Turkvy Plans in Balkans Face Setback and Delay
Balkan diplomatic turmoil prompts renewed nervousness on the London Stock Exchange as Turkey Austria and Bulgaria suspend direct talks. Sofia reports Bulgarian envoy Dimitroff ordered home. Vienna notes Turkish break with Austria over Bosnia Herzegovina while a European conference is urged.
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Paris
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Austria
Bulgaria
London Times
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Austria-Hungary
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Foreign Office
Great Britain
M. Dimitroff
Balkan Conference Fate Hinges on Berlin Talks
The Balkan peace path relies on M. Isvolsky opening negotiations in Berlin to reknit broken agreements. Some capitals doubt the conference will proceed while officials insist international sanction requires such a gathering. Reports of Isvolsky’s possible retirement surface amid a Vienna envoy reshuffle and illness.
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Balkan
M. Isvolsky
Berlin
Foreign Office
Nicholas
Prince Ourousseff
Vienna
Austria
Russian executions in 1907 total 627 across districts
The Red releases official 1907 Russian executions by military district courts: 84 soldiers and 543 civilians. Figures are lower than earlier unofficial estimates from press dispatches.
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ST. Petersburg
the Red
Russia
Funeral in Tokyo for Gen Count Nodzu with high officials
The funeral of Gen Count Michitsura Nodzu was held in Tokyo on October 23 with full military services at Aoyama parade ground. A four-battalion escort and a flag-draped coffin on a gun carriage led the procession, with Admiral Togo Marquis Ito and twelve other admirals and generals in the guard of honor. Admiral Sperry of the American fleet attended.
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Tokio
Michitsura Nodzu
Aoyama
Guard of Honor
Togo
Japan
Marquis Ito
Sperry
Zeppelin airship ascends in triumphant Lake Constance trials
The reconstructed Zeppelin dirigible No 1 lifted with ten passengers at Friedrichshafen and conducted rapid evolutions for three and a half hours. It reached 800 feet mean altitude and 29.81 mph average speed, thrilling crowds as Queen Charlotte and Countess Zeppelin monitored trials from afar.
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Mantell
Switzerland
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Count Zeppelin
Berlin
Parseval airship fails at 6000 feet over Berlin
The Parseval dirigible balloon encountered a tail compartment burst at 6000 feet this afternoon causing loss of control. Major Parseval and his assistant managed a safe landing despite the accident.
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Major Parseval
Berlin
Abruzzi Duke Seeks US Visit Amid Margherita Quest
Abruzzi Duke meets Count of Turin and Queen Margherita as rumors swirl about his engagement to Miss Katherine Elkins. Senator Elkins deflects all questions, calling reports largely inventions while noting possible plans to travel to the United States. Italian warship escort rumors and a Chevalier title are treated as gossip.
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London
Margherita
Paris
United States
Miss Elkins
Pittsburg
Penn
Stephen B. Elkins
Elkins
West Va
Katherine Elkins
the Abruzzi
Italy
Emperor William Courteous to American Ambassador at Court
Berlin reports the German Emperor William has shown marked cordiality to David Jayne Hill the American ambassador. He greeted Hill at the Prince August William wedding and invited him to the gala opera where they spoke at length. Prince Henry also spoke with Hill about American experiences.
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Berlin
William
David Jane Hill
Mr. Hill
Prince August William
Princess Alexandra
Hill
Prince Henry
Dr. Hill
America
Austrian Battleship Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand Ashore Near Trieste
The new Austrian battleship Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand ran aground at Isola nine miles southwest of Trieste during a night gale. Towed to Muggia earlier, she had just been launched and had no crew aboard. Efforts to refloat her continue at daylight as salvage crews work to free the vessel.
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Trieste
Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand
Isola
Here
Muggia
Straus Pasteurized Milk Plant Established in German Town
Nathan Straus funded a pasteurization plant in Eberswalde near Berlin, with a women’s association starting milk distribution for children. The inauguration coincided with the Empress birthday, hoping to cut infant mortality. A cable from Eberswalde noted past successes in Heidelberg and Sandhausen, where milk pasteurization reduced deaths and cut mortality.
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Eberswalde
Berlin
Germany
Straus
Benevolent Association of Ladies of the Fatherland
Iraus
Heidelberg
Sandhausen
Kaiser
School of Forestry
Mr. Straus
Double tragedy as wife and husband end their lives
Grief over a husband's suicide ten weeks earlier led Anna Dressel, living at 169 East Sixty first Street, to leap from a hospital window. Her husband, C. T. Dressel, a Post Office clerk, had killed himself from a fifth floor window at his home. Relatives, church, and hospital aides described a family wrecked by loss and overwork.
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Anna Dressel
East Sixty First
Hahnemann Hospital
C. T. Dressel
TIMES
Dressels
Mr. Dressel
Chanler Seeks Appeal After Insanity Ruling
John Armstrong Chanler, also known as Chaloner, applied through his guardian to the Supreme Court Justice Truax for leave to appeal a decision that confirmed his commitment as insane and unfit to manage his affairs. He escaped Bloomingdale Asylum and is now in Virginia.
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John Armstrong Chanler
Chaloner
Supreme Court Justicie Truax
Mr. Chanler
Bloomingdale Asylum
Virginia
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