Two Killed In Auto Crash At Indianapolis Speedway
Features of interest recounts a deadly crash on the Indianapolis speedway as William A Bourque of Springfield Mass and Harry Holcomb of Granville Mass die after their Knox racing machine hits the home stretch fence. Bourque dies en route to the ambulance and Holcomb dies at Emergency Hospital with severe injuries.
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William A. Bourque
Springfield
Mass
Harry Holcomb
Granville
Knox
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Bourque
Holcomb
Wellman Sets Course for North Pole in Dirigible
A Trieste dispatch via Hammerfest reports Walter Wellman left Spitzbergen on Monday August 16 in his dirigible balloon bound for the North Pole. A favorable wind aided the launch as the expedition seeks polar achievements. Roosevelt Trophies Reach New York from South Africa.
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North Pole
Trieste
Thalia
Hammerfest
Norway
Walter Wellman
Spitzbergen
Man 80 Shot Dead on Walsh Ontario Doorstep
Michael Hall aged 80 was shot dead on his own doorstep in Walsh Ontario. His wife was shot four times but survives and may recover. A youth named Shelley, said to have quarreled with Hall, has been arrested.
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Ori
Michael Hall
Bund
Walsh
Ont
Shelley
G A R Standard Found Missing Then Located In Salt Lake
The Grand Army of the Republic standard, reported missing from Salt Lake City Utah, was recovered and found stored in the Commercial building. It had been kept at the executive committee headquarters of the recent encampment.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Salt Lake City
Utah
Multiple Global News Items Span Disasters to Policy Shifts
A docked steamer Lucania sustains heavy damage at Liverpool. Train wreck near Husted Colorado kills ten and injures sixty. Reports cover appendicitis surgery aboard a steamer, germ absence, and a surgeon’s provocative claim about clothing. Banking reform talks, central bank debates, and a New York Central control bid surface. \nAdditional items note prohibition anniversaries, Greek flag reductions, Crete tensions, a mass grilling on Turkish concessions, and a Peking loan package. Military maneuvers, naval inquiries, and Taft’s tax stance also feature alongside forest protection warnings and interstate rate fights. A broad, dense snapshot of 1900s- era affairs.
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Liverpool
Denver and
Rio Grande
Husted
Colo
J. H. Kellogg
Battle Creek
Inheritance favors Baptist Church over Harris kin
Theodore Harris, an elderly Louisville banker who died recently, left more than 1 million dollars to Baptist Church organizations in Kentucky. His will grants his large family modest cash bequests and life tenures that pay about 150 dollars monthly to each heir, with any disqualified beneficiaries' portions reverting to the estate for church benefaction. He reasons inherited wealth is rarely useful and hopes his gifts aid thousands unborn.
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Theodore Harris
Louisville
Baptists of
Kentucky
Baptist Church
Rail and Railroads Across the Nation Face Expanding Work and Coal Moves
Contracts totaling 3 million dollars will be awarded west of Pittsburg for doubling tracks on the Panhandle route between Richmond and Indianapolis. New York New Haven and Hartford workers gain six days of work per week as conditions improve. Indian reservations at Flathead Coeur d Alene and Spokane boost passenger traffic, prompting Western railroads to deploy extra equipment to handle 230000 travelers. St Paul and Des Moines Railroad studies westward extension from Des Moines to Nebraska City with a link to Union Pacific at Talmage. Delaware Lackawanna and Western Coal Company formed to take over coal properties. Truesdale notes cash dividend 60 percent stock dividend 15 percent and authority to sell mine coal within the state. Stockholders may subscribe four for one in the new coal company.
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Pittsburg
Panhandle
Richmond
Indianapolis
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Flathead
Coeur d'Alene
Spokane
Western Railroads
St. Paul
Truesdale
Railroad Company
Supreme Court
Railroad
Coal Company
Bank Robbers Kill and Wound Oklahoma Town Marshal
Bank robbers attacked the State Bank at Kiefer Oklahoma on Monday night, killing City Marshal Inford and fatally wounding cashier Calmer Webling. They fired after the marshal and cashier entered, then fled as a posse organized to pursue. The robbers had just drilled the vault door and were ready to pour nitroglycerin.
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Oklahomea
Kiefer
Okla
Inford
Calmer Webling
Wobling
Alabama Enacts Drastic Liquor Sales Ban
The Alabama House passes the Fuller bill banning liquor sale or shipment. It prohibits any advertisement or display, bars train cars with liquor, renames selling places as saloons, allows raids on suspected venues, and treats possession with an internal revenue license as prima facie guilt for proprietors.
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Mouse
House
Alabama
South
Internal Revenue
Economical Husband Hangs Self After Wife Leaves
Albert Burt hanged himself after his wife left him claiming extreme frugality. She returns to Mineola and discovers 82,110 in the garret, including 2,119 found in the rafters, prompting a wider search for more money.
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Garret
Albert Burt
Powder Explosion at Aetna Powder Mill Claims Two Die
An explosion at the Aetna Powder Mill in Aetna Indiana on Friday destroyed property valued at $25,000. The gelatin mixer area burst, breaking glass in nearby windows and causing two men to be killed.
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Killa
Aetna
Ind
Alaska Coal Land Frauds Under Scrutiny Says Ballinger
Investigations by Secretary Ballinger and Commissioner Dennett of the General Land Office focus on alleged coal land frauds in Alaska. Thousands of acres reportedly fired upon with unlawful entries. nearly 500 coentries cited. Hearings will begin soon with GLO engineers and lawyers joining in Seattle to aid the trial. Railroad interests in New York, Boston and Philadelphia are said to seek delays.
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Ballinger
Fred Dennett
General Land Office
Fuight
Alaska
Dennett
Denver
Seattle
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Labor and city contracts and a farmer land forecast
Carpenters in Fargo strike over a nine hour day at 35 cents per hour. Samuel Gompers speeches stir labor circles in France. Rugby NC awards sewer contract to James Kennedy at 12679.39, far below engineer estimates. Wisconsin labor convention draws 100 delegates from 15,000 union men. Hastings MN grants a twenty year gas franchise to Otto Ackerman and Dr. H N Sumption with rates up to 1.76 per thousand, reviewable in ten years. Government land remains to be allotted to many settlers in the US and Alaska. A wheat crop in Alberta is forecast to average 30 to 45 bushels per acre by G H McRae after a ten day western tour.
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Fargo
N. D
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Rugby
N. C
James Kennedy
Kennedy
Wisconsin State Federation of Labor
Hall Claire
Hastings
Minn
Hra
Otto Ackerman
H. N. Sumption
Uncle Sam
United States
Alaska
Canada
G. Hy McRae
Omaha Railroad
Alberta
Traction wage pact nears with $1 million rise promise
Chicago streetcar workers reach a near approval of a three and a half year contract offering an estimated $1,000,000 extra in wages. Leaders Roach Mitten and Walter Fisher pilot a compromise with Railways City Calumet and South Chicago firms and union reps to lift pay from 27 cents to 28 29 and 30 cents over three years for veteran staff. New hires progress slower with staged increases starting at 23 cents.
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Chicago
John M. Roach
Thomas BE. Mitten
City
Calumet
South Chicago
Consolidated Companies
Walter L. Fisher
Venezuela Pays Claim to New York-Venezuela Co
New York reports state that the New York Venezuelan Company will receive 475000 dollars in settlement after Venezuela signed a protocol to reimburse expenditures from 1901 concessions granted by the Castro government. The dispute helped sever diplomatic ties and was poised for The Hague trial next fall. This marks the third of five Venezuela disputes settled independently.
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New York
New York-Venezuela Company
Venezuela
W. W. Russell
State Department
Washington
Skeletons with Coins Unearthed Near Potomac 1729 Link
Fifteen human skeletons buried together near the Potomac with three English coins dated 1712 were found during excavations for the United States Medical School Hospital. The dig near the riverbank suggests a possible early American tragedy, though no conclusive details emerge.
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Washington
United States Medical’ School
Potomac
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