Roosevelt and Taft Convene on Cuba and Panama Roles
President Roosevelt met with Secretary Taft and Assistant Secretary Bacon to review Cuba after US intervention. They discussed fiscal agent plans, Panama governance, and withdrawal of most naval forces while keeping port communications, with Taft signaling Major personnel moves and staff needs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Taft
Bacon
Cuba
United States
Panama
Magoon
Fatal Gasoline Explosion Shatters Fort Recovery Store
Four people killed and about 100 injured when a gasoline blast at the Metherding hardware store in Mainerding, near Celina, Ohio, tears through Fort Recovery area. Names include Mise Cleo Wels and Henry Kammer among the dead. several seriously injured and a missing person. Fire crews from Portland Indiana, Coldwater and St. Henry assist as flames gut the west side. loss estimated in the thousands.
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Mainerding Dry Goats and Hardware
Fort Recovery
Mise Cleo Wels
Henry Kammer
Charles Wagner
Joseph Reesner
John McMuller
Mra
D. Kidder
Salamania
Ind
Henry Claughman
George Record
West Aide
Portland
Coldwater
St. Henry
Seneca Fire Destroys Oconee Inn and Palmetto Hotel
A morning blaze in Seneca, South Carolina, destroyed the Oconee Inn and the newly built Palmetto Hotel, along with three stores. Property loss is estimated at 76,000 dollars. Several guests were rescued after doors were forced to evacuate rooms while rumors of arson were investigated and deemed unfounded. Firefighters used dynamite due to the town lacking a fire apparatus.
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Columbia
3. C
Seneca
Oconee Inn
Palmetto
1 Negro College
Body Found In Cornfield After Barricade Near Chatfield
Ferdinand Nietzer aged sixty five died by his own hand in a cornfield near his Chatfield Minnesota home. Deputies had come to attend his sick children and were attacked as they forced entry. A deputy was injured when Nietzer shot at them. a daughter injured the deputy with a garden rake but not severely.
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Chatfield
Minn
Ferdinand Nietzer
Nietzer
Leopold I blocks Congo conference with personal influence
Rome reports King Leopold I of Belgium is using his personal influence to block a proposed international conference on conditions in the Congo Free State. He even sought the assistance of the Atten to prevent the meeting, but no aid has been granted. Italy, however, favors holding the conference.
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Leopold I
Belgium
Congo Free State
Hope
Attean
Italy
Town Wiped Out by Fire In Bristow Area
In Bristow Butler county Iowa most of the Knamesa portion was destroyed by fire. The blaze follows another major fire in a short span and authorities believe an incendiary is responsible.
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Iowa
Marshalltown
Knamesa
Bristow
Butler County
Dissatisfied Democrats seize Albany headquarters in anti Hearst drive
Democratic state chairman William J. Connors announced that upstate Democrats headed by ex mayor Thomas M. Osborne seized the Albany headquarters and planned an anti Hearst campaign. The group said they held possession as rightful possessors and would seek a court injunction if actions harmed Democratic candidates. A conference followed with Hearst, Connors, McCabe and Thurgan.
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William J. Connors
Patrick HE. McCabe
Albany County
Albany
Thomas M. Osborne
Auburn
McCabe
W.R. Hearst
Messrs. Hearst
Connors
Thnrgen
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Osborne
Charles F. Murphy
Tammany Hall
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Suit for a Million in Connecticut Insurance Fight
Hartford Oct 23 Legal action seeks to force distribution of Hartford Life Insurance safety fund exceeding 1 million dollars and to appoint a receiver. About 20 000 certificate holders claim stockholders used assessments since 1899 to fund a safety fund, not distributions. Plaintiffs name Henry A Weber O S Chapman William Booth and C K Robinson as litigants.
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Fe Insurance
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Forced to Put Back to Port After Trial Run
San Francisco October 23 The new cruiser California after a two hour endurance run exceeding twenty three knots was forced to return to port due to a defective bearing A new trial will be arranged Commander Johnson Hanged in Columbia South Carolina October 20 for the murder of Rev Harmon Grainger a Baptist preacher who had denounced him for immoral conduct Johnson a man of means and influence was executed with militia present At Sennettsville Roy Dargen a Negro was hanged for rape Terrorist Killa a Gendarme Moscow October 18 police report an important terrorist living in Moscow under a foreign passport Another terrorist arrested killed a gendarme then killed himself
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Telegraphiac brevities and political notes
Brief items note Mrs Richard Dwyers death in Louisville Ky William J Bryan spoke to a Sioux Falls audience and Secretary Tait plans Western campaign speeches Count Goluchowski Austrian foreign minister reportedly resigning Miscellany on weather and digestion remedies including Kodol and Kennedy’s cough remedies sold by Schultz
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Louisville
William J. Bryan
Sioux Falls
M. C
Tait
Count Goluchowski
Hall's Cough Cure Warned Against Mercury Toxins
Consumer alert notes dangers of Cintrens for Catarch containing mercury and urges avoiding use unless prescribed by physicians. Claims mercury can damage the system and urges selecting safer treatments. The product Hall's cough cure is described as containing mercury and sold in Toledo, with warnings about internal use and side effects.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Qoo
Loledo
Contalay
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