Captured Steamer at Chefoo Towed by Japanese Destroyers
Seven Japanese destroyers entered Chefoo harbor and seized an unknown steamer as two Japanese cruisers waited outside. The incident signals Japan’s willingness to disregard neutrality in dealing with Chinese waters. Washington doubts land action will extend beyond Manchuria and Korea, while Ming generals repurpose forces near Mongolia. The Tokyo Germany exchange follows a note to Germany on the Chefoo seizure with no official German stance yet.
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State Department
Chefoo
Chefoo Harbor
Shanghai
Japan
Washington
Russia
Manchuria
Korea
Chinese Mongalla
Kuropatkin
Jus
Kuroki
Sibelian
Yuanshi Kai
Hays
Mongolia
Count Cassini
Rusa
New York
Itay
Li Ie
France
Germany
Lister
Ferlin
Foreign Office
Hoy
Chefco
Japan Demands Removal of Russian Vessels at Shanghai Harbor
Reports from Shanghai and Tokyo say Japan threatens to demonstrate outside the harbor if the Russian torpedo boat destroyer Askold and cruiser Askold remain. Tokyo cites neutrality violations and possible Japanese squadron action to seize or disarm the vessels by deadlines, with possible port removal.
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Shanghai
Modai
Grogovat
Sekold
Mide
Neuudal
Pacihe
Tokyo
Askold
Shainghat
Goodnow
State Department
Tagui
Ryeshitelm Incident Passes Yet in Protest
Reports from St Petersburg and Paris indicate no reply from Japan to Russia over the Ryeshitelm torpedo boat destroyer incident. France reports Tokyo has not sent Russia’s protest text as transmission delays persist. Officials see little chance of serious international repercussions and expect Japan to justify vessel desmantling if needed.
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St Petersburg
Japan
Russia
China
Paris
Tokyo
Foreign Office
Chetov
Russian commander assaults Japanese in disputed clash
In a fragmented account the Russian commander violently assaults the Japanese, triggering a climax that Fiuss may dispute, leaving the matter to linger until a peace settlement is reached.
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Fiuss
Chinese Troops Drill Under Japanese Officers Near Nankin
William Martin United States consul at Nep kin says vast Chinese forces drill in central China under Japanese supervision. Troops near Nankin numbered about 6000, armed with Mauser rifles as modern machine guns are purchased. Consul General Cheshire has filled in at Mukden but was withdrawn due to the war centering there.
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San Francisco
Cal
William Martin
United States
Nepkin
China
Orient
Siberia
Nankin
Japanese Field Wounds Care Featured by Maj. Seaman
Maj Louis L. Seaman, veteran surgery specialist, reports Japanese medical practice on wounded front lines. First aid bandages and antiseptics are used, with serious care saved for hospital at home, yielding low death rates aboard hospital ships and among returning wounded. Russian captives treated similarly. new bullet speed causes aneurysms. Chunchus hostages and Russian detachments described.
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Japan
Chefeo
Louis L. Seaman
Mukden
Chefoo
Seaman
Despair in Russian Navy After Vladivostok Losses
Aug 19 report from St. Petersburg says Vladivostok squadron destroyed and Rurik, Gromoboi, and Russia suffered heavy damage. Kamimura’s squadron allegedly crippled other vessels. Diana Pallada cruisers feared torpedoed. Public mourning. hope fades for uniting eastern squadrons and awaiting battle fleet return.
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St. Petersburg
Skrydloff
Port Arthur
Gromokoi
Russia
Kamimura
Expectia
Far East
Admiralty
Vladivostok
Jessen
Gromoboi
Gromopol
Gromoko
Rosela
Vladilyostok
Diana
Pallada
Emperor William
Hoffman
Lieut
von Gilgenheim
Rains Across Manchuria Halt Hostilities and Travels
Reports from Manchuria note the season's heavy rains flooding valleys and forming rivers, with quick drying after sunshine. No major fighting since outposts meetings, while Gen. Kuropatkin’s forces in field coordinate as Grand Duke Boris forwards a congratulatory letter to the Emperor. European and Caribbean notes include executions in Havana and Mexico extradition, with Zelaya meeting Honduran and Salvadoran leaders for a regional peace conference. Prince Henry of Prussia heads to St Petersburg to represent Germany at the Emperor’s christening.
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Kuroki
Fusan
Korea
Manchuria
St Petersburg
Boris
St. Petersburg
Far East
Kuropatkin
Peterhof Palace
Tsarskoe-Selo
Impress
Czarevitch
Secha Kaiser
Berlin
Prince Henry of
Prussia
Emperor Wiliam
Revision of Patent Laws urged by British science group
President A J Balfour attended the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Cambridge. Mr Parsons urged extending patent life and international control to spur investment in large undertakings, with examples like a deep shaft exploration costing $25,000,000 and eight five years, proposing central authority to allocate patent life globally.
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British Association For Advancement of Science
Cambridge
Eng
British Association For the Advancement of Science
A. J. Balfour
Association
Associated German Engineers
Charles Algernon Parkens
Parsons
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Socialists Clash Over Dresden Resolution at Congress
Amsterdam August 19 The International Socialist and Trade Union Congress debated the Dresden resolution from the French delegation. Maures accused the German Socialists of admiring a weak state, while Jaures praised the barricades that won electoral rights. Bebel argued Germany is better governed but taxed heavily, and condemned universal suffrage as a Napoleon coup. The measure passed 23 to 5 with 12 abstentions.
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Amsterdam
International Socialist and Trade Union Congress
Dresden
Rheims
Maures
Bomaist
Germany
IM. Jaures
Herr Bebel
French
France
Napoleon
Bismarck
Leniency for the Finns Reported from Berlin to Helsinki
Berlin reports Prince Obolensky has urged Emperor Nicholas to adopt a milder Finland policy. In Helsingfors police restrictions increased after Obolensky’s arrival, with basement senate entrances sealed and governor general’s house buildings searched for secret avenues.
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Berlin
Osvobosidense
Stuttgart
St. Petersburg
Prince Obolensky
Finland
Nicholas
Helsingfora
Lfe
Treachery and murder amid Moorish tribes reported
News briefs cross continents. In Algiers the murder of eighty three horsemen sent to wed a chief's daughter is alleged treachery. Other items note Bunau Varilla forwarding a Panama Canal letter, Italian demands to Dernah, O'Brien's re election in Cork, Terrazas’ leave and Creel successor, a strong Russian harvest, and a plague case at Yinkow.
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Amada
Beni Buzzagora
Algiers
Bu Hamara
WI Paso
Tex
Lovia Terrazas
Chihuahua
Mexico
Enrique Creel
International Monetary Congress
Terrazas
Mount Vernon Hotel Fire Leaves One Injured
An early morning blaze at the Mount Vernon Hotel on 487 Pennsylvania Avenue NW caused panic among about 100 guests. Proprietor Daniel Nichols and night clerk John Farley alerted guests as fire crews battled flames, saving several from upper floors. one man sustained severe burns and Nichols was burned while assisting. Estimated total damage about 1000 dollars.
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Mount Vernon Hotel
Pennsysvania Avenue
John Farley
Farley
Daniel Nichols
Policeman Long
Erich @ohemmele
W. Lohbee
T. W. Jones
Maj
R. H Pardee
Treasury Department
Joseph Mudeski
St Joseph
Benjamin Carroll
New York
Thomas T. W. Evans
Philadelphia
Tucker Barbee
Mr. Barbee
Mrs. Jr. South
Nichols
Burglary A Double Header In Two Beall Stores
James M Beall grocer sought police aid after two stores at 1012 First Street Northeast and Twentieth and S Streets Northwest were entered. A 25 cent theft at the first and 12 dollars at the second were reported. John Johnson, a 13 year old black boy, was arrested and partly recovered stolen goods. Police seek a second boy involved. A hospital case concerns Horace Gibbs, found unconscious in Lakewood Maryland and brought to the Emergency Hospital. A quarrel near Center Market left Mortimer Ford with a hammer injury. Robert Scott, a Virginia farmer, was arrested by Policeman Murphy.
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James M. Beall
First Street
Twentieth
John Johnson
Beall
Johnson
Horace Gibbs
Gibbs
Lakewood
Magele Gibbs
Washington
Robert Scott
Mortimer Ford
Ford
Virginia
Murphy
Scott
John Payne
Twenty-fourth
Charles Butler
Payne
W E. Ogle
Butler
Phillips’ Court
George Willis
Nine-year-old boys held up white boy in street robbery
Presley Diggs and Anthony Hawkins, both nine, were sent to the House of Detention after being charged with holding up Timothy Flaherty, eight, and stealing eleven cents on Twenty second street and Virginia avenue northwest yesterday afternoon. All are newsboys. Barry Bulkley to tour New York State
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Presley Diggs
Anthony Hawkins
No Appetite Means Loss of Vitality and Tone
A concise note explains that lack of appetite causes reduced vitality vigor and tone and is often a prelude to broader health concerns. It emphasizes recognizing persistent poor appetite as a warning sign warranting medical evaluation.
Vagrant at Five Arrested as Youngest Tramp in City
Police at the First precinct and House of Detention recorded Willem Brown a four nearo, five year old vagrant found at Highthar F stream at midnight with no hat or coat. Despite warnings, he ventured out at unseemly hours and jumped on street cars, risking his life before Officer Adams placed him under arrest.
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Willem Brown
Willam
Adams
Fraud Scheme Accusation Shocks Local Police
Roy Jackson, a young man, faces new charges after being identified in a case where he swindled Samuel Greenleaf out of $6 with a promise to divide an imagined $20 found by him. Greenleaf’s money was to be used for change but both men vanished.
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Sun
Roy Jackson
Joseph Smothers
Grant
Jackson
Samuel Greenleaf
Greenleaf
she #8
Remarried Chinese American couple's Washington story shocks Chinatown
A Washington spectacle shows Moy Han Don, a Chinatown resident and partner at Kim La Yueng, remarrying his white American wife Lillian Carter in Alexandria after a prior Chinese ceremony. Their five story building hosts four American wives of Chinese husbands, with their two year old child drawing attention. A separate note covers a nearby Democratic club gathering in Anacostia and other local events.
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Chinatown
May Han Don
Moy
Kim la Yueng
Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
Alexandria
Moy Han Don
New York Avenue
Lilliam Carter
Baltimore
Kaspen
Washington
Naoma
Han Don
Lillian Carter
New York
Pennsylvania Avenue
J. H. S Ewell
Methodist Protestant Church
Weather Conditions Forecast From Eastern Iowa Eastward
The weather summary notes an extensive barometric disturbance centered over eastern Iowa moving east toward the Lake region with heavy rain in the Ohio Valley and Southern Lake region. North winds shift to southwest, while storm warnings remain on the lower Great Lakes. Local readings show temperatures around the mid 60s to low 70s with no sunshine recorded.
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Dept. of Agriculture, Weather Bureau
Washington, DC
Iowa
Lake
Ohio Valley
Middle Atlantic
New England
Bates
Grey Lakes
Missouri
Mississippi
Ohio
Lake Region
Migslanippi River
South Atlantic States
Hocky Mountain
Plateau
Middle Eastern
Ohie Valley
Middle Atlantic States
Missiszippi
South Atlantic
East Gulf States
Gulf
Lower Lakes
Upper Lakes
Lake Huron
Lake Michigan
Steamera
Grand Banks
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Tenth
United States Infantry
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Petersburg
Walter S Schuyler
Carl Reichmann
United States Army
Montgomery M. Macomb
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Conference of Presidents
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Karanga
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Honduras
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Tomas Arias
Italy
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Jerbu Sunis
Amerigo Vespucci
Messina
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Dernah
Frovines
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Cork
Ireland
William O'Brien
Cork City
United Irish League
Nationalist
Saratoff
Bamara
Yinkow
London
the Standard
Tientsin
Nowaboys
Barry Bulkley
Thousand Islands
New York State
Yellowstone National Park
Vagrand
Democratic Club
Parker and Davis Democratic Club
Anacostia
Hines’ Hall
Thomas J. Moore
William Cranch McIntyre
John §S Mulier
Robert E. Mattingly
Asylum Band
Maryland
West Virginia
St. Louis
Shorthand Reporters’ Association
Charles Currier Beale
Boston
Jerome & Howard
Cincinnati
Russell Leonard
Chicago
Minnie I Kehoe
Pensacola
Pla
Kendrick Hill
Trenton
Henry Demming
Harrisburg
Joseph H Roberts
New Haven
Conn
Red Brick Ireland
Sidney C Ormsby
New York City
Francis
Hutfmai
Mobile
Thomas Forean
Birmingham
Ala
United Association of Journeymen Plumbers and Allied Trades
Canada
Toronto
Mass
Fiske
Charles A. Record
United States Mail Service
J. M. Barry
F.C. Webster
North American Trust
Adirondack Camp
Platteboro
N. Y
Fish Rock
Isaac Seligman
Saranac Lake
Adirondacks
Atlanta
Edwin Purington
Comn
Union Railroad
Lansburge & Bro
Madras
Lansburgh & Bro
7Th
Sanders & Stayman
F St
Horn
Tailor
A&p
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Thea
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Asheville
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Peter Grogan
Redit
All
Paredif
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HUB Furniture CO
D Sts
N. W
Tharp
Berkeley
St. N.W
Tolman
Grand Lodge
District of Columbia
Masonic Temple
O'Ctoc
Bia Claudius DL Smith
A W Johnston
Ballantine
the Shoomaker CO Company
Ire
B. B. Earnshaw G Bro., Wholesale Grocers, Tith and Matese
Edison
Capital Phonograph Co
Eaperenet
McGill & Wallace
Baughman
Waughman
T. Bullding
Main
Pope Bae
Alice M. Paterson
D. Oo
Wilber L. Smith
D. W
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