Polar Rivalry Mounts As Cook And Peary Return
Dr. Frederick A. Cook and Commander Robert Peary face fresh polarization on home shores as Arctic fame returns. Cook arrives aboard the Oscar II with a planned New York welcome and Brooklyn ceremony while Peary plans a Sydney reception and a Portland gathering, both organized by their respective Arctic clubs.
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New York
United States
Dr. Cook
Arctic Club of America
Brooklyn
Arctic Club
Cook
Sydney
N.S
Peary
Roosevelt
Portland
Peary Arctic Club
Bandit Train Robbery Near Malta Refused Safe Loot
Five bandits attempted to rob Denver & Rio Grande train No. 5 four miles west of Malta Colorado. They dynamited the express car, forced the crew back, and blew the safe with no loot secured. The robbers fled after a volley of shots.
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Leadville
Col
Denver
Rio Grande P
Malta
Lesdville
Rio Beoty
Inne
Malin
Smith
Peacemaker Fatally Shot in Newport City Tangle
In Newport Kentucky Herbert Gilmore a former city council member was killed while mediating a dispute. Michael Bisten was wounded twice and is expected to recover. Police seek Albert Baldwin suspected of shooting Bisten amid a long running grudge between the men. Gilmore had long been active in local politics.
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Newport
Herbert Gilmore
Michael Bisten
Albert Baldwin
Bisten
Gilmore
Neighbors Patch Up Quarrel in Border Talks
La Paz reports a protocol signed by the foreign ministers of Peru and Bolivia to settle long standing boundary differences. The accord aims to end a lengthy dispute between the two nations and pave the way for improved relations.
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la Paz
Bustemente
Bolivia
Peru
Publisher Colonel Harvey Injured In Auto Collision
Colonel George B. M. Harvey of Harper & Brothers sustained a slight fracture of the left shoulder when his automobile collided with a turtle and toppled near Barneget New Jersey. He was described as in no serious condition.
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George B. M. Harvey
Harper & Brothers, Publishers
Barneget
N. J
Fired by Wire Over Alaska Coal Land Cases
Washington dispatch reports L P Gravis chief of the field division General Land Office Seattle dismissed by telegraph from the service by Interior Secretary Ballinger. A Christensen of Portland placed in temporary charge of Seattle division as Taft directs dismissal amid Cunningham group coal land case charges.
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Washington
L. P. Gravis
General Land Office
Seattle
Wash
Interior
Ballinger
A. Christensen
Portland
Ore
Gravis
Taft
Jury Fixing Scandal Expands With New Warrants
Chicago reports three additional warrants charging conspiracy in a wide juror fixing scheme. John J. Holland secretary to the Chicago jury commission, Willis Z. Rayburn real estate dealer, and Nicholas J. Martin secretary to Alderman Kenna face the new charges. Rayburn and Holland bond articles are noted. Martin has not yet been arrested. Judge Willard McEwen suggests broader involvement of lawyers and possibly a woman.
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Chicago
Anorney Wayman
John J. Holland
Chicago Jury Commission
Willis Z. Rayburn
Nicholas J. Martin
Michael J. Kenna
Lirst
Rayburn
Holland
Martin
Wayman
Willard McEwen
Harrisburg Police Capture Highwayman Near Lewistown
Harrisburg officers nabbed a highwayman near Lewistown while a string of seven farm teams was being held up. The incident occurred as farmers and their ferries returned from Port Fulton fair, following a prior train hold up near Lewistown by a lone bandit.
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Harrisburg
Lewistown
Barrows
Bankers oppose postal savings plan and guaranty banks
During the American Bankers Association convention on Sept. 17, members spoke against the postal savings bank plan and against guaranty state or national banks. In reports speeches and remarks, both ideas were repeatedly scored by the assembled bankers who appeared united in opposing the two remedies for financial relief.
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Chienszo
Postal Savings Bank
American Bankers” Association
Steamer Nicholas Casting Lost in Hurricane Near Isle of Pines
Advices from the Isle of Pines report the steamer Nicholas Casting sunk during the recent hurricane near Cairn. Twenty seven crew members and two passengers were aboard. Eighteen bodies have been recovered. eleven are missing and believed taken by sharks.
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Mobile
Ala
Isle of Pines
Cairn
Nicholas
Double Murderer Still at Large
Utica New York September 17. Little Fanny Infusino said the man brought for identification is not the killer. Michele Rizzo is in custody as a suspect after Sunday night’s double murder. Dozens of suspects were presented to the child with no identification made.
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Utica
N. Y
Fanny Infusino
Michele Rizzo
Governor Johnson in Critical Condition at Rochester
Rochester Minn Sept 20 Governor Johnson remains in a very critical state with slim chances of recovery. He has only been able to retain carbonated water as nourishment according to physicians. Dr Joseph Massall a prominent society man and dentist from Lake Forest and Chicago drowned after falling overboard from a yacht in Lake Michigan.
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Johnson
Rochester
Minn
Joseph Massall
Lake Forest
Chicago
Lake Michiigan
Taft's national trip continues with planned stops
President Taft travels through Iowa Nebraska Colorado and Utah on a broad speech itinerary. He arrives Des Moines and plans to end the week in Salt Lake City with a royal reception and steady coverage of his chosen topics.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Nebraska
Colorado
Utah
Taft
Salt Lake City
Taft Hosts Japanese Mission Dinner in Minneapolis
President Taft welcomed fifty members of the Japanese commercial mission at a Lafayette Club luncheon near Lake Minnetonka. He praised Japan’s military valor, urged peace victories, and toasted the emperor with a banzai. Baron Shibusawa lauded Taft as a leading friend of Japan. The president urged greater exchange with Japanese women.
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Minneapolis
Taft
United States
Japan
America
Lafayette Club
Lodyge Minnetonka
Commercial Club
Joana
Baron Shibusawa
Tokio
Shibusawa
Treat retires as U S Treasurer to tend private affairs
Washington September 18 United States Treasurer Charles J H Treat has resigned from that office to take effect in October No successor has yet been chosen so far as known Large and growing business interests and the death of some of his associates who have directed his private business affairs Mr Treat said have made it imperative that he should give these matters his immediate and exclusive attention.
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Washington
United States
Charles JH. Treat
Treat
Roosevelt sons report big game haul in East Africa
The report from Nairobi dated Sept 18 states Theodore Roosevelt has killed a bull elephant with good tusks. Kermit Roosevelt, hunting independently at Guaso Myiro, has bagged five lions and three buffaloes and has now begun elephant hunting.
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Nairobi
British East Africa
Theodore Roosevelt
Kermit Roosevelt
Guaso Myiro
Two Held on Murder Charge in Waterbury Case
Waterbury Connecticut September 20 following the coroner s investigation into the murder of Bronick Kulvinski a saloon keeper Sophia Kritechman a Lithuanian music teacher and Joseph Peczinitis a bartender are held Kulvinski had multiple bullet wounds and his throat was slashed Jealousy appears to be the motive as Kulvinski had pursued Sophia Kritchman while Peczinitis also courted her
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Waterbury
Conn
Bronick Kulvinski
Sophia Kritechman
Joseph Peczinitis
Kulvinski
Sophia Kritchman
Peocinitis
Nation in Brief from the Dispatches
The notes cover diverse items: Eagles convention in Makta, tariff law not applying to the Isthmian canal zone per the attorney general to the secretary of war, locust damage rumors boosting Argentine wheat prices on the Chicago board, 125 Louisville barbers returning to work with wage hikes, Cape Girardeau mayor and city council indicted, U S railroad earnings and expenses, Vesuvius seismic activity, Vanderbilt Cup race on Oct 20, Pellagra isolation order in Tennessee, death of Sir Ralph Meyer in London, Sayre arrested in West Virginia, shooting amid a rejected marriage, Diaz’s 80th birthday, Hering becomes Eagles president, Wu Ting-fang in New York, ship names Arkansas and Wreming, eight trainmen killed in Nashville line crash, Mrs Belmont opens suffrage campaign, 1909 Independence Day toll, Moore’s suicide, Chicago street labor accord, two unknowns killed near Sandy Point, weekly business failures, Miss Stokes sets trotting record, cotton supply figures, Pierson elected banker president, Thayer Smith dead, Kilauea volcanic activity, German Evangelical synod in session, speculative securities demand lifting prices, Prohibition party 40th anniversary, Chicago league pennant, Packy McFarland and Ray Brensen draw in New Orleans.
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Louis E. Pierson
New York
American Bankers Association
F. O. Watts
Nashville
Tenn
William Thayer Smith
Dartmouth Medical School
Honolulu
Kialueau
German Evangelical Synod of North America
Burrton
Chicago
New York Baseball League
Wisesbarre
Utica
Albany
Packy McFarland
Ray Brensen
Gpathletic Club
McDonougaville
New Orleans
Woeful Waste of Our Timber
Washington reports from a forestry bulletin by Treadwell Cleveland Jr. warn that the nation wastes forests as it uses them. The study shows three and a half times more wood is removed than new growth adds, less than a third is utilized, and one eleventh of timber is lost to fire annually.
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Washington
Treadwell Cleveland, Jr
Warsay of Forestry
Just Perda Public
United States
Cleveland Wee
Monster Parade opens national Catholic convention in Indianapolis
The Central Verein parade drew about 10 600 participants with seven elaborate floats as the national convention convened in Indianapolis. Attending dignitaries included Most Rev Diomede Falconio apostolic delegate to the United States from Pope Pius X who reviewed the parade with other church leaders.
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Indianapolis
Central Verein
Weld
Diomede Falconio
United States
Meridian
Vheenth Streets
Falconio to Go Higher in January Consistory
Were, Sept. 20. It is stated that hdgr. Falconio the apostolic delegate at Washington will probably be made a cardinal at the January consistory and he will be succeeded by Mer. Aversa the apostolic delegate to Cuba.
Methodists Gather for 78th Indiana Conference Opening
Washington Indiana Sept 20 All committees have completed preparations for the opening tomorrow of the seventy eighth annual Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. About 370 ministers with their wives and friends plus guests will total over 500. The conference includes 300 000 church members and 900 000 associate members, making it the largest Methodist conference in the middle west.
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Washington
Ind
Indiana
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Church
Meena Stairs
George A. Astry Dies After Self Inflicted Wounds
George A. Astry deputy great commander of the Knights of the Maccabees died at Indianapolis city hospital from self inflicted injuries after shooting himself at his home. Authorities say he attempted to end his life due to ill health and domestic troubles.
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George A. Astry
Indianapolis
The
Knights of the Maccabees
Astry
Fireman fatally crushed by overhead bridge pillar
Washington Ind Sept 18 Fred Walters a Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern fireman living at Wallonia was instantly killed at Montgomery when his head struck the pillar of an overhead bridge while leaning from a gangway to get a breath of air.
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Washington, Ind
Fred Walters
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
Wallonia
Montgomery
Henry Horn Rearrested for Second Degree Murder
Princeton Indiana reports Henry Horn pit boss at a Princeton coal mine rearrested on a grand jury indictment charging second degree murder for the Aug. 12 shooting death of Louis Gaiser after a dispute over Gaiser's discharge.
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Princeton
Ind
Henry Horn
Louis Gaiser
Bemmer Vice President Fairbanks Arrives in Manila
Fairbanks is traveling to Manila where he plans talks with officials and to inspect ongoing arrangements. The visit marks a key diplomatic gesture as Manila hosts regional meetings and discussions on bilateral cooperation.
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Bemmer
Fairbanks
Manila
Baker Fatally Wounded in Lawrenceburg Shooting
Lawrenceburg Indiana September 18 T F Ritzie a 41 year old baker was shot five times by J F Boarcher a cabinet maker after a kitchen accident sparked a dispute at Boarchers home Ritzie fights for life doctors call it miraculous Boarcher fled the scene and is at large
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Lawrenceburg
Ind
T. F. Ritzie
George W W. Frank
J. F. Boarcher
Aurora Furniture Company
Boarcher
Mother Kills Baby Then Hangs Self Near Bloomington
The decomposed bodies of Mrs. Joseph W. Polley and her infant were found near a cornfield edge a mile from Bloomington Indiana. Police believe the mother killed her child and then hanged herself after her mind was affected by a land claim worry. Husband Jessph Polley was away from home and last wrote from Baker City Oregon on September 1.
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Bloomington
Ind
Joseph W. Polley
Flower
Polley
Jessph Polley
Baker City
Ore
Pickpockets Target Lake Shore Trains In Goshen
On September 18 pickpockets on Lake Shore trains between Goshen and the fair grounds robbed nearly 100 passengers using small knives to lift purses from pockets. Officers recovered seventy six rifled pocketbooks under a railroad bridge. Losses ranged from 20 to 400 dollars. Ephraim Hart Seller, a special officer at the fair grounds, was robbed of 14 dollars.
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Goshen
Ind
Lake Shore
Fair Grounds
Ephraim Hartseler
Despondent Man Ends Life in Lebanon Home
John Eisex aged sixty six committed death by own action at his Lebanon area residence by shooting himself with a rifle pushed by his foot while lying on a bed. He had been ill for months and despondency was believed to be the cause.
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Lebanon
Ind
John Eisex
Fire destroys six racehorse stables at fair grounds
Fort Wayne Indiana September 20 six stables housing race horses at the fair grounds were burned causing injuries to some racers before they were released and resulting in the loss of two work horses. Dr Meyers secretary says the fire was likely incendiary in origin.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Meyers
Danville Man Dies by Suicide at Home
H E Blackaby aged thirty nine of Danville Ind committed death by own action at his home five miles northwest of town. He left a note and ill health was given as the cause of death according to the report.
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Danville
Ind
H. E. Blackaby
Boy killed by train in South Bend incident
In South Bend Indiana on September 18 a child named Tillman Hoffman four years old was struck by a train on Division street. He died shortly after at Haworth hospital where he was taken following the accident.
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South Bend
Ind
Grane’ Trunk
Tillman Hoffman
Division Street
Haworth Hospital
El Roghi’s Misery Ended by Sultan in Fez
Fez September 18 Dan Emissary reports il Roghi rebel subject of Morocco's sultan was executed in the palace before the imperial harem. The act followed a protest by the French consul over torture of captives, and the sultan barred El Roghi from further public display in the iron cage.
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Fez
Il Roghi
Sultain
Morocco
el Roghi
Trade volume maintains surge near 1907 records
Despite high prices the trade volume remains strong, exceeding last year and approaching the 1907 records according to Dun's review. The market shows sustained activity across sectors, signaling a robust recovery pattern despite inflationary pressures.
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Dun
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