American fishing boat damaged in midlake clash with Canadian cutter
The Silver Spray, an Erie owned fishing boat, arrived in port heavily damaged after a noon chase and gunfire from the Canadian revenue cutter Petrel on the Canadian side of Lake Erie. Captain Chris Chau, who was near his wheel, escaped to the American side. He will seek indemnity through the State Department, asserting he was not fishing.
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Erie
Midlake
Chris Chau
Chau
Buffalo
State Department
Washington
Dun
Hay
Ghmeta
Frederick Culver
Petrel
Embezzling Bank Clerk Arrested in Duluth Case
E E Johnson a bookkeeper for the Commercial Banking Company in Duluth was arrested on a warrant for embezzling forty five thousand dollars. He admitted the theft spanned eight months and involved book manipulation. The bank planned to stay closed tomorrow. Johnson, twenty eight, unmarried, is the son of J P Johnson, clerk of the St Louis county court.
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Duluth, Minn
E. E. Johnson
The
Commercial Banking Company
Duluth
Johnson
Charles F. Leland
J. P. Johnson
St. Louis County
Cable to Pope Pius Fealty of Foresters to Church
In Dubuque Iowa the Catholic Order of Foresters expanded its board of trustees to eight after defeating a Canadian backed amendment preventing two trustees from the same jurisdiction. The secretary and high treasurer salaries rise to 2500 dollars yearly and all interest from funds held by the treasurer will go to the order. Cable dispatches express fealty to the church and Pope.
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Dubuque
Catholic Order of Foresters
Pope Xx
Gold Mine Sold in Cripple Creek Transfer
COLORADO SPRINGS Aug 12 W K Ryan son of Thomas F Ryan vice president of the Morton Trust Company New York today purchased control of the Portland mine Cripple Creek for the Whitney Ryan syndicate and Exploration Company. The 190000 shares involved reportedly cost around 900000. The Portland is among the largest high grade gold mines in America.
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Colorado Springs
W. K. Ryan
Thomas F. Ryan
Morton Trust Company
New York
Portland Gold Mining Company
Portland
Cripple Sn
Whitney-Ryan Syndicate and Exploration Company
America
Prosecutor suspended in Colorado strike disorder cases
Judge Owens suspended Horace G. Thurman district attorney of the First Judicial District from duties in inquiries into the Sun and Moon transformer house bombing and the Idaho Springs expulsions of fourteen Miners Union members by the Citizens Protective League and Sposa’s special agents in the Spirit cases. The judge rebuked the sheriff in the proceeding.
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Georgetown
Col
Owens
Horace G. Thurman
First Judicial District
Sun and Moon
Idaho Springs
Miners’ Union
Citizens Protective League
Sposa’ Ana Special
Etitar
Seaver
County official criticized over laxity in deputy sheriff appointees
Ralph Talbot, representing the Citizens' League of Idaho Springs, plans to seek a writ of prohibition in the Supreme Court to challenge the district attorney's suspension. The action targets the appointment of men who had not been in the county for more than forty eight hours.
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Ralph Talbot
Citizens’ League of
Idaho Springs
Supreme Court
Barrington Requests Preacher as Typhoid-Fueled Death Looms
Frederick Seymour Barrington, jailed in Clayton on a mudeling charge, summoned Episcopal Priest Rev. H. C. St. Clair to administer the sacrament as he weakens from typhoid fever. Barrington’s lawyers plan to file for a writ of habeas corpus to seek his release.
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ST. Louis
Frederick Seymour Barrington
Clayton
James P. McCann
H. C. St. Clair
Trinity Episcopal Church
Barrington
Amended Irish land bill passes final conference
London August 12 The House of Commons accepted all amendments from the Lords with two minor exceptions. A committee will meet to reconcile the Lords amendments with the Commons. The bill is expected to pass in its present form.
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London
House of Commons
House of Lords
Lords
Pope Recovered Quickly After Tuesday Attack In Rome
The Pope left his apartments for the first time since yesterday’s fainting fit, taking a two hour drive and walk in the Vatican gardens. Doctors advise rest, but Pius IX says he cannot endure total work abstention. Photographers were granted access to view him in the garden. Biest’s mayor sought a telegraph line to the pope’s birthplace, which the government approved at its expense.
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Rome
Vatican
Biest
Vermilion county mob indicted for jail raid at Danville
About twenty-five men are indicted for the attack on the Danville jail. Leader Winfield Baker is charged separately with assault to commit murder after firing on Sheriff Whitlock. The rest face felonious counts of defacing a public building riot and attempting to enter with intent to murder. Names include Wallon Hart Baker Biddle Murray Redwine Stade Robertson Bell Davis Pettis Mobaker Ison Rennick Devon Kress Murphy Vangundy Armstrong. Indictments sent to Chester, witnesses questioned, next morning to proceed.
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Indianapolis Journal
Danville
Ill
Vermilion County Grand Jury
Winfield Baker
Kentucky
Metcalf
Baker
Whitlock
Peace Baker
Keassiar
Chester
John Wallon
Edward Hart
Winfield’ Baker
Clay Biddle
Adam’ Murray
William Redwine
Isaac Stade
John Robertson
Thomas Bell
Francis
Cicero Davis
William Pettis
Clements Mobaker
John Ison
Harry Rennick
Charles Devon
John Kress
Horace Murphy
Harry Vangundy
Bessie Armstrong
E Vangundy
Ao Electrician
Nare
Ned
Thompson
Lock
Kesslar
Wild Engine Runs Rampant Across New Jersey Field
A runaway Erie railroad locomotive on a Caldwell bound branch line derailed from a grade, reaching speeds to seventy five miles per hour. The engine tore through a field and wrecked a chicken house, killing several domestic animals. a farmer's wife narrowly escaped injury.
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New York
Erie
Caldwell
N. J
Pompton
Protest Over Seizure of Mexican Gunboats at Elizabeth
Mexico files an official protest with Sheriff Cornell in Union County against the seizure of the Mexican gunboats Tampico and Vera Cruz under a writ of seizure for materials furnished to a lumber firm. The Aug. 5 seizure is challenged as unauthorized by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, which is said to lack jurisdiction and render the proceedings void.
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New York
Mexico
Cornell
Union County
Elizabeth
N. J
Tampico
Vera Cruz
Veraruz
Lewis Nixon
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Wife Left Penniless Mrs Margaret Maye Tells Sad Story to Police
Mrs Margaret Maye a former nurse at the pesthouse says she married Edward Maye during the smallpox season in the city hospital. They saved about 600 dollars from their earnings and planned a home but he disappeared taking all their money. She appealed to Superintendent Taffe to locate him, as she travels to her parents and will press desertion charges once he is found.
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Margaret Maye
Marria
Police
Taffe
Maye
Miss McCarty
Irvington
Richmond
Mayer
Indianapolis
Hotel Clerk Wounded Fatally in Danville Shooting
Don Boyle night clerk at the Brunswick Hotel was fatally shot by Joe Cummins who demanded a drink and fired when refused. Cummins was arrested by Special Officer Steward. He is described as quarrelsome with past fights including a saloon keeper incident and a family murder linked to his brother.
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Indianapolis Journal
Danville
Don Boyle
Brunswick Hotel
Joe Cummins
Cummins
Bob
Wabash Railway
Main Street
Daniel Voorhees
Juvenile court hears case of Stella Rivers in wineroom tale
Sixteen year old Stella Rivers, a resident of a Metzler run saloon near Missouri and Pearl, testified she sought escape from home conditions and was lured by a nineteen year old at Metzler’s place. Police report indicate other underage girls frequented the same venue, with Metzler under watch as investigators pursue further action.
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Stella Rivers
Adam Metzler
Missouri
Pearl Streets
Metzler
Stubbs
Taffe
Whallon
City Police Court
Taken by its father child kidnapped in Indiana
In Daleville four year old Marguerite Tucker was abducted by her father Alfred Tucker minutes after her mother’s funeral as a posse hunted for the kidnapper. Tucker fled toward Muncie, abandoning the buggy near Yorktown and boarding an interurban to the city. authorities pressed a citywide search for him. Dr. Brandon, Marguerite’s uncle, vowed every effort to recover the girl for adoption.
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Indianapolis Journal
Muncie
Ind
Brandon
Daleville
Marguerite Tucker
Alfred Tucker
Tucker
Yorktown
Bey A
Boy Nearly Starved After Kidnap by Two Men
Percy Bigelow, nine, was found near death in a box car in Englewood yards after being abducted from Fort Wayne, Indiana. He says two men lured him from his home, forced him onto a Lake Shore train, deprived him of food, and abused him when he complained. He was taken to Englewood police, and a telegram was sent to his father.
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Indianapolis Journal
Chicago
Percy Bigelow
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad
Englewood
Fort Wayne
Ind
Fire destroys Radclif & Cos brick warehouse in Grand Rapids
A blaze in Grand Rapids Michigan today wiped out the Radclif & Cos brick warehouse causing losses exceeding 100000 dollars. The structure housed valuable furniture belonging to local dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Rapids, Mich
Radclif & Cos Tours
Eleven year old boy kidnapped tale from Fort Wayne
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports Percy Bigelow aged eleven left home after breakfast and rode a freight car to Chicago. He claimed he was kidnapped but his past runaways cast doubt on the tale. He returned home this afternoon after his father sent money for a ticket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Fort Wayne
Ind
Percy Bigelow
Chicago
Woman Sentenced for Abandoning Children to Winerooms
Mrs Bertha Wright twenty one year old mother of two was fined 100 and costs and given thirty days in the workhouse by Judge Whallon after officers traced her to winerooms and saloons where she spent time with disreputable companions She left her children with a relative in Ashland Avenue then failed to care for them when one child fell ill The infant was hospitalized and the other was said to be adopted by friends
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Bertha Wright
Whallon
Gaylord Hawkins
Ashland Avenue
South
Senate Avenue
Davis
Eleanor Hospital
Brakeman Robbed by Masked Bandits Near C H D Yard
B E Christie a I V brakeman was attacked by two masked men while walking toward his train on the C H D Y line. One robber brandished a revolver, the other struck him with a sandbag, knocking him unconscious and stealing his gold watch and about dollars. Police chased leads but found no suspects as of early morning. Christie sustained a severe but non fatal head injury and would expect soreness for several days.
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B. E. Christie
Christie
Uncle Lamare Accused of Highway Robbery in Saloon Outing
Edward Lamare, 45 Laurel Street, was arrested on a highway robbery charge after police say he enticed Zeno Lamare and Chauncey Lydick to drink, then dragged Zeno into an alley and robbed him of about $7.50. Police allege Lamare struck his nephew and took the money, while Lamare denies involvement.
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Edward Lamare
Laurel Street
Woodward
Green
Lamare
Zeno Harris
Chauncey Lydick
Reno
Ind
West Washington Street
Zeno Lemare
Lemare
Senate Avenue
Washington Street
Lydick
Revolutionist Is Home From Central America
Salem Mass August 12 Captain Charles B Montgomery long connected with Cuban and Central American revolutionary expeditions arrived from Central America He was arrested in Honduras last May for rebellion but released through the American consul Interposition Montgomery says in Tegucigalpa he saw men who had fled the United States living in luxury and running the town businesses
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Salem
Mass
Charles B. Montgomery
Central America
Honduras
Montgomery
Tegucigalpa
United States
Two More Victims Rise From Park Accident Toll
Philadelphia reports Samuel L. Kelley aged eleven died today from injuries suffered in Saturday's National League Baseball Park accident. He is the tenth victim. Hayden aged thirty three, injured in the same incident, died today, making the eleventh death.
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Philadelphia
Samuel L. Kelley
Young Kelley
Hayden
Brazil Bolivian pact ends border disputes over Acre
In Rio de Janeiro on August 12 Brazil and Bolivia announced a settlement of their difficulties. Bolivia will acknowledge Brazil's sovereignty over much of Acre. Brazil will pay indemnity for Bolivian military expenditures and construct a river harbor and a Madrea railway from Madre to Mamore.
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Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Bolivia
Acre
Madre
Mamore
Madrea
Interurban Link Opened Between Indiana and Ohio
Richmond Indiana August 12 the opening of an electric interurban link between Indiana and Ohio drew about 10000 locals and many regional officials to Glen Miller Park. Governor Durbin and Governor Nash were delayed but sent regrets. Indianapolis officials Bookwalter Logsdon and others spoke on regional progress and future prospects as fireworks closed the celebration with a long return journey planned through Ohio toward Buffalo and beyond.
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Richmond
Ind
Indiana
Ohio
Durbin
Nash
Inlis
W. T. Durbin
Bookwalter
Glen Miller Park
Witfield Jessup
Indianapolis
C. A. Bookwalter
E. D. Logsdon
H Jon
H. ©. Mesgrew
Charles Mire
Board der Public Works
Don Keller
Board of Public Safety
John Mooe
John McGaughey
Thomas Ford
Harry B. Smith
Fred Shepard
John W. C. Chipman
Gene General
Indianapolis & ‘Mh
Greenfield
E. P. Thayer
Aqusenl
W. W. Webb
Horace Barnett
J. Ward Walker
W. R. McKowan
Charles Bond
Gialice
Hancock Rocker Age
T. Wilkers
Frank Dovey
W. C. Gourley
J. Pinner
E M
Dublin
Cambridge
Echmond
Wescot
Dayton
Valentine Winters
Dayton & Western
Queen City
Springfield
Columbus
Portsmouth
Toledo
Newark
Wheeling
W. Va
Buffalo
Georgia Prison Scandal Trials Hear Testimony
Georgia prison commission finished taking testimony in the case of alleged excessive cruelty by Warden Allagood at Milledgeville. Witnesses described punishment including whipping and forced field work to show strict control, while other evidence praised his humanity and character. The volume of evidence will be reviewed this week for a report to Governor Terrell.
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Milledgeville, Ga
Georgia Prison Commission
Allagood
Terrell
Miss de Crise
Georgia Senate Bans Whipping of Female Prisoners
In Atlanta on August I the Georgia Senate approved a bill prohibiting the whipping of female prisoners in the state. The measure targets corporal punishment and aims to align state practices with evolving penal norms.
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Atlanta
Georgia Senate
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Balla
Will
Pope Pius
Cripple Creek
Whitee
Seenhelm
Colorado
Pope
Elisabeth, N. J
City Hospital Pesthouse
Grand Rapids
Judge Whallon
B. EF. Christie
Brakeman
Entices
Young
Zeno Lamare
Revolutionist
Sweet Peace Reigns
Bolivar
Gov. Nash
Cleveland
Georgia
Warden Allagood
Miss de Crins
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