Radbod Mine Disaster Leaves 302 Abandoned In Germany
A violent explosion and fire at the Radbod coal mine near Hamm in Westphalia on November 12 trapped 880 miners. Only 6 escaped unharmed. 35 badly injured and 87 dead were recovered by the mouth of the pit. Rescue work stalled by flames and a collapsed shaft. 302 miners were declared lost as flooding and danger halted further entry. A special rescue corps arrived but could not enter, awaiting fire control and the flood decision. The cause remains unclear, with initial reports suggesting coal dust ignition but injured accounts casting doubt on that theory.
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Hamm
Westphalia
Germany
Courrieres
France
Six Chinamen Drowned In Buffalo Wreck
A motor boat carrying 10 Chinese immigrants and three white men wrecked on the break wall at Michigan Street Buffalo. Six Chinamen were drowned, four survivors rescued by a police boat crew. The three white men escaped and federal and local detectives hunt suspected smugglers from Canada. One rescued Chinaman, Mack Quong, said the group left Toronto a week ago and were lodged in a barn on the Canadian side.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Michigan Street
Canada
Mack Quong
South Bend
Ind
Toronto
Venezuela braces for blockade defend La Guaira
President Castro has positioned mountain artillery around La Guaira and prepared a blockade to deter any landing by Holland's ships. The army navy and merchants mobilize. Salt supplies and flour stocks are concentrated by influential figures. European imports spike as traders fear escalation. Trade stagnates with looming losses during uncertainty.
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Caracas
LaGualya
Venezuela
Castro
LaGuaira
la Guaira
Europe
New Kind of Railroad Wreck at Dodson Kansas City
Explosion in the glazing room of the Excelsior Powder Company at Dodson ten miles south of Kansas City wrecked part of the plant and slightly injured 35 passengers on a nearby Kansas City Southern passenger train. An employee of the powder works was killed.
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Kansas City
Excelsior Powder Company
Dodson
Kansas City Southern
Powger Works
Monument Dedicated at Fredericksburg N cemetery
The Blue and the Gray joined in a memory ceremony at Fredericksburg National Cemetery as Pennsylvania’s General A. A. Humphreys division monument was unveiled. Gov Swanson absent. Major Robert W. Hunter welcomed for Pennsylvania. Confederate veteran spoke for the South. Gov Edwin Stuart accepted on behalf of Pennsylvania and transferred to the U.S. Government. Miss Letitia A. Humphreys pulled the cord to reveal the monument amid 41 500 veterans from across the nation.
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Fredericksburg
A. A. Humphreys
National Cemetery
Pennsylvania
Swanson
Robert W. Hunter
John T. Coolrick
Corporation Court
Confederate Artillery
Edwin §. Stuart
Stuart
George F. Baer
Letitia A. Humphreys
Humphreys
United States Government
Robert Shaw Oliver
Terrible hardships on Isthmus of Panama
Baron von Teuber and his party sailed from Colon to scout gold north of the canal zone. Indian guides were killed in a midnight clash leaving the group in a trailless region. Three engineers fell to fever. two recovered after reaching the coast and Ancon hospital. The baron plans to donate ancient idols to a museum.
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New York
B. B. von. Teuber
Panama
Canal Zone
Colon
Baron
John Brarley
Frederick Smith
Peter Bartlett
Ancon Hospital
President's African Trip Pace Set for Smithsonian Backed Hunt
Surgeon Major Edgar A Mearns of Fort Totten is to join President Roosevelt on an Africa hunting expedition focusing on science rather than slaughter. The party will include Roosevelt's son Kermit as official photographer, Dr Mearns A Arthur Heller botanist, and Prof Loring from the Smithsonian. The start follows March 4 with trophies to be placed in the United States Museum.
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New York
Edgar A. Mearns
Fort Totten
Ia. 1
Washington
Roosevelt
Mearns
Smithsonian Institution
American Ornithologists’ Union
United States Museum
Africa
Kermit, Roosevelt
Dr. Mearns
A. Arthur Heller
Los Gant Cal
Loring
Mithsonian Institution
Railroads Kill 3 764 In Wear Washington
In the United States 3 764 persons were killed and 68 989 injured in railroad casualties during the fiscal year ended June 30 last, per the Interstate Commerce Commission. The report notes a decrease.
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Wear
Washington
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Fire destroys Acme Harvester yard in Bismarck loss
Fire of unknown origin destroyed the yards and warehouses of the Acme Harvester Company in Bismarck. The loss was 160000 dollars and fully insured.
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Bismarck
N. D
Acme Harvester Company
Wreck Toll Soars As Trains Collide At Lake Ponchartrain
In a fog shrouded collision near Little Woods Louisiana, a Great Northern express rear ended a New Orleans & Northeastern local leading to eight to eleven deaths and many injuries. Bodies burned, passengers aided victims, with several named victims and a later Wyoming freight wreck adding to a grim toll.
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New Orleans
Great Northern
New Orleans & Northeastern
Littlewoods
Lake Ponchartrain
C. B. Lowrey
Lexington
GC. E. Roos
New Orleans University
William A. Martin
Slidell
William Attaway
Ora Travis
Hattiesburg
Miss
J. H. Shows
Morriston
C. A. Crawford
Seminary
Augustus Neukampf
Heal River
Northeastern
Covington
Blackman
Tobacco Trust Goes On Despite Court Ruling
James B. Duke, president of American Tobacco Company, told stockholders and bondholders the circuit court ruling that the company is a restraint of trade will be appealed to the Supreme Court. He said business will proceed as usual and cited consumer benefit and higher prices for producers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
James B. Duke
American Tobacco Company
United States Circuit Court
Peking Claims Half of U S Fleet Visited Amoy
The official Chinese newspaper, under Grand Councilor Yuan Shai Kai, says eight of the American battleships visited Amoy while eight were dispersed by a storm en route to the Chinese coast. The fate of the other eight vessels remains unknown and the American legation was not consulted.
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Peking
Yuan Shai Kai
Amoy
Foreign Board
Legation
New College President Assumes MIT Leadership
Prof. Richard Maclaurin, head of Columbia University's physics department, appointed president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born in Edinburgh in 1870, he is noted as a scientist of international reputation and will assume duties when his Columbia engagement ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New College
Pouston
Richard MacLaurn
Columbia University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maclaurin
Columbia
Edinburgh
Scotland
Oil Fine Goes to High Court in $29 Billion Suit
The Department of Justice announced plans to seek a writ of certiorari from the US Supreme Court to review the Chicago circuit court of appeals ruling denying the government a rehearing in the Standard Oil case valued at $29 trillion. The action is slated for consideration when the Court reconvenes on Monday, November 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Justice
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
Downfall of Qing Ruler Honored by Empress Dowager Death
The Dowager Empress of China, widow of a long running emperor, died November 10 in Peking. Her death followed the earlier death of Emperor Kuang-Heu on the 15th. The throne will pass to Pu Yi, the three year old son of Prince Chun, with Pu Pi named heir presumptive by edict issued Friday.
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Peking
Tzse Hal An
Jimpress
China
Kuang-Heu
Pu Yi
Prince Chun
Pu Pi
Tragedy in graft cases shocks San Francisco courtroom
In San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Francis J. Heney, leading graft prosecutions, was shot and badly wounded by Morris Haas a sea loonkeeper later revealed as an ex convict by Heney during jury selection in the second trial of Ruel Haas said he had resolved to kill Heney after the exposure claiming the prosecutor ruined his life and his motive was revenge The attack occurred in Judge Lawlors crowded courtroom and Haas was drawn on the jury panel initially until dismissal.
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San Francisco
Francis J. Heney
Soldiers Fight Negroes at Fort Sill Clash
An outbreak erupts between White troops at Fort Sill and Black townspeople after Private Wilcox of Battery B is killed. Paul Williams, a Black man, is charged with the shooting and remains at large after fleeing the scene.
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Lawton
Ohio
Fort Sill
Wilcox
Battery B. First Field Artillery
Paul Williams
Williams
Postoffice Department Reports Record Deficit
Washington Postmaster General Meyer announced the postal deficit for the fiscal year ended June 30 was 16,910,279. Receipts totaled 191,478,633, up 7,898,457 from the prior year, while expenditures reached 208,361,886. The deficit is the largest in the department’s history, blamed on the financial downturn.
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Postoffice Department
Washington
Meyer
Train Wrecked Killer Sentenced to Life in Duncan
Clarence Ag, an African American man charged with murder and wrecking a Southern railway passenger train near Duncan C, killed engineer and fireman. He was among black men mobbed for lynching here four weeks earlier.
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Spartanburg
St C
Clarence Agnew
Southern Railway
Duncan
Moonshiner Seized Then Kidnapped by Armed Posse
A Kentucky moonshiner Vinson was seized by a Wayne County West Virginia posse in Lawrence County Kentucky while in custody of Kentucky officers. The assailants transferred him and fled toward West Virginia mountains defying arrest.
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Lexington
Louisa
Wayne County
W. Va
Lawrence County
Vinson
Kentucky
West Virginia
Money Orders Tossed Before Tragedy at Canyon Ferry
Albert Berger a former Alaska marksman died by self inflicted death at Canyon Ferry after tossing two thousand dollars in post office money orders paid to himself from a Helena Montana store. He claimed the money belonged to the government and denied any quarrel over it.
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Helena
Mont
Albert Berger
Alaska
Canyon Ferry
Embezzler's Extradition Sues Governor Harris in Ohio Case
Columbus reports a requisition for Edmund Lowden, bookkeeper at Provident Savings Bank & Trust Company of Cincinnati, held in Baltimore on charges tied to a $5,000 shortage. Governor Harris faces action over the extradition request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Harris
Edmund ¢. Lowden
Provident Savings Bank & Trust Company of
Cincinnati
Baltimore
Divorce Law Passes in Sioux Falls With One Year Residency
The new divorce law raises the required residence period from six months to one year. It was approved on November 8 by about a two to one margin, according to unofficial figures.
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Sioux Falls
Change in Cabinet Names Secretary of Navy
Victor TH. Metenis of California retires as secretary of the navy and is replaced by Truman H. Newberry of Michigan who had served as assistant secretary in home and effectively secretary since November 2005.
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Victor TH. Metenis
California
Secretary of the Navy
Truman H. Newberry
Michigan
Bank Clerk Acquitted in Pittsburg Case
Addison Altaffer former discount clerk of the Allegheny National Bank was acquitted of aiding and abetting William Montgomery in the abstraction and misappropriation of funds.
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Pittsburg
Addison
Altaffer
Allegheny National Bank
William Montgomery
Resignation of Cornell Faculty Head Dean Thomas Crain
Ithaca N Y Dean Frederick Crane of the Cornell faculty resigns after 41 years with the university, effective at the end of the academic year.
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Ithaca, N
Thomas Prederick Crane
Cornell University
Alcoholism Rise in Army Canteen Abolishment Cites
Surgeon General Robert M. O Reilly reports alcoholism rising in the army despite the canteen abolition in his annual review. He notes the military death rate exceeds that of any foreign army, highlighting growing health concerns within forces.
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Washington
Robert M. O'Reilly
Student Senate Takes Over Discipline at Washington and Jefferson
The faculty at Washington and Jefferson college has transferred all disciplinary powers and punishments to a student senate. The change places expulsion and related actions under student control, shifting authority away from faculty oversight.
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Washington and Jefferson College
Court stands pat on Standard Oil rebating case
The United States Court of Appeals in Chicago denied a rehearing in the $29,240,000 Standard Oil rebating case. The government will seek a writ of certiorari to take the matter to the Supreme Court. Additional suits against Standard Oil of Indiana are ready, charging rebating on shipments via Chicago & Eastern Illinois and Evansville & Terre Haute railroads, with about 1800 counts. Names tied to the petition include Attorney General Bonaparte and Special Assistants Kellogg and Wilkerson. District Attorney Simms said trials may begin within two weeks.
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Chicago
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Court of Appeals
Grosscup
Seaman
Baker
Roosevelt
Bonaparte
Frank I. Kellogg
Edward W. Sims
United States
James R. Wilkerson
Simms
Chicago & Eastern
Ilinois
Evansville & Terre Haute
North Dakota Battleship Launched In Fore River Yard
Quincy MA November 10 1906 the United States navy gains its most powerful vessel to date with the North Dakota the first all around big gun battleship from Fore River Shipbuilding Company at 510 feet length waterline 86 feet 25 inches breadth and about 518 feet 9 inches overall displacement around 20000 tons horsepower over 25000 and trial speed above 21 knots.
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North Dakota
Quincy
Mass
United States
America
Fore River Shipbuilding Company
COKE OVEN activity rises in Klondyke Connellsville fields
George B. Irwin secretary of the Independent Coke Practicers Association reports a 1 percent gain in active ovens in the Klondyke and Connellsville coke fields over the past week. Frick Company operates 46 percent of ovens in blast while independents burn 52 percent. Shipments rise with the pace though water and labor shortages hinder progress.
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Uniontown
George B. Irwin
Independent Coke Practicers’ Association
Klondyke
Connellsville
Frick Company
Harvard to Get 150000 in Baker Will Settlement
Terms of a settlement in the Walter P. Baker will contest were released. Harvard University will receive 151000, Mrs. Helen Bray Hurd 150000, and Edward F. Baker, the deceased’s brother, 150000.
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Boston
Masa
Walter PF. Baker
Newton
New Jersey
Harvard University
Helen Bray Hurd
Edward F. Baker
Walter
Rear Admiral Miller Dead in Philadelphia
Rear Admiral James M. Miller governor of the United States Naval Home died at the naval home in Philadelphia on November 11 after a brief illness He was 61 and joined the Navy from Missouri in 1863 He commanded the cruiser Columbia later led the Philadelphia navy yard and commanded the receiving ship Lancaster He had headed the naval home for about a year and a half
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Philadelphia
James M. Miller
United States Naval Home
Miller
Missouri
Columbia
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Lancaster
Naval Home
Albany Woman Attacks Dirty Literature At Federation Meet
At the fourteenth annual State Federation of Women’s Clubs convention in Albany delegates criticized dirty literature. Mrs. Robert C. Wagner called attention to novels sold in libraries and questioned the impact on society. She urged writers to beware of “insidious slime” that harms values and generations to come.
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State Foderation of Women's Clubs
Robert C. Wagner
Albany
Feading
Roosevelt
General Federation of Womens’ Clubs
Schwab Buys San Francisco Dry Dock Group
Bethlehem Steel, led by Charles M. Schwab, announced acquisition of a controlling interest in the San Francisco Dry Dock Company owner of two large docks at Hunter's Point and floating docks. The docks will join Union Iron works to form a vast Pacific repair establishment capable of major marine work and docking ships afloat. The deal is described as costing several millions.
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San Francisco
Charles M. Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Company
Union Ironworks
The
Steel Company
San Francisco Dry Dock Company
Hunter’s Point
San Francisco Bay
Schwab
Union Tron Works
Pacific Ocean
Mr. Schwab
Indicted mining promoters face mail fraud charges
Five men formerly tied to Central Mining and Development Company, with $10,000,000 capital, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Kansas City for using the mails with intent to defraud. Named defendants include Raymond P. Ray, B. R. Horn, John B. Horn, Frank H. Horn, and S. A. Snider, each holding top posts in related firms.
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Kansas City
Central Mining and Development Company
Raymond P. Ray
Southwestern Development Company
B. R. Horn
Horn- Baker Advertising Company
John B.horn
Keystone Securities Company
Frank H. Horn
S. A. Snider
Kansas
The
Kern Seeks U S Senate from Indiana in 1910
John W. Kern, defeated vice presidential candidate, announced his candidacy for United States Senator to succeed James A. Hemenway. The Indiana Legislature is expected to elect on a Democratic joint ballot by a 12 vote margin. Probable rivals include John E. Lamb of Terre Haute, Thomas Taggart, State Senator L. Ert Slack, Benjamin B. Shively, and Edward Hoffman of Fort Wayne.
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Kern
Senate
Indianapolis
Ind
John W. Kern
United States
James A. Hemenway
Indiana
John E. Lamb
Terre Haute
Chicago
Thomas Taggart
L. Ert Slack
Benjamin BE. Shively
Edward Hoffman
Fort Wayne
Schwab Announces Bethlehem Steel Expansion Plans
Charles M. Schwab, executive head of Bethlehem Steel Company, arrived from New York and stated that the Union Ironworks plant, affiliated with the steel company, will be enlarged at once. He said improvements could run into the millions under favorable conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
New York
Charles M. Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Company
Union Ironworks
The
Steel Corporation
Lawyer Harvey Watterson Falls to Death at Wall Street Office
Harvey W Watterson, lawyer and younger son of Henry Watterson editor of the Louisville Courier Journal, leaped from the nineteenth floor of a Wall Street office building at 37 Wall Street. His body fell 110 feet to the roof of a neighboring ten story building, breaking almost every bone and crushing the head, death instantaneous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harvey W. Watterson
Henry Watterson
Louisville Courier Journal
Wall Street
Freight business revival at New Haven rail lines
New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad circles report a revival across the system with freight for the first week of November nearly matching last year. Passenger traffic shows the larger decline, indicating shifting patterns in service demand.
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New Haven
Gambling Causes Downfall In Toronto Bank Theft
Duncan Cameron McCallum, late teller of the Farmers' Bank of Canada in Toronto, pleaded guilty to stealing $165,459 from the bank. He was sentenced to three years at Kingston penitentiary, blaming gambling on the stock market and horse racing for his downfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Qnt
Duncan Cameron McCallum
Farmers' Bank of Canada
Kingston
McCallum
Butler and Butler Jr Nominate for U S Senate Seat
J G Butler Jr a leading manufacturer in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys announces candidacy for United States Senator to succeed J D Foraker. He helped organize early campaign meetings and serves as president of the Mahoning and Shenango Valley Pig Tron association, with prominence in state industrial affairs.
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Butler
Youngstown
J. G. Butler, Jr
Mahoning and
Shenango Valleys
United States
J. D. Foraker
Buller
Mahoning
Shenango Valley
Pig Tron Association
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