Edward France 8 Prepares for King's Paris Visit Spectacle Planned
Elaborate preparations in Paris for King Edward's visit, mirroring czar era pageantry. Government plans cover daytime decorations and night illuminations as crowds gather for a royal reception. King Edward stays at the British embassy with Loubet hosting a Comedie Francaise gala and a review of 12,000 troops at Vincennes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Edward
Russia
Loubet
Bois de Boulogne
Bois
Champs Elysees
Queen Victoria
M. Loubet
Comedie Francaise
L’autre Danger
Vincennes
Longchamps
Great Britain
France
Senate
Chamber
Edwards
Portugal
Italy
St. Petersburg
Leprosy in the Army First Case Studied at Fort Screven
Washington report details the first documented army case of leprosy. The infected soldier stayed in service to aid medical study. A dedicated house was built near Fort Screven, Georgia, with an army surgeon assigned to observe potential cures. No updates have been received yet.
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Washington
Ft Screven
Georgia
German officer not punished in killing of Hartmann
Berlin officials will not punish Ensign Hussenér for shooting his former friend Artil Jergman Hartmann after Hartmann allegedly failed to salute. Admiral von Tirpitz says Hartmann struck first and Hussenér testified he received a bow during a struggle. witnesses dispute blows.
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Berlin
Hussenér
Artil- Jergman Hartmann
Admiral von Tirpitz
Admiralty
Emperor William
Hussener
Hartmann
Macedonians Attack in Melnik District After Siege
Dispatches from Sofia report a group of Macedonians surrounded and fatally harmed forty people in the Melnik district. They seek revenge for their leader Capt. Saeff who was fatally wounded in an earlier clash near Petrich. Fifteen sentarme units were involved in the operation.
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Vienna
Sofia
Bulgaria
Petrich
Mace
Sele
Saeff
Melnik
Declaration of Independence sealed for public view
The Declaration will be kept under lock and key in a fireproof safe and will not be exhibited at international fairs. An American Academy of Science committee advised closing access, urged by Secretary Hay after librarian Anbrew Allen highlighted the document's fragile state. Only a few signatures remain readable, including Hancock’s faint autograph.
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Washington
American Academy of Science
Hay
Anbrew Allen
State Department
John Hancock
Russian Ambassador ailing. US protests Manchuria demands
Washington reports a Sunday meeting between Secretary Hay and Count Cassini as US steps to probe Russia's Manchuria demand. Ambassador McCormick to present a protest note while China is urged to resist concessions, with assurances sought that American trade and open door remain protected.
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Washington
Russia
Manchuria
Hay
Count Cassini
State Department
McCormick
St. Petersburg
Foreign Office
Conger
Peking
United States
China
Department
Priest Voices Protest Over Divorce Marriage Issue
London priest Father Black famous for opposing divorce marriages sends a Times letter protesting Rev P H Hadden's planned ceremony for Mr Vanderbilt and Mrs Rutherford. He questions the American secretary's affront to Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London after the bishop denounced the use of marriage service for divorced persons.
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London
Father Black
The
Times
Vanderbilt
Rutherford
P. H. Hadden
St. Mark’s
Legation
Canterbury
Powder Trust Faces Indiana Coal Field Competition
Terre Haute reports a new Indiana coal field challenge as a $100,000 capital stock company forms to locate a factory in the Linton field. Incorporator Norman Rood notes his father opposed the trust, which once built a Fontanet factory and fought for two years before selling for $600,000.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Powder Trust
Indiana
Linton Field
Norman Rood
Trust
Fontanet
British forces report defeat of Plunkett column near Gumburru
London dispatch recounts Colonel Plunkett's force of 160 men plus Sikhs and Maxim guns being defeated after a march from Galadi. Colonel Cobbe's party retreats to Galadi. General Manning moves to Gumburru with 460 men to extricate Cobbe and return with as much transport as possible.
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London
War Office
Manning
Somaliland
Galadtia
Cobdbe
Galadi
Walwal
Cobbe
Gumburru
Searba
Olivey
Plunkett
King's African Rifles
Poulney Bigelow and Gertrude Atherton Narrowly Escape Drowning
New York special reports Poulney Bigelow newspaper correspondent and author and Gertrude Atherton novelist had a close call on a small Adirondack lake. The boat capsized and Bigelow kept Atherton's head above water until help arrived. Bigelow has faced recent publicity from a divorce case won by his wife.
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New York
Poulney Bigelow
Gertrude Atherton
Adirondacks
Bigelow
Miss Atherton
Knox to Decide on Action for Post Office Paper Abstraction
Washington summary: The postmaster general has gathered affidavits reports and documents about papers removed from the safe in the assistant attorney general for the post office department. He sent them with a general summary to the department of justice on Monday morning. Attorney General Knox now must decide whether to take action against Mrs Tyner Mrs Barrett and the safe expert responsible for the removal of the documents.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Department of Justice
Knox
Tyner
Barrett
Negro Youth Lynched Near Santa Fe
An unknown seventeen year old Black youth was lynched by a mob near Santa Fe after an alleged attempt to assault a farmer’s ten year old daughter. The assailant’s fate followed at the scene as tents and fires spread and shots rang out. no white deaths reported.
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Thebes, Llt
Santa Feunday
Farmers burn effigy over grave robbing case near Fisher's Station
A crowd along the Hamilton county line burned effigies of Dr J C Alexander Hampton West and attorney John M Bailey after a Hamilton region grave robbing case. The mob displayed dummies on a scaffold near the railroad station in Fisher's Station, denouncing the Marion county court for not convicting. Residents claimed unfamiliarity with the participants.
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Hamilton County
Marion County
J. C. Alexander
Alexander Hampton West
John M. Bailey
Alexander
Fisher's Station
Bailey
West
Mob Whips Man and Women Near Bloomington
A mob of twelve masked men dragged Joe Shively from Rebecca and Annie Stevens near Bloomington Indiana at 1 a.m. They beat him and then tied him to a sapling in a grove. The women and Shivelys sister, a young colored girl, were stripped and whipped. The leader enforced silence.
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Bloomington
Ind
Rebecca
Annie Stevens
Joe Shively
Shively
Mob terror in Bloomington over racial tensions at Stevens home
A Bloomington mob of twelve men, praised as trustworthy, reportedly attacked a house where a Black man and his sister lived with white women. The group lashed Shively fifty times, ordered him out, and reportedly forced the Stevens women to leave. Public opinion favored the unseen aggressors amid fear and rumors.
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Stevens
Bloomington
Shively
Miles makes report on Philippine inspection tour
Washington special reports Lieut Gen Miles issued a Feb 19 1903 inquiry from Calamba to Batangas noting devastation and low spirits among Filipinos. The document cites harsh treatment claims by locals at Lipa including torture by water and the torture of a respected 65 year old citizen Vincente Luns. The War Department released Miles findings and J F Wilson questioned beef on the hoof as impractical.
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Washington
War Department
Miles
Philippine Islands
Philippines
J. F. Wilson
Philippine
Calamba
Batangas
Lipa
Vincente Luns
Roosevelt Tours Iowa Amid Crowds Across Seven Cities
President Roosevelt traveled across Iowa on Tuesday meeting large crowds in Shenandoah Des Moines Osceola and Ottumwa. He spoke at seven towns including Clarinda Van Wert Oskaloosa and received by Governor Cummins and congressmen Hepburn Hull Lacy Shaw. He praised good citizenship and the work of Secretary Wilson in agriculture and dedicated a new Y M C A building in Oskaloosa.
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Ottumwa
Roosevelt
Iowa
Shenandoah
Wilson
Des Moines
Mystic Shriners
Capitol
Hull
Congressman Hepburn
Clarinda
Elf
van Wert
Osceola
Shaw
Hepburn
Oskaloosa
Cummins
Lacy
Williams
Russia Denies and Minimizes Eight Demands on China Manchuria
The Russian Foreign Office responded to the Peking dispatch on Manchuria by denying several points and downplaying others. It rejects or defers each claim, labeling some as false, unimportant, or beyond Russia’s concerns while noting a response tied to England’s 1902 plague reference.
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St. Petersburg
Peking
Russia
China
Manchuria
Foreign Office
Washington General Tyner’s health worsens after removal
The report notes Gen. James N. Tyner’s serious condition following his removal from office on charges of aiding and abetting government case rifling. The stress of the incident is said to have undermined his health, with contemporaries joking and the district reference noted.
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Washington
James N. Tyner
Durbin Seethes Over Bloomington Whitecap Attack
Governor Durbin denounces an early Sunday whitecapping in Bloomington where twelve masked men beat Rebecca and Annie Stevens and Joe Shiveley and his sister near the State University. He warns of possible removal of the university from the community if authorities fail to act.
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Indianapolis
Monroe County
Bloomington
State University
Durbin
University Town
Rebecca
Annie Stevens
Joe Shiveley
Shiveley
Chinese Rebels Dismiss Demands on Manchuria Trigger War Fears
Peking reports Russia will refuse Japanese and Western demands on Manchuria ending in possible incorporation of three provinces into Russia. Dispatches from Tokio and London cite warnings to China, Russian moves, and signs of impending wider conflict as American ships gather at Yokohama.
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Peking
China
Russia
Manchuria
Tokio
Japan
Jiji
St. Petersburg
London
Daily Mail
Warchuria
Yokohama
Feking
Alexieff
Mukden
Tolsio
the Times
Korea
Yalu
Widow Pendleton Captures Attention At Church Scene
A visiting man pursues information about a pretty widow named Mrs Pendleton from Fourth Presbyterian. Her husband discovers the inquiry and jokes about mistaken widows as scenes unfold in Mrs Pendleton’s boudoir with a Sunday church outing.
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Mrs. Pendleton
Boudoir
George
Dresed
Chicago Record-Herald
Klondike Output Seen At Fifteen Million In Seattle
A Dawson telegram reports sluicing in Klondike creeks began Tuesday with an estimated yearly output of 15 million dollars, compared with last year. Governor Congdon says Canada won’t set up an assay and gold purchasing office at Dawson, so Seattle will continue handling most northern gold as overland traffic wanes and river navigation may reopen May 20.
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Seattle
Wash
Dawson
Klondike
Congdon
Canada
Hearst Marries Millicen Willson in New York Ceremony
Congressman elect William Randolph Hearst, publisher of the New York American and other dailies, wed Millicken Willson, daughter of George H. Willson, president of Advance Music Company, in a New York ceremony.
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Yellow Journal
Willie
New York
William Randolph Hearst
New York American
New York Evening Journal
Chicago American
San Francisco Examiner
Milliken Willson
George H. Willson
Advance Music Company
Double whitecap mob damages homes in Johnson township
In Johnson township Brown County Indiana a masked mob used a rail to break into the homes of James Moffett and Ellsworth Hashman on Sunday midnight. The men were dragged to nearby trees and severely beaten with hickory switches in what local reports call a whitecapping incident.
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Brown County
Nashville
Ind
Johnson Township
James Moffett
Ellsworth Hashman
Horrible Tales of Wolves and Vengeful Women From Russia
A St. Petersburg dispatch describes a family pursued by wolves near Vitebesk. The mother saves the infant by leaping and rolling free, while the father and horse are devoured. The tale echoes Browning and paves a contrast with other real and fictional cases of vengeful killings reported from Odessa and Baku.
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St. Petersburg
Vitebesk
Russia
Browning
Ivan Ivanovitch
Ivan Tranovitch
Ivan Therepon
Odessa
Baku
Balvac
la Grande Breteche
Editor's doubt over unrevealed jokes in print
A fragment shows a writer claiming to the editor that the jokes they submitted had never appeared in print and the editor replies that it was probable they never would. The exchange hints at concerns about originality and prior publication.
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