Eleven Sailors Believed Lost After Launch Sinks at Hampton Roads
Eleven navy personnel including six midshipmen and five seamen vanish after departing the Jamestown Exposition grounds aboard a Minnesota launch. A fireman’s box drifter and rescued officers suggest a collision or sudden capsize. Rear Admiral Evans orders an inquiry as the Florida recovers a cap belonging to Midshipman Ulrich. Lieutenant Randall arrives in Norfolk safe, not aboard the launch.
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Norfolk
Navy
Discovery
Jamestown Exposition Grounds
Minnesota
Hampton Roads
Philip H. Field
Wm. H. Stevenson
Franklin P. Holcomb
H. L. Holden
Henry Clay Murfin, Jr
Walter C. Ulrich
R. H. Dodson
Jesse Conn
Frank R. Plumber
Harley L. Vandorne
George W. Westphal
Exposition Pier
D. M. Randall
Exposition Grounds
Evans
Florida
Ulrich
Randall
United State Marine Corps
JAP BAND PLAYS MIKADO ON BRITISH WARSHIP
A Japanese band performs The Mikado aboard a British warship while sailors react with laughter. The incident sparks chatter about cultural exchange and wartime morale aboard the vessel.
Japanese Band Plays Mikado Despite Admiralty Ban
In Chatham England the Tsukuba lies in the dockyard as band master Setoguchi selects Sullivan music for dinner dances. The Japanese crew performs the Mikado in defiance of the Admiralty rule meant to spare Japanese visitors offense, causing local laughter at the situation.
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Chatham
England
The
Admiralty
Sullivan
Tsukuba
Setoguchi
Ninety Year Old Levi Woods Seeks Divorce
Levi Woods of Kalamazoo Michigan files for divorce from Mary Woods after twenty seven years of marriage. He says a daughter from a former marriage caused him to sell property and move to California, then return while his wife stayed in the West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalamazoo, Mich
Levi Woods
Mary Woods
Mr. Woods
California
West
Cadets Face Reintroduced Entrance Examinations
Washington Special reports the War Department will require all cadet applicants to pass rigid entrance examinations. The move follows a thorough trial showing many failures were among nonexam admitted cadets and diploma holders from various schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Special
West Point
War Department
The Wicked Umbrella Trust Action in Philadelphia
Acting on instructions from Washington, United States District Attorney Thompson has moved against the umbrella trust. He alleges a conspiracy among umbrella makers and frame manufacturers to restrain trade and fix prices of their products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wicked Umbrella Trust
Philadelphia
Washington
United States
Thompson
Umbrella Trust
Senator Morgan Dead In Washington at 83
United States Senator John Tyler Morgan of Alabama died here suddenly on Tuesday night at age 83. The death ends a long Senate career and makes his successors and colleagues mourn his passing.
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Washington
United States
John Tyler Morgan
Alamada
Morgan
Twenty Years on One Translation by Eben F Thompson
Eben Francis Thompson Worcester corporation counsel after two decades on a single effort has produced a praised translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Critics note four years of work on a single quatrain and hail the result from Boston special coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
Eben Francis Thompson
Corporation Counsel
Worcester
Omar Khayyam
Washington envoy thanks secretary on departure
Says Kuroki, the Washington Special General, telegraphs the Navy Department thanking the secretary for the courtesies extended him while in the United States before leaving America.
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Kuroki
Washington
America
Navy Department
Stolen Great Northern Train Thief Caught
Barkley McCutcheon seized the Seattle Bellingham local at the station while the crew lunch breaks. He sped north then reversed course and sped south in a wild ride before being arrested after stopping the locomotive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellingham
Wash
Great Northern
Seattle
McCutcheon
Nicaraguan Invasion Sparks Central American War Push
Nicaraguans aided by Salvadorean revolutionists seized Acajutla Salvador port after bombardment by gunboat Momtombo. Gen Manuel Rivas and forces take the town as Zelaya declares war on Guatemala. The move aims at San Jose de Guatemala with regional revolutionary support and rainy season campaigning ahead.
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Mexico City
Mex
Central America
Acajutla
Salvador
Momtombo
Manuel Rivas
San Jose de Guatemala
Zelaya
Nicaragua
Sonconate
Delgado
Estrada Babrera
Guatemala
Figueroa
Printer dies after ten day fast at government printing office
Washington Special reports a printer named John H. Swerdfiger died after a ten day fast undertaken with a physical culture group. He reportedly drank water, showed no weakness until collapsing from heart trouble and dying on the floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John H. Swerdfiger
Government Printing Office
Leavenworth Saloons Closed After Sheriff and AG Move
Leavenworth Kansas shuts saloons for first time in eighteen years following sheriff and Attorney General Jackson warning that no joints would be tolerated again. The city previously had about 125 saloons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavenworth
Kan
Jackson
Leavenworth City
St Louis Declares Rat War Day With Citywide Tactics
St Louis mobilizes for a citywide campaign to eradicate rats on June 15. Authorities authorize poison, traps, clubs, dogs and all practical methods to destroy the pest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Hughes Vetoes 2 Cent Fare Bill In New York
Governor Hughes vetoes a bill that would set a flat passenger rate of 2 cents per mile on any railroad system over 150 miles in New York State. The move blocks a planned statewide fare reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hughes
Albany
N. Y
Prohibition Fine in Case Martin Poultry Offense
A jury before Justice Greenbaum in the Supreme Court fined J. B. Martin, proprietor of Case Martin, 4450 for possessing grouse quail and partridge illegally on January 1 last. The New York Special reports the verdict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Justice Greenbaum
Supreme Court
J. B. Martin
Martin
Ubero Planation Company Declares 25 Cents Dividend
Judge Dodge in the United States Circuit Court authorizes a 25 cent dividend on claims against the Consolidated Ubero Plan tation Company amounting to $58,701. The Boston special reports the action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ubero
Boston
Mass
Consolidated
Ubero Plantation Company
Dodge
United States
Which assembles this Saturday
Washington Special explains the eve of the second Hague conference. American delegates push to expand the permanent Hague tribunal powers and seek a declaration of war timing to protect neutrals and trade. The piece notes submarine mines and torpedoes and calls for rules limiting mine and torpedo zones.
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Washington
America
Court of Arbitration
International Commission of Inquiry
United States
Japan
Hague
Naples Cable Arrests Over Large Cash Hoard
On arrival at Naples from New York the Cuban authorities arrested Jose Sanche and his wife Maria at their request. Sanche is wanted in Cuba for alleged theft from a Havana gas company. Luggage held $20000, cash on his person $170000, Senora Sanche $40000 and bonds valued at $20000. They offered no explanations for the money and bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naples
New York
Jose Sanche
Maria
Sanche
Cuba
Havana
Senora Sanche
Children Die After Compacts With Arsenic In Death by Own Action
Margaret Curtis aged 10 and Helen Curtis aged 11 living with grandparents on Dakota Street Cleveland mixed arsenic with their food and ate it. The younger girl confessed before losing consciousness that they wished to join their mother who had died recently to lighten their grandparents’ cares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Margaret
Helen Curtis
Dakota Street
Plan a National Gallery in Washington Endorsed by New York Arts Bodies
A movement in New York seeks to erect a great national gallery of the fine arts in Washington. Congress would be asked to appropriate at least 5 million dollars, possibly 10 million, and to create a department of fine arts headed by a cabinet member. The plan has NY art bodies' endorsement and active support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Gallery
New York
Washington
National Gallery of the Fine Arts
Congress
Department of Fine Arts
South Grows Weary of Bryan in Democratic Ranks
Democratic members of Congress returning from the Confederate reunion in Richmond say the South is tired of William J. Bryan and hopes Democrats pick another presidential candidate next year. The mood shift follows Bryan's national campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
Washington
William J. Bryan
Congress
Richmond
Poison Ink Road to Lavender Illness at Allegheny General
Mary Offers a laundry girl at Allegheny General Hospital became lavender after her shoes were colored with indelible ink and wetted. Doctors fear she cannot survive as ink penetrated leather and spread through her feet to her body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Mary
Allegheny General Hospital
Dorchester Celebrates 277th Founding Anniversary
Dorchester marked its 277th anniversary last week, recounting its status as the first U S town meeting site and the origin of a free school funded by popular tax, making it a landmark in New England history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorchester
United States
New England
Cyclone Wreaks Havoc in Kurrachi
A cyclone swept Kurrachi on Thursday causing an estimated 3 to 6 million dollars in damage. The city’s lighting system was wrecked and widespread destruction reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bombay
Kurrachi
Big Fuss at West Point Over Ban on Mrs Ayres
West Point Special Orders bar Mrs. Charles G Ayres from living on academy grounds following her verbal rebuke of officers who took coats from girl visitors at the cadet barracks She is a popular Army social figure and daughter of Colonel Fairfax with a son and daughter in college A $100 000 damages suit against several high officers at the academy is reportedly planned by Mrs Ayres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Point
N. Y
Charles G. Ayres
Ayres
Academy
Military Academy
Fairfax
Robert E. Lee
Elizabeth Ayres
United States Military Academy
Brilliant German-American lawyer confesses to mother-in-law murder
Karl Hau a German born lawyer who lived in Washington and later in Baden Baden confessed to murdering his wife's mother Frau Molitor last November. He blamed money troubles and the shock of his wife Lena Hall's own death by suicide in Switzerland. Hau's father was wealthy, he studied at Freiburg and Berlin, and taught Roman law at George Washington University before going abroad with his family. He had been charged with the crime, denied it, then confessed after learning of his wife’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karlsruhe
Germany
Karl Hau
Frau Molitor
Baden Baden
Hall
Switzerland
Hau
England
United States
Washington
Haun
Pfaeffikon
Freiburg
Berlin
Lena Molitor
George Washington University
Haul
Reichstag
Baden-Baden
Paris
Rumor Claims Guatemala President Cabrera Assassinated
A Sunday rumor circulated in Mexico City claimed Guatemala President Cabrera was killed. Senator Gomez, special representative of Nicaragua’s President Zelaya, says he has reason to believe the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Cabrera
Guatemala
Senor Gomez
Zelaya
Nicaragua
Must Keep Fingers Out Washington Special Rules
Civil service commission rules amended to bar all classified employees from active participation in political campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Special
The
Civil Service Commission
Julia Magruder Dies at 51 in Richmond
Richmond Virginia special reports novelist Julia Magruder died Sunday after a long illness. A Charlottesville native, she lived in Washington, D C. Most of her stories were written since 1885.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia Magruder
Richmond, Va
Charlottesville
Washington, D. C
Roosevelt's Only Cuss Word Revealed in Worcester
In Worcester Massachusetts Carroll D Wright president of Clark College and a close confidant to President Roosevelt identifies By George as the sole swear word used by the President. The remark highlights Roosevelt’s rare profanity in public life and serious bearing in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Worcester
Mass
George
Carroll D. Wright
Clark College
OUST THE GHEINES IS CONSPIRACY OF POLITICIANS
Washington special reports an alleged alliance between Japanese jingoists and Progressives to overturn Japan's ministry and lift the immigration exclusion on Japanese labor. The plot allegedly seeks Tokyo pressure for apology and indemnity over San Francisco riots, with anti American demonstrations planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pacific Coast
Progressives
Japan
United States
Tokyo
Viscount Aoki
San Francisco
Saionji
State Department
California
Hayashi
Tuberculosis Test Process Publicized by Roux
Prof. Roux of the Pasteur Institute reveals a method to detect tuberculosis in humans and animals. Prof. Valle reports successful animal tests at Alfort using a skin incision rubbed with Koch tuberculosis material, with healing if clear and a small pus-filled node forming if infected.
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Paris
Roux
Pasteur Institute
Valle
Alfort
Des Moines Man Plans Sixth Marriage Despite Bigamy Stints
Blencoe Iowa reports Thomas J. Strupper seventy one will wed Julia Comstock seventy two of Warren Ohio next month. This would be his sixth wife after prior marriages and two prior imprisonments for bigamy. He recently drew attention by bringing twenty year old Eva Scott from Sidney Indiana to wed in 1906, with his third wife Mrs J A Kelly accompanying.
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Des Moines
Blencoe
Thomas J. Strupper
Julia Comstock
Warren
Strupper
Eva Scott
Sidney
J. A. Kelly
Scott
Baron Ozawa Not Excited About U S Anti Japanese Feelings
London reports Baron Takeno Ozawa vice president of the Japanese Red Cross Society arrived from New York for a Red Cross conference opening June 10. He downplays sensational anti Japanese mistreatment stories and says San Francisco incident is more local than he expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Baron Takeno, Ozawa
Japanese Red Cross Society
New York
Red Cross
America
House of Peers
United States
San Francisco
Japan
Prosperity Declared Despite Gloomy Crop Warnings
Washington officials assert continued prosperity based on rising receipts and a flourishing national treasury despite negative crop forecasts and unsettled money markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Treasury
Pearl Ivey Marries Michael Gallaher on Capitol Dome
Atlanta special reports Pearl Eunice Ivey wed Michael Henry Gallaher atop the State Capitol dome. The bride pledged never to marry but kept her vow in a dramatic ceremony conducted high above the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Pearl Eunice Ivey
Michael Henry Gallaher
State Capitol
Yale's Laziest Man Named From Class of 1907
Calvin Truesdale, the richest Yale class of 1907 member, receives the class vote as its laziest. He is the son of the multimillionaire president of the Lackawanna Railroad.
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Yale
New Haven
Calvin Truesdale
Lackawanna Railroad
Fish Rain Sinks Sewers in Independence Missouri
A Sunday afternoon shower in Independence Missouri dropped a vast amount of small silver fish, about two tons in total, clogging catch basins and backing up water onto sidewalks. Many residents reportedly ate the fish. some remained alive briefly before dying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Independence
Advocates of Race Death by Own Action in Brighton
Brighton Michigan claims a near approach to race death by own action with census data. The town shows 24 single-member families and 76 two-member families. Once larger, it now numbers 749 residents with 113 acres per person inside city limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brighton
Mich
United States
Harvest Hands Needed in Topeka Kansas
Following the crop report by F. D. Corburn, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, a call for harvest hands is issued by T. B. Gerow, secretary of the State Free Employment Bureau. The request seeks 19 578 men and 3 400 teams, in addition to all available men and horses in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
F. D. Coburn
State Board of Agriculture
T. B. Gerow
State Free Employment Bureau
Balloon accident at Barcelona gas works ends in tragedy
A glazier aboard the Cierzo balloon attempted to ascend with the Count of Mendoza and his brother. The balloon rose to about 1,000 feet before the glazier lost his grip and fell to the ground, where peasants found him in pieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barcelona
Cierzo
Count of Mendoza
Will Fire Land Suits
Muskogee I T Special A new territory scandal is on the tapis and will develop next week when it is said suits charging land frauds will be filed here by an agent of the Interior Department against many prominent persons in the political life of the two territories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskogee, I. T
Tapis
Interior Department
Boy Flies in Own Ship at Columbus Driving Park
Cromwell Dickson of Columbus Indiana aged 15 flew his self built airship at the Columbus Driving Park. The 30 foot craft follows the dirigible model and uses a foot powered propeller instead of a motor in a successful Sunday flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy
Columbus
Ind
Cromwell Dickson
Sunday
Columbus Driving Park
Schooner La Jalouse Sinks Off Barbados
Twenty eight passengers including twelve women and children drowned when the French schooner La Jalouse sank off Barbados last Friday night. The vessel was en route from Cayenne to St Lucius amid a Barbados storm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbados
Cayenne
St. Lucius
Speeding suitor killed en route to Elkhart wedding
Elkhart Indiana special report: John Leroy Silby of Tipton was instantly killed at Bunker Hill while speeding to join his fiancée Letta Clark Lamberson who was to marry him June 20. Lamberson was advised of his death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francee
Elkhart
Ind
John Leroy Silby
Tipton
Bunker Hill
Letta Clark Lamberson
Silby
Harvard Botanist Backs Columbine as National Flower
Dr Frederick Le Roy Sargent of Harvard argues the columbine should be the national flower. He notes New Englanders favoring trailing arbutus, or mayflower, do not share his view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
Frederick le Roy Sargent
Harvard
Sargent
Burglars Kill Woodburn Town Marshal
Columbus Cray town marshal of Woodburn Indiana was shot and killed when surprised by burglars looting J A Faulkner store. The gunmen escaped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodburn
Ind
Columbus Cray
J. A. Faulkner
Woman 131 Years Old Celebrates Birthday in Pine Mills
Dallas special reports Mrs. L Kitchease born June 10, 1776, living with her granddaughter in Pine Mills Texas. She celebrated her 131st birthday on Monday and is described as the oldest inhabitant in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Tex
L. Kitchease
Pine Mills
United States
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