Portsmouth N H Reports Japan Russia Treaty Near Final
A treaty of Forts Moth between Japan and Russia is completed with eight preambles and seventeen articles. Differences over the protocol remain but are expected to be settled. Ratifications will occur within fifty days after signing. public release awaits imperial approvals. The signing is to be exclusive with limited attendees.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Associated Press
de Bfartens
Denison
de Witte
Romura
Tokio
Merer
United States
Knoxn
St. Petersburg
St Petersburg
Baron Komura
Fctel
Europe
America
Pierce
McLane
New Hampshire
Mead
Navy Yard
Winslow
Peirce
Takahira
Sato
Emperor of Japan Sends Roosevelt Message to President
The emperor of Japan has sent a formal message to President Roosevelt explaining the delay in issuing a formal reply. The communication was received at Oyster Bay on September 4 and notes appreciation for the president’s efforts during ongoing negotiations.
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Far East
Tokio
Mutsuhito
Japan
Portsmouth
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Roosevelt credited by William at dinner in Berlin report
Emperor William praised President Roosevelt for achieving peace at Portsmouth after a dinner with Representative Wil lam Alden Smith of Michigan. Crown Prince Frederick William and Chancellor von Buelow were introduced after. The Grashdam notes European diplomacy yields to Roosevelt led peace, while Tokyo reports discontent and cables cut.
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Berlin
Willam Alden Smith
Michigan
Emperor William
Smith
Wiliam
Portsmouth
Roosevelt
Snurh
Frederck William
Prince von Buelow
St. Petersburg
Grashdam
M. de Witte
Riots Break Out as Reservists Depart Libau
In Libau on September 4 reservists left town amid mob violence by Somalistic agitators. Ten people killed and fifty wounded as shots were fired from a house. Cavalry charged with sabers and troops stormed the house. One policeman died and several others were wounded. Twenty-one wounded were hospitalized. many victims included women and children.
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Libau
Aty
Baseball Scores Across Leagues Reported
Scores from multiple leagues on Saturday include St Louis beating Pittsburg 5 to 4, Boston defeating Brooklyn 1 to 0, Cincinnati toppling Chicago 3 to 2, and Chicago falling to Pittsburg 1 to 0 in a second game. Sunday weather notes accompany results in St Louis and Omaha, with several rain shortened or completed innings recorded.
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Pittsburg
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Boston
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
New York
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Minneapols
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Western
Des Moines
Sts. Joseph J
Omaha
Sioux City
Pueblo
Denver
St. Joseph
Pueblio
Eleven Lost In Lake Superior Wreck Seventeen aboard Sepronia disaster
Ashland Wisconsin reports a gale on Lake Superior after the steamer Sevenia broke in two off York Island. One boat with eleven aboard reached shore exhausted. A second boat with seven, including four women, landed safe. Others, including captain and crew, believed lost as rescue efforts continue.
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Ashland
Wis
Lake Superior
York Island
Allover
Erie
Crafé
Enmbeer
Lattle Sand Bay
Bearest
Bayfeld
Harrow
Antarson
Aakland
Tig Harrow
Bayfield
McDonald
Northeast
Louis Darwin
Medina
Sevenia
Cleveland
van Vieck
Pame
Labor Parade in Chicago Draws Fewer Unions
Chicago September 4 parade opened at 9 am with many unions absent including 123 not appearing. The musicians dispute over uniforms caused walkouts and later picnics at Ogden's grove with speeches by Mayor Dunne and leaders like Perkins Patterson Lewis and Medill Patterson.
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Eany
Chicago
Am Nung
Teamsters
Musicians’ Union
L. E. McGann
W. F. Brennan
Joseph Medill Patterson
James Hamilton Lewis
Adria A. Anson
Miller shoots himself as police close in on crime
In Chicago on September 4, George C. Miller, a retired grain broker, tried to kill his divorced wife and L B Hull at the Hills home on 23 Chicago avenue before turning the revolver on himself. Mrs Hill escaped unharmed while Ball lost an arm. Police believe the case solves the earlier Mrs Mize killing near the Del Prado hotel.
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Chicago
L. B. Hull
George C. Miller
Ball
Jgller
Grand Army Encampment Opens with Six Nominees
Denver hosts the thirty ninth Grand Army of the Republic encampment with five candidates for commander in chief Corporal Tanner of New York Robert Brown of Ohio Colonel Burroughs of New Jersey Representative Charles Burton of Missouri and General George Stone of California Four cities Chattanooga Columbus Minneapolis and Buffalo vie for the 1906 meeting place Congress is urged to pass a service pension bill with no age limit and another to pension Civil War veterans on a per diem basis A plan for a patriotic instructor post to teach patriotism in public schools is also proposed.
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Denver
Grand Army of the Republic
Minneapolis
Buffalo
Congress
Roosevelt for 1908 Endorsed in Pittsburg
The Leader newspaper of Pittsburgh endorses President Roosevelt for another term despite his declaration he will not seek re election.
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Roosevelt
Pittsburg
Diverse 1905 World News Highlights Include Plague Report and Marital Plans
Reports from Colon Panama note 500 laborers infected by plague among Martasque natives. London society sees Marshall Field wed Mrs Caton. Brussels considers Rue de Roosevelt street naming after Portsmouth treaty. Squiers sails from Havana to visit New York and Washington. Eldora plant elevator accident injures five. John Arbuckle funds refuge and matchmaking efforts. Paterson NJ woman charged with sixteen husbands. London broker Bawden donates 500000 pounds. Bamburg-American wins contracts for repatriating Russian prisoners in Japan at 82.40 per head. Passen ger Agents set annual meeting in Mexico City October 17-19. Joe Toiston warehouse fire destroys cotton.
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Panama
Martasque Zanzibar
St. Margaret's Church
London
Marshall Field
Caton
Arthur J. Caton
Chicago
Morocco
Council of
Brussels
Rue de Roosevelt
Portsmouth
United States
Miniater Squiers
Havana
New York
Washington
Eldora, Ta., Pipe and Tile Company
John Arbuckle
Paterson
N. J
J. Bawden
Bamburg-American Steamship Company
Japan
American Association of Passenger Agents
City of
Mexico
Joe Toiiston
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Brakeman Reunites Abandoned Baby With Mother
A Milwaukee train platform mix up leads a brakeman to place a baby in the arms of a woman he believed was its mother. The child’s mother, Mrs. William Eckels of Milwaukee, returns to the car and the baby is restored to her aboard as the train speeds away from Highland Park.
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Chicago
Highland Park
J. ©. Kauffman
Kenosha
William Eckels
Milwaukee
Bomb Explodes During Barcelona Maritime Parade
A conical cement covered bomb explodes on the Barcelona maritime parade injuring between thirty and sixty people. One woman dies and several are fatally wounded as panics erupt and debris and blood pools appear. Perpetrator unknown. The blast hurled a carriage horse and nails and scrap iron were used as shrapnel.
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Barcelona
Panama
Fraud in Life Insurance Schemes Probe Opens in New York
The Armstrong committee flags fraud in life insurance aimed at issuing large policies on dying persons. Evidence suggests widespread "graveyard insurances" across many firms with doctors providing testimony. The panel plans a strategy to expose the long-standing scheme.
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New York
Armstrong
Taft Skips Canton Visit Amid Hong Kong Protests
The Logan carrying Secretary Taft arrived in Hong Kong but did not proceed to Canton after clashes with anti U S demonstrations and posters. Consul Bragg advised cancelling the Canton stop, Taft agreed, while other dispatches report a Joliet prison board member injured in a car crash near Covington Indiana with his family.
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Canton
Hong Kong
Logan
Taft
Bragg
Auto
Covington
Ind
John Harison
Joliet
Danville
Cuba Rejects U S Reciprocity Coffee Duty Reduction
The Cuban government rules coffee roasted abroad and imported into Cuba is not a product of United States industry under the reciprocity treaty and thus does not qualify for duty reduction. The decision rejects U S claims that the treaty applies to such coffee.
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Havana
United States
Cuba
Hamburg Watches Emigrants Held Over Cholera Fears
A Sept 4 AP report from Berlin and New Orleans says Hamburg harbor physician Dr Nocht reports Russian emigrants suspended from transshipment with no cholera infection among them. Seventy to eighty Russians traveling by ship Moltke were quarantined and found healthy, while Trieste shipments and London precautions draw attention to cholera risks.
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Berlin
Nocht
Hamburg
Associated Press
Moltke
New York
Elbe
Hamburg-American Steamship company #94
Pretoria
Vedder
Trieste
United States Seaboard
Austrian
Poland
London
New Yellow Fever Cases Reported in Several Cities
The dispatches from New Orleans Atlanta and Pensacola note new yellow fever cases and quarantines as officials report a decline in deaths compared with 1879. In Atlanta one new case is confirmed a Pensacola patient from Pensacola is isolated and Vicksburg and Little Rock report additional activity.
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Vicksburg
Pensacola
Denny
Atlanta
J. P. Kennedy
Atlantigt
John ©. Carruthers
Washington
Public Health Ag
Marine Hospital Service
Wynn
Little Rock
Ark
Haynes
Akansas Militia
Mayaville
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