Irish American meetings honor historic battles in Chicago
Chicago Irish Americans held two meetings to mark the 3024th anniversary of Yellow Pass victory and the 303d of Hugh ONeill’s at Yellow Ford. Michael Davitt spoke on emigration’s drain on Ireland while Patrick Rossa urged England’s policy to push movement. both urged action beyond Parliament.
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O'Donovan Rossa
Chicago
Yellow Pass
Hugh O'Neill
Yellow Ford
Sunnyside Park
Osswat
ty ODen
van Rossa
Storm isolates Mobile as gulf fury rages ashore
Aug. 16 report from Atlanta recounts a tropical storm battering Mobile and the gulf coast. Widespread flooding leaves water in Mobile and on shore facilities, with communications cut and trains abandoned. Western Union offices flood, rails washed near Chefmenteur and Rigolets, and life near Fort Morgan wary as crews await clear tracks.
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Atlanta
gulf coast
Mobile
Ala
Western Union
Associated Press
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bay
Mississippi sound
bar
ouly
Louisville and Nashville railroad
Chefmenteur
Lake Catharine
Lake Lookout
Rigolets
Louisville and Nashville
Tensas swamp
Western Union company
New Orleans
Fears For Port Eads As Storm Wrecks Communications
Great fears grip New Orleans for Port Eads and ships that went to sea before the storm. Wires to Port Eads down since Tuesday night. a messenger from Burns, 60 miles downriver, confirms a tidal wave-like storm with a drowning in Cobden’s house above the quarantine station.
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Port Eads
Mississippi River
Port Mads
Picayune
Burns
Cobden
Ohio girl pleads for brother in McKinley pardon
Miss Nina Foutz of Zanesville visits the White House with Phineas Foutz a Philippine War veteran sentenced to death for the murder of a native girl who refused to marry him. Her appeal asks for a commutation arguing lack of mental responsibility at the time of the crime.
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McKinley
Canton
Nina Foutz
Zanesville
Phineas
Philippines
Fast Express Kills Two Men Near Cumberland
A wagon carrying three men was struck by an eight Baltimore and Ohio express train at Paw Paw, about 25 miles east of Cumberland, killing Wesley Brinkman aged 22 and George Shipley aged 24 yesterday afternoon.
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here
Baltimore and Ohio express
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George Shipwhy
Fall River Workers Vow to Resist Wage Cuts
Fall River textile workers in the Fall River print cloth mills resolved to strike if wage cuts of about 15 percent are attempted. The Textile Council urged affiliated groups to resist reductions, deeming them unbusinesslike and unjustifiable amid current cotton industry conditions.
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Fall River
Mass
Textile Council
Famous Biologist Minot to Lead AAAS Meeting in Denver
The eminent biologist Dr Charles Sedgwick Minot will preside over the American Association For the Advancement of Science meeting in Denver in August 2007. Minot, a professor of histology and human embryology at Harvard Medical School, has won international fame for research in physiology and biology. The report also notes plans attributed to J Pierpont Morgan for a labor capital partnership within United States Steel and a bankruptcy petition involving George H Phillips Company in Chicago with temporary receiver appointed.
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union
Carnegie company
Wellsville
McKeesport
National Tube company
Youngstown
American Steel Hoop company
Amalgamated
Charles Sedgwick Minot
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Denver
Warvard Medical school
Minot
Webbie
United States Steel Corporation
Carnegie
Shamrock IV in dry dock as experts assess design
New York August 16 American experts studied Shamrock IV after it entered dry dock. They found the challenger resembles Columbia in underbody and fin, proving a dangerous opponent with a smooth forward entry and clean aft run, suggesting Lipton’s cutter Britannia as a model.
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New York
Thomas Lipton
Erie Basin
Shamrock Sr
Watson
Britannia
Bethlehem Iron Works Sold to Bethlehem Steel
The Bethlehem Iron company stockholders voted almost unanimously to accept 75000 dollars from Bethlehem Steel Company for the Bethlehem Iron Works in Bethlehem Pennsylvania. Directors then completed the deal. Rumor says Charles M Schwab may be the purchaser for a firm linked with Vickers Maxim Cramp Ship Building. The works employ about 4000 skilled mechanics.
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Schwab
Bethlehem
Bethlehem Iron company
Bethlehem Stel company
steel company
Charles M. Schwab
United States Steel corporation
Coney Island Wreck Halts Trolley Cars Collision Injures Nine
Nine people were injured when two trolley cars from Brooklyn Rapid Transit collided on a trestle near Coney Island New York last night. One car from the Third Avenue division, speeding, struck a Fifth Avenue division car on a curve before the bridge, passengers claimed. Jimmy Michael attempted a new mile record pace at Brockton oval but Harry Caldwell won the 20 mile motor paced race.
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New York
Coney Island
Third avenue division
Brooklyn Rapid Transit company
Fifth avenue
dimmy Michael
Brockton
Mass
Jimmy Michael
Shoe City oval
Harry Caldwell
Manchester
Caldwell
Insurgent Raids in Colombia Target Passengers and Chinese
Raids along the railway line near Colon Colombia continue almost nightly due to no military protection. Chinese and sympathizers suffer as cattle are stolen and women kidnapped. Guards of about 50 accompany eight passenger trains while the Suchet and Machias provide cautious protection. Cresceus breaks race record covering first mile in 2 031 4 and distances The Abbott at Luighton Beach.
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Colombia
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Panama
Suchet
United States
Machias
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Abbott
Luighton Beach
creyrd
Crescens
Democrats Bury Axe At Harmony Convention Riot Fades
Harrisburg Aug 16 The Democratic state convention nominated Judge Harman Yerkes of Doylestown for supreme court and Andrew J Palm of Meadville for state treasurer. Delegates adopted harmony resolutions by a near unanimous vote to block fusion with anti-Quay Republicans. Philadelphia factions settled in harmony as Pattison and Codon backed unity.
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Meadville
Willam J. Bryan
Philadelphia
Robert E. Pattison
chaiman
Iattison
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young Demooorat
J. C. Ulrich
Schuylill
harmony
Philadelphia Democracy
arm
Bitter Fight Over Attorney General At Virginia Convention
Virginia Democrats end convention by nominating Major W. A. Anderson for attorney general after a bitter fight with J. L. Jeffries as the party council praised its leaders from Jefferson to Bryan. Other candidates included Judge W. G. Robertson and Judge S. S. W. Williams as county blocs shifted votes for hours. Anderson won by acclamation after Jeffries’ name was withdrawn.
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Joefferson
Bryan
W. A. Anderson
Rockridge
J. L. Jeffries
Jeffries
Anderson
Baseball Games Yesterday in the National and American Leagues
In New York the Mets? Boston beat New York 3 to 2 in the first game. The second game ended with New York leading Boston 3 to 0 after darkness. In St Louis Chicago won 4 to 2 over St Louis. In the American League Baltimore beat Cleveland 5 to 3. Philadelphia defeated Milwaukee 6 to 4.
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Boston
St. Louis
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Baltimore
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Milwaukee
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