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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1904
Page
2
At Telissu on the Kinchou line the Russian force was enveloped and defeated by Japanese units. Over 500 Russians were killed, 300 prisoners were taken, and 14 field guns were captured. The Russians retreated northward.
General Bobrikoff, governor general of Finland since 1899, was shot and mortally wounded at 11 this morning at the Finnish Senate entrance in Helsingfors. His harsh measures against the Finnish press and Russia’s policy provoked unrest, including a 1902 riot quelled by Cossacks, and his last act in March was a proclamation banning late window lighting to honor Japan's war.
The Vladivostok squadron has returned to Vladivostok completing a patrol and rejoining base. The report notes the June 16 timestamp from St. Petersburg transit.
The Boston and Maine management faces a demand from machinists boiler makers and car workers for a nine hour work day while keeping current ten hour pay. Officials will meet with worker committees on Monday to consider the proposal.
Japanese claim Russians violated the flag during Telissa clashes and that a body of Russians carried a Japanese flag, causing a brief halt in fire. Early Japanese loss estimates run around 1000. Russians defend a line between Tafangshen and Chengtsushan before a decisive Japanese enveloping assault routs them by mid afternoon.
St Petersburg report describes Lt General Stakelberg’s force repelled by superior Japanese artillery. Russians abandon guns again, signaling heavy losses and concern over two Danish divisions moving from Slagen to strike Stakelberg’s rear, risking isolation from Kuropatkin’s main army.
June 16 reports say General Kuroki's detachment captured Sluyen after routing 800 Russians and 300 mounted Chinese bandits. The enemy withdrew toward the Tao River, leaving three dead and two wounded from the Fifteenth East Siberian Regiment. Japanese casualties not reported. Sluyen sits on a key Manchurian railway point near Fengcheng Liaoyang and Moukden.
The line presents a vintage product claim for Castoria Fortutens and Concen. It emphasizes the familiar branding The Kind You Have Always Bought as a long standing household remedy reference.
Haverhill June 16 Secretary of the Navy William H Moody left for Washington at noon after a telegraphic summons. He refused to discuss the business but friends acknowledge he is likely to accept a Cabinet post as the new attorney general.
All public bathing places will open today regardless of weather. The L Street bathhouse is expected to be the mecca for thousands of swimmers due to the holiday.
Arrangements completed by long distance telephone extend the Bostonians engagement at the Colonial Theatre. The Queen of Laughter by Ysobel Kaplan and S William Brady will run one extra week, delaying a planned Atlantic City booking and keeping the theatre open longer past next Saturday night.
Archbishop Williams names Rev. Qwen Doherty of St. Philip's South End as curate at St. Anthony's Cohasset and Rev. Joseph V. Fitzgerald of St. Bridget's Lexington to St. James Boston. They succeed Rev. Dennis F. Lee who moves to St. Agnes Brighton.
Charles L. Tucker asks for an immediate jury trial in the murder of Mabel Page. The government plans to delay until September to shape evidence. Judge Lawton will decide by Monday and appoint Tucker’s defense attorneys, likely James H. Vahey and Charles H. Innes.
A check for 195 067 dollars was paid to the United States government by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company. The amount equals 40 percent of gross gate receipts from opening April 30 to June 15.
About 400 Moorish troops arrived in Tangier sent by the Sultan for European protection. The locals fear disorder as troops lack discipline threatening life and property. The move risks jeopardizing negotiations with Messrs Perdicaris and Varley and provoked protests from British and American authorities. More soldiers expected.
Sergeant O'Neil and Division 10 officers quelled a late night disturbance at Apollo Garden Roxbury after trouble began when men entered Jacob Boehner's saloon and attempted theft. Six men named John McGuire George Griffin John Magee George Smith John Daley and Frank Maher were arrested.
The New England branch of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers plans a two day reception for visiting members of the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers. On Monday they'll tour Merrimac Mills Lowell Manchester Amoskeag plant and Garvin Falls if possible. Tuesday includes Institute of Technology laboratories and a Boston Harbor trip aboard the revenue cutter Algonquin with a luncheon at Point Shirley Club Winthrop.
W B Hinch president of the International Association of Car Workers and D C Hogan General Organizer led a mass meeting of 500 Readville Readville Readville car workers at Caledonian Hall 45 Eliot Street. The aim is for the lodge to enroll most workers on the New Haven railway at Readville.
A new Grand Trunk railway publication for the World's Fair is praised as artistic and helpful. It features 48 pages with maps of St Louis city and fair grounds, routes to the fair, travel tips, and side trips. Copies cost four cents in stamps from T H Hanley in Boston. Grand Trunk began double service direct to St Louis from several cities on June 13.
Josephine M. Sorenson of 226 West Canton Street South End reported to police that over 1000 dollars in diamonds and jewelry were placed in an old shoe for safekeeping then sent to cobbler Lee Monfreda at 368A Columbus Avenue for repairs. The maid Ella Calloway, who ferried the shoes, says she knows nothing of the gems and the cobbler cannot locate them.
Mrs M Dodge, from New Dorchester Massachusetts, credited with recovering from consumption after six months to live. She sought treatment at Koch Lung Cure 361 Boylston Street Boston and improved within three weeks. The article notes family history of death from tuberculosis and local transit to her door.
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