Doomed in U S by tuberculosis says Yale professor
Washington reports Prof Irving Fisher of Yale told the International Congress on Tuberculosis that five million Americans may die of consumption unless actions are taken. He cited annual U S deaths at 138,000 and a hard cash cost of over one billion dollars.
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Washington
United States
Irving Fisher
Yale University
International Congress
Calmett
Lille
France
Pasteur Institution
Tendeloo
Holland
Heifer
Victor G. Heifer
United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Philippine Islands
Irrigation Congress Opens in Albuquerque City Hall
The sixteenth annual National Irrigation Congress opens in Albuquerque New Mexico with 4000 seats filled. About 1500 delegates attend Tuesday with arrivals reaching 1800. President Frank Goudy of Denver delivers opening address as Mayors and governors welcome the gathering. Delegates from multiple foreign countries and various regions respond to the welcome and participate in opening remarks.
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Albuquerque
N. H
National Irrigation Congress
Frank Goudy
Denver
Convention Hall
Lester
Gov. Curry
New Mexico
Goudy
France
England
Spain
Portugal
Italy
Cape Colony
Canada
Cuba
Porto Rico
Brazil
Woman shot dead in West Fifty-third Street apartment
In New York on September 30 Mrs. Helen Roach aged 25 was shot twice in the head while asleep with her two children in the apartment at 401 West Fifty-third street. She died instantly. Police searched for Robert Woods aged 50, her uncle, in connection with the case.
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New York
Helen Roach
West Fifty-third Street
Robert Woods
French Woman Contracts Cholera After Warsaw Trip
Liege reports Mme Mortier, a French woman, returning from Warsaw where her husband died of cholera contracted on the disease while treating patients there. On a train home she was seized with a malady first thought to be cholera.
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Liege
Mme. Mortier
Warsaw
Nab Would Be Assassins Plotter Arrests Split City
Budapest police reported Tuesday the arrest of two men suspected of plotting an assassination of King Alfonso while he traveled to Munich. The arrests followed an investigation into threats and meetings near the capital, with authorities identifying the suspects and describing the plot as dangerous.
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Budapest
Alphonso
Munich
Diamond Special Ditches Child in Derailed Train Tragedy
In Illinois a southbound Diamond Special derailed at Divernon after a switch opened. Engineer A J Shell and Fireman Edward Taylor, both of Clinton, were injured. Seven year old Elizabeth McGuire, daughter of Charles McGuire, was killed by debris. Ethel Barrymore rode the train but was assisted from the coach. A separate Brooklyn trolley crash left multiple injured and one dead.
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Springfield
Iinois Central
Divernon
A. J. Shell
Edward Taylor
Clinton
Elizabeth McGuire
Charles McGuire
Church and
Whiarbush
Brooklyn
Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down eight hour railway law
Madison Sept 30 The Wisconsin Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the eight hour railroad telegraphers law from 1907. It held the state law conflicts with federal commerce power and with a federal rule setting rail telegraphers hours from nine to thirteen. The decision bars state hours laws on intercity railroads while a federal statute remains in force.
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Madison
Wis
Supreme Court
Wisconsin
Congress
Inter
Steam Yacht Argonaut Founders After Collision
Dover reports the tourist steam yacht Argonaut, with 250 aboard, sank between Dover and Dungeness after colliding with the Kingswell in fog. All passengers and crew escaped to boats and reached Dover safely. Victoria reports steam er Humboldt ashore at Active Pass after fog strike on Marratt Point, Pender Island. passengers evacuated to Seattle aboard Edith, with tug Lorne and Salvor en route to assist.
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Dover
Argonaut
London
Lisbon
Dungeness
Kingswell
Victoria
B. C
Humboldt
Active Pass
Edith
Seattle
Marratt Point
Pender Island
Lorne
Salvor
British Columbia Salvage Company
Mystery Fire Destroys Barn In Kentucky Border Area
Gallipolis Ohio September 30 Charles Cline reports his barn with cattle and tobacco burned by incendiaries near Gallipolis Ferry Kentucky. Postmaster Edward Johnson died from excitement reaching the scene. Bloodhounds are on the trail as three fires have struck the area in a month amid farmer unrest and suspected night riders.
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Gallipolis
Charles Cline
Mason County
Kentucky
Gallipolis Ferry
Edward Johnson
Rain Quells Forest Fires in Saratoga County
Report from northern Saratoga county on September 30 says heavy rain Tuesday extinguished several days of forest fires that had burned in the region.
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Saratoga
N. Y
Saratoga County
Prominent Milford Woman Ends Life In Self Strike
Milord Del Sept 30 Della Cirwithin wife of William Cirwithin a prominent citizen of the town killed herself Tuesday by a pistol shot to the heart causing instant death.
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Milford
Del
Della Cirwithin
William Cirwithin
Bank President Dead in Pittsburg
Pittsburg dispatch reports John Mc Clarg president of the Cosmopolitan National Bank and longtime city businessman died at his home on September 30.
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Pittsburg
John McClarg
Cosmopolitan National Bank
Col Goethals Arrives in New Orleans En Route to Washington
Col George W. Goethals chief engineer of the Panama canal reached New Orleans aboard the Cartago from Colon on Monday en route to Washington. The stop marks a brief layover as he continues his journey.
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Goethals
New Orleans
New Mexico
George W. Goethals
Panama Canal
Cartago
Colon
Washington
Death announced of French historical painter Albert Maignan
Paris on September 30 reports the death of Albert Pierre Rene Maignan the noted French historical painter born in Beaumont in 1844.
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Paris
Albert Pierre Rene Maignan
Beaumont
Fight on alleged coal trust begins conspiracy case
Philadelphia September 80 news reports open a federal antitrust case against major anthracite coal firms. The government accuses a cartel of restraining trade and fixing prices across states. Examiner Charles H Gilbert hears testimony in Philadelphia and may visit New York Wilkes Barre or Scranton as hearings proceed with G Carrol Todd guiding proceedings.
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Philadelphia
United States
Charles H. Guilbert
George M. Dallas
United States Circuit Court
Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Reading Company
Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company
Lehigh Valley
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Jersey Central
Hiie
New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad Companies
Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Hillside Coal and Iron Company
Temple Iron Company
New York
Wilkesbarre
Scranton
G. Carrol Todd
Roosevelt letter cites 1908 ICC rebates prosecutions
Washington reports a letter to President Roosevelt from Attorney John H. Marble detailing this year's indictments and convictions for rebate schemes by ten railroads five shippers and several traffic officials. Marble notes Roosevelt’s reply to Bryan omitted 1908 prosecutions under the Interstate Commerce Law.
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Washington
Roosevelt
John H. Marble
Interstate Commerce Commission
William J. Bryan
Repair ship Panther reaches Zamboanga base
Manila dispatches report that the Panther rescue ship of the Atlantic battleship fleet auxiliaries arrived at Zamboanga from Manila. The message confirms arrival at the southern port as of Sept 30.
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Manila
Zamboanga
Panther
Atlantic
Truscott Elected Mayor of London in Succession to Bell
Sir George Truscott was elected mayor of London on Tuesday, succeeding Sir John Charles Bell. He will assume office on November 9.
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Truscott
London
George Truscott
John Charles Bell
Islands swept by storm devastates Bahama settlements
Island territories in the Bahamas suffer widespread ruin from a hurricane racing from Turks Island. Long Island’s Clarencetown is left with five houses, inhabitants shelter in caves, food and water nearly gone. Government schooner Sarah Eli Douglas wrecked. relief vessels load food, lumber, nails for distribution.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Dependency
Turks Island
Inagua
Acklins
Crooked
Ragged
Fortune
Long
Watlings
Rum Cay
Exuma
Andros Islands
Cat Island
Terrible plague kills thirty thousand in Asia
Reports from Peking and Hankow cite 500 deaths from bubonic plague at Tong Sha near Tien Tsin and 30,000 natives and foreigners dead in Hankow. Meanwhile floods sweep Hyderbad and Deccan districts after unprecedented rainfall. Musi River rises 60 feet, bridges destroyed, corpses found in trees.
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Peking
Tong Sha
Tien Tsin
Yang- Tse
Hankow
Bombay
Hyderbad
Deccan
Dorr's Assets Fixed At Seventy Five Thousand
Los Angeles report shows broker Fred Dorr with six city offices and annual volume over twenty five million carried liabilities of four hundred forty thousand and assets near seventy five thousand. The failure occurred about two months ago and surprised stock circles. Creditors include George L Crenshaw, a Los Angeles capitalist and the heaviest creditor.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Fred Dorr
Allen
Dorr
George L. Crenshaw
Miners Escape After Utah Mine Fire
In Winter Quarters Utah on September 30 nearly 100 miners faced danger when a fire destroyed the power house main hoist and the tipple at the Union Pacific Coal Company mine. All escaped via another opening and the loss is estimated at about 50000 dollars.
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Winter Quarters
Utah
Union Pacific Coal Company
Ridder to Defend Against Labor Hostility Claim
New York dispatch reports Herman Ridder, newly elected treasurer of the Democratic national committee, planning to appear before the Central Federated Union to defend himself against a charge of hostility to union labor. He insists he has always employed union men and asked for a personal defense.
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New York
Hermann Ueder
Democratic National Committee
Central Federated Union
Ridder
John B. Doolin
Guthrie
Okla
Haskell
Chicago
Alva
Republican National Campaign
Hitchcock
Executive Committee
Dupont
Congressional Committee
Henry Casson
Taft
South Dakota
Aberdeen
S. D
Mellette
Redfield
Wolsey
Mitchell
Tripp
Yankton
Vermillion
Sioux City
Bryan
Lincoln
Neb
William J. ‘Bryan
Democrats of Lincoln
W. H. Taft
C. W. Bryan
Democrats of
Mr. Taft
Woman's Suicide at Fourteenth Street Station
A 26 year old well dressed woman leaped before a moving train at the Fourteenth street station on the Sixth Avenue elevated in New York. She died moments after the impact as a crowd of shoppers watched in shock. The victim’s underclothes bore the name Sherwood in ink.
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New York
Fourteenth Street
Sixth Avenue
Sherwood
Yancey Carter Indicted for Carrying Concealed Weapon
Hartwell Ga September 30 Yancey Carter Independence party candidate for Georgia governor indicted by Hart county grand jury for carrying a concealed weapon into a voting precinct during the Democratic primary on June 4.
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Hartwell
Yancey Carter
Independence Party
Georgia
Hart County
Carter
Leading Southern Educator Dead
Lexington Kentucky September 30 John Henry Neville vice president of the Kentucky State University and a leading educator of the south for half a century died suddenly at his home Monday night of heart failure He was 80 years of age.
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Lexington
John Henry’ Neville
Kentucky State University
South
Shot Fired in Delphi High School Class Fight
Delphi Ind September 30 A class fight at the high school left Larry Coble president of the junior class seriously injured by a shotgun blast. Details of the incident remain sparse as authorities investigate the altercation among students.
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Delphi
Ind
Larry .Coble
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