Pere Marquette Ferry Disaster Sinks 29 Off Ludington
Twenty nine lives lost when Pere Marquette car ferry No 18 bound for Milwaukee sank halfway across Lake Michigan after departing Ludington at 1130 last night. Among the dead are Captain Kelty and Purser Sezepanek. rescues and survivors recount a frantic struggle as the wireless distress call brought help.
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Ludington, Mich
Pere Maranette Car Ferry
Ludington
Milwaukee
Lake Michigan
Iehide
Peter Kalty
S F. Sezepanek
Chicago
Car Ferry
No 17
Pstha Kelly
Joseph Brezinske
Manitow Oe Wool Bruwwn
Secon
Skzepanek
Stieel Worcester
Leldteam
Towington Chalmept
Rosencrvnz
Enganesd
Northport
Mach Pvc
Tannere
Sl Werd
Westheld
NY Stearit
Tosrasnijy
Steward Mach
Woofe Cwnrays
Siettraid
Warren Voser
Mul Sale
Joseph Tievastt
Joseph Kooh
Kooh
Boat Disaster Details and Aftermath Recounted
The purser paid him 1000 dollars for Cochrane’s employers after delivering the boat to Pere et quette Etailroad Company which leased her all summer. He could not carry the sum and tied the money to the steamer raft as the vessel sank. Lifeboats were crushed by wreckage and many passengers in small boats drowned amid the rough seas.
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Noe
Cochrane
Pere Etquette Etailroad Company
Couden Discharged Over Insubordination in Customs
Franklin MacVeagh through Acting Secretary Hilles dismissed Frank M. Couden cashier in the Cincinnati surveyor of customs office. He was tied to the Warriner Big Four embezzlement case though no formal charges were filed. The action followed an investigation in which Hilles took part and Senator Dick of Ohio urged keeping him in office.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Franklin MacVeagh
C. D. Hilles
Frank M. Couden
Surveyor of Customs
Cincinnati
Conden
Warriner- Big Four
Warriner-Big Four
Treasury
Couden
Ohio
Senator Dick
Hilles
MacVeagh
Browne acquitted sparks courtroom rapture in Chicago
Lee O Neil Frowne Ottawa Democrat legislative leader is freed by jury after eight ballots and two and a half hours deliberation in George Kersten division. Crowd cheers as Browne is carried from court amid tears and applause. Indictment remains for Springfield trial. Roosevelt Lorimer Hamilton Club incident linked in aftermath.
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Mlinois
Hamilton Club
Chicago
Lee O'Neil Frowne
Ottawa
William Lorimer
United States Senate
George Kersten
Criminal Court
Ac‘quittal
Browne
Atjennes
Charles Erbstein
Secretarial Tumult Over Ballinger Findings Protested
Democratic investigators fire findings demanding Ballinger resign as Secretary of the Interior while Republican members refuse to attend a Chicago meeting. The report accuses Ballinger of untrustworthiness and endorses Pinchot and Gifford as faithful public servants amid a partisan clash over governance and land policy.
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Minn
Richard A. Ballinger
Interior
Balinger-Pinchot
Congressional Investigating Committee
Madison
Kansas
Ballinger
People’s Interest
Gifford
Pinchot
Congress
Sutherland
Utah
McCall
Massachusetts
Denby
Michigan
Nelson
Minnesota
Chicago
Washington
Ollie M. James
Kentucky
Duncan U. Fletcher
Florida
William E. Purcell
North Dakota
James M. Graham
Hiingis
Watson
Secretary of the Interior
General Land Office
Reclamation Service
Gifford Pinchot
L. R. Gravis
Interior Department
Cunningham
Hamilton Club Disrupted Over Lorimer Incident
A Chicago World dispatch reports the Hamilton Club split over the Roosevelt Lorimer affair. About 300 Lorimer allies may resign. Speaker Cannon was labeled undesirable by Colonel Roosevelt. President Batten adjourned the House as Cannon sought to speak amid club discord and a ban on a guest at a banquet.
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Col. Roosevelt
Senator Lorimer
Hamilton Club
Roosevelt- Lorimer
Directory
Lasalle Street National Bank
John J. Hughes
Hughes
Washington Post
New York
Chicago
New York World
Roosevelt-Lorimer
Lorimer
Cannon
Batten
Joe
Canney
Fresident Batten
Garfield
Roosevelt Speech Defends New Nationalism In Ohio
Former President Roosevelt defends New Nationalism in Cincinnati urging government regulation of big corporations. He praises Taft for appointing Hadley and Holmes to public posts and stresses that strong federal oversight protects individual rights against monopolies. He outlines need for government to master powerful firms while preserving necessary corporate role.
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Hadidy
Dr. Holmes
Cincinnati
Roosevelt
Taft
Col
Exposition Grounds
Torrence Road
Nicholas Longworth
Music Hall
Longworth
George B. Cox
Col. Roosevelt
Longworths
Columbus
Fittsburg
New York
Indorses Hadley
Helmes
Arthur T. Hadley
Yale University
Joseph A. Holmes
Bureau of Mines
Russian Father Trades Twin For Pig In Immigration Row
Winnipeg dispatch reports a Russian couple near Winnipeg who bore twins. The husband traded one infant for four yearling hogs weighing about 200 pounds, prompting Canadian authorities to intervene and force the return of the child. A complaint for immigration law violation was filed and deportation steps contemplated.
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Washington
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Michael Robnovish
Aviator Hamilton Hurt After Record Flight Crash
Charles Hamilton, piloting the Curtis biplane Hamiltonian, injured when the aircraft collapsed on the race track center in Sacramento. More than 20,000 spectators witnessed him lower a new circular mile record, completing three laps in under yesterday’s 1:09. He was rushed to a hotel for medical care with suspected internal injuries. Milton, racing an automobile, was nearby.
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Sacramento
Cal
Charles
Hamilton
Milton
Taft Honors Roosevelt in Columbus Escort Plans
Columbus dispatch reports C C Prick, secretary of the general committee, awaiting Col Theodore Roosevelt's arrival at 1145 am. A War Department telegram denying regular troops from Columbus barracks as escort. Harmon plans Fifth Regiment Ohio National Guard on standby but not on strike duty.
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Columbus
Ohio
C. C. Philprick
General Committee
Theodore Roosevelt
Charles D. Norton
Beverly
Mass
Secretary of War
Harmon
Ohio National Guard
Panama Election Delayed by Assembly Vote
The Panamanian national assembly postponed choosing three vice presidents and the acting president for Obaldia's unexpired term. Senor Arosemena, Panaman minister to the United States, recommended delay and planned to confer with President Taft at Beverly this afternoon.
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Panama
National Assembly
Obaldia
Senor Arosemena
United States
Taft
Beverly
Subconscious elopement leads to divorce bid in St Louis
In St Louis on Sept 9 the second Mrs. Charles Drummond seeks a divorce claiming she acted under the control of her subconscious self during a midnight elopement with Drummond. The former Miss Charlotte Beente returned from Deerfield Kan where the Lutheran pastor Drubbersten is based and may marry her if the divorce is granted.
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Washington Post
St. Louis
Charles Drummond
Hermean Dubberstein
Drummond
Dubbersten
Concordia Seminary
Bente
Frederick Bente
Benter
Mergyman
Clayton
Protect Wives and Parole Breakers Urged by Judge
In a Washington Post appeal Mrs. Ridgeway details years of desertion and failure to support her family. Judge DeLacy vows harsher action in future for wife deserters and parole violators, promising police efforts to arrest Ridgeway and restore family normalcy.
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Harry H. Ridge
Washington Post
Washington
Harry H. Ridgeway
Takoma
Park
DeLacy
Ridgeway
de* Lacy
Nowon
Temder
Post
Judge DeLacy
Drowned in Lake Browne Not Guilty of Babers
Today’s issue index highlights major items including a drowning in a lake case, Browne found not guilty of Babers, Democrats report against Ballinger, Roosevelt meeting G B Cox, and a judge’s rulings. The page also notes a variety of society, sports, and financial items across editions.
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Browne
Babers
Ballinger
Roosevelt
G. B. Cox
Chanter
Bride
S. A. Ashton
Miss Oliver
Taft
Bowers
MacVeagh
Maine
News of Alexandria
Weekly Trade Review
Gebhard
Washington
Willow Tree Alley
Convicts Start Forest Fires Near The Dalles Oregon
A report from Lyle Washington describes two convicts escaping from a state road camp near The Dalles and fleeing to the hills. They started a forest fire that spread in several directions endangering hundreds of acres of timber and multiple homesteads before being controlled. The convicts escaped.
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Dalles
Oreg
Lyle
Wash
Chanler Home Alone Gave Wealth To His Bride
New York reports say former Sheriff Robert Winthrop Chanler left for painting after two months of marriage to Lina Cavalleri. Gossip claims financial motives and a Russian prince’s ongoing interest, with talk of potential un reunion and ongoing separation actions.
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Will
Washington Post
New York
Robert Winthrop Chanler
Hily
Windsor Arcade
Fifth Avenue
Europe
Montreal
Otth
Paris
New York Times
Lina” Cavalier
Mme. Cavalleri
Cobourg
Sitger
Mr. Chanler
Prince Bariatinsky
Russia
Chanler
America
Champ Clark Promises to Drive Missouri Mules to Washington
In Moberly Missouri Champ Clark told visitors at a homecoming that if elected Speaker he would lead a team of Missouri mules down Pennsylvania Avenue. He urged Missouri to take a share of national offices and praised past influence while noting Missouri had never held certain top federal posts.
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Moberly
House of Representatives
Missouri
Pennsylvania Avenue
Champ Clark
Clark
Supreme Court
Abductor Suspect Detected In Abduction Case Involving Boy
Henry J Smith aged fourteen, missing since July 3, reappears in Brooklyn with John Sickles accused of luring him to New York. Washington detective O Dea returns with Smith while Sickles faces abduction charges. Police tied Sickles to another case at the Seawall where youths were detained for theft. a younger brother also reports attempts to entice him away.
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Henry J. Smith
Metropolis
Lizzie Godfrey
Datreet Northwest
Brooklyn
N.Y
Central Office
O'Dea
John H. Giekels
New York
Washington
Young Smith
Sickles
Twelfth Street
Pennsylvania
Jes
Godfrey
SicRlea
Smith
Sea Wale
Cowan
Sea Wall of the Potomac
Southern Railway Bridge
Frank Wanwarker
John Marshall Place
George Henry Contee
Seawall
Contee
John Sickles
Jack
Frank Hanwarker
Reform School
Wat the Sickles
Henry Smith
Edgar
Hanwurker
Bickles
Detentive Bureau
Victory in Fisheries Dispute Impresses Elihu Root
Utica New York Sept Senator Elihu Root who argued for the United States before The Hague tribunal received the full text of the decision from the State Department. He noted the United States fared better than initial reports, especially on question No 1 regarding arbitration between Americans and Newfoundlanders. The piece also mentions a Baltimore to Washington return schedule on Saturdays and Sundays via Pennsylvania Railroad, “Congressional Limited.”
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Washington Post
Utica
N.Y
Elihu Root
State Department
Washington
United
Newfoundland
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