Massive boiler explosion devastates Brockton shoe factory
In Brockton Massachusetts on March 20 a boiler blast at the R B Grover Company shoe plant in the Cam pello district destroyed the four story factory and sparked a fire that consumed eight buildings. Rescue teams recovered sixty bodies by midnight and authorities warned the death toll could rise. Dozens more are injured many seriously while the exact number of workers inside remains uncertain.
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Campello
R. B. Groves Company
R. B. Grover & Co
J. Ray Cole
Harry
H. Hall
Jerome
A. Mayo
George Smith
Emma B. Pray
Lorence A. Dunham
Samuel A. Tiley
Ernest Caron
Nellie Leary
Serena Shaw Burrows
Marion Tufts
Miss Fitzgerald
James N. Bell
Nora Coughlin
Hirman Pierce
William Lightfoot
East Bridgewater
Charles Rolins
Arthur Pierce
J. H. McCabe
James Iands
Ralph Churchill
David Rockwell
George Jones
August Burgess
Charles Carlson
John Howard
Daniel McDonald
Lena Baker
Thomas Chisholm
Mamie Conroy
Elizabeth Mulyihill
Kitty Noonan
Daniel M’sherry
Warren Lewis
Frank Pierce
John J. Garvey
Nicholas Corlers
Thomas M’sherry
J. Hanley
En Serpe
Andrew Ell
Burns
Condit
Cassie Chadwick Denies Carnegie Paternity Claim Barbs Judge Bias
Cassie Chadwick, in her first authorized interview since trial, denies ever claiming Andrew Carnegie was her father. She disputes claims that Judge Taylor was biased, accuses Prosecuting Attorney Sullivan and Marshal Chandler of unfair treatment, and hints that her bankruptcy testimony Monday could reveal startling new details about her affairs.
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Commercial Tribune
Cleveland
Andrew Carnegie
Cassie L. Chadwick
Taylor
Sullivan
Marshal Chandler
Lexington murder bail hearing sparks sensational testimony
Mose Feltner testified that in a Breathitt County murder plot he and the Hargis brothers and Callahan discussed who should be killed first and that Cockrell was later killed. Feltner claimed he acted in good faith and warned Marcum and Cockrell to save their lives, a claim that caused a courthouse sensation.
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Hargises
Marcum
Cockrell
James Cockrell
Breathitt County
Mose Feltner
Breathitt
Alex
James Hargis
Callahan
Hargis
Kroger Line Extends to Blanchester Begun
The Cincinnati Milford and Loveland Traction Road authorized about 750000 dollars to extend twenty two miles from Milford to Blanchester. The extension will be built broad gauge, double track to Milford and single track beyond, with passing switches. Most stock is held by B H Kroger Charles W Baker and J Pearring. No new stock will be issued and funds will come from the owners. Construction begins at various points and aims to finish before summer's end.
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Cincinnati
Milford
Fifth and
Sycamore Streets
C. W. Baker
Kroger
Gas Pipeline Planned From West Virginia to Cincinnati Area
An Ohio Fuel Supply Company engineering corps nears completion of a survey for a natural gas pipeline from Columbus toward Cincinnati. From Xenia radiating lines would reach Dayton Springfield Cincinnati and Hamilton with city gas supply likely within two years. The project includes a $4 million capitalization and a cost tallied in the hundreds of thousands to extend to Cincinnati.
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Ohio Fuel Supply Company
Columbus
Cincinnati
Xenia
Dayton
Springfield
Hamilton
West Virginia
Ohio
Artists' Colony to Occupy Top Floor of Building
The Harrison Building on Fourth Street east of the Pike will host a city artists’ colony on its top floor. Ten notable local artists have leased the space and will receive north light via four wedge skylights of concrete. Elevators will run to the attic level, a first for the city, with a high shaft extending above the roof.
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Artists’ Colony
Harrison
Fourth Street
Pike
Con
France Sends Warhips to Venezuela Sparks Cable Clash
French cable complications flare as Paris warns Caracas against cancelling a company franchise or interfering with its property. Washington reports Minister Bowen stating the instruction from Paris to Venezuela. The notice signals heightened tensions over colonial era assets and maritime posture.
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Bowen
State Department
Caracas
Dana Sues Tovoid Tobacco Merger As Illegal
Richard T. Dana, administrator of the late Richard S. Dana, files in Trenton New Jersey a chancery bill to set aside the merger of American Tobacco Company with Consolidated and Continental Tobacco into the American Tobacco Company. He claims lack of consent and violations of state and federal constitutions impairing contracts. Defendants include directors and James B. Duke Thomas Dolan and Thomas F. Ryan.
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Commercial Tribune
Trenton
N. J
Richard T. Dana
Richard S. Dana
Court of Chancery
American Tobacco Company
Consolidated Tobacco Company
Continental Tobacco Company
Dana
Richard. Dana
James B. Duke
Thomas Dolan
Thomas F. Ryan
Woman acquits herself in Chicago murder trial
Judge Kersten dismissed the murder charge against Mrs. Jessie Hopkins finding a woman may defend herself against abusive husbands. Hopkins shot her husband during a New Year’s quarrel after he attacked her and threatened her life.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
Jessie Hopkins
George W. Kersten
Kersten
Vee
Anxiety and Flight in Finland After Linevitch Shootings
News from St. Petersburg reports a high official shot and renewed anxiety over the Manchurian situation. Finnish authorities move to reform administration to curb unrest while General Linevitch’s scattered forces face advancing Japanese columns along the retreat route.
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Finland
ST. Petersburg
Anxi
Sa Stomivens
Linevitch
New Named Vice Chairman of Republican National Committee
The Indiana leader Harry S. New is set to be appointed Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee by Chairman Cortelyou. Cortelyou will resign as chair, making New acting head of the party, with New once in place shaping national strategy amid Republican internal tensions.
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Cortelyou
Republican National Committee
Commercial Tribuns Borway
Washington, D. C
Washington
Harry 8S. New
Indiana
Republican ‘National Committee
Colonel New
Republican National Organ
National Committee
Fairbanks
New
Charles F. Brooker
Elmer Dover
Senator Penrose
Winfield T. Durbin
Chicago
Middle West
West
Indianapolis Journal
United States
Raisuli Named Governor of Tribes Between Tangier and Fez
Tangier Morocco March 20 Raisuli receives a royal letter appointing him governor of several key tribes between Tangier and Fez in what appears to be a Perdicaris case sequel. Tribes chiefs plan to meet tomorrow to discuss the appointment.
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Tangier
Morocco
Perdicaris
Raisuli
Fez
Messenger robbed of $10000 on way to refinery
J. E. Daly an Oakland liveryman acting as a messenger for the Central Bank of Oakland was held up and robbed of 10000 dollars while en route to the Standard Oil refinery at Point Richmond California on March 20.
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Commercial Tribune
Berkley
Cal
J. E. Daly
Oakland
Central Bank of Oakland
Standard Oil
Point Richmond
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Boyden
Post
Elmer H. Dodge
Ella Whitcomb
Walter Lawrence
Samuel Bicknell
Charles Eaton
Julia Shields
North Easton
Emma Delano
William Lyford
Carnegie
Chadwick
Wizard of Finance
Sullivan and
Chandler
Citizens' Bank of Oberlin
New York
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Muse Feltner
Rell
Lexington
Commonwealth
James
Elbert Hargis
Ed Callahan
Blanchester
Crete
France
Venezuela
Castro
Mands
Second
Dolptibus Maen
Kaiguen
Linewitch
Harry S. New
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Durbin
Oakland Bank
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