Moors Attack Casablanca Camp In renewed assault on Casablanca
Moors renewed their attempt to invade Casablanca on Thursday night and were repulsed with heavy losses by warship fire. Consulates are guarded by machine guns as a Moorish loss is estimated at 2000. French forces shell Arab quarters and take ramparts as Admiral Philibert warns natives of destruction for hostility.
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Casablanca
Tangier
Drude
Muley Amin
France
Mazagan
Mogador
Morocco
Philibert
Conde
Gloire
Jeanne D’arc
Foreign Legion
Galilee
Rabat
Cape Juby
Paris
Caid Sale
Madanin
Fez
Foreign Office
Jank B. Dennie
Security Remedy CO
Minneapolis
Minn
Tornado Hits La Crosse in Severe Morning Storm
A violent tornado struck La Crosse Wisconsin at eight o'clock Sunday morning causing widespread damage estimated in the tens of thousands of dollars. Factories homes churches and electric power suffered heavy loss as thousands of shade trees were uprooted and streets became impassable. Many pleasure boats were swamped or abandoned as occupants swam ashore amid the chaos.
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la Crosse
Wis
Jeremiah J Hannigan Dies Former Delegate and Convict
Jeremiah J. Hannigan, once a Maryland or St Louis area delegate and noted for being the first delegate convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for doodling, died Sunday after months of invalid status. His death was believed hastened by brooding.
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St. Louis
Jeremiah J. Hannigan
House of Delegates
100 Are Injured in Blast at Colorado Depot
A fire at the Colorado and Southern freight depot in Boulder destroyed the building and caused a massive blast from 1000 pounds of dynamite in a powder house. About 100 people were injured and property losses reach 250000 dollars. Incendiary origin suspected. two believed to die.
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Boulder
Col
Colorado & Southern
Detroit
Mich
Michigan Central
Essex
Ontario
Detroit River
Ridgeway
Pennsylvania Railroad
Railway License Restored as Southern Reaches Alabama Pact
Gov. Comer and Southern railroad officials reach a settlement reinstating the Alabama license. From Sept 1 1907 the railroad and allied lines will implement a two and a half cent passenger fare and a freight rate cut on 110 commodities. The revocation of the Southern license is canceled and operations resume without state obstruction. Other railroads remain uninvolved.
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Montgomery
Ala
Gov. Comer
Southern Railroad
Alabama
Writ of error granted in Standard Oil Indiana appeal
Judge Peter S Grasscup of the United States circuit court of appeals allowed Standard Oil of Indiana to appeal Judge K M Landis judgment imposing a record $29,240,000 fine. Lawyers Moritz Rosenthal and Merritt Starr failed to obtain a supersede stay with only a bond for costs.
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Chicago
Peter Ss. Grasscup
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
K. M. Landis
Moritz Rosenthal
Merritt Starr
Daring Chicago Robbery at Hamilton Club
Two armed men robbed the Hamilton club at Clark and Monroe streets after 10 PM Saturday. They emptied the cash drawer and the employer’s pockets, netting about $50. They forced victims into an elevator and ordered the conductor to shoot to the top before fleeing.
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Chicago
Hamilton Club
Clark and
Monroe Streets
Standard Oil Dips to New Low on Wall Street
New York traders watched Standard Oil slide to 466 in intraday action on Friday the stock’s lowest level in years. The share later moved to 4 percent with no bidders as the slump continued.
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New York
Standard Oil
Crop Report Shows Wheat and Corn Conditions Cited
The agricultural department briefing notes corn condition August 1 at 82.8 percent. Winter wheat production for 1907 is about 409.5 million bushels with an average condition of 14.6 percent, while spring wheat stands at 19.4 percent.
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Washington
Agricultural Department
Montreal Sympathy Walkout Hits New York Telegraph Operators
The Western Union and Postal Telegraph Company operators in New York quit their keys in sympathy with the national strike, with union support announced by President Samuel Gompers. Strikes spread to Philadelphia Cleveland Baltimore and Washington, and reach as far as Montreal with about 30 operators joining in.
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Chicago
Western Union Company
Postal Company
New York
Postal
Western Union
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Baltimore
Washington
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf of Mexico
Montreal
United States
Associated Press
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Thomas
Postal Companies
Postal Telegraph Company
Kansas City
Denver
Dallas
Fort Worth
Colorado Springs
Helena
el Paso
Salt Lake
New Orleans
Board of Trade
Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
Western Union Telegraph Company
New York City
Train wreck kills engineer in Missouri collision
Passenger train No. 108 on the St. Louis & San Francisco line wrecked near Mountain Grove Missouri seventy miles from Springfield on Sunday. Engineer James McKenna of Springfield died and fireman James Overland of Springfield suffered fatal injuries.
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Springfield
St. Louis & San Francisco
Mountain Grove
James McKenna
James Overland
Three Burned by Gasoline Blast in Vandergrift
Pittsburg Aug 13 Three West Penn railroad employees were burned when a gasoline engine exploded at Vandergrift Pennsylvania. They were repairing the engine when a torch ignited the gasoline.
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Pittsburg
Vandergrift
West Penn Railroad
Headlines From The Nation Briefly
A rapid-fire collection of items covers gold dust theft from a mail sack, the Memphis editor Pugh found dead, an explosion in Pennsylvania injuring three, a Prussian officer attempting Africa travel by car, and a Panama canal zone census of 50 000 with 20 percent white. Other notes include land open in Wyoming, a Chicago merchant shot, Warren insurance affair graft, a Michigan senator’s daughter to wed a British minister, auto race injuries, a Texas judge arrested, Peary delaying polar expedition, a heat death in St Louis journalism, a mob incident in New York, an escapee captured by souvenir cards, new coin designs, bakery takeover by General Biscuit, a murder arrest in St Louis, a tramp son of a governor, and a Karl Hall case against Olga Molitor perjury.
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Wal
H.S. Pugh
Rééohiiy Telegraph
Memphis News-Scimitar
Vandegrift
Lieut. Graetz
Africa
Panama Canal Zone
Wyoming Land Board
Eden Valley
Sweetwater
Fremont
George L. Seeberger
Chicago
Frank A. Warren
Middletown
Conn
Amy McMillan
James McMillan
Michigan
John Lane Harrington
Abyssinia
Brighton Beach
H. B. Short
Center
Tex
Mike Paul
Peary
North Pole
Roosevelt
John J. Lane
Inter Ocean
St. Louis
John O'Grady
New York
Louis C. Bath
N. Y
Augustus St. Gaudens
General Biscuit Company
National Biscuit Company
Theresa Sullivan
Michael Sanders
N. Sture Mattson
Mattson
Minnesota
Karl Hall
Washington, D. C
Karlsruhe
Germany
Frau Molitor
Olga Molitor
Woman dies by poison in Chicago flat
Lena Mason aged 35 a widow committed suicide by swallowing poison at her home 2242 Wabash Avenue. Her dog died after licking the poisoned lips. A letter to her mother mentions a lover and police seek a man named C. L. Delpeak.
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Chicago
Lena Mason
Wabash Avenue
C. L. Delpeak
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Southern Road
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Topeka
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St. Paul
Knoxville
Sioux City
Meridian
Miss
Birmingham
Salt Lake City
Little Rock
Ark
Galveston
Atlanta
National Lead Company
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Milwaukee
Texas
Omaha
Carters
Tle
Lee Ryber
Walmington
Lista
Part
Taverdsing Go
Paul Bldg
Cincinneti Obie
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