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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1904
Page
1
Reports from New York on June 17 describe 524 identified and 75 unidentified victims of the General Slocum tragedy, with hundreds still missing. Divers search the wreck as authorities coordinate inquiries, relief, and morgue procedures amid widespread grieving and burial plans.
Two men died when they fell from piling while sawing near the Rock Island bridge in Topeka Kansas on June 17. Ben Morris thirty from Holton Kansas and Clyde Beaver twenty one from Pawnee Nebraska were not recovered.
A district in Greater New York bears the evidence of a recent terrible tragedy. The report highlights communal grief and ongoing investigations into the incident.
The Republican national committee opened talks to resolve the bitter Wisconsin faction feud. Senators Spooner and Quarles advocated the Stalwart side, while Governor LaFollette led the opposition after lunch. Senator Fairbanks arrived and stated he is a delegate with no comment on the vice presidential matter.
Posses closed in from four directions on two of four men who stopped the North Coast Limited near Bearmouth Montana. The robbers blew the express safe fifty feet and escaped into the mountains. No train crew injuries reported. capture expected before night.
A reported incident claims Japanese officers aboard a transport perished by suicide after the vessel was lost. The account notes these actions as a reaction to the ship’s fate and the broader wartime losses.
Survivors report the Japanese transport Hitachi Maru was sighted at seven a m by Russian Vladivostok forces. Fire overwhelmed the deck and a boiler exploded killing two hundred. Captain Bramwell disappeared after leaping overboard. The chief engineer died on the bridge. Colonel Esuchi ordered the flags burned before he and officers killed themselves.
Nagasaki reports the Katsuno Maru collided with the steamer Yamatokan and sank. This marks the fourth Japanese transport lost in recent days amid ongoing hostilities.
Charles Keck, agent for Schlitz beer, opened a new depot at Third and Engineer streets last night. About 300 visitors attended the formal opening and a roast calf and roast beef were served.
M. T. Slane is having plans drawn for a two story home on the corner lot at Sixth and Quincy streets. Architect Waddell is preparing the plans.
Sale offers muslins on special bargain tables with stock identical to shelf items. Each lot includes skirts chemises gowns drawers and corset covers. Two lots at 25¢ and 396 contain gowns drawers and corset covers only.
Dozens of parasol styles without duplicates feature plain taffetas and changeable tapietas. Dark and light colors include white snowy taffetas for white linen suits. Embroidered pengees and plain wood sticks add chic elegance to the collection.
Umbrellas in colors black green red or blue with bordered silks offered at $1.98, down from $3.00 to $3.50. Twenty five inch ribs provide sun or rain use, mounted on Congo and Weischel sticks with crook and opera handles, complete with cord and tassel. Regular prices for similar silks run at $5.00.
A pithy catalog notes crushed leather belts in black and red silk girdles with elastic belts and buckles. Japanese folding fans reduce from 50c to 25c to clear stock, with grades 60c and 75c also cut.
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