Train Wreck Wounds Thirty Five in Colorado Derailment
Pueblo reports an eastbound Santa Fe passenger train derailed at Apishapa creek after a bridge collapse. The Colorado-Chicago Klver, carrying eighteen eastern bankers, toppled from the rails at fifty miles an hour. Dozens injured include engineers firemen and passengers with bruises cuts shocks and possible fatalities feared.
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Pueblo
Colo
Santa Fe
Klver
California
Apishapa Creek
Denver
Train wreck at west bridge causes derailment and collapse
A derailment on a west bridge spans ninety feet as spikes were pulled from three rails. Engineer Walker escaped harm but was trapped briefly under his cab before crew and passengers freed him. The wreck halted near La Junta with minor injuries to passengers. An investigation found the spikes removed. motive unknown.
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Walker
la Junta
Attempt to wreck a switch engine in Denver
A dynamite placed under a tie exploded as a switch engine passed in the Colorado and Southern yard. The locomotive swayed but stayed on track and the crew escaped death by a narrow margin. In Anderson Indiana, the Union Window Glass Company refuses to sign the wage scale, prompting all Glass Workers’ Association members to quit work per President Phillips’s order.
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Denver
Colo
Det
Colorado and Southern
Anderson, Ind
Union Window Glass Company
Window Glass Workers’ Association
Phillips
Result of disobedience leads to boy and father injury
In New York on October 31 Edward Acton seven is dead after climbing a roof to fly a kite despite his father’s commands. The father was fatally injured in the incident and died hours later.
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New York
Edward Acton
Acton
Brooklyn
Edward
Father Dies Saving Son After Fall from Trench
A landman chased by aml fell about thirty feet along a cene and a father Acton leaped to aid his child. He landed ten feet beyond the boy and dragged himself to him. An ambulance took them to hospital where Edward died two hours later and the father, severely injured, is not expected to survive.
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Aml
Acton
Vlimost
Edward
Schools of Dishonesty at Phillips Academy Speech
Alfred B. Stearns principal of Phillips academy Andover warned at an educational conference that school and college athletics foster sly and underhand practices. He said college athletes are heroes to boys and coaches teach deceit and disobedience to scoring rules and to profanity to unsettle opponents.
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Chicago
Alfred B. Stearns
Phillips Academy
Andover
Mass
Stearns
What the Czar Said to Loubet
Paris reports the czar sent a letter to President Loubet, renewing affectionate sentiments and expressing satisfaction with recent French events. He sees these events as confirming general peace and urges continued mutual sympathy and aligned interests between France and Russia.
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Paris
Loubet
France
Russia
Fire Kills One and Leaves One Missing in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia on Oct 41 a large fire in a block bounded by the Schuylkill river Race Vine and Twenty-Third streets kills Charles Messmer 16 and leaves Harry McWilliams a roofer missing. Dozens are injured and property losses exceed 200000 including the flour mill W B Woodward & Sons at 218 North Twenty-Third and the adjacent Baltimore and Ohio grain elevator.
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Philadelphia
Schuylkil River
Race, Vine
Twenty-Third Streets
Charles Messmer
Harry McWilliams
Woodward & Sons
North
Twenty-Third Street
Baltimore and Ohlo
Woodward
Mrs Miller Dies in Gas Suicide on 52nd Birthday
Chicago report states Mrs William BR Miller, wife of a Dunkard pastor, ended her life by attaching a rubber tube from a lamp to a gas jet in her bed. Her husband cites melancholia as the reason for the act.
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Chicago
William BR. Miller
Dunkard
Clarke Reveals Campaign Expenditures for Senate Bid
Democratic candidate John H. Clarke discloses a detailed affidavit of campaign outlays in Cleveland. The document itemizes 4500 for state executive committee legible expenses, 346 for printing and engraving, 309 for traveling expenses, and 40 for sundry petty costs.
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Clarke
Cleveland
John H. Clarke
United States
State Executive Committee
Colorado Guard Commander's Court Martial Trial Update
Brigadier General John Chase of the National Guard of Colorado faces court martial on perjury charges. Officials say he will be exonerated on the perjury count, while disobedience and insubordination remain for trial.
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Denver
Colo
John Chase
National Guard of
Colorado
Mission board meeting plans set for Galesburg next year
Winona Minnesota report notes the woman's board of missions of the interior will meet in Galesburg Illinois next year. The convention pattern favors gatherings in or near Chicago as the central hub of the board's activities.
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Winona
Minn
Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior
Galesburg
Ill
Chicago
Governor Offers Reward in Thebes Lynching Case
Springfield Illinois October 31 Governor Yates offers a $200 reward on request of Alexander county officers for the arrest and conviction of those who participated in the lynching of William Johnson at Thebes last April.
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Springfield
Alexander County
Yates
William Johnson
Thebes
Fire devastates Urbana business district in Midwest blaze
A Friday afternoon blaze on Main Street in Urbana Indiana destroyed most of the town’s business section. The fire began in O A Tomlinson’s meat market and swept through F Joy’s meat market H A Smith photographer A F Kinney implement store M E Renner drug store a doctor’s office and the Bell Telephone company. Only the post office a drug store and a hardware store remained. Bucket brigades and town volunteers fought the flames but the buildings burned to the ground. Estimated loss around 20000 with only 1000 in coverage. The fire’s cause remains undetermined.
Miss Adama Wins $50000 Breach of Promise Verdict
Grand Rapids reports Henrietta Adama of Caseville wins a $50,000 judgment against Robert Stuart Baker in a sensational western Michigan breach of promise case. The trial featured hundreds of letters and salacious testimony showing a fraudulent marriage contract aimed at seduction.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Henrietta Adama
Caseville
Robert Stuart Baker
Western Michigan
Baker
Womman
Olivet College
Adama
Haker
Milk sickness claims a life near Washington
A peculiar disease once common fifty years ago milk sickness has reappeared several miles north of Washington Indiana. Miss Maude Gilliatt daughter of John Gilliatt died from the illness and four other family members are hospitalized with the fear of fatal outcomes.
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Washington
Ind
Maude Gilliatt
John Gilliatt
Weather forecast for Illinois Indiana Michigan and Wisconsin
The official forecast up to 8 pm details showers in Illinois and Indiana with fresh southerly winds. Lower Michigan faces threatening showers with fresh southerly winds. Wisconsin expects showers and cooler weather in the west with variable winds later.
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Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Market Quotations and Livestock Prices From Chicago and St Louis
Chicago Board of Trade quotes show wheat futures and corn and oats prices with October to May maturities. Live stock listings in Chicago and East Buffalo report hogs cattle and sheep prices and receipts, with St Louis grain showing softer wheat and firm corn alongside rye movements.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Bob
Texas
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
St.Louis Grain
St. Louis
Isic
Diss de Bar Pictures Fetch Modest Sums at New York Sale
Diss de Bar’s so called spirit pictures linked to Luther R Marsh fraud are on sale in New York. Competent judges call the Rembrandt attributed canvas a well toned but underpriced copy selling for 197.50 dollars. The artist allegedly duped buyers by chalk paste and wet sponge to give canvases a glowing color. She languishes in an English jail amid failed supernatural claims.
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New York
Diss de Bar
Luther R. Marsh
Rembrandt
Marsh
Gerome
van Dyk
London
Derricks Collapse Injures Four Men in Richmond
In Richmond on October 31 a derrick toppled over a working C and O railroad car injuring four men. G. M. Putnam is believed fatally hurt, with W. P. Crawley J. A. Skinner and F. Crouch also injured.
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Richmond
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
G. M. Putnam
W. P. Crawley
J. A. Skinner
F. Crouch
Carnegie Steel Prices Shake German Trade Wars
British and German steel circles react to Carnegie's price cuts 75 cents to $1.25 below German export price on 100,000 tons of steel bar and rail deals with Graz Britain and Japan. Carnegie denies violations of New York agreement while predicting healthier markets after the US Steel response.
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London
Huntieh
Carnegie Company
Graz
Britain
Japan
Yokohama
New York
United States Corporation
Carnegie
American Trust
Chamberlain
Second Conviction Jury Out Twelve Minutes in Extortion Case
Samuel J Parks a walklog delegate of Llouse smither and Weidgemen's union No. 2 was found guilty of extortion after a twelve minute jury deliberation. He allegedly took 500 from Tiffany Studios to influence work on city contracts during a strike and later aided nonunion hiring. Parks faces sentencing next week while appealing the earlier Sing Sing sentence.
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New York
Samuel J Parks
Llousesmither and
Weidgemen's Union No. 2
Oate
Parks
Tiffany Studios
Wonder
Howsesmiths
Bridgemen
Tiffany
Tie
Parka
Newburger
James W. Osborne
Barks
Distriet
Rand
Parks Io
Liie
Sing Sing
Outlook 18 Encouraging on Continuance of Prosperity
The Weekly Review of Trade reports industrial activity rising with plants resuming and wage employment growing while labor disputes cause some strikes and closures. Copper struggles and textile setbacks appear, but the overall tone remains positive, especially where farming dominates. cotton goods market improves as nationwide failures fall from last year.
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New York
A. Tun & Co
Hiang
United States
Canada
Washington minister Powell reports disturbed conditions in Santo Domingo
A cablegram from United States Minister Powell at San Domingo states the republic is greatly disturbed as insurgents control the telegraph lines. The State Department consoles Powell by sending written instructions via the Baltimore and navy to guide him through the revolution, affecting communications with Venezuela.
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Washington
Get
State Department
United States
Powell
San Domingo
Republic
Venezuela
Navy Department
Baltimore
Hampton Roads
More Than They Looked For In Des Moines
Des Moines reports a missing body discovery after a suicide at Walnut Street Bridge. A second corpse, badly decomposed, is unidentified and may be a wealthy stockman named Jones. Separate items note yacht designer Watson seeking bids for a racing schooner Haste and Macedonian relief talks with U.S. officials. Agriculture estimates total 6,000,880 dollars plus 720,000 for experiment stations.
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Des Moines
Lilly Cole
Walnut Street
Renaina
Jones
London
George L. Watson
William
Thomas Lipton
Edward
Rioting in Paris Injures Hundreds at Labor Exchange
Summary of unrest in Paris reports 45 gendarmes wounded and 100 rioters injured around the labor exchange. Other notes mention Mary MacLane passing through Chicago to Boston, and prominent figures like George T. Tongland and Mrs. Booth in various contexts.
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Mary MacLane
Chicago
Boston
Denver
Labor Exchange
Paris
George T. Tongland
St. Joseph
Millard Lee
Atlanta
Lila May Suttles
Booth. Tucker
Salvation Army
Nogland
Hungarian Diet President Resigns Amid Political Tension
Count Apponyi has tendered his resignation as president of the lower house of the Hungarian diet. The king of Greece has been appointed an honorary admiral of the British fleet. The Hungarian government has officially decided to participate in the St Louis exposition. Schrader of Richmond Indiana was arrested in Chicago for attempting to pass a forged thirty five hundred dollar check. Lawson defies Heinze and offers twenty five thousand dollars to persuade Heinze to visit Boston and repeat an adverse statement. Professor Mommsen, German historian, is dying of apoplexy at sixty five. The US steamer Anderson, in an arbitration ruling, was fined two hundred fifty dollars for union labor refusal and discharging an order against unloading. John R. Haughton, South Bend high school student, dies from blood poisoning after football injury.
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Count Apponyl
Greece
I. R. Schrader
Richmond
Ind
Chicago
Thomas W. Lawson
EF. A. Heinze
Montana
Butte Miners’ Union
Heinze
Boston
Lawson
Mommsen
South Bend, Ind
John R. Haughton
South Bend
Williamson rolls perfect 300 in local bowling contest
South Bend Indiana October 31 B B Williamson a member of a local bowling team bowled a perfect game with twelve strikes and a score of 300 in a regular contest.
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South Bend
Ind
B. B. Williamson
Parry Elected President of Citizens Industrial Association
David M. Parry is elected unanimously president of the new Employers' Association the Citizens' Industrial Association. Pierpont Morgan is reported in Chicago attempting to resolve traction difficulties. Francis Schlatter, known as The Healer who drew attention to Denver eight years ago, has begun a walk from Chicago to Denver.
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David M. Parry
New Employers’ Association
Citizens’ Industrial Association
Pierpont Morgan
Chicago
Francis Schlatter
Denver
Wasp Attack Tactics Explored in Naturalist’s Nicaragua Study
Belt’s Naturalist Inc Nicaragua examines wasp attack methods. One species crawls hair to reach skin before stinging, another flies directly at the face. The shift from hair to face as the vulnerable target is attributed to brain-driven discovery.
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Belt
Naturalist Inc
Nicaragua
Could Lift a Ton and a Halt
A Scottish man called Jimmy Strength, claimed to be the last of the Stuarts, possessed extraordinary strength. He could carry a 24 pounder cannon and lift a ton and a half of hay on his back, and he reportedly walked a jackass on his shoulders through a tollgate.
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Jemmy
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