Capitol graft trial ends with four jurors found guilty
In Harrisburg Pennsylvania a six hour ballot verdict convicted four men John H. Sanderson William P Snyder W Te Matheus and J W W Shumeker of defrauding the state in Capitol building contracts. Maximum penalty is two years in prison and a $1000 fine. Case tied to 1905 political upheaval and Berry's 1905 treasurer win.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
John H. Sanderson
William P. Snyder
W. Te. Matheus
J. W W
Pennsylvania
William H. Berry
Bucket Shop Inquiry Clarified by Commerce Secretary
Secretary Straus clarifies that the president referred bucketshop legislation to the Department of Commerce and Labor for Commissioner Smith to study specific bills. No general stock exchange investigation is ordered. Smith will use his judgment and report the facts as requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Commerce
Corporations
Smith
Straus
Department , Commerce and Labor
Walsh to Prison as Judge Denies New Trial
Federal Judge Anderson denied Walsh's motion for a new trial in the John R. Walsh case. Walsh, former president of the Chicago National Bank, was convicted of misapplication of funds and sentenced to five years at Fort Leavenworth. Defense sought arrest of judgment after the decision, but the motion was overruled and the banker sentenced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson Friday
John RR. Walsh
Chicago National Bak
Walsh
Fort Leavenworth
Kaw
Hart
Anderson
Southern Cotton MHS Close Ends Operations in New Orleans
About fifteen hundred operatives halted work at Teeren by the closing down in New Orleans due to poor demand for Gutled Bods cited as the reason. The Lane-Magin pescoe tie mils were mentioned in context. The shutdown reflects weak market conditions and reduced orders affecting the local textile sector. GUARD: This summary preserves named entities and the core event while avoiding unneeded detail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teeren
New Orleans
First Auto in Jerusalem Stirs City Scene
Charles Glidden of estan and Mrs Glidden arrived in Jerusalem Friday in meser est from Fafin. Byres Tto was the first automobile seen by Jerusalem and caused a flurry among the populace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerusalem
Charles Glidden
Estan
Gen Oden Guitar Dies Veteran of Mexican Civil Wars
Gen Oden Guitar a veteran of two wars died at his home in Columbia Missouri on Friday at age 76 He served in the Mexican and Civil Wars and was noted as a steadfast public figure in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wen. Oden
Columbia
Sloan City Dire Stock Market Friday Quotations
Market report from Sloan City lists top beeves at 644 dollars, with bogs at 94.65 as the latest Friday quotes. The source reads with OCR errors but notes prices and securities in a brief stock update.
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Sloan City
Dire Stock Market
Fleet enters Magdalena Bay closing long Pacific cruise
The American battleship fleet under Admiral Evans steams into Magdalena Bay after a 13,000 mile voyage from Hampton Roads. Target ranges off lower California are to be established and two annual practices will follow, with the spring record practice just completed.
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Jackies
Read
Robley D. Evana
Magdalena Bay
Redondo Point
Magdalena
Pacific
San Francisco
Lower California
Evans
Finet
Strait of Magellan
Callao
Atlantic
Rescues Falln Fiance Ends Wedding Romance
Rev F Lloyd Swearer and Grace Henry wed in Chicago after a dramatic elopement tale. The couple fled to Pittsburg where Swearer serves as assistant rector. An intriguing backstory emerges as the groom allegedly passed a life romance and a daring rescue of the bride from a notorious Chicago resort. The ceremony took place at 2024 Armour Avenue with Rev C A Kelly officiating.
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F. Lloyd Swearer
Chicago
Pittsburg
Grace Henry
Red Light
Armour Avenue
C. A. Kelly
Wabash Avenue Methodist Church
Rey
Kelly
Coroner Rules Collinwood Fire No One To Blame
Coroner Burke concludes the Collinwood school fire was caused by overheated pipes and faulty construction. No person is charged with fault. janitor Fred Hirter is exonerated. He urges a fireproofing law and automatic safety devices in all school buildings to protect children.
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Burke
Collinwood
Fred Hirter
Indicted Banker Dies After Banking Probe Scanda
Jonn G. Jenkins, a Brooklyn banker indicted with his three sons in a banking investigation tied to the recent financial panic, died at Sea Cliff Long Island Thursday from paralysis. Name and status reflect the probe linked to the era's financial turmoil and the family's involvement.
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Jonn G. Jenkins
Brooklyn
Sea Cliff
Long Island
Corset Lacing Fatal To Mrs Carl Gunkle Of Tingham
In a tragic incident, Mrs Carl Gunkle died after tightly lacing her corset. The compression reportedly crushed her heart and caused blood to rush to her head before she collapsed and died.
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Carl Gunkle
Tingham, Rah
Ald
Indiet American Officer Kidnapping Charge Brought
A Whinipeg Minnesota grand jury returned a true bill against U S Customs Officer Poulke on charges of kidnapping farmers, marking a county court step in a rare federal case involving alleged abduction.
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Whinipeg, Minn
States Customs
Poulke
Held for Murder of Policeman in Muskogee
Jesse Max, who on Wednesday night met and killed Patrolman L F Harvey of Muskogee Ohio, was Thursday held for murder in the first degree. He asserts the act was justifiable.
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Jesse Max
L. F Harvey
Muskogee
Ohio
Hive
Accusal City Treasurer Acquitted
Ejah Meyer city treasurer of Michigan City was acquitted Thursday after auditors reported he carried more than ten thousand dollars in his accounts.
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Ejah Meyer
Michigan City
Roosevelt Eyes Stock Gambling Probe To Shape Law
President Roosevelt authorized an inquiry by Herbert Knox Smith into stock exchanges to uncover methods used by gamblers. The aim is to decide on needed legislation to curb futures trading and margin deals. Rep Hepburn earlier discussed a bill to prohibit stock gambling, with the White House signaling support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Herbert Knox Smith
Hepburn
White House
Town Statesman
Bureau of Corporations
Stack Sambling
Congress
Tragedy at Laurens School In Boston Ends In Deaths
Sarah Chamberlain Weed of Philadelphia shot Miss Eligabeth Hardee of Savannah then killed herself at the Laurens school, an exclusive finishing institution for young women. Hardee died from a base of brain wound, Weed from a right temple wound. two chambers empty revolver lay on Weed's breast as forty pupils, daughters of wealthy families, watched.
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Sarah Chamberlain Weed
Philadelphia
Eligabeth Clardee
Savannah
Laurens School
Boston
Wom
Miss Weed
West Newton
Miss Hardee
Anarchists Barred From Burial Ceremonies
Olga Averbuch, sister of the Chicago slaying victim, protested anarchists joining in ceremonies for moving her brother's body from Potter's Field to a Jewish cemetery. The Jewish Free Burial association said anarchism opposes Jewish tenets and barred the planned celebration. Anarchists were surprised by the prohibition.
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Olga Averbuch
Shippy
Chicago
Potters' Field
Jewish Free Burial Association
Night Riders Raid in Gibson County Warn Negroes to Leave
Night riders raided a Negro tenant in Gibson County Tennessee on Tuesday night firing several shots into the house and narrowly missing three sleeping children. Notes were shoved under the doors of several Negro homes warning them to leave. All reported as good citizens.
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Gibson County
Tenn
Dr McFarland Exonerated by Kansas Methodist Conference
The Kansas conference of the Methodist Episcopal church exonerated Dr J T McFarland editor of the Methodist Sunday school publications of heretical charges brought by Dr George S Conke a member of the Troy conference.
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McFarland
Kansas
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
J. T. McFarland
New York
Methodist Sunday School
George S. Conke
Troy
Six Peasants Killed in Kechetovka Clash with Police
Six peasants were killed and several wounded when police detachment moved into Kechetovka village in Rusefa to arrest two members of the peasant revolutionary organization. The event marks a violent confrontation between locals and authorities over suspected revolutionary activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kechetovka
Rusefa
Peasant Revolutionary Organization
Firemen Hurt In Six-Story West Eighteenth Street Blaze
A massive fire on Tuesday destroyed a six-story brick building at 28 West Eighteenth Street in New York. Firemen, several seriously injured, battled the flames as hundreds were driven from their homes and many structures were endangered.
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West Eighteenth Street
New York
Motally Wounds Wife Ends Life Over Unemployment
Joseph Surtine of St Louis an cigar salesman despondent over joblessness cut his wife s throat Wednesday afternoon then killed himself with carbolic acid in a double tragedy authorities reported the Stockton area paper said the incident highlighted the strain of unemployment on families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Motally
Joseph Surtine
St. Louis
Eigar
Belgium Expels Mormon Missionaries Over Public Order
The Bavarian government orders the immediate expulsion of several American Mormon missionaries whose presence is deemed dangerous to public order.
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Belgium
Girl Leaps From Boat in Iowa River Tragedy
Miss Beulah Banfield, 15, employed as a waitress at the Soldiers Home in Marshalltown, died after leaping from a boat during excitement over losing an oar. She disappeared in the swift Iowa River at 8:15 PM Wednesday, her body later recovered downstream. Her father William Banfield of Boone County is ill in a hospital, and her mother works as head cook at the home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beulah Banfield
Marshalltown
Iowa
Ference Ford
Miss Banfield
Miss Bandfield
Miss Ford
William Bandfield
Boone County
Man charged after Independence street clash turns fugitive
John Hurtt a colored man allegedly struck Mrs. Wesley Stace a white woman at Independence with a club injuring her seriously. He fled as a crowd gathered. arrested later after riding to Manchester and Waterloo. His wife was also arrested as authorities dispersed the disturbance.
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Independence
John Hurtt
Wesley Stace
Marshal Mason
Hilrtt
Manchester
Waterloo
Stace
Des Moines Druggist Dies After Wifes Wounding
Bessie Collins Davis of Des Moines died at Methodist hospital from a gunshot wound to the leg inflicted by her husband on Feb 16. Husband, a druggist under 30, had been charged with attempted murder of City Physician Miller. He was arrested shortly after her death and released on bonds of 5000 dollars. Miller is recovering.
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Bessie Davis
Bessie Collins Davis
Des Moines
Methodist Hospital
Miller
Davis
James E. Miller
Drowning of Theodore Illick Stuns Burlington Community
Theodore Illick, 23, son of J T Illick a leading attorney, drowned Thursday afternoon in the Mississippi five miles north of town when a sailboat overturned in a gust. His brother Warren, 18, swam ashore and was later helped to the city. The elder Illick was entangled in the sail and remains missing. Theodore was a State University of Iowa 1906 graduate and a socially prominent figure.
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Theodore Illick
J. T. Ilick
Burlington
Mississippi
Warren Illick
Theodore
State University At
Iowa City
Libel suit dismissed in Hinton apology issued
Miss Louise Julich of Hinton filed suit for 15000 against Geo Bender Joseph Juner and J H Brehm for defaming her name in Plymouth County. The matter was settled out of court with a public apology by defendants reimbursement of all expenses costs and loss of time plus other reparations as the case centered on linking her name with a former Hinton businessman who has a wife and family.
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Louise Julich
Hes
Louise Julic
Hinton
Geo. Bender
Joseph Juner
J. H. Brehm
Plymouth County
Stunder Suit Dismissed in Dubuque Court
In Dubuque district court, Anna Anderson and John Roselio versus D J Sullivan for 5000 dollars damages was dismissed on motion by the plaintiffs. The defendant made a full public retraction withdrawing charges of criminal intimacy between the plaintiffs.
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Stunder
Anna Anderson
John Roselio
D. J. Sullivan
Dubuque
Strnder
Veteran lodge treasurer celebrates long service record
John Branden of Onawa marks twenty-one years as treasurer of Cesper Lodge No. 226 A F and AM and about twenty-five years as a member. His long service is described as most creditable and rarely equaled.
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John Branden
Onawa
Cesper Lodge
Death claims Alonso Haymond in Ida Grove
Alonso Haymond, a brother of J B Haymond and secretary of the Order of Railway Trainmen for Town, died suddenly in Ida Grove from double pneumonia.
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Ida Grove
Alonso ‘I. Haymond
J. B. Haymond
Order of
Missing Dunlap family presumed wiped from earth
Mr Warne reports that Miss Dunlap the Clinton woman and her relatives vanish after a large fire. Her sister Mrs Stephen Frable and parents in DeWitt, plus five brothers, are also unaccounted for. Warne seeks living relatives to confirm if any survive.
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Warne
Miss Dunlap
Clinton
Stephen Frable
DeWitt
Fire at Noras Monaro Castle Sparks Police Action
In a chaotic Tuesday incident in Christiania resembling an attempted attack, bullets ripped through the castle as residents and police fought to disarm assailants. Authorities reported multiple shots fired, with bystanders and officers pursuing suspects amid a tense briefing.
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Tg Is
Norway
Centerville Real Estate Man Sentenced to Prison
W G Clark of Centerville was sentenced by Judge Anderson to one year in Appanoose county jail and a $500 fine for obtaining money under false pretenses. Clark faced five indictments from the county grand jury, with a venue change to Jefferson County and Claude R Porter defending. Once a prominent Centerville citizen and leader in politics, he led the Clark and Peatman Investment Company, its sensational failure followed by embezzlement charges against partner Peatman while Clark testified in Fairfield.
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Centerville
Anderson
W. G. Clark
Appanoose County
Clark
Jefferson County
Claude R. Porter
Clark & Peatman Investment Company
Penntman
Fairfield
Judge Reed Rules in Walsh Bros Bankruptcy Case
In federal court at Dubuque Judge Reed found that after Walsh Bros filed for bankruptcy, wholesale firms holding goods under a state court writ were estopped and the writs null. The Moline Plow Company and J I Casa Company are held liable on their bond for the involved goods.
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Reed
Dubuque
Walsh Bros
Charles City
Moline Plow Company
J. I. Casa Company Et al
Stephen L Dows Dies in Florida Prominent Cedar Rapids Capitalist
Stephen L. Dows pioneer railroad builder and eastern Iowa magnate died at Daytona Florida while there for health. He will be buried in Cedar Rapids beside his son Col W G Dows. He built large portions of the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern railway later the Rock Island and Illinois Central. He amassed a fortune and was reputed a millionaire. He served as state senator from Linn county in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth general assemblies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Florida
Stephen L. Dows
Pioneer
Iowa
Daytona
Fla
Col
W. G. Dows
Dows
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway
Rock Island
Illinois Central
Linn County
Murderer May Be Prisoner Believed Captured at Checotah
After months of search a man believed to be Harry Jones alleged murderer of Mr and Mrs Van Winkle at Fairport on December 4 was captured at Checotah Oklahoma Sheriff Benham of Muscatine county notes the suspect seems to be the right man and will go to the place at once Requisition papers will be issued immediately.
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van Winkles
Harry Jones
Checotah
Oklo
Benham
Muscatine County
Jones
van Winkle
Fairport
Au Heavy Club
Interurban Mail Service Set for April Start
Postmaster Robertson of Fort Dodge has been officially notified that government mail service on the interurban will begin April 1. An apartment car and pouch will operate, with pouch routes to Fort Dodge Des Moines Boone and Boxholm. Service will run daily including Sundays.
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Robertson
Fort Dodge
Fort Dodge Des Moines
Boone and Boxhalm
Big Shenandoah Revival Attracts Interest In Shenandoah
Evangelist Hart and singer Magann spark strong interest at Shenandoah meetings held in a newly erected tabernacle. The revival has run about two weeks and continues until March 22. In Hospers, Jacob Koolbeck died of heart failure at his office, a respected early settler who arrived in 792.
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Shenandoah
Evangelist Hart
Magann
Hospers
Jacob Koolbeck
Rie
Ja Koolbeck
Royal succession and palace attack obscure details
A fragmented report notes a shooting near the royal residence with no injuries among palace officials. It mentions King Haakon VI occupying the throne since 193? and references lineage from King Frederick of Da, with a birth date August 3, 1873, and marriage to the daughter of the crown prince. A British link and a son named the Crown are briefly cited.
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Uaakon VI
Frederick of da
Sweden
Stortling
Norway
Christianot Dell
Haakon
Prig
Great Britain
the Crown
Land dispute over undivided share claimed by Edmund C. Jessup
Edmund C. Jessup of northern Connecticut seeks to reclaim property once farmed by his father in Pelliamt Manor New York. He contends three sisters hold an undivided one fourth each without his consent after others moved away and allegedly sold off parcels. The case centers on inheritance and partition rights.
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Edmund C. Jessup
Connecticut
Pelliamt Manor
Beloni
Jessup
Igaviseh
War on Huey and Railroads Clash Over Temperance
A garbled report discusses railroads and temperance, noting tensions between railway workers, prohibition, and reform efforts. References to Chicago, Baltimore and Ohio, employee conduct, and abstinence appear amid unclear advocacy for or against total prohibition and labor practices.
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Gen. Oden
Guitar Dead
Averbuch
Iowa River
Mor
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Maud
Iowa Central Depot
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