Train Falls 300 Feet in Canadian River Canyon
A Canadian Pacific freight train on a curve near a Fraze river rock slide derailed after the engine reversed too late. Engineers Randall and fireman Potter perished beneath the engine as the wreckage tumbled 300 feet down the bluff toward the river. Three cars followed, wrecked after the engine went over.
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Vancouver
B. C
Canadian Pacific
Fraze River
Randall
Gome
Pottar
Prayer ban upheld in Minnesota school instruction
Attorney General Douglass upholds former AG Childs ruling that the Lord s prayer cannot be used in public schools under the Minnesota Constitution. The opinion, given to State Superintendent Olson, cites section 16 prohibiting compelling attendance or support of any place of worship, in a case involving a Piery Madison County school director.
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St. Paul’Minn
Douglass
L. W. Childs
Olson
Department of Public Instruction
Piery
Madison County
Minnesota
Lives Lost in Fire as Pittsburg Family Tragedy Unfolds
In Carnegie borough Samuel Klee’s wife and seven year old daughter died in a blaze. The father saved six children by tossing them to the frozen ground from upper windows before leaping to death. Mrs Klee’s body and her daughter Mary were recovered from the ruins as firefighters fought the flames.
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Pitlsburg
Samuel Klee
Carnegie Borougho
Klee
Mrs. Klee
Mary
Rois Inter
Appointments and Tax Exemption Rule Change
Commissioner of Navigation Mr Chamberlain issues a circular exempting vessels arriving from the Philippine Islands from tonnage tax under the 386 act. Vessels entering from foreign ports via the Philippines or on a Philippines to U S voyage remain taxed. Action follows recent U S Supreme Court decisions in the mentor cases.
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Mr. Chamberlain
Commissioner of Navigation
To States
Philippine Islands
Philippines
United States
United States Supreme Court
Train wreck near Malvern kills three and injures many
A head on collision between two passenger trains on the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad one and a half miles south of Malvern Arkansas killed three and injured many. The southbound train’s baggage car area was crushed and a coach near it was smashed. The train carried colored immigrants from North Carolina Georgia and Alabama bound for Texas.
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St. Louis
Iron Mountain & Southern
Malvern
Ark
North Carolina
Georgia
Slabama
Texas
Mayor Jones Resigns From Humane Society Board
Toledo Mayor Samuel La. Jones resigns from the Toledo Humane Society board after President James M. Brown of the American Humane Society declares that a man who abandons his children should be put to death. The statement appears in the society’s annual report.
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Samuel la. Jones
The
Toledo Humane Society
Ion
James M. Brown
Américan Humane Society
Toledo Tlumane Society
Dewey Denies Inquiry Report
The New York World dashes a Washington dispatch saying Admiral Dewey denied claims that a court of inquiry had ruled against Admiral Sehley on five counts. He offered no hint of what the verdict would be.
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The
New York World
Washington
Dewey
Sehley
War department denies Aguinaldo exile reports from Berlin
Officials nullify German press claims that Aguinaldo would be deported to Guam for correspondence with the Long Kong Junta. The War department states there is no foundation to these reports or plans.
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War Department
Berlin
Aguinaldo
Guam
Tlong Kong Juinta
Fort Wayne Mason Temple Arts Show and Events
Fort Wayne notices list December events at the Masonic Temple including attractions titled Caught in the Web and Little Red School House with performances and dates noted for December 10 through December 12.
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Masonic Temple
Fort ‘Wayne, Ind
Little Red School Nouse
Dees
Sanset
Miner
Illinois Governor Proclaims Aid for South African Non-Combatants
Governor Yates issues a proclamation urging Illinoisans to donate money medicine food and clothing for non-combatants confined in South African prisons and concentration camps including women and children awaiting relief efforts.
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Yates
Illinois
Annual Convention of National Live Stock Association Held in Chicago
The fifth annual convention met in Chicago with nearly 2 delegates from each state and territory. Delegates represented stock yards, allied interests, and owners of about 50 million cattle and as many sheep with a total capital investment of 4.5 billion dollars. President John W. Springer presided. Secretary Wilson and others spoke on live stock value and census results. The group pressed for federal inspection over state boards and debated woolen goods tagging and a second assistant Secretary of Agriculture dedicated to the five stock industry.
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National Live
National Live Stock Association
Far West
United States
John W. Springer
Association
Seeretary
Wilson
J. Sterling Morten
Nebraska
Census Bureau
Powers
Morton
Supreme Court of the United States
Arizona's bid for statehood gains focus in Congress
Arizona pushes to join the Union citing population growth from 2,200 to 122,931 in the 1890s, copper and precious metal wealth, and major plans for a vast water storage reservoir. New Mexico and Oklahoma also seek admission, while arid climate and water access remain pivotal issues for homeseekers and mining.
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Arizona
Congress
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Nicaragua Moves to Clear Path for Canal by Abrogating Treaties
President Zelaya revokes or forfeits all concessions that could clash with U S interests and abrogates the 1867 Dickinson Ayon treaty, effectively renouncing sovereignty over the canal site to pave the way for U S control of the isthmian route.
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Isthmian Canal Commission
Atlantic
Pacific Ocean
Greytown
San Juan River
San Carlos
Ochoa
Nicaragua
Brito
Wme- Witty
United States
Isthmian Canal
Perpetue
Zelaya
Limited grazing debate at forest Tages raises census push
Discussion on grazing limits links to livestock census. Congress may be urged to enact annual census reports with figures published ninety days after collection. Dexter Park pavilion hosted opening ceremonies of the great international show with speeches by Wilson Yates Harrison and Hall. Attendance exceeded expectations with over twenty five thousand daily visitors as stock yard displays drew huge crowds. The Union Stock Yards of Chicago remain the nation’s top live stock hub, with last year’s receipts valued at 262,000,600 dollars across cattle hogs sheep calves and horses.
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Congress
Great Union Stock Yards
Dexter Park Pavilion
Wilson
Yates
Harrison
R. W. Hall
Texas
Stock Yards
Union Stock Yards
Chicago
Rae Hale
Spesitin
Nicaragua Abrogates Treaty Over Canal Route Agreement
La Democracia reports Managua plans to abrogate the treaty after Nicaragua clears the canal route of all obligations to other parties. The semi official daily notes the action follows completion of route clearance within Nicaragua.
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la Democracia
Managua
Nicaragua
Paying the Piper Stupendous Fall in British Securities
The Bankers Magazine notes a massive wartime decline in British securities from the South African War start to now. Across 323 listed items, net loss tops £143,946,000 with Consols dropping to 93 13 16 from 103 54. Foreign government stocks and American railroads gained about £7,000,000, while British and Indian government funds fell £76,392,000 and British railroads lost over £68,000,000 in stock value. The total drop in railroad related securities exceeds £100,000,000.
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Bankers
Market Bulls Rampage Through Chicago Trading Floors
Bulls push Chicago Board of Trade prices higher across grains and provisions. Wheat tops 80 cents, corn near 70, oats around 46 half cents May delivery, and pork and beef lift with high yearly levels. West markets show strong buying from elevator men, storekeepers, and farmers amid broad bullish sentiment.
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Bears
Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago
Thomas Lipton
Juard
Windy City
West
Bishop Fitzgerald Shown To Oppose Chess Ties
Bishop James N. Fitzgerald of St. Louis who attended a missionary convention in Pittsburgh canceled all chess engagements. He is known as a capable chess player who learned the game with his blind son, a detail that drew criticism from Christ Church members in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburg
Methodist Church
Ciiss
James N. Fitzgerald
St. Louis
Pennsylvania
Christ Church
Fitzgerald
Marriage verdict from Chicago mother of quadruplets
Mrs Josephine Ormsby of Chicago mother of fourteen children in seven years sues her husband for divorce claiming desertion and cruelty She notes I will not marry again and rejects offers including money for a divorce while describing her large family of twins triplets and quads
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Josephine Ormsby
Chicago
Ormsby
Mrs. Ormsby
Widow Fremont Pleads For Son Mercy Before Roosevelt
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, widow of Gen John C Fremont, begs President Roosevelt for mercy for her son. The case before the President is Capt F P Fremont of the Second Infantry in the Philippines, sentenced to suspend from rank for six months on half pay and to be confined for assaulting an enlisted man.
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Jessie Benton Fremont
John C. Fremont
Roosevelt
F. P. Fremont
Second Infantry
Philippines
Plague Reports and Tolstoi Health Update
A brief note mentions ongoing plague in Honolulu and reports Count Tolstoi’s health improving. Idaho Governor Hunt pledges aid to combat a railway combine. A line indicates a collision or impact about nine miles north of a referenced location.
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Honolulu
Count Tolstoi
Gov. Hunt
Idaho
Shell that failed inventor touts success after Sandy Hook tests
Louis Gathman, Chicagoan inventor of a so called failing shell, claims a successful result. Tests at Sandy Hook used a 15 inch bore gun firing a 18 inch diameter shell with 300 pounds of wet gun cotton toward Krupp armor. Experts say damage came from impact not explosive charge. Gathman disputes the verdict, asserting the wet gun cotton would have sunk a battleship at 3500 yards.
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Louis Gathman
Sandy Hook
Gathman
Railways form new incorporations and service updates
DARTH reports filings for Cairo Paducah and Northwestern Railway and Oklahoma Texas and Gulf Railway as new entities. Chicago and Alto n earnings rise to 847800 in October amid rail business. Five heavy locomotives ordered by Chicago and Eastern Illinois. Louisville and Nashville trains receive no cost winter uniforms for staff. A New York orphan asylum train of children travels via Wabash to Rock Island then Vinton Iowa. Western roads appoint pass committee led by George W. Ristine and C A Parker. A weekly tourist sleeping car operates Chicago to Los Angeles via Burlington and Kansas City. Mrs P T Downs of the St Paul receives $50000 from Great Northern following a fatal wreck involving Mr Downs and son. Mobile and Ohio launches through sleeping car service St Louis to Mobile New Orleans and Jacksonville. Grand Trunk traffic grows toward seashore resorts.
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Cairo
Paducah
Northwestern
United States
Chicago and Alton
Chicago and
Louisville and
Nashville
New York
Chicago
Wabash
Rock Island
Vinton
Towa
Oklahoma, Texas and Gulf Railway
Ruw
Kingfisher
Oklahoma City
Coal Gate
I.T
Paris
Texas
Los Angeles
Cal
Burlington
Kansas City
P. T. Downs
St. Paul
Great Northern Railroad
Great Northern Railroad. Mr.Downs
Great Northern
Mobile and Ohio
St.Louis
Mobile
New Orleans
Jacksonville
Grand ‘Trunk Railway
Thessemmle
Locatiae
Railroads face power and car shortages cutting iron trade
The article notes scarce motive power and cars impacting railroads with traffic down to spring patterns, while builders and foundries struggle amid narrowed coke and coal supplies. Wheat markets rally on bullish sentiment as speculation drives prices higher, with corn oats and other staples also advancing and overall foodstuff values rising year over year.
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Alevatre
Nocwieheta
Market Reports Snapshot From Regional Commodities
Chicago and other markets show mixed cattle hogs wheat oats corn and rye prices with ranges for beef pork and sheep across multiple cities including Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee and Chicago. Prices span fractions to several dollars with creamery butter eggs and potatoes noted in the period text.
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Chicago
Tvez. Com
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Detroit
Milwaukee
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Fremont
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Darth
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C. A. Parker
Osa
Ssetand
Wall Street
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