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Newspaper
Ireton Weekly Ledger
Location
Ireton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1904
Page
3
Descriptive dispatches report Stoessel’s steadfast refusal and a fierce Japanese assault. Massed bleu troops surge, with thousands reported slain in the doomed citadel as Russian commanders reject the Mikado’s offer. A U.S. right persists amid noncombatant peril in the besieged area.
The Paris dispatch reports Russian Port Arthur garrison resisting Japan by bombardment from hills above the fortress. Japanese advances press the inner citadel while fires rage within the city. Mines and heavy shelling threaten the defenses as the fleet burns and the citadel endures a final infantry assault.
Fragmentary report details naval clashes near Saghalin and Port Arthur with Japanese forces advancing and Russian ships damaged. Mentions shells and ships, sailors and hospitals, amid broader Sino-Russian conflict with Shanghai tensions rising and generals retreating.
An officer carrying a truce demand for surrender at Port Arthur fails to move Gen Stoessel and the Mikado’s forces vow to fight to the death. Far East fighting continues with Japanese assaults on Port Arthur defenses and heavy attacks on Liautiet forts as naval actions near Vladivostok shift attention to damaged ships and uncertain Russian casualties.
A small tornado struck a North St Louis residence district Friday causing one death and about fifty injuries with $100000 in property damage. The storm crossed the Mississippi into Venice Illinois killing Mrs M G Beal and injuring ten others with additional property loss. John Effington of St Louis died when debris from a building at Madison Cooper Works collapsed.
A tornado struck St Louis and Madison causing extensive damage across the riverfront. Buildings, a hall, and the Niedringhaus rolling mill suffered losses while a ferry survived a deadly strike. Eleven passengers were buried in a Broadway car wreck but escaped major injury.
A fragmented, older news fragment notes Togen’s interest in the Russo Japanese War. It mentions Martin Flume as a novelist writing equally well in Spanish and Japanese, Caesar Decock linked to a Bohemian war death and a fortune over $50,000 in three years, Pope Pius seeking to curb cardinal incomes, and Sarasate still playing the same violin at age 60. The report also references Theodore Bredikhine’s death as a noted astronomer, and a vague note about exploration and wealth in Stanley’s ventures.
Fragmented OCR shows terms for oats wheat corn rye and clover seed alongside cattle hogs and sheep prices. It lists shipping steers hogs sheep and lambs with mixed quality ranges and a New York reference.
The state convention at W. Va nominated John J. Cormwell for governor while Eugene Parker, brother of the presidential Democratic nominee, is a clerk in Astoria. The Nebraska convention nominated Clarence B. Swander for governor amid calls for female suffrage and a Democratic vice presidential nomination speech by Henry Glassaway Davis at Whitehall Springs.
Wheat futures reach 1.3556 a bushel on Friday at the Chicago Board of Trade after heavy Northwest rains forecast more rust and crop damage. Experts estimate North Dakota South Dakota and Minnesota combined yield under 100 million bushels, halving prior forecasts. Corn rises as weather harms wheat while Argentine demand strengthens.
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