Ten Die In Gas Furnace Explosion At Pittsburg
Doomed workers on a 120 foot platform were burned as gas exploded in the Jones and Laugilly plant. Ten men died, three critically injured, two badly hurt, with $20,000 in plant damage. Names listed. bodies mangled, molten metal and flames prevented escape. Also notes Senate business and other late 1901 notices.
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GAD
Furnage
Pittsburg
Jones & Laugilly
Andrew Seth
George Bulsul
George Bemagzo
Michael Milo
Michel Gazdovity
John Masey
Join Moracke
Joseph Trankowicz
John Ixnachanka
George Viliga
Explosion wrecks mill kills three in Park Brog area
A boiler explosion at Black Diamond steel works Park Brog on Thirtieth Street in Fittaburg kills three men John Welvik Patrick O Connor and an unknown man. One worker is missing and 12 are injured with the debris stacking high and surrounding buildings damaged including the McNeil boiler plant and a residence on Thirtieth Street.
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Fittaburg
Black Diamond Steel Works
Park Brog
Thirtieth Street
John Welvik
Patrick O'Connor
John Wilts
William Steinbaugh
Amil
Bar
Parl Bros
McNeil
Canal Bill Special Order Opens Post-Holiday Discussion
Washington December 2 The house set a special order to discuss the Nicaragua canal bill starting January 7 and continuing until disposition. DeArmond of Missouri defended his district while Hepburn of Iowa reported committees favored the canal measure. The bill aims to centralize authority for the canal’s construction under presidential direction.
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Washington
Nicaragua
DeArmond
Hepburn
Fulton
John Lowe
New York
Folland
Car Ferry Wreck at Ludington Strands Crew
Pere Marquette car ferry No. 16 struck a bar entering Ludington harbor in a gale. Steam escaped as machinery failed, fatally scalding Miles Taft and injuring two others. Lifesaving crew rescued 83 men and Taft’s body after a four hour operation. vessel scuttled in 16 feet of water. Value placed at $200,000, fully insured.
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Ludington
Mich
Dee
Ludington Harbor
Pere Marquette Car Ferry No. 16
Miles Taft
Taft
Two Burned In Wreck On Northwestern Trains
In Green Bay Wisconsin December 23 two southbound freight trains on the Northwestern collide near Little Suamlee. Napoleon Delana and Lewis Gil Mietta died in the caboose blaze while brakeman Buy noy escaped. Engineer Henry Oliver and Conductor Green faced damage as high cars telescoped and burned.
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Northwestern
Wisconsin
Green Bay
Wis
Napoleon Delana
Lewis Gil Mietta
Na Arakeman
Ay J. Burney
Northwestern Railroad
Little Suamlee
Green
Henry Oliver
Littles Suamice
Oliver
Te Depot
Delaria
Gilimette
Green Hay
Caboose
Buynoy
Immoral Practices and Fraud Sentences Pronounced
In a courtroom yesterday Jackson and his reputed wife, leader of the Theocratic Unity, were condemned on immoral practices and fraud. The judge imposed fourteen and seven years of penal servitude, respectively, as the prisoners showed astonishment and silent reaction.
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Ga Batley
Jackson
Jackson H
Swamil
Settlers in Dire Distress in Oklahoma Cold
Guthrie reports dire distress among homeseekers in Oklahoma as freezing weather bites. Many families travel to unsettled regions facing hunger and starvation with deaths among children. Observers note shell-shocked men and widespread smallpox cases in towns across both territories.
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Oklahoma
Guthrie
Philadelphia Leaves Pacific Port For Panama Mission
United States cruiser Philadelphia, under Commander Meade, sailed from a Pacific port last evening to hurry to Panama. An expected swift voyage aims for a record time, with possible orders to reach Chile and perhaps join the North Atlantic squadron. In other news, four workers died from injuries in a boiler explosion at the Crucible Steel company plant in Pittsburgh. The Rathbun jury in Indiana continues without a verdict on Newell G. Rathbun's case.
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Pacific Port
Meade
San Francisco
Deo
Navy Department
Panama
United States
Deo Haghor
Nas
Phindelputa
Poungw
Wrehington
Chile
Pittsburg
Fou
Ground Breaking Ceremony At Forest Park Exposition Site
The Forest Park site of the World's Fair in St Louis hosted a breaking of ground ceremony attended by governors from Minnesota Nebraska Arkansas and Missouri congress members and world fair commissioners among others General John Q Bates Colonel John Do G Og lesby and local officials took part The event featured three historic shovels including an iron Bud oak shovel from 1805 and a silver plated ebony steel Louisiana Purchase shovel as relics of early American workmanship
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St. Louis
Louisiana
Minnesota
Nebraska
Arkansas
Missouri
Congress
World's Fair Nations
John Q. Bates
Department of the Missouri
John Do. G. Oglesby
Yates
Illinois
Forest Park
Alte
8. J. Nicolls
Corwin H. Spencer
David R. Francis
Exposition Company
Massachusetts
Arsanal
Boston
Louisiana Purchase
Scott's Emulsion Promises Health for Weak Children
An old advertisement touts Scott's Emulsion as a cure foundry for weak sickly children. It claims grain-fed horses show vigor and compares the product to nourishment that strengthens digestion, increases appetite, and adds flesh and red blood. Free samples are offered by Scott & Newune.
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Vale
Scott
Squtt & Niwne
youTwset St. New
Roe Syd Fyeld
Shovel Linked to Early Miners From French and Slave Labor
A wooden shovel claimed as one of the tools used by 200 French ledgers and 600 San Domingo slaves brought by Francis Renault in 1718 to work St. Genevieve Mo mines. Governor Prancis presided with Congressman Tawney and Governor Davis at the Coliseum program, featuring music by Seymour's Famous Sixty. Thousands attended a Routherns hotel banquet to close the day.
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France
San Domingos
Francis Renault
St. Cenevieve
Prancis
James A. Tawney
Minnesota
Jefferson Davis
Arkansas
Seymour
Coliseum
Routherns Hotel
St Louis Politician Shot Amid Local Feud
John J. Ryan, a noted St Louis political figure, was shot last night on a busy city corner and seriously wounded with a bullet near the left abdomen. The attack is seen as the latest flare in a feud stemming from a ward election months earlier.
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St. Louie
St. Louis
John J. Ryan
Ryan
Roosevelt Literary Work and Health Claims Mixed in 1880s Text
A fragmentary 1880s notice mixes reference to Theodore Roosevelt and his literary work with a string of medical advertisements. It cites The Winning of the West, health tonics, liver pills, and patent cures, naming brands such as De Witt’s Little Early Risers, Perry Davis Painkiller, Kodal dyspepsia cure, and Rock Mountain, with generic medical claims and promotions interwoven.
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Dewitt
Sale Pilla
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W. IF. Wakeman
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Henry Porter
M. Fr. Kinard
J. L. Kirby
Marshal Kinard
Canal Bill
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Lina Runa High
Lima
Peru
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Dubuque , Iowa
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