Mobile Stricken by Tropical Hurricane Floods and Fire
A Mobile Alabama dispatch reports a tropical hurricane that raged for 48 hours, flooding the city to seven feet and damaging 5,000 houses with losses near 3 million dollars. The storm disrupted shipping with sunken steamers including the Revenue Cutter Alert, halted commerce, and caused martial law. Many lives feared lost, particularly among Black residents, and widespread destruction extended to churches, hotels, rails, and warehouses.
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Royal Street
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Moore City
Camden
United States Revenue Cutter
Ohio Bank Wreck Leaves Depositors in Distress
Middleport Ohio faces bank failure as deposits totaling about 115000 vanish with only 3000 the largest single sum. President E C Fox fled to Toronto. Vice President Armentrout arrested. Public fear grows as details reveal poor depositors, a private bank, and a bank vault short of funds. Fox later located, arrest of Armentrout ordered, and the bank’s assets suggest only a fraction of deposits may be recoverable.
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Toronto
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Thomas H Arrmentrout
Gallipolia
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W .F Reed
Farmers’ Bank and Trust Company
Bank Clerk Goes to Jail Indicted for Defrauding Firm
Robert B. Snow twenty four of 10 West 10th street indicted for grand larceny arising from an alleged theft of 3500 from the banking firm of Thomas E Buck. Snow was arrested and will be arraigned following the complaint by Henry E Buck claiming the act occurred around September 20 Show.
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York
Robert B .Snow
West 10Th Street
Henry EH Buck
Thomas E Buck
Will contest may loom over Goelrichs estate
New York September 9 action foreshadowing a will contest was filed in Surrogate Fitzgerald court on behalf of Hermann Goelrichs Jr fifteen-year-old son to appoint a guardian for protecting his interests in the estate. Goelrichs died at sea September 1 and in his will cut off his widow, leaving only personal effects to the son and distributing the remainder to relatives.
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Hermann Gelrichs
Fitzgerald
Hermann Goelrichs
Qdirichs
Tragic Toledo Fire Claims 14 Month Old Victim
Special to The Washington Post reports a Toledo incident where a 14 month old child, son of George Wenz of 183 Hanover Street, died after a shows of playing with leaves and straw. A four year old buried the baby in a pile set ablaze as part of a make believe rescue. The fatal blaze occurred around 9 am and the child died within a half hour. The article also mentions Norfolk and Western Railway schedule changes effective September 30 with fare 1.25 for round trips between Washington and Baltimore, plus a Saturday Sunday service detail, all in the same clipped dispatch.
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Washington Post
Toledo
Ohio
Hanover Street
George
Wenz
Nate
Bertha Beilstein Escape Sparks Dixmont Inquiry
Five attendants at Dixmont Insane Asylum were dismissed after Bertha Beilstein’s escape last Sunday. A nurse confessed to aiding the plan, handling money and making a wax key impression for the fire escape. A corset cover with a forged sender’s name, used to smuggle a new key, was found in Beilstein’s room. Dr Henry Hutchinson is in New York tracing the fugitive.
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Washington Post
Pittsburg
Dixmont Insane Asylum
Bertha Beilstein
Allegheny
Mise Bollstein
Henry Hutchinson
New York
Gourdain Starts Bank Amid Court Fight in Chicago
Louis A. Gourdain, famed eccentric, opens a bank in Chicago to fund his dream of a private jail near Joliet. He plans a cashier’s checks savings system paying 4 percent, while illness and a damages suit by architect Frederick Lindquist hinder progress. B. H. Mullen, cashier, promotes $1 to $10,000 checks and a leather pocketbook for money and cashiers’ checks.
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Washington
Chicago
Louis A. Gourdain
Joliet
Istrana
Gourdain
Auditorium Annex
Prederick Lindquist
B. H. Mullen
Mullen
Iffone
Pursuit of Bandits Nets Mexican Troops Toward Jiminez
Eagle Pass reports Co Aguilas under Mexican command telephones from Jiminez that bandits who seized the town night before last are headed east in pursuit. One hundred twenty Saltiloy troops led by Lieut. Antonio Rojo moved to Edgte Pasta and reached Jiminez after midnight. two hundred Monteroy cavalry expected at border. Diaz silent.
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Tex
Co. Aguilas
Jimfinez
Saltiloy
Artonio Rojo
Edgte Pasta
Saltillo
Jiminesz
Monteroy
Bomb Dropped Through Skylight In New York Tenement
In New York a bomb shattered a skylight over a grocer Salvatore Campisi’s store on First Avenue near Sixty third Street. Campisi, his wife, brother, and two children were at dinner when the blast buried them. Police rescued the dazed family, who survived with minor injuries, after three threatening “black band” letters demanding 3500 were found.
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Sixtythird Street
Salvatore Campisi
Campisi
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Campisia
Federal Official Prober Investigates Political Activity
Washington Post special from Wilmington reports Johny Thomas Doyle of the Civil Service Commission arriving to examine federal officials and attaches for alleged pernicious political activity. He questioned officials including Deputy Collector Titus and others, then summoned them to the Federal building for separate interviews. Doyle to report to the commission tomorrow.
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Washington Post
Wilmington
Del
Johny Thomas Doyle
Civil Service Commission
Washington
Register of Wills
Frederick H Bach
Aesist
Port Titus
Port Clark
Doyle
Boutal
Federal
Commission
Batonyi Returns From Europe With Bride in Tow
Aurel Batonyi the horseman and whip arrived in New York with his bride Mrs Burke Roche after months abroad, denying living under an assumed name. They immediately headed to Newport where Batonyi owns a farm while society debates the sensational marriage from July.
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New York
Aurel Batonyi
Burke- Roche
Frank Work
Europe
Newport
Thaw's Petition Denied by New York Justice
Justice Bischof denied Harry K Thaw's petition to transfer his case from the Court of General Sessions to the Supreme Court The judge found no extraordinary questions in the Thaw matter and noted Thaws has a new lawyer Clifford Hartridge engaged Adolph Marks of Chicago called at the Tombs this afternoon Mrs Van Rensselaer Cruger and Mrs George Lauder Carnegie visited Thaw.
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New York
Fustice Bischof
Supreme Court
Harry K. Thaw
Court of General Seastatic
Harry Thaw
Clifford Hartridge
Adolph Marks
Chicago
Marks
van Renssseler Cruger
George Lauder Carnegie
Affianced Couple Eloped From Wedding Plans
An Atlanta couple eloped to wed in Tennessee on September 2. The bride's father protested, questioning why they could not wait, while the bride claimed she ran away to avoid her father’s marriage to her before. The trunk she requested was on its way.
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Atlanta
Jacks
Tenn
Dad B. D. Spratt
Anderson
Dr Richardson
Plot to assassinate Emperor Nicholas at palace grounds
Petersburg reports a fatal plot uncovered in the Alexandra Palace quarters at Peterhof. Two armed terrorists were arrested with a servant and his son implicated in smuggling them past guards. Emperor Nicholas was expected to return this week. officials fear a planned ambush during recreation with his children. A wider crackdown followed in St Petersburg as Polish activists spread terror tactics.
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St Petersburg
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Velisivetgrad
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Gar Titon
Taggart Indorses Hearst Nomination for New York Governor
Indianapolis Sept 28 Thomas Taggart chairman of the Democratic National Committee comments on William Randolph Hearst's nomination for New York governor He says a party should support its nominee and if New York Democrats chose a candidate they did not want they must accept Buffalo's selection and back his bid.
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Thomas Taggart
Democratic National Committee
William Randolph Hearst
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New York
Democratic Party
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Buffalo
Municipal Ownership League Backs Hughes for Governor
The Municipal Ownership League announced it will run a third state ticket with Charles B. Hughes as head. An executive committee including A. M Da Beck James EL Smith Dennis Mcaway John PF Lee and Daniel Browne was named to organize the effort.
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Dorse Hughes
New York
Charles B. Hughes
A. M da Beck
James EL Smith
Dennis Mcaway
John PF. Lee
Daniel Browne
Bride of Chinese laborer weds in Chinatown tent
Ella Clemmens daughter of late U S Judge Clemmens tells of her marriage to Sun Yue a laborer in Chinatown amid ruins. She years previously sold newspapers on Frisco streets and now lives in a tent with her celestial husband. The marriage followed Chinese rites under legal white Chinese restrictions, and she claims happiness.
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Frisco
Sun Yue
Apsclal
Washington
Fen Frangesco
Chinatown
Hila Clemmens
Howard Gould
Katherine Clemmens
Celestial
Hla Glemmena
United States
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Presidio
Tam Marriea Airf
Aho
Bmron Clemmons
California
Runaway wagon injures area schoolgirls at Cross street bridge
In Psilant, Michigan on September 28 a group of Mech school society girls blindfolded in a carry-all caused a sensational crash on Cross street bridge. Mills Hadith Burke, a high school student, was fatally injured or gravely hurt along with several companions who suffered serious injuries. The wagon struck the railing and scattered the girls across the bridge, Burke later found unconscious with multiple fractures.
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Mech School Society
Cross Street
Murder Suspicion After Wife Slain in Hotel Sleep
In Minneapolis the husband Henry Bussnen was jailed after confessing to murdering his young wife who lay asleep in a Glenwood Hotel room last Wednesday morning. Police recovered Suasman later found in a Nashville Hotel robe, unconscious with five gas jets on, revived, and jailed. He claimed he sought to force her to testify in a forgery case in La Crosse. quarrels began all night before the shooting.
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Bomb for Lord Rothschild Rumor Circulates in London
Special cable dispatch reports a rumor in the East End that Rothschilds plan to bomb Lord Nathan Rothschild at a great synagogue event. Lord Rothschild dismisses the rumor, saying he has taken no part in promoting Russian loans or stock holdings.
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Rossiana
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Great Synagogue
Rottschalga
Russia
Mutual ballots must be reprinted for election use
Four hundred thousand blanket ballots printed by the Mutual Life Insurance Company for tretees in the coming election were found useless. The law requires naming nominees and proxy committee members with addresses on each ballot, printed in at least ten languages and mailed to distant countries. Voting begins October 18.
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Mutual Life Insurance Company
Elopement Ends in Suicide in Paterson Boarding House
Earl Brigham, 27, who fled Greene New York with married woman Cora Hackett, killed himself in a Paterson boarding house after a failed attempt to murder Hackett. Out of work and short of money, Brigham attacked Hackett with scissors and shot himself, while Hackett defended herself and suffered injuries to her hands.
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Earl Brigham
Greene
Cora E Hackett
Brigham
Luray Caverns Trip From Baltimore and Cal Sta
Commuter notice details a Sunday excursion from Baltimore and California station at 8:05 p m to Luray Caverns and back with transfer and admission included. Departure is 6 p m the same day. Houseware showcase at Henderson's features draperies and carpets.
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Caverns
Baltimore & Cale
Luray
Judge Adams Named for Congress by Georgia Dems
Samuel B. Adams of Savannah was nominated by acclamation at the First District Democratic convention in Waynesboro Ga. Seven hundred ballots were cast with Adams indicating he may not run. The district’s late representative Rufus Lester died after a fall through a skylight in Washington last spring.
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Samuel B. Adams
Savannah
Rufus Lester
Washington
President's Son Accused in Boston Assault Incident
Special to The Washington Post Boston September 28 Theodore Roosevelt son of the President and Harvard sophomore faces probable arrest for disorderly conduct and alleged assault on Reserve Policeman Fraher near Boston Common. Police report says Roosevelt, with three Harvard companions, helped subdue the officer after tripping him. injuries include a fractured left forearm and facial wounds. Police Commissioner O'Meara says a warrant will be issued tomorrow.
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O'Meara
Socialists Favor Sympathy Resolutions at Mannheim Convention
Mannheim Germany Sept 28 At today’s session of the Social Dem ocratic party convention resolutions were adopted expressing sympathy with the Russian revolutionists. It was also decided not to use a general strike as a political weapon. By a vote of 86 to 6 the convention determined not to demonstrate on May Day in support of Russian revolutionists, deeming such demonstrations largely futile.
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Germany
Social-Democratic Party
Russia
Ban on American Pork and Germany’s Inspection Rule
Hamburg report notes U S pork importation halted after Congress failed to fund meat inspection Germany will not admit American pork without an inspection certificate situation reflects tightening controls on imports وي
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Washington Post
Hamburg
United States
Congress
Sinai boundary dispute settled with Turkish troop withdrawal
Jerusalem Sept 28 The boundary dispute between Great Britain and Turkey is resolved with signed maps from Constantinople agreement. Turkish troops at Kaselmeh, deemed a key strategic point, are withdrawn. Trustees of East Washington Savings Bank invite public to inspect new building at 312 Paavese with an opening event.
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Turkey
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Intervention in Guba Today Sets Cuban Provisional Step
Taft proclaims appointment making him military governor Palma weeps refusing plea to reconsider resignation. Majority lawmakers refuse to reconvene halting provisional president election and ending the First Cuban Republic.
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Con- Breas
Last Day of Republic Pavia Rejects Cuban Plea
The Cuban Congress rejects reconsideration of resignation, Greta caucus sides with resignation forcing American intervention. Marines land to guard the treasury and a Taft proclamation, naming a military governor, is expected today. Governor Winthrop of Porto Rico to become civil governor upon order restoration.
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Taft
Himes
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Porto Reo
Cuba
American Intervention Plans After Cuban Congress Walkout
Havana reports focused on anticipated U S intervention after Cuba’s Congress refused to attend the resignations of the government. Taft Bacon and a naval and military force moved quickly to secure key sites, with naval ships and Cuban rural guards coordinating to maintain order as plans for a provisional military government were prepared under Taft.
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Ladd
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Rodriguez
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Maj Ladd
Pino Guerra Leynas del Castillo
Mght
la Lisa Hotel
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