Outing Fate Drowns Seven in Maine Bay Tragedy
A 35 foot open sloop capsized in Penobscot Bay off Deer Isle Maine killing seven of ten aboard. The dead include Mrs Lucy Crawley and Miss Elizabeth Evans, with Captain Haskell and Professor Crawley among survivors. The vessel had heavy wind and seas, and a rescue followed from Eagle Island. Havens were found for three others but Hutchins remains missing, presumed lost. The event cast a gloom over Deer Isle with extensive press follow up in Philadelphia and Baltimore highlighting the victims’ families.
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Deer Isle
Penobscot Bay
Crawley
Lucy S
Philadelphia
Evans
Elizabeth G
Mount Holyoke College
Massachusetts
Hutchins
Jason C
Bangor
Kelligg
Baltimore
Kellogg
Lutie
Torro
Alice
Washington
Eleanor
Captain Haskell
Edwin S. Crawley
Henry B. Evans
Mount Holyoke
Elizabeth Evans
Mr. Hutchins
Barren Island
Samuel Haskell
Haskell
Professor Crawley
Henry Evans
Eagle Island
Luuis Kellogg
Miss Evans
Bangor Theological Seminary
Billerica
Mass
Immense Sum for Bryan Heir to Astor Partner Estate
Henry Emery of Denver declares he is heir to John Jacob Astor partner John Emery's estate. Emery offers Bryan his entire interest of $183000 for collection. He is 93, son of late Joan Emery of South Portland Maine.
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the Tribune
Denver
John Jacob Astor
John Emery
Henry
Emery
William J. Bryan
Joan Emery
South Portland
Train Schedule to Fair Grounds This Week
Pennsylvania Railroad trains from New York leave 8:55 and 10:65 a.m. and 12:25 p.m. with 4:25 p.m. on all days except September 7. Services stop at Fair Grounds. Returning trains leave the Grounds at 9:14 a.m. 1:42, 3:68, and 5:08 p.m. Advt.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Fair Grounds
Would Lynch Negro Mob Besieges Chicago Heart of Town
A mob of about 1000 tried to lynch Martin Vincent after he attacked a 16 year old girl on Wabash and Van Buren. Police from Harrison and Central stations intervened as the crowd rioted near the Auditorium area. The assailant fled onto a streetcar before being captured after a chase.
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Tribune
Chicago
Harrison Street
Central
van Buren Street
Wabash Avenue
Auditorium Annex
Martin Vincent
Springfield
Josephine Ludwig
No. 74
West 19Th Street
E. W. Putnam
Rodriguez Captured After Post Office Stamp Heist
Ricardo Rodriguez, chief of Havana post office supplies, was arrested hiding in disguise after a $53,135 shortage was uncovered. He had worked ten years in Philadelphia before moving to Cuba, and evidence suggests long running thefts involving resealed stamp packets.
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Havana
Ricardo Rodriguez
Bureau of
Rodriguez
Philadelphia
Bureau of Supplies
Hernandez
Old man held as foreign lottery agent on Henry Street
Police and postoffice officials say David S. Friedman seventy living with his daughter at 278 Henry Street is an agent for the Royal Ducal Lottery of Brunswick Germany. He has sold tickets daily ranging from forty to five hundred dollars and received mail in eleven places over two years. A large bundle of tickets was found at his home.
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Henry Street
Postoffice
United States
H. C. Hill
David S. Friedman
Sadie
Inspector Hill
Friedman
Europe
Duchy of Brunswick
Germany
Hill
Brunswick
Tragic Brooklyn Fire Claims Miss Lowenstein
Rose Lowenstein twenty eight died after setting fire to her clothing in the cellar of her mother’s Borough Park home. Driven by grief over her brother’s death five years earlier she entered the kitchen asked for matches then ignited her clothes. She died Monday after being burned severely and hospitalized for years of mental distress. Her mother Mrs Yetta Lowenstein moved to 1165 44th Street with her, and the sister Sadie helped try to extinguish the flames.
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Rose Lowenstein
44Th Street
Borough Park
Brooklyn
Yetta Lowenstein
La Follette's Man Defeated in Wisconsin Primaries
Milwaukee dispatch reports a light Democratic vote with Neal Brown appearing nearly assured for U S Senate. Democrats voted in Republican primaries to sow discord, boosting rival candidates. Stephenson ex-Congressman Cook and District Attorney McGovern lead, while La Follette backer Hatton trails.
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Tribune
Milwaukee
Neal Brown
United States
Stephenson
Cook
McGovern
W. H. Hatton
la Follette
Warmer Leading in Michigan Republican Direct Primaries
In Detroit on September 1 1900 Governor candidate results show Governor Fred M Warner leading with 21 290 votes against Auditor General James B Bradley 20 407 and Horatio S Earle 5 672 across 600 districts. Bradley battles Warner for the nomination as party convention sets state office candidates.
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Michigan
Detroit
Wayne County
Fred M. Warner
Warner
James B. Bradley
Horatio S. Earle
Bradley
Lawton T. Hemans
Mason
Patrick H. Kelly
Thaw confinement sparks jail corridor controversy report
Albany reports to the State Commission of Prisons call for moving Harry K. Thaw from Dutchess County jail in Poughkeepsie. The secretary George McLaughlin notes Thaw’s insanity and homicidal tendencies, the jail’s lack of proper facilities, and the harm to jail discipline and prisoner classification.
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Albany
State Commission of Prisons
George McLaughlin
Dutchess County
Poughkeepsie
Harry K. Thaw
McLaughlin
Thaw
Fishkill Landing
White Plains
Vermont Ballot Yields Large Republican Victory Amid Nationwide Campaign
Vermont voters back the Republican ticket by a plurality exceeding twenty-nine thousand, supporting Prouty for governor and Dillingham for U S Senate. Local races favor Republicans in Burlington and Montpelier, while Democrats win some state House seats and the city of Burlington votes for a Democratic Representative. The Independence League and Prohibition run ahead of Socialists, with late returns showing a strong GOP majority in the Legislature.
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Republican National Committee
Republican Party
Taft
J. E. Kennedy
F. ©. Burgess
Montpelier
J. A. Deboer
National Life Insurance Company
John H. Senter
United States
W. P. Dillingham
Carroll S. Page
Hyde Park
Redfield Proctor
Prouty
Vermont
Associated Press
White River Junction
George H. Prouty
Newport
David J. Foster
Burlington
Frank Plumley
Northfield
Bell
Porter
Porouty
Independence League
Quimby
Backus
Brandon
New Party
Prohibition Party
Burke
M. G. Leary
Lawrence Bartley
Balloonists in Peril at Niagara Falls Landing
The Ville de Dieppe balloon crew faced a storm on Lake Ontario and bungled rip cord landings at Niagara Falls. Captain A F Mueller and two passengers Perry and Gerald Gregory endured a jarring descent, with Gerald losing teeth and head cuts while Perry was unconscious.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Gerald Gregory
Cc. F. Gregory
Chicago
American Federation of Aerial Clubs
Ville de Dieppe
Columbus
Ohio
Lake Erie
Wihin
Gregory
Mueller
Devil's Hole
Perry Gregory
Dalton Weds Boyhood Sweetheart in Quiet Bartlesville Ceremony
Emmet Dalton and Mrs. Julia Lewis wed by a justice of the peace in Bartlesville Oklahoma. Dalton, once pardoned from a life sentence for the Coffeyville raid, marries the widow of Ernest Lewis who died in a clash with U S Marshals. The couple met twenty years ago when Julia aided Dalton while he evaded officers. They plan to reside in Bartlesville where Julia owns substantial property.
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Tribune
Bartlesville
Okla
Emmet Dalton
Julia Lewis
Dalton
Kansas Penitentiary
Coffeyville
Kan
Ernest Lewis
Keeler
Williams
Harvard Disabled Steamer Reaches Pier Two Hours Late
The Metropolitan turbine steamer Harvard arrived at her North River pier two hours late due to fog and engine trouble. From Boston, high pressure engine failed and only two engines operated thereafter. After discharging passengers she went to Erie Basin drydock for an inspection of propellers, deemed precautionary and not seriously damaged.
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Harvard
North River
Boston
Erie Basin
Office of the Line
22 Arrests in Chester Car Strike
Chester Pennsylvania August 1 warrants issued for twenty two former Chester Traction employees and the head of the carmen's union in connection with dynamiting cars and damaging property during the trolley strike ongoing since April.
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Chester
Penn
Chester Traction Company
Carmen’s Union
Gratifying Taft verdicts noted on returns at Ohio island
Middle Bass Island Ohio Sept 1 Taft says the late Vermont returns indicate a Republican plurality of 2800 is very gratifying.
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Taft
Middle Bass Island
Ohio
Vermont
Shocking Tehran Dispatch On Tabriz Civil War
A Teheran report from Tabriz says Satar Khan defeated government troops with 800 killed and wounded. Ain-ed-Dowleh, governor, was slain and Naire-es-Sultan appointed, then attacked again with heavy casualties as fighting continues. Persia seeks a state loan in Britain while France and Russia lose ground.
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St. Petersburg
Teheran
Tabriz
Satar Khan
Shah
Ain-ed-Dowleh
Naire-es-Sultan
Naire
Great Britain
France
Russia
Four Sailors Die From Fumes Aboard Puritan
Four seamen suffocated in the forepeak of the British bark Puritan at President Roads as a fire caused by intaneous combustion burned pitch oakum. Captain F W Chapman ordered descent to the forepeak. four bodies were found, one man largely overcome but saved. Crew of twelve signed on in Boston.
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Boston
President Roads
Harry E. Olsen
Carl Morsen
Peterson Becks
George Sunblade
William Roberts
Roberts
New York
F. W. Chapman
Vancouver
B. C
Chapman
Olsen
Herbert H. Hatfield
John McLane
New Cure for Lockjaw Reported at St John’s Hospital
A fifteen year old boy from Woodhaven Long Island Allan Kollock recovered from advanced tetanus after treatment at St Johns Hospital Brooklyn using sodium chloride injected into the spinal cord followed by anti tetanus serum and salt solutions. The case began after a crushed toe in Patchogue led to tetanus with jaws locked and body rigidity before surgical amputation and electrolyte therapy sparked a rapid recovery.
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St. John’s Hospital
Brooklyn
Rockefeller Institute
Allan Kollock
Woodhaven
Long Island
Patchogue
All Night in Water near Torrington Ends in Rescue
Edward J. Teffenbach, a former Winsted resident, spent ten hours submerged to his armpits on a sunken boat in Cattlin's Pond after it sank at nine. He rode out the night in mud and rising water until a farmer and hired man, then a boat, finally rescued him at dawn. Pneumonia fears mount.
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the Tribune
Winsted
Conn
Edward J. Teffenbach
Cattlin’s Pond
Torrington
Teffenbach
Death by Own Action Shocks St Louis Man
Grieving over his aunt Emma Chapman death and paralyzed, Robert T. Scott shot himself at his aunt Mrs Frank J Casey home in St Louis. His brother George C Scott is married to the daughter of Corwin H Spencer the late millionaire. His sister is the widow of Jack Tennent who died by his own hand after his father failed in business.
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the Tribune
St. Louis
Emma Chapman
Robert T. Scott
Frank J. Casey
George C. Scott
Corwin H. Spencer
Jack” Tennent
Sarah Scott
Garfield Place
Brooklyn
Scott
Roosevelt Presses Hughes Nomination at Sagamore Hill
Oyster Bay September 1 President Roosevelt called for the renomination of Governor Hughes in a Sagamore Hill conference with Republican leaders. He said he would not dictate the state convention but authorized remarks through Silas McBee. Secretary Cortelyou joined later and luncheon attendees included Putnam, Leupp, McBee, Brodie, Jerome, and Ward.
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Oyster Bay
Sagamore Hill
New York
Roosevelt
Hughes
William L. Ward
Westchester
Ward
Silas McBee
McBee
Cortelyou
George H. Putnam
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Huntington
Francis E. Leupp
Indian Affairs
Alexander O. Brodie
Washington
T. S. Jerome
Anti Hughes Fiasco Ends Steuben Endorsement For Governor
Buffalo dispatch reports a Steuben County petition opposing Governor Hughes failed. Instead the county's actions yielded a strong endorsement for Hughes, with local leaders predicting his nomination and a large victory. The anti Hughes campaign claimed fair cutbacks would deter farmers, but perception favored Hughes.
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Tribune
Buffalo
Hughes
Steuben
anti-Hughes
Gove
The Ban on Betting at Sheepshead Bay
Pinkerton agents sweep betting out at Sheepshead Bay racing today issuing orders to bar known bookmakers and memory brokers. The club will deny admission to violators and may run races privately if enforcement blocks public access.
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Sheepshead Bay
Pinkertons
Sam Doggett
R. C. Doggett
Hugh Collins
Mortimer Lynch
Frank Moore
Coney Island Jockey Club
Last Potawatomi Chief David Frotch Dies at Ninety
Menominee Mich Sept 1 David Frotch aged ninety years the last chief of the Pottawattomie Indians is dead at the Indian settlement in Menominee County His life linked to Upper Peninsula history He was son of No Sah Maquant and signed the treaty ceding lands near Lake Michigan after the Black Hawk War in 1833
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Tribune
Menominee, Mich
David Frotch
Upper Peninsula
United States
Lake Michigan
Keystone Rate Law Up Again
County commissioners and county solicitor A B Hay refused to let the Buffalo Rochester Pittsburg Railroad obtain judgment by default in a cent fare law suit. A suit will follow and the act may be reviewed by the Supreme Court. Atlantic City Labor Day timetable notes 3 hour trains by New Jersey Central with Pullmans.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
A. B. Hay
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad
Supreme Court
Atlantic City
Labor Day
New Jersey Central
New York
Newark
Elizabeth
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Siz
Lucy G&. Crawley
University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Re Evans
Wellesley
Dayton
Evelyn Kellogg
Henry Kelloxe
Lutherville
Baltimore County
New England
Bryan
Long Branch Fair
Oklahoma
Guthrie
A. H. Hunston
Spencer's
Maiden Lane
Republi
Burlington, Vt
Green Mountain
W. R. Hearst
New Independence Party
Independence
Prohibition
J. E
John A. Mead
Rutland
Guy W. Bailey
Essex
Edward H. Deavitt
Horace F. Graham
Craftsbury
John G. Sargent
Ludlow
Campbell
Dunbar
Niagara Rapids
Hendrick Hudson
Am-Ed-Dowleh
Vercome
Elorida
Seaboard Air Line
W. E. Conklyn
Gen
East
Hughes A Necessity
Deniis
Rnor
Pottawattomie
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