World News Briefs From The Week In Turning Tides
Roosevelt rests in Washington after return. Stone expands coal field regiments. Flora A. Lewis elected national president of the women’s auxiliary. Philadelphia club wins at baseball. a fatal shooting at Cleveland and hangings in Oxford and Michigan City. balloon tragedy in Taunton. Tower named to Germany post. anthracite strike tactics. multiple rail and dynamite incidents. stock exchange high. census orders. weekly business failures. canteen repeal cited. numerous diplomatic transfers.
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Roosevelt
Washington
White House
Stone
Pennsylvania
Ing
Ladies’ Auxiliary
National Army and Navy War Veterans
Flora A. Lewis
D. C
Philadelphia Baseball Club
American League
Charles Heffner
Ludwig Sedlazgo
Cleveland
New York Stock Exchange
Will Mathiskon
Lester
Oxford
Miss
Montgomery Brothers
Louis Girard
Taunton
Mass
Charlemagne Tower
Ambass
Russia
Mr. White
United States
Germany
Philadelphia & Reading Company
Schulkill County
James Winston
Orlando Il
Ad Re
Scranton
Princeton
Hay
Foan
St. Louis
Shaw
Frank McKie
Golden Eagle
Mercer
Lewis Russell
Michigan City
Ind
Perry Amerto
Stout
Winchester
Tenn
S. K. Robinson
News-Journal
Banks
Crocker Brigade
Muscatine
Mary J
New York
Prince
Toosevelt
Corre
Winthrop
Seminary
Wilkesbarre
Philippines
Wallace Grant
Berlin
R.S. McCormick
Austria
Belli Y Storer
Spain
Myrles Page Bryan
Brazil
Switz
Mur
Army maneuvers at Fort Riley and other 1900s notes
A compilation of varied reports: Fort Riley hosts 8,000 troops. Laura Biggar faces conspiracy charges over a Pittsburg estate. J Owen Moore cites a divorce linked to wealth. Dun & Co. notes steady industrial activity. Gen Chaffen to sail from Manila. Kentucky receives funds for war costs. Wall Street crisis rumors. Michigan Senate vacancy context. Dexter Ferry withdraws from race. a fatal Union Pacific wreck near Rawlins. Louis in Cleveland charity event. Hungarian Kossuth petition. Massachusetts court case on coal routes. coal strike losses reach $123.22 million. Catholic groups seek Roosevelt’s mediation. Tom Clark trial by mob. Pawtucket coal scarcities. Minneapolis mills adopt eight-hour day. U S pension rolls near 1 million names. John Mitchell disputes Baer on coal strike. Roosevelt’s health update after surgery. Boer manifesto appeals for funds. Turkestan earthquakes and Sicilian cyclone deaths. Manchuria evacuation by Russians. Claverdon sailor deaths. express train crash near Lille. further Turkestan quake toll.
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Fort Riley
Kan
Laura Biggar
Henry M. Bennett
Pittsburg
J. Owen Moore
New York
Count von Roden Kohsel
Dun & Co
Chaffen
Manila
San Francisco
Sumner
Comptroller of the Treasury
Kentucky
Spain
Wall Street
Hit
Specul
Selves
Bliss
Michigan
United States
James McMillan
Russell A. Alger
Dexter M. Ferry
Union Pacific
Rawlins
Wyo
Louis
Cleveland
Tom Clark
Will Gibson
Carey Whitfield
Corinth
Miss
Pawtucket
R. I
Minneapolis
Minn
Commissioner of Pensions
Eugene F. Ware
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Baer
Roosevelt
Multiple Disturbances and Disasters Reported Across States and Abroad
A deputy sheriff and two Black men die in Glenjean West Virginia after a crap game. Chicago iron workers strike halting three skyscrapers and the new post office. Two Norfolk and Western freight trains wreck at Montgomery Tennessee with two firemen killed and an engineer badly injured. In Chicago Thomas Ward kills his mother’s attacker brother Michael, fatally wounding him. Venezuelan leader Matos mobilizes about 16 000 troops toward Caracas. Arctic explorer Peary says Arctic regions aid pulmonary diseases. In Missoula Montana section foreman William Johnson killed saving a passenger train after spotting a broken rail. Stockton California endures a major fire in the agricultural pavilion burning a half million dollars’ worth of contents and two houses. In Mahanoy City Pennsylvania dynamite shatters a home and nearby windows. Weldon nonunion worker escapes unharmed. A Vienna banker, Adolph Boedesch, long hunted, identified as previously known as Adolph Bettelheim, connected with embezzlement.
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Glenjean
W. Va
Structural Iron Workers of
Chicago
P Post
Norfolk & Western Railroad
Montgomery
Venezuela
Matos
Caracas
Robert E. Peary
Arctic
Missoula
Mont
William Johnson
Northern Pacific
Johnson
Stockton
Cal
Mahanoy City
Michael Weldon
Weldon
Schuylkill
Blackwell's
Various State Nominating Actions Across Parties and Regions
Democratic and Republican parties across Michigan New York Connecticut Ohio Indiana Iowa nominate and renominate candidates for governor congress and senate. Notable items include Judge Durand withdrawal due to illness W J Sampson D Goodenough noms in Michigan Alger Gobel Longworth Carpenter, Birdsall B P Birdsall, McGinniss, Parsons. Sylvia Landon Durham celebrates 102nd birthday in Connecticut.
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G. H. Durand
Michigan
New York
Saratoga
Gov
Odell
Roosevelt
W. J. Sampson
Congress
D. W. Goodenough
Grand Rapids
Gen. Alger
United States Senate
Wiliam Carpenter
Supreme Court
Nicholas Longworth
Ohio
W. H. P. Gobel
Connecticut
Melbert B. Cary
Ridgefield
Sylvia Landon Durham
Bristol
Conn
B. P. Birdsall
Clarion
David B. Henderson
Edmond A. McGinniss
Indiana
Iowa
J. M. Parsons
Rock Rapids
Fire Panic at Werba Wedding Traps Guests
A wedding in Werba Russia erupts in a fire panic with over 100 guests suffocated or burned to death. The disaster follows a series of tremors and structural collapses across the region.
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Werba
Russia
Mexico
Venezuela
United States
Ciudad Bolivar
Corea
Ch’ao-Hsien
Seoul
Emi Wha
Roumania
Hay
Minor items from the era of high prices and global reform
Reports note high meat prices in Germany prompting repeal debates on import laws. Marconi claims a wireless range beyond 1500 miles. Coal freight costs and eastern railroads draw I C C scrutiny. Calls for government ownership of coal mines and railroads rise at a New York mass meeting with 10 000 attendees. Cuba's wealth overruns expectations after Wood Palma transfer. Roosevelt rumor to be made a British colonel circulates in London. The Christian Church national meeting convenes in Norfolk Virginia. Europeans hesitate on Hay note. Roumania resists reforms without united action. A London patent for a new marine engine claims Atlantic crossing ease by John Wills. District Attorney Jerome criticizes labor unions. Attorney General Sheets acts against American Farm Co in Ohio. Supplemental Indian treaty ratified by Chickasaw Nation terminating tribal government.
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Germany
Marconi
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York
South Africa
Cuba
New Republic
Wood
Palma
London Onstrue- Daily Chronicle
Roosevelt
The
Christian Church
Norfolk
Hay
Roumania
London
John Wills
Atlantic
Thssedays
Jerome
Sheets
Ohio
American Farm Company
Indian Territory
Street Railway Strike Paralyzes New Orleans Transport
Streetcar workers strike over a dispute with the New Orleans Railway Co. and allied linemen join a sympathetic action. About 75 to 80 workers affected. only three mail cars moved. city lighting at risk as overhead wires cannot be repaired. Violent incidents reported as authorities clash with strikers while attempts to resolve the dispute fail.
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New Orleans
New Orleans Railway Co
New Orleans and
Carrollton Light and Power Co
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Electric Light Department
United States
Act of Congress
D’ayala
Seven Negroes Arrested in Indianapolis Grave Robberies
Police captured seven Black suspects after a grave-robbing spree near Indianapolis. Bodies were sold to colleges, with Mount Jackson Cemetery repeatedly targeted and a central medical college cited as a key access point. Rufus Cantrill confessed, implicating others as warrants spread for a cemetery trespasser and a college intern.
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Indianapolis
Central College of Physicians and Surgeons
Rufus Cantrill
Cantrill
Mount Jackson Cemetery
Haseen
Rufus
Medical College
Crown Hill
United States
Indiana
Pension Bureau Report Shows Under Million Pension Roll
Washington report by Commissioner Eugene F. Ware details 999,446 pensioners on July 1, including 738,809 soldiers and 260,637 widows and dependents. Death notices numbered 50,128 with 27,043 pensioners, and projected next year losses about 46,000. Total pensions paid $137,504,268. bureau costs $3,590,529.
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Washington
Commissioner of Pensions
Eugene F. Ware
United States
Mexico
Spain
War Department Sets Rules For Military Science In Colleges
The War Department issues a general order to regulate army officers teaching military science in colleges. It requires adherence to new standards, with potential withdrawal of instructors for noncompliance. Some schools object, noting past practice funded by annual sums while under old law.
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War Department
Military Department
Washington
Army
Murder at West Polk Street Splits Family T
Thomas Ward was shot and killed by his brother Michael at their home 262 West Polk street. The killer was arrested. The incident followed an alleged attack on Maggie McNamee, Thomas Ward’s mother, by another son who died in the parlor. The Ward family had a long, troubled history with multiple arrests among its members. Luke Ward, 15, faces burglary charges in juvenile court. Mrs McNamee had a prior murder charge in 1894 but was never convicted.
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Chicago
Thomas Ward
Michael
West Polk Street
Maggie McNamee
Thomas
Ward
West Side
Luke
McNamee
Had a Big Graft by Boston Stock Broker Chief
John M. Fisher of J. M. Fisher & Co. pleaded guilty to nine indictments charging defrauding customers through the mails in a trial at Boston district court. He confessed how he and a partner posed as bankers with no capital and took about 285000 dollars from victims in little more than a year.
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Boston
John M. Fisher
J. M. Fisher & Co
United States
United States District Court
Fisher
Cor
Emile Zola Dies in Paris Home
Paris reports Emile Zola a renowned novelist and defender of Dreyfus and Jewish rights died from asphyxiation in his bedroom. The stove fumes caused the fatal incident early Monday morning.
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Zola
Paris
Emile Zola
Dreyfus
A Bad State of Affairs In Kingstown After Eruption
Widespread dissatisfaction in Kingstown St Vincent as relief work falters. U S supplied goods were sold under value by local government to foreign merchants. Rations distribution halted and somber mood grips sufferers. Some adults receive only 25 cents weekly and huts for the homeless stand incomplete.
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Kingstown
Island of St. Vincent
United States
Theatrical manager shoots wife in New York
Harry Rose, a stage manager, shot and killed his wife in New York. He went to a police station and confessed, then was placed under arrest.
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Killa
New York
Harry Rose
Population of New York Jews 1901 figures cited
The Jewish World estimates Greater New York Jews by burials at 7 997 in 1901 implying 533 133 people. Since then 39 225 moved to New York and stayed, plus 21 400 births over deaths gives 584 788 by August 1 this year. Also includes unrelated ads for remedies.
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New York City
Jewish World
Greater
New York
Board of Health
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Baia
Botha
DeWet
Delarey
East Turkestan
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Manchuria
China
Lille
France
Turkestan
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Ware
Treasury Department
Dean
Hannah More
ST. Jacobs
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