24 Jan 1907
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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1907
Page
1
Readable fragments describe a large conflagration with substantial losses, mentioning Ames, a fire event, and references to numerous individuals and places. The text includes dated or named figures and indicates a broad historical discussion or obituary-like content tied to a period piece.
News out of New York reports a devastating King Stone quake with hundreds dead and scores injured. Ships rush relief to the stricken city as medical supplies run scarce and many homes are destroyed.
An earthquake in Kingston New York caused widespread destruction with the business district in ruins and fires along the waterfront. Rescue work by soldiers and police protected key assets as hospitals were erected and debris cleared, with many dead or injured and ongoing efforts to bury or recover victims.
The Pall Mall Gazette questions the justifiability of Swettenham and Davis actions while suggesting noble motives may have driven them. It urges the American public to view the affair with charity as English papers express regret at the dispute and praise US aid to the British colony.
Kingston officials condemn Jamaica governor Sir James Swettenham for rejecting American aid and ask Rear Admiral Davis’s fleet to stay. Davis says he must follow the authorities’ wishes and depart as planned. Kingston writes to express regret and hope for continued good U S Britain relations.
In Washington the House approved an amendment to the legislative executive and judicial appropriation bill raising the vice president speaker cabinet members to 12000 a year and senators representatives territorial delegates and Porto Rico resident commissioner to 7500 a year the change to begin March 4 1907 an attempted roll call failed and the session approved an urgent deficiency bill totaling 344650 before closing into private calendar business
Secretary Root spent the night in Montreal at the residence of Lord Strathcona then traveled in the governor general Lord Grey’s private car to Ottawa. He arrived in the afternoon and was welcomed at the station by Colonel Williams and Colonel Foster before going to Government House.
The Ohio river at Cincinnati sits at 65.1 feet for hours and officials believe the flood crest is near. The water will recede slowly and the vast flood below continues to impede relief efforts and damage recovery for days.
Terre Haute Ind Jan 21 twenty seven dead and many injured after a powder car exploded aboard passenger train No 3 of the Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago and St Louis line near Sandford Indiana. Engine and coaches thrown from track, wreckage strewn, fires, and vast destruction with victims rescued or killed. Authorities cite concussion from a slowing passenger train or escaping gas as possible causes.
Twenty people believed dead or burned after passenger No. 28 collided with a freight train near Fowler Indiana in dense fog. The engineer failed to see block signals, a dispatcher fired shots to warn approaching trains, and a flaming wreck followed the impact with Pullmans and a private car among the survivors.
A Niagara frontier hurricane reduced in scope now estimates Buffalo port damage near 1 million dollars with four deaths from collapse and drowning. Government harbor equipment losses run 100000 to 200000, and communications are restored. Seattle reports Great Northern snow and slides paralyzing transcontinental traffic with no overland trains reaching Seattle since Saturday, likely out a week.
John R. Walsh former president of the Chicago National Bank, closed December 16, 1905, was indicted by a federal grand jury on misapplying bank funds. The 22 transactions in memorandum notes led to 13 bond sales claimed as fraudulent, with $ derived funds credited to Walsh personal account and used for outside enterprises.
Rear Admiral Evans informed the navy department that Rear Admiral Davis and the battleships Missouri and Indiana and the cruiser Yankton have reached Guantanamo from Kingston. Davis will forward his report by mail.
Wheat prices across Minneapolis and Duluth show May at 79% and July around 80% with on track listings. Chicago futures list soybeans, oats, pork and butter near steady ranges while cattle and hogs in Chicago mixed with beef and lamb values noted across several classes.
Fragmentary text describes a pursuit involving a duchy and fox hunting in a rural setting. The garbled excerpt references a cottage, a crowd, a doorway, and a possibly distressed infant, with many illegible phrases and names.
A garbled text fragment references biblical figures and prophetic seers, hinting at Nineveh and Medes themes. It blends odd phrases about heat, a pipe, and smoking, creating a disjointed narrative fragment without a clear event or person to anchor a fuller story.
A garbled OCR fragment discusses a monumentation lien and a long structure, with scattered phrases about wolves, octaves, and a donkey. It mentions a Sage and a child, but the text is unclear and lacks coherent events or clear entities.
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