Fatal Gas Explosion in Cincinnati Courthouse
A gas explosion under the floor of the county commissioners' office at Cincinnati's court house killed George Zimmerman and Russell Blair. The blast tore the floor, shattered windows, and occurred when gas met a lighted match held by Patrick Walsh, superintendent of county buildings, during a search for leaks.
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Court Home
County Commissioners
Court House
Cincinnati
Ohio
George Zimmerman
Commissioners
McCall Admits Large NY Life Payments to Hamilton
John A. McCall, president of New York Life, testified before the Armstrong investigating committee in New York, detailing extensive payments to Andrew Hamilton for legislative influence across states. He cited disbursements totaling about $500,127, with further anticipated bills of around $105,000, while raising questions about the use of company funds for real estate deals and campaign contributions.
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John A. McCall
New York Life Insurance Company
Armstrong
New York
Andrew Hamilton
Hamilton
McCall
Thunilton
New York Life
Jaune
Ohnge
Faroas
A. Meer
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Insurnce Prvestigatie Committee
Johnn. Hegeman
Metropolitan Life
Apaney
New York Life Encore
Republican National Campaign Companittee
President Meal
West
Second Street
D Insurance
Martial Law Sought to End Finnish Agitation
A St Petersburg dispatch says Russia may abolish the Finnish constitution and declare martial law to end Finland agitation. In Kokomo a duel between rival real estate dealers Charles Grishaw and George Dowell ended with both men wounded from pocket knives. Dowell reportedly lost his nose but neither is fatally hurt.
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St. Petersburg
Finland
Charles Grishaw
George Dowell
Kokomo
Dowell
Four Families Drowned Near Beaver Island
A Charlevoix report says a fishing boat carrying four families including women and children left September 26 for Beaver Island. The vessel has not arrived and search efforts were halted. Owned and sailed by Jack Thomas, a noted island farmer and fisherman.
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Charlevoix
Mich
Beaver Teland
Jack Thomas
Fatal Wreck Tangs Terre Haute on Belt Line
A Bigg Four freight No. 88 struck a D rai b at the Southern Indiana Belt line crossing in Terre Haute Indiana. The engineer was killed and three crewmen injured. The engine and ten cars were demolished, and track was torn up for about 100 yards.
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Fairmount Express
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Round Bottom
Morgantown
W. Va
Monongahela River
Terre Haute
Bigg Four
Ind
Yellow Fever Strikes Marion Soldier’s Home Chaplain
Horace Myers 21 son of Rev. David Myers of Marion Indiana, chaplain at the Marion soldiers' home, fell ill with yellow fever symptoms and was moved to the pest house three miles north. He had recently returned from Louisiana. Gilbert Lawson, 6, son of Joseph Lawson of 28 North State Avenue Indiana polis, Indiana, drank liniment containing laudanum and ammonia from a table and died shortly after.
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Marion
Horace Myers
David Myers
Ind
Vity
Myers
Louisiana
Liniment
Gilbert Lawson
Joseph Lawson
North
State Avenue
Indianapolis
Page
North Salem
M. ‘Montgomery
Walkersville
John Cassell
Dundee
Bristol
Terre Haute
Jease Cow
Peru
Fanny Powell
Portland
Benjamin F. Davis
Salem
J. J. Slater
Lebanon
Bloody fire tragedy in Brooklyn flat injures two firemen
A severe blaze in a four story Brooklyn flat house left three children dead and five tenants hospitalized with burns while two firemen were hurt. Parents were rescued in a dying condition and taken to St. Marys hospital. In Marion Ind, James D Gregg aged 85 shot his wife Maud then killed himself.
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St. Mary’s Hospital
Brooklyn
N. Y
Marion
James D. Gregg
Ind
Maud Gregg
Jeffersonville
John Moore
New Albany
E. V. Bishop
St. Charles
Moore
Hamilton County
James
Horton
Hortonville
Frank Grimmer
Miller's Station
L. V. Nicholson
Lake Station
Miller’s Station
Andrew Evans
Winslow
Petersburg
Good Citizen’s League
Clayton McLane
Brazil
Amos Stamper
Central Indiana Insane Hospital
Indianapolis
King & Russel
Lima
Pittenger
Muncie
Ora Williamson
Red Key
Timothy Murphy
Wm. Purdy Wa
Murphy
Pennsylvania Railroad
Logansport
Emanuel Rosenthal
Hickok
Munsie
Manchester
Greenwell
Record exports surge as U S posts new annual highs
U S fiscal year ends with all time export and import records. Exports reach about 2 055 billion dollars with strong gains in copper and cotton manufactures. Imports rise but customs revenues show notable gains despite higher import values. Copper goods and corn lead export increases while wheat and unmanufactured wood decline.
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Fortien Vormmeres
United States
Virhie
Ustoms
Cuba
Waterhouse
China
Roosevelt Homecoming Sparks Washington Welcome
Washington welcomed President Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt back from Oyster Bay and Sagamore Hill with a festive reception. The crowd along Pennsylvania Avenue numbered about fifty thousand as officials described his health and vigor after a summer of outdoor activities. He outlined plans to tackle government issues, appoint a new public printer, address the Paris Canal project, reconvene The Hague tribunal, and prepare his annual message to Congress, signaling a busy early agenda and continued push for railway legislation reform.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Ethel
Quentin
Archibald
Oyster Bay
Long Island
Colorado
Sagamore Hill
White House
Portsmouth
Pennsylvania Avenue
G1 Street
Congress
National
Paris Canal
Commission of International Engineers
Hague Tribunal
United States
General business optimism in Chicago and national trade
Dun's Review notes strong Chicago distribution and expanding industrial activity with improved demand for raw materials, rising pig iron and steel prices, and higher employment. New York activity remains vibrant with favorable weather aiding harvests and spring sales. Bradstreet's reports 185 U.S. and 28 Canadian business failures for the latest week.
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Com- Chicago
Fathires
Chicago
Dun
Review of Trade
Deuiud
United States
Canada
Bradstreet
Commodity price summary from Chicago to New York markets
The report lists livestock and grain prices across major markets including Chicago, Indianapolis, St Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Milwaukee, Buffalo, and New York. Cattle hogs sheep and wheat corn oats rye and butter eggs and hay are shown with bid ranges and quality notes reflecting a busy trade.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
Cattie
St. Tantuis
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
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N. M
Tith
N.C. Dougherty
Ely
Peoria
U.L
M'Call
Hewalth
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