Japanese Repulsed Chinese Bandits and Russians Gain Ground
New details from Manchuria indicate Japanese forces repelling bands of Chinese bandits near Naiuan while Russian troops push offensive actions at several points. Reports describe Japanese assaults at Poutiloff Hill repulsed by shell fire and bayonet, with heavy Japanese losses and lighter Russian casualties. Moscow dispatches claim Russian defenses repelled near Shakhe Railway Bridge and Paotzuyen as Russians press advances across the region.
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Poutiloff
Liao
P. Cankat
Naiuan
Eetrans
Arth
Shakhe
Briilgre
Paotzuyen
Japan and America in Times Of War and Peace
A Times correspondent in Tokyo debunks claims of Russian plots aimed at sowing U.S. Japan discord and jeopardizing American positions in the Philippines. He notes Japan’s deep affection for the United States, rooted since Townsend Harris, and argues Washington’s withdrawal would be a calamity. Harris opened trade and three ports to foreigners in 1858.
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London
Tokyo
Japan
America
Philippines
The
Times
Townsend Harris
Tle Philippines
United States
Orient
Question Russian honesty archive item headline
London Times note reports an amusing insistence by a coal shipper for Russian cash guarantees in London against shipping and insurance documents. Russians offered payment in St Petersburg but required documents to travel there, a move underwriters avoided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Times
Washington Post
London
Times
Viadostek
St. Petersburg
Russia
St Petersburg
Recruits Fail to Appear Across Russian Areas
A Times cable reports widespread defection of army recruits in 1900s Russia. Jewish recruits show notable evasion with up to ninety percent in Simferopol failing to appear, while Kherson province sees about 56 percent defect. Occurring amid registration centers in South Russia and Poland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Times
London
The
Times
Russia
Poland
Kaisheneft
Kherson
Simeropol
Russian Fleet Mutiny Report From Sebastopol
A private telegram from Sebastopol says a portion of the Black Sea fleet mutinied on November 22 under revolutionary propaganda. The mutiny was reportedly suppressed by force, with several mutineers wounded, but no admiralty confirmation was available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Sebastopol
Black Sea
Admiralty
Russian Transports Armed Through Dardanelles
The Daily Telegraph reports from Port Said that the Russian steamer Voronetz carries three submarine boats and the Yaroslav holds a large arsenal of Hotchkiss guns. The correspondent notes these ships likely passed the canal similarly and intends to imitate the volunteer steamers St. Petersburg and Smolensk.
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London
Daily Telegraph
Port Said
Voronetz
Dardanelles
St. Petersburg
Smolensk
Port Arthur Siege Pushes On as Forts Fall
Port Arthur siege reports from Tokyo and Chefoo describe Japanese shelling and fires near the arsenal, with coal stores burning. Two Panlung forts captured in August provide positions for siege guns. garrison strength cited at about 8,000 with winter clothing scarce, and 2,000 Russians dying from October to November 12.
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Tokyo
Port Arthur
Arsenal
Delock
Chefoo
Fusan
Panlung
Rihlung
Kuropatkin
Togo
Putney Kidnapping Case Deepens With Indiscretion Claim
In St Louis the missing Stephen Putney Jr is said to have escaped a discovery room. Langhorne Putney denies kidnapping. a $2000 ransom letter is noted. Richmond and Kansas City links swirl as police and family dispute whether a woman is involved. The mystery widens with Langhorne’s statement refuting abduction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Stephen Putney
Richmond
Kansas City
Langhorne Putney
Morday
Kiely
Putney
Stephen Putney, Jr
Mr. Putney
Stephen
Boy Killed While Watching Rifle Match in Grant City
Fourteen year old William Berdino died at Midland Park Grant City during a Guards of the Fifth Ward rifle match. David Donnelly fired a second shot after the boy ran up to see where the bullet struck. Donnelly was arraigned on homicide charges but paroled by the coroner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William Berdino
Midland Park
Grant City
Fifth Ward
Manhattan
David Donnelly
Donnelly
Negro Shot by Marshal After Jail Escape in Vineland
George Smith, a Black man awaiting arraignment on a minor charge, escaped from Vineland jail, knocked down Deputy Sheriff Joseph Spencer, and fled down a crowded street with a knife. Borough Marshal Henry Tumey shot Smith in the neck as the fugitive lunged at him, seriously wounding him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vineland
N. J
George Smith
Henry Tumey
Smith
Joseph Spencer
Tumey
Runaway horse frightens racegoers near Benning station
A horse driven by P H Heiskell of 106 I Street Northwest bolted near Benning station as crowds headed to the track. Mrs Heiskell was thrown but sustained only slight injuries. Mounted Policeman Rhoades captured the runaway. Other brief items include pre historic mummies found near Silver City New Mexico, a murder mystery in Shamokin Pennsylvania, a major Milwaukee fire, and a Baltimore and Return rail promo.
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Benning
P. H. Heiskell
I Strest
Benning Station
el Paso
Tex
Silver City
N. M
Italian Feud Bloodshed After Mobile Area Leader Killed
Salvatore Pompinella, leader of the New Palermo Italian colony on the Southern Railway, was murdered at 9 this morning near the railroad line thirty eight miles north of Mobile. Francisco Cirrincioni killed Pompinella with a double barreled shotgun and wounded his son Joseph, who survived. The colony faces renewed violence as Washington County authorities fear further bloodshed.
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New Palermo
Ala
Mobile
Salvatore Pompinella
Francisco Cirrincioni
Pompinella
Washington County
Joseph Pompinella
Cirrinciani
Father Kills Son in Farm Dispute in Knoxville
Payne Hickman a farmer in Knoxville Tennessee in the Seventeenth district shot Walter Hickman aged twenty one with a stick during a farm dispute over work. Walter allegedly advanced with a knife and Hickman claimed self defense. The fatal blow broke Walter’s neck and Payne Hickman was jailed unable to post 5000 bond.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Payne Hickman
Walter
Shooting in Broadway as crowd hysteria erupts
New York Nov 24 Guy Roche a sorter man shot in Broadway between Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth streets as holiday crowds filled the avenue Stewart Felton known as Big Frank arrested after fleeing the scene. Roche in critical condition denies identifying his shooter and wardens reserve call was necessary to handle the crowd.
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New York
Guy Roche
Sheony
George Levy
Broadway
Stewart Felton
Big Frank
Roche
Wetton
Felton
Seventh Avenue
Rache
Sing Sing
Thousands Bid Farewell to Carnegie Strike Ironworkers
Thousands gathered at Youngstown depot to bid farewell to 137 ironworkers idle since the Carnegie strike. They head to Madison Ill for new work, with fellow workers urging them to stay away from Youngstown until victory.
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Carnegie Steel
Youngstown
Ohio
Carnegie Steel Works
Madison
Ill
Four Men Drowned In St Clair River Boat Capsize
Port Huron Michigan November 24 A row boat carrying seven aboard including four Pere Marquette Railway employees capsized near the Sarnia dock on the St Clair River after a heavy north wind and seas. Alfred Green engineer John Jreenan fireman John Dack brakeman James Connell all from St Thomas Ontario died. ferryman William Briggs and two others survived by clinging to the hull.
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St. Clair
Port Huron
Mich
William Briggs
Sarnia
Ontario
St. Clair River
Alfred Green
St. Thomas
John
Chreenan
John Dack
Briggs
John Dobson
Daniel Fisher
Ridgetown
Pere Marquette Railway
Five Die In Fire At Noble Grain Warehouse
Five Italian workers perished when a fire at the Noble grain warehouse near North Bend in Lancaster County destroyed the building used by a railroad contractor. An explosion from gasoline in a washing basin sparked the blaze, causing a panic as over sixty laborers slept inside. bodies were recovered and authorities believe the victims were trampled in the rush to escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Noble Grain
North Bend
Christiana
Atelglen
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lancaster County
Wage
Officers for Reform Army Recruits From National Guard
Portland Nov 24 Officers for the Chinese reform army are being recruited from the state National Guard. About twenty five members have already applied, some locally prominent. Trained officers sought up to 8,000. secrecy enforced. five year service. transport provided. pay 2 percent higher than American tropical officers. Applicants told the army will number 150,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Greg
Reform Army
National Guard
Reform Association
Tropics
Conspiracy Claim Over Homestead Patents In Oregon
Portland, Nov 4 link by link the government builds a case to prove a conspiracy to defraud the United States of public lands. A. W. Barber testified that 117 district homestead claims were never improved or resided upon, with patents issued on false testimony from start to finish. He described difficult terrain, missing roads, and lack of homestead improvements across the examined claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
United States
Hull
Heney
A. W. Barber
General Land Office
Barber
Mr. Barber
Harry C. Barr
Henry Young
Joseph Wilson
Emma Porter
Maud Witt
George W. Pettis
George A. Graham
Nellie Backus
Zenas K. Watson
Frank H. Wolgameal
Joseph Wilkins
Chistie Landbaum
Albert O. Austin
Matt
London arrest closes $30,000 stock theft case from Michigan banker
James Wallace, former confidant to Edward M. Breitung of Marquette, Mich., is arrested in Liverpool after fleeing with stock certificates valued near $30,000. Police recovered about $25,000, seized a £4,400 letter of credit, and await extradition steps as Boston and New York authorities pursue restitution and legal action. A woman traveling with him under the name Mrs James Wilson drew initial scrutiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
James Wallace
Edward M. Breitung
Marquette, Mich
Liverpool
Brestung
Wallace
Marquette
Illinois
Breltung
Michigan
United States Steel
Ones
American Bankers’ Association
Boston
James Wilson
England
Wilson
Cunard Line
Saxonia
James Hreitung
Mich
Coutts’ Bank
Rndon
Walace
Lee, Higginson & Co
London
Woward Brettung
Superior Court
EH. M. Brettung
Patterson eats prison Thanksgiving dinner at Tombs
Nan Patterson, on trial for the murder of Caesar Young, dined alone in her Tombs cell on Thanksgiving. She wished to be home for the holiday for her sick mother, who wrote she expected her to be free. Patterson also received gifts and shared candy with forty-seven other inmates, declining the warden’s offer to send a restaurant meal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tombs
Nan Patterson
Supreme Court
Miss Patterson
Flynn
National Live Stock Association to meet in Denver
Denver November 24 The annual meeting of the National Live Stock Association is to be held in Denver January 10 to 14 1905 Principal business to be a resolution on appointing two committees to revise the constitution and by laws to provide more liberal representation of livestock interests Minneapolis November 24 Fire destroyed the Hill Building owned by J J Hill and occupied by three firms with a total loss of 90000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
National Live Stock Association
Minneapolis
Hill
J. J. Hill
Great Northern Railroad
Gallee Wickey
Cameron 'Mpany
National Novelty Company
Joliet Suspect Released in Bate Murder Case
Joliet officials release J W Wicks a Pontiac liveryman after evidence shows he is not the wanted Dove in the Bate murder. He was held on suspicion of other charges. Livingston County sheriff to escort him back to Pontiac. Police report no new clues tonight in the murder mystery.
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Dove
Bate
Joliet
J. W. Wicks
Pontiac
Livingston County
Wicks
Two German Battle Ships Planned for Navy Program
Berlin announces the Reichstag will be asked to authorize laying down two more battleships in 195. The pair would be the thirty sixth and thirty seventh in a 3920 program, cousins to the Deutschland and two other ships now under construction. Also notices a round trip army and navy football game train service from Washington with BL&O rail, Nov 23 to 26, offering coaches and Pullman cars and advance parlor car seats.
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Berlin
Reichstag
Deutschland
Philadelphia
Army and Navy
Washington
Football on Many Fields
A brief glimpse previews Thanksgiving weekend football across multiple campuses and venues with upcoming games noted on various schedules.
Servant Carries Out Suicide at Broadhead Home
Carrie Reinhols a 22 year old servant at Robert Broadhead’s Stratford residence was found in the kitchen with six chest wounds and head and throat cut. A revolver and bloody knife were recovered and police seized her letters. A note to two sisters indicates self destruction with no stated motive.
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Philadelphia
Carrie Reinhols
Robert ¥. Broadhead
Stratford
Bond Given for Valentine in Eureka Foundry Case
Cincinnati dispatch reports Joseph F. Valentine president of the Iron Molders Union released on a $2,000 bond after arrest on charges of aiding and abetting property destruction in a dynamite plot tied to Eureka Foundry. Valentine condemns the case as a trumped up conspiracy while Rauhauser’s coerced confession raises defense concerns and another explosion at the foundry is noted.
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Cincinnati
Joseph F. Valentine
Iron Molders’ Union of North America
Cleveland
Gosiger
Eureka Foundry Company
Calahan
Molders’ Union
Valentine
Handy
Callahan
Police
Edward J. Denny
Michael Mullen
Johnson
Moiders’ Union
Eureka
Rauhauser
Rauhausers
Oceanic's stormy voyage from New York to Oneonta noted
Liverpool reports the White Star Line steamer Oceanic endured a severe passage from New York on November 16, with heavy seas a gale and snowstorm. Bulwarks carried away, two stern lights stove in, and a giant wave delivered severe water ingress. Old voyagers call it a terrifying crossing and the ship reached Oneonta today.
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Liverpool
White Star Line
Oceanic
New York
Oneenstown
Thieves Loot Bank in La Plata Robbery
Burglars blew open the Southern Maryland Savings Bank vault in La Plata about 2 am and escaped with about 3000 dollars. Nitroglycerin and cut telegraph wires aided the raid, coins left scattered on the floor, and police were alerted from Washington and Baltimore but no arrests had been made by midnight. The loss is insured and suspects fled toward Baltimore.
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Washington
Baltimore
Losa
Washington Post
la Plata
Maryland Savings Bank
Bowie
Adrian Posey
Indian Head
Maj
Richard Sylvester
Sydney Mudd
Mudd
Cent
Boardman
Priest Wins His Appeal to Rome Over Priesthood Return
News from St Paul Minnesota reports that Father John T Harrison former pastor of St Josephs parish has won an appeal to the Holy See in Rome. An order directs Archbishop Ireland to restore his priestly functions and to assign him to a parish of similar importance to St Josephs. The Rome decision sustains most of Harrison's contentions but not reinstatement at St Josephs. The archbishop is told to clothe him with priestly functions and to appoint him to a parish of similar standing.
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St. Paul, Minn
Pioneer Press
Pathor
John T. Harrison
St. Joseph's Parish
Holy See
Rome
Ireland
Father Harrison
St. Joseph's
Archbbishop Falcono
Washington
Congregation of the Propaganda
Archbishop Ireland
St. Steppten
Minneapolis
Wisconsin Official Vote and Requisition News
Wisconsin returns show Roosevelt leading in presidential race with 278,008 votes and La Follette carrying the governorship with 226,9. Republicans 11, Democrats 38, Social Democrats 5 in the legislature. Hartford demands Indiana suspect C Woodruff alias Thomas Clark for Bunko case. Chicago Express service to Chicago and Northwest updated to depart Washington at 5:30 PM, arriving Chicago next day.
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Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Wis
Oficlal
Milwaukee Sentinel
Parker
Roosevelt
Debs
Swallow
Peck
la Follette
Arnold
Social Dem
Scofield
National Rep
Social Democrats
Hartford
Conn
Chicago
Northwest
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Washington
Michigan
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Amny
Mukden
Poutiloff Hill
Norfolk
Newport News
Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co
Qhacheve
Butterfield & Swire
Shanghai
Nees
Piso
D. A
Putney's Trail
Virginia
Marshal
Shamokin
Novza
Pennsylvania
Fourth and
Fowler Streets
Or Glove Company
Kalamazoo Knitting Company
Baltimore and Return
Revery
Tennessee
Corral
Ramon Corral
Mexico
Jose Munoz
Treasury
Canela
Sinaloa
Mexico City
Bermidji
Minn
Jacob Dryhaug
Shotley
Red Lake
Dryhaug
Zeigler
Springfield
Til
Scott
Ziegler, IL
Shand
Stein
Yates
Leiter
Congressional Limited
Officers For Reform Army
Pacific Coast
J. J. Ball
St. Paul
Navy
Nellie Stover
Arlington European Plan
Muzic
Maryland
Ambassador Choate
Congress
McCreary
Bond
Molders
Ocean
Gloucester
Mass
David ‘Smith & Co
Golden Hope
Birchy Head
N. F
Mutrey
Nebr
Gus Stock, Jr
Seattle
Wash
Petersburg
Anthony J. Drexel
Margarita
Newy York Yacht Club
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