Week's News Record from the Bessemer Herald
Seven passengers were seriously injured as a street car plunged fifteen feet into an embankment near West Homestead in Pittsburgh suburbs. A court of appeals ruling concerns New York State rail freight caution labels This sweeping dispatch covers bank robberies, fires, accidents, and notable deaths across Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston, Minneapolis, and Lisbon with multiple injuries and fatalities reported.
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West Homestead
Ttsburg
New York State
Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court
Massachusetts
Farmers and Manufacturers’ Bank
Rich Wit Co
Calvin Myers
Canal Dover
Ohio
Pittsburg
Army mobilization warned by Gen Bell in annual report
Maj. Gen. J Franklin Bell, chief of staff, warns the United States would need about 250000 troops to fight a first class power and urges preparation, mobilization, and restoration of the canteen. He cites time and training as essential to turning volunteers into soldiers and notes repeated engineer troop shortages in recent years.
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J. Franklin Bell
Sam
United States Army
Bell
United States
Rail routes and corporate budget cuts reported
A report notes Wisconsin Central aims for a Chicago to Winnipeg through Duluth route while Pennsylvania Railroad shifts to train letters to cut telegraph use. New Year temperance pledge by 25,400 Northwestern Railway workers follows management moves to trim dismissals. Missouri roads resist the 2 cent fare law amid declining traffic with Missouri Pacific citing a 3 percent drop and Wabash noting a $6 million passenger loss. Estimates show idle rail equipment costing about $4 million monthly in interest, 375,000 idle freight cars nationwide, and production idle leading to many locomotives without loads.
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Wisconsin Central
Chicago
Winnipeg
Duluth
Pennsylvania Road
Broad Street
Philadelphia
Northwestern Railroad
Missouri
Missouri Pacific
Car Service Committee
Morse in Financial Straits Amid Asset Attachment
Charles W. Morse, organizer of the ice combine and Consolidated Steamship, disappeared from New York as creditors attached his property including a Fifth Avenue residence in a suit for 243,321 dollars. Once a top financier with stakes in banks, trusts, insurance and steamships, his fortune was estimated at 20 million dollars years ago, and three months ago he claimed securities valued at about 11 million.
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Erie
C. S. Tanner
Providence
St. I
Daniel C. Hopkins
Hopkins Land Company
Becker
Hubbard
Carlos
Luiz Felippe
Lisbon
Cathedral of
San Vincente
Boni de Castellane
Anna Gould
New York
Paris
Prince Helie de Sagan
Pleasant Grove
Joén
Pusey
Charles W. Morse
Ice Combine
Consolidated Steamship Company
America
T28
Fifth Avenue
Charles A. Hanna
National Bank
Iner
National Bank of North America
Morse
Europe
Taft opposes delegations split in Taft aligned NY plan
Secretary Taft told the New York county committee to avoid dividing the delegation when a state backs a candidate. A three-lawyer panel found Taft favored primaries in Whio districts, a view the Forakerites call a victory. Taft spoke on naval influence and Pacific strategy at a Philadelphia banquet, noting the fleet’s presence could back up policy. Fire wiped out the Dominion Coal Company store in Dominion, Nova Scotia, with a loss of ST.
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Gov
Hughes
Republican Party
New York
Taft
Parsons
Dover
Republican National Committees
Whio
Convention
Forakerites
Japan
Pacific
Ohio Society
Philadelphia
Orient
Hargis Slain by Son in Kentucky Store Feud
Mountaineer feud leader James Hargis was shot dead by his son Beach in his Jackson Kentucky general store after a heated quarrel. Beach fired five shots, four hitting the father as townspeople fled. Town Marshal Goran Smith and Grover Blanton arrested Beach after a frantic struggle.
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James Hargis
Kentucky
Breathitt County
Jackson
Beach Hargis
Jude
Pine
Hargis
Young Hargis
Goran Smith
Smith
Grover Blanton
Bia
Indian Veterans Protest Over Identification Measures
From Johannesburg Transvaal comes a report that 116 Indian ex soldiers hospital bearers during the Boer war have sent a petition to Earl of Elgin the colonies secretary protesting the identification rules in Transvaal which infringe on their religion. The petition says if the imperial government cannot protect them they will ask the king to order they be shot on a battlefield. The regulation requires natives of India to furnish fingerprints for residency plus other ID. Several prominent Indian natives have been sentenced to two to three months in prison for refusing compliance.
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Johannesburg
Transvaal
Earl of Elgin
England
India
Woman suffrage gains steam in France with 50000 signatures
A resolution in France backing votes for women has drawn 50000 signatures and will be presented to the chamber when 100000 is reached by the National Council of Women. In California a derailment on the Los Angeles limited at Fettly Station injured five passengers.
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France
National Council of Women
San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake
Fettly Station
Cal
Work of Congress headlines and battles in Senate and House
A silvered summary of Senate and House actions with Culberson Alaska exhibit debate and Panama canal bond critique. It notes Aldrich emergency currency discussions, the Indian and deficit bills, and sparring over Bryan and the President’s message. Includes reactions from Morgan, Foraker, Depew, and Tawney on various fiscal and diplomatic matters.
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Aldrich
Committee On Finance
Senate
J. Pierpont Morgan
Foraker
Depew
Secretary of the Treasury
New York
House
Fort Lewis
Colo
Carson City
Nev
Mount Pleasant
Mich
Rayner
Maryland
Messrs
Hamill
Leake
New Jersey
William J. Bryan
Bryan
Canada Wheat Lands Draw American Farmers to North
A Canadian wheat farming boom draws settlers from the United States and other lands. Frank Morrey of Kelvington Sask describes rich yields from 30 to 60 bushels an acre, abundant fuel, water, game, and a largely German and American settlement. Many homesteads are taken, but available land near towns offers ample opportunity.
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Canada
Dakota
Montana
United States
Dominion of Canada
Rhine
Rhone
Germany
Russia
Yorkshire
North
Mississippi
Pacific
Alberta
T. Holmes
St. Paul
Minn
Froiea
Wheena
Wadena
Frank Morrey
Kelvington
Sask
Multiple Buildings Burned In Buckhannon West Virginia Blaze
Fire destroyed the Morrison hotel the post office and four other structures in Buckhannon West Virginia with damage likely under 100000 dollars. Dr Henry Gibbons Jr dean of Cooper Medical College sustained severe injuries in a San Francisco street car crash. Cyclone near Hazelhurst Mississippi reportedly killed more than twenty people. A three story rooming house at 111 77 Cadette Street Kansas City burned killing five and injuring others. Charles N Bell a veteran St Paul attorney died recently. He drafted St Paul’s first city charter and wills of Amherst Wilder and daughter Mrs Appleby allocating about two million dollars to the worthy poor of St Paul.
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Morrison
Buckhannon
W. Va
Henry Gibbons, Jr
Cooper Medical College
San Francisco
Hazelhurst
Miss
Cadette Street
Kansas City
Charles N. Bell
St. Paul
Only a Cold Shouldn’t Be Ignored and Peruna Endorsement
A discussion of cold dangers and the risk of progression to pneumonia bronchitis and other fatal illnesses. The text urges immediate relief measures at first symptoms and promotes Peruna as a household remedy claiming evidence from letters. It also notes nineteen American colleges each enroll over 3,000 students.
Unclear text prompts possible medical note
Fragmentary lines discuss causes of headaches from cold exposure and quinine as a remedy, plus a bee sting fatality note and garbled phrases. Reads as an OCR glitch with several disconnected ideas and no coherent event or entities.
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Luther Miller
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Wilkesbarre
Jesse Fell
Wyoming Valley
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Minneapolis
Phillips Exeter
Exeter
N. Ub
W. Glover
Joe Haker
A. Eddy
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William Andrews
Uncle Sam
Signal Corps
J. FP. Reli
Kream
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Dominion Coal Company
Dominion, N. S
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Work OF Congress
Culberson
Texas
Clayton
Alabama
White House
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Arkansas
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Tawney
Committee On Appropriations
Inland Waterways Commission
John I. Bankhead
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