Night Riders and State Funding Spark Indiana Session Call
Indiana officials discuss a special session to fund state institutions and grant Governor Hanly broader power to confront night riders. Southern Indiana residents report terror like conditions for tobacco growers as debates over Vincennes university financing and a misdrafted appropriation bill fuel criticism of the veto and legislative actions.
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Or Hanly
Indiana
Hanly
Southwestern Hospital
Vincennes University
Springfield grand jury indites four police in riot probe
A special grand jury returned 17 more indictments for a total of 117 amid recent race riots in Springfield. Four indictments target Springfield policemen Oscar Dahlkamp Joseph Ferendez George G Hohlman and George W Dawson for allegedly failing to suppress the riot. High officials including Sheriff Warner Chief Wilbur Morris Captain Charles Walsh and Troop D are commended by the panel while officials are assailed as cowards for not acting to protect life and property.
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Springfield
Oscar Dahlkamp
Joseph Ferendez
George G. Hohlman
George W. Dawson
Warner
Wilbur Morris
Charles Walsh
Law and Order
Meteor Falls Near Ellsworth in Brilliant Fireball
A heavy meteor weighing tons fell three miles north of Ellsworth Kansas. It lit up the countryside for miles and glowed for 20 minutes after impact. The explosion scattered fragments and caused a strong concussion felt across Ellsworth, initially mistaken for an earthquake. Hundreds visited the impact site.
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Ellsworth
Kas
McGraw predicts $200,000 NL club haul at Polo Grounds
John McGraw asserts the New York National League club will clear about $200,000 this season. His estimate rests on gate receipts already received and anticipated large crowds for twenty straight home games starting September 8 at the Polo Grounds.
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Boston
John McGraw
New York
McGraw
Polo Grounds
Shah's Troops Defeated in Iranian Civil War Event
Teheran dispatch reports Satar Khan defeated Shah's forces at Tabriz with 800 casualties. Civil war resumes in Tabriz province as government troops suffer losses and retreat.
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St. Petersburg
Cabie
Teheran
Tabriz
Satar Khan
Seven Drown When Boat Capsizes off Deer Island Maine
Seven visitors drown when a 35 foot sloop capsized in Penobscot Bay near Deer Island. Ten people were aboard the vessel during a summer excursion Tuesday. seven fatalities are confirmed with three survivors. The accident occurred near Deer Island in Maine.
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Deer Island
Maine
Penobscot Bay
Young Bryan Engaged in Milwaukee Society
The engagement of Miss Helen Berger daughter of Alex Berger a prominent miller and Board of Trade man of Milwaukee and William Jennings Bryan Jr son of the Democratic presidential candidate is announced by her father who has just returned from a business trip to Colorado and Nebraska Miss Berger and her mother are visiting friends in Lincoln Nebraska. The wedding may not occur for about a year or longer.
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Milwaukee
Helen Berger
Alex Berger
Miller and Board of Trade
William Jennings Bryan, Jr
Berger
Colorado
Nebraska
Colonial prisoner Gos sans killed in Alipur jail
Calcutta India native Cable Gos sans arrested with thirty others in recent bomb outrages turned King's evidence. He was killed by two fellow prisoners in an Alipur jail cell. Gos sans testimony revealed a wide rebellious conspiracy including plans to assassinate Viceroy Lord Minto and other high officials.
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Calcutta
British India
Cable Gossans
Alipur
Gossans
Minto
Vermont Goes Republican In State Election
Vermont voted Republican in Tuesday’s state election with about a 28 000 plurality. The full ticket won includes Governor George H Prouty and Lieutenant Governor John A Mead among others, with two Republican congressmen elected and the Legislature remaining heavily GOP. Local contests drew strong turnout despite harvest season and weather was favorable all day.
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Burlington
Vermont
George H. Prouty
Newport
John A. Mead
Rutland
Guy W. Bailey
Essex
Edward H. Deavitt
Montpelier
Horace F. Graham
Craftsbury
John G. Sargent
Ludlow
David T. Foster
Frank Plimley
Redfield Proctor
Green Mountains
Republican Party
Prouty
Found She Had Wed Negro in Maryland Marriage Suit
In a suit for annulment Mrs. Annie M. Johnston says she did not know her husband Albert R. Johnston was a negro until after their marriage. Twins were born with one dying at birth. She claims he concealed his race as she investigated and learned of mixed ancestry. marriage occurred in Maryland where interracial unions were illegal.
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Washington
Annie M. Johnston
Albert R. Johnston
Ham
Maryland
Stops Diamond Wedding in Richmond as Mrs. Carpenter Near Death
Special hope for Mr. and Mrs. Walter T. Carpenter to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary is dimming as Mrs. Carpenter nears death. The couple has been married more than 74 years in Richmond, Indiana.
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Richmond
Ind
Walter T. Carpenter
Potato bugs halt eight trolley cars to Lake Compounce
In Bristol special service a swarm of potato bugs stalled eight excursion trolleys on Lazy Lane while car men sanded the tracks. Despite the huge disruption the insects forced the halted cars to wait until the path was clear.
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Bristol
Conn
Lazy Lane
Lake
Trust Company of America Finishes Paying $25 Million Loan
The New York based Trust Company of America, which faced a cash run during the 1907 financial crisis, has repaid in full the $25,000,000 loan it had obtained, marking a decisive payoff after troubled times.
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New York
Special
Trust Company of America of
Grieved at Lack of Crime in New Haven
New Haven Conn Special Des pondent reports Deputy Sheriff Henry Spiegel killed himself amid a quiet summer with little business. officials note the tragedy as a personal loss and a somber event for the county.
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New Haven
Conn
Henry Spiegel
Boston Actor Confesses to Brutal Wife Murder
The torso of Mrs. Honorah Jordan, 23, of Somerville, an actress, was found in a Beacon Hill trunk. Chester Jordan, 29, also of Somerville, is held for murder after confessing he killed his wife during a jealous quarrel and dismembered the body with a butcher knife and saw, planning to cast parts overboard.
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Boston
Greater
Susan Geary
Honorah Jordan
Somerville
Beacon Hill
Chester Jordan
Jordan
Harvard
New York
Hackman
James Collins
Michael Crowley
Crowley
Honorah Eddy
O'Reilly
Medford Street
Parry Denies Coercion Over Prosperity Placards
Indiana manufacturer leader D M Parry rejects Kern's claim that Taft campaigns coercing workers with placards. Parry says no prosperity placards will be posted in his factories and asserts Bryan and Taft are not enemies of industry.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Ind
D. M. Parry
National Association of Manufacturers
John W. Kern
Taft
Kern
Republican
Bryan
Parry
Mr. Bryan
Dead Man's Bridge to Go From Thompson Estate
The Public Service Commission orders removal of Dead Man's Bridge over New York Central tracks on the Thompson estate. The bridge, only two feet higher than an ordinary freight car, has caused multiple deaths and injuries among railroad workers and car riders, with four men killed in recent weeks.
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Poughkeepsie, Special
Public Service Commission
New York Central
Thompson Estate
Watermelon Harvest Across Alaska Observed By Professor Gorgeson
Special to Seattle reports Prof C C Gorgeson head of the Alaska agricultural station arrived on the Victoria from Nome and described open grown watermelons at Manley Hot Spring in the Tanana valley on August 18. He ate tomatoes also grown openly and had his photo taken in a cornfield with seven foot stalks while touring farms along the Tanana and Yukon where wheat barley oats and rye were maturing.
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Seattle
Wash
C. C. Gorgeson
Agricultural Experimental Station
Alaska
Victoria
Nome
Manley Hot Spring
Tanana
Yukon
Wright Flight Near Le Mans Ends Early After Mishap
Wilbur Wright flew six miles near Le Mans last week, staying aloft for 10 minutes 40 seconds and reaching 20 to 30 yards high while performing a figure eight. A suspected motor issue caused a descent after six miles, and a second attempt was halted after starting from the derrick with about 400 yards traveled.
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Lemans
Cable
Wilbur Wright
Countess Szechenyi’s Illness After Complication
A Vienna dispatch reports Countess Szechenyi formerly Gladys Van derbilt bore a child who did not survive. The countess was seriously ill for a time but is now out of danger.
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London
Vienna
Szechenyi
Gladys Vanderbilt
American railways offer better service at lower cost says Yoakum
New York special reports Rock Island Frisco official B F Yoakum arguing that U S railways deliver superior efficiency and lower freight costs. He cites 1907 data showing U S rates at 0 5 cents per ton mile versus higher European rates and notes American wages are double those abroad yet service remains cheaper.
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New York
B. F. Yoakum
Rock Island-Frisco Lines
Yoakum
United States
Great Britain
France
Germany
England
Manchester
London
St. Louis
Chicago
Was Uncle Russ a Mark New York Special
Executors of Russell Sage estate uncover a stock and bond register showing about 1 071 000 in bonds and 18 100 shares of stock scrip with little value found in a safe deposit vault signaling vast assets largely devalued.
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New York
Russell Sage
Sea gale costs twenty seven lives coast to coast
A violent gale swept Great Britain causing multiple shipping disasters. The sailing ship Amazon ran ashore near Fort Talbot Wales with twenty seven crew members drowned.
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London
Great Britain
Amazon
Fort Talbot
Wales
China to Have Parliament Proposed Empire Constitution
An imperial edict in Peking outlines a proposed imperial constitution and includes a provision for an eventual parliament, signaling a shift toward representative government in the empire.
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China
Peking
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