Coal Wreck on the Ohio Near Catlettsburg
The worst coal wreck in this Ohio region occurred at the twelve pale dyke two miles above Catlettsburg Kentucky. The towboat Gleaner led a fleet southward with the Frek Wilson and twenty two barges. the Wilson missed the channel and front barges hit the submerged dyke sinking eleven barges. Seventeen boats remain to clear the wreck as the channel is reported gouged and mid stream coal piled high.
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Ohio
Twelve Pale Dyke
Catlettsburg
Gleaner
Frek Wilson
Wilson
Sniter
Greyhound
Fragmentary OCR Sparks Hazardous Public Execution Tale
A garbled OCR passage describes a chaotic scene with improvised weaponry and guards, mentioning an attempted restraint, wounds to several jailers, and a collapse during a supposed execution. The text is unclear and incomplete, retaining only scattered names and actions.
Court grants bail to Andrews in Detroit case
The Michigan Supreme Court ordered Chat Prank Andrews, former vice president of City Savings in Detroit, admitted to bail while awaiting a decision on a new trial in Detroit's recorder's court. He has fifteen days to post the amount. failure means transfer to Jackson prison for a fifteen year sentence. Andrews sits in Wayne County Jail.
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Supreme Court of Michiean Las
Andrews
Omvical
City Savings Bunts of
Detroit
Recorder’s Court
Andre
Jackson
Wayne County
President Roosevelt Walks Without Crutches in First Return
The president leaves the temporary hospital and walks without crutches from his home toward Washington. He travels to greet Secretary of State Elihu Root and dine with him as he recovers away from Washington’s center. The journey shows no evident trouble, with both legs moving smoothly.
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Hoosevelt
Washington
Gndienaad
Jackson
Barge Wrecks Near Harbor Entrance In Storm
A steam tugboat at the harbor entrance wrecked during a storm while attempting to enter the harbor. Captain KRemiming and four crewmen were saved after the barge went aground missing the channels. The vessel measures 125 feet in length and is valued at BLOLIU0.
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Lignund
Speecal
Purine
Kremiming
Jeneth
Count Tadistans Matnaka Arrested for Rail Ticket Forgery
Vienna reports Count Tadistans Matnaka, a noted noble, arrested for wholesale railway tie tickets forgery. He operated a workshop on his estate with about a dozen assistants, distributing forged tickets and causing significant losses to railways.
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Vienna
Tadistans Matnaka
Jealous Rage Ends in Family Tragedy Near Mt Pleasant
In a fit of jealousy Arcelie Woodin killed his father in law and mother in law Mr and Mrs Joseph Gulick at Gulick’s farm five miles west of Mt Pleasant Michigan. He also killed his own child and attempted to take his own life. The grisly events unfolded on the Gulick farm outside Mt Pleasant Michigan.
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Arcelie Woodin
Joseph Gulick
Gulick
Mt. Pleasant
Mich
Death of Lehigh official Harry Longnecker
Harry I F Longnecker of Allentown Pennsylvania register of wills for Lehigh County died of typhoid fever at age 48. He was a renowned wing shot and dog fancier in America.
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Harry IF. Longnecker
Allentown
Register of Wills
Lehigh County
Farviers
America
Missing Boat Sighted Off Ashtabula
The missing lifeboat from the C. B. Lockwood, which foundered Tuesday, was spotted bottom-side up about a mile and a half east of Ashtabula, Ohio.
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C. B. Lockwood
Ashtabula
Ohio
Bancroft Resigns as Supreme Court Reporter at Sixty
J. C. Bancroft jurist diplomat and author long serving as reporter of the Supreme Court of the United States resigns his office at age sixty and retires to private life. Born in Worcester Massachusetts he concludes nearly twenty years in the role.
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J. C. Bancroft
Supreme Court of the United States
Worcester
Mass
La Soufriere erupts again on St Vincent
A Bridgeton Parbadoes dispatch reports La Soufriere volcano on St. Vincent erupting again with volcanic dust falling locally. Dust was so thick that business operations were suspended in the area.
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Bridgeton
Parbadoes
LaSoufriere
Island
St. Vincent
End of Coal War Arbitration Named at White House
President Roosevelt announces a six member arbitration board to settle the anthracite strike. Bishop Spalding of Illinois named as miners representative with Carroll D. Wright as recorder. The panel includes Brigadier General Wilson and others from engineering, sociology, and mining, after long talks with Mitchell and operators.
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Board of Arbitration
Roosevelt
Bishop Spalding
Illinois
White House
Washington
Hape
Root
Carroll D. Wright
Sargent
George W. Perkins
Robert 8. Bacon
J. P. Morgan & Co
J. P. Morgan
Bishop
John Mitchell
White H House
Mitchell
Dresident
Tulay MW. Wilson
V. S.arny
C Cief
Engineers US
Alice
Engineer Corps
United mi Sy “Ale
E.W. Parker
Mikin
Si Jon
United S
Jenin
Na Yo
Gooves Gray
Wilminete
Del
United States
Cedes Rapids
Iowa
Ashinetan
Thomas Ti. Watkins
Scranten
Pau
Aus
Ainen
John GL. Spalding
Peorta
Dislin Spalding
United Mine Workers
Hazleton
New York
Indianapolis
Resurt
Thomas C. Platt
Holwardstille and
Rigling
Malthy
Gov. Stone
Platt
Republican Leaders. Mr. Morgan
T[oosevelt
Mmine
Pennsylvania
Mr. Morgan
Hig
Robert R. Bacon
Moot
Story of the Coal Strike
The article chronicles the coal strike from its eight hour day demand in the anthracite region through key events from May to October. It covers United Mine Workers actions led by President Mitchell, operator resistance led by George Baer, mediation attempts by Senators Hanna and Platt, and presidential involvement by Roosevelt. It notes troop and strike impacts, court actions, and looming arbitration debates as the conflict intensified.
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Senator Hanna
Civic Federation
George FI. Baer
Reading Railroad
Mitchell
New York
Board of Trade
Sand Boy
Hanna
Porto Rican Schools Open Islandwide For Citizenship Drive
About 1 200 public schools opened across Porto Rico on Sept 9 giving 50 000 children access to American citizenship. The move is hailed as a path to educated future citizens and a step toward statehood for Porto Rico.
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Porto Rico
American Union
Illinois Central conductors receive ten dollar monthly raise
Illinois Central announces a wage increase of ten dollars per month for conductors. W. D. Huber is re-elected president of the Brotherhood of Carpenters. Ired Atkinson resigns as superintendent of Philippine schools effective January 1, 1903. A bloody clothing bundle was sent to Trauernicht Shianks Commission Company in St. Louis. A Colorado company with two million dollars capital forms to build a railway from Cripple Creek to Pueblo.
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Illinois Central
W. D. Huber
Brotherhood of Carpenters
Ired Atkinson
Philippine
Trauernicht-Shianks Commission Company
St. Louis
Mystery
Colorado
Cripple Creek
Pueblo
Illinois Probate Court to decide $50,000 Sutton heirs claim
Judge Cutting of Chicago Probate Court will require Dowie to restore $50,000 to Frederick Sutton's heirs. Sutton, a New Zealander, left all to Dowie in a 1902 will. executor Speicher faced a March codicil favoring relatives. Ellen Eldridge of Yellow Bluff petitions in Cook County as the case moves from Lake County.
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Dowie
Cutting
Chicago
Frederick Sutton
Speicher
Sutton
Lake County
Cook County
Ellen Eldridge
Yellow Bluff
New Zeadland
New Commander in Chief of the G A R Named
Gen Thomas Jamison Stewart of Norristown Pa elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic has long served as adjutant general of Pennsylvania since 1895 He is a Civil War veteran born 1848 in Ireland and remains unmarried
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Thomas Jamison Stewart
Norristown
Grand Army of the Republic
Pennsylvania
Tie
One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteers
National Guard
G. A. TR
Grand Army
Gen
Stewart
Ireland
Outlook for Coal Ends Strike Ready for Full Coal Output
A Wilkes Barre dispatch reports once a miners strike ends 145 000 workers will report for duty within 24 hours. Seventy five thousand tons can be mined and shipped in 48 hours with daily output rising to 100 000 or 125 000 tons after a week. Coal can reach New York and Atlantic cities within 36 hours from mine. More cars arriving at shipping centers indicate preparatory transport expansion by coal companies.
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Wilkesbarre
New York
Atlantic
Evangelist Sam Small Collapses Twice on Vermont Platform
The Rev. Sam Small, Georgia evangelist, who has been in Vermont advocating a local option for governor candidates, collapsed twice on the platform from drink. He openly confessed to his condition.
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Sam Small
Georgia
Vermont
Ele
New York
Adirondack
Catskill
Knox Says Congress Has Full Power To Regulate Trusts
Attorney General Knox told the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce that Congress has full constitutional power to pass laws regulating and controlling trusts. He argued the Sherman act is sufficient or can be supplemented by new federal measures without a constitutional amendment. He cited over capitalization lack of publicity and price discrimination as evils and urged uniform national terms for interstate commerce to curb trusts.
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Knox
Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Roosevelt
Beef Trust
Mollie Foxwater accused in Oklahoma murders for gold mine secret
Mollie Foxwater an Osage woman in Oklahoma is jailed charged with killing four husbands who demanded the mine secret she claimed to possess. She says threats to reveal the mine led to the killings. A life size statue of Louis Kossuth was unveiled in Cleveland before 50,000. Arthur Hunter and Bertha Gorman, ages 17 and 5, from Hartville Missouri, eloped to Vinita Oklahoma and wed, then returned home to forgiveness.
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Mollie S
Oklahoma
Grand River Hills
Cherokee Nation
Mollie
Louis Kossuth
Cleveland
Ohio
Kossuth
Andrew Toth
Debreazin
Hungary
Arthur Hunter
Bertha Gorman
Hartville, Mo
Vinita, I.T
Givenicua
Industrial outlook lifts amid fuel and transport concerns
The Weekly Trade Review notes favorable symptoms for New York industry despite labor friction fuel shortages and tight money. Railroads face congestion and coke supply limits while railway earnings rise and freight demand grows, signaling continued industrial progress and eventual cheaper meats as livestock demand strengthens.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Dun
Livestock and grain prices across major markets
The report lists cattle hogs and sheep prices in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Toledo Buffalo and New York. It includes wheat corn oats rye and butter with No 2 grades and various regional ranges. Prices show wide spreads reflecting market conditions and quality.
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Chicago
Castle
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Whit Ste
Milwaukee
Toledo
New York
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Wisconsin
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Thomas B. Reed
Marion Butler
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