Great arm ies close to clash near Mukden in Manchuria
London reports indicate Japanese forces maneuvering toward Mukden with estimates around 100 000 men led by Kuropatkin and Russian defenses at Liao Yang and Hai Cheng. Dispatches detail bombardments at Port Arthur and Dalny as both sides prepare for a possible battle with rail links and retreat routes under scrutiny.
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London
Mukden
Standard
Tentsin
Kuropatkin
Harbin
Alexieff
Liao Yang
Port Arthur
Dalny
Odessa
Antung
Paris
Journal
Weng Wang Cheng
Manchuria
Shan Hai Kwan
Daily Chronicle
Kai Chau
Tashichao
New Chwang
St. Petersburg
Sakharoff
General Staff
Samsonoff
Siung Yue Cheng
Mines Cleared In Kerr Bay Under Bombardment
Admiral Kakoko reports May 15 operations continued in Kerr bay with torpedo boats under fleet bombardment. enemy defenses added two or three field guns but eight mines were destroyed with many remaining. work to remove them will continue.
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Tokio
Kakoko
Kerr Bay
Sassaliteh Relieved as Second Siberian Army Chief
St Petersburg reports Lieut. Gen Sassalitch has been relieved of command of the Second Siberian Army Division. Lieut. Gen. Count Keller, former Skaterinoslav governor, named to succeed him. Keller, 54, proven in three campaigns, regarded a strong strategist and calm in crisis.
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St. Petersburg
Sassalitch
Sassaliteh
Far East
Count Keller
Skaterinoslav
Bandits punished. Loss. Chinese bandits attacked near Liao Yang
A Chinese bandit outbreak near Liao Yang led to a riflemen and infantry detachment engagement. Twenty bandits were killed and several rifles and cartridges were captured. The Chinese force suffered two soldiers killed and three wounded. The Japanese have reoccupied Kandinn Stan.
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St. Petersburg
Sakharoff
Europtakin
Liao Yang
Shantuidzu
Koundinn Stan
Japanese advance near Mukden in World War I dispatch
May 19 Mukden reports say Japanese forces push toward Mukden in three columns while Russian lines pull back from Liao Yang. Officials withhold details, Port Arthur is cut off at Polandien, and weather may suspend operations as moisture turns the plains to a bog.
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Mukden
Alexieff
St. Petersburg
Liao Yang
Mia Tien
Liu Yen
Feng Wang Cheng
Port Arthur
Polandien
Mao Tien
Russia
Commanders Wrangle Over Port Arthur Strategy
Reports from Paris May 19 say Vice royalty Alexieff and Gen Kuropatkin clash over Port Arthur. Kuropatkin risks abandoning Port Arthur and retreating to Harbin, seeking a junction with his army. Alexieff calls it folly, warning of fleet loss and moral defeat. The emperor appears to back Alexieff.
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Kuropatkin
Port Arthur
Alexieff
St. Paris
Vienna
Yalu
Harbin
Aléxieff
Alexicff
Krupp Works Busy With War Orders
Berlin dispatch reports the Krupp plants at Fssen handling a surge in cannon and shipbuilding material production amid the Russo Japanese war. Large orders for field guns flood the shell department, with Russia presumed as the caller.
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Berlin
Fssen
Krupp
Russia
Henry M. Stanley Buried in Surrey Village Churchyard
Henry M. Stanley was buried today in the churchyard of the old Surrey village of Pirbright. The London ceremony marked the end of a long life of exploration and public service.
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Henry M. Stanley
London
Surrey
Pirbrighy
Weather delays crops as frost and drought bite Midwest
Washington reports a cool week with light to heavy frosts across northern central valleys and the lake region. Planting slows in Nebraska Iowa Missouri, but the Missouri and upper Mississippi valleys show favorable progress while the Ohio valley remains poor. Early wheat in the Dakotas and southern Minnesota grows well amid variable Iowa conditions and oats prospects look good overall.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Rocky Mountains
Middle Atlantic States
Lake
South Atlantic
East Gulf States
North Pacific Coast
California
Nebraska
Iowa
Missouri
Upper
Mississippi
Ohio Valley
Dakotas
Wisconsin
New York
Kansas
North Dakota
Minnesota
Bluff Operation Ties Patient to Illusion of Surgery
A New Albany woman in Louisville hospital was persuaded she had undergone a stomach operation. Doctors used deception with ice water and staged anesthesia to treat her hysteria, wrapping her in bandages and monitoring her as nurses maintain the ruse. They expect her to recover and leave in about three weeks.
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Louisville
New Albany
Ind
Serenaders Wounded as Farm Firing Breaks Night Tour
In Romeo Michigan sixteen members of a serenade party for newlywed farmer Robert Robertson were shot at by his hired man Frank McFaden who fired six shotgun blasts. A farm hand is seriously wounded and may die, twoBorland women among the wounded. Officers investigate the late night shooting at the farm six miles from town.
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Romeo
Mich
Robert Robertson
Frank McFaden
Robertson
Borland
Plan of Chickasaws for coal lands sale to fund schools
The progressive party of the Chickasaw nation nominates Meclish for chief and endorses selling coal lands in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations to the United States at actual value. The government would buy and place proceeds in a permanent Indian Territory school fund for when statehood arrives, creating a vast education trust worth an estimated 25 to 50 million dollars.
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Muskogee
I. T
Progressive Party
Meclish
United States
Indian Territory
Congress
Widow Defeats Mate at Cards Then Marries Him Aboard Steamer
On a voyage from San Francisco to Panama the pretty 22 year old widow Mrs. Schmid beat First Mate J J Wilson at cards. They eloped with Bishop S V Dilley presiding after dark aboard the Colin. The wedding preceded a shipwreck rescue and they reached New York aboard the City of Washington.
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Bishop
New York
Linny
Golden Gate
Sun Trinoises
Colin
Inifrida
J. J. Wilson
Sehmid
Bishop Dilley
Barbados Islands
Jetly
Wilson
Schmid
Harry G. Stevens
Helen Carson
Panama
Colon
City of Washington
Insane Man Threatens Indiana Governor at Chicago Speech
An apparently insane man interrupted Governor Durbin of Indiana during an African Methodist Conference address in Chicago and threatened to kill him for disputing Father Abraham. Ushers seized him as he rushed the rostrum and he fled into the street, unconfirmed if armed. Durbin continued his remarks uninterrupted.
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Chicago
Durbin
Indiana
Abraham
New Hampshire Endorses Roosevelt and Opposes Free Trade Reciprocity
Concord May 19 The Republican state convention endorses Roosevelt administration and nominates Senators Gally Burnham and delegates Remich and Wallace for the national convention. Platform favors Blaine-Inley reciprocity over Democratic free trade and lauds Panama Canal treaty ratification and Milikenley Roosevelt diplomacy. It condemns efforts to curtail suffrage and backs liberal state funding and pacification of the Philippines. It criticizes unlawful restraints on trade.
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Roosevelt
Concord
N. H
Ins
Chicago
Gally
Burnham
Daniel G. Remieh
Sumner Wallace
Blaine
Inley
Melkinley
Electoral College
House of Representatives
Milwaukers
Toy
Howard G. Wall
William Randolph Hearst
Owen A. Wells
Fond du Tae
Welspeech
Wail
Hearst
Rose
Wall
Columbus Woman and Daughter Die After Bridge Jump
Mrs. M. B. Copeland and her 56 year old daughter were found drowned after Mrs. Copeland jumped from a bridge over the Scioto river in Columbus. No motive or cause for the act is known.
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Columbus
M. B. Copeland
Sciote River
Desperado Jack Sully Shot by Officers Near Rosebud Reservation
Jack Sully, long a terror of the Rosebud country, was killed in a running gunfight with officers near Blackbird Island after stealing cattle and fleeing across the Nebraska line. Sully died about thirty five minutes after being wounded. his horse was killed as well. A coroner’s inquest is under way in Gregory county.
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Chaimberlain
Jack Sully
Rosebud
Sullly
Nebraska Line
Brand Inspector Lang
Harrry Ham
Hugo Schilling
United States
Tidrick
Petrie
Brand
Long
Trish
Brule County
Jesse Brown
Lymias County
Harry Ham
Sully
Blackbird Island
Gregory County
EUCHRE AND WOMEN WON Bayonne Reform Fades
Hunger drove members of the Husbands Anti-Euchre society into retreat as the president resigned his post. Wives, once pressed to abandon playing, appear to have held ground while the reform movement weakens and the secretary’s duties remain vacant.
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Bayonne
N. J
Ectary Department
Jerome's Sharp Stick
Jesse Lewisohn banker refused to answer questions in court and was committed for contempt by District Attorney Jerome. He was taken into custody by a county detective in the court of special sessions in New York.
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New York
Jesse Lewisohn
Jerome
Court of Special Sessions
Wyatt
Lewisohn
Countess Marries Coachman in London Society Shock
Georgiana, Dowager Countess of Ravensworth, aged nearly 60, weds her coachman James Wadsworth, 28, in a sensational London society match. The Earl Ravensworth, deceased 1908, left her an estate near 1 million dollars, while the groom is described as handsome and son of a real estate dealer.
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London
Georgiana
Countess of Ravensworth
James Wadsworth
Earl of Ravensworth
Man in Des Moines Threatens Politicians in Letters
A man who signs as J. Clarke threatens to kill Congress man Walter I Smith Postmaster Hint elton and ex Postmaster Treynor of Council Bluffs. Clarke sent letters and telegrams demanding money or their lives. He was arraigned in federal court on improper use of mails, pleaded not guilty, released on 500 dollar bonds, and displayed insanity at arraignment. United States Marshal Christian searches for Clarke.
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Des Moines
Walter I. Smith
Hintelton
Treynor
Council Bluffs
J. Clarke
Clarke
Smith
United States
Christian
Supreme Court backs New York deportation of alleged anarchist Turner
Chief Justice Fuller sustains immigration authorities at the New York port who ordered the deportation of Turner, an Englishman identified as an anarchist, in a May decision.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Fuller
United States Supreme Court
Port of
New York
Turner
Railway Accident Leaves Reinbeck Youth With Severe Injuries
Waterloo reporting August Stange, a Reinbeck young man, suffered chest injuries and multiple broken ribs when a runaway buggy tongue impaled him. Doctors fear for his life as he clings to survive at the hospital.
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Waterloo
Stange
Reinbeck
Folk on Free Passes at Huge Kansas City Rally
Joseph W Polk told a 10 000 crowd at Convention Hall that he would indict the first legislator who accepts railroad passes as bribery. He said he would start a thorough investigation himself if needed and urged Democrats to unite for reform against doodle and the Republican opposition. Reed abstained from the event.
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Kaansas City
May
Joseph W Polk
Lorep
Uie
Te Railroad
Reed
Kansas City
Polk
Convention Hall
J. M. Lowe
Mr. Folk
Mr. Reed
Doodle
Remioni
Wolk
Republican Party
Officers for China Recruit American Lieutenants
A St. Paul report states Edmond Inglish of Yankton South Dakota is recruiting American officers for the Chinese Imperial Reform army. He has sent what appears to be a commission for a second lieutenant to W F Maiden. Inglish says the effort predates the Russo Japanese war and aims to improve China's military efficiency.
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Yalu
China
Hai Cheng
New Chwang
Tashiichao
St. Paul
Imperial Reform Army
United States
W. F. Maiden
Edmond FP
Yankton
S. D
Inglish
Marconi Reports Daily Sea Newspaper via Campania Tests
On the steamship Campania arriving in New York on May 17, William Marconi announced successful constant communication with shore stations during the voyage. A new instrument set enabled 1700 mile distance links to the eastern shore, with Glace Bay on the western shore picked up before uninterrupted signals continued.
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New York
Campania
William Marconi
Marconi
Easter
Glace Bay
Boys More Valuable in Newark Court Ruling
Judge Adams of the Essex county circuit court held a boy's life worth double that of a girl. He upheld a $6,000 verdict for Evan Eastwood's father after a grade crossing trolley crash that killed nine high school pupils on February 19, 1903, while reducing a $5,000 award to Eva Verpupp's father to $3,000 despite Eva's described beauty.
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Newark
N. J
Adams
Essex County Circuit Court
Evan F. J. Eastwood
Eva Verpupp
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