Deadly fire at Northwestern mine in Butte Mont
Nov 20 report from Butte Mont describes a fire in the Northwestern Improvement mine at Red Lodge. Six miners were killed and scores more entombed as rescuers fought through heavy smoke. Seven rescued in critical condition later hospitalised. authorities warned of high death toll while salvage continued.
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Associated Press
Butte
Mont
Northwestern Improvement Company
Red Lodge
Iity
Montenegro joins in the Balkan Scrap
Dispatches from Cettinje report Montenegro cutting the telegraph line to Cattaro and deploying 8000 troops to secure the Dug pass into Herzegovina while signaling strong defensive moves on coastal routes. Officials describe rising tensions but hope for peace in the Balkans amid mediation efforts.
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Vienna
Cettinje
Montenegro
Cattaro
Austria
Herzegovina
Fifteenth Army Corps
Austria-Hungary
Belgrade
Balkans
Standard Oil profits enormous. Gompers endorsed by labor men
Rockefeller faced hours of cross examination in the government suit to dissolve Standard Oil, revealing dividends of 40 million dollars last year and a claimed 300 million dollar surplus. Kellogg said the company earned nearly half a billion in eight years. In Denver, AFL President Gompers was fully endorsed as labor ranks backed his report, with officer elections set and Keefe’s possible re-election.
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Standard Oil
Gompers
New York
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company
Frank Kellogg
Rockefeller
Kelloge
Kellogg
Associated Press
Denver
American Federation of Labor
Daniel B. Keefe
Keefe
Eae
Santoe
New Herbrides
Peter
Gried
Ada
Elizabeth
Tate
Tige
Sydney
Young Athletes Start 241 Mile Relay to Roosevelt
In New York on November 30 a 241 mile relay began at 2 46 pm with hundreds of onlookers from schools and the Y M C A cheering. About 700 runners take part including Quentin Roosevelt. The race runs from the city to Washington with a silver message tube for President Roosevelt.
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Associated Press
New York
Young Men's Christian Association
Thin City
Washington
Roosevelt
Quentin
Metal Market Update From New York Trading Day
The New York metal market reports lead at 4.80 to 4.25 for the day with dull activity. Copper prices show enay at 14.20 along with other listed values and seemingly varied bids.
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New York
Enay
Evans Named Harbor Company Chairman in Los Angeles
Rear Admiral Robly D. Evans was elected chairman of the board of the Los Angeles Harbor company and will reside in Los Angeles after finishing his lecture tour in March. The firm, led by A. C. Bird, plans extensive harbor development including projects at San Pedro and a railroad link between the city and port.
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Los Angeles
Robly D. Evans
Gould Ines
San Pedro
al- Med Corporation
Expert cracksman opens vault at Mercantile Finance
Chicago Nov 20 A drill and a Jimmy used by an expert cracksman hired by Receiver Francia A Peabody opened the Mercantile Finance vault under guard for four weeks. The robbery removed claims totaling about 900000 expected to be satisfied by the recovery.
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Chicago
Jimmy
Francia A. Peabody
Mercantile Finance Company
Prices Fall on Stock Market Reacts to Weak Accounts
The reactionary forces in the dock market eased a sharp fall in prices today as bids moved upward in the late session on hope weak accounts are cleared. No significant change in unfavorable news surrounding industry and business progress toward restoration. Bonds turn cozy.
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Associated Press
New York
Election Murder Case Moves to Tombs, Tammany Worker Charged
Edward Eneagh, a Tammany worker, was committed to the Tombs without bail on election day murder charges. He is accused of killing Benjamin Stone, Republican captain of the Third election district in the Fourteenth assembly district, New York.
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Electon
New York
Edward Eneagh
Tammany
Benjamin Stone
Secretary Accused of Forging Vouchers in San Francisco
Experts at the Merchants' association audit charge secretary Frank W. Smithson with missing funds. The shortfall is estimated between 3000 and 10000 dollars. The probe follows his arrest on a charge of forging Southern Pacific vouchers.
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San Francisco
Merchants’ Association
Frank W. Smithson
Association
Smithson
Ao Svorse
Southern Pacific
Burma Chinese Protest Pu Yi as Emperor
The Burmese Chinese community about 30000 strong sent a telegram to Pekin protesting Pu Yi's selection as emperor claiming he is Manchu not Chinese. Davis trial postponed Omaha reports the murder case of Dr Frederick Austin will begin November 20 following county attorney notice.
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Burma
Rangoon
Foreign Office
Pekin
Pu Yi
Ching An
Gas Explosion Kills Workers in Brooklyn Street Shaft
A gas explosion in Gold Street Brooklyn wrecked a deep excavation for a water main, killing and burying workers. Fifteen believed dead and ten missing, with four men escaping. Rescue efforts hampered by earth, debris, and geysers from a ruptured water main. Police later arrested seven city department men in connection with the incident.
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Associated Press
New York
Gold Street
Brooklyn
York
Pront Streets
Gay
Mike
The South Sea Islanders are Troublesome
News from Victoria reports revolts in the Carolinas and violence across the Pacific. German troops protect European residents in Ponape as a punitive expedition is planned. reports confirm massacres in Santoe and mass conflict in the New Hebrides. The Moana brings details and authorities dispatch ships to quell unrest.
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Victoria
Carolinas
China Station
Moank
Australia
Ponape
Merbertsche
Sydney
Kio Chou
Newa
Rock Islands
New Pommern
Carolines
Dynamite Cap Incident Shocks Ban Lorando School
Nov 20. John Quinn 12 threw a dynamite cap into a stove in a crowded Ban Laandro public school classroom causing an explosion. Fragments flew from the stove but most pupils escaped serious injury. Principal investigation placed responsibility on Quinn who confessed and discarded the cap after playing with it.
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John Quinn
Ban Laandro Publc School
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