Windsor Hotel Fire Claims Two Dead in Regina
A daytime fire destroyed the Windsor Hotel in Regina Manitoba with sixty five guests present. The dead include Vv Musster and L Musster both managers at Regina Milling Co Donald Walker the day porter Robert Johnson a welder and Harry Jones a hotel employee. Several others were burned and expected to die as cold weather hampered rescue efforts. The loss is estimated at 100000.
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Regina
Man
Windsor
Vv. Musster
Regina Milling Company
L. Musster
Donald Walker
Robert Johnson
Harry Jones
Governess Thows Ruby Overboard During Ocean Journey
On the Nieus Amsterdam en route from Amsterdam and Boulogne a Swiss governess Rosa Naegle, in a fit of temporary insanity, threw a ruby into the sea from the deck as passengers intervened. A search for the infant's body was made but not found. Miss Naegle was confined to the ship's hospital after the incident aboard the steamship. The mother of the child, Mrs Gavow, with her three children, was involved.
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York
New York
Nieus
Swiss governess aboard ship on her way to Fargo dies
In Seattle harbor a disaster left forty two dead after the Dix steamer was rammed by the Alaskan liner Jeanie. Only Alice Simpson, a fifteen year old passenger, survived from the Dix main deck as rescuers pulled thirty seven others from lifeboats. Recovery of the wreck is doubtful.
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Seattle
Seattle Harbor
Duwamish Head
Jeanie
Alice Simpson
Dix
Letter on Duty Delays and Global Population Note
A short letter urges prompt acknowledgment on receipt to avoid shame. It also includes a fragmented comparison of continents populations and areas, mentioning Europe Asia Africa Australia and Africa with figures and distances. The text appears as a clipped, incomplete 19th or early 20th century correspondence.
Two Boys Killed On Great Northern Snow Plow
In Minot Massachusetts on November 20 a Great Northern snow plow accident killed Vincenzo Resrassa seventeen and Frank Surgitto twenty while they cleared switches near the locomotive. The case follows a manufacturers committee letter granting a wage increase of per cent to Fall River cotton mill operatives in the textile council dispute.
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N. D
New 20
Vincenzo Resrassa
Frank Surgitto
Great Northern
Minot
Mass
Manufacturers” Committee
Textile Council
Fall River
Italian Kills Black Hand Member in Pittsburg Area
Antonio Tuscia, a Black Hand society member, was shot and killed in McKeesport Pennsylvania by Joseph Sparatto who had been threatened to pay 500 dollars. Tuscia and his brother repeatedly demanded the money. Sparatto bought a revolver and fired seven shots as he fled.
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Pittsburg
Navy
Antonio Tuscia
McKeesport
Joseph Sparatto
Tuscia
Sparatto
Young man in Taunton steals locomotive to hurry to New York
Taunton police say Frank Rockard twenty attempts to steal a locomotive at the freight yards to reach New York. He started the engine and sped through the central station ringing his bell until two men boarded and overpowered him. He claimed he had orders to go to New York and authorities deemed him insane.
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Taunton
Mass
Frank Rockard
New York
Pssenger
Rockard
Flood Rages Across Deep South Sparking Displacement
Memphis reports 7.42 inches of rain from Friday night to Monday as Alabama, North and Central Mississippi, and West Tennessee face worsening floods. Rivers overflow, homes are washed out, and rail lines suffer damage with nine miles of levees breached and bridges destroyed. Poor white residents and Black communities flee rising waters.
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Memphis
Tenn
Alabama
Mississippi
Tennessee
Winona
Maben
Mathiston
Miss
Wolf River
Rossville
Illinois Central Railroad
Jackson
Holly Springs
Heavy Snow Saves Deer in Northern Forests
Hunters returning from the Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin woods report disgust with conditions as a heavy snowfall blankets the region. The snow hampers movement and is expected to reduce deer kills by hundreds and affect moose as well, with few deer arriving for rail shipment and some venison spoiled during a warm spell earlier in the season.
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Duluth
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Tom Cooper Killed In Central Park Accident
New York reports bicyclist and automobilist Tom Cooper was instantly killed when his car struck a stationary vehicle in Central Park near Seventy-seventh Street. Miss Virginia Vernon and Miss Helen Hall suffered serious injuries, with Vernon fracturing a leg and Hall fracturing the skull. A bystander, Baraclow, a cotton broker from Paterson, also fell and sustained a fractured skull.
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New York
Tom Cooper
Central Park
Seventy-seventh Street
Virginia Vernon
Jersey City
Helen Hall
Cooper
Baraclow
Paterson
Roosevelt Hospital
Miss Vernon
Miss Hall
Boy travels alone from Norway to Minneapolis for aunt
Oscar William Anderson a nine year old boy leaves Norway for Chicago and then travels by train to Minneapolis to live with his aunt Mrs Thorberg at 222 Hennepin avenue. He cannot speak English and carried a note reading please look after me.
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Chicago
Norway
Oscar William Anderson
Minneapolis
Thorberg
Young Anderson
Julia Thorberg
Hennepin Avenue
Rock Island
Anderson
Subpoenas Issued in Standard Oil NJ Opponent Suit
Subpoenas for 71 corporations partnerships and 7 individuals in the federal suit against Standard Oil of New Jersey. Most writs to be served by U S marshals in other districts. Defendants summoned to appear first Monday in January.
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St. Louis
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
United States Circuit Court
United States Marshals
Demurrer Sustained in Moyer Wrongful Imprisonment Suit
Denver reports Judge Robert J. Lewis sustained the demurrer in the $100000 damages case brought by Charles H. Moyer president of the Western Federation of Miners against former Governor Peabody former Adjutant General Sherman Bell and Attorney General Bulkeley Wells. The action claimed wrongful imprisonment by the military.
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Denver
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Peabody
Sherman Bell
Bulkeley Wells
Robert J. Lewis
United States District
Moyer
Snow Breaks All Records in El Paso Weather Sweep
At 8 o'clock p m 84 inches of snow had fallen breaking by three inches all records since the weather bureau began nearly thirty years ago The storm causes great suffering in Mexico and the El Paso valley with heavy anticipated cattle losses due to the unprecedented snowfall.
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el Paso
Tex
Weather Bureau
Mexico
Great Northern to Soon Control Burlington Merge
A Bee report from Omaha cites a Hill family insider claiming that within a week the Northern Pacific’s equity in the Burlington will pass to the Great Northern and within fifteen days the Burlington and Great Northern will merge under J. J. Hill. The three railroads now form nearly a single system, with a link Billings to Great Falls to complete unification though the federal government objects to naming the Northern Pacific in the union.
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Omaha
the Bee
Northern Pacific
Burlington
Great Northern
J. J. Hill
The
Bee
Hill Roads
Chicago
Billings
Falls
Mont
Great Falls
Federation of Labor Opens Policy Debate at Minneapolis Meet
In Minneapolis the American Federation of Labor discussed child labor limits while opposing a federal ban as unconstitutional and urging state laws. The convention backed woman suffrage amendments and addressed postal clerks, boycott law opposition, ship and lake freight concerns, wage controls by contractors, foreign musicians, and broad firm boycotts.
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Minneapolis
Albert J. Beveridge
Richmond
Ind
Senate
American Federation of Labor
Federation
Misleading remark sparks bank run in Chillicothe
In Chillicothe Ohio a rumor spread that the Savings Bank of the city would close after noon leading to a rush of depositors. Officials say the bank is strong and no real cause for the run existed despite misleading statements in a newspaper report about a Nov 10 balance.
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Chillicothe
Savings Bank
The
Savings Bank Company
Ohio
Discharges of Negro Infantry at Brownesville Suspended
Washington reports Major General Ainsworth has suspended further discharges of the three negro companies of the Twenty-fifth Infantry after the Brownesville Tex incident. The War Department seeks additional guidance from President Roosevelt and may require explanations from officers tied to the events. Further investigation is expected as protests reach the War Department.
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Taft
Ainsworth
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Brownesville
Tex
Roosevelt
War Department
Twin City clearinghouses plan to hire examiner
St Paul November 20 Following the action of Chicago and Milwaukee clearinghouses the St Paul and Minneapolis Clearinghouse associations plan to appoint a special examiner for Twin City banks in the near future This move aims to reduce bank failures boost confidence and raise the standing of Twin City banks nationally
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Twin City Clearinghouses
Examiner
St Paul
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Twin City
Notable deaths and political resignations headline telegraph notices
Mrs Frank R Stockton widow of the novelist dies in Washington. The Montenegro cabinet resigns and resignations accepted. Fayette Mississippi business district destroyed by fire causing about 475000 dollars in losses. Miss Georgia Cayvan popular New York actress dies in Flushing sanitarium where she had been a patient seven years.
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Frank R. Stockton
Washington
Montenegro
Fayette, Miss
Georgia Cayvan
New York City
Flushing, L. L
Minneapolis Wheat Prices on Nov 19
Minneapolis reports wheat prices with contracts for December 78 3 4 cents, May 86 cents, July 8 15 3 4 cents. On the track No 1 hard 82 59 cents, No 1 Northern 81 cent, No 2 Northern 79 3 4 cents, No 3 Northern 76 cents.
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Minneapolis
Cattle and livestock prices listed for St Paul market
On November 19 in St Paul cattle ranged from good to chesce steers at 5.50 to 6.25, fair to good 4.50 to 5.50, cows and heifers 3.50 to 4.50, veal calves 4.00 to 5.50. Hogs 5.80 to 5.95. Sheep wethers 4.50 to 5.25, spring lambs 6.25 to 7.00.
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St. Paul
Market Prices for Cattle and Hogs in Chicago
Cattle prices show cows and heifers at 1.60 to 5.20 per hundredweight, stockers and feeders 2.40 to 4.50, and cattle numbers including cattle and veal stated. Logs and meats list various grades with heavy marking from 5.85 to 6.30 and pigs priced from 5.70 to 6.00, sheep and lambs quoted at 3.00 to 5.50 and 4.60 to 27.50 respectively.
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Chicago
Commodity prices report from Chicago market note
Wheat futures show Dec at 37 1/2 cents and May at 39 1/2 cents. Corn Dec 42 4, May 43 40. Oats Dec 33 1/3, May 38 1/2. Flax lists nothing. Butter steady with creamery at 27 1/4 and dairy at 19 1/4 to 24 1/4. Eggs 23 to 26 cents. Poultry prices: turkeys hurtles at retail. chickens 4 1/4 cents. Springs 4.9 cents.
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