Civil War Threats Rise in Caucasus as Government Plans Campaign
Dispatch from St. Petersburg reports continued disturbances in Creasus prompting the government to consider a civil war through a large field force including infantry and artillery. A campaign targets anglers and revolutionaries blamed for the disorders to restore order with a wheat-based plan. Ohio editor George M. Cooke of Marietta is missing after leaving a suicide note. his body is believed to have been found in the Muskingum River with footprints suggesting the entry point.
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Caucasus
St. Petersburg
Creasus
Ohio
George M. Cooke
Marietta Ghia
Mariette Daily Leader
Dlow
oAhat
Citizens Form Bucket Line to Save Edwardsville from Blaze
About one thousand residents joined a bucket line to halt a fire that started in a diversely described stable from a caseline stove explosion. High winds fueled rapid spread, overwhelming the fire department and prompting citizen aid. Estimated total damage reaches 75000 dollars.
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Edwardsville
Lil
Nho Fire Department
Riverside Park to Open in Huntington Indiana
Pleasure Park owners Capt. O. M. Edgington and II, BE. Negley lease land on Little River in Huntington Ind. to establish Riverside park. The new amusement area will offer features and attractions for visitors in the heart of the city.
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Huntington
O. M. Edgington
Riverside Park
Indianapolis
BE. Negley
Little River
Ind
Railroad Clerk Killed In Ohio Rail Yard Accident
Perry De Mundrum a Dublin Indiana postal clerk on the Indianapolis to Pittsburg route was instantly killed near St Paris Ohio when a mail crane struck him after contacting a freight car on the sidetrack crushing his skull.
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Perry de Mundrum
Dublin
Ind
Indianapolis
Pittsburg
St. Paris
Ohio
de Mundrum
Boy of Seven Charged in Fatal Wisconsin Case
Leon Crambeau, seven years old, faces charges of causing the death of his six month old sister in Marivetta Wisconsin. A coroner's jury found he started a fire in the cradle bed clothes and buried the child as bystanders passed. The youngster had attempted arson several times before.
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Leon Crambeau
Marivetta
Wis
Vandalism Wrecks Crosses at Catholic Cemeteries
Vandals damaged St. Joseph's and St. Anne's cemeteries in Canada high and nearby sites after attacks at Oconto Falls Pesh tigo and Birch Creek. More than two hundred monuments had crosses demolished with damage estimated at 84000 dollars. In Indiana George Ford, deranged and living at York township near Vevay, killed his wife and three children and cremated them by burning the house.
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Oconto Falls
Peshtigo
Birch Creek
St. Joseph's
St. Anne's
Canada, High
Indiana
George Ford
York Township
Vevay
Ind
Ford
Santa Fe Flyer Wreck Injures Five at Walton Kaw
The eastbound California flyer on the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad wrecked at Walton Kaw. Fred Kempnick of Chicago dining car second cook was badly scalded. Five persons injured. No fatalities.
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Walton
Kaw
Fred Kempnick
Chicago
Diptheria Outbreak Hits Naval Academy Fourth Class
Epidemic reports ten diphtheria cases among about 200 midshipmen at Annapolis Maryland with no fatalities predicted as medical staff seek cause. Separately a bandstand collapse at a Belleville Illinois carnival injures three seriously and about 200 others with minor to moderate hurts.
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Annapolis
Naval Academy At
Packers Admit Rebates in Beef Trust Case Guilty Pleas
Four Schwarzschild & Sulsberger Packing Co. officials in Chicago pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to accept railroad rebates in violation of the Elkins Act. They were fined a total of 25000 dollars and released after delivering a certified check. The case marks an early victory in the beef trust prosecutions.
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Chicago
Schwarzschild & Sulsberger Packing Company
J. Otta Himphrey
Elkins
Beef Trust
United States
Congress
Cnatter
Tam
Weil
Todd
Skipworth
Conrern
Tervilreard
Watahingtom
Chiwse
Boyesen
Ole
The Burglars Harvest Puts New York on High Crime Alert
The article notes New York City facing record burglary levels with East Side thieves active and Harlem reporting dozens of incidents in ten days. It discusses rising burglary insurance losses, premiums, and the growing destructiveness of modern burglars, including bank and dwelling house robberies and the expanded use of nitroglycerine.
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New York
New York City
Bradford
Fulton Streets
Arlington
Miller Avenues
Harlem
Czar Urges Peace as Nicholas Proposes Second World Conference
Emperor Nicholas calls another Hague peace conference backed by Roosevelt as talks unfold in St. Petersburg. The plan aims to curb war by limiting explosives from balloons and expanding Red Cross protections while addressing postwar questions from the Russo Japanese conflict.
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Nicholas
Roosevelt
Universil
Nlagte
St. Petersburg
United States
Russia
Housevelt
Washington
Red Cross Society
President urged to address crime and lax law enforcement
Census figures over twenty years show murders rising while executions fall since 1885. Eminent lawyers blame technical defenses and lax criminal laws. Taft cites lawyers’ practices and calls judges to force merit-based trials. Lynchings peak in 1892 then steadily decline.
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JSF
Taft
Yale
TOS
OOS
LIOS
Osler’s Odd Gout Cure Recited Amid Quaint Advice
The article quotes Dr. William Osler describing a six step home remedy for gout. It includes selecting a handkerchief from a spinster, washing it in a miller’s pond, drying on a hedge of a generous person, sending to a physician who never killed, marking with uncheating lawyer ink, and applying hot to the affected area for a speedy cure.
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William Osler
Rain-in-the-Face Sioux Chief Dies at Standing Rock
Rain-in-the-Face the Sioux leader reputed to have fired the shot that killed Gen Custer died at Standing Rock reservation in Bozeman County SD. He fought U S troops and sided with Sitting Bull in the 1876 Litt!e Big Horn uprising. He was 62 at death.
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Rain-in-the-Face
Gen
Custer
Standing Rock
Bozeman County
United States
Sitting Bull
Littl Big Horn River
Tain-in the-Face
Reformers expose bogus Philadelphia vote and dead voters
Sparke from the Wirea reports that a fake poll in Philadelphia involved more than one third dead men. William B. Gill, formerly a Western Union district superintendent, dies at 59 in Cheltenham. Texas oil production falls in August from July by over 1,000,000 barrels. every field shows a drop.
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Sparke
Wirea
Philadelphia
William B. Gill
Western Union Telegraph Company
Cheltenham
Texan
Roosevelt urges fastest plan for Panama canal project
President Roosevelt tells the Isthmian Canal Commission Consulting Board to advise on the quickest feasible canal type. He favors speed and feasibility over ideal design, weighing sea level versus high level multi lock options and potential future conversion without halting traffic.
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Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Consulting Board of Engineers
Isthmian Canal Commission
Davis
Panama
Eno
Isthmus
Atlantic
Pacific
Circus Tent Collapse Kills and Injures Many at Ringling Show
A Ringling Brothers circus tent collapsed in Maryville Missouri during a Monday performance. About 5 000 spectators in the main tent were trapped as the canvas and poles fell. Dozens were injured including three fatally and guards and animals in cages caused chaotic scenes and fear of escapes amid the panic.
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Ringling Broa
Maryville
Ringling Brothers’ Circus
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