United States Marines Ordered to Santo Domingo
Acting Secretary Winthrop announced 750 U S Marines will be sent to Santo Domingo to guard customs houses during the revolution. They will sail from Philadelphia on the transport Prairie, likely under Col. F J Moses with Brig. Gen. McIntyre and W T Doyle aboard. A gunboat Wheeling will supply marines on arrival as needed.
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Wilmington
Del
Taft
New York
Beekman Winthrop
United States
Santo Domingo
Republic
Philadelphia
F. J. Moses
McIntyre
Bureau of Insular Affairs
W. T. F. Doyle
Winthrop
Wheeling
Washington
Dominican
Petrel
Florida
San Domingo
Boston
Norfolk
Atlantic Coast
Taft urges publicity reform to keep money in circulation
President Taft told the American Association of Commercial Executives in Washington that government focus tends to chase headlines. He urged a banking system that invites money to circulate rather than piling in safes and vaults. He spoke before heading to New York.
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Washington
Congress
Taft
American Association of Commercial Executives
White House
New York
Mr. Taft
Levee Funding Drive Opens at Interstate Association Session
Delegates to the Interstate Levees Association began a three day session in Memphis to push for more liberal federal contributions for river levee construction. Planters affected by Mississippi overflow, members of Congress and river commissions join state and levee board officials. Theodore Roosevelt is slated to address the convention on Thursday.
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Memphis
Tenn
Congress
Mississippi River Commission
Levee Board
Theodore Roosevelt
Chicago Train Wreck Involving Express and Passenger Train
Six persons were seriously hurt when a Chicago express on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad crashed into the rear of a standing passenger train at Benwood junction. Injured passengers were taken to North Wheeling hospital. Names include Carl and Claude Coffman of Fairmont West Virginia George Duncan of Woodstock Virginia John Modi of Mannington Ward Charles Foster of Bellaire Virginia.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Chicago Express
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Benwood Junction
North Wheeling
Carl and
Claude Coffman
Fairmont
George Duncan
Woodstock
John Modi
Mannington
Charles Foster
Bellaire
Border Is Menaced by Rebel Forces Along the U S Mexico Line
Washington reports from General Steever indicate Mexican rebels under Generals Orozco and Melendez near the border. Cavalry has orders to station between Hot Springs and Pilares to deter depredations as a continuous patrol runs 30 miles below Ojinaga. Jose Cordova, Orozco ally, was arrested in El Paso after release at Marfa on neutrality charges. extradition requests cite murder and a statutory offense.
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Washington
War Department
Steever
Paso
Orozco
Melendez
Hot Springs
United States
Long's Ranch
Delrio
Piedras
Hagle Pass
Pilares
Warner
Ojinaga
el Paso
Tex
Jose Cordova
Marfa
Pascual Orozco, Sr
Lecal
Liorente
Poison squad formed at Hahnemann Medical College
Philadelphia opening of the school year sees Dr. Edwin Nesbit organize a poison squad from undergraduates. Volunteers on restricted diets receive minimum doses of various poisons to study effects on the human system under physician supervision.
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Philadelphia
Hahnemann Medical College
Edwin Nesbit
Bandits Slay 2 Deputies in Arizona Ambush
Greenlee County deputy sheriffs Albert Munguia and Tom Campbell were killed and Deputy Sheriff Dutch Keppell wounded in a clash at Eagle Creek with a Mexican band suspected of cattle rustling. Thirty armed men have gone to the scene to round up the suspects.
Roosevelt narrowly escapes grand stand collapse in Oklahoma
Tulsa report recounts Colonel Roosevelt speaking as the grand stand collapsed injuring no one seriously. He helped fallen veterans, calmed the crowd, and reiterated a all inclusive progressive platform. He heads next to Arkansas en route to New York arriving a day late due to schedule changes.
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Tulsa
Okla
Roosevelt
South
Progressive Party
Arkansas
Chandler
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
New York
North Carolina
Tennessee
Chattanooga
Knoxville
Miners Fire On Troops At Cabin Creek Coal Tipple
In Charleston on September 25 members of Company H under Capt Jr C McMillan came under heavy fire while guarding a coal tipple at Dry Branch in the Cabin Creek district. Military reinforcements were sent to Dry Branch and nearby points.
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Charleston
W. Va
Jr. C. McMillan
Dry Branch
Cabin Creek
Swell Fund for Irish Home Rule in Philadelphia
A mass meeting under the United Irish League of America raised 21357.95 dollars to support Ireland's home rule. MP William H. K. Redmond and English figures Sir George Croydon Marks and Sir George MacAlpine predicted home rule would be achieved before the league's 1914 gathering.
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Philadelphia
Ireland
United Irish League of America
William H. K. Redmond
George Croydon Marks
George MacAlpine
League
Astor Kindred Recluse Will Names Charity Across Estate
Henry Beekman Armstrong of the Astor circle died at Red Hook and left an estate valued at 250000 dollars entirely to charity. He had lived as a recluse for years, due to a romance in youth that ended his social life. A separate item notes horses dying from a disease in Wildwood New Jersey as it spreads from Dias Creek.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Henry Beekman Armstrong
Astor
Red Hook
Armstrong
New Jersey
Wildwood
N. J
West
Dias Creek
Parole Granted After Daughter’s Appeal For Detroit Father
August Serafinski, serving 1.5 to 10 years for assault, is released on parole by Governor Osborn. The ten year old daughter’s appeal described a destitute family facing a hard winter and needing the father’s aid.
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Lansing
Mich
Serafinski
Detroit
Osborn
Sarafinski
Hold Up Men Real Rough In Hudson Front
A priest a policeman and two sailors were injured in a violent clash with three hold-up men along the Hudson river waterfront as the sailors returned to their boat the Morgan Hner Namur. Army Drunks Must Pay. Officers and enlisted men absent from duty due to disability from drunkenness or dissipation will forfeit pay under the army appropriation bill passed last session of Congress.
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New York
Hudson River
Washington
Army
Bieberstein Dies After Short Illness In Germany
Baron Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein, Germanys ambassador to London since May, dies in Radenweller Germany. His death stains hopes for improved English German relations and harmonizing imperial policy amid a tense international climate. The diplomat had sought health treatment before sudden collapse.
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Radenweller
Germany
Baron Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein
Bismarck
William
London
Europe
Marschall von Bibberstein
Mrs Gray Is Arraigned in federal records case
Mrs. Helen Pierce Gray of St. Paul, an investigator of Crow Indian affairs, was arraigned before a United States commissioner on charges of concealing public records. Her trial was postponed for a day. The allotment roll of the Crow tribe was alleged to have been taken and later found in the Department of Justice after her arrest.
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Washington
Helen Pierce Gray
St. Paul
Crow Indian Affairs
United States
Yuan Protests Invasion Tactics Across Asia
President Yuan Shikai drafts protests against English invasion of Tibet and against Russian revolutionary agitation in Mongolia. Messages will be sent to London and St Petersburg outlining Chinese objections and policy stance.
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Peking
Thibet
Mongolia
Yuan Sh Kai
London
St. Petersburg
Hydrophobia Fears Targeted by Prof Henry Albert Plan
At the International College of Hygiene and Demography Prof Henry Albert of Iowa University proposes a system to drive hydrophobia from North America, citing success in Britain Norway Sweden and Denmark. He urges licensing dogs and strict control to reduce rabies bites, noting New York led states with 699 cases last year.
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Porto Rico
Henry L. Coit
Manchester
Henry Albert
Iowa University
North American
Great Britain
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Albert
United States
Mississippi River
New York
Georgia
Obie
South Carolina
Sheriff Ready for Mob in Grand Island
A mob of about 200 men gathered near the county jail in Grand Island Nebraska threatening to lynch G W Lytle who was arrested on charges of attempting to attack a nine year old girl Sheriff Siever and deputies kept watch and expressed confidence in defending the new jail.
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Grand Island
Neb
G. W. Lytle
Siever
Slever
Darrow Bribery Trial Set for October in Los Angeles
Acting Governor Wallace appoints Judge Will M. Conley of Madera to preside over the second Darrow bribery trial. The proceedings are scheduled to begin October 21 in Los Angeles.
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Sacramento
Cal
Wallace
Ww. M. Conley
Madera
Clarence
Darrow
Los Angeles
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