Curtiss Plans Aerial Flight At Cleveland
Glenn H. Curtiss prepared the Hudson flyer at Euclid Beach east of Cleveland for a 120 mile Lake Erie round trip to Cedar Point and back to Cleveland. Early flight started at 1 06 p m with 1 27 p m over central Cleveland at 600 feet. winds were northeast and forecast rain. Crowds along the lake coast anticipated a holidaylike show as factories and stores planned to close to view the spectacle.
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Cleveland, CO
Glenn H. Curtiss
Hudson Flyer
Euclid Beach
Cleveland
Lake Erie
Cedar Point
Sandusky Bay
Cleveland Press
Curtiss
Sandusky
Kennelly
Mystery aviator over New York City at night
New York faced a puzzling air mystery as an unidentified craft with red and green lights circled the Metropolitan building tower at about 700 feet Tuesday night. Police and aviators noted the audible engine and swift departure, reflecting on city vulnerability under potential air attack.
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New York
London
Metropolitan Building
Atlantic City
Hempstead
L. I
Manhattan
French War Department Purchases Fifty Flyers for Service
The French war department orders fifty army aircraft, mainly biplanes with some Bleriot monoplanes, and will establish officer training grounds across the country. Land forces will be split into infantry artillery cavalry and aeroplane, with aerial navigation courses at St. Car and Paris. The navy also has seven officers with aeroplane pilots certificates. Naval centers on Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts will employ aeroplane officers. Master of War Brun calls this only a beginning.
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Paris
French War Department
St. Car
Navy
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Brun
Kearney's Flight Ends in Wreck at Boston Meet
Horace Kearney of Kansas City opened the Boston-Harvard aero meet at Atlantic field with a flight that ended in a 25 foot fall. The Pfugner monoplane crashed after 50 yards of flight, though Kearney was unharmed and the craft will need days to repair.
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Boston
Mass
Horace Kearney
Kansas City
Atlantic Aviation
Kearney
New Altitude Record By French Flyer
Paris reports an official revision naming Leon Morane as the world's altitude record holder for an airplane flight. Morane is said to have risen 7 050 feet in a flight last Monday, surpassing the previous record of 6 752 feet set by J Armstrong Drexel at Lanark Scotland on August 12.
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Paris
Leon Morane
J. Armstrong Drexel
Lanark
Scotland
Six Aeroplanes Fly Eighteen Miles In France
An aerial train of six aeroplanes flew eighteen miles Tuesday to Deauville and returned across the mouth of the Seine. The flyers were Huber Latham Alfred Le Blanc Leon Morane Aubrun Ludogne and Viencziers.
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France
Havre
Deauville
Seine
Huber Latham
Alfred le Blanc
Leon Morane
Aubrun
Ludogne
Viencziers
Night work drives youth to death by own action
Despondent over night shifts William Norman a 21 year old stationery engineer shot himself. The Kansas City report notes his lack of time for recreation as the motive. Meanwhile Gen Frederick Walker governor of Gibraltar since 1905 died suddenly while visiting Wales.
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Kansas City
William Norman
Walker
London
Sir Frederick Fédrestier- Walker
Gibraltar
Ince
Wales
H Rami
Governor Deneen Attacks Illinois Bi-partisan Combine
Grafters are flayed by Illinois Governor Deneen in Taylorsville urging voters to resist recall and election reforms. He denounces a party platform of no principles and calls out alleged public plunder aiding a Browne trial link and warns against renewing corrupted control in the General Assembly.
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Taylorsville
Deneen
United States
House of Representatives
House
Browne
Chicago
General Assembly
Judge chased by mob near sugar plant riot
New York August 31 Magistrate Higginbotham, pursuing strikers at the sugar trust Williamsburg refinery, took cover as rioters fought nearby. He later aided a wounded man, John Brannigan, at the eastern district hospital while two others, James Gordon and another, were shot but not seriously injured.
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New York
Sugar Trust
Williamsburg
Higginbotham
John Brannigan
Eastern District Hospital
James Gordon
Joint Judgship Balloting In Grant Delaware District
Special to The Sun from Fairmount Ind on August 31 reports candidates for the Grant Delaware district superior judgeship include Robert M. Van Atta Will Andson George W Cromer Frank McClellan Will White and Charles T Parker. Balloting is expected 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 Massachusetts August 31 Secretary of the Interior Richard A Ballinger may be pried loose from his position by a bold political move aimed at forcing resignation instead of exoneration It centers on a plan to have the congressional committee vote against Ballinger and disqualify Senator Root leaving a 6 to 5 vote against the secretary The maneuver hinges on Representative McCall of Massachusetts potentially switching sides to join the opposition and the plan’s viability depends on his defection and on Tafts involvement or lack thereof
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Mass
Secretary of the Interior
Richard A. Ballinger
Taft
Ballinger
Congressional Investigation Committee
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Massachusetts
Majority Committee
Senator Root
New York
Root
Europe
McCall
Nelson
Flint
Sutherland
Olmsted
Denby
Senator Crane
Crane
Friends of the Executive
Five Injured In Ohio Car Strike
Five persons were injured Tuesday night in dynamiting outrages during the strike in Columbus Ohio. Cars on Main Long and East Long streets were dynamited injuring four passengers and a pedestrian. Victims include C J Fahrbach Harry Herkowitz J A Zwerner Ollie McGregor and Roy Merrill. A car on Long street caused narrow escapes and a blast at Main street damaged tracks and interiors. forty windows shattered and hundreds of dollars in damage reported.
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Columbus
Main
Long
Sandusky
C. J. Fahrbach
Cole Street
Harry Herkowitz
Champion Avenue
J. A. Zwerner
East Long Street
Ollie McGregor
Dakota Avenue
Roy W. Merrill
West State Street
Bhrown
Wall of Good Shepherd Convent
Long Street
Monroe Avenue
Aw._ Aron
Arthur Huling
East Main Street
Former Indianapolis Man Dies in Ohio
Word of the death of John Stem, a former Indianapolis architect, was received by Fred C. Victor. Stem died at Van Wert Ohio, at the home of his sister Mrs John C Grenamier. He was 62 years old and had suffered a sunstroke in Houston three weeks earlier. He designed the White City at Broad Ripple and the Newton Claypool building, helped bring the Metropolitan opera company and Theodore Thomas orchestra to Indianapolis, and co opened an office with his brother Hartzell Stem forty years ago. He never married and is survived by two nieces in Indianapolis and siblings in Denver Los Angeles and Ohio City. Burial likely in Indianapolis.
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Forimer
Indianapolis
Fred C. Victor
Stem
van Wert
John C. Grenamier
Houston
Tex
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Metropolitan Opera Company of
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Theodore Thomas Orchestra
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Hartzell Stem
New York Central Lines
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
City
Army Officer's Daughter Seeks Her Own Life
Vera Fitch, daughter of the late Gen Henry Fitch A S A and sister-in-law of Roy Conger, shot herself at the Astor Hotel amid a fashionable crowd. A romance ended by the revelation of a lover's infidelity contributed to her attempt. She lies near death as doctors report her condition grave.
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New York
Vera Fitch
Hotel Astor
Henry Fitch
Roy Conger
China
Fitch
Hughes
House Purgeon
Richmond considers seven suburbs for annexation
Richmond Ind August 31 The board of works met to propose adding Beallview Spring Grove Benton Heights Earlham Heights Kirkman's Addition Carmon's Addition and Greenwood to the city limits. If approved the population would rise to about 30 000 an increase of around 8000 with Spring Grove and Beallview likely to protest and Beallview controlled by the South Side Improvement Association.
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Richmond
Ind
Board of Works
Bealview
Spring Grove
Benton Heights
Earlham Heights
Kirkman’s Addition
Carmon
Greenwood
Heallview
Beallview
South Side
Oglesbee Proposes New Loan System
The Indiana banking department will track unsecured loans of 2500 or more. Bank examiners will record these in the auditor’s office to curb fraud and overbilling. Oglesbee notes a national plan is developing, with Indiana among the pioneers in creating a centralized financial information fund.
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N. H. Oglesbee
Auditor of State
Oglesbee
United States
Indiana
State Department
Fortify Canal Defenders Back Unfortified Policy
Army officials in Washington denounced Gen Warren Keffer of Ohio for proposing an unfortified Panama Canal at Brussels interparliamentary peace congress. They insist fortification is needed to safeguard US and global commerce, warning enemies could destroy locks in war if left unprotected.
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Washington
Warren Keffer
Ohio
Brussels
Panama Canal
United States
General Strike Declared in Bilbao District
In Bilboa Spain the General labor federation voted 11 to 10 to call a general strike to press mine owners to meet miners demands. The strike reversal last Monday was followed by renewed calls as rioting flares and soldiers are asked to reinforce the city.
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Bilboa
Spain
General Labor Federation
Yeggs Crack Post Office Safe in Struthers Ohio
In Struthers near Youngstown Ohio bandits cracked a post office safe and stole between 200 and 400 dollars in cash and stamps Tuesday. Police and posses scoured the countryside Wednesday for the culprits.
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Youngstown
Struthers
Women relief corps lecturers to tour Indiana schools
The educational committee in the state house decided to send special lecturers under the Women's Relief Corps of Indiana to public schools. They will visit and inform children on Civil War history, deeming common school histories inadequate.
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Women’s Relief Corps of
Indiana
State House
Rural Carriers Named in Washington Announcement
The department appointed carrier posts across routes including Dana route 2 Elbert F Ingle as carrier and Judge Rodgers as substitute for Haubstadt route 14 Abasalom C Boren as carrier with no substitute Vincennes route 6 L Stanton Johnson carrier and Henry BR Holdt as substitute.
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Washington
Department
Dana
Elbert F. Ingle ¢Arrier
Judge Rodgers
Haubstadt
Abasalom C. Boren
Vincennes
L. Stanton Johnson
Henry BR. Holdt
Snake Kills China Eggs Found in Snake Gulch News
Vernon Indiana reports Peter Hengstler killed a snake Wednesday morning near a nest containing numerous china eggs. He cut the snake open and found two china eggs. The reptile appeared listless, as if the meal weighed on its stomach.
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Vernon
Ind
Peter Hengstler
Hengstler
Traction Engine Falls From Bridge in Brazil Ind
A traction engine driven by Grant Atkinson and his son plunged from a national road bridge onto Vandalia tracks in Brazil Indiana on Wednesday. Both men were injured and not expected to live.
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Brazil
Ind
Grant Atkinson and Son
National Road
Atkinson
Son
Mouse trapped on fly paper in Indiana home
In Shelbyville Indiana on August 31 T E Hobbs spilled tanglefoot on the floor. A mouse crawled across the room at speed and became hopelessly entangled in fly paper, found in the morning wrapped in glue.
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Shelbyville
Ind
T. E. Hobbs
Hobbs
Equines to Walk in Labor Parade in South Bend
Labor Day events spread across northern Indiana with preparations in South Bend Laporte and Michigan City. South Bend showcases a parade of work horses with over 2 000 equines expected to compete for Humane Society prizes.
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South Bend
Ind
Indiana
Laporte
Michigan City
The
Humane Society
Cholera Epidemic Feared in Amerisa
In York on August 31 the Caronia from Liverpool arrived as the start of U S precautions against a European cholera epidemic. The liner was delayed in quarantine for thorough screening of passengers for any traces of the disease.
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Amerisa
York
United States
Europe
Caronia
Liverpool
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