President Roosevelt Wreck and Fast Transfer to Ivy
The West Virginia bound president’s party were hit by a collision between the Esparza and Magnolia near New Orleans at 11 PM. The Magnolia was beached with minor hull damage. no one injured. The president slept through the mishap and transferred to the Ivy for safe passage northward while wireless links along the coast were emphasized for continuous contact.
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United States
West Virginia
New Orleans
Esparza
Magnolia
Loeb
Dr. Knixey
Magnola
President
Craighill
United States Engineers
Ivy
Pilot Station
New Orieane
Lghthouse
Roosevelt
Filettown
Esparta
Atlantic Seaboard
Cape Cod
Isthmus
Panama
Gulf of Mexico
Hampton Roads
Pensacola
Key West
Dry Tortugas
Jupiter Inlet
St. Augustine
Savannah
Charleston
Diamond Shoals
Cape Henry
Two Little Boys Swear Father's Life Away
In White Plains New York Judge Keogh sentences John Johnson to death by electric chair at Sing Sing during the week starting December 18 for the murder of his wife on May 13. Two young sons aged one and eleven testified that they saw him shoot her on the porch with her mother and children nearby.
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White Plains
N. Y
John Johnson
Keogh
Singsing
Johnson
Robbery at Libau Bank Branch Claims 17500
Six armed men entered the Libau branch of the Moscow International Trade bank and robbed it of 17500 dollars. Five robbers were soon captured and 10000 dollars recovered while the sixth escaped with 7500 dollars.
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Libau
Moscow International Trade Bank
Dun’s Review of Business Conditions Across the Nation
Dun and Co reports a favorable business tone nationwide with cooler weather easing seasonable shortages and reducing heavy stock risk. Spring shipments inquiries fall, idle machinery appears in manufacturing, steel demand hits a new peak, rail freight shows delays, textile mills stay busy though labor remains unsettled, and farm staple prices rise as railway securities reach record highs.
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New York
Qet
Dun & Co
de Puday
Altoosh
Second Suitcase Found With Limbs of Murdered Woman
Boston Oct 28 The second suitcase recovered from the Charles River holds arms and legs believed by medical experts to be the missing limbs of a woman killed in the Sept 21 torso case. Rings on a hand may aid identification. pawnbroker links the two cases. similar cloth ties the cases together.
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Boston
Charles River
Story of pretty girl ends with funeral
Warren Ohio October 28 The body of May Jannette Caey who recently took her own life in a New York hotel arrived here and will be buried in Oakland cemetery Relatives including her mother Mrs George Clark of Akron were present to meet the body The young woman was noted for her beauty
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Warren
May Jannette Caey
New York
Oakland Cemetery
George Clark
Akron
Taft Begins Panama Trip While Reviewing Canal Costs
Washington October 28 Secretary Taft and his party departed for Panama after a day full of work including a review of canal commission expenditures since July. Officials expect the plant for canal construction to be bought by January or June next year. Harrisburg October 28 Governor Pennypacker commuted the death sentence of Mrs Catherine Danz to life imprisonment for poisoning her husband with powders supplied by a voodoo doctor who awaits death for a similar crime.
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Taft
Panama
Washington
Canal Commission
Harrisburg
Pennypacker
Catherine Danz
Philadelphia
William A. Duer Dies At Harbor Hill Home
William A. Duer, 75, father-in-law of Clarence H. Mackay, died at Harbor Hill Roslyn L. I. after months of illness since returning from Europe. The death had been expected about a week.
Lawson Sues for Libel in Hancock Libel Suit
Thomas W. Lawson of Boston sues Horace J. Stevens of Houghton for $20,000 claiming libel damaged his reputation. The suit centers on published statements by the copper mine specialist.
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Lawson
Hancock
Mich
Thomas W. Lawson
Boston
Horace J. Stevens
Houghton
Shaw Speaks to Republicans in Portsmouth Ohio
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw addressed a large Republican gathering at the Grand Opera house in Portsmouth. Prominent Southern Ohio Republicans attended and Congressman Bannon introduced Shaw whose remarks drew high enthusiasm from the audience.
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Shaw
Portsmouth
Secretary of the Treasury
Leslie M. Shaw
Grand Opera House
Ohio
Bannon
Miss Roosevelt Arrives in Washington from Orient Journey
Miss Alen Roosevelt daughter of the president arrives in Washington after a long journey from the Orient. She came from New York in a parlor car attached to a regular Pennsylvania Railroad train and returns in excellent health.
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Alice
Washington
Alen Roosevelt
Orient
Miss Roosevelt
New York
Pennsylvania
Lion Tamer Bostock mauled during Paris performance
Paris reports Frank C. Bostock the lion tamer was attacked by a lion during a show last night and left unconscious from the injuries. The incident occurred on stage, with medical teams attending him after the attack.
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Bostock
Paris
Frank C. Bostock
Two Conventions Split Over Rail, Pate Legislation At Chicago
In Chicago on October 23 two separate conventions formed around interstate commerce issues. One group supported Roosevelt era federal regulation of freight rates via an expanded interstate commerce commission, while an opposing assembly pressed to keep railroads within defined rights and urged remedies for current evils. The regular convention created the Interstate Commerce Law League with officers elected to push the plan nationwide.
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MccLeod
Interstate Commerce Law League
McLeod
Roosevelt
Interstate Commerce Commission
League
E. P. Bacon
Wisconsin
J. E. Howard
Kansas
Adolph Muller
Illinois
R. S. Lyon
Chicago
Death Rather Than Arrest in Chicago Real Estate Fraud Case
Adolph Perbohner, a real estate and loan operator at 151 Washington Street, leaped from a four story window near City Hall to evade warrants for conspiracy and fraud, dying on the pavement as bystanders watched. He slammed a private office door on police, then plunged through the glass, apparently overwhelmed by the nearing arrest and unable to reflect.
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Chicago
Adolph Perbohner
Washington Street
T.gedy
Porbohner
Perbohner
Widow Sues for 50 000 Damages Over Mob Lynching
Mrs. Mary Thacker, widow of mob victim William Thacker, files in Covington federal court seeking 50 000 dollars in damages from George Gordon and Jemingsburg citizens for mobbing her husband after he was indicted for killing his son. Affidavit alleges mob involvement with jailer Morris to obtain the keys.
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Cincinnati
William Thacker
Femingsburg
Covington
Mary Thacker
George Gordon
Jemingsburg
Marris
Union Men Sentenced in Keokuk Case
Keokuk Iowa October 28 Lee Never president of the District lodge of machinists governing the Santa Fe system was sentenced to four months in jail for assaulting non union machinists at the start of the strike. Two of Nevers companions were sentenced to bars as a judge and another fined $500 for the assault.
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Keokuk
Lee Never
District Lodge of Machinists
Santa Fe
Epopantans
Never
Bares
Jnigns
Ano der
Five Girls Burned in Newark Factory Fire
A fire at the M Gould Sons & Co hardware factory in Newark Ontario badly burned five young girls, two fatally. Injured are Minnie Garrity age 15 Carria Rummer age 18 Sadie Schaeffer age 18 Mary Schwenck age 18 and Anna Glazer age 15. One girl overturned a candle into a pot of lacquer.
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Newark
Qet
X-Faive
M. Gould Sons & Co
Minnie Garrity
Carria Rummer
Sadie Schaeffer
Mary Schwenck
Anna Glazer
FLED FROM SURE DEATH IN CHINESE RINGUPS
Washington reports Lucy Roselu Wife of a Chinese cigar merchant in Matt Street New York fled home to tell of alleged crimes by Chinese in New York She said four white women were murdered by husbands who learned too much and disposed bodies in suitcases She rushed to a railway station to reveal what she knows amid threats from captors
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Washington
Brgabindsas
New York
Lucy Roselu
Jb Yeers
Matt Street
Tueau Ty
Opr
Reo Ponce
Train Fall From Bridge Near Lexington Injures Twelve
In Lexington Kentucky on October 28 a Southern Railway train toppled from a bridge into a creek 40 feet below. A locomotive tender jumped the tracks about 100 yards from the bridge. Engineer Phillips full throttled to save the locomotive as the bridge sides were crushed by plowing cars, leaving twelve injured.
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Lexington
Southern Railway
Jane
Phillips
Wreckage Found From Kaliyuga Sailship Near Cove Island
Detroit reports the Canadian steamer Lillie Smith sighted wreckage believed from the Kaliyuga, missing after last week's lake storm. A yellow pilot house and white cabin parts were seen about 40 miles south of Cove Island near Georgian Bay, corroborating the loss.
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Detroit
Lillie Smith
Parry Sound
Lakes
Cove Island
Georgian Bay
Pace Too Hot for Zelaya in Highland Falls
Highland Falls N Y Oct 28 Carlos Alfonso Zeaya of Nicaragua admitted as a cadet last June by special act of congress has been granted a leave of absence pending withdrawal from the academy E C Zelaya has withdrawn from the military academy on account of insufficient progress in his studies
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Zelaya
Highland Falls
N. Y
Carlos Alfonso Zeaya
Nicaragua
Military Academy
Speeial
Congress
E. C. Zelaya
Guthrie Woman Outwits Clerk With Silk Remnant
A Guthrie Oklahoma woman in New York City negotiated a silk remnant deal after a clerk quoted 35 cents for a yard. She agreed to take the remnant for 20 cents and kept the yard she had torn off, a tale the Kansas City Times calls unmatched for commercial wit.
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Guthrie
Okla
Kansas City Times
New York City
Jealousy Drives Woodsman to Shoot Wife and Self
In Munising Michigan Ed Riley a woodsman killed his wife and then shot himself before leaping into the lake. He died and doctors say his wife cannot recover. Authorities report jealousy as the motive.
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Munising
Mich
Ed Riley
Riley
The Cocoanut In Folk Life And A Personal Moment
The text notes the cocoanut as vital in pagan life, supplying shelter, roofing, clothing, food, drink, and crafts, then shifts to a playful window scene portraying cheerful interior life contrasted with outward unease, followed by a late-article note about a furniture installment house opening a new account.
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Rie
Russian turmoil near Paris sparks army orders and strikes
Crowds surge as Russia teeters on revolution. Governors threaten to shoot agitators. Mutinies and factory closures ripple from Kiev to Warsaw with protests spreading to Baratoff and Poltava. Officials warn troops may fire to restore order as strikes widen.
Situations skillfully handled by Trepoff
Shratoff Oct. 28 reports centers towns shut, streetcars halted, troops guarding banks and telegraph offices, and many factories ceasing ops. Libau Oct. 28 bank robbed by armed men. Reg a Russia Oct. 28 gunsmith shops looted before troops closed them. Heku Caucasia Oct. 28 strikers seize arms car with 170 pounds dynamite. Thorn Prussia Oct. 28 Warsaw incendiary fire still burning in part of city.
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Warsaw
Lodz
Riga
Russia
St. Petersburg
Kilarkul
Kieff
Associated Press
Trepom
Baratoff
Saratoff
Catherine I
Patellemon
Kniaz Potemkine
Minsk
Mila Street
Poltava
Shratoff
Rega
Libau
Heku
Caucasia
Thorn
Prussia
Hanged Negro in Birmingham for Railroad Murder
Ander eon Sheldon, colored, was hanged in the rail yard here for the January murder of Ed Almon, a flagman on the Louisville and Nashville railroad, in Birmingham Alabama on October 28.
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Alabama
Birmingham
Ala
Ander
Sheldon
Ed Almon
Louisville and Nashville
Chicago grain market in turmoil on Russian crisis
The Chicago wheat pit stayed volatile as the Russia politico industrial crisis weighed on prices. May wheat closed at 90 1/4 to 91 with a 0.5 cent loss, December down 0.5 cent, corn off 0.25, oats down 0.25. Closing quotes: Wheat May 90 1/2 91, Dec 89 3/4. corn Dec 45 1/4 54. oats Dec 30 0.
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Chicago
Russia
Pittsburg Markets October 27 1900s Prices Mixed
Market report lists corn oats hay eggs butter cheese cattle hogs sheep and lambs with various grades and price ranges. Notable items include No 2 white oats at 34 to 64 cents per bushel and cattle prices from fat steers 3.25 to 5.75 dollars, milk cows 26 to 50 dollars, and hogs around 5.10 to 5.30 dollars per hundredweight.
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New York
Ohio
Wisconsin
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