Trolley Car Struck By Train in East Chicago
A fast Calumet railway train struck a Lake Shore interurban at a street crossing in East Chicago Indiana, tossing the car from the rails onto its side. Two women passengers were severely injured and several others bruised. Rescue crews from Hammond Gary and Indiana Harbor aided the passengers.
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Calumet Railway
Lake Shore
Chicago
Ind
Hammond
Gary
Indiana Harbor
East Chicago
Fire Department
Taft sermons and storms mark busy Sunday across world
Sunday reports move from Fresno sermons by President Taft on self restraint to Paris aviation delays and a 160000 crowd wrecking railroad property. Across the globe, legal actions, political tensions, and notable incidents unfold from Washington to Rhode Island.
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Taft
Fresno
Cal
Paris
State Department
Augusta 4. Stetson
Christian Science
Boston
South Side
Chicago
Wheeler
Waytoo
Ship Wrecked on Lake Erie Leaves Six Dead
The steamship George Stone of Cleveland wrecked off Point Pelee Ontario during a late gale on Lake Erie. Six crew and one passenger died. twelve were saved. The uninsured vessel, owned by M. A. Bradley of Cleveland, departed Ashtabula for Racine with coal. Capt Howell and Peter Daley plus six crew perished as they tried to reach shore amid fires and heavy surf. The ship sent a man aloft with a bed sheet for signals before sinking in the storm.
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George Stone
Cleveland
Point Pelee
Ontario
Upper Lake Erie
Great Lakes
M. A. Bradley
Paul Howell
Peter Daley
Erie
Ashtabula
Ohio
Racine
Wis
Ife
Love Leads To Penitentiary In Indiana Divorce Case
Mrs Rae Krauss of Hartford City Indiana serving life in women's prison for murder of her stepdaughter Crystal Krauss seeks relief in divorce from William R Krauss. Cross complaint claims husband coerced confession and pledged pardon. Crystal died from strychnine after Krauss allegedly arranged for punishment to curb court leniency.
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Rae Krauss
Hartford City
Ind
Crystal Krauss
J. A. Hindmann
William R. Krauss
Indiana
Bank Robbery by 18 Year Old Ends in Shootout
Earl Bullock, 18, robbed the State Bank of Eudora Kansas after luring cashier B E Wilson into the vault. Deputy Woodson confronted Bullock aboard and Bullock opened fire wounding Officer Wilson Pringle, then fled with about $1000. A large search by armed citizens followed as Bullock was later captured in Endora.
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Sherif
Watt
Earl Bullock
Eudora
Kan
Wilson Pringle
Bullock
Endora
Woodson
Lawrence
B.E. Wilson
Woods
Wilson
Polceman
Peary Denies Cook Polar Dash Reaches Pole
Commander Peary and five aides publish a signed statement refuting Dr. Cook’s claim of reaching the pole on April 21, 1908. The document includes Eskimo testimony, a Cook expedition map, and a summary asserting Cook’s northward reach halted near Cape Thomas Hubbard and that provisions, dogs, and sleds were insufficient for a pole dash.
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Cook
Robert BH. Peary
Frederick A. Cook
Forth- Pole
Alma
Robert A. Bartlett
Roosevelt
D. B. McMillan
George Borup
Mathew A. Hensen
Peary
Comander Peary
Dr. Cook
Eighty-Second Parallel
Cape Thomas Hubbard
Polar Sea
Prince Gustave Sea
Amund Ringness Land
Norwegian Bay
Hellgate
Jones Sound
Baffin Bay
Anoratok
Oklahoma City Bank to Be Reorganized Under New Name
A new organization will replace the failed Columbia Bank and Trust Company of Oklahoma City. The Central State Bank of Oklahoma City will capitalize at 200,000 dollars. President is C J Webster of Sulphur with B M Estes also named among leaders.
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J. M. Hamill
Fairbanks
Alaska
Tanana Valley
Sioux City
Pirit
Lake
Iowa
Dan ‘Patch
Eithe
Ming Pany
Ai Bioux
Columbia Bank and Trust Company of
Oklahoma City
States Bating Board
Central iBtate Bank of
C.J. ‘Webster
Sulphur
Okla
B. M. Estes
Columbia” Ae
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Denver
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E. H. Harriman
Harriman
Charles Lentz
Jeffersonville
Joseph Snyder
St. Francisville
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Tennessee
Denmark
Tenn
Canonchet
William Sprague
Narragansett Pier
Rhode Island
Carl A. Richter
Hampton Roads
Navy
Navy Department
Dice & Lacey
Pablskers
Bun
I BR. Q
Key West
Los Angeles
United States Supreme Court
Charles W. Morse
Wisconsin
Short
Sprague
H. Hartman
Organized Labor
Samuel Gompers
Washington
Itbel
Delavan Smith
Charles R. Williams
Indianapolis News
Crane
China
Knox Long
Mineral Point
Robert E. Peary
F. A. Cook
North Pole
Brooklyn
Lake Erie
Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis
Springfield
James M. Barrie
London
Gilbert Cannon
D. M. Erskine & Co
Highland Park
Gaynor
New York
William Randolph Hearst
Civic League
Coliseum
Polk Street
Cullom
Oglesby
Illinoig
Congress
William J. Sidis
Harvard
England
Asquith
Edward
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Newcastle
Lords
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Pittsburg
Grand Trunk-Pacific
Nova Scotia
Prince Rupert
B. C
G. A. McNicholl
Vancouver
Brainerd
Minn
Minesota Waterworks Company
United States
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