Idaho News Roundup From Caldwell to Weiser
Idaho state items report a Caldwell brass band forming and a possible Webner led baseball club to join the Boise league. Emmett sawmill plans target 10 000 feet daily. Prisoner counts at the state penitentiary show five admitted and eleven discharged in the past month. Walter Percy narrowly survived a severe spinal injury from a horse accident at Home. A four club baseball circuit gains Idaho fans and strong play. A freak sheep with a long horn was shown in Halley and a telephone line project from Meadows to Cornell nears funding. A stock company forms as entomologist Simpson arrives to study Camine prairie grasshoppers. Chartier commits suicide at 63. Dennman earlier resided in asylum. Weiser notes a waterworks and electric light proposal in Weiner funded by Gates of Hillsboro. Holse voters authorize 25 000 in city debt for libraries and fire services. Two Boise girls age 17 and 13 nearly run away with a clerical vehicle but are stopped by parents. Mike Hyde suffers a serious accident with giant powder. A skeleton found near Weiser may be bones of a missing man from fifteen years prior. A Stratton Mountain disappearance prompts fears. Rathdrum group faces logging gang conflict with Winchesters. State Engineer reports irrigation survey interest and confirmation that Garden Valley roads will proceed. Rosetta mining district forms on South Moles with George M. Rogers deputy, attracting early attention. George W Watson’s arrest for misusing county funds traced to his wife the treasurer. Martin the cancer quack is jailed after attempted medical practice without license.
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Walter Percy
Idaho
Hays
Halley
Meadows
Cornell
Simpson
Entomological Bureau
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Camine Prairie
Ulymew
Chartier
Heath Boles
Weiner
TH. V. Gates
Hillabero
Ore
Holse
Boise
Oelrous
Mike Hyde
Fraeau
Mile Hand
Scott Creek
Weiser
Old-thuers
FL. Clark
Newell
Unites States Geological Survey
Kins
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Garden Valley
Peos Pie
Thunder Mountain
de Chambeau Place
Rosetta
George M. Rogers
Prevent
George W. Watson
Lembi County
Sheelalme Walses
PW. Martin
Washington County
Disaster at Pittsburg Panhandle yard exposes hundreds injured
A catastrophic Naptha train explosion at the Sheridan yard in Pittsburg panhandle railroad town Sunday evening killed many and burned about 200 badly. The blast began with the rear car telescoping the next, ignite from a switch lamp, and a fiery sequence of blasts sent flames and smoke over the crowd, leaving scorched survivors and panicked witnesses.
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Sheridan
Pan Handin
Pittsburg
Nedure
Thousands die as Mont Pelee erupts at St Pierre
Reports say about 20 to 30 thousand residents perished when Mont Pelee erupted destroying St Pierre on a Thursday morning. The city vanished in minutes as a fiery mud torrent and ash swept the town, severing cable lines and isolating it from the world.
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Mont Pelee
St. Pierre
Haiti Rebels Triumph Provisional Government Formed
Dispatch from Port au Prince reports Haitian revolutionists successful and a provisional government established under Bolsroad Canal a former Maltese high magistrate. The republic is in a state of revolution with Canal elected president July 19, 1875. A prior revolt in 1879 led to his resignation around July 17 that year and succession by General Salomon.
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Port Au Prince
Bolsroad Canal
Malti
Bolaroud Canal
Haiti
Salomon
Racial clash near Braggs shocks Native Territory
Reported at Braggs sixty miles east of Muskogee a racial clash erupted with five Black residents and one white hurt by a sharp weapon. Seventy five Black residents allegedly attempted to wipe out fifteen families in the white settlement near Braggs. Authorities seek protection and arms for self defense. The Brazilian aeronaut Senhor Severo perished in a wire ship crash at La Paix France during a test flight.
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Muskogee
Brages
United States Partiau
Senhor Severo
la Paix
France
Avenue du Marne
Ferocity of Filipinos in Sorsogon Outrage Report
A band of fifty outlaws attacked five native constabulary members on the Bulos sin Barcelona road in Sorsogon. Three constables were captured, mutilated and killed in a brutal ritual, while two escaped after a ten mile race for help. Only fragments of the captives' remains were later recovered by a returning armed force.
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Mont Iahomas
Philippine Constabulary
Buloesin
Barcelona
Sorsogon
Burniog
Horrific Sheraden blaze claims twenty three dead
In Sheraden on Monday a devastating fire left twenty three dead and hundreds injured. A conservative count suggests nearly four hundred hurt, with many injuries unidentifiable as residents fled. The disaster shattered homes and emptied the two village schools as families mourned and searches for survivors continued.
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Sherades
Sheraden
Disaster recounts deadly floodnear Le Carber Tail ruins
After measures by authorities, access to St Merre improves and rescue teams find corpses in drecked cartons. Survivors describe a sudden catastrophe with little time for safety. Rain of ore ended yards from the village, leaving many dead and injured.
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St. Merre
Thousnney
Trix
le Carber
Aighe
Whirlwind of Lava Reaches St Pierre After Eruption
A volcanic surge left St Pierre blasted by lava and volcanic gas. Shore areas faced fiery winds and wreckage as cinders buried the town, leaving few traces of earlier structures in the wake.
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St. Pierre
St. Perro
Destruction of St. Pierre At Martinique Volcano
Reports from Martinique recount St. Pierre wiped out by Mount Pelee eruption. About thirty survivors from the city with a broader death toll near twenty five thousand to forty thousand on the island. Dispatches note ships burned, officials perished, and famine threats for southern districts.
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St. Pierre
Martinique
West Indies
Mount Pelee
Washington
San Juan
Porto Rico
Dominica
Grapple
West India and Panama Telegraph Company of London
Grappler
Death and ruin in St Pierre after cathedral disaster
Relief parties enter the Streets of St Pierre Castries says a dispatch to the New York Herald. Survivors are few and bodies lie near the cathedral, many asphyxiated. Fires hinder search and investigators fear for safety. Military rule has been established to prevent vandalism. Stores of provisions were destroyed and 3,000 charred corpses found at the cathedral site.
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St. Pierre
Castries
St. Lucia
New York Herald
Plague Death Toll Climbs on St Vincent Island
Reports from St Vincent in the Danish West Indies indicate over 200 deaths by Friday afternoon due to a volcanic eruption. Estates were ruined, steam and ash filled the sky from morning until night, with up to an estimated 5,000 lives lost and many corpses still buried.
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St. Vincent
Danish West Indies
Kingston
Death Sparks Miner Quarrel Over Theater Visit
Ten days earlier C A Walker of Leadville Colorado took a guest to a theater. Teased by miner Jay Taylor the two quarreled. Saturday the dispute resumed and Taylor struck Walker. Walker drew a revolver, fired twice, with one shot piercing Taylor’s heart and killing him instantly.
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C. A. Walker
Leadville
Colo
Jay Taylor
Walker
Taylor
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