Poll Plot to Kill Jersey Governor Foiled by Postal Inspectors
In Sea Girt New Jersey on September 14 postal workers intercepted an infernal machine mailed from Philadelphia to Governor Fort. The device combined powder bullets and matches with taunting lines and was designed to explode upon opening. Officials linked the case to Forts strong stance against lawbreaking at Atlantic City and pledged closer screening of all mail to the governor.
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Sea Girl
N. J
Atlantic City
Fort
Philadelphia
Gov. Fort
New Jersey
W. D. Ryan
Attempts Murder and Suicide in Morristown Street incident
Morristown Tennessee Sept 14 Dr David Devore once practicing physician here attempted to kill his wife on the street then went to a nearby stable and shot himself dying instantly. The aged doctor and his wife had been separated for over a year and he had sought reconciliation for weeks without success.
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Morristown
Tenn
David Devore
Devore
Commission Targets Waste Across Lands Waters and Minerals
The National Conservation Commission releases its first schedules for a nationwide resource inventory. It probes soil erosion and bad farming methods, public-range carrying capacity, irrigation waste, underused water power, flood waters, and mining waste. The census by correspondence collects data on wood-using industries to inform a final conservation report.
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Washington
National Conservation Commission
The
Conservation Commission
Thaw to be transferred to White Plains jail
Harry K. Thaw will be moved from Dutchess County jail to White Plains jail after Supreme Court Justice Mills ordered the transfer. The move, set for a week earlier than the planned habeas corpus hearing, accompanies Thaw’s pursuit of a jury trial on his sanity. Thaw’s attorney Morschauser and Sheriff Chanler accepted the order, with White Plains authorities confirming capacity.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Harry K. Thaw
Dutchess County
White Plains
Westchester County
Supreme Court
Mills
Thaw
Insurance firms seek to perpetuate testimony in Austin murder case
In Omaha on September 14 three insurers filed circuit court petitions to perpetuate the testimony of Davis and Mrs. Rice. The questions mirror inquest topics, aiming to have usable testimony if either witness leaves the jurisdiction. Companies include Aetna Life of Stratford with a $10,000 policy, Travellers Insurance of Hartford, and Employers’ Liability of London each with $5,009 on Austin. Policies void if the insured dies under the influence of intoxicants.
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Omaha, Neb
Frederick Austin
Circuit Court
Davis
Rice
Omaha
Aetna Life of
Startford
Austin
Travellers’ Insurance Company of
Hartford
Employers’ Liability of
London
Aged Man Arrested in Counterfeiting Ring
George Sands aged 79 was arrested at his Kansas City Kansas home on a counterfeiting charge. Five glass jars buried in his yard contained 338 counterfeit silver dollars in excellent imitation of the real coins. Authorities found plaster of paris lead wine and quicksilver in his residence.
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Kansas City
George Sands
Kan
Plaster of Paris
Sands
Greater speed for Wright aeroplane raises war potential
Wrights plan to raise engine speed and alter sprockets to reach at least 44 mph, boosting performance and a $10,000 bonus. Discussion at Fort Myer points to aerial craft as invulnerable targets and capable of dropping explosive shells on ships, with multiple planes noted as economical attack options. Wilbur Wright later endures motor trouble at Le Mans, achieving only 6 minutes 44 seconds on his longest flight.
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Washington
Orville Wright
C. E. Taylor and Co
W. Furnass
Wright
Fort Myer
Wright Brothers
Mr. Wright
Wilbur Wright
le Mans
Lazare Weiller
Rene Quinton
M. Deutsch-Delameurthe
Henry Farman
Auvours
Hotel Manager Kills Self in New York Shootout
Frank B. Bennett 56, said to run a Washington DC hotel, died by self-inflicted gunshot at the Gotham Hotel on Fifth Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street Saturday. Police said Bennett’s death was by his own action.
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Self
New York
Frank B. Bennett
Washington, D.C
Gotham
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-Fifth Street
Storm Damages Fishing Craft in Portuguese Coast
A heavy storm along the Portuguese coast has damaged fishing vessels and left twenty boats missing. The crews, totaling about 250 men, are unaccounted for amid worsening weather.
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Lisbon
Fire Rages Across Great Lakes North Shore Burning Tracts
Duluth dispatch warns 48 hours of rain needed to avert destruction of Lake Superior north shore towns as forests burn from Wisconsin to Michigan. Grand Marias fate uncertain. steamer Gopher aids fire fight. Michigan Game Wardens ordered to focus solely on flames amid peat bed and marsh fires in Racine and Greenville areas.
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Michigan
Wisconsin
Duluth
Minn
Lake Superior
Cook County
Grand Marias
Detroit
Mich
Pierce
Traverse City
Booneville
Calumet
Copper Country
Isle Royal
Rock Harbor
Washington Harbor
Racine
Wis
Norway
Lake Place
Franksville
St. Paul
Greenville
Dorset Big Woods
Crawford Line
Ohio
Gas Blast Injures Several In Chicago Vault
A gas explosion at the Wahl Adding Machine Company vault on Ohio Street injures many, with two possibly fatally hurt. The blast occurred Saturday morning in a manufacturing building’s third and fourth floors, caused by gas from a defective wall fixture filling the vault with vapor overnight.
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Chicago
Wahl] Adding Machine Company
Ohio Street
Broker Dies Fallback in Fall from Eighth Floor Window
Pittsburg, Pa. Sept 14. Herman A Schulz a 52 year old flour and grain broker died instantly when he overbalanced while trying to close an office window on the eighth floor of his building Saturday.
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Pittsburg
Herman A. Schulz
Strauss to Take Stump for Labor Policy
Secretary of commerce and labor Oscar S Strauss plans to campaign for Taft on labor questions, stating he will speak in New York and Chicago and elsewhere, arguing Bryan’s policies harm labor and industry. Bryan campaigns eastward arriving in Cumberland Md with West Virginia committeeman John T McGraw and denying Hearst’s claim of seeking Hearst’s support in 1912. He speaks in Cumberland at city hall plants and again at Academy of Music.
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Cincinnati
Taft
Oscar&. Strauss
Department of Commerce and Labor
T. W. Powderly
Information Bureau
Department
Strauss
William J. Bryan
John T. McGraw
West Virginia
Mr. Bryan
Deer Park
Wheeling
Bryan
Atlanta
William R. Hearst
Hearst
Academy of Music
Three Men Killed by Engine in Cleveland Yard
In Cleveland Ohio three men were killed and a fourth thrown into the air when struck by a fast moving engine in the Lake Shore railroad yards on Saturday morning. The victims were Yanko Milacie and Joseph Milacie, brothers from Buffalo New York, James Kovacivic of Buffalo New York, and Steven Hodak of 441 Gavin Street Buffalo New York who escaped injury. The men were seeking work and had stepped between tracks to reach a freight train when struck.
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Cleveland, O
Lake Shore
Yanko
Joseph Milacie
Buffalo
N. Y
James Kovacivic
Steven Hodak
Gavin Street
Caime
Cleveland
Roosevelt Attends Garden Party at Tranquillity East Main Street
President and Mrs. Roosevelt attended a garden party at Tranquillity the country home of John A. Weeks in Oyster Bay. The event, a benefit for Nassau hospital Mineola L I, featured Bethel Roosevelt at the tea tables. The President used a tent during the Cuban campaign.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
Tranquillity
John A. Weeks
East Main Street
Nassau Hospital
Mineola
L. I
Bethel Roosevelt
Indicted for first degree murder in trunk death case
Cambridge Massachusetts September 14 Chester S Jordan has been indicted for murder in the first degree over the death of his wife whose body parts were found in a trunk at a lodging house. Jordan pleaded not guilty while the defense claims a confession was coerced.
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Cambridge
Mass
Chester S. Jordan
Jordan
Fesser
Canada Wheat and Barley Yields From Government Report
A government crop report estimates Canada wheat at 124 690 000 bushels with an average yield of 21 bushels per acre. Oats are about 208 000 000 bushels and barley around 49 488 000 bushels, reflecting total production expectations across Ontario and other regions.
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Canada
Ottawa
Wright, Iowa Prohibition Father, Dies at 71
B F Wright longtime Floyd County Advocate editor and Charles City Daily Press publisher died at his daughter's home in Charles City after a long battle with illness. Born August 20 1837 in Vernon Ohio he helped steer the 1882 prohibition amendment and faced mob threats while promoting temperance across Iowa. He moved to Iowa in 1857 and pursued journalism for decades shaping state history.
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Charles City
B. F. Wright
Iowa
Ohio
New
West
Pioneer House of Ferguson & Co
Wright and McNabb
San Diego
Cal
Wright
Floyd County
Robert N. Nicol
Foster
Burlington
Rhoda
Adam Wright
Vernon
Trumbull County
Woman Sets Self Afire in Wisconsin Field
Mrs. Ella Isbester of Salem Wis. burned herself with coal oil in an open field while her husband James Isbester was away seeking a doctor. She was found alive and said before unconsciousness that she did it to save someone else.
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Kenosha
Wis
Ella Isbester
James Isbester
Salem
Antioch
Isbester
Emily Taylor Weds E H Symington at St Mark's
Lucerne reports the wedding of Miss Emily Taylor daughter of the late Col D M Taylor and niece of Rear Admiral Robly D Evans to E H Symington of Baltimore at St Mark's Church yesterday.
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Bob Evans
Lucerne
Emily Taylor
Night Riders Plunder in Aurora Illinois Barn Burnings
Night riders burned four barns and several hay stacks on farms near Aurora Illinois on September 14. No motive can be ascribed for the vandalism.
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Aurora
Ill
Northwest Wheat Moves
North west wheat movement begins two to three weeks earlier than last year reports from Duluth and Superior show 500 to 600 cars daily for trans shipments in the last week indicating a brisk start to the season under northern railroad freight agents.
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Northwest
St. Paul
Minn
Northern
Duluth
Superior
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