Mine Explosion at Fort Duchesne Kills Two, Wounds Three
Price Utah Nov 25 A heavy explosion at the St Louis GIlgon Asphaltum mine near Fort Duchesne kills Charles Anderson Ashley Utah and Andrew Barnes Park City Utah and wounds three others including two Price freighters Webber Bunce and an unnamed man The blast is caused by asphaltum dust and gas combustion and the mine is ablaze with flames climbing three shafts about 100 feet high
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Price
Utah
St. Louis
Gilgon Asphaltum Company
Fort Duchesne
Charles Anderson
Ashely
Andrew Barnes
Park City
Webber
Bunce
Ex-priest Slattery Escapes Newark Mob After Lecture
In Newark a large angry crowd追 massed after ex priest Slattery and his wife left a church lecture. Police escorted them to a cab as 3000 to 4000 people pressed close. Slattery drew a revolver amid missiles, then boarded a train to New York with his wife as the mob surged outside.
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New York
Newark
N. J
Tery
Slattery
Blattery
Lynching Expected in Mayfield After Assault Arrest
Mayfield Kentucky November 25 John Stone also known as Mr Megroe was arrested yesterday for a criminal assault on Mrs J M R Green Monday night and taken to Paducah to avoid lynching. The town is greatly excited as hundreds gathered at the depot with shots fired at the train but authorities kept the crowd under control. The victim, a respected Mrs Green wife of the county’s leading teacher, woke to a pistol threat and assault after a window break.
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Mayfield
John Stone
Megroe
J. M. R. Green
Paducah
Green
Stone
Watervale
Cah
Havana
Louis Someillan
Cardenas
Matanzas
Artemisa
Candelaria
Christobal
Weyler
Mangas
Arolags
Arolas
Maruel
Jos. Diaz
University of Havana
Santiago de Cuba
Francisco Berenguer
Victoriamio Reyes
Jose Carreras
Col
Reguara
Candeliria
Pinar del Rio
Nothing New At Washington On Florida Fort Defenses
War department reports no new preparations at Florida ports while noting antiquated defenses at Fort Starion St Augustine and plans to seek bids for emplacements and mounting two 8 inch guns. Key West dispatches mention secrecy around contracts.
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War ‘Department
Florida
Key West Lspatches
Fort Starion
St. Augustine
Congress
I Secretary of War
Key West
Charges of Cruelty at Illinois Hospital
Chicago reports reveal police scrutinizing alleged mistreatment at a maternity hospital run by Mrs. Benson on Honor Street. Witness Miss Alice Martin claims multiple unkept newborns, including an infant cremation observed weeks earlier. Grace Donohue of Michigan corroborates abuse. she saw two babies in a tub and another in a furnace. Mrs. Benson denied arrest after questioning.
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Chicago
Lil
Afaternity Hospital
Benson
Honor Street
Alice Martin
Grace Donohue
Houghton, Mich
Young Woman's Christian Association
Important Resolution Passed
Knoxville chamber of commerce passes a resolution to petition Congress to create a department of commerce with cabinet status. The department would collect and disseminate information on commercial matters, promote American trade, open foreign avenues, and expand exports. Tennessee senators and representatives would receive copies to urge action.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Chamber of Commerce
United States
Congress
Department of Commerce
Tennessee
Window glass workers settle strike in Pittsburg
In Pittsburg on November 25, a settlement ends a long standstill between window glass workers and manufacturers. About 15,000 idle workers will return by December 15. the new scale is 106 percent of the original demand. A tariff proviso ties wage changes to tariff shifts under the Dingley plan.
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Pittsburg
Robbery of Elderly Woman Linked to Local Bartender
In Cincinnati on November 25 a trio robbed an elderly woman at gunpoint, taking about 400 dollars from a bag under her skirts. Relatives identify the plan two weeks prior and name bartender Fred Richardson, a man named Fletcher, and a Black man named Green as the perpetrators. The men entered the house, restrained the brother, then seized the woman and removed the money, showing they knew her hiding spot.
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Cincinnati
Woman Inventor Patents Fuel-Saving Boiler Invention
Cincinnati November 25 Miss Cora L Turner has invented and patented a boiler aimed at great fuel economy for storage and long voyages. Her father tried for years to realize the idea. after his death she pursued and completed the work, likely to aid vessels by reducing fuel renewals.
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Cincinnati
Cora L. Turner
Miss Turner
Tragic double death on Bergermyer avenue sidewalk
In Indianapolis a news boy found Her man Myer and Nora Richardson dead on a Bergermyer avenue sidewalk at 6 am. A note suggests the woman planned to become a mother and asked Myer to marry. Myers likely killed Richardson and then himself after a quarrel. Nearby, the Dakota National Bank in Sioux Falls closed its doors recently. Also, six Grand Rapids missionaries left for China under the Reformed Church foreign board.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Herman Myer
Nora Richardson
Bergermyer Avenue
South Side
Myer
Myers
Sioux Falls
S. D
Dakota National Bank
Grand Rapids, Mich
China
Foreign Board of the Reformed Church
Annus Report: Sabs Washington Hoard Unearthed
In Washington on November 25 a hoard of the ok was reported as found or seized. Details are sparse, but officials indicate a bulk discovery connected to a larger investigation. Further updates are expected as authorities assess items and scope.
Blood on Franklin hill erupts in brutal melee
A large mob of Slavs and Hungarians on Franklin Avenue hill, Cleveland, fought with knives and clubs in a blood drenched riot. At least twenty injured, with names and ages listed, including Sylvester and James Carter. Police and ambulances later removed many, some dying or likely to die. Cuban Affairs section reports Weyler's Artemisa movements and related incidents. Also San Benito wreck at Point Arena with eight drowned and thirty five rescued.
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Cleveland
Franklin Avenue Hill
River Front
Columbus Street
Sylvester Carter
Franklin Avenue
James Carter
Follett Court
John Spreads
Joseph Spreads
William Malley
Lorain Street
Adam Shierman
Smith House Alley
Michael Zebeck
John Kushler
Anton Ballask
Columbus Stret
John Sprends
Carter
Sprends
Blue Coate
San Benito
Point Arena
Cal
W. Scott
H. Gordon
H. Prendergast
H. J. Freeman
Weyler Leaves Havana Amid Cuban Disorder
A Jacksonville dispatch reports Gen. Weyler forced to return to Havana due to heat and illness. Havana mutters that Maceo placed a price on his head, prompting a hurried retreat to the palace. Cable says recall is assured as Spain grows angry at his dilatory tactics. Cubans in New York greet the news as favorable for congressional action.
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New York
Jacksonville
Fla
Havana
Weyler
Maceo
Congress
Tarr Killings in Delmont and Wife Suicide After Elopement
In Delmont Pa on Sunday night John Tarr age 25 shot dead his wife then killed himself after eloping with the daughter of farmer Long. They wed in Cumberland but the father opposed living with her husband. In Richmond Va 100 workers from the North Carolina Wheeling company struck recently.
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Delmont
Mear
John Tarr
Tarr
Long
Cumberland
Richmond
North Carolina
Wheeling Company
Odds and Ends From Distant Lands And Local Notices
A collection of quirky facts and brief items covers demographics in Wisconsin and Britain, peculiar street numbers in Frankfort, New Jersey transport fundraisers in Newark Irvington, and local gossip from Cross Keys and Parrott Georgia. A Rome Georgia groom misses his wedding, Mrs. Hasty of Parrott ages eighty three is a long-time resident with a large family, and an Irish pub patron in a country town uses a fire to call attention to his slate debt during a blaze.
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England
Scotland
Ireland
Frankfort-on-the- Main
Forest City
Blank’s
Newark
Irvington
New Jersey
Cross Keys
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Rome
Rowena Hasty
Parrott
Odd Facts and Oddities From Early News
A compilation of unusual claims and anecdotes from an early newspaper page. Topics include seed production estimates, Eiffel-like tall cathedrals, immigrant counts, counterfeit-warded burglars, European throne pretenders, a Patterson New Jersey court-house scam, a Wisconsin real estate classifying ad, stray cows in Newport News tied to a race-based ownership dispute, and a judge's mock verdict sending a cow to the best grass.
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Antwerp
United States
Europe
Board of Freeholders of
Patterson
N. J
Wisconsin
Newport News
Shields
Shield
Random Reading Through a Tangle of Facts
A garbled OCR style item lists diverse notes about England’s idle clergy Russia’s mineral output and farmland among other stray claims. It includes a Salem area incident of a person becoming violently insane after consuming ice cream and references to Michal McGonigal and a distant freight robbery claim amid unclear dates and ages.
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Salem
H. c
Michal McGonigal
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Shreveport
W. E. Maples
Attorney-at-Law
Shreveport, LA
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Pe Jagsa
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L. AL. Eens
Whitworth Bros
John E. Schilling
Shores Notice
Louisiana Street
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Jom Cook
John Johnsss
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