Brave Engineer Saves Train After Flue Split
Charles Butterfield fireman from Jackson Michigan Central and Engineer J L Kroll of Jackson were leading a freight engine from Battle Creek to Augusta when the flue split. Butterfield jumped through the flames to safety while Kroll crawled along the outside of the engine to halt the train at twenty five miles an hour. Butterfield is in critical condition at Nicholas Hospital in Battle Creek. Kroll is reported unhurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Butterfield
Michigan Central
Jackson
Mich
J. L. Kroll
Battle Creek
Mid
Augusta
Butterfield
Xroll
Nicholas Hospital
Varuna Fireworks Turmoil at Trenton Harbor Flagrow
The Canadian steamer Varuna arrived in Trenton harbor flying both the union jack at the stern and the Stars and Stripes on her main flagstaff. Some youths protested the U S flag’s height, one fired several shots at the flagstaff, and the American flag was hauled down. Varuna had recently come from the Thousand Islands where both flags are flown on vessels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belleville
Ont
Trenton Harbor
United States
Thousand Islands
Cloudburst Flood Drowns Salina Region Valleys
A recent cloudburst hid the low lands from Lindsborg to Ellsworth, flooding the valley northwest of Lindsborg. Water stands one to two feet deeper than in the recent flood at Carneria Grookville and Kavaria. Homes in lower town parts sit one to three feet under water with extensive crop damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salina
Kansas
Lindsborg
Ellsworth
Carneria
Grookville
Kavaria
Train held up by mob at Clifton Forge over lynching attempt
Passengers on a Chesapeake and Ohio train from New York to Cincinnati witnessed a mob of about 200 angry citizens attempt to board at Clifton Forge Virginia to seize two African American men for lynching. The engineer fired at least fifty shots, then sped away unhurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chesapeake and Ohio
New York
Cincinnati
Clifton Forge
Kansas
Hanna
Wyo
Norfolk and Western
Pennsylvania
Columbus
Ohio
Mount Vernon
Rock Island
St. Louis and
San Francisco
Evansville
Terre Haute
Howard S. Slooley
St. Louis
Ryan
House of Delegates
Gates Mills
Cleveland and
Binstern
Lee Montgomery
Detroit
Detroit United Railway
Compton
Fourth Street
St. Louis Transit Company
R. E. Matthews
Susie Ver
Chicago
Carl Johnson
Dora Cox
Watonga
Kingfisher
Spokane, Wash
Alarcou
New Catholi Bank
City of
Mexico
Arizona
Lawrence Boyly Steerer
America
Hrickson
Kavanagh
William van Buren
Methodist
Palmyra
Neb
Benjamin Beverman
Merchan‘s’ Hleat and Light Company
Indianayolis
William R. Naming
Folsom Cal
Warden Wilkinson
Harry Wilkinson
Murphy
Cotton
Wall Street
Northern Securities
Kings of Finance
Publi
United States
Keene
Shaw
Europe
Warsaw editor forced to sell dies after pressure
The longtime Warsaw National Union publisher Prank HH Zimmerman reportedly faced threats from dissatisfied democrats to sell his paper. He resigned under pressure. soon after his mind failed and he died from paresis in Warsaw Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HH. Zimmerman
Warsaw
Ind
Zimmerman
Warsaw National Union
Local farmer finds potential gold in Taylorsville well
Samuel Brown on his Taylorsville Indiana farm continues pumping from a twelve foot well. Each bucket of water pulls up black sand that settles at the bottom with strong traces of gold suggesting a remarkable possible mine in the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Brown
Taylorsville
Ind
Brown
Russians Move Cossacks Toward Thibet Despite China Denial
The Cologne Gazette notes additional Russian aggression in the East with several hundred Cossacks sent toward Thibet, claiming China permitted a march through the region. China denies it, stating its agents are monitoring Cossack movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cologne Gazette
Thibet
China
Racial riot figure Robert Lee dies in penitentiary
Robert Lee, the man described as the shooter of Police Officer Louis Massey in Evansville Indiana on July 8, and instigator of a riot that caused multiple deaths and injuries, died at Jeffersonville penitentiary from a lung wound inflicted by Massey. Lee’s wife died soon after the riot when struck by a train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Lee
Louis Massey
Evansville
Ind
Jeffersonville Penitentiary
Massey
Lee
Traction Cars Collide on Indiana Interurban Line
A southbound interurban car No 106 crashed head on with a northbound special three routes south of Mooresville Indiana injuring over thirty people with two believed to die. Both cars were speeding specials meeting on a curve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis and
Martinsville
Route3
Mooresville
Ind
Sardine Poisoning Claims Ward Family
The Ward family of Ballagh Nebraska family merchant D. W. Ward were poisoned by sardines. Mr Ward and two children are dead, a third child is dying, Mrs Ward is recovering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. W. Ward
Ballagh
Neb
Mr. Ward
Mrs. Ward
Yale admission hopefuls swell to seven hundred eighty five
New Haven special reports seven hundred eighty five young men applied for Yale undergraduates next September. This compares with sixty one last year. The academical department leads with four hundred sixteen candidates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
Yale
Exodus of Jews to America Amid Romanian Labor Shortage
Jewish workers flee Roumania for America as employment dries up. The migration is supported by B'nai B'rith and other foreign Jewish groups aiding the exodus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Roumania
B’nai B'rith
Noted Trials and Tragedies Across U S from Coast to Coast
The record lists a series of crimes accidents and official actions including a Jeffer son township Pa couple accused of infant murder a Navy midshipman admission in Annapolis a fatal lightning strike in Masontown Pa and a Meadeville Pa death of a lodge chief. It also notes bank closure Doylestown Pa man killed in rail line accident and a series of disasters from floods heat to fires across Nebraska Oregon Wisconsin and Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William GC. Arnold
Jefferson Township
Rh. G. Thomas
Iowa
EB. L. Anderson
Michigan
Navy
Annapolis
Smithsonian Institution
Weather Bureau
Lawrence Murphy
New York Stonecutters’ Union
A. B. Youngson
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
P. M. Arthur
Meadville
Sheter
Masontown
James Parris
Felix Sanrern
New Hampshire
Robert Baker
Brooklyn
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Beatrice Late
Chicago
Marion Clawson
Williamsport
Miss Tate
FF. J. Wimball
Boand
Norfolk and Western Railway
Radnor
J. Whitaker Wright
Ludlow Street
New York
London
Josephine Dodge Dasham
Selden Bacon
Stamford
Conn
Edward A. Angell
Doylestown National Bank
Doylestown
Vpa
Anna Renew Davis
United States
Cushman K. Davis
Minnesota
Hunter Doll
Knoxville
Tenn
Washington
GC. T. Thorpe
Annabel Rogers
Samuel Gobel
Phames River
New London
Joshua Butler
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Port Bowkley
Seremiah Sullivan
Batavia
N. Y
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Stevens Point
Wisconsin River
Albert Swanson
Duluth
Sun and Mioen
Idaho Springs
Colo
Cordell
North High Street
Columbus
Ohio
Navarre
Canton-Akron Electric
Philadelphia
Walter Vail
Michigan City
Ind
Ware
Delaware
Supreme Court of
Baldwin
Los Angeles
Arcadia
Proposs
Mathew Donner
St. Louis
Henry Hoffmeister
Nebraska
Omaha
Schuyler, Neb
Robert Buarneg
Willamette River
Portland
Ore
Sadie Guilbert
W. G. Wray
Pittsburg
William Farris
Cochran
McConnellsville
Wray
St. Joseph Catholic Church
Oklahoma City
Father Albert
America
Catherine M. Northrup
James Sanford
Almira, Wash
Sanford
Reliance to defend America's Cup and Northwest farming news
The Reliance named to defend the America's Cup against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock III. Northwest bonanza farms are being broken up by settlers diversifying crops. Valhalla Improvement Company seeks 500 Danish families for colonies in Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Reliance
Thomas Lipton
Shamrock I.L
William E. Curtis
Northwest
Valhalla Colonization and Improvement Company
California
Mexico
Navy
George W. Melville
Bureau of Steam Engineering
New York City
Brown University
Maurice B. Rich
Brown
Gaston
Hamilton College
State Department
Washington
Panama
Gudger
Peace River Country
British Columbia
Hudson Hope
Peace River Paas
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Bank of British North America
Apple Crop Vast and Varied Across States
William H B Curtis notes in the Chicago Record Herald that the U S apple crop is immense with 210 million trees in commercial orchards and 175 million bushels yielded in 1900. Exports totaled 2 545 759 barrels with most going to Great Britain. Districts range in bearing capacity and cultivation explains why Michigan outproduces Missouri despite fewer trees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Great Britain
Germany
North Atlantic States
South Atlantic
Northern Central States
Southern Central States
North
South Central
Renton County
Arkansas
Washington County
Niagara County
New York
PBA
Wayne County
Marion County
Llinois
Monroe County
Clay County
Erie County
Orleans County
Winois
Missouri
Michigan
William HB. Curtis
Chicago Record-herald
Ohio
Penna
Virginia
Kentucky
Indiana
West Va
Tennessee
N. Carolina
Iowa
Baker
Kansas
Great Flood Losses Across the Kansas- Missouri Border
A sweeping flood along the prairie river system causes extensive destruction across Kansas City Kansas and Missouri City areas. Estimated losses reach tens of millions with $40 million in property and hundreds of lives reported, while agricultural damage affects wheat corn alfalfa and oats. Topeka suffers major impact with significant farmer losses. recovery is anticipated despite the widespread destruction.
Grain andlivestock price snapshot across major markets
The report lists regional bid ranges for cattle hogs sheep and grains from Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Detroit Milwaukee Toledo Buffalo New York and Detroit with prices like cattle 4.0 to 5.5 dollars hogs 4.0 to 5.8 sheep 2.5 to 7.5 wheat 0.58 to 2.0 corn 0.48 to 0.59 oats 0.25 to 0.86 rye 0.50 to 0.58 and butter eggs and clover seed also cited reflecting market spreads and quality tiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Timothy
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Ste. Detroit
Milwaukee
Northern
Ste
Toledo
New York
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Ributte
Batesville, Ind
B. McCallum
Russia
Jacob Ruppert Brewing Company
Western
J. W. McAnerny
McPherson
Kan
George McAnerny
McAnerny
Farmers’ Co-operative Union of America
Hutchinson
John Wiltrax
J Kersten
Paul Paskowski
Hansen Park
Elizabeth Wiltrax
Lake Michigan
Alice Stafford
Muskegon
Mary
Alice Dane
Pasadena
Cal
Henry A. Bradford
St. Louis Commercial Grain and Stock Company
Post Office
Dice
Bradford
Colorado
Lexus
Skentucky
West Virginia
North Carolina
John G. Long
Cairo
Dunbar
Scotland
King Edward
Queen Alexandra
Belfast
Trocadero
Hyde Park
Constantinople
Dardanelles
Far East
Schalajska
Don
Mikhailovo
Tiflis-Batoum
Great Central Railway
Grinsby
England
Tehernigof
George
Peter of
Servia
Peter
Holy Synod
Kisheney
N. Poole
Jessee
Portugal Street
Lincoln’s Innields
Woole
West
Nba
Pennee
United States Department of Agriculture
Missouri River
Middle West
Charles Moreau Harver
Leslie
Kaw Valley
Kansas City
Iran
Missoupri
Palm
Wrist
Topeka
Reading
York
F. Freign
R. G. Dun & Co
Bessemer
American Woolen Company
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