Two Robbers Capture Fight at Superior Post Office
A fierce train ambush and gun battle near Superior ends with police wounding two suspects and capturing two on the West Tahominga line while a third flees. In Arkansas River pursuit, five bandits looted a Burton bank and are later jailed on an island. police recover stolen money and safe-cracking tools.
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Attari
Steaagle
Postalllee
Tahooming
Mel
Marshal Tandrem
Ave
West Tahpenting
Omeer Patrick Colling
Aspecta
Collins
Elates
Arkansas
Burton
Kon
Arkansas River
Newton
James Bell
George Olaon
KE. H. Johnson
Thomas White
Mean Harwood
W. L. Daily
Thoreday Eveninis
Me Hensh
Vank oMfcinis
Steel orders recalled impact $2,000,000 contracts
Pittsburg reports Fuller Construction Co canceled structural steel contracts with Carnegie Steel totaling about $2 million due to weak market mood sparked by strikes and financial downturn affecting six month ahead material planning.
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Pittsburg
Fuller Construction Company
Carnegie Steel Company
Devoted Wife Sacrifices Life to Save Jai Hope Colony
Mrs. C. G. Burton, wife of a remnant land holder in the Mugle tax colony at Jai Hope Alabama, died saving homes and lives as a fire threatened the village. Though the blaze burned toward the Burton residence, she fought the flames until overwhelmed, while other colonists escaped and rescuers saved the rest of the settlement.
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C. G. Burton
Mugle
Jaihope
Ala
Watrhope
Barton
Burton
Land Graft Alleged in Pacific Coast Ring
Officials accused in a sensational land graft case spanning the Pacific coast claim a vast ring controls property deals through dummy loans bribed officials and manipulated reserve boundaries. Principal figures reportedly include William F. Ruins of the Treasury secret service and A. B. Pugh, assistant attorney general, seen in Portland gathering evidence.
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Pacific Siopa
Oregonan
Pacific
Ling
Link
Fearnt Washington
San Francisco
Wiliam F. Ruins
Secrel Service
Jeasury Department
A. B. Pugh
Interior Department
Porthind
Bituminous Coal Operators Seek Output Curtailment
Leading bituminous coal companies in Pennsylvania West Virginia and neighboring states plan to reduce coal production to address market demoralization. voluntary limits have failed prompting talk of vigorous measures while New York market prices have fallen from a year ago.
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Pennsylvania
West
Incendiary Fire Destroys Galveston Business Blocks
Fire caused $75,000 damage wiping out five business blocks and the railroad station in Galveston Indiana. Telegraph wires burned cut communications as fire departments from Logansport and Kokomo rushed relief and by 8 pm the blaze was under control. The incident remains under investigation with incendiary origin suspected.
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Galveston
Ind
Lews
Leegansport
Kokomo
Canada Debate on Military Fund and Independence
Canadian militia leader Frederick Bordon argues Canadians should control their own defense funding and not rely on London. He says if Canada can defend its territory it will contribute to empire safety, amid tensions linked to the Alaskan boundary decision. He notes British command under the present system and calls for local control of military expenditures.
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Montred
Frederick
Bordon
Wihigter
Claude
Empire
Great Britain
London War Office
Advitary
Caupdag
America
Port Simpson
Grand Trunk Pacific
London
Canada
Secretary of Interior estimates $156 million for 1905
Secretary of the Interior has completed and sent to the Treasury his budget for the year ending June 30, 1905. The total request is 156 million dollars, about 3 million less than the current year, with reductions targeted in the pension bureau and Indian office. The pension estimate stands at 136.8 million, down 1.7 million, while the Indian bureau faces an 1,800,000 cut.
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Secretary of Interior
Secretary of the Interior
The
Interior Department
Pension Bureau
Indian Office
Indian Bureau
Commissioner of Pensions
Wrecked Dorado Crew Endures 600 Mile Canadian March
After the Dorado wrecked near Fort George the Liverpool crew, led by Captain, marched 600 miles through Northern Canada toward Montreal. Forty men endured extreme hunger and exposure for 42 days with only clothes for support, all surviving despite dire conditions. The voyage was a Black company exploration and trading expedition.
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Canada
Erry
Liverpool
Ottawa
Ont
Montay
Montreal
Studson Bay
Fort George
New York clergyman urges euthanasia for incurables
Rev Merle Wright of Lenox Avenue Unitarian Church stunned attendees at the New York State Medical Association dinner by advocating a humane death for hopelessly ill patients. He argued consent from relatives and the patient, plus medical approval, could make an ethically acceptable end to prolonged suffering.
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New Yorker
Merle St. O. Wright
Lenox Avenue Unitarian Church
New York
New York State Medical Association
Mr. Wright
Judge halts court to save crops in Kansas district
Judge CG W Smith of Stockton Kansas defers court to protect farmers from jury duty during harvest. He emphasizes that saving this year's crops outweighs convening juries and will adjourn until the harvest is secured, noting most locals are focused on grain and corn yields.
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Kansas
CG. W. Smith
Stockton
Kan
Kanegs
Editor dies after fall from Indianapolis Sentinel building
Samuel J. Morss, former consul general at Paris and founder of the Kansas City Star, died after falling from the Sentinel building third story in Indianapolis. He suffered heart trouble, opened a window for air, lost balance, and died fifteen minutes later. He leaves a widow and one daughter.
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S. & Morss
Indianapolis Sentinel
Samuel J. Morss
Paris
Kansas City Star
United States
Sentinel
Indianapolis
Morss
Strees
One Hundred Years Ago in The Weekly Historian
A summary of early United States events notes South Carolina importing artillery ammunition from England and Britain’s risk of seizure, copper ore advised for export to Europe, Jefferson seeking rapid action on the Louisiana Purchase, Spain forbidding transfer of Louisiana, and the Senate backing the Purchase by 347 to 7 in a special session.
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South Carolin
England
Europe
United States
Thomas Jefferson
Louisiana Purchase
Congress
New Orleans
Spain
Louisiana
France
United States Senate
Bristow Station
Warren
Hill
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rosecrans
George S. Thomas
Jefferson Davis
South
James Tt. Steedsman
Thomagne Chickamauga
Toledo
Ohio
Northern Pacific Railroad
Wall Street
Cox
National House
Samuel J. Randall
Wiliam Secumseh Sherman
United States Army
Congressman Warren
China
United States Supreme Court
District of Columbia
Economic activity and prices amid steady trade and harvest
The report notes solid industrial output and large orders in iron and steel, with prices in securities steady. Railways show higher earnings, October buying remains strong, and farm work progresses well under Chicago weather. Grain shipments rise, corn and wheat markets surge, livestock receipts fall versus last year, and bank clearings exceed prior figures as currency movement stays normal.
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Dan & Cola
New York
York
Wiyst “Waite
Edieries
Hines Tha
Chicago
Wbout
Bath
Y Igo
Campaign rhetoric and past campaign quotes reported
The piece cites Johan Quilley Adame as campaign manager praising duels and blood for country, notes a rapid Philadelphia to New York steamboat trip in nine hours and twenty minutes, and mentions Andrew Jackson’s Pennsylvania campaign threats to convene a convention to alter the Constitution. It also references Adams accused of wasting 80000 dollars on the Panama convention lombug.
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Johan Quilley Adame
Camepaign
Imanagers
Ole
Ier
Philadelphia
New York
Managora
Andrew Jackson
Pennsylvania
John Quincy Adams
Panama
Lombug
Fifty Years Ago In Labor Strides And Civil War Echoes
Fifty years past reports recount factory hands in Pennsylvania striking for a ten hour day. Also noted are expeditions to establish a slaveholding republic in lower California, Cuban cholera deaths, and President Pierce's Yorktown celebration.
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Pennsylvania
Col
William Walker
San Francisco
California
Matangas
Cuba
Franklin Pierce
Washington
Cornwallis
Yorktown
International Trade Notes Signal Rising Mercantile Demand
A weekly report from the International Mercantile Agency cites stronger money for mercantile use in Boston Philadelphia Chicago and Pittsburgh. St Louis bankers expect similar conditions. In Canada demand for heavy winter goods is weak with wheat harvest above expectations at Fargo where prices stand around 7% a bushel.
Grain and Livestock Prices Across U.S. Markets
Daily market notes show Chicago hogs and cattle range, with prices for hogs 4.50 to 5.82, cattle 4.25 to 6.40, and sheep 3.00 to 3.80. Wheat runs No. 2 red 0.44 to 0.68, corn No. 2 white 0.40 to 0.46, oats 0.58 to 0.86, rye 0.50 to 0.70, with regional quotes including Indianapolis Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Toledo and Buffalo markets, plus New York wheat at 0.40 to 0.70 and butter creamery 0.18 to 0.20.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Milwaukee
Onity
Hieto
Harley
New York
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James Murray
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Mary P. Ropes
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New York Stock Exchange
Commodore Vanderbilt
Lake Shore Railroad
New York Central
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G. 8. Grant
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