Stamp Robbery Ties Up Chicago Vault Sealed Underfloor Route
The Chicago post office wholesale stamp department suffered a $74,610 theft after burglars tunneled under the building floor to reach the vault. They dumped the stamps into a wagon and fled, leaving faint finger marks and a ruined exit route through walls and pipes. The heist targeted both stamps and cash, with $35,000 in cash hidden in the cashier's vault. Postmaster Frederick I. Coyne was coordinating the investigation with inspectors and detectives from city hall.
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Chicago
Wabash Avenue
Art
Spelding
Postoffice
Stuart
Postal Service
Frederick I. Coyne
Washington
Congress
Morgan's Party Tours West Coast by Private Train
J Pierpont Morgan and five friends travel from San Francisco to Seattle aboard a private multi car named train including the Genesta Atlantic Petruchoi Hollenden Columbia and Alcoy. The group travels with President Mellen and Mr Cooper. interviews are not to be given during the trip east.
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Mr. Morgan
New Heir to Chinese Throne Discussed at Kaifeng Meeting
Pekin reports a new heir will be appointed after dowager empress meets Prince Ching and viceroys in Kaifeng. Candidate Petize is said to be nephew of Prince Tuan, though he is intellectually weak and opposed by reformers. Pu Chun remains a claimed heir. Prince Tuan’s rebellion rumors persist.
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Pekin
Prince Ching
Kaifeng
Henan
Petize
Prince Tuan
Reform
Noy
Pu Chun
Kansu
Taouk Wang
Hean Fong
Prince Tun
Mongolia
Ulumski
Turkestan
Banished for Role in Boxer Uprising
The subject was banished due to the part he played in the Boxer uprising, highlighting punitive measures taken against participants in the uprising.
Street Duel in Texas Ends in Double Fatality
A street duel in Wace Texas on October 21 involved ex-Sheriff Harris and his son facing Dr. Lovelace and his son on Austin Street. Both Harris men were killed and the Lovelaces were jailed charged with the killings amid family trouble rumors.
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Wace
Tex
Austin Street
Harris
Son
Dr. Lovelace
Harrises
Henry Wardlaw Kills Himself in North Dakota
Special Dispatch to the Standard from Livingston reports Henry A. Wardlaw a Northern Pacific brakeman found dead in bed after a self inflicted gunshot wound. The coroner's jury ruled death from a gunshot fired by his own hand. Funeral arrangements followed.
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Standard
Livingston
Henry A. Wardlaw
Northern Pacific
Wardlaw
Carnegie and Pauncefo te Among St Louis Passengers
The American Line steamer St Louis will sail from Southampton to New York Saturday carrying notable travelers including Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie Lord Pauncefote the British ambassador to the United States and Lady Pauncefote.
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London
St. Louis
Southampton
New York
Andrew Carnegie
Lord Pauncefote
United States
Pauncefote
Notable visitors tour Spokane then depart by special train
Spokane on October 21 welcomed financier J P Morgan President Mellen of the Northern Pacific Bishop Doane and other distinguished visitors. They spent the morning touring the city and left at 11 o clock on a special Northern Pacific train. Mellen said the Northern Pacific is enjoying a remarkable run of business the greatest in the road s history.
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J. Pierpont Morgan
Episcopal Church
San Francisco
C. 3. Mellen
Northern Pacific Railway
Thomas Cooper
Mellen
Anaconda
Mr. Morgan
Mr. Mellen
Bishop Potter
New York
Bishop Doane
Albany
Butte
Spokane
Wash
J. P. Morgan
Northern Pacific
Yale Welcomes Sons and Guests to Bicentennial
Yale University hosts a bicentennial celebration with Hadley and delegates from American and foreign universities. A parade of six thousand graduates followed academic gowns from Yale and other institutions, featuring Japan for Yale and Yale for Japan on a floating display.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale University
Rattell Chapel
Arthur Twining Hadhey
Creatfintein
Continental Europe
Forei
Law
Philosophy
Thacher
Buttell Chapel
Simeon E. Baldwin
Connecticut Supreme Court
Yale
Leonard Bacon
God
William H. Welch
Johns Hopkins University
Welch
Hadley
Sons of Eki
Institutes of Learning
Harvard
Princeton
Trinity
Wesleyan
Phelps
Mc.Lean
Japan
Five Years for Mabel Collins and Harvey Neal in Great Falls
Mabel Collins, colored woman, found guilty of grand larceny for robbing Hjalmer Johnson, received five years in the penitentiary. Harvey Neal, a colored race follower from Butte who tried to flee with the stolen money, also received a five year sentence. Joseph Cyr faced arraignment on cashing a check and pled not guilty. he was fined 770 dollars. Court calendar adjustments followed the Percy DeWolf case with other civil and criminal actions scheduled for late February.
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Great Falls
Get
Mabel Collins
Hjalmer Johnson
Harvey Neal
Butte
Mabel
Neal
Joseph Cyr
J. N. Booth
Cyr
Jefferson D. Raseer
Fortune Found In Insane Woman's Hair At Helena
In an Montana asylum Mrs. Eliza Sabey, a third-commitment patient, hid $985 in greenbacks in her hair. Dr. O Y Warren alerted officials and attendants retrieved eight $100 bills and $185 in small notes. The money was handed to the state treasurer for safekeeping until her recovery.
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Standard
Helena
Eliza Sabey
Jefferson County
Sobey
O. Y. Warren
Board of Commissioners For the
New Trial for Johnson Ordered by Montana Supreme Court
George Johnson, already imprisoned for robbery in Silver Bow County, will face a new trial after the Montana Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling. The reversal cites an error in Judge Clancy's jury instruction that used the phrase accompanied by means of force or fear, which the court says does not meet the statutory definition requiring force or fear.
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Helena
George Johnson
District Court
Siiver Bow County
Supreme Court
Johnson
Clancy
Difference Between Accomplished and Accompanied
In an opinion by Justice Pigott the court examines the distinction between the terms accomplished and accompanied as used in the text. The analysis clarifies how each word conveys duty and presence within the legal context.
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Justice Pigott
Trafalgar Day Observed Across England
London observed Trafalgar Day with Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square adorned by wreaths and ceremonies noted in the standard fashion across the country.
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Trafalgar Day
London
England
Nelson
Trafalgar Square
Lord Nelson
Helena Lynching Report Criticizes Officers and Calls Milk Reform
The grand jury probing the Brady lynching in Helena faults local peace officers for inaction and calls for dismissals of jailer George Mahrt and officers Salisbury and Weisner. It also gauges county facilities, urges electricity at the pesthouse, asks water checks for ice from Crystal Creek, and cites impure milk from several dairies as a city health concern.
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The
Standard
Helena
James Brady
Haymarket
Peter Pugsley
Smith
George Marht
Weisner
Salisbury
Marht
Crystal Lake
James E. Brady
Lewis and Clarke County
Brady
George Mahrt
Lewis and Clarke
Crystal Creek
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Puget Sound
Tacoma
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Great Northern
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New York Exchange
Mr. Brunton
A. C. M. Company
Charles
Texas
Henry Wardlaw
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Warm Springs Asylum
Albert Kleinschmidt
W. G. Bailey
P. Lindsay
Thomas B. Miller
M. L. Jacquemin
Charles D. Hard
Ed. I. Goodkind
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