Enemy not sighted as coastal fleet harasses Maine harbors
Stormy weather favors Rear Admiral Sands as his attacking fleet presses Maine coast defenses. Barker’s squadron maintains patrols off shore between Hastport and Cape Ann. Admirals foresee a final dash within two days to test patrol vigilance. Rev Samuel Hudson dies of heart disease at Pitman Grove cottage in New Jersey.
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Sands
Barker
Maine
Penobscot
Bar Harbor
Admiral Barker
Hastport
Cape Ann
Samuel Hudson
Woodbury
Pitman Grove
N. J
The Popes Coronation Tickets and Consistories
Rome August 7 List of about sixty thousand tickets planned for the pope's coronation on Sunday. Cardinal Rampolla to greet the pope at the basilica threshold. Red hats to be conferred on Ajuti Taliani Katschthaler and Herero Esponisa in coming consistories. Diplomatic corps received, and a grand procession with guards and pontifical court precedes the ceremony. The pope favors walking to the throne, eyeing a new era of cordial international relations.
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St. Peter
Pius X
polpe
Vatican
Rampolla
Pius
Italy
St. Peter's
Lco
Sistine chapel
Ajuti
Taliani
Katschthaler
Herrero Esponisa
Leo II
Herrero
sic Bilexe
Swiss guard
Palatine guard
pontifical court
Father Perosi
Senor d'Antas
Abbott Finishing Life of Henry Ward Beecher
Reverend Dr Lyman Abbott, author and editor, is completing a new biography of Henry Ward Beecher. Beecher once served as pastor at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, an earlier generation's prominent clergyman.
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LYMAN ABBOTT
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Abbott
Henry Ward Peecher
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
Clever female forger swindled postal funds in multiple states
Annie E. Shapley, jailed for raising postal money orders, confessed to inspector Mehary. Operating since May 25, she altered orders at numerous post offices, including Darby and New York, using acid to boost values and cashing swiftly at various locations. She swindled about $552 to $582 and extorted cash and goods from several victims before arrest.
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Philadelphia
Annie E. Shapley
Moyamensing
Mebary
England
New York
Trenton
Newark
Yonkers
Bath Beach
N. C
Brooklyn
Morrisville
Darby
New Rochelle
N Y
Larchmont
Bound Brook
N.S
L. G. James & Son
Chester
Annie E Lawrence
Wilmington
Del
Joseph McKeal
Miss Shapley
civy
Mehary
federal building
potat
Harley
Farmers’ hotel
New York Mass Meeting Condemns Lynching and Peonage
A New York City mass meeting of Colored Literary League members adopted resolutions denouncing lynching and peonage in the south and urging President Roosevelt to persuade Congress to act. The group endorsed Roosevelt’s administration and called for legal steps to eradicate mob rule and race prejudice nationwide.
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New York
south
Roosevelt
congress
Colored Literary League
Greater
league
United States
congress of the
Nervous jailbreak convict seeks reimprisonment in New York
Charles J. Davis, an Illinois forgery convict on parole, stranded in New York, unable to find work as a stone cutter due to nonmembership in a union, confesses to police and asks to be sent back to the state reformatory. He recounts prior term lengths and parole violations, stating he has no hope of honest living. Sheriff reports and local authorities to decide next steps.
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New York
Charles J. Davis
Tilfois state reformatory
Davis
Illinois state reformatory
Pontiac
Canaga and Northwestern
Kaparele
Coal barge Florrie sinks in storm. two saved
The coal barge Florrie foundered between Barnegat and Fire Island in a northeasterly gale while towed by the Boswell. Captain Cobb and one deck hand were saved. Mrs Cobb, the captain’s wife, their 10-year-old son, and two other crew members went down with the vessel. The barge carried about 2000 tons of coal bound for Providence.
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New Bedford
Mass
Florrie
Boswell
Norfolk
Providence
Barnegat
Fire Island
Cobb
weasel
Emilio
epach
Mrs Cobb
cook
Captain Cobb
British schooner Orient rescued after mid Ocean wreck
In mid ocean near Rum Cay Bahamas on July 27 the eight crew of the British schooner Orient were landed after Captain Munro and crew were rescued by the Norwegian steamer Banes from Baltimore to Harbor Island. The Orient, damaged in a hurricane off the Bahatag, was abandoned and set on fire as Banes approached.
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Midocean
Philadelphia
Trosstad
Banes
Port Antonio
Munro
Orient
Baltimore
Harbor Island
Rum.Cay
Habamas
Bahatag
1650 Mile Canoe Trip From New York To Montreal
Evereth Ward Jr and Robert Protheroe two Columbia University students completed a long canoe expedition. They started June 22 in New York and plan to reach New York by early September after traveling via the Hudson Erie Canal Buffalo Niagara River Lake Ontario St Lawrence Lake Champlain and Lake George. They expect to return by September 1. Canton bank funds short and embezzlement charges filed against teller Albert W Deibel. Philippine census nearly complete with Governor Taft sending schedules to Washington and General Sanger likely to direct the effort. Broker Joseph Cowan accused of larceny involving $5000 in Milwaukee. Webster Fox killed by train near Gallashertitte PA while working on a water project.
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Plattsburg
N. Y
Evereth Ward, Jr
Robert Protheroe
Columbia University
New York
Hudson river
Erie canal
Buffalo
Niagara river
Lake Ontario
St. Lawrence river
Montreal
Lake Champlain
Lake George
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