Deadly mine blast leaves 250 workers entombed in Pa
Reported gas explosion at the Pittsburg Coal Company Jaech''s Creek mine in Pennsylvania entombs between 200 and 250 miners. Early rescue results show severely mutilated bodies and no hopeful recovery. This follows two prior Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia explosions this month, bringing nine- teen days total to 550 to 690 victims.
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Pittsburg Coal Company
Jaech'’s Creek
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Naomi
Fayette Cuy
Monongah
W. Va
Boy Shoots Little Sister in Rushville Indiana
A 13 year old boy Water Oldham son of a local farmer near Rushville Indiana shot his 7 year old sister with an old pistol on the way to school. The bullet struck her in the back and she died. They planned to use the pistol in a Christmas school exercise. In London a dispatch reports Lord Kelvin to be buried in Westminster Abbey following his death two days ago. The last scientist buried there was Charles Darwin in 1882.
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Water Oldham
Rushville
Ind
London
Eng
Royal Society
Lord Kelvin
Westminster Abbey
Charles Darwin
The Druce-Portland Case Grounds a Double Identity Claim
A London rent roll valued at $2.59 million and other property worth the Sh 6,000 are at stake in a British court case over whether the fifth Duke of Portland had a double personality. The suit centers on whether the claimant Druee or the duke's cousin Halder is rightful heir to the Portland title and estates. The case hinges on whether Druce died in 1910 or faked death to escape a double life, with exhumation and testing of a coffin deemed impossible by the courts.
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London
Duke of Portland
Tcl
Druce
Druee
Portland
George TL Druee
Halder
Howe
WooCo Druco
Baker Street
Fitch Darke
Port Jan
Tst
Dioiee
Brill
Cavai
Drnece
Isg
Pruce
Dirace
Countess of Warwick Advocates Socialism in London Return
Countess of Warwick says America’s only hope lies in socialism upon returning to London. In Virginia, William Budd Furniture Co. in Petersburg burned recently. loss estimated at $75,000 with partial insurance. In New York County a man, Victor Giannone the photographer, is convicted of attempted murder for the first time in the county’s history. Mme was charged with hiring Bruno Cardea to kill Luigi Favata so he could wed Favata’s wife. Favata was wounded but recovered.
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Countess of Warwick
London
America
William Budd Furniture Company
Tetersburg
New York County
Pictor Giannone
Mme
Bruno Cardea
Luigi Favata
Favata
Meningitis Serum Shows High Recovery Rate
A report to the New York Academy of Medicine notes a serum discovered by Dr Simon Slexner at the Rockefeller Institute treated meningitis or spotted fever with a 72.3 percent success rate. The disease often terminated within forty eight hours after injection, with cases from across the country.
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New York Academy of Medicine
Simon Slexner
Rockefeller Pathological Institute
Pecan Crops From Texas Put Value At One Million
Texas pecan exports are valued at about a million dollars with 200 or more cars expected from across the state. Prices range from 5 to 6 cents for lower grades and 10 to 12 cents for higher grades. groves are being widely planted, trees spaced about 40 feet apart, yielding increasing profits over the next years. Demand outstrips supply, driven by long shelf life and strong markets in New York and Chicago. The United States dominates pecan growing, with southwest Texas supplying much of the crop.
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Texas
San Antonio
New York
Chicago
United States
Taste of Her Own Medicine in Old World Immigration
A curious commentary on the shift in immigration to the United States and its impact abroad. Italy, Austria, Germany, Sweden, and Norway face economic strain as returning workers struggle to find money and jobs, with Germany faring relatively better and Sweden and Norway contextually distressed amid harsh winter forecasts.
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Italy
Austria
Germany
Sweden
Norway
United States
Emly
Lynn Maars Forms Roofers Union and Global Trade Notes
A report highlights a newly organized roofers union in Lynn Maarss, with global wage and labor trends. It notes NSW brickmakers earn about 10 a week, Canadian furniture making employing over 5,000, and German women workers in metal trades numbering 4,472. The Vienna strike ends amid concessions, Boston iron furring wages rising to 47 cents, and Fall River textile wage agreements extended. The Welsh colliers gain 21 percent, raising rates 60 percent above 1879 standards. The union’s sick benefits total 1,807,768 from 1806 to 1905, and over 90 percent of US and Canadian stereotyper and electrotyper workers are unionized. Trade disputes cost Canada 61,000 days in September, with higher losses in prior years.
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Lynn
Boston
Fall River Textile Council
United States
Canada
Dominion of
Senate and House conduct amid financial stringency debate
The Senate opened with bill passage debate and a rules committee referral. Oklahoma’s new Senators were sworn in as Disbursements and appropriations actions dominated, Tillman’s speech drew attention, and Culberson’s stringency-investigation resolution moved to the finance committee while the House was adjourned or not in session on various days.
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Senate
Committee On Rules
Cortelyou
Rye
House
Tillman
Senator Culberson
Oklahoma
Cannon
Committee On Appropriations
Newlands
Nevada
Inland Waterways Commission
Tnek
Ohio
Calberson
Interstate Commerce Commission
Interstate Commerce
Culberson
Committee On Finance
National Capital Notes and Government Appointments
Representative Coudrey of Missouri bills to make publishing false advertisements a penitentiary offense. A Chicago Association of Commerce petition seeks better postal facilities. The War Department hopes to end the Cuban ports quarantine this month. Hopkins proposes federal buildings at Duquoin and Murphysboro Illinois costing 75000 each. Roosevelt nominates William H. Grimshaw for U S marshal Minnesota. Leupp reports two Special Officer Johnsons men and one posse man killed by bootleggers in Indian Territory and ten liquor law violators killed.
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National Capital
Coudrey
Missouri
Chicago Association of Commerce
Chicago
Cullen
War Department
Gov
Magoon
Hopkins
Duquoin
Murphysboro
Roosevelt
Senate
William
Machines to Probe the Mind with New Inventions
Harvard professor Hugo Munsterberg and colleagues unveil instruments named the automagraph pneumograph and sphygmograph to detect emotional strain. The devices record involuntary hand movements breathing and heart rate during interrogation. Critics note results vary and stress the heart as a sensitive indicator.
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Lima
Hugo Mansterbergy
Harvard University
Munsterbergz
Harry Orchard
Haywood
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