Anarchist and suffragists disrupt Prosperity Congress scene
New York Aug 14 rivals stages of disruption at the Travelers Interstate Prosperity Congress with Berkman led anti state faction and bold suffragists demanding jobs and reform. Henry Clews and George Fred Williams debated banks and unemployment as attendees urged stronger railroad and currency oversight and pledges to promote American-made goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mon Garriers
Congress
Interstate Congress
New York
L Iterary Bureau For the Propagation of
America
Fleet Off To Sydney Crowd Sides With Sailors
The American Atlantic fleet departed for Sydney at 8 15 this morning amid festive farewells. Crowds cheered as the flagship Connecticut led battleships out, while New Zealand officials and Lord Flunkitt welcomed the visitors and salutes rang through Auckland harbor. A scuffle with a patrol over drunken sailors prompted police intervention. no injuries reported. Louisiana crew captured the Battenberg Cup in the harbor cutter race, finishing five lengths ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Zealand
Louisiana
Auckland
Sydney
Connecticut
Sir Joseph Ward
Joseph
Kentucky
Inc
Sper
Joseph Ward
United States
Dominion
Sperry
Pacific
Feec
Admi Sperry
Lord Flunkitt
Baldwin ship wins as speed test nears contract
Capt. Baldwin's airship achieves about 20 mph in final test at Fort Myer, with engineers poised to calculate exact speed for government contract. Army officers express enthusiasm. another endurance flight planned to complete the ten minute speed and two hour endurance requirements and possibly circle the Washington Monument.
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Curtiss
Washington Monument
United States
Capt. Baldwin
Board of Army
War Department
Baldwin Waa
Glen H. Curtis
Fort Myer
Arlington and
Falls Church
Cherrydale
Army Board
Baldwin
Maj. Squier
Board of Army Experts
Board of Experts
Army
Canada May End Strike Near Amicable Settlement
Winnipeg August 14 The Dominion government via the railway commission may intervene to settle the Canadian Pacific Railway strike in the mechanical trades. Prospects are reported fair for an amicable settlement of all differences within the next 48 hours. Week end trips to the seashore advertised with limited details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Dominion
Railway Commission
Canadian Pacific Railway
Airship Sails Over Berlin in Two Hour Flight
Berlin reports the Parseval dirigible advanced on a flexible system completing a 2 hour 4 minute flight over and around the city. It launched from Tere and performed maneuvers at 600 to 1000 feet with moderate wind. The ship exhibited stability and responsive handling, returning to its starting point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Engineer Curtiss
Baldwin
Handy
Aero Club
Squier
Andy
Lieut
Selfridge
Berlin
Tere
Balloon Explosion Kills Six at Lovelace Air Display
In London at the Franco British exposition grounds, an explosion aboard Capt Lovelace's balloon envelope of the New York Aero Club killed two, including 18 year old Miss Hill, and injured six others. Preparations for ascent were underway when the blast occurred, believed caused by a lit match. Lovelace himself escaped with only clothing burned.
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London
Lovelace
New York Aero Club
Miss Hill
Played Cards On A Tomb In Trenton Cemetery
Five men gambling on a tombstone in Riverview Cemetery were arrested and held by police to await grand jury action. Residents of the cemetery area sought a quiet place to pass a hot night and used a flat tombstone as a table, drawing the glare of a lamp and attracting Supt. Atkinson's attention.
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Washington Roar
Trenton
N. J
Riverview Cemetery
Atkinson
Pope Commends Mission to Cardinal Gibbons II
Rome reports Cardinal Gibbons had a farewell audience with the Pope in the private library. The Pontiff affirmed continued support for American church interests and spoke of preparing a letter backing the apostolic mission house in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cardinal Gibbons II
Holy Father
America
Rome
Cardinal Gibbons
Rand
apostolic_mission house
Washington
Merry -del Val
Castel Gamiglio
Skeletons found of Jesuit explorers and crew on Lake of the Woods
Winnipeg reports priests of St Boniface found the skeletal remains of Jean Baptiste de Verandrye and Father Avelineau plus nineteen French Canadian voyageurs on an island northwest of Lake of the Woods in June 1796. The Boniface party also located Fort St Charles. The discovery ties to Sieur de la Verendrye and Saint Boniface College nearby. John Greenleaf Whittier referenced the area in a poem noting St Boniface bells.
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Canada
Winnipeg
Jean Bapetiste de Te Verandrye
Av Ieneeu
Dingle
Lake of the Woods
St. Bonifacé
Celleze
Winnineg
Prodhomme
Boniface
Fort St. Charles
Sieur de la Verandrye
Boniface College
Rediver
John Greenleaf Whittier
St Boniface
Holy Roman Mission
Detroit brokers face assets liabilities in Cam eron Currie Co file
In Wayne circuit court receiver F G Austin filed the first statement for Cameron Currie Co showing total assets 3 840 584 with notes receivable 1 112 294 and customer liabilities 1 498 734. Seized securities in vaults totaled 2 780 and cash on hand and in bank just over 2 000.
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Detroit
Micn
F. G. Austin
Cameron, Currie & Co
Wayne
Okuma Denies Threat of US Alliance Against Japan
Chinese Minister Wu Ting-fang and Count Okuma deny any threat of an American Chinese alliance or Japanese war plans. Dispatches from New York and London are questioned as misrepresenting his remarks. Okuma says his comments reflected generic naval policy talk and that he seeks friendly US relations and no endorsement of conflict.
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Japan
Preas
United States
Tokyo
New York
London
Okuma
America
Ting-fang
Count
Count Okuma
Roosevelt
Representative Hobson
Presiden Roosevelt
Pacific
Wu Ting-fang
Courag
Mystery of Motor Rich Man Regret in Chicago
Police pursue a baffling automobile case in Chicago. J Li Pittman, an auditor for Pennsylvania Railroad, disappeared after a visit to his cousin Miss Hana Staley. A letter from an elderly woman claimed Pittman was being cared for at the writer’s home and that money and science would be used to aid him.
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Chicago
Chicago Police Department
J. Li Pittman
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
North Clark Street
Misa Hana Staley
Dunning Street
Miss Staley
Twenty-second Street
Indiana Avenue
Pittman
Atlante
Wes
Migs Tiley
Miss Stilley
Virginia
Virgina
Mias Suilley
Chafin's Notification Speakers Named for Chicago Event
Chicago Aug 14 The Prohibition party notification meeting set for Aug 18 will feature Charles Scanlon of Pittsburg delivering the notification speech. Dugene W Chafin will give a brief acceptance, with Clinton N Howard of Rochester as chief orator. Other speakers include Samuel Dickle of Albion College and Felix T McWhirter of Indianapolis at Music Hall.
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Chicago
Prohibition Party
Charles R. Jones
National Committee
Charles Scanlon
Pittsburg
Dugene W. Chafin
Clinton N. Howard
Rochester
Samuel Dickle
Albion College
Albion, Mich
Felix T. McWhirter
Indianapolis
Gould party tours mining districts en route to Old Mexico
Kingdon Gould and companions arrived in Pueblo in his private car. They toured mining districts of Utah, Nevada, and California and reported conditions in the area resuming to normal. Gould aims to become a leading mining engineer and travels with a Columbia University professor. The group planned to visit Mexico's principal mines before Gould returns to resume studies at Columbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Pueblo
Cale
Kingdon Gould
Utah
Nevada
California
Republic
Young Gould
Columbia
Missing Publisher Seen in Knoxville Mystery
Knoxville dated Aug 14 reports George Caldwell locating George Henry Smith, the New York publisher and newspaper man, who jumped from a Southern Railway train and was found at the Waldwlly home near here yesterday missing shoes and a request for supplies. Smith claims to be Christ delivering religious discourses. Alexander M. Winin offers a large reward for Smith's apprehension. Edward Names Berlin Ambassador noted. Sir Edward Goschen to succeed Lancells as British ambassador in Berlin. An attractive sale of household and office furniture begins at 10 am today at Sloan's.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Georga Caldwell
Gorge Henry Smith
New York
Southern Railway
Waldwely
Caldwell
Smith
Christ
Alexander M. Winan
Edward
Berlin
Edward Goschén
Great Britain
Vienna
Bir
Frederick C) Lancells
Tragic death in Harpers Ferry linked to John Brown raid
Mrs Henrietta Evans of Washington died at 41 in Harpers Ferry after a life linked to abolitionism. Born February 17, 1827 in Fayetteville, she moved to Oberlin where her family supported abolition. Her brother Sheridan Leary died at Harpers Ferry, her nephew John Copeland was hanged, and she left fifteen children including Dr Wilson Bruce Evans and Mrs Daniel Murray.
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Washington Post
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Henrietta, Evans
Washington
Fayettevilles
N. C
Oberlin
Ohio
John Price
Negro, From His Owner. This Was In 1857,'“Levis
Sheridan Leary
John’ Brown
John Copeland
Charles
John Brown
Drafts new fishery laws in Winnipeg
Winnipeg reports that Prof. David Starr Jordan president of Leland Stanford University and H. M. Story secretary of the International Fisheries Commission, along with W. Bastedo and others, arrived to push unified boundary water fishery laws. The commission seeks harmonized rules to conserve fish supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Manitoba
David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford
B. W. Evermston
Bureau of Fisheries
Washington
H. M.story
International Fisheries Commission
T. Bastedo
Ian
Canada
United States
Democratic Clubs Call Mobilize for Bryan Campaign
Chicago reports the Democratic national committee urges organization of Democratic clubs in every voting precinct to back William Jennings Bryan. The plan seeks early action, with precinct leaders appointed by September 15, and includes volunteer speakers from over a dozen senators. John H. Atwood says many speakers volunteer, paying own expenses, while Parker may join the effort.
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Indiana
Bryan
Ohio
Chicago
United States
Democratic National Committee
Mack
John W. Tomlinson
Committee
Call For Clip
Democratic State Committee
Leemats
Thomas Taggart
Democratic
Taggart
Alan
New York
John H. Atwood
Mr. Atwood
National Committee
Alton B. Parker
Gov Guild in Hospital After Appendicitis Operation
Boston August 14 Gov Curtis Guild Jr underwent an appendicitis operation at Charlesgate Hospital. Surgeons termed the operation successful and his condition satisfactory. He had been convalescing at a Sebago Lake camp, returning to Boston due to illness. The record notes a prior bout with acute inflammatory rheumatism affecting the heart but reports full resumption of duties on June 10.
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Boston
Curtis Guild, Jr
Charlesgate Hospital
Sebago Lake
Hatrouibis
Typographical Union Debates Endorsing Democrats at Convention
At Boston on August 14 the fifty fourth annual Typographical Union convention debated endorsing the Democratic platform. President Lynch urged withdrawal to avoid a defeat that would record the union as throwing down Bryan. Delegates argued politics rules and praised Gompers, while backing neutrality and independence and rejecting a split from the AFL and Canadian Trades Congress. The morning session featured Gifford Pinchot on conservation. the convention was to close the next day.
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International Typographical Union
Bryan
Boston
International ‘Typographical Union
Henry West
Birmingham
Lynch
Berry
Chicago
Victor Berger
Milwaukee
Estey
Paterson
N. J
Samuel Gompers
Independence Party
West
American Federation of Labor
Canadian Trades and Labor Congress
Forester
Gifford Pinchot
Alfonso's Nose All Right Arrives in Bordeaux
King Alfonso of Spain reached Bordeaux from San Sebastian and was examined by surgeon Prof. Moore, who reported a good result from last year's nasal operation. Queen Victoria of Spain arrived in Paris incognito from San Sebastian and planned a trip to the Isle of Wight to visit Princess Beatrice of Battenberg. she drove via Rafa du Boulogne to London.
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Bordeaux
Alfonso
Spain
San Sebastian
Moure
Moore
Paris
Victoria
Isle of Wight
Beatrice of Battenberg
Youth Shoots His Bride Ends Life in Cleveland
In Cleveland on August 14 Stephen Petrik, 22, fatally shot his bride Mary Petrik, 18, at their home after a quarrel then killed himself with a self-inflicted gunshot. Witnesses say Petrik had long been jealous, and Mary pleaded on her knees before he opened fire three times.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Stephen Petrik
Mary Petrik
Petrik Long
Bank Clerk Embezzlement Case Outlined in Wilkes-Barre
Wilkes Barre August 14 Norman Fogel a bank clerk at First National Bank was arrested on embezzlement charges amounting to 7 40 with bail set at 8000 he was committed for hearing The shortage was found when an officer noticed Fogel erasing figures in a ledger Two thousand dollars of the missing funds were repaid and he was given time to repay the rest Extravagant living is blamed for the downfall
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Wilkes-Barre
Norman Fogel
First National Bank
Sect Dent
Fogel
Miing
Mrs Teal Enters Plea on Grand Jury Indictments
New York Aug 14 Pleas of not guilty were entered today by Mrs Benjamin Teal Harry Mousley and Mrs Julia Fleming when arraigned in the court of general sessions on charges of subornation of perjury in the case involving alleged attempts to induce Mabel MacCauslan to testify falsely against Frank J Gould in a divorce suit brought by Helen Kelly Gould The three were given leave to enter their plea by next Thursday Also noted is a Baltimore and Ohio Excursion fare to Frederick Keedysville Hagerstown and return with a train leaving Union Station at 8 am on August 16.
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New York
Benjamin Teal
Harry
Mousley
Julia Fleming
Court of General Sessions
Mabel MacCauslan
Frank J. Gould
Helen Kelly Gould
Teal
Sirs, Fleming
Moussey
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Henry Crews
Interstate Prosperity Congress
Allewander Berkman
H. Co
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Kehman
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Alieis
Kerkauin
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Pls
Mergiovers
Berkman
Comse
Mayey Metjowin
Herman A. Matz
New York City
WL Rice
Joan Harwood
Richmond
J. S. Reynolds
Augusta
Rigmund Mirsh
Henry Clews
Yors
George Fred Wiliams
Massachusetts
Issae
Clews
Williams
Willams
E. C. Simmons
Louis
National Prosperity Association
A. H. Eastmond
Niewera Perrhehive
FLEET
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Sunda
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Whawood
Ocean Gi
Sea-Tsia City
Peyiveia
Delaware River Bridge
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Toniorra
DR. WU
Hecht
United’ States
Count Obuma
Baltimore and
Scetarn
Fonnsylvapia Railroad
Mystery OF
Fernisylvania Railroad
Chafin
Tennessee Homie
Sloan
Henrietta Evans
International Commission Meats
GOV. Guild IN Hospital
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Union
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Stade
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Gould
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Hagerstown
Regirts
Union Station
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