News Notes From The Busy World 1904
Broad international roundup reports a New York conscience fund gift of 300 dollars, Sunday work protests in Jersey City, sugar price hikes, alimony reform in New York, Argentina railcar orders, Boston teamsters strike, and ship delays boosting cargo value. Also covered are Vesuvius erruption, Panama fund investments, fires in Gem Idaho and Memphis, labor disputes in New York and Paris census data.
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Wickser
New York
Conscience Fund
John T. Doyle
San Francisco
Barbers
Jersey City
Boss Barbers
Edward
Earl Grey
Canada
Earl of Minto
Youlden, Smith & Hopkins
Boston
Hawaii
George Gray
United Mine Workers
Mount Vesuvius
United States
Russia
Pugett Sound
Japan
Vladivostok
Gem
Idaho
la Crosse
Wis
Panama Republic
New York City
Panama Canal
Philip Caldwell
Sears,i Roebuck & Co
Chicago
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Agriculture
Whitman
Charles Carris
Automobile Club of America
Sharon
Venezuvia
Great Britain
Germany
Italy
Labor Day Parades Across Cities Highlight Unions and Cheers
Across the nation on September 6 labor events drew thousands. In Buffalo 35,000 men paraded, while Boston saw 25,000 union members march. Pittsburgh and Cleveland reported large parades and picnics, and Columbus and Cripple Creek noted sizable processions tied to local labor groups.
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Boston Knights of Labor
Buffalo
Cincinnati
Covington
Newport
Kansas City
Thomas E. Watson
United States
N. Y
Columbus
Chicago
Cleveland
Scenic Park
Cripple Creek
Col
Buckeye Marksmen Sweep First Prize In Sea Girt Championship
The Ohio State Rifle association first team won the rifle club championship at Sea Girt New Jersey with 223 points. Manhattan Rifle and Revolver second with 221, Ohio State second team third with 219, plus several New Jersey and New York clubs placing in the top ranks. First prize includes a gold medal and 50 dollars per team member. In the revolver team match the National Guard Squadron A of New York won with 775 points, Philippine cavalry scrub team second, Philadelphia District fourth, distance 50 yards.
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Sea Girt
N. J
United States
Ohio State Rifle Association
National Rifle Association
Manhattan Rifle and Revolver Association
New Jersey
New Jersey State Rifle Association
Italian Rifle Club
New York
Massachusetts Rifle Association
Squadron A
National Guard
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
National Guard of
Philippine Cavalry
Philadelphia City Cavalry
District of Columbia
Electrocution at Auburn executes Versacia in prison
Guiseppi Versacia, accomplice of Antonia Giorgio in the May murder of John Van Gorder and his half-sister Miss Farnham, was executed in the electric chair at Auburn prison yesterday. Giorgio was executed last Tuesday. Versacia prayed aloud as he sat in the chair and continued until the current was applied. his speech ceased when the death current began.
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Auburn
N. Y
Knights Templar Parade Opens Triennial Conclave in San Francisco
Ten thousand Knights Templar marched through decorated San Francisco streets in a three hour parade. Notables included Most Eminent Sir Henry Bates Stoddard and the Earl of Euston, with California commandery No. 1 and two mounted groups from Virginia City and Philadelphia drawing cheers. Eastern commanderies led with Dixie as New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois showed strong displays.
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San Francisco
Knights Templar
Henry Bates Stoddard
United States
Earl of Euston
England
Wales
Edward
California Commandery No. 1
de Witt Clinton
Virginia City
Nev
Corinthian Chasseurs
Philadelphia
Kentucky
Dixie
New York
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Voting in Packing Center Strikes Yields Mixed Results
Chicago reports show only a fraction of 25 000 on strike voting on abandoning the strike. Early tallies indicate a heavy tilt to stay on strike in Chicago while South Omaha and East St Louis votes favor returning to work. Mukden dispatch says Japanese advance nears.
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Chicago
East St. Louis
Ill
Omaha
Neb
South Omaha
Donnelly
German swimmer breaks world mark at Olympic renewal
The Monday swimming events in St. Louis drew a large crowd at the United States Life Saving Corps pool. Open to global entrants, including Hungary and Germany, the one mile championship saw E. Rausch of Germany defeat the world record of 28:05.3 by Rubert with a 27:18.5 effort, winning by 75 yards.
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St. Louis
United States Life Saving Corps
Hungary
Germany
E. Rausch
Charles Rubert
New York Athletic Club
Blue and Brown Armies Clash at Thoroughfare Gap Halted by Umpire
Gainesville Virginia September 7 The Blue and Brown armies fought fiercely before being halted by the chief umpire at 3 PM. Grant seeking to drive back Bell through Thoroughfare Gap failed to breach Bell's line established earlier in the morning.
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Gainesville
Grant
Bell
Woman shoots husband and patrolman then barricades inside tenement
In East Boston on Falcon street Mrs Minnie McKenzie fired at her husband and fatally wounded Patrolman Alfred M Sturdivant before barricading herself in a front room for over five hours. Police used germicide injected through holes in the door to capture her.
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Boston
Minnie McKenzie
Falcon Street
Alfred M. Sturdivant
Plehve's Successor Appointed in Russia
St. Petersburg announces Senator Plantonoff, a council of the empire member, has been named minister of the interior and chief of the Russian police, succeeding the late M Plehve.
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Plehve
St. Petersburg
Plantonoff
Council of the Empire
M. Plehve
Strike Enters Its Seventh Week Without Settlements
Fall River Massachusetts reports the textile strike moving into its seventh week with no concessions from either side. No factory wheels have turned since the strike began, while frequent contributions aid the strikers and many workers leave the city, including French Canadians returning to Quebec.
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Fall River
Mass
Quebec
Russians extricate First Siberian army corps from Liao Yang area
General Kuropatkin reported the bulk of the First Siberian army corps south of Yentai near Liao Yang with other units crossing the Taitse river to a right bank position. The war office said gun losses did not occur and stores were burned before crossing. Field Marshal Oyama announced Liao Yang fell to Japanese forces with heavy casualties.
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Mukden
London
Daily Mail
Sinmintin
St. Petersburg
Yentai Station
Oyama
Taitse
Kuropatkin
Yinkow
New Chwang
Taitse River
Benitzu
Liao Yang
Rennenkampff
Commissariat
Liao River
Associated Press
Stakelberg
Tokio
Battle Likely in Manchuria at Harbin Next Spring
Paris reports a Japanese legation official expects the decisive Manchuria battle at Harbin as Kuropatkin fled Mukden. With 325 miles between towns and winter coming, the clash likely awaits spring. He says Russia could seek peace now, but Japan will not initiate negotiations.
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Paris
Legation
Manchuria
Harbin
Kuropatkin
Mukden
Russia
Gas and gastritis remark in a Virginia household
An old Virginia woman visits a doctor with her ailing husband. The physician diagnoses a hopeless gastritis, prompting the woman to exclaim that she never burns coal and ile in the house, hinting at the irony of the diagnosis in a humorous, dialect filled account.
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Virginia
Deland
Philadelphia
New Tourist Sleeping Car Service to California
The Missouri Pacific Railway will start a daily through Tourist Sleeping Car Line from St. Louis to San Francisco on August 15. The train departs at 11:59 p.m. via Pueblo and Denver Rio Grande to Salt Lake City Ogden and Southern Pacific to California. Rates are low for a limited period with colonist tickets on sale September 15 to October 15. Reserve through Missouri Pacific agents or H. C. Townsend in St. Louis.
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Missouri Pacific Railway
St. Louis
San Francisco
Pueblo
Colorado
Denver
Rio Grande
Salt Lake City
Ogden
Southern Pacific
Los Angeles
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Coast
H. C. Townsend
Too Much Sense Quip Cited by Cincinnati Tribune
A Cincinnati Tribune quote recounts an elderly Black observer at a zoo offering a corollary to Darwinian theory. The remark criticizes whites who cut tails from monkeys, then compel them to work, vote, and follow constitutions.
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Cincinnati Tribune
Kansas City Southern Ry Special Excursion Rates 1904
Special excursion offers to Arkansas Indian Territory Louisiana and Texas with very low one way and round trip rates. Inquiries to S G Warner G P T A Kansas City Southern Railway Kansas City Missouri.
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Kansas City Southern Ry
Arkansas
Indian Territory
Louisiana
Texas
S. G. Warner
K. C
Kansas City
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Thomas Nolan
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General Joint Arbitration Board
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John Denie
Thomas Bynning
Arizona Ranger Force
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Washington Star
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