Tragic St Paul Mine Disaster Leaves 256 Missing
In Illinois or Wisconsin news from Nov 16, a St Paul mine collapse traps 300 workers under tons of earth. Fires erupt hindering rescues as officials race to recover bodies. Rescuers descend multiple times with helmets sealed for air yet no survivors found. One thousand orphans and 200 widows emerge as the town mourns and honors ten heroes who saved 185 miners before perishing.
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Cherry
St. Paul
Bathday
Mer Re Cosses
Barling
Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
Tom Flood
John Cowley
Cowles
Alexander Nosberg
London test of monorail shows revolutionary transport
London reports a full scale demonstration of Louis Brennan’s monorail, a gyroscope based system. A forty foot long car with capacity for forty passengers ran freely around curves near Chatham, completing an eighth of a mile at twenty five miles per hour with steady radii.
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All Gores
London
Royal Society
Louis Brennan C. B
Chatham
Ten Days of Bad Weather Forecast Rain and Snow
Washington predicts rain and snow nationwide with unsettled weather over the next week. Two storms approach from the west and move eastward, one reaching the Atlantic states by Friday and another along the Pacific coast to reach the Atlantic seaboard by Monday next.
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Washington Bureau
Washington
Gulf
South Atlantic
Weather Bureau
Rocky Mountains
Atlantic Coast
Atlantic States
Pacific Coast
Atlantic Seaboard
Taft Attends Washington Church Jubilee
President Taft stood with Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Falconio on St. Aloysius church steps for a review of Washington Catholic societies during the parish golden jubilee. He gave a brief address after being introduced by rector Father Eugene De L McDonnell who recalled President Buchanan helping dedicate the church fifty years earlier.
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Washington
Taft
St. Aloysius Church
Cardinal Gibbons
Archbishop Falconio
Eugene de L McDonnell
Buchanan
Brandenburg Found Guilty in Enticement Case
Brandenberg was convicted in the criminal court of enticing James Shepard Cabanne Jr from his home. He was sentenced to a $500 fine and indicated he will appeal the case in the same city on November 15.
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Brandenburg
Bi. Louis
Broughton Brandenburg
James Shepard Cabanne, Jr
Thiscity
Mrs Roosevelt Starts Home From Naples Steamer
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt and her daughter Mise Ethel boarded the Konig Albert steamer in Naples bound for New York. She said she had received no direct communication from Colonel Roosevelt or her son Kermit.
Grain gains as bears ease in market with record world shipments
Chicago grain and provisions report notes bearish sentiment dominated by record world shipments near 2,000,000 bushels. wheat futures rose to around 1.07 for December and 1.05 percent for May. corn and oats advanced mildly while pork and lard futures fluctuated. Cash prices show No 2 hard wheat at 1.00 to 1.10 and No 2 corn at about 64 cents.
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Chicago
Aiken
South Omaha Live Stock Prices Report
South Omaha cattle receipts show active, steady to strong demand with native steers $45 to $80, cows and heifers $32.50 to $65.25, western steers $50.50 to $60.25, stockers and feeders $50.25, calves $35 to $87, bulls and stags $27.50 to $45.50. Hogs receipts 1,800, prices up to about 8.00, ranges $6.50 to $8.07. Sheep receipts 16,000, steady with yearlings $7.10 to $7.75, wethers about $4.40 to $7.40, ewes $4.55, lambs $6.70 to $7.50.
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South Omaha
Lambs
Chicago Live Stock Market Prices Report
Chicago live stock figures from November 13 show cattle sales mostly between 3.75 and 7.00 per hundredweight with steers higher near eight dollars. cows and heifers around 2.25. bulls 4.50 to 5.10. stockers 5.00 to 5.10. Hogs receipts higher with most sales near 5.00. sheep 27,000 head firm with lambs at 7.25 to 7.50.
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Chicago
Penn
Aol
Six Men In U S Jail For Contempt Of Court In Lynching Case
Washington reports six men began serving contempt of court sentences after the high court stayed a rape execution. Captain Joseph Shipp and Jeremiah Gibson with ninety day terms join Luther Williams Nick Nolan Henry Padgett and William Mayea of Chattanooga Tenn. The group is the first to face federal contempt penalties linked to a lynching.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
United States
Joseph F. Shipp
Chattanooga
Tenn
Jeremiah Gibson
Luther Williams
Nick Nolan
Henry Padgett
William Mayea
Shipp
Gideon
Johnson
Supreme Court
Williams
Nolan
Gibson
Padgett
Mayes
Tragedy on Dakota Farm Ends in Homicide Suicide
In Riverside township Clay county near Vermilion two are dead and a third dying after a hired man killed Mrs Albert Nelson and a laborer then attacked Albert Nelson with a razor. The double murder suicide occurred about 1 a m as the intruder sought robbery.
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Vermilion
Albert Nelson
Riverside Township
Clay County
Nelson
Haskell Must Stand Trial in Oklahoma Fraud Case
Federal Judge John A. Marshall overruled the demurrer by Governor Charles N. Haskell and five Oklahoma figures in charges of fraudulently securing town lots from the government. The defendants, including C W Turner A Z English W KR Eaton W T Hutchings and F B Severs, were ordered to appear for trial next Saturday morning in Chickasha Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma
Chickasha
Okla
John A. Marshall
Utah
Charles N. Haskell
Gompers Refused Stay In Contempt Case
Washington court denies stay for Samuel Gompers John Michel and Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor. The appeal notice must be filed by Friday night or the mandate will be issued Saturday to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The defendants are jailed for contempt awaiting the mandate.
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Washington Court
Washington
Court of Appeals of the
District of Columbia
Samuel Gompers
John Michel
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Carlisle in Critical Condition at St Vincent’s Hospital
Former Secretary of the Treasury John G Carlisle is in a serious condition under treatment for intestinal disorders at St Vincent’s hospital New York. The attending physician said his condition had assumed a more serious aspect and he declined further comment.
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Secretary of Treasury
New York
Steel trust worst foe to federation of labor
Toronto reports the American Federation of Labor calling United States Steel the most formidable enemy the labor movement faces. In New York Everett Brown of Chicago was elected president of the Amateur Athletic Union, succeeding James E. Sullivan, who became secretary treasurer.
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Federation of Labor
Toronto
American Federation of Labor
United States Steel Corporation
Organized Labor
Brown
New York
Everett
Chicago
The
Amateur Athletic Union
James E. Sullivan
Sullivan
Mail Steamer La Seyne Founders After Collision
Singapore November 15. More than 100 people are feared dead after the mail steamer La Seyne foundered following a collision near port.
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Singapore
la Seyne
Here
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Pone
Palace
Mark
J. W. Herman
Prop
Rose C. Herman
Josh Skala
Jake H. Herman
Louis Skala
John Herman
Wm. C. Herman
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