France and Germany Move Toward Morocco Settlement
France agrees to enter talks with Germany over the Morocco question while maintaining the sultans sovereignty and the status quo. Germany signals willingness to negotiate directly with France, aiming to avoid war as an international conference likely follows on lines agreed between Paris and Berlin. Paris hopes England will not block a settlement and Premier Rouvier pursues conciliatory aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Germany
England
Paris
Morocco
Rouvier
Germany and France back Morocco conference scope
Paris reports that Premier Rouvier and German ambassador Prince Radolin shaped an international meeting on Morocco.双方 agree sovereignty and status quo should stand while focusing on internal reforms and commercial rights. Dispatch from Metz notes frontier military activity and keen interest in negotiations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Morocco
Germany
France
Tunis
Temps
Metz
Two Die and Twenty Four Injured in Hudson River Explosion
Two men died after a boiler explosion near the Hudson River upper West Side. Victims include Joseph Morgan a fireman and Frank Marone an 18 year old swimmer missing after debris rained down. Four seriously injured remain in hospital, twenty at home. Police hold four suspects including Daniel Barry and John M Keaveny for investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hudson River
Upper West Side
Joseph Morgan
Frank Marone
Marone
Cerain
Daniel Barry
Subway
John &. Keaveny
German Krupp Works Struggle to Meet Far East Demand
Berlin reports that the war in the Far East is driving a huge demand for ammunition. Krupp’s Essen armament works face an overwhelming influx of orders, with monthly deliveries promised by the company to supply the growing needs of the conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Far East
Krupps
Essen
Latest Happenings Condensed In News In Short Order
A rapid roundup covers events from rail schedules to fires, trials, and crimes. Notable items include the 18 hour New York Chicago run on the Twentieth Century Limited, the City of Collingwood steamship destroyed by fire in Collingwood Ont, and 200,382 visitors passing through the Lewis and Clark Exposition. Also noted are a bank and corporate investigations, a fatal lightning strike on a Kalamazoo circus wagon, a murder and an arrest, religious and Zionist conferences, college entrance exams, indictments in Arkansas, and various court actions in New York New Jersey and Illinois. This compact digest reflects a broad cross section of contemporary incidents and developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
Collingwood
North Shore Navigation Company of
Morton
Equitable
Hudson
Philip Arbert
Lower East Side
Kalamazoo
Mich
Advance
W. J. Currier
Littl
Palestine
Alvin J. Tucker
Clyde
College Entrance Examination Board
United States
Europe
Arkansas General Assembly
Senate
Dickey
Newburg
N. Y
Little Silver
N. J
Manual of the Daughters of the Faith
Pascel P. Pratt
Buffalo
Sigshee
Tompkinsville
Cherbourg
France
John Paul Jones
Bell
Amsterdam
Francis Murphy
Temperance Advocate
Recorder's
New Orleans
Mamie Babb
Norway
Peary
North Pole
Diomed Islands
Herman Kluesendorf
Mary Kohl
Milwaukee
Minnie Stoermer
Dowie
Paris
Otis Botts
Missouri State Railway Commissioners
Starvey Smith
John Collier
Will Jackson
Decatur
Ala
Richmond
Froleck Et Nial
Richmend
Jamus Jones
Miller
Usl
Stix
Manson T. Dye
Denville Kertewry
Augustus Walker
Leste S. Walker
Hollan Walker
Ssenandoah
Aneustiit Walker
Walker
Holland Wal
Reforma
Rachmondis
Grant Parnst
Washington
Paul Woodlawn
Mont
George Washington
Lewis
Wap
Owl Sharpe
Pola
Elizabe
Lucy
Isin
Wolcott & Gages
Ga ‘ Ortalk Aggast ! Washingtogs
Ely
Dexial Pony Show
Cooper
Columbus
Robert Braxton
the Creek Lumber Company
Huntington
Rheon Mipshiall College
Dr. Ney
Cinemmatt
Wurzer
Loeeshurr
Warroall
Jo L. Pleasants
Wyatt, Jr
Czar Receives Zemsivo Delegation Amid Morocco Talks
The Czar welcomed the Zemsivo delegation and signaled a desire for a new order. Iis remarks drew favorable reactions. France eyed participation in the Morocco conference as Berlin hoped for clarity and restraint. In China, six hundred students from 26 colleges in Tientsin backed a boycott of American goods and anti American literature. The Franco German Morocco issue shows improvement. The German ambassador to Paris assured Bonvier the plan is not a threat to France. Morocco quarrel clouds Britain’s approach to Moroccan affairs. Five hundred people died in a mining disaster at Ivan Colliery, Russia.
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Czar
Zemsivo
Iis
Germany
France
Morocco
China
Tientsin
Oods
Paris
Bonvier
Great Britain
Cuba Mourns Hero General Gomez Honored Statewide
Havana reports the death of General Maximo Gomez. Congress decreed national mourning and military honors equivalent to a president’s death. Palma offers living quarters to Gomez family as the Official Gazette publishes President Palma’s message. Nine days of mourning by armed forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Republic
Palma
Havana
Maximo Gomez
Cuba
Gomez
General Gomez
President Palma
de Eegress
Diomedi Islands Whisky Trade Sparks Atrocity
A Nome dispatch reports a reign of terror on the Diomedi Islands where whalers trading whisky for furs and ivory held orgies. A young native woman was burned at the stake, one native man hanged, three shot. Chief Katzeena drank continually. The schooner Louise was seized by the Collector of Customs after a Washing ton instruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Nome
Diomedi Islands
Katzeena
Louise
Washington
New York's Census Gains Population in Five Years
New York has grown by about 16 percent, adding roughly 540,052 residents over five years according to city census returns. Greater New York would reach about 4,000,000, with Superintendent Brown noting large increases in many assembly districts and declines in others due to building destruction and other causes.
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New York
Greater
Brown
Cotton acreage down in Southern belt report
Dallas based Farmers' Union cotton report by John T. Garner shows reduced acreage across the belt. About 150,000 cotton coupons were issued to union and non union farmers to declare last year’s acreage and pledge not to exceed a set allowance this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Texas
John T. Garner
Cotton Department
The
Farmers’ Union
Egg storage ends in York as prices deter purchases
In York county agents for York and Baltimore cold storage houses close buying for the year. Farmers face high prices that make buying unprofitable. One warehouse holds 2,400,000 eggs to be kept until next winter when they will be released to market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
York County
Baltimore
Caterpillar Pest Threatens Texas Crops Across Regions
Houston special report notes outbreaks of caterpillars in eastern and southeastern Texas causing damage to fruit trees cotton corn and truck gardens. State Entomologist Conrad reports specimens lack the usual parasites and natural enemies have not kept them in check this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Tex
Texas
Conrad
Lawson Kills Brother In Law Near Austin and Surrenders
Sidney Lawson twenty one to be married shot and killed his brother in law Walter Biles thirteen miles south of Austin. Biles visited Lawson to reconcile but Lawson opened fire and killed him instantly before Lawson surrendered and was jailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Sidney Lawson
Walter Biles
Lawson
Biles
Killine
Twenty Five Dead In Western Maryland Wreck
In Baltimore special reports a head on collision near Patapsco Station south of Westminster kills twenty five and wounds twenty. All victims are Western Maryland Railroad employees returning home from wrecking work. Two injured remain in Baltimore hospitals, with authorities to determine blame in a coroner's inquest.
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Baltimore
Western Maryland
Patapsco Station
Westminster
Western Maryland Railroad
Maryland
City Hospital
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Ines
Hillen Station
Carroll County
Union Bridge
Lynch
Gorsuch Siding
Pirates massacre 150 natives on Siberian coast
A letter from Petropavlovsk reports pirates killed about 150 natives in a Kamchatka coast settlement. The raiders, posing as friends, landed from a yacht, plundered huts, and fled. some witnesses claimed Japanese involvement. Fear of further attacks gripped Petropavlovsk as investigations began.
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Siberian
San Francisco
Petropavlovsk
Kamchatka
A. Morogravlenos
Morogravlenof
Roosevelt Panel Urges Modernizing Government Methods
President Roosevelt appoints a five member commission including Frank Hitchcock and Gif ford Pinchot to reform public business across bureaus. The letter to Charles H Keep calls for centralized purchasing standardization uniform accounting and elimination of useless correspondence to improve efficiency and reduce waste. A separate cable report from Ekaterinoslav notes a gas explosion at Ivan Colliery Khartsisk killing 500 and injuring many in Russia Donets Company coal region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Charles H. Keep
Commerce and Labor
James R. Garfield
Gifford Pinchot
Forester
Department of Agriculture
Army
Navy
Threaucrats
War and Navy Departments
Ekaterinoslav
Khartsisk
Donets Company
Russia
Veterans in smashup on Southern Railway kills three
A Southern Railway eastbound cotton special carrying Confederate Veterans to Louisville Kentucky derailed on a 20 foot trestle in Golden Gate Albion. Twenty were injured while three were killed. J J Uhlee a Greenway Arkansas merchant was the sole passenger killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albion
Southern Railway
Golden Gate
Louisville
Olney
J. J. Uhlee
Greenway
Ark
Interstate Commerce complaint filed against Southern Pacific
Live Washington affairs report that the Pacific Coast Jobbers and Manufacturers' Association filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission alleging a violation of the Interstate Commerce Act by the Southern Pacific Railway Company. Other items note Capt. E. S. Prime’s retirement as rear admiral, and Panama yellow fever concerns led by Governor Magoon and Col. Gorgas. The President approves findings in two trials of Capt. George Kirkman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern Pacific Railway Company
Pacific Coast Jobbers and Manufacturers’ Association
E.S Prime
Port Royal
S. C
Navy
Magoon
Isthmus
Panama
Gorgas
Canal Zone
George Kirkman
el Arad
May to stay with Whitney in Mineola after hotel departure
Secretary of State John May left a New York hotel and went to the Lau rels home of his daughter in Mineola L I He said he plans to stay with Mr and Mrs Whitney for a time and may visit Washington soon to review state business and urgent matters he will consider.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John May
Laurels
Mineola
L. 1
Hay
Whitney
Washington
President Roosevelt Orders Careful Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion Law
Roosevelt asks Secretary Metcalf to direct immigration officers to apply discretion in enforcing the Chinese exclusion law to ease relations with China. He notes bogus certificates claim exempt status for merchants travelers and others, causing delays and hardship for genuine applicants. Officials seek stronger supervision and accountability for certificate issuance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Te American Asiatic Association
United States
China
Metcalf
Department of Commerce and Labor
Menell Prl
Et Aa
Richmond Woman Dead In Fire Fitting Stove With Kerosene
Mrs. Lucey Larman, young Richmond woman, died trying to light a cook stove with kerosene oil in a flat on Nort Twenty-second street. Fire spread to her clothing as she was dragged from the building by a neighbor. Her husband, Byd Pearman, a bridge engineer for Atlantic Coast Line, was in Rocky Mount at the time. A man named Harry was injured. The incident occurred as Pearman occupied the flat. Also noted were various legal notices and local events in the follow-up report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucey Larman
Richmond
Pearman
Nort Twenty-second Street
Harry
Worl
Strange death of two young women in Freeport Illinois
In Freeport Illinois two young women Mrs John Young 20 and Miss Media Pyle 18 were found dead in the Pecatonica River. Post mortem shows Mrs Young drowned while Miss Pyle had air in her lungs and a forehead contusion. Coroner theorizes an older woman knocked her unconscious and threw her into the water after a failed suicide pact. Footprints only on bank and no drag marks. Both women were close friends with two other youths. family opposition and a love feud are cited as motives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeport
John Young
Media Pyle
Pecatonica
Mont
Mrs. Young
Miss Pyle
Tragedy in a Street Car on Fourteenth Street
In New York a street car at Fourteenth Street and Avenue B saw Vincenzo Garabillo stab Marcelle Micheli with a keen-pointed stiletto. Micheli, gravely wounded, was rushed to a hospital as Garabillo fled the scene. Passengers did not intervene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Fourteenth Street
Avenue B
Vincenzo Garabillo Plansei
Marcelle Micheli
Garahilla
Hier
Garabillo
Micheli
Toyama of Tokio A Roman Character Society Member
San Francisco reports Toyama Ma of Tokio, member of the Roman Character Society of Japan, is with a government commission tasked to report on adopting Roman characters in Japan. It is believed the commission will report soon as Japanese experts expect Chinese characters to be replaced by Roman letters in time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Spyemi
M.toyama
Tokio
Roman Character Society of
Japan
Were
Vis Society
Toyama
Chinese Cadets Admitted to Military Academy History Made
For the first time in the Military Academy, Chinese empire representatives Ting om -hen Ying Hsing Wen join as cadets. Lois Bagran of Homdurias and Fo Tomas Placa of Kendor accompany, amid a special act of Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Poi, Noy
Military Academy
Ting Om -Hen
Ying Hsing Wen
Lois Bagran
Homduras
Fo Tomas Placa
Ken
Congress
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Sion
Ivan
Ssa Or
Homicide
Washington Affairs
Begay
Ravi
Cricks Burgeliyo
Navg
LF Was
Ble Ik
Progressive
West Point
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