Americans Welcome Admiral Sperry in Auckland Harbor
Admiral Sperry and officers landed at Auckland to be greeted by Premier Sir Joseph Ward and Governor Lord Plunket. Crowds packed Queen Street as ceremonies honored Roosevelt and the allied Pacific ties. Sperry praised the harbor and noted improved coaling efficiency and naval training during the voyage.
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Auckland
New Zealand
Joseph George Ward
Queen Street
Dominion
Sir Joseph
Roosevelt
Admiral Sperry
Sperry
Pacific
Grat
Sydney
Manila
Lord Plunkitt
Edward
Great Britain
America
Drill Hall
Arthur Myers
Myers
Northern
Australasia
Want Scherr to Quit West Virginia Contest
A conference of West Virginia politicians adjourned with plans to urge Arnold C. Scherr to withdraw as governor candidate. A follow up meeting is set for Hot Springs on Wednesday with Senators Scott and Elkins, Reps Gaines and Hughes, U S District Attorney Eliot Northcott, and Scherr's rep George C. McIntyre, with possible participation by Hitchcock and Arthur I Vorys. Taft and the national chairmen are not taking sides in the contest, while Illinois Senator Hopkins loses to Foss, influencing Republican strategy ahead of the presidential race.
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Tribune
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
West Virginia
Arnold C. Scherr
Hot Springs
Scott and Elkins
Gaines and Hughes
United States
Eliot Northcott
C. W. Swisher
Scherr
George C. McIntyre
Hitchcock
Arthur I Vorys
William H. Taft
Senator Hopkins
Illinois
Senate
Representative Foss
Evanston
Hopkins
Taft
Cannon
House
Allison
Long
Fulton
Cummins
Foss
Bristow
Chamberlain
Oregon
Mr. Taft
Roosevelt
South
Bryan
Virginia
North Carolina
Plans for Games at Amoy Bring Fleet Visit
Amoy China plans place football and baseball matches before the fleet arrives and hold semi finals and finals during the stay. Dr George Mark, Chinese reception committee member, asks Auckland to start contests early. Trophies worth two dollars each will go to football and baseball winners as arrangements are made by Mr Arnold the American envoy.
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Amey
China
George Mark
Auckland
Arnold
Plucky Effort To Swim Channel Rescues James Mearns
James Mearns the Scotch champion attempted the English Channel swim. After fourteen hours at sea he neared France off Dover England before exhaustion forced an attendant aboard a tug to jump in and help him ashore.
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Dover
England
James Mearns
France
Mearns
Vetere
Mike
Ambassadors and Consul Security Tensed in European Posts
A dispatch from Constan temple reports Turkish legations at Paris and St Petersburg are shifted readers note posts of ambassadors Badri Mein and Belgrade and consul in Vienna are deemed insecure amid rising tensions.
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Loncen
Constan
Peris
Petersburg
Badri
Mein
Belgrade
Mers
Vienna
Skeleton found in gravel pit near Lawton Oklahoma
Skeleton of a man discovered in a gravel pit south of Lawton Oklahoma. The site is being excavated under the supervision of geologist Gould. Work will proceed with careful examination of the remains.
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Teregiagh
Okla
Aug
Oftar
Lawton
Bidte Gat
Curdijon
Gould
Nine Men Lost at Sea Near Halifax on Freya Collision
The Gloucester fishing schooner Maggie and May with crew of nine teen men was struck by the German ship Freya sixty miles off Halifax Harbor in dense fog. Nine sailors perished and four survivors were brought to Halifax. Captain Erick McCatheran died. The Maggie and May, built in 1898 at Essex Massachusetts, was 95.08 feet long and owned by G. Dennis of Gloucester.
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Halifax
Gloucester
Maggie
May
Halifax Harbor
Erick McCatheran
Essex
Mass
G. Dennis
Dominican Bonds to Be Issued for Santo Domingo Loan
Luis Tejera arrives from Santo Domingo to sign for the government the $20,000,000 bond issue with Kuhn, Loeb & Co. The 5 percent, fifty year bonds may be taken up early. A U.S. appointed customs receiver will pay interest and amortization each month. W. E. Pulliam serves as American receiver of customs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luis Tejera
Santo Domingo
Tejera
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
United States
W. E. Pulliam
Santo Domingco
General Jumeau Reported Alive in Haiti Crisis
General Jean Jumeau, long thought dead after the Firmin insurrection, is reportedly alive and hidden in remote Haiti. The government confirms he survives and hunts him as political tension rises with Antenor Firmin’s return and signs of a forthcoming movement to overthrow President Nord Alexis.
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Port-au-Prince
Haiti
Jean Jumeau
Firmin
Nord Alexis
Jumeau
Gonaives
Marchant
André
General Jumeau
Progressive Party
Antenor Firmin
St. Thomas
United States
Europe
St. Marc
Caronia Aids Starving Crew At Sea
A wireless dispatch from the Cunard liner Caronia reports sighting the British bark Lyderhorn becalmed four days in the mid Atlantic with a starving crew. Caronia, which left Queenstown August 6 for New York, sent five days’ stores to the Lyderhorn. The Lyderhorn had left Iquique March 23 for Hollardam. Ad for Haan's Restaurant Park Row Building.
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London
Cunard Line
Caronia
Crookhaven
Queenstown
New York
Lyderhorn
Weston
Becalm
mid-Atlantic
Yyderharn
Iquique
Hollerdan
Four Die in East 112th Street Fire at Sicilian Colony
A four story brick tenement at No. 332 East 112th Street burned early morning. Four Fousto children died Antonio Rosie Joseph and Angeline aged nine ten six and sixteen months. Several adults were injured from jumps and burns while police and fire crews struggled to manage crowds and rescue occupants.
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East 112Th Street
Fousto
Antonio
Rosie
Joseph
Angeline
Striking miners fire on train. three killed in Alabama
A special train carrying non union workers to Blocton mines was fired on by striking miners as deputies and soldiers guarded it. Three men died and eleven were injured, with several listed as near death. Authorities arrested eight negroes. Governor Comer moved militia to Blocton to restore order.
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Ahearn
Lazarus
East 114Th Street
Hayes
Birmingham
Ala
Birmingham Mineral
Blocton
Cornett
JL B
Cox
E. E
Tennessee Coal Company
Cross
A. E
Dodge
F. H
Johnson
J. C
Martin
M Auly
W. H
Myer
A. J
Tearson
M. A
Sigmon
Robert
Collins
Washington
Frederick
Comer
Hubbard
Bryant
Thaw defends bankruptcy claim in jail statement
Harry K. Thaw, jailed in Poughkeepsie, says lawyers prompted his bankruptcy and cites totals paid to doctors and lawyers. He notes about 417 500 paid by himself, 47 598 by his mother, 25 000 to Delmas, and 50 000 to Delmas for services with related expenses.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Harry K. Thaw
O'Reilly
Stone
Pittsburg
Myse x
Hartridge
Delmas
President Roosevelt's Quiet President's Day in Oyster Bay
Inclement weather kept the President at home except for morning church service. Accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt and their sons Quentin and Archibald, plus Mrs. William S. Cowles, he attended Christ Church and heard Rev. John W. Gammeck. The party traveled by automobile and no guests were entertained at Sugamore today.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Quentin
Archibald
William S. Cowles
Christ Church
John W. Gammeck
Glen Cove
Washburn
Sugamore LA
Police Beaten to Death in Methuen Ambush
Two Methuen police officers Charles H. Emerson and Frank McDermott were found dead in a peat meadow after pursuing suspected robbers. Authorities described brutal blows, bloodstains, and a violent struggle suggesting officers were attacked from bushes with rocks clubs and possibly a knife.
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Methuen
Mass
Charles H. Emerson
Frank McDermott
Methuen Police Department
Ames Ge Jones
McDermott
Emerson
Boy Killed by Pitched Ball in Langsdale Match
William Auvin, 15, died from cerebral hemorrhage after a pitched ball struck his temple during a match at Lonsdale. He initially played on, then felt ill at home and a physician was summoned. he died early the next morning.
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the Tribune
Cumberland, R
William Auvin
Lonsdale
Beckt medical son injured in Pelham station fall
Dr. Eric C. Beck son of prominent New York surgeon Dr. Carl Beck sustained a concussion and was delirious after a fall while alighting from a New Haven train at Pelham Station. He was taken to Mount Vernon Hospital for treatment. Dr. Carl Beck was traveling abroad.
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Eric C. Beck
Carl Beck
St. Mark’s Hospitals
New York
New Haven & Hartford
Pelham Station
Mount Vernon Hospital
George C. Weiss
Beck
Pelham Heights
Dr. Beck
New Rochelle
Parker Rescues After San Luis Obispo Runaway
Alton B. Parker of New York aided in a near fatal runaway near San Luis Obispo. A. A. Mills, his wife, their daughter, and David Oliver and his daughter were dragged under a toppled survey wagon. Parker and De Lancey Nicoll stopped the team, freed the captives, and transported them to the Mills home.
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San Luis Obispo
Cal
Alton B. Parker
New York
A. A. Mills
David Oliver
San Francisco
Auto Crashes Killing Two Cleveland Men Near Sylvania
A Cleveland party riding to Detroit struck a mudhole near Sylvania Ohio at forty mph andturned over. Father George J. Vahey and Charles W. Pohlman were crushed to death. Mrs Pohlman Florence and Dr F C Dietzel were injured. The group belonged to St Columbkill Church in Cleveland.
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the Tribune
Cleveland
Mr. Pohlman
Toledo
Detroit
Canada
Toronto
Buffalo
Pohlmans
Dr. Dietzel
Father Vahey
St. Columbkill's Church
Tragic Cass County Crash Claims Weaver Family
Levi Weaver, his wife, and his ten year old son were fatally injured when their automobile, en route to a neighbor’s funeral, was struck at a grade crossing near Onward by a Panhandle engine on a trial run. Their thirteen year old daughter survived with bruises as the other occupants were thrown from the car.
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Tribune
Logansport
Ind
Levi Weaver
Weaver
Onward
Panhandle
Cass County
Automobile Hits Pole In New Rochelle Collision
Mr and Mrs J F Wagner and their twelve year old son James F Wagner Jr of 18 Sickels avenue New Rochelle were in a crash with a trolley pole on Jerome Avenue near 12th Street yesterday afternoon The driver avoided a streetcar but steering gear failed sending the car out of control The wife and child were thrown clear the boy suffered a cut to a leg Mrs Wagner complained of an internal injury They returned home
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J. F. Wagner
James F. Wagner, Jr
Sickels Avenue
New Rochelle
Jerome Avenue
Wagner
Wall of fire 16 miles threatens mining towns in Montana
Reports from Missoula indicate the Taft fire re ignited and expanded to cover a sixteen mile front above and below Saltese as flames roll up from the Coeur d Alene side. Supervisor Koch directs firefighting efforts while Lick Creek and O Keefe Creek fires near Hamilton grow, with heavy smoke visible across the valley.
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Missoula
Mont
Bureau of the Forest Service
Taft
Koch
Coeur d'Alene
National Preserve
Saltese
Lick Creek
Hamilton Run
Bitter Root
O'Keefe Creek
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