China’s Great Army Shown in Training by Foreign Eyes
Peking dispatch notes China has built a 40,000 strong army with high efficiency and disciplined formations. Observers praise control and steadiness, compare favorably to European troops, while noting artillery placement and supply practices. The maneuvers simulated a southern invasion from Shantung against northern forces. roughly 20,000 infantry, 1,200 cavalry, engineers, artillery and 120 guns participated.
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Peking
China
Chilel
Shantung
Hunyang
Peace Society Hails Peace Movement At Chicago Service
The Chicago Peace Society held a church service at The Centenary Methodist Church with Mrs W H Thomas praising the Russian revolution and hoping for its success. The Japanese consul Mr Shimzu spoke on the international peace movement and Dr Thomas proposed a world court to settle disputes among nations with enforcement power.
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Chicago
Chicago Peace Society
Centenary Methodist
W H Thomas
Peace Society
Shimzu
International Peace Movement
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas
Inter- National Peace Congress
Supreme Court
First Fall Snow Hits Nebraska Iowa Missouri
Snow and sleet fell across central Iowa Des Moines and Omaha report the season’s first. Eastern Nebraska saw early morning snow covering ground with indications of heavier precipitation. St Joseph and Kansas City report early snow with melting and heavy falls in western Missouri and eastern districts.
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Nebraska
Iowa
Missouri
Des Moines
Omaha
St Joseph. Mo
Kansas City Mo
Easto Dus
Appleyard notes bring 241,000 at auction in Jamestown area
Aggregating 262,000 notes issued by Arthur E. Appleyard backed by the defunct German Bank of this city were offered for sale and sold to Adams & Co of London for 52,401. No bids were received for 313,000 Kenton and Southern Railroad bonds. In Jamestown burglars blew open Slocum and Dickman Bank safe at Sagersville pa, six thousand dollars in the safe, but was not reached.
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Pitfalo
Nyy
Arthur BE
Appleyard
Geman Bank
Adams & Co
Lies
Kenton and Southern
Mos
Jamestown
N. Y
Slocum and Dickman Private Bank
Sagerstoun
Will Lead To Revolution Denunciation Of Court Writs By Typographical Union
Chicago October 30 government by injunction if unchecked will lead to a national revolution says Typographical Union No. 16 in a meeting where they denounced liberal use of court writs in labor troubles. Officials sought legal advice on a bill to restrain firms tied to the Chicago Typothetae from conspiring to insure the credit of the International Typographical Union and Local Union No. 16. The resolutions’ preamble argues reducing hours is the sane method to prevent overproduction and unemployment, warning of financial distress. they declare peaceful and persuasive methods are the unions’ only instruments.
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Chicago
Typographical Union No. 16
International Typographical Union and Local Union No
Dougherty Seeks Liberty in Defalcation Case Bail Reduction Sought
Newton C. Dougherty former school superintendent in Peoria seeks reduction of bail from 101000 to 20000 or 25000 claiming he cannot furnish the current amount. He alleges large private interests and that confining him harms his finances and defense, while a habeas writ delays hearing as the state reviews a lengthy petition.
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Peoria
Tl. Oet
Worthington
Chambers
Newton C. Dougherty
F. J. Quinn
J. A. Weil
Dougherty
O. J. Baley
First Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago
Disbarment Petition Targeting Chicago Law Firm
Chicago oct 30 a federal judge postponed action on a petition to bar Newman Northrup Levinson Becker from practicing in the district over alleged irregular bankruptcy filings for E I Rosenfeld of Western Life Indemnity Company. The firm argues the petition was regular and creditors supported it. The judge will hear motions to dismiss Rosenfeld proceedings before deciding.
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Chicago
E. I. Rosenfeld
Western Iife Indemnity Company
Rosenfeld
Bethea
Newman, Northrup, Levinson & Becker
United States District Court
Jacob Newman
Praise of donor immoral in sermon at Sinal Temple
Dr Emil G Hirsch argues in a Chicago sermon that multi millionaire endowments to churches hospitals and schools are morally restitution but praising donors for gifts is wrong He says gifts risk donor control and denounces lauding wealth as incense before idols of a new era of milliard wealth
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Chicago
Sinal Temple
Emil G. Hirsch
Dr. Hirsch
Wood carver keeps vow to finish bridal chest before death
Roberto B. Rascovich, water color artist and wood carver, vowed not to die until completing a bridal trousseau chest. He worked despite an apoplectic stroke and died soon after seeing the piece nearly finished.
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Eage
Roberto B. Rascovich
Secret marriage ties to Hoch case revived in Chicago
Coroner halts William Feller funeral then doubts an investigation after autopsy links his death to Hoch era murders. Feller, a bailiff at Chicago police court, had secretly married his housekeeper Mrs Fredericka Schaeffer, who seeks his estate and a $3000 life policy.
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William Feller
Chicago
Marig Welcker Hoch
Ohann Hoch
Feller
Chicago Avenue
Mra Fredericka Schaeffer
Independent
Order of Foresters
Foresters
Hoch
Johann Hoch
Peller
Fort Dodge
Iown
Illinois
American Shot by Guide in Sonora Mining Route
Passengers aboard the City of Topeka report the murder of American mining engineer John O'Dea near Hermosillo Sonora. He had hired a native guide to reach interior mines, but six miles from Hermosillo he was shot in the back. His body was found by travelers and moved to Hermosillo.
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San Francisco
Topeka
John O'Dea
Hermosilo
Sonora
Dea
Minthis State
Guaymas
O'Dea
New York Population Rises in State and City
Albany reports New York State at 8,066,672 population and Greater New York at 4,014,304. State gain since 1900 is 787,778 or 11 percent. city gains 577,192 or 16.8 percent. Manhattan 2,112,697 and Brooklyn 1,358,391.
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Albany
N. Y
New York State
State Enumeration Bureau
Greater
New York
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Despondent 85 year old banker Captain Wright kills self
Indianapolis Oct. 30 Despondent over feeling useless Captain James G Wright eighty five shot himself in the head. Former steamboat captain on Ohio and Mississippi rivers, Wright had been a banker at Madison Indiana and Fort Worth Texas, and was a man of means.
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Indianapolis
Ind
James G. Wright
Wright
Ohio
Mississippi
Madison
Fort Worth
Tex
Cold and Hungry Towns Narrowly Cut Off Gas Supply
Elmira New York and nearby Corning faced widespread gas outages after a natural gas main separating near this city and Coudersport Pennsylvania was damaged. Hundreds of households lost heat and fuel, breakfast, and many sought shelter in hotels. Lighting shifted to oil lamps as offices, stores, and several factories closed. Local officials could not locate the break by noon.
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Elmira
Couderspot
Corning
Pennsylvania
Bell Telephone Company
Kennedy sentenced for naturalization fraud and perjury
Joseph Kennedy, involved in fraudulent naturalization schemes in Chicago, received an indeterminate penitentiary term after confessing to perjury. His testimony spurred renewed probes into the ring, accusing accomplices who allegedly betrayed him. Four others are sought and Antonio Chapperino faces trial, with Kennedy slated as a witness for the state.
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Chicago
Joseph Kennedy
Kennedy
Antonio Chapperino
Meant to Rob Bank in Chenoa Murder Plot
Bloomington Illinois Oct 30 William Leduc planned a bank raid to escape after killing Mayor Nickel and Hugh B Jones Saturday He visited his mother's home bade farewell and said he would leave the country Leduc had lost 3400 in a settlement with his wife through Nickel his brother in law The plan unraveled when crowds gathered forcing him to retreat to the vault He burned 1600 in paper money but left silver intact.
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Bloomington
William Leduc
Nickel
Hugh B. Jones
Chenoa
Leduc
Coal Takes A Jump In Pittsburg Coal Advance
Pittsburg Coal Company announces a 20 cent per ton increase on run of mine and screened coal effective next month. This brings the total rise to 45 cents per ton in under three months, driven by strong industrial demand nationwide and a car supply shortage.
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Pittsburg Company
Pittsburg
Pittsburg Coal Company
Reprieve Granted for Russian Murderer in Connecticut
Hartford Oct 30 Frank Sherrie condemned to death for the Somersville murder of Polish boardinghouse keeper Mrs Ludwika Kulas was reprieved by Gov Henry Roberts to January 19 1906. The reprieve followed a capitol meeting with Russian consul general Nicholas Lodygensky and CT Attorney General William A King amid appeals to the Russian embassy. The prisoner is Russian and two brothers served in the Russo Japanese war. The case will be reviewed by the pardons board in December.
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Hartford
Conn
Frank Sherrie
Henry Roberts
Sherrie
Ludwika Kulas
Somersville
Hughes Not to Prosecute For Insurance Inquiry
Charles E Hughes asserts he will not lead criminal prosecutions from the insurance investigation. He states his aim is to uncover facts and abuses, not to indict, and to ensure the industry is properly safeguarded. He notes he helped Jerome but emphasizes impartial fact finding over punitive trials.
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New York
Charles E. Hughes
Legislative Insurance Investigating Committee
Jerome
Hughes
Old-World Chitchat on German Colonial Expansion and Trials of Empire
Theodore von Holleben leads the Deutsche Colonial Gesellschaft advocating immediate German colonial expansion. The 1909 congress in Berlin drew diplomats, merchants, financiers, and church leaders, urging emigration to new German colonies while recounting South Africa policy shifts and humane reforms. A Vienna tale reports a vivisection subject dying after decades of anatomy experiments, note her daily visits to surgeons with tools for research.
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Theodore von Holleben
Washington
Deutsche Colonial Gesellschaft
Johann Albrecht
Mecklenburg
Reichstag
Dr. von Holleben
United States
Germany
Dr. von Braunschweig
Vienna
Wiley Proposes Jury Tests on Cold Storage Food Quality
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley of the Bureau of Chemistry plans a series of experiments to solve questions about cold storage foods. He will invite a panel of Ep icures to taste meals made from freshly prepared and cold storage products, testing nutritive and gustatory differences. He envisions two squads fed on different regimes to compare health and flesh gains over time.
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Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Harvey W. Wiley
Department of Agriculture
Congress
Department
Carmody Must Remain Prince George Citizens Defy Resignation
A regular meeting of the Prince George County and Eastern District of Columbia Citizens' Association refused to accept Frances S. Carmody's resignation as president and deferred next officers' election. The group discussed Rollins avenue repairs, a road crossing, and altering road control laws. New members Oden Bowie William R. Smallwood and John Trent were elected. other business followed. Succeeds Storrs with Lake Shore appointment noted for D. C. Moon, now general superintendent after two years as assistant. A medical ad promotes Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds at 50c and $1.
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Citizens’ Association
Prince George County
District of Columbia
Frances
Carmody
Republican Party
Richard Brown
Association
Rollins Avenue
Chrisman
Chesapeake Beach
District Line
Carter P. Catts
Howard Chrisman
Wall John Gregory
Francis 8. Carmody
Chisapeake
Sixty-first Street
Gregory
House of Delegates
State Senate
Oden Bowie
William R. Smallwood
John Trent
Social Favorite in Jail in Pittsburg Society Shock
George McKee once a dapper social favorite of Pittsburgh society has been jailed charged as a gentleman sneak thief. Women from fashionable districts identify him as the man who visited homes to view premises for purchase then stole money and jewelry. Former Westinghouse executive, he later moved to New York and Pittsburgh, once refused politics saying gentlemen do not enter the beastly game.
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Pittsburg
George McCombs McKee
McKee
Knoxville
Westinghouse Company
Wilmerding
New York
Avert Fall River Strike With Wage Compromise
Fall River textile leaders and workers reach a wage compromise averting a 200000 strong strike. The plan totals just under 9 percent in direct and indirect raises from October 23, with dividends reduced from 76 to 2146 cents and a weaving price rise to 18 cents per forty five yards. Unions to vote Wednesday on accepting the terms.
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Fall River
Mass
Textile Council
Prize Jersey Cow Kill Surprises Manila Officials
A Manila report from the War Department details a cook on an interisland transport who mistook a prized Jersey cow for an ordinary one destined for Zamboanga. The prize animal, valued over $1,000 and kept in Manila, was slaughtered while the ordinary cow survived. The incident highlights loss of the best dairy stock in the Philippines.
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Cook
Philippines
Bureau of Insular Affairs
War Department
Manila
Zamboanga
Belford property sold to Collins-Guerry Company in DC
The Belford at 621 Thirteenth Street NW, a four story brick building, has been sold to Collins-Guerry Company. The deed records a nominal price with reported consideration of 98500 dollars. Collins & Guerry plan 5000 dollars in improvements to convert the residence into an office building, enlarging the basement and repainting externally. Mrs. A B Stoughton and her son Augstua B Stoughton Jr sold the property.
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Belford
Thirteenth Street
G Street
Colins-Guerry Company
A. B. Stoughton
P Street
Augustua B. Stoughton, Jr
Philadelphia
Riley
Messia. Collins & Guerry
Collins
Run on Illinois bank in Bloomington prompts full payment
A run on the savings department of the Corn Belt Bank in Bloomington began today. Demands are being met in full and President W. E. Howell says the bank’s condition is never better. Chicago money and local banks are aiding to meet obligations as depositors are paid without sixty days’ notice. Rich officers and stockholders figure among county’s wealthiest.
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Bloomington
Ill
Corn Bell Bank
W. E. Howell
Chicago
Triumph for Bloom Beautiful Color and Form
The annual chrysanthemum and carnation show opened in new greenhouses at B and Fourteenth streets southwest. Visitors praised the Mia Roosevelt chrysanthemum and the silver pink Miss Alice Roosevelt, deeming Mrs Roosevelt the year's greatest chrysanthemum triumph. Carnations and other plants drew crowds as experts explained cultivation and disease control in the department displays.
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Alice Roosevelt
Lawson Pink
Claes
Department of Agriculture
Atrecta
Oliver
Washington
Mia Roosevelt
Lawson
Thirteenth
Fourteenth
Chrysanthemum Show Opens at Public Buildings Grounds
Col. Charles Bromwell announces the annual chrysanthemum show will open in the greenhouses near the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. The display runs through the week to Sunday evening with over seventy varieties and about two thousand plants. George B. Brown and his landscape team report unusual success this year, aiming for a better show than last year with twenty additional varieties.
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Charles Bromwell
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
George B. Brown
Letter Held Nineteen Years Reveals Mail Process in China
A letter mailed from Rochester New York in May 1886 and addressed to a Hong Kong steamship manager surfaced in the dead letter office of the Chinese government. It remained there until recently before reaching the United States and the local undeliverable mail office. The sender’s name is inside. officials will try to locate him and return the communication sent nineteen years ago.
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China
Rochester
Hongkong
United States
Consul Miller Set for Auckland Departure
United States Consul J Martin Miller, once in Aix la Chapelle, proved unwelcome due to reported sentiments and is now preparing for departure. The President shifted him to Auckland New Zealand, with Frank Dillingham moving to the original assignment, as Miller bids Washington friends farewell and readies for his distant post.
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Auckland
United States
J Martin Miller
Aix la Chappelle
Germany
Miller
N Z
Frank Dillingham
California
Mr Miller
Consul Miller
Washington
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