Hot Springs Devastated by 10 Million Dollar Fire
A massive January fire swept Hot Springs Arkansas destroying light and power plants county courthouse high school and multiple hotels and houses. Governor Hays ordered military patrols and US troops from Little Rock aided by dynamite and explosives to battle the blaze. About 2 000 people were left homeless as the city darkened and saloons were closed.
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Hot Springs
United States
Little Rock
Park Hotel
Moody
Princess Hotel
St. Louis
United States Army and Navy Hospital
Church Street
Malvern Avenue
Nerval
Man Condemns New Haven and Signals Wreck Cause
From Morgan & Co to New Haven Road a report notes signalling as the cause of a wreck. Mitchell hastens back to the city as officers investigate the incident. Two hurt in a shoe store explosion and a federal freight line update follow.
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Morgan & Co
New Haven Road
New Haven
Mitchel
Natural History Explorer
Fatre
Justice Murr
Burns launches World-Wide Detective Agency in London
Willem J. Burns has opened the William J. Burns International Detective Agency in Regent Street London. Norman T Bailey in charge says the firm anticipates large business and has secured a warm reception from lawyers, insurers, and banks for varied detective work and investigations.
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London
Willem J. Burns
William J. Burns
Two New York Runaways Seek President Washington
Edward Mai sixteen and John Callahan fourteen left Newark to see President Wilson. They walked toward Washington after claiming to have walked miles and were picked up by a man in an automobile. Police detained them at the House of Detention. Mai lives at 2017 Fulton Street Brooklyn and Callahan at 130 Hull Street Brooklyn.
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Washington
New York
Edward Mai
John Callahan
House of Detention
White House
Newark
Wilean
Cornish
Marsh
Fulton Street
Thooklyn
Hull Street
Brooklyn
Girl Wants To Play Ball In New York City Court Decision
Agnes, a fifteen year old from Long Island City, may choose between baseball and other paths, with Jamaica Children's Court giving her until Thursday to decide. She attracted attention after attending a women’s baseball game and asserting she could play as well as the men. A probation officer reported she has broken parole and persists in wanting to act like a boy, despite court guidance.
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Agus Arnold
Beebe Avenue
Long Island City
Children’s Court
Jamaica
Agnes
McCombs declines ambassador to France again
Washington Sept. 5 William G. McCombs chairman of the Democratic National Committee has definitively declined to become ambassador to France. He is in Paris and had earlier considered Wilson's offer, then reconsidered on urging from the President. A report circulated that Myron T Herrick would remain at the French post until May, tied to Governor Cox's desire to keep him from Ohio in the winter and spring.
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Washington
William FL Mecombs
Democratic National Committee
France
McCombs
Paris
Wilson
Metrusal
Myron T. Herrick
Hhis
Janes M. Cox
Ohio
Mr. Herrick
Mbs
Mayors Axe Foils Law Lunn Cuts Down Tree
Schenectady mayor George K. Lunn faces potential contempt proceedings after cutting down a shade tree protected by an injunction during sewer work. If not punished for contempt, his critics may pursue charges of mutilating a shade tree or trespass. Lunn denounces opponents as Pettifogging politicians delaying essential city work.
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Tribu
Schenectady
N. Y
George K. Lunn
Lunn
Bandits Get $16,000 Paymaster Shot at Power Plant
Four bandits robbed a paymaster of 16000 dollars at the Parr Choal power plant under construction twenty two miles north of Columbia. Bloodhounds and deputies pursued the robbers as 700 workers and sheriffs searched the area.
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Columbia, & C
Parr Choal
Here
Thaw delays deportation as Jerome jailed briefly
Immigration board orders Thaw deported to Vermont after stealth entry and an insane asylum stay but grants a writ of habeas corpus and delays return to court on Sept. 15. Jerome, Thaw's rival, is arrested for gambling and held briefly in Thaw’s former cell, sparking local unrest as supporters seek to disrupt Thaw’s repatriation plan.
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Vermont
N. Y
Bar
Tribune
Immigration Board of Inquiry
Harry K. Thaw
Dominion
Tve
Gervais
Montreal
King’s Bench
Matteuwan Asylum
New York State
William ‘Travers Jerome
United States
Thaw
Mr Jerome
Coativook
N. OK
la Flamme
Seed
Blake Erteen
Teavily Board
Matteawan
Franklin Kennedy
New York
Kennedy
Coaticook
Mr. Jerome
Jerome
A. C. Hanson
American Woman Foils Chinese Troops In Nanking
Dispatch from Nanking reports northern forces sacked the city for three days. Mrs Alvin W. Gilbert, wife of the American vice consu l, talked soldiers out of looting at the consulate. Soldiers also threatened missionaries but left after doors opened. The fall of Nanking ends the rebellion with provinces quiet, and the Gazette notes Cabinet resignation and a new ministerial lineup to be sent to Parliament next week.
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Peking
Diepatcher
Nanking
Alvin W. Gilbert
Alfred V. Gray
J. M. B. Gill
American Protestant Episcopal Mission
Wealthy man's death by own action in Paris mansion
In Paris on September 5, a police officer forced entry to a Rue Mozart mansion after shots were heard and found Daniel Gilbert, 52, and Herthe Benard, 44, both dead. Letters on the table indicate death by own action. Gilbert was reputedly very wealthy.
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Paris
Mozart
Daniel Gilbert
Herthe Benard
Prettyest Girl to Wed Miss Valle Betrothed to Baronet’s Son
Miss Isabelle Valle daughter of Dr Jules Valle of Maryland avenue announces engagement to James A Hope Nelson eldest son of Sir William Hope-Hurt of Moreton-in-Marsh England. Valle a St Louis debutante noted as most admired in society and Newport society. Hope-Nelson’s father owns Nelson Steamship Company. On his father’s death he inherits the title.
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Isabelle Valle
Jules Valle
Maryland Avenue
James A. Mope-N
William Hope- Hurt
Moreton-in-Marseh
Gloucester
England
Miss Vale
St. Louis
Newport
Wiliam K. Vanderbilt
America
Miss Valle
Alaska
Mr. Hope-Nelson
Misa Valle
Mary Clover
Archbishop Disappears During Cure in Bad Gastein
Vienna reports Archbishop Hogamnevtes of the Servian Church in Hungary vanished two days ago while taking the cure at Bad Gastein. Fears rise of accident or foul play in the moonlit spa town. Ad appears unrelated.
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Vienna
Hogamnevtes
Hungary
Bad Gastein
Auto Racer Endicott Kills Child in Tire Burst Crash
In Jackson Michigan a tragic racetrack accident killed noted auto racer Endicott and a ten year old spectator Mary Sarata when a front tire blew causing the car to smash through a fence. Endicott and Benedict were badly injured. Benedict later partly conscious. Mary Sarata died instantly. Three others, Mabel Walters Frances Hall onlookers, were injured with minor to moderate injuries. Endicott was preparing for an exhibition race with Benedict when the crash occurred.
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Jackson
Mich
Harry Endicott
Ancerson
Bill” Endicott
Mary Sa
Endicott
Los Angeles
Mabel Walters
Frances Hall
Benedict
Mary Sarata
Miss Hall
Wal
Eee Wee Henediet
Woman Dies After Poisoning From Neuralgia Cure
Mrs. Rawingssi Enemy, years old, of 166 West th Street, died in Pelyelinie Hospital from coal tar poisoning after drinking a dose of a potent neuralgia cure purchased from a druggist. She became unconscious shortly after and died that afternoon. Hospital authorities attribute the death to coal tar in the medicine.
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Mra. Rawingssi
No. 166
West
Pelyelinie Hospital
Mra
Lynch
Giles
Morgan Co Quits New Haven Road
J P Morgan Co withdrew as financial agents for the New Haven Railroad. Directors disclosed the move after a sensational clash over policy, blaming rotten management and signaling failures for fatal wrecks. Engineer Miller testified that poor signaling caused Tuesday's North Haven disaster with twenty one dead.
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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
J. P. Morgan
House of Morgan
Morgan
New Haven
Morgan G. Bulkeley
Connecticut
Aetna Insurance Company
Hartford
Bulkeley
Percival Roberts
Pennsylvania Railroad
Mauretania
New Haven Road
North Haven
Miller
White Mountain Express
Surprise at New Haven Directors Session
The New Haven board meeting ended with unexpected action amid Morgan firm withdrawal from fiscal agency. J P Morgan denied pushing the move against Elliott and said the goal was to ease his new regime, while Henry P Davison stressed no withdrawal under fire. The committee set long-term changes and discussed a $67 million bond issue amid wreck worries.
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Mare
New Haven
J.P Morgan
Toa
Tribune
J. P Morgan
Morgan
Elliott
Mr. Morgan
Henry P. Davison
North Haven
New Haven Road
Haseen
New England
J. P. Morgan
Morgan G. Bulkeley
Connecticut
Tna Fire Instance Company
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