Sensation at Laporte over plot to kill McCormick and son
A plot to murder ex Sheriff Nathan D McCormick and his son Harry is revealed by Mrs Casker wife of editor Casker now jailed for alleged enmity with McCormick. The report also notes a fire at Lima, Ohio destroying the Lighting Plant and electric equipment. It mentions Subonie plague outbreaks in London and political attempts in the Philippines.
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Laporte
Nathan DD. McCormick
Harry
Tall, Weaver & Co
Casker
Deersonville Reformatory
McCormick
Fife
Louise McCormick
Reformatory
Lima
Oto
Coon
Otter Pauls
Boiching
Auto leaped embankment kills driver at Vermont fairgrounds
An auto traveling at 50 mph at the Caledonia county fairgrounds in St Johnsburg Vermont plunged 15 feet over an embankment, killing Clerbert Lanphere. Driver Dr John M Allen suffered serious injuries and a man named Tred Gareiek was hurt.
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Caledonia County Fair Grounds
St. Johnsburg
V.t
Clerbert Lanphere
John M. Allen
Tred Gareiek
Shamrocks Land Jr Nearly Sold as Japton Forbids Sale
Sir Storms Japton attempts to transfer the Shamrock boats across the water. Jobin Westwood, secretary John Thomas, says the baronet is not disposed to part with Shamrock Wt and the boats may remain unsold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shamrocks Land Jr
Storms Japton
Tre
Jobin Westwood
John Thomas
Westwood
Europians and US to Jointly Combat Dangerous Criminals
A plan for European nations and the United States to cooperate in watching and apprehending dangerous criminals has been refined. The scheme links secret service heads and city police chiefs with aims to suppress anarchist societies and track ringleaders. The operation was coordinated by a European secret service agent after visits to Wegland Germany France Switzerland and other countries. Commissioner Sargent of Immigration is involved in the international effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europens Nationre
United States
Europe
Seheme
Antter Ls
Wikkie
Secret Service
Wegland
Germainy
France
Switzerland
Face Shortage of Wheat and Milk Crisis Looms
Storm damage drives a wheat shortage in the northwest and threatens milk supplies. Estimates of unthrashed wheat fall sharply as Minneapolis mills fear no grain to grind and elevator men express serious concern over the crisis.
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Linshel
Minneapolis
Herle
Miingespotis
Miany Praces
Minnesota
Elroy
Wis
Sioux City
Iowa
North Dakota
Montana
Officials Convicted of Misappropriating Government Funds in Manila
Philippine authorities convict Customs Inspector Thomas J. Coates and Lieut Osborne for misappropriating public funds. Osborne receives ten years, Coates eight. La Union treasurer Dean Tompkins also convicted of forgery. sentence reserved. The minimum penalty is twelve years.
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Philippines
Thomas J. Coates
Liewt. Osborne
Constabulary
San Fording
Manila
Osborne
Coates
Dean Tompkins
la Union
Telephone Service Outage Shuts KC Business District
The board orders a prolonged halt to telephone service in the business district and blocks toll and long distance calls from Kansas City to offsite towns for at least thirty days, likely two to three months.
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Kansas City
Ofside
Bates Reports Poor Recruit Quality and Mess System Issues
Maj. Gen. Bates reports recruits lacking in character and appearance versus past years. He cites unsatisfactory mess operations at Fort Sherklin and related posts, and urges not returning to the company mess system. Enlistment figures show 22 more tried than last year with 118 from other departments. 342 convicted, 11 acquitted, 4 sentences disapproved, 200 convicted of desertion. recommends a military prison.
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Bates
Department of the Iakes
Fort Sherklin
Caluinbus Barracks
Art Thomas
Police Investigate Murky Case of Missing 17 Year Old
Police pursue a suspected murder case after Barward Poke, 17, vanishes and locals claim his body or remains were sold to a Chicago institution. Clues include a signed note found with the youth’s belongings and a transfer message suggesting a voyage to California.
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Barward Poke
Listady
Phonas Brockhart
Defiance
Ohio
Reddick
Barre Crook
Mieh
Mere Sayine
Bom Gohan
California
Toto
Notorious New Jersey burglar hid as respected citizen
A longtime Ridgewood resident alias George P Toward, accused of dozens of burglaries within fifty miles, fled New York police for over a year. The piece also reports a warehouse blaze in Saint Marie and a $400000 loss, and notes a young Miss Kim Zane found dead in the Ohio River with coroner calling it murder.
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Ciprian
New Jersey
Ridgewood
N.J
Odd Pethows Lodge
Kim Zane
Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio River
Fitzpatrick
Form Big Grocery Trust Merges Ohio Wholesalers Across States
The Ohio Grocery Company, capital 11.25 million, incorporated in New Jersey, aims to unite Ohio wholesalers and mill operations with a 66 percent cumulative preferred stock. Promoters include I Co and MON Letta of Chicago and George Bondy of Grand Rapids. Offices will be in Toledo as the plan expands to Indiana Illinois and beyond.
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George Bondy
Grand Rapids
Mich
Ohio Whitesale Trans. Mae
Indiana
Aptions
Illinois
New York
Ohio
Ilinois
Iowa
Michigan
Canada
Toledo
Bandits Rob Valley Springs Bank In Explosive Raid
Thieves set off nine blasts early Saturday in Valley Springs South Dakota. A crowd faced seven or eight armed men who controlled residents at gunpoint while the Minnehaha county bank safe outside the vault was blown open and cash seized, amounting to between eight thousand and forty thousand dollars. The vault was untouched as the robbers fled before dawn.
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Valley Springs
Siouxalls
Jesse James
Minnehaha County
Aoesh
Marconi to aid Peary with Arctic wireless gear
William Marconi offers wireless telegraphy to Robert E. Peary for the next polar expedition. He expresses confidence in overcoming Arctic obstacles and enabling the new world communications aid in extreme conditions. W. W. McConnell Minnesota dairy commissioner issues an order effective Jan 1 forbidding aniline colors in butter under the state pure food law. Presence of warships in Turkish waters prompts the Porte to press the United States on protections and old questions.
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Marconi
Peary
William Marconi
Robert KE
Arctic
W. WL. McConnell
Minnesota
United States
Porte
Grief prompts a death by own action in Chicago hotel
A man named Robert Stockwell Latcher, 40, of Lafayette, Indiana, killed himself in a room at the Planters Hotel in St. Louis after grieving his wife’s death from consumption. His wife was a leading official in the Daughters of the Revolution.
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Chicago
Robert Stockwell Latcher
Lanfayette
Ind
Planters Hotel
St. Louis
lLatcher
Daughters of the Sminchesn Revolution
Russian Monks Murdered in Jerusalem Sacking
A Berlin Tageblatt dispatch from Constantinople reports that the Russian monastery at Jerusalem was sacked by a Mohammedan mob and all the monks were murdered. A five story telephone building at Sixth and Wyandotte streets in Kansas City burned completely destroying toll boards and damaging the main switch.
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Berlin Tageblatt
Constantinople
Jerusalem
Sixth and
Wyandotte Streets
Kansan
Havoc on the Farms in the Western States
Snow frost and rain devastate crops across the western Mississippi valley. The cold wave from Canada brings two feet of snow in North Dakota and a blizzard near Winnipeg where livestock perished. Wheat corn and flax suffer shortages as thrashing halts. rail traffic slows and farmers face large losses and reduced demand.
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Mississippi Valley
North Dakota
Winnipeg
Ijlorses
Hartney
Minnesota
Dakotas
Cheyenne
Wye
Concordia
Kan
Lander
Ces Malice
Secces Ls
Denver
Aopcda
St. Paul
Northwest
Pacific Coast
Red River Valley
Wisconsin
Spirta
Wis
Iowa
Ilinois
Towa
Lowastone
Chicago
Union and labor movements span continents and states
Cincinnati tailors threaten strike as unions discuss amalgamation. Arbitration act plans extend to Australian colonies. U S railroad wages rise sharply with $570,028,402 paid last year. Sioux Falls tests Sioux Indian day labor. Chicago suits total $86,000 against unions. Engineers convention meets Sept 14 in Wheeling. Rail unions gain wage boosts 8 to 5 percent. Journeymen Barbers establish Indianapolis HQ as commercial traveler federation eyed. Masters resist new wage scale. union label debated.
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Cincinnati
Wheeling
W. Va
International Union of Steam Engineeers
Union Pacific Firemen
Order of
International Union of Journeymen Barbers
Indianapolis
Journeymen Bakers
New York City
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Norfolk Va
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Norfolk
Domingo Valtallebros
New Castle
Doctors Haven
Cooper
Mabel Williams
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W. G C. Brimson
W. J. Stoneburner
Iown and St. Louis Railroad
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Novinger
Brinson
Chariton River
Godfrey Werren
Austin Flynn
Wilkestarre, I A
England
Son
Flaten
Saint Ste. Marie
Klosser
Bault Ste. Marie
Newton
KK. Moses & Son
BIG Grocery Trust
Long Island City
Ononnie
Wis Wolurt
Olympia
Corporal Yeager
States Marine Corps
Norfolk Navy Yard
Doe Park Bluff
Steuner
Glemnont
Vr Sant Company
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Tuk
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James Ferguson
la Crosse
Navy Department
Carmack
Tennessee
Roosevelt
Christianty
Kongens Gade
Christiania
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Kenry Shroder
Dayton, Wye
Edward Sims
Jack Hanley
Stanley
Adam Rosenzweig
Binghamton, N. Y
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