World News Briefs From A Long Foreign Wire Service
A compact wire of international items covers notable moves and events. Karl Wolff of the Berlin firm dies. Roosevelt family heads to Washington. the czar family departs from Russian Poland for Darmstadt. the National Carwheel Company of Rochester incorporates in Albany with $9,000,000 capital. church conferences open in Monmouth and Baltimore. Universalist convention set for Washington in October. Warry Garfield to Princeton chair. Odd Fellows oppose death fund in Baltimore. Patriot Sons of America convenes in Baltimore with J. Shinder Krause elected president. legal cases include Colonel Sutton fined for conspiracy. Indiana labor federation reports growth and union affiliation. Pacific squadron may cruise toward Honolulu. San Francisco judge sentences W. H. Dillard for forging certificates. Pratt county courthouse cornerstone laid. political addresses by Moulton and Owen Scot. labor federation exec board in Washington. Porto Rico governor Hunt discusses labor matters. railroad to build branch from Concord to Jacksonville. United Master Bakers elect Hohengarten president. multiple deputy presidents named. Missouri arrest warrant and Fulton county theft case. Wilkerson shoots Marshal Schwabe and dies. Dayton German Catholic Verein expands representation. Dr. Oven Hedin in Stockholm pursuing writings. Dresden expo shows X-ray shoewear images. college enrollments list with Harvard leading.
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Karl Wolff
Herman Wolff
Berlin
Roosevelt
Washington
Oyster Bay
Czar
Czarina
Skierniwice
Poland
Darmstadt
National Carwheel Company of Rochester
Albany
N. Y
Methodist Episcopal Churches
Monmouth Si
State Federation of Labor
State Organization of
Indiana
Navy Department
Pacific Squadron
Pacific
Honolulu
DeHaven
United States District Court of
San Francisco
Cal
W. H. Dillard
Internal Revenue
Pratt County Court House
Monticello
Grand Lodge of the Masons
General Moulton
Chicago
Owenscot
Decatur
Federation of Labor
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Concord
Jacksonville
Sangamon County
Peoria
St. Louis
G. WI. Hohengarten
United Master Bakers of America
Milwaukee
Geo. Riedel
Imnois
Max Rupren
Wisconsin
Robert Wilson
Minnesota
Yates
Missouri
Tremont
Fulton County
A. M. Willard
Carthage
Trials and indictments in postal fraud and embezzlement cases
The docket covers Driggs and Miller holding to charges in Brooklyn with possible ties to the Brandt-Dent Automatic Cashier. Erwin postal inspector arguments concluded in San Francisco. and David D. Samuels, Bangor bank cashier, arrested in La Crosse for $2,000 embezzlement with case adjourned to October 21.
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San Francisco
Cal
James W. Erwin
Heacock
la Crosse
Wis
David D. Samuels
Bangor Bank
Anna McElderney
Salem
Lincoln voter bribery convict given ten year term
Clarke Younge known as Nipper was franchised by Judge Patten in Logan County circuit court for ten years after conviction for selling his vote in Lincoln at the last city election. He was among sixty indicted by the grand jury for bribery at the election.
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Lincoln, I
Clarke Younge
Nipper
Patten
Logan County
Victory for Hat Makers in Bridgeport Suit
In Bridgeport on September 29 a temporary victory was won by D E Loewe & Co hat makers of Danbury and the American Anti Boycott Association against the American Federation of Labor officers and the hatters union. Judge Wheeler cut the attachment to 60000 dollars while noting real estate valued at 128000 dollars and individual assets of 52000 dollars. The hearing sought bond substitution, property attachment foreclosure with oral examination, and a claimed damages figure of about 200900 dollars for losses from the strike boycott cited by Loewe’s counsel.
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Bridgeport
D. E. Loewe & Company
Anti-Boycott Association
Loewe
Heavy rise in immigration to the United States in August 1903
Washington reports a sharp jump in U S immigration for August 1903, with 64 977 arrivals compared to 43 549 in August 1902. Strong gains from Austria Hungary Denmark Finland Germany England Italy Russia Scotland and Wales contrast with a drop from Sweden while Norway rises. Debarments totaled 810 including paupers and diseased. 66 were returned after a year. First two months of the fiscal year show a 38 percent increase.
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Washington
Bureau of Immigration
United States
Austria-Hungary
Denmark
Finland
Germany
England
Italy
Russia
Scotland
Wales
Sweden
Norway
Sofia Sees Brightening War Clock In Bulgaria
Sofia Bulgaria Sept 29 The situation is brighter and war clouds seem lifted The Bulgarian government calmed by assurance that 32 battalions from Monastir to Adrianople will stay put M Natohovitch to Constantinople as Bulgarian diplomatic agent negotiations with the porte last June failed Premier Petroff says ministry acts in Bulgaria best interest 15000 Macedonians demonstration leaders withdraw committee says elections drive national feelings not reflected in quiet public mood paper warns actions may follow soon
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Monastir
Adrianople
M. Natohovitch
Constantinople
Petroff
Dnevnik
Beiruts tense calm as US ships guard mission
AP dispatch from Beirut describes Brooklyn and San Francisco ready to land, guards posted, and rapid American protection promised by Rear Admiral Cotton. Foreign residents feel relief as attempts to assassinate the vice consul and intrusions into a resident home intensify fears. London reports Britain protests Turkish excesses but lacks power to overturn German, Russian, and Austrian opposition in Macedonia.
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Associated Press
Beirut
Syria
United States
Brooklyn
San Francisco
Blue Jackets
Cotton
Cotton Stead
Magelssen
London
the Times
Constantinople
Great Britain
Germany
Russia
Austria
Macedonia
Labor union debate over Roosevelt case riles Miller matter
Washington reports the Central Labor union debated President Roosevelt's stance in the Miller case, insisting its action was not political yet maintaining a right to petition. In Philadelphia, Kid Carter and Gu Ruhlin fought six rounds to a draw, Carter pressing early while Ruhlin answered with stronger punishment.
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Washington
Central Labor Union
Roosevelt
Miller
Bindery Government Printing Office
Ruhlin
Carter
Philadelphia
Kid” Carter
Gua" Ruhlin
Jury secured in Tillman murder trial at Lexington
Lexington South Carolina September 29 a jury has been secured in the trial of Lieutenant Governor Tillman for the murder of Editor Gonzales and taking the testimony begun. When the court adjourned for the day six witnesses had testified. About 200 witnesses are to be heard.
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Lexington
S. C
Tillman
Gonzales
Witneses
Crime and Blaze Strike Several Cities Thebes to Brooklyn
The Thebes Illinois safe of C McDonald & Company was looted and dumped into the Mississippi after entry by unknowns. A Brooklyn power house fire caused $200000 in damage with unknown cause. A Youngstown shooting left a man dead and his wife slain before suicide. James H Beatty in Washington was found short $800 in war department disbursements and later not prosecuted.
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Brooklyn
James Beatty
Thebes
Ill
C. McDonald & Company
St Gs
New York
Washington
James H. Beatty
War Department
Illinois
Beatty
Mattoon
Charges Against the Irish in Omaha Speech
Colonel J Y F Blake, commander of the Irish brigade in South Africa, accused Clan Na Gael leaders in the United States of secret collusion with the British government. He charged they betrayed the Irish cause since the Boer War era, cited Joseph Chamberlain’s US visit as a trigger, and alleged mismanagement of over 1 million dollars in Irish funds.
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Omaha
Neb
J. Y. F. Blake
South Africa
Clan-Na-Gael
United States
Blake
Joseph Chamberlain
Chamberlain
England
New Orleans
Torpedo Boat Flotilla Set for Asiatic Station
Washington dispatch reports navy orders to detach the first torpedo boat flotilla from the North Atlantic fleet for a voyage to the Asiatic station via the Suez Canal. The destroyers Decatur Barry Bainbridge Chauncy and Dale will fit out at Norfolk and sail under convoy Baltimore. This marks the longest voyage yet attempted by such American vessels and they will remain permanently assigned to the Asiatic station.
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Washington
Navy Department
North Atlantic
Asiatic Station
Suez Canal
Decatur
Barry
Bainbridge
Chauncy
Dale
Norfolk
Baltimore
Asiatic
First prisoner sent by express across the continent
Boston on September 28 reports Floyd T. Ferris, the first prisoner moved by express across the continent. Ferris arrived by American Express from Columbus Nebraska en route to Lynn where he is wanted for larceny from the transporting company. He agreed to return and was listed on way bills as one man consigned to Police Lynn at owners' risk, placed in an express car with the messenger as guard.
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Boston
Express
Floyd T. Ferris
American Express
Columbus
Nebraska
Lynn
Ferris
Ah Express
Counterfeiters Taken Near Ross on Railway Route
In Marinette Wisconsin officers stopped a large counterfeit operation near Ross on the Michigan Wisconsin and Michigan railway. They captured the gang leader and sent him to Marquette Michigan for trial. The group had posed as trappers and shipped Iron marked counterfeit money from Stephenson Michigan nationwide for years.
Insurgent Leader Surrenders to U S Troops in Luzon
General Ola, leader of a band of insurrectos in Albany province, Luzon, surrendered to American forces with 28 officers and men. Governor Betts says the surrender practically ends armed resistance in that part of the island after prior reconcentration dispersals.
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Manila
Ola
Albany
Luzon
Betts
Foreign office denies Morocco protectorate plans
The French foreign office insists negotiations with Great Britain concern only a general understanding and deny any schemes for a Moroccan protectorate or conquest. London says Britain and Spain have not agreed to a French protectorate over Morocco.
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France
Morocco
Faris
Great Britain
London
British Foreign Office
Real
Britain
Spain
Fifty Years On The River Captain Sweeney Dies
St Louis Sept 28 After fifty years of steamboat life on the Mississippi river Captain Martin T Sweeney aged 73 is dead In 1864 while commanding the steamer Welcome he ran through a deluge of shot and shell from Morgan s batteries off Vicksburg and safely delivered a valuable cargo at New Orleans
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St. Louis
Mississippi River
Martin T. Sweeney
Morgan
Vickaburg
New Orleans
Plague Conference Delegate Named for Paris Meeting
Assistant Surgeon General H. D. Geddings of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service has been named by the Treasury Secretary as the delegate to the International Sanitary Plague Conference in Paris beginning October 10.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Washington, D. C
H. D. Geddings
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Paris
Paymaster Biscoe protests Evans rebuke on Nicholson case
Paymaster Harry E. Biscoe, a member of the court rebuked by Rear Admiral Evans for its sentence in the Nicholson case, protests to Secretary Moody against the severity of the admiral’s language. Moody will investigate.
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Evans
Washington
Harry E. Biscoe
Rishworth Nicholson
Moody
Striking Big Four Boiler Makers Refuse to Return
Indianapolis Sept 28 The striking Big Four boiler makers in Indianapolis Bellefontaine Ohio and along the system refuse to return to work on Grand President McNeal’s order. The order urged a return pending a settlement of the dispute.
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Big Four
McNeal
Indianapolis
Bellefontaine
Ohio
National
General strike hits American Type Foundry workers
Cincinnati workers at the American Type Foundry plant struck on orders from Chicago. They claim the walkout is to be nationwide, aiming to halt operations at all type foundries in the country.
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Cincinnati, O
Cincinnati
American Type Foundry Company
Chicago
Museum honors Turnvater Jahn at Freiburg in Prussia
Berlin reports the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Memorial Museum has opened in Freiburg on the Strute by the National Turnverein to commemorate the founder of the Turner societies.
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Prussia
Berlin
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
Turnvater
Berlin records 117 mph in rail trial on Zossen line
A high speed trial on the Zossen Experimental Electric railroad near Berlin reached over 117 miles per hour. The machinery and roadbed were reported as unaltered and unaffected by the test.
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Zossen
Berlin
Grosscup Won’t Resign From U S Circuit Bench
Judge Grosscup of Chicago, visiting Columbus, said he will not resign from the United States circuit bench to accept another position. The report notes his firm stance during the visit in Columbus on September 28.
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Borities
Columuus
Grossecup
Chicago
Columbus
United States Circuit
Acae
Veel Counge
Nir
Ambiguity in Venezuelan case panel appointments at The Hague
Washington Sept 28 Wayne Mac Veagh chief counsel for the peace power in the Venezuelan case at The Hague cabled the state department that all arbitrators expected to be appointed have been accepted and will participate in the tribunal.
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Washington
Wayne MacVeagh
Peace Powerg
Hague
State Department
Major Delmar Sets New Gelding Trotting Mark
In Columbus on Grand Circuit day Major Delmar broke the sulky and then finished the last quarter in 81 seconds to equal the world trotting record for geldings and set a new mark for geldings. Heatherbloom broke the world high jump record at Bryn Mawr, clearing 7 feet 9 1/4 inches.
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New York
Delmar
Empire City
Columbus
Tom Keene
Dan T
Rythmic
Rhythmic
Charley Herr
Geers
Tom Keane
Ceeeeen
Ravenna Wilkes
Syeee
Hal Chaffin
Dan Trweevevee
Eae
Ob Ad X. Rythmic
Seseeeeesel
Ceseeees
Johnny Wiseman
Cieeeeeseeereeeesenerlh
Walista
Philadelphia
Bryn Mar
Heatherbloom
Take Charge of Gold Bricks at Grace Mine
Captain Patterson arrives from Michipicoten with gold bricks worth several thousand dollars turned over to Consolidated Lakes Superior Co. He seeks to cash the shipment to pay miners but is rebuffed. He proposes thirty days of operation to cover the mine debt and wages at no cost to the company, which is also refused.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Patterson
Grace
Michipicoten
Consolidated Lakes Superior Company
Paterson
Old soldiers exempt from wedding license fees
Bloomington news reports Attorney General Hamlin's ruling that honorably discharged soldiers and sailors are exempt from paying a wedding license under Illinois law. In Milwaukee a boxing draw sees Charles Neary and Mowatt tied after six rounds, with Carey and Riley also drawing after six.
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Bloomington
Hamlin
Milwaukee
Charles Neary
Young Mowatt
Chicago
Edward Carey
Chien
Michael Riley
Alas
Toronto man assumes charge of Central Trust trustees
Dicknell of Toronto has arrived to take charge of the Central Trust Company and its trustees. The move grants him the power to oversee the works and administration as the new head.
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Dicknell
8 Oe and Company of New
Sault Ste Marie
Bault Ste
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Ind
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Cott Association
Edmund H. Driggs
Brandt-Dent Automatic Cashier Company
Thomas
United States District Court
Driggs
Automatic Cashier Company
Erwin Hearing
America
Youngstown
A. B. Brownlee
Col. Blake
Irish Brigade
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Mass
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Foreign Office
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Vicksburg
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Vater Jahn
Grosscup
Lou Dillon
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Columbus, Ohio
Consolidated Lake Superior Company
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