Force a Speedy End to the War in Far East
Russian czar moves to mobilize a second army of 600 000 to 700 000 men under Gen Grippenberg to propel a swift conflict with Japan. Port Arthur forts come under Japanese threat as Mukden prospects shift. Chefu reports three days of heavy fighting with Japanese losses claimed much higher by Russians. Grand Duke Nicholas considered as commander in chief. strategic moves aim to force a decisive end to the war.
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Japan
Russia
Far East
Grippenberg
Grand Duke
Nicholas Michaelovitch
Mukden
Chefu
Port Arthur
Fort Kuropatkin
London
Daily Telegraph
Gen. Grippenberg
Daily Mail
Togo
Tsingtao
Port Said
Smolensk
St. Petersburg
Libau
Furions
Supposed Dead Man Reappears in Chicago Home
Mrs. Apollo Matezki identified a North Side morgue body as her son Ignatz Matezki. Sept 27 Chicago. The mother mourned a death by suicide while Ignatz, alive at 29, returned home causing joy. Neighbors witnessed the scene as the mistaken identity was cleared.
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Chicago
Apollo Matezki
North Side
Ignatz
Robbers in Iowa Resort to Barbarous Methods for Money
Des Moines Sept 27 Two masked men broke into John Face’s Belleplaine home bound and gagged him They applied lighted candles to the soles of his feet and subjected him to torture to force disclosure of a rumored large sum of money Face remained firm saying only 1500 dollars was in his purse which the robbers seized and fled with
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Iowa
Des Moines
John Face
Belleplaine
Admiral Gilmore Dead From Brights Disease
Rear Admiral Fernando P. Gilmore died in New York from Brights disease contracted during duty in the Philippines. Born August 15 1847 he entered Annapolis at age fifteen and graduated at nineteen. He served in the Civil War and commanded the Monadnock in the Spanish American War before leading the Glacier.
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Philippines
New York
Fernando P. Gilmore
Bright
Gilmore
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Glacier
Carrie Nation to Lead Axe Army Against Wichita Saloons
Carrie Nation plans an armed assault on Wichita saloons, urging women from Kansas and beyond to join with hatchets. She promises to pay railroad fare for volunteers and has broadcast the call for a Wednesday meeting to organize an army of Amazons.
Son Hugo Donnerstag Charged in Father's Death
Rhinelander Wis Sept 27 Hugo Donnerstag, twenty, admitted to officers that he killed his father Louis Donnerstag by shooting him twice and crushing his head with a stone hammer The elder Donnerstag aged sixty had recently served a prison term for shooting a Soo Line conductor The two girls taken from the home on suspicion of knowledge of the crime provided the information to police
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Rhinelander
Wis
Donnerstag
Louis Donnerstag
Thursisy
Hugo
Soo Line
Two wrecks in one as sleepers derail near Lyons
Rochester N Y Sept 27 six people were injured in a New York Central wreck near Lyons when three sleepers on the Western express left the track after a split rail. A fast eastbound freight then struck the derailed cars as the train halted.
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Rochester
N. Y
New York Central
Lyons
Rochester Hospital
Western Express
New York
Chicago
Baker Burned In Accident At Huron Bakery
Alonzo W. May, a recently arrived head baker in the E. P. Robing bakery, was seriously burned when a kettle of boiling lard overturned at the plant. He had lived in Springville, Wisconsin, and arrived in June to take the position.
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Huron
Alonzo W. May
Springville
Wis
E. P. Robing
Explosion Destroys Val Verde Smelter in Prescott Arizona
A molten slag explosion last night totally destroyed the Val Verde smelter, a 300 ton plant costing 175000 dollars. Other notes report rainfall sparking fever fears, a dam failure at a mill in McKinney with 2000 plus dollars in damage and two months lost time, a dynamite find in Minot, and railroad and land title concerns in Emmons county with harvesters’ rate tickets and a Velva flax price misstep.
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Prescott
Ariz
Val Verde
McKinney
Minot
Fire Wrecks Menlo Trade District in Big Loss
Menlo Iowa September 27 fire of unknown origin wiped out half the business houses in the trade district causing about fifty thousand dollars in damage. The blaze left many storefronts ruined and local residents faced heavy losses.
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Menlo
Iowa
Columbus man admits embezzlement in Ohio funds case
Kansas City Sept 27 George M Collier of Columbus Ohio formerly chief examiner of steam engines of Ohio who vanished from Columbus a year ago is under arrest charged with embezzling 2700 dollars in state funds He has been working for several years and was located by authorities after disappearance.
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Columbus
Ohio
Kansas City
George M. Collier
Steam Engines
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Carle Brante
Sand Creek
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