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THE McHENRY PLAINBEALER I.J|, MeBKMRT IMWHUMR «X ̂ >̂JEHaaaB* _ (, , ' QflUNQie. yi' FIelew 1 1 BPEV ^ hUMVPIIK BPEVTnE/ Archbishop John J. Keane of Du- p|nque, Iowa, has sailed for Europe on tike steamer Patricia. Etv Mrs. George Crocker of San Francis- y to has sufficiently recovered from her Illness to be removed from Paris to St. Cloud. Dr. Burnett of Cambridge, a gradu­ ate of Harvard in 1903, has been elect­ ed to the chair of philosophy in Iowa college at Grinnell, Iowa. Lieut.-Gen. John M. Scchfield, U. S. 'A., retired, has passed through Paris TiTwlty to Carlsbad, where he will remain until September. Sir Henry Irving, after his profes­ sional farewell tour of England, will pay a farewell visit to. America at the end of 1905, under the auspices of Charles Frohman. ' Charles Frohman has arranged for Maude Adams to play in I>ondon, France and Germany with an English- speaking company. One of Miss Ad­ ams' plays will be "L'Aiglon." The duchess of Valencay, formerly Hiss Helen Morton, who was divorced from the duke of Valencay, intends to continue her residence in Paris. Levi P. Morton and Mrs. Morton have taken a residence on the Avenue tfJena. The Peruvian government has re­ quested the United States to permit the establishment of a Peruvian medi­ cal and sanitary board at Panama. Most of the 200 men thrown out of work by the shut-down of the Smug­ gler-Union mines at Telluride, Colo., have departed from San Juan county. One of the men claimed the nonunion men protested against being assessed a dollar a month to maintain the guards who were -protecting them. Threp^obbers raided Gordonville, Pa., shot and injured two men, and in their flight after being driven from the town, killed a toll gate keeper. One of the robbers, who gave his name as Carson, was probably fatally wounded on the head by a blow from an a* and was deserted by his com­ panions. The navy department has received a letter from John Hayes of Muscoda. Wis., now 72 years old, saying he had Jost been informed of the fact that Dec. 31, 1864, he was awarded a medal Of honor for his conduct while cox- swain on the Kearsage in the battle With the confederate cruiser Alabama, Off Cherbourg, France. The medal and the gratuity of $100 will be sent to him. The emperor took luncheon with Cornelius Vanderbllt on board the Jfacht North Star at Kiel. August Orsted of Oregon, 111., broke lfcis back in two places while divihg in Shallow water. Railways and steamboat lines in Maryland have put in force the "Jim Crow" law passed by the last legisla­ ture requiring separate compartments : l$br white and negro passengers. Elsey MacHenry Train, son of Geo. Francis Train, yesterday took steps to bring suit in Omaha for the recov­ ery of property claimed to be worth 120,000.000. Max Wollenberg, a Paterson, N. J., i-Storekeeper, was shot and killed by Arthur Lasker, a negro, whom he . caught stealing articles in his store. fSPhe negro was captured after wound- Vfhg one of his pursuers. ' ' A mother and son were fatally in­ jured and a daughter killed in a trol- Ifey accident at Findlay, Ohio; three ; .trainmen were injured in a collision ' ' fear Miamisburg, Ohio, and three ," Ifainmen were killed aqd^Cwo injured «ne fatally, by the explosion of a Pennsylvania locomotive boiler near ' ®hrenfeld. Pa. " Charles Walkup of Oregon was nom- floated for senator and Dr. Charles E. |i Martin of Winnebago County for min- i ority representative by the tenth dis- * trict Democratic convention at Ore- gon. 111. LATEST GASH MARKET REPORT® WHEAT. Cheapo--No. 1 red, 98@99c. Liverpool--No. 1 California. 6s. 6d> New York--No. 2 red, $1.08. St. r.onis--No. 2 red, Jl.0."SM.08. Kansas City--No. 2 red, %c@$l. Minneapolis--No. 1 hard, 959&C. Duluth--No. 1 northern. P2*fcc. Milwaukee--No. 1 northern, 98!ff98Mi<* CORN. Chicago--No. 2, 48«4c. Liverpool--American mixed, new, 4a. I New York--No. 2, 56c. Sk,Louis--No. 2, 4$V*e. Kansas City--No. 2 mixed. 51c. Milwaukee--No. 8, 48^4®49^c. Peoria--No. 8, 46c. » OATS. Chicago--Standard, 41c. New York--Mixed. 45©46HtC. St. Louis--No. 2, 41c. Kansas City--No. 2 white. 42c. Milwaukee--Standard. 42^0424* CATTLE. Chicago--$1.40(^6.05. Kansas Citv-- Jl.50^6.40. St. Louis--$2.2Mii;.25. Omaha-- $1.50Si6.15. St. Joseph--$1.50$f 6.35. Pittsburg--$2® e.10. HOGS. Chicago--J4.7<XJ?5.45. Kansas City--15.05^5.30. St. Louis--J5.25®5.40. Omaha--$4.50(ff5.25. St. Joseph--J.r>.05@o.30. Pi 11 sburg--t-. 5.60. SHEEP AND LAMBS. C h i c a g o -- 2 5 . Kansas Cit v--$4ifr6.T0. SL Louis--$2.2."<g7. a h a--75. St. Joseph--$2.7M?6.10. ' %, fc A burglar attempted to rob a store at Ottumwa, Iowa, but the burglar alarm told the story and he was cap­ tured in the act of filling at telescope with silks. James Adams, a homesteader, has been found dead in his dugout near At- wood, Kan. He had been dead several days. He was suffering from con­ sumption and without funds. The Agnes Memorial sanitarium at Denver, dedicated to the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, is open. The sanitarium was built and furnished by Laurence C. Phipps, in memory of his mother. Mrs. Eliza D. McGowan, president of the Ladies' Catholic Benevolent as­ sociation, has announced that the an­ nual meeting of the association will be held at St. Paul July 19. Mr. Mc­ Gowan is a candidate for re-election. Dr. Rollin H. Burr, a graduate of Tale and an instructor in the Yale forestry school at Milford, Pa., has been drowned by the Delaware river. He was canoeing with some boys when his boat capsized. In attempt­ ing to save one of his companions Dr. Burr was drowned. The American Peony society, organ­ ized to increase interest in the culti­ vation and use of the peony, has been incorporated in New York state. The directors include John H. Humphreys of Philadelphia, Bdwin A. Reeves of Cleveland, O.; Charles S. Harrison of York, Neb.; William A. Patterson of Chicago, and Guy A. Bryant of Prince­ ton, 111. The president has appointed D. A. Robinson postmaster at Dallas, Tex., ending a vigorous contest over the office. * Henry M. Hoyt of San Francisco, Cal., has been appointed United States attorney at- Nome, Alaska, to succeed Melvin Grigsby, resigned. President Roosevelt has directed the appointment of Col. Theodore A. Bingham as a brigadier general, to take effect on July 6, when Gen. Bing­ ham will retire. Foreign minister Delcasse has pre­ sented to the co.uncil of ministers the state department's note expressing President Roosevelt's thanks for the earnest and effective efforts that France had made in the Perdic&ris af­ fair. President Roosevelt has appointed as commissioner of education of Porto Rico Dr. Roland P. Falkner, at present chief of the division of documents in the congressional library, vice Dr. Samuel McCune .Lindsay, who re­ signed, to take effect Oct. 1, next. Alexander Johnson, 13 years old, hanged himself at the home of Fred­ erick K. Allen, president of the vil­ lage of Pelham Manor, N. Y., be­ cause his sister, a maid in the family, had compelled him to retire early. The president has removed William H. Smead, agent of the Flathead In­ dian agency in Montana, and appoint­ ed Capt. Samuel Bellew of Missoula,^ Mont., as his successor. Smead was charged with administrative irregulari­ ties. John D. Womack and Robert Adams of Galveston, Tex., who hired forty cattlemen to attend a cargo of cattle to Lorenzo Marques on tl|3 British The son of Marshall Field, Jr., who I steamer Cranley, have engaged law- %as injured at Stockbridge, Mass., recover. The supposed concus- j^'^.yflon of the brain proved not to be If ftresent. ^ "I, Mayor Jones of Toledo is still in a i' • Critical condition, though his phvBi- cicns have noted some improvement and the crisis of double pneumonia is believed passed. Several lives are reported lost as the result of a cloudburst near Mc­ Donald, Pa., and an entire family is ftald to have perished in the waters f i yers to institute suit against Harper's Weekly for )25,000 damages each, for alleged defamation of character in charging that tbey left the men strand­ ed in London. Rose Bei.ulac's hair caught in a shafting while running a belt in the Richardson shoe factory at Menom­ inee, Mich. Her shoulder was dislo­ cated and t-he was badly bi"Uised about the shoulders and face. Monsignore Falconio, the apostolic delegate in the United States, has de FOR_PRESIDEHT Gea Miles Withdraws From Contest for the Prohibi­ tion Nomination. CARROLL FOR RUNNING MATE Texas Philanthropist Is 8elected for Second Place on the Ticket Over Isaiah H. Amos of Oregon, by a Vote of 626 to 132. Indianapolis, Ind., special: The name of the Rev. S. C. Swallow, edi­ tor of the Pennsylvania Methodist, was the only one presented to the pro­ hibition national convention for the first place on the ticket and the nom- In onj forrq, under cny system of license *or tax or regulation nave proved power­ less to remove its evils and useless as "checks upon Its growth, wniie the insig­ nificant public revenues which hs^ve ac­ crued have seared the public conscience against a recognition of its iniquity. 4. We call public attention to the fact, proved by the experience of more than fifty years, that to secure the enact­ ment and enforcement of prohibitory legislation In which alone lies hope of the protection of the people from the liquor traffic, It is necessary that the legislative, executive and judicial ^branches of the government should be In the hands of a political party in har­ mony with the prohibition principle and pledged to its embodiment in law and to the execution of those laws. 6. We pledge the Prohibition party, wherever given power by the suffrage of the people, to the enactment and en­ forcement of laws prohibiting and abol­ ishing the manufacture, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic bev­ erages. 6. We declare that there Is not only no other issue of equal importance be­ fore the American people to-day. but that the so-called Issues upon which the Democrats and Republican parties seek to divide the electorate of the country are in large part subterfuges, under the cover of which they wrangle for the spoils of office. 7. Recognizing that the Intelligent vot­ ers of the country may properly ask our attitude upon other questions of public concern, we declare ourselves in favor of: The impartial enforcement of all law. The safeguarding of the people's rights by a rigid application of the principles t)f Robinson creek. The property loss cided to return to America on the will be heavy. It is announced at Chester, 111., that Under advice of the attorney general •he prison will continue the manufac­ ture of brick under the old law and the remaining Industries will be sup­ plied convict labor as before, pending decision on the injunction suit brought by Lawyer Mayer of Chicago in the United States supreme court. The annual convention of the Swedish Covenant mission in Paxton, 111., elected^ the following officers: Chairman, C. A. Bjork, Chicago; vice chairman, N. Frykman, Pan nock, Minn.; secretary, H. Sundquist, St. Paul, and financial secretary, John Winstrona, Chicago. The Socialist party of North Dakota nominated a full state ticket at the .convention held in Valley City, nam- , ing for congressmen L. F. Dow of Grand Forks and E. D. Herring of Cayuga, and for governor Arthur Bas- sett of Fargo. National Chairman James K. Jones says positively that W. J. Bryan will not bolt the St. Louis convention if Parker is nominated. i William R. Hearst, in an interview 1 v}- Wvvifi /DP P£F<SZD£WT: V SOP £EVr£/L45 CiSHZfLLOW I GFOJPCZi W C4£>j?0£Z. ... J cy SEdGTyGiV?; 72ZSAS. or fMBprssctBG, j*yvw. The Rev. Silas C. Swallow, nomi­ nated for president by the national prohibition convention in Indianap­ olis, is editor of tffle Pennsylvania Methodist and has three times run for state offices in Pennsylvania, for state treasurer in 1897 and for gov- ination was made by acclamation*. For vice president, G. W. Carroll, the millionaire oil king, received 626 votes, and F. H. Amos of Oregon, 132. A telegram was received from Gen. Nelson A. Miles forbidding the use of his name in the convention. That cleared the atmosphere. Up to that hour the forces of the Miles boomers, led by John G. Woolley, were pre­ pared for a bitter fight against the or­ ganization headed by Oliver W. Stew­ art. The platform In full follows: The Prohibition party in national con­ vention assembled at Indianapolis June 30, 1904, recognizing that the chief end of all government is the establishment of those principles of righteousness and justice that have been revealed to man as the will of the ever living Qod. and desiring His blessing upon our national life, and believing in the perpetuation of the high Ideals of government of the people, by the people and for the people, established by our fathers, makes the following declaration of principles and purposes: l. The widely prevailing system of the licensed and legalized sale of alcoholic beverages Is so ruinous to individual in­ terests, so. inimical to public welfare^-So destructive to national wealth ano so subversive to the rights of great masses ernor in 1898 and 1902. He received 118,000 votes for treasurer in 1897 and 132,000 votes for governor in 1898. George W. Carroll of Beaumont, Tex., the nominee for vice president, is the owner of large oil properties in Texas and is reputed a millionaire. of Justice to all combinations and organ-1 izatlons of capital and labor. A more intimate relation between the people and government by a wise adap­ tation of the principle of the initiative and referendum. The safeguarding to every citizen in every place under the government of the people of the United States of all the rights guaranteed by the laws and the Constitution. International arbitration, and declare that our nation should contribute in every manner consistent with national dignity to the permanent establishment of peace between all nations. reform of our divorce laws, the f pe The final extirpation of polygamy and the to­ tal overthrow of the present shameful system of illegal sanction of the social evil, with Its unspeakable traffic in girls, by the municipal authorities of almost all our cities. Recognition of the fact that the right of suffrage should depend upon the men­ tal and moral qualifications of the citi­ zens. Such changes in our laws as will place tariff schedules In the hands of a non­ partisan commission. The application of uniform laws for all our country and dependencies. The extension and honest administra­ tion of the civil service laws. The election of United States senators by vote of the people. LEADS MICHIGAN REPUBLICANS steamer Sardegna, leaving Naples on July 21. Lorenzo Junta, an Italian miner, was struck by falling rock in Baltic- mine, at HoughL^p, Mich., and his hips and knees dislocated and bruised. He may die. Peter Cliristianson of Eden, Wis., was killed by fast -freight while at­ tempted to steal a ride. Manager Welles of the Smuggler- Union mine in Telluride, Colo., has announced that the mine would be closed indefinitely because of inability to secure competent miners, who, he declared, were kept out of the district by fear of violence. The Navy.. Department is planning to utilize wireless telegraphy to send out from the Key West station at noon each day th£ bail time given by the weather bureau. By this plan captains of vessels within the radiuB of the station can regulate their chron­ ometers as well as though ashore. The thirty-fifst Chautauqua opened at Chautauqua, N. Y., under favorable circumstances. The first service was conducted by Rev. D. Dorchester of Pittsburg. The formal opening exer- A. G. WOlfZT&dJP&D? (Permanent chairman of th® convention.) of our citizenship, that the destruction of the traific is and for years has been the most Important question in American politics. 2. We denounce the lack of statesman­ ship exhibited by the leaders of the Democratic and Republican parties In their refusal to recognize the paramount Importance of this question and the cowardice with which the leaders of these parties have courted the favor of those whose selfish interests are ad­ vanced by the continuation and aug­ mentation of the traffic, until to-day the influence of the liquor traffic practically dominates national, state and local gov­ ernment throughout the nation. 3. We declare the truth, demonstrated by the experience of half a century, that ail methods of dealing with the liquor traffic which recognize its right to exist RUN ON AURORA BANK 18 ENDED at Washington, reiterated his purpose clge8 were conducted by Bishop Vin to support the nominee of the St. | cent Louis convention, whoever he may be. The Iowa Populist state convention at Des Moines elected twenty-one del­ egates to the national convention to be held at Springfield, 111., and in structed them to vote for ex-Congress­ man Weller for vice president No state ticket way named. The fifteenth annual national con­ vention of the Young People's Chris­ tian union of the United Presbyterian church opened at St. Joseph. The at­ tendance will reach 2,000. The Rev. Fred M. Warner Is Choice of State ' Convention for Governor. Oovernor--Fred M. Warner. Lieutenant governor--Alexander Malt- land. State treasurer--Frank P. Glazier. Secretary of State--George A. Prescott. Auditor general--Dr. J. B. Bradley. Attorney general--Charles A. Blair. - Board of education--L». L. Wrifht. Superintendent of public instruction-- P. H. Kelley. . Land commissioner--W. H. Rose. Detroit, Mich., special: But two contests worthy of the name marked the Republican state convention. One of these was the fight by Congress­ man William Alden Smith and State Senator Charles Simons for a broader declaration in the platform in favor ol primary reform^, and the other was on the nomination for auditor gen­ eral. ^Jhe amendment to the resolutions pledging the party to the nomination of governor by a direct vote was de­ feated by a vote of 774 to 304. The platform, which is short, In­ dorses the platform adopted by the national convention at Chicago; ffc- dorses Roosevelt and Fairbanks, and expresses confidence In a memorable victory for the state ticket and "our fearless leader and typical Republi­ can, Theodore Roosevelt." Ten Thousand Dollars Withdrawn, But Many New Accounts Are Started. Aurora, 111., dispatch: There was a brief run on the' German-American National bank Thursday morning as the result of the defalcation of $90,- 000 of its funds by the cashier, J. H. Plain. The amount withdrawn was about $10,000, but a number of new accounts were started during the day. Ranged on either side and back of the paying teller, John Weiland, was $190,- 000 In cash. PAYSTHE PENALTY FOR MURDER Negro Executed In Indiana Prison Dies Without FlinchlnQ. Michigan City, Ind., special: Benja­ min Spring, a negro, who murdered Jesse Case, another negro, at Terre Haute last March, was hanged in the state prison here shortly after mid­ night Friday. Springs mounted the scaffold without flinching and a mln- R. M. Little of Chicago, president of ut? later the waB 8Prung- Twelve the convention* called the meeting to I ml®-J*tes lftter he was pronounced . • -» • Haai order. Death in Wheat Elevator. Chicago special: Buried beneath a deluge of wheat while loading a freight car at the Belt Line elevator, Peter O'Malley was smothered to death. USE HYPNOTI8M IN ALCOHOLI8M Russians Say They Have 8ecured 70 Per Cent of Radical Cures. St. Petersburg cable: The treat­ ment of alcoholism by hypnotism, which began at Moscow in 1896 and has been tried at Ekazerinoslaff, Voro­ nezh and other places since, has been inaugurated in St. Petersburg by Dr. R. Z. BakolT, who investigated the re suits and asserts there have been 70 per cent of radical cures for that sys­ tem against 30 per cent in the cases of other known cures. BATTLES WAIT ON WEATHER " """"" " 'i"ill' lift» * , v X 1-4 ^ 'ti mfeftijiV! Impassable Roads Prevent Movement of Opposi Armies in Manchuria--Assault on Port Arthur Believed to Be Near THROWS VICTIM INTO CREEK Orphan Girl Beaten Neariy to Death Names Her Assailant. Aurora, In<L, dispatch: Ethel Rol­ lings, aged 15, an orphan living with Oliver Abden, a farmer near here, was found in Hogan creek, where she had been left for dead by those who had assaulted her. She cannot re­ cover, but was able to make a state­ ment describing the attack on her and implicating a man who la bsla£ sougbt. St. Petersburg, July 5.--Battles in the far east are waiting on the weather. The armies of the czar and mikado, almost within reaching dis­ tance of each others' throats, are seemingly stalled in a hopeless morass of mud through which men cannot march and cannon cannotJbe dragged. The center of gravity has again shifted to Port Arthur, where siege operations are expected to engage most of the attention of the Japanese until the conclusion of the rainy sea­ son permits the resumption of the campaign in southern Manchuria. The news of the moment is that the Japanese, after seemingly abandoning the idea of rushing towards Liaoyang by the northern road, once again have started, by considerably reinforcing their right flank, with the evident in­ tention of preventing Kouropatkin from sending too great an army to­ wards Haicheng, which plate, it is imagined bere, the Japanese will make frantic efforts to take before the rainy season is too far along. All of Kuroki's advance guard, form­ ing a considerable force, has gone be­ yond Motien pass to within . fifteen miles of Liaoyang. The war office believes that a fur­ ther advance on Tatchekiao is impos­ sible, in view of the powerful resist­ ance which can be made by the Rus­ sians, combined with the great diffi­ culties of transportation over rain sodden roads. Desultory fighting, however, Is likely to continue for the possession of the passes. The Japanese still hold Dalin pass, while the Russians have captured Oudalin pass. The similarity of names T :V lowed and several . destroyers were sunk. _ •. /•{', -y The Russians lost heavily in the land fighting. A thousand wounded have been taken to Port Arthur. Japanese Advance Unchecked; Victories Dearly Purchased London, July 1.--The Japanese arm­ ies engaged in enveloping Gen. Kou- ropatkin's forces have made material progress, with heavy loss of life. A Toliio dispatch, giving details of the capture of Fenshui pass, states that the Japanese lost 1,120 men in killed and wounded after a two days' battle, in which they defeated seven­ teen battalions and three regiments of infantry; six batteries of field artil- advanclng towards Liaoyang. This will hardly be less than thre» divi­ sions, of 60,000 men. -Its destination probably is to strike in the rear of Kouropatkin's force, for which purpose it need not approach Liaoyang, but may continue its westward, march from Motien pass through which there is a road leading to Kaicheng, from the main road, near where the main road turns north toward Liaoyang. By this route its advance guard was on Tuesday about srx days' march from Liaoyang and four or five marches from the railway north of Haicheng. Gen. Kuroki, like his colleagues, will probably have to fight his way for­ ward and will go slowly. "From these data it seems likely '̂4 BETWEEN TWO JAPANESE ARMIES. POP/ 'ARTHUR. The map indicates the position of the twenty-five-mile battle now Ing between Telissu and Hai Cheng, in Manchuria. The Jap flanking col­ umn, at the left, is reported menacing the Russian position at Liao Yang. led to the premature report of the Jap­ anese retreat from Dalin pass. Maj. Gen. Mitschenko i* harassing and driving back the Japanese be­ tween Siuyen and Kaichau, already in­ flicting a loss of about 600 in killed or wounded. The Japanese are dis­ playing the greatest weakness at this point, owing to their distance from supplies' and to the prevalence of dysentery. The Russian losses in killed or wounded so far ntimber 8,000. Many more have been in hospitals, but no epidemics have yet been reported. Final Assault on Pbrt Arthur Believed Matter of Few Days. London, July 5.--The Standard's Tientsin correspondent, under date of July 4, says that since June 27 the Japanese main squadron has been en­ gaged in landing men at Dalny pre­ paratory to a final attack on Port Ar­ thur. He adds that the Japanese land operations in the rear of Port Arthur will probably bring matters to a final issue within the next few days. The Morning Post prints a dispatch from St. Petersburg, signed "Whig- ham," in which the correspondent says: "I arrived at the Russian capital on July 4 after a seventeen days' jour­ ney from Mukden. When I left Muk­ den Gen. Kouropatkin had less than 120,000 men of all arms, but steady reinforcements by rail make his posi­ tion at Liaoyang quite secure. He is considerably hampered by the pr^fc- ence of Viceroy Alexieff, who was re­ sponsible tor the Russian disaster at Vafangow." Russian 8quadron Has Not Returned to Vladivostok. Vladivostok, Sunday. July 3.-- (De­ layed.)--The return of the Vladivostok $guadron is anxiously awaited. The official account from Tokio of the ex­ ploits of the Russians are eagerly read. The squadron may not return for some time, as, when it left this port, it was provisioned for a long cruise. Vice Admiral Bezobrazoff is in command. Heavy Fighting Result of 8ortie From Port Arthur. Tokio, July 5.--It is unofficially re­ ported that there has been heavy fighting on sea and land at Port Ar­ thur since June. 26. The Russian fleet is reported to have made a sortie and shelled the Japanese troops who were landing, inflicting serious losses, in­ cluding forty killed. ^ Admiral Togo, it is stated, tried to intercept the Russians, but floating mines prevented him. A torpedo boat engagement fol- A Good Answer. "The late Mayor McLane," said a Baltimorean, "told/"me last year of an occurrence thht had befallen a well known railroad man. "A humble employe of the road called on this man and asked for a pass to a certain distant point. The official said, with a'severe air: " 'You have been working for us for some time, haven't you?' " 'Yes,' said the Employe. " 'You have always been paid reg­ ularly?' " 'Yes, sir.' " 'Well, now, suppose you were working for a farmer. Would you have the nerve to ask this farmer to harness up his horses and drive jjrou a long distance into the country ?'- " 'NO>' said the employe, 'I wouldn't. But if the farmer had his horses al­ ready harnessed and was going my way, I'd call him a pretty mean fel­ low if he refused to give me a lift.'" lery, thirty-six guns in all--and nine squadrons and one regiment of caval- ry. Kouropatkin's official reports indi­ cate that he is making a stand at Hai­ cheng and Liaoyang. The Japanese reports, confirmed by Kouropatkin, show that the Japanese armies have captured Ta pass, far to the northeast of Liaoyang; Motien pass, and Fen­ shui pass, almost directly east. British military observers do not un­ derstand Kouropatkin's apparent inac­ tivity. They point out thac a Japa­ nese army, pouring through Ta pass, will in a few days be able to cut the railroad north of Liaoyang and at the same time hold the Russian forces at Mukden in check, while the armies advancing westward through Fenshui and Motien pass will be able to strike Liaoyang. South of Kouropatkin a Japanese army has been at Kaichou since June 26. almost within striking distance of Tatshekiao, while Kuroki's three col­ umns are marching on Haicheng. It looks as if Kouropatkin is trapped and that only a victory or miracle will enable hipi to extricate his army from its present plight. that a decisive battle will hardly take place before the arrival of Fiield Mar­ shal Oyama on the scene." Motor-Car Catarrh. A new danger has now been found to beset motor enthusiasts who have dereloped the mania for driving at ex­ cessive speed. Medical men call it Three Armies Closing in on Kouropatkin's Position. London, July 1.--Spencer Wilkinson writes in the Morning Post: "A telegram from Llaovang asserts that the Russian main army is ne£r Haicheng and that a detachment is defending the exit from Motien pass towards Liaoyang. "From these details we can get a general Idea of the situation. The Japanese have two armies of not less than six divisions, or 120,000 men, ad­ vancing on a front of fifty miles from Hsungyao to Fenshui pass. The roads on which they are moving converge on Tatshekiao and Haicheng, so that as the armies move forward they come nearer together. "These armies have to fight their way towards Haicheng through a hilly country, full of defiles and of strbng positions which Russians have forti­ fied. They may well take a week or more in the advance to Haicheng, and may have several battles to fight on the way. "The Japanese right column, de­ scribed as the Takushafi army, has won its first victory at Fenshui pass. Gen. Kouropatkin is compelled to al­ low his army to be beaten in small de­ tachments, and he has no good way of strengthening it for the decisive battle which must come after the Jap­ anese forces have effected their con­ centration. "It seems probable that another army, the First, under Gen. Kuroki. is motor-car catarrh, and state that It is produced by the high rate of speed at which tjtie motorist travels and the consequent minute particles of sand and dust which fly against the deli­ cate mueous surfaces of the nose and throat. One motorist, who is well known for the excessive rate at which he travels, was laid up with the dis­ ease, and only the total abandon­ ment of racing saved him from hav­ ing to undergo a serious operation. A Chinese Dofi Story. Prince Pu Lun and the Chinese Min­ ister, Sir Chentung Lh}ng Cheng, at­ tended the races at Gravesend early in the/month. A number of New Yorkers were pre­ sented to the distinguished foreigners, and one of them to^d an incident that illustrated the remarkable intelligence of a dog of his. The minister said, with a smile: "I am reminded, sir, of a Chinese dog Btory- "There was a Chlnamart who had three dogs. When he came home one evening, he found them asleep on his couch of teakwood and marble. He whipped them and drove them forth. Torpedo Boats in Conflict Outside Beleaguered Port. Tokio, July 5.--Admiral Togo re­ ports that the Japanese torpedo boats approached Port Arthur June 27 and were discovered by the Russian picket ships, which werer attacked. Despite the heav£ fire from ships and forts and the blinding searchlights the Jap­ anese succeeded in torpedoing a two- masted. three-funneled vessel, either a battleshir or a cruiser, which sunk below Golden hill. Simultaneously the Russian torpet'o boat destroyers attacked the Japa­ nese. The fire by the latler capsized one of the Russian boats. The hap­ penings at night were clearly seen. On the Japanese destroyers Lieut. Gondo and thirteen men were killed and three men wounded. The Asahi reports that a two-fun- neled vessel, perhaps the battleship Poltava, is submerged at a point oa the coast fifteen miles northwest ot Port Arthur. It is semi-officially announced that Vice Admiral Kaniimura's squadron was off Tsushima island, in the strait of Corea, on Friday. The Vladivos­ tok squadron apparently has escaped to the northeast. Two Japanese Divisions Advancing on Liaoyang. Mukden, uly 5.--It is reported that the Japanese are moving two divi­ sions upon Liaoyang fenshui pass. The Chinese state that the Japa­ nese lack victuals, medicines and for­ age. East of Kaichau the principal Japa­ nese forces have fallen baek. abandon­ ing their positions. There have been no notable changes on the road to Liaoyang. Military Moves Depend on State of Weather St. Petersburg, July 5.--Latest re­ ports from the front state that the valleys have been turned into lakes, that a multitude of small streams have become torrents, a&d that the roads have been changed into quagmires, in­ dicating that all progress in the cam­ paign has stopped. Still later mes­ sages say the rain has stopped and that the wind is now blowing away over a dry country. The weather is of intense importance, as it is known that the Japanese, having concentrat­ ed such a large force, propose push­ ing on if there is any possibility of doing so. 'The next night, when be came home, the dogs were lying on the floor. But he placed his hand on the couch, and found it warm from their bodies. Therefore* he gave tbem an­ other whippingyjg^ "The third ingnt, returning earlier than usual, be fouad the dogs sitting before the couch, blowing on it to cool it." Damage by Forest Fires. The annual report of the New Jer­ sey State Geologist shows that dur­ ing 1903 there was 85,046 acres of forest destroyed by fire, which is 13,804 acrest-less than in 1902. The damage, however, aggregated more than in 1902 by $137,421, or an in­ crease of 82 per cent. Boys Help Clean City. TrT"forty-two clubs, more than 1,300 boys of the East Side of New York have been gathered to form the Juv­ enile City League. Each club repre­ sents a city block, and each boy pledges himself to abstain from litter­ ing the streets, while he also prom­ ises to persuade others to do as well