Taft Reaches Manila Amid Celebratory Procession
Civil Gov Taft arrived in Manila aboard the Gen Alava as eight arches greeted him. About 20000 natives from nearby provinces joined in the demonstrations, escort to the palace, and a public reception where Taft spoke on Philippine affairs and trade prospects. Gen Chaffee returned from a southern islands tour with no decisive action yet on Moros.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Taft
United States
Alava
Singapore
Straits Settlement
Civil Commission
Alva
Gov. Taft
Paste
Rome
Congress
Philippine Islands
Gov
Gow. Tate
Ave
Chaffee
Manua
Mandanan
Joint Army and Navy Maneuvers Planned for April Start
Washington reports the general plan for joint army and navy maneuvers to begin April 22. Maj. Gen. McArthur and Adm. Higginson agreed on the schedule at the Newport conference. Instructions for opposing forces will be issued by both services and disclosed later with the war game rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
McArthur Ami Ir
Adm
Higginson
Newport
New
Enginne
War Board
Eruption at Mont Pelee Darkens Dahome Deck
Officers of the steamer Dahome report a severe Mont Pelee eruption near Martinique on Thursday noon. Darkness followed five miles away as volcanic dust covered the ship, forcing a course change to escape the ash.
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Castries
Island of
St. Lucia
Mont Pelee
Martinique
Bandmaster Pryor Dead in St. Joseph
Samuel Pryor founder of Pryor's band and father of Arthur Pryor died Friday from gastric disease in St. Joseph Missouri. At his request his musicians played a number of lively airs as he expired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pryor
St. Joseph
Samuel Pryor
Arthur Pryor
Sousa
Week's Business Failures in New York
A weekly record shows business failures for the week ending August 21 at 191, up from 181 the prior week and 281 in the same week last year. Canada reported 26 failures, compared with 23 in the previous year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Canada
Vanderbilt's Record Broken in Paris Fair Event
Paris reports say C. Jarrott, an automobileist, broke Vanderbilt's record at a kilometer dash during the fair events at Welbeck. The short note notes the achievement and location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vanderbilt
Paris
Welbeck
Navy War Games On New England Coast Begin Soon
Washington reports long range coastal maneuvers as artillery companies near Long Island and forts along the New England coast prepare to fire at moving targets before the North Atlantic naval strike. Officers including Gen Crozier and Gen MacArthur's staff observe and orders set participation across New London Wakefield and Fort Greely.
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Washington
Long Island
Atlantic
Adm. Higginson
Hamed
New England
War Department
MacArthur
Garland N. Whistler
William Chamberlain
Artillery Corps
New London
Randolph
George P. Scriven
Henry S. Hathaway
Signal Corps
Fort Greely
Alfred T. Citton
Wakefield
N. J
Richard E. Thompson
Gen. Greely
THIE PRESIDENT AT HARTFORD
The President arrived at Hartford depot to a cordial welcome by citizens. He toured the city in a Victoria automobile with Col. Jacob L. Greene and two chauffeurs. In Pepe Park 14 000 workers cheered as they presented a floral horseshoe reading Workingmen's Welcome to the President. Father Michael Sullivan welcomed the President whose remarks drew frequent applause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Jacob L. Greene
Pepe Park
Michael Sullivan
Navy War Game Ends In Simulated Coast Battle Off New England
Rockport Mass August 25 The mimic war ends with Br Adm Higginson signaling surrender to Commander Pillsbury as the blue defending fleet defeats the white attacking squadron near Thatcher s Island Gloucester harbor The exercise tallies 64 points for Pillsbury s squadron to 97 for the blue fleet and highlights coast defense measures and naval planning from Washington officials.
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Rockport
Mass
New England
Br. Adm. Higginson
Pilsbury
Thatcher
Salem
Kearserge
Alabama
Massachusetts
Scorpion
Prairie
Panther
Supply
Pillsbury
Gloucester Harbor
Thatcher's Island
Washington
Cape Elizabeth
Cape Cod
Adm
Hugginson
Reef
Kearsarge
Brooklyn
Olympia
Cincinnati
Montgomery
Gloucester
Mayfower
Blue Squadron
Jusserand Seen as Likely French Ambassador to U S
Paris dispatch in London reports Jules Jusserand, currently French minister at Copenhagen, likely to be named French ambassador to the United States. The Times correspondent notes few in French service match his understanding of American temperaments, and his appointment would be a mutual blessing if confirmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Paris
Times
Jules
Cambon
United States
Jules Jusserand
Copenhagen
M. Jusserand
France
Fifteen Cars of Coal Ship From Silver Creek, Strike Impact
Fifteen cars of coal were shipped from the Silver Creek colliery near New Philadelphia, marking the first market shipment since the strike began. Crowds watched the train as the distr ict strife mood lingered and labor tensions persisted into August.
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Silver Creek
Shenandoah
New Philadelphia
Atrikery
Old Bull the Omaha Chief Dies in Oklahoma
Guthrie Oklahoma August 25 Old Bull an Omaha Indian chief and Custer war survivor died at the Arapahoe Indian agency Coly Oklahoma He fought at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876 and later joined the regular army retiring due to age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guthrie, Okla
Old Bull
Custer
Arapahoe Indian Agency
Coly
Okla
Ambassador De Stael to Retire in Britain
London August 25 The Daily Telegraph reports the impending retirement of Baron Ga Stael the Russian ambassador to Britain and notes his successor may be Count Benckendorff the Russian minister at Denmark.
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de Stael
London
Baron Ga. Stael
Great Sritain
Count Benckendorff
Denmark
Thes Garrett’s Fatal Laugh St Joseph Mich August 25
A fragment from a St Joseph Michigan report notes a fatal incident with a daring moment. Details are incomplete but indicate a suicide or accident context. The brief mentions a dramatic laugh and a date in August.
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Garrett
St. Joseph
Mich
Terrific trolley crash claims life and injures score
In Kansas City a cable car ran away from the ganman on the Ninth street incline and smashed into a stalled train at Union Station. Gripman W. B. Taylor was instantly killed and at least 20 people were injured amid chaotic scenes on the slope and platform.
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Kansas City
Ninth Street
Union Station
W. B. Taylor
Gripman Taylor
Big Four Railroad Increases Wages In New Schedule
Indianapolis August 25 The new wage schedule on the Big Four railroad becomes effective September 1 raising annual payroll by about 160090 dollars. Through freight conductors gain 3 cents a mile from 2.9, enginemen receive higher pay on large freight and passenger engines, rural freights stay daily paid, and short mixed passenger freight runs also receive increases.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Birth of a new town in Oklahoma attracts 3000 people
The village of Thom as City in Custer county Oklahoma rose from a barren plain into a tented town of about 3000 residents. Drawings for 200 plus lots were sold with prices ranging from 20 dollars to 1000 1500 dollars. Water is ample and food plentiful. A newspaper rolled off soon after the lot drawings and a large celebration is planned for next Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Thomas City
Okla
Custer County
The Philadelphia Makes Quick Cherbourg to New York Trip
The American liner Philadelphia arriving off Sandy Hook after a swift voyage from Cherbourg and Southampton. It likely breaks its Cherbourg to New York record by about an hour. The ship’s best voyage previously stood at six days, 13 hours and five minutes.
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New York
Philadelphia
Southampton
Cherbourg
Sandy Hook
Paris
Two Seamen Killed on Kearsarge Near Thachers Island
An accident aboard the Kearsarge flagship of Adm. Higginson’s defending squadron at anchor off Thacher’s Island killed two seamen and injured three others. A rope broke while hoisting a heavy boat, causing it to fall on crewmen, with one possibly dying.
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Rockport
Alasa
Adm. Higginson
Thacher’s Island
WENT OVER TRESTLE TRAINS COLLIDED IN WRECK NEAR GEORGETOWN
New Albany Ind Aug 25 In a freight wreck near Georgetown ten miles west of New Albany two locomotives and fourteen wheat cars plunged from a trestle into a 46 foot ravine. Engineers Duval Goodall and firemen Cox Ross Myers and Burns were injured or killed. Traffic on the Louisville St Louis line was halted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Albany
Ind
Southern Railway
Georgetown
Here
Red’’ Duval
B. Cox
Ross
Harry Goodall
George Myers
Louisville
St. Louis
Walter Alvis
Duncans
Duval
Cox
Goodall
Myers
A. G. Lewis
John Burns
Milltown
Princeton
Goodall and
Ross and
Osburn
Head On Collision Kills Three Near Norfolk Bay Shore
Norfolk Va Aug 25 A head on crash on the Bay Shore Terminal line three people killed and many injured. A south bound car waited at a siding but motorman W S Yandall failed to obey orders. The collision 100 yards beyond the siding trapped Colden and Linwood Fentress under the cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Bay Shore Terminal
Ocean View
View
W. S. Yandall
Yandall
C. D. Colden
Linwood Fentress
R. B.fentress
Norfolk Cold Storage & Ice Co
Colden
Young Fentress
Plan for American medical college in Frankfort reported
Berlin August 25 Lokal Anzeiger notes a move to create a post graduate medical college in Frankfort modeled on an American system as evidence of the growing Americanization of the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
The
Lokal Anzeiger
Frankfort
Race Riot Breaks Out in Indianapolis Suburb
A violent race riot erupted at Haughville after a Sunday ball game between about 200 Negro and white workers from the National Malleable Casting Co. Two people were killed and many injured as stones bricks and clubs flew. Police arrived late as arrests climbed and fears of further clashes spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Haughville
National Malleable Casting Co
Johnson and Kidder survey adds Chickasha to Oklahoma
Advices from Washington indicate the interior department approved the Johnson and Kidder survey of the 988th meridian placing it four and a fraction miles east of the current boundary between Oklahoma and the Chickasaw Nation. This verdict brings Chickasha into Oklahoma as a key commercial and railroad hub, likely prompting a prolonged legal battle to be settled by the Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guthrie
Okla
Washington
Territorial
Interior Department
Johnsorm and Kidder
Oklahoma
Chickasaw Nation
Indian Territory
Chickasha
United States Supreme Court
Roosevelt urged to call special session to end coal strike
New York city Aug 25 President Roosevelt will be asked to call a special session of congress to end the coal strike. A mass meeting of labor unions in New York will adopt resolutions urging immediate action and plans to terminate the strike.
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New York
Roosevelt
Congress
Central Federation Union
Labor
New York City
Constabulary Ambushed by Ladrones in Sorsogon Fight
Ten members of the native constabulary were ambushed near Magdalena in Sorsogon province by a band of 60 Ladrones. A close range firefight left one constable dead, two wounded, and three captured as seventy constables pursued the attackers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Magdalena
Sorsogon
Luzon
Cholera Toll Mounts Across Philippines In 1910 Reports
Official cholera statistics show 25 664 cases and 18 040 deaths up to date in the Philippines. The actual totals exceed official figures. Manila reported eight cases last Saturday. Ilocos Norte province logged 414 cases and 317 deaths last Saturday as Luzon provinces face worsening conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
Manila
Luzon
Ilocos Norte
Tragic Gas Leak Ends in Family Tragedy
Bryant Schick woke to a gas leak in Chicago on a Sunday morning. His wife and two young children, a two year old girl and an infant, were found dead. Authorities believe Mrs. Schick turned on the gel in a moment of insanity and left an unreadable note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Bryant Schick
Mob Seizes City Council Chamber Over Street Railway Ordinance
A Loganport crowd disrupted a Friday night council meeting to block action on an ordinance allowing street railway use. Police were summoned as thousands surrounded the hall. the council ultimately passed a measure requiring all interurban lines entering the city to use Boyd tracks and pay 21 2 cents per car.
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Logansport
Ind
Boyd
Ex-Treasurer Heagy Aims to Restore Madison County Loss
Weams Heagy former Madison county treasurer paid auditor Crim 1200 after the Stilwell bank failure left the county nearly 20000 short. He plans to pay 300 more by winter to fully restore the county’s lost funds and lift a mortgage he gave to protect bondsmen, a 29 year effort on his farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison County
Indiana Hibernians elect state officers at convention
At the biennial convention in Anderson Indiana on August 21 officers were chosen for the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Indiana with M J Byrne of Lafayette as president and David Loftus Logansport as secretary P B Walsh Terre Haute as treasurer and W J Quinlan Marion as chaplain. The ladies auxiliary also elected officers: Mrs Wm McGrady Peru as president Mrs Kate Shafer Princeton as vice president Mrs Bernard Kelly Indianapolis as secretary and Mrs Hugh Hogan Fort Wayne as treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Kelly
Indianapolis
Hugh Hogan
Ft. Wayne
Burned by Live Wire in Evansville Pole Work
Jeff Bailey, a young employee of the electric light company in Evansville Indiana, suffered likely fatal injuries when a live wire he touched with both hands while installing a new pole completed a circuit. Three fingers were burned off and both arms burned to the elbows. The incident occurred Friday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Ind
Jeff Bailey
Electric Light Company
Lutheran Pastor Accepts Missionary Call to Ambdor India
Laporte Indiana August 22 Reverend Fred Foster former Lutheran instructor here has accepted a missionary post in Ambdor India and will sail from New York on September 9. He married Miss Mathilda Merz in St Louis Missouri Thursday night and she will accompany him to Asia.
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Laporte
Ind
Fred Foster
Ambdor
India
New York
St. Louis
Mathilda Merz
Asia
Burned By Escaping Gas On Traction Engine Ride
Marion Indiana August 21 a traction engine carrying Geo Morris Geo Hiatt and Raymond Itus ran over a gas pipe on Buena Vista ground. The pipe was crushed and escaping gas caught fire injuring all three men seriously but not fatally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Ind
Geo. Morris
Geo. Hiatt
Raymond
Itus
Buena Vista
Sartoris and Scovil wed in Coburg church ceremony
Vivian May Sartoris and Frederick Roosevelt Scovil were married at St. Peter's Church Coburg with guests from many states. Rev. Spraggoff officiated. The bride, daughter of Mrs Netlie Grant Sartoris and the late Algernon Sartoris, is granddaughter of Gen. Ulysses Grant. The groom, son of Chevalier and Mme Edward Scovil, is a cousin of President Roosevelt.
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U.S. Grant
Chevalier
Mme
Edward. Scovil
Roosevelt
Ten rural free delivery routes to be established in Madison County
Anderson Ind Aug 28 Ten more rural free delivery routes are to be set up within sixty days in Madison county. Washington reports routes will be added in this city and distributed to Alexandria Elwood Frankton and Markleville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson
Ind
Madison County
Washington
Grimes
Alexandria
Elwood
Frankton
Markleville
Helene Seip Event Noted in Local Ledger
A fragmentary notice mentions Helene Seip and an event dated five days after a referenced time. Details are incomplete in the OCR, but indicate a personal or community acknowledgment rather than a formal action.
After Thirty Years Divorce Petition in Muncie
Mrs. Antonio Welch of Muncie Indiana filed for divorce from William Welch after 30 years of separation. She accuses him of bigamy by marrying another woman after deserting her and repeating the act.
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Muncie
Ind
Antonio Welch
William ‘Welch
Man Brandishing Razors Shot Dead by Terre Haute Patrolmen
In Terre Haute Indiana on Thursday night Lewis Pierce a Louisville Kentucky man brandished two razors in the business district and attacked officers. Patrolmen Pierce and Fedderson shot him as he lunged with a razor. Pierce died at the scene and one officer was wounded but to recover. Pierce had been drinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Ind
Lewis Pierce
Louisville
Seventh
Pierce
Fedderson
Tazor
Dropped Dead From Fright in Bourbon Storm
An intense electrical storm in Bourbon Indiana early Wednesday morning killed Maggie Kinzie from fright. Mrs William Johnson broke both wrists and dislocated a shoulder with internal injuries. Stephen Lemler suffered serious injuries while escaping a burning building. Mathias Kitchens family remained in a precarious condition as the storm damaged homes worth about 5000. Hail killed livestock damaged crops and disrupted fruit. Never before had the township seen such a storm.
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Bourbon
Ind
Maggie Kinzie
William Johnson
Stephen Lemler
Mathias Kitchen
Belmont raid by townswomen wrecks saloon in Nashville area
A mob of neighborhood women from Belmont six miles southwest of Nashville Indiana raided a saloon known as a Blind Pig. They organized at a local house and marched to the saloon destroying windows, breaking bottles, and wrecking the establishment as the proprietor fled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Ind
Belmont
Lightning Storm Triggers Sewer Collapse in Muncie
A violent electrical storm in Muncie Indiana struck the Atherton household injuring five members as they were thrown from bed by a bolt. Rain and hail drenched streets for two hours. sewers under construction caved in and building excavations were damaged amid the storm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muncie
Ind
Alonzo Atherton
Steamer Pauline Sinks on White River at Broad Ripple
In Indianapolis on August 23 the small pleasure craft Pauline sank while moored to the Broad Ripple bank. Frank Berr and his young son along with John Etkman were sleeping aboard and had to swim ashore as the vessel disappeared into 18 feet of water. The sinking is blamed on a log collision that caused a slow leak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Pauline
Broad Ripple
Frank Berr
John
Etkman
White River
Handcar Collision Near Union Mills Affects Four Men
Four men on a handcar were struck by a Grand Trunk train near Union Mills Indiana on Friday morning. One man Patrig Shays suffered likely fatal injuries while the others were only slightly hurt. The handcar was demolished in the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valparaiso
Ind
Union Mills
Grand ‘Trunk
Patrig Shays
Ruth Hal aed
An unclear August item from Piso Indiana mentions Ruth Hal in a brief regional notice with damaged OCR text. The readable fragment provides limited context or actionable detail.
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United States Navy
Senator Clark
Butte
Mont
Butte Reduction Works
Ww. A Clark
Old Bull Bead
David
Cara
National
Ninety
Ladrones
Heagy
Indiana Hibernians
Scovil-Sartoris
Helene Seip
A. Galoon
Piso
Ruth Halthe Aed
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