Generals Refuse Parole Three To Go With Men
Russian officers and admirals at Port Arthur are listed for transfer as prisoners of war to Japan. Lieutenant Generals Fock Smirnoff and Gorbatowsky along with Rear Admiral Willmen will be moved to Japan. STS says 878 officers and 481 men were transferred. more prisoners may be sent to Kure and housed near there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Arthur
Fosan
Fock
Smirnoff
Japan
Tokio
Jan
Shuirnoff
Gorbatowsky
Willmen
Ports Arthur
San-Yo
Shimogeseki
Kure
Petersburg
Monkden
Prince Ouktomeky
St. Petersburg
Prince Ouktomsky
Che-Foo
Repulse of Japanese Reported by Kuropatkin
General Kuropatkin reports Japanese attempts to surprise his centre failed on January 6. He notes twenty one Japanese killed in a cavalry recon in the Taitse River valley near Sianchan on January 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stoessel
Danny
Nagasaki
Japan
Europe
Suez Canal
St. Petersburg
Kuropatkin
Taitse
Sianchan
Christmas Quiet at the Front Reported in War News
Huan-Chan via Moukden reports no Japanese advance by Russian Christmas. Cannonading is absent as troops celebrate quietly. Christmas trees adorn many companies and officers host small celebrations with handmade gifts amid scarce conventional presents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huan-Chan
Moukden
Russians Sail Eastward From Suda Bay
Vice Admiral Botrovsky's Baltic fleet division including cruisers Oleg Izumrud Dnieper and Rion with destroyers Grozny Gromski and Rezny departed Suda Bay this afternoon for Port Said after a delay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Botrovsky
Suda Bay
Port Said
Oleg
Izumrud
Dnieper
Rion
Grozny
Gromski
Rezny
Japanese Navy Station Planned at Port Arthur
The Japanese intend to establish a naval station at Port Arthur with Vice-Admiral Y Shibiyama likely to command. A small garrison will remain as miners withdraw and order is restored. Navigation will be unsafe for a long time due to many mines. only government craft may enter the harbor. Continued on fourth page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokio
Jen
Port Arthur
Y. Shibiyama
Danny
City Club fights Bronx Park elevated line plan
The City Club leads a protest against the Rapid Transit Commission plan to extend an elevated railroad through Bronx Park arguing it would ruin park beauty and violate the 1891 act. A coalition of groups plans to attend Thursday hearings and press a alternative route to connect Williamsbridge and Wakefield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rapid Transit Commission
Bronx Park
City Club
Williamsbridge
Bronx River
West Farms
Park
Pelham Are
White Plains
Mount Vernon
van Nest
Lawrence Veiller
Thiis
McClellan
Club
Parsons
Pelham Parkway
White Plains Road
Wakefield
Zoological Gardens
Buffalo Range
Glen
Hornaday
The
Zoological Society
Sys
Fire on Zambesi After Collision With Derelict Ship
The British freighter Zambesi from Savannah to Bremen put into port with a fire in the forehold after striking a derelict. Fifteen crewmen were overcome by fumes but survived. one ship cat died. Damage estimated at $10,000. Captain Edward Rooney, after forty years at sea, led the response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zambesi
Edward Rooney
Savannah
Bremen
Hatteras
Rooney
Finch, Edge & Co
Crane Among Thieves Robbed En Route to Court
Magistrate Crane had his card case stolen and his friend lost $40 in cash when pickpockets brushed against them while riding a Third Avenue surface car to the Criminal Courts Building. He identified four youths as suspects and warned that future cases would face severe penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crane
West One
Tombs
Canalst
Trouble Brews at Baku Oil Strike Fire and Casualties
Fire destroyed sixteen oil tanks at Nobel Company facilities in Baku amid a long strike over hours and wages. Since December 3 workers and guards clashed several times. six workers died, two Cossacks and thirty workers were injured. Strike continued with concessions on hours but wages still unresolved. Train service resumed January 2 after disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baku, Jan
Nobel Company
Dinner with President reflects New York Republican rift
Governor Higgins and Collector Stranahan dined with the President to discuss New York politics and party harmony. The President welcomes Depew’s renomination and backs canal public works, noting public support and majority will while Higgins downplays federal appointments and hints at spring bids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Higgins
Stranahan
New York
New York State
Depew
Collector Stranahan
White House
New York City
Albany
Lowther tipped as Milner successor as South Africa commissioner
The Post reports J W Lowther MP is chosen to succeed Lord Milner as South Africa commissioner in April. The long serving MP and former Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, born about 1876, has sat in Parliament nearly non stop since 1822 and chairs the Ways and Means Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
J. W. Lowther
M. P
Lord Milner
South Africa
James William Lowther
House of Commons
Stricken in Street Knight of Pythias Treasurer Dies
Henderson Wilson a retired butter merchant and longtime treasurer of Robert Bruce Lodge Knights of Pythias collapsed at East 86th Street and First Avenue. He died of heart disease en route to Presbyterian Hospital after visiting Flower Hospital. He lived at 60 West 119th Street with his wife and daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henderson Wilson
Eighty-sixth St
Muller
Eighty-eighth-st
Mason
Presbyterian Hospital
Wilson
Flower Hospital
Robert Bruce Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Builder uncovers box of money in Bronx excavation
John F. Meehan builder and contractor of Hewitt Street found a half sized iron box in a wine cellar wall at Prospect and Longwood Aves Bronx during excavation. The box held a large quantity of French English Spanish and American coins currency rumored to total as much as 100000. Meehan planned to use funds to pay for his six story apartment house on the site once owned by Theodore M. Macey a late wealthy grocer known for hoarding money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Meehan
Hewitt St
Prospect
Longwood Aves
Bronx
Theodore M. Macey
Meehan
Woman Lawyer Quits Duke Case Amid Sanatorium Move
Chicago reports Mrs. Alice Duke and her husband Brodie L. Duke face a District Attorney inquiry after his removal to a Flushing sanatorium. George H. Mallory says he no longer represents Mrs. Duke, while stocks bonds and notes tied to Alice Webb emerge in the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George H. Mallory
Alice Duke
Brodie L. Duke
Flushing
Jerome
Tribune
Franzel
Bellevue Hospital
Duke
Webb
Mallory
Texas
Texas-Cuba Tobacco Company
Mr. Duke
Stanford Hall
Plushing
W. Stewart Brown
Clarence
Hoffman House
Benjamin N. Duke
Chicago
Jar
Long Island
Taylor, Webb & Co
la Sallest
Open saloons and meals disputed on dry Sunday in Tenderloin
The Tenderloin district remained open for drinks despite police activity and a proclaimed dry Sunday. Saloons and Raines law hotels served liquor with few or no meals, many front and side doors propped open, and patrons seen in back rooms. Several arrests were routine excise cases with no extraordinary evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClellan
Harlem
Park Row
Bowery
Third-ave
Raines Law
Raines Lair
Jefferson Market
Broadway
Second
Raineo Law
Dowling’s Hotel
Forty-third-st
Seventh-ave
Paddelfa
Forty-second-st
Columbus Avenue
Thirty-ninth-st
Sixth-ave
W. J. Flannery
Man’s
Engie’s
3 Ave
Thirty-fourth-st
McDonald’s
Quic ki est Line to Cleveland Advertisement
Advertisement notes a rapid rail service from New York to Cleveland with morning arrival after leaving at 5 32. It mentions a Cincinnati service from Indiana and a 6 pm departure from New York with no excess fare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Clevela
Cinemnat Sp
Indiana
Louis
Also Mentioned on This Page
Liberty Island
Crane Among Thieves
Baku
New-York State
Milner
Dies
Cleveland
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!