Russian Warships Repair Needs Prompt Board Action
Rear Admiral Enquist arrives in Manila aboard the Aurora with two damaged cruisers Oleg and Jemichug. A board led by Rear Admiral Train estimates repairs: Oleg 60 days, Aurora 30, Jemichug 7. Fifty Russians hospitalised, 143 wounded, 71 killed overall. Enquist cites patching near the waterline as a cause of needed repairs.
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Manila
Enquist
Aurora
Olegard Jemichug
Train
Oleg
Admiral Enquist
Prince Polletan
Engnist
Cost of Battle in Sea of Japan Losses
Tokyo reports 113 Japanese killed and 424 wounded in the sea of Japan battle. Russian losses are estimated at 7,000 to 9,000 with nearly 4,000 prisoners. About 7,000 more men unaccounted for, and many bodies found on surrounding shores.
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Tokio
Sea of Japan
Yamamoto Sends Flowers to Wounded Russian Admiral
In Tokyo on June 5 Admiral Yamamoto minister of the navy dispatched flowers to Rear Admiral Rejestvensky and sent a letter of respect. He expressed sympathy for the wounded officer and hoped hospital care and naval surgeons would ease suffering and restore health. A general note was also sent to other Russian officers and men.
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Tokio
Yamamoto
Rejestvensky
Togo Pays Courtesy Call to Rojestvensky at Sasebo
Vice Admiral Togo visited Vice Admiral Rojestvensky at the naval hospital in Sasebo to express sympathy for the Russian commander’s wounds. He praised Russians for their courageous defense and wished Rojestvensky a quick return to Russia. Rojestvensky thanked him and praised Japan’s sailors for courage and patriotism.
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Togo
Rojestvensky
Tokio
Sasebo
Rusaia
Japan
Japanese Attack Expected on Viadivostok Fortifications
Viadivostok residents brace for an imminent Japanese assault amid a national crisis. Local defense works, steadily built since the war began, are now viewed as complete and capable of withstanding a siege.
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Viadivostok
Japanese Advance Begins Near Tsein River Valley
General Linevitch reported to Emperor Nicholas that on May 29 the Japanese launched an advance and attacked Russian forces in the valley of the Tsein river about three miles beyond Fenshue pass, which remained in Russian hands.
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St. Petersburg
Linevitch
Nicholas
Tsein River
Fenshue Pass
Danger at Vladivostok evacuation order
A dispatch from St Petersburg dated June 5 reports all non combatants ordered to leave Vladivostok as tensions rise. The notice stresses immediate safety and evacuation procedures for civilians amid escalating conflict.
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Vladivostok
St.Petersburg
Japanese port safe amid tense postwar chatter
A terse note from June 5 reports Rear Admiral Ne posatot expected to avoid signing his papers, suggesting a cautious transfer or delay in duties while awaiting confirmation in Tokyo. The item implies ongoing friction in Allied leadership without detailing actions.
Russian Fleet Suffering Heavy Losses in Battle at Sea
The Russian forces report multiple ships sunk or captured after fierce action. Losses include five cruisers and several battleships, coast defense ships, destroyers, and escorts. total sunk ships near twenty two, with 163,411 tons, plus the cruiser Almaz suspected sunk.
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Furas Ascertzin
Suvaerog
St. Porodiny
Oshabia
Sissoi Veliki
Navarin
Admiral Nachimoff
Dmitri Donscoi
Vladimir Monomach
Svietlana
Zemtchuneg
Ushakoff
Special Services
Orel
Imperator
Nicholas I
Apraxine
Senkavin
Bedevoi
Almaz
City councils approve 75 year gas lease and tax plan
In Philadelphia on June 2 both city council branches voted to lease the gas works to United Gas Improvement for 75 years for 25 million dollars. Colonel Sheldon Potter is named director of public safety and A Lincoln Acker director of public works. The tax rate is set at 1.50 per 100 dollars for next year.
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Philadelphia
United Gas Improvement Company
Sheldon Potter
A. Lincoln Acker
Alexander DeHaven
Finance Committee
Republican Organization
Weaver
Attempted assassination of King Alfonso in Paris
An anarchist bomb near the royal carriage during a gala opera outing injured five people and damaged horses as King Alfonso and President Loubet escaped unharmed. A suspect and two others were arrested. a child lost an eye and several bystanders were hurt.
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Paris
Alfonso
Loubet
Grand Opera House
Roosevelt Praises Northern Armies at Slocum Statue Unveiling
In Brooklyn President Roosevelt delivers a stirring address at the unveiling of General H W Slocum’s statue. He honors the Northern troops and also acknowledges the Southern hosts. He urges the nation to grow in strength with greater responsibility to avoid arrogance and aggression.
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New York
H. W. Slocum
Brooklyn
Roosevelt
Family Tragedy Near Peoria Sees Daughter Shoot Father
In Peoria Illinois a 16 year old girl Miss Wenoa Gillham shot and mortally wounded her father after he abused her. The incident occurred eighteen miles from the city. The mother intervened and was struck. the daughter then used a shotgun to fatally wound him. Miss Gillham surrendered to the sheriff.
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Peoria
Ill
Wenoa Gillham
Gillham
Miss Gillham
Lincoln declines chairmanship bid for Equitable Life
Robert T. Lincoln of Chicago, recently named as a leading candidate for the chairman of the board of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, said he would not accept the office under any circumstances if offered.
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Chicago
Robert T. Lincoln
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Missionaries Massacred in Bathang District Thibet
Mail advices received by the Empress of Japan report a missionary uprising in Thibet. Four French missionaries at different stations in Bathang district were murdered and a number of church members were massacred.
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Victoria
B. C
Empress of Japan
Thibet
Bathang
Taft Reconsiders Bowen Loomis Matter
Washington reports on May 31 that Secretary Taft is again considering the Bowen Loomis issue. The note emphasizes ongoing attention by the Taft administration to the dispute.
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Washington
Taft
Bowen- Loomis
Peace Talks Begin As Roosevelt Seeks End To War
President Roosevelt offers good offices to broker peace between Russia and Japan. In a White House conference with Count Cassini he urges an honorable settlement, stressing that prolongation of hostilities benefits neither side. Diplomatic circles await Tsarskoe Selo's response and the czar's reception of U.S. counsel.
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Washington
Far East
White House
Count Cassini
Russia
Japan
Mikado
Tsarskoe Selo
Nicholas
Cassini
Indiana Teachers Read Circle eyes New Harmony Movement
A statewide meeting led by county superintendents and state directors with State Superintendent Fasser A. Cotton will review vacation work and the 1905-6 Indiana Teachers Reading Circle. The focus includes the Indiana author Geo. B. Lockwood’s The New Harmony Movement and its 15000 copies.
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Indiana
Indsway
Fasser A. Cotton
Hoosterdam
Reading Circle
New Harmony Movement
Geo. B. Lockwood
D. Appleton & Co
New York
W. T. Harris
London Describes Roosevelt Cassini Talks Amid War Pressure
In London on June 3 observers say neither belligerent seeks peace despite the Roosevelt Cassini meeting. Tokyo reports show sobriety after Togo's victory as Japan wants to delay peace talks until Vladivostok operation progresses. Russia's prestige loss from Rosetsvensky defeat may push continued hostilities.
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London
Roosevelt
Count Cassini
Tokio
Togo
Vladivostok
Russia
Ambassador Sternberg Seeks Peace Talks With Roosevelt
Baron Speck Von Sternberg, the German ambassador, spent two hours in conference with President Roosevelt at the White House. Officials say much of the discussion centered on the Russia Japan war and the possibility of peace. He stated there had been no progress toward peace in the past twenty four hours.
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Washinon
Faith in Attorneys Holds Donahue Calm Before Execution
Edward Donahue, condemned for the Benton Harbor murder of Ar minter Northrupp, remains untroubled in his Michigan City cell days before his scheduled execution. Warden Reid notes he eats and sleeps well, trusting his lawyers to win a stay or new trial from the state supreme court ahead of the June 9 date, with the sentence to be carried out after midnight.
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Michigan City
Ind
Edward Donahue
Arminter Northrupp
Benton Harbor
Reid
Donahue
Supreme Court
Liability of Automobilists in Auto Versus Horse Case
The Indiana Supreme Court affirms a $925 award to Thomas Brown against the Indian Springs company. Brown, driving toward Attica, met an automobile on a narrow bridge embankment, the horse ran away and threw him. Autoists must use public roads with due regard for others.
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Indianapolis
Supreme Court
Thomas Brown
Indian Springs Company
Brown
Attica
Wabash River
Stand by the King in Nordic union crisis
Stockholm May 30 The press and public discuss the Norway Sweden consular representation crisis with calmness yet acknowledge gravity. Dissolution of the union appears almost inevitable while the people support the king and his constitutional rights.
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Stockholm
Norway
Sweden
Government deficit widens in May with 2.96 million shortfall
The May monthly statement shows receipts of 43,598,733 and expenditures of 46,719,055, producing a May deficit of 2,960,122. For the eleven months of the current fiscal year the total deficit stands at 36,649,680.
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Washington
Parry Resigns. W P Post Elected NAICA President
D M Parry resigned and W Post of Battle Creek Michigan was elected president of the National Citizens' Industrial Association of America at a meeting of the executive committee. The action followed Parry request to be relieved of the work.
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Parry
Chicago
D. M. Parry
W. Post
Battle Creek
Mich
National Citizens’ Industrial Association of America
Saloonist Charles E. Hall Dies by His Own Hand in Bedford
Bedford Indiana June 5 Charles E Hall aged forty years a prosperous saloon keeper killed himself He had just returned from Louisville where he had attended the races for three weeks
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Bedford
Ind
Charles E. Hall
Hall
Louisville
Market report summarizes grain and livestock prices across major cities
Indianapolis Wheat at 1.04 to 1.05 per bushel for No 2 red. Corn 51 to 53 cents. Oats 31 to 93 cents. Hay prices up to 10.50 per ton. Cattle 3.00 to 6.00, hogs 4.50 to 5.40, sheep 2.50 to 4.25, lambs 5.00 to 6.00. Cincinnati wheat 1.07, corn 54 cents, oats 93 cents. Chicago wheat 1.07, corn 53 cents, oats 2.01, cattle 4.50 to 6.40, hogs 4.40 to 5.40, sheep 4.00 to 5.00, lambs 4.00 to 6.50. New York cattle 3.75 to 5.80, hogs 4.50 to 5.80, sheep 3.00 to 4.75, lambs 4.00 to 6.50. East Buffalo cattle 3.75 to 6.00, hogs 4.50 to 5.60, sheep 4.00 to 4.0, lambs 5.50 to 6.25. Toledo May wheat 1.05, July 0.86 1/2, cash 1.05.
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Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Chicago
New York
East Buffalo
Enormous Religious Meeting in Bristol Sunday
In Bristol Tennessee on June 5 a vast crowd neared 20,000 attended Fairmount Grove for the German Baptists of the United States annual meeting.
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Bristol, Tenn
Fairmount Grove
German Baptists of the
United States
Drowned in Evansville Park Lake After Cramp
Daniel Hassler eighteen-year-old drowned at West Heights Park lake Evansville Indiana after being seized by cramps while bathing. Lifesaving efforts by bystanders and police were unable to revive him.
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Evansville
Ind
Daniel Hassler
West Heights Park
Boy Dies After Eating Strychnine Pills
Three year old Frank Kramer found strychnine pills on his father’s desk and ate them as candy and died in Hammond Indiana on June 2. The incident prompted a child safety warning and investigation by local authorities.
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Hammond, Inc
Frank Kramer
Lad Crushed to Death by Falling Flywheel
A nine year old boy named Carroll Allen was crushed to death when a large flywheel toppled onto him in Madison on May 61.
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Madison, Ltd
Carroll Allen
Indiana Passes Era of Officials No Free Transport
Governor Hanly backs a railway commission move to stop public officials from using railroad passes. An order requires all Indiana railroads to list free transportation as of June 1, 1905, with prosecutions possible if officials or companies resist following the law. Critics say the legislature did not intend to curb passes.
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Indianapolis
Hanly
Railway Commission
Disappointed Colonist Voices Dismay Over Canadian Colony
Calvin A. Rayle from Westfield Ind reports to a brother that his group of Friends near Battleford in Canada faces harsh conditions and uncertainty. He cites cold weather delaying farm work, warns of inevitable suffering, and blames misleading boomers for urging emigration while he still has means to return.
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Westfield
Ind
Calvin A. Rayle
Battleford
Knights of Pythias to Erect 12 Story Office Block
Indianapolis plans show the grand lodge of Indiana to build a twelve story brick stone and iron office building at Pennsylvania Street and Massachusetts Avenue. Contracts set for July 10 with a projected cost near $400 000. First floor business rooms and nine upper floors will house offices while the tenth and eleventh floors serve as an auditorium for grand lodge meetings.
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Indianapolis
Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of Indiana
Pennsylvania Street
Massachusetts Avenue
Grand Lodge
Tragedy at Clover Leaf Crossing in Marion
At Van Buren near Marion Indiana on May 30 Harry Lander was killed and brothers William Lander and Herbert Curtis fatally injured when their buggy failed to notice an eastbound westbound train. The oil workers were well known in town and the accident destroyed the buggy and killed the horse. The deceased leaves a widow and two children.
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Marion
Ind
Harry Lander
William Lander
Herbert Curtis
van Buren
Landers
Indiana Sunday School Convention in Bloomington
The 41st annual convention of the State Sunday School Association of Indiana meets in Bloomington with about 500 delegates and visitors. Delegates come from nearly every county and represent Sunday schools of all denominations.
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Bloomington
Ind
State Sunday School Association of Indiana
Northern Indiana Editorial association meets in Rochester
The annual summer meeting of the Northern Indiana Editorial association will be held in Rochester on June 29 and 30. A fine program has been arranged and visitors will be entertained in the city’s best style.
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Rochester
Ind
mHdsummer
Northern Indiana Editorial Association
Boy Killed by Lightning in Ambia Storm
During a storm in Ambia Indiana lightning struck and killed Harold Keys seven years old son of Mr and Mrs R O Keys while running home from his uncle’s residence a few doors away.
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Ambia
Ind
Harold Keys
R. O. Keys
Spanish Statesman Dying in Madrid
Madrid May 29 Don Francisco Silvela eminent statesman and former Spanish premier is dying. Dillsboro May 31 Mrs Chas Cady thirty two killed by lightning at her home Holton Kokomo Indiana May 31 Lee Conwell who was run down by an electric car a week ago is dead of lockjaw.
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Madrid
Don Francisco Silvela
Dillsboro
Ind
Chas, Cady
Holton
Kokomo
Lee Conwell
Insanity Defense in Murder Trial Set for June 9
Samuel Holland, a colored man from Connersville Indiana, will face trial for the murder of Munroe Bladsoe after allegedly cutting his throat. The defense is expected to rest on insanity.
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Connersville
Ind
Samuel Holland
Munroe Bladsoe
Man and Horses Killed in Lightning Strike
In Austin Indiana on June 1 Walter Chasteen, twenty, while planting corn, was struck by lightning and killed instantly. The bolt also killed the horses pulling the plow.
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Austin
Ind
Walter Chasteen
Chasteen
Atlantic Wins International Yacht Race Across Atlantic
The Atlantic, an American boat, claimed victory in the international yacht race across the Atlantic Ocean amid wartime naval tension described as the greatest action since Trafalgar. Lieutenant Commander Robert E. Peary plans a July 1 start on his north pole expedition aboard the Roosevelt. President Roosevelt attends Memorial Day exercises in Brooklyn unveiling a statue to General Henry W Slocum. Mrs Julius Paulson of Dewitt Iowa and her two children perished after jumping from a bridge into a creek.
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Turday
Warsaw
Korean Straits
Robert E. Peary
North Pole
Roosevelt
President Roosevelt
Brooklyn
Henry W. Slocum
Julius Paulson
Dewitt
Kellogg Named U S Consul at Colon Panama
James C Kellogg of Louisiana is appointed United States consul at Colon Panama John McMeans and his two sons drown while fishing at Jacksonville NL the father perishes while trying to rescue them A large section of the Gunnison irrigation tunnel at Montrose Col caves in burying or imprisoning 15 to 20 workers Fire destroys Goldblatt Goodman stables Cincinnati burning 35 horses valued at 10000 Japan vows to press fight until peace comes from Tsarskoe Selo Adventist conference adjourns to meet in England in 1909
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James C. Kellogg
Louisiana
United States
Colon
Panama
Jacksonville
John McMeans
Great Gunnison
Montrose
Col
Goldblatt & Goodman
Cincinnati
Tsarskoe Selo
Nippon
Takahira
Washington
General Conference
The
Seventh Day Adventists
England
Slugging of strike breakers continues in Chicago
The article notes ongoing clashes in Chicago with strike breakers being attacked. It also lists personnel changes including Powell Clayton ending his diplomatic service and Charles J. Bonaparte slated to succeed Paul Morton as secretary of the navy. An official Tokyo report states Japanese losses in the Korea Strait battle as three torpedo boats sunk, three officers killed, and about two hundred men killed or disabled. The U.S. Supreme Court closed a term with 400 cases docketed and 402 disposed. 280 remained on the docket.
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Chicago
Powell Clayton
Ambasasdor
Mexico
Diplomatic Service
Paul Morton
Navy
Charles J. Bonaparte
Baltimore
Tokio
Korean Straits
Supreme Court of the United States
Portland opens Lewis and Clark centennial exposition
The Lewis and Clark centennial exposition at Portland Oregon is now formally open and in good running order. Strong influence is exerted between Paris and St Petersburg to secure peace. An interurban car was held up at Beloit Wisconsin by four men who robbed passengers with revolvers. Rear Admiral Voelkersham commanding the Russian fleet division was killed in the conning tower of the Osiabya. Two miners died at Walpoole mine Iron Mountain Michigan from a fall of ore buried 600 feet below. John Paul Jones original commission as captain in the navy has been located in Philadelphia and will be sought for the navy department.
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Portland
Ore
Paris
St. Petersburg
Beloit
Wis
Voelkersham
Walpoole
Iron Mountain
Mich
Bothy
John Paul Jones
Navy
Philadelphia
Navy Department
Major Japan Quake Triggers Central Seismic Alerts
Severe earthquakes strike central Japan causing widespread disruption. Weekly business failures rise to 154, down from 179 last week and 194 a year earlier. Bellevue hospital project in New York gains final approval at 8.6 million dollars. A Los Angeles saloon ban vote failed in a special election. Japan’s navy plans a vast Okino Island lighthouse to honor Admiral Togo. Cortelyou orders RFD Cincinnati division HQ moved to Indianapolis.
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Bellevue Hospital
New York
Los Angeles
Japanese Navy Department
Okino Island
Togo
Cortelyoun
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Ambassadors Arrive Amid Global Diplomatic Moves
Edwin H. Conger arrives as the new American ambassador to Mexico City. King Alfonso II concludes his Paris visit and lands in London. Whitelaw Reid welcomed in London as the American ambassador. Reports claim Russian naval prisoners in Japan will be returned home. Bombs found at Armenian house near Baku governor general’s palace. An accidental explosion at a Florida convict camp in Ojus kills five convicts.
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London
Whitelaw Reid
Japan
Baku
Florida
Ojus
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