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Show DAEY UTAH STATE JOURNAL VIII. NUMBER VOLUME OGDEN, UTAH 245 FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1904 RUSSIAN BALTIC FLEET STARTS FOR SEAT OF WAR LONDON, Aug. 19.-Re- uter's Agency has received a report that eleven ships of the Rus- - RUSSIAN GUNBOAT IS . BLOWN UP BY A MINEtS'an HORNS AND HOOFS s5uatron Irft Libaa for the Far East ALONE TELL TALE , Japanese Are Said to Have Captured Forts Battle at Liao Yang Imminent. Two More CHE TOO, Aug. A 19. Russian of the Otvashnl type struck a junboat Japanese mine off Liao Tlshan yesterday evening and sank. The Jap-ineare said to have captured the se inner IN EASTERN ' OF away. twenty miles of Liao Yang and skir--a mijihps with outposts are' constant. JAPANESE SEIZE UNKNOWN Southampton. FIVE BATLESHIP8 ARE AT PORT ARTHUR ST. l'KTERSHUHG.Aug. Ik along the line of the railway in eastern Russia. At Tschaniskom tbe inhubl-tai.- U are dying by scores and their dead bodies lie unburled. Similar and equally serious conditions prevail In other districts. There are no sanitary precautions being taken and ns the medical force is entirely unuble to cope wlthlihe situation It is hard to say when Hit plague will be stayed. I.kXDOX, Aug. 19. A null giving name of Franz Sclim-idrsiirrcn-d'Ti'- il to tbo Birmingham polio,, today. Ho confessed to stealing from some person whom he met about Southampton. From t lie of the man front whom the doeumcnls were taken the police think tiie man was F. Kent Looinla, who LONDON, Aug. 19. A dispatch from 8t. Petersburg states that the Russian admiralty has received official Information that five battleships, including the protected cruiser Pallada, are at Port Arthur. NO REFUGE FOR STEAMER RUSSIAN SHIPS Aug. 19. Consul-Gener- al Fowler at Che Foo cables the state department that two Japaneae torpedo boat destroyers entered the harbor yesterday while several JapanOn outside. ese cruisers remained their return they ran across a merchant steamer. Her natlonajjty was unknown and the Japanese seised her. WASHINGTON.. Aug. 19. Consul-Gener- al Goodnow at Shanghai cables the state department that Commodore Tao Tal has decided against the contention of the Russian consul and ordered the Russian torpedo boat to leave the harbor before noon on the 20th and the cruiser to leave by noon on the 21st. This means that the ships have to disarm or give the Japanese WASHINGTON, CHEE FOO, Aug. 19. battle. Two Japan WHEAT BREAKS SIX YEARS One Is Killed and Two Injured Reports of Adverse Conditions Start Public on Wild Buying Front of the Building Is Demolished. Campaign. Man One man was two seriously injured and a saloon wrecked today In a collision between a switch engine and a trolley nr. The engine collided with the car tnd sent it spinning . forty feet Into a saloon, the entire front of which it demolished. An unknown man In the building was kiHed outright and two others were srlously injured. MEMPHIS, Aug. 19. killed, CHICAGO, Aug. 19. Wheat broke all records for six years today. Wheat touched 31.13 8, an advance of four cents over yesterday's closing. Reports of heavy rains la the northwest and reliable Information that the crop in Manitoba and the two Dakotas was not more than half the normal yield started the public buying wildly. WHEAT REACHES ONE DOLLAR EIGHTEEN LEYLAND LINE MEETS WHITE STAR, FARES MINNEAPOUS, Aug. 18. In the The Ley- - wildest bull market ln LIVERPOOL, Aug. 19. history SeptemIsnd, of the American steamship line, ber wheat today reached 31.18. James today reduced their cabin fares to the A. Patton, the big Chicago operator level of those announced by the White new here, predicts Civil war prices. Star line yesterday. SUPREME CHIEF OF RATHBONE hear district reports. Man Confesses to Having Stolen Documents from Him in Unburied. trans-Siberi- in Strikers Segregate and Kill Four Steers Beating May Result in Loss of an Eye. DEATH destroyers are reported steaming around the outside harbor. The olij. ct of their visit is unknown. LIAO YANG MUKDEN, Aug. 19. A battle In the neighborhood of Liao Yang Is Imminent The Japanese advanced with- hotii RUSSIA ese destroyers ei. icrcl the harbor at Whole Villages Are Being Decimat5:30 this morning. They remained half ed and Bodies Are Lying an hour and sailed Five more forts three and four. JAPS ARE WITHIN TWENTY MILES RAGING 8ISTERS LOUISVILLE, Aug. 19. Mrs. Lydia to Be in a A. Monroe, of Riverside. Cal., has been Heslthy Condition. elected supreme chief of the Rathbone tin- r docu-nu-u- ts n address by Bishop Earl Cranston, business session was held. Several reports from presiding elders left over from yesterday's session were heard. Dr. Talbot of Salt Lalfe City, presiding Mer over the local district, reported lhat his entire district was In a most tncouraging condition, especially the church in this city, which has reduc-,t- H church debt from 10,000 to 4,- In the past year, out of which the Fpyorth League alone raised 1,500 ln three montha The question of recommendations to inference memberships was then dls-orof by the appointment of Rev, 0We of this city to the conference and Rev. An-r- n of Montana to the Colorado inference. A collection was then taken to raise jhohejr for the publication of the minutes nnd 75 was raised In the Sisters. clety, showing how the value of money raised by the church and all other efforts by the congregation depended for their permanence on the Church Extension society, and emphasized the great need of this society by Illustrating, with the Ogden church as an example, how great good ran he derlv ed. The local church .was built some few years sgo under a debt to the society of 35,000. This has now been thrown off, however, and a 4.000 debt , is all that remains. The auditorium of the church was filled last night and Bishop Spellmeyer preached a powerful sermon from the text, "9eek ye the work of God." The bishop argued that the Bible was the only book that had endured through all ages and that satisfies all the de mantis of man. His sermon was fol lowed with the closest attention and at the close a resolutloin thanking him was unanimously passed. He will not remain during the conference, but leaves for the west tomorrow. Tomorrow's program will be thort order. follows: Tr. Forbes 9 a. m., devotional services: 10 a. addressed the gathering Ch behalf of the Church Extension n- - m., business session: 8 p. m.. Iwttire. ed Weet-Nebras- ka sirlkcrs fought with tin) police last wore discovered this morning In night place remote from the yard. Little heyoml their horn mid hoof remained to tell the atory of their seizure, l'lve of tiie drove from wlileh these animals were separated were liimlly rounded up by the pnliee mid driven hiiek Into tiie yard. The Injured in tiie riot were Joseph Keinix, George Shedlock and Andrew Velkn-sThey were all taken to the hospital. AH i quiet ln the Klrike dlxtriel today. Preideiif Donnelly announced today that union official would he Rent tomorrow to Kansas City, St. Paul and Kf. Joseph to retain local condition there. President Donnelly gnea to St. IjOuIk, then to Iiidianapnil, where ho wlH meet PreHident Mitchell of the miner' union, from whom he In hoping to receive financial support. ( Frank Krupa suffered a broken Jaw and the probable loan of an eye a the result of an asaault by striker today. Krupa and two olhera were attacked by a mob and terribly beaten, being mistaken for strike breakers. . mysteriously disappeared from the Kaiser Wilhelm, which left Plymouth in June. As J. Kent Loomis was, if his relaFATAL CYCLONE VISITS ST. LOUIS tin' were not mistaken In the Identity of the body found a few weeks ago on ST. LOl'IS, Aug. 19. At 2:55 to- the British coast, drowned by falling day a cyclone swept north St. Louis, from the Kaiser Ajlhelm. This confession adds a new element of mystery covering several city blocks. The steaming mill was blown to the case. down and ten are reported killed there. The list of injured numbers over forty. CABINET DISCUSSES A score of residences PANAMA RAILROAD were blown down. The storm was noticed ln the central business districts. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. Most of the time of the cabinet meeting today was taken up by a discussion on the PRESIDENT CASTRO MU8T DISMISS ASPHALT CASE Panama railroad In Its relations to the owns government. The government LOVE OF THE ART seventieths of the stock of WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. The state sixty-nin- e n on but Minister has baa the Instructed the road, department minority Bowen to demand of President Castro board of directors. The road has a contract with the Pacific Mall Steamthat he instruct his attorney-gener- al to dismiss tbe receivership proceedings ship company, giving the latter a mofor the asphalt property pending the nopoly of the Pacific freight business. Alfred Knapp Expiates Murders of final adjudication of the case. The government wants to abrogate Five Woman and Many this contract.but cannot until the elecChildren. HOAR'S CONDITION tion of a new board of directors ln MORE FAVORABLE April of next year. Mass., Aug. 19. WORCESTER, Senator Hoar passed a comfortable night and was apparently no weaker this morning. His physicians still feel that the patient is too weak to recover, but they say that his condition Is more favorable today. The family venture to Indulge In a glimmer of hope. AMERICAN PISTOL SHOT BEATS WORLD FORT RILEY, Aug. 19. Today's shooting saw the close of the army The score of 834 pistol competition. made by Quartermaster Sergeant, Benjamin Anderson of the Tenth cavalry is considered a world beater. KIDNAPERS RELEASE THE ABDUCTED BOY Black Hand Society Was Alarmed at the Activity of Police Mannino Identifies Man Who Made Him Prisoner. In NEW YORK, Aug. 19. The Mannino boy lias been released by his abductors, the Black Hand society, who were evidently perturbed by the success of 'the police who arrested two of their number and were coming perilously near success in their search for the missing child. The boy was found on the street alone. He was at once taken to the police station, where he identified his abductor, Cucozza. The latter attempted to hurt the boy, but was prevented. The boy says Cucozza asked hint to go to New York to buy ice cream. On the way they met his grandmother, who sent him home. Next day the two started again and reached Manhattan. They took a long walk. At night they went to a tenement, where he was taken to a room and greeted by a woman. He was kept there two days. Two men then came and took him to a house in the country, where they kept him. A woman looked after him and lie was well taken care of. The boy asked to go home, but they would not let him. Last night one of the men who brought him to the house came and told him he would be taken home. After a long walk they came to the ferry. A man put him aboard and left him. While he was walking homo his Uncle Salvatore picked him up and carried him home. The police are following clues given hv the hoy. the Forty of tiie most prominent loader in tiie local labor field will meet tonight to consider the butchers' strike mid to form an advisory board to deal with the Hltuiitlon, A meeting ha been called by President Donnelly and other directly interested lit the strike, mid it rumored that a general spreading of the strike is being planned, also that a direct appeal to Roosevelt w ill be made. These stories arc, however, denied. Secretary Shanahan of the packing house teamsters said today thut It would be necessary to call out all the teamsters connected with the delivery to or from all markets In order to win the strike. 1 NEGRO STRIKE BREAKERS ARE DISCHARGED OMAHA, Aug. 19. Although denied by the union lenders. It la believed that a number of union men have deserted the union and relumed to work. The packers began today to discharge worthless colored strike breakers and to Install whites in their places. LEAVE TIU Tribesmen RepresentedOlbat Dis order Might Be Caused by Their Presence. COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 19. Alfred A. TANGIER, Aug. 19. The French Knapp, the Hamilton strangler, was cruisers which have been lying ln the put to death In the electric chair ln harlior some days left this morning. the Ohio penitentiary annex at nine Their departure whs due to the repminutes past twelve this morning. The resentations of the tribesmen that the electrocution waa very successful. One presence of ships whs likely to stimuA hundred and fifty charge was given and death took place late disorders. In six minutes. Knapp made no stateFrench soldiers have arrived to rein-fument. the munlrlpitl guard In mainA he short time ago joined taining order. the Catholic church and his last hours were spent ln company of the priest he wa seized with on Impulse to who has been a constant visitor to strangle his wife. After accomplishhis cell fur several weeks. ing her death he got a box and nailed In order to tlnd anything like a par- the corpse up. He hHuled the body allel to the case of Knapp It Is neces- j two miles and threw It Into the Miami sary to turn back the pages of crimi- river. Some days later the body was nal history to a decade ago, when the found ln the river at New Albany. entire country was stirred by the pubKnapp's trial lasted from June 23 'to lication of the crimes of H. H. Holmes, July 16, 1903, when a verdict of first who was executed degree murder was returned. A dethe in Philadelphia. The similarity In the fense of insanity or degeneracy had careers of the two criminals exists, been set up without avalL A motion however, only In the number of their for a new trial was overruled and victims. According to their own con- Knapp's attorney took the esse to the fessions and sustained by the evidence circuit court, which reversed the comdug up by the police, both men were mon pleas on the grounds, among guilty of at least half a dozen mur- others, that the state fnlled to prove, ders and both 'managed to escape sus- according to law, that the deceased picion for a remarkable. length of time. dime to her death In the manner alBut Holmes at least had a motive for leged In the Indictment, the only evihis crimes, ngmely, to get the lnur- - dence being the confession, and that ance money of his victims, while It was error to admit this written conKnapp, so far as has come to light, fession and permit It to he used In went about killing women and girl the argument. loiter the supreme court reversed this decision of the cirout of pure fiendish desire. The five cases to which Knapp con- cuit court and affirmed the decision of fessed after his arrest are as fol- the lower court lows: Though Knapp confessed to five Emma Llttleman, killed in lumber murders It is believed that he was yard at Cincinnati. June 21, 1894: May guilty of many more. Previous to his Eckert murdered In room on Walnut final arrest he had spent street, Cincinnati, August 1, 1894: of his life In prison, hut for the murJennie Knapp, thrown Into canal at ders to which he confessed he had Liberty street. Cincinnati, August 7.' tgone unsuspected until a few un 1894; Ida Gebhard. strangled at In- guarded words set the law upon him. In 1895. and Hannah For years he had been a strangler, July. dianapolis O.. De- he admitted, pouncing upon Innocent at murdered Hamilton, Knapp, cember 22, 1902. children nnd choking them to death. The crime for which Knapp wns in- He wns twice In state prison for dicted In March, 1903, was the murder fiendish assaults upon women. At the time of hi" arrest for murder he was of his wife. Hannah Knapp. Regarding this murder Knapp said that when living with Ms fourth wife In Indlnn- he awoke on thf morning of the crime npolis. ns arch-murder- er G)den Church Reported The thirty-fourt- h annual session of the Utah mission of the Methodist ' eburch was continued today at the First Methodist church In this city. After the devotional exercises and CHICAGO. Aug. 19. The four They had formerly worked over whirl iliv four thousand packing house. Mi'i-- two-thir- ds |