Parliament in State of Siege as Suffragettes Crowd Westminster
A massive suffragette protest at Westminster halted traffic for hours. About 100000 Londoners, mostly youths and the unemployed, gathered around the House of Commons. Mrs Symons led a dash to the speaker's chair and demanded focus on women. Police, mounted units, and boats protected the area. 24 suffragettes and 12 unemployed were arrested as crowds faced off with officers.
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London
Westminster
Eavers Symons
Toames Keir-Hardie
House of Commong
Peope
Ames
Trafalgarquare
Nelson Monument
House of Commons
Sveti
Parkhurst
Christabel Parkhurst
Lawrence
Bow Street
New Ruse of Thief Netting Jewelry in Brooklyn Home
A young man posing as a real estate agent gained entry to the Brooklyn home of Summerfield McLean. While Beatrice Masten showed him around, he overpowered her with a gag, then searched the house for valuables and escaped with jewelry and silverware valued at 1000.
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New York
Summerfield McLean
Brooklyn
Mise Beatrice Masten
Mre McLean
Labor leader Keefe denies immigration post offer charge
Detroit and New York dispatches report Democratic claims that Daniel J. Keefe of Detroit was offered the immigration commissioner post by Roosevelt in exchange for support of Taft. Keefe repudiates the alleged meeting and cites his Taft pledge. The Democratic committee cites AFL actions and signatures as supporting evidence.
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Detroit
Mich
Banter J. Keefe
Longshoremen’s Union
New York
Immigration
W. H. Taft
Democratic National Committee
John J. Gordon
National Democratic
Roosevelt
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Bryan
Daniel J. Keefe
International Association of Longshoremen
Federation of Labor
Democratic Committee
Keefe
Washington
Sargent
Federation
William H. Taft
Executive Council
Taft
Fants
Cuba Storm Swept Across Island With Floods
A semi cyclonic wave drenched Cuba with torrential rains causing widespread floods. The central weather event damaged crops and buildings across multiple locales on the island.
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Cuba
Havana
Judge issues injunction vs Illinois fire insurers
Judge Moore in Belleville issues permanent injunction restraining 110 fire insurance companies in Illinois from fixing rates or maintaining a joint agent at East St Louis. The case, begun in June, targets Aachen & Munich Fire Insurance Company and 109 others with M F Lent as joint agent. Evidence gathered in Belleville East St Louis and Chicago. some issues appealed.
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Belleville
Moore
Affault
Ilinois
East Bt
Seouls
H. J. Hamlin
Eval
Tilmots
Aachen & Munich
Co Es
M. F. Lent
International copyright conference opens in Berlin
The Berlin session of the international copyright conference is underway as delegates discuss global intellectual property issues. In Lexington Kentucky Dan Patch failed to beat his record, running 1 56 in the distance.
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Berlin
Dan Patch
Lexington
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Southern Railroad
Mayo
Pacific Fleet
Swinburne
Honolulu
Samoa
Richmond
Clevelynd Memorial Committee
City Hall
New York
Horses Die of Strange Disease in Indiana Counties
Reports from Michigan City Indiana describe a mysterious illness killing about 1500 horses since last summer in Pulaski Starke and southwest Laporte counties. Infected animals die after drooping and wasting. livers and organs show hairlike worms. Mules seem unaffected prompting farmers to seek them for plowing needs.
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Pulaski
Starke
Laporte
Michigan City
Ind
Laporte County
Starke County
Kentucky
Dog Returns Alone Twice Then Hunter Found Dying
Paoli Indiana October 14 Sherman Appel about nineteen left with a gun and dog for the woods. The dog returned alone twice signaling trouble. A search party found Appel unconscious beside a tree with a fractured arm and died soon after at home.
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Paoli
Ind
Sherman Appel
Moore Fidge
Here
Appel
Grand Army Parade Plans Highlight Indiana In October
Indiana adjutant general Oran Perry will serve as grand marshal for the parade in October. An invitation was extended to department commander Captain John D. Alexander to lead the Grand Army of the Republic posts and civil war veterans in the dedication at the Harrison monument. Colonel J. R. Fesler and Captain Alexander expect a large turnout for the event.
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Grand Army
Indianapolis
Oran Perry
Indiana
Fretle
G. A
John D. Alexander
J. R. Fesler
Indiana 45 A
Alexander
A. R
Fruit Trees Bloom Twice In Indiana Note
Oct 14 reports show cherry and pear trees flowering twice in Petersburg and nearby farms. George Gordon's pear tree half grown crop with many blossoms. John Fordyce’s farm four cherry trees in full bloom. Also news from Laporte of a prairie fire sweeping the Kankakee country with about ten thousand dollars in losses and wolves raiding southern county barns.
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Petersburg
Ind
George Gordon
John Fordyce
Here
Flamee
Kankakee
Laporte
Grand Jury Probes Bank Funds Misuse in Indiana
Kentland Ind Oct 14 The grand jury investigates D I Baldwin Logansport and W P Dague Fowler alleged to have wrongfully used funds of the Goodland bank closed by order of the state auditor after an earlier official inquiry.
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Kentland
Ind
D. I. Baldwin
Logansport
W. P. Dague
Fowler
Goodland Bank
Young Woman Dies After Drinking Carbolic Acid Mistake
Miss Coriane Bundy eighteen died at the Delaware hotel in Munda from swallowing carbolic acid mistaken for throat gargle. She was the only child of FP Bundy proprietor of the Delaware hotel.
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Munda
Ind
Coriane Bundy
Bundy
Delaware Hotel
Duke's Engagement Breaks Amid Perilous Plans
Rome reports the engagement between the Duke of Abruzzi and Miss Katherine Wikins has ended. The duke, in a telegram from tour, vows to travel on a dangerous expedition to ease his grief. Rumors implicate Miss Wikins in the breakup.
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Rome
Duke of Abrusei
Katherine Wikins
Tour
Hejrens
Miss Mikins
Bryan Tours Nebraska With Dems in State Campaign
William J. Bryan campaigned across Nebraska with almost all state Democratic candidates, speaking in Wahoo and other towns. He delivered twenty one speeches ranging from five minutes to an hour, drawing big crowds on the three day tour.
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Bryan
Nebraska
Wahoo
Neb
William J. Bryan
Comedy of the Campaign Unloads Taft Flyers at Democratic HQ
Two vans delivered campaign literature in Chicago on October 14 that targeted Republican voters. The materials, printed in Bohemian Lithuanian and Slavish, were mistakenly addressed to Democratic national headquarters and began mailing before taint was found. Local officials recovered most items before broad distribution.
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Chicago
Democratic National
Labor leaders testify in contempt case over union reports
John H. Walker president of the United Mine Workers testifies about accepting and duplicating reports from a detective agency paid by the National Manufacturers Association. He cites miners from Murphysboro and Duquoin contacted for information on union sentiments and mentions a letter offering to sell AFL proceedings for 15 dollars per firm. The testimony references a Cleveland corporate auxiliary and Denver 1908 proceedings.
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Springfield
John H. Walker
United Mine Workers of Clinots
Samuel Gompers
Robert Morrison
John Mitchell
American Federation of Labor
Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia
Bucks Store and Range Company
St. Louis
Edward F. Irwin
Walker
Miners’ Union
Murphysboro
Duquoin
National Manufacturers’ Association
Natonal Manufacturers’ Association
Detective Association
Corporaion Auxiliary Company
Chamber of Commerce
Cleveland
Great Eastern Telephone Company of
New York
A. M. Todd & Co
Kalamazoo
Mich
Denver
Col
Congress
All Canadian league proposed in new sports plan
The item notes an all Canadian basketball league proposal. King Dillon becomes a 2.18 percent pacer under Baron Dillon. College elevens may improve under new football rules this season. Yale and Harvard order eight oared boats from Sime of Putney for the Interuniversity race of 1909. Billy Gilbert may manage the St Louis Nationals next year with McCloskey kept as scout.
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King Dillon
Baron Dillon
Yale
Harvard University
Sime
Putney
England
Cambridge
Billy Gilbert
St. Louis Nationals
McCloskey
Death by Explosion Destroys Albuquerque Social Leader
Albuquerque Oct 15 Mrs Louise Chamberlin a social leader and sister of Perry S Heath former assistant postmaster general and Salt Lake Tribune editor burned to death last night in a home fire started by gasoline explosion. A servant cleaning a rug with gasoline got too close to an open grate and an explosion spread flames that fatally burned her before help could arrive.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Louise Chamberlin
Perry S. Heath
The
Salt Lake Tribune
Telepost Inaugurated With Fast Message Service
The Telepost company opened a rapid message system linking Boston and Portland via a chain including Lowell Lawrence Haverhill Exeter Portsmouth Dover Biddeford Saco Old Orchard. Messages travel at about a thousand words every two minutes using Telepost lines and post office delivery. Public interest centered on Mayor Hibbard and inventor Patrick Delaney with endorsements from Edison calling the system foolproof.
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Lowell
Mass
Lawrence
Haverhill
Exeter
N.H
Portsmouth
N. H
Dover
Biddeford
Saco
Old Orchard
Telepost
Postoffice
Uncle Sam
Telepost Company
Ines
Telecard
Boston
Hibbard
Patrick
Delany
Skeeton
Portland
Patrick J. Delaney
H. Lee Sellers
R. H. Sellers
J. W. Larish
Thomas A. Edison
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