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WHOLE NUMBER I?,637.
RICHMOND, VA.y SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1904.
PRICE TWO CENTS.
SUMMARY OF THE DAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
WASHINGTON, K?pt. 8.-Forecast for
Saturday und Sunday;
virginia??alr Balurday; Sunday Mr,
warmer In Interior; light in fresh north?
east winds, hfc?tiilrtg soutlit'rly Saturday.
North Cnrollnn^Knlr Buliirday and Sun?
day; light to fresh winds mostly north?
easterly.
Itlchmond's weather continues cool,
fleur unii ploaBanl.
HANOIS OF TlIK THERMOMETER '
? ?. M. '.. ??
li M.'. M.
'3 ?'. M.M
it I'. M.7S
G? ?-? M. 71
13 midnight .?!>
Average . 741-3
! Highest temperature ycetordey...*">
l.owoKt. temp?rature ypHlcrday.?il.
Mean temperami?? yesterday."?
Normal temperature for Heptvmher.... 71
Dcparltiro from normal temperature.. 02
Precipitation during peut 'Jl hour?.ou
Richmond.
John Korehlceloll commun siileld?> by
fending 11 biilli?t through hl? brain; busi?
ness and other worries mild *.n have driven
him to the act?"Phil" Shea, member of
the City Council, died last night after long
" Jlbies?-Funeral of Mr. 11. U. Klrkwood
?^Pond of elagnant water In the West
End ti menace 10 health of city and
county people-Body of Japanese student:
cmlmlmed for long voyago iibd burini In
h!s nittlVo land; left Imme ?nd friends,
who cut him off, lo com? to America and
prepare himself to ,??-each >t ho gospel
More Council committee.? organize and
nearly ?ill are now ready for business
til-county convention of temperance work?
ers' hohl ouarterly session und elect?1?
c?rti-Dr. AVeslon Bruner conducts last
service at Calvary Church to-morrow
night-Funeral' of Mr, John Peek, who
was killed 'by street car, taken place to?
day-Jewish Now Year began yesterday
at sunset; appropriately observed here.
? MANCHESTER-Joint session of As?
sembly and Board of Aldermen held and
officers are elected?Death In Chcsler
i Held-Briefs.
. ^ .
Virginia. *
A hoy mysteriously ehot"ond dies In the
street In Tajseweir without anyone know
. lag who shot him?A coffin .with dry
bones In It found on the bench at New?
port News?-Petersburg- Aldermen and
Councllmcri organizo for business?
'.Soiithall's majority In clghty-two out of
R6 products In the district is 722; report?
ed thai Judge Varrcll will t.ike the stump
for Ibo national und conKresslonnl ticket
?7? Virginia Military Institute open? with
many new cadets: Washington ?Hid Lee
pccu5les* two new building??Supreme
C'oliti proceedings at Smuntoti?Young
, Mep's Institute In session at Roanokc
elect jrrami ofllcer??Annual convention
of Kiiuq'ulcr Y. M..C. ?. nt AVarrenton??
Robert Iycc, of Columbia, S. C, under ar?
rest in Norfolk as a counterfeiter?David
Culpepor, of Portsmouth, probably faully
phot by another well known citizen.
North Carolina.
?Monument unveiled nt Wilson in honor
"of the memory.o? Dr. Calvin H. "Wiley;?
Negro legally ? rexecuted In Oxford . for
criminal assault-Governor'Ayeoek. and
?Krane!? D. ? Winston leave' -'for Maine to
make? a. series, of educational addresses;
General.
New? from the Far East ?till indefinite;
Oyamn. tired out, fails to stop the flying
7?usetans. and -'KJuropatkln |s safo in
Mukden with torn and bleeding army; was
terribly hampered by rain and mud aud
by the fact that he carried l-'.fxX) wounded;
dead wcro left on the Held for the Jap?
anese to bury; .tota.1 losses ? t Lino Yang
?will reach 50,000 and: may dc in excoss of
that ligure; no news from Port Arthur?
Four killed and thirty-flvs injured In
wreck on tho Seaboard Air Uno; passen?
ger train goes through bridge and freight
plunges In on top of It?-Big fire In Yuca?
tan does damago to tho extent of $1,200,000
??Fourth day of manoeuvers results In
great victory for Brown army under Gen?
eral Bell; brilliant dinner at headquarters
last night;,, grand review 'it Wellington
to-day-Tobacco corporation will be con?
solidated under name of American To?
bacco Company-Negro Williams,
cliarged with criminal assavlt, hanged In
Wheeling, W. Ma.-Two killed In freight
'wreck on tho Birmingham and Selma di?
vision of .the Southern Railway-?Colon-,
lai Girl wins Omnium Handicap at
Shccpshead Bay; Prlnco Altert breaks
record-Tombstone falls and kills girl
praying at grave of relative?Boston
takes lead in race for American Leuguo
pennant-Golf championship to bo de?
cided tw-day-Violent movements of
Rending the dominant feature of the stock
market.
CONFESSES TO COMPLICITY
IN CAUSING GREAT DISASTER
(By Assoc'-atcd Press.)
??????, KAN., September 9.?B. F.
Blu gal. alias Robert Romaine, a deportad
toolored miner, under arrest hero for
burglary, has confessed to tho county at?
torney to complicity In the independence
depot and tho Vindicator mine explosions
in the Cripple-Creek district lust June, by
which fifteen non-union minera were kill?
ed outright and others Injured. Romaine
suys ho helped to piuco the dynamite
and wires running beneath tho depot by
which the chargo was set off. Romaine
gave tho names of those who ho alleges
were Implicated with 'illm In this plot",
There wero twelve other men. The men
?whom Romalno Implicates with hinisolf
are said to bu former officers ^und mem?
bers of minors' urflons in tho' Crlpplo
Creek district Only opo of thenv be?
lieved to hn Charlus Ci. Kennlson, former
president of the. Minors' Union, No. 40,
Crlpplo Creek; 1s. now In tho districi,
Kennlson Is in the county jail charged
With murder und conspiracy to murder
|n connection with the-Independence de?
pot explosion.
Motorman Was Dismissed.
Motorman W. L, I^lnscomb. whose cat
ran down Mr. John Peek and killed him
Thursday night, was discharged In tho
Police Court yesterduy.
The accident was ?an unavoidable one,
ne the evidence uppcured to Just'co John.
17
WANT
HELP
TO-DAY.
'?'h?, 17 advertisement? fpr Uelppnb.
Ushed lu to-day's Tlimu-.uisimo* ou
pug? d are as tojlow? {>>'.'?,,
4 Agents. '8 Trades.
2 Domestics, 8, Office Hol\>,
5 ?Miscellaneous, >
ThU not ou|y Interest? tho?? ?ut ti
werk, but thoae desiring t? lUipraye
their po?UlOMt ta well.
THE BATTLEGROUND AT ' MAN ASSAS.
?.? AHX'iijij.Klt? ??G???.
BLUES ARE"
ROUTED BY
GEUELL
Brown Army, Under
Grant. Sustains De?
cisive Defeat.
GRAND REVIEW TO
BE HELD TO-DAY
Great Spectacular Feature Will
Close Week of Manoeuvres.
Formal Dinner at Head?
quarters Last Night.
The Day in the
Field. /
(Special Correspondence.) j,
PRESS CAMP, GAINESVILLE.' VA.,
Sept. 9.?Tho Blue army under General
Fred. Grant suffered a signal defeat to?
day at the, hands of the army of !tho
Browns, under General Bell. Tho chief
umpire. Colonel Wagner, stated to-night
that he would not speculate upon tho
probable result of the action, had it been
completed, but his tmlmpassloned r?um
'?xnlnts-.np.pt what had been accomplished
during tho day made , It' plain that had
General Graut beert commanding an army
In actual?.warfare; hlsdefcat would have
been as decisive as that which McDow-.
ell suffered at the hands of Bcauregard
in 1861, or as tlio one received by Pope
In JS62.
The Blue left was turned and simul?
taneously the army was attacked In over- ?
whelming numbers In front. At the siame
time, the Blue right was shattered byan
attack from the. Browns, supported by.
imaginary reinforcements, supposed to
havo. arrived at 3 o'clock yesterday. In
short. General Grant suffered a worse
defeat to-day than was ever administer?
ed to his father by the arm y, of Northern
Virginia, under General Lee*. It was a
rout. Both tho Browns and the Blues
to-day occupied the old tronches thrown
up by Union and Confederate soldlere.
General Corbln issued an ardor this
afternoon thanking tho organized militia
for? tho sustained interest manifested in
tho manoeuvres desplto the .discomforts
of bivouac, heat and dust. Tho order
says that "Preparations for war, not an
illustration of war itself," has been tho
object sought and that "It Is believed the
goal Is now much nearer to all who have
participated In the manoeuvres." Gen?
eral Corbln says In the order: "There has
been no Instance, so far as known of
the unlawful destruction of property,"
and that officers and men have received
only the most courteous treatment at
tho .hands of tho people of Prince Wil?
liam county,
Brilliant Dinner.
General Corbln gave a formal dinner
to-night to members of his staff, foreign
attaches and a fow invited guests. There
were present the! Lloutcnant-Governor of
Virginia, Hon Joseph E. Willard; tho
Governor of Massachusetts, the Gover?
nor of Georgia, tho Governor of West
Virginia and tho ? Lloutcnant-Governor of
Vermont. The guest of honor was tho
Secretary.of tho Navy, Hon. Paul Slor
ton,
?General Corbln first toasted tho Presi?
dent of the United States. Tho toast was
drunk standing, after which tho Secre?
tary of the Navy responded to tho toast,
"Our Navy," In which ho outlined a fu?
turo plan for tho increase of our war
ships, He said tluit his idea of a navy
could bo summed up in threo words:
Construction, instruction and destruction.
Governor Willard responded In his hap
(Contlnued on Third Page.)
IN AMBUSH.
BRIGKHOUSE
SENTENCED
Given Four Years for the Mur
der of Edgar
Adair.
AN ARRAY OF ABLE COUNSEL
Expert Testimony to .-Establish'
Plea of Insanity?Speeches
by Richmond Lawyers.
(Special io The Times-Dispatch.)
ONANCOCK, VA., September 0.?The
jury in the trial of Wm. Brickhouse for
'the murder of Edgar Adair after being
j out since 13 o'clock last night, brought In
la verdict of murder In tho second degree,
at four o'clock this afternoon, and the
? Judge sentenced tho prisoner to a term
of live years in tho penitentiary.
This trial has: been one of the most
brilliant ever hold on tho Virginia Eastern?
Sho/e, and rivals any ono tried?.sinco -thu
days of Upshur' and Henry A. WIs?,.
; Last night from four in the afternoon
to midnight, allowing only thirty minutes
j for a recess, -the crowded room was a
? profound stillness, tho audience listen?
ing to the arguments of the opposing
lawyers. -Many ladles wero In .the crowd.
Masterly Speeches.
Mr. S. James Turlington, spoke first for
the Commonwealth, and was followed .by
Mr. Charles V- Meredith, of Richmond,
for the defense. Both arguments were
masterly efforts and . held the . closest
attention. After a short recess, Mr.
'Nathaniel Wescott renewed the speeches
for tho defense In a two hours appeal,
stating over and over again'that Brick
house was not himself when tho shoot?
ing occurred; He' made the speech of
his carec??, w:hlch was aia Inspiriting ora- ?
I torlcal .effort.. .
I William? Briokhouso. a man of fifty,
! had killed his life-long friend Edgar
Adair,.after being together drinking, and
as there had beer? only the usual quarrels
of drunkards, tho defense based' its plea
?upon tho'insanity of Brlokhouso.
! Expert Testimony.
One of .America's greatest mind experts
! Dr, CaiTuthers, of Hartford, Conn., was
brought.here to testify for tho defense.
I He stated that the prisoner had three
uncles who wero drunkards;, ard th.it
he was'sick front tho minute of'his blrUi,
being unable to digest any nourishment,
had a severe caso of typhoid foyer when
fourteen, and had quickly become a laud?
anum and-alcoholic drinker. It. bolus
proven that. 1.130 empty laudanum bottles
were gathered at his homo from uso
" (Continued on Second Pago.) t
? WATER CARRIER.
IS DISCUSSED
McGue Examining Papers and
Writing Letters on His
Typ e writer.
STILL REFUSES TO TALK
C??ARLO'lv?ESVIDLE, VA;, September.
9,?in the constant^'turning over; in tho
panilo mind -here of the, McCuo case,
the probability that he' is insane and
the somewhat guarded expression of
belief : that such is his mental condition
to-day, was the chief subject of consid?
eration, while .the people o ntho sireet
corners aro asking if tho rumor that he
is insane has: foundation,- and 'others arc
saying that it Is Unie that ho was un?
balanced.
Tho accused lawyer is examining papers
and running off letters 'on his typewriter.
There seems to be no sort of pretense
on his, part to tho possession of a diseased
mind.
Refuses to Talk.
Ho still refuses to talk about the case,
and there is ^nothing to suggest the com?
ing of. a. confession, which some profess
to expect- Ho retired at ten o'clock
and spent a good night.
It seems that there lias been, quite a
run "on the offices of the clerks of court
of this city for .information by client?
of the accused attorney. They appear
to bo searching the records to see how
ho had disposed of business entruste'd to
hlin; Mr.'McCuo Is regarded, as having
in tho last five years done the' largest
loan business of any lawyer at tho bar,
as well a? tho largest business In col?
lections.
Some Friends Left.
???? ox-mayor Inquired to-day who com?
posed the guard .stationed .at the. Jail.
Tho answer seemed to ploaso him ,nnd
ho said thaf ho was glad . that he had
some friends left.
Dctoctlvo Baldwin returned last night
from Washington. , Ho' had accomplish?
ed his mission, but would stato nothing
to ' the newspaper men. That ho has
evidence la assured.
FOUR ARE
KILLED IN
BIGWRECK
Passenger Train Derailed
and Freight Plunges
. in ?on the Top.
TERRIBLE STORY
OF SUFFERING
Thirty-five People Arc Injured,
Including Several
, Women.
EVIDENCE THAT DISASTER
WAS CAUSED BY MALICE
A Number of Rail Joints Were
Found Disconnected?Passen?
ger Coaches Went Through
Bridge and Freight Leapt
Into Chasm Before It.
Could ' be Stopped.
' (By Associated Prese.)
PORTSMOUTH, VA., September 9.?
Shortly after 1 o'clock this morning, train
No.. 41 on the Seaboard Air Line Rail?
road, consisting of an express car, a mail
car, two day coaches and a Pullman
sleeper,. was derailed .at a trestle Just
south of the Catawba River, S. C, and:
twenty-two miles southwest of Slonroc,
N. C. followed by the wreck of a light
engine and caboose, resulting In tho death
of four , persons and ' the injuring of
thlrty-tlve others. '
The killed are: ?' -
Engineer E. Y. BARKSDALE, Abbe?
ville, S. C.
. Fireman ED. ROBERTS (colored), At?
lanta, Ga.
Mrs. BLACK.
UNKNOWN WOMAN.
The Injured are:
? Mrs. James;Clay, Oakland, Teun., frac
.turcd Jaw.
?',T. VC. Jeror?o, Atlanta, Ga,, sllghUy
bruised. ? f ?.
Mrs. T. C. Jerome, Atlanta, shoulder
and head Injured.
Dr. Edward Banks, Athens, Ga., back
Injured.,.
Mrsi Sidney Herbert, Maitland, Pia.,
foot amputated; may die.
Mrs/' Jerome .silyey, _ Atlanta, Ga.,
bruised.-'
G." W. Hihson, Lenox.' Ga., Jaw Injured.
Tom Mitchell (colored); brnkeman, Ab?
beville, S. C, head and shoulders Injured.
Pink.Carpenter, Monroe, N. C, portor,
head and body injured.
"The following were ?lightly hurt:
- V?-:S:''E??rby,?Atlanta(colored), Pull?
man porter, ;''-"' '
J. G; Turner, Atlanta, Pullman conduc?
tor.' ' '
G. H. Mean?. Monroe, N. C, engineer.
? J. Duncan, Abbeville, S.? C, brukeman.
IT. IT. Chapman, Abbeville, S. C, con?
ductor,
G. II. Davis, Atlanta,'Ga.. express mes?
senger.
W. Falrman, Atlanta, Ga., mull clerk.
It. T. West, Monroe, N. C, conductor.
B. F. Meader. nddress unknown.
F. C. Topleman, addr'ees unknown.
T. C.,.Horton,. address unknown.
Mr. ?? Black,; address .unknown.
Robert Siegl?r, address unknown, and
Molilo Griffin. . address unknown.
A .number of colored laborers also were
slightly hurt.
Rails Found. Disconnected.
At tho ?fricos of tho Seaboard Air Line
in this city, it was .stated that imme?
diately after tho receipt of the news of
tho accident, a special train with wreck?
ing, outfit and doctors started from Mon?
roe to tho scene of tho wreck. Th'e_dead
and Injured were brought back to Mon?
roe. . .
J. M. Barr, first vice-president and
general manager of tho road, said to?
day, that thorn was evidence of a ma?
licious attempt to' wreck tho train, a
number of rail joints having been found
disconnected. Ho gavo tho following do
UUls? .
"Train No, 41 was In charge, of Con?
ductor Richard West, und Engineer Gas?
ton Meurs. Tho wreck occurred about I
o'clock this morning at. the trostlo just
south of Catawba Hiver, South Caro
(Cuntlniiod on Tenth Pago.)
OYAMA FAILS
TO CHECK THE
RUSSIAN FORCES
FIELD MARSHAL ?????.
-Prom a Picture in the Philadelphia
North American.
Kuropatkin Now Safe in
Mukden With Torn and
Bleeding Army.
TOTAL LOSSES AT
LIAO-YANG 50,000
Meyendorff Holding Kuroki in
Check South of Mukden.
One Russian Column
in Desperate
Straits.
There, is still a lack.of specific In?
formation regarding the exact situa?:
tion in Manchuria. The Russian gen?
eral? staff, lacking details, is unable
to speak -authoritatively, while ad?
vices from Japanese sources aro sig?
nificantly lacking, T.t, Is established
[that'the.'Russian army is safely at
Mukden, and that the retreat was ac
-laps Bringing in the Wounded.
Russian ? Revolution and Over-:
? .'throw..of Czar.;Being ;'c-i
'.,'?-.' '" -Planned..?
TRIES ;T0 INFLAME COUNTRY;
-':-, ;.? (By Associated Press;)
ST.^PETJBRSBURG' Sept.. 10, 3:C5 ?. M.
Intonso: :activlty :.' is being displayed ' by
some aritl-'Kusslau revoliitlonary organi?
zations abroad. It seems that they have
united In an effort to appeal to all the
discontented classes of the Russian pop?
ulation. .Incendiary proclamations have
been smuggled across the border and dis?
tributed broadcast In the towns and cities,
especially in Polish and Jewish confers,
calling upon the population tq. take ad?
vantage of tho government's preoccupa?
tion owing to the war to rise against tho
authorities and overthrow tho autocracy.*1
Many of tho proclamations have been
seized, and it Is proved that they have
been printed in London. Until now they
have mot' with llttlo response In Russia
proper, but there have?' been several man!,
festatlons in ..various places in Poland
and Southwestern Russia, where the pop?
ulation is largely Jewish. The largest
demonstration, it In understood, took
placo nt Grodno, Poland, whore 500 per?
sons participated.
Tho ministry, of tho interior seemingly
does not attach groat Importance to tho
proclamations,, and tho roports which
havo ben roc?jvod. Indiente that the peo?
ple have not'boon stirred up by . lliem.
Tho d?monstrations, acoordtng to the min?
istry of tho Interior, have ?been small af?
fairs and easily suppressed without vio?
lence, Nevertheless, - the attempts to In?
flamo tho .people when tho country i*
being severely tried by reverses In the
theatre of war are naturally moro or less
disquieting,
WILL GET IN TOUCH
WITH THE LEADERS
Judge Parker.to Establish Tem?
porary Residence in New
, ' York City,
(By Associated Presa.)
NEW YORK, September fl.?Thera la
every reason to believe, that Judge !
Parker will mako arrangements to como !
to New- York for temporary realdenco ?
soon after his for'niul letter of acceptance |
la made public, It is known that leading ?
Pomocrats have 'strongly represented to '
him that his continued presence,at euch'l
aai inconvenient, location as Roseinount,
with, no hotel acommodatlone, has kept ?
Judge Pariser from personal contact with
many prominent, men-who ore frequently
In Now York city, but who hayo not
time for the Journey to Ksopus.
The plu ? hua even progressed'as far as
the making of. tentative arrangenu*ita'for
him to take a suite of rooms horo. Ac?
cording to thoso close hi Judge Parker's
counsels, Ids idea is to bo Immediately
in touch with the party leaders Hud ac?
cessible to those whom It (a needful.uncl
desirable, to meet aa the campaign pro?
greeecs, .
HAVE NOW SIGNED
FORMAL TREATY
Terms of Document Will he
'Published Later by the
Foreign Office.
LHASSA, Sept. 7, via pyantse, Sept.
9.?Cojonel Younghusband, head of tho
British mission and the Thibetan officials
signed a formal treaty to.doy in the
apartments of the Dulia Lama, at po.
tala. The ceremony.was-simple and was.
conducted amid quaint und pict'urosnue
surroundlugs. Tho terms of the treaty
wero read out only in the Thibetan lan?
guage and Us details will be published
later by the Foreign Office at Slnilu.
Tho proceedings closed with a short speech
by Colonel Younghusband, The Dalai
Lama, is now supposed? to be well on bis
way Into MongoUa, and tho officials in?
sist that his action amounts to abdica?
tion. The administration U now carried
on by a council of regency, If Ih believed
that Mio Ta'shl Lama. Svili eventually lui
recognised, us tho' supremo religious head.
The arrangements for the return of tho
iirltlsh mlaolou are complote,
MERGING OF BIG
CONCERNS PLANNED
Tobacco Corporations Will be
Consolidated Under Name of
American Tob?cea Co.
V '
\- (By Associated l'.r,ese.)
.NEW YORK, Boptembor O.-By action
of (ho directors of the American Tobucco
Company, the Consolidated Tobacco Com?
pany and tho Continental Tobacco Com?
pany, meeting? of tho stockholders of, the
thffo organizations havo been culled for
(September 30th, at which plans will bo
put befoyo the stockholders for a con?
solidation of tho throe big concerns Into
one corporation, to bo. ' known as tho
American Tobacco Company. The earn?
ings .of the three companies, |t is pro?
posed to merge,-amounted, to something
over ???,???,??? lu 1003.
Will Enlarge His Plant.
Mr, I*. Hi Jenkins will noon let a con?
tract for tho reectlon of a two-story ad?
dition to his 'already extensive bindery.
Tho plans for th* improvements have
buen mude and uro "to post 150,000, The
addition will tw usud as a printing de?
partment, to work in connection with tho
?lodai??"? ,
TWO KILLED ON
THE SOUTHERN
Freight Wreck Yesterday on the
Birmingham and Selma
Division.
(By Associated Press.)
BIRMINGHAM, ALA?. Sept. 9,?Two
men wero killed and another seriously i
?injured lit u freight wreck.on the South?
ern Railway between Dogwood and Wil?
ton, on the Birmingham and Selma divi?
sion this afternoon. Tito dead:
W. H. CHERRY, engineer.?
WILL IVEVi negro brakeman,
Dangerously Injured; N. L. Snow, white,
fireman. While details of, the wreck are
meugro, It seems that the train was run?
ning ut thirty miles mi h'our, when l|to
engine jumped tho track and struck the
cross ties, turning completely over, crush?
ing the engineer beneath it. Several oth?
er employes of the road ?re said to have
boon bruised, but not seriously hurt.
. Fined for Fighting.
Lillian Gore, ? colored woman, ?a*
fined 15 b.v Justice ? John'yesterday for
getting hi a,fight at Mayo's tobacco fue?
Aory, ,
DEEP MYSTERY IN
TAZEWELL COUNTY
Boy Shot Down in the Streets
Without the Man Being
Seen.
TAZOWEIvL?. VA., September 9,-Ehb
Henkle, a young white hoy, about twenty
years old, was shot and killed hero lust
night in front of tho Presbylorlun Church
by an unknown man. lie was shot in the
right side and fell over" dead. Jlo tiever
spoko With exception of saying that ho
did not know tho man who shot htm,
At the time he was shot thore were
sevorul men In the neighborhood, throe
with him besides tho man who committed
the murder.
It seems to bo one of the most myste?
rious affairs- that over hupponed In Tune?
well, from the fact that all the mon
with hhh were put under oath on tho
witness stand this morntug, and seem
to bo almost entirely Ignorant of Uio
affair, Immediately after the shooting,
IJarvo Henkle, a cousin of the deceulied,
run tho murderer about q liundred ynrd.i
Into a cornfield and there lust the trail.
The sheriff and his posse Immediately
went over ,thu nanw, searched the core?
?lvld with no ?ueceua, J
complishod lu good order, in. spite.
of the ' harassing Japanese sodden,
roads, and the i act that Kuropatkin
was hampered by inore, than. 12,000
wounded!. Therefs nothing yet to In- '
dicate the exact whereabouts of the.
three Japanese armies. When last
heard from, Kuroki's forces were on
the-Aussian left .flank and steadljy;
pushing northward, but yiceroy.Alex
ieff reports that railway,, and tele?
graph communication between' Muk?
den and Harbin is uninterrupted.
General Sakharoff reports that there
was no fighting during Thursday.
and : while the outposts are still in
contact .they are not oven exchanging ;
Shots. . ? ';..? ?
"It.* seem's ? to ? be established that
Oy?r?'a's ?troops practically'abandon?
ed^ on 'Wednesday, .the ' attempt;to
head, off /Kuropatkin,? and that the
last determined effort? to bring'the
Russian, commander to bay was made
on* Tuesday. A detailed list of Rus?
sian losses is promised to-day (Sat?
urday), and it is thought that'these
losses will approximate 20,000 as
against-30,000 Japanese. It is offi?
cially reported that KuropatUin has
not been wounded.
The last news from Mukden came
in a dispatch.to tho Associated Press
filed Friday night. It tells of a great
downpour of rain, accompanied by <
thunder and ligthning, which tao cor?
respondent says is considered advan?
tageous, as it ha?.checked the move?
ments of the Japanese eastern na4
southern armies'. The correspondent
adds that quiet reigns over tho whole
second.
There is no news from Port Arthur.
0YAMA FAILS TO
STOP THE RUSSIANS
(By Assoo'utod Press.)
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 10?1:50
A/M.?It seems to ho definitely es?
tablished that Field Marshal Oyama's
tired troops practically abandoned on
Wednesday the attempt to head off
Conerai Kuropatkin, and the latter's
army has urrlved safely at Mukden
after frightful experiences in floun?
dering through mud and mire over
the Mandar?an Road.
Some of the descriptions of the
scenes along the line of retreat are
almost incredible. They tell how. thq
men lay down iu the mud and slept
In a drenching rain and without
shelter.
It is evident that, tho last deter?
mined effort of the Japanese to
bring Kuropatkin to bay was made
on Tuesday, but. the Russian com*
niandor-ln-chief faced about and two
corps, with artillery, beat off the Ja?
panese, while the remainder of the
troops continuad the march to Muk?
den. After that the Japaneso could
only hang on to tho flanks and try
to shell tho retreating columns from
the hills, The outposts aro etili lu
contact, but they tire not oven ex?
changing shots.
Many Dead and Wounded.
? late Associated Press dispatch,
sont to-night from Mukden, describes
the horrible plight of the tentless
and shelterless soldiers. Tho detalloil
statement of Russian losses, which,
it is promised, will ho issued Satin??,
day, is wailed with, intenso interest.
Tho general expectation i? that the
losses will approximate 20,000 a?
against ?10,000 fur the Japanese.
Tito work of burying tho doad waa
left to the Japanese, who were forced
to attempt the ?ask as a matter of
Belf-preservatlon, ' hut it waa almost.
Impossible ??? awful rains hav?
handicapped tho work of cremation,
on which the Japanese relied, and .
only shallow'trcucli burials .wero py???