Mikasa sinks after harbor fire. 5 dead 251 missing
The battleship Mikasa, flagship of Vice Admiral Togo, caught fire at base of the mainmast in Basebo Harbor and sank at 2:30 AM. Five killed, 251 missing, 343 wounded. Admiral Togo was not aboard.
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London
Tokio
the Times
Mikasa
Togo
Sea of Japan
Navy Department
Basebo
Japan
England
Sasego
Rosestvensky
Port Arthur
McKinley Estate Dispute Opens In Orphans Court
In Somerset Pennsylvania on September 12 the Orphans Court opened with Mrs Annie E McKinley filing to be relieved as executrix of Abner McKinley estate. The Seaboard National Bank of New York objects to removal. The bank had earlier sought her removal on June 2. Abner McKinley was brother of President Meikinley.
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New York Times
Somerset
Penn
Abner McKinley
Orphans’ Court
Annie EE. McKinley
Seaboard National Bank of New York
Seaboard Bank
Meiwinley
New York
Abner Meiiniey
Index to Departments and Page References
A catalog of section listings including Amusements Arrivals of Out of Town Buyers Business Troubles Commercial World Court Calendars Marine Intelligence and Foreign Mails New Corporations Estate Society United Service Weather Report Centerday's Fires with their page numbers.
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Commerciial World
Marine Intelligence
Society
United Service
Weather Report
Centerday
Maine Bishop to Japan on Vatican Mission
The Right Rev William H O Connell Bishop of Maine will travel to Tokyo as the Pope’s special envoy to Japan. The mission aims to convey the Pope s congratulations to the Emperor for Japan s peace handling and to foster Catholic relations with Japan.
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Portland
William H. O'Connell
Maine
Japan
Pius X
O'Connell
Vatican
Russia
Rome
Tokio
France
Ireland
St. Paul
O’connell
United States
Burglar Gang Arrested on Fifty Fourth Street
Captain Lantry credits Policemen Dwyer and Ditsch with catching three men believed tied to a city wide burglary ring. Suspects Philip Krauss Christopher Reilly and Otto Wiedeman were arrested after a hand-to-hand pursuit. Reilly held pawn tickets and admitted breaking into Mille Bouillé’s East Forty-second Street flat. recovered loot included crucifixes watches and silver items.
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Fifty-fourth Street
First Avenue
Lantry
East Fifty-first Street
Matthew Dwyer
Bernard Ditsch
Dwyer
Ditsch
Station House
Philip Krauss
East Fifty-fourth Street
Christopher Reilly
Manhattan Avenue
Otto Wiedeman
Mystery masked intruder shoots Mrs Morell in Greenwich home
Mrs Antoinette C Morell daughter of a New York banker and United States Steel officer was shot by a masked burglar who entered the Greenwich Meade Place home early today striking her mouth and jaw after beating the nursemaid and firing at Mrs Plaisted. Police arrested a drenched suspect named John Brown, who claimed to work at Gibson's livery stable in New York. a note from the Morell cook was found on him.
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Greenwich
Conn
Antoinette C. Morell
Mg. Converse
New York
United States Steel Corporation
Jack Graemer
Craemer
John Brown
New York City
Kate Tierney
Morell
Brown
Gibson's
Fiftyfirst Street
W. E. Ritch
Greenwich Station
Cos Cob
Mrs. Plaisted
Miss Burns
Mrs Platts Dog Fails Atop Rollins Pass Train
Mrs T C Platt wife of a New York senator rode to Rollins Pass at 11600 feet with her Griffon dog a rare crossbreed from Sweden. The dog suffered altitude distress and was carried in a silk lined netted bag. Stopovers at Yankee Doodle Lake and Jenny Lake allowed it to breathe. snow was used to aid breathing and the dog revived as the party descended to lower levels.
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New York Times
Denver
Col
T. C. Platt
New York
Rollins Pass
Griffon
Oscar of Sweden
United
Tragedy at State Capitol as teen falls from dome
Warren Scruggs Jr., fifteen, of Columbia, fell sixty feet from the State Capitol dome after the ceiling gave way while he wrote his name with chalk. He died instantly as the chalk mark remained on the marble floor. Authorities had recently issued warnings against going to the dome.
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Columbia
S&s. C
State Capitol
Warren Scruggs, Jr
Steamship Colorado Sighting Near Fire Island
The Steamship Colorado, hull noted, passed south of Fire Island at 1 50 this morning after leaving at Aug 30.
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Colorado
Hull
Fire Island
The Twentieth Century Limited: fastest NY to Chicago train
The Twentieth Century Limited claims status as the fastest long distance train in the world racing the 18 hour trip between New York and Chicago. The New York Central lines advertise the service as unmatched for speed and efficiency.
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New York
Chicago
New York Centralines
Adv
Lehigh Valley R R Fare From New York to Pacific Coast
A railroad advertisement notes a special rate of fifty dollars for travel from New York to the Pacific Coast aboard the Lehigh Valley Railroad, with travel valid from September 14 to October 30.
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N. Y
Pacific Coast
Lehigh Valley
R. R
Komura Ill. Japanese Envoy May Delay Seattle Trip
Baron Komura is gravely ill at the Waldorf Astoria. Despite hopes he would travel to Seattle tomorrow, doctors advise against moving him. His suite includes Mr. Takahira and Mr. Sato. plans may shift to private rail travel if he improves.
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Baron Komura
Waldorf-Astorila
Takahira
Sato
Takashita
Seattle
Maron
Twentieth Century Limited
Baron Komari
Lake Shore
Chicago
President Hill
St. Paul
Yokohama
Tien-Tsin
Shanghai
Mrs Madden Accuses Husband in Divorce Case
In Cincinnati court Mrs Anna Louis Madden testified that her husband John E Madden forced false entries on horse racing books and urged misreporting to the Jockey Club. She said Applause was recorded as a foal to gain a class advantage and cited a falsified report to William C Whitney about Sandringham.
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Cincinnati
Applause
Mrs. Madden
Mr. Whitney
Madden
Sandringham
New York Times
Train saves life of Arden worker in Paterson
James Stevens of Arden, Orange County, N Y, was gravely injured when two horses bolted a two horse mowing machine. The Erie Railroad Chicago express stopped to transfer him to St Joseph's Hospital in Paterson. Doctors expect amputation of his right leg.
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New York Times
Paterson
N. J
James Stevens
Arden Farm and Dairy Company
Arden
Orange
County
N. Y
Erie Railroad
Chicago Express
Stevens
Express
St. Joseph's Hospital
Gen Lees Nephew Bolts In Stafford County Politics
Capt. Daniel M. Lee nephew of Gen. Robert E. Lee has defected from the Democratic Party in Stafford County Virginia He had aimed for the Legislature and opposed R C L Mon Cure whom the County Committee backed He threatened to run as an independent risking a Republican victory and a committee meeting set for Sept 20 to decide the dispute.
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New York Times
Richmond
Daniel M. Lee
Robert E. Lee
Stafford
Real estate insiders profit on New York land flip
Eight Cincinnati men led by Judge Swing and Judge McNeill bought a vacant New York tract for 68000 in July and sold it for 95000 fifty two days later earning 45000. They plow profits into another Coney Island land play near Gravesend race track with 4000 feet frontage, asserting quick money in New York real estate. Autumn excursion tickets go on sale soon with rates available from agents.
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Cincinnati
New York City
Swing
Common Pleas Court
McNeill
Circuit Court
Gravesend_race track
Ocean Parkway
Coney Island
New York
Odell and Black Reconcile in NY Republican Fight
Ex Governors Odell and Black, once estranged over the 1897 U.S. Senate contest, have reportedly reconciled. They met after Odell’s European trip as the Legislature pressed charges against Justice Hooker, with plans for peace terms under consideration and Odell poised to influence the next State Republican Convention.
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Odell
Frank 8
Warren B. Hooker
Platt
Qdell
Black
Gdell
Chauncey M. Depew
United States
Depew
E. H. Harriman
Republican Club
Odelle
Platt-Depew
Odell-Black
Friends of Black
Republican State Committee
Col
George W. Dunn
Harriman
Mr. Black
State Committee
State Organization
New York
Tammany
Pratt
Ode
Equitable
Republican
Fifth Avenue
Abraham Gruber
Twenty-first District
William Barnes
Albany County
William N. Ward
Westchester County
John Dwight
Higgins
American Tug Bertha L Cockill Seized Near Port Dover
The American fishing tug Bertha L Cockill of Erie, Pennsylvania, was captured about twenty miles east of Port Burwell by the Canadian cruiser Vigilant. Five thousand pounds of whitefish and 160 nets were aboard. The tug was taken to Port Dover and handed to Canadian customs authorities.
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Port Dover
Ont
Bertha L. Cockill
Erie
Port Burwell
Bored Dolphin Hull Prompted By Electrical Damage
An examination of the dispatch boat Dolphin completed today found a hull hole caused by electrolization. Temporary repairs will allow the Dolphin to carry Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte to Oyster Bay next Saturday after a visit to Charlestown Navy Yard.
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Boston
Dolphin
Bonapaarte
Oyster Bay
Charlestown Navy Yard
Prof Hilgard Faces Total Blindness At UC
San Francisco September 12 Prof Eugene W Hilgard long time UC expert in soils and agricultural chemistry is threatened with total blindness and has halted work on his fifty year study book Soils. Assistant Prof Loughbridge aids in completing the manuscript hoped ready for press by year end.
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New York Times
San Francisco
Cal
Eugene W. Hilgard
University of California
Hilgard
Loughbridge
Nixon III Speaker Ill in Westfield Watch
Speaker S Fred Nixon of the New York State Assembly fell ill in Westfield New York on September 12 and doctors fear possible appendicitis though he rested easily at a late hour.
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Westfield
N. Y
S. Fred Nixon
New York State Assembly
Deep Potomac Pot Hole Reaches 200 Feet
A coast survey team reported a 200 foot deep pot hole off Mathias Point in the Potomac River. The deepest sounded depth was 159 feet, with a rock bottom. It is described as caused by converging currents and noted for fishing potential.
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New York Times
Wasilington
Potomac River
Coast Survey
Mathias Point
Shonts Announces Plans To Tour Toledo Railroad
Theodore P. Shonts President of the Panama Canal Commission said the full commission and consulting engineers will sail for Panama at month end aboard a coal service ship. He was in Toledo to inspect and is president of the Toledo St. Louis and Western Railway.
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Toledo
Ohio
Theodore P. Shonts
Panama Canal Commission
Panama
Coal Service
Shonts
Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad
Ninety Year Old Bridegroom Marries for a Seventh Time
Jacob Kinney nicknamed Major, aged ninety and father of forty four, obtained a marriage license in Henrico County to wed Ann Green, sixty, a seasoned pathfinder of matrimony. Kinney, frail in recent years, said he needed a helpmate as his sons support him.
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New York Times
Richmond
Jacob Kinney
Major
Henrico County
Ann Green
Agin
City Seeks Attachment Against New York in Auto Case
A Common Pleas court issued a foreign attachment against the City of New York in a dispute over repairs to a Department of Street Cleaning automobile. Frank C. Harrigan, counsel for Fairmount Engine Works, argues municipalities may be garnished like individuals. The car remains with the engine works, which was summoned as garnishee with bail set at $2,080.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Common Pleas Court
Day Aginst
Taft Mediator Seeks Labor Reform Proposals
In Hong Kong Chinamen urged Taft to modify labor definitions exempt business assistants and accept consular certificates as ID. They proposed passports issued by American consuls and better detention sheds in America. Taft would present the proposals to President Roosevelt on his return to the U.S. Separately Boston elevator union backs a resolution to exclude Japanese and Korean laborers, to be sent to Congress.
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Honghong
Taft
America
Roosevelt
Boston
United States
International Elevator Constructors’ Union
Congress
Travel Offer to Philadelphia and Return by Pennsylvania RR
Advertises $3.50 round trip to Philadelphia and back aboard Pennsylvania Railroad on September 16 17 and 18 with return valid until September 25 due to I O O F meeting.
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Philadelphs
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York Life Lost in Trust Merger Details Revealed
C E Slughes questioned Edmund E Randolph about the consolidation of the New York Security and Trust Company and the Continental Trust Company. Randolph testified that New York Life took on about 15 0000 bonds and a large trust portion to cover an overhang in New Orleans rail stock and syndicate participation, later disposing at a loss.
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New York Life Insurance Company
New York Security and Trust Company
Continental Trust Company
New Orleans Railways
Life Insurance Company
C. E. Slughes
Insurance Investigating Committee
Edmund E. Randolph
New York Life
Randolph
Trust Company
J. P. Morgan &Co
George W. Perkins
International Navigation Syndicate
International Mercantile Marine
Sscne
Morgan
State Superintendent of Insurance
Chicago and
Alton Securities
IST
Goldman, Sachs & Co
Hughes
Claflin
Riaiduis
Sachs & O
Chiceige
Abos
Savings
Airmindolph
New York
Mer
Ir ii Idelph
Yrox Hiss
Storks
Insurans Department
New York Serurity and Trust
Aml
First National Bank
Continental Trust
Th New York Security and Trust Company
New York Life Insurancempany
New Orleans
New York Life Insurance Compie
New York, Security and Trust Company
New York Life Insurance Commany
Mr. Randolph
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Pope
W. C. Morell
E.C. Converse
Plalsted
Mrs. Morell
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Spencer's
Maiden Lane
Capitol
Tennessee
Nashville
Tenn
Bud” Rogan
Gallatin
Rogan
Komura
Gen. Lee
Bolts
White Mountains
N. H
H. R. KR
Odell and
Pure Food Commission
Ady
Vigilant
Prof. Hilgard
Nixon III
Potomac
Philadelphia Concern
Chicago and Alton Securities
New Orleans Securities
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