Michigan Forest Fire Tragedy Reported Breathing Calamity
The Detroit wires report a disastrous forest fire in Michigan. Women and children were locked in a box car and perished while being hurried to safety. The scene is described as seething and fraught with great loss of life as reports remain sparse and uncertain.
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Michigan
Detroit
Mich
Detroit and Mackinaw Railroad
East Tawaz
Associated Press
Metz
Twenty Die In Metz Relief Train Fire
Detroit dispatches report twenty people, mainly women and children, burned to death in a relief train from Metz. The train, crowded in box cars, hurried from Metz as authorities confirm sixteen coffins sent north from Alpena with the grim tally expected to rise.
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Detroit
Detroit News
Detroit Journal
Alpéna
Metz
Mets
Alpena
Metz Relief Train Wreck Flames Kill Refugees Near Alpena
In Metz and nearby Posen area, a relief train returning from Metz was destroyed by forest fires and a culvert burn. About a score of refugees are feared dead with fifteen skulls found and locomotive fireman killed in the water tank. Conductor Kinville reported blinded by burns. Foster less severely hurt. Rail service disrupted as fires threaten Presque Isle county.
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Alpena
Mich
Metz
Pesen
Mijtersburg
Millersburg
Kinville
Foster
Presque Isle County
Detroit & Mackinaw
Relief train to Mets forest fire feared wreck
Reports from Alpena indicate a relief train sent to help Mets during a forest fire may have been burned. Wires are down and details are unclear. refugees' fate is uncertain as efforts continue to ascertain the outcome.
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Alpena
Mich
Mets
Train relief wreck sparks rumors of heavy loss in Metz area
Reports from Alpena and Metznight describe a Metz relief train veering into a forest fire and being destroyed near Nowicki station. Dispatchers and witnesses vary, with 17 believed burned and 15 skeletons found, while officials seek confirmation amid downed wires and ongoing search efforts.
Metz train disaster. sixteen perished in fire
Bay City reports indicate that sixteen people burned to death when a Metz relief train carrying Metz residents and household goods was destroyed after leaving Metz en route to Cheboygan. Flames engulfed the track as it headed toward Alpena, with crew reportedly forced to jump into a water tank before perishing. Coffins ordered from Alpena.
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Bay City
Mich
Detroit and Mackinaw Railroad
Mets
Alpena
Detroit and Mackinaw Road
Metz
Cheboygan
Hawk
Pulaski
Powers Not At First For Gore Of War
London dispatch says Balkan tension eases as Austria signals willingness to join an international conference. Austria refuses to surrender Bosnia and Herzegovina but suggests Turkey compensation talks, proposing a monetary indemnity instead of the Sandjak of Novi-Pazar. Austria remains wary toward Serbia, leaving outcome uncertain.
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London
Austria
British Foreign Office
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Turkey
Novi-Pazar
Bervia
Novi- Pazar
Servia
Gerles
Taft visits Chattanooga to speak for presidency
Chattanooga Tenn Oct 16 William Taft opened his Tennessee tour with his first argument to the Democrats and his pledge of a Republican presidency. He spoke before a packed auditorium and was greeted by a large reception committee said to include many Democrats and Republicans. He will spend the day in the state.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
William. Taft
South
Plan Track In Two States To Evade Law
Plans attributed to a betting syndicate aim to build a race track on the Indiana Michigan line to dodge laws in both states. The scheme, linked to a group that proposed New Buffalo Michigan, had stalled by political rifts but now reportedly seeks a new route to open a track near the state line.
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Chicago
Indiana
Michigan
New Buffalo
Mich
Million 1 Lost in Fire at Chicago Docks and Rail Yard
Fire destroyed property valued near 1,000,000 including International Salt Co docks, offices of the Joliet and Eastern railway, and fifty freight cars at One Hundred and Thirtieth Street Calumet River. Threatened two large grain freighters and Calumet elevator containing over 1,000,000 bushels of corn.
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International Salt Co
Eigin, Joliet & Eastern Railway
Anarchists Raid Hall as Union Votes to End Strike
Lynn Mags. Oct 18 Under police protection the union elasters voted to end a two week strike paralyzing the shoe industry. The vote was 846 for ending the strike and 483 against amid tumult in the hall with Italian malcontents seizing ballot boxes and police restraining disturbances along Andrews street near the masters hall.
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Lynn, Mags
Union Elasters
Andrews Street
Typhoon wrecks Amoy port facilities for fleet reception
Amoy reports a typhoon yesterday destroyed all structures built to welcome the American battleship fleet, sparing only the main reception hall. Many shops were damaged, and the town’s street lighting system was severely affected, disrupting the area surrounding the harbor and officials’ arrangements.
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Amoy
Feary
Socialist Party Appeal in North Dakota Supreme Court
The North Dakota Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case brought by the Socialist Party against Secretary Blaisdell seeking to place the Socialist state ticket on ballots. Attorney McCue argued the five percent vote rule applies to state tickets but not presidential electors, urging the petition allow a party ticket placed by state convention officials. The court took the matter under advisement.
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Bismarck
WH. D
Blate Blaisdell
Blaisdell
Supreme Court
LeSueur
Minot
Socialist Party
Ral McCue
McCue
Fargo Man Sought in Embezzlement Case
A Fargo traveling salesman named Fred Plum is sought on embezzlement charges by a Sioux City wholesale cracker firm. He is alleged to have diverted several hundred dollars from customers and failed to account for the funds. Plum was previously involved in a local pickpocket incident on a Northern Pacific train, where over $100 was lost.
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Fred Plum
Gh A. Cal
Wia
Soto Aise Sphym
Sioux City
Iowa
Northern ‘Pacific
Ex Prison Chief charges graft and drunkenness
Ex-Warden Corbett testified to a State Board of Charities sub committee in Pittsburg accusing prison officials of graft in supply purchases and drunkenness by Warden William McC Johnston. Corbett, Diehl and Var were mentioned amid tense exchanges as the investigation began.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
State Board of Charities
Corbett
William McC. Johnston
Iiam J
Care Im
Corvars
Diehl
Brilliant Irish journalist passes sixtieth milestone
London, Oct 16 Tay Pay O Connor, famed for journalism and politics, is celebrated as a distinguished Anglo Irish figure. After a brief college period he moved to London as a youth, mastered French and German, and joined the Daily Telegraph amid the Franco war crisis. He later worked for the London edition of the York Herald.
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London
Eng
Tay Pay O'Connor
Deily Telegraph
Francowar
Orice
York Herald
The Actress Wields Power Over War and Peace in Austria
Budapest reports that Mme. Katti Schrett, a famed former actress, has long influenced Emperor Franz Joseph. Her counsel is seen as guiding good government and conservatism. For two decades she has shaped imperial decisions and even secured indulgences for Archduke Victor.
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Austria
Budapest
Balkan States
Mme
Katti Schrett
Katt Schrett
Francis Joseph
Archduke Victor
Escaped Beat Under Locomotive Near Wheatland
In Wheatland North Carolina Mrs. W. L. Fuller had a hairbreadth escape from being mangled under a locomotive in the Northern Pacific yards. While crossing tracks with Mrs. Thomas Caesar, a switch engine backed toward them across the crossing as work trains shuffled cars. The driver reversed abruptly, and Mrs. Fuller leaped aside, slipped, and fell onto the track just as the engine passed, grazing her clothing but not body. An Italian laborer shouted a warning.
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Wheatland
N. C
W. Lh Fuller
Northern Pacific
Forest Fires Again Ravage Wisconsin Timber Lands
Ashland Wisconsin October 16 forest fires reappear across Wisconsin Minnesota and Michigan destroying a large barn on Michael Barrett's farm south of Ashland. Hundreds of men battle the blazes as smoke spreads over the lake reported by lake captains.
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Ashland
Wis
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Michigan
Michael Barrett
Nelson County Case Up On Wednesday
The Elvick vs. Groves case over the Nelson county treasurer nomination will be argued before the supreme court in Bismarck next Wednesday. Groves won in district court before Judge Templeton and appealed. Scott Rex of Grand Forks will represent the defendant.
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Grand Forks
N. D
Elvick
Groves
Nelson County
Supreme Court
Bismarck
Co. F. Templeton
Scott Rex
Greenleaf backs Bryan in Ward county bet
Minot North Dakota October 16 D C Greenleaf stated he would cover all money Republicans spend that Bryan carries Ward county He has traveled the county and is willing to wager any ice ene
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Minot
N. D
D. C
Greenleaf
Bryan
Ward
Testimony Promised in Chanler Sanity Trial
John Armstrong Chanler, former husband of Alemie Rives and brother of Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, testified in his own sanity hearing before Commissioner Booth in Charlotteville Virginia. The suit seeks to prove Chanler sane and recover a fortune he says was confiscated by New York courts. He was expected to testify all day.
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Charlotteville
John Armstrong Chanler
Alemie Rives
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanier
New York
Commissioner Booth
Chanier
Chanler
Methodists pick Mandan for 1909 North Dakota session
Jamestown ND Oct 16 The Methodist Episcopal conference selects Mandan to host the next North Dakota annual session in September 1909 The Women s Foreign Missionary society met this morning The afternoon was given to evangelistic services The Freedmans Aid and Southern education topics were discussed this evening A 1000 person Jamestown opera house audience heard Bishop Wilson address the prohibition question introduced by Judge C A Pollock of Fargo
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Jamestown
N.D
Methodist Episcopal Conference
North Dakota
Mandan
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
Jamestown Opera House
Wilson
C. A. Pollock
Fargo
Grain Dealers' Association holds twelfth annual convention
St Louis October 16 The twelfth annual convention of the National Grain Dealers' association opened with about 1000 delegates in attendance. The first session included welcome addresses and the annual report of President A B Reynolds of OEE Getaserinnt sonioce w ee.
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National Association OF Dealers
ST. Louis
National Grain Dealers’ Association
A. BE. Reynolds
OEE Ge Taserinnt Sonioce
Hearst in Omaha train served slander suit papers
On Union Pacific train No 2 Hearst’s state room door was forced by Deputy Sheriff as Mrs Hearst objected. Hearst finally accepted the legal summons for a $600,000 slander case filed by Gov Charles N Haskell of Oklahoma in the Douglas County Nebraska district court while en route from Seattle to New York.
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Omaha
William Randolph
Neb
Union Pacific
Wm. Randolph Hearst
Charles N. Haskell
Oklahoma
Douglas County
Nebraska District Court
Stewart
Smyth & Smith
Haskell
Seattle
New York
Hearst
Former N. C. Man Dies by Gun Route
Carley Henry known as Hy Henry of Minot North Dakota was found dead near Wolf Creek Montana with a bullet wound. He worked eight years with the Great Northern civil engineering department and had Minot as his headquarters for part of that period. He resigned last December and briefly visited Salt Lake City before returning to work near Wolf Creek. He disappeared in late September and a search recovered his body in a brush clump several miles from Wolf Creek. A bullet hole indicated death by gunfire amid a history of despondency and possible temporary insanity.
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Minot
N. D
Carley Henry
Great Northern Road
Salt Lake
Utah
Wolf Creek
Mont
Austrian naval show eyed in Turkish waters amid protest
Vienna reports consideration of an Austrian naval demonstration in Turkish waters as a possible response to protests against boycotting Austrian goods in Turkey. The move would signal strong diplomatic tension and reflect Vienna’s intent to safeguard national trade interests.
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Vienna
Turkey
Seoull
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Mme. Kattischrett
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