Chicago Puts Out Fire After Race To Fayal
The French liner Chicago arrived at Fayal Azores with a fire in No 3 hold after leaving Bordeaux Oct 22 with 265 passengers and about 200 crew. Officials say passengers not in immediate danger as crews fight the blaze. The 10 502 ton liner built in 1908, 524 feet long, carries second and third class passengers plus crew. Passenger list not filed.
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Garier
Fayal
Azores
London
Chicago
Azores Islands
Lloyd's
New York
Chiro
Bordeaux
York
Rochambeau
Lafayette
France
Maurice Kozminski
Campeorine General Trans-Atlantique French Line
Street Riot Over Politics in Kansas City
At the Union station Republicans attacked cars carrying Wilson women who came in on the Hughes special. Wilson supporters jumped on running boards to defend the women amid brief fist fights. Police stopped the scuffles as the flags and banners continued.
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Kansas City
Union Station
Wilson
Hughes
One Dead and 22 Hurt as Illinois Traction Car Burns
A traction line car plunged 100 feet down an embankment near Edwardsville killing RE. A. Kanier of New York and injuring or burning twenty-two others. Officials say loose rails and spike removal at the trestle caused the wreck on the Springfield to St. Louis line five miles north of town.
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Edwardsville
RE. A. Kanier
New York
Illinois Traction System
Springfield
St. Louis
Man Killed in Brazil Saloon Shooting Incident
Charles Phillips 25 shot and killed Patrick Murphy 35 in a Brazil Indiana saloon owned by Mrs. Mollie Hart. Phillips claimed Murphy attacked him, while Murphy’s sister reports he was attacked, with three shots fired.
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Negro
Brazil
Ind
Patrick Murphy
Charles Phillips
Mollie Hart
Murph Phillips
Murphy
Mooresville Woman Celebrates Birthday Milestone
Mrs. Julia Sherer of Mooresville marked a birthday milestone with her four children Charles Alfred Mrs Bloxour of Pratt Tex and Mrs Williams. She lives with her son Charles in Mooresville Indiana and celebrated her 103rd birthday.
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Mooresville
Ind
Julia Sherer Biarry Mean
Charles
Alfred
Bloxour
Pratt, Tex
Williams
Vanderbilt Guard Officer Fights for Comrades’ Voting Rights
LT COL VANDERBILT leads a campaign to secure voting rights for fellow guardsmen. He advocates equal access to ballots, challenging restrictions that bar service members from participating in elections. The effort emphasizes constitutional protections and service unity.
Big blow at NOS way proscribed by Berlin
In Christiania on October 28 the Ritzau News Agency tallies Norwegian shipping losses at 268000 tons gross with insured value 102000000 kronen and 149 deaths. The ships Rieterl and Profit were seized by German warships at Swinemunde and Cuxhaven. Germany warns Dutch firms not to use German iron for repairs lest supplies be cut. London reports Danish ship London torched in the North Sea by a German submarine.
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Christiania
Ritzau
Rie-terl
Swinemunde
Cuxhaven
Amsterdam
Norway
Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant
Germany
London
North Sea
Lioerds Shipping Agency
Rowanmore
Glascow
Johnston Line
Hugt
Bevine
Liverpool
Huntsfall
Lloyd’s
State Department
Tondon
1500 Miners Strike in Clinton Field Mines
About 1,500 miners at three Clinton field mines went on strike after operators refused to check out a special assessment for a strike at Vandalia mines. Vandalia's 3,000 workers had returned to work as the United Mine Workers levied the assessment.
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Terre Heure
Ind
Clinton Field
Miami Coal Company
Chicago
Vandalia Company
Vandalia
United Mine Workers
Anglian Arrives Armed for First Time at Boston Port
The Leyland Line steamship Anglian returned from Boston to Boston with a four inch gun firing sixty five pound shells. Its crew included two former British navy gunners. The ship carried 2 600 cases of U S cartridges for Britain that reportedly failed to meet war office rules.
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Boston
Mass
Leyland Line
Anglian
Three Killed in Hammond Railroad Collision
Chicago October 28 three Indiana Harbor Belt line workers died in a Hammond wreck when two Belt line trains collided. The caboose was torn apart. The dead were Frank Wilson yard master William Kohlpainter conductor and G W McDonald switch man.
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Chicago
Indiana Harbor Railroad
Hiammond
Caboose
Frank Wilson
William Kohlpainter
G. W. McDonald
Roumania Wins on West Front in Moldavia and Dobrogea
In Moldavia a Roumanian force captured the Translyvenian village of Balan and the Piatrarotkhul heights while gains extend along the Jinal river. Petrograd reports continued fighting on both banks of the Jinal as Russians and Romanians retire north of a line near Hirsova and Casaphelli.
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Bucharest
War Office
Tulehes
Bicaz
Trotus
Uzul
Beutonic
Dragoslavele
Jinal River
Dobrogea
Hirsova
Casaphelli
Tchernavoda-Constanta
Berlin
von Mackensen
Tehernavoda
Lutsk
Volhynia
Kiselin
Transylvania
Preéeal
Camonuling
Roumania
Kronstad
Shera
Earlham College Tops Wealth Among Quaker Schools
Richmond Ind October report by Five Years Meeting educational committee ranks Earlham College as the wealthiest Quaker college in the United States with property valued at 939700. Guilford College in North Carolina is listed second with property valued at 266000.
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Richmond
Ind
Earlham College
United States
Five Years Meeting of Friends
Guilfford College
North Carolina
First to Get Compensation in South Bend
South Bend Indiana October 27 Mrs John Porter widow of a New York Central railroad worker killed when he fell from a mail car becomes the first local recipient under the federal compensation law She will receive 45 a month for life as widow while a thirteen year old son gets 20 a month until he reaches twenty one years old
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South Bend
Ind
John Porter
New York Central Railroad
Candidate's Son Dies. Fairfield Returns With Body
Louis W. Fairfield, Republican candidate for congress in Indiana's Twelfth district, was summoned home from the Mexican border when his son fell seriously ill and died. Thomas Fairfield, who had gone to the border with the family, is returning with the body as Angola, Indiana grieves the loss.
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Sen
Angola
Ind
Louis W. Fairfield
Minister Confesses Being Matchmaker at Millikin
Decatur Oct. 28 The Rev Dr A P Cobb minister of a Christian church confessed to matchmaking for Millikin graduate Miss Marguerite Potter and Dr Howard Bradford Boone surgeon of Chandlerville N who were married in Decatur He said he knew Boone well owned 1500 acres and a $10 900 home At Springfield August convention he urged Cobb to find him a wife and Cobb arranged a correspondence leading to their romance.
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Decatur
A. P. Cobb
Millikin University
Cupid
Marguerite Potter
Millikin
Howard Bradford Boone
Chandler Ville
Thecatur
Boone
Uniofl
Springfield
Cobb
Miss Potter
James Millikin University
East Peoria to Face Shortage Claim After Death of Postmaster
The East Peoria Town and Homestead association seeks to recover 310000 from Farrington's sureties for a shortage alleged to have been discovered shortly before the former postmaster Charles L. Parrington died at age fifty five. Farrington allegedly promised a cash settlement on the day of his death.
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Peoria
East
Y M C A Sought at Elwood Indiana
A public meeting planned at the Methodist church to start a Y M C A movement in Elwood with the church basement offered for club and reading rooms as long as needed.
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Elwood
Ind
Methodist
Alleged Purse Snatcher Held in Anderson
John Mc Curdy aged nineteen was arrested in Anderson Indiana charged with snatching purses from three women in ten days. He confessed and was sentenced to the reformatory.
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Anderson
Ind
John McCurdy
Plea to Extend Alton Route to Chicago Gains Support
Oct. 28 reports show pleas for extending the Alton line to Chicago. Carlinville and neighboring towns back the plan as it gains broad local backing along the proposed route.
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Chicago
Carlinville
Bank holdup foiled by assistant cashier in Harvey
In Chicago area at the Bank of Harvey, 1 45 pm holdup ended when 23 year old August Waldschmidt sprinted for help and returned with a policeman. The robber was about to flee with 8 000 to 9 000 dollars as two accomplices, one in an awaiting car, were captured nearby. The bandit, named George Stunckel, claimed to live on Sangamon Street in Chicago and was twenty years old. Waldschmidt exited a rear bank door as another robber threatened chief assistant cashier Burnett with a revolver.
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Chicago
Bank of Harvey
August Waldschmidt
George Stunckel
Chicazo
Sangamon Street
Waldschmidt
George M. Burnett
Coal from Illinois to Ohio eases eastern coal famine
In central Molinda Illinois mine owners report hundreds of cars of coal shipped to Toledo and other Ohio points. The east demands reduce prices as operators haul mine run coal by team to railroad sidings and load cars by hand, seeking profit over the local market.
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Springfield
Molinda
Toledo
Ohio
Indictment Returned in Henry Brock Murder Case
Lafayette Indiana October 28 Henry Brock is indicted for first degree murder by a grand jury for the April shooting death of Koward Mason a colored high school student. The murder trial was delayed due to questions over the grand jury’s legal composition.
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Lafayette
Ind
Henry Brock
Brock
Koward Mason
Woman Dies of Heart Disease on Elkhart Tracks
Mrs. Charles Payne sixty years old collapsed and died while collecting a magazine near Elkhart Indiana on the Big Four railroad tracks. Cyrus Frame witnessed the scene but did not approach and waited for Deputy Sheriff Komton Bowlsey who arrived by automobile.
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Elkhart
Ind
Col Leeling
Charles Payne
Cyrus Frame
Komton Bowlsey
German destroyers sunk as British raid drives off channel attack
London reports ten German torpedo boat destroyers raided the cross channel service. Two enemy destroyers were sunk and the rest driven off. One British destroyer Flirt is missing and Nubian was disabled and grounded. Queen transport sunk with all crew saved. Nine Flirt crew rescued. Rowanmore reportedly sunk. Huntsfall and Severnere blamed in Lloyds reports.
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London
Admiralty
Crose Channel
T. M
Fitt
Richard P. Kellett
H. M
Bost
Nubian
Montague Bernard
R. N
Constantine and Entente Together
Athens reports a Boulogne meeting yields an understanding between King Constantine and entente powers. Greece pledges to obey Fournet demands, maintain order in Athens and Piraeus, safeguard constitutional liberties, and allow Venizelist recruitment now termed anti Bulgarian. The Forward heralds a broader accord with Greece.
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Athens
Constantine
Great Britain
France
Boulogne
Greece
Admiral Fournet
Athena
Piraeus
Woman Dies of Wounds After Hotel Shooting
Ali ma Smart, manager of a hotel in Ind, died in hospital from bullet wounds alleged to have been inflicted by Frank Payton former minister and owner of the hotel.
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Hammer
Ind
Alima Smart
Frank Payton
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Col. Vanderbilt
American Press Association
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Hammond
West Front
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Moldavia
Halan
Piatravokul
Danube
Teutons
Petrograd
Decatur, W
Loan Association
Farrington
Mrs. Vincent Astor
Captain Boy
Washington
The
Providence Journal
Auto Bandits
Illinois
Buckeyedam
Sucker State
Phot
Vincent
Stanisboro
Edward Wotandon
Lane
Sid Tiese
Kaiser
Entente
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