Northwest notes recount storms of crime and rail incidents
A garbled North West notes page lists a Spokane man bidding in Seattle for morphine, Oregon governor race notes, a brakeman injured at Rock River Washington, a Portland train wreck with no injuries, and various political and local events. It mentions a river of legal notices, land openings, mining union shifts, and railway derailment near Verne Wood with few casualties. The chaos references figures like Senator Clark and General Miles, with scattered dates and places across Wyoming, Montana, and Oregon.
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Wippetia
Lasen
Clark
Mintana
Thomas HW. Kent
Heacock & Lawrenon Ironworks
Portland
Lane
Dfieigt
Mt Portland
Rovert J. Stevens
Multawnot
Arrow Marcia
Stevens
Alice
C.J. Bewrer
Wro
Haw
Iviramie
Enmch
Union Pacific
Verne
Iilew
Funeral Land Office
Washington
Abe Shosheaw
Clarkce
Wyoming
Miles
Elias
University of Colorado
Boulder
Senate Debate on Reed Smoot Case Nears End
Majority on the privileges and elections committee reported Reed Smoot is not entitled to a seat in the Senate. A minority report was filed. Burrows urged printing both reports and 68 Senate documents, while Foraker pressed for action soon. Smoot said he would speak if a general disclosure occurs.
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Washington
Burrows
Senate
Privileges and Elections Committee
Foraker
Immit
Alley
Privilecen
Allison
Boek
Aken
Sesson
Ttcie
Smont
Tried to Kill Family in Brigham City Incident
Edward Sorensen age 18 was arrested in Brigham City charged with attempting to murder the Woodland family of Willard. He breached a window, fired a double barreled shotgun at Mr and Mrs Woodland injuring Mrs Woodland, and fled in panic. Sheriff Joseph Josephson reports Sorensen confessed implicating Henry Woodland as motivation.
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Brigham
Tenement House Fire Leaves Four Dead in NYC Building
A five story tenement at 200 East Ninety Seventh Street trapped and killed four people. Several others listed as missing as firefighters fought the blaze. A woman and year old child were swept from a third floor escape and fell to the pavement during the smoke filled rescue. Fire crews found bodies on the upper floors.
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New York
Scorex
Big Liner on Rocks Near Cape May as Ship Runs Aground
More than 1,000 people aboard the American liner Westernland, en route from Liverpool and Queenstown to Philadelphia, ran aground near Cape May shoals. The vessel struck the rocks as it entered the bay. crews reported it in a hard aground position but hoped for eventual refloating with aid.
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Westernland
Liverpool
Queenstown
Philadelphia
Sheertranes
Delaware
Cape May
Tgs
Curt Jett Confesses to Possible Involvement in Kentucky Case
A Winchester special reports Curtin Jett, jailed for a second Jackson assassination trial, claims possible involvement of Dr. Blon, James Cockrell, and James O. Marcus. Officials believe Jett may implicate others in the Breathitt case.
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Old Kentucky
Lexington
Winchester
Curtin Jett
James Cockrell
Jackson
Dr. Blon
Jamee O. Marcum
Jett
Cannes
Breathitt
Henry A. Dupont Elected Senator From Delaware
Dover Delaware Henry A Dupont of Wilmington defeated J Hadward Addicks in the contest for the vacant seat in the Senate Dupont was elected to fill the vacancy by a caucus of the Republican members over an hour long The noting of the om ets wads etc continued for eleven years during which time Addicks war the candidate of the Union Republicans for United States.
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Dover, del
Henry A. Dupont
Wilmington
J. Haward Adiicke
Delaware
Senate
Bir Dupont
Imeecalan
Street car crash injures many in Portland
A head on collision on Union and Holladay avenues injures more than twenty passengers. The Portland Railway car left its proper track, collided with a Woodlawn bound car, and both vehicles wrecked. Eight people required hospital care after police and ambulances responded.
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Portland
Woodlawn
Portland Railway Company
Union
Holladay Avenues
Union Avenue
Holladay
Woodlawn Ech
Persens
NEW CABINET WANTED IN PETERSBURG AND ALLIANCE TALKS
Rumors persist of the Goremykin ministry's near retirement as the Reformist press in Petersburg calls for a cabinet aligned with the lower house. Emperor Franz Joseph meets Austrian Hungarian delegates and defends alliance with Germany as a peace guarantee. In the Philippines, eight hour law enforcement is affirmed for works funded by US appropriations, with Chinese labor excluded from new hiring in public works.
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SS Petersburg
Goremykin
Releh
Stretinsky
Russian Police Chief Assassinated While Driving
Russian Chief of Police Derkatchev was shot and killed Sunday while driving. His coachman was severely wounded. Simultaneous attacks targeted secret police in another part of the town, one officer wounded and assailants at large. In New York, a statue unveiling ceremony for George Washington is planned at the Brooklyn terminal of the new Williamsburg Bridge with officials and military representatives present. A bomb attempt occurred Sunday night near East Seventy fourth Street on the Interborough Rapid Transit, with Joseph Bartky arrested and three other bombs found on him.
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Biolostok
Russia
Derkatchev
T Own
New York
George Washington
Brooklyn Terminal
New Williamabura Bridge
Interborough Rapid Traint Company
East Seventy-fourth Street
Subway
Joseph Bartky
Bartky
Auto Turned Over Near Winneka Injures Four
Four Chicago residents were injured when a car overturned north of Winneka. The crash was caused by a bursting tire. Edward Salven Pinger and Walter Steins the chauffeur died. Mig Margaret Pinger, a sister, and John Pinger, father of the young woman, were badly injured. The party was returning from a visit at Louis Swift, a packer, in Lake Forest.
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Chicago
Din amite plant blast tears town apart in Lancaster
Eleven men were killed and five injured when a dynamite plant near Pequ[a] exploded. The blast could be heard fifteen miles away and scattered body fragments over yards. Survivors and residents rushed to aid as officials collected remains in makeshift boxes.
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Pennsylvania
Lancaster
Pequaa
Susquehanna
Lancaster County
Death in Path of Storm Claims Several in Pennsylvania
Reports from western Pennsylvania describe a severe thunderstorm with lightning and tornadolike winds. In Monongahela trees toppled, homes damaged, and telegraph service disrupted. Beaver Falls suffered major destruction. Kittanning residents James Mitchell and an 18 year old son were killed by lightning as the house burned. Clyde Blose and Bert Welse were killed in Punxsutawney with an injured sibling by the doorway strike.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Monongahela
Beaver Falla Hallstonen
Kittaning
James Mitchell
Punxsutawney
Clyde Blose
Bert Welse
Ladd Bore
Clyde
Succeed Senator Burton Prominent Ottawa Judge Named
Ottawa Kansas Judge Alfred Watson Benson of Ottawa was offered and accepted the U S Senate appointment to succeed Joseph R Burton. Benson said he expects to run for reelection by the state legislature next winter if his services satisfy the people. He noted the appointment came as a surprise and that he would depart for Washington immediately.
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Ottawa
Kan
Alfred Watson Benson
United States
Joseph R. Burton
Washington
Benson
Senate
Stabbing Incident In Newark Waters Quarrel Sparks Attack
Louis Never, 15, was stabbed at home by tile playmate Louis Seidenberg, 16. Seidenberg was held in the Fourth precinct court on charges. The quarrel began when Never insulted Seidenberg's younger brother and escalated to a stabbing with a wire nail.
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Newark
N. J
Louis Never
Tes
Louis Seidenberg
Never
Selfenberg
Neuer
Hie
Akon
Miner Charged With Fire At Colorado Coal Mine
Trinidad teen Manuel Martinez aged 17 a Mexican coal mine worker was arrested Saturday charged with setting fire to the big Eagleville coal mine owned by Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. Hundreds of miners were displaced with many saved though fire still raged. Springfield clerk C Bau mann dismissed from U S land office after buying entered land in his wife's name raising legality questions and an investigation into irregularities by a special agent is under way.
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Trinidad
Cola—Manuel Matinez
Eagleville
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
Matues
Springfield
Revolt in the South Yields Victory in Guatemala
Reports from Mexico City and Salvadoran sources say revolutionists repelled a government assault in southern Guatemala. Government artillery and cannons battered the lines for six hours while General Toledo led desperate charges. The uprising caused nationwide rejoicing as President Cabrera’s cabinet resigned in protest.
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Mexico City
Guatemal
Torcen
Toledo
Cabrera
Cabiet
Beily
Worth Investigating Cream Separators Gain Farmers
Farmers rapidly adopt cream separators to profit from self separation. Dairy operators prefer to buy the cream and skip work, while home separation saves skim milk for calves and reduces hauling costs. The U S Cream Separator from Consolidated Wagon and Machine Co touts high capacity and durability with wide agency coverage.
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U.S
Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company
Disease Defined by Odor and Health as a Business Asset
The article notes that many diseases have characteristic odors detectable by trained noses, even in age groups from prisoners to soldiers, and that odor can aid diagnosis for conditions like fever, scurvy, pyaemia, and diphtheria. It also argues health should be viewed as a business asset, urging steady attention to well being for lasting success.
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Man
Phnona
Revolutionary science and revival songs in England rise
Anne Reasonante and Dr Gustave Le Bon claim matter fades into intermediary substances between tangible bodies and ether. Popular revival songs now match Sankey in popularity in England with the Glory tune printed about 17 million times in three years.
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Anne Reasonante
Gustave le Bon
Paris
Tete
Alexaphgr
England
Sankey
London
Pubah
Comprehensive Word Puzzle Prompt
A riddle asks to arrange a word into a language form. The clue states the first two testers are male the first three female the first four a brave man and the whole a brave woman, implying a word built from gendered prefixes or letters representing roles to spell a brave person.
Washingtn Hearing On Beveridge Meat Inspection Plan Probes Dirty Packing Houses
The house committee on agriculture held hearings on Neill Reynolds meat inspection report. Thomas B. Wilson of Nelson Morris & Co, representing Chicago packing houses, argued against the Beveridge proposal requiring packers to finance inspections. Neill testified of filthy, neglected rooms and unsanitary conditions, noting dirty floors, sticky walls, and unwashed rafters, with vivid scenes from Nelson Morris and other plants. He cited a supervisor’s lax oversight and a hog slipping into a privy as examples. He supported existing government inspection but questioned state coverage.
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Chicago
Packers
Dyson
Neill
Mr. Wilson
Nelson Morris House
Brooks
Colorado
Nett
British House Debates Army Purchases After Whit Recess
The Commons resumed Thursday after Whit Buntide recess to debate the army appropriations. Liberal Huh Cecl Loa, a newspaper proprietor and former officer in British and American forces, pressed the government for assurance that no further American United men would be bought for the British army, claiming from personal observation that packing conditions are deteriorating.
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London
Mouse of Commons
Huh Cecl Loa
WIL Cost Beef Packers a Large Sum
Chisago reports the Union stock yard improvements will cost packers nearly $1 000 with further city required work estimated at about $200 000 additional. Sanitary improvements are expected to total around $390 000 under the city ordinances.
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Wil
Chisago
Yarila
Bartzen
City Co
Peruna praised for kidney trouble relief by several users
Letters from Mrs Gee and Mrs Simser recount long term kidney and bladder issues improved after taking Peruna and Manalin. They credit the preparations with restoring health, noting renewed energy and a changed condition since starting the remedies. The advertisements emphasize kidneys removing poisons from the blood and urge continued use when needed.
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Sterling
Odd Eating Customs and a Commuter’s Quip
A compilation notes peculiar dining habits across cultures with the Filipinos, Tahitians, and others avoiding mixed meals or eating alone. Interwoven is a comic exchange at a Chicago dance where a man jokes about bringing a new cook, illustrating social humor alongside cultural oddities.
Building Food To Bring the Babies Around
A family shares how feeding Grape-Nuts and milk helped a frail fifteen month old boy recover from pneumonia brain fever and teething weakness. After tried food changes the child gained strength and grew sturdy, leading to a claim that well fed brain and nerves assure health for children. The letter cites Postum Co Battls Creek Mich and promotes a booklet titled The Head of Wellness.
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Kansas City
Abe
Iater
Postum Co
Battls
Creek
Mich
Cam
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