Delay trip abroad part of tariff program
New York reports that no immediate results will follow Secretary Root s talks with Ambassador Jusserand regarding placing France on the same tariff basis as Germany. A special tariff commission led by James B Reynolds will tour England France and Germany in September to study export market values and invoice declarations. The findings may influence ongoing US France negotiations.
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New York
Root
Jusserand
France
Germany
Special Tariff Commission
the Treasury
James B. Reynolds
Devries
Board of
United States General Appraisers
White
England
Reynolds
United States
One Man Injured In Cincinnati Fire
Cincinnati August 23 wind aided firemen as they battled a blaze that left one man injured. Fire crews fought the flames and controlled the fire with aid from shifting gusts.
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Cincinnati
Fire destroys Eagle White Lead plant area after blaze
A large fire at the Eagle White Lead Company plant last night burned for five hours before being contained. It wrecked property valued at 750000 and displaced hundreds of tenement residents. The block bounded by Broadway East Court Street Hunt Street and the Norfolk and Western tracks was ruined. Trolley and telephone services were cut, and one man was injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagle White Lead Company
Broadway
East Court Street
Hunt Street
Norfolk and Western
Double Murder Attributed to Black Hand Society
In Coaldale Pennsylvania on August 23 two men, Frank Peknolas and Samuel Ambrose, were murdered on Ridge Street by several assailants. Peknola was fatally stabbed with his throat cut. Ambrose died from a knife wound to the heart. Police charge the Black Hand with the crime as part of a pattern of local lawlessness and robbery not motive.
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Coaldale
Frank Peknolas
Samuel Ambrose
Ridge Street
Peknola
Ambrose
Black Hand
Mistaken for Moonshiner Sheriff Fatally Shot
Washington dispatch reports Deputy Collector Henry and Deputy Collector Gordon in Raleigh and Durham tours exchanged fire at a moonshine still after misidentifying each other as moonshiners. Deputy Marshal Gordon was mortally wounded. Henry and two possemen were seriously wounded. Commissioner Capers ordered full care for the wounded.
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Washington
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Lurber
Greensboro
N. C
Henry
Raleigh
Gordon
Durham
Capers
Decline in Stock Prices After Opening Trade
New York reports another drop in stock prices within an hour of the market open. Major losses hit Union Pacific New York Central Delaware and Hudson Great Northern Southern Pacific and Reading, down 1 to 114 points amid light demand. Speculators buying to cover earlier contracts slightly rallied some less active stocks.
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New York
Union Pacific
New York Central
Delaware and Hudson
Great Northern
Southern Pacific
Reading
Gell
Lewlers
Taylor Offers Return to Kentucky for Trial
Former Kentucky governor William S. Taylor, in Indianapolis, declares he will return to Kentucky to stand trial if the Powers case is resolved with absolute guarantees. He rejects immunity promises, demands a fair, impartial trial, and calls for the returned $100 000 corruption fund, fair jurors, bail within 100000, and an agreed judge before his voluntary surrender.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Williams. Taylor
Kentucky
William Goebel
Commonwealth
Robert B. Franklin
Powers
Partizan
Franklin
Treasury of
Two Fatally Shot in Free-for-All Fight Near Fairgrounds
London Kentucky reports a chaotic gunfight near Knox county fair grounds at Warbournville leaving two dead and several wounded. Constable Campbell was killed while Edward Smith and John Warren are seriously wounded. Ralph Tue gle, a policeman, is in danger. Warren's mother, holding a baby, was shot in the arm.
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London
Knox County Fair Grounds
Warbournville
Constable Campbell
Edward Smith
John Warren
Ralph Tuegle
Warren
Lumber Association to Meet in Wilmington for Final Action
The North Carolina Association controlling mills in North and South Carolina Virginia and Maryland has called a meeting at Wilmington North Carolina on September 4 to decide whether to curtail lumber output by closing down mills. The August discussion concluded without action.
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Norfolk
North Carolina Association
North
South Carolina
Virginia
Maryland
Wilmington
N. C
Boiler blast on coal barge kills seven in Hoboken
New York reports the Peterson coal barge boiler exploded in Hoboken. The engineer and six crew members died. The barge normally sails between New York and Boston.
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New York
Peterson
Boston
Hoboken
Weather View WV Forecast Showers Saturday
West Virginia forecast calls for showers on Saturday with clearer conditions Sunday. Temperatures remain mild with scattered rain chances across the state.
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West Virginia
Predicts Aerial Navy Within Ten Years
London reports Major Baden Powell argues air warfare tech will yield an aerial navy within a decade. He cites international airship use and frontier observation. Germany backs state control of airships and bans private balloons in war, urging a ten mile frontier no-go.
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London
Baden- Powell
Germany
Taft Opens Republican Campaign in Oklahoma
Oklahoma City August 23 Secretary of War William H Taft will arrive about 8 00 am to open the Republican state campaign in Oklahoma. A large street parade and a reception at convention hall follow a midday arrival and dinner with the state campaign committee. Governor Frantz will introduce Taft at the evening speech with all state Republican candidates present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Okla
William H. Taft
Taft
Chicago builds giant patrol automobile to fight crime
Chicago plans a steel bodied 70 horsepower patrol wagon built by the city. The oversized vehicle will carry eighteen patrolmen and the chauffeur and can respond to serious trouble faster than current wagons. It marks a bold effort to equip the police with a mobile, high capacity force.
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Chicago
First Strike Benefits Paid in New York
The first strike benefits for telegraphers were paid tonight in New York. The amount was not disclosed but was enough to sustain strikers for a week and there is money on hand to fund the strike for two more weeks, with pledges to cover ninety days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Secretary Root on Road to Recovery at White Plains Farm
Secretary of State Elihu Root, recovering from nervous exhaustion after three weeks at William C. Muldoon’s farm near White Plains, is two weeks from completing treatment. He has gained weight, tanned, and plans to return to Washington as Muldoon predicts he will be the cabinet’s strongest member. The visit drew only one exception to the secrecy rule, a brief call from President Roosevelt.
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New York
Elihu Root
William C. Muldoon
White Plains
Westchester Hills
United States
Root
Washington
Muldoon
Taft
Roosevelt
Mr. Root
American Delegates Will Insist on General Arbitration
The Hague August 24 General Horace Porter reported that Secretary Root told the American delegation not to vote on lists from other powers granting subjects for arbitration. The aim is to press the general arbitration proposal as more likely to be accepted and keep contractual debts separate from obligatory arbitration.
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The
Hague
Horace Porter
Root
Cortelyou Plans Weekly Deposits to Soothe Money Market
Treasury Secretary Cortelyou unveils a plan to deposit government funds weekly in New York, Boston, and other cities to relieve the money market during the upcoming crop movement period. Funds will be placed at designated points to prevent acute stringency or panic at the peak of money demand.
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New York
Cortelyou
Boston
English Delegate Expelled From Socialist Conference
Stuttgart Germany Aug 2 English delegate Quelch was escorted to the railway station by comrades after being expelled from the socialist conference for calling The Hague peace conference a thieves supper He refused to apologize and was ordered to leave Wurtemburg for the remark now returning to England
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Stuttgart
Germany
Quelch
Wurtemburg
Hague
England
Quelich
Battle at New Fort Boone Celebrates Winchester Day
In Norfolk Virginia on August 23 a staged battle with Redskins used war cries tomahawk gleam and musket fire to recreate pioneer life near the new Fort Boone a replica fort from Daniel Boone era. Kentuckians joined memorial exercises honoring Boone at an event simulating his fort on the James River frontier.
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County
Jamestown
Elizabeth
Frances
Richard Callawary
Jemima
Daniel Boone
Winchester
Blue Licks
Ruth Searcy
Betsey Callaway
Anne Lee Sutherland
Frances Callaway
Bartlett Searcy
Norfolk
Hampton Roads
Fort Hoone
Kentucky
Boone's Fort
Kentucky River
Madison
Veterans of Mexican War Gather at Jamestown Reunion
About 8 000 of the 78 000 men who fought in the Mexican War are living, with an average age of 86. Louis F. Beeler of Baltimore presided as the National Association of Mexican War Veterans held a reunion in Jamestown exposition convention hall. The gathering was a purely social reunion with courtesies from the exposition management and exhibitors.
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Norfolk
Mexico
Convention Hall
Louis F. Beeler
Baltimore
National Association of Mexican War Veterans
Brutal Treatment Reported at Rahway Reformatory
Testimony before a New Jersey assembly committee describes an Rahway reformatory inmate William Fordham who drank wood alcohol in October 1904 and was strung up by the keeper, kept to suffer as he pleaded he was dying and died after being let down. The county prosecutor has been informed and will present the case to the grand jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New Jersey Assembly
Rahway
William Fordham
Official Count to Decide Mississippi Primary
Memphis reports slow returns from yesterday's Mississippi Democratic gubernatorial primary. An official count due Monday is expected to decide the result. Noel and Brewer appear in a tight race with Noel leading by about two thousand per Jackson advices, while Brewer backers claim a win by over one thousand votes.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi
Noel
Brewer
Jackson
Pope Bestows Countess Title on Mrs Ryan
Rome reports Pope Pius XIII has named Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan a countess in recognition of her substantial church charities and benefactions. Her gifts to church charities are said to run into millions.
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New York
Rome
Thomas F. Ryan
Murderer slashes wife then himself in Crawfordsville tragedy
Otto Walker killed his wife Laura Walker in Crawfordsville Indiana by cutting her throat with a pocket knife. He then slashed his own throat and is in a serious condition. Domestic troubles were cited as the cause.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Otto Walker
Laura Walker
Walker
Monaghan Named Economics Chair at Notre Dame
Dr James Monaghan of Washington has been appointed to the chair of economics at Notre Dame University in South Bend Indiana on August 22 bringing academic leadership to the university.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Notre Dame
South Bend
Ind
James ©. Monaghan
Washington
Notre Dame University
McDowell County Leads in Coal Boom and Rail Upgrades
McDowell County in West Virginia is featured as the storm center of coal development with 7.8 million tons mined in a year and coke production surpassing 2.6 million tons. The Norfolk and Western railroad builds tunnels and upgrades to handle rising traffic while United States Coal and Coke Co. expands to about 50 mines near Gary. The region's coal, chiefly Pocahontas No. 3, supports a booming iron and steel sector amid a population surge to nearly 75,000.
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George Byrne
Welch
McDowell County
West Virginia
Norfolk and Western
Norfolk and Western Company
United States Coal and Coke Co
United States Steel Corporation
Gary
McDowell
Lowthian Bell
America
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First National Bank
Bluefield
W. VA
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R. L. Speal
Taylor
Oklahoma
Chicago Police
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Sublette & Karnes
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