Great World Championship Battle Readied in Pittsburg
Detroit Tigers arrive for the world series as Pirates prepare at Forbes Field. National commission inspects the larger playing area amid record advance seat sales with 18 000 reserved for each of the first two games and widespread betting activity in town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Detroit Tigers
National Baseball Commission
Pirates
Tigers
Stock Exchange
Detroit
Forbes Field
National Commission
Forbes’ Field
Morris and Kronsage Seen Together in La Crosse
Report describes Senator Morris and Theodore Kronsage meeting at the normal school and dining at the Stoddard before Kronsage’s train. It notes their friendly parting and hints at a progressive governor bid shaping in the 1910 primary, with local leaders involved in talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Kronsage
Progressive Party
Morris
Spanish Army Scheme Proposed for King Alfonso
Madrid via Hendeve October 7. A Spanish army of 10 000 in the field and 150 000 reserves in readiness for the field at the slightest warning is the plan presented today for consideration by King Alfonso by the light military authorities and cabinet members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Via
Hendeve
Alfonso
Desperate Robber Captured in Ravenna Duel
A robber, shot through the hand in a struggle with Deputy Sheriff Staufer, was captured last night at Ravenna and brought to the Muskegon jail today. He refused to give his name or where he is from after the desperate duel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskegon, Mich
Rame
Depuy
Staufer
Ravenna
Weather and Water Forecast And River Levels
Coolest reading 59 at La Crosse and warmest 74 with rain later. Wisconsin precipitation outlook says partly cloudy and warmer tonight then increasing clouds with snow possible in Minnesota. Iowa unsettled with rain tonight or Friday and slightly warmer east. River forecast shows a slight fall with stage changes and rises noted at several gages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse
Wisconsin
La Follette Hot on Taft's Trail in Minnesota Speech
Senator La Follette plans a speaking tour through the West and will address St. Paul in a Saturday event. His topic is Representative Government and the Tariff as Minnesota solidifies its insurgent stance against Taft and party leaders who backed Aldrich Cannon Tawney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul
Minn
la Follette
Pacific
Aldrich
Minnesota
Taft
Cannon
Tawney
Congress
Indian Confesses to Girl's Murder
Wilbur Benjamin a 22 year old Indian in Woodland is jailed after confessing to assault and murdering 15 year old Violet Gilmer as she walked home from school. The sheriff has sworn in extra deputies to guard against mob violence after the discovery of the mutilated body.
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Woodland
Wilbur Benjamin
India
Violet Gilmer
Honors Break Even In Women's Golf Tourney
In Havertown the third round of the women s national golf tournament ended with a split of honors between British and American players. Dorothy Campbell and Mrs Fox led early, while Mrs Charles Stout faced Miss Frances Teacher in one match and Miss Parlow faced Miss Isabella Smith in another. Marion Phelps led by three up on Miss Nesbit as play reached the fourteenth hole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Dorothy Campbell
Fox
Haverford
Charles Stout
New York
Frances Teacher
North Berwick
Parlow
Merion
Isabella Smith
Evans
Seven More Bodies Recovered at Wellington Colliery
Seven more bodies were recovered today from the Wellington Colliery shaft near Nanaimo, raising the total to 32 believed victims. Survivors of Tuesday's explosion recount harrowing escapes as the toll grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladysmith
B C
Wellington
Nanaimo
Stars Love and Money Chicago
Mrs. Clark sues Antoinette Gazzam for $150000 alleging alienation of Marshall Clark known as Professor Niblo. Gazzam once vowed to spend her fortune to win him but now relinquishes him to his wife. Gazzam inherited $5 600 000 two years ago. parents had a bitter divorce over the fortune.
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Chicago
Antoinette Elizabeth Gazzam
Marshall Clark
Professor Niblo
New York
Clark
Miss Gazzam
Clarke
Mystery Telephone Inspector Stirs La Crosse Plots
A dapper man posing as a Wisconsin rate commission inspector visited homes and businesses including W F Hurtgen, H M Miller, E N Reed, and Krause residence, calling numbers with a list. Police sweated him, released after he explained his cover, as city probes into Bell and Wisconsin Pole issues proceed amid a council deadline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin Rate Commission
W. F. Hurtgen
South Thirteenth Street
Police Department
H. M. Miller
Sixteenth and
Market Streets
E. N. Reed
Sixteenth
Krause
Winnebago Streets
Manix
Madison
Wis
la Crosse
Railroad Commission
Deal to Consolidate Local Lighting and Car Properties
An asphalt expert testifies about a deal to consolidate local lighting and car properties in a city hearing. The witness named Street from King to Eighth pledges a satisfactory job.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tory
King
St Paul and La Crosse Leaders Talk River Improvements
The Upper Mississippi River Improvement Association in Winona backed a $20,000,000 river project to create a six foot channel from Minneapolis to St Louis and urged river landing construction. Old officers were re elected and Gov Eberhart along with Congressman Tawney addressed the group.
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Upper Mississippi River Improvement Association
Winona
Congress
Minneapolis
St. Louis
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Eberhart
Tawney
Thomas Wilkinson
Burlington
Illinois
W. A. Meese
Moline
Iowa
Alonzo Bryson
Davenport
Minnesota
J. G. Arnson
Stillwater
Missouri
J. I. Martin
Wisconsin
W. A. Anderson
la Crosse
L. B. Boswell
Quincy
John C. Eckert
Guttenburg
St. Paul
Alton
Ill
A. O.eberhart
Consolidation Talks Advance Between La Crosse Utilities
Proposals to merge the La Crosse City Railway, La Crosse Gas and Electric, and related properties with outside investors move forward. Executives Edmunds Gilbert Edwards and McMillan held meetings with trading partners as bond debt and power supply matters loom large.
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William Edmunds
Arthur H. Gilbert
Boston
la Crosse City Railway Company
la Crosse Gas and Electric Company
Eastern
Edmunds
Gilbert
B. E. Edwards
Traction Company
D. S. McMillan
P. M. Gelatt
Lighting Company
la Crosse Club
W. J. Ferris
Water Power Company
la Crosse Water Power Company
Messrs
The
Tribune
la Crosse
City Railway
Mr. Edwards
Edwards
Wreck Fatal to 17 as Bartos Reyes Goes Down
Off Averio the Portuguese steamer Bartos Reyes with 43 crew is wrecked. Seventeen bodies of crewmen wash ashore, marking a deadly shipping disaster near Lisbon on October 7.
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Lisbon
Bartos Reyes
Averio
Cubs and White Sox meet in post-season inter-city series
Chicago fans await the start of the post-season inter-city series between the Cubs and White Sox tomorrow. The big question centers on which local club will emerge victorious in this city showdown.
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Chicago
Pirates
Tigers
Coor
Peary
Cubs
White Sox
Farmer cremated in drunken barn blaze near Sun Prairie
Frank Peckham, a longtime local farmer, died when he slept drunk in a burning barn on the Peckham place near Sun Prairie Wisconsin. Two barns burned with 460 bushels of oats and 75 tons of hay, valued at $5,000. The incident occurred as the first Sun Prairie town meeting convened at the homestead.
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Madison
Wis
Peckham Place
Sun Prairie
Frank Peckham
Chart shows Cook an impostor says Murph y
John Murphy of New Foundland, Roosevelt boatswain, testifies Cook told Whit ney and another crewman he reached the north pole but two Eskimos with Cook mark on charts a two day northward trek then three days camp and a westward turn, implying no north pole achievement.
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New York
John Murphy
New Foundland
Peary
Roosevelt
Utah
Cook
Whitney
North Pole
Hearst Holds Key Decision On Mayor Nomination
Hearst faces a pivotal choice after a nonpartisan Cooper Union meeting named him as a mayoral candidate opposing Tammany's Justice Gaynor and Republican H R Bannard. The political situation hangs on his late decision.
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New York
Wm. R. Hearst
Cooper Union
Tammany
Justice Gaynor
H. R. Bannard
Taft Leads Yosemite Excursion with Notables
President Taft set out on his first Yosemite visit in casual golf attire. He was escorted by Gov. Gillette Senator Flint Representatives McKinley Needham Englebright of California and naturalist John Muir, with Taft followed by the party into the park.
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EL Portal
Cal
Gov
Gillette
Senator Flint
McKinley, Needham and Englebright
California
John Muir
Taft
Yosemite
Police and Fire Commission Holds Brief City Hall Meeting
A regular meeting of the police and fire commission was held at city hall lasting about thirty minutes. Regular routine business was taken up and transacted in a very short time.
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Police and Fire Commission
Cummins Strikes Hard At Mr Cannon In House Fight
In Knoxville on October 7 Senator Albert B. Cummins defended Iowa insurgents who opposed the Payne tariff bill and attacked House rules. He urged stripping the speaker of power to name committees and said the rules fight hinges on this issue. He suggested he would oppose Cannon if he were a member of the House.
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Knoxville
Towa
Jos. G. Cannon
Bryan
Albert B. Cummins
House of Representatives
Iowa
Cummins
House
Cannon
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Tom
Enigma
Kronsage
du Chien
Indian
Antoinete Elizabeth Gazzami
Bell
Board of Public Works
Council
John
Bell Telephone Company
Third
Mississippi
Johnson
Mormon Coulee Road
Mississippi Street
Tyler
Park Commissioners
State Railroad Commission
Mill Street
Hackner
Rate Commission
Wisconsin Telephone Company
Sorensen
Who
River Congress
DR. Anderson
King Street
W. L. Phillips
Standard Asphalt and Rubber Company
Sarco
Phillips
la Crosse Stone Company
Stone Company
Edmunds and
Pres
Dan McMillan
M. Gelatt
Farmer
Hearst
President
MR. Cannon
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