Miraculous Escape in Balloon Race Ends Safe for Aeronauts
In the Schmargendorf start of the international balloon race, Conqueror burst at 4000 feet. Forbes and Augustus Post used the torn silk as a parachute to slow descent, landing near a house with only slight injuries as the crowd breathed relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Cable
A. Holland Forbes
Augustus Post
Schmargendorf
Great Britain
France
Germany
United States
Switzerland
Italy
Belgium
Spain
America
America I
James C. McCoy
Voghmann
Forbes
Friedenau
Mystery Bodies Bound in Jamaica Bay Found
In New York a well dressed man and woman were found floating in Jamaica bay, bound together by wire. The pair, not yet identified, were discovered by two fishermen and appeared able to move their arms and legs, prompting police to consider a double death by mutual action. The woman's arms clasped the man's neck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jamaica Bay
Indianapolis man confesses to forged hotel check in Evansville case
A man identifying himself as J. F. Prince of Indianapolis confessed by long distance phone to Evansville police that he forged a hotel check. He initially denied guilt, then admitted the crime and agreed to travel to Evansville for trial. he is jailed in Danville Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Ind
J. F. Prince
Indianapolis
Danville
Ill
Davis
British Fleet Sails to Aegean Waters
A British fleet has departed Valetta Malta bound for the Aegean Sea with Lemnos as suspected destination. The force includes four battleships four cruisers and four torpedo boat destroyers under Vice-Admiral Prince Louis of Battenburg. Sailing orders are sealed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valetta
Malta
Aegean Sea
Lemnos
Prince Louis of Battenburg
Record Sale Of Corn In Iowa By Mc Grath
Mc Grath of Boone county sold 17 200 bushels of corn to the Farmers Co operative Elevator company. The sale totaled 12 390 dollars. This check surpasses the previous Iowa record of 7 026 dollars paid to a Jefferson man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boone
Iowa
Ss. S. McGrath
Farmers Co-operative Elevator Company
Boone County
Taft and Roosevelt to Confer in Washington Sunday
In Cincinnati Ohio a special report states Mr Taft and President Roosevelt will hold a consultation in Washington on Sunday October 18. The item notes the anticipated high level meeting between the two leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teddy
Cincinnati
Mr. Taft
Roosevelt
Washington
Vest Button Confirms Murder Verdict in Krause Case
Appleton Wisconsin jurors convicted Paul Krause of murder by vest button evidence. The wife was found hanging in her closet and a peculiar vest button outside the doorway linked Krause to the crime. He had threats against her, and the coroner’s findings shifted the case from suicide to homicide. He received a life sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Appleton, Wis
Paul Krause
Krause
G. O. P. Fund Receives Large Contributions in New York
From official sources it was learned that Mrs. Rus sell Sage and Mr. Andrew Carnegie have contributed large sums to the Republican national fund. The exact amounts are unpublished but each is understood to be around $20,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Special
Russell Sage
Andrew Carnegie
Republican National Fund
Roosevelt Named President Of World Government In Hague Plan
Washington reformers led by Rev Wilbur Crafts outline aims of the International Reform Bureau based in Washington They foresee Theodore Roosevelt as world president when a Hague governed system is established They advocate curbing racetrack gambling cutting liquor from government buildings and eradicating rum and opium trades worldwide
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
International Reform Bureau
Washington
Wilbur Crafts
Crafts
Theodore Roosevelt
Hague
Turkey
Roosevelt
Venezuela
Dr. Hale
Paris Cable Tradesman Ends Life On Moving Picture
A Tre Lon tradesman committed suicide before a cinematograph machine, the film capturing every moment from selecting a chair to loading the revolver and blowing out his brains. Police confiscated the rolls to prevent morbid spectators from being affected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Cable
Trelon
Sneeze Triggers Auto Crash Near Palmer Embankment
In Lennox Massachusetts a chauffeur sneezed losing control of the car causing a three foot embankment plunge at Palmer. The machine rolled over but the occupants escaped severe injury as it landed on a mossy riverbank.
Suit Filed Over Surgical Sponge Left in Wound
Mrs. R. G. Smith of Bloomington Illinois sues Dr E Mammen for 5000 alleging a sponge was left in her wound after surgery, necessitating a second operation to remove it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington, Ill
R. G. Smith
Dust and soot in Chicago far higher than London tests show
The Chicago Health Department reports new tests indicate dust and soot levels in the city are three times greater than those measured in London. The findings highlight a severe air quality problem and potential health concerns for residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
The
Health Department
London
Suffragettes Roar Through London in Parliament Standoff
A huge suffragette rally clogged routes to Westminster causing clashes with police. Mrs Travers Symons charged into the Commons and was removed as crowds surged, police numbered over 5,000, 24 suffragettes and 12 unemployed were arrested, and access to the building was barred to women thereafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Westminster
Travers Symons
James Kier-Hardie
House of Commons
Thames
Trafalgar Square
Nelson Monument
Abruzzi Ends Engagement With Katherine Elkins
The Duke of Abruzzi announced to the royal family that his engagement to American heiress Katherine Elkins has been broken. He plans a perilous exploration trip to cope with his grief, with no official statement on who initiated the breakup. Rumors say Miss Elkins played a leading role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Family
Miss Elkins
Rome
Duke of
Abruzzi
Katherine Elkins
Tourin
Old New York Note Prompts Big Redemption Question
A £10 note from the English colony of New York dated February 16, 1771, presented to Controller Metz requests payment. Experts say redeeming with compound interest to the present could cost about $39,000, prompting Metz to seek Corporation Counsel legal guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Metz
Corporation Counsel
Missouri Farmer Shoots Sons Then Kills Self in Coldsberry
D. O. Seaman, a farmer, called his two sons aged 10 and 12 from a district school near Col dsberry, shot one boy dead, mortally wounded the other, and killed himself. The motive remains unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coldsberry
D. O. Seaman
Here
Registration in Chicago Shows City Voter Increase
Chicago voters listed a total registration of 410 242 an increase of 5 006 over the city registration four years earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Terrell Case Revived Amid Hospital Stay in Indiana
Richmond Indiana special reports John W Terrell the Wells county murderer remains confined at the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane though discharged as cured. An officer will later rearrest him on a Wells county bench warrant for the murder of his son in law Melvin Wolf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Ind
John W. Terrell
Wells County
Eastern Indiana Hospital
Terrell
Melvin Wolf
Indiana
Wolf
Richmond Hospital
Rockefeller Mansion at Pocantico Hills Guards Plans
John D. Rockefeller has taken possession of his new million dollar house at Pocantico Hills New York. He will station eighteen guards two detectives and a bloodhound to protect the home described as an inaccessible labyrinth with secret passages concealed entrances and terraces designed to deter intruders. The front faces the Hudson River but the actual entrance is through a gateway and the living areas are arranged behind a maze of walls shrubs and wide brick stable nearby.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller
Pocantico Hills
Mr. Rockefeller
Hudson River
Wright Receives German Crown Prince Telegram on Flights
Wilbur Wright, famed American aeronaut, has a telegram of congratulation from the German Crown Prince for his successful flights. Wright invited the prince to ascend in the Wright aircraft, and he plans to rise to about 3 000 feet in a forthcoming flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
le Mans
Wilbur Wright
Wright
Large Fine Imposed For Poaching Fifty Quail
In Nashville Tennessee a Sumner county man R F McMurty faced what may be the state’s largest magistrate court fine. He was fined 50 dollars per quail for attempting to dispose of fifty quail before the season opened, totaling 2500 dollars after arrest by a deputy game warden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
R. F. McMurty
Sumner County
McMurty
Tennessee
Prairie fire devastates Kankakee county farms
Hanna dispatches from Laporte Ind report a great prairie fire sweeping a large Kankakee country area. The conservative loss is ten thousand dollars as wolves driven from marshes raid barn yards in the southern part of the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laporte
Ind
Hanna
Kankakee
Patents and Trademarks Rise in Fiscal Year Report
The Special Commissioner of Patents Edward B. Moore reports that during the past fiscal year 41,952 patents trademarks labels and prints were issued, compared with 44,121 in the previous year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Edward B. Moore
Thaw Hearing Dismissed. Kept at Matteawan Asylum
The sanity hearing for Harry Thaw before Justice Mills in White Plains New York was dismissed and Thaw was remanded back to the Matteawan Insane Asylum for confinement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thaw
White Plains
N. Y
Harry Thaw
Mills
Supreme Court
Matteawan Insane Asylum
Maniac on Williamsburg Bridge Fought by Three Cops in Public
A maniac named Joseph Kratz, about 35, armed with a razor, battled three policemen on a 10 by 10 foot platform high above the East River on the Williamsburg bridge. The struggle ended with Kratz unconscious and the officers carrying him down the 320 steps to the bridge floor as thousands watched.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Joseph Kratz
Williamsburg Bridge
Brooklyn
Kratz
Smith
Dowling
Jokers in Teddy's Family
London commentary notes Nicholas Longworth's quip about eight years of Roosevelt rule after Taft. The World says Roosevelt deserves sympathy for jokes from a son in law who teases political rivals and a daughter who plays pranks in the Senate, testing his popularity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
London
Times
Nicholas Longworth
Roosevelt
Taft
Longworth
Million-dollar betting offer shocks Memphis crowd
G Howard Denby of New York claimed a syndicate can back unlimited wagers on the Presidential race. He publicly offered to bet any part of 1 million dollars at odds of 500 to 200 on Taft, said he already placed over 100 thousand dollars and would tour cities nationwide before election day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
G. Howard Denby
New York
Taft
Denby
United States
Prison farm profits and outputs reported in West Virginia
Clarksburg reports Special Acting Warden C. G. Dawson says the state penitentiary not only paid expenses but yielded several thousand dollars in profit annually. This year the farm produced 55,000 pounds of fresh pork 200,000 pounds of cabbage and 110,000 pounds of pumpkins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksburg
W. Va
C. G. Dawson
State Penitentiary
Youth confesses to vault theft at W. & D. Allen plant
Edward Wiern, 19, admits stealing $700 from the W. & D. Allen Manufacturing vault in Chicago. He says he hid in the vault for four days, with no food or water, until the money would be deposited, and he confessed on September 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Edward Wiern
W. & D. Allen Manufacturing Company
Masked riders threaten widow over cotton in Obion County
In Obion County Tennessee fifty masked men visited the wife of Jasper Cain to dictate the disposal of her cotton. She warned them with a repeating rifle saying they should leave or she would shoot. The riders departed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
Obion County
Tennessee
Jasper Cain
Voter Claims 118 Years Old in Los Angeles
A man registering to vote in Los Angeles declares he is 118 years old and the oldest voter in the country. He recounts incidents from a century ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Land Seekers Go Broke in Dallas and Gregory Gambles
The Dallas and Gregory area draws about 6 000 registrations with thousands more expected as drawing nears. A surge of gambling at round-the-clock tables has left about a thousand seekers broke and many others sending telegraphs for funds. Victims rely on charity while waiting for departures, with gamblers allegedly profiting from roulette and faro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
S. D
Gregory
Children Help Free Father in Indiana Grand Jury
Marion county grand jury discharged David Frankel under arrest for killing his wife to collect insurance. His eight year old son and four year old daughter visited the grand jury door seeking their papa. The children entered the grand jury room during the inquiry and the evidence against Frankel was said to be not convincing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Marion County Grand Jury
David Frankel
Frankel
David
Taft Picture Controversy Rocks Maxwell House
In Nashville Tennessee the Democratic headquarters threatened to move from the Maxwell house if a Taft portrait remained in the lobby. The managers demanded pictures of both candidates or none. The ultimatum was ignored and the Democrats vacated the HQ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
Taft
Maxwell House
Hume
Woman Drowns in Wine Vat at Santa Rosa Winery
Mrs. George Colier wife of Occidental rancher drowned after slipping from the edge of a large wine vat on the Colier ranch. She fell into the vat, and despite aid she was dead before help arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Rosa
Cal
George Colier
Occidental
Colier
Taft leads New York by 15,294 as Chanler tops Hughes
The New York World reports a postal canvass result across New York New Jersey and Connecticut. Taft holds a 15 294 plurality in New York and Chanler defeats Hughes 193 685 for governor.
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New York
The
New York World
New Jersey
Connecticut
the World
Taft
Chanler
Hughes
Elkins Engagement Reported Off Over Religion
A rumor in society claims the Abruzzi Elkins engagement is off because Miss Elkins refuses to change her religion a requirement for marriage to the duke. No official confirmation yet, but an announcement is expected soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Mississippi River landslide swallows rail cars and track
A 300 by 200 foot section of land along the river gave way in New Orleans causing seventy five thousand dollars in railroad property to slide into the Mississippi River. Seven loaded freight cars and four tracks were engulfed in the swift collapse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Mississippi River
Seventeen Hurt in Football Game Collision
Schenectady New York report says Union and Wesleyan colleges suffered a severe football contest with seventeen players knocked out and five rushed to hospital with serious injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schenectady
N. Y
Union
Wesleyan
Mob Lynches Two Men in Lula Mississippi
A mob dragged Jim and Frank Davis from the jail in Lula Mississippi and hanged them after they were charged with shooting John C Kendall a conductor on the Illinois Central Railroad. The incident underscores racial violence in Mississippi where authorities failed to protect prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lula
Miss
Jim
Frank Davis
John C. Kendall
Minois Central Railroad
Land Registration Totals for Tripp County Land Opening
Special registration figures show a total of 44 286 for Tripp county land opening. Applications were deposited in person at Dallas and Gregory, or mailed to those two points.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
S. D
Tripp County
Gregory
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Conqueror
Bat Bag
Saves
Aeronauts
Wisconsin
Internatonal Bureau
Washington Society
World Under One Government
Bureau
Cinematograph
Mrs. Symons
Besiegs
Solons
Cash
New Yorker
New Brunswick
N. J
Julia Madelin
Tony Madelin
Terrell Case
Oil King
Rocke
Feller
Pocan
Tico Hills
Ngrap
Maniac
East River
On Taft
State Prison
Gregory, S. D
Elkins
Mississippi
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