Canal bids called for Panama Canal contracts conditions laid
The canal commission released bid terms for Panama Canal digging. Proposals use percentage on estimated cost set by a five engineer board. Bidders must fund $5,000,000 capital, provide $200,000 certified check and $2,000,000 bond. Work to begin within 60 days. bid scope includes full construction and associated civil services. eight hour workday for Americans. Proposals due before noon December 12.
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Washington
Canal Commission
Panama Canal
Commission
Panama
Isthmus
Indicted jurors accused of taking bribes in Crocker will case
Boston October 10 two jurors Matthew Killian and John Cronin in the Crocker will contest were secretly indicted on bribery charges. They voted to break the will which left $800000 to the widow. Both men pleaded not guilty and are held in 5000 bail each.
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Boston
Matthew J. Killian
John W. Cronan
Uriel H. Crocker
Killian
Cronin
Cronan
Will Act Ugly Over Newfoundland Rights
Washington dispatches deny claims that Newfoundland merchants control policy and thwart American treaty rights. British officials say Newfoundland was upheld until recently but abandoned, and laws will be enforced strictly against Americans with vessel seizures instead of fines. Local fishermen urged to occupy waters before Americans arrive.
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Bt. Johns
Washington
Newfoundland
Colonial Ministry
Hart of Stamford a prominent lawyer shoots self
N. R. Hart, 55, Stamford lawyer, committed suicide amid a winter storm. Elsewhere a Lacrosse snowstorm swirls through Wisconsin as a wall collapse in Ottawa injures three and a Union Pacific train derails near Wamego harming three. A California fire alters wind to spare San Fernando Valley, though 350 square miles have burned.
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N. RR
Hart
Stamford
Conn
Lacrosse
Wis
Cienfuegos
United States
San Fernando
Cal
Moors in Tafileit District Rise in Mordorco Unrest
unrest grows among Moors in Tafileit southern Morocco as emissaries of revolted tribes urge revolt and holy war. French governor general responds by ordering reinforcements to the southern Moroccan frontier.
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Moore
Algiers
Tafileit
Morocco
Floods cause heavy damage and many deaths in Jalisco Colima
Floods across southern Jalisco and Colima cause widespread destruction. The Mexicali Central railway line fatalities rise to 123 from drowning along the Manzanillo extension. Landslides dump earth and rock, a 26 ton steam shovel is swept away, and towns like Tuxpan and Zapotillal suffer heavy losses. In Santiago river 25 lives perish, 15 drowning when a boat capsized. All victims are natives.
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Mexico
Mexico City
Jalisco
Colima
Manzanillo
Mexican Central Railway
Tuxpan
Zapotillic
Santiago
Inventor of Barbed Wire Fence Dies at 93
Joseph H. Glidden, 93, famed inventor of the barbed wire fence, died at his DeKalb home. He conceived the idea after seeing a country fair exhibit by a man named Rose who drove brads into a block and stapled it to wire. Glidden refined the concept, producing the barbed wire that transformed fencing.
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Chicago
Joseph H. Glidden
DeKalb, Ill
Glidden
Rose
New Governor Lands in Cuba Amid Amnesty Spark
Charles H. Magoon and General Bell arrived in Havana as Taft issued a sweeping amnesty pardoning those tied to the Villuendas killing and Guanabacoa guardsmen deaths. Taft pressed for Cuban-led suppression of disorder while U S forces remain as a stabilizing adjunct and warships to be withdrawn soon.
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Havana
Charles H. Magoon
Cuba
General Bell
Taft
Bacon
Tampa
Magoon
Villuendas
Cienfuegos
Guanabacoa
Villuen
Frederick Funston
United States
Army
Marine Corps
Art
Cuban
Grain and Livestock Markets Across Major Cities
Grain and Livestock prices listed for Chicago East Buffalo Pittsburg Cincinnati Cleveland and Boston. Cattle and hogs show varied market levels with No 2 red wheat and corn prices noted and minor remarks on calves sheep and lambs across the regional markets.
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Chicago
East Buffalo
Pittsburg
Cleveland
Boston
Ohio
PennsylvanIa
Delaine
Kentucky
Indiana
New York
Toledo
White Sox win opening game of championship series
Chicago Oct 10 snow and cold drew sparse 20 000 crowd as White Sox defeated Cubs 4 2. Roche hit to third in fifth, scoring, Altrock walked and Hofman threw out at plate, Kling muffed ball. Altrock later scored on Isbell single. Kling scored on wild pitch. Batteries Altrock Sullivan Brown Kling. Attendance 12 693.
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White Sox
Chicago Cubs
Chicago
Cubs
Roche
Sheckard
Donohue
Dougherty
Brown
Kling
Altrock
Hahn
Jones
Hofman
Isbell
Nationals
Sullivan
Schulte
Untaxed Debts and Railroads Owed to State
Springfield reports claim that Illinois railroads owe the state hundreds of millions due to past assessment errors by the state board of equalization. Judge Fleming and J M Duffy argue debts were not included in capital stock and franchise values, violating law and court decisions. Also in New Orleans a 12-year-old, Jesse James, narrowly escaped lynching after alleged rape. Washington reports Rawlins of Georgia seeks U S Supreme Court review claiming jury exclusion of preachers as discrimination. Chicago notes a plan to form a $100 million railway equipment company to supply private car firms with specialized cars, led by J W Midgley.
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Illinois
Springfield
Railroad Committee
State Board of Equalization
W. B. Fleming
J. M. Duffy
James Hamilton Lewis
Corporation Counsel of
Chicago
Fleming
Supreme Court of the United States
New Orleans
Jesse James
Amite
Rawlins
Washington
J. G. Rawlins
Georgia
Lowndes County
J. W. Midgley
Steamer Sellwood Strands in Detroit River Channel
Steamer Joseph Sellwood of Cleveland ran aground on the east riverbank at Lime Kiln crossing blocking about 200 feet of the Detroit River channel. Downbound traffic stalled as about 20 ships maneuvered to clear the river with the Sellwood finally driven ashore stem first by the steamer Sahara of Duluth.
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Detroit
Mich
Detroit River
Joseph Sellwood
Cleveland
Sellwood
Sahara
Duluth
Issues raised in Ohio trial for Standard Oil case
Documentary evidence covering the original 1882 trust agreement and the 1892 1897 pleadings was presented to a Hancock county probate court jury. The prosecution cited a history of Standard Oil as a trust, while the defense argued jurisdiction limits and that the case concerns Valentine law rather than broad trust formation.
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Lima
Joan Krause
David Williams
E. G. Adams
D. J. Sloan
J. B. Wilson
Mack Thompson
Charles
Prankle
North Baltimore
Martin Snayder
M. G. Vilas
H. P. McIntosh
J. M. Robertson
Cleveland
W. L. David
Hancock County
Wade H. Bilis
Ohio
Virgil Pirline
Supreme Court of the States
Banker
Supreme Court
David
Standard Oil Company
Mr. David
John D. Rockefeller
William Rockefeller
Henry M. Flagler
John D. Archbold
H. H. Rogers
Standard Oil Company of
State of Ohio
Standard Oil Company of Ohio
Kline
Moight
Trust
New Jersey
New York
Kentucky
Indiana
Which Was It The governor puzzled over a note from Brown
A governor faces a dilemma as to whether a note from Brown the tailor or Brown the legal adviser refers to a suit ready to be tried on Thursday. The clipped Toledo Blade item moves on to a science note about tree balance and a church synod meeting set for Louisville with dates and places.
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Brown
Toledo Blade
Prevention of Fires How Common Sense Aolozr Would Save Property
Practical advice warns fires arise from accidents, spontaneous combustion or design. It urges daily care: keep areas clean, avoid storing flammable baits, don’t burn or swing gas fixtures near wood, guard stove pipes, and never read by candle. Emphasizes readiness with water and safety checks to prevent most fires.
How to Patch a Tire and Make Complexion Soap
Practical instructions describe heating an ordinary finitran or substitute like a hammer head to patch a tire with cement. It also covers making a complexion soap from oatmeal castile soap and carbolic acid with hydrogen peroxide, mixing to a thick jelly, cooling, and cutting into small oblong cakes.
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Castile
Boston Herald
How to Stir the Fire Without Interrupting the Music
A gentleman at a musical party notes the fire dimming and asks a friend how to rekindle it without breaking the harmony. The friend whispers, Between the bars, a playful Home Notes observation on keeping sound and flame in step.
Making the Dirt Fly on the Isthmus Panama Canal News
Washington reports the Isthmian canal commission chief engineer Stevens notes August excavations reached 244,844 cubic yards and September 239,000, both record highs. Panama railroad double tracking progresses steadily.
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Washington
Stevens
Isthmian Canal Commission
Culebra
Panama
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