Rio Janeiro Sinks Off Golden Gate In Dense Fog
The steamship Rio Janeiro homeward from Japan sank after striking a rock at the Golden Gate in heavy fog. About 150 passengers and crew were lost amid panic and chaotic attempts to abandon ship as boats lowered too slowly. The Sequoia rescued twenty two, including Captain Hewhts, with reports blaming boiler explosions and a rapid sinking.
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Japan
Hewhts
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Palace drugstore promises health through remedies and advice
The Palace boasts a wide arsenal of medicines and a drug and prescription department praised by doctors and customers alike. It urges constant health attention, preventive care, and using its remedies, mineral waters, and specifics as lifelong allies for long life and improved vitality.
Cold Blooded Murder Shocks Chicago Italians
A killing near Grand and Milwaukee in Chicago targets Salvator Giovanni a famed Italian feared as opposing the Mafia. Carlo Baptista allegedly shot him with nine arrests tied to an ambush plot. Police baffled by conspiracy and motive amid charges of Mafia influence.
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Grand
Milwaukee Avenues
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Baptista
American Montreal residents plan Washington birthday dinner
Montreal crowds gather at the Windsor hotel for a Washington birthday dinner with U S and Canadian speakers expected. Committees have worked four weeks on arrangements for the event promising a brilliant season highlight.
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Washington
Windsor Hotel
United States
Ex-President Cleveland to Lecture on Venezuela
Princeton Feb 22 Official announcement that ex president Cleveland will deliver two Stafford Little lectures in Alexander hall on March 27 and 28. The topics are not announced yet but both lectures will examine the Venezuelan question in depth.
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Cleveland
Stafford Little
Alexander Hall
University Day Address and Yale Penn Exhibition
Bishop Henry C. Porter of New York spoke on The Wider Outlook at the University of Pennsylvania celebration. This evening Yale and Pennsylvania will stage a joint athletic exhibition in the symposium.
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Henry C. Porter
New York
University of Pennsylvania
Yale
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Sympsium
Health Improves Salisbury Still Premier Amid Coronation Plans
London reports Salisbury not retiring and in good health with Prime Minister status intact. Chamberlain leads a strong Liberal Unionist line as arrangements begin for King Edward’s coronation set for about June 25, with a grand social season to follow through mid August.
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London
the Tribune Today
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Colombia Minister Arrives to Negotiate Panama Canal
The Colombian foreign minister Señor Silva arrives in Washington to negotiate a Panama canal treaty. He says French concessions are complete and the canal can be built immediately if talks with the United States succeed.
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Panama
Republic of Colombia
Senor Silva
United States
Five Die in Pittsburg and Erie Train Wreck
Five men were killed outright in a train wreck on the Pittsburg and Erie road this morning near Sharon Pennsylvania. Separately publishers will gather at the Waldorf Astoria this evening for the American Newspaper Publishers association dinner with speakers including Robert C. Ogden Judge Edward W Hatch Melville Stone James N Beck Col Frank B Stevens and John M Allen.
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Melville . Stone
Associated Press
James N.beck
United States
Col
Frank B. Stevens
Boston
W. B. Green
John M. Allen
Mississippi
John Allen
Postmaster Smith to Speak at Michigan Club Banquet
Detroit February 22 Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith will deliver an address at the Michigan club annual banquet tonight His topic Republican Faith in the American Policy Defender of the administration in the Philippines and foreign questions.
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Charles Emory Smith
Michigan Club
Philippines
Nine Die as Express and Local Train Crash in New Jersey
A collision near Bordentown on the Amboy division of the Pennsylvania Railroad killed nine passengers outright with more fatalities expected. About twenty five injured were taken to Trenton area hospitals and Camden’s Cooper Hospital. Officials blamed the local train crew Conductor B S Sapp and Engineer B F Thompson for failing to await the express.
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B. F. Thompson
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War field tragedy ends in murder suicide near Atlanta
In Civil War era Atlanta a young widow Mrs H M Wilson and William Hamilton a pharmacy student were found dead by Confederate breastworks. Hamilton shot Wilson then burned the woods and killed himself leaving an empty cigarette box beside his body. Wilson had left home a week earlier without a hat and with slippers.
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Mrs Fairbanks Wins D A R Presidency in Washington
Senator Fairbanks wife Mrs Fairbanks wins the national D A R presidency with 333 votes to 293 for Mrs McLean and 42 for Mrs Robling. The Colorado candidate Mrs Manning supported the winner. Bishop Satterlee read the Declaration of Independence after the announcement as Miss Caldwell sang.
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Washington Robling
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Manning
Saterlee
Miss Caldwell
Bunker Hill
Presbyterian Revision Committee Reconvenes in Washington
The Presbyterian church revision committee, sixteen members strong and mostly favoring creed changes, re convened in Washington on February 22 after an adjournment in December. They will draft a report for presentation to the general assembly, though the assembly’s decision remains conjectural.
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General Assembly
Bigamist and forger arrested in Denver
William B. Reddish of Lincoln Nebraska was seized in Denver at Lincoln police request charged with bigamy and forgery. He used the name Stanley and advertised to hire young women. Reportedly two wives in Nebraska one in Cripple Creek and another in Denver with several children. He passed a counterfeit three hundred dollar check on a Lincoln bank.
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Stanley
Nebraska
Cripple Creek
Senator Warren Pushes Cheyenne Building Cost Increase Amendment
Washington February 22 Senator Warren introduced an amendment to the sundry civil bill to raise the Cheyenne government building cost limit from 250000 to 225000 and authorize the treasury secretary to make contracts for completion. Work on 38 public buildings stalls due to higher labor and material costs and the omnibus bill from the public buildings committee faces House inaction.
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Cheyenne
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Train Derailed at Open Switch Injures Three Men
An express on the Vandalia line hits an open switch at St Clair crossing near West St. Louis injuring engineer John J. Van Cleave and fireman Henry T. Rickleman fatally or seriously. Clerk John Gress survives unharmed. All victims reside in St. Louis.
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St. Clair Crossing
West St. Louis
John J. van Cleave
Henry T. Rickleman
John Gress
Englishman Honors Washington at Chicago Union League
Frederick Harrison, English scholar and critic, will deliver the birthday address at the Union League club in Chicago. The event reverses past practice by presenting Washington's character through a foreign voice invited via Ambassador Choate.
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Frederick Harrison
George Washington
Union League Club
James Russell Lowell
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
Archbishop Ireland
Theodore Roosevelt
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Harrison
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Bacon
Georgia
Senate
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Chamber of Commerce
ONE Thousand Voices
New York
Cooley
Johns Hopkins President Gilman Resigns After 25 Years
Baltimore February 22 Johns Hopkins University president Dr. Gilman has formally announced his resignation at Commemoration Day exercises in McCoy Hall. After a quarter century at the helm his departure is attributed to the universitys strained finances and his advancing age. A successor has not been named.
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Gilman
Johns Hopkins University
McCoy Hall
Gillman
Newsroom Dinner Planned for City Council President
Randolph Quegenheimer, president of the city council, will host a dinner for the news boys at their Duane street home this evening in New York.
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Randolph Quegenheimer
Duane Street
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