Forest Fires Sweep Canadian Villages in West
A massive string of forest fires devastates the Crows Nest Pass region along the Canadian Pacific in British Columbia. Merale is destroyed with up to 70 reported dead. 3,000 residents are homeless. Fires reach Michel and Cranbrook area. towns Hosmer Elko Sparwood Olson Cokato reported wiped out as relief trains rush doctors nurses food and clothing. The wind drives the blazes and four men die trying to save a bridge near Michel. telegraph links to Fernie Hosmer and Michel are active.
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Winnipeg
Man
Crows Nest Pass
Canadian Pacific Railroad
British Columbia
Merale
Michel
Erine
Hosmer
Elko
Sparwood
Olson
Cokato
Canadian Pacific Techwig
W. Vo Tutie
Home
Ashdown
Winntyes
Granbrook
Wid
Cranbrook
Crows Nest
Fernie
Great Northern Bridge
Michel Hospital
Four Black men found dead near Russellville tree
Four Black men Virgil Jones Tom Jones Robert Jones and Joe Riley were taken from a jail in Russellville Kentucky and hanged from a tree on the Nashville pike. A note warned Black people to stay away or suffer the same fate. The men had been involved in a disputed incident with white farmer James Cunningham and his Black tenant Rufus Browder.
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Russellville
Virgil
Tom
Robert Jones
Joe Riley
Nashville Pike
Big suit against Wabash reopens old claim in Cleveland
Federal Judge Taylor orders the case placed on the docket as Adelbert College and 49 other holders of Toledo and Wabash bonds seek $466,000. James Compton, tied to a century‑old dispute, has fought state and federal courts over these securities since the 1860s. The interpleader action challenges the bonds and possession history amid a long legal battle.
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Cleveland
Taylor
Adelbert College
Old Toledo & Wabash Stattway Bonds
James Compton
Compton
Supreme Court of Oli
United States
Feot
Intervar
Obaldia Elected Panama President for 1910–12
Panama electors completed the campaign August 2 with electoral boards in seven provincial capitals electing Don Jose Domingo de Obaldia unanimously to serve as president from October this year through 1912. The report notes a doubling in land values across New York boroughs during consolidation.
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Panama
Jose Domingo de Obaldia
New York
Sultan Walks Unattended Among Crowds in Constantinople
Sultan Abdul Hamid surprised observers by strolling from the Vildig Kiosk and mingling with street crowds alone. In America, balloonist William Oliver died near Vandercook Michigan when his parachute failed, yielding a 3000 foot fall.
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Sultan
Constantinople
Sultan Abdul Hamid
Mob Hangs Negro in Pensacola After Lynch Attempt
In Pensacola a mob of about 1,000 attacked the county jail after a sheriff’s posse fought back as the lynching of Leander Shaw occurred. Shaw, accused of assaulting Mrs. Lilian Davis, was dragged to an electric pole in the park where he was hanged after a second jail assault. C2 Kellum, a streetcar motorman, and Bud Nichols were among those killed or wounded. about 20 others warned during the violent night.
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Pensacola
Leander Shaw
Aad
Traney C2 Kellum
Bud” Nichols
Plannery
Leduder Shaw
Shaw
Lilian Davis
Mear
Winchester Rifles
Eholems
Attorney General to Seek Revision in Standard Oil Case
After a full meeting of top government prosecutors, Attorney General Bonaparte announced plans to seek a revision of the Seventh Circuit decision in Standard Oil Co of Indiana. The government will file for reargument and, if needed, take the matter to the Supreme Court while continuing related rebates prosecutions to trial. Kellogg of Minnesota and Ute leading officials joined in the unanimous action.
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Lenox
Mass
Ute
Frank 73. Kellogg
Minnesota
Bonaparte
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Circuit Court of Appeals
Seventh Circuit
Standard Oil Company of
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court of the United States
Important Railroad Move With Erie Wells Into Pittsburg
Harriman and allies aid Gould interests in the Wheeling and Lake Erie notes due August 1. The Erie Railroad will reach Pittsburg via Wheeling and the Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal. Baltimore and Ohio saves 4 million on a terminal building at Smithfield Street and the Monongahela River. An extended B&O line enables use of the Wabash station in Pittsburg.
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Harriman
Gould
Wheeling and Lake Erie
George Gould
Erie Railroad
Pittsburg
Wheeling & Lake
Wabash-Pittsburg
Baltimmore & Ohio
Smithfield Street
Monongahela River
Baltimore & Ohio
Wabash
Millionaire in Trouble in Dayton Manslaughter Warrant
A 6 A.M. Dayton warrant charges Colonel Herbert G. Catrow with manslaughter after he struck Eugene Sullivan, an elderly laborer, while speeding. Catrow, a Miamiburg millionaire and former Republican candidate for Congress, withdrew from the race following the accident amid notoriety.
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Dayton
Herbert G. Catrow
Catrow
Eugene Sullivan
Miamisburg
Congress
Pope Company Reaches New Capital Structure
Hartford Conn reports Pope Manufacturing Company reorganized with 2 1/2 million dollars of preferred stock and 34 million of common stock. The firm was placed in receivership on August 13 1907 and now resumes operation.
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Pope Company
Hartford
Conn
Pope Manufacturing Company
Assassination of Sayyid Muhammed in Hamadan
Sayyid Muhammed, nationalist leader and chief speaker in the Persian Parliament, has been assassinated at Hamadan according to the latest reports. The incident heightens political tension in the region as authorities investigate the firearm attack.
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Sayyid Muhammed
Hamadan
West Virginia Democratic Convention nominates ticket and white supremacist platform
Charleston reports the West Virginian Democratic state convention endorses a white man’s government, calling the 1890s Republican extension of franchise to blacks a mistake. Ticket nominees include Louis Bennett for governor, Adam Littlepage for secretary of state, Oscar Jenkins for state auditor, Ira Bush for superintendent of free schools, and J. A. Miller for state treasurer. The body also supports separate coaches for white and colored passengers and elects a state committee with headquarters planned for Parkersburg.
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Charleston
Llenry G. Davis
Elkins
John W. Davis
Clarksburg
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Taft Accepts Nomination on Roosevelt Policy Line
Judge William H. Taft accepted the Republican nomination amid a Cincinnati ceremony on a flag draped platform at Charles P. Taft's home. Senator William Warner led the notification, Taft pledged to uphold Roosevelt policies, and outlined aims on trusts, tariffs, currency, union rights, and campaign finance openness. He warned that Democratic victory would spell business disaster while promising a stronger army and navy.
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Cincinnati
William H. Taft
Republican Party
Charles P. Taft
Cincinnai
William Warner
Missouri
Grand Army of the Republic
Warner
Judge Taft
Estatute
Desperate Battle With Mob in France Ends in Bloodshed
In Vigneux France a 24 hour general strike turned violent as troops confronted strikers at barricades. Several rioters were killed and many wounded while soldiers fired volleys to disperse the crowd. General Viervaire and a colonel were struck but unharmed.
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Vigneux
France
General Federation of Workmen
Paris
Viervaire
Dragoons
Fear Cholera Outbreak Prompts Strenuous Confine Efforts
Russia braces for Asiatic cholera along the Volga from Nijni Novgorod to the Caspian Sea with declared cholera zones and efforts to contain the disease to prevent spread to Moscow and St. Petersburg. Reports note danger at Nijni Novgorod during the opening of the annual fair and outbreaks in Astrakhan Tsaritsyn and Kamyshin with isolated village cases suggesting waterborne spread. Also listed are railway rates to the Grand Army of the Republic encampment in Toledo with a round trip fare plus half fare, and a one dollar return extension through September 15.
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Russia
St. Petersburg
Volga
Nijui Novgorod
Caspian
Don Cossacks
Moscow
Nijni Novgorod
Siberia
Astrakhan
Tsaritsyn
Kamyshina
Reunion
Toledo
Grand Army of the Republic
Peace Conference adopts armament arrest resolution
At the Universal Peace Conference a resolution urging the general arrest of armaments was adopted after Stanley R. Yarness of Philadelphia backed an amendment calling Britain to convene a conference at the earliest moment. A separate resolution praised Turkey's new constitution led by Ahmed Riza. The Lambeth Conference message urged Christians to curb race prejudice and promote peaceful dispute settlement and brotherly love among all peoples.
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London
Universal Peace Conference
Stanley R. Yarness
Philadelphia
Turkey
Ahmed Riza
Faris
Young Turkey Party
Lambeth Conference
Typhoon wrecks ships in Hongkong harbor
A two hour typhoon wrecked several steamers including the Schuylkill Persia Powhatan Leizang Charles Hardouin and Whiting ashore. An unknown steamer and several lighters foundered with three hundred Chinese drowned and only twelve rescued. Barra and Vandalia collided with other ships sustaining damage. Fifteen houses collapsed and the public gardens were wrecked.
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Hongkong
Schuylkill
Persia
Powhatan
Leizang
Charles Hardouin
Whiting
Barra
Vandalia
New York
Ying King
Many Perish in Flood in Austrian Tyrol Disaster
A Tyrolean flood from fierce thunder storms sweeps through the Austrian Tyrol with corpses seen in swollen streams and houses and livestock carried away. In Bukowina the death toll reaches fifty while the Ziller Valley reports over twenty deaths. Mehra near Brixlegg is overwhelmed by a landslide with sixteen killed.
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Austrian Tyrol
Vienna
Bukowina
Ziller Valley
Mehra
Brixlegg
Forty Vessels Wrecked Off Labrador Coast
Reports from Labrador indicate at least forty fishing vessels wrecked by a northeaster that swept the coast last week. All but three crew members reached shore. about four hundred fishermen faced days without food or shelter in desperate conditions.
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St. Johns
N. F
Labrador
Firebug Sentenced to Three Years for Arson
George R Gamble of Bellefontaine was sentenced to the penitentiary for three years after conviction for arson tied to setting fire to his grist mill in Zanesfield eighteen months earlier to collect insurance. He had prior losses at Boulder Evans and Denver Corp Urbana Tuscola Champlain and other points totaling 15 fires charged against him. He fled after the latest blaze but was caught in Los Angeles California.
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Bellefontaine, O
George R. Gamble
Zanesfield
Los Angeles
Cal
Denver to Omaha dirigible flight aims world record
Roy Knabenshue the Toledo aeronaut will attempt to lower the world record for a dirigible airship on September 12 starting from Denver for Omaha, a 38 mile course. Automobiles will follow the airship.
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Denver
Roy Knabenshue
Toledo
O.) Aeronaut
Omaha
Johnson Offers Voice to National Democratic Committee
Governor Johnson writes to W. J. Bryan offering his oratorical powers for the national Democratic committee. He will be available around September and will go where needed. The Independence Party national committee names Hearst as chairman Neal and Howard as vice chairmen and Walsh as secretary.
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Johnson
St. Paul
Minn
W. J. Bryan
National Committee
The
Independence Party
William R. Hearst
C. F. S. Neal
Indiana
M. W. Howard
Alabama
Charles A. Walsh
Iowa
Landslide destroys Mehra-les-bains village in Austria
A landslide devastates Mehra-les-bains in Tyrol near Brixleys and Alpbach with sixteen reported dead. The resort area, a summer favorite, draws many visitors to the valley. An imperial decree calls the first Turkish parliament under the new constitution for November 1.
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Tynsbruck
Austria
Mehra-les-bains
Mehrn Ig
Austrian Tyrol
Alpbach
Brixleys
Mehra
Independence Party Convention Nominates Hisgen and Graves
At the Independence party convention the second session nominated Thomas S. Hisgen of Massachusetts for President on the third ballot and John Temple Graves of Georgia for Vice President. J I Shepherd of Kansas proposed William J. Bryan. a riot followed as delegates moved toward the rostrum and sergeants-at-arms held back the crowd. The Hearst Platform demands direct nominations by the people, initiative and referendum, recall of officers, anti corruption measures, and limits on election spending. The party supports a central government bank, tariff reform, interstate commerce court, and government ownership of utilities including railroads and telegraphs.
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Independence Party
Thomas S. Hisgen
Massachusetts
John Temple Graves
Georgia
J. I. Shepherd
Kansas
William J. Bryan
Shepherd
Hearst
Drownings After Gasoline Launch Capsizes in Monongahela
In Pittsburg three men died and thirteen were rescued when the gasoline launch Merry Widow capsized in the Monongahela River near South Twenty-fifth street after being buffeted by the steamer Rival. The victims were Henry Schafer 23 George Kimberly 28 and Thomas Rhydderch 50 a master mechanic and evangelist. The crew had been ferrying workers to Keystone mills of Jones & Laughlin Steel Co when the wave tipped the craft and the men were swept into the river.
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Monongahela River
Pittsburg
South Twenty-fifth Street
Henry Schafer
Sidney Street
Thomas Rhydderch
Kerstone Mills
Quincy Street
Bar militia in army order bars Guard veterans
Washington dispatch says the War Department issued an order forbidding enlistment in the regular army of any man who has served in the state or territorial national guard until he shows proof of an honorable discharge. No applicant known to be a national guard member shall be accepted at a recruiting station for enlistment.
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Washington
War Department
Regular Army
National Guard
Children Unearth Bombs Near El Paso
Deputy U S Marshall Willebrand uncovered 60 bombs three miles northwest of El Paso. Mexican revolutionists are suspected as the hidden culprits. Children playing nearby had unearthed some devices, made from old fruit cans filled with dynamite sticks, iron slugs, percussion caps and fuses.
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el Paso
Tex
United States
Marshall Willebrand
Harvest Hands Sought by Soo Line for 7000 Workers
The Soo Line Railroad asked the State Free Employment Bureau to recruit 7000 harvest hands in Minnesota and North Dakota at wages from 2 to 4 dollars daily with board. Separately India’s government allocated over 1 million dollars in loans to United Provinces farmers to fund wells and irrigation embankment work.
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St. Paul
Soo Railroad
State Free Employment Bureau
Minnesota
North Dakota
Government of India
United Provinces
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Oliver
Jaller
Erie
West Virginia
Louis Bennett
John T. McGraw
Grafton
W. E. Chillon
McGraw
W. W. Beall
Wellsburg
J. J. Slinpner
New Martinsville
Thirl
Joseph M. Murphy
Parkersburg
J. H. Depue
Spencer
George 8. Wallace
Huntington
W. H. Stokes
Williamson
W. H. Sawyers
Hinton
C. W. Ossinton
Fayetteville
S.A. Hays
Glenville
JL Shaver
Kingwood
John T. Mel Graw
Taft
Roosevelt
Mr. Taft Saga
Manifestante
Tooth
Nall
George A. Gamble
Will
Mr. Hearst
BAR Militia
National Guardsmen
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