Belgium approves Congo annexation as Cabinet clings to posts
Brussels dispatch reports the Chamber of Deputies voting 53 to 4 to annex Congo to Belgium after months of conflict. The vote preserves King Leopold's life income and guarantees to Thomas F. Ryan linked Congo interests, while rejecting debt guarantee. End of Congo misrule hoped, with reforms urged under possible international pressure.
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Royal Commission Praises American Feeble-minded Care
British commissioners who studied the US system for feeble-minded persons report American methods are advanced and successful. They say American institutions for the feeble-minded and lunatic asylums are better designed, cheaper to construct, and more effectively run than most British facilities.
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Royal Commission
United States
Great Britain
America
Esperantists tour Elbe excursion near Dresden
Notes from abroad report Esperantists at their international congress near Dresden taking an Elbe excursion. The Hague notes a bill in the Second Chamber to ratify the U S Holland pact reached in Washington May 2. An Orientalist congress ends in Copenhagen with Athens slated as 1911 host. Basle reports a $50,000 fire at German American Petroleum works. London expects Sir Alan Johnstone to replace Sir Henry Howard as British minister to the Netherlands when Howard retires Oct 1.
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Troops Battle Yosemite Forest Fire Near Hetch Hetchy
A destructive forest blaze roars around Hetch Hetchy Valley in Tuolomne County north of Yosemite, with Major Benson leading two troops of cavalry from Yosemite Park to aid the flames as soldiers fight the inferno.
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Netherlands Silent on Venezuela Reply Terms Amid Tensions
The Netherlands delays publishing its reply to Venezuela's President Castro, preferring deliver through intermediaries while noting possible broader action by other powers. Aruba reports a Venezuelan coast guard visit provoking protests and a tense standoff with a consul as officials intervene. In Curacao, merchants boycott sugar and hat straw cargo from Venezuela, with clashes as the Brazilian schooner Maria Abigail leaves without unloading.
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Aruba
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Bloess
Washington
Elias H. Cheney
Strate Department
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Maria Abigall
Maracaibo
Fort Amsterdam
Tschaikowsky Trial Delayed in St Petersburg
In St Petersburg on August 20, officials said progress in the case against Nicholas Tschaikowsky, a Russian revolutionary, is slow. He has been held at Forts of Peter and Paul since December, with a possible trial date unlikely and a chance the case may be quashed if evidence remains inconclusive. His daughter visits weekly but legal counsel is not allowed.
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St. Peter and St. Paul
M. Makaroff
Ministry of the Interior
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Teneran
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Uan Alwer
Pesserday Sedan
Pope's Health Improves Amid Rest and Audiences
The Pope, recovering from a cold that affected his gout, felt better in the morning and granted audiences with physicians’ permission. He received Cardinal Gotti and Mgr. Aversa, discussing ecclesiastical affairs in Cuba and Puerto Rico and congratulating on key diocesan successes.
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Mgr. Aversa
Havana
Cuba
Porto Rico
Asquith Returns From Scotland in Naval Debate Context
London Aug 20 Prime Minister Asquith resumes duties after a Scotland holiday and a Downing Street talk with Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey. The meeting is linked to tensions over naval policy amid Churchill Lloyd George clashes, but no royal conference outcome is announced. Berlin dispatch notes Lloyd George aims to study social and political institutions in Germany with no mandate for naval proposals.
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Japanese Sealer Efuku Maru Seized By Russians
Victoria B C Aug 20 News of a Japanese sealing schooner the Efuku Maru being seized by Russians for alleged raids at Copper Island seal rookeries in the Kommancerofski group was reported by the Shinano Maru. The seized vessel was towed to Vladivostok and Japanese papers report a six death sentence for seal hunters of the Miyo Maru.
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Japan
Russia
Wealthy American John Reid Found Dead in Bournemouth
Aug 20 in Bournemouth England an American named John Pedman Reid was found dead from a self inflicted gunshot. An inquest ruled the death as self destruction during temporary insanity. Reid arrived in England in May and authorities have yet to confirm his identity though a $25,000 bank deposit receipt was found among his effects.
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England
John Pedman Reid
Reid
Russians Upset Liberals as Shah Advised Reforms
Aug 20 192? report from Moscow shows General Shah of Persia, former premier, urging the Shah to curb reformist factions and prepare a new Parliament. He says Persia cannot support a constitutional system and predicts a return of the old regime, with a new body to be formed.
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Turks Will Quit Persia
Aug 30 report from Constantinople says Funsth and Turkey will settle their dispute. Grand Vizier will withdraw Turkish troops from positions deemed inconclusive. Persian Ambassador and the Vizier agree on an equitable arrangement on other disputed points.
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Grand Vizier
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Austria recalls officers from Turkish gendarmerie in Macedonia
The Austrians notify Vienna will withdraw their officers from command of the Turkish gendarmerie in Macedonia while Russia accepts the move and a wider withdrawal by other powers is expected. Italy and Great Britain may follow.
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Crowd disrupts Wrights flight attempt at Le Mans
Wilbur Wright postponed his aeroplane trial to tomorrow after a large unruly crowd forced entry into his shed in Le Mans. The crowd disrupted work on the aircraft and a local builder offered Farman Delagrange and Bleriot the use of his workshops to continue experiments.
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Two Balloons Over Berlin In Joint Flight
The Parseval and the Gross steerable balloons cruised together for two hours over Berlin. They performed evolutions with great success and were close to each other above Unter den Linden. Crowds cheered as the Duke of Sachsen Altenburg steered the Parseval. daily ascensions will train crews.
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Hadley Defends Big Oil Trust at Attorneys General Meet
At the Denver meeting, Missouri Attorney General Herbert S. Hadley denounces Standard Oil ties to New Jersey and Indiana firms. He argues puppet corporations shield real offenders like Rockefeller and Rogers and calls for stricter laws to reverse judgments only when the record shows the wrong party prevailed.
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Missouri
Association
Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
John D. Rockefeller
H. H. Rogers
John Archbold
Hadley
Children Kill Drunken Father Near Raleigh
Logan Jones, intoxicated, vowed to wipe out his family and was shot and killed by his 15-year-old son in a village near Raleigh North Carolina. A second child also struck him with an axe.
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N. C
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