Smuggling Rings Tied to Sealskins and Train Wreck
Vermont warrants issued for fourteen Montreal linked suspects in a massive sealskin smuggling scheme. U S authorities report 225000 in skins already seized while detectives chase the remainder. A United States treasure agent detains mink waste shipments amid cross border fur dealings. Burlington and Kansas City routes suffer a wreck near Exline Iowa with multiple injuries.
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United States
Vermont
Montreal
New York World
Central Vermont Railroad
Ouldis
Ronses Pont
Chicago
Burlington and
Kansas City
Exline
Iowa
Exposition Losses Mount For Pan American Event
Directors order close to Pan-American Exposition on the night of November leads to an estimated loss exceeding 4 million dollars. Stockholders receive nothing for the 2.5 million invested. Contractors who built the exposition face 10 thousand dollars, and 50 thousand dollar second bonds will default.
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Tev Putin
Contributions Sought for McKinley Monument Trustees
Commander in Chief Ebi Torrence of the GG A Re has issued a circular letter asking for contributions to erect a monument at Chatten Obie. The message urges Comrade Wollbun Medwindes to forward donations and set a due time to complete the project with a roster of donors.
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Ebi Torrence
GG. A. Re
Chaten
Comerade
Wollbun
Puckye Company Rebuilds After Night Fire
The treasurer reports the Puckye Company suffered a nighttime blaze and plans to rebuild within three months. Officials say production will resume once the site is restored and the plant reestablished.
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Puckye Company
Natrona Hotel in Menasha Destroyed by Fire
A four story hotel in Menasha Wisconsin was totally destroyed by a fire. Guests narrowly escaped in night attire with one guest Miss Flizi beth Straith rescued and unconscious after being removed from the blaze. Fire officials said the cause remains under investigation. Insurance coverage is noted as partly covering damages.
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Natrona
Menasha
Wis
Flizibeth Straith
Prielar
Samar News Quiet Since Gate River Clash
Island telegraph from General Uneies reports no trouble in Samar since the border skirmish at the Gun dary River. He notes troops remain on alert and garrisons prepare for active measures if needed.
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Menta
Uneies
Chon
Hhere
Samar
Gundary
Utsy Te
Confession Reveals Henry Wiseman Murder of Eilen Fuss
Henry Wiseman confessed to killing Eilen Fuss near Reval Oak in Midh. last year. He described assaulting her to hide the crime and tying her to conceal evidence. Authorities are recording the details of the confession for ongoing proceedings.
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Henry Wiseman
Eilen Fuss
Reval Oak
Major collision injures thirty on Kent work trains
A west bound Frontrains and Kent work train collided near Kent Ohio injuring thirty workers many seriously four Italians from Havenna likely among the injured trains were badly wrecked
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Tisture & Western
Kent
Ohio
Havenna
Crescens Breaks Half Mile Record at Kansas City Track
Crescens, famed trotter, shatters the half mile record at the Kansas City Driving Club track with a 20 percent distance achievement. Record-setting performance elevates Crescens as a leading harness racer.
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Crescens
Kansas City Driving Club
Robbers Blow Safe at Alliance Dry Goods Store
Robbers blew open the safe of Sprin Holzworth Cols dry goods store in Alliance Ohio and escaped with 211 dollars. The incident prompted a police investigation and no injuries were reported.
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Sprin, Holzworth & Cols Dry Goods
Alliance
Ohio
Express robbery near Eugene ends with no loot
Two masked men dynamited the northbound overland express car fifteen miles south of Eugene Oregon but fled empty handed after the express messenger resisted the hold up.
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Overland Express
Southern Pacific
Eugene
Ore
Mutiny Report in Warsaw Russian Garrison Sparks Court Martial Talk
London special reports an unconfirmed mutiny within a Russian garrison in Warsaw with officers fired upon. Sources mention as many as 300 men slated for court martial though details remain unverified.
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London
Warsaw
Stamp Loot Robbery At Chicago Postoffice Vault
The Chicago postoffice stamp vault was robbed in a transit from Saturday evening to Monday morning. Thieves tunneled through two brick walls and the vault bottom to steal seventy four thousand six hundred ten dollars in stamps and nearly six hundred thousand dollars in cash remained close by. A wagon carried the loot from the southeast corner after drilling through the vault to seize the stamps.
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Chicago Postoffice
Post Office
Macaroni Wheat May Become Great Staple Crop
The U S Department of Agriculture reports drought resistant macaroni wheat from the Volga region could dominate semi arid plains from North Dakota to Texas. Early South Dakota yields reach 35 to 40 bushels per acre while domestic production could replace imported macaroni wheat and boost local milling.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Volga
Russia
Great Plain
United States
South Dakota
Department of Agriculture
North Dakota
Texas
Els
Europe
Great Plains
Molineux to Be Retried After High Court Reversal
Molineux must face a new trial in the murder case after New York Court of Appeals reversal finds error in admitting handwriting expert evidence. The court ruled that writers’ identities must be proven by witnesses with direct knowledge or familiar handwriting. Also notes London Daily Express rumor of a royal India visit and death of Kansas Colorado pioneer Addison Danford. Mariners are described as forward men at the wheel.
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Tiohind B. Molineux
Lisfe
Suite
New York
Deauhe
New York Court of Appeals
Barnett
Te Hiis
Phillips
Douglas
London Daily Express
South Africa
Edward
Alexandra
India
Addison Danford
Kansas
Colorado
Colorado Springs
Telegraphic Brevities From Across Texas and Beyond
A series of short notes report a $50,000 fire at Markle Texas and a discovery in Lincoln County Georgia. An unknown man shot John Fitzhugh in Drabis Texas. Two to nine killed in a wreck on the M K K and T line in Fisher Texas. Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany reportedly drank tea to lose weight and suffers insomnia. Twenty thousand Alurmans attended Lorenzo Snow’s funeral. William Foster died in a coal mine near Nashville Missouri when a roof collapsed. A 28 year old unmarried woman in Ka approxus has been noted. Post offices Eldon and related towns discontinued with rural delivery from Galena and Ness City in flux.
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Lincoln County
Georgia
John Fitzhugh
Drabis
Texas
T. Fisher
Augusta Victoria
Germany
Lorenzo Snow
Iato
William Foster
Nashville
Ikausius
Eldon
Galena
Frankville
Ness City
Multiple disasters and deaths plague nation in brief items
In a rapid-fire roundup the text reports a New York cave-in injuring and killing workers, postal safes blown in Ohio, a hospital of church collapse injuries, and a string of suicides, murders, and accidents across cities. It notes figures like Rear Admiral Francis Marvin Bunce and Frank Jay Gould amid engagements, fires, thefts, and train wrecks.
Mixed global notes and local disasters reported
The entry lists varied items: canal project costs in the 200 000 range, a cheaper Papama route under advisement, and a death by suicide at the Clarendon Hotel in Winnipeg. It notes a US Venezuela claim payment due, a 1808 revolution damages dispute, a ship grounding near Sidney Nova Scotia, and a major Sydney fire causing substantial loss. It also cites horse population figures in New York City, and Dun's review on business activity with cautious optimism and cereal fluctuations.
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Isthomn
Papama
Nicholas Flood Davin
Asia
Regina
Clarendon Hotel
Winnipeg
United States
Venegue
Manchester
Antwerp
Hamburg
Montreal
St. Petrie’s Ledges
Sidney Harbor
N.S
Sydney
N. S
Teporth Mide
F. B. Judkins
National Carriage Builders’ Association
New York City
Dun
Atlantic
BOS
Tsvo
List of disparate 19th century calamities and notable deaths
A compilation notes various incidents including the alleged will of Pillsbury of Minnesota valued around five million, a bank safe explosion at Falda Minnesota, the City of Cleveland steamer sinking with 176 aboard, John S. Pillsbury dying of Bright’s disease at 73, Charles Less’s fatal shotgun accident, the State of Michigan wreck near White Lake, Perry S. Heath buying the Salt Lake City Tribune, Omaha beef prices at a high, William Moore killing his wife and then himself in Newark, a mine cave-in at Stockton entombing H. G. Button and two miners with rescue of two miners, and death of David B. Gould at 60 in Wisconsin. James D. Wood noted as winner of the first.
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Pillsbury
Minnegota
Farmers’ Bank
Charles Less
Hamilton
Ohio
State of
Republican National Committee
Salt Lake City Tribune
Omaha
South Omobna
Newark
William Moore
Bath
East Homeline
Stockton
Utah
H. G. Button
Button
David B. Gould
St. Louis
Oconomowoe
Wis
James D. Wood
Fires and crimes flash across towns in scattered reports
A disjointed dispatch from Caris Kentucky details a courthouse fire and a panicked theater crowd in Louisville after a polyscope machine spark. Injuries mount as a man is shot by Rev Eugene Harralson in Madisonville in a homicide ruled justifiable. Separate notes mention a lynching in Hampton South Carolina and a man divorcing his thirteenth wife then remarrying hours later. Also reported: the Pacific Mail steamship Siberia launched at Newport News, and a Houston Hutchins House fire damaging a four story block.
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Caris
L. C. Chisholm
Mitchellville
Penn
St. Louis
Louisville
Eugene Harralson
Jim Lewis
Madisonville
Hampton
S. C
Peples
James Meridy
Barbourville
Pacific Mail
America
Newport News
Fire Atop Building Causes Major Losses
Guests were aroused and all but one man escaped. The building valued at about 125000 dollars suffered losses believed to push the total to around 250000 dollars as other damages are tallied.
Global War Dispatches Mixed With Unverified Happenings
Swatow reports execute one rebel and restore order in Hsing-Ning after missions were destroyed. Nin infantry detachment of forty six at Bangajon on the Gandan river, Samar. Mindanao in the Philippines eyed as future world wealth hub. a predicted great rush in history. Sir Redvers Buller stripped of command at Aldershot and reduced to half pay after surrender of Ladysmith. Samar guard uncover plot by bolo men to harm garrison. presidente and priest under arrest. Peshawar cable notes Ameer Habib Ullah orders release of selected Afghan prisoners. Ismail Wudjo in Albania reportedly dies at 160 with teeth intact. Five hundred bolo men face tension elsewhere.
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Nin
Bangajon
Gandan
Samar
Mindanao
Philippines
Redvers Buller
George White
Ladysmith
Aldershot
Carbiga
Peshawar
Ameer Habib Ullah
Afghanistan
Kabul
Athens
Kruti
Albania
Ismail Wudjo
Market Reports From Cities Show Varied Trading Prices
The page lists commodity quotes for cattle hogs sheep and grains across markets in Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York with bids ranging from several dollars for cattle to under a dollar for corn and oats. Prices vary by city and grade with shipping cattle in Chicago and cheese and eggs also noted.
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Ndianapolis
St. Louis
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
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Buffalo
Michigan Avenue
Nobbery
Dakotas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Tostmas
RE Coyne
Molineux
Final Court
BR. Molineux
Markle
Rapid Transit Tunnel
Francis Marvin Bunce
Hartford
Conn
Frank Jay Gould
Jay Gould
Helen Kelly
Eugene Jelly
Katherine Dorr
William Loeb, Jr
Roosevelt
Grace Episcopal Church
Williamsburg
N. Y
William G. Ivie
J. Daniel Reinhard
Tennsylvania
Reinhard
Frederick Archer
Carnegie Music Hall
Pittsburg
Swallow
Lake Erie
Long Point
Manitou
S. Bauman & Bro
Sixth Avenue
West Fifteenth Street
St. Nicholas
McKeesport
Bather
Julius Metrowsky
Daoss So0
James Dletgel
Rouianan Drigands
Jbetzel
Philadelphia
Derby
Blake
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
City Board
Boyertown
Albert G. Smith
Teller
Louis Is. Swift
Merchants’ National Bank
Lowell
Mass
Wilkesbarre
Reese Morgan
Murray Mmine
National Bank of Lowell, Alass
Lewis HH. Swift
Albert G. Mipith
Dowas
Mount Vernon
N.Y
Lawton
Fy Keno
Keating, Smith & Shoemaker
John Wells
Harriet Heffron
Denver
Colo
Platte River
Josephine Dunsmuir
San Francisco
Edna Wallace Hopper
Iron Mountain
de Soto
Mabel Franklyn Mayer
John Stano
Stane
Maver
Lancaster
Qqu
James Edgar Mit
Lincoln
Richard * Oglesby
United States Army
Rizal Province
Philippine Islands
Tie
Thex
Cole
Richard Gorman
Jon Daniels
Rough Riders
Nogales
A. T
Cripple Creek
Victor
Daniels
Patrick Burns
Goshen
Ind
Samuel J. Christian
Bie Gilchrist
John J. Albright
Detreig
Grosse Isle
William St. Harlow
Cook
Dulede
Margaret de Toland
Cleveland
Vernon Thayers
Rogers
Lee Lolland
Joseph Gordy O
Gordy
Migshal Joseph Langdon
Brainerd
Minn
John
Thomas Girbo
Clams
Western
Swatow
Hsing-Ning
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