Rescued Sailors Lifted From Sinking Henry P Mason
A New York Yacht Club Navigator towing life savers aided in rescuing Captain A W Frost and eleven others from the three masted schooner Henry P Mason after it struck a submerged wreck off Highlands New Jersey. The vessel sank by dawn with 1100 tons of red clay aboard leaving eight sailors and two passengers saved by the Sandy Hook life saving crew.
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New York
Highlands
N. J
Henry P. Mason
Perth Amboy
Portland
Paterson
Sandy Hook
Tim
Galilee
New York Yacht Club
Navigator
C. Oliver Iselin
Reliance
Bert C. Leeds
A. W. Frost
John H. Smiley
Boston
Charles Johnson
Baltimore
Preston Grover
Tennant’s Harbor
WN. G. Mastious
Frost
George W. Coffin
Nantucket
Mass
Henry Roth
Michael Sylvester
Norway
Gus Franklin
Finland
Michael Hassen
Mason
Bandy Trvok
Iselin
Big Fux
Patterson
Mr. Iselin
Fie
Old Dominion Line
Hamilton
Hieboat
Charles Harr
Patterson Ee
Battleship Slave Launched Before Czar and Royal Family
The battle ship Slave, among the largest Russian Navy vessels, was launched yesterday at the Baltic yards in St. Petersburg in the presence of the Czar and the royal family. The event marks a significant expansion of Russia's naval armament.
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ST. Petersburg
Baltic
Fragmentary ship description with armament listed
The text details a vessel with a belt armor four inches thick and a mixed armament of four 1 inch guns, twelve 6 inch guns, twenty 3 inch guns, twenty three pounders and six 1 pounders. It states a speed of eighteen knots and a crew count placeholder.
Catholic Rector Attacks Labor Union Oath In Sermon
The Rev. P. A. Baart of St Marys Church in Marshall Mich said in a sermon that no Catholic could consistently take or keep the Typographical Union oath. He quoted the clause pledging fidelity to the union over any allegiance to other organizations. Baart urged modification of the oath to remove the objectionable language.
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Father Baart
Drownings In Rowboat Accident At White Bear Lake
Three people from St. Paul Wilbur Carlson his wife and Seth Johnson drowned when a rowboat overturned at White Bear Lake after a day of fun. They began horseplay near the dock and failed to reach safety before help arrived.
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ST. Paul
White Bear Lake
Wilbur Carlson
Seth Johnson
Martinek Arrests Tied to Hazel Orme Case and Whisky Suspect
Mrs Kate Martinek is arrested on drunkenness and giving liquor to a minor after allegedly enticing 15 year old Julia Bolton to her West Market street home where a black man named White and a white man named Star Flynn supplied whisky. The girl was found intoxicated on the porch with Martinek, Flynn, and the girl’s clothes torn. The Hazel Orme cruelty case linked the Martinek family to past abuse. Judge Stubbs sentenced them, later reduced on appeal. Flynn and White claim Martinek was present throughout the alcohol binge.
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Kate Martinek
Little Hazel Orme
Woodward
Green
Martinek
Julia Boulton
West Market Street
Star Flynn
Bedford
Ind
Flynn
Mrs. Martinek
Hazel Orme
Stubbs
Criminal Court
Orme
Kansas City
Wiliam White
White
Telluride Miners to Strike in Sympathy with Durango
The Telluride miners union votes to strike September 1 in solidarity with the Durango mill workers. Telluride mill men plan an eight hour day demand with wage cuts for top classes if refused, while 80 to 100 workers continue at the smelter. Citizens' Alliance pledges to keep the smelter running and some local businessmen offer shovel ore if needed.
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Telluride
Col
Durango
Citizens’ Alliance
Alliance
Indiana M E Conference Set to Convene in Indianapolis
The seventy second annual Indiana Methodist Conference meets Sept 9 through Sept 13 at Meridian Street M E Church Indianapolis with Bishop Isaac W Joyce presiding. Dr William A Quayle will lecture Thursday night on Sydney Carton and Rev C E Bacon is expected to be chosen presiding elder of the Indianapolis district.
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Indiana
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal Church
New York and
Meridian Streets
Joshua Stansfield
Isaac W. Joyce
George Elliott
Detroit
Mich
Hughes
Depauw University
Morrison
Louisville
William A. Quayle
Kansas City
Floyd
Michigan
James King
New York
Bacon
Indianapolis
C. E. Bacon
Roberts’ Park M. E
Meridian Street
Tinsley
Terre Haute
Women's Foreign Missionary Society
Roberts Park
Sydney Carton
Elliott
Roberts Park Church
Preachers’ Aid Society
Missionary Society
Church Extension Society
James M. King
M. E
Meridian-street
Joyce
Secretary to review Illinois exposition funds in Chicago.
The secretary reported at a Chicago conference that within a week the exposition company will have spent $10,000, and under a congressional act a $5,000,000 appropriation becomes available after $10,000,000 is expended. He will then travel to St Louis to verify spending and discuss disbursement details.
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Seceed
Chicago
Exposition Company
St. Louis
Austrian gunboat Sheria sinks near Cadiz
At Cadiz Aug 30 the Austrian gunboat Sheria foundered off the port. Eleven crew were saved by a French transatlantic steamer. Naval records list no gunboat named Sheria. the vessel likely the Kerka, a wooden schooner rigged craft of 17 feet length with two 5.9 inch guns and one 2.7 inch gun, crew of 14.
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Cadiz
Spain
Sheria
Utah Wants Beveridge Senator Kearns Says He Should Run
Senator Thomas Kearns of Utah arrived in Chicago stating the West is prosperous and not pressing for another financial session. He suggested Beveridge as Roosevelt's preferred running mate and indicated a November 1 extra session may be needed for financial matters and Cuba. Republican leaders in San Juan say Hunt’s visit to Hanna aimed to gain Porto Rican delegates and counter Democratic attacks.
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Indianapolis Journal
Chicago
Thomas Kearns
Utah
West
Congress
Oyster Bay
Cuba
Roosevelt
Beveridge
Indiana
San Juan
P. R
Hunt
Hanna
Porto Rico
Logansport Murder Mystery Involving Unkefer Family
Logansport police probe the death of Joseph E. Unkefer Jr found near his home with a fractured skull. Harry Grace is jailed on assault and battery charges after the older Unkefer says Grace struck him and the youth earlier. authorities await further developments.
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Indianapolis Journal
Logansport
Ind
Joseph E. Unkefer, Jr
Shultztown
Unkefer
Harry Grace
Joseph Unkefer, Jr
Grace
Young Unkefer
Young Ankefer
Joseph Ankefer, Jr
Streetcar Hold-Up Kills Two Wounds Two in Chicago
Four employees on a Chicago streetcar were shot by armed robbers. Two men died and two others were badly wounded before they realized they were under attack. Authorities probe motive and suspect details.
Robbers Loot City Railway Office in $5000 Hold-Up
In Chicago at Sixty first and State streets two gunmen killed cashier’s staff and a motorman, wounded two others, and escaped with $5000. Four suspects arrested hours later. victims named Frank Stewart John B Johnson William Edmond Henry Biehl.
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Chicago
Ill
Chicago City Railway Company
Frank Stewart
John B. Johnson
William B. Edmond
Henry Biehl
Stewart
Biehl
Edmond
Johnson
Shaw to Inspect St Louis World’s Fair Grounds
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw met in Chicago with officers and directors of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company to arrange for his inspection trip to the St Louis fair grounds Tuesday. He will join St Louis delegates for the tour, with four exhibit buildings completed and nine more under construction.
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Chicago
Secretary of the Treasury
Leslie M. Shaw
St. Louis
Corwin H. Spencer
August Conner
Festus J. Ward
John Schroes
George T. Cram
W. B. Stevens
Shaw
Fair Grounds
Stop Pistol’s Hammer Threat Fails at Depot
In Terre Haute on August 8 Oscar Sutherlin pressed a revolver to Daniel Shankenmiller at the Union depot and pulled the trigger. Shankenmiller, a Parke county lumber dealer, stopped the shot by lifting his hand under the hammer and falling to the ground. Sutherlin was arrested admitting the act and alleging a swindle by Shankenmiller against his father.
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Parke County
Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Oscar Sutherlin
Daniel Shankenmiller
Shankenmiller
Sutherlin
Union Depot
Craft in Harvey Illinois after Richmond disappearance
James E Craft who vanished from Richmond Indiana appears in Harvey Illinois claiming employment in a railroad office. He formerly lived in Madison and had left Quigley Dunn drug store with notes on payments due September 1. Police seek his arrest over a $6 shortage and questionable orders. He recently married in Springfield Ohio, but the union dissolved after a brief quarrel. Craft came to Cincinnati before the disappearance.
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Indianapolis Journal
Madison
Ind
James E. Craft
Richmond
The
Courier
Harvey, Ill
Craft
Quigley & Dunn
Indiana
Springfield
Cincinnati
Speedy Retribution on Ferry Ends in Tragedy
During a disturbance between striking machinists and workers in Bellaire Ohio a nonunion man Fred Williams fled pursued by strikers on a ferryboat as he brandished a revolver. The ferry gangway broke and Anthony Hollerau and William Pracht were drowned in the incident.
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Bellaire
Fred Willams
Williams
Anthony Hollerau
William Pracht
Confesses to Pension Fraud in Paris
Mrs. Clara Harvey of High Street Paris admitted a full confession of a pension fraud carried on with shrewdness and success for several years, confronted by Special Pension Examiner C. D. Sloan of Danville and Attorney G. W. Keiser of Terre Haute.
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Indianapolis Journal
Paris
Aug
C. D. Sloan
Danville
G. W. Keiser
Terre Haute
Clara Harvey
High Street
Pension, divorce suit, and jail case across three states
In Paris Hil Aug two court rulings affect local residents. Mrs. Harvey, widow of Civil War veteran McKimmel now married to Warren Incram, faces divorce from H. H. Harvey while maintaining pension ties as Mrs. McKimmey in Terre Haute. Kleiser Bros. handled her pension business unaware of remarriage due to mail addressed to Mrs. McKimmey. Elsewhere, A. F. Long Robert Morris James Glass of Edgar County escape charges for blackmail indictment faulted, while Clem Bott, Fort Wayne firebug, escapes and is recaptured after leaving Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane a second time.
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Indianapolis Journal
Paris
Hil
A. F. Long
Robert Morris
James Glass
Edgar
William Whited
Richmond
Ind
Clem Bott
Fort Wayne
Eastern Indiana Hospital
Bott
Labor to contest Mr Chamberlain’s Birmingham seat
London Aug 30 Labor party plans large scale parliamentary contests after bye election successes. The bid includes West Birmingham seat held by Mr Chamberlain, to be challenged by W J Davis a prominent labor leader and strong free trader.
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London
Labor Party
Mr. Chamberlain
West Birmingham
W. J. Davis
Mass Meeting Raised Funds for Sumner Defense in Horne Killing
A large Indianapolis crowd of Atlas engine works and Chandler Taylor Company workers gathered to fund William Sumner's defense after his July 22 arrest for killing brother-in-law John Horne. Sumner claims self defense after Horne threatened his father and assaulted Sumner amid a Kentucky feud. Attorney Taylor Groninger will represent Sumner, with a court date set for the next Criminal Court term.
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Atlas Engine Works
Chandler & Taylor Company
William Sumner
Martindale Avenue
John Horne
Horne
Sumner
Summer
Kentucky
Indianapolis
City
Chicago
Chandler Taylor Company
Bluegrass
Taylor Groninger
Hanna Improves. Senator Plans Return to Office
Senator M A Hanna, stricken with sudden illness in his office, showed marked improvement in Cleveland and intends to return to work tomorrow for a political conference with state leaders. Doctors advised rest and limited activity to the veranda and a brief lawn walk.
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Cleveland
M. A. Hanna
Hanna
Bryan declines speech invitation in Ohio
Mayor Johnson of Cleveland reports a telegram from W. J. Bryan canceling his engagements to speak in Ohio next week. No reason given. Johnson will still attend the planned cities with Mr. Bryan and fill the engagements as scheduled.
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Cleveland
Johnson
W. J. Bryan
Ohio
Mr. Brean
Revolt and Battles Reach Salonica Front in 1900s News
Bulgarian insurgents suffer a sharp setback near Smilovo as Turkish forces under Servet Pasha storm a 3000-strong Bulgarian position, with Turkish casualties minimal. Reports state Monastir and Adrianople areas under strain as the Porte presses. meanwhile Serbian and Russian security concerns rise and Swedish gendarmes demand pay as American ships head toward Europe.
Macedonia in upheaval as insurgents grow bolder
Dispatches from Constantinople Salonica Monastir and Adrianople describe intensified insurgent activity in Macedonia. Skirmishes near Salonica and Edidjevarda cause heavy losses. 6,000 rebels loom in the Vilayet of Adrianople. Turkish troops discouraged. Bulgarian frontier regiments mobilize. fears of famine and European intervention rise.
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Constantinople
Vilayet
Monastir
Adrianople
Sofia
Bulgaria
Salonica
Macedonia
Porte
Belgium
Edidjevarda
Kasteria
Florina
Abdul Medjid
Tetovo
Uskub
Seres
Unson
Dnevnik
Kossovo
Demirhissar
Kitschavo
Ghioktpe
Malketernovo
Egripalanda
Kratove
Kotcheni
Kostendil
Rula
London
Daily Mall
Balonica
Varda
Times
Saloniea
Macaenle
Rks
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MeVeta
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