New Mexico Coal Greatly Expands Production in 1910
In 1910 West Virginia led national coal output while averaging 92 cents per ton. New Mexico set records with 3,508,321 short tons valued at $4,877,151, driven by rising domestic demand and expanded markets in Kansas Oklahoma and the Southwest amid ongoing rail rate changes.
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Washington
West Virginia
United States
Edward Parker
Parker
Great Britaan
Germany
Mr. Parker
Illinois
New Mexican
New Mexico
W. Parker
United States Geological Survey
Middle States
Boulder
Polo Rado
Arizona
California
Raton
Kansas
Oklahoma
Gallup District
Southwest
Pacific Coast
Mexico Adopts Lower Coal Freight to Ease Shortage
As reserves dwindled in 1909 the Mexican government cut freight on coal to the old rate to meet railway and industrial demand. The move suggests no further efforts will block foreign coal imports from the republic, and New Mexican coal may fill the gap.
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Republic
Weakened by fight to establish his identity in Niles
In Niles Michigan on September 24 a man claiming to be George A. Kimmel, nearly penniless, prepared for medical treatment in Chicago. Wealthy locals offered support, a Chicago physician was considered, and his mother Mrs Stella Kimmel and relatives in Chicago awaited a possible meeting.
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Niles
Mich
George A. Kimmel
Aday
Chicago
Kimmel
Edna Bonslott
Charles A. Johnson
Wealthy broker shot by wife and killed in Denver suburb
Charles A. Patterson, once a wealthy Chicago broker, was shot and killed by his wife, Gertrude G. Patterson, in Monte Carlo suburb. Authorities cite infidelity and divorce threats as motives. Patterson had sued Emil W. Strauss in Chicago for 25,000 damages for alienation of his wife's affections.
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Denver
Col
Charles A. Patterson
Chicago
Gertrude G. Patterson
Monte Carlo
Patterson
Emil W. Strauss
Strauss
Clerks Along Illinois Central Ordered Out
Memphis dispatch reports an order by J J Carrigan head of the Illinois Central clerks union requiring a system wide strike starting tomorrow. In Memphis clerks across local freight sheds and shops for the Illinois Central and Yazoo and Mississippi Valley roads left desks and tools.
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Memphis
Tenn
J. J. Carrigan
Clerk’s Union
Illinois Central Railroad
Illinois Central
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Payday in city and coalfield tops all records
The recent payday in the city and coalfield was the largest in the region's history, estimated at well over a million dollars. Merchants report strong fall sales and hope for another record payday next month, with no fatalities or serious injuries reported during the celebrations.
McCarty Receives Record Damages in McDowell Court
In Welch McDowell county a jury awarded McCarty $15,000 the largest personal injury verdict in the area. Employed by R. E. Woods Lumber Co at Rift he sustained permanent injuries including castration on July 1. He sought $50,000 with only one dissenter on the panel. Attorneys Sanders Crockett and Cook Howard Litz represented him.
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McDowell County
Welch
McCarty
R. E. Woods Lumber Co
Rift
Sanders & Crockett
Cook, Howard & Litz
Sister of Stonewall Jackson Dead in Buckhannon
Mrs. Laura J. Arnold, sole sister of the late General Stonewall Jackson, died in Buckhannon West Virginia at age eighty five after an active life. She remained engaged in affairs until within two weeks of her death.
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Ewall Jackson
Buckhannon
W. Va
Laura J. Arnold
Stonewall Jackson
Statistical record of U S progress 1800 1911
Washington reports a new statistics booklet from the bureau of statistics detailing area growth the population and wealth measures from 1800 to 1911. It notes continental area reached 3 026 789 square miles in 1853 with no change since and shows rising debt deposits currency exports and school funding across periods.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce and Labor
Continental
Independence Meeting Opens in Columbus With $40,000 in Purses
The independent three-day Columbus Driving Association meet begins in Columbus Ohio with more than 40 000 in purses over five days. Highlights include the horse review futurity for pacers and trotters with 2000 3000 and 6000 stakes and a grand champion pacing stake featuring Independence Bus Evelyn W and other stars.
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Columbus
Columbus Driving Association
Wille
Tne
Independence Bus
Evelyn W
Stolypin Assassin Hanged in Kiev
Demitry Bogroff, the Premier Stolypin's assassin, was hanged after a court martial in Kiev on September 25. He asked to see a rabbi before execution but refused to be interviewed without an official present.
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Stolypin
Kiev
Russia
Demitry Bogroff
Bogroff
Baseball scores and rain inundate National League games
Wet grounds postponed the first Boston Chicago game while the second game featured RHE Senetae Raey st GSN Chicago with Young and Reariden among pitchers. Other matchups saw Cincinnati defeating US 4 to 1 as Crandall Meyers and Suggs handled the batteries. Philadelphia beat St. Louis 8 to 2 with rain ending play. standings show New York 2 2, Chicago 3 4 84 57, Pittsburgh 63 56, Philadelphia 76 64, St. Louis 78 68, Cincinnati 66 80, Brooklyn 57 82, Boston 5 8 102 261.
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Boston
Chicago
Raey St
GSN
Syne
Young and Reariden
Richie
Cole
Brown
Archer
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Mc Namara Defense Seeks New Judge After Grand Jury Refusal
Los Angeles Sept 25 John R Harrington counsel for the Mc Namara defense was ordered by Judge Bordwell to answer grand jury questions. The ruling prompted the defense to say they would likely ask for a change of judge at the trial.
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Los Angeles
Cal
John R. Harrington
McNamara
Bordwell
Nothing Doing At The Bank But Work Says Receiver
Christopher L. Williams, receiver for Fidelity Banking and Trust Co., says the bank is focused on work with no changes to announce yet. He will release information to all newspapers simultaneously to avoid giving any party an advantage and to keep depositors and stockholders informed. He seeks to do right by all creditors and win public trust.
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Christopher L. Williams
Fidelity Banking and Trust Co
Plans to enlarge Brooklyn Navy Yard announced
New York September 25 plans to enlarge the Brooklyn Navy Yard at a cost of fourteen million dollars to make it the world’s greatest naval station have been completed by Engineer Harris and Naval Constructor Grosbeck and will be sent to the navy department.
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Neat Navy Yard
New York
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Naval Station
Harris
Naval Constructor
Grosbeck
Navy Department
Victims of Nuptials Fakers in Chicago Scheme
A dozen preachers in Chicago fall prey to a con artist pair posing as a couple to wed. The ruse uses a counterfeit twenty dollar bill given as the groom’s gift to the preacher who collects ten dollars in change.
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Chicago
French Navy Disaster Claims 300 Officers and Sailors Killed
A vast French naval catastrophe leaves about three hundred officers and sailors dead. Reports describe carnage rivaling wartime horror and note strict discipline prevented many from escaping. The incident marks the navy's worst disaster in history.
Destruction of Liberte: Toulon Battleship Wrecked in Explosion
The French battleship Liberte exploded in Toulon harbor at 5:53 am destroying the vessel and killing hundreds. The Republique, Democratic, and Verite were severely damaged as fires and collapsing armor roared across the fleet. About 300 presumed dead, with two hundred crew aboard on shore leave surviving. The Liberte, completed in 1907, displaced 14,900 tons with four 12-inch guns and cost $7 million.
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Toulon
France
Liberte
Republique
Democratic
Verite
Jares
Massachusetts Primary Test Opens for Governor Nomination
Boston September 25 The new direct primary law faces its first test with nominations tomorrow for governor and other state offices. Republicans vie for the gubernatorial nomination among Frothingham Walker and White. On the Democratic side Governor Foss is unopposed for the progressive nomination with opponent Thomas L. Hiegen of Springfield in the Democratic race.
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Massachusetts
Boston
Mass
Louis A. Frothingham
Joseph Walker
General Assembly
Norman H White
Foss
Thomas L. Hiegen
Springfield
Fall Meeting Opens at Louisville Churchill Downs
The autumn race meeting at Churchill Downs in Louisville Kentucky opened this afternoon and will run for eighteen days. Hundreds of horses including nearly all top performers from American and Canadian tracks this summer are entered for the meet.
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Louisville
Churchhill Downs
Kentucky Endurance Stakes to Open Latonia Meeting
Horses move to Latonia for a twenty four day season finale on Kentucky tracks. The Louisville meeting fills all stakes with the feature four mile Kentucky endurance stakes on October 7 worth over $8000 to the winner.
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Latonia
Kentucky
Louisville
Spontaneous Ignition of Smokeless Powder
Navy experts tentatively link the Liberte explosion to spontaneous ignition of aging smokeless powder kept without inspection. Regulations require regular magazine powder checks, and cold storage is used to demonstrate powder safety. If death toll rises, the Liberte disaster may rank as the greatest naval catastrophe, with the Maine wreck as a prior record.
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Washington
Toulon
Navy Department
United States Naval
Maine
Twenty Five Pockets in Woman's Petticoat
Rudolph Newman a Chicago jeweler and his wife were accused of smuggling diamonds and jewelry using a rubber stocking and a petticoat with twenty five pockets. They arrived on the New Amsterdam with two small children. Newman posted 2000 bond. Mrs Newman released on her own recognizance to care for the children. customs officials called it an unusually flagrant case at the time.
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New York
Rudolph Newman
Chicago
New Amsterdam
Newman
United States
Rusy
Johnson and Wells Sign For a Fight
London authorities deem the proposed Johnson Wells boxing match illegal and threaten magistrate action to prevent a breach of the peace. Promoters refuse to abandon the bout, while Johnson and Wells sign articles to box under National Sporting Club rules tonight.
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London
Churchill
Johnson and Wells
Coal Shipments Seen To Equal August Record
September coal shipments reportedly near the August total, with semi official estimates suggesting the month may reach or match the 1,948,000 ton mark. Loading on a large scale continues across the field, signaling a very large total tonnage even as pay days roll in.
Local Youth Hurt Boarding Moving Freight Train
Mat Andrews of Corbin Kentucky is hospitalized after attempting to board a moving freight train at Northfork. He sustained the loss of his left foot, a severe head injury, a broken thigh and several minor injuries.
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Mat Andrews
Corbin, Ky
Miners’ Hospital
Wolebh
Northfork
Ensign Felt Killed at Yacans Islands Philippines
Ensign Haller Felt commanding the gunboat Tantanga was killed by hostile natives at Yacan's Islands in the Philippines. Several sailors were severely injured. Details have not yet reached the Navy Department.
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Philippines
Washington
Haller Felt
Yacan
Navy Department
Four Smothered to Death in Chicago Fire
Four persons were found dead from smothering after a fire on September 25 in Chicago that partly destroyed two small flat buildings. All other occupants escaped in their night clothes. Firemen recovered the four bodies, and officials reported no other injuries.
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Chicago
Taft Passes Through Kansas on Tariff Veto Explanations
President Taft arrived in Kansas City to address the National Conservation Congress after touring eleven Kansas towns. He defended tariff vetoes on wool, free list, and cotton bills, said he would sign reduced tariffs if based on a tariff board report, and announced the wool schedule report would be ready by December first.
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Kansas City
Taft
National Conservation Congress
Kansas
Coffeyville
Independence
Cherryvale
Thayer
Chanute
Humpoldt
Garnett
Ottawa
Edgarton
Olatha
Carlisle
Fred Funston
Kan
Cherryville
Astor-Force Wedding Topic at Citizenship Conference
The Astor Force wedding and divorce issues will be discussed as the Christian Citizenship conference opens a two day session in Columbus Ohio. Denominational churches attend with speakers including Dr. James B. Martin of Pittsburgh C G Sterling of Indianapolis Judge E B Kinkead of Columbus Rev Dr James S McCaw of Sterling Kansas and Clement H Congdon manager of the World’s Christian Citizenship conference to be held in Portland Oregon in 191?
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Columbus
James 8. Martin
Pittsburg
C. G. Sterling
Indianapolis
BE. B. Kinkead
James S. McCaw
Sterling, Kas
Clement Hi. Congdon
Portland
Ore
Hutchinson Readies for Taft Visit in Holiday City
Hutchinson Kansas prepares for President Taft to arrive with holiday attire and crowds. The presidential party will be housed at the Dispute Hotel. A large military and industrial parade will lead Taft to the state fair grounds for a Kansas semicentennial address.
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Hutchinson
Kas
Taft
Dispute Hotel
State Fair Grounds
Kansas
Fifth conference on dissolution of American Tobacco Co
In New York on September 25 the fifth conference met to advance dissolution plans. Attendees included Attorney General Wickersham, Special Assistant McReynolds, US circuit court judges Noyes Lacombe and Ward, James B. Duke, Percival S. Hill of the American Tobacco Co, and counsel for the British American Tobacco Co and United Cigarette Co.
Eastern sportsmen gather for first Mount Vernon field trials
A party of over fifty sporting dog owners and handlers from the eastern states arrived at Mount Vernon Washington to join in the American Field Trials. They bring strings of honor winners as Oregon Washington and British Columbia clubs collaborate to host the event, the first time the trials are held this far west.
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Mount Vernon
Was
Oregon
Washington
British Columbia
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Danforth
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