News of Week in Brief from The Standard
Notes From Washington report on BeW Pure, agricultural fairs and trips to Toledo led by Judson Cen ens. nominations for Congress in Indiana and Wisconsin. visits of royalty and scholars in Cassel. Dewey elected Governor General of the Order of Founders and Patriots. global dispatches include Spain, Britain, and Portugal with casualties, thefts, riots, and accidents. multiple U.S. local incidents feature train wrecks, drownings, shootings, and a murder-suicide among others.
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Washington
Fond Munuaerieers
Agrieulinee
Toleto
Judson Cenens
Frank F. Gavin
Indianapolis
Dem Erate
Indiana Distriet
Robert G. Stirton
Monticelin
Thias
Colar Rapids
Congress
Spain
Fyviacastle
Scotland
Lord and Lady Leith
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
New York
John William Burgess
Emperor William
Cassel
George Dewey
Gtstral
Order of Founders and Patriots of America
Robert B. Roosevelt
Thomas H. Haines
Memphis
Tenn
Tenth
Tennessee
John M. Nelson
Madison
Wisconsin
H. C. Adams
Edward
Buckingham Palace
Political and legal notices from diverse U S sources
W M Hays of Minnesota offered director of Pennsylvania agricultural station and dean role. W H Whiteman, Arizona judge and adjutant general, dies at Terminal Island of brain softening. Rev Hugh P McGettigan urged for Pennsylvania legislature. John Campbell returns to family after Boer War. Carrie Nation buys Guthrie land for purity farm school funded by her manager. Joseph H Dixon of Missoula runs for U S Senate to replace Wilan A Clark in 1907.
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W. M. Hays
Minnesota
United States
Pennsylvania
St. Joseph
Ashland
Father McGettigan
John Campbell
Sioux City
Guthrie
Oklo
Carrie Nation
Boys in Blue Gather for Annual Grand Army Reunion
Twin Cities hosted the fortieth annual Grand Army of the Republic encampment in Minneapolis with 14 000 veterans marching past a cheering crowd. Governors and officers led the parade while heat and showers challenged marchers. Cols Martin and Keating died after falls and exhaustion. President Roosevelt and Spanish War veterans sent greetings.
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Twin Cities
Ras Unida
G A. R
Minneapolis
Ailroads
Oii
Cite
Tanner
St Paul
Twin Cites
Sone
Grand Army of the Republic
Congress
Roosevelt
Saratoga Next G A R Meeting Set After Protest
Minneapolis August 19 The Grand Army of the Republic adjourned its fortieth encampment after a heated debate. The group agreed to protest the proposed statue to Wirz and send the appeal to Gen S D Lee commander of the Southern Veterans association.
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Wirz
Minneapolis
Grand Army of the Republic
Saratoga
Henry Wira
Confederate Soldiers Parade Returns to Pennsylvania
The piece describes a parade with soldiers from sin, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York in order, Minnesota at the left, greeted warmly as the long column passed for about three hours. It notes hospitals and mentions the John H. Morgan Confederate veterans association and an adjournment after installing new officers led by Past Commander Louis Wagner of Philadelphia.
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George Hellar
New Britain
Harel
Pirade
S. Renant
Fred B. Wood
Adjutant General
Minnesota
Minnesota National Guard
Grand Army
Columbia Post
Chicago
Tanner
Mlinois
Wiscon
Sin
Pennsylvania
Ohio
New York
Ihs
John H. Morgan
Louis Wagner
Philadelphia
Three Die in River Drowning Near Pittsburgh
In the Monongahela River near McKeesport, George Manning aged seven, his brother Herbert five, and George Watson sixteen, drowned yesterday. In White Plains Aug 19 Deputy Sheriff Townsend halted a touring car for speeding at thirty five mph where Senator Chauncey Depew and Mrs Depew rode. the chauffeur denied excess, Depew supported the driver.
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Pittsburg
George Manning
Herbert
George Watson
Monongahela River
McKeesport
Depew
White Plains
Townsend
Scarsdale
Chauncey Depew
Bint
Strikers Return to Work at Quincy Mine
Calumet Michigan August 17 Strikers at the Quincy mine returned to work yesterday morning accepting the company terms offered two weeks ago This ends a dispute that threatened delays in production and labor unrest in the copper district.
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Calumet, Mich
Quincy
Brown Elected Commander of Grand Army of the Republic
Archibishop Ireland of St. Paul is elected chaplain in chief while R B Brown of Zanesville Ohio wins the commander in chief post at the Grand Army of the Republic annual meeting in Minneapolis. William H Armstrong and E B Fenton named senior and junior vice commanders by unanimous choice.
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Ireland
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Minn
R. B. Brown
Zanesville
Ohio
William H. Armstrong
Indianapolis
E. B. Fenton
Detroit
Archbishop Irelan
W. H. Johnson
Lincoln
Neb
Grand Army of the Republic
Brown
C. G. Burton
Missouri
P. H. Coney
Kansas
Armstrong
Fenton
Archbishop Ireland
Explosion claims two lives near Madeira Minnesota
On a farm six miles southeast of Madeira Minnesota Mrs Patrick Osborne aged forty five poured kerosene into a stove from a can and was fatally burned. A two year old daughter nearby also burned and died later. The mother died at 7 30 p m and the child at midnight leaving a husband and five children.
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Madeira
Minn
Patrick Osborne
Oat Heads 23 Inches Long Near Platte SD
Sioux Falls South Dakota August 19 a report from Scott McCready's Platte farm in Charles Mix county notes oats with heads up to twenty three inches long. The exceptionally long heads hint at a huge yield though no estimate has been made yet by any observer.
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Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Scott McCready
Platte
Charles Mix County
G. A. R. Encampment Draws 164000 Rail Passengers
In St Paul estimates from passenger officials indicate railroads carried about 164000 people to the Twin Cities this week for the G A R national encampment. Exact totals pending final count, but figures are believed close to the mark.
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St. Paul
Twin Cities
Quiet at Pittsburg Plate Glass Mines After Riot
Peace prevailed at Pittsburg Plate Glass yards on Aug 19 as non union men worked and no strikers were visible. Stephen Mosely, thought to have been tossed into the river, was found unharmed. Stefano Rea Way, beaten and stabbed during the riot, died last night.
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Pittsburg
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
Stephen Mosely
Stefano Rea- Way
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