Duel on Wabash Express Car Leaves Two Wounded
Decatur dispatch reports John KR Ryan, a Wabash messenger, and Edward Greene, a Chicago former messenger, fought a revolver duel in Ryan’s express car on a run from Bement to Decatur. Both men wounded. Greene claims a robbery motive. The train crew learned of the fight only after Decatur arrival.
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Decatur
John KR Ryan
Pacific Mall
Wabash
Edward Greene
Chicago
Ryan
Greene
Pittsfield
Cerro Gordo
Trial of Armours Begins In Chicago Court
Chicago Sept. 27 Arguments began before Judge Otis Humphreys on the plea in abatement to the indictment against J Ogden Armour and other packers charged with combining in restraint of trade The defense contested alleged insufficiency interference and other points and sought denial of the plea.
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Chicago
Otis Humphreys
J. Ogden Armour
Itla
Sulzberger Summoned Witness Against Armour
Chicago, Sept 27 Max Sulzberger vice president of Schwarachik and Sulzberger Packing company and BE Fish traffic official have been subpoenaed by the government as witnesses in the heel trust cases to testify against Armour and other defendants.
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Chicago
Max Sulzberger
Schwarachik & Sulzberger Packing Company
Be, Fish
Ae Withesses
Armour
Chinaman Held Over False Certificates In El Paso Case
El Paso Texas September 27 immigration officers announce Kong Bow a Chinese man faces charges for issuing fraudulent certificates He allegedly signed another’s name altered the description and pasted his photo on the documents Bow may be prosecuted for uttering a penitentiary offense Mrs EB Mueller and Mrs Stevenson with daughter Alice arrived from Topeka Kansas They visit Mr and Mrs Eugene With and seek relief for asthma illness Note mentions Mr Stevenson employed by Santa Fe at Topeka for years seeking climate relief
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Texas
Fnlah
Kong Bow
Chinamas
Tow
Soiny
Bow
EB. Mueller
Mra. J
Stevenson
Allce
Topeka
Kax
Mueller
Eugene
Mountain Road
Miss Stevenson
Santa Fe Road
Methodists Meet in North and South Conferences
Leitchfield Kentucky hosts the annual Methodist Episcopal South conference with 250 ministers, while Bishop A Coke Smith is ill. Elections for general conference delegates set for Birmingham with four ministers and four lay delegates. In New York, Central New York conference opens at Hedding church led by Bishop Spellmeyer. Rev C M Boswell conducts daily revival meetings. Daughters of the American Revolution state meeting opens in Syracuse with delegates from eighty chapters. Notables include Mrs Donald McLean and Mrs John C Hazen among guests.
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Epic Royal Church
South
A. Coke Smith
Norfolk
Warren A. Candjer
Atlanta
Birmingham
Ala
Himira
N. Y
Hedding Church
Henry Spellmeyer
Cincinnati
Ohio
C. M. Boswell
Philadelphia
New Vot
Syracuse
Daughters of the American Revolution
New York
Onondaga
Donaid McLean
The
John C. Hazen
Charles A. Terry
Brooklyn
Williams. Little
Rochester
General Corbin Reports Typhoon Damage in Manila Dispatch
General Corbin reports extensive damage from a typhoon in Manila in a War Department dispatch. The quartermasters depot was completely destroyed and a theatrical manager and theater owner are reported dead in Yonkers and Milwaukee areas.
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Corbin
Washington
T. C
War Department
Manila
Corvin
Quartermasters
Milwaukee, Wis
Jacob Litt
Die Say
Mt Yonkers
Japan's Panama Canal interest and trade push
Washington reports Japan plans heavy canal era upgrades with at least 20 million dollars for harbors and piers to handle increased traffic. Japanese ports, oil, cotton, silk trade figures, and Korea commerce expansion are outlined, with population and migration estimates for Seoul and surrounding regions.
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Washington, D. C
Panama Canal
Japan
State Department
Osaka
Liverpool
United States
Mikado
Korea
IMM
Ham Keung
Seoul
Nixon ill. legislative committee adjournment feared
New York Sept 27 report from the legislative investigating committee says Speaker S Fred Nixon is seriously ill and the committee would adjourn if he dies. Witnesses include George Van Tuyl Jr secretary treasurer of Albany Trust who produced an 1905 account transcript. Henry Winthrop Equitable Life resumed testimony on syndicate bonds profits and Union Pacific stock, with details of allocations and profits. National Postmasters convention opens in Dayton with hundreds of postmasters attending over three days. Vermont WCTU state convention in Swanton opens with light attendance, two day session.
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New York
Legislative Investigating Committee
Chalraytn Armstrong
Fred Nixon
George Co, van Tuyl, Jr
Albay ‘Trust Company
Andrew Hawlton
Henry Rogers Winthrop
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Conpany
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Equitable Society
Union Pacific
Emperor of Austria and His Hungarians Drift Apart
Budapest reports a committee says a coalition law question issued a manifesto. The document criticizes parts of a program for not conforming to the constitution and asserts the nation’s right to regulate its own affairs is being challenged by the empire. The wording hints at tensions between the Austrian emperor and Hungarian political factions over governance.
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Budapest
Grai
Ite
Emparor-Kite
Big Smelter for Albuquerque Planned by Southwear
The American magazine notes a new blast furnace project at Albuquerque by the Southwear Smelting and Refining Company. Bids opened show a plant to be the largest in New Mexico, with initial capacity of 160 tons daily and potential to reach 2,000 tons daily. the firm controls about 360 acres formerly owned by the Duettie Mine Company.
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Albuquer-que
New Mexico
Thin Pl
Duettie Minde Company
Bad Fire Destroys Colon Buildings and Post Office
A fierce blaze in Colon near railroad yards destroyed the post office and more than twenty houses with contents. By Sept 27 crews had extinguished the fire at 2:30 am, but Panama government offices and leased buildings were burned with little saved as wind threatened further spread.
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Colon
Bolivia
Panama
Fort Dodge
Towa
Frederick Adamson
Considering City Control of Transit
New York sept 27 the board of trade and transportation weighs a report by its executive committee on city control of passenger transit The committee urges the city to reclaim franchise grants from railway firms and grant short term revocable ones with indemnity The group believes subways and elevated lines could be dominated by city operated streets and urges legislature to empower separation of construction and operating contracts and municipal operation powers
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New York
Board of Trade and Transportation
Rapid Transit Commission
Gottenberg Faces Shock in Massachusetts Primaries
Massachusetts primary results deliver a shocking turn as Gottenberg suffers an upset. Voters weighed campaign positions amid tight races shaping party strategies ahead of statewide contests.
Russia seeks Germany aid in peace talks drive
In Gothenburg on Sept 27 a strong earthquake shook Lundy and Hisingen Island causing cracked windows and ground fissures. M Witte, invited by Emperor William, spent the night at a hunting lodge and will meet Prince Buelow Baron Richtofen and the Emperor to discuss a joint policy to counter the Far East yellow peril.
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Sweden
Lundy
Hisingen Island
Istand
Uinute
New York
M. Witte
Hague
Prince Buelow
Richtofen
William
Heraki
Berlin
Far East
Republican PrImaries favor Draper backers and tariff foes
Boston dispatch reports that candidates opposing tariff revision and Canadian reciprocity, aligned with Eben S. Draper, likely won in yesterday's Republican primaries while unpledged delegations were chosen. Democratic caucuses followed. Separately, Ohio State Bankers convened in Cleveland for a two day session with tours, lunches, and a theater party planned. In Indianapolis, Indiana Central University opened as a new nonsectarian institution under United Brethren in Christ guidance with a full faculty and initial buildings.
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Patters
Boston
Mass
Eben
Draper
Fale
Democrata
Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana Central University
United Brethren In Christ
Loomis Clan Holds Annual Session at Wadsworth Annex
Nearly a thousand Loomis family members attend the annual Loomis family association reunion in Hartford at the Wadsworth Athenaeum Annex. President Burdett Loomis presided as plans for a Loomis Institute school near Windsor emerged with a potential 1.5 million dollars for facilities on a 120 acre site. John M. Taylor of the Loomis Institute was slated to speak in the afternoon.
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Hartford
Cann
Loomis
Wadsworth Athenaeum
Loomis Family Association
Burdett Loomis
Loomis Institute
Connecticut
Windsor
Ahich
John M. Taylor
Italian coal operator Casna murdered near Gallup
Special to The Citizen Gallup New Mexico September 27 Andrew Casna a long time resident of Meliiley county was murdered last night three miles west of Gallup near the wagon road to Clarkville his wife was wounded and may die. Sheriff Coddington with deputies headed to the scene and gunmen suspected. The slain man a well known Italian coal mine operator sold coal by wagon loads to Gallup area. An American is suspected as the killer. the weapon was a .44 revolver.
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Gallup
Andrew Casna
Meliiley County
Clarkville
Moe Casna
Harry Coddington
Andrew Cassa
Caznm
Cassas
Derer
Itatlann
Chena
Canna
Bening
Bin
Dominion exhibition opens in New Westminster with governor general
The Dominion exhibition opened today in New Westminster with thousands visiting from across the Dominion. Earl Grey and staff arrived yesterday to attend the formal opening this afternoon. About 12,000 Indians from various regions gathered to pay respects to the governor general as the fair runs through October 7 featuring lacrosse and baseball tournaments and a river te watta event on Stansbury. An American oarsman Sehoilu may race. The town is crowded and hotel capacity is strained.
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New Westminster
Dominion
Earl Grey
Canada
Stansbury
Sehoilu
United States
Secretary Taft Makes Unusually Fast Ocean Crossing
San Francisco reports the Pacific Mail steamship Korea arrived from the Orient beating Sierra Pacific record by hours. Passengers included Secretary of War Taft and most of his party, who had sailed July 8 and headed for the Far East. The Korea completed the Yokohama voyage in little over ten days, beating the Vousoh record of ten days and fifteen hours.
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Secretary OF War
Taft
San Francisco
Pacific Mal Steamship Company
Orient
Sierrane Pacific
Hhe
Far East
Korea
Yokohama
Hono Hut
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