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CORVAL.LIS, OREGON. SEPTEMBER 24. 1901
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A BATTLE IMMINENT
JAPANESE ABE PUSHING ON
v TO MUKDEN WITH 100,000..
Two' Ipoporiant Forts Captured by
the Japanese Kuroki Eluded
. a Strong Cofesack'Gaartir
, General' Assault Is in. -..-;
Progress Against -
, Port Arthur. J," .'
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Mukden, Sept.' 2O. A battle is
imminent. ; The Japanese are ad
vancing! with eight "and possibly
nine divisions. '- . ':
The crops of tall; millet ' have
been harvested, affording: a better
field over which to fire on the- flat
plains. -The river', Hun is the di
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- St. Petersburg"Sept. '21. The
ieDBationalannouncementthat Gen
eral Kuroki has crossed the . Hun
river unopposed, and thtt the whole
Japanese army is advancing upon
Mukden is. overshadowed by anxie
ty for Port Arthur. - Moreover, the
announcement relative to Kuroki
does not receive complete credence
here, as being in direct contradic
tion of official d6ws issued by the
general staff.; General Kuropatkin
announced only two .days ago that
there was pot a single Japanese
east of Bentsiaputze. . How, it is
asked, could: General Kuroki with
100,000 men sup past General Ben;
cenkampn s Uospsces and cross tire
Hun river: near , the Fushan coal
mines, 30 milts east of Mukden
Fusban -ia situated on the road from
Bentaiaputz'e, where General 'Kuro-
ticTOssed the Taitz river. This road
is carefullv watched by General
Kufopatkia's " outposts between
Mukden and Sintsintin.
-,A strong guard has been f placed
at the Fushan mines, which . Gener-
tire.1 regiment. . r This Btatemeht has
been absolutely; confirmed,- and in
dicates the mocumental proportions
of the task which the Japanese have
set for themselves in attempting to
capture tbe'lortreesi'whffch com
posed of roanr' forts equjy strong.
St. Petersburg, Bept. .21. Inter
eft ia again concentrated 'upon Port
Arthur, ' owing to the receipt- from,
foreign sBurces of newB that a gen
eral ? storming of the fortifications
there has begun. - - " ' '
- The telegrams brought" to Chefoo
by Prince Radziwill have , not TetJ
reached the 'war office, "'If fe -understood
that these dispatches contain
details of the landing of strong Jap
sness. " reinforcements ; at Dalny,
which would tend to eonfirm 'the
belief that it is the ialerftibn of the
Japanee to f torm the fortress, and
that 'the warships will probably
Lteke part, in :the. attack.' In ' this
event, ,Kear-Admiral wiren's: ai
Yision will doubtless go out and: en
gage the Japanese fleet.' ' : - -"Vi
n:.Li:. ri: - 1 - 1 ' J
to a high tension by a dreadful pic-
ture given by Prince Radziville of
the Bofferir'gs of the RusEiam army
there. " ." . .' ' " ',' " ..':'' .", ':
DYHAMITE i , EXPLOSION
ELECTRIC CAS BLOWN UP BY
STRIKING BOX. OF DY;
: NAMITE. " ;"'
Six Killed Outright and Nineteen
Are Injured Explosive Fell ",.
l-; From a Wagon-rJapanese
.Attack" Russiaos at :-
- ;,rDa Pass.- v;-
currency and easily arrie3.
- There was no way in which the
trainmen could pursue the robbera
orgetword ahead oftbem."By thetime
conductor could walk to the near-"
est telegraph office the robbers had
at least an hour's start. v- ;
Theengineer and firemen ,oi the
traitt -furnished prf-ttyaccurate de
scription of three of the-men. - '
The robbery was committed at a
place known as Whiskey i Hollow,
about, four miles out of Muscatine,
at the end of a eharp curve, and -.
exactly where V similar hold up
was engineered two. : years , ago by
the Chicago barn baadits. T,
A fusillade; ' of-' shots : was fired
Melrose, Mass- Sept.";21. Ah jalong theide of the train to pre-
outward-bound electric car contain--1 vent interference -by i the" pasEeo,
ing 32 persona was blown .to pieces 'gers. The messenger, jxll the.ex
in this city tonight by-; striking a (press car-was compelled to .'open the
Shahehail SeDt. 20. The eensr
al attack on Port Arthur, which be
gan yesterday ana in which the Jap
anese fleet is, co-operating, was re
sumed this morning. . the Japan
ese captured two important fov'ts on
either side of Sueiezeyine, north; of
Port Arthur. - -'. :
without a struggle, as the . loss of
the mines would involve the cutting
off of the coal supply for the whole
of the Manchurian railway. Nev
ertheless, it is considered more than
doubtful if General Kuropatkin
will make a decisive stand south of
Tie Pas?; . ....
New ' .York, Sept". 20. Within
sight of her mother, who "was pow
erless to render assistance, the 4
year-old daughter of James Kinley,
a -manufacturer at. Port Washing
ton., Long Island, waeswallowed up
by quick sand.'; Her. mother-ifell
unconscious and is .'now in a critical
condition, v -' . .' : ; , --.rT
i The little girUwas at play only a
few-feet from home near; -the shore
of the sound when she stepped into
a murfcv nool leit .bv recent, raits,
al., kuropatkin WilU not give.; uptiThe-vater- waa?only 4wotOr . thre
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Chefoo, Sept. 20. Authoritative
information has been received, here
of a general attack upon Port 5 Ar
thur by the Japanese forces, which
began: yesterday before daybreak
and continued until dark. -. All in
dications point to an effort to cap
ture certain of the northwest, main
forte. '
This Is the attack for which -the
Japanese has been preparing for the
past 19 days, with slight hope, of
success." As forecasted in these dis
patches, the Japanese attack , on
Poit Arthur is directed against the
nottheatt front. The main object
is to capture the iortincations on
Kikwan Mountain, Rihlung Moun
tain and the intermediate forts,:
,. The foregoing comes from a Rus
sian officer of standing, whose pre
vious information have been con ect.
He adds that the attack at the end
of August, which was reported as
two separate assaults, really consti
tuted a ten days' battle, the fight
ing being the heaviest during the
first three days and the last fou
days of that period.
Although the Japanese retired
August 31 along the greater part of
their line, they remained in four
supplementary forts on ,he north
east front, which they had captured
from the Russians. Thes9 include
two first forts, 50 yards from ;Rih
lung Mountain, and two Others at a
somewhat greater distance, . .
Since - Atigust 31 the Japanese
have bombarded very slightly,
while the Russians have been throw
ing approximately 1000 ebells dai
ly ..chiefly against the. four Japanese-mentioned.
Small sorties, as
referred to by the Novikrai of Port
Arthur, in the efforts to recapture
the positions, have been of almost
nightly occurrence and have been
uniformly unsuccessful.
If the Japanese succeed in captur
ing -Kihlung Mountain or other
forts they will realize that this will
be one step, although an important
one toward the capture of Port Ar
thur. The Russians who have been
observing the new tactics of the
Japanese- did not expect another
strike before the first week in Octo
ber. The Japanese are endeavor
ing tojproceed elowlyjbut surely.
During" the fighting in August,
the attempt to capture Kikwan
Mountain cost the Japanese an en-
feet deep, but the bottom of the
pool was quicksand. Mrs. Krnley
rushed to the spot to snatch her
daughter from the water and was
horrified to see her slowly disap8
pearine in the sand. The woman
screamed and then swooned.- Work
men from her husband's factory
rushed to the scene and the woman
was restored sufficiently to tell
what had happened. The men set
to work to rescue the child,- whose
body, being light, had not sunk en'
tirely. Several men went down
but were rescued by their com
rades, and finally the chid's body
was recovered. .'. 1
Berlin. Sept. 21. A dispatch
from Mukden, September 21, to the
Lokal Bnzeiger says:
"The Japanese - on Tuesday at
tacked Da Pass, 50 miles southeast
of Mukden, with what reeult is not
known.
"The Red Cross institutions here
are making ready for . general en
gagements." t . --..'-j
Shanghai, Sept. 21. A Chinese
who left Port Arthur last Monday
reports .that, owing to the incessant
bombardment of the harbor by the
Japanese, the Russian fleet there is
determined to break but this week
and endeavor to reach Teinsau, the
German port oi the Shantung Pe
ninsula. . , :
. Paris, Sept.' ,21. A dispatch to
he Temp3 from Mukden dated yes
terday says: :
"Russians executed reconnais
sances Monday,., which' developed
that the main army of the Japanese
is about 22 miles southeast, , under
General Kuroki, with two division
Yentai; . .
"The Japanese junks turned back
after succeeding in getting , up the
Liao river almost to Sinmintin
"A great battle is expected alocg
the Hun river."
50-pound box' of dynamite that had
fallen-off an ; express wagon. ' Six
persons were killed outright, three
more ditd of their injuries within
an hour and 19 others on the car
were taken to the- hospitals Buffer
ing from severe injuries. . -At least
a score of persons in the immediate
vicinity of the explosion were hurt
by flying glass and splinters. - -
So great was the torce of explo
sion that all but ten feet of the rear
portion of the car was . blown -into
small pieces, .while windows .within
radius of a quarter of a mile were
shattered. . z N ? , ; ,''
The immediate vicinity of the ac
cident presented a fearful epectacle-
when those in 'the neighborhood
reached the: scene, -ibe ground
was stre'wn with legs,, arms and
other portions of the bodies of those
who had been- killed, and: shrieks
and groans came from the writhing
forms of the injured.: The car con
tained mostly men on their way. to
their homes in this ojty. ,- . ;
For more than three 'hours there
was the greatest confusion. . Thous
ands of people rushed about 'trying
to find relatives and friends,' and
the hospitals were besieged.,. The
police arrested Koy Benton, driver
of an express wagon. Fenton, it
was-tearrta,-was carry ma two ou-
pound boxeB of dynamite on his
wagon, and did not know until he
reached the express office that one
of the boxes had dropped off. He
burned back in the hone of picking
it up, but the electric car reached
the box farst. "
The report was heard tor many
miles. Dire'ctly opposite the scene
was the Masonio building, every
window of which was shattered,
and through one ot the windows a
human foot was blown. A score of
persons within 100 yards of the car
was knocked down and rendered
deaf by the concussion.
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Muscatine, Sept. 12.PosseB
gathered by three special trains and
reinforced by scores of citizens in
the neighborhood are blindly pur
suing five men who, shortly after
midnight, stopped a Rock Island
passenger train on a sharp curve at
mile-post No. 2do, near Letts, la
and robbed the .express car of
sum of money estimated at from
$lo,ooo to $2o,ooo. . Two packs of
bloedhounds are assisting the posse,
. There are more than a hundred
men in the regularly organized par
ty and twice that many more are
searching separately with more or
less diligence, stimulated by the of
fer of $l,ooo reward offered jointly
by the railroad company and the
United States Express Company.
The robbers are supposed to have
left the line of ... the railroad rear
Letts, toward which place they
started on the locomotive of the
train which they had robbed.
- The passengers were not molest
ed. Nine of the trainmen showed
fight, and no one was hurt.
The train was one which left Chi
cago at 6:45 last night. It was due
to pas3 Lietts snomy Deiore 1 o'
clock. - r "
At 12:30 o'clock, as it waspass-
ing upon a short curve a few miles
east of Letts, the engineer stopped
in answer to a signal.
Five men covered the eugipeer,
the firemen, the express messenger
and the conductor with revolvers,
uncoupled the engine from the rest
of the train, entered the topcar and
blew open the safe. Thev too the
contents of the strong box and ran
to the engine, on which they im
mediately started rapidly- toward
Letts, j;
. The railroad officials said at first
that nothing of value was taken
from the safe. Later today it was
Baid that the rebbers obtained be
tween $lo,ooo and $20,000 worth of
booty.
borne 01 this, it is said, was in
coin, but the greater part was in
door. -The car safe was dynamited
and the contents taken, after which
the train brew was compelled to
return to the passenger coacbes, the
engine was cut off and the robbers
mounting it,: ran it west through
Letts and to within . two miles, of
Columbus Junction, wherr the en
gine, was left stanrtiny on Oif'track.
The manner ia wbn'l " n jobbers
handled, the engine. thu ki.uledge
of the fact that Letts '-Fas a cloeed
station at night, and the 'selection
of a point contiguous to' Columbus
Junction, to abandon -'.the engine,
convinces the officers' that '.the rob
bers or some of them are experienc
ed' railroad men.- ,'-1 ', V" ' '. -'-
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: ; Portland;'' Me. , Sept.13. Re
turns from the littte town's . in the
back woods today ' and a dareful re
vision of. last night's ''figures place
the republican plurality ih yester
day s state election at about 27, 000.
Returpsynrom 450 cities, towns
and plantations ' out gf 522 give -William'
T. Cobb, rep nominee for
governor, 75,954, and Cyrus W.
Davis, domocrat, 5o,ol7i . The same
places in 19oo gave Hill,! republi
can, "72,541, an'd. Lord, democrat,
39, 714. The republican gain over
19do is now eetimated at 5 per cent.
and the democratic gain at 24 per
cent. --" - ; -v,-. J:-- - -
Next year's senate probably will
stand 27 republicans and 4 demo
crats; as against 29 republicans and
1 democrat in the last legislature.
It is estimated that the House will
consist of 121 republicans' and 3o
democrats. The late House stood
131 republicans and 20 democrats.
The heaviest democratic gains
were in Cumberland county, where
the party re-elected Pennell as sher
iff, a senator and county commissioners.
Cyrus W. Davis, the democratic
nominee for governor, said:
"l am very well satisfied with the
democratic gains in the cities and
towns where we were able to appear ,
before the people and discuss the
issues. . Looking at the reeult from
a national standpoint, I do not see
how the republican party can pos
sibly derive any comfort .from the
returns."
Chicago, Sept. 13. Chairman
Cortelyoo refuses to comment on
the Maine election. Harry New,
said: "We did not place' the same
significance in the Main result as
we did in that of Vermont, and bad
prepared to meet a falling off in re
cent pluralities.
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