Iroquois Theatre Fire Devastates Chicago Crowd
A Chicago theatre fire at the Iroquois killed seven hundred to seven hundred thirty six people after an electric wire grounded and flames raced through the stage. Gas tanks exploded, roofs lifted away, and exits became deadly crush points as victims lay in piles up to twelve feet high. Coroner reports mass casualties and widespread unidentifiable bodies amid chaotic panic. An unrelated classified note offers secondhand organs and sewing machines for sale.
Central South Dakota Fair Association Annual Meeting Notify
The annual meeting of the Central South Dakota Fair Association stockholders will be held at City Hall in Huron South Dakota on January 13 to elect officers and a board of eleven directors and address other business. Secretary E M Tuomas notes the notice dated December 30 1903.
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Central South Dakota Fair Association
Huron
Marshall
8. D
E.M. Tuomas
State of
South Dakota
Beadless
Co. Weatherwax
Lena . Weatherwax
Seymour C. Weatherwax
Lena E. Weatherwax
John D. Chamberlain
Beadle
A. D
F. A. Miller
Western Town Lot Company
N. C. Estey
James McCord
Cavour
Pees
F. D. Goodrich
Royal D. Cone
W. J. Landon
Frank Landon
W. J
Pet
Qupeonssustice Court
Genety
H. A. van Dalsem
Geo. C. Reed Va
Mane Passon
Henry R. Passon
Said County
Geo. C. Reed
H. A van Datsem
Beadle County
S. D
Sudden Death Claims M F Fuller on Hay Load Run
Morris Fitch Fuller 71 died of heart failure while driving a hay rack toward a load of hay ten miles out. He suffered a stroke three years earlier and dated back to Monroe County New York, later moving to Michigan and South Dakota before settling in Huron. He left a wife and eleven children. Funeral plans set for Saturday at his home with burial in Broadland cemetery.
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M. F. Fuller
Morris Fitch Fuller
Mr. Fuller
Monroe County
New York
Sarimer County
Michigan
Mary L. Page
Fairfield
South Dakota
Broadland
Huron
James
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Edward
Wheaton
Minnesota
Dickey
C. C. Faller
Orifeno
Idaho
Alice
Arthur
Fondulac
Wis
Ada
Faller
Fuller
Blake
East Second Street
Youngman
Pierre Elks Fail To Initiate Large Pierre Class
The Elks initiated a four man class Tuesday night including George Jackson Pierre C G Swafford Iroquois Chas M Dwyer Miller and Arthur Howard Huron but none of the Pierre candidates appeared. Plans call for a Pierre class after year end and a Huron class toward late January with about twenty from the area. Work on a new Elk home in Huron will begin soon attracting more local membership. Outside-town brothers attended from DeSmet Lake Preston Bryant Willow Lakes Hitchcock Brookings and Carthage.
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The
Elks
George Jackson
Pierre
C. G. Swafford
Iroquois
Chas. M. Dwyer
Miller
Arthur Howard
Huron
H. ©. Dunham
D. F. Wilmarth
DeSmet
No Missing the Train for Her
A crowd at Kansas City union depot gathered around an elderly woman with an alarm clock on a ribbon. The clock rang at 9 15 as she prepared to board the Santa Fe train to Arkansas City, guided by passenger agent W. J. Curtis who led her to her carriage.
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Kansas City Star
Union Depot
W. J. Curtis
The
Santa Fe
Arkansas City
Mr. Curtis
Olney Nominated by New England Democrats for President
Boston December 26 Rich ard Olney will be formally presented as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination at the Massachusetts Democratic state committee meeting. Hon William S McNary will offer the resolution and New England states will be asked to back the Olney movement following a conference with Democratic leaders including John Sharpe Williams.
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Boston
Richard Olney
Democratic State Committee
Massachusetts
William S. McNary
New England
Olney
John Sharpe Williams
Mississippi
Congress
Secret investigation probes lawmakers with postoffice links
A Washington led inquiry into the postoffice department may reveal how many senators and representatives violated contracts with the government. The probe notes Senator Warren of Wyoming as lessee of Cheyenne post office premises, with legal action possible only to authorities.
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St. Paul
Globe
Washington
Postoffice Department
Bristow
Dietrich
Nebraska
Congress
Warren
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Warren Case Closed Wyoming Senator Post Office Lease
Washington reports a decision after a conference with Senator Warren of Wyoming over a government leased building for the Cheyenne post office. An agent, during the senator’s absence, signed a ten year lease at 1200 a year, saving the government about 7000 over ten years, and the post office will stay until a new government building is ready by July.
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Washington
Senator Warren
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Payne
Charles Emory Smith
Warren
Marriage license refused to Lady Beaumont Montague
Lady Josephine Beaumont Montague, an English noblewoman, was denied a marriage license by Ramsey County District Court clerk after a Sioux Falls divorce decree. She and her British army fiancé, visiting St. Paul, learned Minnesota requires a six month interval before a divorcee can wed. The couple planned to travel to a state with laxer laws.
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St. Paul
Josephine Beaumont Montague
Ramsey County
Montague
Sioux Falls
Minnesota
Lady Montague
China
Pacific Coast
ElevenYearOld Girl Ends Life After Scolding
Provo Utah December 26 Mary Peters eleven took poison after being reproved for whispering in class. She drank a salts mixture laced with strychnine at home and died within half an hour. Coroner ruled death by own action noting her despondent morose state and prior threats to take her life.
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Provo
Utah
Mary Peters
Incarceration of Chilean Inventor Kehl in Washington
Washington police arrest Jerman Kehl of Construction Chile after a letter to President Roosevelt triggers mental-health concerns. He carries a loaded revolver and steel knuckles, proclaims himself an inventor with pending patents, and is committed as insane to St Elizabeths asylum.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Jerman Kehl
Construction
Chile
St. Elizabeth's Asylum
Tariff Change Sought by Ottawa Iron Makers
Ottawa iron manufacturers pressed the minister of finance for tariff revision to compete with U S steel products. They contend American billets rails and other goods sell in Canada 20 to 25 percent cheaper than domestic prices, spurring the reform.
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Ottawa
Ont
United States
Canada
U S Pressures China and Korea to Open Trade Ports
Washington reports state department efforts to secure China and Korea trade advantages through the Chinese commercial treaty and Minister Allen's demands. Officials seek ratification within three months to open Antung and Mukden ports in Manchuria and press Wiju in Korean territory for port access.
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Washington
Far East
State Department
United States
China
Korea
Allen
Russia
Japan
Manchuria
Antung
Mukden
Wiju
Mr. Allen
Seoul
Sixty Die As Duquesne Limited Wreck Near DanYon
A Baltimore and Ohio wreck near Dan Yon kills sixty aboard the Duquesne limited. Passengers perish in a smoker car from escaping steam after a high speed collision with fallen embankment timbers. Foreigner victims include Italians and one Chinese. Among injured several expected to die. Police report thefts of corpses and valuables.
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Connellsville
Duquesne Limited
Baltimore and Ohio
Danyon
Laurel Run
Youghiogheny River
Connellsville Cottage State Hospital
Dawson
Europe
Baltimore
New York
Vicksburg Sent to Korea Amid Chemulpo Riots
Rear Admiral Sterling orders the gunboat Vicksburg to depart Shanghai for Chemulpo Korea after rioting endangered American lives and property. A marine guard will be reinforced by a company from the Philippines aboard Zafiro, and Marines will not land unless American interests are threatened.
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Washington
Sterling
Navy Department
Philippines
Chemulpo
Vicksburg
Suit Filed Over Alienation of Affections
Des Moines on December 28 W W Cassiday a Winterset merchant filed in district court for 5000 dollars claiming his wife was alienated from him by her mother Mrs Ernest C Draeger and her husband who live in Des Moines The suit says the wife left her Winterset home last April to live with the Draegers after they sought to win her from him.
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Des Moines
W. W. Cassiday
Winterset
Ernest C. Draeger
Cassiday
Quarrel Over Presents Ends in Fatal Shootings
In Chicago on December 28 William Kauffman fatally shot his cousin Rosa Kauffman and wounded his aunt Mrs Rega Kauffman during a Christmas presents dispute. He claimed an uncle shorted him on gifts and attempted to shoot him. The shooter fled and has not been arrested.
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Chicago
William Kauffman
Rosa Kauffman
Rega Kauffman
Kauffman
Beaupre Coming Home From Colombia
The United States cruiser Olympia arrived at Colon bearing Mr. Beaupre the American minister to Colombia on leave and Mrs. Beaupre. They departed for New York later aboard the mail steamer Yucatan. Olympia's Cartagena reception was reported friendly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colon
United States
Olympia
Cartagena
Mr. Beaupre
Colombia
Secretary Shaw Upholds Ruling on Silk Ribbons Duty
Secretary Shaw sustains the board of general appraisers in deeming certain silk ribbons as trimmings, not manufactured silk. The ruling raises the duty on the ribbons from 50 to 60 percent ad valorem.
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Washington
Shaw
Board of General Appraisers
Sleepy Eye Barber Found Guilty of First Degree Assault
New Ulm Minnesota December 26 Charles Kimball the Sleepy Eye barber who menaced the village on September 8 in an attempt to shoot Mrs Toomey over alleged unfaithfulness was tried for first degree assault and found guilty He received a sentence of four and a half years in prison
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New Ulm, Minn
Charles Kimball
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Treager
Ered
Acci
Cape
W.R
Assiniboia
Liberal Commission
Minnesota- Assiniboia Land & Investment Co
Endicott Building
Minn
B. E. Beach
Hereford
Noyes B. Appleman
Democrats
Wame
Didate
England
Warren Case
Investi
Gates
St. Paul Clerk
CRANK
Aster
Ohio Railroad
Gubnons
Ninth Judicial Circuit
Charles E. Hatcher
Isaac F. Hatcher
Isaac Hoge, Sr
A. Riegel
C. D. Yo
Plains
Queen
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Hollister- Beveridge
Ninth Street
Minnehaha
U.S. G
Chemulpe
Beaupre
Aken
N. H. Boweerman
D. R. Carpenter
Morris
Ode Carpenter
Ode
L. ©. Kemp
L. C. Kemp
Asheer F. T Ay
CrawFrorp & Taylor
S. B
Esta
Asner F. Pay
Hall, Lawrence
Publicasion
H. A. Vas Darsem
Justice of the Peace
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