Many Les Lost W Forest Fires In urgent Need Of Help
Detroit and Metz devastations unfold as forest fires sweep Metz village prompting a relief train crash. Fifteen killed, including women and children. repairs, evacuations, and failed rescue efforts unfold across Alpena and Presque Isle counties. Governor Warner and Detroit Mayor Thompson appeal for help.
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Detroit
Metz
Rogers City
Presque Isle
Alpena
Alpena County
Fred M. Warner
Michigan
WiIain BR. Thompson
Dalrait
Japanese Welcome Fleet Before Pacific Harbor Show
Battered yet magnificent American battleship meets Japanese fleet in a dramatic border display. Rear Admiral Sperry arrives in Japan as visits and exchanges unfold. Admirals of both nations greet aboard the Mikasa, with salutes and formal introductions in a historic harbor scene.
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Yukohanta
Youkonhamma
Sperry Guld
Japan
Warlowa
Connecticut
da Chieg
Mikasa
Acta
Gera Tjuin
Big blaze at Baltimore Canton plant ignites tanks
A spectacular fire at the Canton plant of the Standard Oil Company in Baltimore required five hours of fighting. Oil tanks exploded and were destroyed, with losses around $100,000. One firefighter and several bystanders were slightly injured by debris. Major General Richard Coulter, veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars and a Westmoreland County business figure, died at his home in Gettysburg, Pa.
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Baltimore
Mas
Canton
Standard OR Company
Richard Coulter
Westmoreland County
Grotusburg
Papers Found at Marietta College to Settle Boundary Dispute
A marietta college library discovery may settle a long running boundary dispute dating to 1784. Archival papers and maps by Rufus Putnam, noting disputed ranges and territories, are expected to be forwarded to the state department for examination and potential final settlement.
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Martetta
Adarles
Marietta College
Aince
Washington
College of Ighore
Farietta
New England PLC
College
Rufus Putnam
Popes
United States
Oples
State Department
Four Children Die in Sum mig Mine Fire Tragedy
A deadly blaze in a Sum mig mining town near Altoona Pennsylvania Sunday morning killed four children aged 20 months to 15 years. The Delaney children perished in their cot as flames swept past their mother Mrs Luke Delaney who leaped from a second story window and was hospitalized in critical condition. The fire originated beneath their sleeping room and left Wilson Judge badly injured with a broken leg and internal injuries.
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Iltoona
Summig
Here
Morris Delaney
Robert Nagle
Joseph Delaney
Charles Delaney
Luke Delaney
Delaney
Johnstown Hospital
Wilson Judge
Bankers Challenge Express Firms Over Money Orders
Washington hearing in the Interstate Commerce Commission examines the American Bankers Association vs multiple express companies. Bankers claim express firms issue money orders and sell exchange, discriminating against banks by carrying currency on own lines. Commission grants time for briefs after hearing.
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Washington, D. C
kKers’ Association
Bsa
Commission i
Bankers’ Organization
First Volunteer Dies in Lincoln Era War Role
Dr. Charles Franklin fund, the first volunteer to enlist after President Lincoln's call and the first soldier awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery, died at 76 in Washington. Born in Batavia, New York, he spent three months in Libby prison and was named Provost Marshal of the District of Columbia. He will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Rand
Lincoln
Washington
Charles Franklin Fund
Tincoin
Congress
Batavia
N. Y
Libby
Preament
Tincoln
Cyambla
Arington
Imlot No. 4
Wiley
A Holy Cause in Belgrade and Montenegro Send Unity Call
The Serbian national assembly and Montenegro’s body exchanged an enthusiastic reply to a prior message. Signed by president M. Goynica, it pledges a common defense and a holy war stance. In New Jersey, Princeton University names George McClellan 88 mayor Stafford Little Lecturer in Public Affairs to succeed Grover Cleveland.
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Belgrade
Servia
Seryian
National Assembly
National Assembly of
Montenegro
M. Goynica
Rina Ny Bervia
McClellan
Cleveland
Princeton
N. J
Board of
Thenrinceton University
George McEllan
New York City
Stafford Little
Grover Aveland
Atlantic Fleet Delayed by Mighty Storm Near Tuzon
The American battleship fleet bound for Yokohama stalled due to a severe storm off the Tuzon island of the Philippine group. A man drowned and some damage befell the fleet. Rumor says the Duke of Abrutal may wed Katherine Elkins with royal consent reportedly granted.
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Toyko
Feet
Yokohama
Tuzon
Philipine Group
Democratic National Campaign Fund Receives Large Contributions
The Colorado man Charles J. Hughes leads with a $5,000 gift, followed by Willam J. Bryan’s $4,046 from profits of the Com menter. Other notable donors include ex-Senator W. A. Clark of Montana and Norman B. Mack at $2,000 each. Georgia’s Governor Hoke Smith contributes $250, as receipts total $248,567.55 with $225,962.83 disbursed and $22,604.67 balance.
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New York
Democratic Na- Yona
Herman Ridder
Democratic National Campaign Fund
Denver
Democratic
United States
Chicago
Colorado
Ridder
Charles J. Hughes
Willam J. Bryan
Lst
W. A. Clark
Montana
Norman B. Mack
Georgia
Hoke Smith
Forest fires rage across Michigan and beyond
Fire reports from Millersburg Metz in Presque Isle county burned with about 30000 dollars in losses. Cheboygan saw sawdust pile blaze smoke driving residents from homes. Gladwin county Reverend Wicke home and several farm buildings destroyed. Standish Lis Rocque village in Presque Isle county burning. Johnstown Pennsylvania Wildwood Springs fires threaten Lewis Paulker residence and barn with six thousand dollars loss. Fires approach Edensburg.
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Detroit
Mich
Michigan
Millersburg
Presque Isle
Metz
Cheboygan
Wis
Gladwin
Henry Wicke
Standish
Lis Rocque
Presque Isla County
Johnstown
Wildwood Springs
Lewis Paulker
Edensburg
Taft School suspends four hazing students in Watertown
Four Taft school students in Watertown were suspended following hazing of younger pupils. The disciplined pupils include Kenneth Monteagie of San Francisco Pred Andrews of New York Henry Fownes of Pittsburgh and John N Garfield of Washington DC. Three receive six week suspensions and one six week suspension.
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Watertown
Coon
Taft School
John N. Garfield
James Garfield
Secretary of the Interior
Kenneth Monteagie
San Francisco
Pred Andrews
New York
Henry Fownes
Pittsburg
Washington, D.C
Arnald
Towns Submerged Amid Floods in Hong Kong Districts
Several towns are submerged in Sian Sing and Hat-Ping districts after disastrous floods. Hundreds of pools have been rendered homeless as residents seek shelter and aid amid ongoing rescue efforts.
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Hong Kong
Sian Sing
Hat-Ping
Wholesale Theft of Rigs Solved by Police Action in New York
Police arrest nine men in New York as they solve a theft wave involving forged merchandise and rigs valued at FLAG. Twelve repainted rigs were found in a Central Avenue stable in Brooklyn. Chicago won the world championship by shutting out Detroit 2 0 in the final game and taking 4 of 5 in the series.
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New York
Central Avenue
Jocklyn
Chicago
Gut Detrist
Governor urges swift action after Hickman county murders
Frankfort Kentucky offers a $500 reward for the capture of the night riders accused of attacking A Walker and killing him his wife and two children. Governor Willson appeals to residents to organize locally and take stern measures to punish lynching arson and similar cowardly crimes.
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Frankfort
A. Walker
Hickman County
Willson
Blale
New Stamp Designs Announced by Post Office Dept
Washington reports the Bureau of Engraving and Minting completed new stamp designs at Postmaster General Myer’s direction. The issue favors artistic simplicity with bas relief profiles showing a head in an eclipse and laurel decoration. One cent stamp features Franklin. others bear Washington.
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Postoffice Department
Washington
Bureau of Engraving and Minting
Myer
United States
U. S
Franklin
Fair price for expert visits in Reeves suit
Philadelphia lawyer for Dr Joseph Reeves argues $500 per visit was fair for services to treat a captain of industry with grave nervous disorders. Reeves seeks $21,000 for 16 months of care with visits in Spring Lake Atlantic City Philadelphia and Pittsburg. In New York Westinghouse plan settles bank claims at 50 percent in bonds and 50 percent in new stock.
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Philadelphia
Joseph Reeves
Philadel Ophia
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Justice Trenchard
Atlantic City
Andrew M. Moreland
Pittsburg
Reeves
Westinghouse
New York
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
National Park Bank
Chase National Bank
National Bank of Commerce
New York Life Insurance and Trust Company
Wils Leaves Hubby $1 in Will Message
The will of Catherine E. Heckler of Portland Oregon directs Andrew Heckler to receive one dollar in monthly installments of twenty six cents. The bequest recalls a troubled marriage in 1963 in San Diego California and notes he “marred me” and deserted her after getting thousands of dollars.
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Chicago
Andrew Heckler
Catherine E. Heckler
Portland
Ore
Heckler
San Diego
Cal
Bisbee Fire Devastates Arizona After Cloudburst Floods
A major Bisbee blaze destroyed 30 acres of business and residential areas on October 14. Water pipes broken by summer floods hindered firefighting as volunteers battled the flames driven by a canyon wind. Loss estimated at 1.0 to 1.5 million with many houses and key landmarks burned or dynamited. Several residents unaccounted for and presumed dead amid chaotic rescue efforts. Bisbee, founded by Phelps Dodge, houses about 25,000 people.
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el Paso
Tex
Bisbee
Ariz
Grand Hotel
Main Street
Tombstone Canyon
School Hill
Clausen Hill
Angelus Hotel
Opera
Big Fair
Tombstone
Brewery Gulches
Phelps Dodge
Earls Yarmouth income cut off in divorce ruling
In London the divorce court extinguished the Earl of Yarmouth’s rights under the pre marriage financial settlement with Miss Alice Cornelia Thaw of Pittsburg. The settlement, valued at $600,000 for Miss Thaw’s life, would pass $300,000 to the Earl if she died first. It provided the Earl with $40,000 annually from the wedding date. he offered no opposition.
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London
Earl of
Yarmouth
Alice Cornelia Thaw
Pittsburg
Miss Thaw
Seven Reported Killed in Ingleside Quarry Blast
Seven men are reported killed and 28 injured by a premature explosion at Ingleside line quarry 18 miles from Fort Collins Colorado. Foreman James McPherson is fatally injured. The blast occurred in the face of 40 men and many were hurled 200 feet. A special train ferried the injured to Fort Collins hospital as ranchers and their wives rushed to aid the wounded.
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Fort Collins
Col
Ingleside
James McPherson
Fort Colling
Arrests after university student strike in St Petersburg
Four hundred students arrested as protests against new minister of education restrictions turn violent. Troops enter the university at Kayhan to quell disorders, with hundreds of demonstrators detained.
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St. Petersburg
Kayan
Big Diamond Robbery Negro Arrested in New York
George Foster, a negro, was arrested on a charge of stealing diamonds and jewelry valued over 36,000 dollars from C. Powell, a wholesale jeweler at 176 Broadway, New York. Police found 26,000 dollars of unset diamonds and 1,000 dollars of diamond jewelry along with 600 dollars in watches on Foster. He denied the theft and claimed the valuables were given to him by an employee of the Grand Pacific hotel in Chicago. The items were said to be stolen from Powell while on a train from Chicago on June 29.
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St. Louis
George Foster
C. Powell
Broadway
New York
Foster
Algo
Grand Pacific Hotel
Chicago
Powell
Rhode Island Republicans Nominate Ticket by Acclamation
In Providence Rhode Island Republicans nominated their ticket by acclamation for state offices. Governor Alan J. Poitfer Lieutenant Governor Arthur W. Dennis Secretary of State Charles P. Bennett Attorney General William B. Greenough General Treasurer Walter A. Read.
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Rhode Island
Providence
Alan J. Poitfer
Charles P. Bennett
William B. Greenough
Trea Urer
Walter A. Read
Rescue at Sea Saves Balloonist Crew
The American balloon St. Louis, after starting at Herlin, fell into the North Sea and was rescued by a whaler. It brought the craft to port. Great Britain dispatched two cruisers to search for missing Inchloons Hergesell and Phin.
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Grimeby
St. Loui
Herlin
North Sea
Great Britain
Hergesell
Phin
Memorial for Grover Cleveland Memorial in Chicago
A plan for a $100,000 memorial to Grover Cleveland in Chicago was taken up as definite. The Cleveland Memorial Association said incorporation papers would be filed within days and the fund secured. A farm turkey killed on the Tarwiye River, Victoria, yielded half an ounce of pure gold.
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Chicago
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland Memorial Association
Tarwiye River
Victoria
Nations Agree on Balkan Conference But Austria-Hungary Silent
Reports from Constantinople say all major powers except Austria-Hungary accept an international conference to resolve the Balkan issue. Germany agrees if the program is limited while no reply has been received from Austria-Hungary.
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Constantinople
Austria-Hungary
Balkan
Germany
Tragedy at District School Ends in Double Shooting
A farmer who visited a district school called out his two sons aged 10 and 12. He shot one son dead and mortally wounded the other before shooting himself. The motive remains unknown. The report names Seaman and two farmers as involved.
Bonner Springs Fire Destroys Half of Watering Place
Kansas City report states half the business district of Bonner Springs Kansas a watering place twenty miles west of Kansas City was burned causing an estimated loss of 100000 dollars.
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Kansas City
Bonner Springs
Kan
London suffragettes storm Parliament in October clash
A massive suffragette siege of Westminster on October 14 left Parliament surrounded by police. Mrs. Travera Symons forced her way to the speaker’s chair shouting for women’s focus. Officials removed her, and a new ban barred women from the building. Over 5,000 police, troops, and naval units restrained crowds, with 24 suffragettes and 12 unemployed arrested. several injured and hospitalized amid the Trafalgar Square melee.
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London
Westminster
Travera Symons
James Keir Hardie
House of Commons
Thames
Trafalgar Square
Miners Seek Wage Rise and Eight-Hour Day
Anthracite miners demand reorganization of the United Mine Workers as a party to wage talks and the right to decide funding methods. They call for an eight-hour day with no wage reduction and full payment for coal at 2,006 pounds per ton. Workers earning $1.50 or less would gain 10 percent, while those earning above $1.50 and up to $2 would gain 5 percent.
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Scranton
Anthracite Miners Union
United Mine Workers of America
Severance Endows Wooster Bible School With 106000
L H Severance of Cleveland adds 106000 to his prior gifts to the University of Wooster for a permanent endowment to support the Bible and missionary training school. He also donates two residences to serve as missionary housing, named Julia Long house and Sarah Adams home, honoring associated figures. Mrs Mather contributes a house named Julia Gleason home for the same purpose.
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L. H. Severance
Cleveland
Wooster
University of Wooster
Florence Severance
Bible and Missionary Training School
Julia Long
David Long
Sarah Adams
Samuel Mather
Julia Gleason
Doctor Takes Wrong Dose Ends Life in Bell
Dr Howard G Nelman, resident physician at the Philadelphia Home for Incurables, died from aconite poisoning after mistaking aconite for codine while treating a nervous cough. He assisted colleagues in a remarkable effort to save him, with three doctors working four hours to counteract the poison.
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Philadelphia
Howard G. Nelman
Woman awarded $400 in Jim Crow car case in Virginia
Rosa Stone of Myrtle, Virginia, sued Norfolk and Western for being forced to ride seven miles in a Jim Crow car with Black passengers. A Suffolk jury awarded $400, far below the requested $1,008, noting it as the first such Virginia case. The verdict included $4 per minute for actual riding time.
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Suffolk
Rosa Stone
Myrtle
Norfolk & Western Railroad Company
Virginia
Fiance and Trade Renew Moderate Industrial Activity
New York reports gradual improvement across most regions with cautious optimism for the future. Iron and steel show slow progress while export trade stays liberal and ore shipments for the season hover near 22.606 million tons. The weekly review notes price softness in pig iron contracts and limited forward deals in coke and rails, with cotton goods and footwear markets uneven due to labor disputes and inventories. Overall, Staley rains indicate slightly higher activity, heavier road tonnage, and smaller drops in gross earnings, alongside 244 business failures for the week ending October 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
J. G., Dun & Company
Iran
Lynn
Sradstreet
United States
Proper care for silver keeps heirlooms bright
An Indianapolis News item advises housewives to place camphor in the silver drawer to prevent tarnish and to clean silver by soaking it in sour milk for an hour, promoting well-kept, shining silver as part of a well-set home.
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Indianapolia News
Regulation forbids tourists carrying arms in Yellowstone Park
The Philadelphia Ledger reports a rule prohibiting tourists from carrying weapons within Yellowstone Park. The regulation reportedly saves several travelers from losing valuable arms when encountered by a highwayman.
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Yellowstone Park
Philadelphia Ledger
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