Three Killed In Wreck Near Imboden Ark
Meager reports from the scene indicate a west bound San Francisco passenger train derailed near Imboden Arkansas. Engineer Cooper and Fireman Lee Booker were killed. An unknown man also died. a mail clerk was badly scalded. The train burned after plunging 12 feet, with many passengers unaccounted for. An investigation will be made. Sailors helped extinguish the baggage car fire and saved baggage.
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Little Rock
Ark
San Francisco
Imboden
Cooper
Memphis
Lee Booker
Crops are Good All Over U S
New York reports the Journal of Commerce monthly crop summary based on 1,600 reports. It forecasts strong yields if early frost is avoided, noting spring wheat damage overblown and winter wheat near harvest. Overall corn and wheat indications suggest high production versus last year, with August often bringing declines.
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New York
Journal of Commerce
Produce Exchange
Railroads Win Stay in Georgia Rate Case
United States Circuit Judge Pardee dissolved Judge Spear's order prohibiting rate hikes by Southern railway and Louisville and Nashville in Georgia. The railroads may put new freight rates in effect during the appeal and supersedeas, pending final hearing.
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Asheville
United States
Pardee
Georgia
Emery Spear
Southern Railway
Louisville
Nashville
Mrs Sage May Buy an Island
New York reports Mrs Russell Sage is considering purchasing Constitutional Island in the Upper Hudson opposite West Point and gifting it to the U S government as a site for a world class military preparatory school. A representative may visit West Point soon to assess feasibility and likely congressional approval.
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New York
Russell Sage
Constitutional Island
Upper Hudson
West Point
United States
Eton
Oxford
Lawrenceville
Princeton
Congress
Half Million Given to Charity in Mrs Lowry Will
Philadelphia reports that half a million dollars from a 600000 estate is left to charity by the will of Annie Lowry who died August first at 88. A cousin Violet Peark is named for the care of Mrs Lowry’s cats and parrots with the pets to share income equally and the trust reverts to other heirs when the animals pass.
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Philadelphia
Annie Lowry
Violet Peark
Lowry
Constables Guard Japs as Newcomers Arrive Daily
Winnipeg August 7 reports mass meetings and pickets at Canadian Pacific shops as about 300 Japanese mechanics arrive from Pacific coast states. Non union labor is housed in dining and sleeping cars guarded by constables while foremen walk out, but no violence is yet reported.
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Pacific Coast
Canada
Recount Finishes in Davis Riley Election Contest
The recount at the courthouse shows twenty four disputed ballots across five precincts. Key figures include women and men ballots in Fargo First Ward and Gill township, with Riley and Davis margins listed and a renewed debate over women's primaries voting rights if Davis wins the recount.
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Davis- Riley
Aéware
Engerud
Davis
Pollock
Riley
Mrs. Davis
Township
First Ward
Fargo
Bianks
Firet
Estado beVeeekodd Wisack
Wheatland— Davis Dreerewens 'Ee Etnee Coubess
Aueedeas
Ayr— Davis
Shah of Persia Surks His Jewels Loan for Persian Expedition
Teheran dispatch says the shah secured a 250000 loan from a Russian bank using the crown jewels as security. Funds are to outfit an expedition against Tabriz. The English legation protests again over cossacks near the legation. General Loakhoff says troops only halted to feed horses and orders to avoid the legation area in future.
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St. Petersburg
Teheran
Legation
Wheat Market Holds To Nervous Advance Ahead Of Report
Chicago, Aug 7 The wheat market shows nervousness within modest limits before the government crop report. Official data put spring wheat at 243,000,000 bushels with a 9 point loss in condition, while winter yield is pegged at about 14.3 bushels per acre totaling 426. The August total crop slightly trails last month’s estimate as conditions in the northwest grow tougher. Export business remains active on the seaboard and in the southwest amid strong domestic milling demand. Liverpool closes 1 1/4 lower.
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Chicago
Northwest
South Dakota
North Dakota
Manitoba
Seaboard
Liverpool
Lunds Banks Closed After Banker's Death
Minneapolis reports national bank examiners ordered the Robbindale State Bank and the Bank of Selle Plaine closed until Monday after John G. Lund’s death by his own hand. Investigations into these institutions' condition are expected amid hints of sensational developments as Lund had gambled in wheat markets. In New York, Chairman Frank Hitchcock left for Oyster Bay to dine with President Roosevelt.
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Minneapolis
John G. Lund
National Bank Examiners
Lund
Robbindale State
Oe Bie National Bank of
Selle Plaine, Minn
New York
Frank H. Hitchcock
Republican National Committee
Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Cardinal Gibbons Condition Better After Illness
Rome Aug 7 Cardinal Gibbons is very much better this morning and the symptoms of intestinal indisposition have disappeared. He was taken ill Wednesday at Castle Badolfo and brought to Rome the next day. He slept quietly last night and his temperature is normal, with no complication possible. The pope was informed and expressed great pleasure at the Cardinal's improvement.
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Rome
Cardinal Gibbons
Castle Badolfo
Romé
New Trial Granted in Hatcher Case in Federal Court
Judge Munger of Iowa announced a new trial in Northwestern National Fire Insurance Co. of Milwaukee versus R. B. Hatcher. The grant rests on the judge's claim of error in excluding certain testimony the defendant wished to introduce.
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Munger
Hatcher
Iowa
Northwestern National Fire Insurance Co
Milwaukee
R. B. Hatcher
Yen
Funeral held for United States Senator William Boyd Allison
State and national figures attended the funeral at his West Dubuque residence honoring Iowa Senator William Boyd Allison born March 2 1829 in Perry Ohio. A lawyer turned politician he served in Congress 1863 1871 and as U S Senator until his death in 1908 declining treasury posts offered by Harrison McKinley and others while directing American delegates to the 1892 Brussels monetary conference.
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Dubuque, In
United States
William Boyd Allison
Perry, O
John
Mary A. Allison
Allegheny College
Pennsylvania
Western Reserve College
Ohio
Ashland
Anna Carter
Wooster
Dubuque
Vention
Chicago
Congress
Iowa
The
Treasury
Harrison
McKinley
Brussels
Reign of Terror in Burned Section Reported
A Fernie dispatch says looting by miners sparked a reign of terror across the Kootenay valley as forest fires killed 300 and destroyed $10,000,000 in property. Martial law is in force with firearms deployed. the blaze moves toward the Montana line. In Chicago, a heat wave marks the twentieth day with four deaths. 11 am temperature 84, humidity 74 percent. fire officials order wetting lumber yards until rain.
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Vancouver
Fernie
Kootenay Valley
Crabrook
Montana
Chicago
Horan
Two Sisters Dili Brother on Death Bed
Word reached Chippewa Falls that Thomas Orthman of Orchard Washington lost two daughters Mildred and Margaret fifteen minutes apart. His son Louis lay dying. cause of deaths not stated. Orthman formerly resided in Chippewa Falls.
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Chippewa Falls
Wis
Orchard
Wash
Thomas Orthman
Mildred
Margaret
Louis
Orthman
Spanish police foil plot against King Alfonso in Madrid
Madrid authorities revealed a well defined plot against King Alfonso was discovered and foiled by secret police. Several terrorist leaders are under arrest as bomb outrages continue and authorities seize magazines of explosives in Tremp and Segur while conspirators coordinate from Barcelona.
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Madrid
Alfonso
Tremp
Lerida
Segur
Barcelona
Sup
Lynching follows dynamiting in Alabama district
In Birmingham on August 7 Will Miller a black man accused of involvement in the Brighton area dynamiting was lynched by a mob and found hanging in woods. A second house was blown up at Wylam with no injuries as six men were arrested after a pole near Ensley was dynamited. Mines strike tensions rise, deputies placed under martial law with restricted public speech near working miners.
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Birmingham
Ala
Will Miller
Finley Fuller
Brighton
Wylam
John Hughitco
Ensley
Gov. Comer
Higdon
Eastman Arrigned in Chicago on Fugitive Funds Charge
New York broker Robert E. Eastman, held on a fugitive warrant for leaving with firm funds, was arraigned in Chicago today but the hearing was postponed to August 19. His bond was set at 40000 dollars and, with no bail, he shared a cell with two tramps, expressing ruin at wall street.
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Chicago
Robert BE. Eastman
New York
Eastman
Harrison Street
Derg
Wall Street
American Battlefleet Reaches Auckland En Route to Atlantic
The American special service squadron including battleships Alabama and Maine arrived in Auckland on August 7 on its voyage to the Atlantic. The fleet will anchor in two lines near the city with the Australian flagship Powerful leading, and a public welcome is planned with Admiral Thomas and officers landing Monday at Queen Street wharf to inspect the ferro concrete quay as part of the harbor development. Prime Minister Sir Joseph Ward and cabinet members will greet them.
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Auckland
Powerful
Encounter
Pioneer
Thomas
Queen Street
Joseph Ward
Cummins to Seek Senate Seat in Iowa
Lake Forest Aug 7 Gov Albert B Cummins of Town last night announced his candidacy to succeed Senator Allison in the federal Congress He would seek the Iowa legislature’s election to the upper house and said an appointment will be made to fill the remaining months of Allison term The governor will cut short his vacation and return to Des Moines a conference of friends is expected within days to decide the short term vacancy to ensure full representation at Washington
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Lake Forest
Ill
Albert B. Cummins
Allison
Iowa
Cummins
Des Moines
National Travelers' convention opens in Milwaukee
Delegates from all parts of the country gathered in Milwaukee for the first annual convention of the National Travelers' association of America. A temporary chairman, A. C. Showers of Iowa City, Iowa, outlined tasks for organizing the body while committees were appointed and an adjournment taken.
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Milwaukee
National
Travelers’ Association of America
A. C. Showers
Iowa City
Iowa
Sutherland Wife Confesses To Killing Husband
Buffalo Aug 7 Mrs Anna Sutherland confessed she shot and killed her husband Alex R Sutherland Tuesday morning She claimed she intended to take her own life and the revolver fired as he tried to prevent her act She cited family difficulties as motive.
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Buffalo
Anna A Ae. Sutherland
Alex. R. Sutherland
Sutherland
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F. J. Blair
Charles B. Hadley
Mrs. Lowry
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Canadian Pacific
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Riley - Davis
Shah OF Persia
Kiano Tkarhira
Baronese Kise Tkarhira
Washington Winter Society
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West
W. B. Allison
Dili
King Alfonso
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Maine
Singapore
Atlantic
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