Fifty Die in Wreck as Immigrant Train Collides Near Woodville
Chaos followed a head on crash between a Baltimore & Ohio immigrant train and a freight train near Woodville Indiana early Monday. About fifty passengers were killed and forty injured many fatally. Immigrants from Locust Point and Baltimore bound for Chicago dominated the casualties. Fires consumed six immigrant cars and several freight cars. Engineers Reneman and Burke, conductors Moste and Brooks, and Firemen Guller and Snyder were among the injured or dead.
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Chicago
Baltimore & Ohio
Woodville
Ind
Valparaiso
Northwest
McCool
Babcock
Locust Point
Baltimore
Burker
Moste
Reneman
Burke
Brooks and
Guller
Reneman and Burke
Snyder
Old Banker Must Serve Time in Stillwater
Judge Adams upholds the eight year sentence for Thomas B. Clement in the appellate ruling on his conviction for bank failure related to the collapse of First National Bank of Faribault. Clement, 70 plus, was bank president when Washington closed the bank in January 1904. Concurrent terms were imposed on the twenty four of twenty seven counts.
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St. Paul, Minn
Adams
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Thomas B. Clement
United States District Court
Stillwater
First National Bank of Faribault
Sanborn
Hook
Clement
Washington
Death of Maj. Gen. Shafter in California
Maj. Gen. William Rufus Shafter U S A retired died at 12 45 p m Monday at Capt W H McKittrick s ranch 20 miles south of Bakersfield after seven days illness He had been returning from the November 6 polls when he contracted a severe chill that worsened a prior indisposition and confined him to bed California officers report
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Bakersfield
Cal
William Rufus Shafter
W. H. McKittrick
California
Shafter
Accidental Shooting at Phillips Academy Leaves Schoolmate Dead
In Andover Massachusetts on Nov 12 Charles E Riggs a Phillips Academy student accidently shot John J Tracy a schoolmate who died instantly Tracy resided in Fimporia Kansas Riggs hails from Mount Vernon New York
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Andover
Mass
Charles E.riggs
Phillips-Andover Academy
John J. Tracy
Tracey
Fimporia
Kas
Riggs
Mount Veramon
N. Y
Health of Armies Report Shows U S Ranks In Admissions And Deaths
Washington reports Surgeon General O Reilly details 1905 medical department work and international comparisons. The Dutch army leads admissions, the British top deaths, Prussia lowest. American cases shorter on average, but higher for alcoholism and dysentery.
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Washington
Medical Department of the Army
R. M. O’reilly
War Department
United States
Great Britain
French Birth Rate Declines Highlighted in 1903 Figures
Paris reports 807,292 births in 1903, down 10,937 from 1904. Marriages rose slightly, but higher birth rates did not follow. A national study urges public reward for couples raising more than three children to reverse the trend.
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Paris
France
National Association
Carlisle Couple Tragedy Ends in Double Suicide
Clarence Eigenfitz aged 20 shot his cousin sweetheart Mary Katz near Drytown Carlisle Pa after she refused marriage. He then killed himself with a single gunshot to the head. The pair had attended church before the fatal shooting.
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Carlisle
Clarence Eigenfitz
Mary Katz
Drytown
Here
Ligenfitz
Miss Katz
Ilgenfitz
Advertising Firm Leader Dies Sudden in Chicago
Ambrose L. Thomas, 50, president of Lord & Thomas advertising agency, died suddenly on Saturday on the seventh floor of Carson, Pirie, Scott. Heart disease is suspected. Body sent to Rolston's funeral home. He lived at 4722 Woodlawn Avenue.
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Chicago
Ambrose L. Thomas
Lord & Thomas
Wabash Avenue
Carson, Pirie, Scott & Col
Rolston
Central Police
Thomas
Woodlawn Avenue
Thieles Comet Observation Reported From Cambridge
Cambridge Massachusetts November 14 a telegram to Haysvard College observatory states Thieles comet was observed on November 12 at right ascension 9h 21m 52s and declination plus 14d 2m 42s from Lick observatory Professor W W Campbell sent the message confirming the sighting
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Thieles
Cambridge
Mass
Haysvard College Observatory
W. W. Campbell
Lick Observatory
Illinois Central Official Dead in Chicago
John Calvin Welling, first vice president and long time director of the Illinois Central railroad, died Friday in Chicago after missing a sensational New York directors’ meeting due to illness.
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Illinois Central
Chicago
New York
Illinois Central Railroad
John Calvin Welling
Old Ball Player Dead Fat Feeney Dies at 49
Springfield reports the death of Charles Feeney known as Fat in baseball circles. Feeney, 49, died Sunday afternoon after a sudden illness. He weighed 380 pounds.
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Springfield
Charles Feeney
Son of wealthy man killed by robber in Pittsburgh
Henry Firth Smith son of Joseph Smith a wealthy Pittsburgh businessman was shot twice and killed by a burglar in his father's East End home during a Sunday morning confrontation. Police and detectives scoured the case amid a crime wave as residents call for more officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Henry Firth Smith
Joseph Smith
James A. McMillen
Young Smith
Smith
Smiths
Six Men Die in Cleveland Boiler Explosion
In Collinwood, a Cleveland suburb, a boiler blast at the Lake Shore railroad power house killed six workers and severely injured five others. The men, near the boiler foundation for a dynamo, were scorched by a blast of steam as the boiler ruptured.
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Cleveland, O
Lake Shore Railroad
Collinwood
Cleveland
Memorial Window for Hay in Philadelphia Synagogue
Washington, Nov. 14. Secretary Root will attend the dedication of a memorial window for the late John Hay at Keneseth Israel in Philadelphia on December 2. Oscar Strauss will also attend the dedicatory ceremonies. Dr. Krauskopf notes this as a pioneering honor to a non Jew in a Jewish house of worship for Hay’s aid to Kishineff Jews and his work against discrimination.
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Washington
Root
John Hay
Keneseth Israel Congregation
Philadelphia
Oscar Solomon Strauss
Metcalf
Department of Commerce and Labor
Krauskopf
Secretary Hay
Hay
Kishineff
Russia
Devlin's Partner Declared Insane in Leavenworth
W E Thomas, tied to the Devlin coal venture, was ruled insane by a Leavenworth county jury after depositions from physicians and nurses. Confined in a St Louis sanitarium since December, he suffered hallucinations and crisis tendencies amid losses of 850000 dollars. C J Willard, Leavenworth postmaster, appointed guardian to manage his estate.
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Leavenworth
Kan
W. E. Thomas
C. J. Devlin
Topeka
Devlin
Leavenworth County
St. Louis
Thomas
C. J. Willard
Three Indicted for Rebating in Freight Trade
Davis H. Kresky a freight broker and W A McGowan Nickel Plate agent were indicted for conspiracy to violate the interstate commerce act and Henry S Hartley a grain dealer indicted on accepting rebates on freight shipments. They were arraigned before Judge Cartland in U S district court and released on $5 000 bonds each. Potential penalties include fines up to 10 000 for Kresky and McGowan and up to 20 000 for Hartley with possible imprisonment up to two years for the first two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City, Mo
Davis H. Kresky
W. A. McGowan
Henry S. Hartley
Cartland
United States District Court
Kresky and
McGowan
Hartley
One Man Robs Newton Bank of $1000
A lone robber held up the Midland Bank in Newton Kansas on Tuesday afternoon. He was tall slight and about 28. He presented a letter to cashier Herman Suderman claiming his identity and warned that everyone would die if anyone tried to stop him. Six or seven customers were ordered into the vault and locked in while the thief took currency then fled.
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Newton
Kan
Midland Bank
Herman Suderman
Twain ill with bronchitis and disasters strike cities
The brief from SRiIEF notes Mark Twain with bronchitis at his New Orleans home, a Mobile lumber and coal yard fire causing $60,000 loss, a Chicago era fire and various listed events. Other items include quake receipts in San Francisco, relief fund balance, Mrs. Sage's donation plans, and a spate of sensational personal and public notices.
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Mark Twain
New "Oh
Dundee
Mobile
Ala
New York
San Francisco
Russell Sage
Gonrad Weiss
William O’brien
William Kane
Weeks
Port Chester
N. Y
Standard Oil Company
California
Hetty Green
Edward Merritt
Beloit
Wis
Hawaiian Islands
Yokohama
Prince Eberwyn
Germany
W. H. Haviland
National Order of Elks
Silver Bow
Montana
Emile Zola
Pantheon
Maria Einstein
Brooklyn
Augustus Silvestro
Thomas A. Houston
American, Audit Company
Cincinnati
Popular Bluff
Reid
Kane County
Illinois
Aurora
Grief Tragedy Strikes Belleville Family
Miss Petronella Romeister daughter of P. M. Romeister a Belleville merchant, leaped from a third story window after the death of her brother Roland 17 from heart paralysis. She fell mortally injured and died soon after while her attending physician said recovery was unlikely. Petronella had been visiting Champaign Illinois and was at home on vacation when she learned of the brother’s death. She was inconsolable and reportedly leaped after tearful scenes at the bier.
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Belleville
Lil
Petronella Romeister
P. M. Romeister
Roland
Romeister
Champaign
Ill
Prominent Lawyer Isaac F. Taylor Dies in Newtown
Isaac F. Taylor, a leading New Jersey lawyer based in Jersey City, died at his daughter Mrs Ralph Danforth's home in Newtown, Connecticut, after several months of illness.
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Newtown
Conn
Isaac F. Taylor
Jersey City
New Jersey
Ralph Danforth
Fire damages Spalding sporting goods store in New York
Fire swept the A. G. Spalding & Co. sporting goods store at 124 Nassau Street New York causing damage or destruction of goods valued at 75000 dollars. The blaze was reported on November 12 and affected the Nassau street location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sporting Goods
New York
A. G. Spalding & Co
Nassau Street
Church pew his bed shocks Portsmouth reader
A stranger slept on a church pew cushion after entering the open doors by night. The janitor found him asleep at dawn, checked for disturbance, and allowed him to leave unharmed. The incident occurred at a large Portsmouth church.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Times
Public Duty. Joseph Wilgus endorsement for Dean's Kidney Pills
Joseph Wilgus of Montpelier Ohio states exposure and driving caused kidney trouble with irregular secretions, retention, frequent urination at night, pain and discoloration. Dean's Kidney Pills provided relief from the start and renewed vitality. he endorses the medicine. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Joseph Wilgus
Montpelier
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Paris Meat Trade 1903 Slaughter Totals and Exports
Paris reports 1903 abattoir totals: 267,027 cattle 274,390 calves and 2,047,770 sheep produced 156,007,850 kg meat with 123,712,180 kg consumed in Paris and 32,292,650 kg exported. Hogs 282,508 yielded 27,657,350 kg pork and 29,370 horses produced 7,305,650 kg meat all eaten in Paris.
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Parisian
Paris
England
Mysterious Find at the Colonial Play
A woman in a white gown and opera cloak sat to watch a performance but discovered a calico checked apron on her skirt just before the show. She removed it as the house darkened, and a sweeper later found the apron under a seat, reported by the Pittsfield Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Colonial
Pittsfield Journal
Elgin appoints son as private secretary in historic precedent
The earl of Elgin appoints his son Lord Bruce as private secretary, mirroring William E Gladstone who in 1889 made Herbert Gladstone a private secretary at age twenty, following a cherished family and political precedent. The note frames it as a continuation of established practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Makeston
Lord Bruce
Earl of Elgin
William E. Gladstone
Herbert Gladstone
Food causes nervous trouble says patient
A man attributes his recovery from chronic indigestion and nervousness to Grapenuts and Postum. He describes morning sickness, heart and head pains, and loss of appetite before using Grapenuts, then gaining weight and feeling well after two months, crediting the cereal and Postum with his improvement.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Pligs
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First National
Faribault, Minn
Maj. Gen. Shafter
Scranton
Thomas Dougherty
Dunmore
Dougherty
Congregation
Kansas
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Grother
Liv
Milwaukee
Kansas City
Texas
Omaha
True
House of Worship
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