Senate Passes Panama Canal Bill With Anti Trust Guard
The Senate approved the Panama canal measure by 47 to 16 and added amendments on interstate commerce and anti trust law. Reed’s amendment bans any ship owned by an anti trust violator from passing through the canal. Bourne’s gives ICC power to compel disposal of holdings. The bill includes free tolls for American ships despite British protest.
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Washington
Senate
Smith
Georgia
House
Reed
Misgouri
Bourne
Panama Canal
Interstate Commerce Commission
Great Britain
Armistice Sought in Nicaragua Crisis After Court Mission
Reports say a cease fire may be declared in the Nicaraguan revolution following a commission from the Central American court of justice and an offer from Salvadoran officials. President Diaz accepts mediation. rebels show peace interest. American guards protect foreign residents in Managua.
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San Salvadore
Central American Court of Justice
Cartago
Diaz
Managua
Cornito
Many Hurt in Wreck on Mobile & Ohio Train
A north bound Mobile & Ohio passenger train No. 2 wrecked near the Moffat coal mine between Percy and Sparta due to a broken rail. The new steel coaches were badly damaged and many passengers injured, with several seriously hurt as physicians rushed to the scene and the wounded were taken to Sparta for care.
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Sparta
Ill
Mobile & Ohio
Percy
Moffat
Illinois Southern Railroad Company
Mobile & Ohip
St. Louis
Man Makes Canary Birds in Odd Vagrancy Case
Theodore Kenny sixty homeless faced Judge Freike on vagrancy charges in Cincinnati for catching sparrows bleaching them with hydrogen peroxide and selling them as canaries. He was fined $50 and costs.
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Cincinnati
Theodore Kenny
Battleship Nebraska Hits Uncharted Shoal Near Newport
Washington reports Nebraska ran on a shoal four miles west of Point Judith. Nebraska may be put out of commission and drydocked in Boston while Connecticut suffers a starboard crank shaft break and is sent to Philadelphia for repairs. Admiral Osterhaus notes damage and possible fleet reassignment.
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Washington
Nebraska
Newport
R. I
Boston Navy Yard
Connecticut
Philadelphia
Osterhaus
Navy Department
Point Judith
L. I
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Mississippi
Aldermen Taken on Graft Charges in Detroit
Prosecutor announces about twenty aldermen under arrest on conspiracy to defraud the city. Sixteen arrests have been made including seven of the earlier group and ten new defendants led by William Koenig and Hindle. New evidence ties years of city administration to graft. detectives deployed nationwide.
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Detroit
Mich
Shepherds
Andrew J. Walsh
Louis Brozo
Louis KE. Towey
Frank J. Mason
Thomas E. Glinnan
Martin J. Ostrowski
David Rosenthal
William H. C. Hindle
William Koenig
George BE. Elis
Thomas Lynch
Patrick O'Brien
Joseph Merritt
William Zoeller
Richard Watson
Stephen D. Skraycki
Willian J. Burns
Common Council
Geologist to Aid Canal Work At Panama
Prof. James F. Kemp of Columbia University has gone to the Isthmus of Panama at the canal commission’s invitation to advise engineers on the Culebra cut slides. He aims to help overcome rock and earth slides hindering progress.
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New York
James F. Kemp
Department of Geology
Columbia University
Panama
Canal Commission
Culebra
China Backs Rockefeller Shipping Policy Change
The Canton foreign affairs commissioner Dr P H Loo says foreign merchandise becomes Chinese property once delivered to Chinese consignees under Standard Oil rules. In Dayton two Greek columns will be built between Dayton and Xenia as a Wright memorial to mark the first ascent of a powered heavier than air aircraft carrying a man.
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Canton
China
Standard Oil Company of
New York
Dayton
Sims Station
Xenia
Wright
Wright Memorial Commission
Aviator's Hydroplane Crashes Into Fishing Boat
Andre Beaumont arrived from Havre toward London in a hydro aeroplane but the craft struck a fishing boat off Boulogne damaging a wing and forcing an abortive continuation of the flight.
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Boulogne
France
Andre Beaumont
Havre
London
Firemen Risked Lives to Close Blazing Tank Car Valve
In St. Paul Minnesota on August 10 Paul Olson, a Great Northern employee, crawled through seething flames to reach and close a valve on a burning tank car, probably fatally burned. Two other firemen followed, braving explosion danger to shut the valve as water streams doused the blaze.
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St. Paul
Minn
Paul Olson
Roosevelt is greeted by New York crowd on arrival
Mrs Taft delays Lake Shore train in Cleveland for Col Theodore Roosevelt bound for Oyster Bay. Roosevelt and party arrive in New York from Chicago on the Twentieth Century Limited and head to his editorial office amid cheering.
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Cleveland
Lake Shore
New York
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
William H. ‘Taft
Cincinnati
Chicago
Twentieth Century Limited
Kaiser Visits Mine Disaster Victims In Germany
Emperor William and Prince Henry of Prussia visited Gerthe coal mine disaster survivors in Bochum. He expressed condolence to families as 109 bodies were recovered and eight men remained missing, with two more accidents deaths among the injured.
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Bochum
Germany
Emperor William
Prince Henry
Prussia
Gerthe
Pass Car Strike Crisis Ends in Truce Until August 14
Chicago Aug 1 The danger of a streetcar strike in Chicago subsided as union officials and traction company leaders agreed to a truce through August 14. Presidents Roach and Busby will travel east to meet with the corporations' financial chiefs. Workers seek higher wages.
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Chicago
Roach
Busby
Taft vetoes wool tariff bill as Congress weighs steel and sugar action
President Taft again vetoed a wool tariff revision under the Payne Aldrich law and urged Congress to pass a measure reducing duties without harming the industry. He warned that the low rates would injure home wool production and employment. House passage over the veto was predicted, but Senate fate remained doubtful.
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Washington
Taft
House
Senate
Congress
United States
Tariff Board
White House
Mr. Taft
Mock Warfare Rages as 10 000 Troops Mobilize North
Ten thousand troops encamped in this region rush to arms after telegraph word of a northern invasion. Aeroplanes observe, cavalry and scouts move out, and camps prepare for conflict under Gen Tasker Bliss. Blues defend New York as Reds seek to cut water supply near the reservoir.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Aum
New York
Tasker H. Bliss
United States
Great Reservoir
Moris starts bedbug farm in Newton New Jersey
Leslie Mor ris has started a bedbug farm in Newton New Jersey and offers a generous price for healthy specimens. He breeds them for shipment to Virginia where bedbugs are used as agents to combat another pest that harms fruit trees.
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Newton
N. J
Leslie Morris
Virginia
Mexican raiders cross border into Texas near Sierra Blanca
El Paso reports Mexican bandits crossed the boundary raiding American ranches near Sierra Blanca. Sheriff notes the United States troops moving toward the raiding area as Col. EB Steever dispatches troopers from Port Blighs to patrol the border on horseback.
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el Paso
Tex
Texas
Sierra Blanca
Sherif
United
EB. Z Steever
Third Cavalry
Port Bligs
Darrow Testimony in McNamara Case Ends as Bordwell Denies Involvement
Los Angeles August 20 Judge Bordwell ends Darrow trial testimony with opposition plans to extend. Lincoln Steffens testified he told Bordwell of negotiations for the McNamara pleas and Bordwell denied discussing the matter with Steffens. The House passes pension bill for Admiral Sebley widow at $100 monthly after inter chamber talks.
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Bordwell
McNamara
Lincoln Steffens
Los Angeles
Cal
Darrow
Areemnass Seegin
James B. McNamara
Steffens
Bardwell
Fatty
McNamar
Stone
House
Sonley
Washington
Admiral Sebley
Senate
Quake Rocks Turkey Capital
A severe earthquake in Constantinople lasting about ten seconds drove residents into the streets. Although many houses were violently shaken, reported damage appears small.
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Turkey
Constantinople
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Europe
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Kemp
Rockefeller
Standard Oil
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Wright Memorial
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T. R
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Traction
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Stanley Committee
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