Funeral of Maj Gen Krondratenko Sparked Massive State Tribute
In St Petersburg Oct 9 thousands crowded Nevsky Prospect in drizzle to honor Maj Gen Krondratenko commander of the Seventh East Siberian rifles who was killed at Port Arthur last December. The coffin was laid to rest at Alexander Nevsky Monastery with a state procession of veterans courtiers and naval and army officers. Grand Duke Vladimir stood in for the ailing emperor as Metropolitan Antonius led a requiem praising the general as the soul of the defense.
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St. Petersburg
Krondratenko
Seventh East Siberian Rifles
Port Arthur
Alexander Nevsky
Broad Nevsky
Moscow
Manchuria
Vladimir
Antonius
Mine Top Works Burned Near Florence
A defective electrical generator started a fire at the Fremont coal mine near Florence Colorado. All mine buildings including the shaft house were destroyed. Thirty five men were working when the fire began. ten were rescued and twenty five remained entombed at four o clock. The air compressor survived. officials say the entombed men are not in immediate danger. Loss estimated at eightie thousand dollars.
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Pueblo
Colo
Fremont
Florence
Col
Collision near Millersburg claims three lives
Three men were killed and a fourth injured in a crash at the junction of the Lykens Valley branch of the Pennsylvania railroad near Millersburg Pennsylvania on October 9. A carload of race horses was either killed or fatally injured and shot to prevent further suffering.
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Millersburg
Lykens Valley
Pennsylvania Railroad
Cave-in at Vermont Plate Co quarry kills fourteen
Troy N Y Oct 7 four14 men died in a cave in at the Vermont Plate Co quarry about two miles from Granville N Y Among the dead is J B Williams president of the company The others were Hungarian laborers.
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Troy, N. Y
Vermont ‘Plate Co
Granville
N. Y
J. B. Williams
Peoria Bank to Liquidate After Forgery Indictment
In Peoria Illinois directors of the Peoria national bank announced after midnight they would discontinue business and wind up the institution. President N C Dougherty was indicted for forgery. Quiet withdrawals spread from neighboring banks. The bank with $200000 capital faced a $100000 loan from the Peoria clearinghouse that could not be accepted.
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Peoria, Ill
N. C. Dougherty
Peoria National Bank
Peoria Clearinghouse
Over His Mother's Corpse a Family Tragedy in Hastings
A Hastings Neb. shooting, reported from Kansas City, states John Budenek killed his mother and then shot his sister Fran cis Budenek and brothers Jacob Budenek and Peter Smeall in a death chamber at the Smeal home. Fran cis survived a hand wound while Jacob and Peter were gravely hurt. The killing followed a long standing family quarrel and Mrs M Budenek had died the night before.
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Kansas City
Times
Hastings
Neb
John Budenek
Francis Budenek
Jacob Budenek
Peter Smeall
Peter Smeal
West Second Street
M. Budenek
Wreck of the St. Paul near Point Gorda
Eureka California reports the San Francisco and Portland Co steamer St. Paul wrecked one and a half miles south of Point Gorda. Capt Randall states 93 passengers and 65 crew survived though exposed and fainting. He blames no one. the vessel and 1100 tons of freight are total losses.
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Eureka
Cal
Point Gorda
San Francisco & Portland Co
St. Paul
Randall
Roosevelt orders action on Mississippi bridge monopoly
After a cabinet session, Attorney General Moody announced that the president decided to begin action in the Department of Justice against the monopolization of the bridges and the ferry across the Mississippi into St. Louis. The move follows a pending complaint in the department.
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St. Louis
Washington
White House
Moody
Department of Justice
Mississippi
Startling discovery of funds missing at Adams Express Co
Pittsburg Pa Oct 11 The startling discovery shows Edward George Cunliffe a money clerk involved with a missing sum of 100000 and 1060 in other funds. The Adams Express Co has been victimized to the extent of the loss. The incident centers on the money clerk and the substantial missing funds.
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Edward George Cunliffe
Pittsburg, Pa
Adams Express Co
Missing $100,000 in Pittsburg Express package mystery
The official statement reports a Pittsburg bank delivered a $100,000 currency package to Adams Express Co for a Cincinnati bank. About $1,900 was found missing after clerk Edward Cunliffe reported for duty, and the $100,000 package was not at Union Station. Cunliffe vanished after bidding his family farewell, though he had worked for the Adams Express Co since 1904 and previously for several other lines.
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Bank
Pittsburg
Adams Express Co
Wood Street
Cincinnati
Edward George Cunliffe
Union Station
Lucerne Street
West End
Cunliffe
American Express Co
Electric Express Co
United States Express Co
Hartford
A World Tour of Thanks for World's Fair Leaders
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition board, meeting at Noonday club rooms, adopted a resolution presented by Sam Wennard praising President Francis for World’s fair work and the friendship shown by foreign nations. He was directed to plan a world tour to personally thank rulers of represented countries.
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St. Louis
Sam Wennard
Francis
Russell named assistant attorney general in regular establishment
Washington Oct. 11 President Roosevelt appoints Charles W Russell special assistant attorney general to the regular establishment replacing Milton D Purdy who moves to assistant to the attorney general vice William A Day Russell has long service in the justice department rising from clerkship to his present post by merit
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Washington
Roosevelt
Charles W. Russell
Milton D. Purdy
William A. Day
Russell
Department of Justice
Gale on the Gulf of Mexico stalls shipping fears
A heavy gale rages on the gulf of Mexico with high seas and feared damage. Reports indicate damage along the Mississippi coast and potential losses for telegraph companies. Winds reached 60 miles an hour at Fort Morgan as trees and smokestacks were blown down.
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Mobile
Ala
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi
Fort Morgan
Nation's Hall of Fame class names announced
New York October 10 voters in the second Hall of Fame election completed canvassing. Only three names were chosen for tablets in the five classes. The authors' class includes John Greenleaf Whittier and James Russell Lowell while General William T. Sherman is selected in the soldiers class.
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New York
Hall of Fame
John Greenleaf Whittier
James Russell Lowell
Gen
William T.sherman
Hall of Fame votes and expansion planned at University Heights
Less than 51 votes were cast for notable figures led by Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Fenimore Cooper with 48 each. Others followed, including William Cullen Bryant, Francis Parkman, Edgar Allan Poe, and Horace Greeley. The Hall of Fame opened five years ago with 29 tablets honoring Emerson to Peter Cooper. A new building will add a section dedicated to women and foreign-born Americans.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
James Fenimore Cooper
William Cullen Bryant
John L. Motley
Francis Parkman
Figar Allen Poe
George Bancroft
Horace Greeley
Noah Webster
William H. Prescott
William Lloyd Garrison
Mark Hopkins
Matthew Simpson
Hall of Fame
University Heights
Emerson
Longfellow
Irving
Hawthorne
Edwards
Horace Mann
Beecher
Channing
Fulton
Morse
Whitney
Audubon
Gray
Grant
Farragut
Lee
Washington
Lincoln
Webster
Franklin
Jefferson
Clay
John Adams
Marshall
Kent
Storey
Peabody
Stuart
Peter Cooper
Doctor C. M. Shanley Dead in New Orleans Yellow Fever Fight
Dr. C. M. Shanley formerly of North Dakota died at his Bayou Barataria plantation after a relapse from yellow fever. He refused to abandon New Orleans during the outbreak, aided authorities with a steam launch, and tended the sick day and night. He and two trained nurses were with him at the end and his burial will be from the Masonic temple with high honors.
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New Orleans
C. M. Shanley
North Dakota
Bayou Barataria
Shanley
Northwest
Treaty of Portsmouth Ends War With Russia and Japan
Washington reports that the peace treaty between Russia and Japan becomes effective upon approval by the emperors without formal ratifications. The agreement, after swift preliminary signs in both nations, will be communicated by cable to Washington and ratified in Washington as soon as copies arrive. The war is then at an end.
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Washington
Russia
Japan
Appan
State Department
Banquet Planned In Honor Of President Roosevelt
A New York City banquet is set for October 27 to honor President Roosevelt on his birth anniversary in the birthplace room at 28 East Twentieth Street. Nationally prominent guests have signified attendance as a 300 member club forms to preserve the birthplace as a historic site. Death follows meal in Fort Wayne after kraut and pork. Samuel Lenganancher dies of ptomaine poisoning after a hearty repast.
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New York
Roosevelt
East Twentieth Street
Baazides
Fort Wayne
Ind
Samuel Lenganancher
Bank Failure Shows 150000 Deficit in Alamosa
Alamosa Colorado October 11 report by Assignee Brickenstein of the defunct bank of Alamosa reveals liabilities exceed assets by 150000 dollars.
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Alamosa, Col
Brickenstein
Bank of Alamosa
Married a Newspaper Man in Egypt Mass Estate
Boston Oct 12 Miss Gladys Lawton eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Lawson married Mr Eden Blaine Stanwood at the country home Dreamwold Egypt Mass The ceremony was old fashioned English style with servants and retainers dancing afterward The groom Mr Stanwood is a newspaper man
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Boston
Gladys’Lawton
Thomas Lawson
Eden Blaine Stanwood
Dreamwold
Egypt
Mass
Stan
Sherrick Shortage Reported in Indianapolis
A Fletcher National Bank check for 52536.24 signed by J. H. Murry Co. via W. S. Wickard paid John S Reed, receiver for David E. Sherrick securities. Total ex-auditor shortage stands near 61000 after this payment, with 11000 unpaid on Hoosier Oil Co. notes indorsed by BE. H. Wolcott and others. settlement of 11900 would drop the shortage to about 50000.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Fletcher National Bank
J. H. Murry Company
W. S. Wickard
Mr. Wickard
John S Reed
David E. Sherrick
BE. H. Wolcott
Judge Brandner Ends Life By Gas In Kansas City
Kansas City Mo Oct 12 Judge A G Brandner committed death by inhaling illuminating gas at his home. He grieved for the death of his wife and had previously attempted suicide at Onaga Kansas near the grave of his wife by taking morphine on three occasions. He kept a diary of the morphine attempts and noted the hour and effect of each dose. Brandner spent his early life in Montana and claimed to be the first judge regularly chosen there.
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Kansas City
A. G. Brandner
Brandner
Onasa
Kas
Onaga
Drandner
Montana
Resolutions of Thanks for Free Bridge Bond Action
A joint committee of allied organizations met at the St. Louis Manufacturers' Association rooms in the Chamber of Commerce building. Two resolutions were adopted: one thanking President Roosevelt for ordering action on the bridge combine and Attorney General Moody for initiating action, and another pledging continued work against the bridge arbitrary in favor of a free bridge.
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St. Louis
St. Louis Manufacturers’ Association
Chamber of Commerce
Roosevelt
Moody
Indignant Millionaire Offers Cash for Conviction
Isidore Wormser, wealthy banker, pledges 100000 dollars to secure the conviction of a gang believed responsible for the assault on Annie Thornton, a servant in his household. Five men were arraigned and held on two thousand dollar bail each, with police aiming to arrest nine more suspects.
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New York
Isidore Wormser
Annie Thornton
Wet Springs killer captured near Garland bridge
Merch Alexander who shot and killed his father Dr. George H. Alexander was captured while attempting to cross a bridge in western Garland county. He was brought to Wet Springs city and lodged in jail.
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Wet Springs
Ark
Merch Alexander
George H. Alexander
Garland County
Frost Extends Across South and Plains States
Frost is reported from a large southern region extending to Pine Bluff and Fort Smith Arkansas, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, and Grenada Mississippi. Northern Louisiana and New Orleans cool to 61 degrees as temps drop.
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St. Louis
Pine Bluff
Fort Smith
Ark
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Grenada
Miss
Louisiana
New Orleans
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Troy
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