Balkan Turmoil Escalates As Turkish Forces Rampage
Reports from Sofia describe Albanian and Turkish troops sacking villages in Adrianople vilayet and Losengrad district. Beheadings, arson, and plunder drive civilians to forests while Albanian detachments raid churches and villages on routes to Vasiliko. Insurgent bands under Atamasoffi resist in Kokushko as Macedonian revolt readiness grows under Zontcheff and others.
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Sofia
Vilayet
Adrianople
Monastir
Adrignople
Kostursoo
Almagik
Erikier
Losengrad
Malkotevnovo
O¢rin
Korako
Vasiliko
Black Sea
Atamasoffi
Kokushko
Ater
Jankoff
Jordan Stoyanoff
Stoyantcheff
Dervingoff
Atamasoff
Mutinous Sailors Challenge Kearsarge Captain
Sailors aboard the flagship Kearsarge near Tompkinsville Staten Island report mutinous conditions and crowed grievances against Captain Hemphill. They accuse poor food uniforms and harsh discipline while noting lens removal and failed shore leave.
Bulgaria Declares Resolve Amid Balkan Crisis
The Sofia dispatch in The Daily Telegraph urges Europe to act to stop Turkish massacres of Christians. Bulgaria seeks to compel Turkey to wage legitimate warfare while sparing civilians, warning that delay shifts moral responsibility to Christian Europe.
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London
Sofia
Daily Telegraph
Bulgaria
Europe
Turkey
Ferdinand
Tne
Servia May Aid Rebels Against Turkey
London reports from Sofia quote Tartarscheff leader of the revolutionary committee saying Servia may join Bulgaria against Turkey. Negotiations with Servia and Serb Premier discussed. Captain Sarofoff factored, with plans for Servian forces to invade Old Servia and occupy Uskub if provoked. Montenegro possible involvement in Albania. Turkey to be forced to divide forces.
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London
Daily Mail
Sofia
Tartar- Scheff
Revolutionary Committee
Servia
Bulgaria
Turkey
Tartarscheff
Ser- Wa
Sarafoft
Inter- Wem
Old Servia
Uskub
Montenegro
Albania
Pottery Kiln Strike to Halt Inter National Plant in Trenton
About 200 to 300 ghost kilnmen plan a strike at the International Pottery in Trenton tomorrow. They demand a wage increase of 25 percent but would accept 15 percent to avoid work stoppage. The dispute risks spreading to 10,000 local pottery workers and touches related wage issues in the industry.
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Trenton
X. J. Rept
Inter Mational
United States
Birth of Salley Walker Wise in White House lineage noted
Telegraph report from Carthage Missouri dated September 18 states Salley Walker Wise was born in the White House. She is said to be the daughter of Colonel Walker and a nephew of President Polk, with Walker serving as the president's private secretary.
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the Tribune
Carthage
Salley Walker Wise
E Walker
Polk
Colohh Walker
Explosion of Smuggled Alcohol Kills Sailor on Olympia
Norfolk report details a five gallon alcohol spill in the Olympia’s forward turret triggering a blast that killed J. S. Yerkes and Seifert while injuring two other sailors. The crew had been returning from shore liberty when the barrel was moved from a hiding spot to a tank, fumes ignited, flames spread, and the ship’s crew fought to contain the blaze.
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Norfolk
van Dozer
Olympia
J. S. Yerkes
Philadelphia
Seifert
Navy Yard
Yerkes
Marine Hospital
Yerkes, Seifert
Spavey
Caster
New King in Hungary Rumor Circulates on Abdication
The Vienna correspondent for The Daily Mail reports acute Hungarian political crisis with talk of Francis Joseph abdicating as King of Hungary. A strong feeling favors Hungary choosing its own king and names Prince Eitel, the German Emperor’s second son, as favored candidate.
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London
Vienna
The
Daily Mail
Francis Joseph
Hungary
Prince Eitel
Combes Attended Breton Memorial Unveiling Amid Rural Turmoil
In Tréguier Brittany the unveiling of Ernest Renan’s memorial triggered clashes as peasants Catholic and Republican factions jeered Combes and denounced clerical power. Troops restored order while Anatole France spoke. Combes defended government policy and warned clergy against disobeying civil law.
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Paris
Ernest Rénan
Tréguier
Brittany
Premie
M. Combes
Portrieux
Chaumi
Rénan
Minerva
Tréguier Cathedral
Abbé Gayraud
Combes
Premier Combes
Kénan
Kerpoiion
Jerome Returns to Fight Low in a Narrow Window
District Attorney Jerome arrives in New York after an hour’s notice to oppose Mayor Low. He keeps silent about his plan while conferring with allies, plans a Lakeville return, and meets independent Democrats after dining at Café Boulevard, with political maneuvering continuing behind the scenes.
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Jerome
Cutting
Greene
E. R. L. Gould
Lakeville
Henneberry
Alfred Hodder
Tammany
Café Boulevard
Rutgers-st
George R. Manchester
Republican County Committee
Henry J. Birrell
Republican Organization
Square
George
Otto Sarony Dead Portrait Photographer of Note
Otto Sarony a renowned portrait photographer with an international reputation died yesterday in a Brooklyn hospital from phthisis. He was 53 born in Williamsburg New York received early tutelage from his father Napoleon Sarony and built a long studio career noted for actors and European monarchs patrons. He leaves a son Arthur and had been active in the New York Athletic Club and Larchmont Yacht Club. His studios moved from Broadway to Union Square and Fifth Avenue over 33 years. He recently served as secretary of the Otto Sarony Company after reducing independent work.
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Otto Serony
Chapel of the Holy Cross
Brooklyn
Mr. Sarony
Williamsburg
Napoleon Sarony
Montreal
New York Athletic Club
Larchmont Yacht Club
Arthur
Sarony
Beverwyck
West Twenty-seventh-st
Saronys
Otto Sarony
No. 6
Broadway
Union Square
No. 26
Fifth Ave
Wants Negroes Around
Ex Governor William J Northen argues against deporting Africans and praises interracial harmony in Georgia He says negroes should have civil rights and support punishment for criminals He notes recent cooperation of black citizens with legal authorities and insists charity in race relations is strong today.
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the Tribune
Atlanta
William J. Northen
Transport Likely Lost En Route to India in Channel Gale
Unconfirmed rumor reports a British transport ship carrying a regiment to India foundered in the gale that swept the British coast last Thursday. The report from London is not officially verified.
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India
London
Veterans oppose negroes over Johnson City soldiers home
Knoxville dispatch reports arriving negro Union veterans from Illinois and Indiana plan to enter the Federal Soldiers Home at Johnson City when opened in November. Eastern Tennessee Union veterans fear social mix and may refuse entry if policy remains unclear, leading many to expect negroes will be excluded.
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Tribune
Knoxville
Tenn
Illinois
Indiana
Johnson City
Tennessee
Evanston boarding houses refuse rooms for colored Northwestern students
Evanston boarding houses will not renew lodging for Northwestern University students of color. After a dormitory was taken over by the athletic association, three black students were displaced and refused housing by every inn in Evanston. The faculty assists but prospects remain poor.
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THE
Tribune
Chicago
Evanston
Northwestern University
Athletic Association
Chases Auto Twenty-Nine Blocks Ends With Arrest
Bicycle Policeman William Sherry pursues a big automobile from East Sixty-seventh Street to Ninety-fifth Street in Fifth Avenue. Walter B. Norman of Brooklyn, a commercial traveler, is arrested after a chase and arraigned in Yorkville court. Norman claims eight to nine miles per hour. Sherry estimates twenty. Judge Cornell questions Norman’s speed. Norman held on $500 bail for further hearing.
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William Sherry
East Sixty-seventh St
Fifth-ave
Sixty-seventh-ct
Yorkville Court
Cornell
Sherry
Norman
Indiana airship sighting over Indianapolis sparks crowds
A torpedo shaped airship about thirty feet long with two men passed over Indianapolis this afternoon. It approached from the northwest circled the south part of the city at seven hundred feet and disappeared eastward. Several hundred spectators watched with field glasses. The report ends with an unrelated line about a Hudson River Day Line excursion to Poughkeepsie.
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Indianapolis
Cyclone Rips Across Florida Coast to Coast
The hurricane-like storm swept east and west Florida for about 24 hours, uprooting trees and damaging buildings from Miami to Tampa. Widespread wrecks along shorelines included sunken boats, unroofed hotels, and downed telegraph wires. No fatalities reported though injuries occurred. crops suffered heavy damage across orange and grapefruit groves.
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Jacksonville
Fla
South Florida
Miami
East Coast Railroad
Belcher
Hobess Sound
Standard Oil Company
Boynton
Key West
St. Augustine
Cutler
Stuart
Wa Wa
Captain McNeil
Jupiter
Peninsula
Tampe
Almeria
Desoto
Ybor City
Tampa
Hampton
Madison
Florida
Hurricane strikes Nassau Bahamas with severe damage
A hurricane hit Nassau on Wednesday night with wind from the northeast at ninety miles per hour and a barometric low of 29.20. It caused heavy damage to vegetation crops and housing. No loss of life reported yet though shipping around New Providence was badly damaged and reports from other islands are unavailable.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Cabie
New Providence
Fruit steamer driven ashore in Bahamas hurricane
Kingston reports United Fruit Company's steamer John Wilson driven ashore on La Concepcion island in the Bahamas by a hurricane last Thursday. She was floated and proceeded here to pick up a large number of laborers for Nicaragua plantations.
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Kingston
Jamaica
United Fruit Company
John Wilson
la Concepcion
Bahamas
Nicaragua
Governor Yates' Home Struck by Lightning
The massive porch at the executive mansion in Springfield was hit by lightning in the evening. Two balls of fire appeared to fall from the porch alarming Governor Yates who phoned the fire department, but no fire was needed.
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Springfield
Executive Mansion
Yates
Farmers Suffer Greatly From Northwest Rain Damage
Minneapolis reports estimate widespread damage from Friday night and Saturday rains across the Northwest. Five inches fell locally and heavier elsewhere, reducing quality of millions of bushels of wheat. Prices may drop 1 to 3 1/2 cents per bushel as grain men warn mills face a serious crisis without better weather.
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Minneapolis
Snow On Level Reported In Yellowstone Park
Six inches of snow on the level has fallen throughout Yellowstone Park over the last forty eight hours, as reported from the park at Wye.
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Yellowstone Park
Wye
Yellow Stone Park
Sailors Reach New York After Weeks Afloat
About fifteen hundred men from the warships Alabama Kearsarge Chicago Illinois and Texas landed in New York and went to Coney Island and the Bowery. Sailors on the Illinois tell tales of a seasick cook whose appetite grows with sickness and of two stowaways kittens stolen from the British ship Glorious. The Illinois plans a racing rowboat and a crew as Captain Converse resists the idea but the crew moves ahead, while the Chicago news includes a ferocious bear seen aboard by a Tribune reporter.
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Alabama
Kearsarge
Chicago
Illinois
Texas
Coney Island
Bowery
Staten Island
New York
Jackies
Duggan
Converse
Woods
Tompkinsville
Tribune
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Renan
Detroit
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