Deadly derailment near Kishman injures many
A fast eastbound Nickel Plate passenger train collided with a westbound freight at Kishman near Vermilion on Aug 14. One hundred? seven persons died? and at least 25 are injured, eight critically, as crews fight to free passengers from wreckage. Investigators consider orders miscommunication or failure to obey.
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Kishman
Vermillion
Fort ‘Spéneca
Brookfield
C. C. Poole
Haef
Mone
Lorain
Goring
Pinnkeyes
Nickel Plate
Canniff
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Kentucky Trotting Stock Heads For England Trade Note
George Parsons representing Clarence H. Mackey visits Montrose farm Maj P P Johnston to buy trotting mares and a stallion for export. An English buyer may approve next week, signaling a large shipment of trotting stock to England.
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Lexington
George Parsons
Clarence H. Mackey
Kentucky
Montrose Farm
Maj. P. P. Johnston
National ‘Trotting Association
England
Fatal Accident In Loogootee Area Reported
In Loogootee Indiana a person was struck by a vehicle and under the wheels suffered a severed leg and arm leading to death within hours. The remains were transported to the hometown for interment.
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Loogootee
Ind
State Inspector Hines heads to Covington for audit office check
Bowling Green Ky August 1 State Inspector Henry B Hines and assistants J Marion Robertson and Sam D Hines departed for Covington to inspect the auditor s office There is no intimation or insinuation of anything wrong in the office
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Bowling Green
Henry B. Hines
J. Marion Robertson
Sam D. Hines
Covington
Kentucky Teachers Meet in Joint Institute at Junction City
In Junction City Boyle Lincoln and Garrard counties hold a weeklong Teachers Institute with over 200 teachers in attendance led by Prof. R N Routh of Lexington. In Newport Edward C Remme prominent citizen and former cashier of the German National Bank dies suddenly at his West Third Street home.
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Middleburg
Boyle
Lincoln
Garrard
Junction City
Intendance
R. N. Routh
Lexington
Edward C. Remme
Newport
Edward C Remme
German National Bank
West Third Street
Notable Murders and Official Appointments Across Kentucky
In Georgetown and Bracken County a man named Klosse is recaptured after escaping following the killing of J W Ingram during a ditch digging quarrel. Newport reports Col W T Lyons named department commander of the United States Spanish War Veterans as encampment set in Louisville. Lexington notes the death of Mrs Sarah Scudder nee Rogers born 1840, former wife of City Treasurer Chas Scudder, in St Jon. Inez, on Tug River, recounts a fatal shooting over a card game between Morgan Cupry and Kelley Prince Etter, with Cupry mortally wounded likely by his brother-in-law after a dispute.
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W. T. Lyons
United States
Louisville
Sarah Scudder
Lexington
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Clifton, Rogers
Chas. Scudder
St. Jon
Inez
Morgan Cupryving
Tug River
Here
Kelley Prince
Itte Auld
A Warning to Mothers About Summer Bowel Care
A cautioned guide advises mothers to use castor oil for young children with bowel trouble during hot weather. If symptoms persist, Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Cholera Infantum may be added. keep remedies ready for instant use. Sold by C. J. Haydon, druggist.
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Fantom
C. J. Haydon
Fire at Elmdorf Farm Destroys Barn and Horses in Lexington
Incendiary blaze at J. B. Haggin's Elmdorf stock farm in Lexington destroys a stock barn valued at 14 000 dollars and three trotting bred horses along with provender and implements. The total loss is 25 000 dollars with a suspect employee arrested and a confessed implicating a prominent discharged foreman.
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Elmdorf
J. B. Haggin
Haggin
Henry Robinson
Berryman
Foreman
Banks to Be Sued by Kentucky Officials
Attorney General Hays obtained a list from the state auditor of national banks that did not pay this year’s taxes under the assessment plan. In the coming days the state will seek to recover taxes and penalties, but if banks settle before the September term of the Franklin circuit court, suits will not be pursued.
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Hays
State Boards of Assessment
Franklin Circuit
Pistol Fight in Harrodsburg Ends in Fatal Wounds
In Harrodsburg on Main Street Sam Black a legislator exchanged pistol fire with Policeman William Britton and saloonkeeper Walter Stolts. Black was shot in the head and died instantly Britton wounded in the jaw Stolts abdomen wounded all three in a dying condition. An old grudge is cited as the motive.
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Sam Black
William Britton
Walter Stolts
Main Street
Black
Britton
Stolts
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