Three Phenomenal Flights at Fort Myer
Orville Wright at Fort Myer near Washington, D C, performs three record flights in a single day. The tests establish new aeroplane records with a two man flight by Lt. Lahm and signal the start of a new era in aerial warfare and reconnaissance.
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Orville Wright
Fort Myer
Washington
D. C
Army Board
Wrights Brothers
Fort
Potomac
National
Virginia
Wright
Elkhart Fireman Clyde Horton Killed in Mishawaka Train Incident
Clyde Horton of Elkhart a fireman on the Lake Shore railroad died after being struck on the head by a main crane as his train passed through Mishawaka. He was en route to Epworth hospital in South Bend when the fatal injury occurred, possibly while releasing a water injector mechanism.
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South Bend
Ind
Clyde Horton
Elkhart
Ake Shore
Mishawaka
Epworth Hospital
Horton
Paint Lick Fire Loss Tops $100000
A severe blaze in Paint Lick Garrard county on Sept 16 destroyed seven stores one notes bank the American Tobacco company's warehouse and several piers buildings causing an estimated loss of $100000.
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Paint Lick
Juncaster
Garrard County
American Tobaccos Company
Massive airship plan at Lake Constance announced
Brief items report a vast airship project at Lake Constance, Memphis station fire with 50000 loss, embezzlement arrest in Sewanee, and multiple fatal fires, crimes, and political notes across the country including Kentucky racing limits, lynching, cholera cases, and rail and hotel fires.
Resignation of Peoria Bishop Spalding Official
The Rt Rev John Lancaster Spalding, bishop of the Peoria diocese, resigns after ill health and years of service. He remains head of the diocese until a successor is chosen and will retire in Peoria to continue literary work. He aided labor issues as an arbitrator and was consecrated in 1876 as Peoria’s first bishop.
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Peoria. II
John Lancaster Spalding
Peoria
Spalding
Roosevelt
John Mitchell to Write Sociological Novel
John Mitchell, former president of the United Mine Workers, will publish a sociological novel about industrial and political life in the United States. He hints at drawing on his experiences and aims to expose what he sees as the evils of the current industrial system.
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Mine Workers
WII
Peoria
Ill
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Mitchell
America
Memphis
Tenn
Oxford Miss
United States
W V Sullivan
Nelse Patton
John Mitchell Speaks at Labor Day Rally in Marion Illinois
John Mitchell of the Workers of America addressed 2,000 people in Marion on Labor Day. He denounced widening riches for the few and poverty for the many, said he abandoned political ambitions, praised the judiciary yet criticized injunction actions.
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John Mitchell
Tollers
Marion
United Mine Workers of America
Mitchell
Illinois apple crop expected light in southern region
Carmi Sept 15. The southern Illinois apple crop will be ready to gather in a few weeks and will be one of the lightest in years. Ben Davis and Wine Sap color well but Roman Beauty and other fall varieties are falling. White Wayne and Clay counties ship more apples than others, though this year only a few hundred bushels will come from each county.
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Illinois
Ben Davis
White Wayne
Clay
Polish angler nets money sack from creek near Mt Vernon
In Mt Vernon Illinois on September 15 a Polish fisherman, hoping to catch the whale Jonah chased, hooked a sack from a creek south of town containing money notes and checks. The sack is the property of James Healy whose store was recently robbed and dynamited.
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Mt. Vernon
Jonah
James Healy
Fire at Brocton destroys barn and shops in county
Paris Sept 15 Fire at Brocton in the northwest part of the county destroyed a large livery barn owned by Charles Merkle and occupied by F O Brading and a blacksmith and machine shop adjoining, the property of D OC Redman. The total loss is estimated at 9000.
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Paris
Brocton
Charles Merkle
F. O. Brading
D. OC. Redman
Illinois Tops in Coke Output in 1907 Across Steel Region
Illinois ranked tenth among coke producing states in 1907 per E W Parker of the US Geological Survey. Illinois produced 372,697 short tons valued at 1 737 644, driven by 160 Semet Solvay ovens at South Chicago using coal from West Virginia. Equality housed a Bel gian oven plant using Illinois coal. Illinois Steel at Joliet built 280 regenerative by product hoppers, expected to operate by late 1908.
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Springfield
E. W. Parker
United States Geological Survey
Mineral Resources of
United States
South Chicago
Tinois
Fayette County
West Virginia
Illinois
Illinois Steel Company
Joliet
Boarding-House Trust Aims High Prices For Students
In Champaign Illinois the boarding-house syndicate has raised weekly board to 425 dollars as students return to the University of Illinois. Secretly organized students oppose the plan and the Hunt offers space in its Sept 22 issue to attack the arrangement and propose ways to break the combine. The battle for cheaper board mirrors upcoming fraternity rushes and a large returning student body this college year.
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Champaign
University of Ilinois
Murphysboro Police Chief Patchett Dies of Lockjaw
William Co Patchett former Murphysboro police chief dies at St Andrews hospital from blood poisoning after a cheek wound from a three week old altercation. A murder charge may follow the incident.
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Murphysboro Tl
Wiliam Co
Patchett
Chif
Police
Murphysboro
St. Andrews Hospital
Democratic state convention adopts Denver platform without personal liberty plank
The Democratic state convention in Peoria accepted a platform aligned with the Denver program, praising Bryan Kern and Adlai E. Stevenson for governor. A secret committee meeting resolved the personal liberty issue by ignoring it, avoiding floor clashes.
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Peoria
State Committee
Denver
Bryan
Kern
Adlai E. Stevenson
Opening of Illinois Campaign in Springfield
The Republican state convention opened under the new primary law with perfunctory business. It focused on harmonizing post primary differences and endorsed President Roosevelt and the national ticket while emphasizing state affairs and avoiding local option or personal liberty mentions.
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Illinois
Springfield
Roosevelt
City Council Receives Lighting Franchise Application
At the September meeting a group of about a dozen local business and professional men applied for a thirty year franchise to establish a gas and electric lighting plant with hot water heating. The move stems from dissatisfaction with the City Gas and Electric company which currently holds a monopoly on these services.
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City Gas and Electric Company
Adam Menha Found Dead in Kewanee Room
Adam Menha, former president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor from 1902 to 1904, was found dead in his room in Kewanee on Sunday. He was connected with the Illinois factory inspection department at the time of his death. Heart disease caused the death.
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Kewanee
Adam Menha
Illinois State Federation of Labor
Ilinois
Boy Killed Attempting to Board Work Train Near Danville
Frank Zorns a fifteen year old boy was instantly killed while trying to board a Chicago and Eastern work train three miles north of Danville Illinois on September 15. The train was moving at a moderate speed.
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Danville
Frank Zorns
Chicago & Eastern Diinels
Belgian Senate Adopts Congo Annexation Treaty
Brussels authorities report the Belgian senate ratified the Congo annexation treaty and colonial charter amid Conservative cries for the king. It also endorsed deputy chamber views that Belgium bears Congo debt only if a new law makes it mandatory, finalizing the pact after the chamber passed it on August 20.
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Brussels
Congo
Chamber of Deputies
Belgium
Senate
Stabbing of Willie Bullinger by religious fanatic in Newton
Miss Willie Bullinger, 19, was stabbed to death by Lon Rader 21, who leaped benches and struck her in the back and breast while she played the organ at Sunday school. Rader, previously confined to a state asylum and later discharged, claimed he killed a witch. He is jailed in Newton.
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Charlotte
Newton
Willie Bullinger
Lon Rader
Rader
Miss Bullinger
Judge Denton Travels to Aid Hale in Shooting Case
Judge Jas Denton of Somerset Ky visits Lexington to offer legal help to L H Hale of Jessamine county who shot Hamlet Dillon. Hale was an employee at Curley’s distillery until Sept 1 and is rumored to face acquittal with Denton’s evidence. Hale’s wife and children remain in Nicholasville.
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Lexington
Jas Denton
Somerset Ky
Washington
Ind
L H Hale
Jessamine County
Kentucky
Hamlet Dillon
Denton
Hale
Nicholasville
Dillon
Curley's
Lake Region
Hales
Arson Charge Indicts New Orleans Officials Over Fire Loss
Julius Lipps and Abe Wolf of Central Glass company face arson indictments from a New Orleans grand jury linked to a large business district fire that damaged three blocks, with losses around 1.59 million dollars. Also reported are a lynching case in Oxford Mississippi, a mob murder near Brookshire Texas, and an escape from Chester Illinois prison involving two prisoners.
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New Orleans
Julius Lipps
Abe Wolf
The
Central Glass Company of
Johno Eckert
Grand Jury
Central Glass Company
Boy Murderer Sentenced in Kentucky Case
In Maysville Kentucky on September 15 Chester Savage thirteen was sentenced to six years for the assassination of his uncle William Savage two years earlier. The boy hid by the doorway and shot his uncle making him the youngest murderer known in the state.
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Maysville
Chester Savage
William Savage
Kenta
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Myer
Count Zeppelin
Lake Constance
Union
A A. Gregory
Sewanee
Water Street
New York
Mayfield
Henry Hyatt
Kentucky State Racing Commission
Louissville
Latonia
New Brighton
St. Paul
Minn Lawson Patton
M. McMillan
Oxford
Miss
St. Petersburg
Rech
Zeitung
Belmont Hotel
William
Leander Sheetz
Lancaster
St Petersburg
International White Cross Association
Geneva
Ballydavid Head
Ireland
Philip Lilienthal
Anglo-California Bank of
San Francisco
Siberia
Irkutsk
John W. Kern
Rocky Mountains
Washburn
Wis
John Carman
Meigs County
A. Booth & Co
Bethea
Federal District Court
Chicago
North Halsted Street
Great Council of the Improved Order of Red Men
Bridgeport
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Victoria
Munich
Dresden
Budapest
Mohammed E. Torres
Allgeciras
Signal Corps
Commission On Country Life
Racing Commission
Buenos Ayres Jockey Club
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Boston
John Reigle
Peabody
Kan
Francisco Quinones
San Juan
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley
Clarksdale
Henderson Boyd Lumber Company
Samson
Ala
Arkansas
Civil Service Commission
Prairie State
HONE
John L. Spalding
John Mitchell Novelist
Geological Survey
University of Illinois
Quantel
North Carolina
Texas
Brookshire
Tex
Dave Newton
John Buchtrin
Chester
Joe Wright
George Clegg
John Kieth
Lansdowne, NL
Old Reliable Doll Grocery
D. Ds
North Side
Individual Responsibility
Bank OF
West Union
W. P. Anderson
H. F. Wharton
West Union, Illinois
R. H. Black Notary Public
R. A. Mitchell
Marshaul, IL
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Cerena
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Siress Sugrey
Idea
Rosea Eance
D. Swift & CO
Seventh St
Washington, D. C
Scientific American
Ss Runn & Co
F. Behne
Ofice
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