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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1905
Page
3
Tokyo reports a rumor that Russian and Japanese fleets maneuver near the Korea Straits. Dispatches claim Admiral Rostovtovsky’s squadron split, with several vessels anchored at Saddle Islands then moving north, while observers speculate diversions to draw Japanese forces away. Details remain unofficial and unconfirmed.
London dispatch reports The Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail cor respondents note Chinese cruisers near Shanghai and a claim that President Roosevelt wired the Viceroy to urge preservation of Chinese treaty rights. In St Petersburg officials question Russian fleet movements while Judge Parker warns in Chicago that judicial review risks overruling state laws.
The May 27 sessions of the general Presbyterian church in Winona Lake Indiana were almost entirely devoted to reports from the forms of service and temperance committees. The form of service report sparked three hours of discussion with about 100 speakers, and the report along with the Hook of Prayers was referred to an enlarged committee. Temperance resolutions sparked a vigorous debate over prohibiting a near campus liquor outlet and the assembly eventually passed a resolution limiting university management of student alcohol. Tobacco and cigarette sales were condemned.
Scores on the ball fields from Chicago and other cities show varied results across leagues. Philadelphia beat Philadelphia 8 to 1, New York defeated Brooklyn 6, Detroit routed Philadelphia 22 to 5, Cleveland triumphed over New York 6, St Louis lost to Washington 4 to 2, Milwaukee edged Hanopolis 2 to 1, Kansas City beat Louisville 5 to 3, and Minneapolis won 9 to 3. Des Moines beat Sioux City 8 to 1.
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