Samuel Spencer Dies In Train Wreck Near Lynchburg
Samuel Spencer president of the Southern Railway and six other people were killed and eleven injured when the Jacksonville Express collided with the Washington and Southwestern Limited ten miles south of Lynchburg Virginia and a mile north of Sawyer's depot. The wreck caught fire and only Mr Merrill and one porter survived. Names of the dead include Charles Fisher Philip Schuyler Francis Redwood D W Davis and J W Shaw. The president and his party were likely killed at once as they slept despite efforts to save lives.
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Southern Railway
Sll
Samuel Spencer
Southern Railway Company
Southern States
Lynchburg
Sawyer
New York City
Charles Fisher
Baltimore
Philip Schuyler
Francis E. Redwood
D. W. Davis
Alexandria
Spencer
JJ. W. Shaw
Colored
N. C
Jacksonville Express
Washington and Southwestern Restibuted Limited
Davis
Fisher
Annen Germany Explosion Kills Forty Injures Hundreds
A factory near Annen seven miles southwest of Dortmund exploded causing about forty deaths and hundreds injured or missing. About 200 workers were among the wounded, with overall damage near $500000 and windows shattered ten miles away in Dortmund. Surviving families fled collapsing houses as bodies were found mutilated.
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Annen
Germany
Dortmund
Four Die In Burning Lighthouse Hotel Fire
Four men perished in a blaze at the Lighthouse Hotel in St Louis near Ninth and Market Street. More than 35 injured as guests slept on second and third floors and panicked when the fire started. Bodies burned beyond identification. several residents were rescued unconscious from windows. Also, eighteen passengers were hurt when a Dayton and Xenia suburban car collided with a Big Four freight engine at Dayton Union Station.
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Lighthouse Hotel
Salvation Army
Ninth and
Market Streets
St. Louis
Paniicstricken
Dayton & Xenia
Xenia
Ohio
Dayton
Floating Mine Killa Ten in Akita Coast Blast
A floating mine from the Russo Japanese era washed ashore at Akita on Hondo island. It exploded, killing ten villagers and wounding fifty six, underscoring lingering dangers from historic naval ordnance.
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Akita
Japan
Hondo
Mysterious Dayton Area Murder Of Dora Gilman At 20
Dora Gilman a 20 year old employee at the National Cash Register factory was found murdered near New Arlington Ohio. The coroner and sheriff investigate a brutal assault with signs of a fierce struggle and body mutilation. Rain complicates the case and authorities say the body was moved from a nearby site. Gilman had no known enemies and had a lover Stanley Anderson from Sharonville near Cincinnati.
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Dayton
Ohio
Dora Gilman
New Arlington
Dayton Cash Register Company
Stanley Anderson
Sharonville
Cincinnati
Drunken bandit kills man in Kansas City hotel hold up
Proprieter T Frank Emery of the Kentucky Trouse hotel is slain during an attempted robbery in Kansas City Kansas. The assailant Mimbery is fatally shot as pursuing officers wound accomplice Lee Simons and capture Sam Vuitton and Rumble, both drunk. Rumble is said to be 32 from Independence Missouri, shot in the cheek and in serious condition.
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T. Frank Emery
Kentucky Trouse
Kansas City
Kan
Mimery
Lee Simons
Charles Rumble
Independence
Sam Vuitton
Rummble
Emery
Rumble
Man Killed by a Bear in Tittsburg Alert
Reports from Elk county recount a hunter John Dicht aged 18 killed by a bear after bleeding a supposedly dead animal. The bear revived, attacked him, tearing off his arm in the struggle. In Salem Massachusetts, Mr and Mrs James Scott Mitchell were found dead in a Bellevue rooming house with formaldehyde odor. Coroner Verdiblya ruled double suicide, but later investigations suggested Mitchell drugged his wife and then ended his own life.
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Tittsburg
Elk County
John Dicht
Dicht
James Scott Mitchell
Salem
Mass
Bellevue
Ohio
Vermilya
Mitchell
Snake show owner accused after guard kept worker in pit
In Los Angeles at Chates Park, proprietor F Coleman allegedly forced snake charmer R E Andrews to remain in the pit of snakes after he injured a finger while freeing a gila monster. The incident occurred during a night performance and Andrews was reportedly bitten to the bone.
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Chates Park
Los Angeles
F. Coleman
R. E. Andrews
Collision Sinks Ten Barges on Ohio River
In dense fog at Steubenville Ohio towboats Raymond Horner and G W Thomas from Pittsburg collided with the anhandle railroad bridge piers sinking ten coal barges carrying 205000 bushels. The towboats and bridge foundation escaped with slight damage and the sunken barges will be discharged with dynamite.
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Raymond Horner
G. W.thomas
Pittsburg
Anhandle Railroad
Steubenville
Ohio
Family of Nine Typhoid Victims in Western Pennsylvania
Mrs. Marcy Buzzard died in a Kittaning hospital from typhoid fever. Five children remain in the same hospital in critical condition while the husband and two other children are ill at home. Several of the children are said to be at risk of death.
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Marcy Buzzard
Kittaning
Italian grocer murdered in Marion barn knockover
Louis Guifferitta an Italian grocer in Marion Ohio was killed in his barn by a shotgun blast. Two shells from a 10 gauge were fired and $100 was taken from his pockets. His 14 year old daughter found the body after he went to hitch his team. No suspects or motive named.
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Louis Guifferitta
Marion
Ohio
Shafter Estate Seeks Letters Testamentary
Capt William H McKittrick son in law of the late General Shafter files for letters testamentary in the General Shafter estate stating no will has been found and valued property at 15000 dollars.
Tillman in Chicago Seeks to Define the Negro Question
Senator Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina spoke in Chicago saying the Negro question is the most serious and dangerous issue of the day and warned audiences about the danger of racial tensions.
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Tillman
Chicago
Benjamin R. Tillman
South Carolina
Army Deserter Rumsey Released Before Glasgow Train Robbery
The Fort Leavenworth release of Claude Rumsey or Claude Randall on Nov 3 followed by a Glasgow near Glasgow Mo train robbery ties to his Sedalia arrest for a box car theft. Prison records match the man who confessed at Marshall Mo, linking his identity and desertion history.
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Marshall
Glasgow
Claude Randall
Claude Rumsey
United States Military
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Major Young
Rumsey
Randall
United States Army
San Francisco
City
Sedalia
Young
Rock Island
Worm in Boy's Eye Saved by Chicago Operation
Seven year old Edward Wellinger, an orphan from a truck farm near Niles Michigan, had a worm slowly eating the eye removed at City Polyclinic Hospital Chicago. The operation, claimed to be the first of its kind in the United States, saved him from blindness. Doctors attributed the worm to ingesting tainted radishes from the garden.
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Edward Wellinger
United States
Chicago
Behringer
Niles
Mich
Gold Recovery Concession Secured for Golden Gate Hull
B. F. Richardson of Philadelphia and C. W. Johnston of Delaware have won a Mexican concession to recover gold remaining in the hull of the American ship Golden Gate beached near Manzanillo Colima.
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B. F. Richardson
Philadelphia
C. W. Johnston
Delaware
Mexico
Golden Gate
Colima
Manzanil
Blackmar Tablet Unveiled at 257th Unitarian Anniversary
The bronze tablet honoring Gen. Wilmon W. Blackmar, late commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, was unveiled during the 257th anniversary celebration of the Second Unitarian Church in Boston.
Tragic Chicago Fire Claims Two Young Children
A Chicago blaze at 491 Milwaukee Avenue killed an eight year old boy and his one year seven month old sister while their mother Mrs Miranora Paradzinski was away. Authorities believe the older child started the fire by playing with matches found on the floor.
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Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago
Miranora Paradzinski
Lightkeepers Escape Drowning In Duluth Canal
James Drier the Duluth lighthouse keeper and assistant Thomas H. White narrowly escaped drowning while navigating a concrete canal tunnel as a northeast gale raised water to hazardous levels.
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James Drier
Duluth
Thomas H. White
Duluth Canal
Shorter Work Day Refused by Reading Officials
Trainmen on the Reading railway demanded a ten hour day. General Superintendent Tice rejected the request, stating that with wage increases granted there was nothing more to expect at present.
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Reading Railway
Tice
Cable weds Eva Stevenson in Philadelphia ceremony
Author George W. Cable, noted romance writer and painter of Southern chivalry, married Miss Eva C. Stevenson of Lexington, Kentucky, in Old Christchurch, Philadelphia, the ceremony occurring recently.
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George W. Cable
Old Christchurch
Philadelphia
Eva C. Stevenson
Lexington
Three Skaters Drown Near Hutchinson Minnesota
Three Hanson brothers aged 13 Jorden 11 Wal ter and 9 Victor were skating hand in hand on Lake Marion near Hutchinson Minnesota when they drowned. Their father Peter E Hanson reported the tragedy.
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Peter E. Hanson
Hutchison, Minn
Lake Marion
Jorden
Walter
Victor
Record of Killed and Injured in Chicago Traction Lines
A record shows 122 persons killed and 2,271 injured by elevated and surface traction lines in Chicago since January 1. The figure fuels a crusade against overcrowding of cars promoted by the City Council.
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Chicago
Grand Opera Season Opens in New York
The grand opera season opened in New York introducing three new stars in America. Among them is Geral dine Farrar, an American girl, who made her first appearance in America as Juliet.
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New York
America
Geraldine Farrar
Juliette
Two Die Crossing Tracks in Alliance Railroad Incident
John Weismiller aged 40 and Peter Smith aged 21 were struck by a train while crossing railroad tracks in a wagon at Alliance Ohio. The fatalities were confirmed at the scene and authorities investigated the accident.
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John Weismiller
Peter Smith
Alliance
Ohio
Admits Looting Morgan Bank and Forged Check Found
A clerk Bernard Mann aged 24 was arrested amid irregularities at the National Bank of Commerce in New York. The bank, nicknamed J Pierpont Morgan's, suffers heavy losses from defalcations as a team of two men and twelve expert clerks probe the accounts. Mann boasted of diamonds and claimed he “found the money” while authorities say a forged $12.98 check drawn on Baring & Co was linked to his activities. Assistant Cashier Joseph Byrnes Jr. witnessed the transaction and Mann confessed.
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National Bank of Commerce
New York
J. Pierpont Morgan's
Bernard Mann
Mann
Ife
Joseph J. Byrnes, Jr
Baring & Co
Panic at Culp school as teacher attacked
At the Culp school house north of Mt. Vernon Ohio a fight between Ford Tierden and Miss Carpenter led to the teacher being struck with a poker then knocked to the floor. Clarence Borden joined and pulled hair while another pupil William Chamberlain was struck and knocked unconscious. The scene caused panic among pupils. hunters came to the school and Borden was jailed.
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Culp
Mt. Vernon
Ohio
Ford Tierden
Miss Carpenter
Clarence Borden
Inter
Ford
William Chamberlain
Borden
Auction of Dock Auberry Under Vagrancy Law in Ekardin
A sheriff in Ekardin county Kentucky will auction Dock Auberry a white man deemed able bodied with no visible means of support and too idle to work under the State vagrancy law. The nine month sale echoes slave era scenes and is to be conducted to the highest bidder. Auberry was convicted last week.
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Ekardin County
Dock Auberry
Auberry
Ile
Rapid Growth Deranges Mind Boy Committed to Asylum
A 17 year old boy, 6 feet 3 inches tall, H H Kleene, grew rapidly after age 14. His unusual development is said to have deranged his mind. Judge Gibbs committed him to the insane asylum after an arraignment where his speech shifted from tears to laughter.
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H. H. Kleene
Gibbs
Kleene
Government to Print Stamps Bid Awarded to BEP
Postmaster General Cortelyou awarded the four year contract for printing postage stamps to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The American Bank Note Company bid was rejected despite a $17,000 annual saving due to concerns over machinery losses at the bureau’s plant.
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Cortelyou
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
American Bank Note Company
Bureau
Fines Head of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City
Joseph F. Smith, president of the Mormon church, appeared in the District Court in Salt Lake City and pleaded guilty to a statutory charge. He was fined $300, the action connected to the recent birth of his forty third child with his fifth wife.
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Mormon Church
Joseph F. Smith
Salt Lake City
Smith
Fire Under Victim: Glassworker Survives Ties and Attack
Frank Coulter a 28 year old glassworker while returning from West Virginia was attacked by four men near Steubenville Ohio. They beat robbed and tied him to a stake then built a fire under him. The fire burned the ropes and he freed himself, fell into the Ohio River and crawled back to shore.
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Frank Coulter
West Virginia
Steubenville
Ohio
Ohio River
Two masked robbers kill clerk in St. Charles hotel hold up
In Arkansas City Kansas two masked men shot and killed hotel night clerk William Goff during a failed hold up at the St Charles hotel. Eight others were wounded as the robbers entered the hotel office and opened fire.
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William Goff
St. Charles
Arkansas City
Kan
Italian Tenor Convicted In New York Court
Italian tenor Enrico Caruso was found guilty of insulting women in New York and ordered to pay the maximum fine. The trial saw tumult as the prisoner was described by witnesses as a beast and degenerate, with threats of a riot in the courtroom as the verdict was delivered.
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Enrico Caruso
New York
The President Declares Aid Amid Unclear Text
Fragmentary OCR suggests a presidential declaration crosswire, but content is unreadable. Key names, dates, or places cannot be confirmed. Further legible text required to produce a precise headline and summary.
Unseasonable Weather Affects Chicago Trade Outlook
Dun’s Review and Bradstreet report elevated activity in iron and steel and construction materials, amid car shortages and railroad congestion. Jobbers and wholesalers push holiday and spring orders as industrial activity remains strong, labor costs rise, and nationwide trade shows steady, high quality buying despite weather and transportation bottlenecks.
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Chicago
Dun
New York
Bradstreet
Noisy Midwest MarketQuotes for Cattle Hogs and Grains
A multi city run of livestock and grain quotes across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York for cattle hogs and sheep with price ranges for wheat corn oats rye and barley. Includes No 2 grades and various seasonal and market terms.
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Chicago
Ste
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
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