Roosevelt's Letter on Imperialism and Sound Money
Theodore Roosevelt argues for McKinley's Philippines policy and a gold standard, denounces the Kansas City platform, and defends expansion as prudent and constitutional. He recounts American territorial growth from Louisiana to Alaska, Florida, Texas, and Hawaii, advocating merit-based administration in newly acquired lands and self-government only as appropriate for inhabitants.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Edward O. Wolcott
Presen
United States
McKinley
Kansas City
Mechinley ‘Nanks
Congress
Liberty Hall
Natchez
Detroit
Jefferson
Louisiana Territory
Louisiana
Arkansas
Missouri
Iowa
Minnesota
Kansas
Nebraska
North
South Dakota
Idaho
Montana
Colorado
Utah
Philippines
Mcisinley
Ohio
Illinois
Washington
Adams
Louisiana Purchase
Florida
Andrew Jackson
Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Spain
Jackson
Texas
California
New Mexico
Arizona
Nevada
Gadsden
Alaska
Russia
Hawaii
Harrison
Oaw
fhiaWali Nes
America
Wayne
Santa Anna
Maxuimillian
Mexico
Soain
Porto Rico
Cuba
Dakotas
Wyoming
Luzon
Sitting Bull
Aguinaldo
Wood
Allen
Taft
United States Army
Grant
Stockbridge
Army
Navy
Theodore Roosevelt
Galveston after the storm faces immense losses and recovery
Reports from Galveston recount a devastation estimate of 4,000 to 5,000 deaths and up to 20 million dollars in property damage. Martial law, looting suppression, and relief efforts unfold as officials coordinate evacuation and sanitation while a vast recovery of victims continues.
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Chicago
R. G. Lowe
Galveston News
Galveston
Dallas
Tex
W. H. McGrath
Dallas Electric Co
Adjt
Scurry
Association Press
Jones
Associated Press
John Sealy
W. A. McVitie
Thomas
United States
Grant
Texas City
Virginia Point
Marshal Grant
Steamboat Inspectors Report Rise in Vessel Tonnage
Washington report shows 9 253 vessels inspected and certificated for year ending June 30 1909 with total tonnage 4 507 648 up from 8 707 vessels and 3 963 371 tons in 1899. Accidents totaled 33 and lives lost 206 marking improvements in safety.
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Washington
Dumont
Steamboat Inspection Service
Fire at Cincinnati Salvation Army Nursery Kills Six
An old four story tenement at 403 East Front Street in Cincinnati burned last evening. Six people died from suffocation while others were seriously injured as rescue efforts unfolded. The building housed a Salvation Army nursery run by Star Captains Erickson, Anderson and McKenzie. Twenty people were in the nursery. eight escaped. The dead include James Harkins and his children Rhoda, Herbert, Myrtle, Maggie, Edward, and others. property loss was listed at 1504 dollars.
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Cincinnati
East Front Street
Salvation Army
River Front
Spencer House
Lodge
John Harkins
Erickson, Anderson and McKenzie
James Harkins
Herbert Harkins
Rhoda Harkins
Myrtle Ferrell
Maggie Williams
Edward Mullen
Elizabeth Erickson
New York
Bertha Anderson
Chicago
Iron Workers Reject 25 Percent Wage Cut at Danville Plant
Bloomsburg Pa Sept 18 All efforts to settle wage disputes failed The Reading Iron Co Danville plant closed after 600 workers refused to work as a 25 cut took effect The firm says iron prices fail to cover production costs Puddlers at American Car and Foundry Co also strike over new attendance and medical certificate rules about 100 walk out Indefinite stoppage likely if no settlement occurs.
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Danville
Pas
Bloomsburg
Reading Iron Co
American Car and Foundry Co
How Howard Identified as the Goebel Shooter
In Frankfort Kentucky on September 18 witnesses Bowman Gaines and James Stubblefield testified in James Howard's trial for the Goebel assassination. Gaines identified Howard as the man who jumped the fence after the shooting and described a mustached man followed by a tall slender companion. Stubblefield, a one legged one armed ex deputy sheriff, testified Howard boasted that he fired the fatal shot.
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Frankfort
James Howard
William Goebel
Bowman Gaines
James Stubblefield
Howard
State House
Gaines
Clay County
Stubblefield
Goebel
Explosion at Tung Chow Wounds and Deaths Among British Forces
London reports a party at Tung Chow destroying gunpowder was blown up. Eleven Welsh Fusiliers were wounded, two British Indian soldiers were killed, thirteen British Indian soldiers injured, and Captain Hill along with eleven British Chinese infantry soldiers sustained wounds.
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London
Taku
Tung Chow
Hill
Ten Thousand are Homeless in Storm Aftermath
Cyrus Field Adams, publisher of the Appeal and president of the National Afro American Press association, received a letter from W J Noble of the Galveston Times reporting about 1 500 Afro Americans dead and 16 000 homeless after the storm. The note urges aid and calls on the Afro American press to mobilize clubs and fundraising for relief.
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Chicago
Cyrus Field Adams
The
Appeal
National Afro-American Press Association
W. J. Noble
Galveston Times
Adams
Miners Strike Expands Across Pennsylvania Anthracite
United Mine Workers report 112000 members on strike across districts in the anthracite region. In District No 1 72,000 out, District No 2 about 30,000, District No 3 around 10,000. Hazleton and surrounding towns see large crowds as arbitration proposals arise and union leaders pledge firm action.
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Hazleton
Pennsylvania
No. 3
Lehigh Coal Co
United Mine Workers
South Side
Coleraine
Beaver Meadow
Carson’s
Markle
Hazel
Mitchell
B. Markle & Co
John Markle
Archbishop Ryan
Philadelphia
Six Negroes Drowned in Savannah Ferry Accident
Six laborers for the Seaboard Air Line drowned in Savannah after a small boat swamped in mid stream when a steamer passed. They had refused to wait twenty minutes for the ferry.
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Savannah
Seaboard Air Line
Indian outbreak threatens in San Miguel County
Dispatch to Gov. Thomas from Cedar, Colorado notes Ute Indians from Navajo Springs agency in Ute mountains are stealing range horses despite protests. Stockmen threaten to shoot, and chiefs warn they will make war on women and children.
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Denver
Col
San Miguel County
Thomas
Cedar
Navajo Springs Agency
Ute Mountains
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Roosevelts
Republican Party
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