Roosevelt lauds Slocum hero at Brooklyn statue unveiling
President Roosevelt extolled General H W Slocum and northern and southern veterans at the Brooklyn statue unveiling. He warned that a large navy is essential to peace, urged national responsibility, and traveled from Jersey City by ferry to address a cheering crowd amid ceremonies led by Mayor McClellan and Bishop Burgess.
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General Slocum
Mr. Roosevelt
New York
H. W.slocum
Brooklyn
Roosevelt
Jersey City
Frederick F. Gunnison
Union League Club
W. E. Pulsifer
Chas. A. Schieren
Pennsylvania Railroad
Loeb
Stokes
Fulton Street
McMonnies
Slocum
McClelland
Daniel E. Sickles
Bishop Burgess
Frederick Burgess
Long Island
Gertrude Slocum
JAP PRIZES REACH SASEBO AND VLADIVOSTOK ESCAPE
Cable from Tokyo reports major naval engagement against Russia in May 27 to 29 strikes. Japanese fleet sinks Admiral Ushakoff and Dmitri Donskoi while pursuing others. Russians lose twenty-two ships totaling 153,411 tons. casualties uncertain.
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Jackies
Rojestvensky
Korean
Sasebo
Vladivostok
Cassini
Memorial Day Reflections at Arlington and Across Washington
National Memorial Day observances in Washington included artillery salutes and veterans parades. Senator Foraker delivered an Arlington address honoring Union dead and Cuba wreaths marked the Maine sailors' graves, while Spain War memory and the universal soldier’s sacrifice were emphasized in a speech on enduring national unity.
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Washington
United States Artillery
Arlington National Cemetery
Joseph B. Foraker
Ohio
Arlington
Cuba
Maine
Senor Rivero
Legation
Tragic Fire Destroys Goldblatt & Goodman Stable
Fifty head of livestock including horses mules and cattle burned in a blaze at Goldblatt & Goodman sales stables 3149 Spring Grove Avenue. Fire consumed Schott and Mandery facilities. owners lose thousands. A spaniel and her three puppies are rescued. William Ford survives after being found asleep in the office.
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Goldblatt & Goodman
Spring Grove Avenue
Joseph Schott
Andrew Mandery
Johnson Street
Dustin & Bell
Brown
Schott
Goldblatt
Mar
Goldblatt & Goldman
William Ford
Ford
Potent tunnel collapse entombs twenty workers at Gunnison project
A cave-in in the Gunnison tunnel near Montrose Colorado traps twenty to twenty-five workers. Rescue teams work since 10 AM with an air system keeping the site ventilated as engineers sink a shaft sixty-five feet to reach the buried men. seepage from Cedar Creek weakened the earth, but no deaths are suspected yet.
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Montrose
Col
Gunnison Tunnel
United States
Sinc
McConnell
Cedar Creek
Lightning Strikes Deersville Church Wounding Four
Four people were seriously injured when lightning hit the Presbyterian Church at Deersville, O during a memorial service crowd of about four hundred. Victims named include Bertha Mallernee Viola Moore Sadie McKibben and Ella Bell as panic followed the strike and several others suffered fainting spells.
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Commercial Tribune
Uhrichsville
Presbyterian
Deersville
Bertha Mallernee
Viola Moore
Sadie McKibben
Ella Bell
M. F. Guthrie
Arctic relief effort moves forward from Tromsoe
The Terra Nova arrived from London and will head next week to aid the Fiala Zeigler expedition near Franz Josef Land. The Duke of Orleans party also arrived, with the Belgica coaling to sail for Nova Zembia to collect sledge dogs.
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Tromsoe
Norway
London
Fiala-Zeigler
America
Franz Josef Land
Duke of Orleans
Nova Zembia
Tsarist War Peace Hopes Dented by Nippon Victory
Tokyo says Japan’s fleet victory tightens Russia’s resolve to keep fighting. Japanese Minister Takahira asserts until a word of peace comes from Tsarist Russia, Japan must continue. Russian Ambassador Cassini tells AP peace unlikely, forecasting indefinite war despite talks with President.
Admiral Togo Reports Russian Fleets Near Annihilation
In Tokyo on May 30, Admiral Togo wired Admiral Yamamoto that the main force of the Russian second and third fleets is nearly annihilated and assured him to be at ease.
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Washington
Tokyo
Togo
Liancourte Rocks
Ushakoff
Admiral Togo
Admiral Kamiura Attacks Russians Off Vladivostok
Paris bulletin reports Admiral Kamiura pursuing Russians who fled the Straits of Korea and engaging them offshore Vladivostok.
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Straits of Korea
Gromoboi Sunk After Mine Hit Near Vladivostok
London May 81 Tokyo bureau reports the cruiser Gromoboi of the Vladivostok squadron with about 800 aboard sailed from Vladivostok to join remnants of Rojestvensky's fleet and struck a Japanese mine sinking with all hands. It is believed Vice Admiral Skrydloff was aboard.
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Vladivostok
Rojestvensky
Skrydloff
Japanese announce capture of three Russian admirals
Tokyo reports that Russian battle ships were sunk except the Orel and Nicholas I captured. Admirals Rojestvensky Volkersham and Nebogatoff are prisoners. The dispatch was sent to Washington via Tokyo on May 30.
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Prince Souvaroff
Alexander III
Borodino
Dmitri Donskoi
Nakimoff
Monomach
Jemtchug
Oushakoff
Nicholas I
Orel
Apraxin
Seniavin
Bideovy
Oshabia
Navarin
Almaz
Yorhito
Misu
Sissoi Veliki
Tokyo
Washington
State Department
Rojestvensky
Volkersham
Nebogatoff
Refuge for Ro jestvensky fleet at Vladivostok
May 30 Vladivostok reported two stray Baltic ships, the Almaz and Grozny, at anchor in the Golden Horn harbor after breaking from the battle line in the Korean Strait on Saturday. They head toward Vladivostok with heavy losses reported by their officers as Japanese ships went down.
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Texas
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Czar
Iwate
Yakumo
Urleung Island
Sazanami
Urbeang Island
Biedovy
Chitose
Nitaki
Mirakumo
Imperator
Admiral Nakimoff
Vladimir Monomach
Svietlana
Apraoxin
Arlington Cemetery
Sectionalism
Ani
Foraker
Senator Foraker
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Fiala
Ausgian
JAF
AY Peage
Takahira
Taft
Tsar
skoe-Selo
Nippon
Accu
Rately
Ton
Russia
Count Cassini
Associated Press
God
Admiral Yamamoto
Minister of the Navy
Bulletin
Paris
The
Petit Journal
Kamimura
Tokyo Cor
Daily Express
Gromobol
Loneould
Grozny
Jestvensky
Stroyer Grozny
Golden Horn
Ing
Kold and
Rimskykéorsakoff Islands
Almaz and
Rojestvensky’s
Kniag
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