Startled Arkansas Woman Claims Hidden Government Money
A letter from an Arkansas woman shocks New York police headquarters, claiming she knows where the money taken from the U.S. government by Capt. Carter Green and Golt Gaynor is hidden. She asks her address be kept secret, fearing murder if Carter is vindicated. A full investigation will follow. China Prepares for War Against Russia. Shanghai notes warn Pekin to ready for hostilities over Far Eastern affairs, with troops to Korea imminent and elder statesmen summoned to meet the Emperor. City of Mexico reports Consul General Barlow resigns from the American Club amid expulsion charges, prompting diplomatic commentary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter Green
Gaynor
New York
Arkansas
United States
Carter
Green
Golt Gaynor
China
Russia
London
Shanghai
Daily Telegraph
Pekin
Far Eastern
Tokio
Korea
City of Mexico
Andrew D. Barlow
Barlow
New York Telegram
Lancet
Roosevelt
Boston
West
South
England
Thankful Boers Aid Noted From Kopjee Siding Letter
Chicago reports General DeWet acknowledges a $1185 contribution for Boers near Kopjee Siding Orange River colony. He seeks further aid for widows and children of heroes from the recent war. Also: fraud cases in insurance circles and a Dubois estate mystery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Peter Vlassing
Christian R. DeWet
Kopjee Siding
Orange River Colony
Gen. DeWet
Huntsville Railway Firm Not Pushed to Receiver
Reliable authority says the attempt to place the Huntsville Street Railway, Light and Power Company in receivership to collect a $4500 claim by Miles W. Graves of Connecticut will fail. The company is expected to pay the claim and the suit will end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntsville
Als
Huntsville Street Railway, Light and Power Company
Miles W. Graves
Connecticut
Peculiar Petition in New York Bankruptcy Case
Henry T. Jarrett treasurer and manager of Graphal Chemical Co files an extraordinary insolvency petition alleging the company became insolvent and entered bankruptcy on October 1 by paying two female employees in full and between November and December by settling several small creditor claims. Graphal Chemical, capitalized at 100000 dollars, manufactured powder for coloring photographs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jatet
Henry T. Jarrett
Graphal Chemical Co
Arthur Barrows Acquitted in Illinois Case
Mount Sterling Ill The preliminary trial of Arthur Barrows charged as an accessor in the assault by Mrs Martha Fowler on Mrs Mary Barrows closed Justice Ranney discharged Barrows after ruling no Grand Jury action was required Mrs Fowler the chief witness admitted the assault and testified she had been hired by Barrows to kill Mrs Barrows his step mother
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Arthur Barrows
Mount Sterling
Ill
Martha Fowler
Mary Barrows
Justice Ranney
Barrows
Chicago Robber Seized After Vanila Beads Found
A. G. Grisby, paid $9 weekly, allegedly stole up to $15,000 in stock from M. L. Barrett & Co. He confessed he needed ready money. Police found $250 worth of vanilla beans hidden in his clothes when arrested. Manager David L. Rose reports the rate of theft as about $200 per day during a few months with the firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
A. G. Grisby
David L. Rose
M. L. Barrett & Co
Grigsby
Typhoid Serum Prepared From Horses In New York City
New typhoid serum used at Beth Israel Hospital has been made by immunizing horses, as with diphtheria. Thirty cases have been successfully treated. The serum, discovered by Dr Jez of Berne Switzerland, was sent to a hospital staff physician.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Beth Isreal Hospital
Jez
Berne
Switzerland
Macarthur Matter Dropped in War Prediction Remarks
Washington report states the secretary of war will take no further action regarding Major General McArthur in Honolulu. He allegedly predicted war between the United States and Germany. McArthur says his statements were private and not intended for publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
McArthor
Honolulu
United States
Germany
Department
McArthur
Crucible Will Cut Wages In January At Pittsburg
Wages of Crucible Steel Company of America workers are reported to be reduced starting next month. With no working agreement in place, the firm is not required to publish notices of wage changes. Several employees are also slated for dismissal on January 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Crucible Steel Company of America
Carnegie Steel Company
Crucible Company
Tobacco firms consolidate with Newburg factory hub
In Evanaville Indiana a consolidation unites the Hampton Tobacco Company of Newburg Indiana T M Ryan Tobacco Company of Martin Tennessee and the Bowling Green Tobacco Company of Bowling Green Kentucky The new arrangement places the factory at Newburg with the Bowling Green plant moved there while the Martin plant will continue operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tobacco Trust
Evanaville
Ind
Hampton Tobacco Company
Newburg
T. M. Ryan Tobacco Company
Martin, Tenn
Bowling Green Tobacco Company
Bowling Green
Martin
Kings Daughters Back Child Labor Reform in Mississippi
Mrs Harriet B Kells a noted temperance worker says the Kings Daughters will introduce in the Mississippi legislature, opening in January, a child labor bill. She discusses the issue in an article "Child Labor in the South." rising manufacturing interests boost the need for prohibiting child labor as lawmakers consider the issue.
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Harriet B. Kells
Mississippi
King’s Daughters
South
Representative Bowers Introduces Three River Improvement Bills
Three measures by Representative Bowers seek river and harbor upgrades. One funds Pearl river below Jackson with 10000 dollars. Another provides 400000 dollars to secure a seventeen‑foot channel from three miles above Dog river to the seventeen‑foot contour in Mississippi Sound. A third seeks 10000 dollars for upper Pascagoula river with 5000 dollars for Leaf and Chickasahay rivers.
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Bowers
National House
Pearl River
Jackson
Pascagoula River
Horn Island Harbor
Amont
Dog River
Mississippi Sound
Leaf
Chickasahay
Safe Blower Captured After McHenry Express Heist
Police hold the gang leader in Jackson jail after the December 13 safe blowing at Southern Express at McHenry station. Three men used dynamite. two were captured near McHenry, the leader escaped toward Jackson. Suspect John Rutherford, touring under a miners union card, was arrested in the city for suspicious behavior. Express officials to be notified and transported to McHenry. Residence of Rev. Whitfield in Clinton destroyed by fire. loss near $1000, neighbors aided in saving outbuildings. Gov. Longino attended Louisiana Purchase centennial in New Orleans. Mississippi officials could not attend due to legislative report duties.
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Jackson
Southern Express
McHenry Station
Express Company
McHenry
Taylor
John Rutherford
Western Federation of Miners
Express
Whitfield
George Whitfield
Clinton
Mississippi College
Longino
New Orleans
Mississippi
Department aims to cut commission buy New boll weevil bill
The agriculture committee plans to strike the Burgess commission idea and insert a 250000 appropriation into the urgent deficiency bill to study and eradicate the boll weevil. The department favors internal research and opposes a commission with external inspectors from Texas and Louisiana cotton areas.
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Washington
Committee On Agriculture
Agricultural Department
Barleson
Texas
Louisiana
Mustaches, Illiteracy, and Capital Plans Across Lands
A column surveys varied topics from a medical warning to not jumping from bed, to illiteracy rates in Italy and Pennsylvania, and to German claims against Venezuela. It notes a pivot toward pensioning long-serving professors, Australia’s capital site at Tumut, and debates over mustaches and kissing in London and America. The piece blends satirical reflections with pointed observations on education, military reform, and cultural tastes. It references Roosevelt, universities Brown Harvard Yale and others, and remarks on Tumut’s tobacco fragrance and backward-forward spelling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown University
Harvard
Yale
Columbia
Cornell
Amherst
Faunce
Brown
Commonwealth of Australia
Tumut
Sydney
Melbourne
Kangaroo
Acres of Roses on Delta Lands in Mississippi
Ohio horticulturist plans a 3000 acre rose farm in the delta near Tutwiler Mississippi. They recently bought 8000 acres in Tallahatchie county adjacent to Lake Cormorant railroad line to ship rose cuttings nationwide. Promoters include John M Good L Verney O T Ridgely O W Welsh Enwin B Houck and LE P Joh Allare of Springfield Ohio.
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Ohio
Delta
Mississippi
United States
Tallahatchie County
Miss
Tutwiler
Lake Cormorant
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
John M. Good
L. Verney
0. T. Ridgely
O. W. Welsh
Enwin
Houck
P. Joh. Allare
Springfield
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Samuel Silverstein
Lewis
Silverstein
Alpheus PB. Dubois
Dubois
Crucible
Attarian
Constantinople
Alexandretta
Davis
Dreyfus
Paris
Andre
Special Commission of Judges
St. Louis
Daniel Manning
St. Louia
Kings Daughters
Boll Weevil Bill Report
Senate
Thomas V. McAlister
Vicksburg
Mies
Wm. I. Buchanan
Panama
T. H. Vaughan
Hart
Morgan
Congress
Colombia
Ways and Means Subcommittee On
Internal Revenue
Tawney
W. W. Kitchen
North Carolina
Shirley
Tennessee
William G. Lock
Wheeling
W. Va
House Elections Committee
San Francisco
Senate Committee On Indian Affairs
Wappeton
N. C
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Confederatate Army
Penrose
Isle of Pines
Cubai
Cuba
Senate Committee of the Phil
Ippines
Frye
Philippine Archipelago
Philippines
Massachusetts
Avery
Italy
Piedmont
Pennsylvania
Venezuela
Kaiser Wilhelm
Department of Agriculture
Emporia
Kans
Charles Gardner
War Office
West Point
Ohio Men
Nathan Lee
Osin
Uncle Sam
Navy Department
Nathan Ralph Lee
Wasp
Pensacola
John Scott & Son
Hollybrook
Shipland
Issaquena County
Dan James
Dan A. James
Hiim
K. S. Collins
K. 8. Collins
Postal Telegraph
Baton Rouge
Louis Rothschild
Yazoo
William Hoover
William H. Hoover
Pickens
Haw
General Merchan
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