Peasants Hold Strong in Electoral Push in Russia
In St Petersburg Feb 9 dispatch notes peasant delegates lean left, reject Kadets, and form a radical bloc likely to shape the Douma. High turnout among peasants surpasses other groups, with 72 percent voting, many traveling long distances. while small landowners show indifference and the government’s reforms remain unfulfilled amid clashes with police and Black Hundred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
St Petersburg
Reform Party
Stolypin
Vinitza
Kieff
Shot to Death at Altar in Polish Village Terror Raid
In Slavhoff Kielce province, a group of terrorists forced two workmen to enter a birch and kneel at the altar before binding and shooting them. The attackers fled. Officials believe the men were suspected of betraying party secrets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Russian
Poland
Slavhoff
Kielce
Glasgow Hell Sermon Wows Central Baptist Church Crowd
Dr Samel Bugg in Glasgow raved at a Central Baptist Church sermon claiming New Orleans as his patio town and declaring Glasgow Hell. He warned of city wickedness and officials as he toppled from the pulpit, while Barrett lecturing on Bureau Work promoted US Latin America ties in Providence and New York engagements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buernal Cable Dispatch
Washington Post
Glasgow
Rex
Samel Bugg
New Orleans
Central Baptist Church
Factor
di Bugg
Hell
Scotland
The
Republic Club
Easu
Meangze
W. J
Ships collide off Beachy Head injure Menominee at sea
The Atlantic Transport Line steamer Menominee, en route from Antwerp to Philadelphia, was badly damaged after a collision with the French steamer President Le Roy Lalier near Beachy Head. Eleven first class passengers and eighteen cattlemen were transferred to the American Line steamer St Louis at Southampton, with the President Le Roy Lalier proceeding to Dunkirk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cossting
Southampton
England
Atlantic Transport Line
Menominee
Antwerp
Philadelphia
Beachy Head
President le Roy Lalier
le Roy Lallier
Menomine
Dunkirk
United States
St Louis
Cherbourg
New York
Rumor Alarmed London Over Edward Paris Visit
Special dispatch from London reports early week rumors of King Edward's trip to Paris fueling fear of a global crisis. The Kaiser faced suspicion of aggressive policy but no evidence of imminent German maneuvers or war. Analysts say Anglo French entente strengthens and deny any immediate sensational coup.
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Washington Post
London
Paris
Edward
Germany
Cudgels Used by Monks in Jerusalem Chapel Fight
The Corriere della Sera reports a clash between Italian Franciscan friars and Armenian worshippers in a Jerusalem chapel. Fighters used cudgels and censers as weapons. a chief sacristan was wounded, another skull smashed, and holy vessels broken. The Italian consul opened an inquiry.
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Dimpsatch
Washington Post
Corviere Della Sera
Jerusalem
Franciscans
Warlke
Count Boni de Castellane Appeals Divorce Decision
Paris February reports confirm Count Boni de Castellane appealed the November court ruling granting a divorce to Miss Anna Gould of New York. The appeal must be lodged by February 14 to stay the decree, keeping alive hopes for an agreement while the case proceeds for months.
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Paris
Boni de Castellane
Anna Gould
New York
Terrorist Rendezvous Found At Moscow Female University
Moscow Feb 9 police located the Flying Group headquarters at the Moscow Female University where agents were sent to kill Gen Count Ignatieff Lieut Gen Pavloff and other officials. Eight girl students were arrested and bombs and sixty pounds of pyroxylin seized as leaders escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Count Ignatieff
Council of the Empire
Pavloff
von der Launitz
St Petersburg
Alexanderovsky
Penza
Moscow Female University
Shanghai relief funds drawn by Consul General Rodgers
The State Department received a dispatch from Consul General Rodgers in Shanghai stating he is drawing $25,000 for famine relief. He notes the relief committee desires thanks for improvements in famine conditions and mentions $2,000 from the Red Cross via the Christian Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
Rodgers
Shanghai
Red Cross
Christian Herald
Limiting Destroyers Speed To Twenty-Eight Knots
Naval designers plan torpedo boat destroyers with a steady 28 knot speed rather than high bursts up to 35 knots. The shift aims for consistent reliability and practical advantage, aligning with new Congress authority and Navy Department decisions. Sanford to assist in Shipp case. Metcalf to address midshipmen at Annapolis.
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Navy Department
Anglo American suffragists visit Roosevelt ally share vow
Lady Francie Cook and companions including Mrs Olive Logan and Mrs Mary Ellen Lease visit the White House. They report Roosevelt sympathetic to woman suffrage and aim to secure his support for a national bill. Other delegates push to revive 1871 suffrage efforts and plan New York advocacy.
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Tennessee Claflin
Olive Logan
Mary Ellen Lease
Mr. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
White House
Francie Cook
Tennessee Claffin
Cook
Congress
Friend
Lady Cook
Mrs Logan
Qady Cook
England
New York City
Lease
New Willard
Ge Kk
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Frances H Willard
Andrew Johnson
Roose‘evelt
Washington
Officers Registered in the City War and Navy List
Officers registered at the War and Navy departments include Army Majors C Cc McCulloch and Joseph E Kulm, Brig Gen S W Fountain, Col C Db Cowles, Maj Charles Keller, and Capt Buck M J Westervelt, plus Navy Lieuts J B Gay, Roy Francis Bruch, Leary, T J naval inspector, and others from the Naval Academy and War College. ranks span engineer, ordnance, medical and infantry postings.
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Army
Naval
War and Navy Departments
C Cc. .McCulloch
Medical Department
BK E Scott
Twelfth Infantry
Joseph E Kulm
Engineer Corps
S. W. Fountain
D. Buck
C Db. Cowles
Fifth Infantry
M J. Westervelt
Ordnance Department
Charles Keller
Navy
J.B Gay
Cleveland
Roy Francis Bruch
Baymaster
CO Leary
T. J. Naval Academy
Joba
Paiete War College
Roger Wells
Schiéctady
R. W. Wiley
C. F Snew
Naval officers assigned to Hancock and Norfolk hospitals
Orders to Lieut M J McCormack to the Hancock navy yard in New York and Acting Assistant Surgeon L H H Schwerin to duty at Naval Hospital in Norfolk Virginia.
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M J McCormack
Hancock, Navy Yard
New York
L HH Schwerin
Naval Hospital
Norfolk
Rumors of Mutiny Discredited on Tennessee Shooting
Report from the Stady Department counters mutiny aboard the armored cruiser Tennessee at League Island. Seaman Burke shot Master-at-Arms Douglas after a gun was drawn. Burke faces murder charges while two others face scandalous conduct charges. No mutiny proven, authorities suggest internal crew punishment as motive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tenneseece
Masteratari
Rael Fiden
Stady Department
Douglas
Tennessee
League Island Navy Ward
Seaman Burke
R Mmast
Burke
Pipeline Plan Is Halted by Indian Land Debate
Mellon Company hesitates to proceed with an $8,000,000 pipeline from Bartlesville to Port Arthur until Congress decides whether to remove restrictions on sale and leasing of Indian Territory lands. The outcome could allow Standard Oil to monopolize oil land outputs, influencing Mellon’s decision on completing the independent line. Administration opposes outright Indian land dispossession but Congress may move to lift alienation limits, affecting future pipe line plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Standard Oil Company
Indian Territory
Hitchcock
Interior Department
Mellon Company
Pittsburg
Indian Lands
Bartlesville
Port Arthur
Tex
Mellons
Gulf
Sander
Canal Engineer Promoted in Isthmian Commission
The Isthmian Canal Commission announced changes in its engineering and construction department on the Isthmus. Joseph Ripley becomes principal assistant engineer, replacing the promoted VP Ripley, while FB Maltby is named principal assistant engineer with oversight of Colon Chagres and La Boca divisions. J G Sullivan resigns as assistant chief engineer. Ripley previously led the Sault Ste Marie Canal project and served on the Panama Canal consulting board. Maltby formerly directed Mississippi River dredging from Cairo to New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isthmian Canal
Engineering Department
Army
Panama Canal
Maltby
Mississippi Hiver Commission
Cairo
New Orleans
Stuart's Calcium Wafers Promise Clear Skin
Ad claims impure blood causes pimples and says Stuart's Calcium Wafers purify blood and cure skin diseases fast. It touts poison-free formula, rapid relief in a week, and offers free samples from F. A. Stuart Co., Marshall, Michigan.
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Stuart
Stewart
Heya
F. A. Stuart Co
Stuart Bide
Marshall, Mich
Russian famine relief appeal via embassy here
Through the Russian Embassy in this city Secretary of State Galkine Vrasekol transmits an appeal to Americans for aid to millions of starving peasants. The famine relief committee, organized in 1905 under the Empress, urges contributions to Gakine-Vrasskoi in St. Petersburg or to the local relief office, with funds to be used for public works and not cash handouts. Receipts will be acknowledged in the Official Messenger and newspapers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galkine Vrasekol
Russia
Htudsish
Gakine-Vrasskoi
Shukowski
St. Petersburg
Famine Relief Organization
Nadeshchinskaia
Officeral Messenger
Relief Committee
CITIES OPPOSE CLOSED BRIDGES HEARING IN NEW JERSEY
A New Jersey delegation led by Representatives Parker and Wiley testified before Secretary Tait urging against Pennsylvanian railway plans to close all Passaic and Hackensack River bridges for two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon to ease traffic. They warned the action would cripple river traffic between New Jersey cities and New York Harbor due to tide limits and river shallowness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Parker
Wiley
Newark
Passaic
Paterson
Tait
Pennsylvania, Erie, and Lackawanna Railways
Hackensack
New York Harbor
Navy Yard Inspection Planned by Assistant Secretary Newberry
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Newberry and a party depart for New Orleans to board the yacht Mayflower for a coastwise inspection of navy yards and stations. The group will tour Gulf, West Indies, and Atlantic stations, visiting New Orleans San Sebastian Key West Havana Guantanamo Nassau Port Royal and Charleston before returning March 3.
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Newberry
New Orleans
Washington
Ensacola
Key West
Havana
Guantanamo
Nassau
Port Royal
Charleston
Bakers Plan International Exposition in Budapest
Ambassador Hengelmuller reports the National Union of Hungarian Bakers plans an international bakery exposition in Budapest from May 15 to June 30. It will be the first such expo in the industry, with Archduke Joseph invited to patronize and Dr. Alexander Wekerle serving as honorary president. Deputy secretary Josef Eztereny heads the organizing committee as active president. US participation is requested. Also notes Ainsworth Spofford shows improvement after paralysis attack at the Library of Congress. Navy to restore German at the Naval Academy and three midshipmen assigned as instructors. Ohio sails for Guantanamo while St Louis undergoes trials. Former Gov Durbin visits the White House.
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Hengelmuller
Austria- Hungary
National Union of Hungarian Bakers
Budapest
Baron Hengelmuller
Archduke Joseph
Alexander Wekerle
Josef Eztereny
Royal
Hungarian Ministry of Commerce
America
Ainsworth R. Spofford
Congress
Spofford
Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Promoted To Readers
An editorial style ad extols Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a cure for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It shares patient letters claiming Bright s disease misdiagnosis and dramatic improvements, urges trials and offers free samples via mail from Kilmer Co of Binghamton New York.
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RAND
Kilmer
NOFE
Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. C
Washington Sunday Post
William Weston
Sioux City
Iowa
Warner
Washington Post
Weston
Wm. Weston
Geneva St
Bright
Warne
Staesans
Warner's
Safe Cune CO
Rochester
Pleads For Homesteaders In West Land Checks
Senator McCumber of North Dakota pressed President Roosevelt about the executive order delaying land entries in the West. He urged lifting the hold on agricultural lands to allow receipts and final proof, enabling homesteaders to begin improvements on up to 600 cases in his state.
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McCumber
North Dakota
Roosevelt
Immigrant Family Reunited With Help From Commissioner Sargent
Atofsky, a Bridgewater resident from Russia who had lived in Germany, was helped by Commissioner Sargent to locate his wife Mia and child after misrouting at Bremen. The couple had landed separately in New York and Baltimore. the child needed hospital care. They were located in Baltimore and plan to travel West in a few days.
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M Atofsaky
Bridgewater
S Dak
George Heather
Atofsky
Germany
Bremen
New York
Baltimore
Htte
Henry Heather
Mia Atofsky
Sargent
West
Battleships Minnesota and Vermont Near Completion
The Navy reports the 16000 ton Minnesota will be delivered to the Morfolk Navy Yard on February 2 once ordnance equipment is added. Fore River Ship Building in Quincy will deliver the sister Vermont to the Boston Navy Yard tomorrow. Capt P Potter, then assistant chief of the Bureau of Navigation, will command.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Department
Nirt News Ship Building Company
Minnesota
Morfolk Navy Yard
Fore River Ship Building Company
Quincy
Mass
Vermont
Boston Navy Yard
P. Potter
Bureau of Navigation
Middies to Be Dropped at Naval Academy
A Navy Department report lists thirty-eight midshipmen to be dropped for deficiencies, fifteen to be turned back, and seventy-seven slightly deficient cadets to be warned and stay in current classes. The thirty-eight vacancies will be filled by appointments between now and March 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Navigation
Navy Department
Naval Academy
Mrs Franklin Lane III Illness Calls Lane Home
Mrs Franklin Lane wife of Interstate Commerce Commissioner Lane is seriously ill with an attack of Jaarippe contracted about two weeks ago. She rested fairly well Friday night and was in a comfortable condition yesterday. Her condition worsened Thursday night summoning Commissioner Lane home from an inquiry in Los Angeles.
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Interstate Commerce
Franklin Lane
Lane
Los Angeles
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Standard Oil
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A M Cohen
Ohio
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Ag Haema Real Rutate
Gasch & Blege
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