Battle Near Dalny and the Bayan Threat
A Dalny report states a Japanese scouting party was seen near Dalny and a battle occurred at Ying Chong Tse. Dalny is evacuated with valuables, ammunition, and troops moved to Port Arthur. The Bayan cruiser and three torpedo boats reached Talienwan Bay and may be captured. Frolic will proceed to Newchwang if Russians evacuate.
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Bayan
Talienwan Bay
Kuroki
Chefoo
Dalny
Ying Chong Tse
Kin Chou
United States
Newchwang
Cossacks March Toward Seoul Amid Korean War Maneuvers
A Russky Invalid report from St. Petersburg details General Mistchenko's 5000 Trans-Baikal Cossacks riding 40 miles in two weeks toward Seoul with intent to capture the city. They retreated to Wiju as orders arrived. The force, under Madritoff, operates east of Feng Wang Cherg, threatening Japanese movements and signaling the possible creation of an 18th army corps.
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Russky Invalid
Army Organ
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Hurena
Wiju
Associated Press
Feng Wang Cherg
Kuroki
Rennenkampf
Feng Wang Cheng
Madritoff
18Th
War Office
Kin Chou
Port Arthur Siege Drift and The Chinese Garrison Fate
Reports lack official updates from Port Arthur and fear for the beleaguered garrison. Native notes in Liao Yang mention Japanese forces near Port Arthur and heavy siege preparations. Army circles expect a push with siege guns in coming weeks, echoing Kin Chou’s rapid fall but noting required time for Port Arthur storming.
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Admiralty
War Office
Port Arthur
Liao Yang
Kin Chou
Japanese Victory at Nanshan Hill After Desperate Charge
Tokio reports the Nanshan Hill fight where nine charges failed until a bayonet assault broke the Russian line. Japanese forces, aided by Kinchou Bay shelling, stormed left, center, and right sectors amid heavy casualties. Russians lose 68 cannons and 19 machine guns. 500 dead in fortifications.
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Nanshan Hill
Tokio
Kin Chou
Kinchou Bay
Japan
Nanshan
Osaka
Boy held for killing mother in New Jersey
Police say 14 year old Nathan H Sibbetts of Jacobs Creek was arrested in Trenton on charges of murdering his mother. Neighbors reported he was home midweek and the body was found on the second floor with decomposition. Prosecutor Crossley questioned the boy who denied knowledge of the death.
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Trenton
N. J
Nathan H. Sibbetts
Jacobs Creek
Crossley
Methodist Conference Adjourns Sets Bishops Of Other Races
The 1904 Methodist general conference in Los Angeles adjourned sine die after a memorial service. The final session Saturday night delivered many committee reports and resolutions, with a near unanimous vote to amend the constitution to allow the election of bishops of races other than white.
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Los Angeles
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Methodist General Conference
Death conquers Senator Quay after yearlong illness
Beaver Pa May 30 Colonel Matthew Stanley Quay long a Pennsylvania senator died after a persistent yearlong illness diagnosed as chronic gastritis. He travelled seeking health, suffered steady weight loss, and declined after a Maine wilderness outing. Services in Beaver, burial in Beaver cemetery, with details of his final days and state visits noted.
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Matthew Stanley Quay
Pennsylvania
Beaver Cemetery
First Presbyterian Church
Fost 75
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Senator Quay
J. S. Ramsey
Appleton Bush
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Methodist Episcopal Church
Senate
Quay
United States
Stephen Stone
Bengal
Ben Sooy
Maine
Woods
Washington
Philadelphia
Drs. White and
Stengel
White House
Roosevelt
Knox
Morganza
Jared Quay
Western
J. Donald Cameron
Ida Tarbell Historian Gains Fame From Lincoln Biography
Ida Minerva Tarbell, famed for her Standard Oil history, first drew notice with a 1895 life of Napoleon Bonaparte and rose to prominence a year later with her historical work Harry Life of Abraham Lincoln. A Pennsylvania native, she is forty six.
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Ida Minerva Tarbell
Standard Oil Company
Napoleon Bonaparte
Harry
Abraham Lincoln
BRIEF SKETCH OF M S QUAY MASTER POLITICIAN
Reared a minister's son, Matthew Stanley Quay rose from Diltsburg York County to a long career in law and politics. He shaped Pennsylvania party machinery, led state campaigns, and faced a famed 1898 bank scandal and trial, surviving while remaining a dominant Republican figure.
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York County
Matthew Stanley
Chester County
Anderson Beaton Quay
Prithburg
Heaver
Quay
Jefferson College
Washington County
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Texas
Prohibition
Bertver
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Simon Cameron
Robert W Mackey
W. W. Irwin
Hurtranft
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Cameron
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William A. Wallace
United States
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Robert E. Pattison
Philadelphia
James A. Beaver
Chris Magee
Mitchell
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Grant
Sherman
Arthur
Blaine
Harrison
Hastings
St. Louis
John Wanamaker
Quy
Anyeral
Platt
Minneannhs
Ore
Tiarrison
National Republican
Wiliam McKinley
McWinney
Theodore Roosevelt
Hanna
John
British Repulse Thibetans From Walled Stronghold
London dispatch reports the May 26 British attack near Gyangtse expelled Thibetans from the walled village of Palla after 11 hours of fighting. One British lieutenant and three Sepoys killed. three officers and nine men wounded. Thibetans suffered heavy losses with 37 prisoners taken.
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London
Daily Mail
Chumbi
India
Palla
Gyangtse
Seven Piers Burned in Jersey City Fire Endangers Property
A major blaze destroyed seven piers of the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad in Jersey City starting at pier 32 where oil was stored. Flames swept to piers 12 11 and 3 as fireboats fought from the shore. Loss estimated at 1 million dollars with many containers and ships damaged. Separate New Orleans district fire caused 500000 damage.
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Delaware, Lackawanna and Wester Railroad
Jersey City
Pier 32
Pier 12
Jomat
Pier 11
Pier 3
Lackawanna Depot
Hamburg
Bremen
Hoboken Coke Company
Lackawannaa
New Orleans
Louis P. Rica Saddlery
Simmonds Manufacturing Company
Melg, Brady and Lincoln Woodenware Company
Fires Destroy Metcalio Machine Shops at Quines Pa
Fire at the Metcalio Machine Shops in Quines Pa caused $30,000 in losses. President Roosevelt proposals and Hearst supporters swirl in the political chatter while a local sewer dispute yields $25,000 damages to B J McGrath held against Lancaster city.
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New York
Baltimore
Metcalio
Quines
William R Hearst
Conner
B. J McGranh
Lancaster City
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