Rout of the Russians retreat amid chaos and liquor fueled disorder
A Washington Post dispatch from Nhuchwang recounts the Mukden retreat with drunken Russian officers forced into carts by Chinese servants. Officers reportedly fled north as commissary supplies and guns were abandoned, while gendarmerie head Cherchoff and others allegedly corrupted by bribes and chaos marked the collapse. The narrative blends witness details, a trader’s remarks, and contemporaneous oblique mentions of evacuations and passes. May include obituaries and notices interspersed in the page.
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Nhuchwang
Mukden
Pretoria
Cherchoff
Cherchoft
Las
Teurania
Fie Pass
Bettie
Artllerymen
Kaollang
Tie Pass
Retreat From Mukden Describes Russian Demoralization
An eyewitness account portrays a chaotic Russian withdrawal north from Mukden. Soldiers abandon equipment and horses, carts scatter, and commissary wagons shed supplies as Japanese forces shell and pressure the retreat. Civilian looting and brutal clashes with Chinese beggars add to the scene.
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Fakumen
Quialde
Tof
Tie Pass
Carta
Guna
Retreat through the plain amid cavalry patrols and bandit towns
The narrator describes a fresh march avoiding retreating foes, dodging patrols under Mistchenko with 6000 cavalry nearby. They push toward Fuku, finding eight regulars, while Chinese bandits occupy the town. Locals extract large ransoms from officials and guilds as the party passes.
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Mistchenko
Tile Pass
Consul Creevey Explains Exporter Inquiries In Saxony
Edward A Creevey American consul in Glauchau Saxony says he will continue to request calculations from exporters under departmental and consular rules. He defends the inquiries as necessary and notes most compliant exporters first raise objections. A Saxon Industry Berlin dispatch claims he requires precise goods details and capital figures provoking a potential German complaint to Chancellor von Buelow.
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Glauchau
Saxony
Edward A Creevey
Board of General Appraisers
New York
Berlin
Cologne
von Buelow
Quiet Easter Sunday as czar grants religious liberty
Special dispatch reports calm Easter Sunday in Russia despite fears of unrest. Russians view the czars grant of freedom as the greatest concession since serf emancipation, anticipated to benefit the Old Believers estimated at 20 million, noted for sobriety frugality and rising prosperity.
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Washington Post
St. Petersburg
King Edward Loubet cordial visit marks brief talks at Elysee
King Edward and President Loubet held two twenty minute exchanges this afternoon in a warm, nonpolitical sequence. Loubet hosted a diplomatic dinner at the Elysee with about 120 guests and most of the diplomatic corps in attendance.
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Edward
Loubet
Delcayse
Palace of the Elysee
MM. Rouvier
Etienne
Bertaux
Delcasse
Thomson
Mme
Count Torntelli
Bertie
Prince Radolin
Nat Marquise del Munl
Schwab Confirms Russia Warship Contract
Berlin April 30 Charles M Schwab of New York traveling from St Petersburg to Luxemburg to visit the iron worker stopped in Berlin for a day He said it was quite true he had a contract with the Russian government for warships but declined to discuss details He added those in the Russian government who knew of the contract would be the ones to publish the term
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Berlin
Charles M. Schwab
New York
St. Petersburg
Luxemburg
Visi
Schwab
Citizens' Industrial Association Plans Nonunion Labor Arm
In St Louis on April 30 plans are outlined to form an employment department within the Citizens' Industrial Association to organize nonunion men. The aim is to favor employers who back the association and provide a ready workforce to replace strikers nationwide. Officers seek fifty thousand dollars to fund this effort and other activities.
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Citizens’ Industrial Association
St. Louis
J. W. van Cisave
Final Rites For Joseph Jefferson At Sandwich Bay
Joseph Jefferson’s body was laid to rest at Bay View Cemetery in Sandwich after services at Crow’s Nest and a memorial in Sandwich town hall. A police guard kept watch over the grave while family and friends, including twenty five Boston guests and notable actors, attended.
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Buzzards Bay
Joseph Jefferson
Bey View
Sandwich
Cape Cod
Crows Nest
Jefferson
Boston
Richard Watson Gilder
The
Century
B.A. Taft
New York and
Boston Dispatch
Grover Cleveland
Players’ Club of
New York
Bohemian Club
San Francisco
Old Colony Club
Edward A. Horton
Beaton
State Senate
Fafferson
Tennyson
Horton
Aprayder
L Griswold
Methodist Church
Charles B. Jefferson
Charles B Jefferson
Washington
G. C. Houghton
Players’ Club
Twenty-ninth Street
Lang Jefferson
David Bispham
Dr. Houghton
Edwin Booth
Mme. Modjeska
Daniel Frohman
Leslie Carter
Marguerite Merrington
William Bispham
F. FL MacKay
Joseph F. Daly
David Belzace
Barton Hill
Edmund Clarence Stedman
William Gmilette
Milton Nobles
John Gilburn
Booth Tarkington
James A. Metcalfe
Edward W. Walsh
John Blair
David Warfield
Henry Wood
Vincent Serrano
Joseph Kilgour
Willam Morris
J. H. Bentemo
Wright Cramer
J. W. Lebaugh, Jr
Wabash Given Freight as Carnegie Promise Is Tested
United States Steel Corporation yields to Carnegie promise and allows Wabash access to Pittsburg tonnage after officials meet. Judge Reed and Carnegie leaders arrange entry to Clairton, signaling end of Wabash vs steel firm dispute. Also notes upcoming West Side Belt Line meeting and Gould representative presence. Two legal notices involve injunction against Florida lumber rate cuts by railroads in Pensacola and Tallahassee.
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Union Railroad
Carnegie Steel Company
James W. Patterson
Wabash-Pittsburg Terminal Road
Clairton
Joseph Romney
Reed Ie
Wabash
West Side Belt Line
Gould
Tallahassee
Fla
Louisville and Nashville, Atlantic Coast Line
Beaboard Air Line
Georgia Southern
Florida
Florida Railroad Commission
United States
John Y. Herrell died or retired? Notable capital banker profile
John Y. Herrell, born in Loudoun County Virginia on July 26, 18%, rose from farm and mason’s trade to lead the National Capital Bank as president since its 1889 founding. He helped organize Columbia National Bank and the American Security and Trust Company, directed several firms, and held Masonry and Odd Fellows memberships. He married Henrietta Mahoney in 1851, had seven children, with seven dead in 1903. He credited success to hard work straightforwards timeliness and duty.
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John Y. Herrell
National Capital Bank
Loudoun County
Loudoun
Faughier
Baltimore
United States Navy Yard
Herrell
Columbia National Bank
Old Bank of the Republic
Seventh
D Streets
American Security and Trust Company
People's Fire Insurance Company
Eastern Loan and Building Association
Anacoxtla Lodge
Naval Chapter
Orient Commandery
Iie
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Harmony Lodge
Henrietta Mahoney
Georgetown
Tyne
Plans to Fight Polygamy Declares Senate
Washington Post report from April 90 details Idaho Senator Frederick T. Dubois meeting ex-Senator Frank J Cannon and Mrs. Frederick Schoenmaker on expelling Reed Smoot. They warn the Senate must act against an open polygamous church, arguing Smoot’s fate affects political balance in Utah Idaho Wyoming Oregon Nevada and Montana.
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Washington Post
Philadelphia
Frederick T. Dubois
Idaho
Frank J Cannon
Utah
Bast Lake City Tribune
Frederick
National League of Women's Organizations
Reed Smoot
United States Senate
Cannon
Europe
Germany
New York
Worstén
Dubois
Senate
Smoot
Salt Lake
Matthias Cowley
John W. Taylor
Woodruff
Joseph Smith
Wyoming
Oregon
Nevada
Montana
Gas report ready in Albany as six bills advance
The joint legislative committee led by Senator F C Stevens will present its gas and electric lighting report to the New York Legislature along with six bills. Four are ready and two remain to be completed. A proposed State public service commission would oversee statewide utility regulation with three governor appointed members for six year terms. The NYC focused bills set gas rates at 7 percent per 1000 cubic feet in Manhattan and the Bronx excluding the annexed district and in Brooklyn excluding Coney Island.
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New York
Albany
N. Y
Joint Legislative Committee
F. C. Stevens
New York City
State Public Service Commission
Railroad Commission
Manhattan
Bronx
Brooklyn
Coney Islan
Two Dead In Santa Fe Train Washout Near Gilman Siding
A Santa Fe double header struck a washout near Gilman Siding 125 miles north of Beaumont Texas today overturning two engines and piling livestock in the ditch Engineeer D D Barfield and Fireman E W Broker both of Beaumont were killed G W Mitchell and A J Connelly also of Beaumont are believed fatally injured Nitty head of cattle were killed
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Santa Fe
Beaumont
Tex
Gilman Siding
D. D. Barfield
E. W. Broker
G. W. Mitchell
A. J. Connelly
Africa for the Negro Ridge, White Man's Land Debate
A Bethel A M E Church audience hears Bishop Turner declare America a white man's land and urge education and migration to Africa to build a black continent. The mass meeting, by Wilberforce University and Morris Brown College, inspires pledges to send children to Wilberforce or Morris Brown.
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America
Africa
Washington
New York
Bishop Turner
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel A. M. H
West Twenty-fifth Street
Wilberforce University
Xenia
Ohio
Morris Brown College
Atlanta
R. D.stinson
H. Y. Arnett
Wilberforce
Bishop Arnett
H. T. Johnson
The
Christian Recorder
Philadelphia
H. Blanton Parks
Old Bethel Church
Stimon
Arnett
Witherforce
Cause of Education
Mortis Brown College
Chicago Faces Prolonged Strike Clash and Violence
Chicago, April. The camaters strike fails to spread or settle. Employers' Association and union leaders clash as peace talks collapse. A plan for an armistice is rejected. A bulletin thanks Sgt. Cummings for police bravery after an April 27, 1906 accident. Pittsburg sends 100 guards as deputy marshals to aid Chicago property protection. A Detroit Tribune joke ends the piece.
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Chicago
Union Teamsters
Dunne
Peace Committee
Chicago Federation of Labor
Asoclation
Ite
Labor Organizationa
Roosevelt
Gov Denesa
Major Duare
Chicggo
Mollftla
Express
William
Harry Grady
Montgomery Ward & Co
Belet
Grays
Ward Company
Employers’ Association
Sergt
Richard Comminga
Chicago Police Force
Washington
Cummings
Alexian Brothers
Pittsburg
West
Chicago Employers’ Association
United States
Men Are Funny Creatures Says Manicure Girl
A salon manicure speaks of male customers and tips as she recalls flirtations and excuses men use. She notes one type is insistent and uncannily convinced of mutual interest while she treats their advances as a joke and continues her work. She shares gifts from clients and contrasts male generosity with female fussiness, ending with reflections on tipping. Movements of Ocean Steamers and transatlantic arrivals are noted in brief shipping lines.
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Marcel
Busineag
Switzerland
Brussels
Buckie
San Francisco
Saturns Tenth Moon Discovered by Harvard Observatory
Special to The Weabington Fox Boston April 3 Harvard College Observatory reports a new Saturnian satellite, the tenth found, from Pickering’s team using Arequipa Peru plates. It orbits in about 21 days and measures roughly 200 miles across, visible only on sensitive photographic plates. The discovery follows the 1848 Bond satellite and suggests a relation to Hyperion in orbital period.
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Weabington Fox
Boston
Harvard College Observatory
W H. Pickering
Arepa
Peru
Bond
Harvard Observatory
Krentz
Kiel
Germany
Commander Stoney Dies at Naval Academy After Service
Commander George M. Stoney O B N died yesterday in Annapolis. Born in South Carolina he graduated from the Naval Academy in 187% and joined the Arctic Jeanette expedition search. He led Yankton River expeditions from 1883 to 18% and held posts at San Francisco Mare Island Charleston Philadelphia and the Navy Yard. He commanded the Solace and later the Dolphin before taking charge at the Naval Academy about a year ago.
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Naval Academy
Annapolis
George M. Stoney
Stoney
South Carolina
Jeanette
Arctic
Yankon River
San Francisco
Charleston
Mare Island Navy Yard
Philadelphia
Naval Rendegrous
Naval Demy
U. 8 Disptech
Dolphin
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