Global News Roundup From War to Weather and Crime
A dispatch from Manchuria reports 10,000 Japanese forces advancing in the Tzin Khoun Gou nian valley while Amur river bombardments target Soviet guard stations. Other items note a ship collision sinking a Japanese transport, a court martial for mutineers, and a spike in diamond prices in London. plus floods in Colorado, labor strikes, political indictments, and notable deaths and accidents across the United States.
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Gounian
Kataoka
Imperial Navy Department
Amur
Zharef
Lazervo
Price to be paid for half of Sakhalin discussed
News from several cities traces the Russia Japan peace talks with direct appeals from President Roosevelt to Emperor Nicholas and Tokyo. Reports vary on whether Japan will submit price for Sakhalin to a mixed commission or pursue further compromise as talks drag toward potential rupture.
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Mobile, Ala
Saghalin
Portsmouth
N. H
Witte
St. Petersburg
Count Lamsdorff
Nicholas
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Russia
Japan
Roosevelt
Baron
Mr. Takahira
Mr. Witte
Takahira
Baron Komura
Tokio
Meyer
Sakhalin
Peace Envoys Invited to New York State Fair
Syracuse August 29 The New York state fair commission sent an invitation to the Russian and Japanese peace envoys at Portsmouth to attend the state fair opening September 11 as guests of the state fair officials at Syracuse.
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Syracuse
N. Y
New York State Fair Commission
Portsmouth
Collections of Internal Revenue July 1905 total
Washington reports the monthly statement showing July 1905 internal revenue collections at 20,790,479 dollars, up 385,461 dollars from July 1904.
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Internal Revenue
Washington
Australian swimmer breaks 500-yard world record in Leeds
B B Kieran, Australian champion, eclipsed the world record for 500 yards in Leeds on August 29, swimming the distance in 6 minutes 7 1-5 seconds. He previously held the best time at 6 minutes 23 3-5 seconds.
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Leeds
Eng
B. B. Kieran
Mills Closed Down in Vandergrift After Plant Cuts
In Vandergrift Pennsylvania on August 29 twenty one of the twenty nine mills belonging to the American Sheet and Tinplate Co were shut down leaving about eight hundred workers unemployed due to a sharp drop in orders.
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Vandergrift
American Sheet and Tinplate Co
GR iBaalee
Steamer Peconic Sinks in Storm With Twenty Lives Lost
Two survivors from the steamer Peconic report a loss of 20 crew and passengers after leaving Philadelphia for New Orleans with coal. The ship of 1154 tons foundered near Amelia Island as heavy seas and shifting cargo caused a broadside and rapid sinking during a nocturnal storm.
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Fernandina
Fla
Amelia Island Beach
Jones
New Orleans
Philadelphia
Taft party itinerary to Peking includes lawmakers
Washington Aug 29 Gov Wright cabled the war department detailing Taft Philippine party members who will go to Peking and travel independently later. Notables include Senators Newlands Warren and representatives Gillett Cochran Longworth plus Miss Roosevelt and others. The remainder of the party will return on the Korea. Leave Manila at 11 am on the 31st.
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War Department
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Philippine Party
Peking
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Nevada
Francis E. Warren
Wyoming
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Massachusetts
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New York
Nicholas Longworth
Ohio
Alice Roosevelt
Mabel Boardman
D. C
Amy McMillan
William S. Reyburn
Rogers K. Wetmore
Newport
R. I
Arthur Woods
Groton
Mass
Fred B. Warren
Cheyenne
Wyo
Emile Godchaux
New Orleans
Lafe Young
Des Moines
Capitol
J. G. Schmidlapp
Cincinnati
Union Savings Bank and Trust Co
Stuyvesant Fish, Jr
Washington, D. C
Korea
Manila
Yellow fever report shows stabilizing New Orleans outbreak
New Orleans report through 6 PM Monday lists 45 new cases bringing total to 1 788 and 5 deaths totaling 260. New foci rise to 18 with 420 total. Remaining unerrent is 181. Authorities note no sign of loss of federal control and Monday’s rise mirrors typical Sunday lull. Cool morning follows hot Sunday with no surge in mortality.
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New Orleans
Orleans
Lincoln's Birthplace Farm Sold in Auction at Hodgenville
Abraham Lincoln birthplace on a 110 acre farm in Hodgenville Kentucky was sold at auction to R J Collier of New York. Represented by Louisville lawyer E J Mc Dermott the purchase price was 3600 dollars. The sale occurred under court order in the bankruptcy of A W Den nette of New York. Other bidders included John E Burton of Philadelphia and W D Frost of Chicago.
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Oklahoma
Santa Fe
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
Chicago
Agricultural Press
NEW York Tribune Farmer
THE
Harrison News
NEWS
New York City
Gen Blackmar's Will Grants Legacies and Grant Chair
The will of late Gen Wilmont W Blackmar grants Nancy T Creel of Louisville Kentucky a 3000 dollar legacy for her mother nursing Blackmar after a Civil War wound. It also leaves to the United States government the chair used by Gen U S Grant when arranging Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
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Brockton
Mass
Wilmont W. Blackmar
Grand Army of the Republic
Nancy T. Creel
Louisville
Blackmar
United States
U. S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Appomattox
Parachute Tragedy Claims John Williams At Cahokia
A 38 year old aerial performer named John Williams died after releasing a trapeze and a parachute opened 1200 feet above ground at Red House park near Cahokia Illinois. He suffered fatal multiple injuries. Separately in Mobile Alabama four yellow fever cases were reported by the local board of health at Escatawpa Mississippi near Moss Point about 40 miles southwest of Mobile.
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St. Louis
Aug
John Williams
Red House Park
Cahokia
Escatawpa
Miss
Mobile
Ala
Board of Health
Moss Point
Death of Mrs Wilcox, First White House Child, Washington
Mrs Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox, a grand niece of Andrew Jackson and descendant of John Donelson the Tennessee pioneer, died in Washington at age 75. She was said to have been the first child born in the White House, Aug 29.
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M. E. D. Wilcox
Washington
Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox
White House
Andrew Jackson
John Donelson
Tennessee
Killer Husband Ends Life After Slaying Wife in Texas
Ft Worth, Aug 29. W H Sloan of Holder shot and killed his wife with a rifle then killed himself with a self-inflicted gunshot. A note found on Sloan said he wanted of fjying.
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Ft. Worth
Tex
W. H. Sloan
Holder
Sloan
Fjying
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