Mrs Chadwick's High Finance Career Far Outrivals Humbert
Columbus report details Cassie Chadwick native of Woodstock Canada and once dubbed American Mme Humbert. It recounts forged Carnegie notes worth millions, bank looting schemes, a 1905 trial leading to a ten year penitentiary sentence, and the vast but uncertain scope of her frauds and payments to officials.
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Columbus, O
Cassie Chadwick
Oberlin
Mme. Humbert
Penitentiary
Chadwick
Elizabeth Bigley
Woodstock
Canada
Toledo
Mme. Deviere
Richard Brown
Youngstown
Columbus
Cleveland
Hoover
Leroy S. Chadwick
Ira Reynolds
Wade Park Bank of
Andrew Carnegie
Reynolds
Carnegie
Newton
Brookline
Mass
Charles Beckwith
A. B. Spear
National Bank
Lfe
Berlin Denies German Fleet Visit to Atlantic Ports
The Foreign Office states Germany never considered sending a fleet to American Atlantic ports as the American battleship fleet sails to the Pacific. It denies Roosevelt communicating such a plan to the German emperor and says U S policy rests on American initiative only.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Foreign Office
Atlantic
United States
Pacific
Roosevelt
William
America
Lusitania Breaks Transatlantic Records
The Lusitania of the Cunard line set new transatlantic records arriving near Sandy Hook lightship Thursday morning after a four days and twenty hours voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lusitania
Cunard Line
Sandy Hook
American loan for Manchuria approved for public works
A telegram from Manchuria reports the viceroy has secured approval from the Chinese imperial government for an American loan of 25000000 dollars. The funds will be used to construct public works in Manchuria.
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Manchuria
Tokio
Lebaudy Empire for Sale in Paris Adverts
An Paris sales notice claims the Lebaudy empire named Aysbonia in Africa is for sale for 200000 dollars. It says the throne rests on skulls and a bone crown. the emperor offers thirty wives. Analysts doubt the claim but note the rumor ties to Jacques Lebaudy and a fading Sahara imperial case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Paris
Jacques Lebaudy
Aysbonia
Africa
Sahara
Mile. Delierre
France
Lebaudy
Rival Standard Oil International Conference in Atlanta Plans World Cotton Combine
In Atlanta the International Conference of Cotton Growers and Spinners adopts a plan to form a permanent global organization. It invites Continental Spinners Association of Europe and Sea Island Growers Association of the United States to join and represent in the executive committee. The move aims to control cotton from seed to finished goods and could create a power stronger than the Standard Oil Trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
International Conference of Cotton Growers and Spinners
Continental Spinners’ Association of Europe
Sea Island Growers' Association of the
United States
Rockefeller
Standard Oil Trust
Capelle Sets 703-Foot Steeple Jacking Record
Ernest Cappelle climbed the Singer Building flag staff 703 feet above ground and affixed a gilded globe. Thousands watched along Broadway and from nearby windows as he pasted gold leaf and swayed in a bosun’s chair for about an hour.
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New York
Ernest Cappelle
Singer
Broadway
Cappelle
City seeks 2.5 million for Central Park repairs
Special city officials request 2.5 million dollars to renovate Central Park in New York. They say wear and tear has worn the park out and plan to resurface and renew shrubbery trees and build new drives and walks over an estimated five year period.
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New York
Central Park
Frithjof Arctic Steamer Lost Off Iceland
The Frithjof Arctic steamer, part of the Wellman expedition, was lost off Cape Langenes Iceland on October 5. The captain and fifteen crew members drowned while the engineer survived clinging to a drifted plank until ashore. The ship was en route to Norway after ice damage left her unable to withstand a storm.
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Copenhagen
Frithjof
Wellman
Chicago Record-Herald
Spitzergen
Cape Langenes
Iceland
Norway
Shadows Loom Behind Hfe in Pursuit of Limelight
Vague lines describe dark figures following the Hfe as it seeks attention and prominence. The snippet implies intrigue around the group or individual known as Hfe, with emphasis on public visibility and reputation.
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Hfe
Double homicide and suicide in Pikeville mansion
Civil War veteran Gen Webb Syck and his young bride are found slain in their Fairview mansion near Pikeville Kentucky. Neighbors report a dawn shot in the Lyck home and a second fatal wound. Mrs Syck, formerly Jane Burris, died from head wounds while Gen Syck lies dead beside her. motive linked to a bitter quarrel and jealousy.
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Pikeville
Webb Syck
Fairview
Lyck
Syck
Kentucky
Gen. Syck
South
George Syck
Pike County
Explorer reports cannibalism and famine in northeastern Canada
J A Osborne editor of the Ft Francis Times recounts his trip between James Bay and Labrador where he heard of cannibalism and famine. He cites a Moose Factory encounter with a man fleeing in terror who claimed eight killings and a woman who killed her two children amid extreme hunger caused by deer and rabbit scarcity.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
J. A. Osborne
Ft. Francis Times
Canada
James Bay
Labrador
Moose Factory
Boys in Men's Place London Cable Note on Travel Careers
A British consul in Pernambuco Brazil notes that British firms should hire properly qualified travel representatives. He says cheerful, self confident young travelers do very well in South Africa, while older, reserved businessmen often secure smaller market shares.
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London
South Africa
Pernambuco
Brazil
Sealing catch in Victoria lists record lows
The sealing season in Victoria B C shows the lowest on record with about one third of last year. Last year 17 schooners took 9 645 skins while this year 15 ships expect about 3 500 plus 38 sea otter skins. average Behring Sea catch is 250 versus 504 last season.
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Victoria
B. C
South Bend Lawyer Disbarred in High profile verdict
A jury in South Bend Indiana disbarred attorney George A Kurtz after finding him guilty on specifications tied to multiple cases including Nimitz divorce Paul Bickford Mass slot machine Kop penhaver Pinkerton paternity Minnie Palmer and Red Austin matters. The defendant was absent when the finding was read.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Bend
Ind
George A. Kurtz
Kurtz
Nimitz
Paul Bickford
Thos
Koppenhaver
Pinkerton
Minnie Palmer Palmer
L Rixie Howard
Red” Austin
Roosevelt Guide Billy Hofer Visits Omaha
Billy Hofer, Roosevelt's guide, travels from Yellowstone to Washington and stays several days in Omaha. He muses about a Yellowstone geyser tale involving Vice President Fairbanks and a girl saved from boiling springs, joking that ice chunks emerged after the rescue.
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Omaha
Neb
Yellowstone Park
Washington
Billy Hofer
Roosevelt
Yellowstone County
Hofer
Fairbanks
BOB Evans May Retire From Naval Command
New York Special reports Rear Admiral Robly D Evans, commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet, will likely retire after guiding 16 battleships to San Francisco. He plans to leave active duty in August next year and pursue leisure months before departure. Speculation assigns Rear Admiral Uriel Sebree as his likely successor when the fleet reaches San Francisco.
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New York
Robly D. Evans
Atlantic Fleet
Atlantic
San Francisco
Evans
Plam
Uriel Sebree
Bacon as a Hero in Cambridge Rescue
Special Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon leaped from a launch into the Charles River to save two Harvard students capsized in a canoe who could not swim. The dramatic rescue highlights Bacon’s swift action amid a perilous water incident in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Cambridge
Mass
Robert Bacon
Charles River
Harvard
Fortune Wall Street Plunger Walker Reaches Vast New Fortunes
J Brandt Walker of Chicago, a famed stock market operator, reportedly turned a fresh fortune near 5 million dollars in three months after earlier wins in stocks and grains. He is said to hold large short positions, with 94,000,000 in paper profits and 200,000 shares short including 50,000 American Smelting and Refining. He publicly instructs clients from S H P Pell & Co in a pattern of rapid sell orders, and has recently circulated orders from the stock exchange gallery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
J. Brandt Walker
Jacob Field
Weil
Keene
Bears
John W. Gates
Chicago
Mr. Walker
S. H. P. Pell & Co
Stock Exchange
Walker
Lakewood
Boynton to Head Explorers on Amazon Journey
New York explorer George Milville Boynton plans a five year expedition with students and scientists to cross the South American continent from ocean to ocean. The party will face cannibal regions and unknown wilderness including the Black Orchid. Estimated total cost is about $100000 funded by party members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
George Milville Boynton
South American
Boynton
Amazon
Prohibition Likely in Texas Moves Toward Liquor Law Enforcement
San Antonio reports the Anti Saloon League has organized a statewide campaign to enforce the newly enacted liquor law. The crackdown is described as a preliminary step toward statewide prohibition, with active efforts planned in every section of Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
Texas
Anti-Saloon League
Rockefeller Gift Funds Harper Memorial Library at U Chicago
John D Rockefeller has given the University of Chicago six hundred thousand dollars to erect the memorial library dedicated to William Rainey Harper first president of the university. This gift brings Rockefeller’s total donations to the university to twenty three million eight hundred twenty four thousand three hundred twenty two dollars.
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Chicago
John D. Rockefeller
University of Chicago
William Rainey Harper
Mr. Rockefeller
Sixteen Face Death in Haiti Coup Plot Sentences
Kingston Jamaica cable reports 176 men sentenced to death in Haiti for conspiring to overthrow the government. The dispatch notes a harsh crackdown amid political turmoil and unrest in the republic.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Haiti
Pacific Coast Fleet Move Signals Expanded Naval Strength
Washington reports a broad shift of warships from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The special service squadron led by Rear Admiral Sebree departs Hampton Roads for a 13 000 mile voyage to Magdalena Bay. A larger fleet of sixteen battleships and torpedo boats will follow without passing Cape Horn.
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Washington
Pacific Coast
Hampton Roads
Tennessee
South America
Magdalena Bay
California
South Dakota
Uriel Sebree
Thomas B. Howard
Olympia
Austin M. Knight
Naval Board of Ordnance
Atlantic
Evans
Cape Horn
Horn
Tacoma
Gardner High School Tangled in Hosiery Hoax
Principal Brainard uncovers evidence of an active inner circle among students at Gardner High School linked to the Legion of the Stockings. The group reportedly included both girls and boys who traded hosiery and wore mismatched socks as a badge of membership. He sent twenty pupils home with orders to return in modest hose.
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Gardner, Mass
Brainard
Gardner High School
Indians Massacre Whites Near Lacorado Mining Camp
Jesus Bracamento and Ricardo Robles, from affluent local families, were ambushed by twelve Yaqui Indians about twenty five miles from Guaymas near the Lacorado mining camp. Bracamento was killed. Robles fatally wounded. Indians fled after robbing them as soldiers pursue the trail.
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San Antonio
Tex
Guaymas
Mexico
Jesus Bracamento
Ricardo Robles
Bracamento
Lacorado
Consuelo Vanderbilt to Visit United States
Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough, will visit the United States in a few weeks. She plans to arrive in New York in time for the Madison Square Garden horse show and the Metropolitan Opera opening.
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London
Consuelo Vanderbilt
Duchess of Marlborough
United States
New York
Madison Square Garden
the Metropolitan
Cypress Wreck on Lake Superior Sends 21 Tradewinds Lost
The steel steamer Cypress owned by the Lackawanna Transportation Company was wrecked on Friday night off Deer Park thirty miles from Grand Marais. On her second ore voyage she sank with a crew of twenty two lost except for the second mate.
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Sault Ste. Marie, Mich
Cypress
Lackawanna Transportation Company
Lake Superior
Deer Park
Grand Marais
Landslide in Ardeche Halts River, Destroys Bridges
A massive landslide in the Ardeche department threatens vast damage. The shifting hillside, estimated near 1,000,000 cubic meters, has moved for 26 hours covering half a mile. It now travels fifty yards per hour, damming a river, forming a large lake, and destroying a road and two bridges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Department of
Ardeche
Santa Fe Faces Big Fine Verdict
The jury in the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company rebate case found the railroad guilty on all counts. The maximum possible fine is 1,100,000 dollars and the minimum is 66,000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Cal
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company
To Boom Siberia Anticipates Siberian Colonization Funds
The Council of Ministers appropriates 93,700,000 dollars for colonization projects in Siberia, as reported by St. Petersburg Cable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siberia
St. Petersburg
Council of Ministers
Wealthy Woman A Thief Confesses In Chicago Jewel Robberies
Mrs. Charles J Ramadka wife of a Milwaukee millionaire admits looting six fashionable Chicago homes of jewelry valued in the thousands. Ex convict Albert Jones is held as an accomplice. Police withhold confession details as they solve longstanding mystery cases involving prominent city figures and hotel life.
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Chicago
Charles J Ramadka
Milwaukee
Albert Jones
Rothschild Criticizes Roosevelt Over Capital Tightness
London Cable reports Lord Rothschild, head of the banking house, blaming President Roosevelt for money tightness. He says governments globally sit on capital and Roosevelt unsettled the American market with his railroad policy, complicating US capital for rail expansion overseas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Roosevelt
Lord Rothschild
Banking House
United States
Eleven Bridal Couples Board City of Savannah Maiden Voyage
In New York eleven brides and eleven grooms stood at the rail of the City of Savannah as the Savannah line ship began its maiden trip to the South. A crowd of bridesmaids and best men waved from the pier and a drawn lot resolved jealousy over the bridal suite.
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New York
Savannah
City Struck by General Strike in Milan
Milan workers halt all factory output and streetcar traffic after a clash between striking gas workers and strike breakers. Carbineers fired on the mob as newspapers disappear and shops close amid the disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milan
Italy
Cable
Exeter Academy Chief Denies Forced Expulsion Over Race
Dr. Haram A. Amen, principal of Philipps Exeter Academy, states that Booker T. Washington Jr. and J. E. Gomez were not expelled for race prejudice. He says Washington left voluntarily rather than face discipline, countering published reports of coercion.
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Exeter
N. H
Booker T. Washington, Jr
J. E. Gomez
Philipps Exeter Academy
Haram A. Amen
Washington
Tobacco Bar to Ministry Resolution in Evangelical Conference
A Milwaukee special reports applause for a resolution in the Evangelical General Conference banning tobacco users from entering the ministry and restricting current clergy from top offices. Some delegates favor extending the prohibition to laity, and passage is predicted to be unanimous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Evangelical General Conference
Inventor Hedley Proposes Device to Prevent Telescoping Trains
Frank Hedley, general manager of the Interborough Company and former Logansport, Indiana resident, has invented and patented a device meant to stop the telescoping of passenger cars in train wrecks. He asserts the mechanism could limit fatalities by maintaining car integrity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frank Hedley
Interborough Company
Logansport
Ind
Pair of Rattlers From Private Message
A private message from Stamboul reports the President's first bag consisted of two rattlesnakes, skinned by Ben Lilley. The skins will be preserved as mementoes of the hunt in Vicksburg Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vicksburg, Miss
Stamboul
Ben Lilley
Was 117 Years Old El Paso Man Dies
Jose Cutter Jullaran aged 117 dies at Yaleta near El Paso Texas. He drank whisky until age 70 when he learned it harmed a man and stopped. He never married.
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el Paso
Tex
Jose Cutter Jullaran
Yaleta
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