Tragic Baltimore and Ohio Collision Kills Forty
A head on crash near Woodville Valparaiso Indiana involved a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train carrying 135 immigrants and a freight train. At least forty people were killed and about thirty five injured as coaches burned and both locomotives overturned. Firefighters and physicians rushed to the scene.
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Valparaiso
Ind
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Woodville
Here
Chicago
Mercy Hospital
Culler
Emman and Burke
Snyder
Various Oklahoma region incidents and labor news items
In Shreveport Martha Gandy, convicted of stealing pipe, gets thirty days on roads. Union switchmen at twenty three railroads entering Chicago gain four cents an hour, about twenty thousand benefiting. Rock Island denies buying Mexican Central or planning a line near El Paso. In Tuttle I T John Snelling killed his wife, shot her lawyer, and suicided. Divorce case of Morris Gombert in Brunner, Texas, jailed in Houston. George Thompson in De Kalb, Texas, sold cotton bale for 21 cents per pound. seed at $1 per bushel, total $136. A 250 year old Sam Houston violin exhibited at San Antonio fair, owned by J F Huddle. A fatal bowels injury from a horse kick near Lawton, Oklahoma. Father John Phelan shot on a train near Mitchell, South Dakota. Allen Hailey’s Sparks Oklahoma shop dynamited. anti-saloon fight cited. Cincinnati Union Republican club denounces Roosevelt firing of black soldiers and asks Congress to curb executive power. Capital Grain and Elevator Co of Oklahoma City chartered with $100,000, aiming to control northern Oklahoma Santa Fe elevators.
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Shreveport
Martha Gandy
Water Company
Chicago
Winchell
Rock Island
Mexican Central
el Paso
Tuttle
Chickasha
I. T
John Snelling
Robert Burns
Morris Gombert
Brunner
Tex
Houston
de Kalb
George Thompson
Sam Houston
San Antonio Fair
J. F. Huddle
Cleburne
L. O. Tochmen
Lawton
Okla
Mitchell, S. D
John Phelan
Sibley
Allen Hailey
Sparks Okla
Hailey
Union Republican Club of
Cincinnati
Roosevelt
Congress
Capital Grain and Elevator Company
Capital Stock
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Hoch Elected in Kansas by Record Low Plurality
Complete returns from ninety six of one hundred five counties show Governor Hoch leading William A. Harris by about two thousand votes. Democrats concede Hoch’s election while noting the plura lity fell from about sixty seven thousand in 1904 to under two thousand in 1906.
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Kansas
Topeka
Hoch
William A. Harris
Ffoch
Kansan
Last Revolutionary War widow Esther Sumner Damon dies at 103
Esther Sumner Damon, claimed as the last surviving widow of a Revolutionary War veteran, died at home in Plymouth at age 103. She married Noah Damon in 1833 when she was 21. Noah Damon had been 75 and served after enlisting in 1775.
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Esther Sumner Damon
Rutland
Plymouth
Noah Damon
Damon
Brevities Bunched Across the Nation in Short News Snippets
Quick items report fires damaging $150 000 in cotton at West Point Georgia. a $1300 bank safe compromised at Rural Retreat Virginia. a bark Adena wreck survivor cat off New Brunswick coast. 1906 Texas taxes rise to 1 221 179 579. Rock Island buys Mexican Central to extend to El Paso. fatal locomotive fall at Sherman. Dr T B Wilson dies at 84 in Ringwood Oklahoma. Emma B Howe heiress elopes with a coachman. Lawton Oklahoma intrails of Jefferson Davis removed. Charles Lucas arrested. Cleveland and son kill rabbits near Rocky Hill New Jersey. Andrew Johnson struck and killed by train near Guthrie. A L Thomas dies examining rugs in Chicago.
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West Point
Rural Retreat
New Brunswick
Texas
Rock Island Railway
Mexian Central
el Paso
J. E. Alexander
Sherman
T. B. Wilson
Oklahoma
Ringwood
Emma B. Howe
Chestertown
Ind
William Jensen
Jeff Davis
Lawton
Okla
Charles Lucas
Cleveland
Little Son
Richard
Rocky Hill
N. J
Guthrie
Andrew Johnson
A. L. Thomas
Lord & Thomas Advertising Agency
Chicago
Chief Engineer Reports on Fortifications Funding
General Alexander Mackenzie, chief engineer, reports to the secretary of war that 16,052,431 will be needed for complete fortification work. He specifies next fiscal year expenditures for river and harbor projects including Sabine Pass, Galveston harbors and channels, Brazos and Trinity rivers, Red River above Fulton, Mississippi River improvements, and harbors at Natchez Vidalia and New Orleans.
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Washington
Alexander Mackenzie
Secretary of War
Mackenzie
Sabine Pass
Texas
Galveston
Galveston Channel
Galveston Ship Channel
Buffalo Bayou
Brazos River
Old Washington
Waco
Trinity River
Cypress Bayou
Red River
Fulton
Mississippi River
Ohio
Natchez
Vidalia
New Orleans
Fire destroys farm residence and 5000 gallons wine
A blaze at Ways Hamilton's farm near Stillwater Oklahoma destroyed the residence and 5000 gallons of grape wine stored in the cellar. The total loss is $7000 with $2800 insured.
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Stillwater
Okla
Ways Hamilton
Reception to Campbell and Governor to Host Meeting
Governor-elect Campbell and his wife will be guests of Governor and Mrs. Lanham at a reception in Austin. A hearing is set by the railroad commission for November 27 to consider Wichita Falls and Northwestern railway’s request to cross at grade with Fort Worth and Denver City and Wichita Falls and Oklahoma lines at Wichita Falls. The commission denied John H. Kirby’s bid to place Burrs Ferry Brundell and Chester railway under its jurisdiction.
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Lanham
Austin
Campbell
Railroad Commission
Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway
Fort Worth
Denver City
Wichita Falls
Oklahoma Railways
John H. Kirby
Burr's Ferry, Brundell and Chester Railway
East
Texas
Commission
Taft Visits Fort Sill Arrives Under Salute
Secretary of War Taft and party reached Fort Sill by special train Monday morning. The Thirteenth Cavalry fired a twenty gun salute to welcome him as he inspects the post and reservation plans to establish it as a brigade post. He sent for a two year old reservation map by Judge Frank P. Gilcrease. Major Taylor led the escort.
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Taft
Fort Sill
Okla
Thirteenth Cavalry
Lawton
Frank P. Gilcrease
Major Taylor
Coroner Rules Rangers Justified in Casita Ranch killings
Held blameless, Rio Grande City Texas November 12 coroner found rangers justified in killing four Mexicans at Casita ranch Bailey in Bluegrass State Lexington Kentucky November 12 Senator J W Bailey of Texas at his farm nearby.
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Rio Grande City
Tex
Casita Ranch
Kansas seeks dismissal of Indian Territory land case
Solicitor General Hoyt filed in the Supreme Court a motion for the government to dismiss Kansas v United States over possession of Indian Territory lands claimed as granted to the Missouri Kansas and Texas railroad. The lands are valued at more than 10.9 million dollars and the motion argues Kansas has no substantial interest in the lands.
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Hoyt
Kansas
Indian Territory
Washington
Supreme Court of the United States So-lcitor
State of Kansas
United States
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
Stehman Slays Spouse in Broad Street Market
Jacob Stehman a boilermaker at Pennsylvania Steel works at Steelton shot and killed his wife in the crowded Broad Street market Harrisburg Pa Nov 10. They had been living apart. she worked as housekeeper for a York County trucker who had a market stand. Stehman went to the market Saturday and after failing to persuade her to return home fired.
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Ney
Harrisburg
Jacob Stehman
Pennsylvania Steel Works
Steelton
Here
Broad Street
Stehman
York County
Mystery Death in Tenderloin Resort
In New York on November 12 a severely disfigured body of a mulatto woman was found at a resort called The Criterion in the Tenderloin district. A housekeeper and a waiter were detained for questioning.
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New York
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Tianacite
Total Resources
Ss. Parker
G. ED
Derden
Bert W
H. Astin
E. W. Crenshaw
Wilkerson
Baltimore and Ohio
Aunter
Chathan
Marfa, Tex
Sterling
Emmet
Maloney
Jno. M. Lawrence & Co
Bryan Steam Laundry
China
Bryan
E.j.jenkins
Southwestern Life Insurance Co
Dallas
Joe
Joe B. Rabed
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