Gas Explosion Traps Seventeen in Coal Mine Disaster
In Northfork West Virginia a gas and powder explosion at the Algoma Coal and Coke mine trapped seventeen miners, nine by the blast and ash. Rescue efforts wilted as gas thickened and aircut off. by evening eleven bodies recovered with six more located. All but one of the recovered men were African American.
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Northfork
W. Va
Algoma Coal and Coke Company
James Lester
John Recekle
HH. F. Frankerfield
George Gaepie
Saturn
A. J. Stuart
Cooper
Lester
Sixteen Die in the Pires Along the Lewis River in Washington
Sixteen people died in the Lewis River forest fire in Washington state. The latest reports describe the fire nearly exhausted with relief parties surveying the devastated area. Names of victims include Al Teed and Son, W FE Newhouse, Mrs Graves, John Polly and family, and a Polly brother.
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Pires
Lewis River
Washington
Kalama
Wash
al Teed
W. FE. Newhouse
Graves
John Polly
Polly
L. Wallace
Trout Lake
Cowlitz
Portland
Ore
Multnomah
Clackamas
Final Praest concert band tournament on grounds Sunday
Four thousand people attended the final tournament of the Praest concert band on Sunday. Nineteen bands competed including entries from Washington Indiana Decatur Indiana Arthur Minnesota and Richmond Indiana. Richmond report notes a Methodist state hospital and deaconess home project with 840000 subscribed and 100000 more needed by January 1 to reach a 2000000 goal.
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Praest
Washington, Ind
Goodman Bend
Decatur
Tie
Arther Merchants
Arthur
Men
Peckturg Brigade
Ind
Greenenstre Lm
Bend
Richmond
Methodist
Strike murder at Omaha ends in street killing
Non-Upten Man from Chicago Fort Caldwell was beaten to death by six assailants during a late night street assault in Omaha as strike tensions flared. He and others had come to the city to work in shops amid the Union Pacific strike. Caldwell died after being found unconscious.
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Chicago
Omaha
Union Pacific
Fort Caldwell
Cawell
Caldwell
Markets Report Mixed Prices Across Hogs Cattle and Sheep
Chicago markets show receipts and varied quotations for hogs cattle and sheep with bulk trading near 7.50 to 8.25 for choice steers and mixed lots around 5.80 seen. Additional price ranges appear for hogs cattle and veal calves across multiple districts including St Louis Milwaukee and Toledo with wheat corn oats and rye futures noted.
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Chicago
Cattie
Buffalo
Dunning & Stevens
Ey Oeson Mission
East Buffalo
Yorke
Lng Bei
Roosevelt Repudiates Vatican Cardinal Rumor
Wisconsin Methodist conference in Milwaukee demanded President Roosevelt deny reports he asked Rome to make Archbishop Treland a cardinal. The body urged a clear denial and urged Congress to pass laws enabling seizure of coal mines and railroads to avert future strikes.
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Milwaukee
Roosevelt
Wisconsin Methodist Conference
Vatican
Rome
Treland
United States
Congress
Becomes an Indian's Wife
A white girl Nellie M Brown has married Pred Medicine Crow, an Indian on a Dakota reservation, following the example of Cora Nelle Fellows in Sienkx City. The couple, reportedly well-connected in Washington society, wed by Justice N A Keeler near the reservation border.
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Sienkx City
Cora Nelle Fellows
Washington Society
Chaska
Nellie M. Brown
Crow Creek Agency
Medicine Crow
Washington
National Capital
Thia White
Justice N. A. Keeler
Gann Valley
Ex Justice Gray Dies of Paralysis at Nahant
The former U S Supreme Court justice Thrace Gray died at his Nahant home after a paralysis that began in February. Born March 24 1828 in Toston he studied at Harvard and joined the Massachusetts bench in 1864 and the national court in 188? He was 97. Unseasonably cold weather reports reach Kentucky Tennessee Mississippi with frost. Heirs to Mrs Charles Fair estate amount to 185000. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters meets in Atlanta. the National Prison Association convenes in Philadelphia.
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Gray
Nahant
Lynn
Mass
Thrace Gray
United States Supreme Bench
Nahannt
Toston
Harvard Law School
Massachusetts Supreme Bench
Arthur
lSst
Kentucky
West
Tennessee
Mississippi
Charles Fair
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
Atlanta
National Prison Association
Philadelphia
President Roosevelt Receives Thousands at Sagamore Hill
President Roosevelt greeted 6000 to 7000 people at Sagamore Hill New York on Sept 10 as old acquaintances from New York and Nasenu county passed before him. He enjoyed the event declaring a trolley car and crowd cannot wear him out. The day featured patriotic decorations and security by 400 deputies and Secret Service agents with cameras banned past the porch.
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Oyster Tay
N.Y
Roosevelt
Nasenu County
Sagamore Hill
United States
Sagamore
Johnson
Secret Service
New York
William Roosevelt
Christine Roosevelt
Lorraine Roosevelt
EB. Reed Merritt
Frank Bk. Travis
Loeb
Father Powers
Henry Homer Washburn
Maggie
Bridget Mitchell
Garry Owen
Brooklyn
Long Island
County schools offer fruit and flower prizes for projects
In Thoomington on September city initiative encourages study with prizes of two pear and one peach tree for top horticulture essays. Normal County schools adopted the program last year and now extend to all county schools with two brewing firms supplying prizes. Winners will show yards and school participates in a planned program with cut flower displays as additional prizes. The exhibition and prize reading will occur at the Hillnels Central Teachers association meeting next March.
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Thoomington
Mie
Melon County
Normal
McLean County
Hillnels Central Teachers’ Association
What Can A Poor Girl Do If She Refuses ToMarry
A young woman Anna Villana employed as a domestic near Stanton Nebraska was abducted Saturday night by Lawrence Welch who threatened to kill her and the Barnes girl if they resisted He forced her to accompany him but she escaped Sunday noon and sought refuge with her brother Welch warned that a posse would never capture him He displayed weapons and ammunition and boasted of Randit Tracy’s danger.
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Stanton
Anna Villana
Dernes
Lawrer Welch
Welch
Mies Villana
Barnes
Weleh
Randit Tracy
CABLE LAYING PROGRESS IN THE PACIFIC DESCRIBED
Government officials study a projected Pacific cable linking the continent with the Philippines and Hawaii. Deep sea surveys near Midway and Guam reveal level plains ideal for cable routes, with English manufactured gear and Philadelphia rubber coverings.
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Washington, Sept
War and Navy Departments
Pacific
Philippines
Hawaii
Miles Dean Mere
Hodges
Nero
Planetata
Gnom
Honolulu
Midway
Midway Ielands
Guam
Oceanteland
Cnet
Eagland
Philadelphia
United States
Steamer Gordon Narrowly Sinks After Flooded Hold
The KR Gordon from South Maven returned to St Joseph Michigan with a peach cargo for Chicago. A leaking shaft stuffing box caused rapid flooding as Captain Charles Spooner raced to Graham and Morton dock. Pumps failed to stem the water, last minute risk saved the vessel from sinking while crews loaded peaches and attended hull repairs. A frost in Dubuque Iowa destroyed lowland corn Friday night.
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St. Joseph
Mich
KR. J. Gordon
South Maven
Charles Spooner
Graham & Morton
Gordon
Chicago
Spooner
St. Joe's Barhbor Hight
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