Imperial Procession For Alexander II Memorial In St Petersburg
The Sept 2 report describes Nicholas II attending a consecration on the Alexander II memorial site in St Petersburg. Guards patrol the Neva banks as police strictness and window bans are enforced. The emperor’s party arrived quietly, was greeted by cheers, and the service proceeded with formal military display amid careful security. The article also notes political shifts as the third Duma nears, with reform-minded landowners and mixed revolutionary influences shaping the legislature.
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St. Petersburg
Nicholas Bad
Alexander II
Neva
Peter
Boft
Admiralty
Constantine
Splendid Imperial Ceremony At The Church Scene Of Great Splendor
The emperor and empress visited a church for a three hour ceremony attended by 2 000 ruling class observers. Stolypin attended as the only minister. peasants funded the eluded fund. The emperor wore a Preobrajensky uniform with blue sash, the empress in white silk with diamonds and a parasol.
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Stolypin
Ting
St. Andrew
New Russian Duma Faces Difficult Start in Nov Meeting
Preliminaries for the third Duma underway in St. Petersburg as provincial electoral colleges vote to select deputies. Interest wanes from prior campaigns due to electoral law changes diminishing the grip of radical and advanced liberal parties and leaders.
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St. Petersburg
Tis
Jibara
Poliical
Strug
Lumber rate case opens the floodgates for claims
Judge Emory Speer rules lumbermen in the Georgia Saw Mill association who joined Georgia Morida or were outsiders in the Georgia Morida belt may recover the 2 cent per 100 pounds excess tariff paid. The decision covers members at filing in 1903 and those who joined later and could involve over $1,000,000 with lengthy hearings to follow.
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Macon. Ga
Emory Speer
Georgia Saw Mill Association
Southern
Southeastern Tariff Association
Georgia Association
Georgia- Morida Association
Georgia and
Morida
West
Aged Minister Rev John Mathews Dies at 81
Rev. John Mathews aged 81, the oldest serving minister in the southern Methodist Episcopal Church, died at his son W. T. Mathews home in St. Louis. He had preached in nearly every city and town in the United States during his sixty years of active ministry.
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St. Louis
John Mathews
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
W. T. Mathews
Mathews
United States
Mrs Mary Smith of Howard Dies in Green Bay
Mrs Mary Smith of the town of Howard is dead in Green Bay at age with six marriages. She had been living with her sixth husband at the time of her death.
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Green Bay
Wis
Mary Smith
Howard
Tempelhof Field Opens German Maneuver In Berlin
A roundup notes German army maneuvers begin today at Tempelhof Field Berlin as other world events are reported including Mount Vesuvius activity and local civic celebrations in Buffalo New York for its 75th anniversary.
Opening of Joe Fifer's Dancin School at Lexington Hall
Announcement for the opening of Joe Fifer's dancin school and social at Lexington Hall on September 3. The socials are described as strictly first class in every respect with detailed standards noted.
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Joe Fifer
Lexington Hall
Young Theodore on a Hunt For Prairie Chickens
Theodore Roosevelt Jr and Martin Hughitt Jr travel from Winona Minnesota toward South Dakota for a hunting trip. They board a two caboose extra and push authorities to speed the special west so they can reach the prairie chicken fields in time for opening season.
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Winona
Minn
Chicago and Northwestern
Wessington
S. D
South Dakota
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Martin Hughitt, Jr
Minnesota
Young Roosevelt
Hughitt
Quiet Labor Day Observed in Chicago
Chicago marked the quietest Labor Day in ten years with small union celebrations and no parade. President John Fitzpatrick said locals saved nearly 500000 and could spend the day at home with families while nationwide unions held parades and speeches for workers.
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Chicago
John Fitzpatrick
Chicago Federation of Labor
United States
Connelly Dying. Prussian Officer Jokes. Graft Case
The report documents Jas Connelly of Avella near Washington PA dying after a poker incident where fellow workers allegedly attacked him and poured turpentine on him before fleeing. Informants say his companions have disappeared. Also noted is a Prussian army joke after Emperor William’s fall from a horse and a Wisconsin graft case where G A Davis was sentenced to a year in state penitentiary.
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Washington
Connelly
Avella
Herlin
Frederick the Great
William
Hanover
Lacrosse
Wis
G. A. Davis
Motormen Blamed in Charleston Interurban Wreck
After the coroner jury found criminal negligence in an interurban collision that killed fourteen, motormen Ben F McClara and Charles Botts were arrested on bonds of 600 each. The inquiry faulted Central Allingls Traction for incompetent staff and poor procedures. A revised list of dead includes Cooks Mills, Mattoon, Paradise and Humboldt victims. The state railroad commission opened its own probe as damage suits loom, with potential payouts reaching 500000.
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Charleston
Til
Ben FF. McClara
Charles Botts
McClara
Botts
Central Allingls Traction Company
Glee Miller
William Enos
Mattoon
William Cole
Cooks Mills
Harley Cole
Raymond Cole
Neil Hugate
Clee Miller
North Okaw
Porter Myers
Humboldt
William Nelson
Albert W. Price
Ronald Mattoon
Edward Runnels
Paradise
Albert Smith
Zuelk Vandeventer
Thomas Weakly
TRAIN WRECKERS WERE BOYS IN ILLINOIS CASE
Two boys Paul Jones and Charles Allison confessed to throwing an unlocked switch causing a Clover Leaf train wreck near Bowman Illinois. They tried to reset it when the train approached and fled. Detectives investigated previous wreck attempts tied to vindictive actions and freight traffic in the area. In Urbana Illinois Judge Francis W Wright granted a temporary injunction to stop picketing at American Steel Foundries Granite City works, with a court date Oct 7 to decide permanence.
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Carmi
Bowman
Paul Jones
Charles Allison
Springeifid
American Steel Foundries Company
Granite City
Francis W. Wright
Urbana
Umphrey
United States
Broom Corn Harvest Opens Amid Short Labor Pool
Bloomington reports the annual broom corn harvest underway as workers arrive from Ohio Kentucky Indiana Missouri and other states. Officials note smaller labor numbers than past years and a predicted famine of help. Experts are paid well. A side item in Bloomington notes a dispute over mustache styles within the Amish community. In Carmi a man killed his wife during a quarrel over money she earned. Vaughan, once in Thebes, Illinois, is mentioned in connection with the incident.
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Tijnoss
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Kentucky
Indiana
Missouri
Carmi
GT. Vayighn
Hergé
Vaughan
Thebes
Matador Moronto Chico fatally gored at Juarez arena
El Paso reports Moronto Chico, a renowned matador, was gored by a bull in Juarez Plaza del Luro and badly mangled before thousands of spectators. He is believed to have died from his injuries.
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el Paso
Tex
Moronto Chico
Juarez Plaga del ‘Luros
Reading Company Chief Accuses Hanna of Forcing Coal Price Rise
Philadelphia September 2 President George F Baer of the Reading Company the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company accuses late United States Senator Marcus A Hanna of practically forcing the anthracite coal operators to buy peace for themselves and their workers in the great strike years ago He says Hanna declared to the coal barons that unless they settled the strike McKinley would be defeated and was empowered by the UMW to act for that organization The charge centers on a 1900 agreement to raise coal prices amid violence and intimidation of striking miners and government and state failures to enforce laws The defendant denies any conspiracy and calls the charges scandalous and impertinent but offers no admission of motive or wrongdoing.
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Philadelphia
George F. Baer
Reading Company
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
United States
Marcus A. Hannon
Tiannna
McKinley
Baer
Pennsylvania
Marcus A. Hanna
McKinley Memorial Dedication Ceremonies Extended
An invitation to the people of the United States to attend the dedication ceremonies for the McKinley memorial monument was extended. The address, prepared by the executive committee, notes the event will take place on September 30 and outlines arrangements for public participation.
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Iverybody
Canton
Unite States
Midshipman W A Lee Wins U S Rifle Championship
At Camp Perry Ohio on September 2 midshipman W A Lee age 19 captured the United States rifle championship. The Couriers Journal and Times resume publication from their old quarters after a previous loss estimate proved exaggerated.
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W. A. Lee
United States
Ohio
Sane
Armennen
Lonsville
Couriers Journal
Vimes
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