Ninety-Year-Old Exiles in Port au Prince Riots
Deposed Haitian leader Lord Alexis faced a violent night as mobs looted and clashed near the palace. Police and armed civilians restored order with support from the American, French, and German legations. Ships’ crews reinforced patrols. death toll reached twelve with many wounded before calm returned.
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Nord
Alexis Jot
Port Au Prince
du Guay
Trouin
Poldevein
United States
Eagles
Scylla
Alexis
Paat
Alexia
Mfe
I C C Opens Inquiry Into Pullman Upper Berths
The Interstate Commerce Commission plans to question the Pullman Palace Car Company about the practice of lowering upper berths on sleeping cars. Commissioner Lunewich and Commissioner Prouty will investigate complaints from travelers who say the berths are lowered to force occupants into the tower berth, sometimes when not needed. Travelers have protested to Pullman with little effect.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Lune Wich
Prouty
Pullman Palace Car Company
Ttue
Pullman, Company
Indian couple elope from Carlisle Indian School
Superintendent rriediman of the Carlisle Indian School sends telegraphs to chiefs in severe cities seeking arrest of an Indian couple who eloped. The girl was not a student. her lover came from the best Sunday. The couple fled without parental consent, names Joseph Twin and Lys tila Wahoo, Winnebago.
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Rriediman
Carlisle Indian School
Joseph Twin
Lystila Wahoo
Great Northern to Launch Through Chicago Coast Service
The Great Northern railway plans a through Chicago to the Pacific coast service next spring. The new route will cut travel time by more than seven hours to compete with the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line after its extension is finished.
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Great Northern Railway
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Bronx City Live Stock Market Update
Thursday quotations on the Stuus City Live stock market show top Reeves at 5.59 and hogs at 175. Night Riders adicted. Twenty four additional indictments are returned by the grand investigating the recent raids of might riders of Reeffoot lake, bringing total indictments to 124.
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Bronx City
Thureday
Stuus City
Reeffoot Lake
Haitian president Alexia flees aboard French warship
Nord Alexia of Hayti resigns and evacuates to a French warship as rebels led by Gen Antoine Simon seize Port au Prince. A large crowd clashed with troops, rioting at the palace and waterfront before the president was escorted to safety amid gun salutes from Haitian gunboats and foreign ships.
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Nord Alexia
Hayti
Jdren Deporend
Anfe
du Gury Cronin
Port Au Princes Ta
Antoine Simon
Insurgenta
Lee
Legitime
Alexia
Hippolyte
Appeal to President Roosevelts over Arkansas river crisis
In Pine Bluff Arkansas residents seek permission to cut through levees to redirect the Arkansas River. Work crews would reinforce banks to hold a 16 foot rise, aiming to prevent flood damage valued in the hundreds of thousands and possible loss of life. Federal authority uncertain as water climbs beyond 16 feet with 26 feet forecast.
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Roosevelt
Arkansas River
Pine Bluff
Ark
Interior Department
America’s Big Divorce Record Reveals Long-Term Trends
The census bureau compiles twenty years from 1887 to 1906 showing 12,932,044 marriages and 045,625 divorces. Divorce rates rose with population, from 29 to 82 per 100,000, and per 100,000 married population from 81 to 200, with two-thirds of divorces granted to wives.
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United States Census Bureau
United States
Flurry in Stock Market Sparks Rumor Fueled Panic
Rumors of a major financing plan for St Louis and San Francisco subsidiary rocketed through New York trading. Claims of ties between Harriman’s Rock Island and Union Pacific affiliates spurred talk of Gould Group alignment, sending Rock Island and Gould shares up then reversing as speculative activity surged and collapsed.
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Gould Group of Properties
Rock Island
Gould
Odd Fellows Rally to Be Held in Sioux City
An interstate Odd Fellows and Rebekah meeting is planned for Dec 9 in Sioux City with a four lodge committee organizing. Invitations go to all Odd Fellows and Rebekahs within 75 miles, with many leaders and speakers, including Deputy Grand Sir Kikendall, Grand and Past Grand officers from Iowa South Dakota and Minnesota. A similar gathering is set for Sioux Falls the night before, and Western Star Lodge No. 282 will host United Degree work on Dec 9 attracting members from nearby towns.
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Odd Fellows
Sioux City
Rebekahs
Order
Sir Kikendall
Odd Fellow
Iowa
Dakota
Minnesota
Sioux Falls
S. D
Western Star Lodge
United Degree
Marital Law Declared After Prague Race Riots
Prague authorities proclaimed martial law after Czech students clashed with German forces. Suburban riots at Weinberg damaged police and soldiers. dragoons deployed to clear streets. British consul Capt Forbes was dragged from a tram and beaten.
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Prague
Austria
Weinberg
A. W. W. Forbes
Queen Liliuokalani Seeks $200000 From Congress
Former Hawaiian monarch Queen Liliuokalani, age 74, requests in Washington that the U.S. Treasury reimburse her for the crown lands she lost when Hawaii’s monarchy fell in 1893. Her representative notes she mortgaged her Honolulu home to fund the trip and lives on $4000 yearly from the territorial government, which she deems insufficient.
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Congress
Liiloukalani
Washington
Hawaiian Islands
United States Treasury
Honolulu
George B. McClenland
United States
Stearns Salt and Lumber Pleads Guilty in Rebating Case
The Ludington Michigan firm Stearns Salt and Lumber pleaded guilty in U S court to six counts of freight rebating tied to Pere Marquette railroad shipments. The company had already admitted to twenty counts and was fined twenty thousand dollars.
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Stearns Salt and Lumber Company
Ludington
Mich
United States
Fred Lied Convicted Of Bribe Acceptance In Ohio Court
Fred Lied former director was found guilty by a common pleas jury of taking a $1000 bribe in January from Henry C Lang of Columbus. Lang, supervisor of Cleveland Trinidad Paving Co, was fined last June after pleading guilty to bribing Lied and Fred Tammel, Lang’s service board colleagues, and is serving a four year penitentiary term.
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Fred Lied
Court of Common Pleas
Henry C. Lang
Columbus
Cleveland Trinidad Paving Company
Lied
Fred Tmmel
Lang
Cattle Disease Declared Under Control by Secretary Wilson
Secretary Wilson said the foot and mouth disease among cattle, prevalent in Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland, is under control. All infected animals found by government inspectors have been killed, with an estimated 1,600 destroyed.
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Wilson
Michigan
New York
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Arkansas River Rises to 23 Feet Threatening Pine Blut Hotel
The Arkansas River reached 23 feet early Wednesday at Pine Blut Arkansas and rose rapidly. River banks behind the Jeaffergon hotel and county courthouse began to fall, prompting officials to vacate the courthouse annex as the building was deemed unsafe.
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Arkansas
Pine Blut
Ark
Jeaffergon Hotel
County Court House
Court House
Bank Robbers Hit Kirst National Bank in Pepperell
Bank robbers used an automobile to flee after blowing open vaults at Kirst National Bank in Pepperell Massachusetts on Wednesday, securing about $14,000 in each vault. Police pursued but details of the escape remain sparse.
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Kirst National Bank
Pepperell
Masa
Hovosler Tires of Life Boumet Short in Bedford Ind
In Bedford Indiana Boumet Short died aged years after long illness. Burial arrangements were pending. He was a resident of Bedford and survived by relatives. The obituary notes his late years and community ties.
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Hovosler
Boumet Short
Bedford
Ind
Hold Up a Street Car In Lower Third Avenue
Four armed desperadoes robbed a crowded street car on lower Third Avenue near New York early Tuesday. They throttled the conductor and terrorized passengers, making off with purses and valuables as a large crowd returning from a dance looked on.
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Lower
Third Avenue
Tussay
New York
Condustor
Keefe Succeeds Sargent as Immigration Commissioner
Daniel J. Keefe of Detroit, president of the International Longshoremen's Union, was appointed commissioner general of immigration on Tuesday, succeeding the late Frank P. Sargent.
Pistol Fight Outside Bellevue Stratford Hotel In Philadelphia
Richard Burk, a bystander, was fatally wounded while Andrew Lonergan was shot in the arm in a pistol duel with George Medway in front of the Bellevue Stratford hotel Philadelphia on Monday.
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Duelley Street
Richard Burk
Andrew Lonergan
George Medway
Bellevue Stratford Hotel
Philadelphia
Young Men in the Toils at Duo Duque in Dubuque
Four youths, Harry and Lee Benson among them, arrested in Dubuque on charges of obtaining money under false pretenses through passing worthless checks tied to phoney jewelry sales. Hilding Ferrington, 19, sought in Dubuque for stealing $150. captured in Chicago. Partner Russell Patterson, 18, held as accomplice. All had escaped from the St Charles school near Chicago months earlier.
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Duo- Duque
Harry and
Lee Benson
Kitish
Dubuque
Hilding Ferrington
Chicago
Russell Patterson
St. Charles
Dubuque grocer seeks ouster over trading stamps
John J. Ludsecker, a Dubuque grocer, has a district court order to begin ouster proceedings in the state's name against Hutchingon and Sperry trading stamp firm. Incorporated in New Jersey, the case cites failure to obtain a license to do business in Iowa. County Attorney Nelson declined prosecution. claim is that trading stamps injure the town.
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John J. Ludsecker
Dubuque
Iowa
Hutchingon & Sperry
New Jersey
Nelson
Ludscher
Dubuqué
Son rescues father from gas explosion at Muscatine home
Explosion of a gas plant wrecked a Muscatine country home. Owner Amos Kimberly lay unconscious as flames engulfed the ruin. His son Wilson Kimberly braved the fire, carrying his father to safety despite both being badly burned.
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Wilson
Amos Kimberly
Muscatine
Average attendance report shows low pupil per school in Tawa
State Superintendent J. H. Riggs and Gov. Garst release annual education department report revealing eight eight percent of Tawa schools average fewer than eight pupils per school.
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Tawa
Gov. Garst
Educational Department
Remsen Man Wins Cox Prize For Engineering Thesis
The Thomas J. Cox prize of 100 dollars for the best thesis by a College of Applied Science graduate is awarded for the year 1908 to John Scherner of Remsen G.E. The prize honors excellence in engineering among Iowa State University graduates.
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Remsen
Cox
Thomas J. Cox
College of Applied Science
State University of Iowa
John Scherner
Sunday Show At Waterloo Defies Sabbath Ordinance
In Waterloo theater manager Leo Helber staged a Sunday program of songs moving pictures and comedy acts to test a city ordinance prohibiting operas and vaudeville on the Sabbath. Police released him after a $26 bond for a hearing. The show proceeded with performers makeup free. The Passion Play and Holy City were featured. The ordinance carries up to $600 penalty. Advocates fear sacred entertainments could lead to broader openings of theaters.
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Leo Helber
Waterloo
Helber
Arrested for Forgery in Cedar Rapids Case
Charles P. Wells, arrested in Moline, Illinois, on a Cedar Rapids forgery charge, was brought to Cedar Rapids and held for the grand jury. He portrays himself as an educated professional with lineage and connections, claiming this is his first arrest beyond drunkenness.
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Charles P. Wells
Moline
Cedar Rapids
Wells
Ann Arbur University
Prominent Mason City Farmer Escapes Hog Attack
Gustav Larsen, a leading farmer near Mason City, barely escaped death when several hogs attacked him in a pen. He fell, pinned a hand to a wall, and fought them off until family members rescued him. His injuries were severe but non fatal, with deep cuts and a nail puncture in the palm.
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Gustav Larsen
Mason City
Indicted for Robbery Near Mason City
Franklin county grand jury indicts Nick Thomas and William Walsh for holdup of John Weasels a German farm hand near Latimer. Weasels lured to rear of building after drinks overpowered and about 150 dollars taken.
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Mason City
John Weasels
Latimer
Nick Thomas
William Walsh
Franklin, County
Wessels
Walsh
Thomas
Ten Per Cent to Creditors in Peterson Case
Assignee Crapser announces a further payment of ten per cent to creditors after the supreme court decision in Soren Peterson versus the Bank of Thornton. The suit involved a six thousand dollar claim against the bank that was not allowed. Also reports the death of Rev Obea Long, veteran minister of the United Evangelical church, who died of apoplexy at the soldiers' home in Marshalltown.
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Supreme Court
Obea Long
United Evangelical Church
Marshalltown
Mr. Long
Iowa
Johnson County
Plagman Convicted in Storm Lake Family Mistreatment Case
Henry Plagman of Brooke township Buena Vista county was found guilty by a district court jury in Storm Lake after being out about fifteen minutes. The charge centered on mistreatment of his daughter.
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Plagman
Storm Lake
Henry Plagman
Brooke Township
Buena Vista County
Boy Dragged by Pony in Town City Incident
Francise Kane ten year old of Town City was dragged by the ankle from the stirrup when his pony ran away His arm was broken and he sustained other injuries in the incident causing local concern at the equestrian event.
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Francise Kane
Town City
Sisters to Get Hospital Under Catholic Care
An arrangement between Rev. Father Farrelly of Denison and Denison Hospital stockholders will transfer control to Catholic sisters. Also reported, prominent local lawyer A. H. Davidson of Estherville died at home after a illness, leaving a wife and daughter.
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Father Farrelly
Denison
Denison Hospital
A. H. Davidson
Public Achgols
Estherville
Labor and Mine Safety Across Nations Report
The report notes union activity in San Francisco bakeries and Jamaica Trinidad and British Guiana, and a Knoxville official appoints labor representatives. It cites compulsory rescue gear in Austrian and French mines, optional in Germany, plus underground religious services in Westmoreland Pennsylvania. California officials seek anti strike legislation as rescue stations expand in Britain and Scotland. The British Federation conference cites 787,800 miners employed district wide.
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Society of Carpenters and Joiners
San Francisco
France
Germany
Westmoreland
Harria Weinstock
California
Ar Ain Et Labor Condition
Europe
England
Scotland
Min! Federation of Great Britain
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