World News in Brief From The Week's Roundup
A wide collage of incidents from around the globe notes rail collisions near Portsmouth and Sarcoxie with fatalities and injuries, fires at Armour & Co. in Chicago, and a new pneumatic tube system in Chicago. It records political, social, and labor events including Debs responding to Cleveland, wage issues, and a push to curb food imports. It also lists obituaries and notable deaths, court actions, and weather-related disasters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anton Drasche
Austrian Sanitary Council
George Boyce
Ida
New York
Armour & Co
Chicago
Philip Weinseimer
Sam Parks
aAohn Redmond
Judge Fox
Indiana
Frisco
Sarcoxie
Cripple Creek
Roosevelt
Black Hand” Society
Knoxville & Augusta
Southern Railroad
Little River
Tenn
Rosina Watkins
Stock Company
Philadelphia
Devil’s Lake Fort
Tottenland
Bruce G. Warren
Forest River
N. D
John C. Watson
Navy
Political notes on party plans and nominations
The report covers the Republican National Committee outlining speakers for local interests, Texas Republicans nominating James G. Lowden for governor, Dr Edmund J James elected president of Illinois University, William L Raeder nominated for Congress in Pennsylvania, Shaw opening the Western campaign in Helena, Utah nominating John A Cutler for Utah governor on the second ballot.
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Republican National Committee
Texas
James G. Lowden
Edmund J. James
Northwestern University
University of Illinois
William L. Raeder
Congress
Pennsylvania
Treasury
Shaw
Helena
Mont
John A. Cutler
Salt Lake
Republican State Convention
Utah
Battleships, sieges, and unrest ripple across early 20th century fronts
Reports from Tokio and Chefoo describe the Sevastopol damaged by a mine and towed home while Japanese forces push on Port Arthur. Refugees report fort falls near Chefoo as Paraguay rebels gain towns. A Paris death, czarist gifts to Finland, and royal christening mark global tensions amid panics in Asuncion and Buenos Aires.
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Sevastopol
Port Arthur
Tokio
Chefoo
Anteshan
Etseshan
Paraguay
George Leander
Chicago
Paris
Russia
Peterhof Palace
Asuncion
Buenos
Selina
Labrador
Golden Hill
White Marble
Liao Mountains
British and American cruisers search Russian fleet off Cape Good Hope
Balfour declared there will be no more seizures as British and American cruisers pursue Russian ships near Cape Good Hope. John Redmond said England's defeat would bring home rule for Ireland amid unusual storms and snow sweeping the Italian peninsula.
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Cape ‘Good Hope
England
Black Sea
Balfour
John Redmond
Ireland
Russians retreat after Liaoyang fighting and Kuroki strikes south
Reports from Tokio say General Kuroki seized the railway south of Mukden as four days of fierce battle forced Russians to abandon Anshanshan Anping and Tsegon outer Liaoyang defenses. Sakharoff tallies Russian losses at Liaoyang to August 27 around 1500 men.
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Anshanshan
Anping
Tsegon
Liaoyang
Tokio
Kuroki
Mukden
Sakharoff
St. Petersburg
Lawrence Lentch
Chicago
Augusta Gulp
Edward Moeller
Barney Oldfield
St. Louis
Oldfield
New York
Utah
David B. Hill
New York State
Cincinnati
Uruguay
Paraguay
August Moller, Jr
Valparaiso
Chile
Randall Thomas Davidson
D. D
Canterbury
All England
America
LaFollette Coal & Iron Company
LaFollette
Tenn
Northwestern University
Babbitt’s
New York City
Cuba
Kan
E. O. Fites
William McDonald
Kuropatkin
Japan
Port Arthur
James
University of Illinois
Eddie” Fay
Janesville
Wis
Philip Weinseimer
Edward Hines Lumber Company
Mississippi
Emperor William
United States
Frederick the Great
von Plehve
Donnelly
Butchers’ Executive Board
Belgium
Jeffries
Jack Munroe
San Francisco
Taft
Montpelier
Roosevelt
Pine Hill
Pottsville
Edinburg
Adirondacks
Herbert D. Hill
James C. Patterson
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Czar Issues Manifesto On Heir Birth And Reforms
In St. Petersburg on August 24, Emperor Nicholas issued a manifesto tied to the birth of an heir. It abolishes corporal punishment for rural classes and first offences in the forces, remits state arrears on land purchases and imposts, creates a Finland landless relief fund, grants amnesty to unauthorized Finnish emigrants, and forgives fines for Finnish rural and urban communes and Jewish communities over conscription. It also promises general sentence reductions for common law offenses and amnesty for political offenses except murder cases.
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St. Petersburg
Nicholas
Finland
Mrs Maybrick Returns to America on Vaderland
Florence Chanler Maybrick, just released from English prison, travels to New York aboard the Vaderland from Antwerp under the alias Rose Ingraham to avoid attention. She is not hiding her presence, and travels with her attorney Samuel V. Hayden and his wife.
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Norfolk & Western
Portsmouth
Slaten
Hensley
Washington
Thomas B. Waggaman
Catholic University
Florence Maybrick
New York
Pa Oker T. Washington
Chicago
Fred Miller
Cincinnati
Caroline Bo‘es Ely
St. Louis
Red Star Line
Vaderland
Antwerp
Florence Chanler Maybrick
England
Maybrick
Rose Ingraham
Samuel V. Hayden
Hayden
Bible Used at Every Meal by City's Family
A Philadelphia Press tale describes a minister visiting a prominent family. The five year old hostess explains the father reads the family Bible three times daily, including at meal times, using a dining chair to raise the book for the children. The baby brother Jim sits on the chair too.
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Philadelphia
Jim
You must visit our new country club grounds
A suburbanite urges a city visitor to explore a new country club praising its grounds and superb golf links. The city man interjects with a quip about a golf ball, reflecting light conversational irony in Philadelphia Press style.
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Philadelphia Press
Fisherman’s Son Recalls Tattoo Bond From Father
In the Fiji islands a traveler watches a young savage tattoo a fish on his father’s back. Tears fill the boy’s eyes as he recalls a past when his old mate allowed him to draw on him, a memory shared by the companion.
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San Francisco
Jack Munroe
Butte
Mont
James J. Jeffries
Mechanics’ Pavilion
Graney
Jeffries
Munroe
Fiji Islands
N. O. Times-Democrat
No novelist Follows Hero to Bald Headed Epoch of Life
A Chicago Journal remark notes writers rarely pursue the hero beyond the moment the heroine replies yes. The line suggests publishers shy from depicting the later, bleaker stretch of a hero’s arc after marriage.
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Hardihood
Chicago Journal
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Mississippi River
Orin Emich
Omer Poor
Knox
Ind
Arthur Conner
Wiliam White
John Schultz
Clayton Hatter
AIM Jeffries
Czar
Mrs. Maybrick
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Chicago Sunday Record-Herald
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