Typhoon Toll Swells Beyond First Estimate in Philippines
Manila reports place wide damage from the typhoon with five million dollars in gold lost in hemp districts. Hemp warehouses and plantations are ruined, hindering recovery for a year. Ticao Island beaches show many dead, including unidentifiable Americans. Separate report from Edington West Virginia notes six burned to death in a cabin including two women and four children.
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Manila
Ticao Island
Edington
W. Va
J. Alho
Joseph Cordelia
Hold up particulars from Great Northern eastbound train
Portland reports details of the Ballard area holdup on the Great Northern eastbound from Seattle. Three ringleaders seized valuables after dynamiting baggage and express cars. Two boys aboard on entering coaches helped describe suspects and actions. Train delayed two and a half hours to Edmonds before continuing to Everett. Separately Bateman of Milwaukee stabbed by Des Moines catcher Dexter and improving at Mercy hospital.
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Portland
Ore
Great Northern
Seattle
Ballard
Oregonian
Wasing
Great Northern Express Company
Edmonds
Everitt
Des Moines
Bateman
Milwaukee
Dexter
Mercy Hospital
Texas Boy Hazed Triggers Outcry Over Severe Hazing At College
Frank Bell seventeen son of T P Bell of San Angelo is in a Columbia University hospital in a serious condition after hazing by older students. He has been unconscious for days and asked where his mother was before returning to delirium. The father vows punishment by law with school support amid public criticism.
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San Angelo
Tex
Frank
T. P. Bell
Columbia University
Columbia
Governor Lanham Receives News of Surgeon's Appendectomy
A telegram from Mrs. Worsham in New York reports the New York bound husband, head of the state insane asylum at Austin, underwent a successful appendectomy. Rumors claim Monk Gibson is jailed at Edna but hidden to calm a mob. Edna troops prepare with arms, and Deaf and Dumb Institute trustees set October 4 to elect a new superintendent. An oil mill in Bartlett burned early Tuesday morning.
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Austin
Lanham
B. M. Worsham
New York
State Insane Asylum
Monk Gibson
Edna
Adjutant General
Trustees of Deaf and Dumb Institute
McNulty
Cincinnati Floated After Grounding Near Japan
Tokio reports the American cruiser Cincinnati was floated without help after seven hours grounded near Shimonoseki and is headed for Shanghai. In Berlin the electrical workers strike expands to two more factories, totaling 38,000 out, but no disturbances have occurred.
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Tokio
Cincinnati
Shimonoseki
Shanghai
Berlin
Preacher shot on porch. car law prompts Black drivers
In Shreveport on October 3 a gunman fired three shots at J. B. Green a Black preacher on his porch with one bullet grazing his head. In the wake of Nashville street car law Black residents will operate five automobiles.
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Shreveport
J. B. Green
Nashville
Leonard's Sister Claims Brother Shielded Man and Woman
Miss Katherine Leonard, sister of Harry Leonard the National City bank thief, says her brother acted to protect a man and a woman. She provided the police with a woman's name and disputes that securities were found at the Leonard home. Lawyer Abraham Levy represents Leonard.
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Leonard
New York
Katherine Leonard
Harry Leonard
National City Bank
Miss Leonard
Rioters Suppressed in Hravan Turmoil
Quiet has been restored in Hravan Tiflis Caucasia after troops suppressed rioters. Eight Mussulmans and two Armenians were killed and eleven wounded in clashes following an Armenian attempt to free fellow countrymen arrested for murder of a Tartar.
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Tiflis
Caucasia
Hravan
Mussulmans
Noted Iowa Leader Richard Clarkson Dies in Des Moines
Des Moines reports Hon. Richard Clarkson United States pension agent for Iowa and Nebraska and former thirty year managing editor of the Iowa State Register has died. A prominent Republican leader, he was among the state’s best known figures.
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Richard Clarkson
Des Moines
United States
Iowa
Nebraska
Iowa State Register
Imperial decree orders elections to national assembly
St. Petersburg reports an imperial decree ordering immediate preparations for elections to the national assembly. The official messenger also publishes regulations for election conduct. Washington reports Secretary Taft returning from Yokohama after fourteen days, arriving two days early.
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St. Petersburg
Washington
Taft
Yokohama
Warrant Signed for Extradition of Two Men
Ottawa reports a warrant for the extradition of John F. Gaynor and B. D. Greene has been signed by the minister of justice and sent to the lieutenant governor of Quebec for approval.
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Ottawa
Ont
John F. Gaynor
B. D. Greene
Quebec
No Loan Project Declared by Japanese Finance Agent
London Oct 3 Koretiyo Takahashi financial agent of Japan says there is no definite project for the new Japanese loan and no steps have been taken for conversion of the old loan as he prepares to return to America.
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London
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Howell Bros
ING Druggist
Postoffige Drug Store
Postoffice Drug Store
GIN Insurance
Bryan
Oliver Typewriter
Geo. A. Adams
Parker Building
Texas
Worsham
Bartlett
Grand Opera House
John B. Mike
Georgia Minstrels
Stevenson Machine
K. J. Jenkins
Buchanan
Ss. W. Buchanan
Bryan Steam Laundry
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