Revolution in Russia Report From Elgin Echo
The Elgin Echo reports compiled statistics on a revolutionary movement in Russia. It cites Dr. Thiankoff and a St Petersburg publication, detailing deaths, executions, drownings, and varied riots. The figures include thousands of killings, imprisonments, and anti Jewish and anti American outbreaks across multiple regions.
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Thiankoff
St. Petersburg
SH Wenanals Oy Avernors
Gow
le Vietins
Ropa Lussin
Baltic
Poland
Siberia
Branding of Clubs in Principal Base Ball Leagues
The text notes branding of clubs in major baseball leagues with teams such as Chicago Brooklyn Cincinnati New York Boston Philadelphia and St Louis. It lists win percentages and standings figures like .538 for Chicago and .77 for another team, indicating a snapshot of league positions and team identities.
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Chicago
Brooklyn
Vitisburg
Cincinnati
New York
Boston
Phil'delphia
St. Louis
Robbers Hold Up Great Northern Oriental Limited
Five masked men halted the Great Northern Oriental Limited west of Rexford Montana early Thursday morning. They forced the engineer to move to the express car and escorted the mail and staff into coaches. They robbed the mail cars of registered items while the express safe remained empty. A $10,000 reward is offered for the robbers' arrest.
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Great Worthern Oriental Limited
Great Northern Oriental Limited
Rexford
Mont
Cherubbera
Elurk
Galroad Company
Falls From Horse to Death In Philadelphia Troop
Willi J. Mulhall a famed Philadelphia cavalry trooper and college football figure died at Strafford suburb after plunging headfirst from a horse while demonstrating cavalry evolutions to a friend in drills.
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Willi J. Mulhall
Farrior
Fist City
Philadelphia
Strafford
Mustang
Mullall
Lost Steamship Nebraskan Found Safe in Mexico
Reports from South Norwalk Conn state the steamship Nebraskan arrived safely at Salina Cruz Mexico after a feed pump burst during departure from Honolulu on Aug 10. Other items note a 2 cent fare law being declared unconstitutional in Philadelphia and various criminal and sports notes.
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South Norwalk
Conn
Saling Cruz
Mexico
Honolulu
Dynamite Explosion Wrecks Joplin News Herald Rooms
A dynamite blast damaged the pressroom and composing room of the Joplin News Herald in Missouri. The attack targeted the Republican publisher and his methods, amid broader clashes with city police and the pound system.
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Joplin
News-Herald
Professor Saville Reports Ancient City Ruins Near Menador
M H Saville, professor of ethnology at Columbia University, describes returning from Menador with discoveries along the Pacific coast about fifty miles north and south of the equator. He found evidence of a city inland up to a hundred miles with palmetto and thatch dwellings built to withstand earthquakes, likely housing 8,000 or more people about 600 years ago, a race he considers highly civilizational before Columbus.
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Prof. Saville
Columbia
University Returna
Tio
Hondo
Columbia University
Menador
Aime
Colum
Sandbar Becomes Island Near North Wildwood New Jersey
A sandbar off North Wildwood, New Jersey has risen above high water to form an island. A New Jersey man bought the submerged bar for 184 two years ago and sold it now for 10,000. Sand to be pumped from the sea will connect it with Five Mile Beach and extend a coast trolley line from Atlantic Highlands to the Capes, part of the Brent project.
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New Jersey
North Wildwood
N. J
Five Mile Beach
Atlantic City
Cape May
Freed by hard effort two American conductors released
Grant Ferguson of Newark Ohio reports that Edward Stover and W B Speed, American conductors, were released from a Mexican prison unconditionally after more than a year. They had been charged with murder but were not culpable, and Ferguson lobbied the US government and Senators Foraker and Dick. One former resident came from Akyon Ohio.
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Grant Ferguson
Baltimore and Ohio
Newark
Ohio
Aguas Calientes
Mexico
Edward Stover
W. B. Speed
Burs Tay
Stover
Speed
Ferguson
United States
Foraker
Akyon
Ban on candy and flirts in Highmore South Dakota
Highmore adopts ordinance forbidding eating peanuts and candy in the streets. The mayor approved law imposes arrest for street eating and for loitering in public, with critics calling it a mistlemeanore. The ordinance lacks penalties for park serenades and moonlight spooning.
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Highmore
S. D
S.D
Submerged Wreck Threatens Shipping Near Colchester Light
The survey steamer General Williams reports a wreck found in thirty six feet of water two miles northeast of Colchester light. It lies near the Detroit river bound boats and on the north side of Colchester light, with twenty three feet of water over it now but could threaten shipping in storms.
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General Williama
Colchester Light
Detroit River
Gage
Woman slain in bed in Chicago home
Maude Westerfield, 26, was found murdered in her bed with a bullet wound near the left temple. Her husband Herman Westerfield, 30, found her in their Chicago residence as police seek Edward Hildebrandt, 20, a boarder believed to have been friendly with the victim. Ice trust secrets exposed in books and letters reveal rival companies beaten down and records turned over to New York Attorney General Jackson.
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Maude Westerfield
Chicago
Herman Westerfield
Hhe
Edward Hildebrandt
Westerfields
Ice Trust
Jackson
New York
Woman Denies Authorized Stock Loss At Havens Firm
A large loss at BD. B. Havens & Co. of New York is charged to a woman who denies any participation or authorization of such actions. The revelation questions whether a woman speculated or acted at all in the wreck, with firm officials investigating the circumstances.
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BD. B. Havens & Co
New York
Losa
Wisconsin praises lightning rods as sure guard against fire
Marabal Partell of Wisconsin asserts lightning rods nearly guarantee protection against lightning damage and urges insurance firms to offer lower rates to property owners who install them.
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Marabal Partell
Wisconsin
Bre Insurance Comairies
Massacre at Kischiner Reports Eighty Jewish Victims
A fresh atrocity at Kischiner claims eighty Jewish lives, described as surpassing the prior 16038 horror in scale and brutality. The incident intensifies fears of renewed violence amid ongoing regional tensions.
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Kischiner
New Grand Army commander elected at Saratoga expo
Charles G. Burton of Nevada Missouri, a former U.S. representative, was chosen commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at the forty first annual encampment in Saratoga New York. The Awalgamiaraa Copper Company mines at Butte were shut down, laying off about 10 000 workers due to metal overwork. stocks were demoralized by the move.
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Charles G. Burton
Nevada
Congress
Grand Army of
Lhe Republic
Saratoga
N.Y
Awalgamiaraa Copper Company
Fear A Coal Famine In Pennsylvania Mines
Pennsylvanian coal operators warn of a looming coal shortage as winter approaches. Water supply strain hits the Read ing Co mines with 35 to 40 tank cars daily, and labor is below normal. Bituminous fields seek miners. sellers ration corn from store shelves to meet demand.
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Pennsylvania
Reading
I x
Gentral Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Fire on Battleship Indiana Sparks Near Miss at Magazines
The Navy Department reports a September 5 fire in the Indiana at League Island yards caused danger to the magazines and shell rooms. Officers and crew, led by Lieutenant Commander J L Sticht, removed ammunition amid intense heat, with six near the bulkhead too hot to handle. Spontaneous combustion is suspected.
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Navy Department
Indiana
League Island Navy Yard
J. L. Sticht
L. C. Hull
Tylo
Death Takes Man of Mystery in East St. Louis
William I. Graves a 45 year old former Chicagoan known as The Man of Mystery died after being found unconscious in Bock's saloon on Missouri avenue East St. Louis and dying en route to Henrietta hospital. Physicians attributed death to alcoholism. Graves, who did no work and frequented saloons, had money and many friends from sociable generosity. A pocket paper showed a $30 monthly allowance from Thomas Rudd of Chicago.
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East St. Louis
Wiliam I. Graves
Bock
Missouri Avenue
Henrietta Hospital
Thomas Rudd
Chicago
Mother and Sons Burn in Iowa House Fire Tragedy
In Dubuqie Iowa a mother and her two young sons died after a fire sparked by the children playing with matches during the mother's absence. The mother perished saving her sons as their clothing burned and the house burned to the ground.
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August Vampire
Dubuqie
Iowa
Bride Drowns After Yacht Sinking in Delaware River
Mrs Marguerite Croft bride of John Croft of 124 Casino Street New York was swept from a yacht in a Philadelphia Delaware River storm and drowned. Croft leaped into the water to try救 her but all rescue efforts failed.
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Marguerite Croft
John Croft
Casino Street
New York
Delaware River
Philadelphia
Croft
Despondent broker jumps to death in Louisville
Lynn Davison a former Chicago stock broker committed suicide by leaping from the tenth floor of the Columbia building in Louisville after muttering a short prayer. The note hints at losses from speculative fortune totaling about 300000. Also reported: a bank dynamiting in Crookston Minnesota netting 1300 with two suspects believed headed to Canada and a fatal fall of Miss Judith Morton, 24, noted Kentucky horsewoman and social figure, in Lexington.
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Lynn Davison
Chicago
Louisville
Columbia Building
Don Lacon
Crookston
Minn
Canada
Judith Morton
Jeve HR. Morton
Kentucky
Lexington
May Discontinue Investigation Hits on Railway Abuses
Interstate commerce commissioners are said to favor discontinuance of the investigation of great railway systems. Abuses publicized by Harriman exposure have been halted. In a separate note, a canoe accident near Akron, Ohio results in the drowning of Mina Ina Belfanyder, two stenographers, Charles Halloway a student, and Miss May Adkins of Cleveland.
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Interstate Commerce Commissioners
Harriman
Mina Ina Belfanyder
Charles Halloway
Akron
May Adkins
Cleveland
Ohio
Suicide after accidental shooting near Graf Pennsylvania
Howard Kiley killed himself by jumping in front of an express train on the Allegheny division near Graf Pa. He acted after the accidental shooting of his companion Robert Ramsey Jr, driven by despair following the incident.
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Robert Ramsey, Jr
Howard Kiley
Allegheny Division
Pennsylvania Railway
Graf, Pa
Masked Men Rob Missouri Pacific Agent in Eldorado
Bandits bound and gagged a Missouri Pacific railway agent in Eldorado Kaw and robbed the safe of 1300 dollars before escaping.
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Rafe
Missouri Pacific Railway
Eldorado
Kaw
Fatal furnace hazing at Washington mill. worker dies
Henry Ponty of Wheel ing, West Virginia, fatally injured in a brutal initiation at the Dyer Mube and Pips Company in Washington. Pa. Perry was tied to a crane hook, swung above a furnace, burned as cords were burned through, and collapsed. Dr J R Maxwell treated him for seven hours. officials seek ringleaders who escaped arrest.
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Henry Ponty
Wheeling
W. Vry
Ffty Aierves
Finnace
Perry
J. R. Maxwell
Taten
Kidnapped Child Reclaimed By Mother In New Egypt
A double kidnapping unfolded in New Egypt New Jersey when Charles Hopkins allegedly abducted his sleeping six year old daughter from his separated wife. The mother pursued by wagon, found the child asleep in Cookstown with the stolen horse and wagon, and retrieved the child, earning neighbors praise for her quick action.
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New Egypt
N. J
Charles Hopkins
Hopkins
Hopkius
Alaskan Volcano Eruption Spreads Ash Across Villages
A Seattle relayed report dated September 4 notes a September 1 and 2 eruption in the Aleutian Islands near Perry Island. Tons of ash and embers drenched Native and white residents, cluttered the revenue cutter Rush, and a hurricane drove birds and debris seaward. No lives reported.
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Aleutian Islands
Vilages
Seattle
Dutch Tlurbor
Perry
San Francisco
Soldiers Try to Free Comrade at Fort Riley
A mob of about fifty Farriers' School soldiers from Fort Riley moved toward the county jail in Junction City to release a confined comrade. Sheriff and city police fired from upper windows to disperse the crowd. two arrests were made and guards remain at the jail. No one was shot.
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Frison
Farriers’ School
Fort Riley
D Junction City
Sherif
Jnit
Morr Riley
New York Bonds Snapped Up and More Unfolded
New York City could not dispose of bonds in prior offerings and five times the amount of a new 40 million issue was offered at about 102.1. Pierpont Morgan, rumored to seize the entire issue, is among the lowest bidders and likely to gain nothing. A hotel fire destroyed a Cleveland Springs, North Carolina, hotel, killing three people including Miss Smith of Ellboro, North Dakota, with losses around 25,000. Indiang smugglers unmasked, watches and jewelry worth thousands found concealed on two women at French Lick and confiscated by customs on landing in New York. A swarm of bees routed a Sunday school picnic at Ardmore, Pennsylvania, forcing women to strip to fight them. Five negroes near Newburg, West Virginia, were shot by a train while sitting on B and O railroad cars. Illinois crops damaged by three inch hail near Bloomington. reports from other towns signal heavy losses.
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New York
New York City
Pierpont Morgan
Pire
Cleveland Springs
N. C
Misa Smith
Ellboro
N. D
French Lick
Wellman Polar Trip Fails Airship Wrecked Abandoned
The Wellman expedition to reach the North Pole failed after an airship wreck near Tromsø Norway. Walter Wellman and two companions planned a Spitzbergen to Pole voyage using a 115 foot steel-cable dirigible with meteorological and navigation gear and a team of Alaskan sled dogs.
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Pion
Saal Poly
Walter’ Wellman
Peiday
Tromsade
Norway
Prithjo
North Pole
Wallmants
Spitzberger
Airship Mishap Forces Sledges After Poleroute Plan
The crew abandoning the America due to a mishap or unfavorable winds hoped to finish by sledge travel. With Archip carrying the strain they expected a three day pole reach and twenty days by ship delays. Provisions lasted 275 days. starting Spitzbergen they'd clock 1,286 miles to the pole and back, 1,750 to Alaska, 1,740 to Northern Norway, 1,500 to Northern Siberia, and 2,440 to Canada. The airship rose Sept 2 in a northeast wind drove it southeast, balloon cut free then recovered after days of searching.
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Spitzbergen
Pole
Alaska
Northert
Norway
Siberia
Canada
Increase Farmers Earnings Boost from Higher Prices
A preliminary report in the American Agriculturist notes farmers earned about 1 billion dollars more this year due to higher prices, despite a 10 percent drop in overall production from 1900. The farmer enjoys improved finances, real estate value, and assets, while seeking more breeding stock and farm implements.
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American Agriculturist
Tiver
Rate Law Post Cane Appeals Interstate Rail Case
The Missouri Pacific railroad appeals to federal courts over a Kansas Supreme Court writ favoring Larrabee Milling Company of Stafford Kansas. It compels continued car deliveries to the mill over Santa Fe tracks at the old rate of $2.00 a car, noting three-fifths of the mill’s business is interstate. The railroad argues state control has ceased under the Ten Turn rate law and claims no state jurisdiction exists as the line is under ICC oversight.
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Missouri Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court of Kansas
Larrabee Milling Company
Stafford
Kan
Missouri Daelite
Santa Fe
Interstate Commerce Commission
Arizona Nevada Union Discussed After Statehood Rejection
After Arizona voters rejected joint statehood with New Mexico a possible union with Nevada is floated. Proponents say it would gain support from those who opposed uniting with New Mexico and push Congress to withhold statehood honors from Arizona.
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New Mexico
Arizona
Congress
Nevada
Seismograph Used to Locate Distant Artillery Fire
Dispatches from Vienna report Prof Belar of the Lathach earthquake observatory conducted Ostend gunnery tests using seismographic apparatus to determine if earth vibrations can compute the position and direction of distant artillery. Tests were satisfactory and to resume during autumn maneuvers in the Karas wanken hills.
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Vienna
Ostend
Prof
Belar
Lathach
Karas Wanken
March of G A B veterans parade through Saratoga
National encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic drew about 13 000 veterans to Saratoga for a one mile parade the shortest ever and limited to G A R members only. Gov Hughes led the reviewing officers as New York hosts and department officials gathered at Congress Hall for a 11 30 a m reception before the day’s sessions.
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Atusual Minsle
Saratoga
Grand Army of the Republic
le Ayn
Hue
Grand Army
Convention Hall
Ping
G. A. Re
Iast
Reviow
Charles J. Hughes
J. Cary Whillis
Toledo
Department of
New York State
Lne
Alaska
Gov. Hughes
Congress Hall
Juneleon
Department of New York
Robert B. Brown
Mourshey
Brown
Vacationists import typhoid from outside Chicago
Chicago health officers warn that about half of typhoid cases traced to the city are contracted during vacations away from home. They urge travelers to drink safe water and to take precautions when traveling, noting higher rates among those who vacation outside the city.
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Chicago
Health Department
Guardians of
Board of Health
Chicago Health Department
Michigan
Talen
Cityward Trend of Negraga Explored in Magazine Series
In the concluding installment of Ray Stanvard Bakers series in The American Magazine an explanation is given for why Southern Negroes are drifting to cities. The lack of schooling for children in the country and the absence of police protection are cited. Plantation owners sell small farms to thrifty Negroes, seeking a steady labor supply.
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Ray Stanvard Baker
Eplor
South
New York Battleship Rechristened Saratoga In Navy Change
Washington reports the Navy Department will rechristen the 000 ton battleship new York as Saratoga to honor the historic vessel with that title which has been condemned. The other battleship among the two giants authorized by Congress is named Delaware.
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New York
T18
Washington
Navy Department
Congress
Saratoga
Navy
Delaware
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Liberty
George W. Streeter
South Bend
St. Joseph
Czar E Prigon
M. Royodulin
Akatul
Trang
Walkelly
Dokoff
Hia
Ray Keer
Salina
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Stensland
Paul O. Stensland
Milwaukee Avenue
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Jollet
Wits Crate
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Sandba
Cattleship
Gourdain
Louis A. Gourdain
Chcago
Government
Atlanta
Government Asylum For the
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Ardmore
Newburg
W. Va
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