Roosevelt undergoes urgent operation after trolley accident
News from Oyster Bay and Indianapolis report President Roosevelt’s health as fine before an unexpected decision to operate. An abscess formed in a leg injury from a Pittfield trolley crash, prompting doctors Oliver Cook Lang to perform surgery at St. Vincent’s hospital. The trip is halted with rest expected afterwards.
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Shnstown
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Indianapolis
Pittfield
Mass
Tame
Richardson
Oliver
Cook
Columbia Club
Cortelyou
Dutsfield
Oliver and
Indpolis
Lang
Washington, D. C
St. Vincent's Hospital
Washington
B. Cortelyou
St. Vincent Hospital
Loeb
Barnes
Durbin
Beveridge
Fairbanks
John Oliver
Henry Jameson
Russell B. Harrison
Harrison
Shone
Fairy Cortelyou
Elvs
Pittsfield
Maass
George B. Cortelyou
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Root
Boers Appeal for Children Amid South Africa Crisis
The Boer generals Rotha Dewet and Delarey issue a manifesto appealing to the civilized world to aid destitute families and educate children in South Africa. The Hague reports Gen Dewet received word of his 13 year old son's death in a telegram from South Africa.
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Amsterdam
Rotha
Dewet
Delarey
South Africa
the Hague
Iowa Methodists summarize business and clergy changes
Keokuk Iowa September 24 the fifty ninth annual conference of the Iowa Methodist Episcopal church closed after a week. Appointments for the ensuing year show many more location changes than usual. Grant G. Mer and John Robertson were received on trial. Rev W H Hoppee and Rev A W Haynes added to the list of supernumaries. Rev J W Patton moved from supernumerary to active. Rev G W Burkit retired from active due to age. New trustees for Lowans university elected for the term Rev Dr W W R Stryke BLOE. New som J C Fitzgerald George Hall and Samuel Whitlock. Rev Dr J W C Coxe appointed to deliver the conference oration at bicentennial of John Wesley birth.
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Keokuk
Iowa Methodist Episcopal Church
Hamilton
Grant G. Mer
John Robertson
W. H. Hoppee
A. W. Haynes
J. W. Patton
G. W. Burkit
Lown V S University
W. W. R. Stryke
Chinawoman Kidnapped From Home in Butte Montana
At Butte Montana on Sept 24 Chin Quan a wealthy Chinese man reported his wife and child were kidnapped from their home in the Chinese quarter by two men and a woman who threatened onlookers with revolvers. Neighbors failed to stop the abduction and a ransom note offered recovery for $2000.
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Butte
Montana
Mont
Chin Quan
Northwest
Navy plans to send warships amid Colombian insurrection
Washington reports a Colombian revolt on the north coast near Santa Marta disrupts telegraph and railroads. Navy may dispatch the sunboat Marletta or move San Francisco to LaGuayra, with Rear Admiral Coghlan directing West Indian forces from the Olympia. six hundred marines mobilized at Norfolk as precaution.
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Washington
Navy Department
United States Fruit Company
Moody
Santa Marta
Columbia
Magdalena River
State Department
Barranquilla
Marletta
Lata Guayra
Montgomery
Cape Haytien
LaGuayra
Coghlan
Haye
Olympia
Boston
Cape Hay
San Francisco
Norfolk
Isthmus
Trie
Prairie
South
Uytor
Bureau of Navigation
Hisuties
West Indies
Caribbean
Department
North Atlantic
Judge Durand Retires From Michigan Race
Flint Michigan September 24 Judge Jorge TI Durand who suffered paralysis three weeks ago has withdrawn as the Democratic candidate for governor due to ill health.
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Flint, Mich
Jorge TI. Durand
Decree Appoints Vandalia Receiver For $3 Million Action
Bond county circuit court judge Tudge Burroughs appoints H C Begole as receiver for Vandalia Railway Company property in East St. Louis and authorizes suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad and Indianapolis and Terre Haute Railroad to recover 3 million out of 8 million alleged in fraud. Receiver seeks 2.2 million in dividends cited as fraudulently issued. A second item reports Mrs Horace Bell admitting she took post office funds. police to locate her. A third item notes the murder mystery in Springfield solved with 17 year old Paul Caldwell confessing the shooting was accidental.
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Vandalia Railway Company
East St. Louis
Mls
Tudge Burroughs
Edwardsville
Bond County Eclrcuit Court
H. C. Begole
Belleville
Vandalia Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad’ Cony
Indianapolis and
Terre Haute
Saginaw, Mich
Kain
Post Office
Pittsburg
Horace Bell
Erle
Post Office Department
Saginaw
Owen
Central Station
South Tilden Street
Springfield
Ills
Eugene Miller
William Paul Caldwell
Paul Langford
Des Moines man killed in brick block collapse street accident
W C Walden of Boone died in a Des Moines hospital from injuries after a one story brick business block on the principal street collapsed. He was passing a ballpipe when the front end Seng fell outward and buried him in debris.
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Brent
Des Moines
W. C. Walden
Boone
Flies Our Flag Attacks Prompt Caracas Marine Incident
A merchant returning from Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, reports a Venezuelan gunboat Rostanmul er fired on insurgents while bearing the American flag. Caracas officials were urged to obtain an apology, and the Restaurador allegedly raised the flag and fired a salute as the matter awaits State Department action.
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Port of Spain
Ciudad Bolivar
Venezuela
Judah Bolivarman
Washington
Bowen
Caracas
State Department
Rostanmuler
Nuose
Death of Major J W Powell Ends Era in Science
Slaven Missouri September 24 Major J W Powell director of the Smithsonian Bureau of Ethnology in Washington died at his summer home after a days illness He was among the leading geologists and anthropologists of his time and well known for his Colorado River Grand Canyon explorations in the 1860s and 70s His work shaped federal scientific programs and field studies for decades
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Slaven
J. W.powell
Burean of Ethonology
Smmithsonian Institute
Washington
J. W. Powell
Ghoul frightens away as would-be vault robbers alarm cemetery
In Jeffersonville Indiana on a Saturday night two men attempted to rob Walnut Ridge cemetery public vault. Elza Brumbach assistant sexton and Mrs Brombach left home unoccupied. Their returned buggy alarmed snatchers and sentries, police found marks on the vault door while a pursed pursuit ensued with a buggy and horse seen nearby.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Walnut Ridge
Cem
Elza Brumbach
Browbach
Dramatic State Street Hold Up Shocks Chicago
A gang of six men stopped Mrs. Upham on State Street near Monroe at about 11 a.m. taking a diamond brooch worth 1000 dollars and about 50 dollars in cash before fleeing. The report also notes a lawsuit in Vincennes over a carnival elephant causing mental distress and other city items including a Wisconsin post office burglary and a major fire at Swift and Co. hair and feather factory. An Indianapolis magnate J B Heywood dies in Palo Alto leaving a wife and daughter Florence.
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Chicago
State Street
Monroe
Wisconsin
Glenwood
Wis
Wilson
Nair and Feather
Swift & Co
Union Stock Yards
Indiana
California
Palo Alto
Cal
J. B. Heywood
Indianapolis
Florence Heywood
Odell Wins Nomination as Governor on First Ballot
Saratoga reports Gov. Odell renominated for governor on the first ballot with Frank W. Higgins chosen as lieutenant governor. The platform backs Roosevelt’s administration, Cuban reciprocity, and tariff core principles, pledging to curb illegal combinations. Internal GOP squabbles over the lieutenant governor race prompt Odell to seek Sheldon’s withdrawal, but Sheldon remains in the race despite pressure from Odell and party factions.
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Saratoga
Odell
Frank W. Higgins
McKinley
Hne
Sheldon
Gos. Odell
Mbany
Goo Odell
Ene
Mr. Shelton
Anil
Orrell
Platt
Kings County
Woolruff
Sherborn
Political clubs meet in Peoria convention address delivered
The State League of Republican clubs opened in Peoria at the coliseum with about 2000 delegates including many leading state politicians. President J. W. Parker gave his annual address highlighting progress over the past year. Secretary Root to speak at a mass meeting this evening.
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Peoria
J. Warker
State League of Republican Clubs
J. W. Parker
League
Root
COLOR LINE AT ANN ARBOR Opens colored students’ club house
In Ann Arbor a university owned building now houses a colored students club and boarding house at 19 North University Avenue. President Angell says the venture is not university maintained. Mrs. Porter-Cole, Fisk Jubilee singer, rents the house. she notes local ill feeling toward colored students and calls the situation surprising. Also: New York Republican convention adjourns after organizing with pressure to drop Sheldon from the lieutenant governor slate.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
University of Michigan
Angell
Porter-Cole
Fisk
Detroit
North University Avenue
New York
Saratoga
N. Y
Sheldon
Leutenant Cavervor
Royal yacht runs aground off Kalmar in Baltic
Stockholm reports King Oscar’s yacht with Crown Princess Victoria aboard stuck on rocks near Kalmarin. Rescue vessels have moved to assist the royal craft and its passengers.
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King Oscar
Crown Princess
Stockholm
Victoria
Kalmarin
Baltic
Striking Operators Rally Signatures For Refit Action
The Central Union operators canvass subscribers for signatures on notices to remove instruments if the company refuses to bitrate. An Operators' association meeting will report progress this evening. The Rock Island city council committee will study merits before main body action. The strike cripples Rock Island and Moline telephone service as temporary replacements face poor pay and conditions.
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Central Union Company
Rock Island
Debating Club Formed by Young Men of City
The Association Debating Club organized at the YMCA with sufficient membership. Meetings will be every other Tuesday starting Oct. 7. Officers elected include I. F. Witter as president Emil Hansen as vice president and Henry Vos secretary. Program committee members are Emil Hansen and F. M. Haskell. An auxiliary to the association was postponed due to rain. Business men divided into Sioux and Shoshones and played a close hard ling ball game with Sioux winning.
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Association
WY. M.C. A
Dees
I. F. Witter
Emil Hansen
Henry Vosergeant
Acms
Preeman
F. M. Haskell
Ssste
Virgil Method Explained Treat for Music Lovers
A noted program at Augustana College chapel under the International Association of Pianoforte Teachers and Players showcased A K Virgil's clavier system. Dr E P Bartholomew opened, Fabian demonstrated, and a varied concert program by Virgil featured Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Field, Liszt, and Rubinstein pieces with frequent encores.
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Augustana College Chapel
International Association of Pianoforte
Andreen
E. P. Bartholomew
A. K. Virgil
M. Fabian
Virgil
Etheldom
Bach
Beethoven
Chopin
Raff
Mendelssohn
Field
Rombert-Liszt
Erl-King
Liszt
Iomenreigen
Rubinstein
Troops Ordered To Quell Wilkes Barre Riots
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania a reign of terror swept the area with sheriff and deputies powerless. Governor Stone was asked to dispatch troops to protect property as disturbances spread from Wyoming to Lackawanna and Luzerne counties. Non union workers faced attacks and a train derailment occurred amid gunfire and arrests.
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Wilkesbarre
Wilkesharre
Wyoming
Jacobs
Sehadt
Lackawanna County
Stone
Conyurham
Delaware and Hudson Company
Coal
Sheldon Ax Works
Joseph Har
Plymouth
Tlymouth
Hughestown
Pittston
Olyphant
Bert
Charles London
Jefferson Township
Theiay
Temple Company
Lackawanna
Hazleton
Nuremberg
John Sherman
Derringer
Coxe Bros. & Co
Lebanon
Attr
Harrisburg
Gobin
Vernor Stone
Twelfth Regiment
Iron and Steel
American Iron and Steel Manufacturing Company
Sp. m
Coal Barons Confer on Temple Iron Directors Meeting
The usual weekly gathering of Temple Iron Company directors met in New York with presidents Baer Truesdale Fowler Olyphant Walters and others present. They discussed matters privately and declined to disclose details as the session continued on Page Eight.
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New York
Temple Iron Company
Baer
Philadelphia
Reading
Truesdale
Lackawanna
Fowler
New York, Ontario and Western
Olyphant
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
Walters
Lehigh Valley
E. B. Thomas
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Iowa
Carbondale
Ill
George H. French
Southern Normal University
Southern Timois Medical Association
Centralia
St. Joseph
W. Rode
Walter H. Morris
BE. J. Williams
Michigan City
Anna Becker
Leonard Becker
Colombia
Neck O’ Woods
Durand
Michigan
Major Powell
Wei
Vincennes
Clarence
Minnie Duncan
Bostock- Ferart Carnival Company
Mrs. Duncan
Henderson
Waterloo
Democrats
WMS Pep
Black
Uaumpton
Waterlondon
Convo
Col. Henderson
Crmimins
Oeoria
Chicague
Moline
the, ‘Argus
Pennsylvania
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