Pension Bureau Clerk Resignation Order Issued
Washington reports the Pension Bureau issued an order demanding the resignation of any clerk who misused thirty days leave amid a controversy sparked by a woman clerk. The clash followed a transfer to the patent office and a missing record of her return, prompting rigid enforcement and disciplinary action.
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Washington
Pension Bureau
Kansas
Nyt
Stek
Patent Office
Pension Office
Chinese unrest grows as probe notes anti foreign mood
London dispatches report from Shanghai that Chinese in northern provinces show rising restlessness and hostility toward Russia as fears of anti foreign disturbances surface, with some evidence influenced by the Russia legation for interested motives.
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London
Benneth Burleigh
Shanghai
aDily
Times
Peking
Harrah First Baptist Church Incorporation Papers Filed
Guthrie Oklahoma territorial treasurer shows incorporation papers filed for the First Baptist Church of Harrah. The church is incorporated for a ninety nine year term, unusual since most churches are incorporated perpetually.
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Pee
Guthrie
Man in penitentiary attempts suicide after murder sentence
Columbus reports William Reinman, recently moved to the penitentiary from Seneca county on a life term for second degree murder, attempted self harm in a despondent state. He slit his wrists with tin, then collapsed on his cot four hours later, weakened from blood loss. While intoxicated he also tried to shoot Albert Rice, a farm hand, with a rifle.
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Columbus
William Reinman
Seneca County
Breoding
Bigod
Reinman
Albert Rice
One Killed and Twenty Injured in Street Car Crash
Washington reports a street car collision at Rockington injuring about twenty passengers and killing one. The vehicle, carrying between sixty and ninety riders, struck a street drive when a wheel broke and derailed, with RO Sprague, a 44 year old compositor, among the injured or killed.
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Washington
Rockington
Clehty
RO Sprague
Franchise Granted In Nevada City After Special Election
In Nevada City on October 19 a special election approved a franchise for squawwal by 220 to 87. One vote was cast against the proposition and one ballot was uncertain or void. The measure now authorizes the franchise subject to further municipal authorization.
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Nevada
Idaho Engineer Must Pay
New York jurors in Brooklyn awarded $7.90 to Edward B Tustin against Frank L Hobbs a Boise mining engineer. The suit claimed Hobbs misrepresented a $7,200 mining investment on Thunder Mountain Roosevelt City Idaho. Hobbs was jailed in December for a burglary case and released on habeas corpus after trial.
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New York
Brooklyn
Hay
Edward B Tustin
Why First Nation Bank of Bloom
Wirg
Paw
Frank
Hobos
Boise City
Taba
Hobis
Tustie
Hobbs
Thunder Mountain
Roosevelt City
Idaho
Ludlow Street
Rock Island's bad showing in 1904 earnings report
The Chicago Rock Island Pacific report shows Moore Leeds Reed’s influence pushing Loree from the presidency. For year ended June 30 1904 gross earnings rose 592871 while freight and other costs rose, dividends declined from 9597911 to 6029198 with 5950060 paid. Poor demand blamed on loss of high class freight and coal freight tonnage plus fuel costs from Western strife.
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Chicago, Rock
Stand & Pacific Proud
Moore-Leeds-Reed
J. F_ Loree
Met
Western Acs
Colorado
Tragedy at Clinker Pit Involving Burlington Engine
Creston Iowa October 19 John Theiss 29 a Burlington worker in the clinker pit died after a backing engine drew him under. He and two coworkers attempted escape. one man Thomas was fatally injured while another escaped. The body was sent to Nebraska. Theiss a member of the Woodmen fraternity lived with his sister Mrs Beck.
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Creston, Ta
John Theiss
Rhe
BL & Q
Thoms
Nebraska
Thomas Wie
Mader Woodmen Fraternity
Burlington
Beck
Sinks in the Mississippi at Cairo with Morgan boat
The transfer boat Junius 5 Morgan struck a snag near the Ohio and Mississippi rivers junction at 5 a m and sank in several feet of water. A hole tore the bottom as the craft settled in soft sand. The Morgan, 195 feet long, 445 feet breadth, and 7 feet depth, had run between Cairo and Bird's Point for years and was built at Jeffersonville in 187.
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Cairo
M. Oe
Junius
Morgan
Ohio
Jefferson_ villa
Ind
Bird's Point
Williams seeks relief after cross party nomination clash
Walter Williams, nominated by both Democratic conventions in the Cairo district, appeals to the supreme court after conflicts with the Cairo ticket. He remained with the Eshey Senate ticket, but judges ruled against it, and the secretary of state refused to certify Williams to county clerks.
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Springfield
Walter Williams
Cairo
Supreme Court
Williams
Sidney Eshey
Secretary of State
Sheboyganites Plan Outing to Wisconsin Cities
Richoygan Wisconsin October 19 Mayor Born leads a crowd of Sheboygans on a pleasure trip by horseback carriages and autos to Wisconsin cities next Sunday. They will first stop at Manitowoc on Lake Michigan beach then visit the interior showcasing regional sights.
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Richoygan
Wis
Wisconsin Citles
Manitowoc
Lake Michigan Beach
Interien
Trapeze Accident Claims Sioux City Boy
Arthur Haaren nine-year-old son of Frans Haaren died in a garret trapese accident after becoming entangled in the ropes. His seven-year-old brother Eddie previously drowned in the Sioux River three years earlier.
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Sioux City
Arthur
Frans Haaren
Eddie
Senator Allison Helps Buy Church in Des Moines
In Des Moines Iowa lingering property decline near First Presbyterian declined after the church leased its building to an undertaker for a morgue. Senator Allison a trustee opposed the plan and helped unite neighbors to force a sale at about $9,000, easing unrest in the heart of the residence district.
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Duluque
Firs Presbyterian Church
Edifre
Syndicnir
Wiltow
Allison
Bone
First Church
Himee
Trail dynamiters with blood in Bloconound ruin
In Ind Ort a wrecked McCoy bank cashier's home is targeted by dynamiters in a pursuit by scent dogs. A single clue points to a cross tennis court as the starting mark while a Philadelphia man recounts recovery with Electric Bitters, praised as a cure for severe illness, offered at Nadler’s drug store for 50 cents.
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Renesetser
Ind
Thomas J. McCoy
Defunet McCoy Bank
Devyer
John Oliver
Philadelphia
Liscomb Sued Over Arrest In Peddlers Case for Damages
David Moore salesman for Atlantic and Pacific Tea company sues the town of Liscomb in Marshall county district court for 2000 dollars alleging his arrest under the peddlers law was instigated by J. C. Meyers and D. W. B. Meyers, both in the same business and named as defendants.
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Marshalltown
Marshall County
David Moore
Liscomb
Moore
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Liscomi
J. C. Meyers
W. B. Meyers
Force under Pogee kills Oyomia band in Sanz mountains
A constabulary force led by Lieutenant Pogee engaged Pulanfanes in the eastern Sanz mountains on October 19. They killed the outlaw Oyomia and about fifty of his followers, ending a bond of outlaws and annihilating their gang in Mantta.
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Pogee
Mantta
Sanz
Oyomia
Episcopalian Convention Seeks Legislation on Divorce Grounds
A Boston report from the Episcopalian convention notes a committee recommendation to form a joint committee to petition state legislatures to ease divorce grounds. The proposal, framed as addressing “the great outs of divorce,” was referred to the committee on uniformity of marriage and divorce. An amendment by Rev. Dr. B A White forbidding remarriage of divorced persons was sent to the canon committee, awaiting further action.
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Boston
Episcopalian Convention
Committee On the State of the Church
B. A. White
X. J
Home Town Happenings from 1904 Humble Village
In a playful village column Mrs Arthur Taylor falls from a woodshed and rests for a week while cucumbers arrive from an unknown donor. Local notes praise Miss Haynes writing, joke about Mrs Carter Burlingham and her parrot, carpenters plan new woodsheds, and town chatter frets about a possible mayoral bid, with light comedy on gear and gossip.
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T. C. McChuire
Arthur Taylor
Indictments for Election Frauds in Pineville Ky
Pineville Kentucky grand jury has issued the first batch of indictments in a long running election fraud probe. James Rollins deputy US commissioner is charged with raising returns, and several named individuals are accused of ballot stuffing and failing to canvass results. Additional indictments are expected as the investigation continues.
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Pineville
Hell County Grand Jury
Himtvr-Edwards
James Rollins
Unitt States
Excelsior
Hunter
Langdon
Charles Bill
Cl Thompson
BR. T. Johnson
Grant Brown
Madrid business veteran sells stock and goodwill
Oct 19 Madrid Sac reports L. Fl Neigley, longtime Madrid merchant, sold his stock and goodwill of the family business after over twenty years in the same building to J. Go and C. G. Donusten. Neigley withdraws to focus on other interests while remaining a respected figure in the community.
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Madrid
L. FL Neigley
J. Go
C G. Donusten
Newler
Neighoy
Scott Still Remains in Jail in Rockwell City
Oil promoter S A Scott of Montpelier Indiana lies in county jail after being brought by Sheriff Riseley to answer fraud and obtaining money under false pretenses. His father and attorney returned home after attempting to secure his release. The Catholic Mutual Protective Society was to hold a meeting at Alton, Iowa, on October 12 and furnish a bond of 9000.
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Rockwell City
S. A. Scott
Montpelier, Inn
Riseley
Delag
Catholic Mutual Protective
Alton
Congressman George H White Praises Peruna Medicine
Tarboro North Carolina congressman writes to a Mr Art May praising Peruna as an excellent remedy for grip and catarrh. He says his family uses it and recommends it, signing respectfully as George H White. He directs readers with catarrh to write Dr Wurtman in Columbus Ohio for guidance with a full statement of their case.
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George Henry V
Tarboro
N.C
Washington
Feld
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbine, C
George H. White
Ur. Ulort Mian
Dr. Wurtman
Huriian Sanitarian
Columbus
Woman victim of delusion in Fostoria Ohio
Virginia Botto, a woman from Fostoria, is confined at home after a period of deranged behavior. She boarded a train with Bernard Delava of Niagara Falls and told the conductor she was threatened with death unless she married. Her condition, described as monomania, is deemed hopeless. A separate lawsuit from a Stonandoah firm seeks 287 dollars from Ros Island for delayed car merchandise billed from San Marcos, Texas.
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Fostoria
Idaluston
Sha Hong Beer
Virginia Botto
Bernard Delava
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Delavan
Tottay
Stonandoah
Ros: Island
Sin Maras, Tex
Wey
Asthma Cure Claims Noted by Readers in Ads
Dr Schiffmanns Asthma Cure is praised by Rev G L Taylor of Washburn Wisconsin and Mrs Martha Simorson of Laingsburg Michigan for permanent relief from asthma and hay fever. Advertises as sold by druggists for 6 and 1.00 with free trial offer by mail to Dr R Schiffmann Saint Paul Minnesota.
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Neo
Attesta, Ga
Martha Simorson
Laingsburg
Mich
R. Schiffmann
St. Paullinn
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