Kuropatkin Rumored Dead After Battle in Russia
Reports from St. Petersburg indicate a rumor that General Kuropatkin was slain, linked to claims 70,000 Russians were cut off by General Nogi. No confirmation from general staff. Japanese advance pressing Russian van posts. mobilizations ordered near Tsarskoe Selo and Volmar. Socialists faced a clash with Cossacks. several killed or wounded. Lodz hospitals mobilized. Warsaw quiet. Polish papers condemn strikes and disturbances.
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St. Petersburg
Kuropatkin
Nogi
Linovitch
Tsarskoe Selo
Volmar
Livonia
Lodz
Lenzyca
Warsaw
Murphy's ad promises matched pricing on goods
An advertisement urges customers to equal the assortment by examining price style and quality. It claims Murphy's offers good Mattings at 10 cents and promises to match competitors' prices. It encourages shoppers to buy at Murphy's if prices match or beat those of rival sellers.
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Murphy’s
Peace Talks Stall as Roosevelts Absence Delays Steps
With the president away in June peace negotiations halt in Washington and await his return. No urgent messages from the Russian ambassador or Japanese minister, no confirmed armistice talks, and plans hinge on likely August arrival of Japanese plenipotentiaries plus required copying of documents.
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Washington
Oyster Bay
New England
Paris
Manchuria
M. Nelidoff
Disorder and bloodshed in Odessa amid strike turmoil
Reports from St. Petersburg describe a general strike in Odessa with clashes between soldiers and strikers. Troop volleys were fired in two encounters, casualties initially reported as two dead, while later figures from Lodz and official dispatches claim hundreds killed and many wounded across Poland.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Odessa
Poland
Lodz
Secret Socialist Meeting Surprised by Cossacks in Polish Forest
In the forest near Lodz 200 Socialists held a secret meeting when 12 Cossacks surprised them at noon. Eighteen Socialists were wounded and 180 were arrested. The wounded were taken to a local hospital for treatment.
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Lodz
Warsaw
Zguers
Russia Accepts Early August for Peace Plenipotentiaries Meeting
The foreign office in St. Petersburg confirms that Russia accepts the first ten days in August as the window for the initial meeting of the peace plenipotentiaries. The exact date hinges on when the Japanese delegates reach Washington.
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St. Petersburg
Foreign Office
Associated Press
Russia
Washington
Rioting hits Bay City as street railway cars attacked
Detroit reports a Bay City riot after the Saginaw Valley strike flared. Mayor Hine calls for fifty special police as crowds of over 1 000 clash with crews, cars are attacked and set afire, police disperse mobs with revolvers, and a manager and prisoners are assaulted near shipyards. Women and children join with clubs in the unrest.
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Detroit
Bay City
Mich
Hine
Street
South Bay City
West Bay City
Washington and
Columbus Avenues
Morris
The
Street Railway Company
Hatch
Wallace resigns as Panama Canal chief engineer
John F. Wallace chief engineer of the Panama canal and commission member resigns to take a $60,000 New York office. He cites a delicate position and defers comment to Secretary Taft. Wallace expected to lead a large U.S. railway system. Theodore P. Shonts to remain as commission president. The move concerns the commission and could delay its September meeting.
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New York
John F. Wallace
Panama Canal
Commission
Wallace
Taft
Theodore P. Shonts
Canal Commission
Washington
Panama Canal Commission
Sweden weighs war as Norway crisis stirs riksdag
In Brockholm on June 28 the riksdag formed emergency committees to examine a government bill for settling with Norway. Debates condemned Norway’s actions and harshly criticized the Swedish cabinet with many speakers favoring firm terms or war if needed to protect Sweden’s safety.
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Brockholm
Rikedag
Norway
Senate
House
Storting
C. A. Berg
Riksdag
Sweden
Herr Hammarskjold
Oscar
Europe
Pardom Walstrom
Baron Kennedy
Berger
S. Sacea
Messrs
Boniks
Berg
Ramstedt
Roosevelt Joins Harvard Class of 80 Celebration
President Roosevelt returns to Cambridge for the twenty fifth anniversary of Harvard class of 1880. He joins alumni and students as a private citizen, visiting Alpha Delta society, Harvard stadium, Oakley Country Club and Porcelain club, then attends a class banquet at Hotel Somerset. Rain darkens but does not deter a streetside carriage parade.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Roosevelt
University of
United States
University City
William Lawrence
Episcopal
Massachusetts
Harvard Alumni Association
Alpha Delta Society
Chestnut Hill
George C. Lee
Oakley Country Club
Watertown
Porcelain’ Club
Bishop Lawrence
Somerset
Boston
No massacre at Buenos Ayres ranch Yaqui clash reported
Reports from Nogales Arizona on June 28 refute claims of a Yaqui massacre at the Buenos Ayres ranch in Sonora last Thursday. Only a battle occurred with two Indians killed and Luis Caranza wounded, and no troops were dispatched.
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Nogales
Ariz
Buenos Ayres
Sonora
Luis Caranza
Indian army reorganization plan advances in Simla
Telegraph report from Simla says arrangements are in place to implement the Indian army reorganization scheme with no further friction expected. London dispatch notes ongoing efforts to carry out the plan smoothly.
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London
the Times
Simla
Mrs Adelaide Foster Dies in Brooklyn Gas Tragedy
New York, June 28. Mrs Adelaide Foster, formerly of Chicago, died by self inflicted gas inhalation in the President Street apartments of her daughter Mrs Alice Snead in Brooklyn. The deaths appear to be a joint tragedy with motive not stated.
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New York
Adelaide Foster
Chicago
Alice Snead
President Street
Brooklyn
Bucketshop Enjoined Across Chicago Market
The Hammond Elevator company of Hammond Indiana was restrained by Judge Kohlsaat in a U S court injunction from receiving or securing Chicago Board of Trade grain quotations and from pursuing mandamus against Western Union Telegraph in Indiana's supreme court to force quotations. The temporary ruling ends a long battle by the Board of Trade against bucket shopping in Chicago.
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Chicago
Hammond Elevator Company
Hammond
Ind
Kohlsaat
United States Court
Chicago Board of Trade
Western Union Telegraph Company
Indiana
Passenger train crashes into switch engine in Lima yard
At night in Lima Ohio on June 28 a Pennsylvania Limited passenger train No. 2 moving up to 25 mph struck a switching engine and six freight cars loaded with timbers. The train stayed on track with only a severe shaking up and no passengers hurt. Yardmaster Kendrick was run over by the freight train and his right leg severed.
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Lima
Pennsylvania Lmited
Kendrick
Pennsylvania
Youth Confesses to Stoning of Laborer in Savannah
Jesse Koser eighteen admits killing Jacob Weaver sixty five after an altercation Saturday night. Koser brother Frank sixteen and father Edward held for grand jury as accessories. Weaver and Kosers were labor men. Weaver was beaten and died few hours later.
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Sterling
Jesse Koser
Jacob Weaver
Savannah
Koser
Frank
Edward Koser
Weaver
Kosera
Doctor and man killed in collision with freight train
Dr Wood physician for Columbia Coal company and B B Steele colored man were struck by an extra freight train near Buxton Iowa on the Chicago and North Western railway. Dr Wood died instantly and Steele died fifteen minutes after sustaining injuries.
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Dike
Dr. Wood
Columbia Coal Company
B. Steele
Buxton
Chicago and Northwestern
Young Antoinette Seldensticker Faces Murder Trial
In Wheaton Minnesota on June 28 the jury to try fourteen year old Antoinette Seldensticker for the murder of her sweetheart Herman Shipp was completed. She has no clear memory of the tragedy after recovering from self inflicted wounds.
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