Russia Germany and France Form Coalition to Challenge Britain
Special Cable from St Petersburg reports a Russo German French bloc formed to oppose Britain over Delagoa Bay and India. The piece traces diplomacy since Berlin and notes visits between Kaiser Wilhelm II and the French fleet, with Moscow orchestrating a continental coalition.
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Russia
Germany
France
Commercial Tribune
ST. Petersburg
Italy
Austria
Peter the Great
Constantinople
India
Nicholas II
England
Bombay
St. James
Transvaal
Kruger
Berlin
Delagoa Bay
Africa
Delcasse
French
Gunboat Marietta Silver Service Presentation Planned
Governor Asa S. Bushnell will travel to Boston next week to present a silver service to the gunboat Marietta on behalf of Marietta Ohio. The gift honors the town’s namesake ship and will be presented around September 1 at the Charleston Navy Yard with local Marietta spectators watching.
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Commercial Tribune
Springfield
Asa S. Bushnell
Lakes
Boston
Marietta
Ohio
Bushnell
Charleston Navy Yard
Reed Resigns Seat in First Maine District
Thomas B. Reed resigned as Congressman from Maine's First District, effective September 4, accepted by Governor Powers. Reed's letter closes with a formal notice of his step down from the Portland address.
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Augusta
Thomas B. Reed
Maine
Powers
Two Whitecapers Shot to Deathin Oneida Tennessee
Violence erupts as a mob storms a house near Oneida killing Charles H. West and David Akers. A tramp and his friend fled in female clothing after a prolonged exchange of fire with rifles and shotguns. Several others wounded, pursuit ongoing by officers and posse.
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Commercial Tribune
Chattanooga
Tenn
Oneida
Cincinnati Southern Railway
Charles H. West
David Akers
Tramp
West
Akers
Taylor Speaks as Republican Campaign Opens in London Ky
Gen Taylor launches a vigorous attack on Gobelism and defends Republican record in Kentucky. He cites deficits at the penitentiaries and school fund misclaims, praises public printing savings, and highlights alleged misdeeds by the prior administration. The London rally draws thousands, with Pratt Powers and Boreing present.
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Kentucky
Commonwealth
Weston Asylum staff removed after Sta thers case echoes
In Parkersburg West Virginia on August 22 the Weston Asylum board dismissed Mrs Sommer A G Defoe and Walter Brown from their posts. They were accused of not being in sympathy with the administration and were among several expected to be discharged this week.
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Commercial Tribune
Parkersburg
W. Va
Weston Asylum
Stathers
Sommer
A. G. Defoé
Miss Wilson
Thompsons Arrested After Farmers Fight in Kentucky
Thompson brothers and Bob Moody were arrested after a Saturday night incident with Farm ers Marshal Scott. Two Thompsons were found at home seriously wounded and guarded. The others face trial in Morehead Saturday as tensions run high between their supporters and town authorities.
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Thompson Brothers
Bob Moody
Farmers
Lige Fuller
Thompsons
Scott
Warren
Will Thompson
Will
Afro American Council Backs Anti-Lynching Bill
In Chicago on August 22 the Executive Committee of the Afro American Council adopted a resolution endorsing Attorney Edward E. Brown's anti-lynching bill. The measure declares lynching a federal crime and authorizes presidential intervention to stop such acts, with the committee pledging to push Congress to pass it.
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Congress
Chicago
The
Afro- American Council
Edward E. Brown
Boston
Colonel Jouaust Heads Dreyfus Court Martial
Colonel Jean-Baptiste Jauust presides at Rennes as president of the court martial trying Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
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Captain Dreyfus
Rennes
Two Thieves Shot in Highway Chase Near Springfield
William Wetzel and Samuel Isley two Springfield negroes were shot and killed about 4 pm by Patrolman C. L. Bower and Special Officer F. M. Reissnyder while fleeing toward Springfield after alleged harness theft from Mayor Jas. Johnson of Urbana. The pursuit involved Urbana and Springfield officials who were fired upon. inquiries began this evening. Wetzel and Isley had prior prison terms for burglary and hog theft.
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Urbana
J. Heatherman
Charles Johnson
Bower
Reit
Nyder
Wetzel
Isley
Johnson
Heatherman
John H. Wilson
Reifsnyder
Daring Escape From Polk County Jail Uncovers Four Prisoners
Des Moines Iowa Aug Rus daring escape frees four prisoners from Polk County Jail after watchman Wiggars is overpowered by inmates in a basement cell area. The escapees are John Perry Martin Levering John Vanscoy and George F Smith chased for highway robbery and horse stealing with no trace found.
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Aug
Polk County
Liberty
Wiggars
John Perry
Martin Levering
John Vanscoy
George F. Smith
Smith
Boone
Veterans Union opens with 1000 in Des Moines
National Encampment of the Union Veterans' Union begins sessions in Des Moines with 1000 attendees as Secretary of State Dobson, acting for Governor Shaw, delivers welcome. General Dyrenforth criticizes Washington pension delays and urges members to press for fairer treatment.
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Union Veterans’ Union
Dobson
Shaw
Dyrenforth
MacVicar
Langstaff
Dubuque
National Officers of the Union
Washington
Dewey Chaplain Weds In Simple South Pittsburg Ceremony
Miss Kate B. Cooke of South Pittsburg Tenn and Chaplain Hugh Fraser U S N were married at the Southern Methodist Church South Pittsburg at 6 30 pm in a simple ceremony. They will travel to Knoxville San Francisco and Honolulu before settling. Fraser serves aboard the Olympia and fought at Manila. The event drew wide social interest across Tennessee.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Kate B. Cooke
South Pittsburg
Hugh Fraser
Southern Methodist
Knoxville
San Francisco
Honolulu
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Dewey
Olympia
Manila
Three Men Fined for Dynamite Use in River Fish Kill
Massillon Ohio August 22 Justice Sibila fined Howard Heintzleman Navarre EB L Zeltner Canton and William Dickerhof Canton 100 each plus costs for guilty plea to using dynamite to kill fish in the Tuscarawas River Game Warden Dan Geleisen made the arrests.
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Massillon, CO
Howard Heintzleman
Navarre
EB. L. Zeltner
William Dickerhof
Canton
Justice Sibila
Tuscarawas River
Dangeleisen
Smiths mark fifty ninth wedding anniversary in Bend
8001H Bend Indiana August 22 Mr and Mrs John H Smith celebrate their fifty ninth wedding anniversary in good health Four generations attend the gathering.
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Commercial Tribune
Bend
Ind
John H. Smith
Joseph McDonald
Morally a Murderer in Police Court
Mrs Albert Sedenburg and her husband faced assault charges in Indianapolis Police Court. He beat her after returning home drunk. she defended herself with scissors, leaving him hospitalized. She died hours earlier from morphine administered by her own hand. The judge told him he was morally guilty as if he had killed her.
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Commercial Tribune
Indianapolis
Albert Sedenburg
Sedenburg
Pickering Seeks Site for World’s Largest Telescope in Jamaica
Prof Edward Charles Pickering of Harvard Observatory arrives in Kingston Jamaica to scout sites for the world’s largest telescope to study a new planet expected to pass near Earth in about eighteen months He is impressed by Jamaica’s advantages after leading Mist Observatory in Peru.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Edward Charles Pickering
Harvard Observatory
Associated Press
Cambridge
Pickering
Mist Observatory
Peru
Rioting In Hilversum Sparks Martial Law Proclamation
Near Amsterdam Aug 22 martial law was proclaimed in Hilversum with troops occupying the town after a mob attacked police and the Burgomaster’s house in anger over a suppressed local fair.
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Amsterdam
Hilversum
Archbishop of Canterbury overrides incense ban in church
The Archbishop of Canterbury's stance against incense and light in services is affirmed by the Bishop of London in a letter to clergy. The Bishop says it is the duty of the Church of England to obey the Archbishop's request for the good of all.
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Commercial Tribune
London
Bishhop of
Archbishop of Canterbury
England
Rain at Plattsburg Conference Delays Presidential Meeting
Heavy rain kept the Presidential party indoors at Plattsburg New York as Secretary of War Root arrived with papers. He could not say when he would return to Washington. General Merritt likely to attend the conference with the President and Root.
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N.Y
Root
Washington
Merritt
Phoenix Park Recalls Two Prisoners Released
Special Cable reports Dublin August twenty second that the Phoenix Park tragedy offenders left Maryborough Jail. Fitz Harris and Hanlon, the last two prisoners, were freed and walked out in good health with no further statements.
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Hanlon
Commercial Tribune
Dublin
Phoenix
Park
Fitz Harris
Maryborough
Remarkable Flood Destroys Water Tank at Seymour Yard
At Seymour Indiana on August 22 a Baltimore & Ohio yard crew forced a 37 car train back onto a spur switch causing the rear cars to run over ground for two cars. The 40 000 gallon water tank fell, burst, and flooded the tracks. A box car and several oil barrels were destroyed as heavy timbers were displaced. water disruption will delay through engines until a new tank is rebuilt.
Postmaster Tortured by Mob in Peck Florida
Editor W C Crum postmaster at Peck Florida was attacked by masked whitecaps, bound, beaten, and mutilated on a moonlit road. They cut whiskers from one side of his face and burned wounds with carbolic acid, forbidding any future appointment of a Black assistant. He has closed the office and resigned to Washington.
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Russia
Italy
Alsace
Lorraine
England
Germany
Tampa
Fla
W. C. Crum
Florida Republican
Peck
Dan Morrison
Morrison
Crum
Washington
Englishman Cronin Die in Philippine War
James Cronin from Richmond Indiana enlisted in the Twenty seventh Regiment and was shot in the Philippines last Thursday dying the next day. Cronin, born in England, had prior British Army service in the Philippines.
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Commercial Tribune
Richmond
Ind
James Cronin
Twenty-seventh Regiment
Philippines
Cronin
Unknown in Paris for General Harrison Post Office mix
A dispatch notes that General Benjamin Harrison, ex president of the United States, is in Paris as a Venezuelan arbitration counselor. A return letter addressed to him as General Benjamin Harrison Paris France was marked Unknown here at the Post Office.
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Austria
Italy
France
William II
Hohenzollern
Faure
Count Mouravieff
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Bismarck
French Republic
Prince Orloff
Special Dispatch
O Commercial Tribune
Indianapolis
Benjamin Harrison
United States
Harrison
Argentine President Rocas Rejoins Fleet After Brazil Visit
Buenos Aires reports General Rocas, head of Argentina, and his party rejoined the Argentine squadron today following a recent visit to Dr. Campos Salles, Brazil’s president, in a courtesy exchange.
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Buenos Ayres
General Roca
Campos Salles
Brazil
Glass worker arrives to marry Miss Hoffman then vanishes
George Lenhart, a glass worker from Cleveland, came to Massillon to wed Miss Cora Hoffman. Last night she disappeared leaving a note saying she would never see him again.
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Commercial Tribune
Massillon
George Lenhart
Cleveland
Cora Hoffman
Dreyfus Trial Sheds Light On Defension and Silence
In Rennes on August 22 the Dreyfus trial saw Maitre Labori press General Mercier to reveal forgery history while Mercier refused for state reasons. Dreyfus proclaimed his loyalty and love for France, tears on his cheeks as the court adjourned for a recess.
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Labori
Mercier
Army
Schneider
Jouaust
Maitre Bori
Labori Returns to Dreyfus Trial After Assault
Rennes Aug 22 Maitre Labori leading defense in the Dreyfus treason trial returned to court on the second day of the trial’s third week. The court president commended Labori for surviving the assault and Labori thanked the court and supporters in a poised reply amid the assembly.
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Rennes
Maitre Labori
Alfred Dreyfus
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