Columbia Triumphs in Cup Series by Time Allowance
The Columbia wins the 1901 cup defense against Shamrock II after three straight races. A close finish under wind drift confirms Columbia's victory by 41 seconds on time allowance as Lipton’s ship crosses first but loses the race. London reaction cites mixed judgments on American seamanship and construction.
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Shamrock II
Columbia
New York
Anchorage
Lipton
Sir Thomas
England
Shamrock
J. P. Morgan
Corsair
Erin
London
Daily Express
Morgan
Thomas Lipton
Kruger protest over exports to South Africa
Brussels dispatch says Mr. Kruger sent a protest to President Roosevelt against exporting horses and mules to South Africa. It also states he did not intend to send a mission to the United States to seek mediation.
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Brussels
le Petit Bleu
Kruger
Roosevelt
South Africa
United States
Burglars Loot Jeweler's Safe in Paducah
Burglars believed to be professionals broke into John J. Bleyth’s jewelry store in Paducah Kentucky on October 5. They worked the safe combination and made off with goods valued at seven thousand dollars.
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Paducah
John J. Bleyth
Samar Massacre Prompts Increased Garrison Vigilance
Maj. Morris C. Foote reports warning signs before the Balangiga disaster. Capt. Connell had taken precautions after a priest warned of a plot involving pacificos. bases at Basey and Batangas see unrest while overall military vigilance tightens across the archipelago.
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Manila
Morris C. Foote
Ninth
United States Infantry
Samar
Balangiga
Company C
Connell
Maj. Foote
Foote
Basey
Batangiga
Baulan
Caloocan
Batangas
Schley Inquiry Marks One Session After Week of Labor
Washington observers note only one session of the Schley court of inquiry was held Saturday as adjournment until Monday allowed a rest after a strenuous week. Lieut Commander Alban C. Hodgson testified about correspondence with Admiral Schley on a Santiago battle chat. Judge Advocate Lemly discussed Admiral Sampson’s May 20 1898 dispatch and a correction showing Santiago rather than Cienfuegos.
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Washington
Schley
Alban C. Hodgson
Brooklyn
Admiral Schley
Santiago
Lieut
Doyle
Lemly
Sampson
Cienfuegos
Punitive Measures Planned for Samar Insurrection
Washington reports that US forces will swiftly suppress the Samar uprising with emphasis on punishing natives involved in the Balangiga massacre. Adjutant General Corbin directs a war department briefing on the island, its people, and pacification efforts as operations shift by troop movements and departmental control.
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Washington
Philippines
Samar
Company C
Ninth Infantry
Balangiga
Adjt
Corbin
War Department
United States
Robbe
Eleventh Infantry
Leyte
Ninth Cavalry
Visayas
Pentecost Accepts Manila Mission Call Severing Yonkers Pastorate
Rev. Dr. George F. Pentecost has left the Yonkers Presbyterian church to accept a call from the Presbyterian board of foreign missions to work in Manila. He is a prominent evangelistic pastor known in England and America after serving at Marylebone Presbyterian church in London.
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New York
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
Manila
George F. Pentecost
Presbyterian Church of
New Treaty Aims for All-American Isthmian Canal
Walter Wellman cites a pact between the United States and Great Britain. The treaty abrogates the Clayton-Bulwer clause, guarantees American control and neutrality in war, and opens the canal to all nations in peacetime on equal terms. Britain accepts nondiscrimination. Roosevelt to review in a forthcoming message.
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Chicago
Walter Wellman
Washington
The
Record Herald
United States
Great Britain
Senate
Toto
England
Choate
Roosevelt
Congress
Collision on Atlanta streetcar injures many on down grade
Two Consolidated Street railway cars crowded with riders collided at Fair and Washington streets Sunday evening in Atlanta injuring 18 people. The cars were under headway on a downhill grade when they met.
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Atlanta
Consolidated Street Railway
Fair and
Washington Streets
Chicago oil inspector Burke indicted for embezzling 23000
Robert E. Burke city oil inspector and secretary of the democratic county central committee was indicted in Chicago on charges of embezzling 23000 in fees paid by the Standard Oil company and others.
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Chicago
Robert E. Burke
Democratic County Central Committee
Standard Oil Company
Trains Collision Near Onward Claims Four Lives
Four Pan Handle trainmen die in a rear end freight collision near Onward Indiana. Conductor Elbert Greeley flagman Thomas Brosius brakeman S. A. Galbreath and fireman John Hutchison are killed. Engineer Frank Patterson is injured. Fire crews fought the blaze as bodies were recovered.
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Logansport
Ind
Onward
Here
Elbert Greeley
Thomas H. Brosius
A. Galbreath
John Hutchison
Frank Patterson
Weaver
Hartford City
Galbreath
Brosius
Greeley
Hutchison
Patterson
Reverend McCummish Kills Benjamin Brown in Carbondale Feud
In Carbondale Illinois on a Saturday near the public square Reverend Joseph McCummish 42 a Seventh Day Baptist pastor and blacksmith shot Benjamin Brown 35 after Brown allegedly attacked with a knife. Brown died after 40 minutes of internal hemorrhage. A coroner's jury later found McCummish fully exonerated.
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Carbondale
Ill
Joseph McCummish
Seventh Day Baptist Church
Benjamin Brown
McCummish
Brown
McCammish
Homer Kney
Kney
Question of veracity in Heistand hemp probe
Former assistant secretary of the navy and ex governor of Puerto Rico Charles H. Allen testifies before the senate military affairs committee. He denies any connection with the hemp company and says he did not accept or was not asked to take stock. His account contrasts with Col Heistand who claimed to have been offered stock by Allen.
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Washington
Charles H. Allen
the Navy
Porto Rico
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Heistand
Col. Heistand
Allen
Tenessee Feudists Battle Near Church Killings Reported
In a church fight at Union Baptist near Big Springs Tennessee ten miles from Tazewell four men were killed two mortally wounded and three wounded less seriously. The dead include Tip Chadwell John F Chadwell Rush Morgan and Henry Morgan. Wounded include Asa Chadwell and Sheriff Brook with others.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Union Baptist Church
Big Springs
Tazewell
Tip Chadwell
John F. Chadwell
Rush Morgan
Henry Morgan
John Morgan
Asa Chadwell
Jones
Neabley
Sheriff Brook
Chadwell
James Brook
Brook
Morgans
Chadwells
Walnut Hills
Hancock County
Middlesboro
Ewing
Fraudulent mining promoters target Dawson stock
United States Consul McCook in Dawson British Columbia reports to the state department that fraudulent mining companies are being promoted there and that worthless stock is sold in the United States. Prospectuses promise references to prominent officials without authority and promoters pay unearned dividends to lure investors.
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Washington
United States
McCook
Dawson
British Columbia
State Department
Miss Stones Ransom Talks and Delays in Bulgaria
Reports from Sofia and Vienna say United States Consul Dickinson and a Missionary Society envoy met Prince Ferdinand as brigands extend the ransom payment by one month Miss Ellen Stone remains abducted The American board of missions says it will not pay a ransom and the State Department will handle delivery while urging strong action.
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Fialf
London
Sofia
Vienna
United States
Dickinson
Missionary Society
Miss Stone
Daily Telegraph
Prince Ferdinand
Boston
Ellen Stone
Messrs. Kidder, Peabody & Co
Expct
State Department
American Board of Missions
Mission Board
Washington
Rochester
N. Y
Graham Taylor
Chicago Theological Seminary
Nine men arrested for greasing rails in Scranton hills
Scranton authorities arrested nine men caught greasing rails on two steep grades in West Scranton. No striking workers were involved. The suspects were detained overnight and await a hearing.
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Scranton
Ex-Governor Jones Named U S District Judge in Alabama
President Roosevelt appoints Thomas G. Jones of Alabama, a longtime Democrat and former two term governor, to fill the mid and north Alabama district judge vacancy after Judge John Bruce’s death. Jones served as Gordon’s adjutant general in the Civil War and backed Palmer Buckner in 1896 as a gold Democrat. Booker T. Washington was noted as a supporter.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Thomas G. Jones
Alabama
United States
John Bruce
Jones
Gordon
Palmer
Buckner
Booker T. Washington
In Favor of Sampson and Maclay Attack on Schley
Col Robert M Thompson declares a story must reach the public. He says Maclay submitted proofs to officers including Admiral Sampson who initially approved but balked at the claim Schley is a coward. Sampson refused further involvement as his secretary added margin corrections, matching his handwriting.
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Sir Thomas
Sir Thomas Lipton
Erin
Columbia
New York Yacht Club
Maclauy
Schley
New York
Col
Robert M. Thompson
United States
Naval Academy Alumni Association
Maclay
Admiral Sampson
Caitiff
Sampson
Body of 6-Year-Old Found in Burlap Bag in New York
New York police investigate a ghastly murder after a six year old boy's body is found in a burlap bag on West Twenty second Street. Autopsy cites asphyxia and abdominal injuries with alcohol present. Suspects include Alonzo Watson Harry Trieder and William De Lyons as detectives pursue links to a rooming house.
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New York
West Twenty-second Street
Sidney Ryan
Albert
Ryan
Robinson
Alonzo Watson
Harry Trieder
William de Lyons
Moynahan
Trieder
de Lyons
Pittsburg Capital Seeks Electric St Petersburg Trolley
William A. Heydecker for Murray A. Verner of Pittsburgh presents a memorial to St Petersburg officials offering to take over the city surface traction and form a Russian backed company with 100 million roubles. The plan aims to convert 85 miles of horse cars to electric and extend service citywide. Verner and Sellers McKee seek a perpetual czar charter to power the switch, citing prior conversions in Rochester Buffalo Indianapolis Newark Orange and Norfolk and the Pittsburg & Birmingham line.
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St. Petersburg
William A. Heydecker
Murray A. Verner
Pittsburg
Czar
Verner
Sellers McKee
Messrs. Verner and
Five Alleged Counterfeiters Arrested in Detroit
Five men were arrested on counterfeiting charges for faking labels of a New York drug house and selling coal tar preparations under counterfeit labels. Police seized goods from two business locations including thousands of counterfeit labels and various coal tar products sold at half price. A chemical analysis of the seized staff will determine if the drugs are genuine or substitutes.
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Detroit
Mich
New York
Provisional canal treaty alleged to abrogate Clayton Bulwer pact
London reports a Washington correspondent claims a provisional canal treaty would abandon the Clayton Bulwer treaty, surrender disputed points without compensation, and reflects on Lord Salisbury and Lord Lansdowne. The Daily Chronicle notes English readers may be startled by the move.
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London
Washington
Daily Chronicle
Lord Salisbury
Lord Lansdowne
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Panhandle
Carbondale, Ill
Mr. Allen
Tennessee Feudists
New York City
Pittsburg Capital
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