Americans win Sonder boat race for Taft and Draper cups
America captured the top three spots in the first in a series of Sonder boat races for the President Taft and Governor Draper cups. Joyette owned by Commodore William H. Childs of Bensonhurst Yacht Club Brooklyn won first, Bisen owned by Charles P. Curtis of Boston second, Wolf owned by Caleb Loring of Boston third. Margarethe and other German challengers trailed, with Seehund II finishing last.
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America
Germany
Taft
Governor Draper
Joyette
Commodore William H. Childs
Bensonhurst Yacht Club
Brooklyn
N. Y
Bisen
Charles P. Curtis
Boston
Wolf
Caleb Loring
Robber Stops Westbound Train and Escapes With Gold
Lewiston Pa Aug 31 a masked robber halted a westbound Pennsylvania Express eight miles east of here after a track cap explosion. He took $25 00 in money and bullion from the express car while a shot wounded Conductor Poffen of Harrisburg. The robber fled into the Allegheny mountains, pursued by detectives and bloodhounds. Also reported is the death of famed American runner Charles Rowell in Cambridge.
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Lewiston
Pennsylvania Railroad
Njrows
Poffen
Harrisburg
Allegheny Mountains
Philadelphia
Express
Mountary
Kelly
Cambridge
Aug
Charles Rowell
America
American labor facing skeptical Europe at trades union congress
At the sixth International Trades Union Congress in Paris American Federation of Labor chief Samuel Gompers faced sharp European criticism over joining a world federation. He urged international fraternity while defending U S union independence as delegates demanded direct European affiliation. Hueber accused Gompers of mockery as tensions rose.
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Goampers
Paris
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
International Trades Union Congress
Gompers
United States
Hueber
Austrian Delegate, Vehemently Characterized Mr. Gompers
Mr. Gompers
International Confederation
Gomoers
Europe
Office changes as Henry Hoyt joins State Department staff
In Beverly Mass on August 31 Henry Hoyt former solicitor general becomes counsellor at the State Department tasked with handling major sal questions and treaty negotiations. Taft and Knox discuss a new Far Eastern bureau while consular appointees and transfers reshape the commerce and labor focus.
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Washington
Henry Troys
Trearment of Justice
Roosevelt
State Department
Beverly
Mass
Taft
Knox
Henry Hoyt
Sulor Ieneval
Hoyt
Gen’ergi Williams
Tientsin
Luisenord Stevenson Miller, Jr
Legation A Lokie
United Sty
Decomposed body found in Pittsburg weeds
Pittsburg Kansas police report a decomposed body found in weeds identified as Mrs Edwiry Jukes wife of a Hull Packing timekeeper. Husband says they argued and she left Saturday for her father's home in Joplin.
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Pittsburg
Kan
Edwiry Jukes
Ly Hull Packing Company
Joplin
Kling to Manage in Major Leagues Next Season
Kansas City report states former Chicago National player Kling plans to manage in a major league next season if he accepts Cincinnati Nationals offer.
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Kansas City
Joly Kling
Chicago National
Cincinnati Nationals
Immortalism to Be Taught in Future Schools Says Fallows
Chicago dispatch reports Bishop Samuel Fallows of St. Pauls Reformed Episcopal church publicizing immortalism a form of spiritual communication without fraud. He predicts it will become a routine school subject as theories of talking with spirits spread, with scientists and thinkers reportedly acknowledging nonmaterial beings in the universe.
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Immortalism
Fallows
Chicago
Samuel Fallows
St. Paul's Reformed Episcopal Church
Bishop Fallows
Mation
Dr. Fallows
Ihru
Thirty horses start in Great American Derby at Readville
Thirty horses lined up for the Great American Derby at Readville Mass on the stand circuit opening. Sonoma Girl and San Francisco scratch, $15 000 purse for next derby, one mile 2 595 feet distance for scratch horses, Baron Prisco among rivals. Keene's Ben Brush colt Sweep won the Sheepshead Bay futurity at Montpelier stables, time 1 21 43, Goaintneth. Several horses including Rocky O Brien and Lothario also ran. about 15 years and spectators attended.
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Readville
Mass
Sonoma
Toly
Pimovo
Sonoma Girl
San Fran
Krsed
Prisco
Aloylon
Keene
Sheepshead Bay
Ben Brush
Mont Pelier Stables
Candelberry
Gasse
Pellagra Study Sent To Peoria For Case Review
Captain Henry J. Nichols is ordered to Peoria Illinois to study pellagra cases at the South Bartonville state hospital for the insane. Captain Joseph F. Siler notes alarming conditions with about 75 cases in North Carolina and over 100 in other Southern states.
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Washington, D.C
Henry J. Nichols
United States Army
Peoria
South Bartonville
Nichols
Philippines
Linois
Binghamton
Siler
Levere
Europe
North Carolina
South Carolina
Farmer hanged after killing two girls in Minnesota
Will Tibbetts, 70, farmer near Delhi, Minnesota, killed Cecil Norton 15, and his daughter Dorothy 12. He set fire to conceal the double murder and then hanged himself. Neighbors arrived to extinguish the blaze and found the bodies during the fire cleanup.
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Bai
Cone Redwood Falls
Minn
Will Tibbetts
Delhi
Cecil Norton
Dorothy Tibbetts
Tibbetts
Quakes Reported in Rome and Washington
An earthquake struck Rome with minor damage and no casualties. In Washington the U S Weather Bureau seismograph logged light shocks for about thirty minutes. Also reported are the Harry Grait company liabilities at about $186000 and a possible total near $250000, and the death of former Iowa politician Delos Ar shold in Pasadena.
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Rome
Washington
United States Weather Bureau
Union City
Tenn
Harry Grait Company
Tragic Fire Kills 75 Inmates At St Malachi Home
A fire at St Malachi's Home in Rockaway Park leads to 750 inmates reported as 75 children perishing, most under five, after dormitory rooms above the laundry burned. Firemen uncover bodies among charred ruins as survivors’ names remain unknown.
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Home For Children
New York City
Wee York
St. Malachi
Rockaway Park
L. L
Sisters of St. Joseph of Brownllyn
Thase
Sdeath
Prospect of Car Strike Grows in Chicago
Chicago August 61 The street railway companies and their 10 000 employees are deadlocked on wages. After failing to reach a settlement the companies offered arbitration and now await the workers response. A rejection would leave a strike as the only option to settle the dispute.
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Chicago
Red Cross Seeks Help as Mexican Flood Deaths Climb
Aug. 31 report shows Monterey counting 2,000 dead and up to 26,000 missing or homeless across the flood region. Red Cross appeals for contributions, $2,000 telegraphed to Consul Hanna. City morgue and river wreckage show widespread devastation with delayed casualty tallies.
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Washington
American National Red Cross
Hanna
Monterey
Gendlarmes
Voliva jailed in Dowie sect after slander judgment
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, successor to John Alexander Dowie, was arrested in Zion City and sentenced to jail for defaulting on a $10,000 judgment won by Philip Metherill of Farmer, Montana, on a slander charge. In other news, Evanston woman Isabella Smith led 80 competitors at Flossmore with a 90 in the Women’s Western Golf Association championship.
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Chicago
Aus
Wilbur Glenn Vojliva
John Alexxander Dowie
Zion
City
Philip Metherill
Farmer, Mont
Evanston
Flossmore
Western Golf Association
Isabella Smith
Humble German Yachts Compete in Marblehead Race
Marblehead Mass August 31 The sonderklasse second race won by Ellen with Wolf second and Joyette third The Ellen beat the Wolf by 18 seconds Ellen owned and sailed by Charles P Curtis of Boston Ellen time 2 21 41 Seehund II fouled two German boats at first turning mark and was immediately disqualified and withdrew from Marblehead in sonder races this morning
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Marblehead
Mass
Ellen
Wolf
Joyette
Charles P. Curtis
Boston
Seehund II
Land grab alleged on Illinois riverfront lands eyed by committee
Chicago report on a 15 million dollar land grab along the Mississippi that involves East St. Louis Connecting Railway, Wiggins Car Ferry and Eads Bridge companies. The investigation spans Galena to Cairo with plans to probe navigability, Spring Lake claims, and an Indiana capitalists' firm preserving Thompson's lake.
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Chicago
Mississippi River
Chiperfield Legislative Investigation Committee
Cruse
Downstate
East St. Louis Connecting Railway Company
Wiggins Car Ferry Company
Eads Bridge Company
Cairo
Galena
East St. Louis
John L. Flannigen
St. Clair County
Spring Lake
Peeve Peoria
Ile Water
Governoby
Well County
Fish Commissioners
Erickson
Indiana
Thompson’s Lake
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International Trades Unions Conference
Iurgbean
Huéber
Rites
Addi Beattles
M. Pepper
M. Ho Davis
Commerce and Labor
Ewtstreag
Vittsburg
Flusbaml
Mits Qua
Kling
Ih & Oor
Ation Time
Acey
Peome
Counot
Circe
Geraint
Ig Teip
Hangs
Iowa
Gene
Pasadena
Cal
RED Cross
Voliva
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