Three snow slides kill Telluride miners
Denver reports at the Liberty Bell mine and Corner Creek basin yesterday three separate snowslides buried and killed fourteen miners, with unknown numbers missing and twelve others injured. Rescue efforts halted by severe storm. fourteen dead named along with injured and missing, as officials warn more bodies may be found when snow melts.
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Denver
Colo
Liberty Bell
Corner Creek
Nnd
L. M. Umsted
Umsted
Gus Kraus
Republi
Charlie Amsted
Charlie
Liberty Bell Group of Mines
Conet Creek Basin
Tomboy Company
Clemmer
Cornet Creek Gulch
John Herron
Tom Boy Gold Mines Company
J. W. Lyons
Tom Boy
Harry Chase
L. S. Stanley
George Reiner
Gregory
Chase
Lee Carroll
Stockton Smith
Knute Talson
John Isakson
Charles Hall
Gus von Fuinter
John R. Powell
Paul Palpra
Allen
T. dDey
Harry BE. Chase
W. G. Gregory
Gus Swanson
George Rohmer
Summerland
Harry Golden
Wade Crow
E. Bishop
Gus von Finter
John K. Powell
Paul Dalpra
Johnakson
Charles Goode
Erdinando Zanzuki
Henry Panerik Hale
Jack Marshal
Jacob Golden
Jim Conlon
W. A. Latshaw
Experiences in captivity by Miss Stone and companions
Miss Stone and her party, including Mme Tsilka, were held by brigands en route to Constantinople. Captors treated prisoners well, built shelters, supplied horses, and carried the baby. They kept captives’ identities and locations secret, released near Strumitza after a long night march, with two women left under a tree at 3:30 a.m. on February 23.
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A. Keb
Miss Will
Jeave Ionica
Rouman Stone
Constantinople
Miss Stone
Mme. Tsilka
Stone
Macedonia
Draslo
Mr. House
Pki
Strumitza
Big Gold Shipments From Treasury to West Coast
Washington reports a New York request to deposit 000,000 in gold at the sub treasury for withdrawal in San Francisco bound for the Orient. The transaction, expected to require about 14,000,000 by mid March, was granted to balance gold reserves. Banks in New York announce shipments totaling 2,500,000 with National City Bank exporting 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 and Lazard Freres Also shipping 1,000,000.
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Washington
Treasury Department
New York
San F Icisco
Orient
San Francisco
National City Bank
Felderbach
Ick & Co
Lazard Freres
Floods and Fire Devastate New Jersey and New York
Floods across northern New York and Paterson New Jersey cause severe destruction. Sprakers wiped out, Spruce Street raceway water power threatened, dynamite prepared to divert floodwaters. Hundreds homeless, Rogers locomotive works and silk mills inundated. relief efforts rush blankets, provisions, and boats amid ongoing recuse and transport disruptions.
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New York
New York State
Rhochester
Paterson
New Jersey
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Allegheny
New York Central
Hudson River Railroad
Grand Central
West
Altuy
Hudson
Albany
Fort Plain
N Y
Sprakers
Here
N. J
Passaic
M Niles
Spruce Street
Spruce — Straill
Rogers Locomotive Works
Fifth Regiment
Newark
Wireless milestone as Marconi proves transatlantic reach
The New York arrival of inventor Marconi on the steamer Philadelphia shows wireless signals from Cornwall to sea 2,099 miles away. Messages were one way from signal station to ship, with signatures from Captain Mills and Chief Officer Marsden validating the feat.
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New York
Philadelphia
Marconi
Cornwall
Cherbourg
A. R. Mills
Poldhu
Mr. Marconi
Mills
Marsden
Foundland
Cuba
United States
English Channel
Telluride Snowslides Add to Death Toll in Colorado
The Telluride area reports nineteen known victims from a spate of snowslides within 36 hours. A new slide at the Gold King mine damaged a tramway but killed no one. Pandora mill foreman C W Van Law and his family fled a feared slide, while a rescue effort at the Liberty Bell site faced a blizzard, delaying the search for the dead.
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Telluride
Colo
Marshall Basin
Sheridan Mine
Gold King Mine
C. W. van Law
A.B. Blainey
O. M. Sackett
Pandora
Marshall and
Savage Basins
Tarry LH. Martin
Union
Hey
Guston Fentel
Paul Delpha
S. G. Collins Bankrupt in Boston and Denver
Boston based bankrupt S G Collins files in U S court here with liabilities around 120000 and assets reported as 100. He states fortune fell in a single night after nine years of attempts to settle obligations. Major creditors include People's National Bank of Denver with 135636 loan on 60000 notes secured by Arapahoe county real estate. Denver Savings Bank holds 18005 judgment. Collapse followed Denver panic of 1893 with other creditors listed.
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Boston
Marchael G. Collins
Denver
United States
Collins
Arapahoe County
Eople’s Savings Bank
Denver Savings Bank
Influenza grips London as powerful new scourge spreads
London reports a rising influenza tide as smallpox fears ease. Politicians and business leaders miss duties. government figures like A. J. Balfour and Sir Thomas Lipton among the afflicted. Lord Roberts and about thirty MPs fall ill amid warm, wet weather aiding the grip. The Earl of Perth’s death is noted as a notable victim.
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London
A. J. Balfour
House of Commons
Thomas Lipton
Lord Roberts
House Off Commons
Earl of Perth
Roosevelt Rewards Rescuer in Lisbon for Ocean Rescue
The gold chronometer and other honors from President Roosevelt were presented by FR H Loomis to the rescuers who saved the captain and crew of the American schooner Western Era after the Portuguese steamer Peninsular broke apart near Lisbon in November. The Peninsular rescued the captain and two sailors and brought them to New York.
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Lisbon
Roosevelt
Betancourt
Peninsular
FR. H. Loomis
United States
Portugal
Calais
New Bedford
New York
Senators in Fist Fight Ends in Senate Contempt
In a South Carolina clash the senators McLaurin and Tillman fought, Tillman struck McLaurin, and both were held in contempt. Open session saw apologies but no purge. next day Frye ordered their names barred from roll calls, effectively suspending them from duties.
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Senate
McLaurin
Frye
Tillman and
South Carolina
Margaret Dale to lead in John Drew's company next season
Margaret Dale, now a minor actress in The Wilderness in New York, is slated as leading woman for John Drew's company next season, succeeding Ida Conquest who will debut in a new production. Dale, a Germantown, Pennsylvania native, debuted at the Girard theater in Philadelphia three years ago and rose to leading woman in Henry Miller's company.
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Margaret Dale
New York
John Drew
Ida Conquest
Miss Dale
Germantown
Girard Theater
Philadelphia
Henry Miller
Royalty at the Stage in a Royal Diary Note
A royal diary recounts King Edward’s first play at a young age with the selections Used Up and Box and Cox. The event describes a well arranged theater with lamps and decorations, four elder children in attendance, two boys in kilts, two younger girls in white satin with pink bows, and Princess Royal’s tied hair style.
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Edward
Box
Cox
Duchess of Teck
Royal
Birds Decline Marked in Missouri Over Fifteen Years
Systematic inquiries into Missouri bird life reveal a 62 percent drop in seed eating birds and an 80 percent fall in game birds over the last fifteen years. The study highlights serious declines across several species and calls for attention to habitat loss and environmental pressures.
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Missouri
Roosevelt's Conathored Harvard Crimson Secretary
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a president’s cousin, has been elected secretary of Harvard University’s Crimson, a prestigious undergraduate literary honor.
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Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harvard “Crimson
Harvard University
Seek Skull of Mozart Sparks International Search
German scientists search for Mozart skull the great Austrian composer. A sketch is sent for identification as the true relic vanished years ago. Mozart died in 1791 and was buried in Vienna near St. Maximilian cemetery.
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Mozart
St. Maximilian
Vienna
Jacobus Hyrtl
Professor Hyrtl
Jacobus
Hyrtl
Salzburg
Meeding
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