Bank Robbery at Chardon Ohio Sparks Manhunt
A gang of six robbed Citizen's Savings Bank in Chardon Ohio blowing the safe with dynamite and wounding a night watchman who fired on them. Dr. Hudson bound during the heist, two robbers captured at Willoughby, others pursued toward Painesville and Cleveland. Banks warned against handling stolen property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizen's Savings Bank
Chardon
Oho
Pomeroy
Hudson
Bawk
Willoughby
Cleveland
Painesville
City Council Fray Over 30 Year Street Railroad Franchise
In Kansas City Kansas a heated council meeting saw citizens form a tense opposition to a thirty year franchise for the Metropolitan Street Railroad Company. The franchise committee favored the bill, protests surged, and violence was avoided only by the restraint of the crowd. Council members swore on tables to vote against the grant, and the mayor vowed a veto if approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Kan
Metropolitan Street Railroad Company
Northwestern to Sail Chicago Hamburg First Trip
The Chicago trans Atlantic steamship Northwestern will depart Chicago for Hamburg on April 24 carrying agricultural implements and freight. The voyage through the lakes St Lawrence and across the Atlantic is expected to take twenty two days. The ship and its sister vessel will run regular trips to Hamburg after April 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Manila special Chief Justice Arellano Meets Aguinaldo
Chief Justice Arellano reports Aguinaldo seeks to end resistance and spare Filipinos distress. He plans to urge insurgents to cease fighting and accept American sovereignty, trusting in American justice and generosity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Arellano
Aguinaldo
Morgan sails for Europe after stock trust plan
J W. P. Morgan sails for Europe. He refused to discuss the trip and said plans would be completed after reaching the other side. He intends listing the steel trust stock on exchanges in London, Berlin and Paris. Detectives surrounded him until the last whistle for all not on the passenger list to go ashore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J W. P. Morgan
Europe
London
Berlin
Paris
Smyrna Riots as Greeks assault the Jewish Ghetto
A London Morning Leader dispatch from Vienna reports that 16,000 angry Greeks stormed Smyrna's Jewish quarter over rumors of ritual murder. Turkish troops charged with bayonets, one killed and fourteen wounded in the mob clash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Morning
Vienna
Smyrna
Switchman Beheaded In Freight Car Accident At Indianapolis
Rufus FE Hopkins, a Big Four switchman and member of the Masons Knights of Pythias and Red Men, was knocked from a freight car by girders of a low fridge at Benton Street in Indianapolis and fell in front of an engine on another truck. His head was severed.
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Rufus FE. Hopkins
Big Four
Masons
Knights of Pythias
Red Men
Benton Street
Indianapolis
Ind
Morgan Steel Trust Targets Pittsburg Coal Company
Rumors spread that the Morgan steel trust aims at the Pittsburg Coal Company, the soft coal trust, claiming the coal is essential to Morgan’s business. Pittsburg Coal stock has risen several points in response to the chatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan Steel Trust
Pittsburg Coal Company
Soft Coal Trust
Pittsburg
Rebels Surrender Report From Manila Panoy
Report from Manila states thirty Filipino officers and fifteen men surrendered to General Robert Hughes at Panoy. The surrender marks a notable development in the region as Allied forces consolidate control and seek to restore order. Close observers note the modest scale of the capitulation amid ongoing hostilities and strategic reassurances from command.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Robert Hughes
Panoy
Tragedy in Marion: Mail Carrier Kills Wife Then Self
In Marion Indiana Victor Schultz a 35 year old mail carrier shot and killed his wife and fatally wounded boarder W A Eikenberry who tried to intervene. Schultz then slashed his own throat from ear to ear with a razor. Both Schultz and Eikenberry were expected to die.
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Marion
Ind
Victor Schultz
W. A. Eikenberry
Schultz
Eikenberry
Gilfillan donates 50000 to aid University of Minnesota students
Former Congressman John B. Gilfillan of Minneapolis gives the University of Minnesota fifty thousand dollars to fund income for assisting worthy students through the university.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. Gilfillan
Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
Eastern News Capsule Skims Wide World Events
Seventy two Crosby paintings sold in New York for 66000 dollars. Motormen and conductors on Monongahela Street Railway settle their dispute at Rankin Pennsylvania. Ma hon ing valley furnace workers win a 20 cent daily pay raise. Winslow New Jersey forest fire devastates large cranberry bogs near Falsum with hundreds of acres burned. A Pennsylvania coal miners strike is averted, keeping 143000 miners at work. W J Brewster Co of Hannibal failed with 725600 liabilities. Small depositors in Oswego Wayne Cayuga suffer. Harvey I Montgomery near Hobart shot his wife thinking burglary. wife dies. Professor Alexander Wheeler drowns in Housatonic river after boat capsizes. Agnes McCall, a teacher in Allegheny, abducted and secretly married an 11 year old pupil Frederick Taylor in Washington. Largest Pittsh ore coal shipment ever sent south reaches 2600600 bushels. Barrymore becomes insane in New York and is admitted to Bellevue Pavilion. Blakely Wall leases Boston Traveler plant to launch daily morning and Sunday edition. Comedian Roland Need dies at Mrs Rush’s residence in New York. A gale in New Haven kills ten month old infant by dropped carriage in cellar. Bank of Columbia sends 5000 in paper money to Bank of Commerce New York. counterfeit substitution found. Gas explosion at Edgar Thomson steel works in Braddock Ta. burns five men, two fatally, caused by escaping gas from a broken mull igniting furnace.
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George L. Crosby
Chicago
New York
Monongahela Street Railway
Rankin
Mahoning Valley
Winslow
N. J
Falsum
Pennsylvania
W. J. Brewster & Co
Hannibal
Oswego
Wayne
Cayuga Coupe
Harvey I. Montgomery
Hobart
Montgomery
Alexander Wheeler
Bridgeport, Conn
Housatonic
Peck Hill
Agnes McCall
Schoo
Allegheny
Frederick Taylor
Washington
Pittshore
Shell
Maurinee Barrymore
Bellevue Hospital
Blakely Wall
New York Telegraph
Boston Traveler
Roland Need
Western union carpenters seek raise. fires. trials. and other city news
The Western union carpenters of Cleveland demand a five cent hourly wage increase from contractors. The Bradley building in Cleveland, used for small manufacturing, burned for a $60,000 loss. Reports claim a party of gold seekers were massacred by Ceris Indians on Tiburon Island in the Gulf of California. Pike's Peak road opens for the season amid heavy snow on the mountains but clear tracks. Carter Harrison re-elected Chicago mayor by substantial margin. James Callahan waives preliminary in the Cudahy kidnapping case. trial set for April 22. Calvin P. Titus of Iowa named a West Point cadet by President McKinley. Theodore Wailett hanged at Henderson, Minnesota, for murder. confessed nervousness. Hayden Slate Roofing plans a new $800,000 hotel in St. Louis. Martin Striszinski, 02, dies in Milwaukee tenement fire. others escape. J E Bilcomer commits suicide at Reno Oklahoma. no known cause. James Thignewood convicted for Baptiste Barnier murder in Crawford, Minnesota. Mrs Morand and son suffocate from coal gas in Sioux Falls. husband recovering. Girls in Cherry’s cigar factory Lancaster strike for 2¢ per hundred. demand refused. nearly all but two idle. Youngstown furnace workers press for 10¢ daily rise. seeking 20¢. J C Peanell elected VP of Standard Oil. HQ to Findlay, Ohio. He follows William Leemming. Dialuth residents prosper from mining shares amid steel boom. William Dearthruft pleads guilty in Kansas City to $3,100 diamond theft.
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Union Carpenters
Cleveland
Bradley
Tiburon
Gulf of California
Pike's Peak
Carter H. Harrison
Chicago
James Callahan
Cudahy
Omaha
Calvin P. Titus
Vinton
Iowa
Pekin
West Point
McKinley
Theodore Wailett
Henderson
Minn
Thomas Hayden
Hayden Slate Roofing Company
St. Louis
Martin Striszinski
Third Avenue
Milwaukee
J. E. Bilcomer
Reno
Joseph A. Morand
Daniel
Sioux Falls
S. D
Cherry
Lancaster
Ohio
Youngstown
J. C. Peanell
Ohio Oi! Company
The
Standard, Wend
Oi! City
Findlay
William Lemming
Dialuth
Steel Combine
William Dearthruft
Kansas City
Edwards
Multiple early 1900s U.S. crime and politics notes
The item catalogues diverse incidents from across the United States including a two year penitentiary sentence for a wholesale jeweler, a Lee County Lee County Lee County bill clash in Arkansas, a St. Louis barber returning $23000 in checks, and a Ohio official fatally burned at a Masonic home hospital. It covers Nebraska and Missouri missing persons, life sentences for murder, mayoral elections in Cleveland Toledo and Columbus, a jail beating case in Springfield Ohio, and a Kansas death warrant by hanging. It also notes oil prospecting in Cripple Creek, a large Kansas City fire injuring five firemen, a jealousy driven shooting in St Joseph, a world steer tying record in Arizona, a new irrigation canal in Colorado, a Findlay Ohio tube plant sale, Missouri train escapees, a runaway horse in Indianapolis, and Chicago burglary and murder at Newberry Building.
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Ohio
Washington, D. C
Ohio Masonic Home
Springfield
Frank Grant
Guthrie
Nevada
Omaha
Prentice Tiller
Charles E. Hollibaugh
Evie Bunton
Buffalo
Wye
A.S. Brown
Brown
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
Columbus
Jones
Toledo
George Craig
Springfied
Ida Bowman
Craig
Taylor Cook
Kansas Penitentiary
Kansas
W. Stratton
Cripple Creek
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Chief Hale
Jacob Cold Packing Company
Eighth Street
Kansas City
Kansas Line
Corset Steel
G George Meisner
Burlington
Ellen Stephens
St. Joseph
Meisner
Gilson Range
Phoenix
Ariz
Antonio Rodgers
Clay McGonigle
Colorado River
Yuma
Findlay
IF. C. Challiner
E. R. Rickson
Charles T. Torsell
Paul Newton Adams
City
Multiple 1900s Crimes and Disasters Plague Regions
Wealthy farmer Tiarvey Davis shoots neighbor Marion Hilton at Bluefield West Virginia. At Reform Alabama a safe in the express office is blown open and four thousand dollars seized. robbers escape. Traveling salesman A B Meek kills his brother in law T J Womack in Waco Texas amid family disputes over property. Oil company in Wayne County Kentucky strikes rich at 500 feet, two hundred barrels wasted. Fire damages Augusta Hotel Hampton Virginia for fifteen thousand dollars. guests escape unharmed. In Frankfort Kentucky the Court of Appeals grants new trials to Caleb Powers and James Howard, convicted in the Goebel assassination case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiarvey Davis
Marion [Hilton
Bluefield
W. Va
Reform
Ala
A.B. Meek
T. J. Womack
Waco
Texas
Meeks
Womack
Wayne County
Kentucky
Augusta
Hampton
Frankfort
Court of Appeals
Caleb Powers
James Howard
William Goebel
Ed Morris
John Bressingham
Port Mississippi shootings leave one dead inmate fled
In Port Miss a group of negro assailants shot a man and fatally wounded another before one of the attackers was killed. A second negro was captured as the incident unfolded, while at Richmond Virginia the Jefferson Hotel burned with no fatalities though guests escaped with difficulty and valuables were lost along with fine artworks housed there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port
Miss
Richmond
Jefferson Hotel
Manila Surrender Reported As Insurgents Yield
Col Gonzales the insurgent Manila governor with ten officers and forty five men surrendered to Col Beacom at Malabon. The report notes a gunboat fire in Cavite causing casualties and mentions the first American era execution in Manila at Port Malate for Archibald Wilsons murder. The piece also cites other global items including Tolstoi’s banishment and a new Oceanic mail contract.
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Col. Gonzales
Manila
Beacom
Malabon
Germany
William
Yildiz
Constantinople
Leo Tolstoi
New Zealand
Oceanic Steamship Company
James Stephens
Sutton
Ireland
Petrel
Dewey
Manila Bay
Cavite
Jesse Mims Roper
Port Malate
Archibald Wilson
McKinley rewards Funston. Army frauds at Manila noted
President McKinley promotes Gen. Frederick Funston to brigadier general overcoming army officer jealousy. Manila commissary department accused of extensive frauds with several arrests and more promised. Chicago contracts for nearly two tons of American flags for Porto Rico schools by July 4. Perry Heath rumored for St. Louis exposition publicity chief post at $10,000 yearly. Standard Oil reportedly to pay $5,000,000 for a Salt Lake patent converting petroleum to gas. Griscom credited with settlement of missionary claims in Turkey. Bradstreet notes brighter general trade, active building, and strong Western demand for machinery and agricultural implements. Wheat exports rise with weekly shipments and season totals up to July.
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McKinley
Gen. Funston
Bing
Manila
Chicago
Porto Rico
Europe
Perry Heath
Department of Publicity
Standard Oil Company
Salt Lake
Lloyd C. Griscom
United States Legation
Constantinople
Turkey
Bradstreet
Market cattle and grain prices across major U S markets
Chicago and other cities report cattle, hogs, sheep, and grain quotes. Prices vary by grade and region from Chicago to New York, with No 2 wheat around 79 to 80 cents and corn near 42 to 50 cents, butter around 21 to 22 cents, and eggs 12 to 13 cents.
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Chicago
Choice
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
Ste
New York
Harrison Re elected Chicago Mayor with third term bid
Carter H. Harrison captured the Chicago mayoralty for a third term by a 28,257 lead over Elbridge Haney in a 296,596 vote total from a 400,166 registry. Dems swept tickets. Rolla Wells won St. Louis World’s Fair mayoralty by about 10,000 over Parker and Merriweather amid unrest. Wisconsin and Kansas contests favored Republicans and Democrats in multiple cities with local issues and temperance ballots shaping results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter H. Harrison
Chicago
Rolla Wells
St. Louis
Elbridge Haneey
Harrison
Charles F. Gunther
William Loeffler
Andrew Ryan
Population censuses count eleven Indian languages in Mexico
Notes of Current Events report that Mexico's census includes eleven Indian languages. It also notes large imports of sausage casings from New Zealand, an estimated Honduras population of 587,500 excluding savage Indians, and Dutch government contracts for two new torpedo boats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
New Zealand
Honduras
Corn King Phillips Reasserts Grip On Grain Market
George H. Phillips leads a farmer and investor bloc in a bullish campaign in corn oats and wheat. He faced a bear attack on Wednesday as Chicago Board of Trade brokers trimmed prices by 3 cents on wheat 2 on corn and over a cent on oats. Phillips invested 200000 more in margins plus 600000 earlier and sacrificed wheat holdings to strengthen positions in corn and oats. He forecasts 60 cent corn by month’s end and remains a preeminent young figure in Chicago trading, likened to Old Hutch in influence.
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George H. Phillips
United Bear
Chicago Board of Trade
Phillips
Hutch
Chicago
Murder plot unfolds in Rice case confession
Jones, the valet of William Marsh Rice, testifies that Albert T. Patrick ordered mercurial pills, oxalic acid, and chloroform to kill Rice. He describes applying a chloroform soaked towel over Rice’s face for thirty minutes and admits aiding a scheme to seize about $3,000,000 in cash, securities, and realty for Patrick’s use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jones
Charles I. Jones
William Marsh Rice
Albert T. Patrick
Patrick
Johnson for President in Cleveland Nomination Hopes
Cleveland dispatch notes Tom L. Johnson’s election as mayor signals a first major victory in his bid for the presidency. Immediate allies believe he will be the party’s nominee in three years, as he unites both Democratic factions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Tom L. Johnson
Railway and railcar news from a western era report
The report notes continued inspection of the Illinois Central system and commissions on westbound ticket sales for small roads. Santa Fe February net earnings reach 1.51 million dollars, gross receipts 4.14 million, with substantial increases. Construction begins at San Pedro for the Los Angeles and Salt Lake City line with rails laid. A Gotham conference may push toward merging four Harriman syndicate systems in the West. Burlington adds five new 75-pound cars with steam heat gas lighting refrigeration and Flemish oak interiors. Manitoba seeks Northern Pacific takeover of Canadian lines but a legal hurdle exists. Northern Pacific to offer a 45 dollar first-class round trip from Eastern terminals to Seattle Tacoma and Portland starting July 6.
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Ilnois Central
Chicago
Santa Fe
Los Angeles
Salt Lake City
San Pedro
Cal
Gotham
Burlington Road
Manitoba
Northern Pacific Company
Northern Pacific
West
Northwest
Seattle
Tacomac
Portland
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Corydon
Indiana
Thomas & Ellis, Publishers
Hamburg
Bank of Columbia of Columbia
S. C
Bank of Commerce of New York
Edgar Thomson Steel Works
Briaddock. Ta
Western
Washington Street
H. C. Patterson
Irvington
O. F. Shaw
Patterson
Newberry
East
Ontario Street
Cornelius Dougherty
Frank J. Kelly
Dougherty
Kelley
Southern
Oscar Hebel
Judge Haneey
George W. Parker
Lee Merriweather
Mr. Wells
E. A. Rozier
United States
William Dwyer
Wisconsin
Janesville
Edgerton
Waukesha
Beloit
Hall Claire
Sheboygan
Oshkosh
Fond du Lac
Racine
Ashland
Marinette
J. W. Orr
Atchison
Leavenworth
Wichita
Nation
Minnesota
Denver
Colo
Henry V. Johnson
Robert R. Wright
E. T. Wells
Johnson
Nebraska
South Omaha
Arkansas
Little Rock
W. R. Daley
E. W. Perrin
Corn King Phillips
Rice
W. M. Rice
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