News of the Week in Epitome from Washington and Beyond
State Supreme Court upholds prohibition on cigarettes. Roosevelt plans for New Mexico statehood in coming message. Commerce and Labor reports 1690 jobs placed across 35 states. Global cholera concerns in the Philippines and Russia prompt extraordinary suppression efforts. Inland receipts for August show declines mainly in spirits and tobacco. International items note arrests, assaults, and political shifts in several regions.
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State Supreme Court of Washington
Washington Monument
Roosevelt
Gov. Curry
New Mexico
Department of Commerce and Labor
United States
Philippines
Russia
World Medical Congress Opens on Tuberculosis Problem
Washington witnessed the sixth triennial congress on tuberculosis with representatives from many nations and the United States. Secretary Cortelyou opened the sessions as Dr. Koch and other eminent figures from Europe and Asia spoke on global efforts to conquer tuberculosis.
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Washington
Treasury
Cortelyou
United States
Robert Koch
A. Calmette
Paris
Bernard Bang
Denmark
Arthur Neshole
London
GC. S. Woodhead
Cambridge
England
Clemans von Pirquet
R. W. Philip
Koch
Germany
Prussia
Congress
Clergy Leader Chosen Superior of Oblates Association
The Right Rev Augustin Donten, bishop of New Westminster, British Columbia, has been selected as a superior of the Association of Oblates. A government printing office raise will raise linotype and monotype operator pay to 60 cents an hour starting Oct 1. Rev George Link, formerly pastor in Lebanon Wisconsin St Louis Springfield MI and other places, died in Springfield at 79. F W Howarth, famed comic artist, died in Philadelphia credits him as first to draw comic pictures for newspapers. two characters were E Z Mark and Lulu and Leander. Dr W H Wiley chief of the bureau of chemistry Agricultural Department elected honorary member of Physico chemical Academy of Italy and awarded first class medal.
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Augustin Dontenwill
New Westminster
British Columbia
Association of Oblates
Linotype
Government
Washington
George Link
German Evangelial Church
Lebanon
Wis
St. Louis
Springfield
F. W. Howarth
Philadelphia
Mr. Howarth
E. Z. Mark
Lulu and
Leander
W. H. Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Agricultural Department
Physico-chemical Academy of Italy
Multiple Accidents Injure Students and Adults Across States
Reports detail injuries from a Bryant high school chemistry explosion in Marshalltown Iowa and more tragedies including a Waukegan Michigan car collision, a Fall River Massachusetts auto crash killing Mrs Gavey and injuring others, long island sound drownings, a Lake Superior drowning in intoxicated rowboat incident, a Cedar Rapids scalded child, a Weeping Water Nebraska train collision injuring eighteen, and Pittsburg football players killed crossing tracks.
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Bryant High School
Marshalltown
Iowa
Prohibition camel chosen as a national emblem
The Prohibition party adopts the camel as their mascot in the race against the Republican elephant and Democratic donkey. In various states laws require official emblems on ballots to prevent voter confusion.
Hoboes in Convention Opens National Unemployed Meeting
Delegates from across the country gathered at the Manhattan Lyceum in New York for the opening session of the national convention of the unemployed. J Eads How of St Louis known as the Millionaire Hobo called the meeting to order before an audience of men who traveled by swinging and riding the blind mail to seek aid.
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New York
New York City
Manhattan
Governor Haskell Seeks 195062 Dollar Recovery
Gov. Charles N. Haskell sues in Guthrie Oklahoma district court on behalf of the state to recover 195062 dollars alleged as an overcharge in state printing from 1891 to 1907. The suit names State Capital Printing Co. and former congressman B S McGuire and Dennis T Flynn as beneficiaries.
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Guthrie
Okla
Charles N. Haskell
State Capital Printing Company
B. S. McGuire
Dennis T. Flynn
Congress
State Capital Company
Flynn
McGuire
Rain Ends Long New York Drought Plaguing Three States
After eight weeks of drought in New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania forest fires stalled industry and caused water shortages. A general heavy rainfall spread through the region with high winds damaging telegraph lines and communication. Fire danger eases as rains reach Adirondacks Catskills and surrounding areas.
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New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Catskills
Adirondacks
Diver Fights Giant Devilfish to Save Life in Wreck Hold
Martin Lund, a Coast Wrecking diver, battled a giant devilfish inside the Pomona’s flooded hold off Fort Ross cove, using a knife to sever tentacles and strike the creature’s head. He was pulled to the surface unconscious as the monster’s death throes endangered him, and officials planned to recover the carcass for display.
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San Francisco
Martin Lund
Coast Wrecking Company
Pomona
Fort Ross Cove
Marin County
Lund
Michigan Supreme Court Rules Recount Case For Warner
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled in favor of Gov. Fred M. Warner in the Bradley Warner recount dispute. It held the board of canvassers could not review central primary voter enrollment and go behind the returns, after Warner won the nomination by about 1500 votes.
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Michigan
Lansing
Mich
Supreme Court
Fred M. Warner
Bradley- Warner
Warner
Board of Canvassers
J. B. Bradley
Fast Train Wreck Kills Child Near Track
A Diamond special on the Illinois Central crashed at an open switch at Divernon ten miles south of Springfield. The locomotive and tender derailed, the engineer and fireman were injured, and seven year old Elizabeth McGuire was killed by flying debris as she played nearby. No passengers were hurt.
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Springfield
Ill
Divernon
Elizabeth McGuire
Lightning blows out chimney and melts roof in South Dakota home
Lightning struck the home of J. A. Poppen near Estelline, blowing out portions of the chimney in every room to the cellar and tearing apart the metal roof and water spouts. Telephone lines were damaged but no one was injured.
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Watertown
S. D
J. A. Poppen
Estelline
Ten Tons Of Coal Crushes Man In School Wall Collapse
Jens Jensen was killed when ten tons of coal shifted and crushed him as a furnace wall failed at Hawthorne School in Waterloo Iowa on Monday afternoon. The incident occurred after the wall gave way under the load.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Jens Jensen
Hawthorne
Woman Fatally Injures Self in Lisbon
Mrs William J Summerfield wife of a harnessmaker in Lisbon North Dakota shot herself after a period of illness. The bullet entered the chest pierced both lungs and exited the back. Her condition was listed as critical.
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Lisbon
N. D
William J. Summerfield
Boy Dies After Horse Kicks in Arlington
Six year old Arthur Brekke of Willow Lakes in Arlington South Dakota died from injuries after a horse kicked him in the stomach. The incident occurred on September 30 and is being investigated by local authorities.
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Arlington, S. D
Arthur Brekke
Willow Lakes
Trolley Collision in Brooklyn Kills One and Injures Many
A collision between two trolley cars at Sixty-first Street and Third Avenue in Brooklyn yesterday killed one man and injured more than a dozen others.
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New York
Sixty-first Street
Third Avenue
Brooklyn
Man Fatally Struck By Sledge Hammer in Dickens
James Tripson of Dickens Iowa suffers a fractured skull after a misdirected blow from a sledge hammer. He lies at home in critical condition as doctors fear his death.
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Marshalltown
Iowa
James Tripson
Dickens
Four Hundred Girls Flee Gas Mantle Fire Panic
A sudden blaze at the Lindsay Light company gas mantle factory in Chicago sent 400 girls fleeing from the building in panic. Property losses were reported as small.
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Chicago
Lindsay Light Company
Justice Brewer Discusses Police Power for Health
Washington reports Justice David J. Brewer of the U S Supreme Court addressed the international tuberculosis congress on the legitimate exercise of police power to protect health. He cited health regulation but warned against singling him out for medical scrutiny while noting varied expert views.
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Justice
Congress
Washington
David J. Brewer
United States Supreme Court
International Tuberculosis Congress
Brewer
Irving Fisher
Yale
United States
Justice Brewer
Prof. Fisher
Postoffice Inspector Shot in Jackson District
Postoffice Inspector Charles Fitzgerald was shot and badly wounded in Jackson by W A Sorsby a Clinton post office clerk who had married the postmistress daughter. Fitzgerald had recently checked Sorsby for a missing several hundred dollars and was returning home when the attack occurred.
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Jackson
Miss
Postoffice
Charles Fitzgerald
W. A. Sorsby
Clinton
Fitzgerald
Cabiness
Sorsby
Half-Cent Lawyer's Fee Awarded in Illinois Suit
A sealed verdict awarded damages of 1 cent in St. Clair county circuit court after the plaintiff's counsel agreed to take the case for half the recovered amount. Mrs Lena Swartz of French Village sued her stepdaughter Amelia Swartz for defaming her and sought $10,000.
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Belleville
Ill
Circuit Court
St. Clair County
Lena Swartz
French Village
Amelia Swartz
Man given long term prison for fatal assault on aged woman
Jacob Martinson, 35, pleaded guilty in Hudson Wisconsin to criminally assaulting Mrs Torger Halverson at her Deer Park area home on September 3. The assault resulted in her death. Judge Helms sentenced him to 25 years in the state prison at Waupun.
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Hudson
Wis
Jacob Martinson
Torger Halverson
Deer Park
Helms
Waupun
Train Kills Laborer In Duluth Accident
Axel Bjorvoch, laborer for John Runquist at Two Harbors, was struck by a Duluth and Iron Range engine near the new ore works in Duluth last night and died within minutes from his injuries.
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Duluth
Axel Bjorvoch
John Runquist
Two Harbors
Duluth & Iron Range
Five Hundred Die of Plague in Tong Sha
Peking reports 500 deaths from bubonic plague at Tong Sha since the outbreak. Officials say no alarm, and they do not believe the disease will spread.
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Peking
Tong Sha
Archists Arrested in Plot Against King Alfonso
Budapest police say two anarchists were arrested for planning an attempt on King Alfonso as he travels from Munich toward Vienna.
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Budapest
Alfonso
Munich
Vienna
Costly Fire at Cement Plant in Mason City
A blaze at the Northwestern States Cement plant in Mason City Iowa caused an $8 000 loss after fire spread from an overheated shale to the roof of the clay dryer building and the main conveyor were destroyed.
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Mason City
Iowa
Northwestern States
Fatal Northland homesteader struck by falling tree
Duluth reports Edward Edn strom a homesteader near Northland about forty miles from the city was killed yesterday when a tree fell on him while he worked. The accident occurred in the Northland area as authorities investigated the cause.
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Duluth
Edward Ednstrom
Northland
Six Great Lakes wrecks from early gale.
A two day gale on the Great Lakes caused wrecks or groundings of at least six vessels including the Wolverine with twenty five aboard feared lost, the Neshota torn apart with 2000 tons ore valued near 200000 dollars, and groundings of the Calumet City of Mackinac Arthur Orr and others. Dredges Gladiator and another Dunbar craft burned and damaged near Detroit. Only about 40 percent of cargo tonnage was in commission as boats sheltered.
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Deroit
Mich
Lake Winnipeg
Wolverine
Selkirk
Black River
Warren's Landing
Crisp Point
Calumet
Lackawanna
Buffalo
Stag Island
Simpson
City of
United States
Dunbar
Livingstone
Creat Lakes
Detroit River
Amazonas
Davidson
Great Lakes
Floods devastate Deccan region killing thousands
Reports from Bombay describe a catastrophic flood in the Deccan with towns wiped out and rivers like the Musi rising seventy five feet. Dense population areas were overwhelmed as inundation left bodies in tree branches and along riverbanks amid widespread destruction and sudden onset.
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Bombay
Deccan
Haidarabad
India
Railway Strike Near End in Winnipeg Collapse Imminent
Winnipeg reports indicate the Canadian Pacific railway mechanics strike is collapsing as Bell Hardy arrives to confer with VP Whyte. A Labor Federation message urged workers to return, while Britain supplied many unemployed mechanics, leaving over 5,000 idle locally and 20,000 across Canada. The United States barred recruits under alien labor laws.
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Winnipeg
Canadian Pacific Railway
Bell Hardy
Montreal
Whyte
International Labor Federation
Washington
Great Britain
Canada
United States
May Save the Yankee from Spindle Rock Impasse
Newport R I Oct 1 The United States cruiser Yankee ashore on Spindle Rock Buzzard's Bay with stood a severe pounding yesterday on the jagged joint of the rock where she has been impaled for nearly a week Officials say the ship staying intact under heavy strain gives hope she can be moved from the perilous position.
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Newport
R. I
United States
Yankee
Spindle Rock
Buzzard’s Bay
Two Die in Humboldt Forest Fire Report
Eureka California September 27 The northeastern Humboldt forest fire is under control and two men are known to have perished in the flames.
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Eureka
Cal
Humboldt County
Lieut Selfridge Buried at Arlington National Cemetery
Washington Sept 27 The funeral of Lieut Selfridge who was killed in the Wright aeroplane crash at Fort Myer was held yesterday at Arlington national cemetery Public mourning followed the tragic accident that claimed his life and others perished in the incident
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Lieut. Selfridge
Washington
Fort Myer
Arlington National Cemetery
Dual Tragedy in Milford as Husband Arrested
Fred Windsor was mortally wounded and his wife died after she shot herself on her doorstep following Windsor being shot four times. Cirwithien, a traveling salesman, had left for a trip and returned to find his wife and Windsor entangled in a deadly confrontation. An inquest returned a verdict of death by the wife’s own action and Cirwithien was arrested.
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Princeton
Edward Ash
Tom Gardner
Milford
Del
I. Cirwithien
Fred Windsor
Windsor
Cirwithien
Bank Scandal Charged Involving Cosmopolitan National Bank
Washington reports the Cosmopolitan National Bank of Pittsburg faced insolvency with at least 100000 of its funds diverted to insiders without proper safeguards. Officials directors and stockholders are alleged to bear criminal liability, and the affair is to be aired publicly.
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Cosmopolitan National of
Pittsburg
Washington
Cosm Politan National Bank of
Night of Whisky Deaths Sparks Temperance Lesson
In Kokomo Indiana on September 30 Charles Thresher and William Lindley died at a gravel pit after taking a farewell drink of whisky to protest the local option law. Charles Lindley was found dying beside them as teachers and pupils conducted an object lesson on temperance nearby.
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Kokomo
Ind
Charles Thresher
Charles
William Lindley
Thresher
Charles Lindley
Druggist Dies After Jump From Window Into Airshaft
George von der Schulenburg, a New York drug clerk, leapt into a 100 foot airshaft Monday night and died early yesterday. His wife had summoned officers and demanded her husband be arrested on bigamy grounds.
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New York
George von der Schulenburg
Indicted Georgia Independence Candidate for Governor
Yancey Carter, the Independence party candidate for Georgia governor, was indicted by a Hart county grand jury. He is charged with carrying a concealed weapon into a voting precinct during the Democratic primary on June 5 in Hartwell Georgia.
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Georgia Independence Party
Hartwell
Yancey Carter
Independence
Georgia
Hart County
Carter
Market Quotations From Grain and Livestock Centers
Saint Paul and Minneapolis markets show grain prices for wheat corn and oats across multiple centers including St Paul Minneapolis and Duluth with No 1 hard and Northern values. Chicago and Milwaukee listings provide wheat oats corn and barley figures along with cattle hogs and sheep prices from major urban markets. Sioux City and South St Paul report cattle hog and lamb quotes, reflecting regional demand and price ranges.
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St. Paul
Minneapolis
Northern
Duluth
Chicago
Milwaukee
Sioux City
Iowa
South
Ohio counties vote dry under Rose law
In Columbus Ohio on September 30 twelve Ohio counties voted under the Rose law and all approved prohibition. A total of 289 saloons were affected as majorities ranged from a few hundred to over 2000 in favor of the measure.
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Columbus
Ohio
The Black Hand Again in Cincinnati Bomb Attempt
An attempt to murder fruit dealer Fred Cinccolo by nitroglycerin exploded the building early yesterday in Cincinnati. No one was injured.
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Cincinnati
Fred Cinccolo
Hole on Page Nineteen and Twenty in Library Book
A circulating library proprietor laments damage to his book from patrons. One volume returned with a hole on page nineteen and another on page twenty, illustrating the thrift story of the era.
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