France and Spain Rally for Morocco Action
Paris reports the French and Spanish governments coordinating to confront the Morocco crisis. Warships approach from Casablanca with 2,500 troops and 300 horses prepared for landing, while Tangier reports a bank pillage and a captured consular staffer. Spain adds the cruiser Don Alvaro de Bazan to the Moroccan coast as Berlin notes France intends to act if needed.
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Paris
Morocco
Casablanca
France
Spain
Toulon
Clemenceau
Karlsbad
Algeciras
Tangier
Oran
Algeria
Elksare
Madrid
Infanta Isabel
Don Alvaro de Bazan
Las Palmas
Novel Soldiers Reunion Draws 300 Civil War Vets
Colorado Springs hosts the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry reunion on August 20 with Gen. Palmer as host. A special train will transport veterans from across the U S at Palmer’s expense, picking up along Pennsylvania routes for six days. In New York preparations for Saratoga encampment quarters continue, with 500 to 1,000 veterans daily assigned housing across public and private buildings. President Roosevelt will not attend the Grand Army encampment in Saratoga as announced.
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Colorado Springs
Col
United States
Fifteenth
Pennsylvania Cavalry
W. M. J. Palmer
Palmer
Gen. Palmer
Pennsylvania
New York
Far West
Saratoga
Grand Army of the Republic
Veterans of the West
N. Y
Grand Army
Roosevelt
Oil Trust Methods Scored In Roosevelt Report
Washington reports released Sunday detail Herbert Knox Smith's findings on Standard Oil. The commission says the company controlled petroleum prices for 25 years and raised prices and margins over the last eight years, justifying profits of hundreds of millions with an initial investment of about 75 million. The report also accuses the trust of unfair competition and morally unjustifiable methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Herbert Knox Smith
Standard Oil Company
Smith
Standard
Turkish Troops Raid Persia Destroy Village
Turkish forces crossed into northwest Persia near Urumiah and ransacked Mavaneh. About 78 villagers were killed, including 60 women and children, most of them Christians, in the raid led by 6,000 troops with artillery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Persia
Teheran
Urumiah
Mavaneh
Girl from Holy Jumpers sect returned to home
Olga Lun dell a 17 year old Sac City Iowa girl associated with the Holy Jumpers at Fountain house in Waukesha Wisconsin was ordered by Court Commissioner Hemlock to be placed in custody of the sheriff and taken home despite her testimony she wished to stay with the group. The crowded courtroom met the order with loud approval as the verdict was announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waukesha
Wis
Olga Lundell
Sac City
Fountain House
Hemlock
Waukesha County
Forty Passengers Drowned in French Train Crash
An Aug. 5 report from Angers states forty passengers in a third class car and the train’s engineer drowned when a local train derailed on approaching a bridge over the Loire at Les Ponts-de-Ce. The locomotive plunged 50 feet into the river as the stone railing failed.
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Angers
France
Loire
Les Ponts-de-Ce
Trolley Smashes Motor Car In Fatal City Crash
Three well known young men Swift Tarbell Edward L Woodeson and William Cutching were badly injured when their automobile was struck by a surface car Sunday in New York. The car was shoved 30 feet and crushed against an elevated railroad pillar. Tarbell is son of Gage E Tarbell former vice president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. The incident occurred as the victims faced serious injuries.
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New York
Swift Tarbell
Gage E. Tarbell
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Edward L. Woodeson
William Cutching
Philippines Army Reunion Set for Mid August in Kansas City
Five generals have accepted invitations to attend the eighth annual reunion of the National Society Army of the Philippines in Kansas City August 13 to 16. They are Gen. Arthur MacArthur Milwaukee Gen. Irving W. Hale Denver Gen. Jacob Smith Ann Arbor Gen. Charles King Milwaukee and Gen. Wilder S. Metcalf Lawrence Kansas. Veterans from all regions are expected by train.
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Philippines Army
Nansas City
National Society Army of the Philippines
Arthur MacArthur
Milwaukee
Irving W. Hale
Denver
Jacob Smith
Ann Arbor
Charles King
Wilder S. Metcalf
Lawrence
Kan
Disaster on French Ship Couronne Kills Three
In Toulon on August 3 the breech-block of a 100 mm gun blew off during target practice on the gunner y school ship Couronne in Salins roadstead. Three persons were killed and five wounded.
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Toulon
Couronne
Salins Roadstead
Grand Jury Probe Ordered After Record Oil Fine
Judge Landis fines Standard Oil $29,240,000 for illegal rebates and orders August grand jury to probe conspiracy with Chicago Alton Railway. Possible jail for oil and railroad officials. appeal planned. indictments may target J. A. Moffett W. P. Cowan H. E. Felton and others.
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Grand Jury
Alton
Kenesaw M. Landis
United States District Court
Oil Trust
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Court of Last Resort
Chicago & Alton Railroad
Whiting
Ind
East St. Louis
Sims
Alton Railroad
Standard Oil and Alton
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
United States
Dayton Crime Case Links Markowitz Family to Slaying
Anna Markowitz 24 was found murdered in a county field near Dayton after being strangled and beaten. Abraham Gordon, a traveling man from Indianapolis, lies wounded. James Jacob and Bertha Markowitz, siblings of the dead woman, are held on suspicion as investigators probe competing stories of the assault and pursuit along a rural road near the National Soldiers Home.
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Dayton, O
Anna Markowitz
Abraham Gordon
Indianapolis
Dayton
James
Jacob
Bertha Markowitz
Dana Gilman
Dona Gilman
Gilman
Cohan
National Soldiers
Bertha
Gordon
Anna
Markowitz Brothers
Prison for False Soldier Pyne Three Years in Military Prison
Leavenworth Kansas August 6 Private James M Pyne of the Sixteenth Battery siege artillery is sentenced to three years in the military prison for breaking a marriage promise and defrauding a nurse of Cuba of funds for uniforms and equipment. The court martial found conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline and the verdict was approved by Brig Gen Godfrey.
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Leavenworth
Kan
James M. Pyne
Siege Artillery
Pyne
Cuba
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas Citty
Godfrey
Funeral arrangements for sculptor Augustus St Gaudens
Augustus St Gaudens died at his Cornish New Hampshire home Saturday evening. The funeral is set for Wednesday afternoon at Aspet with cremation, and will be attended only by relatives and close friends.
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Cornish
N. H
Augustus St. Gaudens
Aspet
Mother and Daughters Drown in San Juan River
Mrs Francisco Marquese and her two daughters, all residents of Durango, drowned when their wagon overturned at a ford in the San Juan river near Arboles on Sunday.
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Durango
Col
Francisco Marquese
San Juan River
Arboles
Various Notable Deaths and Disasters Reported Across Cities
Dr L B Taylor of Elgin Illinois died of blood poisoning. Richard son of Denver quits Idaho cases over Darrow methods. Browns town Indiana bank closed as insolvent. 100 Belfast police exiled within Ireland. Los Angeles officials uncover land frauds rivaling Oregon. Richard Hen ry former Racine harbor master dies aged 65. Marion Heights Illinois raid nets 42 Black Hand arrests. Laundry machinery makers form new association. Thomas Myler drowns near Arklow after claiming flag over Santiago. Union Pacific orders 100 gasoline motor cars for branch lines. Aroostook Maine potato crop threatened by wet weather estimated at 15 million bushels. O A Bryant Kaiser Lumber VP dies of apoplexy. Dr George Young Salmon Missouri pioneer banker dies after paralysis stroke age 80. Alonzo G Smith former Indiana lieutenant governor dies of heart trouble. Mrs Christine Nenadal Baltimore strangled her two children during insanity spells. Harry Charles of Oskaloosa arrested for forging or altering round trip tickets. Three Garrett brothers and a four year old drown when Greyhound hits a barge near Jamestown pier. Great Britain home fleet parades before King Edward and Queen Alexandra at Cowes regatta opening. Indictments against A Booth Co Nickel Plate Lehigh Valley for rebates under Elkins act.
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Los Angeles
California
Oregon
Richard Hierney
Racine
Wis
Pennsylvania
Marion Heights
Thomas Myler
Santiago
Cuba
Arklow
Ireland
Union Pacific Railroad
Aroostook County
Maine
O. A. Bryant
Kaiser Lumber Company
Chippewa Falls
George Young Salmon
Clinton
Alonzo Greene Smith
Indiana
Indianapolis
Christine Nenadal
Baltimore
Harry Charles
Oskaloosa
Garrett
Jamestown Pier
Exposition Grounds
Greyhound
Great Britain
Edward
Queen Alexandra
Solent
Cowes
Chicago
A. Booth & Co
New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company
Nickel Plate
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Elkins
Suburban trolley crash kills three in Jackson Michigan
A Friday night collision in Jackson results in three women dead and two others injured when a suburban trolley car hits an automobile. The deceased are Mrs. Levi Palmer Miss Bernice Oliver and Mrs Pulver. Mr and Mrs Oliver were among the injured.
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Jackson, Mich
Levi Palmer
Bernice Oliver
Pulver
Oliver
Blaze at Hiteman Supply plant and eight buildings
Fire swept the Hiteman Supply company plant at Hiteman along with seven other business buildings on Monday. The blaze caused an estimated total loss of 50,000 dollars.
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Hiteman
Albia
Hiteman Supply Company
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Berlin
Foreign Office
Tschirsky
Die Post
Germany
Soldiers’ Reunion
John D
Iowa
Landis
Standard Oil
Alton Road
Trust
Circuit Court of Appeals
Federal Supreme Court
Merritt Starr
Johns. Miller
Europe
Standard Oil Officials
J. A. Moffett
W. P. Cowan
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
H. E. Felton
Union Tank Line Company
New Jersey
E. Bogardus
Chicago & Alton
S. M. Felton
Chicago & Alton Railroad Company
Joseph W. Blabon
Charles A. King
Charles H. Davis
Oil Company
St. Gaudens
L. 8. Taylor
Elgin
B. F. Richardson
Clarence Darrow
Idaho
People’s State Bank of
Brownstown
Belfast
Omaha
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