four years United States Senator from Connecticut, died at his residence in Washington. Death came peacefully after a stupor lasting for two days. Five New York Buildings Collapse. The collapse o. five buildings under construction in New York is charged to faulty construction and the sudden change from cold to warm weather. Big Paper Company. The Publishers’ Paper Company, incorporated in Maine, will o»n and operate a big plant for the manufacture of the stock used in newspaper offices. Two Negroes Are Hanged. Two negroes were hanged in Richmond, Va.. Edwin Austin for the assault on a 10-year-okl negro girl, and Peter Dancb for the murder of a negro woman. Passes One Hundredth Birthday. Manuel Garcia, noted London musician and inventor of the laryngoscope, was highly honored by rulers, artists and scientists on his one hundredth birthday. Town Is Named Roosevelt. The Wisconsin Assembly has passed a bill for the creation in Taylor county of a town named Roosevelt. United Rtates Senate Adjourns. The United States Senate adjourned after reaching a decision that the San Domingo treaty could not lie ratified. Fire Damages a Mill. A fire in the threading department of the Spang-Chalfant mill, at Etna, Pa., destroyed machinery and stock to the of |75,000; folly insured. The origin of the fire has not been ascertained. ~~ * l “ Woman Murdered in Hotel. A young woman was apparently murdered in n hotel in Newark, N. J. The woman ie supposed to have been choked to death by a male companion, Who left the hotel after locking the door behind him. No one saw him leave.

DROGRESS OF THE EASRERN WAR

The battle of Mukden was one of the greatest of the world's history in the number of men engaged, the extent of the battle line and the long duration of the lighting. Probably it Was also the greatest, or rather the most terrible, in the number of casualties. There tire those who believe that it was as great as the greatest in the importance of the issues that are at Stake. Surely these are superlatives enough for one battle in this “prosaic” age. Oy.atna won the battle of Mukden more by tactics than by strategy. Strategically the battle presented few features not familiar to all students of war. It possessed but one element of surprise—Nogi's sensational march around the Russian right wing—and even that might have failed had Kuropatkin's. scouts been properly led. But aside from Nogi's dramatic swing around the right there was not a feature of Oyama’s strategy that the Russian had not foreseen Wbat Kuropatkin had not provided against, however, and what his divisions could not cope with were the masterly tactics with which Oyama’s simple strategy was executed. From the beginning of the battle on Feb. 17, when Lineviteh vainly tried to turn the Japanese right sixty-one miles southeast of Mukden, until March 5, when Kaulbars’ exhausted divisions were crushed at the imperial tombs, eight miles north of Mukden, Oyama’s generals moved with the precision of automatons. Kawamura’s sweeping advance to Da pass—Kuroki's bold crossing of the Sha —Nodzu’s impetuous assaults on Poutiloff hill —Oku's hammering blows at Chantan —Nogi's dramatic march around the Russian right —all were timed and executed with a precision that proved that a master mind was directing the keyboard of battle. The fighting at Mukden has served to ilustrate with remarkable clearness both the extraordinary military proficiency of the Japanese and the advantages they enjoy in other respects. Kuropatkin had one point in his favor—the ability to operate entirely Within his own lines. This was offset by a sad lack of initiative, which was his undoing. -The superiority of the Japanese in numbers, their ability to refresh themselves with re-enforcements, their consciousness of victories already won, the absolute unity of action among their general officers and the

GENERAL KUROPATKIN. THE DISGRACED RUSSIAN COMMANDER.

devotion and courage of their soldiers prevailed. While Kuropatkin was dependent on one frail railway line, the Japanese were within easy access of their base at Newehwang, with practically no risk of their communications being Interfered with. That the battle of Mukden Is the greatest in the history of war may readily be believed. In round numbers the Russian force engaged was 375,000, with 1,500 guns. The Japanese army is believed to have exceeded these figures in strength by perhaps 40,000 men. It is impossible to analyze, as yet, the effect of the disaster upon the Russian bureaucracy. The Russian people naturally are for peace at any price. The Russian officials, it seems, have not or cannot make up their minds. There Is a strong war party In court circles at St. Petersburg and dispatches from the Russian capital are burdened with hints of another campaign to be undertaken, of another great army of 400,000 men to be raised, of another stand to be made at Harbin.

LINE OF KUROPATKIN'S RETREAT.

The map shows the location of Tiding, or Tie Pass, whence the Japanese dislodged the retreating Russians after severe fighting. Tiding is an important walled town, and is considered to-be a strategic point of great value. It is about thirty-five miles north of Mukden. The next large city north of Tiding is Kaiyuen, ffliiriy miles away. Nogi’s army is believed to have made the attack from the west that compelled Kuropatkin to evacuate Tiding. It will be remembered that Nogi’s turning operations west of Mukden practically surprised the Russians, and also compelled the retreat from that city. A few days ago Kuropatkin telegraphed that the Japanese had procured new levies, as several of the men killed were found to be wearing new uniforms. Military experts are inelined to believe that the fighting north of Tiding is being done by fresh troops from Japan, and that the exhausted and harassed Muscovite forces are in great peril. Kuropatkin’s retreat northward, it is said, may become a parallel to the disastrous retreat of Napoleon from Moscow. The stars in the map mark the location of towns also mentioned in connection with the victorious operations of the Japanese.

TIE PASS IS TAKEN.

Japanese March Into Stronghold Following a Bloody Battle North. Tie Pass has been occupied by tire victorious forces of the Mikado, and Kuropatkin's army, disorganized, hungry, and beaten, has entered upon its long, hopeless flight over the 300 starving miles to Harbin. It is generally believed in Tokio that this last defeat of the general of the Czar is, in all probability, the practical finish of his beaten army, and though but little news of a definite nature has been received beyond the bare announce-* nient of the capture of Tie pass, it is recognized that the task of transporting such a beaten and disorganized mass across the desert to Harbin is one beyond the power of any general With but IW.OOO men left who are fit for active service and with a number of

wounded equally as large, it is easy for the Japanese to see that their victoryflushed armies have the Russians practically at their mercy and the population of Tokio is already eagerly awaiting what they believe is sure to Come —the news that Oku. Nogi and Kuroki have hemmed in the fleeing Kuropatkin on the .desert beyond Tie pass, that the Russian star has forever set in the far East and that the flower of Japan's blood and tears has come to the fruition of supremacy. The Russians burned the greater portion of their stores and supplies before evacuating Mukden. The Japanese occupied Ringching March 13. Ringching. or Yenden, is situated about eighty miles almost due east of Mukden.

Wiped Out an Insurance Fund.

The burning of the docks of the Illinois Central railroad at New Orleans in the big fire the other day inflicted n loss of $1,700,000. This does not fall upon the regular insurance company but upon the railroad which insured ita property and which wipes out its insurance fund.

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ARMY HEAD DISGRACED.

Gen. Kuropatkin Dismissed by Czar Without a Word of Praise. With the Japanese hanging on the heels and flanks of the remnants of the broken, defeated Russian army, Gen. Kuropatkin, the old idol of the private soldier, has been dismissed and disgraced and Gen. Lineviteh, commander of the first army, is appointed to succeed him in command of all the Russian land and sea forces operating against Japan. The word disgrace is written in large letters in the laconic imperial order gazetted. which contains not a single word of praise, and also disposes of the rumor that Kuropatkin had asked to be relieved. The Russian military annals contain no more bitter imperial rebuke. While it was known that the war council had already decided to supplant Kuropatkin after the Mukden disaster, the decision to confer the task of saving the remainder of the army on Lineviteh in the very midst of its fight came as a surprise. s . It transpires that Emperor Nicholas upon the advice of Gen. Dragomiroffi and War Minister Sakharoff determined that the step was necessary when it became apparent that Kuropatkin, while concentrating for a stand at Tie Pass, seemed unaware that the Japanese had worked around westward again and practically allowed himself to be surprised. Old reports brought by Gen. Grippenberg regarding Kuropatkin's failing mentality also had influence. Under the circumstances therefore it was considered imperative in view of the exceedingly perilous position of the army to turn over its command to Lineviteh, who alone had been able to bring off his army in order after the battle of Mukdett. The task confided to Lineviteh of withdrawing what is left of the great army of 350,000 men to Harbin is a desperate one. He is hemmed in on all sides. Gen. Kawamura presumably is pressing northward through the mountains eastward, ready to swoop down. Gens. Nogi and Oku are on the West of the Russian forces; the whole line of the railroad is threatened, if not already cut, and Chinese bandits are even reported to be in the rear of Harbin., (Napoleon's plight in the retreat from Moscow with Kutusoff's Cossacks harassing the starving, freezing Frenchmen, was Iwrdly as bad or dangerous.

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Russian war office will send 400,COO more troops to Manchuria. Russia is sending a steady stream of war materia) to the Indian frontier. Grand Duke Vladimir says Russia will send another army to the far East. Russians are charged with burning wounded Japanese soldiers in Manchuria. ' Thousands of Russian soldiers were captured by the Japanese when Mukden fell. Gen. Gripenberg, in an interview nt St. Petersburg, bitterly assailed Gen. Kuropatkin. The Russian government paid to Great Britain $325,000 in settlement of the North Sea claims. The British steamer Eusby Abbey, from Cardiff, bound for Vladivostok, was seized by the Japanese. Gen. Stoessel, the hero of Tort Arthur, met with a cool reception upon his arrival in St. Petersburg. Russia urged China to protest against the violation of the neutrality of Chinese territory by the Japanese. The disaster to the Russian army has revived talk of peace in Europe. The opinion prevails that peace is inevitable. ,Tbe Japanese steamer Osaka Shoshen Kais,ha sank while entering Osaka harbor, and over one hundred lives were lost. The British steamers Apollo and Scotsman, with contraband cargoes for Vladivostok, were captured by Japanese warships.

Might Be Helpful in America.

European inspectors take snapshots of men engaged in public work. The photos, in some cases, are more eloquent than any report could be. One showed a group of thirty men on a road paving job, but two of whom were at work. That tells a story of deliberate ambition and slothful activity which could have been photographed on almost any public work in America, where the idea might be helpful in many instances.

A Costly Poem.

“My hat is a perfect poem, isn’t it, John?’’ “It ought to be. I paid more for it than Bryant got for ‘Thanatopsis.’ ” Houston Post.

An Ex-Sheriff Talks.

Scott City. Kan., March 20th. —(Special.) —Almost every newspaper tells of cures of the most deadly of kidney diseases by Dodd's Kidney Pills. Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Rheumatism and Bladder troubles, in fact any disease that is of -the kidneys or caused by disordered kidneys is readily cured by this great American remedy. But it is in curing the earlier stages of kidney complaint that Dodd's Kidney Pilis are doing their greatest work. They are preventing thousands of cases of Bright's disease and other deadly ailments by curing Kidney Disease when it first shows its presence in the body. Speaking of this work ex-Sheriff James Scott of Scott County, says: “I have used eight boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills and must say that they are just the thing for Kidney Disease. We have tried many kidney medicines, but Dodd’s Kidney Pills are the best of all.” t

The Horse Dealer.

“Whatis the secret of your success?” asked the young man. “In buying,” said the old horse dealer, “I look sharp, and in selling I look just as ignorant as I can.”—Chicago News.

Orders Disobeyed.

The orders of General Health have been disobeyed, when you feel under the weather, weak, tired, irritable, and suffer from headache, constipation, biliousness, etc. The only sure, safe, and permanent cure for this condition is Dr. Caldwell’s (laxative) Syrup Pepsin. It has a gentle action all its own, superior to that of pills, powders, and cathartic waters. Try it. Sold by all druggists at 50c and SI.OO. Money back if it fails.

Old Fashioned Children.

To speak with precision, children’s costumes do not begin before the closing year of the eighth century, Up to that time it was thought sufficient to dress the little folk, according to sex, in garments reproducing exactly those of the father and mother. Such clothes must, assuredly, have been very uncomfortable for creatures whose movements call for ease, and whose turbulence does not' well accord with the stiffness of the eighteenth century ruff, or the majestic amplitude of those perukes whose solemnity pears to overshadow the intimate life of our progenitors. It is to be observed iq this connection that wherever, in our day, ancient costumes have survived the invasion of the railroad and of what we are generally agreed to call progress, this manner of dressing children still continues. Anywhere in Brittany, in Holland, or in certain remote parts of Switzerland and the Tyrol, one may meet boys and girls from 5 to 6 years old promenading gravely in the habiliments of grown-up persons. And one perceives that such a fashion springs from an undeveloped conception of early youth, a conception which does not measure properly all the distance that separates the man from the child. —Century.

THE SIMPLE LIFE

Ways that Are Pleasant and Paths that Are Peace. It is the simple life that gives length of days, serenity of mind and body and tranquillity of soul. Simple hopes and ambitions, bounded by the desire to do good to one’s neighbors, simple pleasures, habits, food and drink. Men die long before their time because they try to crowd,too much into their experiences—-they climb too high and fall too hard. A wise woman writes of the good that a simple diet has done her: ‘‘l have been using Grape-Nuts for about six months. I began rather sparingly, until I acquired such a liking for it that for the last three months I have depended upon it almost entirely for my diet, eating noth lug else whatever, but Grape-Nuts for breakfast and supper, and I believe I could eat it for dinner with fruit and be satisfied without other food, and feel much better and have more strength to do my housework. “When I began the use of GrapeNuts I was thin and weak, my muscles were so soft that I was not able to do any work. I weighed only 108 pounds. Nothing that I ate did me any good. I was going down hill rapidly, was nervous and miserable, with no ambition for anything. My condition improved rapidly after I began to eat Grape-Nuts food: It made me feel like a new woman; my muscles got solid, my figure rounded out, my weight increased to 120 pounds in a few weeks, my nerves grew steady and my mind better and clearer. My friends tell me they haven’t seen me look so well for years. “1 consider Grape-Nuts the best food on the market, and shall never go back to meats and white bread again." Name given by Fostum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There’s a reason. Look in each pkg. for the little book, "The Road to Well villa."

UNITED STATES SENATE

SPECIAL SESSION.

Developments Tuesday make it plain that there is little chance that the San Domingo treaty will be ratified. Party lines were drawn sharply in the discussion of the treaty by the Semrte in executive session, and the support of several Democratic mejnbers, on which the friends of ratification were depending, apparently is not to be had. The Democrats will return to the fold, and on both sides it .is admitted there is little prospect the convention will be ratified. The Republicans have counted as certain the votes of Senators McEnery and Foster of Louisiana and Clark of Arkansas. Senator Gorman, the minority leader, »gave notice that these Senators are now pledged against the treaty. It is not expected that Mr. McEnery or Mr. Clark will return to Washington to vote. The discussion took on a decided partisan basis. Senators Teller, Morgan and other Democrats criticised the administration severely. Senator Teller asserted that the administration could not be blameless in permitting Commander Dinlingham to exercise so much authority. Senator Spooner defended the course of the Department of State. Senator Foraker and Cullom followed along the same lines. Senator Bacon started to address the Senate, but was seized with gastritis and was unable to go on. The Senate then adjourned. In the course of the Senate debate Wednesday on the Dominican treaty Senator Heyburn of Idaho made an extended argument in favor of the annexation of San Domingo. He declared the destiny of this, as well as other islands, was to be under the control of the United States. Senator Teller introduced a resolution of inquiry, asking the State Department for information concerning relations with the Dominican government between July 1, 1904, and March 1, 1905. Senator Cullom objected to the reading of the resolution, declaring the matter pertained to executive session. “The Senator cannot take me off the floor,” said Senator Teller, warmly. He insisted that his resolution be read. The resolution directed the State Department to send to the Senate copies of instructions given to Commander Dillinghaut and Minister Dawson regarding Dominican affairs, and al! communications relating to the treaty. The Senate then went into executive session until adjournment. Senator Morgan made a sensational speech in the executive session of the Senate Thursday, in which he charged that William Nelson Crowell of New York was a prime mover in a scheme to influence the United States in the financial affairs of San Domingo. Crowell, he alleged, was acting in the.interest of a syndicate which holds a mass of claims against Latin-American repjublics, including a large part of the debts of San Domingo, and also was trying to defeat a plan of Mr. and Mrs. Reader of Alabama to obtain certain concessions from the Dominican government. The Senate did not devote its entire time in executive session to the San Domingo treaty. The Nicaraguan extradition treaty was ratified and the Russian corporation treaty discussed nt length. The Newlands resolution calling on the President, if not incompatible with public interests, to send to the Senate certain information regarding Dominican affairs, was adopted. In the executive session of the Senate Friday Senator Morgan continued his speech, in wlrfch he disclosed the details of certain concessions sought in San Domingo by a Mr. and Mrs. Reeder, operating as the Reeder syndicate. Before the doors were closed he offered a resolution calling for an investigation of Dominican affairs ami of the facts in connection witty the negotiation of the protocols by the Senate, committee on foreign relations. Later id the secret session he challenged the Senate to adopt the resolution. He said that if this were done the charges he imide Thursday connecting William Nelson Cromwell of New York with a movement to bring about the offering of the offices of the United States to adjust the financial affairs of the Dominican government would be proved. Senator Morgan spoke until 4:45 p. m„ when Senator Foraker took the floor in defense of Mr. Cromwell. He read a telegram from Mr. Cromwell, denying he had had any dealings with I resident Morales in connection with concessions. The Senate adjourned sine die Saturday afternoon after formally reaching a decision that the San Domingo treaty could not be ratified. The Teller resolution. requesting the President to send to the Senate certain information relating to San Domingo affairs, was referred to the committee on foreign relations after an extended debate. Mr. Cullom then moved that the Senate go into executive session. Mr. Morgan endeavored to call up his resolution asking for an investigation of San Domingo affairs by the committoe on foreign relations. Mr. Cullom, however, insisted upon his motion, and nt 1:09 the doors were closed.

In the National Capital.

The Senate began its session by passing a bill for the incorporation of the American academy in Home. Faivae. governor of the western district of Tutuila, with his county chiefs, has expressed to President Roosevelt his satisfaction at the kind administration Of Commander Edmund 8., Underwood, the retiring governor of Tutuila of the Samoan group. The President thanked him through Commander C. B. T. Moore, the present governor of Tutuila. The President has appointed H. A. Gudger of North Carolina; consul general nt Panama, to be judge of the Supreme Court of the Panama canal zone. The Senate committee on finance reported favorably the nomination of Charles W. Anderson, colored, to be collector of internal revenue for the second district of New York. The recommendations for improvements in the system of physical training at Annapolis. «o that athletics shall ba compulsory for the entire four year*’ course liave received the indorsement of the officials of the Nary Department.