Elgin Gunfight Ends With Multiple Fatalities in Train Car
A posse and citizens confronted a gang of suspected robbers in a box car near Elgin. Shots were exchanged, resulting in one dead, one mortally wounded, and four badly injured. Sheriff Youn and Deputy Negent pursued the gang after a train robbery spree. dynamite and torpedoes were recovered.
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Gig
Youn
Negent
Iiven
Mint
Azores
Kherif
Nts
Che Reader
Nother Waa
Plot to Free 1100 Convicts Exposed in Pennsylvania
A plan to release 1,100 convicts at a Pennsylvania penitentiary surfaces. Authorities uncover a scheme led by James Gentry involving a whisky still, cigars shortages, and fraud across departments. Warden Daniel Bausiner, who served 27 years, is linked to the prison executive mold amid the scandal.
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Pennsylvania
James Gentry
Muarge Yorke
JO Wetvess
Daniel W. Buasiiner
Tventy
Leon
Wonneylvania Penitentiary
Peniqiuitary
Ask Biq Fund For Negroes Bogus Proposal Emerges In New York
A convention in New York discussed a proposed national fund to aid African Americans, suggesting a 41 cent monthly tax on US black population to raise up to 200 million dollars over four years, with funds aimed at factories banks and business enterprises for Black communities.
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New York
United States
Negotiations on Philippine lands end in Rome recall
A Rome dispatch reports negotiations between the colonial Philippine authorities and the religious orders over friars lands have been called off. Mgr Guidi, the Roman prelate leading talks in Manila, is recalled to Rome and expected back in November. Rome’s view is Guidi failed to accept the price set by the American government for the lands. The Vatican will handle future Philippine questions directly with Washington or special representatives in the United States.
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Philippine. Islands
Naifean
Red ‘Shég
Fons Ledade
Eus X
Rome
Mgr ‘Guidi
Manila
Mgr. Guidi
Americ
Washington
United States
Raine
Four Boys Rescued From Toledo Gale Near West Sister Island
Four boys Stapley Oster Ramuel Gerson Jacob Strub and August Strub were adrift off Toledo for 24 hours as a 69 mile gale drove them toward West Sister Island. Their engine failed while enroute to Monroe and they struggled, many hours unconscious, before Toledo High School instructors and locals revived them.
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Stapley Oster
Ramuel Gerson
Jacob
August Strub
Volun
Monroe
West Sister’ Island
Cie
Ageno
George Rheinfrank
Prof
Rol
Walbridge Park
Wugene
Great Tin Ore Find Near Nome Sets Record Ledge
A massive tin ore ledge about a hundred feet wide has been found north of Nome near Test River in the Cape York district. It is described as possibly the largest tin discovery to date, with a hundred pounds of sample rock sent to Pittsburg. Joseph Hutchinson, ex-Lt. Governor of Idaho, reports the discovery and represents eastern investors tied to the American Tin Plate Company, who have bonded eight of the seventeen claims uncovered.
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Nome
Test River
Cape York District
Capa Nome
Pittsburg
Joseph Hutchinson
Idaho
Hutchinson
American Tin Plate Company
Soldiers Gag the Press in Colorado Riot Reporting
Soldiers arrested editors including George Kuyer of the Victor Record and four newsroom staff by order of Gen. Bell and closed the office. The paper, linked to striking miners, published critiques of the military prompting the action. Other notes cover a Mo. man shooting a rival, a naval commander's death, a lynching incident in Oxford, canal treaty news, a Brooklyn fire, and labor issues.
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George Kuyer
The
Victor
Colo
Papor
Bell
State Guards
Ohio
Oxford
Louis Spivey
Yuarshot
Prisoner Escape At City Hall Stationed In Philadelphia
An alleged deserter from the Navy yard in Philadelphia escaped from a city hall cell after Miss Treischman and her father allegedly helped him by unlocking a corridor door and passing him the key. The sister and father were jailed on aiding a government prisoner to escape while the prisoner vanished through a side door.
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Trelschinany
Vealyor Cppekn
Woazlebon
Lengié Island
Navy, Yard
Philadelphia
Cho
Pollea Allonga Mrolyehmuan
Miss Treischman
Misa Trelachiman
Cloudburst Hits Pratt Kas Damaging Property and Flooding
A severe storm caused extensive damage in Pratt Kansas with over three inches of rain within an hour. Water up to six feet flooded pumps and Santa Fe railroad tracks. Lumber at a local elevator was destroyed and widespread property damage occurred. No lives were lost. The eight week drought was broken.
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Pratt
Wggleston
Money to Fight Trust Lends $10 Million to Kentucky Growers
The Security Warehouse Company of New York arranged a $10,000,000 loan to the Kentucky Burley Tobacco Growers Association to purchase the season’s crop from growers. Funds would be credited to the association as crops are bought, aiding the group in its battle against the tobacco trust. Other items note a Meriden child’s death after severe burns and doctors refusing aid.
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Kentucky Tobacco Association
Security Warehouse Company of
New York
Kentucky Burley ‘Tobacco Growers’ Association
Growers’ Association
Tobacco Trust
Attempted kidnapping of Nebraska governor's daughter shocks Lincoln
In Lincoln Nebraska an unknown man tried to abduct Governor Gore Mickey's 4 or 5 year old daughter as she played with siblings. Neighbors shouted and the kidnapper dropped the child and fled. Authorities report a prior prophecy of such a plan as punishment for the governor's actions in a
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Mritz Riel
Portchester
N. Y
Frill
Nebraska
Ito
Gore Mickey
Gore ‘Hinds
Sgsy
Mickey
Anya
Penitentiary
Beamer
Lost Checks Reappear From Philadelphia Mail Pouch Fraud
Philadelphia authorities pursue two forgers tied to altered checks from a Pennsylvania Railroad mail pouch lost between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The pouch held hundreds of checks drawn on western banks. some altered checks surfaced in Philadelphia and a New York lodging house reportedly contained about 1,200 torn checks. Authorities warn the fraud spans the eastern cities.
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Claver
Philadelphia
New York
Robbers Blow Safe In Post Office at Rouseville
Four men blew open the safe in the post office at Rouseville Pennsylvania, bound and gagged two citizens Dr John Fyler and Ines Strait who interrupted them. The explosion drew townspeople who were fired upon as robbers fled into the woods. Inventory will reveal the loot.
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Rouseville
John Fyler
Ines Strait
Turmoil at Sault Ste. Marie as mob tears at office
A massive mob of 2 000 workers storms the Consolidated Lake Superior Company offices in Sault Ste. Marie Michigan after pay promises fail. Police, militia, and British troops reinforce as rioters smash windows, hurl missiles, and set fires, injuring officers and triggering a mobile confrontation. The mass meeting earlier sought wage payments while the company faces receivership in Connecticut.
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Francis E. Clergue
Lake Superior
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Connecticut
Tour
Amer Fern
Michigan
Barnes Hall
Ollizen
Welaiff
NINE DEAD IN RAIL DISASTER NEAR DANVILLE VA
A southbound Southern Railway fast mail jumped a seventy five foot trestle north of Danville Virginia at high speed. Nine of sixteen crew members were killed and seven injured. The 600 foot trestle on a sharp curve collapsed into a rocky stream, wreckage strewn along the track. Engineer Brodie, a new man on Abat division, was blamed for the high velocity at the curve.
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Virginia
Southern Railway
Danville
Eixteen
Brodie
Minor Nott Thi corporation papers seized for dubious acts
Denver papers report suspected corporate irregularities tied to consumptive actors. A Chicago, Buffalo, Oma fugitive, Count Dagrucife, was captured in Rochester North Carolina. A court inquiry cleared officers of a battleship grounding. Ralph Bain shot Bill Flynn in Wichita. Rush County Kansas residents receive 600 bushels per person claims. Pennsylvania Fourth District GOP nominates Reuben O Moon to replace Foerderer. Chicago’s William Onahan cites Rome creating two more American cardinals.
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Nott Thi Corporation
Denver
Colo
Dagrucife
Chicago
Buffalo
Oma
Rochester
N. C
Ralph Bain
Santa Fe
Wichita
Kan
Bill Flynn
Tremont Street
Rush County
Republian
Fourth Congressional District
Pennsylvania
Reuben O. Moon
Foerderer
Wilam J. Onahan
Rome
United States
Trade and labor trends in New York weekly review
RG Dun and Co reports mixed trade conditions with higher September activity, gains in footwear and cotton goods, and improved crop prospects. Labor tensions ease, capital markets show some declines, and Western rail earnings outpace last year as congestion grows. Breadstuff trading remains robust, corn crops loom, and livestock volume rises with steady hog and sheep demand.
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Dun & Co
New York
Hirge
Chicago
Walk Street
Trade Review Reports Cautious Fall Trade and Shipping Delays
Bradatreet's Trade Review notes conservative fall demand and lack of price margins for finished goods. Shipments slowed by lake vessel strikes, freight hikes, and high cotton costs temper full resumption of operations. Weekly wheat exports reach 2,050,480 bushels, with twelve week totals near 86 million and corn exports around 11.6 million.
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Bradatreet
Eels
Chicago and Midwest Livestock and Grain Prices Collate
A regional price table lists cattle hogs sheep and grain rates across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Toledo Buffalo and New York markets. Values cover cattle hogs and sheep alongside wheat corn oats rye and related produce with varying grades and price ranges.
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USA
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Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Hero
Ubc
Toledo
New York
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