Death list grows as Metz relief train fire wrecks
Alpena Mich Oct 17 Terrible forest fire spread across Presque Isle Cheboygan and Alpena counties with fifteen killed on the Metz relief train and many more feared dead. Fire threatens La Roque Cathro and Alcona stores farms burned while communications collapse complicates casualty estimates.
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Alpena
Mich
Metz
Henry Kemps
Bolton
South Rogers
la Roquet
Cathro
Alcona County
Hubbard Lake
Au Sable River
Presque Isle
Lake Huron
Garrity
Detroit and Mackinac
Rogers City
Lake Shore
Charles D. Williams
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Michigan
Cadillac
Traverse City
Upper Peninsula
Chippewa
Houghton
Fifteen Die As Train Derailed By Forest Fire
Alpena Mich Oct 17 Fifteen people perish when the Detroit and Mackinaw relief train derails near Metz while fleeing a forest fire. Seventeen others are burned or missing as refugees rush to safety.
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Alpena, Mich
Detroit and Mackinaw
Metz
Here
Nowicki Siding
Fred Wagner
Fred Nowicki
Alpena
Foster
Nowicki
William Barrett
Engineer Foster
Conductor Kinville
Posen
James White
John Nowicki
Albert Hardies
Taft Delivers Keynote Across Tennessee and the South
In Bristol Tennessee on October 17 Judge William H Taft struck his Tennessee and Southern keynote in Chattanooga and throughout a state tour. He pressed that Southern material interests depend on Republican policies and warned Southern Democrats against aligning with Democratic ticket aiming to outpace Northern Democracy while urging support for Republicanism.
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Chattanooga
Cleveland
Athens
Sweetwater
London
Lenoir City
Knoxville
Morristown
Greenville
Johnson City
Bristol
Tennessee
Tenn
William H. Taft
South
Taft
Paper mill strike widens as independents join
New York reports indicate independent paper mills ordered to strike under Papermakers' union leader J. T. Carey. The Great Northern and International Paper companies previously led the walkout. Publishers fear a nationwide shortage before the election and await a planned Boston conference.
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New York
J. T. Carey
Papermakers’ Union
Great Northern
International Paper Companies
Carey
Boston
Star witness reveals teen clerk as heavy National Bank borrower
New York October 17 a tow headed nineteen year old clerk Leslie E Whiting testified as a star witness in the Charles W Morse Alfred H Curtis trial. He admitted signing notes at the National Bank of North America while his employer arranged collateral and loans. He said he believed his employers would protect the notes and that he did not discuss them with Morse or Curtis.
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New York
United States Court
Charles W. Morse
Alfred H. Curtis
National Bank of North America
Edward P Moxey
Leslie E. Whiting
Whiting
Examiner Moxey
Leslie Whiting
Curtis
Davidson Brown
Brown
Moxey
Morse
Roosevelt to visit Fingland and Oxford in 1910
The Times reports President Roosevelt will travel to Fingland after his African trip and deliver the Romanegs lecture at Oxford during the university commemorations. He is to receive the honorary degree of D C L, and may also speak at the Sorbonne in Paris. Mrs Roosevelt reportedly will join him at Khartoum.
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London
the Times
Roosevelt
Fingland
Oxford
D.C. L
William
Times
Paris
Sorbonn
Khartoum
Kern Sees GOP Rise as Threat to Property Rights
John W. Kern of the Democratic ticket spoke at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn on October 17. He warned that a Republican victory would lead to an impregnable party position within eight years and that continued GOP rule would endanger property rights through the spread of socialism.
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New York
John W. Kern
New Academy of Music
Brooklyn
Wife Wades for Duck Tragedy Near Montevideo
Mrs. Otto Sall waded into the Minnesota river chasing a duck while her husband tried to help. In the struggle to reach shore both drowned. The couple, recently moved from Terre Haute Indiana, were residents of Montevideo. Sall worked as a railroad switchman.
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Montevideo
Minn
Otto Sall
Minnesota
Terre Haute
Ind
Sall
Kid McCoy Returns to Score Over Stewart in Six Rounds
New York October 17 1908 Kid McCoy returns to the ring after four years away at the National club and easily defeats Jim Stewart of Brooklyn in six rounds. McCoy last fought in October 1904, a twenty round decision over Jack Sullivan in Los Angeles.
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New York
Kid” McCoy
National Club
Jim Stewart
Brooklyn
McCoy
Jack Sullivan
Los Angeles
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Interstate
Etricken
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Pauline Hardies
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Minnie Hardies
John E. Kingille
William Foster
Arthur Lee
Dr.price
Johnson
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Star Witness
England
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Austin National Bank
Jack
Charley
Prairie du Chien
Jack and
Eclipse Lumber Co
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Picture Sale
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Old Reliable Furniture Store
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