Telegraphic Brevities From The Outside World
Short world items report a French submarine Gymnote sunk in drydock due to a workman’s neglect in Toulon. Secretary Root declines to recognize Honduran provisional government. A Baltimore & Ohio Southwest eastbound train wreck injures several near Mitchell Indiana. An unidentified man throws a dynamite cartridge in Athens. chaos averted as fuse detaches. Captain Morrow fined in Newport News for marked goods. will appeal. Admiral Emery arrives with naval board findings on Minnesota launch accident. no criminality found.
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Toulon
France
Athens
Greece
Chamber of Deputes
Newport News
Var
Morrow
United States Army
Kilpatrick
Treasury Department
Department
Washington
Emery
Hampton Roads
Naval Board of Investigation
Minnesota
Crisfield
Cape Charles
Norfolk
Girl is Accomplice of Safe Crackers
In Sacramento a handkerchief dropped before a safe led to the arrest of Leonard Woodson, Jesse Marks, and Raymond Sandcock, aged 23 to 17. The trio confessed to burglaries at city hall the Union Iron Works and a planing mill. A 16 year old, Jesse Marks, aided in the raids and helped hide tools after arrest.
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Sacramento
Tenoard Woodson
Jesse Marks
Rayomund Sandcock
Union Ironworks
Planing
Woodson
Marks
Hancock
French Fighting as in Reign of Terror
Reports from Paris and southern cities describe violent clashes between troops and mobs. In Narbonne streets, firing in the air gave way to direct gunfire, with many wounded and several killed including civilians and women. Stone barricades, broken windows, and damaged cafes mark the unrest.
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Paris
Sup
Narbonne
Public Lands Policy Discussed in Denver Convention
About 100 representatives from the West gathered to discuss policy and legislation on public lands. Delegates including Garfield Pine and E H Newell heard President Roosevelt’s view on regulating ranges, with Carr named temporary chairman and Teller nominated for the post.
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Denver
T -Mis- Garfield
Gifford Pine
Tha T
Forestry Department
E. H. Newell
New Reclamation Service
P. A. Ballinger
General Land Office
Roosevelt
Colorado
United States
Thomas H. Carr
Montana
Mutiny Exposed in Black Sea Fleet At Odessa
The Black Sea fleet of eight battleships cruisers and torpedo boats with about five thousand men mutinied but was halted as orders were ignored and guns dismantled. Admiral Tsertsinsky ordered retreat to Sebastopol after sailors were disembarked and imprisoned. A torpedo boat damaged an admiral’s cutter. crew's timely beaching saved the commander, while Lt Ruzhek and two lieutenants were later degraded and arrested.
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Odessa
Black Sea
Caucasian
Odessa Bay
Tsertsinsky
Sebastopol
Ebastopol
Wirein
Ruzhek
Schooner Louise Runs Aground In Fog Bound For Port
The five mast schooner Louise owned by Simpson Lumber ran ashore on the Flone islands at 2 20 this morning while carrying lumber from Grays Harbor to wander city. Stewart Dryman and three sailors got to shore in a lifeboat and reached a telegraph station to notify the city. The captain and five crew remain aboard to prevent further damage as the wreck is held by fog. The Louise, built in 1888 in North Bend Oregon, has a net tonnage of 831 and measures about 193.8 feet in length.
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N Francisco
Louise
Simpson Lumber Company
Grays Harbor
Flone Islands
Steward Dryman
Rocky Beach
Telegraph Station
J. Krug North Bend, Ore
Smith's Wife Frustrates Him in Fifteen Minute Debate
For thirteen consecutive minutes Smith's wife tried to explain. He finally exclaimed with humor that she could not do worse at making her point than if she attempted to balance it on the end of a lead pencil.
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Smith
Francis & Eaton
State Street
Boston
Eaton
Enery
Beton
Turner
Sheiver
Raymond
Battleship design bids win Navy order for two Dreadnoughts
New port News Shipbuilding Co. bid $3,987,000 and Fore River Shipbuilding Co. bid $4,700,000 to construct two 20,000-ton battleships, known as Dreadnoughts. Designers favor a 51-foot beam, heavy armor, and a main battery of ten 12-inch rifles with a broadside of 25 percent more firepower than existing battleships.
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Washington, D. C
Newport News
Puildings Company
Fore River Shipbuilding Company
Incy
Mass
Department
Nav Board
Naval
Naval Committee
Newberry
Bureau of Construction
Japanese Fighting Natives in Formosa
Advices from Formosa via the Monteagle report brisk fighting between Japanese forces and Formosan natives. Japanese drives extend daily, gradually pressing natives who control three fifths of Formosa and number 100,009. After months of guerrilla warfare, 5000 Japanese troops were dispatched to force submission.
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Victoria
B. C
Formosa
Monteagle
Boy Cleaning Old Gun Kills 7 Year Old at Play
In San Francisco 14 year old Arnold Wills, preparing for the Fourth of July, fired an old shotgun without knowing it was loaded. The shot killed seven year old Max Dillar who was at play. Wills was arrested and charged with manslaughter.
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San Francisco
Arnold Wills
Max Dillar
Wilts
Suicide in Sacramento as Woman Ends Life
Mrs Sie Smith wife of W P Smith a San Francisco traveling man committed suicide this morning during a police attempt to intervene. Friends pleaded with her to drop the weapon and she fired a bullet into her heart. She left notes for her husband son Bobbie and two others she believed wronged her.
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Sacramento
Sie Smith
W. P. Smith
San Francisco
Bobbie
Infected White Fly Threat Prompts Orchard Destruction
Horticulturist Adopts strict measures to kill the Florida white fly in Yuba and Marysville. The order requires destroying infested orchards by July and applying whitewash to trunks, with owners bearing the cost and penalties for violation.
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Ellwood Cooper
Florida
Flort Louisana
Yuba County Horticultural Commission
Marysville
China Friend of United States urges full indemnity relief
Sir Cheng Liang Cheng the retiring Chinese ambassador to the United States visits Boston and says he will publish notes showing the United States has acted with justice toward China. He cites a proposed treaty message recommending relief from excess indemnity, reducing the total to about 11.6 million dollars and saving China roughly 14.4 million with four percent interest. The State Department confirms the planned remission, noting past payments cover missionary losses and casualties, with total costs around 9.1 million, leaving 11,000,400 due if payments continue.
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Boston
Cheng Liang Cheng
United States
Root
China
Congress
America
Washington
State Department
Coast News Items From San Francisco to Los Angeles
A series of brief items reports a 35 year old man killed by an ex spouse in Nogales, a steam schooner Santa Barbara damaged by a broken propeller shaft near Point Reyes, and Bakersfield bond litigation voided as fraud. Other notes include a Sheriff’s officer’s suicide in Francisco, an insane inmate in San Diego, Col. Clapton injured by a poisonous insect bite in Long Beach, a fatal runan accident near Elk River road, a Los Angeles man dying from injuries, and an audacious daylight robbery of real estate dealer A B Hobson’s home in West Adams with jewelry, cash and valuables taken.
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San Francisco
Merchanty Exchange
Santa Barbara
Point Reyes
Drake's Bay
Los Angeles
A. B. Hobson
Flint Avenue
West Adams
Herald
Girl Drowned After Rowing Outing Near Bridgeton
Miss Mary Vennel drowned in Sunset shoal water after a rowing trip with George Evans. Evans claimed the boat sank as they changed positions and that she screamed while he freed himself and swam to shore. Her body was found today, face and body bruised. Evans was later found in bed with wet clothes. Investigators are reviewing the incident.
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Bridgeton
Mary Vennel
George Evans
Evans
Jealous Husband Fatally Shoots Musician in Portland
In Portland Dre C H Reynolds proprietor of a bath house shot and fatally wounded musician George Hurburt who arrived from Walla Walla. At Reynolds home 186 Fourteenth street they were leaving when Reynolds fired three times in the abdomen. Reynolds claims past service as a scout under General Custer and says he and his wife moved from Denver a year ago.
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Portland
Dre
C. H. Reynolds
George Hurburt
Walla Walla
Rynolds
Fourteenth Street
Reynolds
Custer
Demver
Telephone housing term from English phonetics
An extract notes that the box or cabinet housing a telephone is called in England by terms such as phonivm or phoutute. The item records spelling variants and phonetic renderings used in the period.
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England
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