Slasher suspected in brutal South End death of Michael Yorke
Police hunt two self confessed killers connected to the mutilated body found behind a bill board at Railroad and South avenues. Yorke, 56, was killed in a field near Garden Street and Park Avenue after a night of heavy drinking. Authorities warn of further danger as fugitives Totterman and Slattery are pursued by state and New York authorities.
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Liberty
Michael
Yorke
Railroad
South Avenues
Les Fitzgerald
New York
Musetts
William Totterman
Sing Sing
Geant Tan
Springfield
Slattery
Portes
Millside
Tim
Fanrot
New York Hoe, Came Here To Get Slattery
Bridgeport
Ing of Yorke
Garden Street
Railroad Avenue
Yorkle
Deigen Plash
Yorka F
Dome
Zorka
Ie Iron Co
Steve Danaschak
Park @Avenué
Firemen's Sick Benefit Society to End Activity
About 40 members of the Firemen's Benevolent Corporation met in Room 303, Court Exchange building, and voted to disband and divide their $10,000 treasury. Formed in 1872, the group has 74 members in good standing. each member will receive about $133.92 when loans and remaining funds are settled, with about $7,000 out on 6 percent call loans to be paid.
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Firemen’s Benevolent Corporation
Court Exchange Building
Thomas M. Cullinan
Edward Mooney
Alfo
Henry Tate
John P. Baum
Financial Secee
Ioteehee Spring & Axle Co
Blue Ribbon
Henry Carstesen
Gerdenier
Tomlinson
Firemen's Benevolent Corporation
Alt
Fire Department
Firemen
Horse Killed Suits for 500 Dollars in Stratford
Terry of Stratford sues the Connecticut Company for 500 dollars in common pleas court to recover for the death of a horse killed after it fell on trolley tracks in Stratford on August 21. He alleges the trolley motorman could have stopped the car and that a car struck the animal while he tried to lift it off the tracks. Suit returnable to the November term.
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Stratford
Orange
Terry
Connecticut Co
Common Pleas
Bernard Keating Improving After Shock At St Vincent’s
Former assistant city auditor Bernard Keating is listed as a little improved at St Vincent's Hospital after a Saturday afternoon shock. The Paving and Mover Commission will meet Thursday at 7 30 p m in the city auditor's office to open bids on several small sewers.
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Bernard Keating
St. Vincent's Hospital
Paving and Mover Omm
Karl Strakosch Dies in Hartford Hotel Heublen
Karl Strakosch husband of the late Clara Kellogge opera singer died suddenly in his room at the Hotel Heu blen after a day of social activity. He was born April 16, 1860 in Vienna and managed several prominent singers in America. He and Clara Kellogge married in 1887 on tour, later settled in New Hartford New York, wintering in Rome.
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Hartford
Karl Strakosch
Clara Louise Kellogge
Hotel Heublen
Strakesch
Clair Strakosch
Kelloge
West
Ee Ee
Clara Louise Kelloge
New Hartford
Kelloggs
Hipstone
Rome
Italy
Apartment block planned for East Main Street site
East Main Street will gain a six storey apartment and 16 apartments block with ground broken at the Parker property corner of Nichols Street. Samuel Friedman will erect a pressed brick and stone building with 117 feet front on East Main and 70 feet depth featuring ventilators steam heat and ice making facilities. Expansion of Evitts Lane and Stratford Avenue bridge rebuild spur further development by Friedman alongside State Street apartments and Wentworth Street property projects.
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East Main Street
Parker
Nichols Street
Samuel Friedman
Friedman
Evitts Lane
Stratford Avenue
State Street
Henry B. Salman
City Auction Room
Wentworth Street
Meriden Voters in Bridgeport Plan Wednesday Meeting
Meriden voters residing in Bridgeport will meet Wednesday evening at 7 30 at the Ninth District Democratic headquarters East Main and Shelton streets Plans will be made for traveling to Meriden on election day and it is expected that Meriden Democratic town committee members will attend.
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Meriden
Bridgeport
East Main
Shelton Streets
Democratic Town Committee of
Civil Service Group Hears National President at Local Meeting
Andrew W. McKes, national president of the Association of Civil Service Employees, and Lynn W. Wilson of the city spoke at the local branch meeting at Lessinghall Saturday evening. A musical entertainment and luncheon followed the addresses. Connecticut forecast calls for cloudy skies tonight and Tuesday with temperature changes and northeast winds.
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Andrew W. McKes
Association of Civil Service Employes
Lynn W. Wilson
Lessinghall
Progressives plan to confront Roosevelt in Bridgeport visit
Progressives in Connecticut gear to greet Col. Theodore Roosevelt if he speaks for the GOP in Bridgeport next week. Plans call for a reception and sharp questions on his party switch, with L. H. Trieschmann coordinating and debates proposed with Matthew Hale or John M. Parker.
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Connecticut
Theodore Roosevelt
John H. Freed
Horace H. Jackson
Wilson
Flood
Chicago
Hughes
Oyster Bay
Mr. Jackson
L. H. Trieschmann
Bridgeport
Republican Town Committee
State Armory
Robinson
James R. Sammis
Ie Redden
Ferdinand Fox
Igeport
Progressive Party
Ering
National Committeematt
Trieschmann
Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Parker
Yandell Henderson
Yales
Republican Old Guard
Matthew Hale
Boston
Danbury
Frederick E. Duffy
West Hartford
Congress
Ite
Hale
Toca Ae Aie
Polio Suspect Not Isolated After Four Weeks
Local physicians comment on an infant suspected of polio at 745 East Main Street. Angelina Battista, two and a half, was moved to the Isolation hospital after four weeks of illness. Officials say the case may not be paralysis, while experts debate contagion and the four week window for isolation.
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Angelina Battista
East Main Street
Ai m
I. A McLellan
Abraham Sephian
Selectmen to Finish Making Voters Tonight
By 8 o'clock this evening the selectmen expect to add about 1 000 men to the registration lists. Nearly 200 had taken the oath by noon and over 100 more waited in line at midday. About twenty who had not registered appeared and were told they could not be made. Most of today’s new voters were of American birth.
Ask Fr McGivney to Open Court With Prayer
County Sheriff Pease asked Rev. P. J. McGivney rector of St. Charles church to open the October session of the supreme court with prayer at the county courthouse tomorrow. The first cases to be argued are New Haven county matters. Fairfield county cases will be considered after.
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Pease
P. J. MccGivney
St. Charles’ Church
Supreme Court
New Haven
Fairfield County
Danbury Woman Sues Conn Co for 10000 Over Trolley Crash
Estelle Bernard, a Danbury businesswoman, sues the Connecticut Co for 10000 in Superior Court alleging permanent injuries from a trolley collision at Union and Stratford avenues. She was a passenger in a car on Stratford when the trolley struck from behind, fracturing ribs and causing internal injuries.
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The
Connecticut Co
Estelle Bernard
Danbury
Union and
Stratford Avenues
Civil Superior Court
Stratford Avenue
Italian Government Seeks News on Missing Wassilli
The Italian government asked the State's Attorney to investigate the disappearance of Jourkoff Wassilli, believed killed in this city or vicinity last June or July. State Policeman Vitelli checked Coroner Phelan's records but found no evidence of Wassilli's death. Authorities say the family seeks information.
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Jourkoff Wassilli
Vitelli
Phelan
Wassilli
Police Believe They Have Cop's Assailants
Police arrest Hugh and Thomas Simons, described as Portuguese negroes, and say they possess confessions to assaulting Policeman Kilroy with a crow bar and breaking two ribs two weeks ago. They also face robbery charges for the Quinlivan hold up and Yale professor Ma Desseaur home burglary. Items like flashlights and jewelry were found on them. General Funston told the War Department the Fifth New Jersey Infantry is expected to depart the border around October 24.
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Hugh
Thomas Simons
Kilroy
James Quinlivan
Railroad
Iranistan
Ma Desseaur
Yale College
Funston
War Department
Jersey
Central powers cross railway line after Constanza capture
Berlin reports troops of the central powers crossed the railway line between the Black Sea port Constanza and the Danube near Murfatlar, with the fortress of Constanza seized by German and Bulgarian forces. Von Mackensen’s left wing nears Tohernavoda as Romanian retreats continue in Dobrudja. Reports also note Romanian and Russian forces resisting on multiple fronts and French advances near Sailly Saillisel in the Somme.
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Constanta
Petrograd
Berlin
Central Powers
Black Sea
Constanza
Danube
Murfatler
von Mackensen
Tohernavoda
Enemy Aero Attack on Margate Injures Two
London reports a hostile aircraft over Margate on October 23 dropping three bombs. Two people were injured, with minor hotel damage in Cliftonville. British planes pursued the raider who escaped southeast.
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London
Margate
England
Cloums
Cliftonville
McCarthy Dies After Fight at Lipsitz Saloon
Coroner John J. Phelan investigates Patrick McCarthy's death after a week-old Lexington avenue altercation at Lipsitz saloon in St. Vincent's hospital. McCarthy suffered a fractured right hip and died, with witnesses to the alleged disturbance to be sworn in at the inquest.
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John J.phelan
Patrick McCarthy
Lewis Street
St. Vincent's Hospital
Joseph Lipsitz
Lexington Avenue
McCarthy
Phelan
Court House
James Doolan
Democrats of Eighth Will Greet Cornell And Harrigan
The Eighth District Democratic club meets this evening at 1896 Main Street. Alderman candidate John A. Cornell and senatorial nominee Daniel P. Harrigan will deliver addresses. Switzerland begins motor vehicle census for army use. Governor Whitman says no special voting provision for state troops this fall.
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Democrats
Eighth
Cornell
Harrigan
Eighth District
Democratic Club
Main Street
John A. Cornell
Daniel P. Harrigan
Whitman
French Air Squadrons Hit Metz Region Targets
Paris reports four tons of projectiles dropped by a 24-plane French air squadron on blast pe ences north of Metz and on Metz Thionville stations with hits on all objectives. A second French flotilla bombarded Rombach factories. Berlin notes a German sea plane squadron attacked British forces off the Flanders coast with one destroyer hit. raiders returned unharmed.
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Paris
Metz
Thionville
War Office
Rombach
Berlin
Flanders
Admiralty
Death of Mrs. Mabel J. Jennings Shocks Bridgeport
Mabel J. Sanford Jennings, 43, wife of Erwin M. Jennings of Jennings Bros. Co., died at Roosevelt Hospital New York after an operation. She leaves husband and six children, shows prominent Bridgeport ties, will be buried privately from Greens Farms residence.
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Mabel J. Sanford
Erwin M. Jennings
Jennings Bros. Co
Erwin M. Jennings Co
Roosevelt Hospital
New York City
Jennings
Edwin G. Sanford
Bridgeport
Washington Avenue
Greens Farms
Frank Hurd
Glover
Ces
John
Mabel
Jardin
Goodwin Stoddard
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Police Institute Dragnet
Firemen’s Sick Benefit Society
Diva
Clara Louise Kellogg
East Main ST
Nichols’ St. Corner
Tot
Fr. McGivney
Danbury Woman
Conn, CO
Dobrudja
Trotus
Oituz
Moldavia
Brody
Vosihynia-Galarian
Somme
Sailly-Saillisel
le Sara
Lipsitz
Switzerland
Mabel J. Sanford Jennings
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