Racing Auto Mills Two Crashes Through Fence at Sign Speed
A. C. Webb of Toledo loses control in a false start at the World's Pair automobile speed contest in St. Louis. John Scott, a park watchman, is killed after Webb’s car crashes through the outer fence while Barney Oldfield suffers painful injuries. Webb wins the Louisiana Purchase Exposition trophy, valued at $500, in the race.
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Hugging Teacher Resigns Amid School Scandal
Pottsville, Aug 29 Professor I G Miller head of Frackville High School resigns after being accused of hugging female pupils and teachers. The school opening is postponed until a replacement is found. Samuel Purnell withdraws misdemeanor case and will prosecute Miller personally. Miss Annie Curry may pursue action in a published interview.
Rebels Steamer Captured In Uruguayan Night Action
Uruguayan troops under Col Pampilion attacked a 180 strong insurrection on a steamer off the Uruguayan coast in Argentine territory. The vessel was captured along with telegraph gear. Diplomatic strains rise as Argentina and Uruguay react to the raid. Eight insurgents were captured after some swam ashore. fate of others unknown.
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Argentina
Priest Barricaded In House Over Fear Of Kidnapping
In Pittsburgh Allegheny a Croatian Catholic priest is barricaded in his home amid months of church turmoil. Parishioners accuse him of mismanaging funds and seek his removal. The bishop shut the church. 500 members protested with a brass band, but parade permission was denied. A resolution to remove him by force surfaced but did not pass. Police were alerted to the threatened action.
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Preparations as General Corbin assumes Manassas camps
General H C Corbin takes command of the manoeuvre camps at Manassas and Gainesville Virginia and thoroughfare Georgia with 2000 2500 men. The drills skeleton layouts for large re inforcements next weekend and camp sanitation is emphasized by medical officers.
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Kuroki Drives Russians Back In August Front
A dated dispatch from Liao Yang reports Japanese forces retreating on the eastern front. Northern and southern fronts show Japanese artillery and infantry press the Russians back toward Anshanshan and Liao Yang. Casualties exceed 1500 with significant fighting along the Tsezow and Tsegow areas as trenches and en trenches fade under Japanese pressure.
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Liao Yang Cut Off Rumor Supposed Japanese Seize Rail Line
Tokio dispatch reports claim General Kuroki seized and cut the railroad south of Mukden, isolating Liao Yang from retreat as fighting near Liao Yang intensifies. London dispatch notes Port Arthur fortifications fallen to Japanese, with citadel and surrounding forts held by Russians, a probable imminent fall.
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Fighting at Port Arthur Confirmed by Later Reports
From Chefoo August 29 the Associated Press interview with passengers on junks leaving Port Arthur confirms prior reports of dire conditions at the fortress. The interviewees state Russians were driven from the fort immediately east of Port Arthur, corroborating earlier dispatches.
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Port Arthur Siege Battle Reports From August
A chaotic summary describes August fighting at Port Arthur with Japanese assaults on Fort Antszshaon and Fort No. 5, heavy casualties, and Russian and Chinese observers noting damaged ships like Retvizan Poltava and Sevastopol. The Chronicle reports imminent fall as night and day bombardment continues under General Kuroki’s forces.
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Boy Fatally Slashes Brother in Fruit Knife Attack
Laurel Maryland August 29 enraged when struck by watermelon rind fragment Raymond Hearne fourteen fatally wounded Carl with a fruit knife at the Peninsular Hospital doctors say the younger cannot recover.
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Philippine Commerce Import Trade Rises Near Two Million
Washington aug 29 during the nine months ended march the total commerce of the Philippine Islands shows a rise of more than a million dollars in value the import trade advancing nearly two million while exports decline slightly due to reduced shipments in copra and sugar hemp and tobacco rose with exports. Excluding gold and government purchases customs returns place imports at 25 927 024 and exports at 22 256 109 a seven percent rise in imports and two percent fall in exports. United States leads in merchandise sent to the Islands for the first time since American occupation with outbound trade to the U S down by over 700 000 mainly from sugar and hemp.
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Alaska Cable Completed in Puget Sound Harbor
In Seattle Aug 29 the final splicing of the Seattle Sitka government cable was made ten miles from Seattle. Mayor Ballinger opened the rope hold aboard the Burnside and the cable sank, ending months of Signal Corps work. Also Aug 29 Skowhegan Me reports at least five may have died fishing in Somerset county over the past two days, four at Hayden Lake and two bodies found near Mayfield.
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Base Ball Games Standing of the Clubs in the Race for the Championships
The standings of baseball clubs in the pursuit of the championship are presented with team positions, wins and losses, and the latest movements in the table. Details include current leaders and shifts caused by recent games as teams jockey for the title.
Gill to retire Dactanes in Albany politics
Albany Aug 29 David B Hill announced to friends he will retire from politics January 1 next and relinquish leadership of the Democratic party in New York. He will not accept any national or state Democratic office if the fall election favors the party and will remain a private citizen while staying engaged in the campaign. Hill has long served as Elmira city attorney alderman mayor legislator lieutenant governor governor and US senator.
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Sausage boiler blast in New York tenement kills family
Explosion of a Frankfurter boiler in Norfolk Street tenement injures three, with three family members dead or dying. Israel Rosenweig, a Frankfurter peddler, escaped a terror. Fire scatters oil and flames, panic erupts as wife Pauline and children Mendel and Lena suffer grievous injuries.
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Murdered Suffocated in Salt Meadow Killing in Newark
Nunzio Morano, 23, was shot and killed by his brother in law Giuseppe Marmanno who also shot Morano’s wife. Marmanno fled into a salt meadow at the south edge of the city and is presumed dead after pursuit by a crowd. The quarrel stemmed from money Morano sent to Marmanno in Italy.
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Nunzio Morano
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