Pfister Indicted Sparks Milwaukee War of Words
Milwaukee August 7 a sensational development followed the Pfister indictment as Fred C Gross president of the Wisconsin Rendering Company rejected claims Pfister owed the firm money and denounced the grand jury action as outrageous He said Pfister lent aid to the company without reward and that charges of larceny are preposterous Gross planned a public statement after he learned of the indictment but his lawyer was away in the country
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Wis
Charles F. Pfister
Wisconsin
Bor Pfister
Fred C. Gross
Wisconsin Rendering Company
Paster
Pfister
Dister
Fred Gross
Pister
Ime
Pfister Deflects Accusers With Civil Suit In Superior Court
Pfister fights back against charges by suing to recover 6342.54 as he claims Wisconsin Rendering Company owes 14000 from an indictment. The suit targets two notes totaling 32000 taken from First National Bank in 1897.
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Fister
First National Bank
Phster
Charles Quarles
Poster
Wisconsin Rendering Company
Gross
Adam _ Kreuter
Chicago
Kreuter & Nellaundry-machinery
Bribery case ties Kreuter to county hospital contract
Kreuter pleaded guilty after indictment for giving J. Lotter $1,550 in April 1904 to secure a contract for supplying laundry machinery for the new county hospital. Lotter passed the money to Edward F. Strauss, the star witness before the grand jury, who split it among board members.
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Kreuter
J. @. Lotter
New County Hospital
Lotter
Edurard F. Strauss
Tte Grand Jury
Strauss
Menmers
Parade in Manila Honors War Secretary Taft Party
A large parade in Manila honors Secretary of War Taft and party with about ten thousand participants including military units marines sailors and provincial delegations. The reviewing stand featured Taft Governor General Wright Major General Corbin Rear Admiral Train Miss Roosevelt and foreign representatives amid festive crowds. A gold plate was presented to Miss Roosevelt during the parade. Governor Wright hosted a reception at Malacanan palace and invited Admiral Enquist and the Russian squadron staff to the event.
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Manila
Tait
Taft
Wright
Corbin
Train
Miss Roosevelt
General Wright
Malacanan Palace
Admiral Enquist
Patt
Strike reports clash on Northern Pacific and Great Northern
Officials claim the railway strike nears end with trains on time and workers returning to jobs, while President Perham says reports favor operators and expresses confidence of victory amid ongoing contention between the railroads and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers.
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Raialroad
Northern Pacific
Great Northern Roads
Perham
Associated Press
le Ts
DeWitte Emotions Mark Train Greeting of Envoy in Boston
Boston on August 7 reports the Russian envoy DeWitte rushed from a train at Gack Bay station, greeted the locomotive crew, then embraced Conductor Therien and kissed his forehead. In New York, Paul Morton and his wife escaped serious harm when their car collided with a Fourth Avenue streetcar but suffered no injuries.
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Boston
Mass
Portsmouth
Gack Bay
de Witte
Inscar
Secret Service
A. B. Therien
Paul Morton
Wits
New York
Equitable Life Assurance Sometr
Hold-Gp Men in Russia Robbery Stuns Opatoff
In Opatoff Russia Poland on Aug 7 a group of forty armed men attacked the focal treasury. They killed or wounded all watchmen guarding the buildings and carried off about $10 000 in cash.
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Opatoff
Russian
Poland
Baseball scores from Saturday and Sunday leagues across cities
Chicago to St Louis and beyond report Saturday and Sunday baseball results. Scores include Philadelphia over St Louis 6 2 and 7 2, Brooklyn over Cincinnati 6 19, Chicago losses to Boston 1 3 and 8 6, New York and Pittsburgh walkovers due to a forfeit, plus American League results with Cleveland and Boston and several doubleheaders and weather affected games across multiple sites.
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City to pay the freight for yellow fever relief effort
New Orleans hosts federal control of the yellow fever response with public funds pledged to cover labor and materials. Citizens have promised $250,000 as Surgeon General Wyman and President Roosevelt are briefed. fever cases total 533 with 104 deaths to date and Archbishop Chappelle among recent victims.
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Marine Hospital Service
Roosevelt
Wyman
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Bronze Terror at New York Yellow Fever Deaths Rise
A second yellow fever death occurs at New York quarantine as a pantryman from the steamer Advance dies after being tested for fever. Authorities report nine other suspects under inspection, with Panama supplying all identified cases this summer and no cases from U S fever districts.
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Archbishop Chappelle
New York
Tee Sram Paani
Wiliam
Colon
Doty
United States
Wanawa
UST
Panama
Pantryman Smith
Dr. Doty
Unclear Report Describes Sudden Death and Cremation
The text notes a man named Stith and others from the Advance suffering fever. It says one person died yesterday after a sudden decline, and that the body, Smith, had already been cremated as part of the funeral arrangements.
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Stith
Gay
Smith
Fatal Mining Accident in Cumberland Wyoming
At Union Pacific Coal No 1 a blast caused a wooden heading collapse injuring and killing workers. Two men died Joseph Anderson and James Sellers while Joseph Corrigan and rank Sabella were seriously hurt. Three others and six more suffered minor injuries as a safety collapse trapped crews.
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Wyo
Union Pacific Coal Company
Joseph_Anderson
James Sellers
Joseph Corrigan
Rank Sabella
Wincks
Thomas Bryans
John Miller
William Wilcox
Belcher a Scoundrel Missing Mayor Sought in Belcher Case
Paterson New Jersey police launch active search for Mayor William H Belcher after he goes missing. Descriptions dispatched nationwide and to foreign countries under extradition treaty as authorities allege embezzlement of funds from private individuals exceeding 100000 pounds and a $1800 charge.
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Paterson
N. J
William H. Belcher
United States
Major Belcher
Jefferson City acquits state senator in alum bill case
State Senator Frank H. Farris was acquitted by a jury in circuit court on a charge of libel related to a bill from the 2001 session aimed at repealing the statute banning alum in baking powder production, known as the alum bill.
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Graiter
Jefferson City
Aug. T
Frank H. Farris
Clicut
Fatal collision between street car and buggy in Memphis
Memphis Tenn Aug 7 One person is killed and two badly injured in a collision between a street car and buggy on Thomas avenue near the Belt Line crossing Maggie Duling three years old is dead and the injured are Lillie Duling fifteen years with a fractured leg and seriously mashed and J Duling with an arm crushed off
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Tenn
Thomas Avenue
Belt Line
Maggie Duling
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Kaisera Hard Worker in Berlin and Sassnitz Steamer Move
In Berlin and Sassnitz Pomerania officials forward heavy document loads to Emperor William during his vacation. Steam pinnaces carry what observers thought were tons of papers from shore to the imperial yacht Hohenzollern at Sassnitz for transfer aboard.
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Berlin
Emperor William
Hohenzollern
Sassnitz
Pomerania
American Chamber Plans Gala Banquet for Gowdy Departure
Paris August 7 The American chamber of commerce voted a gala banquet for Consul Gowdy in September marking his departure from the Paris consulship and arranging a valuable testimonial work of art to honor him.
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Paris
American Chamber of Commerce
Japanese Proclamations Urge Russians Against Recommissances
Aug 7 report from Manchuria says Japanese proclamations urge Russian troops to avoid renewed attacks due to impending peace, warning that further fighting would waste lives.
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Sitaitze
Manchuria
Pipeline project stalls over funding restatement
The outline notes a Kansas to Gulf pipeline stalled due to financial shortages. Other items include the Royal Arcanum Buffalo lodge endorsing rate increases, Assistant Secretary Loomis arriving in New York, a Chicago student killed in Estes Park, a vandal damaging a coffin drape in France, Bloomington manager Connors injured in a game, Grover Cleveland and family at Mrs. Carlisle's funeral, Seward Alaska linked by telegraph, Japanese forces in Manchuria, Sharon PA steel mill resuming after a downturn, Moscow police raiding terrorist HQ and seizing materials.
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Gulf of Mexico
Buffalo
Royal Arcanum
Francis Bh
Loomis
New York
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Lonis KK. Tewings
Armour Institute
Chicago
Estes Turk
Colo
Suine
Johm Taal Jones
France
Connors
Bloomington
Cedar Rapids
Grover Cleveland
Carlisle
President Roosevelt Preaches Character at Oyster Bay Meeting
President Roosevelt spoke to the Christian Brotherhood of Oyster Bay in the Methodist church on moral character as the essence of Christian life. He urged organized efforts for good, cited scripture from Matthew and Corinthians, and urged tolerance and brotherhood before returning to Sagamore Hill.
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Christian Brotherhood of
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B. W. Bowton
Christian Brotherhood
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God
Mgr. Bowman
Sagamore Hill
Chinatown factional gunfight wounds and deaths in theater
Two Chinese men were killed and several wounded, three fatally, in a pistol battle between rival Chinese societies inside a theater on a New York street. Police investigated the incident as a gang-related clash among rival factions.
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All Dames Melican
New York
Eee Street
Pittsburg Hyer crash kills child and injures many in railroad collision
A collision in Aug with the Pittsburg Hyer line caused a Cleveland bound street car to strike the eastbound car. Child Cora May Martin died. six others were fatally injured and fifteen more injured including Frank Willianson the motorman and several members of the Martin and Kilduff families with multiple fractures and head injuries.
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Aug
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Janes Martin
Gertrude Martin
Frank Willianson
Patrick Kilduff
Michael Hussy
Lucy Halter
Charles Martin
James Kilduff
Anna Riff
Olizabeth Sessler
Evan P Howell Dies in Atlanta After Illness
Captain Evan P Howell, longtime southern journalist and former Confederate soldier, died in Atlanta after a three week illness complicated by diabetes. Born December 10, 1839 in Milton County, Georgia, he helped run the Atlanta Constitution with Grady and Hewell, steering the paper until 1897 and remaining a Democratic figure in politics.
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Evan PP. Howell
Howell
Milton County
Georgia
Atlanta Constitution
Henry W. Grady
William A. Hewphill
Peace Conference Set In Navy Style Headquarters
Delayed by heavy coastal weather, envoys reach Portsmouth awaiting the peace conference. The large Royal Stores building will host plenipotentiaries with the Mayflower Dolphin and Galleston at Newport, while Ile Witte and Baron Rosen travel by train. the Tapaves envoy group remains aboard the Dolphin.
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Boyal Stores
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Dolphin
Gualveston
Newport
Ile Witte
Baron Rosen
Tapaves
Vice President Fairbanks Visits Boston With Mrs Fairbanks
The vice president and Mrs Fairbanks arrived from the west and spent the day in Boston. They toured the city park system and dined at a friend's home before leaving for Bar Harbor, Maine, for a week with ex Senator Henderson of Missouri.
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Equitable Life Faces Estimated 50 Million Losses
New York reports a latest estimate for the year to August showing a projected loss of 50 million dollars in Equitable Life business due to attacks on the insurance company during the past year. The note adds that the company remains solvent despite the downturn.
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Equitable Life
New York
Equitable Busine
Insurimuce
Tia
Funeral of General Carnahan in Indianapolis
Funeral services for General James St Carnal commander of the Cuiforman Knights of Pythias were held at his home in Woodfall Place Indianapolis. Twelve companies from the Indiana brigade attended along with supreme officers from the order.
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Indianapolis
Ind
James St. Carnal
Knights of Pythias
Nit
Indiana Brizaide
Kansas City Boxer Hubert Stops Burns in Quick Fight
In a swift bout near St Line a Kansas City fighter TK Hubert knocked Chicago’s Jimmy Burns to the fourth round. Officials from Indiana and Illinois did not reach the scene to halt the match, despite intimation of the fight plans.
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Terre Harte
Ang
TK Hubert
Kansas City
Jimmy Burns
Chicago
Sti Line
De Witte Haans Washington Mission Aug
The report states M. de Wi, in addition to his duties as ape commissioner, is charged with negations with the government regarding tariff relations between the United States and Russia.
Appoints General Joseph Lyon Pythias Chief in Carnahan’s Place
Indianapolis dispatch reports Gen Joseph II Lyon of Leuvenn Kan named tempo major general of the Uniform Knights of Pythias to fill the vacancy caused by General J R Carnahan's death. The Aug 7 notice confirms Lyon's appointment and location.
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Carnahan
Indianapolis
Ind
Joseph II
Lyon
Leuvenn Kan
Uniform Knights of Pythias
J. R. Carnahan
Exeducator Kulikovsky Sentenced to Death in Moscow Killing
An ex-teacher Kulikovsky was condemned to die by a Moscow court for the July shooting of Ringer General C Shirvaloff, the prefect of police. The case stems from a high profile assassination linked to political tensions in the city.
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Moscow
Exac
Kulikovsky
Ringer
C Shirvaloff
Memphis closes doors to outside world on August 7
Memphis Tennessee reports authorities order cities doors shut to outsiders beginning today at an unnamed facility amid tight security.
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Tenn
Ita
Petein
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