Russia on brink of dictatorship as general strike spreads
St Petersburg faces darkness and street protests as workers quit. Troops, Cossacks, and guards line railways and docks while mutinies at Kronstadt prompt deadly clashes. Reported killings include mutineers at Kronstadt and alleged executions of officers. The fate of the Stolypin ministry hangs in the balance amid mounting political upheaval and security crackdowns.
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Sestroretzky
St. Petersture
St. Petersburg
Siborg
Skairts
Trempa
Putiiott
Cossacks
Dragoons
Purilot
Westinghouse
Cronstadt
Russia
Gromobol
Vladivostok
Dronktadt
Cant. Vrotehinski
Col. Alexander
M. Herzerstein
Tertokl
Teriokl
Moscow
Sestroretzk
Kharta
Kertch
Kerthh
Losses Heavy at Sveaborg Fortress Engagement
Helsingfors Aug 3 A soldier from Sveaborg says casualties will exceed 500, with totals possibly in the thousands. The garrison of 6,000 is loyalists after a major mutiny by the Red Guard led by Capt Koch. Streetcars halted and strikes attempted. police and guards fought mutineers, several officers wounded. Government forces breached defenses, hoisted the flag at noon, and 2,000 reinforcements arrived. Telegraphed lines and a rail bridge were cut or blown. a special St Petersburg court will try prisoners with about 1,000 confined in Helsingfors and Skatudgen.
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Helsingfors
Finland
Sveaborg
Red Guard
Koch
Skatudden Island
Socialistic
Evenifiz
Sandhamm Island
Hnes
Viborg
Here
Vibors
St. Petersburg
Skatudgen
Mutiny aboard Pamyat Azova ends with arrests and executions
Reports from St Petersburg and Helsingfors detail a mutiny aboard the armored cruiser Pamyat Azova off the Estonian coast on August 1. Officers and sailors clashed as mutineers attempted to reach Reval, with several officers killed, many sailors captured, and a large part of the crew imprisoned after militia reinforcements landed. The ship later steamed toward Reval with mutineers in custody.
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St. Petersburg
Pamyat Azova
Reval
Str Petersburg
Sosinsky
Tarosom
Saborovsky
Lieut
Unknocsky
Pamyat Ardva
Nicholas
Far East
Spetty
Sveaborg
Secret revolutionary meeting busted at Riga by dragoons
At Riga Livonia Russia Aug 3 a secret meeting attended by 50 persons was surrounded by dragoons who captured every man present. The Jamestown steamer will depart Sundays for all day trips at 10 am returning 6 pm evening trips as usual at 7.
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Riga
Livonia
Russia
Jamestown
Admiral Train Dies at Chefoo After Brief Illness
Rear Admiral Charles Jackson Train of the U S Navy dies at a Chefoo hotel after a brief illness Brights disease cited He had led the Asiatic Station since 189? He was born in Massachusetts and appointed to the Naval Academy in 186? His career spanned nineteen years at sea twenty-three years on land and more than forty-five years in service He represented the Navy Department at the Atlanta Exposition and commanded the Prairie during the Spanish American War He held key posts including board of inspection and survey and neutrality duties in Philippine waters
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Sneclat
Washington Post
Chefoo
Charles Jackson Train
United States Navy
Bright
Asiatic Station
Massachusetts
Naval Academy
Leutenant iMarch
Train
Ata- Hong
Lond
McKiley
Navy Department
United States
Prairie
North Atlantic
Great Seaboard
Middle
New England
Porltan
Navel Mitta
Philippine
Examination’ Board
Bonaparte
Pease
New York
Columbia
Brown
Texas
District of Columbia
Navy
Volunteer Army
Miner Fatality and Severe Injury in Scranton Explosion
In Scranton on August 3 Jeremiah Wilson was killed and Charles Parrish fatally injured in a North End Coat Company colliery blast. They had prepared a charge and, upon lighting the fuse, retreated to safety but were struck by another blast in an adjoining chamber. Both men were experienced miners.
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Scranton
Jeremiah Wilson
Charles Parrish
North End Coat Company
Wilson
Parrish
Footpads Attack a Judge on Evening Walk
Judge William G. Hawkins Jr of the Orphans Court was beaten by three men during a walk in Pittsburg East End. His watch and money were taken. he is in critical condition but recovering at his summer home. Clark Duffy, 18, has been arrested and named two accomplices by the suspect.
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Pittsburg
William G. Hawkins, Jr
Orphans Court
Allegheny County
East End
Hawkins
Judse Hawking
Muers
Judge Hawkins
Hensburg
Clark Duffy
Duffy
Died at First Base in Baseball Game
Charles Arnold a 34 year old comedian died suddenly after a base hit in the ninth inning. He struck at the first ball and collapsed as he reached first base, the umpire calling him out. The incident occurred amid a heated game, with spectators shaken by the sudden death.
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Charles Arnold
Arnolt
Chicago
Arnold
Alfonso IV A Yacht Race at Cowes Regatta
Special dispatch from Cowes reports King Alfonso and Queen Victoria visiting Princess Beatrices of Battenberg in the Isle of Wight. The royals watched racing craft aboard the cruiser Princess as three boats prepared for Cowes regatta events. Rumors of a hidden yacht were not believed by informed sources. Alfonso toured the island by automobile before returning to Giralda, where he was later found in the stok ehold.
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Washington Post
Cowes
Alfonso
Victoria
Beatrics
Battenberg
Isle of Wight
Royal 3
Giralda
Stokehold
Held for murdering Negro in Georgia case
Union, D C Aug 3 David L Eng Mah a salesman was brought here today under arrest charged with being accessory to the murder of Mads Hughes a negro found dead in Tiger River A warrant for John Richard English a brother was issued charged with being implicated in the same crime Soon after the negros body was found W R Gilliam and Douglass English another brother were arrested the latter in Atlanta charged with murder two negroes Ware were arrested this week in accessories De English father of the Hoglish brothers is a prominent farmer and says arrests resulted from a personal enemy.
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Atlanta
de. English
Hoglish Brothers
Naval Officers Accused of Gouging in Exam for Promotion
Assistant Surgeons Theodora Normand Pease and Harry Lee Brown of the United States Navy were ordered to appear before a court martial on charges of gouging during an examination for promotion held last week. Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte appointed the board at the Washington Navy Yard with a senior roster of officers to judge the case.
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Pease
Brown
Bonaparte On
Theodora Normand Pease
Harry Lee Brown
United States Navy
Secretary of the Navy
Bonaparte
Washington Navy Yard
Asa Walker
Robert A. Marmion
John ©. Wise
Samuel L. Heep
James. G. Field
Glennie Larbox
Adelbert Althouse
Harold C. Snyder
Navy
Naval Academy
THREE HELD FOR PEONAGE IN ALA CAMP CASE
In Pensacola Florida and Lockhart Alabama United States commissioner held three men for trial in a peonage case at the Jackson Lumber Company camp. Suspects include superintendent Robert Gallagher and employees WW Grace and Oscar S Sanders. Witnesses testified to beatings and mistreatment at the camps.
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Pensacola
Fla
Jackson ‘Lumber Company
Camp Ney Lockhart
Ala
United States
Robert Gallagher
Grace
Mangal Jardemsl
Mutinous Artillerymen and Cossacks in Moscow and Helsingfors
Mutinous artillerymen drove officers from their quarters and seized a detachment in Rembertov near Moscow, while Cossacks were dispatched to the guards regiment in St Petersburg. In Helsingfors the mutiny aboard the cruiser Bogatyr led to 209 sailors being arrested after swift suppression.
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Warsaw
Auminer
Rembertoff
Ere
Moscow
Bogatyr
Slaughter in the Mines Hesitates Pennsylvania Report
The 108 most recent annual mining report shows 4 429 miners and 2 452 laborers killed in Pennsylvania from 1981 to 198 include anthracite and bituminous mines. It blames negligence and urges a mining commission to draft a comprehensive code. Total output valued at about 250 million and distribution around 650 million.
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Harrisburg
James EB. Roderick
State Department of Mines
Pennsylvania
Cael
Stolyr murder report investigated by Premier Stolyr orders
Moscow reports Premier Stolyr ordered inquiry into claims that Constitutional Democrat leader Herzenshtein was to be killed at his country residence near Terloki Finland. An Associated Press inquiry in St Petersburg cites a Moscow evening paper and a local black hundred paper Vieche as sources for the murder report.
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Moscow
Stolyr
Awazenstein
Constitutional Democratic
Terloki
Finland
Associated Press
St. Petersburg
Othe ‘Mark
Woman shoots cousin to death in crowded New York district
Marie Shabara, a 22 year old Italian woman from Brooklyn, shot and killed Nicola Ferrare, 34, in the Italian district near the Five Points Mission after he refused to marry her. She followed him from Brooklyn and fired four times, wounding him fatally. a policeman halted the attack as crowds strained police to restore order. The coroner later heard Ferrare deny any prior trouble with a woman. Sloan's furniture sale noted in the same column.
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New ‘York
Marie
Shabara
Gir
Nicola Ferrare
Five Points’ Mission
Farrare
Fetrare
Brooklyn
Marie Shabara
Ferrare
Gen Harries Wins Easy Victory For Browns Battie
General Harries leads Browns to a decisive victory amid rain as Bruns, Grant, and Cantacuzene figures appear in camp. Weather delays bivouac plans while West Virginia troops, Vermont regiment, and local militia prepare for next moves and arrivals. The visit by Princess Cantacuzene and General Grant’s daughter is noted with grand and quiet ceremonies.
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West Virginia
Harries
Zvill
Vermont
Regula
Princess Dante's
Cantacuzene
Grant
Washington
Tulle Grants
Timorrow
Frederic
Istaria
Pringe’ Cantacuzene Willemain
Mount Gretng
Cantacuzenes
B. Dawson Coleman
New ‘York
Hellespont
Cattadzene
Baltimore and Return Train Rates Noted on Page
Fragmentary OCR note mentions a Baltimore round trip at 81.25 with train service offered both ways on Saturday and Sunday. The text references "Petal Bottle," a poten tial oil item, and seems to reflect stationary travel advertising terms with limited legible details about routes and pricing.
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Haltimore & Ohio Railroad
Oee City
Rehoboth Besch
Washington
Baltimore
Baltimore and Return
Baltimore & Ghle R
Hivery
Royal Limdea
Witness Hargis Case Targeted in Ambush near Jackson
Masoury, a key witness against farmer Judge James Hargis in the Marcum murder trial, was shot at near his home by unseen assailants. One bullet hit his back while a second shot missed its mark. The incident occurred Thursday night along the Kentucky River Middle Fork in this county.
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Jackson
Masoury, Spicer
James Hargis
Marcum
Middle Fork
Kentucky River
Fire destroys Hauer house after alcohol blast
An explosion in the rectifying room of Joseph & Col. wholesale house in Houston, Texas, caused a fire that gutted the building. L. Fletcher was killed instantly, Lee Brooks and another man suffered burns described as possibly fatal, and the loss is estimated at 7,000 dollars.
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Houston
Tex
L. Fletcher
Lee Brooks
Hauer House
Jopher & Col. Jere
Metcher
Root Sails From Rio as Reception Honors His Stay
Secretary Root and party bid farewell to Rio de Janeiro after a cordial reception aboard the cruiser Charleston. President Alves presented Mrs Root with a Brazilian diamond while the Brazilian minister of finance gave a golden casket with a watch. Root praised the Pan American conference and expressed appreciation for Brazilian officials hospitality as the Charleston heads to Montevideo with Barroso and Buenos Aires in convoy.
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Alves
Brazil
Root—Cruiser
Cabie Clenatch
Washington
Rio de “Janeiro
Root
Rio de Janeiro
Charleston
Montevideo
Griscom
Santos
Tojuca
Roat
Buenos
Bary
Senor de ‘Bulhoes
Institute of Brazilian Lawyers
Jomalco
Isl
Penna
Sala
United States
Barroso
Ayres
Recruiting Officers Report Low Enlistment Rates
New Orleans August 3 An alarming share of young men in the South are physically unfit for army service. Lieut Bennett Jr in charge of the local recruiting office cites cigarette smoking late hours and other bad habits as key disqualifiers. Only 29 of 106 July applicants were accepted. If the same rate applied nationwide enlistments could be far higher, with cigarettes singled out as the principal cause in Louisiana Mississippi and Texas.
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New Orleans
Bennett, Jr
Lieut. Bennett
Mississippi River
Ohio
Indiana
Kennudy
Louisiana
Mississippi
Texas
Hanged for Wife Murder on Sullivan's Island
William A J Marcus, 42, a Kentucky native who deserted a wife and five children, was hanged in the Charleston County jail yard at 11 09 this morning for the murder of his wife on the government reservation at Sullivan's Island. He married a second wife Margaret Stone after Bigamy, enlisted in artillery, and stabbed his wife with a sharpened ice pick on April 14 after an interview. A crowd of several hundred witnessed the execution, the first hanging of a white man in fifty years in the county.
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Charleston
D. C
William A.J .Marcus
Sullivan's Island
Marcus
Kenta
Ohio
Margaret Stone
Wita
Blunder in Nebraska politics sparks bid to renominate Bryan
James Hamilton Lewis, former congressman and Chicago corporation counsel, denounces a plan to block Bryan’s nomination as a dangerous move. He argues it could backfire, forcing Roosevelt to seek a second term and risking Democratic unity.
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Corporation Counsel of
Chicago
Bryan
Roosevelt
Washington Post
New York
James Hamilton ‘Lewis
Congress
Col. Lewis
Mn Lewis
Hoffman House
Chesapeake Beach Rail Bridge Safe Despite Storm
Reports in The Post clarified that the Chesapeake Beach Railway bridge near Hyattsville is a freight only structure and not used by passenger trains to Chesapeake Beach. The Beach road remains in excellent condition with no storm disruption and a faultless safety record over six years under Manager Walters, with on time service maintained.
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Reser
Bladensburg
Chesapeake Beach
Hyattsville
Walters
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