Deadly wreck on Santa Fe train near Reading Kansas
Reading Kansas papers report Santa Fe train No. 17 westbound wrecked at Badger Creek bridge two miles west of Reading at 3 am. The tender derailed baggage and express cars and two coaches. An express car overturned and burned. one messenger killed. engineer and two other messengers seriously injured, the engineer fatally. Likely wreckers dragged a rail, spike and fish plate removed. Three other passenger trains passed shortly before. A $5,000 reward is posted by J E Hurley for the arrest and conviction of the wreckers.
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Reading
Knn
Santa Fe
Badger Creek Bridge
Tve
Fox
J. E. Hurley
Santa Fe Railroad
Philippine Tariff Bill Advances in House Ways and Means
House Ways and Means reported favorably the Payne bill by a 7 to 5 vote. It would admit Philippine products into the United States duty free except sugar and tobacco, which pay 25 percent of Dingley rates until 1909. Amendments added that American sugar and tobacco enter the Philippines free of duty and no Philippine goods in warehous e in the United States shall be exempt from duties.
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Washington
House Committee On Ways and Means
Payne
United States
House
Hill
Connecticut
Philippines
Explosion at Altman building site injures workers on Fifth Avenue
Three men were blown to pieces and seven others injured in a dynamite blast at the excavation for the new Altman building near Fifth Avenue and Thirty Fourth Street. Workers struck a heavy charge kept in a drill hole causing the explosion. The blast rattled nearby luxury hotels and residences as rescuers rushed to the scene.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Thirty Fourth Street
Altman
Washington Ambassador White Sees Moroccan Conference Move
Secretary Root reports that Washington ambassador White has informed of European talks to relocate the Moroccan conference from Algeciras to Madrid. White’s statement requires no immediate State Department action, and no objections to the proposed change in program are foreseen.
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Washington
White
United States
Root
Algeciras
Madrid
Ammonia Ruined the Sight of Insane Mrs Ina Berry
Mrs Ina Berry of Northport Washington and later at Girard Kansas underwent an operation in Kansas City on Tuesday in which her left eye was removed. Her eyesight had been destroyed by ammonia used by captors during her four day confinement in a railway coach. She is an inmate of a sanitarium.
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Kansas City
Ina Berry
Northport
Wash
Girard, Kan
Beron
Workmen Buried in Towa New York Rescue Update
Two men buried for nearly forty hours in the Hast river tunnel were recovered on Tuesday after rescuers entered by boat. They reported no additional trapped workers and described efforts to breach the cement roof to reach others believed entombed.
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New York
Hast River
The Fatal Request Continued in a Dream Tale
In a chamber a man confronts a spectral continuation of his dream as a letter arrives and a mystery deepens. Ted Burritt and Dr. Cartwright discuss clues from a torn diary while a maid delivers a note and a new letter shifts the suspense toward a promised revelation.
The Advertisement Opens A Troubled Morning at Breakfast
In Chapter XVIII a trio gathers for breakfast while the host shows distress and a guest avoids eating, Dr Cartwright noting the host's unsettled appetite. The young man mutters that he cannot seem to care for food, hinting at underlying tension.
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Dr. Cartwright
Turmoil in Riga as troops clash with revolutionaries across streets
Reports from Riga describe heavy street fighting with machine guns as revolutionary bands and loyalist factions clash in cities and estates. The unrest worsens as garrisons submit or are overrun, bars to normal order, while a national assembly pressure grows and leadership contemplates a cabinet reshuffle.
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Riga
Petersburg
Ripa
Baron von Loewis
Aad
Tafon
National Assembly
Reports from the provinces reveal tensions in Caucasus factions
Dispatches note the country near the bail point with instability. In the Caucasus Tartars and Armenians clash violently, especially at Elizabethpol showing race hatred. An agent reports Kharkert establishing a republic and evolutionists holding thirty forces.
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Caucasus
Elizabethpol
Kharket
New York Life Insurance Company
Made a Maniac of Him Reveals Crime After Escape
Cleveland Ohio William Guy released from the Newbury insane asylum after thirty six months confinement killed the baby of his wife and her brother and fatally wounded a woman at whom Mrs Guy had fled the maniacal killer then sought his wife but she escaped. The sight of the infant renewed his frenzy and he procured a revolver and spoke openly of the crime with no remorse.
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Cleveland
William Guy
Newbury Insane Asylum
Guy
Oregon Land Frauds Traced by Salem Visitor
R H Goddard arrives from the east to investigate fraudulent certificates of sale tied to Oregon school lands. He brings papers covering about 7 million acres, most of which are alleged to be fraudulent. his father, Hiram Goddard, a banker in La Crosse Wisconsin, is named in connection with the matter.
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Dr. Jeremiah
Ted
Salem
Ore
R. H. Goddard
Hiram Goddard
Thinberman
la Cresse
Wis
Everiday
Oregon
Lanis
Goudard
Pocatello Man Goes Gunning
George W Hicks, a former Pocatello drayman, shot Special Policeman W H Brown after disapproving of his wife and stepdaughter and struck a young man with a Winchester rifle. Brown is seriously wounded and may die. Hicks was captured and jailed after a struggle.
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Pocatello
Pocatella
Ida
George W Hicks
W. H. Brown
Brown
Hicks
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