Plan to appease peasants boosts Russian land sale plan
Reports from Havana and surrounding regions detail Cuban government actions amid insurgent advances near Pinar del Rio and Santa Clara. Key developments include artillery reinforcement to Guanes, arrests of Gomez allies, and talks of U S intervention. A separate czarist plan aims to distribute 19 5 million acres to peasants to quell unrest, financed by the Peasants Bank.
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Vuelta Abajo
Guerra
Pinar del Rio
Havana
Santa Clara
Manuel Gonzalez
Santo Domingo
Colon
French Lick case appeal filed in Indiana Supreme Court
Indianapolis Aug 24 The state appeal in the French Lick and West Baden gambling case has been filed with the Indiana Supreme Court by Attorney General Miller. The appeal seeks review of Judge Thomas Buskirk of Orange County circuit court ruling that quo warranto facts were insufficient to warrant temporary receivers for the hotel companies and an injunction against gambling along with a finding that state procedures did not comply with special acts cited.
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Indianapolis
Ind
French Lick
West Baden
Supreme Court
Miller
Thomas Buskirk
Orange County
Good Reason Why He Did Not Explain Item
Chicago Aug. 24 Professor Charles Frye former superintendent of the Chicago Normal school was arrested on charges of bigamy after a South Dakota woman claimed marriage under the name Charles Goddard. Frye posted bonds. Canada Gets 12 000 Americans Minneapolis Aug 24 Brigadier J W Cousins Salvation Army says 12 000 immigrants left for Canada in eight months.
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Chicago
Charles Frye
Chicago Normal School
Frye
Clara Goddard Herley
South Dakota
Charles Goddard
Canada
Minneapolis
Minn
J. W. Cousins
Salvation Army
Victim of a Mob Strung Up in Dorchester County
In Dorchester County near St George a 21 year old North Carolina negro, William Spain, was captured after a reported attempt to climb into a store window. He was taken to the home of S I Connor and then to a nearby oak where a mob of about 40 to 50 men strung him up and fired approximately 500 shots into his body. The case follows another reported lynching within ten days in South Carolina. A separate note from Springfield Missouri mentions a jury failing to reach a verdict in a murder second degree mob case.
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Columbia
S. C
William Spain
North Carolina
St. George
Dorchester County
South Carolina
S. I. Conor
Dorchester Lumber Company
Badham
Connor
Spain
Woasts
Spaim
Jai
Aml
New York Manager McGraw Cleared to Return to Duty
President Pulliam lifts McGraw suspension effective tomorrow after reviewing charges of using villainous language toward umpire Johnstone during a Polo Grounds game with Chicago. Pulliam notes seriousness of case but says proper penalty not within his power and cites laws and Comstock objections to disclosure. He suggests the institution of baseball may set precedents in future.
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New York
McGraw
Pulliam
Johnstone
New
Chicago
Polo Grounds
Anthony Comstock
Mexican land schemes face broad federal probe in Chicago
Chicago Aug 24 Mexican plantation schemes, thriving in Chicago, will be investigated by the United States district attorney as part of exposing the Tabasco Chiapas Trading and Transportation company. Officers were arrested on stock jobbing charges. The case signals wide scrutiny of subsidiary firms and $20,000,000 development schemes linked to Henry D. Bushnell. Nearly 2,000,000 acres in Mexico are involved. Indictments may follow in Cook County upon next grand jury action.
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New City
Havana
Piano Guerra
San Juan de Martinez
Guanes
Sayx
New York
Estramp
Gaines
Maron Campos Marquezi
Gomez
Jose Miguel Gomez
Sancti Spiritus
Santa Clara
Orestes Ferrara
United States
Font Sterling
Secretary of the Treasury
Sterling
Chicago
United States District Attorney’s
Tabasco-Chiapas Trading & Transportation Company
Post Office
William Ketcham
Henry D. Bushnell
Tabasco-Chiapas
Cook County
Grand Jury
Overcome by Gas in a Well
Charles Wilcox of Hot Springs Arkansas visiting Bradford Illinois was killed after a fall down a well he helped dig. He ordered the top men to hoist him up but lost consciousness at about ten feet from the surface as gas was encountered.
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Charles Wilcox
Bradford
Kewanee
Hot Springs
Ark
Bids Opened for Philippine Certificates in Washington
Bids for 1,000,000 of Philippine certificates were opened at the Bureau of Insular Affairs in the War Department. Fisk & Robinson of New York are favored to win the full amount with a bid of 1.02 28 100 for all or none. One bid reached 1.03 for 90,000 dollars.
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Washington
Bureau of Insular Affairs
War Department
Fisk & Robinson
New York
Typhoid Outbreak Traced to City Water Standpipe
Three Oaks Michigan reports 1060 residents affected as health officials discover dead sparrows decomposing atop the water works standpipe. Mayor orders pipe emptied scrubbed and repainted. Columbus Ohio notes Governor Harris II suffers ivy poisoning from a visit to maneuver grounds in Tuscarawas county.
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Three Oaks
Mich
Aus
Board of Health
Harris II III
Columbus
Ohio
Harris
Tuscarawas County
President Roosevelts endorsement of spelling reform move
Oyster Bay August 21 President Roosevelt backs the Carnegie reform of spell ing and directs the White House public printers to print official documents and the president's messages in the reform style. Secretary Loeb will order the 300 word list applied to all White House correspondence and likely to spread to executive departments. The reform aims to standardize spell ing across government and daily use.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
White House
Brander Matthews
Columbia University
Loeb
Washington
Palace hotel loss sets record for single risk
San Francisco August 24 The insurance loss on the Palace hotel building is adjusted at 1 202 010 topping the total policy of 1 265 00 and leaving a liability of a little over 1 250 000 to be distributed among 98 companies involved. It is described as the largest loss upon a single risk ever adjusted in the United States.
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Palace At
Frisco
United States
San Francisco
Palace Hotel
Mob fights over bank gleam and murder theory
In Bedford Indiana Ernest Tanksley, recently jailed in Evansville for alleged kidnapping, is linked by rumor to the Schafer murder as a neighbor with a recent affair and borrowed coat, while Chicago police face a vault cash mob at Milwaukee Avenue Bank with 5,000 depositors paid in 20 percent installments amid language barriers.
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Bedford
Ind
Ernest Tanksley
Evansville
Nellie Rainey
Ieltonville
Here
Schafer
Fletcher
Tanksley
Chicago
Milwaukee Avenue Bank
Fetzer
Death mystery in Bradford of Galva grocer William Gerrard
William Gerrard a Bradford grocer formerly of Galva was found dead in bed by his wife after a morning call to the store he wished to go home and dig potatoes a note read good-bye age 48 had been in poor health for years no clear indication of self inflicted death was noted by searchers
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William Gerrard
Galva
Bradford
Gerrard
General Bell Consults With Roosevelt Over Texas Situation
Brig. Gen. J Franklin Bell chief of staff met with President Roosevelt at the White House to discuss the Brownsville Texas issue The colored troops were removed from Brownsville and the post was temporarily abandoned amid the dispute.
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Texas
Oyster Bay
L. L
Roosevelt
Republican National Committee
Ht Is
J. Franklin Bell
Brownsville
President Invited To See The Fight In Goldfield
Goldfield Nev Aug 24 Larry Sullivan manager for Joe Gans invites President Roosevelt to attend the Nelson Gans lightweight title bout on Labor Day in Goldfield. He praises desert conquest and American grit as the contest’s emblem and awaits a reply from the president.
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Goldfield
Nev
Larry Sullivan
Joe Gans
Roosevelt
Sage Brush
Larry
Theodore Roosevelt
Fells
Child Somnambulist Dies After Sleep Walk Tragedy
In Davis, Stella Iyerson, age 1, died after walking in her sleep and falling from an open window onto a sharp picket fence. The accident occurred at night, with a picket breaking her side. The child had been a longtime sleepwalker. In Iowa City, Munster Lachke, 9, died after choking on a peanut fragment that required tracheotomy and surgery. he later died from hemorrhages after eating an apple it lodged in his windpipe.
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Sterling
Stella
Mrs. Iyerson
Davis
Iowa City
Iowa
Munster George Lachke
Armour to Build Third Largest Packing Plant at New Brighton
Armour & Co of Chicago plans a packing plant at New Brighton Minnesota, the third largest in the world. St Paul opposes the site over river water contamination while Minneapolis buys 1000 acres and secures water sewer and street railway connections. St Paul may pursue legal action to block the project.
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Minuapolis
Minn
Armour & Co
Chicago
le Announcjee
New Brighton
St. Paul
South St. Paul
Minneapolis
J. Ogden Armour
Dark Horse Amies Chosen National Commander
Edward M. Amies of Altoona Pa a dark horse was selected chief of the National Association of Sons of Veterans at Peoria The ticket includes P M Janson senior vice commander J R WOLfram junior vice secretary Horace R Hammer and James J Hake all of Reading Pa The next convention will be in Dayton Ohio Officers for the Ladies Auxiliary include Mrs Julia Moynihan Mrs Ida Patterson and Mrs Brances Fox Roch Oster New York Rockford MI Rochester N Y
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Dayton
Ohio
Ladies' Auxiliary
Julia Moynihan
New York
Ida Patterson
Rockford
Brances Fox
Roch Oster
Peterson Wins After 3700 Ballots at Republican Convention
C F Peterson of Clarion Iowa nominated on the 3700th ballot for senator from the Hardie Wright Hamilton district amid a protracted adjourned contest. Hardin county swung 14 votes to Wright county’s candidate Frisco Stops Aid to Workers. In San Francisco the relief corporation said no more provisions would be supplied to refugees after August 5.
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C. F. Peterson
Clarion
Iowa
Eagle Grove
Hardie-Wright-Hamilton
Hardin County
Wright County
Frisco
San Francisco
The
Relief Corporation
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Azeny
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Santiago
Indiana
Springfield
Doss Galbraith
Nho
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Carnegie
Shafer
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Myers
Sarah Schafer
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Hook
Gen. Bell
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Ont
Detroit
Toronto
McKay
Goldfields
L. M. Sullivan
BIG Armour
Mississippi
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