War News Briefs From Across Front and Home Front
Major General Count Shouvaloff, Moscow police prefect, was assassinated as he received petitions. a former St. Petersburg teacher named Kulikovsky identified as the gunman. Twenty four mutineer leaders were hanged at Odessa. Russia abandons extradition for Kniaz Potemkin mutineers. Rear Admiral Kruger may leave service for alleged incompetence. Reports say four Moscow regiments mutinied and Warsaw officers refused to fire on a mob. a regiment near Tiflis reportedly killed all its officers.
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Count Shouvaloff
Moscow
Shouvaloff
St. Petersburg
Kulikovsky
Odessa
Russia
Kruger
Warsaw
Tiflis
Caucasus
Peace Conference Points to Portsmouth Meeting Site
Assistant Secretary Pierce announced Russia and Japan agreed to Portsmouth New Hampshire as the peace conference venue outside Washington. Muravieff resigns as chief Russian plenipotentiary and likely to be replaced by Witte per Emperor Nicholas. Meanwhile Japanese forces seized Sakhalin area near Cape Notoro almost without resistance. Stoessel reportedly arrested at Tsarskoe Selo amid port Arthur inquiry findings.
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Pierce
Russia
Japan
Portsmouth
Washington
M. Muravieff
M. Witte
Nicholas
Committee of Ministers
Cape Notoro
Sakhalin Island
Stoessel
Tsarskoe- Selo
Port Arthur
Inquiry into tobacco statistics echoes cotton probe
Secretary Wilson has begun an inquiry into charges that tobacco statistics have been manipulated in a manner similar to the cotton disclosures. Other items report Kansas wheat crop estimates, notable deaths, new directors at Equitable, first bale sale of cotton, and a major abattoir fire at Allentown with losses.
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Wilson
J. R. Koontz
Santa Fe
Kansas
Richard Wareham
Knights of Pythias
Rock Island
Washington, D. C
D. Cady Herrick
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Charles E. Littlefield
Maine
Nevada N. Stranahan
New York
Equitable Association
New Orleans
Auvren Garrett
Willois
Peoria
Rockhill
Peking
State Department
New ‘York
Gov. Higgins
Arbogast & Bastian
Alflentown
Various US and world events stir headlines across 1900s
Reports from Pocasset Cape Cod describe Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood’s trepanning operation with a reportedly successful outcome. A freight wreck on the Iowa Central near Richland IA killed three and injured two. New York Health Commissioner Darlington seeks a large sanitarium for consumptives. Paul Jones’ body voyaging to Annapolis on July 22 will be met by Admiral Evans’ fleet and a French warship. A Belasco Shubert Fiske coalition will challenge a 15-company theatrical circuit. Chicago faces a $1.5 million year end deficit from a costly strike.
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Pocasset
Cape Cod
Leonard Wood
Iowa Central
Richland
Darlington
New York
Paul Jones
Annapolis
Shantz
Panama Canal Commission
Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Chicago
Otto Siedel, Jr
Milwaukee
Central National Bank of Boston
Root
Orient
Morocco
Venezuela
Domingo
Hay
Illinois
Steger
Siegelstein
Mentor
New “Old South Church
Boston
Citizens’ Bank of
Yellow Springs
Walter Reeves
Streator
C. J. Devlin
P. C. Renfrow
Thurston Plowman
Cogar
Oklahoma
Emperor William
King Oscar
Hohenzollern
Gefla
Sweden
Commonwealth
Melbourne
Alice Roosevelt
Australia
Rosebud
South Dakota
United States Treasury Conscience Fund
Conscience Fund
New York City
Hendricks
Equitable
Richard Yates
John D. Rockefeller
Cleveland
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Morton
Depew
Global unrest and crimes narrated in late 1904 dispatches
A compilation of disparate reports notes threats from terrorists against Gen Trepoff, a murdered well-dressed woman found at Arlington Golf Club near Boston, bank losses of John Mitchell, and a Brazilian deputy proposing a 2 million prize for a tuberculosis cure. Other items cover political appointments, legal cases, rail rate fights, labor strikes, and disasters across the globe.
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Trepoff
Arlington Golf Club
Boston
John Mitchell
Mine, Workers’ Union
Spring Valley
Ill
Senor Medeiros
Leonard Wood
Panama
Franco-American Financial Association
Paris
Bonaparte
Navy Yard
Stuyvesant Fish
New York
Congress
Chicago Record-Herald
Chicago Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Gen W W Blackmar Dies In Boise At 75
Gen W W Blackmar commander in chief of the G A R died in Boise Idaho on Sunday after intestinal nephritis his wife at his side He was born July 23 1841 in Bristol Pennsylvania and served in the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry and First West Virginia later as judge advocate general of Massachusetts He arrived July 10 for a Northwest tour and planned to visit posts Capt John R King becomes acting commander in chief until the next national encampment King is pension agent for Maryland Virginia and West Virginia with a Washington office.
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Maj. S. S. Rockwood
Portage
Wis
Department of Agriculture
Jeremiah Rusk
Board of Regents of Normal Schools
Wisconsin
Charles H. McGinley
Detroit
Mich
Paul Smith
Adirondacks
Andrew Morrissey
Note Dame University
Normandie
Hudson River
Dobbs Ferry
Volund
Larry McCuen
James Brown
Janesville
United Colliery Company
Wattstown
Rhondda Valley
Gov. Johnson
Minneapolis
Upper
Mississippi
Samuel E. Howard
Shambaugh
Page County
McGill
Atilla
Honduras
West River
Canton
Benevolent Order of Elks
Denver
Grand Lodge
Buffalo
John T. Foster
United States
New York City
Arlington
N. J
American Bankers’ Association
Washington
Milwaukee County Grand Jury
Rodney B. Swift
International Harvester Company
Chicago
Boise
Idaho
W. W. Blackmar
Boston
Grand Army
Northwest
Blackmar
Bristol
Fifteenth
Pennsylvania Cavalry
West Virginia
Five Forks
Custer
Govs. Long
Talbott
Rice
Massachusetts
Baltimore
John R. King
King
Maryland
Virginia
Disaster in Fermo chapel collapses killing women and children
In Fermo Italy on July 17 the chapel roof of the women’s hospital collapsed during mass killing 16 women and 50 children and injuring many more. Rescue efforts recovered victims as soldiers and locals worked under officials supervision. Only 12 girls escaped unharmed. The town mourns the loss among prominent local families.
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Italy
Fermo
Women’s Hospital
Rioting Renewed Suppresses Revolt Across Cities
Dispatches report renewed riots in Lodz Warsaw Odessa and Caucasus provinces with clashes between Cossacks and revolutionaries. Bombs explode in Baku killing four police agents. Cossack troops attack mobs in Batoum and Moscow sees injuries after a cavalry charge.
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St. Petersburg
Lodz
Warsaw
Odessa
Caucasian
Tiflic
Baku
Batoum
Moscow
Woman Kills Girl in Street Feud Endangering Children
In St Louis on a Sunday, 15 year old Bessie Barnes was shot dead before her home at 2702 Lucas Avenue in the presence of her mother. Mary Carder, 30, is under arrest charged with the shooting said to stem from family ill will. Carder is restrained at the police station while raving, with her three young children nearby.
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St. Louis
Bessie Barnes
Lucas Avenue
Mary Carder
Chicago Population From New City Directory
The new city directory for Chicago lists 2,928 pages and 688,670 names indicating a population around 2,273,000. An increase of about 31,000 names since last year is reported.
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Chicago
Dentist Uses Church Ushership to Hand Out Cards
A Milwaukee church with a large congregation employed a young man as usher and for choir duties. He handed each collector a white card, later revealed to be his dental business cards. The minister investigated after noticing the slips appeared weekly.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Motor Car Trial Accident Not Chauffeur Fault
In the Isle of Man motor car trials an accident where a car struck a house is reported. The chauffeur is cleared of blame after authorities note he sounded his horn three times before the impact.
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Isle of Man
One Man Wisdom Says Silence Beats Arguments
A Cincinnati Enquirer quotation notes a wife asking why her husband avoids argument. He replies that silence is the most difficult argument to beat, implying restraint and composure as persuasive.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Airship Design Challenges Highlighted by Washington Dispatch
A Washington dispatch notes that building an airship that will fly is simple but making one that lights according to a program poses real difficulties. The remark underscores technical hurdles in automated navigation and signaling systems for airships.
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Washington R
Excursion Fares From Chicago Advertised by Tribune
Buffalo round trip 12.25 with eight to ten shipping dates. Detroit round trip 6.50 for August fourteen and fifteen. Philadelphia round trip 19.00 with September fifteen to seventeenth. Liberal limits and stopovers offered. Details at city ticket office corner Clark Street and Jackson Boulevard Chicago. Telephone Harrison 1757.
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Buffalo
Detroit
Philadelphia
Clark St
Jackson Blvd
Chicago
Harrison
Remarkable Cure Report for Pusheck's Kuro in Arkansas
Mrs. W. Oury of Little Rock Arkansas states after years of nervousness and dizzy mornings she found relief using Pusheck's Kuro. She claims three packages restored health created new blood and flesh and resulted in a 30 pound weight gain after medical treatments failed.
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P. O
Little Rock
Ark
Pusheck
Usheck
Kipling on Automobiles and Manners
The Washington Times quotes Kipling claiming cars mold men in every way, but disputes the point noting that the only proven effects are dodging and swearing.
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Kipling
Washington Times
It Cures While You Walk Allen's Foot-Ease Advertisement
It Cures While You Walk. Allen's Foot-Ease is a cure for hot sweating callous and swollen aching feet. Sold by all Druggists Price 25c. Don’t accept any substitute. Trial package FREE Address Allen S Olmsted Le Roy N Y.
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Allen
Allen’ S. Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
The Great Trouble of Talk Without Action
A Life quote notes the modern problem of expressing views so well that people feel no need to act. It argues action should follow speech to effect real change.
Cure for Consumption Credited by Mrs Robbins in Norwich
Mrs Thos Robbins of Norwich New York writes that Piso's Cure for Consumption saved her life three years ago on February 17 1900. The letter expresses gratitude for the remedy and its noted effect on her health.
Laughing as a Sign of Insanity Cited by Scientist
A Chicago Chronicle columnist cites a scientist who links laughter to insanity and argues for more laughter as a test of mental state. The remark frames humor as a gauge of sanity in public discourse.
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Chicago Chronicle
Teacher Overcomes Nervous Breakdown with Pink Pills
Miss Margaret M. James recalls six years of teaching strain in city schools leading to nervous collapse. She credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring blood, sleep, appetite, and energy after using six boxes, and she resumes teaching in Dayton Ohio amid peer endorsements.
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Miss. James
Dr. Williams
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Grand Army of the ‘Republic
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