Chicago Beaton Harbor and Grand Rapids Railroad Franchised
At a South Haven city meeting the Chicago Beaton Harbor and Grand Rapids Railroad Co. was granted a traction franchise for an electric line through the city. Trustees Joseph W. Hosmer William E. Dodson and George S. Hannaford of Chicago hold the grant. The route runs Benton Harbor to South Haven and connects at Saugatuck with the Grand Rapids Holland line. Completion in two years. South Haven to host power plant and main offices. Right of way secured on most of the route. work likely to begin in spring.
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South Haven
Chicago
Lumber firm acquires 12.6 acres timber in Marquette
At a Kalamazoo meeting in the Kalamazoo National Bank building, Big Bay Lumber Company, largely Kalamazoo funded, arranged land purchase from Brunswick Balke Collender Company of Chicago. The 12.6 acre tract in Marquette County Upper Peninsula holds high value for hardwood timber of oak, maple, and walnut. After logging, buyers expect fertile black loam and clay soil suitable for farming.
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Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo National Bank
Big Bay Lumber Company
Kalamazoo Capital
Brunswick- Balke-Collender Company
Chicago
Marquette County
Upper Peninsula
Inheritance Tax Swells as Grand Rapids Elders Die
Kent county sees an unprecedented share of inheritance tax from Grand Rapids estates with thirty large holdings yet to be inventoried. The Delos Blodgett and J. M. Barnett estates top the list with substantial taxes. many final accounts await completion to reveal the total tax impact.
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Kent County
Grand Rapids
Delos Blodgett
J. M. Barnett
Blodgett
Duffy Is Set Free In Murder Trial Discharge
The Circuit Court in Saginaw discharged Joseph Duffy after Prosecuting Attorney Purcell urged dismissal due to a letter discrepancy Miss Leanen admitted writing and her testimony. Judge Gage ordered the case nolle prossed citing the evidence gap in the murder of Myrtle Lennon’s baby.
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Joseph Duffy
Myrtle Lennon
Saginaw
Purcell
Leanen
Duffy
Gage
Daffy
Swindler Traps Kalama Residents With Half-Price Coal
A local swindler deceived over 100 Kalama residents and about 200 people in total, claiming he acted for a civic group to distribute coal at half price. He collected money and vanished, gaining more than $3 from each victim in a single day.
Daylig robber bold in Upper Michigan highway robbery
An early morning holdup attempt occurred in Upper Michigan as a masked highwayman threatened Farner at eight o'clock, demanding cash. Johnson spurred his horse and the thief fired twice, one bullet piercing an overcoat and the other grazing his chin. the assailant fled.
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Johnson
Boy Hurt By Explosion At Kalamazoo Distillery Plant
A nine year old boy, Frank Muryne, was lightly burned when an explosion partially wrecked the Kalamazoo distilling plant. The cement walls and building were blown out while machinery escaped serious damage. Cause unknown and no one else was nearby. The youth is not believed to be fatally injured.
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Kalamazoo
Bold Robbery at the 500 Post Office
Three men entered the post office in Saint-Ste Marie around seven pm and struck Deputy Postmaster Frank Higgins unconscious with a sandbag. They escaped with about $2542 while Higgins lay wounded until found hours later, expected to recover. police suspect the robbers fled to Canada.
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Keneck
Sankt Ste. Marie
Postminster
Frank Higgins
Canada
Staczer
Charles Roberts
Higgins
Afton Burned In Cheboygan County Fire Ravages Village
The small lumber town of Afton in Ellis township lost the Harvey Vizinia saloon and hotel Trude's saloon a general store and most buildings in a recent blaze. Loss estimated around 8.00 with some insurance coverage. Afton once Ellisville sits 25 miles south of Cheboygan with about 23 residents.
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Afton
Cheboygan County
Harvey Vizinia
Trude
Ellisville
Ellis Township
Cheboygan
Peculiar Carbolic Gangrene Wounds Grace Crane
Grace Crane a 16 year old girl of Port Huron is dying from a rare disease described as carbolic gangrene. Doctors are baffled as the illness progresses from a wrist burn when carbolic acid spilled on it to widespread wasting. The body darkens and flesh is eaten away while physicians search for a cure.
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Grace Crane
van E. Crane
Port Huron
Death in Wakefield Fire Claims Two Young Daughters
A kitchen fire at the residence of John Krents in Wakefield caused the deaths of his two daughters aged 2 and 5. The mother reportedly locked the children in the house while she visited a neighbor.
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John Krents
Wakefield
Hoase
Short state items from a rugged midwest newspaper
Veterans, crimes, trials, and local notices fill a compact state page. A Tentline infantry veteran dies at Grand Rapids Soldiers' Home after a stair accident. Rochester arrests and a wandering wife bare suspicion. Convicted felons like John Beckman face shortened terms in Marquette. Bay City gang duels yield stolen fish and copper wire cases. Local fines for liquor violators appear in Shaftsburg. Hartford eyes a tax exempt opera house if a twenty year exemption is granted, promising a new theater at stake.
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Hough
Tentlinw
Grand Rapids
Hom
Tuscola
Rochester
John M. Beckman
Calhoun
Marquette
Beckman
Supreme Court
Frank Dargis
Bay City
Dargis
Frank Mayhew
Mayhew
Herbert St. Germain
Salz
Ci Cnit
Hartford
The Ascension and Pentecost Lesson Remembered
A Sunday School lesson discusses Acts 1 1 14 and Luke 24 51 highlighting Pentecost as the church’s turning point and the need for personal preparation prayer and obedience. It explains the two baptisms water and fire and urges steadfast prayer for the Holy Ghost.
Nations Face Alarm Over U S Industrial Deaths
A released bulletin from the bureau of labor cites 80,000 workers killed in the past year with 30,000 to 35,000 deaths among workingmen and three million injuries. It highlights iron and steel workers as the most exposed group and notes excessive fatalities among electricians, linemen, and coal miners, with railway workers at 7.46 deaths per thousand. The report urges aggressive factory inspection, better legislation, and lessons from Europe to prevent one third to one half of such losses.
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United States
Bureau of Labor
Forest Waste and Timber Loss Warned by Reed Smoot
Senator Reed Smoot told the conservation congress that annual forest waste exceeds 50 million dollars with fifty lives lost yearly to fires. He urged replanting treeless lands and extending forest preservation by state and federal action to protect long term national timber supplies.
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Reed Smoot
The
Conservation Congress
Does Plague Threaten America This Time
The Collier's article by C. P. Connolly argues plague threats are real with bubonic form affecting lymph nodes and causing buboes. It traces plague history from 14 years in southern China to Hongkong Bombay and India with high fatality in some regions and notes no human San Francisco cases since January but lingering danger remains.
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America
Collier's
C. P. Connolly
San Francisco
China
India
Hongkong
Bombay
North America
Australia
South Africa
Nubmins of Farm News: Horticultural and Stock Show Highlights
Barns and farms in Minnesota report losses as botts spread among horses near Barnesville. White Earth Reservation tops wealth, Minnesota Horticultural Society opposes seed free distribution by Congressmen. Minnesota Agricultural College wins Aberdeen Angus fat class champion steer Eclipser at Chicago, also wins yearling and places in three-head lot. Iowa leads hogs. Wisconsin takes Durac Jerseys. Wolf predation drives a large hunt in western South Dakota. In Chicago student stock judging, top prizes go to H H Kildee Iowa State, C W McCampbell Kansas, J H Gramlich Nebraska, J H Cooke Nebraska, and R F Miller Texas.
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Barnesville
Minn
White Earth
Minnesota
Minnesota Horticultural Society
Chicago
Minnesota Agricultural College
Iowa
Durac
Wisconsin
South Dakota
H. H. Kildee
Iowa State College
Fire ruins Herald Square Theater after final act
The Herald Square Theater in New York burned quickly after smoke filled the wall behind the balcony during The Three Twins. About 1,000 people escaped as flames spread to the rear of the house and through to the stage area. Damage was estimated at 30,000 to the building and 10,000 to interiors. no injuries reported among cast beyond a fainted star Bessie McCoy.
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Herald Square Playhouse
Herald Squire
New York
Broadway
35Th Street
Bessie McCoy
Lee Shubert
Herald Square Theater
Robbers tie couple for hours on a farm
William Jones and his aged housekeeper Mrs Anna Williams were bound to beds for fifteen hours at a farmhouse near Yestville Ca by robbers. A note tied to F C Wood’s blacksmith shop claimed Jones was tied and robbed, with his gold watch hanging from the door knob serving as proof.
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William Jones
Anna Williams
Yestville
F. C. Wood
Jones
Audience Dances After The Vpeddler Parade Show
In Agosta Ohio a company presented The VPeddler's Parade in the town hall. After the first act the audience demanded their admission refund and cleared the floor. A dance followed while actors watched from the stage. Many wore placards marked Stung and shop windows displayed the same.
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Agosta
Ohio
Man Overpays Tax to Ald Roads in Beloved Message
Henry O. Underwood of Belmont Massachusetts added 100 to his tax payment claiming his car caused that much road damage. Town officials praise the gesture as a commendable example for other motorists.
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Henry O. Underwood
Belmont
Mass
Austria Hungary to pay Turkey twenty million stroke
The Berlin Frankfurter Zeitung reports a reliable source says Austria Hungary will grant Turkey 20 million as compensation for the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The paper notes the deal awaits only formalities.
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Turkey
Berlin
Frankfurter Zeitung
Austria-Iungary
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Poison Alcohol Claims Ten Soldiers at Camp Keithley
Seventeen soldiers of the Eighteenth Infantry at Camp Keithley Min danao Island are dangerously ill after ingesting poison alcohol bought at the post exchange. Ten comrades died from the toxin and others remain hospitalized as investigations begin into the incident.
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Eighteenth Infantry
Camp Keithley
Mindanao
I. L
Post Exchange
Lisbon Council Unearths 7 Million Dollar City Scandal
The newly elected Lisbon municipal council in Portugal reports the disappearance of over seven million dollars from city accounts. Former monarchical councilors blame the government for illegal appropriation of the city’s funds.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Elbert Hubbard injured by falling tree at East Aurora
The author and lecturer Elbert Hubbard was seriously injured near his colony in East Aurora New York when a falling tree mis judged in direction crushed him while he aided workers.
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Elbert Hubbard
East Aurora
N. Y
Rose County votes dry majority in Washington County
In Ohio, Washington County residents backed the Rose local option bill authored by State Senator Rose, with a 1300 vote majority. The result marks a dry victory in the county where the senator hails from.
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Rose’s County
Drs
Washington County
Ohio
Rose
Newman Quails Railroad Job
W H Newman resigns as president of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company. Resignation takes effect February 1, 1900.
Holmes County Votes Dry After Saloons Outlawed
Holmes County Ohio voters turnout yields dry status by 995 votes with four saloons closed. Local authorities report closure of four drinking establishments as part of the prohibition measure.
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Holmes County
Ohio
Fire destroys Warman business district in Sasatchewan
The business section of Warman Saskatchewan was burned with no loss figures released. The town is named after Cy Warman. A separate Lisbon scandal tale claims seven million missing and cites former councilors admitting irregularities but blaming the government for unlawfully taking city funds.
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Warman
Saskatchewan
Cy Warman
New York Holiday Trade Shows Expand and Shopper Footfall
Holiday trade shows expand with many cities reporting volume equal to or above last year, though some Southern areas lag. Warmer weather hurts regular retail in the Southwest and South while large centers show strong shopper activity. Wholesale trade quiet except for restocking orders. inventories press activity toward January. Steel rail orders from railroads appear, tin plate mills busy, water supply up in New England, paper mills running strongly. Eastern shoe makers report orders three months ahead. lumber demand rises with firmer yellow pine prices. US weekly business failures total 310, down from 208 last week and below 300 in 1907. Canada shows 31 failures, down from 40.
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New England
United States
Canada
Chicago trade holds steady as recovery continues
Dun's Review of Trade notes well sustained recovery in Chicago with accumulating demand in heavy industries and large trading defaults offset by bank payments. Early buying strong, interior stocks depleting and frequent reorders. weather dampens retail Christmas activity though spring orders rise. District shows 41 failures with liabilities over 5000, unchanged from last week.
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Chicago
Dun
Review of Trade
Midwest and East Grain and Live Stock Prices Snapshot
A sweeping list of regional market quotes shows Chicago cattle and hogs trading from $4.00 to $7.50, dairy and produce notes. Indianapolis and St. Louis offer corn and wheat at Nos 2 levels, with rye and oats prices mixed. Prices span Chicago to Buffalo, Cincinnati, Detroit, Milwaukee, New York and Toledo, highlighting volatile shifts across cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye barley and butter eggs seeds.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
Ste. St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Buffalo—tittle
New York
Toledo
Trade and Industry Officials Seek More Examiners
Bank Superintendent Schaefer of Minnesota asks for two additional examiners at a cost of 3600 dollars yearly. The Southern States Association’s Commissioners of Agriculture work with manufacturers to secure uniform labeling and safe foods, aiming to standardize practices.
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Bank Supeendent Schaefer
Minnesota
Associes Commissioners of Agriculture
Ar“ Py
Lay Ag Saeme Foods
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