Bryanrebukes Roosevelt over GOP critique in national campaign
Detroit dispatches report William J. Bryan rebuking President Roosevelt in a letter defending Governor Haskell amid accusations of ties to Standard Oil. Taft speaks to Negro Baptist delegates in Cincinnati, and Haskell rejects resignation claims while Roosevelt urges Taft’s support amid party infighting. Additional items note a Detroit murder, a Nebraska train wreck, and a Parma bank receiver appointment.
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Detroit
Mich
William J. Bryan
Roosevelt
Gov. Haskell
Oklahoma
Democratic National Committee
Standard Oil Company
Bryan
Democratic Party
Cincinnati
White House
W. H. Taft
Negro National Baptist Convention
Lexington
Taft
National League of Republican Clubs
John Hayes Hammond
Markbreit
Ohio
H. W. Speelmaan
Hammond
Republican League of Clubs
Haskell
Guthrie
Okla
Charles N. Haskell
Democratic Committee
William R. Hearst
National Committee
Hearst
Foraker
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Loeb
Senator Foraker
Mr. Foraker
Gov
Grazed Black Slays Two at Historic Asylum Incident
Washington reports Andrew Lightfoot a 40 year old asylum patient killed overseer Patrick Maloney and inmate Millie Follin at St. Elizabeth Asylum for the Insane. He wounded inmate Miss Robinson before fleeing into nearby swamps and was shot by a police cordon. Lightfoot, once trusted staff, had shown violent insanity that morning.
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Washington
Andrew Lightfoot
St. Elizabeth Asylum For
Patrick Maloney
Millie Follin
Miss Robinson
Maloney
Lightfoot
Millie Fokin
Gompers Ordered to Answer in Contempt Testimony
Washington Sept 28 Chief Justice Calabash directed President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor to respond to questions about the contents of the September issue of the AF of L magazine during contempt proceedings. Judge Alton B Parker argued the officials had not violated the injunction nor their constitutional rights.
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Washington
Clabath
Supreme Court of the Distict of Columbia
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
American Federationist
Alton B. Parker
New York
Missing Girl Esther Hilbert Found Dead in Mass
The 19 year old Esther A Hilbert, who vanished from her mother's summer home in Chesterfield September 13, was discovered Tuesday at the edge of the woods near her home. Officials say death resulted from suicide, with a double barreled shotgun found by her side. both barrels discharged. Her father, John C Hilbert, is a Pennsylvania Railroad ticket agent at Lansdowne.
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Chesterfield
Mass
Esther A. Hilbert
Miss Hibbert
John C. Hilbert
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lansdown, Pa
Chief fires two officials in resignations over politics
Washington report says authority statement Tuesday forced the resignations of Second Assistant Postmaster General James T. McCleary and Assistant United States district attorney Paul Ewart for political activity. Both were candidates for the congressional nomination in Minnesota's Second District, and left before knowing the nominee.
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Washington
James T. McCleary
Congress
Minnesota
Paul Ewart
United States
McCleary
Ewart
Bandits Frightened Away at Wheeling Bank Heist
Three men forced entry at the Farm ers' and Merchants' bank in Wheeling six miles east of Chillicothe on Tuesday. Dynamite damaged the vault door and fixtures before the robbers fled in fright. In Sterling Illinois, auto crash victims include Anna Hefty and Erma Trey near death while Katia Mulcahy and Lilian Watson suffer injuries. Judge W L Kuykendall elected deputy grand sire of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at the sovereign grand lodge session in Denver.
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Chillicothe
Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank
Wheeling
Hurton
Sterling
Anna Hefty
Janesville
Wis
Erma Trey
Katia Mulcahy
Rock Island
Lilian Watson
Sterling, Ill
Wyoming
Denver
Col
W. L. Kuykendall
Saratoga
Wyo
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Sovereign Grand Lodge
Hisgen Talks in Texas in Houston Speech
Thomag IL Hisgen Independence League candidate for president spoke in Houston Tuesday night in a Texas campaign stop.
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Hisgen
Texas
Houston
Tex
Oyster Bay Ends Summer Capital Era for Roosevelt
Oyster Bay, N Y Sept 23 Theo dore Roosevelts final summer vacation ends as he departs for Washington to begin his last term. The town loses its summer capital status after seven years while the president plans a big African hunting trip and returns in excellent health. He entertained more visitors, worked harder, traveled to Newport Jordanville Matinecock Princeton and Huntington, rode horses and played lawn tennis, camped with his boys, helped farm work and chopped wood. He reads about Africa and prepares his outfit for next years hunt before resuming duties in Washington.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
White House
Washington
Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Newport
Naval War College
Jordanville
Jordanville Public Library
Matinecock
L. A
John Underhill
Princeton
N. 7
Cleveland
Cedarhurst
L. L
Huntington
New York National Guard
Long Island
Cold Spring Harbor
Africa
Forest Fires Threaten Northern Michigan Cities
Dispatches detail wide spread forest fires in northern Michigan and Wisconsin with towns such as Marinette Menominee Niagara Quincesse Foster City Herimanaville and Escanaba at risk. Losses include a mill and multiple buildings and several villages face evacuation as winds determine spread.
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Marinette
Wis
Foster City
Michigan Line
Marinette County
Morgan Interests
Oshkosh
Menominee
Mich
Niagara
Menominee River
Faitlorn Junction
Ingalls
Calumet
Michigan
Lac la Belle
Jumes
Bete de Cris
United States Ship Canal
Point Abbaye
Hebard & Son
Iron Country
Escanaba
Quinnesec
Herimanaville
Fifield
Revolt Impends in Portugal Says Lisbon Papers
Insistent declarations of a revolutionary outbreak in Portugal appear in local papers. Reports claim monarchical extremists arm for defense by secretly storing arms in Lisbon convents where authorities cannot enter. Movement is said to have clerical support.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Dowie Patriarch John Murray Dowie Dies in Michigan
John Murray Dowie aged 83 died Tuesday at the home of his son’s widow Mrs Jane Dowie on Whitelake Muskegon county Michigan He was the father of John Alexander Dowie founder of Zion City and had been repudiated by his son in the past.
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John Murray Dowie
Grand Rapids
Mich
John Alexander Dowie
Zion City
Jane Dowie
Whitelake
Muskegor County
Desperadoes Kill Merchant in Elkhorn Robbery
Burglars shot and killed M. Sagar, a merchant, when he surprised them cracking the safe at Lambert & Searles hardware store in Elkhorn Manitoba on Tuesday. Winnipeg dispatch notes the incident as a fatal hardware store burglary by desperadoes.
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Winnipeg
Man
M. Sagar
Lambert & Searles Hardware
Elkhorn
Cholera Fears Push Berlin Officials to Prepare Response
Berlin reports several cholera suspects, including two Russians who recently arrived from Russia, being relocated to Virchow hospital as health, interior, army and marine departments meet to plan epidemic measures. In St Petersburg the cholera surge drives water and sewer reforms. hospitals log 417 cases and 176 deaths in 24 hours.
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Berlin
Russia
Virchow,hospital
Health
Interior, Army and Marine
St. Petersburg
Neva
Lake Ladoga
St Petersburg
Stolypin
Star of Bengal Wrecked Off Coronation Island
The Star of Bengal, Capt. Thompson, with 136 aboard, ashore on Coronation island, Alaska. About 100 are Japanese and Chinese. The crew could not land. Burnside may not reach the wreck amid bad weather.
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San Francisco
Merchants’ Exchange
Fort Wrangel
Alaska
Star of Bengal
Thompson
Coronation Island
United States
Burnside
Stewart to Face Retiring Board Over Fort Grant Duty
Washington, Sept. 23 Col. William F. Stewart of the coast artillery has been ordered to appear before a retiring board in Washington to be examined on his disability its nature and whether it was incurred in the line of duty following his detail to the ungarrisoned Fort Grant post in Arizona.
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Washington
William F. Stewart
Coast Artillery
Fort Grant
Arizona
Washington, D. C
Lynched But Lives in El Paso Mob Incident
George Clark a negro shot Constable W H Taylor who tried to arrest him at She ro Tex and a mob hanged the man to a tree leaving him for dead. He was found alive and jailed. A second mob threatened to lynch him. Dies in Collision Near Elmira Four Erie freight workers killed or injured after a riderless train collision near Horseheads Elmira.
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Georgia
Atlanta
George Thomas
W. W. Beard
Fort Gaines
Central of Georgia
el Paso
Tex
George Clark
W. H. Taylor
Shero
Clark
Elmir
Erie
Horseheasts
Elmira
Visit notes and quips from a bygone column
A fragmentary, playful clippings page offers assorted witticisms and anecdotes. The author riffs on railroads, air travel, marriage, weather, and humble observations, with humorous lines about taxes, cats, and a suitor offering land and riches.
Grandma and Grandpa’s Poor Yet Tender Union Tale
A comic verse style column notes a poor but loving union where grandpa gives his heart, not wealth, echoing a lesson that wealth does not define a man. Local anecdotes from Hoppertown follow, detailing townspeople and light gossip about funerals, society leaders, and small personal happenings.
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Detroit Lab
Fort Streets
Cass Street
Munn
Colburn
Idaho
Score
Neb
Lincoln-Auburn
Jackson
Seymour Jr. Godfrey
Farmers and Merchants’ State Bank of
Parma
Grounds
Post Office
Rzary
Forest City
Fifield, Wis
Thenton
N. J
New Jersey
Knight
Salt Lake City
Jesse Knight
Germany
Teuton
Stewart
Ork
Tf Taft
Ethel Polhamus
Coopersville
End
Susan
Sue
Hoppertown
Amos Butts
Algo
Hank Tumms
Anson Judson
Ezra
Amy Stubbs
Hi Huggins
Roy K. Moulton
Grand Rapida Press
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