Giants Pennant Hopes Rise as Pirates Routed at Polo Grounds
A massive crowd witnessed the Giants crush the Pirates 7 to 0 in the first game and then win 12 to 7 in the second, securing the league pennant push. Mathewson dominated the mound, Donlin delivered key hits, and crowd frenzy followed Donlin’s early homer as Giants fans flooded the field with enthusiasm.
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John McGrew
Giants
Polo Grounds
Pittsburg
Jed Jor
Mitte Donlin
Herzee
Bresnahan
Pirates
New York
Donlin
Wiltse
Pirate
Clarge
Politeher
Mathewgon
Philadelphia
Chicago
Smoketown
Cubs
John T. Brush
Mployes
Mathewson
Pitts
Missing British steamer Zon reportedly at Christmas Island
Sydney reports the zon's crew and passengers aboard the Aeon camping on Christmas Island after the Zon, a British steamer of 4221 tons owned by Howard Smith, sailed July 6 from San Francisco for Sydney with a crew of 39 and a cargo. A dispatch from Fanning Island said all aboard the Zon were safe at Christmas Island. Captain Downie commanded the Zon. The ship was thought to be disabled and drifted to the island. Rear Admiral Swinburne was asked to watch for the vessel.
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Sydney
Aeon
Christmas Island
Victoria
B. C
San Francisco
Australia
Bamfield
Vancouver Island
Fanning Island
Downie
Zion
Captain Downie
Auckland
Apia
Patrick
B. R. Patrick
W. K. Riddle
Atlanta
Swinburne
Pacific Fleet
Merchants’ Exchange of
Samoa
Navy Department
Washington
Department
Honolulu
Soa
Howard Smith Company, Limited
Melbourne
F E. A. Downie
Negroes Predict War in Cuba
Havana reports General Estenez, leader of a new negro party, says a coming revolution will be fought in Cuba to secure negro representation. He warns Cuba threatens Africans with the same deadly fate seen in the United States, where blacks are hunted like wild animals.
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Havana
Estenez
New Negro Party
Cuba
United States
Cuban Editors Attack Governor Over U S Smuggling Charge
Havana editors met to back Diario Espanol which accused the United States army of smuggling meat and other goods into Cuba. They condemned Governor Magoon, who ordered an investigation and threatened legal action if the paper did not substantiate its charges.
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Havana
Diario Espafiol
United States Army
Cuba
Magoon
Nurse’s Atropine Error Blamed for County Hospital Deaths
In San Diego on September 18 three patients at County Hospital died after a nurse used water containing atropine to administer medicine. A fourth death is anticipated with four others seriously ill. Nurse Mary Arthur, 19, admitted she failed to discard the atropine water and only confessed during an official inquiry.
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San Diego
Cal
Mary Arthur
Nighttime siege as Bronx elephant Luna rampages through zoo
Luna the New York Zoo elephant fled from pumas startling visitors then charged into the reptile house. Walter Thuman and other keepers struggled to restrain her as Director Hornaday planned to tranquilize and chain her to the floor for safety overnight. An early morning move aimed to return Luna to the antelope house.
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New York Zoological Park
Bronx
Luna
Luna Park
Gunda
Antelope House
Walter Thuman
Thuman
H. R. Mitchell
Edward Bayreuther
H. A. Stollenwerck
Sterling Place
Brooklyn
Philinda Harden
Director Hornaday
Crocodile Pool
Hornaday
Mr. Hornaday
Bayreuther
Fires Threaten Maine Forests as Smoke Obscures Sun
Dense smoke from widespread Maine forest fires spreads across eight counties, threatening thousands of acres of timber and endangering multiple towns. Army crews battle flames along Meadow Brook in Brooksville, with no lives yet reported lost, while Boston reports copper sun and reduced visibility along the coast.
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Augusta
Maine
Brooksville
Hancock County
W. G. Tousey
Tufts College
Eugene Cousins
Lisbon
Proctor
James Miller
Piscataquis
Androscoggin
Somerset
Oxford
York
Cumberland
Penobscot
West Hancock
Surry
Dicksvale
Jackman
Scarboro
Biddeford
Eliot
Clarion
Milford
Cardville
Costigan
Meadow Brook
Adirondack Fires Spread Across New York Forests
Reports from the State Forest Fish and Game Commission indicate new Adirondack fires, with urgent need for rain and more firefighters. Sparks from smokestacks and locomotive locomotion threaten swamps and state lands. hunters blamed for campfire negligence. a fire patrol is ordered in Essex County and Minerva.
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Albany
Adirondacks
State Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Emmons
Tupper Lake
Cross Clearing
Brooklyn Cooperage Company
Westport
Essex County
Finch, Pruyn & Co
Glens Falls
Minerva
Cedar River
Two Women and Sheriff Wounded in Wisconsin Shooting
Infatuated with an eighteen-year-old girl, John Smith shot and fatally wounded the girl’s mother, wounded the girl, and then wounded Sheriff George L. Dwinnel who went to arrest him in Waukesha. Smith barricaded in the house as farmers prepare to intervene at dawn.
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Waukesha
Wis
John Smith
Augusta Grabow
Olga Grabow
May
George L. Dwinnel
Smith
Rain ends Ontario bush fires as smoke disrupts port navigation
Weather brings rain to Ontario stopping bush fires that had menaced the district for weeks. Dense smoke over Lake Superior north shore halts navigation to Canadian ports. In port Arthur residents reported devastation and heroic firefighting along the US boundary. Montreal reports smoke hindering land and water transport with trains delayed and the Allan liner Corsican still in port.
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Port Arthur
Ont
Lake Superior
United States
Montreal
Quebec
New Yorker in New Brunswick faces deer law charges
Arthur Robinson of New York, with camping interests in New Brunswick, is charged with deer out of season on the southwest Miramichi. Trial set for October 6 at Newcastle. He posted three rewards totaling 5 000 dollars for conviction of his group and 500-dollar rewards for information on firearms during close season. Rewards deposited with Crown Lands Department. Robinson, injured in a gasoline explosion August 29, travels with J. Mott of New York and is advised by R. A. Lawlor and Premier Hazen. His New York home and Broadway offices are noted.
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the Tribune
St. John
N. BR
Arthur Robinson
New Brunswick
Miramichi
Robinson
Harry Braithwaite
Newcastle
Crown Lands Department
Fredericton
J. Mott
New York
R. A. Lawlor
Premier Hazen
East Suh Street
No. 1
Broadway
Marshall Murder Mystery Shocks Pittsburg Firm Brother Dead
Warner Marshall of H W Brooks & Co testified to coroner that Henry Clay Marshall was murdered last Saturday. The victim’s body was found in an East End field with two bullets in the heart. Marshall claimed a large sum of money and a gold watch were stolen. City detectives pursue the case.
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Pittsburg
Warner Marshall
H. W. Brooks & Co
Broadway
New York
Armstrong
Henry Clay Marshall
East End
Youngstown
Smoky Menace Looms Over Susquehanna Logs
In Williamsport Pennsylvania on September 18 a heavy smoke pall obscures the sun as backfiring saves 10,000,000 feet of Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company logs. New fires threaten the same timber from another direction while crews shift to protect it. Smoke masks the West Branch mountains and a red glow is visible at night as gloom settles early.
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Boston
Charlies River
Williamsport
Penn
Laquin
Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company
Susquehanna River
Threatening Wildfire Near Rome New York
Fires surge through woods north and west of Rome as unoccupied farmhouses burn. Crews battle flames with plowed furrows and backfires. drought dries the region with weeks of little rain and dense smoke.
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Rome
N. Y
Lawyer W B Cutting Injured In Runaway Car
W Bayard Cutting, just arrived from Liverpool aboard the Celtic, rode in a hired electric auto meeting him at the pier. A cushion fell, hitting the accelerator, the car sped into a truck. Cutting was severely shaken. driver Foley sustained broken ribs and was hospitalized. Chauffeur Robert Crandon was arrested.
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W. Bayard Cutting
Celtic
Liverpool
Cuttin
St. Vincent's Hospital
Robert Cramond
Charles Street
R Burnett Missing in Paris
Paris inquiry unfolds into Charlton Rogers Burnett of New York who vanished from a Paris hotel after leaving on September 11 saying he would return soon. No contact since.
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Paris
Charlton Rogers Burnett
New York
Catskill Fires Rage With Unchecked Spread Into Mountains
Fires in the Catskill Mountains advance rapidly as new blazes ignite on surrounding hills. Smoke thickens the atmosphere while authorities struggle to contain the inferno. The main fire blazes on Hussey Hill near Rondout Creek, with efforts ongoing and area expanding despite attempts to stop it.
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Kingston
N. Y
Catskill Mountains
Hussey Hill
West Shore Railroad
Rondout Creek
Great Cotton Lockout Threat Looms Over Manchester District
Manchester news reports a potential lockout of about 200000 cotton operatives, with card weavers possibly holding a ballot on employer terms. If the move proceeds, spinners would also idle as the long standing wage dispute continues. Employers proposed a five percent cut but delayed it until January 1 next year. The vote on acceptance occurred today.
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Manchester
Broker Caught in Trap in New Jersey Avenue Court
Joseph Solotovsky a Brooklyn real estate broker living at 49 Graham Avenue was arraigned in the New Jersey Avenue police court and held in $1000 by Magistrate Higginbotham after a complaint by William Barcan a garment manufacturer. Barcan alleged Solotovsky approached him as a stranger offering to pay to defend a prominent young woman’s reputation and a trap was laid as money changed hands.
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Joseph Solotovsky
Graham Avenue
Brooklyn
New Jersey Avenue
Higginbotham
William Barcan
Hinsdale Street
Barcan
Junius and
Belmont Avenues
Battle Imminent as Shah Strives for Tabriz
In Tabriz on September 18 the Shah’s commander Ain-ed-Dowleh issued a forty eight hour ultimatum to Satar Khan to surrender the city. The Shah’s forces threaten bombardment of the capital and storming the nationalist quarter. Satar Khan rejects the demand and prepares defences as foreigners fear danger. Nationalists refuse safe exit to foreigners, hoping to avert bombardment.
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Tabriz
Ain-ed-Dowleh
Satar Khan
Brides Secretly Weds Yale Star Arthur Brides
Yale football standout Arthur Edward Brides secretly married Stella Evelyn Stuart in New Haven on July 4, 1907. The groom, now in Brockton assisting a street railway, would not confirm further details and indicated he would not play football if he returns to Yale.
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Tribune
Boston
Arthur Edward Brides
Yale
New Haven
Conn
Stella Evelyn Stuart
South Boston
Brides
Brockton
Mass
Armed Robbery at Beaver Lake Reservoir Site
Six masked gunmen robbed fifteen Brady Brothers laborers at Beaver Lake near Two Bridges New Jersey. About $190 taken. one victim Pietro Pazzulio was stabbed and threatened but the money hidden in a beam saved his funds. Robbers left without identification and no crew remains.
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Newton
N. J
Brady Brothers
Beaver Lake
Pietro Pazzulio
Pazzulio
Two Football Players Killed in Practice Crash
Pittsburg news reports two football players died during a practice game at the East Liberty Stockyards grounds when they ran in front of a switching engine and were crushed to death.
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Pittsburg
East Liberty Stockyards
Illness Reveals Marriage of Westchester Leader
Thomas R. Hodge, 65, once a resistor of Westchester County and director of multiple banks and trust firms, lies seriously ill in Mount Vernon with cirrhosis. He returned from Cornwall, England, where he disclosed to a brother that he wed a cousin living there. a cable brought the bride to his bedside, and illness has halted plans to reunite.
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Thomas R. Hodge
Westchester County
Mount Vernon
Mr. Hodge
Penzance
Cornwall
England
Torpedo Shortage in Navy Alarms US Submarine Arsenal
Telegraph report from Newport Rhode Island on September 18 notes a torpedo shortage in the US Navy, especially Whitehead torpedoes, lagging behind Britain Germany and Japan. Government supply up 100 this year, with a new torpedo factory due to start early next year. Also an old railroad travel ad offers 25.50 to Cincinnati for September 19 to 21.
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Tribune
Newport, R. L
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Japan
Cincinnati
Pennsylvania Railroad
Bryan in New York Poses As Conservative candidate
William Jennings Bryan opened the Democratic campaign in Carnegie Hall with a defensive, conservative appeal to business and the audience. He warned against Republican extravagance and socialism while arguing Democracy supports honest business and opposes abuses in markets. A massive crowd filled Carnegie Hall as Herman Ridder presided and Democrats highlighted tariff reform and party tendencies.
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William Jennings Bryan
Carnegie Hall
Mr. Bryan
Sith Street
Bryan
Republican Party
Inspector Walsh
58Th Street
Sixth Avenue
Herman Ridder
Staats-Zeitung
Thomas F. Smith
Tammany
Cary
Tammany Hall
Daniel F. Cohalan
Thomas F. Foley
Thomas F. McAvoy
Corporation
John J. Delany
William Sulzer
Delany
Congress
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Keepers
Adirondack
Ontario
Marshall
Dead Man
The
Pennsylvania
W. B. Cutting
C. R. Burnett
Catskill
Central R. R
PHILA
Reading
Baltimore & Ohio
Richmond
Teaves New York
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Astor House
Advt
Broker
County Register of
Westchester
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Roosevelt
Taft
Teddy
Tom Smith
Mr. Ridder
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