Fires in Windy City Incendiaries At Four Hotels
Four fires were set on four Palmer House floors and later on two Great Northern floors indicating an organized Chicago gang. Jewelry worth 500 dollars vanished from a Great Northern room as crews contained flames. A Sherman House blaze caused 100 dollars damage and another hotel, the Grace, showed suspicious origin with linen closet involvement. Police secured descriptions of two men fleeing the Palmer House as detectives investigate.
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Palmer House
Great Northern
Sherman House
Chicago
J. S. Friest
New York
Shermin House
Joint War Strikes Winfield Church Windows Damaged
United Presbyterian Church in Winfield Kansas had windows smashed Friday night amid anti liquor clashes reportedly tied to a local joint war. Prohibitionist pastor active in raids. warrants issued for several participants as civil unrest grows. In Effingham, students raided a barber shop seeking liquor. no alcohol found but bottles broken. In Hiawatha three local dentists jailed ninety days each for selling liquor. fines levied as Civic Turity League campaign continues.
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Winfield
Kan
Wicurra
United Presbyterian Church
Winfeld
Effincham
Effingham County High School
J. W. Wilson
J. W. Beede
Smith Moore
Hiawarua
Half Million Loss At Appleton Mill Fire
Appleton Wisconsin four miles from the city Kimberly and Clark Paper Mill Company suffers a loss valued at more than 1 million dollars. Firefighters battle high winds as superintendent D Cowie falls and is seriously injured. Origin of the blaze remains a mystery and insurance covers the loss. Chief E L Anderson suffocated in smoke before rescue.
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Big Paper Milla
Appleton
Win
Wis
Twe Kimberly Mills
Kimberly & Clark Paper Mill Company
Appleton Fire Department
D. Cowie
E. L. Anderson
Tennessee
Mob of temperance crusaders razes Schmidt saloon in Winfield
A mob of 1200 women armed with axes revolvers and shotguns attacked Schmidt's saloon in Winfield Kansas early Wednesday. Shots smashed the front door jewels were torn from displays as the mahogany bar was wrecked. Charles Lowther struck Schmidt with an ax. police prepared to quell the disturbance and ordered all saloons closed by Wednesday night.
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Winfield
Kan
Strikoe
Wiserrn
Schmidt
Emma Denny
Charles
Henry Schmidt
Thut
Schmidts
Charles Lowther
Charles Schmidt
Chinese death penalties and imperial response after reform decree
A dispatch reports Emperor Kwang Su proposing death by own action for those punished by foreign powers. Princes Ching Ut Hung Chang receive it but hide from envoys. Gen Tung Fu Hsiang resists disbanding 5000 men. Chinese factions fear civil war. Envoys ignore protest over penalties.
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Prince Ching
4 Hung | Chang
Kwang Su
Ut Hung Chang
Tung Fu Hsiang
ARE NOT CUDAHY KIDNAPERS
Joplin Missouri police identify Jorcerx Johnson and Neal as bank holdup killers from the Bronaugh Vernon County raid. The marshal was killed during the robbery and his daughter identified the suspects. About ten thousand dollars was stolen and forty thousand destroyed by the explosion. The men were carrying gold when arrested and were taken to Nevada for a trip.
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Joplin
Jorcerx
Johnson and Neal
Cudahy
Bronaugh
Vernon County
Mfo
Johnson
O’ Neal
Nevada
Trip
Provincial Government Under American Rule Established
In Pam pam a provincial government act was applied to the twenty town province. The first provincial government under American rule was formally established at Bacolor Luzon on February 13 with officers appointed. Representatives from all towns attended in a crown presence.
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Pampaga
Philippine
San Bernando
Luzon
Bacolor
Pampana
Report on Hurrihake and Yosemite Vessel Lossed
Navy dispatch from Rear Admiral Kempf details damage from the recent hurricane near Sonmaye and the Yosemite wreck. The Yosemite struck a shoal while dragging from anchorage, then drifted at sea after a wind shift. isolation and reef proximity worsened the leak and stern-first impact noted. The Genoa governor letter dated December 17, 1907 reports Taum island dying yet rebuilding homes, with 100 tons of provisions issued from island treasury and labor diverted from fields to reconstruct masonry houses and roofs.
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Navy Department
Kempf
Asiatic Station
Mintla
Ginama
Yosemite
Sonmaye
Granit Tookla
Soumaye Bluff
Tom
Gaim
Tiuam
Amier
Neekly
Makes His Third Escape
Charles H. Wheeler an alleged horsethief escapes from Marion County jail Salem after refusing food and breaking out Tuesday night. Wheeler linked to stolen horses east of Salem and earlier escapes include Lincoln robbery arrest and a train jump on route to Salem. Deputy Sheriff Maine pursued, Wheeler fired twice and vanished then recaptured in Arkansas before another Salem jail detention.
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GW. Wheeler
Sprinarrecup
Charles H. Wheeler
Marion County
Salem
Wheeler
William Mruden
Lincoln
Taylorville
Ilaines
Ile
Missouri
Arkansas
Kansas City Bank Robbed of Five Thousand Dollars
Five $1,000 bills disappear from a Kansas City bank in a secret theft. Detectives trace the bills to a former Kansas City woman who allegedly tried to pass one in Chicago, receiving $700 in change after a store examined its authenticity. Banks nationwide alerted to the incident.
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Kansas City
Kanagas City
Chicago
Settle Spanish War Claims Conferees Reach Agreement
Senate and House conferees reach a settlement for U S claims against Spain under the Paris peace treaty. The commission size grows to five, with final decisions, appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. In Osage City temperance activists pressure mayor to close the joints.
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Senate
House
Housy
United States
Spain
Court of Claims
Market Quotations From Chicago and Milwaukee Markets
Market quotations show shipping hogs at 35.00 to 40.00 per hundredweight and sheep at fair prices. Butter eggs and wheat and corn values are listed across several cities including Chicago Milwaukee and New York with mixed grain prices and livestock ranges.
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Ludlianspolis
Cottle
Ste
ST. Milwaukie
Riga
New York
Mrs Nation's Anti Saloon Tour Reaches Muscatine
Iowa reports detail Mrs Nation and her Kansas companions visiting four saloons in Muscatine with a 400 to 500 strong crowd. Six policemen escorted the party in Des Moines on February 9. The tour ends with the group breaking up in Muscatine and plans for Chicago fallout.
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Matton
Des Moines
Hartenhower
Kansas
A. Romani
Mra. Nation
Mrs. Nation
Topeka
Rankin
Mrs. White
Chicago
Muscatine
Prison Doctor Criticised In State Board Inquiry
State Board of Control reports to Gov. Shaw on charges against Anamosa penitentiary warden William A. Hunter. Board faults prison surgeon Dr. Samuel Druet for not visiting insane convicts daily and for telling obscene stories. no further action likely. Also reports Edwin S. Jenks of Davenport missing amid $5,600 in notes endorsed by Louis Van Nostrand and Mrs. Jenks, causing local sensation. Montana Tom is killed in Cres ton yards after safe-drying crimes. A footpad wounds Fred Foster in Algon, with Foster gravely hurt. Mrs. Harrie’s body taken to state university for medical study provokes a local dispute. North English incorporation lines error stalls tax assessment. Cigarette taxes debated. Des Moines dealers pay state tax. Daniel McKennas, a farmer near Dawitt, freezes to death February 2.
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State Board of Control
Gov. Shaw
Anamosa Penitentiary
Wm. A. Dhunter
Hunter
Samuel Druet
Marion County
Druet
Dr. Druet
Edwin S. Jenks
Davenport
Louis van Nostrand
Fairfield
Need Not Sell to Negroes Des Moines Saloon Ruling
A Des Moines justice of the peace ruled that the civil rights clause does not apply to refusals to sell liquor to a black man. J C Hansen, a saloonkeeper, declined service to a Negro patron. The decision holds that selling intoxicants remains illegal but the saloonkeeper faces no prosecution for refusal, a ruling seen as boosting saloonmen’s power to discriminate for profit.
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Des Moines
J.C. Hansen
Nagroea
J. C. Hansen
Strtutey
Supreme Court of
Death by Own Action Club Sparks LeClaire Rumor
A LeClaire group calling itself the death by own action Club forms with officers President A Horton Vice President Tromley and Secretary Layer Schworm. Promoters claim aims are secret but rumored to urge suicide among non members while others say it opposes self destruction. controversy could put LeClaire in the spotlight.
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Thea
LeClaire
Clinton
The
Suicide Club
le Claire
Tri-State Women Circle elects officers at Marshalltown meeting
The Tri State convention of the Iowa Minnesota and Wisconsin Women Circle of the Woodmen met in Marshalltown. Grand Officers were elected including guardian Mrs Eilen Bietherued Cres ton adviser Mrs Sadie Mowery Ottumwa clerk Mrs Emma T Lchrowder Davenport banker Mrs Alice Adlon Oskaloosa magician Mrs Alice Gagne Minneapolis inner sentinel Miss Nettie Tall Marshalltown outer sentinel Miss Nellia Wetzel Magic Grove managers Mrs Martha Hoskins Minneapolis Miss Elizabeth Temple Denison Miss Helen Stuesky Cedar Rapids Mrs Mary E Hathaway Sioux City Mrs Louise White taker West Burlington Council Bluffs will host the next meeting in 1908.
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Omivers
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Woodmen
Marshalltown
Eilen Bietherued
Creston
Sadie Mowery
Ottumwa
Emma T. Lchrowder
Davenport
Alice Adlon
Oskuloosit
Alice Gagne
Minneapolis
Prisoners Escape From Cass County Jail At Atlantic
Three inmates Armstrong Dick and Georges Arm strong and M Hall escaped by sawing rear bars and breaking a brick wall at the Cass County jail in Atlantic. Armstrongs faced beating and robbery charges in Griswold last July. Hall jailed for stealing from a car in Cumberland.
Iowa Civil War Duty Tables Show Large 1899 Increase
An Adjutant General report includes a table of counties with more than 2000 men subject to military duty at the Civil War start. It notes 106,340 for 1862 and 308,671 for 1899, asserts Iowa would share in any war effort, and details Spanish American War units. It also mentions state manufacturing statistics and a stock of banks. Odd clips follow on poetry payouts and social humor.
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Adjutant General’s Office
Lee County
Ak Moat Aa
Polk
Scott
Clayton
Clinton
den Moines
Cee
Jackson
Mahanass
Jenry
Jolingon
Marion
Wapello Sy
van Boren
Muscatine
Whinneshiek
Washington
Davis
Cedar
Jones
Joe Bee Ee
Iowa
Seventh
Iowa Cavalry
Demand to Cuba Ties Ties United States to Cuba Policy
President Kinley issues an ultimatum to the Cuban constitutional convention via telegram to Gov Wood. He demands prompt establishment of close relations with the United States and hints that U S approval is needed to send Cuba's constitution to Congress. The policy favors U S guarantees and Monroe Doctrine backed by three coaling stations and a U S military presence.
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Mr.Kinley
Urane
Cubana
Cuba
Aue
United States
American Congress
Wood
Cuans
Rent
Matt of Connerticut
Spooner
Tlavana
Santiago
Cienfuegos
Jesse
Chiba
Michigan Supreme Court Rules Franchises Taxable Yet Not Separate
The Michigan Supreme Court upholds that corporate franchises are taxable when inseparably tied to tangible property. It forbids assessing franchises independently and confirms Detroit Citizens Street Railway’s challenge to adding $2,000,000 to its taxable value. The ruling may prompt broader state-wide changes in assessing street railway franchises and other corporate property.
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Michigan Supreme Court
Michigan
Detroit Citizens’ Street Kailwise
Sitix Commission
Xeasx
Board of Assessors
Street Railway Company
City
Mrs Nation Visits Chicago on Far Reaching Tour
Carrie Nation arrived in Chicago Tuesday night and toured the city before dawn visiting whisky shop proprietors bartenders and churches. Her whirlwind rounds included Wilkerd Hall the First Regiment Armory and a salute to a relative who ran a saloon business amid prayers and praise as she sought her grandson’s identity amidst past and present tensions.
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Huesbood
Carrie Nation
Ghieae
Rime
Wilkerd Hall
Livia
Empress Opposes Executions Calls for Rethink on Punishment
The Dowager Empress of China presses for a harsher response to officials guilty of crimes while urging foreign nations to interpret the proposed penalties. She orders ministers to review reforms and notes most reformers have already been beheaded, signaling a period of intensified measures.
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Fuinke Po
China
Minpress
Phe Krapress
Electoral vote counted at joint congressional session
The ceremony counting the electoral votes for President and Vice President occurred in Washington at 1 o clock Wednesday in the Hall of the House of Representatives. The counting followed the statute, with crowds in the galleries observing the detailed procedure.
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Senate
House
Hour of Representatives
Washington
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