Remorse and Death by Self to Avenge Old Crime
A distorted tale from North Dakota recounts Charles Herzig who fled Minot after a 1874 murder near Youngstown Ohio. He allegedly killed a girl, swapped shirts with a tramp named Charles Sterling who was later hanged for the crime. Herzig vowed suicide and a body was reportedly found hanging in a remote area, with speculation that August Young may be the same man.
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Minot
Youngstown
Charles Herzig
Frank Byer
Frank Hall
Herzig
Lizzie Grombacker
Youngstow
Charles Sterling
Sterling
Canada
Ohio
Wallace
Mr. Byer
August Young
Young
Hunter accident ends fatally for Bowbells livery owner
William Malyou, a Bowbells livery barn proprietor, was shot in a hunting accident twenty miles west while duck hunting. A shotgun discharged during a turn shattered his left arm, leading to blood loss and unsuccessful amputation efforts. He, about forty, unmarried, remains alive but weak under Dr. A L Doe’s care.
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William Malyou
Malyou
Bowbells
A. L. Doe
Malyon
Explosion at J. W. Bush hardware shocks Oakes store
Chief of Police Hyatt attempted to load a shotgun in Bush hardware when a shell exploded in a drawer with smokeless powder. The blast destroyed the showcases and windows, damaged the adjoining building, but Hyatt and Bush escaped injury.
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Hyatt of Oakes
J. W. Bush
Mr. Hyatt
Mr. Bush
Gas Prices to Fall for Grand Forks Electric Service
W. J. Murphy owner of Grand Forks Gas and Electric tells city council committee that starting January 1 the price of gas will drop to 2 dollars per thousand feet from 2.50 and 2.25 for other users. Power gas rates stay at 1.50 and 1.60 per thousand feet as movement toward a municipal lighting plant continues.
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W. J. Murphy
Grand Forks Gas and Electric Company
Grand Forks
Double Arrest Near Medora Brings Helickson Captured
Sheriff Pickett of Lyman county South Dakota arrested John Helickson in Medora after applying a prior sentence for grand larceny six years prior. Helickson, who had been in the area for years, had recently married after years on the run.
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Pickett
Lyman County
S. D
Medora
Hill
John Helickson
Helickson
Receiver appointment made permanent in Minot paper case
In Judge Fisk's court at Grand Forks last week no Minot Optic representative appeared to show cause why R. C. Sanborn should not be appointed receiver. The order of temporary receivership was made permanent.
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Fisk
Grand Forks
R. C. Sanborn
Well Driller Dies From Suffocation Near Portal
Herman Borreson, a well driller, was overcome by gas while freeing a rock at the bottom of a 35 foot well near Portal. He suffocated. he leaves a wife and three children.
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Herman Borreson
Portal
Leib Charges Sent To Roosevelt As Treasurers Aide
Charges against William R. Leib assistant United States treasurer at Philadelphia have been forwarded to President Roosevelt. The eighth annual convention of the League of Iowa Municipalities met at Burlington with about 200 members in attendance.
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William R. Leib
United States
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
League of Iowa
Burlington
Mahonoy City
John Mitchell
John Fille
Chicago
Gus Ruhlin
Akron Giant
Salt Lake City
Mentor
Rudolph C. Cordun
Brooklyn
Prohibition Nominee Named at Boston Convention
William Wylie of Beverly nominated for governor at the Massachusetts Prohibition state convention in Boston. Also notes aging figures and international telegraph line concessions amid broader 19th century events.
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Union Veteran Legion of the
United States
Wilmington
Del
Rene Gobelet
French Council of Ministers
Paris
Massachusetts
Boston
William Wylie
Beverly
Isaac G. Leonard
Chicago
Japan
China
Elijah Brigham Phillips
Brookline
Mass
Calabrian earthquake relief funded by German emperor
Dispatches report German emperor sent Italian Foreign Minister Tittoni $2,000 for Calabria earthquake victims. Trade concerns show little complaint. A Kansas City trolley collision injured seventeen. A St Joseph wholesale house burned, $200,000 loss. An Erie locomotive engineer died in Deposit New York before braking the Chicago Pacific express.
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Tittoni
Calabria
Dun
Kansas City- Leavenworth
Leavenworth
Kan
Hax-Smith Furniture Company
St. Joseph
Turner
Erie Railroad
Deposit
N. Y
National encampment and notable visits gather in several cities
The national encampment of the Sons of Veterans meets at Gettysburg. Emperor Nicholas and Minister Biriloff sail from Peterhof for a Finnish archipelago cruise. Odd Fellows convene in Philadelphia for the eighty first annual sovereign grand lodge. Pennsylvania Health Commissioner Dixon launches a typhoid campaign at Nanticoke near Wilkes Barre, where 186 cases reported. Duchess Consuelo Vanderbilt Marlborough arrives in New York for a several weeks visit with friends and mother Mrs Belmont. husband and children stay away.
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Sons of Veterans
Gettysburg
Emperor Nicholas
Biriloff
Peterhof
Canada
Mexico
Philadelphia
Sovereign Grand Lodge
Dixon of Pennsylvania
Nanticoke
Wilkesbarre
Duchess of Marlborough
Consuelo Vanderbilt
New York
O. H. P. Belmont
Fire destroys seven houses in Houston district
A fire in Houston Texas levelled seven residences causing about 60000 dollars in losses. The blaze left nearby property damaged while firefighters fought the flames through the night.
Gaynor declines fusion nom for New York mayor
Justice William J. Gaynor rejects the fusion nomination for mayor of New York City on Tuesday. Also noted are a Nome Alaska fire destroying sixty buildings with near 200000 dollar loss and the death of banker and former Leroy Illinois mayor Joseph Keenan at seventy seven. Four mysterious fires threaten forts near New York harbor, while New York court authorities consider a permanent world’s fair for 1909 to mark Hudson River discovery centennial.
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William J. Gaynor
New York City
Nome
Alaska
Joseph Keenan
Leroy
Ill
Illinois
New York Harbor
Department of the East
Hudton River
American Tug Barnhurst Fired On By Canadian Cruiser Vigilant
The Erie fishing tug Harry G Barnhurst, five miles over the line, was shelled by the Canadian cruiser Vigilant as it attempted to cross back into American waters. More than thirty shots caused damage to the upper works and two men were cut by splinters. Captain Fassel said Vigilant could have sunk the vessel, which carried nets and had been a former pleasure steamer. The incident follows a week of similar border confrontations.
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Erie
Midlake
Vigilant
Harry G. Barnhurst
Nichol Fassel
Dunne
Barnhurst
Fassel
AID FOR REPUBLICANS
On the stand in the insurance inquiry George W. Perkins produced a 48000 dollar check drawn by New York Life payable to J P Morgan Co. He testified the payment was a contribution to the national Republican committee promised to Cornelius Bliss. He said similar gifts were made in 1896 and 1900 to guard assets from Democratic victory.
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New York
George W. Perkins
New York Life Insurance Company
J. P. Morgan & Co
Perkins
National Republican Committee
Cornelius N. Bliss
Death toll at Climax fuse works rises to nine
Avon Connecticut September 16 The explosion and fire at the Climax fuse works have killed nine people as a result of the disaster two of the injured dying overnight Charles Dimock and Nora Ryan died both severely burned Charles Legayt remains critically ill Officials suspect a hot iron ignited a fuse during a stoppage clearance may have caused the blast with the true cause possibly never known
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Avon, Conn
Charles Dimock
Nora Ryan
Charles Legayt
Thieves Burn and Steal in Los Angeles Robbery
Incendiaries set Dr. W. W. Ordway's home ablaze in Los Angeles as occupants battled flames. While fighting the fire the thieves seized a handbag containing 140000 dollars in government bonds and 500 in gold, then tossed the bag and bonds into the flames. The bag was recovered before destruction. many bonds were badly scorched.
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Los Angeles
Cal
W. W. Ordway
Nan Patterson Married to Former Husband Leon Martin
Washington reports Miss Nan Patterson the actress who stood trial for Caesar Youngs murder has remarried her ex husband Leon G. Martin. The ceremony took place at the bride’s father’s home in the city and the couple will live in New York where Martin runs a hotel.
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Washington
Nan Patterson
Caesar Young
New York
Leon G. Martin
Sherrick in Custody on Embezzlement Charge
Indianapolis report states former Indiana state auditor David E. Sherrick was arrested on embezzlement charges. He waived examination and is bound over to the grand jury under heavy bond.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
David E. Sherrick
Mill Blast Kills Five at Pinconning Wisconsin Mill
Five men died and eight to ten were injured when an alleged defective boiler exploded at the stave mill of Edward Jennings in Pinconning Michigan. The blast wrecked the mill, scattering debris for hundreds of feet as thirty men were at work. Dead are Richard Gifford Burt Bell Charles Easter William Alpin and Fred Nichols. Easter and Alpin were married men with families. The shock shattered windows a mile away.
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Mich
Edward Jennings
Richard Gifford
Burt Bell
Charles Easter
William Alpin
Fred Nichols
Easter
Alpin
Fever in the North at Cincinnati
Five yellow fever refugees arrived in Cincinnati on a Queen and Crescent line train. The 200 refugees from Lake Providence and Tallulah, Louisiana fled yellow fever, with fifty penniless travelers aided by Congressman R. E. Ransdale and his family at Grand Central station.
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Cincinnati
Queen and Crescent Line
Lake Providence
Tallulah
Grand Central Station
R. E. Ransdale
Lightning Strikes Poultry Tent at Indianola Fair
A bolt hit a crowded poultry exhibition tent at the Iowa county fair in Indianola on September 15 killing four men Ray Anderson Carl Peterson Theodore Young all from Indianola and Blaine Wright from Pleasantville. Dozens wounded or burned and thousands of chickens in coops were killed as rescuers cleared wreckage and doctors from Des Moines were summoned.
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Indianola
Ray Anderson
Carl Peterson
Theodore Young
Blaine Wright
Pleasantville
Avid
Des Moines
Filipino Rebel Jumps From Cliff Surrounded by Officers
Felizardo, chief of Ca vite province outlaws, was cornered near the Batangas border Sunday and leaped from a cliff. He was killed on the fall, and the authorities believe his death will end the disturbances in Ca vite.
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Manila
Felizardo
Cavite
Batangas
Secret Service Arrests Clerk Over Voucher Fraud
Secret service officers arrested James W. Boyd, a clerk in the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, on charges of manipulating vouchers to boost office business. Authorities say he obtained more than $20,000 in the last two years. Boyd confessed when confronted. some vouchers were inflated from small to large sums. He is about forty, married, with his wife in Europe.
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Washington
Secret Service
James W. Boyd
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Boyd
Europe
Mission board votes against further tainted money discussion
Seattle September 16 By a vote of 46 to 10 the American board of commissioners for foreign missions opposed further discussion of tainted money in any phase after Congregational leaders weighed in on the issue.
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Seattle
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
Congregationalists
America
Yellow fever report shows continued decline in New Orleans
The official report to 6 p m Tuesday lists 34 new cases and 345 total deaths, with 1 973 recoveries. Dr White says danger will pass before the president arrives and travel through Louisiana will be safe. There are 49 cases under treatment at Cote Blanche.
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New Orleans
White
Citizens’ Committee
Cote Blanche
Bayou la Fourche
Mayor Collins Dies in Virginia Seizure
Boston reports the sudden death of Mayor Patrick A. Collins in Hot Springs Virginia from a bowel hemorrhage. He was seated with his son when the attack struck and died shortly after. Collins was a prominent Democrat who served in Congress 1883 to 1889 and as United States consul general at London 1892 to 1897.
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Boston
Patrick A. Collins
Hot Springs
M. J. Curran
Roosevelt Pledges Visit to New Orleans This Fall
President Roosevelt informed Mayor Behrmann that he expects to arrive in New Orleans on October 24 if the public desires it. He said a later trip to Louisiana and Arkansas could be arranged and would be made in line with quarantine rules of states he would pass through.
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New Orleans
Roosevelt
Behrmann
Louisiana
Arkansas
President Roosevelt urges rapid Panama Canal plan
President Roosevelt calls for a fast tracked plan to complete the Panama canal. In remarks to the consulting board of engineers the urgency and importance of timely construction were outlined. General Davis, chairman of the isthmian canal commission, was authorized to release the remarks to the public.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Consulting Board of Engineers
Isthmian Canal Commission
General Davis
Hottentots Defeated in Five Hour Fight
Berlin dispatch reports Major Meisler's column clashed with insurgent Hottentots on September 13. After a five hour battle the natives were routed, leaving sixty dead. German losses included two killed and twelve wounded, among them Major Maersker.
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Meisler
Maersker
Lake steamer burned near Parisian Island
The schooner W. H. Ketchum bound from Duluth to Cleveland burned Saturday night off Parisian Island, Lake Superior. Two crew members drowned while trying to escape in a lifeboat.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
W. H. Ketchum
Duluth
Cleveland
Parisian Island
Lake Superior
Market Quotations Minneapolis Wheat Prices
Wheat quotations from Minneapolis on Sept 19 show Rept 80 and 3 4 percent, Dec 81 1 4 to 81 3 4, May 84 1 4 to 84 3 4. On track No 1 hard 84 3 4, No 1 Northern 83 5 8, No 2 Northern 80 5 8.
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Minneapolis
Market Report St Paul Cattle Hogs and Sheep Prices
St Paul reports cattle prices with good to choice steers 4.50 to 5.50, cows and heifers 3.25 to 4.25, hogs 5.05 to 5.40, yearling wethers 4.50 to 5.25, and native lambs 5.00 to 5.50, covering good to fair quality ranges.
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St. Paul
Vladivostok in Japanese campaign bold and costly
The piece notes Vladivostok as the lone remaining major Russian stronghold in the Far East aside from Harbin, with Japan’s land and sea forces coordinating for a campaign that could rival Port Arthur in bitterness. It highlights the harbor’s strength and sea vulnerability, plus surrounding elevations that hinder land assaults.
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Vladivostok
Vostok
Port Arthur
Russia
Far East
Harbin
Wheat and flax price quotes from Duluth market report
The Duluth market report lists wheat prices with No 1 Northern at 815 c, No 2 Northern at 784 c, on track values for No 1 Northern 82 c and No 2 Northern 79 c for Sept old at 815 c, Sept new 78 c, Dec 774 c, May 81 c. Flax arrives at 984 c, on track and Sept at 1.00, Dec 984 c, May 1.02 c.
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Duluth
Chicago Livestock Prices Reported for Sept 19
Cattle values show figures for cows and heifers, stockers and feeders, Western stock, and cattle categories. Hogs prices cover mixed, good heavy, rough heavy, and light categories. Sheep and lambs are listed with their respective price ranges.
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Chicago
Market summary: wheat corn oats and fats with prices
Chicago spot and futures prices for wheat corn oats and pork lean toward steady to mixed levels. Cash flax bids from Northwestern and Southwestern regions stand at 98 and 92 cents respectively. Butter and eggs show small changes with dairy and poultry quotes also listed.
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Chicago
Northwestern
Southwestern
Springs
Norway and Sweden Nearing Agreement on Two Key Points
London dispatch reports partial progress in the Karlstad talks between Sweden and Norway. Two principal questions remain under discussion with knotty issues elsewhere, but hope persists for a final deal soon. Christiania notes frontier troop withdrawal but not return home. Karlstad reports no joint session and a preliminary accord not likely before Thursday.
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London
Times
Karlstad
Sweden
Cholera Epidemic Declared Check by German Government
Official Berlin bulletin reports seven new cholera cases with no deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing totals to 208 cases and 75 deaths. Washington reports Ambassador Tower quoting Berlin that the epidemic has been checked and an outbreak is unlikely.
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Washington
Ambassador Tower
State Department
Berlin
Armistice Signed Near Chakhedze in Manchuria
Major General Ovanofsky and General Fukushima signed an armistice ordinance after nine hours of negotiations. The accord was finalized on the open plain near Chakhedze and followed a return from Kochiation by Ovanofsky and his suite.
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Gunshu Pass
Manchuria
Ovanofsky
Kochiation
Fukushima
Chakhedze
Inspectors Removed Over Chinese Smuggling Case
The Department of Commerce and Labor ordered the removal of Edward Boltz and Charles W. Stevenson Chinese inspectors in the immigration service. They were charged with aiding in smuggling four Chinese into the United States at Buffalo New York and with giving false testimony at the hearing of those cases. This marks the first time an inspector has been found guilty of such an offense under the Chinese exclusion act.
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Washington
Department of Commerce and Labor
Edward Boltz
Charles W. Stevenson
Immigration Service
United States
Buffalo
N. Y
Freight Handlers in Chicago Accept Old Wage Scale
Chicago union freight handlers voted to accept the old wage scale and conditions in place for two years. Agreements have been made with nineteen railways, averting strikes planned in the past ten days. Work will resume Tuesday under renewed contracts lasting a year with no strike chance until expiration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Union
Baron Komura Ill With Typhoid Fever In New York
Japanese envoy Baron Komura is diagnosed with typhoid fever at the Waldorf Astoria. Doctors initially called it mild, but the final diagnosis could affect plans to depart westward on October 2.
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New York
Baron Komura
Waldorf-Astoria
Crude Oil Prices Advance Again in Pittsburg Market
Crude oil prices rose again in Pittsburg on September 19 with Standard Oil leading the move. All grades except raglan increased, marking the third quotation rise in two weeks. Higher grades gained 3 cents and lower grades 2 cents.
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Pittsburg
Raglan
Standard Oil Company
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Tenn
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Claymont
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