Ancient Wesleyan college building burns in Middletown
Old North College at Wesleyan University Middletown Conn containing 150 rooms burned from an attic fire. Loss estimated at 80000 covered by insurance. Built in 1827 it formed the nucleus of the college group and retained valuable records. all 150 students escaped, many in night clothes.
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Wesleyan University At
Middletown
Conn
Old North College
Wesleyan
Raymond
Nicholson
Newcastle Selected for Epileptics Village Site
Governor Hanly appointed commissioners choose site near Newcastle for a new Indiana village for epileptics. Tentative land area 1,060.8 acres at $100 per acre, total about $100,000. Location about a mile and a half north and east of Newcastle.
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Newcastle
Hanly
Indiana
Riots in Ma Soumet as Catholic crowd clashes with troops
In southern France at Ma Soumet authorities inventorying a church at St Sauvenr when hundreds gathered and attacked. Eight hundred soldiers were deployed to quell the Catholics who pelted stones as soldiers charged with sabers and wounded many rioters before dispersal.
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Ma- Soumet
France
St. Sauvenr
Firemen Burned in New York Dye Plant Explosion
An explosion at the Dewey dyeing establishment at 1283 Fulton Street New York injures six firemen with three grievously burned. The blast came after a small blaze in a frame extension used as a naptha store room, followed by several minor explosions.
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Dewey Dyeing
Fulton Street
New York
Mine Disaster Damages Klondike Site in Indiana Region
A Klondike coal mine owned by Springfield Coal Mining Company suffered a fire destroying the upper portion and causing about 25 000 dollars in damage. One hundred workers were at the mine near Terre Haute eight miles away while the father labored and the mother shopped in Terre Haute.
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Klondike
Spfield Coal Mining Company
Anche Ta
Niles Ste Spred
Springfiel
Newb N
Ipse
Ance
Bur‘ Id
Terre Haute
Steamer Thor Sinks Off Haugesund In Gale
A dispatch from Christiania reports the trading steamer Thor sank near Haugesund after parting sheets in a gale. Between twenty and thirty people were drowned, three were saved, and the vessel sank almost instantly after she was driven ashore while at anchor.
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Christiania
Norway
Thor
Haugesund
Insane Woman Falls Into Cistern Rescued Then Dies
Mrs Lena Piiker a mentally deranged woman jumped into a cistern at her Indianapolis home. She was rescued in a dying condition. the shock and exposure caused her death. Henry Peterman a fireman from hose company No 17 happened to be nearby and pulled her out with a rake.
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Lena Piiker
Indianapolis
Ind
Henry Peterman
Chicago Woman Kills Constable in Home Levy
Mrs Lawrence Baker shot Constable Joseph Flies during a property levy at 966 West Chicago Avenue Chicago. Flies died instantly and Baker was arrested.
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Chicago
Joseph Flies
Lawrence Baker
West
Chicago Avenue
Akron Councilman Given Fine for Bribe Solicitation
Councilman Jeremiah Anderson of Akron Ohio was fined 500 dollars after soliciting a bribe from a sewer pipe firm to influence proposed legislation.
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Jeremiah Anderson
Akron
Ohio
Aged Woman Fatally Burned in Petersburg
Betty Thomas aged 82 of Petersburg Indiana died after her clothing caught fire while she prepared a meal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Thomas
Petersburg
Ind
Bandits Blow Grant Park Postoffice Safe
Bandits used nitro glycerin to blow open the Grant Park Alabama postoffice and seize nearly $500 in cash and stamps. An investigation follows with authorities pursuing clues and suspects.
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Safeblowera Kob
Grant Park
Woman Gored to Death by Bull Near Logansport
Mrs. Rudolph Funk, wife of a farmer eight miles north of Logansport Indiana, was killed by an angry bull that attacked her while she fed and cleaned the stall. The animal had been tied in the barn when the fatal goring occurred.
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Rudolph Funk
Logansport
Ind
Fire destroys Armour & Co storage plant in Philadelphia
An explosion from a gas stove gutted Armour & Co storage and distributing plant at American and North streets in Philadelphia. The blaze caused about 150000 dollars in damage to a building filled with dressed meats and provisions.
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Armour & Co
American and
North Streets
Philadelphia
Purity Federation Plans Chicago Convention in 1906
B. S. Steadmell president of the National Purity Federation issued a call for a national purity convention to be held in Chicago on October 9 10 and 13 1906.
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Chicago
B. S. Steadmell
National Purity Federation
Attempt to Wreck West Shore Train 1003 Near Oneida
Engineer John Scanlon found a wood wedge wedged beneath the pony trucks on West Shore train No. 1003 near Oneida New York. The Chicago limited express was targeted in an apparent wrecking attempt.
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Oneida
N. Y
John Scanlon
Wooster Coroner Sullivan Dies After Poison Mistake
In Wooster Ohio Coroner Sullivan died after taking poison by mistake. He rose in the dark to take medicine and drank from the wrong bottle, dying a few hours later.
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Wooster
Ohio
Sullivan
May Bring Cheaper Car Fares With Metzger Bill
Cleveland officials plan ordinances to allow at least five car lines to run by the lowest bidder. The Metzger bill would require a public vote. If approved, 3 cent lines could start immediately unless the current monopoly yields.
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Cleveland
Fierce Race Riot in Springfield Ohio
A white mob attacked Springfield Ohio's negro quarter known as the Jungles, prompting state troops and militia to intervene. Despite no fatalities, six negro houses and a saloon were destroyed as police and militia regained control after midnight with help from Dayton and Xenia troops.
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Springfield
Dayton
Xenia
Columbia Street
Water Street
Foster Street
Jungies
Pelee Shoots Out Fire In Martinique Eruption
A Barbados dispatch reports Mont Pelee in Martinique as again active with a lava and smoke column seen from miles away. Five people in Fort de France hospitals were struck by falling rocks as St Pierre and surrounding areas face renewed catastrophe and past devastation recalls 1902 losses.
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Barbados
Mont Pelee
Martinique
Fort de France
St. Pierre
Martinigue
Theharbor
St. Vincent
Georgetown
War costs and imperial defense proposals across nations
The finance ministry sets Russia war cost at 1.17 billion yen with 990 million for the army and 180.6 million for the navy. Field Marshal Roberts urges 1 million men as a standard for India defense and European prestige. Britain faces Liberal triumph dynamics and Irish home rule debate as German and French diplomacy unfold and unrest grows in China and Russia.
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Russia
Lord Roberts
India
Europe
Paris
London
Castro
Rouvier
House of Commons
S. P. Little
Hankow
China
Revolutionary Party
University of
Japan
Little
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Ireland
James Bryce
Gladstone
Colorado town doomed by planned dam flood plan
A Colorado village Lyons, about 25 miles from Denver, faces destruction as a dam would flood four years hence. The town with 500 residents and stone buildings boasts a fire department and water pipeline. A $5 million company plans to create a 2000 foot dam, flooding the basin and storing vast water.
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Colorado
Lyons
Denver
St. Vrain
Trade with China Sours as Exclusion Policy Bites
R P Schwerin vice president of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co says US China trade is nearly wiped out by the Chinese boycott. He cites exposure of missionaries in China and notes the empire reform association pushing modernizing reforms and western business methods.
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China
R. P. Schwerin
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Washington
Chinese Empire Reform Association
Industrial Invasion of Canada Sends New Settlers North
At Winnipeg Manitoba land agents report 26000 acres sold in the Canadian Northwest to New England settlers within two months and 15000 settlers expected from New York and Ohio this spring. The movement likely explains many farms for sale in the Eastern States.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canadian Northwest
New England
New York
Ohio
Health on the Isthmus Reports January Figures
Chief Sanitary Officer Gorgas of the canal commission reports January figures for the Isthmus. 22,000 on the roll, average daily sickness 503, and 74 deaths including 26 from pneumonia. No quarantinable diseases present.
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Isthmus
Gorgas
Canal Commission
Chicago moves to forfeit Chicago Telephone Company franchise
Under Illinois Supreme Court decision Chicago began action to oust the Chicago Telephone Company from city streets. The city asserts the company no longer has rights under the 1889 ordinance.
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Chicago
Illinois Supreme Court
Chicago Telephone Company
Congress Deliberations Highlight Rail and Indian Affairs
Senate readings extend Knox railroad bill while Tillman presses for relief from discriminatory rates on refined oil. Five civilized tribes issues dominate debates in both houses as bills on coal lands, Yellowstone extensions, and a Calumet river bridge advance. Washington notes, pensions, and Army bill discussions fill the week.
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Knox
Senate
Tillman
Qi T Refiners’ Association of
Titusville
Qi! City
New York Harbor
Clapp
Committee On Indian Affairs
Five Civilized Tribes
Island of
Batan
P. T
Washington
McCreary
George Washington
Gilbert
o_ t
Secretary of the Interior
Alabama
Yellowstone Forest Reserve
Kensington and Eastern Railway Company
Calumet River
Chicago
Timeline of major world events from 1553 to 1905
The list records notable happenings including executions of English nobles in 1553, Washington’s birth in 1752, the stamp act repeal in 1766, Napoleon’s Elba escape and Vienna Treaty in 1815, US frontier and independence milestones, 19th century earthquakes and treaties, and the 1904 Panama Canal treaty ratification plus indictments in 1905. It reads as a chronicle of political, legal, and international events spanning several centuries.
Trade outlook improves with spring demand and construction rush
Dun s Review of Trade notes a broad upturn across leading industries with strong spring merchandise activity. There is heavy demand in wholesale markets and rising retail confidence as shipments rise and mail orders boost dry goods and menswear. Failures in the Chicago district total 29, while overall business expectations point to a long spring season and cautious ordering due to high winter stock.
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Chicago
Dun’s Review of Trade
New York
United States
Bradstreet
Multiple Global Alerts and Local Incidents Reported
A series of brief items notes Miss J Loughborough dying in Rome, wool prices in Arizona hitting a record high, a San Antonio firm selling submerged land to the government, and Dr William F Brooks of Smith Observatory commenting on a new comet. Other reports cover a Chinese mob leader execution order, Ecuador earthquake fatalities, a drowning in Ohio, and rail right of way disputes on the Columbia. Additional notices include a San Antonio firm member's suicide, Britain and debt forecasts, a state railroad rate commission plan, an assault leading to murder charges in Lowell, and related judicial actions.
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J. Loughborough
San Francisco
Cal
Rome
Arizona
Herman Qelrichs
Fort Mason
William F. Brooks
Smith Observatory
Geneva
N. Y
Foochow
Changpu
Esmeraldas
Ecuador
Pinguagi
Columbia River
Washington
Columbia Valley Railroad
A. A. Wolf, Sr
Wolf & Marx Company
San Antonio
Texas
London Times
Ohio Shippers’ Association
James E. Mars
J. Brooks
Lowell
Boston
Brooks
Mars
National Capital Notes on Oil Railways and Policy Veto Warnings
An Interstate Commerce Committee inquiry into railway ownership of oil and coal firms is ordered. President Roosevelt vows to veto any rate bill lacking his approval. A White House conference ends with refusal of open hearings in contested valuations. Panama testimony and Senate talk of Arizona New Mexico statehood loom.
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Interstate Commerce Committee of
House
Roosevelt
Senate Committee
White House
Magoon
Panama Canal Zone
Poultney Bigelow
Foraker
Arizona
New Mexico
Senate Committee On Naval Affairs
Perkins
Naval Academy
Root
United States
Congo
Senate
Tillman
China
Gen
MacArthur
William Nelson Cromwell
New York
Panama Canal
Wallace
Morgan
Memphis Gold Cup Scandal Trial Begun in New York
The Memphis Trotting Association sues E. I. Smathers and associates in the New York Supreme Court alleging a plot to drug Lou Dillon in the 1904 $5,000 Gold Cup race to favor Smathers' Major Delmar. Damages of 3000 or return of the cup are sought. the cup was briefly seized but Smathers later reclaimed it by posting a $7000 bond. Smathers accuses C. K. G. Billings as instigator and denies the charges.
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Memphis Trotting Association
Supreme Court
New York
E. I. Smathers
George Speer
Edward Sanders
C. K. G. Billings
Lou Dillon
Billings
Major Delmar
Smathers
Growth in Church Membership 1905 Totals by Denomination
Dr N K Carroll reports in the Christian Advocate that 1905 saw net gains across denominations. Catholic communicants total about 10 785 496, Methodists 2 910 779, Baptists 72 667 more, Presbyterians 26 174, Episcopalians 19 203, Lutherans 51 580, and Christian Scientists 7 441, with Catholics leading in numbers and Methodists having more churches and ministers.
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N K. Carroll
Christian Advocate
Methodist Episcopal Church
Baptists
Presbyterians
Episcopalians
Christian Scientists
Clergy denounce divorce. refuse remarriage rules adopted
Portland clergy and forty five ministers from surrounding towns meet and pledge not to remarry anyone within a year after divorce. They also refuse remarriage to divorcees with only temporary state residence and will bar those divorced for infidelity from remarriage.
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Portland
Rise in Oil Industry and New Navy Torpedo Adopted
A census bulletin reports a substantial oil industry expansion since 1900 with 98 refineries last year up from 67 in 1900, capital invested rising from 95.6 million to 136 million, and employment averaging 16 771 workers. The Bliss Leavitt high speed turbine torpedo joins US Navy service, travels 36 knots, ranges 4000 yards, and uses 2250 pounds of compressed air. Seamen's Church Institute in New York plans a 550 000 club and home for sailors led by Bishop Potter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Navy
Seamen's Church Institute of New York
Bishop Potter
Western and Midwestern Market Prices for Cattle Hogs and Grains
Regional commodity quotes show live cattle and hogs trading across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Toledo Buffalo and New York with bids from $2.50 to $6.85 for livestock and grain prices for wheat corn oats rye barley and butter eggs and clover seed listed in No. 2 and mixed grades. Prices fluctuate by city and grade with creamery butter at 24 to 28 cents and eggs 14 to 18 cents per dozen in latest reports.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Toledo
New York
Various city and financial shocks ripple early 20th century US
Reports detail a Hoboken arrest for arson to murder a brother for life insurance, Brazil flooding in Campos and Paranaiba, a failed Bolivar County bank in Cleveland Mississippi with assets of 130000 and liabilities of 110000, and a Baltimore hotel placed in receivership. Also noted are bankruptcy filings in Little Rock against Falk Ottenheimer, shifts toward 60 cent gas in Indianapolis, fees in New York politics, and a train collision in Frazee Minnesota with multiple injuries.
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Alexander Legler
Hoboken
N. J
Carl
Campos
Brazil
Parahiba Do Sul
Bolivar County Bank of
Cleveland
Miss
Mark Twain
Gotham
George
Belvidere Hotel
Baltimore
Union Trust Company
Chicago and Sheboygan
Wis
Little Rock
Ark
Falk-Ottenheimer Company
Federal Court of Appeals
Chicago
Indianapolis
William N. Amory
New York
Albany
Jerome
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Higgins
Arthur Breen
Northern Pacific
John Thompson
Frazee
Minn
Labor tensions and wage talks across industries in Pennsylvania and beyond
Sixty Kutztown shirt factory workers produce 650 dozen shirts weekly. Insulators and Asbestos Workers union pushes for 50 cent daily wage increase. employers seek conference. Berks county manufacturer sold about half 15 000 washing machines in state and rest abroad. Hugh Frayne calls Pennsylvania lawless and cites 50 000 under child labor law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Insulators and Asbestos Workers’ Union of Boston
Berks County
Canada
England
Hugh Frayne
American Federation of Labor
York
Pennsylvania
American Tin Plate Company
San Francisco Bulletin
Colorado Defends River Title in Arkansas Dispute
A Kansas led suit in the U.S. Supreme Court accuses Colorado of draining the Arkansas River to seed its irrigation, while Colorado defends its water rights. The case centers on storing flood waters for dry periods as Kansas seeks relief from perceived theft.
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Colorado
Kansas
United States Supreme Court
Mississippi
Ohio
Hudson River
Arkansas River
Embezzlement Charge Slams Michigan City Treasurer
Indiana State news reports Comptroller Henry C. Van Deusen charging Michigan City Treasurer C. F. Meyer with embezzlement for a $6,133 shortfall on Feb 1. Meyer allegedly used funds to buy city warrants. a council committee whitewashed the issue, prompting calls for a citizen audit and a grand jury presentation.
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Henry C. van Deusen
C. 5. Meyer
Michigan City
J. E. Schultz
Meyer
Council Committee On Finance
van Deusen
Vam Deusen
Grand Jury
Missing Groom Halts Vincennes Wedding
Frank Gillis a wealthy glass blower vanished before the ceremony with Miss Fannie Laugel in Vincennes. The wedding to be held at Rev. Father Fleischmann's parlors is postponed indefinitely. Gillis sent a card saying he cannot face the future and will not be seen again. Langel suspects his mother opposed the marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Gillis
Fannie Langel
Father Fleischmann
Vincennes
Gillis
Miss Laugel
Goodby
Shot for roasting town in Linton stage incident
While Miss Pearl E. Elwyn of a Chicago company mocked Linton town, a man in the rear drew a revolver and shot her in the leg on stage. The audience panicked as women and children screamed and fainted. the assailant escaped during the confusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linton
Pearl E. Elwyn
Chicago
Hazing at Winona Technical Institute Endangers Students
Four students at Winona Technical Institute in Indianapolis were subjected to hazing by upperclassmen. They were held in an electrical circuit until unable to stand after release. Victims include Charles Robinson and Marsha Fisher, Edward Jonas, all aged about 19, who continue to report the incident and identify their attackers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winona Technical Institute
Indianapolis
Robinson
Charles
Fisher
Marsha
Edward Jonas
Euioliea
Family Perishes After Fire Tragedy
The Easthan family near Pe Klein faced a deadly blaze as Amanda Easthan, 30, and her mother burned when Amanda’s dress ignited by a grate. Willis Basthan, father of the family, died days earlier from a paralytic stroke, leaving the entire family dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amanda Easthan
Pe I
Moi
Willis Basthan
Brothers clash over girl leaves two badly hurt
Arthur and Otis Maple quarrel over a Ko komo girl. Otis swallowed poison and Arthur rode for a doctor. The rescuing brother’s horse fell breaking his leg in two places and injuring him internally. Both brothers are in a serious condition.
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Arthur
Otis Maple
Kokomo
Otis
Indiana Man Stops Enraged Bull to Save Boys
Nicholas Oberting of Herdentown wrestled an enraged bull after a clash in a pasture. He seized the animal by the horns and threw it, saving three boys who wandered into danger. Oberting suffered a broken wrist in the struggle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Nicholas Oberting
Herdentown
Mr. Oberting
State Happenings From Indiana Aboard Disaster and Policy
A kitchen stove tipped spilling boiling water on three children. one infant died, another may die, the third likely survives. Gov. Hanly said he will serve on Thomas W. Lawson’s insurance committee. Samuel Waggo man, a Kokomo poultry dealer and former councilman, died of blood poisoning from a goose bite. Joseph Negeskinki, 35, attacked Sackman’s Burdick store owner with a hammer after being denied whisky. police arrest him and he is taken to Valparaiso. Peru editor William W. Lockwood dies after leg amputation from an accident. Gasoline explosion burns several children in South Bend. multiple deaths reported. Three youths whipped at a police station in Evansville for drunkenness. judges’ whip policy upheld. Posey county farmer William Mahler crushed by a falling tree.
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Albert Brown
Hall
Gov
Hanly
Indiana
Indianapolis
Thomas W. Lawson
Samuel Waggoman
Kokomo
Joseph Negeskinki
O. J. Sackman
Burdick
Sackman
Negeskinki
Valparaiso
William W. Lockwood
Peru
Peru Republican
August Carlson
Charles Tetzlass
Adam Tetzlass
South Bend
Frank Benton
John Klien
Thomas Steels
Rvansville
Winfrey
William Mahler
Posey County
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