Great U 8 Fleet to Assemble in the Caribbean
Fifty of the largest U S Navy warships will gather in the Caribbean Sea for midwinter maneuvers under Admiral Dewey with President Roosevelt expected to witness. The fleet includes first and second class ships and torpedo boats, forming one of the most powerful squadrons ever assembled.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
United States Navy
Caribbean Sea
Stars and Stripes
Admiral Porter
Admiral Dewey
Roosevelt
Moody
Atlantic
Caribbean
Queen Victoria
Edward
United States
New England
Higginson
Army
Fisher's Island
Navy Yard
Maine
Baltimore
Hanna gives up efforts to end 10 miners' strike
United States Senator M A Hanna arrived in Buffalo with his daughter Ruth Hanna and Miss Phelps. He says he has exhausted his efforts to end the coal strike and urges arbitration by operators and miners, warning the fight will be long and raise coal prices. He notes Morgan would not take action, a stance he believes unchanged.
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Buffalo
N. Y
United States
M. A. Hanna
Niagara Falls
Ruth Hanna
Miss Phelps
Cleveland
Senator Hanna
Morgan
Eunor
Guilbert
Poe
Sage Says Morgan Could End Strike
Special Despatch reports Russell Sage urging J. P. Morgan to end the coal strike. Sage calls Morgan the greatest man in finance and says his influence with mine magnates and leaders of the steel trust could swiftly halt the dispute and resume mining operations.
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Sage
Morgan
Commercial Tribune
New York
Russell Sage
J. P. Morgan
Wall Street
Mr. Morgan
Mr. Sage
Advance Guard of Legislators Arrives in Columbus
The advance guard of Ohio's General Assembly arrives in Columbus headed by Speaker McKinnon with Wirt Herrick Wilhelm Ankeny Dunham Meisel Crafts Kimball. He advocates public hearings on the municipal code bill and a committee setup to hear residents before any enactment.
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Tives Ankeny
Dunham, Meisel, Crafts and Kimball
McKinnon
House
General Assembly
Cuyahoga County
Tom L. Johnson
Meisel
Friends
Johnson
Senate
Cleveland
Shaffer in Critical Illness Report From Pittsburg
Theodore J. Shaffer president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tinworkers is seriously ill in Pittsburg. He was taken ill Saturday night or Sunday morning and for most of the day was reported delirious with authorities saying he is a very sick man.
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Pittsburg
Theodore J. Shaffer
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tinworkers
Shaffer
Dreamed of a mishap ends in deadly gas tragedy
Bryant Schick awoke from a dream to find his Chicago home filled with escaping gas. His wife and two children, a two year old girl and an infant boy, were dead, believed due to his wife turning on the gas while temporarily insane. A note she left was unreadable.
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Chicago
Bryant Schick
President Roosevelt Christens Baby in Nahant Honor
President Roosevelt acted as godfather at the Nahant christening of Julia Ward Howe’s great granddaughter. Crowds along the Newport to Nahant route cheered as he traveled by special train with Mrs Roosevelt and Senator Lodge.
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Roosevelt
Newport
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Lodge
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Oyster Bay
Chanler Villa
John Diamond
Episcopal Church
Julia Ward Howe
United States
Bates
Dalton
Massachusetts
Boston
Lynn
Senator Lodge
Fatal wreck on the Georgetown grade near New Albany
A freight wreck on the St Louis and Louisville division of the Southern at Georgetown Indiana killed Brakeman Benso Ross Engineer Duval Fireman Dudley Cox and injured Harry Goodale and Brakeman C F Meyer with Brakeman Osborn missing The crash occurred as two eastbound trains collided on a high trestle and debris buried the crew in a ravine for hours with rescue efforts ongoing.
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Goodale
Cox
Ross
Meyer
Osborn
Georgetown
Taft testifies loyalty of former insurgent appointees
Manila Aug 24 The defense in the Freedom sedition case calls Governor Taft to testify that former insurgent leaders, though guilty of war outlaws, were appointed to civil posts and proved loyal honest and earnest. Taft notes some had murder charges but were trusted by their people and not chosen for insurgent status. He resumes governorship, Wright returning to the U.S. Ten constabulary are ambushed near Magdalena Luzon with one killed two wounded three taken. Seventy pursue the Ladrones.
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Manila
Taft
Luke E. Wright
Wright
United States
Magdalena
Sorsogon
Luzon
Four Kronberg Children and Servant Die in Portland Fire
A Maine fire in Portland claimed the lives of William Kronberg’s four children and a servant girl. Firefighters found the victims as the father, half clad, stood on the sidewalk calling for help.
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Portland
William Kronberg
Archduchess Marguerite Sophie Dies in Austria
Archduchess Marguerite Sophie of Austria wife of Albert Duke of Württemberg died in Gmunden Austria after an appendicitis operation. She was born in 1870.
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Berlin
Marguerite Sophie of Austria
Albert
Duke of Wurtemburg
Gmunden
Austria
Man's Ambitions and the Pipe Dreamers Preview
A teaser notes The Pipe Dreamers examine human ideals across life stages in Next Sunday's Commercial Tribune, inviting readers to recognize their own ambitions and reflections in the upcoming feature.
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Commercial Tribune
White Squadron Surrenders Entering Salem Harbor
Gloucester reports at dawn the White Squadron surrendered to Blue while trying to enter Salem harbor. The Panther and the Supply follow orders, The Prairie heads to Boston for repairs as Pillsbury’s fleet faced handicaps of narrow defending line slow ships and few entry ports.
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Supply
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Kearsarge
Alabama
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Brooklyn
Olympia
Cincinnati
Montgomery
Gloucester
Mayflower
Scorpion
Blue
Washington
Salem Harbor
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