Three Cars Jump the Track in Geneseo Stock Train Crash
In Geneseo on June 18, an west bound Chicago Rock Island and Pacific express had three cars derail and crash into a stationary stock train. Fifteen passengers were aboard the damaged cars. Injured include C A Keefer H R Huntington W H Smith M E B Reidy Dr F B E Vance and wife Miss Carrie Nickell Arthur Steeley Albert Bay. The switch remained closed and no cause yet determined. Three cars were replaced and the train continued.
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Ontongo
Rock Island
Monadnock Captain Nichols Dies of Sun Stroke
Captain Henry Nichols commander of the United States double-turreted monitor Monadnock died from sun stroke at Cavite. Funeral held with officers present as the ship lay at Paranaque under daily rebel fire. Nichols declined relief, preferring to stay and pursue the hoped rapid capture of Paranaque by American forces.
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Nichols
Monadnock
Henry Nichols
United States
Cavite
Paranaque
Battle Reports From Manila Campaign Under General Otis
Washington dispatch details June 11 12 reports from Manila describing heavy heat delaying troops, insurgents retreating in scattered formations, and American forces breaking Cavite province. Casualty figures include four killed and about thirty wounded for Americans with roughly 400 enemy losses.
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Washington
War Department
Otis
Manna
Las Pinas
Paranaque
Navy
Oris
Manila
Cavite
Thirteenth Infantry
Ninth Infantry
Fourteenth Infantry
Colorado Volunteer Regiment
Lagun de Bay
Napidan
Taguig
Monadnock
Helena
Manchester Tragedy Stirred Knox County Court Scene
Citizens of Manchester and Clay County endure a tense time as Tom Baker is shot dead while in custody. New indictments name Tom Baker and his son Jim along with Wiley Baker for further killings. militia guard, fortified town, and refugees describe a volatile aftermath with reinforcements arriving and townspeople fleeing to the hills.
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Manchester
Clay County
Knox County
Tom Baker
William White
Beverley White
Baker
Jesse Barrett
Jim
Dee Baker
Charles Woolton
Barrett
Wiley Baker
Tom
Wilson Howard
Butch Storr
Wiley
Jim Baker
Williams
Howart
Tork Baker
Fatalities at a launching and a wind cyclone strike
A revised casualty list from a flashlight launching accident reports one death one possible fatality and six severe injuries as photographers reflectors shattered. Nearby a powerful June cyclone near Hudson Wis devastates homesteads and towns with extensive damage and uncertain casualties.
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Bristow
Columbia
Mer Stern
More Freight Handlers Quit After Sympathy Strike
June 13 news reports freight handlers at the New York Central Lehigh Valley Wabash and Great Northern docks did not report for duty in sympathy with Erie and Lackawanna dock workers already on strike.
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New York Central
Lehigh Valley
Wabash
Great Northern
Erie and Lackawanna
Wheat Weak At The Close On Heavy Early Buying
Chicago trade closed with wheat retreat after an initial rise. Wheat July near 75.4 futures and corn oats and provisions mixed with gains trimming to closing losses. Cash quotes show No 2 red wheat 77 to 78 and No 2 corn around 83 to 84 cents.
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Chicago
Bbc
Chicago Live Stock Market Report June 12
Cattle receipts 16 000 with good cattle 10c higher and high grades at 4 40 to 5 80. feeding cattle 4 75 5 15. Texas steers 3 75 5 00. calves 4 25 7 20. Hogs receipts 50 000 with declines 2 4c. heavy hogs 3 50 3 70. mixed 3 52 3 82. pigs 3 25 3 59. Sheep receipts 14 000 with 10 15c higher. prime Colorado lambs 3 40 9 10. clipped sheep 1 00 5 85. culls 2 50 3 50. fancy light lambs 4 50 7 0.
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Chicago
CuicaGco
Colorado
Kansas City Live Stock Prices and Receipts Summary
Kansas City cattle receipts 2 246 strong native steers heavy 5.00 to 5.20. Texas steers 2 50 to 4 75. native cows and heifers 2 50 to 4 75. stockers and feeders 8 50 to 25 25. bulls 2 85 to 3 9. Hog receipts 6 000, bulk sales 3 00 to 3 75. packers 2 60. sheep receipts 8 000 strong lambs 4 00 to 6 00. stockers and feeders 1 75 to 3 50.
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Kansas City
Texas
Clower
Strong
Lamba
Stockera
Feedera
Omaha Live Stock Market Report June 12
Borra Omana quotes at 2300 steady to straight native beef steers 4.25 to 6.20 western steers 10.00 to 11.00 Texas steers 8.76 to 4.65 cows and heifers 8.75 to 4.00 canners 2.50 to 8.60 stockers and feeders 5.00 Balves 5.00 to 7.00 duller sales. Hogs receipts 3,700 with prices 8.50 to 8.00 heavy. mixed 5.75 to 7.14. light 2.50.
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Omaha
Borra-Omana
Cailtie
Texas
Howell's Miners' Code Now Available in Dillon Montana
A new Miners' Code provides full directions for locating and recording quartz and placer claims mill sites and tunnel locations in Montana and Idaho. It covers co ownership duties mining corporations liens wages securing no patent laws and cites U S state mining laws and cases. Price fifty cents from Tripunn Pusursuine Co Dillon Mont.
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Montana
Idaho
Howell
United States
Tripunn Pusursuine Co
Dillon, Mont
Kickapoo Valley Flood Paralyzes Wisconsin Region
A June cloudburst near Bear Creek ten miles northeast of Viona causes one of the worst floods in Kickapoo valley history. The Kickapoo river and tributaries surge. mills, bridges, and roads are swept away. fields wash out up to ten feet deep, and travel is blocked.
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Kickapoo Valley
Viona
Wis
Bear Creek
Dakot a County Cyclone and Salix Tornado Victims
Destructive cyclone skirts Hubbard and Homer Nebraska causing heavy damage to Ashford and O Connor homes and barns. Sioux City reports Bessie Malloy age 19 dies from Sunday tornado injuries. others expected to recover. Also Jefferson acquittal of Lee and Gilliland in the Henry Fountain murder case in Hispoko New Mexico after a seven minute jury deliberation.
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Dakota County
Jackson
Neb
Hubbard
Thomas Ashford
Cornelius O’connor
Homer
Sioux City
Salix
Ija
Bessie Malloy
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