Peace Talks Open at The Hague With Envoys Welcomed
The Hague hosts a multinational assembly as Russia calls for disarmament talks. Aaron De Staal is to preside over sessions. aims include armament restrictions and arbitration. observers expect some progress despite skepticism about immediate results.
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Quteh
Hague
Aaron de Staal
Russia
Unis Ten Bosch
Air, de Beaufort
Netherlands
Ord Ma
de Beaufort
Presbyterians Elect Sample Moderator at 111th Assembly
The Presbyterian Church in the United States convened its 111th annual assembly at Westminster Church Minneapolis electing Rev Dr R F Sample of New York as moderator over rivals Rev Dr Haines of Indianapolis and Rev Dr Coyle of Oakland. About 600 communicants attended with 1,800 seats filled. Baron De Stael presided and a message to Czar Nicholas was sent along with a prayer for peace.
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Minneapolis
RE Silo
Westminster Church
Newae City
Presbyterian Church In
United States
Tey
Matthias Haines
First Church
Thdianapolis
R Coyle
Oakland
Cal
Sample
Haines
Coyle
Morning Sun
Henry Branch
Ellicott City
Goss
Pleasant Hunter
Douglas P. Putnam
Logansport
Ind
R. F. Sample
New York
Wallies Radcliffe
Washington, D.C
Pleasant
Porto
Baron de Staal
Great Britain
de Beaufort
Czar Nicholas
Russia
Peace Mission to Aguinaldo Slated in Manila Talks
Aguinaldo envoys arrive by special train from Malolos to meet Gen Otis in Manila seeking an armistice while Filipino leaders Gen Luna and Gen del Pilar refuse surrender and press on with war. The mission delivered a communication for a pause in fighting but was not authorized to negotiate terms. Consul Wildman halted a shipment of arms aiding the insurgents amid conspiratorial activity involving one American and four Britons.
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Aguinaldo
Gregorio del Pilar
Lawton
Alberto Barretto
Advac
Rcaleita
Senor Graciagazaga
Milipino
Senores
Florintino Torres
Pablo Campo
Veodoro Yanco
Manila
Otis
Luna
Rio del Pilar
Lung
Agningldo
Tie
Wildman
Tong Kons
Negro Colonies Planned in North for Southern Blacks
A movement aims to form an industrial colony on Long Island composed of Southern freedmen. Led by Rufus L. Perry of Brooklyn, the plan seeks to buy land in Suffolk County and create a town where no white person may own property for dwelling within its limits.
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Long Island
Rufus L. Perry
Brooklyn
Suffolk County
Race With Fire At Sea In New York Harbor
The Barbarossa caught fire after leaving port and rammed an Erie float, then struck La Bretagne at pier 41. The collision sank ice boats Richard J Jos ter and Lestoy, with crews escaping by leaping to another raft. Stevedores pumped cargo all night to keep La Bretagne afloat.
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New York Harbor
Erie
la Bretagne
Pier 41
En Bretagne
Richard J. Joster
Lestoy
Barbarossa
le Bretagne
Tesla Promises Mars Wireless Telegraphy Wonders
Nikola Tesla envisions earth to Mars communication via a highly sensitive instrument detecting disturbances worldwide. Wesler predicts the century will center on atmospheric progress and air as a conductor, enabling distant force transmission and solar energy use, with wireless telegraphy seen as an application of a broader principle.
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Tesla
Nicola Tesla
Earth
Mars
Wesler
Personal crisis reports across states
Reports describe a Missouri girl who killed herself after learning her sweetheart went to war, a Boston clerk who hanged himself with a necktie, a Stroudsburg man using apple branches as a noose, an Arkansas boy cutting his throat after a mother objected to swimming, a Connecticut woman poisoned herself after marital strains, and a woman who drank poison when her husband wanted to move.
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Missouri
Robert F. Hayes
Boston
Stroudsburg
Arkansas
Connecticut
Cubans Reach Tense Agreement Over Disarming Troops
Washington dispatches report sharp Cuban American tensions over disarmament steps. War Department officials warn only tactful, compromised handling can avert grave outcomes. General Gomez faces criticism as Brooke presses for Cuban soldiers to surrender arms amid internal Cuban divisions.
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War Department
Brooke
Washington
Gomez
Cuba Crisis Angers Cubans Over arms and Independence
Washington weighs Cuban policy as Gen. Brooke and Gen. Alger exchange views. Cubans resist surrender of arms to Americans and fear Americanization of the island. They warn war may resume if no honorable agreement is reached, while the administration seeks to avoid conflict and secure authority in Cuba.
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Gen. Brooke
McWinley
Alger
Washington
Cuba
Brooke
Aguinaldo in hiding amid Philippine upheaval report
Aguinaldo, missing for over two weeks, is said to have fled into Neuya Leija. General Pilar believes he has been deserted by the government as Gregorio MacArthur and Lawton brace for a large forward move. Spanish prisoners are moved north, while American captives’ names are unknown. Chinese and British tensions rise near Mon Loon with troops patrolling. A Kentucky man, Sam Mattingly, killed his wife during an attempted elopement.
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Aguinaldo
Neuya Leija
Gregorio Pilar
San Miguel
MacArthur
Lawton
China
Britain
Trussia
Great Britain
Mon Loon
Feld
IX Mon Loon
Tung- Jsung
Wow Leon
Long Kong
Pekin
Manchuria
Sable Island
Nova Scotia
Episcopal
Denn
Worcester
Michigan University
Philippine Commission
Philippines
Islands
Cleveland
Seeley
Charles Kingsley
Dr. Thompson
Kingsley
Ireland
Trinity
Trinity Chapel
Gladstone
Oxford
Halk
Commmon Room
Lavine
Liege
Belgium
Maas
Hloulliez
Tees
Houilieres
Germany
Europe
San Isidro Taken by Lawton Force
Gen Lawton's advance led by Col Summers captures San Isidro, insurgent capital, as Summers's Oregon Minnesota and North Dakota regiments push from Baluarte with Scott's artillery. Rebels, about 2000 strong, offer slight resistance near the town before retreating.
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Lawton
Summers
Oregon
San Isidro
Twenty-second Infantry
Minnesota
North Dakota
Scott
Baluarte
Oregon and Minnesota Regiments Drive Rebels From Calumpit
The advance after breaking a rebel line left fifteen enemy soldiers dead and twenty wounded. A Minnesota and an Oregon soldier were lightly wounded. Summers’ brigade pressed the retreating force several miles as Kebhle’s expedition moved upriver toward Arayal with cascoes and tinclad gunboats under Captain Grant.
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Sition
Oregon
Minnesota
Summers
Kebhbe
Third Artillery
Seventeenth
Calumpit
Rio Grande
Lawton
Kruger Plot Arrests Spark South African Treason Case
Seven men, mostly former British officers, were arrested in Johannesburg on high treason charges against the Transvaal republic. Authorities report incriminating documents and a plan to enroll 2000 men. Warrants extend to prominent figures as the alleged conspiracy expands to Natal.
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Johannesburg
Transvaal Republic
Natal
Orange Free State
Indian Ocean
Telegraphic costs and distant news routes detailed
An article explains telegraph tolls for war news from Manila at 2.35 per word and traces a global transmission path to New York. It notes Sable Island’s wreck history and rapid submergence, April export declines, a Tron Hall creditors’ wind up, life saving costs, and a London football season windup drawing 80,000 spectators.
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Manila
New York
Hong Kong
Saigon
Anam
Singapore
Straits of Settlements
Penang
Malay Peninsula
Madras
India
Aden
Arabia
Port Said
Alexandria
Egypt
Malta
Gibraltar
Lisbon
Plymouth
England
Waterville
Ireland
Canso
Nova Scotia
Tron Hall
London
Curious Mottos of Actors and Oddities of Speech
A column collects malapropisms and witticisms attributed to actors of famous renown, noting quips from Kean Macready and Phelps. It repeats humorous lines about murder plots, heroics, and misquoted adages, alongside anecdotes from Seeley Worcester and Gladstone, ending with light sketches and a polemic on coal’s seven centuries of use.
Cornish Magazine Notes Odd Phrases and Local Tales
Quiller-Couch's Cornish Magazine recalls coastal dwellers and a drowning survivor. Lady Dufferin recounts English speech variations, a Dublin tale about Genesis inscriptions, and Rev Charles Locke touring Grace Church New York with a comment about stars on the ceiling.
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Quiller-Couch
Lady Dufferin
Bahoo
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Rie¢an
Philippine Wood
M. de Stael
Westminster Chanrei
Pemaangen
CRSAT
Tile Peace Conference
Sam Mattingly
Brush Grove
Laguna DE Bay
Kruger
Tiear
Watson
Dewey
Arragut
Mobile Bay
M. I. Hastings
Weatherford
Cimminton River
Howard, Co
U. V
Charles Kean
Macready
Phelps
la Belle Smidson
Sir Augustus Harris
James Anderson
New York Telegram
North Pole
Pole
Mr. Crimsonbeak
Dublin
Limsel
Ile
Charles Edward Locke
M. E
Grace Church
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