Nine Die In Wreck After Washout Delays Rescue
An accommodation train on the Chicago and Northwestern line to the Shoshone reservation hit a prairie washout twenty six miles west of Casper Wyoming. Nine were killed thirteen injured most in a caboose and water tank car. Floods also destroyed a Platt river bridge delaying aid. Superintendent Cortillion and doctors raced to the scene by wagon bridge then handcar and later by road as a snowstorm blocked further progress.
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Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Casper
Wyo
Platt River
Cortillion
Boys Face Murder Charge After Cleveland Burglaries
Three young suspects named Harry Freeman Joseph Morris and John Henderson were arrested in Cleveland on charges of burglary and a fatal stabbing of Ben jamin Levensberg, who was struck in the abdomen during a confrontation after rifling two hardware stores and a meat market. The youths said they believed Levensberg would identify them, and they fled after firing on officers.
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Harry Freeman
Joseph Morris
John Henderson
Cleveland
Benjamin Levensberg
Levensberg
Girl Ends Life in River After Baseless Theft Accusations
Prudie Ford, a college girl in Hartford Kentucky, drowned herself in Rough River after being falsely accused of stealing clothing, money, and a watch from her roommate. The found body followed discovery of the allegedly stolen items by the boardinghouse keeper. Citizens condemned the accuser. talk of criminal prosecution followed.
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Prudie Ford
Hartford
Roosevelt to Labor and Gompers Face to Face at White House
President Roosevelt spoke bluntly to labor leaders led by Gompers at the White House. He endorsed the eight hour law in principle but warned Congress against hasty action. He contrasted injunction use against capital with labor, and defended immigration limits while praising good immigrants. The AFL’s tone raised political stakes for upcoming elections. Jerome of New York moves against life insurance fraud, presenting grand jury findings and planning further probes into syndicate deals, bribery, and falsification.
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Ait White Houe
Roosevelt
American Federation of Labor
Executive Council
White House
Congress
United States
Tse
Ile
Panama Canal
Washington
Cannon
Great Labor Organization
Labor
Organized Labor
Jerome
New York
Iis
O'Sullivan
General Sessions
Educators and reforms cited in varied school notes
A roundup of school policies and opinions from across the U S and abroad. Topics include parental schools in Kansas City, state blackboards in Chicago, English premier education at Eton and Narrow, 500 Indian teachers in U S schools, Dr M G Benedict’s land purchase near nine city schools, cosmopolitan class talks on ancestry in New Britain, Yale Cambridge teacher study leave, Parkersburg salary scales, Dartmouth president as governor candidate, Oxford vs Cambridge bias, spelling reform by the N E A, Connecticut moves to free textbooks, and women in London seeking Rhodes-like funding for study abroad.
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Kansas City
Chicago
England
Eton
United States
Titica
M. G. Benedict
New Britain
Conn
Cambridge
Mass
Parkersburg
W. Va
Tucker
Dartmouth College
Bishop Mandell
Oxford
Department of Superintendents
Louisville
State of
Connecticut
London
Theater Fire Panic Delivers Narrow Escape in Wellsville
Several children were thrown into a panic when a Wellsville New York theater caught fire. Smoke filled the house as curtains and scenery burned. Ushers and a few adults helped evacuate all the children without injury.
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Wellsville
N. Y
Counterfeit $10 Bills Flood Port Worth Texas
Reports say Port Worth Texas is flooded with counterfeit Buffalo ten dollar notes. The fake bills show a fraudulent payer and government paper features are faintly discernible in their composition.
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Port Worth
Texas
Loss of Life in Freight Car Fire at Pure North Dakota
Two men identified as Milluirend J. M. Van Horsen and another from Ayrshire perished alongside eight horses and a cow after a freight car caught fire near Pure North Dakota. They could not open the car door to escape as the blaze raged and the vessel burned through.
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J.J. Miller
Springfield
Oho
Megro
J. M. van Horsen
Pure
N. D
Ayrshire
Niagara Falls Preservation Urged by International Commission
American members of the International Waterways Commission urge immediate US Canada action to preserve Niagara Falls. The report notes total river diversions of 60,900 cubic feet per second, with 26,700 on the American side and 34,200 on the Canadian side, risking 83 percent of low water discharge. The group seeks joint action to safeguard the falls and minimize impact on vital water power interests.
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Niagara Falls
United States
Canada
International Waterways Commission
Great Lakes
O. Th Ernst
A the
Taft
Niagara
State of
New York
Dominion of Canada
Ara Falls Park
Electrical Railway
Hamilton Company
Welland Canal
Falls
Chicago Drainage Canal
Erie
Horseshoe Falls
Secretary of War
Ivens Found Guilty in Chicago Murder Case
A Chicago jury found Richard Ivens, 25, guilty of murdering Mrs. Bessie Hollister. He was sentenced to hang, after confessing to dragging the victim into an alley and strangling her. The case drew national attention as details of the crime and confession were presented in court.
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Chicago
Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church
Hollister
Ivens
Richard Tyens
Charles S Francis Nominated Ambassador to Austria Hungary
Charles S Francis of Troy New York nominated for ambassador to Austria Hungary following Bellamy Storer's retirement. Former minister to Greece, editor and owner of the Troy Times, and trust official with Cornell and New York societies. Born June 17 1853 in Troy.
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Austria-Hungary
Bellamy Storer
United States
Austria-Iungrary
Roosevelt
Charles S. Francis
Troy
N. Y
Greece
Troy Times
John Morgan Francis
Roumania
Servia
Francis
Cornell
Cayuga Lake
Saratoga Lake
Alice Evans
Heas
Platt
Black
Italy
Ilinmus
Cornell Uniy
United Nationals of Troy
Albany Trust Camps
University of the State of New York
The
Sons of Byevolution
Society of the War of 1812
New-York Society For the Preservation of Scenic and Historic Places
West and Woman's Republican Club to fight street noise
The group plans public meetings to combat New York City street noise. They aim to mobilize residents against the nuisance, asserting homes lack quiet hours and rest amid the urban din.
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New York
West
Woman's Republican Club
Senate passes pension bill as other measures advance
The Senate approved a pension appropriation of 140 million dollars while tabling the railroad rate bill, and continued work on fortifications, with Hawaii defenses cut to 260 thousand. House debates salaries, adjourns after limited progress as Senate act on statehood, conferees named for the Shoshone ceded lands, and a flurry of rules battles. Patterson and late death of Rep. Patterson noted.
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Senate
Philippines
Hawaii
House
Culberson
Bailey
Messrs
Dolliver
Tillman
Patterson
Heyburn
Knox
Isle of Pines
George R. Patterson
Pennsylvania
Washington
Lodge
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wrouty
Spooner
Wyoming
Library of Congress
Senate Priday
Prince
Hardwick
Civil Service Commission
Gaines
Tenn
Hospitals Crowded Women Patients and Advice to Cure
A column notes hospitals show the majority of patients are women awaiting or recovering from operations due to neglect of warning signs. It cites symptoms such as pelvic pain and dizziness, urging readers to seek Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a remedy and highlighting a Seattle woman’s cure from a tumor without surgery. It also mentions a Chicago and Northwestern Railway promo and a Franklin anecdote about electricity and cooking.
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Luella Adams
Seattle
Wash
New England States
Lydia
Pinkham
Miss Adams
Cabinet Officer Confirms Imminent Retirement
The Washington correspondent phoned a cabinet officer who confirms rumors of retirement are true. He states he was about to retire when contacted and wishes the caller good night.
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Washington
Blank
Grape-Nuts Restores Engineer's Digestion and Nerves
A railroad worker credits Grape-Nuts for ending years of indigestion and brain fog from irregular meals. He reports improved digestion, clearer thinking, and vanished nervous symptoms after regularly eating Grape-Nuts, especially in a caboose diet. The Postum Co. promotes the product and cites a booklet, The Road to Wellville.
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R. x
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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