History of a Week: Crimes and Criminates Across the Nation
A digest of crimes accidents fires and oddities from across the United States. Reports include Father Santiago Paya on Philippines affairs and Taft Vatican negotiations, a drowning tragedy at Portsmouth where fourteen waiter and waitress victims perished, Hobson rescuing a drowning woman in the Mississippi, a Cincinnati mansion fire killing Mrs Castello, a mob burned at stake in Missouri, a fatal boiler explosion on the Clover Leaf, two men killed near Valparaiso, a Quebec tug captain facing trial, and a Bremen Indiana discovery of counterfeit gear.
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Father Santiago Paya
Philippines
Associated Press
Taft
Vatican
Cardinal Rampolla
Manila
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Father Paya
Spain
Clover Leaf
Continental
Charles Mathers
Smith
Ladd
Long Beach
L. 1
Jones’ Inlet
Acara
Freeport
L.t
J. Edwards
Short Beach
Train Robbery and Highwaymen Strike Colorado
Bandits stopped an eastbound train near Mill Switch on Marshall Pass Colorado and forced travelers to surrender valuables. Earlier the Denver and Rio Grande westbound train was halted and its express car dynamited open, with two safes blown and robbed. The plunder filled two gunny sacks, with a high value. Separately, James Conover of Mason Ohio murdered his wife with a club and attacked his son with an ax, pursuing him until the son escaped. Conover, deemed insane, was jailed after the act.
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Mill Switch
Chester
Marshall Pass
Gunnison
Lake City
Ouray
Telluride
Brains Wife
James Conover
Mason
Ohio
Conover
Duston Neglum
Memory Returns For Barker In Texas After May Departure
Miss Ada Barker, taken to the state insane asylum at Terrell, Texas, recalls leaving New York in May for the Galveston carnival. Mind blanked upon arrival, she regained awareness recently and wrote to relatives. Physicians label it double consciousness or recurrent dementia.
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Miss Barker
Terrell
Texas
Ada Barker
Les
el Paso
New York
Galveston
Emma King Death and New Mexico Lumber Deal
Emma H. King died at a farmhouse near Lake Hopatcong after taking arsenic, with doctors attributing a self administered poisoning to a failed inoculation for tuberculosis by Dr. G D Barney. A separate report notes an $8,000,000 African Lumber Company deal to manage a 300,000 acre land grant in New Mexico, with prominent lumber figures as stockholders and directors.
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New Mexico
Chicago Capital
Missouri Trust Company
St. Louis
B. L. Lobdell & Co
Chicago
African Lumber Company
American Lumber Company
Gimber Iand
A. ‘I Rhys
Lansing
Mich
A. St. Chapman
Gorge Harding
B. E. Cropin
Chi- Booth
Ann Arbor
W. Sawyer
East Wrangs
Bla. Roethesbisberger
Runaway trolley car ruins busy New York square
A large trolley car wrecked after losing its brake sped down a steep hill toward West Farms square Lief Mont Avenue. The car leaped tracks at the bottom, striking telegraph poles and throwing passengers into a tangled wreck. Police struggled to identify the seventy five injured riders.
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Union Railway Company
New York
West Farms Square
Lre- Mont Avenue
Coal Miners Meet In Indianapolis For General Strike Vote
The United Mine Workers national convention opened in Torturzon Hall Indianapolis with delegates and proxies present. President Mitchell and Secretary Wilson spoke as credentials were read, with debate over a possible general strike and aid from other unions to be decided by the convention.
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Torturzon Hall
Indianapolis
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Mitchell
Wilson
Committee On
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Michael McTag- Bart
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Where the coal miners are to be found
The article outlines coal miners across the United States, noting about 406,873 caul miners with roughly 400,000 in the United Mine Workers of America. It lists states with strong unions, including Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and others, and cites existing contracts effective until April 1, 1903. It also notes unorganized groups in California, Georgia, North Carolina, North Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming and the potential impact of a general strike on production. It mentions distribution by state and region, plus the concentration of union strength in the Indiana Territory and related areas.
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United Mine Workers of America
Indianapolis
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Illinois
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
Alabama
Kansan
Mixconet
Tennessee
Colorado
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Virginia
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Iowa
Arkoupne
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Montana
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Georgia
North Carolina
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Utah
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United Mine Workers’ Convention
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Fis
United Mine Workers
Che Cudinna
Hie
Winda
Gmner
Atlantic
Labor strike tests unity of United Mine Workers
The United Mine Workers convention debates backing allied unions and financial aid for striking anthracite miners. Pennsylvania and West Virginia districts weigh in while Michigan operators seek to limit a general strike. Most districts show wage discontent and possible stoppages threaten factories and mills across sectors. The storm and hail season devastates wheat crops, with widespread damage and uncertain total losses likely in the hundreds of thousands.
Miss Emma King Dies After Inoculation Experiment
Miss Emma I King died in Shippenport New Jersey Sunday night from poison self administered in a mysterious case. She came to Shippenport Friday a mental and physical wreck and relied on cigarettes to calm her. The box of medicine contained a dose poisoned with arsenic and a bystander warned there was arsenic in the medicine. Dr G D Barney of Brooklyn conducted the 1900s inoculation experiment with bovine tuberculosis bacilli to test Koch theory. He claimed she was fully cured of consumption when last seen alive. Police opened an investigation into the deaths and circumstances.
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Emma H. King
G. D. Barney
Brooklyn
Alfred Shuman
Lake Hopatcong
Dover
N. J
Miss King
George D. Barney
Emma I. King
G.D. Barney
Shippenport
Barney
Mise King
Prof
Koch
Benigs
Seasonal baseball and sport notes from 1900s era competition
Warner slips to No 20 AL hitters while Bradley leads in home runs and Keister tops triples. Lave Grogs shines in doubles. Amateur Adam B Guan of Buffalo proves unmatched. George Davis retires 38 games without a strikeout before Gy Young forces him to swing. Ban Johnson praised for combatting rowdism in the American League. St Louis papers claim Allan Wagner may join the Americans in St Louis next season. New York ball team boasts college men including Mathewson Lauder Sparks Clarke Hendricks Waadburn and Blewett. Kramer dominates sprint field and Buffaloed rivals fear him. San Francisco claims the Gans McFadden fight was a sham or gross imposition. The great trotters Boralma Abbot and Lord Derby in top form ahead of matches worth over 80000
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St. Louis
Alans Wagner
Pittsburg
St. Luis
New York
Mathewson
Lauder
Sparks
Clarke
Hendricks
Waadbur
Georgetown University
Blewett
Kramer
San Francisco
Thomas Lawyon
Boralma
Tohn J. Scannell
the Abbot
B. B. Smathers
Lord Derby
Strikers End Chicago Freight Handlers Walkout
The Chicago freight handlers ended their strike at noon Wednesday after a mass meeting backed a return to work and attempts to gain reinstatement. President Curran assailed Teamsters President Young while noting some union officers bore responsibility for the failure. The State board of arbitration urged members to return immediately to work to preserve future settlement prospects.
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Chicago
Curran
Young
Teamsters’ Union
Teamsters
State Board of Arbitration Belt
Job
State Board
State Board of Arbitration
Chicago Board of Arbitration
Mora
Corn Deal Closes After July Option Plunge
In Chicago, Gates & Co settle with Harris Gates & Co for millions of bushels. News of the deal sent corn prices tumbling from 80 cents to 64 cents amid panic on the board. Reported profit for Gates reaches 3,750,000 on the deal while market players face losses as contracts adjust to the new price.
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Chicago
Harris, Gates & Co
Gates
Ios
Samuel Scotten
Fragmented newspaper notes on prices, politics and crime
Fragmentary text mocks rising food prices and a mayoral fasting fad while mentioning Chicago steamer travel, wienerwurst imports to Austria, Aguinaldo elocution, and Jeanie Morrison's murder sentence with calls for more trials amid a stream of dated social commentary.
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Jonese
Alrike
Chicago
Austria
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