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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1909
Page
3
Bertha Allgower, Columbus actress, was mauled by a lion after finishing a trick at a Springfield Ohio theater. A fellow actor used a prod to drive the animal away as she was removed fainting. wounds not serious. Also reports on Masons elections, farmers fraud schemes, and a corporate merger in telegraph interests.
Reports describe a Cairo lynching of two men one black and one white amid political unrest. A coal mine disaster at Cherry Illinois with 400 dead follows a fatal explosion and collapsed shafts as rescue efforts fail.
Control of the Gould family era telegraph line passed Tuesday to AT&T, strengthening a nationwide consolidation of major telephone and telegraph systems. The Postal Telegraph, owned by Mackay interests, remains a major AT&T stake. Reported price around 82,000,000.
A fifth victim in the On-Yick-Yee Tong war was shot to death in Oakland or nearby California by a rival gunman. Jim, a Chinese worker, was targeted while on his way to work in a Chinese association area. The report notes a clash within the Tong factions and ongoing violence in the community.
Heavy three day rains flood eastern Kansas driving residents from Frankfort Centralia Viiets Ver million and forcing evacuations near Lawrence Salina Manhattan and Junction City Rivers Smoky Hill and Republican swell to record highs threatening Western Star mill dam and dam safety concerns amid cold raw weather and widespread distress.
The Paris murder trial of Adolphe Steinheil and his mother in law drew intense interest since it began November 3. Mme Steinheil faced charges amid conflicting testimonies while prosecutors argued she was the principal in a plot to free her to wed Maurice Borderel, with four alleged assassins named, including a red hat woman.
The French mail steamer La Seyne bound from Java to Singapore was sunk in a collision with the British India liner Onda off Singapore. About 100 lives were lost including seven European passengers and eighty eight natives and crew. Sixty nine survivors were rescued by Onda boats. Many victims were bitten by sharks before rescue.
North Dakota faced its worst November blizzard in 13 years as Fargo and surrounding areas buried under sixteen inches of snow. Great Northern and other rail lines halted, streetcars tied up, and telegraph wires failed while services dwindled to a few churches. The storm affected a 100 mile radius south and east with forty mile per hour winds.
The 1906 employers' liability act is ruled constitutional in U S territories and D C by the Supreme Court, despite earlier ruling against its application to the states. The decision arose from a damages suit over the death of Gutierez aboard the El Paso and Northeastern Railroad in New Mexico.
Foreign notes report that China’s despotic regime has fallen as legislatures in the self-governing provinces assert their authority and disband imperial control, signaling a dramatic political shift and the empire’s collapse.
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