Death aboard fast train cuts short chief engineer’s daughter
Mary Lowe, daughter of Henry Lowe of United States Steel Corporation, died aboard a special NYC to Los Angeles train. The journey aimed to break speed records as the 20th Century Limited carried the family toward the West. Messages rushed to the hospital as the child’s condition worsened before the final moment.
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United States Steel Corporation
Los Angeles
Continent
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Henry, Lowe
United States Steel ‘Corporation
New ‘York
Century Limited
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Battle Expected At Any Moment On Trail
Sacramento August 6 Mac Derit Rees and C P Ferrell with Sheriff Bosquit patrolled Webber Creek country to track convicts Leavis Case and Davis believed seen in the past week. Dogs reportedly found scent near the cemetery and Plantera Hotel at Shingle Springs twelve miles below Placerville where Case reportedly dined. Rees says Case and companions may be in Webber Creek bottoms with authorities informed by Folsom prison clerk Brainard B Smith of a tracking update from Boequit.
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Mac Derit Rees
Webber creek
P. Ferrell
Sheriff Bosquit
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Leavis
Case
Davis
Reese
Webber
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Fr Richardson released from custody in district inquiry
Fragmentary text indicates Fr Richardson and others released amid a district attorney inquiry into a shortage at Verdi Mill Company. Mentions custody, Spooner, and Rickerdeon. details unclear due to garbled OCR.
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Pitagi
President Roosevelt Heads to England for Alaskan Boundary Talks
President Roosevelt leaves for England with Secretary Root for the joint commission on the Alaskan boundary. Major General Corbin may continue adjutant general duties while Young remains second in command on the general staff. Details of the glove contract conference with Lyon are not released. Quilling, Baertin, Alves, and Pike return from a camping trip at Shyber Lake and meet Nevada residents. the hotel is crowded and guests enjoy the resort.
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England
New York
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Root
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Harry ‘Quiling
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Roy Pike
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Salt Lake trial hears later confession in Ryan murder
Mrs. Aurors Hodge, who admitted complicity in the murder of William Ryan near Murrey Atan, Utah, retracts key details in Grand Rapids testimony. Exhumed remains show a bullet wound in the head as she claims self defense, while she disputes the killer’s identity and stalls on naming her accomplice, though police link a man seen with Ryan and Hodge to the case and suspect he fled to Mexico.
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Four Killed in Wreck on Boarding Train
Four persons died in the wreck on the Chicago Great Western railway near Devon Iowa yesterday afternoon. Names of the dead were Italians with one identified as the daughter of Han Nelson, boarding car occupant. The boarding car was thrown from the track when the train going up a grade broke in two. Engineer Hughes and Fireman Lillis survived after fifteen minutes in the water, hanging to timber until reaching the engine cab.
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Cadcago Great Western railway
Devon
Hane Nelson
Nelson
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Fountain river
Little Buttes
Hughes
Lillis
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Novel Safe Burglary In Seattle Hotel Aims
Thieves removed a safe from the Washington hotel bar early this morning and hauled it down a steep Stewart Street hill. The safe was drilled and painted with dynamite then left untouched after bystanders gathered. $300 lay inside unclaimed as the robbers fled. Local witnesses noted there may have been two or three suspects and many rushed to view the landing site.
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Washington hotel
Stewart Street
Washington “hotel
Firemen Overcome by Poisonous Fumes in Tiffin Plant
August 6 report from Tiffin notes Fire Chief Weimer and Captain Grogs with four others collapse amid dense fumes at a Wilson Cold Storage Plant fire. Firemen were rescued by onlookers and crews, listed in serious condition with one likely to die. Embezzlement charges are withdrawn in a separate item.
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Rain Fears Rise as Floods Hit Lawrence Kansas
Heavy rains flood Lawrence and Topeka areas. Reports say 1.5 inches fell overnight with river levels rising rapidly. Bridges washed away earlier in May forced evacuations as residents brace for higher ground. Local crews monitored tributaries and prepared for further rainfall.
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lea
North Topeka
Suit Dismissed for Lack of Jurisdiction
A circuit court ruling dismisses the suit brought by a plaintiff against the Southern Pacific Company for $2600 damages. The judge cites lack of jurisdiction. the key parties are the plaintiff and the Southern Pacific Company, with Beaty as the presiding judge and Kentucky as the residence reference.
Rome Morning Bells Mark New Pope Reception
Rome August 6 reports a morning of vibrating bells at about 500 churches to honor the election of Pope Pius. Cardinal Berphi ordered the unified ring as diplomats gathered before the Hall of the Throne for the reception of the Holy See’s diplomatic corps. Pope Pius X spoke French and addressed attendees, signaling a potential new era of international cordiality at the Vatican.
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Sacred College
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Circus Employee Shot to Death Near Ogden
An employee of Ringling Brothers circus was shot and killed about seven miles north of Ogden. The victim, Sullivan, reportedly from New York City, had been sent to fetch a hobo and was shot by another worker, Bullivan, who then fled. Bullivan has a brother and sister in New York and Buffalo, N.Y.
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hobo
New York City
Bister
Buffalo, N.Y
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