Witte Denies Predicting Failure of Portsmouth Peace Conference
Serge de Witte arrives in New York aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse amid cheers and crowds. He denies an interview predicting the conference's quick end and declines discussing Japan's terms, signaling cautious optimism for peace while stressing Russia's insistence against humiliation.
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Japan
Russia
Washington Post
New York
Serge de Witte
M. Witte
Peace Commission
St. Regis
Hoboken
Baron de Rosen
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-fourth Street
Prohibition State Nominates Ticket For Governor
The Prohibition State convention in Columbus nominated Aaron S. Watkins for governor and W E Folt for lieutenant governor. James Sterling named for Supreme Court, W L Lister for attorney general, Hiram L. Baker state treasurer, George W. Mach for board of public works. Delegates largely by acclamation with Pattison supporters quiet. Watkins teaches English at Ohio Northern University Ada. Platform backs prohibition of liquor traffic, canal, anti saloon, equal suffrage, bank inspection, uniform divorce law, labor legislation, and initiative and referendum in franchises and local affairs. New state central committee led by J W McLain, with J C Holiday. campaign exec chosen: Frank McCartney chairman, Walter L. McDowell secretary, John F. Gregg treasurer.
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Columbus
Ohio
Aaron
Watkins
Hardin County
W. EB. Folt
Summit County
Supreme Court
James Sterling
Stark County
W. L. Lister
Cuyahoga County
Hiram L. Baker
Athens County
Board of Public Works
Horge W. Mach
John M. Pattison
Ohio Northern University
Ada
Oho
United States
New State Central Committee
J. W. McLain
Hiram
J. C. Holiday
Cincinnati
Frank Mccartney
Walter L. McDowell
John F. Gregg
Taggart Divorce Trial Opens in Ohio Court
Major Elmore Taggart begins suit for divorce from Grace Culver Taggart in Wooster Ohio. Plaintiff claims Mrs Taggart deceived him about antecedents and engaged in scandalous conduct with multiple men while consuming large amounts of whisky. Defense denies all charges and cites hospital explanations and benign explanations for alleged incidents.
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Washington
Wooster
Ohio
Elmore Taggart
Grace Culver Taggart
Eason
Wertz
Cincinnati
Spencer
Chicago
Charles Minor
Fort Leavenworth
Fertesque
Taggart
Congressman Smyser
Mas. Paggart
Defrauded creditors case ends in lengthy sentences
Jamestown N Y August 2 former Buffalo dry goods dealers convicted of conspiracy and concealing assets to defraud creditors in bankruptcy were sentenced. Albert J Lowrie eight months and $1000 fine Harry Joseph thirteen months and $1000 fine Isaac Joseph Moves Hendler and Aaron Schwartz each fined $1000. Lowrie and Harry Joseph plan appeals. Goods shipped from New York Rochester Syracuse and Philadelphia were moved within Buffalo then shipped to Scranton and Forest City Pa for resale.
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Jamestown
Buffalo Dry
Albert J. Lowrie
Harry Joseph
Isaac Joseph
Moves Hendler
Aaron Schwartz
Buffalo
Scranton
Forest City
Killer shoots cousin over debt dispute in Kentucky
London Kentucky August 2 news by telephone reports Nick Garrigan a wealthy lumber dealer shot and killed his cousin Felix Hoskins near Spring Creek Leslie County. Hoskins a lumber merchant and prominent citizen sued Garrigan over a debt quarrel that led to the fatal shooting before Garrigan fled to the mountains.
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London
Nick Garrison
Felix Hoskins
Spring Creek
Leslie County
Hoskins
Hocking
Garrigan
Garrison
Use of blind pool bought in its own stock
West to The Washington Post reports a sweeping inquiry into the Equitable Life Assurance Society over a $635 000 blind loan from Mercantile Trust. Funds bought 89 shares of Equitable stock and covered threatened suits and campaign contributions. Jerome says a special grand jury and a Western Insurance Commissioners probe may be needed.
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Equitable Affairs
Western Insurance Commission
Ers
New York
Weahington
Mercantile Trust Company
James W. Alexander
Thomas D. Jordan
Equitable
Equitable Society
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Jordan
James H. Hyde
Paul Morton
Sof
State Banking Department
Equitable Stock
Hendricks
James B. Forgan
Henry R. Winthrop
Bradian Johnson
Society
Mayer
William Street
Wiliam W. Armstrong
Armstrong
Frick and Hendricks
Joseph M. Choate
Frank 3. Black
Senator Brackett
Davy
New York State Supreme Court
Eiquitable Life Assurance Society
Legislative Committee
Hpe
Chicago
Western State insurance commissioners form central inspection plan
Tennessee Kentucky Wisconsin and Minnesota anchored a meeting to push Interstate Inspection of large life insurers. A unified probe would counter alleged fund misuses and mismanagement and cover firms licensed in multiple states. Some attendees balked citing power limits, while others moved toward a Western Southern consensus seeking a unified investigation.
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Kentucky
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Lfe
New York
Als
Tennes- Gsx cHicle Insurance
Henry
W. R. Vredenburgh
James W. Barry
Michigan
B. F. Carroll
Iowa
J. J. Brinkerhoff
Ilinois Department of Insurance
Ohio
Bennington's Boiler Weak Holds No Censure
San Francisco reports the Bennington disaster court of inquiry will likely find boiler B failed not from high pressure but due to dead crown sheet metal and bolts losing strength from constant use and lack of renewal. The court will not censure officers and directs responsibility to higher authority.
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Court of Inquiry
San Francisco
San Diego
Cal
Bennington
OUR ARISTOCRACY INFERIOR. EUROPEAN BRAND OF BETTER GRADE
Col Henry Watterson, returning on the Oceanic from Europe, says European aristocracy is of a higher grade, based on lineage and brains, while American aristocracy ranges from bad whiskey to Standard Oil. He cites government scientists’ high living on modest salaries as proof the college man is a political failure.
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Henry Watterson
New York
Oceanic
Europe
Watterson
Department of Agriculture
Salarica
Woman Charged With Theft After Oceanic Ship Docking
New York August 2 Mrs Dora Jennings of Scranton Pa arrested by central office detective as she left the White Star steamer Oceanic. Complainant Benjamin Haycock of South Easton Pa says a purse with 24 dollars was taken from his pocket while descending the gang plank. Mrs Jennings wife of P F Jennings a former race horse owner of Butte Mont denied explanation and was locked up.
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New York
Dora Jennings
Scranton
Central Office
Oceanic
Benjamin Haycock
South Easton
Aki
Jennings
P. F.jennings
Butte
Mont
Laws in Adequate Conference at Oyster Bay
Attorney General Moody visiting President Roosevelt discusses needed amendments to U S criminal laws to improve enforcement. He notes difficulty in reaching wrongdoers across jurisdictions and backs strengthening statutes. beef prosecutions and meat packers indictments in Chicago are to be pursued.
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Lil
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Roosevelt
Washington
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United States
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Bellinger
Congress
Brooklyn Bridge
United State Court
Maine
California
Chicago
Navy
P. M. Rixey
Sagamore Hill
Abandon Homicide Charge Focus Shifts to Bigamy
Authorities in New York and Brooklyn pursue proving Carlton a bigamist after abandoning homicide charges. Carlton, jailed on grand larceny, declined interviews. Inspectors secrecy about a woman caller ties to two alleged wives, Lulu Keterling of Rochester and Wilmettsa Sherwood of Ma... The prisoner admits four marriages and two widows at the times of his unions.
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Carlton
Washington
New York
Toederick E. Carlton
Brooklyn
Cross
Lulu Keterjing
Rochester
Mra Wilmettsa
Sherwood’ Bird
Maffredha
Lberty
Keterling
Jennie Smythe
Mary Gorman
Electric storm at sea reported by Caronta crew
Captain Warr of the steamship Caronta arriving from Liverpool describes a violent electrical storm last Sunday. An iceberg appeared near the vessel with a polar bear visible on its edge as passengers photographed it. Wind rose from twenty to fifty mph and the temperature dropped to 58 degrees as lightning lit the seas.
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New York
Warr
Caronta
Liverpool
Gaithersburg youth charged with assault on girl
Joseph Fish a 23 year old Gaithersburg man is jailed in Rockville on a criminal assault charge against Margie Carlisle 13 daughter of Mrs Mamie Carlisle. The alleged attack occurred last Friday with efforts made to keep details secret. Warrant issued by Justice Joseph Reading based on information from Dr E C Etchison. Fish had worked for the Carlisle family until recently.
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Washington Post
Gaithersburg
Joseph Fish
Rockville
Margie Carlisle
Mamie Carlisle
Fish
Joseph Reading
E.C. Etchison
Carlisle
Bank Safe Blown Open in Royal Bank Heist
Danville Te. Aug 2 Royal Champagne County bank was broken into and robbed of 4000. Nitroglycerin used the explosion blew the safe door through the roof. The robbers escaped. Charles Long charged with murder of Matthew Cunningham captured by detectives on a farm in Piscataway township. Chesapeake Beach resort offers 3 family boardwalk amusements with 81.25 return to Lattimore and back via Pennsylvania Railroad valid Saturday and Sunday.
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Royal
Champagne County
Plainfield
WN. J
Charles Long
Matthew Cunningham
Trenton
Gay
Piscataway Township
Lattimore
Pennsylvania
Witte's Voice for Peace and Moody Urges Laws for Grafters
Index to today's issue notes topics across pages including Witte's voice on peace, uses of the Equitable Blind Loan, Moody urging anti graft laws, yellow fever situation, Caleb C. Willard's death, Hyde's return as statistician, meat inspection methods, Fairbanks' ovation, Cuban rice bill defeat, China negotiations, Virginia and Maryland news, editorial comment, English peer talks with hotel guests, social and personal notes, Mrs. Clarence Mackay's victory, Army and Navy affairs, Nationals still winning, racing results and entries, the Darrow enigma fiction, financial and commercial, the legal record, and district water service.
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Moody
Caleb C. Willard
Hyde
Fairbanks
China
News of
Virginia
Maryland
Clarence Mackay
Darrow
District Water Service
Vice President Fairbanks Stricken at Reception
A Tribune dispatch from Sault Ste. Marie reports Vice President Fairbanks seized by an acute indigestion attack during a reception in Fairbanks was helped from the stand. He went to the Iroquois Hotel and to his room, informing callers he would not see anyone until morning.
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Detroit
Mich
Tribune
Sault Ste. Marie
Fairbanks
Iroquois Hotel
Missing Paterson Mayor Belcher Faces Debt and Disappearance
Paterson New Jersey reports indicate Mayor William Belcher has vanished and may have died by his own hand. Friends promise to cover debts totaling roughly 25 to 26 thousand dollars obtained through alleged misrepresentations. Banks and trust firms say loans were secured with collateral and payments were made in cash. Chalmers, his law partner, describes a dazed voice and erratic behavior before disappearance. Bank officials concede some loans are unsecured but claim repayment through benefactors if he returns.
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Washington Post
Paterson
N. J
William Belcher
State Banking Department
A. M. Chalmers
Chalmers
Belcher
Weiss
Boycott Discussion Sails from Victoria for Washington Talks
Victoria August 2 Los Man Leung and Chan Chinman Chinese merchants arrived aboard the Empress of Japan bound for Washington to discuss unofficial trade amid a boycott on American goods in China. Lo Man Leung said coastal Chinese cities favor a union with Japan and urged unity in response.
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Victoria
B. C
Man
Chan Chinman
Washington
China
Lo Man Léung
Japan
Armed Mississippi Patrols Tighten Posture At Drawbridge
Amid rising tensions between Louisiana and Mississippi over quarantine patrols, Gov. Vardaman expands guards while Blanchard orders brigades to arm and deploy patrol boats. A drawbridge incident on the Rigolets triggers weapon alerts. eighteen boats seized at Ship Island. Italian cases rise with panic in New Orleans.
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Pearl Hiver
Var“daman
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Bostick
PeriJiat
6Th
Rigolets
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Naysville
Supreme Court of the United States
Blunt
Boute
Lake Pontchartrain
Lake Borgne
Ship Island
Winona
Bray
Lake Borgne Canal
Pearl River
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