Battle reports from Heikoutai spark heavy losses
Military dispatches from Gen Oku and Field Marshal Oyama describe fierce fighting at Heikoutai with Russian forces attacking along the Hun River front. Japanese casualties are cited near 7,000 with Russians losing over 10,000 as bitter snow and frozen ground shaped a deadly night engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kuropatkin
Heikoutai
Gen Oku
Fusan
Pekontai
Heikentai
Shentan
Letaiyetun
Tokyo
Qyama
Hun River
Helhontai
Niuyupao
Shufangtai
Shangtan
Shufangtan
Chungehawopeng
Tzuyute
Pinpeotzu
Yubpustazu
Oyama
Hei‘Koutai
Notices of marriages and deaths in Washington area
Notices list marriages and deaths with ages and residence details. Entries include Brown Exley Gillin Johnston Krug Stewart Wolf with dates February 1905 1965 and locations 2519 University Place Northwest 1449 Sheridan Avenue Northwest Congress Heights New Martinsville and 1109 Sixth Street Northwest. Interment and funeral details noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Gillin
Congress Heights
Washington DC
Johnston
Bernard H Johnaston
W P Johnston
New York City
Woham
FH Krug
Jennia White Krug
Misses White
L Street
Stewart
New Martinsville
Cora B. Stewart
E Stewart Wolp
Wham Wolf
Marcha Wolf
Neral
Sixth Street
This City
Health Office Record Names and Ages in Washington DC Area
A health office record lists numerous individuals with ages ranging from months to 89 years and addresses across Washington DC. Names include ora E McDonald Mary I Jackson Thomas Witnes Ealey Deborah Laws Roberta Alander Hamilton Stewart Davis James Walker Charles W Barister John Wo Mitchell Acdie L Meens William Wolf Clarence S Young Wilhelmina Beyer Edward Erick Marmeret Mulcahs William Queenan John W Ward Farabeth Way Sade Derry Smith Sarah Kelley Clareice L Tomlin John W Allen and others with varying durations noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acdie L. Meens
William Wolf
Sth
Clarence S Young
Wilhelmina Beyer
Fia
Edward Erick
Providence Hospital
Marmeret Mulcahs
William Queenan
Peark
John W Ward
Derry Smith
18Th St
Sarah Kelley
Willow Tree Alley
Mths Clareice
Kuropatkin Reports Japanese Losses at Djantanchenan
Russian dispatch details January night battle on the Bun River left flank near Changtan. Japanese capture Djantanchenan then retreat after heavy exchanges, Russian casualties about 100. Russians reoccupy village by February 1 amid harsh cold and frost bite precautions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Losa
Djantanchenan
St. Petersburg
Kuropatkin
Bun River
Changtan
Mukden Mukden
Trentetn
Holantai
Fuchichuang
Liaoyang
American squadron sails from Luzon to guard neutrality
Paris reports a fifteen ship American squadron moving from Luzon toward southern Philippine waters to preserve neutrality in the Pacific amid Russian and Japanese naval movements. The action follows sightings of Japanese ships and contemplates rendezvous near Mindanao, Sumatra, and Java as Dutch and American forces coordinate to prevent belligerent activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippine Archipelago
Paris
Manila
Luzon
Pacific
Sumatra
Java
Mindanao
Rojestvensky
Far East
Jibutil
Gripenberg to Relinquish Command Amid Military Strife
St Petersburg reports Lieut Gen Gripenberg seeks relief due to alleged lack of Kuropatkin support in Sandepas operations. Rumors say he telegraphed the Emperor, while official dispatches show Russians still fearing Sandepas and a Japanese attempt to outflank along the Hun River was repulsed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europatkin
St Petersburg
Gripenberg
Associated Press
War Office
Kuropatkin
Sandepas
Russ Today
Grip‘enberg
Hun River
London
St. Petersburg
Griperberg
Myloff
More Victims Of Hoch Identified In New York
Chicago police identify Johann Hoch as the man who married Martha Hartfield in Chicago. Pasadena police confirm the marriage and say Hartfield recognized Hoch from a photo. Other alleged wives recount Hoch’s marriages on ships and in Indiana. Investigators suspect an unidentified Iroquois Theater victim could be Hoch’s wife. Mary Hendricks of Chicago identifies Hoch as Jacob Schmidt who deserted after three weeks in 1904.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Pasadena
Cal
Johann Hoch
Martha Hartfield
Pasadenta
Hoch
Jacob Erdert Hoch
Frank Weninzer
America
Wurttemberg
Germany
Weninzer
New York
Tivo
Sus Picion
Shippy
South Haven
Mich
Mary Hendricks
Hammond
Ind
Hendricks
Jacob
Pullman
Death of E G Dunnell Marks End of an Era at Times
Elbridge Gerry Dunnell longtime Washington correspondent for the New York Times dies at Orange New Jersey aged 58 after heart illness endured since his Schley court imprisonment. He had served the Times since 1876 and led the Washington bureau before 1902. Survived by his wife and an unmarried daughter, he was a charter Gridiron Club member noted for vast information and close ties to public figures. In early notices Camilla von Kleydorff also reported dead in Berlin and another obituary mentions Dr Homer Bartlett of Brooklyn. An Iowa student, Henry Meade, attempted suicide after arrest for allegedly firing at a teacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Orange
N. J
Elbridge Gerry Dunnell
Washington
Gridiron Club
New York
Dunnell
New York Evening Post
Albany
John C. Reid
Brooklyn
Gil Mosher
Chariie Ross
van Brunt
Bay Ridge
Times
D. Roch
Marie C. Fish
Thomasville
Homer L. Bartlett
Bright
Florida
Flat
Bush
St. Louis
Camilla von Kleydorff
Baron
Baroness von Kleydorff
Berlin
Germany
Adolphus Busch
Schaller
Iowa
Henry Meade
Douglas powerless to compel labor conference in Fall River
Boston February 3 Alleged discrimination by Fall River cotton mill owners in rehiring striking workers sparked a conference with Gov Douglas and a union committee. Douglas said he has no official power to force talks but urged a conservative approach while the manufacturers have twice refused to meet the operatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
Fall River
Gov. Douglas
Fir
Ball River
Eiver
Gov. 1
Doesias
Panic at Ingleside Home Kills One in Fire
Fire at the Ingleside Home for Women in Buffalo traps fifty inmates during supper. One woman, Mrs Mary Kyttile aged fifty, suffocates after returning inside. Four others are seriously hurt, including Mrs Betsy Caldwell eighty four and Miss Kora Englehart sixty, with leg injuries and internal damage. Fire crews report a five thousand dollar loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Ingleside
Mary Kyttile
Betsy Caldwell
Margeret Greishaber
Kora Englehart
Marion Orton
Prince Ghica Seeks Free Albania With Revolution
Rome dispatch quotes Prince Ghica of Romania saying his election as supreme head for Albanian independence signals a general revolution for liberty. He vows to lead Albanian forces, aided by 12,000 European volunteers, and to fight to the last man if needed, with Austria opposed by Italy, Russia, and Britain if intervention occurs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ghica
Rome
Prince Ghica
Roumania
Albania
Austria
Italy
Russia
Great Britain
Andrassy Sees Emperor Amid Hungary Cabinet Talks
Vienna February 3 Count Julius Andrassy a Liberal leader met Emperor Francis Joseph for two hours. He was not asked to form a cabinet but to select leading Hungarian statesmen and report back in a few days. Earlier he met Count Goluchowsky and visited Count Tisza. In Berlin Emperor William hosted Ambassador Tower and Allison Armour at a late dinner, chatting past midnight. Potsdam reports Prince Hitel Friedrich nearing recovery with bulletins every other day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Julius Andrasay
Hungary
Francis Joseph
Count Andrassy
Goluchowsky
Count Tisza
Kaiser
Berlin
William
Ambassador Tower
Allison V. Armour
New York
Prince Hitel
Potsdam
Prince Hitel Friedrich
Convicted of Extortion in Carbondale Mafia Case
Frank Mancula pleaded guilty to robbery by menace and received four years and nine months in prison. He admitted extorting forty thousand dollars from a young Italian by threatening Mafia vengeance. A co defendant Joseph Cogiandro reportedly confessed, while District Attorney Lewis kept the confession private. Additional brief items note Santo Domingo denials and several maritime movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbondale
Scranton
Frank Muncula
Edwards
Mancula
Joseph Cogiandro
Commonwealth
Lewis
Indians Fight $750000 Legal Fees In Citizenship Case
Choctaws and Chickasaws petition the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to enjoin the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of the Treasury from paying $750,000 to Mansfield McMurray and Cornish, attorneys for the petitioners in citizenship cases. Justice Anderson ordered the defendants to show cause by February 28. The suit follows claims the court was misled into granting the fee, and that the payment would use funds deposited for the Indians in the U S Treasury. The matter has drawn attention in Congress and in the Indian Affairs committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia
Robert Mellish
Viola
Indian Territory
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Ellis H. Roberts
Mansfield, McMurray & Cornish
Anderson
District Supreme Court
Dole and
Ballinger
McLish
Citizenship Court
South McAlester
I. T
Interior Department
Five Civilized Tribes of
Department of the Interior
Department of Justice
the Treasury
Shaw
Tracewell
Galved
Congress
Stephens
Texas
House Committee On Indian Affairs
Cabmen Oppose Tips but Accept Them for Wages
Philadelphia cab drivers led by C C O Neil of Indianapolis strike to demand higher pay while denouncing tipping. They admit tips are needed due to weekly earnings of 9 or 11 dollars, with long hours in all weather. They prefer fair wages and no tips, yet must endure tipping to support families. The action involves 500 or more drivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
C C O'Neil
Indianapolis
Cab Drivers’ Union
O'Neil
Bank Detectives Work in New Report on Arrests
New York February report from James F. Branch, secretary of the American Bankers Association, details detectives’ work since September 1. Thirty three crackemen were arrested, twenty seven convicted or awaiting trial, plus three bank burglars arrested with two convicted. Two highway robbers jailed pending trial, and 74 banks attacked. Raids in Boston, Baltimore, and Philadelphia yielded multiple captures. Dozens of forger, swindler, and worthiness complaints led to nineteen arrests and convictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
James FR. Branch
Theerican Bankers’ Association
Association
Branch
Boston
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Association of Operations
Brookland Citizens Meet Discuss Salaries Whipping Post
The Brookland Citizens' Association met to review public issues including snow removal, creation of a master builders examining board, and schoolteacher salaries. Debate covered grade crossings, district funding, and a proposal to establish a whipping post for wife beaters. no action was taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookland Citizens’ Association
Dove Street
Twelfth
Thirteenth Streets
Keenan
Allison
Hull
M. McLean
Washington
W. A. Hathaway
Robbery Tale of Alabama Man After Drugged Memory
William Carr, visiting from Alabama, recounted to Sixth precinct police a drugged blackout after being snuffed with a white powder. He woke in a Century Building office stripped of clothing and money, later finding his clothes abandoned near his arrival station as detectives investigate the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Sixth Precint
William Carr
Carr
Sixth Precinct
Montgomery
Ala
Washington
Century
Fifth Street
D Street
Washington as a Pittsburg Debaters Favoring Manufactures Win
The Columbian Debating Society of George Washington University held a weekly debate on whether Washington Should Be Made a Manufacturing City. The affirmative team McLean Cohen and Pepper won, with McLean taking first honors and Stern second. Also notes on a Virginia–GW debate, Rep. Samuel W. Smith’s illness, Attell defeating Feltz in boxing, and Apollinaris winning a grand prize at the St. Louis Exposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbian Debating Society
George Washington University
Jurisprudence Hall
Washington
Donald H. McLean
New Jersey
Cohen
Wisconsin
O S. Pepper
Iowa
Mortis Stern
L. G Shelton
Mississippi
A. G. Flowers
South Carolina
Apollinaris
St. Louis Exposition
Mievenahr
Germany
Also Mentioned on This Page
Stans
Oku
Washington Post
Boston Globe
Blyfalo Colrier
Cincinnati Enquirer
Che
Record-Herald
Plesic Ledger
Pittsburg Dispatch
Providence Journal
Rochester
Hudrald
ST Louis
Danie H Hopper
Baltimore, Md
Frannes le Geodale
Maurice Ho
Joyce
Jane Bord
Health Office Record
Undertakers
R. Speare
F Street
N. W
Phowes
Williams Lee
Pennsylvania
Joseph Gawler
R. F. Harvey's Sons
Fourteenth Street NW
John R. Wricht
Rbalmer
Tenth Street Nw
George P. Zarhorst
Panera Pariorg
Bam
Capitol
Hamburg
Vladivostok
Port Arthur
Vossische Zeitung
Hbutil
French Somaliland
Botrovsky
Madagascar
Central Hotel
Central Islip
S. 1
Oliver Dowling
McAdoo
E. G. Dunnell
Douglas
Orton
Andrassy
Santo Domingo
Dawson
Dillingham
Republic of Santo Demings
Lucania
Liverpool
Questatown
Altonia
Trieste
Fhume
Butte-of-Lewis
Island
Copenhagen
Prante Foint
Manitou
Queenstown
Campania
Jim New Fork
Georgia
the Sunday Post Post
Hitchcock
Hull House
Kate Walther
San Francmcy
O—Ane
Lee Toy
da Silva
Phiadelphis
Col. J. R. Shaler
Colon
Panama Steamship Company
Orivaba
James R. Shaler
Panama
Chattanooga
Tenn
A. Collins
Brookland
Pittsburg
Smith
Samuel W. Smith
Michigan
Hig
Beckingham
Harry Hurtt
Mr. Smith
Attell
Feltz
Abe Attell
Tommy Feltz
Sunday Post
Newspaper
Vanderbilts
William K., Sr
Chamberlain
England
Venus
Mary Angela Dickens
Victoria Patricia
Duchess of
Connaught
Alfonso
Spain
Gelett Burgess
Will Irwin
Gen. Nogi
Japan
Dr. Parks
St. Tea
Sly Reynard
Nation's Fair Capital
Elbert Hubbard
Waggaman
Society
Fashions
Chestnut Farms Sanitary Dairy
Conn. Ave
Geo. M. Oyster, Jr
Hub Furniture Co. S
REGAL
Hubbard Heating Co
Doexgluely
E. Devineeneante
Aidles Co
Newars, Ned
Dr. Shoop
Box 1
Racine
Wis
Department of Adrite
Burlington
Duffy
Ify
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