Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-08-06
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FRIDAY, July 20, 1904.
Pacific mill steamer Korea arrives
safely at Yokohama. having eluded
the Vladyostok squadron; she carried
$1,000,000 in treasure and a general
cargo and was reported captured.
Won Plehve, minister of the interior
In czar's cabinet. assassinated in st.
Petersburg by means Of a bomb filed
with pyroxylin and thrown by a Finn
named Legio; Legio is captured.
Possible that President Roosevelt
may review the G. A. X. parade in
Boston.
Thomas F. Grignon accused OF as.
sault on three women at Quincy, Mass.
Two men walk into the Boston Citv
hospitoi ~ii~s -.....io,, on broken legs.
Gov. Bates reviews naval militia
men of Massachusetts, New York and
New Jersey at Fort Rodman.
President Roosevelt in Washington.
Whitaker post, G. A. R., of Louis
vile refuses to attend national en-
campment at Boston under command
of negro.
Order to freight handlers of all rail.
roads entering Chicago to refuse to
move stock yards freight made by
President Curran and then suspended
pending conference with leaders of the
allied trades union.
SATURDAY, July 30, 1904.
Refugees at Chefoo report very
heavy fighting at Port Arthur, with a
general assault Thursday; rumor that
Port Arthur has fallen not confirmed.
Mary Wright of Boston, aged 16, ar
rested s:r stealing iewelry worth near
ly $1,000 from her employer, George
s. Winslow.
Boston motorists given enthusiastic
greetings at many towns on run from
Syracuse to Rochester, N. Y.
Two Winthrop boys blown down
Boston harbor in dory which they
could not manage, but are taken
aboard a dredger and later discovered
by searching party in launch.
Death of Benjamin Frank Jacobs,
the Oldest street railway man in Bos-
ton.
Atty..Gen. Parker sustains the insur.
ance commissioners refusal to allow
the supreme lodge, A. o. U. w., to do
business in Massachusetts.
Fall River Republican city commit
tee raises a Roosevelt and Fairbanks
banner with little enthusiasm; speak
ers for the most part fight shy Of the
subject Of the strike.
u. s. sailor, sober and orderly, re-
fused admittance to Boston restau.
rant because of his uniform.
Naval brigades end tour Of duty at
Fort Rodman. i-----------
Assassin of M. Won Plehve still
keeps his identity secret, though he is
now known to be a Little Russian.
Pres. Castro OF Venezuela seizes the
property of the New York and Ber.
mudez asphalt company.
Rear Admiral George A. Converse Is
appointed head of the bureau Of navi
cation, vice Rear Admiral H. c. Tay'
lor deceased.
Some evidence that the packing
house strikers are wagering, but the
packers are firmer than ever; strike
extended to New York; considerable
rioting in Chicago.
Mr.. Roosevelt worried by the Chica
go strike, seeing chances of political
harm in it.
Mayor Mcclellan of New York and
Senator Dubois of Idaho call upon
Judge Parker at Esopus.
MONDAY, August I, 1904
Opening of the Old Hcme week cele.
bration in many Massachusetts towns
Fall River mill agents deny that any
plants will open this week.
Fear in st. Petersburg that Gen. Ku.
ropatkin's army is surrounded and
must either fight or retreat to north.
National chairman Cortelyou expert
ences difficulty in getting campaign
funds.
Steamer City Of Rockland success.
fully raised and beached at Rockland
Me.
Lighthouse board orders position ol
Egg Rock fog horn changed as re
! suit Of protest by Bar Harbor cottag.
ers.
Mrs. Minnie Douglass CT Cambridge
Mass, commits suicide by hanging In
her home.
Automobile belonging to Frick, the
steel magnate, held up by police al
Manchesterby-the-Sea.
Opening of New England Spiritual
list campmeeting at Lake Pleasant
Mass.
Emperor marches on foot behind
hearse at funeral of M. Won Plehve, as
sassinated minister of interior.
President Roosevelt anxious to fint
a way in which he can properly inter
fere in the labor troubles in Chicago
and Colorado; serious rioting in Chi
cago.
Railroad men say passengers o.
| ly narrow escape in wreck at New
Haven.
Plans filed in New York for Rookie
feller institute of medical research.
Fifty people hurt in street car COLI
sion at Woodlawn, N. Y.
talian-Venezuelan commission, las
of all mixed commissions, finishes it!
work.
| Reported that German minister a
| Caracas has demanded from Venez. ii;
immediate payment Of interest or
award of 1900 protocols.
Rock Island passengers held up
cars dynamited and passengers robbed
near Tucumari, N. M.
TUESDAY, August 2, 1904
Strike in five buildings in New Yorl
may lead to gigantic tieup Of buildin!
| operations.