Trains Collide Amid Indiana Collision Kills One
A Monon special train carrying business college students from Indianapolis and Cincinnati crashed into an Erie freight train west of Hammond Indiana, derailed, and demolished a Monon freight. One man died and four others were seriously hurt. A storm also wrecked ships off Cape Town with 23 crew drowned, and a tidal wave destroyed Altata and nearby towns with heavy loss of life and property.
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Monon
Business College
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Erie
Hammond
Ind
Cape Town
Hishlands
Smith
New York
East London
Broras
Dallachie
London
Table Bay
Rourke
Highlands
Altata
Pacific
Culiacan
Mexico
Notable Deaths and Disasters Tally in Brief
A roundup of recent calamities and deaths includes Prof Leopold Sehenk of Stria, Pierre Lorillard's estate valued at 1 797 925, Lombardo killed in a battle, and multiple executions and accidents across the United States. Also cited are price shifts in coal, a German world trade total, a Texas murder, a drowning in Minneota, and a volcanic island disaster killing 159 residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierre Lorillard
Lombardo
Mussolino
William Ross
Thomas Walch
Willow City
N. J
PF. G. Raschke
Hastings
Neb
New York
Frank C. Andrews
Detroit
George
Henry Heinz
Nicholas Heinz
Pike Bay
Minneota
John Warren
Groesbeck
Texas
Dork Stevens
Warren
William Butler
Dorothea
Chicago
Turkey
United States
Pittsburg
Wing la
Germany
Obadiah Sands Batter Corporation
United States District Attorney
Kansas
July Baker
Fairplay
Colo
J. Vallie
Cumberland River
Torishimsa
Robert R. Remington
May van Alen
Newport
William Malcolm
Passaic
Mutual Loan and Building Association
Rella
Notable Fatalities and Disasters Across Cities
A sweeping digest of accidents murders and losses from New York to Tennessee reports deaths by suicide and illness, a mural of crime and tragedy including a self-inflicted death in Buffalo, a tug boiler explosion near Staten Island, a school beating case leading to commitment, railroad and streetcar accidents, and major fires damaging blocks in Hamilton and Cincinnati with multi‑million dollar losses.
Various 1900s News Bites From Across the Nation
Rep E S Minor wins renomination in Wisconsin Ninth District. Omaha Street Railway stock buys lead by J and W Seligman. Nebraska Gov pardons Blair priest Rowland Hills after four years for bigamy. Wong Yen dies in Toledo jail after immigration arrest. Bergerman building fire in Pueblo costs 15000. L Florman paints and wallpapers business valued near 60000. Dr Frank Crane resigns Chicago Peoples Church post to Worcester. Knights of Pythias leaders rise to supreme offices in North Dakota. Westward rail and steamship links planned Cincinnati to Chicago route. Chanute gas field adds thousands of acres in Chanute Kan led by Col S W Isett. Kansas City blacksmith discovers boarder with Albert Hayes in Kansas City.
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E. S. Minor
Wisconsin
J. & W. Seligman
New York
Gov Savage
Nebraska
Rowland Hills
Blair
Wong Yen
Chicago
Toledo
Bergerman
Pueblo
Colo
L. Florman
Frank Crane Wall
People’s Church
Woreester
Mass
Herbert Lockwood Willett
Thomas Jefferson
William McKinley
Frederick
Cleveland
James Moonan
St. Loui
Josephine Mart
Tracey IL Bangs
Grand Forks
N. D
Knights of Pythias
Supreme Lodge
Rocky Mountain
Western Union
Pike's Peak
J. P. Cook
J. J. Dickey
Omaha
Maj. Seels
East Palestine
Ohio
Fort Wayne, Dayton and Cincinnati Traction Company
Cincinnati
Fort Wayne
Michigan City
Andrews Guilty Looted City Savings Bank for 1.58 Million
Frank C. Andrews, former Detroit City Savings Bank vice president, convicted of looting 1.576 million dollars. He had risen from a Romero Michigan clerk to a powerful financier before a speculative spree collapsed his fortune. The jury verdict followed a four week trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank C. Andrews
Detroit City Savings Bank
Andrews
Murphy
Attormey Kirchner
Recorder Murphy
Detroit
Woodward Avenue
City Savings Bank
Romero
Mich
Frm
Spertlafon
Ny Savings Bank
Getter
Frank C. Pingree
Hazen Pingree
Notable 1902 notices and political hints across regions
Explorer Borchgrevink becomes naturalized in the United States while William J. Bryan declines a 1904 candidacy but hints at a future call. Canadian court frees Greene and Gaynor due to faulty requisition papers. The International Typographical Union caps weekly hours at fifty four and rewrites laws. Ladies Auxiliary faces strong opposition at its convention. The Columbia River fishing season closes with a salmon pack of 336000 cases, about 100000 more than last year. roughly 90000 cases were shipped cold storage, totaling 462000. Announcement of Vivian Sartoris’s coming marriage via Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris, linking Gen. Grant’s granddaughter to Frederick Roosevelt Scovel, a cousin of President Roosevelt.
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Explorer Borchgrevink
United States
Wiliam J. Bryan
Caror
Liberty Greene and
Gaynor
International Typographical Union
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Columbia River
Vivian Sartoris
Nellie Grant Sartoris
Grant
Frederick Roosevelt Scovel
Chevalier
Mme
Edward Scoveling
Roosevelt
Skeleton unearthed of gigantic man in Cincinnati suburb
SOUTHERN. While Jacob Burk of Bromley, Ky., was at work in the sand pits east of Hat Cincinnati suburb, he unearthed the skeleton of a man of gigantic proportions. Further excavating disclosed two more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Burk
Bromley
Cincinnati
No More Train Collisions Device May Prevent Collisions
A South Dakota clergyman Kurtmann Mueller proposes a universal safety device for trains. The system places danger signals and automatic stopping if a run is too close, with an electric globe in the engine cab and automatic whistle and stop after 2000 feet. The keel of the Nebraska battleship is laid in Seattle with governors present. James Brady of St Joseph dies at 66. Helena Independent bought by Senator Clark.
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South Dakota
Kurtmann Mueller
German Lutheran Church
Hartford, & C
Sry
Nebraska
Moran Bros.” Company
Seattle
Wash
Gov
Laraze
Henry McBride
Washington
Trade outlook notes strong rails and crops amid labor strife
RG Dan & Co. Weekly Review reports confidence in future trade despite labor disputes delaying shipments. Railways show 3.9 percent higher earnings, lumber and fish packing set records, coke ovens in Connellsville output about 250000 tons weekly, and pig iron contracts for 1903. Agricultural prospects look bright as harvests finish, with high crop prices supported by low opening stocks. Western railroads add capacity with 300 new locomotives, grain trade waits on Northwestern wheat yield while wheat prices ease on good crop news.
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RG. Dan & Co
Connellsville
York
Chicago
Northwest
West
Western Railroad
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Soo
Market Prices by City and Commodity Across Regions
Regional commodity quotes list cattle hogs sheep and grain by city including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Toledo New York Buffalo with price ranges for fattened livestock and cereals such as wheat corn oats rye and butter eggs and potatoes. figures show varying grades from common to prime and No 2 grades across dates and markets. The data reflects historical wholesale price dispersion and market conditions in multiple metropolitan hubs.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Toledo
New York
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Brimfield News
Addison Pacey
Brimfield- Ocs
Nations Baseball League
W. Ll
EL Pittsburg
Brooklyn
Boston
Philadelphia
Soga
Boston Sass Ik
Baltimore
Leopold Sehenk
Schwanberg, Stria
Luther RB. Marsh
Join BR. Drexel
McMaster Mills
Greenwich
Conn
John Driscoll
Buffalo
N. X
Bethlehem Steel Company
Charles M. Schwab
United States Shipbuilding Company
Jacob Kuper
St. Georges
Staten Island
George McFadden
Lumberton
S. C
Elizabeth Smith
Charles Post, Jr
Pennsylvania Railroad
Levi Perham
Masteus Rogers
Bennington
Rogers
Walloomsine
New York Stock Exchange
J. P. Morgan & Co
Wall Street
Nelson Morris & Co
United Dressed Beef Company
Forty-first Street
First
Sweeney
Robert E. Pattison
Pennsylvania
Suries
Chickasha
I. T
Pike
George Joffee
Henry Straus
Hunt
Opera House
Fortune L. Bailey
Gatling
Freeport
Frank Pelke
Pelke
Okelson
George Hanson
John Johnson
Hanson
Charles Bronson
Page Avenue
Harry King
Katie Brown
Patrick Brown
Pierre, & C
Farmers’ National Co-operative Exchange Company
L. Logan
Bfarry
Logan
House of Refuge
Noreatur
Kan
Missouri Brewing Company
Smashers’ Organization
Hamilton
Brewing Company
Supreme Court
Indiana
Michigan
Indiana Railway
Goshen
Elkhart
Mishawaka
South Bend
St. Joseph
Niles
Chicago and Indiana Railway
Fort Warne
Chicaio
Cincinanati
Town State College of Asameniture and Mechanical Arts
Ames
General Assembly
Memphis
Tenn
Armour Packing Company
Clinton and
McCall Streets
Winfield
Whig Duncan
Wiliam
John Traimvill
Audrey Newman
William Kimbro
Jefferson City
Charles J. Allen
Tampa
Fla
Manuel Chavez
Cuban
Allen
Williamstown
W. Va
Marietta
Tom Orr
Paducah
Frank Buckner
Buckner
Kentucky
Fulton Aaw Cayce
Pineville
Wiliam Goforth
Alice Ekenfro
John Whittaker
Charles Haskins
France
Coyne
Wolf Summit
Baltimore and Ohio
Teerry
W. B. Terry
Princeton
Urey
Opera
Terry & Frayer
A. Cash & Brother
Henry & Butler
Cimberland Telephone Exchange
Jerry Logan
State Supreme Court
Knotville
Gerald Stuart
T. W. Howell & Son
Second National Bank
Howell Block
Walnut Street
Howell's
New South Wales
King Edward
Cowes
Newgate Prison
Newman
Edward
Falmouth
England
Atlantic
Earl of Dudley
Dublin
Ireland
Earl Cadoran
Charlies L. Fair
Charles L. Fair
Eureaux
Paraguay
Republic of Cuba
Asuncion
Cuba
Vatican
Canada
Hongkong
Kwang Si
Prince Oboelensky
Kharkov
Russia
Central Revolutionary Committee
Albert Netter
Bright
Mr. Netter
America
Greenville, Miss
Koney
Amalgamated
Pinfree
Southern
James Brady
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