Famine and unrest loom in world as events unfold
The famine in India grows direr while cholera spreads in Cairo and Venezuela faces revolution fears. In NSW women gain franchise. France rejects Russia sugar talks. Boer generals welcomed in London. fires claim lives in Antwerp. Harvests shrink in Germany. robbery arrest in Kentucky. Kiowa clashes near Avardarko leave a sub-chief dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Cairo
Egypt
Puerto Cabello
Venezuela
New South Wales
France
Russia
Dewet
Delarey
Botha
London
Antwerp
Germany
Northwest Notes on Crime Weather and Missed Law
A roundup of local incidents across the West includes sheriff action against slot machines in Butte, the Wyoming gambling law expiring, and multiple storm and accident reports. Lightning strikes kill and injure farmers in Oregon and Wyoming, with other shocks from robberies, suicides, and rail accidents in Montana, Nevada, and Colorado.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Wyoming
Lilling of Mooss
Kaiser Wilhelm statue sparks dispute in Barmen Hall
Unveiled in the Hall of Fame at Barmen Germany the full figure statue of Kaiser Wilhelm stirred bad feeling after residents believed the king financed the work and a bill of 4000 dollars arrived sparking a royal family boycott and criticism of the Kaiser's image by locals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
Kaiser
Barmen
Berlin
Frederick
International Conference on Trusts Proposed by Finance Minister
M De Witte of Russia, praised as Europe’s top financer and rail manager, urged the czar to convene an international conference to regulate trusts to curb depressions and price swings. Census data show 3,089,780 whites in the south in 1960 with 354,864 slaveholders owning 3,953,496 slaves. Virginia held the most small holders, and South Carolina led in large slave ownership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Payne
Phoenix
Oregon
Constabulary
William Schermerhorn
Seattle
Wash
Ladrones
Aligan
Mindapao
Tonopah
Nevada
James Mitchell
Stockett, Mont
E. R. Young
Palace
Reno
M. de Witte
Russia
Europe
South
Kansas
Nebraska
Utah
New Jersey
Virginia
Charleston News and
Cosrier
New Kind of Measures of Sea Transparency
The London Globe reports experiments by Herr Luksch on a white disc used to measure sea transparency in the Levant, Aegean, and Red Sea. Transparency varies with temperature, wind, salinity, sun altitude, and blueness. deepest visibility occurs at high heat, shallow sun, and deeper waters. Observations note 3 to 31 meters visibility, with a maximum of 45 meters, prompting ideas for submarine camouflage by color matching the sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herr Luksch
Pola
Levant
Aegean
Red Sea
London Globe
Mediterranean
Eminent Rabbi Jacob Josephs Dies in New York
The eminent Jewish minister Dr. Jacob Josephs, chief rabbi of the Russian Orthodox Jews in the United States, a leading authority on Jewish law and philosophy, has died at 62. A Vilna native, he gained rare learning by age 18 and led the Heth Hamedrash Hagadol in New York for fourteen years.
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Snohomish County Agricultural Association
Everett
Wash
Oregon
California
Idaho
Colorado
San Juan
Colo
Unlon
Ernest Baker
Helena
Baker
Jacob Josephs
United States
Jacobs
Vilna
Russia
Heth Hamedrash Hagadol
New York City
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American Express
Kentucky
Avardarko
Oklahoma
Frank Basta
Hague
Oer
Hotha
Pe Jarey
Taylor
Indiana
Durbin
King
Bangkok
Siam
State Department
Merchants Coal Company
Tunnelton
W. Va
Paraguay
Republic of Cuba
Ascension
Cuba
Palamania
Sicily
Custer City
Roy Streeter
John Gorman
Kid" Hogan
Tennessee
Florence
Als
White
Waynesboro
Tenn
Negpikao
Singapore Straits Settlement
Canton
China
Szechuan
Inehawan
Tong Lu Hung
Walnut Grove
Lake County
Charles Johnson
Johnson
San Francisco
Dehaven
Houston
Texas
Southern Creosote Works
Coal Creek and
Jellico, Tenn
Bombay Presidency
Northwest Notes
Key's
Freewater
Homer
Montans Board of Sheep Commissioners
Himsel
Emma Jokes
Big Hole
Dillon
Mont
James J. Hill
Great Northern Railroad
Great Fails
Great Northern
Hill
Spokane & Northern
Annie Krupa
Santa Fe
Acequia
Patrick J. O'Leary
O'Leary
Hark C. Paulson
Pass Creek
Wyo
Paulson
P.D. Keim
North Park
Keim
Czar
Trusts
Julian E. Lane
Stestone
J. W. S. Emerson, M. D
Tracy
Showhone
J. M. Rogers, D. D. S
Stestons
Wamamman
Leon Calhoun
Hagermaz, Idaba
South Bail Street
Debe
B. Githens
D. W. Yaden
North Bell Street
Frank Pharris
Guarastesd
Doc. Smith's
F. M. Crandall
Idaho Nursery
Payette
Atala
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