Missing 12 Year Old Found Dead in Well Digger's Home
Marguerite Haley who fled a Oak Bank boarding school at Lake Geneva's shore was found dead in Williams Bay. The 12 year old left due to strict school rules and discontent with Principal Fellows and Mrs Ahrens. Her father H A Bie of Norfolk, Nebraska feared telegrams were part of a plot to lure him. A mother now remarried remains on the Pacific coast and Miss Fellows has not reached her.
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Chicago
Marguerite Haley
Oak Bank
Iest
Lake Geneva
Ra. M. A. Ahrens
Miss Fellows
H. A. Bie
Norfolk
Sheigirl
Williams
Winder
Haley
Pacific
Raven
Port Rican Deal Sparks Lodging of Boston Wail
A Boston dispatch reports strong opposition to a Porto Rican affairs plan. Critics argue that the insular commission under the War Department risks lasting control and independence, warning the move could hamper future governance of the island and its dependencies.
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Boston
Mars
Insular
War Department
Department of the
Frkana
Dependencies
Provisional Greek Admin Faces Protest Over Island Autonomy
Reported unrest in Crete as regional groups demand autonomy from the central regime. Greek authorities consider deploying troops to restore order while negotiations continue amid mounting calls for self rule.
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Greece
Help Entreat Japan Merchants for Pacific Trade
Washington August 19 Secretary of commerce invites James Jalt chairman of the Great North to act as one of the governments agents in entertaining merchants of the Pacific slope. About 90 representatives of chambers of commerce will be invited in September to join the party and all expenses will be paid.
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Washington
Bsecretary
Department, of Commerce
James Jalt
Great Northeae Tolact
Govi i
Tee Chambers of Commerce
Second Quarter Debate Addresses East Empire Controversies
The second quarter debate section discusses major events affecting the East British empire. Ex Premier Balfour questions the house and cautions about violence and difficulties, urging a peaceful world response.
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Yrdebate
Balfour
Ain Pesun
Fed
Orange
British Empire
Swallows Poison in Despondency at City Hotel
A despondent divorcee of Arizona and former Miss Ada, now a Chicago real estate dealer’s widow, reportedly died by self administered poison at a city hotel. The note found addressed to the wealthy Chicagoan suggests a suicide linked to personal despair.
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Arizona
Ada
Chicago
Indianola Boy Confesses to Murder of Former Stepfather
Harry Hutchingon, 12, confessed to killing his former stepfather Tom Currier after years of abuse. The crime occurred March 2, with Currier allegedly barring the boys from the house and sending them to tend cattle. George Brand, Currier’s widow’s new husband, later aided investigation and secured the confession.
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Indianola
Harry Hutch- Ingon
George Brand
Tom Currier
Carrier
Goodby
Currier
Fred
Harry
DROWNS IN RIVER NEAR KETTLESONS SPRINGS
Berger Handeland aged 14 son of Mr and Mrs Lars Handeland of Estherville drowned Sunday afternoon while swimming in the Des Moines River above Kettleson's Springs. An alarm by the power house whistle summoned hundreds who searched and found the body about an hour later.
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Estherville
Berger
Lars Handeland
Des Moines
Kettleson
One Man Draws Two Land Chances in Idaho Drawings
Oskaloosa Iowa August 19 Frank Ep person vice president of Manning and Epperson State bank Eddyville drew two land entry numbers in separate drawings. He held claim No 1 868 in Coeur d Alene and No 1 052 in Flathead reservation a rare instance of one man drawing on both.
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Oskaloosa
Coeur d’Alene
Flathead
Frank Epperson
Manning and Epperson State Bank
Eddyville
Coeur d'Alene
Flathead Reservation
Conductor Hallett Buys Two Newspapers in Iowa
H. H. Hallett, former Great Western railroad conductor, has acquired the Thornton Enterprise and Meservay Messenger from Postmaster Editor Moore and will manage both papers. He is pictured achieving early success in the newspaper field.
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Mason City
H. H. Hallett
Thornton Enterprise
Meservay Messenger
Moore
Hallett
Great Western Railroad
Grain Men Clash in Iowa Town Over Rivalry
In Gillet Grove Iowa Fred Gleason and Robert Lacey rival grain buyers clashed in the village store. Gleason allegedly drew a knife injuring Lacey who required a surgeon. Lacey filed charges of attempted murder and Gleason was bound over to the grand jury with $1000 bail as the panel convenes next week.
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Gillet Grove
Fred Gleagon
Robert Lacey
Gleason
Lacey
Rock Rapids Boy Slashes Throat in Suspected Heat Crisis
In Rock Rapids Iowa a 22 year old Peter Brown is hospitalized after a self inflicted throat wound. Authorities say he disappeared after dinner then returned home by evening train claiming Spirit Lake and Little Rock as stops. His mother found the wound and surgeons fear for his recovery amid heat related distress. Also a farmer Clarence Kitt was killed when struck by a Great Northern train near Lester and Alvord with his wagon crushed but horses unharmed.
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Rock Rapids
Peter Brown
Rock Island
Spirit Lake
Little Rock
Clarence Kitt
Lester
Alvord
Great Northern
Remarkable 76-Year-Old Father Welcomes Twin Births
Delmar Delaware August 19 announces John W Guy at 76 remains a prolific patriarch with 32 children. His three marriages link him to a tangled family web through in-law relations to his own offspring. a son by his first wife wed a sister and a daughter by his second wife married a brother.
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Delmar
Del
John W. Guy
Thugs fatally injure woman as fiance flees in Pittsburg
Miss Lena Barney, walking with her fiance Peter Weisberger near Pittsburg Kansas, is shot in the back by three men who cause Weisberger to run. Doctors say she may die or be paralyzed if she survives. Sheriff and deputies search for the foreign assailants from nearby mines. Barney is from Chicopee Kansas.
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Pittsburg
Kan
Lena Barney
Peter Weisberger
Oseea Weinsberger
Miss Barney
Chicopee
Takahira to Stay in Japan as Foreign Minister
Tokyo reports Baron Takahira will not return to the United States and will become foreign minister. He named Yasuya Uchida as his successor, while saying the Japanese public bears much responsibility for the feud with the United States. He sails home tomorrow on the Tang Maru after a farewell dinner at a Buddhist temple.
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Seattle
Wash
Baron Takahira
United States
Yasuya Uchida
Austria
Japan
New York Investigating Iowa Primary Law
The New York legislature's priority investigating committee opened hearings on Iowa's primary law at the state house. Secretary of State Hayward was first examined, followed by Lafayette Young of the Des Moines Capital who favors changes to bar cross voting. Senator Cummins, a strong Iowa statute advocate, asked that his views stay private.
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Des Wioines
New York
Iowa
State House
Hayward
Lafayette Young
Des Moines
Cummins
Seilheimer
Golf and Country Club
Car shortage feared as rail traffic surges
Washington reports a potential car shortage as railroads expect a record year. Officials led by Interstate Commerce Commission chair Knapp warn capacity may be strained by crop-led freight demand, with traffic already near the peak levels seen in 1907.
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Washington
Knapp
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Postal savings banks delayed by weeks and parties
Representative Weeks states postal savings bank legislation will not pass next winter as the House and Senate push aside monetary bills. Weeks, new head of the House committee on post offices, says he is not opposed to postal savings banks but will defer until the monetary commission report arrives. Aldrich also dislikes the postal savings plan.
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Washington
House
Senate
Representative Weeks
Massachusetts
House Committee On Post Offices
Weeks
Postal Savings Banks
Postal
Monetary Commission
Postal Savings
Aldrich
Loeb May Sue Editor Over Union Paper Article
Washington reports William Loeb Jr. dictating a possible lawsuit against a local trades union paper editor Samuel De Nedrey after a piece insinuated he meddles in the New York customs audit system tied to Charles A. Stillings. Charleston inmates John R. Johnson and Charles Smurle suffered likely fatal burns from a cigarette fire in their jail cell.
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Washington
William Loeb, Jr
Port of
New York
Loeb
Samuel de Nedrey
Charles A. Stillings
New York Customs Service
Charleston
W. VA
John R. Johnson
Charles Smurle
Indian student dies for murder at imperial institute
London August 19. Madarial Dhinn eri the Indian student who on July 1 after a public gathering at the Imperial Institute shot and killed Lt. Sir William Hutt Curzon-Wyllie and Dr. Cawal Labaca. He was hanged at Vintonville prison at 9 this morning. Dhinn eri showed no fear and walked calmly to the scaffold.
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London
Madarial Dhinneri
Imperial Institute
Sir William Hutt Curzon-Wylile
Cawal Labaca
Vintonville Prison
Dhinagri
Murder in Chinatown Bow Kim Slain by Knife
New York August 18 Chinatown rocked by the stabbing death of Bow Kim 21 of San Francisco who came with Chin Len 31. Len found the body at 2 AM after an assault on a second floor room at 17 Mott Street. Police detained three Chinamen and six American women as witnesses. Len held as material witness in $5000 bail.
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New York
Chinatown
Bow Kim
San Francisco
Chin Len
Mott St
Elsie Sigel
Len
Len l
Bi Een
Yuen Chin & Co
Zee Sing
Sing
Gas blast kills seven at Whick Moving and Storage building
An explosion of natural gas in Cleveland on August 18 wrecked a four story building used by Whick Moving and Storage. Seven men and three women were injured, two possibly fatally, with most victims employees. The blast and resulting fires damaged seven nearby buildings and caused about 100000 dollars in losses.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Whick Moving and Storage Company
Young Woman Keeps Skunk for a Pet in Nebraska
Miss Lucile Bliss of Tilden keeps a skunk as a pet, not a dog or cat. The animal was captured as a newborn and follows her like a kitten. Its diet includes worms bugs and frogs, while neighbors monitor Mr Skunk carefully.
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Tilden, Neb
Lucile Bliss
Tilden
Miss Bliss
Skunk
Persch Indicted on Grand Larceny Charges in Loan Sate Case
New York August 18 two indictments for grand larceny were returned against Donald L. Persch note broker. He is held on $50,000 bail in the Tombs prison for alleged involvement in the sale of collateral deposits by M. M. Joyce broker for a loan negotiated through the Windsor Trust company.
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Persch
New York
Donald L. Persch
Tombs
M. M. Joyce
Windgor Trust Company
Oberammergau Passion Plays Scheduled Next Year
The Oberammergau passion plays are set for May 11 to September 25 next year. The burgomaster issued a notice reminding men to let their hair grow long.
Goulds Proceed With Absolute Divorce Case
Helen Kelly Gould seeks a final decree for absolute divorce from Frank J. Gould in New York after an interlocutory ruling. The case rests on evidence before referee E. G. Whitaker claiming misconduct at the Shoreham hotel with English actress Rose Winter. The suit originally named multiple alleged liaisons, but proof centers on the Shoreham visit and the actress.
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New York
Helen Kelly Gould
Frank J. Gould
Supreme Court
E. G. Whitaker
Frank Jay Gould
Shoreham
West Fifty-eighth Street
le Barton
Rose Winter
Winter
Frank Gould
Mayfair
Silver Service Now in Storage in New York Yard
Washington reports Captain James T. Smith can have a ceremonial silver service transferred to the armored cruiser South Dakota. The gift from the people of South Dakota, given in 1904 after the cruiser was named, was boxed and stored at the New York navy yard, where it remains today since the ship’s 1908 commissioning.
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Washington
James T. Smith
South Dakota
New York Navy Yard
Polish Soldiers Use Bayonets in Chicago Riot
In Chicago on August 18 a company of about 20 Polish sharpshooters returning from a picnic charged a crowd with bayonets after a captain struck a boy with his sword. The crowd overwhelmed the soldiers, five were arrested, and the riot drew police response as injuries mounted to twenty.
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Chicago
Montana Man Wins The Big Land Prize
In Coeur d Alene Idaho on August 18 a drawing selected 250 winners from 99 807 applications for Indian land near the Spokane and Columbia rivers. Allen Newton Helena Montana won No 1 followed by Mabel D Micle Chicago and Fay S Snoddy Miller South Dakota with others including David Mentzer Springville Alabama Clifford C McCoskey Piedmont Kansas and David Kruhl Ord Nebraska.
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James Whitten
Allen Newton
Helena
Mont
Mabel D. Micle
Chicago
Fay S. Snoddy
Miller
David Mentzer
Springville
Clifford C. McCoskey
Piedmont
Kas
David Kruhl
Ord
Neb
Earthquake Death Toll Rises in Central Japan
Tokio reports from central Japan Saturday show fatalities likely to rise beyond 30 with 82 injured. The quake destroyed 362 buildings including many temples and badly damaged over 1,000 more, as feared casualties spread to outlying districts.
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Tokio
Japan
Aero detachment formed for Missouri National Guard
Adjutant General Frank M. Rumbold of the Missouri National Guard orders the creation of an aero detachment as part of the signal corps to be based in St. Louis.
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Ballonists
Jefferson City
Frank M. Rumbold
National Guard of
Missouri
Signal Corps
St. Louis
Aldermen Confirm Steward as Chicago Police Chief
Chicago aldermen in a special session named Colonel Leroy Steward as chief of police to replace resigned George M. Shippy. Steward had been superintendent of the city delivery in the Chicago post office and left that job Saturday.
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Chicago
Leroy Steward
George M. Shippy
Steward
Taft Orders Census Workers Free of Politics
President Taft warns that any person involved in the 13th census who practices politics will be dismissed. He directs the commerce and labor secretary to write a regulation requiring census supervisors and enumerators to remain neutral, apart from voting. Several appointments are listed across Iowa Kansas Nebraska and North Dakota with some holds due to protests.
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Beverly
Mass
Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
Taft
United States
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Iowa
John W. Rowley
Asa A. Hall
Cambridge Culbertson
Kansas
Reese van Sant
William H. Smith
Charles Yee
Nebraska
Frank E. Helvy
Charles L. Saunders
Joseph Albert Hays
Philip F. Bross
North Dakota
Carl N. Frich
Governors to Travel with Taft on Mississippi River Trip
Sixteen governors will join President Taft on his Mississippi River voyage to New Orleans for the annual convention. The party includes cabinet members, about 40 congressmen, and delegates from river towns, with a flotilla set to surpass Roosevelt’s escort.
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St. Louis
Taft
Mississippi River
Gulf Deep Waterways Association
New Orleans
Evelt
B. B E. Comer
Alabama
G. W. Donaghry
Arkansas
C. 8. Deneen
Illinois
T. R. Marshall
Indiana
A. E. Wilson
Kentucky
J. Y. Sanders
Louisiana
E. F. Noel
Mississippi
H. S. Hadley
Missouri
A. C. Shallenberger
Nebraska
J. F. Fort
New Jersey
G. Curry
New Mexico
C. N. Haskell
Oklahoma
R. S. Vessey
South Dakota
M. R. Patterson
Tennessee
T. M. Campbell
Texas
G. H. Prouty
Vermont
Coyote Shot in Barn Also Wounds Pig in S. D. Farm
In Reliance South Dakota Olof Magnuson shot a coyote after a dog woke him. The bullet passed through the manger and barn wall and hit a pig, going through its hind quarters. The coyote had eaten seven chickens.
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Reliance
S. D
Olof Magnuson
Magnuson
Lack of Husband No Worry to Her in Coeur dAlene Draw
Grace Greenquist of Spokane drew number 354 in Uncle Sam s land lottery for the Coeur d Alene reservation where 3 000 names were drawn from 100 000 registered. Asked by Judge James W Witten what she would do on a homestead without a husband she said she has a dog a cat and a cussing parrot and can pilot a plow. She added she might share the claim with the right man if he comes along, noting the timber claim is worth about 10 000.
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Spokane
Wash
Grace Greenquist
Uncle Sam
Coeur d'Alene
James W. Witten
China and Japan to negotiate at Mukden on railway dispute
Peking informed Tokyo that the Chinese government will discuss the unsettled points of the Antunk Mukden railway controversy at Mukden. Baron Ijuin, Japan's minister to China, believes the matter is resolved for the legation.
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Peking
Japan
Mukden
Antunk
Baron Ijuin
China
Wright Arrives in London Heads to Germany Quickly
Orville Wright lands in London from New York and plans a 24 hour stay before travelling to Germany. He states his British flying plans are limited as American engines are not yet delivered and no meetings with Irish war office or British officials are arranged.
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London
Orville Wright
New York
England
Germany
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