French Declare War on Bulgaria Amid Balkan Fighting
London reports France recognizes a state of war with Bulgaria dating from October 1 at 6 a.m. British declarations followed. French troops in Macedonia clash with 40,000 Bulgarians as Anglo-French forces move toward Saloniki to aid Serbia. Italy shows limited participation, claiming a bold operation against Preasina on the Austrian frontier.
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London
France
Bulgaria
Athens
Macedonia
Saloniki
Malta
Mediterranean
Save- Danube
Balkan
Preasina
Fire at Mutual Firm Office Kills Three Women in Atlanta
A blaze swept through the second floor of the Mutual Firm Corporation offices in Atlanta after an electrical fuse exploded in a room where picture films were prepared. Three women Miss Clara Werkow, Miss Lottie Hamm and Mrs. Lucille Davis died. Beulah Yous suffered serious burns and several others were injured from flames and jumping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Mutual Firm Corporation
Clara Westrook
Lottie Hamm
Lucille Davis
Coroner's Inquest Held Under Guard in Charleston
Under Governor Manning orders, the coroner's inquest in Charleston proceeded with military protection and disarmed attendees. Solicitor W H Cobb of the fifth circuit and Solicitor William H Grimball represented the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
S.C
Charleston
W. H. Cobb
Fifth Circuit
William HL. Grimball
Five Die in New York Tenement Fire
Five persons were burned to death and three injured in a five story Third Avenue tenement on the Upper East Side. Police and firemen rescued the eight families involved. The dead include Mrs. Julia Wenz and her two daughters aged 13 and 15, plus Mrs. Annette Grochal and her four year old son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Third Avenue
Julia Wenz
Annette Grochal
Wenz
Passenger Car Plunges Through Bridge into Fancy Creek
In Randolph Kansas a Union Pacific motor train car plunged into Fancy Creek. Eighteen people are believed to have lost their eyes and ten bodies recovered with at least sixteen more feared in the water filled car. Most victims were drown ed including five women and five men. Of the sixty six occupants only four escaped unhurt. Many passengers were young women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Randolph
Kas
Union Pacific
Fancy Creek
Here
Lever Cotton Bill Declared Unconstitutional by Judge
Federal District Judge Hough voided the Lever cotton futures act of August 18 1914 as a revenue measure not originating in the House of Representatives. Samuel T Hubbard and Hubbard Brothers sought return of 1000 dollars paid under protest to Internal Revenue Collector John Z Lowe Jr. The decision holds the act never was a law of the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hough
Senate
House of Representatives
Samuel T. Hubbard
Hubbard Brothers
John Z. Lowe,Jr
Internal Revenue
United States
Boston Americans Triumph in World Series Clash
At National League Park Philadelphia, the Boston Americans beat the Philadelphia Nationals 6 to 4 to claim the 1915 World Series title. Starry Hooper delivered a decisive two homer game including a tie breaking shot to center field, backed by Duffy Lewis’s eighth inning homer.
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Philadelphia
Boston Americans
Red Sox
Philadelphia Nationals
Philadelphians
Starry Hooper
Hooper
California
Duffy Lewis
Boston
Baron Reading Honored by Supreme Court Visit
The article notes Baron Reading, Lord Chief Justice of England, sitting with the U S Supreme Court as chairman of the mission, marking the third such foreign jurist honored in memory. It recalls prior instances involving Lord Coleridge in 1883 and Lord Herschel, highlighting this notable diplomatic judicial engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baron Reading
Washington
Supreme Court of
United States
England
America
Sion
Lord Colerdge
Ghieg
Lora Herschel
Chan- Sore
Germans Try 10 Leave Country From Norfolk
Several German auxiliary cruiser sailors interned at the Norfolk Navy Yard tried to board Dutch steamers Mennikendam and Maartensdijk bound for Rotterdam. One man was arrested aboard Maartensdijk. others returned to their ships. Collector Hamilton said future shore leave for interned Germans would be tightly restricted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport News
Kronpring Wilhelm
Prinz Witel Friedrich
Norfol Navy Yard
Mennikendam
Maartensdijk
Rotterdam
Navy Yard
Hamilton
Wilhelm
Norfolk Navy Yard
McAdoo urges $40 million merchant fleet as naval aid
William G McAdoo at the Kansas City Commercial Club calls for a $40 million to $50 million merchant marine to extend peacetime commerce and serve as a naval auxiliary in war. He argues a government panel and three business leaders could lead the fleet to make the U S a dominant power and prove merchant ships can be profitably operated under American registry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
United States
William G. McAdoo
Treasury
McAdoo
Secretary of Commerce
Secretary of the Navy
Carranza Arrives in Monterey for Northern Mexico Tour
General Carranza arrived from Tampico to an enthusiastic welcome in Monterey and will tour northern Mexico with high civil and military officials in his party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carranza
Monterey
Mexico
Carrangza
Tampico
George A. Gregory Dies in Savannah Editor of Morning News
George A. Gregory, managing editor of The Savannah Morning News, died in Savannah after several weeks of illness.
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George A. Gregory
Savannah
The
Savannah Morning News
Chicago Woman Sues Cunard Over Lusitania Sinking
Mrs Sarah Lund of Chicago sues the Cunard Steamship Company for 40000 damages claiming a conspiracy between Dudley Field Malone port collector New York and Capt A T Turner master of the Lusitania led to explosives in the ships hold. She says she was deceived into taking passage and her husband and father were drowned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cunard Company
Chicago
Dudley Field Malone
New York
A. T. Turner
Sarah Lund
Gunard Steamship Company, Limited
Investigation into Lamar Cane and Lynar case in New York
United States secret agents opened a probe into Max Lynar alias Count Max Lynar Loudon after his bigamy indictment. The inquiry covers alleged confidential work for Germany and Austria last June and July and a report claiming fortifications around New York harbor were sent to Berlin by two secret Messengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lamar Cane
New York
Max Lynar
Max Lynar Loudon
United States
Lynar
New York Harbor
Berlin
Navy plans five year fleet build up to nearly double size
Secretary Daniels and President Wilson discuss a five year program to create a new fleet of fifteen to twenty dreadnoughts and battle cruisers with submarines destroyers scout cruisers and auxiliaries plus large increases in personnel. The first year cost is about 248 million dollars with 8 000 additional men.
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Washington
Daniels
United States Navy
Wilson
General Board of the Navy
World Peace Fantasy Warns Nations Exalt Themselves
Count Okuma, premier of Japan, and Dr. Ng Poon Chew of San Francisco told delegates at the National Peace Congress that world peace remains fantasy until militaristic order is overturned. They warned there will be wars as long as nations and individuals claim supremacy and dual moral codes persist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Okuma
Ng Poon Chew
National Peace Congress
Congress
Massacres in Asiatic Turkey Escalate After Bulgaria’s War Entry
Ambassador Morgenthau reports renewed Armenian massacres in Asiatic Turkey as Bulgaria joins the war. He notes the majority of Armenians there have been killed and recalls U S warnings that further atrocities would affect American sympathy.
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Washington
Turkey
Bulgaria
State Department
Morgenthau
Big Demands on Federal Treasury For Defense Increase
Washington reports the largest peacetime expenditure estimate ever presented to the secretary of the treasury for the next fiscal year. The administration seeks about 150 million more for defense, plus costs from European war duties. If approved, proceeds may require new revenue laws or bond issuance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Wilson
State Department
State, War and Navy
Congress
Army
Navy
McAdoo
Bowen land sale in Norris under 1915 decree
In Pickens County South Carolina Clerk A J Boggs announces a clerk's sale of a Norris shop lot of 1.31 acres to satisfy a 1915 decretal order in the case Emma C Bowen versus John T Bowen et al. The property fronts a street from Norris depot toward Catechee and adjoins Southern Railway. Terms cash with purchaser paying papers stamps and recording fees. If the buyer defaults the property will be resold within five days.
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State of
South Carolina
County of Pickens
Court of Common Pleas
Emma C. Bowen
John T. Bowen
R. W. Memminger
Pickens ¢. H
8. C
Norris
Norris Depot
Bank of Norris
Catechee
Southern Railway
NO CHANGE IN COTTON BILL EXPECTED BY LEVER
In New York the New York Cotton Exchange issued a statement saying the board of managers does not plan changes to bylaws or rules that would affect existing contracts. There was no confirmation of any government appeal from Judge Hough's ruling. Cotton traders largely expected an appeal.
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Lever
Supreme Court
House
New York
New York Cotton Exchange
Board of Managers of the Exchange
Board of Managers
Exchange
Hough
Urge Reprisals Against Germany At London Mass Meeting
In London a mass meeting at the Cannon Street hotel endorsed replying to German air raids by bombing large sleeping towns. Speakers included Lord Willoughby de Broke and Willian Joynson-Hicks, MPs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
London
Cannon Street
Financial District
Lord Willoughby de Broke
Willian Joynson-Hicks
Submarines Reach Honolulu From San Francisco Voyage
Submarines I-38 K-4 K-7 and K8 arrive in Honolulu after leaving San Francisco on October 3, escorted by cruiser Maryland collier Nanshan tug Iriquois and destroyer Lawrence.
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Honolulu
San Francisco
Pearl Harbor
United States
Maryland
Lawrence
Missing Navy Officers Sought After Liberty Escape
Norfolk Va sailors search ships at sea and Chesapeake Bay for six warrant officers from the interned German cruiser Wilhelm. Rear Admiral Beatty reports to the Navy after Captain Thier informs him the men vanished following 16 hours liberty aboard the Wilhelm.
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Norflok
Chesapeake Bay
Beatty
Norfolk Navy Yard
Navy Department
Thier,felder
Martha Washington Will Returned to Fairfax County
The will of Martha Washington, recently returned to Virginia by J Pierpont Morgan, was ordered to Fairfax County custody. It was delivered to the Fairfax board of supervisors and placed again in the courthouse, under Governor Henry G. Stuart’s authority per Attorney General Pollard’s ruling.
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Martha Washington
Richmond
Henry GC. Stuart
Virginia
J. Pierpont Morgan
Fairfax County
Fairfay Board of Supervisors
Court House
Stuart
Pollard
Land sale notice in Pickens County 1915
Strother and Phinney as plaintiffs seek to sell on a November sale day 1915 at Pickens C H South Carolina the tract of land of about ninety three acres on Crow Creek near Keowee River. Adjoining J C Alexander H B Bowers J I Vickery J M Vickery and others. plat by W R Dalton January 5 1910. Cash terms five days to comply or readvertise. Purchasers pay papers stamps and recording. Court presiding judge Honor R W Memumieger. State county and case details on file in clerk's office.
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State of
South Carolina
Notice of land sale in Pickens County
County of Pickens. Corona A Freeman et al plaintiffs. October 2 1915. I will sell to the highest bidder on sale day in November 1915 during legal hours for sale at Pickens C H S C the tract of land in Wasley Township containing about thirty acres adjoining J H Bowen and tracts 3 7 8 in Freeman deceased real estate division recorded Vol 1 page 275. within one hour the premises will be resold at the risk of the former purchaser on the same or a subsequent sale day thereafter. Purchasers chartering the same.
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State of
South Carolina
County of Pickens
Court of Common Pleas
Corona A. Freeman
Edel D. Freeman
R. W. Memminger
Pickens C. H
S. C
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MRS
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Simpson
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Naval Academy
Federal
Dphiladelphia
Boston H Invente
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Elmer Ambrose Sperry
Naval Advisory Board
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