Sugar Imports Hit Record At Over Five Billion Pounds
Government figures show more than five billion pounds of sugar valued at over 100 million dollars were imported into the United States in the just ended fiscal year. Porto Rico and Hawaiian shipments are included to show total sugar coming in, with 5,217,077,000 pounds across all imports, the highest in any year except 1891, 1893, and 1834.
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Washington
United States
Porto Rico
Hawaiian Islands
Department of Commutes and Labor
Bureau of Statistics
Tolstoi Sees Liberty Decline Under All Governments
Paris dispatch reports Count Tolstoi condemns regimes that enforce obedience as a feature of autocracy and revolution. He argues modern tech empowers states to block revolutions, so true liberty requires a religious view of life.
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New York
Count Tolstoi
Regim
Paris
China's Sacred Tree Arrives at Boston Museum
The Boston Art Museum exhibits a claimed sacred jeweled tree from the forbidden city of Pekin. The imperial family treasure, two and a half feet tall and encrusted with stones, had been guarded for over two centuries. Its arrival comes via unknown channels and is under effort to return it to China.
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Boston
Mass
Forbidden City
Pekin
Boston Art Museum
Imperial Family of
China
Growth in Presbyterian Membership 1903 Figures
In Paterson New Jersey Rev Dr W H Roberts stated clerk of the General Assembly released 1903 Presbyterian figures showing ordinations down to 184 from 236 in 1902 and 290 in 1898. Total membership climbs from 975 877 in 1898 to 1 067 477 now with steady financial growth.
New Franciscan Officers Elected in New York
Brother Raphael is elected superior and Brother Jerome named assistant superior of the Catholic order of the Brotherhood of St. Francia in New York. Both men are named as the church leaders guiding the order's activities and missions.
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New York
Raphael
Jerome
Catholic Order of the Brotherhood of St. Francia
Street Fight in Buffalo. 45 Italians Arrested
A riot broke out in front of the Niagara elevator on Ohio street in Buffalo. Forty five Italians were arrested as detectives seek more suspects. No one was hurt though many shots were exchanged between Niagara elevator workers and Italians at Buffalo Union Furnace Company plant.
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Buffalo
Niagara
Ohio Street
Buffalo Union Furnace Company
Climax Reached in Wall Street Says Henry Clews
Henry Clews declares the Wall Street crisis has peaked and improvement is likely with occasional setbacks. He likens the stock market ailment to financial gastritis from overfeeding securities and notes underwriters suffered, yet the illness did not trigger hysteria or panic.
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Wall Street
Henry Clews
New York
Warlike Preparations in the Far East Report
Officers of the steamer Tacoma arriving from Yokohama say Russian agents are buying large basa sake orders at Japanese ports and storing provisions and war munitions at Port Arthur. Troops are being hurried westward and war is feared. The Russian Asiatic squadron is ordered to gather near Vladivostock while the Japanese squadron conducts summer maneuvers off Hokkaido.
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Victoria
Tacoma
Yokohama
Port Arthur
Vladivostock
Hoksaido
Continue to Cut Production Boston Cotton Mills Curtail
New England mills press on with curtailment and closings due to raw cotton shortages. Russell Cotton Manufacturing Co. plants at Middletown and Higganum Conn have closed indefinitely. Fall River mills reduce about 750000 spindles across ten mills with yarn mills and other units halted.
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Boston
New England
Russell Cotton Manufacturing Co
Middletown
Higganum
Red Cross Work Proposed National Society
Miss Clara Barton proposes a national Red Cross organization, with branches nationwide and branch No 1 in Oxford Massachusetts. She envisions the body as the National Society of Red Cross to be formed in anticipation of her stepping back from active work.
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Oxford
Mass
United States
Clara Barton
The
Red Cross
Barton
National Society of Red Cross
Fire Devastates Armenank in Adan Vilayet
A great conflagration swept Armenank in Asia Minor’s Adan vilayet destroying the mosque public buildings 400 shops and 60 houses. The population faces extreme distress and a relief fund has been launched to aid victims.
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Constantinople
Armenank
Adan
Asia Minor
The Catholic Societies Amite City Session
At the Amite City session of the American Federation of Catholic Societies letters of regret and congratulations arrived from President Roosevelt Apostolic Delegate Falconio and other prominent churchmen.
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Amite City
N. Y
American Federation of Catholic Societies
Roosevelt
Falconio
Helen Gould Asked to Arbitrate Holyoke Mills Strike
Helen M. Gould has been asked to act as arbitrator in the Holyoke paper mill strike. The dispute involves about 4000 employees and a dispatch from Springfield, Massachusetts reports the request.
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New York
Helen M. Gould
Holyoke
Springfield
Mass
Terrible Railroad Wreck in Silesia Berlin
A Brussels dispatch to the Volks Zeitung reports a serious disaster on the Sucha Kalvaria line in Austrian Silesia. Eleven stone cars broke coupling pins and sped down a grade for twenty miles before colliding with a passenger train. Thirty lives lost and fifty two injured.
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Berlin
Volks Zeitung
Brussels
Sucha
Kalvaria
Austrian Silesia
Harvesting Rice Planters Buy Straw Press
Harvesting of the rice crop, exceptionally promising, will begin generally on the 12th as planters prepare. Rice planters at Pointe-a-la-Hachie have pooled funds to buy a straw press to bale rice straw, valued at 5 to 8 dollars per ton.
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Pointe-a-la- Hachie
Parrot Saves Planter From Rampaging Jersey Bull
In Ya zoo City a parrot with brilliant plumage and vocabulary frightened a furious Jersey bull charging a planter. The bird’s scream startled the animal, causing it to retreat, sparing the planter who brandished a cane. The tale echoes William the Silent's guardian dog.
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Yazoo City
William the Silent
Charbon Outbreak Triggers Vaccinations Across Counties
Dr. J. B. Kane, a local veterinary surgeon, warns Charbon may become epidemic in Hinds and nearby counties. He has vaccinated mules and horses in Yazoo City and Mendenhall and plans more for Gulf and Ship Island railroad crews. R. T. O'Quinn reports losses of fine stock near Hazeburst Copiah. Kane stresses vaccination as the only protection.
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Charbon
Hinds
J. B. Kane
Kane
Yazoo City
Jones and Thompson
Mendenhall
Simpson County
Silver Creek
Gulf and Ship Island
Strange Family Feud Reaches Hattiesburg Courts
A famed family feud in this state centers on Nancy Odom who killed her brother John Rich at Rich town. After a preliminary trial she posted a $2000 bond. Now her father hires counsel to prosecute while her brother Steve C. Rich hires counsel to defend. The father’s aim is thorough investigation despite no ill will toward his daughter.
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Hattiesburg
Nancy Odom
John Rich
Richtown
Council
Steve C. Rich
Canning Factories Gain Ground in Mississippi
Mississippi sees a rising canning industry with multiple factories in the southern region and plans for many more next season. The state, noted as a top producer of fruit and vegetables, expects several enterprises to operate within its borders. War on traveling agents follows, as papers criticize outsiders who sell goods locally and avoid taxes while merchants support state government.
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Mississippi
Canning Factory
Union
Candidates Address Big Crowd at Carthage Barbecue
Three thousand people attended a Carthage barbecue where county and state candidates spoke to voters. Local and state contenders drew the crowd as they campaigned together in a shared event.
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Carthage
Canning Factory Planned Amid Canal Developments
The Bayou Cock Navigation and Fisheries Company near Pointe-a-la-Hache will complete the iron bridge across the canal next week and the canal locks will be ready in about eight days. A board meeting will discuss steps toward building a canning factory and ice plant.
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Bayou Cock Navigation and Fisheries Company
Pointe-a-la-Hache
Husband Mistakes Wife For Burglar in Fatal Shot
Mrs. Charles Binford was fatally wounded by her husband in Memphis area after he woke to a noise while she looked from a window. Believing burglars were outside, Binford fired into the darkness, the ball striking his wife in the stomach. She named her husband as the shooter before help arrived.
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Memphis
Tenn
Jackson
Charles Binford
Paul Chandler
Fulton
California Fruits Arrive and Sell in Covent Garden
A large Covent Garden sale of California fruit on the St Paul attracted a crowd. Bartlett and Bouvenir Ducongers pears total 5476 cases sold from 10s 6d to 13s per case. Two thousand nine hundred forty two cases of plums sold at 10s 6d to 14s per case. Prices improved over prior London sales.
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London
England
St. Paul
Covent Garden
France
Great Britain
Europe
Six Months for Contempt in Manila
Domi nand Nore Gomez, president of the democratic labor union, is found guilty of contempt of Court and sentenced to six months in prison. After the union was declared bankrupt, a union newspaper was suspended and placed under a receiver. Gomez republished it and was arrested for contempt, receiving the six month sentence.
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Manila
Pacific Cable
Dominand
Nore Gomez
Democratic Labor Union
Gomez
Confidence in Booker at Alabama convention
Alabama state convention in Tuskegee adopted a resolution condemning the Boston address attack on Principal Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Signed by 800 delegates, the resolution upholds Washington as a conservative worthy leader deserving of respect and confidence.
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Tuskegee, Ala
Alabama State’ Convention
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
Boston
Washington
Lancashire Manufacturers Fear Cotton Tax Proposal
Manchester reports fear that raw cotton import taxation could apply to foreign goods while empire cotton is exempted. Colonial Secretary Chamberlain replies by telegram, stating the rumor is untrue and that he has repudiated any plan to tax raw material.
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Manchester
Eng
Great Britain
Lancashire
Chamberlain
Murder of a Soldier Near Rockport
John Galloway recently returned from the Philippines was murdered at a camp two miles from Rockport Kentucky. His companion Robert Carroll was badly injured, life despaired of. Two masked men attacked the camp, beat Carroll, searched for money, then shot Galloway after he appeared.
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Rockport
John Galloway
Philippines
Robert Carroll
Carroll
Galloway
Wireless system tests on Lake Michigan
A new wireless telegraphy method was tested successfully on Lake Michigan. Emily Pig sent prearranged messages from Garfield avenue Chicago while her son Piggot and his father received them on the deck of the whaleback Christopher Columbus. The system uses no poles at either end and relies on timed currents to avoid foreign interference.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Emily Piggot
Garfield Avenue
Piggot
Greek constitution revision movement gains momentum
Athens saw a rising drive to revise the Greek constitution. Societies push King George to summon a constituent assembly. A widespread petition to the King outlines reforms and warns that revision is essential to Greece's wellbeing. New Orleans involves a legal action over stock quotations.
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Athens
George
Greece
Hungarian Bribery Breeze at Pesth meeting
At a meeting of the independent party Franz Kos suth was re elected president. The bribery commission assembled this evening after Deputy Papp testified that ex Depty Diens attempted to bribe him. Count Szapary confessed he authored the affair, exonerated Premier Hedervary, and asked pardon.
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Buda Pesth
Independent Party
Franz Kossuth
Diet
Papp
Diens
Count Szapary
Hedervary
Pardor
Emigration of Romani Jewish Workers To America Increases
Bucharest reports growing outflow of Romani Jewish laborers seeking work in America. B Nai Brith and other foreign Jewish societies assist emigrants. In New York four new bubonic plague cases reported and three deaths in the prior day with seventeen cages in the lazaretto.
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Bucharest
Rommania
America
B’nai Brith
New York
Iquique
Waves From the Magic Wires Describe Global Labor News
A wide array of items from international finance to colonial tariffs appears. Notes mention Northern Securities case appeal, Parks endorsement by the New York unions, Lodge and the Alaskan Boundary Commission, and Chamberlain’s tariff efforts in Britain. Reports cover debt, land fraud probes in Louisiana, quarantine at Mexican ports, cotton markets in Europe, and rising insanity in England. Also noted are counterfeit notes, reformer Cheen Chien’s death, a Boston bank counterfeit, and Wilton visiting Oyster Bay with Sagamore Hill talks.
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Reliance
Bristol
Pudge Lochren
Minnesota
Northern Securities Company
Housesmitha’ Union of New York
Parks
Senator Lodge
Alaskan Boundary Commission
London
Camberlain
Great Britain
Edward
Queen Alexandra
Ireland
England
King Charles
Portugal
Lisbon
Hamburg-American Steamship Company
Cheen Chien
Pekin
Fourth National Bank of
Boston
Tillman Register
Morgan
State Department
United States
Squires
Havana
Santiago
Spain
Oyster Bay
L. I
Wilton
Department of Agriculture
Sagamore Hill
Austrian Crops Damaged by Heavy Rains Across Austria
Continuous rains in Austria injure crops while floods devastate the Jaegerndorf district in Silesia. buildings collapse and losses run into several millions of kronen. The Pennsylvania Road company acquires 200 miles of electric railway line in New York and nearby areas.
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Vienna
Austria
Jaegerndorf
Silesia
Pennsylvania Road
New York
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China’s
Vilayet
the Catholic Societies
Helen Gould
Late News OF
Yazoo County
Parrot
Bull
Jackeson
Tennessee
Chandler's
California
Booker
New Orleans
New York Cotton Exchange
A.S. Baxter & Co
Western Union Telegraph Company
Gold and Stock Telegraph Company
New York Exchange
Wash
Pacific Northwest
Oregon
Philadelphia
Muy
Warren
Globe
Government of
India
Treasurey Department
Interior Department
Louisiana
Marine Hospital Service
Mexico
Thornwell Haynes
Rouen
Federal Grand Jury
Joseph Chamberlain
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