Man Confesses to Murder and Robbery on Adams Express Train
Charles R. H. Ferrell, a 21 year old former Adams Express employee, admits killing Express Messenger Charles Lane on a Pennsylvania train No. 8 between St. Louis and Columbus and robbing the way safe. He says motive was to fund marriage to Miss Lillian Costlow. money recovered and given to her for safekeeping. Ferrell identified by City Detectives ONeil Dundon and Chief Kelly after hotel tip and intercepted express package.
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Columbus
Charles R. H. Ferrell
Adams Express Company
Charles Lane
Pennsylvania
Ferrell
Lillian Costrow
Patrick Costrow
Adama Company
Tyler
Express
Lane
St. Louis
Smith & Wesson
Urbana
Bagurdeya
Mina Costlow
Art
Plain City
O’neil and
Dundon
Kelly
O’neil
Costlow
Verrell
Message to China on Li Hung Chang Open Negotiations
A diplomatic reply to China requests Li Hung Chang to begin talks with the powers aimed at halting hostilities until core disputes are resolved. The document outlines proposed conditions and the scope for negotiations and emphasizes a peaceful settlement.
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Li Hung Chang
United States Demands on China reiterated in edict reply
Washington reports Secretary Atlee presented the U S reply to China via Li Hung Chang. The message reiterates prior U S demands and warns no negotiation until met. Wu and Adee discussed the emperor s edict promising peaceful settlement while Changs envoy negotiates with the powers.
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Washington
Atlee
McKinley
United States
Li Hung Chang
China
State Department
Kwang Hsu
Bark Li Hung Chang
Earl Li
Conger
War Department
General Chaffee
Chaffee
Department of State
Adee
Chinese Foreign Office
Root
Canton
Ades
Privy Council
Pekin
Yuan
Tsi Nan
Shanting
Shanghai
Train Struck Omnibus Killing Fifteen in Slatington Area
A passenger train on the Lehigh & New England railroad crashed into a funeral omnibus carrying twenty five people near Slatington Pennsylvania. Fifteen people were killed instantly and eleven were seriously injured with several others may die. The accident followed a sharp curve and occurred as the omnibus attempted to cross the track.
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Slatington
Penn
Lehigh & New England Railroad
Nam Peters
Cherryville
Henry Bittner
Sophia Schaeffer
East Boston Woman Slays Self After Child Birth
Mrs Mary N Grundy 38 of 300 Princeton Street East Boston killed herself by severing her jugular vein with a razor about 11 pm. Four days after giving birth to a baby, she had suffered sleeplessness and opiate dependency. Husband found her seated in a bloodied chair with the razor. Doctor deemed temporary insanity as the cause.
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Mary N. Grundy
Princeton Street
Boston
Mr. Grundy
Mrs. Grundy
Dr. McCormack
French Fleet Collision Sinks Torpedo Boat Destroyer Framee
Off Cape St Vincent during fleet maneuvers the first class battleship Berennus collided with the torpedo boat destroyer Framee. Framee sank. four officers and fifty eight men saved. At least fifty feared dead. France class battleship 818 tons displacement referenced.
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Paris
Cape St. Vincent
Berennus
Fournier
Framee
France
Filipinos Surrender Near Tayug in Philippines
Washington reports a Manila despatch from General MacArthur stating that near Tayug the Filipino force surrendered to Colonel Freeman of the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry. The surrender included one major, six captains, six lieutenants, 169 men, 101 rifles and 50 bolos. The date is August 12.
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Washington
War Department
MacArthur
Manila
P. 1
Grasesa
Tayug
Freeman
Twenty
United States Infantry
Train Wreck Near Iowa Station Kills and Injures
Reports say several people were killed and forty injured when a west bound Southern Pacific fast passenger train derailed four miles east of Lake Charles at Iowa station. The engine left the track and the cars were ditched. no telegraph office at Iowa delayed details. Dead and injured to be brought to Lake Charles via the Kansas City Watkins Gulf line crossing nearby.
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Lake Charles
Aus
Iowa Station
Southern Pacific
Iowa
Kansas City, Watkins & Gulf Road
Royalty In Collision Near Rome Attends Funeral
A train carrying many notables returning from funerals in Rome collided with another train miles outside the city. Six people were killed and several others fatally injured. The King and Queen visited the wreck, with Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Pierre of Russia reported safe.
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Rome
Pierre
Russia
Four Die As Coal Train Deraills At Deep Run West Virginia
Four men are killed when a southbound coal train derailed over a steep embankment at Deep Run four miles above Wheeling on the Wheeling and Lake Erie line. Engineer Mike McGreavy of Norwalk died from a fractured skull after leaping to the ground. An unidentified man aboard the train also died. Fireman G B Turner of Steubenville and Isré Wolfe of Steubenville were killed.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Deep Run
Wheeling & Lake Eris
Mike McGreavy
Norswalk
Warrenton
G. WB. Turner
Steubenville
Isré Wolfe
Weather forecast for New England and Mid Atlantic regions
The forecast for Monday and Tuesday calls for generally fair weather in Foraine New Hampshire and Vermont with moderate temperatures and light to fresh south to east winds. Local rains are expected Monday in Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut with Tuesday turning fair and moderate temperatures and light to fresh easterly winds.
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Washington
Foraine
Newampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
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Alan
Waitt & Bond’s
Charles RH. Ferrell
C. W. Cayler
Lockport
Ence
Royalty
Bli Remaley
Eli Remaldy
James Kern
Walnutport
Samuel Mummy
Samuel “Mummy
Elias Sourwind
William Kane
Carrie Smith
Tilgfman Kuntz
James Minnich
Stephen Reinhard
Susan Choen
Alfred Rherig
Robert Selbert
David Kern
Distler
Kern
Harry Minnich
William Reach
Louis Kuntz
Carrie Nagle
George Minnich
Bryan Walp
Lizzie Jones
Alice Nagle
Vorenberg
Cotter
Balmoral
West Virginia
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