Record of the Week From Foreign Shores News Briefs
Indictments in Park Avenue explosion case target contractors and officials for storage lapses. London sea freight merger eyed. captaincy shifts proposed. A fatal Pennsylvania Railroad crash at Horseshoe Curve reports four dead. Other items note a shipwreck off Cape May, a ransom payment in Constantinople, and a frozen recluse found dead in Minnesota.
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New York
Park Avenue
Ira A. Shaler
Shaler
Regal
Wynante
Horse Shoe
Altoona
A. S. Graves
W. K. Westner
E. W. Coony
Great Shops Burned in Springfield Fire Destroys 12 Plants
A massive blaze in Springfield Ohio wiped out twelve manufacturing plants on East Street amounting to over 500000 dollars in losses. The 800 workers lose employment as facilities including Krell Brench Piano and Owen Machine Tool faced heavy damage. Insurance covers 240000 with 110000 on buildings after a chemical explosion in Champion Chemical triggered the fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ohio
East Street
William N. Whitely
Senator Mairbanks
Indiana
Krell-Brench Piano Company
Springfield Younddy Company
Owen Machine Tool Company
Indianapolis Frog and Switch Company
Miller Gas Engine Company
Progress Stove and Furnace Company
Champion Chemical Company
Green Manufacturing Company
Champion Company
De Wet Evades British Forces Again
Gen Christian De Wet slips through Gen Kitchener's lines for the twentieth time using darkness to slip away with a small party and cattle. The pursuit in the Orange River Colony ends with De Wet escaping unhurt though three of his men are killed, and many horses and cattle are lost.
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Kitchener
Christian de Wet
de Wet
Orange River
Arrested for Forging Check in Wild Mardi Gras Trip
Ray Sutton Garlick of Tacoma is jailed in San Francisco for forging the name of William Alvord of the Bank of California to a $100 check. He spent lavishly in New Orleans en route to Chicago, then attempted further fraud at a jewelry store posing as Alvord’s nephew. His father, a Tacoma bank officer, is referenced.
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Chicago
New Orleans
Ray Sutton Garlick
Tacoma
San Francisco
William Alvord
Bank of California
Garlick
University of Chicago
Mr. Alvord
Garrick
Pair of Kidnappers Caught After Snowy Mount Morris Chase
Abductors Bert Stocking and wife captured at Mount Morris New York after a three day search for seven year old Ella Zencer. They were held for grand jury after a formal examination. Also reported: a trapeze artist killed mid performance in Newport News Virginia and other varied items from crime to maritime and military costs.
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Ella Zencer
Mount Morris
N. Y
O'Leary
Bert Stocking
Filla
Zencer
Charles Zenzer
Nunda
Etla Zencer
Moa Gilbert
Powhattan Theater
Newport News
Salt Lake ministers condemn polygamy in church report
The Ministerial Alliance of Salt Lake adopts a unanimous report alleging ongoing polygamy among Mormons. The four member committee will forward the findings to Congress and circulate in the East to push an anti polygamy constitutional amendment. The report cites evidence from reliable sources and accuses church colonization schemes of enabling polygamy and political influence.
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Ministerial Alliance of
Salt Lake
Judiciary Committee of
Congress
Church
Famous Will Case Closed In New Jersey Courts
The New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals dismissed the Landis will contest for lack of required security. Charles Isling Landis, founder of Vineland and South Jersey towns, disinherited his two sons Richard W. M. and James Montevert who had argued with him. the sons alleged insanity but the case ended without a verdict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. K. Landis
New Jersey Court of Wrrors
Landis
Charles Isling Landis
Vineland
Sea Isle City
Hammonton
Lindisville
New Italy
Whale Beach
South Jersey
Richard W. M
James Montevert
Girl Murder Arouses Coast In Nora Fuller Case
The nude body of 10 year old Nora Waller was found in a vacant San Francisco house at 2211 Suter Street. Police link the case to a man using the name John Bennett and a renter named C. B. Hawkins, suggesting entrapment and imprisonment followed by murder.
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Nora Fuller
Theodore Durrant
Gir
Suter Street
San Francisco
Nora Waller
Theodore Durant
John Bennett
Souter Street
C. B. Hawkins
Bennett
Hawking
Muzzled Minnesota Farmer Arrested Overstarving Children
A Polish farmer near Willow River Minnesota A Grauski was arrested after he muzzled his 11 year old daughter and 1 year old son to stop them from seeking food. The children, fed scantily, ate raw vegetables and grass before stealing milk led to discovery and removal.
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Minnesota
Hig
A. Grauski
Willow River
Minn
Ranch Girls Shoot Thief in Nebraska Corn Theft
The two daughters of Superintendent Nye at Knowlin sheep ranch near Schuyler Nebraska armed with shotguns and chased three men stealing corn. They fired as the thieves fled. one man was wounded and cared for at the ranch while the other escaped.
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Nebraska
Nye
Knowlin
Schuyler
Neb
Goats Prove Useful Farm Hands in Missouri Trials
G A R Hillis of the State Board of Agriculture reports twelve months of goat labor trials in Missouri. Angora goats grazing on rough land eat weeds to roots, reducing cleared-land costs and labor. Other notes include bank troubles in Detroit, a suicide case in Wichita, cattle sales in Indianapolis, a sanitarium fire near Columbus, Galveston bankruptcies, census clerks dismissed, and several local incidents.
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Missouri
G. A. R. Hillis
State Board of Agriculture
Congress Debates Tariffs and Oleo Bill Amid War Claims
The House adjourned amid oleomargarine tariff debate and a defeat for dairy interests, while Senate discussions focused on the Philippine tariff and self government. A constitutional amendment to lengthen the presidential term was approved in the Senate and likely to pass in the House. The day also saw bills paying Spanish War and Civil War claims and the press access clash in the Philippine committee.
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Senate
Turner
Wash
Manila
United States
Teller
Colo
Stewart
Nevada
House
Roosevelt
Platt
Connecticut
Horn
Massachusetts
House of Representatives
Wadsworth
New York
Committee On Agriculture
Congress
Court of Claims
al Sharp
Lodge
Patterson
Philippine Committee
Colorado
Lee
Johnson
Spanish Claims Commission
Gorliss
San Francisco
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Ribune
Denver
Alfred Wooley
Boston
Dominion and Leyland Lines
White Star
American
Atlantic Transport Lines
London
Henry Winding
Leyland
Atlantic Transport
American Lines
S. K. Randall
Avilla
Ind
Cape May
N. Jf
Frank Slerbert
Opecoke
N. C
Delaware Bay
San Francisco Call
Adams
the American
Wells Fargo Express
KE. H. Warriman
Southern Pacific
Booth-Tucker
Salvation Army
New York City
Belgrade
Servia
Alexander
Hank
North St. Louis
Prince Jienry
St. Louis
London Exchange Telegraph Company
Lahore
Punjab
Mary Ryerson
Byford
John
Shorty
Councelle
Smyth
John W. Sollais
Spring Avenue
Montana
Nobson
Fergus County
Mont
Cape May Lighthouse
New Jersey
Spain
Duke of Almodovar
Council of State
Paterson
N. J
N.J
Philippines
Edmond A. Dubois
Lewis Russell
Robert Fairbanks
Senator Fairbanks
Francis Hamlin
Washington
St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company
Bon Als
Texas
Allj
Brooklyn
Shadbolt Wagon Factory
Miss Stone
Die Information
Vienna
Wahk
Miss
Turkey
Bulgaria
Albert J. Ayres
Ayres
Union National Bank of Brooklyn
Crane
Clare Hannum
Peddie Institute
Hightstown
Fort Wayne
Haysville
Wright
San Jacinto Harbor
P.I
Trinidad
Thomas Martin
Kentucky
Soloner
Salt Lake 2
Misitetorial Alliance
Accu
City Savings Bank of Detroit
Frank C. Andrews
Andrews
George Sutton
Wichita
Kaw
Scott Wadley
Anna Stevens
Union Stock Yards
Indianapolis
W. D. Flatt
Hamilton
Ont
Walter KE. Cline
Wilmington
Foutain Park
Urbana
Galveston
Census Bureau
China
Jack Chinn
Harrodsburg
Empire
First Lutheran
Xenia
Representative Burke
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