Rush to dispatch battleships to the Pacific
Arrangements to transfer the battleship fleet to the Pacific are under swift progress at the navy department. Rear Admiral Brownson leads the effort, returning to his post to implement President Roosevelt's instructions, with fast cruisers slated as scouts and mines to be laid in the Philippines.
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Philippines
Alaska
Washington
Pacific
Navy Department
Willard H. Brownson
Brownson
Bureau of Navigation
Tokio
Sakamoto
United States
Hawaii
War and Navy Department
Alaskan
Oakland
Cal
Metcalf
Atlantic
Anid
Fire destroys major plant of American Scraper in Sidney
In Sidney, Ohio, the American Scraper company plant, among the nation’s largest, burned to the ground. Only a small portion was saved, with losses estimated at 200000 dollars after an explosion caused the fire.
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Piqua,c
American Scraper Company
Sidney
United States
Yale Student Sent to Prison for Worthless Checks
Robert Woolsey Hume a Yale student born in India and aged 22 pleaded guilty in Wyandotte county district court to passing a worthless check. Judge McCabe Moore sentenced him to an indefinite term of one to five years in the Kansas penitentiary. He used the name Robert Woolsey in records to hide his New England lineage. His divorce suit in Meriden, Connecticut is noted.
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Kansas City
Robert Woolsey Hume
Yale
Wyandotte
McCabe Moore
Hume
Kansas
Robert Woolsey
India
New Haven
Conn
East
Meriden
Fatally Wounded, Whips Assailant In St Louis Alley
Former Judge Richard B. Haughton shot Professor John Berry an airship inventor in an alley near Spring avenue and Delmar boulevard. Berry, who had allegedly insulted Haughton over the phone, was shot after refusing to sign a written confession. Berry then struck Haughton with a horse whip and pursued him onto a crowded street car before being taken to the pavement unconscious.
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St. Louis
Richard B. Haughton
John Berry
Spring Avenue
Delmar Boulevard
Berry
Haughton
Raisuli Hides with MacLean in Moroccan Hills
Tangier reports Raisuli the bandit chief has retreated deeper into the mountains with his prisoner as Cheriff Queggan seeks to win General Sir Harry MacLean's release. Fez sources say Moroccan authorities will push for release but fear a British naval demonstration. French and British legations coordinate efforts.
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Tangier
Raisuli
Queggan
Harry MacLean
Fez
MacLean
General MacLean
Earl of Rosslyn Sued for Divorce in Paris
The countess of Rosslyn formerly Anna Robinson of Minneapolis has sued for divorce. Rosslyn born 1869 in London served in Thornycroft's horse at Ladysmith, acted as a war correspondent in the South African War, and once worked as an actor in Europe and the United States. He currently resides in Paris.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Earl of Rosslyn
Anna Robinson
Minneapolis
Paris
Lord Rosslyn
Royal Horse Guards
Europe
United States
Pinero
Thornycroft
Ladysmith
Three Ya cona Crew Drowned In Hudson River Accident
In New York on July 10 three Ya cona crewmen aboard Henry Clay Pierce’s steam yacht Ya cona were drowned when a yawl carrying six sailors and a dock man capsized after being rocked by a sailor. Four men were rescued by a passing tug. three are missing: Rudolph Johnson, Frederickson Von Borsen, Merman Von Borsen.
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New York
Yacona
Henry Clay Pierce
St. Louis
Hudson River
Yacona’sa
Rudolph Johnson
Frederickson von Borsen
Merman von Borsen
Young Woman Burned Face in Pie Accident
Miss Josephine Havey of Keedysville, Maryland, fainted while helping her mother bake custard pies and fell face down into a hot pie. Her face was badly burned, and her beauty may be marred for life.
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Hagerstown
Josephine Havey
Samuel Pavey
Keedysville
Eavey
Tri State Medical Association Opens Annual Meeting
The thirty fifth annual meeting of the Tri State Medical association for Ohio Indiana and Michigan opened in Detroit with prominent physicians and surgeons present as papers were scheduled to be read.
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Tri-State Medical Association
Detroit
Mich
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Well Known Hymn Writer Dead in Colorado
Professor James MacGanahan, aged 67, a famed hymn writer once linked with Moody and Sankey, died at his home in Kinsman Ohio of diabetes. He previously worked with the evangelists Moody and Sankey.
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Warren, CO
James MacGanahan
Moody and Sankey, the
Evangelists
Kinsman, C
Orchard’s Story Declared Untrue in 1904 Bradley Explosion Case
In Rolse Ida July 10, court hearings on the 1904 Bradley apartments blast continue with J B Reilly saying a Japanese servant cleaned the stoop and vestibule and couldn’t see a bomb being placed. Mrs Crow denies going to theater with Orchard and says he lied about that, while gas odor is reported prior to the explosion and witnesses recall a single loud report.
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Orchard
Rolse
Ida
San Francisco
Fred W. Bradley
William D. Haywood
Senator Borah
Clarence
Darrow
Mr. Hawley
Reilly
J. B. Reilly
Bradley
Washington Street
Pickard
Charles Pickard
Crow
Bradleys
Fatal Wreck Kills Train Engineer in Alabama Collision
A rear end collision on the Mobile & Ohio railroad near Whistler Alabama between passenger train No. 6 and a light engine leaves one man dead and two injured. The dead is Thomas Dease engineer of the passenger train from Meridian. Injured are Ben Evans fireman with both legs broken and possible internal injuries, Thomas Murray mail clerk with broken ribs, and an unknown woman slight injuries.
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Alabama
Mobile
Ala
Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Whistler
Thomas Dease
Meridan
Ben Evans
Thomas Murray
President Vallieres Trip Abroad Expanded Plan
Paris July 10 The proposed abroad tour for President Valliere will be more extensive than the earlier plan abandoned because of France's interior affairs. He will first visit King Edward then King Haakon of Norway King Frederick of Denmark and King Oscar of Sweden and may proceed to St Petersburg to see Emperor Nicholas, though this remains undecided.
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Valliere
Paris
Vallieres
France
Edward
Haakon
Norway
Frederick
Denmark
Oscar
Sweden
St. Petersburg
Nicholas
Seymour to Edict New York World
Horatio W. Seymour editor of the suspended Chicago Chronicle and longtime Chicago newspaper figure leaves for New York to assume editor in chief duties at Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World for an unspecified period. He has previously been associated with the Chicago Herald as managing editor.
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Seymour
New York World
Chicago
Horatio W. Seymour
Chicago Chronicle
Chicago Herald
New York
Joseph Pulitzer
Attempted assassination of John Condon with dynamite blast
Dynamiters placed a bomb on a windowsill at 9623 Michigan Boulevard. The explosion caused no injuries and is linked to long running Chicago track gambling feuds among rivals.
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Chicago
John Condon
Michigan Boulevard
Train Arrival Noted at Milan Baggage Room
Fragmentary notice records a train arrival at Milan with reference to baggage room activity and an agent named G. oaREs.
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Milan
G. Oares
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