First Landing of U S Troops in Occupied Cuba
Washington dispatch reports the first landing of United States soldiers in the present Cuban occupation. About 500 Fifth Infantry and 50 engineers set up camp at Camp Colombia with the cruiser Brooklyn bringing 400 men. General Funston establishes headquarters at Marianao. Waller reports to Funston as the force moves under the command of General J Franklin Bell, awaiting further arrivals. The Good Government League of Cubans and Americans forms to promote a stable government, while disarmament proceeds and talks of increased U S oversight surface. Governor Taft and Secretary Bacon expect to return home soon. Magoon to arrive and be introduced to the public in Havana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Oct. S
Cuba
Fifth
United States Infantry
Engineers
Camp Coombia
Brooklyn
Islidt
League
Taft
Bacon
Morrow
Charles IE
Magoon
Senor Caines
Aur
Millionaire Ranch Owner and Partners Granted New Hearing
Chauncey Deweya McBride and Clyde Wilson, listed as alleged murderers in the Berry family feud, will receive another hearing after the state supreme court granted a retrial ring. The case stems from violent Rawhide County tensions that drew wide attention in Topeka.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
Chaunceyewey
Bg Mcbride
Clyde Wilson
Woboys
Rebels Seize Documents in Monte Cristi Advance
Rebel general Jiean Jiminez and forces attacked Monte Cristi entering the Haytien consulate to seize archives but were forced to flee as government forces advanced. In the fighting general Rodrigues was captured and imprisoned. Frontier killings rise as Harti authorized Dominican troops to debark on Haytien soil. The Haytien cruiser Nord Alexis arrived to tour the city governor and assess the situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Waytien
Det
Jiean Jiminez
Jiminez
Monte Cristi
Haytien
Rodrigues
Harti
Nord Alexis
Paris Officials Enforce Sunday Rest Law
Interior Minister Clemenceau and Police Prefect Lepine announce the Sunday rest law will be observed and permits for certain establishments to reopen on Sunday until noon are withdrawn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Oct. S
Clemenceau
Lepine
Child Found Murdered Near Monessen in Field
Anna Kun pak, five years old, was found murdered in a field near Monessen with her throat cut and signs of rape. After an all night search, the body was discovered in ashes. a Negro was seen fleeing and authorities launched a manhunt. Church troubles in Spain in Valencea saw anti clerical protests with cavalry charges as police failed to hold back rioters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monessen
Anna Kunpak
Spain
Valencea
Panama transports sails to Havana with fifteenth cavalry
Newport News reports the army transport Panama carries two squadrons headquarters and band of the fifteenth cavalry for Cuba. Assistant Paymaster General Charles T. Whipple departed aboard with 2700 dollars for use in supplying troops in Cuba.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport News
Fifteenth Cavalry
Panama
Havana
Charles T. Whipple
Cuba
Government measures to curb corn hoarding in Mexico
In Mexico City on October 8 authorities outlined steps to prevent corn hoarding amid expected price rises. Officials also indicated a possible temporary removal of the duty on foreign corn to stabilize supplies and prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of
Mexico
Woman kills nine foot rattler with dog aid
At her home in Fast Alton Mrs. William Stoddard killed a rattlesnake nine feet long with ten rattles and a button after a fierce fight aided by her dog.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alton, TL
Fast Alton
William Stoddard
Motor Car Collision In Paris Injures Premier Rouvier’s Horse
A motor car in Paris collided with the carriage of ex Premier Rouvier in the Bois de Boulogne. Rouvier escaped injury but his horse was killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Rouvier
Bois de Boulonge
M. Rouvier
Davis manslaughter case moved to Danville jury
The Wil J. Davis manslaughter case over the Iroquois Theater fire is set for January 21, 1907, in Danville Vermilion County. The case moves from Cook County after a lengthy prejudice dispute, with a jury of farmers to hear the trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Wil J. Davis
Danville
Vermilion County
Cook County
Aged Man Fatally Hurt in Baraboo Streetcar Crash
In Baraboo Wisconsin on October 8 John Bailey aged 85 was struck by a fast passenger train as he crossed a railroad track. His wagon was hurled about fifty feet and he died from the injuries. A quip about fooling a street car conductor appears in the Chicago Tribune clipping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baraboo
Wis
John Bailey
Bailey
Chicago Tribune
Insurgents and Mounted Cuban Regulars Clash in Cuba
The piece describes Cuban insurgents with machetes and mounted regulars armed with up to date rifles. It notes the visual similarity between insurgents and regulars and recalls Tomas Estrada Palma cutting army pay before becoming president, with recent pay raises for troops.
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Antilles
Tomas Estrada Palma
Cuba
United States
Mob Rule In Mobile As Lynching Follows Roadside Shootings
Mob hangs two Black men in a Mobile area after abducting prisoners from a Birmingham to Mobile transport. Masked Mobile business leaders justify mob action saying trials in Mobile would trigger bloodshed and that the hanging was the best method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Mob Storms Jail After Double Shooting in Macon
In Macon Georgia at the fair grounds Charles Adams and William Solomon were shot by a negro named Fews while escorting two women. The attacker was wounded but arrested and moved to Atlanta as a mob gathered and rioted at the jail and barracks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
Charles Adams
William Solomon
Te Fair Grounds
Adams
Solomon
Qo Negro
Fews
Atlanta
Lynching of a Negro in Argenta Arkansas
In Argenta a mob of several hundred armed men dynamited the undertaker shop where Garret and Charley Colum hid after a shooting that killed John Lindsey and wounded his son Milton Lindsey. The brothers fled as the crowd hunted them through Little Rock and across the Arkansas river.
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Little Rock
Ark
Argenta
Robert Colum
Arkansas River
John Lindsey
Colum
Milton Lindsey
Garret
Charley Colum
Colum Brothers
Baseball Scores From Saturday and Sunday Leagues
Scores list results from league play in Pittsburgh Cincinnati St Louis and Chicago with both American and National games. Notable outcomes include New York 5 Boston 4 and Detroit 3 St Louis 7. The summary ends with a stray remark about chop suey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Pittshburo
Brooklyn
New York
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Boston
Detroit
Cleveland
Mutinous Chinese Crew On British Ship At Tarragona
Ten Chinese sailors on the British steamer BK O Saltmarsh at Tarragona wharf rioted demanding chop suey. They fought officers and swarmed the sides, were clubbed into submission, rearmed, and finally overpowered with the help of workmen, then irons applied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pensacola
Fla
BK. O. Saltmarsh
Tarragona
Market Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices and Receipts
Chicago markets show mixed livestock activity with hogs and cattle largely lower and sheep weak. Receipts for the past week around 106649 hogs and 60000 cattle plus 50000 sheep. prices range with light hogs at 6.20 6.65, mixed packers 6.20 6.75, heavy hogs 6.60 6.75, cattle 3.50 4.40 for westerns and natives 2.90 5.35, sheep 4.80 7.35, and western lambs 5.60 7.30 amid general declines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
HUSS PARTIES DEFINED AND THE SALIENT PRINCIPLES
The congress of the Constitutional Democrats met with 971 delegates from 43 provinces and 4 territories. Prince Dolgoroukos was elected president with vice presidents Chisniakes and Shak hovekl, as Ivan Petrunkevitch assailed Black Hundred murderers and urged caution on agrarian reform. The Viborg manifesto earned formal approval but was deemed inopportune. Dos soroukolY praised the assembly as a decisive constitutional act and Naboukoff warned the government cannot be genuinely constitutional. The session prepared an electoral platform and adjourned for the day.
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Helsingfors
Det
Congress of the Constitutional Democcate
Paul Dolgoroukos
M. Chisniakes
Prince Shakhovekl
Ivan Petrunkevitch
Hertzenstein
Pinland
Black Hundred
Viborg
Pees
Prince Dossoroukoly
M. Naboukoff
St. Petersburg
Russian parties defined in St. Petersburg election lines
The Peaceful Regenerationists, between Octoberists and Constitutional Democrats, gain ground as they push a bicameral legislature with universal male suffrage for the lower house and zemstvo elected upper house. They demand budgetary control, progressive taxation, tariff reductions, and land reforms including crown lands and limited estates with compulsory expropriation only when necessary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Constitutional Democrats
Helsingfors
Council of the Empire
Octoberists
Party of Regeneration
Octoberist
Regenerationists
Zemstrog
Hart sells interests in The Daily Nonpareil to Bender
Ernest E. Hart of Council Bluffs sells his entire interest in the New Nonpareil company publishers of The Daily Nonpareil to Victor B. Bender a longtime secretary manager and principal stockholder of the firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs, Ia
Ernest E. Hart
Council Bluffs
Lowa
New Nonpareil Company
Daily
Nonpareil
Victor Bb. Bender
Miaihager
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WA. S
Charles KE. Magoon
Jorning
Frederick Funston
Marinao
W.T. Waller
San Domingo
Houvier
Will J. Davis
Mobrule
Arkansas
Ala
Eva May Jowler
Lil- Nan May Saveil
Ruth Sossaman
Holt Road
Prichard
Robinson
Thompson
Birmingham
Mount Vernon
Sheriff Powers
Charles Green
Creole
Georgia
Negro
Suarles Comiskey
Grain Market
HUSS
Indorsed
Iowa
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