Happenings That Make History From Around The Globe
Concise weekly wrap reports on the Lori mer case funding, US Senate audit of three major corps, anti trust actions on United States Steel, American Woolen and United Shoe Machine. Mexico peace talks gloom, Borah backs swift senatorial election reform, Harris proposes retired life saver bill. Opium seized and burned in El Paso, Neb pastor driven out after allegations, Baltimore mayoral race result, Indiana dry city vote, Ohio bribery probe in legislature, MacVeagh sued for libel, fire asphyxia study, Ravenna bridge incident, NY divorce interim decree, Oregon plan for US senators clears Senate and House.
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National House of Representatives
United States Steel Corporation
American Woolen Company of
Boston
United Shoe Machine Company of
Indictments and incidents reported in New York and beyond
A grand jury indicts City Chamberlain Charles H. Hyde for bribery over a $130,000 loan to Carnegie Trust by Northern Bank. Across states, a thief is caught with a decoy package demanding $1,000 from Oscar Collins, Taft opens the National Peace Congress, Michigan bans high school fraternities, and a Dominican university is planned in New Orleans at $200,000. Robbers blow a safe at Bank of Rosemont stealing $1,500. Missouri welfare reports reveal shocking conditions. a Fowler farmer faces murder charges after a decomposed body is found. A $100,000 Scandinavian fund donor dies in Brooklyn. Wartime-era notices include a St Louis Lutheran centennial celebration and Archibald Wadsworth’s death. Pennsylvania shopmen strike involves about 10,000 workers. Niagara Falls high school arson attempts prompt police protection.
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Charles H. Hyde
New York
Chamberlain Hyde
Northern Bank
Carnegie Trust Company
State School Funds Allocations Totals $58 409.02
Charles A Greathouse announced calculations show 58 409.02 dollars due to various Indiana school corporations from the 1910 deficiency fund. The list names towns and townships in multiple counties with specific amounts. Also noted are patents to Indiana inventors and actions of the state board on rail taxes and charity conference plans.
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Indianapolis
Charles A. Greathouse
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Sixty-seventh General Assembly
Mr. Greathouse
Myron D. King
Greathouse
State
Clark County
Oregon
Union Township
Washington Township
Wood Township
Dubois County
Birdseye
Columbia Township
Hall Township
Jefferson Township
Harrison County
Boone Township
Laconia
Mauckport
Posey Township
Spencer Township
Taylor Township
Webster Township
Jefferson County
Smyrna
Lawrence County
Perry
Martin County
Rutherford
Monroe County
Salt Creek
Morgan County
Ashland
Ohio County
Cass
Perry County
Anderson
Clarke Township
Leopold
Same
Tobin
Spencer County
Carter
Chrisney
Clay Township
Dale
Gentryville
Grandview
Glass Township
Harrison Township
Lace
Warrick County
Hart
Lane Township
Skelton
Crawford County
Engish
Decatur County
Westport
Ripley County
Delaware Township
E. G. Bunnell
John I. Hoffman
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
State Board of Tax Commissioners
C. O. Bradford
Bradford
Indiana
L. & N. Railroad
Big Four
Pennsylvania
Central Indiana
Storer
Cors
C. C. Matson
John W. McCardle
Daniel M. Link
Auburn
McCardle
Matson
Fred L. Gemmer
State Conference of Charities and Correction
State House
Amor W. Butler
Board of State Charities
S. E. Smith
Eastern Indiana Hospital For the Insane
A. G. Weatherly
Indiana University
C S. Grout
Indianapolis Charity Organization Society
Governor Marshall
Jane Addams
Chicago
George 5. Wilson
Indiana School For the Blind
F. C. Loomis
Children's Aid Association
Guy C. Hanna
Indiana Boys’ School
A. I. Carroll
Emily BE. Rhodes
Woman's Prison
Carnegie Funds Swiss Hero Fund and Jerusalem Relic Theft
Foreign notices in Geneva report Andrew Carnegie donated 125 000 dollars to create a Swiss hero fund modeled on similar schemes abroad. Jerusalem’s Mosque of the Covenant is reported looted by English archaeologists extracting the ark of the covenant, the censer and other sacred vessels. London dispatches say Iceland grants suffrage to women aged 25 and older.
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State Board of Tax Commissioners
Indiana
Robert F. Cummins
Bluffton
Geneva
Celina
Ohio
Marion, Bluffton & Eastern Traction Company
Marion, Bluffton, & Eastern Company
Tax Board
Andrew Carnegie
Jerusalem
Israel
Solomon's Crown Heist Sparks Turmoil in Jerusalem Mission
Constantinople reports Turkish officials plan a formal probe into the Anglo American excavators in Jerusalem. The crew allegedly looted the mosque of Omar, took Solomon's crown sword ring and a Bible manuscript, and sailed from Jaffa aboard Captain Parker's yacht with $300,000 spent on the venture. Backers include Chicago's Armour family.
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London
Jerusalem
Constantinople
Omar
Titus
Jaffa
Palestine
Parker
England
Deutschland Antarctic Expedition Sails to Buenos Aires
The German Antarctic expedition on the steamer Deutschland sails for Buenos Ayres to take on complete supplies. The voyage is under the Geographical Society of Berlin and commanded by Lieutenant Filehner. Lieutenant Wilchner, famed explorer of Lhassa and Turkestan, will join in southern waters.
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South Pole
Hamburg
Buenos Ayres
Geographical Society
Berlin
Filehner
General Staff
Army
Wilchner
Deutschland
Lhassa
Tibet
Turkestan
Persia
Postal Savings Banks to Be Formed
Postmaster General Hitchcock plans to add fifty to one hundred savings banks monthly to the postal savings system until nationwide. Telegraph reports show forty five depositories opened, with 400 accounts and deposits totaling $10,000.
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Postal Savings Banks
Washington
Postal Savings System
Hitchcock
United States
Postal Savings
Police Duel Claims Two Officers in Pennington Va
In Pennington Virginia Chief George Hinkle of the village police and Wi Mam Short a patrolman from St Charles Virginia were killed in a pistol duel after Hinkle attempted to arrest Short who was reported disorderly during a circus performance. Both men fired with perfect aim and died instantly.
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Pennington
George Hinkle
Wi- Mam Short
St. Charles
Hinkle
Short
Former Senator A B Tredge Dies in Hot Springs
Former United States Senator A B Tredge of South Dakota died in Hot Springs Arkansas after being unconscious for forty eight hours. He arrived in the city two weeks ago and had lived with a lingering illness for ten days. Death was attributed to complications from liver and kidney troubles.
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Hot Springs
Ark
United States
A. B. Kittredge
South Dakota
Brooklyn YWCA Raises $400,000 for Working Girls House
In Brooklyn a two week campaign by a Young Woman's Christian Association committee completed a fund of 400000 dollars to build a boarding and lodging house for working girls.
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Brooklyn
W. C.A
New York
Young Woman's Christian Association
Chicks Die of Lead Poisoning in Home Brooder
Harry W. Ballard bought 200 day old Wyandotte chicks and placed them in a self designed brooder. After painting the brooder, more than 160 chicks died from lead poisoning.
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St. Paul
Harry W. Ballard
Also Mentioned on This Page
Committee of Audit and Control
Senate
la Follette
Lorimer
State Department
Mexico
Diaz
Borah
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Harris
Massachusetts
Life Saving Service
el Paso
Tex
H. R. Hillebrand
J. G. Parker
Methodist Church of
Sterling, Neb
James H. Preston
Baltimore
E. Clay Timanus
Munele
House
Franklin MacVeagh
the Treasury
Charles P. Leach
Cleveland
MacVeagh
Leach
Ieeo
The
New York Medical Journal
Ravenna
Cole
Southern Pacific Railroad
Mary W. Gates
Charles G. Gates
John W. Gates
Supreme Justice
Gerard
New York City
Ohio State Senate
Harmon
James Wood
Morris
Jll
Oscar Collins
Taft
Malltimore
Osborn
Michigan
New Orleans
Father Lorenz
Bank of
Rosemont
Neb
Missouri
State Board of Charities and Correction
John Poole
Fowler
Ind
Joseph Kemper
Emory Poole
Nels Poulson
N. Y
St. Louis
Co. F. W. Walther
Archibald Clark Wadsworth
Elijah Wadsworth
Richard Yates
Yates
Springfield
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburg
Altoona Pa
Niagara Falls
Board of Education
C. A. Geathouse
J. J. Hoffman
Alando
Adam Heim
Connersville
Daling Press
D. Hunter
Marion
H. C. Izor
Logansport
Alexander Jamesson
Indiana Turners’ Association
Louisville
Fort Wayne
Terre Haute
Danville
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