russian army is now simply on the defensive tokio july 15 an army officer who has returned from manchuria that the that general would assume the aggressive gres sive is diminishing the russians who formerly conducted tho most active general linevitch with his staff personally going to the advanced line in an endeavor to draw out tho japanese and discover their positions of strength have ceased and it is believed that gendral tactics now are to be aggressive non and entirely on the defensive reports of the existence oe epidemics and contagious diseases among the russians continue to reach the japanese army the discussing today the substitution of M watte for ambassador left says that the recall of the latter recalls his speech at the hague the bijl also says the higher standing and larger calibre of M watte and his advocacy 0 peace improves the situation later details from say that the fire which continued to burn until july 10 practically destroyed the town BUILDING BLOWN DOWN winnipeg man july 14 A large tour story building in course of erection here was blown down early today by a gale and in falling crushed two adjoining houses four were killed and upwards of a dozen injured la one bouse were ten occupants and in the other six the dead are H W hile W Stein hoft and two unknown women much damage also was done in the outskirts HEADON HEAD ON train dispatcher caused death of four persons mount vernon ind july a headon head on collision between two freight trains on the L N railroad near upton today four persons were killed and eight injured one fatally the dead JOHN ind LEONARD PRICE ky unknown tramp L brakeman mcleans boro fatally injured enginger En ginser lawrence ev ind A train dispatcher it is said mistook the number 0 the trains and after they had started realized his error and telephoned to the telephone operator at upton who hastily summoned a number of persons to flag the trains but the collision occurred before they could reach tho tracks DECISION REACHES POPE in the case of a priest against a bishop rome july 15 an official copy 0 the decision of the supreme court of the state of nebraska in the case of the rev william murphy against bishop bonacum of lincoln nebraska upholding the right ot father murphy to retain possession orthe church property at neby was do livered today to the pope who peoro ased to examine the question in the hope of finding some way of ending the hugabon between the bishop and father murphy MURDERER FOUND GUILTY killed a tenant without provocation kansas city july 15 dr louis zorn a dentist who in 1903 shot and killed albert ichrist his tenant was today found gutlay of murder in the second degree and sentenced to seventeen years n the penitentiary the murder was cold blooded and unprovoked dr zorn who la 50 years old was wealthy and fought the case stubbornly SUBMARINE RAISED paris july IS the minister of marine received a dispatch from Bl zerta tunis paying that the efforts to raise the floating dock to chich the aci aken submarine boat has been fastened ere successful this morning the dock was taken to adl abdallah where it will be immediately placed la dry dock tor the purpose of opening the submarine and taken out the fourteen bodies of the crew t f