Secretary Arrested in Michigan Fraternity Insolvency
Port Huron March 20. State Banking Commissioner Zimmermann says Supreme Secretary W. L. Wilson is more than 75 000 short and has been embezzling. The United Home Protectors Fraternity is deemed hopelessly insolvent and a receiver will be sought. Wilson confessed after trustees summoned him. the 14 year old building and loan operation has about 2 500 members.
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Port Huron
Mich
United Home Protectors
W. L. Wilson
Zimmerman
Wilson
Iseal Lodge
Upper
Lower
Peninsias
Michigan
Madame Anna Gould Rejects Marriage Plans After Divorce
Madame Anna Gould arrives in New York aboard the Adriatic denying engagement and any plans with Helie de Sagan. She explains she has had enough of married life and is not engaged to anyone, while bringing her three sons Boni Jay and George to live with her. Helie de Sagan is a cousin of Count Boni de Castellane and had been linked to a future match.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Anna Gould
Boni de Castellane
Adriatic
Helie de Sagan
Excursion Train Wreck Kills One in Pearsall Texas
An excursion train carrying homeseekers from Kansas and Oklahoma to Mexico wrecked near Pearsall, fifty two miles south of San Antonio. One man was killed and eight others were badly injured when the engine tender baggage car and four day coaches left the track due to a broken rail. The last six cars stayed on the rails.
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San Antonio
Tex
International and Great Northern Railroad
Kansas
Oklahoma
Mexico
Pearsall
American car leads New York to Paris race stalled west of Ely
The American car in the New York to Paris automobile race stalls west of Ely Utah about 700 miles ahead of the nearest pursuer. The stalled car lies between Carter and Leroy Wyoming while the French and German cars are west of Grand Island.
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Ogden
Utah
New York
Paris
Ely
New
Carter
Leroy
Wyo
Grandsland
Bank Robbery In Okla By Tyro Gang Members
Two robbers believed to be from the Tyro gang robbed the Davis bank at Hoffman Oklahoma, covering loan officials with pistols and taking about $900 in currency before mounting their horses and escaping.
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Muskogee
Okla
Tyro
Kan
Davis Bank
Hoffman
Ole
Here
Fire at Kissinger Lumber Yard Threatens City
Fire broke out in Kissinger Bros lumber yards at Seventh and U streets northwest and spread to nearby residences. The American League baseball park was threatened and a Freedmen's hospital building vacated recently was partly destroyed. The yard is the city’s largest with losses estimated at 500000 dollars, mostly in the lumber ward.
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Washington
Kissinger Bros
Seventh
U Streets
Freedmen’s Hospital
Flood at Pittsburg brings enormous property losses
Pittsburg reports a sudden flood crest likely under thirty feet with a danger line at twenty two. The Ohio and rivers rise, causing extensive cellar and first floor flooding in lowlands, disruption to industry and railroads, and relief crews using boats to reach stranded families. At least 26 000 workers cannot work.
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Pittsburg
United States Weather Bureau
Allegheny
Monongahela
Ohio
Old City
Explosion Collapses Third Floor In Minneapolis Fire
Five salvage corps members and a police sergeant were endangered when the third floor of the Gamble Robinson Wholesale Fruit building collapsed during a fire on North Sixth Street. The blast blew out both ends of the structure and hurled workers and debris into the street. No major injuries were reported beyond bruises and cuts. The explosion is believed caused by hot air forced into unventilated spaces as the floor gave way.
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Minneapolis
North Sixth Street
Salvage Corps
Gamble-Robinson Wholesale Fruit Company
Frank Cross
al Fleetham
Paul Thompson
Steven Liniham
James Allerdice
Gamble Concern
Sargeant Russel
Panic During Fire Drill in Kattowitz School
During a fire drill in a Kattowitz city school in Prussian Silesia ten young students were trampled unconscious as a locked exit blocked the sixth class. Passersby freed the door and halted the stampede. no lives were lost.
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Kattowitz
Prussian Silesia
Prominent St Louis Woman Ends Life At Sister’s Home
The body of Elizabeth G. Koken, linked to the Koken Iron Works Banner Ironworks and Koken Barber Supply, was found in bed at her sister Mrs. George Wakerlin’s home in St. Louis. She died by her own action using carbolic acid, after visiting and asking her sister not to call until late. No motive is given.
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St. Louis
Elizabeth G. Koken
Koken
Koken Iron Works
Banner Ironworks
Koken Barber Supply Company
George Wakerlin
Bryan Calls for End to Corporate Political Domination
William J. Bryan marked his forty eighth birthday with a national issues speech before a large crowd at the Seventh Regiment Armory on Sixteenth Street in Chicago. He argued that the greatest present day evil is corporate influence in politics and declared the Democratic party best suited to curb it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Democratic Party
William J. Bryan
Seventh Regiment
Sixteenth Street
German Expeditionary Force Fights In Kalahari
Cablegram from South Africa reports a severe battle in the Kalahari desert between German expeditionary forces and Hottentots. The enemy lost 58 killed. German losses were heavy with Captain von Erckert Lieutenant Ebinger and twelve privates killed and seventeen wounded.
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Berlin
South Africa
Kalahari
von Erckert
Ebinger
New York Democrats Back Unpledged Delegation for Convention
The Democratic state committee narrowly approved an uninstructed delegation to the national convention, with Charles P. Williams alone opposing in favor of William J. Bryan. Chairman Connors noted Bryan’s waning support, while pushing for unpledged delegates to be chosen at the April 14 Carnegie Hall meeting.
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New York
W. J. Connors
Democratic State Committee
Charles P. Williams
Lyons
William J. Bryan
Illiame
New York State
Thomas W. Finucane
Rochester
Carnegie Hall
Fletcher C. Peck
Nunda
Connors
Mr. Williams
Bryan
Estate Committee
Ilesro
Johnson
Minnesota
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Austin
R. Rk. Murphy’s
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C.W Shaw
H. L. Banfield
Ass't
NF Banfield
Jdost
Surplus
Moreland & Duholm
Austin, Minn
His
Denver
Tee
Or Johnson
Hotel Victoria
Jalil
Florida
Perry, Fla
Richard Smith
Wit McMullen
Smith
McMullen
Nero
The
Austin Herald
Ederheimer, Stein & Co, Makers
Ion
Kirgeneie
Golden Eagle Clothing House
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