Mexican Rebel Raid Threat Soars In Arizona
President Taft orders arms held at Douglas Arizona as rebels threaten raids into American territory. Salazar and his force near the border prompt heightened guard, cavalry encampments, and calls for an extra Mexican senate session to authorize troops.
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Washington
Sept
Taft
Mexico
Douglas
Ariz
Senate
New Mexico
Arizona
Chihuahua
Sonora
Steaver
American Board of Control
Salazar
Rice
U. S
War Department
Jang Ranch
New York Firm Sues Over Telegraph Rates
Wm N White & Co of New York filed a complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission challenging Western Union Telegraph rates as fixed arbitrarily. The firm contends press dispatches are billed at one fourth the rate of commercial messages, arguing this harms the public and that Western Union has eliminated competition by absorbing smaller firms. It seeks $5,000 in overcharges for cable tones and telegrams.
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Washington
Wm. N. White & Co
New York
Western Union Telegraph Company
Interstate Semimierce Commission
Western Union Company
Telegraph Company
First Cotton Ginning Report Announces 1912 Season Start
Washington reports the census bureau's first ginning tally for 1912: 725,926 bales ginned before Sept 1, including 6,184 round bales and 218 Sea Island. State figures show Texas leading with 673,939 bales, Georgia 33,984, Alabama 12,928, and others with smaller totals. several states reported none.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Sea Island
Alabama
Arkansas
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
States
Owner of Ferguson Bank Arrested For Embezzlement
Marshalltown Indiana September 9 Following his indictment on a charge of embezzlement Geo W Curtis Jr owner of the Ferguson bank in Ferguson this county was arrested in this city this afternoon Curtis is charged with a shortage of 1096 of school money while treasurer of the district He pleads not guilty Curtis came to Ferguson a little more than a year ago from Redfield Dallas county where his father is engaged in banking Curtis is in fall awaiting the furnishing of a $6000 bond which will likely be produced before evening
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Marshalltown
Geo. W. Curtis, Jr
Ferguson Bank
Ferguson
Curtis
Helenica
Redfield
Dallas County
Drowning at Charles Git in Cedar River
Elza Richardson 28, Mattoon, Illinois, employed at Goheen Bakery in Charles City, drowned Sunday at 11 after a boat trip with Ed Martin. Their boat tipped when a paper blew overboard. neither could swim and Richardson vanished within two to three rods of shore. Ten men were arrested in a Sunday morning gambling den raid by Sheriff White and officers. two escaped, four paid fines, and Aiden Thomas was bound over to the grand jury with bonds set at 50 60.
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Charles City
Elza Richardson
Mattoon
Goheen Bakery
Cedar River
Ed Martin
Algo
Martin
Richardson
Aiden Thomas
H. D. White
Coon and
Grean
Gaven
Thomas
Grand Jury
Rebels Break Out in New Direction
Washington reports a threatened rebel attack from Nicaragua on Honduras in retaliation for Honduras backing the Diaz government. Arms have been sent to Honduran troops on the frontier, and the government plans to raise forces to repel an invasion. Rear Admiral Sutherland reports patrolling the Fonseca Bay to prevent filibustering in support of the insurrection.
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Washington
Honduras
Diaz
Navy Department
Sutherland
Bay of Fonseca
Democratic fund reaches 175000 in campaign drive
New York Sept 9 twelve thousand contributors have helped raise the Wilson and Marshall campaign fund to 175000. At Democratic national headquarters a list of donors giving 100 or more was made public. Acting chair McAdoo said a new standard is set and that Americans will demand source disclosure for political financing. Street car men strike causes partial service disruption in Superior Wisconsin with union firings cited as a key grievance.
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New York
Wilson and Marshall
Democratic National
W. G. McAdoo
Democratic National Committee
Superior
Wis
Duluth
Bay
Changes in Navy Nine Fleet Captain Shifts Take Effect in January 1915
Washington reports that Rear Admiral Charlee J. Badger will assume command of the Atlantic fleet next January succeeding Rear Admiral Osterhaus, with nine captain changes to follow. Osterhaus leaves the post for the general board after about eighteen months as commander in chief and six months more in Washington before retirement in June. The battleship Wyoming will fly the flag of Badger, replacing the Connecticut, the current flagship, as drills begin after sailors’ holiday ashore and the fleet sails for the southern cruise and midwinter Caribbean exercises.
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Washington
Charlee J. Badger
Atlantic
Osterhaus
Navy Department
General Board
Wyoming
Badger
Connecticut
September Crop Report Highlights U S Agriculture Output
Washington sept 9 The September crop report from the department of agriculture lists condition and yield for major crops including corn spring wheat oats barley buckwheat white potatoes tobacco flax rice and hay with total preliminary production estimated at 72 million tons and quality 92.1 apples show condition 87.9.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
National Stationary Engineers Convene in Kansas City
More than 600 delegates from nearly every state attend the opening session of the 30th annual National Association of Stationary Engineers convention in Kansas City Missouri. Governors Stubbs and Hadley were scheduled to address the gathering as the five day session begins.
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Kansas City
National Association of Stationary Engineers
W. R. Stubbs
Kansas
Herbert
Hadley
Missouri
Seasion
New Developments in Vice Case Chicago Sept 9
Detectives from the Coroner Hoffmans office with reformer Miss Virginia Brooks and suffrage leader Mrs. John F. Base searched for more women witnesses in West Hammond Illinois where several men were said to have been killed by doped drinks at road houses. Coroner Hoffman warned there may be no major revelations tomorrow.
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Chicago
Hoffman
Virginia Brooks
John F. Base
West Hammond
Mask Taken Of Bishop's Face In Death Casting
Fondulac Wisconsin September 9 a death mask was made from Bishop Grafton's face. The cast shows his thin health but strong lines and forehead, planned as a model for a recumbent statue to stand in a crypt at St Paul's Cathedral. Temperature notes follow with daily highs and lows and a remark on September's warmth.
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Fondulac
Wis
Grafton
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Wilson to Do More Speaking on Western Campaign
New York Sept 9 Governor Woodrow Wilson plans more speaking engagements on his western campaign tour due to strong requests from cities. He discussed revised itineraries with Senator Gore and, after a short rest at Seagirt New Jersey, will launch a second western trip likely visiting Missouri Nebraska and Illinois. He is expected to meet William J Bryan in Nebraska later this month.
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New York
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
National
Senator Gore
Oklahoma
Maine
Seagirt
N. J
Missouri
Nebraska
Ninth annual boiler makers convention opens in Cedar Rapids
The International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers district No. 10 holds its ninth annual convention in Cedar Rapids Iowa beginning a week long session. About fifty delegates attend as routine business dominates proceedings.
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Cedar Rapids
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers
Rock Island
Lawyer Gibson Linked to Szabo Boat Fatality
New York report says Mrs Rosa Mensehik Szabo died in a boating accident with her lawyer Burton W Gibson. District Attorney's office investigates the death and questions the authenticity of a document that named Szabo's executor.
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New York
Rosa Mensehik Szabo
Burton W. Gibson
Mra. Szaba
Mary Gruba Found Slain in Gary Swamp
The four year old girl Mary Gruba was found murdered in a swamp near Fourteenth and Jackson streets in Gary Indiana. Her clothing was torn and police suspect she was lured from her yard and killed. The case echoes the Elsie Schroeder murder, with William Dagel already imprisoned for that crime.
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Gary
Ind
Mary Gruba
Fourteenth
Jackson Streets
Mary
Joseph Gruba
Eleventh
Jefferson
Indiana
Gruba
Elsie Schroeder
William Dagel
Tragic Burlington Freight Death Crashes on Third Street
An early morning railroad accident on Third Street killed a Burlington route worker identified as Yane Ye-Richard Wane, who was unmarried and about $54 in old value. The worker was struck by a moving train, the impact tearing him apart and scattering remains. Investigators note the freight car wheels and main stems were involved, with debris scattered along the tracks.
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Epi
Richard Wane
Rossing Firaman
Burlington
Third Street
Snaitas
Hurlington
Still Hunt Men Buried Alive Rescue Efforts Underway
Riwabik Minnesota September reports indicate two imprisoned men may still be alive in a flooded mine shaft. Forty workers drill to reach them after a breach flooded the mine last Wednesday night. Rescue teams press for contact and a final status update is expected at any hour.
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Riwabik
Minn
Maine Votes Today in Ideal Election Weather
Maine voters head to the polls in Portland to elect a governor four congressmen county officers and the state legislature. Gov Frederick W Plaisted leads the Democratic ticket and William T Haines the Republican candidate as polls close around 6 p.m. Voters report excellent travel conditions after recent rains.
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Portland. Me
United States
Frederick W. Plaisted
Democrate Ucket
Wm. T. Hainess
Maine
Leading Hostess of Washington Dies Suddenly
Bar Harbor Maine September 9 Mrs John R McLean of Washington died at her summer home after a week with pneumonia She survived eleven hours after Dr L D Barker of Johns Hopkins hospital arrived from North Carolina mountains in a special train at record speed She was a leading Washington hostess known for twenty five years of lavish entertaining
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Bar Harbor
John R. Mclean
Washington
McLean
L. D. Barker
Johns Hopkins ‘Hospital
North Carolina
Beale
Madame Bakhmateff
Russia
Fa’ Truxton Beale
Democrats to Hold Meeting in Waterloo
E G Dunn of Mason City Democratic candidate for governor will deliver an address in Waterloo on Friday evening opening the campaign. If weather allows the meeting will be held in east side park or Armory if not. J C Murtagh, county central committee chairman, arranges for several Democratic speakers. Maurice Connolly of Dubuque, candidate for Congress from the Third district, spent the weekend in the city and will speak later.
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E. G. Dunn
Mason City
Waterloo
East Side
County Central Committee
J. C. Murtagh
Maurice Connolly
Dubuque
Congress
Simplicity Marks M Arthur Funeral
Simplicity marked the funeral rites today for General Arthur McArthur who died of apoplexy last Thursday night while addressing the Twenty fourth Wisconsin volunteers at a semi centennial reunion. The service conducted by Rev Dr Paul D Jenkins consisted of scriptural reading and prayer followed by Wordsworth poem The Happy Warrior. At Forest Home cemetery only the committal service was held with no military salute. Active pallbearers were younger members of the royal legion while honorary pallbearers included Governor Francis E McGovern Gen Frederick C Winkler and Gen Charles King.
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Milwaukee
Arthur McArthur
Twenty-fourth
Wisconsin Volunteers
Paul D. Jenkins
Tamanuel Presbyterian Church
Wordsworth
Forest
Home Cemetery
Presbyterian Church
Royal Legion
Francis E. McGovern
Frederick C. Winkler
Charles King
Editor shoots attackers. girl rescued near Kinyn
Philadelphia editor Alan Cunningham chief of Public Ledger shoots two Italians during a dawn rescue near Kinyn suburban home after a young Italian girl is seized by a group of ten. He and his son pursue the gang. attackers flee, police capture several others in the incident.
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Philadelphia
Alanj Caningham
The
Public Ledger
Kinyn
Cunningham
Moda
Cuningham
Alan, Jr
Inteer
Will Exhume Woman's Body In Szabo Will Case
New York authorities planned an autopsy on Rosa Szabo to probe death causes and stomach contents while an Austrian consulate reported a woman posing as the victim's mother and beneficiary. Exhumation could clarify forgery claims before the surrogate on September 17 as Szabo’s brother travels from Austria to testify.
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New York
Rogers
Orange County
N. Y
Rosa Brabo
Greenwood Lake
Burton W. Gloson
Gibson
Ritter
Jersey City
Victie
Rosy Menschik
Szabo
Menachtk
Six Die At Newark Motorcycle Race Tragedy
Eddie Hasha of Waco Texas and Johnny Albright of Denver lead a fatal crash at the Newark motor drome as Hasha’s machine vaults into the crowd. Six spectators die and thirteen are badly injured during a four mile free for all finish with five thousand onlookers present. Albright dies two hours after hospital admission from hemorrhage.
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Newark
N. J
Eddie” Haaha
Waco
Tex
New Newark Motordrome
Hasha
Johnny Albright
Denver
Secretary Knox First at Tokio Funeral Arrival
Tokio Sept 9 The American secretary of state Philander C Knox the first special envoy to the late emperor Matsuhito funeral arrived in Tokio this evening. Knox was accompanied by Mrs Knox and a state department suite led by Ransford Miller chief of the Far Eastern division. The American party received a cordial reception.
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Tokio
Philander C. Kno
Matsuhito
Japan
Mr. Knox
Mrs. Knox
Ransford Miller
Far Eastern
State Department
Machine skids claim motorcyclist death at Riverview
Curtis Edwards, a professional motorcyclist from Denver, died in a Chicago hospital from injuries suffered when his machine skidded at fifty miles per hour at the Riverview motordome. He sustained a fractured skull and internal injuries after being thrown against the railing Saturday night.
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Chicago
Curtis Edwards
Denver
Riverview Motordome
Edwards
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