Train Robbery and Banking Swindle News Across States
Nov 1 reports cover a Gulf Colorado & Santa Fe telegraph wage agreement raising operator pay to 56 dollars monthly and 120 dollars for train wreckers with shorter hours and overtime pay. Other items include an East Tennessee Virginia & Georgia express robbery near Piedmont with 750 dollars to the messenger and cash packages seized, a Crovy Minnesota bank swindle amounting to 1500 dollars by Annie M Murphy, a drowning at Devine Lake near Lake Davis leaving two men missing, and a Coast Survey steamer incident near Portier?n Island with the Godney. Additional notes mention Davenport auction to settle a judgment at 620 thousand dollars, house fire in Jonnesbury resulting in two deaths, and quarantine of nine crewmen from the American bark Bolowits with cholera concerns. Andrew Bergisan found guilty of a murder charge in Wise Minnesota.
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Ontcnco
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad
Munovel
Robinson
Ramsey
Order of Railway Tala
Not Finally Settled Over Sunday Closing Plans
The matter of Bund World's aid to He Rinpanesl and the Sunday closing dispute at the world’s fair moves toward a congressionally driven outcome. Directors and commissions show no final stance, while labor and organized groups may be urged to press lawmakers. Also reports on shipping wrecks and maritime incidents across Michigan and Arkansas political fusion efforts surface in a patchy, era-typical snapshot of regional news.
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Cwoado
Sundhiy
Tangwente
Congress
Bowrde
Chicago
National Commission
Fusion politics and wreck report in Dakota and Lake Michigan
Democratic leaders in South Dakota push to swap ticket support for Weaver electors as part of a fusion plan while a large steel steamer Gilcher is reported sunk near Lake Michigan with eighty aboard. Grand Forks Daily News editor W. R. Bierley faces criminal libel charges as Democratic operatives push Republicans for votes in exchange for fusion elector support amid chaotic state efforts.
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Michigan Chavutcand
Ohio
North Manton Islande
Lake Michigan
W. L. Gileher
Gilcher
Cleveland
Severn
Cleveland Ship Building Company
Western Reserve
Lake Superior
Bibel Guan Fons
W. R. Bierley
Daily News
D. P. J. Strong
Polk County Review
Wast
Larimore Eays
Meesenger
Mesers
Burcott
Rondestvedt
Williams
Clavaland
Fire at Star theatre blazes after intruder sighting
A well dressed man sparked a blaze at the Star theatre in Cleveland around 12:30 am. Smoke flooded the auditorium before firefighters contained the flames, causing minor damage. Later, a second fire in the Atwater block cupola was put out with no losses. An elevator boy reported seeing a suspect matching the intruder’s description.
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Evo
Cleveland
Star Theatre
Atwater Block
Superior
Water Streets
Train crash in Sioux City claims two lives
Two men were killed and a third to die after a collision between a car and a train on the Omaha road near Higley. Names of the dead and injured are not provided. A separate filing in Santa Fe, New Mexico, concerns a land claim dispute involving a tract thirty three miles wide. Benjamin Hodges and relatives of Rockford are listed as plaintiffs, with the United States government named among defendants.
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Mon Kad
Jared
Sioux City
Anothey
Omaha
Higley
United States
Luninville Resident Kills Sister in Law in Frenzied Act
At Loninville Georgia Dr G W Kelly a prominent physician threw his 1 year old daughter against a wall and then shot his sister in law who tried to intervene. Kelly cites religious excitement claiming God called him in his sleep to kill the child and sister in law. He appears remorseful that the child survived. Doctors deem him a lunatic. Nov 4.
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E Yvar
Macon
Loninville
G. W. Kelly
Kelly
Giant Gollapse Prompts Global Financial Shock
London reports the Liberator Building Society collapse, tied to the London and General Bank failure, with liabilities around 13,000,000 pounds and mortgages totaling 8,484,000 pounds. Investigations show assets misrepresented via three companies now in liquidation, leaving little to cover deficits. Foresta Maca Parloual y Prrtsuana notes ongoing Ohio River forest fires and expanding risk to property. A 24 hour wheat blockade eases railcar shortages but may strain Chicago Duluth Minneapolis markets. Counterfeit silver dollars alarm Northeastern merchants as McKinley addresses 1,500 at Collingwood. In Appleton a teacher’s body is found on a railroad track. Prof Max Schwitz’s death remains under investigation. A gunpowder blast at railway works highlights dangers near Houten Dowell.
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London
Liberator Building Society
London and General Bank
Fiw Liberator Society
Wheat thefts prompt highway and rail action in Minneapolis
State road commissioners and railroad officials meet with the chamber of commerce to curb wheat pilfering from cars in Minneapolis yards. A committee including Railroad Commissioner Leggitt and Chief Grain Inspector Claussen will draft plans and seek city cooperation to stop widespread pilferage, which can reach ten bushels per car.
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Minstaronts
Chamber of Commerce
Railronda
Indijgc
Minneapolis
Leggitt
Claussen
Reess
Cooperative plank project discussed with strike leaders
Nov. H. Sando of a New York and New England capitalist syndicate met with a committee of strikers and workers to discuss starting a semi cooperative stool plant. He left for Washington and Philadelphia to confer with others and will return Thursday for another meeting with the strikers. Many suspects the move echoes the Carnegie company.
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Prrtaporo
H. Sando
New York
New England
Atrikers
Wuenness
Gemi
Sando
Washington
Philadelphia
Carnegie Company
French Expedition Defeats Cahotheyan Army at Koto
Paris dispatch reports Colonel Doddeban’s French force repelling Cahotheyan attacks after reinforcements. They crossed the river, stormed Kotopa forts, routed the Cahotheyan army, and pursued them to within a kilometre of Cana before camping. In New York Hannah Andrews, 7, died after clothes caught fire at home. A five story tenement at 307 East Fifty First Street gutted by fire with $20,000 loss, nineteen families escaped.
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Stoliomoyune
Paris
Novo Porto
Uniter
Doddeban
Benbanzin
Koto
Kotopa
Cahotheyan
Cana
East Fifty-first Street
State Case Denies Seizure Of Steamship Ttata
The United States Supreme Court denied without prejudice a renewal after California circuit court ruling that the federal government lacked authority to seize the steamship Ttata for alleged violation of neutrality laws by carrying arms to Chilean revolutionists. A second item notes Charles of Minneapolis being arraigned in Bacrx Wisconsin for paying a forged $10.90 check on a local firm.
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Wasaindton, Navy
United States Mortime Court
Rmewal
California
Intcn
United States
Arma
Bacrx
Wis
Charias
Mimmespolis
Beni
Onume
Mada Caton
Guion National
Bendy
Peversen
Bective
Erskian
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Virginia & Georgia
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Dempmnana
Oliver
Veman Bank
Crovy, Minn
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Promos
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Davis Lake
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Ba Olenon
Joseph Whitton
Devile Lake
Grand Harbor Bay
Misa Boleno
Miss Oleson
Indies
Coast Survey
Vancouver
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United States Coast Survey
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Portier Pans
Island
Active
Jaeta
Victoria Fellont
Ows Mathond
Crook Rarins
Davenport
Iowa
Dakota
Burlington, Cedar Rapids
Northern
Farmers’ Loan Land Trust Company of
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China
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Andrew Bergisan
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Echooner Grantham
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Empire
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John Schumbt
Arkanans Republicans and
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Republican
People's
People’s Party
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Peking
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Indianapolis
Order of
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Joslin Harlan
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H. D. Harlan
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John L. Scott
Harrison Ha
Washtingtom
South Dakota
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Grand Forks News
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Vienna
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Malor
Genoa
Frank Reilly
Stoker
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Reilly
Hotal Dniveris
Will Watily
Nebraska
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Neb
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Profesor
Max Schwits
Ryan High School
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Borst
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Walker Lake
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Thia State
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Ur Fort Hall Reservation
Pocatello
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Sturned
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Hannah Andrews
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