Postponed yacht race as wind halts series
New York Aug 29 The New York Yacht Club postponed the next race between Kellance and Shamrock III due to strong winds and rain at Sandy Hook. A decision on racing Monday followed a tug to consult Sir Thomas Lipton as crews exchange may be considered. London dispatch notes Lipton’s finances helpers and a broader appeal for a five race series. A separate Mystic meeting released peace pledges from the Universal Peace union urging arbitration and disarmament reforms.
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Emperors tutors shaped William's heavy labor burden
Berlin reports from Cassel say Emperor William praised his tutors for discipline guiding his preparation. He cited Gymnasium lessons and private instruction led by Professor Ispn Peter, noting 58 million Germans rely on him and his second nature is constant work.
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Etruria sails with Prince Alexander and Kyrle Bellew aboard
Liverpool August 29 Prince Alexander of Thom and Taxis and Kyrle Bellew travel as passengers on the Cunard Line steamer Etruria, which departed from Kingston today bound for New York.
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Prince Alexander of Thom and Taxis
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Bank Vault Job Ends With Armed Pursuit Near Bangor
Four or five men blew the Brewer Springs bank vault in Brewer and escaped with about 300 dollars. They fled into woods past Bangor and are dodging an armed posse a few miles away. Gunfire exchanged with Bangor police as crowds watched, none hit. Crimes involved entry through second story windows and tools found in the railroad yard.
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Officers’ Names Divulged In New Haven Strike
In New Haven on August 29 negotiations stall at the Cande Rubber Co as strikers and officials hold. The girls union names their officers for the first time: President Agnes Donahue Vice President V. Dolen Recording Secretary May Heaney Financial Secretary Minnie Grady Treasurer Mary Bruce. A meeting at Trades Council hall to plan policy follows. Proceeds from a forthcoming drawing and a September 20 social aim to aid needy workers. Strikers claim 50 Arctic department girls may join today in sympathy.
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Candee Rubber Co
Girls’ Union
Agnes Donahue
Mrg V. Dolen
May Heaney
Minnie Grady
Mary Bruce
Trades Council Hall
Arctic Department
Train wreck injures players on St Louis and Cleveland club trip
In Napoleon Ohio a Wabash train carrying the St Louis and Cleveland American league teams wrecked early this morning. Players injured include pitcher William Sudhott with a cut hand and sprained wrist, Sydney Mercer with a fractured rib, Ommet Heidrick with severe cuts to leg and face, and Napoleon Lajoie with a sprained knee. Several others were bruised as a special train was formed in Peru to take the clubs to St Louis for the afternoon game. The accident was blamed on a signal misread.
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Cleveland
Napoleon
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Sydney Mercer
Ommet Heidrick
Napoleon Lajoie
Postoffice Robbed at Ridgefield in Broad Daylight
Burglars blew open the Ridgefield postoffice safe in the early hours and escaped with its contents. Two men fled by horse from Postmaster Barwhite’s barn, outdistancing Constable Taylor who fired in pursuit. The safe was emptied, but about $200 stored in a nearby vault for the general store receipts was untouched.
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Giant Fossil Treasures Arrive For Carnegie Museum
New York reports Dr William J. Holland and the Carnegie museum director arrives with what is described as the world’s largest fossil collection by species. The set, bought from Baron de Breit of Brussels for about 250 thousand dollars, weighs around thirty tons and fills 258 boxes.
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Andrew Carnegie
Things Scientific
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Brussels
Belgium
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Aly
Atlantic
Miss Barber Links Magelssen Trouble to Local Gangs
Joliet Illinois August 29 Miss Alice Barber a 18 year missionary at Beirut and ally of Vice-Consul Magelssen visits her parents and cites lower classes outlaws and footpads as making the city dangerous for foreigners. She recalls two years ago attackers who beat and robbed Magelssen and notes police and soldiers were stationed afterward.
Glass workers strike unsettles New York area
Labor disturbances flare as 1400 glass workers strike in New York against the Metropolitan District Mirror Manufacturers' association with a looming nationwide walkout by the Amalgamated International Glass Workers' union on September 1 for a standard wage rate. The dispute centers on employment certificates requiring applicants to disclose names, entry and exit dates, and reasons for leaving work.
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Metropolitan District Mirror Manufacturers’ Association
Amalgamated International Glass Workers’ Union
Honolulu Primaries Spark Contested County Office Races
In Honolulu Aug 29 attorney general L Andrews sent a cable to US Attorney General Knox seeking an immediate ruling on whether a territorial legislator can seek county office under party provisions. Republicans held primaries to select candidates for Hawaii's first territorial county elections amid several legislative figures running and spirited precinct contests.
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L. Andrews
Hawaii
United States
Knox
Northeast storm warnings from New Haven to Cape Cod energy
The forecast notes rain tonight and Sunday for Connecticut with brisk northeast winds, stronger along the southern coast. A Washington bulletin reports 9:00 am display of northeast storm warnings from New Haven to Cape Cod, with brisk to high east to northeast winds this afternoon through night, obscured by morning fog.
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Sam Parks Will Act Under Union Plan At Sing Sing
At a Housesmiths and Bridgemen union meeting plans were set to let Sam Parks continue as business agent from Sing Sing prison and keep his $48 weekly salary despite extortion charges. The prison physician reports Parks has tuberculosis and cannot live more than a year.
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Futurity at Sheepshead Bay Faces Heavy Going
Rain soaked track for the six furlong Futurity two-year-olds with nineteen starters at Sheepshead Bay. $50,000 top prize plus floral horse shoe. total stake around $60,000. Favorites Ham burg Belle and Broomstick among leading contenders with Delhi carrying top weight.
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Sheepshead Bay
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Hamburg Belle
Broomstick
The Cheapest Telegrams In The Australian System
The Australian Commonwealth telegraph service is the cheapest in the world as a government run postal function. City messages within ten miles cost 12 cents for ten words, 18 cents to within the same state, and 24 cents to any station in the commonwealth. It is projected these rates will cover maintenance and interest on construction costs, about 18 million dollars, with Australians sending more than twice as many messages at lower rates than Americans.
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Rockhampton
Queensland
Perth
West Australia
Booth Pleads Guilty In Silver Vault Theft Case
Meriden August 29 John H Booth arraigned in police court on a charge of stealing silver valued at 100 dollars from a vault in factory A of the International Silver Co He pleaded guilty and was bound over to the next term of the superior court under bonds of 3000 dollars
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John H. Booth
International Silver Co
Surrender of Chinese Reformers
Washington reports Minister Conger instructed not to consent to the surrender of six Chinese reformers arrested by Shanghai authorities for sedition. In Denver, twenty-one indictments against City and County Clerk Aichele allege destruction of public records and a $6000 county clerk shortage.
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Conger
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Aichele
Denver
Neckar repairs set after fatal boiler burst
Bremen August 29 The German steamer Neckar after Thursday burst its main steam supply pipes off Terschelling causing the deaths of engineers and five others. The ship has returned for repairs and safety checks are expected to follow.
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Terschelling
Americans Are In Danger at Home and Abroad
Georgetown Ky August 29 Caleb Powers found guilty and sentenced to death for Governor Goebel murder in his third trial. Turkish government warned to stop lawlessness against Americans gunboats and cruisers ready for Port Said and Beirut. Washington Aug 29 state department cable says Americans in Harpoot and Beirut face danger of uprising though not as bad as earlier reports. Constantinople Aug 28 little news. Austrian consul reports troops fired near Uskub consulate. Reopening light house at Kuru Burun Indiana Bay destroyed. War minister says a new outbreak may occur in Seres Strumitza He is taking measures. Bulgarians numerous in eastern Ionia area.
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Hezekiah H. Sheldon Dies at 83 in Suffield
Born in Suffield Hezekiah H. Sheldon longtime town figure and former legislator died at his West Suffield home at 83. He served in 1858 81 87 and 80, led Suffield National Bank as first vice-president, authored local histories and genealogies and was a former schoolteacher. He remained blind in later years and is survived by brother Martin J. Sheldon of New York and a niece married to J. Ogden Armour of Chicago.
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West Suffiield
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Connecticut River
Henry Clay
Martin J. Sheldon
New York
J. Ogden Armour
Chicago
Krause Released From Pentonville Prison
London Aug 29 Dr Krause former governor of Johannesburg released from Pentonville prison today. He had been sentenced Jan 18 1902 to two years for inciting Cornelius Broecks man former public prosecutor of Johannesburg to murder John Douglas Foster an English lawyer on Lord Roberts staff. Dr Krause plans to return to South Africa, practice law and eschew politics.
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Krause
Johannesburg
Pentonville
Cornelius Broecksman
South Africa
John Douglas Foster
Lord Roberts
Saratoga Pennsylvanian school ship sails with seventy boys
The Pennsylvania school ship Saratoga sails from Philadelphia with a crew of seventy boys for a European cruise. The vessel under Captain George W. Holmes is due to reach Southampton on September 30, visit Cherbourg and Madeira, and return by December 5.
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City News Highlights and Local Ongoing Events
Miss Nellie O Hearn of South Manchester visits the city while the board of education schedules a regular meeting for Monday at 8 15 PM. William Hamel and Melandy Bauden return from a month in Canada as Waterbury Military band plays popular music at the promenade tonight. Captain R Bannon resumes duties after a trolley car accident. Lew Munch visits his brother Samuel Munch a Cape Town liquor dealer. Munch represents John Logan Co Limited of Cape Town. John Daly of Buffers and Polishers union and Central Labor union returns from Pittsburgh where he attended the national convention and executive board meeting. Possible developments in the buffers and polishers strike at the Clock shop upon arrival. Funeral services for Ethel Williams held at the Williams home 178 Cooke Street with interment at Pine Grove cemetery. floral tributes from various groups. Little progress toward forming another drug clerks union in the city as leaders advance slowly. some proprietors oppose, clerks reluctant, and postwithdrawal interest wanes. Meetings have drawn about a bakers dozen attendees.
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South Manchester
Board of Education
William Hamel
Melandy Beaudien
Canada
Waterbury
R. ©. Bannon
Police Department
Lew Munch
Cape Town
Samuel Munch
Grand Street
Mr Munch
John Logan Co. Limited
South Africa
John Daly
Buffers’ and Polishers’ Union
Central Labor Union
Pittsburg
Buffers and Polish ‘Ers
Ethel Williams
National Union
Machias Ready Sail for Beirut From Genoa
The navy reports Captain Henry M. McCrea's Machias has finished coaling and will sail at once from Genoa to Port Said. Admiral Cotton announces the Brooklyn and San Francisco coaling and will head to Beirut after. Genoa confirms Machias sailed for Beirut with Italian crews offering best wishes.
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Huy
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Beirut
Waterbury mayoral race chatter hints at Democrat unity
A Waterbury man mentioned in Republican nomination talk says Republicans unlikely to move until others act. He notes Democratic unity could carry the city, even as tensions grow between Aldermen Chesson and Blakeslee. Inner Republican sessions tease possible action but no firm plan emerged.
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Rumor of Turkish Barracks Blown Up by Insurgents
An unconfirmed report from Sofia dated August 29 claims insurgents attacked the Turkish troops at Adrianople. Bulgarian frontier residents resent government measures shrinking cross border movement and officials report widespread arrests of Bulgarians arriving in Constantinople. The unrest references harsh, sweeping reprisals and claims of unfair treatment.
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