Coal Fleet Wreck Blocks Ohio Channel Near Catlettsburg Ky
A massive coal fleet wreck occurred at the twelve pole dyke two miles above Catlettsburg Kentucky as the towboat Gleanor led and the Fred Wilson followed. Eleven of twenty two barges sank, eight in the channel, three below the dyke, with a canyon of 150000 bushels of coal stranded mid stream and the Greyhound reporting the channel blocked.
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Ohio
Twelve Pole Dyke
Catlettsburg
Gleanor
Fred Wilson
Wilson
Sutter
Greyhound
Will Move the Whole Town to Rival Village in Platte River
Citizens of Benton Nebraska vote to relocate everything including buildings stores and personal effects three miles downstream to a site chosen as new town Darr by the Union Pacific. The move follows the line crossing the Platte and aims to join the emerging settlement on the river.
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Benton
Neb
Platte River
Union Pacific
Union Pacific Itairway
Darr
Mitte
Union Patellic
Tragedy in Tracy Minn as man kills wife and son
Ed Stricker shot and killed his wife and young son in Tracy Minnesota then wounded her father and a bystander before taking his own life. The couple had lived apart for two years and the attack occurred in a furniture store.
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Archie Woodin
Joseph Gulick
Gulick
Mt. Pleasant
Mich
Omaha
Amelia Taubens
Henry Taubens
Stora Lstow ‘Ing Company
North Twentieth ‘Street
Haubens
Caroline Haubens
Henry Haubens
Minnesota
Merchant
Tracy
Minn
Ed Stricker
Frank McCallister
Stricker
McCallister
Jier
L. Clarvey
Aged Meach Brothers Repel Robbers in Farmhouse Fight
In a country farm near Roch ester Ohio three elderly Meach brothers Loren 80 John 70 and Jarvis 65 battled six robbers Tuesday night. John freed himself from bonds shot two burglars dead and fatally wounded a third. The other robbers fled while Loven bedridden brother was unharmed.
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Rochester
Ohio
Mench
Jarvis
John
Jarvis Meach
John Meach
Loven
Coal riot quashed by Newton police force
The Newton Mass police mobilized to stop a coal theft wave as crowds of men women and children gathered near Newtonville to haul away coal. Forty two officers dispersed up to 2000 rioters while Mayor Weeks had earlier bought Virginia coal for city use.
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Newton
Mass
Weeks
Virginia
Newtonville
General resumption plans for window glass factories
Arrangements completed for a general resumption of window glass factories. The American Window Glass Company will have plants more fully manned than last year due to removal of fines on skilled workers who left the old organization and joined independent plants.
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American Window Glass Company
Last of Death by Own Action Club Ends Life
The Missouri Pacific repair worker Thomas I. Fanning died by drinking carbolic acid ending a pact formed a year earlier by four men including Jack Adler and Frank Burroughs. Adler and Burroughs had previously killed themselves, leaving a destitute widow and children, leaving Fanning despondent and foreseeing the group’s collapse.
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Thomas I’. Fanning
Missouri Pacific
St. Louis
Jack Adler
Frank Burroughs
Frank
Jim
Independent Packers in St Joseph Fight Merger Build Large Plant
Independent packers plan a major plant in South St. Joseph Missouri to counter a merger. An in‑house representative surveyed land terminals stockyards and operating costs, citing a potential investment of at least five million dollars. The official name was withheld.
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Independent Packers
St. Joseph
South St. Joseph
Aik
Combine
Six Men Named for Board of Arbitration by Roosevelt
Long night at the White House ends the coal war with an arbitration plan. Roosevelt, Mitchell, operators, and miners reach a dramatic settlement granting miners representation on the commission. The panel includes General Wilson, W Parker, George Gray, W Clark, Thomas Watkins, Bishop Spalding, and recorder Wright.
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J. P. Morgan
Roosevelt
John Mitchell
White Horse
John Spalding
Peoria
Mile
White House
Washington
Hope
Root
Carroll D. Wright
Labor
Sargent
George W. Perkins
Robert S. Bacon
J. P. Morgaan & Co
Mitchell
Arbitration Commission
White Mouse
John M. Wilson
U. S. Anny
Lato
U.S. A
Washington, D. C
Engineer Corps
Military
Naval Service of the
United States
EW. Parker
Mrr. Parker
Coal Division
United States Geological Survey
Engineering and Mining Journal of
New York
George Gray
Wilmington
Del
Wa. B. Clark
Cedar Rapids
Yowa
Order of Railway Conductors
Thomas I. Watkins
Scranton
John TL. Spalding
Veomia
Ili
Spalding
Carrall D. Wright
Porto Ricans Open 1200 Public Schools Nationwide
The island of Porto Rico opened 1,200 public schools on September 29, serving about 50,000 children. The editorial stresses this move as essential for future American citizenship and eventual statehood, arguing education under American system shapes Porto Rican futures and readiness for statehood.
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Porto Rico
American Union
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