President Roosevelt Will Visit New Orleans October 24
Roosevelt telegram to Mayor Behrman expresses plan to come on October 24 if the people of Louisiana desire it, subject to quarantine rules. Local officials will review fever quarantine issues with the state and reception committee, as fever is expected to wane but some doubt remains about lifting quarantines until no danger remains.
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New Orleans
Roosevelt
Behrman
Louisiana
Blanchard
White
Taft in Japan Sails Homeward Amid Warm Reception
Secretary of War Taft and party left Yokohama aboard the Korea for San Francisco amid Japanese enthusiasm. He noted reports of anti peace demonstrations were exaggerated and that no widespread anti foreign sentiment was found. Taft cited a Tokio mob involving a political group and commented on Chinese boycott impacts.
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Yokohama
Taft
San Francisco
Korea
America
Japan
Cloudburst Storm Causes Losses in Midwest
A record rainstorm and high winds across western Missouri and eastern Kansas drenched the region with about four inches of water. Property damage was extensive and at least four deaths were reported. Streams rose quickly though further flood damage was not expected.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Tottenham Sails With Giant Oregon Pine Cargo
The British steamer Tottenham, Capt. Mann, departed Portland carrying 2,780,000 feet of Oregon pine in one of the port’s largest lumber cargos. The timber is slated for reconstruction work in Manchuria and Korea after anticipated peace between Russia and Japan.
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Manchuria
Korea
Portland
Ore
Oregon
Tottenham
Mann
Taku
China
Russia
Japan
Fire and Explosion Kill Seven at Avon Fuse Co
An explosion and rapid fire at Climax Fuse Co in Avon Connecticut on September 16 killed seven workers and injured several others likely to die. Names of deceased include William Burke James Joyce Robert McCarthy James Wallace Mollie McCarthy Miss J Sullivan Mrs M B Tucker as families mourn in the wreckage.
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Avon, Conn
Climax Fuse Co
James Joyce
Robert McCarthy
James Wallace
Mollie McCarthy
J. Sullivan
M. B. Tucker
Japanese peace envoy explains indemnity stance after Portsmouth
In St Paul Dennison, legal adviser to Japan's foreign office, said Japan did not insist on indemnity after the Portsmouth treaty because their position prevented it. He compared Russia's failure to pay to a debt their creditor could not collect, noting enforcement would cost Japan millions of yen and lives.
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St. Paul, Minn
Portsmouth
H. W. Dennison
Seattle
Baltic Sea
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Paris
Russia
Circus Wrecked by Wind at Maryville
A heavy wind storm toppled a large circus tent in Maryville Missouri injuring all fifty in attendance, with several reported fatally. Among the injured are Charles L Robinson son of the Maryville Republican-Tribune editor Edward Booth Mrs Edward Booth Miss Booth Thomas Clark and John E Orm. Tents were shredded and two weeks' performances may be cancelled.
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Maryville
Charles L. Robinson
Republican-Tribune
Edward Booth
Miss Booth
Thomas Clark
John E. Orm
Fire destroys grain company building at Mexico Missouri
A major blaze at 9:30 last night consumed the Hathaway Keath Grain Co building in Mexico. The fire endangered the city hall and surrounding structures as embers drifted six blocks in strong winds until rain arrived and fire crews gained control after midnight.
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Mexico
Hathaway-Keath Grain Co
Alice Roosevelt in Imperial Palanquin in Seoul
Miss Alice Roosevelt rides in a royal imperial yellow palanquin through crowded Seoul streets from Chemulpo to the American legation. Accompanied by Rear Admiral Train, Senator and Mrs Newlands, and congressmen, the party is greeted by a Korean band and guarded by Korean police and Japanese gendarmes while the Imperial palace hosts the visitors.
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Alice Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Train
Seoul
Miss Roosevelt
Mrs. Newlands
Imperial Palace
Fire destroys four buildings in Nameoki Illinois
Four Nameoki buildings in Madison county Illinois were wiped out by a Monday night fire that started at William Knusinke's premises. The blaze spread to nearby residences of Robert Green and E G Rode but was halted by wet blankets and a protecting street.
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St. Louis
Nameoki
Madison County
Illinois
William Knusinke
Knusinke
Robert Green
E. G. Rode
BECAUSE SHE JILTED HIM Crown Point Tragedy inarbiter
Harry Hohman of Hammond shot his former sweetheart Ida Taylor after learning of her marriage to Charles Jeannette of Steger and then killed himself. The couple had been engaged for five years. Ida Taylor, a beauty linked to a resort hotel, had married two weeks earlier.
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Crown Point
Ind
Harry Hohman
Hammond
Charles Jeannette
Steger
Ida Taylor
Hohman
Jeannette
Sixty Buildings Burned in Nome Alaska Fire
Seattle reports sixty buildings destroyed by fire in Nome Alaska on September 13. Loss is near $200,000 with city hall burnt but records saved. Major stores M. E. Atkinson and J. P. Parker destroyed. no deaths reported. Details remain scant.
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Seattle
Wash
Nomia
Alaska
M. E. Atkinson
J. P. Parker
Attack on Porch Endangers Ex-Lieutenant Governor
On September 19 in St Louis, John B. O'Meara former Missouri lieutenant governor and Hill- O'Meara Construction Co secretary was held up on his porch at 4429 Washington boulevard. He grappled with the robber and was slashed across the cheek, the assailant escaping.
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St. Louis
John B. O'Meara
Missouri
Hill- O'Meara Construction Co
Washington Boulevard
O'Meara
Treasury transfer accounts confirm exact match
Washington dates report that the cash, notes, bonds and securities in the U S Treasury were counted amid the transfer of the office of United States treasurer from William Ellis H Roberts to Charles H Treat and the count was found to agree exactly with the treasury records.
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Washington
Treasury of the
United States
William Ellis H. Roberts
Charles H. Treat
Treasury
Treasury transfer total exceeds prior outgoing amount
The document notes a total of $1,259,278,5823 an increase of $462,672,839.41 over the sum transferred by outgoing treasurer D. N. Morgan to Mr. Roberts on July 1, 1897.
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D. N. Morgan
Roberts
Leavenworth Officer to Face Court Martial
Information received at Fort Leavenworth that first Lieut Sidney S Burbank Sixth Infantry who left for the Philippines in February 1919 is to be court mar tialed. He brought suit in district court to annul an alleged marriage with Mrs Conception Vasquez a Filipino woman. The suit is pending and set for trial in October after delays spanning nearly two years.
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Leavenworth, Kas
Fort Leavenworth
Sidney S. Burbank
Sixth Infantry
Philippines
Burbank
District Court
Conception Vasquez
Illinois Bank Closed in Barry After President Leaves Town
The Barry Exchange bank of Barry in Pike county has closed its doors and will not reopen until Eugene Smith, the bank president, returns from the east to sort out affairs. Smith has assigned all holdings to stockholder W. W. Watson and about $100,000 in debt is expected to be paid.
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Springfield
Ill
Barry Exchange Bank of
Barry
Pike County
Eugene Smith
Smith
W. W. Watson
Amicable Settlement Sought Between Sweden and Norway
Washington reports from Paris that Sweden and Norway are near an amicable settlement. Details delay progress and the Bernadotte prince candidacy for the Norwegian throne is now set aside.
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Washington
Department of State
Paris
Sweden
Norway
House of Bernadotte
Baron Komura Condition Satisfactory in New Bulletin
The Japanese envoy Baron Komura has been ill in New York for some time. A 6 p.m. bulletin states his condition was satisfactory in every respect, with Dr. Delafield to see him only once tomorrow. The two physicians in attendance signed the statement.
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New York
Baron Komura
Two Trainmen Die in Missouri Rail Wreck
Ironton Mo Sept 18 two persons were killed one fatally hurt and 13 injured when south bound passenger No 5 on the St Louis Iron Mountain Southern railway wrecked after a culvert washed out three miles north of Ironton. Two engines and five cars plunged into the creek bed and one chair and four Pullmans were derailed.
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Ironton
St. Louis
Iron Mountain & Southern Railway
Missouri Folk Reception Draws San Francisco Leaders
About 500 representatives from San Francisco greeted Gov. Folk of Missouri at a state reception attended by Gov. George Pardee and Mayor Eugene Schmitz. In Kansas City the American Pomological Society held its 29th biennial meeting with a display of fruit including 123 varieties of European pears from a Brooklyn firm.
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San Francisco
Folk
Missouri
George Pardee
Eugene Schmitz
R. P. Jennings
California
Kansas City
American ‘Pomological Society
Brooklyn
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BOA Polis News
William Burke
Mayville
Mexico, MO
Legation
Ida Jeannette
Nome
Gaov. O'Meara
Illinois Bank
Exchange Bank of
Iron Mountain Road
Ironton, Mo
Mrs. Folk
American Pomological Society
John Riebold & Son
Troy, Ill
A. Heddergott
H. C. Gerfen
Market and
Hickory Streets
Troy
W. W. Jarvis
O. G. Jarvis
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