Chicago Sizzled by Destructive Windstorm Causes Harbor Chaos
A severe windstorm struck Chicago harbor early today, sinking or breaking multiple small boats and capsizing a tug as crews battled to reach freighters Laconda and Christopher. Several steamers and yachts were driven from moorings. wind gusts peaked at 64 miles per hour with 15 foot waves, sparing Evanston and South Chicago stations but causing harbor damage and unaccounted streamers.
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Millionaire smugglers indicted in New York port case
Separate indictments accuse Nathan Allen of Kenosha Wisconsin and John R Collins of Memphis Tennessee as reputed millionaires smuggling gems valued at thousands of dollars into the port of New York. The indictments rested on the U S District Attorney Wise’s desk since August 29.
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Kenosha
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Memphis
Tenn
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Wise
Federal Grand Jury
Mills Restart in New England After Shutdown
55,000 return to work as textile mills in New England resume operations. About 65,000 workers employed renew activity after weeks of curtailment. William M. Wood of American Woolen Co says woolen business improving and mills more active than recently.
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New York State
Denver to Have a Man Flirt Cop
Denver announces a novelty police role a dirt cap unit to lure flirtatious women into the police net. Three men will patrol to detect coquetry and protect both genders as the equal suffrage era prompts prudish policing.
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Weather forecast for Rock Island and vicinity
The forecast covers Rock Island Davenport Moline and area. Threatening and cooler tonight with likely fair conditions Friday. 7 am temperature 66. Precipitation .80. Wind velocity and humidity figures noted. Full moon and astronomical events listed.
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Murder confession claim tied to Beattie case reopening doubt
In Chesterfield Virginia, Perrone Wendenberg said he would not ask to reopen Beattie homicide after alleging a pareeitniees. He claimed he saw a man and woman arguing in a car, a hit, a shooting, and Beulah Binford’s body later moved to the road. Beulah Binford and Paul Beattie were released by Judge Watson as court proceedings opened and prosecutors argued the husband killed the victim with the same gun.
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Arrests in War on Crime Band by Goldberg Brothers
Detailed history of anarchists depredations in this country and Europe recounted to detectives. The narrative covers murders dynamiters robberies and a pitched Boston battle as Jacob and Joseph Goldberg members of an international body are arrested.
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Europe
Peace Assured Germany Agrees to Peace Terms
Berlin reports German foreign secretary Herr von Kiderlen-Waechter assures friends that war danger with France over Morocco is past. He hopes to announce settlement terms in the Reichstag on Oct. 10. Germany had no intention of war over what is described as a parcel of African sand hills. The future political status of France in Morocco is said to be settled.
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Congo
Chicago gambling inquiry signals investigations into vice
Chicago officials moved to probe gambling and those tied to it as Mayor Harrison ordered police chief actions and a patrolman faced suspension. Indications yesterday suggested the investigations would extend beyond initial promises.
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Prize Pumpkin Gang Story Ties Europe to London Crimes
Report traces the Goldbergs and accomplices from Trieste to America and Europe, linking a $15,000 Ulban jewelry robbery in 1910 to a broader anarchist network. They claim $60,600 hidden in Europe and describe ties to London Paris and New York operatives. They plead not guilty and remain in $45,000 bail each. Also notes a fatal shooting in Iowa and Moroccan peace talks with Germany and France over protectorates and Congo territory.
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British cell for American woman and mate jailed for shoplifting
Mary Ferguson known as Mrs Annie Grant alias Annie Gleason formerly of Chicago and a companion posing as Prince Alexander Makareff were sentenced to five years for habitual shoplifting. Ferguson had $290 and $1500 in jewelry. she previously faced a $10,000 Christie’s necklace charge in 1905. The pair to be deported after imprisonment.
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Noted Novelist Mrs Thurston Found Dead in Cork Hotel
Cork, Sept. 7. Katherine Cecil Thurston, novelist of John Chilcote M P fame, was found dead in her bed at a Cork hotel. Inquest ruled natural causes after a nighttime heart failure. she had retired well. Her ex-husband Ernest Temple Thurston, now remarried, dramatized her work. Her engagement to Dr Arthur Buckley Gavin was pending annulment by the pope, a matter Rome had yet to act on.
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Astor and Force Wedding Offer Refused by Newport Pastor
Newport Sept 7 Colonel John Jacob Astor and his fiancée Miss Madeline Force sought a Newport ceremony this week paying $10000 to a minister. Reverend Edward A Johnson refused to officiate citing personal health and imminent retirement after moving to Philadelphia. Justice Frederick E Force of Netcong volunteered later, as distant relative of Miss Force, to perform the ceremony.
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Grand Jury to Probe Gambling and Graft Next Week
The Civil Service Commission will meet today to decide the procedure for its upcoming investigation set to begin within days. State's Attorney Wayman announced that the September grand jury, convening next Monday, will examine gambling and graft charges.
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Seance Causes Lunacy in Chicago Case
Miss May Earnest of Gary, 17, became violently insane after visiting a clairvoyant who called herself Raymond. She was strapped to bed as her condition worsened. Police seek the medium across northern Illinois. In a second incident, John Bradshaw, a county hospital watchman, lies dying from a gunshot wound after a quarrel with Jobo Mitka a month earlier.
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May Defeat Men's Desire For A Strike
Officials of the Federated Shop Employees of the Illinois Central railroad seek renewed talks with mechanical unions as ratification and international support hinge on action. Although a strike vote exists, it awaits ratification by the international bodies, with J. F. McCreary gauging whether locals will strike without international backing.
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Ishi the Uncontaminated Aborigine in California Custody
Anthropologists at the University of California report capturing a circa sixty year old Yahi man named Ishi near Oroville after he tried to steal meat. He provides phonographic records of over 300 words of his language and is said to be the most uncivilized aborigine in known history with a theory of fire origin tied to Coy ote. He wears trousers shirt and necktie replacing his former buckskin attire and retains ceremonial abalone thonging in ears and nose. Sugar prices rise ten cents per hundredweight across all refined grades in New York market.
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Sets Match To A Knot Is Dying
Chicago, Sept 7 Grace Weber, 65, unable to untie a knot in her underskirt, set fire to it last night. Neighbors smothered the flames as they burned her clothing and bed. She is reported dying of burns at St Luke's hospital. Leconte Recognized as Haiti President by Four Powers
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