Puget Sound Floods Drown Six in Major Cascades Flood
Record floods sweep Puget Sound region after 2.48 inches of rain and a chinook wind. White Duwamish Cedar Green Stuck Black and Puyallup rivers overflow flooding 200 square miles from Seattle to Tacoma. Six drownings reported and vast farmland submerged with extensive property losses estimated at hundreds of thousands.
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Cascade Mountains
Puget Sound
Puyallup
Sound
Tacoma
Electrine
Northern Pacific
Saloon Hold Up Ends in Double Death in San Francisco
In a midnight shooting at John O Connell’s saloon at Sixth and Grannon streets two masked robbers attempted a hold up. Ex policeman George O Connell and three patrons were shot with four dead on the floor including Burke the robber at the door. Lynch Delatour and Kennedy were wounded with varying seriousness. The second robber fled as detectives identified the dead gunman as Frank Burke.
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Sixth
Grannon
George O'Connell
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Stephen Lynch
Louis Delatour
Michael Kennedy
Frank Burke
Connell
Lynch
Delatour
Robbers Blow Henderson Bank Safe and Steal Near $4,000
In Henderson Iowa robbers used nitroglycerin to blow the vault of the Henderson Citizens' Bank. They fled with about $3,900 in currency and gold coins, then hit a team of horses and headed toward Hastings before likely catching a train toward Council Bluffs or Omaha. The town lies on a Burlington railway branch.
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Henderson Citizens’ Bank
Hastings
Council Bluffs
Omaha
Henderson
Burlington Road
Trains Halted From Seattle as Washington Floods Grow
Vancouver reports no trains moving from Seattle or south due to storms and floods in Washington and Oregon. Steamer carriers take the snails. The Northern Pacific between Sumas and Seattle is out of commission and the Great Northern at Seattle is flooded.
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B. C
Seattle
Washington
Oregon
Norhwestern
Northern Pacific
Sumas
Great Northern
Lipton sails for England after New York visit
Sir Thomas Lipton bade farewell at the Waldorf Astoria then boarded the Carmania bound for England. He hinted he may issue another challenge for the America's Cup under the New York Yacht Club rules, with Fife likely designing the challenger and possibly a two-boat plan.
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Waldorf Astoria
Thomas Lipton
England
Sir Thomas
New York Yacht Club
Fife
Marrin Arrest in Buffalo Ends Philadelphia Cotton Case Vigil
Francis E. Marrin, linked to the Storey Cotton company collapse in Philadelphia in 1905, was arrested at the Genesee hotel in Buffalo. He had disappeared on March 17, 1965, after a postoffice raid, lived in Europe for years visiting London Paris Berlin Brussels and Amsterdam, and returned recently with bank checkbooks found on his person. He has a wife and two children in New York.
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Genesee Hotel
Marrin
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America
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Paris
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New York
Minnesota man pleads guilty in wife murder case
Celestian St. Antoine told the court he deserved his fate after requesting a second arraignment. He changed his plea to guilty and received a life sentence, ending the sensational trial to the disappointment of the crowd. While en route to jail he criticized the judge for not imposing the death penalty.
Oil stock declines on New York market
Standard Oil stock fell further on the earth stock market during the day slipping to 525. It closed 25 points below Thursday night’s finish and 71 points under Monday. Dealings exceeded 500 shares with notable prices of 591 on Nov 1, 700 in January, and 840 in 1902.
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Standard Oil
Explosion in East River tunnel traps workers and one killed
In Manhattan a blast in the Pennsylvania railroad East River tunnel caused tons of sand and rock to collapse the excavation. Lee Stribling, chief foreman, fell into the debris and was killed. Workmen had just vacated the area before the cave-in.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
East River
Lee Stribling
Purdue Athletic Director's Son Dies After Football Injury
Lyle Nicol sixteen son of Hugh Nicol Purdue University athletic director died from injuries he suffered in a football game last Wednesday afternoon. He was kicked in the abdomen and fell ill soon after. In Boston the Elevated Railway company announced a voluntary wage advance for its 5300 employees on January 1.
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Ind
Lyle Nicol
Hugh Nicol
Purdue University
Young Nicol
Hid
Boston
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Prominent lawyers charged with blackmail in Ohio case
Grand jury indicts Attorneys WW Campbell A M Campbell of Toledo J Turley of Gibsonburg George C Shaefer of Rising Sun and A Skransewsky of Tiffin. They allegedly prepared and presented a fraudulent petition to alienate a wife and extorted large sums from a man named in the indictment. Meanwhile Louis W Kirkland 33 died after his skull was ground by a flywheel in a Pittsburgh confectionery shop.
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George Long
A.M. Campbell
Toledo
J. Turley
Gibsonburg
George C Shaefer
Rising Sun
A. Skransewsky
Tiffin
Tang
Pittsburg
Louis W. Kirkland
Explosion at Mitchell cement plant kills two men
Bedford Indiana reports a blast at the Mitchell cement company's powder house about afternoon time. William Taylor and William Ruble were killed in the explosion eight miles south of Bedford.
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Ind
Cemmeat
Mitchell
Here
William Taylor
William Ruble
Remarkable verdict honors citizens who killed outlaw
Ashaville North Carolina November 17 at the coroner s inquest into the death of Will Harris alias Rufe Lindsay the jury found the death occurred at the hands of public spirited citizens exercising due authority to vindicate law and justice Harris resisted arrest and sought to shoot the trio and others involved in the pursuit were commended and thanked by the community
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N. C
Will Harris
Rute Lindsay
Rufe Lindsay
Georgia Elks Order Name Injunction Outlined
Judge A L Miller issues final decree restraining J H Thomas Pete Worthy and numerous local negroes from using the name title and insignia Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World in any colored order in Bibb county or Georgia. Negroes plan to appeal the injunction.
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A. L. Miller
Macon Lodge of Elks
J. H. Thomas
Pete Worthy
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World
Bibo County
Georgia
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