Ex-Mayor Gilbert Dies After Bank Wreck Arrest Links
W J Gilbert former mayor of Niles Michigan wealthy and respected was found dead in a storehouse behind his home. He ended his life by a pistol shot amid grief over the cashiers wreck of the First National Bank and friendship with Charles A Johnson. Gilbert had served as justice of the supreme court commissioner school director alderman and mayor.
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Niles, Mich
W. J. Gilbert
Barrien County
Gilbert
Charles A. Johnson
First National Bank
Ohio
Mr. Gilbert
Johnson
Second Ward
Julia
Supreme Court
Former Mayor Gilbert of Niles Dies by Own Action
Grand Rapids report notes ex mayor Gilbert of Niles died by his own action. Johnson recalls knowing him many years and says they were good friends but not among his closest. He adds he cannot see how his troubles should be his fault.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Gilbert
Niles
Johnson
Brief bank patron’s death linked to insolvency
A man described as a bank patron died by his own action. He had been a depositor, with a balance not exceeding 100 dollars at the time of his failure. The report notes no further involvement by others in the act.
Laxative Bromo and Quinine Claim to Prevent Illness
Advert claims laxative Bromo Quinine mix prevents pneumonia and grip by removing the cause. Product pitches relief and preventive use, citing health benefits.
Arbitration Eases Tense Marseilles Strike Situation
Marseilles reports progress as arbitration begins with favorable conditions. Police relaxes and troops depart from streets while bakers strikes appear non serious. Streetcars resume intermittent service. Ships Linois Galilee Laboifier and destroyer Dunois arrive from Toulon to aid order.
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Marseilles
Linois
Galilee
Laboifier
Dunois
Toulon
Tragic Portlands Optician Shot at Skamania Landing
At Underwood's landing in Skamania county Washington Benjamin a Hood River logger was shot through a window during a dance and died instantly. A posse searches for the unknown killer amid reports of a prior dispute over a young woman.
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Portland
Ore
Underwood's Landing
Skamania County
Washington
Benjamin
Hood River
William Windorf
London Markets Dip on Botha Refusal and Tientsin War News
London Marketa reports a weak week as General Botha’s rejection of conditions under Lord Kitchener dampened consols and Kaffirs, with prices recovering only slightly after Tientsin incident relief. The American market led gains with Erie and Louisville and Santa Fe standout, while money remained in strong demand despite late declines.
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London
Botha
Lord Kitchener
Tientsin
New York
Erie
Louisville
Santa Fe
Denver
Rilo Grande
Wabash Common
Wabash
Pennsylvania
New York Central
New York, Ontario & Western
Berlin Market Holds Despite Global Negotiation Strains
Berlin reports a firm week with improved market tone and expectations of easier money in April. Iron and coal shares rose as German producers foresee protection against American competition and a potential iron trade upturn.
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Berlin
Lord Kitchener
Botha
New York
Van Wyck Will Provides Library Gift to Norfolk
The late Henry Dubois Van Wyck former New Yorker and Academy of Music proprietor leaves $1000 to $10000 to friends and faithful employees. He makes Norfolk a partial residuary legatee to extend the public library aiding Carnegie offer compliance.
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Norfolk
Henry Dubois van Wyck
New York
Academy of Music
Carnegie
Premier Schottenstein Dies By Own Action in Ulm
A Stuttgart dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger reports Baron Schott of Schottenstein, the Wurtemburg premier, withdrew from the cabinet amid a pending trial and has committed death by his own hand in Ulm, creating a national sensation.
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Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger
Stuttgart
Baron Schott of
Schottenstein
Wurtemburg
Ulm
Heavy Snow Disrupts Austria Railways and Floods Bohemia
Vienna reports a third heavy snowfall of the season with 36 hours of continuous snow causing major railway interruptions. Bohemia experiences river floods as mountains hold more snow and fear of further flooding grows with meltwater.
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Vienna
Austria
Bohemia
Brayhead Arrives for Repairs at Barry
The British steam er Brayhead with Captain Arthur arrived at Barry for repairs after a return to Queenstown partially disabled on March 22 while en route from Dublin and Swansea to New Orleans.
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Barry
Brayhead
Arthur
Dublin
Swansea
New Orleans
Queenstown
Endowment of Cottages for Tuberculosis Patients
Denver plans a Rocky Mountain sanitarium 20 miles from the city as an industrial colony. Doctors and business leaders promote cottage endowments to fund a non profit home for climate therapy, work, and self support for impoverished consumptives nationwide.
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Denver
Rocky Mountain
United States
Colorado
Young Woman's Sanitarium
Mountain Sanitarium
William H. Gabbert
Colorado Supreme Court
Charles Hartzell
A. Mansfield Holmes
Boston
San Francisco
International Trust Company
Indignation Meeting Demands Police Protection for Jews
In Chicago twelve Jewish peddlers described repeated anti Semitic assaults with about one death annually. Speakers blamed police inaction and vowed to organize the Chicago Protective League to press for protection and plan a downtown mass meeting next week.
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Chicago
Hood-Lama
Chicago Protective League
Advance in rail and lake rates linked to navigation opening
The Journal of Commerce reports that westbound rail and lake rates will rise with the navigation season. Trunk lines and lake transit leaders practically agreed on increases, and independent lake and canal lines say they will likely follow. A Buffalo meeting of lake and canal associations will discuss rate hikes this week.
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New York
Journal of Commerce
Lake Lines
Canal Lines
Lake and Canal Line Associations
Buffalo
Cadogan to Retain Ireland Lt Governor Post for Another Year
Dublin reports Karl Cadogan the lord lieutenant of Ireland declares he will remain in office for another year. The statement confirms continuity in the British administration of Ireland amid political tensions.
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Dublin
Karl Cadogan
Ireland
Great Loss of Cattle in Colorado Storm
A March Colorado blizzard blankets the state with 3 to 10 inches of snow, halting trains on the Colorado and Southern and stranding cattlemen. Cattle losses are feared as the storm worsens, with heavy snow on the western slope and in Lamar and Casper areas.
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Denver
Colo
Colorado
Kansas
Colorado & Southern
Here
Leadville
Lamar
Casper
Wyo
Winter snow blocks major rail lines in Nebraska
Reports from Alliance Ogallalla indicate Union Pacific and Burlington main lines blocked by snow. Three passenger trains at Ogallalla with drifts west of there. Burlington line tied up west and east of Alliance. Storm blamed for stock damage. 4 to 12 inches reported with strong winds. Eastern Nebraska drenched. Long Pine Elkhorn road blocked. all trains tied up.
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Lincoln
Alliance
Ogallalla
Union Pacific
Burlington
Nebraska
Long Pine
Neb
Elkhorn
Harvard official Edward Hooper falls from Beacon Street window
Boston reports Edward A Hooper former Harvard College treasurer and local lawyer fell from the third story of his Beacon Street residence soon after midnight. He suffered serious injuries but believed not fatal. he had been ill for 10 days under a nurse’s care when the accident happened while the nurse was briefly away.
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Boston
Edward A Hooper
Harvard College
Beacon Street
Hooper
Clerk Joseph A Conlin Remanded After Heist Disappears with Government Funds
Joseph A Conlin, a Lexington Avenue post office clerk, vanished February 22 with a mail pouch containing 40000 dollars in government property. He was brought back to New York today in custody of Post Office Inspectors James and Jacobs, U S Marshal Shine, and Detective Ryan of San Francisco. Inspectors traced him across the country, moving from place to place on the Pacific slope.
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New York
Joseph A. Conlin
Post Office
Lexington Avenue
James and
Jacobs
United States
Shine
Ryan
San Francisco
Conlin
Pacific
Mitchell in New York Seeks Morgan Talks to avert coal strike
President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers is in New York aiming to press J. P. Morgan and coal company heads to confer on the coal field situation. He has not yet met Morgan, who arrived from Washington late tonight.
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New York
Mitchell
United Mine Workers’ Union
J. P. Morgan
Mr. Morgan
Washington
Scoggin Receives Telegram From Turf Congressman Fowler
Hiram J. Scoggin, president of the Horsemen's Protective association, received a telegram from B. W. Fowler, the turf congressman at Cincinnati, indicating that Fowler stated that the members would obtain what they want. The message aims to secure support for agreed terms in horse racing matters.
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Louisville
Hiram J. Scoggin
Horsemen's Protective Association
W. Fowler
Cincinnati
Fowler
Turf Congress to Convene in Cincinnati on Horsemen’s Demands
In a telegram Mr. Fowler told Mr. Scoggin that horse owners will receive all they request from the congress, as the Turf Congress plans a meeting in Cincinnati to consider reasonable suggestions from the Horsemen's Protective Association.
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Cincinnati
Horsemen's Protective Association
Fowler
Scoggin
Congress
Can Consolidation Sets Stage for Nationwide Tin Can Control
The plan merges the American Can Company with its constituents, effective today. The move includes new price lists, potential tin plate price rises, and board members from American Tin Plate. Vendors sign to manufacture tin within 1500 miles of Chicago for 15 years, with most taking stock in lieu of cash.
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New York
Journal of Commerce
American Can Company
American Tin Plate Company
Edwin Norton
W. H
J. H. Moore
Chicago
United States
Eminent Statistician Lorin Blodgitt Dies in Philadelphia
Lorin Blodgitt of Philadelphia died today at age 78. A noted statistician and authority on the higher economies, he graduated from Geneva Hobart College and early in his career served at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. He led the financial and statistical division of the Treasury in 1863 and later became general appraiser of customs and chief of the customs division.
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Philadelphia
Lorin Blodgitt
Geneva
Hobart
Smithsonian Institute
Washington
Treasury Department
The
Treasury
Publisher Frank B Wright Dies in Cincinnati at 42
Cincinnati Ohio March 24 Frank B Wright publisher of Chio and longtime figure in Cincinnati papers died suddenly aged 42 His wife also died of pneumonia earlier this morning and his illness followed her passing in the early hours after a short period of illness.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Frank B. Wright
Chio
Deaths of William Dormin and Judge Bartholomew in Chicago and Bismarck
Chicago report notes William Dormin an organizer of the Catholic Order of Foresters in 1883 and head of the mailing department of the Chicago Record and Daily News. In Bismarck Judge Joseph M. Bartholomew, longtime supreme court justice, died suddenly at home.
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Chicago
William Dormin
Catholic Order of Foresters
Dormin
Chicago Record and Daily News
J. M. Bartholomew
Bismarck
N. D
Joseph M. Bartholomew
Supreme Court
Mrs N S Fitzpatrick Dies in Kentucky Pneumonia Case
Mrs Nar cissa South Fitzpatrick of Frankfort Kentucky wife of ex Congressman Fitzpatrick died here today of pneumonia.
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Frankfort
Narcissa South Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick
Abbe Renard Breaks With Church to Marry
Brussels dated item states Jesuit scholar Abbe Renard of Ghent University has ended relations with the church to marry. The report notes the significant move by the renowned professor and its impact on religious and academic circles.
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Brussels
le Petit Bleu
Abbe Renard
University of Ghent
Odell Victory Promises No Police Bill This Session
Leading New York Republicans meet at the Fifth Avenue hotel with Senator Platt to decide against passing police legislation this session. Odell gains influence as the party retreats while awaiting future action calls and municipal election judgments.
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New York
Senator Platt
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Fifth Venue
Odell
Platt
Republican Party
Tammany
Northern Pacific to buy Southern Pacific Oregon line
A Tacoma report says Northern Pacific plans to purchase the Southern Pacific segment from Portland to San Francisco. A NP representative reportedly inspected the Oregon line, with the board to receive a decisive report. Negotiations have been ongoing and kept quiet for over a year.
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Minneapolis
Minn
the Times
Tacoma
Wash
Northern Pacific
Southern Pacific
Portland
San Francisco
Oregon
Riot at Goenandael races ends in track invasion
In Brussels on March 24 spectators rioted after a race clearance left three horses at the post. The judges allowed the result to stand, prompting attackers to break rails, burn paddocks, and halt further action until bets on the post horses were refunded.
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Brussels
Goenandael
Body Recovered In Snake River Drowning Case
The body of Thomas Doherty, an engineer from Joliet Illinois, who drowned February 14 at the Snake River near the Trade Dollar dam and power plant, was recovered today in Boise Idaho. The remains will be shipped to Joliet for burial.
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Boise
Idaho
Thomas Doherty
Snake River
Trade Dollar
Doherty
Joliet
Ill
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Butte
London Marketa
van Wyck
Soul Pioneer Press
National
Industrial Colony
Chileago
Wyoming
Morgan
Mortuary Record
William Deormin
N.S. Fitzpatrick
Fifth Avenue
Sembly
N. P. Extension
Siegel’s
America
Siegel Clothing Co
Butte, Montana
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