Massive Lynn Shoe Plant Blast Sparks Citywide Fire
A boiler explosion at the P. J. Harney Shoe Manufacturing Co in Lynn Massachusetts on Thursday triggered a four story collapse and a blaze that spread to several adjacent factories. At least nine injured, twelve dwellings destroyed, and total losses around 450000 as Boston and Maine rail junctions burned in the conflagration. Firefighters fought the flames amid snow and sleet with aid from Boston and ambulances dispatched to the scene.
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Lynn
Mass
P. J. Harney Shoe Manufacturing Company
Harney Company
Boston
West Lynn
Charles Street
Charles and
Alley Streets
P. J. Harney Shoe Company
Tufts & Friedman’s Shoe Company
P. P. Hood, Creamery
Boston and Maine Railroad
Jacobs Company
Fatal blast at Quincy mine after lamp ignites powder
In Houghton Michigan a Finnish miner’s lamp caused hot grease to ignite powder. William Goggin was killed and Dennis Shea, John Sullivan, and John Handley injured as the explosion and shaft fall scattered workers. Rescuers faced heavy debris as up to forty men were below.
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Houghton, Mich
William Goggin
Dennis Shea
John Sullivan
John Handley
Quincy
Shea
Goggin
Sullivan
Southern Pacific Orders Massive Rolling Stock
Southern Pacific Railroad announces about 6.5 million dollars in new rolling stock and 4 million dollars in locomotive and car orders. The additions could raise equipped capacity by up to 25 percent to meet rising transportation demands.
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Southern Pacific Railroad
San Francisco
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Deadly Duel Ends with Culpepper Shot by Brock
Pine Bluff Arkansas reports J F Culpepper former police chief famous in the southwest was shot and killed in a pistol duel with a Black man named Brock in Mississippi Delta area. After wounds Culpepper fired at Brock and hit him in the heart. Memphis dispatch notes incident occurred December 6.
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Culpepper
Memphis
Scimetar
Pine Bluff
Ark
J. F. Culpepper
Southwest
Brock
Courtroom crowd disrupts as Shea trial opens
Witness Schultze testifies he was hired by Cornelius P. Shea during the 1905 teamsters strike to act as a picket near Montgomery Ward & Co. He says Timothy Finks, a saloon keeper, directed him to stop wagons and "get busy" earning $2 a day with a ten man squad.
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Schultze
Finn
Chicago
Cornelius P. Shea
Teamsters
Joseph Schultze
Zak
Shea
Montgomery, Ward & Co
Timothy Finks
Finks
Stephen Sumner
Milk Drivers’ Union
Sumner
Texas Alone Opposed New Constitution Adopted by Union
In Little Rock on December 6, President C. S. Barrett announced the National Farmers Educational and Co operative Union adopted the new constitution by a large majority with Texas the sole dissent. Arkansas Louisiana South Carolina Indiana and California voted in favor amid more than 700 090 votes cast.
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National Farmers’ Union
Little Rock
National Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative Union
C. S. Barrett
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
South
Carolina
Indiana
California
Riot on Market Street disrupts minstrel procession
Memphis December 6 The News-Scimitar reports a riot on Market Street as Billy Kersands' negro minstrel organization passed causing whites to throw rocks at the marchers and blacks to retaliate. Several whites were injured and Edward Winter was knocked unconscious by a rock before Sheriff Montervede ended the disorder with a revolver.
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Memphis
the News-Scimetar
Market Street
Billy Kersands
Edward Winter
Montervede
Railroad Engineer Killed and Body Put on Track in Shreveport
Report from Leeville states Crystal Rachell, engineer from Orange, was killed and his body laid on the Kansas City Southern line where it was run over and horribly mutilated. Police headquarters in Shreveport have received the information.
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Shreveport
Leeville
Crystal Rachell
Orange
Kansas City Southern Railway
Money on call at 20 percent in New York market
Money on call during the first hour Thursday loaned at 20 percent.
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New York
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Batavia
Howell Bros
Bryan
GEO. A. Adams
Parker Building
Oliver Typewriter
Post Office Drugstore
T. J. Fountain
Big Blaze
Texas Cowboys
Santa Fe
Kansas
The
Topeka
John F. Lewis
Wichita
Lawrence
Lewis
BNK OF
BRYN
U. S
J. W. Howell
Guy M. Bryan, JR
H. C. Boatwright
L. L. McInnis
F. M. Law
Grand Opera House
Haswell’s
Smith Building
City National Bank
J. B. Hines
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