Notable Events Amid Global News Of The Week
Reports from English and California fields raise prices as Taft vows to veto the amended bill. Seattle founder’s last survivor Carson D. Boren dies. Darrow charges remain under challenge. Salvation Army leader General Booth dies in London. Cottage Grove man killed by flying rock during blast. Progressive convention cost 19403 with 474.63 remaining. Ohio governor’s committee backs widows with children pension. Blondy Gates’ dog funeral planned from New York to Port Arthur. Yuan Shi Kai questioned over Sun Yat Sen era executions. Roosevelt begins eastern tour. Orozco leaves Juarez as Federals advance. First American submarine launched in Philadelphia. Senate grants Burbank land for spineless cactus propagation. London firm probes coast conditions. 143 Spanish fishermen drown in gale. City of Seattle freed by tide. Oregon lumberman tangles with Frenchman aboard the Olympic. U S marines halt bombardment of Managua.
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William Booth
Salvation Army
London
England
Cottage Grove
Chicago
Harmon
Ohio
Portland Markets Quick Look at Wheat and Fruit Prices
Portland markets report assorted prices across commodities. Wheat and bluestem sit around 76 to 79 cents per unit. fresh fruits show apples, peaches, pears, and grapes with varying box and crate prices. Livestock and hay values appear with cattle, hogs, and sheep ranges, while eggs butter and poultry list per dozen or pound figures.
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Oregon
Valley
Walla Walla
Burbanks
Rebels Massacre Captives in Leon Nicaragu a
Reports say about 530 captured garrison troops from Leon were killed after rebels overran the city. American forces aided in Managua during a four day battle before insurgents withdrew toward Masaya. General Mena led operations from Leon despite ill health.
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Managua
Niaragua
Leon
Chamorra
Masaya
Mena
General Booth Dead Salvation Army Founder Dies at 83
London obituary reports General William Booth died at his home in Hadley Wood eight miles from London after a cataract operation and septic poisoning. He was born in Nottingham in 1829 and had been unconscious for 48 hours before death. Bramwell Booth and his wife cared for him during his illness.
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London
William Booth
Salvation Army
Nottingham
Booth
Bramwell Booth
Army
Evangelist
Rockstone Hadley Wood
Opium by Mail Smuggling Rings Exposed in Honolulu
Honolulu authorities uncover a mail bag smuggling method that delivered opium worth about $5,000 on the steamer Manchuria arriving August 8 from the Orient. Investigations suggest collusion between postal workers and an Oriental port, with opium hidden in a bag instead of letters.
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Honolulu
United States
Manchuria
Orient
Oriental
Hero saves three coworkers from deadly asphalt still
Joseph Sin clair, superintendent of Pacific Roofing & Refining, risked his life to rescue three employees from a reeking asphalt still in San Francisco. Raymond Giovanni and Louis Pruzzo entered the still and were overcome. Rudolph Strang followed, assisted by Sinclair, and all fourcollapsed. Giovanni died en route to a hospital.
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San Francisco
Joseph Sinclair
Pacific Roofing & Refining Company
Raymond Giovanni
Louis Pruzzo
Rudolph Strang
Sinclair
Giovanni
Elephant breaks chains and escapes in Englewood wild show
An enraged elephant freed from a wild west show in Englewood, reportedly angered by its keeper's water neglect, rampaged through the area. It toppled fences, uprooted trees, and overturned several small buildings as hundreds fled. Police and showmen pursued, with wagons and climbers aiding removal. The creature was finally cornered and chained.
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Chicago
Englewood
Washington Farmer May Get Aid
Spokane Governor Hay declares he will send a message to the next legislature recommending a constitutional amendment. The plan would allow the state to lend farmers at easy interest rates the $9,760,000 accumulated from the sale of school and public lands.
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Washington
Spokane
Hay
Darrow Acquitted After 34 Minute Jury Verdict
Bribery trial ends in Los Angeles as Clarence Darrow is found not guilty by a 34 minute jury deliberation. Jurors embrace Darrow and judge while congratulated by court officials and Mrs Darrow amid a flood of congratulatory telegrams from across the country. The district attorney hints at a second indictment though Darrow remains elated.
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Los Angeles
Carence S. Darrow
Fredericks
Darrow
Organized Labor
Chicago
Juarez Adopts Commission Government Pre-Federal Arrival
Juarez Mexico residents move to preserve civil order naming three commissioners with equal voting power as repairs proceed to the border town. Federal troops unlikely to arrive before next Monday, local rail workers and officials operate under a civilian administration until authorities arrive.
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Juarez
Mexico
Rabago
Tellez
California Polio Toll Rises With 60 Cases This Month
State board of health reports 60 poliomyelitis cases this month, predominately in Southern California. Stockton and San Jose totals include two and one cases respectively, with Los Angeles city 43 cases and county 48. July totals reach 188 cases and 35 deaths. LA county reports 152 cases and 28 deaths, while June shows 31 cases and five deaths.
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Sacramento
Cal
State Board of Health
California
Stockton
San Jose
Los Angeles
Buffalo Herd Numbers Rise in Yellowstone Park
Lieutenant Colonel Brett reports Yellowstone wild herd swelled to 48 buffalo in the park, with the tame enclosure herd totaling 144. He notes the wild herd exceeds ten years of counts and that nearly half of U S buffalo reside in Yellowstone.
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Washington, D. C
Brett
Yellowstone National Park
Fisher
United States
Yellowstone Park
Dr. C Annette Buckel, Civil War nurse known as little major, dies
Oakland obituary notes the death of Dr. C Annette Buckel born August 25 1843 in Warsaw New York. A graduate of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania she volunteered for Union hospital service at the Civil War outbreak and served through several fierce battles.
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Oakland
Cal
Annette Buckel
Bueckel
Warsaw
N. Y
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Insurance man Archibald Haynes dies with no life policy
Archibald C. Haynes, long noted as a top life insurer and former general agent for the Equitable, died without life insurance. His will filed here leaves a $500 estate to his widow.
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New York
Archibald C. Haynes
Haynes
Equitable
Leaders Are Taken in Ecuador Rebel Uprising Near Guayaquil
Government troops defeated rebels near Fort Piedra just outside Guayaquil. Colonel Bujarano led the revolt backing Eloy Alfaro adherents. General Leoniidas Plaza, elected president, received full powers as Plaza’s forces captured Guayaquil and Montero was beheaded after a court martial. Five revolt leaders including Floyd Alfaro and Flavio Alfaro were imprisoned then killed by a mob in Quito.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Fort Piedra
Bujarano
Eloy Alfaro
Ecuadorean Congress
Quito
Leonidas Plaza
General Plaza
Alfred P. Moreno
Senate
Estrada
Washington
Eistrada
Pedro Montero
Plaza
Montero
Floyd Alfaro
Flavio Alfa
Tribute for Titanic Heroes in Washington Arch
Washington’s Titanic memorial arch will include a virgin silver block from Bolivia as the most valuable building material. The donation was offered by La Paz women through Horace G. Knowles, the American minister, honoring Titanic heroes as noblest men beyond nationality.
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Washington, D. C
Washington
Bolivia
Women of
la Paz
Horace G. Knowles
Quake rattles Holbrook and Williams area in Arizona
A Myers dispatch reports a strong quake struck Williams Arizona 400 miles west of Albuquerque, with shocks from 2:05 to 2:10 pm. Buildings rocked, windows broke, but no lives lost. Holbrook and Winslow felt tremors. Gallup and Seligman also registered minor effects.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Williams
Arizona
Here
Winslow
Holbrook
Gallup
Seligman
Americans Besieged at Tominil Mine in Sinaloa
Reports from El Paso say about 20 Americans fought rebels and strikers at the Tominil mine in Sinaloa. Officials state no federal troops can be spared. The consul at Mazatlan has appealed for aid and a telegram asked Governor Colquitt of Texas for assistance.
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el Paso
Tex
Tominil
Sinaloa
Mazatlan
Colquitt
Texas
Paris to Berlin Flight Seeks $20,000 Prize
Swiss aviator Paris-Edmund Audemars begins from Issy near Paris on a one day flight to Berlin. The contest offers twenty thousand dollars to the first aviator to cover the longest distance in a single day.
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Paris
Edmund Audemars
United States
Issy
Berlin
Man Thought Slain Found In Missouri After 14 Years
Sebastian Englerth, 58, long presumed murdered after vanishing from St Joseph Missouri, was located in Norborne Missouri. He recalls little of his past claiming release from an asylum or hospital as he prepared to move west with $700 on him.
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St. Joseph
Sebastian Englerth
Norborne
Englerth
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