Emigration Wave and Local Crimes Highlight Week
A Bucharest dispatch notes 4000 Jews left Romania in three months amid work shortages abroad. A brutal assault in Hamilton Ohio left two girls gravely injured as a suspect, Joseph Roth, is questioned. Robbers derail a Van Dalia pay car near Logansport with minor injuries reported. Peary relief steamer Windward returns from Cape Sabine with praise for findings and instruments. Fires in Caperton West Virginia destroy power house and stables, blamed on arson amid mine closures. Two Frankfort Indiana boys die in a straw stack fire aftermath with body trauma.
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Roumania
Bucharest
Roumaania
London Daily Express
Canada
United States
Charles H. Motzen
Hamilton
Ohio
Joseph Roth
Ile
Roth
Marines Guard Trains to Panama Route
American marines travel as guards on passenger trains to and from Panama. The cruiser Cincinnati landed fifty marines and a small rapid-fire gun mounted on a railroad car. A crash near Marion Indiana involved a traction car colliding with a freight train, wrecking both and injuring over twenty people at twenty mph.
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Colon
Columbia
Panama
United States
Cincinnati
Union Traction Company
Marion
Ind
Map of Forest Fire Districts and Scenes Across Localities
map outlines forest fire districts from the Wyoming line to California with fires sweeping timber sections in the Rocky Mountains. Government inspectors and forest brigades struggle to check flames while loggers and miners aid, yet many blazes gain headway and burn vast timber as new fires are reported daily.
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Orest
Rocky Mountains
Wyoming Line
Cellean Calaracts
Monument to Gen Slocum Dedicated at Gettysburg Battlefield
The New York State monument honoring Major General Henry Warner Slocum was dedicated on September 1 at Gettysburg. The 31 foot statue depicts Slocum leading the Twelfth Army Corps with the famous line Stay and fight it all inscribed on the base. The bronze horse statue weighs 7500 pounds and the monument cost 30000 dollars. Short News Notes report incidents from New Orleans and Ohio including a boiler explosion fatality and a lightning-related accident in Kansas.
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Gettysburg
Barre
Slocum
Twelfth Army Corps
New Orleans Maritime Exchange
Nelson Hutchinson
Peter Spicer
Martingsburg
Ohio
Ottawa
Kan
Ned Rathjen
Joseph G Cannon as Henderson’s Successor for Speakership
Congressman Joseph G. Cannon, long a leading House figure, is considered the likely successor to retiring Speaker Henderson. First elected from Tuscola in 1872, he has represented Illinois districts for decades, moved to Danville in 1876, and chaired the Appropriations Committee for four years, shaping major actions including the two-cent letter rate and the Porto Rico bill.
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Cannon
House of Representatives
D. B. Aenderson
Congress
Tuscola
Ilinois
Danville
Tle
Canton
Appropriations Committee
Treasury plan releases 8.2 million in treasury holdings
Secretary Shaw announces 8.2 million dollars of treasury holdings will be put into circulation to ease Wall Street pressures and aid the crop-moving season. Four million of the total will be re-
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Shaw
Treasury
New York
Treasury Department
Wall Street
Crisis in Venezuela Forces Prepare Last Stand
Dispatches report the government in flight across Venezuela as Castro’s soldiers desert in large numbers. insurgent leaders claim government is tottering and predict Castro’s overthrow. Recent advices confirm a Sept 11 battle near Tanaquillo left government forces defeated and weakened.
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Castro
Valencia
Garrido
Willemstad
Secretary Hay protests Roumanian oppression of Jews
Secretary Hay sent a note to United States ambassadors in Europe protesting the oppression of Jews in Roumania. The move aims to protect Balkan Jewry and avert a rush of pauper immigration to the United States amid rising peril.
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Jay
Hay
United States
Europe
Roumania
Balkan States
Iowa District Speaker Henderson Represents Bond Temp Plan
The treasury plans temporarily making bonds held by national banks free of government depositories and depositing them in the treasury. About 50 000 dollars will be distributed, with 4 200 000 placed in circulation via anticipated October interest. A state paper, sent to all US ambassadors in Europe, marks the end of the Turko-Russian war and the Balkan independence act under the 1878 Berlin treaty.
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Treasury
United States
Europe
Great Britain
France
Germany
Russia
Italy
Austria
Turkey
Balkan States
Henderson Withdraws From Reelection After Tariff Plank Split
David B. Henderson, Speaker of the House, declines renomination for the Third Congressional District citing discord with the Republican tariff plank adopted by the state convention. He says he cannot support free trade or trust positions and will publish his detailed views later. The plank endorses protection, reciprocity, and evolving tariffs to suit U S industries.
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David B. Henderson
House of Representatives
Henderson
E. Albrook
Eldora
Congress
Republican Party
United States
D. B. Henderson
European steel rush drives Chicago imports and price shifts
American demand for steel accelerates imports as Chicago imports 10,000 tons of European billets from Scotland and Europe. Chicago builders place large orders with European mills for structural iron, expecting delivery within two months. European producers alter products and price lists to fit American construction needs while lightening output to meet demand.
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Chicago
Scotland
Europe
Custom House
America
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George Trobaugh
Frankfort
Ashington
Lorech
Chicago American
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Henry Warner Slo
Joseph G. Cannon
Moseph G. Cannon
Pressue
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Iowa
Hawkeye Republicana
David Eb, Mexderson
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