Curtiss Plans Aerial Flight At Cleveland
Glenn H. Curtiss prepared for a 120 mile lake crossing from Euclid beach to Cedar Point and back over Lake Erie. Crowds along the route expected a holiday atmosphere as factories and stores announced closings to view the flight. Weather forecasts warned of possible showers and stronger winds but Curtiss planned to proceed unless conditions worsened.
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Glenn H. Curtiss
Hudson Flyer
Euclid Beach
Cleveland
Lake Erie
Cedar Point
Sandusky Bay
Cleveland Press
Curtiss
Sandusky
Kennelly
Mystery Plane Over New York City At Night
New York on August 31 faced an air mystery after an unidentified aircraft with red and green lights flew over Manhattan at about 700 feet Tuesday night. Police and witnesses reported the craft, evading identification as inquiries to aviators in Atlantic City and Hempstead yielded denials. The incident highlights perceived city vulnerability to military air attack under current conditions.
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New York
London
Metropolitan Building
Atlantic City
Hempstead
L. I
Manhattan
Governor Deneen Attacks Illinois Political Ring
Grafters are flayed as Gov. Deneen denounces bi partisan combine in T ay lorsville Illinois. He condemns recall opposition, honest elections, and primary rights while denouncing an alleged jack pot scheme tied to Browne trial. He warns against empowering those who created disgraceful conditions in the state.
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Deneen
United States
House of Representatives
House
Browne
Chicago
General Assembly
Judge chased by angry mob near sugar trust plant
New York August 31 rioters fought near the sugar trust Williamsburg plant where a strike had lasted weeks. Magistrate Higginbotham, delivering harsh sentences on strikers, fled for safety as bullets rang out while two men were shot in the Wednesday clash. He aided the wounded John Brannigan and James Gordon at the eastern district hospital.
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New York
Sugar Trust
Williamsburg
Higginbotham
John Brannigan
Eastern District Hospital
James Gordon
Joint judgeship ballots in Grant Delaware district
Special to The Sun. Fairmount Ind August 31. Robert M. Van Atta Muncie Will Andson Marion George W Cromer Frank McClellan Muncie Will White Muncie and Charles T Parker Fairmount are candidates for the superior judgeship of the Grant Delaware district. Balloting likely to last until late Wednesday afternoon.
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Fairmount
Ind
Robert M. van Atta
Muncie
Will Andson
Marion
George W. Cromer
Frank McClellan
Will White
Charles T. Parker
Grant-Delaware
Ballinger May Be Pried Loose From His Job
Beverly Mass August 31 Secretary of the Interior Richard A Ballinger faces a bold political move to force his resignation or secure congressional censure The plan hinges on McCall of Massachusetts joining opposition to produce a 6 to 5 vote against Ballinger and remove Senator Root from the tally taft not informed of the maneuver but supporters call it the best solution to the administration s dilemma
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Mass
Secretary of the Interior
Richard A. Ballinger
Taft
Ballinger
Congressional Investigation Committee
Representative McCall
Massachusetts
Majority Committee
Senator Root
New York
Root
Europe
McCall
Nelson
Flint
Sutherland
Olmsted
Denby
Crane
Friends of the Executive
Five Injured In Ohio Gar Strike In Columbus
Five persons were injured Tuesday night in dynamiting outrages the worst of the strike. Cars on Main Long and Sandusky streets were damaged. Victims include C. J. Fahrbach Harry Herkowitz J A Zwerner Mrs Ollie McGregor and Roy Merrill. Conductor Huling blown from his station. Large property damage reported including shattered windows and torn track.
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Main
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C. J. Fahrbach
Cole Street
Harry Herkowitz
J. A. Zwerner
East Long Street
Ollie McGregor
Dakota Avenue
Roy W. Merrill
West State Street
Good Shepherd Convent
Long Street
Monroe Avenue
Arthur Huling
Main Street
East Main Street
Army aeroplanes ordered to expand French forces
Paris August 31 The French war department orders fifty new army aeroplanes including biplanes and Bleriot monoplanes. Training grounds for officers will be created nationwide, with land forces split into infantry artillery cavalry and aeroplane classes. Naval centers will add aeroplane officers and aerial navigation courses start at St. Car and Paris. Master of War Brun calls this just the beginning.
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French War Department
St. Car
Navy
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Brun
Kearney Crashes in First Boston-Harvard Flight
Horace Kearney of Kansas City made the first flight in the Boston Harvard Aero meet at Atlantic field and ended in a wreck after a 25 foot fall. He escaped injury though his Pfitzner monoplane is damaged and will need days to repair.
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Boston
Mass
Horace Kearney
Kansas City
Atlantic Aviation
Kearney
French flyer sets new altitude record in flight
Paris officials announce Leon Morane rose 7 050 feet to break the world aeroplane altitude record held by J Armstrong Drexel at Lanark Scotland. In Havre six aeroplanes flew eighteen miles to Deauville and back, piloted by Latham Le Blanc Morane Aubrun Ludogne Viencziers.
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Leon Morane
J. Armstrong Drexel
Lanark
Scotland
France
Havre
Deauville
Seine
Huber Latham
Alfred le Blanc
Aubrun
Ludogne
Viencziers
Night work drives youth to death by own action
Despondent because he had to work at night and had no time to enjoy recreations, William Norman, 21, a stationery engineer, killed himself with a gun. He lived in Kansas City Missouri and died August 31.
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Kansas City
William Norman
Death of Gibraltar Governor Sir Frederick Forestier Walker
London August 31 General Sir Frederick Forestier Walker governor of Gibraltar died suddenly a day before at a place in Wales while visiting. The report notes his death occurred in 1905 and mentions the governor was known for his service.
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London
Frederick Forestier
Walker
Gibraltar
Iby
Wales
General Strike Declared in Bilboa District
In Bilboa Spain the General Labor Federation voted 11 to 10 to call a general strike to pressure mine owners to meet miners demands. The action follows a rescission and renewed strike due to lack of conciliatory response, with rioting reported and soldiers requested for reinforcements.
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Bilboa
Spain
General Labor Federation
YeggmEN Crack Safe at Struthers Ohio
Youngstown Ohio Aug 31 Posses searched the countryside for a band of yeggs who Tuesday night broke into the Struthers post office and cracked the safe stealing between 300 and 400 dollars in money and stamps. Special lecturers under the Women's relief corps of Indiana may tour the state to visit public schools and discuss Civil War history. The educational committee said common school histories are inadequate.
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Youngstown
Struthers
Women’s Relief Corps of
Indiana
State House
R Carriers Named in Washington Postal Appointments
Washington August 31 The department appointed rural carriers with routes in Dana route 2 Albert F Inglehartier and substitute Judge Rodgers Haubstadt route 14 Abasalom C Boren carrier Vincennes route 6 L Stanton Johnson carrier Henry BR Holdt sub This notice lists the named carriers and substitutes for rural routes in several towns.
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Department
Dana
Albert F. Ingle Éartier
Rodgers
Haubstadt
Abasalom C. Boren
Vincennes
L. Stanton Johnson
Henry BR. Holdt
Snake eats China eggs found near nest in Vernon
Vernon Ind Aug 31 Peter Hengstler killed a snake that morning and cut it open discovering two china eggs. The snake lay near a nest containing more of the same product and appeared sluggish as if its meal weighed on its stomach.
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Vernon
Ind
Peter Hengstler
Hengstler
Traction Engine Plunges From Bridge. Two Injured
In Brazil Indiana on August 81 a traction engine driven by Grant Atkinson and his son fell through a rural road bridge onto Vandalia Railway tracks. Both men were badly hurt and not expected to survive.
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Brazil
Ind
Grant Atkinson and Son
Rational Road
Atkinson
Son
Former Indianapolis Architect John Stem Dies in Ohio
Word of the death of John Stem, a former Indianapolis architect, was received by Fred C. Victor. Stem died in Van Wert Ohio at his sister’s home at age 62 after suffering a sunstroke in Houston. He designed the Newton Claypool and Sun buildings and the White City at Broad Ripple, and helped bring the Metropolitan Opera Company and Theodore Thomas Orchestra to Indianapolis. He opened an office here forty years ago and also designed amusement parks in Kansas City and Newark. He was active in musical circles and in May music festivals, never married, with surviving relatives in Indianapolis, Denver, Los Angeles, and Ohio City Ohio, with burial likely in Indianapolis.
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Indianapolis
Fred C. Victor
Stem
van Wert
John C. Grenamier
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Tex
Newton Claypool
Sun
White City
Broad Ripple
Metropolitan Opera Company of
New York
Theodore Thomas
Hartzell
Hartzell Stem
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New York City
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Newark
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Marion Club
Third Christian Church
Willard Truitt
Denver
Colo
Los Angeles
Cal
Ohio City
Richmond Plans to Add Suburbs to Population
Richmond Ind August 31 The board of works met to consider annexing seven suburbs Bealview Spring Grove Benton Heights Earlham Heights Kirkman's addition Carmen's addition and Greenwood expanding the city population to about 30 000 an increase of 8000. Protests already from Spring Grove and Beallview with Spring Grove an incorporated town can block annexation by a two thirds vote and Beallview led by the South Side improvement association is likely to protest.
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Ind
Board of Works
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Spring Grove
Benton Heights
Earlham Heights
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Carmen
Greenwood
Beallview
South Side
Army Officer's Daughter Seeks Her Own Life
Vera Fitch, daughter of the late General Henry Fitch, shoots herself at the Astor Hotel amid a fashionable crowd after learning of a lover's faithfulness to another woman. She is in critical condition with little chance to live, after a sequence of heartbreak, literary disappointment, and a dramatic luncheon confrontation. Roy Conger is connected by family to the ex-minister to China.
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Hotel Astor
Henry Fitch
Roy Conger
China
Fitch
Miss Fitch
Hughes
Oglesbee Proposes New Loan System
Indiana aims to curb lax lending with new state plan led by N H Oglesbee head of the banking department. Bank examiners will record unsecured loans of 2500 or more to track borrowers seeking more than warranted by security. The effort mirrors a federal plan and seeks a vast financial information fund for fraud prevention.
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N. H. Oglesbee
Auditor of State
Oglesbee
United States
Indiana
State Department
Fortify Canal Backers Warn Against Unfortified Locks
Army representatives in Washington on August 31 denounced Gen. Warren Keifer’s Brussels proposal to leave the Panama Canal unfortified as unworkable. They urged fortification for U S and global commerce, warning an unprotected canal could be destroyed in war by a single act.
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Washington
Warren Keifer
Ohio
Brussels
Panama Canal
United States
Mouse Entangled in Glue Trap On Floor
Shelbyville Indiana reports T E Hobbs spread tanglefoot on the floor. A nocturnal mouse crawled across and struck the fly paper at high speed, becoming hopelessly wrapped in the glue by morning.
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Shelbyville
Ind
T. E. Hobbs
Hobbs
Equines Parade Featured In Labor Day Plans In Indiana
Labor Day observances loom across northern Indiana with South Bend Laporte and Michigan City making elaborate preparations. South Bend will host a parade of work horses where over 2,000 equines are expected to compete for Humane Society prizes.
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Ind
Indiana
Laporte
Michigan City
The
Humane Society
Cholera Epidemic Feared in America
New York Aug 31 The fight to safeguard the United States began when the steamer Inner Caronia arrived from Liverpool. The vessel was quarantined unusually long while passengers were thoroughly screened for traces of cholera to prevent its spread.
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York
United States
Europe
Liverpool
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