Russia and Japan Name Peace Conference Plenipotentiaries
Washington reports Russia and Japan have tentatively chosen plenipotentiaries for the peace conference. M. Nelidoff and Baron Rosen head the Russian mission, with Baron Kamura and Whogoro Takahira for Japan. Official names await health, work needs, and Tokio officials.
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Washington
Russia
M. Nelidoff
Paris
Baron Rosen
Takahira
White House
Japan
Baron Kamura
Whogoro Takahira
Tokio
Baron Kaimura
Huron Rosen
Tokanhira
London
Berlin
Vienna
St. Petersburg
Rome
Manchuria
Tokdo
Report on Japanese Flank Movements Near Simintin
Chinese reports indicate Japanese scouting forces on both Russian flanks during a period of maximum army strength, with fears they aim to screen turning maneuvers similar to Mukden. Simintin is mentioned as a direction of these operations, signaling potential strategic movement.
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Mukden
Simintin
Hay's Condition Not Serious, Secretary Hay Improves
Newbury New Hampshire June 26 The condition of Secretary of State John Hay confined to bed at his summer home near Lake Sunapee due to uraemia was favorable tonight. After rest an early return home seems likely and doctors say no operation is needed though a nervous chill from the Washington trip caused the attack.
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Mr. Hay
Hay
Commanders in Manchuria Sparring for Position
In Manchuria hostilities have not escalated to a full battle with steady skirmishes along the front. Minor detachments clash over the same ground as both sides seek to maintain contact and gain position before a main confrontation. Russian cavalry has shown improved effectiveness, and the general staff believes it can avert a repetition of Mukden and foil encirclement attempts by the Japanese.
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St. Petersburg
Manchuria
Nogi
Mukden
LINEVITCH REPORTS ON PIECING JAPANESE MOVEMENTS
Telegrams dated June 24 and 25 describe June 1 and 22 actions. Russians repulsed Japanese at Kao valley and captured outposts near Nanshancheng before a Japanese counterattack near Shimatsu. Russians retired after unmasking a large Japanese force. Japanese then occupied Yulangtzu. News from Gunshu Pass notes conflicting views on peace terms and armistice, with Linovitch and Korotkin suggesting Russia trends toward peace.
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Ufanglu
Yulangtzu
Hailunchen
Shimiatsu
President Roosevelt Leaves Washington for Harvard Commencement
President Roosevelt departs Washington by special train for Cambridge to attend Harvard University commencement. He will not return to Washington but travel to Sagamore Hill for the heated season. Accompanying him are Loeb, White House staff, Secret Service, and press. Count Cassini bids farewell at the station.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania Railroad
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard University
Oyster Bay
Sagimore Hill
Loeb
White House
Secret Service
C. F. Stokes
Sagamore Hill
H. FE. Strohmeyer
New York
Isabel Hagner
Maine
Boston
Count Cassini
OFF AGAIN ON AGAIN STRIKE AGAIN IN CHICAGO
In Chicago on June 26 the teamsters rejected nearly unanimously the latest employer terms. The proposed deal left the union button issue to individual workers. President Shea called a general meeting for tomorrow to decide on funding the strike, while others expect broader strike expansion.
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Chicago
Teamsters
Shea
Alaska’s Portland claim yields rich cleanups after burnouts
Tagoma June 26 report shows spring clean up near two million dollars. The steamship Senator left June 13 with four hundred thousand. Little Wreek and nearby areas produced over one million one hundred thousand. Eastern Portland claim workers sluiced twenty five thousand. the Portland bench is hailed as the richest ground found in Alaska. Operators hit pay dirt in February but were burned out and will still clear about four hundred thousand.
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Tagoma
Noshe
Senator
Little Wreek
Portland
Pioneer Mining Company
Alaska
Johnson Dominates Munroe In Six-Round Philly Bout
Philadelphia report June 26 notes Jack Johnson won the six round bout against Jack Munroe of Montana at the National Athletic Club. The fight was fast with Johnson dominating in the later rounds, delivering strong break work in the fifth and sixth rounds.
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Philadelphia
Jack Johnson
Jack Munroe
Montana
National Athleticlub
Munroe
Butler Well Gas Boom Eyed as World Leader
Mansfield June 26 export oil and gas drillers claim the Butler Ohio monster gusher will become the world's largest producer. The well emits about 5,000,000 cubic feet of gas daily with no pressure drop. Farmers within twenty miles have been leased by oil and gas capitalists amid widespread excitement.
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Mansfield
France Warns Belgium on Antwerp Fortifications
London June 26 The Brussels correspondent for the Daily Mail reports France, fearing a surprise German attack via Belgium, has warned the Belgian minister in Paris to strengthen the fortifications of Antwerp and along the Meuse river.
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Ise Warends
London
Brussels
Daily Mail
France
Germany
Belgium
Paris
Antwerp
Meuse
Otero to Hear Charges Against the Hubbells
Governor Otero to hear formal malfeasance charges against Bernalillo County officials on June 28 in Albuquerque. Named defendants: County Treasurer Frank A. Hubbell Sheriff T. S. Hubbell and School Superintendent Eslavio Vigil. Charges include liquor license funds, jail expenses, and excessive school visit payments.
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Correspondence Morning Journal
Santa Fe
N. M
Bernalillo County
Otero
Frank W. Clancy
Albuquerque
Frank A. Hubbell
T. S. Hubbell
Eslavio Vigil
Barelas
Bernalillo
Hubbell
New Mexico
Counnty
Folk wins first round in anti betting fight
In St Louis on June 24 the Central Turf association abandoned the Delmar betting ring as the anti betting law took effect. Sheriff Herpel and deputies seized the ring before the first race and arrested Charley Cella on a charge of violating the new law. Most central members fled rather than face arrest, and officials say tomorrow’s race program will proceed with doubtful wagers by the association.
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St. Louis
Delmar Race Track
Central Turf Association
Herpel
St. Louis County
Horrses
Charley Cella
Central Association
Cella
Delmar Jockey Club
Metropolitan Life to Erect World’s Tallest New York Building
Plans are under way for a skyscraper in Manhattan to surpass the Washington Monument by five feet and exceed the Park Row building by nearly two hundred feet. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company will build on its Madison Avenue block, purchasing the Lyceum Theatre the Academy of Design and the Madison Square Presbyterian Church. Preliminary sketches by Napoleon Le Brun & Bon exist as the site awaits church relocation.
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New York
Metropolis
Washington Monument
Park Row
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Madison Avenue
Twentythird Street
Avenue
Twenty-fourth Street
Napoleon le Brun & Bon
Illinois Central Wreck Kills Three Injured Dozens
A rear end collision on the Illinois Central near Vine Grove Kentucky leaves three dead and fifteen injured. Victims include Peter Wilton 15 Jeffersonville Indiana Chester Seaman 11 Litchfield Kentucky and A Kirkpatrick Hodgeville Kentucky. Injured include B F Wheeler skull fracture J D Creasy Bonham Texas Joseph Ritter Louisville and others from Missouri and Warrensburg.
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Louisville
Vine Cove
Peter Wilton
Jeffersonville
Ind
Chester Seaman
Litchfield
S. A. Kirkpatrick
Hodgeville
B. F. Wheeler
Joseph Ritter
Ilinois Central Car Repairer
J.D. Creasy
Bonham
Texas
Ht. W. Rogers
Warrensburg
J. A. Lander
Radium Claim Sparks Debate On Spontaneous Life
New York June 26 American experts in radium show interest in John Butler Burke Cambridge scientist who demonstrates spontaneous generation using radium and sterilized bouillon in a test tube. Burke claims cultures show vitality and may be primitive life fitting Herbert Spencer's definition.
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New York
John Butler Burke
Cambridge
Burke
Herbert Spencer
William J. Hammer
No. 52
West Forty-sixth Street
Mr. Hammer
Mr. Burke
Cambridg
Ae Thompson
Thompson
Death in Paterson Navy Couple End Their Lives
Henry Kiehenroedt, band master of the battleship Alabama, and his wife, married less than a year, killed themselves after learning they would be separated for foreign service. Friends at a farewell gathering found the couple dead in their bedroom, still locked in an embrace.
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Paterson
N. J
Foreign Service
Henry Kiehenroedt
United States
Alabama
Eichenrodt
Fierce Storm Ravages Harlem Building Collapse Fatality
A cyclone like storm hit Harlem and the Bronx with heavy rain and 43 mph wind. A building under construction on 136th street near Riverside Drive collapsed, killing bricklayer John Lawler and injuring two Italian laborers. Builders Abraham Pearlman and superintendent Abraham Horderek were arrested. Lower Manhattan saw strong winds and damage from flying glass, fallen trees, and chimneys as the storm passed in about fifteen minutes.
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New York
Harlem
Bronx
Riverside Drive
John Lawler
Lawler
New Jersey
Abraham Pearlman
Pearlman & Brown
Abraham Horderek
Faraday to Lay Cable From Galveston to Coatzacoalcos
The British cable steamer Faraday arrives with a full crew to lay a new cable from Galveston to Coatzacoalcos Mexico. Once connected it will give the Mexican Cable Company three lines to Mexico and Central and South American points. Operations begin after coaling and are expected to complete within a month.
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Galveston
Texas
Faraday
Coatzacoalcos
Mexico
Wall Street Curb Declared a Nuisance by Trust Firms
Standard Trust company and others petition Police Commissioner McAdoo to curb the curb in front of Broad Exchange as a nuisance. The daily gathering of 40 to 80 men deals in unlisted securities between ten and three, with the curb dominating New York trading volumes rivaling major exchanges.
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New York
Wall Street
McAdoo
Standard Trust Company
Broad Exchange
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
Messenger
Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
Morton moves to recover funds and trims perks at Equitable
Paul Morton, chair of the Equitable Life Assurance Society board, has begun legal actions to reclaim money alleged to be wrongfully taken from the society and has cut off certain perquisites in the secretariat.
Trepoff’s Task Tests Autocracy Amid Caucasus Disorder
Rivals clash across Poland and the Caucasus as strikes and agrarian unrest surge in Russia. Clergy in Georgia protest Cossack beatings, while Trepoff faces a critical test in stabilizing the regime amid warnings of broader upheaval. Warsaw reports barricades, shootings, and mass arrests as social chaos grows.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Poland
Caucasus
Lodz
Moscow
Georgia
Trans-Caucasia
Trepoff
Ferivan
Half of the crew lost at sea from Agnes
The Arcon arrives from Baltimore with the captain and ten crew members of the German ship Agnes. Agnes foundered in a snow storm off Cape Horn. one of three boats survived. A wide sea search failed to find the missing sailors. The Agnes was en route from Shields to Valparaiso.
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San Francisco
Cal
Arcon
Baltimore
Agnes
Cape Horn
Shields
England
Valparaiso
Commission House Goes to the Wall
Creditors of Knight Donnelly & Co. filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition in Chicago on June 26. Edwin W. Potter was named receiver with bonds totaling 160000 dollars. Petitioning creditors claim 16000 dollars, with total liabilities expected in the hundreds of thousands, citing preferential payments to a single creditor during insolvency.
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Chicago
Grain Commission House
Knight Donnelly & Co
Edwin W. Potter
Fifth Avenue Bank declares extra 120 percent dividend
Stockholders led by Russell Sage will receive an extra dividend of 120 percent amounting to $120,000 in addition to the regular quarterly 25 percent dividend. The bank’s stock trades high, with a $3,600 per share market price and a $1,900 book value, based on a $100,000 capital. In a separate note from Iola, Kansas, George Ez Nicholson of the Kansas Portland Cement Co announces a $10,000 donation to build a Manila mission school under the Methodist board.
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New York
Fifth Avenue Bank
Russell Sage
Addiiton
Iola, Kas
George Ez. Nicholson
Kansas Portland Cement Company
Iola
Manila
Methodist Board of Foreign Missions
Florence EB. Nicholson
Martial law quiets Lodz as Jews flee and riots flare
Since the proclamation of martial law Lodz grows calmer yet riots persist. About 20,000 Jews have fled the town amid insurrectionist speeches. In the old Protestant cemetery a patrol was shot at from behind a wall and twelve were killed. Business halts and traffic stops. Troops show disaffection and a regiment refuses to defend civilians, later moved to another post.
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Lodz
Open Shop Instituted by Philadelphia Printers
In Philadelphia on June 24 a nine hour workday and open shop were adopted by five leading city printing houses, composing about two thirds of local workers. The action followed a meeting of the United Typothetae with master printers from across the country. It anticipates a future eight hour day starting next January, with no immediate opposition noted.
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Philadelphia
U Ultad Typothetae
Receiver named for defunct Salmon bank in Clinton Mo
The circuit court appointed John B. Egger of Appleton City as receiver of the closed Salmon bank. Cashier Thomas M. Casey was arrested yesterday on a charge of forgery and is held at his home under guard.
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Clinton
John B. Egger
Appleton City
Salmon Bank
Thomas M. Casey
Justice confirms Kitchin exoneration in perjury case
Washington reports that M L Reddock pleaded guilty in St. Louis to perjury, fined 100 dollars and sentenced to one year in a federal prison. The case, tied to charges against Representative W W Kitchin of North Carolina, has been fully cleared as the affidavits proved perjured and Kitchin had no wrongdoing.
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Washington
Department of Justice
M. Ll. Reddoch
St. Louis
W. W. Kitchin
North Carolina
Kitchin
Me. Kitchin
Reddoec
Louisa
Reddock
Repairs to the Lena in Vallejo Navy Yard
Mechanics from the Union Iron Works in San Francisco win the contract to repair the Russian cruiser Lena in Vallejo California with work starting after bid approval.
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Vallejo
Cal
Lena
Union Tren
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