Skrydloff Assumes Command On Black Sea
Admiral Skrydhoff was authorized by Emperor Nicholas to restore order in the Black Sea fleet. He will probe the arrest and seek release for sailors unjustly imprisoned. Rojestuenski and Captain Clado may be restored to the navy roster. The government focuses on famine relief and cabinet reshuffles.
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St. Petersburg
Revolutionary Council
Reorganized Council of Workmen
M .Iurke
M. Stolyvin
Ministry of the Interior
M. Stichinsky
Agriculture
Plehve
Sviatopolk-Mirsky
Stolypin
Pavnoff
League of Estate Owners
Yekateroslav
Council of the Empire
Nicholas
Skrydlot
Black Sea
Sebastopol
Associated Press
Skrydhoff
Rojestuenski
Clado
Red
Turmoil Across Regions Reported Amid Turbulent Reforms
Dispatches describe chaos following revolutionary actions in St Petersburg and the Caucasus. Officials resign in large numbers as bandits roam, while Armenian Turkish tensions flare near Erivan and Shusha.
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Tifts
The
Caucasus
Tiffix
Erivan
Shusha
Prince Dolgeroukeff's Permanent Parliamentary Committee Sessions
Petersburg reports indicate Prince Dolgeroukeff presided over several sessions of his permanent parliamentary committee on July 2, addressing deliberations and procedural matters amid ongoing political activity.
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Petersburg
Prince Dolgeroukeff
Secrecy Hovering Over Government Decisions Amid Stolypin Echoes
The passage notes the highest secrecy surrounding government choices while Stolypin inspired notes claim to uphold liberal policies. Public trust falters as fair words fail to persuade.
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Stolypin
Workmen's Council Hints General Strike Plans
Reports from Moscow indicate the workmen's council has decided in favor of a general strike to begin July 28, though confirmation is pending.
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Moscow
Odessa Arrests Tally Amid City Quiet After Jew Deaths
In Odessa on July 25 a wave of arrests reached about seventy Jews suspected of a self defense group. Disturbances yesterday left two Jews dead seventeen wounded and twenty seven shops wrecked as city life remained quiet today.
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Odessa
Massed Troops Guard Moscow Under Marshal Law
Moscow reports ongoing troop massing and guarded railroads with the city under marshal law. In Riga nine thousand factory workers struck today demonstrating amid disruptions.
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Moscow
Riga
Assassination of Warsaw Gendarmerie Official
Colonel Salama toff, deputy chief of the gendarmerie in the Warsaw province, was stabbed to death in the street at noon. The assassin escaped. two men attacked him and fled in opposite directions as he died. Spectators did not intervene.
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Warsaw
Salamatoff
Petersburg MPs Urge Submission to Czar Decree
Count Hayden Prince Lyoff and M Stakovitch, members of parliament, issued an address urging the public to accept the imperial decree dissolving parliament and prepare for new elections. They defend the emperor's constitutional rights and warn against forceful resistance as ruinous to Russia.
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Petersburg
Hayden
Prince Lyoff
M. Stakovitch
Viborg
Russia
Peasants seize castles in Courland amid armed unrest
Mitau, Russia July 25. Rempton castle near Tukon, long one of Courland’s finest estates, lies in Nantes as armed revolutionists take control of the surrounding area. Two columns of troops advance from east and west.
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Mitau
Russia
Rempton Castle
Tukon
Courland
Nantes
Subside Press Clamp on War News in Russia Deepens
From St. Petersburg on July 25 reports say no word of military disorders may be published as the government uses foreign loans and subsidies in Berlin Paris and St. Petersburg to bolster Russian bonds. Protests and arrests of agitators continue in the provinces though no peasant uprising has appeared yet as news travels slowly.
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New York
St. Petersburg
Lam
Cepteal
Provinges
Reich
Recalcitrant Witness Flagged in U S Grand Jury Probe
In New York on July 25 the U S grand jury pressed W E Foster general auditor of American Sugar Refining Co before Judge Hough urging production of books and papers. Foster warned of contempt unless documents were provided by 10 am next day. Additional items: 2500 shirtwaist workers at Puterman Bros. & Fagan struck amid employer measures. Pacific Mail bought ships Coptic and Doric from White Star Line.
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New York
United States Grand Jury
Western Trunk
American Sugar Refining Company
W. E Foster
Hough
United States Circuit Court
Poster
Hin
Foster
Grand Jury
Philadelphia
Puterman Bros. & Fagan
City Hearing Promises Dramatic Contempt Case
A city order faces defiance as Mayor Johnson refuses compliance prompting a contempt hearing before Judge Ford. Tomorrow morning's proceeding is expected to be hard fought with high public interest and sharp legal contest between the mayor and city officials.
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Johnson
Ford
Mexican Official Denies Cananea Uprising Rumors
United States Consular Agent John Breathitt from Cananea says rumors of unrest or an uprising at Cananea are false and spread for mercenary gains. He notes the Mexican government has deployed troops to prevent disorder and protect Americans.
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Douglas
Ariz
United States
John Breathitt
Cananea
Mexico
W. C. Greene
Associated Press
Mexico City Labor Strikes Deemed Overblown
Reports of plots against foreigners in Mexico are shown to be distorted accounts of potential factory worker action. The government handles labor troubles with a tranquilizing policy and seeks better relations between workers and employers while addressing just demands.
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Mexico City
Amercan
Persian unrest grows as crowds demand reform
In Teheran on July 25 political discontent rises with calls to dismiss the grand vizier and to codify laws. Mullahs gather at Rum, a sacred shah place, while over 5,000 refugees seek protection under the British legation.
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Teheran
Persia
Rum
Mayor Johnson Cited For Contempt In Streetcar Row
Cleveland Ohio July 25. Papers served on Mayor Tom Johnson cite him to appear in common pleas court to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt for violating a temporary injunction issued by Judge Ford. The injunction restrains thefts and tearing up of Fulton street street railway tracks begun under Johnson’s direction by hundreds. The dispute centers on franchise extensions between the Cleveland Electric Railway and the Forest City line backed by Johnson.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Tom I. Johnson
Common Pleas Court
Ford
Cleveland Electric Railway Company
Fulton Street
Johnson
Forest City
Ery
Cleveland Electric Railway
Ery Council
Board of Public Service
Fire Destroys Half Southern Rice Supply in Texas
In Beaumont on July 25 a large brick warehouse belonging to the McFaddin Weiss Kyle Rice Mining Co. burned with unknown origin. The blaze destroyed $60,000 sacks of rice, valued at $200,000, and the building and contents at about $115,000. The loss equals half of the rough rice stock in the south.
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Beaumont
Texas
McFaddin-Weiss-Kyle Rice Mining Company
Meting of Mining Engineers and Iron Institute Leaders
London hosts a joint gathering of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and many British Iron and Steel Institute members. President Robert W. Hunt of Chicago reviews metallurgy progress while Ladd Colby of New York argues for an international steel rail quality standard.
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London
American Institute of Mining Engineers
Robert W. Hunt
Chicago
British Iron and Steel Institute
Hunt
Ladd Colby
New York
Russell Sage Leaves All To Wife In Large Fortune
New York July 21 The World tomorrow says Russell Sage leaves his entire fortune to Mrs Sage minimal bequest to an aunt who died years ago Will read at 632 Fifth Avenue for probate Troy relatives to contest claiming past mental decline and undue influence No charity bequest in the will Sage Wing at Presbyterian Hospital funded by Mrs Sage cited as prior charity effort valued at fifty thousand dollars.
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New York
Russell Sage
Grave protection fears after millionaire burial
Details describe elaborate cemetery vaults and hermetically sealed steel coffins for a late millionaire's body in Oakland with alarms and riveted locks. The news notes the grave's heavy protection and mentions prior high profile theft fears connected to a famed financier.
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Oak Troy
Ea. T. Stewart
Brilliant Society Wedding In Roswell
The fashionable Roswell society wedding united Miss Leite Aliee Gatewood and Robert Leonidas Traves at the Meth Episcopal church South in Roswell under Rev John Wesley Smith. Gatewood, daughter of Hon William Worth Gatewood, is a noted society figure. Traves is a young attorney allied with Judge Gatewood in the practice. The father gave the bride away.
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Morning Journal
Roswell
Rowewell Society
Leite Aliee Gatewood
Robert Leonidas Traves
Methi@t Episcopal church
Rey John Wesley Smith DD
William Worth Gatewood
Would-Be Butcher Killed by Mad Bull Named Mike
A maddened two year old bull named Mike injured butcher Chris Sollerman breaking his leg then gored a horse and besieged the Blume family for hours. Neighbor Gus Albright climbed a tree to escape. The bull was finally shot by a neighbor and Sollerman taken to hospital.
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St. Louis
Mike
Chris Sollerman
Worden
Til
Gus Albright
Louis Blume
Blume
Mr. Sollerman
Butcher Sollerman
Blume Farm
Sollerman
Granite City
Cruiser Milwaukee Makes Trial Trip
Naval officers reported the cruiser Milwaukee performed satisfactorily during standardization trials in Santa Barbara channel. The ship faces a four hour endurance test tomorrow as the next phase of testing by the government board and builders.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Milwaukee
Government
Murderer Constantine Captured Near Chicago
Chicago reports that Frank J Constantine, alleged killer of Mrs Louise A Gentry at 582 La Salle Avenue in January, is under arrest in an unnamed town in upstate New York. Police announce capture but withhold location. The case was part of a clutch of brutal assaults on women earlier this year.
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Chicago
Frank J. Constantine
Louise A. Gentry
la Salle Avenue
Poughkeeptie
Constantine
Springfield
Poughkeepsie
Mrs. Gentry
Unie Elty
Discrediting Hartje Witnesses in Mary Hartje Case
In Pittsburg on July 15, efforts continued to undermine Blanche Ashby's testimony in the Hartje case. Washington witnesses testified she admitted lying and had been promised money for false deposition about Clifford Hope not sleeping in the spare room. Attorney John M. Freeman cross examined.
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Pitsburg
Augustus Hartie
Mary Scott Hartie
Blanche Ashby
Hartje
Clifford Hope
Washington
Court hearing on conspiracy charges postponed a week
Mrs. Ashby remained in court all day and is expected to re assert her deposition while denying witnesses claims. The conspiracy case against Augustus Hartje John S Welshons and Clifford Hope the jailed perjurer linked to the divorce file was delayed for seven days.
Eight Hour Law Violated at Fort Wingate
Washington reports confirm only two complaints in three years about eight hour work limits by government contractors. The latest breach occurred at Fort Wingate New Mexico where mechanics worked ten hours daily due to rush orders and to ensure materials arrived before troop maneuvers filled transport facilities.
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Washington
War Department
Fort Wingate
N. M
Thaw Plans Trial for Stanford White Killing
New York reports Harry Thaw will go to trial for the Stanford White homicide with no mental examination. Lawyers say the trial is set to begin October 16.
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New York
Harry Thaw
Stanford White
Free Delivery of Mali Atom Opens New City Service in Raton
Postmaster General grants free city delivery to Raton NM with November 1 1906 start date. Two carriers one substitute and sixteen boxes planned plus civil service board to examine carriers. Interior rearrangement and hundreds of new boxes under way as business grows with two clerks added.
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Raton
N. M
Post Office Department
Washington
Str
Civil Service Commission
Civil Service Board
Frank Hill
Nervy Express Clerk Plans to Make Killing
New York July 25 The identity of Samuel Byerly a clerk in the accounting department of the American Express company was made public He is the bidder for five million dollars of the new Panama canal two per cent bonds The terms of sale require no money until August 1 Byerly made four bids from 104125 to 102867 A syndicate valuing the bonds at 10440 predicted a profit of 2550 if he could sell the option at 144 without any cash investment.
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New York
Samuel Byerly
Panama Canal
American Express Company
Byerly
Westinghouse Company Faces Graft Charges at Meeting
At a Pittsburg gathering of Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing stockholders, George Westinghouse was accused of using company funds for private ventures. Directors were charged with aiding him, but the board loyal to the official coterie prevailed after a bitter squabble led by minority holder James Carrothers who highlighted assets including Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Rapid Transit bonds and stocks.
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Pittsburg
Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Company
George Westinghouse
James Carrothers
Westinghouse
Bryan Grows Eloquent on Glories of Peace
Democratic Leader urges parliamentary unity at the Inter Parliamentary Union meeting. He argues noble life is better than death on the battlefield and champions peace as the path to progress. The remarks shape the session's tone and emphasize diplomacy.
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Bryan
Berlin Next Congress Hinted by Interparliamentary Union
London July 25 The interparliamentary union ended its session with a set of resolutions backing restricting contraband of war to arms and munitions. It urged Hague Conference to curb armament costs and discussed holding the 1910 session in Bogota to mark Colombia’s independence centennial.
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London
Interparliamentary Union
International Counci
Berlin
Bryan
Union
Barthold
Diego Mendoza
Parliamentary Union
Bogota
Colombia
Simon Bolivar
Ayacucho
South America
Spain
Congress
England
Europe
Africa
Coaba
Australia
Japar Theedt
Philippines
Ihima
Hague
Elizabeth of Mag
France
Duke of Sully
Henry the Great
Elizabeth
Simeon Oelivar
America
Partia Forta
Interparltliament Union
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Pacifl Mail Company
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Coptic
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Sonora
Wild Tales
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OM Johnson
Institute of Mining Engineers
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