Michigan State News refutes illiteracy claim in Arenac county
County School Commissioner George H. Glasure declares a report that boys and girls in Moffatt township Arenac county grow to adulthood without learning to read or write is baseless. He notes the north half of Moffatt contains two well equipped district schools within two miles and affirms Arenac public schools rank second to none in Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George H. Glasure
Moffatt Township
Arenac County
Michigan
Boy Killed by Bottle at Grand Rapids Ball Game
At a Central League game in Grand Rapids 13 year old William Haverkamp died after a pop bottle hurled from the bleachers struck him. Spectators say Edward Parks is under arrest for throwing the bottle intended for a group of boys. The incident sparked a brawl as Haverkamp fell unconscious and several others were detained for fighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Haverkamp
Grand Rapids
Edward Parks
Slaverkamp
Boy Fatally Shot By Accidental Rifle Discharge
Arthur Foster age 19, son of farmer John A. Foster near Bay City, died hours after an accidental rifle discharge. He had been employed by farmer Wilcox to haul wood when the firearm, left leaning against a wagon seat, discharged as horses spooked the team, the bullet striking near his heart.
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Arthur Foster
John A. Foster
Bay City
Young Foster
Wilcox
Foster
Young Hackley Hurt in Michigan Dynamite Accident
Muskegon’s young multimillionaire Charles Moore Lackley was dynamited while blasting stumps at his Ravenna township lumber camp. He survived the blast but is in serious condition with possible loss of sight as the dynamite failed to give him time to escape and he was thrown several feet from the explosion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Charles Moore Lackley
Muskegon
Ravenna Township
Hackley
Tongue Cutter Sentenced by Judge Coolidge in St Joseph
Circuit Judge Coolidge sentenced Max Minney in St Joseph to Jackson for two and a half to five years after his conviction for cutting out a horse tongue. He cried I am not guilty and was led back to jail. Farmers rejoice over the tongue cutter's fate amid a string of horse butcheries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coolidge
Jackson
St. Joseph
Max Minney
Stranded Man Rescued From Barbed Wire Fence Near Ypsilanti
A disoriented man became tangled in a barbed wire fence on George Seever’s farm two miles south of Ypsilanti. A farm hand, drawn by the stranger's odd movements, freed him and Deputy James Lowden took charge after the rescue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Seever
Ypsilanti
James Lowden
Boundary Change Hinted in Wisconsin Michigan Line Review
Attorney General Bird and Prof. Davis of Ann Arbor plan to travel to Washington to examine War Department records for the Wisconsin Michigan boundary survey. The legislature urged a new survey with possible federal court action to re establish the boundary as Congress described. The case hinges on whether federal courts will disturb a long standing state boundary amid claims of survey error.
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Bird
Davis
Ann Arbor
Washington
War Department
Wisconsin
Michigan
New Lake Steamer Adam E Cornelius Launched
The steamer Adam E. Cornelius built for Boland and Cornelius of Buffalo was launched at St. Clair. The vessel is 440 feet long with a 52 foot beam and represents modern construction. A. J. Cornelius and J. J. Boland of Buffalo attended the ceremony.
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New Lake
Adam E. Cornelius
Boland & Cornelius
Buffalo
St. Clair
Cornelius
A. J. Cornelius
J. J. Boland
Disappearance Mystery Solved in Negaunee Woods
Herbert James, a Negaunee youth, wandered away December 7 after suffering mental distress. His corpse was found in nearby woods, with exposure cited as the cause of death. authorities note he became lost and mentally unstable.
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Disappes
Nce
Herbert James
Body Found on Muskegon Beach Near Life Saving Station
A man about 40 was found dead on the Lake Michigan shore half a mile north of the Muskegon life saving station. Features described as badly decomposed. Authorities investigating to determine cause and identity.
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Lake Michigan
Muskegon
Burglars Make Rich Haul in Tecumseh Bankers Home
Bankers Lucius Lilley and Hiram Westcott were robbed as burglars entered Lilley’s Tecumseh home while he slept. They escaped with 310 in cash, two gold watches, and silverware, then targeted Tom Elliott’s blacksmith shop for tools and stole a horse and buggy. Night Watchman Bennet alerted authorities and the thieves fled toward Adrian, abandoning their rig.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lilley
Lucius Lilley
Tecumseh
Tom Elliott
Bennet
Benjam
Adrian
City
Saloonkeeper Shoots Self in Dearborn Block Mirror
John Weedon a Mus kegon pioneer saloonkeeper faced ill health and mounting business depression. He killed himself in his Dearborn block room, leaving a note about mental agony. Patrolman Clark found his body after the landlady asked him to break in. Weedon, about 50, paid two weeks in advance. five chambers of the weapon were loaded.
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John Weedon
Muskegon
Dearborn Block
Clark
Weedon
Ile
Perry Open to Saloons Quorum Repeals Saloons Rule
After failed attempts to meet, a Perry dry man FE Devore was seized in a drug store by wets who gained a quorum. The Perry ordinance suppressing saloons was repealed and liquor bonds for John Hicks were approved. The village funds will defend claims from the late election contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry
FE. A. Devore
John Hicks
Dynamite Drying Fatal Claims Larkin Farmer Family
A Lar kin township farmer Charles Harness suffered a fatal dynamite explosion while drying explosives in a kitchen oven. The blast destroyed his house injuring his wife and his seven year old daughter, who survived only to likely die from the injuries. A seven month old baby in arms escaped unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midland
Charles Harness
Larkin Township
Tlarness
Wolves Bring Money From Traps In Calumet County
A. P. Frank Bisdale and partner KE. M. Taylor appeared at the county clerk's office in Calumet with seven wolf pelts and a wildcat skin. They collected $178 and later about $200 from Baraga county for similar catches. Trapping was done around Covington and Sidnaw.
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A. P
Frank Bisdale
Upper Peninsula
KE. M. Taylor
Calumet
Baraga County
Covington
Sidnaw
Durand Adopts Curfew Ordinance and Local Notices
Durand adopts a curfew ordinance. A series of brief notices includes a fatal accident report in Ypsilanti, a hospital musical club fall plan in Battle Creek, a Port Huron visit illness in Detroit, a suicide attempt in Oshtemo, and enforcement against speeding in East Grand Rapids. Additional items note a Kent City clothing theft, a burglary arrest, a fatal rabies scare in Howell, an arrest in Columbus township, and a Kalmazoo Gas Company head’s death from apoplexy aged 64.
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Durand
Amon Shaw
Ypsilanti
Battle Creek
Robin
Martha
Port Nuron
Philip E. Gee
Detroit
Ile
Hotel Fire Kills 10 in Fort Wayne Narrow Escape
A Sunday morning blaze at the New Aveline hotel in Fort Wayne Indiana destroyed the six story brick building with extensive interior timber framing turning it into a roaring furnace. Ten bodies recovered and at least as many remain in the ruins as guards and firefighters including infantry and artillery units search debris. The disaster left five known missing and sixteen injured with victims including Chicago salesman E J Ellis Mishawaka assistant matron Mary Burkett and Fort Wayne manager John Hendricks among others.
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Aveline
Fort Wayne
Ind
E. J. Ellis
Monroe Avenue
Chicago
Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co
Morris Hirsch
Pacific Coast Borax Company
Isaac Hirsch
Howard Club
J. B. Miller
Sheboygan
Wis
Landon & Brown
Garment Manufacturers
Pittsburg
Mary Burkett
Mishawaka
Orphans’ Home
Sarah Hathaway
Tome
William A. Pitcher
Duluth
Bowser Oil Tank Works
Robert 8. Johnson
Pana
Watson Plummer Shoe Company
Joseph W. Deviney
Camden
N. J
Crawford & Lehman
Philadelphia
Burke
Frank Baxter
Auburn
Baxter
E. B. Alty
Wabash
Charles Benjamin
Detroit Neckwear Company
Detroit
Mich
R. E. Tribble
Dalhart
Texas
Infantry Company D
Battery B
Indiana National Guard
Ralph Hipkins
Claude Hl. Varnell
John Hendricks
Varnell
Hendricks
Labor unions expand across cities and trades
Austin hosts twenty eight unions while Salem forms a waiter union in Massachusetts. Concord sets a fortnightly pay day for city laborers as Germany requires old age insurance for workers over sixteen earning under five hundred dollars. Fall River celebrates spinners golden anniversary and burns a fifty thousand dollar mortgage at the labor temple. Cedar Rapids contracts require union labor for a new government building. Wilfrid Paquette resigns as president of the Canadian Federation of Textile Workers. Florida women's clubs advance a child labor law banning employment under twelve. Ellen F Donovan of Brockton Stitchers' Union becomes Brockton Shoe Workers' Council's first woman delegate. Charlestown navy yard workers form a navy yard union. West Virginia mine inspectors begin full state mining law enforcement. A labor paper is planned in San Juan with 110 AFL-affiliated unions. Andrew Furuseth to join British Trade Union Congress in Nottingham. St Catharines workers strike for regular wages after relief pay. English minimum wage award set at seven dollars and twenty-five cents for Northampton district lasters and finishers. San Francisco plans to organize municipal labor into a city-wide union system. Gompers discusses jurisdiction over stage workers with International Stage Employers Union and Brotherhood of Electrical Workers after a peaceful settlement.
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Germany
Fall River
Mass
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Wilfrid Paquette
Canadian Federation of Textile Workers
Women’s Clubs of
Florida
Ellen F. Donovan
Brockton
San Juan
Porto Rico
American Federation of Labor
Andrew Furuseth
Sailors’ Union of the Pacific
British Trade Union Congress
Nottingham
St. Catherines
Canada
Relief Committee
Railroads Push Freight Rate Cuts and Tariff Talks
The South Dakota railroad and ware house commission orders reduced freight rates west of the Missouri River as a new tariff is drafted. Pennsylvania railroad reports 83 million more earnings in 17 but 19.5 million more wage costs. Northern Pacific adds 200 refrigerator cars to handle a larger Northwest fruit crop. An eastern plan seeks to keep 144 cents per mile for the National Educational Association convention in Cleveland while preserving a $2 membership fee amid ICC rules.
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South Dakota Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Missouri River
Pennsylvania Railroad
Red River
Schunk
United States Engineer Corps
Fargo
Belmont
Northern Pacific
Northwest
National Educational Association
Cleveland
Interstate Commerce Commission
Fridgo Greets Fleet as 46 Warships Enter Harbor
A vast Pacific welcome as 46 ships sail into San Francisco Bay from Hampton Roads completing the first leg of the round-the-world cruise. Secretary Metcalf reviews the fleet aboard the Connecticut as crowds number in the millions along shorelines and on excursion craft.
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Presidio
San Francisco
Hampton Roads
Pacific Coast
Golden Gate
Navy
Metcalf
Yorktown
Atlantic
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Evans
Connecticut
Kansas
Vermont
Louisiana
Georgia
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Virginia
Minnesota
Thomas
Ohio
Missouri
Maine
Alabkama
Illinois
Kearsarge
Kentucky
Pacific
Admiral Evans
Bay
Admiral Dayton
Pacific Fleet
All Around the Globe News Summary
The agricultural appropriation bill totals 11518. Semi. Gov Sheldon of Nebraska approves a government warrant for Third Ni regiment officers led by Col Bry mand. Nora May French poem “death by own action” targets a third victim in New York. Rossale Peck shoots himself on a Prospect Park bench. Wallace Hl Ham, ex-treasurer of St Paul’s church Boston, dies in prison after a larceny sentence. Minnesota Automobile Association committee proposes a 10 to 20 tax on motor rates to fund better roads.
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Sheldon
Nebraska
Lincoln
Third Ni
W. J
Boston
Mass
Massachusetts
Minnesota Automobile Association
Almanac of notable events from 1494 to 1903
A compact chronology listing key historical milestones and disasters. It covers discovery and exploration, constitutional milestones, revolts, rail and bridge events, notable deaths, battles, and disasters across continents and centuries, from Columbus in Jamaica through coastal wrecks and major political shifts.
Hilprecht Replies to Nippur Tablet Controversy
Prof Herman Hilprecht of the University of Pennsylvania defends his Nippur tablet work and exoneration by trustees. He rebuts charges of literary dishonesty and university property, noting notes omitted for publishers and that some finds were kept from the university. He brands two rivals as antagonists while defending the temple library claim and cites supporting scientists. Mayor Ezra S Mears of Harrisburg orders police to assist drunken men homeward and requires saloon keepers to help intoxicated patrons, recording each return for future reference.
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Hilprecht
Herman Y. Hilprecht
University of Pennsylvania
Fara
Peters
Morris Jastrow
Jastrow
Ezra S. Mears
Starrisburg
Mears
Ile
Night Riders Handled as Governor Orders Brig. Gen. Williams to Murray
Gov. Wilson of Kentucky orders Brig. Gen. Williams to take charge of troops at Murray after recent night rider outrages and travels to Calloway county to meet the judge on cases involving the riders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gov. Wilson
Kentucky
Gen. Williams
Murray
Calloway County
Flames Sweep Ohio Town in Destructive Fire
A blaze originating in the mayor's office destroyed town records and papers, burned the police station and fire apparatus building, and damaged several business structures in Coalton Ohio.
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Ohio
Coalton
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George Allen
Columbus Township
Anthony Gavin
Memphis
Gavin
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David H. Haines
Kalamazoo Gas Company
Belvidere
Charlevoix
Fourth Michigan Cavalry
Jefferson Davis
Old Aveline
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St. Joseph's Hospital
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Salem
Concord
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International Stage Employers’ Union
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Fridgo
SEC. Metcalf Reviews Craft
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Queen Mary II
Judson’s Bay Company
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Charles IV
Spain
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Union Temperance Society
Saratoga County
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Brazil
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Samuel Cunard
Cunard Steamship Line
Bayazid
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New York City
Canadian Pacific Railway
Charles S. Parnell
Kilmainham
Col. Otter
Cut Knife Creek
Henry M. Stanley
Emin Pasha
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Venezuela
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