Pressure on Japan for Peace at Porto of War Talks
Portsmouth N H Aug 16 The peace prospect grows clearer as plenipotentiaries seek a compromise amid hard bargaining. Witte says he has yielded seven of eight articles and that crisis may arrive next Monday. Talks focus on indemnity sea power limits interned ships and fishing rights north of Vladivostok. Russia risks prestige in Manchuria as pressure mounts to end the war.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Sakhalin
Russia
Far East
Japan
Vladivostok
Manchuria
Dalny
Pacific
Vanderbilt's Horse Wins at Auville Stakes
De Auville France August 16 Vanderbilt's Prestige, owned by W K Vanderbilt, won the 2 year old stakes race run here yesterday securing the top prize amid a close finish at the course in France.
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Vanderbilt
de Auville
France
W. K. Vanderbilt
Washington's New Ferry Boat Arrives at V. A. Yard
The first of the new detended for service between and Alexandria, Ve. arrived at the yards in Washington, Del. on August 16.
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Washington
Del
Bury
Alexandria
Wyoming Weather Forecast Notes Warmth North
Washington forecast for Thursday is fair and warmer in the northern portion. Friday should be fair with stable conditions. Local data lists a maximum temperature of 16 degrees and a minimum of 44 degrees. Sym Palmer, Beeton Director.
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Washington
Sym Palmer
Beotton
Yellow fever campaign reports few new fronts opened
New Orleans reports 66 new cases and 4 deaths to 4 pm with 19 new disease centers and 414 patients treated. Deaths hold steady, foci disappear, and federal efforts to prevent infection spread are aided by Tulane’s Professor Almets directing house inspections for cistern screening and sanitation enforcement.
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New Orleans
White
Almets
Tulane University
New York Boys Reported Missing Spark City Alarm
New York police report Leonard Long aged 16 and Edmund Behrens aged 18 both tall over six feet have disappeared amid fears of a growing wave of so called lost giant youths. Behrens is described as six feet two inches tall with an address in Jersey City.
Survey Boat Hancock Sunk After Collision Near Grosse Pointe
The U S lake survey boat Hancock sank in Lake St Clair about two miles north of the Grosse Pointe light after a collision with the freighter Binghampton of Buffalo. All crew escaped in lifeboats. No lives were lost.
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Detroit
Mich
United States Lake Survey
Hancock
Lake &J. Clair
Grosse Point
Police shoot eleven riotous Sicilian strikers
Grand Michele Sicily Aug 16 three masked police fired on strikers who were stoning them, killing seven and wounding a number.
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Grand Michele
Sicily
Dissension Over Exclusion Law at Trans-Mississippi Congress
Portland, Aug. 16. The Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress opened amid sharp rifts over Chinese immigration with California and Western delegates clashing with Oregon and Washington. Governor Chamberlain urged stringent exclusion, echoed by Governor Mead, while Governor Pardee of California urged preserving trade ties with China under strict supervision. The contest is expected to shape resolutions before the committee on resolutions.
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Portland
Ore
California
Western
Oregon
Washington
Chamberlain
China
Pacific
Mead
Pardee
Congress
Belcher Sought by Honolulu Police Embroiled in Embezzlement
Honolulu police watch the steamer Sonoma for ex Mayor H H Belcher of Paterson New Jersey. Acting Governor Atkinson received a cable from the New Jersey governor seeking arrest of Belcher who is believed en route to Australia for embezzling over 100000 dollars.
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Belcher
Honolulu
Sonoma
H. H. Belcher
Paterson
N. J
Atkinson
New Jersey
Australia
Banker Hunt Paying Chicago Depositors
About 1,500 men, women and children, depositors in the defunct Pan-American Bank, are expected to appear at the Sherman house today to receive in full from banker William Hunt.
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Hunt
Chicago
Pan-American Bank Company
Sherman House
William Hunt
Attempt to assassinate the Empress of China in Frankfort
An assassin in military disguise attacked the empress as she rode through Frankfort to her summer palace. The guard bayoneted the assailant, who died from the wound. The incident was reported by the Frankfurter Zeitung on August 16.
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China
Frankfort
Tien Tsim
Chicago meeting officially ignored by government
The Home Market club of Boston protested against proteationists at the National Reciprocity convention in Chicago. The government will not send official representatives with Secretaries Wilson and Metcalfe choosing non participation for public service reasons.
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Washington
H Becauxy
Home Market Club
Boston
Chicago
Wilson
Metcalfe
Metal markets muted as New York opening barely moves
The metal markets in New York opened on August 16 with silver at 0.18, while lead and copper trades remained quiet and unchanged, reflecting a subdued trading session.
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New York
One Killed and a Dozen Injured in Nitro Explosions
Berkeley California August 16 A man was killed and a dozen seriously injured in an explosion that destroyed the Judson Dynamite and Powder nitroglycerine house at Point Isabelle. Foreman Edward Edris was blown to atoms in the building. Injured workers, all Chinese in the mixing room two hundred feet away, will survive. A second explosion an hour later wrecked the mixing works about 500 feet distant, with twenty men barely escaping serious harm.
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Berkeley
Cala
Judson Dynamite and Powder Company
Point Isabelle
Edward Edris
Santa Fe Train Kills Six Laborers at Horseshoe Bend
Six Mexican track laborers were killed and six or seven injured when a Santa Fe work tram collided with a south bound freight near Corona California at Horseshoe Bend twelve miles south of Corona at six o'clock this evening. More deaths expected before morning.
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San Bernardino
Cala
Santa Fe
Horseshoe Bend
Corona
Trolley Wreck Injures Nine in Pasadena Mono area
Nine persons were injured when Pasadena and Monrovia electric cars collided near Oneonta Park east of Los Angeles. Dr. J. W. Trueworthy, noted physician and city library board president, suffered brain concussion and serious injuries as the Monrovia car abruptly stopped causing the rear end collision.
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Los Angeles
Cala
Pasadena
Monrovia
Oneonta Park
J. W. Trueworthy
City Library Board
Nan Patterson Flees From Incensed Woman
Nan Patterson hurriedly packed and left the Cambridge Court hotel announcing a move to Washington D C She faced a claim by Mrs W D Handy of Holyoke apartments that Patterson was overly friendly with C Ralph Ash a Minnesota lumber broker staying at the Hotel Astor Ash a well known lumberman with mining ties and a large western acquaintance faced warnings of potential violence as Patterson fled to Washington D C via the congressional Limited
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Nan Patterson
New York
Cambridge Court
Washington, D.C
Floradora
W. D. Handy
Holyoke
Patterdon
Inlaw
C. Ralph Ash
Duluth
Minn
Astor
Handy
Nan
Floradera
Ash
Washington
Boulevard
du- Tuth
Death after pool dive in Canon City
Canon City Colorado records the death of 28 year old Johno C Mardenberg from a spinal cord injury sustained during a pool dive on Saturday. He was a married head lineman for the Colorado Electric Power company.
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Canon City
Colo
Johno C Mardenberg
Colorado Electric Power Company
Mass Rock Slide Traps 18 Workers at Lehigh Portland Quarry
In Ormrod near Allentown a limestone slide from Mill A caused a quarry wall to form a 100 foot drop. Twenty-seven Slavonian men were at work. only nine escaped, twelve killed and six injured, two of whom may die.
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Allentown
Pal
Mill A
Lehigh-Portland Cement Company
Ormrod
Norway rejects prince and will become a republic
Berlin reports Copenhagen information that Britain backed Prince Charles of Denmark to take the Norwegian throne but the plan failed. Norway is expected to establish a republic.
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Norway
Berlin
Great Britain
Charles of
Denmark
Copenhagen
Harriman Sets Course for Japan on Extended Visit
San Francisco reports E H Harriman among passengers leaving for Japan for an extended tour that may mix business with leisure. In Madrid King Alfonso survives an auto accident near Usurbil while returning from San Sebastian. tires burst after a maneuver to avoid a collision and the monarch proceeds to Miramar for church services.
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Harriman
Japan
San Francisco
E. H. Harriman
Mr. Harriman
Alfonso
Madrid
San Sebastian
Usurbil
Orio
Miramar
Express Crash Kills Three at Cincinnati Trolley Crossing
A Baltimore and Ohio through express bound from New York to Cincinnati collided with the Winton Place trolley at Mitchell avenue in Winton Place suburb. Three people died and ten were injured as the engine and mail car were thrown from the tracks. Eyewitnesses blame gate tender John Driscoll for signaling the street car to cross.
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Cincinnati
New York
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
Winton Place
Mitchell Avenue
John Driscoll
Millionaire Henkel Will Challenged in Court
In Detroit on August 16 a contest over the $1,000,000 estate of late Peter Henkel a Detroit manufacturer who died in May 1904 was filed in Wayne County circuit court by Alice Hedkal Pennington granddaughter of the deceased. She says he was of unsound mind when he made the will and that the instrument was drawn up under fraud undue influence misrepresentation and coercion by the named defendants.
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Detroit
Mich
Peter Henkel
Wayne County
Alice Hedkal Pennington
Pennington
Wind storm tears through St Louis area injuring many
A violent wind and rain storm strikes St Louis and East St Louis causing many injuries after ten minutes of darkness. Two people were blown from a house roof, roofs collapse, chimneys topple, and a freight office suffers panic causing a stairway crash as winds reach 48 miles per hour.
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St. Louis
East St. Louis
Louisville & Nashville
Forty Killed in Bielostok Disturbances Reported
An official account from St. Petersburg dated August 16 confirms forty people killed in Bielostok, Russian Poland. Jewish factions reportedly opened fire on troops who answered with volleys.
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Mdas
St. Petersburg
Bielostok
Russian Poland
Vienna Strike Shuts Factories Threatening Flareup
Vienna workers in all factories walked out today in a general strike. Their attitudes were described as threatening as the strike spread through the city.
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Vienna
Girl Falls 120 Feet But Survives Miracle Rescue
Sadie De vries a Washington New Jersey girl plunged 120 feet into a Bloombury precipice but her skirt snagged on tree branches at the base saving her from the rocks. She was unconscious on rescue, badly cut but expected to recover.
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New York
Bloombury
Hunterdon County
N. J
Sadie Devries
Washington
Kaiser awards fourth class orders to Americans
Berlin reports Emperor William has conferred the Order of the Red Eagle fourth class on Major Furzer of the Louisville Anzeiger and Captain von Nostitz Jaeckeniorf of Louisville. He also awarded the Crown order fourth class to Dr. Juan of Washington DC.
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Kaiser
Berlin
Emperor William
Major Furzer
Louisville
International Congress for Gregorian Chant Opens in Strasburg
Delegates from nearly all civilized countries attend the opening of the International Congress for Gregorian Chant in Strasburg Alsace. Doctrinal sessions begin and will cover liturgical historical and aesthetic aspects in private and public meetings.
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Strasburg
Alsace
Baseball scores roundup from Pueblo to Brooklyn
In the American League games Pueblo and Denver split an 8 to 4 result for Sioux City over St Joseph. Sioux City beat St Louis 5 to 0 while Philadelphia and St Louis tied 4 to 4 with Washington 1 over Cleveland 7. Detroit and New York game postponed due to wet grounds. In the National League Pittsburg trounced Brooklyn 6 to 10 then tied 4 to 4.
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Pueblo
Denver
Bloux City
St. Joseph
Sioux City
St. Ine
Phiiladelphia
St. Louia
Washington
Cleveland
Pittsburg
Brooklyn
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