Maniac Sets Fire and Kills in Brooklyn Home Scene
Wal ter Potee, an apparently insane man, entered his brother's Brooklyn home during a funeral gathering, opened fire, and set the house ablaze. Nine people wounded, two brothers likely to die, while authorities and firefighters battled the blaze for hours. Potee died from gunshot wounds or self-inflicted injuries.
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Baltimore
Brooklyn
Anne Arundel County
Walter Potee
Potee
John HL Potee
William E. Miller
Irwin
Henry Roberts
August E. Remmers
Bailey Contact in Jackson Highlights Rail Rate Reform
In Jackson Mississippi on March 25 Senator Bailey of Texas, en route home for his father's obsequies in Temple, said he would soon return to Washington to actively back the Hepburn bill. He stressed aims to secure justice for both people and railroads and to ensure railroad rates are considered in court, with railroad protection and commission enforcement as essential elements.
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Jackson, Miss
Texas
United States Senate
Bailey
Temple
Washington
Walpaa
Senate
Rate Question and Brother Smoot to Be on the Carpet
Congress moving to budget bills while the Senate debates railway rates. Senator Smoot of Utah faces potential polygamy testimony, with Utah delegations arriving to testify. Andrew Carnegie favors government control of railroad rates and warns against corporate court appeals causing delay and injustice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Senate
Knox
Pennsylvania
Bacon
Georgia
Foster
Louisiana
Senate Committee On Elections
Smoot
Utah
Fire Strikes Large Georgia Dairy Barn Losses
A major blaze consumed a vast dairy building in Bostwick Georgia owned by R R Jones. Forty cows perished in the fire along with the barn and stored feed. No insurance covered the cows or structures according to reports.
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R. R. Jones
Bostwick
Carnegie library to rise at Millsaps College in Jackson
Mississippi will gain a Carnegie library after Bishop Charles B. Galloway and Major R. W. Millsaps secured plans. Andrew Carnegie indicated a 15000 donation, with Millsaps funding endowment and equipment. Arrangements for home subscriptions followed, and Millsaps will provide the needed amount from his own pocket. A modern library building is expected at Millsaps College in the Carnegie annex within months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegie Library
Mississippi
Charles B. Galloway
Methodist Church
R. W. Millsaps
Galloway
Washington
Baltimore
North
Andrew Carnegie
Millsap’s College
Jackson
Millsaps
Carnegie
Miss Pace Appeals License Appeal Court Meeting
The state board of education will hear Miss Carrie Pace's appeal after she was denied a teaching license by County Superintendent Hitt of Neoshoba County. Pace denies the charges of aiding during the county teacher examination and requests an investigation. An investigation is set for Philadelphia at 10 o clock Saturday morning March 31 at the county courthouse, with witnesses to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Education
Miss Carrie Pace
Neoshoba County
Hitt
Miss Pace
Philadelphia
County Court House
Two Suits for 30000 Dollars Filed in Circuit Court
Two actions for damages totaling 30000 were filed in the Circuit court at Vicksburg against the Y and M V railroad. Martin Hardiman, a former brakeman, claims he was assaulted by the conductor and flagman and thrown from a moving train, seeking 30000. Oscar Finley sues for 10000, alleging he was assaulted by other passengers while a railway passenger and that the train crew did not protect him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vicksburg
Y. & M. V. Railroad
Martin Hardiman
Oscar Finley
Finney
Parents Meet Over Natchez Institute Suspension
Parents of tenth and eleventh graders gather at Wilmer H Shields office to challenge Superintendent Linn for suspending pupils a day over foot shuffling in class. Linn sent a curt circular explaining the action. The text also notes the American Savings Bank and Trust Company organized in Shreveport with 500000 authorized capital and founders led by S W Smith of Arcadia Bi enville parish.
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Natchez Institute
Wilmer H. Shields
Linn
Shreveport
American Savings Bank and Trust Company
S. W. Smith
Arcadia
Bienville Parish
Company to Plant Pecans in Nutbank Organizes
The Monarch Pecan Company of Nutbank is organized with J. E. Booge of Sioux City Iowa as president Leroy Perkins as manager and Dr R B Crawford as promoter. Large thriving pecan orchards already established on lands north of Moss Point along the Denny log tramway.
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Monarch Pecan Company
Nutbank
J. E. Booge
Sioux City
Iowa
Leroy Perkins
R. B. Crawford
Moss Point
Denny Log
Veterans mark dedication at Vicksburg National Park
More than 500 veterans and civilians from Pennsylvania Mississippi and other states joined exercises at Vicksburg National Military Park. Governors Pennypacker and Vardaman led ceremonies with multiple military companies bands and school children providing music and readings before the monument was unveiled.
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Ederal
Pennsylvania
Mississippi
Louisiana
Southern
Vicksburg
Vicksburg National Military Park
Pennsylvania Battle Monument
Vardaman
Pennypacker
Keystone
Jackson
Natchez
Fayette
Port Gibson
J. W. Hayes
Harry K. Johnson
McKinley
Peonypacker
Beautiful
National Park
Warren Light Artillery
Wickeberg
Samuel K. Schwenk
Albert N. Keigwin
D. D
John Milton Mishler
America
Jack W. Crawford
Anna Mai Schwenk
Lillian von Schwenk
United States
Samuel W. Pennypacker
John C. Scofield
Secretary of War
James K. Vardaman
James A. Beaver
Benjamin Albright
Duell
Ladies Visit Soldiers at Jefferson Davis Memorial Home
Visitors included Mrs. Daniel Manning of Albany wife of a Cleveland cabinet member Mrs Alton B Parker wife of the Democratic presidential candidate and Mrs Bertha Parker Hall of Kingston with Parker's grandchildren Alton B Parker and Mary McAllister Hall. They spent hours with veterans wintering at Pass Christian. Col John M Taylor of Lexington Tenn also visited. In Clarksdale a fire destroyed the Challenge newspaper building and art gallery causing about 9000 in losses with insurance on half. Sarees B Dickey lessee of the Challenge suffered about 500 in losses.
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Jefferson Davis Memorial Home
Daniel Manning
Albany
N. Y
Cleveland
Alton B. Parker
Bertha Parker Hall
Kingston
Parker
Mary McAllister Hall
Judge Parker
Mississippi Gulf Coast
Pass Christian
John M. Taylor
Twenty-Seventh Tennessee Infantry
Lexington, Tenn
Clarksdale
Challenge A
H. H. Butt
Tom Robinson
Sarees B. Dickey
Secret Service arrests chief counterfeiter G L Smoot in Greensboro
Greensboro March 25 Secret service officials arrested a man giving the name G L Smoot believed to head a gang flooding the South with counterfeit money. The capture followed the arrest of a woman claiming to be Smoots wife and found in her gaichel a large quantity of queer coins. The event is described as the most important arrest in years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
N. C
Secret Service
G. L. Smoot
Smoot
Gaichel
Mississippi Legislature Weekly Letter Summary
The Mississippi Legislature reports a dramatic debate ending in a new corporate ownership policy raising personal property and land limits for most firms. The piece notes school policy changes, salaries for county superintendents, and a failed attempt to keep the Book Commission out of politics. It covers the Glover Chamberlain dispute, Meridian hospital funding, a failed McIlhenny College Trustee bill, a three-trustee penitentiary plan, pilots’ clash with Gulf Port interests, and a pending house vote with a minority challenge.
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Thomas
House
Senate
Glover-Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Hairston
McNair
Glover
Fulton
D. M’nair
D. H. Chamberlain, Jr
W. A. Alcorn, JR
Henry J. Davis
J. J. Henry
Natchez
Vicksburg
McIlhenny College
Rockefeller Buys Reed Estate in Pasadena California
John D. Rockefeller acquired the Reed estate in Pasadena in a deal near $300,000. The purchase makes the property one of California’s premier holdings and Rockefeller is expected to spend at least two months annually in the state.
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Pasadena
Cal
John D. Rockefeller
Reed
Son Chases Mother In Political Malice Suit
Upper Sandusky Ohio March 25 New evidence emerged in the cross examination of ex Prosecutor Meek in the Stutz damages suit. Lehr Meek’s son chased Mrs Stutz with a revolver after an incident at her home and on 4 aide street. Brown Hare testified about the whip used by Mrs Stutz and Mayor Gideon witnessed events. A journalist reported Mrs Stutz threatening to whip Meek unless he stayed away. A court adjourned at 8 o clock with jurors to be charged tomorrow. The defense claims the suit is malicious and tied to Meek's bid for Common Pleas Judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upper Sandusky
Ohio
Meek
Stutz
Aide Street
Lehr
Common Pleas
Relative of Nicho las Longworth tied to Chicago cake death
Chicago officials investigate the March death of Mrs. William Anderson from strychnine in a cake near St Charles. The widow, a Longworth relative, had a mother twice married to a Longworth forebear. A vial of poison was found. a maniac discharged from an asylum is suspected. The coroner's inquest continues as Chicago chemists examine the remaining cake.
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Chicago
William Anderson
St. Charles
Nicholas Longworth
Roosevelt
Alice
Anderson
Longworth
Richard Sims
Lake County
Northern Illinois Insane Asylum
Anderson Farm
Robert Anderson
After Patent Medicine Firms Which Seem Crooked
Washington March 25 The post office department issued a sweeping order excluding from the mails matters addressed to fifty two illegal medicine concerns with headquarters in New York that did an enormous business nationwide Similar action was taken against firms in Philadelphia Baltimore and Boston The magnitude of the business done is beyond computation The firms affected have patients in almost every township in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Post Office Department
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Boston
United States
Gov Pattison Improves Hope Fades on Ohio Crisis
Columbus March 25 The condition of Gov Pattison shows improvement tonight though doctors remain pessimistic and fear the worst. his family is hopeful for recovery despite the ongoing crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Russia in Turmoil as Military Courts Hand Out Death Sentences
Report from St. Petersburg on March 25 describes widespread lawlessness in Russia with political murders, military executions, and robberies. Across Tamboff Riga Warsaw Batoum Mittan Chita and other cities, political crimes surge while gangs plunder churches seals and distillery. peasants in Vologda drive off proprietors.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Tamboff
Riga
Warsaw
Batoum
Mittan
Chita
Daza
Stravropol
Kuban
Caucasus
Samara
Orenburg
Klotzlavsk
Poland
Smolensk
Sebastopol
Vologda
Archangel
Pennsylvanians poised for strike amid mine talks
March 25 dispatches report no change in the bituminous dispute with miners seeking a 60 day extension and both sides avoiding a break. A strike looms April 1 in the anthracite fields, while Pennsylvania production delays threaten one day earlier action. Also noted Yonkers plant fires and Julian Hawthorne fire damage with substantial losses.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Pennsylvania
Girl Witness in License Case Leads to Reform School Action
Viola Rupp, 15, testified about attending dances at a country hotel and drinking beer. Bangor School Board arraigned her father for failing to send her to school, he called her incorrigible. Authorities prepared papers to commit her to a reformatory, but upon arrival, her mother collapsed and died. Action regarding the girl remains in abeyance.
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Rupps
Yellow fever case in Panama raises fears in Canal Zone
A Panama dispatch reports a new yellow fever case at Bocas del Toro. H D Reed, executive secretary in the government and sanitation department on the canal zone, will confer with Foreign Secretary Guardia on remedies and the expulsion of fever there.
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Canal Zone
Panama
Bocas del Toro
H. D. Reed
Department of Government and Sanitation
Guardia
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Illinois
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Enterprise Boiler Company
Republic Iron and Steel Works
Yonkers
Julian Hawthorne
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