Week in Review at the Capital and Nation
Interstate Commerce Commission appeals loom as manufacturers fight 10 percent rail freight hikes. Eleven railroads face federal safety appliance violations, with seventeen total cited. President Roosevelt renames San Jacinto forest Cleveland National Forest and invites to Alaskan-Yukon-Pacific exposition. Many notable deaths include Rear Admiral Burwell and Gen. Blakeslee. Fires threaten New Orleans Coffee plant and Orcutt oil fields as forest blazes spread in several regions. A girl shields her sister from a Newfoundland dog while police subdue the animal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
Manufacturers' Association of New York
San Jacinto National Forest
California
Cleveland National Forest
Roosevelt
Frst
Camp Dawson
Arctic Brotherhood
Seattle
Alaska
W. T. Burwell
Navy Yards
Puget Sound
Washington
Thomas D. Jordan
Equitable Life Assurance Society
New York
Frederick Otten Reading
Pasadena
Cal
Frederick Schmidt
Wisconsin
Bremen
Europe
Erastus Blakeslee
Brookline
Mass
Walter Carlin
Thomas Carlin
Illinois
Jerseyville
Maj
Carlin
Thirty
Illinois Infantry
Francis G. Bailey
Export Shipping Company
Honduras
J. Audley Lindsay
James Queen
East Brady
August Hammer
Henry Bodky
Frank Meese
Cleveland
New Orleans Coffee Company, Limited
San Maria
Orcutt
Miners Attack Train Carrying Strikebreakers in Alabama
A train carrying strikebreakers to Adamsville was attacked near Jefferson. Deputy Marshal R. Gardner was fatally wounded and about a dozen others were shot as union miners resisted work. Gov. Comer sent cavalry, troops patrolled, and urged restraint while vowing trains would not be stopped or attacked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
R. Gardner
Jefferson
Here
Adamsville
Comer
Montgomery
Gov. Comer
Henry Ellen
Republic
Hill Urges Rail Rate Rise Opposes Wage Cuts
James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern railroad, says the railroad financial problem can only be solved by higher freight rates. He opposes wage cuts, arguing that labor must be fairly compensated and efficient. He notes U S rates are low compared to Europe and wages here are high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
J. 7. Harahan
Illinois Central Railroad
Mauretania
Europe
James J. Hill
Great Northern Railroad
Mr. Hill
Hill
Canada
Emperor Tsai-tien Suffering From Dysentery Reported
Report from Peking dated July 19 states the Chinese emperor Tsai-tien has been ill for several days. Western medicine is barred from the palace, but rumors say dysentery. The dowager empress has ordered provincial physicians to be sent from Pe king to the capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Peking
Tsai-tien
Imperial Palace
Boy Killed By Train In Minneapolis Yards
Fifteen year old Leo Kryczynski was fatally injured while attempting to board a freight train in the Great Northern yards yesterday. Both legs were crushed and he died several hours later at the city hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Leo Kryczyski
Great Northern
Imperial Shrine elects officers in Minneapolis area session
The Imperial council of the Mystic Shrine elected officers with all but outer guard unopposed. Edwin L. Alderman was named Imperial Potentate and Chanel E. Ovenshire of Minneapolis won the outer guard post on the second ballot, with treasurer and recorder reelected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E Ovenshire
Imperial Council of the Mystic Shrine
William W. Irwin
Wheeling
W. Va
William S Brown
Pittsburg
Imperial
Ben W. Rowell
Boston
Mass
John F. Barron
Columbia
S.C
F. R. Smith
Rochester
N. D
J. Putnam Stevens
Portland
Henry F. Niedringhaus, Jr
St. Louis
Chanel E. Ovenshire
Minneapolis
Imperial Recorder
Ovenshire
Honolulu Hosts Grand Atlantic Fleet Pageant Parade
Honolulu residents crowded the harbors as 3,200 sailors from the Atlantic battleship fleet paraded the streets in a grand pageant. The Nebraska faced quarantine for scarlet fever aboard and will be fumigated in Lahaina. Social events followed, including receptions, a Waikiki Beach ball, and dances honoring the officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Islands
Aged Couple Found Dead in Apparent Gas Pact
Police discovered268 late last night an elderly couple, Kilanen Panzer, 65, and his wife There sa, 62, seated unconscious side by side with gas tubes between their lips in their Pact, New York rooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Kilanen Panzer
Theresa
Ossining Fire Destroys Crew & Williams Feed Store
An Ossining man was fatally burned and property valued at about $50,000 destroyed in a fire that swept the feed store and elevator of Crew Williams beside the Hudson River railroad station yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ossining
Ossining, N
Crew & Wilams
Hudson River
Another Murder In Islands Washington July 19 War Dept report
Another murder in the islands from the Philippines reaches the war department. Gen. Weston cables that Albert L. Burleigh of Company C Eighteenth Infantry was killed by Moros on July 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Islands
Washington
War Department
Philippines
Weston
Albert L. Burleigh
Company C
Eighteenth Infantry
Moros
Prohibition Party nominates Chafin for president and Watkins for vice president
Columbus officials report Eugene W. Chafin of Chicago chosen president and Aaron S. Watkins of Ada Ohio named vice president after ballots and parliamentary wrangles. Watkins won on a later vote amid a brief, terse convention platform of about 350 words. Both nominees also seek governorship on Prohibition tickets in their states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. W. Chafin
Chicago
A. S. Watkins
Columbus
Ohio
Eugene W. Chafin
Aaron
Watkins
Ada
Chafin
William B. Palmore
St. Louis
Palmore
Prof
Charles Scanlon
Prof. Watkins
T. B. Demaree
Kentucky
Charles & Roller
Indiana
Government sues to attach 20000 shells collection
The Philippine Islands government has filed suit in the Chicago Superior Court to attach a 20 000 shell collection held at the Academy of Science in Lincoln Park. The action seeks $2 500 from Joseph F Quardas owner of the collection formerly Manila resident now in La Junillas Cuba.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Government of the
Philippine Islands
Academy of Science
Lincoln Park
Joseph F. Quardas
Manila
la Junillas
Cuba
Popular Panama President Receives Sash from Women
In Panama City on July 19 a group of native women dressed in pollera56 presented Domingo de Obaldia with a presidential sash, underscoring strong public support for the newly elected Panama Republic president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Domingo de Obaldia
Panama Republic
Pollera
Senor Obaldia
Seven prisoners escape Toronto jail by breaking wall
Seven prisoners escaped from the Toronto jail last evening and remain at large. They picked the lock of a cell door near the scaffold used for executions and broke through the wall. One escapee named Harry Churchill, an alleged pickpocket, is wanted at St Paul Minnesota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beven Break
Jaiil
Toronto
Ont
Harry Churchill
St. Paul
Minn
Death sentence for uxoricide in Chicago case
Adrien Williams, an African American man, was found guilty of uxoricide and sentenced to be hanged for killing his wife on March 10 in Chicago. The July 19 verdict follows the crime and is recorded in the local court report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dwight € Stewart
Waterloo
Iowa
Chicago
Adrien ‘Willams
Williams
Hawaiians Good to Sailors on Quiet Fleet Day
Honolulu July 21 Sunday quiet as Atlantic battleship fleet officers and men enjoyed league grounds games and Pearl Harbor excursions. Citizens hosted officers and crews, while ships received hundreds of tons of fruit delicacies loaded on a fighter and ferried to each ship. Nebraska squad in quarantine received seeds and reading material to keep them supplied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Atlantic Battleship Fleet
League Grounds
Pearl Harbor
Nebraska
Negroes Murder Two Men and Escape from Texas Farm
Six armed black convicts escaped from the Texas convict farm near Houston. R. Ware and Will Howard killed guard Joseph Elliott with a hoe and fled. They shot and killed George Johnson who feared he would inform on others. Ware and Howard fled from the Dewalt farm while five others escaped from the Clements plantation. one was captured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Farm
Houston
Tex
R. Ware
Will Howard
Joseph Elliott
George Johnson
Ware
Howard
Dewalt
Fort Benton County
Clements
Two Hanged and Whipped in Louisiana Afterwards
In Natchez Mississippi on July 21 two Black men were hanged after an incendiary gin fire near Jonesville Louisiana. Other Black residents accused of harboring suspects were whipped and ordered to leave the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Natchez
Miss
J. W. Swayze
Jonesville
Catahoula Parish
Haiti unrest feared after last winter revolt
Washington reports Haiti is in a critical state as officials say disorders may flare among foreign residents. The warship Paducah heads to Haiti to safeguard U.S. interests amid a continuing revolutionary movement since last winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Haiti
State Department
Furniss
United States
Paducah
Latest Grain and Livestock Quotes From Multiple Markets
The market report lists prices from St Paul Minneapolis and Duluth on July 21 for wheat corn oats flax and barley across several exchanges. It also shows Chicago Milwaukee Sioux City and South St Paul cattle hogs and sheep quotes with range values for each commodity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Northern
Duluth
Chicago
Milwaukee
Sioux City
Iowa
South St. Paul
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William Wetterman
H. H. Bals
Hocking Valley
Power Station
Montana
Saltese
Rose Eisenberg
Emperor IX III
Hawaiian Islands
Lahanla
San Francisco
Naval Station
Reese
Waikiki Beach
Gov. Frear
Sperry
Lahina
Prohibitionists
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