Wreck of Boston-New York Express Kills Numerous At Naugatuck
A Boston-New York express derailed at Naugatuck Junction near New Haven, killing at least fourteen and injuring many. Fire destroyed coaches as the locomotive and baggage cars plunged down an embankment. Rescue trains brought nurses and physicians to aid victims. several bodies were recovered, with others still entombed in debris. Engineers Ga. L. Clark and J. J. Maker among the dead. witnesses report high speed at impact. Three young women from the Boston Conservatory of Music perished in the blaze.
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Naugatuck
Conn
New Haven
Naugatuck Junction
Stamford
Ga. L. Clark
J. J. Maker
James Brady
Albany
N. Y
J. Leopold Spiegel
New York
Boston Conservatory of Music
British Submarine Sunk After Fog Collision Off Goodwin Sands
The British submarine B-2 was rammed by the Hamburg American liner Amerika in fog in the English channel near Goodwin Sands and sank with fifteen lives lost. Only Lt. Bulloyne survived after clinging to wreckage until picked up by another submarine’s crew.
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Dover
England
English Channel
Goodwin Sands
Bulloyne
Channel Squadron
Amerika
Kankakee Suffers Worst Fire In History
A devastating blaze in Kankakee Illinois on October 4 consumed two city blocks, destroying much of the area and causing about $200000 in losses. The fire, driven by strong winds, required aid from the Kankakee State Hospital department. Firemen faced narrow escapes but no injuries occurred. three horses perished.
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Kankakee
Ill
Kankakee State Hospital
Will warns executor to avoid lawyers after owner's death
Barra C. Bartlett retired Arizona mine owner dies in New York gym. His will disposing of a $50 000 estate warns the executor to have no dealings with lawyers. In Atlanta, a Southern railway wreck near Gornella kills two and injures several.
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New York
Barra C. Bartlett
Arizona
New York Athletic Club
Atlanta
Washington
Southern Railway
Gornella
New York Democrats Name Full State Ticket
Syracuse dispatch reports Congressmen Sulzer for governor and Glynn for lieutenant governor led the Democratic state convention to pick the remaining ticket: May as Secretary of State Carmody as Attorney General Sohmer as State Comptroller Bensel as State Engineer Kennedy as State Treasurer Hogan and Cuddeback named associate judges. Richmond dispatch notes Governor Wilson praised the convention's selections and sent congratulations by wire.
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Syracuse
N. Y
William Sulzer
New York
Martin H. Glynn
Albany
Mitchell May
Thomas Carmody
William Sohmer
John A. Bensel
John J. Kennedy
Fire in East Fourth Street tenement kills three
Three men died in a five story burn at No 167 East Fourth Street with 40 panic victims including men women and children. Harry Herman a boarder and Benjamin Goblitz aged nineteen were among the dead and injured. Goblitz hid under a bed on the third floor and was found by a fireman taken to Bellevue hospital with fatal injuries.
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New York
East Fourth Street
Harry Herman
Benjamin Goblitz
Bellevue Hospital
Guard troops to protect six negroes in Forsyth trials
Atlanta reports a battalion of state guardsmen will guard six black defendants during their trial at Cummings starting Thursday. Martial law is said to be proclaimed in Forsyth County amid racial tensions after two white women were killed in the clashes that followed.
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Atlanta
Cummings
Forsyth
Tar party victim weds Miss Chamberlain in Kansas
Lincoln Kansas October 8 Miss Mary Chamberlain the school teacher who last fall was the victim of the Shady Bend tar party in connection with which half a dozen prominent Lincoln county men were prosecuted was married to Homer J Helfterich a carpenter.
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Lincoln, Kan
Mary Chamberlain
Lincoln County
Homer J. Helfterich
Dow expelled from Boston Stock Exchange over bankruptcy loan use
The Boston Stock Exchange governing committee expelled Stephen R. Dow, head of Stephen R. Dow & Co, after his firm failed. Dow headed several copper mining ventures and reportedly borrowed 300000 dollars, allegedly using the funds to run his brokerage operations.
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Boston
Boston Stock Exchange
Stephen R. Dow
Stephen R. Dow & Co
Dow
Mahoning Rug Works Manager Killed Turning On Lights
Charles A. Mowrey, manager of the Mahoning Rug works in Youngstown Ohio, was killed by an electric current when he turned on the office lights this morning. The accident occurred at the Mahoning plant on October 4.
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Youngstown, C
Charles A. Mowrey
Mahoning Rug Works
Greeks and Turks clash as Balkan war escalates
Dispatches report 400 Greek soldiers attack Turkish posts on the frontier near Harmanli while Montenegrins cross into Turkish territory to aid Malissori tribesmen. In the U S Greeks abroad are summoned home 150000 strong to bolster arms as peace talks with Italy emerge at Ouchy.
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London
Turkey
Servia
Nenandovich
Servian Legation
Constantinople
Turkish War Office
Athens
Greece
Albania
Chicago
United States
Balkan States
Sons of Greece
Washington
Nicholas Salopoulos
Hull House
Young Turks Federation
Harmanli
Adrianople
Exchange Telegraph Company
Paris
Italy
Ouchy
Switzerland
Spengler Denies Murder Confession in Reis Case
In Detroit on October 5 George Brown Spengler gave rambling statements denying the confession of killing twelve year old Matilda Reis. He claimed another man committed the crime while he stood within three feet. Police insist Spengler is the guilty party.
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Detroit
Mich
George Brown Spengler
Matilda Reis
Spengler
Crop Crisis Grips North Dakota Wheat Harvest
A North Dakota crop crisis demands thousands of harvesters to prevent rotting wheat. Threshing machines lie idle or operate with partial crews as thousands of acres remain uncut amid the rush to harvest before spoilage.
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Fargo
N. D
North Dakota
Ten Children Die in Fire in St Bernard Quebec
Alexander Gravel and his wife returned to their home to find it in flames and the ten children aged from eighteen months to fifteen years dead from burns. The parents could not aid the youngsters as the blaze consumed the house.
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St. Bernard, Que
Alexander Gravel
Gravel
Train Derailed Near Darien Under Strike
Augusta Ga October 5 long distance message says passenger train No 28 of the Georgia railroad with a strike on board was derailed near Darien Ga and the entire crew except the engineer were driven into the woods. Shots were exchanged and Jones was reported injured.
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Augusta
Thompson
Georgia Railroad
Darien
Jones
Indiana dynamite plot trial opens with nitroglycerin claim
In Indianapolis a federal trial of 46 accused dynamite plotters begins. District Attorney Miller says nitroglycerin was chosen after dynamite proved insufficient, with Ortie H. McManigal and a nationwide network coordinating attacks on nonunion jobs and property worth millions. Jury includes eight farmers and local merchants.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Herbert S. Hockin
Charles W. Miller
Mr. Miller
Charles N. Beam
Minneapolis
Henry W. Legleitner
Pittsburgh
Eugene A. Clancy
San Francisco
Frank C. Webb
New York
John T. Butler
Buffalo
Michael J. Young
Boston
Frank M. Ryan
Indiana
Bandits Rob Fast Train Near Poteau Oklahoma
Bandits about six in number held up north bound Kansas City Southern train No. 4 three miles north of Poteau Oklahoma. They boarded at Frisco crossing and dynamited the express car safe storing a large quantity of registered mail. Passengers were held at gunpoint while the robbers searched cars and then fled with the train. Bloodhounds were requested.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Kansas City
Tarby Prairie
Poteau
Okla
Frisco Crossing
John Dozier
De Palma Wins Vanderbilt Cup on Wauwatosa Course
Ralph de Palma in a Mercedes wins the Vanderbilt Cup over the new Wauwatosa road course covering 299 miles in 4 hours 20 minutes 31.54 seconds earning 3000 dollars. Hughie Hughes in a Mercer finishes second and Spencer Wishart fourth. De Palma leads after engine trouble sidelined rival Tetzlatt at 200 miles.
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Wauwatosa
Wis
Ralph de Palma
Mercedes
Ralph Mulford
Vanderbilt
Savannah
Hughie Hughes
Mercer
Dema
Spencer Wishart
Hughes
de Palma
Tetzlatt
Fiat
New American Endurance Flight Record Set by Towers
Lieut. John H. Towers of the navy aviation corps flew a Curtis hydro aeroplane for 6 hours 10 minutes and 35 seconds covering about 380 miles. The run was not on a measured course, so the distance mark is unofficial and compares to Paul Peck’s 4 hours 23 minutes.
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Annapolis
John H. Towers
Navy Aviation Corps
Curtis
Paul Peck
Lieut. Towers
Peck
Tower
Family of Six Perishes in Auto Accident Near Arlington
F B Cornelius of Palmer Texas his wife two daughters his sister and her child died when their automobile was struck by an interurban car near Arlington Texas five miles from Dallas. The car hit head on at speed throwing all six occupants onto the tracks. Cornelius a blacksmith was identified by a card found in his coat.
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Dallas
Tex
F. B. Cornelius
Palmer
Arlington
Cornelius
Alleged Wreckers Captured After Train Attack
Jacob Gillman a 27 year old Chicago resident and Henry Heidt a 17 year old Milwaukee youth were captured by St Joseph police chief Meinke after an attempted railroad wreck near Buffalo Michigan. They allegedly placed obstructions on the Michigan Central line to imperil hundreds of passengers.
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Laporte Ind
Jacob Gillman
Chicago
Henry Heidt
Milwaukee
St. Joseph
Mich
Meinke
Gillman
Heidt
Michigan Central
Buffalo
Car Strikes Wagon in Edinburg Tragedy
In Youngstown Ohio a wagon collision on Edinburg road killed John Fullerton age 60 and Rufus Evans age 33. Motorman John Betts and conductor E Walters plus detective George Graham were seriously hurt. No passengers injured.
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Youngstown
John Fullerton
Rufus Evans
Edinburg
John Betts
E. Walters
Petective George Graham
Riots Break Out in Duluth Streetcar Strike
Rioting flared in Duluth Minnesota tied to the streetcar strike with rock-throwing at West End cars injuring several passengers. Similar disturbances occurred in Superior where a streetcar was wrecked. only a few people were hurt.
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Duluth
Minn
West End
Superior
Phrenology lecture zings boy with bump of philoprogenitiveness
The New York American reports a public phrenology demonstration where a professor calls the lad's head bump the bump of philoprogenitiveness and praises parental love. The boy quips that the bump shows where his father struck him with a belt buckle yesterday.
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New York American
Johnny
Pop
School Progress They Say Dorothy and Frances Lead In Class
A Kansas City Star fragment notes a mother asking her child Dorothy about school progress. Dorothy replies that she and Frances Smith are the smartest and best dressed girls in the school, reflecting early 20th century tone and social focus.
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Harrison Boulevard
Dorothy
Frances Smith
Kansas City Star
W. S. Royston
End of Famous Vessel Fox Wrecked on Greenland Coast
The Fox the vessel used by Sir Leopold McClintock to aid Franklin search has wrecked on the Greenland coast. In recent years it served the Danish Greenland authorities on coastal trips.
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Fox
Sir Leopold McClintock
Sir John Franklin
Greenland
Circinmati Market Prices For Wheat Cattle Hogs And Lambs
Market quotes list prices for wheat corn oats hay poultry eggs and livestock. Details cover No 2 to No 4 grades across wheat oats hay poultry eggs cattle hogs sheep lambs with price ranges and yield notes.
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Timothy
Trolley Car Strikes Vehicle In Fog Fatality In Newcastle
In heavy fog a Newcastle interurban street car hit a carriage at a crossing killing John Fullerton 73 a Civil War veteran and Jesse L Evang 49 instantly. Conductor Wilsop B Walters Motorman Charles Betts both of Youngstown and Detective W Graham were severely injured.
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Newcastle
John Fullerton
Jesse L. Evang
Wilsop B. Walters
Charles Betts
Youngetown, Os
W. Graham
Canoe Proposal Sets Off Unexpected Capsize
In a light moment, a man proposed to his partner during a canoe ride. The canoe capsized, but the dialogue suggests a positive response. No injuries reported.
Rural Fate and Sims Life Echoes in Harrowing Strife
Rural mood frames Sims as a quiet ploughman who never hit fame and endured a harrowing life. The fragment hints at hardship and steadfast work, contrasting small-town rhythms with personal struggle.
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Sims
Hamlet and Great Dane Irony Reflects on Influence
Quote from Rev. J. R. Miller contrasts Hamlet’s “dog’s life” with a pun on Great Dane. Observes that spreading influence abroad should not neglect being benedictions to those nearest, urging practical Christian living.
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Rev
J. R. Miller
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