World News Briefs From Across the Globe This Week
A Salt Lake to Victorville freight collision kills Santa Fe brake man L B Good of Van Wert Iowa. William Thaw faces grand jury scrutiny over alleged drinking habit. Mexican Central railroad reportedly sold to Chicago Rock Island system. Kansas election returns shrink Governor Hoch’s plurality. Two masked men rob Dempsey Harris Saloon in San Luis Obispo grabbing $469 plus drink and cigars. Trial delays set for Chicago anti trust cases as unions avert strike. Rio Grande City rioting ceases per Ranger Captain report. Harper's celebrates Henry Mills Alden’s 70th birthday with letters from Roosevelt and Clemens. Roosevelt discharges three negro army companies. Hearst travels to California for recuperation. Two soldiers killed in Texas gambling room quarrel. another prisoner charged with murder. Boers under Ferreira attack Witkop police camp. police respond to quell disturbance.
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Salt Lake
Santa Fe
Victorville
Col
L. B. Good
Vanwert
Iowa
William Thaw
Harry Thaw
Stanford White
Mexican Central Railroad
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Rock Island
Hoch
Kansas
Dempsey & Harris
San Luis Obispo
Cal
R. L. Dempsey
Chicago
Austin
Tex
Latham
McDowall
Ranger Force
Rio Grande City
Harper
Franklin Square
New York
Henry Mills Alden
Harper’s Monthly
Roosevelt
Samuel L. Clemens
Mr. Alden
Cincinnati
Texas
Union Republican Club
William R. Hearst
California
Fort Bliss
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Ferreira
Witkop
Exclusions at Columbia College Prompt Silent Row
Walter Cundiff Wilner Carter Oscar James and Frank Kirke students at Columbia college expelled by President Davis for insubordination and refusing to submit to rules. Pacific States Telegraph company to use rural lines with its own around Athena. Ben Gholson nightwatchman killed by Victor E d Anna aboard electric company project. D Anna fled, telephoned, then committed suicide at a state asylum farm six miles from the city. The five masted schooner Louis waterlogged off Columbia bar towed to Astoria port.
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Walter Cundiff
Wilner Carter
Oscar James
Frank Kirke
Columbia College
Davis
Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Company
Athena
Ben Gholson
Salem
Victor E. d’Anna
Electric Company
D’anna
State Asylum For the
Louis
Columbia Bar
Astoria
Tobacco Trust Under Fire Investigation Starts
The department of justice will investigate the tobacco trust's business methods. F N Hill of Boston is named special attorney to conduct the inquiry. Officials decline comment but a Sherman anti trust prosecution is believed possible.
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Tobacco Trust
Department of Justice
F. N. Hill
Boston
Department
Boss explains refusals to hire extraordinarily beautiful girls
A firm head recalls telling many girls they are not suitable for employment because they are extraordinarily beautiful. The question is how workers leave smiling. The Louisville Courier Journal notes the phenomenon and the framing of such refusals.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Doan boy killed in duck hunt on Palouse river
Ralph Doan a 16 year old son of L A Doan of Endicott was accidentally shot and killed while duck hunting on the Palouse river. The item notes other Washington church construction plans and various state affairs.
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Ralph Doan
L. A. Doan
Endicott
Palouse
Northwest
New Christian Church
Walla Walla
Spokane
Supreme Court
Washington State Bankers’ Association
Albertson
Seattle
King County
James A. Moore
Lake Washington
Maud Creffield
Holy Roller” Creffield
George Mitchell
Esther Mitchell
Chester Thompson
G. Meade Emory
Tacoma
Pierce County
Frater
Thompson
Ellensburg
Wagner
Wenatchee Valley
Australia
Oregon Railroad & Navigation
Garfield
Great Northern Section
Winchester
Board of County Commissioners
Olympia
Board of Control
Washington
Harvard
Washington, Idaho & Montana
Henry Vincent
Walla Walla Valley
John Hoffman
Eureka Flat
W. H. Brown
Building Trades Assembly of Tacoma
TWO DIE IN S P WRECK AT SARGENT STATION
Two men were killed Engineer Gillespie and Signal Construction Foreman Goodfellow. One passenger fatally injured and many others shaken or cut by broken glass when Southern Pacific express No 10 derailed at Sargents station 87 miles south of San Francisco at 9:35 PM Saturday. Boiler explosion tore depot and tracks and overturned the first four cars.
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San Jose
Cal
Southern Pacific
San Francisco
New Orleans
Sargents Station
Gillespie
Goodfellow
Big fire destroys Hyromeus sawmill in Mobile
A major blaze at Hyromeus Bros. sawmill on Division and Water streets in Mobile caused about 100000 dollars in damage. High winds spread fire to the Mobile Hardwood mill on the river front, burning its yards as well.
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Mobile
Ala
Hyromeus Bros
Hyromeus
Mobile Hardwood Company
Three Men Killed by Switch Engine in New York
Three men were killed at Park Avenue and Fifty sixth Street when a switch engine from the New York Central railroad ran over them while they were setting third rails. The locomotive struck without warning and dragged two men for hundreds of feet, mangling them severely.
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New York
Park Avenue
Fifty-sixth Street
New York Central Road
Roosevelt Says He Is Not A Candidate For 1908
President Roosevelt told a White House conference that he would not seek reelection in 1908 and would retire after his current term. He reiterated his belief in the two term tradition and dismissed any suggestion that he could be persuaded to run again. Wireless reports from the Louisiana noted fine weather as he and Mrs. Roosevelt enjoyed the Panama voyage and time on deck.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Panama
White House
United States
Louisiana
Night and Day Bank introduces mobile deposit autos
The Night and Day Bank of New York launches a mobile deposit system with a built in safe vehicle that visits regular depositors. Customers place currency and checks in numbered metal dispatch boxes, receive receipts, and have no access to contents until the bank’s messenger retrieves the box and verifies against the deposit slip.
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Bank of
New York
Four Orators From Out West At Transmississippi Congress
At the Transmississippi Commercial congress officers meeting in Kansas City the tenth session program is set for November 20 in Convention hall. Speakers include W. J. Bryan Elihu Root John G Carlisle and several others from Missouri New York and beyond. United States senators and state governors have accepted invitations to participate.
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Transmississippi Commercial Congress
Kansas City
Convention Hall
W. J. Bryan
Elihu Root
Secretary of the Treasury
John G. Carlisle
William J. Stone
Misssouri
E. H. Harriman
New York
Joseph B. Randall
National River and
Levi Ankeny
Washington
Charles A. Culberson
Texas
Corn Crop Estimates Improve Nationwide 1906 Yield
The crop estimating board reports 1906 corn production at 2.881 billion bushels, averaging 30.2 bushels per acre, up from 28.8 bushels per acre in 1905. The bulletin highlights a sizable crop and higher average yield.
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Department of Agriculture Bulletin
General Shafter Stricken With Pneumonia at Bakersfield Ranch
Major General William R. Shafter retired U S A is seriously ill with pneumonia at his ranch fourteen miles south of Bakersfield California as of November 15 Reports from Bakersfield say the illness is grave but no further details are provided by officials
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Shafter
Bakersfield
Cal
William R. Shafter
Long Beach Hotel Collapse Kills Twelve Workmen
A five story section of the $750,000 Bixby Hotel in Long Beach California collapsed trapping about 150 workers. Twelve bodies were recovered with fifteen total dead and nine injured hospitalized. Investigators blame insecure footings and premature removal of concrete supports as rescuers rush to clear debris and assist survivors.
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Bixby
Long Beach
Cal
A. F. Spaulding
John A. Austin
Austin & Brown
Forty Lives Lost in Wreck Near Chicago
Baltimore and Ohio officials report a wreck near Woodville Indiana and Chicago where 40 of 135 passengers on the train were killed. Additional reports cite five dead, 20 to 30 burned or trapped, and 25 seriously hurt in a separate collision caused by signal confusion.
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Chicago
Baltimore & Ohio
Woodville
Ind
Ciyt
General William Rufus Shafter Dies at California Ranch
Major General William Rufus Shafter U S A retired died last Monday at Captain W H McKitrick’s ranch twenty miles south of Bakersfield California after a seven day illness despite skilled medical care in California.
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William Rufus Shafter
U.S. A
W. H. McKittrick
Bakersfield
Cal
California
Rogers as trust buster in Fairhaven trail
Henry H. Rogers of Standard Oil planned to pursue a major trust next, targeting United Shoe Machinery. A new shoe machinery company is to be started in Fairhaven, a venture in which Rogers holds deep interest.
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Standard Oil
Fairhaven
Mass
Henry H. Rogers
Standard Oil Company
United States
United Shoe Machinery Company
Rogers
Disarm Negro Troops in El Reno After Brownsville Riot
In El Reno Oklahoma on November 11 members of Companies B S and D of the Twenty fifth Infantry colored were formally disarmed after earlier order by President Roosevelt following the Brownsville Texas disturbances on August 13. Many veterans of over twenty years in the service wept as they surrendered their firearms.
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el Reno
Okla
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Roosevelt
Brownsville
Texas
California Train Wreck Near Marysville
A Southern Pacific northbound local derailed off a 15 foot embankment at Marysville California. The engine tender and baggage car left the track. Engineer McManara sustained internal injuries and severe scalding. Fireman Ed Allen suffered a broken left leg and extensive scald injuries.
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California
Marysville
Cal
Southern Pacific
McManara
Ed Allen
Birth rate crisis in France reflected in 1905 vital stats
Public attention focuses on declining birth rate as France releases 1905 vital statistics. The report highlights national peril from shrinking population and ties it to demographic trends and public concern.
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Paris
Intercollegiate Football Scores Across U S Venues
Saturday games featured major results from Champaign to Berkeley. Illinois beat Wisconsin, Dartmouth trounced Amherst, Georgetown routed Washington University, Missouri shutout Arkansas, Ohio State defeated Kenyon, Creighton upset Omaha, Colorado State tied Aggies, and Lafayette held Pennsylvania to a scoreless draw. Yale edged Brown 5 0, Spokane topped Washington State 21 11, Washington tied Willamette 0 0, Minnesota beat Chicago 4 2, and Princeton defeated West Point 8 0.
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Hanover
Dartmouth
Amherst
Andover
Exeter
Topeka
Washburn
Kansas University
Washington
Georgetown University
University of Virginia
Columbia
Missouri University
Arkansas University
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State University
Kenyon College
Omaha
University of California
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lafayette
New Haven
Conn
Yale
Brown
Spokane
Johnny Bender
Washington State College
Seattle
University of Washington
Willamette
Chicago
Minnesota
University of Chicago
West Point
Princeton
West Point Cadets
Tacoma Club Promises Stronger 1907 Team Under Shroeder
George Shroeder, head of Tacoma club, vows the team will be stronger and better than ever in 1907. In Wis a Stout manuals game Arthur Olsen from Oconomowoc suffered a serious brain injury in a mass play. In Mont a Great Falls Fort Shaw game fullback James Curtis was killed in scrimmage. Curtis, a Syracuse native, was years old. In Palouse City Louie Long defeated Kid Harrison by decision in the 14th round after a bout marred by a foul.
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Tacoma
George Shroeder
Menominee
Wis
Stout Manual
Arthur Olsen
Oconomowoc
Manuals
Fort Shaw
Mont
Great Falls
James Curtis
Curtis
Syracuse
N. Y
Louie Long
Kid Harrison
Palouse City
Wash
Palouse
Robbers Seize $650000 From Rogow Station
In Russian Poland Rogow station is raided by about 100 revolutionists who set bombs on a mail car, derailed it, and took a fortune reported at 650000 dollars. They march away in military order with two wagons, while the station master notes disciplined bands and bugle signals.
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Rogow Station
Rogow
Russian Poland
Train Wreck Delays Nashville Special Near Buckley
The Illinois Central Nashville special bound for Bloomington left the track at Buckley north of town. None of the coaches overturned. About fifteen passengers and crew were injured but none fatally. Cause cited as a broken rail.
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Bloomington
Illinois Central
Buckley
Here
Temperance group backs army beer sale restrictions
Washington report notes resolutions by the Advancement Independent Order of Rechabites urging restoration of the army beverage ban and sale limits to soldiers under restraints. The unanimously adopted proposals stir interest in temperance circles and reflect the group’s long history.
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Washington
Trouble Over the Language in Berlin Schools
Fifty thousand Polish children refuse to respond in German during religious instruction in public schools. The Prussian government continues to apply measures to compel compliance. In 1905 wrecks and losses totaled 297 steam vessels and 296 sailing vessels with substantial tonnage.
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Berlin
Secretary Bonaparte proposes legalized party bosses for nominations
In a recent interview Secretary of the Navy Charles Bonaparte urged creating a legalized boss in each party to select all candidates for elective offices within a territory thereby replacing nominating conventions He suggested annual elections by legal voters at a primary to fill the single position while allowing independent nominations to persist if desired He questioned whether a former boss should hold public office and noted two sides to the issue.
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Charles Bonaparte
Bonaparte
Lega
Brandreth's Pills Touted as Ideal Family Laxative
The old family remedy Brandreth's Pills is praised for safe, uniform dosing suitable for all ages. The pills, herbal in composition, are aged three years before sale to mellow effects and are widely sold in drug stores in plain or sugar coated forms.
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Brandreth
Fruit Packing House Burns at San Jose Loss Totals
The Rosenberg Brothers packing house in San Jose California burned with a total loss of 238600 dollars. Prunes valued at 105000 dollars were destroyed. The fire is thought to have started in the boiler room and insurance coverage is unknown.
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Rosenberg Brothers
San Jose
Cal
Hall's Catarrh Cure Claims Wide Efficacy
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy for catarrh claiming to cure the condition by a constitutional internal treatment. The text asserts the product works on blood and mucous surfaces and offers one hundred dollars for proof of failure, with the sponsor F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio backing the claim.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Dru
Burglar Slays Pittsburg Youth in East End Home
Pittsburg 25 year old Henry F Smith son of wealthy businessman Joseph Smith confronted a burglar in his father's east end residence. A violent struggle ended with Smith being shot twice and dying almost instantly, leaving the dining room and kitchen in disarray as evidence of the desperate confrontation.
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Pittsburg
Henry F. Smith
Joseph Smith
East End
Young Smith
Italian newspapers rise with Milan Evening Courier lead
The Evening Courier of Milan leads Italian papers in circulation at 120000 with American Hoe presses. The Tribune of Rome follows with a daily output of 100000 copies, signaling growing press influence and expansion.
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Italy
Evening Courier
Milan
Tribune of
Rome
Curious Patent Remedies and Local Incidents Highlighted
An assortment of old advertisements tout Dr. Kline's Restorer cures and children teething syrups. A sensational note reports a buck deer fatally injuring Herbert Bradley at a Montclair preserve, marking a grim local incident.
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Mont Clair
N. J
Herbert Bradley
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Transmississippi
France
Champaign
Illinois
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Sporting Notes
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Hig Party
Fruit Packing House
Mrs. Winslow
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