Assassination of Finland Officialals Shocks Helsingfors
A political murder in Helsingfors leaves Solsa fem Sotainen mortally wounded. Karl Lenard Hobenthal, a former Imperial Alexander University student, is detained after firing four shots. The attack aimed at a government member of the Assassination party. The wounded pursuer and others resist as authorities move to secure the suspect. The broader unrest across Russia includes strikes in Poland and the Caucasus, with reports of military actions and student warnings in St Petersburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metagtors
Finland
Solsafem Sotainen
Fin- Smad
Ragen
Johnsson
Karl Lenard Hobenthal
Imperial Alexander Caniversity
Lme
Eisin
Alexandre Gadd
Eral
Escailant
Geneken
Solamesson
Warsastjeron
St. Petersburg
Helsingfors
Russia
Poland
Caucasus
Warsaw
St Petersburg
Trepoff Meas
Beegot
Bather Gopon
Switzerland
Priersburg
Father Gopon
St. Peters
Weezx
Berlin
Lokal Anzieger
Katowitz
Soczevice
Jedczyncki
Sosnovice
Kalisz
Madison bill seeks move of Wisconsin state capitol
Madison Wisconsin February 8 a bill was introduced to remove the seat of government to Oshkosh and appoint a committee to determine the site of the state capitol building. Cairo Illinois February 7 Benjamin Mc Moves of McClure ill was found frozen to death Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Oshlosh
State Capitol
Cairo
Benjamin McMoves
McClure, Ill
Repulse of Japanese at Santaise and Raid Beyond Taitee
Reports from St Petersburg and Tokyo describe a Russian detachment marching to Santaise repulsing Japanese forces at Santaise and Saochameng with insignificant losses. A raid beyond the Taitee river near Lagoonadze yielded one prisoner for the Russians and over fifty Japanese casualties, while Japanese counterattacks along Shakhe and Hun rivers were repelled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Kuropat_kin
Santaise
Sibon Bay
Saochameng
Chuanchuantse
Huan Mountain
Gripenberg
Petersburg
Tokio
Shakhe
Hun
Waltao
Titi
London
Mateomara
Daily Telegraph
Tsinkhtchen
Prince Magaloff
Taitee River
Lagoonadze
Confesses Awful Deed in Pa Court
Towanda Pennsylvania February 8 1906 Bigier Johnson pleaded guilty to murdering his wife Magele B Johnson and her niece Annie Benjamin ten years old on September 18 1904 and afterward burning the bodies He aged 26 his wife 40 The December term saw his older brother Charles Johnson convicted as an accessory Their mother Mrs Sophia Merritt and siblings Nancy and Alanson Johnson were tried for the same crime The five family members allegedly killed Maggie Johnson and the girl with an ax then sprinkled kerosene and set the house afire
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towanda
Bigier Johnson
Magele B. Johnson
Annie Benjamin
Charles Johnson
Sophia Merritt
Nancy
Alanson Johnson
Maggie Johnson
Indians decide education funds to denom schools demand
President Roosevelt sent a letter to Secretary Hitchcock on granting contracts for Indian education in denominational schools. He states legal authority exists and Indians are morally entitled to use funds to educate their children at the schools they choose, directing Interior to continue the practice unless Congress or the courts disagree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Hitchcock
Interior Department
Congress
Department of Justice
Indictments in Chicago Forgery Case Involving City Officials
A grand jury indicted Albert G. Wheeler former City Clerk William Loeffler ex Alderman E J Novak Deputy City Clerk Edward Ehrhorn and J W Higgins on forgery charges connected to falsified Chicago city council records. The case concerns the Illinois Tunnel company now reorganized into the Chicago Subway company with multitudes of Chicago Wall Street and English capital involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Albert G. Wheeler
William Loeffler
E. J. Novak
Edward Ehrhorn
J. W. Higgins
Grand Jury
City Council of
Illinois Tunnel Company
Chicago Subway Company
Wall Street
Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Capital Punishment
Declared constitutional the capi tal punishment law. four murderers whose executions were delayed will now be hanged in Denver.
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Denver
Col
Supreme Court of Colorado
Teenager Furlong Sentenced to Death at Sing Sing
Frank Furlong aged 19 convicted of killing his aunt Mrs. Margaret Keeler in New York City on November 27 is sentenced to be executed at Sing Sing prison during the week of March 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frank Furlong
Margaret Keeler
Sing Sing
Centenarian Woman Dies in Quakake After Lifelong Farm Work
Mrs. Tlighman Craigie, a 102 year old resident of Quakake near Mahanoy City Pennsylvania, died after a long life on a farm. She was the mother of 14 children and lived her entire life in the countryside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mahanoy City
Tlighman Craigie
Quakake
Brigham Young's Sixth Wife Lucy Bigelow Young Dies
Salt Lake City reports Lucy Bigelow Young, the sixth wife of Brigham Young, dies of pneumonia. The former Mormon church president’s widow passed away in Salt Lake City on February 6.
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Brigham Young
Salt Lake City
Lucy Bigelow Young
The
Mormon Church
Pneu
Moals
Severe Southern Weather Frays Telegraph Lines and Crops
Telegraphic communication shut off for hours across the South as sleet and frost cripple telegraph, telephone, streetcar and electric services from Texas to the Atlantic. Atlanta and Macon faced isolation. Vicksburg and Natchez lacked wire connectivity for 26 hours. Fruit belt losses bow to an estimated 100000 dollars in Chattanooga area with peach trees and the 1906 yield at risk. Heavy livestock losses reported in Texas.
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Texas
Louisville
South
Atlantic Coast
Ohio River
Gulf of Mexico
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
Atlanta
Macon
Vicksburg
Natchez
Miss
Chattanooga
Convicted Post Office Officials Sent to Moundsville Prison
Washington report says August W. Machen former head of the free delivery system and Diller B. Groff with Samuel A. Groff, both of the city, left with 11 others for Moundsville penitentiary to serve two years. In New York three men are held on $16,000 bond each for possessing a government bond stolen from the Manhattan Savings Institute in 1879.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
W. Machen
Post Office Department
Diller B. Groff
Samuel A. Groff
Moundsville
W. Va
New York
Manhattan Savings Institution
Heirs avoid two percent inheritance tax on Bushnell estate
In Springfield on February 8 Probate Judge Geiger ruled that the heirs of the late Governor Asa S. Bushnell are not required to pay the two percent inheritance tax. The estate is valued at $2,500,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Geiger
Gov
Asa
Bushnell
Darling Tenders Resignation as Assistant Secretary of Navy
Washington Feb 3 Charles W Darling assistant secretary of the navy tendered his resignation to the president asking it take effect near the end of his four years term which expires in December 1906.
Senate debates Swayne case as statehood bill passes
The Senate resumes Judge Swayne impeachment proceedings with his answer read and trial set for February 10. The House passes a post office appropriation of 180,787,413 dollars. A federal bill to create two new states Oklahoma and New Mexico advances, with Oklahoma restricted from liquor sales for 21 years and Arizona removed. House freight rate debate continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Swayne
John M. Thurston
House
Post Office Appropriations
John Sharpe Williams
Miss
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
New Mexico
Arizona
Ocean Steamer Damara Founders Off Halifax Coast
During a gale and blinding snowstorm, the ocean steamer Damara of the Furness line ran on rocks near Musquodoboit thirty miles east of Halifax and is believed to have foundered with heavy loss of life. The first officer and 18 crew survived in a lifeboat and reached Pleasant Point. Captain Gorst, four passengers, and most of the crew are missing.
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Halifax
N. C
Nova Scotia
Damara
Furness Line
Musquodobolt
Pleasant Point
Gorst
Teens Indicted for Murder in Train Derailment
Danville Illinois February 7 John Kyle aged 13 and Porter Laird aged 15 of Hoopeston were indicted by the grand jury on murder charges for aiding in the derailment of a Chicago and Eastern Illinois freight train last August. Brakeman Frame was killed and several crew members injured.
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Danville
Ill
John Kyle
Porter Laird
Hoopeston
Laird
Kyle
Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Frame
Wages of Sin: Woman Shot by Janitor Emil Bollinger
In New York on February 6 a young woman named Louise Scroeder or Louise Adams was shot dead by janitor Emil Bollinger. He provided no clear motive beyond saying the woman had ruined his life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Louise Scroeder
Louise Adams
Emil Bollinger
Bollinger
Three Held for Murder in Indiana Case
Bedford Indiana February 7 Justice McLachlan announced the result of the preliminary hearing for Frank Evans and Elmer Browning accused in the murder of Miss Sarah Schaefer. Evans freed Browning bound over to the grand jury. Also in Lancaster Pa three children drowned after ice broke on Wenger's dam on Conestoga Creek reported Sunday.
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Bedford
Ind
Justice McLachlan
Frank Evans
Elmer Browning
Sarah Schaefer
Evans
Browning
Lancaster
Brownstown
Wenger
Banker's Death Impacts Chadwick Forgery Case at Oberlin
C. T. Beckwith president of the Citizens' National Bank of Oberlin died after two days of unconsciousness. His death may weaken forgery and conspiracy charges against Mrs Cassie L. Chadwick, as he would have been a star witness. If Chadwick fails here, proceedings may move to Massachusetts over a loan alleged from Herbert D. Newton of Brookline.
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Oberlin
C. T. Beckwith
Citizens’ National Bank
Beckwith
Federal Grand Jury
Cleveland
Cassie L. Chadwick
Citizens’ National Bank of Oberlin
Chadwick
Federal
Common Pleas Court
United States
Massachusetts
Boston
Herbert D. Newton
Brookline
Manley of Maine GOP Leader Dies Suddenly
Joseph H. Manley former chairman of the national executive committee of the Republican Party dies at home in Augusta Maine from apoplexy. A longtime Blaine ally he led the Maine Republican State Committee for over two decades and served on the national committee and in the Maine legislature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Joseph H. Manley
National Executive Committee
Republican Party
Manley
James G. Blaine
Republican State Committee
Republican National Committee
Maine
Railroad Arraigned Over Unlawful Rates
The interstate commerce commission declares flagrant, willful and continuous violations by the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad in coal and mine supply transport over five years, with involvement by Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. Cuban Cabinet resignations accepted as successors to be installed. Johann Hoch granted extradition for indictment in New York City. Tailors hold first national convention in Bloomington. University buildings burn in Fairmont causing about 50,000 in loss.
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Washington
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Interstate Commerce Commission
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
Old Man's Tribute to Dean's Kidney Pills Cures Kidney Trouble
In Ohio Fruit Raiser Sidney Justus of Men tor Ohio recounts a ten year battle with kidney pain backache dropsy and fatigue. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills with a full recovery after three boxes and offers a trial free from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Sold by dealers at 50 cents.
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Ohio
Sidney Justus
Mentor
Dean
Foster- Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Notable Historical Snippets Highlight Public Figures and Events
William J. Van Patten of Burlington turns over Indian Rock site to Vermont Sons of the American Revolution for a memorial tower to the hero of Ticonderoga. Alva Adams, Colorado governor, born in Wisconsin, and Knute Nelson were Albem academy contemporaries. Also notes on a trio of widowed sisters near York, Pennsylvania, Richard C. Adams’ Delaware lineage, a Shrapnel descendant seeking recognition for his grandfather’s war-era invention, and Constable W D Currence of Valley Head serving a fourth term with active law enforcement.
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William J. van Patten
Burlington
Vermont Sons of the American Revolution
Ethan Allen
Albom Academy
Wisconsin
York
Switzerland
Henri Weaver
Richard C. Adams
White Eyes
Washington
Pennsylvania
Shrapnel
W. D. Currence
Valley Head
Elkins
W. Va
Mingo
Billy
Remedy Promises Rich Blood To Cure Debility
A historic ad extols a blood tonic to end general debility caused by poor blood. It cites Mrs. Ella F Stone who reports gradual improvement after two boxes, claiming head aches indigestion nervousness and weakness receded with better weight and vitality.
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Ella F. Stone
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Weam
Duke
Alice Webb Sa Ie
Nacogloches Quunty
Tex
Meniwether
Blube
Man
Nick
McCutcheon
Chicago Daily Tribune
Machen
Groff Brothers
Ocean Steamer Founders
Blaine
Havana
Palma
Tailors In
Bloomington
Journeymen Tailors’ Union
Fairmont
University At Buchanean
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