Fire at Cincinnati Big Four Warehouse Ignites Rail Yard Loss Over a Million
Fire discovered in the Big Four warehouse near Central avenue and Pearl Street spreads to freight sheds and passenger yards. Forty loaded freight cars burn, thirty empty cars survive. trains at the new passenger station disrupted. Loss estimated above one million dollars as authorities assess damaged bridges and nearby depots. Guests at nearby hotels flee as alarm sweeps the depot area.
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Offi Union
Cincinnati
Big Four
Central Avenue
Pearl, Plum
Second Streets
Chespeake
Grand Sotel
Indians Find Missing Men Near Nepijon River
A Port Arthur report says I F Kendall of Cambridge Massachusetts and C F E Eastman of Saginaw Michigan, lost in the woods since September 17, have been found. They endured ten days without food or shelter. Indians helped search as they recovered near the Nepijon River north of Lake Superior. Boers Wait for Rain. Cape Town dispatch notes water scarcity hampers relief and food for Joha nn esburg residents as hostilities loom.
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Duluth
Minn
Port Arthur
I. F. Kendall
Cambridge
Mass
C. FE. Eastman
Saginaw
Mich
Nepijon River
Take Superior
Nephjon River
Death by own action in New London founder at 98
James Brooks founder of New London Indiana and notable Howard County resident, died by jumping from a third story window at the County House where he had been an inmate for years. He was 98 and had been worried about being a county charge. He reportedly exclaimed Ire's for a better lunch as he leaped.
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James Brooks
New London
Howard County
Indiana
Iere
Scllemourg
Fort Wayne
Peru
Tin-Plate Trust
Elwood
Anderson
Miami County
South Bend Woolen Company
Henry Murden
Greentown
James Ball
Mary Carroll
Third Street
Terre Haute
Shelbyville
Stanislaus Kornowitz
South Bend
Robert Montgomery
Isaac Baker
Rockport
Baker
Mishawaka
Paul Kilderfer
Mary Lockhard
Milford
Walter Gibson
Christian Friends Church
Muncie
Gibson
J. L. Tanner
Indianapolis
Tanner
City Hospital
George W. Julian
Irvington
Grace Julian Clark
Irwin Shanover
Shanover
Tudhanian
Jasper L. Ackerman
Leg. T
Reed successor named by Portland GOP convention
The Republican District Convention in Portland Maine nominated Agnes J Allen former private secretary to Reed as his successor. The platform reaffirmed prior national and state conventions and approved President McKinleys Philippine policy. The second item reports a farmer Rota Gardner near Eden Montpelier C deadly self inflicted gunshot due to financial pressures.
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Reed
Portland
Maine
McKinley
Philippine proclamation excludes United States in open port rule
A Pilipino proclamation issued at Tlong Kong declares nH points in the Philippines open to all nations except the United States. In Georgia, Jim Hall, a colored man, was executed by hanging in Blakley for assault. A Wall man is alleged to have committed rape on a white woman in July.
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Tlong Kong
Nh Points
Philippines
United States
Jim Hall
Blakley
Wall
Prices Retain Strength Upward Trend in Commodities
Bradstreet reports satisfactory trade and price conditions across cereals, cotton, petroleum, iron and steel with few declines. Bank clearings show expansion, cotton remains notably strong, wool prices rise in London, and exporters anticipate good demand for fine domestics. weekly U S wheat and corn exports rose while failures edged up slightly from last year.
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Bradstreet's
London
United States
Agarnst
Canada
Killed in Iowa wreck four trainmen dead after collision
A northwestern road collision near Oskaloosa Iowa between Wright and Yirka involved a southbound passenger train with about forty passengers and a 23 car coal train moving sixty mph. Four trainmen died and two were seriously injured. Two passenger coaches were damaged but passengers mostly unhurt.
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Oskaloosa
Belle Plaine
Muchakinock
Northwestern Road
Wright
Yirga
Iowa
Tlogu
Titin
Ohio
Mac Griener
Tiffin
Pierce
Anderson
New York Central
Old Flat Bottom Bridge
Auburn
N, Yi
Allegheny Valley Railroad
Parker
Navy Adopts the New Krag-Jorgensen Rifle for All Services
Navy adopts the army Krag-Jorgensen as the standard small arm to unify weapons and ammunition with the army. Navy force of 20,000 guns will switch, while the army’s demand remains higher, delaying changes during wartime.
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Navy Department
Army
Navy
Relief Efforts in Puerto Rico Struggle Amid Reach Challenges
Rev Dr McCormick, a Government Charity Inspector in Porto Rico, reports 250000 needing aid with most in inaccessible mountains. District alcaldes' cooperation is lacking and local reports are inconsistent, hindering relief work. He outlines co ordinated juntas, addressing abuses, and suggests allowing sale of coffee sugar and tobacco in the United States to ease suffering. Destitution concentrates in coffee districts and mountainous areas.
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Porto Rico
Board of Charities
Dr. McCormick
Department stores fight state reporting law in Kansas City case
State warrants issued for fourteen principal Kansas City merchants charged with violating department store reporting rules. Most accused were arrested and released on bond. they plan to challenge the law’s constitutionality, arguing the $200 fine per large store is unlawful.
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Kansas City
Havana Strikers Return to Work After Slowdown
Stevedores and wharfmen have resumed loading and unloading vessels in Havana Cuba with carts and cabs also back in service. Firemen on the United railways are out with trains run by apprentices under police protection amid expectations the strike will end soon though agitation may resume later.
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Havana
Cuba
United Railways
Gitation
Manhattan Oil absorption alters Lima field power balance
The Manhattan Oil Company sale to a monopoly nears completion while its rival and big Lima Ohio refinery network remain operational for now. Ann Ingersol’s property in Painesville Ohio sold by sheriff to James McCreadieago to cover debts. kidnaping case tied to the minister’s family.
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Ol Trust
Manhattan Oil Company
Standard
Lima, Ohio
Manhattan
Welker
Ohio
Ann Ingersol
Ann Ingersoll
Painesville
James McCreadieago
Mrs. Ingersoll
Gerald Lapiner
Chiengd
Actress Kills Stage Manager During Curtain Rise
The 21 year old actress Julia Morrison shot and killed Frank Leiden, the stage manager, on the Chattanooga Tennessee theater stage in front of about 2000 spectators. Morrison, from Kansas, fired three shots after a reprimand at rehearsal and fled into the wings. Leiden, from New Orleans, died instantly. Morrison was arrested.
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Julia Morrison
Indy
Plaster of Paris
Frank Selden
Chattanooga, Tenn
Leiden
Miss Morrison
Kansas
New Orleans
Milroy Bank Robbery Foiled After Rainstorm Battle
Four bandits attempted a Milroy Indiana bank heist at 2 a.m. during rain. Dr. Lampton alerted locals, shots were exchanged with a posse, robbers fled leaving tools behind. They escaped on a Big Four hand car, ditched near Rushville next day. about $30,000 was in the vault.
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Milroy
Ind
Mtn
Dr. Lampton
Rushville
Suffering on the Mackenzie Relief Expedition Sent
News reaches Victoria that a relief expedition has been sent by the Canadian Mounted Police to the Mackenzie river trail amid reports of great suffering. Edwardson, an Australian, was found week hungry after losing supplies. The report lists multiple remote incidents and deaths across a sequence of separate items.
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Canadian Mounted Police
Victoria
B. C
Cottage City
Mounted Police
Mackenzie River
Edwardson
Market Prices Across Cities for Cattle Hogs and Grains
Markets in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York report cattle hogs and sheep prices and grain bids. Wheat corn oats rye and dairy prices shown with frequent misprints. figures indicate regional variations and typical ranges for No 2 grades and creamery butter.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
Hustling Hoosiers and a Fortville Mystery
A Fortville businessman Mathew Lake vanished sixteen years ago leaving a destitute wife and three children. The supposed death by suicide occurred after a fire destroyed his shop and stock, then a reunion revealed Lake returning home with money. State Geologist Blatchley notes ginseng’s Indiana prospects and potential hillside cultivation.
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Dead Lake
Mathew Lake
Fortville
Helga
Europe
Indiana Disorder Reports Across Counties and Courts
Cholera and diphtheria threaten Warren and Miami counties while trust talk spreads from Jeffersonville to Fort Wayne. Fatal accidents, divorces, a will probated, and a rash of crimes accompany patents issued to multiple Indiana inventors.
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Ribune
Denver
Norris & Woolley, Publishers
Telegraph Tolen
Crimea
George Stanley
Reynolds
Franklin
Charles F. Gunther
Rota Gardner
Eden
Colorado
Denver and
Rio Grande
Reno Siding
Florence
Cole
Phillips-Judson
Abilene
Texas
Will Johnson
Court of Appeals
George Franklin Danforth
Supreme Court
Rochester
N. Y
Rays
Ridinger Farm
Wellsville
John Carson
Newton Walls
Carson
John M. Vite
Ohio Volunteers
Ohio Methodist Conference
Henry Brandt
Red Rock Township
Brandt
Fred Lance
Robert Smith
McCorrmick Tella
Helief
Institutiari
Aiello & Co
Soransport
Cline Brothers’ Hardware
Logansport
Leonard B.niboden
Pisnters’ Bank of
New Theater
Tortus
Lewis Lumpkins
Scottsboro, Ala
Rahmoon Kahn
Afghanistan
Sigsbee
Deptate
New York Bay
Rehoboth Beach
Del
Ethel
St. Paul
Albert J. Euarling
Chicago, Milwaukee and
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Manila
War Department
Cebu
Reuben Hate Kils
Reuben Hale
Canton
Blatchley
Jackson County
China
Minoy State
Warren County
Jeffersonville
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