Armenian Rebel Assassinates Leader in London Vendetta
In London a leader of Armenian revolutionaries, Sagouni, was murdered at his lodgings in Nunhead. The crime links to a bitter Armenian faction feud and may connect to other radical acts including an attempted Boston attack and a London assassination. Police pursue clues, including a hat from The Bell Clothing Co. and a ten‑shot automatic pistol. Two men accompanied the killer, pressuring him to fire.
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London
Sacatel Sagonnt
The
Armenian Revolutionary Society
Nunhead
United States
Kuregian
Boston
Switzerlan
Russia
Sagouni
Lowell
Lagound
Bell Clothing Company
Columbus Avenue
Terrynack Street
Heston
Maes
Merrymack
Attempt on Diaz Life Stuns Guanajuato Crowd
A man named Elias Toscano fired five shots at President Diaz's carriage in Guanajuato Mexico while he toured festival crowds. Toscano was seized by Pablo Escanadon. police jailed him as investigators weigh drunkenness versus intentional assassination amid Diaz's calm reception.
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Guanajuato
Mex
Diaz
Cantador Garden
Elias Toscano
Pablo Escanadon
Toscano
Granditas
Supposed to Have Shot the Wrong Man
Cincinnati Oct 28 John Dewey a bartender for Kraft and Bauer was fatally shot by two men who escaped It is believed the assailants were seeking another man and shot Dewey by mistake.
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Cincinnati
John Dewey
Kraft & Bauer
Dewey
Captain Streeter's Case Heads to Court for Pardon Hope
Chicago October 28 Another effort to spare Captain Streeter William McManners and General Hoeltke from penitentiary status is under way Attorney W G Anderson receives fresh help from Captain Black as legal teams prepare to present arguments in court tomorrow morning
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Chicago
Captain Streeter
William McManners
Hoeltke
Captain Black
Streeter
W. G. Anderson
Prisoner Sentenced for Alleged Lands Lake Murder Near Chicago River
A captain jailed for murder amid disputes among land claimants on lakeshore lands north of the Chicago River. His mother traveled from Michigan to visit, a tearful scene followed as observers watched, with the captain hoping the truth would stay hidden from his mother while in the penitentiary.
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Lake Shore
Chicago River
Pope lauds complete liberty for English speaking nations
Rome Oct 28 The pope welcomed Cardinal Moran in a farewell audience and praised the liberty of religion in Australia and English speaking countries as ideal for Catholic growth. He greeted English speaking guests Mr and Mrs Butler and Mr and Mrs Abell of Baltimore, giving them his blessing.
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Rome
Cardinal Moran
Australia
United States
and Mise Butler
Mra. Abell
Battmore
Martial Law in Bilbao Strikes Halt City Traffic
Martial law proclaimed in Bilbao Spain as all trades join the general strike affecting forty thousand workers. Rail and streetcar traffic suspended. cavalry guards gas works while rioters attack carriages and police fire on crowds wounding several. Foreign workers flee with national flags as business slows and stock prices fall.
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Bilbao
Spain
Dusiness
Arbitration board named to settle American and Western League dispute
The plan calls for an arbitration board with Howard C. Griffiths as chairman and a representative from each league to be chosen, with the board's decision declared final. In Michigan beet factories operate rapidly to harvest beets, expected payout near $1,000,000, with normal quality and slightly below average weight.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
T. F. Burne
D. C. Packard
American Association
Western League
Howard C. Griffiths
Jersey City Baseball Club
Bay City
Mich
Steamer Manhattan Burns Near Grand Island
The steamer Manhattan attempted to shelter under Grand Island Lake Superior but burned near Peacon Light and rests on Band Point. The crew were rescued by the tug Ward. Value placed at about 850000.
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Munising
Mich
Manhattan
Grand Island
Lake Superior
Peacon Light
Band Point
Ward
French Bark Savoyard Crew Saved. Captain’s Wife Drowned
In Brest France on October 28 the crew of thirty one aboard the French bark Savoyard were saved after a wreck near the port. The captain's wife and four other women on board were drowned making this a tragic loss alongside the rescue.
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Brest
France
Port Huron
Mich
Grace Whitney
M. Sycken
Marine City
ContractorEdward Grogger Shoots Carpenter John Nash
Kansas City report says Edward Grogger a building contractor shot and killed John Nash a carpenter firing from behind in a quarrel. Relatives and neighbors attempted to mob Grogger but police intervened to protect him.
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Kansas City
Edward Grogger
John Nash
Nash
Grogger
Gas Consolidation Upheld by Supreme Court in 1897 Act
The Supreme Court has upheld the validity of the gas consolidation act of 1897. The decision against the People's Gas Light and Coke Company is sustained, and the lower court ruling that the Chicago gas trust is legal and valid remains in effect.
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Springfield
Supreme Court
People's Gas Light and Coke Company
Gas Trust of Chicago
Corbin Assumes Duties as East Department Commander
New York Oct 27 Major General Hi C Corbin adjutant general of the army assumes duty to relieve General Chaffee as commander of the department of the east at headquarters. The change comes as the army reorganizes its eastern command.
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Corbin
New York
Hi, C. Corbin
Army
Chaffee
Department of the East
Governor's Inland Assents New Duties for General Chaffee
General Chaffee, former department commander, leaves for Washington to serve as assistant chief of the general staff and soon assume command in a reshuffled duties arrangement.
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Ters
Chaffee
Washington
Milwaukee Maltster Frederick Kraus Dead at 60
Frederick Kraus aged 60 a veteran maltster and former Krane Merkle Malting company member died after a long illness from cancer. He was a chamber of commerce member and well known in the grain and malt business nationwide.
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Milwaukee
Frederick Kraus
Krane Merkle Malting Company
Kraus
Chamber of Commerce
Ogden Judge Sentences Haworth to Be Shot Friday
At Parwing ton Judge Rolapp sentenced Nick Haworth to be shot on Friday December 11. Haworth killed Thomee Sandall a watchman in a stere at Layton Utah.
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Ogden
Utah
Parwington
Rolapp
Nick Iaworth
Haworth
Thomee Sandall
Layton
To Oppose Labor Unionism
Delegates from numerous national trade organizations will attend a Chicago meeting to form a national employers' association to address labor problems. The plan mirrors the AFL in scope and aims to spread nationwide, including a constitutional draft, a bureau of education, an official organ, and expansion strategies.
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Chicago
Employers’ Association
American Federation of Labor Ia
Bureau of Education
Pacing Records Fall at Memphis Track Meet
Dan Pateh, world champion, sets a 0:06 half mile pacing record at Memphis without a windshield, beating Prince Alert’s mark by 2.5 seconds. Irn Patch then clocks a mile to wagon in 1.07% to set a work's record, narrowing within a quarter of a second of Prince Alert's 1:57 sulky record. Both feats occur within 45 minutes at the Providence KR L and Lexington KY meets.
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Memphis
Tenn
Dan Pateh
Prince Alert
Providence
KR L
Irn Patch
Don Patch
Lexington
Boy Discovers Notable Sun Spots At Edge Of Sun
Enver Oct. 28 Herbert A Howe a year old son of Professor Herbert A Howe astronomy instructor at Theayer University reports a new group of sun spots at the upper edge of the solar disc. The discovery is described as as significant as the group found by Washington observatory scientists two weeks earlier.
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Enver
Herbert A. Howe
Theayer University
Washington Observatory
Emperor to Erect Bronze Monument to Krupp at Kiel
Berlin reports Emperor William has ordered a life size bronze statue for the late gun maker Krupp. The commission is given to Professor Haverkamp, with the emperor himself drawing the designs for the imperial yacht club at Kiel.
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Berlin
Emperor Wiliam
Herr Krupp
Imperial Yacht Club
Kiel
Haverkamp
Hinself
Chicago University Rooters to Madison for Wisconsin Game
Chicago and Northwestern along with the Milwaukee and St. Paul railroads plan a special train to Madison on Saturday for about 1,000 Chicago University rooters to attend the football showdown with Wisconsin.
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Chicago
Chicago and Northewestern
Milwaukee and St. Paul
Chicago University “Rooters
Madison
Major Delmar Lowers Trotting Record to 1 59 3-5
Memphis Tenn Oct 28 In an effort to lower his own trotting record Major Delmar made a mile in 1 59 3 5 with two runners to pace and without wind shields.
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Memphis
Tenn
Major Delmar
Four Men Linked to Galesburg Robbery and Other News
John Fannan, labeled a negro, is arrested in Chicago on suspicion and identified by Lt Hartnett as one of four men tied to a three year old Galesburg robbery. William Schwab, a Vienna theater actor claiming kin to Charles M. Schwab, reportedly is starving. Rear Admiral Francis T Bowles resigns as chief of the Navy Bureau to take a shipyard post. Emma Pike sues Chicago College of Dental Surgery for 5000 over a painful tooth procedure.
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John Fannan
Chicago
Hartnett
Galesburg
LIL
William Schwab
Charles M. Schwab
Francis T. Bowles
Bureau of Construction and Repairs
Navy Department
Emma Pike
Chicago College of Dental Surgery
Mediation Sought as Amalgamated Copper Conflict Drags On
Confusing telegrams from Scallon and Heinze signal a stalemate in the Amalgamated Copper dispute. A mediation committee proposed by the Great Falls Business Men's Association will convene soon with Senators Clarke and Gibson and others to seek a settlement. Meanwhile idle miners depart to Wyoming and British Columbia as the showdown stretches on.
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Ruite
Mont
Telice
Steagele
Business Men's Association
Great
William Yealton
Anaconda Company
Augustus Heinze
Seallon
Heinze
Wyoming
British Columbia
Scalion
Fire roars at Beaudette carriage works in Pontiac
Firefighters with firm emergency hoses faced a massive blaze at C. J. Beaudette & Sons Walnut street shop after workers had left. Harry Bartlett and James Robinson reentered to fight flames but smoke trapped them. Robinson died, Bartlett survived. Loss placed at 75000 with 60000 insured.
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Pontiac, Mich
C. J. Beaudette & Sons
Walnut Street
Harry Bartlett
James Robinson
Robinson
Bartlett
Russian Foreign Minister Arrives in Paris for Talks
Count Lamsdorff the Russian foreign minister has reached Paris to confer with Foreign Minister Delcasse on eastern and far eastern questions.
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Paris
Count Lamsdorff
Delcasse
East
Far East
Seven States to Vote in Elections Next Tuesday
The report notes that seven states will hold elections next Tuesday to select full state tickets, with campaigns ongoing in Ten and New York. Ballots focus on gubernatorial and legislative races, as voters prepare to cast their choices on key statewide offices.
Penroyd Iron works to be replaced by new bridge facilities
Philadelphia reports that Penroyd Iron works may be abolished by United States Steel and contracts moved to a new bridge works near Pittsburgh. About 1,000 of 2,000 workers remain unemployed as mills including the 20 inch rolling mill shut, with 15 and 12 inch mills due to close next week.
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Philadelphia
Penroyd Lron
Vaulted States Steel Corporation
Pittaburg
Cleser
Ralph and
Roy Martin
Wichita
Kan
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Girard Trust Company
Essex County
N. J
France
Farnese Palace
Rome
Hitchcock
Washington
Horace L. Shattuck & Son
Lowell
Boston
Providence
United States
M. M. Estee
Honolulu
Weather forecast for Illinois Indiana and Michigan region
Official forecast shows rising temperatures across Illinois Indiana and Lower Michigan with variable winds veering from west to southerly. Warmer conditions expected later with southerly winds and higher temperatures overall.
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Tilinois
Indiana
Lower
Michigan Fair
Markets Report Mixed Grain and Live Stock Prices
Chicago grain and live stock quotes show receipts and bid ranges for cattle hogs and sheep, with varying prices across classes. East Buffalo buyers report firmer hogs and steadier cattle, while St Louis markets show No 2 red wheat and oats moving lower and rye easing.
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Chicago
Texas
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
St.Louis
St. Louis
Savings Bank Panic Grips St Louis Depositors
A bank run in St Louis spread after a Chicago rumor claimed a Mississippi Valley Trust loan was refused. Depositors lined the streets with bank books, but authorities and bankers assured solvency and all demands would be met. Banks closed at 3 pm and would reopen at 10 am.
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Rt. Lauta
St. Louia
St. Louis
Runa
Missouri Trust Company
Wealth in Peril in Yukon Steamers Above Dawson
A Rawson dispatch reports steamers and cargoes valued over 2 million dollars stranded on the Yukon bar 100 miles above Dawson facing ruin from ice. The ships Columbian Victorian Zeland Ian Bailey and the Will I Isom were in peril. Kerr with 150 thousand dollars of meat stalls below Wagon and will miss this year. Yukon upbound ships reached Whitehorse. Klondike gold output last season about 10 million dollars.
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Seattle
Wash
Rawson
Yukon
Columbian
Victorian
Zeland
Ian
Bailey
Dawson
Isom
Kerr
Wagle
Klondike
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Anssasain
Diag
Mexico
Alfarfat
Egypt
Smyrna
Guanajueato, Mex
Mattoon
Chester
Jas. Welch
New Paris
Ira McGriff
Plaimant
Miehtfer
Roether
Ceptain
Pope Pius
Huse Hall
Dan Pateh Dees
Te Luthy
Kaiser
Krupp
Rooters
Delanar
Apa
Siiyor
Kaliane
Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass
N St. Louie, U. S. A
Scallon
Hive
Augustus Heiner
Falla
W. A. Clarke
Patts Gibson
James J. Stttl
Great Northern
J. K. Toole
Dixon
Sealion
Prei Dent Sealion
Heinge
John MaccGinnia
Amalgamated Copper
MacGinnis
Boston and Montana Copper
Boston and Montana
Massachusetts
Rhode Leland
Maryland
Ohio
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Nebraska
Colorado
State University
San Francisco
Salt Lake City
Socialist Labor Party
Otte
Puston
Court of Appeals
G. A. R. Man
Dayton, C
Henry Kissinger
Penroyd
Troy
J. D. Sullivan
Rock Ishimd
Morton
Gates
No. SI
No. 26
St. Joseph
Princeton
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
Hiroken
Niles, Mich
Jesse Wifons
Ralidu
Oet
Thia
Chafee County
General Land Office
San Isabels Forest Reserve
National Guard
Port Riley
Santos-Dumont
Chicag
Savings Bank
Lincoln ‘Trust Company
Mercantile ‘Trust Company
Miredaaippt Valley Trust Company
Bess
Missinsippi Valley Trust Company
Lee
Mia
Studebaker
South Bend
Ind
Jacob I
Studebaker ‘Bros
Andrew Langdon
Buffalo
St. Paul
Minn
Warge
N. D
Velvet On the Sea
Mount Henry County
Kirkwood
Mirat State Bank
Tuman
Burke
A. Kr, Dewey
Schuyler W. Livingston
Lew, Money
Betracte
Pedington County Savings Bank
Lowa
Maren W. Harney, Owen DD. Monnimon
Offior
Court House
Washington, Iowa
W. M. Butterfield
Fedoral
Courta Ofice
sWeakinewa Ja
Hicher
Wilson
Iowa
Thaoe
Alber
W. A. White
PebLake Abstract Brooks
Firat
Crail's Dry
North- Swoeet Corner Square
W. A. Dewry
Citizens’ Savings Bank
Washington County
Onna Keon
Ane M. Keon
Joe
Prank Kh Bane
Onehier
Citizen's National Bank
P. J. Manley
Pea Sona
Waatinoton, Iowa
Louise Memphig Probia
ST. Josep Kangaro
Omaha
Denver
Fort Worth
Paul Minneapolio
Hasthouna Kapress
Accotind
Allan Spouts
Davenport
I. W. Rubbel
Totema
Reeiingee
New Set Abstract Books
Lal Aoregtten
J. L. Brookmart
Lew
Orivos
Opera
W. Scofield
Osteopathy
C. S. Harper
Osteopathic Physician
Klein & Co
Arthaud, Osteopath
American School of Osteopony
Kirksville, Mo
Washington National Bank
J. A. Cunningham
A. Anderson
Anch McCully
Dinsorors—B, FF
Brown A. Moore
J. A. Cunningha
D. J. Palmer
Washingto County Savings Bank
Owa
Capital
State Bank
Chas, Ohngemach
DM McLaughlin
A. White
G. Wilson
Henry Knecht
M. St P
Whset
Ago
Bex Vor
Trerremona
Gao
Hoor Trafic
Marshalltown
Huesa A
Means & Stichter
East Side Restaurant
Gasey’s
Alien
Tvrw-Ovuts
T. J. Dempsey
Dr. King
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