World Shews Briefly Told Culled From Dispatches
A sweeping weekly digest reports a Great Northern eastbound flyer wreck at Kiva Mont. Engineer Huffman died, Fireman Keyes injured, passengers hurt. Also covered are Episcopal canons on divorce, Pacific Northwest league news with Portland pennant, a bank robbery link to Annie Rogers, political and naval notes, a Missouri lynching inquiry, Cuba annexation talk, and other scattered intelligence from rail to court to society.
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St. Paul
Minn
Great Northern
Kiva
Mont
Popular
Huffman
Keyes
House of Deputies
Portland
Butte
Helena
Lucas
Annie Rogers
Maude Williams
Nashville
Tenn
Taylor
Pinkerton
Chicago
Wagner
Fourth National Bank
Aguinaldo
Habeas Corpus Method of Release. Secretary of the Treasury
Lyman J. Gage
Milwaukee
Molokai
Yale College
John Sargent Pillsbury
Minnesota
George Melville
Navy
Kruger
Hallenburger
Santos-Dumont airship dispute over prize decision at Paris tower
Paris report details Santos-Dumont rounding the Eiffel tower in 29 minutes 15 seconds but with an extra 1 minute 25 seconds before helpers seized the guide ropes. The committee ruled 40 seconds over limit, declaring Deutsch winner while crowds cheered for Santos-Dumont who contended he won by reaching grounds within 30 minutes.
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Paris
Santos-Dumont
St. Cloud
Filffel
M. Deutsch
Eiffel Tower
Aero Club
Count de Dion
Aeronaut
Biarritz
Deutsch
Efforts Continue to Free Ellen Stone and Companion
In Constantinople and St. Petersburg, officials report no new word from missionaries seeking the brigands who abducted Ellen Stone and Mme Tsilka. Negotiations remain ongoing, with hope the captors may surrender to Bulgaria while U S diplomats press for safety and ransom arrangements.
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Constantinople
W. W. Peet
American Bible House
Spencer Eddy
United States
Legation
Miss Ellen Stone
Mme. Tsilka
Peet
Eddy
Dickenson
Sophia
Miss Stone
St. Petersburg
Tower
Berlin
Bulgaria
Dickinson
H. C. Haskell
J. W. Baird
Congregational
Samakov
Elien M. Stone
Stilka
Colombian Rebels Lose Near Kingston Battle Outcome
Kingston Jamaica Oct 22 Letters from Panama report Colombian rebels suffered heavy losses in a battle near there last Tuesday. Rebels are gathering in a camp nearby and both sides plan a clash believed to largely decide the revolution's fate.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Panama
Boer Leaders Banished From South Africa
Pretoria reports twelve more Boer leaders including Commandant Scheeper banished from South Africa. Capture of Scheeper was announced October 12.
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Pretoria
Commandant Scheeper
South Africa
Sydney Fire Threatens Town Center in 1900s Gale
A massive blaze swept Sydney Cape Breton amid a 45 mile gale. Four blocks of core business buildings burned as water shortages hampered firemen, with departments from North Sydney and Glace Bay aiding. By 10 pm the fire was under control, with losses estimated at 400000 to 500000 dollars. Plans to make Sydney the Pittsburg of Canada were noted.
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Halifax
N. S
Sydney
Cape Breton
Charlotte Street
A. D. Giles
Gordon & Keith
Carr, Jeweler, Monchard, Pentley & Co
Maritime Premium Company
Prowse Bros. & Crowell
North Sydney
Glace Bay
Charlotte
Prince Streets
George Street
Bentick
Bruce
George
Union Bank of
Baptist and
Presbyterian
Wentworth
Prince and Pitts Streets
Irdney
C. B
Dominion Iron & Steel Company
Dominion Coal Company
Henry M. Whitney
Boston
Pittsburg
Canada
Detective Grim Fatally Shot in Cincinnati
Detective Calvin D. Grim, famed for the Pearl Bryan case and McKinley inauguration guard, was shot by John Foley also called Dan Driscoll and The Goat. Foley, a released convict wanted for pocket-picking at funerals, was captured by two other officers.
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Cincinnati
Calvin D. Grim
John Foley
Grim
Foley
Dan Driscoll
the Goat
Pearl Bryan
McKinley
Murdered While in Bed in San Francisco
On Jessie street in San Francisco the 13 year old Mabel Franklin Mayer was murdered in her bed. Her killer, 22 year old John Stane, fled the scene but then killed himself by shooting, after the mother entered the room following the screams.
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San Francisco
Mabel Franklin Mayer
Jessie Street
John Stane
De fender Yacht Broken Up After Cup Races
New York Oct 21 The yacht De fender which beat the Valkyrie ITT in the cup races has been broken up at City Island. A car laden with aluminum bronze and lead from her components arrived at Newark New Jersey and was consigned to junk yards there.
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Somerville
Fort Douglas
August Lang
Lang
John W. Springer
National Livestock Association
Chicago
Union
Livestock Association, Stockyards and Transportation Company
James R. Woolf
Lawton Land
el Reno
Pat Crowe
Omaha
Pat
Prince Ching
Kai Feng
Honan
Helena
Mont
James E. Brady
Cuba
United States
Jerome
Ariz
W. A. McKinnon
Arizona
Montana
Frank Wirod
Salmon River
Idaho
Virod
le Roi Company
Northport
Wash
le Roi
Waco
Texas
Brann- Davis
Albert G. Smith
Lewis H. Swift
Sir Thomas Lipton
England
Wetton and Fife
New York Yacht Club
Watson and
Fife
Shamrock
Dennys
New York
George Armitage
Bank of New Amsterdam
Tenderloin
Armitage
Marie
Brooklyn
Journal and Advertiser
Isabel Quagh
Defender
City Island
Newark
N. J
Tragedy in Tacoma quarrel ends in miner's death
Eugene Mo sat, a Wilkeson miner, was killed by John Gorges, owner of a Tacoma boarding house, during a quarrel on October 22. Mosat was armed with a razor as the dispute turned fatal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoms
Wash
Eugene Mosat
Miner
Wilkeson
John Gorges
Mosat
Christ's Life in Wood by John O'Donnell Masterpiece
John O'Donnell spent 27 years carving a lifelike Bethlehem crib from a single pocketknife block. Over 150 figures unfold the life of Christ from birth to ascension in a three foot high cabinet church. He carved with plain tools, endured slips, and finished in Salt Lake near his home after moving from Brooklyn.
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Christ
John O'Donnell
East Fourth Souths Street
Bethlehem
O'Donnell
Brooklyn
N. Y
Egypt
Joseph
Jesus
Calvary
Simon
Cyrenes
St. Joseph
Nicodemus
Mary Magdalene
Johns
Holy Ghost
The Confederate's Revenge tale tease ends in mock wealth turn
A professor and a confederate stage a ridiculous ruse with hair restorer sales and a mock fortune, prompting the pretend heir to boast wealth he claims to leave to an orphan asylum. The pair then plan to revisit a city where the professor once operated without a license, adding a note of comic danger.
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Indianapolis
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Lord Rosebery
Stanhope
Trip
Deutach
Messenger
ARGE
Detective van Shot
Tacoma
Wood
Anawar
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