Cholera Outbreak Expands Across Russia Amid Market Closures
Reports show 220 new cases and 93 deaths in the last 24 hours in St. Petersburg area. Since outbreak began, 6,655 cases with 2,168 deaths and 1,651 recoveries. An official note links cadet cases at Puviovak military academy to a cook’s incipient cholera and a misdiagnosed hospital discharge. Moscow prison reports a cholera case as authorities inspect markets and sanitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Peterabure
Puviovak Military Academy
Academy
Bankers Convention Addresses Open Denver Session
The American Bankers Association held its thirty fourth annual convention in the Denver auditorium. Reports by officers and committees were heard. W B Walker of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and Woodview Wilson of Princeton University spoke to strong applause. The express companies report urged curbing their entry into banking and money orders. The Interstate Commerce Commission will hear bankers' complaint on October 13 in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Coilo
Denver Auditorium
Ite Offcera
W. B. Walker
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Toronto
Ont
Woodview Wilson
Princeton University
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
President Hoonever Could Or Could Not Tour For Republican Ticket
Secretary Lee stated on Wednesday that President Hoonever had no intention of preventing a touring campaign for the Republican ticket. He noted many invitations, but Roosevelt has not stated he would take the stump. If the situation warranted, the president might or might not speak, and future events would decide.
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Wathington
Lee
Hoonever
Loeb
Roosevelt
Plea of Insanity in Pocatello Murder Trial
John Ennis stands trial in district court with an insanity defense labeled dementia Americana for the July 28 killing of Evan Davies at the Short Line blacksmith shop. Ennis’s 16 year old daughter reportedly admits to an illegitimate birth and accuses Davies of causing her ruin.
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Pocatello
Ida
John Ennis
Alfred Budge
Evan Devies
Ennis
Eving Davies
Air prank at Buffington works wounds man gravely
In Hammond Indiana a group of American workers turned a stream of compressed air into the stomach of Andrew Babo an ignorant Hungarian laborer at Utinely Broel company's cement works Buffington. The blast ruptured his intestines and he is not expected to live.
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Hammond
Ind
Andrew Babo
Temperance Advocated at Mormon Conference
Salt Lake City session of the LDS conference endorses a temperance pledge by officers and members to back laws closing saloons and curbing liquor sales. Leaders including President Joseph F. Smith and Apostle Heber J. Grant urge abstinence from intoxicants tea coffee tobacco and excess meat while stressing the church as a model nationwide.
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Salt Lake City
Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints
Heber
Grant
Jia
Joseph F. Smith
Smith
John R. Winder
Anthon H. Lund
Apostle F. M. Lyman
Mr. Lyman
Heber J. Grant
H. H. Rolapp
Ogden
War Clouds in the Near East Threaten Crisis Across Europe
British dispatches warn that Austria-Hungary may declare annexations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bulgaria may proclaim independence, risking a clash with Turkey as armies mobilize on borders. Britain shows sympathy for Turkey while other powers back a railway settlement to restore and then transfer control.
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London
Europe
Pear East
Crisia
Ferdinand
Bulgaria
Rumelia
Austria-Hungary
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Turkey
Orient Railway
Orient Railway Llnks Into Inelenifcance
Austria
France
Rownia
Herzegoving
Haskell appeals for fund to fight Roosevelt and Hearst
Guthrie Oklahoma Governor Charles N Haskell reports raising $2000 from Oklahoma citizens to oppose President Roosevelt and Hearst. Donations to the Democratic national campaign fund continue at about $100 daily, with funds to be turned over to Herman Ridder, new treasurer of the national committee, by John F B Doolin the former assistant treasurer.
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Guthrie
Okla
Charles N. Haskell
Oklahoma
Roosevelt
William Ro Mearst
Democratic National Campaign
Haskell
Herman Ridder
National Committee
John FB. Doolin
Storm Sweeps Manila Bay Against Atlantic Fleet
The Atlantic battleship fleet rode out a twelve hour hurricane over Manila bay. Winds reached 100 miles per hour, cutters could not be hoisted, craft moved to the Pasig River breakwater, and shore communication was severed. Cars overturned, trees felled, wires down, and buildings unroofed including the depot commissary.
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Manila
Manila Bay
Mad Bear Kills Babe Before the Mother's Eyes
At Elysian grove a black bear escaped a cage and charged visiting families. Mrs Buse Laird fled with a child in a go cart as the bear snatched the infant and killed it before the mother. A police revolver fired halted the bear.
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Wesaon
Arie
Elysian Grove
Here
Buse Laird
Southern Pacific
Ladle of Molten Lead Slams Workers in Chicago Fire
At the Grand Crossing Tack company factory in Chicago a ladle of molten lead overturned from a 25 foot suspended hook chain. One man, Jacob Swieh aged 33, was burned to a cinder while seven others suffered severe burns and two died from injuries. An investigation found the chain link weakened by heat from the metal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicaeo
Grand Crossing Tack Company
Jacob Swieh
Spokane to Host Seventeenth National Irrigation Congress
Spokane was chosen as the meeting site for the seventeenth National Irrigation Congress after Pueblo withdrew. A new governing board was elected to run affairs between sessions, with members including President G H Thurston of Texas and Secretary H A Fowler of Arizona, among others. Congressman Joseph K Randell of Louisiana urged cooperation between the National Rivers and Irrigation congress and the National Irrigation Congress at the closing session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albuquerque
N. M
Spokane
National Irrigation Congress
Pueblo
Congress
G. H. Thurston
Texas
Tt. A. Fowler
Arizon
Salt Lake Man Harry Griffith Missing On Vacation
Salt Lake City Utah noted clerk of the supreme court Harry W. Griffith disappeared after leaving on a vacation September 2. He traveled to Los Angeles and last communicated on September 14. Friends and fraternal groups seek any information on his whereabouts as efforts to locate him continue.
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Salt Lake City
Harry W. Griffith
Supreme Court of Utah
Masonic
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Grimith
Salt Lake
Los Angeles
Supreme Court to hear Hepburn rate bill case
San Francisco dispatch reports the Supreme Court will hear the Hepburn rate act questions for the first time since passage. The case challenges injunctions from two Harriman parties and Interstate Commerce Commission authority, with circuit court of appeals panel certifying the matter to the high court for review.
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San Francisco
Supreme Court of
Unadle
Harriman
Cour
Elrcult Court of Appeals
Ox Preme Court
Three Army Officers Transferred from Fort Hamilton
It became known that three army officers, named as important witnesses in the Hains murder case and allies of Captain Peter C. Halwa Jr., have been moved from Fort Hamilton by order of the War Department to posts outside New York jurisdiction, making them unavailable to testify before the grand jury.
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New York
Army
Hains
Peter C. Halwa, Jr
W. F B. Amis
Fort Hamilton
War Department
Grand
Woman in Male Disguise Held at Ellis Island
New York reports Mary Johnson of California is jailed at Ellis Island for violating New York law by wearing men's clothes. For fifteen years she traveled and worked under the male alias Prank Wool hull, seeking better earnings. About 50, educated, she admitted masquerading as a man aboard the New York steerage voyage.
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New York
Mary Johnson
Calfornia
Ellis Island
Mner
Advertising agent shoots in Saloon Quarrel Guts Man
In Alamosa a Salt Lake City agent Thomas H. Weaver fired at C E Trownie during a drunken quarrel at about 1 am on Saturday injuring Brownie in the stomach, likely fatally. A stray bullet pierced the door and killed Domingo Jarmillo, an old Mexican. Weaver was arrested.
Amherst Professor Sells Head Saga At College
Amherst Massachusetts reports a Students tale about Professor John Mason Tyler of biology who allegedly sold his head for posthumous use for ten thousand dollars. Tyler reportedly smiled and said nothing, noting he once made a similar agreement without money involved. The story claims Tyler has the best shaped head in America with a notable beam.
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Amherst
Mass
Amherst College
John Mason Tyler
America
Tyler
Kidnap Ring Said To Sell Girls Into Slavery
Chicago police under Chief Shippy form a special kidnapping squad to hunt a suspected organized gang. Fifteen girls aged 13 to 19 have vanished in a month, with several named victims including Evelyn Herndon and Corinne Hughes. One girl, Emily Hoban, remains missing and Laura Williams, 14, escaped after forced abduction across the Indiana line.
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Chicago
Shippy
Evelyn Herndon
Corinne Hughes
Portia Austis
Helen Powell
Mary Noyes
Myrtle Byrnes
Josephine
Salt Lake City Hosts Fourth National Eisteddfod
Salt Lake City opened the fourth national Eisteddfod under the Salt Lake Cambrian association with the largest audience yet for an opening session in the United States. William Aimpiatoc, conductor and public school music superintendent, praised the performers and crowd. Apmadoc noted extensive experience and called the singers exceptionally talented and the crowd unusually large at Fair Lake.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake
Wales
England
Hid
Fair Lake
Fas
Loch Finlas Wreck Near Foster Island Claims 20 Lives
The Loch Finlas sailing from Port Pirie to Callao ran aground on a reef off Foster Island near Tapmania during a Sunday gale. Of twenty four crew, twenty were drowned, four were rescued by a passing steamer as heavy seas hindered rescue efforts and the ship sank after attempts to launch boats.
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Launceton
Tasmania
Loch Finlas
Port Pirie
South Australia
Callao
Foster Island
Tapmania
Dlowwaace
Chanler Nominated for Governor by Democratic State Convention
From Poughkeepsie to Tarrytown, Chanler receives official notification of his gubernatorial nomination by the Democratic state convention. The address of acceptance calls out the influence of the presidency in shaping state and national conventions. Alton B. Parker delivers the notification speech.
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Poughkeepale
N. Y
Lewis Stuyvenant Chanler
Tarrytown
Alton B. Parker
Chanter
Girl rescued from six week captivity in East New York hovel
Sixteen year old Lena Thorn told police she was spirited from Jamaica and kept prisoner for six weeks in a filthy East New York house. Rayfield Busso and Annie Carlo were arrested after the girl identified them as aiding her confinement.
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New York
Jamaica
I. 1
Lena Thorn
Rayfield Busso
Annie Carlo
Gore Speaks in Ogden Utah Before 3000 at Fairgrounds
Senator J P Gore, the blind orator from Oklahoma, addressed about 3000 people at the Ogden fair grounds Thursday evening. He claimed that more trusts have been organized in the eleven years of Republican rule than in the entire history of the world, and delivered a 45 minute speech filled with witty asides that kept the crowd in good humor.
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Ogden
Utah
Plataoh
Theodore
Rameses
Roosevelt
J. P. Gore
Oklahoma
Fairgrounds
Bonsier Gore
Castaways Rescued from Barren Coral Isle
Details emerge on the rescue of castaways from the British steamer Acon who spent nearly two months on Christmas Island. Mrs Patrick and her infant were first taken aboard the Manuka, with the baby fed on goat milk. Shipboard transfer was difficult amid choppy seas while the Chinese crew mutinied and looted the wreck. White crew kept armed guards to quell unrest.
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B. R. Patrick
U. S.N
Acon
Aceon
Christmas Island
Knight chosen as Democratic candidate for Utah governor
The Democratic central committee selected Jesse William Knight of Provo to succeed his father as governor candidate. Major Samuel A. King was named state chairman with full support. Retiring chairman L. R. Martineau received a vote of thanks. A notification party of Levi Harmon Joseph Judd Wynn Eddy Wilford Glies Samus Thomas will inform Knight in Provo on October 10.
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Salt Lake City
Democratic Central Committee
Jesse William Knight
Jesse” Knight
Provo
Democratic
Utah
Knight
Major Samuel A. King
Major King
L. R. Martineau
Levi N. Harmon
Price
Joseph Judd
Manti
Wynn L. Eddy
Bigham
Wilford Glies
Samus Thomas
Oden
Mr. Knieht
American fleet anchors near Manila after world cruise
The sixteen battleships, fresh from Australian ports and two thirds through a world cruise, anchored off Manila's breakwater near Lineta. Crowds thronged the waterfront to view the warships as anticipation and excitement surrounded the arrival.
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Manila
Hampton Rouda
Lineta
Intanda
Richest Woman in Canada Dies at Age of Eighty
Victoria B C Mrs Jon Olive Dunsmuir widow of the late Robert Dunsmuir discoverer of the Welllington coal mines on Vancouver Island died on Friday She was probably the richest woman in Canada and celebrated her eightieth birthday five weeks ago At the time of her death she was aged in ill health and facing an accounting of the estate with her son Lieutenant Governor Dunsmuir whose value is estimated at about flat end
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Victoria
B. C
Jon Olive Dunsmuir
Robert Dunsmuir
Welllington
Vancouver Island
Dunsmuir
Canada
Mra
Dunemuir
Leper Station Patient Treated With New Injections
Wellington residents react as a Moors patient is discharged from the leper station with a clean bill of health after eleven months. Dr. Mason, chief health officer, says injections of the leg rosy bacillus cured the patient and notes other patients also show improvement. The treatment is linked to Professors Deycke Passa and Reschad Bey of Constantinople’s Imperial Medical School.
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Wellington
Mason
Deycke Passa
Imperial Medical School of
Constantinople
Reschad Bey
Evans and Burt to face special court martial in October
Lieutenant Frank Taylor Evans son of Admiral Robley J. Evans and Lieutenant Charles Burt of the battleships Louisiana and Georgia will be tried by a special court martial aboard the lightship Wisconsin in October. Evans faces charges of absence from his station while on duty, profane language to a superior officer, and intoxication.
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Manila
Frank Taylor Evans
Louisiana
Robley J. Evans
Charles Burt
Georgia
Littleship
Renowned Actor Granted Absolute Divorce in Reno
Reno judge grants absolute divorce to Nat C. Goodwin from wife Jeate Der mott Goodwin known as Maxine Blott on grounds of desertion. Attorneys for Mrs Goodwin offered no cross examination of Goodwin or witness George Weeden.
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Reno
Nat C. Goodwin
Jeate Dermott Goodwin
Maxine Blott
Pilie
Goodwin
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J. Will Knight
Admiral Evans
Nat Goodwin
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