Naval Battle Report: Russians and Japanese Clash at Corean Straits
Multiple dispatches from Nagasaki Tokyo and Pekin claim heavy losses for Russia in a naval clash in the Straits of Corea. Reports mention sunk battleships Orel Borodino and other ships plus possible Japanese victory though details remain unconfirmed. Information cites Nagasaki Washington Pekin Tsingtau and London sources with varying particulars.
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Seaver Svapiapeiaken i
Rojestversky
Straits
Corea
Nagasaki
State Department
Washington
Corean Straits
Straits of
Orel
Borodino
Tingtau
Jury verdict in Dug Pounds manslaughter case in Palestine
In Palestine Texas the jury found Dug Pounds guilty of manslaughter after a late Saturday trial. The judge assessed a two year penitentiary sentence. The slain man was an elderly Confederate veteran, and the defendant was a very young man. Noted East Texas lawyers led the defense and prosecution.
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Palestine
Texas
Dug Pounds
Okla Town Reports Bridge Disaster on Frisco Bridge
Forty boats were swept from the Frisco bridge over the South Canadian river as floodwaters rage. No passenger transfer possible. The bridge, about a mile long, is nearly a total wreck and there is talk of condemning the wooden railroad bridges over the treacherous river.
Moonshine Well Joins First Class Houston Field
A new entry in the Humble field yesterday on the Perryman tract joined the first-class wells. The six inch well yields about 7000 barrels per day marking a strong addition to the Moonshine operations.
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Houston
Texas
Humble
Perryman
Train Strikes Banks. Severe Injuries Reported Near Somerville
In Somerville Texas last night Robert Banks, colored, was struck by a Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe train between Somerville and Lyons. He suffered broken legs below the knee and other bruises. He received surgical aid locally and was then taken home.
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Somerville
Texas
Robert Banks
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe
Lyons
Russian Fleet Dispersed and Ships Disabled by Japanese Pursuit
From London a Daily Mail Tokio correspondent reports the Russian fleet has dispersed several ships disabled and the rest are fleeing with the Japanese in pursuit. In Matamoros a third bull fight of the season drew thousands, featuring a renowned woman bull fighter and a company that had been dis charged for failing to dispatch the bulls satisfactorily.
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London
Ghai
Pekin
Rojestvensky
Tsu Islands
Borodino
The
Daily Mail
Matamoros
Mex
Apprentice sets navy target record on Preble in bay
Vallejo dispatch reports Kempster Horne Scott, an apprentice on the torpedo boat Preble, broke a navy mark during target practice in San Pablo Bay. At ten knots, he hit the target from 1000 yards nineteen times out of twenty one shots, firing a six pound gun.
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Vallejo
Cal
San Pablo Bay
Kempster Horne Scott
Preble
Scott
Caldwell Man Convicted in Second Degree Murder
In Caldwell Texas district court on Saturday Tobe Lewis was convicted of second degree murder and his punishment was assessed at ten years in the penitentiary.
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Caldwell
Texas
Tobe Lewis
Gonzales man named aide on Governor's Texas Volunteer Guard staff
W. B. Sayers of Gonzales has been appointed as lieutenant colonel and aide on the personal staff of the Governor in the Texas Volunteer Guard.
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Gonzales
Texas
W. B. Sayers
Texas Volunteer Guard
Train Kills Ben Byers Near Italy Texas
Hearne Texas report says Ben Byers a Colored youth was killed by an International and Great Northern freight train near Italy on Wednesday night He is believed to have had his legs cut off while boarding the train Relatives were notified of his death yesterday.
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Hearne
Texas
Ben Byers
International & Great Northern
Italy
Regional Notes on Deaths, Industry, and Infrastructure
Obituaries report Nora Corbett age eighty one dying in Dallas County and others killed or missing including a Sherman resident and a boy in Cuero. Cargo movements and rail incidents outline freight, a train fatality in Louisiana, and a Beaumont hospital transfer. Local projects include bridges over Sulphur Creek, telephone exchanges in Coke and Crocker counties, and a six stall Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe engine house in Silsbee. Master Bakers elect officers in San Antonio and prepare next meeting in that city. Potatoes and farm prospects feature Johnson and Harrison counties with large yields forecast.
Southern Cotton Association forms holding company to stabilize market
Letter from Calvert Texas signals a plan to curb overproduction by financing a holding company with ten million dollars capital. Directors include W P Brown Harvey Jordan and S P Walmsley. Officials urge cotton producers to subscribe shares for each bale raised last year to steady prices and avoid slumps.
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Southern Cotton Association
New Orleans
W. P. Brown
Harvey Jordan
W. P. Brown & Company
Hibernia Bank and Trust Co
A. Brittin
Cotton Commission
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Canal Bank and Trust Co
S. P. Walmsley
Louisiana National Bank
South
Board of Directors
Russian Fleet Suffer Severe Losses in War at Sea
Reports from Tokio via Washington detail Russian naval disasters with sunk battleships coast defense ships and cruisers, plus captured vessels and over 3000 prisoners including Rear Admiral Nebogatov. Roostvensky’s fate uncertain as Japan seeks final tally. Russia public mood darkens and peace talks rumored as Roosevelt moves toward mediation.
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Russia
Manchuria
Tokio
Washington
Nebogatoff
Russian naval losses and possible Ural transport capture
Reports indicate Russian ves Siro aig fe tos fe may have sunk in the fight Saturday with as many as three more ships later. The Navy Department withholds confirmation until verification. It is believed the Ural is the name of the captured transport, though it has been omitted in earlier cables.
Reverend G. H. Rogers Arrested as Texas Fugitive
Deputy Marshal Casidy of McKinney Texas arrested Rev. G. H. Rogers of Krebs on a Texas fugitive from justice charge for forging notes years ago. Rogers had been preaching and teaching in schools for about two years and was taken back to Texas on train No. 1 yesterday morning.
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South McAlester
I. T
Casidy
McKinney
Texas
G. H. Rogers
Krebs
Rogers
Tyler man killed by wagon fall in ravine accident
Tyler Texas, a truck farmer named Charles Campbell aged 55 residing near Tyler was killed yesterday when his wagon wheels dropped into a ravine, throwing him and breaking his neck. He leaves a wife and two daughters.
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Tyler
Texas
Charles Campbell
Local chemist claims ultra strong beer substitute from hops
In Rhineland Wisconsin a chemist reports a liquid 11 000 times stronger than finest beer. A drop in a large beer glass with ice water yields beer of the best grade. The extract contains a hops alkaloid 9 500 times stronger than crude hops and malt’s active principle 12 500 times strength from top barley.
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Rhineland
Wis
Local man dies from gas in well near Atwell
Cottonwood Texas Mr W H Stephens who lived near Sobonno was overcome by gas while working in a well at Atwell yesterday and died before rescue. Stephens was formerly jailer at Baird under Sheriff T A Ervin.
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Cottonwood
Texas
W. H. Stephens
Sobonno
Atwell
Stephens
Baird
T. A. Ervin
Hard Time Celebrating Decoration Day in Brenham
Brenham lodges have delayed Decoration Day for three weeks due to bad weather and will attempt a third celebration this Sunday.
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Brenham
Texas
Washington Ambition Hints Japan Victory End War
Diplomatic observers in Washington assess that a Japanese victory would end the war as Russia loses ground and prospects for success fade, shaping current international expectations.
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Washington
Russia
Prohibition Campaign Tactics in Gonzales Texas
Prohibitionists plan a campaign blitz in Gonzales with a free lunch on election day. Rev Maples will lecture on temperance Sunday evening and Mrs Curtis Mrs Zenner and Cyclone Davis will speak before the June 2 election.
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Gonzales
Texas
Prohibition Club
Maples
Curtis
Zenner
Cyclone Davis
Flooding Damages Crops Across Arkansas River Lands
A Newport Arkansas special reports heavy rains swollen the White and Black rivers near Memphis Tennessee flood thousands of acres of rich farm land and cause severe crop damage.
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Memphis, Tenn
Newport
Ark
Japanese Navy Losses Reported By London Exchange
London stock exchange reports indicate three Japanese cruisers were sunk and about a dozen torpedo boat destroyers were sunk or disabled.
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Stock Exchange
London
London Stock Exchange
Truck growers ship tomatoes and cucumbers in Alvin Texas
In Alvin Texas the truck growers report steady shipments of tomatoes and cucumbers. Rainy weather harmed the two leading vegetables and beans were nearly unfit for shipment.
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Alvin
Texas
Manila municipal bonds auctioned for public works funds
Bids opened in Washington at the Insular Bureau of the War Department for the sale of one million dollars in Manila municipal bonds bearing four percent interest. Bonds redeemable after ten years, with proceeds to sewering and other public works.
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Washington
Insular Bureau of the War Department
Manila
Cotton Bales Sold in Hearne Texas Trade
Mrs. Bama Adama of Brazos bottom sold 479 bales of cotton this morning. Buyer was Mr. Knoblanck of Bryan. Price paid about 7 1 2 cents per pound.
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Hearne
Texas
Bama Adama
Brazos
Knoblanck
Bryan
Rice Elected Mayor in Houston Primaries
H B Rice and his ticket won the Houston mayoral race and all four alderman seats in the city primaries. Rice led narrowly in the Third ward and tied in the Fifth, with the overall mayoral margin about 180 votes. The four elected commissioners were Gaston Appleby Marmion and Thompson, representing all city wards.
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Houston
Texas
H. B. Rice
Rice
Sittig
Gaston
James Marmion
James Appleby
James Thompson
H. Baldwin Rice
Appleby
Marmion
Thompson
Roosevelt to Speak at Brooklyn Memorial Day Ceremony
President Roosevelt will address Brooklyn on Memorial Day at the unveiling of General Henry W. Slocum’s statue. He will review the civil and Spanish American wars parade and may visit the naval Y M C A at the Brooklyn navy yard if time allows.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Brooklyn
Henry W. Slocum
Naval Y. M. C. A
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Rio Grande Flood Damages Hit Mesilla Valley North of El Paso
Five hundred thousand dollars in crop and property damage reported as Rio Grande overflow affects Mesilla Valley north of El Paso. Workmen toil to repair levees amid ongoing danger. Claud McClure arrested by Sheriff Wise and released on $500 bond after a shooting on the public road in front of his home.
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el Paso
Texas
Mesilla Valley
Rio Grande
Ron Blanton
Claud McClure
Wise
McClure
American Sunk Vessel Off Formosa Identified as British
Minister Griscom reports from Tokio that the ship sunk off Formosa on May 20 by the Russian fleet is a British vessel, per a Japanese government report sent to the State Department yesterday.
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Washington
Griscom
State Department
Tokio
Formosa
Panama Reports Yell ow Fever Cases Decline
Official Panama health record shows eighty yellow fever cases and seven deaths since July 1, 1904 with only two new cases since May 17. The earlier patients are convalescing and recent heavy rains improve sanitary conditions.
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Panama
Stabbing in Laredo Spurs Citywide Pistol Crackdown
In Laredo Texas Pedro Almeida was stabbed to death during a fracas with Esteban Martinez who was also wounded. Mayor Sanchez orders police to arrest anyone found with a pistol within city limits and to act with vigilance.
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Laredo
Texas
Pedro Almeida
Estaban Martinez
Sanchez
O'Dwyer Named General Agent for Mobile Kansas City Railroad
Mobile Alabama announces W. L. O'Dwyer has been appointed general freight and passenger agent of the Mobile Jackson and Kansas City Railroad, effective June 1.
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Mobile
Ala
W. L. O’dwyer
Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad
Cotton Bales In Bell County Reach Estimated 2000
In Temple Texas a conservative estimate places the cotton still held by farmers in the Temple tributary territory at around 2000 bales. Over the past two days the value per bale has risen by about five dollars.
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Temple
Texas
Fate of Vice Admiral Rojestvensky Not Known
The report notes uncertainty over the admiral's fate with some belief he may have perished.
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Tokio
Rojestvensky
Supreme Court Upholds New York Corporate Franchise Tax
The Supreme Court decision enforces unpaid taxes exceeding 24 million dollars in Greater New York, confirming the state tax on corporate franchises and its collection.
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New York
Greater
Supreme Court of the United States
Russian transports haul down flags off Woosung
Shanghai Morning Post dispatch dated May reports Russian transports off Woosung hauled down their flags. The correspondent notes a change in status amid ongoing hostilities.
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London
Shanghai
Morning Post
Woosung
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Dug Pounds Guilty
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Nora Corbett
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Sherman
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Cuero
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Robert Lee
Coke County
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Crocker County
J. C. Owens
Port Arthur
Southern Pacific
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Beaumont
R. S. Bynum
Waxahachie
Tennessee
Mr. Bynum
Commissioners’ Court
Sulphur Creek
Bonham
La’donia
Master Bakers
W. L. Richter
San Antonio
J. C. Porterfield
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A. I. Meyer
Peoples Hotel
Sioux City
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J. P. Ellis
Rice Hotel
Lockhart
Gulf, Colorado
Santa Fe
Silsbee
J. F. Deal
Methodist Episcopal Church
Waco
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Methodist Church of
Terrell
Harrison County
Marshall
Ters
Calvert, Texas
BE. S Peters
Southern Wotton Association
Calvert
Southern Cottons Association
Ofaha Department of Agriculture
the Cotton Planters’ Commission & Holding Company of
Atlanta
Col. E. S. Peters
Harvie Jordan
Peters
Vladivostok
Associated Press
St. Petersburg
France
Delecasse
Rosestvensky
Rev. Rogers
Farmer
Mankida
Almeida
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