Express Messenger Foils Train Robbers in Ark. Hold Up
Express Messenger Merrill Burgett of Kansas City fought four masked bandits on a northbound Kansas City Southern train between Hatfield and Mena Arkansas. He hid valuables, exchanged gunfire, was beaten, but survived and wounded a robber was captured. bandits fled as trainmen were ordered to Arm. Fifty plus men pursue. Burgett hospitalized in Mena.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Merrill Burgett
Kansas City
Kansas City Southern
Hatfield
Mena
Burgett
Oklahoma-Arkansas Line
Kansas Southern Railroad
Bird Returns Diamond From Pigeon Named Truth
In Chicago a pigeon named Truth, trusted by busy Loop district residents for scraps, returned a diamond missing from Miss Emma Wentz’s ring. She, secretary to the civil service commission, will reward the honest bird with extra feed after the find on her office window sill.
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Chicago
Loop
Emma Wentz
Civil Service Commission
Auto Into River Kills One Man In Green Bay Crash
In Green Bay Wisconsin on October 12 a car veered into the East River killing Louis G. Kirchner of Appleton and fatally injuring Meta Markhart. Miss Clarice Meek sustained minor injuries.
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Green Bay
Wis
East River
Louis G. Kirchner
Appleton
Meta Markhart
Clarice Meek
Gompers Focus in Labor Meet Inquiry Tied to Explosives Evidence
Government attorneys list six hundred twenty exhibits including bombs, tins with ultraglycerin, cartridges, and fuses to probe illegal interstate explosive shipments. They question whether Samuel Gompers attended a November 1916 St. Louis labor meeting. Witness Frank Schilling named several registered hotel guests from Chicago Boston Newark and San Francisco.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Ortie BE. leManigal
McNamaras
Clarence W. Nichols
Nichols
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
St. Louis
Frank Schilling
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Frank M. Ryan
Chicago
Michael J. Young
Boston
Fr. J. McNulty
Newark
N. J
M. RB. Madden
Olaf A. Trehmoe
San Francisco
Upham Testifies On 1908 Campaign Funds Totals
Fred W. Upham, Chicago assistant treasurer of the Republican National Committee in 1908, testifies before the campaign fund investigating committee. He says he knew nothing of 1904 funds, but led the western campaign from Chicago collecting 548 320.59 dollars and returned 50000 dollars from Charles P. Taft. Frank L. Smith of Dwight Illinois cites 20000 dollars from the Taft club and 18000 from McKinley of the Taft national bureau. Edward T. Stotesbury of Philadelphia reports 165 795.50 dollars raised in Pennsylvania in 1904 for the Republican National Campaign.
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Washington
Fred W. Upham
Chicago
Republican National Committee
Upham
Charles P. Taft
Frank L. Smith
Dwight, II
Illinois
Taft
Taft Club
Ilinois
McKinley
Taft National Bureau
Edward T. Stotesbury
Philadelphia
J. P. Morgan
Stotesbury
Pennsylvania
National Committee
Federals Annihilated Near Torreon in Rebel Victory
Advices report 1,800 rebels under Cheche Campos defeated 150 federals near Herma between Jimenez and Torreon. Seventeen federals escaped. four officers died, including Colonel Tello, whose body was hung on a telegraph pole. Eight federals captured. flag bearer refused surrender and was shot.
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Ladero
Tex
Cheche Campos
Herma
Jimenez
Torreon
Tello
Arebach Cleared at Baldwin Murder Preliminary
Oscar M. Arebach a Chicago businessman and college graduate faced a preliminary examination over the murder of his business partner Henry W. Sais in Baldwin Michigan. Witnesses testified but no sensational evidence surfaced and Arebach appeared calm and unconcerned.
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Arebach
Baldwin
Mich
Oscar M. Arebach
Chicago
Henry W. Sais Arebach
Fleet is Mobilized for Tide of Warships in New York
A 6000 strong land parade marks the mobilization of a Hudson fleet stretching from the Battery to Yonkers. The line includes 123 ships led by the Arkansas and Wyoming, with Admiral Osterhaus on the Connecticut as flagship. President Taft to review the fleet after arrivals and official calls.
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New York
Hudson River
Ninety-sixth Street
Central Park West
Central Park South
Fifth Avenues
Twenty-second Street
Grant
Twenty Third
Yonkers
Arkansas
Wyoming
Connecticut
Toronto temperance group plans crusade against immoral plays
A nationwide crusade to rid Canadian stages of immoral and suggestive plays was announced at the annual meeting of the Methodist temperance and reform department in Toronto, drawing clergy and laymen from across the Dominion. In Pittsburgh, J. L. D. Speer was suspended from membership on the stock exchange.
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Toronto
Ont
Canada
Department of Temperance
Methodist Church
Dominion
Pittsburg
J. L. D. Speer
Montenegrin Troops Win Decisive Balkan Battles
Reports from earlier today describe Montenegrin forces winning decisive victories on the Turkish frontier including forts at Tuki and positions around Podgorica, with new Turkish retreats toward Scutari. Dispatches note intensified guerrilla fighting as Montenegro presses the attack and Turkish troops pull back to Scutari. World turmoil grows as Balkan state actions threaten wider conflict.
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Scutari
Porte
London
Montenegro
Balkan
Servia
Bulgaria
Russia
St. Petersburg
M. Sucellinoff
Tuki
Podgoritca
Scutar
Turkey
Constantinople
Cettinje
Podgoritan
Pwlce
Danilo
Detchitch
Tuzi
Vetchiteh
Bojaxa
Tak Seulari
Fisher and Knox In U S Arrive on Maryland
The Maryland brings Secretary Knox from Japan and Secretary Fisher from Australia to Seattle. Fisher will proceed to San Francisco and Knox seeks quick return to Washington for urgent national matters and planned political meetings in Portland where Knox will speak. Astor Estate Tax Bill Reported At 3 150 000 in Albany.
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Seattle
Wash
Maryland
of Knox
Japan
Fisher
San Francisco
Knox
Washington
Snd
Portland
Know
Astor
Albany
Col
John Jacob Astor
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Gompers
Chicagoan
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Yerkes
Boston Red Sox
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Gotham
Madero
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Crown Prince
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