Assassination of Russian Minister Von Plehve in St Petersburg
Bomb blasts killed Interior Minister Von Plehve and a coachman as he rode toward Warsaw station to visit Krasnoye Selo. The assassin fled, several others were arrested, and the city flooded with reports as authorities pursued leads. The attack heightened fears of anarchist plots amid intense public shock.
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Petersburg
von Plehve
Warsaw
Krasnoye Selo
Vladimir
M. von Pliehve
Associated Press
M. von Plehve
Zabolansky
Baltic
Couachman
Peterhof
Duke
Miichess
Oldenburg
Gerschmnin
Rieff
von Pledge
Gas Make in the Philippines Uses Coconut Oil
A Philippine scheme fed coconut oil into red heated cast iron retorts to produce high quality illuminating gas free from smoke and tar, reported to the bureau of insular affairs by the Philippine Bureau of Government Laboratories.
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Washington
Philippines
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Philippine Bureau of Government Laboratories
Nomination Notify President Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill
President Roosevelt was formally notified of his nomination for the presidency by the national Republican convention. The ceremony at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, was simple by the President's wish and conducted by a committee led by Speaker Joseph G. Cannon representing every state and territory.
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Oyster Bay
L. L
Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
United States
Joseph G. Canna
House of Representatives
Pacific Mail steamer Korea reports safe arrival after feared Russian raid
San Francisco dispatch says the Korea reached Tokyo safely with cargo valued over 1 million dollars and a total ship and cargo worth more than 3 million. Rumors of capture by the Vladivostok fleet sparked wild excitement among shippers on the Pacific coast.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Korea
Tokio
Marine Underwriters’ Association
Japan
Liverpool
Pacific Mail
Oriental
Philippines
Orient
Richardson Clover
W. Cameron Forbes
Philippine Commission
Formosa
Vladivostok
Yokohama
Pacific
Death at Cedar Lake Dance After Brother and Friends Leave
Otto Gershed of Chicago, distraught after his brother and two friends left for a dance across Cedar Lake, pursued them to the Lassen pavilion and shot himself, dying from a bullet to the heart as a crowd danced.
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Crown Point
Ind
Cedar Lake
Otto Gershed
Chicago
Lassen
Louise Michel in London Amid Conspiracy Shadow
The veteran French anarchist Louise Michel, recently in London, is followed by Scotland Yard detectives of the political branch who suspect her involvement in a St. Petersburg assassination conspiracy.
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London
Louise Michel
Scotland Yard
St. Petersburg
Mrs Minnie C Love Wins Divorce With 50000 Alimony
Chicago Special reports Mrs Minnie C Love was granted an absolute divorce from Sidney C Low by Judge Honore. The decree orders 50000 alimony, with 95000 paid in court and the remaining balance to be settled in annual installments over the next three years.
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Chicago
Minnie Clove
Sidney C. Low
Honore
Sharks Devour Seven Bathers in Mexican Resort
Mexican authorities close Virgines bathing resort in Lower California after a spike in shark sightings. Seven bathers have been devoured by sharks in the past two weeks amid growing danger to visitors.
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Mexico City
Virgines
Lower California
Progress of the strike adds 1000 new men to Packers forces
Chicago report details a Sunday clash at the Nelson Morris packing plant where Andrew Simms was killed after a knife fight with John Davis both nonunion workers from New Albany Indiana. Davis was arrested while the union and employers prepared statements and reinforced defenses for a renewed week of strike activity with over 1000 new hires joining existing workers.
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Chicago
Nelson Morris Packing Plant
Andrew Simms
John Davis
New Albany
Ind
Simms
Packing Company
Davis
Death Follows Insult In Caledonia Near Sullivan
William Blue 1% kills Bert Willis 25 in Caledonia home after Willis insults Blue’s mother. Willis dies soon after from a shotgun blast that tore away one side of his head. Both families reside in adjacent houses. The incident occurred late Saturday.
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Sullivan
Ind
William Blue
Bert Willis
Blue
Caledonia
Willis
Skyscraper 27 Stories High at Sixty Wall Street
The Sixty Wall Street company controlled by the International Banking Corporation plans to add a new top floor to the 60 and 62 Wall Street building running through to Pine Street. Original plans were for twenty six stories. With the extra floor the structure would be the tallest in the city.
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New York
Sixty Wall Street Company
International Banking Corporation
Wall Street
Pine Street
Beating the Railroads. Baltimore Women Walk to St Louis
Mrs Nora D Lambdin and four Baltimore women aged 35 to 40 set out on August 1 to walk to St Louis. Each weighs about 120 pounds and two are married. Four years earlier they walked to Philadelphia averaging twenty six miles daily.
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Baltimore
Nora D. Lambdin
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Mrs Maybrick Prostrated Delays American Trip
Mrs Florence Maybrick has been confined by nervous prostration and must rest. The trip to America is postponed with no start before late August, if possible. Doctors ordered perfect rest.
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Trogpdon
Florence Maybrick
Teach Soldiers to Swim in Mindanao
General Leonard Wood, commander in Mindanao Philippines, ordered swimming instruction for soldiers after numerous water accidents. The move aims to reduce drowning and improve river and sea operations for the department.
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Washington
Leonard Wood
Department of Mindanao
Philippines
Largest Output of Coal in United States 1902
The U S Geological Survey reports that U S coal production in 1902 totaled 359,421,311 tons, up about 53 million tons or 19 percent from the prior year. The value of production reached $504,190,385, a 38 percent rise over the previous year.
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Washington
United States Geological Survey
United States
Why not revive the old system of lettre de cachet
The Federationist editor Samuel Gompers attacks D M Parry of Indianapolis in a Washington page, urging a branding scheme to humiliate union critics. He cites past methods by the Citizens' Alliance and imagines a national, uniform brand to enforce labor subjugation and control.
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Washington
Federationist
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
D. M. Parry
Indianapolis
Gompers
Mr. Parry
Parry
Peabody
Sherman Bell
Citizens’ Alliance
Fair Floats a Big Loan
The Louisiana Exposition Company has secured an option on a loan of 1,000,000 dollars to meet obligations. If borrowed the funds will pay the two 500,900 dollar installments of the government loan due August 15 and September 1.
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St. Louis
Louisiana Exposition Company
Prohibition on Hiring Natives as Mess Helpers in Luzon
Brigadier General Randall, commanding Luzon, issues a general order barring natives from serving as waiters or dishwashers at company messes or government stables kitchens or grounds. Exemptions require special authorization from headquarters.
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Washington
Randall
Department of Luzon
Slocum Officers Indicted in Ferry Disaster Case
New York Special reports Captain Van Schaick, Federal Steamboat Inspector Fleming, and former Inspector Lundberg indicted by a federal grand jury over the General Slocum disaster of June 15. Nearly 1,000 lives were lost. Van Schaick commanded the Slocum.
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New York
van Schaick
Fleming
Lundberg
Federal
Grand Jur
Slocum
Fair Attendance Up at St Louis World’s Fair
World’s Fair grounds in St Louis reports weekly attendance for ending July 30 at 551 842 persons, a sharp rise from 512 150 the prior week.
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St. Louis
Sp&cial
Pocketbook Worth Nearly Twelve Thousand Stolen at Depot
A. B. Asher of Pineville Ky on route to Winchester left a pocketbook containing about $12,000 in notes and cash in a Chesapeake and Ohio depot toilet room. It disappeared on his return several hours later. He notified the bank and police.
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Lexington
A. B. Asher
Pineville
Winchester
Chesapeake & Ohlfo
Marvelous Escape of Colonel Paschenko At Tatchekino
Special dispatches from Shanghai and Yokohama report a general attack on Port Arthur has begun. Col Paschenko survived a melinite shell explosion that hurled him into the air and left him unharmed though later wounded in the hand. Russian artillery suppressed Japanese fire as Tatchekino defenses held amid heat and rain.
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London
Shanghai
Yokohama
Port Arthur
Kuropatkin
Liao Yang
Tatchekino
Paschenko
Haichense
Tatchekiao
Czardom Threatened by Russian Assassination Editorials
London papers react with horror to the murder of M. von Plehve highlighting the collapse of reactionary rule in Russia. The Daily Telegraph notes the blow signals renewed perils for Czardom and reports large sums spent on personal protection amid rumored conspiracies in Russia and Finland.
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London
Russia
Daily Telegraph
von Plehve
M. von Plehve
Copenhagen
Denmark
Finland
Inventor Barnum Dies in Poverty in Brooklyn
Isaac W. Barnum, inventor of the hemming attachment for sewing machines once said to have owned a fortune of about half a million dollars, died in poverty Thursday in Brooklyn.
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New York
Isaac W. Barnum
Brooklyn
Hoyt Family Makes 515 Mile Fair Run in a Month
William Hoyt pulled his wife and their four year old son from Moline to the world’s fair on a wager a sulky cultivator. The trio covered 515 miles in one month and Hoyt won a $1000 prize.
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St. Louis
William Hoyt
Moline
Lil
Mr. Hoyt
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