No Unworthy Peace Declares the Czar
The Times World wire reports the Czar vows no unworthy peace after talks with William II and a Moscow raid on Zemstvo and Douma leaders. Witte, aboard the Kaiser's ship, says he acts as courier seeking terms Japan will accept and will not bow to future-mounted victories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William
M Ore
Japan
Russia
London
The
Daily Telegraph
M. Witte
Witte
New World
Stoessel Relieved of Command of Third Siberian Army Corps
St Petersburg July 30 Gen Groessel is relieved of command of the Third Siberian Army Corps amid reports the port Arthur surrender inquiry found fault with Stoessel. It was also said the sword of honor funded by French subscriptions would not be presented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third Siberian
ST. Petersburg
Port. Arthur
Stoessel
Secretary Root Plans Labrador Voyage With Family
Secretary Root and Col. William Cary Sangster depart Utica with Elihu Jr and Edward Root bound for Montreal then St John s Newfoundland and a month long Labrador voyage in the company of family members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Root
Labrador
Utica
N. Y
Tate Root
Col
William Cary Sanger
Arrivals of Out-of-Town Buyers Highlighted
Yesterday’s notices show arrivals of buyers from outside the area and a brief record of local events. The item lists social and commercial movement with emphasis on new purchasers and market activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marine Intelligence
Society
Shark Riding fad gains interest at Oyster Bay yachting club
Special to The New York Times, Oyster Bay July 30. Shark riding has emerged as a new marine sport around Centre Island and the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club. Sharks, unusually abundant this year, draw daredevil bathers and harpooners alike as they ride in small boats and harpoon lines propel riders away, with a dangerous but spirited display noted by observers including Dr James S Hall who killed a seven foot shark after planning a swim across the Sound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Oyster Bay
Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club
James 8. Hall
Brooklyn
Centre Island
Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht “Club
Sparks
Traction fraud ring nabbed in Buffalo sting
Three suspects Edward Rey George Robson and Mary Robson were arrested in Buffalo on charges of conspiring to defraud a Baltimore street railway. They allegedly collected 2800 in Brooklyn and 900 in Jersey City while planning settlements and enlisting others to help, with cases linked to Mrs Robson claiming injury and seeking 50000.
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New York Times
Buffalo
Baltimore
Edward Rey
George Robson
Mary Robson
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Edmundson Avenue
Robson
Riley
Baltimore Road
Pittsburg
Gibler
Eee
Robsons
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Buffalo Railway
Seneca Street
Two Ministers Fight Saloons in Boxcar Ambush
In Veedersburg Indiana on July 30 Rev A W Gehres and Rev W K Richardson used a hidden boxcar to observe saloon activity. After two hours they were followed by two saloon men and attacked near Wabash Clay Works. The ministers defended themselves and beat the assailants. They plan to present evidence to the Grand Jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Veedersburg
Ind
A. W. Gehres
W. K Richardson
Wabash Clay Works
Alabama Railroad Commission Cuts Freight Rates
The Alabama Railroad Commission ordered substantial reductions in freight rates on all railroads entering the state. Reductions apply to both class and commodity rates and take effect immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Railroad Commission
The Twentieth Century Limited Fastest Train
The 18 hour service between New York and Chicago on the New York Central Lines is billed as the fastest long distance train in the world the Twentieth Century Limited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
New York Central Lines
Adv
President Roosevelt to press drastic reforms in Agriculture
Secretaries and officials linked to a sweeping scandal at the Agriculture Department are expected to be addressed by President Roosevelt. Secretary Wilson to meet with the President in Albany as reforms and possible legislation are discussed amid firings and resignations.
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New York Times
Oyster Bay
L. L
Wilson
Sagamore Hill
Roosevelt
Department of Agriculture
Mr. Roosevelt
John Hyde
Edwin &. Holmes, Jr
George T. Moore
Laboratory of
Moody
Department
Southern Cotton Association seeks Wilson ouster over department graft
The Southern Cotton Association calls for Secretary James L. Wilson's resignation amid graft charges and falsified reports within the Department of Agriculture. It demands a full investigation, Roosevelt involvement, and a reorganization to restore public trust among producers and trades.
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New York Times
Atlanta
Southern Cotton Association
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Agriculture
Washington
James L. Wilson
Harvie Jordan
Russian Empire
Wilson
Holmes
Department
Roosevelt
Department of Justice
John Hyde
Hyde
Europe
Canada
Burch
West
George T. Moore
Hamlin Garland Confined In Penitentiary Cell Prank
Canon City Colorado July 30 Hamlin Garland writes of a local color hunt that backfired as a warden locked him in a real steel cell beside a convicted murderer. Garland endured three hours of shouting thunderstorms and hoped for release in half an hour. He later sent cigars to the warden and kept quiet about the prank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Canon City
Col
Hamlin Garland
Mr. Garland
Garland
Brothers rescue during duck hunt saves injured hunter
Robert Hopkins, 19, of 85 East One Hundred Thirteenth Street, is hospitalized with a shattered left arm after a shotgun misfire on West Farms Creek. His brother James, 1,609 West Farms Road, swam to help, fashioned a tourniquet, and kept bleeding under control until a naphtha launch to Classon's Point and medical aid arrived.
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Robert Hopkins
East One Hundred and Thirteenth Street
Fordham Hospital
James Hopkins
West Farms Road
Robert
West Farms Creek
James
Young Hopkins
Classon’s Point
Railways Arm Fighters Over Ninth Street Tracks
In Omaha on July 30 Union Pacific and Burlington railroads clash over Ninth Street tracks. More than a hundred armed workers confront each other as UP guards the street after midnight while a Burlington special train waits nearby. City franking favored UP. a Lincoln convoy previously rushed in to outrun injunctions.
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New York Times
Omaha
Union Pacific
Burlington
Ninth Street
Union. Pacific
Lincoln
United States
Girl Outlaw Confesses in Rupert Mountain Gang Case
Mary Lamphear, daughter of a Dorset farmer, admits joining the Rupert camp of outlaws led by Arthur Ross. She says Reed and Brockway, both said to be from Boston, were with them as the group fled after Ross was shot Friday. Sheriff Wilson plans a larger search at daybreak tomorrow.
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New York Times
Bennington
Outlaws
Rupert
Mary Lamphear
Arthur Ross
Boston
Reed
Brockway
Wilson
Woman Doctor Melva Longfellow Found Dead in Boston
Dr. Melva F. Longfellow a South End spinal specialist died by gas asphyxiation in her office at 172 West Brookline Street Boston. Grief from February death of her mother and an engagement loss is cited. A letter to her sister Miss Mae Longfellow was found nearby. she is 44 and had practiced in the city for years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Boston
Melva F. Longfellow
South End
West Brookline Street
Longfellow
Miss Mae Longfellow
Washington Street
Excursion Adrift as Tug Nets Log Near Yonkers Rocks
A Neptune tug towing two Meyers Navigation barges with about 2000 excursionists broke down off North Yonkers in a storm. The Joseph Peene Sr. rescued passengers after a log fouled the propeller. later all were landed at Yonkers and trains brought them home. Yonkers rivermen blame Neptune captain for drifting toward rocks while others sheltered.
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Neptune
Walter Spear
Andrew H. Church
Yonkers
North Yonkers
Joseph Peene
Hoboken
Meyers Navigation Company
Riverview Grove
James Cunningham
West Fourteenth Street
R. Plumacher
East Fifty-ninth Street
Herbert
Peene's Dock
PaHsade Beat Club
Woodruff
Peene Peoples
Antonico
New York
Nis Pier
Rescue in the Hudson Two men in a rowboat saved from storm
Roundsman O Reardon chased a distress call off Barrow Street in the North River and pulled two Jersey City men from a half flooded rowboat. Joseph Nash and Walter Langton, drenched, were taken to Pier A boiler room after landing two young women near Barrow Street recreation pier. Nash promised a reward for the rescue. the police report hail on the river.
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Roundsman O'Reardon
Barrow Street
North River
Pier A
Joseph Nash
Green Street
Jersey City
Walter Langton
Morris Street
Barrow Street Recreation Pier
Nash
Upset Off Rockaway In Naphtha Launch Incident
A naphtha launch owned by Julius Kronjager of Fulton Street and Bedford Avenue Brooklyn ran aground in a storm off Rockaway Beach. Crew Thom as Vinall and Charles Harris were thrown overboard but, after exhaustion, were rescued as Kronjager maneuvered the vessel to safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juluus Kronjnger
Fulton Street
Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn
Rockaway Beach
Thomas Vinall
Charles Harris
Mr. Kronjager
Balfour Refuses to Quit as Parliament Not Dissolved
Telegraph reports that Parliament will not be dissolved this year unless the Government is defeated again before prorogation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balfour
London
The
Daily Telegraph
Fire kills ex Chief on Staten Island
Joseph J. Doudigan former chief of the North Shore Fire Department died after being badly burned at his home 64 Jersey Street New Brighton. An oil cooking stove left burning ignited woodwork and clothing spreading flames before neighbors intervened. He died at S. R. Smith Infirmary.
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Joseph J. Doudigan
North Shore Fire Department
Staten Island
Jersey Street
New Brighton
S. R. Smith
Speeding Auto Overturns Injuring New York Couple in Tarrytown
Mr and Mrs James Mcintosh of New York City were injured when their speeding automobile overturned after axle failure near H W Nichols home on Broadway in Tarrytown. They suffered head cuts and Mrs Mcintosh had internal injuries and was unconscious for hours before hospital treatment at Tarrytown Hospital. Mr Mcintosh is described as an automobile dealer.
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New York Times
Tarrytown
James Mcintosh
East One Hundred and Second Street
New York City
Broadway
H. W. Nichols
McIntosh
Nichols
Tarrytown Hospital
WeIntosh
Wife Sought to Please Leads to Carnegie Divorce
Pittsburg July 30. Robert Hi McConkey of Carnegie was granted a divorce from Mrs Mary McConkey. He alleged that while ill last winter his wife kept asking which undertaker he would choose for his funeral. He recovers and seeks divorce. the court granted it. McConkey is fifty seven. his wife is younger.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Robert Hi. McConkey
Carnegie
Mary McConkey
McConkey
Street Car Fire Wrecks Motorman On Fourteenth Street
Fire on street car 370, pushed by a second car between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, ignited from a blown fuse. Motorman Frank Davis was engulfed in flames, none aboard the car. bystanders panicked and leapt to the street. William Fuery, age nine, alerted the fire department by reaching a nearby box with help from a companion. Engine water quickly extinguished the blaze. Davis suffered minor scorching on hands and face.
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Fourteenth Street Crosstown
Ninth
Tenth Avenues
Frank Davis
William Fuery
West Sixteenth Street
Davis
Car Hits Elevated Pillar After Flatbush Ave Crash
A trolley car on Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn jumped the track and struck an elevated pillar injuring six. Motorman Michael Shine was thrown and injured. Lena Larson her son Oscar, Mary Simmons, Katie Russell and Oliver A. Brown suffered cuts and broken bones. Victims were taken to Brooklyn Hospital.
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Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn
Michael Shine
Lena
Larson
Oscar
Mary Simmons
Rockwell Place
Katie Russell
Oliver A. Brown
Classon Avenue
Brooklyn Hospital
Lightning Kills Five and Burns Eight at Parkway Baths
A thunderbolt struck at the Parkway Baths near Coney Island and Brighton Beach, killing five and seriously injuring eight others. A second fatality and multiple burns occurred at Ulmer Park under a tree as a simultaneous storm raged.
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Parkway Bains
Coney Island
Parkway Baths
Brighton Beach
Ulmer Park
Gravesend Avenue
John
Tenth Street
Brooklyn
McCauley
Paniel
Bride-Widow in an Hour After Brooklyn Nuptials
Camille Mariano and Stephane Pitre wed in Brooklyn after a brief courtship in Italy. The procession to the Italian Church on President Street ended with a frightened carriage team. After the wedding feast Pitre collapsed and died within an hour in Mariano's arms.
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Camille Mariano
Columbia Street
Brooklyn
Stephane Pitre
Pitre
Miss Marino
Italy
America
Miss Mariano
New Haven
President Street
van Brunt Street
Mariano
Vanilla Extract Discovery at Mexican Ports Quarantine
SS Dagegry from Mexican ports anchored in quarantine late last night as Burnett's Extract of Vanilla Peer from selected vanilla beans advertised in the port bulletin.
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Dagegry
Burnett
Adv
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Kaiser
London Times
Czar
Orenburg
Rus
Sia
Moscow
zZemstvos and
Doumas
Germany
Gen. Linovitch
Oyama
Novoe. Vremya
Khersu
Manchuria
Index TG
Alabama Board
Man
Brother
Railways
Girl Outlaw
Melva Longfellow
Excursion Adrift
VNA
Hudson Storm
Hudson
Rockaway
National Chemical Bank
Jersey
Manasquan
N. J
Frank Brown
Jamaica
Long Island
Eva
Manasquan Inlet
Brown
Chemical National Bank
Marlborough
C. C. Herbert
Mr. Brown
Josie Todd
Plainfield
Miss Todd
Queeney
Doudigan
Gravesend
Parkway
Demmerlee
Charles R
East Sixteenth Street
Flatbush
Frank
Sag
Dunwoodie
George
Acorn Athletic Club
Franklin
Jacob
East Seventy-first Street
Manhattan
Walch
Prospect
Tremont Avenues
Bronx
Demmerlee Brothers
Ralzailder
Henry
Bush Street
Christiansen
Tina
Pacific Street
Curley
Mary I
Gates Avenue
Dunne
James J
Krohn
Carrie
South Fifth Street
Williamsburg
Mill
David
Fillmore Place
Reefs
Isaac
Dean Street
Sheehan
Amelia
East
One Hundred and Forty-second Street
Thiel
Clara
Ninteen
Twelfth Street
Eighth Avenue
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