Concessions Denied After Coal Conference in Wilkesbarre
A conference in Wilkes Barre involving anthracite coal interests Adelphia and Reading officials discussed concessions that would be granted. The semipolitical events were said not to be seriously considered. Gowpers met with Mitchell and other Miners' union executives to review the strike, with a statement promised after the talks.
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W York, Pt
Adelphia & Reading Company
Gowpers
Mitchell
Wilkesbarre
Miners’ Union
Steamer Gordon Averts Sinking In Lake Michigan Run
The R J Gordon from South Haven raced to St Joseph harbor after taking on water. Captain Charles Spooner and crew fought a rapid leak at sea, pumped out water, and reached port with peaches still aboard as the hull showed severe flooding. The vessel neared disaster before dockside repairs and pumping saved the ship.
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St. Joseph
Mich
R. J. Gordon
South Haven
Charles Spooner
Braham & Morton
Gordon
Chicago
Spooner
St. Joe's Harbor
St. Joe Harbor
Grand Jury Returns No Bills in Bartholin Case
Chicago grand jury votes no bills against Oscar Thompson John Clatley and Edward Counselman tied to the Bartholin Mitchell murder mystery. Immediate release expected as suspects are discharged.
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Chicago
Bartholin
Oscar Thompson
John Clatley
Eddward Counselman
Bartholin-Mitchell
Converts killed by Chinese boxers in Sz Chuen province
Dispatch from Pekin reports Catholics in Sz Chuen province mourning killings of converts by boxers. Separate items note Tommy Ryan knocking out Kid Carter in Fort Erie, a record September high for warmth in Cleveland, and floods in Bengal leaving 6,000 homeless with 25 villages wiped out and relief camps opened.
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London
Pekin
Sze Chuen
Ryan Kococks
Fort Erie
Tommy Ryan
Kid Carter
Brooklyn
Cuiey
Ryan
India
Calcutta
Presidency of Bengal
Old Friends Drop In As Roosevelt Greeted In Oyster Bay
President Roosevelt hosted Nassau county neighbors at Sagamore Hill with 6000 to 7000 people shaking his hand and two former New York servants Maggie and Bridget Mitchell presenting photos of his father and himself. Police guarded the event with 300 deputies plus plainclothes officers while bands played and lemonade flowed along the routes to the hill. He praised the NY officers taking a photo with them and saved a moment for the two old friends.
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Roosevelt
Hanna
Spooner
Allison
Aldrich
Lodge
Payne
Oyster T. Y
Nassau County
Sagamore Hill
Hin
United States
Johnson
New York
Soosevelt
William Roosevelt
Christine Roosevelt
Lorraine Roosevelt
E. Reed Merritt
Frank K. Travis
Loeb
Father Powers
Henry Homer Washburn
Maggie
Bridget Mitchell
Brooklyn
Long Island
Kron Prinz Wilhelm Sets Swift North Atlantic Run Record
The Kron Prinz Wilhelm arrived at Sandy Hook from Cherbourg in five days eleven hours and fifty seven minutes covering 3047 miles. It beat westward ocean records with an average speed of 25.09 knots, surpassing the Deutschland by twenty six minutes.
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New York
Cherbourg
Sandy Hook
Justice Horace Gray Dies of Paralysis at Nahant
Horace Gray, retired Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, died at his Nahant home on Sept 16 after paralysis began in February. Born in Boston on March 24, 1822, he studied at Harvard Law School and joined the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1864 before being appointed to the national bench by President Arthur in 1881.
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Nahant
Mass
Gray
United States Supreme Benel
Horace Gray
Boston
Harvard Law School
Massachusetts Supreme Bench
Arthur
National Court
Tree and Plant Prizes Promoting School Horticulture Plan
Bloomington Illinois September 14 novel plan to reward McLain county public school scholars with two pear and one peach tree for top essays on horticulture. Prizes funded by three nursery firms, pupils plant trees at home with school program. extra prizes for best cut flower displays. Exhibits to be read at Illinois Central Teachers association meeting next March.
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Bloomington
Uls
McLain
Melean
Thellinois Central Teachers’ Association
Mexican request for protection in Popobui mission case
The Mexican embassy asks Mexican authorities to protect Everett Morgan and Miss Sarah Linley, missionaries at Popobui, Mexico, as natives threaten their lives unless they depart by tomorrow. Washington notes government interest in Pacific cable laying with goals to connect Asia, Hawaii, and the Philippines through deep ocean routes.
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Washington
Everett
Morgan
Sarah Linley
Springfield
Ind
Popobui
Mexico
Booth Tarkington Recovers Mascot for Five Cents
Indianapolis story recounts N Booth Tarkington the author of The Gentleman from Indiana losing his small white box mascot named Robin. A newsboy offered the dog for five cents after Tarkington posted a ten dollar reward and the rustle brought the dog home to the author.
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Booth Tarkington
Indianapolis
N. Booth Tarkington
Indiana
Robin
Tarkington
Lake Maxinbukee
Tate
Bievied Yarkington
Rustle
Becomes Indian's Wife Miss Nellie M Brown Marries Indian
Nellie M Brown, formerly a government Indian school teacher at Crow Creek, has married Fred Medicine Crow, an Indian on the reservation. The wedding was performed by Justice N A Keeler of Gann Valley. The couple, said to have strong Washington connections, follow the example set by Cora Belle Fellows.
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Cora Belle Fellows
Sioux City
Washington Society l
Chaska
Nellie M. Brown
Crow Creek Keney
Fred Medicine Crow
Washington
Cireles
N. A. Keeler
Gann Valley
Lipton Plans New Yacht Race Series by Oct 1
Lord Lipton intends to send his challenge for another America's Cup series within days to reach the New York Yacht Club before October 1. The London report notes anticipation of the next contest and Lipton's continued pursuit of the trophy.
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Lord Lipton
London
Lipton
New York Yacht Club
Mrs Schnell Gains Hold of $500 Found in Daguerreotype Case
In Washington on September 16, Mrs Martha Schnell of Bernlein near Frankfort on the Main recovered a United States bond for 3500 from a German consul. The bond, issued July 1, 1907, series C, had 28 coupons and dated interest ceasing April 6, 1910. The finder, while cleaning a daguerreotype that had faded, plans to redeem the bond for her benefit.
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Washington
Treasury Department
United States
Guenther
Frankfort-on-the-Main
Germany
Martha Selinell
Bernlein
Frankfort
ISTO
Nine Men Arrested in Caldwell Murder Case
Nine men are detained as witnesses in the murder of Earl Caldwell, a Union Peete machinist, in Omaks Nebo. Roy Chadwick is among the arrestees, alleging Spellman dealt the fatal blow. Other suspects deny seeing the blow or Caldwell in the gutter. Separate items note Oregon governor telegraphs urging investigation into Baker City Chinese outrages, a fatal train accident near Ralston, and Mrs. Ida S. McKinley’s salary payment. Also reports frost effects on tomatoes, denial of widespread tree destruction, Mrs. Fairbanks to attend Illinois convention, and jail trustees escaping in Kent County.
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Uu- Omaks
Nebo
Earl Caldwell
Union Peete
Roy Chadwick
Spellman
Caldwell
Nit Lim
Michael Spell
Charles Pospisil
John Spellman
Jack McKenna
John Kerrigan
Gas and powder blast in West Virginia coal mine incident
Northfork West Virginia September 16 a gas and powder explosion rocked the Big Four mine of the Algona Coal and Coke company. Engineer James Lester and miner John Reeckie died, fifteen miners perished, and rescuers battled gas and smoke to recover bodies. Eleven bodies recovered so far with air exhausted and mine on fire. Rescue efforts halted by lack of air.
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Northfork
W. Va
Algona Coal and Coke Company
James Lester
John Reeckie
H. F. Franken
George Guspie
Stuart Tt
Mint
Cooper
Leste
Proceedings of the Odd Fellows Meeting in Des Moines
In Des Moines Iowa on Sept 16 the sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows held sessions featuring officer selections, drill contest openings at the fairgrounds, degree team exemplifications in the Ordale hall, and a reunion of past grand representatives. A single contest determined deputy grand sire with Bo E Wright of Allerton Illinois elected after a heated race.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
Fair Crounds
Ordale Hall
Bo E. Wright
Allerton
Injunction Sought to Block McGovern Corbett Fight in Louisville
Attorney General Pratt filed for an injunction to stop the bout between Terry McGovern and Young Corbett scheduled at the Southern Athletic Club in Louisville Kentucky on September 23. The case will be argued Thursday morning.
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McGovern-Corbett
Louisville
Pratt Today
Terry McGovern
Young” Corbett
Southern Athletic Club
Two Women Involved In Saloon Quarrel Fatality
Nicholas Fish a banker and son of Hamilton Fish died at Roosevelt hospital after injuries from a saloon quarrel yesterday. Mrs Libbie J Phillips and Mrs Nellie Casey companions of Fish were arrested with Thomas J Sharkey a private detective held for coroner. Sharkey faced $10,000 bail while Fish’s associates were witnesses.
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New York
Nicholas Fish
Hamilton Fish
President Grans
Stuyvesant Fish
Ilinois Central Railroad
Roosevelt Hospital
Libbie J. Phillips
Nellie Casey
Fish
Thomas J. Sharkey
Sharker
Phillips
Caseyeh
Witnes
Opinion prepared in Rock Island case reaches Iowa
Maines Iowa Sept 16 Attorney General Mart in tel handed an opinion to Gov Cummins regarding the filing of in Carpe pers of the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway with the secretary of state Thevennor declines to publish the opinion contents now preferring his own statement with it when released next week An indication is given of the position taken by the attorney general
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Maines
Iowa
Bridge Committees of Two Counties Meet for Connection
A delegation from Rock Island and Henry counties met at the Cleveland ferry to discuss a proposed bridge linking the two counties. The Rock Island committee included Supervisors Whiteside, Cool and Lees, while the local group was led by Supervisors Wood and Hull and W J Hess and T F LaVelle.
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Wood
Hull
T. F. LaVelle
Henry County Board of Supervisors
Cleveland Ferry
Rock Island County Board of Supervisors
Whiteside
Cool and Lees
Geneseo Policeman Subdues Housebreaker in Doorway
A Geneseo officer confronted a crouching intruder at a residence late Sunday night. The counterfeit man, armed with a toy pistol and whiskey bottle, was subdued after a struggle and taken to the station. A local lady was noted in the call.
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Genes
Butt
Maas
Roth
Miss Mary T. Abrahams Dies in Melancholia at St Luke's
In St Paul Sept 16 Miss Mary T Abrahams of Minneapolis, a patient at St Luke's hospital, died by suicide using carbolic acid. Also on Sept 16 in Chippewa Falls Wisconsin Dr J A Rene of West Superior was unanimously nominated by Democrats to run for representative in Congress in the Eleventh district.
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St. Paul
Mary T. Abrahams
Minneapolis
St. Luke's Hospital
Chippewa Falls
Wis
J. A. Rene
West Superior
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