Global brief notes highlight fires arrests and royal wedding
Postmaster General Meyer warns against using a young man as a special delivery messenger. Montague Roberts and the New York to Paris race car travel across the continent. Fires at Ellinwood Kansas cause 140000 dollars in losses. Bulgaria’s Prince Ferdinand weds Eleanore Gasparine Louise. Various political, legal and crime items from the US and abroad unfold in rapid brief form.
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Meyer
Montague Roberts
Thomas
Chicago
Ellinwood
Kan
Prince Ferdinand
Bulgaria
Eleanore Caroline Gasparine Louise
Princess of
Reuss
Comirg
Germany
Frank Pauley
Benjamin Eckenrode
Transfer
Erie
Southern Railway
Atlanta
First State Bank of
Clear Lake
Minn
Paris
Newington
N. H
Paul Roy
Gracia Calla
Weeks
St. Paul
Minnesota
Northern Pacific
St. Paw
Min.i
J. C. Spires
Basil, O
Giuseppe Alio
Leo Heinrichs
Teheran
Persia
China
Wu Ting Fang
San Francisco
Alcorta
Buenos Ayres
Bradley
James B. McCreary
United States Senate
Kentucky
Tokyo
Cadido Garcia
Clayton
N. M
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Thompson
Charleston
Peter 8. Grosscup
Central Illinois Traction Company
Harrisburg
C. H. Humphries
Devastating City Fire Destroys Tampa’s North End
A Sunday blaze in Tampa wiped out the extreme northern section for four hours, burning 54 acres and 308 structures with losses pegged at 600000. One woman died from shock as four cigar factories and many businesses, hotels, and homes were destroyed.
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Tampa
Fla
M. Stachelberg & Co
M. Perez & Co
Gonzales, Fisher & Co
Enberg, Gunst & Co
Stachelberg
Fernandez & Bro
Perez & Castro
Maximo Caras
Street Cars Burned and Factory Fire in Harlem
New York reports two massive fires from midnight to dawn in Harlem. The New York City Railway car barn on Second Avenue and the George W Grote & Co paint factory burned nearby. One hundred seventy cars burned? The line says 740 surface cars burned with losses around 2.5 million for the railway and 125 thousand for the factory. In Buffalo a separate blaze killed Anthony Chultz and three of his children Nellie Joseph and May in Depew.
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E. C. Kerr
Troy
Palmer College
LeGrand
Indianapolis
Ind
Blacky” Collins
Erie
Thomas A. Edison
New York
Ned W. Barton
Patent Office
Henry E. Eyerding
John A. Heany
Washington Grand Jury
William H. Taft
Missouri Republican State Convention
St. Louis
Northern Pacific
State Bank
Brockwayville
Edward R. Thomas
Orlando F. Thomas
Provident Savings Life Assurance Society
William T. Jerome
John Jones
Famou
Jim Bludso
Mississippi River
Dakota
Minn
Supreme Court of Missouri
Court of General Sessions
Mazagan
Mulai Hafid
South
Hafid
George Dawkins
Supreme Court of
Brooklyn
N. Y
Paul D. Elliser
Cayce
9. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Europe
George Frederick Kunz
Norway
Royal Order of St. Olav
Missouri Supreme Court
Broussais Gregory
Hopkinsville
Sioux City
Sioux City Iron Company
Chicago
Nicholas
St. Petersburg
Duma
Fort Worth
Tex
International and Great Northern Railroad Company
Gracia Calla
Paul B. Roy
Dalzell
House
Congress
Roosevelt
Ohio House
Nicholas Nicholalevitch
M. Chtcheglovitoff
Senate
Aldrich
Peoria
Ill
Illinois
Steubenville
Taft
Marco A. Soto
Honduras
Kielce
Russian Poland
Carlos
Prince Luiz
Lisbon
New York Senate
Kentucky Assembly
Willson
Washington Lee Capps
Senate Committee On Naval Affairs
Lima
Peru
National Club
Thomas Warren
Ninth
Minnesota
White Earth
Rival
N. D
Daniel E. Naughton
House of Delegates
Delegates
Warner
New York City Railway Company
Second Avenue
Harlem
George W. Grote & Co
Buffalo
Anthony Chultze
Nellie
Joseph
Depew
Miner to Receive 16284.75 Damages in Mine Blast Case
Duluth February 29 a district court judgment in Niko Wilta versus Interstate Iron Company awards 16284.76 including 16000 damages for a blast injury claim. Wilta alleged a premature or delayed explosion due to a defective fuse caused total blindness after a three week trial with about fifty witnesses.
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Duluth
Niko Wilta
Interstate Iron Company
Villa Cae
Willa
Man admits burning barn and is jailed in Red Wing
Thomas Thompson thirty eight from Norway admits setting fire to Heaney farm buildings near Goodhue and is jailed in Red Wing after frostbitten legs and hunger weaken him. He identifies himself at a sheriff hearing and recounts his arrival in 1887. Senator Kittridge plans a Washington bill to preserve Amundsen’s boat Gros for U S historical collections.
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Red Wing
Minn
Thomas Thompson
Heaney
Martin Runde
Goodhue
Sheriff’s Office
Norway
Amundson
Sioux Falls
D. D
Kittridge
South Dakota
Washington
United States
Senate
Ronald Amundson
Northwest Passage
Famous Healer Arrest In Mail Fraud Case
Minneapolis March 2 report that Prof. Birk holz who calls himself the famous healer was arrested by U S officers on charges of fraudulent use of the United States mails.
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Minneapolis
Birkholz
United States
Lost Temper Recoils as Poet Banker Buys Back Book
Edmund Clarence Stedman, famed poet banker, threw a book in a temper at a servant. A passerby took it, later found to be his rare volume worth $50. In a shop he buys it back for $40, discovering his own card inside and learns a lesson about firing at people.
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Edmund Clarence Stedman
Stedman
Chiwben
Lont
Pertants’ Heads
New York Press
Impudent Interrupted Moment Between Gertle Mollie
A fragment shows Gertle remarking on an attempted kiss by a suitor to Mollie. Mollie reacts with annoyance, and Gertle notes the interruption. The dialogue captures a breezy social moment with minor confrontation.
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Gertle
Mollie
Offer for Merry Widow songs by Jerome H. Remick Co
Advertisers offer nine pieces of the Merry Widow words and music for 25 cents from the Jerome H. Remick Co of New York. The text adds a remark that the average man’s idea of a good sermon is one that goes over his head and hits an acquaintance.
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Jerome H. Remick Co
New York
London
Paris
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Copenhagen
John A. Linn
Superior Cout
Indiana
Seep
Standard Oil Company
Prince of Lima
Voltairine de Cleyre
Harry Weinberg
Philadelphia
Iona Island
Louis Barber
Mra
Jerome Lewis
Medina
Faa
UW Waste
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Cortly
Fort of
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Eee Rees i Fis
Gorbam-Garbett Company
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