Bank Robbery Shocks Houstonia After Nitro Glycerin Blaze
A daring night-time bank heist in Houstonia leaves a shattered safe, scattered papers, and about $900 missing in gold and bills. Police track suspects, note tools used, and discuss a planned operation linked to a 1895 warning from penitentiary inmates.
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Houstonia
Sentinel
Walter F. Longan
Tombke & Scholle
Longan
J. R. Robinson
Sedalia
E. C. Powell
W. L. Allen
James Cooper
W. F. Lorgan
Jefferson City
Villian
Missouri Pacific announces management changes
The Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain transport department changes were publicly announced. General Superintendent Clark confirms promotion in line with policy. H. G. Clark and Hardy arrive, Hardy takes chief duties, while most clerks remain unchanged and well regarded.
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Ager Doddridge
D. Hardy
Sedalia
L. D. Hopkins
Missouri Pacific Railway
St. Louis
Kansas City
Lexington and Southern Division
Jefferson City
Boonville
Lexington
Nevada and
Minden
Interstate
Kansas and Colorado Pacific Railway
Chetopa
Coffeyville
Fort Scott Central Railway
Peck
Iron Mountain
J. R Wentworth
Missouri Division
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company
de Soto
Clark
Missouri Pacific
Doddridge
O. G. Mueller
Car Service
J. R. Wentworth
Mueller
Transportation Department of the
Sentinel
The
Man
Car Service Department
Wentworth
H. G. Clark
Hardy
Magnolia
Battle Row Makes A Record On Saturday Night Shootings
Police reported a busy Bowery weekend with a Mapleleaf Dance ending in a shooting scrape. The piece outlines multiple arrests for drunkenness and fights, including knifings, gunplay, and a bootlegging case as justice actions unfold.
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Bowery
Burning Pasture Fire Near Sixteenth and Washington
A spark from a train engine on Sunday ignited the Ilgenfritz pasture at Sixteenth and Washington, trapping a sleeping tramp who was saved by local boys. The man escaped with his life though his clothing burned. E. B. DeHaven, a Katy freight brakeman, is taking layoff, to be replaced by Ed. Hough.
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Thruston
W. F. Bailey
Katy
A. B. Thruston
Dick Garrett
St. Louis
Sedalia
J. O. Jamison
William Rockefeller
New York Central
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Southern Pacific
Rockefeller
Maple Leaf Club
East Main
Ernest Edwards
Arthur Marshall
Edwards
Marshall
Jackson
Leftwich
Burress
Bond
Gange
Ilgenfritz
Sixteenth and
Washington
E. B. DeHaven
Ed. Hough
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John Henry Summers
John Henry
John Hettner
Dick Steele
Chris Emery
Clarence Gravit
Justice Rogers
Justice Kinsey
Olie Williams
Tommy Cohen
West Witcher
John Welch
Ohn Riley
George Smith
Rob Wilson
Georgetown
Tom Booker
Marshal Prentince
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Florence Jackson
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