Circling the Globe and a Wealthy Will Clash
An heir to a $260000 fortune, Ralph Sangere of Montreal, works as head waiter at a Christian Brothers college in St Laws Missouri while conflicts over the will remain unresolved. In Chicago, Joseph Mallory George Rankin and George Sherman are arrested for the South Bend grocer murder. detectives report confessions and suspect Rankin killed Koonsman with a possible $1000 reward for police.
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Sir William Sangere
Montreal
Canada
Ralph Sangere
Christian Brothers’ College
St. Laws
Sangere
Lady Sangere
Sir William
Jr. M. Tache
Moreau
R. Kimbann
Chicago
South Bend
Joseph E. Mallory
George Rankin
George Sherman
John M Koonsman
Ind
Rankin
Koonsman
Anne Clegg Taylor Sentenced in New York Jail Case
Mrs. Anne Clegg Taylor, sister in law of Herbert W. Bowen the American minister to Venezuela, was sentenced in the Narlem police court to six months in the Magdalen Home. She is connected to the Clegg family of Galveston Texas and has been arrested four times for intoxication. Meanwhile Mr. Bowen and Mrs. Bowen were hosted by President Roosevelt and his wife in Washington.
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Anne Clegg Taylor
Herbert W. Bowen
Veneuzela
Nlarlem
New York City
Magdalen Home
Taylor
Bowen
Clegg
Galveston
Texas
Caroline Cleve Bowen
Roosevelt
Washington
Mrs. Taylor
Get All the Cash Robbers Loot Somerton Bank
Robbers forced an entrance to the city bank in Somerton Ohio and blew open the safe taking between 5000 and 6000 dollars mostly in coin. At the edge of town they also damaged James Gray’s barn, stealing a horse and wagon before fleeing across the country. Local residents describe two men and a boy seen loitering as suspects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerton
Ohio
James Gray
Death of Col Philip Deitch Cincinnati Police Chief
Colonel Philip Deitch and longtime Cincinnati police superintendent dies at his residence in Cincinnati. Born in Bavaria in 1849 he enlisted in the Civil War, served in the Potomac army, then joined Cincinnati police, remaining with the force most of his life. Erie Engineers will seek wage advance. Panama Canal Treaty signed. United States gains perpetual canal rights and police control of the canal zone.
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Philip Deitch
Cincinnati
Bavaria
Army of the Potomac
United States
Columbia
Washington
Fatal boxing bout in Providence ends in death
A boxing match in Providence KR resulted in the death of Eugene McCarthy a New York schoolboy. His opponent Eugene Murphy also from New York with his manager were arrested on the same day.
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Providence
KR. I
Eugene McCarthy
New York
Eugene Murphy
Dynamite Kills Two in Pittsburg Tunnel Accident
An explosion of dynamite in the eastern end of the Wabash tunnel in Pittsburg Pennsylvania killed two men and seriously injured four others. The blast is blamed on someone turning on the electrical current without the proper signal. The article also notes the President has transmitted the Panama canal treaty to the Senate.
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Wabash Tunnel
Pittsburg
Indiana lawmakers debate bills amid grave robbery concerns
The Indiana legislature discussed a bill to create a commission to distribute unclaimed and pauper bodies to medical and dental colleges after a wave of grave robberies in Indianapolis. Senate and House actions covered rail penalties, prison labor, salaries, and a permit for UMW President John Mitchell to address lawmakers.
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John V. Baird
State Wealth Board
Medical and Dental College
Indiana
Indianapolis
Senate
P. A. Hackleman
Hill
House
Assembly
Marion County
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Bil
Todiana
Department of Commerce and Labor
Senate and House pace statehood and budget actions
The Senate pressed a Guam inquiry and Oklahoma New Mexico statehood talks while the House advanced the army appropriation and commerce bills. Debates spanned Cuban reciprocity, District of Columbia funding, Philippine coinage, and omnibus statehood bills amid votes and executive sessions.
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Senate
Guam
Mabini
Tillman
Foraker
Oklahoma
Arizona
New Mexico
House
Department of Commerce
Wader Aspe
Bailey
Texas
New York
Cullom
District of Columbia
Quay
Beveridge
Hanna
Alnonka Boundary Line
Burnham
New Hampshire
Hoar
Congress
Messrs. Cooper
Wis
Jones
Maddox
National Capital News Briefs and Political Moves
Representative Fowler reports a bill for elastic currency in the House. Naval affairs committee approves an increase program in line with the appropriation bill. The Kaiser sends Roosevelt a book on Prussian high school reform. Crumpacker may run for Indiana governor but won't discuss it. Senator Lodge proposes tariff retaliation against European nations discriminating against the United States. Navy seeks 6,000 recruits for new ships favoring western youths for character and intelligence.
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National Capital
Fowler
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Kaiser
Roosevelt
Prussia
Crumpacker
Indiana
Lodge
United States
Navy Department
Germans Bombard Fort San Carlos in Venezuela
Three German warships Panther Vineta and Walke shelled Fort San Carlos at the entrance to Lake Maracaibo Venezuela. The fort returned fire for hours as smoke hid the action. Indian fishermen reported the village of San Carlos in flames with protests from Maravenido residents.
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San Carion
Venezuela
Panther
Vineta
Walke
San Carlos
Lake Maracaibo
Associated Press
Borning
GE Maravenido
Foreign Office
Berlin
Navy Department
Navy
Maracaibo
United States
Germany
Fort San Carlos
Twelve Senators Chosen Amid Delayed Ballots In Four States
Twelve United States Senators were chosen on Thursday as delays persisted in Delaware Oregon Washington Kansas and North Carolina. Notable selections include J P Clarke in Arkansas and Reed Smoot in Utah, with incumbents Fairbanks and Penrose securing second terms.
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United States
Mringis
C. Lambrough
South Dakota
Kittredge
Missouria
W. J. Stone
Pennsylvania
Boise Penrose
Connecticut
O. H. Patt
New Hampshire
Arkansas
James IX. Jones
Democratic National Committee
William J. Stone
Missouri
Washington
Henry C. Hansbrough
North Dakota
Senate
Thomas C. Pratt
New York
Reed Smoot
Utah
Mormok Church
Jacob H. Galtlinger
Alfred B. Kittredge
James H. Kyle
Delaware
Oregon
Kansas
North Carolina
Rail line changes and new freight routes announced
The report notes abolition of the second class New England to West railroad rates from eighteen years prior. Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway boosts coal car handling. Guthrie Oklahoma grants charter to the Wichita Oklahoma and Northwestern to build 200 mile line from Wichita Falls through Comanche Kiowa and Geer counties to Miami Texas.
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New England
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company
Asher
Rock Island Choctaw
Dallas
Texas
Shirazo
Pacific Coast
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Guth‘rie
Wichita, Oklahoma and Northwestern Railroad Company
Capi
Tnt Stock
Wichita Falls
Comanche
Kiowa
Geeer
Oklahoma
Miami
Missing Indiana Student Found in Atlantic Iowa
Norman Rohrer son of ex trustee Nohrer of Clinton township, who vanished Feb 2 while at Detroit Medical College, has been located in Atlantic Iowa. He wrote home saying he left Detroit for health reasons to travel for a ranch and has visited ten Western states. He plans to return to Detroit to finish his medical course.
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Norman Rohrer
Nohrer
Clinton Township
Detroit Medical College
Atlantic
Iowa
Rohrer
Detroit
Man Slashes Throat Aboard Baltimore and Ohio Train
On a Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern line near Vincennes Jacob Rapp of Louisville rushed into a closet and cut his throat with a razor. Train crew found him bleeding. doctors say he has only a slim chance of surviving.
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Jacob Rapp
Louisville
Vincennes
Rapp
Woman Drowns With Infant In Well Near Jasonville
Mrs Rolla Gibson wife of Alexander Gibson living near Jasonville threw herself and her infant into a stock well on her father Lenny Letsinger's farm and both were drowned. She had previously attempted suicide by hanging and left behind a husband and two children.
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Babe
Rolla Gibson
Alexander Gibson
Jasonville
Lenny Letsinger
Tragic train accident claims three lives near Otis
Emma Cliska aged 10 and John Cliska aged 12 were killed instantly while walking to school at Otis when struck by a fast Lake Shore train. Moments later merchant Michael Michaels of Forter was also killed by the same train.
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Emma
John Cliska
Otis
Lake Shore
Michael Michaels
Forter
Death by Own Action Near Newcastle Sought Through Strychnine
Frank Allen Grief attempted to take his own life by ingesting strychnine in an oyster stew at Newcastle. Despondency over his mother's death is given as the supposed cause.
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Frank Allen
Newcastle
State Happenings in Brief Across Regions and Incidents
Reports from Wallace Lake to Peru outline deaths by shooting and train accidents, a mayoral resignation refusal, a college closure, a farmhouse official change, a fatal family dispute, robberies in South Bend, quarantines in Michigan City, factory coal shortages threatening Muncie, a Valparaiso fire loss, a Marion homicide, academic appointments, a Lafayette locomotive accident, a Florida-bound stage disruption, a federal building site in Anderson, a failed senatorial caucus, a Clinton mining camp shooting, and an Indiana engineer's near-fatal, frostbound run with possible amputations.
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Wallace Lake
Hillsdale
Louis Rasch
Bar Association of
Byvansville
Neff & Nixon
Newcastle Business College
Henry T. Kirk
Middle Township
Henry I. Baron Og
Hendricks County
Myrtle Enot
Charles Harris
Prankin
R. M. Muench
South Bend
Ind
Joseph Bozask
Michigan City
Muncie
C. J. Kerng
Valparaiso
Alonzo Riggs
John Pratt
Marion
Pratt
Riggs
Norton EB. Kemp
Yerkes Observatory
Chicago
Wabash College
John L. Campbell
W. G. Lynch
Lafayette
Lebanon
Helen Grantley
Anderson
Grantley
Florida
Taylor
Federal
Eleventh
Jackson Streets
House
Senate
United States
Charles W. Fairbanks
Charles Wantland
Fred Harden
Clinton
Wantland
Harden
Edward Irish
Continental Limited
Danville
Peru
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Col
Phil Deitch Dench
Erie
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Erie Railroad
General Board of Engineers
Goena
Uwouse
Charles W. Tuairbanks
Charles Warren Fairbanks
B. I’. Shively
Charles W. Pairbanks
Jeffersonville
Booth Tarkington
Wea
Gibson
Crawford County
Second Judicial District
Inden
Montgomery County
Johnston
Justices of the Peace
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Lawler
Matson
Judiciary
Parks
Austin Pierson
Baren. Cosnuly
Sonunennermons
B. F. Moody & Co
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Third Iowa Cavalry
St. Louis
Payne
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Jayne
Kea
Roa
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