San Gabriel National Forest additions total 78000 acres
The president signed a proclamation creating two additions to the San Gabriel national forest in Southern California totaling 78,000 acres. Felicitous speeches by Secretary Root, President Luis Anderson and Ambassador Creel marked the close of the Central American peace conference after more than a month of sessions and eight distinct conventions signed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Gabriel National Forest
California
Root
Luis Anderson
Creel
Mexico
Notable Obituaries of Prominent Iowa and National Figures
I T Martin a Le Mars Iowa attorney died of heart disease at sixty one Frank Patterson a Gilman Iowa farmer died of heart disease leaving a fortune of two hundred thousand Cr H Shaver president of Fresno Flume and Irrigation company died of diabetes in Fresno Cal Rev Franklin D Hatch longtime Christian Endeavor leader died at Brookline Massachusetts Col Uriel L Boyce of Boice Virginia dead aged seventy nine a Confederate veteran Lawrence Delmour ex Tam many Hall member died of grip in New York Harrison Loring pioneering shipbuilding figure and Brine Transportation president died at his South Boston home aged eighty five.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen R. Mallory
Pensacola
Fla
Frank Patterson
Gilman
Iowa
Cr. H. Shaver
Fresno Flume and Irrigation Company
Pacific Coast
Fresno
Cal
Franklin D. Hatch
Christian Endeavor Movement
India
Burmah
Ceylon
Brookline
Boston
Uriel L. Boyce
Boice
Boyce
Virginia
Lawrence Delmour
Tammany Hall
Trinity College Benefits from Lady Pierce Death
Reports state Trinity College Cambridge will gain about 2 million dollars from the death of Lady Pierce. Other items note the shah of Persia delaying allegiance oath, yellow fever concerns in Bridgeport Barbadoes, and a Rome exhibition on 200 years of women’s clothing. A fire damaged the Minnesota steamer in Kobe harbor. Brazil plans a restrained royal welcome for visiting U.S. warships. Portugal to hold elections on April 5 amid political calm. Wheat planting drops in Punjab India from 9 million to 6 million acres due to drought, with canals running short.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinity College
Cambridge
Enc
Pierce
Persia
Bridgeport
Barbadoes
Rospigilsi
Rome
Minnesota
Kobe
Japan
Seattle
Hongkong
Yokohama
Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Portugal
Chamber of Deputies
Punjab
India
Series of chilling deaths and mysteries across towns
The report lists Estella Long found burned in Sioux City with coroner flagging self harm as cause. A mysterious murder near Huntley Montana notes an unknown Russian laborer killed and identity of killers unknown. J Frank Carpenter of Omaha suicide cited as death by own action amid nervous breakdown. William Mathies shot by a highwayman in McKeesport after fighting back with a bag of cash. assailants fled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estella Long
Sioux City
Huntley
Mont
J. Frank Carpenter
Carpenter Paper Company
West
Omaha
William Mathies
McKeesport
Mathies
Riots and raids swirl as officers fall and moonshine is captured
J W Hendricks a US revenue officer is shot and killed in a blockade liquor raid in Smithtown North Carolina. In Elliott County Kentucky three large illicit distilleries and many fermenters are seized. Rock Island Railroad faces four charges for confinement of livestock. Judge Landis delays sentencing to allow show cause. Two killed at a Montana railroad camp. Austrian George Morris kills a countryman in a knife duel and escapes before being killed by Walter Arnold. P C Cain, jailed for murder over a disputed liquor business, receives life imprisonment amid defiant remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smithtown
Forsythe County
N. C
J. W. Hendricks
United States’ Revenue
Elliote County
Rock Island Railroad
Chicago
Landis
United States District Court
Lothrop
Mont
George Morris
Morris
Walter A. Arnold
Arnold
P. C. Cain
Des Moines
C. H.morris
Cain
Accidental Happenings Across Several Cities
A sequence of accidents and disasters across multiple states leaves several dead and many injured. Drownings occur on Onata lake in Pittsfield Massachusetts and a Toledo skating mishap claims two youths. A Gladstone Michigan cow incident kills Mrs. Ole Olson. Pittsburg and Des Moines accidents result in serious injuries. A University of Oklahoma dome fire is contained by students. Fire devastates buildings in Wilkes Barre and a train collision near Tallapoosa, Georgia kills the engineer. California official O J Watkins dies after being struck by a wagon while under indictment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onata Lake
Pittsfield
Mass
Ole Olson
Gladstone
Mich
Frank Ballmer
Frank Felix
Toledo
Jackson Stilley
Pittsburg
Globe Dry Goods
Wilkesbarre
Tallapoosa
Chicago Great Western
Des Moines
University of Oklahoma
Fort Smith
Ark
Haglin
American National Bank
Marshall
Colo
O. J. Watkins
California Fruit Growers’ Association
San Bernardino
Cal
Los Angeles
Notable Deaths and Events Across Regions
Cant A B Logan longtime McKinley associate dies at his Warrensburg Missouri home. Australia’s William Squires knocked out in round six by Jim Flynn in Bakersfield California in a scheduled twenty round fight. Roswell New Mexico jury finds C L and B H Talmage not guilty of conspiring to defraud public lands. Melbour ne Iowa resident Kate Kloppenburg dies after brain hemorrhage at church. Tahiti princess Teppi Pomare arrives in San Francisco on Mariposa for a short stay. Ruth Parsons stage actress dies in Webster City from cotton root bark extract overdose. Mississippi legislature adopts resolutions for a constitutional convention to draft a new state constitution. Des Moines public school corporal punishment report shows 253 students punished in September including 25 girls.
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A. B. Logan
McKinley
Warrensburg
William Squires
Australia
Bakersfield
Cal
Jim Flynn
Pueblo
Colo
C. L
B. H. Talmage
Roswell
N. M
Kate Kloppenburg
Ada Kloppenburg
Melbourne
Iowa
Teppi Pomare
Tahita
Queen Maurau
Arli P. Asalmon
San Francisco
Papeete
Mariposa
Cyrus Johnson
Ruth Parsons
Louis Morrison Company
Faust
Webster City
Mississippi
Des Moines
Supt
Riddle
Mystery Shrouds Woman's Death in Newark
A Newark woman’s death is reported with few details. police are investigating the case as a mystery shrouded by limited information. Local officials have not released identities or a probable cause, urging patience as investigators review evidence.
Nude Woman’s Murder Baffles Police at Harrison Pond
The nude body of a refined looking woman about thirty was found near a pond on the Hackensack meadows in Harrison. Police detained two yacht men. witness Peter Coogan identified the victim and reported a man carrying a bundle seen with her earlier. Strangulation and drag marks noted. a stranger followed two girls who heard cries.
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Newark
N. J
Hackensack Meadows
Harrison
Péter Coogan
Marine Engine Company
Mill Worker Drowns in same spot as a year ago
Marinette Wisconsin December 28 Frank Lax a Menominee mill employee of the Marquette Paper company drowned after falling into the sluiceway of the first dam and being swept into boiling waters below the dam He fell from the same spot where Ignatz Kochignitski died exactly one year earlier while removing anchor ice from fish boards at the ram
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marinette
Wis
Frank Lax
Menominee
Marquette Paper Company
Lax
Ignatz Kochignitski
Mail Pouch Stolen With Holiday Mail at Merrillan Junction
A mail pouch carrying about 1,000 letters and holiday presents including money jewelry money orders checks was stolen between 8 and 11 PM December 24 at Merrillan Junction. The empty pouch was found abandoned in a boxcar at Madigan by two boys. Police and post office officials are investigating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Merrillan Junction
Madigan
Post Office
Sale Ordered of Chicago Street Railway Properties
Federal Judge Peter B. Grosscup ordered the foreclosure sale of the North Chicago Street Railway, West Chicago Street Railway, and Chicago Union Traction properties. The sale is set for January 25, 1908, at noon at the county courthouse and will be overseen by special master commissioner B. W. Bishop. The Chicago Railway Company may lease the lines through 1920 to rehabilitate the Union Traction system, promising improved service with the new franchise ordinance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
North Chicago Street Railway
West Chicago Street Railway Company
Chicago Union Traction Company
Peter 8. Grosscup
County Court House
B. W Bishop
Chicago Railway Company
Union
USE MAILS TO DEFRAUD SQUAD FINED AND IMPRISONED
Promoters and mining engineers convicted of using the mails to defraud in the Lost Spanish Bullion Mines stock scheme were sentenced in Denver by Judge R E Lewis. GeorgeS. Dubers Lee Dubers and C L Blackwell got thirty days in jail and 1000 dollar fines. William Wilson W B Cameron A E Keabler and Arthur Lawrence fifteen days and 500 dollar fines. Arthur Logan and BE W Sebben 100 dollar fines. R C Hunt and Danton Pinkus 50 dollar fines plus costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
R. E. Lewis
United States District Court
Georges. Dubers
Lee Dubers
C. L. Blackwell
William #. Wilson
W. B. Cameron
A. E. Keabler
Arthur Lawrence
Arthur Logan
BE. W. Sebben
R. C. Hunt
Danton Pinkus
Did Not Know It Was Loaded Youth Kills Friend in Play
In Gladstone Michigan on December 28 Arthur Sweeney age eighteen son of Northwestern Cooperage foreman shot and killed Ralph Goldsmith eighteen as he played with a loaded .38 revolver. Sweeney ordered the boy to throw up his hands. when he refused the trigger was pulled. Sweeney is under arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladstone, Mich
Arthur Sweeney
Northwestern Cooper Age Company
Ralph Goldsmith
William Sweeney
Goldsmith
Sweeney
Flambeau Lumber Plans Wide Logging Drive in North Wisconsin
The Flambeau Lumber company, sustaining camps along the Flambeau river area, will start full operations with a large force at the beginning of the new year. Lumbermen expect northern Wisconsin logging to be as active this winter as in prior seasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chippewa Fails
Wis
Flambeau Lumber Company
Flambeau River
Wisconsin
Rich New Year Is Assured Record Commerce Breaks
America moves toward a prosperous new year as Christmas sales release funds and dividends totaling about 209 million dollars. Mills reopen nationwide, Pittsburg expects 650000 workers back, and foreign trade at New York in 1907 nears record levels with imports around 838 million dollars and total business over 1.5 billion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
America
New York
Wall Street
Pittsburg
Six Miners Die In West Virginia Incidents
Six miners died in West Virginia over two days. Four drowned while crossing a river near Sewell in a small boat. Two were killed on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad near Newburg on their way home from work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
W. Va
West Virginia
Sewell
Baltimore & Ohio
Newburg
Grafton
Kill 210 Strike Rioters in Chile Clash
Valparaiso reports 21 dead and about 50 wounded after clashes at Iqueque between nitrate strikers and police. The city is calm but work largely halted as workers emigrate, affecting most nitrate plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iqueque
Chile
Valparaiso
Nitrata
North-Western to Restore Grain Elevator Allowance
The North-Western Railway company announced in Omaha that the elevator allowance of three-fourths of a cent a bushel on grain shipped from St Paul Minneapolis and Duluth, discontinued last September, will be restored on January 16. The move affects grain shipments from the three port cities and resumes a long-standing subsidy policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North-Western
Omaha
North-Wseterna Railway Company
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Duluth
Naval Captains Entertained in Trinidad Luncheon and Races
The captains of American battleships and their staffs were hosted at lunch by Sir Henry Moore Jackson the Trinidad governor and later attended the governor's horse races in Port of Spain on December 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port of Spain
Sir Henry Moore Jackson
Trinidad
Fire at Albert Lea destroys multiple business buildings
Fire gutted the Armstrong store building and damaged several nearby businesses in Albert Lea Minnesota on December 28. Losses were heavy for the brick structure and occupants including Nelsor grocery Letts Beehive Narveson millinery and a printing firm. Most losses insured with about 12 000 dollars insured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Lea
Liec
Armstrong Store
Nelsor Grocery
Removal of 124 Darr mine bodies reported at Jacob's Creek
Rapid progress in Darr mine cleanup at Jacob's Creek Pa leads to 124 bodies removed from the mine with all entries except No 27 cleared. Additional bodies are located and expected to be brought to the surface soon as recovery continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob’s Creek
Darr
Race War Feared as Deputies Sworn in at Henrietta
In Henrietta Oklahoma on December 28 authorities sworn in every available fighting man as deputy amid reports of armed black men approaching. Only 1200 rounds of ammunition remain in town and fear of a deadly race war follows the lynching of James Garden a Black man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Henrietta
Okla
James Garden
Wildcat
Clear View
Dynamite at Party Kills Boy in Pratt City
Dan Bradley sixteen son of a widow at Pratt City died from injuries after a dynamite blast at a Christmas party. He carried dynamite in his coat pocket and was on the porch when the device exploded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Dan Bradley
Pratt City
Jared
Flames Fill Mine Near Greensburg Fails To Quench
A mine fire at Edina No 1 of Pittsburg Coal company in Adamsburg six miles from Greensburg on December 28 forces dismissal of more than 300 miners as efforts to extinguish the blaze prove futile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensburg
Edina No
Pittsburg Coal Company
Adamsburg
Fire in Schoenburger mine at Baird station controlled
Pittsburg December 28 fire in the Schoenburger mine at Baird station near here broke out Sunday and endangered about 100 miners. The blaze was extinguished yesterday. the mine suffered heavy damage and extensive repairs are needed before work can resume.
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Schoenburger
Pittsburg
Baird Station
Here
Raleigh voters close liquor dispensary by majority
Raleigh North Carolina voters approved prohibition by a 545 vote margin. The city will shut the liquor dispensary at noon today after the measure carried yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
N. C
Peddler Dies After Street Car Collision Near Hancock
Solomon Glass a Hancock resident was struck by a street car while walking on the tracks near Arcedin. He died a few hours later at St. Joseph's hospital according to Houghton dispatches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houghton, Mich
Solomon Glass
Hancock
Arcedicn
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Man Killed At Grade Crossing In Lakeville
Lakeville Minn December 28 A boy named Iva Ives eighteen was struck while returning to his father's farm at a grade crossing on the St Paul road He was likely fatally injured and his horse was killed in the accident
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lakeville
Minn
Iva Ives
St. Paul Road
Sehor War Imminent Amid Carpenter Wage Cut
New York December 28 The Master Carpenters association announced wage cuts from five to four and a half dollars daily. The carpenters union refused the reduction and committees from both sides are seeking a compromise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Y
Master Carpenters’ Association
Carpenters’ Union
Force Prevents Lynching in Leechburg Riot
A state constabulary detachment arrived from Greensburg to guard the borough lockup and quell a mob angered by the killing of a fellow workman by a foreigner's bullet. The incident occurred in Leechburg Pennsylvania on December 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leechburg
State Constabulary
Greensburg
Rear Admiral Abbot Dead at Seventy Eight
Read Admiral Charles W. Abbot retired died last night in Warren Rhode Island from pneumonia aged seventy eight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbot
Warren
R. I
Charles W. Abbot
Pneumosia
New England Cotton Mills Agree to 25 Percent Curtailment
The Arkwright club representing New England cotton mills voted to cut output by 25 percent from now through March 1 to ease cloth markets in New York Chicago and Boston. About 185000 workers are employed, with roughly 150000 expected to be affected by the short term curtailment. The plan became operative yesterday though many mills had already shut down since Tuesday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Arkwright Club
New England
New York
Chicago
Wiped Out by Vendetta Book Ends with Austrian Kin
Radivaja Rakich, the last surviving member of a feud marked family from Loz Austria, was fatally shot in Bedford near Cleveland on December 28. A diary found on his person recounts the vendetta origins and an ambush style killing. Three unknown foreigners seen around Bedford are suspected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ohio
Rakich
Bedford
Loz
Austria
Forgery Charge Linked to Bank Closure Case
Officers of the Bank of California in Washington Pennsylvania charge forged endorsements on 74000 dollars of paper issued to former cashier O F Piver. The inquiry began after the bank's closure weeks ago, with cashier Piper and Pittsburg businessman William Lenhart arrested for conspiracy to defraud. Lenhart posted bail. Piper remains jailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, Pa
Bank of California
O. F. Piver
Piper
William Lenhart
Pittsburg
Brownsville
American gravely wounded in Brazil affair
Cablegram from Bahing reports Vice, the American wounded while attempting to invade Minas Gerais, has been placed in a hospital in Washington. The trial of remaining party members has been postponed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazil
Washington
Bec
State Department
Bahing
Minas
Gerales
Market quotes from grain and live stock centers show mixed prices
Latest quotations from St Paul Minneapolis Duluth and Chicago report wheat prices from No 1 hard to No 2 Northern at around 1.08 to 1.10 per bushel and corn values near 59 to 64 cents. Cattle hogs and sheep are listed with varied bid ranges across Sioux City Chicago and South St Paul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Duluth
Gace
Northern
Chicago
Milwaukee
Sioux City
Iowa
South St. Paul
Man Kills Father-in-Law in Reading Home
Roland Stokes, 30, shot and killed his father-in-law Dr. J Y Hoffman former city treasurer last night in Reading. Stokes and family lived with Hoffman after returning home intoxicated leading to a quarrel that ended in the fatal shooting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading
Roland Stokes
J.Y. Hoffman
Stokes
Hoffman
Wounded Officer Dies in Minnesota Shooting
Minneapolis news reports constable Donald J. Mc Call of Shakopee died at St Barnabas Hospital in Minneapolis after being shot while attempting to arrest a man at Prior Lake on Christmas Eve. He had been hospitalized since the attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Donald J. McCall
Prior Lake
St. Barnabas Hospital
Explosion Fatal to Two at King Powder Mills
Dayton Ohio reports the third explosion in as many weeks at the King powder mills fatally injuring two employees last evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
Ohio
King Powder Mills
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Washington Notes
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