Week in Review Global and Local Happenings
M Bompard leaves St Petersburg for Paris as a Greek Macedonian clash near Langadina is noted. Judge Albion Tourgee dies at 67 in Mayville Ohio. he served as American consul at Bordeaux. Musicians vote Boston for next convention. French fleet to visit Spit Head in August with Channel fleet escort. Sacramento man murders mother after parole and commits suicide. Madrid reports Hertzian torpedo experiments at Cadiz. Great Northern manager Eden resigns. Adams of Portland succeeds. Japanese columns threaten Manchuria as Bryan plans world tour on municipal ownership. Harbin reports revelry among rear-guard hangers on. Champagne flows. Hoch convicted in Chicago. Reformed Presbyterian church allows instrumental music with each church settling locally.
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M. Bompard
Russia
St. Petersburg
Paris
Langadina
Macedonia
Albion Winegar Tourgee
Mayville
N. Y
Bordeaux
Williamsfield
Ohio
American Federation of Musicians
Boston
Spithead
Middle Channel
Sacramento
Chris Christiansen
Christiansen
Madrid
Puerto de Santa Maria
Bay
Cadiz
Senor Balsorak
Telegraph Department
J. C. Eden
Great Northern
Harry B. Adams
Portland
Linovitch
Manchuria
William J. Bryan
Harbin
Johann Hoch
Chicago
General Synod
The
Reformed Presbyterian Church
Theft of $90,000 Jewels From Tiffany & Co
The New York World reports three diamonds cut from the Excelsior stone vanished from Tiffany & Co in Union Square New York. The theft likely involved an employee. Ten diamonds were cut from the Excelsior weighing 974 carats in rough and total value 500000 dollars. Five diamonds were sold last Christmas, two remain, and the robbery occurred on May 4 in the workshop.
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New York
Dismissal for Reform Views In Russian Navy
Captain Clado once adviser to Admiral Rojestvensky has been dismissed from the navy by imperial order for repeated disobedience of orders to refrain from publishing his views on naval reform.
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St. Petersburg
Clado
Rojestvensky
North Sea Commission
Paris
Court dissolves asphalt contract in Venezuela case
Federal court of cassation in Caracas sitting as trial court dissolves the Hamilton contract between the government of Venezuela and the New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company and orders damages to be paid. A quoted remark emphasizes selflessness and helping others.
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Asphalt Trust
Caracas
Federal Court of Cassation
Government of Venezuela
New York & Bermudez. Asphalt Company
Hamilton
War in Manchuria: fresh struggle looming after Mukden
Week of reporting notes a new clash looming as both Japanese and Russian forces regroup north of Thepass. Oyama leads the Japanese wing facing the Russian right while Linovitch strengthens Russian lines. Sea actions remain uncertain as to whether a naval meeting between Rozestvensky and Togo will occur in hours, days, or weeks.
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Manchuria
Mukden
Harbin
Oyama
Linovitch
Rerestvensky
Togo
Maui Island Labor Strike Sparks Violent Clash
Lahaina and Wailuku on Maui face a two thousand three hundred Japanese labor strike after demands were rejected. A clash with plantation police left one Japanese dead and two wounded as whites and militia were held by Japanese at the courthouse. Peace talks and a tentative settlement followed amid repeated wireless alerts and police deployment.
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Honolulu
Lahaina
Maui
Kinau
National Guard Company F
Johnson
Henry
Wailuku
Pioneer
Chicago race war erupts after Carlson shooting
Chicago residents armed themselves after Emil Carlson an eight year old boy was shot by African Americans amid rising tensions on Twenty ninth and Dearborn. A riot Sunday night left James Gray dead and Harry Bernstein mortally wounded as a mob battered a saloon and clashed with police.
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Chicago
Emil Carlson
Twenty-ninth
Dearborn
Carlson
James Gray
Harry Bernstein
Bernstein
Gray
Russian Admiral Rojestvensky Coaling Fleet Sighted
A Paris Times dispatch cites a Russian source locating Rojestvensky s coaling fleet at an island in Balintang channel likely Babuyan Claro north of Luzon. The 30 vessel group includes 27 colliers and three other ships possibly carrying ammunition and awaiting further orders. The plan appears to keep to American waters off Luzon while moving southeast of Formosa.
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Paris
London Times
Rojestvensky
Balintang Channel
Babuyan Claro
Luzon
Hamburg
Singapore
Rojesvensky
Formosa
Formosa Strait
Recruits Strike Breakers In Kansas City
Kansas City strikebreaker F. G. Curry, in town recruiting men, received a Chicago Employers' Association directive to send all secured workers to Chicago. Workers would earn $5.20 a day with board and protection from violence. Only white men were sent.
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Kansas City
F. G. Curry
Chicago Employers’ Association
Chicago
Maui Strike by Japanese Laborers Shuts Pioneer Plantation
Over 100 Japanese workers on the Pioneer plantation Maui have gone on strike demanding higher wages. Indications point to possible spread as Maui militia comprising one company is mobilized in response.
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Honolulu
Maui
Deadly Auction at Buenos Ayres Demonstration
During a workmen demonstration in Buenos Ayres socialists and police clashed. Two people were killed and forty wounded in the ensuing encounter.
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Buenos Ayres
Gowdy Consul General Plans Return to Indiana in Fall
Word from Paris says John K Gowdy American consul general will return to his Indiana home next fall. Despite signs of aging he remains active and enthusiastic in his duties and has learned much of the French language during his years in Paris. He will leave Paris October 30 and start for home a few days later.
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Paris
John K. Gowdy
Indiana
Goudy
Roosevelt Eyes October Extra Session On Rail Legislation
Reports say President Roosevelt will call congress in an extra session on October 16 to debate railroad rate regulation. In Japan a junk with Russian officers is believed captured after a Vladivostok reconnaissance. Charity Ankeny daughter of Senator Ankeny died in Philadelphia Hospital from kidney complications after surgery. A violent event in Owensboro Kentucky ends with Deputy Sheriff Will Brown killed and a mob burning the suspect’s house as he is riddled by bullets.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Tokio
Vladivostok
Charity Pauline Ankeny
Ankeny
University Hospital of
Waitmen
Shaw
William C. Brown
Marshal Watson
Marshal Jackson
C. H. Plitt
Howard
Pelly
James Ford
John Robinson
Will Brown
Hancock County
Brown
Pigeon shooting doomed at Hurlingame club vote
At a Saturday meeting the Hurlingame club voted by an overwhelming majority to abolish pigeon shooting. The president Earl Ancestor proposed the resolution, while many titled sportsmen attended the gathering.
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England
Hurlingame Club
Earl Ancestor
House of Lords
House of Commons
Monument unveiled for Galveston Woodmen victims at Lake View
A Woodmen of the World monument to Galveston Woodmen who died in the 1900 tidal wave was unveiled Sunday at Lake View cemetery Galveston Texas. Participants included J C Root sovereign commander of Omaha and others in the Woodmen ritual.
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Galveston
Lake View Cemetery
Texas
J. C. Root
Omaha
Annapolis Defeats Haverford in Track Meet 66 to 42
Annapolis defeated Haverford College in a field and track meet by 66 to 42. The midshipmen closed their rowing season with victories over Columbia varsity and second eight in a fierce Severn River four-cornered race.
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Annapolis
Haverford College
Harvard
Princeton
Jerry McCarthy
Barney Mullin
Spokane
Midshipmen
Columbia
Severn River
Montreal
Que
Spike Sullivan
Tim Callahan
New York
Buffalo
Alfred de Oro
St. Louis
Jerome Keogh
Keoghe
de Oro
Shaw Christian Says Washington Officials Are Churchmen
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw told the First Methodist Episcopal church Sunday school in Cleveland that Washington officials are Christians and that he has served as a Sunday school superintendent for 20 years. He warned that public opinion does not always equal the voice of God and noted his upcoming trip to Oklahoma City for a tristate YMCA convention.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Secretary of the Treasury
Leslie M. Shaw
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Washington
Christ
God
Shaw
St. Louis
Oklahoma City
Navy plans wireless stations along Pacific coast
The navy department proposes wireless telegraphy stations at Point Loma Cape Blanco Cape Flattery North Head Point Wilson and Bremerton. The system would cover the Pacific coast aiding warships with wireless gear and the Weather Bureau offers to transfer materials and instruments to the navy.
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Navy Department
Point Loma
Cape Blanco
Cape Flattery
North Head
Point Wilson
Bremerton
Pacific Coast
Weather Bureau
Zion City in Mexico Dowie Negotiates Colony
Dowie and Son negotiate with Judge Barnes in Mexico City to take over 700000 acres of Gonzales hacienda in Tamaulipas and more farming land, aiming to establish a Zion City style colony in Mexico. Officials signatory papers include Zion agents and Lt. Col. Gonzales, owner of the hacienda, with active settlement to begin in weeks.
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Dowie and Son
Gladstone Dowie
John Alexander Dowie
Barnes
Mexico City
Mexico
Zion City
Til
Dowie
Gonzales
Tamaulipas
Zion
Big Land Battle Rages on Russian Left Front
Advices from General Linovitch describe a general engagement along the Russian left flank with two divisions facing Japanese forces. Russian entrenched position holds, casualties about 500 with Japanese roughly triple that, as Oyama deploys heavy artillery for a wider assault.
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Oyama
St. Petersburg
Linovitch
Wholesale Produce Prices In Spokane Area Report
Spokane lists wholesale prices for vegetables fruits and livestock including potatoes at 85c cwt and apples 75c to 1.50 per box. Livestock notes steers 3.85 to 4 cwt sheep 3 to 3.50 cwt hogs 5.50 cwt and eggs at 5.75 per six cases. Timely hay and grain costs are shown with timothy 11 to 12 a ton and alfalfa 9.50 a ton.
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California
Snake River
Newton
Ben Davis
F. O. B. Spokane
Wind Storm Violent in Fort Worth Kills Dispatcher
A 70 mph windstorm hit Fort Worth Texas at 6 30 PM blowing in part of the Texas Pacific passenger station wall and killing train dispatcher John Young. Telegraph lines were down and Mineral Wells reportedly suffered severe damage. Several churches banks hotels and dwellings sustained destruction and injuries throughout the area.
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Fort Worth
Young
Tex
Texas & Pacific
John Young
Mineral Wells
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Washington State Sportsmen's Association
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W. F. Sheard
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O.neill
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Pacific National
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National
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Cincinnati
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Shaw Christian
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