World News In Brief Condensed Across Continents
A global roundup notes Minneapolis population surpassing 275000. An Indiana earthquake rattled Greencastle. Author Mrs. Craigie known as John Oliver Hobbes dies at 39 in London. Claus Spreckels mansion in San Francisco to cost 800000 for restoration. Taft to tour the Midwest with Brig. Gen. Bell, visiting Fort D. A. Russell. Russian naval plan calls for 20000 ton ironclads at 21 knots. L B Judson to join Cornell as assistant horticulturist from Idaho. Cape Town riots alarm authorities with Cape boys as core rioters. Naval academy reports hazing violations. several midshipmen flagged for dismissal. Philippine students in the US shift focus to Southern crops. 30 youths currently studying farming.
Scott Calls Attention to Bad Naval Blunder
Seattle August 14 United States Senator Nathan B Scott of West Virginia in Seattle after inspection of Puget Sound forts criticized engineers for Fort Casey placement He says an additional fort must be built on the west side of Whidbey Island to block a navy entering the sound and cites maneuvers showing Casey’s guns ineffective against passing vessels The senator warns the city and sound are not safe from an enemy fleet.
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Seattle
Puget Sound
United States
Fort Casey
Nathan B. Scott
West Virginia
Sound
Scott
Worden
Flagler
Casey
Whidby Island
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Thomas
Indictments Hit Philadelphia Ice Exchange Members
The grand jury returned true bills of indictment against fourteen members of the Philadelphia ice exchange for conspiracy to raise ice prices.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Ice Exchange
Movement to Divide Okanogan County Gains Steam
A push to divide Okanogan County has begun in the north half amid local political activity. A special session of the state board of education convened Tuesday with the state superintendent.
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Okanogan County
State Board of Education
International Typographical Union holds 52nd convention in Colorado Springs
The fifty second annual convention of the International Typographical Union opens in Colorado Springs with 800 delegates from 46 000 printers welcomed by the mayor and six prominent citizens. President James M Lynch responds as books are formally presented to the Amos Cummings library at the union home in the city.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
International Typographical Union
James M. Lynch
Amos Cummings
Union Printers
Abyssinian King Signs Franco Italian British Railway Pact
Rome reports Abyssinian King Menelik has signed a Franco Italian British convention on railways in Abyssinia. The pact guarantees imperial integrity open door and equal commercial rights and continues railway work already begun with communication to parliaments forthcoming.
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Rome
Menelik
Lull in Portland land fraud trials expected in September
Portland Oregon reports that Special Prosecuting Attorney Francis J. Heney must attend the Hyde Benson trial in Washington in October and District Judge Hunt hopes to return home in September, making a probable lull in pending land fraud cases until winter or next spring.
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Portland, Or
Francis J. Heney
Washington
Hyde-Benson
Hunt
Lithographers Declare Open Shop Nationwide
The Employing Lithographers Association executive committee met in New York and declared open shop across all branches. The move affects about 80,000 workers nationwide.
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New York
Employing Lithographers’ Association
Seattle Market Report Prices from Local Dealers
Seattle market report shows f o b prices for grains hay eggs poultry wool and live stock with oats barley wheat chicken feed bran shorts corn hay Puget Sound alfalfa and Eastern Washington ranges. Livestock prices include sheep hogs steers cows calves and lambs with per pound and per head figures.
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Seattle
Washington
Puget Sound
Tacoma Quotations for Farm Goods and Poultry Prices
Wheat prices include bluestem 70c, 738c red 67c. Oats $31.50 to 38.50, rolled oats 33 to 34.50. Hay and feed lists cover alfalfa timothy clover, corn wheat barley bran shorts. Poultry includes dressed turkeys 25c, chickens 21c, ducks 15c, geese 16c. Live hens spring chickens 15–16c, ducks 11c, geese 12c. Butter Washington creamery 24c. Eggs Washington ranch 26c.
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Washington Creamery
Washington Ranch
Militia Arrives as Camp Tacoma Trains In Troops
State troops from Washington Oregon and Montana arrive at Camp Tacoma for maneuvers. Washington’s twelve company regiment under Col Lamping camps at Nisqually joined by Troop B. Oregon’s Third Regiment arrives with a 12 company unit and a 4 battalion separate unit under Col Gantenbein. Montana Guards arrive next, 535 officers and men, camps near Murray. General orders set damage claims and fence repair protocols.
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Tacoma
Washington
Oregon
Signal Corps
Washington Guard
Montana Militia
Idaho
Washington Regiment
Lamping
Huggins Crossing
Nisqually
Comand
Everett G. Griggs
Second Cavalry
C. A. Gantenbien
Poorman
Mays
Maj. Baker
Maj. Yo
Montana National Guard
Muscatines
Philippines
Montana
Absalom B. Bray
Butte
Chinese labor trial planned for Isthmian Canal
Washington August 13 Chinese labor will be tested on the Panama canal Contracts for 2500 Chinese for canal work are prepared and will be opened to labor agents proposals The test aims to speed work after Jamaicans and Spaniards prove inadequate Officials including President Roosevelt Taft and Shonts support the plan despite organized labor objections and delays in hiring Chinese workers
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Washinon
Panama Canal
Isthmian Canal Commission
Roosevelt
Taft
Shonts
Canal Commission
Longworths Guest at Sagamore Hill Before Cincinnati Visit
Representative and Mrs. Longworth, arriving in New York on the St. Paul, have reached Sagamore Hill to stay with President Roosevelt for several days. They will then travel to Cincinnati via Washington.
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Oyster Bay
Longworth
Europe
St. Paul
Sagamore Hill
Roosevelt
Cincinnati
Washington
New Volcanic Island Reported in Bering Sea Near Dutch Harbor
L L Bales and Orizaba officers confirm a volcanic island formed in the Bering Sea last spring. The 900 foot high, three mile long island sits about fifty miles west of Dutch Harbor with lava streams and boiling sea. The Perry could not fully examine due to steam and lava as the Orizaba departed Dutch Harbor.
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Seattle
Bering Sea
L. L. Bales
Orizaba
United States Revenue
Perry
Bales
Dutch Harbor
Bogossof Islands
Truebridge
Union Men to Fill Striker Positions in New Haven
In New Haven on August 13, Second Grand Vice President Val Fitzpatrick ordered an immediate end to the switchmen’s strike. He says the strike was illegal and unwarranted and that the Brotherhood will fill every striker’s position with competent men, possibly recruiting from other railroads, affecting about 260 workers.
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New Haven, Conn
Val Fitzpatrick
Brotherhood
Harriman Wins Board as Wells Fargo Stockholders Vote
At the Wells Fargo annual meeting in New York the Harriman ticket led by E. H. Harriman won all thirteen director seats and defeated Walter C. Stokes opposition. The vote count was 47 508 to 26 216. The Harriman slate also defeated every opposition proposition.
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New York
Wells, Fargo & Co
E. H. Harriman
Walter C. Stokes
Harriman
Stokes
Oposition
Remarkable Ohio Mirage Attracts Thousands
Residents in eastern Cleveland witnessed an extraordinary mirage over Lake Erie. A clear inverted view showed the Canadian shore sixty miles away and the city of Rondeau visible for over an hour drawing vast crowds before fading.
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Cleveland, O
Lake Erie
Rondeau
Callaghan Administrators Appeal in Seattle Case
Edward Corcoran and Charles H. Farrell as administrators for Hannah Callaghan win leave to appeal Judge Hanford's decision in the case against Terence O'Brien administrator of John Sullivan estate. Seattle pioneer property valued at about half a million dollars involved.
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