Tampa Fire Destroys 308 Buildings In Four-Hour Blaze
Northern Tampa was scorched as a boarding house blaze swept through 65 blocks, destroying 308 buildings worth about 600000. One woman died of heart disease amid the panic. 200 residents fled with little more than their belongings. The fire, fanned by wind, overwhelmed weak water pressure despite firefighting efforts. St. Joseph's convent opened to homeless, while many workers faced unemployment due to factory losses and limited insurance coverage.
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Tampa
Mia
Ates
M. Stachelberg & Company
M. Perez
St. Joseph's Convent
Shah Escapes Assassination In Tehran Bombs Destroy Car
Persian shah survived a planned assassination as bombs shattered his automobile, killing three outriders. He was in a nearby carriage as the vehicle, targeted in a narrow street, was demolished and no arrests were reported.
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Teheran
Persia
Bomb fails to explode in assassination attempt in Argentina
An attempted assassination on President J Figueroa Al corta in Buenos Aires failed when a crude bomb did not detonate as he stepped from his carriage. The attacker, likely insane, was arrested, and three others held by police. Also reported is Maryland coal output in 1907 at 160,088,892 tons with a 172,299 ton rise from 1906. 1,476,194 tons of coke derived from the coal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Argentina
Buenos Ayres
Dr. J. Figueroa
Alcorta
Maryland
Cumberland
Reforms Seem Foreshadowed by Tsar’s Audience
In St. Petersburg the moderate reform movement in Russia gains momentum after Emperor Nicholas granted an audience at Tsarskoe Selo to Douma deputies. The Swede Choral organ notes the deputies’ broad participation and the sovereign’s tact, viewing the event as nonpartisan and a pledge of a lasting system of representative government.
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Douma
St. Petersbure
Russia
Tsarskoe Selo
Nicholas
Scovo
Bradley elected U S senator from Kentucky in 1909
Former Kentucky governor William O Connor Bradley, a Republican, wins the U S Senate seat to replace James B McCreary. Bradley will serve a six year term beginning March 4, 1909, after receiving 64 votes, four from Democrats opposing Becham as the endorsed Democratic candidate.
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Kentucky
William O’connell Bradley
United States
James B. McCreary
Bradley
Beckham
Benator
Missouri for Taft resolutions adopted at Republican convention
Missouri for Taft: avowed resolutions favoring Secretary William H. Taft for President and praising the Roosevelt administration were adopted at the Republican state convention in Missouri. Jefferson City: the supreme court found the last legislature s law prohibiting liquor sales within five minutes of any state educational institution with 1,580 students unconstitutional.
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Louis
William H. Taft
Roosevelt
Jefferson City
Supreme Court
Rail business improves with new orders and rising capacity
The Iron Age reports stronger rail demand with Great Northern ordering 45 000 tons from three makers and Atlantic Coast Line 8 000 tons while Ontario and Western adds 8 100 tons. Activity across steel mills grows with higher bookings and better February showing than January though many plants still operate well below capacity.
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New York
The
Iron Age
Great Northern
Atlantic Coast Line
Ontario & Western
Mbre
Indian Senators Debate in Senate Over Five Civilized Tribes
Dramatic Senate scene as two Indian heritage senators clash over terminology. Oklahoma’s Owen seeks to add late before Five Civilized Tribes to mark former tribal relations while Curtis of Kansas taunts him about interior secretary control. The vote furthers Owen's contention was defeated.
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Congress
Washington
Senate
Owen
Oklahoma
Curtis
Kansas
Secretary of the Interior
IN RECEIVER S HANDS State Commission Ordered Improvements Picked Up
The International and Great Northern Railroad in Texas was placed in receivership by a federal court in Fort Worth. Freeman, general attorney for the Gould Southwestern system, was named receiver. The Texas Railroad Commission had ordered $2,000,000 in improvements, but funds could not be raised promptly, prompting the move.
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State Commission
Dallas
Tex
International and Great Northern
Texas
Federal
Fort Worth
Freeman
Gould Southwestern
Gould
Great Northern
Texas Railroad Commission
Munsey buys Baltimore News and La Follette for President
Telegraphic briefs report Frank A. Munsey purchasing the Baltimore News and Wisconsin Republicans endorsing Senator La Follette after a bitter split. Additional items note a Switzer Ky tobacco warehouse fire, a Sioux City fire loss at a steel works site, Penn wins the intercollegiate debate, Westinghouse creditors plan bonds, a setback in Russia’s fleet rebuilding, and William J. Day confirmed U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank A. Munsey
Baltimore “News
Wisconsin State Central Committee
la Follette
Fransfort
Head & Switzer, Independent
Switzer Village
Equity Society
Sioux City
Tam Pire
Greenbriar
Peart Street
Siowx Chiy Iron Company
Pennsylvania
Cornell
Columbia
University of Pennsylvania
Westinghouse Machine Company
Westinghouse
Senate
William J. Day
United States
Ohio
Day
United States Supreme. Sourt
Four Burned to Death in Depew Fire
Buffalo neighbors awoke to tragedy as Anthony Schultz 55 and his children Neltie 18 Joseph 11 and May 8 perished in an early morning blaze at their Depew home ten miles from Buffalo. Fire crews fought the flames but could not save the family. Authorities investigate cause and note no other occupants were harmed.
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Buffalo
N. Yi
Anthony Schultz
Neltie
Joseph
May
Depew
Revenue Receipts Decrease for January 1998
Washington reports the monthly statement of internal revenue collections for January 1998 at 19,742,004 dollars, down 967,013 from January 1907. Spirits, tobacco, and fermented liquors all show declines, with seven months ending January 31 totaling a drop of 5,205,423 versus the prior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Internal Revenue
Scandal in Patent Office Promoters Rivals Exposed
Washington report details indictments of Ned W. Barton an assistant examiner, patent attorney Henry Teverding, and John A. Heany for destroying public records to steal and tailor patent filings. The scheme allegedly targeted Heany’s invention for filament and electrode manufacturing with Barton and Teverding leveraging access to replace documents and outmaneuver major electrical firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ned W. Barton
Teverding
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
John A. Heany
York
Ball
Tfeany
Heany
Commissioner of Patents
Allen
Cowles
Barton
Fowler Currency Bill Advances in House Committee
Washington report states the Fowler currency bill, proposing a gold secured currency backed by national bank assets, was adopted by the house committee on currency and banking in nearly its original form after weeks of hearings. The measure includes a federal guarantee of National bank deposits and contemplates retirement of all outstanding bond secured currency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Committee On Currency and Banking
House
John Sharp Williams
Fowler
Post Office Appropriation Bill Reported Favorably
The House committee on post offices and post roads voted to report the postoffice appropriation bill carrying a total of 220,768,292 dollars, an increase of 88,674,199 over the current fiscal year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Committee On Post Offices and Post Roads
Petition to oust Jerome street railway official's recall plea
Governor Hughes faces calls from William King, T Blum, and George L. Tesnan of the Metropolitan Street Railway stockholders committee accusing District Attorney Jerome of neglect and incompetency. Franklin Pierce and Eugene J. Kraemer, attorneys, accompany the petitioners. A reply is requested after the governor accepts the charges and sends Jerome a copy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Hughes
Jerome
Willam
King
T Blum
George L. Tesnan
The
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Franklin Pierce
Eugene J. Kraemer
Madakras Fight Fiercely as French Clash with Moroccan Tribesmen
Advices from General D'Alade report another furious battle with Madvikre tribesmen in Morocco. The clash lasted from morning to night with French casualties totaling 11 killed and 3 wounded.
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Paris
D'Alade
Morocco
Renorr
Brigands Loot Train Strikes Brass Terrors and Escape
Bandits attacked a train in Klelee Russian Poland, hurling three bombs and firing rifles. One soldier was killed, three soldiers and three train hands wounded. The raiders escaped on the engine with $10,000 in gold. Secretary Taft ruled eight Allegheny bridges are not unreasonable navigational obstructions and should not be raised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Klelee
Russian
Poland
Theiy Rifles
Roosevelt Urges Inland Waterway Development Report
President Roosevelt transmitted a preliminary report from the inland waterways commission. He notes U S river systems surpass others in extent and navigability yet remain poorly developed due to railroad competition. The Mississippi is cited as an example where commerce fled to rail. He calls for making waterways serve the people, funding by bond if needed, with navigations to be free and revenue from water power to help pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Inland Waterways Commission
United States
Mississippi
Tossed Up For Verdict By Coin In New York Court
In New York Supreme Court Judge Guy fined twelve jurors fifty dollars each and censured them for delivering a verdict in a fatal damages suit by coin toss. Foreman Timothy Syale admitted the method, leading to the judge setting aside the verdict and ordering contempt fines totaling six hundred dollars. The case concerned Thomas Dixon’s four year old child killed June 25, 1905.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Guy
Supreme Court
New York City Railway Company
Judes Guy
Timothy Syale
Judge Guy
Thomas Dixon
Captain Van Schalek Surrenders for Slocum Disaster
Captain William H. Van Schalek, master of the General Slocum, surrendered to a U S marshal and was sent to Sing Sing to begin a ten year term for misconduct negligence and neglect of duty after the steam boat fire that killed about 1000 people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William H. van Schalek
No pardon for union men in Bell Company case
President denies clemency to P. D. Lenihan M. T. Plunkett Joseph Shannon William Cutts and A. B. Edwards, union members convicted months ago for violating a federal injunction against interfering with Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Co operations in Butte Montana. Sentences ranged from three to four months in jail with minor fines. The president offered no comment.
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Washington
P. D. Lenihan
M. 7. Plunkett
Joseph Shannon
William Cutts
A. B. Edwards
United States
Eircuit Court
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company
Butte
Mont
No Mining Agreement Reached For Wage Scale
Indianapolis Indiana as the joint committee of coal miners and operators from Western Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and Illinois adjourned sine die without reaching an agreement on calling a joint convention to re-establish the interstate accord and set a new wage scale effective April 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Clergy Protest Navy Plan Over $60 Million Expansion
About three hundred New York clergymen presented to the senate a resolution opposing the naval program of four new battleships and cruisers. Bishop Potter is the first signer of the document.
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New York
Senate
Bishop Potter
Ex Cabinet Minister Sentenced Rome
Ex cabinet minister Nuuseia Nasi formerly minister of public instruction was sentenced by the senate to eleven months and ten days in prison for continued peculation from the state treasury.
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Rome
Nuuseia Nasi
Public Instruction
Senate
Ohio Senator Foraker seeks to restore discharged Negro soldiers
Washington reports that the Senate committee on military affairs holds that Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry carried out the Brownsville massacre in August 1906, though the guilty parties were not identified. Senator Lodge’s resolution naming guilt was adopted after substitutes by Foraker Dupont and Scott failed. The final vote saw Lodge’s resolution pass with Democrats in support. Foraker plans floor action and a bill to restore innocence, with reports due in about 10 days.
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Washington
Brownsville
Tex
Twenty-fifth United States Infantry
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Lodge
Foraker
Dupont
Scott
Warren
Warner
Taliaferro
Foster
Overman
Frazier
McCreary
Memenway
Bulkeley
Senate
Ohio
Senator Foraker
Troraker
Hemenway
Bates Bill Aims Pearl Harbor Naval Station
Representative Bates of Pennsylvania introduced a bill to establish a Pearl Harbor naval station in Hawaii, with the Navy to build machine shops, storehouses, coal sheds, a drydock, and a 35 foot deep entrance channel. The measure seeks a $700,000 appropriation and follows prior consultations with Navy officials.
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Bates
Hawaii
Washington
Pennsylvania
Pearl Harbor
Wawali
House Committee On
Naval Affairs
Navy Department
Secretary of the Navy
GE Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend
The General Electric Company has declared a regular quarterly dividend of 2 dollars per share on common stock payable April 14 to holders of record March 4.
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General Electric Company
Bridges Not To Be Raised Over Allegheny River
Secretary Taft rules eight Allegheny River spans are not obstructions to navigation and will remain as is. The decision follows a two day hearing on river interests petition to overturn Secretary Root's 1904 ruling.
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Taft
Washington
Allegheny River
William H. Taft
Root
Allegheny
Fowler Currency Bill Recommended by House Committee
Washington report states the banking and currency committee voted 11 to 4 with three members present and not voting to authorize Chairman Fowler of New Jersey to report the Fowler currency bill to the House with a recommendation that it pass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Representative Fowler
New Jersey
Fowler
Pick Strikes Dynamite At River Bridge Blast
In Waterbury Connecticut a dynamite blast hurled worker Tony Fernato forty feet into the Naugatuck River. Boot fragments were recovered as gangs drag the river in search of the dismembered body.
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Waterbury
Conn
Naugatuck
Tony Fernato
Nickax
Bullfight Thrills Lima Crowd With Naval Presence
Ten thousand spectators, many officers from the American fleet, attended a Monday bull fight in Lima. President Pardo and his party occupied the royal box as officers and national troops filled the surrounding boxes. The spectacle featured dramatic injuries among matadors and uniforms, with bands playing national anthems and patriotic marches as dignitaries arrived and departed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Peru
Absolute Prohibition Seen as Solution to Asiatic Immigration
California congressmen Hayes and Kahn urged the Hayes bill before the house foreign affairs committee. They pressed for an absolute prohibition on coming to and residing in the United States by Chinese Japanese Koreans Hindus and other Mongolian races as the sole remedy. They blamed immigration companies backed by large funds for the problem, aligning with Japan's Hayashi on the root cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Washington
Hayes
Kahn
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
United States
Hayashi
Japan
Confesses train wrecking in Sedalia Missouri
G W Cox a wood chopper from Franklin Junction Missouri confessed to Missouri Pacific Railway officials here that he removed a rail 16 miles east of Sedalia resulting in a freight train derailing from St Louis He said he intended to wreck and rob the fast passenger train due at Otterville a few minutes later He acted alone and has a wife and child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cox
Sedalia
G. W. Cox
Franklin Junction
Missouri Pacific Railway
Here
St. Louis
Missouri Pacific
Otterville
Steel Business Improves Output At United States Steel
At the monthly directors meeting United States Steel Corporation reported a production rise of 10 to 15 percent. Last week it ran about 51 percent of its normal furnace capacity, up 2 percent from the prior week. The company is operating more plants than since the concession began, with new orders flowing in at 13,000 to 15,000 tons daily, about half of normal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States Steel Corporation
Tast
Revolt Fears Rise in India and Ceylon Against Britain
Across multiple reports the steamer news from Boston notes widespread revolt in India and Ceylon as natives arm for resistance to British rule. In New York George Dawkins is found guilty of burglary and grand larceny in the supreme court. In Baltimore eight Black Hand suspects face indictments for conspiracy to murder Joseph Di Giorgio by dynamiting his home on December 10. In Chicago William Jones and Irene Alging Jones receive long prison terms for the rape of eight year old Lillian Wulff last December. An anarchist in Denver says bells urged his act during priest slaying. Chicago maltsters warn maltsters' losses rise with prohibition impacting patronage.
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Boston
India
Ceylon
New York
George Dawkins
Supreme Court
Baltimore
Black Hand
Joseph di Giorgio
Chicago
William Jones
Birmingham
Irene Alging Jones
Judea Kersten
Lillian Wulff
Imiseppe Allo
Denver
Siclly
Board of Trade
Groom buncoes priest for worthless marriage fee
In Orange New Jersey Rev John F Boylan told his congregation he was deceived by a young man who paid the marriage fee with a worthless check. The priest said he did not lose the fee but had to pay 1.26 in protest fees on the bad check.
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Orange
N. J
John F. Boylan
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Florida
Shah
Inspecter
Counterfelter
Missouri
Asistant Examiner
Patent Office
Madakras
Wii
Fiat
Buncoes
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