NO FEAR OF FEVER ROW WITH STATE BOARD
Yellow fever reports spread from Pensacola to Atlanta with two new local cases in Pensacola and multiple centers like Maysville, Vicksburg, and New Orleans under treatment or quarantine. State and city boards clash over quarantines while authorities pledge vigilance, cordons, and mosquito eradication efforts amid shifting case counts and new centers.
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Atlanta
City Board of Health
State Board of Health
State Board
J C Caruthers
Mobile
Ala
Mobjls
Fersecola
Fla
Miss Brent
George Brent
John Humphreys
Porter
Guiteras
Tampa
New Orleans
Lerritory
Little Rock
Ark
W HO Haynes
Arkansas Militia
Maysville
Mississippi
Louisiana
Florda
Vicksburg
Miss
New Casia
B F Cuinyton
U . Aa
E T. Dunn
Patterson
Yala
Philip Berge
Marine Hospital Services
President Roosevelt Braves Rain At Sagamore Hill
President Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt spent most of the day at Sagamore Hill amid a heavy rain and wind storm. They walked three miles home from church with their children, planning to reduce visitors and focus on personal recreation during the remainder of the seaside respite.
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Oyster Bay
L. I
Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Christ Episcopal Church
Long Island
New York
Wadsworth
Taft to Canton Viceroy Apology Demanded After Insulting Posters
Taft voyage to Canton disrupted by anti American posters provoking Consul General Lay to demand apology from the viceroy. Miss Roosevelt will visit Consul Lay in Canton. secretary Taft and party proceed to Hongkong with Miss Roosevelt accompanying. Banquet for Taft to be held by the viceroy who will be absent.
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Lay
Miss Roosevelt
Canton
Taft
Hongkong
Logan
America
Brege
Camton
Roosevelt
Matthew Nathan
Corbin
Ace Roosevelt
Tat
Callao
Los Angeles Sees Severe Earthquake Shake At Night
A major quake struck Los Angeles causing a seven to fifteen second tremor with a deep subterranean boom. Fire alarms rang as 4,000 people gathered at Beyo nd and Spring streets amid fear of a dynamite blast. No major damage in downtown. plaster fell at Baker Block and a city hall tower bookcase toppled onto Lou Couburn. Five horses ran away in panic.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Sept
Beyond
Spring Streets
Baker Block
North Main Street
City Hall
Lou Couburn
City Electrician
Chief Rules Airspace Three Miles High Over Chicago
Police chief Colins warned that Chicago airspace extends three miles up, limiting any aerial display. A Roy Kabenshue plans to circle the Masonic Temple dome on September 18, but the chief insisted flights must stay within or outside the three mile limit to avoid jurisdiction issues.
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Washington
Chicago
Collins
Roy Kabenshue
Toledo
Roosevelt Receives Japanese Emperor's Message on Peace Pact
President Roosevelt today received a cable from the Emperor of Japan expressing thanks for efforts toward peace in the Far East. The telegram ends rumors of dissatisfaction and notes common goals in the Portsmouth negotiations. Witte shows impatience to finish treaties and prevent last minute changes while Komura repeats his positions.
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Oyster Bay
L. L
Roosevelt
Japan
Far East
Portsmouth
Ekomura
M Witte
Witte
Baron Komura
M. Witte
Askhalin
Roosevelt Receives Japan’s Thanks for Peace Efforts
President Roosevelt today received a message of gratitude from the Emperor of Japan for his role in the negotiations ending hostilities in the Far East. The letter dated September 3 1905 from Tokyo commends the President for disinterested efforts toward peace and permanent welfare in the region.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Japan
Far East
Terms Dictated by Mikado Shape Portsmouth Peace
The article reports that terms of the Portsmouth treaty were dictated by the Japanese Emperor and will mark a permanent peace. It notes delays in cable messages, expected signing early in the week, and that engrossing drafts in English and French proceed while Japanese insist on precise wording.
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Russia
Roosevelt
Far East
Portsmouth
Mikado
Japan
Wan Dua
M. Rojestvensky
Mr. Adashi
Gzar Praises Army but Declines Further War Exposure
In St Petersburg on September 8 the Emperor telegraphed Gen Linovitch praising the army for its sacrifice in Manchuria and announcing he would not expose Russian troops to fresh horrors. He cited duty to conscience and people and accepted preliminary peace terms after Japan yielded all but part of Sakhalin.
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Nicholas
St Petersburg
Linovitch
Portamouth
Sakhalin
Pacific Ocean
Japan
Russia
Manchuria
Anglo Japanese Disgrace Speaker Opposes Alliance
Special to The Washington Post Chicago report of William Redmond M P arriving with his wife for a dinner hosted by the Irish Fellowship Club. He condemns England's alliance with Japan saying it harms India and foresees a yellow peril affecting the Western world. He cites Japan's invasion in Australia and predicts broader consequences. The text also lists travel prices and schedules on the Baltimore and Ohio line from Cumberland to Berkeley Springs and Martinsburg with a Sunday departure at 5:05 a m.
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Chicago
William Redmond
John Redmond
Irish Fellowship Club
England
Japan
Mr. Redmond
India
Higland
Australia
Storm floods New York in September downpour
Special to The Washington Pest from Newark reports a heavy rainstorm with a half gale in the morning. Winds reached thirty seven miles an hour, flooding sewers and streets across boroughs. Coney Island damage included washing away steps at Balmer's pavilion and service disruption on the Coney Island Express Line.
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Washington
Newark
Weather Bureau
Coney Island
Balmer
Zemstvo Members Hushed In Moscow Meeting
Police halted a private gathering of Moscow zemstvo congress members convened to set stance toward the projected national assembly. Attendees included Princes Dolgorouid Vroubstskoy and Livoff.
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Moscow
Moscow Zemstvo Congress
Zemstvyoists
Princes Dolgorouid
Vroubstskoy
Livoff
SHIP FREE FROM CHOLERA DECLARED BY HARBOR DOCTOR
New York dispatch reports the Hamburg American Line ship Bluecher detained at quarantine for over two hours for inspection but cleared of illness aside from a steerage measles case. Dr Nocht of Hamburg reassures that cholera risk is controlled. U S seaboard viewed as less threatened than emigrant ships from Trieste and Austrian Poland.
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New York
Hamburg- American Line
Bluecher
Hamburg
Germany
Doty
Berlin
Nocht
Moltke
Nea Treffla
United States Seaboard
Trieste
Austrian
Poland
Isthmian Freight Tied Up Over Plague Report
Colon Sept 3 The canal zone medicals say death of Wharf La Boos laborers Aug 26 was due to bubonic plague causing freight to Central America and Mexico to be refused at isthmian ports Costa Rica and Nicaragua have barred the isthmian port. Zanzibar Sept 3 the town reports plague infection with five deaths among natives from six cases.
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Colon
Canal Zone
la Boos
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Central America
Mexico
Zanzibar
Madden deposition summons in alimony case
Mrs Madden wife of turfman John W Madden seeks his deposition for a pending Ohio alimony claim. An officer in Cincinnati served a summons for Madden to appear next Tuesday at William S Dickson's law office. Madden and his New York attorney William Lindsay attended a conference with local counsel but no decision on his Brooklyn jail sentence.
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Lexington
Madden
John WH. Madden
Ohio
Cincinnati
William S. Dickson
William Lindsay
New York
Lindsay
Burr
Brooklyn
Asbury Park mayoral race heats up with three filed
Three candidates filed petitions for Asbury Park mayor in the September primaries. Incumbent Mayor Ten Broeck seeks re election alongside Charles A. Atkins owner of the Ocean Hotel and city councilman, and David Harvey Jr a lawyer. All back various licenses and a possible fourth candidate may enter for prohibition interests. Wet or dry outcome looms with women voters excluded next November.
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Ween
Asbury Park
N. J
Ten Broeck
Charles A. Atkins
Ocean Hotel
David Harvey, Jr
Bomb blast at Marine Parade crowds citywide panic
A large blast at the Marine Parade during a holiday crowd caused panic and 30 to 60 injuries with one woman dead and five mortally wounded. A conical cement covered device packed with scrap iron detonated, tossing a coachman fifty feet and scattering hats parasols and clothing. A man suspected of planting the bomb was nearly lynched before he proved innocent.
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Barcelona
Sept
Paname
Four Women Drowned When Ferry Strikes Small Craft
Four young women died in the Hudson River near New York City when the small pleasure steamer Young America was struck and sunk by the ferry George H Power. Two survivors included the captain and engineer. The deceased include Mary C Bedell and Margaret McKay, both twenty, of New York. The Bedells had attended their father’s funeral in Comstock and were bound for New York when the tragedy occurred.
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Hudson, N
Hudson River
Young America
George H Power
Mary C Bedell
New York
Tonnip L. Bedell
Sarah Brown
Margaret McKay Coxsackle
Mary C. Bedell
Margaret McKay
Bedell
Comsackte
Boak Rockers Arrested In Pascagoula Drowning Case
Special to The Weehington Post reports sensational features in the drowning of Boze Carter in Pascagoula River near Brewton Mississippi. Charles Jamison and W N Taylor are jailed on five thousand dollar bonds after being accused of rocking the boat despite pleas to stop. Carter could not swim and drowned as the boat capsized with all aboard. Neither companion attempted a rescue.
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Weehington Post
Mobile
Als
Rept
Boze Carter
Pascagoula River
Brewton
Miss
Charles Jamison
W. N Taylor
Young Carter
Hig
Carter
Itig
Crushed Under Auto Kills One, Injures Another in Hammond
Special to the Washington Post reports a fatal auto accident near Hammond Indiana when a car overturned trying to avoid an electric train. Charles Creckman of 4687 Ella Avenue suffered a broken hip and internal injuries, while chauffeur Carl Ards was killed almost instantly.
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Hammond
Ind
Tme Wearington Post
Chicago
Charles Creckman
Ella Avenue
Carl Ards
Desperate Negro's Crime and Double Shooting
In Salisbury North Carolina on September 3 Whitman Hardy a mulatto desperado from Yorkville shot two Black men Zeke Young was killed and another Black man wounded Hardy was slightly wounded and arrested while attempting to escape Authorities say the shooting was unprovoked and Hardy is extradition sought by South Carolina officials for two white men.
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Salisbury
N. C
Zeke Young
Whitman Hardy
Yorkville
Hardy
South Carolina
Atlanta Quarantines Rejected as Peace Near
The issue notes Atlanta refuses quarantine measures while a peace treaty nears completion. Other items mention a bomb horror at Barcelona and a large iron deal, with additional reports across pages on government printing office matters and a Potomac death by own action.
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Atlanta
Barcelona
Government
Potomac
Royal Arcanum
Maryland
Virginia
Dixie
Famous
Marquise de Fontenoy
Baltimore Pair Sprint to Atlantic City by Special Train
Henry Pratt Jones and James Madison Thompson of Baltimore rode a special Pennsylvania Railroad train from Broad Street to Atlantic City in sixty eight minutes, aiming for a midnight surf bath. They paid the $39 for the trip from Philadelphia officials and left Philadelphia after the dash, while rival West Virginia mine owner J. M Richards complained of the Bellevue Stratford roof garden height and departed town.
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Washington Post
Philadelphia
Henry Pratt Jones
James Madison Thompson
Baltimore
Pennsylvania Railroad
Atlantic City
Broad Street
J. M Richards
West Virginia
Bellevue Stratford
Jones
Thompson
Maryland Club
Bachelora
Wik Hunt Club
Bellevue
Camden
James
Price
Janey
Richards
Mr Richards
Addicks a Dead One in Delaware Politics
Special to The Washington Post from Dover Delaware September 8 reports J Frank Allee state chairman of the Addicks Union Republican party declares Addicks politically dead and unable to be elected to the United States Senate. He says the belief in Addicks’s election is dead and would be fake to himself and to Addicks.
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Washington Post
Dover
Del
J. Edward Addicks
Delaware
J. Frank Allee
Addicks Union Republican Party
Addicks
Senate
Mr. Addicks
United States
Mr. Allee
Duke Seeks Absolute Divorce After Nine Months of Marriage
James B. Duke president of the American Tobacco Company sues for divorce from wife Lilian M. Duke after a nine month marriage. Co-respondent named Frank T. Hunter of this city. Case filed in Chancery Court Trenton New Jersey. Papers served on Mrs. Duke at her home in the city. The couple wed in Camden on November 29 of last year. Mrs. Duke was previously Mrs. McCready.
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Tobacco King
Sypetal
York
Nic
Httle
James B. Duke
American Tobacco Company
Frank T. Hunteon
Duke
Chancery Court
Trenton
N. J
Bergen
Somerville
Lillian M. Duke
Death Ends After Car Crash Shakeup For Batley
In Cleveland the coroner heard Mrs A H Batley defend her actions after her automobile struck Charles Broentle on August 15. She said she did not reverse the car to avoid injuring several persons and that stopping the vehicle harmed only one man. The inquiry resumes as investigators seek fuller testimony.
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Cleveland
Copus
A. H. Batley
Charles Broentle
Schwab Buys Wharton Iron Interests in New Jersey
Paterson New Jersey Sept reports confirm Charles M Schwab buys Thomas Wharton iron interests in Morris County near Wharton for about 10 million dollars creating a direct rail link to Bethlehem Steel Works The Passaic Steel Works purchase rumors resurfaced with Schwab said not to need it for his operations The Passaic plant remains the largest steel maker near the Atlantic seaboard and the Wharton mines are among the region's best with strong employment impact in the town
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Schwab
Passaic Steel Works
Atlantic Seaboard
Othen
Weahington Post
Paterson
N. J
Thas
Morris County
Wharton
Bethlehem
Passaic Company
Atlantic Sear Board
Mrs Caton in London for Westminster wedding to Marshall Field
Special dispatch reports Mrs Lelia Spencer Caton arriving in London from Paris for Tuesday wedding at St Margaret’s to Marshall Field of Chicago. Bride’s party includes Miss Eddy and Spencer Eddy as bridesmaids and best man. Claridge's Hotel hosts wedding breakfast for about twenty-five guests including ambassadors, officials, and Field family members.
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Washington Post
London
iMrs
Lelia Spencer Caton
St. Margaret’s Church
Westminster
Marshall Field
Chicago
Claridgesa
Paris
Augustus Eddy
Field
Missea Birch
Eddy
Spencer Eddy
St. Patersburg
Cavers
Claridge’s Hotel
Gussia
Augustus Wddy
Spencer Hddy
Miss Hddy
M's
Marshall Eld, Jr
Ai Mr
Mra
Crossley
Myre
Henry Dibbin
M. Fielf
Beat
Land
Mira
Whitelaw Rela
Wadsworth and
Carter
Amercan
Rioting at Lirat Leaves Casualties Among Reservists
Liban reports rioting after reservist departure on Saturday night. Ten persons killed and fifty wounded as agitators fired from a house. military answered with volleys and cavalry charges. Troops stormed the firing house. one policeman and several soldiers died, with women among the injured.
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Liban
Romance of Immigrants Marries After Steerage Meeting
A nineteen year old Austrian woman Marie Huanvel and Florian Ungart aged twenty three, steerage passengers aboard the Hamburg American liner Bluecher, met on the voyage from Hamburg. They learned they hailed from the same Austrian town, decided to marry in New York, and then continued to Milwaukee aboard an immigrant train after a ceremony with a State Street missionary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Marie Huanvel
Florian Ungart
Hamburg
Austria
Milwaukee
Marie Fe
Eile Island
Whorton
Marie
State Street
G A R Reunion in Denver Opens Encampment Today
Denver Sept. The thirty ninth annual encampment of the Grand army of the Republic begins in Denver tomorrow. The city is crowded with guests as trains arrive from all directions. Five candidates seek the office of commander in chief: James Vanner of New York Robert Brown of Ohio Col Burroughs of New Jersey Charles Burton former Congressman and Gen George Stone of California. Attes are in the race for these meeting plate. They are Chattanooga Columbus Oblea Minneapolis and Bus.
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Denver
Cole
Grand Army of the Republic
Corp
James Vanner
New York
Robert Brown
Ohio
Col
Burroughs
New Jersey
Charles Burton
George Stone
California
Chattanooga
Columbus
Oblea
Minneapolia
Bus
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Cotton Growers and Manufacturers’ Association
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Vatican Authority
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Turfman
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Hudson
Genoa
Orulher
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Chester
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Spender
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Wharton Iron Interests
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Socialista
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