Fosburgh Trial: Defense Gains Ground as Witness Testifies
James Fosburgh, called by the prosecution, described his actions after the tragedy. He disputed the earlier government witness about seeing him in the house and testified to retrieving doctors and aiding his parents. The defense mood brightened as the testimony suggested weakness in the government case and potential acquittal for Robert S. Fosburgh.
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Pittsfield
Mase
James Fosburgh
Robert S. Fosburgh
May Fosburgh
Hammond
Yale
James
Fosburgh
W. W. Schofield
Arthur Fobes
Fosburgh House
Fobes
Thomas J. Hall
Fosburgh Housa
Crosby
Harold W. Hopkins
Stevens
Op- Perens Antiece
Foseburgh House
Dr Schofield
Dehofield
George B. Chaplin
Uie
Rares
Mary
Abie
Brother Robert
Young Fosburgh
Judge Parrett Jails Woman for Calling Him a Liar
In Batavia Ohio Mrs Annie Bie her of Cincinnati was jailed by Judge Parrett after calling him a liar in open court while seeking a divorce from August E Bieber of New Richmond. The couple had agreed to alternating custody, but she refused to surrender the child on the date set. She vowed she would not retract the insult.
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Batavia
Annie Bieher
Cincinnati
Parrett
August E. Bieber
New Richmond
LYNCHED IN A CITY PARK IN ELKINS W Va
A mob hanged William Brooks a colored man after a fatal confrontation with Elkins Chief of Police Robert Lilly. Lilly died later in Cumberland Md from a gunshot wound received during the battle. Brooks was captured, then taken to the county jail before mob violence freed him and carried him to the park for execution.
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Elkins
W. Va
William Brooks
Robert Lilly
Cumberland
Brooks
Lilly
Htall
Coal oil can fire claims a Pittsburgh family
A Penn avenue tenement blaze killed Mrs Sophie Ratza and three children Viola Kashner Kashner Rat za and Wabock Ratza aged eight five and two when an oil can exploded in the kitchen as Mrs Ratza heated breakfast near 2718 Penn avenue The husband Francia Ratza was badly burned and hospitalized but expected to recover He tried to rescue his wife and children after the can ignited the stove fire and flames spread across the room.
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Pittsburg
Penn-avenue
Sophie Ratza
Viola Ratsa
Kashner Ratza
Wabock
Francia Ratz
West Penn Hospital
Court of Inquiry Open in Sampson-Schley Battle Debate
The Sampson-Schley controversy grows with Navy Secretary Long offering a court of inquiry if Schley seeks it yet noting he may not. Maclay faces potential libel action as his History of the Navy provokes debate. Admiral Schley and naval circles weigh legal options and official responses.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Maclay
Mable
Santiago
Schley
Cabtiff
Sampson
Admiral Schley
Commandant Wainwright
United States Naval Academy
Navy Department
Naval Academy
Department of English
Department
Sampoon-Schley
United States
Accident at Gypsy Camp Sparks Panic in Chicago
Six people severely injured as four horses at a gypsy camp race frightened, knocked riders, and charged into a spectator crowd. Panic spread as spectators, including Mrs. Bridget Barry and her seven month old infant, were trampled amid chaos. Johanna Kearney, John and Edward Simpson, and Nellie Sullivan sustained cuts and bruises from the chaos and injuries.
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Chicago
Bridget Barry
Johanna Kearney
John and
Edward Simpson
Nellie Sullivan
Ohio Democrats Organize Independent Party Move
George A. Groot says the effort to form an independent Democratic State convention continues despite Bryan's letter. He notes Bryan did not disapprove and that preparations proceed for a bolt convention at Columbus on July 31.
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Cleveland
George A.root
Kansas City
Bryan
Groot
Columbus
Mr. Groot
Army reorganization in Philippines slashes cost 60 percent
Adjutant General Corbin and General Chaffee plan sweeping reforms in the U S army in the Philippines reducing the force to 20 000 to 30 000, abandoning minor posts and creating three brigades with Manila Dagupan and Iloilo or Cebu as headquarters, plus new barracks, a single hospital, and centralized logistics to save money.
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Manila
Corbin
Chaffee
Philippines
Dagupan
Iloilo
Cebu
United States
Pasig River
Luzon
Hiello
Insular Constabulary i
Insular
Signal Corps
Hollo
Wrea
Via
Vancouver
Plan for Chinese indemnity bonds approved to 1940
The State Department reports China will pay 23,000,000 taels annually to service interest and build a sinking fund as amortization begins in 1902, with full liquidation by 1940. The total indemnity totals 450,000,000 taels at 4 percent interest, funded from the salt tax gabelle maritime duties and the Iikin tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Rockhill
State Department
Maritime Customs
Sampson defends Maclay history and reading of reports
In Boston on July 22 Rear Admiral Sampson accepted responsibility for statements in Maclay's naval history, noting he relied on official reports as commander in chief. He urged Congress or the Navy to investigate while disputing later interviews. In New York Schley refused to comment but left open a future statement.
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Boston
Maclay
Long
Sampson
Transcript Today
Ycu
Navy Department
Congress
Schrey
Santiago
Behey
Eoon
Schley
New York
Great Neck
L. L
Mark Twain Sent Letter Declining Missouri Union Celebration
Kansas City July 2 Mark Twain regrets cannot attend August 10 Kansas City exercises in celebration of Missouri’s Union achievement. In a dated reply he cites advancing age and prefers to conserve energy while acknowledging the state’s historic milestone.
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Kansas City
Mark Twain
Jublies Association
Missouri
Adironsack Lakes
Miesourt
Treasury Will Follow Controller Ruling On Porto Rico Duties
Washington July 22 General Knox declined to offer an opinion on whether the secretary of the treasury may refund duties collected on goods imported from Porto Rico and the United States between ratification of the Paris treaty and the Foraker law. The attorney general says the controller has decided the matter, and refunds will proceed under that ruling awaiting the controller’s decision.
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Washington
Treasury Department
State Department
Gage
Italy
General Knox
Secretary of the Treasury
Porto Rico
United States
Treasury
Committee Appointed by Secretary Hitchcock Injunction Applied For
The interior secretary forms a committee to supervise Kiowa and Comanche lands drawing. Ex-Gov Richards of Wyoming chairs, with ex-Chief Justice Frank Dale and ex-US Attorney D P Dyer. Report due at El Reno by the 26th to arrange drawing beginning the 28th. Lone Wolf and Judge William M Springer pursue a temporary injunction in El Reno District Court to halt actions by Richards and land officials. The petition contends the Jerome treaty act is void due to alleged fraud and requests a perpetual injunction after final hearing next Saturday.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Richards
Wyoming
Frank Dale
Oklahoma
United States
D. P. Dyer
St. Louis
el Reno
Reno
Lone Wolf
William M. Springer
William A. Richards
General Land Office
Lawton
Congress
Whitmarsh Exonerated Amid Benguet Turmoil
Manila July 2 H Phelps Whitmarsh Civil Governor of Benguet province has been exonerated by the civil commission. The resignation of secretary Scheerer was accepted due to impossibility of continuing together. The commission censured Whitmarsh for violence against Scheerer at a public Igorrotes meeting. The charges of misappropriating native stock and using his position for private gain were rejected. The commission found the firing of huts during the expedition warranted by exigencies.
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Manila
H. Phelps Whitmarsh
Benguet
Lucan
Civil Commission
Mr. Scheerer
Whitmarsh
Scheerer
Arsh
Opposed to Changes in Tariff and Reciprocity
Washington July 2 Indications are unfavorable to tariff revision or ratification of reciprocity treaties next winter. Rep Mondell of Wyoming says there is no demand in the West for tariff revision and that wool raisers oppose the Argentina reciprocity treaty as it would let wool in free.
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Representative Hepburn
Laws
Senate
Congress
Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Representative Mondell
Wyoming
West
Mississippi River
Argentina
Fraud alert over two million bogus bank notes in circulation
Chief Wilkie of the secret service reports counterfeit notes printed from original plates used by the State Bank of New Brunswick in 1850. A large volume of notes, mainly twos with some ones and fives, circulated from New York to San Francisco and across the Canadian border. The plates survived and are used on band paper and pass as legitimate currency, though not US notes. Possible $2,000,000 in circulation.
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Washington
Wilkie
Secret Service
State Bank of
United States
New Brunswick
New Jersey
New Paint and Hat Combine Rumors Target Big Firms
Reports in The Journal of Commerce indicate talks to form a massive consolidation among major paint concerns including pigments oils turpentine varnishes and chemicals with a possible 100 million capital. A separate plan foresees a United Hat Manufacturers of America group capitalized at 20 million uniting leading hat firms across New York Danbury Yonkers Fall River and Orange Valley to control soft and stiff hat production and possibly include fur cutters and importers.
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New York
Journal of Commerce
United Hat Manufacturers of America
New York City
Danbury
United States
Still Missing Located His Envoy Imprisoned
New York dispatch reports ongoing debate over General Rafael Uribe Uribe’s fate after leaving New York three weeks earlier. Senor Perez predicts another sighting within two weeks, while officials insist he sailed to New Orleans and boarded a steamship to Costa Rica. A government cable from Panama indicates awareness of his Costa Rica presence and plans to monitor. Friends believe Colonel Abel Murillo, sent with the peace manifesto, has been imprisoned and shot on arrival.
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New York
Rafael Uribe-Uribe
Senor Rafael Perez
Uribe-Uribe
Colombia
Uribe-Urive
New Orleans
Costa Rica
Arturo de Brigard
Cabie
Panamastya
Abel Murilio
Colombta
Urite- Uribe
Ancient Egyptian Boat Arrives Aboard German Steamer
A 400 year old Egyptian boat, dug from the Nile bed, arrived in New York aboard the German steamer Hohenfels from Calcutta. It was securely lashed on the forward deck, boxed, and shipped from Port Said with freight paid. The vessel is about twenty tons gross and around five feet deep, according to the description.
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New York
Hohenfels
Calcutta
Nile
Port Said
Evan Yence Sride
High Heat Shatters Records Across Indiana and Midwest
A 2 PM thermometer reached 106 degrees in Indianapolis, the hottest on record. Heat blasted asphalt as residents suffered, with many deaths and prostrations reported in surrounding cities and states. Local heat record highlights widespread distress and business closures amid extreme temperatures.
Local Deaths Listed In Fragmentary Notice
Local deaths include Mary Askrem of 511 East Merrill street and John Sweringer of 7 South Senate avenue. Miller driver of South Alabama and Hal Reed sporting editor of the News at 160 North Merritt street named. Trivan listed as colored from 3 Emmett. John Foster machinist at Brightwood shops on West New York street. Two Painters at Brightwood shop and twelve men at Atlas engine works mentioned without learned names.
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Mary Askrem
Merrill Street
John Sweringer
Senate Avenue
A Miller
South Alabama
Hal Reed
the News
North Meritt
Ee Trivan
Emmett Street
John Foster
Brightwood
New York Street
Brightwood Sh
Atlas Engine Works
City Seethes Under Record Heatwave
The city endured a blistering heat spell as temperatures topped 106 degrees by 2 pm, breaking the prior high for thirty years of Weather Bureau records. Heat spread early, inching up from 9 degrees to noon, driving people indoors to escape pavement scorching rays.
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