Roosevelt Delivers Keynote in Keokuk Iowa Address
President Roosevelt spoke to about 20 000 in Keokuk Iowa outlining reforms on trusts law and democracy, urging fair opportunity, government accountability, and education reform while planning a Mississippi River downstream trip. Keokuk residents presented him a gold headed cane.
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Keokuk Negroes
Great Plains
Rockies
Laramie County
Congress
South
Mississippi
Teading
Upper
Boy Tries to Steal Ride And Falls Under Train
In Asheville North Carolina on October 1 16 year old Claude Cannon attempted to ride a freight train in the Southern Railway yards. He slipped a step and was run over resulting in the amputation of his right leg and other injuries. He had been employed at a local cotton mill and had planned to go to Knoxville. Trainmen rescued him and transported him to a hospital where the leg was removed.
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Asheville
N. C
Southern Railway
Claude Cannon
Cannon
Knoxville
Htarried
Assassins Bomb Gate as Smith Enters in Mysterious Plot
Raleigh October 1 Dr and Mrs D S Rowland go on trial for murder of Engineer Charles K Strange. Witnesses James T Strange and wife testify Strange was healthy and had no heart disease. Mrs Rowland spoke of plans to move and meeting Rowland at Portsmouth while she would be taught to float. Baker City Oregon October 1 Bomb attempt on former sheriff Harvey K Brown at his home injures him severely. He is in critical condition after leg and arm mutilation. Police report no clues aside from a remaining wire.
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Women of
Iowa
U I
P v Huent
Grat Railway Corporation
Fursteleve
Stone
Rome
Tan
Elizens
Audi Mees
Thilennium
Hvera
Waters
Hortwest
Sassouri
Tam
Mississippi Valley
Rint Shea
TRE Ethias
Leo Enon
Ieee
Raleigh
N. C
D. S. Rowland
Porson
Charles K. Strange
James T. Strange
Indiana
Enatheer Strange
Toy
Lille Strange
C. R Strange
Baker City
Oregon
Harvey K. Brown
Brown
Stounenberg
Idaho
Crowder's Mountain Mill Faces Large Indebtedness
Crowder's Mountain Mill stockholders met in King s Mountain New York for an emergency session to probe heavy indebtedness believed to exceed 100000 dollars. J S Mauney was named receiver to manage affairs, with stockholders likely to lose their entire investment.
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King’s Mountain
N. Y
Crowder’s Mountain
Mauney
Mil
Big Convention At Richmond
Washington dispatch: Episcopal bishops and church leaders traveling from the capital to Richmond for the Triennial Convention of the Episcopal Church. The Bishop of London greeted reporters at the station and hinted at who won the Friday tennis match with President Roosevelt. J Pierpont Morgan, slated to play a major role at the convention, arrived early but proceeded to his train. The piece ends with a aphorism about discretion and success.
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Washington
D. C
Apiscopal
International Brotherhood of St. Andrew
Richmond
Episcopal Church
London
White” House
Roosevelt
J. Pierpont Morgan
New York
Taft Warns War Between U S and Japan Would Be Criminal
Secretary of War Taft told a Tokyo banquet that war between the United States and Japan would be a crime against modern civilization and insane. He urged both nations to guard against such catastrophe, praising US friendship with Japan and criticizing press sensationalism.
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Taft
Japan
U. S
Tokio
Raft
United States
Viscount Shibusawa
America
Xarc
Deen
Egerotary
State Department
Forty-two Die or Hurt in Seoul Train Wreck
A Southbound train derailment near Seoul, Korea, leaves forty-two persons killed or injured. The report notes no assignment of responsibility. Among the casualties are twenty.
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Seoul
Korea
Rate Hearing Resumed In Southern Railway Case
Raleigh Oct 1 The hearing before Standing Master W A Montgomery in the Southern Railway case was resumed from Washington. The Southern was represented by General Counsel Thom F H Busbee the state by E J Justice and expv Aycock. First witness F W McNarry testified travel had generally increased since the 2 percent rate went into effect. W S Dunfee and W M Hunt also testified. CH Ireland a Greensboro hardware merchant said North Carolina was strained by high and unequal freight rates. In St Petersburg cholera threatens the section through which the Chinese Eastern railroad runs.
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Raleigh
N.C
W. A. Montgomery
Washington
Thom
F. H. Busbee
E. J. Justice
Expv
Aycock
F. W. McNarry
W. S. Dunfee
W. M. Hunt
Ireland
Greensboro
North Carolina
Fatal Fire Destroys East Third Street Tenement in New York
A morning blaze gutted three upper floors of a six story East Third Street tenement. About 30 families were awakened as flames and smoke trapped residents on the third floor hallway. Rebecca Shin was seriously injured after being pushed from a ladder while rescuers saved many women and children. Firemen suspect incendiary origin.
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New York
East Third Street
Rebecca Shin
Nwomen
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