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Men on the Ground Have Power to Enforce Ultimatum.
San Francisco, Sept. 4--The international Presidents of the five shop crafts unions now here, have delegated authority to enforce the ultimatum presented by the Federation of Shop Employes of the Illinois Central to President Markham to representatives on the ground who have been conducting the Illinois Central negotiations.
This was the statement to-night by President J. W. Cline of the Blacksmiths' Union.
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FIVE SAVED IN BOILING SEA.
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Wife of Wrecked Schooner's Captain Dragged Ashore in a Chair.
Rockland, Mc., Sept. 4--Through boiling seas and in a gale of wind, which had piled their vessel on Gunning Rock, at the entrance of Port Clyde Harbor, the crew of four men, together with Mrs. John Keen, wife of the captain of the Ellsworth, Me., schooner David Faust, were hauled to safety by the crew of the Burnt Island life-saving station.
Capt. Keen and his men arrived here to-day, relating their narrow escape and the fact that their vessel will be a total loss.
The schooner David Faust was bound from Boston for Stockton.  Mrs. Keen was sent through the gale-tossed waters to shore in a frail chair, to which she had been lashed.  The chair was guided on its way by a life line.
The David Faust was built at Philadelphia in 1854, and it was one of the oldest of the coastwise vessels.
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"UNCLE JOE" PLAYS GOLF.
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Ex-Speaker Says After First Experience That it is a Great Game.
Newton,Mass., Sept. 4-"It's a great game, a great game," said "Uncle Joe" Cannon when he sat down on the steps of the Braeburn Country Clubhouse at dusk to-night after completing the first game of golf that he ever indulged in.
The ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives was in his shirt sleeves, his hat tilted on the back of his head and the perspiration pouring down his face, for it had been a strenuous afternoon.
Speaker Cannon is the guest of Congressman John W. Weeks at his home in West Newton.
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4 DIE, 40 HURT IN COLLISION.
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Passenger Train and Freight Come Together Near Erie, Pa.
Erie, Pa., Sept. 4.--Four are dead and at least 40 injured, the result of a collision between an Erie and Pittsburgh passenger train, and a Lake Shore freight train at a point four miles west of this city, at 9 o'clock to-night.

The dead are John S. Jones, engineer, Erie; fireman, name unknown; tramp riding on train; unknown passenger on smoker.
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WOMAN GIVES LIFE FOR CHILD.
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Chauffeur of Motor Car Which Strikes Her Charged with Manslaughter.
Newton, Mass., Sept. 4.--Attempting to save an unknown child from death beneath the wheels of an approaching motor car, Mrs. Mary Downey, 45 years, was run over and killed by the machine in Newton Lower Falls to-night.

The chauffeur, Francis J. Lowery, was arrested and charged with manslaughter.
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NINE PERISH IN HOTEL FIRE.
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Four Bodies Recovered from Ruins of a Juneau Hostelry.
Juneau, Alaska, Sept. 4.--Nine persons are believed to have perished in a fire which destroyed the Juneau Hotel and the [[McGrath?]] building last night.

Four bodies have been recovered from the ruins and five more are beileved to be buried in the ruins.
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Constitution.

From the Navy Yard the Scouts returned to Boston for dinner, after which they marched to the public garden, where they spent one hour on the boats. They returned to Providence by the 9 o'clock train last night. Besides Scout Master Lovell, the boys were accompanied by Scout Master Swarts and Dobson of Troops 11 and 7, respectively.
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TAFTS BACK IN BEVERLY.
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President Resumes Playing of Golf at Myopia Club.
Beverly, Mass., Sept. 4.--The Government yacht Mayflower, with the President, Mrs. Taft, Horace D. Taft, Charlie Taft, Miss Mabel Boardman and Maj. A. W. Butt, the President's military aide, aboard, dropped anchor off West Beach, North of Bevverly, at 5 o'clock this morning, 13 hours after she sailed away from Islesboro, Me.

Horace Taft left the yacht at 6 o'clock for Boston, and went thence to his home at Watertown, Conn., but the rest of the party stayed on board for breakfast and did not land until 8:30. They were driven immediately to Paramatta, the President's summer home. Later in the day, the President resumed his golf at Myopia with Maj. Butt.

The President spent the greater part of the day at Hamilton. In the morning he defeated Maj. Butt at golf and in the afternoon attended the Myopia Horse Show.

At luncheon he was the guest of Mr. and Mrs Buckner Wallingford of Cincinnati, at the Myopia clubhouse. The President spent the evening working on the speeches he is to deliver on his Western trip.
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40,000 MARCH IN NEW YORK.
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Labor Day Parade Falls to Reach the Expected Proportions.
New York, Sept. 4--The best weather conditions which existed in New York on any Labor Day in recent years failed to-day to draw the expected number of marchers into the procession.

Conservative estimates of the number in line were 40,000, of whom perhaps 1000 were women. One section of the women workers bore a banner with the inscription [[missing text on torn scrap?]] Equal Work, Equal Pay, Equal Say [[missing text?]]

A[[?]] elsewhere throughout the country, the McNamara case was prominently referred to.

At different places along the line of march stood men with red flags, taking contributions for the defence of the McNamaras.
An immense crowd watched the procession. 
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VAN WYCK'S NIECE MURDERED.
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Shot by a Lover Whose Affection Was Not Reciprocated.
Quocue, L. I., Sept. 4.--William A. Childs, Jr., of New York, to-night shot and killed Miss Katherine Van Wyck of Brooklyn and then turned his revolver on himself, inflicting a wound from which he died within an hour.

Childs had been very attentive to the young woman, and it is said that she did not reciprocate his affection.

Miss Van Wyck was the favorite niece of former Mayor Robert A. Van Wyck and former Supreme Court Justice August Van Wyck. She had known young Childs since both were children.
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J. R. KEENE OPERATED UPON.
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American Financier Resting Quietly in Hospital at London.

London, Sept. 4. [[James?]] R. Keene, the American financier, was successfully operated upon for stomach trouble yesterday at a nursing home here. 

It was announced at the nursing establishment at 6:45 o'clock this evening that Mr. Keene was resting quietly.
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"Have you a match?" he continued, turning to one of the members of the reception committee. "I must get my pipe going."  And from a pocket somewhere in his regalia, he hauled out a calabash, and started a good fire in the bowl.

"I've been dying for a smoke ever since I left Worcester. What a crowd! Do you know, there have been big crowds all along. Why, in that little place, Worcester, there was nearly a mob, but you have more here, I should say. Isn't it a corking day to fly? Perfect."

"Who's that with you?" yelled someone in the crowd.
"My mascot, No. 13," was the prompt rejoinder. Mr. Ovington's monoplane is officially numbered 13 in the aero meet, and that number was painted on each wing, beside the name, "Dragon Fly."

"It's a good mascot," he continued, "and I've never broken it yet."

The aviator apparently meant his machine, for he said later that he had never smashed anything in his aeroplane.

"Say, that crowd won't cut up my machine for souvenirs, will they?" Mr. Ovington asked anxiously, as he looked back over the heads of the thousands from the top balcony of the clubhouse. He was assured that the machine was well cared for by about a dozen policemen.

"George, you people down here, I understand, are proud of your Blackstone river. Now, if you'd been with me, you would think it was a little brook. I was up about 5000 feet part of the way, and looking down, the river, which I was trying to follow, looked like a tiny ribbon. It even got lost in the trees. Wonder why it's on the map at all. 

BAD AROUND WORCESTER.
"It's a bad place around Worcester--trees, and no good place to land, but even then I wouldn't be surprised if I couldn't make a landing in a tree without hurting myself; the machine would be damaged, though. I guess I could poke her nose into the branches, and as I'm strapped in, perhaps I wouldn't get thrown out.
"Always have a life preserver, too, so if I get dumped into the water I'll float. Say, is there any milk around here that I can have?"

A quart bottle soon made its appearance and Mr. Ovington made his supper of it, asking for nothing more and refusing all offers. He drank all of the quart of milk.

"From Nashua to Worcester," he continued, "I got up to 5200 feet. Maybe it wasn't cold there, too. Got lost over Franklin for a while, but soon got straightened out by the landmarks I was looking for.
"When aeroplanes become common, I tell you what will have to happen. Some houses on one street in each town will have to paint the name of the town on their roofs. One letter on each house would be fine, then we men in the air could see them and know where we are.
"These bombs you are shooting off are no good until you get on top of them, I couldn't see them half a mile away."

Governor Pothier, who was sitting beside Mr. Ovington, listening intently to the conversation, asked how it felt to fly 3000 feet in the air.
"Fine," was the reply. "Don't you want to go up with me for a little try?"
"Thank you, no," came a quick and decisive answer. "I guess I would be dizzy after I got up 40 feet. Do you ever get dizzy?"
"No. Wonder what would happen to me if I did?" said Mr. Ovington. "I can make [[70?]] miles an hour when there is no wind. This is fine flying weather. Could not have been made to order any better. At one place, though, I found a funny cross-current of wind. One height it was going in one direction and [[torn off paper]]
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"Great." said Mr. Ovington. "That means right now."
And suiting action to words, he buttoned up his coat and headed for his monoplane escorted by half a dozen members of the reception committee.
"This is a great day for flying," he said in parting, "A great day!"
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MILLING SUFFERS FROM COLD.
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Boyish-Looking Cavalry Lieutentant's First Wish is for Hot Coffee.
"I'm half-frozen said Lieut. T. deW. Milling as soon as he landed in the Park. "I want hot coffee quick as I can get it and a light for a cigarette."
The boyish-looking army officer of 26 had on two sweaters and at Worcester had tucked some newspapers under them, but he wore low tan shoes and thin socks, a striking contrast to the garb of Ovington, who wore thick woolen clothes and stockings.
"My [[,?]] but I am cold!" he said, as the officials and attendants rubbed his hands that were blue.
When asked if he would like to go over to meet the Governor and the officials at the clubhouse he said: "I should like to if I can run to keep warm."

So he started on the run, laughing good-naturedly at the crowd that gathered in on him and cheered him.
At the clubhouse the Lieutenant called for hot coffee and then delivered a message that he had carried from Boston via Nashua and Worcester to Henry Wandless, the local manager of the Harvard Aviation Association, surely the first aerogram that ever came into Rhode Island.

"There was a whopping big crowd at Worcester," said the Lieutenant, "but you beat it, I think. But wow! I'm cold."
"How high did you fly?" asked the Journal man.
"I doubt if I went over [[2300?]] feet, but I got into some mighty cold currents of air, all right."
With the Governor, Mayor Fletcher and the committeemen Lieut. Milling chatted without concealing his pleasure at getting so far in the race.
"Do you think it a dangerous course, Lieutenant?"
"I have not thought about that--but can you get me some more clothes?"
(Committeeman Byron S. Watson's [[khaki??]] motor coat went to Boston on Lieut. Milling's back).
"Tell me," put in the little Louisianian, "where is Boston?"
The course was explained as best landlubbers could explain it.
"You see, I have a map nailed down beside my seat, but when you get up a half-mile or so one place looks very much like another, and, tell me about the railroad line, and where I cross the bay, I reckon I cut out a big slice of Providence. I was afraid I was missing you till I saw one of the smoke bombs. It looked good to me, for I made up my mind that somebody in all that crowd down there must have a cup of hot coffee. If you don't mind, I'll sit in the sun, where it is warmer."

Just then a message came from Atlantic: "Start Lieut. Milling whenever he is ready."
"He is ready now," chimed in the Lieutenant, who said he didn't mind going to his machine through the crowd. He bade good-by to the committee, put on his borrowed coat, lit another cigarette and made for the biplane that thousands were surrounding. When way was cleared his last words before he took his seat were: "Thank you for that hot coffee."
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GARROS GOES UP 13,943 FEET.
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French Aviator Breaks World's Altitude Record in Aeroplane.
Parame, France, Sept. 4--Roland G. Garros the French aviator to-day broke the world's record for altitude in an aeroplane. 
[[torn paper]]cended 4360 metres (13,943 feet).
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wore the night of the murder and attempted to explain why blood had not flecked certain portions of the garment if his wife was reclined against him in the way he claimed.

[[torn or misprinted words]] of the dead woman had been burned just before the arrest of Beattie, and as more than once there was occasion to refer to them, Mr. Wendenberg, the prosecutor, exclaimed: "I wish to God we had them here!"

ANSWERS QUESTIONS READILY.
Beattie answered questions readily and except for the characteristic vibration of the muscles in his cheeks sat like a schoolboy, expressionless, as he narrated the story of the crime. In no essential way did his version of the affair to-day differ from that which he gave at the coroner's inquest or that to which the defence through its witnesses hitherto has clung.

The direct examination lasted only two and a half hours, while the cross-examination had proceeded three and a half hours when court adjourned for the day.

The prosecution, in its cross-examination, gave particular attention to two points in the previous testimony of the prisoner. If the accused had, on the night of the murder, a light fastened to the rear of the machine, why could he not see the fleeing highwayman to the rear of the car? or if the prisoner had grappled with the assassin and succeeded in wresting the shotgun from him, falling to the ground at the same time upon the sudden release of the weapon, from the highwayman's hands, why did the highwayman flee with Beattie at his feet on the ground?

These questions the prisoner evaded in his testimony, but to-morrow the prosecution will hammer away at them anew.

MAKES DENIAL AFTER DENIAL.
Denial after denial came from the lips of the prisoner as Mr. Wendenberg questioned him concerning the alleged purchase of a shotgun for him by his cousin, Paul Beattie, and the testimony of the latter. He admitted little to Paul's testimony concerning his meetings with him.

He said he was with his cousin only on the Saturday night before the murder and merely carried him home in his car from the Beattie store in South Richmond. He emphatically denied that he had been with Paul at any time within the weeek or fortnight previous and on this declaration the prosecution to-morrow will linger particularly, as to-night Scherer, the detective, declared that four witnesses were to be produced who saw Henry and Paul together also on the Thursday night before the murder.

The influence of Beulah Binford on the case was conspicuous throughout the day. Counsel for the defence twitted the prosecution for not putting her on the witness stand since the State had subpoenaed her. Mr. Smith, attorney for the defence, said he never had had an opportunity of even speaking with her as she was kept incommunicado in the jail, whereat Judge Watson, in surprise, declared the defence would have every opportunity to confer with the girl. Counsel for the defence said he washed his hands of this girl. The prosecution intimated it would call the girl when rebuttal begins to-morrow or the next day.

As he left the courtroom with the jailer, Beattie lit a cigarette and sauntered leisurely over the green to the jail a hundred yards away.

Hours before the court began its sitting to-day every seat in the courtroom was occupied and a large crowd had gathered on the lawn surrounding the little red building. It was a day of sunlight, one of the rare days of clear skies during the trial.

SPECTATORS ARRIVE IN SWARMS.
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ably one-half the population of the State caught at least a glimpse of the flyers.
Earle L. Ovington, by completing the greatest cross-country air race ever held in America, of which the flight over Rhode Island was a part, won a prize of $10,000. he was the only monoplane to finish the race.

Lieut. T. DeW. Milling, U. S. A., flying in a Burgess-Wright biplane, won a prize of $7500 for his performance. These two aviators were the only ones of an entry list of four to complete the 168-mile race across parts of three New England States.

Claude Grahame-White, Tom Sopwith, Eugene Ely, and George W. Beatty all declined to take the risk and trusted by combining to force the committee to make an eleventh hour change in the course and run it over the North Shore Atlantic coastline to the Twin Lights of Thatcher's Island off Gloucester. The committee held to the original course, with the result that but four men started, but the association kept its promises to local committees.

Narragansett Park, where both birdmen landed before starting on the last flight to Atlantic, was a mass of good-natured, enthusiastic humanity. Each aviator was applauded, cheered, and again cheered, for his daring performance, and the crowds, like hero-worshippers, followed the sky-pilot everywhere, anxious even to be able to yell "good luck" at him and know that he had heard their expression of good-will.

The reception was thoroughly appreciated by both Ovington and Milling. Each aviator expressed to the officials at the clubhouse his sincere appreciation of the royal welcome extended by the Rhode Islanders.

"Tell them in the Journal," said Ovington, "that it is fine to interest so many people."

GREATEST OF AIR RACES.
Yesterday's cross-country air race was the greatest of its kind ever held in America, and Rhode Islanders were enabled to see a part of it through arrangements made by the Providence Journal with the management of the Harvard Boston aero meet now in progress at Atlantic, Mass. The Journal also contributed $2500 toward the prizes.

While there were more than 25,000 persons within the boundaries of Narragansett Park yesterday afternoon countless thousands lined the house-tops, hills, telegraph poles, and every space that offered a vantage point. Everywhere people were on the watch for the air craft.

The birdmen, circling over three New England States, presented a sight the like of which may not occur again in years. Apparently coming out of the clouds, at a height even too great for the birds of this latitude, they settled gradually and gracefully to the fields, landing with the utmost ease.

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place at 5:1[[9?]] o'clock in the early evening. The time not occupied in flying was spent at each of the [[? (torn paper)]] cities on the course [[?]]

Lieut. Milling ap[[peared? [number]?]] minutes and 37 seconds in the air [[?]] biplane. Much of this time was used up, however, in regaining distances away from the course which the aviator travelled not being familiar with the country over which he was flying. He left the Atlantic field at 11:43 in the morning and returned there at 6:53 at night.

Each leg of the race is approximately 40 miles, more or less, and the total mileage, air-line, as estimated by the officials to be 168 miles. Controls were established at Nashua, Worcester, and Providence, the start and finish being at the Harvard aviation field at Atlantic. 

Thousands turned out at each control to see the racers, and scattered along the route practically the entire population of those sections of the country turned their attention toward the sky at the time when the birdmen were expected to pass. 

Harry N. Atwood, the aviator who holds the world's record for long-distance cross-country flying, entered in yesterday's race and left the Atlantic field at 11:37 o'clock. He carried his father, F. F. Atwood, as a passenger, but did not complete the first leg of the race. Arthur B. Stone, in a Queen monoplane, started in the race but landed at Combination Park, about 10 miles from the start, because his gasoline tank leaked.

COURSE OF THE FLIGHT.
The first leg of the great air race started at the Atlantic aviation field and crossed Boston, along by Somerville, Winchester, Burlington, Billerica, Lowell and Tyngsboro, up the Merrimac river to Nashua, which city was the first landing place.

Leaving Nashua the aeroplanes followed a course nearly parallel to the tracks of the Worcester, Nashua and Portland Railroad, passing over the towns of Peperell, Ayer and Clinton on the way to Worcester. 
From Worcester, when heading for this city, the machines came down the Blackstone Valley, over Millbury, Northbridge, Blackstone, Central Falls and Providence centre to Narragansett Park.

After leaving the park both machines headed over toward East Providence and Pawtucket, Attleboro, Mansfield and about a dozen towns near the Blue Hills. Ovington went to the west of the Blue Hills, over Sharon, Canton Junction and Readville to the field.

Each of the controls was connected direct with every other control and with headquarters at Atlantic, and bulletins of the race were flashed all along the line, Officials of the Harvard Aeronautical Society were in charge of each of the landing places, Raymond L. Whitman, '95, being in charge at Narragansett Park.

The landing at Nashua was made at the grounds of the Nashua Fair Association. At Worcester the landing was at the Worcester Country Fair. In this city, of all the landing places, there was no other attraction than the aviators themselves, and the enormous crowd which gathered at Narragansett Park proved

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The first part of each article is in the upper section of the page, see previous image on page 12. Sub-heading for [40,000 MARCH IN NEW YORK] does seem to state 'falls' but it might be 'fails', the printing isn't clear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myopia_Club