The Peoples Gift to Maj. Gen Lawton’s Widow
Washington March 7 An emotional scene at the Riggs National Bank bore witness to a grateful public’s fund for the late Maj. Gen. Lawton being transferred to his widow Mary C. Lawton. Gen Corbin acting as treasurer drew a check for 680,407.07 and closed the fund account while Mrs Lawton provided a receipt.
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Lawton
Washington
Riggs National Bank
Mary Lawton
Corbin
Weston
C. C. Glover
Mary C. Lawton
Gen. Corbin
Army of idle men labor troubles in Chicago
Chicago workers report widespread plant closures as building material firms halt operations to protest labor unrest. About 50 000 people are idle including 10 000 in quarries brick yards and material plants 30 000 in construction and 3 000 on other strikes.
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Chicago
Jebor
Inet
Tee
Jines
Columbus (de Drivin Aesnetation
Mextcam Internal Revenue Office
Hand Krew
Darlington
Suturboof Pawtucket
R. I
Appeal Court of
France
Order of the Assumptionise Fathers
Grain and Livestock Prices in March Market Report
Market report from Louisville Cincinnati and Chicago shows steady grain and cattle terms with mixed hogs and rising lambs. New Orleans and Toledo notes reflect higher wheat and mixed corn values while a Cincinnati sheep market stays strong and a bogus captain faces federal impersonation charges in New Orientus.
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Cincinnati
Ri Nuig
New York
Chicago
Indianapolis
al Shemrey
Guy
Will Fight Bell Interesting Contest
Representatives of independent telephone companies in Indiana Illinois and Kentucky formed a permanent group in Terre Haute to oppose the Bell system. Charles R Dustin of Terre Haute is president J L Horney Clinton Indiana is VP Henry A Colt Terre Haute is secretary and J B Connelly Rockville Indiana is treasurer. The Interstate Telephone Association will unite independent lines now operating in three states.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Bell Telephone Company
Charles R. Dustin
J. L. Horney
Clinton
Henry A. Colt
J. B. Connelly
Rockville
Interstate Telephone Association
Indiana
Illinois
Kentucky
Klondike Letter Reaches South Bend Knitting Mills
A Staley knitting mill worker found a letter postmarked from aKlondike mining camp in a garment she knit two years earlier. The note says a miner who wore the piece found her name and address and asks how she would like to live in the Klondike. She has not yet replied.
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South Bend
Ind
Staley Knitting Mills
Klondike
Life term given to Mary Ann Anderson for murder
Mary Ann Anderson of Bloomfield Indiana aged 70 has been sentenced to life in the women’s prison for complicity in the October 1891 murder of her daughter Clara Waggoner. Her husband William Waggoner is already serving a life sentence for the same crime. George Watson another son in law faces a later trial.
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Mary Ann Anderso - Bloomfield
Ind
Mary Ann Anderson
Clara Waggoner
Anderson
William Waggoner
George Watson
Mixup Between Union and Nonunion Molders at Evansville
Evansville Indiana March 7 A fight at Hellman machine works left Arthur Ferguson a nonunion molder roughed by about a dozen union molders during a three week strike. Wages were 2 50 demanded 2 50 refused leading to tensions and the plant foreman Capt Jacob Messick resigned after three nonunion workers were hired.
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Evansville
Ind
Arthur Furguson
Hellman Machine Works
Jacob Messick
Vanderburg County
Senate Shows Little Interest In Financial Bill Vote
In Washington the senate approved the conference report on the financial bill by 44 to 26 after minimal debate. Four speeches were delivered, including Aldrich on changes by the conferees, then time was consumed on minor bills. In the house the Aldrich Robbing contested election from Alabama Fourth district dominated the day with speeches by Robbins, Burkett, Glenn, and Dearmond.
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Washington
Senate
Aldrich
Conserees
Simon
Carter
Montana
Alabama
Robbins
Mr. Burkett
Neb
Messrs
Glenn
N. Y
Dearmond
Contertec
Samoan Naval Station Placed Under Navy Control
Washington reports the president placed Tutuila island in the Samoan group under the navy for a naval station. The coroner's inquest into the SchiniWapp family death on the Missouri Pacific wreck at Independence returned a verdict finding negligence by the railway company and seizing on lack of due diligence.
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Washington
Tutuila
Department of the Navy
SchiniWapp
Cincinnati
Missouri Pacificc
Independence
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Boston
Union College of Painless Dentistry
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