Mint Looted San Francisco Officials Believe Robbery Spanned Years
Gold coin stolen from the U S mint may total hundreds of thousands. Secret service agents from Washington probe possible systematic looting, with a $30,000 sack replaced by iron washers. An employee sparked suspicions by reporting the incident. past thefts at the mint are recalled.
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San Francisco
United States
Federal Secret Service
Washington
T. W
Shanahan
Treasury Department
Secret Service
Bates
Train Bandits Near Arrest Report in Pursuit
Three youthful bandits who held up the Queen & Crescent express are believed cornered near Tuscaloosa Alabama. Police Chief George Bodeker of Birmingham leads the chase with sheriffs deputies railroad agents and other officers along the line. In Cottondale two more boys joined the robbery and a deputy sheriff was killed in a mistaken identity shooting.
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New Orleans
Tuscaloosa
Ala
George Bodeker
Birmingham
Cottondale
Alabama
Gaynor Will Details Two Sons And Three Daughters Shares
The will of William J. Gaynor, late New York mayor, leaves his Brooklyn home and 600 Royal Baking Powder stock to his widow. The rest is split two-sevenths to each of two sons and one-seventh to each of three unmarried daughters. Estate valued around 2 million. Two married daughters receive 1,000 each. note of apparent discrimination against them. A second item reports Rev U T 8 pleads guilty to one count and gets 1 to years in Cheaster prison. clergyman's son Walter faces an outstanding indictment.
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New York
William J. Gaynor
Brooklyn
Royal Baking Powder Company
Ters
Wingut
William Seward Webb, Jr
Mattoon
Ill
Rev
U. T
Cheater
Walter
Miss May Van Alen Weds Reginald Thompson in London
New York society figure Miss May Van Alen, granddaughter of the late William Astor, secretly married Griswold Thompson in Hanover Square London. The match outpaced rival suitors through simple pleasures and steady, attentive courting.
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New York
May van Alen
William Astor
Griswold Thompson
Hanover Square
London
Miss van Alen
Robert Reading Remington
Remington
Newport
Thompson
Narragansett
Paris
Carlsbad
Berlin
Mr. Thompson
Ralph Ranlett
Frank Otis
Duke of Manchester
Flood losses estimated at 163 million dollars
A Weather Bureau estimate puts total flood damage in the Ohio valley last March at 163 million dollars. Losses cover railroads telegraphs telephones forts and farm property with crops alone at 11 million. Ohio and Indiana bore over 70 percent of the impact as the 1913 flood ranks second to the 1884 midwinter flood. In the lower Mississippi crest stages surpassed all records from Cairo to Helena.
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Washington
Ohio Valley
Weather Bureau
Ohio
Indiana
Misalseippi
Cairo
Helena
Ex Mayor Alpiver Survives Auto Crash Near Papineau
Ex mayor Alpiver of Kankakee Illinois narrowly escaped death when his automobile rolled over near Papineau while traveling at about thirty miles per hour. His injuries are slight.
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Kankakee
Alpiver
Papineau
Ammunition Confiscated in Douglas Seizure
Federal authorities in Douglas Arizona confiscated thirty thousand rounds alleged to be consigned to agents of Mexican rebels on September 26.
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Douglas
Ariz
Impeachment Trial Drops New Bombshells Against Sulzer
Albany Sept 27 The defense in Gov William Sulzer impeachment suffered a further setback as D W Peck state superintendent of public works testified Sulzer asked him to deny a $500 campaign donation Morgenthau treasurer of the National Democratic committee testified Sulzer urged treating a $1 000 donation as personal and not campaign funds The high court sent Sulzer to trial on actual facts by 49 to 7 a vote Also details from witnesses Schiff Morgenthau Goodwin and others were summarized for the court
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Albany
N. Y
William Sulzer
D. W. Peck
Superintendent of Public Works
Sulzer
Henry Morgenthau
National Democratic Committee
Assembly
Morgenthau
High Court of
Jacob Schiff
Thomas Goodwin
Farmers Loan & Trust Company
Goodwin
Abram I. Elkus
L. A. Spalding
Boyer-Griswold
Horan
Cullen
Court of Appeals
Austen G. Fox
Justice Cullen
Former Mrs Gates Dies After Marriages and Childbirth
New York reports the death of Mrs J Romeo Miglietta former wife of Charles G Gates at the Ritz Carlton. She had a newborn daughter who was ill but is improving. Born Mary W Martin in St Louis she married Gates in 1898 and divorced in 1911. She wed Miglietta in New York on November 9 1911. Miglietta’s brother Adrian is secretary of Texas Oil Company.
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New York
J. Romeo Miglietta
Charles G. Gates
Ritz-Carlton
Miglietta
Gates
Mary W. Martin
St. Louis
Mr. Gates
Church of the Ascension
Jail Banker for Contempt
Lexington details a Mr David B Hampton Winchester Ky bank president jailed for contempt of court. He refuses to answer grand jury questions about funding election use and is fined thirty dollars per day while repeatedly asked to testify. A crowd of about a thousand spectators observed the proceedings daily.
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Lexington
David B. Hampton
Winchester
Hamptona
World Series Opens in New York October 7
The national baseball commission set the first game of the World Series between the New York club and the Philadelphia Americans for October 7 in New York, with game two in Philadelphia on October 8. Umpires are Connolly Egan Klein and Rigler. The series will swap cities each game. rain or delay keeps teams in the same city until a legal game is played.
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Philadelphia
New York
National Baseball Commission
T. H. Connolly
John J. Egan
William Klein
Charles J. Rigler
Francis C. Richter
J. G. Taylor Spink
St. Louis
Harry N. Hempstead
John B. Foster
Philadelphia Americans
Benjamin F. Shibe
Savannah to stage auto races this fall
President Harvey Granger of the Savannah Automobile club announced that the grand prize and Vanderbilt cup races at the Savannah course on November 24 and 27 have not been abandoned. Road races will be held if at least ten cars enter for each event, with 12 to 15 cars expected per race. If entries do not reach the minimum by October 5, the races will be called off. No entry fee reductions will be offered to attract entrants.
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New York
Harvey Granger
Savannah Automobile Club
Savannah
Granger
Nine Men Arrested in Lambert Lynching Case
Nine men were arrested for complicity in the lynching of Walter Brownlee, a Black man taken from jail and killed by a white mob in Lambert Mississippi. Brownlee was held on accusations of attacking Mrs. John Ray, wife of a planter, with controversy over his identity. Brownlee had long resided in Lambert and was described as industrious and law abiding.
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Lambert
Miss
Walter Brownlee
John Ray
Ray
Brownlee
Washoe Smelter to Close for Repairs
The Washoe smelter in Butte Montana, the world’s largest, will shut down for about two weeks starting around October 1 to allow necessary repairs. The closure will cut October copper output by about 10 million pounds.
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Butte
Mont
Rebels Routed in Two Days of Fighting Near Mexican Border
Heavy losses reported as federal troops push the constitutional army toward the international line. About 1,600 Huerta soldiers pursue, with Barroteran and Musquiz abandoned and foreign-owned property dynamited or burned. Refugees head toward Texas as fighting continues.
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Texas
Union News Service
Piedras Negras
Mexico
Eer
Huerta
Aurra
Coahuila
Maas
Mexican National Railway
Monterey
Barroteran
Pablo Gonzales
Musquiz
Harriston Riot Sparks Martial Law and Lynchings
Ten people are dead and thirteen wounded in Harriston as a riot erupts over a craps game. Gov. Earl Brewer calls in militia from Natche. two suspects are lynched in front of troops. The disturbance began at a small cabin on the town’s edge with Will Jones and others fighting over losses.
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Harriston
Miss
Earl Brewer
Natche
Will Jones
Jones
Police Rescue Ohioan After Highway Crash Riot
In Canton Ohio police saved James J P Dewalt after a car struck two motorcyclists Charles Mc Cauley 24 and William Vaughn 23. Mc Cauley possibly died. Spectators engulfed Dewalt with anger claiming he swerved illegal, then seized him as tempers flared.
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Canton
James JP. Dewalt
Charles McCauley
William Vaughn
McCauley
Dewalt
Cincinnati Markets Prices for Grains, Fodder and Livestock
Market listings detail bids for corn wheat oats hay and mixed feeds with varied no 2 to no 4 grades and exact price ranges. Livestock quotes cover cattle hogs sheep and poultry with category by weight and quality, listing shippers steers cows and calves prices.
Three Children Die In Farmhouse Fire Near Wellington
A fire on a farm near Wellington, Missouri, killed three children and seriously burned their mother, Mrs. Jesse Alumbaugh, who had climbed a ladder to rescue them through a window. The mother sustained burns suggesting possible death from the blaze.
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Wellington
Jesse Alumbaugh
Here
Alumbaugh
Hem
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