Black Sea Fleet Retained by Porte Amid Balkan Strife
Berlin reports Turkey has resisted Russia’s demand to allow the Black Sea fleet through the Dardanelles, while Britain presses for neutrality and the Berlin treaty. Russia rejects terms tying its Balkan agreement, and Germany weighs future strategic gains as Austria and Italy stay quiet. In Shanghai, the Russian minister approves dismantling Mandjur cables and Japan readies pilots as Port Arthur reports calm and continued famine threats along Sakhalin fisheries. Mme Stark defends her husband Admiral Stark’s actions during the Port Arthur bombardment.
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Berlin
Porte
Turkey
Black Sea
Dardanelles
Russia
Austria
Balkans
Constantinople
France
Great Britain
Far East
Germany
Italy
England
Baltic
Mediterranean
Sakbaa
Japan
Amur
Stark
Port Arthur
Mme. Stark
Marquis Ito to Korea on imperial mission
Tokio dispatch reports the Marquis Ito will depart for Korea to deliver an autograph letter from the emperor to Korea’s ruler. He travels with Secretary of the Privy Council Gen Usagawa Admiral Sakamoto and Viscount Higashize. The voyage is set for the 15th.
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Tokio
Marquis Itée
Korea
Marquis Ito
Privy Council
Usagawa
Sakamoto
Viscount Higashize
Count Tsuzuki
Vladivostok Still Bright Amid Japanese Fleet Show
Despite the Japanese fleet near the harbor and Sunday bombardment, Vladivostok residents spirit remains high. Crowds fill the streets including many women, with a theater performance announced for tonight. Several arrested suspects identified as Chinamen or Koreans. merchants’ captains report.
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Vladivostok
Japanese fleet shows itself near Vladivostok denies bombardment
From St Petersburg reports deny a day long Japanese bombardment of Vladivostok yesterday. The fleet merely appeared then sailed away without firing a gun. Analysts link the move to Japan's aim to regain Sakhalien, ceded to Russia, with broader northern ambitions.
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St. Petersburg
Vladivostok
Sakhalien
Russia
Japan
Struggle for Alaska Mine Divides Missionaries and Chicago Buyers
A Chicago arbitration board hears a dispute over an Alaskan gold mine claimed by the Swedish Evangelical mission covenant. The case centers on Eskimo holders and alleged transfers to Gabriel Price and Dr C W Johnson, with two mining companies formed to cloud title. Claimants allege about 1.3 million dollars has been extracted from Claims 8 and 9 since 1899.
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Chicago
Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America
N. C. Hulteberg
San Jose
Cal
P. H. Anderson
C. W. Johnson
White
Itable
Dora ‘Adams
Constantine Aparasooki
Charles Johnson
Nome
Alaska
Board of Arbitration
Hiram T. Gilbert
A. H. Pence
PD. FP. Lane
Af. Soderberg
San Francisco
Frank 3. Quinn
Peoria, Il
H. F. Williams
Axel Chytraus
Cook County
Hulteberg
Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant
Afr
Golovin Bay
United States
Hulleberg
Anderson
Church Society
Mrr
Mr. Anderson
Gabriel Price
Sociery
Gabriel Adams
Aparasooki
Price
Sala
Dr.Johnson
Swedish Mission Battery
White Star Mining Company of
California
Illinois
Q. A. Bjork
Swedish Missione
Taw
Great Floods Sweep East as Susquehanna Rises
Harrisburg reports its worst flood in history as the Susquehanna climbs past last Friday’s level. Residents move to higher ground while river readings forecast continued rises for about 70 hours. Reports from Sunbury Wilkes-Barre and Lock Haven show widening floods and rising water in the Delaware still falls in Trenton New Jersey.
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Harrisburg
Weather Observer Domain
Susquehanna
Swanna
Sunbury
Wilkesbie
Ned
Williamaport
Lockkhaven Borge
Tuy
Tver
Harriebure
Middleton
Stentorson
Ais
Mako
Flood Recedes as Schuylkill Waters Fall North of Reading
Reading, Pa March 8 The flood to the Schuylkill river at this point and north of Reading has spent itself and the water is receding.
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Reading
Schuylkill River
River Rise Spurs Warnings Across Lehigh Valley
In Easton on March 8 the river rose about six feet at the point with danger warnings issued along the river lowlands. Overnight, extensive damage occurred up the Lehigh Valley as floodwaters moved through communities and streets.
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Easton
Lehigh Valley
Flood Waters Rise in Wilkesbarre Area
The water in the north branch of the Susquehanna is at its highest since 1902, flooding lowlands and isolating towns west of the river. Some anthracite mines are flooded and residents in Burwood and Westmore evacuated by boat.
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Wilkesbarre
Susquehanna
Burwood
Westmore
Rivers pass danger line again flood reaches Pittsburg
For the third time in five weeks the rivers crossed the danger mark today inundating lowlands around Pittsburg. Residents along the riverfronts were prepared and suffered little damage as the floodwaters spread.
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Pittsburg
Japanese Troops Mobilize for Manchuria War
In Shanghai on March 8 reports indicate slow Japanese troop mobilization. The Japanese forces will be divided into four armies with lines of concentration not yet specified by the Japanese general staff.
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Korea
Shanghai
Manchuria
Louisiana
Stanley Boss
Ceylon
Festival Hall
Los Angeles
Balkan Tribes Petition Czarina on Tribal Autonomy
About 40,000 tribesmen in Trans Baikal petition the young Czarina to keep their tribal relations and avoid Russian administrative transfer with migration to Mongolia as option. The Czar telegraphed denial. Count Orloff Bashakoff adds 100000 toward the navy fund.
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Balkan
Trans-Baikal
Cossack Rifles Send Detachment Toward Manchuria
Blagoveschensk March 8 The last detachment of the Algun Cossacks Rifles departs for Tsitssar Manchuria. Japanese forces remaining will be sent to Stretensk, marking a shift in local military dispositions.
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Blagoveschensk
Siberia
Algun Cossacks
Tsitssar
Manchuria
Stretensk
Graft Report Clears Chicago Faces No Systematic Graft
After five months the municipal graft committee reports to the city council. Alderman Herrmann, chairman, says Chicago has no systematic graft, only sporadic graft. It calls for reform measures, supports all night saloons near nocturnal industries, segregation of red light districts, and notes police laxity despite favorable comparison to other cities.
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Chicago
E. F. Herrmann
Harrison
Chicago Police
Arbitration Treaty Signed in Madrid
King Alfonso viewed decrees ratifying arbitration conventions between Spain and Great Britain and between Spain and France.
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Spain
Great Britain
France
Madrid
Alfonso
Molson Bank Executive Office Suicide Ride Shocks Montreal
G. L. Appleton, a Molson Bank employee from Toronto, was summoned to Montreal for an explanation of his accounts and shot himself in the corridor outside the executive offices after meeting bank officers. His death ends a distressing visit to settle accounts.
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Montreal
L. G. Appleton
Toronto
Molson’s Bank
Apleton
Big Sea Fight Expected Off Russian Coast
In St. Petersburg March reports say Captain Reitzen stein’s Vladivostok squadron is guarded by authorities. Observers believe Japanese warships sighted off the harbor yesterday and Sunday indicate the Russians may be at sea near the Tumen river mouth, foreshadowing a major naval clash.
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St. Petersburg
Reitzenstein
Vladivostok
Tumen
Brendel & Co Banker Dies by Suicide After Losses
In Berlin on March 8 Hugo Brendel a partner in Brendel and Co bank reportedly killed himself after the bank faced a failure blamed on embezzlement and cashier speculation. He ended his life by leaping from a bank window.
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Berlin
Hugo Brendel
Brendel & Co
Iesterny
Cloudburst Forces Ranchers to Flee in Washington
A cloudburst above Dixie in the Blue Mountains drives ranchers from Mud Creek bottom to the hills. Communications with Dixie are broken. Dixie lies four feet above the creek and is feared to flood. Water overflows tracks as Dry Creek rises to an unprecedented height with no full damage details yet.
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Walla Walla
Wash
Dixie
Blue Mountains
Mud Creek
Dry Creek
Reward Offered for Baron Toll Missing Expedition Party
St Petersburg reports the Academy of Science offers 3750 to informers about the whereabouts of Baron Toll and his party who left the yacht Zaria bound for Bennett Island in 1902. The Zaria was reported not reaching Stockholm and Toll's group is believed to have been carried to sea by ice off Bennett Island in November 1962.
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St. Petersburg
March
Academy of Science
Baron Toll
Bennett Island
Stockholm
United States
Plural wives emerge in Smoot inquiry testimony
Mrs. Clara Mabel Kennedy testifies about her marriage at Juarez to a man with another wife and about Apostle Teasdale's alleged refusal to conduct plural marriages. Charles Merrill, son of Apostle Merrill, describes his multiple marriages and life in the Logan temple, noting his father hid due to polygamy prosecutions and that he has two wives now living apart in Utah.
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Washington
Clara Mabel Kennedy
Smoot
Worthington
Juarez
Mexico
Diaz
Mr. Worthington
Apostle Teasdale
Charles F. Merrill
Apostle Merrill
Mr. Merrill
Chloe Hendricks
Logan Temple
M. C. Edwardson
Anna B. Stoddard
Shade Ho
Burrows
Senator Foraker
Senator Overman
Logan
Dubois
Merrill
Mar
Richmond
Utah
Ral
Joe
Underground
Restrict Public Buildings to Mall Line in New Washington Bill
Washington lawmakers debate a bill by Senator Newlands to limit public building placement to a 400 foot corridor along a central line from the Capitol dome to the Washington Monument. It calls for preserving the Mall for exposition use every decade and restricting new constructions accordingly.
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Washington
Newlands
National Capitol
Washington Monument
Mall
Paris
District of Columbia
Secretary of the Interior
Atlantic and Pacific
New Mexico
Arizona
Cannon Sustains Point of Order on Official Carriages
In Washington on March 8 the House met as Speaker Cannon ruled on Mr. Mann's point of order against the conference on the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill. The dispute centered on adding the words or official after personal. The speaker sustained the point and sent the bill back to conference.
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Washington
House
Cannon
Mann
Illinois
Result of Poolroom War in New York
The city faces potential legislation to ban transmitting race results by telegraph or telephone within New York. Two bills are under consideration from a City club lawyer and poolroom operators. A Chicago poolroom shutoff aimed at blocking transmissions did not stop New York rooms from obtaining information.
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New York
Telegraph
Chicago
British Exhibit Building Opens at World’s Fair in St Louis
Col. M. Watson, British commissioner general, took possession of his office in the British pavilion at the world’s fair grounds. The interior finishings match the grandeur of the royal rooms represented, including the banqueting hall Elizabethan room Georgian room Adams room and Queen Anne room.
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St. Louis
Col. Co. M. Watson
Fearful Collision Near Kewanee Kills Train Crew
A southbound express on the Alabama Great Southern collided head on with a freight near Kewanee Mississippi. Engineer P. P. Tarkin and fireman Robinson Judges were killed along with D. D. Nichola mail clerks and J. HH. Hinds an express messenger. A mail lighter is missing.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama Great Southern
Kewanee
Miss
P. P. Tarkin
Robinson
D. D. Nichola
J. HH. Hinds
Miners' Gases Nolle Prosequi in Cripple Creek Case
Cripple Creek March 8 All charges against Brion miners tied to train derailings the Vindicator disaster and related offenses have been nolle prosequied at the District Attorney Trowbridge's request before Judge Lewis. Charles H Whinney who confessed to complicity in the attempt to wreck a Florence and Cripple Creek passenger train remains under delay and will face trial March 18. He testified he rode with Special Agent Beckman and helped attempt the derailment of the freight line carrying both Union and non union Dew.
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Cripple Creek
Cola
Brion
Ming
Trowbridge
Lewis
Charles H. Whinney
Beckman
Florence and Cripple Creek
Steam navigation tied up by overtime dispute
San Francisco reports a potential general tie up of steam schooners on the Pacific coast if an immediate settlement fails between the Steam Schooners association and the Marine Engineers' association over overtime pay. Last season’s overtime rate was replaced by 50 cents per hour, leading to layups of the Robert Dollar Rival and Artie.
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San Francisco
Steam Schooners Association
Marine Engineers’ Association
Pacific Coast
Robert Dollar
Artie
Sergite
Whitney Estate Horse Lease Drawn In New York
Herman Duryea will race the horses owned by the estate of the late William Whitney. A lease to that effect has been drawn up in New York. The arrangement confirms Whitney’s horses will compete under Duryea's management.
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Jockey Club
Harry Payne Whitney
Duryea
America
August Belmont
Florida
William Shaw
Ihermy
H. B. Det Yea
New York
Herman Duryea
William ©. Whitney
Boundary Dispute Sparks Double Homicide in Vaiden
In Vaiden Mississippi March 5 a boundary dispute between Aaron Stewart and a partner versus WW Hill and his son led to a scuffle. Stewart and accomplices fired pistols, killing WW Hill and his son Joe Hill and seriously wounding Hunter Hill. Neighbors about twelve miles west witnessed the clash.
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Vaiden
Miss
Aaron Stewart
W. Hill
Stewarts
W. W. Hill
Joe HU
Hunter Hhl
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Charlies Merrill
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Marine Engineers and Steam Schooners Association
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