Train Bandits Roar Through Malta Colorado Heist
Two armed men boarded the Danver and Rio Grande passenger train at Malta Colorado on Tuesday night forcing the engineer to uncouple the express car and pull several miles. They attempted to blow the safe in the express car but secured only about $50. A posse of eleven men led by Sheriff 0 Maho pursued, matching the bandits to two men also linked to a slate explosion at White Sulphur Springs.
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Danver
Malta
Colo
Reward Given to Sentry for Slaying Mile Semenova
In St. Petersburg a sentry who killed Mile Semenova, a young medical student, is thanked by the garrison commander and awarded five dollars for faithful duty after an inquiry. Prisoners and witnesses offered differing accounts of the incident at the detention prison window.
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Mile
Samenova
St. Petersburg
Russia
St.Petersburg
Seminovsky Regiment
Semenova
Seminovski Regiment
Resolt
Moscow
Mexican official appeals for duty free American corn imports
Gov Ahumada of Jalisco asks the federal government to remove duties on importing American corn to avert a famine. Business leaders in Jalisco petition for relief as floods threaten the local corn crop. Shortages arise in many American states as floods continue to affect harvests.
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Ahumadi
Jalisco
Irving debut of Ly sons Mall at New Amsterdam Theater
Henry B. Irving presented the Ly sons Mall at the New Amsterdam theater in New York on Monday night. This was his first U.S. staging of the play made famous by his father. His portrayal of the dual roles of Dubosc and Lesurques drew favorable comparisons with his elder Irving.
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Sonng Irving
New York
Henry B. Irving
Lysons Mall
New Amsterdamtheater
Phie
Mr. Irving
America
Jby ‘Iis
Dubosc
Lesurques
Irving
Piers Huccks Out Two Men in Ring Bout
In Los Angeles California the athletic club match saw Piers Huccks defeat two opponents, continuing his comeback. O'Brien from Philadelphia and Tim Tremble local boxer both fought hard but Huccks emerged victorious after several exchanges and decisive rounds.
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Piers Huccks
O'Brien
Philadelphia
E Athlétic ‘Club
Los Angeles
Cal
rEay
Ag Tree
Tim ‘Tremble
Ater Ring
Poultry Raising in Cuba Hits Profit Trouble
Readable remnants note that Cuba's poultry raising has seldom been profitable as flocks die from disease and smallpox continues to afflict the native population.
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Cuba
Southern Steel to Buy Georgia Coal and Iron Assets
Announcement from Birmingham Alabama factors the purchase of the Georgia Coal and Iron properties by Southern Steel. The deal values the acquisition near 32.9 million dollars, signaling a major consolidation in the iron industry.
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Iron
Birmingham
Ala
Georgia, Coal.and Iron Company
Southern Steel Company
Sioux City Idye Stock Market Quotation Snapshot
Tuesday quotations from the Sioux City live stock market show butchers at 3.75 for steer prices with a 4.60 listed. Top hogs trade near 6.26 dollars.
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Sioux City
Indictment Talk Ties Thaw to White Murder Case
In New York an argument before Recorder Golf Tuesday, District Attorney Jardine said another person may be indicted with Harry Thaw for the Stanford White murder. A tariff storm caused mud inundation from Mt. Venuvilla, sweeping the country, killing two women and injuring twenty six others.
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Thaw
Recorder Golf
New York
Jardine
Harry Thaw
Stanford White
Mt. Venuvilla
Hamilton charged in Missouri farm family killings
A farmer named Hamilton was arrested in Missouri for the murder of Parsons and his wife and three children. The bodies were found in Big Piney Creek after the family travelled by wagon. Hamilton allegedly confessed after confronting Parsons with a shotgun and killing the family with brutal blows.
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Barney
Licking
Hamilton
Parsons
Missouri
Parsona
John Hamilton
Houston
Big Piney ‘Creek
Two Men Shot by Lone Robber In Oakland
In Oakland California near the Sixteenth street depot two men were shot by a lone highwayman aboard an electric car Conductor J L M Samuel and Motorman J M Tenny were present as the robber entered with a revolver Tenny tried to stop him and was shot dying two hours later Samuel counted receipts when the bandit began firing The robber fled into the night Later police found William F P Trubody a warehouse watchman shot dead near the Holbrook Merrill Stetson warehouse during the aftermath of the incident
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Oakland
Cal
Sixteenth Street
JL. M. Samuel
J. M. Tenny
Samuel
Tenny
Trie
Fishweyman
Pythian Merger Urged Between Rathbone and Pythian Sisterhood
Charles Shiveley of Richmond Indiana supreme chancellor of Knights of Pythias will urge the supreme convention in New Orleans this week to authorize the consolidation of the Rathbone Sisters and Pythian Sisterhood. The merger would bring wives sisters daughters and mothers of members into closer touch with the order.
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Two Ladies’ Auxillaries
Charles Shiveley
Richmond
Ind
Knights of Pythias of the World
Supreme Convention
New Orleans
Supreme Lodge
Rathbone Sisters
Pythian Sisterhood
Pythian
Murder Charge After Death by Self-Destruction
Orson Broka of Deshler Colorado was arrested at Napoleon on a murder warrant sworn by John Miller brother in law of the dead girl Miss Jennie Dicker. Miller alleges Broka bought the arsenic the girl swallowed with intent to self destruct.
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Orson Broka
Deshler, Co
Napoleon
Jennie Dicker
John Miller
Broka
Train Collision Kills Nine in French Station Crash
A locomotive rammed a stationary train at Epernon station in Eure et Loire France killing nine people. Nine teens were seriously hurt and many others lightly injured in the Sunday wreck.
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Epernon
Department of
Eure Et Loire
France
Death at Carillon Dirge Tragedy Strikes Newport Music Leader
Prof Charles Michaels of Newport Kentucky died suddenly Saturday while playing a dirge for his fallen friend Ai Remi Christian. The event overlapped with a wedding ceremony for his son when a death was reported Wednesday.
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Charles Michaels
Newport
Ai Remi Christian
Street Car Plunges Down Hill Killing One in Los Angeles
Eugene Peronar died instantly and eight others were seriously injured when a street car careened down a steep hill in Los Angeles, slamming into a telegraph pole after the crash occurred Saturday.
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Eugene Peronar
Los Angeles
Cal
Severe Weather Hits Central America and Texas Crops
A wireless message from Bluefields Nicaragua reports a severe hurricane near Port Limon Costa Rica causing damage to rubber and banana crops. In Texas a heavy rainstorm over Saturday night and Sunday damaged cotton crops and threatened losses to rice.
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Nicaragua
Bluefields
Port Limon
Costa
Kaing An
Texas
Grain market probe exposes farmer, rail bias in Iowa case
Testimony at the Interstate Commerce Commission hearing in Chicago depicts conflict between farmers and organized commission men in Iowa and Illinois. Witnesses including A. T. Aygarn and J. Rosenbaum Grain Co. allege railroads refused cars and that farmers' associations boycotted non-member buyers, with letters and circulars read to commissioners.
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Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
Tien
Towa
Mingis
Dessern
A. T. Aygarn
Pontiac
Mil
Aygarn
Illinoia Association
J. Rosenbaum
J. Rosenbaum Grain Company
Iowa State Grain Dealers’ Association
Tlli‘nois Association
J. B. Brennan
J.G. Dunn
Organized Commission
Illinois
Iowa
SAM JONES 15 NO MORE. Noted Evangelist Dies on Train
Samuel Porter Jones, famed evangelist, was found dead Monday in a berth on a Rock Island train near Little Rock Arkansas. He had been in revival services in Oklahoma City for two weeks and left abruptly Sunday likely due to sudden illness while en route home to Sartersville Georgia.
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Samuel Porter Jones
Rock Island
Little Rock
Ark
Jones
Memphis
Tones
Oklahoma City
Sartersville
Explosion Death Toll at Win Gate Colliery Near Durham
An explosion at the Win gate colliery near Durham England at about midnight Sunday entombed about 200 men. Around 60 to 80 workers were in the seam when the disaster hit. Twenty seven men were reported dead with twenty four bodies recovered by Monday afternoon. Thirty miners survived.
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Wingate
Durham
Eng
Nurse Who Fostered Roosevelt's Mother Dies at 94
Nannie Jackson, a Black nurse to President Roosevelt's mother, died in Evergreen, Long Island, aged 94. She was brought to Connecticut as a slave by Stephen Bullock, the president's maternal grandfather.
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Roosevelt
Nannie Jackson
Evergreen
L. I
Connecticut
Stephen Bullock
Chilean Cabinet Falls After Vote On Montt Nomination
The chamber of deputies in Santiago rejects a government move to confirm a council of state nominee. The fracture of Montt’s administration ends the Frat ministry as political turmoil erupts.
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Chamber of Deputies
Santiago
Chile
Council of State
President Montt
Ells' Shaft Unveiled In Reservoir Park Memorial
A marble shaft and fountain dedicated by the order of Ellis across the United States to Meade D. Detcher of Harrisburg Pennsylvania. Detcher, twice exalted ruler, was unveiled in Reservoir Park on Monday in memory of his service and leadership.
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Ells
Order of
Ellis
United States
Meade D. Detcher
Harrisburg
Reservoir Park
Fatal Southern Wreck Near Winnsboro Slays Three Men
A head on collision between a fast freight train and a light engine on the Southern railway near Winnsboro, South Carolina, Sunday left three men dead, one seriously injured, and two others hurt, with one to be hanged in the aftermath of the crash.
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Southern
Southern Railway
Winnsboro
8. C
Italian Alleged Black Hand Suspect Arrested in New Castle
A man named Vinbones Volos of New Castle Pennsylvania is arrested on Monday accused of being part of the Italian Black Hand gang. He is alleged to have aimed a midnight assault that wounded Pete Romeo of Buffalo at New Castle Junction.
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Vinbones Volos
New Castle
Peteo Romeo
Buffalio, N
New Castle Junction
Two More Victims of Explosion at Slackwater Boiler Disaster
Two more victims were added to the death toll from the Slackwater government pumping boat explosion at Legionville Pennsylvania on the Ohio River. The total deaths rose to five. Mexican Envoy to the U S Don Joaquin B Cnausag resigned due to ill health.
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Ohio River
Legionville
U. S
Qulis
Don Joaquin B. Cnausag
United States
Palmer Boy Builds Wireless Telegraph Station
Irvin Hanson, 17, of Unilots township, built a wireless telegraph station at his home near Palmer Iowa. The station, using the Foster system, sends and receives messages daily to Waynesboro West Virginia, 1500 miles away, with a partner station in Waynesboro. Hanson, a high school graduate with self taught engineering knowledge, laid out the two-wire setup and housed batteries in the cellar for sending and receiving.
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Sevett Mltéa
Buptiethe
Wayesboro
W. Va
Tha
Tha. Enterprisa
Irvin Hanson
H. C. Hanson
Unilots
Hanson
Koaka
Claven
Gowrie Creamery Collapse Leaves Creditors Short
The Gowrie Creamery and Produce company closed its doors amid unpaid creditors across the region. Manager Baker and his nephew vanished with bids in poultry eggs and butter, leaving workers unpaid and assets estimated near forty thousand dollars.
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Gowria Concert
Mallata
Gotorty Credinery and Produce Company
Gowrie
Ainte
Hénte
We & Baker
Dt Poultry
Egge
Butter
Baker
Farm tragedy details wife and child deaths near Ada ville
On a farm southwest of Ada ville a 36 year old woman shot her six year old daughter through the heart and then killed herself with a 33 caliber revolver. The husband found the bodies at noon after returning from work and breaking in. A note from the wife urged him not to blame her, suggesting she had become demented.
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Eimer
Ady Ville
Tyloe
Mb Tuld
Cnd
Prison for Life in LeMars Assault Case
In district court Judge Hutchinson sentenced Tom Davis a circus hand with Campbell Bros to life imprisonment at the Anamosa penitentiary. The June 2 assault occurred on Miss Josephine Willmes of LeMars as she walked home from church. Davis was arrested next day at Laverne Minnesota and cried upon confrontation while admitting the attack. Willmes comes from a respected LeMars family.
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LeMars
Hutchinson
Tom Davis
Anamosa
Davis
Camphbell Bros
Josephine Willmes
Laverne, Minn
Miss Willmes
Victim in Russian outrage case linked to Creston woman
Miss Margaret C. Winthafer of Creston, guest of Russian pupils, misidentified as from Chicago on a passport. Reports say she was detained in Russia amid allegations tied to a romance or business motive. Wepburn urged redress as daughter confirms safe arrival in Berlin.
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Margaret C. Winthafer
Cheston
Margaret C. Winhafer
Chicago
Creston
Bertin Ane
Russia
Murder at Clinton Painter Siegfried Larson Slain
Siegfried Larson a 23 year old painter died after a slash in a Clinton saloon Sunday. William Phillips and Richard Zimmers, both teamsters, are in jail charged with first degree murder. Larson named his attackers before death. The crime sparks a crusade against Sunday liquor sales.
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Siegfried Larson
Clinton
William Phillips
Richard Zimmers
Teamsters
Anton Reigers
Larson
Phillips
Zimmers
Fast Mail Catching Device Tested by Officials in Anita
A party of government officials and mail service experts visited Anita to test the Burr invention the fast catching and delivery device. Burr reported several private tests with a train running at sixty miles per hour and three machines operated with smooth results. The Des Moines press orders 290000 catalogues from Newton firm Parson Band Cutter and a Self-Peeder, needing 47000 pounds of paper. A Manson resident William Falkerts, 60s, insane after eye surgery and pain, was found in a Fort Dodge jail cell. Marygufa Barr named warden of Anamosa penitentiary after W A Hunter’s death. Bessie Holstein 16 died from gunshot wounds inflicted by father John Holstein. he is held without bail. Hans Vogel, 14, a German immigrant, arrives Cherlea Clix. speaks no English. will live with his brother. Iowa librarians at Ottumwa meet to discuss reforming spelling. Father L S Coffin donates 500 to Palmer College.
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Anita
F. H. Burr
Burr
Frain
M&ttons
Bingest Printing
Des Moines
The
Register and Leader
Parsons Band
Newton
Ionia
Ecolera
Remarkable discovery in appendix during operation
Louis Ashley, a Poli county farmer, underwent surgery for acute abdominal pains. The surgeon found thirteen buckshot lodged in the appendix. Ashley, a lifelong hunter who sometimes eats game he bags, had ammunition accidentally mixed with his meals.
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Sur- Zeon
Louis Ashley
Poli County
Ashley
New Water System In Ames Unveiled At Last
Ames completes a new steel water tank and pipe network built by Des Moines Bridge and Iron, replacing the old wooden tank condemned for removal. The system includes twenty eight hundred feet of water pipe, with fourteen ready for use, signaling a major city utility upgrade.
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Ames
Des Moines Bridge and Iron World
Fragments of 19th Century Daily Writings and Jokes
A compilation of scattered quotes and wry observations from various papers. Includes references to Dr Wily's commission, labor eight hours, simplified spelling, rail safety, and satirical takes on politics. Mentions Henry James, Witte, Taft, Li Hung Chang, and a Kentucky colonel buried with whiskey.
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ROUND@ SMITH
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Company E
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Sherman Hospital
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Forse
Palmer Boy
Bulkis
West Virginia
Orwamry sraNiGhng
Teara
Clinton Painter
Uhna
Willam Falkerts
Manson
Fort Dodge
Palketts
Bessie Holstein
Muscatine
John Holstein
Germany
Hans Vogel
Cherlea Clix
Hama
Iowa Anita Library Association
Ottumwa
L. 9. Coffin
Palmer Callege
5 /T
Cotlin Alda College
Bluffs
Hills
August Carlson
Burlington
Mra. D. Seymour
Northwestern
Fraser
Central
Nowsiart City Theater
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International Tire Chiefs
Dallas
George M. Kellogg
Comtell Tufts
Shugarté Ouren
Cauriel Bluffs
Conrail
Vleanery
Marshalltown
Oukaldoga
Comdex
Taines
H. Wouter
Aed
Jasso
Youter
Olo
Arma
Vegular Army
Wilay
Tari
Yin
Sin
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Stevenig
Varius Tielé
Congress
Philadelphiy Inquirer
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Henry James
Atlanta Journal
Torosa
Wall Street
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Witte
Indianapolis News
Smith
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Department of Agriculture
Wilson
Philadelpha
North Amerlcan
Philadelphia Ledger
Selahman
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Telegraph
Grand Army
Republic
Sir Tiundred
Houston Post
Taft Ia
Ny Mosit
le Degerbed
Li Hung Chang
Clina
Clautsville Court Journal
Unifornia
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Louisville Tournal
Hes
Victoria
Kangsas
St Lauly Republic
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