Railway casualties rise sharply in annual report
The Interstate Commerce Commission released its seventeenth annual report noting 164 passenger deaths and 4,424 passenger injuries, plus 95 employe deaths and 6,440 injuries from train accidents in the year ending June 30. Total fatalities reached 221 passengers and 3,443 employes, with 6,973 passengers and 33,04 employes injured, driven by a surge in traffic and many new, inexperienced workers. The commission urges adoption of the block signaling system and discusses the Elkins law's effects on rates and safety measures.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Interstate-commerce Commission
Congress
Wight
Igi
Commission
Missouri River
Chicago
Men Try to Crack Safe at Mahan Paper Box Plant
Four men broke into the Mahan Paper Box factory office on South Senate avenue but fled after a Merchant policeman warned them to surrender. Shots were fired. no injuries reported. The night watchman alerted police, and a description of the intruders was obtained. Police link the incident to a previous safe blowing at Star Elevator Company.
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Mahan
Senate Avenue
Star Elevator Company
Man on mast saves self by grabbing guy rope at Sayre works
In Sayre Pa a derrick collapse at the New Lackawanna locomotive works crushed a frame killing C H Perham of Chicago and seriously injuring Thomas Peterson of Chicago. Philip Monagan of Scranton crawled five feet up a steel mast and grasped a guy rope to lower himself to safety.
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Elmira
Lackawanna Locomotive Works
Sayre
C. H. Perham
Chicago
Thomas Peterson
Philip Monagan
Scranton
Poker Playing Leads to Arrest for Larceny at Brown
Providence December 18 Ralph E Bancroft of Stoneham Massachusetts was arrested on larceny charges arising from poker playing by Brown University students. He confessed to a long series of thefts ranging from small sums to two dollars and said losses drew him into trouble. He was placed on probation after the case but dismissed from the university. Faculty say the gaming did not occur on college property.
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Providence
R. I
Brown University
Ralph E. Bancroft
Stoneham
Mass
Bancroft
Suit to Oust Hocking Valley Railroad From Ohio Charter
In Columbus Ohio December 15 a suit was filed in the Circuit Court to oust the Hocking Valley Railroad Company from its charter. Attorney General Sheets leads the action alleging the firm seeks a coal industry monopoly in the Hocking Valley by controlling all major coal carrying lines. The suit was requested by Virgil P. Cline of Cleveland and E C Morton of Columbus for the Johnson Coal Mining Company.
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Columbus, O
Hocking Valley Railroad Company
Sheets
Hocking Valley
Virgil P. Cline
Cleveland
E. C. Morton
Columbus
Johnson Coal Mining Company
Mrs Elmira Drake Acquitted of Murder
Covington Ind Dec 18 The jury in the case of Mrs Elmira Drake accused of killing her husband with poison after twelve hours returned a verdict of acquittal in the murder case providing a rare reversal of a capital charge in a local court
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Elmira Drake
Indianapolis Journal
Covington
Vatican Wealth Mystery as $9 Million Is Found
Rome report says $9,000,000 in bank notes was found hidden in the late Pope Leo's chamber and delivered to Pope Pius X by Cardinal Girolamo Gotti. Gotti declared the money entrusted to him by Leo for safe use and four months later to be returned to the successor. An electrician uncovered additional $1,350,000 in a hole behind the wall.
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Pope
Rome
Vatican
Leo
Cardinal Gotti
The
Propaganda
Mgr. Marzolini
Mer. Mazzolini
Pius
Tribuna
Papal
Girolamo Gotti
Genoa
Loano
Despondent Pontiac man drowns over bank loss
Elkhart Ind December 18 relatives say L C Humbert 74 once a Laporte builder died by his own hand in a cistern after losing 1200 in Indiana National Bank funds saved to pay a farm mortgage near here. His wife’s death by morphine followed when she lost her father's money in the bank while he was in hospital. Humbert had been married three times and left a large estate after planning to remarry his first wife who refused.
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Indianapolis Journal
Elkhart
Ind
L. C. Humbert
Pontiac
Laporte
Indiana National Bank
Here
Carl Carlson
Evidence of murder found near Odon Indiana
The body of a young man was found today in a wooded area near Indian Springs by hunters in Odon Indiana. A shirt with the mark J. King serves as the only identifying clue. Bruises on the head and body suggest foul play. The man appears to be in his twenties.
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Odon
Ind
Indian Springs
J. King
Grand Jury Probing Alleged Plot in Gillespie Case
Rising Sun Indiana reports the grand jury investigating the assassination of Miss Elizabeth Gillespie now leans toward a conspiracy finding. Prosecutor McMullen reviews the conspiracy issue as witnesses are reexamined. Indictments likely include the murderer and accessories.
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Rising Sun Grand Jury
Indianapolis Journal
Rising Sun
Ind
Grand
Elizabeth Gillespie
McMullen
Franklin
Belle Seward
Myron Barbour
James Gillespie
Barbour
Aurora
Will Gillespie
Frank Sebastian
Charles Fisher
Laura Johnson
E. Turner
Fake money ring exposed in Boston arrests two men
United States secret service agents arrested Fred L. Wilson and Edward D. Wiggin in Boston on counterfeiting charges. Both claim the title of doctor. The pair produced highly precise photographic counterfeit notes for several banks including Fourth National Boston and Millers River National Bank Athol. They used enlargements from negatives printed on bond paper with color work mimicking silk threads.
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Boston
Mass
United States Secret-Service
Fred L. Wilson
Edward D. Wiggin
Fourth National Bank
Mechanics’ National Bank
New Bedford
People’s National Bank
Roxbury
Waltham National Bank
Millers River National Bank
Athol
First National Bank
Lynn
S. Cape E Cod National Bank
Harwich
C. Elliott National Bank
Case of Mrs Weeks in the Jury's Hands
Special to the Indianapolis Journal Bedford Indiana December 18 The fate of Mrs Cora Weeks charged with killing her mother on September 7 is now in the hands of the jurors who retire with the case at hand Rover Mct will be pronounced to sta si
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Indianapolis Journal
Bedford
Ind
Cora Weeks
Rover
Train collision at Church Station injures several
Fireman Thomas Hastings was killed and Engineer Henry Hartman among others slightly injured when the New Orleans limited on the Illinois Central ran into the rear half of a broken freight train at Church Station Illinois. The freight stalled after breaking loose. A relief train was dispatched from East St Louis.
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ST. Louis
Thomas Hastings
Henry Hartman
Church Station
Ill
New Orleans Limited
Illinois Central Railroad
East St. Louis
Man and son killed resisting arrest in Los Angeles
Equality Illinois Dec 18 report that Joseph Choisser and his son Lewis were killed in Los Angeles while resisting arrest. Choisser, a Hardin County Illinois man, allegedly passed $1,900 in worthless checks drawn on Eldorado Bank. Warrant issued for his arrest. authorities say he shipped mules and horses to St Louis then fled west.
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Equality
Ill
Joseph Choisser
Lewis
Los Angeles
Cal
Choisser
Hardin County
Illinois
Bank of
Eldorado
California
George W Bement 79 Dies at Terre Haute Pioneer Grocer
George W Bement age seventy nine and a longtime figure in Terre Haute's wholesale grocery trade died after a long illness. He founded Bement Rea Co the city's oldest wholesale house and ranked among the three richest residents. Survived by a widow and son Bruce his fortune was about one million dollars. He had served as a director of the National State Bank and held varied investments in mining ventures in Oregon and Mexico. Born in Stockbridge Massachusetts on August 4 1824.
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Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
George W. Bement
Bement, Rea & Co
Bruce
A. B. Carlton
Bement
Connecticut
National State Bank
American Stone and Conduit Company
Oregon
Mexico
Stockbridge, Mass
Funeral for John R Butler Draws Floral Show
In St Louis the funeral for John R Butler brother of Congressman James Butler and theater circuit director drew almost four hundred floral offerings from New York Washington Cincinnati Baltimore Louisville and New Orleans. The flowers covered the Calvary Cemetery family lot. Services at St Francis Xavier's Church were followed by a long cortege of seven hundred carriages more than a mile long.
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ST. Louis
John R. Butler
James Butler
New York
Washington
Cincinnati
Baltimore
Louisville
Ingus City
New Orleans
Calvary Cemetery
St. Francis Xavier's Church
Arrest of J. C. Benson for Big Land Frauds
John A. Benson, San Francisco real estate mogul, was arrested in Washington on a bribery charge tied to alleged Western land frauds. He allegedly bribed a Interior Department official to obtain forest reserve land information. Benson faces a preliminary hearing and possible grand jury action, with further arrests expected among government staff.
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Washington
John A. Benson
San Francisco
Interior Department
Hitchcock
Willard Hotel
Secret Service
John A. Burns
Benson
Woodford D. Harlan
Special Service Division
General Land Office
The
Land Office
Taylor
Arthur E. Pugh
Oliver Pagin
Department of Justice
United States
Benson & Hyde
Union Leaders Ordered to Leave Pueblo
The Pueblo City Council and police ordered Max Malich of Denver and Western Federation of Miners President Moyer to depart on the first train. Both complied. The move followed a meeting where a smeltermen union was formed with 18 members and a riot was threatened after a Cripple Creek miner criticized Moyer's leadership.
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Pueblo
Col
Max Malich
Denver
President Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Cripple Creek
Moyer
Princeton Debates Winner Of French Gold Medal
Princeton student Philip A. Moore of New Castle Pennsylvania won the French gold medal founded in 1883 by De Coubertin. The medal is valued at 700.
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Princeton
N. J
Philip A. Moore
New Castle
de Coubertin
Alfonse Nesaide
College Fire Horror Kills and Injures Many Negro Students
A deadly fire at Walden University in Nashville, four story dormitory, killed at least four and injured about thirty, with nineteen fatalities feared. The building housed sixty students who slept through the blaze and fled windows, triggering a chaotic escape as ambulances rushed to the scene. The president of Walden University is Rev. Jay B. Hamilton.
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Walden University
Nashville, Tenn
Nashville
Central Tennessee College For Young Negro Women
Leona Miller
Louia
Nannie Harris
Maysville
Nannie Booze
Clarksdale
Miss
Victoria Miller
Anchorage
Annie Ham
Birmingham
Ala
Ellen Vaughan
Columbus
Blanche Burr
Chicago
Jane Douglass
Hunteville
Bessie Elvert
Tuscola
Frank T. Waller
Huntaville
Lulu Cazette
Lincoln
New York
Jay B. Hamilton
Brooklyn
John W. Hamilton
San Francisco
Nine-Dollar Clerk Steals $200 Daily at Chicago Firm
Gus A. Grigsby, paid $9 a week as a chemist's helper, allegedly pilfered from Barrett & Co. up to $15,000 in stock over months. Police found $250 worth of vanilla beans hid on his person. more stolen property and rented items were recovered after his arrest.
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Chicago
Gus A. Grigsby
David L. Rosa
Barrett & Co
Grigsby
Averscom
Grigeby
Burglars Chased Out by Girl in New York Home
Miss Isabelle T Cameron daughter of Robert Cameron surprised two burglars rifling her father’s house this afternoon and chased them out with a haul of loot. The theft included two theater tickets which helped identify the culprits. Two young men were detained tonight after producing the tickets.
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New York
Isabelle T. Cameron
Robert MclLeod Cameron
Eleven lynchers fined in Illinois riot case
In Belleville Circuit Court eleven men charged with complicity in the June lynching of a negro schoolteacher, David B. Wyatt, pleaded guilty to rioting and were fined $30 each plus costs. Named defendants include Julius Sehwind Wayne Diller Weber William Dein James A Elderoff Frank Rita Be Wells George Schopp Henry John Webcking. Death of an Irish Comedian reported from Detroit with Irish entertainer Kernal fading from the stage after a long career.
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Belleville
Ill
David
Wyatt
Julius Sehwind
Wayne Diller
Weber
William Dein
James A. John Elderoff
Frank Rita Be Wells
George Schopp
Henry John Webcking
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