Population density and notable deaths in early 1900s reports
The census shows Indiana averaging 70.1 persons per square mile over 35 070. Marion County has 498 people. Floyd and Vanderburg exceed 300 along with eleven others. The list notes high-rise occupancy in Baltimore, a New York murder suicide, a Buffalo train crash injuring several, a Syracuse ambassador’s son suicide, miners dying from fire damp in Pa, Mafia linked Brooklyn death, a Mount Pleasant rail wreck, a US transport wreck near Mantanzas, a Washington hotel suit for hydrophobia, and a Watertown rope accident with a death.
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Indiana
Marion County
Floyd and
Vanderburg
Ulinois
Baltimore
A.hoem&co
James “Burkey
New York
New York Central
Jewett Avenue
Buffalo
Frederick D. White
Andrew D. White
United States
Germany
Syracuse
N.Y
White
Catsburg
Monongahela City
Dominico Antonio Salamanda
Prospect Place
Brooklyn
Baltimore and Ohio
Connnellsville
Mount Pleasant
McPherson
Mantanzas
Cuba
I. J. Merritt
James R. Keenan
Washington
Annie White
Keenan
Albany
Raymond Albers
Lnd
Emanuel Koebler
Smith
Watertown
N. Y
Henry Phillips
Phillips
Remarkable Head Injury Man Survives in Chicago
Joseph Burdick survived after a car overturned, tearing away trachea and pharynx but sparing the jugular and carotid arteries. At a hospital he was fitted with a breathing device and remains alive though unable to utter any sound. The alarming accident occurred within the past week.
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Ee Hwendicus
Chicago
Joseph Burdick
Burdick
Wreck on Nickel Plate bridge kills nine men
Nine men die when a bridge under repair collapses on a construction train the Nickel Plate railroad reports from Cleveland. A gang of Italian laborers beneath the structure is trapped. seven Italians are killed and several injured. Conductor PF A Moore of Conneaut and engineer William Griffith of Buffalo are also killed. The span is seven miles east of Conneaut, Ohio, over an eighty foot gulley.
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Cleveland
Springfield
Su Stawuy
PF. A. Moore
Conneaut
Welliam Grifith
Buffaio
Ohio
Minnesota Ship Struck From Navy List to Be Sold at Auction
The secretary of the navy reports the Minnesota is stricken from the old Atlantic fleet area and appraised at 15000 dollars. It will be sold at public auction. The Minnesota, built in Washington in 1855, served as flagship of Admiral Goldsboro in the famous Hampton Roads clash with the Merrimack before the Monitor’s arrival.
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Secoretary of the Navy
Naval Tater A Board of Canton
Minnesota
Sheck
Washington
Goldsboro
Hampton Roads
Bank Run at United Banking and Savings in Cleveland Begins
A Bohemian woman triggered a run on the United Banking and Savings company in Cleveland. The bank opened Thursday and continued Friday with doors kept open to meet depositor demands. The woman reportedly spread word that the bank had no funds after being asked to wait.
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United Banking and Savings Campany
Cleveland
Lexington wreck search begins for buried treasure
Rescue efforts move ahead to locate the steamer Lexington wreck sunk in Long Island Sound near Bridgeport Connecticut over 50 years ago. The buried hull is believed to hold up to half a million dollars in specie to be claimed by the finder under marine law. A syndicate led by Whit has secured a submarine boat to probe the sound’s bottom.
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Long Island Sound
Bridgeport Conn
Taw
Ayndi Whit
Army Artillery Peacetime Enlistment Increase Authorized
War Department order raises artillery strength under the latest army law. The increase takes effect on the first of the fiscal year and is tied to enlistment progress. Total boost divided into sixths. one sixth equals eighteen hundred men.
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War Department
Storm damages reported at Champerico and Ocos shoal
Severe storm reports from San Francisco describe the Panama Company's steamer Newport Panama and way ports taking hurricane forces. Both Champerico and Ocos shoals were impacted as anchors and lighters were driven adrift and other damage occurred at both locations.
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San Francisco
Cal
Pane Company
Newport
Panama
Champerico
Ocos
Gathers Secures Control of Major Coal and Iron Interests
Gathers increases hold by acquiring bus and Hocking Coal and Iron in a deal valued at 5 million dollars. The agreement places the firm within the 8.8 part soft coal trust structure and strengthens its position in the mining sector.
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Themins
Bus and Hocking Coal and Iron ’&He
Soft
Girls Save Panhandle Train Fire With Sunbonnets
Edna Keenyr aged 12 and Emma Yarnbaugh aged 14 spotted a burning trestle near Aneka Junction while playing along the track. They waved sunbonnets at an oncoming freight, signaling the engineer to stop before the train plunged into the creek ditch, earning a purse from the crew and praise from officials.
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Panhandle
Aneka Junctioin
Edna Keenyr
Emma Yarnbaugh
Irain
Mother Finds Son Dead in Michigan City Prison
A mother visiting her son at the Michigan City Penitentiary found him gravely ill and later died after she left to fetch oranges on his request. The prison physician warned against long visits, but the mother returned with fruit to find him deceased.
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Michigan City
Wealthy Sawmill Owner Held on Murder Charge
Charles Dunn, 65, a wealthy sawmill owner, was arrested at Wallen on suspicion of murdering 10 year old Alice Cothrell who vanished days earlier. A Huntertown Detective Association search at Dunn's home found evidence the coroner believed pointed to foul play rather than accident.
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Charles Dunn
Wallen
Alice Cothrell
Dunn
Huntertown Detective Association
Among Our Neighbors in Indiana News Notices
A series of local items reports J Cong of Muncie killed in a gravel train wreck near Milton. The Elwood carpenters’ six week strike ends with demands granted. Antemoubite passage through Princeton caused a near suspension of business. Nelson Tevenette, near Osceola, killed by a train. Ed Lenfesty of Muncie died by his own hand after marital separation. Mrs Harriet Goodwin of Greensburg died after heat and barbed wire entanglement. Angelina McCarin, 11, died after Wabash wreck deaths total fifteen. Catherine Rich of Terre Haute, released from asylum, went insane again by heat and attacked her mother. In Muncie Walter Driscoll indicted for first degree murder. plea not guilty. Wheat crop estimated at 30,000,000 bushels with some damage by ay and fly. Ghee acreage short but quality variable.
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J. Cong
Muncie
Milton
Elwood Carpenters
Princeton
Nelson Tevenette
Osceola
Ed Lenfesty
Harriet Goodwin
Greensburg
Angelina McCarin
Peru
Catherine Rich
Terre Haute
Walter Driscoll
Minnie McCoy
Indiana
Multiple disasters and executions reported across states
A Western Mex ican toreador was hurt in South Omaha while a series of violent deaths and disasters are listed: hangings in Carthage and Silver City, drownings near Wheatland, an explosion at Santa Cruz powder mills, suicides in Bucyrus, a fatal clothed burn in Lima, and fires in Springfield and Wilbur with substantial losses. The item also notes public officials resignations and a razor suicide in Lima.
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South Omaha
Ernst Reid
Carthage
Jose Sanchez
Catherine Almundares
Silver City
N. M
John T. Rigdon
Earnest I. Grater
Wheatland
Wyo
Santa Cruz
Cal
Guy Monett
Express
Bucyrus
Ohio
Bridget Croghan
Xenia
Gladys Vincent
Lima
Hiawatha
Kan
Am Express
Topeka
Annie Post
South St. Paul
Oscar Norris
Independence
St. Croix
Rush City
Minn
Dawes
William E. Mason
Sylvester Brackler
Harry Thomas
Hays
Springfield
F. C. Herman Saddiery Company
Jacob
Hidenauer
Wheeling
Junction
Wilbur
Wash
Josses Aggregate
Jury finds Marsh case guilty in second degree
A nineteen hour deliberation at Upper Slusky Ohio ends with a verdict of guilty in the second degree for Lindsay, the fourth man tried for the murder of William C. Johnson. Across the region, floods destroy crops worth about 35000 dollars after cloudbursts. bridges washed away and barns struck by lightning. Other items note tax settlements, factory inspections, and several violent incidents including a fatal duel in Santa Fe and a deadly gas explosion at a Cincinnati waterworks shaft.
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Upper Slusky
Ohio
Marsh’ “Lindsay
William ‘C. Johnson
Sandyville
Westfield
Mansfield
Blumfield
Michael D. Harter
Aultman& Taylor Company
Taylor
The
Republic Iron and Steel Company
Youngstown
Sharon
S. BR
Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Indianapolis
Hamilton, Ohio
Harry Daley
New York
Julius Aria
J. B. Lacome
Santa Fe
Torrence Road
Cincinnati
B. W. McConkey
Missouri
John. Bryant
St. Joseph
McConkey
Ole McMillan
J. Metzner
Humboldt Town
McMillan
Metzner
Thomas Davis
Frankfort
Kan
May. Harding
William
Cosgrove
Clay County
Walter McIntyre
Insane Hospital
Fergus Falls
Minn
Four men hanged in Vernon Florida murder case
Southern news confirms Vernon Florida saw four Black men Beiton Hamilton John Simmons Jim Harrigan and Will Williams hanged after conviction for murdering a helpless man and nearly killing another. The report notes the defendants were convicted of murder in a brutal crime.
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Vernon, ‘Fla
Beiton Hamilton
John Simmons
Jim Harrigan
Will Williams
Danish Schooner Sinks Naphtha Laden Off Kattegat
A Danish schooner loaded with naphtha sank in the Kattegat after a collision, seven men were killed. British authorities report a dramatic escape by Darrell’s Istana crew member who swam three miles to reach a steamer. Other dispatches note Boer losses, political changes, and a massive Chinese landslide with 300 deaths.
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Kattegat
Fas
Theiger Bank
Davin
Stephen ‘du Plooy
Oronje
Darrell
Istana
Joseph’ ‘Chamberlain
Edward
London
Lord Kitchener
North Nabroomspruit
Cabling
Krueger
de Wet
Botha
Transvaal
Prince von ‘Hohenlohe-Sc
Porto Rico tariff abolition urged by assembly
The Porto Rico Assembly formally requests abolition of the tariff with the United States. The President appoints Frederick W. Martin of Indiana as Commissioner of Immigration at San Juan. Allis-Chalmers to build two large machine shops costing 2.5 million dollars in Milwaukee and 1.25 million on the Atlantic coast.
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Porto Rico
United States
Island
Frederick W. Martin
Indiana
San Juan
Allis-Chalmers Company
Milwaukee
Atlantic
Charles McClure
George. W. Getty
Philippines
Sioux City
Iowa
Isi
Robert Remmett
Mexico
Gov. Villeda
China
Butte Mont
Wu Ting
Fang
Middle West
R. Ge Don & Co
Market Reports Chicago and Indianapolis Prices for Cattle Hogs and More
Market notes show Chicago cattle common to prime 3.00 to 6.15, hogs 3.00 to 6.15, sheep 3.00 to 4.15, wheat No 2 red about 64 cents, corn No 2 around 45 to 46 cents, oats No 2 about 40 to 50 cents, butter creamery 18 to 20 cents, potatoes 85 to 95 cents per bushel. Indianapolis cattle shipping around 5.75, hogs choice light about 4.00, sheep common to primes 0.00.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
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