Roosevelt Escapes Injury After Lighthouse Tender Collision
President Roosevelt's southern tour concluded in New Orleans where crowds greeted him warmly. A collision damaged the lighthouse tender Magnolia carrying the President and party en route to the West Virginia. no injuries were reported and the voyage continued to Washington after a brief delay.
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Crescent City
Magnolia
West Viretola
West Virginia
Washington
West
Benehi
Maj. Gratehill
Les Neares
Kier Station
Oelock
No Mercy for Victors in Russian Disturbance Report
A Warsaw message says the governor general orders troops to arrest agitators. Police close shops at 7 pm and threaten searches of late night pedestrians. Military patrols guard street corners while Lodz officers are told to act mercilessly during disturbances. Factory employees strike. Riga reports plundering a gun shop and seizing revolvers and ammunition amid wider unrest.
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Warsaw
Lodz
Riga
Autoist Sentenced in France for Death of Madeline Mardvel
Idilliott Witeh Shepard, son of a late colonel and grandson of a Vander bit figure, was found guilty by the ninth corrnational tribunal at the Seine of causing the death of Madeline Mardvel in St Quen France on April 24. He received three months in prison a $126 fine and $40 damages to the deceased’s parents. His friends say he will appeal the fine and imprisonment while the automobile company appeals the $4 000 damages. The appeal will delay imprisonment pending final decision.
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Vanderbilt
Corrnational Tribunel
Seine
Idiliott Witeh Shepard
Ellett B. Shepard
New York
Kee W. Be. Vanderbit
Madeline Mardvel
Shepard
St. Quen
France
Friends of
Large order placed for 100 passenger engines
The Pennsylvania Railroad orders 100 passenger engines from Juniata Altoona Pa. The delivery aims for next year with potential shipments up to 130 engines. The volume signals a peak period for both freight and passenger operations in the railroad industry.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Persvania Railroaad
Juniata
Postponement of International Live Stock Show in Chicago
Telegraphic briefs report the International Live Stock Show in Chicago, set for the first week of December, has been postponed to the week starting December 19 due to inability to procure the structural steel for the new exhibition building. The delay affects exhibitors and attendees in Pittshaugh and wider enterprise circles.
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Dental
Washington
Pittshalgh
Afacrs
Enterprise National Band
Chicago
Bold Safestie Raid At South Orange Stolen Jewelry Case
A safe was robbed from Edward Hale Graves in South Orange New Jersey of jewelry valued at $10,000. Police view it as one of the boldest crimes in a year long spree. The scene followed a similar method used at Arthur D. Leach’s New York firm robbery. Intruders entered second floor, dropped the safe, and fled as servants upstairs heard the disturbance.
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Séna
Jewais
Edward Hale Graves
Scolland Road
South Orange
Graves Home
Arthur D. Leach
Turson, Leach & Co
New York
Sping
Grain exports surge in September shipments year over year
September grain exports reached 106,480 bushels, up from the prior year, with nine month totals also rising. Domestic trade mirrored the gain as livestock arrivals at major centers exceeded September last year, and interior grain receipts surpassed by over 270,000 bushels.
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Department of Comforea
Four Dead and Many Hurt in Rock Island Rail Wreck
A Chicago Rock Island train collision near Fair idd Iowa left four dead and up to eighty injured. Names of victims and injured include N J Milks and engineer Glen Canfield among others. Wrong dispatch orders blamed for the wreck as investigation continues.
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Fair Idd
Mom
Smane
N. J. Milks
Muscatine
Glen Canfield
Murray
Grifith
Incus
W. Hi. Dunham
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Idea
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Ivurge Pisher
J. Quakens
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Kennelly
J. Wilmot
New Bedford
Mass
Plos
Hagle
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Mieh
Lrain
Fire at Arkansas hotel claims six lives in ruins
A hotel at Olive Street in Hot Springs, Arkansas, was destroyed by a blaze killing six. Two remained unidentifiable and charred. The patrons included invalids and dependents. Officials suspect an exploding lamp. A single exit forced evacuations as residents fled in night clothes. Pred Owerson of Hot Springs likely fatally injured.
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Koot Springs
Ark
Invards
Crippilds
Pred Owerson
Hot Springs
Cunliffe Confesses President Is Alert
Edward Cleorge Cunliffe, an Adams Express clerk, fled a Piltshore Meraberth office with FLOLOd, was arrested in Dridgeport Conn. He pleaded before Judge Ro Aluetatline in a criminal case on two charges of theft. He had not faced the list until bills were wired against him two days earlier. he stood without counsel, claiming innocence.
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Adams Xpress
Piltshore
Meraberth
Flolod
Dridgeport
Conn
Dunes Ro Aluetatline
Cunliffe Caine
Cunllffe
Explosion Kills Miners in Monongahela Mine Disaster
A deadly blast at Hazelkirk mine No near Van Voorhis, Monongahela, Pa., costs six lives including Supt. Hornickel and foremen Griffith and Unter. One survivor, Andrew Rondy, crawled half a mile through flames with burned flesh as rescuers battled another gas ignition two weeks later.
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van Voorhis
Monongahela
Join Fhernickel
Panlel Griffith
Joseph Unter
John Lavery
Hoeprty Grayborn
Andrew Rodny
Hornickel
Ronder
Behbout
Huszel
Sipt
Foarnickel
Ll O'Elock
Hornichel
Philadelphia Contractors Accused Of Rampant Bid Collusion
Major Car 3 Gillette and John Donald MacLennan led a City investigation into contracts for the great streetcar and boulevard projects as officials say millions have been lost to taxpayers through collusive bids excessive costs and illegal advertising. Miss Alice Roosevelt returned home from her Far East voyage aboard the hate party.
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Ilegal
Ofth
Gillette
Corps of Engineers
John Donald Maclennan
Weaver
Alice Soosevelt
Far East
Suitcase Mystery Arrest Ties to Boston Detective
Morris Nauman, secretary to manager BR. A. Belmold of the Nixon Pharmaceutical Company, was lodged at Central police station in Pittsboro after a telephone tip from Boston Chief of Detectives Watt. The case centers on a famous suitcase mystery involving a murdered girl and a missing multi-labeled parcel.
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Busia
Sil
Stel Durrett
King’ Mhesurtical Company
Steamer Kaliyuga Believed Wrecked in Great Storm
Reports from des monds indicate Centurian and Ironton searchers failed to find Katliyuga after covering the east and north shores of Lake Einread. It is now practically certain the vessel with 17 persons went down during last week’s great storm.
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Iecouplale
Centurian
Wd Ironton
Withelt
Katliyuga
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Laake
Riots in Santiago Chile and Russian Railway Strike Spread
About 60 people killed and 600 wounded in Santiago during rioting over a cattle tax, troops restored some order as looting and destruction occurred. Across Europe, a large general railway strike paralyzes St. Petersburg and Moscow with clashes between troops and demonstrators, dozens killed or wounded, banks closed, and stores stocking provisions amidst rising prices.
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Chile
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Strect
Manetver
Russia
St. Petersburg
Revolvar
Wkatrinoslas
Smild Inge
Briansk Works
Moscow
Neva
Philadelphia Purity Case Hits Meat Supply Fraud
In Philadelphia a criminal court found Burt and Dennis trading as Burt & Dennis guilty of furnishing a margarine substitute to the navy yard and sentenced them to 60 days in jail plus fines of 250 dollars and costs. Frederick Hall, Swift & Co local manager, charged with supplying sausage with a preservative injurious to heart, was fined 100 dollars and costs after testimony by State dairy and food chemist Prof. C B Cochran.
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Philadelphia
Burt & Dennis
Frederick Hall
Swift & Co
League Island Navy Yard
John CG. Burt
William H. Dennis
Burt
Pennsylvania
C. B. Cochran
State Diary and Food Department
Hall
Steel orders rise as iron and pig iron demand remains high
The Iron Age reports continued large bookings in finished iron and steel with activity at a record pace. Eastern steel markets see strong pig iron buying for winter delivery with about 75,000 tons contracted and prices advancing. The United States Steel Association holds options on most available Bessemer pig iron in Mahoning and Shenango valleys through year end.
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United States
Mahoning
Shenango
Robbers Blow Open Ridgeville Bank Safe for $6000
Five robbers guarded the bank while others used nitroglycerin to wreck the safe in Ridgeville Indiana. Cashier Branson awakened, exchanged fire and was wounded in the ankle as robbers overpowered the town watchman before fleeing with about $6000.
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Indiana
Ridgeville
Ind
Branson
Dowager Empress Detains Shanghai Emperor Over Rail Bomb Plot
A Peking report says the Dowager Empress has imprisoned the Shanghai emperor amid alleged ties to a recent railroad station bombing. In New York politics, Charles A. Flammer resigns as Reyueillean district attorney candidate, clearing the way for Mr Jerome.
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London Daily Telegraph
Shanghai
Pekin
Charles A. Flammer
Reyueillean
New York
Mtr. Jerome
Georgia Negro Lynched After Killing Woman and Wounding Sheriff
Gus Goodman, a Black man, was seized by a mob of about 300 at Bainbridge Georgia and lynched on a riverbank. He had killed a colored woman and fatally shot Sheriff Stegall as officers attempted to arrest him. The sheriff fired twice. Goodman had been imprisoned on bail.
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Georgia
Gus Goodman
Bainbridge
Goodman
Stegall
Japan envoy’s Cleveland talk on Far East aims for peace
Eki Hioki first secretary of the Japanese delegation in Washington addressed the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce presenting Japan as not seeking war with the United States. He said the yellow peril is fading, Japan has no designs on the Philippines, Manchurian troops stay home, and Japan’s influence in China would benefit the world.
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Philippines
Eki Hioki
Washington
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce
Far East
America
Mikailo
United States
China
Philadelphia Police Re canvass Finds Fraudulent Voter Names
Police announce a re canvass of 22 wards reveals 15661 names illegally on latest voting lists. Summer canvass struck over 36606 names. If 15861 fraudulent names are not voted, citywide names drop from 575000 to 324000 amid reform drive.
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Philadelphia Police Department
Police Department of
Philadelphia
Government Takes Charge Over Allegheny Bank Probe
The Department of Justice in Washington says it has assumed control of the Enterprise National Bank of Allegheny Pennsylvania investigation. Attorney General aims to keep details secret to avoid implying secured evidence. The district attorney will monitor progress and be ready to act if evidence warrants.
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Enterprise Bank of Allegheny
Department of Justice
Washington
Enterprise National Bank of Allegheny
Water Main Break Kills Three in Chicago
A three foot wide water main break at Eighteenth and Clark streets in Chicago killed three people, destroyed property valued at $150,000, left numerous families homeless, and delayed freight traffic on the New York Chicago and St Louis railroad.
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New York, Chicago and St. Louis
Eighteenth and
Clark Streets
Russians at Front Report Big Forces in Far East
Reported by military observers a tally shows Russia maintaining well over a million soldiers in the Far East when checked. About 700,000 faced Japan near the Sungari river, with a substantial reserve force kept at Harbin.
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Russia
Far East
Sungari River
Harbin
Mutual Life to appoint committee to investigate itself
The Mutual Life Insurance Company will appoint a committee to investigate its own affairs. The move signals an internal review likely to assess policies and practices within the firm and address any potential concerns raised by stakeholders.
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The
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Cotton Crop Weather Report for Week Ending Oct 23
The Weather Bureau reports that the cotton belt saw warm early and cool late with frosts, damaging in parts of states. Heavy rains harmed open cotton from south-central Texas to western Tennessee, while western Texas and large gulf regions had little rain. Picking neared completion in southern Georgia Louisiana Alabama and Texas. Boll weevils remain numerous in Texas and western Louisiana parishes.
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Cotton Belt
Texas
Tennessee
Gulf and
South Atlantic
Georgia
Louisiana
Alabama
South Carolina
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Indian Territories
Oklahoma and
Mississippi
Black Hand Dynamite in Tenement Threat Targeting Doctor
A seven story tenement on Grand and Mott streets in New York was rocked by a dynamite blast on the ground floor. Dr Vincenso Sellaro, who lived in the building, said the threats began with demands of 5 dollars up to 100 and warned of vengeance by the Black Hand. One man was arrested on suspicion amid the panic and damage.
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Grand and
Mott Streets
New York
Vincenso Sellaro
Black Hand
Insurance swindle using grave stones exposed in Los Angeles
Two solicitors for the Walted Patriots of America forged burial applications in local cemeteries and collected advances before vanishing. The scheme involved writing applications for deceased individuals and misappropriating funds, revealing an organized fraud tied to an insurance order.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Walted Patriots of America
Cunliffe burned money linked hotel employee reports
A Bridgeport hotel worker uncovers evidence suggesting Cunliffe burned large sums of money. Other items note the sultan approving the Moroccan conference location in Algeciras Spain, a Finnish railway proclamation, and various political and legal matters including Rockefeller’s car license and a jury damages ruling in New Castle Pennsylvania.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Cunliffe
Algeciras
Spain
Flyer Plows Through Wreck at Greensburg Station
An 18 hour Pennsylvania flyer narrowly escaped a wreck at Greensburg station as a freight train buckled on a steep grade. Wreckage of two cars lay between racks while fog obscured danger signals and the fast train plowed through, scattering wreckage from the locomotive.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Greensburg
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