Prolific Global Briefs Highlight War, Politics and Society
New York governors approval of 740 laws and veto of 130 documented. Yellow fever cases rise on the canal zone. Peace prospects praised as Russians favor settlement. Los Angeles backs regulated liquor with a two to one vote. Choates arrive in New York while winds devastate Wisconsin Michigan New York and Pennsylvania. Ohio lieutenant governor candidate Andrew Harris seeks third nomination after two terms. MIT backs Harvard alliance pending legal objections. Diaz plans European visit and US official engagement. German stance on coaling stations clarified. Senator Dolliver undergoes nasal surgery after funeral trip. Swedish Lutheran sympathy telegram to King Oscar. A schooner wreck near Sandy Hook results in multiple presumed deaths. Rice murder conviction upheld by NY Court of Appeals. Pope receives Msgr Metter amid Indigenous welfare concerns. Chile proposes $79 billion rail loan for Pan American network. Body of Thomas Lavelle found in river. possible suicide. Weathered reports of custs in Walworth County. Prince Laula of Battenberg to visit US waters with British fleet. French to transport Paul Jones body to Havre for reception by Americans. Seven shot at Inman Kansas Wild West show during war dance. Russian ships in Manila interned. coal supplies capped. Trinidad bank losses of $20,000 amid staff withdrawals. European wheat scare lifts Chicago prices. Omaha building permits surge to national high for city size. Princess Clotilde of Savoy retired near Turin. Duchess Cecelia weds Crown Prince Frederick William with grand ceremonies.
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Los Angeles
Joseph H. Choate
Great Britain
Choate
New York
Wisconsin
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Andrew TL. Harris
Ohio
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard
Diaz
Mexico
Europe
United States
Berlin
St. Thomas
Danish West Indies
Dolliver
Washington
Oscar of
Swened
Norway
Augustanan Synod
Swedish Lutheran Church
Stanton
Sandy Hook
Romer Shoal
New York Court of Appeals
Albert T. Patrick
Willam Marsh Rice
Pope
John Metter
Norman, Co. T
Chile
Congress
Railwax
Torksas
Pan-American Railways
Thomas Lavelle
St.oseph, Jr
Walworth
Navy Department
Prince Laula of Battenberg
Paul Jones
Manila
Wright
Train
W. G. Prested
American Savings Bank of
Trinidad
Colo
Mary Lynch
Chicago
Omaha
Clotilde of
Savoy
Napoleon
Bonaparte
Turin
Cecelia of
Peace talks progress under presidential mediation plan
Washington reports no hitch in negotiations as Russia and Japan prepare formal replies to the president. The talks may begin with a preliminary meeting to set terms for a permanent peace, likely in Washington, with plenipotentiaries to finalize a treaty.
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Washington
Russia
Japan
St. Petersburg
Tokio
Peace prospects noted as Roosevelt acts
Tokio-Tokio records calm reception of U S intervention and possible peace steps. Uncertainty remains whether Russia will accept Roosevelt proposal, with final peace likely needing weeks of diplomacy and delicate negotiation before any settlement.
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Tokio
Russia
Roosevelt
Grain supplies show US Canada wheat drop and corn rise
Bradstreet's reports changes from the last account with wheat down 3 422 000 bushels overall in US Canada east of the Rockies and Europe while corn in US Canada east of the Rockies rises 968 000 bushels. Major weekly declines include 329 000 in Manitoba 85 000 in Chicago elevators 75 000 in Louisville 56 000 at Coteau and 55 000 at Portland Maine.
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New York
Bradstreet
United States
Canada
Rockies
Europe
Manitoba
Chicago
Louisville
Coteau
Portland
Germany pushes for Morocco conference to intensify crisis
Paris officials report Germany issued a note to the powers proposing an international conference on Morocco. The move, though Berlin says Morocco invites the conference, is seen as Germany openly pressing for a conference and strengthening the gravity of the situation.
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Paris
Germany
Morocco
France
Berlin
Orel Battleship At Maizuru Endures Terrible Battering
TOKIO A P S correspondent reports the Russian battleship Orel at Maizuru showing forty hull holes, numerous smaller damage from shellfire, and a heavily shot upper works. Forward starboard 12 inch guns were collapsed ten feet from the muzzle by shell or explosion.
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Tokio
Associated Press
Maizuru
Russian Warships Interned in Manila Harbor
Secretary Taft reports Governor Wright says Russian warships failed to leave within 24 hours and are now in custody of Admiral Train. They are behind the breakwater under gunfire from the Ohio and Monadnock, with machinery to be disabled and breech locks removed. Full details to the Navy Department.
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Washington
Taft
Wright
Manila
Train
Ohio
Monadnock
Navy Department
Saved from the gallows in Iowa by last-minute appeal
Charles Rocker of Rock Rapids escaped execution for murder after a supreme court appeal arrived half an hour before the scheduled hanging at Anamosa. A long distance telephone message halted the confinement, preventing the first Iowa legal hanging in a decade.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Supreme Court
Charles Rocker
Rock Rapids
Rocker
Anamosa
Miller talk on rail rate regulation sparks debate
Prof. Hugo R. Meyer of the University of Chicago told the National Federation of Millers in Kansas City that government rate regulation beyond eliminating secret rebates and ensuring reasonableness per se blocks rate declines and promotes distance tariffs.
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Kansas City
Hugo R. Meyer
University of Chicago
National Federation of Millers
Sigsbee Ready to Sail for France to Retrieve Jones Remains
Rear Admiral Sigsbee conferred with Navy Department officials and Acting Secretary Loomis on a consular mission to France to recover John Paul Jones remains. Captain Winslow was assigned to assist but plans stalled awaiting further information from France. The squadron is prepared to depart by June 8, with possible slight delay.
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Washington
Sigsbee
Navy Department
Loomis
France
John Paul Jones
Winslow
Krauses Found Guilty In Sheridan County Land Case
John Krause and her husband Krause are found guilty of misappropriating 4500 acres of public land in Sheridan County Nebraska and of asserting exclusive use and blocking public access. John Krause also guilty of intimidating settlers including Theodore Osborn and Edward Whetstone to deter entry and transit across the lands.
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Omaha
John Krause
Herman Krause
Sheridan County
Neb
John Krauss
Theodore Osborn
Edward Whetstone
Morton to Lead Equitable Life Board in Reorganization
New York Morton will chair the board of directors of the Equitable life Assurance society as he retires from navy secretary post. The move triggers a major reorganization with resignations tendered by President James W. Alexander and several vice presidents including James H. Hyde and Gage E. Tarbell.
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New York
Paul Morton
Navy
The
Equitable Life Assurance Society
James W. Alexander
James H. Hyde
Gage E. Tarbell
George T. Wilson
William H. McIntyre
Norway's Union With Sweden Dissolved At Akershus Fort
The Norwegian flag replaced the union flag across Norway with a solemn ceremony at Akershus Fort. The storting and about 30,000 mourned as the commandant read the resolution dissolving the union with Sweden and the garrison paraded.
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Christiania
Akershus
Storting
Storthing
Sweden
Gully Resigns Speakership Over Ill Health
In the House of Commons William Court Gully announced his resignation as speaker due to ill health after ten years in the post. Premier Balfour and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman spoke briefly in regret, with the premier signaling a resolution to seek the elevation of Mr. Gully to the peerage.
Roosevelt Sees Path to Peace in Russo Japanese Talks
President Roosevelt left Washington on a two day Virginia trip confident that peace talks between Russia and Japan have progressed well. Ambassadors report friendly reception in St Petersburg and Tokyo signaling optimism. Tokyo's reply is awaited and likely favorable.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Virginia
Far East
White House
Russia
Japan
France
Meyer
St. Petersburg
Nicholas
Tokio
S&j. Petersburg
Infatuated Swede Arrested for Letters to Miss Roosevelt
Bloomington Illinois secret service agents arrested John Johnson a Swede for sending letters to Alice Roosevelt. He claimed he came from Sweden to marry her and stated his mission in his notes. He was moved to Jacksonville and recommitted to the asylum as an inmate.
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Bloomington
Ill
Secret Service
Washington
John Johnson
Alice Roosevelt
Johnson
Sweden
Miss Roosevelt
Jacksonville
President urges direct peace talks between Russia and Japan
The note states the president seeks to end the war by direct negotiations between Russia and Japan. He proposes plenipotentiaries meet without intermediaries to settle terms of peace and offers to assist with timing and venue if needed. The aim is a meeting the world hopes will bring peace.
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Washington
Russia
Japan
United States
Governor Higgins Calls Extra Legislature Session
Governor Higgins of New York announces he will call an immediate special session of the legislature in Duluth to investigate charges against state judiciary members. He declines further discussion, stating the session is to address the specified accusations.
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Duluth
Minn
Higgins
New York
Russians Caught Unprepared by Sudden Japanese Attack
Eyewitness accounts from escapees describe a swift Japanese strike in the Korea Strait catching the Russian fleet off guard. Russian ships, unmanned and unready, faced torpedo boats and heavy shells as batteries fired with limited effect. The lapse occurred on the unarmored side, exposing a critical tactical mistake.
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Manila
Korean Straits
Battiestiad
Unable to cooperate with Roje stvensky and Vladivostok fleet
Vladivostok squadron failed to sail to divert for Admiral Rojestvensky due to Rear Admiral Jessen lacking knowledge of Rojestvensky plans. Ships of the Almaz and destroyers report constant Japanese surveillance and suspicious vessels near Vladivostok whenever the Russian fleet was at anchor.
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Vladivostok
Rojestvensky
Jessen
Japan
Straits of Korea
Almaz
Oregon's New Law Brings First Lash Sentence
Charles McGinty, described as a wife beater, received twenty lashes on the bare back under Oregon's new law. The punishment was carried out by the county jailer with sheriff and physician oversight using a braided rawhide whip. He was jailed, stripped to the waist, and his hands manacled to a door as blood appeared by the fourth stroke.
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Portland
Ore
Charles McGinty
McGinty
Bryan Sends $400 Prize Money for Free Government Essay
Governor Beckham received a $400 check from Hon. William J. Bryan to be paid to the Kentucky Agricultural and Mechanical College for a prize essay on free government. The fund is part of a $10,000 bequest left to Bryan as trustee by Philo Sherman Bennett to be distributed among twenty-five colleges.
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Frankford
Beckham
William J. Bryan
Nebraska
Kentucky Agricultural and Mechanical College
Bryan
Philo Sherman Bennett
Connecticut
Governor Hoch would object to wine on ship christening
Topeka Kansas Governor Hoch indicated he would object to a wine christening for the battleship Kansas at its December launch and recommended the ship be christened without an intoxicant.
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Topeka
Kan
Hoch
Kansas
Battle in the Straits of Korea Signals Japanese Naval Victory
London telegram reports Admiral Togo with four battleships and cruisers Nisshin Kasuga plus Vice Admiral Kamimura’s six armored cruisers engaging the Russians in the straits of Korea. Russians open at 12,000 meters with weak accuracy. Japanese reserve fire until 7,500 meters and score early hits as the battle intensifies.
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London
Tokio
The
Times
Straits of Korea
Togo
Nisshin
Kasuga
Kamimura
Knights of Columbus Eye Level Rate Plan Change
Los Angeles report says the national council adopted a resolution for the board of directors to study adopting a level rate assessment to run alongside an existing increasing premium scale for older members.
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Los Angeles
Cal
National Council of the Knights of Columbus
Board of Directors
Von Buelow Elevated to Prince by Emperor William
Berlin reports Chancellor von Buelow has been created a prince by Emperor William in a formal ceremony. The act elevates the former chancellor to princely rank within the German empire.
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von Buelow
Berlin
William
PASTE JEWELS. Proverbs From New Orleans Picsayune
A collection of pithy maxims and observations on behavior and attitude. The quotes touch on innocence, nerves, sorrow, speech, luck, contentment, and human motivations, attributed to a New Orleans Picayune tone.
Tokens of luck from diverse cultures and eras
A list of small collectible charms each with distinct origins and materials. Items include a lotus, an anchor, a coin, ivory elephant, ancient Egyptian sacred bull, Japanese macaque, gold carved bean, chrysoprase beetle, fairy-sized thimble, enamel four-leaf clover, ivory love bird, white coral dove, crystal pendant, tap bronze inlay, rose gold Quasimodo, and a gray stone sphinx miniature.
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Egypt
Dodd's Kidney Pills Bring Recovery in Wisconsin
Frank M. Russell of Cox Wisconsin suffered severe kidney disease and fatigue until two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills, after exposure to several remedies, restored his ability to work all day. He credits the treatment with his dramatic improvement and notes it as the most wonderful case in Chippewa county.
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Dodd
Mr. Russell
Chippewa County
Wisconsin
Experiments Show Iodoform and Musk Erode Slowly
French chemist Berthe lot reports that exposure to air causes one gram of iodoform to lose a billionth of a gram per hour while musk loses about one thousandth of that amount. This highlights extreme chemical stability under ordinary air exposure.
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Berthelot
Storekeepers tout Defiance Sarch as superior sales draw
Storekeepers report that the extra quantity and higher quality of Defiance Sarch make other brands nearly unsellable. The notice highlights Defiance Sarch as a dominant product influencing market competition.
Seed Weights by Seed Type in U S Law
The laws of the United States specify per bushel weights for seeds: Hungarian grass seed fifty pounds, timothy seed fifty five pounds, and blue grass seed forty four pounds.
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United
Timothy
New York Central Lines Plan 18 Hour Chicago Run
At a June conference of managers the New York Central Lines announced a speed up to eighteen hours between New York and Chicago starting June 18. The Lake Shore Limited also shortens to 23 hours, and Southwestern Limited will depart later to cut travel to St Louis and Cincinnati. The article ends with a stray proverb about a girl who repeats everything.
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New York Central Lines
New York
Chicago
New York Central
Buffalo
Grand Central Station
Lake Shore Limited
Lake Shore
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Starch Rivalry Surges With Defiance Product Claim
Dealers say Defiance Starch convinces customers to stick with it once tried. They claim it remains usable from boiling to cold water and outperforms rivals in sales.
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Canal Zone
Admiral Train
Krauses
Morton
Equitable Life Society
Oregon
New Orleans
Ver
Quasimodo
Sphinx
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