Cuban Revolution Spreads to Two New Provinces
The insurgent movement in Cuba expands into Santa Clara and Matanza as rebel forces under Pino Guerra mobilize around San Juan de Martinez and Pinar del Rio. Government troops report skirmishes near Santo Domingo, with mixed local loyalties affecting the fight for Havana and the fate of Palma's regime.
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Pino Guerra
Palma
Havana
Gen. Gomez
Trea Soncharge
Tara
Cuba
San Tuan Thy
Ter
Diente Azeuy
O'Riel
Ansa
Clara Opravines
Manuel Gonzalez
Santo Douise
Colon
Attemad
Antonio de Los Tanas
Havana City
Col Doze Estrampes
Aicht
Ifgnors Lane
Go Odock
Colix Baccate
Avale
Pinar del Rin
Ping Guerra
Guerra
San Juan
Guanes Tint
Inir
Guanes
Pinar del Rio
Guerre
Vuelta Abajo
San Luis
San Juan de Martinez
Ru ‘Tal Guard
Guha
Santiago
Jesus Rabi
Ruia Rivera
Traffg
Western Railway
Juan Dé Martines
Gomez
Orestes Ferarra
Jose Miguel Gomez
Newark
Santa Clara
Iay
Ferarra
United States
Sancti Spiritus
Batabano
Aid
Cienfuegas
Paris
Temps
Sleeper
State Department
Quentin Banderas
Fino’ Guerra
Prnor del Rio
Revolutionary Movement
President Adopts Simplified Spelling for Official Papers
Oyster Bay August 24 President Roosevelt endorses simplified spelling for all White House and executive documents. Public Printer Stillings ordered to print in the new system, backed by Carnegie and Brander Matthews. The move aims to ease foreign writing and perhaps supplant French in diplomacy.
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Simplifica Spelling Board
White House
Apscin
Washington Post
Oyster Bay
Troosevelt
Stillines
Brander Matthews
Columbia
Andrew Carnegie
Matthews
Carnegie-Matthews
Washington
United Tes
Carnegie
Linebhan
Loeb
Sagamore Hill
Secret Service
Francis A. March
Lafayette College
Mony
Henry Holt
Isaac K. Funk
Indictments Over Oil Rates Challenge Standard Oil
Federal grand jury charges Standard Oil Company and New York Central Railroad for unlawful discrimination in oil shipments from Olean New York to Burlington Vermont. Seventy- six counts allege rate favoritism versus Pennsylvania lines, with Central Railroad tied to under filing schedules for interstate commerce.
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Standard
Olean
N. Y
Burlington, Vt
Washington Post
Jamestown
Federal Grand Jury
Standard of Company
New York’ Central Railway Company
Eirkins
Grand
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
New York Central
Central
Pennsylvania’ Railroad Company
Interstate Commerced Commission
Pennsylvania, Railroad Company
New York Central Railroad Company
Central Vermont “Railroad Company
Burlington
Bradford
Warren
Struders
Clamendo
Ol Guy
Titusville
Pennsylvania
Vermont
Rochester
Norwood
Standard Oil Company
N.Y
Interstate Commerce Commission
MOB STORMS RUINED BANK FOR PAYMENTS
In Chicago Aug 24 a mob overwhelmed police at the ruined Milwaukee Avenue State Bank as 22 000 depositors crowded for 20 percent payouts. Receiver Fetzer arranged to begin paying 5000 people today with more to follow, but language barriers and confusion caused chaos before orderly distribution.
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Chitagé
Milwaukee Avenue State ‘Bank
Fetzer
Ar- Fangemehita
Sven
Louisiana Governor Offers Reward for Four Murders Guilty Man
In Canton Georgia on a August date Henry Greggs a white man is held in jail awaiting a Louisiana sheriff. He is said to be wanted in Louisiana for the murder of four men in New Orleans. The Louisiana governor has offered a reward of 1700 for the capture of the killer. Omega trial bottle advertisement appears at the end.
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Louisiana
Canton
Henry Greggs
Greggs
New Orleans
Fifty Citizens of Rival Town Face Damage Suit Over Courthouse
Walworth County officials instruct State's Attorney to sue Selby citizens for 10000 over the December destruction of the Hangor Bangor courthouse. Selby had contested and won a judgment by default, then allegedly moved records from the courthouse to Saigne store. the court order was later vacated and affirmed.
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Aberdeen
Walworth County
Carl F. Clegant
Selby
Hangor
Bangor
Saigne
Divorce granted to Mark Lovett against Josephine Lovett
Supreme Court Justice MacLean signed a decree granting Mark T. Lovett a divorce from Josephine A. Lovett, who acted in The Lion and the Mouse. The decree also awards Lovett sole custody of their nine year old, Shaw Lovett. The couple married March 7, 1995, at Latte Church after she was eighteen and he thirty. Lovett accused Josephine of infidelity with a man named Robertson. suit papers were served at the couple’s home, where the spouses reside, and Josephine did not defend the suit.
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Washington Post
New York
Supreme Court
MacLean
Mark ‘T.lovett
Josephine A. Lovett
Lyceum
Hester
Lovett
Shaw Lovett
Uae
Robertson
Roberts
Tratis Crash At Crossing Injures and Kills
A Wabash special rain carrying two theater troupes to Chicago and one to Detroit collided with a Canadian Pacific passenger train near this city. Canadian Pacific engineer McKay of Toronto was killed. Baggegepan Alex Wiley of this city was probably fatally injured. No passengers on either train were injured.
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Onitario
Chicago
Detroit
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Tia
Toronto
Canadian Pacific
Watt
Rockefeller Offered Russia 100 Million Plan Leaked
An extraordinary story from The Washington Post Special Cable reports that John D Rockefeller proposed a 100 million dollar scheme to transform Russia's Bank of State into a private corporation. The plan, favored by Count Witte and German bankers, would replace state gold with private capital and create a canal project linking inland trade routes. A separate dispatch from Winchester, Virginia notes lightning causing 500 dollars in damage to John Anderson’s Gore home, with fire spreading to nearby structures.
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Washington Post
Paris
Icha’ D
Rockefeller +e
Russia
Effeitt
Bank 3
Trac
Tts
St. Petersburg
Tha ‘State Bank
Thew Corportidh
Tempee
Rockefeller
Searavanes
Igsouri
Lake Ontario
Witte
United States
Count Witte
William
Asser
Winchester
John Anderson
Gore
Anderson
Joker in new rate law sparks free transport debate
Special to The Washington Post Chicago August reports a joker in the new interstate commerce bill. A provision may let railroads grant free transportation to officers agents and employees of Standard Oil and their families. If applicable the standard carrier would pass free rides to its staff and families through intercarrier cooperation. The source questions whether the clause was accidental or inserted by a Standard ally.
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Washington
Chicago
Interstate Committee
Standard
Skull of Missing Heir in Virginia Skeleton Found
Special from Cincinnati reports a skull recovered from Dr. O. F. Richters cabinet in Dry Creek Virginia linked to August Krusemeier missing heir to Betts Street property. Frank Kunkel seeks to verify identity, tracing via mountaineers who found the skeleton as heirs face estate settlement.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Washington
Conrad ‘Kyrusemeier
Betts Street
White Sulphur Springs
Kates
Mountain
Bis San
Frank Kupkel
Virginia
Talesing
Krusemeier
Richté
Kunkel
Malsbury Tonday
Hell
Policeman Cants Held on Kidnapping Charge in San Diego
In San Diego on August 4 Policeman George Cants was arrested by Deputy U S Marshal Place on a kidnapping charge filed by Mexican Consul Diaz Prieto. The case concerns an incident two years earlier when Couts allegedly lured a boy named Burns into the United States for a sentence in reform school after a housebreaking charge, drawing Mexican officers' demand for punishment of his methods. Couts to appear before a U S commissioner.
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San’ Diego
Cal
George Cants
United States
Marshal Place
Diaz Prieto
Wearly
Frank Floris
Couts
Mexico
Adrift in Storm on Lake Returns to Shore Island Rescue Report
After a three hour gale on Lake Ontario, George DeWitt, a New York broker, his wife, and their boatman RW Wenborn were sighted on Galloup Island near Grenadier Island after their fishing trip from Cape Vincent. A squall drove objects overboard and the boat vanished. Rescue boats scoured the area. a message from Sacketts Harbor confirmed the party reached Galloup Island safely. The couple were on Honeymoon at the Carlton House Cape Vincent when the voyage began.
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Washington Fort
Watertoway
Jake Ontario
George Dewitt
New York
Rw.wenborn
Gdpé Vincent
Gelloup Island
Cape Vincent
de‘ Witt
Sacketts Garbor
Galloup Island
Grenadier
Sacketts Bare Bor
Searcn
Old Point
Norfolk, Va. Beach
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company
Rescue Efforts Save Butler Sons as Storm Claims Drowning
A fierce northeast storm along the Atlantic coast leaves one drowned, Louis Simpkins of Philadelphia, after a whirlpool off Brigantine. Five men in a yacht Virginia are rescued by Swedish fisherman John Johnson as the long coast chase ends. Congressman Butler’s two sons, Thomas and Howard, are saved by government lifesavers after their lifeboat capsized off Longport.
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Atlantic City
Louis Simpkins
Philadelphia
Simpkins
Virginia
Island Heights
Brigantine Beach
Bosra
Johnson
Thomas
Howard Butler
Congressman Butler
Pennsylvania
Longport
Baltimore Man Dies After Bathhouse Shower Rescue
Joseph F. Clark of 2 North Abn street Baltimore died of heart disease today in a bathhouse at Cape May New Jersey after being rescued from the surf and turning on a shower sprinkler. Clark had earlier saved two women from drowning, and was employed by the Chesapeake Steamship Company.
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Cape’ May
N. J
Joseph F. Clark
North Abn Street
Baltimore
Clark
Chesapeake Steamship Company
Two Fishermen Missing in New Jersey Gale
In Wildwood New Jersey Aug 4 two Norwegian fishermen are believed dead after a northeast gale. Mart Karlsen and a unnamed helper left harbor for the fishing banks. Their dory washed ashore later and no further trace of the men was found.
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Wildwood
N. J
Mart Karlsen
Professor Frye Arrested on Bigamy Charge in Chicago
Chicago Aug. M. Professor Charles Frye, ex superintendent of the Chicago Normal School, returned home after 31 years and was arrested on a bigamy warrant. Mrs Clara Goddard of Herley South Dakota claims he married her as Charles Goddard. Frye posted bonds and awaits a hearing tomorrow or Monday.
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Chicago
Charles Frye
Chicago Normal School
Clara’ Goddard
Herley
Charles Goddard
Frye
Stolen Goods In Temne Linked To McDonald Case
Mrs F F McDonald also known as Mabel Drain was stopped with a trunk marked by her name containing goods worth over $1,000 allegedly stolen from Ocean Steamship Company docks. AEC Tabb, one of three policemen arrested for pilfering from shipping cases, was rearrested on supplementary charges after detectives found the trunk contents.
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Savannah
F. F. McDonald
Mabel Drain
Ocean Steamship Company
Tabb
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Ratthmore
Pennnsylvania Railroad
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la Carnegie
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Antietam
Hagerstown
Baltimore and Ohio
Herdyavilis
Ars
RhHies
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Omega
Mark Lovett
Detree
Josephine Lovett
Tratis
Trust Brakes
Litbey & Co
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Return
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Royal Ltd
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