Lord Salisbury Dead After Prolonged Illness
Hatfield England August 24 Lord Salisbury former prime minister dies after a relapse earlier in the day. Born February 3 1830 at Hatfield he rose through Eton Christchurch Oxford and All Souls becoming secretary of state for India in 1869 and foreign affairs and prime minister in later years. He resigned July 11 1902.
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Eng
Lord Salisbury
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil
Lord Cranborne
Lord Derby
India
House of Lords
University of Oxford
Foreign Office
Gladstone
Rosebery
Two Children Die From Gas In Philadelphia Home
In Philadelphia on August 24, two children Clara and Bertha Roder died after inhaling illuminating gas. Their mother and two other children were in dangerous condition. Mrs. Roder admitted attempting to murder her children and kill herself, locking them in a room and turning on the gas. The husband, a textile striker, returned home as the tragedy unfolded.
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Philadelphia
Clara
Bertha Roder
Colonel J K Knight of Wisconsin Dies in Watertown
Watertown Wisconsin August 24 Colonel J K Knight a prominent state figure passes away at Watertown after a long service record retiring with the title of colonel and noted for his leadership in state affairs. He was widely known across Wisconsin for his military and civic duties.
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J. K. Knight
Watertown
Wis
Wisconsin
New York Newsboys Face Enforced Labor Law Start
Police Commissioner Green warns enforcement of the new child labor law affecting 7000 newsboys starting Sept 1. Carriers must issue badges and boys under fourteen barred from selling after 10 PM. About two thousand boys and several hundred girls risk losing work under the rule.
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New York
Green
Monastir Massacre Rumors Spread Eastward In Balkans
From Sofia reports unconfirmed but persistent rumors of massacres at Monastir as insurrection expands from Kirk-Kilisseh toward Imiadi. Constantinople notes uprisings in Adrianople vilayet with villages burned near the Russian squadron and requests for reinforcements.
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Monastir
Constantinople
Salonica
Krupp Company
Macedonia
Moussa Bey
Medina
Arabia
Bitlis
Turkey
Armenian Assassinated in Kalafat on the Danube
An Armenian agent, Garabot Mardorossian, was killed at Kalafat by orders of the Macedonian committee. He had long facilitated arms transfers into Bulgaria. Romanian authorities found documents linking him to the committee. The motive cited is failure to heed orders, with a kin relative said to have been chosen for punishment.
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Roumania
Garabot Mardorossian
Kalafat
Danube
Mardorossian
Bulgaria
St Oughter
Kansas City Journal
Humberts Guilty in Falsification and Swindling Case
Paris verdict finds the Humbert family guilty on main charges with extenuating factors noted. Madame Humbert and her husband receive five years' imprisonment and a 100 franc fine. Emile d Aurignac is sentenced to two years and Romain d Aurignac to three years. Madame Humbert faces solitary confinement during imprisonment.
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Paris
Humbert
Madame Humbert
Emile d’Aurignac
Romain d’Aurignac
Des Moines Men Die in Day of Accidents
Three Des Moines men were fatally injured in separate incidents. Frank Kinney fell fifty feet from a college roof while repairing it, breaking his back and dying. B L Morris, age seventy two, was struck by a Rock Island freight train, breaking both legs and fracturing the skull. Merrie died later at a hospital. Wiltem Be plumber residing in Des Moines was killed after being struck by a land Gyer at Atlantic. Monk, a farmer near Ottumwa, was struck by a Weedback passenger train, the head severed from the body.
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Frank Kinney
Des Moines College
B. L. Morris
Rock Island
Merrie
Meray Hoe
Wiltem
Dee Motnen
Feland Gyer
Atlantic
Monk
Ottumwa
Oldest Iowan dies at age 106 in Des Moines
Ieanee Jones aged 106 died in Des Moines after claiming to be Iowa's oldest man. Born in England he came to America in 1800 with his parents and moved to Iowa 58 years ago. He lived on farms in Story and Polk counties and is survived by his second wife and a large family.
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Des Moines
Ieanee Jones
Iowa
Jones
England
America
Story
Polk
Massacres reported in villages amid Balkan unrest
Sofia reports Turks massacre women and children in twenty two villages in the Florina and Monastir districts and burn the villages. Krushevo streets littered with corpses. survivors fear burial. Insurgents seize Vasiliko and kill garrison and residents amid Adrianople revolt. Vienna notes Bulgarians strike Urgas coast town with dynamite. about two hundred killed.
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Bulgaria
Florina
Monastir
Krushevo
Vilayet
Adrianople
Vienna
Neue Freie Presse
Constantinople
Urgas
Iniada
Turkey
Insurgents kill garrison as they seize Vasiliko near Adrianople
Turkish dispatches report fifty soldiers killed and about one hundred civilians slain when insurgents captured Vasiliko. Refugees flee toward Constantinople as rebels threaten Midia and Kirk-Kiliosch. Kurun Burun lighthouse abandoned. Italian embassy accuses authorities over insult to its Monastir consul.
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Constantinople
Vasiliko
Italy
Monastir
Giaour
Massacres Reported Near Monastir In Atrocities
From Monastir reports, authenticated by Russian and Austrian consuls, describe Turkish massacres at Armensko destroying 150 of 157 houses and killing all residents. Women endured severe abuses. eight revolutionaries captured at Krushevo were slain. Krushevo’s sanitary conditions described as revolting with corpses in the streets.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Monastir
Armensko
Krushevo
To Revive Canal Treaty Indicates Diplomatic Move
Acting Secretary Loomis received two rather indefinite notes from Minister Beaupre at the latest date. The messages concerned the canal treaty but lacked clear specifics. The exchange signals a tentative step toward reviving negotiations on the canal agreement.
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Washington
Loomis
Beaupre
Emperor Willteam Buys Pearl of Brandeburg Estate
Emperor Willteam added the 4404 hutte fourth residence to his holdings by purchasing the Pearl of Brandeburg estate for $600,000. Formerly owned by country squire Von Mollank, the site will be rebuilt and converted into a hunt castle.
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Bestia
Willteam
Damm Muehle
Brandeburg
von Mollank
Enamel Plant Explosion Burns Eight Firemen
An enamel plant blast at Kinney Fraiser Co. injures eight firemen who were dousing a tank with water during the blaze. The liquid inside the tank exploded as water met it.
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Chicago
Kinney, Frasier & Co
Franking Privilege Denied to DC Commissioners
The assistant attorney general for the post office department has ruled that the District of Columbia commissioners lose the franking privilege. The decision cites that they are local municipal officers, not United States officials.
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Washington
Post Office Department
District of Columbia
Pan American railway plan revealed with $250 million capital
Articles of incorporation filed in Guthrie Oklahoma reveal plans for a Pan American Railroad company to build a 10,000 mile trunk line from Port Nelson Hudson Bay to Buenos Ayres with branches to Rio de Janeiro and Valparaiso. Estimated cost is about $250.9 million.
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Nebraska
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Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Galveston
Tex
Republic of Mexico
Central America
Panama
United States of Colombia
Ecuador
Republic of Peru
Buenos Ayres
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Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Chile
Valaraiso
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Pan- American Railway
Dutch off Sumatra war ends as Achin chiefs plan surrender
Brussels Times correspondent reports Panglima Polem and Rajah Jemala will submit to the Dutch within days. The Achin revolt since 1873 has driven Dutch campaigns across Sumatra, costing many lives and crippling colonial finances after failed efforts to crush the rebellion.
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United States
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Great Britain
Sumatra
Dutch Indies
Zionist offer of East African colony after Sinai plan collapse
The Basel Zionist congress hears that Britain plans a large East African tract for Jewish colonization under British suzerainty, offering autonomous government within a developing empire. Critics caution over differences from a Palestine state and await official British confirmation after Herzl’s Foreign Office meetings.
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Theodore Herzl
Zionist Congress
Basel
Switzerland
Great Britain
Sinai Peninsula
East Africa
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Palestine
British Empire
Herzl
Foreign Office
Violent Ejection Sparks Hotel Stabbings injuring Folts and Sherbourne
A man ejected from a hotel attacked two men, stabbing Folts near the heart and gravely wounding Briggs. He then returned and stabbed Cyrus Sherbourne of Newville repeatedly, with a wound opening Sherbourne’s abdomen. Foltz and Sherbourne remain in critical condition.
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Briggs
Brown
Cyrus Sherbourne
Newville
Sherbourne
Foltz
Olivet Baptist treasurer arrested for church fund embezzlement
Henry T. Elby the treasurer of the Olivet Baptist church in Chicago was arrested and arraigned before Justice Bradwell on a charge of embezzling church funds totaling $21.
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Henry T. Elby
Olivet Baptist Church
Bradwell
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