Starch Factory Explosion Kills Five in Providence
Five people die when a starch factory whexplosion detonates at C. Tanner’s starch plant in Providence R I. The brick three story building is wrecked with a large hole and collapsed roof. Firefighters battle flames as debris blocks Hose Company No. 2's exit. Estimated property loss around $10,000.
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Providence
R. 1
Tanner
Ares A. L. Chase
Richard Comes
Joh Dante
Uly
Mike
Tony
House of Hose Company No. 2
Bank Robbers Hit Farm ers and Mechanics Bank in Rich Hill
Five heavily armed robbers dynamited the Farm ers and Mechanics Bank wrecking the building and escaping with about 25000 dollars in cash. No injuries occurred as shots were exchanged with a county posse. The blast alarmed the town an hour after midnight and cash was reported stolen. The robbers fled into rough land to the south with a strong Bank robbery tale.
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Rich Hill
Farmers and Mechanics’ Bank
Here
J. W. Jamison
Unemployed Figures From New York Union Meeting
In a Labor Temple gathering of over 200 unions the chairman tallied about 176000 idle workers in New York after delegates reported. Some delegates called the figures extravagant, but the chairman stood by them. The panel later noted that from fifty to sixty percent of mechanics were idle.
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New York
New York City
Labor Temple
Ffty
Hughes designates Attorney General to present Trust cases
Governor Hughes names Attorney-General Jackson to appear before the New York Supreme Court as deputy to present to the Grand Jury the Trust cases. The issue is whether contracts by officials of the American Ice Company constitute criminal action. The move follows a request by the Attorney-General after Dia found a crime had occurred and District Attorney Jerome did not present the evidence.
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Hughes
Jackson
Albany
N. Y
Supreme Court of New York
American Ice Company
Wan
Dia
Jerome
Van Schaick Captain Keeps Ten Year Sentence On Appeal
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City affirmed the Circuit Court verdict against William H H Van Schaick captain of the excursion steamer General Sto cum. He was found guilty of criminal negligence for the East River disaster of June 16 1904 in which nearly 1000 lives were lost. He had been sentenced to ten years and released on $10000 bail pending appeal.
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van Schialck
New York City
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Lacombe, Coxe and Ward
William HH. van Schalck
General Stocum
East River
van Schaick
Banquet Turned to Charity by Westinghouse Foremen
Westinghouse Foremen Association will cancel its annual banquet and donate the supposed dinner funds to charity, reassigning the thousand dollars to aid men out of work. Pittsburg report notes 4000 Duquesne Mills workers return to duty at United States Steel, with three quarters of the plant running and full resumption expected in a month.
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Pittsburg
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Dequesne Mills
Duquesne Works
United States Steel Corporation
Last Turnace
Bessemer
Merchant Mill
Billeta
Dugursna
Judge James Hargis slain by son in Kentucky store
The longtime Kentucky judge James Hargis was murdered in his own Jackson store by his son Beacher, who was intoxicated and twenty one. Beacher fired five shots after a dispute about drinking, wounding and killing Hargis. Beacher was jailed as a ravings maniac. The feud with the Cockrill, Cardwell, and Marengues families and a forged election dispute had long plagued Hargis.
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Noruhy
Cincinnati
Jackson
Beacher Harib
Hargis
Judge Harels
James Brophy
Brophy
Callahan
James Hargiz
MHS
James Hargis
Verdict Finds 20005.81 Against John M. Graham in Fraud Suit
A jury in the United States Circuit Court returned a verdict of 20005.81 against John M. Graham president of the International Trust Company in a suit by Peale Peacock Kerr to recover 30000 for alleged false representations on the financial health of the Thomas & Pike Coal Co of Boston which went bankrupt in May 1906 The firm claimed the representations caused delays in presenting a 35505.81 claim and allowed the company to recover 28500 in claims.
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Boston
John M. Graham
International Trust Company
United States Circuit Court
Peale, Peacock & Kerr
New York
Graham
Thomas & Pike Coal Company
Macleans Ransom Paid to Rais in Tangier Deal
Sir Harry MacLean, head of the Sultan’s bodyguard, arrived in Tangier under guard after seven months of captivity by Rabuli. The British government arranged his release in exchange for £20,000 paid to Raisull, with immunity from arrest. Ex slave Burles Old Master Lewis Reynolds, once a plantation owner near Ruston, La, died penniless and was buried by Oliver Lewis, a former enslaved man who cared for him for three years.
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Tangier
Morocco
Vaid
Harry MacLean
Rabuli
Rais
Great Britain
Raisull
Burles
Lewis Reynolds
Ruston
Oliver Lewis
Reynolds
President backs Arlington Confederate Monument plan
The President told a Washington committee representing The Arlington Confederate Monument Association that he is heartily in favor of erecting a monument to Confederate dead at Arlington.
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Washington, D. C
Arlington Confederate Monument Association
Arlington
Number of Employes Increases in Factories Mills
Industrial conditions improve slowly with a weekly rise in the number of operatives employed in factories and mills.
Return of Sir Genille Cave-Browne-Cave to claim baronetcy
After twenty years apart Sir Genille Cave-Browne-Cave twelfth baronet returns from New York City to England to assume the title and family estates following the death of his father Sir Mylles, ending a long period of silence with his kin.
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Genille Cave-Browne-Cave
New York City
England
Sir Mylles
German Treasurer Resigned Amid Financial Questions
Preiherr Von Stengel, secretary of Germany’s Imperial Treasury, resigned his post as retirement looms due to unsettled financial questions. The realignment follows ongoing fiscal concerns and reshapes the treasury leadership.
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Preiherr von Stengel
Imperial Treasury of
Germany
Women Attend Prize Bets in Paris in Large Numbers
The World of Sport reports women are allowed to attend prize bets in Paris and do so in great numbers. Big Chief Bender signed with the Athletics and won fifteen games last season. Sue a Chinaman ran fifty yards in 615 seconds at Honolulu. Boxall broke Lee American record. The Kentucky State Bar ing Association notes two years payouts near 4,000,000 to successful horsemen.
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Paris
Big Chief" Bender
The
Athletics
En Sue
Honolulu
Boxall
Embezzlement Tied to Race Track Gambling Rings
Analysis of fidelity officers' records shows embezzlements linked to betting rings at horse races. In New York State in 1907, 446,091 dollars of 1,476,273 stolen came from bookmakers and bookmaking satchels, with bets driving many thefts and a third end serving as a conservative estimate of gambling's role.
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New York City
Extermination by Electricity Reported in Formosa
Walter Clifton reports to San Francisco that Formosan head hunters on the eastern Formosa coast are to be killed by electricity. He says about one hundred thousand savages inhabit the area and recent ambush killings of a party of three hundred Chinese and Japanese were met with a response using wires to dispatch them. Troops pursue the located tribes and shoot, with electrified wires killing those missed by bullets.
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San Francisco
Formosa
Walter Clifton
Citton
Toledo judge endures workhouse sentence for reform ideas
James Austin Jr a Toledo police judge spent a day in the city workhouse to study its humane methods. He praised its cleanliness and discipline while arguing for abolished fines in favor of indeterminate imprisonment and rehabilitative work programs to reduce recidivism. He urged separate inmate departments and graded privileges leading to work, training, and eventual reintegration into society.
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Toledo
Ohio
James Austin, Jr
Austin
Market Square
Marines and Infantry Cover 26 Miles In Cuba In 10 Hours
Five marine companies and three from the Twenty-seventh Infantry marched from Havana to Guanajay for target practice. They covered twenty six miles in ten hours, averaging about a kilometer every ten and a half minutes. The trek occurred Saturday between 6 AM and 4 PM with short rests and a dinner break.
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Cuba
Havana
Twenty
Guanajay
Grip Epidemic Rumor and Money System Faults Cited
Newsy notes report a grip epidemic in Washington and cite chairman Powler calling the money system the worst in the world. Lord Londonderry accuses the British Liberal Government of connivance in Ireland. The People's Forum speaker Tstce Guenor criticizes courts for overreach. A court trial reveals three keepers escorted 700 prisoners to the New York Tombs at night.
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Washington
Powler
Lord Londonderry
Ireland
Tstce
Harvard Lecturer Warns of War With Japan
Andre Tardieu editor of Paris Temps, lecturing at Harvard, predicts imminent war with Japan unless an immigration agreement is reached soon. He warns that Japanese immigrants could seize the chance to challenge Westerners if talks fail.
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Japan
Harvard
Boston
Andre Tardieu
Paris Temps
Little Brown
Labor Currents and Union Movements Around the World
The Field of Labor notes important spring contract expirations. A movement in Australia seeks a Newspaper Reporters' Union. A Canadian labor party branch forms in London. A Minnesota railroad strike disrupts production, with convicts reported to manufacture products worth about 45 million dollars annually in the United States.
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Australia
Canadian Labor Party
London
England
Minnesota
United States
Death by Own Action Feared Insanity In Malone Doctor
Dr. Stacy Dwight Williamson a Malone physician feared to be rapidly becoming insane due to homicidal tendencies. He visited Ogdensburg doctors, prepared a will, wrote goodbye letters to his wife and three children, then killed himself with morphine, telling his family death was better than confinement to a madhouse. Local golf and auto circles mourn his loss.
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Cues
Malone
Stacy Dwight Williamson
Laat
Williamson
Gordal
National Guard
Ogdensburg State Hospital
Ogdensburg
Five Shot to Death in Quiet English Village
In Buckingham village of Fawley wealthy F. H Holmes and four women are found dead. A gardener discovers the two female servants and Mrs Holmes in bed with gunshot wounds, and Holmes’s body is later found in nearby wood. Police debate whether Holmes killed all five or was killed by an unknown assailant.
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London
Buckingham
Fawley
F. H Holmes
Holmes
Orders issued to wipe out wild horses in Nevada reserves
The Forestry Department ordered rangers in Lander County to kill all wild horses on government lands in the Toalyabe Toquima and Kouitor reserves. About 15,000 wild horses there threaten vegetation and domestic stock.
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Neva
Reno
Nevy
Forestry Department
Toalyabe
Toquima
Kouitor
Lander County
Standard Oil Appeal in Indiana Court of Appeals
The appeal of Standard Oil Company of Indiana from a $29 240 000 fine by Daige Landis will be argued before Judges Grosscup Baker and Seaman early in the April term. The case record has been given to government lawyers.
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Churage
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Daige Landis
Atia
Grosscup
Baker
Seaman
Court of Appeals
Caza
Niece of Mrs Eddy Involved in Revolte Fatalities
Silas Fred Davis, a niece of Mrs Mary Baker Eddy, shot himself after a Revolte incident. Heskett, wife of C C Heskett, is cited by her husband in the missing details about the event and the fatality.
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Eddy
Winod
Dsatel Hesxell
Fred Skinger
Silas Fred Davis
Mary Baker Eddy
C. C. Heskett
Quarrel at a College Leads to Student Expulsions
Sixty five students at Berksay College in Bellaire Ohio are reportedly expelled for participating in a disturbance described as an orgy during a quarrel involving President Ramlett. The incident sparked campus-wide disciplinary actions and debate over governance.
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Berksay Collage
Bellaire
Oho
Fittess
Ramlett
Women in the Day's News Sparks European Interest
Mrs Genner B McClellan the mayor of New York City figure attracts attention in New Italy. Sympathies pour in for Queen Amelie of Portugal as European capitals convey condolences. Over 6000 women reportedly work for the Riversian Secret Service while Lady Rosemary Cairns, 18, heir to Arthur William, the second Earl of Cairns who died in 1800, is hailed as London's prettiest young debutante.
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Genner B. McClellan
New York City
New
Italy
Amelie
Portugal
Europe
Rversian
Secret Service
Bore
Rosemary Cairns
London
Arthur Wiliam
Earl of Cairns
Mississippi Mob Hangs Negro In Brookhaven
A mob of about 2000 farmers seized Picot soon after he arrived with a civil guard to protect a trial. Soldiers, with Governor Noel’s order, faced the crowd near the Court House in Brookhaven. The mob overpowered troops, opened fire, and hanged Picot from a telegraph pole as Judge Wilkinson looked on.
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Brook Faven
Court House
A. L. Sairley
Tudge Wilkinson
Many Mills Reopening Across New England and Midwest
Thousands return to work as several plants restart operations after a period of idleness. Lorain steel and tube facilities in Ohio resume full or doubled shifts, with 5000 more expected later. Mills in Canton Osle Salem Biddeford Malden Providence Manchester reopen, employing hundreds to thousands.
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Silleneas
Cleveland
Ohio
Lorain
National Tube Company
American Steal and Wire Company
Salem
Start Rolling Mill Company
Canton
Osle
B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company
Malden
Mass
Fells
Ee Rubber Shoe Company
Sty
Cahokia Bankrupted. Village Placed Under Receiver
Cahokia Illinois oldest settlement placed under receiver for the first time in state history. Judge B R Burroughs appoints F B Morrills of Belleville to marshal affairs after petition by Federal Union Security Company of Tupelo Apolia. Action stems from alleged failure of Supervisor Anthony Bordeaux to turn over $20 000 in rentals to successor Gamilla Droit.
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Belleville
Cahokia
B. R. Burroughs
F. B. Morrills
Federal Union Security Company
Tudianapolia
Anthony Bordeaux
Gamilla Droit
Illinois
Virginia
Old Dominion
Clark
Bowmad
Morse Indicted for Grand Larceny in New York
Charles W. Morse faced two indictments by a Special Grand Jury in New York City. One indictment charges grand larceny as part of a probe into financial matters under state court jurisdiction.
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Morse
Charles W. Morse
New York City
Tobacco Trust Indicted in Conspiracy Case
Fayette County Grand Jury in Lexington Kentucky indicts the American Tobacco Company on a charge of conspiracy to fix raw tobacco prices the action follows Justice Parker's order to probe the matter in the region.
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Lexington
Fayette County
American Tobacco Company
Chreult Judes Parker
Noted People Highlight King Alfonsy Chess Ties
The latest sport King Alfonsy at Spal dedicates himself to chess with Archbishop of Canterbury Tagleid noted as a top player. Heaney Clows is sought as a guardian of Brundal setting while Ciye pane line pledges loge in Eastern carry. With the $60,000 given to Tuskegee, this marks Carnegie’s long term pledge to Southern education under a nine hour agreement.
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Alfonsy
Spal
Canterbury
Tagleid
Heaney
Sarnegie
Gill
Southern Education
The Barber and Emancipation Tale Told by Lincoln
A fragmented 19th century vignette features Lincoln warning on the negro question. A barber tale unfolds with a shaving mishap, a slicing incident, and a metaphor about handling emancipation. The story uses a hatchet faced customer and a lantern jaw to provoke caution in political action.
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Lincoln
Ilice
Tlifpois
Window Dressing School to Train Artists in London
A new window dressing school will be established to provide thorough training for young men and women in the art of shop display. The London Globe reports that Viennese shops set the standard, but skilled first class artists are increasingly hard to hire, prompting the plan for formal instruction.
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Wim Down
Aig
Europe
London Globe
How the Japanese Workman Lives
The Japanese laborer earns low wages yet enjoys cheap food. He subsists mainly on coarse fare with one meal daily. Occasionally he eats fish heads or cow insides. He drinks water, and on festivals drinks sake, resembling sherry, and must pay for a sleeping mat each night.
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Japan
Brain Power Promoted by Proper Feeding Claim
An advertisement extols Grape-Nuts as brain and nerve centering food made from wheat and barley processed to form sugar. It cites potassium phosphate's role in brain function, touts Postum and Grape-Nuts, and features a testimonial from a mother-writer praising morning use for sustained brain power and child nourishment.
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Geo. W. Carey
Fim
Cam
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New York Eyenin
Toral
Ieee
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Peter Tetrad
Uie
Desire For Freedom
Mtn
Doctor
Standard Oil
Wome
Brook Haven
Zanesville
Mark Manufacturing Company
Roseville Pottery
Chicago
Illinois Steel Company
W. A Wield
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Conn
Goodyear Metallic Rubber Goode Company
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Biddeford
Pepperell Manufacturing Company
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Manchester
N. H
Amoskeag Mills
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