Atlantic Battleships Outride A Hurricane In Manila Bay
Twelve hour hurricane in Manila bay battered shore facilities and forced vessels to seek cover inside the breakwater. Admiral Sperry ordered the Connecticut Kansas Minnesota Vermont Virginia and Ohio under way, crowding Cavite as winds hit 100 mph. Lieutenant Frank Taylor Evans, son of Admiral Evans, faces insubordination and intoxication charges.
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Manila
Manila Bay
Pasig
Sperry
Connecticut
Kansas
Minnesota
Vermont
Virginia
Ohio
Cavite
Frank Taylor Evans
Bob” Evans
Bob
Evans
Navy
Desolation at Hyderabad Amid Flood Causing Mass Casualties
Descriptive dispatch from Hyderabad, capital of the flooded district, portrays streets black with mud and bodies. Death toll is unknown with estimates up to 50,000. 600 corpses recovered at one location. funeral pyres burn constantly. damage pegged at 200 million rupees.
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Bombay
Hyderabad
Action Was Hasty
The Russian press and ministry condemn Prince Ferdinand's action as hasty and inopportune but affirm Bulgaria's independence as an accomplished fact.
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Petersburg
Ferdinand
Bulgaria
Market Quotations Indianapolis Grain and Livestock Prices
Grain and livestock price quotes from Indianapolis Cincinnati Chicago and New York show varied levels for wheat corn oats hay cattle hogs sheep and lambs with multiple grade distinctions and per unit ranges across cities and markets. Prices include wheat No 2 red at Indianapolis 98c and $1.04 at Cincinnati as well as pork and beef figures for different classes and weights.
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Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Chicago
New York
Sherman and GOP team tour corn belt cities with rally
After campaigning through the corn belt James S Sherman and running mates Nicholas Longworth and William L. McKinley toured four towns. Urbana Champaign Monticello were visited as thousands gathered in ideal weather to hear speeches at a final rally in Decatur with Senator A J Hopkins joining at Monticello.
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Decatur
Corn Belt
James S Sherman
Nicholas Longworth
Wiliam L. McKinley
Urbana
Champaign
Monticello
A J Hopkins
Aurora
Sherman
Longworth
France to Act as Mediator in European Crisis
France moves to mediate denouncing competing interests as Europe faces a new Berlin treaty signatories conference. Tirnovo proclaims Bulgarian independence while Austria-Hungary readies Bosnia and Herzegovina status. Signs point to possible congress, tension rises over potential war and compensating advantages amid Young Turk shifts.
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Tirnovo
Bulgaria
Czar
Austria-Hungary
Ferdinand
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Europe
Turkey
Berlin
Great Britain
Austria
Germany
Pastor objects to Papke homecoming as pugilism protest
J W Nelson pastor of the First Congregational church in Kewanee declares the recent Billy Papke homecoming reception a demonstration of representative opinion on the pugilism issue. He says boxing debauches morals and Kewanee does not want to be known as a slugging center.
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Kewanee
J W Nelson
First Congregational Church
Billy Papke
Diverse 1908 Dispatches Span Arts Crime and Elections
Alfred Austin publishes Unto the Last as poet laureate. The Leslie Carter will probate in Chicago values a $75,000 fortune. A light rail crash in Pittsburg injures five. British post office anticipates surging U S mail from penny postage. Ninety three heroes receive medals from the US Volunteer Life-Saving corps. Governor Hughes enforces at Aqueduct betting law. Emanuel Mandel's Chicago estate worth $2,000,000. Theodore Roosevelt joins a Thompsonville carpet firm. Massachusetts Democrats nominate a governor candidate. Russia drafts notes on Balkan railways. Standard Oil case resumes in Chicago. Bubonic plague reappears in Guayaquil. Paris hosts 2nd international congress for popular education with 6,900 delegates. Bellaire and Model Store fires cause heavy losses. Weekly business failures total 225. Perry county votes to ban saloons. Cotton supply shows 2,137,868 bales visible. Nat C. Goodwin wins a divorce. Ohio Rose law yields 482 saloons closed. St Louis Glass and Paints warehouse fire costs 150000. Taft to close campaign Nov 2 in Youngstown. Tarentum gas explosion at Pittsburg Plate Glass coalitions causes 500000 in losses. Five die in Mulberry Street tenement fire. Grand Rapids merchant Richard Brink killed in an auto trip. Tennessee river rowboat tragedy leaves five drown. Kuping tael named standard Chinese coin. Amoy declared disease free. Yale Harvard golf final at Brae Burn. Manila Pine Products plant fire costs over 200000. Kermit Roosevelt to Harvard freshman football tackle. New York voter registration declines vs 1904.
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Russia
Balkans
Standard Oil Company
Chicago
Guayaquil
International Congress For Popular Education
Paris
Bellaire
Carnegie Steel Company
Model Store Company
Vaughan
Benton
Perry County
Ohio
William H Taft
Youngstown
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
Tarentum
Mulberry Street
New York City
Grand Rapids
Holland
Mich
Richard Brink
Tennessee River
Chattanooga
Riot at MH University Endangers Mayor Amid Midnight Clash
During a midnight riot at MH University in Champaten five students were arrested and fined. Mayor Blaine shot toward the crowd near his home as masked sophomores disrupted the student district. He pursued a leader, firing when the mob advanced. Police were summoned and the rioters were charged.
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Champaten
Blaine
Change awarded in Belleville court
A sealed verdict in St Clair county circuit court awarded damages of one cent to Mrs Lena Schwartz of French Village after she sued her stepdaughter Amelia Schwartz for using objectionable names. Attorneys for the plaintiff had agreed to take the case for half the damages recovered. The suit sought $10,000.
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Belleville
St Clair County
Lena Schwartz
French Village
Amelia Schwartz
Man's Body Found in Weeds Along Chicago and Alton Right of Way
A badly decomposed man about forty five, well dressed and bald, was found shot in the head in weeds along the Chicago and Alton right of way in Bloomington. A $10 gold piece, eight revolver, two fountain pens, and a conductor's hat check from Chicago to St. Louis were found near the body.
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Bloomington
Chicago & Alston
Chicago
St. Louis
Drownings Tragedy Near Maple Island Alarmed Friends
Samuel Joseph Williams fell from the Missouri near Maple Island while a group of friends watched from the deck assuming he could swim. He floundered a few seconds before drowning in the river.
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Alton Til
Samuel Joseph Williams
Missouri
Maple Island
Diamond Special Collides With Open Switch Near Springfield
The Diamond Special on the Illinois Central between Chicago and St. Louis ran into an open switch at Divernon, wrecking the engine and cars. Engineer A J Shell and Fire man Edward Taylor of Clinton were injured after leaping to safety. Seven year old Elizabeth McGuire was killed by debris as fragments struck a yard near the tracks. No passengers were hurt.
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Springfield
Illinois Central
Chicago
St. Louis
Divernon
J Shell
Edward Taylor
Clinton
Elizabeth McGuire
Charles McGuire
Birds Gorge Themselves on Fish Near Urbana
Mysterious draining of Crystal Jake in Arabana exposes thousands of fish on the lake bed and attracts hundreds of snipe feeding on them. The lake lies within Urbana city limits, preventing bird shooting. Gates of the dam opening caused the commotion.
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Champaign
Ill
Crystal Jake
Arabana
Urbana
Old Settlers Reunion at Crystal LakeChampai n
Old settlers of Champaign county gathered at Crystal Lake near Champaign Illinois for a reunion. Members of the Champaign County Old Settlers Association must have lived in the county at least forty years and a large turnout of survivors was reported.
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Champaign
Champaign County
Indiana
Ohio
Crystal Lake
Old Settlers’ Association
Fourth oil well shot at Sparta yields 127 barrels daily
Carmi Illinois October 6 report states the fourth well in Sparta was shot and averaged 127 barrels per day. The entire field is being developed with few dusters found so far. Drilling will continue until the county is tested.
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Sparta
Carmi
Tll
France and Allies Move to Avert War in Balkans
Paris reports that France Great Britain Russia and possibly Italy are preparing to act in unity to prevent war between Turkey and Bulgaria. A conference of Berlin treaty signatories may be called to harmonize interests and avoid new complications.
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Paris
France
Turkey
Bulgaria
Pichon
M. Iswolsky
Naoum Pasha
Great Britain
Russia
Italy
Berlin
Constantinople
Young Turks
Serbia on edge as Bosnia Herzegovina annexation looms
Servia reports border unrest with crowds in Belgrade on Oct 6. Rioters fire revolvers and demand war with Austria Hungary over annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, highlighting rising nationalist tension.
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Belgrade
Servia
Austria-Hungary
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Austria
Wheat Prices Rise on War Scan and Export Revival
The Turkish-Bulgarian war scan and a revival in export business buoyed wheat prices on the Chicago exchange. Traders watched developments for supply impacts and market sentiment amid ongoing tensions.
Sherman in Illinois Daily campaign in Peoria column
James S Sherman hours long speech in the Coliseum drew several thousand. He opened in Decatur at Minkan University then moved to Clinton and Peoria discussing national policy and tariff. He defended protective tariffs and pledged a special session to revise tariff schedules if Republicans win.
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Peoria
Middle West
James S Sherman
Coliseum
Sherman
Decatur
Minkan University
Clinton
Bryan
Congress
Arrests May Clear Murder of Clyde Showalter in Mount Carmel
Mount Carmel October 6 with the arrest of Jesse Lucas and his mother Mrs Lib Lucas the three year mystery of Clyde Showalter the Patton farmer who vanished October 19 1907 appears solved A state reformatory inmate provided the lead and two witnesses say Lucas beat Showalter to death with a club then Mrs Lucas helped dispose of the body in the Wabash and Patoka rivers.
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Mount Carmel
Jesse Lucas
Lib Lucas
Clyde Showalter
Patton
Showalter
Patoka
State Reformatory
Pontiac
Moore
Lucas
Showelter
Mystery Fire Damages Peoria Dougherty School Board Building
A blaze of mysterious origin damaged the library on North Monroe Street in Peoria causing about 4000 dollars in damage. Firemen found windows and doors locked and no clear entry point, tying the incident to the Dougherty school board case which the board is revisiting for new evidence.
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Peoria
Ill
Monroe Street
School Board
Dougherty School Board
Dougherty
Negro Gives Up Contests for School Admission
Alton Illinois October 6 Scott Bibb a Black father who fought eleven years to admit his children to the white schools appears to have ended the dispute. He has enrolled his three younger children in a Black school and the two older children who benefited from the state supreme court decision did not enroll in a white school.
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Alton
Ill
Scott Bibb
Supreme Court of
Supreme Court
Sherman Addresses 5000 Plow Works Employees in Moline
James Sherman Republican vice presidential nominee spoke to over 5000 workers at the plow works in Moline New Jersey on labor issues of the campaign. The reception was cordial and cheering followed his address before returning to Rock Island for a Sterling meeting.
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Sherman
Moline
Plow Works
James
Rock Island
Sterling
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Aten
Sunny Jim” Sherman
Ence
Con
Alfred Austin
England
Leslie Carter
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British Post Office Department
United States
United States Volunteer Life-Saving Corps
Hughes
Aqueduct Racetrack
Iron Trade Review
Emanuel Mandel
Switzerland
Charles McCormick
Fred A Russe
Theodore Roosevelt
Thompsonville
Conn
Wood Department
Massachusetts
James Ho Vaney
Watertown
Hester
Nat C. Goodwin
Jessie Dermott Goodwin
Maxine Elliott
United States Circuit Court
St Louis
St Louis Glass and Paints Company
Yale
Harvard
Philippine Products Company
Kermit Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Prairie State
Balkan Row
Illinois
Cus
Tody
Farmer
Old Reliable Doll Grocery
Queensware
D. D. Doll
North Side
Individual Responsibility
Bank OF
West Union
W.P. Anderson
H. F. Wharton
West Union, Illinois
R. H. Black
Marshall
R. A. Mitchell
Mars All
Schofield Bros
Hamilton Street
Farmers
Wabash
Hones
Fez
Adeliares
Cah
Seventh St
Washington, D
Iene Nia Aan & Co
Serseatey
Ef Co.f
Behner
Bacar Vet
Anadeut Gals
Duate Ip
Sereice
Trefa
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