Mayor Gaynor Dies at Sea on Baltic
William J. Gaynor mayor of New York died at sea aboard the Baltic from heart trouble seven minutes before one on Wednesday. Rufus W. Gaynor reports the death after nursing staff and ship surgeon attended. The incident upends New York politics as a fusion candidate's path is altered and plans for his return to campaign are canceled. The body to be shipped to New York, with Lusitania to carry remains, as Liverpool pays official honors.
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New York
Rufus W. Gaynor
William J. Gaynor
Mayor Gaynor
Baltic
Father
Hopper
Ransom
Gaynor
New York City
Adolph L. Kline
Board of Aldermen
Murphy
Tammany
Charles F. Murphy
James J. Gallagher
Europe
Adamson
John Purroy Mitchel
Howard E. McCall
Public Service Commission
Tammany Hall
Whitestown
Oneida County
United States
Liverpool
Cunard Line
Mr. Gaynor
Swedish Baptists Schedule Next Annual Conference
Duluth Minn Sept 13 The next annual meeting of the general conference of the Swedish Baptists of the United States and Canada will be held at St Paul Minn.
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St. Paul
Duluth
Minn
General Conference of the
Swedish Baptists of the
United States
Canada
St. Paul Minn
Man tells prosecutor he has three wives
Ann Arbor Mich Sept 11 David Cole forty five arrested Racine Wis on a larceny charge confessed to Prosecutor Burke that he had four wives three living and not divorced He plans to plead guilty to bigamy He married Gene Harrington in 1910 Grace Gland in 1912 and Ethel Alspach in 1913 while still married to the prior wives.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
David Cole
Racine
Wis
Burke
Cole
Gene Harrington
Ford’s Ferry
Ethel Alspach
Huerta Envoy Zamacona Arrives in Washington for Talks
Manuel Zamacona former Mexican ambassador arrives amid secrecy to negotiate with the Wilson administration for Huerta Provisional President. He states notices for Mexico’s October presidential election have been posted under Huerta’s direction. He refuses to provide further details.
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Washington
Manuel Zamacona
Mexico
United States
Wilson
Huerta
Senor Zamacona
Union Station
Fear "Big Tim" Sullivan Killed Self
New York September 11. Friends and relatives of Representative Timothy D. Sullivan known as Big Tim fear for his safety as he remains missing from his brother's home. Dr Herman L Reis, Sullivan's physician, worries he may have harmed himself noting melancholia as a possible cause for the disappearance.
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New York
Timothy D
Big Tim
Sullivan
U. S. Ship At Santo Domingo
U S sailors await word from the cruiser Des Moines commander as unrest roils Santo Domingo. Officials believe lives and property are not in imminent danger but ready measures remain in place with gun boat Nashville set to sail and other vessels on standby.
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Washington
Des Moines
Santo Domingo
Puerto Plata
Nashville
Prisoners enjoy admission day baseball game at San Quentin
1486 inmates at San Quentin took a day off from the penitentiary to watch an exhibition game between the Whites and Blacks at nearby grounds. The Negroes won 11 to 2 and every prisoner kept his pledge not to attempt escape.
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San Quentin
Cal
Watson Denies Working for National Association of Manufacturers
Former Representative James B. Watson of Indiana testifies before the house lobby investigating committee that he never served as an employee or lobbyist for the National Association of Manufacturers before, during, or after his congressional term. He disavows Mulhall’s claim of funds and asserts he never influenced Speaker Cannon’s committees.
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Washington
Col Mulhall
House Lobby
James B. Watson
Indiana
Mulhall
Congress
National Association of Manufacturers
Cannon
Watson
House
Wason
Kidnappers Nabbed in Open Day Abduction of Girl
Marguerite Carmen Repentigny Bouche nine is snatched from Holy Name cathedral school as alarmed students scream and a policeman fires in pursuit. Taxi driver alerts two plain clothes officers who arrest the kidnapper pair, identified as J M De Repentigny of Montreal and Mrs Laura Sullivan of Schenectady. The child is returned to her stepfather Albert Bouche and mother Flora Bouche. De Repentigny says he acted within his rights.
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Chicago
Marguerite Carmen
Repentigny Bouche
Holy Name Cathedral School
J. M. de Repentigny
Montreal
Canada
Carmen
Laura Sullivan
Schenectady
Albert Bouche
Flora
West Washington Place
de Repentigny
Lamar case to be decided by local courts in Washington
The Wolf of Wall Street David Lamar, arrested on request of Attorney General McReynolds, will be prosecuted locally while the extradition battle shifts to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Lamar faces hearing before Commissioner Taylor on September 17.
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Washington
David Lamar
Wolf
Wall Street
McReynolds
Justice
Senate Lobby Committee
A. Mitchell Palmer
Pennsylvania
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Lamar
Taylor
Buckner Recovers. Civil War General Rebounds at Ninety-One
Lousville Ky September 13 Gen Si mon Bolivar Buckner highest surviving officer of the Civil war, who was ill, has recovered completely. He sat up until four in the morning reading a book he found engrossing, despite his ninety-one years.
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Buckner
Loulaville
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Recover Body From Lake
The body of a well dressed man about forty five was recovered from the lake by police. He had a gashed head teeth knocked out and a broken leg. The body had been in the water about two weeks.
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Chicago
Thea
Explosion On Torpedo Boat Craven Kills Two Near Savannah
Two or more sailors were reported killed when an explosion tore through the torpedo boat Craven near Savannah. Authorities had not determined the blast’s cause.
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U. S
Washington
Craven
Savannah
Grand Jury to Probe Case in Los Angeles
A U S grand jury will begin an inquiry into the case involving Mrs Clara Melcher a Vienna dressmaker linked to charges against Prince Stanislaus Sulkowski. Sulkowski and his Los Angeles heiress bride are in Japan. Mrs Melcher's deportation warrant awaits grand jury results.
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Prince Stanislaus Sulkowski
Los Angeles
Cal
Washington
Clara Melcher
Vienna
Prince Sulkowski
Japan
August Freese
Melcher
Pattengall Defeat Framed as Democratic Victory in Maine
President Wilson calls the Maine Third District race a Democratic win despite Republican John A. Peters taking the seat. Pattengall, running for the vacancy, drew more votes than Wilson in the general election, suggesting an effective Republican Progressive coalition defeated him.
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Washington
Wilson
William A. Pattengall
House of Representatives
Maine
John A. Peters
Pattengall
May Reopen Closed Bank In Pittsburgh
Stockholders formed a tentative plan to rehabilitate the First Second National Bank of Pittsburgh after its recent failure. If approved by a committee, the plans will be submitted to the receiver of the bank, C. C. Murray.
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Pittsburgh
First Second National Bank of
C. C. Murray
Bedford Gazette Editor Samuel A. Van Ormer Killed in Auto Crash
Samuel A. Van Ormer editor and owner of the Bedford Gazette was found dead beside his overturned car near Schellsburg nine miles west of Bedford. The driver was alone and the cause of the wreck was undetermined.
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Bedford
Samuel A. van Ormer
The
Bedford Gazette
Schellsburg
Here
Nebraskan battleship boiler mishap delays fleet practice
In Norfolk Virginia on September 13 an accident in the Nebraska's boiler room halted target practice for the Atlantic fleet. No injuries reported. The ship will proceed to port for repairs.
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Norfold
Nebraska
Thaw 6 Deportations Prompt Extradition Fight
Harry K. Thaw faces extradition after Canadian authorities deported him and New York officials move to seize him. Governor Felker signals possible surrender. Jerome returns to lead the extradition bid as Thaw plans writs and hearings in Lancaster.
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Felker
Slayer
Colebrook
N. H
Harry K. Thaw
Norton Mills
Drew
Coos County
Carmody
New York
Thaw
Robert M. Chamberlain
Lancaster
William Travers Jerome
Manchester
Montreal
Sherbrooke
Samuel D. Felker
New Castle
New York State
Steamers Crash In River Ties Up Wells Street Bridge
Traffic along the Wells street bridge halted for about an hour after a collision inside the draw between the steamers John Crerar of Duluth Minnesota and the Marion. The City of South Haven and a police boat narrowly avoided the jam as the two vessels, though damaged, continued under their own power.
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Chicago
Wells Street
John Crerar
Duluth
Minn
Marion
City of
South Haven
Islands Sink With People
Falcon and Hope islands of the Friendly or Tonga group in the South Pacific have disappeared beneath the sea along with several hundred natives and a few white men. News reached San Francisco via Captain J. H. Trask aboard the Sonoma, which had run from Sydney through Pago Pago and Honolulu.
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San Francisco
Cal
Falcon and Hope Islands
South Pacific
J. H. Trask
Sonoma
Sydney
Pago Pago
Honolulu
Erie Road Fined $20,000 for Tariff Violations
Erie railroad pleaded guilty to failing to observe freight traffic tariffs under the Interstate Commerce Act and was fined 20,000 dollars by Federal Judge John R. Hasel. The case centered on demurrage charges on shipments of anthracite coal.
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Erie Road
Buffalo
The
Erie Railroad
John R. Hasel
Zeppelin Bag Killa Two Die in German Airship Incident
Two German soldiers died and a Zeppelin airship Z2 narrowly escaped destruction in Leipzig Saxony as a sudden wind gust tore it away from 150 men. The airship remained aloft but endangered, with the fate still uncertain.
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Leipzig
Saxony
Wilson Ends Vacation as Washington Trip Looms
President Wilson abruptly cuts short his vacation in Windsor Vermont and heads to Washington for an urgent reason. Cornish colony observers speculate the move ties to unsettled Mexico dispatches and possible crisis involving U S interests.
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Union News Service
Windsor
Wilson
Washington
Mexico
Priest Confesses Murder in West 125th Street Church
New York priest Rev y Hans Schmidt of St. Joseph's Church confessed to killing Anna Aumuller. Parts of her dismembered body were found in the Hudson and sent to Hoboken morgue. He claimed true motive was love and inability to leave the church.
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New York
Hans Schmidt
St. Joseph’s
West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street
Anna Aumuller
Hudson River
Hoboken Morgue
Cincinnati Markets Wheat and hay prices listed
The Cincinnati market report shows wheat prices for No. 2 red 96 to 95 cents, corn prices across white yellow and mixed varieties, hay values for timothy and clover at various lots, eggs poultry cattle hogs and bull prices, with per unit bids and ranges for shippers, butchers, sows, and pigs.
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Timothy
Stadard
Bologna
Ouslen
Big Dipper Losing Shape, Will Not Exist in 200000 Years
Prof Heber D Curtis of Lick Observatory reports the Big Dipper asterism is slowly breaking apart due to stellar motion. He says the constellation will not exist in 200000 years, and it did not exist 200000 years ago.
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San Jose
Cal
Heber D. Curtis
Lick Observatory
University of California
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