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THE TITUSVILLE HERALD.
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FORTY-SECOND YEAR.
TITUSVIIiLE, PA, JULY 15, 1004,
VOLUME   XL1. WO. 43.
PORT ARTHUR HORROR
ROT FULL! VERIFIED.
THB   INFORMATION  APPEARS  TO
COME FROM JAPANESE.
GENERAL      ARMY      MOVEMENTS,
Advance From Kai Chou to Ta Tche
Kiao    Is   Very     Blow—Constant
Clashing Between Outposts.
COUNT CASSINI   NOTIFIED.
NEW YORK, July 13.—The Associated Press received the following telegram from Count Cassini, the Russian ambassador, dated Bar Harbor,
Me.:
"An official statement to the general
staff from Admiral Alexieff reports
that news has been obtained from Japanese sources to Jthe effect that a night
attack made on Port Arthur on July
11 was repulsed and that the Japanese
losses were terrible, nearlng the enormous number of 30,000 men."
road between SI Mott Cheng and Feng
Wang Cheng and Ita advance guard
has occupied the valley of the Saukhe
river.
General Sakharoff adds that a number of outpost engagements have taken
place In different directions with
triffling loss on both sides and indicating the persistent advance of the Japanese.
He says there is no change in the
direction of Ta Pass or Hai Cheng.
Bands of Chinese bandits are active
in the neighborhood of Liao Yang. The
Russian" sentinels exchanged shots
with them.
EIGHTEEN KILLED AND
SIXTY-EIGHT INJURED.
IN   A  COLLISION   NEAR   CHICAt O
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
8TORY OF PORT ARTHUR
DI8A8TER FROM MUKDEN,
Claimed That 30,000 Men Were Lest.
Nothing Authentic.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 13.—A
special dispatch received from Mukden
tonight, dated July 12, repeats the
story of a Japanese repulse at Port
Arthur with the loss of 30,000. The
dispatch says:
"News has been received from reliable sources that the Japanese third
army on the night of July 11 attacked
Port Arthur and was heavily defeated,
an immense number being killed by
Russian mines. The total loss ls about
80,000."
There was great interest throughout
St. Petersburg all this evening for further details of the reported disaster.
It has developed that the report, which
was at flrst supposed to emanate directly from Viceroy Alexieff, was not
specifically fathered by him, 'but was
given out as a report reaching his
bcadquiir'ters from "Japanese sources."
What 'these sources are has not yet
been explained.
A   PERSISTENT  REPORT.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 13.—-An
official communication from the Russian general staff says:
"According to information derived'
from Japanese sources and received by
Admiral Alexieff's military staff tbe
Japanese, ^tacked the Russian position^ ^t Iflort Arthur during tha night
of July, 1Q.rtlThey were repulsed with
enormous loss. It Is difficult to calculate even approximately the number of
Japanese casualties, which amounted.
It ie said, to the Immense figure of
30,000."
-   ST. PETERSBURG HEARS IT.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 13.-5:35 p
m.—This city was thrown Into a fever
of excitement thie afternoon by the
news that the Japanese had failed in
an assault on th.e fortress of Port Ar*
thur on Sunday night, having been repulsed with a loss said to reach 30,000.
PORT ARTHUR FALLEN?
LONDON, JULY 14.—There is published this morning a rumor that Pott
Arthur has fallen, but It is discredited
and lacks confirmation ef any sort.
NOT CONFIRMED.
LONDON, July 14.—The speolal dispatches from correspondents at the
seat of war published In this morning's
London newspapers do not give any
confirmation of the sensational report-5
of Japanese losses at Port Arthur.
BATTLE IN PROGRE88.
, CHEFOO, July 14.—8 a. m.—Private
advices just received from Niuchwang
Indicate that the long expected battle
between Katehou and Ta Tche Klao Is
now in progress.
GETTING READY FOR
TRIAL OF STRENGTH.
Quiet That Precedes the Storm in
Vicinity of  Kai-Chou.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 13.—The
general staff has received a dispatch
from General Sakharoff dated July 12,
reporting that the Japanese, July 10,
commenced to construct fleld works
on the* heights behind the railroad line
and the road from Kai-Chou to Ta-
Tehc-Kiao.
Japanese outposts were observed
July 10 between Madlinkau and San-
gaisha and skirmishing occurred Ju:y
11 between the advance guards near
the village of Sia Dian Tsia. The Japanese retired when tfie Russians were
reinforced. A Japanese detachme.it of
one battalion of infantry and tores
squadrons of cavalry were discovered
about eight miles northeast of Kai
Chou, their outposts extending along
the valley of the Pan Tak from Yu
Dla Tien, about nine miles east of Kai
Chou, as far as Pan Shi Putze, about
four miles south of Chi Dla kau.
General Sakharoff also reports that
the Japanese are throwing up earthworks on the heights on both sides of
Kheion.
A Japanese force is encamped on the
JAPANE8E RECKLESSNESS.
TA TSHE KIAO, July 13.—-A Russian correspondent of the Associated
Press in the fleld, describing the light
which preceded the capture of Kai
Chou, says that the Japanese did not
display their customary prudence.
They advanced in open formation with
cries of "Banzai," meeting the hail
of artillery and rifle flre from Major
General Kondratsvltch's men and were
literally mowed - down. The dead and
wounded were ao thick that the Red
Cross and coolie burial parties worked
the whole night.
TRAIN CARRIED CHURCH PEOPLE
En Route Home From Picnic—Crashed
Into   Freight   and   Buried  Victims
Under Mass of Debris.
i    JAP8 NEAR NIUCHWANG.
CHEFOO. July 13.—A dispatch received here from - Lloyd's agent at
Niuchwang, says:
"Japanese scouts were seen thia
morning at Blackwood's Pond, six miles
south of here.
"General Oku with 50,000 men Is advancing between this place and Ta-
Tche-Kiao.
"Shipping and trade are progressing
as usual."
MEMPHI8 MA38 MEETING
CALLED FOR THURSDAY.
Committee of 1,000 May Be Appointed
to Ask Resignations.
MEMPHIS, Tenn.. July 13.—As a result of the recent fighting in a
gambling house here which resulted
in the death of two deputy sheriffs, the
committee on public safety today decided to call a mass meeting tomorrow for the purpose of dealing with
existing circumstances. Several speakers advocated the appointing of a
committee of 1,000 to call upon Mayor
J. J. Williams, Chief of Police John J.
Mason and George Blackwell, sheriff
of Shelby county, and 'demand their
resignations as public officials. All
gambling houses have been closed.
TWO HUNDRED DROWNED
IN PHILIPPINE FLOOD.
Town of San Juan Del Monte Wiped
Out In Cloudburst.
MANILA. July 13.—A cloudburst
over the hills northeast of Manila
caused a flood which has destroyed
San Juan Del Monte. Two hundred
lives were lost.
HONORS FOR GEN. STEWART.
HARRISBURG, Pa., July 13.—Adjutant General Stewart has detailed the
Governor's troop to report at Gettysburg July 21 for provost duty during
the division encampment of the National Guard of Pennsylvania July 23-
80. The governor's review will be
held on the' 28th. During the encampment  the William  Moflit  Reilly
medal will be   awarded   to   General
r
Stewart for "long, faithful and continuous service."
FURNISHED BAIL.
DENVER, Col., Juljr 13.—William D.
Haywood, secretary-treasurer of the
Western Federation of Miners, and
John M. O'Neill, editor of the'Miners'
Magazine, today furnished bonds, Haywood one of $10,000 and O'Neill one of
$5,000, to insure their appearance at
Cripple Creek next September for trial
on the charges filed against them in
connection with the riots at Victor,
Col., June 6, following the Independence station dynamiting.
OUR ANNUAL SLAUGHTER.
* CHICAGO, July 13.—The Tribune
says: "Five more deaths have been
added to Chicago's list of Fourth of
July victims. Four died in agony from
lockjaw, while the fifth succumbed to
wounds caused by the explosion of a
toy cannon. From other cities in tho
country two deaths from injuries and
five from tetanus wore reported, making the total of Uvea lost in the 'patriotic celebration' eighty-four."
ACCUSED OF MURDER.
NEW YORK, July 13.—Dr. P. R.
Langdon, wanted at Kanwawee, Ills.,
on a charge of murder, arrived here today on the While Star liner Majestic
in the custody of Sheriff H. A. Cyrler
and Deputy M. A. Raker of Kankakee.
Tho prisoner was accompanied by his
wife.
STRANGLED BY TEETH.
NEW YORK, July 13.—Frightened
by the narrow escape of her young
son from being run down by a heavy
truck, Mrs. Mary Murphy, wife of a
Brooklyn merchant, has been strangle,l
to death by her false teeth.
CHICAGO, July 18.—-Eighteen persons were killed and sixty-eight Injured tonight in a collision on the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad
at Glenwood, Ills., twenty-throe miles
south of Chicago.
The collision occurred between a
picnic train from Chicago, which'was
returning from Momence, Ills., and a
freight train, into the rear em of
which the excursion train dashed at
high speed. The picnic train was w>m-
lng north and the freight was on the
soul h-lvound track and before the engineer could apply the brakes it ran
at forty miles an hour into the rear
of the freight. The locomotive, the
baggage car and the first coach of the
picnic train were demolished.
All of the killed and injured were
on the locomotive and the two cars.
The picnic was the annual outing of
the members of the Doremus church..
After spending the day on the picnic
grounds at Momence the train load
started on the return trip, running in
as the second section of the regular
passenger train train which was due
in Chicago at 8:25 p. m.
When the picnic train reached
Chicago Heights, four miles beyond
Glenwood, where the accident took
place, it was switched to the regular
south-bound track and although it was
coming north it was given a clear track
by the operator at Chicago Heights until It should reach Glenwood, four
miles away. The train, after leaving
Chicago Heights, gradually increased
ita speed and when half the distance
between the two stations had bean
covered it was plunging along at the
rate of 40 miles an hour.
Just half way between Chicago
Heights and Glenwood there is a sharp
curve. As the picnic train tore around
this on the north-bound tract- T\
freight train was backing from the
southbound to the northbound track.
It was partly on both tracks and no
train could have passed it in either di-
restlon. The bend is so sharp that the
engineer of the picnic train did not see
the freight until he was about on it. It
was too late to do anything but set
the brakes, but before they could "take
effect the passenger train smashed
into the freight at full speed. The locomotive and baggage car of the passenger train went through the freight
and wore piled up in a heap of wreckage on the further side of the switch
track. The flrst coach of the picnic
train plunged into the wreckage and
buried itself in a mass of kindling
wood. Nearly all the passengers in the
flrst coach were caught beneath the
mass of debris and it was here that the
loss of life occurred.
The passengers in the rear coaches
were hurled from their seats, and many
of them bruised but all of the serious
casualties, occurred In the first car.
The uninjured passengers and trainmen at once hastened to the welief of
those who were pinned under the
wreckage.
The wreck was two miles-from anywhere and much delay ensued before
some of the Injured, who were held
down by heavy timbers, could, be extricated. Nothing could be done for
.them until lifting machinery came
from Chicago Heights. The flrst train
to arrive at the wreck came from
Chicago Heights and it carried six
physicians. A short time afterward a
second train arrived from Glenwood,
bringing additional physicians and a
number of nurses. Darkness had fallen and rescue went on by light of
bonfires.
A regular relief train was mode up
at Glenwood and it brought the dead
and wounded to Chicago.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
DIDN'T REFUSE MINERS.
HURT AT CELORON.
JAMESTOWN, N. Y., July 13.—Miss
Irene Broadwell and Miss ,Ethei Boyd.
both of Cleveland, were dangerously
injured in the "loop the loop" at Celoron this evening. The car in which
they were riding became stalled at tho
top of the loop and both fell to the
track, a distance of twenty feet. The
car shot backward, running over both
of them. Miss Broadwell s chest was
crushed and Miss Boyd was internally
injured.
ANOTHER  ASSAULT.
COLUMBUS, O., July 13.—Rose Slok-
er, 12 years old, was the victim of an
attempted  assault hy a young white
man on the outskirts of the city today!    The  girl  fought and  screamed
until her assailant fled.   A large crowd I
quickly gathered i and  went in pursuit
and  later  the  police joined    in    the.
chase but the man escaped.   Rose was.
not seriously hurt. |
He Was Net at Home When Committee Visited  Hia Home Tuesday.
OYSTER, BAY, L. I., July 13—<!cn-
cerning the visit to Oyster Bay yesterday of the committee representing the
Central Labor unions of Lackawanna
and Luzerne counties. Pa., Secretary
I Loeb today received the following telegram from John E. Barrett, edtior of
the Truth of Scranton, Pa.:
"Did President Roosevelt personally
refuse to see a committee of miners
yesterday as reported in this morning's papers?"
In response to this inquiry Secretary
Loeb sent to Editor Barrett the following telegram:
"Many thanks for your telegran-.
The committee came here and insisted
on seeing the President to present a
petition at a time when I could not
arrange it for them. The President
did not know they were here. If tbey
had sent word that they desired to sou
the President I would have been glad
to arrange for them at some convenient time. As it was I offered to bring
the petition to the personal attention
of the President. The statement that
the President had any knowledge of
the committee's presence in Oyster
Bay is not true."
It was stated in the Associated Press
dispatch yesterday, concerning t'.e
visit, that the President did not personally refuse to receive them. Winn
the committee called on Secretary
Loeb at the executive-offices the President was absent temporarily from
Sagamore Hilll He was not even within telephone communication of Secretary Loeb and the members of tbo
committee were so informed.
Copies of the photographs of the
President and Senator Fairbanks.
taken at Sagamore Hill, were received
here today. They will be used extensively In the campaign. The set it
photographs taken yesterday includes
some artistic views of the interior of
the President's home, the first, except
of the library, ever authorized by tne
President
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Notice to Subscribers.
Subscriber who are 18 mo-ihs or more in arrears must pay before
August 1st, 1904, or their paper will be discontinued. Do not wait for
a collector te call, but send In your money, as the practice of sending
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WORK MOVED SLOWLY
IN PACKING DISTRICT.
EVERY   DEPARTMENT   OPERATED
LIGHT-HANDED.
MANY    TEAMSTERS    WENT    OUT.
Proprietors    Do    Net    Fear    Serious
Trouble     From      Mobs—"Casual
Workers"  Taken  Wednesday.
W.
VA. CONVENTION WAS
CONCLUDED  YESTERDAY.
Reform Plank on State Taxation—List
ef Candidates.
WHEELING, W. Va., July 13.—The
state Republican convention completed
Its work tonight after a continuous session of more than eleven hours. The
salient feature of the platform, which
was the last matter taken up, is its
declaration for a reform in the system of state taxation.
The following candidates were
named today.
Auditor—C. Scherr of Mineral.
Treasurer—-Newton Ogdin of Pleasants.
Attorney General—Clark W. May of
Lincoln.
State Superintendent fof Schools—
Thomas C. Miller of Marlon.
Secretary of State—Charles W.
Swisher of Marion.
Judges of Supreme Court—Frank
Cox of of Monongalia, Joseph M.
Saunders of Mercer. ■
Presidential Electors-at-Large—Dr.
W. W. Monroe of Wood and James A.
Lenhart of Preston.
THE STEAMER SLOCUM'S
ACTUAL  L088 OF LIFE
CHICAGO, July 13.—Today bore out
predictions of the packing house proprietors that the big strike would not
cause a stoppage of operations. In the
great Ahbatoir district tilings moved
slowly indeed today, but they moved.
All the packing houses-reported that
they were slaughtering a little. Every
department was said to be doing some
work; not much, but some, and was
expected to increase the activity tomorrow.
Loading and shipping was in progress though heavily curtailed, as was
the buying of cattle. Some hundreds
of new workmen were hired and put
to work In the places which had been I
vacated in thousands.
On the other hand the strike spread
somewhat by the action of teamsters
in considerable numbers, but ostensibly acting as individuals refusing to
handle the product touched by newly
hired non-union workmen. This refusal was usually based on the time-
honored plea tbat a different course,
contracts notwithstanding, would put
the teamster in peril of his life.
Extensive Installments i of sleeping
cots and cooking apparatus for strike
breakers at the various packing houses
were apparently the main irritant
cause for action by the teamsters, although there were a number of sporadic mob outbreaks on a small scale.
Tho packing house proprietors did
not appear t6 share the alleged fear
of mobs. J. Ogden Armour, in a runabout made a tour of the stock yards
and streets adjacent. He was recognized all along the way by strikers
but met with no demonstration.
One oif the most interesting statements made today regarding the Strike
situation came from Miss Mary E. McDowell of the University of Chicago
settlement, near the stock yards. She
said that the greatest difficulty the
union workmen had to expect was that
presented by the "casual workers,"
who, she said, were at the beck and
call of the plant superintendents.
There are about 5,000-of this class of
laborers around the yards "looking for
work, accoi'ding to Miss McDowell, and
the regulr workmen are in constant
fear they wil be supplanted. Many of
these workmen, it is said, are now being engaged to take the places of the
strikers.
NEWS FROM
'   NEAR-BY TOWNS
EAST TITUSVILLE.
"' ~ July 14.
Mrs. Henry Keefer and granddaughter of Jamestown, N. Y., have been
calling on friends here.
Mrs. Elba Gllson and daughter, Misa
Jessie, of Slippery Rock are visiting al
Mrs. J. B. Duncan's.
Miss Nannie Foss hae returned to
Chicago.
Mrs. Charles Hendrickson and children, and Mtss Edith Swanson of Bay-
yon ne, N. J., are visiting their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Swanson, and
family.
Mrs. Shannon of Youngsville, Pa., is
a guest of her niece, Mrs. A. W. Morrison, for a few days.
A daughter was recently born to Mr.
and Mrs. Turner of Enterprise road.
Was 958—Believed All But One Have
Now Been Accounted For.
"""NEW* YORK,""*Ju)y'~ 18.—The'" total
dead in the destruction of the excursion steamer General Slocum on July
Ih is given as 958 in the final report to
Police Commissioner McAdoo today by
tbe inspectors in charge of the investigation by the police department.
Only 897 of the dead were identified,
62 were reported missing and 61 unidentified while 180 were injured and
only 235 out of the nearly 1,400 on the
steamer escaped uninjured. Assuming that the unidentified dead are
among the missing, all but one person
has been thus far accounted for.
CANDIDATE ARRE8TED.
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ills., July 13.—
William P. Scott, candidate for President of tho United States on the National .Liberty party ticket, was arrested today ou account of an unpaid
fine and taken to Belleville, the county
seat of St. Clair county. Several
months ago Scott, who runs a saloon
and summer garden at Denverslde, was
convicted of conducting a disorderly
place and his fine and costs amounted
to $149.80. He paid $50 and was given
time to pay the balance.
A FACTORY FATALITY
AT CORRY YESTERDAY.
Leonard   Amidon   Caught   in a   Line
Shaft and Whirled to Death.
CORRY, July ^3.—(Special.)— Leonard W. Amidon, 86 years of age, was
caught in a swiftly revolving shaft at
the C. A. Mabie & Son's Brush Block
factory at 7 o'clock this morning anl
died soon after reaching the city hospital.
Mr. Amidon was oiler at the factory
and shortly after bis arrival this morning mounted a ladder to oil, the main
shaft. His jacket sleeve was damp
and ls believed to have adhered to tbo
smooth steel, drawing his arm about
the shaft, which makes 500 revolutions
per minute. His fellow employes
heard a scream and saw the body
whirling through the air. The engine
was stopped hastily and the injured
man was removed. At the hospital I.e.
was examined'by Drs. Kibler and Elston, who found that his chest was
caved in, bis lungs punctured by <t
broken bone and that he had suffered
other Internal injuries. He lived thre'a
hours.
EAST BRANCH.
July 14.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Eddy of Johnstown, and Mrs. May Morton and little
son ot Clarendon made a shore visit
with their uncle, A. B. Smith, last
week.
There will be an ice cream social at
Pierce's hall, Saturday evening, July
16, for the benefit of the Grange which
will use the proceeds in buying lamps
for the hall.   Everybody come.
Will Davis is up from Pittsburg on
business connected with his farm.
There will be baptism at Teasdale'a
mill, on Sunday' next at about 12
o clock.
W. N. Teasdale! ,whouha,'d his hand
hurt in an acciden't-;- i& Sown from Ludlow, visiting while his fingers heal.
Bert Weldon of Columbus is spending the week with his grandmother,
Mrs. Betsy Weldon.
BRITTON RUN.
July 14.
The Cemetery A?fa iKef July 8, at the
home of Mrs. Or'vfSe^fcftflipy; collection, $3.60; adiburfiedylW meet with
Mrs. B. Kelsey rM°t,fl\lay,',lug. 12.
Mrs. Loren Young is visiting her parents here for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Lane have gone to
Bradford for a months stay.
• Sidney Day has returned home, after
a weeks work on the road.
Mr. and Mrs. George Weatherbee of
Lyona were visiting at the home of J.
F. Bradford last week.
Mrs. John Still and Mrs. Elmer Bradford were visiting at Tillotson Corners
last Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nichols have returned home, after spending a few days
with friends aud relatives at this place.
. MiSs Mabel Snapp is again able to lp
out.
TELEGRAM OF CONDOLENCE.
MILWAUKEE, Wis., July 13.—The
International Alliance of Theatrical
Stage Employes today sent a telegram'
of sympathy to the family of the late
Mayor Jones of Toledo. Several of the
delegates in their speeches today expressed deep-#6fereT'9v«rSMayor Jones'
death. .The [tJoflsideraflbn of new
charters and strike cases took up most   Ohio are spending a few weeks
GRESHAM.
July 14.
Mrs. Jane Wakefield has returned
home after, a few weeks' visit with her
daughter,' Mrs. John Clark of Bradford.
The many friends. of Mrs. John
Lewis will be glad to learn of her Improving health as the lady is able to
ride out.
Arthur Kerr has returned from the
Titusville      hospital      after      being
threatened with typhoid fever.
iuTs. Mac Duffleld and children from
with
SHAMBURG.
July 14. .
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. O'Connell of Indianapolis, Ind., who have been visiting
the former's parents here, have returned to their home.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. William Gelta,
a daughter, on July 6.
Rev. Martin and Mr. Patton of Sandy
Lake spent a few days of last week,
with W. H. H. Monroe and family.
Will Roth, who has been fionfinejl
to the house for several weeks with a
badly cut foot, ls able to be out once
more.
Mrs. George Herrlck and children
and Cecil O'Connell spent a few days
with Pleasantvile friends.
A. Celts aud daughter have returned
from Buffalo, after a weeks visit.
The Batohelor Girls' club spent
Thursday In Tidioute.
SHELMADINE 8PRING8.
July 14.
There will be baptismal services and
children's day exercises at Bethel, July
26, at 11 o'clock.
William McBride is moving his mill
from Enterprise to the John Lockwood
place. ■ j; ";-
Miss Cozie Jones, who has been
spending a few weeks with her aunt,
Mrs. W. E. Goodrich, has returned to
her home at Clarion.
Miss Edythe Lockwood is visiting
relatives here.
of the time of today's meeting.
her sister, Mrs. Lawton Eastwood.
JAMISON CORNERS.
July 14.
The Prohibition Alliance will meet
at Centre school house, Friday evening.
July 15.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Johnson of Ellwood City were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
K. W. Proper over Sunday.
Joseph Gariepy has resigned his position as pumper on the Henry Buxton
lease. ■ -, ;-,