Colon Laborers From Martinique Refuse Disembarkation
Six hundred fifty Martinique laborers aboard the French steamer Versailles refuse to leave ship at Colon under sanitation rules. After a standoff, Panaman and Canal Zone police use clubs to force 50 into the dock, with others jumping into the sea. By 5 pm all remaining men, in injuries and fatigue, were loaded onto a train to Corozal for work on the canal.
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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 to Canadian Governor General
United States marshals visiting Montreal to secure credentials for Capt Greene and Col Gaynor will travel to Ottawa tomorrow to present them to the governor general. The gesture is seen as a courtesy and aims to smooth proceedings with Canadian officials. The marshals plan to depart Montreal on Wednesday with the prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Marshals
Montreal
United States
Greene
Col Gaynor
Ottawa
Canada
Williams Invited to Speak in Maryland and Virginia
Democratic House Leader John Sharp Williams is invited to visit both Maryland and Virginia with emphasis on the latter for Swanson's gubernatorial bid. A likely stop is Salem on October 29 with travel from Baltimore via B and O schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic House
Maryland
Virginia
Jackson Miss
John Sharp Williams
Democratic State Executive Committee
Swanson
Willams
Salem
Roosevelt Attends Sunday Church Service Alone
President Roosevelt spent Sunday in Washington attending Grace Reformed Church with a large congregation present. He walked to church unaccompanied, joined in the service, and returned to the White House for a long afternoon and evening of official business and family time. The Cabinet gathers remain scattered as Secretary Taft travels and Attorney General Moody stays in Massachusetts awaiting tomorrow's cabinet meeting, while Captain Cowles arrives in Washington and goes to the Winter House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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 in Kidnapping Led by Picona
Salvatore Picona and Salvatore Lafata were held for examination after arrest on suspicion in the Brooklyn kidnapping of six year old Antonio Marcamiena. Picona, a frequent visitor to the Marcamiena home, led a gang of Italian blackmailers. his wife Simonette was released. Detectives traced ransom letters and linked Picona to the family, while the father Marcamiena feared for his son as police anticipated a rescue.
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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
Cona
Hay Upheld Loomis President Details Treachery and Loyalty Claims
In a Washington exchange spanning secretaryial letters and a presidential reply, Francis Loomis defends his conduct amid Bowen dismissals and Taft's report. Roosevelt writes Hay dissented from endorsing Loomis censure, while Loomis seeks clarity on private views about Bowen and Hay. The White House letter refutes claims of rift, asserting Hay praised Loomis and condemned Bowen as treacherous against the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis B. Loomis
Bowen
Venezuela
Hay
Mr. Hay
Mr. Loomis
Loomis
Department of State
Washington
President
New York
Jata
Taft
United States
Hays
White House
Dlermalas Luomia
Mr Hay
Stpa
Smiler
Cerely Sours
Prancis Bloomis
Qyster Bey
Mr Loom
Mysi F
Hey
Mr. Bowen
Roosevelts Letter Defends Taft Policies Admits Censure
In a terse note to Mr Teft Loomis declares disagreement with Taft and Roosevelt on the matter and argues no censure of Roosevelt is warranted. It calls for Bowen’s removal and full vindication. Robert Bacon of New York arrives to succeed Loomis as First Assistant Secretary of State after talks with Secretary Root in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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 Train Yard Disaster
In Birmingham on October 1 a switch engine on the Louisville and Nashville Yard jumped the track killing two men instantly and a third died later in hospital. The victims were T P BIGB of Belle Mina, JOSEPH AARON of Bessemer, and JLM GLABS of Columbiana, who were on the front running board as the engine, traveling fast, struck two cabooses and toppled. Engineer C H Rosser escaped unharmed and fireman Silas Gray suffered a badly sprained ankle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Louisville and Naashville
T P
Bigb
Belle Mina
Joseph Aaron
Bessemer
JLM Glabs
Columbiana
C. H. Rosser
Silas Gray
Mob Pursuit Guards Monk Gibson in Texas Case
In Hana Texas Oct 1 a Black man named Monk Gibson is pursued after arrest in a serious case involving Mia Conditt and her three children. Police expect capture by midnight as bloodhounds hunt from Ganado to Edna while river bottoms narrow. Alameda liner remains stranded with engine room flooded and wreckage damaged. plans to dismantle loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hana
Tex
Allen Pasture
Monk Gibson
Mia
A J. Conditt
Navidad
Wharton
Richmond
Ganado
Edna
Atake
Washington Post
San Francisco
Fort Point
Yellow fever war as Alabama, Mississippi quarrel over quarantine
New Orleans reports 23 new cases of yellow fever to 6 p m totaling 3 023 cases with 391 deaths and 4 new centers. John Lindsay a telegraph operator at Lake Placid Ills dies of fever after staying at his post to relay death and new case lists. Alabama and Mississippi feud over quarantines affecting Mobile Whistler dengue fear. Alabama blocks Mississippi and vice versa. Railroads like Mobile and Ohio face disruption while health officials seek a work plan for sugar plantation labor. Pensacola and Vicksburg also report new cases with no or few deaths. Natchez notes mixed race cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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 Explodes in Warsaw
Special Cable Lispaica reports in Washington Fost Warsaw that a monument commemorating the 181 capture of the city by Russians was damaged today by a bomb blast. Many nearby windows were shattered but no injuries occurred. The bomber escaped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lispaica
Washington
Fost
Warsaw
Sunday Post Leads With Advertising Volume
The Sunday Post issue of fifty-two broad pages carried 207 columns of advertising surpassing its two rivals and showing a 27 column gain over last year. Washington progressive businesses dominated the ads tied to the fall season opening, attracted by The Post’s strong readership and proven results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Sunday Post
Post
Washington
Cannon Mistaken for Tuscola Preacher at Tuscola
Special to The Washington Fest. In Kankakee Illinois on October 1 Joseph Cannon Speaker of the National House of Representatives was mistaken for a Methodist preacher by Asa Swayze of Murdock who sought a marriage ceremony. Cannon explained he was not a preacher and Goodspeed, the Tuscola pastor, bears a strong resemblance to him.
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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 Associates
Federal grand jury indicts Charles A Graves Irwin Wakefield Orel Parker and Robert B Foster for conspiring to defraud the government of public land. Williamson and Gessner named in the scheme as partners with claims filed July 10 1902 and false testimony about claim details. Also reports three new lawsuits in Nebraska charging cattlemen with fencing 40000 to 100000 acres of government land. injunctions sought to remove unlawful enclosures.
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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 RETURNING FROM JAPAN
Miss Alice Roosevelt arrived at Shimonoseki and boarded the Minnesota for Yokohama, with harbor festivities as steam launches waved flags. In Pittsburgh a fire damaged the Muackintosh Hemphill Company foundry pattern stock, estimated at about $200000, insured and with no plant shutdown planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Alice Roosevelt
Shimonoseki
Minnesota
Yokohama
Pittsburg
Muackintosh-Hemphill Company
F Pitt Foundry
Canal Laborers Revolt and Boston Arrests Spark Controversy
The issue highlights Canal laborers in revolt and a prominent arrest in Boston tied to a mystery. It also notes ongoing political disputes settled by the President and a range of local and national topics across pages.
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Boston
Army and Navy Union
Hoke Smith
Y. M
Virginia
Maryland
Washington
the Post
Wall Street Review
India
Five Coaches Wreck In St Paul Train Collision
Five Soo Line passenger coaches plunged down a 27 foot embankment after a crossing collision with a Chicago Great Western freight. One dead, five seriously injured, many others treated. Airbrakes on the freight failed. fire extinguished quickly. numerous injured rushed to hospitals.
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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 Avoids Wreck in Chicago
Taft's special train narrowly escaped a derailment when a box car on a parallel freight train began shifting toward the depot end just as the Taft special neared Wells Street station. A switch was quickly moved, guiding the Taft train to a safe arrival. Taft remarked on a tired but productive trip and noted plans to study War Department estimates, the Panama Canal, and Philippine issues before returning to Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Chicago
Taft
Wells Street
War Department
Panama Canal
Congress
Northwestern
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Washington
Eloped With Three Women In Ohio Hypnotic Case
Special to The Washington Post reports from Indianapolis that Adolphus Snowden a nineteen year old near Goshen allegedly hypnotized Mary Burleson Sarah Snowden and Alice Snowden causing them to desert their families and flee to Folkstown DeKalb County. Snowden was arrested and the women said they did not understand his influence though they loved their husbands.
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Washington
Indianapolis
Adolphus Snowden
Goshen
Mary Burleson
Sarah Snowden
Alice Snowden
Folkstown
DeKalb County
Arrest in Boston Ties Richmond Man to Harborside Body
Boston October 1 The first arrest in the Winthrop harbor torso case involves William A. Haynes a 38 year old clerk of Lewis Wharf Boston linked by statements from Samuel A Winefield who claimed a friend helped cut up a body Haynes denies the charge saying the statements confuse his coroner jury service and dragging a body from the water Winefield a Baltimore transplant is held as a witness while a Back Bay girl missing prompts police caution and Richmonds Haynes family confirms his lineage and travel to Boston
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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
Back Bay
Watts
Richmond
Washington Post
Wiliam Allen Haynes
William B. Haynes
Charles City
Old Dominion Company
Newport News
Amy Evans
George H. Evans
Virginia Caroling Chemical Company
Thater Haynes
Harwood
Hoth
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Casasus
N.y.av
Mr. Roosevelt
Him
Texas
Prague
Wernay
Representative Williamson
Omaha
Miss Roosevelt
Japan
Indiana
W. A. Haynes
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