Many honors to fleet cordiality in Tokyo visit
Tokio October 21 Premier Katsura hosted a dinner and ball at his residence for the visiting American fleet drawing about fifteen hundred prominent people. American officers were invited to the ball and speeches were avoided. Toasts to Roosevelt and the Emperor were offered with Rear Admiral Sperry replying. Fourteen hundred sailors will attend a Haebira Park garden party tomorrow with numerous luncheons and entertainments planned at embassies, clubs, and theatres. The week has been marked by flawless hospitality and strong US-Japan goodwill signals.
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Tokio
Katsura
Roosevelt
O’brien
Japan
Sperry
Sir Claude MacDonald
Baron Mumm von Schwartzenstein
M. Gerard
Haebira Park
Y. Osagi
Prince Shimadazu
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
Kabuki Theatre
Toxic
Bankers’ Association
Shibusawa
Japanese Welcome Society
Admiral Sperry
Yokohama
Baron Kaneko
American Friends’ Society
Emory
AG@miral
Admiral Togo
Shinjiku Imperial Gardens
Thomas J. O'Brien
Columbia
America
Nine Vessels To Meet Fleet In Cuban Maneuvers
The Navy Department plans two weeks in U S waters for the Sperry commanded battleship fleet after Hamp ton Roads arrival. After target practice and maneuvers in Cuban waters the ships disperse to navy yards by June. The third squadron of the Atlantic fleet accompanying Admiral 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 Proclaimed By Vienna
Vienna announces an order to curb exports of guns ammunition horses and war material to Servia. An Austro-Hungarian envoy in Cettinje is to apologize to Prince Nicholas and the Montenegrin government for detaining General Vukotics during a mission to Servia who was held for hours in Agram by Austro-Hungarian officials.
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Vienna
Servia
Cettinje
Nicholas
Vukotics
Agram
Negotiations Progress in Constantinople on Bosnia Question
Bulgarian envoys and the government press forward with talks in Constantinople and anticipate satisfactory outcomes. Grand Vizier Kilmil Pacha doubts a powers conference, noting Austria Hungary and Germany will not participate if Bosnia and Herzegovina annexation is on the agenda.
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Constantinople
Klamil Pacha
Austria- Hungary
Germany
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Rupture Reported In Austrian Turkish Negotiations
Paris dispatch from Constantino reports negotiations between Austria Hungary and Turkey have collapsed as the Porte refuses to accept the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina as an accomplished fact.
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Paris
Constantinople
Austria-Hungary
Turkey
Porte
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Amoy Orders Deportation of Suspicious Visitors During Fleet Visit
Authorities at Amoy announce strict measures to safeguard the American fleet visit. Each householder must report all non-residents, including their names and arrival and departure times, while individuals deemed of doubtful character face deportation.
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Amoy
Picard Nominated as Naval Minister in Paris Move
Paris reports Alfred Picard, former director general of the Paris Exposition of 1900, has been offered the post of Minister of Marine. The government moves to appoint a new head of the navy as Oct 21 unfolds.
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Paris
Alfred Picard
Fewer Cholera Cases In Russia Reported
St. Petersburg report shows twenty-seven new cholera cases and nine deaths in the past twenty four hours ending at noon. There are 641 cases still in hospitals.
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Russia
St. Petersburg
British Labor Crisis Discussed in Commons
In London the unemployed crisis dominated a Commons debate. Premier Asquith proposed a 1.77 million dollar fund and naval build up including nine destroyers and five unarmored cruisers totaling 12.5 million dollars, plus 24 thousand recruits for winter reserve training, but Labor members rejected these measures as insufficient.
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London
England
House of Commons
Asquith
Admiralty
War Office
Cabrera in Terror Fears Assassination in Guatemala Palace
Telegraph report from Mobile on October 21 describes President Cabrera as a prisoner in his palace amid chaotic politics. A visitor warns of a looming revolution and says Cabrera fears poisoning while under tight guard.
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Guatemala
Tribune
Mobile
Ala
Cabrera
Fires Under Control In Wisconsin And Michigan
Forest fires across Wisconsin and Michigan’s upper peninsula are reported under control though still burning in places. Senator Isaac Stephenson warns losses may reach 100 million dollars or more. Pickford area reports 40 to 50 square miles of timber destroyed with flames at Gatesville and Sugar Island burning, while heavy rain could finally halt the fires. One hundred miners battled to save the Atlantic and Baltic mines at Red Ridge, with buildings valued near 1 million saved after a night of flame.
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the Tribune
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Upper
Michigan
Isaac Stephenson
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Pickford
Gatesville
Sugar Island
Plumet
Atlantic
Baltic
Red Ridge
Cabinet Ministers at Bow Street
London October 21 two Cabinet members David Lloyd George and Herbert John Gladstone testified at Bow Street police court in the suffragette trial. Mrs and Miss Pankhurst Mrs Drummond and seventeen others arrested October 13 faced charges of inciting to disorder.
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London
David Lloyd-George
Herbert John Gladstone
Home Affairs
Bow Street
Miss Pankhurst
Dreimmond
Fifty Five Shocks At Manila Seismic Activity Eases
Manila reports a lull after three days of earthquake tremors with fifty five shocks in the last twelve hours and two strong events since disturbances began. Telegraph reports show strongest feelings on Luzon east coast but no damage. Experts locate the focus in the Pacific Ocean near Luzon.
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Manila
Luzon
Pacific Ocean
Rainmaking plan offered to fight Adirondack fires
Albany October 21 a novel idea to create rain in the Adirondacks was presented to James Whipple of the State Forest Fish and Game Commission by Watertown mill owners who would back half the cost if approved. Fire reports cited blazes on state lands near Blue Mountain Lake and in Hamilton County including a suspected negligent ignition near Lake Pleasant. Whipple ordered investigations and threatened arrests, urging town supervisors to enforce extinguishing efforts. Little Falls fire crews grew to over four hundred amid no water, trenching to contain flames.
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Albany
Adirondacks
James §. Whipple
State Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Black River
Watertown
Whipple
Blue Mountain Lake
International Paper Company
Lake Pleasant
Hamilton County
Little Falls
N. Y
Stratford
Salisbury
Royal visit to Barcelona under high alert noted
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria with Premier Maura departed Madrid for Barcelona, where they will stay until October 27. Extra troops and police are on duty as a precaution while anarchist centers are closely watched.
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Madrid
Alfonso
Victoria
Maura
Barcelona
Cholera Cases Rise in Manila as Nurse Falls Ill
In Manila on October 2 the cholera count rose slightly with seven new confirmed cases and eight suspected ones reported in the last 24 hours. Nurse Jans Jackson of the cholera hospital staff contracted the disease today.
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Manila
Jans Jackson
Cholera Hospital
Diaz Will Not Seek Re election in 1910 Report Uncredible
Mexico City dispatch quotes El Rio de Hegar claiming President Diaz will not run again in 1910. The report is not generally credited and widely questioned by observers.
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Mexico City
el Rio de Hegar
Diaz
Schoolteacher Leads Children to Safety as Fire Rages
Miss Grace Barber, a 19 year old schoolteacher in Krakaw Township, guided her pupils into a ploughed field during the Presque Isle County forest fires. She held the line through burning embers, kept the children calm overnight, and returned them home in groups the next morning, while wildlife watched from the field’s edge.
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Alpena
Mich
Presque Isle County
Grace Barber
Krakaw Township
Englishmen Vanish After Northward Trip to Injenika
Vancouver reports H Phipps and Mat thew Tummon two Englishmen who disappeared after leaving on June 8 for the Injenika goldfields in Northern British Columbia. Authorities fear they may have been killed by Indigenous people.
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Vancouver
B. C
H. Phipps
Matthew Tummon
British Columbia
Injenika
Sealing Schooner Thomas F. Baird Returns With 92 Sea Otter
Victoria reports the sealing schooner Thomas F. Baird arrived with a catch of ninety two sea otter and six seal skins valued over thirty thousand dollars. Two crewmen were lost overboard en route to the Bering Sea, and two Indians were lost from the voyage. The survivors were rescued after twelve days in an open canoe and taken aboard the DM AT kalil.
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Victoria
B. C
Clayoquot
Thomas F. Baird
Bering Sea
Kalil
Root on Pouren Case and Russia Treaty Demands
Secretary of State Elihu Root emails to Jacob Schift reveal the U S government’s stance on equality of treatment for American visitors to Russia and its demand for a complete revision of the 1832 treaty. The letter notes the Pouren extradition review, delays to gather political-offense evidence, and the decision to reopen the case.
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Root
Jacob H. Schift
Russia
Jan Janoff Pouren
United States
Department of State
Washington
Mr. Seniff
Pouren
State Department
New York
Department
Elihu Root
Half billion deposited shows bank deposits surge
Washington reports the September 23, 1908 condition of 6,853 national banks. Loans and deposits rose from 4.422 to 4.757 billion dollars in seven months, total resources up 671 million, paid-in capital up nearly 20 million, surplus up 110 thousand, and individual deposits up 443 million dollars.
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Washington
Treasury
Delusion Follows Brick Injury At Hahnemann Hospital
Philadelphia, Oct 21 The fall of a brick fractured Frank Ecock's skull but did not render him unconscious at first. He believed his right hand was injured and walked to the hospital receiving ward. Doctors later found head injury and Ecock lost consciousness. condition serious.
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the Tribune
Philadelphia
Frank Ecoch
Hahnemann Hospital
Ecock
No Trace Of Alleged Defaulter Rufus Rowe
No trace has yet been found of Rufus W Rowe confidential man for A W Kilborne Co stock exchange firm seeking $250 forged indorsement and $39000 total alleged loss. Rowe vanished with wife at West 115th Street apartment. believed to be a speculation loss. This follows two prior $39000 defalcations in six weeks involving Henry Saltonstall and Lehman Cooper at other firms.
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Rufus W. Rowe
Stock Exchange
A. W. Kilborne & Co
No. 4
Wall Street
Phillip M. Brett
Kellogg & Rose
Rowe
Annamore Court
West 115Th Street
H. I. Judson & Co
Broadway
Henry L. Saltonstall
Elizabeth
N. J
Lehman A. Cooper
E. R. Chapman & Co
Cooper
WOULD LYNCH ASSAILANT OF CHILD
Sarah Smith twelve year old daughter of Frederick Smith a wealthy farmer near Monroe Orange County was held up beaten and assaulted on a rural road. Charles Disney a paroled convict recently released from Elmira Reformatory is accused of the crime. A large posse of farmers hunts him amid threats of lynching.
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the Tribune
Monroe
N. Y
Sarah Smith
Frederick Smith
Orange County
Charles Disney
Elmira Reformatory
Chicago Girl 12 Takes Her Own Life At Home
Elsie Lenhardt twelve in Chicago October 21 died by suicide at her residence. A note said everybody was mean to her before she turned on the gas in her room and was found dead.
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Chicago
Elsie Lenhardt
Assembling of Sweet Simplicity at House Palatial Exhibit
For five days a vast audience has viewed the skillful assembling of furnishings, color harmonies, and art at the House Palatial. An upcoming exhibit promises quaint, picturesque pieces at moderate cost, including Mission and Colonial styles, wall hangings, linens, pottery, mirrors, and candlesticks. The Gallery of Interior Decoration offers free consultation, with home visits available and price quotes provided during the visit.
British Preference to Colonies
Lord Milner arrived in Toronto for a six day visit from Ottawa and returns to England in November. He warned Britain will likely restore colonial trade favors, predicting mutual preference as a key election issue. He also favored confederation of South African states with a central parliament and possible limited 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 ahead of schedule carrying Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston a longtime Africa specialist. He travels to the West Indies and notes Africa await the President Roosevelt visit with interest. Johnston says an English committee plans giving a telescope as a present to Roosevelt at Mombasa.
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Teutonic
Southampton
Harry Hamilton Johnston
Africa
West Indies
Harry
Roosevelt
Mombasa
First Erie freight runs on Guymard cut off to Howells
The inaugural freight train operated over the completed Guymard to Howells section of the Erie Railroad yesterday. Construction on the Guymard line has spanned three years and, when finished likely by January 1, will extend about forty miles.
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Guymard
Erie Railroad
Howells
Freight Line Expansion Between Port Jervis and Jersey City
Nineteen locomotives will haul as many cars between Port Jervis and Jersey City while thirty two do now. The line will be devoted entirely to freight.
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Port Jervis
Jersey City
Fire in Steamer Colorado Off Tampa Harbor
Fire aboard the Mallory Line steamer Colorado, loading cotton in Mobile and anchored near Gadsden Point, was discovered in the forward hold as tug Resolute aided. Four tugs became fireboats and flooded the hold until the blaze was controlled by night. Six passengers were transferred to the city by launch. total loss not yet known.
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Tampa
Fla
Mallory Line
Colorado
Gadsden Point
Resolute
Mobile
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