Loss of Japanese cruiser Takasago off Port Arthur
An officer accounts the December sinking of the Takasago after hitting a mine off Port Arthur. Crew of about 300 held lifebelts and sang the national anthem and Gallant Rogers as lifeboats failed and the ship sank. Only 133 were rescued. the ship drifted amid storm and darkness before vanishing beneath the waves.
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Port Arthur
Associated Press
Tokyo
Cruwer Takasago
Rosentyensky
Takasago
Ishibashi
Takosago
Whire
Pech Gulf
Peenili Gur
Ishabashi
Marriage and death notices across major papers
Notices indicate marriages and deaths are inserted to The Washington Post on application and appear simultaneously without extra charge for insertion or telegraphing in multiple morning editions of The New York Times, Boston Globe, Buffalo Courier, Cincinnati Enquirer, Chicago Record Herald, Philadelphia Ledger, Pittsburgh Dispatch, Providence Journal, Rochester Herald, St Louis Republic, Buffalo Post Standard, St Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Tribune, and Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Washington Post
Dewnpape
NEW York Times
Boston Globe
Buffalo Colrier
Cincinnati Enquirer
Chicago Record Herald
Philadelphia
Plusic Ledger
Pittsburg Dispatch
Providence Journal
Rochester Herald
ST Louis
Local Undertakers and Embalmers Directory Spotlight
A section listing multiple funeral homes and embalmers with addresses and phone numbers. Notable entries include R Speare at 940 F Street NW J W Lee at 832 Pennsylvania Ave NW Harvey's Sons at 125 Fourteenth Street NW John R Wright Co at 1387 Tenth Street NW and George P Zarhorst at 901 East Capital Street with associated chapel and crematorium services and late night availability.
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R. Speare
F Street
N. W
J. William Lee
Connection Coy
Modeco
Pennsylvania Ave
N. F. Harvey's Sons
Fourteenth Street
Commodiova Chapel
Telephone
John R. Wright CO
Three Boats Afloat Try to Rescue Crew After Ship Sinks
Waves swept over the deck as Captain Ishibashi and the crew plunged to the sea. Only three boats remained afloat with crews aboard. Otowa arrived 300 meters away to assist, rescuing a few but over 360 were lost including Commander Nakayama. Some died from exposure after being picked up.
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Ishibashi
Otowa
Nakayama
Japs Dislodge Russians in South Sakhalin Victory
Tokyo reports July 11 12 actions broke Russian center at Darling and nearby. Japanese drive them toward Mauka and seize South Sakhalin with eighty prisoners including Lieut Maximin. Losses: Japanese about seventy. Russians 156. Northern Korea positions retreat north of the Tumen River while Vladivostok forces move south. Intrenchments feature novel elephant traps. reports of precarious Russian condition appear unfounded. Grand Duke Sermus Michaelovitch named Inspector General of artillery.
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Tokyo
Darling
Mauka
South Sakhalin
Koreas
Tumen River
Vladivostok
T 10
Nokiefsk
Tumen
Manchuria
Gunshu Pass
Chengtufu-Nanchenze
Mandarin Road
Nanchenze St Petersburg
Grand Duke
Sermus Michaelovitch
Japanese Emperor Grants Pardon For Bougouin Case In Tokyo
Premier Katsura, under Emperor Mitsuhito's authority, pardons Capt A. E. Bougouin and Maki, a Japanese clerk, with amnesty from police surveillance. Bougouin, once a prominent French resident attached to the French Legation, was sentenced to ten years hard labor for spying on artillery secrets. His stepson F. Strange and other details are noted. Strange was released for lack of evidence.
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Bougouin
Tokyo
Katsua
Mitsuhito
A. E
Maki
F. Strange
Leno
Bougoum
Strange
Land Owners Murdered and Repression in Russian Districts
Reports from Mitau Odessa and Kherson July 16 describe fatal and wounded landowners Bar on Bistrom and Baron Hahn. Aggitators and severe measures by Cossacks lead to 1060 arrests in Palatine district with beatings. unrest continues in Kharkov and Kurak. A bomb incident in Kutals Trans Caucasia with no fatalities.
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Mitau
Russia
Baron Bistrom
Baron Hahn
Odessa
Kherson
Palatine
Kharkof
Kurak
Kutals
Trans-Caucasia
Bodies recovered from submarine Farfadat disaster at Bidt Abdallah
At Biserta, Tunis, crews labor to retrieve eight sailors from the Farfadat wreck after it sank June 8 near the port entrance. Four men in the forward compartment drowned immediately. Lieut Robin was found near the deck. the quartermaster died in a hook entanglement. Four bodies recovered. others remain unrecognizable. Funeral delayed to Wednesday. Mediterranean squadron will attend and the remains will be shipped to France for interment.
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Biserta
Tunis
Bidt- Abdallah
Lieut Robin
Mediterranean Squadron
France
Descent on Sakhalin Reported by Special Cable Dispatch
Tokyo reports the Sakhalin mainland cable cut at Alexandrovski station while Saint Petersburg notes massive forest fires near Nikolaevo started by Japanese partisans to divert attention from an invasion. Japanese warships appeared north of Sakhalin with possible landings. four torpedo-boat destroyers probed Olga and Vladimir bays near Vladivostok, inspecting shores and the wreck of the Russian cruiser Sam…
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Washington Post
Tokyo
Sakhalin
Alexandrovski Station
St Petersburg
Novee Vremya
Siaohiagun
Nikolaes
Associated Press
Nikolskoie
Asiatic Russa
Olga
Vladimir Bays
Vladivostok
Saumrad
Izumrud Complete Wreck After Battle At Sea
The Izumrud, a Russian cruiser, is reported a complete wreck with refloating impossible. Beached near Vladimir Bay’s northern entrance, it drifted west southwest after fleeing toward Vladivostok, ran aground May 30, crew ashore, ship blown up by order of the captain following the Sea of Japan engagement.
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Tokyo
Yamada
Comanding 2
Izumrud
Vladimir Bay
Vladivostok
Baron Ferzen
Sea of Japan
Zemstvoists to Meet in Moscow Despite Prohibitions
London reports from The Times Moscow correspondent that zemstvoists will meet in Moscow with all major Russian wealth and influence expected to participate. authorities will not interfere, even after a government detail dispersed a Moscow executive committee meeting, the zemstvoists refusing to halt plans for the congress and seeking permission to proceed.
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Moscow
London
The
Times
Russia
Associated Press
Zematvos Organization
M. Golovin
Moscow Zemstvo
Slain by Revolutionist Proclaimed in Moscow
A proclamation from the social revolutionists in Moscow reports the execution of Maj. Gen. Count Shuvaloff, former Odessa prefect, on July 11 for his anti revolutionary actions. It claims he was executed by one of their members and frames it as a blow to reaction forces led by Trepoff.
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Moscow
Social Revolutionists
Count Shuvalot
Odessa
Shuvaloff
Trepoff
Bulgarian circular seeks European control over Adrianople vilayet
Sofia July 16 Bulgarian government sends a circular note to the powers asking intervention to protect Bulgarians in the Adrianople vilayet against Turkish persecution. It states Bulgarians are forced to abandon homes seek refuge in forests and become active rebels. The note proposes European control of the vilayet.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Vilayet
Adrianople
Turkey
Roof of chapel at Italian hospital collapses
At Fermo Italy during masa services the chapel roof of the Women’s Hospital collapsed. Sixteen women were killed and thirty two injured in the disaster. Local authorities and rescuers worked to recover victims and tend the wounded. The tragedy occurred during a religious observance at the facility.
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Fermo
Italy
Women's Hospital
Two Para Crew Saved After Collision at Sea Near Plymouth
The Norwegian bark Aljuca arrived in Plymouth with two rescued sailors from the French fishing bark Para of Fecamp. On June 9 in fog off the Grand Bank of Newfoundland, the Para collided with the Aljuca, two Para sailors boarded for help and disappeared, and the Para's fate remains unknown. The Aljuca sustained starboard bow damage and jettisoned a Kimber deck load.
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Para
Plymouth
England
Aljica
Gundersen
Dalhousie
N. B
Fecamp
France
Grand Banke
Newfoundland
Baby Talk Finnish Child Confounds Parents in Port Mohessen
Special to The Washington Port Mohessen Pa July 16 Three year old Ma te Ashland puzzled parents by never speaking a word understood by family Her Finnish nurse taught her the tongue as the father a traveling man and mother an invalid report the child now says Papa Mama in her mother tongue while the nurse seeks a new job and the child learns English, a physician noting the language learning by immersion.
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Washington
Mohessen
Mate Ashland
Jutea Ashland
Uitte Maria
Hendricks Responds To Critics In Inquiry Report
Albany July 16 Superintendent Francis Hendricks of the State Insurance department issues an extended statement defending his Equitable affair testimony and preliminary report. He says no editing occurred, all transcripts were verbatim, and copies were delivered only to Governor Higgins and officials. a further probe was suggested by the governor and delayed the report’s completion.
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Albany, N
Francis Hendricks
State Insurance Department
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Insurance Department
Robert H. Hunter
New York
Equitable
Jerome
Wiliam A. Comstock
Hendricks
Gov. Higgins
Cuthbert W. Pound
Mquitable Society
Mercantile Trust Company
Carta
Mie
Alany
Julius M. Mayer
Albany
New York City
Hunter
Lberty
New York County
Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States
Harriman
Harriman Securities
Comstock
Deaths and incidents span multiple cities and figures
Notices report the death of Pittsburg lawyer J L McCutcheon a famed chess patron in Allegheny. Laura Hyde Woodworth Stedman wife of Edmund Clarence Stedman dies in Bronxville. Gen B M Thomes dies at home in Dalton Ga. Sergt Sylvester Farrell drowns near Clayton NY while returning from church. Hartford training ship reaches Newport with cadets. Edward Park arrested in Christiania for diamond theft after arriving on the United States line.
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Pittsburg
John Lindsey McCutcheon
Allegheny
Homewood Avenues
McCutcheon
America
New York
Laura Hyde Woodworth Stedman
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Bronxville
Hartford
Newport
R. E
United States
Gardiners Bay
Long Island
Christiania
Edward Park
Christania
Roosevelt Leaves Oyster Bay for Yellowstone Park Tour
Secretary and Mrs Loeb depart Oyster Bay for a month near Yellowstone National Park with brief Chicago and Minneapolis stops. President Roosevelt stays home except morning church service. interiors of the White House to be repainted and new pillars erected in the main entrance hall amid ongoing repairs and past remodeling criticisms.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Sagamore
FHI
Christ Church
B. B. Barnes
Lach
White House
Col Henderson Suffering From Paralysis After Stroke
Dubuque Iowa July 16 Col D B Henderson former Speaker of the House is listed as seriously ill with paresis after a stroke three weeks ago affecting his right arm and leg. His physician notes partial recovery in movement and that he can walk with assistance though he remains weak and sleeps poorly. Hood's Sarsaparilla touted as strengthening medicine.
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Dubuque
Iowa
D.B. Henderson
House of Representatives
Henderson
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Wintergreen Island
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