Taft Roosevelt To Confer In New Haven On New York Politics
President Taft and Theodore Roosevelt plan a major conference in New Haven to discuss the New York political situation. Lloyd Griscom and Otto Barnard will attend, with Taft departing for Cincinnati afterward. Taft will urge a 2 million dollar Panama canal fortification appropriation and two new battleships.
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Taft
Cincinnati
Roosevelt
New York
Lloyd C. Griscom
New York Republican Committee
Otto T. Barnard
Boston
Yale Corporation
Beverly
Mass
Congress
Panama Canal
Washington
Say Man Helped Girl In Murder
New Kirk Oklahoma September 19 authorities believe Ebby Shepard the 16 year old daughter of J W Shepard who confessed last night she killed her father and his brother Taylor Shepard with an ax had an accomplice in the crime Officers said they did not believe the father and uncle abused her but they were killed when they returned home unexpectedly and found a young man in the house with the girl Glencoe Illinois September 19 city golf champion Mrs Thurston Harris of Westward Ho added the women's western championship to her list at Skokie links defeating Mrs H L Pound 3 up 2 to play
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Ebby Shepard
J. W. Shepard
Taylor Shepard
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Glencoe
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Thurston Harris
Westward Ho
Skokie Links
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Skokie Club
Chief Clerk of C. R. & P. Shot by Thief
Clarence D. Hiller chief clerk of the Rock Island railroad was shot three times and killed by a burglar in his home. The attack occurred on the second floor as Hiller confronted the intruder at the stairs. Mrs Hiller and two daughters witnessed the struggle and the fatal shots. A suspect is in police custody.
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Clarence D. Hiller
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Weather Summary City Forecast and Conditions
Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with little temperature change. 7 am temperature 60, high 84, low 60 in 12 hours. Wind 5 mph, precipitation .05 inch, humidity 96 at 7 am and 77 at 7 pm. Mississippi stages nearly stationary from below Dubuque to Muscatine. Forecaster J M Sherier. Astronomical events: sun sets 5:59, rises 5:41, moon rises 6:35 p m.
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Muscatine
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Child Killed by Falling Derrick in Moline
Chester Edward McMahon seven, son of J E McMahon of Peters and McMahon, died when a derrick on the Johnson building fell on his head. Five boys played nearby and had warned by Herbert Hintz to avoid the rope. the derrick collapsed while the boy ran away. The inquest was held. burial to Ottawa Illinois.
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J. E. McMahon
Peters
Lewis Roofing Company
Herbert Hintz
Charles F. Hintz
Seventh Street
Johnson
Helge Jennisch
Adolph Pearson
Johnson and Pearson
Chester Edward McMahon
St. Mary’s Parochial School
Ottawa
Rock Island
Chester
Incubator Exhibit at Louisville Fair Shut After Infant Deaths
Louisville police ordered the baby incubator show closed following the deaths of three foundlings brought from a Chicago physician. The infants aged 8 weeks and 4 weeks died of inanition, with officials citing lack of nourishment and exhaustion from a long train trip as factors. Dr E J Meyer blamed nourishment. Dr Douglas Snyder defended the incubator arrangement.
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Chicago
St. Paul
E. J. Meyer
Douglas Snyder
Lodge in poor health may curb campaigning after collapse
Massachusetts Senator Lodge, after a political speech in Norwood, suffered a brief fainting spell and may have to curtail his fall campaigning. He has endured somewhat poor health for over a year, with the collapse occurring at the end of an outdoor speech Saturday in Boston area.
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Boston
Norwood
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Hearing Prep in Chicago for Lorimer Inquiry
Senator Heyburn of Idaho arrives in Chicago as Republican members prepare hearings on the Lorimer election. The committee will review powers broad and evidence that may be admissible or excluded in court. Preparations focus on admissibility of testimony and the scope of the inquiry.
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Heyburn
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Chicago Second City in Population Worldwide Rank
Chicago is the second city in the United States and fourth in the world by population, with 2,185,283 residents, a 28.7 percent rise since 1900. New York remains ahead, while Chicago has nearly doubled since 1890, with the greatest growth between 1890 and 1900. The eastern city’s gain, though, tempered the decade’s percentage rise.
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Chicago
United States
New York
Dr Wiley Appointed New Field Leader In Conference
The Central Illinois conference of the Methodist church meets at Pontiac Wednesday. Dr W R Wiley and Rev Williams and Rev Shult depart to attend. Wiley, six years Rock Island district superintendent, will not return. Williams resigns after eight years at First Methodist. Shult likely returns to Spencer Memorial. Appointments by bishop to be announced next week.
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Senate committee to probe Lorimer election powers expanded
The committee chaired by Burrows of Michigan prepares sessions starting tomorrow with broad investigative authority. It can subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, and punish contempt. Testimony beyond court admissibility may be heard as it examines alleged corrupt methods in William Lorimer’s U S Senate election. The first session will be executive, then public during witness examination, with hearings planned for about two weeks. Chicago rises to fourth among global cities, behind Paris, in population.
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Senate
William Lorimer
United States
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Paris
Tokio
Berlin
Railroads Press for Freight Rate Increase to Maintain Service
Western rail roads argued before the Interstate Commerce Commission that a general freight rate hike is needed to sustain the service standard required by government and public. The hearing continued as evidence was presented in Chicago on September 19.
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Chicago
Western Railroads
Interstate Commerce Commission
Preparation for G A R Encampment in Atlantic City
Preliminary activities for the Grand Army of the Republic encampment opened in Atlantic City with the opening of national headquarters. A parade is set for Wednesday and the convention starts Thursday.
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N. J
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W Clark Fownes Wins Amateur Golf Championship
William Clark Fownes Jr of Oakmont club Pittsburgh captured the amateur golf championship at Brookline by defeating Warren Kenneth Wood Homewood Chicago 4 up and 3 to play. Fownes, 32, transferred from Hinsdale Chicago to hold the Havemeyer cup.
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Mass
William Clark Fownes, Jr
Oakmont Club
Pittsburg
Hinsdale Club
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Warren Kenneth Wood
Homewood Club
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Sailor Completes Houdini Run Through Whirlpool Rapids
Captain Klaus Larsen in a small motor boat Ferre completed a perilous trip from the foot of the cataract through whirlpool rapids to within a mile of Lewiston. He departed Maid of the Mist dock at 4 45 and stopped on a rock near the American shore at 5 20. In Iowa, Guy E Kissick, a 37 year old traveling auditor for Northwestern railway, drowned while bathing in the Des Moines River near Eddyville.
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Ferre
Lewiston
Eddyville
Iowa
Guy E. Kissick
Chicago
Northwestern Railway
Des Moines
Balloon Race Field Sets Records in Indiana Meet
The largest field ever in a balloon meet started at the Indianapolis motor speedway with nine pilots vying for a chance to represent America in the St. Louis international race starting Oct 17. The Drifter left at 2 58 pm and the New York followed at 5 55 pm as delays and weather shaped a long early start.
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Hesp Bon
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Progressive Republican George M. Hull Named Salina Postmaster
Salina Kansas September 19 George M Hull a progressive Republican received notice of appointment to the position of postmaster in Salina home of Senator Bristow who had recommended Hull for the job.
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Wife of Dr. Hyde Now Under Sentence
Kansas City news reports Mrs. B Clark Hyde, wife of condemned man Dr. Hyde, is gravely ill at home as he awaits state supreme court action on his life sentence for the alleged murder of Colonel Thomas H. Swope. A daughter born Sept. 1 lived only hours while she remains delirious and pleads for her husband to visit.
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Thomas H. Swope
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Mayes
Mother and tots burn in gasoline fire tragedy
Chicago residents Mrs. Anna Belica of Chicago Lawn and her two children Frances 10 and Joseph 3 were burned to death when she attempted to start a kitchen fire with gasoline. Two other children were fatally burned. The blast occurred today in Chicago.
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Anna Belica
Chicago Lawn
Frances
Joseph
Belica
Prison for secretary of a trust tied to sugar fraud
Charles A Heike former secretary of the American Sugar Refining Co. was sentenced to eight months in prison and a $5000 fine for conspiring to defraud the government by underweighing sugar. A stay of execution was granted pending appeal. Heike’s bail set at $15000. The case caps a probe into dock weighers and officials tied to long running underweighing frauds at Williamsburg docks. The company has paid over 2100,000 to the government and customs losses were proven.
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Charles A Heike
American Sugar Refining Company
Martin
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
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Williamsburg Docks
Trust
Richard Parr
The
Oliver Spitzer
Blackwell Island
Spitzner
Atlanta
Ernest W. Gerbracht
Heike
Gerbracht
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Sugar Company
Four Killed in Headon Collision Near Beech Ridge Illinois
Four persons died and two were injured in a head on collision between Mobile and Ohio and Iron Mountain freight trains seven miles north of Cairo near Beech Ridge. Victims were Claude Rollins and others from Jackson Tennessee. Witnesses testified operator Charles E Clark, on duty, was intoxicated and failed to transmit orders.
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Mobile & Ohio
Iron Mountain
Here
Beech Ridge
Lll
Claude Rollins
A.C. Rosner
W. T. Stevenson
Jackson
Tenn
F. A. Burgdorf
St Louis
E. C. Buckminster
Charles E. Clark
Injured Boy on a Car in Moline
Leonard Ed of Moline, 17, was found in a Watch Tower line car in a dazed condition Saturday night. He had a deep cut on his left hand and considerable blood loss, believed from a fall after drinking. He received medical attention at Harper house pharmacy and was returned home by city ambulance.
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Moline
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Fourth Avenue
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Fly High Yet Fall Short Over the Alps Flight
In Brig Switzerland on September 19 American pilot Wayman and Peruvian Chavez tried an Alpine crossing in an airplane despite poor weather. Chavez reached 7546 feet, Wayman climbed to 1700 feet, and both staged notable demonstrations of high flying before failing to complete the pass.
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Brig
Switzerland
Wayman
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