Martinique laborers at Colon refuse to disembark
Six hundred fifty Martinique laborers aboard the French steamer Versailles refuse to disembark at Colon under Sanitary rules, claiming mistreatment. After hours of police action and clubbing, about 50 jump into the sea but all are rescued. By 5 pm the rest are placed on a train to Corozal for work.
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Colon
Martinique
Priday
Versailles
Canal Zone
M. Bonhenry
M. Ra‘ven
Melendez
Andron
Amador
Zane Police
Corozal
Marshals to deliver credentials in Canada for Greene and Gaynor
Montreal October first United States marshals who came to arrest Capt Greene and Col Gaynor will travel to Ottawa tomorrow to present credentials to the governor general. The move is seen as a courtesy to speed Canadian officials' handling of the case. The officers plan to depart Montreal Wednesday with their prisoners.
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Montreal
United States
Greene
Col Gaynor
Ottawa
Canada
Williams invited to speak in Maryland and Virginia
Democratic leaders urge Congressman John Sharp Williams to visit Maryland and especially Virginia to speak for Swanson's gubernatorial campaign. He is likely to address in Salem on October 29 with round trips from Cumberland and other stations, marking a fall political push and travel notes from Jackson.
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Democratic House
Maryland
Virginia
Jackson Miss
John Sharp Williams
Democratic State Executive Committee
Swanson
Willams
Salem
President Roosevelts Sunday at church and White House
President Roosevelt attended Grace Reformed Church with a large congregation present and returned to the White House for an afternoon conference with Secretary Loeb. Mrs. Roosevelt also attended morning service at St. Johns while cabinet members gather in Washington ahead of the first cabinet meeting since June. Captain Cowles, the president's brother in law, arrived in Washington and went to the White House.
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Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Mme. Jusserand
Oliver
St. John’s
Lafayette Square
Sixteenth Street
Grace Reformed
White House
Taft
San Francisco
Moody
Massachusetts
Jane
Cowles
Washington
Winte House
Black Hand Suspects Police Think Them Guilty
Salvatore Picona and Salvatore Lafata were held for a further examination after arrests in Brooklyn over the kidnapping of six year old Antonio Marcamiena. Picona, seen daily at the boy’s home, led a gang of blackmailers under the Black Hand guise. The father of the missing boy implicated Picona, and a ransom letter was intercepted in New York. Police expect the boy’s return as the gang awaits further action.
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Salvatore Picona
Antonio Marcamiena
Picona
Washington Post
New York
Salvatore Lafata
Brooklyn
Tighe
Simonette
Inapistrate
Marcamiena
Twentieth Street
Lafata
Sergi Vachris
Mittle Antonio Mannino
Mannino
Hamilton Ferry
Mareamiena
Correa
General Post
Corres
Marcamitna
Milar
Broooklyn
Brooklyn Detective Bureau
Ti Wan
Cona
Hay Upheld Loomis in Taft Controversy Details Revealed
Summary of a dispute over Secretary Hay's stance on Loomis controversy with Bowen and Taft report. Loomis writes to Roosevelt seeking truth as Loomis nears retirement. Roosevelt disputes published claims of Hay's dissent and confirms Hay opposed Bowen's dismissal and disavowed misstatements. Official denial follows Loomis letter and reveals Hay's strong condemnation of Bowen.
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Mr. Roosevelt
Hay
Loomis
Taft
Francis B. Loomis
Bowen
Venezuela
Mr. Hay
Mr. Loomis
Roosevelt letter supports censure stance on Bowen action
Francis B. Loomis reports in Washington that Robert Bacon of New York will succeed Loomis as First Assistant Secretary of State. Bacon is in Washington with prior meetings with Secretary Root, discussing the point of dismission of Bowen and full vindication of Roosevelt.
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Teft
Taft
Bowen
Thhrodore Roosevelt
Francis B. Loomis
Department of State
Washington, D. C
Bacon Hera
Robert Bacon
New York
Washington
Flo
Root
Engine Jumped the Track in Birmingham Yard Tragedy
Early morning accident on the Louisville and Nashville switch engine in Birmingham left three men dead and another injured. The deceased were T P BIGB of Belle Mina JOSEPH AARON of Bessemer and JLM GLABS of Columbiana. The engine’s front wheels jumped the track plowing into two cabooses while the engineer C H Rosser escaped and the fireman Silas Gray suffered a sprained ankle.
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Birmingham
Ala
Louisville and Naashville
T P
Bigb
Belle Mina
Joseph Aaron
Bessemer
JLM Glabs
Columbiana
C. H. Rosser
Silas Gray
Yellow fever toll and regional quarantine clash in 1900s
New Orleans reports 23 new cases and 2 deaths for yellow fever bringing totals to 3 023 cases and 391 deaths with four new centers and 227 patients under treatment. John Lindsay a telegraph operator dies after remaining at his post to report deaths and new cases. Alabama and Mississippi quarreled over quarantines affecting Mobile and the sugar industry. Dr. Sanders of Alabama quarantines Mississippi, while Mississippi quarantines Mobile. Sanitation lectures and schoolchildren efforts planned.
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New Orleans
John Lindsay
Lake Placid
Lindsay
Alabama
Mississippi
Mobile
Whistler
Sanders
Ohio
J. H. White
Southern Pacific
Pensacola
Fla
Vicksburg
Miss
Natchez
Monument Damaged by Bomb in Warsaw Capture Commemoration
An explosion damaged a monument in Warsaw on October 1, 181, commemorating the Russian capture of the city. Many windows nearby were shattered, but no one was injured. The bomber fled the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lispaica
Washington
Fost
Warsaw
Sunday Post Leads With Advertising Ahead of Peers
The Sunday Post issue of fifty two broad pages carried 207 columns of advertising, surpassing its contemporaries and outdoing the previous year's Sunday. Washington business interests dominated the ads promoting the fall season, presented to attract timely notices to readers.
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The
Sunday Post
Post
Washington
Cannon mistaken for Tuscola preacher in Tuscola incident
Joseph Cannon Speaker of the National House of Representatives was mistaken for a Methodist preacher in Tuscola Illinois. Asa Swayze a local man approached with a marriage license hoping Cannon would perform a ceremony. Cannon explained he was not a preacher and Goodspeed a Tuscola pastor resembles him closely.
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Washington
Kankakee
Ill
Joseph G. Cannon
National
House of Representatives
Tuscola
Col. W. Taggart
David Bailey
Asa Swayze
Murdock
Mir. Cannon
Speaker Cannon
Swayze
Mr. Goodapeed
Mr. Cannon
Lee SwayrTe
National House of Representatives
Mr. Goodspeed
Indicted for Land Frauds Involving Williamson Associate
Federal grand jury indicts Charles A Graves Irwin Wakefield Orel Parker and Robert B Foster for conspiring to defraud the government of public land. They allegedly filed claims July 10 1902 and compelled others to do likewise.
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Portland
Oreg
Federal Grand Jury
Charles A. Graves
Irwin Wakefield
Orel Parker
Robert B. Foster
Graves
Wakefield
J. N. Willamson
van Gessner
Parker
Foster
Williamson
Gessner
Sarah F. Parker
Laura A. Foster
Manila Graves
Mahs
Nebr
Nebraska
George G. Ware
Hooker County
Ware
Albert M
A. M. Modisett
Sheridan County
Miss Roosevelt Returns From Tokyo Arrival Aboard Minnesota
Miss Alice Roosevelt reached Shimonoseki and boarded the steamer Minnesota for Yokohama without going ashore. The Minnesota departed at 11 o clock amid welcoming steam launches and a lively harbor scene. In Pittsburg a fire damaged the Muackintosh Hemphill Company and Pitt Foundry, causing about 200000 in insured losses, destroying forty years of valuable patterns.
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Tokyo
Alice Roosevelt
Shimonoseki
Minnesota
Yokohama
Pittsburg
Muackintosh-Hemphill Company
F Pitt Foundry
Canal Laborers in Revolt and Boston Arrest Spark Controversy
Digest of Index pages highlights conflicts as canal laborers revolt and a Boston mystery arrest appears in the early issue. Also notes presidential settlement of a controversy and other regional stories across pages 1 to 12.
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Boston
Army and Navy Union
Hoke Smith
Y. M
Virginia
Maryland
Washington
the Post
Wall Street Review
India
Five Coaches Go Over embankment in Soo Line Wreck
A Soo Line passenger train from the East collided with a Chicago Great Western freight at Fourth Street crossing in St Paul. Five coaches plunged twenty seven feet down an embankment. One dead and several seriously injured, many treated at the union depot and by city ambulances. Air brakes on the freight failed. fire followed wreckage. Names of the deceased and injured listed. rescue and hospital care swift.
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Soo
Great Western
St. Paul
Soo Line
Union
Chicago Great Western
Fourth Street
Union Depot
Clara McRoff
Minneapoli
Dutch
Minneapolia
Thompson
Moore
Montreal
Canada
Wilkinson
Minneapolis
Martin
Minneapola
Bali Wilkinson
Walkingon
Frank Martin
Brooklyn
Cyrua Bergland
New
Taft's Train Narrowly Escapes Wreck in Chicago
Secretary Taft's special train narrowly avoided a collision when a derailed box car on a freight train was dragged toward the Wells Street station. A switch was thrown, guiding the Taft special to a safe track as the car struck the depot end. Taft spoke of a "delightful trip" yet indicated they must return to work on War Department estimates, the Panama Canal, and Philippine matters before heading to Washington.
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Washington Post
Chicago
Taft
Wells Street
War Department
Panama Canal
Congress
Northwestern
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Washington
Eloped With Three Women in Hypnotic Plot Near Goshen
Special to The Washington Post reports Indianapolis October 1 that Adolphus Snowden a nineteen year old near Goshen allegedly hypnotized three women Mrs Mary Burleson Mrs Sarah Snowden and Mrs Alice Snowden causing them to desert their families and elope to Folkstown DeKalb County Found today Burleson living with Snowden as his wife while the others two sisters in law were known as big sisters Snowden was jailed and the women returned home saying they did not understand the influence but loved their husbands and could not resist the elopement
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Washington
Indianapolis
Adolphus Snowden
Goshen
Mary Burleson
Sarah Snowden
Alice Snowden
Folkstown
DeKalb County
Back Bay
Winthrop
Watts
Richmond
Washington Post
Wiliam Allen Haynes
Boston
William B. Haynes
Charles City
Old Dominion Company
Newport News
Amy Evans
George H. Evans
Virginia Caroling Chemical Company
Thater Haynes
Haynes
Harwood
Boston man arrested in torso case amid doubt
William A Haynes, 38, of Boston’s West End, is held on suspicion in the Winthrop harbor torso discovery case after witness Samuel A Winefield claimed a friend confessed to dismembering a body. Police doubt the arrest, while Haynes denies the accusation, saying misconstrued jury service and a past drag-linked event explain the statements. A Richmond family connection and missing Back Bay girl add tension as investigators press for clarity.
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Boston
Winthrop
William A. Haynes
Chamber Street
West End
Samuel A. Winefield
Haynes
Wingfield
Wingfiel
Wharf
Baltimore
Lewis' Wharf
Ocean Steamship Company
Berkman
William B Watts
Joseph Dugan
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
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Gaynor
United States Marshals
Williams
Cumberland
Berkeley Springs
Harpers Ferry
Martinebare
Baltimore and
I. R
Black Hand
Cazasus II
Mexico City
Casasus
N.y.av
President
Jata
Hays
Dlermalas Luomia
Mr Hay
Stpa
Smiler
Cerely Sours
Prancis Bloomis
Qyster Bey
Mr Loom
Mysi F
Hey
Mr. Bowen
Mr Bowen
Him
Monk Gibson
Texas
Hana
Tex
Allen Pasture
Mia
A J. Conditt
Navidad
Wharton
Ganado
Edna
Atake
Fort Point
Prague
Wernay
Representative Williamson
Omaha
Miss Roosevelt
Japan
Indiana
W. A. Haynes
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