Envoys to Meet Aboard the Mayflower in Peace Ceremony
President Roosevelt prepares to welcome Russian and Japanese peace envoys aboard the cruiser Mayflower in Oyster Bay. A formal reception, a luncheon, and escorts to Portsmouth will mark the first contact before the Washington peace conference.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
United States
Mayflower
Washington
Cameron McR
Wiunslow
Naval
Herbert D Peirce
Peirce
Root
Department of State
Charles D Sigabee
Navy
Frederick E. Grany
Department of the East
Arm
New York
West Twenty-third Street
Chattanooga
Tacoma
Jutaro Komura
Kogoo Takahira
Japan
Winstow
Pelrea
Buch
Sergius Witte
Committee of Ministers
Baron Rosen
Dolphin
Portsmouth
N. H
Borphin
Falves
Worries Over Indictment Tied to Editor's Death
Special to The Washington Post notes friends of Robert Criswell editor of the New Yorker and Social Editors' Society director killed himself after criminal libel charges cited by Representative Joseph Frhnich of Kentucky. They deny district attorney worries, cite alleged misused funds from America's Foremost Families and fluctuations of Criswell's mental state and health.
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The
New Yorker
Washington
New York
Robert Criswell
Social Editors’ Society
Joseph Frhinoch
Kentucky
Criswell
America
Atto
Krotel
Crisweil
Robert A. Irving
Irving
A. de Wald Bloom
Leon Morns
Flood
Jackson Wallace
Alexander H Wray
Robert A Irving
Hunter Named Philadelphia Highway Bureau Chief on Probation
J A Hunter, an applicant for the vacant highway bureau chief post, was appointed on probation by Mayor Weaver after passing a civil service exam amid a family urged effort. A Boston arrival and structural engineer at League Island Navy Yard, he was previously unknown to city officials.
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Philadelphia
J A. Hunter
Bureau of Highways
Weaver
Hunters
Fie
League Island Navy Yard
Boston
Highway Bureau
Hunter
Lumber War Flareups At Chamberlain Lake Maine
In Chesancook Aug 4 reports say a clash occurred at Chamberlain Lake between a St John Timber Co crew and the agent of Marsh and Ayer Co Bangor. The St John men allegedly seized a rifle and raised the lake gates at the locks, sparking fear of renewed trouble over water for drives versus power storage.
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Chesancook
St John
Chamberlain Lake
St John Tammber Company
Marsh & Ayer Co
Bangor
Rural carrier robbed three held up in Connecticut
Rural mail carrier George H. Townsend was robbed on the Middlebury road near Waterbury by three men who stole 80 dollars. One man stopped the horse, another pinned Townsend, and a third searched his pockets with a knife. The trio fled and a general alarm was issued. Also reported a Oswego man Henry W. Manzer accepted his death sentence without appeal. Also listed weekend rail and bus excursion fares to Baltimore, Atlantic City and nearby destinations.
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Connecticut
Waterbury
Conn
George HE. Townsend
Middlebury
Townsend
Oswego
Henry W. Manzer
Court of Appeals
Fever fight in New Orleans prompts federal control request
New Orleans officials and business leaders urge President Roosevelt to take charge of the yellow fever campaign. Surgeon General Wyman would mobilize federal resources to stamp out the outbreak, aiming to restore confidence in the South and avert a trade paralysis. A city-wide cleaning drive and evacuations to St Tamany Parish accompany talks of government oversight.
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New Orleans
South
Roosevelt
United State
Louisiana
Wyman
Cotton Exchange
A Brittin
Behrman
Janvier
Citizens’ Committee
Souchon
Thetate Board of Health
Kohnko
City Board of Health
White
United States Marine Hospital Service
Guv Blanchard
Marine Hospital Service
Board of Health
St. Tammany Parish
St Tammany Parish
Haven
Tammany Parish
Red Light
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Gov. Blanchard
United States
Wealthy Milwaukee citizen charged in bribery scheme
Milwaukee August 4 Charles F Pfister a wealthy Milwaukee citizen and director of a bank proprietor of a large hotel and owner of a major newspaper was indicted for converting 14000 placed in his hands to secure a city garbage contract for the Wisconsin Rendering Company also charged are John F Dittmar George Reichert Barney A Eaton and Frank Schultz with bribery and perjury amid a wider grand jury probe into county deals and a stationary engineers bill in the legislature The grand jury will reconvene August 22 and Pfister denies the charges insisting the money was handled per instructions and long since accounted for
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Milwaukee
Charles F. Pfister
Wisconsin Rendering Company
John F Dittmar
George ®. Reichert
Barney A. Eaton
Frank ®. Schultz
Pfister Aleges
Pfister
F.C Gross
Gross
Reichert
Dittmar
Eaton
Strike Seems Certain in Cotton Wages Dispute
London reports indicate an inevitable strike as cotton operatives push for a 5 percent wage increase. The Federation of Master Spinners, with 420 firms and about 82,000,000 spindles, resists raises citing industry conditions. Bolton employers refuse even at existing rates, promising wage cuts amid looming large disruption to trade.
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London
Federation of
Master Spinners
Manchester
Bolton
Telegraphers Strike Delays Hoops on Great Northern Lines
Telegraphers strike on Great Northern and Northern Pacific causes serious traffic delays at St Paul on Aug 4. Some afternoon trains run hours late, with perishable freight unpaid and mixed reports on worker numbers. Union leaders deny exaggerated impact while engineers and conductors halt telegraph duties.
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St. Paul
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Maneger Horn
Supt. Slade
Perham
Telegraphers’ Union
Rumored Edward Wilhelm Meeting Reported in Europe
Vienna newspaper floated a rumor of a summit between King Edward and Emperor William to ease Anglo German tensions. German papers generally welcomed the idea, while officials in Berlin and London neither confirmed nor denied plans for a Frankfort on the Main meeting during the Kaiser’s Marienbad trip.
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Weill
Germany
Washington Post
London
Vienna
Edward
William
Great Britain
Berlin
Frankfort-on-the-Main
Foreign Office
Marienbad
Clrcles
Engine plunges into Newark Bay saving crowded excursion train
Engineer William Mooney died as his engine derailment at Bayonne N J broke a coupling pin, preventing a larger disaster aboard a Central Railroad of New Jersey excursion train from Atlantic City. The tender and first cars toppled the steep embankment into the bay while passengers remained marooned on the trestle. Fireman escaped. no passengers were hurt.
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New York
William Mooney
Bayonne
N. J
Newark Bay
Central Railroad
New Jersey
Atlantic City
Cheaspeake Beach
Jthta
Peace Envoys to Meet Today and Bribery Case
Today’s issue lists foreign envoys meeting, a call for federal aid against Hever, and charges of bribery theft. Great Reception Awaits Taft as pages cover politics, law, and social notices with racing results, and local affairs across multiple sections.
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Hever
Taft
Oregon Farmer's
l—_News
Virginia
Maryland
Representative Hall
Washington
New Orleans
Kansas
Damaging Deposition From Ohio Trial Tells of Mrs Taggart
In Wooster Ohio Aug 4 the deposition of Grace Culver Taggart’s servant details a claim of finding her with Capt Bush in a compromising room as divorce proceedings unfold. Other testimonies claim slumming episodes and a party of men and women at a disorderly house while witnesses dispute improper relations with May Taggart. The judge rules to exclude third-party character testimony where possible.
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Washington Post
Wooster
Ohio
Grace Culver Taggart
Unila
Taggart
Avaguntina de la Cruz
May Taggart
Re . Andres de Grane
Fort Leavenworth
Morris
Lynching of Two Negroes in Hattiesburg Mississippi
Special to The Washington Port reports a mob of at least 1000 men hanged two Black men, Nell Horn and Kla George, on a bridge after breaking into the city jail. Earlier, white guard J. G. Smith was assassinated by the same gang. Authorities and crowds scoured the surrounding countryside while two women involved were spared. The incident follows a fever quarantine shoot and broader racial violence across the area.
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Washington
Hattiesburg
Miss
Kid George
Ed Lewis
J. G. Smith
Nell Horn
Kla George
George
Horn
Lewis
Negro Horn
Beveral
Titian Portraits Sold to American Buyer Reported
Paris August 4 reports that negotiations nearly complete for an American purchase of Titian's portrait of Cardinal Bembo for 125000 dollars. Aretina portrait sale doubtful with guesses it may go to America or London National Gallery for 150000 dollars. Metropolitan Museum director Sir Casper Purdin Clarke urges public galleries to hold masterpieces. Chinese libel action against CPR for 400000 linked to the sinking of Chin Hiang Tai near India two years ago. Cheap furniture sale at Sloan's, 10 am.
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Cardinal Bembo
Washington
Paris
Titian
Aretina
Licely
America
China
Victoria
B. London
Privy Council
Canadian Pacific Railway
India
Sloan's
Taft party welcomed in Manila with city keys and grand ball
Secretary of War Taft and party arrived by the steamship Manchuria and were greeted at the governor general residence with a parade and water pages. Golden city keys were presented, and a grand ball for Miss Alice Roosevelt was planned along with banquets by chambers of commerce. The Philippine commission schedules public sessions for visiting senators and representatives while the party tours southern islands and major archipelago cities.
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Alice Roosevelt
Manila
Taft
Manchuria
Wright
Corbin
Train
Shio
Ayuntamiento
Alicea Roosevelt
Alraady
Combined Chambers of Commerce
Philippine Commission
Fees in Chadwick receivership draw scrutiny in Cleveland
Referee in Bankruptcy Remington today reviewed claims for services as receiver for Mrs Chadwick. He found the $2500 total from Nathan Loeser and the $4013 billed by Dawley Kerruish & Thompson largely unallowable, delaying action pending itemized accounts. The trunk recovery charge and other fees were discussed as attorney Kerruish defended preservation work on property valued around $500,000 in Cleveland Elyria and Pittsburgh.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Remington
Nathan Loeser
Chadwick
Messrs Dawley, Kerruish & Thompson
Loeser
Grosgman & Smith
Mra Chadwick
New York
Leveser
Kerruish
Elyria
Pittsburg
Merruish
Coal Miner Murdered in Washington County
Joseph Barr a 36 year old coal miner employed by Pittsburg Coal Company was found dead in his Bishop home with his skull crushed. His wife, who had left to a neighbor during the night, returned to discover the murdered man and is now in a distraught state. Barr had been bedridden two weeks after a mine accident and was believed choked before being struck with a heavy instrument.
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Washington, Pa
Bishop
Washington County
Joseph Barr
Barr
Pittsburg Coal Company
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