Three Found Slain in Middletown Farmhouse Massacre
Middletown New York October 1 four persons assaulted at the Olney farm. Fred Olney 58 is dead Willis Olney 62 dead Alice Ingerick nine years old dead Mrs Georgia Ingerick is gravely injured. Father Daniel Ingerick questioned as the possible source of information on the family. Yeggmen suspected. mother unconscious and not expected to survive. Ring the dog led to the bodies. Police believe robbery and yeggmen involved.
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Middletown
N.Y
Washington Post
Olney
Fred Olney
Willis Glney
Georgia Ingerick
Thrall
Alice Ingerick
J D Brinckerhoff
Wurtabura
Daniel Ingerick
Ingerick
Bruckerhoff
Lfe
New York
Bowery
Brinckerhoff
Yeggmen
Olneys
Pilgrime Corneys
Lulu
David Aiken
Everthing
Alice
Mamma
Allie
Tam
Mattie
Mrs Wheat
Ring
Daniel R Davis
Davis
Dan Davis
Wills Olnes
Dan
Dalyis
Brinkerhoff
Tree Cellar
Mrs. Ingerick
Olney Brothers
Willa Olney
Ontario and Western
Erie
Willis
Fred
Father
Young Fred
Willis Olney
Brinckerboft
Iban Ingerick
Walkin Valley
Lulu Ingertck
Train Hits Motor Car Kills Boy and Wounds Five
A Fitchburg express collided with a touring car at Taylor's crossing in Cobalt Middletown Conn Oct 7. Walter G Cowles of Hartford his wife and chauffeur and two Hartford residents were injured. Five year old son died en route to hospital others badly hurt. No warning of oncoming train was seen until the locomotive headlight flashed.
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Middletown
Conn
Cal
Walter G Cowles
Hartford
Fitchburg Express
New York
New Haven and Hartford
Taylor's Crossing
Cobalt
Cowle
Mr Cowles
Arthur Franz
Cowles
Mes L A Keady
Middlesex Hospital
Warrants sought for Lawson in Barron libel case
Special dispatch from Boston reports publisher C W Barron seeking a warrant in Municipal Criminal Court charging Thomas W Lawson with criminal libel over editorials in frenzied finance, with Judge Wentworth delaying ruling until next Tuesday. Barron referred questions to lawyer Sherman L Whipple who declined comment. Also reported is the death of Delaware and Hudson engineer Joseph Marks on an Albany bound train after stopping for water.
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Washington Post
Boston
C. W. Barron
Boston News Bureau
Judge Wentworth
Municipal Criminal Court
Appled
Thomas W. Lawson
Barron
Wentworth
Lawson
Sherman L. Whipple
Albany
Joseph Marks
Delaware and Hudson
Foils the Kaiser Grateful to the British
England offers to join France against Germany as Paris prints Kaiser campaigns and Morocco episode details. German diplomacy faces French resistance while Russia is urged toward understanding with Britain. Britain’s quick offer strengthens Franco British sentiment even as Munich seeks a triple alliance.
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Washington Post
London
Germany
Russia
France
England
von Buelow
Paris
Count von Buelow
Morocco
Great Britain
von Buelen
Lematorff
M. Rouvier
Ceremany
St Petersburg
Avery
Cahe
St. Petersburg
Austria-Hungary
M Delcasse
Foreign Office
M. Delcasse
Mafin
French foreign minister resigns over Moroccan crisis
The Moroccan situation triggers the resignation of M. Deleasne as French foreign minister. Reports say Britain signaled willingness to aid France in a potential war with Germany and shared landing and Kiel Canal seizure plans. Panadonnef is absent. An Associated Press dispatch cites a British official backing a defensive alliance with France to sustain European peace.
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M. Deleasne
Great Britain
France
Germany
Kiel Canal
Panadowne
British
Foreign Office
Alance
Britain and Russia to resume Afghan sphere talks
London reports that negotiations on spheres of influence in Afghanistan, halted by the Russo-Japanese war, may restart if Russia agrees. Britain seeks renewed friendly discussions to limit each side’s influence, while official hints note no formal discussion yet. Britain aims to safeguard India via Bosphorus security and an Anglo Japanese understanding with Russia.
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London
Afghanistan
Great Britain
Russia
Foreign Office
Turkey
Associated Press
Constantinople
India
Bosphorus
FLED FROM HIS BRIDE IN A BRIDAL CHAMBER
Thomas Benton Frantz a Confluence Pa council member jumped from a second story bridal chamber the night after his wedding breaking his right hip and suffering internal injuries at age sixty His young bride Miss Alice Hyatt twenty two tended him but neither will discuss the incident which occurred after a happy wedding at their home in Connellsville on October 7.
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Washington Post
Connellsville
Thomas Benton Frantz
Confluence
Frants
Alice Hyatt
Jeff
Frantz
Wealthy Binghamton resident shoots self in tailor shop
George W. Kendal, a prominent local resident born in Mobile and linked to old Southern families, walked past a mirror in a Binghamton tailor shop this afternoon and fatally shot himself. He was fifty four years old.
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Binghamton
Uct. T
George W. Kendal
Mobile
Alm
Ind
Thadaeus Richmond Kendall
Long fight ended as Gaynor and Greene to be tried in November
John F. Gaynor and Benjamin D. Greene, indicted for defrauding the United States in Savannah harbor work, arrived in New York under Secret Service escort after fleeing to Canada. Their lawyer Kellogg said innocence is proven and the defense will start immediately in Savannah with bail discussed. Carter also noted, though civil action possible. The case moves toward an November trial.
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United States
Savannah Harbor
Route South
Canada
Washington Post
New York
John F. Gaynor
Benjamin D. Greene
Savannah
William J. Flynn
Secret Service Department
Secret Service
Greene
Gaynor
John F. Gaynor, Jr
Flynn
Burke, Moser
Ahearn
George P. White
District of Georgia
Doyle and
Riley
Grand Central Station
L. Lafith Kallogg
Shields
Henry
Weat Twenty-third Street Ferry
Mr. Kellogg
Carter
Pennsylvania Railroad
South
Montreal
Canadela
Gaynor and Greene
Honaventure
Grand Trunk Railway
Délaware and Hudson
United States Secret Service
Dominion
Stiles H. Carpenter
Quebec
Inspector McMahon
Rouses Point
N. Y
Lacolle
Can
New York Blocks Hit By Fire Disaster
Two New York blocks burned with fifteen businesses destroyed and hundreds of tenement dwellers fleeing. One firefighter injured, a watchman burned, and about 20 horses loosed by the blaze roamed crowded streets for over an hour before capture. Loss listed at 3000. Fire began in a rag shop near 18th Street and First Avenue, sweeping through 18th to 107th streets and igniting lumber yards of Robers Sons & Co as a shed collapsed. Michael Neher and wife barely escaped. Neher lost cash jewelry and coins valued at 500. Metal pipe man O Neil unconscious after falling timber. rescued by comrades.
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New York
Upper East Side
18Th Street
First Avenue
18Th
107Th Streets
Robers Sons & Co
Pipeman O'Neil
Michael Neher
107Th Street
Neher
Meyers Bros
Saloon Trust Proposed for Los Angeles System
Los Angeles October 7 a formal written proposition from twenty five leading city businessmen aims to install the Gothenburg saloon system. The plan would replace 200 saloons with 25 under city ownership paying $120000 yearly in license tax, with 6 percent dividends to investors and remaining profits to the city treasury after expenses.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Los Angelia
Cty
Trial on train shows fear of lynching in Clinton case
On an Illinois Central train James Fowlkes, a Black man charged with assault on a white woman, was tried and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. Authorities feared lynching if he left the train at Clinton, and court was held in the baggage car as guards kept him aboard.
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Paducah
James Fowlkes
Clinton
Hickman County
Fowlkes
Mystery in Wholesale Murder and World News Overview
Mystery in Wholesale Murder leads the issue with international fare including French moves against Kaiser and a British view of an insurance scandal. Inside, notes cover a death by own action, a welcomed commander, banquets, campaigns, and delayed teachers' salaries. later sections offer editorials, financials, and a vast array of society and sports items.
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Polson
Tanner
Eugene Ware
Laweson
Massachusetts
Bonaparte
Maryland
G-World
Alexandria
u—Financial and Commercial
Weston
Washington
Caucasus
Richmond
Tokyo F
Adath Israel
Washington Real Estate
Constance
Bryan
Rubberine
Barclay
Tuttle
Devery
Tokyo
Mitchell visits Pittsburgh denying possible coal strike
John Mitchell president of the United Mine Workers of America arrived in Pittsburgh from New York en route to Elizabeth Pennsylvania where he addressed a large meeting of bituminous miners. He said he saw no reason for a general coal strike next spring and touted a three month organizing tour that added over 50 000 anthracite miners to the union.
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Pittsburg
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
New York
Elizabeth
Mitchell
Desperate posse battle nets bandit gang near Wildroze
In Wildroze Wisconsin a 50 man posse pursued bandits after a post office burglary and failed bank looting. One bandit was shot and killed, two were mortally wounded, and a fourth captured after an hour and a half of fighting eight miles from town. A Milwaukee casualty company agent offered a reward and sent detectives to investigate.
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Wildroze
Wis
State Bank
Milwaukee
Train’s Narrow Escape From Burning Bridge Near Camden
Express No. 31 of the Seaboard Air Line from the North to Florida faced a miraculous escape when approaching a burning bridge over Jumping Gully near Camden South Carolina at 1 AM. Passengers formed a brigade and extinguished the flames, stopping within a car’s length of the fire. The train was delayed six hours while repairs were made.
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Charlotte
N. C
Seaboard Air Line
Florida
Jumping Gully
Camden
8. C
Denver man Phillip Stewart tipped as next Ambassador to Mexico
Denver intimates of Phillip B. Stewart say he will succeed Edwin Conger as Ambassador to Mexico. They report the President has offered the post but Stewart has not yet shown an inclination to accept. Stewart is wealthy and leads a life of leisure at Colorado Springs.
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Washington Post
Denver
Colo
Phillip B. Stewart
Colorado Springs
Colorado Hunt
Stewart
Edwin Conger
Mexico
Colorado Ings
Castro orders guns for Venezuela from French works
Caracas Oct 7 The Venezuelan government received from Creusot Works France thirty batteries of field artillery and twelve batteries of seventy millimeter mountain guns. The railway service between Baltimore and Return Ohio B Ry operates special trains on Saturday and Sunday with limited service noted.
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Caracas
Venezuela
France
Baltihpore
Baltipoore
Ohio B. Rt. Ry
Royal Limited
Hlor
Lys Servie
Moek
Reforms Confidence Staggered In European Insurance Deluge
European response to the American insurance expose is restrained. The London Morning Post notes shock at Wall Street influence and laxity, calling for radical reforms. It argues life insurers’ directors bear moral and financial blame and urges federal licensing and supervision for security.
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Morning Post
Post
Wall Street
Europe
Atlantic
Frick Committee
Equitable Assurance Society
Germany
Great Britain
United States
America
Demand on New York Life Requires Fund Return
Missouri State Superintendent Vandiver demanded that a 148 702 campaign fund contribution be returned to New York Life Company treasury under the threat of revoking its Missouri license. He also calls for a new president vice president and financial committee as soon as directors can reorganize. In New York Vandiver’s message was shown to President John A McCall who declined to comment.
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Jefferson City
W. D. Vandiver
John A. McCall
New York Life Insurance Company
Missouri
Vandiver
McCall
Missouri Department of Insurance
New York
Opposed to a Referee in Western Life Merger Stand
Chicago Oct 7 The policy holders committee of Western Life Indemnity Company chaired by A B Hicks rejects referring the dispute to a judge or referee over the proposed merger The shift follows rumors that the court may sustain the demurrer of the company's attorney and that Western Life officials would close the deal with Security Life and Annuity Company
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Chicago
Western Life Indemnity Company
A. B Hicks
Kohisaat
Western Life
Security Life and Annuity Company
Engine explosion kills fireman on Williamsport train
Williamsport Pa October 7 an engine attached to the Williamsport and North Branch passenger train exploded while climbing a steep grade injuring the fireman Jana Cleon Karshner who died at the scene Usagiotes Piquet Red Xie Sept is named in the report Attend the Hagerstown Fair October 10 to 13 with round trip rail fare set at 2 80 including admission Special trains depart Washington at 7 30 am on Wednesday and Thursday with intermediate stops on the return
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Frederick Fair
Baltimore & Ohio
Williamsport
Ringdale
North Branch
Jana Cleon Karshner
Hagerstown Fair
Baltimore & Ohio R. R
Washington
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