Plotters of Panama’s Independence Leader Dr Amador Emerges
A Panama Chronicle portrait of Dr Manuel Amador as the central independence conspirator. The piece sketches his liberal Catholic stance, widespread respect, and leadership amid Panama’s push for a republic, noting his decisive role in the 1903 coup and rescue across the isthmus. It highlights his modest lifestyle, aversion to arrogance, and readiness to take advice while steering the movement.
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Panama
R. P
Republic of Panama
Manuel Amador
United States
Amador
Isthmus
Jose Agustin Arango
New Republic
Dr. Amador
Cathedral Plaza
Colon
Panamaians
Yousle
Mes
Cartagena
H. G. Prescott
Penama
Tovar
Amaya
Huertas
Emraor
Insurgents Attack Santo Domingo Amid War Moves
Insurgents press assault on Santo Domingo as provisional government troops resist. Morale leader Morales plans defense, bombards Puerto Plata while seeking aid from U S Minister Powell. A new American warship is requested as three revolutions unfold and naval moves intensify.
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San Domingo
Republic of Santo Domingo
Azua de Compostela
United States
Powell
San Pedro de Macoris
Morales
Independencia
Puerto Plata
San Cristobal
Newport
Washington
Jiminez
Santo Domingo
State Department
Moody
Lamberton
South Atlantic
Trinidad
Two Well Known Men Burned to Death in Troy Club Fire
Troy, N Y Dec 3 Moses T Clough senior lawyer and William Shaw prominent lawyer died in a blaze that destroyed the Troy Club early Wednesday. Clough was president of the club whose members included the city's wealthiest men.
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Troy
N. Y
Moses T. Clough
William Shaw
Troy Club
Clough
Bristol Man Killed in Railroad Yard Accident
J W Hall a Bristol retired merchant aged sixty was instantly killed in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad yards after news of the accident reached town a hack carrying relatives overturned Walter Hadsell sustained a broken leg Miss May Deacon suffered a broken back and Miss May Ball was severely injured
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Bristol
Tenn
J. W. Hall
East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad
Walter Hadsell
May Deacon
May Ball
John M Glover Set at Liberty by Militia
Ex congressman John M Glover wounded in the arm, jailed by the militia at Cripple Creek Colorado. Report mentions officials and a Colonel Verdeck, with unclear details about the injury and the arrest.
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John M. Glover
Cripple Creek
John Glover
Verdeckre
Postmaster Payne Report outlines rural delivery push reforms
The annual Payne report, completed and sent to the printer, will focus on department workings with limited emphasis on the Bristow led investigation. It highlights continued rural free delivery expansion, announces 600 routes monthly, and notes funding limits with deficits expected to sustain the program. Indiana leads in county rural delivery, while statewide progress varies.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Payne
Bristow
Conrad and
Bonaparte
Congress
Smith
Indiana
Not Enough Pots Stop Window Glass Trust Plan
Pittsburg December 2. After months of work with window glass firms and unions a plan to form the Manufacturing Window Glass Company with 1 000 008 capital and control of 1 500 pots was abandoned. The final meeting cited a lack of sufficient pots as the reason. The scheme required at least 1 40 pots before it could take effect. all but 200 had signed. The collapse would nullify wage terms tied to the planned selling combine.
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Pittsburg
Parry speaks to St. Louis citizens on union suppression
David M. Parry of Indianapolis addressed merchants and manufacturers at a St. Louis gathering urging suppression of union leaders. The meeting, organized by the Citizens' Industrial Association of St. Louis, adopted resolutions opposing the closed shop and labor violence while urging Congress to favor business interests.
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ST. Louis
David M. Parry
Indianapolis
Citizens’ Industrial Association of America
Citizens’ Industrial Association of St. Louis
Peas Congress
Fire Destroys Haugh & Keenan Storage Warehouse
In Pittsburg Pec a blaze of twelve hours consumed the sig story storage warehouse of Haugh and Keenan starting at 6 am. Thirteen engine companies fought the fire with crossed electric wires suspected as the cause. Losses run from 200000 to 700000 with minimal insurance coverage. The McCormick Harvester Co and Carnegie Museum face sizeable losses to fossils stored there, including 215 cases and 100000 pieces from Andrew Carnegie's collection bought from the King of Belgium last year.
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Pittsberg
Pec
Haugh & Keenan
James F. Keenan
McCormick Harvester Company
Carnegie Museum
Bayet
Carnegie Institute
Andrew Carnegie
King of Belgium
Jury Selected in Sun and Moon Dynamiting Case
Georgetown Colo Dec 29 A jury in the Sun and Moon dynamiting cases from Idaho Springs was secured at 3 oclock this afternoon and taking of the testimony will begin tomorrow morning J E Chandler former financial secretary of the Idaho Springs union who was recently arrested in California for alleged complicity in the Sun and Moon outrage will be tried with the other defendants
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Georgetown
Col
Idaho Springs
J. E. Chandler
Idaho Springs Union
California
Massacre of Missionaries by Does Reported from Liberia
Minister Lyon reports to the State Department from Monrovia detailing the 1901 massacre in a Liberian forest. Eighteen killed at John G Tate’s mission as Does claim no war with whites but fear future aggression. bodies sent as trophies.
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Washington
Lyon
State Department
Monrovia
Liberia
John G. Tate
Mary L. Allen
Nouna Kroo
Tate
Does
The
Fire Claims Four In Ballinger Furniture Store
Four people die in Ballinger Texas when a fire destroys the J. A. Oster furniture store. Victims include A. J. Beth, his wife, another relative, and Bert West, all burned to death as property loss reaches about 5000 dollars.
Disappearance of Commodore Edward F. Glover
Commodore Edward F. Glover of the Knickerbocker Yacht Club and Crescent Athletic Club, a Brooklyn social figure, has vanished after arrest warrants for grand larceny and obtaining money under false pretenses. He allegedly drew $20,000 from a Richmond, L.I. bank after leaving his wife, then vanished. charged that his firm took a $1 fee from clients while pursuing $150 from an accident insurer.
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New York
Edward F. Glover
Knickerbocker Yacht Club
Crescent Athletic Club
Brooklyn
Glover
Richmond
L. 1
New York Accident Security Company
Accident Assurance Company
Bryan lacks time to study social conditions abroad
London December 29 William J Bryan has returned from The Hague and will sail for New York on the Celtic from Liverpool He says the European trip was interesting and instructive but time prevented deeper study of social and industrial conditions He found broad courtesy and facilities for investigations and declined to discuss Democratic presidential nomination due to possible misrepresentation in the United States.
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London
William J. Bryan
Bryan
United States
Westinghouse Buys Transit Line For Electric Operation
New York December 2 The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company buys a controlling stake in the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Rapid Transit Company for about 360,0000. Four million comes from the treasury and 2 million is borrowed at six percent via Kuhn, Loeb & Co. The move aims to convert the line to electric traction to demonstrate electricity as motive power for elevated and suspension service.
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New York
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley
Ice clogged Ohio River threatens river traffic
Cincinnati reports ice gorges spanning sixty miles from Rising Sun Indiana to Coney Island. two steamers and many barges sunk last Sunday causing losses over 100000 dollars. Workers guard packed packets and towboats as gorges near Coal Haven North Bend and the southern bridge threaten heavy damage if they break.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Coney Island
Sunshine
M. P. Wells
Coal Haven
Dayton
Southern Bridge
North Bend
Mother Locks Babes In Home And They Burn
Chicago report states Mrs. Michael Kandas of 5159 Woodlawn avenue left her two children Barbara four and Mary two years younger in a home while visiting a neighbor. The house caught fire and both children died. Police kept the mother back as the blaze consumed the dwelling.
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Chicago
Michael Kondas
Woodlawn Avenue
Barbara
Mary
Kandas
Kokomo Cash Lumber Company Loses by Fire
In Kokomo Indiana on December 3 the Kokomo Cash Lumber Company suffered a $15000 fire loss. Flames are believed to have started from a stove in the office. The office storehouse sheds and lumber were destroyed. Insurance will not cover the loss. The property was owned by a corporation managed by Major Doyne.
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Indianapolis Journal
Kokomo
Ind
Kokomo Cash Lumber Company
Doyne
New Bank Organizing in Chicago With Broad Backing
A new trust and savings bank is being organized in Chicago with capital and surplus of 31,200.0 percent. Prominent backers include D. G. Reid of New York A C Bird vice president of the Gould railway system United States Senator Hopkins and William H ease of Chicago. Also involved are officers of Leyees corporations spread across Timeis Iowa Lewes Kansas Ohio Pennsylvania Massachusetts Idaho and Texas.
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Chicago
D. G. Reid
New York
A. C. Bird
Gould System of Railways
United States
Hopkins
William H.easne
Leyees
Timeis
Iowa
Lewes Kansas
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Idaho
Texas
Love feast crowds sweep Indiana Republicans into Indianapolis
Indiana Republicans poured into Indianapolis for the annual love feast with attendees from all districts. Leaders including Senators Fairbanks and Beveridge attended, while regional battles for representation emerged in Sixth Fifth Eighth and Elev enth districts as organizers predicted record turnout and a strong rallying cry Vim vigor and victory.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Goodrich
Denison House
John J. Wingate
Shelbyville
Fairbanks
Beveridge
Denison
Elias 8. Holliday
Co. B. Landis
James E. Watson
Jesse Overstreet
Union B. Hunt
Winchester
William L. Penfield
Washington, D. C
Maj
George W. Steele
Marion
Congress
Eleventh
Steele
G. A. H. Shideler
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A. J. Knott
Panama Railroad
Capt. J. B. Jones
City of
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Republic
U. S
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San Juan
P. R
Wesy Gil
Gil
Diminez
Porto Rico
Hunt
Wosy Gil
MR. Heath
McKinley
Louisville Courier- Journal
Perry
Heath
President McKinsey
Mark Hanna
White House
Buffalo
Canton
Controller of the Treasury
M. H. Miller
Medical Supply Department
San Francisco
Manufacturers’ Window Glass Company
Survival of the
Jim Keach
Africa
Commodore
Europe
Westinghouse
NEW Bank Organizing
Old
G. R. Wickwire
New Albany
John Chews Nine
Edo
Ohn C.ngate
Wingate
J. W. Egnew
Wabash
Ill Shideler
Gus Marion
G. D. Dean
G. D.kimball
B. F. Corwin
Greencastle
J. A. Frist
Clinton
W. 5. Haggard
Lafayette
Louis
John M. Brown
South Bend
Warren Bigler
P. J. Preeman
Evansville
M. H. Snorf
North Manschester
J. F. McClure
Andersen
BE. J. Binington
Hartford City
E. P
Fort Wrae
A. G. Lupton
Hartford
George E. Pugh
James Barcus
Terre Haute
J. L. Caldwell
E. P. Thayer
Greenfield
Fred Sims
Frankfort
L. B. Nash
W. H
M. W. Pershing
Tipton
Angola
W. F. Swiggett
Cambridge
E. Stoner
W. A. Hough
Green
W. L. Met Campbell
Middletown
James H. Jones
New Castle
A. B. Hunt
Frank
Greensburg
J. F. Elliott
J. B. Cockrum
Oakland City
J. C. Godemur
Roann
C. BE. Cowgill
H. C. Starr
Julian D. Hogate
Danville
J. EB. Caskey
A. E. Nowlin
Lane
W. Steele
Hiram Wales
E McClure
F. Jones
A. Alexander
T. Edwin Nell
Hammond
E. H. Walcott
Walcott
W. B. Campbell
E. C. Tomer
Anderson
W. W. Lambert
Columbus
Ray
Rushville
Judie W. Penfield
Auburn
Perry L. Turner
Onc. Hart
John B. Widaman
Samuel R. Artman
N. Cragan
Anon
C. H. Good
Warren
George M. Snyder
Noblesville
T. H. O'Neal
Marton
Ward H. Watson
Is B. Gorden
Harry Strohin
Kentland
J. A. Gauntt
Gard
M. Greenlee
Elwood
Othows
Harvey Cmte Linton
J. G. Lefer
Muncie
R. Bell
Union City
Charles Watson
Charles E. Thompson
Lincoln League Meeting
Lincoln League
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