War Center Now in Sakhalin Amid Fierce Fighting
Dispatches from Japanese and Imperial Army HQs describe heavy clashes on Sakhalin Island with both sides suffering losses. Reports detail the capture of Nethenskoe Rykeff and Vyderniovsky as forces pressed the attack while retreating Russians suffered significant casualties and prisoners. Temperature noted at 3 degrees Fahrenheit as combat raged near Rykoff with fierce street fighting and multiple detachments.
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Tokio
Saktalin
Nethenskoe
Rykeff
Nomilia
Ivavskoe
Vyderniovsky
Rykoff
Sakhalin Island
Port Due
Ourary
Ryko
Reform plan outlines Russia’s national assembly franchise
St Petersburg dispatch lists the ministers approved electoral rules. The plan eliminates most class representation, excluding soldiers, under 25s, foreigners, women, and certain officials. Major towns will use electoral colleges with property or tax qualifications, secret ballots, and absolute majorities.
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St. Petersburg
Council of Ministers
National Assembly
Moscow
No Shameful Peace Prompted by Russian Emperor Note
Lille: The Russian emperor rejects a shameful peace in a note to clergy of Orenburg, vowing to defend great Russia. London: A Telegraph interview with M. de Witte aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse quotes him on peace terms, noting Russia and Japan had not agreed on a common basis. He says he may act as an imperial courier to learn Japan’s terms and is ready to peace, but major powers incomplete.
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Letersburg
Orenburg
Russia
London
Daily ‘Telegraph
M. de Witte
de Witte
Japan
Washington
Dolly Dap
Great Britain
Lousen
Kissin
Lord Tansdowne
Anpan
Wray Hack
Military Negotiations Echo in a New World Voice
A fragmented report outlines demands shaped by actual military and naval capabilities, urging a businesslike exchange. De Witte resists, while voices push for leverage from expected successes to advance imperial aims and preserve honor and dignity. The speaker signals a first priority to seek productive discussion in the New World.
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Fapan
de Witte
Tam Gorversatt
Wossia
TORN BULL BACKS THE JAP Washington
Washington leaders discuss peace terms with Great Britain and ally support. London resists immediate help to Washington, signaling no armistice while stressing that Britain cannot act against Japan’s interests. Lord Lansdowne insists Britain will not tilt toward Japan’s foe.
Taft Aboard Ship once More in Japan Visit
Secretary of War Taft and Miss Roosevelt toured temples and attended church in Kioto, then arrived at Kohe amid a cheering crowd and a station reception with toasts to the president and the mikado. In Kobe a similar welcome greeted them with a water front reception and presents as the steamship Manchuria sailed for Nagasaki. Stoessel relieved of command in St Petersburg. Bessie Mitchell, 11, remains missing since July 18 in Rockford.
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Tokio
Poyulace
America
Kobe
Taft
Niote
Art
Miss Roosevelt
Manchuria
Nagasaki
Scores On The Ball Fields Uhienga July 41
Baseball scores from a weekend slate feature Pittsburgh, New York, St Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston among other teams. Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia posted varied results in league play with multiple doubleheaders and seven inning games noted.
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Uhienga
Pittsburg
Cineduadt
New York
Linitiates
St Louis
Boston
St. Louis By
Chiengo
Diliadelphia
Chiengeai
Stmday
Chichuitl
Cine Cisne
St Reauls
Bostony
St. Joseph
Omahe
St Joseph
Sioux City
Pueblo
Des Moines
Denver
Yellow fever scare grips New Orleans public health
Reports from New Orleans detail yellow fever cases and deaths with daily tallies. Officials cite sanitation and rapid fumigation efforts, while critics accuse authorities of concealing the outbreak. City Health Officer Kolinke explains cases emerged in July with initial diagnoses on July 13.
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New Orleans
Ns. Coliowa
Giliug
Sid City
Varian
Rhinehard
Vardaman
Louisiana
Kolinke
State Board of Health
Contested Yellow Fever Forewarnings Across States
Governor Verdininan of Mississippi charges officials with neglect and incompetence over delays in reporting yellow fever. President Rouchen of the state health board counters, denying prior knowledge of cases in New Orleans. Mississippi authorities tighten controls, refusing passenger certificates from Slidell detention camp on the New Orleans and Northeastern line.
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Kolmke
Verdimnin
Mississipi
New Orleans
Rouchen
State Board of Health
Vardurius
Vardrain
Mississippi
Wadermelt
Varditnian
Jassenpera
Slidell
Two Drowned While Canoeing Near Sparta
Dwuth Minnesota July 83 George Connmet 28 of St Paul and George Price 25 of Eveleth were drowned canoeing to Horse Shoe Jake five miles east of Sparta. The men were mining engineers.
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Dwuth
Minn
George Conneut
St. Paul
George Price
Eveleth
Eorse Shoe Jake
Sparta
Broken axle wrecks California special at Lemont
A broken wheel axle derailed the California special on the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe near Lemont. One man, possibly Job Grugie of Sunnyside Utah, killed. four fatally injured and about twenty others seriously hurt. Injured include William MacVergh of Joliet Illinois with arm and body injuries, M W Moody of Cleveland Ohio with a fractured skull, A Groban Italian laborer with skull fracture and chest crush, and A C Kennedy of Bloomington Illinois crushed but expected to recover.
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Fey
MW. Ll. Moody
Cleveland
A. Grobanni
Talian
A. C. Kennedy
Bloomington
Wil
Misplaced switch wrecks iMag Arkansas train
The Misplaced Switch Again iMag at iMag Arkansas wrecked on a misplaced switch Wreck killed two employees and injures seven The engineer Wilh Houston of Little Rock and fireman A N Doolin of Poplar Bluff Missouri died Injured include J D McLoughlin J Payne M Fowler and J Kruger The Canon on Bah train departed St Louis for Texas points. engine struck the switch, overturned, cars burned in the blaze.
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iMag
Ark
St Lowa, Iron Mountain and Southern
Wilh Houston
Little Rock
A. N. Doolin
Poplar Tariff
J. DD. McLoughlin
J. 12 Payne
Mail Works
St. Louis
M. Fowler
Chicago
J. Martin
J Kruger
Teas Points
Thug Threatens Woman in Anonymous Letter Chicago
Chicago July 8 An anonymous letter writer threatens assassination of Mrs. Fitz-Simons widow of General Charles Fitz Simons. She has been guarded by police for three weeks as the writer claims to be a determined man who was swindled out of money and has picked her by lot. The threat, marked by late warnings, is dismissed by Mrs. Fitz-Simons as likely a crank.
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Chicago
Abs
August FiteSimons
Charles Fitz. Simons
Crank
Deficit for the Month of July Reported by Treasury
Washington sees July receipts around 40.64 million with expenditures near 62.86 million, a deficit of about 13.08 million. In San Francisco scandal, women leaders in Ross Valley armed with green paint blot out garish ads marring local scenery.
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Washington
Treasury
San Francisco
Ross Valley
Parliament to Dissolve? Government Stays Intact
London July 31 The Daily Telegraph reports that parliament will not be dissolved this year unless the government is defeated again before prorogation. The announcement emphasizes stability as the political scene remains tense and uncertain.
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London
The
Daily Telegraph
Republicans of Cleveland seek John D Rockefeller for mayor
Fragmented outline reports Republicans in Cleveland discussing John D Rockefeller as a mayoral candidate amid a string of stray items. The page lists varied notes from Chicago strikes to Bermuda theatre rumors and a hospitalized poet, skimming through unrelated world and local briefings.
City Council Fight Ends With Police Clash In Springfield
A chaotic council meeting in Springfield turns violent as police clash with aldermen over extending the city electric light contract. A sergeant draws a revolver, candles appear, and several officials are shoved or knocked down while Mayor Devereux orders the chamber cleared. An injunction bars mayoral interference with the utility’s plant operation.
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Councl
Springfield Wleetrie Light and Power Company
Coun
Latvenstein Taid
Hay
Hickox
Devereux
Council Chamber
Logan May
Adoptig the Ofter
Counsell Chamber
Hauselman
Combination
Minyor
Lowrie
Creighton
Sangamon County Circuit Court
Emil G. Schmidt
Nanmiger
Interurban wreck near Mattoon injures eighteen
July 81 report from Mattoon Illinois describes a fatal sounding interurban collision east of town involving Charleston and Mattoon cars. Two trains demolished, eighteen injured, some seriously, while others escape with minor wounds during a curve near a field. Several named injured include Dan Geubein and Ethel Cook among others. A separate note covers Colonel John B. Marshal denying rumors about camp conditions after a raid on colored soldiers. Another obituary notes Captain Pearson J. Kiser’s death amid Civil War service.
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Charleston
Trankfort
Dad
Ares
Spring Held
Glen Cleshorn
Lhorace Ails Lid
Otik Yelton
Ol. WY. Davis
Be Stone
Roy Bert Patrick Harrington
Miss Nini Norwell
Sprliafield
Pearson J. Kiser
Mechantesburg
St. Joh's Napital
Vitnois
Seventy-third
Uinois Infantry
Eivil
Lightning Strikes Fatally In New York Thunderstorm
In a fierce thunderstorm in New York several people were killed or injured as lightning struck the Parkway Bathhouse at Coney Island and Cravesend Dock. Victims include George Dinwoodle and Jacob Frankel among others, all of Brooklyn or nearby boroughs, with multiple injuries reported.
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Hehtning
Uttre
Parkway
Coney Talnand
Tutu
Cravesend Dench
George Dinwoodle
Brooklyn
Jacob Frankel
Manhattan
Toberd J. Waseh
Bronxborough
Charles Gonnerle
Jank Bennette
Alenry Transweiler
Throoklyn
David Wilk
James J. Dine
Vind Christiansen
Parry Krotin
Chia Phiol
Mary L. Curley
Tanne Rafe
Amelia Schone
Willum Ransweller
John Apple
Daniel McCaney
John Bulls Offer Declined by Basle Congress
Basle July. By overwhelming majority the congress rejected Great Britain s land offer for an East Africa Zionist colony. A resolution upheld founding the colony in the Jewish homeland Palestine or its nearby areas. The body praised Britain for her role in the Jewish question while Sovietist critics left the floor in protest.
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Basle
Switzerland
4Roniel Congress
Great Britain
East Africa
Aloaist
Palestine
Dlauke Greene Tvltain
Thunder Woke Her In Time To Save Father
Leona Morton woke with thunder to detect chloroform used by burglars in Cleveland. She alerted neighbors aiding her father Melville Morton, who was revived after hours of effort. The article also covers the National Dairy Exposition in Chicago next February and a murder verdict in Georgia.
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Leona Morton
Melville Morton
Morton
An Howe
Lim
Chimeo
United States
Qiexgo
National Buttermakers' Association
Io Dairymen
Dues
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