Great Northern inaugurates Watertown to Huron passenger service
The Great Northern will start through passenger service from Watertown to Huron on Oct 5 with through trains to Huron from Benson and Watertown. Outgoing trains depart Huron at 6 20 a m and reach Watertown 8 50 a m Benson 12 55 p m Minneapolis 5 55 p m St Paul 6 35. Coaches between Huron and St Paul and Minneapolis via North Western line are added with evening departures from Minneapolis and St Paul and morning arrivals at St Paul and Minneapolis.
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Huron
Great Northern
Watertown
Benson
Minneapolis
St. Baul
St. Paul
St Paul
Redfield
Twin Cities
Brookings
Chicago and North- Western Railway
Great Northern Offers Clergy Half Fare Permits for 1903
Great Northern Railway announces half fare clergy permits for 1903 valid on most western lines. The passes allow travel between St. Paul and Chicago and on all Trans Continental lines at 80 cents. Applicants pay 1.00 for the permit and blanks are available from all GN agents.
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Great Northern
Great Northern Railway
Chicago
St. Paul
Trans-Continental Association
Great Northern Railway Company
Lynch Must Die Death Sentence Given Commander of Irish Brigade
A wartime report states that a commander of the Irish Brigade was sentenced to death. The decision follows a tribunal assessing charges against the officer for suspected treason and mutiny during combat. Local officials prepared the execution protocol and notified military authorities.
Colonel Lynch Guilty of Treason in Boer War Trial
London and New York reports detail Colonel Arthur Lynch being found guilty of treason for fighting with the Boers and his wartime naturalization. The verdict prompts a death sentence, likely to be commuted. In New York a cigar factory fire causes three deaths and many injuries as panicked workers flee and police rescue survivors.
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London
Arthur Lynch
Galway
Lynch
Howard Carson
New York
Leopold Miller & Sons
Crosby ‘Street
Jennie Hessing
Eis Fannie Kerstberg
Mary Sparbara
Resignation of Reichstag President in Berlin
Count von Balle strom resigns as president of the reichstag after Socialists protested his stance during the January 20 debate. They argued his remarks infringed the reichstag rights while discussing Krupp charges and Emperor William telegrams.
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Berlin
Count von Ballestrom
Reichstag
Herr Vollmer
Herr Krupp
William
Bishop Burgess Praises Catholic Stand on Divorce
New York January 24 Bishop Burgess of Long Island in an address at the Church Club dinner commended the Roman Catholic church for its anti divorce stance. He said it has stood as a bulwark for the inviolability of marriage and the unity of the home.
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New York
Burgess
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Long Island
Church Club
Duel in sight of Oak Street station wounds two bystanders
In New York two unknown men fired at each other near Oak Street police station. Both missed their targets but hit a boy and a girl. Willie McLaughlin was shot in the body and may die while a fourteen year old girl suffered a leg wound. The gunmen fled after discharging their revolvers.
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New York
Oak Street
Willie McLaughlin
Robbers Blow Safe at Somerton Bank Steal Nearly $6000
In Somerton near Bellaire Ohio on January 24 robbers forced entry into the City bank and blew the safe. They escaped with $5,994 and also broke into James Gray's barn stealing a rig before fleeing.
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Somerton, O
Bellaire
Somerton
Here
James Gray
Two Sailors Die of Massachu setts Gunpowder Explosion Injuries
San Juan Puerto Rico January 24 two landsmen from the battleship Massachusetts Alex Newton Dassett of Durham North Carolina and James Garfield Patterson of Pittsburgh died in the military hospital after being wounded in the January 16 eight inch gun powder charge explosion.
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San Juan
P. R
Alex Newton Dassett
Durham
N. C
James Garfield Patterson
Pittsburg
Massachusetts
Seven Coaches Derail in Memphis Illi nois Central Wreck
The Illinois Central New Orleans special from Memphis to New Orleans derailed after an open switch at a lumber yard siding in a southern Memphis suburb. Five of seven cars left the track. the engine was badly smashed. Sixty five passengers were aboard. the engineer and fireman were fatally injured and likely to die. three other crew members seriously hurt. Authorities suspect deliberate switch manipulation.
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Memphis
Tenn
Illinois Central
New Orleans
Great Western Wreck Claims Three Lives In Chicago Area
A Chicago Great Western passenger train bound for St. Paul derailed after striking a broken rail near South Freeport. The engineer William Sheridan, fireman John Sandusky, and a passenger W H H Day were killed. Fifteen to twenty others were injured as flames threatened the wreck.
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Chicago
Chicago Great Western Railroad
St. Paul
South Freeport
W. H. H. Day
Minneapolis
William J. Sheridan
John Sandusky
King Oscar Instates Crown Prince Gustaf as Regent
Stockholm January 24 King Oscar to temporarily entrust government to Crown Prince Gustaf who will assume regency next week due to medical advice. The king has canceled plans for a visit to Norway.
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Stockholm
Oscar
Gustaf
Norway
Tragic Fire Claims Mother and Child in Wisconsin
Mrs. W. Knute and her youngest child from Elcho are dead after a house fire that reduced their home to ashes. A second child escaped with minor burns, while the family tried to flee the blaze in Antigo on January 24.
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Antigo
Wis
Doran Advertises Cure-All Treatments for Many Ailments
An advertisement touts Dr Doran as expert in diagnosing and treating a wide range of diseases including catarrh, eye ear and throat issues, lung conditions, digestive disorders, sexual debilities, skin and blood diseases, cancers, goiter and more. It promises $50 for any case he cannot diagnose in five minutes and offers painless subcutaneous injections as a claimed cure, with consultations at $1.00.
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Geo. W. Bowls
Baird
Miss
Sterling Remedy Company
Montreal
Sapolio
United States Medicine Company
West 14Th Street
New York City
Rence Is
Kodol
E. C. Dewitt , CO
Great Western Wreck
Freeport, Ill
King Oscar
Ven
DR. Doran
South Dakota
Depot Hotel
L. Woodworth
W. Third Street
Huron, South Dakota
Radiant
Juick Meal Steel Range
Wm. Waibel
California
Oregon
Chicago & North-Western Railway
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