Sultan to Fight Them Ready for War with France
Vienna reports the sultan declares readiness to face a war with France. The porte orders three hundred German guns for Salonica defenses and mine laying in harbor approaches as plans for continuous activity are described. Paris notes energetic Turkish moves may avert rupture though Austria’s withdrawal signals worry over European unity. Roosevelt departs Oyster Bay for a western trip.
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Tageblatt
Constantinople
France
Porte
Salonica
Turkey
Washington, D. C
Berlin
Europe
Russia
Roosevelt
New York
Oyster Bay
Drowning Tragedy Strikes Cedar Rapids Child
In Cedar Rapids Iowa 12 year old Katile Wood daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred A Wood of Central Park drowned yesterday when a sandbar caved in while they waded near Manhattan island six other children narrowly escaped. The body was recovered and resuscitation attempts failed. Fred A Wood secretary of the Iowa Volunteer Firemen's association which meets at Marshalltown is her father.
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Cedar Rapids
Katile
Fred A. Wood
Central Park
Little Island
Manhattan
Iowa Volunteer Firemen’s Association
Marshalltown
Forty children rob Jersey City house in daylight raid
Forty young burglars aged from 3 to 13 raid a home at 239 Grove street Jersey City on Monday afternoon seizing hundreds of dollars worth of goods. Their mothers later confiscate from the children many items including Haviland china Japanese ware cut glass lamps bronze bric a brac linen and other household articles.
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New York
Grove Street
Jersey City
What Divorce Costs in the United States
London files report on how to obtain a divorce in the United States after the trial of Farl Russell for bigamy. Lady Russell says residency of nine months in America and an expenditure of 2500 dollars are required.
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Lady Russell
London
Farl Russell
Russell
United States
America
Defender Crippled in Bristol Underbody Damage
It has been discovered that the Constitution's underbody is seriously damaged. It will require some time to overhaul the defender.
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Bristol
R. I
Fear Tillman Will Be Blind in Eye Injury
South Carolina Senator Tillman, who has only one eye, was injured when a cinder flew into his road eye on a train trip. The eye swelled and inflamed, and an operation was required amid concern from friends about the prognosis.
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South Carolina
Cinder
Charleston
S. C
United States
Tillman
Spartanburg
Return Flow To U S From Nome Reported
San Francisco officials say 6000 to 7000 people plan to return from Nome this season aboard the steamer St Paul. Nome advices recount a deadly assault by seventy masked men at Glacier Creek over mining claims. Richard O Connor was shot in the groin and near death as the St Paul departed.
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San Francisco
Cal
St. Paul
United States
Nome
Glacier Creek
Richard O'Connor
Mexican priest returns to Mexico after theft and flight
Fort Worth report says Father Amada, a Mexican priest who ran away with a girl and $60,000 belonging to the church, has been returned from Spain where he was arrested. The girl was also brought back, still in love with the priest.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Amada
Mexico
Spain
Hoey Arrested in Nogales Smuggling Ring Case
Customs Controller Hoey, named as the alleged leader of a large Chinese smuggling scheme, was arrested Tuesday on a second charge and released on $4,000 bail. Deputy Sheriff Darnell, a key government witness, was also arrested and Hoey’s examination is set for Thursday.
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Nogales
Ariz
Hoey
Darnell
Northwest backs Roosevelt for 1904 GOP nomination
The Northwest Republicans favor Theodore Roosevelt as the 1904 presidential nominee. Speaker L. Y. Sherman, returning from Washington and Oregon, says Pacific coast Republicans expect Roosevelt to be nominated and that New York’s possible lack of support may help the vice president.
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Chicago
Theodore Roosevelt
Northwest
L. Y. Sherman
Washington
Oregon
Roosevelt
New York
Pacific Coast
Doctor from Saline Revives After Five Months Unconscious
In Springfield Ohio on August 28 Dr. B F Sheeder of Saline Michigan emerges from a five month unconscious state at his father's home. Doctors diagnosed a brain clot from an old grip injury. He now talks and moves his limbs and doctors believe the clot is dissolving paving the way to recovery.
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Springfield
B. F. Sheeder
Saline
Mich
Secretary Long III Illness Report Quiet at Summer Home
Naval Surgeon Urie, physician to Secretary Long, was summoned to the secretary's summer home amid grave apprehension. Officials say the illness is not serious.
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Boston
Urie
Long
British troops requested by Pekin authorities
The Globe's Shanghai special reports Pekin authorities telegraphing for additional British troops.
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London
the Globe
Shanghai
Pekin
Starving in Zahata County Reported Amid Drought
Fort Worth Texas August 28 reports from Zahata county detail destitution due to drought. Many people are dying from starvation and hundreds are emaciated from lack of sustenance.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Zahata County
Move to Limit GOP Terms Sparks Iowa Convention
In Corydon Iowa August 25 a republican township gathering debated a resolution to cap any Republican in office at four years and bar federal officeholders from longer endorsements. The measure aimed at local leaders including U S district attorney Lewis Miles and was nearly voted down at the meeting ahead of the county convention on Thursday.
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Corydon
Iowa
Lewis Miles
United States
Flour freight rates to be decided in Chicago meeting
St Paul freight officials report a Chicago meeting next Wednesday where traffic chiefs from Missouri river and Twin Cities lines to Chicago will set future revenue on flour and grain exports. Central Freight Association members will discuss current rates and a proposed advance for flour and grain, deemed a hard blow by millers.
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Minn
Chicago
Missouri River
Twin Cities
Lake Lines
Central Freight Association
Weather Signal System Tested For Farmers In Lafayette
Purdue suggestion by Professor Latta leads to a new weather signal service in Lafayette Indiana. Professors Huston and Caldwell oversee a pilot using five rural route wagons to display tin weather signals indicating fair weather. Cards explaining the signals are distributed to farmers along the routes.
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Lafayette
Ind
W. C. Latta
Purdue Experiment Station
Huston
Caldwell
Grant Gillett Seen Across States After Cattle King Scandal
Abilene Kansas August 28 Grant Gillett once famed cattle king who fled to Mexico over a million dollars owed to cattle men is thought to have recently traveled in disguise in the United States. Telegrapher Ben Cooper says Gillett handed a coded message during Anadarko land rush to Woodbine Kansas. Cooper identified Gillett but the man hurried away when named. He was then believed to be in Chihuahua Mexico, adjoining cattle interests, with possible Oklahoma business.
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Abilene
Kas
Grant Gillett
Mexico
United States
Ben Cooper
Gillett
Anadarko
Woodbine
Chihuahua
Cooper
Oklahoma
TO WED LADY HOPE
San Francisco reports say Major Putnam Bradlee Strong of New York and Lady Francis Hope traveling as Mr and Mrs Smith bound for Nagasaki. Strong declares they will marry, notes Hope seeks divorce, and plans to reside in Yokohama after visiting Nagasaki.
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Cal
Yokohama
Major Putnam Bradlee Strong
New York
Lady Francis Hope
May Yoke
Lady Hope
Lord Hope
Japan
Nagasaki
Fatal shooting in Des Moines quarrel with roomer
Laura Lewes of Pelton avenue was fatally shot this morning after a quarrel with housemate Dotti Duffy. She vanished after the shooting and is not expected to survive as doctors report a bullet entered the brain.
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Des Moines
Laura Lewes
Pelton Avenue
Dotti Duffy
Negro Voters organize to advance race in southern Illinois
An organization was formed by colored voters from 28 counties south of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railroad in Illinois to uplift the race socially and politically. Prominent Black leaders attended. J. B. McCreary of the Metropolitan Gazette was elected president, James H. Patton vice president, F. B. Allen secretary, and T. H. King treasurer.
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Carbondale
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
Illinois
J. B. McCreary
Metropolis Gazette
James H. Patton
T. H. King
Unionville
Great Columbus Junction Fair Attracts Crowds
Columbus Junction Ia August 28 attendance at the fair is strong with admission previously free but Tuesday income recorded at $600. Local exhibitions include floral hall poultry and agricultural displays. about fifty horses arrived with more recent entries. The speed program for Thursday features a 2:16 trot and 2:20 pace amid multiple races and purses, with Tuesday results listed for several classes.
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Ispeed
Tin Plate Mills Start Up amid Union Strike in Pittsburgh
Pittsburg tin plate plants resume with eight hour shifts in two mills and Painter works running six. The American Tin Plate Co denies any settlement talks and says open mills will stay non union, hiring non union men to replace strikers while Amalgamated factions dispute the move.
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Pittsburg
Star Tin Plate Works
Painter
American Tin Plate Company
Amalgamated
Defi
Tin Plate Company
Tin-Plate Company
Shaffer
Amalgamated Association
Face in Window Glass Haunts Michigan Town
Camden residents report a ghostly visage appearing in the window of C. S. Blair’s Montgomery house. Blair’s second wife is said to have been warned by his first wife that she would haunt him after death. The face appears in the glass and defies removal despite many witnesses.
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Camden
Mich
C. S. Blair
Montgomery
Blair
Chicago and Northwestern to Absorb Sioux City and Pacific
Chicago and Northwestern files amended articles of incorporation raising capital to 62000000 dollars. Absorption of the Sioux City and Pacific railroad is the stated motive in Lincoln Nebraska news dispatch dated August 28.
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Chicago and Northwestern
Sioux City and Pacific
Lincoln Neb
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company
J. B. Redfield
March
Sioux City and
Pacific Road
Two Boys Smothered Near Cedar Rapids
In Bertram, a small town near Cedar Rapids, Aug 28, Johnnie Shersick and Charlie Simprich, two schoolboys, were smothered to death in a sand bank. They were found last evening after companions spotted their hats and dinner buckets on the surface.
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Cedar Rapids
Johnnie Shersick
Charlie Simprich
Bertram
Weather forecast for Iowa and Chicago
Partly cloudy with local showers tonight and possibly east and central portions Thursday. Warmer tonight in eastern areas, cooler Thursday in western portions.
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Iowa
Smallpox Spreading Among Winebago Indians in Wisconsin
Axel Jacobson of Wittenberg and Dr. Quigg of Tomah visited Black River Falls to inspect a smallpox outbreak. They found thirty cases within three miles and said the Brockway and Manchester areas likely host far more. They criticized state aid and warned the plague shows no end in sight as Indians move in and out.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Axel Jacobson
Wittenberg
Quigg
Tomah
Brockway
Manchester
Milner vows to pursue South Africa policy to end
Cape Town August 28 Lord Milner governor of the Transvaal and Orange River colonies received an enthusiastic welcome from the ministry mayor and citizens. He told an addressed crowd there is no doubt about Great Britain’s unshakeable determination to see the present policy in South Africa through to the end.
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England
Cape Town
Lord Milner
Transvaal
Orange River
Great Britain
South Africa
Templar Prize Drill Draws Ten Thousand. Denver Impresses
In Louisville the Templar prize drill opened with ten thousand spectators in the grand stand. Denver outshone Columbia as the first drill corps, drawing much applause. The second day’s business saw about 200 delegates with Grand Master Lloyds reporting flourishing order of 125000 members and Milwaukee seen as likely next encampment.
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Louisville
Columbia
Washington
Denver
The
Templars
Lloyds
Milwaukee
Schwab Buys Bethlehem Steel Interests in 4 Million Deal
Philadelphia Aug 28 Drexel firm deposits 4 032 000 to Drexel and company with Girard Trust to pay 168 000 shares of Bethlehem Steel stock. Bethlehem Iron and Bethlehem Steel pass to Charles M Schwab. A new board of directors and officers are elected.
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Philadelphia
Bethlehem Steel Company
Bethlehem Iron Company
Charles M. Schwab
Girard Trust Company
Drexel and Company
Bethlehem Steel
Grocers Outing Draws Fort Madison Traders to Burlington
Ot tumwa Belle and two barges carried about seven hundred Fort Madison grocers, their wives and friends to Burlington yesterday. The river excursion was one of the season’s most successful events and will be remembered by all who participated.
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Ft. Madison
Burlington
Ottumwa
Fort Madison
Will
Sampson Heads the Witness List for Court of Inquiry
The navy department through Judge Advocate Lemly supplied tentative government witnesses for the court of inquiry. The list is not public, but Sampson is believed to head it.
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Washington
Navy Department
Lemly
Schley
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