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i Tire ! Momim THE WEATHER TODAY : fr0P North Carolina: . $!?vvers. warmer. For Raleigh : 5h0ers, warmer. TEMPERATURE: Temperature f Or the past 24 Hours: Maximum, 88. Minimum, 69. RALEIGH, N. C., WEDNESDAY. JULY 13, 1904. No. 128 -Post Vol. vi rom Mukden That SI Port Arthur Were Attacked With Result Loss of Thirty Thousand Killed and Wounded ing Qr p.trrsburg; Jul" 12. An unofficial rar from Mukden says that -the ,m Fort Arthur last night and ,v ivp'.i! with enormous losses, no .1.-! .- f i.:n . j -i fcv. er I!1.;-' r. ou.cw uemg Kinea or wouna- fh number of casualties was .f;t!y ;id..led to by the explosion of io J pa'.Hce source. R .ssian Account of Kalpipg St. Petrs-burg, July 12. A telegram tt vja-Vieaomosti at Taschichao says ;h;ii Friday the Japanese advanced o within a short distance of Kaiping in a strong force, but without artillery. A Russian battery occupied a hill com- rr.iir.'Uri? tne town ana Kepi up a nerce and well-directed fire on the enemy for two-, hours. i The Japanese then fell back along the ne. At the same time six squadrons M their cavalry were seen on the hori- rt n : me west, aiso iaitnig. uen- L-a! : nifonoff occupied Kaiping. To- v,i! ,1 evening a Japanese attack on the :ovn wiij- r- i'ulsed with heavy loss. Next morning at 4 o'clock the Jap :?e renewed their attack with thirty- fivr .companies of infantry and fifteen :ua1rns of cavalry. They forded the Kaiping" river and attempted to turn rv: right flank near the railway sta v:. but were received by a well :'.ire te 1 fire from a battery -and a de a hiat at of cossacks. Numbers of holies were carried away down rivfr by the rapid current. But :.e;r.;e all this the enemy's cavalry ;-r.rir.-:M their flanking movement and v; eoid in turning our risrht wing.. T; iroons under General Samsonoff; "ii-r ihrlicting heavy losses on the J ;-uie?e. evacuated their position and rfi:-p.l, without themselves having suf !f1 any casualties. They took up a fresh position behind the mountains nrrrrvjniirig Kaiping. The Russian ar Hiery reopened fire upon the Japanese "ho were hidden under cover formed by a dip in the ground. As soon as the shells began to burst. over their heads thy fled behind the guns. Then they unmasked their artillery, which opened a concentrated fire on the Russians. The firing ceased toward evening. Bearded the Bear Tokio, July 12. Admiral Togo reports that at midnight Monday Japanese tor P1o boats approached the entrance of ffn Arthur and attacked the Russian ?:ard?hip, a ship of the Diana type, with torpedoes. The result of the en cnunter has not been ascertained, but ne Japanese sustained no damage. Oku Occupies Saichau London, July 12. A dispatch to Lioycis from Chefoo dated Sunday says tnat General Oku occupied Saichau yesterday without resistance. General 't;dkenberg retired on Taschichao. A dispatch sent from New Chwang Te?terday savs that Chinese arrivals He avv iRains Interfered w fh Cultivation of Crops Cotton Has Grown Rapidly, Too Rapidly in Central Districts-Boll Weevil increasing in Texas. Tobacco Good Everywhere hine-ton. D. C. Julv 12. The cli- v;at- an.d crop bulletin of the weather re-au lor the week ending at 8 a. m. Hth says heavv rains have . pre- ,. ntei. cultivation of crops and greatly terfpre,i with harvesting on the lower -;0uri central Mississippi and Ohio ll"ey? and portions of the middle At i4r'tie states and Lake reeions. Por- "s of the south Atlantic states and rth central Texas need rain. Jver xhf- tryn . jr S'aici yell l Ui. Hie tuui w- cr,rn has made vigorous growth, but ii.UOUS rains hsvo nravaritod r-nltl- In ' and much of the cop is weedy. t,. iiui lllCI I V UlSllltlB cut II la 8 'ler.-ilK- -k, , , . , , .. ., 3cr, "aL-nuara, duc nas aavanceu fcwH y fluriS the past week. Jn the Allantic states the crop has W- 0Xf'elle"t progress and is in very V;'!'S!nK condition tM-'l Sllne of winter wheat was lunaerea by unfavorable Russian Positions at report the Russians everywhere retir ing. Many ships are in the port. Stories of Russian Sorties Tokio July 12. The Russian cruisers Bayan, Diana, Pallada and Novik, with two gunboats and seven : destroyers, preceded by mine-clearing steamers, made a sortie from Port Arthur on Sat urday morning and reached a point be tween Senikaku and Lung Wantan. There they were attacked by Japanese torpedo boats and returned to Port Ar thur, which they re-entered at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Paris, July 12. The Echo de ; Paris prints a St. Petersburg story that the Port Arthur garrison by a vigorous sortie captured four guns and eighty prisoners. The heights in the rear of the fortress, it says, are surmounted by 100,000 Japanese. The Petit Parisien hears from Chefoo, via St. Petersburg, that the vanguard of the Japanese ar my reached YLnkow today and that a serious engagement is in progress on the Russian right flank. A rumor is current in St. Petersburg, says the Petit Parisien, of a combined triumphal sortie of the Port Arthur squadron and part of the garrison. The Russian ships , are said to have suc ceeded in putting to sea in the direc tion of Corea Strait. The sortie of General Stoessel's troops is said to have been attended with success. A strong attack on the town by the Japanese is said to have followed the sortie. The correspondent says it is also stated that the Vladivostok squadron has made another raid on Gensan. Health of Russian Army St. Petersburg, July 12. An official report On the health of the army in Manchuria shows that up to June 26 the officers arid men in hospitals in the field reached, a total of 7.136 per cent, and 3.943 per cent, respectively of the whole force. If the wounded sent, to the rear were included the percentages would have been 10.24 and 6.51 respect ively. After the rains began on July 9 the percentage of officers in the hos pitals became 8.383 and of the men 4.646. The proportion of infectious cases rose 2.19 to 8.59, including 1.99 per cent, of dysentery cases. Harry Japanese Commerce London, July 12. The steamer Si. Petersburg, belonging to the Russian volunteer squadron, which recently passed through the Bosphorus, is evi dently at sea for the purpose of harry ing Japanese commerce. When the St. Petersburg passed out from the Black Sea her movements created suspicion, which - it appears was well justified. The steamer Menelaus, which arrived at Perim, reports that the St. Peters burg stopped her and the steamer Crewe Hall yesterday south of Jeddah. Russian officers boarded the steamers and overhauled their papers, detain ing them for four hours. Subsequently the St. Petersburg steamed northward. She is armed with 8 guns and carries (Continued on Page Two.) weather in the districts east of the Mississippi river, where, however, the conditions were much less serious than in the states of the lower Missouri val ley. In common with other grains oats have suffered from excessive moisture in the lower Missouri valley, but else where this crop has made satisfactory progress, although rank growth is re ported from portions of Minnesota and Ohio. Cotton has grown rapidly through out the cotton belt, complaints of .too rapid growth being, received from por tions of the central districts, where the crop is suffering for cultivation. In portions of the western districts cot ton is also in need of cultivation and some shedding is reported from por tions of Texas and South Carolina. Over the greater part of Texas, how ever, and in the eastern districts the crop is in a good state of cultivation, and comparatively little damage from incects is reported, except in Texas where the boll weevils are increasing and becoming more destructive in the southwestern counties. The weather conditions have been highly favorable for tobacco, which is in thrifty condition in all of the im portant tobacco states. Haying has been greatly retarded by rains throughout trje central valleys and middle Atlantic3 states, and much hay has been spoiled in some sections. WOMAN VICTIM OF BRUTAL ASSAULT ' - .. Mrs. Kurtz of Reading, Pa., Terribly Maltreated by Man Who Hid in the House Reading, Pa., July 12. Mrs. Thomas Kurtz.jaged 23 years, a highly respected woman of this city, was the victim of a most brutal assault this morning. The attack took place in the built-up residence section of the city. Mrs. Kurtz's husband went to market at 5 o'clock. Just as he left the house she heard a door slam. She called to him and he! replied that he heard the noise, , too. They investigated it and found nothing. At 6:30 Mrs. Kurtz went down stairs with her sister-in-law, Miss Ellen Kurtz. There they found the doors open and other evidences of intruders. They made a thorough inspection, but could find no one, though they even looked under beds and in closets. Two hours later Mrs. Kurts went up stairs. Her sister-in-law remained in the kitchen. As she was passing into her bed room Mrs. Kurtz was seized in the hallway by a man, pushed inside, gag ged, threatened with a pistoi, thrown across J the bed, her limbs then bound and she was terribly maltreated. The man afterwards decamped. An hour later her sister-in-law found Mrs. Kurtz more dead than alive. All day she has been in great agony. Her body is black and blue and her mouth torn and bleeding. Two detectives are at work on the case. The police have no clue. THE GHALMETTE SUNK . Largest Steamboat on Missis sippi Struck a Snag New Orleans, July 12. The Chal mette, the largest steamboat on the Mississippi river, and engaged in the trade between St. Louis and New Orr leans, struck a snag at Logan's Land ing, La., and sank. The passengers saved their baggage. The Chalmette is the last tof the bis river boats. She was built in 1898, out of the remains of the old Anchor line steamer City of Vicksburg, wrecked in the St. Louis cyclone. She was engaged in the New Orleans trade for a number of years. The loss is $80,000. Go den Rule Jones Dead Toledo,- Ohio, July 12. "Golden Rule" Mayor Jones died at 5:07 this evening. His death had been expected for days. Fifty Thousand l AM PA men Went Gut at Noon Yesterday Chicago, July 12. Chicago and the i great packing centres of the wesjt are in the throes of a gigantic industrial struggle. The strike of 50,000 butcher workmen is on in full force and the packing industry of the nation is par alyzed. Promptly at noon today, the hour set for the strike to go into effect, the men laid down their tools and walk ed out. It was a revelation to the pack ers, who believed that the order would not be generally obeyed. Even ' the strike leaders themselves were sur prised at the alacrity with which the men responded. The tie-up was more complete than they had dared to hope for. Fully twenty thousand in the stock yards were out before the quit ting hour tonight. At Kansas City over ten thousand men and women employed there quit. From Omaha, St. Joseph, East St. Louis, St. Paul and Sioux City, came reports to President Donnelly, of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters' and Butchers' Workmen, that the men were all ov.t. Plans are now being considered by the packers to join forces and operate at least one of the big packing houses, using the available non-union forces. It is believed that there are rnen enough willing to enable them to op erate one plant at nearly its capacity. If this scheme proves practicable many small dealers will be supplied with Will Parker Hold Out Olive -Branch .to Brvan? Chicago, July 12. According to a re port which reached the city today, "Wil liam J. Bryan is awaiting .-t. word fron? Judge Parker before replyirg to the 'in vitation of the Chicago Democracy to appear at the demonstration being ar range! for the first week in August. If MALLORY. ..LINE STEAMER BURNED Damaged; at Roach's Ship Yard to Extent of $40, 000 Firemen Over come Philadelphia, Pa., July s 12. Tjhe steamship San Jacinto of the Mallpry Line was damaged to the extent of $40,000 by, fire today while lying at Roach's ship-yard, Chester, Pa., where she ;was laid up for repairs. The vessel was built by the Roach Shipbuilding Company at a cost of oyer half a million dollars, and was launched about a year ago. When completed, the San Jacinto was placed on the line between New York and Galveston. She was brought to Chester on June 8th for repairs, and would have been readyj to take her regular run within a week. The fire "originated in a room used jor storing oil and varnish, and had gained such headway before the arrival of he fire engines that the firemen divided their attention between the big vessel and the property of the shipbuilding company adjacent to the dock. The Hames burned so fiercely and the ves sel was in such an inaccessible posi tion that the firemen had to work at a great disadvantage. The big hull) of the steamship was bent and twisted by the terrible heat. J The flames were confined to the after part of the vessel between decks. The electrical plant Was badly damaged!, A score of firemen were overcome from the heat and smoke. I VARDAMAN DISPLEASED Don't Like Race Plank Res olution He Had Ready New Orleans, July 12. Governor "V"ar daman of Mississippi declares the race plank of the St. Louis platform wholly unsatisfactory. He had a resolution which he intended to present on the subject as follows: "Resolved, that the Democratic party has always been, is now and niust forever remain the white man's party, that' it guarantees protection to all men of all races within these Un ted States in the enjoyment of life, lib erty and prosperity under laws made and Executed by white men, but jwill never cofisent to divide sovereignty with any inferior race, recognizing as we do that the rule of the white than is necessary to the preservation of a republican form of government and the conservation of the civilization! of the American people." 'RAL YZE Butcher Work meat. All efforts of the Chicago Em ployers' Association to secure a '-settlement of the strike by arbitration have been rejected by the union. The Employers' Association will support the packers in their fight with money and influence. Through the recently established em ployment bureau, thousands of jmen will be supplied to take the strikers' places, if this course is determined on. Secretary Frederick Job, of the Asso ciation said today:. "We are having 100 applications a day for work by men who are not in unions.- I have been told that never in the history of the yards have so many idle men been seeking employ ment thare." I There was no disorder. Several hun dred, police were detailed at the yards, out tnere was no call tor their ser vices. In Kansas City Kansas City, Mo.," July 12. The pack ing house strike began at noon today In Kansas City. The order to s rike was sent out from Chicago. During the morning about 10,000 em ployes of Schwarzschlld and Sulzber ger, Swift and Cudahy took their Ihats and went on a strike. About 7,C00 union employes in Kansas City plants struck and about 5,000 more employes were affected. None of the plants i3 operating. he accepts, it will be understo od jthat the Democratic nominee for prosident has held out the olive branch to! t'.ie Nebraska orator and that Mr. Bpa:i will be the first to take the dtarnp in the west for the ticket name i in St. Loui3. SHALL VOTE FOR AMD DAVIS," SAYS He Gives Four Reasons, Imperialism, the Race Issue, Republican War Policy and Reduction of Stand ing Army-Says Parker and Roosevelt Both With Financiers Lincoln, July 12. Mr. Bryan in statement issued says: " , . "I shall vote for Parker and Davis for the following reasons: "First, because the Democratic ticket stands for opposition to imperialism, while the Republican ticket stands for an imperialistic policy. On this ques tion, the mnvpntlnn was nnanlmnns ! and I have no doubt that the candidate will carry out the platform. "Second, Mr. Roosevelt is injecting the race issue into American politics, and this issue if it becomes national will make it impossible to consider econom ic questions that demand solution. The election of the Democratic party will put a quietus on this attempt and per mit the race question to work itself out without the bitterness which Mr. Roosevelt's conduct has engendered.! "Third, Mr. Roosevelt stands for the spirit of war. The Democratic ticket stands for peace, for reason and for ar bitration rather than for force, con quest and bluster. I "Fourth, the Democratic platform aer clares in favor of the reduction of the standing army, and there is reason to believe that . a Democratic success on this subject would bring some advan tage to the people. For these four rea sons I feel justified in supporting the ticket. A Democratic victory will mean ; very little, if any, progress on economic ; questions so long as the party is under the control of the Wall street element. On the money question Mr. 'Parker is' as thoroughly committed to the side of the financiers as Mr. Roosevelt. Nothing can be expected of him on the money question. On the .trust question ihe Democratic platform is very much bet ter than the Republican platform, but the nomination of Judge Parker Vir tually nullifies the anti-trust plank.' Mr. Bryan says Judge Parker's nom ination was secured by crooked and In defensible methods. He concludes: "I think it due to the Democrats of the nation to say that while the fight on economic questions is postponed it is not abandoned. As soon as the election is over, I shall with the help of those who believe as I do, undertake to or ganize for the campaign of 1908, the ob ject being to marshal the firends of popular government within the Demo cratic party to the support of a radical and progressive policy." Ryan to Davis New Tori:, July 12. This was one of the messages of congratulation .to ex United States Senator Henry G. Dayis, thA "Democratic candidate for vice president: "St. Louis, July 10. Hon. Henry Davis, Elkins, W. Va: "Please accept, my most cordial con gratulations as a friend and a Demo crat upon your nomination lor vice president of the United States. For the first time in more than forty years the country is provided with a nat ional ticket in which there are no sec tional features. This is all the more gratifying to me and to your friends because it is accompanied with a high Over Half the Country's Population Employed Increase of 24 Per Cent, Oyer 1890 - Thirty-nine Per Cent, of Males in Ag ricultural Pursuits. More than Halt in the South Washington, D. C July 12. A bulle tin issued by the census office on the statistics of occupations in the United States .in 1900 shows that 29,073,233 per sons or 50.2 per cent, of those over ten years of age, were engaged in gainful occupations. This was an increase of 5,656,608 or 24.2 per cent, compared with 1890, while the increase of population in the same, period was but 20.7 per cent. Of those employed 80.2 per cent, were males and 18.. 8 per cent, females, j the figures for the latter sex having j in creased from 14.7 per cent, in 1880. The proportion of males over ten years who are employed does not vary in the different states and territories, but the corresponding percentage for females takes a wide range from 7.9 in Okla homa, tp 38 in South Carolina. In th manufacturing states of the north and in. those southern states where the ne gro element is prominent, the percent age is comparatively hUjh, while in the PARKER BRYAN personal and; political honor to one who like yourself has borne the heat and burden of the long day. (Signed) Mr. Ryan residence is state he was tion. Thomas F. Ryan." Ives here, but his voting in Virginia, from which a delegate $o the conven- CONGRATULATE BAR-. BER OF OYSTER BAY Message From Citizens of Centreville, Miss One Says It Will Elect Parker Oyster Bay, N. Y., July 12. David Newport, the barber here who forced i the Rev JamesT. Gaskin, pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Oyster Bay, out of his hop, after refusing to shave him, received this message (today, signed "Citizens of Centreville, Miss: "Accept congratulations on recent ejection of negro from barber shop." Another message received by New port from a Virginia man said: "You've set the ball rolling. Goodl It will elect Parker." j The barber shop is also being flooded with letters from all parts of. the coun try. Mary Blackwell, who lives in New York and says she "writes on criticisms" Writes to Newport as fol lows: j " ' j "I glory in your feeling j regarding ybur-own race and hope you will not be coerced into allowing negroes to sit in your chairs. . No president up to the present ' time ever made the mis take President Roosevelt has made in allowing a negro to sir at Ihls table. Would McKinley have done , this? Never. ' Cont have begun, be president, nue in the same line, you We don't know '.who jwill but I am willing to bef a good round sum that if Parker gets the place there will be ncj Booker Washington dinners." 42 BUILDINGS BURNED i - - i i . Big Fire at Millington, Md. Loss $125,000-Death From Excitement .) -. I Wilmington, Del., July 12.-i-Fire at Millington, Kent county, Md., this af ternoon destroyed forty-two buildings including every store" In the , E place. Three or four hundred people are homeless tonight. Two fire engines went from here and managed to do some good work. The loss is estimatec at about $125,000. Miss Florence Forbes, a young wo man, dropped dead during the excite ment attending the fire. agricultural states of the middles and far west it is low. The bulletin distinguishes 303 speci fied occupations or 140 occupation groups, these; In turn being classified under five heads. Agricultural .pur suits, professional service, domestic and personal service, trade and trans portation, and manufacturing and me chanical pursuits. Thirtynine per cent of the males were engaged in agricul tural pursuits, 24.3 per cent in manu facturing or mechanics, 14.7 per cent in domestic or personal service and 3.5 per cent in professional service. Exclusive of the north Atlantic an. western divisions, in each of the other geographic divisions agricultural pur suits constitute the most important branch of occupations, being 54.9 per cent, or more j than one-half of all-mal? workers in the south Atlantic divisions, 41.7 per cent or two-fifths of all in the north central division, and 68.3 pei cent, or two-thirds, of all in the soutt central division. . Classified by age 77.3' per cent of th workers were men, 16.6 per cent womei and 6.1 per cent were children between 10 and 16 years. The percentages ir 1880 were 80, 1 13.5 and 6.5 respectively. The proportion of ! men among t. r workers ranged from 91.4 per cent ir Wyoming to 58.4 pers cent in South Cr.r olina, that of women from 31.8 per ren in the District of Columbia to C.6 i Wyoming and that of child, en fro 1 16.6 per cent in South Carolina to 1 per cent in Montana,
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