MANY HONORS TO FLEET CORDIALITY INCREASING
Tokio Oct 21 Premier Katsura hosted a dinner and ball for the visit of the American fleet drawing about 1500 prominent people. Highlights included toasts to Roosevelt and the Emperor, and admiration for the fleet's conduct. Four thousand sailors will attend a garden party in Hebiva Park tomorrow with multiple entertainments planned across Yokohama. The week featured lavish hospitality, with Admiral Sperry and other officers well received and escorted by Japanese hosts. The response from Japanese officials praised the closening ties and orderly events. A death aboard the Kentucky, Seaman Ernest Grover, prompted a naval inquiry and funeral plans in Troy Michigan.
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Tokio
Katsura
Pergen
Roosevelt
O'Brien
Japan
Sperry
Claude MacDonald
Baron Mumm von Schwartzenstein
M. Gerard
Hebvia Park
Y. Osagi
Prince Shimadazu
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
Kabuki Theatre
Bankers’ Association
Shibusawa
Japanese Welcome Society
Admiral Togo
Shinjiku Imperial Gardens
Thomas J. O'Brien
Ambassador O'Brien
Viscount Terauchi
Arsenal Gardens
Schroeder
Flret
Columbia
America
Yokohama
Ernest Grover
Kentucky
Naval Hospital
Grover
Troy
Mich
Nine Vessels to Meet Fleet in Hampton Roads
The Navy plans a two week stay for Admiral Sperry's battleship fleet in United States waters after arriving at Hampton Roads. They will move to Cuban waters for target practice and maneuvers before dispersing to navy yards in June. The third squadron of the Atlantic fleet joining Sperry includes the Maine Mississippi Montana North Carolina Idaho New Hampshire Birmingham Salem and Chester.
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Washington
Navy Department
Admiral Sperry
United States
Hampton Roads
Cuban
Maine
Mississippi
Montana
North Carolina
Idaho
New Hampshire
Birmingham
Salem
Chester
No Arms for Servia Export Ban to War Material
Vienna reports the government will issue an order to halt exports of guns ammunition horses and any war material to Servia. An Austro-Hungarian minister in Cetinje is to apologize to Prince Nicholas and Montenegro for detaining General Vukotics, a Montenegrin official on a mission to Serbia who was arrested in Agram and held for several hours.
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Vienna
Servia
Cettinje
Nicholas
Vukotics
Agram
Negotiations Advance On Bosnia and Herzegovina Issue
Constantinople October 21 Bulgarian envoys and the government continue talks and expect satisfactory results. Grand Vizier Kilamil Pacha doubts a powers conference, noting Austria Hungary and Germany declined to participate if Bosnia and Herzegovina annexation is discussed.
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Constantinople
Klamil Pacha
Austria- Hungary
Germany
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Negotiations Break Off Over Bosnia Annexation
A Constantino dispatch reports Austria Hungary and Turkey have halted talks after the Porte refused to admit the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina as finalized.
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Paris
Constantinople
Austria-Hungary
Turkey
Porte
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Amoy Prepares for Visiting American Fleet
Amoy authorities order every householder to report non residents visiting their homes and to deport persons of doubtful character to prevent disorders during the fleet visit. Measures target orderly conduct and security ahead of the American fleet's arrival.
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Amoy
Picard Offered Naval Minister Post in Paris
Paris report says Alfred Picard former director general of the Paris Exposition of 1900 received an offer to serve as Minister of Marine. The appointment would fill the high office in the French government with Picard potentially assuming duties.
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Paris
Alfred Picard
Fewer Cholera Cases in Russia Reported
St. Petersburg reports twenty seven cholera cases and nine deaths in the twenty four hours to noon today. There are six hundred forty one cases still in hospitals.
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Russia
St. Petersburg
British Labor Crisis Debated in Commons
London report notes Premier Asquith outlined a plan to ease unemployment with a 1.5 million funding, a navy build program including nine destroyers and five unarmored cruisers, and 24 thousand winter recruits. Labor members reject these measures as insufficient to curb distress.
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London
England
House of Commons
Asquith
Admiralty
War Office
Cabrera in Terror Fears Poison Plot Amid Guatemalan Crisis
Telegraph report from Mobile, October 21 details President Cabrera's strained security inside the palace amid chaotic politics. A trusted arrival from Guatemala says the president fears assassination, is practically a prisoner, and predicts a swift revolution as guards restrict movement and a poisoning threat looms.
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The
Tribune
Mobile
Ala
Cabrera
Guatemala
Fires Under Control In Wisconsin And Michigan Ends Vast Blaze
Milwaukee reports say forest fires across Wisconsin and Michigan's upper peninsula are under control though still burning in spots. Senator Isaac Stephenson warns losses may run into untold millions, possibly over 100 million dollars. Pickford area loses 40 to 50 square miles of timber. Gatesville and Sugar Island face active flames. In Red Ridge, one hundred men saved the Atlantic and Baltic mines and nearby buildings valued at about one million dollars after a night of fighting fires.
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the Tribune
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Michigan
Isaac Stephenson
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Pickford
Gatesville
Sugar Island
Plumet
Atlantic
Baltic
Red Ridge
Cabinet Ministers at Bow Street Trial Headlines Suffragette Case
London October 21 two British Cabinet members David Lloyd George and Herbert John Gladstone testified at Bow Street police court in the suffragette trial involving Mrs Pankhurst Miss Pankhurst Mrs Drummond and seventeen others arrested October 13. Miss Pankhurst questioned ministers about rights and disorder.
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London
David Lloyd-George
Herbert John Gladstone
Home Affairs
Bow Street
Miss Pankhurst
Druimmond
Seismic Shocks Endures Off Manila Coast
Manila reports 55 shocks in twelve hours with two strong events and the rest microseismic. Telegraph reports say disturbances peaked on Luzon's east coast while no damage is noted. Experts locate the focus in the Pacific Ocean near Luzon.
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Manila
Luzon
Pacific Ocean
Rainmaking plan eyed to quell Adirondack fires
Albany October 21 novel idea to create rain for forest firefighting entered public discussion. James S Whipple of the State Forest Fish and Game Commission received a message from Watertown mill owners proposing detonation of bombs to spark rainfall. Whipple said the state would cover half the cost if Watertown business leaders approve. Fire reports include state lands in Blue Mountain Lake area and near Lake Pleasant Hamilton County with suspected neglect cited. Whipple warned sheriffs to investigate and towns to ensure extinguishing efforts. In Little Falls forest fires flared near Stratford Salisbury as crews, now over four hundred strong, fight with trenches due to water shortages.
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Albany
Adirondacks
James S. Whipple
State Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Black River
Watertown
Blue Mountain Lake
International Paper Company
Lake Pleasant
Hamilton County
Whipple
Little Falls
N. Y
Stratford
Salisbury
Royal visit to Barcelona by King Alfonso and Queen Victoria
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria with Premier Maura departed Madrid for Barcelona today. They will stay until October 27 as extra troops and police are placed on duty to guard against anarchist centers, which are being closely watched.
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Madridé
Alfonso
Victoria
Maura
Barcelona
Cholera Cases Rise in Manila as Nurse Attacked
Manila reports seven new cholera cases and eight suspected cases in the last day. Jane Jackson, a nurse at the cholera hospital, contracted the disease today amid the outbreak.
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Manila
Jane Jackson
Cholera Hospital
Diaz Decides Not to Seek Re election in 1910
Mexico City report cites El Rio de Hegar claiming President Diaz will not run again in 1910, though the claim is not widely believed. The item reflects uncertainty about Diaz's political plans.
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Mexico City
el Rio de Hegar
Diaz
Children huddled with animals in forest fire escape
Miss Grace Barber a nineteen year old school teacher in Krakaw Township led her pupils to a ploughed field as Presque Isle County forest fires swept the school. Embers were extinguished as they fell on clothing and bears and other wildlife gathered nearby without attacking the children.
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Alpena
Mich
Presque Isle County
Grace Barber
Krakaw Township
Englishmen Phipps and Tummon Missing in British Columbia
Vancouver reports that H. Phipps and Matthew Tummon, prominent Englishmen, vanished after leaving for the Injentka goldfields in Northern British Columbia on June 8. Fears arise they were killed by Indigenous people amid the remote expedition.
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Vancouver
B. C
H. Phipps
Matthew Tummon
British Columbia
Injentka
Sealer Vessel Nets 92 Otters Amid Losses In Open Ocean
Dispatches from Clayoquot report the sealing schooner Thomas F. Baird returned to Victoria with a haul of ninety two sea otter and six sea skins valued over thirty thousand dollars. Two crewmen were washed overboard and lost on the voyage to the Bering Sea, and two Indians aboard also perished. Survivors were rescued after twelve days adrift in an open canoe and taken aboard the schooner Markland.
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Victoria
B. C
Clayoquot
Thomas F. Baird
Bering Sea
Markland
Root Letter Reveals Push for Russia Treaty Revision
Secretary Root informs Jacob H. Schiff of U.S. demand for a full revision of the 1832 treaty to secure equal treatment for Americans entering Russia. The Pouren case shows the government delaying extradition to allow evidence, aiming to prove Pouren’s political status. Also notes reopening the hearing after new affidavits.
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Root
Jacob H. Schiff
Russia
Jan Janoff Pouren
United States
Shields
Frederick C. Coudert
Congressman Parsons
Pouren
Coudert
Half Billion Deposited Signals Banks’ Strong Turnaround
Washington reports show national banks as of September 23 1998 with loans and deposits totaling 4 750 412 731 up from 4 422 353 647 in seven months. Total resources rose 671 million, capital stock up nearly 20 million, surplus about 11 percent, and individual deposits jumped from 4 105 844 413 to 4 548 185 165, a gain of 443 million.
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Washington
Treasury
Hand Injury Delusion Follows Falling Brick in Philadelphia
Telegraph report from Philadelphia dated October 21 says Frank Ecock was struck by a falling brick fracturing his skull. He believed his right hand was injured and walked to Hahnemann Hospital's receiving ward. Doctors noted mental aberration, then Ecock fainted. condition is listed as serious.
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the Tribune
Philadelphia
Frank Ecoch
Hahnemann Hospital
Ecock
No Trace Found For Alleged Stock Exchange Defaulter
No trace has ever been found of Rufus W Rowe the confidential man at A W Kilborne Co stock broker for whom a warrant was issued for forging the firms indorsement on a 250 check and who is said to have taken about 2000. Kilborne officials hope to capture him and make an example. Rowe lived with his wife at 615 West 115th street and had worked at the firm fifteen years. This is the third 39000 defalcation in a stock exchange house within six weeks. Earlier cases involved H J Judson Co and Lehman A Cooper of E R Chapman Co who forged indorsements and disappeared.
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Rufus W. Rowe
Stock Exchange
A. W. Kilborne & Co
No. 4
Wall Street
Phillip M. Brett
Kellogg @ Rose
H. J. Judson & Co
Broadway
Henry L. Saltonstall
Elizabeth
N. J
Lehman A. Cooper
E. R. Chapman & Co
Cooper
Would Lynch Assailant of Child Near Monroe
Sarah Smith twelve-year-old daughter of Frederick Smith a wealthy Monroe farmer was attacked on a rural road near her home. Charles Disney a paroled convict released from Elmira Reformatory is accused. A large posse of farmers hunts the suspect with threats of lynching as authorities pursue him.
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the Tribune
Monroe
N. Y
Sarah Smith
Frederick Smith
Orange County
Charles Disney
Elmira Reformatory
Tragedy as 12 Year Old Lenhardt Dies by Gas At Home
Chicago report states Elsie Lenhardt aged twelve committed suicide by gas in her room after leaving a note claiming everyone was mean to her. Police found her body at her residence today.
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Chicago
Elsie Lenhardt
Assembling of Sweet Simplicity at Gallery of Interior Decor
Over five days about eighty thousand have seen the display of furnishings and artworks for the House Palatial style. Moderate cost exhibit promises quaint and picturesque options from New England cottage to rustic bungalow, with Mission and Colonial pieces, wall hangings, pottery, mirrors, and decorative nets. Free consultation and price quotes offered, in-home service available.
British Preference to Colonies in Milner Visit
Lord Milner, fresh from Ottawa, predicts Britain will soon grant mutual preferences to colonies. He says the issue could dominate the next election if it were the sole topic. Milner also favors South Africa confederation but doubts a central parliament and doubts a general native franchise.
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the Tribune
Toronto
Lord Milner
Ottawa
Canada
England
Great Britain
Teutonic Arrives Early With Sir Harry Johnston Aboard
The White Star liner Teutonic docked early with passengers last night after a rough crossing from Southampton. Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, veteran Africa hand in the British consular service, is aboard en route to visit the West Indies. He notes Africa awaits President Roosevelt’s arrival and mentions a committee plan to gift a telescope for the president at Mombasa.
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Teutonic
Southampton
Harry Hamilton Johnston
Africa
West Indies
Harry
Roosevelt
Mombasa
First Erie freight runs Guymard to Howells line
The initial freight train operated over the finished Guymard cut-off of the Erie Railroad from Guymard to Howells yesterday. The line has been under construction for three years and, when completed likely January 1, will extend about forty miles.
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Guymard
Erie Railroad
Howells
Freight line to run Port Jervis Jersey City service
The plan allocates the route entirely to freight with nineteen locomotives able to haul many cars between Port Jervis and Jersey City, a substantial increase from the current thirty-two.
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Port Jervis
Jersey City
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