Aeronauts Rescued After North Sea Balloon Crash
Berlin dispatch reports the German balloon Busley crashed in the North Sea near Helgoland after drifting from Berlin. Dr. Niemeyer and Hans N. Heidemann were rescued by the steamer Prinz Wilhelm, landed at Edinburgh, and started home via London. Two balloons, Plauen and Hergesell, remain missing as authorities search broad sea lanes.
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Busley
North Sea
Dr. Niemeyer
Hans N. Heidemann
Edinburgh
London
Helgoland
Banshee
Denmark
Plauen
Hergesell
Germa Admiralty
Zieten
Heligoland
English
Schleswig-Holstein
Queensferry
Scotland
John L Sullivan Turns Fifty In Hot Springs
John L. Sullivan, the former prizefighter, is fifty years old today in Hot Springs Arkansas. He reflects on life stating that the will governs as in youth and that a good life grants passage to the Great Beyond. He cautions against vanity and self interest, urging generosity and restraint.
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the Tribune
Hot Springs
Ark
John L. Sullivan
Sullivan
Jet Gu
Police Guard Ballot Boxes In Lynn Strike End
Lynn Oct 15 Under police guard the union workers voted to call off a strike that has halted shoe manufacturing for nearly two weeks. The vote was 846 for ending the strike and 482 against amid tumultuous scenes. Earlier in the day Italian malcontents smashed several ballot boxes.
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Lynn
Mass
Union
Kelsey Probes Foresters Affairs in Albany
Albany Oct 15 Superintendent Otto Kelsey of the State Insurance Department says his agency is investigating the Independent Order of Foresters. He denies that a renewal license was granted based on rate increases and notes the renewal was issued pending inquiry. The department will not yet judge the Foresters management.
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Albany
Otto Kelsey
State Insurance Depertment
Independent
Order of Foresters
Poisoning at South Lancaster Academy Deer
About one hundred forty students and teachers at the South Lancaster Academy in Clinton Massachusetts suffered ptomaine poisoning after a meal featuring canned corn soup. Doctors treated patients through the night and no classes were held. The Adventist affiliated school draws pupils from across the East.
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Clinton
Mass
South Lancaster Academy
South Lancaster
Academy
Lancaster
East
Double tragedy at Shenandoah ends in deaths
Esther Cook, a Shenandoah schoolgirl, lay dying and Harley Bright was dead after a night of gunfire at Lebbus Bright’s home. Neighbors found barricaded doors and a rifle nearby. Bright and his sister faced an abuse case involving an enticed girl, with Cook expected to testify.
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Shenandoah
Iowa
Esther Cook
Harley Bright
Lebbus Bright
Bright
Miss Cook
Legacy cures vagabond ends road with hotel purchase
H P Craig of Detroit, after twenty years as a professional tramp, inherited $30,000 from his Detroit mother and arrived in Colorado Springs to claim the legacy. He announces he is done with hoboes and has bought the Huerfano Hotel downtown for $12,000 to start anew.
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Tribune
Colorado Springs
Col
H. P. Craig
Detroit
Craig
Huerfano Hotel
Brighton Beach Track Becomes Brighton Estates Development
Demolition along Ocean Boulevard and Neptune Avenue accelerates as Brighton Beach race track is prepared for sale as 100-acre Brighton Estates with 1,500 lots. A Brighton Estates corporation forms to develop the parcel with streets named for famous horsemen Keene Lorillard Whitney Dwyer Hitchcock and Lakeland. city approves development plans.
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Brighton Estates
Ocean Boulevard
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The
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Hitchcock
Lakeland
Burglars Bind Bride in West 25th Street Home
Acting Captain McCauley and West 20th Street detectives probe a bold burglary at Mrs. Mary Kadlecs’s residence No 124 West 25th Street. Two masked Italians forced entry after knocks, gagged and bound the bride who hid about $90. She identified the assailants. police pursue.
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McCauley
New West 20Th Street
Mary Kadlecs
West 25Th Street
Frank C Marrin Convicted of Forgery in Brooklyn
Frank C Marrin of Brooklyn was found guilty of forgery in the first degree by a County Court jury before Judge Dike. His counsel filed a certificate of reasonable doubt with arguments to be heard next Wednesday. District Attorney Clarke noted two men tied to the Storey Cotton swindle came from Philadelphia to tamper with the jury.
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Brooklyn
Dike
Clarke
Marrin
Caroline Barry
St. George
Martin
Philadelphia
Will forgives debts in George L. Muth Chicago? Baltimore item
The will of George L. Muth, senior partner of Muth Brothers Company, released all debtors from payment obligations at his death. Bequests total about $17,000 to Cardinal Gibbons and Catholic institutions including Lazarus priests of Germantown and Woodstock Jesuit College.
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Baltimore
George L. Muth
Muth Brothers Company
Cardinal Gibbons
Lazarus Priests
Germantown
Penn
Woodstock Jesuit College
Windsor Club Manager Pleads Guilty in Gambling House Case
William Foley manager of the Windsor Club at 1255 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn was charged with maintaining a gambling house in Adams Street Court Brooklyn yesterday. Jerry A Weinberg testified no one was playing when raided last Saturday. Assistant District Attorney Carrao presented evidence after Foley pleaded guilty. decision reserved.
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William Foley
Windsor Club
Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn
Adams Street Court
Jerry A. Weinberg
Carrao
Foley
Government by Commission and its costs debated
The piece argues against Mr Chanler’s call to abolish government by commission. It contrasts past unregulated bond issues with modern Public Service Commission oversight, claiming investors and widows suffered from lack of oversight while current safeguards protect assets and ensure bonds are justified. It questions Chanler’s stance and invites reader reaction.
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Chanler
Old Railroad Commission
Third Avenue
Public Service Commission
Interborough
Chanier
New York
Mr. Chanler
She Holds The Fort In Tulip Street Siege
An elderly Philadelphia woman and her gray haired husband are under siege in a third story room at Tulip and Firth streets. For three days the husband outside tried to reach his wife as tenants clash. She lowers food in a basket by rope while a guard keeps watch and hundreds observe the standoff.
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the Tribune
Philadelphia
William McKee
Tulip
Firth Streets
Fires Ravage Michigan Towns Amid Forest Blaze Outbreaks
Across Northern Michigan fires rage with Metz wiped out in Millersburg and losses near 859.00. Sawdust Mountain in Cheboygan ignites while La Rocque burns. Escanaba fights to save Foster City as threats loom near Menominee and other villages. A special train with firefighting gear is sent from Escanaba.
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Detroit
Michigan
Millersburg
Presque Isle County
Metz
Cheboygan
la Rocque
Escanaba
Upper Peninsula
Foster City
Menominee
Doctor Dies After Aconite Poisoning At Incurables
Philadelphia, Oct 15. Dr Howard G Neiman resident physician at the Philadelphia Home for Incurables died today from aconite poisoning after mistaking a concentrated preparation for codeine used to treat a nervous cough. He aided the team trying to save him for four hours as three physicians and several nurses worked to counteract the poison.
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Philadelphia
Howard G. Neiman
Helpless Woman Survives Gas Poisoning Ordeal
Miss Catharine Phelan a paralytic sat helpless in her kitchen at 310 West 118th street yesterday awaiting death by gas asphyxiation after a rubber tube slipped from a burning stove. Her sister Margaret returned to find her and shut off the gas, summoning a doctor from J Hood Wright Hospital to save her life.
Jury Awards $1000 Damages For Forcing Disrobe
Clayton Missouri October 15 a jury held Justice of the Peace E C Kroening of Gumbo liable for $1000 to Miss May Eatherton of Chesterfield after he compelled her to undress during a search for a missing pocketbook. The 250 was found later where mislaid.
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Clayton, Mo
Justice of the Peace
E. C. Kroeming
Gumbo
Strikers Meeting Raid Draws Police Clash
Police raided a union meeting of striking chauffeurs at Washington Hall near 47th Street, arresting John Madden after a melee as crowds battled officers. The event followed earlier attacks on taxis and windows during the ongoing taxicab strike, with inspectors pursuing a fast, pirate-filled car operation and grand jury scrutiny looming over violence and arrests.
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Eighth Avenue
47Th Street
John Madden
West 47Th Street
Murphy
Chauffeurs’ Union
John Craven
New York
Joseph Harris
Vesey Street
Third Averue
100Th Street
John Curry
Harris
Gorman
East 104Th Street
Kreil
Corcoran
West 50Th Street
Steinbruck
The
Plaza
Knickerbocker
Marlborough
Victoria
Bingham
Chaloner Case Up in Charlottesville Sanity Suit
In Charlottesville Virginia the Chaloner case against Thomas T. Sherman continues before Commissioner Booth. John Armstrong Chaloner plans to testify tomorrow amid anticipated sensational disclosures about alleged confinement and fraud by his brother Lieutenant Governor Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler and others. The trial aims to establish Chaloner’s sanity and recover his fortune, with witnesses being heard locally to avoid New York travel.
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John Armstrong
Chaloner
Chanler
Amélie Rives
Thomas T. Sherman
New York
Booth
Georges Grapery
Richmond
William Reed
Joseph H. Choate, Jr
Choate
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
Supreme Court of New York
Merry Mills
Virginia
L. S. Chanier
Winthrop A. Chanier
Arthur A. Carey
Rich haul in diamonds from Greenwich home
Diamonds valued at 17000 were taken from Mrs Edward Howard Morton’s house in Greenwich Conn Detectives from the Central Office followed tips from Chief Ritch and arrested two men aboard an express train from Greenwich They named themselves William Blum of 96 Brook Ave The Bronx and Harry Hastings of 323 East 27th Street but were released after convincing Lieutenant Funston they were jewelry salesmen The robbery occurred during dinner hour.
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Greenwich
Conn
Edward Howard Morton
Central Office Detective Bureau
Grand Central Station
William Blum
Brook Avenue
The
Bronx
Fatality List Small in Street Railway Accidents
Last month thirty four persons were killed in street railway accidents in the greater city, a drop of twenty nine from the same month last year. The Public Service Commission ordered full accident reports last September, making comparisons possible for the first time. Total accidents in September 1907 were 5,202. last month 5,023, down 179.
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Public Service Commission
Garfield Suspended for Hazing at Taft School
Waterbury report says Taft School upperclassmen halted a late night hazing incident in the washroom. The faculty suspended John N Garfield of Washington son of the Secretary of the Interior for three weeks and Kenneth Monteagle San Francisco Fred Andrews New York and Henry Fownes Pittsburgh for six weeks. Three of the suspended boys were on the football squad with Garfield as the second team center.
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Tribune
Waterbury
Conn
Taft School
Watertown
John N. Garfield
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Kenneth Monteagle
San Francisco
Fred Andrews
New York
Henry
Astral Sailor Rescued After Storm Drags Ship to Sea
The weather beaten ship Astral, bound for San Francisco with 5000 tons of coal for the navy, arrived in port towed by the tug Astral after a three day hurricane. Seaman Paddy Caldwell was washed overboard and saved by second mate Harry Perry who threw him a line and hauled him over the rail feet first.
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Baltimore
San Francisco
Navy
Dunham
Paddy” Caldwell
Harry Perry
Caldwell
Premature Explosion Kills Seven at Ingleside Quarry
Seven men died and twenty three injured in a premature blast at the Ingleside lime quarry eighteen miles from Fort Collins Colorado. The explosion occurred as forty workers faced the blast sending bodies and debris as far as two hundred feet. Ranchers and their wives rushed to aid the injured after hearing the blast.
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Fort Collins
Colorado
Ingleside
Lincoln post office clerk admits theft of Bryan letters
Clarence F. Broad a substitute Lincoln post office carrier confessed in police court that he took letters addressed to W. J. Bryan's newspaper and diverted funds for the Democratic campaign. He admitted taking eleven letters on Monday and said letters had been missed for months. Broad was bound over to await action by the United States Grand Jury.
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Lincoln, Neb
Clarence F. Broad
Lincoln Post Office
W. J. Bryan
Democratic Campaign
Broad
United States Grand Jury
Brooklyn Justice Casts Doubt On Dog License Law
Justice Kelly of Brooklyn Supreme Court questioned the constitutionality of the dog license statute. He granted Borough President Coler an injunction preventing the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals from euthanizing Coler’s dog captured last May. The writ places custody of the dog with Coler pending final decision. The judge ruled the untagged dog was no more dangerous than a tagged one.
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Justice Kelly
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Borough
Bird S. Coler
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Fifty Families Move At Once To Charleroi From Tarentum
In Tarentum an unusual wholesale move occurred as fifty families totaling about two hundred people loaded two barges with all belongings and traveled down the Allegheny to Pittsburg then up the Monongahela to Charleroi seeking work with the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company. A recent Tarentum fire had left workers unemployed, prompting the mass relocation. Football note mentions West Point Saturday outings and Day Line ads.
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Tarentum
Penn
Allegheny River
Monongahela River
Charleroi
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
Taft in Kentucky Charts Republican Path at Louisville Rally
Taft leads a large Louisville rally amid a Republican surge through Kentucky. He praises GOP labor records, urges southern Republicans to support November 3, and defends opposition to Bryan on bank deposits and imperial policies. Senators Smith and Shaw spoke, with overflow crowds in Lexington and other towns.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Dixie
Taft
Bradley
Kinkaid
Congress
Bryan
William Aiden Smith
Leslie M. Shaw
the Treasury
Democras
Lexington Opera House
Brown
Lexington
Mr. Taft
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