Hughes Draws 25 000 Asks Individual Work
Governor Hughes drew a crowd of 20 000 to 25 000 at Governor's Day during the Central New York Fair in Oneonta. Three excur sion trains brought attendees from Schenectady Binghamton and Kingston. He was hosted at luncheon by Congressman George W Fairchild with other guests including George S Wilber Walter L Brown and William H Johnson.
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Oneonta
N. Y
E.R. Ford
Republican County Committee
Charles Smith
Arthur W. Cutler
Chamber of Commerce
W. W. Capron
A. L. Kellogg
Mohawk Valley Band of
Schenectady
William H. Johnson
Delhi
Hughes
Governor Hughes Addresses New York Civic Duty and Reform
Governor Hughes champions educated citizenship and impartial administration to secure the state’s progress. He urges voters to elect leaders who serve public interests, not private or special aims, and notes government rests on individual administrators. After the speech he tours village exhibits and heads to Dryden for a Tompkins County Fair appearance.
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New York
Weould
United States
Commonwealth
Normal School
Hughes
Binghamton
Tompkins County
Dryden
Albany
Miss Squiers Engaged to J J Lee
Announcement yesterday disclosed the engagement of Miss Helen Fargo Squiers daughter of Herbert G Squiers United States Minister to Panama to Joseph Jenkins Lee United States Minister to Gautemale
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Helen Fargo Squiers
Herbert G. Squiers
United States
Panama
Joseph Jenkins Lee
Gautemale
Senator Lindsey in Critical Condition at Frankfort Home
Former Senator William Lindsey now with a New York law firm is in serious condition at his Frankfort home after a sudden kidney disease attack. J Pierpont Morgan Jr sails to England aboard the Teutonic to conduct Morgan firm business in London for several weeks, declining to discuss finances. Dewey’s Clarets and Old Burgundy enriches the brood. Dewey Bans Coy at 106 Fulton St New York.
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the Tribune
Louisville
William Lindsey
New York
Frankfort
J. P. Morgan, JR
England
J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr
Southampton
Dewey
aTith
Bans Coy
Fulton St
London Boilermakers Lockout Looms In October
London authorities announce a lockout of between forty thousand and fifty thousand Boilermakers Society members starting October 5. Notices, posted by the Shipbuilders Federation, target east coast ports Barrow and the Clyde. Disputes arose from strikes without notice, linked to the Edinburgh agreement. The Boilermakers reject their leaders, arguing the executive has no real power to enforce agreements, while railway workers prepare for a major dispute and seek arbitration to avert a national crisis.
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London
Boilermakers’ Society
Barrow
Clyde
Edinburgh
Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants
United Kingdom
Raiilway
Training Ship Huntress Missing After Gulf Storms
Telegraph reports Huntress, the U S naval training ship, overdue in New Orleans two days while en route to St Louis via Pensacola. Dispatches fail to locate her amid heavy Gulf storms, with fears she is lost.
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the Tribune
New Orleans
United States
Huntress
St. Louis
Pensacola
Gulf
Arrests in Capitol frauds tied to Harrisburg inquiry
Harrisburg officials say warrants issued for fourteen of eighteen implicated in Capitol furnishing and decorating frauds. Philadelphia architects contractors and former state officers named. others tied to the $15,000,000 project face conspiracy and false invoicing charges. Warrants sworn before Harrisburg aldermen with bail set at 360,000 each.
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Harrisburg
Penn
Pennsylvania
Capitol
Capitol Investigating Commission
Joseph M. Huston
Stanford B. Lewis
Philadelphia
John H. Sanderson
H. Burd Cassel
Marietta
Pennsylvania Construction Company
James H. Shumaker
Johnstown
George F. Payne
Charles G. Wetter
William P. Snyder
Spring City
Auditor General
William L. Mathues
Media
Charles F Kinsman
Wallis Boileau
John G. Neiderer
George K. Storm
Pennsylvania Bronze Company
Sanderson
Frank Irvine
Auditor General's Office
Stuart
Frank G. Harris
Edward B. Hardenbergh
Public Grounds and Buildings
Cassel
George C. Keim
Shumaker
International Manufacturing and Supply Company
Dauphin County
Huston
Payne
Wetter
Weaver
William H. Berry
Berry
Pennypacker
Todd
Murphy Digs Up Plot Against Voter Integrity
A Tammany Hall dispute inflames New York politics as Charles Murphy and Daniel Cohalan allege Board of Elections malfeasance, shifting inspectors to unfamiliar districts on primary day. They accuse McAvoy’s district lists of fraud and warn of violence, while Jerome and Bingham prepare police support and a public call for orderly elections amid mounting partisan tensions.
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McClellan Board of Elections
Tammany Hebrews
Charles F. Murphy
Tammany Hall
Murphy
Daniel F. Cohalan
Tammany Law Committee
Board of Elections
Manhattan
Dooling
Tammany Elections
Cohalan
Mr. Murphy
Mr. Cohalan
McAvoy
Bingham
Criminal Courts
Jerome
Fines Solved for Off‑Season Trout at Morgan Camp
State Forest Fish and Game Commissioner James S. Whipple announced that Racquette Lake authorities found thirteen brook trout in the icebox at J Pierpont Morgan’s Adirondack camp after the August 31 season close. Fines totaling $155 were paid for violating the law with each late trout carrying penalties.
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Albany
James S. Whipple
State Forest, Fish and Game
Racquette Lake
J. Pierpont Morgan
Adirondacks
Whipple
Grenon
Racquette Lake District
Mr. Morgan
Jamestown Flag Torn Down Sparks Washington Action
Robert A. Lancaster, a banker and association officer, ordered the Jamestown Island flag removed after a smaller school banner appeared. Washington summoned him, and government officials restored the flag, threatening island seizure if it was again disturbed. The controversy ended with the flag back in place.
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Tribune
Richmond
Robert A. Lancaster
Association For the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Jamestown Island
Lancaster
Association
Washington
Friends of Lancaster
Jamestown
Narrow Escape for Empire Express
A Central New York freight wreck at Oriskany halted the line after noon. Twenty to thirty cars blocked four tracks, narrowly avoiding a full-speed collision with the Empire State Express as it passed moments earlier. The incident disrupted traffic into the night.
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Utica
Central
Oriskany
Empire State Express
Czolgosz's Parents Seek City Aid in Cleveland
Cleveland sept 18 M Czolgosz and his wife parents of Leon Czolgosz the assassin of President McKinley have asked the city Charity Department for assistance Both are ages eighty three and seventy five and too old to work Their four surviving children cannot support them alongside their own families.
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Cleveland
M. Czolgosz
Leon Czolgosz
McKinley
Charity Department of
City
Czolgosz
Mrs Green a Newport cottage guest may return
Newport R L Sept 18 Mrs Hetty Green may join Newport summer colony next season. She has stayed with Miss Annie Leary at Park Gate and after a city drive she expressed pleasure with the surroundings and said she might spend part of next summer in Newport.
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the Tribune
Newport
R. L
Hetty Green
Annie Leary
Park Gate
American Missing in Alps
Berne reports no trace of Harold W. Telford who left Engelberg on an August mountain climbing expedition. Telford, an American studying at London University, remains missing as the American Consul is directed to search for him.
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Alps
Berne
Harold W. Telford
Engelberg
Telford
London University
Aim
The Capitol Scandal Collected
Philadelphia on September 18 reports John H. Sanderson and Joseph M. Huston facing continuing war actions on the third page of the same issue. The item outlines political scandal developments and ongoing legal questions surrounding these local figures.
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Philadelphia
John H. Sanderson
Joseph M. Huston
Doctor's Son Beggar. Drama In Night Court
A one legged beggar, Lloyd Whitney, revealed in Magister Breen's night court that he is Dr. C A Whitney's son Floyd Whitney. After a tearful tale and a long court talk, Whitney agreed to return home and was discharged, pending care by his father at 120 East 34th Street. The case followed a year plus separation over a family dispute.
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Breen
Floyd Whitney
C. A. Whitney
No. 120
East 34Th Street
Whitney
Jefferson Market
Young Whitney
Chatham Square
Frank Thomas
Park Row
Lloyd Whitney
Caldwell
N. J
Aeronaut dies in 1000 foot plunge from balloon ascent
Edward Richard of Dayton plunges to his death during a Miami County fairgrounds ascent watched by five thousand. He ignored warnings during a storm as the parachute twisted in wind after release at 1300 feet, striking a tree in the fatal fall.
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The
Tribune
Troy
Ohio
Edward Richard
Dayton
Miami County Fair
Richard
Johnson to Burton Critics Rise in Municipal Fight
Mayor Johnson fires back at Burton over Roosevelt letter. He argues Burton backs a Cleveland Electric Railway Company plan with a five cent fare and twenty year private franchise. Johnson promotes a three cent fare, public accounting and council power to cut costs, pledging to restore people ownership and control of streets.
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the Tribune
Cleveland
Johnson
Burton
President Roosevelt
Taft
Garfield
Cleveland Electric Railway Company
Mrs Lewis Weds Liberal MP In Westminster Registry
Mrs Katherine Duncan Lewis widow and daughter of Blanton Duncan of Kentucky marries Alfred Henry Scott Liberal MP for Ashton under Lyne at Westminster Registry Office. Bride had Bronchitis recovery, intimate guests only, reception follows at Hotel Cecil where romance began. Mrs Scott rumored wealthy and plans to join husband in political work.
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London
Katherine Duncan Lewis
Blanton Duncan
Kentucky
Westminster
Alfred Henry Scott
House of Commons
Ashton under-Lyne
Scott
Lewis
Cecil
Russian Dreadnought Ordered by Russian Admiralty
St Petersburg dispatch reports the Russian Admiralty has ordered a 22,500 ton battleship from the Baltic Shipbuilding Works. An advertisement notes Usher's Scotch that helped popularize the highball.
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St. Petersburg
Baltic Shipbuilding Works
Standard Oil profits and Waters-Pierce under scrutiny
A government antitrust hearing centers on Standard Oil of New Jersey and its seventeen related companies. Witnesses disclose 1903 1906 profits and dividends, discuss Waters-Pierce stock, Pratt investments, and stock manipulation while Kellogg presses for a complete capitalization tabulation and records predating 1899.
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Mr. Pratt
Waters-Pierce
Standard
Company of New Jersey
Clarence G. Fay
New Jersey Corporation
Standard Off
Frank B. Kellogg
St. Paul
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Indiana Corporation
Continental Oil
Indiana Pipe Line
Solar Refining Company
Benedict
Moritz Rosenthal
Chicago
John G. Milburn
Standard Oil
Rosenthal
Ohio
Kellogg
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
C. M. Pratt
Kelloge
Milburn
United States Circuit Court
St. Louis
Ferris
Wesley #. Tilford
Tilford
Clarence Gray
Charles M. Pratt
Standard Oil Company of New York
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J. J. Lee
Guatemala
Lindsay III
Boilermakers
HL Bird Cassel
William P. Exyder
Vraud
Justice Seabury
Cail
Reardon
Democratic Party
General Committee
Morgan Camp
Richmond Banker
Empire Express
Czolgosz's
Mrs. Green
Father
Miami County
Baltic
Usher
Law
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