Week's News Record Reported Captures and Local Disasters
Col Barker reports capture of Commandant Mame Botha and eleven others near Frankfort Orange River Colony. Cuban Senate and House convened in Havana with Salvator Cisneros and Pedro Albarran elected presidents. Crance resigns after forty-one years with Burlington lines. A skiff accident in Youghiogheny river at West Newton, PA kills two. Mrs Landsparger and son die in separate incident. Army telegram offered rewards for capture of American troops and officers. Mrs Kate Soffel pleads guilty to aiding prisoner escape. Dr Longeway and scientists investigate spotted fever in Bitter Root valley, all cases fatal. A fatal arson and saloon demolitions cause many injuries. Child BRIE stabs infant. serious wounds. National Baseball League standings listed.
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Col Barker
Mame Botha
Frankfort
Orange River Colony
de Wet
Senate
House of Representatives
Havana
Wood
Salvator Cisneros
Pedro Albarran
Samuel E. Crance
Burlington Lines
Missouri
K” Line
Iowa
Kansas City, St. Joseph
Council Bluffs
Crance
Burlington
West Newton
Frederick Landsparger
Kate Soffel
Soffel
Alleghensy
Branson Street
Manon
Fpunsler
Steve
Rowan
Jobo Toasday
Jobo Darnell
Hudson & Otis
Wihe Raymond
Baltic Avenue
Atlantic City
National Baseball League
W. Pittsburg
New York
Chicago
Cinemnarn
Boston
Losis
Prominent figures clash over policy and crime engulfs cities
A mix of early 20th century incidents spans politics, disasters, and accidents. Vanderbilt kinship vow amid gambling talk, Amos J. Cummings dies in Baltimore from illness after an operation, and Carl Schurz leads a New York committee against Philippine policy Cruelty claims surface about the army as doctors discuss evacuation. Fire at Schwarzwaelder Company in Philadelphia damages stock and building with heavy loss. Roosevelt praises naval presence after Annapolis graduation. A collision near Clyde New York kills a mail engineer and injures clerks. Wells Elevator blaze in Buffalo destroys grain stocks worth about 225000 dollars. A fatal head-on crash near Rockwood, Pa., leaves two dead and many hurt. Robbers flee Daub & Pressier store after safe explosion. Filtration plant accident in Philadelphia injures workers. Beaumont estate dispute in New York involves Fannie McComb Hertzez and Louis Tertzez. Cigar factory panic in Philadelphia ends in deaths and injuries from a stairway crush.
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Hegrie” Vanderbilt
Amos J. Cummings
New York
Baltimore
Carl Schurz
Schwarzwaelder Company
Cloth Spyonsers
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Washington
Army
Navy
Philippines
Annapolis
New York Central
Clyde
N. Y
Wells
Buffalo Tiver
Indiana Street
Buffalo
Rockwood
Baltimore and Ohio
Daub & Pressier
Crafton
Ciizens
Fannie MicComb Hertzez
Louis Tertzez
James Jennings McComb
Dubbs Ferry
Brief World Dispatches from Rome to Washington
A jumble of items reports various events from Rome and beyond. Muscling Plan to enter Parliament in Italy, Dowager Queen Marsaunte entering a convent, Archbishop Corrigan winning in New York, and U S figures including President Roosevelt and Frank Sargent in various political moves. Also notes on a Japanese cruiser Musashi driven ashore and fishermen facing disruption.
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Augusta Severn
Fr Ans
Muscling
Rome
Marsuente
Corrgan
New York
Washington
Beaument
Vas
Herria
Saye
Craver Musashi
Fires and tragedies across towns hit by flames and deaths
Reports describe Fargo fires that destroyed seven businesses with 30000 loss, Aberdeen blaze blamed on incendiarism, several fatal accidents from Ohio to Wisconsin, including rail incidents, mining deaths, suicides, arson, and a receiver appointment for a Cincinnati firm as drought worsens farm distress in Kansas and New Mexico lambing season begins with high sheep losses.
Drought Drying Up Harvests Amid Papular Disasters
A sprawling news roundup details a Swift packing house boiler explosion injuring workers, a blind gold mine owner marrying a Findlay cook, a Davenport tornado wrecking crops and homes, and a Woodstock Ohio fire wiping out town buildings. It notes notable deaths including Dr. Dickerson of Kansas City, and reports on legal changes in the Chickasaw Nation, railroad options, and a murder escape. Other items cover floods, strikes, and international events from South Africa costs to Abyssinian frontier movements.
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Swift
South Qma2ha
Neb
Thomas Bishop
Old Mexico
Susanna Shuck
Findlay
Ohio
Davenport
Lincoln County
John Penn
Samuel BR. Balkwill
Tacoma
Scobey
Opapia Land Office
Consolidated Gold Company
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
Alaska
California
Clement Harper
Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton
Freman
Harper
Woodstock
Sharp
Leger
Dr. Wilhoff
John Sharf
John Miller
D. Estaing Dickerson
Kansas City
J. W. Foster
Dickerson
Tishomingo
United States
Tor. John Flood
Chicago
J. Pierpont Morgan
Milwaukee, Benton Harter and Columbus
Buchanan
Mich
Benton Harbor
Grand Trunk
Edwardsburg
Miles
J. Sterling Morton
Nebraska City
Emma Morton
Cardinal Martinelli
Monsignor
Falconio
Cheribon
W. T. Pitt
Re- Medios Reef
Acajutlan
Salvador
Dacca
British India
Lackayenawache
Japan
Melbourne
A. J. Peacock
Wilhelmina
Holland
Srey
William Fitzhugh Whitehouse
Newport
R. 1
Lord Hindhp
Gildessa
Adis
Abeda
Abyssinia
Victor Emmanuel
Italy
Venne
Russia
Moscow
Vladsaur
Disappearance of Conrad Lueder in Tennessee Linked to Death Warning
Conrad Lueder, claiming kinship to German Baroness E von Bergen, vanished from Johnson City Tennessee leaving letters signaling intent to self harm. The incident follows a wave of unusual notices and raises concerns over his whereabouts and safety.
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Conrad Lueder
E. von Bergen
Germany
Johnson City
Tenn
Shaffer
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Wheeling
W. Va
Feeeivins US
Thomas Williems
Zanesville
Ohio
Bosman & Lowman
Nor
Moody sworn in as Secretary of the Navy amid new appointments
William Henry Moody took the oath of office as Secretary of the Navy, administered by solicitor E Hanna. Thomas Nast was named for a government post as consul general at Guayaquil Ecuador. Macabebe Marie, famed Moro spy, is dead after serving on Gen. Funston's staff. Roosevelt nominates Nast for Ecuador post and Moody begins a new era of naval leadership amid broad appointments.
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William Henry Moody
Navy
E_. Hanna
Thomas Nast
Roosevelt
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Macabebe Marie
Philippines
Gen. Funston
Navigation Syndicate
J. Pierpoent Morgan
New York
Combine
War Department
Sultan Bayan
Prinipal Moro
J.J. Hall
W. Mulock
United States
Pittsburg
Scotland
Andrew Carnegie
W. N. Frew
Board of Trustees of
Carnegie Institute
Jones
Chicago markets price list and London fire loss
A dense list of market readings across cities shows cattle hogs sheep and grain prices in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee New York Buffalo with ranges for each commodity. The piece notes a London Barbican district fire causing roughly 10 million dollars in damage.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Barbican
London
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