Consulate In Sacking Of Barcelona Venezuela Cries For Aid
US Minister Bowen orders the cruiser Cincinnati to Barcelona to protect life and property after revolutionaries capture Barcelona. Dutch, American, Italian consuls report pillage and killings. authorities seek warships from Yopeka, Marietta, Falke, Giovianni Bausan, and Patras at nearby ports.
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Port OF Spain
Trinidad
Barcelona
Venezuela
Francisco
Monagas
Platero
Martin Marcano
United States
Bowen
Caracas
Cincinnati
Yopeka
Porta Cabello
Marietta
Orinoco
Falke
Curacao
Giovianni Bausan
Patlas
la Guayra
Cholera Reaches Japan and Several Cities in 1900
Reports from Victoria B C dated August 18 indicate cholera has spread from Manila and Chinese ports to Japan. By mid July Tokio Saga Nagasaki Fukuoka Formosa and Tientsin recorded hundreds of cases and deaths with Fukuoka and Tientsin showing high fatality. The epidemic is described as abating.
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Victoria
B. C
Manila
China
Japan
Tokio
Saga
Nagasaki
Fukuoka
Business Men Form Group to Halt Teamster Interference
Chicago business leaders form the Associated Teaming Interests to prevent wagon shipments disruption during strikes called by other unions. They cite $8,000,000 in losses from previous disturbances and invite all merchants who transport goods by wagon to join the effort to protect commerce.
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Chicago
Forged bank notes and stamps factory found in Warsaw
A Daily Mail dispatch from St. Petersburg reports a wholesale forgery operation in Warsaw, Russian Poland, flourishing four years. Enormous numbers of £50 notes have been circulated and banks have cashed about $2,000,000 in forged paper. Private losses total around $45,000. The forgery ring leaders have been arrested.
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London
Daily Mail
St. Petersburg
Warsaw
Russian
Poland
Electric X ray Hope For Roach In North Dakota
In New York Aug 12 former Senator William A. Roach of North Dakota, long near death from a malignant tumor, improved after X ray treatment. Physicians used electric therapy with bed springs as conductors and a tube through the incision to apply the X ray to the tumor, hoping to dry up the remaining growth after previous operations.
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Roach
New York
William A. Roach
North Dak Kota
Quay Will Try To Settle Anthracite Strike
Senator Quay declares he will use his influence to end the anthracite coal miners strike in Pennsylvania. George Llewellyn of Wilkes-Barre urged the move and Quay says he is ready to meet miners and operators to restore industrial peace.
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Pennsylvania
Atlantic City
N. 7
Senator Quay
George Llewellyn
Citizens’ Alliance of
Wilkesbarre
Quay
Llewellyn
Nebraska Crop Conditions Report and Harvesting Company Incorporation
The Nebraska climate bulletin for the week ending August 11 1902 notes cool weather and sufficient rainfall with beneficial conditions for stacking threshing and haying. Corn promising a large crop though slight regional rainfall gaps. In Trenton North Dakota International Harvester formed with 12 million authorized capital to manufacture harvesting machines and implements, involving major harvesting machine proprietors as incorporators.
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Weeldly Bulletin
Nebraska
Weather Bureau
Harvesting Machine Domaine
Trenton
N. d
International Harvester Company
United States
Burlington Earnings Rise as Chicago Burlington & Quincy Reports
Chicago August 13 The Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railway company official statement for the year ending June 30 shows gross earnings of 537,392,245 up 3,743,256 from a year earlier. Expenses total 43,609,839 up 1,000,826 with net earnings of 10,185,406 up 2,142,430. Saratoga August 13 Clarence H Mackay Horses in training were sold in the paddock today totaling 61,400 with the two year old Mexican bringing the top bid from 10,000 to 20,000. RB T Wilson Jr purchased him.
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Burlington
Chicago
Chicago, Burling & Quincy Railway Company
Nebraska Leads Winter Wheat Crop Estimated at 380 Million Bushels
The August 1 1902 crop report from the Department of Agriculture shows corn at 86.5 quality, up from July and varied by state, with fourteen southern states dropping 10.7 points. Winter wheat is pegged near 380 million bushels, about 13.8 bushels per acre, based on field reports and pending revisions. Spring wheat average condition on August 1 is 89.7, down slightly from last month, while oats stand at 89.4 with mixed gains and losses across states.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Pennsylvania
Indaina
Wisconsin
Ohio
Illingis
Kangas
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
California
Indiana
Illinois
Oklahoma
Michigan
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Ilinois
Earthquakes felt in Alaska and Seattle
A special dispatch from Skagway Alaska reports a covert earthquake yesterday with broken plate glass windows and falling chimneys in the northern city area. Lynn Canal water rose five feet then fell, and Juneau notes small boats capsizing in the minor fleet as a long initial tremor was followed by a lighter shock at 7 p.m.
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Seattle
Wash
Times
Skagway
Alaska
Non
Lynn Canal
Juneau
Robbers Haul $7,000 in Valparaiso Home Burglary
In Valparaiso Indiana on August 12 three assailants broke into Dr A A Stoneburner residence. They overpowered bound and gagged the servant and took cash jewelry and negotiable securities worth seven thousand dollars before escaping. Cy and Mrs Stoneburner were out driving. The servant was found unconscious.
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Valparaiso
Ind
A. A. Stoneburner
Town in ruins as Petit Goave falls to armed forces
In Haiti's Petit Goave the town is described as a total ruin with about 4600 people homeless. The French cruiser Du Assas brought aid, taking 15 wounded and women and children away, while Firminists and Fouchardists blame each other for the destruction.
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Petit Goave
Hayti
Port AU Prince
Associated Press
Simmond
du Assas
Petit Grave
Chicaye
Serum Cure for Boils Demonstrated in Paris
Dr. Doyen of Paris reports a serum treatment for boils or furuncles and anthrax using an albuminous quid in doses of five to ten cubic centimetres. The serum rapidly relieves pain within two to three hours and can cure large carbuncles without incision, with emollient dressings. Also reports train robberies and disruptions around La Guayra and Caracas involving Captain John Nickels of the Topeka but the train was allowed to proceed.
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Paris
Doyen
Academy of Medicine
Willemstad
Caracas
la Guayra
Venezuela
John Nickels
United States
Topeka
Bowen
Nickels
Aged farmer Jacob Mumma tormented by masked robbers
In Dayton Ohio on August 12 Jacob Mumma, an elderly farmer living north of the city, was attacked by masked burglars entering his home. He was bound after a failed attempt to defend himself with a shotgun, while robbers doused his feet with coal oil and threatened a fire to force disclosure of supposed hiding money, but obtained only a small sum.
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Dayton
Jacob Mumma
Mumma
Sugar Prices Rise at New York Markets
New York August 12 The American Sugar Refining Company and B Howell Son & Co advanced soft sugars 10 points and confectioners A grade 5 points in a brisk market session.
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New York
American Sugar Refining Company
B. Howell Son & Co
All Roads Meet the Cut in Chicago-Omaha Lines
Chicago August 12 announced today that all Chicago-Omaha routes have joined the cut of the St Paul on livestock from that point and Sioux City to Chicago. This unites the Chicago Missouri River lines into the competition.
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Chicago
St. Paul
Sioux City
Holmes for Judge United States Supreme Court Appointment
President Roosevelt announced the appointment of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr a Massachusetts chief justice to the U S Supreme Court as associate justice. The move follows the resignation of Justice Gray and marks a major federal judiciary upgrade announced from Oyster Bay New York.
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Massachusetts
Supreme Bench
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
Hom Oliver Wendell Holmes
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Supreme Court of the United States
Justica Gray
King Crowned Amid Coronation Cheer and Royal Service
London reports rejoice at the crowning of the king at noon with cheers across the city. The queen followed at 12 56 pm as crowds gathered to view decorations and attend thanksgiving services. A morning bulletin indicated the king bore the strain well and slept well, with no further updates planned.
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London
Buckingham Palace
Eoward
Trevel Laking
Convict Woman of Killing in Local Circuit Court
Mama Hill faced murder charges in the circuit court for shooting Kitty King in the city on March 2. State’s Attorney J. F. McClung and M. McMahon argued for the state while Wesley Stuart and Thomas Harvey defended. The trial lasted all day and jurors returned a verdict of manslaughter in the second degree after about twenty minutes. Judge Rice set sentencing for Wednesday, August 13.
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Rice
Oregon Fire Sweeps Timber and Farm Lands
Oregon City reports 9000 acres of timber and farm land burning twenty five miles away. Great damage to lumber and grain is reported as fire rages through the area near the city.
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Oregon City
Ore
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