Terrible wreck on the Choctaw line at Manuelite
A disastrous train wreck on the Choctaw near Manuelite in Indian Territory killed seven men and seriously injured others. Rescue trains will bring surgeons from Fort Smith and Denison as the death toll rises and survivors are described as railroad workers with families in Muskogee. A later Washington dispatch questions statehood for territories, citing political opposition and interterritorial rivalries between Indian Territory and Oklahoma.
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Muskogee
I. T
Qien
Manuelite
Fort Smith and
Denison
Wheeler Attacks State Dept Over British Policy
Wheeler of Kentucky launches a sharp attack on the State Department and administration policy toward Britain during debate on the pension bill. He accuses officials of European flunkeyism and abandoning isolationist American traditions. Grosvenor later rebukes Wheeler, saying the speech misreads public sentiment before Prince Henry’s departure.
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Ashington
D. C
Wheeler
Kentucky
State Department
Cona
United States
Ameriv
Republic
Great Britain
Yorktown
Atlantic
Grosvenor
Kiel
Prince Henery
Teddy Roosevelt Enthusiastically Recovered At Groton
In Groton Massachusetts on February 14 Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is reported resting calmly and improving after a serious illness. Alice Roosevelt is not expected to see Groton today but may arrive later. President Roosevelt returned to Washington in a relieved mood after days at his son’s bedside and reassured crowds in Worcester Woonsocket and Providence that Ted is out of the woods.
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Broton
Mass
Colore Roosevelt
Fs. Roosevelt
Hiss Alice Roosevelt
Groton
Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Ite House
New England
Worcester
Woonsocket
Providence
Ted
Bandits Paid Ransom for Captives in Constantinople
In Constantinople on February 14, 4:15, ransom for Miss Ellen M. te and companion Madame Tsailka was paid. Delivery to the Americans is expected hourly as the captives remain in the hands of the Bandits.
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Froms
Ellen M. Te
Madame Tsailka
Americals
Renegade killed in the Philippines
Manila Feb 14 Panay scouts under Captain Walker in Samar captured rifles and bolos after an engagement. They killed several Filipinos and captured or killed a renegade named Winfrey, a deserter from the Forty third Regiment, long sought by American troops.
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Manila
Panay
Walker
Samar
Iembers
Winfrey
Forty-third Regiment
Wreck on Pennsylvania Railroad Kills Three at Curve
Three men are killed and four fatally injured with two seriously hurt after a freight train derailment on a steep grade near Horseshoe Curve. The second section lost control after emerging from the Gallatin tunnel and crashed into the rear of the first, wrecking ten cars, the caboose, and two engines.
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Altoona
Pennsylvania Railroad
Gallitin
Alegrippus
Restored sight after accident in Wooster
Miss Lu lu Conrad eight of Wooster Ohio had lifelong eye trouble. After a sleigh accident her broken glasses were repaired and swelling reduced she could not see then later found all vision defects removed.
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Wooster
Ohio
Lulu Conrad
C. F. Conrad
United Family Long Separation
W H Clark a man of about fifty reunites with his wife and six children in Joplin Missouri after fifteen years apart. He had left them near Manchester Indiana in 1887 intending to reach South Dakota to establish a home and send for his family. A railroad wreck near Sioux Falls delayed him two years in a Minneapolis hospital where his name and address could not be recorded. He recovered and later traced his family who had moved, finally locating them in Joplin.
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Joplin
W. H. Clark
Manchester
South Dakota
Sioux Falls
Minneapolis
Widow to wed Haas brothers amid perilous past feud
In Cortez and Mt Gilead a widow consents to marry Henry Haas of Ohio after two prior husbands, all Haas brothers, were killed by ambush. The upcoming wedding, set for SIOUN CITY, Iowa, faces danger as the family history of vengeance casts a shadow over the ceremony.
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Sioun City
Iowa
Jane Segur Haas
Montezuma Coumy
Colo
Henry Haas
Mt. Gead
Ohio
William Haas
Mt. Gilead
Cortez
Colorado
Jane Segur
Siege
John Haas
Haas
Hass
Gitead
Girl Survives 200 Foot Fall. Mother Dies Saving Her
Morristown New Jersey February 14 A fourteen year old girl Mabel Tichenor narrowly survived a 200 foot plunge from Copperas Mountain after dangerous winds swept her over a precipice. Her mother Mrs Elwood Fr Tichenor died attempting to rescue her, breaking her neck in the fall. Alberta Collins witnessed the tragedy and sought help. The girl, though severely injured with broken arms, clung to life.
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Morristown
WN. J
Mabel Tichenor
Green Pond
Elwood Fr. Tichenor
Heroks
Harsh Carlisle School Rules Keep Indian Boy From Deathbed
Henry Sampson, a Carlisle Indian School pupil, cannot leave to visit his dying mother in Bay City Michigan despite family appeals and sheriff assurances. Superintendent Lt Col Richard Pratt and acting Superintendent Allen deny the request, saying rules forbid pupils from leaving to attend sick relatives. Sampson has behaved well, and public sympathy grows.
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Carlisle, Renn
Bay City
Mich
Henry Sampson
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
United States
Michigan
Carlisle
Richard H. Rratt
Sampson
Allen Staven
Allen
Moving eyes in a picture of Christ in Montreal
In Montreal a painting of the face of Christ is claimed to move its eyes. Mrs Pelletier reported the eyes moved while praying, drawing crowds. Police and clergy intervened to maintain order as Archbishop Bruscesi was to be consulted next.
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Montreal
Christ
Joseph Pelletier
Bruscesi Morrow
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