Disastrous Electric Storms Ravage Pennsylvania
Pittsburg and western Pennsylvania suffered a severe series of storms and cloudbursts. Two people drowned including Margaret Fowler, nine, as floodwaters hit Brownstown. The Great Water Power Dam threatened collapse raising alarms across Tylerstown and Warren County while rail lines and roads were washed away and air service halted.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
William Depee
Washington, Pa
Wolftown Road
John Willams
Raccoon Creek
Depee
C. R. Fowler
Brownstown
Scottdale
Fowler
Margaret
Baltimore & Ohio
Fighty Four
Washington
Haltimore
Ohio
Tylerstown
House OKs naval bill authorizing battleship and support ships
The House approved the conference report on the naval appropriation bill by 161 to 50, sending it to President Taft. The measure authorizes one battleship plus submarines, colliers, and auxiliary vessels, with 13 opposition voting present. Taft held talks with A Mitchell Innes about the Panama Canal bill amid ongoing protests and discussions.
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Bill
Taft
Mitchell Innes
Panama Canal
Washington
House
Congress
Senate Committee On
West Virginia
Senate
Secundino Romero
United States
New Mexico
Romero
Japan to Expand Army in Korea by Two Divisions
Japanese military authorities approve an increase of two army divisions in Korea. The expansion will begin next year and be completed by 1918, at an estimated cost of about 13 million dollars.
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Korea
Tokyo
Port Arthur dockers seek higher wages in CN trucker strike
Winnipeg report states Canadian Northern railway truckers at Port Arthur demand 27 cents per hour raise as they operate on docks and in freight sheds. The dispute centers on wage increases and labor conditions affecting freight handling.
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Winnipeg
Man
Canadian Northern Railway
Port Arthur
General Booth Dead Aged Christian Warrior Dies at 84
London reports the death of General William Booth founder and commander of the Salvation Army aged eighty four after a period of illness since an unsuccessful cataract operation in May. Born April 10 1848 in Nottingham he began ministry in 1865 and led the movement to 8 972 corps in 646 territories with about 21 208 officers and staff. The Salvation Army runs barracks beds and cheap meals and has fed and housed millions. General Booth made tours to the United States and dispatched messages to Americans on various occasions.
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London
William Booth
Salvation Army
Nottingham
Eng
Methodist New Connection Shurch
Booth
United States
Allen fugitives found in Carroll county mountains
Bristol Aug 21 reports say Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards, Allen gang fugitives, were not en route to the Klondyke but found in the Carroll county mountains by two detectives aided by an offended confidant. The searchforce was too small to close on them and the pair escaped into the Blue Ridge ravines.
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Bristol
Tenn
Gontrary
Sidna Allen
Wesley Edwards
Allen
Washington
Klondyke
Hillsville
Carroll County
Bidna Allen
Blue Ridge
Cuban murders wife. Gonzales asks earlier execution date
Andrew Gon gales a Cuban condemned for murdering his wife by cutting her throat asks the district authorities to move his execution up from September 15. He says he would prefer death to enduring the current Washington jail heat. Officials are unlikely to grant the request.
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Washington
Andrew Gongales
Barred Oil Cash in 1904
Oyster Bay Aug 20 Col Roose velt issued a statement in reply to an interview quoting Senator Penrose that he believed a $25,000 check from Standard Oil was used by the Republican national committee in 1904. The colonel said he wrote to George B Cortelyou in 1904 urging that no campaign contribution from Standard Oil be received and that any such gift, if given, was without his knowledge and contrary to his prohibition.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Senator Penrose
Pennsylvania
Standard Oil Company
Republican National Committee
George B. Cortelyou
Republican National
Taft Sends Help to Cincinnati German Theater Company
Prof. O. E. B. Schmid received a letter from President Taft praising the Cincinnati German Theater and enclosing a check for the fund to wipe out last season’s deficiency. Taft said he shared public appreciation and offered encouragement.
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Cincinna
O. EB. Schmid
Cincinnati German Theater Company
William H. Taft
Sehmid
U. S. Woman Found Dead in England Under Mysterious Circumstances
Mary Enright, an American, died in a Folkestone hospital after being found on a beach unconscious and possibly poisoned. Her clothing and jewelry suggested she was well off as authorities investigate suspected suicide. In Hongkong a Chinese pirate group seized $1,000 and arms near British territory, fatally wounding a sergeant and two soldiers who confronted them.
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Folkestone
Eng
Mary Enright
Hongkong
China
Here
Counsel for Stoesel murdered in Ufa incident
Ali 8 Syrtlanoff, counsel for General Stoesel in the Port Arthur surrender court martial, was killed in the house of General Sheikh Ali at Ufa European Russia by the sheikh's relatives. The motive remains unknown.
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St. Petersburg
Ali 8
Syrtlanoff
General Stoessel
Port Arthur
Sheikh Ali
Ufa
European
Russia
Gift Of 212-Pound Clam Shell To Speaker Clark
Speaker Clark ponders a gift from Representative Olmstead of Pennsylvania. The 212 pound lower half of a giant clam shell from the Philippines was presented to him as a curios token.
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Clark
Washington
Olmstead
Pennsylvania
Philippines
Five Die and Fifteen Injured in Quebec Labor Camp Incident
Five men are dead two dying and fifteen seriously injured after a drunken riot among Russian laborers at a Quebec construction camp of the Southern Counties railway. An inquiry is under way as authorities probe the weed alcohol fueled spree.
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Ottawa
Unit
Southern Counties Railway
Quebec
Yuan Shih Kai Faces Assembly Fire Over Martial Law
In Peking on August 21 President Yuan Shih Kai incurred severe censure in the national assembly for his martial law actions against General Chang and other military leaders deemed to threaten the government. Premier Lu Cheng Hsiang and Vice President Li Yuen Hung were also attacked as the chamber debated the crisis. Concurrent dispatches from San Francisco report Dr Sun Yat Sen alive, denying rumors of his assassination.
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Peking
China
Yuan Shih Kai
National Assembly
Chang
Yuan
Lu Cheng Hsiang
Li Yuen Hung
Yuan Shih Kas
Napoleon
Due da’ Enghien
Kenyons Brother Surrenders in Forgery Case
FP A Kenyon brother of United States Senator Kenyon surrendered in Sioux City Iowa on August 21 amid forgery charges connected to a land and gravel company local authorities reported.
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Land and Gravel Company
Sioux City
A. Kenyon
United States
Kenyon
Rescue mission sails to Tomini mining camp siege
President Madero dispatches a forty man expedition from Mazatlan to Tomini in Durango to aid about twenty Americans and English mining personnel besieged by rebels for over two weeks. Mrs Underwood and Ernest remain at the camp as smuggling attempts reach U.S. officials.
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Juarez, Mex
Madero
Tominili
Mazatian
J. B. Underwood
San Antonio
Tex
Colquitt
Texas
Mexico
Knox
Underwood
Colqukt
United States
Tom*mili
Nebraska Rep Norris Seeks Africa Kill Case Details
Representative Norris of Nebraska introduced a resolution asking the president to deliver all information on James Wood Rogers, a Californian killed in Central Africa during a hunt by British soldiers ordered to kill or capture him. The measure goes to the foreign affairs committee.
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Washington
Norris
Nebraska
House
James Wood Rogers
Foreign Affairs Committee
Lunch counter car joins railroad service
The first lunch counter car in American railroading was attached to trains running from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Built for travelers of moderate means, the car runs the length of one side with stools at the counter and an aisle opposite. Meals will be served at all hours and may be followed by more cars if successful.
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San Francisco
Los Angeles
Sun Oil works tank explosion kills man in Toledo
A Sun Oil Company facility at the Toledo city limits exploded killing Prank Bolli quette, 45, and injuring three others. Investigators reported a gasoline tank blast caused extensive damage to the plant and nearby areas.
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Toledo
Ohio
Bolliquette
Sun Ol
City Limite
Grand jury indicts Becker and seven in Rosenthal murder case
A blanket first degree murder indictment names Police Lieutenant Charles Becker and six gunmen plus two associates in Rosenthal’s killing. Witnesses include Schepps, Sam Schepps, and “Big Jack” Zelig as the canvas for the district attorney’s case, with others examined before the bill was drawn.
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New York
Charles Becker
Herman Rosenthal
Lefty Louie
Whitey” Lewis
Dago Frank
Gyp
Jack Sullivan
Bee
William Shapiro
Lefty
Louie
Gyp the
Sam
Jack Rose
Bridgie
Webber
Harry Vallon
Louis Libby
Sam Schepps
Yel
Schepps
Bernard Sandlers
Par Rockaway
Casassa
Re ‘O
Becker
Attornney
Lieut
Rosenthal
Dora Gilbert
Rose
Sehepost
Big Jack” Zelig
Zelig
Rosels
Mosquitoes Cause Death in Wisconsin Town
A wet summer turns mosquitos into a terror in Wisconsin. In Grand Rapids an 82 year old man named Fred Geise disappeared and was found unable to see due to mosquito bites and died an hour later from the insect bites.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Grand R Wis
Fred Geise
Sheldon Taft Treasurer of the Republican campaign
Washington August 21 George Sheldon former treasurer of the Republican national committee in 1908 has been chosen as treasurer for the present campaign Ames D Hilles chairman announced the appointment from the Republican committee headquarters.
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Washington
George Sheldon
Republican National Committee
Ames D. Hilles
May Use Voting Machines in Madison Areas
Madison Wisconsin August 21 optional for cities to use voting machines in upcoming elections and the decision rests with local authorities.
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Madison
Wis
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