Fair Attendance Falls at Indiana State Fair Closing
After a heavy rain made the track mudbound, Indiana’s state fair ended with lower crowds and few incidents. Attendance was estimated around 10 000 with reports of 62 000 admissions and streetcar use near 60 000. One streetcar accident injured Owen Williams and a small robbery was reported with no major incidents. Officials praised crowd control and noted no serious offenses.
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Indianapolis
Ralston
Mayor Shank
Leet
Central Avenue
Thirty-eighth Street
Owen Williama of
Heyden
E. Shine
Walter Barm
Fuhrer
City Ambulance
Indiana convention aims at temperance and suffrage progress
About one thousand women delegates are to attend the Indiana branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention in South Bend from October 10 to 14. Subjects include woman suffrage, liquor reform, peace and arbitration. prominent temperance speakers will present, though the program is not finalized.
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Indiana
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
South Bend
Honor Gaynor's Body Lies In State In Liverpool
William J. Gaynor, former New York mayor, died at sea on the steamer Baltic. His body lay in state Friday night at Liverpool Town Hall, draped with stars and flags, guarded all night, before voyage home aboard the Lusitania with a funeral chapel and guard of honor.
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New York
Baltic
Liverpool
William Gaynor
Westminster Abbey
London
England
Lord Wolseley
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Cunard Line
Lusitania
Guard of Honor
William J. Gaynor
Multiple Global Incidents Reported From Septembers Eyewitness News
Four killed and several injured when a military airplane lost control and crashed into spectators in Buechenbeuren Prussia. In Fort Wayne Indiana Bessie Geary and Willard Fryback die after a joyride auto crash. A kidnapping occurs near Holy Name cathedral school in Chicago involving a man and woman in a taxicab. Minneapolis hosts the eighty ninth Odd Fellows grand lodge with Governor Aberhart and Mayor Nye in attendance. A Clover Leaf Milling plant explosion in Buffalo destroys mill and storehouse, with damages around two hundred thousand dollars.
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Buechenbeuren
Prussia
Fort Wayne
Ind
Bessie Geary
Montpelier
Willard Fryback
Bluffton
Chicago
Marguerite Carmen de Repentigny Bouche
Holy Name Cathedral School
Minneapolis
Minn
Odd Fellowship
Order of Odd Fellows
A. C. Aberhart
Wallace G. Nye
Grand Lodge
Buffalo
Clover Leaf Milling Company
Priest Admits Dismembering Bride and River Disposal
New York police say Rev. Hans Schmidt confessed to murdering Anna Aumuller, dismembering her while alive, and disposing of body parts in the Hudson River after using a bogus marriage license found at his parish residence. He claimed love compelled the crime and attempted suicide.
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New York
Hans Schmidt
St. Joseph’s
Anna Aumuller
Hudson River
Schmidt
Wry Church
Tombs
Faurot
Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street
Fort Lea
Father Schmidt
East One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Street
Max Lillie Killed While Testing Plane Safety Motto
Chicago aviator Max Lillie famed for safety first was killed near Galesburg during an experimental flight to test a Wright biplane. His wife witnessed the crash as the aircraft collapsed at about 200 feet aloft, ending a career noted for demonstration flights and passenger holds.
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Galesburg
Ill
Max Lille
Chicago
Mra
Lillie
Frank L. Albert
Aero Club of
Hainois
Cicero Field
Mulhall Traitor Denounced in House Lobby Probe
Washington reports the Mulhall case ends in a bitter denunciation by James A. Emery as Mulhall is labeled a traitor perjurer and ingrate for betraying employers investors and the press. The House committee under Finis J. Garrett plans a report by October 1. In Madison Wisconsin the state industrial commission bans Milwaukee candy firms from employing women overtime for Christmas.
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Mulhall
House of Representatives
James A. Emery
National Association of Manufacturers
National Council of Industrial Defense
Attorney Emery
Congress
New York World
Emery
James Hasby-Smith
John T. McDermott
Chicago
Finis J. Garrett
Tennessee
Christman
Madison
Wis
Milwaukee Gandy
Sulzer Trading Details Heard In Impeachment Inquiry
Testimony from Melville D. Fuller, a Sulzer broker, describes Wall Street dealings from June 1910 to July 1912. Fuller says Sulzer opened an account with Harris & Fuller, borrowed 23000, posted stock collateral, paid 16000 after the election, and later cleared substantial debt with cash payments as governor-elect.
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New York
Wall Street
Sulzer
Melville D. Fuller
Assembly
Fuller
Frawley Investigating Commission
Harris & Fuller
Big Four
Mr. Fuller
Thaw Extradition Writ Granted by Federal Judge
The federal court in New Hampshire under Judge Aldrich ordered a habeas corpus writ in the Harry K Thaw extradition fight. Thaw, committed in Matteawan for the Stanford White slaying, seeks to resist extradition after return from Canada. A petition urged Governor Felker to refuse extradition.
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Colebrook
N. H
Harry K. Thaw
Matteawan
Stanford White
New Hampshire
Dominion of Canada
Thaw
United States
Aldrich
District of
Littleton
Felker
Train Kills "Tim" Sullivan in Pelham Parkway Tragedy
Timothy D. Sullivan, longtime New York politician and absent congressman, died after being struck by a New Haven Hartford rail train at Pelham Parkway. He had eluded nurses earlier that morning and died in a local morgue after a 13 day rainfall period. His death triggers a special election in the Thirteenth New York district.
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New York
Timothy D
Big Tim
Sullivan
New York County
Miss Wilson Debuts as Actress in Sanctuary
Meriden New Hampshire September 15 Miss Eleanor Wilson daughter of the president made her stage debut Friday night in Sanctuary a protest drama by Percy Mackaye. The president and Mrs Wilson attended and the play drew a favorable reception. The text notes the play’s anti slaughter of birds for millinery.
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Meriden
N. H
Eleanor Wilson
Percy Mackaye
Jeanne a@'Arc
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