Mine Disaster at Darr Mine Devastates Hundreds in Pa
An explosion at the Darr mine of Pittsburg Coal Company at Jacob's Creek Pa entombed 200 to 250 miners with only faint hope of rescue. Thirteen bodies recovered show extreme mutilation and three headless. This marks the third fatal blast in the regional coal belt within weeks, raising total victims to between 550 and 600. Meanwhile Washington reports a House floor altercation as John Sharp Williams and Dave A DeArmond clash after adjournment.
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Pittsburg Coal Company
Jacob's Creek
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Naomi
Fayette City
Monongah
W. Va
House
Washington, D. C
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Mississippi
Dave A. DeArmond
Missouri
House of Representatives
Williams
DeArmond
Mr. Williams
Explosion in Palermo Powder Magazine Kills and Injures Dozens
A massive blast tore through Palermo Italy at a military powder magazine causing a chain of explosions. The town was shaken and panic spread as flames rose from burning ruins. About twenty five people died and one hundred were injured.
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Tipwe
Palermo
Italy
Boy Shoots Sister Near Rushville Indiana
Walter Oldham a 13 year old son of a prominent Indiana farmer shot his 7 year old sister on the way to school with an old pistol the bullet lodging in her back and the injury may prove fatal they were taking the pistol to school for a Christmas exercise. Will Lie in the Abbey Lord Kelvin to be buried in Westminster Abbey according to the Royal Society request and Darwin was last buried there in 1882
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Walter Oldham
Rushville
Ind
London
Eng
Royal Society
Lord Kelvin
Westminster Abbey
Abbey
Charles Darwin
Oklahoma Senators Sworn In by Lot Draw
Two Oklahoma senators were sworn in with terms assigned by lot. Owen drew the six year term while Gore received the two year term.
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Oklahoma
Owen
Benator Gore
Fatally Injured Man From Indianapolis In Los Angeles Crash
David Powell once of Indianapolis Ind fell in Los Angeles Cal and was probably fatally injured He is in a hospital with a serious condition Eagle Fights Dog and Man Charles Kench of East Litchfield Conn severely injured as eagle attacked after dog was seized by the bird Kench cut its throat with a garden trowel Sunday closing jury in Chicago fails to reach a verdict after twenty four hours deliberation with eight for acquittal
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David Powell
Indianapolis
Ind
Los Angeles
Cal
Charles Kench
East Litchfield
Conn
Kench
Chicago
Congress Debates Bills and Financial Stringency
Senate opens with questions on department heads sending bills to passage and adjourns to Monday. Frye inducted as Senate pro tem president. Newlands pushes inland waterways commission. Culberson seeks finance committee inquiry while Tillman dominates discussion. Oklahoma senators sworn in. House inactive with few bills.
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Senate
Committee On Rules
Cortelyou
Frye
House
Senator Tillman
Senator Culberson
Oklahoma
Oie
Newlands
Nevada
Inland Waterways Commission
Ohio
Culberson
Tillman
Interstate Commerce Commission
Committee On Finance
The Druce Duke Claim in London Courts
A rent roll valued at $5,000,000 and a $2,500,000 estate dispute center on whether the late T C Druce posed as the Duke of Port. Claimants say Druce died in 1879 and his life was a double, with a tomb under Baker Street and subterranean rooms at his country house. Courts will decide if the supposed coffin with lead and the supposed remains prove the impersonation or confirm the real heir.
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London
T. C. Druce
Druce
Estates
George H
Land
Subterranea
Baker Street
Financial conditions show mixed recovery signs in December
Although business volume is below normal, recovery hints appear with smaller bank declines, rising deposits, rapid renewal of mercantile paper, and currency shipments to interior markets for corn. December settlements are smoother, but factory cutbacks and holiday demand affect stocks and early January disbursements. Failures in Chicago district total 23, with five liabilities over 5,000.
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Chicago
Missouri Representative Seeks Penalty for False Advertisements
Representative Coudrey of Missouri introduces a bill making it a penitentiary offense to publish a false advertisement. A petition from the Chicago Association of Commerce seeking better postal facilities for Chicago was presented by Senator Cullom.
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Coudrey
Missouri
Chicago Association of Commerce
Chicago
Cullom
Federal project to cost seventy five thousand each at Duquoin
Senator Hopkins introduces funding for federal buildings to be erected at Duquoin Murphysboro Illinois priced at 75 000 each Roosevelt sends to the Senate the nomination of William H Grimshaw for United States marshal in Minnesota Leupp reports two Special Officer Johnsons men and one posse man killed in Indian Territory in bootlegging skirmishes and ten liquor law violators killed as well
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Hopkins
Duquoin
Murphysboro
Ill
Roosevelt
Senate
William H. Grimshaw
United States
District of Minnesota
Indian Affairs
Leupp
Johnson
Indian Territory
Machines for curing liars and truth compelling devices
Harvard professor Hugo Munsterberg develops devices claimed to reveal a suspect s emotions and thoughts. The automa to graph records involuntary pen motions, the pneumograph monitors breathing, and the sphygmograph tracks heartbeats to detect stress during interrogation used in the Haywood trial against Harry Orchard.
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Hugo Munsterberg
Harvard University
Munsterberg
Harry Orchard
Haywood
Powder Trust Denies It All In Federal Suit
Thirty eight of forty three defendants named by the government in a conspiracy and trade restraint case in Federal Court at Wilmington have filed denials. The posture argues the business is lawful as a large concern with right to acquire companies or properties as investments. Answers reveal how smaller firms were absorbed by mutual consent.
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Powder Trust
Wilmington
Sunday Theater Ban Under Old New York Law
Supreme Court Justice O Gorman upholds a Sunday ban on all plays concerts and public amusements in New York City citing an unrepealed statute. City officials move to enforce the law as theater managers offer no resistance. In Kentucky Georgetown Henry F Youtsey testifies Caleb Powers aided Gov Goebel murder.
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Supreme Court
O'Gorman
New York
Henry F. Youtsey
Gov. Goebel
Kentucky
Georgetown
Caleb Powers
Killing the Lobsters New York City Lobster Industry Shrinking
Lobster fishing is rapidly disappearing from New York City as a new industry, with Stapleton New York fishermen once supplying the finest lobster for 15 cents a pound. Daily hauls of 200 to 800 pounds supported baymen and their helpers with earnings between 80 and 45 dollars for a day’s work.
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New York City
Stapleton
Manhattan
Bayman
Lobster Industry Faces Decline and Pollution
Fishermen report shrinking catches with daily hauls around fifteen pounds while a few pots yield twenty-five. Veterans leave the trade as pollution from acids and refuse poisons the bay, threatening lobsters and other fish.
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New York
Trade conditions show easing and holiday demand boosts
Bradstreet's Commercial Report notes general easing in financial conditions as the holiday period and improving weather enliven distribution. Wholesale trade quiets while manufacturing slows. Collections are slow and failures rise. US weekly failures total 284, with Canada at 50. prior weeks and years show varied levels.
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United States
Bradstreet
Ask Release of Girl Slayer Jessie Morrison
Interest in the life of Jessie Morrison of Eldorado Kansas grows as friends seek clemency from the Kansas State penitentiary. She is dying in prison while serving sixteen years of a twenty year sentence for the murder of her school girlfriend Mrs Olin G Castie. Ministers lead the push for leniency and a pardon application signed by prominent Kansans will be sent to Gen Hoch.
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Jessie Morrison
Eldorado
Kan
Kansas State Penitentiary
Olin G. Castie
Hoch
Miss Morrison
Razor Duel Between Siser Fiore and Mrs Castle In 1900
The article recalls a razor duel between Siser Fiore and Mrs Olin G Castle, previously Clara Wiley, tied to the marriage of Clara Wiley to Olin Castle. On July 22, 1900, nine days after Clara Wiley and Castle wed, Morrison visited the young wife and a fatal fight followed.
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Olin G. Castle
Clara Wiley
Olin Castle
Eldorado
Castle
Miss Morrison
Mra. Casastira de
Indiana Girl Confesses to Killing Her Infant Out of Stigma
Frances Cooper 18 confessed to killing her 10 month old baby after failing to gain employment due to her relationship to a convict. She tried to drown herself in a Bartholomew County stream and hid the baby's body, while her husband had recently been sent to the penitentiary.
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Frances Cooper
Midwest and Northeast Grain and Livestock Price Snapshot
Across major markets Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo buyers and sellers quote cattle hogs sheep and grain prices. Notable ranges include Chicago cattle 4.00 to 6.10 and hogs 4.00 to 4.80, wheat 0.99 to 1.10, corn 0.52 to 0.66, oats up to 0.60, butter 0.25 to 0.30, and clover seed 10.50 amid a mixed regional picture for shipments and market activity.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
New York
Toledo
T&c
Trials and tragedies unfold in sprawling late 19th century notice
Reports detail a string of arrests sentences and deaths across Indiana and nearby areas. Crime cases include Miss Morrison’s three ghastly trials with escalating prison terms and Mrs Castle’s murder seven days after an assault. Other items note embezzlement, street disorder, a suicide by canal, and a burned public school with 300 children left homeless.
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