Port Arthur Naval Battle Report Echoes Fierce Fighting
Tokyo August 12 dispatch outlines August 10 combat near Gugan Rock. Japanese fleet attacked Russian ships emerging from Port Arthur, battle raged from 1 pm to sundown and Russian units scattered toward Port Arthur. Czarevitch likely sunk. Askold Novik and others had damage. overall few losses and no major Japanese damage.
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Askola
Novik
Czareviteh
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Navy Department
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Chefoo
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Woo- Sung To-Lay
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Baltic Fleet Ready to Sail August Fourteen
Admiral Biriloff has ordered Vice Admiral Rojestvensky and staff to board the battleship Souvariff and be in readiness to sail on August 14. The Brussels correspondent says Russian Black Sea fleet moves have already passed the Dardanelles with no Turkish opposition.
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Rojestvensky
London
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Daily Telegraph
Dardanelles
Status of Volunteer Fleet and Russian Legal Review
A St Petersburg commission of high officials will study the volunteer fleet's status under international law. A university law professor sits in the admiralty council to hear appeals on neutral merchant captures. The foreign office debates contraband lists with little chance of change, while Novosti urges accepting American and British views to ease neutral discontent.
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University of St. Petersburg
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Associated Press
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Novosti
Will Build Czar's Ships At Sevastopol Yards
Lewis Nixon of New York has secured a large contract with the department of mercantile marine to construct ships for the Black Sea. Construction will begin next winter in Sevastopol yards with Nixon supervising the project. The War Department reports troop movements as Maj. Gen. Corbin confirms departure of Fort Niagara units to Madison Barracks under Lieut. Col. Edgar B. Robertson.
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Lewis Nixon
New York
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Ninth Infantry
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Refuge in German Port. Military actions near Port Arthur reported
Cable from Tokyo dated August 12 details a clash as the Japanese fleet attacked the Russian squadron near Port Arthur. The Russians reportedly retreated with several ships damaged or destroyed while other vessels returned to Port Arthur by midday. An American consul general at Chefoo confirms Japanese torpedo boats seized a Russian torpedo boat and towed it away.
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Novik
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Japanese Casualty Totals From Chingjiu to Yangtzling War
The Japanese Legation lists casualties from Chingjiu through Yangtzling with a grand total of 12 055. Major losses occurred at Kinchou and Nanshan with 33 officers and 716 men killed and 3 455 wounded. Tellasu on June 15 recorded 1 173 total casualties, including seven officers killed and 43 officers wounded.
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Yangtzling
Kinchou
Nanshan
Tellasu
Eight-Hour Day Strikes Dominated Typographical Union
At the International Typographical Union convention in St. Louis the eight hour day issue dominates with a referendum plan and a one half of one percent wage levy proposed to fund strikes if needed. Delegates also back universal union labor labels for textbooks and endorse allied labor actions including New York garment workers and Fall River cotton operatives. The Woman's Auxiliary elected officers led by President Mrs Frank A Kennedy.
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International Typographical Union
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United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joies of America
Lynch
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William Allison
Northfield
Enn
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Indor
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Fall River
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Committe of Allied Trades
Newspaper Writers’ Union
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Frank A. Kennedy
Omaha
Nebr
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Washington, D. C
H. EK. Hads
W. Fear
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J. Lee
Youlsville
Edward D. Donnell
Cincinanati
Charles McKee
Indianapolis
Fred Fleringer
Lincoln
Value Giving Reaches Its Limit
Every day’s sale adds evidence of opportunities people recognize here. It’s simply a question of providing floor coverings, laces, and similar items a month before use, saving a large portion of the cost.
Presidential electoral estimates from Harpers Weekly
The piece weighs the likely outcome of the coming election, listing states deemed safe or doubtful for Roosevelt and Parker. It critiques the Evening Sun projection, notes disputed states, and calls for caution in predicting results, with additional commentary from the Chicago News about a guessing contest tied to the Weather Bureau.
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Wisvings
Harpers Weekly
Evening Sun
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Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
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Roosevelt
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Parker
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Judge Parker
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Hoosevelt
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Supreme Court
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Empire Commonwealth
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Colorado
Delaware
1894
Fairbanks
Indiana
Filnets
Wisconsin
Senatorairbanks
Indianapolis
Doctor Shoves Bad Money In Roxbury Counterfeit Suspect
Boston and Chicago reports detail a Roxbury physician Dr. Frank G. Sanft arrested after passing a bogus $2 bill to a street vendor. Secret Service found 5100 counterfeit notes and a complete counterfeit outfit at his home. Sanft to be arraigned before a U S commissioner. family long prominent in Boston society. In Chicago, eight men charged in a basement counterfeiting raid with coins and money casts seized. one fugitive later arrested.
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Secret
Frank G. Sanft
Roxbury
Sanft
South Shore
Secret Service
Chicago
Rochester bicyclist injured at Ontario Beach during loop
Wilfred H. Barber, a well known cyclist, was injured at Ontario Beach when his wheel collapsed while looping the gap. He was thrown thirty feet to the circle floor, with head and shoulder injuries. He walked to the dressing room before losing consciousness. doctors report no internal injuries.
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Rochester
N. Y
Wilfred H. Barber
Ontario Beach
El Paso Police Chief and two officers sentenced to be shot
In Aguas Calientes Sinaloa the El Paso commander Torres and two policemen who killed Americans Clarence Way and Edward Latimer were sentenced to death by shooting. Execution was postponed by influential relatives but a pardon is unlikely. Torres allegedly ordered the arrest after the Americans refused to speak to him while he was intoxicated. They resisted and were killed.
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el Paso
Texas
Torres
Aguas Calientes
Sinaloa
Clarence Way
Edward Latimer
Way
Latimer
Jewelry thief caught near Harvey identified with Beaver Falls theft
Chicago August 12 arrest completed four days after the Diamond Special robbery on the Illinois Central Railway near Harvey. James Wilson, once not linked to the train hold up, was identified as the Beaver Falls PA fugitive wanted for $5,000 jewelry theft from Mrs. Piper of Beaver Falls. He was taken to Pennsylvania tonight.
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Illinois Central Railway
Harvey
James Wilson
Beaver Falls
James Piper
Reward for boy Mannino raised to ten thousand dollars
In New York on August 12 the reward for Antonio Mannino was increased from six hundred to ten thousand dollars by his father. Police widen their probe of an alleged kidnapping gang after information from Angelo Cucuzze led to warrants and a broader round up of suspects.
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New York
Brooklyn
Angelo Cucuzze
Former bank clerk sentenced for forging bank notes
Taylor, once an interest clerk at Citizens' National Bank in New York City, pleaded guilty to uttering and passing forged bank notes. In U S District Court he was fined and sentenced to five years in prison.
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Pt. Louisy
Prominent Cleveland Lawyer Fires In Self Defense
Melancthon Millard a sixty year old Cleveland lawyer shot Barnard Hussey thirty two in his office this afternoon the shooting stemmed from a dispute over a small debt Millard surrendered to police claiming self defense Hussey was badly wounded and not expected to survive doctors say his chances are poor Millard’s act followed a quarrel with two companions present at the scene.
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Barnard Hassey
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