Jumps From Train While Visiting His Mother
Ray Miller a 40 year old senior teacher from Boone was killed near Madrid while attempting to jump from Milwaukee train No 183 approaching Main street crossing. He struck a tie end, died from a skull fracture. Miller was en route to visit his mother. his father had died last year.
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Madrid
Ray Miller
Boone
Milwaukee
Frank Metcalf
Miller
Miler
Mereall
Rich farmer hangs self in Iowa hay lot
John Dilan of Slgourney Iowa, a well liked but reserved man, hanged himself in a farm hay lot after selling his farm and buying land in Blackhawk county. He left home early to town, and when he did not return his wife searched and found his body. He was about sixty years old and left a widow and six children.
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Slgourney
John Dilan
M Welty Larner Ving Tour
Hillgang
Tug Hay Lowe
Avayes & Wile
Jie
Blackhawk
Mrs. Dilan
North Iowa Horticultural Meet Opens in Charles City
The North Iowa Horticultural association begins its twenty fifth annual meeting in Charles City today and tomorrow. Highlights include a thorough inspection of the Patton apple experimental station the largest station of its kind in town. Addresses by prominent Iowa horticulturists Gardner of Osage and W A G Burnap of Clear Lake.
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Mason City
North Iowa Horticultural Association
Charles City
Patton Apple
Gardner
Osage
W. A. G Burnap
Clear Lake
No Life Spared in Wrecked St Paul Mine Disaster
The report states hundreds of miners lie dead or entombed after last Saturday's disaster at the St Paul mine. Many bodies are buried beneath tons of earth, making recovery unlikely and rescuers doubtful they can be retrieved.
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St. Paul
Des Moines Driver Dies of Heart Disease in Wagon
William Barkley a coal company driver died of heart disease while sitting on the seat of his wagon as he drove a team along Locust Street. His horses kept walking with the body upright, witness to a sudden fatal incident in Des Moines on Locust Street.
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Des Moines
William Barkley
Car Accident in Cedar Rapids Injures Several
A speeding street car jumped the track in Cedar Rapids, injuring several passengers who were cut by broken glass and burned by hot heater coals. In Chicago, Mrs. Reuben Orwig Dieu died aged two. she was a Des Moines native and her late husband once acted as governor of Iowa.
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Cedar Rapids
Reuben Orwig Dieu
Chicago
Reuben Orwig
Des Moines
Iowa
Moulton Man Killed Under Wagon
Robert Samuels fell from a wagon in Moulton and was crushed by its wheels. He died soon after. He leaves a wife two sons and a daughter.
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Moulton
Robert Samuels
Cell for a Sheriff Jaller and Others Sentenced for Contempt
Washington reports the U S Supreme Court sentenced Joseph F Shipp former Chattanooga sheriff and five others to 20 60 and 90 days in jail for contempt for failing to prevent a lynching in 1906 of Edward Johnson after a court stayed his execution The group included jailer Jeremiah Gibson and residents Luther Williams Nicholas Nolan and others The court found Shipp did not guard the jail nor seek to identify mob members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Joseph F. Shipp
Chattanooga
Tenn
Supreme Court of the United States
Edward Johnson
Supreme Court
Shipp
Army of
Confederacy
Jeremiah Gibson
Luther Williams
Nicholas Nolan
Williams
Noku
Gibson
Padgett
Mayers
Johnson
Tennessee
Sheriff Shipp
Jattey Gibson
Municipal League Meets as City Problems Are Considered
Cincinnati Nov 16 President Charles J Bonaparte opened the National Municipal league annual meeting joined by the American Civic Association Secretary Woodruff opened the day with a report on municipal happenings and progress N M Baker Montclair NJ spoke on public interest in municipal health From Village to City John Ihlder Grand Rapids outlined city management progress and the day emphasized education with a conference on prosecuting graft.
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Cincinnati
Charles J. Bonaparte
Baltimore
National Municipal League
American Civic Association
Clinton Rogers Woodruff
N. M. Baker
Board of Health of
Montclatr
N. J
John Ihlder
Grand Rapids
Mich
Board of Trade
Ihlder
Gratt
Missouri Sunday School Convention Opens in Moberly
The forty first annual Missouri Sunday School association convention opens in Moberly with hundreds of delegates arriving daily. The hosts provide free lodging and breakfast to visitors as President James J. Parks of St. Louis presides over three days of sessions featuring prominent religious and temperance workers.
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Missouri Sunday School Convention
Moberly
Missouri Sunday School Association
James J. Parks
St. Louis
Trust Wot Pay Up Bust Trust To Get Dues
Washington reports the Taft administration will press relentless inquiry into the American Sugar and Refining Company. Officials say every cent due the government from false weighings will be recovered and all involved will be prosecuted, regardless of rank. The
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
American Sugar and Refining Company
Taft
Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh
Wickersham
Sugar Trust
Blackmailer Haunts Deer Park Family in Louisville Case
A mysterious night prowler nicknamed the blackmailer is baffling police as he demands money from the Doran family in Deer Park a Louisville suburb. He has threatened to notch shutters on a room window each night and claims to be haunting them.
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Louisville
Martin Doran
Deer Park
Consumption Death Rate to Cut
New York reports the ten year drop in patient death rate at the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives in Denver from 7.8 to 3.3 percent. Samuel Grableldar of Philadelphia, president, notes progress in tuberculosis care and treatment.
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New York
Samuel Grableldar
Philadelphia
National Jewish Hospital For Consumptives
Denver
Inventor John R Moffat Dies at 84 in Denver
Denver memorial announces the death of John R Moffat age 84 at his Denver home. The famed inventor, born in 1862, pioneered the modern thrashing machine in 1851 and built many enduring devices.
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Denver
Col
John R. Moffat
Jamaica Cable Reopens direct Kingston link
London dispatch reports Jamaica Cable Reopened after disruption, restoring direct communication with Kingston, Jamaica. The Weat Indian and Panama Cable Company announced the restoration, noting resumed service across the Caribbean route.
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London
Weat, Indian, and
Panama
Kingston
Jamaica
95 Persons Perish in Wreck of Ship
Singapore Nov 16 collision between steamships La Seyne and Onda sinks La Seyne. four drowned or devoured by sharks. Sixty one rescued after a brutal shark attack. Baron and Baroness Beniczky among the missing. officers of the ships feared among the dead. The La Seyne was en route from Java to Singapore.
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Singapore
la Seyne
Messageries Maritime Service
Onda
Baron
Baroness Beniczky
Java
Warriner case to jury in Big Four shortage probe
Cincinnati officials open grand jury inquiry into the $642000 shortage attributed to Charles Warriner former local treasurer of the Big Four railroad Prosecutor Hunt filed a transcript of a Justice Muller hearing where Warriner waived examination and was released on $20000 bail Mrs Jeanette Stewart Ford Attorney A W Goldsmith and Big Four accounting officials are expected as witnesses
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Cincinnati
Grand Jury
Charles Warriner
Big Four Railroad
Hunt
Muller
Warriner
Jeanette Stewart Ford
A. W. Goldsmith
Gov. Harmon
Big Four
Prison for Suffragette Theresa Garnet in Bristol
Theresa Garnet the suffragette known for horse whipping Winston Churchill of the cabinet was jailed for one month. She left the arraignment defiant and threatened to target other cabinet members, recalling her Bristol welcome to Churchill last Saturday. Taft Proclaims Thanksgiving. Washington officials set Thursday November 25 as Thanksgiving Day in a formal proclamation from the state department.
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Bristol
England
Theresa Garnet
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Taft
Washington
State Department
United States
Beresford Named Unionist Candidate for Portsmouth Byelection
London Nov 16 Admiral Lord Charles Beresford is said to be the unionist candidate for the Portsmouth bye election to select a successor to the late Sir John Baker.
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London
Lord Charles Beresford
Portsmouth
John Baker
Portuguese King Sails for England Aboard Royal Yacht
King Manuel of Portugal departed from Cherbourg aboard King Edward's yacht Victoria and Albert for England. The royal party traveled under escort by two warships and a French battleship, highlighting a high seas royal voyage amid wartime tensions.
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Manuel
Cherbourg
King Manuel of
Portugal
England
King Edward
Victoria and Abert
Disaster at St Paul mine leaves 300 entombed in flames
Cherry Illinois November 16 reports say 300 or more miners were entombed after a fire and caving in at the St Paul mine. Eleven rescuers died attempting to reach them as flame, smoke, and gas thwarted every descent. Officials fear most victims will be unidentifiable.
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Cherry
Ill
St. Paul
Tllinois
Miners’ Union
James Taylor
Third District
Richard Newsam
State Mining Board
Mr. Taylor
R. Y. Williams
United States Rescue Station
Urbana
James Hand
Henny Smith
Illnois
Fanny Buck
J. P. Buck
Ingineer
John Cowley
Joshua Howe
Spring Valley
Ladd
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
New Mining Commission
State
State Board of Labor
Deneen
Leonard M. Eckert
Dennes
Buck
Public lands care costs rise for vast forests
Washington reports Secretary Wilson estimates four hundred thousand dollars are needed to administer 25,000,000 acres added to national forests during the Roosevelt era. Most lands lie in Alaska with 194,500,000 acres included, while the prior year’s appropriation for forest care stood at 4,024,000.
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Washington
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
National Forests
Saint ‘Ax
Roosevelt
Alaska
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Federal Supreme Court
Haylott
Sigourney
Shifp
U. S. Supreme Court
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Woodruff
Combine
Thrasher Inventor
Beresford
M. P
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