Tragic North Collinwood School Fire Death Toll Surges
Reports from Cleveland indicate the North Collinwood school fire will exceed two hundred dead. Searchers probe the basement as officials blame unsafe construction and single entrance. Janitor alerted officials before alarm. legal battles loom over funeral arrangements.
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Ky Ilearst
North Collinwood
Tme Laundred
Harris
Burke
Hearst News
Cleveland
Eletter
United Press
Ohio
New York Lawyer Vidaver Arrested On Extortion Charge
Nathan A. Vidaver, former special deputy attorney general, was arrested in New York after allegedly attempting to extort 3500 from William R. Montgomery, former Hamilton Bank president. He claims the money was a retainer unrelated to his official duties. bail set at 3000 pending a hearing.
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New York
Nathan A. Vidaver
Kissena Park
Queens County Grand Jury
New York City Railway
William R. Montgomery
Hamilton Bank
Vidaver
Democratic-Independence League
Supreme Bench
Court of General Sessions
Independence League
Montgomery
Attorney General’s Office
Jackson
Astor House
Jerome
Herman
Ce Centre Street
Moses H. Grocaman
Vidater
Paper trust origins spark tariff debate in Congress
In Washington, Mr. Hitchcock accused the Ways and Means Committee of aiding industry trusts by shaping the Dingley tariff for print paper. He linked paper, lumber, steel schedules to trusts and cited publishers warnings against a wood pulp duty. He said the aim was to crown a national print paper monopoly and raise prices.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Committee On Ways and Means
Jinder
Paper “Trust
Lumber “Trust
Steel “Trust
Steel Schedule
Payne
New York
Ways and Means
Internaional Power Company
United States
America
Legislation progress and local bills advance in legislature
Annapolis March 5. Delegate Marrlow introduces a pardons board bill with governor appointees and staff, including three members and five parole officers. funding set at 19,500 annually for two years. The commission on indeterminate sentences backs the measure. Endowood hospital seeks 20,000 yearly for two years. Cumberland charter bill passes the House along with a water works loan bill for Galland. A woodgate dam proposal is referred to the Corporations committee. Knebel seeks liquor free lunch restrictions with sanctions for noncompliance. Also reports a fatal neck injury from a droved altercation in Dunbar.
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Annapolis
Marriow
Ety
Te Commission
Warfield
Endowood
Henry Barton Jacobs
Victor G. Bloede
Finance Committee
Endowood Hospital
Stump
City of
Cumberland
Green
Oalland
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Committee On Corporations
Knebel
Baltimore
Maryland Senate Advances 5 Miller Road Bill in First Reading
Governor Crothers signed Cumberland mill race bill and a $5,000,000 State road measure that cleared the Senate for its first reading. Senator Shannon led a delay effort but was met with unanimous support for the differential page resolution.
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iSénate
State Road
Bull Will
Shannon
Annapolis
Crothers
Cumberland Mill
Shannony Soi
Senate
Murder of Cumberland lawyer's son at Darrington smelter
Jesse Benson Price, 36, son of William M. Price of Pittsburgh, was murdered at a Darrrington Washington smelter. He served as president and manager of Pittsburg Gold Mountain Mining Co. A telegram from his wife provided the motive hint about trouble with a workman. The Pittsburgh father planned to bring the body home.
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Pittsburg
Cumberland
Washi
Jesse Benson Price
William M. Price
Lehigh Avenue
East End
Darrington
Wash
Pittsburg Gold Mountain Mining Company
John
Jess
Price
Edith Fitzhugh
George B. Fitzhugh
Braddock
Western University of Pennsylvania
United States Engineers
Havana
Illinois Central
Jesse Korns
Eulah Little
Ruth Palmer
Palmer
Littles
Justice Stocker
Jesse
Time the Place and the Girl Charms Cumberland Crowd
The Maryland Theatre hosted The Time the Place and the Girl last night with a strong company and an unusually attractive chorus. Audiences called it more than ordinarily excellent and very entertaining, comparing it to a sanatorium setting for its humor.
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Maryland
Cumberland
Head of match explodes setting woman ablaze in kitchen
Mrs. Mary Froelich a 55 year old widow on Knox street suffered serious burns after the head of a struck match flew off igniting her fascinator and clothes. Neighbors Nick Triller and Wilson Brant aided her until medical help arrived and she was taken to hospital. The accident occurred early morning and she has a son George. She is related to druggist Charles Stark.
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Mary Froelich
Knox Street
New Soldiers Enlistment Opens at Baltimore Street Station
A new batch of recruits for the army is due tomorrow. Major Huxford is expected this evening. Applications will be received by the recruiting sergeant until nine oclock tonight at the recruiting station 39 Baltimore street.
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Huxford
Baltimore Street
Real estate bargains offered on various properties
For sale a lot with a house or it for six hundred and Atty dollars. House rents for 7 dollars a month. New 5 room house on Necessity Street for 1000 1000 down with easy monthly payments. 40 foot lot on Browning street next to engine house for 550. North Meshanic street lot near Bedford street for 950. Hotel on North Mechanic Street with 20 rooms remodeled and money maker priced at 4500. Special low prices on several brick and frame houses including 44 Mechanic street 5 Ann street near Park 41 Hanover street 87 Baltimore avenue Cumberland street.
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Columbia Avenue I
Hays
Necessity Street
Browning Street
S. Mechanic Street
Ann Street
Park
Hanover Street
Baltimore Avenue
Cumberland Street
For Rent Ads Fit City Real Estate Listings
For Rent notices advertise a groom house on Woodside avenue at 11 dollars monthly and an office on Dilley street near Liberty at 10 dollars monthly. The ad promotes selling real estate and lots through Otanzer the hustling real estate man.
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Groom
Woodside Avenue
Dilley Street
Liberty
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