Woman Shown Mercy Mrs Mary Rogers Will Not Be Hanged Yet
Governor grants reprieve for Mrs Mary Rogers convicted in 1903 of murdering her husband Marcus Rogers. Supreme Court to seek new trial. Case drew wide attention as a death penalty verdict stood. a poisoning motive and alleged accomplices are noted. A letter offering poison to carry payment was reported to authorities.
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Mary Rogers
Waterbury
Rogers
Gue
Leon Perham
Stella Bates
Willamoosae
Aindia
Harold Harpin
Windsor
Maury M. Rogers
Boston
Harpin
Railroad rate war cuts tariffs on Gratia corridors
A Chicago special reports a railroad tariff war intensifying between corn belt to Gulf lines and routes to Chicago and the Atlantic seaboard. Missouri Pacific telegraphed a rate to the interstate commerce commission listing Omaha to New Orleans at 9 cents per 100 pounds, 10 cents to Memphis and Little Rock, and 5 cents to St Louis, down from earlier 18 and 4 cent levels.
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A. Chicago
Corn Belt
Gulf of Mexico
Chicago
Atlantic Seaboard
Missouri Pacific
Interstate Ecommerce Commission
Washington
Omaha
New Orleans
Memphis
Little Rock
St. Louis
Death and brief notes from Boston and beyond
A Boston physician Dr. Wis R. Read, aged 70, died in Boston while reportedly suffering a severe heart attack. An unrelated dispatch notes a Wisconsin Capitol commission recommending New York designer Gilbert for plans costing 5.5 million dollars. Additional items include a bridge collapse over the Konitsa River and Sioux City stock market quotes.
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Boston
Caan
Wis R. Read
Edinburgh’ University
University Pennsylvania
Mass
Flo
Yorgas
Wisconsin
Madison
Gilbert
New York
Train hits sleigh killing seven women in Arkport area
A Pittsburg Shawmut and Northern passenger train struck a sleigh carrying thirteen Universalist church women near Arkport New York. Seven were killed outright and six badly hurt, three dying later. Driver Elisha Quick of the second sleigh was wounded.
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Behn County
New York
Hornellsville
N. Y
Pittsburg
Shawmut and Northern Railroad
Beiong
Arkport
Universalist Church of
Ladies’ Aid Society
the Universalist Church
Elisha Quick
Czar Bends the Knee to St. Petersburg Workers
Emperor Nicholas received a delegation of thirty four workingmen from the factories and workshops of St. Petersburg at Tsarskoe Selo. He pledged to improve their lot, ensure legal investigations of their demands, and pardoned their transgression. He urged them to return to work with comrades and carry out their tasks. May God assist them.
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Nicholas
St. Petersburg
Tsarskoe Selo
Boch Believed to Have Wed Twenty Nine Times
Investigation into Johann Hoch known as the Bluebeard reports a Chicago grand jury voting against bigamy charges. Hoch faced testimony from three wives and witnesses, with four additional supposed spouses found since Thursday bringing alleged marriages to twenty nine, plus rumors of two in Brooklyn.
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Boch
Indietmess
Johann Hoch
Chicago
Binebeard
New York
Bluebeard
Tack
Brooklyn
Disorder subsiding in Warsaw amid partial suppression
Partial suppression of disorder in Warsaw allows traffic to resume enough for some food deliveries. Attacks on individual soldiers rise, while strikes near end in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Grand Duke Vladimir hints at forthcoming representative government, with limits on general suffrage. Ministers publish a reform report. Unconfirmed claim ties the waters blessing gun discharge to terrorist action, targeting the emperor and family.
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Warsaw
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Grand Duke
Vladimir
Associated Press
Russia
Beefeasing Prosecutions Ordered Over Be United States
Washington dispatch reports the government will prosecute individual corporate members of the so called beef trust if they do not comply with the permanent injunction issued by the Supreme Court. The president and cabinet are resolved to enforce the decision and halt further delays.
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Ao Washington Dispatch
Beet Trust
Supreme Court
Cnbinst
Beef Trust
Willing to Return to Chicago for Trial in Bigamy Case
Johane Wood, arrested in New York Monday, is charged with bigamy and wife abandonment and told police Tuesday he wants to return to Chicago immediately with no plan to oppose extradition. Chicago Chief ONeill says Johann Adolph Broch, alleged to have married many women, may have murdered at least twelve. An attempt to indict Hoch on wife abandonment and bigamy was made Tuesday by Chicago grand jury.
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Chicago
Johane Wood
New York
O'Neill
Johann Adolph Broch
Hoch
Rush of Immigrants Admitted in Six Months
Immigrants admitted to the United States in the six months ending December 41 numbered 400,063, up from 223,641 the year before and 403,500 in 1903. Russia contributed the heaviest emigration with 86,191 arrivals, while total refusals reached 4,064 in the period.
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United States
Russia
Emigration Bureau
Cutler Mountain Tragedy Slayer Not Captured
Colorado Springs police chief Reynolds says Milton Wranklig is suspected of murdering Bessie Bouton of Syracuse New York. He believes the body on Cutler Mountain is hers and that Milton Franklin James is linked to the death. A warrant will be issued for Franklin.
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Bessie Bonton
Colorado Springs
Cole
Reynolds
Milton Wranklig
Cutler Mountain
Bessie Bouton
Syracuse
N. Y
Milton Sunklio Andrews
Hartford, Cou
Milton Jranklin
Adias Coo
Bouton
George Barnett
Franklin
Colfax Mercantile Losses Fire and Accident Hit Colfax
The Colfax Mercantile Company store suffered about 2500,000 in stock and 81,600 in building loss after a Sunday fire started likely from a stove. Firemen couldn’t enter due to smoke. Principal stockholder is George W. Seevers of Oskaloosa. Fireman Frank Chapman was injured by a hose nozzle and lost an eye.
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Colfax Mercantile Company
George W. Seevers
Oskaloosa
Frank Chapman
Sought brother's body spurs Estherville man to pay for wreck train
An Estherville man paid 500 to send a special train to reach his brother's body in the Solon wreck where freight engine 1422 exploded. The body was found buried in grain after a long search as wreckage and telegraph wires lay destroyed. In a separate incident a Rock Island collision near Radman injured Superintendent Brown and others. the rear end of a freight was telescoped and a caboose burned, with three doctors summoned to treat the injured.
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Eatherville
Solon
Shirby
First National Bank
Estherville
Wilby
Rock Island
Radman
Brown
Julius Martin
Holdups in Marshalltown Leave Victims Severely Cut
Robbery spree in Marshalltown Monday night left W F Bowen with a deep neck wound and Jacob Lentz with facial cuts after two assailants robbed Bowen of cash. Both men face recovery. Two suspects named John Jones and Al Warris were arrested with hearings pending.
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Marshaltown
W. FH. Bowen
Jacob Lentz
John Jones
al Warris
Demented farmer linked to religious obsession in Keokuk County
C W Brown, a farmer west of Hedrick, was declared violently insane Saturday and moved to Sigourney for assessment before a state insane board, then taken to Mt. Pleasant hospital. Previously it was noted his hobby was perpetual motion. this time religion is cited as the cause. Meanwhile the Iowa Electrical Association plans its fifth annual convention in Dubuque from April 1 to 20, 1905 with 100 power-plant representatives and 150 suppliers expected. In Dubuque George Wink, 68, a pioneer, died by his own hand amid financial troubles. A fire in LiMsboro destroyed six buildings, $26,000 loss, insurance partly covers. Wall Lake dealer C J Lyman signed an assignment to N Stevens, assets not to exceed $1,100. indebtedness higher.
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Keokuk County
C. W. Brown
Hedrick
Board of Insane Commissioners
Iowa Electrical Association
Iowa Idlectrical Association
Dubuque
Willian
Carter
Vidora
Iowa
Alisboro
LiMsboro
Wall Lake
C. J. Lyman
N. Stevens
Lake View
Hiro
Harveys to Prison for Arson at Glidden Hotel
Judge Powers delayed the Ware arson sentence after a week of deliberation and sentenced the Harveys to three years in Anamosa Penitentiary. Only the father of Mrs Tarvey attended. tears marked Clyde Varvey and his wife as the verdict was read. The crime involved the burning of the City Hotel at Glidden last August, which cost Hobbs brothers lodging.
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Anamosa Penitentiarys
Carroll
Powers Aaturiny
Wareley
Anamosa
Tarvey
Clyde Varvey
Hem
Orveya
Glidden
Wiitch
Hobbs Brothers
Deeter Murder Case Sees Slow Progress In Weighman Trial
No testimony was taken Saturday in the Deeter murder case until near noon. Photographs of Deeter's body were not admitted in evidence. The court ruled against calling witnesses not before the grand jury after police served on attorneys rather than the defendant, upending prosecution plans. The state’s attorneys reopened the question and the court took it under advisement. Testimony resumed Monday to lay foundation for admitting an aut teliquesaut statement. defense objects and will argue on this point.
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Deeter
Labor Leader Convicted in Assault Case at Port Madison
Arthur Trelend a labor leader, convicted of assault with intent to commit bodily harm against strikebreaker Mathieson brought in during last summer's Santas Weiss strike. Witness John Devine testified he was a detective who saw the blow. Treland's home is said to be in Topeka Kansas. appeal planned if new trial denied.
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Arthur Ireland
Arthur Trelend
Wuls
Port Madison
Mathieson
Ort Madison
Santas Weiss
John Devine
Ireland
Treland
Topeka
Kan
Fire at Lake City destroys candy store and post office
A morning blaze at Thormahlon and Co candy mud fruit store in Lake City, Mhe, tore through the building, likely caused by a defective chimney. The post office suffered partial destruction but mail and fixtures were saved amid heavy smoke. Firemen saved O. Hopkins furniture building next door. An aged inmate and a very elderly father of Mrs Mhormiahten were in danger from exposure as fire crews battled the flames.
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Thormahlon & Co
Lake City
Hopkins
Mhormiahten
Milford blaze devastates business district causing $15000 loss
A 4am fire in Milford destroyed seven buildings in the business block between the depot and the bank. Losses totaled about $15000 with $8000 insured. Local merchants N A Miller Waterman Williams Amish Lung were among the heaviest losers. A bowling alley owned by George Piper was also destroyed. George, a Sergeant Bluffs resident, was unable to reach in time from Spencer and Spirit Lake.
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Bank
Milford
N. A. Miller
Grocer
Waterman & Williams
Implement Dealers
Amish
Lung
Sheip
Spencer
Spirit Lake
George & Piper
George
Sergeant Bluffs
Three Men Die In Rock Island Engine Explosion
A freight engine boiler exploded on the Rock Island Mail route between Fi and Solon, killing Engineer William Kirby and several crewmen. Livestock were destroyed and trade delayed as the town reels from the second similar explosion in six weeks. Also noted are armory dedication and various local notices including arrests and a fatal tree accident.
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Cedar Rapids
Uber
Rock Island
Solon
William Kirby
Testerville
Re Smith
Cedar Stupids
EH. Kelly
Colne Hapida
New Era for Russia Predicted Under Witte Reform
A London Telegraph report cites Dn A Dillon that M. Witte will lead a new representative chamber and push reforms. Yermoloff warns the czar that Tsarist rule must adapt, pensions should aid orphans and cripples, and peaceful nationwide cooperation with government is urged.
Cabinet and public figures tied to late 19th century politics
A garbled OCR passage mentions Secretary Taft as a weighty cabinet figure, charity efforts by FT Morgan, Frank Perley as private secretary, W Hall Tlurris as Baltimore postmaster, and various scattered references to Roosevelt, Rudyard Kipling, George Gould, and other notable names in a speculative, uncertain portrait of political and social connections.
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Taft
Osu
FT. Morgan
Googeleet Wigginsing
Frank Perley
New York
W. Hall Tlurris
Baltimore
New Post- Master
Thussel Sage
Goilie
Itn
Wall Street
Elor Ventires
Wallis
B. Cody
Effie II
Albert M. Bradahavy
Lakewood
N .J
George Gould
Oregon
United States
Charles Weluston
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