Tragedy in Jackson Ohio as Miner Kills and Wounds Several
Elmer McNeal, a demented coal miner, opened fire on a Jackson trolley car leaving the city for Wellston killing Harry White and mortally wounding J D Vanatta while severely wounding J E Kinison before he was fatally shot by officers. All victims were strangers to him.
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Jackson
Oho
Ohio
Elmer McNeal
Wellston
Harry White
J. D. Vanatta
Ef Ohio
J. E. Kinison
McNeal
Athens Insane Asylum
Dark murder and arson strike near New Bedford Ohio
Robbers suspected in the death of 22 year old Miss Sarah Wiley a lifelong invalid. The home near New Bedford was burned to conceal the crime as Wiley and her mother were away in Cambridge. Neighbors saw two men leave the house shortly before the flames broke out.
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Sarah Wiley
Miss Wiley
New Bedford
Ohio
Cambridge
David Bash
Tobias C. Bush
Stroh
Lagrange County
Fairmount Academy
Hot Air Register
Emma Millspaugh
Pearl Buller
Professor Foraker
Rosa Tewksbury-Brown-Steele- Erb
Logansport
J. N. Hurty
State Board of Health
Lewisville
Heary County
Richmond Gas Company
Pulaski
Fulton
Monterey
A. W. Brayton
State Health Board
Kendallville Furniture Co Fire Destroys Plant Near Peru
Fire swept the Kendallville Furniture Company complex near Peru Indiana destroying buildings and contents with a loss of 65000 dollars. Night watchman Benjamin Jones was seriously injured by falling debris as flames were discovered. About one hundred workers lost their jobs. The plant had moved from Kendallville to Oakdale outside the fire limits.
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Kendallville Furniture Company
Peru
Ind
Benjamin Jones
Kendallville
Oakdale
Bank Robbery Suspect Captured After Shootout in Great Bend
A lone robber identified as George A. Lewis of Kansas City attempted a daring robbery at the J. W. Brinkman Company bank in Great Bend Kansas. Bud Westfall Wells Fargo driver was killed by a pursuer shot. The suspect later claimed the name Joseph S. Kerns of Chicago.
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J. W. Brinkman Company Bank
Great Bend
Kas
George A. Lewis
Kansas City
Bud Westfall
Wells Fargo Express Company
Joseph S. Kerns
Chicago
Sixty Japanese Seamen Drowned in Tokio Squall
Japanese sampans from the cruiser Ichitose were swept by a squall at Tokio returning from a trip. Several boats overturned and sixty sailors perished.
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Ichitose
Tokio
Terre Haute Bargain Store Burns for $15000 Loss
Fire gutted the East End Bargain store on Wabash Avenue Terre Haute Indiana with damage estimated at 15000 dollars. Origin of the blaze is unknown.
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Terre Haute
Wabash Avenue
Ind
Fire Burns Nine Montreal Firms In Dry Goods District
Fire destroyed three wholesale dry goods buildings in Montreal Quebec causing 400000 dollars in losses. The losses fall on nine firms entirely with six more sustaining partial damage.
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Montreal
Business Section Wiped Out by San Seba Fire
A blaze destroyed the entire business section in San Seba Texas causing about 100000 in losses with partial insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Seba
Texas
Treasury full of gold and prosperity in Shaw report
The retiring Secretary of the Treasury, Mr Shaw, reports unprecedented U S prosperity with record gold in the treasury on Oct 15 totaling 871,893,899 77. He cites bank failures, high customs receipts, rising public debt and currency concerns, and argues for stronger federal bank supervision to avert panics.
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Shaw
United States
Panama
Secretary of the Treasury
Europe
Roosevelt
Railroad Labor and expansão headlines from early 20th century era
Union suppression threats at Burlington Hines target clerks and tech staff while Pennsylvania railroad outlines a new Susquehanna power plant dam to electrify the Philadelphia to Pittsburg route. Reading trainmen demand ten hours, rejected. St Paul plans a long cut off. Interstate Commerce Commission case tests advertising exchanges. Central lines settle wage gains and ten hour day. Pennsylvania Railroad raises dividend base to 7 percent as stockholders rise to about 45,000.
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Burlington Hines
Pennsylvania Railroad
Harrisburg
Susquehanna
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Reading Railway
Tice
Earling
St. Paul Road
Star Lake
Interstate Commerce Commission
Monon
McDoel
New York Central
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Economic News Notes Stability Amid Seasonal Demand
NCAA business shows no loss of strength with production and distribution at a record pace. Freight earnings rise and bank exchanges reach a new weekly high while Eastern demand helps sustain firm discount rates. Retail activity grows with visitors and Christmas goods demand. spring lines show strong orders. manufacturing faces labor and material shortages, with Chicago failures totaling twenty six this week.
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Whalesie
Chicago
Dun
Congress At Work in the Fifty ninth Session
Washington dispatch reports the Fifty ninth Congress resuming work with three months left and major questions ahead. Senate action includes inquiries on discharge of Twenty Fifth Infantry troops and Roosevelt's message. House activity covers nominations and bills, including anti compulsory pilotage defeat and a national game preserve in the Olympic Mountains.
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Washington
Fifty-ninth Congress
HRW
Senate
Penrose
Foraker
Twenty-Fifth Infantry
Dupont
Delaware
House
Cannon
Mr. Mann
Inois
Board of Regents
The
Smithsonian Institute
Robert R. Hitt
Overstreet
Georgia
Tawden
Ilinois
Gilliams
Indiana
Reyburn, Moor and Bruman
Pennsylvania
Nelson
Wisconsin
Executive Department
Secretary of the ‘Treasury
Secretary of War
Twenty-ffth Infantry
Morgan
Panama
Isthmian Commission
Littlefield
Maine
Olympic Mountains
New York Retail Trade Up Amid Cold Holiday Outlook
Bradstreet Mercantile report notes colder weather and approaching holidays boost retail trade across most points. Grain deliveries rise in the Northwest while railway constraints push some foundries in St. Louis and Cleveland to close. Manufacturers run at high capacity with many plants operating day and night. labor remains scarce and wage gains trend downward. Money remains high in cities with strong demand, interior towns see ample supplies. Country bankers seek commercial paper.
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Christus
St. Louis
Cleveland
Bradstreets
Mercantile Report
Cattle and grain price quotes from major markets
A compilation of livestock and grain prices across U S cities including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo Toledo and New York. Cattle hogs sheep and various grain items show bid ranges and grade specifics for No 2 and mixed lots. Prices are listed per head or per bushel with regional variations.
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Lndianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
Wade Hampton statue unveiled in Columbia crowd
The Wade Hampton statue in Columbia South Carolina was unveiled in front of a vast throng. Knights Templar of Mexico City expect representation at the triennial conclave in Saratoga New York next July.
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Wade Hampton
Columbia
S. C
Knights Templar
Mexico City
Saratoga
National Capital Notes Update on Congressional Salaries and Appointments
Representative Gaines proposes raising Congressional salaries to 7500 dollars while Secretary Shaw sends 680,028,435 dollars in appropriations for next year. A Senate joint resolution asks an inquiry into the lumber trust. The Senate confirms numerous appointments including Herbert G. Squiers as minister to Panama. New Mexico reports 26,195 voters backing joint statehood and 14,735 opposing.
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National Capital
Gaines
Tennessee
Congress
Shaw
Department of Commerce and Labor
Senate
Kittredge
South Dakota
Herbert G. Squiers
New York
Panama
New Mexico
New Pure Food Law Targets Bleached White Sugar
The new pure food law taking effect January 1 aims to curb artificial whitening and misrepresentation in foods. Sugar will no longer be sold as white. instead a dull yellowish white will be common. Tomatoes peas and beans will show natural color, with no artificial coloring. Mustard and butter will appear gray or near white, and tinned meats may rise in price. The law requires accurate labeling and carries penalties up to one year in prison or $500 fine, doubled on second offense.
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Uncle Sam
Treasury Estimates Put 1908 Appropriations At 689 Million
Secretary of the Treasury transmits the 1908 fiscal year estimates to Congress. A table lists requested appropriations beside actual congressional allotments. The War Department’s Philippine Island report urges tariff reform to 25 percent of the Dingrey rates on sugar and tobacco and calls for an agricultural bank in the islands.
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Secretary of Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Bureau of Insular Affairs of
The
War Department
Philippine Islands
Islands
Taft defends firing of negro troops over Brownsville murders
Secretary Taft defends President Roosevelt's dismissal of three companies from the Twenty-fifth Infantry for the Brownsville Texas outrage. He cites a premeditated plan by a battalion of 170 men to shoot into town houses, killing, wounding and injuring residents, calling the unit a murder plot in the first degree.
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Roosevelt
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Brownsville
Texas
Taft
Army of the United States
Many Indiana News and Tragic Incidents Across Towns
A roundup notes numerous deaths and injuries including Frank Phillips of Washington who died by suicide, Thomas Behan crushed at Fort Wayne Rolling Mills, and Chauncey Prough choking to death at Fish Lake. Fire losses occur at Lafayette poor farm barn, Miller Parrot bakery in Terre Haute, and a railroad switch accident claims Charles Berndt in Evansville.
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Thomas Behan
Fort Wayne
Lafayette
John Cooper
Indiana
Winona
Indianapolis
Chauncey
Williard Prough
Fish Lake
Miller & Parrot’s
Terre Haute
Sugar Trust Fined for Rebates by Court
Judge Holt of the United States Circuit Court fined the American Sugar Refining Company eighteen thousand dollars for accepting rebates totaling twenty six thousand dollars from the New York Central Railroad Company on Tuesday in a ruling stemming from anti trust actions.
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Sugar Trust
American Sugar Refining Company
Holt
United States
New York Central Railroad Company
New Light on the Bible Discovered by English Egyptologists
Drs Grenfel and Hunt, renowned English Egyptologists, found a papyrus on the life of Christ. The manuscript contains forty five lines of gospel text and shows notable variations from the authorized version.
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Drs. Grenfel and Hunt
Christ
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Ribune
Arthur Brown
Utah
Anna M. Bradley
Salt Lake City
Senator Brown
Raleigh Hotel
Bradley
A. B. Brown
East Liverpool Traction and Light Company
East Liverpool
Wellsville
James Vale
NCAA
Congress AT Work
Rudy
Teyner
Maryland
Lacey
Iowa
Robert G. Cousins
Robert Witt
Dinois
Jank O. Lowden
Witt
Tex
Indiana News
Frank Phillips
Fats
Charles C. Berndt
Evansville
North Grove
Charles DeArmond
Winamac
Star City
Harry E. Royse
Rouse
Bluffton
Washington Park
A. BE. Bundy
Colfax
James McCullough
South Bend
Dunlap’s Station
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