Rightful condemnation underlies proposed railroad in Illinois
The East St. Louis and Suburban Electric Railway plans to condemn landowners between Troy and Maryville if amicable settlement fails. Illinois law allows private property takes for public use with compensation. Landowners who resisted may now face the legal process as the project proceeds, framed as serving the public benefit. The piece defends the necessity and legality of eminent domain for the proposed road.
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East St. Louis & Suburban Electric Railway Company
Troy
Maryville
Illinois
Ex-government plans to hire 6000 workers for Panama canal work
The ex government intends importing 2000 Italians 2000 Japanese and 2000 Chinese under contract for 500 days of work on the Panama canal. They will have an eight hour day with free hospital and medical attendance furnished quarters and fuel for cooking.
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Panama Canal
Government funded labor plan faces contract labor ban
The passage notes government funded labor will start December 1. It states these laborers cannot legally be brought into the United States under the contract labor law, highlighting a conflict between the program and immigration regulations.
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United States
Roosevelt Hosts Japanese Envoys Before Peace Conference
President Roosevelt dined with Baron Komuro and Takahira of Japan at Oyster Bay and discussed general terms of the upcoming peace talks. Officials expect M. Witte to visit before the August 5 presentation of plenipotentiaries, with the president showing keen interest in the negotiations.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
Jurato Komuro
Fashien Ofroaine
Wargoro
Takahira
United States
Washington
Baron Komura
Harvard
M. Witte
Russia
Man of Jonesboro Accused of Catalogues and Charity Deception
A local resident in Jonesboro is accused of a scheme involving Sears Roebuck catalogues and pre furnishing aid to a sick neighbor. The critic says such acts harm the town and the offender.
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Anna
Routa
Jonesboro
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Insurance scheme extends UMWA coverage to other states
A coal miners insurance plan backed by the United Mine Workers of America offers miners a $300 policy for 50 cents monthly or a $250 policy for 25 cents monthly in addition to dues. The program, begun in Illinois, is to spread to more states.
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Illinois
United Mine Workers of America
United Mine Workers
Graft Allegations Spread Across Departments
The Mascoutah Herald argues graft runs through multiple federal departments including war post office interior and agriculture. It laments a lack of progress and urges towns not to settle for mediocrity, warning contentment hinders advancement.
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War Department
Post Office Department
Interior Department
Agricultural Department
Mascoutah Herald
Hopeful mood at New Orleans as yellow fever battle renews
New Orleans on July 28 reported ground gained in fighting yellow fever. The Reed commission methods in Cuba inspire cautious hope that the scourge may be stamped out before frost, with about 200 cases since July and the French Market area hardest hit. Italians faced health fears as authorities urge care and containment.
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New Orleans
Reed Commission
Cuba
Canal Street
Powder the Question Now: Illinois Coal Strike Talks Fail
In Springfield Illinois on July 28 a second conference between Chicago Alton mine operators and Virden Auburn Divernon Thayer chain of machine mines miners failed to yield results. Operators order two pounds or less of powder in shots, harming miners earnings and removing need for shotfirers. Each side formed a four member subcommittee to draft an agreement for later approval. About fifteen hundred miners are affected.
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Springfield
Ill
Chicago & Alton
Virden
Auburn
Divernon
Thayer
Illinois Coal Operators’ Association
Equitable Life Reports 1905 Half-Year Income Rise
New York July 28 The Equitable Life Assurance Society declares income for the first half of 1905 at 38,799,138 dollars, up 2,386,810 dollars over the same period last year in a board submission.
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New York
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Wouldn't You Like to Own Him Mack the water spaniel saves children
In Duluth Minnesota on July 28 the dog Mack owned by Mrs. Frank Spindeck saved two children aged seven and eleven from drowning. He swam to them, pulled them to shore, and kept them afloat until help arrived.
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Duluth
Minn
Mack
Frank Spindeck
Thirty Years Ago This Week in Troy
From The Weekly Bulletin dated July 29 1875. Notes include completion of the sidewalk to Vandalia depot infant son of August Henrich dies at six weeks rain drenched weeks wheat crop in bad shape a marriage at the groom's home Henry C Kookindoffer and Dan Schuler fined after a street bout sale of Sherman Park delayed by downpour special train from St Louis drew many notable visitors including Gen W T Sherman Sidney Breese James G Berty and others.
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Vandalia
August Hein ¢Rich
Robert T
Kinder
Emma Blair
Nathaniel B. Kinder
Henry C. Kookindoffer
Dan
Schuler
Squire Mills
Sherman Park
East
Rescued from Flames by Rescue Squad at Second Story Window
George A. Kelly and his wife clung to a frail shutter on a second story window with flames all around. Salvage corps arrived with ladders and saved them as Mrs Kelly burned her hands and Mr Kelly's arms blistered waiting for rescue.
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St. Louis
George A. Kelly
Olive Street
Mrs. Kelly
Mr. Kelly
Surgeon Wasdin Finds No Yellow Fever Evidence Along Gulf
Washington reports Surgeon Wasdin informed the public health service that a gulf coast inspection found no evidence of yellow fever. Passed Assistant Surgeon Barry and Pharmacist Morris have been ordered to New Orleans for service in the yellow fever situation.
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Washington
Wasdin
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Gulf Coast
Barry
New York
Morris
St. Louis
New Orleans
Giant Coal Combine Formed In New York Meeting
A proposed Sunday Creek coal combine in Ohio and West Virginia unites seven coal firms with properties worth about 50 million dollars and 16 000 workers under one directorate. The consolidation, effective August 1, promises the second largest corporation in the world and replaces several leaders with new officers.
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Columbus
New York
Sunday Creek Company
Ohio
West Virginia
Bishop Isaac W Joyce dies in Minnesota at 69
Minneapolis Bishop Isaac W Joyce Methodist church leader dies at 1 20 am at his home after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage and paralysis from a sermon at Red Rock camp meeting on July 2 He served as presiding bishop of the Methodist missionary field in China and Japan and earlier led Chattanooga and Cincinnati pastorates He was 69 years old and survived by his wife and son Colonel Frank M Joyce of Minneapolis
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Minneapolis
Minn
Isaac W. Joyce
Groveland Avenue
Red Rock
Joyce
Minnesota
China
Japan
Chattanooga
Tenn
Cincinnati
Hartsell University
United Brethren Institution of Ohio
Bishop Joyce
Col
Frank. M. Joyce
Adier Hight Months' Search Arrests Duluth Teller
St Paul July 28 Albert BE Loutzenhouser teller of the First National Bank of Duluth Minn was charged with embezzling 10000 after an eight months detectives search.
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St. Paul, Minn
Albert’ BE. Loutzenhouser
First National Bank of
Duluth, Minn
Sum mers shoots wife then kills himself in Longview
Longview Texas reports Clem Summers, 200 miles away, fatally wounds his wife with a pistol and then fatally shoots himself. Authorities say his mind may be affected by a head wound from a bank robbery battle years ago.
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Longview
Tex
Clem Summers
Here
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