Kamimura Strikes in Five-Hour Vladivostok Clash
Vice Admiral Kamimura attacked the Vladivostok squadron at dawn north of Tsu Island in the Strait of Korea, sinking the Russian cruiser Rurik and forcing others to flee. Japanese losses were light, while Tokyo rejoices as Admiral Togo and Kamimura tighten Japan’s sea mastery and Port Arthur defenses amid war headlines.
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Tokyo
Kamimura
Vladivostok
Tsu Island
Strait of Korea
Rurik
Russia
Gremobol
Kimimura
Navy Department
Flret
Vwlta
Adsumia
Idsumo
Iwate
Yakashiho
Togo
Japan
Naval battles and fleet movements in the Russo Japanese War
The piece reports on British government plans for large cruiser ships and discusses the naval clashes between Admiral Togo’s fleet and Port Arthur. It cites British speculation on international law and potential refuges in neutral ports, plus Tokyo cables claiming a Japanese victory at Tsushima and updates on Vladivostok squadron sightings.
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Togo
Port Arthur
London
Germany
Capt Matousevitch Dead in Chefoo War News
Captain Matousevitch, chief of staff to Rear Admiral Withoft, died of wounds from the Czarevitch battle during the Japanese attack. At Tsing-chou only one Russian torpedo-boat remains with the Czarevitch as Japan presses a blockade. Japanese forces entered Chefoo harbor on August 13, inspecting ships, while other warships stayed outside. The Russian consulate fears an attack on the wireless plant as Japanese torpedo-boats loiter nearby. The Cincinnati scanned the harbor with its searchlight while Berlin warned Russian ships to leave Tsing-chou or be detained. News from Shanghai and London notes Russian destroyers evading a 24-hour limit and political tensions surrounding Admiral Sah.
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Chefoo
Aus
Matousevitch
Withoft
Czarevitch
Tsing-chou
Tsing- Chou
Chefoo Harbor
Sah
Associated Press
Inter
United States
Cincinnati
Berlin
Foreign Office
Tslng-chou
Kiao-chou Bay
Chefno
Daily Mail
Tsingchou
Yuan Shai Kosi
Admiral Sah
Peking
The
Times
Russia
Germany
Uniform Rank Encampment Draws 3000 Pythians to Louisville
More than 3,000 members of the Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias arrived in Louisville to attend the biennial encampment. Headquarters will open at the Galt House and committees from New Orleans, Nashville, Boston, Cincinnati are active. Business sessions run Tuesday through Friday with a parade slated for Tuesday afternoon and drills beginning Wednesday.
Woman Arrested in New York for Embezzlement Charge
A woman claiming to be Mrs Ama Berzak of Punxsutawney was held in 1000 bail by Magistrate Cornell at Essex Market Police Court on suspicion of embezzlement. She admitted to the detective she was Ima Bermk but the case was adjourned for further proof. Also, James Pettit of Jersey City, an engineer for Central Railroad of New Jersey, died in a wreck near Morses Creek caused by rail spread.
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New York
Ama Berzak
Cornell
Essex Market
Punxsutawney
Mra
Imma Bermk
Mra. Imma Berzak
Elizabeth
N. J
James Pettit
Jersey City
Sound Shore Division
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Morses Creek
Armistice Sought as Port Arthur Battle Rages On
Reports from Aug 13 to Aug 15 describe a tentative armistice offer while Russian defenses at Port Arthur tighten. Japanese reinforcements arrive, heavy bombardment, and a two-front focus threaten Red Sea or Liaoyang, with Russian garrisons determined to resist to the last.
Japanese Delay Advances On Russian Front Near Liaoyang
Special London Times Cablegram reports no change on the Russian left front. Strengthening continues near the Mukden road east of Liaoyang as the Japanese advance slows, with enemy forces increased on the opposing bank and rivers receding to aid movement.
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London Times
Washington Post
Trentshatien
Mukden Road
Liaoyang
Negroes flee Wilmington as prophesied fire from heaven
In Wilmington North Carolina August 14 alarm spread after a Newbern visitor called George W. Richardson alias Prince George III predicted a heavenly fire would destroy the city on Monday August 15. Hundreds fled and mills warned of labor shortages while police hunted the fanatic who held meetings in the negro quarter.
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Wilmington
N. C
Newbern
George W. Richardson
Prince George III
Ultimatum to Employers in New York Open Shop Row
The Tile Layers Union issues a counter ultimatum to the Tile Grate and Mantel Association members. If the lockout isn’t lifted by August 17, the union will not return to work at any future time for less than 5.50 a day, higher than the present wage. George W. Whitford of the Electrical Workers Union predicts defiance of the ultimatum and warns of a large labor clash if nonunion workers are used.
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New York
Building Trades Employers’ Association
Tile Layers’ Union
George W. Whitford
Tectrical Workers’ Union
Forty Injured In Wreck On Tennessee Central
Nashville Tenn Aug 14 One man killed and about forty injured in a passenger wreck on the Tennessee Central Railroad seventy miles east of Nashville West bound train No 7 from Knoxville to Nashville derailed on Silver Point Hill when a wheel flange broke in the rear car One car turned over and both were badly wrecked The dead man was W B Purnell of Knoxville who traveled for a Philadelphia house None of the injured will die.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee Central Railroad
Knoxville
W. H. Beeland
Silver Point Hill
Buffalo Valley
Silver Point
W. 8
Purnell
Philadelphia
British Vessels Sink After Collision Off Fastnet Rock
Twenty men drown when the British bark Inverkip sinks after a collision with the Loch Carron off Fastnet Rock Ireland. Inverkip, Capt Jones from Melbourne to Queenstown, goes down with all hands feared dead. Loch Carron, Capt Clark from the Clyde, survived.
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Fastnet Rock
Ireland
London
Inverkip
Jones
Melbourne
Queenstown
Loch Carron
Clark
Clyde
Eastern College Freshmen Report Shows Rising Applicants
New York August fourteenth The forthcoming report by the secretary of the college entrance examination board notes 139 examination points and 1817 candidates, a rise over last year. Applicants hailed from over 500 preparatory schools, including 215 public high schools, with more than forty colleges in the admission list. The Middle States show a 2 percent gain while the South and West decline. Harvard University and Western Reserve University joined the board, and Edward Ls. Barris of Central High School Cleveland joins as representative of the North Central Association of College and Secondary Schools.
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New York
College Entrance Examination Board
Middle States
Harvard University
The
Western Reserve University
North Central Association of College and Secondary Schools
Edward Ls. Barris
Central High School
Cleveland
Ohio
Turkey Grants Most Favored Nation Status to American Schools
After long delay and pressure from the United States, Turkey extends to American schools the same protection as other powers. Minister Leishman secured a pledge of equal rights, and an indemnity of 1,000 pounds Turkish was offered to Mrs Lane. The American squadron, including Cleveland Olympia and Baltimore, will depart Smyrna for Gibraltar.
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Turkey
Lane
Constantinople
Leishman
Jewell
United States
Smyrna
Council of Ministers
State Department
Ottoman Empire
Beirnt
Beirut
France
Protestant Medical College
State of
New York
Sublime Porte
Mr. Leishman
Sultan
Mytelene
Latrobe Teenager Charged With Killing Twin Babies
In Latrobe Pennsylvania seventeen year old Annie Heth is charged with murdering her twin infant sons. She allegedly strangled them with a tied apron and a stone, then with Antonio Goblotski aided in disposing of the bodies. Coroner Wynn investigates.
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Nils
Suvolok
Russia
St. Louis
John Shudo
Latrobe
Antonio Goblotski
Goblotski
Gobletsky
Wynn
Mexico Sticks to Silver Denial of Gold Reform
Mexico City reports persistent rumors of a shift to a gold basis are officially denied. The finance department studies the issue but no decision has been made, and there is no plan to seek a foreign gold loan.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Finance Department
Pronounced Dead then Revived in Hotel Reading Room
Thomas McIntosh a forty year old flour dealer from Charlestown fell in the reading room of a New York hotel. Dr Cantwell and other physicians declared him dead, but porters soon said he was alive. He revived enough to breathe and was rushed to a hospital where he remains unconscious. Prognosis uncertain.
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New York
Thomas McIntosh
Charles~ton
Cantwell
McIntosh
Way Lattimer shooting case report from Mexico City
The federal government backs state probe into the Aguas Calientes shooting of Clarence Way and Edward Lattimer by police. No truth to claims that Alcalde Torres or arresting officers face death sentences. Also mentions Harpers Ferry Martinsburg and Cumberland return schedules and a postcard promotion for vacation booklets.
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Way-Lattimer
Mexico City
Sinaloa
Clarence Way
Edward Lattimer
Aguas Calientes
Torres
Way
Japanese Triumph In Gen Fight Great Battle at Port Arthur
A compact notice catalogues the day’s pages with items including a major victory in Port Arthur as Japan defeats Chinese forces in the Gen Battle, plus other items touching Turkey’s concessions and political notes.
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Port Arthur
Turkey
Judge Parker
Catskills
Shanghai
Russia
Alexandria
West
Bishop Potter
Packers to Hear Strikers in Unsettled Chicago Strike Talk
Chicago report on August 14 describes an uncertain preview of a possible conference between labor leaders and stockyards packers. Swift offered no commitment while Armour may face a proposed settlement, as wagon drivers vote a boycott of retailers buying meat from packers during the strike. Riot incidents are sparse but two men attacked a strike breaker, and Bristol, an iron foundry worker, is not involved.
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Chicago
J. Oyden Armoour
Boston
Packer
L. F. Swift
Armour
James
Bristol
Cheaper Beef Predicted Amid New York Strikes
In New York Aug M, no cattle were killed at Schwarzschild Sulzberger or United Dressed Beef plants as strikers protest. Frederick Joseph of Schwarzschild predicts wholesale beef may drop 2 cents per pound midweek with supplies from the West, while strike leaders say no defections and no violence in the slaughter district.
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New York
Beef Trust
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Company
United Dressed Beef Company
Frederick Joseph
Chicago
H. T. Eichelberger
Edison governess dies amid threats to Edison children
Miss Ethel K Pardoe twenty five employed as governess for the Edison children committed death by own action in Grange M J Aug 14 She near via gas after years of anonymous threats about kidnapping the Edison children Her Canadian clerical father hailed from Ontario and the family home was said to be in Nover Ontario Also report of crew rescue near North Sydney Nova Scotia as the French vessel Maria Paul foundered and crew saved by the Helen Stewart Plus brief note of a boarding house keeper William Kilday shooting a boarder Gwen Cunningham in Philadelphia amply detailing the incident
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New York
Ethel K. Pardoe
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
Grange
M. J
Miss Tardoe
Edisons
Miss Pardoe
Nover
Ontario
Wreck
North Sydney
Nova Scotia
Helen Stewart
Maria Paul
Nantes
St. Pierre Banks
Philadelphia
William Kilday
Callow Hill Street
Gwen Cunningham
Cunningham
Kilday
Beforeday Club Confession Triggers Statesboro Race Tension
Will Cato, jailed for the Hodges family murder, exposes a Bulloch County ring called the Beforeday Club that allegedly plots killings and robberies of whites. Records hidden in an old iron safe, leaders named, and raids planned as citizens push for restraint while militia is deployed for the Reed and Cato trial.
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Ite
Hodges
Augusta
The
Chronicle
Will Cato
Statesboro
Bullock County
Cato
Will Rainer
Deal in Steel Billets In Pittsburgh Process
Pittsburgh August 14. After friction in the billet pool due to the Pittsburg Steel Company sale, manufacturers refuse comment on future plans. Reported savings from the deal run about four dollars per ton with actual tonnage at 150000 tons. Most of the order will be turned into wire and wire nails, and a policy to offset the billet gain may be pursued by lowering wire and wire nail prices through the United States Corporation.
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Pitsburg
Pittsburg Steel Company
United States Corporation
Drug Clerk Held for Death After Dream of Tartar Incident
In St Louis on August 14 Charles Farthing a drug clerk at the Tindell Hotel pharmacy was arrested and held for the coroner on a charge of causing the death of Mrs Jennla Helms of New York. Mrs Helms died after taking what was claimed to be cream of tartar purchased by her husband Irla. Doctors W H Nash and G M Phillips attending said the symptoms indicated poisoning.
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St. Loui
Charles Farthing
Tindell Hotel
Jennla Helms
Moritz Helms
New York
W. H. Nash
G. M. Phillips
Automobile Runaway Near Bronx River Ends in Tree
Henry Hawthorne of Boston, grandson of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and two young women narrowly escaped death on Pine Tree Grove road when the car nursed down a steep hill and struck a tree within ten feet of the river. All occupants were thrown clear and escaped without serious injury. Also identified is Isidor H. Block, 28, an New Orleans insurance agent, found dead from self-inflicted wounds at Hotel Roland. In East Liverpool, Ohio, Charley Howard was killed by Lottie Skiles, who shot him after a dispute over a revolver.
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New York
Henry 4. Hawthorne
Boston
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pine Tree Grove Road
Bronx River
Roland
Isidor H. Block
New Orleans
Henry Block
East Livverpool
Ohto
Charley
Doc’') Howard
Lottie Skiles
Howard
Sunday Post
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Asagiri
Novik
Rurika
Rorik
Rossila
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Tsushima Island
Legation
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Takeshiko
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Mikado
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Oaefoo
Port Artur
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Daily Telegraph
St. Petersburg
Manchuria
Kurgpatkin
Jiao-yang
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Wolf Hills
Novo Krai
Retvizan
Diana
Bayan
Peking Road
Anshanshan
Oku
Liaoyvang
Liao- Yang
Yinkow
Liao
Wilmington, N. C
Tennessee Central
Eastern College
Porte
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Martinsburg
Camberland
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Newport News
Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co
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John E. Myrick
Savannah
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