Fifty Immigrants Die In Railroad Collision
Fifty migrants on a Baltimore & Ohio immigrant train were missing after a head on collision with a freight train at Woodville Indiana. Forty injured were sent to Mercy Hospital Chicago. Officials blamed misdirection by a dispatcher and a two section passenger run.
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Valparaiso
Ind
Baltimore & Ohio
Woodville
Here
Chicago
Mercy Hospital
Chicago Junction
Detroit
Michigan Central Railroad
Third Street
George R. Booth
Donald Thomson
Pullman Company
Earl S. McEwen
Pullman
Bert Manor
Michigan Central
Missouri Pacific
Missouri Pa
Kansas City
Eureka
St. Louis
G. A. Brown
Charles Mueller
Anthony Apke
E. Anthony Braker
When They Awake Will Wipe Out Odious Combines With Blood-Dire Prophecy Made
Boston on November 12 quotes Mrs. Hetty Green predicting a coming revolution against trusts. She warns of a deluge and blood in the streets as people learn how trusts ruin others, though she herself opposes trusts despite heavy corporate ties and wealth. The note adds she is in Howland Street with her daughter and posed for a photo. The sixth infantry returned to San Francisco from Manila aboard the transport Thomas yesterday.
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Boston
Hetty Green
San Francisco
6Th Infantry
Thomas
Manila
Rock Island Buys Mexican Central to Link El Paso Route
El Paso reports indicate Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific has acquired the Mexican Central railroad. A connecting line from Brownwood to El Paso will replace the El Paso and Southwestern tracks for entry, forming a major addition valued as a key Rock Island asset. The Mexican Central runs 1,224 miles with branches totaling 3,154 miles, owning Tampico Harbor and fleet assets, with earnings per mile around 8,272 and expenses per mile about 5,578 in 1904 05, and a 210,710 deficit in the period.
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el Paso
Texas
Reliable Authority
Mexican Central Railroad
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Rock Island Lines
Brownwood
Rock Island
el Paso & Southwestern
A. A. Robinson
Mexico City
Adda
Ciudad Juarez
Monterey
Mexicar
Court questions void ballots in county canvass
In New York Abraham S Gilbert seeks Supreme Court ruling on whether ballots marked void or protested should be counted. Similar petitions will be filed in Kings Queens and Richmond counties to determine legal ballots. Republicans fear state results won’t change despite efforts.
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New York
Abraham S. Gilbert
Julius S. Mayer
Supreme Court
McLean
Gilbert
Kings
Queens
Richmond
Sernor
Roosevelt
Higgins
Hughes
General Shafter Dies in California Home
Bakersfield, Cal., Nov 12 General Shafter who commanded American forces in Cuba during the Spanish American war died here this afternoon McKittrick Ranch bulletin earlier stated Major General Shaffer near death and all hope of recovery abandoned
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Bakersfield,Cal
General Shafter
Cuba
Bakersfield
Cal
McKittrick Janch
Shaffer
Noted advertiser dies in Chicago
Ambrose L. Thomas, president of the Lord & Thomas advertising firm and a leading Chicago business figure, died suddenly Saturday in Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. His death was caused by organic heart disease, a condition he had suffered from at intervals in recent years but not recently.
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Chicago
Ambrose L. Thomas
Lord & Thomas Advertising Firm
Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co
King Not Killed in Madrid Church Explosion
Explosion of several cartridges under the altar of the Church of St Peter in Madrid sparked panic during mass. Rumors circulated of an assassination attempt on King Alfonso, but no motive or culprit was found as investigators explored the incident and crowd chaos.
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Madrid
St Peter
Alfonso
Ehurch
Bomb attack and riot blast in Tiflis wounds police
In Tiflis a deafening blast shaken the city as police searched an unoccupied house. Three policemen were killed and four wounded. A revolvershot killed the bomb thrower after Prefect Reinbot was unhurt. Proclamations were found beneath a bed. The blast toppled part of a building.
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Ture
Tiflis
Pethunski Street
Upper Mississippi gets 400000 appropriation in river and harbor estimates
General Alexander MacKenzie reports to the secretary of war that funds can be profitably extended in the next fiscal year for rivers and harbors. Items include Southwest Pass 1,000,000 and South Pass 150,000 on the Mississippi, plus 650,000 between the Ohio and Missouri rivers and 400,000 between the Missouri and St. Paul. Additional allocations cover various Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Great Lakes harbors and channels totaling hundreds of thousands.
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Upper Mississippi
Washington
Alexander MacKenzie
Secretary of War
Southwest Pass
Mississippi River
South Pass
Ohio
Missouri
Souri River
St. Paul
Ohio White River
Indiana
Wabash
Holinois
Kentucky
Diwotth
Superior
Manistique Harbor
Michigan
Milwaukee
Chicago
Calumet
Minois
Desplaines
Lockport
St. Louis
Engine Men of Great Railroads Triumph in Grievance Talks
New York November 12 engineers and firemen from Lackawanna, New York New Haven Hartford and Erie railroads held meetings to settle wages and hours. Grand Master Mamahan reported Erie firemen show virtually unanimous support for a strike, while Lackawanna engineers secured a 10 hour day and wage increase after talks with President Truesdale and union reps.
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New York
New York, New Hajden & Hartford Railroad
New York Central Railroad
Erie Railroad
Erie
Lackawana
Lmen
Mamahan
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
J. E. Clark
Lackawanna Engineers Wing
Lackawanna Railroad
Truesdale
Crucifixion of Woman Proves Climax of Crime
Police received a tip to search a house in the Tartar quarter secluded since last year’s Tar tar Armenian massacres, luring them into a climactic crime.
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Tartar
Panic Fire at Evansville Theater Injures Many
In Evansville Indiana a fire at the Franklin Street theater caused a panic when a hot carbon fell into a basket of celluloid. Women and children were injured as crowds jammed the exits tearing doors from their hinges. Vernon Gammel an electrician was seriously burned and taken to a hospital.
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Evansville
Ind
Vernon Gammel
Franklin Street
Susan de Forest
Gammel
Pittsburg terrorized by heinous deeds and crimes
Pittsburg reports a wave of violence including murders robberies and an apparent crucifixion incident in Forbes Street. Neighbors rushed in as a woman named Jean Mitchell suffered gruesome injuries and was hospitalized. Police seek William Mitchell alias William Neely husband of the victim as Canton and Washington reports note banking policy duties and dynamite attacks on tobacco warehouses in Kentucky.
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Pittsburg
Guthrie
Forbes Street
Jean Mitchell
Wasteredt
Canton
Otto
William Mitchell
Woman Whistler In Church Service
In New York on a Sunday evening at Central Baptist Church West Forty second Street Rev Dr Frank M Goodchild introduced vaudeville to church services with a woman whistler performing three tunes between scripture readings and the sermon. The church paper says trustees endorsed making services more attractive to draw attendees.
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New York
Frank M. Goodchild
Central Baptist Church
West Forty-second Street
Congress
Worman
Goodchild
Men of Finance Meet at Washington
Washington November 12 committees from the American Bankers association and the New York Chamber of Commerce met in the nation’s capital to draft a congressional measure granting banks emergency circulation authority during financial stringency. The plan from the St Louis bankers convention and the New York chamber legislative committee outline remain largely similar.
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Joint Committee of American Bankers and
New York Chamber of Commerce
Washington
American Bankers Association
Congress
St. Louis
Hill warns on railroad control amid traffic congestion
Chicago Nov 12 James J Hill head of the Northern Pacific Great Northern and Burlington rail systems warned during the Merchants club dinner at the Auditorium that relief from current rail traffic congestion is hopeless while railroads are treated as outlaws He urged a colossal expansion of trackage and equipment and rejected government ownership He also spoke on reciprocity with Canada urging rapid establishment of reciprocal trade relations to boost Chicago commerce Continued on Page Four.
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Chicago
James J. Hill
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Burtinetoll
Merchants’ Club
Canada
Hill
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Southern Pacific
Sunset Express
Sargents Station
Odious
Republic of Mexico
Mexico
Santa Rosa
N. M
Great Amusement Enterprises
Topeka
Kans
E. W. Hoch
William A Harris
Hoch
Chicago, Ney
United States
Portland
New Orleans
Klaw & Erlanger
Daniel Frohman
Charles Frohman
al Hayman
Nixon & Zimmermann
Rich & Harris
Orpheon
Vaudeville Trust
E I Jons
Ilinois
Shafter
California
A. L. Thomas
Lord & Thoms
Moscow
Reinbot
Stree
Massacees
Calumet River
Winos
Holland
Black Lake
Grand River
Muskegon Harbor
Harbor Beach
Lake Oere
Mary's River
Falls
Haylake
Neebish
St. Mary's River
Detroit River
Hushiod
Wiliam Neely
William Mitel
Shaw
Nashville
Tent
American Snuff Company
Eddyville
Princeton
Fredonia
Kenucky
Finance
J. J. Hill
Ail
Tereekage
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