Drought Stress Triggers Aid Plea in Zapata County
Widespread famine and distress hit Zapata and adjacent southern Texas counties with an estimated 50 000 people needing outside food and relief. The governor has not yet called for out of state aid but may be asked if conditions worsen. Zapata lies 150 miles southwest of San Antonio near the Rio Grande with no railroad access and a population of about 760. Numerous rancheros and families suffer as the drought resumes after a dry summer.
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Dalia
Tex
Zapata
Texas
Zapata County
San Antonio
Galveston
Austin
United States
Drought Devastates County Cattle and Families
Descriptions of extreme drought leaving cattle dying and families starving. Survivors, including Americans and prosperous Mexicans, provide aid as months pass with no rain. Cattle, corn, gardens vanish. people resort to begging to survive.
Fire destroys McGrath and Son factory at Lake Side
Muskegon Mich Sept 3 The planing and shingle and sash factory of N McGrath Son at Lake Side burned Monday with finished stock. Loss about 50000 in insurance about half in several companies. Fire caught from a passing freight engine.
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Muskegon, Mich
N. McGrath & Son
Lake Side
Krause Arrested in London for Treason
Dr. Krause former governor of Johannesburg and Transvaal official was arrested in London on a charge of high treason. He is to be arraigned at Bow Street police court today after four months of residence in Great Britain. It is alleged he signified allegiance to the British crown and secretly sent information to the Boers.
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London
Krause
Johannesburg
Transvaal
Bow Street
Great Britain
Letter Carriers Meet Opens In Chattanooga
The twelfth annual convention of the National Association of Letter Carriers assembled in Chattanooga Tennessee on Monday. The committee on credentials reported attendance was larger than at any previous convention. A street parade was the feature of the day.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
National Association of Letter Carriers
Committee On Credentials
Alleged Forgery Case Before London Court
Marie Josephine Fastwick of Philadelphia was arraigned at the Gath Wall police court on charges of forging a truthful document of value. Evidence was presented as the case proceeds.
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Terial
London
Marie Josephine Fastwick
Philadelphia
Gath Wall
Toruthy Voncerteflense
Labor Day Parades Rally Thousands Across Cities
Labor day observances spread from Pittsburg to Omaha with parades in Indianapolis Milwaukee St. Paul Columbus Cincinnati Cleveland and New York. Tens of thousands joined marches led by unions including Amalgamated strikers and the printers and longshoremen with speeches by leaders like Shaffer Bookwalter and Mayor Nash.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Charles A. Bookwalter
Printers’ Union
Alexandria
Fair Grounds
St. Paul, Minn
Harris Park
Columbus
New York
End of Strike at Carnegie Duquesne Plant Tests Endurance
Pittsburgh September report shows a three month strike stretching into endurance as President Burns pursues a peace plan and the union vows to keep pressure. Pickets disrupt postal service, a riot attacked a nonunion man, and police rescues prevented lynching. Some plants in McKeesport and Duquesne inch toward return to work, with National Tube Works and Demmler Tin Plate preparing for early resumption and output gains anticipated.
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Pittsburg
Burns
Schwab
Mc Keesport
Carnegie
National Tube Works
Monongahela
Demmler Tin Plate
Paris Expels Turkish Ambassador After Fete
The Turkish ambassador Munir Bey was ordered to leave France after a lavish embassy fete in Paris honoring the sultan. France demands Turkey fulfill obligations, with further pressure and potential naval moves in Turkish waters. Munir Bey departs for Switzerland amid ongoing diplomatic talks with Constans in Ankara and Delcasse in Paris.
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Paris
Munir Bey
France
Switzerland
Constans
Turkey
Marster
M Delcasse
Destruction of Hotel Meher Fire Kills One In Pittsburg
Fire at Hotel Meher in Pittsburg on Monday morning caused by a gasoline stove explosion killed 11 year old Harry Mehee and injured four others including Miss Campbell who is expected not to survive. The blast occurred as Miss Campbell attempted to light the stove.
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Pittsburg
Sons of Toil
Shaffer
Rossgrove
Allied Trades of
Western Pennsylvania
Simon Burns
Window Glass Workers’ Association
George J. Churchill
Amalgamated Association
Hearts
Johnstown
Hotel Meher
Harry Mehee
Propr Egor
Wil
Miss Campbell
Bryan Invited for Ohio Campaign by Democratic Leader
Sept 3 Columbus report says Chairman Daugherty announces William Jennings Bryan will be invited to participate in the Ohio campaign this fall despite the state convention's opposition. If he accepts he will be sent to counties that have declared in favor of Bryan's ideas.
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Columbus
Daugherty
Democratic State Committee
William Jennings Bryan
Ohio
Plans for Berlin Audience as Prince Chun Left for Germany
Basie reports Prince Chun and his entourage departed Switzerland for Berlin by imperial special train at 11 pm. Emperor William will waive Kotowing ceremony, Prince Kun and Ying Chang to be received in audience. Mission to Berlin expected to last a fortnight with invitations from Britain Italy the U S Belgium and Japan.
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Basie
Switzerland
Prince Chun
Berlin
William
Kotowing
Prince Kun
Ying Chang
Count von Buelow
Chun
Nordeney
Germany
Drowning of Johns Hopkins Professor in Shrewsbury River
New York reports Professor Maurice C Sutphen of Johns Hopkins University drowned in the Shrewsbury River near Atlantic Highlands after a small boat trip to view the Shamrock. His companions survived clinging to the overturned craft. In Sydney a masked cyclist held up a mail coach, wounded a passenger, and escaped with valuables worth about £1,400.
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New York
Maurice C Snutphen
Johns Hopkins University
Shrewsbury River
Atlantic Highlands
Sutphen
Sydney
Pascania
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Cleveland
International Longshoremen's Union
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Eal Atrike Fame
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Buffalo
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Omaha
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South Omaha
Council Bluffs
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Star Plant
Twelfth Street
Penn Avenue
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