Whitney Says Peary Blocked Cook Records on Roosevelt
New Haven sportsman Harry Whitney relays a message that Commander Peary refused to allow any of Dr. F A Cook instruments or records to board the Roosevelt, leaving them cached at Etah Greenland. Cook downplays potential slander suit and expects possible arrival of instruments in the spring of 1913.
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New York
Harry Whitney
New Haven
Frederick A. Cook
Robert E. Peary
Dr. Cook
Roosevelt
Etah
Greenland
Cook
Strathcona
Indian Harbor
Ray
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F. A. Cook
Waldorf
Iune
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Sam
Worth Star
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Seamer
Peary Justifies Blocking Cook Instruments Aboard Roosevelt
A source close to Commander Peary says he will publish a statement accusing Dr. Frederick A. Cook of planning to claim Arctic discovery. Peary asserts Cook cannot prove wear from Arctic travel and has refused to aid his project by sharing gear. He expects to issue the statement soon as Harry Whitney’s arrival stirs activity.
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Peary
Frederick A. Cook
Roosevelt
Cook
North Pole
Brooklyn Explorer
Dr. Cook
Harry Whitney
Indian Harbor
Whitney
Jeanie's Progress Sailor Returns to St Johns
Wireless dispatches report the schooner Jeanie carrying Harry Whitney leaving Indian Harbor Saturday for St Johns with expected arrival Wednesday. In Maine, the Peary ship Roosevelt reached Eagle Island at noon Sunday then departed for New York after unloading personal effects.
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N. F
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Harry Whitney
New Haven
Fiarber
Portland
Roosevelt
Eagle Island
Spaniards Advance Toward Selouan Under Balloon Guidance
General Orozco's division pushes toward Selouan with a capture balloon directing maneuvers. Moorish villages burn as troops advance under heavy resistance, shells from batteries rain down. General Marina leads operations as the king's regiment fortifies Moormina to guard lines of communication. Moors reform behind a rocky west of Nador.
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Orozco
Selouan
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Moormina
Nador
Tribesmen Accept Peace as Hostilities Pause in Sicar Campaign
An official dispatch from Madrid reports the main body of the enemy in the Beni Sicar area has sued for peace and that fighting is suspended during negotiations.
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Beni: Sicar
Visitors to Gotham Start Golden Flood
New York reports a massive influx of out of town visitors for the Hanson Fulton celebration. Authorities estimate twenty five million dollars in spending and hotel pros put visitors around six hundred thousand. The crowd swells across church and streets as sightseers fill Trinity and St Patrick’s.
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St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Old Trinity
Wilbur Wright
Glenn H. Curtiss
Governor's Island
Newburgh
Albany
New York City
Discovery of 200 Dead As Dispatch Boats Return
News from New Orleans reports thirty six bodies found in a single section, bringing the confirmed death toll to two hundred with more corpses possibly in the Louisiana marshes between New Orleans and the Mississippi line.
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Dunbar
Bay St. Louis
Miss
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Mississippi State Line
Rumor of Cutter Sora Capture Proved Unfounded
Manila dispatches confirm the revenue cutter Sora arrived safely at Sandakan North Borneo. Initial rumors claimed capture by Moro pirates but no combat report accompanied the arrival news.
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Sora
Sandakan
North Borneo
Shonts Sued For 200000 Damages In Affection Case
Theodore P. Shonts former Isthmian canal commission chairman and I R M company president faces a $200,000 suit from Frederick Hipah New York manager for a Kentucky Distillery alleging Shonts alienated his wife's affections. Shonts via attorney Delaney Nicoll calls the suit preposterous and based on mistaken identity.
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Theodore P. Shonts
Isthmian Canal Commission
Interborough Metropolitan Company
Frederick Hipah
Kentucky
Shonts
Delaney Nicoll
Sixteenth Annual United Boys' Brigade Convention Set in Pittsburg
The sixteenth annual convention of the United Boys' Brigade of America will convene in Pittsburg on Friday.
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United Boys' Brigade of America
Pittsburg
Taft Faces Second Strike Path on West Tour in Butte
President Taft arrives in Butte Montana amid a miners strike led by the Western Federation of Miners. He had earlier confronted a streetcar strike in Omaha and later spoke at Salt Lake City tabernacle about unity and civic duty. He toured Anaconda smelters and addressed 20 000 schoolchildren before YMCA and Unitarian services.
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Taft
Omaha
Western Federation of Miners
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Steunenberg
Idaho
W. AD. Hayward
George A. Pettibone
Anaconda
Ogden
Utah
Ogden Canyon
Lester Park
Salt Lake City
Mormon Tabernacle
Theodore Roosevelt
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Young Men’s Christian Association
Unitarian Cituren
Record-breaking wheat receipts shake Chicago market
Brief dispatches report a drop in Chicago wheat prices amid record national wheat receipts at Minneapolis and Duluth. Other items note deaths, political moves, federal relief appeals, and public notices from across the United States.
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Duluth
Chicago
United States
Cleveland
Perils of the Air Destructive Dirigible Crash in France
The French military airship Re publique exploded while over a road near Moulins at 500 to 600 feet. Four men died: Captain Marchal, Lieutenant Phayre, and Sub-Lieutenants Vincet and Reux. The axle of the right propeller fractured, the propeller pierced the envelope, and the craft crashed in a field 150 yards away.
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France
Paris
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Marchal
Phayre
Vincet
Reux
Rurales transfer moves from Reyes strongholds in Monterey
A detach ment of rurales left Monterrey on a special National railway train for Sabinas Hidalgo and Villaldama mining camps in the state. Authorities offered no further details on the movement, but confirmed the transfer. Villaldama and Sabinas Hidalgo have long been Reyes strongholds.
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Monterey
Mex
Sabinas Hidalgo
Villaldama
Bonds under dispute over Vincennes university issue to appeal Supreme Court
Former Indiana Governor J. Frank Hanly loses a bid for a temporary injunction to stop delivery of the $120 548 Vincennes university bond issue saying the act is invalid. Superior Court Judge Vinson Carter upheld the act and Hanly will appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court. Bonds await Secretary of State Sims signature as Governor Marshall had signed and Hanly briefly blocked Sims’ action.
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J. Frank Hanly
Indiana
Vincennes University
Vinson Carter
Superior Court
Hanly
Supreme
Sims
Marnall
Mr. Sims
Tin Plate Strike Lost Belief Spreads in Amalgamated Talks
Youngstown Ohio reports that officials of the Amalgamated Association contemplate readmitting strikebound workers at Newcastle and Sharon Pennsylvania and Elwood Indiana along with Youngstown. President P J McArdle arrived to discuss the proposal as the movement to reorganize the union spreads.
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Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tinplate Workers
Newcastle
Sharon
Elwood
Ind
P. J. McArdle
Jury Acquits Charles Wolfe in Assault Case
Decatur Ind Sept 25 Charles Wolfe a teamster was found not guilty by a Adams county jury of assault and battery with intent to kill. He struck Jacob Mangold with a wagon brace during a quarrel last October Mangold died one hour after the blow though coroner's inquest ruled heart trouble caused death
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Purse chase ends with suspect jailed after attack attempt
Ed Kroth of Rio Grande Ohio was captured by two farmers and jailed in Laporte Indiana after pursuing him for a long time. The chase followed alleged assault attempts on Mrs Emma Rotzein a widow at Durham Station. She lies in critical condition.
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Ind
Ed Kroth
Rio Grande
Emma Rotzein
Kroth
Durham Station
Baby Left to Its Fate in Evansville Creek Find
The body of a ten day old infant was found on Pigeon creek banks in downtown Evansville. Authorities say the child died from exposure after being abandoned by its mother and coroner Edward Laval with police are investigating.
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Ind
Pigeon Creek
Edward Laval
Blaze destroys Bosse barn killing eleven horses
A fire at Edward Bosse’s barn in Columbus Indiana on September 27 burned a two story structure and haymow. Eleven horses perished and the total loss was about 8000 dollars. The blaze was sparked by a lighted cigarette.
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Ind
Edward Bosse
Banker Harry B. Smith Dies of Apoplexy in Fort Wayne
Harry B. Smith a prominent Hartford City banker collapsed and died of apoplexy in the Anthony hotel Fort Wayne early this morning while his wife was with him.
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Ind
Harry B. Smith
Hartford City
Anthony Hotel
Unionists Win Out on Indianapolis City Hall Strike
Word from St Louis reports the Westlake Construction company and Indianapolis labor unions have ended the city hall strike. Work will resume under old conditions with all future hires as union men.
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St. Louis
Westlake Consruction Company
Indianapolis City Hall
City Hall
Westlake Construction Company
Dynamite Attack on Indiana Farmer's Home Injures No One
Tipton Indiana September 25 a wealthy farmer and tile maker Lewis Van Briggle and his wife escaped harm when their home was partly demolished by dynamite. dynamite placement under the sleeping room fuse long enough to allow escape bloodhounds followed trail to a buggy road. authorities investigated purchase origin and did not identify any known enemies.
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Tipton
Ind
Lewis van Briggle
Prairie Township
van Briggle
Noblesville
Hoosier Inventors Work On Secret Airship Project
Terre Haute Indiana September 27 Julius Louis and Harry Johnson decline to reveal details of their aeroplane effort kept secret since its start eight weeks ago. They plan a test flight within a week or two with a fifty horse powered engine weighing all but 150 pounds.
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Ind
Julius
Louis
Harry Johnson
Wright
Latham
Johnsons
Widow sues saloon keeper over husband’s beer fueled death
The widow of Henry Slader files a $2,000 damages suit against saloon keeper J. J. Tierney in Terre Haute. She alleges her husband became intoxicated at Tierney’s saloon and fell from an interurban car, injuries leading to his death.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Henry Slader
J. J. Tierney
Ohio Boy Kills Father in Family Quarrel
Coshocton Ohio September 27 William Davis twenty years old killed his father six miles south of here Sunday during a quarrel between the boy and his parents. The son says his father Eli Davis threatened to strike his mother and in order to protect her he struck his father down with a hatchet.
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Coshocton
William Davis
Here
Eli. Davis
French Aero Club holds annual long distance race takeoff
Thirty balloons sailed from the Tuileries Garden in Paris as spectators packed to view the start of the Aero Club’s annual long distance race. An immense crowd gathered to witness the departure.
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Tuilieries
Garden
French Aero Club
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