Mine explosion at Bowen No. 3 kills thirteen in Trinidad camp
A mine disaster at Bowen No. 3 in Trinidad, Colorado, caused by a fire damp explosion, kills thirteen workers including James Hunter and Mike Cassidy. The powder house blast likely ruined the mine, trapping rescuers as they search for the rest. Rescue teams push to determine total deaths and damage.
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Trinidad
Bowen
Bost
Union Coal Company of
Denver
James Hunter
Tilden Winfield
Mike Cassidy
Joe Gordon
Joe Saudy
Thomas Sierra
Frank Groat
Weller Elliott
Deluged with Hot Water Fatal Threshing Accident Near Nelson
Wil Thomas of a threshing crew near Nelson Nebraska was crushed between his engine and a separator when wheels dropped into a straw filled ditch during coupling. Steam scalding water poured over him from chest to knees, and he was unable to escape until rescued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelson
Neb
Wil Thomas
Perjury Charge Looms After Senate Testimony
Corporal O'Brien was arrested in North Adams Massachusetts on a bench warrant for perjury. Indicted by a DC grand jury last week the arrest followed contentious senate committee testimony that prompted calls for prosecution. O'Brien claims witnesses can prove his statements true while touring on the stage after army discharge.
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Washington
O’brien
North Adams
Mass
Grand Jury
District of Columbia
O'Brien
Senate Committee
Lodge
Senate Philippines Committee
Cyclone Winds Skip Across North Carolina Coast
A cyclone passed over Carolina Beach, North Carolina, Thursday night, causing gusty winds and disruption along the coast as residents monitored its movement and potential damage.
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North Carolina
Carolina Beach
N. C
Prohibition Party Nominates Slate From Nebraska Convention
Delegates from thirty four counties at the auditorium adopt a state ticket for the anti-saloon party. S. T. Davis is named for governor with Isaiah Lightner as lieutenant governor and D. D. Norton to be secretary of state among others. The platform calls for nationwide prohibition, direct legislation rights, and defense of public schools.
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Auditorium
Prohibition
Ted
A. G. Wollenbarger
S. T. Davis
Otoe County
Isaiah Lightner
Platte County
D. D. Norton
Adams County
W. T. Maddock
Richardson County
John Dale
Douglas County
W. Bert Clarke
Saunders County
J. M. Dilworth
Johnson County
T‘public Instruction
A. E. Howard
Langster County
C. C. Beveridge
Fremont
State Central Committee
America
A.B. Huckins
Hieveridge
A. B. Huckins
L. G. Parker
Wymore
Crab Orchard
Emma. Hedges
W F. Hunt
Colorado
Springs
Nebraska
Two Years For Desertion In Philippine War Case
A war department report states Joseph Hale of the Eighth Infantry received two years hard labor for desertion to the enemy at Bay in January 1901. Hale and a companion, intoxicated, wandered from Bay and were picked up by insurgents. Hale later accepted a second lieutenant’s commission and was captured in Mindoro in October. General Malvar testified the men did not act against the United States while with him.
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War Department
Department of the North Philippines
Joseph Hale
Eighth Infantry
Hale
Bay
Mindoro
Malvar
United States
Relics Lead Looting Of Tracy A Davenport
The report says relic hunters stripped the Tracy A bandit of Davenport of clothing and body parts. Crowds besieged the morgue as the corpse was brought in and doors were closed to calm the gathering. Sightseers allegedly collected a blood stained handkerchief hair locks and fabric from the deceased.
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Tracy
Davenport
Wash
Dispatch
Harry
Banait
Fee
Soldiers Die of Cholera in Philippines List
A war department receipt Thursday shows a list of thirty two fallen soldiers from the Philippines due to cholera covering two weeks. The Ninth cavalry and Second Infantry suffer most with twelve and ten deaths respectively.
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Philippines
War Department
Second Infantry
Ninth Cavalry
Fire destroys Landon Hotel killing seven in San Angelo
In San Angelo Texas the Landon hotel burned early today killing seven people including Mrs Landon and members of Houston and Waco families. About seventy five guests were inside and seven bodies were recovered charred while three others were missing but believed safe. Firefighters fought flames door to door as stables and stores also burned and the town faced extensive damage.
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San Angelo
Tex
Landon
Ed Hendrick
Waco
Fowler
Houston
Schulimpseky
Schulimpsky
Ada
Senator James McMillan of Michigan Dies in Mass
The United States senator James McMillan died in Manchester by the Sea Massachusetts from heart failure after a brief illness. He was born May 12 1838 in Hamilton Ontario and long a Republican leader in Michigan. He served in the Senate since March 4 1889 and chaired the District of Columbia committee while serving on appropriations commerce naval affairs Cuba relations coast and insular survey and corporations organized in the District.
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Washington, D. C
James ‘McMillan
Michigan
Manchester- by-the-Sea
Mass
Washington
Congress
McMillan
Ontario
Hamilton
Ip State
Republican State Committee
United States Senate
District of Columbia
Naval Affairs
Cuba
Missouri Pacific Excursion Rates to Ohio Indiana and Central Territory
Missouri Pacific offers round trip excursion fares on September 2 9 16 and 23 to Ohio and Indiana and October 3 6 to Central Passenger territory including Illinois Indiana and Ohio Tickets valid thirty days for return not later than November 3 1903 Tickets include through Pullman car between Lincoln and Kansas City City Ticket Office at 1039 O street.
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Missouri Pacific Railway
Ohio
Indiana
Central Passenger Association
Illinois
Missouri Pacific
St. Louis
Ex Sheriff William Miller Dies in Indiana From Eating Matches
William Miller aged sixty three ex sheriff of Scotland county Missouri and Civil War veteran died in Peru Indiana from the effects of eating matches a habit he formed while in the army He believed the phosphorus would stimulate him unnamed doctors attributed the death to prolonged exposure to match phosphorus.
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William Miller
Scotland County
Missouri
Peru
Ind
County Attorney C Smith Shot dead in Columbia Texas
In Columbia Texas County Attorney C Smith was killed by a group described as negroes. The incident prompted an investigation as authorities search for suspects and motives amid rising violence concerns.
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Columbia, Tex
C. Smith
King Edward VIIs Coronation at Westminster Abbey
King Edward VII was crowned at Westminster Abbey on Saturday August 9 after a seven week illness. The ceremony drew scarlet robed peers and white satin officials as artillery salutes and bells accompanied the coronation. The event was broadcast from the Abbey to Hyde Park and the Tower, as cheers filled the city.
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Britannia
Edward Vil
Westminster Abbey
Abbey
Hyde Park
Tower
Howard Moiely
Holmes Named to Supreme Court Succeeding Gray
President Roosevelt announced the appointment of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr to the U S Supreme Court as associate justice to replace the ill health retiring Samuel Freeman Gray. Gray suffered strokes and has not sat on the bench. Holmes, renowned Massachusetts jurist and son of the poet Dr. Holmes, is chosen to fill the vacancy.
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Roosevelt
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Supreme Court of the United States
Justice Gray
Justice Harlan
United States Supreme Court
Arthur
Judge Holmes
Massachusetts
Dr. Holmes
Linotype Leader Demonstrated at Western Newspaper Union
The Cole-Wilson linotype leader was activated in Lincoln in the composing room in the presence of master printers and reporters. The device reads and leads linotype slugs four to six times faster than hand methods and is simple enough for a child to operate. Inventors Bion Gole and Albert C Wilson announce the patent dated July 8 1902 and plan to market the machine soon, promising time and cost savings for publishers.
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Cole-Wilson Linotype
Western Newspaper Union
Lincoln
Messrs
Bion Gole
Albert C. Wilson
Geo Cole Named State Agent for Kansas
Governor Stanley tendered George E. Cole the position of state agent to collect national government funds owed to Kansas from Quantrell raid claims. The role pays a 10 percent commission on the first 50 000 and 5 percent on the rest, with about a half a million dollars outstanding.
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Stanley
George E. Cole
Pote
Cole
Hunger Horror Stirs Shenandoah Miners as Food Scarcity Grows
A Shenandoah dispatch reports strikers starving while women and children beg at soldiers’ mess tents for scraps. Troops face reduction. about 100000 dollars in relief spent as fourteenth week of suspension continues. Mines flooded with water as non union workers fill in. The town braces for ongoing unrest.
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Shenandoah
Too Young to Marry at Bean Lake Near Atchison
Young groom John Thorpe aged 24 planned to wed Rose aged 14 at Bean Lake. The wedding was halted when his father forced him back home at gunpoint while Thorpe went to St Joseph to obtain a license. Thorpe had been teaching at Bean Lake and Rose was one of his pupils. Orders for music and refreshments were canceled.
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Bean Lake
Atchison
John Thorpe
Miss Rose
St. Joseph A
Thorpe
Bean
Lake
Miss _Rose
Traveling Men of Kansas Seek $600 for Jessie Morrison Appeal
The traveling men of Kansas plan to raise $600 to appeal the Jessie Morrison case to the supreme court. C A Sward of Mansey Iron Co Kansas City originated the idea and started a subscription paper at Eldorado that will be left at the Metropolitan hotel for subscriptions.
Accident at Osawatomie MP shop injures Blacksmith Schmidt
A Missouri Pacific shop foreman started a big trip hammer as a workman stood nearby at Osawatomie Kansas. The hammer struck a piece of iron on the anvil, flew up, hit Blacksmith Schmidt on the chin, cutting a deep hole and forcing him to bite his tongue nearly in two.
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Missouri Pacific
Osawatomie
Kan
Schmidt
Havana Fire Destroys Silk House In Central Park Area
A major Havana blaze at a silk factory near Central park killed Aristides Pera and Pablo Lopez Quintana as flames cut off escape by iron bars. Cristoba Lopez, a fireman, died from a falling wall while other firemen and civilians were injured or suffocated attempting to fight the flames.
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Havana
Cuba
Central Park
Aristides Pera
Pablo Lopez Quintana
Cristoba Lopez
Prisoner Escapes During Transfer Near Leavenworth
John Norte, a white federal prisoner from Ardmore I T, jumped from a culvert into a creek while being marched back to Leavenworth. Norte was serving a five year term for larceny after stealing a farmer’s horse four miles west of Leavenworth.
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John Norte
Ardmore
I. T
United States
Leavenworth
Norte
Fort Leavenworth
Storm Leaves Kansas City Kaw in Ruins
In Kansas City Kaw on Sunday a severe storm wrecked more than two hundred dwellings and other buildings, toppled a huge chimney, blew down electric light and telephone wires, uprooted hundreds of trees, and left business streets strewn with signs and awnings.
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Kansas City
Kaw
Regents elect new KU staff and install Chancellor
The board of regents of the University of Kansas elected Frank E. Bryant of Michigan University as assistant in English, Alfred Ewington as assistant professor of romance languages, and E F Crocker of Seattle as superintendent of buildings and grounds. Crocker held the post eleven years. Other routine business was transacted, including the installation of Chancellor Frank Strong in October.
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Board of Regents
University of Kansas
Frank E. Bryant
Michigan University
Alfred Ewington
E. F. Crocker
Seattle
Wash
Crocker
Ae Eee
Frank Strong
Freight wreck near Genoa West Virginia kills foreman
At a Norfolk and Western station near Genoa West Virginia a head end collision of two freights occurred Monday morning. Eighteen cars and both engines were demolished. Fisher Ferguson a section foreman riding to work was killed instantly. Engineer Osborn and Fireman Little were badly cut and bruised with doubtful recovery. Two or three others were hurt but not seriously. Operator failure to deliver an order is cited as the cause.
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Genoa
W. Va
Norfolk & Western
Fisher Ferguson
Osborn
Little
Frances Henning Speed Dies at 82 in Kentucky Home
Mrs. Frances Henning Speed widow of Joshua Speed, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, dies at age eighty two at her home on the Cherokee road near Louisville Kentucky.
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Frances Henning Speed
Joshua Speed
Abraham Lincoln
Cherokee Road
Louisville
Omaha Streetcar Driver Killed At Thirteenth and Mason Crossing
A. J. St. John of 2220 South Twelfth Street died instantly today after a streetcar he rode derailed at the Union Pacific crossing at Thirteenth and Mason streets. The car left the track and rolled a short distance before stopping.
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Mas
Omaha
A. J. St
Grand Lodge Meeting to Begin Tomorrow in Salt Lake City
The Salt Lake City dispatch notes residents welcome the event as preparations for the grand lodge meeting proceed. An August 11 report highlights attendance estimates and the city’s hospitality as delegates gather for the proceeding set to start tomorrow.
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Salt Lake City
Commissioner Rules Palm Oil In Oleomargarine Taxable
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue rules that even tiny amounts of palm oil used to color oleomargarine to resemble butter are not genuine constituents. Such colored product is deemed artificial and taxed at 10 cents per pound.
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Ms. Yerkes
Ternal Revenue
Millions of Sheep Die in Australia Crisis
Advices from the steamer Miowera report terrible drought across New South Wales and Queensland killing millions of sheep and driving previously wealthy men to seek work. The text also notes ongoing campaigns to exterminate South Sea island natives and details a German led expedition in the New Hebrides that wiped out a village, with 130 natives killed, including the leader. A joint German British expedition has begun for Dabulo to retaliate for seven British deaths.
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Miowera
Australia
New South Wales
Queensland
South Sea Islands
New Hebrides
Storm Strikes Church Spire. Two Hurt in St Louis Doorway
Dispatch from August 11 reports Mrs Frank Nelier of St Louis, struck by lightning in a doorway with her husband. A gold Waihi chain and four rings melted and fused in her hand. An umbrella rod bent. Mrs Nelier and Mr Neller were stunned and briefly unconscious. The spire was struck and a bolt shocked Min Nethier nearby.
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Dispatch
Frank Nelier
St. Louis
Youth Kicks Count Metrosem in Atlantic City Incident
An unidentified man in summer attire faced a deliberate kick from L B Galbraith a Baltimore college student on the Atlantic City boardwalk Sunday. The assailant was arrested and cited a dislike for the count’s dressing as motive.
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Count Metrosem
St. Petersbuge
Atlantic City
N.o
L.B. Galbraith
Baltimore
Ministerial Victory in Faroe Islands Elections
The landsthing elections in the Faroe Islands produced a complete ministerial victory as the campaign centered on selling the Danish West Indies to the United States. The government captured all opposition wards, with remaining wards voting next month. A strong ministerial majority is expected, and the treaty will be addressed after the rigsdag opens in October.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Faroe Islands
Danish West Indies
United States
Officers urged to resign over Windsor hazing case
Two Second Life guards were ordered to resign after involvement in hazing a newer officer at Windsor England. Aristocratic connections reportedly petitioned the king for pardon, but the king refused.
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Its
Life Guards
Windsor
England
Child Killed by Lightning Near Mason City Nebraska
A lightning strike at the residence of Jimmie Nelson southeast of Mason City Nebraska killed an eight year old child and left the family members stunned. The survivors remained unconscious for about two hours before the death was discovered.
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Jimmie Nelson
Mason City
Neb
Lightning Strikes Leslie Baptist Church During Service
A Baptist church in Leslie Georgia was struck by lightning during services. Richard Dodson was killed instantly, about forty others were seriously hurt but expected to survive. The church was badly damaged and set ablaze before a hard rain extinguished the flames.
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Mit
Baptist
Leslie
Richard Dodson
Queen of Belgians Sees Improved Health at Breakfast
Marie Henriette queen of the Belgians woke from her illness and rose from bed to take breakfast, marking a better night and renewed strength. The royal household reported she slept well and showed notable improvement in condition.
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Marie Henriette
Fund to Search Hotel London Debris for Missing Guests
A fund has been raised to search the Hotel London ruins at San Tex for possible bodies. Three guests remain missing, per the clerk’s count, as investigators probe the burned site from early daybreak.
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London
San » Tex
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