Turns On Castro Lays Plans In New York For Revolution
Senor Don August F Pulido a veteran Venezuelan diplomat in Washington and ally of Castro’s foes is in New York plotting to overthrow Castro. He aims to raise money and possibly arm rebels with key Venezuelan and American supporters. The movement seeks to restore anti Castro interests and reclaim Venezuelan assets amid U S Venezuela tensions.
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August F. Pulido
Washington
Venezuela
Castro
New York
Pulido
America
Pulide
Herschez Asphalt Company
Senor Pulido
Was
Multiple Obituaries and Funeral Notices From Washington Area
Notices announce deaths and funeral plans for Barnes, Camden Blazes, Crist, Gleason, Hugginson, Johnson, Moore, and others. Interments at Arlington, Baltimore, Dixon, Oak Hill, and Congressional Cemetery. Funeral directors listed include John R. Wright, Geo. P. Zurhorst, Harvey's Sons, Speare, Sardo, Sergeon, Costello, Geier's Dons, and others. May affect families in Washington, Baltimore, Norfolk, and surrounding regions.
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Barnes
Hart Ferry
Wylvn
Wea
Barnes General
John R. Wright Company
Tenth Street
Arlington Cemeer
Charles W
Virginia
Camden
Friends
Quincy Street
Petworth
Eighth and I Streets
Hugginson
Startatarg
Congressional
Johnson
Geo
P. Zurhorst
APNE
Foreral Psricra
Carita
J. William Lee
Embalmer
John R. Wright Co
Puneral
Embelmers
Abarel Om
Penth
Awe
Moreh
R. F. Harvey
Junghal
Fourthrnth St
W. R. Speare
F Street
N. W
Frank A. Speare
Mar
Thones
Main
Wm.h. Sardo
Thos
S. Sergeon
Cain
Yelevhons
A. Costello
H Street
Norther
Frank Geier
DONS
North
Churchmen Discuss Missions At Baltimore District Conference
Baltimore district of the M E Church South holds its annual missionary day in Rockville Maryland at Southern Methodist Church. William H Talbott leads the Laymen Missionary Movement and Rev W H Best others speak on Women s Work Home and Foreign. Sermons were delivered by Rev M D Mitchell and Rev Forest J Prettyman. A list of attending ministers is included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Sportel
Washington Post
Rockville
Southern Methodist Church
M E. Church South
Sesson
Missionary Movement
William H. Talbott
W. H. Best
M. D Mitchell
St. John’s Emanuel Church
Forest J. Prettyman
Trinity Church
Beverly W. Bond
Henry W. Bur‘ings
John C. Copenhaver
J. H. Wilhite
Ernest
W. C. Smith
C. M. Hesser
3. H. Dulaney
S. J. L. Dulaney
Brie Fults
George Hasel
E. Barbour
Express Agent in Tolls Embezzlement Case in Cumberland
Edgar M. Brenneman a local United States Express Company agent was arrested in Cumberland Md on a charge of embezzling 1574 dollars 69 cents. Justice Wilson set bail at 4 dollars for the grand jury as W Tre nar y route agent testified to the shortage and Brenneman signed a loan statement. Traveling auditor Herbert E. Koon confirmed the figures and Brenneman lacked bond. He allegedly diverted money from Co O D packages by taking daily collections and forwarding no remittance to New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
Washington Post
Edgar M. Brenneman
United States Express Company
Justice Wilson
Brenneman
W. ‘Trenary
Trenary
Herbert E. Koon
Fidelity and Deposit Company
Baltimore
Co. O. D
Cme
New York
Disastrous Gun Explosion Kills Six on Couronne
Aug 12 Toulon report details a 164 millimeter gun accident aboard the gunnery school ship Couronne off Les Latins d Hyeres. Six killed, eighteen injured as a breech explosion followed overheated firing from a powder believed to decompose. Survivors describe severe mutilation and amputations. This marks a third fatal Couronne incident in sixteen months.
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Toulon
Couroupe
Les
Hyerds
Grandfather of Lieut Sheridan Listed as Dead by Insurance Tables
Brig. Gen. Daniel H. Rucker aged 96, retired, accepted the insurance companys entry of death for his policy as mortality tables place him among the dead at that age. He was born April 28, 1812 in New Jersey and served in the Civil War, with his son-in-law being the widow of Gen. Phil Sheridan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel H. Rucker
Rucker
Gen. Rucker
Jefferson Place
Insurance Company
New Jersey
Philp H. Sheridan
Louise
Sarah Rucker
Lieut
Phil Sheridan
Printers Seek Harmony With Typographical Union in New League
In Boston on August 2 Charles Francis of New York presented the Printers League stance to the International Typographical Union convention. The newly formed Employers group urged peace, arbitration, and cooperation, favoring unions and discouraging strikes and lockouts. The session approved by law changes in shop rules for foremen and adjourned to decide next year’s convention site amid a vigorous contest for venues.
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Boston
Mass
Printers’ League
Charles Francis
New York
League
St. Joseph
Seattle
Minneapolis
Francis
League Néwke
Trovises
Alp
Frien
Delays Hazing Decision At West Point Commandant Absence
Secretary of War Wright waits for information from Col. Scott commandant of the United States Military Academy at West Point before ruling on eight cadets charged with hazing. Scott is away at Fort Ethan Allen horsemanship tests, delaying the decision. Wright hopes to be informed and make a statement before week’s end.
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Wright
West Point
Col. Scott
United States Military Academy
War
Avi
Col.Scott
Fort Ethan Aller
Spofford Dies in New Hampshire at 72 After Stroke
Ainsworth Rand Spofford former chief assistant librarian of Congress died suddenly at John G Nicolay’s home in Holderness New Hampshire He suffered a paralysis stroke two years ago Born September 12 1825 in Gilmanton N H Spofford joined the Library of Congress in 1861 rising to librarian in chief in 1864 He helped expand the library from 7000 to over 2 6 million volumes He is survived by daughter Florence and wife Sarah Partridge whose death preceded his by years His body likely to be returned to Washington for funeral services at 1621 Massachusetts Avenue.
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Ainsworth Rand
Spofford
Congressional Library
Lew Wallace
Boks
Harvard
Cambridge
South
Gilmanton
N. H
A. Spofford
John Spefford
Yorkshire
England
Georgetown
Mass
Cincinnati
Cinginnati Commercial
Library, of Congress
Lbrarian
Tia
Sarah FP. Partridge
Florence Spofford
Washington
Massachusetts Avenue
Weather Notes From Aug 12 With Rain Totals
Weather bulletin reports unsettled conditions with a single low in the upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes region. Showers and storms affected Missouri, upper Mississippi Valley, Texas, Northwest. heavy rain in eastern Iowa, northern Minnesota, northern Indiana, and northwest Ohio. Chicago received 4.34 inches since Tuesday night. Temperatures rose then cooled in Missouri and Northwest. Central Rockies warmer. Midnight 71, 68, 76, 65, 72, 78, 85, 88, 81, 83, 78. Max 93, min 65. Humidity high morning and evening. Sunshine 44.4 hours. 100 percent possible. Also notes of political conventions and local incidents in Ohio and West Virginia amid fragmented text.
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Dept. of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Washington
Mississiou
Ieke
Athietic
Gulf States
Missouri
Mississippi
Teko
Northwest
Jows
Minis
Indiana
Ohio
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Pacific
Mingouri
North Pacific States
Rocky Mountain
Militia Recalled as Calm Town Hunts Negro Suspect
Portsmouth patrols remain quiet after a Negro assailant attacked Mrs Powell and a policeman was murdered. Authorities hold a suspect at Deep Creek awaiting identification while a mob threat mounts. Rewards total $325 from city county and state for capture.
Washingtonian Accuses Sister-in-Law of Estate Blockage
In Los Angeles on Aug 12 Mrs May Dabney Cutter and her sister Alberta Dabney Storrs asked Judge Rives to intervene in the Kendall Cutter estate dispute. The case centers on a $40,000 trust later transferred to Mrs Chester and alleged misappropriation affecting Marian Cutter, aged six. Administrators were named and the matter adjourned to Friday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Los Angeles
Cal
May Dabney Cutter
Alberta Dabney Storrs
Washington, D. C
Cutter
Kendall Cutter
David Jacobs
Police trap conductor in Richmond burglary case
Harry Marshall, 26, of Manchester, arrested in Richmond on charges of burgling freight cars while acting as conductor of the train. Seven pairs of shoes found on him. warrant sought for more goods stored at his home on the Atlantic coast. He was netted tonight in a police trap after authorities tied many goods to previous thefts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Harry Marshall
Manchester
Marshall
Atlantia Oast
Boiler Explosion Hurts Workers At Mill
Special to the Washington Post reports a boiler explosion at a sawmill in Wniporia, Virginia, destroying the mill and injuring William L. Mitchell with deep cuts and facial burns, Benjamin Gray suffering a leg amputation, and fireman Daria Avent badly burned by flying debris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Wniporia
Wiliam L. Mitchel
Jette
Mitchell
Benjamin Gray
Daria Avent
Negra
Abby
County Constable Seeks Payment Amid Typhoid Crisis
The Washington Post reports from Richmond on August 12 that County Constable Burch visited John D. Wade's Rio Vista home to collect a small debt for household furnishings. Mrs Wade, tearful, pleaded for clemency as seven children, four ill with typhoid, plus a four week old baby, faced hardship while the mother attended to the sick. Relief measures will be arranged for the destitute family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Richmond
Burch
John D.wade
Rio Vista
Boube
Shah Receives Jackson in Persia Asks Roosevelt Question
United States minister John B. Jackson, en route to New York, met the Shah of Persia in Teheran. The Shah gave a cordial audience but showed little interest in information or events. Jackson notes Persia remains an autocracy with a tentative move toward constitutional government, while Western press has only recently focused on Persian affairs. Meanwhile, Jackson plans to ship stores from New York for regation, though losses occur with camel caravans. German minister’s recent shipment arrived petrified, stones filling the cases.
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Gable
Jackson
Roosevelt
Persia
Tabriz
New York
Berlin
Fire protection ordered for Jamestown Exposition water supply
Federal Judge Waddill issued a mandamus compelling the Norfolk County Water Company to restore water service to the Jamestown Exposition grounds. The ruling restrains further cutoffs, protecting buildings valued at over 1.0 million belonging to the exposition company the Federal government and various states.
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Norfolk, Va
Avig
Norfolk County Water Company
Exposition Grounds
Exposition Company
Waddill
Rebecca Riley and Ivy Cooper Wed in Rockville Ceremony
Miss Rebecca Irene Riley and Ivy Cooper both of Lovettaville were married in Rockville on August 12 by Reverend Ernest L. Woolfe, pastor of the Southern Methodist Church, at the officiant's home.
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Rockville
Rebecca Irene Riley
Ivy Cooper
Lovettaville
Ernest L. Woolfe
Southern Methodist Church
Rebel Yell at Rages Opens Weahington Fest Day One
Front Royal Va August 12 The opening day of the horse show drew a cool crowd in the grandstand with well dressed women as nose to nose races provided high order fun. Notable incidents include Annie Russell’s fall in the mile and a half and the open steeplechase rider uninjured. An intermission battle between Confederate Veterans and Virginia Volunteers ended with a veteran yell and a volunteer retreat. The day’s winners included Irish Rose harness and saddles, Royal Swan runabout, and Monday Morning among jumpers and green hunters with multiple placements across events.
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Front Royal
An- Mie Russell
Merchant
Nie Russell
Claud Smith
Tirginia
William Robin
Leach
E. H. Weatherbe
New York
Kim
R. G. Mitchell
Boyce
Black Bess
Charles E. Clapp
Pittsburg
Plegmont
B. N. Payne
Delaplane
Royal Swan
Bowles Bros
Black Diamond
C. E Wisecarver
Riot
Herring & Metze
Rogers Bros
Nalliit
I. Ham
William Skinker
Duke of Ashleigh
Roger H. Bayly
Linepeo
Broken Bow Stable
Falr Amns
B. White
Cassanova
Kitty Clare
Lulu
I. B. Marshall
Reginald
B. Marshall
Nick
E. Bowers
Warrior
Clair
Galloway
Aurentie
Goodwin
H. BR. White
Fearless
Jacobs
Edd
Amale Russ
Kitts
G. TW. Bolen
Jack Ldndin
Dex Bros
Luke Ditger
Bo Peep
Heory” Mills
Frank
Willama Brinker
George Adwell
Roger Bros
Coyeture
Richard Wallack
Fire threatens Ige famine 3b and bridge over Ohio scorched
Fire swept Parkersburg as the West Virginia Veneer and Door plant and the Parkersburg Ice Company plant were destroyed. Twelve residences burned and the B&O Railroad bridge over the Ohio River suffered damage. Firemen struggled with low water pressure until a change in wind eased the blaze late afternoon. Losses were estimated at 1750. Parkersburg Ice Company tops damage at about 126000.
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Parkersburg
W.va
West Virginia Veneer and Door Company
Parkersburg Ice Company
Baltimore and Ohio
Ohio River
Radeker Lumber Company
Auction sale of cotton goods sets new records in New York
Big sale in New York begins with over 82 000 cases of cotton goods. More than 800 buyers from jobbing houses and large retailers attend, with goods sold in many small lots boosting distribution. Markets expect the sale to extend beyond the week, including blankets and canton flannels from Nashua and Alabama mills.
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New York
Lacwe Fry
Nashua
Alabama
Virginia Obituary Notices From Augullage Era
Danville Virginia obituary notes the death of a longtime local confectioner and merchant aged 56. Rev John Hartnell Harrison, a Baptist minister, dies after a stroke at seventy. Fredericksburg reports B Booka age 40, survived by wife and eight relatives. Newport News lists Judge Moses Tredway Hughes aged 71, Confederate veteran, survived by sister Mrs Whaley and granddaughter Miss Hughes. funeral at Old St Johns Church tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
Dany
Culpeper
John Hartnell Harrison
Fredericksburg
B. F. ‘Booka
Spotsylvania County
Newport News
Moses ‘Tredway Hughes
Bred Whaley
Louis Hughes
Hampton
Old St. John’s Church
Laura Reynolds Marries George Marrow in Berryville
Miss Laura Reynolds youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs George Reynolds of Berryville married George Marrow of Newport News at the bride’s parents home. Ceremony performed by Rev Edward Wall, rector of Grace Protestant Episcopal Berryville. Also noted today is the marriage of M Huber of Richmond and Mollie Virginia Mansfield of Charleston at Rev F W Moore’s residence Petersburg Virginia.
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Winchester
Laura Reynolds
George Reynolds
Berryville
George Marrow
Newport Mews
Edward Wall’ Reetor
Grace Protestant Episcopal Church
Petersburg
F. W. Moore
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Sener’ ‘Pulido
Fortier
Venézuela
Legation
Com
Pulido Sailead
Spain
Diplomatic Corps
Consular Service of
Constar
United States
Pulidé
France
Netherlands
Italy
Great Britain
Cincinnact Evquirer
Pittsburg Dispatch
Boater Globe
Providence Journal
Buffalo Courier
Rochester Herald
Chicago Record Herald
St. Louis Republic
Cleveland Plain Dealer
St Paul
Plougey Prewe
New York Times
Syrecuge Post
Staneara
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Northvwest
GEO C
Owweapa
TOLLS
To-Kalon Wine’ Co
14Th St
Couronne
Iona
League of Employers
A.B. “Spofford
New Hampshire
Hiumtington
Cabell
Sherif
Joseph B. Thompson
F. F. McCullough
R.W. McWilliams
Jadisbury
Nea
Max
Rawn- Asheville
N.C
Atlanta
Atlantic
Bismarck
Buffalo
Iil
Cincinnard
Cheyenne
Davenport
Iowa
Denver
Colo
Galveston
Nebr
Pittabure
Portland
Salt Lake
Harpers Ferry
Portsmouth
Beeling
Portamouth
Crimnally
Catherine Powell
James Strong
William Winnigeder
Deep Creek
Nortalk County
James Pope
Dennis
Stewart
Reed
Armory Hall
wWegro
Walter Burke
Winiigder
Gov. Swanson
Norfolk County
Powell
Knights of Pythias
May D.’ Cutter
California
Washingtonian
Mars
Storra
Alberta Dabney
Shah Isndieferent
Mittister Jackson
Maryland
Sham
Ige
Itis Gorse
Beauty
Taft
John P. Branch
White Rulphur Springs
Suppar
Charton M. Minnis
Occupada
Helmat
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