Town of Harriman Devastated by Flood Damage
A Telegraph dispatch reports Harriman Tennessee destroyed by Emery River flood. Damage estimated at a quarter million dollars with two lives likely lost and many others drowned. Oakdale Harriman houses washed away. Cincinnati Southern tunnel collapsed. Vestel Lumber Hoe and Tool planing mill tannery wrecked. debris damaged bridges. Describes widespread destruction and severe losses.
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Harriman
Tenn
Emery River
Oakdale
Junction
Cincinnati Southern Railway
Vestel Lumber Company
Hoe and Tool Company
Planing Millis
Fire Devastates Quthrice Oklahoma Businesses
A blaze leveled the State Capital printing plant and neighboring buildings in Quthrice Oklahoma. The State Capital plant suffered complete destruction including two presses, lineotype machines, heating systems, libraries, and stock. Owner Frank H. Greer cites a 250000 dollar loss. Total town loss expected around 350000 dollars. Only mailing lists survived.
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Quthrice
Okla
State Capital
Hotel Capitol
St. James
Cammack
Richey General Merchanise
Frank H. Greer
Pension Chief Evans Resigns Pending Diplomatic Posting
Commissioner of Pensions Evans has submitted his resignation to the President and will remain in office until a new diplomatic post is found. A pension committee report to the President is not yet released, and Evans’s policy is said to continue under his successor.
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Evans
G. A. R.10
Pension Bureau
Donahue Wins $7500 in Alienation Suit in Omaha
Albert A. Donahue was awarded 7500 damages by a district court jury against Mrs. Sarah C. Figg head of the Figgite church for alienation of his wife's affections. He claimed the sect’s laws barred his wife from living with him and that Figg was the cause of his wife joining the church.
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Omaha
Albert A. Donahue
Sarah C. Figg
S*ige
Donahue
Fatal head on crash on Chicago and Joliet line near Sag Bridge
Two surely and probably four men were killed and seven injured in a head on collision between two cars on the Chicago and Joliet electric line near Sagbridge twenty miles from Joliet Illinois. The cars met on a curve while traveling at high speed and were completely demolished. It is believed both were racing for the switch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago & Joliet
Sagbridge
Joliet
Ill
Steamer Lough Fire Causes 37000 Damages on Yukon River
A Dawson special reports a fire on the steamboat Lough opposite the city has caused 37000 in damages and remains alight. The Lough served Yukon river boats as winter quarters. Also burned are the steamers Glora and Mona owned by J. E. Gonelle of Vancouver.
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Dawson
Yukon
Glora
Mona
Vancouver
Missionary Ellen Stone Arrives in London
American missionary Ellen Stone has arrived in London. She tells an AP representative she is tired but glad to be there and thanks friends abroad, hoping to return home soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen M. Stone
London
Associated Press
Lightning Fire Burns Farm Near Crown Point
A bolt struck the farm house of Christopher Larson near Crown Point Indiana during a snow storm. The blaze trapped Mrs Larson and her 10 year old daughter who were found burned to death in the ruins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christopher Larson
Crown Point
Ind
Riots at Ta Ming Fu Reported With Heavy Death Toll
Chinese officials claim about a thousand people killed in riots at Ta Ming Fu in Chi Li province. The figure may be exaggerated, but officials acknowledge a large loss of life and widespread damage.
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Ta Ming Fu
Chi Li
Grist Mill Burns in Newport Indiana Fire
The Newport Grist Mill Company mill was destroyed by fire with a large quantity of corn burned. Reported loss amounts to 50,000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport, Indiana
Rufino Surrenders rifles after Misamis rebellion bid
Rufino, who spent eighty thousand dollars to incite rebellion in Misamis Province, Mindanao, offers to surrender with seventy five rifles to the native constabulary. General Chaffee departs Manila April 10 for a Samar inspection tour and will witness insurgent Guevarra surrender on April 15. American garrisons in Samar to be largely reduced after.
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Manila
Rufino
Misamis
Mindanao
Chaffee
Samar
Guevarra
Settler Wins Big Land Suit In Kansas City
S I Howe, an old fisherman, wins a district court verdict against Armour Packing Co and Chicago Great Western Railway for possession of forty acres of accretion land south of the Missouri River in Kansas City Kansas. The land formed from an island after 1894 and increased in value, with a trestle for the railway built on it. Supreme Court remanded for proper original proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armour Packing Company
Chicago Great Western
Kansas City
Howe
District Court
Supreme Court
Missing $3000 Registered Mail Stolen Between Milwaukee and Tron Mountain
Money from a Chicago bank vanished in transit from Milwaukee to Tron Mountain Michigan. Postal inspectors, ongoing for days, have not located the crew responsible for the $3,000 package missing from the registered mail. The bag was sealed in Milwaukee and opened at Tron Mountain, leaving a slit indicating theft.
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Chicago
Michigan
Milwaukee
Tron Mountain
Mich
Iron Liver
Brides Found In Chicago Football Romance Revealed
Two Chicago students who wed after a November football outing kept their marriages secret for four months. Frances Coleman and Irene Trowe of Minneapolis are revealed as Mrs. Delbert J. Dumas and Mrs. John Sessions. Husbands are Northwestern Medical College graduates in Chicago.
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Chicago
Frances Coleman
Irene Trowe
Minneapolis
Delbert J °. Dumas
John Sessions
Northwestern Medical College
Insurgent General Guevarra to Surrender April Fifteenth
General Smith in Samar conducts three hour interview with Guevarra and officers. Insurgent commander agrees to surrender with his entire force and rifles on April 15 under United States supervision.
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United States
Smith
Samar
P. L
Guevarra
Postal Company Wins Suit For Right Of Way Pole Line
The Postal Telegraph and Cable Company won its lawsuit against the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company securing the right of way for a pole and wire line from Butte Montana to points in Montana and through to Ogden Utah. Crews will begin stringing wires immediately. Also news notes that thirty seven American artists entered a contest for the Grant statue memorial in Washington with a $250000 appropriation.
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Postal Company
Postal Telegraph and Cable Company
Oregon Short Line Railroad Company
Butte
Mont
Montana
Ogden
Utah
Grant
Washington
Marriage by Parapet on Capitol Dome Atmosphere
Senor Andres Diaz y Pairo of Cuba and Miss Catherine McConachie wed atop the capitol parapet 375 feet above street level in Washington. The St. Louis World’s Fair progress shows visible features from surrounding sites including lagoons trees and avenues. Kansas City fire destroys National Paper Box Co building with losses around 100000. Bethel Ohio business district post office and surrounding structures burn for about 50000 in damage.
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Capitol
Washington
Senor
Andres Diaz Y Pairo
Cuba
Catherine McConachie
St. Louis
Kansas City
National Paper Box Company
Accord Reached on Manchurian Convention Evacuation Plan
The Chinese foreign office president and counterpart agreed on main terms of the Manchurian convention and expect early signing. The plan calls for evacuation of three provinces in three six month periods.
Rejected Suitor Becomes Heir in Overnight Fortunes
Clarence Palmer, spurned by Miss Uattie Limmerick of Topeka, Kan., learns his uncle died leaving $10,000 as he seeks reconciliation. Palmer travels to her home only to find she has left the state to escape his pursuit, after a prior rejection over poverty.
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Uattie Limmerick
Topeka
Kan
Clarence Palmer
Ohio
Palmer
Miss Liwamerick
Clarence
Cincinnati Man Jailed for Murder After Fence Row
N Pendleton, real estate dealer in Cincinnati, is jailed on murder charges after shooting Mrs Anna Baker during a dispute over a division fence. Her husband, a one armed man, tried to intervene. Pendleton fired three times and was restrained by neighbors until police arrived.
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Do. N. Pendleton
Cincinnati
Anna Baker
Pendleton
Baker
Valet Jones to Be Freed Amid Guilty Witness Controversy
District Attorney Jerome says immunity may spare a guilty man as Charles F. Jones testified he killed Mice for Albert T Patrick at the Rice mansion. Separate cases report Wertheimer Friedlander Bozer found guilty of conspiring to burn a factory for insurance and a Pennsylvania mine cave-in floods Hamtown with wrecked dwellings and widening fissures endangering homes.
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Patrick
Jerome
New York
Charles F. Jones
William Marsh Rice
Albert T. Patrick
Reading
Wertheimer
Readine
Sylvan Friedlander
Heading
Newark
Daniel Bozer
Assirt
Lwu
Pennsylvania
Hamtown
Wilkesbarre
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Storm Damage Hits South. Railways Wash Away in Mississippi
Heavy storms cause widespread damage with washed out railroad tracks and bridges in Vicksburg and surrounding areas. Farmers face severe soil erosion on freshly plowed lands on hillsides and creek bottoms, raising concerns over crops and transportation.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Section
Boy blows head apart with dynamite near Morristown
Five year old George W. Carter, a farmer and stock buyer six miles south of Morristown Indiana, placed dynamite in his mouth and ignited the fuse, dying instantly. He had suffered ill health for months.
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George W. Carter
Morristown
Ind
Carter
American meat contract and bacon shipments for Britain
The British government contracts 220000 cases of canned beef from a major American packing firm's London branch for the British army and 500000 pounds of sliced bacon in tins for prompt London delivery. Iowa Governor Cummins vetoes the Molesberry merger bill removing the per mile indebtedness limit for railways in Iowa.
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London
Cummins
Iowa
Massillon Coal Mines to Shut Down Five Operations
The Massillon Coal Mining Company, now in control of most district mines, will close five mines. About 700 workers are employed at these mines. In other news, Senator YT Platt’s engagement to Mrs. William Janeway in Washington is expected to be formally announced soon. A Cuban court fined and jailed Neely Rathbone and Reeves for postal fraud. Fort Saskatchewan condemned killer B Bullock is executed for the Stainton murder. Miss Elien M Stone travels toward London en route home to America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massillon Coal Mining Company
Combine
Massillon, Ohio
Senator Platt
Washington
YT. C. Platt
William Janeway
City
Not Saved by Reprieve Murderer Hanged by Mob
Charles Francis Woodward, condemned for killing Sheriff William C. Ricker near Garfield Park in Natrona County, was lynched by about 200 men at Casper after a reprieve was denied. The mob forced the jail, dragged Woodward from his cell, and hanged him at a tree behind the building. An immense crowd witnessed the incident. many out-of-town residents departed afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Francis Woodward
William C. Ricker
Casper
Wryo
Woodward
Eight Hundred Men Go Out in District No 25
President George Richards of District No 25 U M W of A orders a strike at Marlin Coal Company mines in Missouri. Eight hundred miners walk out across Macon Randolph and Ray counties over the discharge of a miner in Randolph. Officials on both sides dispute fault behind the suspension.
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George Richards
Marlin Coal Company
Missouri
Macon
Randolph
Ray
Randolph County
Towns Family Found Dead From Gas in Chicago Home
In Chicago three family members James Towns his wife and 11 year old daughter were found dead in their home with gas escaping from a pipe near the bed. Police believe the missing tap on the goipe indicates self-inflicted death and murder suicide.
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James Towns
Chicago
Harvard Receives 150000 For Dormitories
George Smith adopted son of James Smith and Persis Smith files will in St. Louis leaving Harvard University 450000 for construction of three dormitories two named for the Smiths and one for the donor himself. In a separate item Lord Kitchener reports British forces capture 130 prisoners and several artillery pieces from Gen Delarey. A separate accident in New Jersey involves George J Gould's auto causing two wrecks injuring three, with one possibly fatally hurt.
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Harvard
George Smith
James Smith
The
Smith Academy
Persis Smith
St. Louis
Harvard University
Delarey
Ge. Delarey
Lord Witchenee
Gan. Delarey
Yord Whitchener
Money Kine
Charles Phimet
George J. Gould
Allaire
Lakewood
N. J
Explosion Blasts North of Finlay Hit by Molecule Force
John Duran a Hercules Torpedo Company teamster was blown apart while loading a wagon at a magazine north of Finlay Ohio Seventeen hundred quarts of nitroglycerin exploded sending a shock seventy miles an effect, though details on casualties are sparse.
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John Duran
Hercules Torpedo Company
Finlay
Ohio
Ohio Senate Approves Columbus McKinley Memorial Site
The Ohio Senate adopted Wirt's joint resolution granting Columbus citizens the right to occupy space near the capitol grounds entrance to erect a memorial for the late President McKinley. The memorial is budgeted at $20,000.
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McKinley Shaft
Ohio Senate
Wirt
Columbus
Capitol Grounds
McK
Inley
Otis Retires From Army After Forty Years Service
Gen Elwell S Otis, for eighteen months commander of the department of the lakes, retires from active army duty after nearly forty years of service. Gen Arthur MacArthur will succeed Gen Otis as commander.
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Otis
Elwell S. Otis
Department of the Lakes
Army
Arthur MacArthur
Pauper Heir to Fortune Heads to Boston
A Baltimore special reports Joseph Zane, a pauper, left the almshouse for Boston to claim his share of an uncle’s estate valued at $500,000. His portion is estimated at about $100,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Zane
Boston
Baltimore
Doctor Gray Cleared in Chicago Murder Trial
Dr. Robert I. Gray of Garden City Kansas is acquitted of murder in Chicago. The jury in Judge Ball's court found him not legally responsible for the death of patient Miss Irma Brown.
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Dr. Gray
Robert I. Gray
Garden City
Kan
Miss Irma Brown
Judge Ball
Chicago
Prince Adalbert Visit to U S Declared Baseless
The report that Prince Adalbert would visit the United States aboard the training ship Charlotte is declared unfounded by American papers. No official confirmation or credible sources support the claim.
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Kaiser
Prince Adalbert
United States
Charlotte
Hanna Denies Rumor of Presidential Candidacy
Senator Hanna writes to a Wisconsin man denying any plan to run for president and asks friends to discourage movement for him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanna
Wisconsin
Olemargarine bill dominates Senate and House actions
Congress moves on the oleomargarine bill with a 10 cent per pound tax on colored margarine and a reduced tax on uncolored forms. Debates cover constitutionality and industry impact as bills on pensions, district code, and Cuba policy also proceed. The House unseats a Kentucky Democrat for Moss and passes army and sundry civil appropriations while handling other fiscal and diplomatic items.
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Senate
Proctor
Committee On Agriculture
Eagle Harbor
Keweenaw Point
Mich
Money
Hansbrough
District of Columbia
Rhea
Kentucky
J. McKenzie Moss
Scarborough
South Carolina
Gaines
Tennessee
Hull
Iowa
Harris
Quarles
Cuba
Committee On Foreign Relations
Patterson
Funston
Aguinaldo
Danish West Indies
Revenue Cutter Service
Trade prospects brighten as labor and demand rise in 1903
RK Dun & Co. notes improving labor settlements and wage increases, reduced traffic delays, and robust retail and domestic demand. Iron and steel demand remains strong, with imports rising, exports steady, and major structural contracts under consideration. Wheat outlook favorable for a large crop while spring trade stays active in wool, cotton, lumber, flour, and agricultural implements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
RK. G. Dun & Co
Chicago
Washington Notes Summary of Political and Military News
Chicago may host a new naval training station Gen Young named president of the new army war college Friends of Senator Spooner urge re election Hoar denounces direct election of senators Hague treaty ratified to ease war horrors President reportedly declines sending Gen Miles to the Philippines Postoffice Dept halts fraudulent scheme advertising open cash registers without keys
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Washington
Chicago
Naval Training Station
Gen. Young
Army War College
Spooner
Wisconsin
Senate
Hoar
Gen. Miles
Philippines
Postoffice Department
Chicago to New York daily market price listings
Market figures across cities show cattle at $3.50 to $86.65 while hogs range $3.00 to $6.90. Wheat No 2 red 79¢ to 90¢, corn No 2 57¢ to 63¢, oats 41¢ to 46¢, rye 55¢ to 66¢. Butter 24¢ to 26¢. eggs 12¢ to 15¢. regional prices listed for Indianapolis Detroit St Louis and others.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Failure of Lord Francis Hope Reflected in Petition Claim
The document records the failure as announced regarding Lord Francis Hope with a petitioning creditor claiming £4000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Francis Hope
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Rob
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City Savings Bank of Detroit
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I. W. Anges
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Senor Estrada Palma
Palma
Ohio Town
Bethel
Russia
Manchuria
Pekin
London Times
Paul Lessar
China
Prince Ching
Valet Jones
Havana
Neely, Rathbone and Reeves
Fort Saskatchewan
B. Bullock
Nebraska
Leon Stainton
Elien M. Stone
America
Rerbrieve
Congress
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Lodge
Stewart
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Texas
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Ilinois
Hitt
Foreign Affairs Committee
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Court of Claims
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Committee On Appropriations
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