Peace prospects in Portsmouth hinge on Roosevelt mediated terms
Report from Portsmouth on President Roosevelt stepping into the Russo Japanese War mediation. Russia to Sakhalin and indemnity remain key sticking points. Witte shows pessimism about Russia’s response as Tokyo presses for payment and cession of Sakhalin.
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Sakhalin
Portsmouth
N. H
Aus
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St. Peterabura
Tokio
Japan
Great Britain
Claude MacDonald
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Baron de Rosen
Witte
Elven
Baron Ve Rosen
Hiastern
China
Platform Collapse At Beth Pavyid Synagogue Ceremony
A platform collapse during the cornerstone ceremony at the Beth Pavyid Russian Hebrew Orthodox synagogue on Miller Street in Pittsburg injures 590 people including Rabbis Ashinsky S Graffman A Bloom and Nathan Nathanson and Policeman Adam Leftweski. The 50 by 50 foot platform buckled under a rush of Zionists. most victims were cut or bruised but none fatally.
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Pittsburg
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Ashinsky
S. Graffman
A. Bloom
Nathan Nathanson
Adam Leftweski
Growing Better The Yellow Fever Giving Way Before the Efforts of Physicians
New Orleans reports 45 new cases bringing total to 1 385 and 4 deaths yesterday. Total deaths reach 196 with 381 cases under treatment and 306 foci to date. Fever is being controlled with declines in new cases and deaths, showing progress toward eradication. Comparisons with 1878 suggest no reason for alarm.
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New Orleans
Tragic Drowning in Crawfish River Near Jefferson Wis
Frank Hall and his two children aged fourteen and twelve drowned in the Crawfish river two miles from Jefferson Wisconsin yesterday while the parents watched their children bath. The father died after rescuing his daughter then sank trying to save his son. In Madrid labor unrest leaves 100000 workers without necessities and landlords fleeing rioters.
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Jefferson, Wis
Frank Hall
Wall
Bodies Recovered after Atlantic Coast Line Car Crash
Norfolk reports the removal of two AC Line cars from Elizabeth River reveals two bodies in the first car, raising the total dead to thirteen with five missing. Injured survivors are not expected to die, some to be sent home soon.
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Norfolk
Atlantic Coast Line
Elizabeth River
James
Lateros
Theotr Ti
Woos
Reciprocal League Formed At Chicago Tariff Conference
The reciprocity conference concluded its work and established the American Reciprocal League a permanent organization. A fifteen member committee was authorized to promote the convention's plans and to organize operations for the new league. Resolutions call for a maximum and minimum tariff and a permanent tariff commission to be created by Congress.
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Chicago
Ang. Lo
United States
American Reciprocal League
Congress
ENGINE HITS STREETCAR IN BUTTE TRAFFIC
A yard engine struck a crowded Columbia Garden streetcar at the Butte depot last night. Ten people were killed and many injured as two boxcars were being moved. The motorman allegedly lost presence of mind and powered forward as the car crossed the track. Pratt, Kansas dispatch notes a murder arrest in the death of a farmer’s husband, with a farm hand charged as an accomplice.
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Columbia
Butte, Anaconda & Pacific
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Curzon Resigns as Viceroy of India
London reports the resignation of Lord Curzon of Kedleston as vice royalty of India and the appointment of the Earl of Minto as his successor announced at the India Office last night.
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Conger Opposes Japanese Influence Over China Opinion
Washington Aug. 21 Edwin H Conger American ambassador to Mexico is in Washington en route home from Oyster Bay. He says he will not return to China and that Japan will not dominate China after the war with Russia. He notes a coolie earns six dollars monthly and urges railroad building as a better investment for employment and money, denying a yellow peril.
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Edwin H. Conger
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Iowa
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
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Mexico City
Japan
Russia
Mr. Conger
America
Venezuela orders torpedo boats and arms for war
New York reports Venezuela placed large European orders for torpedo boats and ammunition costing over 250000. President Castro allegedly vowed to fight the Yankee and prevented landing of a Roosevelt emissary to Caracas amid tensions and anger over Calhoun investigation.
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Venezuela
Europe
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Roosevelt
William J. Calhoun
Caracas
Dangers of Racing at Kenilworth Park
Webb Jay of Cleveland was fatally injured in a ten mile auto race when his car plunged through a fence and into a 15 foot embankment pond at Kenilworth park. Spectators rescued him. doctors report nine broken ribs a punctured lung and a fractured femur with pneumonia and pleurisy possible.
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Webb Jay
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Kenilworth Park
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Winona Bible Conference Opens With Sermon at Winona Lake
A large crowd attends the opening of the eleventh annual Winona Bible conference in Winona Lake Warsaw Indiana Rev Chapman delivers the morning sermon denouncing Christian Science as false doctrine He says it hides the purpose of Christ and must be rebuked The schedule lists 115 meetings over the next ten days.
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Ind
Winona
Missing city assessor Lamoreux sparks search in Berlin New Hampshire
Berlin reports the disappearance of C Lamoreux of the Canadio American Insurance Company a French Canadian benefit society. Creditors claim about 21000 and his store and residence have been attached. Lamoureux is a city assessor and active in local politics causing a wave of concern.
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N. H
C. Lamoreux
Canadio-American Insurance Company
Lamoureux
Railway and World News Roundup From Portsmouth to Chicago
Reports from Portsmouth on arid fnses and conference outcomes, plus a Milwaukeethee harnessmakers convention with hundreds of delegates. Awards in a French Venezuelan claims settlement total $636 212 from an $8 215 245 demand. A northbound passenger train collision near Macon Georgia kills five. Cuban senate passes amnesty bill for pre republic misconduct officials. Morocco conference likely to meet in Madrid. National convention of railway commissioners in Deadwood. Giuseppe Nicolacce, famed Adelina Patti teacher, dies in New York at eighty. National Baptist convention postponed to October 25. Chinese boycott origins traced to Honolulu in 1901. F Clay Elkin, Lexington postmaster, dies. International Typographical Union in Toronto. Allentown limestone cave-in kills twelve. Fort Snelling privates desert in protest. Bielostuk Poland disturbances kill forty. Granmichaelie police in Sicily kill seven strikers. Santa Fe wreck near Santa Ana Riverside kills six.
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Senate
Republic
Guiseppe Nicolacce
Adelina Patti
New York
National Baptist Convention
Chicago
Honolulu
F. Clay Elkin
Lexington
Granmichaele
Sicily
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Santa Ana
Riverside
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Fraternal Eagles Session in Denver Marks Emperors Birthday
The grand session of the fraternal Eagles is held in Denver as the seventy five birthday of Emperor Francis Joseph is celebrated. A Russian ukase authorizes a hundred million dollar internal loan at five percent. A hurricane and tidal wave near the Marshall Islands on June 30 reportedly caused one hundred deaths.
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Order of Eagles
Denver
Francis Joseph
Lyons Register
Roberts
Marshall Islands
Uprising in German East Africa Costs Life of Two Officers
A report lists two German officers and seventeen Soudanese soldiers killed in an uprising in German East Africa. The piece also notes other varied news items from the era.
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