Woman's Matrimonial Ads End in Postal Ban
The Burnips Corners postmaster reports postal authorities barred Lizzie Coffee from the mails after a two year scheme using matrimonial ads and commerce to collect money. She claimed 860,000 cash and drew 200 daily suitors from across the country and abroad. Authorities found she had one husband and no real funds. Four hundred proposals remained uncalled for.
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Burnips Corners
Washington
Lizzie Coffee
Miss Coffee
Germany
England
Canada
Philippines
Michigan
Grand Rapids
Freight wreck kills man near Kalamazoo on LS&MS line
A north-bound extra freight broke in two on a grade two miles south of Kalamazoo and collided with the Grand Rapids and Indiana crossing. Twenty cars derailed and many burned after an oil car exploded. One man, believed a tramp, died. the loss is estimated at 50,000 dollars. None of the train crew was hurt.
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Lake Shore
Michigan
Kalamazoo
Grand Rapids and
Indiana
Lull & Skinner's
Jackson
R. Atwater
Austerlitz
N. Camer
Muskegon
Anne Lee
Greenland
Minden City
West Branch
Houghton County
J. P. Andrews
Lansing
Cass County
Nebraska
Peter Pettys
Lapter
E. L. MacPonnell
Grand Rapids
Fairmount
Ind
Gladwin
Battle Creek
Munising
West
Mann, Wattson & Co
George Withey
Port Huron
Howard
Drowning of Adolph Karkau In Yangtse River
Commander Drake reports from China a Navy drowning incident. Adolph E. Karkau of Lansing, a third class quartermaster, drowned March 19 off Louse Island in the Yangtse. Investigation found he dived overboard to end his life while on watch. fellows heard him speak of private troubles.
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Drake
The
China
Navy Department
Adolph BE
Karkau
Lansing
Yang-tse River
Louse Island
Karkanu
Karkan
Boy Shoots Neighbor Dead in Detroit Suburb
A 16 year old neighbor Frank Colling shot 12 year old John Reinhardt in the heart behind Reinhardt's home after a dispute over shared children. Colling says Reinhardt advanced with a hammer and he fired two or three shots into the ground before shooting the victim.
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John Reinhardt
Detroit
Frank Colling
Reinhardt
Young Colling
Colling
Farm fires destroy barn, wood on two Hudson farms
Fire caused more than 15000 dollars damage on Hiram Livermore’s Hudson township farm destroying a large barn and its contents and 2000 cords of wood. Three miles away another fire burned 3500 cords of wood from a second farm, all starting from burning brush heaps.
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Hiram Livermore
Hudson Township
Hudson
Enoch Andrus
Middleville
Andrus
Grayling
Johannesburg
Algonac Bank Closed After Deposit Run
Algonac Banking Company at Algonac has been closed. Principal stockholders were J. W. MelKenzie and P. J. Kean, the latter serving as manager. The bank held about $32,000 in deposits.
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Algonac Bank
Algonac Banking Company
Algonac
J. W. MelKenzie
P. J. Kean
West Branch plans park and new lodge hall as town fires burn
Fire destroys South Rogers forcing abandonment with complete losses and no insurance. John Tolfree donates old cemetery acres for a park at West Branch while George Willabee plans a two story brick lodge hall. A pottery plant may rise near Britton to exploit clay deposits. Qnaway debuts a water system and fire department. town to buy a hook and ladder truck.
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South Rogers
John Tolfree
West Branch
George Willabee
Britton
Qnaway
C. Townsend
Jackson
United States
Henry Hayden
James Williams
Houghton County Agricultural Socety
Fred Simmons
Ypsilanti
All River
Enos Wolf
Maple Grove Township
Livingston County Mutual Fire Insurance Association
Storm Kills and Damages Sweep Missouri Valley
Severe windstorms across Missouri valley kill at least three in Joplin and injure many others while destroying homes, mines, businesses, and crops. Omaha reports fatalities and injuries from flying debris as roofs and plate glass shatter. Iowa to Illinois report heavy winds, rain turning to snow, and broad property damage with numerous incidents along the path.
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Joplin
Omaha
Missouri Valley
Iad
Robert Maxwell
Military Avenue
George P. Bemis
Eighteenth
Farnam
Lawrence Taggert
Lincoln
Iowa
Jefferson
Fonda
Storm Lake
Mingo
Kansas
Oklahoma
Illinois
Bloomington
Ill
Central Illinois
Alton
Wabash workers seek raise and rail developments loom
Rantroads ii Section workers push for higher pay while Alton road switch yards gain electric lighting. Rumors say Wabash plans Huntington to Indianapolis line. Rock Island markets new Mexican line via El Paso in Spanish. American Railway Association committee to propose per diem car charges replacing per mile. Santa Fe chosen for Women’s Club Federation delegates route to San Francisco. Lake Shore and New York Central aim to build rapid transit freight link between Chicago and European ports. 40,000 bushels of grain moved Buffalo harbor to New York Central cars then to Europe in 48 hours, a record, per shippers.
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Alton Road
Wabash
Huntington
Indianapolis
Ind
Rock Island
el Paso
Committee On
American Railway Association
Santa Fe
Women's Club Federation
San Francisco
Lake Shore
New York Central
Chicago
Buffalo
New York
Most Talked Of Woman In South Carolina
Mrs. Andrew Simmonds is the most talked about woman in South Carolina for her bold collapse of Charleston society by meeting President Roosevelt and dining with him at her home, leaving the exclusive St. Cecelia set far behind. The banker's wife feels she has a great victory over rivals who tried to block her rise.
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Andrew Simmonds
South Carolina
Roosevelt
St. Cecelia
Charleston
Butter Prices Rise Amid Groat Bill Debate
Butter prices climb as meat costs rise and groat bill controversy looms. Dairymen deny speculation, while oleomargarine interests blame price gains on pending tax and droughts. Chicago spring butter hits 31½ cents, highest since 1803, with prices fluctuating from 27 to 31½ cents amid legislative tension.
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Chicago
Senate
Railroads plan vast colonization drive to settle Southwest lands
Chicago meetings of Union Pacific Southern Pacific and Harriman lines outline a plan to employ over a thousand immigration agents to draw homeseekers from the Middle East and Northwest to 3 000 000 acres of fertile land in Texas western Louisiana and southern California. Advertisements and homeseeker excursions will promote the scheme.
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Southwest
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Harriman
Chicago
California
Texas
Louisiana
Middle
Northwest States
United States
Mississippi River
Storms Claim Thousands of Sheep Across Wyoming and New Mexico
Reports from Wyoming sections and New Mexico indicate massive sheep losses in a harsh storm with 12 000 to 13 000 sheep killed and lambing prospects bleak. Natrona County bears the heaviest toll as shearing had begun, with about 3 000 head lost.
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Wyoming
Natrona County
New Mexico
Morton Dead. Arbor Day Originator Dies at Lake Forest
J Sterling Morton longtime Democratic leader and former Secretary of Agriculture died at his son Mark Morton's Lake Forest home after a long illness. Born 1832 in New York, he helped found Arbor Day and led agricultural reform, with a career spanning Nebraska Territory frontier farming to national policy.
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Lake Forest
Arbor Day
J. Sterling Morton
Cleveland
Mark Morton
Mark
Paul
Joy Morton
Morton
Stock Stow
Chicago
Nebraska City
Mexico
Mr. Morton
Carl
Julius Sterling Morton
Lresident
Buchanan
Territory of
Nebraska
Prairie States
Bryan
Adams
Jefferson County
N. Y
Michigan
New York
Union College
Detroit Free Press
Chicago Times
Story
East
Department of Agriculture
West
Washington City
Short News Notes from Chicago and World Events
News briefs report fires at McArthur and O districts. a flood at Osthan Moravia drowns thirteen miners. Paris says Jean De Reszke to build a theater in Etoile with 1,250,000 subscribed by friends. Dr. Morris Hale of Little Rock Arkansas gets fifteen months for mailing obscene matter. Mayor Harrison invites Kruger to visit Chicago. Korniloff reportedly lands 60,000 rifles at Bender Abbas. a donor gives 10,000 to Kansas Medical College at Topeka for an addition.
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Osthan
Moravia
Paris
Jean de Reszke
Etoile
Morris Hale
Little Rock
Ark
Carter H. Harrison
Paul Kruger
Hague
Montagu White
Chicago
Korniloff
Persian Gulf
Bender Abbas
Persia
Kansas Medical College
Topeka
Knox to prosecute beef trust under Sherman act in Chicago
Attorney General Knox orders injunctions against Chicago meat packers alleged to form a beef trust. District Attorney Bethea to lead suits with William Day aiding, based on weeks of investigation. Violators may face fines, imprisonment, seizure of interstate products, and triple damages to injured parties.
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Knox
Chicago
Bethea
William A. Day
Attoreney
Department of Justice
Beef Trust
Washington
United States
Wilson
Congressman Weely
Chicago Stock Yards
President Garfield's Son Named Civil Service Candidate
The Ohio Senator and former State Senator James Rudolph Garfield, son of the late President, is mentioned as a civil service commissioner nominee. Garfield, Williams College and Columbia Law School graduate, has practiced law with his brother in Cleveland and resides at Mentor with his mother and wife.
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Ohio
Civil Service
Theodore Roosevelt
James Rudolph Garfield
Young Garfield
Garfield
Williams College
Columbia Law School
Cleveland
Mentor
River disasters recalled on the steamer era dangers
A historical review recounts river catastrophes from the United States and America racing near Madison to fires and drownings on vessels like the Maggie Byer at Brooksburg and the State of Missouri on the Ohio. It notes the John K. Speed fire at Louisville with passengers escaping.
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Cairo
Pittsburg
United States
America
Madison
Ind
Maggie Byer
Brooksburg
Elanora Carroll
Louisville
State of Miscouri
Ohio River
Cloverport
Henderson
John K. Speed
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Ohio
Pope Leo to issue document on growth of Catholicism in America
The Vatican plans to publish a document detailing the expansion of Catholicism across the United States. The report is expected to outline church growth, parish development, and the changing influence of Catholic communities nationwide.
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Leo
America
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Detroit and Mackinaw Railroad
Walled Lake
Michigan Central
Marshall
Albion
W. B. Finch & Co
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Lapeer
Laughlin
Nellie Sullivan
S. D. Brower
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Bidwell Hunter
Seventh Street
Hunter
Marian Hicks
Esther
Galena
Kan
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Carterville
Sedalia
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President Garfield
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