Seven Miners Dead in West Virginia Mine Disaster
Special to The Washington Post reports a Thurmond Cokley Stewart mine explosion near Thurmond West Virginia, likely caused by blasting or dust ignition. About 70 known dead, with as many as 200 workers present at the time. Names of dozens of identified victims and many unrecorded workers listed. rescue efforts underway as families mourn. The Stewart mine employed around 200 men, part of the Chesapeake and Ohio system, located four miles from Fayetteville. The accident occurred just before quitting time, with mass casualties among white, Black, and foreign miners.
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Weehington
Charleston
W. Va
Stewart
Stewart Culliery Company
Thurmond
Culburn
Bank Bows
Bromner
John O
Charles Johnson
Walteis Clake
Vesry Lester Frank Loving
Jonn Morris
Jon Tows
John Atrenson
Leh Stagos
Thomas Tory Midmas Williams
Otto Clendeving
Wivneh
Norma
Joan Schnidt
Williams Massey
Richard Lef Ropert
Uctytyre
Petra Itt
Orcf
Lewir Wamrs
Bradley End Danke Geary Bavrs
Hale Jones
Tom
Auch
Fred
Wiesteware
Sewall
White Oak Fos
Chesapeake and Gbry
Cardale
Fayetteville
Ffp Dixon
Mike
Bolmires
Tolstoi Wot Very Ill In Moscow Report
Interviewed son of Tolstoi refutes dangerous illness rumors stating the author had influenza last December but was recovering by Christmas Heald bronchial trouble noted as mild and not dangerous also mentions Old Japan art sale at Stonnsn 147 G at today 11 am to 3 pm with auctions tomorrow and catalogues available.
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Moscow
Tolsto
Japan
Nomura
Stonn'n
Missing Lake View merchant and daughter feared dead or missing
Chicago tale reports William Wieboldt, 62, and his daughter Martha, 24, vanished from their Lake View furniture store after a fire, suspected arson. A letter from Wieboldt to his sister hinted at self harm, while looming financial troubles and the ongoing police search heighten the mystery after more than thirty six hours away from relatives.
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Chicago
Lake Tier
Wiliam
Food Expert Warns Oysters Should Not Ship Bulk Dead and Dangerous
Dr Haney W Wiley chief of the Agriculture Chemistry Bureau testifies before the Hovae Committee on Agriculture. He reports two cold storage warehouses in Washington and details deterioration of meats and seafood in storage. He condemns bulk oysters and gelatin made from hide scraps, urging oysters be shipped alive in the shell and warning frozen oysters ruin flavor.
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Haney W. Wiley
Chemistry Bureau
Department of Agriculture
Pire
Hovae Committee On Agriculture
Wiley "Esge
Wiley Sald
Wiley
Hasklis
Dr Wiley
Oyysters
Weley
Thai Marine Hospital Service
Stevens on Canal Partnership Formed for Panama Canal
Oliver to head work from Washington while Stevens directs from New York. Oliver, Knoxville financier and president of the Commercial National Bank, says a syndicate with Stevens will secure government approval. Both establish permanent headquarters in the bank building as talks with Stewart & Co advance for a canal contract.
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Eom
Alzesiy
Frederick
Stevens
Firma
Commercial National Bank
New York
William J Oliver
Knoxville
Tenn
Praderick
Conqueroral National Bank of
Weshington
Public Works
Panama Canal
Olver
Bir Stevens
Oliver
Roosevelt
Beevens
Washington
White Horse
Inthiati
Bfr_ Oliver
Mr. Stevens
A M. Stewart
New York City
Grin
Jr. &. Stewart & Co
Stewart & Co
Outsider Chairman Promises Erie Canal Reform Work
The joint Senate and staff committee, chaired by Charles Hughes, investigated the gas and electric operations in New York City. His appointment as superintendent of public works surprised Republican leaders, marking a major shift as he prepares to oversee the Erie Canal reconstruction.
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Gas and Electric Westing Companies
New York City
Paii
Charles RB. Hughes
Suverior of
New York
West
Gov. Hughes
Reputean
Chorus Girl Nursed Him at Chicago Club Sparks Expulsion
Thomas Ray Finucane faces expulsion from the Chicago Athletic Association after a chorus girl Florence Averell visited his Michigan Avenue club house during his illness. Finucane, a charter member with stock in the club, resists resignation amid an investigation into breach of club rules and personal conduct.
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Washington Com
Chicago
Chicago Athletic Association
Thomas Ray Fiaucane
Florence Averell
Richard Carle
Michigan Avenue
Rochester
Finucane
Board of Managers
Tha
Frucane
Miss Averell
Indian maid dances at quiet hall detentions
Dusta Mara, Cherokee, described as Indian maid, is prisoner after police interrupted a private soirée on Woodward. Patrolmen broke in as she danced a Cherokee war dance in brick red attire amid a delegation of business men from over the Rhine. Two men from Hamilton and Ontario were taken to police head-men.
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Sparlatto Thawashington Fos
Cincinnati
Ohio
Tan
Dusta Mara
Woodward Atmet
Duara Mara
McCebe
Hughes
John
McDeniela
Hamilton
James Hunley
Trunk Thief in Custody Drives Police to More Loot
Special to The Washington Post New York January arrest of Harry Murray, alias many names, uncovered jewelry and clothes worth trunks belonging to Ogden Mills Reid and Tranor J Penn. Murray implicated four accomplices, including a reformatory repeat offender named Wagner. Detectives traced the haul from Reid and Park trunks, led to warrants, and remanded prisoners to Tombs and Police HQ as they search for more stolen goods.
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New York
Harry Murray
Central Office
Murray
Ogden Mills Reid
Ambassador Whitelaw Held
Tranor J. Penn
Catlin & Co
Insidor Bme LaughUn
Expressman
Louid Wagner
Elmira
Reformatory
Pollce
Wanter
Reid
Prisoner Slows Escape After Police Van Overturns
A Providence police van overturns trapping nine prisoners. Eight escape through a smashed door while one, Harry Gordon, helps a wounded officer, lifting the wagon off Patrolman Thomas Wolfs and remaining to assist until aid arrived. The driver aided, with officers from Providence, Washington, and New York noted in the incident.
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Providence
R. L
Ede
Harry Gordon
Thomas Wolfs
Fifi
Taranders
Gordon
Wolfe
Seventy-Two Bodies Still In Mine At St Johann
A dispatch from Bestbruecken says seventy two bodies remain underground in the St Johann mine near Frankford on the Main. Only twenty four have been identified. Flames rage as search is halted. many victims lie in mutilated condition and witnesses, including distraught spouses, await word. The explosion’s cause remains a mystery as Swiss and French reporters arrive. Berlin reports indicate Prussian appropriation committees took no action to aid widows and orphans.
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Frankford-on-the-Main
Zeiteng
Bestbruecken
St. Johann
Saarhmecken
Rermeits
Pasalbie
Berlin
St. Johann Mine
Fire Ravages Baldwin Locomotive Plant in Philadelphia
A spectacular blaze at the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia destroys a five story section on Spring Garden Street, causing an estimated loss of $1,000,000. About 1,000 workers were evacuated safely as fire crews contained the flames within an hour. The plant, a major U S maker with thousands employed, will shift displaced workers to other departments while insurance covers the loss.
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Philadelphia
Etre Wieeks
Peint
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Spring Garden Street
Broad and
Spring Garden Streets
Fifteenth Street
String Garden
Freman
Fremen
Hie
Muraresse
United States
Thin City
Meaely
Lewistown
John H Converse
Burnham, Willan & Co
Baldwin
Ans
Bullauig
Spreckels on the Stand Tells of Coquille Railroad Sale
At a Jan hearing before Interstate Commerce Commissioner Lane in San Francisco John D. Spreckels, president of Oceanic Steamship, testified the Coquille River road was sold to Harriman interests via agent James G. Smith of Western Fuel. He said the railroad operation was profitable, but the overall deal caused losses due to unprofitable steamers.
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Coquille
San Francisco
Interstate Commerce
Lane
H Harriman
The
Pacific
John D Sprockets
Oceanic Steamship Company
Coquille River Road
Harriman
James G. Smith
Western Fuel Company
Spreckels
Joss
Lovett
Southern Pacific
Freght
Commissioner Lane
Santeem Packie
Beyond I
Sarthe Pacific
Spreackel
Longfellow heroine Dead in Chicago Widow of Commodore Decatur
Mrs Decatur daughter of Longfellow’s Village Blacksmith dies in poverty in Chicago after leaving Halifax and an artisan past as theater curtain designer. Husband a chemist in a large firm died in 124 leaving widow to be cared for by the county. Francis Henley, her father, was a Portland blacksmith and friend of Henry W. Longfellow. Mrs Decatur was 63. Spelish meeting note on organizing a Belgian Antarctic expedition also recorded.
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Bpeelal le
Washlagoon
Chicagid
Mattle & Decatur
Longfallow
Commodore Stephen Decatur
Mre Decatur
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Art Institute
Chicago
Decatur
Francis O. Henley
Henry W. Longfellow
Igner
Portland
Henley
French bishops back plan to lease churches to parish priests
Paris Jan 23 Briand rejects bishops plan approved by the Pope to lease church buildings in perpetuity to parish priests without rent as a solution to the church state conflict. He notes the ultimatum tone while Vatican seeks a modus vivendi despite separation laws. The chamber adjourns as debates continue. In Rome the Holy See approves the plan but does not retract its encyclical stance.
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Sperkel Cobl Diupatch
Washington
Paris
Briand
Chamber of Deputies
Neve
Biland
Vatican
M. Briand
France
Fear It Is Filibusterer On A World Cruise Plot
Special to The Weaklegitn Poot New York reports Ralph Brandreth plans a six year world voyage aboard the yawl Taormina. Secret Service doubts the peaceful nature of the mission, with Captain Thomas T Lovelace once linked to South American revolutions. A customs check demanded an affidavit ruling out filibustering, while Lovelace boasted they would find little ammunition, not as much as Roosevelt carries.
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New York
Jane
Ralph Brandreth
Yawl Taormina
Secret Service
Thomas T Lovelace
Bemself
Panama Navy
Repubic
Colamia
Morse Iron Works
South Brooklyn
Government Revenue
Custom House
Lovelace
Brandeth
Roosevelt
Gould and Harriman Pact Ends Rail War Ties
Washington Post reports that Janes F. Herriman and George J. Gould have buried the hatchet and signed a peace agreement ending the clash over eastern ports and Pacific routes. The deal would grant trackage rights and a community of interest linking Western Pacific Southern Pacific Wabash Cumberland Tidewater Western Maryland Pittsburg and Lake Erie and Baltimore and Ohio, removing the need for further Gould construction and easing railroad bond concerns.
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The
Washington Post
New York
Janes F. H Herriman
George J. Gould
Goull
Harriman
Cumberland Tidewater
Maryland
Pittsburg
Lake Erie
Baltimore and
Orio
Wall Street
London and Jamaica apology eases diplomatic tiff
London reacts with satisfaction to Governor Swettenham of Jamaica apologizing for a rude letter to Rear Admiral Davies. The incident draws little British public interest as both governments see no lasting diplomatic trouble, with Swettenham's withdrawal praised by supporters. The Express editorial urges forgetting the affair and notes strong international understanding.
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London
Swettenham
the Express
Testimony in Batley case links Waters-Pierce to Standard Oil
Gruet a former Waters-Pierce official testified before a legislative committee probing charges against Senator Batley. He admitted signing a 1897 affidavit to save his job and showed Waters-Pierce voucher books. Bailey's lawyers claimed one book was altered with Bailey’s name over an erasure. Gruet could not confirm the alteration.
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Avastin
Tex
Jan. S
Gruet, Sr
The
Waters
Pierce
Henry Clay Pierce
United States
Joseph W. Batley
Gruet
Zerse
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Standard Oil Company
Hhis
Gract
Bailey
J. W Bailey
Russian Governor Orders Hands Up at Sight of Him
In Feodosia on January 13 Governor Gen Davidoff orders all men along the street to raise their hands when he passes and keep them up until he is out of sight, as a precaution against assassination.
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Feodosia
Russia
Davidoff
Petescud
Deadly double tragedy at Copley home in Washington
Census Office clerk W. G. Copley is held for examination after midnight discovery at Langdon home. Dr John Dorsey found Mrs Copley and their three month old child dead from gunshot wounds. Police were notified and Copley was arrested. Dr Dorsey declines to comment before the coroner.
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Copley
Dorsey
Hurned
WG Copley
Elerk
John
Langdon
Conley
Almsbrough
Tatve
Elias Case Settlement Setstlement in Draper Claim Dispute
Mrs Hannah Elias, involved in John R Platt proceedings, appeared with counsel in West Side Court seeking summons against Patrick Wallace Fingap for recovery of jewels, bank books, deeds, and money valued at 30 000. Court adjourned for out of court settlement amid disputes over a 1904 transfer and a disputed 91504 claim.
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Draper
Trashington Post
New York
Hannah Elias
John R Platt
West Side Court
Patrick Wallace Fin Gap
Murray
Elias
Dugan
Magte
Trate Barlow
Dugen E
Sie
Duran
Teady
Carnation Day Observed in Canton Public Schools
Canton Ohio January 3 1900s public schools dismissed early to allow students to perform a McKinley flag concert at the auditorium with 49 girls dressed as a human flag. Mrs McKinley attended a box while a large carnation wreath and other floral remembrances were sent to the McKinley tomb by Canton and nearby friends.
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Canton
Ohio
McKinley
McKinies
Bs Order of Paetmaate
Certelyou
Deaths of Cushman and McElroy Cast Shadow Over Two Towns
Major Austin Cushman founder of Massachusetts Grand Army of the Republic collapsed and died in the Masonia n Temple in Boston. He lived in Fest Orange New Jersey and Adrian Michigan. Dr George B McElroy longtime Adrian College president and mathematics professor died of heart failure at eighty-six after sixty six years with the college and retirement eight years ago.
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Grand Army of Republic Post
Massachusetts
Speerzi
Boston
Mass
Austin Cushman
First Grand Army of the Republic
Masonian Temple
Fest Orange
N. J
Adrian, Mich
Adrian College
George B McElroy
McElroy
President hears plans for Civic Federation branch in DC
Ralph M Easley secretary of the Civic Federation with W HL Mallock called on the President yesterday morning to discuss federation plans for a DC branch. Roosevelt said he was deeply interested in the organization and its work aligning with his Nobel prize endowment. Competitors in the Educational Contest may obtain back numbers from any newsdealer or at The Port office for details in this sale.
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Ralph M Easley
Civic Federation
W HL Mallock
Mr. Easley
Federation
District of Columbia
Roosevelt
Saale
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