Aeronauts Rescued After North Sea Balloon Crash
Berlin reports German balloon Busley crashed in the North Sea on Tuesday in the endurance test for the international trophy. Dr. Niemeyer and Hans N. Heidemann were rescued by the steamer Prinz Wilhelm and landed at Edinburgh later, while two balloons Plauen and Herge sell remain missing. The Banshee leads the contest, with Condor second and Belgica third, as search efforts expand along the North Sea.
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Berlin
Busley
North Sea
Dr. Niemeyer
Hans N. Heidemann
Edinburgh
London
Helgoland
Denmark
British Isles
Norway
Ersholmen
Plauen
Hergesell
Zieten
Heligoland
English
Schleswig-Holstein
Sullivan Turns Fifty In Hot Springs With Wise Words
John L. Sullivan, former prizefighter, arrives in Hot Springs on his fiftieth birthday. He reflects that willpower matters at fifty as at thirty, life is real and earnest, and existence passes like a river while the goal remains the Great Beyond. He advises living well and suggests Aquor as a key.
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the Tribune
Hot Springs
Ark
John L. Sullivan
Sullivan
Aquor
Police guard ballot boxes as Lynn votes to end strike
In Lynn Massachusetts on October 15 the city police protected ballot boxes as union members voted to end a two week strike that crippled the shoe industry. The tally was 846 in favor and 483 against amid tumultuous scenes including a group of Italian malcontents who damaged ballot boxes.
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Lynn
Mass
Kelsey Probes Foresters Insurance Trust
Albany October 15 Superintendent Otto Kelsey of the State Insurance Department says the affairs of the Indented Order of Foresters are under investigation. He denies any link between license renewal and rate increases and notes the renewal was pending an examination. No action yet on the Foresters' management. Great Bear Spring Water ad copy promotes purity.
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Albany
Otto Kelsey
State Insurance Depertment
Poisoning at South Lancaster Academy Strikes Students
About one hundred forty students and teachers at South Lancaster Academy in Clinton Massachusetts suffered ptomaine poisoning after consuming canned corn used in noon soup. Doctors treated victims overnight. no classes held today. The Adventist school draws youths from across the East.
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Clinton
Mass
South Lancaster Academy
South Lancaster
Academy
Lancaster
East
Tragic double shooting in Shenandoah ends in death
Esther Cook, a Shenandoah schoolgirl, lies dying while her sweetheart Harley Bright is dead after a night of gunfire at Lebbus Bright’s home. Neighbors found barricaded doors and a rifle near the boy. The pair faced an earlier case against Bright’s sister for abducting another girl. A suspected pact or murder suicide is considered.
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The
Tribune
Shenandoah
Iowa
Esther Cook
Harley Bright
Lebbus Bright
Bright
Miss Cook
Legacy cures v agabond by telegraph to the tribune
Colorado Springs Oct 15 H P Craig of Detroit after twenty years as a professional tramp has quit the road His mother died recently in Detroit and left him 30000 The first instalment of the legacy has reached the heir who has waited here Craig buys the Huerfano Hotel for 1209000 showing he is done with hoboes and the road
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Tribune
Colorado Springs
Col
H. P. Craig
Detroit
Craig
Huerfano Hotel
Brighton Track No More to Create Brighton Estates
Work began on the Brighton Beach race track for sale as the Brighton Estates. About one hundred acres to be divided into 1500 lots with fences along Ocean Boulevard and Neptune Avenue being torn down. Field stand demolition started. Brighton Estates Corp formed to develop the property. city approves plans and streets will honor famous horsemen Keene Lorillard Whitney Dwyer Hitchcock Lakeland.
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Brighton Beach
Brighton Estates
Ocean Boulevard
Neptune Avenue
Keene, Lorillard
Whitney, Dwyer
Hitchcock
Lakeland
Burglars Bind Bride in West 25th Street Home
Acting Captain McCauley and West 20th Street detectives investigate a bold burglary at Mrs. Mary Kadlecs's No. 124 West 25th Street residence. The bride, a month married, was gagged and bound after two masked Italians demanded entry and searched the home for valuables. She identified the intruders, and police believe they know the suspects.
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McCauley
New West 20Th Street
Mary Kadlecs
West 25Th Street
Brooklyn Lawyer Guilty of Forgery in First Degree
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 for a certificate of reasonable doubt, with argument set for next Wednesday. District Attorney Clarke cited earlier indictments for swindling Mrs. Caroline Barry out of 70000 through bogus mortgages and noted two men tied to the Storey Cotton swindle traveled from Philadelphia to tamper with the jury at the St George Hotel during the trial week.
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Frank C. Marrin
Brooklyn
Dike
Clarke
Marrin
Caroline Barry
St. George
Martin
Philadelphia
Will forgives debts in late Baltimore businessman's will
The will of George L. Muth, senior partner of Muth Brothers Company, pardons all debts owed at his death to any relative or other party. Bequests total $17,000 to Cardinal Gibbons and Catholic institutions including Lazarus priests in Germantown and Woodstock Jesuit College.
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the Tribune
Baltimore
George L. Muth
Muth Brothers Company
Testator
Cardinal Gibbons
Lazarus Priests
Germantown
Penn
Woodstock Jesuit College
Windsor Club Manager Pleads Guilty to Gambling Charge
William Foley manager of the Windsor Club at 1255 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn admitted maintaining a gambling house in Adams Street Court Brooklyn. 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 debated over expense and benefit
A dated critique argues Mr Chanler overstates the cost of government by commission while recounting historic bond losses and misadventures. It contends that public service scrutiny prevents investor losses and protects widows and orphans, ending by asking readers their view.
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Mr. Chanler
She Holds the Fort Aged Woman Prisoner in Third Floor Room
Philadelphia dispatch reports Mrs. William McKee, 80, and her husband, aged tenant and sub tenant, have barricaded themselves in a third floor room at Tulip and Firth. For three days she must lower a food basket from the window as hundreds gather daily while a policeman guards the scene. The struggle began last Monday when the tenant tried to eject the McKee couple and the husband remains outside seeking access to his wife.
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The
Tribune
Philadelphia
William McKee
Tulip
Firth Streets
Fires in Michigan Ravage Towns and Sawdust Mountain
News from multiple Northern Michigan locations reports spreading forest fires. Metz in Presque Isle County was wiped out with losses near 3000 alongside La Rocque burning. Sawdust Mountain in Cheboygan is on fire while a train with firefighting equipment heads to Foster City from Escanaba. Nearby Menominee area villages face threats.
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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 Home
Philadelphia October 15 Dr Howard G Neiman resident physician at the Philadelphia Home for Incurables died from aconite poisoning after mistaking a concentrated preparation for codeine used to treat a nervous cough He directed the emergency effort as three physicians and several nurses fought to save him for four hours before his death.
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Philadelphia
Howard G. Neiman
Helpless Paralytic Woman Rescued From Gas Fatality
Miss Catharine Phelan, a paralytic, sat in her kitchen at 310 West 118th Street waiting for death by gas asphyxiation. The rubber tube loosened from the stove and she could not reach the cock to shut it off. Her sister Margaret found her unconscious, shut off the gas, and called a doctor from J Hood Wright Hospital who saved her life.
Justice Kroening Ordered to Pay Damages in Disrobe Case
A jury in Dayton Missouri awarded Miss May Eatherton $1,000 after Justice of the Peace E C Kroening compelled her to disrobe to search for a missing pocketbook. The pocketbook containing $250 was later found to be mislaid.
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the Tribune
Dayton
Justice of the Peace
E. C. Kroening
Gumbo
Miss May Eatherton
Chesterfield
Strikers Meeting Raid by Police Sparks City Court Tensions
General Bingham testifies to grand jury on taxicab riots as 14 officers raid a Washington Hall union meeting in midtown Manhattan. Arrests follow as police pursue rioters and a pirate taxi gang. The strike’s violence prompts grand jury action and calls for faster arraignments amid hotel window attacks and a skull fracture at New York Hospital.
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John Madden
West 47Th Street
Murphy
Chauffeurs’ Union
John Craven
New York
Joseph Harris
Vesey Street
Third Avenue
100Th Street
John Curry
Harris
Gorman
East 14Th Street
Kreil
Coresran
East 104Th Street
West 50Th Street
Steinbruck
The
Plaza
Knickerbocker
Marlborough
Victoria
Bingham
Walsh
Grand Jury
J Rl Brown
62Nd Street
Charles E. Husbands
34Th Street
Broadway
William Tidoli
New York Hospital
Husbands
Chaloner Suit Seeks Sanity Ruling in Virginia Case
Charlottesville hearing tests the sanity of John Armstrong Chaloner aka Chatoner and seeks recovery of his fortune alleged to have been taken by New York courts. He accuses Lt Gov Lewis Chanler of fraud and a false madhouse petition. Witnesses may be called in Virginia to avoid New York travel.
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Charlottesville
John Armstrong “Chatoner
Chanter
Amélie Rives
Thomas T. Sherman
New York
Booth
Chaloner
George Gregory
Richmond
William Reed
Joseph H. Choate, Jr
Choate
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
Supreme Court of New York
Merry Mills
Virginia
Chanler
Winthrop A. Chanler
Arthur A. Carey
Rich Haul in Diamonds From Greenwich Home
Diamonds valued at seventeen thousand nine hundred dollars were stolen from Mrs. Edward Howard Morton’s Greenwich residence while the family dined. Two suspects, William Blum of 96 Brook Avenue Bronx and Harry Hastings of 323 East 27th Street, were detained after arriving on an express train but were released after presenting themselves as jewelry salesmen. Authorities followed leads from Chief Ritch and questioned the men at Central Office before clearance.
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Ritch
Greenwich
Conn
Edward Howard Morton
Central Office Detective Bureau
Grand Central Station
William Blum
Brook Avenue
The
Bronx
Fatality List Small Shows Streetcar Deaths Down
Last month there were only thirty four persons killed in street railway accidents in the greater city, a decrease of twenty nine compared with the same month a year ago. The Public Service Commission’s order in September last year required full reports of all accidents by transport companies under its supervision, enabling the first month to month comparison. Total accidents in September 1907 were 5202. last month 5023, down 179.
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Pblic
Railroad Commission
Chanler
Public Service Commission
Garfield Suspended for Hazing at Taft School
Waterbury October 15 The Taft School faculty suspended four students for hazing after upperclassmen were caught pairing off younger pupils in the washroom at Watertown Garfield of Washington son of the secretary of the interior and teammates Kenneth Monteagle Fred Andrews and Henry Fownes were given three and six week suspensions respectively Garfield a substitute football center was among those penalized
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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 Fownes
Pittsburg
Garfiell
Garfield
Sailors survive hurricane ordeal after ship sails from Baltimore
The weather beaten ship Astral, bound for San Francisco with coal for the navy, arrived with a dramatic tale. October 4 a three day hurricane stripped sails, listing 25 degrees to port. Seaman Paddy Caldwell was washed overboard but saved by second mate Harry Perry who hurled a line and pulled him aboard.
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Astral
Baltimore
San Francisco
Navy
Teon
Dunham
Paddy” Caldwell
Harry Perry
Caldwell
Explosion at Lime Quarry Kills Seven in Colorado
In Fort Collins on October 15 seven men died and twenty three were injured when a premature blast at Ingleside lime quarry, eighteen miles away, exploded at the face of forty workers. The blast was heard for miles and many victims were hurled up to two hundred feet. Ranchers and their wives nearby rushed to aid the injured.
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Fort Collins
Colorado
Ingleside
Bryan campaign funds found in Lincoln mail theft
Clarence F. Broad a substitute Lincoln Post Office carrier confessed in police court to taking letters addressed to W. J. Bryan containing Democratic campaign funds. He admitted stealing eleven letters on Monday and said letters had been missing for months. Broad was bound over to await U S Grand Jury action.
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Lincoln, Neb
Clarence F. Broad
Lincoln Post Office
W. J. Bryan
Democratic Campaign
Broad
United States Grand Jury
Constitution May Protect Dogs In Brooklyn Case
Justice Kelly of the New York Supreme Court Brooklyn doubts the constitutionality of the dog license law and grants Borough President Coler an injunction to prevent the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals from killing Coler’s dog. The writ keeps the dog in Coler’s custody pending final decision. The dog had a license tag at capture but was deemed no more dangerous than a tagged dog.
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Justice Kelly
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Borough
Bird S. Coler
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Society
Fifty Families Move at Once in Tarentum Penn
Fifty families totaling about two hundred people moved en masse from Tarentum to Charleroi. Triggered by job loss after a Tarentum Pittsburg Plate Glass Co fire, they travelled by two barges down the Allegheny to Pittsburgh and up the Monongahela to their new home. Football West Point Saturday listings follow.
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Pittsburg
Tarentum
Penn
Allegheny River
Menonugahela
Charleroi
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
Taft Speaks in Louisville Kentucky Rallyes for Republican Ticket
Taft tours Kentucky after a two mile parade in Louisville and a packed Coliseum meeting. He hails Republican governors and senators, defends judiciary and labor records, criticizes Bryan’s bank deposit plan, and appeals to workers while noting overflow audiences in Lexington and Ashland.
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Bryan
William Aiden Smith
Leslie M. Shaw
the Treasury
Coliseum
Willson
Senator Bradley
James F. Grinstead
Mr. Taft
Lexington
Opera House
Lexington Opera House
Brown
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