Will of Jacob H. Rogers Endows Metropolitan Museum
The late locomotive builder Jacob H. Rogers leaves approximately eight million dollars to the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York as an endowment fund. Income will be used for art purchases, enhancing the museum's standing. Farmers are advised against prolonged poison use against grasshoppers as birds and game suffer greater losses. An entomologist notes that mosquitoes rarely bite humans, stressing caution to avoid that lone bite.
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Jacob H. Rogers
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Museum
Salvation Army Commander Tucker Becomes U S Citizen
Commander-in-Chief Frederick St. George de la Tour Booth Tucker of the Salvation Army is now a U.S. citizen after five years in the country. He will vote in the next election but will not disclose his chosen ticket. A Pennsylvania coal mine operator blocked striking miners from disrupting non-union workers by erecting a seven foot high barbed wire fence around the pump house and dynamo plant and charging it heavily with electricity.
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Frederick St. George de la Tour Booth Tucker
Salvation Army
United States
Pennsylvania
Austin Dobson resigns after nearly fifty years in civil service
Youthful aspirants to poetry should note that the English poet Austin Dobson earned his living as the head of the fisheries and harbor department of the Board of Trade. He has just resigned after almost half a century of service. A few men win fame as poets, and even fewer can rely on verse to pay the butcher's bill.
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Austin Dobson
Fisheries and Harbor Department
Board of Trade
Boston area to host first camps for consumptives
When weather permits and sites are chosen, near Boston will host the first of several camps for consumptives. Each camp features ten piano box tents in a circle with an open fire center and an eight foot high duck wall, housing a consumptive who will sleep there through winter with only felt blankets, sleeping boots, and a two inch gallon jug of hot water for protection.
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Boston
Philadelphia man escapes crash in leaning tree
Arthur Asker of Philadelphia failed to reach Baltimore as his car veered off the road at eleven miles an hour and, at seventy five, jumped a fence into a leaning tree. The auto lodged forty five feet up the branches. he was unhurt and walked to a farmhouse for help.
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Arthur Asker
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Fasker
Swindle Tactics Target Brooklyn Pharmacists
A Medical Record report details a gang swindling druggists by altering prescriptions. The con involves adding poison to a ready-made mix, prompting the patient’s test results to appear as a near fatal error caused by the pharmacist. Settlements alleged in court range from fifty to two hundred dollars.
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Brooklyn
New President Roosevelt Opens White House Visit
President Theodore Roosevelt walked to the White House from Cowles residence, meeting Secretary Hay and Secretary Gage. A crowd of public figures viewed the new administration favorably, with Senators Elkins, Scott, Pritchard, and Millard among those who called. Roosevelt pledged to be president of all people, not any section, and recalled his army appointments showing cross-state respect.
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Washington
Sept
Roosevelt
White House
Cowles
Hay
Gage
Scott and Elkins
West Virginia
Pritchard
North Carolina
Millard
Nebraska
Burton
Kansas
Heatwale
McCleary and
Stephens
Minnesota
Gibson
Tennessee
Livingstone
Georgia
Dayton
Elkins
Scott
McKinley
Buffalo
Klutz
South
Senator Pritchard
United States
New York
Senator Money
Mississippi
Plot to murder President hatched many months ago
Cleveland, Sept 22. Investigations by Detective Schmunk reveal a plot to assassinate President McKinley may have been laid a year or more before his election. The Czolgosz family in Oregon township figure in the case with a remittance to the assassin from his brother Waldeck. A handkerchief used to conceal the weapon and talks with Socialist papers tie the brothers to violent aims against Rockefeller and the president. Police expect Leon Czolgosz to confess once confronted in Buffalo.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Schmunk
McKinley
Oregon Township
Czolgosz
Waldeck Czolgosz
Tir
Buffalo
Cralge
Waldeck
MacKinley
John D. Rockefeller
Leon
London Papers Criticise Boer War Actions and Leadership
London papers condemn the conduct of the war as the Boers score multiple reverses in South Africa. They cite ambushes near Utrecht and Acton Homes, mass casualties, and captures while the government faces charges of running the war on the cheap and delaying organized effort. The Times criticizes home authorities for financial bias and moral impact on the empire.
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London
Kruger
Dr. Leyds
Roosevelt
South Africa
Lord Kitchener
Utrecht
Gough
Acton Homes
Ladysmith
Natal
Tugela
Joubert
Ital
Cape Colony
Stormberg
the Times
Great Eldora Forest Fire
The Eldora forest blaze in Boulder county rages as exhausted residents abandon hope of full extinguishment. Efforts shift to protecting towns and mining property while Eldora remains under threat from shifting winds. Governor Orman orders deputy wardens to Eldora today.
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Eldora
Denver
Boulder County
Orman
Verdict in Mahany Case in Gunnison Colo
In Gunnison Colorado the court received the jury verdict at 9 oclock this morning finding the defendant Mahany guilty of manslaughter.
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Gunnison
Colo
Peary Will Reach North Pole Says Bridgeman
Herbert Bridgeman secretary of the Peary Arctic Club and the relief party say Peary will depart in April from Cape Heckla to reach the pole, despite dangers faced in earlier expeditions. Mrs Peary and their child accompany the group arriving in New York with plans and notes on the expedition and Cape Henschel as winter base.
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New York
Herbert TL. Bridgeman
The
Peary Arctic Club
Mr. Bridgeman
Peary
Cape Heckla
Bridgeman
Cape Henschel
Readville Trotters Compete for $20000 Purse
Crese defeats The Abbott in Readville Mass as Crescens tops rivals across three of four heats on a perfect day. The event drew about 12 000 spectators with proceeds to charity and no records set as the fastest time barely beat two minutes.
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Readville
Mass
Crescens
Abbott
Thomas W. Lawson
Colorado Notes From The State Fair And Beyond
A roundup of Colorado progress and events including a push to establish a first class hospital at Victor a large number of divorces in Arapahoe county court work on Longmont water works system and the state university at Boulder opening with more students. Also reports on forest fire damage near Eldora Maid of honor selections for Mountain and Plain festival officials surveying Eldora railroad extensions and the Bent County Fair closing in Las Animas with festival plans in Pueblo Denver reactions to McKinley’s death and a list of state humane society agents across counties.
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Victor
Arapahoe
Longmont
State University At
Boulder
Eldora
A. G. Devitt
Denver
Odessa Ross
Kiowa
Elbert County
Mountain and Plain
Bent County
Las Animas
Littleton
Czolgosz
Emma Goldman
Rose Moody
Monte Vista
Rio Grande County
Wet Mountain Valley
Pueblo
Edna Sweeney
Walsenburg
Huerfano County
Colorado
Ash
Ouray
Graham
McEnley
Oliver P. Wiggins
Otficer Wiggins
Grand Union
Canon City
Florence
Coal Creek
Westecliffe
Salida
William Melkinley
Nathaniel Lyon
Glenwood Springs
Eagle
Pitkin
Garfield
D. L. McMurtrie
Emerson
Iowa
Guinn Mountain
Spring Gulch
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Cardiff
Jerome
Colorado Midland Railroad
P. G. Pickerton
Andres
Peter Deldora
David Coller
George Cassenger
Governor Orman Likely to Call an Extra Session
Denver September 21 The Denver News reports Governor Orman and Attorney General Post expect an inevitable special session of the Thirteenth General Assembly to address a new revenue measure and related matters. The call may include the employers liability bill and extended tax collection deadlines for 1901.
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Denver
Denver News
Thirteenth General Assembly
Orman
Post
Supreme Court
Calli Gg
Thatcher
St. Louis Fair Commission
O'Donnell
Ward
General Assembly
Crouter
Senate Journal
Dixon
Pueblo District Court
Trial of Frank Mahany for Shooting Womack in Colorado
Frank Mahany stood trial in Delta County District Court for the Grand Mesa shooting of W. A. Womack. District Attorney McMullin showed a lakes map as eleven witnesses, including Womack, testified. Key witnesses included Dr. Houts and Dr. Hick, with Hinchman detailing the warning to fish and the fatal second shot through Womack’s chest and lungs. Mahany expressed remorse after the incident.
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Gunnison
Colo
Denver
Frank Mahany
W. A. Womack
Grand Mesa
Delta County
Stevens
McMullin
Womack
Samuel B. Houts
Hick
Delta
Surface Creek
Mahany
Frank Hinchman
Warden Mahany
Grand Mesa Lakes
Beaver Dam Lake
Hinehman
Island Lake
Schley inquiry nears end with witness rulings
Washington news item reports the reconvened Schley court of inquiry hearing four witnesses. The day’s key event was the court withdrawing a question asking about Admiral Higginson’s opinion on capturing the Cristobal Colon. Judge Lemly noted precedents and the move is expected to shorten the inquiry’s term. Roosevelt holds first White House cabinet meeting with McKinley gone.
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Washington
Schley
Higginson
Santiago
Machusetts
Cristobal Colon
Sentingo Harbor
Sehley
Advosate Lemly
Evelts
Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
White House
McKinley
Buffalo
Navy Department
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the Register
Lamar
Mattie Helen Beals
Wichita
Kan
Lawton
Oklahoma
el Reno
North Pole
Crese
Ella Naomi Penfold
Burlington
Kit Carson County
J. W. Penfold
Fort Morgan
Canton
State
Harry B. Kerr
State Humane Society
J.H. Ladd
William Wheatley
L. W. Wallace
L. B. Moore
Meekeelas Noland
Greeley
J. TL. Co
Attorney General's Office
State Board of Assessors
Campbell
Chipley Canot
Secretary of State
Court of Appeals
Frank
Trickle
James R. Lamar
Hinchman
Mr. Ball
United States Hatchery
Leadville
Lakes
Ball
Warant
Ienry J. Puchett
Radcliffe
Dewey
Tie
Massachusetts
C. M. Chester
Cincinnati
Thomas N. Wood
Marinerps
Giles B. Harbe
Texas
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