Harahan and cotton fraud debate reshape Mississippi valley trade
J T Harahan president of the Central Railroad prepared to offer counsel at a major conference as cotton frauds prompt reform. European bankers’ actions are blamed on delayed prosecutions and cupidity of British buyers, while southern firms push port bills and rapid measures to curb fraud and boost cotton centers from Galveston to Savannah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. T. Harahan
Erehans Central Railroad
Harriman
Misata-~aippi
Porta
Atlantic
Gulf
Harahan
England
London
Southern Cotton Arms
Europe
South
Galveston
New Orleans
Mobile
Savannah
Thane
Memphis
Atlante
Montgomery
Teresina
Dt Fa
Reverend Alexander Sharpe Voices English Politics at St Philip's
Clergyman from Plymouth England Rev Alexander Sharpe drew a large congregation at St Philip's Cathedral on Sunday morning. Visiting brother Robert Sharpe, he discusses English politics tariff reform and Joseph Chamberlains plans fearing a shift against free trade. He will visit Judge Broyles court with Dean Fine to compare municipal justice in America and England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Sharpe
ST. Philip's
Plymouth
England
Hls
St. Philip's Cathedral
Sharpe
Church of England
Robert & Sharpe
Atlanta
Joseph Chamberlain
Dean Fine
Tides Stop Eighth Annual Endurance Swim Shortened
New York July 24 The eighth annual endurance swim by the United States volunteer life saving corps from the Battery to Caney Island, about 1 1/2 miles, was shortened by strong tides and currents. Clifford H Bouweict won in three hours and 58 minutes with Arthur O'Neill close second. All competitors were exhausted after the trip. A flotilla of skiffs and a motor boat accompanied the swimmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States Volunteerite Saving Corps
Caney Island
Battery
Governor's Island
Wwlcomers
Clifford H. Bouwe
Ict
Arthur O'Neill
Crack of Rifle and Revolver to Unliven Camp Perry
The Camp Perry rifle and revolver tournament is set for eighteen days in Ohio starting August 8. Secretary of War Dickinson will not attend this year due to a Far East tour, though he fired several shots before leaving. The event features major matches including Herrick cup Calow cup adjutant general cup and several individual and team contests across 236 targets arranged northward for shared firing lanes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Perry
Ohio
Adjutant General c Cp
Peters
du Pont
Marine Corps
Evans Service
Dickinson
Bull's-Eye
Autdhere
Settlers Heading South for Land Across the Southeast
Southern land sales expand as northwestern firms acquire tracts in Alabama Georgia and Florida for farm settlements. Canadians Slovaks and Mennonites join Ohio Indiana and Illinois buyers moving toward Virginia the Carolinas Tennessee and northern Alabama. Associations tout education on low prices and profits in southern agriculture and fruit and truck farming opportunities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
Pennsylvania
Northwest Canada
Ohio
Indiana
Illinota
Virginia
Carolinas
Tennesese
Gov Gilchrist Welcomes Scouts In Wet Bonanza
Florida Governor Gilchrist joins a scouting party at Suwanee Creek in Clinch County as they battle relentless floods. A Buick in distress is saved by mules from Simmons while the party wades through swollen creeks near Homerville en route to Waycross.
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Little Carbide
Brunawick
Suwanee Creak
Clinch County
Bhore
Connerat
Mike
Vrenda Price
Walter
Wwe
Sall
Alnce Nash
Camp Crack
Milltown
Hirmons
Waresboro
Homerville
J. B. Strickland
Simmons
Dismel
Amoothen
Argyla
Waycross
Cox
Gilchrist
Blorida
Lank McGhea
Dr. Lattimore
Calvin
Fred Brower
Harold
Roosevelt Keeps Quiet on Garfield and Ohio Politics
A report from Sagamore Hill notes Colonel Roosevelt declines to comment on Mr. Garfield’s stance in Ohio politics or his own prospects in the state. He expresses hope progressives will influence the state convention and platform but offers no firm opinion. Longworth’s status remains reticent, Carmi Thompson’s arrival is anticipated after the Ohio GOP convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nick Longworth
Roosevelt
Mr. Garfield
Taft
Garfield
Ohio
Longworth
New York
Carmi Thompson
Thompson
Ohto
Sagamore Hill
Mrs. Roosevelt
Archie
Passenger ship sinks off Korea with 246 aboard
The Tetaurei-Maru en route Kobe to Dairen sank off Chindo Korea last night. Of 246 aboard forty saved and the rest missing. Warships rushed to aid. Captains and most crew could not abandon ship. First class passengers saved including W Cunningham British vice consul Osaka and thirteen second class passengers. One hundred five third class passengers and 59 soldiers were rescued by boats or by warships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokio
Kobe
Dairen
Chindo
Korea
Alasmer
China
Teteurel
W. Cunningham
Osaka
One Brother Saved While Other Drowned in Harlem River
New York dispatch reports Thomas Brown, unable to swim, rescued from a Harlem River hole where his older brother Robert drowned a year earlier. In the rescue, another brother Pater swam out to assist and vanished beneath the water. Ten men witnessed the incident as multiple drownings occurred nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Thomas Brown
Harlem
Robert
Pater
Gantune Boors
Yde
Insurgent Split Cited in Taft Tariff Hearings Speech
In Watertown New York Congressmen Hamilton Fish accused Indiana figure James Watson of improperly influencing tariff schedules. Fish detailed Watson's access to confidential committee documents as a Ways and Means member, his later roles in Washington and Springfield, and alleged large fees as a paid representative for interests linked to tariff framing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fish
New York
Indiana
Watson
James BE. Weteon
Ways and Means
House of Representatives
Payne
Congress
Gla
Trains Wrecked by Strikers Across Several Lines
Widespread disruptions followed strikes as a mob burned two cabooses and damaged freight cars. I Freel of this city was wounded by John Peck of Battle Creek, with arrests of several rail employees. Rail service halted. trains stalled and routes canceled as authorities dispersed crowds. Arbitration talks with Mackenzie King failed, Grand Trunk plans reopen shops and resume freight operations while some former workers report back.
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I. Freel
John Peck
Battle Creek
Mich
Yeck
Eldridge Graham
William McReynolds
Bittle Creek
Freel
Cadoonen
Lata
Alty
South Bena
Willimantic
Conn
Central Vermont
New London
Roagg Denisan
Montreal
Mackenzie King
Grand Trunk
Mark Feck
Three people drown in Randell Reservoir tragedy
Deriteon Texas July 24 three people drowned at Randell reservoir fifteen miles from Denison in the afternoon. Victims are Harry Smith a prominent business man Mrs Beasie Bird widow and her infant. They drove into what they believed shallow water and fell into sixteen feet of water. A horse was present and the incident was unseen. The bodies were recovered after the accident.
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Randell R Reservoir
Texas
Deriteon
Randell Reservoir
Denison
Harry Smith
Beasie Bird
Funeral notices crowd Alabama city pages
Numerous obituaries report deaths across locally known families. Julia E Francis of 135 Juniper Street and Susan O Salter, aged 3, are listed with services at Patterson’s chapel and interments in West View cemetery and Social Circle respectively. Other deaths include R L King of Dilaborough aged 37, George M McMillan Jr., Jessie E Mathews aged 4, Henry North, M P Brown, Myrtis Robertson, John D Knight infant, R M Proctor, Harvey Long, and E W Roberts, with services at area chapels and private cemeteries. The notices note residence details, survivors, and funeral arrangements in various towns.
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Julia E. Francis
Julia BE. Francis Einema
Teuidence
Juniper Street
West View Cemetery
Susan O. Salter
Susan ©. Salter
Slater
A. EB. Ashworth
Muroine Gieche
Ormond
Mise Amentha Brown
Patterson's
Myrtis Robertson
Mra Myrtin Robertson
J. F. Robertson
Harry G. Poola
Rest for Soldiers at Chickamauga
Chattanooga Tenn July 24 Today was a day of rest with the soldiers and the camp at Chickamauga was crowded with thousands of visitors Band concerts and devotional exercises by the chaplains constituted the day s work Tomorrow the regular course of instruction points to the great battle to be fought Thursday and Friday The maneuvers will be ended with a grand review next Saturday after which the army troops will return home The seventeenth infantry station hike through to their home station
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenn
Chickamauga
Afato Troome
Rome
Seventeenth Infantry
Accused of Stealing Bonds Worth 80000
New York July 24 counsel for Erwin Wider charged with stealing 80000 dollars in bonds from the Hurstm Thai bank. The lawyer said he knows where Wider is and that the bonds have not yet been negotiated. It is implied they were hypothecated with Wall Street brokers. No police report has been filed and the lawyer hopes for no prosecution once the bonds are returned. Wider earned 1200 dollars yearly and owned a car while paying 135 dollars monthly for a Bronx house.
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New York
Erwin Wider
Officiala
Hursm Thinese
Wider
Wall Street
Wilder
Bohde
Hae
Bronx
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Fountains
War Department
Crippen
Scotland Yard
Hawley H. Crippen
Ethel Leneve
Inspector Dew
Liverpool
Lawrentie
Montroxe
Birmingham
Ala
Louisville
Lanier
Tommy
Tam
Ctloa
N. Y
Hamilton Fish
Garrison
Oaelds’ County Republican League
Cannon
Sherman
Who
C. B. S. Jackson
Forsyth
Wesleyan College and Conservatory
MACO
W. HN
Ainsworth
D.D
Agnes Scott College
Dprcatur
Avante
Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of
F. A. Ines
D. D
Seae Lees
Ter College For
Alfred Shorter
America
A.W. van Hoose
Acols
Stewart
Chener
Jameson
Macon
R. L. King
BR. L. King
Dilaborough
N. G
Stelock
Tiisborough
George M. McMillan
George Montgomery McMillan, Jr
Boulevard Terrace
Sahara GM
McMillan
Ohe
Virgil
J. G. Grogan
Berelay
Brandon
Ochlocknee
Jessie E. Mathews
Tathorton
Henry North
Pope Street
M. P. Brown
Echo Street
J. P. Brown
Harry G. Paoole
John D. Knight
John
Mra. W. R. Bknight
Mason Turner
Mason
R. M. Proctor
RM. Proctor
Circle Street
Harry G. Poole
Harvey Long
Harvey
God Mra G. Long
Lakewood
E. W. Roberts
Albany
Elbarton
E. W. Roberta
Roberts Hotel
Roberta
S Nama
Bho
The
Baptist Church
Medical College
State of
South Carolina
Charleston
Roper Hospital
Obert Wilkon, JR
Dean
Queen and
Franklin Street
Bank
Ines
Skee
Pattern
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