Fatal burns as reporter pours gasoline for stove
In Chattanooga on Tuesday James F. Barnes of the News mistook gasoline for coal oil and set his stove ablaze. In night clothes he fled to a bed then leaped from a window. severe burns covered his body and portions of flesh peeled from his feet. His three year old daughter was badly burned as flames caught the bedclothes. Surgeons say there is no hope for his recovery.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
James F. Barnes
Mr. Barnes
Death of famed New York photographer Colonel Elihu Rockwood
New York photographer Colonel Elihu Rockwood died in his studio from valvular heart disease linked to rheumatism after Civil War exposure. A veteran of Gettysburg, he once captured Confederate Mosby three times and later led the Tenth Massachusetts regiment. He was 64 and had served with Farragut post G.A.R.
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New York
Elihu Rockwood
Rockwood
John S. Mosby
Moseby
Mosby
Colonel Rockwood
Troy
N. Y
Europe
Massachusetts
Gettysburg
Tenth
Massachusetts Regiment
Farragut
Grand Army of the Republic
Peonage Charge In Alabama Farmer Case
Federal authorities hold W G Reynolds a farmer near Montgomery on peonage charges. He allegedly forced Pinkie Harris an elderly Black woman and her three sons into voluntary servitude for months to collect a debt.
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Montgomery
Ala
W. G. Reynolds
Here
Pinkie Harris
Largest Ever Banquet Attended by Bryan and Harmon
Kansas City March 31 Hon W J Bryan and Judson Harmon were guests of honor at a Young Men's Democratic club banquet in Convention hall. Bryan called the event the largest banquet ever held in the country. About 2,000 banquet seats on the arena floor and 15,000 spectators in the gallery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
W. J. Bryan
Judson Harmon
Young Men's Democratic Club
Hill episode deemed adjusted in Berlin and Washington
Advices from Washington say the Hill episode is regarded as happily adjusted both in the American capital and in Berlin. The best opinion is that if Mr Hill comes to Berlin his position will be agreeable and more important than it would have been otherwise.
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Berlin
Foreign Office
Washington
Hill
Rice Institute Seeks Austin College Bond Buyout
Sherman Texas March 31 Rev Dr T S Clyce president of Austin College has received an offer from Rice Institute of Houston to take up the recent $30 000 bond issue. Rice Institute has evaluated the issue as gilt edged and proposes to assume all outstanding Austin College bonds.
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Sherman, Tex
T. S. Clyce
Austin College
Rice Institute of Huston
Rice Institute
Mme Anna Gould Ill With Bronchitis At St Regis Hotel
Mme Anna Gould is reported ill with bronchitis and stomach trouble while staying with friends Mr and Mrs Tyler Morse at the Hotel St Regis in New York. She is described as very nervous after a conference with her brothers and sister at Miss Helen Gould’s home prior to her arrival from France.
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New York
Mme
Anna Gould
Tyler Morse
Hotel St. Regis
Gould
Helen Gould
France
Wage Cut At J. P. Coates Mills In Pawtucket
Notices posted in the thread mills of J. & P. Coates limited announce a ten percent wage reduction to take effect April 13. About 2,500 workers are affected in Pawtucket Rhode Island.
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Pawtucket
R. I
J. & P. Coates, Limited
About to Lynch Him
Atlanta reports a mob in Brownsville near Atlanta threatening to lynch B. R. Chapin a white man found in a negro house. Two county officers arrived with loaded rifles and dispersed the crowd, taking Chapin to jail for safety amid tension. Chapin, a Vermont native employed in a local mill, was surrounded by the mob before police intervention.
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Atlanta
Brownsville
B. R. Capin
Chapin
Vermont
Wyoming mine disaster inquiry follows explosions
Hanna Wyoming on March 31 reports Governor Brooks orders a formal probe by State Mine Inspector Young into the two blasts that killed at least fifty nine miners. The inquest is delayed while officials determine if bodies remain in the mine for recovery.
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Hanna, Wyo
Brooks
Young
Roosevelt Nominates Three Ministers to Germany Netherlands and Argentina
President Roosevelt sent to the senate the nomination of David Jayne Hill as ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Germany. He also named Arthur Beaupre of Illinois as minister to The Netherlands and Spencer Eddy of Illinois as minister to the Argentine Republic.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
David Jayne Hill
Germany
Arthur Beaupre
Illinois
Netherlands
Spencer Eddy
Argentine
Extradition Delayed as Walker Seeks Writ in Amparo
Hartford March 31 States Attorney Eggleston said William F. Walker treasurer who embezzled 541,882 from the Savings Bank of New Britain is held by Mexican authorities at Ensenada and has applied for a writ of amparo that would delay extradition by at least six weeks if granted.
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Hartford
Conn
States
Eggleston
William F. Walker
Savings Bank of New
Former Government Scout Jimmy Morrison Dies at Home
El Reno Okla March 31 Jesse Morrison known as Jimmy Morrison once a government scout under Sheridan and Miles died by self inflicted gunshot at his residence. Once wealthy he left little behind.
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el Reno
Okla
Jesse Morrison
Jimmy Morrison
Southwest
General Sheridan
Miles
A & M College Beef and Pork Contract Bids
A and M College invites bids in the Mess Hall for beef and pork supplies for 1908-09. Specifications require dressed carcasses of at least 350 pounds, no stags or bulls, grass fed until January, corn fed after, with U.S. Government inspected cuts. A $500 certified check and bond, contract reserves right to reject bids. Committee: W L Melinnis and H H Harrington.
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Board of Directors
United States
College wood contract bids sought for supply of 1400 cords
Bids to be received by the President’s office up to 4 o clock on April 20 for 1400 cords of merchantable wood to be delivered in minimum 350 cord lots at specified locations along the I and G N Railroad Spur and Mess Hall grade to be approved by the College President. Three fifths due by January 1 1908 with the rest later. bid bond required. right to reject bids reserved.
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Myers
Bryan
Boyett & Myers
Haswell’s Book Store
Wmien
John Wittman
Sporting Goods
Cavitt’s Drug Store
Holmes & Parker
M. H. James
Hunicutt S Stable
Hunicutt
J. W. Hunicutt
Bryan, Texas
Alabama
Ing
Mr. Bryan
Mme. Gould Ill
Writ of Amparo
L. L. MelInnis
H. H. Harrington
Committee
L. L. Melnnis
Bryan Steam
W. O. Hearn
Propr
James & Nunn
E. Rohde
Higgs Market
DR. J. F. Eaves
W. C. Fountain
Smith Drug Co
A. B. Carson
T. R. Batte
BETWE
C.K Dunlap
M.l.robbins
Gen. Pass
Houston
Texas
N, Jennetta
Zack Tally
Wilson & Erskine Wellborn
S. H. Franklin
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