Rabies in Elkhart and Other 1900s News Highlights
Telegraphed items report rabies cases in Elkhart Indiana with two deaths and Pasteur treatments, plus a cat killed by a policeman after biting children. Other items note Cleveland family death, a Lafayette murder admission, Dowagiac mill boiler deaths, Zion City land purchase, Census director resignation, and a fatal buggy crash with fatal injuries.
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Henry Meyer
Elkhart
Ind
Lawrence
Lenora Meyer
Robert Elwell
Orrin HM. Markel
Hoomington, Ind
Pasteur
Emma Goldman Speech Barred by New York Police
World news item notes Emma Goldman blocked from addressing a crowd in New York. Other items include Chicago Presbyterians marking John Calvin's anniversary, a failed Union Pacific hold up probe near Omaha, retrenchment plans in Washington, and various legal and political notes from across the country.
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New York
Emma Goldman
Chicago
Rescue Brings 194 From Columbia Wreck Off Alaska Coast
Dora arrives at Seward with 191 survivors from the Columbia disaster near Unimaka Pass on April 30. The wreck, amid calm seas and fierce surf, saw Italians panic while others kept order, revolvers used to control looting, and a knife line to shore established by two former life-savers before the ship burned on May 2.
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Columbia
Dora
Seward
Alaska
Unimaka Pass
Christ Christopherson
Ernest Anderson
Rail plans and fiscal notes across the Midwest and Illinois
Milwaukee considers spanning the Mississippi at McGregor with a million dollar bridge. Canadian Northern plans 400 miles of track with three thousand dollars of rolling stock. Missouri to push railroad rate cases to the U S Supreme Court. Illinois Steel sells 60 000 tons of rails to Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul at 28 dollars a ton. Minnesota railroads face Bicknell act compliance. Wisconsin tax commission values railroad property at 274 948 000 dollars, total taxes 3 142 886 dollars. telegraph property valued at 1 873 000 dollars with 24 409 dollars in taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Mississippi
McGregor
Canadian Northern
Missouri
Supreme Court of the United States
Elliott W. Majors
Illinois Steel Company
United States Steel Corporation
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company
Minnesota
Bicknell
Wisconsin Tax Commission
Wisconsin
Telegraph Company
Judge Rules Race Bias Hurting Griffin Case
Justice Dugro of New York Supreme Court upheld Brady’s bid to reduce a $2,500 verdict won by Griffin the colored porter against Daniel M. Brady. The judge ruled Griffin earned less than a dollar a day and said the law makes him equal to the President, but in many senses he is not equal, a claim referencing racial inferiority.
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Dugro
Supreme Court of New York
Griffin
Brady
Daniel M. Brady
Brasn
Diamond Jim
George W. Griffin
Montreal
New York City
United States
Sixty Cripples Rescued As Fire Hits Brooklyn Hospital
A blaze at King's County Hospital in Brooklyn Saturday night forced doctors and nurses to evacuate sixty spinal deformity patients. Forty-two children were moved safely without removing them from Bradford frames. The fire started in the rear three story ward building on the top floor.
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King's County Hospital
Brooklyn
N. Y
Sailor Confesses to aiding Gunness Murders in Norway
An American sailor, held near Frederikstad outside Christiania, confesses to aiding Mrs Belle Gunness in four farm murders in Laporte Indiana and says he killed Gunness. He is under observation for mental condition as press reports go to American Minister H H D Peirce.
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Sabor
Norway
I Frederikstad
Christiania
Belle Gunness
Laporte
Ind
H. H. D. Peirce
Eldon Fire Kills Grandfather and Three Grandchildren
John Carter 75 a veteran and his granddaughter Lela Shaw’s three children perished in a house fire at Eldon Iowa. The blaze began when a lamp overturned during a storm while Mrs Shaw worked overnight at a restaurant and left the children with their grandfather.
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John Carter
Lela Shaw
Shaw
Eldon
Iowa
Torch Fire Hits Central City School Commencement
Five children at Mrs B C Boyds school in Central City Kentucky were burned during a Monday night ceremony when a candle lit their white muslin dresses as lights went out. Men in the audience covered the flames with coats to save the youngsters and calm the crowd. Dorothy Clay unintentionally sparked the blaze.
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B. C Boyd
Central City
Dorothy Clay
Dorothy
Trade and Industry Briefs From Across the Nation
The Interstate Commerce Commission extended the Spokane rate case effective date to June 1. Saw mills in northern Minnesota begin the season with day and night crews. Du Pont Powder plans a dynamite plant in Michigan Copper Country. it will be the third largest in the nation. Bloomington Indiana farmers threaten to defeat local option unless a broken hitching rail around the public square is repaired. A Scandinavian Cattle Insurance Association forms in Upper Michigan with 100 cattle owners. Crude oil in the Pittsburgh district drops to 1.68 per barrel, due to oversupply and weak demand. Pacific Pass Coal Fields Company, a $5 million Alberta project with 800 million tons of coal, will be controlled by Montreal financier B. B. Green Shields, a Grand Trunk Pacific director. St Croix County Wisconsin farmers plan their largest wheat acreage since the 1880s chinch bug raids. Alabama law voided. judge declares the prohibition on foreign corporations taking cases from state to federal court unconstitutional.
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du Pont Powder Company
Michigan
Bloomington
Ind
Upper Michigan
Scandinavian Cattle Insurance Association
Iron Mountain
Pittsburg
Oklahoma
Pacific Pass Coal Fields Company
Alberta
Can
B. B. Green Shields
Montreal
Green Shields
Grand Trunk Pacific Road
St. Croix
County
Wisconsin
Alabama
Judgt
Thomas G. Jones
United States Court of the Middle District of
Tremor Shakes Four States Ranging From Chicago to Kalamazoo
An earthquake felt across a wide area from Chicago at 8 40 a m to Kalamazoo and Burlington Iowa caused no serious damage. Reports describe five to ten seconds of shaking with some chimney damage and broken glass in towns including Maywood Joliet Elgin and Evanston. Seismograph data came from Peoria and officials noted quakes are rare but possible due to earth readjustments.
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Chicago
Springfield
Milwaukee
Burlington
Iowa
Kalamazoo
Mich
Maywood
Lockport
Joliet
Riverside
Downers Grove
Hinsdale
Naperville
Elgin
Evanston
New
Weather Bureau
Peoria
Federal Building
Freeport
Aurora
Bloomington
Kewanee
Geneva
Streator
Dixon
Rockford
Moline
Janesville
Beloit
Wis
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque
Town
Muskegon
Midh
China
South Haven
Benton Harbor
Toliet
Chicago Weather Office
Cox
Illinois Elects Lorimer Senator Ending Historic Deadlock
William Lorimer of Chicago was elected United States Senator after a months long Illinois legislature deadlock that began January 20. Albert Hopkins led most ballots until Lorimer’s rise overwhelmed the fallback. The nine ty first ballots saw 135 names pitched, with 114 Democrats and 22 Republicans.
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Ilinois
William Lorimer
United States
Illinois
Chicago
Albert J. Hopkins
Lorimer
Joint Assembly
Hopkins
Stringer
Foss
Shurtleff
Mason
Mine Blaze Imperils 400 Men Near Irwin
A serious fire broke out in mine No 3 of the Pennsylvania Gas Coal Company a few miles south of Irwin Pennsylvania. At the time over 400 miners were at work and the alarm sent them racing for the shaft with all reaching the surface unharmed.
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Pennsylvania Gas Coal Company
Irwin, Pa
Fire outbreaks injure Cambridge firemen and railroad workers
Fifteen Cambridge firemen led by Chief N W Bunker and eleven others were seriously burned by a gas explosion at the Boston and Maine freight yard in East Cambridge. Three railroad employees also suffered burns.
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N. W. Bunker
Cambridge, Mass
Boston and Maine
East Cambridge
Tragic Gun Accident Claims Williamstown Man
George Zell of Williamstown New Jersey was instantly killed in front of his wife and young son when a revolver exploded in the pocket of a hunting jacket he was tossing over his shoulder. The bullet struck his heart.
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George Zell
Williamstown
N. J
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Canada
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Secretary of Commerce and Labor
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Goshen
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Jacob Kesner
Charles I. Gunther
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Mrs. Gunness
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