Prominent Minister Fatally Injured in Train Incident
The body of Rev. Dr. Everett D. Burr, a Newton Centre Baptist clergyman, was found beside east-bound tracks near Summer Street Bridge in Westboro Massachusetts. Medical Examiner Knight ruled death an accident from a fall and drag injury after clothing caught in a moving train. Burr, 45, Brown University and Crozer Theological Seminary alumnus, leaves a wife and two children.
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Boston
Charles 8. Knight
Everett D. Burr
Massachusetts
Brown University
Crozier Theological Seminary
Pennsylvania
Glanders Epidemic Strikes Horses Near Allentown
An alarming outbreak of glanders hits horses in Allentown area. State veterinarian Dr. Leonard Pearson confirms and orders four horses from a brewing firm killed, two more, with quarantine on four others. Contagious disease linked to west-sourced team. 38 mules previously killed.
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Allentown
Leonard Pearson
Pearson
West
Brewing Company
York Brewing Company
Montana
Big Blaze Destroys Millville Livery Stable and Nine Businesses
A fire at Jere Clark’s livery stable in Millville New Jersey on February 25 damaged nine business houses and caused about $60 050 in losses. The blaze consumed the Murphy jewelry shop Batten machine shop Van Staden drapery Arnot shoe store Bell Telephone office Colonial Insurance office Dunham warehouse and Justice of the Peace J P Miller’s court Several horses perished and several civilians were injured.
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Millville
N. J
Lvery
Jere Clark
P. Murphy
Warner Batten
van Staden
Philip Arnott
Bell Telephone Company
Colonial Insurance, Company
Albert Dunham
Court of Justice of the Peace
J. P. Miller
Clark
Dunham
Lawyer Patrick C Sheehan Found Dead in Conneautville Library
The Crawford county lawyer, 48, was burned to death in his home library after a lit lamp toppled while he wore a night robe. His body suffered extensive burns, with authorities noting apoplexy may have caused the fall and flame.
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Meadville
Patrick C Sheehan
Crawford County
Conneautville
Sheehan
Cost of milk and cream up sharply since 1900
Census bulletin shows cream costs up 247.9 percent and milk 3.7 percent as factory curtailment and city demand push prices higher. In 1905, 8762 establishments in butter cheese condensed milk and related products reported $198 million in product value, $47 million capital, and 15,557 workers earning $8.41 million.
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Washington
Died in church: James R. McClure dies during service
Philadelphia report states James R. McClure construction railroad engineer and secretary treasurer of Pennsylvania railroad subsidiaries collapsed and died while attending services at Walnut Street Presbyterian church. He was a prominent railroad figure and son of mathematics professor David McClure at Annapolis Naval Academy.
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James R. McClure
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Walnut Street Presbyterian
McClure
David McClure
Annapolis Naval Academy
Big Colony Planned for Novo Leon Colonization
Five thousand immigrant families are to be settled in northern Nuevo Leon as the nucleus of a large colonization project. Two million acres have been secured for the colonists. A railway line is under construction to connect Matamoros branch of the National railway with key points of the property.
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Mexico
Tampico
Mex
Nuévo Leon
Matamoros
National Railway
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