Desperate Train Robber Fights Police, Flees in Escape
Nashville police pursued a suspected Great Northern express robbery suspect described as a tall rawboned man who fought two detectives using dual pistols as clubs. He escaped in a stolen two horse wagon and other mounts leaving two bloodhounds trailing. The man may be linked to the Wagner Montana heist last June.
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Three Boys Murdered In Father's Mill Farm Heap
Granville II Oct 28. Three Casper boys George 28 Edward 14 Clement 8 found dead in a well on Josephus Casper’s farm after parents attended court at Princeton. Initial cause suspected gas but physicians deem no asphyxiation. Youngest neck broken. oldest hacked back. No motive or suspects found.
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Clement Casper
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Delmar Fire Destroys Ten Acres and Supports Water Woes
Delmar Delaware October 28 Flames swept the town destroying about ten acres of buildings as a water shortage hampered firefighting. Sixty structures burned leaving over 500 people homeless and causing nearly $100000 in losses. Salisbury and Wilmington crews aided but could only supply water by drawing from a railroad station tank and pumping it to engines. The blaze began around 3 PM and raged for hours, sparing a few stores and the Elijah Freeney building, while the town rebuilt after a 1892 disaster.
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Delaware
Elijah Freeney
Maryland
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Father Czolgosz Prays Leon May Rest In Peace
Cleveland, Oct 28 Amid tears the elder Czolgosz pleads for his son Leon to rest in peace and accept punishment. He notes the family cannot interfere and hints at cremation to avoid mutilation or theft of the body. Auburn prison sets 7 am Tuesday for execution as officials seek to avoid sensationalism and scenes at Cleveland.
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Volney W Foster Emerges Among Mexico City Delegates
Prominent delegate Volney W Foster of Indiana attends the Mexican Congress in session in Mexico City. He has long served as a consul and advocate for stronger commercial ties with the sister republic, shaping bilateral relations and trade policy.
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Volney
Foster
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Czolgosz Prison Silence Ahead of Execution
Warden Mead and Superintendent Collins enforce a thirty hour blackout on any disclosure of Czolgosz's condition or actions before his execution. A brief statement will follow at the last hour and the autopsy results will be released by the warden.
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Czolgosz
Mulatto Claimants Barred Inheritance Suit
South Carolina court in Florence county ruled a white man’s marriage to a negro woman in 1887 invalid and that their children cannot inherit the estate left to the testatrix by lawfully related grandchildren. The Teal estate is said to be valuable, and loss to mulatto claimants will be heavy. Declared Sane After 15 Years. Mary L. Lake, once confined as feeble minded, has been deemed sane after 15 years in institutions and returned near her old Staten Island home to freedom and happiness.
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Florence county
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New York
Mary L. Lake
Staten Island
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Murray Verner offers to buy St Petersburg street railways
The offer to purchase all municipal and private lines, electrify traction, and create an electric tram system has been met with favorable press response in St. Petersburg. The council has long debated the plan. Verner’s bid marks the first real move toward electricity in the city, which owns three lines and others are run by private firms.
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Verner
Philadelphia Fire Tragedy Leaves Missing Unearths Debris
Officials clear Market Street ruin after Friday blaze. Five bodies identified only by burned condition. nineteen dead total with eighteen workers among victims. Some listed missing presumed in rubble while others rescued. firms at Market street offices confirm no cause found and plans undetermined.
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Serious Mountain Fires Fueled by Hunters Across County
In Fayette County, the western Alleghenies blaze from the Yough river toward West Virginia as fires burn for a week. Careless hunters started about a dozen blazes last week drying brush, drying streams, and threatening crops, barns, stock, and homes. Firelight drives families from doomed homes as a drenchless week continues.
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Young Girl Beaten to Death in Otterton Pa
Annie Etler aged 15 was found dying in an oven lot after being enticed on the street by George Gans 25 who confessed to beating her with a board. Gans claimed motive was rejected advances. investigation ongoing with Chief of Police Miller. Separate report from New York notes a man found dead in a Jersey City hotel after using gas, identified only as J. J. Waterman Philadelphia aged 33 with prayer-like markings on clothing.
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Meriden
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Alice Ellis
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Dwight P. Wilcox
Miss Ellis
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Westfield
Football Player Badly Hurt at Columbus Hospital
John Sigrist center of Ohio State University football team, 18, was badly hurt with a broken neck after a game with Western Reserve. He was taken to a city hospital for treatment following Saturday’s match.
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Sigrist
Western Reserve
Post Office Robbery at Rosemont by Dynamite Gang
Media Pennsylvania October 26 a Rosemont post office was entered early yesterday by burglars using dynamite to blow the safe. They raided about 200 in money and stamps while a freight train passed to muffle the noise. No clues found. believed to be an organized gang.
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Child Fatally Burned by Lamp Fire in Allegheny
A baby Robbie Buster, thirteen months, was fatally burned when a lamp toppled from a table at 40 Arch Street Allegheny. His mother Mary Buster suffered serious burns while trying to save him and three neighbors were burned extinguishing the flames. Rescue crews ripped away Mrs Busler’s clothing as the house burned.
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James McGovern
Newark's Oldest Man Dies at 101 in Newark
Caleb Baldwin, Newark New Jersey's oldest resident, died yesterday after a fall from a chair. If he had lived until November 28 he would have reached 102.
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New York
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Caleb Baldwin
N. J. Med
Wolves Eat Twenty Three in Pennsylvania Frontier Feud
Vienna reports twenty three persons have been eaten by wolves at works in the fehts near Witbesk Pennsylvania, per Wisner Journal. Local authorities blame the wolves for the deadly incidents as fear spreads among workers and residents.
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Wisner Journal
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Witbesk
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