Bleacher Collapse at Syracuse Colgate Game Injures Many
During the Syracuse Colgate football game at New Star Park a 50 foot section of the bleachers collapsed sending about 400 spectators into the lower area. More than 100 were injured and three were expected to die. Rescuers blocked exits to prevent a panic.
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Commercial Tribune
Syracuse
N. Y
Colgate
New Star Park
C. J. Donigan
St. John’s Church
William Lusk
Union Free School
Hamilton
John West
Rome
Students Ducked for Lovemaking on Campus
Springfield Colorado report describes three students punished by fellow students for alleged improprieties on campus. The trio, stripped partially, were ducked in icy Buck Creek and marched back to the dormitory barefoot as the faculty investigates. the names remain undisclosed.
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Commercial Tribune
Springfield
Buck Creek
President weighs Western successor to Justice Brown
Washington October 20. The President discussed selecting a successor to Associate Justice Henry B. Brown who retired. He consulted with Justices Day and Harlan both Republicans and Justice White a Democrat who visited the White House. Brown was appointed from Michigan and a Western man is viewed as likely to be chosen.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Henry B. Brown
United States Supreme Court
Day
Harlan
Justice White
White House
Justice Brown
Michigan
Two Crowned in Du-Foot Shaft Tragedy
Detroit Oct 20. Fred Bush a Saginaw mine shaft builder and Lewis Ote a Hungarian worker were drowned after a shaft broke through water flooding to sixty feet. Rescue cries went unanswered as the men perished at the bottom during construction for a new office building foundation.
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Commercial Tribune
Detroit
Fred Bush
Saginaw
Lewis Ote
Annual Parade of City Police Draws Crowds
William C. Knight, 29, named best policeman among 450 at the dress parade and review. Knight received the Longworth medal from Vice Mayor Pfaff as Mayor Dempsey was ill. A large contingent of officers, mounted police, and patrol wagons lined Plum street while "Smittie's" Band played.
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William C. Knight
Longworth
Pfaff
Dempsey
Plum Street
City Hall
Ninth Street
Eighth Street
Millikin
Casey
Carroll
Pfoff
Board of Public Safety
Board of Public Service
Rogers
Ft. Thomas
Maxin
Regular Army
Poppe
Hill
Fisher
Renkert
Krumpe
Corbin
Geist
Scahill
Boetinger
Duffy
Longworth Estate
James Hector
John Ringer
William Luhn
Wind Devastates Sierra Madres in Mexico
A Guadalajara dispatch reports an unprecedented windstorm sweeping the western Sierra Madre range in Jalisco. Thousands of trees uprooted, hillside homes blown down, mining plants damaged, and livestock killed as winds hurled mules and cattle from cliffs.
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Mexico City
the Herald
Guadalajara
Sierra Madre Mountains
Jalisco
Americans Return from Fez Mission to Tangier
A dispatch from Fez reports Commander J. C. Fremont and Captain W. B. Guignard, naval and military attaches, are returning to Tangier with United States Minister Gummere after a disputed reception by the Moroccan Foreign Board. Gummere will stay three more weeks in Fez.
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Tangier
Fez
J. C. Fremont
W. 8. Guignard
Paris
United States
Gummere
Gummeré
Plucky Young Woman Saves Edenton Postoffice
Miss Anna Quinby, state secretary of the Loyal Temperance Legion, led a campaign that kept Edenton, Ohio, with a local post office. After writing to the Post Office Department and the nearby rural carrier, officials announced the Edenton Postoffice would remain open despite the planned closure.
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Commercial Tribune
Marion, O
Edenton
Anna Quinby
the Legion
Miss Quinby
Sam
Preacher Seeks Divorce Claim Over Perfection Pursuit
Kansas City October 20 A clergyman Strau ther Quick testified he seeks divorce to save his soul from perdition claiming his wife Mary A Quick a preacher abused him daily after their year of marriage She says she warned him shed end up in the infernal regions amid heated quarrels and threats involving her former husband
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Commercial Tribune
Kansas City
Perdition
Strauther Quick
Quick
Tragedy as Oklahoma Farmer Slays Family Then Self
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribune reports B Heyworth a prosperous farmer seven miles north of Gage Oklahoma shot and killed his wife and three children ages 22 18 and 20 before fatally wounding himself. Family trouble cited as motive.
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Commercial Tribune
Gage
Okla
B. Heyworth
Armed bands rove in various districts around Cuba
Havana reports indicate roving armed ex rebels near Gaines and San Domingo threaten depredations while Marines, 75 in number, keep order at Cienfuegos. A band of fifty mounted insurgents operates near Lajas. Liberal provincial delegates refuse further meetings amid seating disputes with Governor Magoon.
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Havana
Cuba
Gaines
San Domingo
Cienfuegos
Lajas
Magoon
Steamship Ashore Near Cape Henry in Heavy Seas
A large steamship ran aground about half a mile south of the Cape Henry Lifesaving Station at 7 30 tonight. Strong wind of 30 miles an hour and heavy seas hinder rescue efforts. The vessel lies bow to beach about 600 yards beyond breakers, name unknown, with Cape Henry and Virginia Beach crews ready but unable to reach the crew before morning.
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Commercial Tribune
Norfolk
Cape Henry
Shfesay
Virginia Beach
Robbers Steal $50,000 in Mohawk Mine Ore at Goldfield
Four armed men raided the Hayes-Monette shafthouse in Mohawk, Nev., before dawn driving off with twenty eight sacks of high grade ore valued at fifty thousand dollars. Engineers were forced to load the ore onto a wagon before the band fled. No arrests reported as the expected million-dollar shipment was disrupted.
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Commercial Tribune
Goldfield
Nev
Hayes-Monette
Laborers Unearth Eight Skulls in Dover Township Pit
Laborers James Mackan and others found eight skulls in two caves at a Weller farm gravel pit. Bones and limbs lay above the skulls, with one intact child’s tooth. Authorities suspect an ancient massacre by American settlers' Indians. Workmen halted digging.
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Brial Dispatch
Commercial Tribune
Marysville
James Mackan
Weller
Dover Township
Foraker Rally Draws Big Adams County Audience
Senator J B Foraker campaigned at West Union Ohio attracting three to four thousand people from Adams and nearby counties. He praised Congressman Bannon and Roosevelt and argued against Bryan and tariff reform, noting U S control of Cuba.
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J. B. Foraker
Adams
West Union
Bannon
William J. Bryan
Bryan
New York
Cleveland
McKinley
Roosevelt
Rousevelt
Foraker
United States
Bridge 15 Ruined by Earthquakes in Portland Harbor
Two light earthquakes in Portland Maine damaged a temporary highway bridge across the upper harbor. About 100 feet of the structure sank six feet after the second quake, railing broken, planking only thing holding piles. Officials fear damage to the new bridge foundation funded at $250,000.
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Commercial Tribune
Portland
Upper Harbor
Earth Shocks Renewed in York County Coast Towns
Earth shocks renewed in York County coastal towns. At 10:58 a.m. four to five quakes followed within a minute, more perceptible than before. Pictures fell from mantels, doors jarred, walls shook, and buildings were rattled.
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Commercial Tribune
York, Met
York County
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