Princess Sophia of Saxe Weimar Ends Life in German Castle
Princess Sophia daughter of Prince Wilhelm of Saxe Weimar Eisenach killed herself in her room at her father’s castle in Heilelberg Germany. The 25 year old was in love with Baron Hans Von Bleichroder whose family opposed the match citing rank and creed. Rumors say family tensions and an unhappy engagement influenced the tragedy amid grand ducal opposition and social scrapes of her father and relatives.
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Grand Duke
Ernest of
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Heilelberg
Germany
Sophia
Wilhelm of
Saxe-Weimar-Eia
Enach
Hans von Bleichroder
Berl
Mance
Saxe-Weimar Eisenach
Orteheim
Don
Hermann
Pisenach
Berlin
Prin
Wilhelm
Les
United States
S Am Bohde
New York
Gerta
Yuemburg
Budingen
Beloved Mayor Gaynor Lies In State In New York
The body of Mayor William Gaynor arrived from the Lusitania and was moved to the steamer Correction for quarantine. Firemen served as pallbearers and the hearse then took the body to his Brooklyn home for a family service. A public lying in state will occur at City Hall from 8 a.m. Sunday until sunset, with burial planned for Monday.
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New York
William Gaynor
Lusitania
Correction
Frank W. Page
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Brooklyn
City Hall
Manhattan
Prominent Bourne Aids 1902 Defender Build
Frederick G. Bourne, former New York Yacht Club commodore, joins a millionaire syndicate to order a Herreshoff sloop for trial races as a cup defender. The group, which built the Constitution in 1901, includes J. P. Morgan and Cornelius Vanderbilt.
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Frederick G. Bourne
Bourne
New York Yacht Club
Syndicate of Million
Hoffe
J. P. Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Meeting After 40 Years Reveals Two Surviving Friends
In New York on September 19 at the Astor, Samuel Waldman of Berlin and Waldman from Sydney unexpectedly reunite after 40 years, each believing the other had died in a shipwreck off Australia. Both are prosperous men.
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New York
Astor
Wald
Australia
Samuel Waldman
Berlin
Waldman
Sydney
NALF THE NAMES ARE QUESTIONED ON PETITIONS
Approximately 30 000 signatures on Cleveland petitions for referendums on the Green Warnes and Kilpatrick laws were challenged by Attorney General Hogan. State investigators reported that about 80 percent of signatures on the challenged petitions were likely fictitious.
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Cleveland
Columbia
Green
Warnes
Kilpatrick
Hogan
Cuyahoga County
Robert M. Morgan
Bandit Trio Robs Auto Tourists In Ohio Highway Holdup
In Bryan Ohio a 22 year old fashionably dressed man named Duff shot at Sheriff Wineland during a farmhouse arrest after a highway robbery on a country road. Accomplices Arthur Gero and William Justice were arrested in Montpelier with jewelry watches and $45. The trio fled in two touring cars after the hold up near Elmira and were pursued to a farm where Duff exchanged shots with the sheriff before arrest.
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Bryan
Wine Land
Duff
Sheriff Wineland
Duff TélTs
Brgan
Arthur Gero
New York
William Justice
Philadelphia
Montpelier
Ed Kelley
Elmira
Wauseon
Fort Wayne
Herman G. Laynes
Sanitol Chemical Company
8&1 Souls
W. E B. Creagier
J M. Bye
St. Louis
Chicago
Luyties
Sherif Wineland
Kryan
Henry County Auditor C C Meekison Indicted in Petition Case
The Henry County auditor C C Meekison was indicted in a referendum petition case. Prosecutors allege irregularities in the petition process connected to a local ballot measure. Meekison faces potential charges and awaits further legal action.
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Henry County Auditor
Brave Women Forged by Murder or Forfeit Honor
Mrs. Lillian Gonzales, wife of a Mexican planter, told reporters she fled to New York after escaping bandits in interior Mexico. She said she had to shoot to survive, while noting gulf towns are safer and interior areas remain dangerous for refugees and planters.
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New York
Mexico
Lillian Gonsales
Santiago
Gonzales
Atlantic City
Tampico
Gulf
Insanity to be the defense in priest killer case
New York dispatch reports Hans Schmidt the priest and Ernest Muret linked to the Avoca murder plot. Muret claims quarrels with Schmidt over spiritualist schemes while police uncover a fourth Schmidt hideout on West 84th Street. Coroner’s jury finds Anna Aumuller died at Schmidt’s hands and urges NY authorities action.
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Schmidt
New York
Aschaffenburg
Germany
Ernest A. Muret
Hane Schmidt
Avoca Aumuller
Adolph Mueller
Eine
Muret
Aschatenburg
Thermeelven
Father Schmidt
America
Anna Raumoulier
Pete
Tigne
St. Elizabeth
Warren W. Foster
Alphonse Koelbie
Koelbie
Allentat
West Eighty Fourth Street
Jersey City
Anna Aumailer
Hans Schmidt
Golden Standard Reaffirmed With Decisive Vote
The House passed the currency bill by 286 to 4 to reaffirm the 1900 act establishing the gold standard as the basis of American money. An amendment dubbed the sound money measure carried 298 to 69. Three Democrats opposed final passage: Calloway Texas Witherspoon Mississippi and Elder Louisiana.
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Washington
Wingo
Arkansas
Calloway
Texas
Witherspoon
Mississippi
Elder
Louisiana
Missing witness Sarecky in Sulzer impeachment probe
Albany report says Louis A. Sarecky former secretary to Governor Sulzer and key witness in the impeachment case has disappeared. Detectives traced him from Albany to Buffalo and learned he had left New York and was believed to be in Cleveland Ohio. Sarecky managed Sulzer campaign funds.
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Albany
X. Y
Louis A. Sarecky
Sulzer
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Tommy
Bandit
New York State
C. C. Meekison
Suret
Golden Standard
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