Transfer of 24 367 Port Arthur Prisoners
The transfer of prisoners at Port Arthur was completed at 4 30 p m yesterday. Total officers 878 and men 23 491, grand total 24 369. Japan plans a naval station at Port Arthur with Vice Admiral Y Shibayama likely in charge. Port Arthur military garrison to stay small after withdrawal. Navigation unsafe due to many mines. only government ships may enter the harbor. Dalny may open to neutrals. weekly services to that port to be started by Japanese firms. A fourth domestic war loan may be floated under third loan terms. San Yo Railway to move 20 000 Russian prisoners from Shimonoseki to Kure, with likely quartering near Kure. Severest sick and wounded to stay in Port Arthur field hospitals. movable cases to be brought to Japan after housing arrangements.
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Tokio
Port Arthur
Y. Shibayama
San Yo
Shimonoseki
Kure
Japan
Russian Officers To Go To Japan As Prisoners Of War
Lieutenant-Generals Fock Smirnoff and Goldbatfusk and Rear-Admiral Wildman will become prisoners of war in Japan. Smirnoff led the Port Arthur forts. Fock commanded its Fourth Division. About half the officers accompany their men. twelve foreign naval attaches visited Port Arthur. Stoessel departs Jan 12 for Nagasaki with paroled officers. total paroled officers reach 441 with 229 orderlies. Notes had claimed Fock and Smirnoff were killed earlier.
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Port Arthur
Fock
Smirnoff
Goldbatfusk
Wildman
Japan
Stoessel
Dalny
Nagasaki
Europe
Suez Canal
Nogi
Port Arthur Fall Marked by New York Japanese Rally
A mass meeting at Carnegie Hall honors the Port Arthur fall with 500 Japanese residents in attendance. Speakers included General Stewart L. Woodford and Alexander Tison, praising American and Japanese bravery and generosity in victory.
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New York
Port Arthur
Carnegie Hall
Stewart L. Woodford
Spain
Alexander Tison
Evangeline Booth Visited by 2000 at Majestic Theatre
Miss Evangeline Booth, newly named Salvation Army commander in the United States, received a chorus of cheers as about 2000 people filled the Majestic Theatre. She spoke of her mission in America, her dedication to the cause, and her readiness to serve with her secretary Captain Walsh and her adopted children Willie and Pearl at her side.
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Majestic Theatre
Evangeline C. Booth
Salvation Army
United States
Booth
Colonel Evans
Withers
Lamb
Higgins
Walsh
Hartford
Heaven
Hell
America
Canada
God
Miss Booth
New York
Captain Walsh
Willie
Pearl
Evangeline Booth
Uited States
Boston
Claim fraud involves 6000 bales of cotton Fall River
The Secury Warehousing Company of New York files a bill alleging it issued receipts for 6000 bales of cotton stored in Fall River worth about 300000. Afterward, Thomas Storage Company allegedly issued fraudulent receipts on much of the same cotton. Multiple claimants seek the cotton, and 963 bales covered by Thomas Storage receipts remain in bona fide holders.
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Fall River
Secury Warehousing Company of
New York
Security
Davis Mills
Thomas Storage Company
Industrial Trust Company
Why Mr Bates Refuses Dinner
Ex Governor Bates declines a large public dinner after retirement and offers no reason. A friend suggests he favors avoiding increased public attention this year while focusing on his law practice. Prominent Republicans awaiting invitations include those officially responsible for them. He will not discuss politics or gubernatorial prospects for next year.
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Bates
L Conductor Dragged Under Fender In Cambridge Accident
James P. Phee of 48 Hancock Street West Somerville a conductor on the Somerville branch of the Boston L was struck and dragged 100 feet under a car fender He was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital badly hurt from a transfer exchange incident at Beacon Street and Concord Avenue Cambridge He received care at Dr P J Finnegan's before an ambulance arrived
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James P. Phee
Hancock Street
West Somerville
Massachusetts General Hospital
Phee
Somerville
Boston
Beacon Street
Concord Avenue
Cambridge
P. J. Finnegan
Cambridge Street
Plan for New Ward Lines In City Redistricting Fight
A special bi chamber committee will start redistricting plans as City Council adjourns. Whelton will schedule a meeting once President Dolan names his committee. Expect a hard battle with potential ward changes affecting Dorchester West Roxbury Charlestown and Ward 7.
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Whelton
Board of Aldermen
Dolan
Common Council
Whelton and
Baldwin
Big Dorchester
West Roxbury
Charlestown
Newtonville Residence Damaged by Fire
Newtonville January 8 fire badly damaged the residence of F. E. Macomber on Gray Birch terrace. Fire, believed caused by an overheated furnace flue, occurred at 8 45 tonight. Loss to house and furnishings estimated at about 4000 dollars.
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Newton
F. E. Macomber
Gray Birch Terrace
Newtonville
Zambesi Sails Into New York with Cotton Fire and Injuries
The British 2415 ton steamer Zambesi from Savannah to Bremen entered New York leaking and with cotton on fire after a Jan 5 collision with a submerged wreck 480 miles east of Sandy Hook. Firemen exposed to fumes fell unconscious but revived after treatment. hull damage threatened. The vessel will undergo repairs in port.
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New York
Zambesi
Savannah
Bremen
Sandy Hook
Rooney
Found Dead in Cambridge Street
The lifeless body of a man, believed to be William Barrett, was pulled from a lodging house at 76 Cambridge Street. Police think alcoholism caused death after he drank heavily and begged for poison. He used the name William Sullivan at the house. A letter to William Barrett from Mrs Annie C Sweetzer of Haverhill was found. He was about 45.
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William Barrett
Cambridge Street
Amos Strom
William Sullivan
Briggs’ Undertaking
Annie C. Sweetzer
Duncan Street
Haverhill
Hastings to plead guilty in murder case
Salem dated report states Joseph A. Hastings, charged with murder of Dora A. Trask in Beverly last March, will plead guilty in the second degree tomorrow and receive a life sentence.
Man Robbery in South End Ends With Garroting
Smith, 42, a cook at Morris Lippy on 204 Hanover street, reports being grabbed in the South End near Village Place and Harrison Avenue. He struggled as two men stole $2, escaped toward Broadway, and he walked to a station house but fainted from shock.
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Beach Street
Elevated
Railway
Harrison Avenue
Village Place
Broadway
Bih
Smith
Morris Lippy
Hanover Street
Davis Street
South End
Maple Place
Fire gutts three story block and adjoining building in Springfield
A blaze on Market street gutted the upper three floors of the F. B. Taylor block and the top two floors of a neighboring five story building, both owned by F. B. Taylor, with a $100 000 loss. The D. K. Bruce Club on the third floor of the origin building was empty at the time. B F Taylor, chief loser, ran a sash and blind factory on most floors.
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Springfield
F. B. Taylor
Market Street
Taylor
D. K. Bruce Club
B. F. Taylor
Young Dalton and Wife Separate After Quick Brookline Marriage
The Brookline society wedding of R. Osborne Dalton, son of ex Adjutant General Samuel Dalton, to Belle Beard ended in separation within a year. They left their Beacon Street home and later moved to the Hotel Charlesgate, with lawyers handling the dispute and divorce proceedings anticipated.
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Brookline
R. Osborne Dalton
Samuel Dalton
Bonnie Belle Beard
Cornelius Beard
New Orleans
Robert E. Lee
Mr. Dalton
Garden Court
Henry 58
Dewey
E. S. Mansfield
Dalton
Beacon
Commissioner Curtis Tours Chinatown Night Inspection
Police Commissioner Charles P. Curtis Jr conducted an extensive evening tour of Chinatown with a friend and Sergeant Allen. He inspected the area from end to end, sampled chop suey, observed local customs, visited Station 4 and Lieutenant Ritter, and went through several hotels before returning home.
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Charles P. Curtis, Jr
Emmons
Chinatown
Allen
Division 4
Ritter
Norwegian crew proud as Arnedd reaches Gloucester
The Arnedd finally docks in Gloucester after a perilous Atlantic crossing from Norway. Captain Brude and four Norwegian sailors describe a long, stormy voyage filled with hardship, hearty meals, and confidence in their seaworthy lifeboat despite damage and fatigue.
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Bruce
Gloucester
A. J. Jacobs
Sol Jacobs
Arnedd
Atlantic
Norway
Brude
Ivan Thorson
Madsen
Johanenson
Post
Description of the Arnedd sailboat details
The article describes the Arnedd a steel boat likened to a nutmeg with a round conning tower near the stern a 20-foot steel mast and a lug sail. It measures 18 feet long eight feet wide and eight feet deep with a four foot draft and room for up to 40 people.
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Boston
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Catherine of Russia
MR. Bates
Cambridge ST
Boston BA
Smith's Home
Davis
John J. Smith
Young Dalton
Provident Securities and Banking Company
Postman
Curtis
C. Brude
Araedd
Coping Law Wit
Lull Ae OR
Portland and
Sudbury
Boston School of Plano Tuning
Washington St
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