Passengers and Crew Rescued From Antilla Fire
The Ward line steamer Antilla with 29 crew members aboard was afire off Cape Henry. The Coast Guard cutter Onondaga rescued Captain Blackadder, three mates, and his daughter. The Antilla was to be towed to Hampton Roads and expected to reach today. Morro Castle carried passenger William E. Gonzales, American minister to Cuba.
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Associated Press
New York
Ward Line
Antilla
Cape Henry
Morro Castle
Ward
Havana
Blackadder
Coast Guard
Onondaga
Hampton Roads
William E. Gonzales
Columbia
Cuba
Antilla Towed After Fire Near Hampton Roads Casts Harsh Toll
Old Point Comfort reports radio from coast guard Onondaga says two tugs tow the burning Antilla to Hampton Roads. Passengers fled to safety during the blaze as dawn broke over the scene.
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Old Point Comfort
Coast Guard
Onondaga
Werd Line
Antilla
Hampton Roads
Small boats 120 miles off Cape Henry convoyed by cutter
Small boats about 120 miles offshore Cape Henry last night were aboard the cutter that was convoying the tow. The message also requested that an event be coordinated with allied forces.
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Cape Henry
Antilla Fire Prompted Tug Aid from Nearby Cutter
The Antilla carrying lumber and sugar remained ablaze with tug support en route to Cape Henry as Onondaga arrived at 8 30 this morning. Passengers and crew were transferred from lifeboats with no reported injuries, seas calm, ship expected to reach Cape Henry by noon tomorrow.
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Antilla
Onondaga
Cape Henry
Local Notes From Whistler and Nearby Towns
Mr and Mrs George J Lambeth on Saturday night for Birmingham A L Felder left Sunday for Mc Comb Miss called there due to his mother's illness Mr and Mrs John Dausey and children returned to Mobile after visiting Mr and Mrs James T Smith Wade Lane and Edgar Lyle listed as sick Ernest Norwood returned home to Jackson Ala Mrs Jeff Hester and children returned from visiting relatives Vinegar Bend Miss Ethel Rhodes returned home after visiting Nashville Tenn Birmingham Ala and Meridian Miss
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A. L. Felder
McComb
Miss
John Dausey
Mobile
James T. Smith
Wade Lane
Edgar Lyle
Ernest Norwood
Jackson
Ala
Jeff Hester
Vinegar Bend
Ethel Rhodes
Nashville
Kato declines to aid Terauchi in cabinet bid
In Tokio on October 8 Viscount Kato, leader of majority factions in the house, declined to back Lieutenant General Count Terauchi’s effort to form a cabinet. The Seiyukai plans to stay neutral while Viscount Motono accepts the foreign portfolio offer.
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Tokio
Viscount Kato
House of Representatives
Count Terauchi
Seiyukai
Viscount Ichiro Motono
Russia
Norwegian Steamer Torpedoed in Arctic Sea
London reports the Norwegian steamer Roney was torpedoed in the Arctic and the crew landed. A Reuters dispatch from Christiana fears the steamer Viking may have shared the same fate, though no ship named Roney appears in current records. Several small Viking steamers exist.
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Arctic
London
Roney
Reuter
Christiana
Viking
Polish Papers Plea for Relief of Slav Subjects
Polish newspapers in Germany publish an appeal for more subscriptions to aid Poles in occupied districts. Without extra funds, relief efforts can only continue in limited fashion. Funds raised include about 2,250,000 marks from spring 1915 and 1,400,000 marks from Polish Day proclaimed by Pope Benedict.
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Associated Press
Berlin
London
Germany
Benedict
New York Baritone to Sing Tonight at Cawthon
Cawthon Hotel official W ramdager Co. B Hervey announced that Jack Norton, a renowned New York baritone, has been secured as an extra attraction for the Vineyard and will make his first appearance Monday night with the Rowley orchestra.
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Wramdager Co
B. Hervey
Cawthon Hotel
Jack Norton
New York
Vineyard
Rowley Orchestra
Empire Offers A Week Of Paramount And Vitagraph Features
The Empire showcases Blanche Sweet in The Storm with a Maine woods setting and the first Vitagraph serial episode The Scarlet Runner. Marie Doro headlines Diplomacy on Tuesday, Geraldine Farrar and Wallace Reid return in Maria Rosa on Wednesday, and The Chattel with E H Sothern and Peggy Hyland opens Thursday. The Intrigue features Lenore Ulrich with an X ray gun, and Thru the Wall stars William Duncan Saturday. The Fall of a Nation, Dixon's sequel to Birth of a Nation, plays October 17 to 19.
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Blanche Sweet
the Empire
Lasky
Paramount Picture
Maine
Miss Sweet
Empire Management
Earle Williams
Mae Marie Doro
Paramount
Miss Doro
Geraldine Farrar
Wallace Reid
Maria Rosa
The
Empire
Vitagraph
E. H. Sothern
Mr. Sothern
Peggy Hyland
Rose J. Tapley
Charles Kent
John L. Taylor
Florence Radinoff
Pallas-Paramount
Lenore Ulrich
William Duncan
Thomas Dixon
Knife attack leaves two injured in Elmira Street fight
Hardaway Young, a Black man, and Hat tie Longmeyer, a Black woman, fought with knives Sunday near Elmira and St. Emanuel. Both were taken to City Hospital with Young badly wounded and the woman cut but not seriously. Police report the knife in the woman's hand pierced Young's left rib area, leaving his condition serious.
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Hardaway Young
Hattie ,Longmeyer
Elmira
St. Emanuel
Young
Work German Prisoners Expanded in Russia
Petrograd reports orders from the minister of agriculture to employ German and Hungarian prisoners of war with Austrian workers in Russian factories and on farms. About four hundred thousand Austrian prisoners are already under agricultural supervision, and the German and Hungarian workers join them to raise the total to six hundred nine thousand.
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Associated Press
Petrograd
Minister of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
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Greater Vitagraph
Wonderful Bartola Grand Organ
Earl Williams
Marie Doro
Geraldine Farrar and
Sothern
Florence Turner
Roc
Whistler
George J. Lambeth
Birmingham
Kato
Terauchi
Wooltex House
Hammel’s
Maeee
LEA & Perrins
Robert’ Street
New York City
Carlisle
Ten Mile
Conti
Government Streets
Royal
A. A. Richards
P. S
Worrright
Bistley
Western Union
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