Russians Recoil as Kuropatkin Defeated at Fengwangcheng
Reports from St Petersburg and London confirm Gen Kuropatkin’s defeated retreat toward Mukden after Japanese forces under Gen Kuroki overran Fengwangcheng. Details cite heavy losses on both sides and a Russian withdrawal amid superior Japanese artillery and maneuver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ai River
Khuandiaputse
Fengwangcheng
London
Kuropatkin
Mukden
Kuroki
An-tung
Paris
St. Petersburg
Kurok
Daily Mail
Far East
Russia
Zassalitch
Yalu
Kiutiencheng
Zass2litch
Alexieff
Port Arthur
Port Adams
Liaoyang
Harbin
Newchwang
Takayangi
Kiulencheng
Kashtalinsky
Lane
Skrydloff
Grand Duke Boris
Tornado Toll Across Texas and Oklahoma Reports
A Dallas dispatch describes multiple tornado events across northwest Texas and nearby states on May 7. Fatalities include Mrs. Mary Wagley and Anna Wagley at Moran, George Anthony, and several others. numerous injuries and extensive property damage. Additional storms near Cordell Oklahoma and in Texas towns caused more deaths, injuries, and ruined homes.
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St. Louis
Republic
Dallas
Tex
Texas
Mary Wagley
Anna
George Anthony
Moran
Putnam
Crescent
George Sommers
William Apple
Shackelford
Cordell
Okla
Texas Line
Houston
Will Perry
Harrisburg
Allen Dennis
G. W. Mason
S. T. Harper
Goldthwaite
Luther Rudd
F. Harper
Child
Joe Griffith
Harden
Throckmorton
Ruby
John Mullen
C. E. Bohooker
Mr. Rayburn
Wichita Falls
Holliday Station
Wichita Valley
Sam Horton
Henry Riggs
Liberty Bell to Tour States Before World Fair
The Liberty Bell will be escorted by a 24 member joint committee with a $15,000 budget. It will travel through Montana to Louisiana Territory states and end in St. Louis for the exposition with Philadelphia police guarding it and Liberty Bell Day proposed. Deneen wins Chicago GOP primary securing 337 Cook county delegates to the state convention.
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Philadelphia
St. Louis
Pennsylvania
Louisiana Purchase
Montana
North
South Dakota
Wyoming
Colorado
Nebraska
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
Arkansas
Kansas
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Francis
Deneen
Chicago
Charles S. Deneen
Hic
Cook County
Frank O. Lowden
Hill and wife donate 1.5 million for cathedral
James J. Hill president of Northern Securities and Great Northern lines and Mrs Hill pledge 1.5 million toward a new cathedral costing 3 million in total. The balance is expected from other wealthy citizens.
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Cathedral
St. Paul
James J. Hill
The
Northern Securities Company
Great Northern Railroad
Interchurch group launches campaign on marriage and divorce
The inter church conference on marriage and divorce representing 14 denominations issues an appeal led by Rev. William H. Roberts calling national education on divorce. It aims to push laws in state legislatures and a constitutional amendment, with steps to prevent remarriage after divorce by clergy of other faiths.
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Philadelphia
Interchurch Conference On Marriage and
William H. Roberts
United States
Protestant Episcopal Church
Presbyterian Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Reformed Church of America
Reformed Church In the
United Presbyterian Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church
The
Baptist Churches
Congregational Churches
Universalist Churches
Unitarian Churches
Reformed Presbyterian Church
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Alliance of the Reformed Churches
Presbyterian Service
University Jubilee Week Attracts Alumni From Across Nation
Madison Wisconsin May 9 — celebration plans for the University of Wisconsin jubilee week begin Sunday June 5. The program marks the fifty first commencement the fiftieth anniversary of the 1854 graduating class and the inauguration of President Charles Richard Van Hise. Over 1 500 alumni expected plus delegates from about 100 universities. Big events include a torch light procession by 2000 undergraduates the pipe of peace ceremony and a water fete on Lake Mendota.
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Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Charles Richard van Hise
New York
Washington
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Lake Mendota
Japanese Jujitsu Adoption for Military Training Considered
The president favors adding jujitsu to athletic training for officers and enlisted personnel in the army navy and marine corps. Naval Academy midshipmen will begin instruction by Japanese instructors and Maj Oliver E Wood’s report to the War Department explains jujitsu emphasizes yielding to strength and using throws chokes and joint manipulation to gain victory.
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Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Washington Star
Naval Academy
Taylor
Bureau of Navigation
Washington
War Department
Oliver E. Wood
Artillery Corps
Maj. Wood
England
America
Fire Ravages Utica Village Destroying Many Buildings
Seventeen businesses and ten homes burned in Utica Michigan on Sunday, wiping out half the village. Detroit engine crews arrived late as the town lacked firefighting equipment. The Exchange hotel barn was the origin of the blaze. Capitalist William Upton fell from a roof during the event and remained unconscious with severe head injuries. Property losses are estimated at $100,000.
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Utica
Mich
Detroit
Exchange Hotel
William Upton
Joy Turns to Grief in Tokyo Demonstration
At a popular Tokyo demonstration honoring Japanese victories, 21 people died and 40 were injured as crowds crowded a gate near the old palace walls. Most casualties were young men crushed or drowned in a moat. Hazing Causes Damage Suit in New York against St Stephen's College for 10 000 dollars.
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Tokio
New York
St. Stephen’s College
Annandale
Archer Bedell
Bishop Potter
Beau Brummel the dainty pig from Chicago
An odd pig named Beau Brummel, raised with a Gordon setter family near Chicago, refuses to eat until bathed and enjoys spa like rubbing. He can herd cows and sheep, distinguishes his master’s cattle, and mimics dogs but cannot bark, instead squealing when trying.
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Chicago
Beau Brummel
Illinois Farmer in Western Canada Describes Homestead Life
A Shelbyville Democrat reprints Elias Kost's letter from February 3 1904 detailing his emigration to Western Canada with his three sons. He secured claims near the Edmonton trail, raised potatoes and oats, cut hay totaling about 60 tons, and describes abundant grass, Chinook winds, a log house, local fruit including huckleberries, game, fish wagons, and export routes via St Albert Edmonton and rail lines to Assiniboia and Calgary.
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Shelbyville, Ilinois
Elias Kost
Western Canada
Edmonton
Lake St. Anne
Sturgeon
Illinois
Blue Ridge
Pennsylvania
St. Albert
Calgary and Edmonton
Assiniboia
Canadian Pacific
Newcomer Sign Sparks Desperate Tramp Debate
A suburban exchange notes more tramps after a beware of dog sign was nailed to a tree. An old resident counters that if a real dog existed the sign would be unnecessary. A judge remarks on the social tension implied.
Very Progressive Citizen Squire Mossback Revisited
A humorous note portrays Squire Mossback as progressive yet eccentric by recounting his habit of whitewashing his chicken house twice in ten years. The Chicago American tone captures local color and satire.
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Squire Mossback
Chicago
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Army OF
the Czar
Dalney
Foochau Bay
Liaotung Peninsula
Yingkow
Morning Post
Liberty Bell
St. Louis Exposition
Campaign of Education
Interchurch Conference
Wisconsin
Utica, Mich
Parker
Canada
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