Paris police blow up suspicious iron vessel on Opera Avenue
Two Paris police officers discovering an iron vessel outside the Carmaux Mining office on the Avenue Opera carried it to the station where it exploded. The blast killed the two officers and wounded one more, wrecking the station and shattering windows. Authorities suspect anarchist involvement over labor tensions.
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Reuter Telegram Company
Paris
Avenue Opera
Carmaux Mining Company
Carmaux Company
Following a New Saint Mexican Shepherdess Arouses the Yaqui Indians
In Chihuahua and Sonora unrest grows as Yaqui communities abandon farms and rally in the Sierra Madre north of Trinidad. Anita Roca, a Mexican shepherdess, is venerated as Saint Anita guiding a planned war to reclaim lands taken by the government. Local forces prepare. General Manuel Rancel will lead 800 troops when roads permit.
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Sierra Madre Mountains
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Anita
Yaqui
Manuel Rancel
Nettleton to resign from Treasury post this month
General A B Nettleton announces his intention to resign as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury after three years in office. He says the move is to pursue private business previously planned, with rumors of him taking charge of a Philadelphia bank. He will remain a Minneapolis resident and Minnesota home.
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Philadelphia
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Fiendish husband attempts to burn wife at stake
In Yorkton, Stephen Andrews tried to set his wife ablaze, binding her as neighbors arrived and freed the unconscious woman. Her burns are serious and possibly fatal. Andrews fled into the mountains as a posse pursues him after a second axe attempt was thwarted.
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Hazelton
Yorkton
Stephen Andrews
Andrews
A Lively Crazy Man Terrorizes St Joseph in One Night
W H McLain, a maniac from St Joseph Missouri, escaped a work house and stole clothes then burned or threatened several sites. He posed as a paper mill agent at State Lunatic Asylum No 2 and took officers hats and a minister's coat. He started fires at St Joseph Bridge Works South Park Elevator and Glucose Works before capture. In the end he was recaptured at the asylum.
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Missouri
St. Joshin
W. H. McLain
State Lunatic Asylum No. 2
St. Joseph Bridge
South Park
Glucose Works
McLain
Immense Stone Quarried for World’s Fair Monolith
Ashland reports the Prentice Brownstone company prepared a 115 foot long monolith for the state exhibit at the World’s Fair. The tallest pillar yet quarried, it measures 10 feet at the base and 4 feet at the top, with plans to raise it Friday morning November 18 after breaking it from its bed.
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Ashland
Prentice Brownstone Company
Egypt
Dunraven Accepts Conditions For America’s Cup Challenge
New York dispatch reports Lord Dunraven has accepted conditions for the forthcoming America's Cup contest. A cable from Dunraven expresses satisfaction with the arrangements and the official terms will be released once his letter is received.
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New York Club
New York Yacht Clubs
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Woman dies after ingesting poison morphine powder
Mrs. Moses Latin of near Williamsburg found an envelope marked morphine in the road. She, a morphine user, took a large dose from the envelope when she returned home and soon fell sick and died before aid could arrive. The powder was later found to be deadly poison.
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Tenn
Moses Latin
Williamsburg
The Briggs Trial Divides New Orleans City Over Heresy Question
New Orleans faces a long briar of tension as the New York Presbytery weighs heresy in the Briggs trial. City leaders consider federal and local steps to prevent riots as strikes disrupt utilities and transit. The mayor seeks peace while labor, press, and business clash amid threats and blockaded services.
Street car strike halts Columbus system
The Consolidated Street Railway Co. system in Columbus is out of service as conductors and motormen strike. About 600 workers are affected after the firing of conductor Clarence Alexander who refused a mutilated dime. The exact instigator of the dispute is not yet known.
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Stewart
Columbus
Ohio
Consolidated Street Railway Company
Clarence Alexander
Trial of Professor Briggs on Heresy in New York Presbyterian Church
The Briggs trial opens in the Scotch Presbyterian church on Fourteenth Street with 215 presbyters as jurors and public galleries for spectators. Dr Bliss moderates as sessions run 2:30 to 5 pm daily. the case concerns Briggs’s teaching on an intermediate state and the Bible as the sole rule of faith.
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Charles A. Briggs
Union Theological Seminary
Scotch Presbyterian Church
Fourteenth Street
Sixth Avenue
Bliss
Washington Heights
American Presbyterian Church
Briggs
Presbyterian Church
Receiver of Monterey and Mexican Gulf Railroad Sustained
Judge Lorenzo Roel in Kent Court issues a decree declaring J A Robertson legally authorized as receiver to administer and preserve the railroad, excluding other claims, to protect the line from New York officials and ongoing legal fights. In Curiaco inflammatory pamphlets target anarchist followers, prompting a Friday demonstration. In Stoughton, Mass a boy Charles Doyle was shot and killed by an unknown assailant in a woodshed. searchers scour the woods for the killer.
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Lorenzo Roel
Kent Court
J. A. Robertson
Monterey and Mexican Gulf
New York
StouagaTon
Mass
Ray F. Wood
Charles Doyle
Fred Capen
North Stoughton
Doyle
Blizzard Sweeps Wisconsin Halting Shipping Traffic
A general Wisconsin blizzard causes a drastic temperature drop and driving snow. Vessels like the W. H. Wolf, Marion, Veronica, and C. T. Burroughs face ice and rough seas near Manitous. Overdue ships are believed sheltering as crews endure the gale.
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Wisconsin
Reedsburg
W. H. Wolf
Manitous
Marion
Veronica
Sheboygan
C. T. Burroughs
Family Poisoned By Paris Green In Well Water
A Bradley family trio plus five others near Bap Axe Michigan are critically ill from poison in their well water. Doctors fear multiple deaths as water analysis shows Paris green contamination. Includes father, mother, three sons, a daughter and two farmhands.
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James Bradley
Paris Green
Federal Action On Monterey and Gulf Railroad Case
Federal authorities moved in the Monterey and Mexican Gulf railroad matter noting recognition of J. A. Rob. and steps taken as subventors in the dispute. Officials indicated further filings would follow as the case proceeds through the court process.
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MonTstry, Mex
Monterey and Mexican Gulf
J. A. Rob
Beaver Falls Mills to Start Under Carnegie Plan
Beaver Falls Fauxs Pa November 9 Carnegie Steel announces mills will start Monday November 14. All quitters of four months ago will be rehired upon request. Applicants will be treated as individuals not as Amalgamated union members.
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Beaver Falls
Hungarian Cabinet Resigns After Imperial Meeting
Vienna November 9 Count Szarpary the Hungarian prime minister told Emperor Francis Joseph he tendered the resignation of the entire Hungarian cabinet and the emperor accepted it.
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Vienna
Count Szarpary
Francis Joseph
Chilean cabinet resigns amid clerical liberal tensions
Paris dispatch reports from Santiago that the Chilian cabinet has resigned after ongoing clashes between clerics and liberals. The move follows weeks of political strain and uncertainty in Chile.
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Paris
Santiago
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