Insurgent forces rout and tensions in Cuba battle
Havana reports a clash near Pinar del Rio as government troops rout rebels led by Pine Guerra dispersing 260 insurgents and seizing weapons. In Arroyo Naranjo insurgents fled as police approached. Planning talks and commissions proposed, including Roosevelt mediation, but officials doubt practical settlement while suppressing the insurrection remains urgent.
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Havana
Bacallag
San Juan de Martineg
Guines
Pinar del Rio
Pinar Guerra
San Luis Station
Vilage
Colorro
Arroyo Naranjo
Pine Guerra
San Luis
San Juan
Ronsevelt
Roosevelt
Auto smash harms Pittsburg couple en route home
A. L. Richmond, hotel proprietor, and Mrs. Richmond were taken to a hospital with broken arms after their car, returning from Cleveland, plunged over an embankment at the hamlet of Hiram Schoolhouse, Ohio. The steering gear broke at about 41 miles per hour. He will recover, but she may die from internal injuries. Chauffeur Charles Brown and a friend were injured and remained at the scene.
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Pittsburg
A. L. Richmond
Richmond
Cleveland
Ham Téty
Hiram Schoolhouse
Ohio
Charles Brown
Richmonds
Spelling Reform Sparks Roosevelts Order Debate
London Aug 27 The press canvasses President Roosevelts spelling reform order with George Bernard Shaw stating There has been nothing like it since Mahommet reformed the calendar by making the year consist of 12 lunar months He adds the reform was forced by two energetic amateurs and must be taken in hand.
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London
Roosevelt
George Bernard Shaw
Mahommet
Japanese may investigate killings of poachers by Americans
Tokyo to conduct its own probe after Japan reports inability to obtain full details from Vancouver consul. Government may dispatch a consul to the Pribilov islands to review the incident near the Aleutians.
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London
Daily Telegraph
Vancouver
Aleutian Islands
Pribi- Jolt Islands
Rise in Value of Stocks in New York Market
R G Dun weekly report notes Wall Street led the business week with stock prices rising about two dollars per share from January highs and money rates reaching legal maximums. It cites broad activity, large orders, resumed factory work, and rising steel demand while July building permits show slight decline nationally. Rail earnings rose 12.16 percent in August and foreign commerce increased with imports and exports up from 1905.
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New York
R. G. Dun &Co
Review of Trade
Wall Street
Young Diamond Thief Caught in Romantic Chase
Louis Mochorosky a seventeen year old youth is jailed on charges of stealing diamonds worth 5000 dollars. After eluding police across several states he traveled to Europe chasing a Denver girl he loved. Detected by a jeweler in the Bowery the case followed him from Denver to Russia and Germany before his return to Denver and capture.
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New York
Louis Mochorosky
Mochorosky
Europe
Denver
United States
Isaac Wolf
Bowery
Wolf
Colorado
Russia
Germany
Typhoid Outbreak Traced to Standpipe Sparrows
In Three Oaks Michigan the typhoid outbreak among about 1000 residents is linked to the waterworks standpipe where dead sparrows littered the water surface. Officials ordered the standpipe emptied and cleaned after nests on a summit ledge allowed young birds to fall in. Twenty one cases reported.
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Three Oaks
Mich
Board of Health
Kisses Wife He Had Murdered by Policeman
Michael McNamara a Broadway police officer shot and killed his wife in the Royal hotel clerk’s office then fatally shot James Brophy. He kissed his wife as she died. Earlier the couple was followed from a saloon. Also two trainmen died in a head on collision near Milltown on the Bessemer & Lake Erie line, with five injured and heavy property loss.
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St. Louis
Michael McNamara
James Brophy
Royal Hotel
Pittsburg
Milltown
Bessemer & Lake Erie
Aid Urged for Earthquake Stricken Chile
President Roosevelt issued a proclamation appealing for aid after the August earthquake and fires that devastated Valparaiso and surrounding areas. Valparaiso’s damage is pegged at about 206 million dollars with heavy losses to residences, farms, and infrastructure.
Rail firms tied to oil rate cases in western New York
Indictments unsealed by a western New York federal grand jury charge the New York Central Railroad and Standard Oil with discriminating and unlawful freight rates on oil shipments. The NY Central is accused of a nine cent per hundredweight special rate from Rochester to Norwood not offered to others, with no filed schedule. The Standard Oil indictment contains 128 counts detailing separate shipments over the same route.
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Jamestown
New York Central Railroad Company
Western New York Federal Grand Jury
Standard Oil Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Vermont Central
Olean
Burlington
Rochester
Norwood
Standgards Gil Company
Government plans broad street reconstruction in Valparaiso
Valparaiso officials report a government project to unify street levels to curb flooding. Minimum street width set, lands expropriation funded, construction material duties suspended for 18 months. Banks limit payments as commerce stalls. a continuing siege curtails night street access amid dynamite damage.
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Valparaiso
Frisco Trams Tied Up By Citywide Strike
San Francisco streetcar service largely halted except California and Geary lines as United Railroads conductors and motormen strike from five a.m. Sunday. No cars operated to avoid disorder while Patrick Calhoun, URR president, travels from the East to decide further action. Automobiles and other vehicles filled the streets to meet transportation needs.
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San Francisco
California
Geary
United Railway System
United Railroads
Patrick Calhoun
Ohio after two cent fare law on interstate traffic
Ohio railroad commission to press two cent fare law for interstate travel. A meeting with Ohio railroad passenger officials is planned in Columbus for August 20 to seek agreement. If no settlement occurs, a formal complaint will be filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Columbus
Ohio Tailroad Commission
Ohio
Interstate Commerce Commission
Springfield Jury Disagrees in Mob Lynching Case
Springfield Missouri August 25 The jury in the Doss Galbraith second degree murder trial for leading the mob that lynched and burned three Black men in April was discharged after failing to agree. The jury reportedly stood ten for acquittal and two for conviction signaling the state may retry Galbraith.
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Springfield
Doss Galbraith
Htad
Thirty-Two Dead in Bombs and Assassination Outrage
A bomb at Premier Stolypin's summer home kills 32 and injures many as revolutionary violence continues. Gen Min, commander of the Seminovsky guard, is shot dead by a young woman at Peterhof station. Madame Min restrains the attacker, who warns of a bomb in a handbag. The crime follows Moscow revolt and aims to force policy changes.
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Min
Revolutionary Committee
St. Petersburg
Stolypin
Nicholas
M. Stolypin
Seminovsky Guard Regiment
Peterhot
Moscow
Gen. Min
Peterhof
Madame Min
Social Revolutionists
Kermit Roosevelt in Wreck Near Berea
Kermit Roosevelt and friend John Heard escaped uninjured after the North Coast Limited derailed at Berea, west of Valley City, due to a split switch. Delayed several hours, the duo reached St Paul Sunday afternoon from a visit to Medora, North Dakota. Roosevelt reported to the President at Oyster Bay that he was all right.
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St. Paul
Minn
North Coast Limited
Medora
N. D
Kermit Roosevelt
John Heard
Young Roosevelt
Berea
Valley City
Oyster Bay
Foreign commerce totals July imports exports 1906
Washington August 27 imports for July totaled 102,586,797 compared with 84,512,306 in July 1903 and exports for July 1906 reached 111,551,415 versus 674,454,040 in July 1905. For the first seven months of 1906 exports totaled 569,294,143 against 848,899,144 in the same period of 1905.
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Washington
Department of Commerce and Labor
News in Brief: multiple events across politics, crime, and industry
San Francisco plans a temporary two story city hall costing eighty thousand dollars. Ohio eighteenth district GOP deadlocked after sixty five ballots. William Downey aged sixteen killed by a Rock Island train at Muscatine Iowa. Thirty miners at Pittsburg Kansas shaft six suffocated by gas. George F Baer of Philadelphia & Reading RR returns from Europe aboard the Amerika. Panama canal commission chair Shonts praised by Isthmian population at Panama. Frank K Hipple a Philadelphia financier dies at Bryn Mawr. Chicago German M E church district to meet September twelve in Columbus Wisconsin with Bishop McCabe presiding. Kiel observatory Prof Kreutz reports discovery of a comet on August twenty two per Harvard. Army leaders urge fencing manual adoption from Germany over current US practice. Inez Edwards eight year old struck by B&O freight train at Omaha dies hours later. Oil carrier W S Porter for Associated Oil launched at Newport News. Besie Miles appointed first secretary of American embassy in St Petersburg. Konrad alias Baron Saftos von Dobrowski-Donnermarl arrested in Hamburg for marrying and swindling an American girl in the Philippines. Elizabeth Rothweil dies at railroad trestle near Wilmington Delaware after foot caught and she prays. Newfoundland denies cabinet talks with US over fisheries without colony. King Edward hosts St Louis Exposition president Francis and Berlin envoy O Shanshnesty in private. Mrs Mary Levi injured saving daughter from interurban car. she and nine month old baby killed.
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Pittsburg
Kan
George F. Baer
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company
Europe
Amerika
Shonts
Panama Canal Commission
Panama
Frank K. Hipple
Philadelphia
Bryn Mawr
Chicago
M. E. Church
Columbus
Wis
Bishop McCabe
Kreutz
Kiel Observatory
Germany
Harvard College Observatory
War Department
Washington
Inez
Hiram Edwards
Baltimore & Ohio
Omaha
Norris City
W. S. Porter
Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company
Associated Oil Company
San Francisco
Roosevelt
Besiie Miles
Pennsylvania
St Petersburg
Mgr. Miles
Amabassador Meyers
Baron Saftos von Dobrowski-Donnersmarl
Konrad
Hamsburg
Philippines
Elizabeth Rothweil
Wilmington
Del
Newfoundland
King Edward
David R Francis
Nelson O'Shanshnesty
Berlin
Marienbad
Mary Levi
Benton Harbor
Mich
Rabe
Bryan reception squabble over New York plan
Tarry W. Walker, active in arranging W J Bryan’s reception by the Commercial Travelers Anti-trust league on August 30, accuses politicians led by Alexander Troup of Connecticut and Norman E Mack of Buffalo of trying to control the movement. He says the league will run the arrangements even if it must tell politicians to retire. In Copenhagen, Johannes Nelimann, former National Bank director and ex minister of justice, has died.
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New York
Tarry W. Walker
W.J. Bryan
Commercial Travelers’ Anti-trust League
Alexander Troup
Connecticut
Norman E. Mack
Buffalo
League
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Pino Guerra
Hoosevelt
Pribilof
Stoges
Dun
New York Exchange
San Luiz
Frisco
Chili
Bacon
Republic
Asia
Americas
Ned Cross Association
Santiago
Pacific
Grand Jury
Railroad
G/L COMPANY
Rockefeller Combine
Board
St. Joseph
Boms
Wires
William Downey
Rock Island
Muscatine
Bryan
Anti- Trust League
Copenhagen
Johannes Nelimann
National Bank
Justice
York
West Sartes
Milwaukee
Kansas City
ST. Louie
Sao Omatia
Wethors
Ois
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