World events terse and briefly told
Treasury officials debate a five percent tariff reduction on goods imported in American ships, while the Supreme Court handles the grandfather clause case in Oklahoma. Wilson signs the tariff bill ending the Payne-Aldrich era. plans for currency reform speeches emerge. Thanksgiving proposal marks Lincoln's Gettysburg Address anniversary. Jewish New Year leave orders from Postmaster General Burleson. Yager slated as Porto Rico's next governor. Augusta federal building cost rise approved. Carterville strike hits Cost Belt Electric Line. Fiume explosion targets governor. New York gallery collapse injures many in a synagogue. Panama Canal unscathed by quake. Davis confesses to dynamite crimes. Stocking bank closes in Croton. Extradition stance on Gen. Britt0. Minneapolis commission form vote fails. Sulzer impeachment trial begins.
Foreign Ambassadors and Notable Deaths Across Europe
Foreign J G A Lelshman’s term as American ambassador to Germany ends and successor ex Justice Gerard takes charge. Maj George Charlton Merrick of the British Flying Corps is killed when his airplane collapses over Salisbury plains. A Constantinople dispatch says Agsad Pasha plans an autonomous Albania under Turkish suzerainty. Gen Felix Diaz sails from Havre to Vera Cruz aboard Conservendo. Porfirio Diaz rumored to have rented a villa at Biarritz for winter in France. US fleet to visit Naples and Genoa mid November. Paris hotels report systematic theft affecting American guests. Mrs Kirkland robbed at Place Vendome. Brooklands records a new world auto speed: 30 hp, 1,078 miles 460 yards in 12 hours at over 89 mph.
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Havre
Felix Diaz
Vera Cruz
Porfirio Diaz
Biarritz
France
Paris
Place Vendome
Kirkland
Brooklands
London
National Guard Convention Opens in Chicago
The annual convention of the National Guard Association of the United States opened in Chicago with Gen Thomas J Stewart presiding. Gen Leonard Wood and other notables gave addresses to about fifty witnesses including police as James Burke confessed to multiple murders arsons and robberies. Florence Louise Brandt daughter of William Ziegler inherits a 16 million dollar estate. Ohio utilities panel asked to block a Bell system merger. Postmasters ruled illegal deductions from stamp sale revenues. Panama Canal chief Goethals says Fram cannot pass for a month after a slide. A Scranton street car crash injures twenty four. Mormon church leader Joseph F Smith condemns modern women’s dress as indecent.
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The
National Guard Association of the United States
Chicago
Thomas J. Stewart
Leonard Wood
Breckinridge
Seattle Judge Admits Contempt Docket and Pardons
Personal Judge John E. Stumphries of Seattle adjourned court after pardons and remissions amid a belligerent mood and armed deputies guarding his docket of contempt cases against Socialists. The day included denouncing fellow judges as plotters against him.
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John E. Stumphries
Seattle
Wash
Superior Court
Murder Charged for Woman’s Death in Pulaski County
Leslie Steffy, 35, a former Fulton County resident now jailed in Rochester, Indiana, faces murder charges after a Pulaski grand jury reclassified Pearl Hettinger’s death as murder rather than an accident. Steffy claimed self defense and denied wrongdoing, saying Pearl was his nurse when a shot was fired. The case is delayed for weeks due to lack of a local jail, with Steffy suing J. P. Gill singer for $5,000. observers dispute his innocence.
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Steffy
Pulaski
Indiana
Rochester
Leslie Steffy
Fulton County
Pulaski County
Pearl Hettinger
Hettingers
Pearl
J. P. Gillsinger
Second Soldier Dies in Jeffersonville Saloon Keeper Father Lawman
Oct. 1 report notes Samuel W. Taylor age 72 died of cancer, the second local death in 24 hours. Taylor served two enlistments in Company B, Fifty ninth Indiana, and later ran a saloon for 30 years, reputedly the only keeper who always obeyed the law. Survived by widow and son George, presently in the regular army.
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Jeffersonville
Samuel W. Taylor
Fifty Ninth
Indiana Regiment
George
Councilman Proposes Dress Restriction Ordinance
Evansville council member Charles Meyer Hoff urged passage of an ordinance limiting women's dress, singling out slit skirts. He cited a Main Street sighting of a woman in a very short skirt and asked how he would appear with one leg of his trousers exposed.
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Evansville
Charles Meyerhoff
Main Street
Whoopers Invited to Boy's Party in Gary
In Gary on October 1 the society note describes whooping cough parties. Dr. and Mrs. Charles Yarrington invited guests for their son Donald’s birthday. Donald caught whooping cough, so invitations were canceled for those who had not had the illness, while those who had or were whooping attended the scaled party.
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Gary
Charles Yarrington
Donald
Quarter in Meter Ends Sufferer’s Life in Quarrel
In South Bend on October 1 George Piasel aged sixty three placed a quarter in a gas meter and turned on the kitchen stove gas, lying across the stove and inhaling fumes. His wife and daughter found him after they had quarreled and left home several hours earlier.
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South Bend
Cgeorge Piasel
Mrs Miller Killed in Indiana Auto Crash
Mrs Olive Miller of Mooneville was killed near Hazelton Indiana yesterday when a car she rode in skidded and overturned. She had been en route to Indianapolis.
Found Guilty of Murder in Evansville Case
William Springer was found guilty of first degree murder for the shooting of Mrs. Anna Gray last summer in Evansville. A jury sentenced him to life imprisonment in the efficient court.
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Evansville
William Springer
Anna Gray
Effenit
Lawrence Orr Jey Found After Two Day Missing
Lawrence Orr Jey was found last night in Newcastle after two days missing from his home. He remains in a coma but physicians expect recovery.
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Lawrence Druley
Newcastle
Lawrence Orr Jey
Man Surrenders After Saying He Killed Feuding Neighbor
Bargersville man John Van Blarken, 56, brother-in-law of John Totten, 52, who was found dead with a bullet wound near his heart in Illinois Central vicinity, turned himself in claiming self defense after Ten years of feud over an estate. Totten leaves three sons. Van Blarken held most of the disputed property and faces no bond yet set as sheriff takes him into custody.
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Bargersville
John van Blarken
John Totten
Totten
van Blaricon
van Bilaricon
Indiana News In Brier Logansport
Indiana items report a fireman’s child scalding incident. Frank & Bougher named district deputy for northern Indiana lodges. Terre Haute court scolding incident with girls in short skirts. reformatory officers back to work after funding lapse. Various suits in Jeffersonville and Shelbyville. judgments in Versailles and Marion. car crash injures an elderly man. Daugherty cleared pending investigation. Hitchcock guilty plea for illegal liquor, others fined. Rural Route Carrier Association formed at Brazil picnic. South Bend inheritance tax receipts reach $628,557.02. Seventh Indiana regiment reunion in Greensburg. arrests in Aurora for Mann White Grave Law violations.
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Logansport
Frank Baker
Kendallville
Frank &. Bougher
Fort Wayne
State Huks’ Association
Indiana
Terre Haute
Batt
Jeffersonville
Indiana Reformatory
Jeffersonvilla
Anna Boswell
Henryville
Wiliam Hardy
Shelbyville
Clara Hastler
Shelby
Fred Hastler
Flastler
Versailles
Hazel Brach
Conrad
Amelia Grach
Marion
Elijah Grantham
Greencastle
Emory Gilbert
Graham
Marion Hospital
Evansville
Maggie Daugherty
John A. Daveherty
Philip C. Could
Curtis
Harrisburg
Belford
Mace Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Starr
John Gresham
Brazil
Clay County
Ralph W. Moss
Ashboro
Stoward Woodburn
Bowling Green
Ernest Haney
Cory
Eugene Morgan
South Bend
Lidiana
St. Joseph County
George Wyman
Rebecca Bb. Wheeler
Charles Vinson
Joseph Tarmack
Greensburg
Seventh
Indiana Regiment
Aurora
James A. Cox
Colice
John W. McGuire
Boone County
Kentucky
Lulu T. Backster
Louisville
John W. Brandon
McGuire
Nome Devastated by Tidal Wave and Wind Destruction
Nome suffers widespread ruin as a 12 hour storm tears through the city. Fires burn at the Pacific cold storage plant while wind and seas wreck Front Street and sever electric and telephone service. Officials estimate losses exceed 2 million dollars as homes and buildings vanish along the sandpit area.
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Western
Union News Service
Nome
Alaska
Pacific
Front Street
Bering Bay
Fourteen Die in Kiev Express Collision Near Dvinsk
An express train from Kiev to Saint Petersburg collided with a stalled locomotive near Dvinsk station. Fourteen passengers were killed and 28 injured. Alexander J. Guehkoff, former president of the Duma, is reported among the dead.
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Dvinsk
Russia
Kiev
St. Petersburg
Alexander J. Guehkoff
The
Duma
Red Cross Ball Blue promises top wash power
An advertisement claims Red Cross Ball Blue will wash twice as many clothes as rivals and warns against spending money elsewhere. The piece also cites global language counts and lists Mrs Winslow’s soothing syrup for teething, while a Knickerbock Club anecdote in New York recalls a summer mishap joke about Bad Nauheim and Newport.
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Red Cross
Adv
New York
Newport
Woman Convicted of Murder Gets Life Sentence
Harrisonville Missouri Mrs Ida May Keller was found guilty of first degree murder for killing her husband and seven year old daughter Margaret. The jury returned a single ballot verdict and sentenced her to life imprisonment.
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Harrisonville
Ida May Keller
Margaret
Three Men Die In Railroad Freight Crash
In Sidney Ohio, railroad trackmen David H. Goodwin and Tony Fardo were run down and killed by a Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul freight engine. Farmer Harry Trunks, struck by the same train, also died at the scene.
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Sidney, O
David H. Goodwin
Tony Fardo
Harry Trunks
Cincinnati Market Prices for Corn to Lambs and More
Market listing shows No 2 white corn 74c per bushel with many grades and prices for corn, hay, oats, wheat, eggs, poultry, cattle, hogs, sheep, and lambs. Includes specifics like eggs prime firsts 27c and cattle ranges from butcher steers 7.50 to 7.15, with lambs and calves also priced.
Engineer Remains at His FQST
Two men were killed and a fireman seriously injured when a westbound Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern passenger train collided with an extra freight at Summerfield, 25 miles east of St. Louis. A Baltimore dispatch cites heavy fog as the cause obscuring the engineer’s view. Immediate repairs and investigation followed.
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St. Louis
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
Avawlich
Summerfield
Baltimore
Ladder Still and a Political Scandal Dinner Gossip
The piece notes a political scandal where an official is accused of dishonesty. Richard Harding Davis comments that the man is capable of baseness and implies a price for integrity. A comedian adds that even now, many men fail to resist bribery, highlighting cynicism in high circles.
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Richard Harding Davis
New York
Crossing Collision Sparks Near Miss On Rural Road
A speeding automobile and a steam train approach a country road crossing where a lake, summer homes, and trees set the scene. The car driver asks the chauffeur if they can beat the oncoming train. the chauffeur accelerates, but the vehicle fails to clear the crossing.
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Chaffeur
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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