Receiver appointed for Chicago Cincinnati and Louisville Road
In Indianapolis on February 14 a United States circuit court appointed James Goodrich as receiver for the Chicago Cincinnati and Louisville Railroad, after bond of $60,000. The railroad spans 285 miles between Chicago and Cincinnati, with a history of service. the banking firm George A Ferdy & Company holds substantial bonds and collateral totaling hundreds of thousands, while a floating debt and large mortgages burden the property.
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Chicago
Cincinnati
Louisville Road
Indianapolis
Ind
George A Ferdy
Morse Arrests and Bond Postings Shock New York
The financier and promoter Morse was arrested on the Etruria in quarantine and held on grand larceny indictments involving about $100,000. He posted bond for $9,000 and was taken to Justice Dowling’s home to await trial. Morse returned to his Fifth Avenue residence to declare his innocence and appeal for fair judgment after facing his accusers.
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New York
Cumier Etruria
Tieers
Charles Worse
Ice Trust
Paint Factory Damaged in Camden Blast
A series of blasts at the 7% Graves Company varnish and paint plant at Twelfth and Penn streets Camden damaged the factory and neighboring buildings. Firemen suffered minor injuries as engines exploded. losses are estimated around £100 000.
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Camden
New 7% Graves Company
Twelfth and
Penn Streets
Wight Wellings
Day Named U S District Attorney for Northern Ohio
President Roosevelt sent to the senate the nomination of William L. Day Canton city solicitor to be United States district attorney for the northern district of Ohio. Day is the son of Justice William R. Day of the Supreme Court.
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Day
Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
William L. Day
Canton
United States
Ohio
John J. Sullivan
Cleveland
William R. Day
United States Supreme Court
Hitchcock Quits Job in Washington and N-Hargis Indicted
First Assistant Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock resigns to become manager of the eastern and southern divisions of the presidential campaign. In Kentucky, Neech Hargis is indicted for the murder of his father Judge Wines Hargis, with bombs reported in two incidents killing a woman and a child.
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Hitchcock
Washington
Frank Hitchcock
Roosevelt
Hargis
Jackson
Ivy
Neech Hargis
Wines Hargis
Jaccadona
Livestock Prices Trimmed by Mixed Demand Across Markets
Market reports show varied cattle and hog quotes with calves and lambs listed at multiple prices. Readers see price points for steers heifers bulls cows and sheep across Buffalo Chicago Pittsburgh Cleveland and Toledo with notes on fresh cows veal and lambs and general wholesale pork and beef values.
Numerous Disasters and Deaths Mark Early 1900s News
A collage of calamities and notable deaths: two Pittsburg buildings collapsed after floods. two men perished in a Linestone New York dwelling fire. Obits include Ignaz Elder von Plener in Vienna born 1810, Jeremiah Rex of Tiffin dead from a fall, and William Sells in New York City.
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Pittsburg
Linestone
N.Y
Austria
Ignaz Elder von Plener
Vienna
H. A. Dunlap
New York City
Lima
Jeremiah Rex
Tiffin
William Sells
Hackengchmidt
Gotch
Chicago
Washington
Kentucky
New York
Culebra
Panama Canal
Karl Rapp
Philadelphia City
Honduran Congress
Bonilla
David Heckert
York
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company of
Mack Dickinson
Bellefontaine, O
Cheboygan
Mich
Bellefontaine
Carrollton
Wes Summerlin
Charley
Jethro Jones
Federal
New Orleans
Louisiana
Henry Bean
Prichard
W Va
Virgil Hatten
Charles W Kruger
Coal Street
Bristol
Elk Park
Sue Banner
Marl Whittaker
Goodrich Rubber Meat
Akron
Red Wilson
Robert H Hardt
Martin McNichols
Venice
McNihols
Pennsylvania Railroad
Fire and Flood Devastation Strikes Steubenville
Feb 17 Steubenville reports severe fire and flood damage with thousands of dollars in losses and one death. James Blue, janitor at a skating rink, perished. Martha Cleland’s boarding house burned completely. A bystander alerted firemen after fleeing in night attire, rescuing 20 residents. Most area plants plan a week to ten days of closure, leaving many idle as river trolley lines halt.
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Steubenville
James Blue
Martha Cleland
Fire devastates West Fourth street building in Cincinnati
A five story structure at 217 West Fourth Street in Cincinnati suffered nearly 90 thousand dollars in losses after a blaze. Fireman Harvey Lowery was crushed by a truck and is badly hurt while two others were slightly injured. The Longworth estate rear was destroyed and several hundred female workers were trapped briefly. Losses included H Strate Maver company wholesale millinery 30000, Tawrence Electrical 2000, C Coluwater millinery 30000.
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Cincinnati
West Fourth Street
Harvey Lowery
Longworth
H Stratemaver Company
Tawrence Electrical Company
Coluwatert
Democratic Committee to Meet in Columbus for Bryan Banquet
Columbus February meeting called by Chairman Charles A Klock of Wapakoneta to set the time and place for the state convention. The gathering coincides with a memorial hall dollar banquet honoring William Jennings Bryan who will speak to the general assembly on banking and bank inspection.
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Democratic Committee
Columbus
Charles A Klock
Wapakoneta
Democratic State Central Committee
Memorial Hall
William Jennings Bryan
General Assembly
Bank Heist at Farmers and Manufacturers Bank Hits Richhill
Five heavily armed bandits dynamited and wrecked the Farmers and Manufacturers Bank in Richhill Missouri securing $2 in cash after exchanging gunfire with the sheriff's posse. They fled south into rough country leaving no injuries reported.
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Richhill
Farmers and S Manufacturers’ Bank
Heavvy
Polse
Here
Mother and Child Cremated Near Winchester
In Winchester Kentucky on February 18 Mrs Andy Baker and her five year old daughter of Rarnsley Place five miles from the city were accidentally burned to death. The mother sat before the grate when her clothes caught fire. The child, in the room at the time, ran to her mother and her clothes also ignited.
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Winchester
Andy Baker
Rarnsley Place
Rose county option bill favored by House temperance committee
The Ohio House temperance committee voted seven of nine to recommend the Rose county option bill after a public hearing in the hall of representatives. The measure had already passed the Senate. Only T. M. Gilmore of Kentucky opposed, arguing for a model license that would curb or regulate saloons.
Dawes Defeated on Fifteenth Ballot for Fifteenth Ohio Seat
In Cambridge Ohio on February 14 Beman G Dawes lost renomination for Congress from the Fifteenth Ohio district James J Joyce of Cambridge won on the 152d ballot Taft and Foraker factions both claim the two delegates to the national convention A resolution endorsed President Roosevelt and Frank Ransbottom of Zanesville was named presidential elector Delegates Maywood Morris Caldwell and S A Welle Zanesville were present at the Colonial theater with many state politicians attending.
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Washington
Ohio
Joseph B. Foraker
Taft Delegaes
Congress
Taft
Dawes
Cambridge
Beman G. Dawes
James J. Joyce
Foraker
Maywood Morris
Caldwell
S. A. Welle
Zanesville
Roosevelt
Frank Ransbottom
Colonial Theater
Murderer Surrenders to Police in Ohio Death Case
Fremont J. Clever, 21, of Pittsburg, surrendered to Columbus police claiming he fatally wounded Naomi Johnston in West Liberty Pennsylvania last Monday. He agreed to return for prosecution and is held for Pittsburg police. Clever said the shooting followed her refusal to marry him against her father's wishes. He is son of F. C. Clever, Sr., of Oak Station, Pitts burg.
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Columbus
Fremont J. Clever
Pittsburg
Naomi Johnston
West Liberty
Clever
F. C. Clever, Sr
Oak Station
Bridge Indictments Upheld for Erie County Accused
In Columbus on February 12 the Supreme Court affirmed the Erie county ruling that indictments against Henry Hughes and H C Webster under the anti trust law were indefinite and charged more than one offense. New indictments may be drawn and the men tried.
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Columbus
Supreme Court
Erie County
Henry Hughes
H. C. Webster
Circuit Court of
PUMPING STATION SUBMERGED IN OHIO VALLEY FLOOD
Floods in the Ohio valley leave East Liverpool and nearby Wells ville and Smiths Ferry, Pennsylvania, without power as the pumping station goes six feet under water. Hundreds of families are temporarily homeless while potters and other manufacturers avert losses after the crest was reached and warnings were heeded.
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East
Liverpool
Wellsville
Smiths Ferry
Ohio Valley
Weather Bureau
Potters
Nine Year Old Laura Geisler Found Aged Victim
In Columbus on February 6 a nine year old girl named Laura Geisler, daughter of railroad conductor George Geisler, was found crying and nearly unconscious after alleged abuse by a white man about 18 to 20 years old who lured her into a brick yard. The neighborhood mobilized, with searching parties dispatched to locate the assailant.
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Columbus
Laura Geisler
George Geisler
Toledo Trolley Horror Kills Eight at Mich Central Crossing
Eight people die and about a dozen are injured when a Big Four passenger train strikes a Toledo and Western electric car at the Michigan Central crossing in West Toledo. Names listed include James Myers Mrs William Fisher Roy Fisher Clarence Beech and family members from Sylvania and West Toledo. The incident occurred February 17.
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Toledo
Toledo & Western Electric
Michigan Central Crossing
West Toledo
James Myers
Motourman
William Fisher
Roy Fisher
Clarence Beech
Sylvania
Beech
Hiram Parker
Purse-Snatchers Captured in Lima
On High street at night Mrs. Jesse Cotner and a companion were attacked and robbed of their purses. Police captured Blaine Davis and James McKinney both minors. Mrs Cotner identified Davis as one assailant. McKinney faces lunacy charges and will be held for probate court.
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Lima
High Street
Jesse Cotner
Blaine Davis
James McKinney
Cotner
Davis
McKinney
Under the Wheels
London February 13 Dennis Finnegan aged 39 was killed by a Panhandle freight train east of the interlocking tower. He was said to be en route to his mother's home in the eastern part of town when struck.
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London
Dennis Finnegan
Man admits assaulting 9 year old at Ford's brickyard
Columbus reports Charles Green of Grogan arrested and confessing to the assault of Laura Geisler, age 9, last Friday in Ford's brickyard. The wounded girl remains unable to leave her bed.
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Columbus
Charles Green
Grogan
Laura Geisler
Ford
Filipinos as Students and congressional musings in Washington
Special correspondence notes that 18 Filipinos studied in the United States last year funded by the Philippine government with 12 in the District of Columbia. They excel in studies sports music and military science and some won prizes including a university fellowship. Senate committees are oddly named and rarely meet. Chippeway chiefs visit to seek legislation and education. Oldest lawmakers are Nehemiah Day Sperry and William Pinckney Whyte. Sperry helped fund the Monitor project and Whyte has a long legal and political record in Maryland.
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Edwards
Insular Bureau
War Department
United States
District of Columbia
Senate
Congress
Select
Potomac River Front
Washington
Joe
New England
House of Representatives
Cannon
George P. Lawrence
Massachusetts
Frank Currier
New Hampshire
White Earth Reservation
Minnesota
Interior Department
Meshake-ge-shig
Tay-oumig-e-Sig
Zhaday
Omuck-ah-geenee
Edward Tanner
John Cari
George Walters
Charles Wright
Wa-way-yea-cumig
Thomas Swan
William Lufkins
House
Nehemiah Day Sperry
Connecticut
William Pinckney Whyte
Maryland
Sperry
Senator Whyte
Monitor
Stampton Roads
Lincoln
New Haven
Cleveland
Harrison
Real Estate Notes Offer Homes and Farmland Near Carey
A six room house offered with monthly payments and an 81 acre farm with first class improvements near Carey. The notice also mentions bonding newly elected officers to the community.
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Carey
Napoleon as a Subaltern in Memoirs of the First Empire
A reminiscence recounts Napoleon as a playful subaltern who boasted of practical jokes on officers. He described tying a target string to mislead chiefs with perfect hits from gun practice and firing blank cartridges to tease a deaf colonel, imagining his own response to such tricks.
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Napoleon
Gituls
Milk Joke in Pearsons Weekly Slander Sketch
A bashful suitor visits the dairy of his ladylove. The farmer answers the door with a sharp retort, declaring Our milk isn't made. It s got from the cow. The scene mocks gossip and propriety in a short comic vignette from Pearson's Weekly.
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Pearson’s Weekly
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