Kamimura Strikes Vladivostok Squadron at Dawn
Vice Admiral Kamimura engaged the Vladivostok squadron north of Tsushima Strait. The battle lasted about two hours and ended in a Japanese victory with the Russian cruiser Rurik sunk and two others damaged or forced to withdraw. Reports say Japanese ships suffered minor damage while crews faced heavy casualties on Russian and some Japanese vessels. Tokyo celebrates as naval guns dominate Port Arthur shipyards and war news boosts national morale.
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Tokyo
Togo
Port Arthur
Kamimura
Vladivostok
Tsu Island
Strait of Korea
Russia
Gremobol
Kimimura
Navy Department
Flret
Vwlta
Adsumia
Idsumo
Iwate
Yakashiho
Japan
Toga
Russan Vladivostok
Czarevitch
Tsingchou
Sasebo
Hiroyasu Kwacho
Mikasa
Everen
Chiser Yakumo
Nisshin
Kasuga
Asagiri
Novik
Shanghai
Rurika
London
Rorik
Rossila
Germany
Kamlimura
Tsushima Island
Legation
Takeshiki Naval Station
Takeshiko
Battles and dreadnoughts drive naval race sparks
A London brief notes Britain’s push for big cruisers Terrible and Powerful amid battles of Port Arthur and Tsushima. It reports Tokyo dispatches on Kamimura’s four to five hour clash sinking the Rurik, with Vladivostok squadron fleeing and Takeshiki station confirming a battle ongoing.
Capt Matousevitch Dead in China War News
Capt Matousevitch, chief of staff to Rear Admiral Withoft, died of wounds from the Czarevitch attack in Chefoo China. Russian torpedo boats remain at Tsinhchou as Japanese forces press a blockade. German authorities threaten to detain Russian ships failing to repair. Reports note continued telegraph pressure and varied Russian-German-Chinese positions amid the Shantung Peninsula crisis.
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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 uniform rank Knights of Pythias arrive in Louisville for the biennial encampment. Headquarters open at the Galt House tomorrow as New Orleans and Boston committees push efforts for the next gathering. Nashville and Cincinnati committees join in, with business sessions starting Tuesday and continuing to Friday. A parade is planned for Tuesday afternoon and drills begin Wednesday.
Woman Arrested in New York on Embezzlement Charge
A woman claiming to be Mrs Ama Berzak of Punxsutawney is held on $1000 bail for examination by Magistrate Cornell at Essex Market Police Court on embezzlement suspicions. Detected as possible Punxsutawney suspect, she admitted to the arresting detective her alias Imma Bermk, but the magistrate adjourned the case to tomorrow. Also reported, engineer James Pettit of Jersey City died in a Central Railroad wreck near Morses Creek caused by rail spreading.
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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 Talk as Port Arthur Battle Nears
Aug. 12 armistice talk cited after a Chinese report of a Russian Japanese pause. Tokyo urged safe departure of women and children. Russian and Japanese forces concentrate on Port Arthur defenses with heavy bombardment reported and reconstructions of battle lines around Green Hills and Wolf Hills.
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Oaefoo
Japan
Port Artur
Dainy
London
Tokyo
Daily Telegraph
Port Arthur
St. Petersburg
Mikado
Manchuria
Kurgpatkin
Jiao-yang
Liaoyang
Japanese Delay in Manchuria Advances
Times Cablegram reports unchanged positions on the Russian left near Liaoyang and Mukden road area. The Japanese delay is likely due to strengthened enemy forces on the eastern bank as rivers have fallen allowing movements.
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Trentshatien
Mukden
Liaoyang
Negroes Flee in Fear Preacher Warns of Fire from Heav’n
In Wilmington North Carolina on August 14 frightened residents flee after a Newbern based negro preacher named George W Richardson declares himself Prince George III ruler of the universe predicting the city will be destroyed by fire from heaven on Monday August 15. Police search for the fanatic. mills report labor shortages as households lose help.
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Wilmington
N. C
Newbern
George W. Richardson
Prince George III
Ultimatum to Employers Sparks New Labor Stand
New York August 14 The Tile Layers Union issues a counter ultimatum to the Tile Grate and Mantel Association employers. If the lockout remains and a wage scale under 5.50 per day is imposed after August 17 the union will not return to work at any future time for lower pay. The present schedule is 6.50. George W Whitford of the Electrical Workers' Union, also locked out, says the ultimatum will be ignored and non union workers may trigger a major fight. The open shop could spark the citys largest labor war.
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New York
Building Trades Employers’ Association
Tile Layers’ Union
George W. Whitford
Tectrical Workers’ Union
Forty Injured in a Wreck Near Silver Point Tenn
One man was killed and about forty injured when a Tennessee Central passenger train from Knoxville derailed on Silver Point Hill. Conductor W H Beeland led the west bound No 7 as the rear car’s wheel flange broke causing the derailment. One dead was W H Purnell of Knoxville who worked for a Philadelphia firm. None of the injured are expected to 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
Twenty Die As Ships Sink Off Fastnet Rock Ireland
A British bark named Inverkirp with Captain Jones sailing from Melbourne to Queenstown collided last night with the Loch Carron commanded by Captain Clark near Fastnet Rock Ireland. Twenty persons aboard the Inverkirp were drowned in the incident reported from London.
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Ireland
London
Inverkip
Jones
Melbourne
Queenstown
Loch Carron
Clark
Clyde
Eastern College Freshmen Rise Across United States
New York reports the forthcoming secretary’s examination board findings show 139 points of exams with 1,817 candidates from over 500 preparatory schools including 215 public high schools. Over forty colleges sought admission, with a 2 percent regional rise in the Middle States and declines in the South and West. Harvard University and Western Reserve University joined the board. Edward Ls. Barris of Central High School Cleveland appointed to represent the North Central Association.
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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 for American Schools
After long delays and protest, the Ottoman government extends to American schools the same protections as other foreign schools. Minister Leishman wins a pledge from the Sultan and an indemnity of 1,000 pounds to Mrs. Lane. US warships Cleveland Olympia and Baltimore depart Smyrna for Gibraltar, continuing the American European Squadron cruise.
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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 Accused in Twin Infant Murders
Latrobe Pennsylvania August 14 seventeen year old Annie Heth is charged with murdering her twin baby boys. Police say she strangled the infants with an apron and tied a stone to their necks. The bodies were found after she confessed to Antonio Goblotski who aided disposing of them. Coroner Wynn investigates.
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Nils
Suvolok
Russia
St. Louis
John Shudo
Latrobe
Antonio Goblotski
Goblotski
Gobletsky
Wynn
Mexico sticks to silver plan denied by government
In Mexico City on August M4 rumors circulated about a shift to a gold monetary standard. The finance department is studying the issue but no decision is reached, and officials deny any immediate currency change or external gold loan negotiations.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Finance Department
Pronounced Dead Then Revived in New York Hotel
Thomas McIntosh a 40 year old flour dealer from Charleston collapsed in a hotel readingroom. Doctors proclaimed him dead but porters and staff revived him moments later as he gasped and regained weak breath. He was rushed to a hospital where he remains unconscious though alive, with prognosis uncertain.
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New York
Thomas McIntosh
Charles~ton
Cantwell
McIntosh
Way-Lattimer Shooting Case in Mexico City
The federal government backs state inquiry into the August shooting of Clarence Way and Edward Lattimer by police in Aguas Calientes. No death sentence exists for alcalde Torres or the officers who carried out the arrest, contrary to some reports. A resort travel blurb closes the item.
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Way-Lattimer
Mexico City
Sinaloa
Clarence Way
Edward Lattimer
Aguas Calientes
Torres
Way
Japanese Triumph In Gen Fight At Port Arthur
Port Arthur scene reports a great battle in the Gen fight with heavy action for control of the port. The update notes fierce combat and strategic moves as forces clash in the coastal region.
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Port Arthur
Turkey
Judge Parker
Catskills
Shanghai
Russia
Alexandria
West
Bishop Potter
Packers To Hear Strikers In Uncertain Conference
Chicago reports indicate a possible conference between labor leaders and packers over the stock yards strike, though packers refused to confirm. Labor leaders claim a meeting may occur, while J Oyden Armoour reportedly offered a proposal for submission to other packers. Labor leaders and Swift gave guarded replies, and a boycott by market wagon drivers was decided, with non-union men assaulted in the yards amid strike tensions.
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Chicago
J. Oyden Armoour
Boston
Packer
L. F. Swift
Armour
James
Bristol
Cheaper Beef Predicted as Strike Shuts Plants
New York August reports no cattle killed at Schwarzschild Sulzberger and United Dressed Beef plants while officials say they can kill at normal capacity. Frederick Joseph predicts wholesale beef may drop 2 cents per pound by mid next week due to West supplies. strikers say no defections, seek settlement, and strike breakers have joined. Slaughter district streets were quiet with no violence reported.
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New York
Beef Trust
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Company
United Dressed Beef Company
Frederick Joseph
Chicago
H. T. Eichelberger
Edison governess dies by own action amid kidnap threats
New York August 14 Miss Ethel Pardoe twenty five employed by Mrs Thomas A Edison as governess to the Edison children committed death by her own hand by turning on the gas at Grange M J Friends say threats to kidnap the children two years ago prompted her toil in duties The daughter of a Canadian clergyman her home was said to have been at Nover Ontario.
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New York
Ethel K. Pardoe
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
Grange
M. J
Miss Tardoe
Edisons
Miss Pardoe
Nover
Ontario
Beforeday Club Threatens White Safety in Georgia
Will Cato, jailed over the Hodges family murder, confesses an organized Black band in Bulloch County called the Beforeday Club that roams at night to kill and rob whites. Ringleader names and club records hidden in an old iron safe are sought. trials of Reed and Cato set for Monday as citizens fear violence and militia is deployed.
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Ite
Hodges
Augusta
The
Chronicle
Will Cato
Statesboro
Bullock County
Cato
Will Rainer
Reed
Deal in Steel Billets Provokes Market Quiet
Pittsburg August 14. Reports indicate friction in the billet pool after the Pittsburg Steel Company secured 150000 tons of billets. The firm plans to convert most of this order into wire and wire nails, hoping to offset potential profits by lower prices from United States Corporation on ore and pig iron. The exact future plans remain guarded by a high authority.
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Pitsburg
Pittsburg Steel Company
United States Corporation
Drug Clerk Held for Death in Dream of Tartar Case
In St Louis, Charles Farthing, a drug clerk at the Tindell Hotel pharmacy, is jailed on a coroner’s hold after Mrs Jennla Helms of New York died hours after taking what was believed to be cream of tartar. Doctors say symptoms indicate poisoning and Farthing faces a homicide charge.
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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 Narrowly Averts Disaster
Henry Hawthorne of Boston grandson of Nathaniel Hawthorne and two young women escaped injury when the car they rode on sped down a steep hill on Pine Tree Grove road near the Bronx River. The machine struck a tree near the river, occupants thrown out but not seriously hurt. Also identified is Isidor H. Block, 28, of New Orleans, who died by his own action at the Hotel Roland in New York. In East Liverpool, Ohio, Charley Howard was shot and killed by Lottie Skiles after an altercation at Howard’s house.
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Novik
Diana
Bayan
New York
Henry 4. Hawthorne
Boston
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pine Tree Grove Road
Bronx River
Roland
Isidor H. Block
New Orleans
Henry Block
East Liverpool
Ohto
Charley
Doc
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Maria Paul
Nantes
St. Pierre Banks
William Kilday
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Gwen Cunningham
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