International conference gathers cotton growers and manufacturers
About 500 delegates from the United States and Europe attend the three day meeting in Atlanta to discuss cultivation, manufacture, and trade of cotton. Leaders from the National Spinners' association Farmers' Union Southern Cotton association and Inter State Cotton Crushers' association participate alongside international reps.
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Atlanta
State Capitol
International Conference of Cotton Growers
South
National Spinners’ Association
Farmers’ Union
Southern Cotton Association
Inter State Cotton Crushers’ Association
Smith
C. W. Marcara
Macara
Bloodiest Convict Escape Attack in Tobolsk
A gang of convicts escorting prisoners in Tobolsk attacked guards wounding six. guards fired killing twenty two convicts in one of the bloodiest incidents in the region. At Kanchow Fu Chinese troops punished rioters. official tally reports one hundred Boxers killed in Canan Fu riots.
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Siberia
Kanchow Fu
Canan Fu
Rogers Refused Murder Trial Opens In Goshen New York
Charles Henry Rogers faces a murder charge in Goshen New York for killing dairy farmers Frederick and Willis Olwen and their housekeeper's daughter Alice Ing erick. Insanity defense cites an old railroad accident injuries. Rogers' wife, supporting five children, visited the lockup saying she has waited so long she can go.
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Goshen
N. Y
Charles Henry Rogers
Frederick
Willis Olwen
Alice Ingerick
Rogers
Train Collision Kills Engineer in North Carolina
Rocky Mount North Carolina October 7 The northbound Florida and West Indian Limited on the Atlantic Coast Line railroad ran into an open switch at South Rocky Mount and collided with an engine Engineer W Boney was instantly killed Postal Clerk T T Hill was slightly injured Many passengers were thrown from their berths but none injured Both engines and all mail express baggage cars were demolished
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Rocky Mount
N. C
Atlantic Coast Line Railway
South Rocky Mount
W. Boney
T. T. Hill
Four Die in Steel Plant Disaster At Hutler Pennsylvania
An explosion in Standard Steel No 1 cupola caused four deaths and ten serious injuries with about twenty fatally or severely burned, many foreigners among workers. Fire and panic followed as 10,000 residents swarmed the scene, hospitals crowded, and bodies rushed to care amid the chaos.
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Hutler
Standard Steel Company
N Dorna
Nicholas Blottera
John Vioark
Eeu Pola
Terrible Murder in Camden Child Found Disfigured
Nine year old Ethel Evans Marx is found killed in East Camden with the head chopped off by a hatchet. August Dongas and Joseph Wood are held for examination after Wood was suspected due to Mrs Harry Marx’s pattern of leaving him in charge. A witness claims to have seen Wood near the crime scene armed with a hatchet. Autopsy by County Physician Jones confirms brutal head injuries and postmortem maltreatment.
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Camden
N. J
Ethel Evans
Miarx
August Dongas
Joseph Wood
Wood
Harry Marx
Ethel
Jones
Detroit Winner Captures American Baseball League Pennant
Detroit wins the American League pennant by routing St. Louis 10 to 2 in Saturdays action. St. Louis answers with two Sunday victories 10 to 4 and 10 to 3. Bill Bailey, ex-Texas League player, pitched the first game for St. Louis.
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Detroit
St. Louis
Bill Bailey
Chicago
Cleveland
First Train Enters Galveston signals new service
First Trinity and Brazos Valley passenger train carrying 225 excursionists arrived in Galveston on Sunday. In Dallas, Charles T. White a stonecutter collapsed and died.
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Galveston
Trinity and Brazos Valley
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