Japs Win Big Battle at Yalu River Clash
After five days of artillery fighting General Kuroki’s first army forced a Yalu crossing and drove Russian forces from Chiu Tien Cheng and nearby heights. Japan reported 700 casualties while Russia exceeded 800. Japan captured 28 quick firing guns and many rifles. Russians retreated from Antung as Japanese dominance grew along the river and in the region.
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Kuroki
Alu
Chiu Tien Cheng
Iho
Aldo Nver
Yalu
Wiju
Bunday
Antung
Kashtalinsky
Third East Siberian Rifles Briade
Zassatch
Siberian
Feng Huan Cheng
Vladivostok
St. Petersburg
Chin Gow
Kouropatkin
War Commission
Sassutch
War Office
Sassulitch
Associated Press
Mistchenko
Kulien Cheng
Sindiagow
Housan
Kitsvene
London
Great Britain
Japan
Russia
Gensan
Standard
Morning Post
Shanghai
Kai Ping
Shan Hail Wan
Daily Telegraph
China
Yian Shai Na
Tiao
Chin
Daily News
Kobe
Chin Tien
Congress Ends Fifty-Eighth Session With Adjournment
Washington April 29 President Frye adjourned the Senate sine die at 2 pm after a quiet closing day. Debates centered on appropriations with Allison Aldrich Gorman and Culberson shaping much of the talk. Panama canal government and river and harbor bills passed without controversy as Mrs Roosevelt attended the gallery.
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Washington
Bro Tem Frye
Senate
Allison
Aldrich
Gorman
Culberson
Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Harbor Hills
Committee On the
W. D. Crum
Charleston
S. C
Sink Japanese Transport Kinshin Maru Sunk by Russian Torpedo Boats
Russian torpedo boats of the Vladivostok squadron sank the Japanese transport Kinshin Maru of 4 000 tons during the night of April 26 with all on board lost except seventeen officers twenty soldiers sixty five crew and eighty five coolie carriers. The others who refused to surrender were sent to the bottom.
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St. Petersburg
Vladivostok
FIERCE FIGHTING IN ASIA MINOR INVOLVES 20000 INSURGENTS
In Sassun district, Asia Minor, official reports describe heavy clashes between Armenian insurgents and government troops numbering about twenty thousand. Troops suffer twenty killed and twenty three wounded, with seventy thousand troops in the troubled area. Twenty villages in Talori district are destroyed, cause uncertain between insurgents and Kurds. Private reports state Kurds attacked two villages north of Sassun, with twenty six killed.
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Constantinople
Sassun
Asia Minor
Talori
African Methodist Episcopal Quadrennial Conference Opens in Chicago
The twenty second international quadrennial conference of the AME church opens in Chicago May 2 and runs through May 21. Five hundred delegates and over 2,000 colored religious workers attend from around the world. Bishop M B Salter of Charleston delivers the quadrennial sermon and Bishop Handy of Baltimore administers the holy communion.
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Chicago
African Methodist Episcopal Church
M. B. Salter
Charleston
S. C
Handy
Baltimore
Identified and unnamed victims in Kimmswick wreck
In Kimmswick Missouri two men remain unnamed believed dead after the Tron Mountain Hot Springs special wreck. Haffle R Stockton are named among the victims with additional identified and presumed fatalities including James Bailey engineer A Gumbert fireman A E Tabor master mechanic Groat Express Messenger Groat and Edward Brisbard DeSoto Missouri.
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Express
Groat
Edward Brisbard
DeSoto, Mo
Rate War Stalls As Officials Adjourn In Chicago
Western traffic officials adjourned after failing to settle grain rate war and through proportional rates. They also announced a failure to agree on sugar rates.
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Chicago
Train Collides With Burning Bridge in Minnesota
A Great Northern passenger train traveling from Duluth to Larimore Minnesota ran into a burning bridge over the Clearwater River. The wreck caused serious injuries to twenty five or more passengers though the train itself cleared the bridge. Fire engulfed the wreckage but the cars remained upright as rescue units responded.
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Crookston
Minn
Great Northern
Duluth
Larimore
N. D
Clearwater River
Nic
Resolution Honors Speaker Cannon After House Session
In Washington April 29 the closing of the second session of the fifty eighth congress featured a minority resolution by Williams praising Speaker Cannon for his courteous impartial presiding. The resolution was followed by a graceful speech from Cannon expressing appreciation for the gesture.
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Cannon
Washington
House
Fifty-Eighth Congress
Williams
Germans Send Reinforcements to Southwest Africa
Berlin reporting fresh reinforcements of 1500 men with two batteries of field guns will be sent to German Southwest Africa, according to military circles cited by the Tageblatt.
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Berlin
The
Tageblatt
Africa
Chicago Grain and Provisions Market Closing Quotes
Weather-driven selling pushed wheat lower with a 1 cent net loss in July. Corn and oats declined while provisions rose. closing figures show May and July spreads for wheat, corn, oats, and pork and lard, with Chicago cash prices for various grades of spring wheat, hard wheat, cash corn and oats.
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Chicago
Grain prices in Omaha report mixed future and cash data
The Omaha Grain Exchange shows mixed movements for May and July futures with wheat and corn edging higher at times. Cash prices list various grades of hard and spring wheat, corn, and oats with a range of bid values across grades and quality.
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Omaha
Omaha Grain Exchange
Chicago Live Stock Market Wrap May Second
Cattle receipts at Chicago reach 24000 to 60000 dollars with strong to prime steers priced 5.00 to 5.60. Hogs receipts today 45000, tomorrow 40000 with mixed and butchers at 4.65 to 4.80. Sheep receipts 20000 show good to choice wethers 4.75 to 5.65 and western lambs priced 4.75 to 7.00.
Kansas City Live Stock Market Report May 2 Cattle and Hogs
Kansas City daily cattle receipts 6000 with prices for export and dressed beef steers 4.60 to 5.25, western fed 3.70 to 4.75, stockers 3.25 to 4.60, native cows 2.34 to 4.40, bulls 2.65 to 3.80, calves 2.75 to 3. Murky hog figures show receipts 6700 with top 4.72, bulk 4.55 to 4.70, packers 4.60 to 4.75, pigs 4.00 to 4.62. Lambs 5.25 to 6.75, ewes 5.00 to 5.75, yearlings 5.00 to 6.00, clipped sheep 4.50 to 5.00, stockers 5.50 to 4.50.
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Chicago
Texas Fed
Kansas City
South Omaha Live Stock Prices May 2
South Omaha cattle receipts total 4,000 with native steers 5.00 to 6.20, cows and heifers 3.00 to 4.25, canners 2.00 to 2.60, stockers and feeders 4.50 to 5.50, calves 4.00 to 5.75, and bale stags 4.00 to 4.50. hog receipts steady to lower with heavy at 4.00 to 4.10 and light at 4.40 to 4.50. total receipts 6,000, active market for Shorn and other grades noted.
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South Omaha
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