News Of The Week Highlights From A Turbulent Era
August Peterson Sweden vice consul dies at sea returning from Sweden. Milwaukee Avenue Bank failure leads to receiver, fugitives, and indictments. Taft and Root set speeches and addresses. Roosevelt blocks sale of Roosevelt homestead for landmark. Obituaries include Ella Smith and Frank Kowalski. Legal actions span fraud, forgery, and lynching cases. Industrial and political shifts include Standard Oil probes and anti Mormon planks. Balloon voyage and eight hour law opinions noted. Violence and disasters appear across states from Oklahoma to North Carolina.
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August Peterson
Washington
Sweden
Theodore Stensland
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank of
Chicago
Paul Stensland
Hering
Taft
Kansas
Elihu Root
Kansas City
Roosevelt
New York
Roosevelt Homestead
Ella Smith
Charles Emory Smith
Philadelphia
Block Island
R. 1
William Loeb
Nadage Doree
William 8
Scofield
Sields
San Francisco
Liverly
Salisbury
N. C
Deniton
South Bend
Ind
Hitchcock
National Association of Postmasters
Detroit
Oklahoma
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank of Chicago
Julian P. Thomas
Roy Konkenshue
Brant Rock
Mass
Trans-Atlantic Fire Insurance Company
Hamburg
Germany
Assassination Scare as Russian Guards Firing Mix-Up
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich narrowly escaped injury when ball cartridges were substituted for blanks during a military drill at Krasnoye Selo. Investigation traced conspired shots to elite sharpshooters and recruits called end year volunteers. The incident sparked immediate measures and questions about cartridge security.
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Bt. Petersburg
Grand Duke
Nicholas Nicholasevitch
Council of National Defense
Imperial Guards
Krasnoye- Selo
Nicholas
Twenty-One Years as Pastor celebrated at People's Tabernacle
A Denver audience of about 3000 filled the People's Tabernacle to honor Parson Tom Uzzell on his twenty-one years as pastor. Ex-Governor Alva Adams and Carrie Nation led speakers praising his service. Adams recalled the Roosevelt era anecdote and lauded Uzzell's personal ministry of care, feeding, healing, and consolation, noting the church was founded by Charles Uavell, his late brother.
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Adame
Carrie Nation
Denver
Jane
Parson Uzzell
Belt
Alva Adams
Pueblo
Carry
Parson
Uzzell
Gunnison
Adams
Kansas
Tom
Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Las Vegas
New Mexico
Colorado
United States
Farson
David
Mr. Roosevelt
Beecher
Talmage
Hillis
Gentemen
Tom Uzzell
Parson Tom
City of God
Chrisian
Sunda
People's Tabernacle
Charles Uavell
Parson Tom Uzzell
Los Angeles
Denver Courts Conflict Over Election Fraud Witnesses
Judge Lindsey jailed Henry L. Doherty Fred A. Williams George N. Ordway and J Cook Jr for refusing to testify in the May 9 Franchise vote probe into the Denver City Tramway Gas and Electric companies Judge Peter L Palmer ordered habeas corpus hearings for Sept 11 and bail bonds set at 1000 each Mullins ruled writs returnable to criminal court revoking bail and calling for immediate reincarceration while new subpoenas demand the four to appear again to testify and face punishment if they refuse.
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Denver
Lindsey
Henry L Doherty
Gas
Fred A. Williams
Republican County Committee
George N. Ordway
The
Elections Commission
J. Cook, Jr
Denver City Tramway Company
Gas and Electric Company
Peter L. Palmer
John S. Mullins
Criminal
District Court
Criminal Court
Mulling
Carrie Nation Arrested in Denver After Market Street Incident
Carrie Nation famous for saloon smashing was detained by Policeman George Naylor on Market Street Saturday night and held briefly in the city jail before being released. She had registered at the Midland hotel and says she is commissioned by Deity to spread her campaign.
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Denver
Market Street
Carrie Nation
George Naylor
Nation
Colorado's First Flag Raising in Jefferson Territory
Judge Bennett recounts the 1861 flag raising in Jefferson territory when Colorado marked its early statehood. At City Park, the Society of Colorado Pioneers and the Sons of Colorado displayed a sample of Old Glory, recalling the February 22 event and the pine-tree pole.
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Colorado
Denver
Jefferson Territory
Bennett
Society of Colorado’ Pioneers
City Park
Sons of Colorado
Killings Linked to Wife Beating in Denver District
Denver report says Otis York beat his wife in the street when James Duff, the landlord, intervened and was knocked down. York then fired three shots, the wounds deemed fatal.
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Denver
Glenwood Springs
Otis York
Hi Wife
James Duff
York
Duff
Government to resume silver purchases after thirteen years
The United States announces tenders for silver purchases for coinage. Bids due Wednesday at 1 PM with deliveries to Philadelphia New Orleans or Denver. Government aims to buy about 100,000 ounces weekly, ensuring steady supply as bullion stock has been exhausted for over a year.
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Washington
Director of the Mint
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Denver
New York
Treasury
Department
United States
London
Traveling Exhibits From Greeley to Midwest Fairs
The Greeley Commercial Club funds 500 for an area agricultural exhibit drawn from Greeley Windsor and Ault. Led by G J Spear the campaign will ride a Pullman car leaving Denver August 16 with products from ten Colorado sections. The tour spans 100 days through Iowa Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin including Sioux City fairs and ends with a Pueblo state fair in September with prize hopes. Greeley contributes 300 Windsor and Ault 100 each toward the exhibition.
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Greeley
Colo
Gresley
Wisconsin
Sioux City
Iowa
Poeblo
Commercial Club
Windsor
Ault
Kansas City Gas Ordinance Grants 30 Year Franchise
Mayor Beardaley signed the Flem ing Wilson natural gas ordinance granting a Chicago syndicate a 30 year franchise. It promises delivery at 26 cents per thousand cubic feet for domestic use and 10 cents for manufacturing purposes, contingent on reasonable gas access.
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Kansas City
Kanggy City
Beardaley
Fleming-Wilson Natural Gas
Chicago
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Anderson
American Osteopathic Association
Put-In-Bay
Ohio
S. A. Ellis
Boston
H. L. Chiles
Auburn
N. Y
Democrats
Waterloo
Claude A. Porter
William J. Bryan
Jamestown
Standard Oil Company
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Vacuum Oil Company
Senate
Indian Territory
C. J. Devlin
First National Bank of
Topeka
Wilson
Frank Kowalski
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank
Ordway
City Election Commission
Doherty
Gas & Electric Company
James K. Jones
Arkansas
Barnesdale
Pittsburg
Department of the Interior
Cornelius P. Shea
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
International Union
Swift & Co
New England
Philadelphia Ice Trust
Idaho
Edward Bateman
Springfield
Aurora
Paterson
N. J
Joplin
Texas
Ernest Steinheart
Kentucky
St. Louis
International League of Women Su
Copenhagen
Denmark
Carrie Chapman- Catt
Federal Grand Jury
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company
Henry W. Hering
Gen. Kaulbars
Odessa
Russia
United States Treasury Department
Justice Glegerich
Mutual Life Insurance Company
International Policyholders’ Committee
State Insurance Department
Albany
George Hall
North Carolina
Ben
Stensland
Milwaukee Avenue State ‘Bank of Chicago
Andres and
Negrier
Paris
Andre
INTY
Freud
Palmer
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