Big wire tapping swindle exposed in Midwest
Chicago police announce the arrest of J H Poindexter amid a nationwide wire tapping conspiracy. Authorities say £10,000 worth of telegraph equipment was seized and the scheme planned operations from New Orleans to Cleveland and beyond, with agents in Cleveland St Louis St Paul Cincinnati and other cities.
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J. HM. Boindexter
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Indexter
Ranle Apparatue
Cocavnes
Teale New Orleans
Galverton
Houston
Hot Springs
Cleveland
St. Loui
St. Paul
Cinelona
Poindexter
Occasional Rain Forecasts in Weather Office Comedy
A whimsical scene unfolds in the weather office as Phoebus and Salisbury spar over forecasts. A cryptic note predicts tonight and tomorrow’s rain with brisk winds while a mist drifts over the avenue and Phoebe teases the prank.
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Métereo Guc
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Avenue
Eldorado man arrested for murder of third wife
Eben H. Blydenberg, a Sunday school teacher, deacon, and philanthropist, is jailed in Eldorado on charges he poisoned his 39 year old wife with arsenic soon after her one year marriage and transfer of 156 acres of farm land. Previous wives died under unexplained circumstances amid life insurance gains.
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Brydenberg
Emily Hawkins
Stoney Brook
L. L
Laura Godbold
Oregon Arrives From Nome After Icebound Passage
Oregon capt Fred Warper arrived from Nome with 25 first class and 2 second class passengers. Ice thick near Nome delayed boarding and Emerson Piano giveaway at The Hub on New Year’s Eve. Oregon found disabled freighter Meteor at Dutch Harbor and learned it would be discharged or towed. Portland left Nome.
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Fred Warper
Nome
Dutch Harbor
Meteor
Eureka
Portland
Emerson
Passengers Arrive From Nome As Oregon Heads North
Among arrivals today are D. Lane of Wild Geese, N B H Bonner of Cape Nome Bank linked to Beattie Institution, and C M H Hamilton of Behu Beck & Hamilton at Nome. The Oregon faced rough seas en route to Dutch Harbor and lay to briefly. Nome remains quiet with about 2.26 people planning to winter there and most diggings closing until spring.
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Oregon
Dutch Harbor
Nome
Beattie
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Wild Geese Company
N. B H. Bonner
Cape Nome Bank
Beattie Institution
C. M H. Hamilton
Behubeck & Hamilton
Union Ticket Office
Highwaymen Fire-Tleed Tug Heist Ends in Jail
Four youths Merman Briggs William Meap Hay Labne and Owen Scher robbed a waterfront man in Eureka California seized a tugboat cut the hawser sent to sea the vessel caught fire leaving the boilers without water forcing a shoreline return. They were arrested after beaching the craft the boat destroyed and the gang jailed.
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Merman Briggs
William Meap
Hay Labne
Owen Scher
Puget Sound Steamshipmen Accept Winter Terms
The Puget Sound Steamshipmen's union accepts the terms from the combined steamship companies operating on Puget Sound. Wages for the deck hands and all unlicensed workers will be cut per month, though licensed men are not affected. Secretary Murray notes the men, while not fully satisfied, approve the terms for the winter months.
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Puget Sound Steamshipmen's Union
Puget Sound
Murray
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Fishermen Report Possible Wreck Off West Coast
Special to The Star reports Victoria B C on November 3 that west coast fishermen believe they have located a possible wreck. Details are scarce but the find could involve a craft from earlier maritime activity. Local officials were not immediately available for confirmation.
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Victoria
B. C
Possible last sloop of war Condor found in 86 fathoms off Amphitrite Point
Wreckage observed in 86 fathoms near Amphitrite Point at the western entrance to Barclay Sound. Lines fouled on an obstruction and showed rust. J Button of Wreck Bay notified Captain Gaudin, who alerted Admiral Bickford. BC might identify the vessel, possibly the sloop Condor or other sunken iron craft such as the collier Mattawan.
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Barclay Sound
J. Button
Wreck Bay
Gaudin
the Marine
Admiral Bickford
Condor
Admiral Hickford
General strike ordered in Colorado district coal mines
At 10 o clock this morning John Mitchell ordered a strike in the Colorado district affecting 18 000 men the first general strike in the region The Colorado Fuel and Iron company vows a bitter fight The district covers Colorado Utah New Mexico and Southern Wyoming The Denver strike order sparks business and labor worry as coal mines may shut down ahead of winter threatening workers and the public
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Rocky Mountain
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
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Utah
Denver
Colo
Canadian Troops Guard Niagara Falls Power Plant
November 3 report from Buffalo says Canadian soldiers were sent to guard the power house on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls after a strike of 100 laborers. Italian and Hungarian workers armed with knives and revolvers caused work stoppage. a bayonet charge by militiamen injured one soldier and drove the 3000 strikers back near the Totem Pole.
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