Hearst Declares Independence Party Loyalty and Fusion Limits
Hearst in Arlington Hall opposes fusion with Tammany Hall but open to merging with anti-Tammany groups that accept Independence party principles. He argues for co operation with those who share core aims and predicts Tammany defeat, outlining distrust of party machines and calls for municipal subway control.
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William R. Hearst
Arlington Hall
Independence Party
Tammany Hall
Hearst
Gehring
Mr. Hearst
Clarence J. Shearn
Sun District Association
Broadway
Aldrich
Democratic Party
Independence League
Committee of One Hundred
Republicans
Abraham Lincoln
Republican Party
Lincoln
Tammany
Republican
Philadelphia
New York
Friday ship Kaiserin Auguste Victoria lands in Hoboken
The Hamburg American liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria completed a record westward voyage in 6 days 24 hours 25 minutes and docked at Hoboken at 6 45 pm. Facing a strong ebb tide she scraped the stern of the President Grant and crushed teak fittings on the bridge but there was no panic among 1832 passengers.
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Hamburg
Kaiserin
Ruser
Hoboken
President Grant
Grant
Thirty Near Death On Ferry Collision Off East 27th Street
Thirty passengers on the Magnolia ferry launch survived when the Nettie rammed her off Sea Cliff bound for East 27th Street. The Magnolia sank after the collision. rescues were carried out by nearby rowboats and the William Schaefer, with no fatalities. The Nettie carried no lights and offered aid after the crash.
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Magnolia
Sea Cliff
Plum Island
Sheepshead Bay
East 27Th Street
William Schaefer
Fred Heineman
Heineman
East 23d Street
Nettie
John Morson
Ike
Ocean Avenue
Point Breeze
Manhattan Beach
Beef prices raised by wholesale butchers in Chicago
Chicago reports a 2% to 3 cent rise in top grade dressed beef ribs and loins, with next best grades up a fraction to 1 cent, while cheapest grades stay unchanged. Rounds were cut back by fractions and a cent to offset the rise, with packers accused of lagging consumer awareness and citing higher demand as the cause.
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the Tribune
Chicago
Patrolman Traynor severely injured during street arrest
Patrolman Traynor of East 120th Street station was stabbed and bludgeoned by two prisoners and a would‑be rescuer during a patrol last night on East 120th Street. He remains unconscious at Harlem Hospital as detectives and reserves pursue three assailants described by witnesses.
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Traynor
East 120Th Street
120Th Street
Robert Kammer
No. 98
Cagsini
Harlem
Harlem Detective Bureau
1St 126Th Street
Margaret Magaske
Lightning Tans Bull Alive Near Ogdensburg
A Holstein bull on Thomas Winthrop’s farm was struck by lightning. The bolt hit between the horns, burned the white hide on the nose and neck, leaving black hide largely untouched. The bull was stunned but unharmed and should recover.
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Ogdensburg
Thomas Winthrop
Here
Will
Ballinger to Visit Beverly Over Gravis Pinchot Charges
Washington dispatch reports Secretary Ballinger arrived to review a memorandum replying to Gravis Pinchot charges. He plans to go to Beverly within days to give a full statement, then return to Washington and later Seattle. Press commentary notes possible cabinet resignation and the role of Pinchot allies.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Pierce
Ballinger
Beverly
Seattle
Cholera Serum Found in Italy Under Metchnikoff Roux
Paris reports Italian doctor Salambini under Professor Metchnikoff and Dr. Pierre Roux at Pasteur Institute discovered a cholera serum and vaccine. Trials in Russia cut death rate from about 50 percent to 23 percent. Vaccine involves bacilli culture from patients injected subcutaneously to confer immunity. Dr. Hapkine is studying results in India.
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Paris
Salambini
Metchnikoff
Pierre Roux
Pasteur Institute
Russia
Lone highwayman holds up family near Doe Trough
Lewistown Pa Sept 3 a lone bandit believed to be the same robber who relieved a Pennsylvania Railroad train last week held up Robert F Little his wife and child on a mountain road near the train robbery site. Detectors surround the mountain and searches continue with hundreds of officers on duty.
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Lewistown
Penn
Pennsylvania Railroad
Robert F. Little
Doe Trough
Juniata
C. A. Preston
Middle Division
Altoona
Mifflin and
Hartingdon
Unable to Die
Professor Leon Liebard sixty years old is hospitalized after a failed suicide attempt in San Pedro He is a Sorbonne graduate and former French cavalry officer who taught at the University of Chicago He said life holds nothing for him and that self obliteration is the only honorable course He drank gin and tried to drown himself but survived expressing deep despair and disgrace
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the Tribune
Los Angeles
Leon Liebard
Liebard
Sorbonne
University of Chicago
San Pedro
May Be Strike of 20,000 in New Bedford Mills
A general strike of about twenty thousand cotton mill operatives is threatened in New Bedford Mass as manufacturers refuse to restore the 0 per cent wage cut from March 198. Textile council delegates received the mill owners formal reply. expectation was for a 5 per cent wage advance or full restoration, but the treasurers’ letter surprised the council.
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New Bedford
Mass
Textile Council
Pedestrians Reach San Antonio After 1907 Buenos Aires Walk
Franz Fred Truemper and William Frey arrived in San Antonio after walking from Buenos Ayres to New York City. They started May 1, 1907, seeking a $15,000 prize offered by a Buenos Aires sporting society. Advertisement notes Day Line Steamers tours and schedules.
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San Antonio
Tex
Buenos Ayres
New York City
Franz Fred Truemper
William Frey
Bueno Ayres
Sporting Society of
Curtiss Agreed to Fly Hudson Fulton Contract Held by Beck
The Paris dispatches raised doubt about Glenn Curtiss signing a contract with the Hudson Fulton celebration commission. Henry Beck of New York and the committee on aeronautics insist a contract exists, dated August 4, 1909, with Curtiss to build and operate an aeroplane for the event and attempt flights on the Hudson River. Beck cites Curtiss’s prior payments and the commission’s public announcements of engagements with Curtiss and Wilbur Wright as proof, while Cortlandt Field Bishop denies the contract.
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Paris
Hudson-Fulton
Glenn H. Curtiss
Peter Cooper
Hewitt
William J. Hemmer
Leonard Wood
Department of the East
Wilbur Wright
Beck
Bishop
Seabright
N. J
No. Ad Wall Street
Sandy Hook
Mr. Bishop
Messrs. Wright
Curtiss
Peck
Hudson-Fulton Commission
William J. Hammer
Governor's Island
Hudson
Grant
Hudson River
Palisades
Jersey Shore
New York
Mr. Beck
The
Aero Club
Herring-Curtiss Company
Hammondsport
N. C
Mr. Curtiss
the Aero Club
Cook Claims Proof of Reaching the North Pole
Dr Frederick A Cook declares he has ample proof from observations to verify his claim of planting the American flag at the North Pole. He describes a perilous journey with two Esquimans, noting a low temperature and a brief stay at the pole, and mentions a brass tube buried under the flag as his proof. He asserts no sight of Peary's expedition and recounts his methods and excitement upon reaching the pole.
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North Pole
Mussen
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Roosevelt
Bowen
Pinccet
Herbert W. Bowen
Venezuela
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Root
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West
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Medicine Lodge
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Schwartz
Hapkine
India
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