War in the Orient Reports on Port Arthur Siege Threat
Dispatches from Port Arthur and other theaters describe General Brocese warning garrison and residents to fight to the end as Japanese forces prepare to land. Reports claim 60,000 Japanese troops at Chemulpo and Japanese plans to capture Port Arthur by March 1.
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Port Arthur
Brocese
Liao Yang
Manchuria
Yin Kow
All Costa
Tokio
Ad‘mir al Tokio
Che
Ping Yang
Seoul
Yalu River
Chemulpo
Five Million Dollar Fire Devastates Rochester Business District
A major blaze in Rochester New York began early morning in the basement of a Main Street dry goods house and spread to several ten story granite buildings. Buffalo and Syracuse aided as explosions occurred and the losses are estimated between four and five million dollars with public safety officials warning the fire would not easily be stopped.
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Rochester
Buffalo
Syracuse
Commissioner of Public Safety
Sistant
Frank Jayes
Capital Fire Devastates Wisconsin Capitol, $800,000 Loss
Madison reports a blaze nearly destroying the Wisconsin Capitol building with an estimated loss of 800000. The state carried partial insurance amid a shift to state insurance. The fire endangered the new capitol structure and stoked debate on moving the capital to Milwaukee. Some records were saved.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Founders Day at State University in Grand Forks
Founders Day celebrated in Grand Forks as the North Dakota University marks its twenty first anniversary since statehood. President Merrifield and associates led an organized program with Dr Hult of the North Dakota Agricultural College among the speakers praising the institution and its usefulness. Two through tourist cars to California offered weekly from St Paul via the Chicago Great Western railway with routes west of Kansas City via Santa Fe or Rock Island El Paso. information available from B B Jones in Fargo.
Rail Fare Sale Advertises Midwest to Southwest Destinations
A railroad notices fare discounts of two dollars above half fare from Saint Paul or Minneapolis via Chicago to Arkansas Colorado Kansas Louisiana Missouri New Mexico Oklahoma and Texas. Tickets on sale January 5 6 February 9 16 March end April 5 19 with contact R Ryunos Fargo N D for details.
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St. Paul
Minneapolis
Chicago
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A. Baer Wise
I. RO
Union Central Life Insurance Co
Cincinnati
Ohio
J. O. Adams
Mandan
Dakota
Wm. H Brown Company
North Dakota
W. H. Spanier
Ratsonnising
Sivet
China
Japan
America
Great Britain
St. Petersburg
Russia
York
Corea
Chéminipo
Lido Tong Peninsula
San Francisco
Washington
London
Yan Tokio
New York
California
Rene
Sherwin-Williams
W. P
Sherwin- Williams Co
Hodgkinson’s
Srta Store
Ffashion
WM. Wilson
Prop
Sevilla Bus and Transfer Line
Rae
Postoffice
White Lily
Riverside
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