Woolen chief indicted in dynamite plot tied to Lawrence strike
Boston August 30. William M Wood head of the American Woolen company was indicted for conspiring to distribute dynamite in Lawrence during the winter strike. He surrendered with $5,000 bail, denying any connection and promising full proof later. The firm controls 33 plants, $75,000,000 capitalization, and about 15,000 workers in Lawrence.
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Boston
Wm. M. Wood
American Woolen Company
Lawrence
Wood
New England
New York State
Mr. Wood
Dennis Collins
Cambridge
Delays Hayes Gage I Counsel Move Case Hearing
A legal filing argues for delaying proceedings as counsel seeks to have the case heard by another deputy commissioner. The move aims to change the judge or official overseeing the matter and may affect scheduling and venue.
Roosevelt in Vermont assails Penrose and Archbold in speeches
Col Theodore Roosevelt campaigned through Bennington Manchester Rutland and Arlington Vermont assailing Senator Penrose and John D Archbold. He read Archbold and Penrose testimony and accused them of blackmail and corruption while urging Vermont to lead the progressive push.
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Burlington
Theodore Roosevelt
Vermont
Bennington
Manchester
Rutland
Arlington
Senator Penrose
John D. Archbold
Archbold
Penrose
Senate Committee
Europe
Messrs
Bliss
Standard Oil Company
Abe Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Big Onion Record: Expense of Working Is 870 Per Acre
Devonport Iowa August 30 Scott county produced the county s largest onion crop on record with 330 009 bushels from 300 acres about 1100 bushels per acre Field price averaged 40 cents yielding 440 per acre and 122 000 total for growers. Working cost per acre about 70 leaving net profit of 270 per acre. The red onion district lies along the Mississippi in Pleasant Valley township.
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Devonport
Scott County
Mississip River
Pleasant Valley
Borah Denies Support for Taft in Spokane Visit
Senator Borah of Idaho denied reports he would campaign for Taft after returning from Washington. He stated such claims were unauthorized and that he would advocate progressive policies while staying loyal to the party. He planned to spend time in Idaho awaiting the election and declined a Spokane Republican committee invitation.
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Spokane
Wash
Borah
Idaho
Washington, D. C
Taft
Chicago
New York
National Committee
Republican County Central Committee
U S Marines Reinforce Nicaragua Amid Telegraph Strikes
In Corinto and along the Nicaraguan coast, U S Marines and bluejackets arrive or sail to restore rail and telegraph links. reinforcements total over two thousand ashore and afloat as tensions rise between government and rebels.
Farm Land Sold At 1900 An Acre In Iowa
La Porte City Iowa August 30 M E Hunter of Dike sold five acres of a 219 acre farm near town to John Sime of Minneapolis for 9500 a total. The tract will not be used for farming as it contains a gravel pit. Hunter refused 200 an acre for the remainder. Miners Fall Down Shaft in Gelsenkirchen Five coal miners were killed and another injured when a wooden platform collapsed in a shaft at Gelsenkirchen Prussia today.
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la Porte City
M. E. Hunter
Dike
John Sime
Minneapolis
Gelsenkirchen
Prussia
Taft Passes Through Cleveland En Route to Beverly
President Taft rode through Cleveland at 7 30 a m on his way from Columbus to Beverly. Police and crowd control marked the stop as the Old Reliable Big Head Cigar era of travel continues.
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Taft
Beverly
Cleveland
Columbus
Baverly
Seven Die As Fire Sweeps Rutherford Home
Rutherford New Jersey August 30 Mrs Emilio Debaro and six of her seven children aged five months to twelve years died in a morning fire that destroyed their two story frame home. Debaro and his thirteen year old son escaped by leaping from a second story window as flames trapped the family. Five bodies were found in a heap near the center of the building. Firemen believe a spark from a passing locomotive started the blaze.
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Rutherford
N. J
Emilio Debaro
Debaro
Ndebaro
Butler Co man claims oldest Iowa birth record
Des Moines notes pioneers day at the fair with claims from Hon John Cousins of Butler County to be the first white child born in Iowa. William Coop also asserts a 1837 birth, two months earlier, with Cousins requesting credentials as proof. The two prepare to repeat the dispute next year.
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Des Moines
Weater
Iowa
Pioneer
John Cousins
Butter County
Cousins
Death In Seattle Shrouds Louis Potter Case
New York sculptor Louis Potter died in Seattle after treatment for a skin disease by a Chinese physician. Coroner J C Snyder ordered stomach chemical analysis and began blood tests to rule out poison from herbs given by the practitioner. Potter traveled under the name Percy and introduced a woman as his wife at the hotel.
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Seattle
Louis Potter
New York
J. ©. Snyder
Snyder
Potter
Wash
Bis
Percy
J. C. Snyder
Speeders Convict Themselves With New Lights Plan
Los Angeles officials consider an ordinance urged by the police to install speed directing devices on automobiles. The proposed system uses red white and green lights to indicate speed: white at sight, green at fifteen, red at twenty. white and green at twenty to thirty. all three at over thirty miles per hour, signaling the corner police.
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Los Angeles
Cal
McQuilkin Family Reunion Held Near La Porte City
The fifth annual McQuilkin family reunion gathered at Husman’s Rifles on the river two miles from La Porte City with over fifty attendees. Outdoor sports and a noon dinner marked the day, with relatives from Waterloo and Galt present. A permanent organization was formed with 28 officers led by President John McQuilkin and Vice President J B Stewart. The group voted to hold next year’s reunion on the last Thursday in June.
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la Porte City
McQuilken
Husman
la Porte
Renal
Waterloo
J. K. McQuilkin
J. J
Kirk Stewart
J. B. Write
Levit Woodley
Galt
John McQuilkin
Ta Porte
J. B. Stewart
Misa Evelyn McQuilkin
Treasuer— Porte
Greer McQuilkin
Diving Girl Collapses After Forced Dive
Tex Moines August 30 Miss May Stanley 22 known as May Swanson collapsed in the humane society office where she sought help to force her employer at the fair grounds diving act to pay what she was owed. Her brother W J Stanley and the show travelled with the act. She had been ill and was forced to continue the act before being discharged. Penniless they sought lodging at the police station then humane offices. Police surgeons Dr Glen and Quy Clift attended her and moved her to the matron's ward where she recuperates.
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Tex Moines
May Stanley
May Swanson
the Humane Society
W. J.stanley
Miss Stanley
Humane Office
Wreck Kills Four after Flagman Warning Ignored
Four men died and one fatally injured when a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train collided with a work train clearing a prior wreck near Conway. The dead include engineer A. Coughenour of Cleveland and three laborers. Officials say a flagman warned the passenger, but the warning was disregarded.
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Vittabureh
Pa. Ang
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Cleveland and
Conway
Coughenour
Cleveland
Awoke Clinging to Window Ledge in Chicago
Chicago Aug 30 Walter Richter a 36 year old hotel proprietor and sculptor from Germany awoke clinging to a third story window ledge on Washington street near city hall after a sleepwalking episode He exhausted by shouting for help fell injuring himself The Berlin son had come from Burneton Iowa with his dachshund as sole companion Police secured the dog and took charge of the animal Somnambulism offered as explanation for the perilous incident.
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Chicago
Walter Richter
Washington Street
City Hall
Richter
Berlin
Bur-neton
Seidel Accepts His Nomination
Neil Seidel of Milwaukee, the vice presidential nominee for the Social Democratic party, publicly released his formal acceptance letter. No ceremony occurred as he campaigned in New England states delivering speeches for his ticket.
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Milwaukee
Neil Seidel
Social Democratic Party
Suffrage Orator Out for Wilson
St Louis Aug 30 Mrs Anita Calvert Bourgeoise attorney genealogist and suffrage orator will depart for Chicago tonight to enlist as a campaign speaker for Woodrow Wilson. Her faith in Governor Wilson rests on the belief he will support equal suffrage once president.
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St. Louis
Anita Calvert
Bourgeoise
Chicago
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
New Jersey
Hurt in threshing machine pulley incident
Aug. 30 Lesup, Ta Special Frank Olinger a skilled machinist was badly injured by a pulley on a threshing machine and is improving but will miss work for some time Temple Tex Aug 30 a train derailed north of Temple when it left the track one fatality two serious injuries and fifteen minor injuries as mail car and two coaches plunged from a trestle into a ravine El Verso Havana De Cigar
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Lesup
Frank Olinger
Temple
Tex
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
Mason Car Wins Jencks Trophy at Illinois Speedway
Harry Endicott in a Mason Special wins the Jencks trophy 101 miles at an average 59.8 mph after two other entries fail. Charles Merz leads early in the Illinois trophy, Gill Anderson starts the Illinois race, and Hughie Hughes takes the Aurora trophy in 152 miles. The Rayfield car retires from a broken crankshaft while the National Mercury engine suffers trouble.
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Elgin, ML
Harry Endicott
Waterloo
Herreshoff
W. G. Wodingham
McLain
Wis
Endlicott
Mason
Endicott
Hughes
Hughie Hughes
Mercer
Eddie Pullen
National
Neil
Thigs
Stutz
Chicago Street Car Workers Likely To Reject Pact
Chicago street car men voted on a three year wage contract offering a cent an hour raise. About 10,000 workers completed balloting this morning. Result to be announced tomorrow. If rejected, the disputed issues will go to arbitration.
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Chicago
Jbay
Roosevelt Begins Another Day's Tour in Vermont
Col Roosevelt started a second day of stumping in Vermont nearing the Canadian border. He moved from Morrisville after a big fair, with smaller crowds in Barton and an evening rally in St Johnsbury as the day’s speaking points.
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St. Albans
Col. Roosevelt
Vermont
Morrisville
Barton
St. Johnsbury
Yeggs in Ozark Stockade Roamed as Bank Robbers Hunt
Pinkerton detectives traced a hidden Ozark stockade in Arkansas’s foothills twenty five miles north of Russellville where eighteen men gathered after raids across Arkansas and neighboring states. They lived in a fortified log house with stock and weapons, linked to the Huntsville bank robbery on June 18. William Howard and James Merton were bound over to the grand jury at Huntsville for involvement.
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Ark
Ozark Mountains
Pinkerton
Arkansas
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Illinois
H.J., Mosher
William Howard
James Mon- Ton
Grand Jury
Huntsville
First National Bank of
Aaid
Pope County
Vege
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Speeder
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M'Quilkin
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Cape
Wreck Killo Four
Nsylvanea Passenger
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Fred Wagner
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