King Leopold quarrels with Princess Stephanie at Spa
Spa dispatch reports King Leopold refused to speak to Princess Stephanie forcing her to leave the royal palace. The two clashed over her second marriage to Count Lonay, with multiple versions of the quarrel cited. Stephanie left by train amid public sympathy as Leopold prayed at the coffin of Queen Marie Henriette.
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Brussels
Stephanie
Spa
Leopold Arived
Brunsels
Marie Henriette
Leopold
Austria
Elmer
Count of
Lonay
Belgium
Marienriette
Clementine
Spiked knucks shown in Cincinnati court case
Patrolman Harnold presented a weapon feared and rare at Cincinnati Police Court in the Frank Shaw case. The spiked knucks, iron and brass, are illegal to manufacture in the United States and traceable to the Spanish Inquisition. The 100 year old weapon is described as capable of crushing bone and mangling flesh with its danger.
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Cincinnati
Harnold
Frank Shaw
Columbus
United States
Excursion Into Bird Land With Mrs Jenks-Smith
In a light chatty piece Mrs Jenks-Smith discusses bird study as a fashionable hobby, notes bird boxes failed by drafts, plans a spring bird class with a professor, and recalls a river visit with twenty ladies, a gourmet lunch, and spotting a quail, blue Jane, and a red eyed virago during lunch in the woods.
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Mrs. Jenks-Smith
Europe
Thumb as a Revealer of Insanity in Workers and Patients
The thumb is described as an infallible indicator of insanity and nerve disease. Employers reportedly screen applicants by thumb posture, while asylum doctors use it to detect fraud and mental illness. Surgeons reportedly operate near the "thumb center" of the brain to remove disorders when warning signs appear.
Landslides Feared After Vesuvius Cone Collapse
Residents and officials brace as a portion of Mount Vesuvius cone collapses raising fears of further landslides and triggering precautionary evacuations and monitoring measures.
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Mount Vesuvius
Castro Defeated In Tinaquillo Four Day Battle
Venezuelan forces under General Garrido were defeated after a four day engagement near Tinaquillo, sending President Castro retreating from Ocumare toward Valencia. The larger force of revolutionists, about 4000 strong under Mendoza Batalla and Rivera, pressed the government army to collapse and push toward Caracas.
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Genral Garrido
Tinaquillo
Venezuela
Venezuella
Mendoza
Batalla
Rivrea
Garrido
Torres Cardenas
Castro
Valencia
Caracas
Ocumare
Venezula
Rail rails from Germany to bolster U S steel supply
Oakland California September 23 The Southern Pacific company will receive 40 000 tons of steel rails from Germany as American foundries are too busy. Covington Virginia September 23 A cavern in the Stack mines trapped four men all colored, who lost their lives.
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Oakland
Cal
Southern Pacific Company
Germany
America
Covington
Dead and Injured Count Rise in Sudden Calamity
Report describes crowds unable to reach safety as many victims, mostly women, fainted before suffocating or being crushed. Physicians note no blood was seen on the bodies, underscoring the fatal mechanism as suffocation or trampling rather than violence.
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Birmingham
Ala
Shiloh Negro Baptist Church
Avenue G
Eighteenth Street
Booker T. Washington
National Convention of Baptists
House of Worship
Judge Billou
Baltimore
Minster
Shiloh
South Highlands
Booker Washington
National Irrigation Congress Meets in Colorado Springs in October
Colorado Springs hosts the tenth annual National Irrigation Congress from October 6 to 9 with the American Forestry Association meeting simultaneously. Delegates are apportioned by state population, city size, counties, chambers, and professional groups. foreign representatives and national lawmakers may attend. In New York, 10000 join a Madison Square mass meeting in sympathy with Pennsylvania coal miners, with leaders John Mitchell and Samuel Gompers condemning operators.
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Colorado Springs
Denver
Col
Colo
American Forestry Association
Board of County Commissioners
Chamber of Congress
Commercial Club
Real Estate Exchange
Irrigation, Agricultural and Livestock Association
Society of Engineers
Irrigation Company and Agricultural College
United States Senate
House of Representatives
National Irrigation Association
New York
Madison Square
Central Federated Union
Pennsylvania
John Mitchell
United Mineworkers
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Henry George
Ernest Crosby
Charles P. Adams
John 8. Crosby
Benjamin Hanford
Mysteries of Railroad Time Cards Fix Revealed
A Northern Pacific initiative introduces a compact pocket time card to simplify travel information. In Missoula Montana Ira Pressley and his wife from Superior are critically injured with Pressley’s throat cut and the wife unconscious after a blunt head injury. The man, barely able to speak, claims no quarrel with his wife and survives with a severed windpipe.
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Northern Pacific Railroad
Missoula
Mont
Ira Pressley
Superior
Pressley
The German Emperor as Humorous Figure
Leslie's Weekly relays a tale of the German Emperor juggling roles from soldier to musician and poet. He totters between thought and action, pulling his ear when deep in thought and joking by claiming he would pull another’s ear when very annoyed. The piece also notes misuse of refined for slender people who dislike boiled cabbage and remarks on eyes.
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Leslie's Weekly
Train wreck near Bonner injures dozens on two linked routes
Wreck involving North Coast train No. 4 rear engine and sleeper Tentina near Bonner station Montana injures many riders while the two sections were being moved to Missoula. Most passengers recover quickly after medical aid from Northern Pacific hospital staff. One Chicago passenger Mrs Claude Jones suffers severe chest and shoulder injuries.
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Fargo
N. D
Northern Pacific
Moorhead
Freigh
Missoula
Mont
Bonner Station
Tacoma
Claude Jones
Chicago
Florence Hotel
Northern Pacific Hospital
Company
Pacific Coast
Cascade Mountains
Reg
Eh Pacis
Mis
Wrecked a Skagway Bank by Unknown Bomb Threat
A lone man entered the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Skagway at 8 pm with a revolver and a dynamite bomb demanding 20000. He dropped the bomb after Wallace refused to comply, the bank wrecked, and he died at the hospital from injuries. Clerks escaped via rear window. one bystander injured. About $1000 in gold dust lost. identity of bomber unrevealed. The Spokane Fair at Masonic Hall opens October 6 with 167 electric lights and 17 decorated booths. season tickets on sale.
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Cincinnati
Roosevelt
Exposition Grounds
Music Hall
St. Nicholas
J. B. Foraker
Nash
Shattuck and
Bramwell
Fleischmann
Seattle
Skagway
Bank of Comerce
Pooley
Wallace
J. G. Price
Spokane
Noble F. Martin
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