Balkan War Nears Final Crushing Blow To Turkish Armies
London dispatches report federated Balkan forces racing into position for three decisive battles aimed at taking Constantinople and Salonika. Bulgarians threaten Eski Baba, Lule Burgas, and Monastir. Servians move on Veles. Greeks near Janina and Castoria. Adrianople held under pressure. Turkish army cut off by rail and rumored resignation of Grand Vizier Ghazi Ahmed Mouktar Pasha announced. New York obituary notes mining millionaire Stump dies after elevator fall.
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London
Constantinople
Salonika
Erskene
Eski-Baba
Lule Burgas
Veles
Kuprili
Erior
Monastir
Macedonia
Janina
Europe
Bosphorus
Gulf of
Scutari
Tripotamus
Ferris
Castonia
Grevens
Verrila
Kara Ferta
Katerina
Greneva
Adrianople
Lule Boreas
Tahorju
Eski- Beba
Nazim Pasha
Mustapha Pasha
Anople
Esk-Baba
Visa
Black Sea
Turkey
Ghazi Ahmet Moukhtar Pasha
Kiamil Pasha
Council of State
New York
Stump
Sherman Nearing Death as Uraemic Poisoning Binds
Utica New York October 3 Vice President Sherman shows no improvement and remains near death. Doctors note kidney failure causing uraemic poisoning and fear death within forty eight hours despite hypodermic measures to ease suffering and protect the weakened heart.
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Utica
N. Y
Sherman
Fayette H. Peck
Fayette H. Peck, His Personal Physician, That Mr. Sherman
Mr. Sherman
Becker's nerve returns after Rosenthal slaying trial
Former Lt Charles Becker regains composure in New York as he awaits sentence after murder conviction. He apologizes for impulsive statements and confirms he will not speak against his counsel. The case centers on Becker's alleged role in the Rosenthal slaying and the looming sentencing hearing.
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New York
Charles Becker
John F. McIntyre
Becker
Miss Quimby Death Delays Missouri Kansas and Tears Train
The report states the Missouri Kansas and Tears train is held up and robbed following the death of Harriet Quimby. Miss Scott remains the sole professional woman aviator in the United States.
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Missouri, Kansas
Tears Train
Harriet Quimby
Scott
United States
Launch Big Warship New York Christened by Miss Elsie Calder
New York witnessed the christening of the battleship New York as Miss Elsie Calder, daughter of Congressman Calder, smashed a wine bottle on the bows. President Taft, Secretary Meyer, Gov Dix and many notables attended. The ship, sister to Texas, will mount fourteen inch main guns and 21 five inch guns. It is about 578 feet long and 96 feet in beam, costing around 4 million dollars when finished. The keel was laid September 11, 1911, and she is about sixty percent complete. In a separate incident, 14 year old Charles Grover of Sisseton died after inhaling fumes in a gasoline tank.
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New York
Taft
Meyer
Dix
Elsie Calder
Congressman Calder
Brooklyn
Kathleen
Congressman Fitzgerald
Brooklyn Mivy
Texas
Newport News
Wyoming
Arkansas
Florida
Witnesses Demand Lockup in Becker Case
Four informers and chief witnesses Jack Rose Sam Schepps Harry Wallon and Bridgie Webber are likely to spend the next year or more in jail. District Attorney Whitman has ordered they be kept under lock and key until the Becker case is closed.
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Jack Rose
Sam Schepps
Harry Wallon
Bridgie” Webber
Whitman
Western Union Faces $220,000 Tax Bill From Court
Oklahoma City Oct. 30 The Western Union Telegraph Company must pay $220,000 in taxes costs and penalties to the state treasury. The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that both the company’s in state property and the value of its external properties are subject to taxation.
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Western Union
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Okla
Western Union Telegraph Company
Treasury of
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Anglo German Peace Conference Opens in London
Sir Francis Laselle s presides over a three day Anglo German peace conference in London with leading statesmen from both nations. English and German peace societies also participate in the discussions aimed at improving cordial relations between England and Germany.
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London
Sir Francis Lascelles
Germany
Francis
England
Patrick Henry Kin Dead
Miss Mary Fontaine Freeland great granddaughter of Patrick Henry the revolutionary orator and former Vicksburg resident commits suicide in New York inhaling gas in a boarding house room at 62 East Fifty fifth street where she had lived for three weeks.
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New York
Mary Fontaine Freeland
Patrick Henry
Vicksburg, Mis
East Fifty-fifth Street
Robbers Take $105,000 Stocks and Jewels in Fort Worth
Thieves stole stocks and jewelry valued at 105000 from the safe of Wilson Lumber Company in Fort Worth Texas. The safe door had been forced and the break in occurred recently according to local reports.
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Lumber Company
Fort Worth
Tex
Stoecks
W Wilson
Wilson Lumber
Colonel Roosevelt Resting Before New York Speech
Oyster Bay reports Colonel Roosevelt spends the day resting to prepare for a Madison Square Garden address. He dictates for an hour then reads in Sagamore Hill, plans a late week trip to Minnesota and Huntington, and travels by a special car to join a regular train for the speech.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
New York
Madison Square Garden
Sagamore Hill
Minesia
Huntington
Garden
Rockefeller to be his own hello boy with new intercommunication line
John D. Rockefeller is installing a unique intercommunicating telephone system in his Pocantico Hills mansion. When ready for operation it will have 23 extensions and he will act as his own operator.
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Rockefeller
Tarrytown
N. Y
John D. Rockefeller
Pocantico Hills
Robbers force engineers to move train and steal express
Three youths robbed a southbound Missouri Kansas & Texas train near Eufaula. They ordered the engineer and fireman from the locomotive, uncoupled the engine and express car, and dynamited the safe while the train crossed a burning trestle. They fled with several thousand dollars as possemen and authorities chased them.
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Muskogee
Okla
Eufaula
Southwestern National Bank of Merce
Kansas City
Ne ‘ Bank
Greeneville
Tex
Wirth
J. A. Dolen
Staading
Exy
Norves
Crowder
Maccalester
Dr. Claxton Opens Meeting on Excep tional Children
New York October 30 United States Commissioner of Education Dr P P Claxton presided at the opening session of the Association for the Study of Exceptional Children He stressed the need to help handicapped normal children as well as the feeble minded and degenerate.
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New York
P. P. Clatton
United States Commissioner of Education
Association For the Study of
Claxton
Big Bank Merger Near in New York Plans
On October 30 reports said Fourth National, Mechanics and Metals National, and the Bank of New York may merge. If completed the combined bank would hold about 156.8 million in resources and 148.4 million in deposits under President James G. Cannon.
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New York
Fourth National Bank, Methodics and Metals National Bank
Bank of New York
James G. Cannon
Fourth National
Bank Teller Sentenced for Bank Funds Misuse
Wiam M Kruz former teller at German National Bank Covington Ky was sentenced to five years in Atlanta federal prison after pleading guilty to misusing 14000 of bank funds.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Wiam M Kruz
German National Bank of
Covington, Ky
Federal
Atlanta
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Katy
President Taft
Hankinson
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Charles Grover
Sisseton
Telegraph Company Hit
Patrick Henry Kin
Buring Bridge
Association For the Study of Sick Children
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