Boy Saves Train by Waving Red Handkerchief
Telegraphic item reports Carl Wasehey, a 14 year old boy, stopping a burning bridge and a west bound BO& O train within ten feet by signaling with a red handkerchief. The engineer halted the locomotive after warnings from passengers, and about $100 was raised for the boy. A second item notes a large fire in Grand Rapids destroying Young & Chaffen furniture shipping room and the Furniture Exchange, with widespread losses to building, stock, and the Daily News plant.
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Carl Wasehey
BO & O
Walcher
Big Furniture Exchange
Young & Chaffen
Furniture Shipping
Shephard P
Grand Rapids
Mich
Furniture Exchange
Daily News
Woman Strangled in Millbreak Mansion Robbery Case
Sarah Breymer, a nurse for Mr. and Mrs. Barnes Compton, was found strangled in bed at the Compton mansion in Millbreak WK V after burglars looted silverware and jewelry valued at about 16900. The Comptons were away in New York City. servants watched the house. An alleged confession is disputed. Authorities in Laporte Indiana discuss flaws in the confession related to the Belle Gunness case.
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Sarah Breymer
Barnes Compton
Compton
Millbreak
Laporte
Ind
Ray Lamphere
Belle Gunness
St. Louis
Smith
H. M. Worden
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Zelaya
Cannan
Grece
Greece
Missouri
Population figures for Cleveland census debate
Prof. M. M. Curtis, in charge of Cleveland census work, said preliminary figures place Cleveland’s population between 495 000 and 105 000, with 600 800 deemed unlikely. County growth outpacing Cleveland prompts discussion on area figures.
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Cleveland
M. M. Curtis
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
Global tensions and political shocks ripple through news items
Canada delays tariff pact ratification while US trade talks loom. Lincoln emancipation anniversary marked. Shonts dies. Taft eyes living-cost probe and waterway treaty hitch with Canada. Roberta de Janon held in Chicago. Hayti minister at White House dinner sparks chatter. Curtiss sets aviation records. lynching mob blocked by militia. Fitzgerald wins Boston mayoralty. sugar trust probes continue. Paulhan tops high lying record. NYSE suspends Chapin and Counties. Supreme Court hearing in Carter case. multiple political and corporate probes unfold.
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Henry D. Shonts
Theodore P. Shonts
United States
Taft
Canada
Roberta de Janon
Philadelphia
Chicago
White
New York
People’s Mutual Life Insurance Company
Heiress Marries Chauffeur in Jersey City Elopement
Miss Margaret Leavitt, a 2 year old heiress of Flushing and Bayside, reportedly eloped with Joseph Smallen her chauffeur once with James J. Corbett. Smallen nicknamed the “Candy Kid” for his looks, and a Bayside resident, and the couple were wed in Jersey City.
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Mixa Margaret Leavitt
Jersey City
Margaret Leavitt
G. Howland Leavitt
Flushing
Bayside
Joseph Smallen
James J. Corbett
Leavitt
Smallen
Jergey
Cit
Fire destroys New York Military Academy in Cornwall
The New York Military Academy at Cornwall New York burned completely with the main building observatory laboratory and manual training structures all destroyed. No injuries were reported and the loss was estimated at 100000 dollars.
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Military Academy
New York Military Academy
Cornwall
N. Y
Lack of Fuel Closes University Departments
Ohio State University shut all departments except one due to coal shortage. About two thousand students were excused from recitations as exams and classes paused while the campus faced fuel scarcity.
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Ohio State University
Lew Wallace Statue Unveiled in Washington Capitol
A Lew Wallace statue was placed in Statuary Hall Washington with Governor Marshall accepting for Indiana. The ceremony featured readings by James Whitcomb Riley and remarks by Senator Beveridge and others. The seven foot bronze by Andrew O Connor depicts Wallace in a major general’s uniform.
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Lew Wallace
Washington
Oliver P. Morten
Indiana
Hoasier
John P. Megrew
Wallace
James Whitcomb Riley
Andrew O'Connor
Paris
United States
Merriam Commission Finds Chicago Fleeced Over Shale Rock
The Merriam commission report states the city overpaid $45,084.20 to M. H. McGovern and Joseph Hanreddy for shale rock excavation on Lawrence avenue sewer section 10. It notes shale may have been present but contends no payment for rock is justified and asks Corporation Counsel Brundage to sue to recover the funds.
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Merriam Commission
Shaie Rock Caner
Chicago
M. H. McGovern
Joseph Hanreddy
Lawrence Avenue
Brundage
Wily Pastor Evades Arrest During Church Service
Reverend Elmer E. Davidson of Washington Indiana eluded a police warrant for wife desertion during a Church of Christ service in Piqua Ohio. Officials allowed the benediction after which Davidson slipped from the vestibule through a room to the basement and escaped via a church window.
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Elmer EE. Davidson
Washington
Ind
Church of Christ
Piqua
Ohio
Fire kills one firefighter in St. Louis hotel blaze
A hotel fire in the Cambridge and Barnum buildings near downtown St. Louis left one fireman dead, six others injured, and several women overcome by smoke as 200 guests fled into near freezing temperatures. Fireman Harry Tasche perished. Assistant Fire Chief Haynes survived after being rescued. Loss pegged at 100000.
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Derath
Mount
Binze
Cambridge
Barnum
St. Louis
Harry Tasche
Haynes
Tasche
Convict Black Hand Slayer Found Guilty in Albany
Dominick Ferrer was found guilty of murder in the first degree in Albany New York. He confessed to a New York detective that he was a member of The Family of the Dead Bodies branch of the Black Hand and that the killing of George E B Phelps, a real estate collector, was ordered by the society.
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Secret Society
Dominick Ferrer
George EB. Phelps
Albany
N. Y
Ferrer
New York
Black Hand
Robbers Raid Cromberg Resort Shootings Leave Two Dead
Robbers raided a Cromberg Kansas resort known as Turner Hall and opened fire. The assailants killed two people and fled the scene, according to initial reports from local authorities.
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Vietin
Turner Hall
Cromberg
Kan
Pinchot Ousted as Taft Forces Sweep in Forester Shakeup
Washington erupts as Gifford Pinchot chief forester is removed at 7 PM by Secretary of Agriculture on President Taft order. Overton Price and Alexander Shaw also dismissed. Ballinger-Pinchot dispute tied to Roosevelt era conservation and looming Republican party storm. Roosevelt’s influence looms behind the ouster as supporters push to see the action through.
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Gifford Pinchot
Agittent
Ure Wilson
Taft
Overton Price
Alexander Shaw
Forestry Service
Forest Service
L. R. Gravis
Interior
Ballinger
Pinchot
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
New Canals on Mars Detected by Lowell at A A S Session
Prof Percival Lowell told the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston that his Playstaff Observatory recorded two new canals on Mars during the recent opposition. The lines extend from Syrtis Major toward an oasis on the Cocytus, contrasting with earlier photographs and not caused by polar ice melt.
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Marsa
Percival Lowell
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Boston
Mars
Playstaff Observatory
Syrtis Major
Cocytus
Lowell
New Banks Form in December and Growth in National Banks
The Comptroller of the Currency reports 37 applications approved to organize national banks in December and 27 authorized to begin business, bringing total national banks to 7,054. Banks held deposits totaling $55 billion for the year, up $289 million, with capital stock rising from $920 million to $964 million.
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Comptroller of Currency
Murray
Burning Snow Fatal to Chila Julia Karll Dies Lighting Tree
A 9 year old Harlem girl named Julia Karl died after lighting a Christmas tree when a match dropped into a box of inflammables. Her clothing caught fire and she perished.
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Chila
Julia Karll
Julia
Detective Burgiar Caught Robbing Star Family
Detective Killan Burgiar is tied to a burglary at the Star family home in Rehfoldt McFarland. Authorities report the arrest followed a nighttime break in and recovery of stolen items. Burgiar faces charges and is jailed pending further proceedings.
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Killan Burgiar
Fam’ Rehfoldt ‘McFarland
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