Waltham Freight Wreck Blocks Fitchburg Line for Hours
A freight wreck near Moody Street Waltham halted Fitchburg system for about eighteen hours. Leonard Cooper was cut in the train while Engineer McGilvery escaped injury, and Fireman Harry Downs lay unconscious. Engine and car damage valued at about 80000 dollars. wreckage stacked thirty feet high at Watertown junction. Cause traced to signaling errors as eastbound freight collided with an extra freight.
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Fitchburg
Waltham
Boston
Leonard Cooper
McGilvery
Harry Downs
Watertown
Boston & Maine Railroad
Moody Street
Gus MecGilvery
Charles Cleveland
Thomas Hammand
Somerville
Marlboro
Cooper
Cemetery Bridge
Thomas Hammond
Hammond
Lynch
Sheldon
Four Firemen Die as Fire Rages Through St Paul Packing Plant
A deadly blaze at A V Hinman & Co packing house in Minnesota Transfer killed four firemen and injured several others. The incendiary fire, fanned by a south wind, caused about 130000 in losses across the packing house and nearby warehouses. Firefighters faced water shortages and a torn-up bridge access while flames spread from the packing house to the Northwestern Line warehouse and a McCormick Harvester warehouse, where a gasoline tank exploded burying the men. Victims’ bodies were recovered as losses totaled at McCormick Harvester and other properties.
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ST. Paul, Minn
A. V. Hinman & Co
Minnesota Transfer
Northwestern Line Company
McCormick Harvester Company
Engine Company No. 13
Mass in House and Fatal Train Wreck Shock Worcester Area
In North Brookfield St. Anne's Church was closed and Father Berger led Mass at his home for 40 followers before a Worcester gathering of French Catholics. A deadly Fitchburg division freight wreck near Waltham killed Conductor Leonard Cooper, buried beneath a tender, as crews recovered the body. Engineer Gus McGilvery reported the initial impact sequence.
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North Brookfield
St.Anne’s
John P. Ranger
Father Berger
Worcester
St. Jean Baptist Society
Father Wrenn
St. Joseph’s Church
St. Anne’s
Springfield
Arthur St. James
St. Anne's Church
St. Anne's
M. J. A. Coutlee
Pastor J. M. Wyman resigns from Free Baptist Church
The Rev J M Wyman resigned as pastor at the morning service in Augusta Me He has received a call to Roslindale Mass and expects to leave by early December at the latest
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Augusta
J. M. Wyman
The
Free Baptist Church
Roslindale
Mass
Zion group meeting boosts aid for refugees
The Sons and Daughters of Zion held a meeting last night approving fifty dollars for the Sheltering Home and one hundred dollars for fleeing Roumanian Jews.
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Sons and Daughters of Zion
Ifty
How My Husband May Death
Mrs Mary Cooper recounts the death of her husband Leonard Cooper in a Waltham freight wreck on the Marlboro line. She describes his sixteen-year railroad career, a recent promotion to passenger brakeman, their family plans from Somerville to Marlboro, and the shock as telegrams confirm his death with body arrival expected tomorrow. He belonged to the Knights of Pythias and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
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Somerville
Marlboro
Mary Cooper
Leonard Cooper
New York
Charlestown
Fitchburg
Bostom & Maine Railroad
Leonard
Huusband
Hooper
Waltham
Mr. Coover
J. R. Hamilton
Charles
Alexander
Cooper
Knights of Pythias
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Signal at cemetery bridge caused deadly freight collision
An eastbound freight and a westbound pick up collided after signals at cemetery bridge and Moody street showed conflicting tracks. Engineers and a fireman were injured, with wrecking crews clearing three tracks. Dozens of cars carrying beef, hay, corn, stoves, and squashes were destroyed or damaged, losses mounting for several companies.
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Watertown
St. Louis
Roberts
South Acton
Boston
Continental Limited
Fitchburg
East End
Boston & Lowell
Stony Brook
Ayer
Swift & Co
F. P. Rutter
P. Maloy
East Boston Man Reports Robbery At Home
Austin N. Barber of 225 Bennington Street East Boston reported the theft of a gold watch chain and charm from his house. He believes a thief gained entry Saturday evening by slipping in with false keys.
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Austin N. Barber
Bennington Street
Boston
Barber
Fire damages Tremont Street six story building
An alarm from Box 55 at 2 p.m. yesterday reported a fire of unknown origin in the six story building at 197 Tremont Street owned by the James L Little estate and occupied by Stephen Duncan as a fruit store. Damage estimated at about $10.
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Tremont Street
James L. Little
Stephen Duncan
Strike Stance Echoes From Scranton Pact In Strike War
In Hazleton and Shamokin, leaders defend the Scranton convention terms on a 10 percent wage advance with no sliding scale. They accuse operators of failing to offer full payment guarantees by April 1, and warn there can be no partial settlement. Committees survey The Philadelphia Reading Company strikers and report engineers and firemen only likely to return if officially directed.
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Mitchell
Hazleton
Penn
Scranton
Lehigh
Coxe Bros. & Co
Gb, Markle & Co
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Company
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
Lackawanna
Wyoming
No. 9
Schuylkill District
Shamokin
United Mine Workers
Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company
Mt. Carmel
Locust Gap
Union Coal Company
End of Strike Near, Scranton Unions Hold Fire
In Scranton Penn on October 21 presidents of local United Mine Workers unions met. They agreed not to push closing washeries now, fearing disorder and potential harm to the strike effort as momentum toward ending the dispute grows.
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Scranton
Penn
United Mine Workers
Baroness von Ketteler Arrives in Detroit in Grief
In Detroit Oct 21 Baroness von Ketteler widow of the murdered German ambassador to China arrived and was taken to Henry B Ledyards residence. She is reported to be in nervous prostration but handled the long journey from Peking as well as could be expected per Mr Ledyard who declined further viewing.
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Detroit
Mich
Baroness von Ketteler
China
Henry B. Ledyard
Michigan Central Railroad
Ledyard
Peking
Trade going elsewhere in looming coal strike end
In Wilkes Barre on October 21 reports say the coming week may end the coal strike. Both sides likely to concede under pressure as sales agents urge action to avert long term demoralization of the anthracite trade. One agent notes buyers leaning toward bituminous coal amid rising concern.
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Wilkesbarre
Penn
Harvard Mystery Figure Tied to Roosevelt Divorce Case
The article discusses James H. Roosevelt Jr. and his high profile marriage to Sadie Messinger, with his father challenging the contract. A man referred to as "Dr Gray" is alleged to be involved in the entrapment plot but is not identified locally and is described as a Harvard man from a notorious Boston family.
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Harvard
James H. Roosevelt, Jr
New York
Sadie Messinger
Dr. Gray
Boston
Memorial meeting for Professor E O Growney at Philo Celtic Society
The Philo Celtic Society met yesterday at Pierpont school house Hudson street near Oak. Dineen Mulray Verriter with Miss Katherine Fitzgerald led classes. At 5:30 PM President Timothy Donoghue opened the session honoring the late Professor E O Growney with Charles O Farrell speaking on his life and work and Mulroy reciting an original Irish elegy.
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Philo-Celtic Society
Pierpont School House
Hudson Street
Oak
Messrs
Dineen
Mulray and
Verriter
Katherine A. Fitzgerald
Timothy J. Donoghue
E. O’growney
Charles O'Farrell
Father O'Growney
Mr. Mulroy
Sunday Selling Sparks Boston Labor Union Clash
Central Labor Union members debated the police permit for a Berkeley Street grocery to sell milk on Sunday. Delegates from multiple unions urged action against non union stores, while a boycott of certain tobacco brands was endorsed and several new unions joined. The session elected officers and set up a committee to visit the commissioners. The Freight Clerks Union moved to address yard clerks and car makers’ grievances with the New York New Haven Hartford line, and eighteen new members were initiated.
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Boston Central Labor Union
Berkeley Street
Vision Clerks’ Union
Pattern Makers
Water Workers Waiters’ Alliance
Team Drivers
Cambridge Firemen's Union
International Tobacco Workers’ Union
Walters’ Alliance
Massachusetts State Liquor League
Abrahams
Allied Printing Trades Council
Fred J. Kneeland
Richard W. Garrity
D. J. Downing
Sanitary Department
Henry Abrahams
Cigarmakers' Union
Dennis D. Driscoll
Horseshoers’ Union
J. R. Grazier
Carriage Workers’ Union
John Donovan
Franklin Association
A. J. F. Murphy
al Neal
William F. Dolloff
J. Harrington
Firemen’s Union
J. J. McCluskey
J. J. Fenton
Freight Clerks’ Protective Union
American Federation of Labor
Blachford Hall
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
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Gosroh
Oxford Cheviots
Coverts
Kerseys
Legiol Monin
Washington and Brattle Streets
Waltham Freight
St. Paul
Packing House of
Hinman & Co
M*gilvery
POST
Roslindale Church
Hoston
Merriam Park Ice Company
Great Northern Railway Company
Northwestern Elevator Company
Tremont Stree
COA
Qlo
Pekin
Minstrels
Mari
Brass Trust
New York Journal
Oxford Vicunas
Spitz Bros. & More
Eee St
Athern On
Central Labor Union
J. J. Downing
Margaret Connell
West Fifth Street
South
Division 6
Boyle Bros. Green
Wash. St
South End
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