Ten Persons Die in Tenement Fire on Seventh Avenue
A five story tenement at 372 4 Seventh Avenue in New York claimed ten lives, all Italians except one unidentified Frenchman, ages from four to sixty. Five people, including a policeman, and a year‑old child were injured. firefighters saved three babies from the fourth floor. Initial speculation blamed Black Hand extortion, but fire marshals found no incendiary evidence.
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New York
Seventh Avenue
Rit Nelson
Nelson
Travisano
Filiberti
Gruppi
Placia
Antonio Urso
Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction Company Reports
The 1908 earnings totaled 1 322635.34 with expenses 737133.82 leaving net earnings 535501.52. After interest and taxes a surplus of 96830.38 remained, all spent on reconstruction and betterments. Taxes exceeded 45000. The 1907 earnings were higher for months the Logansport Lafayette extension operated. Directors reelected: J Levering Jones Howard H Henry Randall Morgan John J Collier Hugh J McGowan Charles Murdock Samuel T Murdock Henry Paul James M Barrett. About seventy five stockholders. proxies to Mr Paul. Attendees included Paul Barrett C D Emmons Henry Rainey.
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Fort Wayne
Logans port-Lafayette
J. Levering Jones
Howard H. Henry
Randall Morgan
John J. Collier
Philadelphia
Hugh J. McGowan
Indianapolis
Charles Murdock
Samuel T. Murdock
Lafayette
Henry ©. Paul
James M. Barrett
Fort Wayne and
Weebash Valley Company
Ansnual
Mr. Paul
Barrett
C. D. Emmons
Henry Rainey
Gilhams Out Cline Takes Seat in Congress
Hon Cyrug Cline of Angola succeeds Clarence C Gilhams of LaGrange as Twelfth district representative in the U S House. Cline went to Washington days ago to take the oath of office. Alphonso C Wood of Angola named private secretary to Cline, a longtime Steuben county Democrat. Wood left Monday with his family for Washington to begin duties.
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Cyrug Cline
Angola
Clarence C. Gilhams
Lagrange
Congress
Cline
Washington
Alphonso
Wood
Steuben
Taft Cabinet Names and Backgrounds Revealed
Washington March 4 the first Taft cabinet includes only two Roosevelt era holdovers George von L Meyer and James Wilson while Philander C Knox and Frank Hitchcock join as key figures Knox, a former attorney general, returns as secretary of state and Ballinger, Dickinson, Nagel, Wickersham, and Nagel hold posts. Wilson keeps agriculture. Dickinson heads War. Meyer leads Navy. Hitchcock is postmaster general.
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Washington
Taft
Roosevelt
George von L. Meyer
Post Office Department
Navy Department
James Wilson
Iowa
Philander C. Knox
McKinley
United States Senate
Pennsylvania
Philander Chase Knox
Mr. Taft
Matthew M. Quay
Knox
Mr. McKinley
Northern Securities
Mr. Knox
Brownsville
Mount Union College
Alliance
Ohio
Pittsburg
United States
Western District
James H. Reed
Knox & Reed
Homestead
Carnegie Steel Co
Northern Securities Company
Beef Trust
United States Supreme Court
Senate
Pennypacker
Quay
Mount Union ‘College
Mc‘Kinley
Stark
Jacob McGavock Dickinson
Tennessee
Arbitration Tribunal
London
Cleveland
Ilinois Central Railroad Company
Chicago
Mr. Dickinson
Columbus
Mississippi
University of Nashville
Columbia University
University of Leipzig
Paris
American Bar Association
Dickinson
Nashville
George von
Lengerke: Meyer
Lengerke Meyer
Linden & Meyer
East India Merchants
Boston Common Council
Meyer
Republican National Committee
Italy
Athletic
Somerset
St. Botolph
Boston
Ames Plow Company
Qid Golony Trust Company
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
George W. Wickersham
New York
Wicker
Philadelphia
Chamberlain, Carter and Hornblower
Strong & Cadwalader
Wickersham
Interborough Tallgoad
Cedarhurst
Long Island
New York City
Frank H. Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Massachusetts
Harvard
Department of Agriculture
Wilson
Department of Commerce and Labor
Columbian University
District of Columbia
Supreme Court of the United States
American Economic Association
American Statistical Association
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Albert Gallatin
The
Treasury
Ayrshire
Scotland
Iheir
W C T U Backs Rest Room Petition at Court House
The local Woman's Christian Temperance Union passed resolutions at a Wednesday meeting to ask the county commissioners to designate the southeast room of the courthouse as a public rest room. Mrs. C S Ridenour presided and Mrs F B Perkins spoke on America's Vision of Child Life.
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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Court House
C.S. Ridenour
The
State Union
F. B. Perkins
Kendallville
Perkins
America
Awe
Zartman
Newton Taylor
Oe -Philan
Bank of Fort Wayne Founding and Guarded Vault Tale
The Sentinel reports a $5 Bank of Fort Wayne note now with Dr J A Williams. The bank, started in the 1850s by Samuel Curtis, stored its initial $25 000 silver capital in a room at the Hodekin house guarded day and night until vaults could be built. Curtis' venture soon liquidated after a few months in Fort Wayne.
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The
Sentinel
Bank of
Fort Wayne
J. A. Williams
Samuel Curtis
E. G. Anderson
Hodekin
Hodekin House
Anderson
Curtis Bank
Fort. Wayne
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A. C. Wood
New
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Interior
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Port Townsend
Washington State
Jefferson County
Ballinger
Seattle
General Land Office
Willams College
State of Washington
Jacob M. Dickinson
Charles Nagel
St. Louis
Commerce and Labor
Missouri House of Representatives
Colorado County
Texas
Herman Nagel
University Club
Commercial Club
Round Table and Country Clubs
Metropolitan Club
Washington City
Franklin MacVeagh
the Treasury
Phoenixville
Chester County
Yale
Columbia Law School
Wayne MacVeagh
Bureau of Charities
Municipal Art League
National Civic Federation
MacVeagh
Democratic Party
Democracy of
Ilinois
Emily Eames
N.y-Heral
WM Elveft
SEICY
Pranilin
Wicker Sham
James Wil
CEN
Ra-Ballinge
Will
Goin
Hedekin House
Gen. Samuel Curtis