North Pole Expedition Under Peary Gains Funds
New York July 12 Robert Peary announces start this week for the north pole with 15000 subscribed today for his Arctic voyage. The Roosevelt will sail from New York to Sydney Cape Breton and then north to Melville Bay with the Erik to rendezvous and support the party including provision depots and a sub base along Ellesmere land with two white managers overseeing dogs provisions and field collection.
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New York
North Pole
Robert Peary
Peary Actic Club
Morris K. Jessup
Thomas JH. Hubbard
Pole
Peary
George Crocker
Mrs. Peary
Roosevelt
Sydney
Cape Breton
Erik
Peary Arctic Club
Club
Actic Exploration
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Straits of Iale
Greenland
Melville Bay
Cape York
Oine
Whale Sound
Etah
Sountag Bay
Ellesmere Land
Peary Outlines Route for Polar Dash Expedition Plans
Commander R E Peary details the three routes to the pole and favors the American route. He plans to recruit Bakimo hunters for support, stage at Etah and Littleton, and establish a base at Cape Sabine on Ellesmere Land as sea conditions permit.
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Whale
Wolstenholme, Sound
Aire
Cape Sabine
Bache Peninsula
Ellesmere Land
Channel
Deadnought battleship to be built at Portsmouth yard
London reports plans to construct the largest battleship ever, at Portsmouth dockyard, within sixteen months. The ship will displace about 18 000 tons, mount twelve 12 inch guns, use turbine propulsion, reach over twenty knots, and carry no secondary armament as it aims to deliver overpowering long range blows.
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London
Portsmouth
Sea of Japan
Far East
Hiterto
Albright Denies Bribery In Suburban Rail Franchise Case
The trial of T Edward Albright former member of the St Louis home of delegates opened with his denial of any meeting with the combine about the suburban rail way franchise bill He said he never took or promised a bribe and rejected the city fighting bill payoff claim during cross examination by Circuit Attorney Sager
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They
T. Edward Albright
St. Louis
Sager
Depew Holds To Good Job Amid Resignation Talk
Senator Chauncey Depew remains a director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society despite rumors of resignation. Chairman Paul Morton announced no formal action has been taken on the proposed abolition of Depew’s $20,000 annual special counsel role, and Morton was unsure if such a tender would be accepted.
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New York
Depew
Exultable Life Assurance Society
Paul Morton
Paris
Morton
Europe
Equitable
Institute of Instruction convention closes in Portland
Portland Mo July 13 The seventy fifth annual convention of the American Institute of Instruction will close today with the formal program and a general session. President Carroll D Wright of Clark College and Prof Herbert Mills of Vassar College are among those present. A number of addresses were delivered in the afternoon.
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Portland
Carroll D. Wright
Clark College
Herbert Mills
Vassar College
Tramp Killed Was Escaped Convict in Tacoma Case
Tacoma July 13. The tramp shot at Ellenburg by Sheriff Thomas has been identified as an escaped convict from McNeill Island. A guard identified another convict among thirty arrested. Among eight convicts who escaped July 4 only one remains at large.
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Tacoma
Ellenburg
Thomas
McNeill Island
Ison
Shorty
Powder works blast kills eight including Chinamen near Oakland
An explosion at a large powder works ten miles from Oakland on July 13 killed William Dwyer and seven Chinese laborers. A fire followed the blast and additional explosions were possible. The initial detonation occurred in the mixing house.
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Oakland
Cal
William Dwyer
Northern Chautauqua assembly opens in Marinette
The tenth annual Northern Chautauqua session begins in Marinette Wisconsin with Governor La Follette Oliver W Stewart and Newel Dwight Hillis to speak. Attendance is large and the program is said to be the best yet.
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Marinette
Wis
Chautauqua Assembly
la Follette
Oliver W. Stewart
the Key
Newel Dwight Hillis
Plot to Blow Up the Czar Discovered
London dispatch reports private letters from St. Petersburg stating police uncovered preparations to blow up the castle of Ninskojo near Moscow where the imperial family would reside. A subterranean passage led to a cellar with 260 pounds of dynamite. two engineers were arrested during the investigation. The czar abandoned Minskoye as a residence.
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London
Vienna
St. Petersburg
Ninskojo
Moscow
Minskoye
Trepoff and Russia in Turmoil Amid Threats and Mutinies
July reports from St Petersburg note the resignation of Interior Minister Bouligon with General Trepoff likely to succeed amid renewed terrorist threats. Other dispatches discuss peace mission leadership, Armenian massacres and executions, mutinies in Moscow regiments, and public hangings in Odessa as authorities tighten controls.
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St. Petersburg
M. Bouligon
Trepoff
Lawson to Speak in St Paul on Frenzied Finance
Thomas W. Lawson, Boston financier, arrives in St Paul after touring Kansas Nebraska and Iowa to assail the Standard Oil trust. He is hosted by Governor Johnson and will address Minnesota residents on Frenzied Finance before continuing east.
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St. Paul
Minn
Thomas W. Lawson
Boston
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Twin Cities
East
Lawson
Johnson
Minneasota
After alleged Arizona polygamists in Apache county
Prescott Arizona July 13 Twenty one federal grand jurors have begun to inspect ten cases of alleged polygamy brought to their notice by United States Attorney F S Nave who for two months has had secret service men in Apache county among Mormon settlers gathering evidence Nave is acting under instructions from Washington During the visit of several senators to Phoenix the alleged polygamy in Apache county reached their ears and they communicated with Washington officials Deputy United States Marshal W F HIM had returned from Apache county with witnesses Prescott to testify before the fader
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Prescott
Arizona
United States
F. S. Nave
Apache County
Nave
Washington
Phoenix
W. F. Him
Grand jury probes polygamy cases with hinted arrests
Twelve jurors appeared and testified about polygamy matters. One testimony concerns a Mormon settler possibly facing indictment for having five wives. Deputy Marshal Hill reportedly left for Apache county for a major arrest, with Attorney Nave predicting sensational developments. A private bank, Citiens of Yellow Springs, failed to open this morning with deposits estimated at 25 000 to 30 000.
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al Grand Jury
Marshal Hill
Apache County
Nave
Springfield
Citiens* Bank of
Yellow Springs
Investigation Opens Into Cotton Case Leak
In Washington, district attorney probes into a cotton case leak to evolve evidence for possible indictments. The inquiry starts today or tomorrow as prosecutors pursue new leads and witness accounts.
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Washington, D. C
United States District Attorney
Death Wave of Heat in New York
Five deaths from heat were reported by 11 o clock in New York with the temperature at 55 degrees. The weather bureau warned no relief was in sight. Officials in the Northwest railroads anticipate poor crop conditions, saying reports of damage have been exaggerated.
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Weather Bureau
Northwest
Chicago
Northwestern
Burlington
Rock Ish
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