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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1904
Page
2
Dispatches report rising anti Japanese sentiment in Seoul and Koreans aiding Cossacks in northeast Korea. News covers bond signing devices in New York, deaths of bankers and labor layoffs, executions, ship milestones, fires, floods, and political actions across the U.S. and abroad. Included are robberies, legal cases, lake drownings, and racing campaigns amid wartime and industrial shifts.
May 21 reports from St Petersburg describe Japanese forces retreating toward Feng Wang Cheng after a failed flank toward Mukden. Russians under Gen Rennenkampff attacked Japanese columns, with Kai Ping evacuated without resistance. Casualties: Japanese officer four men killed, others wounded. Russian losses include officers and dozens killed. Additional notes: Orel ship explosion at Cronstadt. Japanese infantry routed Cossacks at Sementsu with minimal Japanese casualties. rumors Vladivostok squadron buys three cruisers from Chile.
During a Port Arthur reconnaissance by Admiral Togo last week a shell struck the torpedo boat destroyer Akatsuki killing one officer and 24 sailors. In the Takushan engagement on May 20 a Russian squadron of Trans-Baikal Cossacks repelled the advance, with one Russian officer and nine men dead and several wounded before retreating. one officer and four sailors were captured and Japanese losses totaled one man. Also reported is the Russian cruiser Bogatyr run aground near Vladivostok.
Foreign Minister Landsdorf received a Che Foo consular message claiming the Japanese assaulted Port Arthur and suffered 15 000 killed or wounded. Russian losses are put at 3 000. The outcome of the fighting is unspecified. Also noted is Rear Admiral Jessen failing to save the cruiser Bogatyr after it ran aground off Vladivostok.
Cronstadt reports the battleship Orel sank at her anchorage on the night of May 20. Vice Admiral Rojestvensky supervised pumping and raising efforts begun after the incident. The ship was recovered with no external damage but its interior filled with dirty salt water due to opened Kingston valves.
Telegraph dispatches from Liao Yang report Gen Kuropatkin determined to check the Japanese as heavy skirmishing continues. Cossacks harass Japanese positions while Chinese bandits roam nearby. In a separate engagement near Toutao Kou Japanese infantry defeat 200 Cossacks with no Japanese losses. A Paris despatch notes cholera killing about 100 Japanese near Feng Wang Cheng.
James J. Hill, president of Northern Securities and Great Northern, testifies before the merchant marine commission. He says, to revive shipping, Americans must be given a market and confidence to invest, favoring an export bounty or large government aid over direct subsidies. He argues production costs abroad keep U S goods uncompetitive.
A New York New Haven and Hartford strike widens as firemen join the stoppage, forcing layoffs of hundreds of engineers and brakemen and halting movement of perishable freight between Mott Haven and New Jersey. Dock conditions show some improvement with large crews in steamers and freight sheds.
In Buffalo on May 25 the Presbyterian general assembly reviewed home mission work. The standing committee urged a more systematic funding approach and urged church unity to expand missions, especially to strengthen work among Mormons.
Horace G Burt ex Union Pacific president touring the Orient reports Japanese detectives tailed him for weeks. An article in Japanese papers claimed he would take control of the trans Siberian railway, triggering espionage and a consul’s intervention.
One thousand iron and heavy hardware workers in Chicago shops walked out after a month of talks over a new pay scale. Union negotiators sought 13 to 18 dollars weekly, higher than the previous 12 to 15, but employers refused.
A five hour meeting between the Truck Owners' association and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in New York led to the abolition of strikes and lockouts for one year.
Prince Pu Lun and party were moved by automobile from Indianapolis to Lafayette. Thirty cars started. one lead vehicle caught fire delaying the procession. Milk wagon stock was removed to fight the blaze. an advance car wrecked its steering, careening into a house after losing control.
A Dublin veterinary surgeon Mr. Allen discovers ordinary turpentine acts as an antidote to carbolic acid. A chemical expert tests the remedy on a dog after poisoning symptoms appear and the animal recovers quickly. The finding arose largely by accident during treatment of poisoned horses. A blacksmith treated similarly also improves.
Congressman William A. Rodenberg of East St. Louis wed Miss Mary Brent Ridgway of Hilo in Asbury Park New Jersey. Their romance began during a Hawaii visit when the Kilauea eruption linked the pair, with Ridgway said to descend from Calhoun and Breckinridge and from a prominent Philadelphia Ridgway family.
The Chicago Tribune reports a flood of counterfeit money in New Jersey may be circulating. A suggestion notes such fake currency could be used to water trust stocks, raising concerns over financial fraud and market manipulation.
A Massachusetts mother touts Grape-Nuts as the family’s food and medicine. She cites her child’s question about the king and notes her own improved digestion and nerve strength after ten days on Grape-Nuts, recommending the cereal’s recipe book The Road to Wellville.
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