Train Attack Kills Three in Alabama Strike Riot
A coal mine strike train near Blocton Alabama was fired upon by log-placed assailants as eight men were arrested and authorities, including Governor Comer, move to restore order. Conductor Joe T. Colline and deputy O Z Dent died along with Willard Howell. eleven others were wounded.
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Birmingham
Ala
Birmingham Mineral Railroad
Blocton
Joe T. Colline
O. Z. Dent
Willard Howell
F. H. Dodge
Tennessee Coal Company
B. F E. Cox
A. J. Myer
Robert Sigman
Comer
Hubbard
Bloeton
Battleships of U S Atlantic Fleet Reach Auckland
Sixteen battleships of the United States Atlantic fleet anchored off Auckland New Zealand after a 33 day voyage from San Francisco. Rear Admiral Charles B Sperry commanded the division as shore batteries fired salutes and exchanges occurred with the Australian flagship Powerful and cruisers Encounter and Pioneer. The city welcomed the visitors with decorations and crowds along the waterfront expressed hearty admiration for the Americans.
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New Zealand
Auckland
United States Atlantic Fleet
Charles 8. Sperry
San Francisco
Pittsburg steel plates push idle mills to rehire workers
Pittsburg mills receive orders for about 24,000 tons of steel plates to revive idle machinery and reemploy workers. Additional contracts may follow as New York City awards a roughly 1 million dollar Amityville pipeline project using 24,000 to 27,000 tons of steel for a new water main.
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Pittsburg
Pittsburg Steel Mills
Pittsburg Steel Plate
New York City
Amityville
Lead arsenate offered as boll weevil solution in Louisiana
Baton Rouge bulletin from the state crop pest committee reports experiments with arsenate of lead showing 70 percent boll weevil kill in one locality. State Entomologist Newell notes two applications can clear a field of weevils. This marks the first poison endorsed by the commission for boll weevil control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
State
Newell
Louisiana State Crop Pest Commission
Tattoo Wives and Stop Divorces
In Warsaw Indiana Rev Arthur Rawes urged tattooing married women on the chin to curb divorces addressing 3000 at Winona Lake assembly He said he would appeal to President Roosevelt to back a bill in Congress for the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Ind
United States
Arthur Rawes
N. S
Winona Lake
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Taft Bryan campaign items from national to local
A dense political summary notes phonograph use by Bryan and Taft, Missouri baby naming mirroring the ticket, and various campaign moves. It covers dueling letters and endorsements, party organizers, state fairs, labor leaders, Hearst plans, Parker’s LA speech, and Roosevelt era dispatches to frame the 1908 contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Bryan
Mr. Taft
Missouri
Taft
W. F. Heavner
Lebanon
Howard Taft Heavner
Judge Taft
Hadley Sherman Heavner
Hadley
W. J. Bryan
Harvey Garber
Virginia
Edgar B. Schmidt
Dayton
Ohio
Lincoln
Hill
Richard V. Culahan
New York Sun
Republican National Committee
Taylor
Tennessee
Bryan
Minnesota
South Carolina
Indiana
John Temple Graves
Independence Party
New York City
Democrats
New England
Henry Watterson
Philadelphia
William Randolph Hearst
Atlanta
Alton B. Parker
Kern
Temple Auditorium
Los Angeles
Cal
Nebraska
William Jennings Bryan
Sheldon
Democratic National Committee
Chicago
Thomas E. Watson
Georgia
Mr. Watson
Brownsville
Corbin
Roosevelt
Indianapolis
Paradox of U S governance noted by Dicey at congress
Professor Albert Venn Dicey of Oxford at a London Franco British exhibition congress on constitutions called the U S system a paradox. He praised the republic’s elite balance yet warned Americans feel less well governed than European states while Europeans admit the United States is not much worse than Europe’s best.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
Congress
United States
Albert Venn Dicey
Oxford
Europe
Paris
Berlin
Washington
Dicey
Supreme Court
Guyot
America
American Goods Vied for by Foreign Dealers
Darwin P. Kingsley, a New York financier returning from a four month European tour, reports optimistic business conditions abroad for American products. He found no hostility to Americans, sees strong American plant presence in major cities, and notes strict yet friendly government regulations and foreign insurance departments toward American firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Darwin P. Kingsley
Europe
European
Russia
BEGINS GREAT WATERWAY Land Condemned for Right of Way
Federal court orders condemn lands for the inland waterway from Pamlico Sound to Beaufort harbor in North Carolina. Judge Thomas R. Purnell signed the seven condemnations to start the project, with December 1 set for work on about sixteen miles of canal linking Pamlico river Neuse river Core Creek to Beaufort harbor. Congress appropriated 550000 dollars to begin.
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North Carolina
Raleigh
N. C
Pamlico Sound
Beaufort Harbor
Thomas R. Purnell
Federal Court
District of
Pamlico River
Neuse River
Core Creek
Congress
Train Wreck Near Imboden Kills Three
A Frisco train derailed twelve miles east of Imboden Arkansas killing engineer Cooper and fireman Lee Booker both of Memphis along with a third man H F Overs. Four others were badly injured while passengers suffered minor bruises and shock. The mail car burned after a gas tank exploded and sailors helped extinguish the fire and save the baggage car.
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Imboden
Ark
Cooper
Memphis
Tenn
Lee Booker
H. F. Overs
Hurricane Szegedin Tragedy Buries Hundred Workers
A hurricane swept through Szegedin Hungary collapsing a large factory. Four corpses and fourteen injured recovered, seventy still missing. Szegedin, 96 miles southeast of Budapest, is a major city noted for food product manufacture and extensive trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Szegedin
Hungary
Szegendin
Budapest
German Airship Zeppelin Destroyed After Remarkable Voyage
The Zeppelin airship broke from its moorings during a storm and burned in the air near Lake Constance while returning to Friedrichshafen. Engineers attributed the loss to a burst balloonette and a spark from the motor igniting the gas. Count Zeppelin had dedicated his life and fortune to airship development, with the fourth vessel lost. The project received state funding and later acceptance of $125,000 for further experiments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Count Zeppelin
Stuttgart
Germany
Lake of Constance
Rhine
Strassburg
Friedrichshafen
Reichstag
Terra Firma
Hut
von Bethmann-Hellweg
Interior
Edison Quits Inventions To Study Chemistry
Thomas Edison plans to abandon active invention work and commercial pursuits. He will focus on chemistry, take life easier, and travel, keeping his Llewellyn Lab lightly used. Edison has amassed about 25 million dollars and will spend time at his Florida property, with extended relief from daily laboratory toil.
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New York City
Thomas A. Edison
Llewellyn
N. J
Mr. Edison
Florida
Fatal Dynamite Explosion Kills One in Brewton
Alan Silas Maddox was killed and his brother Lewis Maddox fatally injured when a dynamite bucket ignited by a spark from an engine exploded on a Cedar Creek Mill log train. About 150 aboard. several others seriously injured while en route from Fish Pond logging camp to town.
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Brewton
Alan Silas Maddox
Lewis
Cedar Creek Mill Company
Fish Pond
Silas Maddox
Turkish Sultan Stabbed. Mail Saved Life by Armor
London dispatch reports the sultan of Turkey was stabbed in the breast by a palace official. The coat of mail deflected the blow and the would-be assassin, bribed to act, was arrested with a large gold stash found in his pockets.
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London
England
Exchange Telegraph Company
Turkey
Fall trade mixed as cotton goods outputs curtailed
Bradetreet reports the week shows favorable trade and crop outlooks with rising industrial activity in iron and steel, hardware, coal, and lumber. Early fall buying is cautious and some cotton goods production is being curtailed, while building activity neared a turn in July. US business failures total 205 that week, down from 275 prior. Canada records 19 failures.
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New York City
Bradetreet
Wade
United States
Canada
Kalamazoo Merchants Oppose Southern Rate Increase
Kalamazoo Michigan Merchants and Manufacturers Association filed with the interstate commerce commission a protest against the proposed rate increase for the southern classification territory set to take effect this month. The protest claims shippers in a thousand towns would be affected and urges the commission to annul the rise ranging from 10 to 25 percent. In Kentucky a fatal shooting followed a family feud as John Blanton was killed and multiple others wounded at the Howard store in Layman, with one shooter at large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalamazoo
Mich
Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association
Interstate Commerce Commission
Shépardson
Harlan, Ky
Howard
Layman
John Blanton
Sherman Blanton
Stokley Osborne
Lee Russell
Taylors
Blantons
Dealers Object to Army Methods in Uniform Contract Bidding
West manufacturers sharply criticise the War Department for bid procedures on army clothing. A special board required a twenty yard cloth sample for uniforms, which the dealers say effectively creates a monopoly as sample costs are prohibitive for small firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ila
War Department
Fire destroys warehouses in Midway whiskey loss
Fire swept through Midway Kentucky destroying five Greenbaum Distilling Co warehouses. About 47 000 barrels of whiskey were ruined with an estimated loss near 300 000 dollars. The blaze threatened widespread damage to the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midway
Greenbaum Distilling Company
Captain Guthrie death by own action near Cape Lookout
Captain A H Guthrie of the schooner Frank A Williams of New York jumped overboard eight miles west of Cape Lookout. The vessel was en route from New York to Southport where it had been sold. The schooner was left without a navigator but the mate steered it safely to Savannah.
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Savannah
A. H. Guthrie
Frank A. Williams
New York
Cape Lookout
Southport
Secret Service to Test Legality of Stage Money
Washington Chief Wilkie proposes a test case on stage money. A $100 bill produced for theatrical use has been passed as lawful money, prompting plans to challenge its legality in court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Wilkie
Secret Service
Vast Patchwork of War, Flight, and Industry News
A mixed late news digest notes: New York Central radio pushes immediate two million dollar action. a fatal shooting in Mississippi follows a wrench assault. Wilbur Wright flies 2.17 miles at Le Mans with a record time. A husband’s murder, a fire in Mississippi, and a Missouri Pacific shop reopening promise jobs. Turbulent frontier graft in Turkey. an estate near Bombay. abduction scams, and banking moves loom. Urban strikes in Canada and labor tremors in Argentina mingle with opium talks in Shanghai and U S naval moves.
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New York Central Radio
Pittsburg
Menis
Wnconecoyeh
King
Ira Cody
Wade Riggan
Cody
Mississippi
Si Wilber Wright
Dapton
Lemans
France
Ane
Goolsby
Ford
Neiighbors
Pillsbury-Washburnian Milking Company
Reginera
Cox
Godfriend Probst
Brooklyn
Bombay
India
Seth M. Richereck
Indianapolis
Johannesburg
South Africa
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Jts
St. Louis
Sedalia
Wort Scott
Atchison, Osawatomie
de Soto
Baring Cross
Argenta
Ark
St. Louis and Southwestern Railroad
American Tobacco Company
George H. Sommers
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
United States
Congress
Ethel Gaylord
Richmond
Jacksonville
Fla
Cty
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Norman
Mack
Western Tariff Association
Neb
Billy B
Democratic Party
New Orleans
Frank Hitchcock
Oyster Bay
White Sulphur Springs
John Sharp Williams
House of Representatives
Preston
Iowa
Chautauqua
Pythians
Boston
Mass
Knights of Pythias
Henry P. Brown
Cleburne
Texas
Geo. W. Hanson
Calais
Maine
Dewitt C. Cole
Salem
R. L. C. White
Nashville
T. D. Meares
Wilmington
Supreme Master
Samuel P. Davis
Davis
Oklahoma
Supreme Inner Guard
Allison Powers
Quebec
Gnard
William Db
Cameron
Meridian
Miss
Board of Insurance Control
St. Paul, Minn
Edison
Weekly Trade Review
Bradstreet
Ecrop-Reporting Board
Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Agriculture
Kansas
Kentucky
Alabama
Arkansas
Captain Guthrie
China
Shanghai
International Opium Commission
James M. Haralson
Naval Academy
Haralson
J. H. Russell
U. S. Ay
Patama Expeditionary Regiment of Marines
Navy Medical College Hospital
Pasteur
Camp Diabolo
Honauras
Pavila
Drew Linard
Virgil C. Reynolds
Ceiba
Honduras
Takio
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