World News Capsule From Elgin Echo Headlines
Meats price rise worldwide. Thomas Platt dies at 77. Philadelphia strike clashes injure and kill. Government opens 10 000 acres in South Dakota. May Ye filed for divorce. Fire destroys Chicago Hebrew Institute. Coal miners strike feared. Des Plaines flood causes damage. Standard Oil suit pursued. Philadelphia streetcar strike broadens. J P Morgan seeks auto venture. Extra: Caruso extortion case and other world events.
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Meares
Washington
Thomas Collier Platt
New York
Olse
Philadelphia
South Dakota
Des Plaines
Department of Justice
Supreme Court
Standard Oil
Pennsylvania State Labor Federation
Commonwealth Edison Company
Chicago
General Strike Ties Up Philadelphia amid Militias Readiness
Philadelphia faces a general strike with unionists claiming up to 100,000 men ready to support walkouts while authorities cite estimates ranging from 21,000 to about 40,000. National guard regiments statewide are reported to be prepared to convoy to the city at a moment’s notice as employers press for open shop policies and city officials reinforce law and order.
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Estrada
United States
Ottawa
Philadelphia
Great Northern
Black
Caruso
Clay
National Guard
Pennsylvania
Rapid Transit Company
Frm
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
City Hall
Dust Explosion Kills Two at Roby Mills Plant
An early evening explosion of dry starch powder at American Maize Products Company in Roby Ind killed two workers and injured twenty eight, with seven missing. The blast wrecked a three story building, sparks reached South Chicago and Hammond, and flames were fought by regional fire crews until late night. Damages are pegged at about $50,000.
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Mae Wood
Platt
Russia
Geppeaia
Great Britain
Tachakovsky
Mme. Breshkovakaye
Jere F. Lillis
J. P. Cudahy
Kansas City
Roby
Ind
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Yohe
Oregon
Putnam Bradlee Strong
Chicago Hebrew Institute
Convent of the Sacred Heart
William Hamilton Mitchell
Illinois ‘Trust and Savinga Bank
Chicago
Canada
M. Duez
Hce
American Maize Company
Roby Mills
American Maize Products Company
Hammond
South Chicago
Arch House
Torturer identified as suspect in fourteen year old robbery case
In Pittsburg a 80 year old man identified Frank Donrhoe among eight suspects at the Dina police station, saying he bound him and his wife and burned their feet to reveal hidden money. Donrhoe, jailed for burglary, fled and was captured on return. The aged victim, weeping, prayed for justice for the deaths of his wife. Two accomplices remain imprisoned. In a separate note Captain H Q Bartlett of Joplin, Missouri, reported his horse King bit a four carat diamond valued at $760 from his mantel and swallowed it.
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John Wagner
Frank Donahas
Dina
Pittsburg
H. Q. Bartlett
Joplin
King
French Trustee Charged With Embezzling Church Funds
M. Duez, judicial trustee for dissolved religious congregations under the 1901 law, arrested in Paris on embezzlement charges totaling about $1,000,000. He allegedly diverted $800,000 from congregations and $200,000 from common law affairs, admitting losses in stock speculations. He was removed from his post months ago amid mismanagement concerns.
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Duez
Tribunal of the Seine
Paris
Interior market livestock receipts rise in January
Government figures show January movement of coal and coke in the east, grain receipts at interior markets, and light cattle movements in the Midwest with cotton in the south. Seven interior markets logged 9,084,892 head of livestock. hog receipts fell 31 percent from January 1909 and 48 percent from January 1908.
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Department of Commerce and Labor
Middle West
Chicago
Mexico Cuts Wheat Duty Amid Shortage to One Cant
A dispatch from Constantinople says Turkish leaders will press Crete’s union with Greece as the best remedy to the wheat shortage causing tariff cuts from 3 to 1 cant per kilometer. In Philadelphia, reformers suffer a sweeping defeat as the William Pann ticket is ousted and the regular Republican machine dominates the city council.
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Mexico
Constantinople
London
Turkey
Crete
Greece
Philadelphia
Reform Movement
William Pann
Reform
Ex Senator Platt Dies at 78 in New York Residence
Former United States Senator Thomas Collier Platt, Republican leader in New York for years, died unexpectedly at his apartment in New York City. Born July 15, 1838 in Owego, he faced Bright's disease and leg palsy, relied on a wheelchair, and had a long career spanning the House and Senate with key roles in party history and notable rivalries.
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Empire State
Bright
United States
Thomas Collier Platt
New York
West 11Th Street
Platt
Senator Platt
Owego
N. Y
Yale
New York City
United States Express Company Service
National Senate
Garfield
Senate
Conkling
Reed
McKinley
Haun
William L. Strong
Legi P. Morton
Black
B. B. Odell
Theodore Roosevelt
THIRTY-SIX HURT IN CAR ACCIDENT AT LOS ANGELES
Thirty six passengers returning from a theater in California were injured when an Oaks Knoll electric car was struck from the Salt Lake freight train on the Los Angeles route. The car overturned, occupants were thrown from windows and some may die. A woodsman in Missouri was killed by wolves after a desperate struggle for survival. James Smith died in Ally forest. wolves scattered his bones near his brother's return.
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CalNalon
Crowsing
Oaks Knoll
Salt Lake
Los Angeles
Cal
James Smith
Ally
Generous John D Rockefeller Plans Foundation Bill
Oil magnate John D Rockefeller seeks congressional action to dispose of wealth for mankind. A bill to incorporate the Rockefeller Foundation in Washington, D C, introduced by Senator Jacob H Gallinger lays out aims to advance civilization and spread knowledge, relief of suffering, and human progress. Rockefeller declines to specify purposes at present.
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John D. Rockefeller
Congress
Rockefeller Foundation
District of Columbia
Senate
Jacob H. Gal- Inger
New Hampshire
Committee On Judiciary
United States
Rockefeller
Five Die in Brace Civil Unrest Near Palmetto
A racial unrest incident near Palmetto Florida results in five deaths: three Black residents and two white men. One white man remains hospitalized in Tampa with a bullet wound. The last suspect in the murder of two deputies and wounding of a third was lynched by a posse at dusk near the Manatee River.
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Palmetto
Fila
Tampa
Palmettos
Manatee River
Avalanche Buries Canadian Pacific Work Crew in Rogers Pass
Ninety two Canadian Pacific railroaders and laborers were buried by an avalanche on the Selkirk range summit in Rogers Pass. Only five bodies recovered including Frazer Griffith Buckley and Phillips. a Japanese man among the dead. A second slide nearby and a blizzard hampered rescue efforts and damaged a snow shed, burying the track for 400 yards under sixty feet of snow. No victims reported in a later avalanche.
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Rogers Pass
Selkirk Range
Rocky Mountains
Frazer
Griffith
Buckley
Phillips
Dee Schaefer Dies After Tuberculosis Battle in Denver
Jake Schaefer, renowned as the wizard of the cus, died in Denver after a long tuberculosis fight. His wife, daughter, and Chicago brother Charles were at his bedside. The sixtyness struggle marked a gallant effort, with rallies after multiple terminal turns. A separate note says Joseph Miller WAR ar rested in Bturgis, N. C., accused by a brother of blackmail over a murder in Toledo, Ohio, dating back thirty years.
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Jake Schaefer
The
Cus
Denver
Colo
Charles
Chicago
Hugh
Toledo
Ohio
Joseph Miller
Bturgis
N. C
Rigoner
Chicago trade review notes brighter season with rising outputs
The Chicago weekly Dun report flags seasonable weather lifting business, reduced defaults, and heavy March settlements. Bank clearings reach 336 million, up 7.8 percent from 1908, while railroad and manufacturing activity show gains, and February permits total 2.964 million in value for new structures.
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R. G Dun & Co
Chicago Trade
Falluren
Chicago
Trade Hesitant as Spring Business Faces Uncertain Demand
New York reports irregular trade and slow spring activity as buyers await clearer price signals and crop prospects. Backward conditions like Hooded stream and poor roads slow shipments, while collections run slow and business failures for the week ending March 3 total 184 in the United States and 22 in Canada.
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New York
United States
Canada
Bradatrest
Grain and Livestock Prices Across Major Markets
Chicago to Toledo markets report mixed ranges for cattle hogs and sheep with wheat No 2 around 1.15 to 1.25 and corn No 2 between 60 and 69 cents. Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and others show varied bids including hogs generally 7 to 10 dollars and sheep 4 to 8 dollars.
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Chicago
Teday
Timothy
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Bbc
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
Toledo
Noting Wage Increases By United Mini Workers Leader
President Lewis of the United Mini Workers announced an average of 19 percent wage increases across America. Robert W. Higbee of Detroit was elected president of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers’ Association at Cincinnati.
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Lewis
United Mini Workers
America
Robert W. Higbee
Detroit
National Wholesales
Asggociation
Cincinnati
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