Siege Debris and Slacking Defenses Near Port Arthur
London Times cable summarizes Port Arthur siege after capitulation. Gen Nogi reviews troops amid torn regimental colors and empty streets, soldiers suffer scurvy from vegetable shortages while women and children escape shells with no casualties among them. Alcoholic naval officers and disrupted supply lines mark a grim endgame as ships and port facilities suffer shell damage.
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Naval
London Times
Washington Post
Port Arthur
Nogi
Stuare
New Town
Mahaieff
Stuessel
Pri- Vat Sistes Were Commandeered It Frisvier Pultava Retvizan
Ds Dele
Amuris Imary
Notices of Death and Marriage In The Washington Post Listings
Notice items announce deaths and funerals for Dorcas Dixon Mary A Happoldt Edward Nihes Anna Ramsburg Mary Ellen Stromberger Zacharia Tobriner Henry Elisha Woodbury with Family details and funeral arrangements. Interments planned at Harmony Cemetery Mount Oliver Cemetery Oak Hill Chapel and private sites. Public notices indicate cross newspaper distribution to major papers.
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Colley
Dorcas Dixon
Claude C
Mule
Gener
N Street
Tirthwest
Private Gaskins
Pcluek
Wary
Aaron Gackirs
Aaron J
Vwogiet
Gaskins
Muner
Corcoran Street
IMM
Mary A
Damel
Ori
Mount Oliver
Niles
Edward Ci Nihes
Massachusetts Avenue
Ramsburg
Miont
Enue
Anna
Jacob
Anna Rams
Oak Hill Chapel
Stromberger
Mary Ellen
Frederick W. Stromberger
Tobriner
Zacharia Tobmner
S Street
Woodbury
Henry Elisha Woodbury
Port Arthur battle details and Ohio governor race notes
Reports describe Russian ships at Port Arthur lacking power plants and searchlights while Japanese captives face harsher treatment. 100 fishermen to clear mines. Separate dispatch notes Ohio politics with Dick returning to Columbus and Hardings gubernatorial ambitions amid a fierce, influential battle over the next Ohio governor.
FIGHTING THE ERIE CANAL
Col Symons reports a fierce fight over New York canal work led by anti canal forces aided by ex Secretary Elihu Root. The canal law faces repeal efforts while New York Central Railroad is cited as not opposing canal plans. Officials change after January 1 and delays loom before a final project success. Tallahassee Newspaper Merger.
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Panama Canal
New York
Col Symons
Board of Engineers
Albany
Maltby
Brackett
Elihu Root
Mr Root
Napoleons
Root
Depew
New York Central
New York Canal
Pastor C B Bryan Delivers Farewell Sermon in Newport News
Special report from Newport News Virginia dated January 16 notes Reverend C B Bryan longtime pastor of St Johns Church Hampton delivered his farewell sermon tonight. He will relocate to Petersburg this week to serve as rector of St Pauls Church in Petersburg.
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Washington Post
Newport News
C. B. Bryan
St Johns Church
Hampton
Petersburg
St Paul's Church
Japan Report: Export Gains and Loan Funding Rise
The State Department reports from Mr. Griscom on Japan's wartime economy. Exports rose by 6.42 million and imports by 10.08 million in the first nine months, raw silk led exports while tea and coal declined. Domestic loans were readily floated aided by a foreign loan, with tobacco revenues and rail assets cited as future credit bases. Bank deposits rose, clearing houses show growing business, and rice yields boost national income. the Bank of Japan’s specie reserve fluctuated with loans and war, and vessel numbers grew despite war-related service reductions.
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State Department
Griscom
Tokyo
Japan
United States
Mr Griscom
Bank of Japan
Ministry of Finance
Osaka
Clearine
Kioto
Yokohama
Kobe
Nagoya
Department of Finance
Manchuria
Korea
Department of Communications
Mercantile
Tydia
China
Peace Negotiations Spur Cattle Growers Affiliate Talks
Denver January 15 Negotiations opened between the National Live Stock Association and the American Cattle Growers Association formed in the city last Friday by seceding cattlemen. A May 9 meeting in Denver will host the grower convention as committees seek harmonized by laws and aims. An affiliate path mirrors the National Wool Growers' setup. In Danville Virginia on January 15 railway clerks Elbaugh and Wilson were attacked by three men en route from the post office to the depot at 345 am. Wilson subdued one assailant, Odangh fought another while three escaped before help arrived. The attack’s purpose remains unknown.
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National Live Stock Association
Denver
Colo
American Cattle Growers' Association
Board of Control
American Cattle Growers’ Association
Association of Cattle Growers
National
Wool Growers’ Association
Danville
Elbaugh
EH. M. Wilson
United States
Southern
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Odangh
HITS PRESIDENTS PLAN
Boston January 15. Railroad President Lucius Tuttle says Roosevelt’s rate regulation plan would lower wages for over one million railroad workers. He argues Congress must guard interstate commerce and notes 1903 railroad dividends averaged under 3 percent, with further rate cuts likely forcing expense reductions.
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Boston
Mass
Division 61
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Lucius Tuttle
Boston and Maine Railroad
Roosevelt
Tuttle
Congress
Armour Denies Interpreted Allegations of Monopoly
Chicago January 15 Armour & Company president George B Robbins issued a sweeping denial of alleged discrimination and monopoly by Armour Refrigerator Car Lines. He labeled witnesses biased, asserted commission merchants initiated the charges, and rejected claims of forced purchases and price gouging.
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Robbins
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Chicago
Interstate Commerce
Boston Commission
Elouse Committee On Interstate Commerce
Payment for Friar Lands Delayed by Vatican Report
Vatican delays action on paying United States awarded funds for friars lands in the Philippines until Arch bishop Agius, apostolic delegate to the Philippines, arrives in Manila with his report. Strong backing from Cardinal Vives y Totare pressures Vatican to press the payment.
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Vatican
Agius
Rome
Vives Y Totare
United States
Philippines
Manila
Russia's Oil Fields and the European Market Rivalry
Russia has developed a vast oil industry centered at Baku with Nobel leadership driving improvements in extraction and refining. Production and exports expanded as a new pipeline aims to double transport to Batum, while price drops and quality controls bolster Russia against American competition amid government support and tariff barriers.
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John Callan O'Laughecin
Russia
American Standard Oil Trust
England
United States
Boubinine
Caucasus
Europe
M de Witte
America
Bibi- Eibat
Baku
Black
Caspian Seas
Caspian Sea
Michallove
Cath
Batum
Black Sea
Caucasua
Nobel
Nobel Company
Galicia
Sweden
Germany
Standard
Trust
South America
China
Japan
Convrigtt
John Callan O Laughlin
Fire destroys vestry. five Lynn firemen injured
A fire at Jad Ib-Duying an F building in Lynn Massachusetts damaged the de ond Baptist Society vestry as the steel ceiling collapsed. Five firefighters were injured including Downer and McDonald who were trapped before rescue. Injuries include multiple fractures and severe bruises. financial loss estimated at 100000 with 50000 insurance. An overheated furnace is blamed.
Replicas to Panamanians Minor Barrett Proposal Stand
Representatives from all parties in Panama urge American Minister Barrett to withdraw his suggestion to combine the roles of governor of the Canal Zone and Minister to Panama. Barrett says the proposal benefits both nations and will report it to Washington without harming Panama’s position.
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Minnster Barrett
State Department
Panama
Barrett
Washington
Canal Zone
United States
Call to Cotton State bankers conference in New Orleans
A call issued from Waco Texas on January 16 seeks a large turnout of cotton state bankers to meet January 25 in New Orleans with a committee from the cotton convention. Eleven bank presidents signed the call urging attendance from cotton states and territories.
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New Orleans
Waco
Tex
Bankers’ Associations
Bankers’ Association
Charles Hotel
Ila
L B Farley Montgomery Ala
Alabama Bankers' Association
Charles T Fenzell
Little Rock
Arkansas Bankers’ Association
HE Robinson
Jacksonville
Pla
Florida Bankes' Association Miller S$ Hell
Villedgeville
Georgia Bankers’ Association
D ™ M . Reynolds
Baton Rouge
Louisiana Bankers’ Association Ffh Fries
Winston
North Carolina Bankers’ Association
Frank
Costa Rica Denies Banana Company Rights in Gandoka Territory
Costa Rican Minister Calvo rejected any lawful title for the American Banana Company to Gandoka, stating Colombia never ratified such concessions and Gandoka remains under Costa Rican sovereignty until the border dispute with Panama is settled. He questioned the legality of claims by McConnell and associates and warned against unauthorised possession or usufruct.
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Armour & Company
Robbins
Boston
Calvo
Banana Company
Gandoka
Mobile
Ala
American Banana Company
State Department
Panama
Costa Rica
Colombia
National Congress
Bogota
New Republic
Department of Government and Foreign Relations
Gandokian
McConnell
German Bank Failure Probes Appleyard Trolley Loans
Frank A. Abbot, first assistant district attorney, is detailed to investigate the Appleyard trolley lines loans in Ohio linked to the defunct German bank. District Attorney Coatsworth says focus is on the bank as a whole, not a single person, with $660,000 in Appleyard loans and $720,000 in paper deemed bad, much of it before Appleyard control.
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Buffalo
Frank A. Abbott
Ohio
German Bank
Coatsworth
Appleyard
Big Freighter Indus Floated from Fire Island Bar
The steamer Indus, aground on Fire Island Bar, was floated at 12 10 PM and towed to Quarantine by 3 PM. Captain Kidd reported the hull uninjured after thorough examination, noting no leaks while on the shoal despite a strong westerly wind and heavy seas.
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Indus
Bull
Fire Island Bar
New York
Kidd
Rev Harvey Hatcher Dead in Beaufort Sea Island Hotel
Announcement of the death of Reverend Harvey Hatcher DD a prominent Baptist minister from Atlanta died in the lobby of the Sea Island Hotel Beaufort South Carolina at 4 o'clock after preaching this morning He was seventy two native of Suffolk County Virginia brother of Reverend W E Hatcher of Richmond Va and had led the Atlanta branch of the American Baptist Publication Society for fifty years His body will be sent to Atlanta with a party of South Carolina Baptist ministers.
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Columbia
Harvey Hatcher
Atlanta
South
Sea Island
Beaufort
Baptist Church
South Carolina
Hatcher
Hiltonhead Island
American Baptist Publication Society
Suffolk County
William E. Hatcher
Richmond
Loubet
Marsanne
Mme Loubet
Prestie
Paria
Elysee Palace
New York
Robert Swain Gifford
West Fifty-seventh Street
Mr Gifford
Nasushon Island
Mass
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Boston Gloge
Cincinnati Enquirer
Rccord
Herald
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Pittsburg Dispatch
Providence Journal
Rochester Herald
ST Louis Republic
Isracuse Post Standard &T Pall Pioneer Press
Minneapolis Tribune
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Undertakers
W. R. Speare
Embalimer
F Street
N. W
J. William Lee
Pennsylvania Ave
Joseph Gawler
Ave
H. F. Harvey's Sons
Fourteenth Street NW
North
John R. Wricht
Tenth Street Nw
North 47
George P. Zarhorst
Mai East
Stoessel
Buckeyedom
Columbus
Buckeye
Warren G Harding
Harding
Foraker
George Cox
Cincinnati
Guy Herrick
Cox
Herrick
White House
Erie Canal
Cole Symons
Tallahassee
Fla
Tallahasseeas
Daily Capital
George I Davis
L B Hilson
Robert Gamble
Qurs
Ira Tranbohetam Pont
Armour Lines
Pennsylvania Railroad
Jersey City
Armours
Michigan
Untigie Armours & Company
Georgia
Piece
Dispensary
Medical, Association, Proprietors
Buffalo, N. Y
M. @e Witte
Engineer Nobel
Tovementa
Southampton
Chérbourg
Umbria
Liverpool
Queenstown
la Gascogne
Havre
Ivernig
York
Campania
Doves
Satleds
Moltke
Hamburg
Boulogne
Aiiverpool
Cadric
New Tork
Geric
Ia. Collins
Massachusetts Ave
Beaufort, D. C
W. E. Hatcher
Warsaw
Ind
Reuben Williams
Northern Indiaman
Daily Times
Gev Hanly
Indianapolis
Indiana
Libby
Cafe Calvert
14Th St
Maurice F Holahan
Board of Pubic Improvements
Holahan
Assembly
Senate
Cleveland
Halahan
Port of
Henry C. White
Cuyahoga County
Paris
Mme. Toubet
Bucyrus
Stephen Harris
Paul
Chestnut Farms
Geo. M. Oyster, Jr
Connecticut Avenue
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