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CAN HE GET AWAY?
Knropitkin's Army Enveloped by
Three Wily Jap Commander*.
* <1. I'rt><rnbnr« III.patch «*>. <h«
•llunllun from a Una. la 11 Nlaml-
Itvlat la Critical—I'url Arthur
Uraduullr la« atrd.
BANDITS III ILLINOIS
llllaol. f'ralral Train fnr ti. Ulli
••livid l |i" and *11 Ihr Piaar*.
am HiibMi
riilniKo, Aim. 2.- Four highwaymen,
all heavily armed ami two of them
woirliiK mofka, held up tho pmuteniier*
on I ho llllnolii C011Irol's Chlea«o-8t,
I«oiiIh ox pre** 1 rain, known na iho
"Diamond Special," uh It ncarml Mat-
toion, III., last dIkIii. The rubber* se-
cured nil tlio money (about |1,000) and
valuable* curried liy the 3D pauMenitora
In 1 lie two Pullman nleepinu cur*,
stopped the train ami escaped In the
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Frartiiiur (o.onek. Tamed*
It begins to look uh If those tcrrlbl*
CiMKaokN, that have always sounded
ao dreadful up to now, couldn't stand
up effectively against the Salvation
army.
Chefoo, Auk. I.—A Japanese mer-
chant has received word from a Chi-
nese whom he trust* to the effect that
the Japanese have occupied every post-'
Hon surrounding the besieged fortresi
of Port Arthur with the exception 0| | «*arkn.-ti«. _ The forward sleeper was
Oolden hill. The Chinese stated thai
both sides suffered tremendous lossei
In the operation* riecetiary to brlnti
about this Htate of affairs.
The members of the Kusslnn Intelll-
gence bureau here, while deuyliiK the
report that I'ort Arthur has been cap-
tured, are Inclined to believe the re-
ports true to the extent that tho Japa-
nese have inudo great progress In their
operations ubout the besieged fortress.
Thumbing Heal Troalile.
The members of the American As-
sociation of Osteopaths have entered I international complications and second
St. Petersburg:, Aug. 1—Although
public attention hns been dlstractcd
from the ovents of the war during the
past week, first because of the fear of
upon an era of real troubles. They
have under consideration a new code
of ethics.
Juki a Dulnlj Scrap.
The board of lady managers of the
world's fair had a rumpus. As the
board has nothing to do but spend the
1100,000 voted by congress, It can af-
ford to Indulge In a little diversion.
Aetlvltlea of Peace Prcnnotfra.
Secretary Morton has been Invited
to join tho Universal Peace society and
has responded by stating Hint he Is In
urgent need of about 3,600 good fight-
ing men to take jobs on the new bat-
tleships.
Dividing thr L'liurt-h Voir.
The church vote may still be con-
aldered divided. Judge Parker passef
the contribution plate every Sunday,
and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has taken p*®6®- charge the Russians with rob-
charge of a Sunday school class at h'ns Japanese wounded and with muti-
because of the assassination of Minis-
ter of the Interior Von Plehve, the sit-
uation at the front is regarded as criti-
cal. The enveloping movement of the
three Japanese armies of Gens. Ku-
rokl, Nodzu and Oku around Gen. Ku-
ropatkln's position nppear.s to be al-
most complete, and the extended line
of the Japanese seems to be the only
drawback to concerted action. It li
realized here that the Russian general
must now either light or withdraw th«
whole army northward. He is being
closely pressed at Halcheng. At thai
place Gen. Kurokl's northern column
makes It extremely dangerous to re-
main there.
Tolilo, Aug. 1.—A Japanese field
burial party which is working before
Port Arthur and a Japanese who was
marie prisoner by the Russians and es-
Oyster Bay.
To-Morrow ami To-Morrow.
Great Britain's assurance that the
Tounghusband expedition will retire
from Thibet "as soon as the purposes
for which It was organized have been
achieved" Is reassuring—to someone's
grandchildren.
entered firm, the occupants were
nrouHcd and with nothing on but their
night clothes were mnrrhed back to
the Pullman enr behind. Two of the
passengers who were slow In respond-
ing to the commnnd of tho rolibera
were hit on their heads with a hatchet
and one was seriously Injured.
When the pusscngers In tho two car*
had been lined up In the rear Pullman
two of the robbers stood guard, one at
each end of tho car, with drnwn re-
volvers. The third, who Is supposed
to have been the leader, ordered the
passengers who had been compelled
to bring along their clothes from the
first car to throw the garments on the
floor of tho car. The passengers In the
rear car were then commanded to re-
turn to their berths nnd deposit their
clothes In the same heap.
So systematic was the work of the
robbers and with so little confusion
that the train crew was unaware of
what was going on. It was not until
the engineer, In response to the sig-
nal, brought his train to a stop, nnd
seeing nothing of the remainder of the
crew, walked back to the rear of the
train to ascertain what was tho mat-
ter, that he learned of the robbery.
No attempt was made to rob the mall
or express cars.
GO TOWARDS HOME.
Russians DHsrtiog All 'South ol
Mukden to Jspi.
A GIANT IN POLITICS.
Chanireff Wroimht by Time.
Government ownership of the air
would have sounded a ridiculous catch
phrase a few years ago. Yet here is
the British government already laying ! t' 'Que ( bruteniuar of n Fllininc
lating Japanese dead. They assert
that the bodies of wounded and deac
soldiers are stripped of their watches
and valuables arid that the dead hav<
been beheaded and bayoneted and
their eyes have been gouged out.
Frankfort, Germany, Aug. 1.—A To-
kio correspondent says that the Vladi-
vostok squadron has returned to Vladi-
vostok.
Robert 10. I'nttiaon, Whom Death
Una Heitiovpil. Wan Twice Demo-
cratic* Coventor of IIIh State.
Philadelphia, Aug. 2.—Robert E.
Pattison. twice democratic governor of
Pennsylvania and twice controller of
Philadelphia, Is dead at his home in
Overbrook, a suburb of this city.
X* Nur. llalMforermrnt. Will fin
Xnror I'ort Arthur Thau llarbla
—ai. r.trr.harK tmutrd al
Jap Nlrrnalb.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 2.—A report
from an apparently reliable source 1*
to the effect that Gen. Kuropatkin's
main force had been rapidly moving
north for several days. According to
thl* report no troops proceeding to the
front from Russia hud sone past Har-
bin In the past throe days. They will
be detained thero and every available
piece of rolling stock will lie rushed
south empty for the removing of
troops at l.lao Vang and other points
to the northward, leaving a skeleton
force to contest the Jupauesc advance
on vital positions.
Shrewd military erltlcs, however, do
not believe that Gen. Kuropntkin can
escape a general engagment. Ills army
forms a wedge, with Gen. Oku ham-
mering away at the point and Gens.
Nodzu nnd Kurokl operating with
driving movements of great force
against the sides. If one of the latter
should break through the southern
force would be doomed. The general
staff seems amazed at the Immense
strength of these co-operating Japanese
armies. The Japanese eveldently have
succeeded In concealing the real num-
ber of their men and guns which the
CHIEF OF frOIICE SAVID.
Newberry, 8. C.-W. IT. Harris. ehlsC
Of Mice of Newberry, *sy*: "I *uf«
fered for a number of years with kid-
ney complaint. There was a dull
aching scrims the small of my back
that was worse at night and made me
feel miserable all tho time. The kid-
ney accretion* were dark and full of
sediment, and lack of control com-
pelled me to rise a number of times
during the night. Between tills annoy-
ance and tho backache It was Impossi-
ble for me to get much sleep and my
health was being tindormlned. I tried
a number of remedies, but nothing
helped me until I got I Joan's Kidney
Illls. The use of thl| remedy accord-
ing to direction* promptly brought
about a change for the better. After
using two Imxes the backucho all left
me, the kidney secretions cleared up
and the action of the kldneya bccamo
normal."
A free: TRIAL of this great kid-
ney medicine which curod Chief Har-
ris will be mailed to any part of tho
United States. Address Fostcr-Mllburn
Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. Sold by all doalers.
FVlce CO cents per box.
MANGOSTEEN A RARE FRUIT
Found Only In the Island of Jolo, But
Impossible to Ship Because of
Its Brittle Skin.
The mangosteen Is a rare fruit found In
the Island of Jolo. It Is shout the size
of an orange, chocolate-colored and has
an extremely brittle skin. Inside are
four white sections, which contain acol-
general staff now believes must be in ! flu^ U '' *8ld t0 b,e the r reBt
fruit known, and preservation for ship-
ment Is impassible. It is said that It Is
excess of 300,000 men with between
300 and 400 guns.
London, Aug. 2.—A dispatch from
Toklo says there is reason to believe
that after two days' fighting the Japa- I , „ , , , ... .
nese occupied Simoucheng, thus c,lt. | abollt ,he 8" of a muskmelon, with the
the only fruit which Queen Victoria nev-
er tasted.
The dtirlan Is another fruit peculiar to
the island of Jolo. It Is described as
ting off Gen.
Kuropatkln..
Stakelberg from Gen.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 2.— A report of
Lieut. Gon. Count Keller's death Is
confirmed. He was killed July 29
while resisting the preliminary at-
tack of Gen. Kurokl's army upon the
outside resembling a chestnut burr. The
fruit Is white and appears like cheese and
Americans have named It the "vegetable-
llmburger." It has not yet appeared on
the New York market.
The bread fruit grows about the size of
grapefruit and Is present almost every-
where in the tropics. It forms the staple
FRANCIS AS GODFATHER.
claim to monopolize all wireless teleg-
raphy throughout the United Kingdom.
Retirement of Ilariliim.
It is about a month since radium
cured a case of cancer, consumption,
blindness, indigestion, corns or cold
feet. Radium, if there is such a thing,
appears to have settled to its legitimate
place in the world and from being one
of the largest places has shrunk to one
of the smallest.
HurtN All Around.
Thirty-seven mills at Fall River,
Mass.. are.closed down on account of a
strike involving a 12% per cent, cut In
wages. Cotton is again taking a posi-
tion in the limelight. Incidentally, the
loss to the merchants of the town if
the cut went Into effect, would be near-
ly one-eighth of all the money spent
in their stores by the thousands of mill
operatives. This kind of a strike hurts
*11 around.
Baby Born In the World*.
l-'alr Ground..
St. Louis, Aug. 1.—An unique chris-
ening of a Filipino baby born on July
!, at which President Francis acted
is godfather, took place Sunday at the
Philippine reservation. As the boy
tvas named Louis Francis Silva, in
honor of St. Louis and President Fran-
cis, hi3 father said that he should be
the happiest youngster in the Philip-
pines. After President Francis had
solemnly taken pledges to look after
the welfare of his godson he walked
to the door of the chapel and rocked
the baby in his arms to the amuse-
ment of the spectators, but not until
the little one was in his mother's arms
lid his crying cease.
mm
Wli2tt 1'auNen Sleep.
The man who Is kept awake by pain,
or who suffers in any otter way from
lack of sleep, can usually obtain it by
the use of a drug. Such sleep, how-
ever, is generally regarded as unnat-
ural, and hypnotic drugs arc avoided
when possible. But now comes M.
Raphael Dubois, a French physiologist,
who tells us that all sleep is the result
of drugging, the sleep producer being
carbonic acid formed within the sys-
tem. ^
Similar IlM.eb.ll In Ksnui.
Topeka. Kan., July 31.—Judge Ha-
zen. of the district court decided that
Sunday baseball could be played In To-
 peka. One of the Missouri Valley
Hp Lfd the " I.I eli t nriKnde." j league players had been arrested on
Alexander Sutherland, the man who t'le charge of playing Sunday ball,
led the charge of the famous "Light! court held that the Kansas laws
Killed Hi.i Mlaepln? Wlf#>.
Kansas City, Mo.. July 31.—Whll«
Mrs. Augusta Kent lay asleep Satur-
day morning, with her five-year-old
son, Richard, by her side, her husband
Julius D. Kent, a night engineer for the
Star, shot her dead. Then, while the
little boy, awakened by the sound
'creamed with fright. Kent lay down on         
the floor and shot himself twice, once j a majority of 16,554. The republican
directly through the heart and again j candidates for lieutenant governor and
in the forehead. j secretary of Internal affairs were elect-
I ed by 20,000 majority.
ROBERT E. PATTISON.
Pneumonia, complicated with a weak-
ness of the heart, was the cause of
death. He was 53 years old.
In 1878 he was elected controller of
Philadelphia, in spite of the fact that
the republicans carried the other of-
fices. His record in boodle-ridden Phil-
adelphia was so good that it placed
him in line for the candidate for gov-
ernorship. and in November of that
year was elected by a plurality of 40,-
202 over his republican opponent, Gen.
James A. Beaver, although for 30 years
previously the democrats had been In
a minority in the state. The constitu-
tion of Pennsylvania did not permit a
governor to succeed himself, so Mr.
Pattison retired at the end of his
term, but was elected again In 1890 by
Yanze pass, 30 miles east of Llao ; f°n/! °f   «™M«ab!e proportion of the
Yang. The general was standing near :fs^Vp Sof'hfels,andcf,,hf fea' ThePu1^
a battery which was subjected to a ' i ™ t ♦ i "our'^'ng. and many
terrific fire. A shell burst close to him I eat 6carc6,y an-vthlne else. It i*<
and he mell. mortally wounded, dying
20 minutes later.
a tree fruit and grows In small clutters.
When ripe the fruit falls by it* own.
weight
COST OF LIVING AND WAGES.
No Hope for the Tramp.
President Roosevelt Is chopping;
wood for exercise at Oyster Bay. With
Parker taking a dally dip and Roose-
velt working on the woodpile, the Chi-
cago Record-Herald asks where 1* ths
tramp vote to rhla year?
BUNCH TOGETHER.
Comnil..loner of l.nbor Sny. Former
lla. Xot Ineren.ed a. Knpldly
na the I.utter.
Washington, Aug. 2.—Carroll P. |
Wright, commissioner of the labor bu-
reau, in the annual report of the bu- j
reau, gives the results of a comj>re- j
hensive inquiry Into the cost of living Coffee Has a Curious Way of Finally
since 1896 and into the average wagf [ Attacking Some Organ.
rate during those periods. The show-    
ing so far "s concerns wages has been Ails t!.at come from cofTee are cumu-
made public heretofore, as investiga- lative. that is, unless the coffee is.
tion of 519 occupations representing fi7 taken away new troubles are contin-
industries in 3.429 separate establish- uaily appearing and the old ones get
ments, having shown an average in- worse.
crease in wages during this period ol i -x0 begin with," says a Kansan, "I
pfr; rent- T*10 inquiry into the j was a slave to coffee just as thousands
cost of living shows that living foi | cf others to-day; thought I could not
men,f; families having undei j jive without drinking strong coffee
11,200 income per year had increased every morning for breakfast and I had
FIGHT TO HOLD THE WEST.
R«-pnhltpan. Will Divide Country
Wet of Allethenle. Into Five
Section, nnd Centrnllze Work.
Chicago, Aug. 2.—The republican
during this period 15.5 per cent. In
order to ascertain this average in-
crease, the labor bureau secured the
income and expenditure in detail of 2.-
567 families in 33 states, retail prices
being taken. The statement shows that
the 2, 567 families consisted of an aver-
age of 5.31 persons and that the aver-
age Income for the year inni was $827
the average annual expenditure for all
purposes $768, and the average expendi-
ture for food $326 per family.
INCREASE IN PUBLIC DEBT.
I'nelc Sum'. Riiirndlturra for Month
of July Were Fnr In Kxcc.n of
Lcicltlmate Itepcipt..
Washington, Aug. 2.—The monthly
statement of the public debt shows
that at the close of business July 31,
1904, the debt amounted to $980,781,-
413, which is an increase for the month
of $1.1.049,639. This increase is ac-
  .... „ i „us. *.— mi- icuiiuutau .counted for by the decrease of $14.-
brigade at IJalakla'.a. is living in the '• " "a^c as a Sunday of-1 oampaJen, which Is to be opened on j 945,662 in the amount of the cash bal-
city of Denver, Col. He is 94 years of on*f- a-s t r k > ock-fighting, horse-. September 15, is to be centralized, full ' anee In the treasury as compared with
■ge, but has expressed a desire to at- racink. and therefore dismissed , charge west of the Allegheny moun- I last month.
tend the St. Louis fair. In response to 1 " Pr soner.   i Iajns ;,einK in the hands of five men, I The comparative statement of the
an invitation received from the school I r.,„, (,nlnni - ~ _ " _
children of that city. As the bugler of ""Pa, °f 1 Stn,M"
the brigade, Mr. Sutherland led the
charge at the command of the Karl of
Cardigan, and was one of the 150 he-
roes who returned from the field of
carnage.
while four will.aitend to the work in J rovemftient receipts and expenditures
Washington. Aug. 1.—The United the ea8t' T,,e P'*® of centralizing su- ! for the month of July, 1904, shows a
States exceeded all previous records Pervislon was agreed on at the na- ! deficit of $17,407,728, as against a de-
In the production of coal In 1983. The tional headquarters in a conference be- f"lt of $7,776,613 for July last year,
total output of the coal mines during tween Chairman Cortelyou. Secretary This large deficit is accounted for by
that year was 359.421.311 tons, an in-1 r>oyer- frank O. Lowden and R. B. a falling off in the receipts from cits
rease of nearly 58,000,000 tons, or 19 Schneider, of Nebraska. It was de-
cided to divide the country west of the
Alleghenles Into five sections, each of
which will be In charge of one mem-
ber of the executive commiltcc.
The Brnkrinan'a Ppa.ihiiitlea. Per cent. over the preceding year. The
Lets than 25 years ago William B. value of ,he Pr°d>fct is given as *504,-
Blddle was "braking" on a freight m-~33- an increase in value of 38 per
train. This is not a drawing room job, ?ent- over the preceding } ,ar.
Where you wear white kid gloves and Fire Dna.tatrd 15 gqaare jfllra.
a gold-tipped cigarette. Mr. Bid-j El Paso Tex Aug h_Foreat „reg
die broke well and kept up the deuce ,n the G||a fores, reserve, Arizona, I.
. ' I Interfering to
toms and internal revenue and in-
creased expenditures on civil and mis-
cellaneous and war and navy accounts.
-%rmoardale I'allrrnnn Shot.
^ nllajua , Armourdale, Kan., Aug. 2—While
of a thinking. To-da.v he is second which have rageiTfor The" Daat"two i ln,erferinK pr-vent the shooting of
Jlce prsident of the big Santa Fe road months defying all efforts of forest i a union ParklnK house striker. Sergt.
In place of Paul Morton, resigned to reni.cr8 and devastating a if area of 15 l Wesle7 Reynolds. In charge of police
so i«o the cabinet. Hence you should square miles of Bne timber have been I Btatlon No 3- WM "h<* trough the
■ever try to lick a brakeman. He may put out 5y heavy ra|nF Fo(. m ,|me I abdomen by Norma* Rupe. dne of
tm vice president some day. Besida :he smoke from these ti™ enveloped i Sw,f' & Co ■ "P"'1*1 w*«chmen. at Ad-
nut, be is urjally quite stout j 3fiver city, S. M„ 50 miles away. ams str*et and Kansas avenue. Ray-
I noids mar die.
(-'rand nt th«> Stork Yards.
Kansas City. Mo„ Aug. 2.—Five cat-
tle speculators at the Kansas City
stock yards were expelled from mem-
bership in the Kansas City Traders'
exchange. They were charged with
conspiring with three former weigh-
masters of the stock yards company
for the purpose of defrauding country
live stock buyers and shippers and live
stock commission men at the stock
yard*.
sick headaches that kept me In bed
several days every month. Could hard-
ly keep my food on my stomach, but
would vomit as long as I could throw
anything up and when I could Let hot
coffee to stay on my stomach I thought.
I was better.
"Well, two years ago this spring I
was that sick with rheumatism I could
not use my right arm to do anything,
had heart trouble, was nervous. My
nerves were all unstrung and my fin-
ger nails and tips were blue as if I
had a chill all the time, and my face
and hands yellow as a pumpkin. My
doctor said it was heart disease and
rheumatism and my neighbors said I
had Blight's Disease and was going to-
die.
"Well, I did not know -what on earth
was the matter and every morning
would drag myself out of bed and go
to breakfast, not to eat anything, but.
to force down some more coffee. Then
in a little while 1 would be so nervous,
my heart would beat like everything.
"Finally one morning I told my hus-
band I believed coffee was the cause
of this trouble and that I thought I
would try Postum. which I had seeu ad-
vertised. He said All right,' so we
pot Postum, and although I did not like
it at first I got right down to business
and made it according to directions,
then it was fine and the wbole family
got to using it, and 1 tell you it has
worked wonders for me. Thanks to
Postum in place of the poison, coffee,
I now enjoy good health, have not
been in bed with sick headache for
two years, although I had it for 30
years before I began Postum and my
nerves are now strong and I have no
trouble from my heart or from the
rheumatism.
"I consider Postum a necessary ar-
ticle of food on my table. My friends
who come lfere and taste my Postum
say It is delicious." Name given by
Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich.
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