Boxcar Merchants Arrested in Fargo Over Pure Food Laws
Food Commissioner Ladd had C. H. Fannon, a boxcar merchant from Chicago, arrested in Fargo on two indictments for selling impure currant jelly without a label and a mislabeled syrup glucose. A second Chicago firm representative was also arrested in Litchfield for selling imitation maple syrup without a label. Fannon posted $300 bond.
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Ladd
Condo
C. H. Fannon
Chicago
Litchfield
Fannon
McHenry Man Files Bankruptcy After Huge Debt Gap
H H Wade of McHenry Foster county files for bankruptcy listing liabilities of 56030.89 against assets of only 5. No personal property or clothes are listed. The First National Bank of Deadwood South Dakota is the largest creditor with a claim over 6000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Wade
McHenry
Foster County
Nelson Cure
Deadwood
8. D
Mrs. Glen Downs Fatally Burned in Home Fire
Mrs. Glen Downs wife of a Grand Forks Lumber Company employee sustained severe burns when her apron ignited from a wood fire in the kitchen. She ran toward the front of the house and the flames, fanned by wind, enveloped her until neighbors could remove the burning clothing.
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Glen Downs
Grand Forks Lumber Company
Fargo Land Office Likely To Be Abolished Soon
Washington announced the general land office refused to extend part of the Bismarck land district into Fargo. As a result the Fargo office is expected to close within the next few months when its business has been steadily declining.
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Washington
General Land Office
Bismarck Land District
Fargo
Fargo Land Office
Bismarck
Prisoner Pat Rooney Feared Dead in Williston Escape
Pat Rooney the prisoner who escaped from Williams county jail at Williston last winter while under assault with intent to kill was captured in Spokane Washington by Special Detective J B Delaney of the Great Northern Railway company. Rooney is linked to a gang of hold up artists who tried to kill Jerry Thompson a Great Northern brakeman last fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat” Rooney
Williams County
Williston
Bpokane
Wash
J. 8. Delaney
Great Northern Railway Company
Pat Rooney
Jerry Thompson
Great Northern
Man pays old debt to dead man’s daughter in Grand Forks
Rogers McDermott, who left Grand Forks twenty three years ago with a board bill of twenty eight dollars due to Joseph Dennis, stopped in Grand Forks last week to settle. He learned Dennis had been dead thirteen years and paid the amount to Dennis’s daughter Anna, a university student. McDermott now resides in Neenah Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rogers McDermott
Grand Forks
Joseph Dennis
Anna Dennis
Neenah, Wis
Suicide at Grand Forks Station Shocks Local Community
Martin Peterson, 33, shot himself at the Great Northern passenger station in Grand Forks. He owned a farm near Larimore, was unmarried, and had spent the day in the city amid signs of insanity during a conversation with an acquaintance. He had no relatives in the United States.
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Martin Peterson
Great Northern
Grand Forks
Larimore
Suspect Captured in Wyoming After 1901 Horse Theft
Otto Chenelworth, accused of stealing $10,000 in horses from C. Huldekoper near Medora in 1901, broke jail after sending a thank you letter to the sheriff and has been captured in Wyoming. Sheriff Reid has left Medora with a requisition for his return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Chenelworth
C. Huldekoper
Medora
Wyoming
Sheriff Reid
Indian Leo Shield Necklace Arrested on Liquor Charge
Leo Shield Necklace was arrested on liquor carrying charges on Standing Rock reservation. He was arraigned and held to the grand jury after failing to post bail. He remained in the Bismarck jail.
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Leo Shield Necklace
Standing Rock
Bismarck
Russian man hanged self in coal shed after serving sentence
Peter Mets a Russian resident of South Dickinson who had been serving a sentence for wife beating died by suicide hanging in his coal shed. He leaves a large family of grown children.
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Peter Mets
South Dickinson
Laborer Salvatore Rodia Found Dead at Fargo Yard
Salvatore Rodia an Italian laborer was found dead in the Northern Pacific yards at Fargo. He had worked for the company for several months and is believed to have died of apoplexy.
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Salvatore Rodia
Northern Pacific
Fargo
Deposit receipt theft leads to Fargo arrest
Don Nelson was arrested in Fargo on charges of stealing a $30 deposit receipt. Complainant is Burt Munros who reports the theft to the authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Nelson
Fargo
Burt Munros
Two Obituaries and a National Baptist Convention Opening
Mrs. Sarah Watson Andrews dies at 102 in Silver Springs New York. Martha Coon aged 99 dies in Albion Dane county Wisconsin. The twenty fifth annual session of the national Baptist convention of negro Baptists opens in Chicago with 3000 delegates. An American tax collector in Santo Domingo David H Morris is wounded near Nayba on the Haitian frontier. Eighty miners at Alta mines Telluride strike after notices require Mine Owners association card membership.
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Sarah Watson Andrews
Silver Springs
N. Y
Martha Coon
Wisconsin
Albion
Dane County
National Baptist Convention of Negro Baptists
Chicago
Santo Domingo
David H. Morris
Nayba
Alta
Telluride
Colo
Mine Owners’ Association
Death of Major General Sir Charles William Wilson
Major General Sir Charles William Wilson is dead at London. The Sultan of Morocco has accepted Algeciras Spain as the site for the Moroccan conference. The news item notes his passing and outlines the conference location.
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Charles William Wilson
London
Morocco
Algeciras
Spain
Young Erie
Philadelphia
Young Corbett
Maggie Davis
Oskaloosa
Eliot
Harvard
Department of Commerce and Labor
Death of Rudolf Lehmann in London
Painter and author Rudolf Lehmann dies in London aged 96, born near Hamburg in 1819, marking the end of a notable career in art and letters. He had lived much of his life abroad.
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Rudolf Lehmann
London
Hamburg
Alice Roosevelt
Washington
Orient
President Roosevelt
New York Central Railroad
James J. McManus
Philadelphia
Brooklyn Bridge
France's Loubet sails for Marseilles after Portugal visit
President Loubet concludes his Portugal visit and sails to Marseilles. In Delray Michigan a fire at Michigan Malleable Iron Co causes 50000 dollars in damage. Ainsworth Iowa experiences a Saturday fire sweeping the business district with similar losses. Benjamin Cullen of the Empire Theater in Pittsburgh dies. The Swedish cabinet resigns over Norway dissolution. Former President Cleveland speaks at J Sterling Morton monument unveiling in Nebraska City. Civil War pension roll falls by 941 in September, leaving 996270 on pension list.
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Loubet
France
Portugal
Marseilles
Michigan Malleable Iron Company
Delray
Mich
Ainsworth
Benjamin Cullen
Empire Theater
Pittsburg
Norway
Cleveland
J. Sterling Morton
Nebraska City
Neb
Pension Bureau
Embezzler Arrested in Hankow Case Across San Francisco
Tuesday report notes Adolph Aistraph arrested in San Francisco on charges of embezzling 100000 dollars from East Asi atic company in Hankow. Japanese rice crop shortage cited at about 14 percent below average and 25 percent below last year. Frederick Hesketh, 26, dies by suicide in Minneapolis after illness-related despondency. Rev. N D Fisher, Baldwin Kansas, noted for border warfare days and Civil War era prominence.
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New York
Adolph Aistraph
San Francisco
East Asiatic Company
Hankow
Frederick Hesketh
Minneapolis
N. D. Fisher
Baldwin
Kan
Kansas
College to Add Association Football at University of Chicago
The University of Chicago will introduce association football as a college sport. In Chelsea Mass Kid Goodman of Boston and Young Corbett of Denver fought to a fifteen round draw in a scheduled bout. The Federal Mining and Smelting company paid 3 000 000 cash for the Morning and Youlike mines near Multan Ida. Colorado Fuel and Iron reports a year ending June 30 deficit of 341 993 after interest taxes and rentals, down from 1 584 857 the prior year. A combination of the ten largest entities is noted.
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University of Chicago
Chelsea
Mass
Kid” Goodman
Boston
Young Corbett
Denver
Federal Mining and Smelting Company
Youlike
Multan
Ida
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Autocracy Ends in Russia As Witte Becomes Premier
News from St Petersburg reports Nicholas II abdicated autocratic power and Count Witte assumed the premier role with a mandate to transform the national assembly into a real legislative body with extended suffrage and civil liberties. The manifesto signals a shift to universal suffrage, free speech, and executive accountability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Petersburg
Old Order of Things
Russia
Nicholas
Count Witte
National Assembly
Russians Celebrate Freedom Day Amid Parades and Tensions
St. Petersburg and Moscow saw large public revelry as Russians celebrated the emperor's gift of freedom. Socialists and revolutionaries staged anti-government demonstrations and red flag parades leading to clashes with "reds" and "whites" while troops were withdrawn to allow celebrations.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Moscow
Poltava
Kasan
Kishineff
Count Witte
Trepoff
Pobedonostsev Resigns as Holy Synod Chief
In St Petersburg on November 1 Constantine Petrovitch Pobedonostsev, aged chief procurator of the Holy Synod and adviser to three emperors, resigned as autocracy faced a constitutional era. The emperor accepted the resignation and named him to the senate.
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St. Petersburg
Constantine Petrovitch
Poledonostseff
Holy Synod
Roosevelt in Peril After Lighthouse Tender Collision
President Roosevelt escaped a wreck when the lighthouse tender Magnolia collided with the Esparta near New Orleans. Damaged hull below the waterline and a beaching followed. Roosevelt and his party were transferred to the Ivy and then to the armored cruiser West Virginia en route to Hampton Roads.
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New Orleans
Magnolia
President Roosevelt
West Virginia
Hampton Roads
Esparta
President
Craighill
United States Engineers
Ivy
Pilot Station
Train Calamity Kills Thirteen Near Kansas City
Thirteen people die and about thirty are injured when Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe train No 1 the California Express derails near Blue River on a Rock Creek cut. A loose rail caused five cars to leave the track as jagged rock walls loom.
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Kansas City
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
California Express
Blue River
Chicago
San Francisco
Rock Creek
Seven Die In Rock Island Freight Collision At Casey
Des Moines reports seven killed in a head on crash of two Rock Island freight trains at Casey Iowa. Victims include Ed Nelson and William Marshall from Valley Junction plus Frank Johns and Bert Shielos, with Rev. P. W. Caldwell of Van Meter among the dead and two unknown men. Engines and cars piled into scrap. Wreck blamed on misread orders on westbound run.
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Des Moines
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
Casey
Ed Nelson
Bert Shielos
William Marshall
Frank Johns
Valley Junction
P. W. Caldwell
van Meter
Moro Leader Datto Ali Killed by American Troops
Manila October 28 American forces under Captain Frank K. McCoy of the Third Cavalry killed Datto Ali head of Mindanao Moro insurgents along with his son and ten followers. Forty three Moros were captured wounded and arms and ammunition seized. Three U S enlisted men were killed and two wounded. Fighting continues near Lake Tangusen Mindanao between constabulary and insurgents. Datto Ali had led attacks since October 16 against government allied Moros.
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Manila
Frank K. McCoy
Third Cavalry
Wood
Datto Ali
Mindanao
Constabulary
Lake Tangusen
Mine Employes Killed In Hazel Kirk Mine Blast
Five minor officials of the Pittsburg and Westmoreland Coal company were killed when a mine explosion at Hazel Kirk No 1, Hazel Kirk, Pa, eight miles east of the city, followed an earlier blast two weeks prior. The dead include superintendent John Hornhal, foreman Daniel Griffith, fire bosses Joseph Hunter John Lavey and Henry Claybourne.
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Pittsburg
Pittsburg and Westmoreland Coal Company
Hazel Kirk
John Hornhal
Daniel Griffith
Joseph Hunter
John Lavey
Henry Claybourne
Six Millions Graft Exposed in Philadelphia Filtration Project
A city investigation reports six million three hundred thirty thousand dollars lost to excessive costs collusive bills and illegal advertising in filtration system and boulevard improvements. Contractors McNichol Ryan Kelley Ware firms and political leaders named amid fraud charges and ongoing trials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Board of Investigating Engineers
Weaver
Cassius E. Gillette
United States Engineer Corps
Savannah Harbor
John Donald MacLennon
Washington
D. J. McNichol & Co
James J. Ryan
John A. Kelley
Ware Bros
McNichol
Israel W. Durham
J. P. McNichol
Daniel
Vare
George A. Vare
Edwin H. Vare
Williams. Vare
Recorder of Deeds
William C. Haddock
Ashbridge
Peter E. Costello
John W. Hill
Bureau of Filtration
Fire destroys Railroadmen's hotel in Hot Springs. six die
Hot Springs Ark Oct 27 a fire leveled the Railroadmen's hotel on Elm Street near the Iron Mountain depot. Six badly charred bodies were found in the ruins identified as A L Mann Vea ver Mrs Mack Sny der Harry Bradley H Roberts and John Melaon Several occupants escaped by jumping from second floor windows with injuries reported.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Railroadmen's Hotel
Iron Mountain Railroad
Elm Street
A. L. Mann
Veaver
Mack
Wd Snyder
Harry Bradley
H. Roberts
Tacoma
Wash
John Melaon
Austin
Tex
Death of Postmaster and Former Governor McGill
St Paul November 1 Postmaster Andrew R McGill state senator and former governor died suddenly of heart disease at his residence in St. Anthony Park He was sixty five born in Pennsylvania February 19 1840 came to Minnesota June 10 1861 He served as insurance commissioner from 1873 to 1887 and at death held postmaster and state senator rank He served in the Civil War with the Ninth Minnesota first sergeant of Company G
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St. Paul
Andrew R. McGill
St. Anthony Park
McGill
Pennsylvania
Minnesota
Flood follows water main break in Chicago area
Three people died and property worth 150000 dollars was destroyed when a water main burst at Eighteenth and Clark streets flooding several blocks. The flood delayed nickel Plate railroad traffic and left many families homeless as the floodwaters spread through the neighborhood.
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Chicago
Nickel Plate Railroad
Eighteenth
Clark Streets
Burr and Hamilton Meet in New York Coincidence
A New Yorker recalls nearly being struck by a falling scantling from a demolishing building at Nassau and John streets where Aaron Burr once had his law office. A bystander named Burr witnessed, and the angry complainant, a man named Hamilton, noted the odd name pairing. The tale, shared with humor, ties Burr Hamilton Edwards together in a singular moment.
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New York
Nassau Street
Nassau and
John Streets
Hamilton
Burr
Aaron Burr
Edwards
New York Press
Carp Thrives in Arizona Pond Rescue
A year after a desert carp was found by the Van Kirk family north of town a pond drought left the fish stranded. The carp grew from a minnow to about 80 pounds and was captured as a "fish carnival" unfolded at the Van Kirk ranch. Mrs. Van Kirk supplied the facts for the Arizona Republican.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. F. van Kirk
van Kirk
Arizona Republican
Toys for Czar's Baby Bring Familiar Amert e Toys
The czarina presents her little son with first toys, small figures and boxes, evoking the familiar multiplying eggs and playthings known to American children, as described in the report.
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Czar
Amertei
Dialog About Auxiliary Engines Between Father and Son
A father and son discuss machinery with quotes about an auxiliary engine. The exchange defines an auxiliary engine as one that does not operate all the time.
Admiral Train Attacked by Mob in China
A Shanghai dispatch reports Rear Admiral Train and his son Lieutenant Train were assaulted by a mob near Nanking after a Chinese woman was hurt when the admiral unintentionally fired. Villagers seized their guns, knocked the admiral down, and held the lieutenant. American marines arriving to rescue were fired upon.
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London
Evening Standard
Shanghai
Train
Nanking
Two rival conventions form for rate legislation image
Chicago October 28 two Interstate Commerce Law league conventions adjourned sine die creating two organized bodies for rail rate reform The Federal Rate Association emerged from the anti side while the Roosevelt backed mainstream convention endorsed expanding the Interstate Commerce Commission and planned state organizing drives and a Washington lobbying push.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Interstate Commerce Law League
Federal Rate Association
Roosevelt
Interstate Commerce Commission
White House
Washington
Congress
Secretary Taft Travels by Columbia to Panama Isthmus
Norfolk reports the United States cruiser Columbia passed Cape Virginia carrying Secretary of War Taft and his party toward the Isthmus of Panama. He will return in about ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isthmus
Norfolk
Columbia
Capes of
Virginia
Taft
Panama
Market Quotations Wheat Prices and grain grades
Market Quotations from Minneapolis on October 31 show Wheat futures at 857 and 89 percent for December and May contracts. On-track grain prices list No 1 hard at 88 and No 1 Northern at 88 4, No 2 Northern at 85 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Grain prices and futures on Duluth market report
Wheat bids show No 1 Northern at 88 3 4 cents arriving and 88 3 4 on track with No 2 Northern at 86 3 4 to 86 3 4. Dec 89 3 4 cents, May 89 1 4. Flax bids for arrive and on track at 99 cents, Oct 99, Dec 1.00 14, May 1.04 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duluth
Northern
Cattle and Hog Prices Reported From St Paul Market
St Paul market figures show cattle with good to choice steers at 4.50 to 5.50, cows and heifers 3.50 to 4.25, yields 2.00 to 5.25. hogs 4.50 to 4.95. yearling wethers 5.00 to 5.78. lambs 6.00 to 6.90.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Cattle and Sheep Prices Reported in Chicago Markets
Chicago market report lists cattle categories and prices for stockers feeders and mixed cattle with ranges from $1.16 to $5.25 per unit. Beef and hog classes show varied quotes with good and rough heavy stock priced between $4.40 and $5.25. Sheep and lamb values noted at $4.00 to $5.15 for sheep and $4.60 to $7.50 for lambs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Market Prices Bulletin Oct Grain and Meat Quotes
Wheat futures for December at 89 54 to 89 54 cents, May 90 to 91 cents, July 86 to 86 cents. Corn futures October 51 8 to 50 8 cents, December 46 to 46 cents, May 46 cents, July 47 cents. Oats October 30 34 cents, November 30 3 to 32 . Butter prices from Creameries 22 cents, dairies 20 to 19 cents. Pork quotes October 16 10 dollars, January 12 37 to 12 40, cash markets Northwestern 1.00, Southwestern 9 23 cents. Turkeys 1 cents, hens 8 cents, springs 9 cents.
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Chicago
Northwestern
Southwestern
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Mier
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Pobiedonostseff
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Hazel Kirk, Pa
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Burr and
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Him
Admiral Train
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