Peace Conference Prep Near Portsmouth Navy Yard
Acting Secretary Peirce and Edward N. Pearson met Rear Admiral Meade at the Portsmouth Navy Yard to finalize arrangements for the Russian Japanese peace talks. Marines were deployed around the stock building as access is restricted to negotiators. Peirce and Pearson also visited Newcastle to secure rooms at the Hotel Wentworth for both envoys.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Peirce
Edward N. Pearson
New Hampshire
Portsmouth Mavy Yard
W. W. Meade
General Stock Building
Messrs Peirce and Pearson
Newcastle
Wentworth
Navy Yard
Arkansas Supreme Court Affirms Anti-Trust Law
The Arkansas Supreme Court rules the anti trust statute valid. The decision will exclude old line insurance companies with rating agreements and deem trust products sold in the state as violations. The Connecticut fire insurer appealed to test the law.
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Little Rock
Ark
Sviet Denounces Peace Terms View On Witte Appointment
The Sviet rebukes the idea that M. Witte’s diplomatic post signals any peace surrender. It cites Emperor Nicholas’ June telegram to General Line and notes a favorable note on Witte’s mission, arguing Russia will not seek peace at any price and will aim to end the war with victory.
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St. Petersburg
Sviet
M. Witte
Japan
Vladivostok
Nicholas
Line
Russia
Slavae
Great Britain
William
France
Europe
Russians shift to defensive posture in Manchuria report
An army officer returning from Manchuria says General Linovitch plans a non aggressive defense rather than renewed sorties. Reports cite epidemics among Russians and the Jiji notes M. Witte's potential replacement of Ambassador Muravieff as improving peace prospects. Details from Karsakovsk describe a fire at the town burning until July 10.
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Tokio
Manchuria
Linovitch
Linevitch
Jiji
M. Witte
Muravieff
The
Hague
Karsakovsk
Pokotiloff Heads to Washington for Peace Conference
Russian minister to China M. Pokotiloff sails from Shanghai to Vancouver aboard the Empress of China and proceeds to Washington to assist Russia’s plenipotentiaries at the forthcoming peace conference.
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China
Shanghai
M. Pokotiloff
Vancouver
Washington
Indictments for Fraud Reach Kansas City Cattlemen
Grand jury charges William A Towers and four Kansas City stockyard weighmasters with fraud. Towers allegedly borrowed 30000 on a herd of cattle in Bent County Colorado that was already mortgaged and undercounted the herd. Weighmasters conspired with traders to underweight and overweight cattle to obtain money, naming Van Wright partners among others. Towers linked to prominent Southwest cattle interests and to the late George M Casey.
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Kansas City
William A. Towers
H.rightmire
Bruce Reichelderfer
Charles Wiggins
Towers
Bent County
Colo
Cyrus van
J. J. Miller
Henry Nichols
A. J. Judy
George M. Wright
van & Wright
Wiliam Towers
Southwest
George M. Casey
Six Months Prison Term For Street Flirtation In New York
Benjamin F. Smith, brought from St. Louis, received a six months prison term from Magistrate Steinert for a passing flirtation with Mrs. Frances M. Gamble at the Madison Avenue Forty second Street subway entrance. Gamble, who confronted Smith, requested leniency but supported the court action. The magistrate urged other women to act against suitors he called mashers.
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New York
Benjamin F. Smith
St. Louis
Steinert
Frances M. Gamble
Brooklyn
Madison Avenue
Forty-second Street
Smith
Cotton leaders meet in Washington over government statistics probe
Harvie Jordan president of the Southern Cotton association arrives in Washington and meets with Richard Cheatham secretary of the Same association and Henry Hester secretary of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. They say officials will assist the justice department inquiry into charges that government cotton statistics were juggled to aid stock brokers.
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Washington
Harvie Jordan
Southern Cotton Association
Richard Cheatham
Henry Hester
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Department’ of Justice
Wreck Kills Three on Iowa Central Railroad Near Richland
Three men died and two were critically injured in a freight train wreck on the Iowa Central Railroad near Richland Iowa. The victims are engineer Jesse Long fireman William West and brakeman Samuel Wolsey. A car of oil ignited after the wreck and its tank exploded burning the bodies of the dead.
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Marshalltown
Iowa Central Railroad
Richland
Jesse Long
William West
Samuel Wolsey
Prominent Social Figures Weigh Testimony in Blackmail Case
New York July 17 Three society leaders informed the district attorney they will testify as complainants against Charles E Ahle of the Society Editors association held on $3 500 bail for grand jury on the charge of attempted blackmail brought by Edwin M Post a New York Stock Exchange member Post alleges Ahle tried to secure a $500 subscription for a society book by threatening to publish a scandalous story about his name A list of social names and sums ranging from 500 to 1000 was found on arrest.
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New York
Charles E. Ahle
Society Editors’ Association
Edwin M. Post
New York Stock Exchange
Ahle
Post
New York Society
Aged Man Shoots Self Amid Divorce Trial
Louis Apgar aged sixty five a grandfather killed himself in Jersey City by shooting after dramatic disclosures in the divorce case of George M Meyers against Clara M Meyers. Apgar named as co respondent in the sensational suit. He lived with his wife in a well to do home on a premier New Jersey street.
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New York
Louis Apgar
Jersey City
George M. Meyers
Clara M. Meyers
Apgar
New Jersey
Maine Towns Shaken by Strong Earthquake Shocks
A pair of tremors struck Maine and New Hampshire in the early morning with reports from Augusta Bangor Lewiston Rockland Brunswick Thomaston and nearby towns of rattling dishes and thunder like sounds. A later report notes a distinct 5 10 am shock felt in Concord Manchester and southern New Hampshire.
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Portland
Augusta
Bangor
Lewiston
Rockland
Brunswick
Thomaston
Biddleford
Saco
Old Orchard
Concord
N. H
Manchester
New Directors Installed at Equitable Life Society Board
New York July 15 Twelve new directors chosen for the Equitable Life Assurance Society include D Cady Herrick President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University Congressman Charles E Littlefield of Maine and Nevada N Stranahan collector of the port of New York Resignations of two old directors and one newly elected were accepted General Louis Fitzgerald Horace C Deming and Frederick G Bourne stepped down The changes follow recommendations from the board of trustees after policy holder consultation.
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New York
D. Cady HerrIck
NichOlas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Charles E. Littlefield
Maine
Nevada
N. Stranahan
Port of
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Louis Fitzgerald
The
Mercantile Trust Company
Horace C. Deming
Frederick G. Bourne
Equitable Society
Bourne
Soheyholders
Cleveland
Board of Trustees
Wardman Refuses to Testify in Hooker Case
Irvin Wardman editor of the New York Press told a joint legislative committee he cannot name sources used in his paper about alleged doodle and corruption tied to Judge Hooker’s acquittal. The panel ordered him to answer. he declined, citing professional ethics, but provided the general information. He named the Delaware and Hudson Company as a corporation pressuring for exoneration.
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Albany
N. Y
Irvin Wardman
New York Press
Justice Hooker
Wardman
Senator Brackett
Judiciary Committee
Hooker
Delaware and Hudson Company
Militia Rescues Policeman From Lynch Threat in Chicago
Eighth Illinois National Guard members rescued Fred Locke a newly appointed colored policeman from a mob on Seventh Street near Rock Island tracks. Locke fired at Julia McHugh 18 injuring her slightly before militia arrived disarming him. Locke was hospitalized and jailed. mob jeered a nonunion teamster prompting the disturbance.
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Chicago
Eighth Regiment
Illinois National Guard
Seventh Street
Rock Island Tracks
Fred Locke
Julia McHugh
Locke
Takahira Visits Sagamore Hill On Peace Conference Talks
Japanese Minister Takahira visited Sagamore Hill to discuss details of the peace conference with President and said he had no new instructions. He praised Russia’s M. Witte as principal envoy and anticipated Baron Komura’s arrival in New York around July 29 or 30 with a August 1 reception.
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Oyster Bay
L. L
Takahira
Sagamore Hill
M. Witte
Russia
Baron Komura
New York
Government censorship revived under General Trepoff
In St. Petersburg on July 15 the government censorship resumed with full vigor under General Trepoff assistant minister of the interior. A blanket order bans publication of any news relating to strikes disorders or revolutionary action.
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St. Petersburg
General Trepoff
State health official probes cemetery desecration near Edwardsville
Springfield reports the state board of health sent an inspector after citizens near Edwardsville alleged wholesale exhumations by a railway along a county poor farm. A steam shovel is said to be at work near land formerly a cemetery.
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Springfield
Ill
Edwardsville
State Board of Health
Explosion Claims Four Men at Brownsburg Works
Four men were killed and two injured in an explosion in the detonator room at the Dominion Cartridge company works in Brownsburg Quebec on July 17. The dead are Stephen Carruthers Jack Martin Napoleon Lamarche and Thomas Charlebois. The injured are William Tomatty and Steve Racine. Survivors cannot explain the cause.
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Brownsburg
Que
Dominion Cartridgee Company
Stephen Carruthers
Jack Martin
Napoleon Lamarche
Thomas Charlebois
William Tomatty
Steve Racine
Navy Secretary Bonaparte Declines Free Passes
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte states he refused free railroad passes not as a rebuke to railroads or officials but to act on his own conscience. He says public opinion should guide public leaders when it does not conflict with personal beliefs.
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Baltimore
Bonaparte
Railway workers adopt Polish language in Poland
In Warsaw on July 15 the staff of the Vienna Lodz and Kalisz railways resolved to conduct all railway business in Polish. They warned that anyone punished for using Polish will trigger a mass resignation by all employees.
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Warsaw
Russian
Poland
Vienna
Lodz
Kalisz
General Leonard Wood Undergoes Trepan Operation
Reports from Pocasset Cape Cod indicate Major General Leonard Wood has had a trepanning operation to remove a bony growth on his head. The surgery was reportedly successful and he is making rapid progress toward recovery.
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Boston
Pocasset
Cape Cod
Leonard Wood
Burial of sectarianism urged by Ulster group
An independent section of Ulster Orangemen led by Commoner Sloan issues a manifesto calling for the burial of sectarianism in Ireland. It seeks cooperation of secular forces, distrusts English parties, and urges a patriotic party to end creed domination and political strife.
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Belfast
Ulster Orangemen
Commoner Sloan
Ireland
Typhoid Epidemic Strikes Collinsville Village
Typhoid fever is epidemic in Collinsville, with about thirty houses affected. Each home reports one to five cases, five Litt children have died, and several families have lost one or two members. Physicians struggle to halt the outbreak.
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Pittsburg
Collinsville
Here
Litt
Embezzled Immense Sum by Edison Cashier
New York reports Henrica Cott, former Edison Co cashier at Milan, Italy, is under arrest for embezzling 240000 dollars lost in speculation. Expect more arrests. Edison shares fell on the bourse following the revelations.
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New York
Henrica Cott
Edison Company
Milan
Italy
The
Herald
Edison
Rumors of French Grenadier Regiment Actions Stir Moscow Warsaw
Reports from St. Petersburg on July 14 say rumors claim four grenadiers regiments in Moscow have mutinied while others in Warsaw refuse to fire on demonstrators. No confirmation could be obtained.
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St. Petersburg
Moscow
Warsaw
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Life Society
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Judge Hooker
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Val. Blatz
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John T. Breen
Illinois Railroad Company
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James Valley Bank Building
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Third Street
Taior
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Scheel
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Fourth Stres
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Mozaers Lanp Avencry
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