Russian attack on Port Arthur and Chicago post office collapse
A official telegram describes the Port Arthur engagement lasting three hours with the Japanese fleet opposing the Russian squadron and forts. In Chicago a giant floor scaffold collapsed in the new post office dome, sending fifteen workers to their deaths from a 250 foot fall amid rescue efforts.
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St. Petersburg
Port Arthur
Military Censorship Committee
Associated Press
Chicago
New Post Office
Final Action Ends Negotiations Amid Legal Questions
A major policy move ends all diplomatic talks as several legal questions remain unsettled. Officials warn decisive steps are needed to set the regime’s future course.
Cavern Collapse Wrecks West Scranton Homes
A massive cave-in in West Scranton, part of the Northern anthracite region, has wrecked about 200 houses and tilting many more. The shifting over the Bellevue colliery diamond vein caused doors and windows to jam as panic spread among residents.
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Scranton
Bellevue
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company
Port Arthur Attacked as Russian Defenses Hold
Arrivals from Port Arthur recount a February assault by Japanese forces after warning to Russians. The fleet engaged the forts and ships including the Petropavlovsk and Novik, causing damage to the arsenal and surrounding enemy positions while civilians fled and the garrison swelled to about 30,000 with 5,000 workers reinforcing defenses.
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New York
Port Arthur
Chefoo
Petropavlovsk
Novik
Pallada
Askol
Nevsky Works
Japanese Prepare to Attack Vladivostock In Force
Dispatches from Vladivostock and Newchwang report a large Japanese fleet offshore and a landing at Possiet Bay. Russians retreat toward Vladivostock after abandoning positions at Munchin, while Japanese push toward Kirin in Manchuria and threaten Mukden and Port Arthur. A Cossack regiment guards the Bioa river as tensions rise with Chinese troops along the railway.
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London
Vladivostock
Newchwang
Possiet Bay
Denmark Sweden and Norway plan united action
Paris reports from Copenhagen that Danish Swedish and Norwegian authorities push for formal mutual neutrality protection in the event of Russo Japanese entanglements. Denmark can muster 1590 coast artillerymen and commission four ten cruisers and four torpedo boat destroyers as districts order urgent measures and a Danish cruiser in the Mediterranean is recalled to Copenhagen.
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Paris
Temps
Copenhagen
Japanese Report of Hobson Affair at Port Arthur
Tokyo dispatch states four old vessels were sunk with torpedo escort to block Port Arthur mouth. Crews returned safely and the object was achieved. No direct fleet report from Admiral Togo yet, but assumed safe.
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Hobson
Port Arthur
Togo
Car famine grips Pittsburg district amid coal and coke shortages
Pittsburg reports a severe car famine as coal and coke shipments falter. Mines operate at reduced capacity, river mines idle due to winter weather, and railroads cite the harshest winter in years with locomotives failing on sidings from frozen water pipes.
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Pittsburg
Elevator accident at Iowa statehouse claims two lives
Des Moines reports describe Mrs. C B Fountain and her mother Mrs A Hogue crushed in an elevator at the Iowa Capitol. The mother entered last, the daughter attempted to save her and was fatally pinned between the cage and ceiling as power was reversed.
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Des Moines
C. B. Fountain
A. Hogue
Valley Junction
Statehouse
Panama Minister Bunau Varilla Resigns
Washington report says M Bunau Varilla Panama minister has cabled his resignation to the Panamanian president. The move follows a diplomatic dispute and signals potential changes in the relations between Panama and the United States.
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Washington
Hay
M Linister Bunau-Varilla
State Department
United States
France
Panama Canal Company
Panama Company
Colombia
Panama
Roosevelt
Isthmian Canal
Bunau-Varilla
Senate
M. Bunau- Varilla
Four Men Killed In Iowa Train Wreck
In Dyersville Iowa a fast stock and freight train on the Chicago Great Western railroad collided with another stock and freight train. Fireman E W Greismold and three stock men were killed. The bodies were cremated. Two other stockmen in the caboose were injured. The wreck caused a fire burning the caboose and a refrigerator car.
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Des Moines
Chicago Great Western Railroad
Dyersville
E. W. Greismold
Children Fatally Burned In Home Fire
In Pittsburg on February 27 Leo McAleer five and his brother two died in a house fire that consumed Carmack McAleer’s home. Their mother, in saving the children, sustained burns that may prove fatal.
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Pittsburg
Leo McAleer
Carmack McAleer
Japanese attempt to seal Port Arthur harbor described
Paris reports detail the Japanese plan to sink old transport hulks at the harbor entrance to Port Arthur. Retvizan and north shore batteries engaged the ships, with two hulks wrecked, another burned, and a fourth wrecked ashore near Tiger Bay. No warships reported among the wrecks. London confirms no Japanese torpedo boats were injured in the Feb 24 action.
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Paris
Port Arthur
Retvizan
Tiger Bay
Habor
Vhle
London
British Foreign Office
Czar Sends Warm Condolences to Port Arthur Squadron
The czar telegraphed congratulations to Viceroy Alexieff and the Russian squadron at Port Arthur for their able defense in repulsing actions. The message emphasizes unity and gratitude toward the fleet for its conduct under pressure.
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St. Petersburg
Alexieff
Port Arthur
Eczema Cure Claim For De Witts Witch Hazel Salve
Frank Farmer of Bluff City Kentucky reports his baby’s eczema cleared after using De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve noting scabs gone scalp clean and hair regrowth. He warns buyers to choose the genuine product with E. C. De Witt & Co. name on every box sold by Holland Wheeler.
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de Witt
Frank Farmer
Bluff City
de Witt’s
E. C. de Witt & Co
Holland Wheeler
The Black Hills Richest Hundred Square Miles
The Black Hills in southwest South Dakota reportedly yield a third of the nation’s gold and are billed as the world’s richest hundred square miles. The Northwestern line issues a new booklet with a detailed map. send four cents in stamps to W. B. Kniskern, P. T. M., Chicago & North Western Ry., Chicago, Ill.
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Black Hills
South Dakota
United States
W. B. Kniskern
Chicago
North
Western R.y
Ill
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