Six drown in Delaware River launch and barge collision
A Philadelphia crewed launch carrying nine men collided with a tug towing a barge near Beverly New Jersey. Six occupants drowned and three were rescued by Captain Mott's Bristol crew. names of survivors and victims are listed. A second incident near Yonkers reports five missing after a catboat was struck by a tug in heavy mist.
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Beverly
N. J
Philadelphia
Delaware River
Bristol
John Winch
W. F. Russell
J. Rutherford
William Winch
John Ellis
John Stevenson
Samuel Herron
Norman Delaney
James Yonkers
Winch
Croyden
Pennsylvania
Mott
Bordentown
Yonkers
N. Y
South Yonkers
South Hudson Boat Club
Edward Nelson
Edward
Benjamin Benson
P. Simpson
Earl Thompson
Benson
Four Die In Gasoline Launch Explosion On Mississippi
A gasoline launch on its first Mississippi trip exploded near Ivory station fourteen miles below St. Louis. Two passengers are believed drowned while two others are fatally burned. Missing include Fred Phee and an unnamed man. Injured are Edward Duffy Sr and Edward Duffy Jr.
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St. Louis
Ivory Station
Fred Phee
Edward Duffy
Tunnel 40 Feet Below Street in Chicago Post Office Project
The two mining crews met after 40 days of work from opposite ends, completing a tunnel 12 feet 6 inches wide and 14 feet high. It runs 396 feet from Jackson Boulevard to Adams Street designed for mail transmission as part of the Chicago subway system.
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Chicago
Jackson Boulevard
Adams Street
London Journos Question Irving Memorial in Westminster
Weekly papers including the Spectator and Saturday Review condemn the dean of Westminster for approving Sir Henry Irving interment in Westminster Abbey and dispute his greatness as an actor compared to Garrick.
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London
The
Spectator
Saturday Review
Outlook
Westminster
Westminster Abbey
Sir Henry Irving
Irving
Gar- Tick
President Roosevelts Philippine policy shift signals revision
President Roosevelt signals a legislative shift by backing a bill from the Ways and Means Committee to open the Philippines to free entry of Philippine products and foreign investment. He criticizes current restrictions as hampering development and outlines two paths to capital: tariff reform or lifting investment barriers.
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Roosevelt
Atlanta
Congress
Ways and Means
Philippines
United States
Cunliffe Questioned After $101000 Adams Express Heist
Edward G Cunliffe captured at Bridgeport Conn arrives in Pittsburg and is interrogated by Pinkerton officials. He shows exhaustion and anger over the discovery of nearly $10000 more of the loot in Bridgeport while still resisting disclosure of the remaining $11000 awaiting clemency.
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Pittsburg
Edward G. Cunliffe
Adams Express Company
Bridgeport
Conn
Pinkerton Agency
Cunliffe
Pinkerton
Salt Lake City Man Kills Former Fireman in Domestic Dispute
Frank Womack a freight handler with Oregon Short Line telephoned police at midnight to report he shot and killed Joseph Mathews a former Short Line fireman now with the city water department. Womack had roomed at Mathews' home after threats followed by an attack as Mathews beat him for alleged offenses involving his wife. Womack fired three times.
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Salt Lake
Utah
Frank Womack
Oregon Short Line
Weiser
Idaho
Joseph Mathews
Short Line
City Water Department
Womack
Mathews
Recover the Stolen Jewels. Victoria to Vancouver Theft
Diamonds and emerald rings valued at 6000 dollars recovered in Vancouver after being hidden by the thieves who took them from C. E. Red fern's Victoria jewelry store. Participants included Harry Redfern, C. Kurtz, and a Vancouver woman. Kurtz accompanied Detective Palmer to Vancouver. Prosecution unlikely.
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Victoria
B. C
C. E. Redfern
Vancouver
Harry Redfern
C. Kurtz
Kurtz
Palmer
Land Fraud Cases in Idaho Court Proceeding Delayed
In Moscow Idaho on October 24 the land fraud cases against Kettenbach Kester Dwyer and Robinett of Lewiston were called in the U S court. Attorney Borah asked for a postponement until 2 PM Tuesday and the judge granted the request. The defendants were present but soon left the room. The cases focus on the secret manner in which the jury venire is being guarded by officials.
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Moscow
Idaho
Kettenbach
Kester
Dwyer
Robinett
Lewiston
United States
Borah
Germany keeps navy plans despite tensions
Germany will not ask the Reichstag for further navy expansion beyond six large cruisers and 35 torpedo boats already decided. The policy remains unchanged despite recent German British relations incidents, though the state budget will include heavy spending for naval stations and new docks.
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Reichstag
Professor Judd Hangs Himself In Baltimore Home
Baltimore October 23 Professor Sylvester Dwight Judd aged 35 former Georgetown University biology assistant professor was found dead by hanging from a rope in the garret of his home on the old Frederick road police report.
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Baltimore
Sylvester Dwight Judd
Georgetown University
Old Frederick Road
Niagara Falls Erosion Prompts Commission Probe
Canadian Niagara falls has receded about 300 feet in eight years. An investigation will be conducted by the international waterways commission. In Australia there is no meat trust. mutton occasionally sells for as little as two cents a pound.
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Ottawa
Ont
Niagara Falls
International Waterways Commission
Australia
World Happenings Show A Week's Cross Hemisphere Tides
A sweep of items from the East and West recounts China boycotts easing cholera abating in Manila Roosevelt welcomed in Jacksonville and St. Augustine hospitality in Florida California and Indiana pearls in the Kankakee river Tokyo cabinet shifts Britain and Wisconsin politics baron Hayashi called home Lenroot runs for governor Imperial Brewing receiver appointed Birge killed in Bristol hair tragedy in New York Missouri Pacific wreck injuries West Coast misfortune for a Chicago related estate hunt for a missing boy and a Chicago inheritance quest tied to German and Iroquois fire losses
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Patrick W. Riordan
San Francisco
Pius
Victoria
B. C
G. D. Collins
Bay State
Whitelaw Reid
Kankakee
Indiana
Roosevelt
United States
St. Augustine
Tokio
Baron Hayashi
England
Foreign Office
Madison
Wis
J. A. Lenroot
Superior
Wisconsin
la Follette
E. J. Becker
Kansas City
Imperial Brewing Company
John Birge
Bristol
Conn
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Congress
Annie Wolf
Milburg Atlantic Supply Company
New York
Missouri Pacific
St. Louis
Fort Scott
Aiken
Minn
W. Marones
Spooner
Stillwater
Joseph Turpis
Chatsworth
William Meister
P. R. Duchemin
Colfax
Ralph
Joe Baker
Paul G. Kruger
North Yakima
Chicago
Martha Hoffman
Germany
R. P. Rheim
Abyssinian envoy Sadik Pasha arrives in New York
El Haqg Abdullah Ali Sadik Pasha, prince of the Mohammedan church and Abyssinian army minister, arrives in New York aboard the Cedric as envoy of Emperor Menelik. Official talks on a new trade treaty with the United States mask a broader mission to explore closer ties with Europe and America.
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el Haqg
Abdullah Ali Sadik Pasha
Menelik
Roosevelt
New York
Cedric
Abyssinia
Europe
America
CPR Foresees Westward Link From Midway to Nicola
Canadian Pacific engineers are pushing a line west from Midway British Columbia toward a connection with the Nicola road, which is currently under construction. The indications are the company will extend to complete a western link in the network.
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Canadian Pacific
Midway
B. C
Nicola Road
Coming Attractions at the Spokane Theater Listings
The Spokane Theater announces October to November showings featuring the Tiger Lillies Opera Co Florence Roberts in Ann La Mont Uthopians Burlesque Co The Tenderfoot Mme Herman Stair Burlesque Co York State Folks Sultan of Sulu Peggy of Paris Merry Burlesquers Arizona Peck's Bad Boy Thoroughbreds with seating reservations for out of town patrons by Jos Petrich manager Prices range from 25 cents to 1 50.
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Tiger Lillies Opera Co
Florence Roberts
Ann la Mont
Uthopians Burlesque Co
the Tenderfoot
Mme. Herman
Stair Burlesque Co
York State
Sultan of Sulu
Peggy
Paris
Merry Burlesquers
Arizona
Peck
Thoroughbreds
Jos. Petrich
Spokane
Prodigal Son Drops From The New York Stage
The Prodigal Son failed to charm New York audiences and is withdrawn from production. Other notes highlight Maude Fealy in The Truthtellers, Charlotte Walker joining Laurence d Orsay in The Embassy Ball, and Emma Calve continuing touring while dramatic plans for Florence Roberts and Ann La Mont unfold in the West and on the Pacific coast.
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New York
Maude Fealy
Martha Morton
the Truthtellers
Charlotte Walker
Laurence d'Orsay
Augustus Thomas
Katherine Countess
Fay Wallace
Luke Conness
Louis Bishop Hall
Ralph Stuart
Ade
Peggy
Paris
Pacific Coast
Frederick Warde
Albany
Post Office Cashier Arrested Over Nine Thousand Dollar Shortage
Francis B. Runder, cashier at the St. Louis post office, was arrested after authorities uncovered a $9000 shortage in his accounts. Inspectors secured a district attorney warrant for embezzlement, and Runder reportedly admitted the shortage and claimed responsibility but did not know the whereabouts of the funds.
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Francis B. Runder
St. Louis
Runder
United States District Attorney
Jerry Simpson Dies Once Known as Lockless Jerry
Wichita reports former Kansas congressman Jerry Simpson died from aneurism of the aorta. He was conscious to the end and attended by his wife and son Lester. Funeral set for Wednesday at Scottish Rite temple. services at the grave by Medicine Lodge blue lodge. Simpson famed as a colorful populist with a sockless legend and a long Congress career.
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Wichita
Jerry Simpson
Simpson
Washington
Kansas
Oregon Items Highlight Local Tragedies and Ventures
The list reports K. O. Lamb killed after being run over by a freight near Pendleton, the Arlington hotel fire at Helix with $1500 loss and safe guests, Mrs. H. A. Sargent near death after a cart accident in Palo Alto, and Moses Taylor’s 11000 bushel Weston wheat sale to S. A. Barnes at 62 cents. Also notes Captain Houghkirk’s rescue on the Iralda, Cornell agronomy professor L. H. Bailey’s forthcoming Century articles, and W. L. Cary of Oakland famed as king of the Isle of Man Calf with 40 inhabitants.
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K. O. Lamb
Pendleton
Arlington
Helix
H. A. Sargent
Portland
G. A. Batchelder
Palo Alto
Cal
Batchelder
Weston
Moses Taylor
S. A. Barnes
Pacific Coast Elevator Company
C. J. Houghkirk
Iralda
Columbia River
Clifford Harris
W. L. D. Cary
Oakland
Isle of Calf of Man
England
Sculptor Saint-Gaudens Works on Hanna Statue in Cleveland
Augustus Saint-Gaudens has finished plans and is shaping the clay model for a Mark Hanna statue to be erected in Cleveland. In Carlow Ireland an attorney was astonished to find his client wearing boots stolen from him previously.
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Mark Hanna
Cleveland
Carlow
Ireland
Mrs Dewey Returns Civil War Flag to Alabama Regiment
Mrs Mildred Dewey wife of Admiral Dewey returned the flag captured during the Civil War by her first husband General Hazen to the Twenty-eighth Alabama regiment.
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Mildred Dewey
Admiral Dewey
Twenty-eighth
Alabama Regiment
General Hazen
Belgium preps 75th independence diamond jubilee
Belgium plans celebrations for the 75th anniversary of gaining independence from the Netherlands. The event marks a major national milestone as the country reflects on its history and future. Paul Heyse, famed German novelist, enjoys strong recognition in America. St. Louis attracts Indian Territory trade, with rising purchasing power and business growth.
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Belgium
Netherlands
Paul Heyse
America
St. Louis
Indian Territory
Sealed Mining Camp Advent in South Deering Workers
In South Deering near South Chicago Semeth Selway Coke opens a 60 acre compound housing 300 Hungarian and Austrian workers and families totaling about 1000. A stockade enforces curfew and outside access is restricted with company provided entertainment and a dance hall to keep workers from saloons and external dances.
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South Deering
Chicago
Semeth Selway Coke Company
Yellow Fever Quarantine Eases in Mississippi and Texas
New Orleans reports five days with no yellow fever deaths and Mississippi plans to raise all quarantines by Monday. Texas will admit Louisiana residents who certify not visiting an infected point in the prior six days, per Dr. Tabor.
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New Orleans
State Health Office of
Mississippi
Dr. Tabor
Texas
Louisiana
Sixty Weeks for $1 75 Youths Companion 1906 Offer
A new 1906 subscription to The Youths Companion at 1 75 grants free remaining 1905 issues with nearly 50 complete stories and opening chapters of Grace Richmonds The Churchills Latch String plus SofS by Madame Sembrich and Tales of a Pawnee Hero by May Roberts Clark. New subscribers receive a Minutemen calendar 1906 lithographed in color and gold, with a free illustrated announcement. 144 Berkeley Street Boston Mass.
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Grace
Richmond
Madame Sembrich
May Roberts Clark
Companion
Minutemen
Berkeley Street
Boston
Mass
Burlington Builds to Salt Lake and Omaha Extension
General Manager Holdredge of the Burlington announces immediate construction of 800 miles to reach Salt Lake City. The route runs from near Broken Bow Nebraska to Bridgeport Nebraska, connecting with Guernsey Wyoming. Amendments filed cover the Nebraska Wyoming & Western railroad as part of Burlington.
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Omaha
Holdredge
The
Burlington Road
Salt Lake City
Broken Bow
Neb
Bridgeport
Guernsey
Wyo
Burnsey
Broken Bow Bridgeport
Burlington
Nebraska, Wyoming & Western Railroad
Four Are to Swing Same Day
Reno dispatch reports T F Gorman a San Francisco printer linotype operator J P Levener ex convict Fred Roberts of St Louis and Al Linderman a Stockton laborer to be hanged at Carson prison on Friday November 17. Convicted twice for the murder of Jack Welch in Humboldt county Nev they were denied another hearing by the state supreme court and sentenced in Reno district court.
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Reno
Nev
T. F. Gorman
San Francisco
J. P. Levener
Fred Roberts
St. Louis
al Linderman
Stockton
Cal
Carson Prison
Jack Welch
Humbolt County
Supreme Court
Crew of 24 Missing After Gambetta Tragedy
A Ymuiden dispatch reports the wreckage of the steam trawler Gambetta found on Doggerbanks in the North Sea. Gambetta left Fecamp on September 15 and was spoken October 2 sailing toward this port. The vessel has not been heard from since and the crew of 24 is presumed drowned.
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Fecamp
France
Ymuiden
Holland
Doggerbanks
North Sea
Gambetta
Construction Starts on Culdesac to Grangeville Line
Northern Pacific engineer T. H. Croswell says construction will begin on the Culdesac Grangeville line about November 1. He and C. M. Levy recently returned from the coast to supervise the project.
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Culdesac
Grangeville
T. H. Croswell
Northern Pacific
C. M. Levy
Belgian painter Florent Willems dies in Neuilly
Florent Willems a Belgian painter born in Liege in 1823 died in Neuilly France on Sunday Some of his best known pictures are owned in the United States.
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Neuilly
France
Florent Willems
Liege
United States
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