Inferno Threatens Minneapolis Retail District With Fatal Blaze
Fire at the O. H. Peck photographic supply house on Fifth Street South ignited at 10:30 p.m. spreading to nearby buildings and gutting the Peck and Boutell Bros. stores. Two men, Jacob Miller and John Fellows, were killed. others were injured as wind-driven flames threatened the Powers Mercantile and air, with aid from St. Paul fire crews.
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Minneapolis
O. H. Peck Company
Fifth Street
Jacob Miller
John Fellows
Fire Insurance Patrol
Boutell
Kilten
Fellows
Tony Wilson
James Sincoe
Boutell Building
Wilson
Sincoe
Peck
Boutell Bros
Northwest
Powers
Mercantile Company
First Avenue South
St. Paul
Burglars Loot Bank of Rice Station North of St Cloud
Robbers used nitroglycerin to blast the safe at the Bank of Rice Station fifteen miles north of St Cloud between 2 and 3 am. They took about $2,000 in cash and $15,000 in negotiable paper and fled toward St Cloud with a stolen team. Citizens and deputy sheriffs search the area for the professional thieves.
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T. Cloud
Minn
Bank of Rice
Es Station
St. Cloud
Cavein Fatality Kills Two Boys Near Madison
In Madison Wisconsin on December 15 a sandpit cavein killed twelve year old Harry Reeves, a widow's son, and his team. The same site had claimed fourteen year old Larry Planer, son of E C Planer, two years earlier. The Reeves boy died under peculiar circumstances noted by observers.
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Madison
Wis
Harry Reeves
E. C. Planer
Arry
Planer
Reeves
Nose blowing caused death of schoolgirl in Winona
Mary Meilke a fifteen year old girl living near St Charles died suddenly while dressing for school after blowing her nose too hard to relieve a cold. Coroner Muir determined the violent effort caused a brain hemorrhage.
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Winona
Minn
Mary Meilke
St. Charles
Muir
Bank Robbery in Chisholm Nets $2200
A lone bandit robbed the Bank of Chisholm in Chisholm Minnesota at 10 30 am taking 2200 dollars. He locked cashier Grieser in the vault and escaped. The bank will not comment until the insurance company reports.
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Hibbing
Minn
Bank of
Marquette Man Committed for Ex tradition of Stock Certificates
James Wallace of Marquette Michigan is committed for extradition on a charge of stealing stock certificates valued at 30 000 dollars from banker Edward Breitung. Wallace was arrested in Liverpool after arriving November 20 aboard the steamship Caxonia from Boston.
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London
Bow Street
James Wallace
Marquette
Mich
Edward Breitung
Wallace
Liverpool
Boston
Nickel Plate Holiday Excursions to Eastern Points 1904 05
Christmas holiday excursion rates via Nickel Plate Road from Chicago to Buffalo and eastern cities with three daily through trains to Ft Wayne Findlay Cleveland Erie Buffalo New York Boston and more. Pullman sleepers dining cars meals 35c to $1.00 no excess fare. Tickets via Adams Street depots and general agent John Y Calahan. Also Western Line student rates and De Witts Little Early Risers sold locally.
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Nickel Plate Road
Chicago
Buffalo
Ft. Wayne
Findlay
Cleveland
Erie
New York
Boston
van Buren and la Salle Sts
Adams St
Auditorum Annex
Alacarte
Indictments in Chadwick Case Hit Several Officials
Cleveland dispatch notes a special grand jury returning five indictments against Mrs. Chadwick and four indictments each for President Beckwith and Cashier Spear of the Citizens' National Bank of Oberlin. The actions occurred as the special venue completed its day's work.
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Cleveland
Chadwick
Beckwith
Citizens’ National Bank of Oberlin
Spear
Feed and Boarding Stable at Old Mallett Barn
Hay and water furnished for six dollars per month. Horses boarded. Teams put up any hour of day or night. Charges reasonable. A Teuber, proprietor.
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A. Teuber
Old Mallett Barn
Case of Mrs Chadwick opens grand jury task in Cleveland
In Cleveland on December 15, federal grand jury proceedings began to consider Mrs. Chadwick’s case. U S Attorney Sullivan said her waiver of examination delays any immediate indictment, while the county grand jury also met as an indictment is expected in the Carnegie note affair valued at 5 million dollars.
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Cleveland
Federal Grand Jury
Chadwick
United States
Sullivan
New York
Federal
Keeler
Mrs Chadwick Arrives in Cleveland Faces Accusations
Mrs Chadwick returns to Cleveland amid a large crowd at Union Station. Escorted by deputy marshals from New York she moves to the federal building, confers with attorney Sheldon Keruish, waives examination, and is later taken to the county jail.
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Cleveland
Chadwick
Union Station
Jin
New York
Federal Building
Rs. Chadwick
United States
Chandler
Carnegie to Attend Trial Despite Lumbago
District Attorney Sullivan received word that Andrew Carnegie is suffering from lumbago and cannot attend the Chadwick investigation in Cleveland. He will, however, attend Mrs. Chadwick's trial when it proceeds.
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Cleveland, C
Sullivan
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Chadwick
Earthquake Like Disturbance Ravages Humble Oil Field
A mysterious upheaval near Humble Texas, seventeen miles north of Houston, wrecked the oil field. Clouds of vapor burst from wells as mud and water surged, rocks and debris rained down for almost an hour, destroying derricks, machinery, and nearby frame houses. Experts deem the field ruined.
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Houston
Tex
Humble
Student Demonstration Causes Disorder in Moscow Streets
Another student demonstration occurred in Moscow with chants against arbitrariness. The town council telegraphed to Interior Minister Sviatopolk-Mirsky urging support for the zemstvo memorial. The humane apolony requested permission to aid Bessarabia relief efforts.
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Moscow
Sviatopolk-Mirsky
Zemstvo
Humane Apolony
Bessarabia
Land Fraud Trials Postponed to March in Portland
Portland officials report that Judge Bellinger, on motion by government prosecutor Francis Peney, postponed the trial of several defendants accused of defrauding the government of public lands until next March. The postponement cites unspecified reasons.
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Portland
Ore
Francis Peney
Bellinger
Public Lands
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Neapolis Blaze
Madison, Wis
Lone Bandit
Clifford V. Bates
John Y. Calahan
Chicago &, North Western R’y
New England
Ocean Steamship Docker
Chicago, Ill
Chicago Depot
la Salle and
van Buren Sts
de Witt
Holland Wheeler
Cleve
Mrs. Chadwick
Funct Oberlin
D.) Bank
Humble, Tex
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