Tragic West Virginia and Iowa Train Wrecks Claim Five Killed
A pair of accidents toll five lives in Iowa near Albia and West Virginia near Piedmont. In Iowa a Burlington train crashed on Cedar creek bridge, five died and ten injured. Earlier a Milwaukee St Paul collision near Adel killed three, with several injured and a reported miscommunication at Clive. In Piedmont four engineers and crew died on a Baltimore and Ohio freight derailment on a steep grade, with several more injured.
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Lowa
Cragh
Albia
Burlington and Quincy
Cedar Creek
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Adel
William E. Mitchen
Mildred Mitchen
Mitchen
Thomas Heaty
Ottumwa
Franklin
Frank Finnicum
Walter Ward
Oscar D.lbyer
B. W. Sleater
Clive
Finnicum
Waukee
Piedmont
W. Va
Baltimore and Ohio
Ernest Ervin
Cumberland
Emery Ervin
Tunnelston
Walter Nine
Terra Alta
J. V. Carter
North Carolina
John Hays
Staunton
Michael J. Gibbon
E. C. Buckler
B. F. Bolinger
Grafton
Water deal scandal cases rise in Grand Rapids court
Twenty cases tied to the Lake Michigan water boodle scandal were called in the December term of the Superior Court in Grand Rapids Michigan. Salsbury awaits sentence on a bribe conviction with the term postponed to the next session to permit him to testify in new cases.
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Mich
Dee H
Lake Michigan
Superior Court
Crown
Newnham
Lant K. Salsbury
Supreme Court
Salsbury
Ward
Malachi Kinney
Grave of Bill Nye Seeks Granite Monument at Arden
Asheville North Carolina December 15 The grave of Bill Nye the famous humorist who died nearly eight years ago and was buried at Arden near here is unmarked. A movement is under way to raise funds through the Sunshine Society to place a granite monument at his resting place and dedicate a memorial window.
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Nye
Banks
J. M. Ransier
The
Sunshine Society
Hendersonville
N. C
Memorial Enterprise
Friends of Nye
Battery Park Bank
Asheville
Kill Nye
Arden
North Caigolina Division
Sunshine Soil
Mason City
Martin Wescott
George Lougs
Hanlontown
Westcott
Lougs
Northwood
Muscoda
Wis
Robbery at Baxter Springs Surprises Cherokee Sheriff
In Galena Kansas December sheriff Charles Rain of Cherokee county was held up in the Baxter Springs depot by Clarence Cunningham an escaped Columbia jail prisoner. Rain ordered surrender but a companion drew a revolver and the sheriff yielded his watch revolver and money. The pair then robbed the station agent and stole a team of horses and a buggy before fleeing.
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Galena
Kan
Charles Rain
Cherokee County
Baxter Springs
Clarence Cunningham
Columbia
Cunningham
Rain
Wage Cut Hits 6000 Workers in Boston Industry
Boston on December 15 reports a 10 percent wage reduction affecting about 6,000 operatives across a major local industry. The move comes amid ongoing economic strain and production adjustments.
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Boston
Mass
Confession Under Strange Commission Test Breaks Ennis
Pleading of her sister is cited as Ennis confesses after a commission of chemists conducted an experiment in prison. Convicted man showed mental collapse and alarming physical condition, tottering on toes with knees outward before anesthesia at the operating table.
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Ennis
Mills adopt lower pay schedules in New England region
The cotton mills at Adams and North Adams Massachusetts and Norwich Connecticut join a regional move to a reduced pay scale, following Fall River mills in November. About 88 000 workers have had pay cut across southern New England and nearby towns. Baltimore police report arrest in Joliet of Otto Berger, alias Heisting, accused of stealing 4000 dollars from the Baltimore Musical Union in 1891.
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North Adams
Mass
Norwich
Conn
New England
Massachusetts
Fall River
Baltimore
Joliet, NL
Otto Berger
Baltimore Musical Union
Berger
Joliet Theater
Self-inflicted gunshot ends Linn Grove bank cashier
Siouix City dispatch reports Harry Maine cashier of the Farmers and Merchants bank Linn Grove Ia shot himself through the heart. The private bank with 100000 in deposits is closed by control of the First National bank Storm Lake. Also at McAllister Wis a gasoline lamp explosion leaves Charles Donaldson Gus Swanson and Ole Erickson badly burned with two feared dead.
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Sioux City, al
Harry Maine
Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank of Linn
McAllister
Wis
Charles Donaldson
Gus Swanson
Ole Erickson
Herbert Spencer Remains Cremated in Hampstead
Herbert Spencer's remains were cremated at Hampstead in London on December 15, with the proceedings conducted amid public and press attention about the noted philosopher's death and legacy.
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Herbert Spencer
London
Hampstead
Ennis Executed for Wife’s Murder in Sing Sing
Former Brooklyn policeman William H. Ennis was put to death in Sing Sing prison for the murder of his wife. He received two electric shocks after a Jan 14, 1902 shooting at his mother-in-law’s Canarsie home. The narrative ends with the fatal attack on his wife.
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New York
William H. Ennis
Brooklyn
Sing Sing
Notorious Patient Declares Faked Madness Enduring Seventy-Eight Weeks
The account describes Ennis theatrically exposing his feigned madness and then acknowledging the ruse before doctors and bystanders. He claims he has suffered while pretending insanity for seventy eight weeks, saying he is glad to be caught.
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Ness
Ennis
Murder Premeditated in Rising Sun and Hospital Murder
A shared report claims Miss Elizabeth Gillespie was murdered with premeditation. Witnesses say two men were overheard plotting nearby the day before the crime. Myron Barbour will testify before the grand jury with a shell purchase record. some shells were given to James Gillespie. Miss Gillespie's funeral filled the church amid absences from James Gillespie, Mrs. Belle Seward, and the Barbours. In Wisconsin, Superintendent Willam Mayme of the insane asylum was killed by patient Thomas Fox with a poker.
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Grand Jury
Elizabeth Gillespie
Myron Barbour
The
National Bank
James Gillespie
Miss Gillespie
Belle Seward
Lancaster
Wis
Willam Mayme
Thomas Fox
Fox
Dismissal Urged in Suit Against Revenue Lieutenant
Mrs. Fanny Fohs of New York seeks 10000 damages for breach of promise against Lieutenant Oscar C. Haines of the revenue service. Her attorney plans to ask the secretary of the treasury to dismiss Haines from the government. She alleges he professed love in San Francisco last December and failed to wed after she funded wedding garments and travel, while he kept her as his fiancée at times and rode her funds.
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Tacoma
Wash
Fanny Fohs
New York
Oscar C. Haines
the Revenue Service
Haines
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