Fire on the Steamship Eureka and Explosive Cargo Disaster
The Seattle bound Eureka carrying 900 tons including 250 tons of powder and 56 carbons of nitric acid battled a hurricane driven blaze after a carboy of acid broke loose on deck. Crew members bravely fought the flames, with Mate William Reed sustaining burns while others risked their lives to save the ship and prevent a larger catastrophe.
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Seattle
Rock of Gibraltar
Eureka
Golightly
San Francisco
Mendicino Head
William Reed
Flaes
FATAL SHOOTING IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY FARM HOME
Mount Sterling Ky Aug 27 Algin Thomas a prominent Montgomery county farmer was fatally shot by Mrs Katie Brumet wife of Abe Brumet tenant farmers after a quarrel over Thomas and Brumers dispute. Mrs Brumet wounded in return fire and is in critical condition near motherhood. Thomas 70 leaves a family.
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Mount Sterling
Algin Thomas
Montgomery County
Katie Brumet
Abe Brumet
Brumets
Thomas
Brumer
Timber lands assessed in Louisiana raise figures
The Louisiana state board of equalization raises timber land assessments by 12 to 15 million dollars and sets uniform per acre values for pine and cypress lands. They also add 2 million to cattle and livestock values, pushing total increases to 18 million with 44 million from assessors, the largest jump yet.
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New Orleans
State Board of Equalization
Tornado Near Woodsfield Kills Child In Ohio
A tornado struck Woodsfield and Newcastle Ohio wrecking buildings. The home of Samuel Bartemus was destroyed and a two year old child was killed after being torn from its mother's arms and carried about a quarter mile. In New York Mark Shaw aged seventy two died suddenly in the Narragansett hotel lobby from heart disease after a fifty year shipping career.
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Wheeling
Woodsfield
Newcastle
Samuel Bartemus
New York
Mark Shaw
Narragansett Hotel
Elevator Tragedy In James Building For Chattanooga Workman
Samuel Stricklin a Chattanooga workman was trapped in an elevator in the James building and his head crushed, the fatal accident reported from the city.
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Chattanooga
Samuel Stricklin
James Building
Supreme Judge Parker urges informed voters to curb legislative power
At the American Bar Association meeting in Portland President Alton B. Parker delivers the annual address. He argues legislators should study evolving public customs and warns against power by demagoguery, urging the people to demand understanding and justice.
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Portland
American Bar Association
Alton B. Parker
Parker
New Yorker
Yellow Press
Custody Battle Ends with Grandparents Retaining Care
Birmingham report: after a two day habeas corpus fight over five year old Sadie Moseley Bailey Judge Lane rules the child remains with grandparents Mr and Mrs Hamilton B Hussell who kept custody since the mother’s death. Father W M Bailey plans an appeal hoping to place the child with his wife’s family in Washington.
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Birmingham
Sadie Moseley Bailey
Lane
Circuit Court
Hamilton B. Hussell
W. M. Bailey
Washington
Sattler Shoots Sweetheart Then Takes Own Life
In Chicago on an August day Louis Sattler fatally shot his sweetheart Hattie Matechi in front of her mother sister and brother. He then shot himself claiming justification for the attack due to her five year courtship and subsequent rejection.
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Chicago
Louis Sattler
Hattie Matechi
Sattler
Death of James G. Cathey Denied Suicide Charge
Birmingham reports that the death of James G. Cathey was not by his own action despite rumors of excessive drinking and drug use. A fiancée denies any quarrel but says they planned to marry next month. Cathey’s remains were sent to Sumter County for interment.
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Birmingham
James G. Cathey
Cathey
Sumter County
Wife testifies of mistreatment by M A Shelton in police court
Mrs. M A Shelton describes thirty four years of misery living with her husband in Atlanta. She says he threatens her life and disturbs her work at the Piedmont hotel as officers report Shelton repeatedly arrested then released on bond. Acting Recorder Roberts sentences him to thirty days in the stockade.
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M. A. Shelton
Shelton
Piedmont Hotel
Roberts
Corpse Found In Lake At Nolan's Point
The body of Miss Agnes Maguire a Brooklyn schoolteacher who vanished from a carriage at Nolan's Point Lake Hopatcong N J was recovered from the lake on Tuesday authorities said.
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Paterson
N. J
Agnes Maguire
Brooklyn
Nolan's Point
Lake Hopation
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M. H. James
Hearn
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Roeide
Rohde
James & Nunn
Board of Equalization
Louisiana
As Tos B. Parker
Soda Wailer
Orcerade
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Parsons
Pesce
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Gordon-Sewall Grocery Company
R.H. Brogdon
Prop'r
FOLEY
Foley & Company
Shelton Scored
Atlanta
T.R. Batte
Spencer Ford
J. D. Ganter
N.jametta
B. Hudson
Bryan, Texas
W. Wilson
Franklin
Hudson & Wilson
Attorneys At Law
Bryan and Franklin, Texas
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Robertson Counties
Dr. J. F. Eaves
Smith Building
Paul M. Raysor
James’ Drugstore
RIZ Otto's Restaurant
Parsons’ Building
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