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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1904
Page
1
A dispatch from Admiral Togo reports the torpedo destroyer Akatsuki was struck off Port Arthur last Friday, killing one officer and twenty four sailors. The Russian batteries caused the explosion. damage to the vessel remains undisclosed.
A father learns of his son's death after a delayed message from a train stop in Jefferson City. George Suter, en route to Fulton, is told the news as he travels home to Sedalia, where services are held at Calvary church with Rev. Edmund Neville officiating. The boy had been ill and outdoors for a day, and his mother feared measles. Pupils from Broadway Grade 1 attend the funeral along with Miss Selah. Pallbearers include George Whitney, Ray Nichols, Edgar Scott, Earl Doolittle. honorary pallbearers Charlie Heynen and Junior Scruton.
Laura Walton aged 15 and Lena Hillyard aged 16, college students, drowned in the Timbigbee river on Sunday while Laura attempted to rescue her companion who had ventured too far into the water. The Columbus report notes the tragedy occurred May 23.
A May 23 report from St Petersburg says Japanese forces attacked Port Arthur outer defenses and were repulsed with 15 000 Japanese and 3 000 Russian casualties. Shanghai dispatch notes bombardment of Vladivostok by Japanese squadron and a torpedo boat strike on the stranded Bogatyr. outcome uncertain. The Vladivostok investment tightens to block an alleged break to meet the Baltic squadron.
A cable dispatch from Chee Foo dated May 23 reports heavy fighting north of Port Arthur. Japanese forces, now about 40,000 with field and siege guns, press Russian outposts between Liu Sau Tun and Kin Chow. London correspondent notes reinforcements reaching General Kuroki while CossACK harassment continues.
Reports from Niuchwang indicate Russian forces are reoccupying the town with artillery and mounted infantry. The Japanese fleet losses are not confirmed locally, with Reuters dispatch read to troops amid cheers. Wreckage seen at Port Arthur entrance fuels belief Russians destroyed obstructions.
London dispatch cites a Telegraph report that Viceroy Alexieff offered to resign due to ill health and was urged to stay by a gracious telegram from the emperor. The note claims the emperor persuaded him to remain at his post.
Manila reports India’s bubonic plague seems beyond control stirring apprehension of a possible spread to the Philippines. Authorities impose extraordinary precautions to halt any transmission.
Captain E W Stevens proprietor of the Stevens livery stable was taken suddenly ill Sunday morning and forced to go to his home. He grew worse but today his condition is slightly improved as physicians treat kidney trouble.
News from Manila reports that on May 13 a band of Moros led by Datto Alis killed fifty three Filipino men women and children employed by the U S military government at Malabang Mindanao. Troops pursue the attackers as victims were slain in their sleep.
An explosion in the mixing house of the Independent Fireworks company near Woodlynne Camden on May 23 killed two men and a boy and injured five others all of whom were Italians. A keg of nitro glycerine or a scoop misstep is blamed though no witnesses survive.
Two bartenders are under arrest after a saloon safe explosion yielded over a thousand dollars in boot y. The incident reports indicate a bold burglary with the guards noticing the blast and police taking swift action.
The saloon safe was blown open and robbed of eleven hundred dollars in currency and checks. The front of the building was blown into the street by the explosion. Bartenders Roy Critics and Frank Hutchinson are arrested on charges of the crime. Critics is also bonded on charges of aiding the escape of Mark Dunn, the murderer, who was executed days earlier.
Rome May 23. At a College of Cardinals meeting it was unanimously decided Mon Merry Del Val must retain his post at least until the rupture with France is arranged. The pope granted Cardinal Satolli permission to depart for America next Friday.
W E Carter of Warrensburg Mo, prominent farmer and stock man, was injured in Kansas City when his foot was crushed by a moving train at Union depot. He was treated by a police surgeon and admitted to St Joseph's hospital. doctors hold some hope of saving the limb.
New York May 23. David Roths child, president of the defunct Federal National Bank, was sentenced to nine years in Sing Sing prison after being found guilty of grand larceny.
The schooner Fannie Odell laden with gasoline exploded at the San Francisco wharf and burned to the water. It is feared one or two lives were lost in the disaster.
A sale offers patent leather vid kid and box calf children's and misses shoes at prices under manufacturers' cost. Thrifty mothers buy two or three pairs, hoping to save a dollar on each pair.
We display and sell long traveling coats suited for movement and travel. They resist dust and stains, with styles including black taffeta and Cravenetted water proofed options. Prices range from $10 to $25 for several fabrics and fits.
Sedalia millinery stores announce graduation hats designed to flatter the new graduates. The collection features white lace hats, light Tuscan styles, and trims of ribbon lace and flowers. Prices vary across the display.
Careless people wait until hot days force preparations of their garments. At this moment thousands of yards of lighter fabrics are available with no newer fashions in sight. French organdies, black and white grounds with large floral designs, plain and dotted silks, fancy embroidered swisses, dress linens, cotton voiles, knicker voiles, sheer lawns, primrose batistes all offered at bargain prices.
Henry Tucker faced a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Truxel acting as ex officio justice on charges of attempting to rape Myrtle Howard a 13 year old colored girl on May 17. He was held to the criminal court with bond set at 700 dollars, and if not posted he was committed to jail.
R W Elder received a petrified clam shell from George W Kay a Civil War comrade. The shell was taken from the Kimmundy coal mine near Kimmundy Illinois and was found 827 feet below the ground surface.
Mrs J J Ingalls widow of the late senator denies Dr Nicoli Gigliotti of Erie claim that the poem Opportunity was plagiarized from a version he wrote in Italian. She testifies she distinctly recalls her husband writing and revising it for years and publishing it in 1891.
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