Penitentiary Manager Indicted in Akron Case
Grand jury in Akron, Ohio returns indictments against Captain Aaron Wazoner cashier of Akron Savings Bank and president of the state penitentiary board. Wazoner faces four counts for perjury and false entries tied to the bank failure. Also notes emer gent mine explosion near Trinidad Colorado with sixty dead and extensive damage.
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Grand Jury
Akron
Aaron Wazoner
Akron Savings Bank
Board of Ohio Puutentiary Managers
Wasoner
Exeneraund
William Buchteal
Elese
Disorderly Scene Interrupts Wrestler in Kansas City
A wrestling event in Kansas City Missouri ended with Mrgan forced to leave after hissed by a hostile audience. The crowd disrupted proceedings claiming connections to a fire incident on Ashinton Street and accusing officials. A separate report notes Halstead becomes president and editor of the American Newsboys' magazine with duties in New York.
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Kansas City
Ashintuon
Anun Washinsu
Tony
Masevedt
Philippe
Death of New York Postmaster Cornelius Van Cott
Cornelius Van Cott postmaster of New York City died after an attack of nervous indigestion. He was stricken at the post office, lingered several hours, and many hours later had recovered some but remained at work overnight. He had suffered similar attacks for a year.
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Cornelius van Cott
New York City
Hin
Mr van Cott
Wyatt fire destroys half the town businesses
A fire in an old house near Wyatt six miles south of Mishawaka Indiana destroyed nearly half the town's business district. The village lacks a fire department and the loss to business houses may reach 10 000 to 12 000 dollars with insurance averaging around 4 500 dollars.
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Wyatt
Mishawaka
Ind
Costly Piers are Destroyed in Brooklyn Fire
One man is dead and several missing after a blaze gutted four ocean going steamships and multiple piers and warehouses of the Bush Terminal Company's docks in South Brooklyn. Property damage totals about 1 100 000.
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New York
N. Y
Bush Terminal Company
Sonth Breoklyn
Startling Announcement Hits Schenectady Plant Closure
The entire American Locomotive Company plant in Schenectady New York has closed with no reopening planned before the new year. The announcement states the facility will not reopen until the first of next year.
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American Locomotive Company
Schnectady
N. Y
Burlington train strikes oil wagon at Philps Neb
Eastbound Burlington passenger No. 40 struck an oil wagon crossing a street at Philps Nebraska. Oil on the engine and cars ignited a fire. Fireman C. E. Lazear of Grand Island was killed by burns.
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Burlington
Philps
Neb
C. E. Lazear
Grand Island
Convicted of Wise Murder
Jacob Sprowl of Hunstington Indiana, a paralytic aged 52, was found guilty of manslaughter. His wife Rebecca Sprowl was shot while asleep. The defense was quick. Sprowl's attorneys will ask for a ...
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Jacob Sprowl
Hunstington
Ind
Euiity
Yaanslaughter
Rebecca Sprowl
Sprowl
Battle of the Shakhe River Ends in Japanese Victory
The Shakhe River engagement ran from Oct 9 to Oct 20 with heavy losses on both sides. Russian casualties reportedly reach 12 000 killed and 56 000 wounded while Japanese losses are unknown. observers call the fight a strategic Japanese triumph though tactically inconclusive.
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Shakhe River
Oyama
Wureoki
Chicago Tribune
SkXtnropatkin
Miukden
Port Arthur
Yentai
Shakhe
Oku
Tokr
Hitec
Oka
As & Lyk
Getey
Puissians
Lone Tree
YartiesHy
Shahkhe
Tpigeryane
Untold War Front Delivers Confusing Dispatches
Conflicting and garbled reports describe naval actions near Port Artivir. References mention a Russian wireless station at chur and a Rear Admiral Dewa, with unclear maneuvers by Togo and Admiral Teco.
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Artivir
Chur
Gia
Dewa
Togo
Teco
Telegraphic Brevities Overview of 1908 Crimes and Disasters
Andrew Leonhardt hanged in Baltimore for his 1908 murder of his wife. A cotton compress fire in Essixville Mississippi destroyed 700 bales, $75,000 loss. Pittsburg congress votes to create middle school units. Worcester schools hold memorials for Senator Hoar. Stephen Townley dies of sunstroke in Mobile Alabama, first fatal case there. Thomas Williams killed in a Wilkes-Barre coal mine. Chester Valley hunt hounds destroyed due to rabies outbreak.
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Andrew Leonhardt
Baltimore
Essixville
Miss
Pittsburg
Senator Hoar
Worcester
Mass
Stephen W. Townley
Mobile
Ala
Thomas W. Willaims
Wilkesbarre
M. B. Wiliams
Rebief
Chester Valley
Hunt
America
War News in Brief From Distant Seas and Cotton Markets
A garbled wartime dispatch outlines actions near Blavia and Bal vie with ships, fleets, and casualties. It notes Japanese and Russian movements around Port Arthur and Mukden, with casualties cited. Also covered are Baltic fleet actions, a British-Russian tensions flare, and a report on Irkutsk hospital aid offers. The cotton market dominates the latter portion, detailing farmer price demands and a near 10.5 million bale crop with producers gaining price leverage.
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Warepickin
Tourgenieff
Suez Canal
Cape of Gvarl Hope
Mukden
Kuropatkin
Port Arthur
Washington
St. Petersburg
German Red Cross Society
Irkutsk
Japan
Manchester
Fall River
South
Committee Finds Jefferson Hair Sandy Not Red
A Union League Club inquiry at the White House examined Stuart’s oil portrait of Thomas Jefferson and concluded his hair was sandy, not red. The wager was settled on this determination.
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Union League Club
New York
Thomas Jefferson
White House
Stuart
Roosevelt Rejects War Depart plan for Army Tailoring
President Roosevelt refuses to approve a War Department plan to contract tailoring for soldiers at the Schuylkill arsenal. The plan would have replaced widows and orphans who currently earn their living sewing soldiers' clothing.
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Roosevelt
War Department
Schuylkill Arsenal
British anger over Russian Baltic attack on Hull fishermen
Hull fishermen faced a midnight bombardment in the North Sea as the Russian Baltic squadron sunk two steam trawlers, damaged two others, with two confirmed dead and one believed lost. The Moulmein and Mino brought the news, reporting ships in sight and searchlights flashing as torpedo boats approached.
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Smith
Russia
Downing Street
Baltic
North Sea
Hull
J. A. Smith
Young Smith
Leggett
Baltic Squadron
England
Wren
Legge
Hulle
Moulmein
Mino
Spurn Head
Chicago Resurrects Old Law to Punish Hold Ups Life Sentences For Robbers
A Chicago revival of a historic statute brings life imprisonment for robbers who use deadly weapons or commit murder in the course of a hold up. Within a week nine convicts received life terms, signaling a determined push to deter armed robbery and violent assault in Cook County.
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Chicago
Cook County
Board of Pardons
No Chance for the Scullys in Cotton Market Puzzle
Veteran speculators and crop experts admit a perplexing market puzzle in Southern cotton amid new, novel controls. They refuse to predict outcomes as they confront an unprecedented situation influencing prices and supply.
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South
Tahitian judge barred from U S travel for tuberculosis
Amedes Herville, a supreme judge of Tahiti, was denied permission to pass through the United States en route to France after being found afflicted with consumption. Quo warranto actions were filed in Pittsburg by the Voters' Civic League to void the charters of the Pittsburg Street Railway Company and the Grant and Liberty Street Railway Company amid fraud allegations in the franchise ordinance passage.
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Amedes Herville
Tahiti
United States
France
Voters’ Civic League
Pittsburg
Philadelphia Company
Pittsburg Street Railway Company
Grant and Liberty Street Railway Company
New Wars Averted as Crimea to Hague Court Over Baltic Clash
Surrounded by English battleships the Russian Baltic fleet remains at Vigo pending an international commission's decision on punishing Czarist officers for the Hull fishermen killings. Rojestvensky asserts two torpedo boats attacked at night. a Hague inquiry will review the incident. England shows restraint while mobilizing fleets, signaling readiness without escalating to war.
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Russia
Baltic
Vigo
Spain
England
Cable
Rojestvensky
Nesestvensky
North Sea
The
Hague
Moulmein
Rojestvensky’s
London
St. Petersburg
Nicholas
Edward
Benckendorf
Lord Lansdowne
Vladivostok
Woolwich
Portsmouth
Irish Emigration Trends Despite Anti Emigration Efforts
The Irish Anti Emigration Society, formed last year, has not halted the flow of migrants. Emigration from the south and west continues to rise, with Cork port records showing 27,105 departures to the United States in 1906 and similar totals in earlier years. For eight months of the current year the figure stands at 18,512.
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Ireland
Irish Anti-Emigration Society
Cork
United States
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Lars Finidly
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Chicago Record-Herald
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