London Canal Scheme Attracts American Investment Interest
London considers a Southampton to London canal to connect cities with American capital funding. The plan, analyzed by engineers, faces legal hurdles and opposition but could shorten transatlantic travel. Chicago reports a man, John Pfeiffer, hanged himself while his wife sewed at home.
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Charles T. Yerkes
Climax
Southampton
London
New London Railroad
Chicago Millionaire
Manchester and Liverpool Ship Canal
Thames
Scourges in London and World Population Talk
London faces a surge in hooliganism with holdups assaults and murders chiefly by youths. The Spectator proposes hanging all murders, regardless of youth, as a remedy. Sir Robert Giffen tells the Manchester Statistical Society the United States leads in population and resources with four world powers dominant. The Prince of Wales visits Jameson who aids Lipton in lifting the America’s Cup and notes etiquette breaches as royals travel.
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London
Glasgow
The
Spectator
Lancet
Great Britain
United States
Sir Robert
Russia
Germany
France
Prince of Wales
W. G. Jameson
Sir Thomas Lipton
George Cornwallis West
Lady Randolph Churchill
Many Robbers Graduated
Des Moines reports the Bankers Mutual Casualty Company suspects a nationwide surge in bank robberies is led by tramps rather than expert criminals. Investigations found nitroglycerine carried by many suspects, with 17 of 19 recent convictions involving labeled bums.
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Des Moines
Bankers’ Mutual Casualty Company
Casualty Company
Middle West
Chicago Drainage Canal
Gas Works Explosion Shakes Mattoon and Injures Worker
A huge explosion at the Mattoon Gas Light and Coke plant damaged the engine and purifying rooms. Generator Edward Butler was blown through a brick wall thirty feet away with serious burns but expected to recover. his wife had just left the building. Authorities cite a gas tank leak as the cause.
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Mattoon, Ills
Mattoon Gas Light and Coke Company
Edward Butler
Butler
Major General Leonard Wood Arrives from Havana
New York reports Major General Leonard Wood governor of Cuba has arrived from Havana. He will go to Washington then return to Havana via Tampa. Wood says Cuba is calm and people are preparing for the convention. Havana death rate, including yellow fever, is lower than years, while recent cases rise due to Spainish immigration.
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New York
Leonard Wood
Cuba
Havana
Washington
Tampa
Fila
Wood
Department
Cleaning Galveston After Hurricane Burns Debris
Galveston reads the hurricane cleanup by burning wreckage and cremating hundreds of bodies and valuables. The operation, seen as the only practical method, should finish within a week while the city resumes post disaster services. Also in Boston Harvard instructor Eastman is arrested on murder charges linked to a July 4 shooting that killed Richard H. Grogan Jr.
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Galveston
Tex
Boston
Charles R. Eastman
Harvard
Parker House
House of Correction
Cambridge
Richard H. Grogan, Jr
Eastman
McKinley Party to Return Home After Election Day
President and Mrs. McKinley with Cortelyou and Dr. Rixey depart Washington Monday for Canton stay until election day. They plan to vote on November 6 and return to Washington early on November 7 lighthouse? No. They will leave Canton soon after voting and arrive in Washington the morning of the 7th.
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Washington
An Illinois Official Dwight W Andrews Dies at 78
Chicago reports the death of Dwight W. Andrews longtime chief grain inspector under Governor Altgeld and predecessor of E. J. Noble. He died at Sylvan Beach hotel near Antioch after a paralysis stroke. Burial will be in Centralia. In Sycamore the Green case perplexes doctors as FE Green slowly turns to bone with most flesh hardened except face and extremities.
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Chicago
Dwight W. Andrews
Altgeld
E. J. Noble
Sylvan Beach Hotel
Antioch
Centralia
Sycamore, Ills
FE. W. Green
Forreston
Green
Richmond Women Push for School Board Representation
In Richmond Indiana on October 22 a group of prominent women renews the push to place a woman on the local school board. Business leaders and leading citizens express strong support for including female representation on the board.
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Richmond
Ind
National Live Stock Exchange elects leaders in Chicago
Indianapolis Oct 22 W H Thompson of Chicago was re elected president of the National Live Stock Exchange with no opposition. W Baker the current secretary also of Chicago was re elected. The exchange will meet next year at St Joseph.
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National Live Stock Frachange
Indianapolis
National Live Stock Exchange
W. H. Thompson
Chicago
W. Baker
St. Joseph
Four fire fighters killed in Minneapolis pack ing house blaze
A blaze at A V Hinman & Co packing house in the Minnesota Transfer district killed four firefighters Irving, Edey, Irish, and Wagner of Engine No 18 and injured two others. The fire, likely incendiary, spread to adjacent warehouses causing about 130000 dollars in damages. A gasoline tank explosion in the McCormick warehouse buried rescuers in debris.
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St. Paul
A. V. Hinman & Co
Minnesota Transfer
Irving
Frank M. Edey
Burt Irish
Louis Wagner
Andrew Johson
Andrew Johson, Engine Company No. 13
William Field
Engine Company No. 9
Northwestern Lime Company
McCormick Harvester Company
Engine Company No. 13
McCormick Warehouse
Mena
Baroness von Ketteler Arrives in Detroit Homeward
Baroness von Ketteler widow of the murdered German ambassador to China reached Detroit from St. Paul on October 22, staying with her father Henry B. Ledyard, head of Michigan Central, and traveling with her brother H. B. Ledyard and his wife. She had earlier journeyed via Vancouver and Milwaukee Road, receiving Governor Lind's telegram of sympathy. She is described as much broken in health during passes through Chicago en route to Detroit.
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Detroit
Baroness von Ketteler
China
Henry B. Ledyard
Michigan Central Railroad
St. Paul
Peking
Vancouver
F. W. Bergweler
Lind
Milwaukee Road
Michigan Central
H. B. Ledyard
Chicago
Baroness Ketteler
Expert Witness In Want In Kalamazoo Tale Of Bailey
Kalamazoo Michigan October 22 Professor George V Bailey formerly of the Smithsonian served as the expert witness that helped convict Adolph Luetgert of his wife murder in Chicago in 1897 He had been living in Kalamazoo for children two months with a nine member family in need Mayor Mills and other prominent citizens aided him to obtain a vertebrate paleontologist position at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh
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Kalamazoo
Mich
George V. Bailey
Smithsonian Institution
Adolph Luetgert
Chicago
Mills
Carnegie Institute
Pittsburg
Electric road planned between Detroit and Bay City
Eastern capitalists pursue a scheme to build a double track electric road from Detroit to Bay City. Sleeping cars will operate and equipment will rival any steam line. Through freight cars will run at night on the route.
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Detroit
Bay City
Burglars Blow Safe. Cavalier Station Destroyed by Fire
Grand Forks North Dakota October 22 burglars blew open the safe at the Great Northern station in Cavalier and a subsequent explosion set the building ablaze causing total destruction. Two men suspected and the sheriff pursues them with unknown loot.
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Grand Forks
N. D
Great Northern
Cavalier
Detroit citizens form cattle buying firm for Cuba
Lansing Oct 22 A group of Detroit residents led by Sidney B Dixon W Johnson and Frank Prussell have organized a corporation to buy livestock for shipment to Cuba The company has 11250 capital and will operate in Detroit and Saginaw or Clefuegos
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Lansing
Mich
Detroit
Sidney B. Dixon
W. ©. Johnson
Frank Prussell
Cuba
Clenfuegos
Engineer Mark tests flying machine in Berlin
In Berlin on October 22 an engineer named Mark demonstrated a flying machine that rose sixteen feet and traced semi circles before returning to its starting point after four and a half minutes. The craft used wings measuring seven square yards. In Ishpeming Michigan on October 22, Fred Shaver, son of a well known contractor and a high school football player, died when buried ten feet deep in a sewer trench at his home.
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Berlin
Mark
Ishpeming, Mich
Fred Shaver
Shaver
Stop-over at Niagara Falls for Western Passengers
Westbound passengers with tickets to New York or Philadelphia via Lehigh Valley Railroad may stop over at Niagara Falls without any extra charge.
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Niagara Falls
New York
Philadelphia
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Osteopathy offered by Dr Elizabeth Harlan in Muscatine
Elizabeth Harlan D D graduate of American School of Osteopathy Kirksville Missouri treats all curable diseases of women and children without drugs. Founded in Muscatine December 1899 osteopathy now recognized by medical profession as a scientific method with many cured after other methods failed. Seek examination to learn if help is possible.
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Elizabeth Harlan
D. D
American School of Osteopathy
Kirksville
Muscatine
Harlan
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