Chicago Hello Girls Strike Paralyzes 7000 Phones
Telegraphic notes report 200 Chicago telephone girls walked out over a door passage rule, halting service in the business district and leaving about 7000 phones out of commission. Within an hour 150 more joined, prompting widespread disruption and safety concerns near saloon entrances. Sparrows nesting on a town stand pipe allegedly caused a typhoid outbreak in Several Oaks Michigan with fatalities.
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Chistgo Telephone Company
Three Oaks
Mieh
Board of Wealth
Big Brokerage Firm Fails In Jersey City And New York
M. J. Sage & Cougning brokers with offices on South 1 Montgomery street Jersey City and Nov aT Broadway New York posted no notices after telling correspondents they had discontinued business The firm had branches in many eastern cities and widespread correspondents The failure was estimated to involve as much as 2 000 000 in some reports
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M. J. Sage & Cougning
Montgomery Street
Jersey City
Broadway
New York
Tersey City
Wos
Train Wreck Claims One Life at Agusa California
A Santa Fe limited passenger train struck a resort stage at Agusa Cal killing Mrs Rhoden and injuring four others including Mrs Thint af Sintu Montes who sustained head and shoulder contusions and remains in serious condition.
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Agusa
Cal
Rhoden
Vasadena
Thint Af
Firemen Overcome in Desplaines Plant Blaze
Thirteen firemen were overcome by smoke or injured by explosions while battling a fire at the John Lares paint plant on North Desplaines Street. The blaze, likely starting from spontaneous combustion, caused an estimated $65,000 in property damage.
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John Lares
Desplaines Street
Ballonkeeper Robbed and Shot at Galton Saloon
Robbers attacked Baloonkeeper Bittner in Galton Ohio, shooting him six times and causing critical blood loss. The assailants escaped with $250 and a gold watch after a failed robbery at the saloon.
American Consulate at Valparaiso Destroyed
Robert S. Atkins American vice consul reports Valparaiso consulate ruined with all buildings destroyed and no supplies available.
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Robert S. Atkins
Valparaiso
State Department
Washington
Record NY Stock Exchange Seat Sells For 95000
A seat on the New York Stock Exchange sold for 95000, the highest price in the market and a new record, with the figure previously reached only once before.
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Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
Exchange
Burglars Set Fire to Rolling Prairie Store
Burglars burglarized the general store of Eugene Adams at Rolling Prairie Indiana and set it on fire causing about 10000 dollars in losses.
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Eugene Adams
Rolling Prairie
Ind
Youths Confess Murder Plot In San Francisco Robberies
Four teenaged boys Fred Peterson William Meares Walter Westwood and Frank McAuliffe confessed to a spree of holdups culminating in the shooting of Fred Mullineaux on Qeuen boulevard San Francisco. Peterson 17 fired the fatal shot McAuliffe 18 admitted part in the crimes Westwood led the gang and acted as gun holder.
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San Francisco
Fred Peterson
William Meares
Walter Westwood
Frank McAuliffe
Fred Mullineaux
Qeeun Boulevard
Peterson
Mullineaux
MccAulife
Shrer
Westwood
Antrick Ryan
Tie
Tien
Mullineawis
Railroad Laborers Barred from Mexican Importation
The Department of Justice in Washington ruled that railroad construction laborers are unskilled and cannot be imported under the immigration act of 1908. Contractors including Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe attempted to bring in Mexican workers, but were stopped by immigration officials. Assistant Attorney General Charles N. Robb issued the opinion.
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Department of Justice
Washington
Department of Commerce and Labor
United States
Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe
Senate and House Near Billion Dollar Appropriation Figure
A statement from Thomas P. Cleaves and C. Courts shows Congress last session appropriated 1907 funds, totaling nearly a billion with a net increase of 1,649 employees and 2,052,761 in compensation. The Isthmian canal accounts for 42,447,201 of the rise, and new offices number 694 at 6,015,800 annually while abolished posts total 5,285 at 4,010,109.
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Senate
House
Thomas P. Cleaves
C. Courts
Congress
S&tu
Isthmian Canal
Rain Ends Drought Threat in Wisconsin and Minnesota
A heavy rain broke a serious drought threatening crops in Wisconsin especially potatoes in the northern region. Reports from the Vermilion and Mesaba ranges in Minnesota indicate substantial rainfall arriving timely. Forest fires on the ranges are less likely to flare, and the immediate danger of a conflagration is believed alleviated.
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Wisconsin
Ends Career of Crime In Texas Dalton Gang Member
John B. Raper, who murdered two fellow prisoners Prawick and Crowder in the Lufkin county jail, beat them to death with a bucket as they slept, hanged himself with a blanket strip, and had admitted membership in the Dalton gang of bank robbers at Longview in 1892.
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John B. Raper
Prawick
Crowder
Lufkin
Texas
Dalton
Longview
Cattle Men Organize Co-Operative Live Stock Co
The Co-Operative Live Stock Company is incorporated in Topeka Kansas to operate a general live stock commission business at Kansas City Chicago St Louis Omaha and St Joseph. It is said the group formed to oppose the National Live Stock Association. Incorporators hail from Iowa Kansas Colorado and Texas.
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Co-Operative Live Stock Company
Topeka
Kan
Kansas City
Chicago
St. Louis
Omaha
St. Joseph
Iowa
Kansas
Colorado
Texas
Spalding Sues UI for Accounting Over Property Valuation
Charles W. Spalding, former Globe Savings Bank president and ex convict, files a bill for accounting against the University of Illinois. He claims to have turned over to trustees property valued at 415000 while his debt stood at 231307, seeking the return of money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Spalding
Chicago
Globe Savings Bank
University of Ilinois
British Battleship Dominion Damaged at Quebec
Rumor confirmed that the British battleship Dominion, which arrived at Quebec recently, was damaged on the St. Lawrence voyage after running aground. Divers report several dents in the hull and dry dock repairs likely.
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TH. M.S. Dominion
Quebec
St. Lawrence
Chile organizes relief for earthquake victims in Valparaiso rebuild
Relief efforts spread nationwide led by Santiago with the government planning to seek 100 million for rebuilding Valparaiso. Authorities coordinate aid for quake sufferers as Chile mobilizes resources and local governments act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chile
Organization of Relief For
Congress
Valparaiso
Santiago
Wealthy Brother-in-Law Shot in Bond Hill Home
James T. Matthews was killed by his brother-in-law, Idwin Hopkins, a Cincinnati post office clerk, at the Matthews home in Bond Hill. The report notes Hopkins as suspect and references a smallpox outbreak in Colon Panama being declared ended by sanitary officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James T. Matthews
Idwin Hopkins
Cincinnati
Post Ofice
Matthews
Bond Hill
Colon
Panama
War Department Faces Short Cash For Military Encampments
Assistant Secretary Oliver in Washington struggles to apportion a 700000 fund for militia camps nationwide. Discrepancies arose as states sent more troops than planned, creating a pay deficit for later entrants. Possible post camp adjustment or congressional appropriation discussed to cover shortfalls.
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Oliver
War Department
Washington
Quartermaster's Department
Pay Department
Army
the Army
Congress
Motorman’s quick action averts disaster on freight car
An east bound Lehigh Traction car narrowly escaped a mine cave in four miles east of Freeland. Motorman Fulma spotted the yawning chasm and, to save passengers, threw the lever and added power as the car sped over the hole. The vehicle derailed after crossing the gap, but all aboard escaped serious injury.
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Lehigh
Freeland
Fulma
Inhuman Father Throws Babe to Hounds in Ohio
From Smithfield Ohio a man named Reily Ice suspected of robbery returned home after ten weeks abroad and beat his wife then seized their newborn baby and hurled it before trailing hounds. Neighbors arrived to stop the attack as the infant lay still and in danger. In Sonora Mexico four Yaquis ambushed four miners on a canyon trail four miles from Saas Cabezas killing one and wounding another while two escaped. Mexican forces pursued but did not engage the entrenched Yaquis.
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Posse
Smithfield
Ohio
Reily Ice
Tee
Sonora
Mexico
Saas Cabezas
Ming
Officials Murdered and Bomb Depots Found in Russia
Statisticians report seven day totals of fifty eight officials killed and three wounded in Russia proper. Fifty bomb depots discovered and six safes rifled for money. Sixty three persons robbed and broader pillaging not counted. St. Petersburg Gazette notes 2800 banished in a day and 140 sent to interior via trains. Police chief Von Launitz plans suppressing vagabonds. Rapid fire gun training for St. Petersburg police at nearby arms factory.
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Rusaia
St. Petersburg
von Launitz
Many Divorces Declared Void in New York
Investigators for the United States census uncover that numerous divorces and separations in the old Court of Common Pleas remain unfinalized as decrees or judgments. As the court no longer exists, many parties may have remarried, creating potential void marriages awaiting legislative action.
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New York
United States
New York City
Court of Common Pleas
Miners Win in Alaska Nome District Delegates Race
Miners Cale and Waskey win the Nome country in Alaska's second judicial district for the first election of a delegate to Congress. Dispatches show scattered results from Tanana, Seward Peninsula, Valdez, Sitka, Juneau, Skagway with few disturbances and no fraud.
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Nome
Congress
Cale
Waskey
Alaska
Second Judicial District
Tanana Country
Seward Peninsula
Valdez
Sitka
Juneau
Skagway
Robbery and assault on elderly woman in Gary camp
Mrs. A Wojnicki and her husband a Lake Shore railroad section hand in Gary Indiana were attacked by five men who entered their tent beat the woman strangled her with a rope until it sank into her flesh and robbed them of 75 dollars, the couple’s savings. The victim was found later nearly dead from strangulation.
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A. Wojnicki
Lake Shore
Gary
Ind
Lome
Two Die in Powder Blast Near Yreka Cal
Two boys were killed and another fatally injured in a powder explosion one mile from Yreka California. Powder house No 1 owned by the Grant Powder Company along the Yreka branch line blew up. Two small rifles were found near the bodies badly damaged. It is believed they shot into the powder house through a ventilator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yreka
Cal
Grant Powder Company
Consolidated Telephone Buys New York City Franchise
Hubbell president of Consolidated Telephone confirms purchase of the Eastern Telephone Company’s franchise to maintain and construct phone and telegraph lines and electric lights in New York City. Reported price said to be 10 million dollars in a deal valued at 50 million overall.
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Hubbell
Consolidated Telephone Company
Consolidated
Great Astern Telephone Company
New York City
Race Riot in Selford Delawar e
Four men were seriously hurt in a Selford Delaware race riot. A white youth was struck by a black man and townspeople organized to expel unidentified black residents from the streets. The black residents retaliated, sparking a pitched battle between groups.
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Selford
Girl Strangled to Death in North Carolina Farm Area
An unknown assailant strangled the 10 year old daughter of farmer George Waddell of Wayne County. The victim suffered signs of mistreatment prior to death. Her body was found in a marble pit, and authorities investigated the case as a homicide.
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George Waddell
Wayne County
North Carolina
Cuban Revolution Confirmed as Fact
A rural guards lieutenant was killed and several men wounded in a clash with insurgents near Havyuna, as the Cuban revolution is acknowledged as an actual fact.
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Havyuna
Drinking Up a Fortune
Tagish Charlie, identified as the Klondike discoverer and Canada’s only indigenous liquor buyer, wastes a fortune on daily intoxication and pays $25 fines after each arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tagish Charlie
Canada
Milwaukee Boilermaker Slain by Robbers in St Paul
Henry Dankert a 27 year old boilermaker from Milwaukee was shot by two unidentified robbers in the Wisconsin Central yards in St Paul and died at the city hospital. He was en route to the Dakota harvest fields when attacked.
Quillotta City Said to Sink in Quake
The Chilean city of Quillotta with about 10 000 inhabitants near Valparaiso is reported to have sunk into the earth during an earthquake with fewer than 100 residents escaping.
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Quillotta
Valparaiso
Diamond Smugglers Busy In Secret Jewel Imports
Reports indicate a surge in diamond and jewel smuggling with many shipments entering the country unseen. Authorities note half of inbound stones evade duty payments, including four jata allegedly conveying them secretly.
Mass Bank Shuts. First National Bank of Chelsea Closed
The First National Bank of Chelsea Massachusetts is not open for business after orders from the controller of the currency to close the institution.
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Massachusetts
First National Bank of
Chelsea
Maas
Chicago Man Appointed by Roosevelt to ICC Post
James Warlan of Chicago has been named by President Roosevelt as the final member of the interstate commerce commission under the new law.
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Chicago
James 8S. Warlan
Roosevelt
Interstate Commerce Commission
Interurban, Freight Collide Kill Dozens in Two States
The report recounts deadly interurban crashes in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Seven men died and four were fatally injured in a rear end collision between a fast freight and a work train at Long Hollow on the Pennsylvania Interurban. in Cridersville, an interurban car derailed at full speed, killing three and injuring more than twenty. A Chilean city Valparaiso suffered a devastating quake with hundreds believed dead. Actor Lewis Morrison, famed as Mephisto in Faust, died suddenly after an operation.
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Pennsylvania
Long Hollow
Pensylvania
Ohio
Cridersville
Lewis Morrison
Mephisto
Faust
Financial prospects brighten as industries expand and trade rises
The Chicago wholesale outlook shows strong demand across pig iron, construction, transportation, and staples amid plentiful supplies and rising deposits. Bank clearings exceed 1905, railways expand rolling stock, and August earnings rise 11.7 percent while July foreign trade reaches record import highs and exports surge.
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Chicago
State Street
Dan
New York
Regional Grain and Livestock Prices Across U.S. Markets
The report lists current price ranges for cattle hogs and sheep alongside grain futures and staples in several cities. Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit commodity quotes show mixed levels for wheat corn oats and dairy items with price spreads and grade designations.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
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