England warns as volunteer fleet and war contraband fears rise
London diplomats fear events in the East may pull Great Britain into the Russia Japan conflict. Russian ships of the volunteer fleet, passing the Dardanelles, are stopping merchantmen and alleging contraband of war, prompting alarm at the Foreign Office. The St Petersburg seized the British steamer Wai Para near Jebel Zugur, prompting protests over papers and arms aboard.
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London
Far East
East
Great Britain
Ohe
Omfee
Russia
Merve Hantmen
Europe
Asia
Dardanelles
Wal Para
St. Peterstore
Wai Para
Dapan
St Far
Dardapelies
Getton
Novel Rite At A Grave For Senator Sloan
An unusual funeral feature followed the burial of Senator George B. Sloan. Kitawara, his longtime Indian valet, led final rites at the grave after Episcopalian services. The rector Rev. I. G. Morris accompanied the procession to the cemetery. Kilawaga then performed a ritual invocation and released six white doves from a cage at the head of the grave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oswero Noy
George B. Sloan Fiers
Othe
Kitawara
Stoan
I. G. Morris
Kilawaga
Ottawa Angers Over Canadian Immigration Drive
Washington views with concern a Canadian government backed push to lure U S immigrants to the Northwest. The Dominion interior department has circulated letters in Northwestern States, mainly to clergy, professionals, and influential figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Northwest Territory
Dominion Department of Interior
Northwestern States
Foul Play Suspected in Loomis Death Probe
Reports to the Press Association and Central News say a new examination of F. Kent Loomis body found Saturday at Warren Point near Plymouth raises grave suspicions among local officials that he was murdered. A circular large clean wound behind the right ear is noted and thought to have been inflicted before death. It is believed the body fell into the water near the Eddystone lighthouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Press Association
The
Central News
F. Kent Loomis
Warren Point
Plymouth
Loomis
Eddystone
Vestryman Passes Plate as Candidate Receives Offering
At the Mission Church of the Holy Cross in Esopus a vestryman and Sunday candidate for U S president collected offerings. A small colored boy entered the vestry and dropped a coin into the plate without disturbing the service as the parish leader continued collecting.
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Esopus
Parker
Mission Church of the Holy Cross
United States
Erinning Ogg
Record Year for U S Foreign Commerce Exports Reach New Peak
Washington reports 1904 foreign commerce the largest in U S history with total exports at 1.400 million, imports down, and the excess of exports over imports rising to 470 million. Manufacturing exports set to top prior records as eleven months exceed 1900 figures. United Kingdom remains a distant second in domestic exports.
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Washington
United States
Department of Commerce and Labor
Bureau of Statistics
Wun
United Kingdom
Santos Dumont backs out of St. Louis airship test
Santos Dumont says he will not return to America for the St. Louis airship trial. He cites delays in repairing damage to his envelope and notes only one firm can fix it, but cannot complete repairs in time to ship the balloon for the world fair trial.
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Paris
Santos Dumont
America
St. Louis
Santos-Dumont
Populists Call for Indiana State Convention
The fusion Populists of Indiana issue a call for a state convention in Indianapolis on Wednesday September 14. The invitation extends to Kansas City Platform Democrats and silver Republicans. The surrender of Mr Bryjn to the reorganizers is cited as proof relief lies only in a new party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Indiana
Kansas City Platform Democrats
Silver
Bryjjn
King Edward Guests at American Home and Lunch at Sea
King Edward stayed as a weekend guest of Mrs Geog Cavendish at Shelliffs Castle Christ Church with an American house party. He traveled aboard the Erin and attended luncheon hosted by Sir Thomas Lipton. the party included several American members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Edward
Steess
Geog Cavendish
Sslivingston
New York
Sgheliffs Castle
Christ Church
Lnncheon
Thomas Lipton
Oriental Countries Favor U S Says Pierce Returns
Herbert H. Pierce third assistant secretary of state arrived from an inspection tour of American consulates in the Orient and reports that Oriental countries, especially China, hold a favorable attitude toward the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Herbert H. Pierce
Orient
Washington
China
President Breen Calls for End of Absolute Divorce in Indiana
Fort Wayne Indiana special report: William P Breen of Fort Wayne appeals to the State Bar Association against absolute divorce laws. He warns divorces threaten social life and civic policy, urging reforms to preserve marriage and family as the state's life blood. He cites child custody as central, questions a system splitting families, and notes public sentiment and church action against divorce.
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Ft. Wayne
Ind
Indiana
William P. Breen
State Bar Association
Breen
Golden Rule Jones Dies At Toledo Mayor Of Toledo
Samuel Milton Jones known as the Golden Rule dies in Toledo after weeks of pneumonia. Born in Wales in 1846, he helped found the Ohio Oil Company later sold to Standard Oil and served multiple terms as mayor amid a fractured Republican field.
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Toledo, O
Samuel Milton Jones
Toledo
Jones
Blank
Picnic Train Wreck Near Glenwood Kills 22
A Chicago picnic train returning from Momence collided with a freight train at Glenwood, twenty-three miles south of Chicago, killing twenty-two people and injuring about twenty-five. The wreck occurred when the picnic train struck the rear of the freight train at high speed.
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Chicago
Chicago & Eastern
Glenwood
Momence
Cannon to Take Stump in Republican Campaign
The article reports that "Uncle Joe" Cannon will not go abroad for health reasons. He will stump for the Republican ticket this fall instead of loafing at continental resorts. After the Chicago Republican convention it was announced he planned to go abroad, but he reconsidered, deciding to stay home and speak on politics.
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Joe’ Cannon
Chicago
Joe
Conspiracy Charged In World's Fair Ticket Schemes
Four World’s Fair admission department employees including William H. Ellis Charles H Sawler Henry Miller and Edward Kiely were arrested on charges of conspiring to loot the exposition. Pinkerton detectives and city police probe indicate widespread involvement across gates booths offices and entrances with counterfeit tickets and backdated sales.
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St. Louis
William H. Ellis
Charles H. Sawler
Henry Miller
Edward Kiely
Norris B. Greeg
Department of Admission
Pinkerton
Scalpers Target World Fair Tickets In St Louis
Three railroads entering St Louis face widespread trouble protecting themselves against scalping of special rate excursion tickets for the world’s fair. Courts uphold that these tickets are non negotiable and a purchaser using another’s name commits forgery. Conductors must collect full fare or eject riders with scalped tickets, and this has been done in hundreds of cases.
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St. Louis
Popocatapetl Volcano Sold to New York Capitalists
The formal transfer of Popocatapetl to New York capitalists will be completed next week in Mexico City. An inter-oceanic railroad would transport sulphur from the volcano to Vera Cruz, with a projected landing price in New York of 48 dollars per ton gold, challenging Italian sulphur imports.
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Mexico City
Popocatapeti
New York
Inter-Oceanic Railroad
Vera Cruz
Panama Grants Wireless Telegraph Concession to US Company
Mr. Lee head of the American legation in Panama reports to the State Department that the Panama government has granted a concession to an American transportation company to build a wireless telegraph system linking Bocas del Toro with Colon and Colon with Panama City.
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Washington
Lee
Panama
State Department
Bocas del Toro
Colon
Loubet to Award Grand Cross of Legion of Honor
Paris announces that President Loubet will confer the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor on Secretary Hay after the French national holiday. The Grand Cross represents the highest rank in the order.
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Paris
Loubet
Legion of Honor
Hay
Pauline Astor Engaged to Captain Spender Clay in London
Pall Mall Gazette announces Pauline Astor engagement to Captain H. H. Spender-Clay formerly of the Second Life Guards. Spender-Clay rose to prominence by securing Lord William Neville's five year penal servitude for fraud on a promissory note in February 1898.
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London
William Waldorf Astor
The
Pall Mal Gazette
Mr. Astor
Pauline
H. H. Spender-Clay
Second Life Guards
Lord William Neville
Fire at Omaha docks destroys Duluth property
A blaze at the Omaha docks and warehouses in Duluth Minnesota destroyed 400000 dollars worth of special property on Friday afternoon. George Smith a cook aboard the tug Abbott drowned while trying to escape the burning craft as flames spread from the docks.
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Duluth
Minn
Omaha
George Smith
Abbott
Fireworks Fire Alarm Spreads Sparks in Bloomington
In Bloomington Illinois a belated Fourth of July display ignited when fireworks owned by Paul Reich sparked in intense heat. Firefighters arrived and prevented the flames from spreading.
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Bloomington
Ill
Paul Reich
Paul Kruger Dies in Switzerland at 83
Former Transvaal president Paul Kruger died in Clarens Switzerland at 3 am on Thursday from pneumonia and heart weakness. His daughter and son-in-law were present. Post mortem cited senile pneumonia from arterial disease. Paris reported widespread regret amid sympathy for the Boer cause and Kruger’s strong faith.
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Clarens
Switzerland
Paul Kruger
Transvaal Republic
Paris
Transvaal
Mentone
Kruger
Mr. Kruger
Mississippi river steamship venture eyed by Captain Merry
Captain C. H. Merry arrives in New Orleans to form a company to revive river transport between New Orleans and St. Louis and possibly south. He displays blueprints for a proposed boat 559 feet long, 190 feet beam, 17 feet hold, with 10,000 ton capacity and space for 2,000 first class and 1,000 second class passengers. He asserts the Mississippi never runs too low for such a voyage.
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New Orleans
C. H. Merry
St. Louis
Place South
Merry
Train Hits Auto Three Killed at Long Island Crossing
Three people died after a collision between a touring automobile and a train at the Mercent Road crossing on Long Island. Jas Snyder of Brooklyn and Frank J. Carroll of Amityville were killed instantly, and a man believed to be J W Jewell of Brooklyn died later from injuries.
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Rockville Center
L. I
Jas. Snyder
Brooklyn
Frank J. Carroll
Amityville
J. W. Jewell
Long Island Railroad
Mercent Road
Will Raise Battleship Maine in Havana Harbor
Washington special reports R H F Sewell of New York says he contracted with the Cuban government to raise the wreck of the battleship Maine, sunk after the February 15 1898 explosion in Havana harbor.
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Washington
R. H. F. Sewell
New York
Navy Department
Maine
Havana
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Pauline Astor
Compau Kruger
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