Seven Die In Twin City Train Wreck Near New Prague
A Minneapolis and St. Louis passenger train collided with a switch engine at New Prague on the Minneapolis to St. Louis line. Two St. Paul and one Minneapolis traveling men are reported dead with twenty injured. Names listed include George Roberts and George Klinkerfed, both from St. Paul, F. E. Brown of St. Paul, and D. D. Demers of Minneapolis.
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St. Paul
Apolis
St. Louis
New Prague
Minneapolis
George Roberts
George ‘Klinkerfeds
Gotzian & Co
F. E. Brown
Foot, Schulz & Co
D. D. Demers
Wyman, Partridge & Co
Minneapolis and
Roosevelt gives $100 for naval base suit on uniforms
President Roosevelt contributes 100 dollars to a Newport, Rhode Island test suit by Rear Admiral Thomas to decide if wearing U S military uniforms should grant entry to public places. He lauds enlisted men and condemns disrespect toward the uniform as a badge of honor and entitlement.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Thomas
Newport
R. L
United States Army
Navy
Army
United States
MD Navy
Claim Vessel Is Unsafe Mutiny On C B Hill
Firemen aboard the steamer C B Hill formerly the Anchor liner Delaware mutinied near Belle Isle on Lake Erie demanding to turn back to Detroit. The ship sprang a leak in heavy seas and took in water at the stern. Captain J H Coleman returned to Detroit to review the situation.
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Detroit
Mich
C. B. Hill
Delaware
Cleveland
Fort William
Belle Isle
J. H. Coleman
Lake Erie
Coleman
Fire Maen
City of lines Survives Massive Waterspout Off Mexican Coast
The Pacific Mail steamer City of Lines narrowly escaped wreck near Acapulco after a waterspout struck the stern early Sunday. Passengers were awakened as waves battered the ship, with the waterspout tearing at the vessel and leaving the stern exposed. The episode occurred around four o'clock, but the ship avoided disaster.
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San Francisco
Pacific Mail
City of Lines
Mexican
Acapulco
Unclear Incident in Tambov District Report
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a police prefect, Maria Spiridonova, and unnamed assailants in Tambov with gunfire and guards involved. Details are garbled, uncertain dates and roles, but reference a confrontation in the city street and an official home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tambov
Russis
Police
Zorissoghebsk
Sitis
Maria Spiridonovo
le Luzhess
Ghot
Indian nurse confesses to killing infant by poison in fire spree
The text describes a nurse accused of arson at Cowles Corner near Brewster. She confessed during the burial of Wilbur Winship that she poisoned the child after an impulse to accompany him in death, revealing motive tied to suspect and emotional attachment.
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Cowles Corner
Brewster
Wilbur Winship
Mysterious Car Used in Tsarist Plots At Peterhof
Report describes a painted armored automobile used by Russian terrorists. It had a fake number, carried armed occupants, and eluded detentions after clashes at Krasnoye Selo. It appeared in St. Petersburg atop Stolypin’s window view and during Trepoff’s funeral, with alleged runs at Tsarskoe Selo in a rehearsal for an imperial attack.
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Nicholas Nicholaievitch
Peterhof
Krasnoye-Selo
St. Petersburg
Stolypin
Winter Palace
Trepoff
Tsarskoe-Selo
Little Palace
Fairbanks Heads Colorado Pike's Peak Celebration Parade
In Colorado Springs Fairbanks reviews a Pike's Peak celebration parade with infantry drill and color displays. Cowboys and Colorado pioneers participate while patriotic exercises at the Grand Opera House proceed under Daughters of the American Revolution and National Society of Colonial Dames of America auspices.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Pike's Peak
Colorado
Fairbanks
Grand Opera House
Daughters of the American Revolution
National Society of Colonial Dames of America
Wheat Prices Across Contracts in Minneapolis Trading
In Minneapolis on September 21 wheate Sept 73 percent for Dec 73 percent for May 77 percent on track No 1 hard 77 percent No 1 Northern 77 cents No 2 Northern 75 cents No 3 Northern 73 percent 75 percent.
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Minneapolis
Explosion in Jellico destroys town carload of dynamite
Tellico damage spans Jellico Kentucky and Jellico Tennessee. At least eleven people die and fifty are left homeless as a car loaded with dynamite detonates near the Kentucky side of Jellico. The Union depot and railroad lines are shattered complicating communications.
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Jellico
Tenn
Union
Southern Railway
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Kentucky
Jellicos
Rand Powder Company
Knoxville
Louisville and Nashville
Market Report St Paul Stock Prices
Cattle Good to choice steers 5.50 to 6.25 dollars per hundredweight. Common to good 3.25 to 4.00. Good to choice cows and heifers 3.50 to 4.50. Veals 4.50 to 5.50. Hogs 5.45 to 6.45. Sheep Wethers 4.50 to 5.25. Good to prime spring lambs 6.50 to 7.00.
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St. Paul
Chicago Market Prices Report September Grain and Livestock
Chicago dealers quote Wheat Sept 2 percent dec 74 percent 4 percent for futures. Corn Sept 48 cents dec 43 cents. Oats Sept 83 cents dec 3.35 dollars. Pork Sept 16.60 dollars Jan 13.12. Butter creameries 19 24 cents dairies 17 20 cents. Eggs 14 18 cents. Poultry turkeys 18 cents chickens 11 cents springs 11 1/2 cents.
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Chicago
Wheat and flax price listings from Duluth
Wheat prices for arrival and on track reported in Duluth with No 1 Northern at 76 and 75 cents respectively and softs for Sept Oct Dec May. Flax prices shown for arrival and futures with May at about 1.14 and Dec near 1.10 dollars per bushel.
Fishing Fleet Destroyed by Typhoon in Hong Kong
The typhoon wipes out 600 fishing junks, raising the death toll to about 10,000. Baluchistan troops and 300 of the West Kent regiment aid wreckage clearance. Recovery crews haul bodies by cartload as scavengers succumb to the stench. Constable Munday collapsed and was hospitalized. A $1,000 remittance arrives from San Francisco Chinese residents.
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Hongkong
West Kent Regiment
Munday
San Francisco
Chicago Market Prices for Cattle Hogs and Sheep
Chicago market report lists cattle types and prices from cattle bees to calves, hog categories from mixed and butchers to pigs, and sheep and lambs with bid ranges. Texas Westerns and other categories appear with price brackets.
Gunboat Helena Safe Reaches Shanghai After Storm
Navy confirms at Shanghai that the United States gunboat Helena has arrived safely. Commander Cutler aboard the Galveston reports the vessel was not lost in the recent hurricane that swept the Chinese seas.
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Washington
Navy Department
Cutler
Galveston
Shanghai
China
United States
Helena
Chinese Sea
Elevator Beheads Girl in Wisconsin Factory
Miss Katherine Wright aged seventeen was decapitated while peering into a freight elevator shaft at the La Crosse Cracker company plant. The descending car struck her head and neck as coworkers watched in horror. her body remained dead as the car was raised for removal.
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la Crosse
Wis
Katherine Wright
Miss Wright
la Crosse Cracker Company
Beloit pioneer David Merrill dies at ninety four
Eighteen prisoners escaped from the Abingdon Virginia jail after convictions ranging from misdemeanors to murder. Cornelius B. Cammemeyer known as Nell Grey dies at his Brooklyn home with a stage career spanning twenty years alongside Booth Cushman Neilson Fiske.
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David Merrill
Beloit
Wis
Abingdon
Cornelius B. Cammemeyer
Nell Grey
Brooklyn
Booth, Barrett
Charlotte Cushman
Miss Neilson
Fiske
Woman Named for Congress in Texas Socialist Ticket
Laura B. Payne of Fort Worth accepts the Socialist nomination for congress in this district and calls for government ownership of railways and all packing houses. She is the first woman to run for congress in Texas and says she will wage a vigorous campaign, pledging to expose graft in Congress if elected.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Laura B. Payne
Congress
Bryan
Miss Payne
Texas
Explosion on explosives train at Jellico blamed on three shooters
Louisville reports General Manager Evans says a Jellico explosion was caused by three men firing at a mark on a car carrying 400 cases of high explosives bound for Clearfield Tennessee.
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Louisville
Evans
Louisville and Nashville Railway
Jellico
Clearfield
Tenn
Cuba Crisis Deepens as Insurgents and Government Stalemate
Government advices from Washington reveal Cuba’s insurrection may drag on indefinitely as neither side can win. Business interests demand intervention while insurgents oppose it, seeking offices and graft. Trade cripples. tobacco at six weeks from ruin and sugar crop losses loom.
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Washington
Cuba
Rats Extermination Curbing Plague in Punjab Towns
Reports from Lahore dated Sept 22 state that plant and animal control measures against rats have sharply reduced plague in sixty Punjab towns. The effort, still ongoing, is seen as crucial after plague deaths reach about one million in the Punjab. Good rains promise crop yields and wheat export opportunities. Mayor Dunne announced.
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Lahore
India
Punjab
Dunne Arouc
Starving Infant Found Beside Foster Mother Dead in Brooklyn
In Brooklyn, fourteen month old Johnny Moyle lay beside the corpse of his foster mother Mrs. Catherine Bynum. The infant, weakened by hunger, gnawed sawdust from a toy horse after eating every reachable food in the room. Mrs. Bynum, a widow, had not been seen for four days and likely died of heart disease. The baby was taken to a hospital and is expected to recover.
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New York
Johnny Moyle
Catherine Bynum
Brooklyn
Market Quotations Minneapolis Wheat Prices
Minneapolis market report lists Wheat prices for September at 75 and three quarters cents, December at 74 and three quarters, May at 78 and a half. On track futures show various grades with No 1 hard 78 3/4, No 1 Northern 78 1/4, No 2 Northern 15 3/4, No 3 Northern 74 3/4 to 75 3/4 cents.
Market Prices Reported for Livestock in St Paul
In St Paul on September 24 cattle ranged from good to fair at 4.50 to 5.50 with good to choice cows at 5.50. Hogs sold from 5.75 to 6.50. Sheep and lambs were quoted with ewes at 4.50 to 6.25 and spring lambs noted as good to prime.
Bavarian Mint Robbed of 10 Mark Coin Haul
Munich reports the royal Bavarian mint was robbed of 23500 marks in freshly minted 10mark coins. Thieves gained entry by slipping through a dry underground canal opened for cleaning.
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Munich
Royal Bavarian Mint
McClellan to Attend Democratic State Convention in Buffalo
Mayor George B. McClellan will travel to Buffalo for the Democratic state convention to lead the fight against Charles F. Murphy and William R. Hearst on behalf of District Attorney Jerome.
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New York
George B. McClellan
Buffalo
McClellan
Charles F. Murphy
William R. Hearst
Jerome
Great Northern wreck near Cutbank kills four
In Cutbank Montana on September 22 a rear end collision between two Great Northern freight trains killed Road Master Dinton, Brakeman Critchell, and two unnamed stockmen. The caboose burned after the crash and two other cars were wrecked while the forward train was struck from behind. The dead are believed to have been in the caboose.
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Cutbank
Mont
Dinton
Critchell
Great Northern
Chicago Market Prices for Cattle Hogs and Sheep
Chicago market report lists cattle cows heifers calves and Beef values with ranges from 1.60 to 8.00 per unit. Hogs show mixed and butcher classes at 6.25 to 6.70 with heavy types 5.85 to 6.82 and pigs 5.70 to 6.40. Sheep and lambs are priced from 3.90 to 7.70.
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Chicago
Duluth Market Wheat and Flax Prices Sept 24
Wheat to arrive Northern, 76 No 2 Northern 75 On track prices for various grades and deliveries list multiple futures: Sept Oct Dec May. Flax to arrive 1.10 on track Sept 1.11 Oct Nov 1.10 Dec Jan 1.09 May 1.12.
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Duluth
Northern
Commodity Price Ranges For Wheat Corn Oats Butter Eggs
Chicago Sept 24 prices show Wheat Sept T8c Dec T6c Corn Sept 46 5%c Dec 42 43c Oats Sept 3%c Dec 33 33%c Pork Sept 16 95 Jan 13 32 13 35 Flax no trading Butter Creameries 19 24c dairies 17 20c Eggs 14 18c Poultry Turkeys 18c chickens 11c springs 12c
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Chicago
Chicago Mayor Blames Street Cars for Deaths
Mayor Dunne accuses Chicago street car companies of causing numerous fatalities due to negligent maintenance. He urges State's Attorney Healy to present responsible executives to a grand jury and face criminal charges rather than civil damage suits. The letter cites bad track and equipment conditions as the alleged cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Dunne
Healy
Union Traction Companies
Spanish edition editor Munoz held incommunicado in Havana
Gonzales Munoz editor of the Spanish edition of the Havana Post is detained in Havana after publication of an editorial criticizing the government. He was arrested and is being held without contact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Gonzales Munoz
Havana Post
Fairbanks Delivers Keynote at Chicago County Building Cornerstone
Chicago officials gathered as the cornerstone of Cook County's new courthouse placeholder was laid in a ceremony led by Vice President Fairbank. Governor Deneen Mayor Dunne and Board of Commissioners President Brundage also spoke during the events.
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Chicago
Fairbank
Guvarnor Deneen
Dunne
Brundage
Board of Commissioners
Cook County
Money to Fight La Follette at State Hearing
At the Minnesota rate hearing in St. Paul Attorney James Manahan of the Minnesota Shippers' Association secured an admission from A. W. Trenholm Omaha general manager that the railroad charged operating expenses as its share in opposing Governor La Follette of Wisconsin. The testimony suggested sugar trust favors, which Trenholm denied, and showed contracts by Trenholm as a railroad employee were unprofitable. he denied recent contracts.
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St. Paul
Railroad and Warehouse Commission
State Capitol
James Manahan
Minnesota Shippers’ Association
A. W. Trenholm
Omaha
la Follette
Wisconsin
Trenholm
Sugar Trust
Republican senate race in Stearns County tied for first
St Paul reports the closest primary contest in the state was the Republican senatorial nomination in Grille county where J H Dale of Renville and former Congressman Dave Hall of Preston Lake finished tied. The county canvassing board will draw lots per the primary law.
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St. Paul
Grville County
J. H. Dale
Renville
Dave. Hall
Preston Lake
Cured of rupture by aluminum truss from Crolius Co
Readers with rupture are urged to try an aluminum truss from The Crolius Truss Co of Minneapolis. Manager F M Crolius has over thirty years fitting experience and guarantees a perfect fit by mail order. Trusses are made to measure and promise relief and comfort for adults and children alike.
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Crolius Truss Co
Andrus
Minneapolis
F. M. Crolius
Crosius Truss Company
Hyomei Helps Fall Catarrh Attack Prevention
Autumnal catarrh worsens in fall as weather shifts. Start Hyomei at first warning to prevent serious episodes. No stomach dosing. medicated air treats nose throat and lungs, killing germs and soothing mucous. If you have breath odor throat burning coughing and sneezing begin use now. A complete Hyomei kit costs but
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Pike’s Peak
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Phoon
Union Stock Yards
Hearst
Great Northern Wreck
Chicago Union Stock Yards
Eeditor
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Scott
Scott & Bowne
Pearl Street
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