Russian Cavalry Movements Reported Near Taiseiyeu
Official dispatch states our sinking force drove the enemy retreating toward Haulungchou ninety miles northwest. A squadron halted at Mien hauchieh on the Kirin road between Piyuanpomen and Chant uang near Taiseiyeu. Natives report 200 cavalry at Aishenmou nine miles north of Wanmasali and 600 infantry and cavalry at Tadlu fifteen miles east of Wanmassi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tok'o
Sinkind
Haulungchou
Mien
Mistrat Place and Timber Lands for Sale
Property listings describe a room house with two lots east of town, brick cistern, dug well, and price for $75 with easy terms. Also 8 acres timber land around Kurten neighborhood offered at $3.00 to $4.00 per acre. Mistrat place in south town section offers eight acres, two story house, bath with hot and cold water, two underground irons and water works, outbuildings, price $3,500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. B. Cole
Hall
Caldwell
Mistrat
Freight Depot Fire Destroys Anheuser-Busch Yards
Fire total at the Anheuser Busch Brewing Association freight depot in St. Louis center of yards. Seventeen refrigerator cars of St Louis Refrigerating Co. destroyed. Loss estimated at 125000 dollars. Also reports landslide in Semlin with casualties and Pope Pius X receives Americans in Rome. Indian Territory’s W Noelle presents walking stick carved by Indians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Isociation
Ape St. Louis Refrigerating Company
Iss
Pope
Rome
Pope Pius X
W. Noelle
Indian Territory
Japanese Field Marshal Oyama Praises Russian Soldiers
Yinkow March 27 Field Marshal Oyama grants first interview praising Russian troops as brave and says Japanese traps met expectations. He asserts Japan entered the war for international peace and will seek peace terms at its end. Gurshu Pass March 27 reports deny ill treatment of Russian wounded. Japanese say they treated captives kindly and allowed nurses to return.
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Yinkow
Oyama
Gurshu Pass
Coi
Mukden
Bride of Tender Years Slain by Husband in Jasper
A Jasper Georgia report states 20 year old Glazier killed his bride of four years and then fled as a posse pursues. The couple had separated. she had been living with her mother and agreed to return. They were found a short distance away with the woman shot in the head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Constitution
Jasper
Glazier
Schafer Dies in Denver After illness at three months
Conrad Schaeffer, president of the American Stock Growers' association formed in Denver in January, died here Sunday from a liver complaint after a three month illness. He underwent an operation shortly after the National Livestock convention adjourned in January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Conrad Schaeffer
American Stock Growers’ Association
National Livestock Convention
Schaeffer
Swan Shot At City Lake Measured Seven Feet Wide
Paris Texas March 27 Dr Joe Blackwell of Cooper killed a large white swan at the City lake six miles west of town. The bird measured seven feet between the tips of its wings.
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Paris
Tex
Joe Blackwell
Cooper
City Lake
Town
Fatally Cut In Houston Shooting
In Houston on March 27 a man named William Harvey Jr. was fatally stabbed in the left breast. Sheriff pursued a suspect identified as Charles Armstrong, another Black man, as the search began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
William Harvey, Jr
Charles Armstrong
Bomb attack on Baron von Nolken shocks Warsaw
In Warsaw on March 27 a bomb targeted Baron von Nolken chief of police in Praga and later near the castle. Six officers wounded at Praga station and a plainclothes constable killed in Sowla Street as the assailant fled. Authorities suspect Revolutionary party links and looming bomb threats.
Japanese landings eyed as Korsakovsk expected to thaw
Reports from St Petersburg and other ports on March 27 say Japan may land near Korsakovsk within a fort night as April ice clears. Russian forces on Sakhalin number under 2000, while 6000 time expired convicts and 3000 natives inhabit the island.
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St. Petersburg
Sakhalin
Kharbarovsk
Korsakovsk
Vladivostok
Jamestown Celebration Invites Foreign Nations
President Roosevelt announces plans for a Jamestown celebration exposition inviting foreign nations to participate. He will issue a proclamation ahead of his Southwestern trip next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamestown
Washington
Roosevelt
Hampton Roads Jamestown Celebration Exposition Planned
A summer 1907 event near Hampton Roads commemorates Jamestown settlement. President prompted by Gemael Fitzhugh Lee Virginia Senator Daniel urged the exposition company to proceed with the celebration.
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Hampton Roads
Jamestown
Gemael Fitzhugh Lee
The
Exposition Company
Daniel
Virginia
Bomb Thrown at Warsaw Police Chief Injures Official
Warsaw March 27 Baron von Nolken chief of police was wounded by a bomb blast believed aimed behind the carriage. The attacker, claiming to be a Socialist, also damaged Warsaw police and Praga station, injuring six officers. he is said to be dying. The city remains on edge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Baron von Nolken
van Nolken
Praga
Russians Released From Japanese Hand In War
Japanese legation cables list Russian non-combatants freed after Mukden capture. In front of the advance guard forty seven officers and 359 NCOs plus nine nurses, two privates, four merchants. released at Chefoo and Shanghai twenty three officers, twenty three nurses, and 298 NCOs.
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Washington
Tokio
Mukden
Chefoo
Shanghai
Rioters Destroy Warehouses and Shops in Crimea
The situation in Yalta grows worse as rioters torch warehouses and vodka shops along with the police station. Several shops are set on fire while troops guard the post office and treasury building. In St. Petersburg, Maxim Gorky’s lung trouble worsens prompting doctors to plan his transfer to southern Russia for recovery.
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Yalta
Crimea
Post
Treasury
St. Petersburg
Maxim Gorky
Riga
Russia
Siege Ends Halt at Batoum Quays Resume Ship Loading
In St Petersburg on March 27 a state of siege proclamation preceded a restart of work at Batoum with ships once again loading at the quays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Batoum
Pretoria Arrives After Stormy Atlantic Voyage
Hamburg American liner Pretoria reaches New York on March 27 three days behind schedule after severe Atlantic gales and hurricane level seas. One seaman died, a passenger was lost to the sea. Three babies were born in steerage during the voyage. Lieutenant A Var gyos of the Russian army aboard en route to San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
New York
Pretoria
Hamburg
A. Vargyos
San Francisco
Youth Laid in Wait In Corona Shooting
A 17 year old William Smith shot 16 year old Alice Ohlsen in Corona after a violent courtship. He lay in wait as she walked with her mother and fired a bullet into her breast. He fled as police search Meadows for the wounded girl’s alleged assailant. The Swedish clergyman father of Alice’s family arrived in Corona from Chicago a year ago. The victim is expected to recover at a city hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Corona
L. L
William Smith
Alice Ohlsen
Miss Ohlsen
Chicago
Smith
Alice
Chisons
Prominent Kentuckians held without bail in 3 year feud murder
Judge James Hargis his nephew Elbert Hargis and Sheriff Callahan of Breathitt county are held without bail on charges of complicity in the feud murder of James Cockrill in Jackson Kentucky three years ago. Senator Alex Hargis released on fifteen thousand bail. Trial set this term. Curtis Jett already sentenced to death with a new trial granted. Tom White serving life sentence.
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Lexington
James Hargis
Elbert Hargis
Callahan
Breathict County
James Cockrill
Jackson
Alex. Hargis
Parker
Fayette Circuit
Cockrill
Curtis Jett
Tom White
Kentucky
Consistory Names Hickey Coadjutor Bishop of Rochester
The pope held a secret consistory and confirmed Rt Rev Thomas F Hickey as coadjutor bishop of Rochester New York. Mgr Sobico Racicot was named auxiliary bishop of Montreal. The allocution criticized church persecution in several nations and cited tensions in France and Nicaragua among others.
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Thomas F. Hickey
Rochester
Rome
N. Y
Mgr
Sobico Racicot
Montreal
Vatican
France
Nicaragua
Luadoz
Chile
Peru
Holy See
Large Lumber Deal Reported at One Million Dollars
A $1,000,000 lumber property transfer is reported closed. Weed Lumber Co owns extensive northern California timber lands with mills and 24 miles of railroad toward the Klamath river district. Purchasers include R. A. Long of Kansas City and associates W. F. Ryder W. R. Hazen C. B. Sweet and California partners George K. Ebbinger and George X. Windling.
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Boeiy
San Francisco
Weed Lumber Company
California
Weed Station
Klamath River District
R. A. Long
Kansas City
W. F. Ryder
W. R. Hazen
C. B. Sweet
George K. Ebbinger
Los Angeles
George X. Windling
City
Harriss Attacked in Tangier Post Office
Walter B. Harriss, London newspaper correspondent, was attacked in the Tangier British post office by a Moorish hotel guide. The knife struck his watch ring, grazing his stomach. Harriss reports no known motive for the assault.
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Tangier
Walter B. Harris
London
Investigation of beef trust resumes before federal grand jury
Chicago March 27 investigation of the beef trust is resumed by the federal grand jury. Additional advisers include District Attorney Baxter of Omaha and Assistant District Attorney Godman of Chicago. The inquiry is expected to last two months or more. After the packing industry is examined the government will turn to railroad and private car lines.
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Chicago
Beef Trust
Baxter
Omaha
Godman
Legistors Salaries Set in Joint Resolution for Legislature
Austin March 27 The joint resolution to pay lawmakers 1000 dollars for the first year and five dollars per day for special sessions with mileage passed to third reading in the house. An amendment to bar free railroad passes was ruled not germane. The house also passed final bills on roping contests ban, Southern Pacific merger with extensions, Confederate home for indigent wives, city depositories, county treasurer statements, and juror tax levy. Senate internal improvement bill reported favorably. Governor Lanham approved the Texas and New Orleans railway sale from Dallas to Sabine Pass and school tuition for legislators' children in Austin.
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Third Ng
Austin
Texas
House
Southern Pacific Railway
New York
Galveston
Houston
Henderson
San Antonio
Gulf Railways
Southern Pacific
Stockdale
Cuero
Senate
Lanham
Getate
Texas and New Oleans Railway
Dallas
Sabine Pass
Convicts Escape From Houston Plantations Stockade
Twenty eight convicts on J. H. B. House of Houston Fort Bend county plantation escaped by sawing through the floor of the stockade with case knives. Forty five convicts refused to accompany the fugitives.
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Houston
J. H. B. House
Fort Bend County
Fort Worth Waiter Dies After Egg Shell Breaks
Fort Worth on March 27 a hotel waiter named Nathan Green collapsed and died at breakfast after breaking an egg shell. The incident occurred at the Hotel Worth and the cause is not disclosed.
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Fort Worth
Hotel Worth
Nathan Green
Boy's Neck Broken After Fall at Park School
Waxahachie Texas March 27 Wilbur Lee a boy fell from a banister at the Park school His neck was broken and skull crushed in the accident two witnesses report the incident in terse terms and authorities investigate the fall
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Waxahachie, Tex
Wilbur Lee
Park School
Calveston Returns Cruiser Goes Back to Norfolk Yard
The United States cruiser Galveston returned to the Norfolk navy yard after a maiden voyage for repairs to its machinery. The starboard engine piston rod is bent following a 300 mile coastal run, but officials say the damage is not serious and the ship will proceed south again in a few days.
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Norfolk Navy Yard
Norfolk
United States
Galveston
Navy Yard
Virginia Capes
Harrington
Admirals Office
Wild Freight Cars Crash Kills Four in Clarksville
A string of runaway freight cars crashed into a Louisville and Nashville train near Clarksville Tennessee. Engineer John Murray of Bowling Green Kentucky and fireman Pat Fox of Nashville died along with two unidentified men. A wood splinter killed Fox. Officials suspect a malicious switch throw.
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Clarksville
Tenn
Louisville and Nashville
Here
John Murray
Bowling Green
Pat Fox
Nashville
Finan Fox
Pitiable Plight of Armenia Sparks Hunger Warnings
A Reval message via the Bible Lands or Turkish Mission Aid society reports Armenian villagers facing starvation as general food supplies dwindle and hunger deaths rise. Paris notes French peace talks unaltered with Caracas concession questions pending. In London the Irish Nationalist Swift McNeill pressed Premier Balfour in the Commons for a peace statement, but no reply was given.
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Armenia
London
Van
Bible Lands
Turkish Mission Aid Society
Paris
Caracas
House of Commons
Swift McNeill
Balfour
Vice President Moreno assumes executive power in Ecuador
Guayaquil March 27 Vice President Moreno takes over executive duties as President Plaza retires to Pamasqui for ninety days due to ill health.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Moreno
Plaza
Pamasqui
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Uy BY
Garth Howell
Webb
Chan Chula
Naurin
Intere
Fed Persanina Jmakers
MREAL
Parks & Waldrop, Clothiers & Furnishers
J. W. Batts
Taliaferro Building
Court House
Brazos County
IW. C. Fountain
Crown and Bridge
Burt Orw
W. H. Lawrence
Bryan
Semlin
Hungary
Omaya
Colorado
Manugr
A von Nolken
Baon von Nolken
Revolutionary Party
Vistula
Sowla Street
von Nolken
Pragen
Mounted Division of Police
Baror von Nolken
Moscow
Barassoff
Linevitch
Grippenberg
Japan
Suez
Nebogatoff
Gorky
Summers
Visit
Hargis
Harris
Calveston
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