Witte May Resign and the Washington Mission Debate
Rumors swirl over M Witte’s possible resignation after a stormy audience with the Czar and the question of his Washington mission. Reports say Lamadorff and Rosen influence linger, with cautious notes on confirmation. the official appointment as chief plenipotentiary is claimed but contested, amid Prague–St Petersburg coverage and press reactions.
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Ministes
Rusalia
Mira
St Petersburg
Witte
Mo Wittes
Wiittes
M Witte
France
Dselldorf
Lamsdorf
Count Lamsdorff
M Boulgin
Ministry of the Interior
Sviatopolk-Mirsky
Livia
Pectet
Noyce Vremya
Am Wittesbande
Tokyo
Manchuria
Korea
Bf Witte
Taft Party Arrives in Honolulu on Manchuria
Secretary of War Taft and party arrived aboard the steamer Manchuria in Honolulu on July 14. They toured local sights, lunched at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, and Taft gave an address while meeting officials. Taft discussed Chinese exclusion in a later interview. A passenger, Walter ul-Ivan, reportedly disappeared overboard. he was a Yale graduate class of 1903 and worked with D Agllivan Company in San Antonio. The Manchuria departed for Manila tonight.
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Honolulu
Taft
Manchuria
Wea
Royal Hawaiian Hotel
Atking
Roosevelt
United States
Walter @ul- Ivan
Yale
D Aglllvan ‘Company
San Antonio
Texas
Colera
Manila
Waréman Inquiry Halts Trial Amid Media Influence Claims
Albany July 14 editor Wardman refused to name the author of a newspaper article alleging political pressure and boodle in support of Justice Warren B Hooker. Subpoenas to the News Press editors followed, as lawmakers debated proper authority and the scope of the joint session while defense counsel denounced biased coverage and called for dismissal.
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Albany
Hdbor
Ervin Wardman
New York Press
Storm
Supreme Court
Warren B Hooker
Fugilce Hooker
Preas
Justice Hooker
Wardman
Hennessey
Mr Wardman
Hooker
John B Stanchfield
Gev Bruce
Blanchfield
Amembly Judiciary Committee
Bank Directors Sued Over Boston Bank Failure
Boston July 14 receiver Frank D Astien of Central National sues the bank board in U S Circuit Court for full accounting and payment of leases tied to the bank’s collapse. The bill accuses directors of neglect wasteful mismanagement and fraudulent and collusive conduct in office violating federal statutes. John Mitchell reports a rumor of $3000 lost savings tied to a bank failure at Spring Valley Ill with Union Trust Co inducements offering checking time deposits. Round trip Chesapeake Beach ads and Children’s Day schedule appear.
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Boston
Mass
Frank D .Astien
Central National
United States Circuit Court
John Mitchell
Wilkesbarre
Mine Workers’ Union
Spring Valley
Ill
Anti trust action filed against regional rail and steamship firms
Acting under Attorney General Moody District Attorney Akerman filed a bill in U S Court to restrain Merchants and Miners Transportation Company Deedsa Steamship Company Central of Georgia and four other railroads from alleged Sherman anti trust violations. Minutes of a Savannah meeting July 25 1901 claim to divert cotton goods transport from Augusta to Savannah by rail and to equalize river and rail rates. The case includes a petition urged by Augusta manufacturers and under consideration by Judge Sheer.
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Macon
Moody
Akerman
United States Court
Merchants and Mincia Transportation Company
Deedta Steamship Company
Central of Georgia
Phermiin
Bavannah
Steamship Ines
Augusta
Bayer
Merchants and Miners Transportation Company
Ocean Steamship Company
Savannah
Eastern Porta
Sheer
Indictment Declared Invalid in City Forgery Case
Onwago July 14 Judge Chetlain acquits Alpert G Wheeler president of the Hinois Telephone and Telegraph Company and four local politicians named Loeffler Novak Erhorn Higging after ruling the indictment lacked extrinsic facts for validity. The forgery claim is considered unproved and the forged document null and void with no property effect.
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Onwago
Alpert G Wheeler
Hinois Telephone and Lelegraph Company
Chetlain
Wheeter
William J Loeffler
Edward Novak
Edward Erhorn
James Higging
Choetlain
Fired in Self Defense Inquest Opens In New York
Detectives testified that Berthe Claiche a French girl under twenty killed Fredie Gerdron in self defense after he threatened to kill her He had been resisting arrest for cruelty and claimed he would kill the officer If released The shooting followed as detectives prepared to arrest Gerdron who drew a weapon and fired prompting three shots from Claiche in return
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New York
Berthe Claiche
Fredie Gerdron
Scholer
Dey Ferthe Clarehe
Gerdroh
Gerdron
Berthe
Terrific hail storm hits Detroit business district
A severe July hail and rain storm in Detroit caused hundreds of dollars in window damage and widespread wind. trees felled, electrical wires broken, and fires started. The police signal office suffered $2,000 damage and was put out of use briefly. Lightning fatalities occurred in Oxford and Shepherd, including a Toronto teacher.
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Detroit
Mich
Police Department
Daniel McDonald
Oxford
Misa Lissie Dodds
Toronto
Scotty in New York Bays It Was an Awful Trip
Special to The Washington Post New York July 14 Walter Scott the cowboy miner arrived in New York after a record breaking 45 hour run between the Pacific Coast and Chicago. He recalls his wife being hurt and describes mobbed reception at the Stock Exchange and his pride in the mining fortune he earned and his insistence on value received. He notes his ore claims near Death Valley and says he has about 160 000 in ore and plans to spend his winnings while praising his矿.
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Washington
New York
Walter Scott
Chicago
The
Santa Fe
Scotty
Los Angeles
Bocotty
John D. Rockefeller
Scott
Philadelphia
Harald Square
Sud
Beatty
Goldoug
Sonia
Goldbug
Wall Street
Golbug
Scally
Indy
Golibug
Death Velley
Cowboy Sal
Gerard
Wife stabbed to death in Detroit saloon apartment
Mrs Daniel W Gray, young wife of a Detroit saloon keeper, was fatally stabbed in bed in upstairs rooms above the saloon on Michigan avenue. Brother Frank Gray says Dan used a knife borrowed from him. Jealousy cited. Dan Gray arrested after fleeing Cadillac Square police.
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Tetroit
Mich
Gray
Cadillac Square
TRYING TO DETAIN PEARY ROOSEVELT SHIP AT PORTLAND
An attempt to detain Peary's ship Roosevelt was made after officials learned it left Portland, Maine for New York without clearance. The Treasury fined 00, the captain was summoned, and a bond covered the amount. The Arctic Club protested to Secretary Lester Shaw, seeking rescission. News items and travel ads follow, including steamboat promos and weekend excursions.
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New York
Peary
Roosevelt
Treasury Department
Portland
Feary Arctic Club
Lester Shaw
The
Treasury
Witte May Not Come as Envoy to Sweden and More
News page digest notes Witte may not travel as envoy to Sweden while financier Scott is in New York. Editor challenges legislature amid race riot quelled by police. Also reports on grain rate investigation, Germany's attitude toward Sweden and new directors for Equitobia with visitors to Oyster Bay.
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Witte
Milonaire Scott
New York
Palmer Hearden
Germany
Sweden
Oyster Bay
Maryland
Laurel
Man Booth
England
Theater Trust
Trade Review
Pacific
Deadwood
THREE DEAD IN COLLISION AT OPEN SWITCH INCIDENT
A Chicago to St Louis through train collided with a suburban train near Steiger Illinois, thirty miles from Chicago. Three people died and sixteen were injured. Engines and first suburban coach were destroyed. Names include JAMHG LYRE, GEORGE EPSTEIN, CHARLES HORN, and others. Cause reported as an open switch directing the through train onto the suburban siding.
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Chicago
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway
James Crooka Chigago
Dwight Wood
Feg
A Gilmore
St. Louis
Belmont Believed Husband Fugitive In Murder Case
Emmeline Schidlofska, 32, was found murdered with beheading damage in a Belmont gully near Arlington golf links. Her husband, 28, Schidlofska, a Brockton barber, is suspected and reportedly headed toward California after arranging Los Angeles union transfer and buying railroad tickets. Police say no motive yet, and identification of nearby articles is unclear.
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Braintree Mass
Belmont
Emmeline Schidlofska
Schidlofska
California
Brockton
Arlington Golf Inka
Barbers Union
Boston
Los Angeles Union
Schidiotska
Wabash Railroad
West Shore
Los Angeles
Matn
Weat Shore
Wabash
Topeka
Santa Fe
North Station
Chicago
Death on Wedding Eve Haunts Richmond Pace Jr
Special to The Washington Richmond July 14 Muscoe Russell Pace Jr is found dead at his home with a bullet wound to the head. Coroner says suicide likely after losing his job as a Southern Express messenger and plans to marry. He was alone in his room when the shot occurred. a valise discharge is suspected. He leaves parents a brother and four sisters including Mrs W L Hays of Norfolk.
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Wasmagton
Richmond
Muscoe Russell Pace, Jr
Goroner
Southern Express Company
Young Pace
M R Pace
Garry
KC Barrett
Hig Record
Js Gala
Charleston
W Ll. Hays
Norfolk
Cortelyou to Name New Acting Chairman of RNC
Postmaster General Cortelyou will retire as chairman of the Republican National Committee and nominate Harry New of Indiana as acting chairman. He notes he has resolved contests in Maryland and Louisiana and states the national organization is ready for transition.
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Cortelyou
New
Eral Cortelyou
Republican National Committee
Harry New
Indiane
Marianda
Louisiana
Riot on San Juan Hill in New York Tracers of Missiles Fly
A July 4 riot on San Juan Hill bounded by Amsterdam and West End avenues and Sixty-first to Sixty-third streets saw about a thousand blacks and whites clash amid roof and street fire. Police, outnumbered, called in reinforcements to arrest seven whites and two blacks as armed mobs battled for hours and Missiles rained from windows and roofs.
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New York
San Juan Hill
Amsterdam
West End
Politeman
Edward Connelly
Henry Williams
Connelly
Station House
Whale District
Sixty Second Street
Patrick Walsh
Jozeph B Smith
Negra
Walsh
Oaly
Inspector MacLaughlin
Lth Street
Leonard Street
Sixty-second Street
West End Avenue
Inspector McLaughlin
Capt Gallagher
Michael Jacoby
Putty-seventh
Amsterdam Avenue
Shetter
McAdoo
Messenger Killed Stepping in Front of Train in Pittsburgh
Roscoe E Underwood a seventeen year old messenger for the Pennsylvania Railroad of 388 McLean Avenue Southwest was struck by passenger train No 31 after stepping onto the south bound main track under the Pennsylvania Avenue bridge. He suffered severe injuries to the head and back and died at Providence Hospital. Coroner Nevitt issued a certificate after learning the circumstances. the body was identified by Underwood’s father and given to a undertaker.
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Roscoe E Underwoot
McLean Avenue
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge
Providence Hospital
Pullman Car Company
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Paul
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Cheanpeake Beach
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Roosevelt Finet
Ohio
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Muscole
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Bet
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Baltimore & Ohio
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Whoval Limited
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Libhay & Go
Noy
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