Seven Die as Mine Car Crushes Crew at Exeter Shaft
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania on November 5, seven miners were killed and three fatally injured at the Exeter colliery of Lehigh Valley Coal Company near West Pittston. The disaster followed three loaded cars running into the top shaft under alleged disobedience byEngineer David Price. The carload, about 11 tons, plunged 360 feet and struck a carriage carrying ten men as they went to work.
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Wilkesbarre
Exeter
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
West Pitson
David Price
Michael Smith
Michael Podesabanny
Michael Brazuke
Joseph Culock
Michael Waslowski
Joseph Andrewoski
Two Men Asphyxiated In Boston Gas Incident
Two men died and a third woman was near collapse after inhaling illuminating gas in Boston. William Trubeau 68 from Coaticook Canada was found dead in bed with gas on full force. Philip Baff 75 also dead in bed. his wife 65 unconscious and in danger as gas leaked from a burner left partially on.
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Boston
William Trubeau
Coaticook
Can
Elliott Street
Philip Baff
Nicaragua Canal Commission Ready to Submit Report
The Nicaragua canal commission, formed by the president under congressional authority, nears completion and plans to hand its feasible and practicable report to Secretary Hay within a month. It emphasizes conciseness, with detailed cost figures to follow, and aims to influence final government action on the canal project.
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Washington
Nicaragua Canal Commission
Congress
Hay
Atlantic and
Pacific
Nicaragua
Explosion at Oil City boiler works kills workers
In Oil City Pennsylvania a boiler explosion at the oil city boiler works killed two men and injured two fatally with more than a dozen others slightly hurt. In Cleveland on November 6 the Fifth Ohio volunteer regiment was mustered out and paid off.
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Oil City
Cleveland
Ohio Volunteer Regiment
Maria Teresa Goes Down Again Near Bahamas
Charleston reports cruiser Maria Teresa sunk after a hurricane off San Salvador while en route from Cuba to New York. Merritt tug saved Captain Harris and 186 crew. all others believed lost with the ship.
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Maria Teresa
Charleston
Merritt
Hobson
San Salvador
Bahamas
Caimanera
Cuba
New York
Cape Maysi
Harris
Spanish Retreat as Rebels Advance in Philippines
A Manila dispatch reports rebels advancing and Spaniards retiring toward town with foreign interests protected by Admiral Dewey. Isla Negros seized by rebels. some Spaniards held prisoner. Luzon provinces show misrule locally while Aguinaldo’s areas are steadier. US debt policy hints and troop health improves. MacMurray of Colorado volunteers drowns in river.
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New York
The
Herald
Manila
Lloilo
Admiral Dewey
Charleston
Concord
Isla Negros
Luzon
Aguinaldo
United States
Spain
Savings Bank
Casa Deposito
MacMurray
First
Colorado Volunteers
Oil and Soapsuds Quiet Storm Seas on Oldenburg
Captain Gathemann of the North German Lloyd steamship Oldenburg reports experiments in December 1897 and aboard this voyage using vegetable or whale oil to calm seas during a storm. About 2.5 pounds of oil per hour reduced waves within several hundred yards. Soapsuds proved ineffective until oil was used.
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New York
H. Gathemann
Lloyd Steamship
Oldenburg
Baltimore
Bremen
Gathemann
Explosions and Collapses Cause Fatalities Across Cities
In Grantsburg Illinois a sawmill engine explosion killed one man and seriously injured three others as the mill machinery was blown 150 yards. In Detroit a theater roof collapse at Wonderland injured most workers, with six confirmed dead and others missing. In Lebanon Indiana Solon Allinson, a Boone county farmer and Christian church treasurer, killed himself after taking morphine then shooting himself twice.
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Grantsburg
Ills
Brownfield
Frank Still
Detroit
New Wonderland Theater
Lebanon
Ind
Solon Allinson
Boone County
Christian Church
State Conference
Election Ballots Must Not Bear Judges Signatures
City Counselor B. Schnurmacher ruled it illegal for judges and clerks of election to stamp their names or initials on ballots. The opinion followed a question raised by a judge to the election commissioner in St. Louis.
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St. Louis
B. Schnurmacher
Secrets of New Jersey Coast Fishing Grounds Revealed
A New Jersey coast fishing feature explains how professional surfmen locate off shore grounds using three land marks to converge on rocky bottoms. It describes range tricks, competition among beach combers, and how boats shift to avoid rival pilots, with an anecdote of a schooner guiding city anglers offshore.
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Jersey
Barnegat
Belmar
Asbury Park
Hal Corster
Long Branch
Schief
New York Mail and Express
Siege of Paris News Ceooped Through Bismarck Wire Coup
During the Franco German war reporter narrates obtaining capitulation terms for Paris at dawn after armistice. He pleads to use Bismarck s private line to London The Daily Telegraph. The chancellor agrees to transmit unsigned dispatches, stoking a major wartime journalistic coup.
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Les Ombrages
Versailles
Paris
Count Bismarck
Rue de Provence
Bismarck
Daily Telegraph
London
Lothar Bucher
Bucher
England
Germany
Prince Bismarck
London Telegraph
Bagpipe Music Described by Glasgow Paper
A Glasgow paper analyzes bagpipe music with quirky percentages and imagery such as big flies on windows and voices of infant puppies. The excerpt also notes a Japan example where children learn both hands in writing and work, suggesting no right or left handed people as a rule.
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Glasgow
Japan
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Joseph Winster
Paul Leoksnones
Nicaragua Canal
Commission
Day
Ohio
Bahama
Norfolk
Toilo
New Jersey
Bagpipe Music
R. M. Wilson
Owney’s Chocolate
Ke”itchen
Berwick Bay
of Brazos
Madison
Grimes
Robertson
Burleson
Fme
Frank W. McConnico
Equitable Life Assurance Society of
Pacific Mutual Life
Am, Union Life
Fidelity and Casualty of
Bryan
A. D. Raccoon Nico
Academy of Music and Next
John Mike’s
B. S. Read's
John M. Caldwell, Jeweler
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