American Artist In Central America Hearts and Battles
Jack Overton, an American artist, travels to Gau tara for fortune and becomes drawn into a revolution. He rescues General Barrajo from a coup, earning the leader’s lifelong gratitude. Overton flirts with Dona Juanita amid a lively fiesta as tension builds for a climactic dance encounter.
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San Jose
Jack Overton
Roblado
Overton
Montéjo
Montejo
Barrajo
Jack
Green Cockades
Barrato
Central America
In the Land of Revolution San Jose Vividly Remains Eruptive
In San Jose the capital of the Central American republic, revolutions surge through its streets. The chapter notes outbreak and instability amid a period of upheaval. The narrative highlights the city’s volatile state and the ongoing revolutionary activity.
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San Jose
America
Gautarlea
Largest watch order for American maker from London firm
A London firm placed the largest single order ever for watches with an American manufacturer, valued at £2,000,000. The deal secures twelve months of delivery for the supplier and its customer agreed to supply the full quantity.
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London
Runaway Cars On Hill Kill Several In Pittsburgh Area
Two runaway cars on the Monongahela branch of the Pittsburg Railway Company barreled down the Wilmerding McKeesport hill. One struck a depot, injuring motorman Charles Wright, as a second car then plowed into a crowd, fatally injuring carriage driver Alexander Saunders. A sleet storm hampered witnesses.
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Monoganhela
Pittsburg Railway Company
Pittsburg
Wilmerding
McKeesport
Charles Wright
Alexander Saunders
Double hanging of Weston Keiper and Henry Rowe in Harrisburg
Weston Keiper and Henry Rowe were hanged in Harrisburg before about 1,000 witnesses for a bank robbery at Halifax. They struck the vault, took about $8,000, and during the struggle cashier Charles W. Ryan was shot and died hours later. An accomplice, Frank R. Sholey, pleaded guilty as accessory and received ten years.
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Weston ~ Keiper
Henry Rowe
Harrisburg
Rowe
Keiper
Lykens
Halifax National Bank of
Halifax
Charles W. Ryan
Ryan
Frank R. Sholey
Eight Lives Lost in Boston Tenement Fire
Eight Italians perished in a Fleet Street North End tenement blaze in Boston as three others were hospitalized. Victims included women, a child, and members of two families, many jumping from windows as flames cut off sleeping inmates on the upper floors. Fire officials found eight bodies after extinguishing the blaze.
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Fleet Street
North End
Boston
Detective Demands Fee on Delta Prisoner Return
W J Owens a Nebraska detective and Burlington & Missouri River agent travels to Delta Colorado with governor Orman s requisition papers to return Albert Darrah to Gering Nebraska for trial on grand larceny charges. Sheriff Hunt is asked to pay $52 in expenses before delivery. Owens wires the governor and Attorney General Post confirms the statutory fee before transfer.
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W. J. Owens
Nebraska
Burlington & Missouri River Railroad’ Company
Delta, Col
Orman
Albert
Darrah
Gering
Neb
Hunt
Delta County
Owens
General Post
Sheriff Hunt
Traveling Man Found Dead in St Louis Hotel
Morris M Sam a traveling salesman from Houston Texas was found dead in bed at the Midland hotel St Louis Mo He had taken poison and left a note directing where to find money to pay what was due the landlady but gave no reason for taking his life.
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Morris
Sam
Houston
Texas
Midland
St. Louis
Filipinos Surrender with Arms in Batangas Thefts Report
Major Lot and three Filipinos surrendered to Major Anderson at Lipa with ten rifles three revolvers and twenty four bolos. Lot, brought in sick, looted jewelry valued at 55000 from prominent families. Nickerson's scouts captured Colonel Lot near Batangas. Lieutenant Larnes of the Sixth Cavalry killed two insurgents and captured a captain and two soldiers. Insurgents led by two renegade Americans attacked Alangulang Leyte police, were repelled after a hand to hand fight with bolos. two police killed one wounded one insurgent dead.
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Lot
Anderson
Sixth Cavalry
Lipa
Batangas
Nickerson
William K. Larnes
Alangulang
Leyte
Was Czolgosz Insane A Boston Doctor’s View
Dr Walter Channing head of a Boston sanitarium debated whether Czolgosz was insane. He concluded the evidence favors insanity over sanity and that the assassin’s delusions were systematized and continued to his death. Dr L Vernon Briggs aided the study interviewing about fifty to sixty people in Cleveland Buffalo and the Auburn prison.
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Czolgosz
Walter Channing
Boston
Norfolk District Medical Society
Brookline
Senate Kilns Commerce Department Name Change and Reorganization
Senator Nelson's bill creating a department of commerce or labor passed the senate with amendments. A principal change renames the department to the department of commerce of labor and creates a cabinet secretary and an assistant secretary. The department will collect and distribute statistics, develop foreign and domestic commerce, and absorb bureaus from other departments including life-saving, lighthouse, marine hospital, steamboat inspection, navigation, shipping, immigration, fisheries, census, and more. It also gains control of consular services related to commerce.
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Nelson
Department of Commerce
Senate
Department of Commerce of Labor
Bureau of Manufactures
Life-Saving Service
Lighthouse Service
Marine Hospital Service
Steamboat Inspection Service
Bureaus of Navigation
Shipping
Immigration
Treasury Department
Fish, Commission
Census Bureau
Department
Consular Service
Boy Shot Guarded Store in Chicago Robbery
Horace Schroeder fifteen year old who opened Burns grocery in Chicago was found dead facedown with a bullet through his heart. A revolver with four empty chambers lay nearby and coins and bills were under the body. Holes in the store window and damage to the counter suggest he defended his employer’s property.
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Horace” ‘Schroeder
Burns
Chicca
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Bove
Federa
England
Mazette
Ane
Galatéa
Denison
Spanish Main
Jack ‘Overton
Aunt & Smith
New York
General Barrajo
Athene
Estrada
Circe
Dona
Juanita
Score
Colo
Rado
Joe
Pennsylvania Bank
Ie Province
Nelson Bhi
Chicago
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