Shoshone Journal items report fair displays and local incidents
The Shoshone Journal notes prunes shipped from Bolve, expectations for the state fair exhibits, and the Meridan Farmers' Independent Telephone company filing incorporation. It reports the Oregon Short Line Pony Express to Huntington to be abandoned, mentions the State Sportsman's association planning game law enforcement, Montio Beers of Van Wyck sustaining a broken leg in a horse incident en route to Thunder Mountain, rising postage stamp sales at the Bale postoffice, the September sale expected to exceed last year, and Nellie Barter of Payatte in dangerous condition after an accidental carbolic acid dose.
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Bolve
Sesson
Bingham County
Meridan Farmers’ Independent Telephone Company
Meridan
Oregon Short Line
Boles
Huntington
Man's Association
Montio Beers
van Wyck
Thunder Mountain
Balee Postonce
BLOODY BATTLE LOOMS TURKS AND BULGARIANS NEAR FRONTIER
Turco Bulgarian clash reports surge as Demir Kopla fighting continues. Refugees suffer cold and hunger while frontiers tighten. Military mobilization see cavalry reinforced and 24000 recruits planned in Sofia.
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Ferdinand
Sofa
Eastern Iowa hit by twin storm damage
A Burlington Iowa special reports a severe storm sweeping Eastern Iowa. Winds shattered smokestacks and buildings at Wahella fair grounds, toppled a steed and damaged stork, wrecked structures near Wahwire fair grounds, and caused fatalities.
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Burlington
Iowa
Baturiay
Wahwire Fairgrounds
Jack Wolser
Steamboat Capsizes on Lake Michigan Tragedy
A passenger steamer Mric L Hackley from Fish Creek foundered in Green Bay during a squall. Twelve persons drowned, nine rescued. Women and several men perished after failing to find floating debris. Sheboygan crew rescued all aboard as darkness slowed rescue efforts. Some survivors doubted that more than eleven were lost, but sailors dispute this.
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Marinette
Wis
Mric
Hackley
Sheboygan
Dinance
Plea for Life as Utah Man Faces Execution
Peter Mortensen, convicted of James Hay murder in Salt Lake City, asks for a new trial and vows innocence. He faces execution on Friday November 20 unless a stay is granted, detailing alleged prejudice and revelations he blames for the verdict and urging mercy for his wife and five children. Mortensen cites his Christian duty and asks the court to reconsider, asserting he harmed no one.
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Morne
Salt Lake City
Peter Mortenson
James R Hay
Mortensen
Preas
Sharp
James Sharp
Morse
Supreme Justices
Robbers steal safe from Mint saloon in Billings
Four masked men robbed the Mint saloon in Billings Mint by forcing the bartender to surrender the cash in a safe. They bound and gagged him, loaded the safe into a buggy, but fled when a posse appeared. The safe, containing about $1,000, was later found intact with around $1,000 inside.
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Mint
Billings
Seven Die in Explosion at Peoria Distillery
Seven men were killed and others injured by a blast at Corning's distillery in Peoria on Saturday. A copper cylinder, twenty feet long and eight feet in diameter, burst, throwing a large section of the fire building into the air. all workers inside perished, while those outside escaped.
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Corning’s
Peoria
Mls
Mrs Beam of Mitchellsville Delivers Twins in New York
Mrs. John Beam of Mitchellsville New York aged 05 years old has given birth to twins. The daughter in a neighboring township presented her bastand with twins and the mother sent word that she had become the mother of two healthy children.
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John Beam
Mitchellsville
N.Y
Mim Hoam
Ahd
Fatal train wreck near Beowana Nevada on Atlantic express
A head on collision near Beowana Nevada between the Atlantic express from San Francisco and freight No. 219 westbound killed one passenger, Allen Harper of Pocatello Idaho, and injured twenty others. The two engines and cars stayed on track. a Pullman car was telescoped and a baggage car forced through it. A passenger named Vane narrowly escaped unhurt after being thrown through the car wall into a ditch.
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Beowana
Nevada
San Francisco
Allen Harper
Pocatello
Idaho
Beowane
Vane
Triple Execution at Clinton For Uncle Hallenbeck Murder
Willis Frederick and Burton Van Wormer along with the other cousin Harvey Bruce were involved in a Greendale Christmas Eve 1901 murder of Peter A Hallenbeck. The four rifled the house after stealing farm vehicles robes and whips then fired a fusillade killing Hallenbeck. Bruce testified for the state. The sentence was carried out in fifteen and a half minutes after appeals and governor approval.
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Court of Appeals
Odell
Willis
Frederick
Burton van Wormer
Clinton
Peter A. Hallenbeck
Greendale
Harvey Bruce
Kinderhook
Columbia County
van Wormers
Hallenbeck
Bruce
Balkans News Averts War Says Journal de St Petersburg
The Journal de St Petersburg notes that aside from the Mehomia Razlog massacre report there is little Balkans news. It says the firm language used by Russian and Austrian representatives in Constantinople and Sofia has averted war for the present.
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Mehomia
Razlog
Balkana
de St Petersburg
Francis Joseph
Constantinople
Sofia
Hard to Kill Dooley Robbed Near Waco Arizona
Z W Dooley ranch owner was knocked on the head and robbed by highwaymen near Waco Arizona. His body was dragged to railroad tracks and left unconscious to be killed by a passing train. He survived after arm and leg were amputated and internal injuries treated in Bisbee hospital.
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Z. W. Dooley
Waco
Arizona
Dooley
Bisbee
Accatinta
Jongenguch
Northwest Notes Chronicle West of the Mississippi
Four men were seriously injured by a premature blast at the Bonanza mine near Whitney Oregon. A three days convention of the western Railway Telegraphers was held in Denver. Switchmen at Butte called off a strike with most returning to work. Carpenter and stone masons in Lewiston Montana threaten a standstill on building, while Cripple Creek mines replace union labor. Various crimes, deaths, and industry news span Montana Oregon Wyoming and Idaho with list of incidents and corporate actions.
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Whitney
Ore
Order of
Mississippi
Denver
Butte
Lewiston
Mont
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