Daring Hold Up Man Killed After San Mateo Car Heist
Passengers identify a barefoot bandit who held up a San Mateo interurban car and shot San Mateo City Atty Chas Kirkbride. Police chased the suspect from Powell Jefferson to Broadway Kearny, where he was cornered behind a box and fatally shot by police after a volley of bullets. Conductor J A Ledden, forced at gunpoint, was along for the ride. Special Officer Kaufman was wounded in the arm during the pursuit.
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San Francisco
San Mateo
Atty
Chas, Kirkbride
Powell and
Jefferson Sta
J. A. Ledden
Broadway and
Kearney
Broadway
Kearney St
Droulette
Kaufman
Hear Bryan's Reply to T. R. in San Francisco
William J. Bryan campaigning for Woodrow Wilson spoke in San Francisco after rallies at Dreamland rink and the National theater. He condemned Roosevelt’s Missouri claim that Baltimore bosses controlled the convention and said the bosses were sorely beaten, pledging that bossism would not dominate the Democratic party again.
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Dreamland Rink
National Theater
Wm. J. Bryan
Woodrow Wilson
San Francisco Bay
Oakland
Sacramento
Bryan
Col. Roosevelt
Missouri
Baltimore
Lawson's New Crusade to Close the Stock Exchange
Thomas W. Lawson launches a fresh campaign in Everybody's Magazine to end what he calls the Stock Exchange gambling system. He says the nation faces ruin from a fictitious wealth and urges immediate destruction of the exchange to stop two to three billion dollars yearly siphoned from the public. He claims a two-part remedy includes closing the exchange and reshaping financial safeguards to benefit ordinary people.
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Stock Exchange
Thomas W. Lawson
Everybody's Magazine
Lawson
The
Thos. W. Lawson
Republic
Wilton Taft
Roosevelt
Louisiana
Tragedy in Wellington: McKnelly family killed in tent home
In Wellington Kansas a deadly attack left Thomas McKnelly and his 18 year old daughter Greta dead from ax or brick blows. Mrs McKnelly was fatally injured and unconscious. Police suspect robbery as motive while Otto McKnelly notes his father habitually carried cash. The family had moved to a tent outside town to aid Mrs McKnelly who suffered tuberculosis.
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Wellington
Kas
Thos McKnelly
Greta
Outekirta
Mise McKnelly
New Rochelle to Host First Aeroferry Across Sound
New Rochelle announces an inaugural aeroferry service linking Glen Head L. I. and the city. A hydroplane piloted by Charles Wald of the Glenwood Country club will shuttle mail and passengers across Long Island Sound at set intervals.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
Glen Head
L. L
Glenwood Country Club
Charles Wald
Long Island Sound
Proud father at 73 welcomes 18th child in Iowa
Marshalltown Iowa September 25 Captain D K Ewalt aged 73 rejoices over the birth of a daughter his 18th child with his present wife aged 39 the couple have a total of 265 children from the two marriages the wife had seven children by a former husband the family is three miles west of Albion a farmer by trade
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Marshalltown
D. K. Ewalt
Capt Ewalt
Albion
Althogether
Mr. Ewar
Acting Governor Won't Stop Friday Executions
San Quentin, Cal Sept 26. predictions of the California anti death penalty league that Friday's hangings will be halted appear unlikely as Willie Laisa a Chinese and Ed Marshall murderers are slated for execution. Warden Hoyle's office says there is every reason to expect the executions proceed without intervention by Acting Gov Wallace.
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Cal
California
Willie Laisa
Ed Marshall
San Quentin Penitentiary
Hoyle
Wallace
Latest Styles Only Transparencies in London Fashion
London fashion notes report actress Marie Tempest criticizing the current trend of transparencies in women’s dresses. She laments the unsubstantial clothing and doubts what women will do, while noting vivid colors and increasingly eccentric hats.
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London
Marie Tempest
Miss Tempest
Sympathy With Elder Orozco in Paso
In Paso, Tex on September 26 crowds condemn a U S deputy marshal and a castem guard who marched Col Pascual Orozco Sr the elderly father of the Mexican revolutionary through hot streets to the jail. The aged prisoner was followed by hundreds of Mexicans who hooted the guards. My noble boy will carry on the fight says Col Orozco. He has entered Coahuila with nearly 1 500 men. My arrest is an incident of the revolution.
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Tex
Sope
United States
Col
Pascual Orozco
el Paso
Col. Orozco
Coahuila
Purity Probe Into Dance Hall Arrest
The investigation of the arrest of W. R. Tonkin and two young women as they left a dance hall continues this afternoon. Arresting officers will present their account while Tonkin accuses police of excessive force and abusive language and the city council’s department efficiency committee investigates.
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W. R. Tonkin
Tonkin
Department Efficiency Committee
Caused Navy Scandal to Wed Civilian in Los Angeles
Misa Hesler of Evanston who stirred a major navy scandal including court martial of two officers and a fist fight at Charlestown navy yard is to marry Harold L. Dahl of Los Angeles. The 1910 episode involved her accusation that Boston civilian Dr Edward Spencer Cowles stole a picture of her, while she was said to be engaged to Navy surgeon Dr A H Robnett.
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Misa Dorothy Hesler
Evanston
United States Navy
Charlestown Navy Yard
Boston
Harold L. Dahl
Los Angeles
Misa
Edw. Spencer Cowles
A. H. Robnett
Navy
Getting Real Meat in Coal Conspiracy Cases
In Tacoma on September 25, the federal trial of C. B. Houston and John H. Bullock revealed charges of conspiracy to defraud the government on coal contracts. J. W. Smith of the Pacific Coast Coal Company testified that Houston gave him vouchers for about $12,000 as commissions on Nome coal sales in 1908, though no such sales occurred that year.
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C. BE. Houston
John H. Bullock
Conpiracy
J. W. Smith
Secre
Tary
Pacific Coast Coal Company of
Seattle
Houston
Nome
Wife elopes with husband’s savings in grand larceny charge
Myrtle Handecker is held in San Francisco on a grand larceny charge after allegedly taking $1,100 from her husband John Randecker on their wedding morning. Randecker says the money was his seven year savings. The bond is set at $4,000 as the case proceeds in Decatur Illinois.
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Ban Francisco
John Randecker
Myrtle Handecker
Decatur
Randecker
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