Terrible Effects of Porto Rico Hurricane Pons Report
The hurricane devastated Porto Rico on August 9 leaving one third of the population homeless and crops ruined. The island faces seventy five million pesos in damage to buildings stores and crops with breadfruit and avocado trees wiped out. Troops provide aid, rations and work to able bodied adults. many plantations and railways are destroyed and ports blocked.
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Pons
Pete Nico
Porto Rico
Island
Ponce
Davis
Aihonito
Public Works Department
Itaza
St. Thomas
Bayamon
San Juan
Resolutions Push Regulation of Trusts and Combines
Governors and attorneys general met in St. Louis to adopt resolutions aimed at restraining trusts and combines without crushing legitimate capital. They urge federal, state, and municipal action to curb abuses while preserving useful corporations. Also notes mining strikes and unrest in Sebastian County Arkansas.
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St. Louis
Committee On
McMillin
Tennessee
Smith
Texas
Campbell
Colorado
Great Britain
Russia
Onur
Sayers
Cain
Arkansas
Sebastian County
Wheat shortage sinks Barrett Fornum firm in Chicago
The firm Barrett, Fornum & Co. a major Chicago board of trade house failed on Thursday after selling short for seven days. The speculative shortage is estimated at four to five million bushels of the December wheat option amid the New York stock panic.
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Chicago
Barrett, Fornum & Co
Board of Trade
New York
Kerlin Declares Innocence In Fayette Murder Trial
In Fayetteville Georgia Kerlin spoke in court claiming he is not guilty of the murder of Pearl Knott. He described his movements April 13 to 18 including buggy rides and errands to buy cows and visit relatives. He said threats of lynching influenced his testimony and offered a rambling thirty minute defense with no witnesses presented.
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Pearl Knott
Kerlin
Fayetteville
Fayette County
Linsey Butler
Jones Hill
Butler's
Senoia
Minter
Carter's Attorney Denies Large Retainer and Future Fees
Ex Attorney General Wayne MacVeagh writes to Associated Press to correct rumors spread by Carter’s enemies. He states that Carter did not pay a $10,000 retaining fee nor agree to a $50,000 or more contingent payment if acquitted. He calls both claims false and unfounded.
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Carter
Kaya
Wayne MaccVeagh
Associario Press
Associated Press
Captain Carter
Europe
Warnt MacVracu
Mount Blames Brooke for Park Sickness Scandal
Indiana Governor James A. Mount labels Major General John R. Brooke solely responsible for the high sickness rates at Chickamauga Park last summer. In an interview at Chattanooga he accuses Brooke of failing to protect troops and claims Tennessee and Georgia sought remedies but were blocked by the general.
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Indiana
Chickamauga Park
James A. Mount
Chattanooga
John RK. Brooke
Brooke
Tennessee
Georgina
Union
Nebraska Republicans Meet in Omaha for State Convention
The Nebraska Republican state convention in Omaha Thursday praised harmony. M. B. Rease of Lincoln was nominated for supreme judge, with 8. G. McGilton of Omaha and William B. Bly of Lincoln named for regents on the first ballot. The platform backs President McKinley’s foreign policy and administration, upholds the gold standard, and attacks trusts and combinations seeking to stifle competition or fix prices.
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Omaha
Harmony
Nebraska
Maryland Governor Demands Wellington Resignation
A Baltimore dispatch reports Republicans in Maryland are at odds as Governor Lowndes presses for United States Senator George S. Wellington to resign as chairman of the state central committee. Wellington is expected to comply immediately.
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Maryland
Wellington
Baltimore Dispatch
Lowndes
United States
George 8
Republican State Central Committee
Six Killed in Colorado Train Collision
Six passengers were killed outright and five injured, one perhaps fatally, in a collision between the Phillips-Judson excursion from the east and an east-bound freight on the Denver and Rio Grande at Reno siding near Florence. The excursion had run from Chicago over the Chicago and Alton and Missouri Pacific, then to the D and RG at 2 p.m.
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Denver
Denver and Rio Grande
Reno Siding
Florence
Phillips-Judson
Chicago
Chicago and Alton and
Missouri Pacific
Worth postmaster charged with embezzlement case
John M. Scoville, postmaster at Worth Georgia, was arrested by U S Deputy Marshal George White on a charge of embezzlement of post office funds. Inspector Puller arrived on a routine inspection tour and found no prior indication of trouble.
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Tos
Worth
John M. Scoville
United States
George White
Puller
Prudent Man Reflects On Planning And Diamonds
The article discusses prudent planning and home organization. It describes diamond drill carbons from Bahia Brazil used in mining, reachable by boat and rail to Bandeira then mule into Sierra Lavras Diamantinas, noting carbons occur in river gravel and clay in the mountains. It mentions Supreme Court Justice Blockley and Tyner's remedy line, with New York debt cited as two hundred forty million dollars.
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Bahia State
Brasil
Bandeira
Sierra Des Lavras Diamantinas
Supreme Court
Blockley
Chas
Tyner
Tyner Dyaspepsia Remedy Co
Mitchell
Atlanta
New York
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John Y. McKane
New York State
County Antrim
Ireland
Treland
McKane
Sheepshead Bay
Long Island
Gravesend
William J. Gaynor
McLaughlin
Tristive
Tie
Coney Island
Gaynor
MeKane
Sing Sing
MelKano
Wheeler
Awollen
Capial
NCR
Terae
Custom House
Toncs
Arecibo
Sayer
Macveagh Centes
Mount
Freteht
Nterling Remedy Co
Nova Scotia
Aresos
Shelmina Nagel
Ene Teeta Praved
the Fairy One
Remedy Company
Chienga
Rontreat
Ag A Aco
Rie
Wolfe
Hed
Drogetes
Tobr
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