NO FEAR OF FEVER ROW WITH STATE BOARD
Yellow fever reports spark conflicts as city and state health boards clash over quarantine actions in Atlanta and nearby towns. New cases rise in Pensacola while Mobile suspends quarantine. Vicksburg and New Orleans update totals. Cuban expert notes mosquito eradication as key. Security around infected towns tightens with cordons and militia guarding quarantine lines.
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Fersecola
Fla
Miss Brent
George Brent
John Humphreys
Porter
Guiteras
Tampa
New Orleans
President Roosevelt Seeks Quiet Vacation at Sagamore Hill
President Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt endured a heavy rain storm at Sagamore Hill with early church attendance and a three mile walk home in the gale. They will limit visitors and focus on recreation, seeking time to themselves after a busy summer of public business.
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Oyster Bay
L. I
Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Christ Episcopal Church
Long Island
New York
Wadsworth
Taft Trip to Canton Sparks Diplomatic Tensions
Taft sails for Canton amid protests over insulting posters in Canton. Consul General Lay demands an apology from the viceroy as Taft plans an official visit. Miss Roosevelt accompanies Taft party to Canton aboard the gun boat Callao for a diplomatic outreach with Consul Lay.
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Lay
Miss Roosevelt
Canton
Taft
Hongkong
Logan
America
Brege
Camton
Roosevelt
Matthew Nathan
Corbin
Los Angeles Shaken by Severe Earthquake Aftershock Fears
A strong earthquake struck Los Angeles late at night, tremors lasting seven to fifteen seconds. A subterranean explosion prompted a downtown fire alarm and a 4000 strong crowd gathered at Bey ond and Spring. No major damage in the core, modest injuries from plaster and a toppled bookcase injuring Lou Couburn. five horses spooked.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Sept
Beyond
Spring Streets
Baker Block
North Main Street
City Hall
Lou Couburn
City Electrician
Chief police bars three mile high air visit over city
Chief Colins announced Chicago is three dimensional in law not two and will not permit any aeronaut to circle the Masonic Temple dome within city limits. If the flight occurs outside, it must stay over three miles high to avoid jurisdiction concerns. The warning followed a telegram by aeronaut Roy Kabenshue stating plans for September 18.
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Washington
Chicago
Collins
Roy Kabenshue
Toledo
Roosevelt Receives Emperors Thanks On Far East Peace Pact
President Roosevelt today received a cable from the Emperor of Japan expressing thanks for his efforts toward peace in the Far East and approving the treaty terms. The note ends rumors of Japanese dissatisfaction and notes the treaty, with protocols, should be signed soon. Witte pressures for quick completion while Komura sticks to his brief, seeking precise terms and safeguards for private rights in Sakhalin and the Liaotung Peninsula.
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Tokyo
Roosevelt Receives Japanese Peace Thanks Message
President Roosevelt today received from the Emperor of Japan a message of thanks and appreciation for his part in the negotiations that led to a cessation of hostilities in the far east. The Tokyo note dated September 3, 1905, praises the President for disinterested and unre-mitting efforts toward peace and a permanent welfare and tranquillity in the region.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Japan
Far East
Terms Dictated by Mikado in Portsmouth Treaty
Japanese terms dictated the Portsmouth treaty per Japanese advisers, with rumors the agreement will be signed soon. Officials report the treaty comprises a preamble and seventeen articles, engrossing in English and French, with ratifications exchanged within fifty days after signature.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Associated Press
Associated Preas
M. de Martens
Russia
la Lorraine
New York
Tokyo
Meyer
St. Petersburg
Baron Komura
Plenipotentiaries
Guv McLane
Gzar Praises Army While Defending Conscience and People
The Emperor praised the Russian army for valor in Manchuria and explained he accepted preliminary peace to spare soldiers from further horrors. He telegraphed Gen. Linovitch that duty to conscience and the people prevented further exposure of Russian men to war, while acknowledging army sacrifices.
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Nicholas
Manchuria
Russia
Japan
Anglo-Japanese Disgrace Discussed by Irish Leader in Chicago
Special to The Washington Post William Redmond M P brother of John Redmond arrived in Chicago with his wife for a world tour and will dine with the Irish Fellowship Club. He condemned England s alliance with Japan predicting yellow peril effects and urging India be left to its fate. He cited Japanese invasion threats as Australia feels the impact and warned of wider Western consequences.
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Chicago
William Redmond
John Redmond
Irish Fellowship Club
England
Japan
Mr. Redmond
India
Higland
Australia
Storm Floods New York City in Severe Sept Rainfall
Newark dispatch reports heavy rain and a half gale in New York with winds up to thirty seven miles per hour. Sewer systems flooded and streets inundated for hours as rain poured in sheets washing away parts of Balmer's bathing pavilion and disrupt ing the Coney Island Express. Train service was halted in the afternoon due to a feared wash-out at the terminal and resumed late in the evening.
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Washington
Newark
Weather Bureau
Coney Island
Balmer
Zemstvo meeting halted in Moscow private house
Police overnight raided a private house in Moscow and dispersed a gathering of zemstvo congress members including Princes Dolgorouid, Vroubstskoy, and Livoff. The meeting was convened to debate the stance of zemstvo supporters toward the upcoming national assembly.
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Moscow
Moscow Zemstvo Congress
Zemstvyoists
Princes Dolgorouid
Vroubstskoy
Livoff
Ship Free From Cholera Declares Americans Need Not Fear
New York dispatch reports Hamburg harbor physician Dr Nocht stating cholera risk is low for Americans. The Hamburg America Line steamship Bluecher, first from Hamburg since cholera appeared in Germany, was held at quarantine two hours but cleared aside from a measles case in steerage. Emigrants’ health under observation. no imminent epidemic, officials say. Berlin notes transshipment of Russian emigrants paused. cholera injection unlikely. NOCHT adds water and sanitation are faultless and urges calm as the United States may fear emigrants from Trieste more than those from German ports.
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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 medical authorities report a laborer death on August 26 at La Boos Wharf due to bubonic plague. Ecuadorian consul counters that no new cases exist. Central American and Mexican ports refuse isthmian freight, with Costa Rica Nicaragua closing ports. thousands of tons stranded. Zanzibar reports plague infection with five deaths from five cases among locals.
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Colon
Canal Zone
la Boos
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Central America
Mexico
Zanzibar
Madden summons reached turfman in alimony case
Mrs Madden wife of John W Madden turfman seeks his deposition for an alimony claim in Ohio courts. Cincinnati officer served a summons for Madden to appear in William Dickson's Cincinnati office next Tuesday. Lindsay Madden's New York attorney may appear on his behalf. Madden faces a 30 day jail term and a $250 fine in Brooklyn. plans to travel to Cincinnati remain unsettled.
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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 in Primaries
Three candidates filed for mayor in Asbury Park New Jersey as primaries loom. Incumbent Mayor Ten Broeck seeks re election while Charles Atkins proprietor of the Ocean Hotel and city councilman and David Harvey Jr lawyer join the race. All favor some form of higher license with talk of a fourth candidate representing prohibition interests and the November wet dry issue shaping up with women voters excluded.
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Ween
Asbury Park
N. J
Ten Broeck
Charles A. Atkins
Ocean Hotel
David Harvey, Jr
Bomb bursts on marine parade in Barcelona panic and deaths
A large bomb exploded during Barcelona's Marine Parade on a holiday afternoon. Between thirty and sixty victims were reported, including one woman dead and five seriously wounded. Witnesses described a cement covered conical device filled with scrap iron. A bystander was nearly lynched but survived. the author of the outrage remained unknown.
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Barcelona
Sept
Four Women Drowned After Ferry Collision on Hudson
Four young women, two returning from their father's funeral, drowned when the small pleasure steamer Young America was struck and sunk by the ferry George H Power on the Hudson. Bodies of Mary C Bedell and Margaret McKay recovered. two others missing. Captain and engineer on Young America were rescued.
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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
Boat Rockers Arrested Over Pascagoula River Drowning
Special to The Weehington Post reports sensational developments in the drowning of Boze Carter near Brewton Mississippi. Charles Jamison and W N Taylor were arrested and jailed on five thousand dollar bonds after allegedly rocking the boat despite Carter cannot swim, causing a capsize and his death. The two companions did not attempt 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 in Hammond Indiana
Special to the Times from Chicago reports a fatal accident near Hammond Indiana when a large car overturned while attempting to move from an approaching electric street car. One man, identified as Carl Ards, was killed, and another man, Charles Creckman of 4687 Ella Avenue, suffered a broken hip and internal injuries feared.
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Hammond
Ind
Tme Wearington Post
Chicago
Charles Creckman
Ella Avenue
Carl Ards
Desperate Negroes Crime Report Near Salisbury and Yorkville
In Salisbury on Sept 3 Zeke Young, a Black man, was killed and another Black man wounded when Whitman Hardy, a mulatto desperado from Yorkville, shot them. Hardy was slightly wounded and captured. Authorities seek Hardy for the killings of two white men.
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Salisbury
N. C
Zeke Young
Whitman Hardy
Yorkville
Hardy
South Carolina
Atlanta Refuses to Quarantine and Barcelona Bomb Horror
Index to ten day issue notes major stories including Atlanta rejecting quarantine measures and a near completion peace treaty. It also lists a bomb attack in Barcelona, a large iron deal, and various political and social items across pages.
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Barcelona
Government
Potomac
Royal Arcanum
Maryland
Virginia
Dixie
Famous
Marquise de Fontenoy
Special Train to Sea Fast Run to Atlantic City
Baltimore socialites Henry Pratt Jones and James Madison Thompson hired a Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive to race from Broad Street Station to Atlantic City, covering seventy six miles in sixty eight minutes for a surf bath at midnight. They arrived at Bellevue Stratford after a New York car trip, while West Virginia mine owner J M Richards admired the rooftop at the hotel and departed town after failing to book a top tower window.
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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 Says Delaware Senator Allee
Special to The Washington Post Dover Delaware September 8 J Edward Addicks amid moves by political associates to oust him from politics asks in Delaware papers where he fits in politics Senator J Frank Allee State chairman of the Addicks Union Republican party calls Addicks dead politically and unable to be elected to the U S Senate He says the belief he can win is dead and cannot be sustained in light conditions known to him.
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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
James B. Duke, president of the American Tobacco Company, petitions for a divorce from Lilian M. Duke after a nine month marriage. Frank T. Hunton of New York named co respondent. Proceedings filed in Chancery Court at Trenton New Jersey. service effected at Mrs. Duke’s Camden Street home.
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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 case inquest probes auto crash heroics and delay
In Cleveland the coroner hears Mrs A H Batley explain she did not reverse her car after hitting a crowd, saying backing would have injured several bystanders while attempting to stop the auto. Charles Broentle died from injuries August 15, as others recount the incident.
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Cleveland
Copus
A. H. Batley
Charles Broentle
Schwab Buys Wharton Iron Interests in New Jersey
Thomas Wharton iron interests in Morris County New Jersey are sold to Charles M Schwab Bethlehem Steel Works for about 10 million dollars. The deal includes a direct railroad link from the Wharton mines to the Bethlehem plant and may signal Schwab's control of the Morris County industry. Rumors persist that Passaic Steel Works may also be sought, though Schwab reportedly does not deem it necessary for operations.
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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 as she awaits marriage to Marshall Field
Special cable dispatch reports Mrs Lelia Spencer Caton arriving at Claridge's from Paris for her Tuesday wedding at St Margaret's Westminster to Marshall Field of Chicago. Field meets them at the station and hosts dinner. Bridesmaids named and a wedding breakfast at Claridge's planned with many guests including diplomats and embassy secretaries.
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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
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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 Dozens Dead in Liban
On Sept 8 Liban seen reservists departing when socialist rioters fired from a house. Army replied with volley then cavalry charged. Troops stormed the house. one policeman and several soldiers killed. Ten persons died and fifty wounded including women. Innocent victims among crowd as reservists were with families.
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Liban
Romance of Immigrants: Austrian Couple Wed in New York
Marie Huanvel age nineteen and Florian Ungart age twenty three, steerage passengers aboard the Hamburg American liner Bluecher, met in transit after sailing from Hamburg. They learned they came from the same Austrian town and decided to marry. A missionary in State Street performed the ceremony before the couple continued to Milwaukee on an immigrant barge and train bound for the West.
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New York
Marie Huanvel
Florian Ungart
Hamburg
Austria
Milwaukee
Marie Fe
Eile Island
Whorton
Marie
State Street
G A R Reunion Today In Denver Encampment
Denver welcomes the Grand Army of the Republic for its thirty ninth annual encampment. The city is crowded with guests as trains bring attendees from distant points. Five candidates seek the office of commander in chief James Vanner Robert Brown Burroughs Charles Burton and George Stone are the leading contenders for the race. The meeting places include Chattanooga Columbus Oblea Minneapolis and Bus.
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Cole
Grand Army of the Republic
Corp
James Vanner
New York
Robert Brown
Ohio
Col
Burroughs
New Jersey
Charles Burton
George Stone
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Chattanooga
Columbus
Oblea
Minneapolia
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