Prohibition in the South Considered a Failure
St Louis visitors recount Citronelle Alabama as a strict prohibition town where doctors refused to prescribe alcohol and druggists did not fill prescriptions. Landau cites bottles with odd labels and notes widespread drinking under prohibition. Oklahoma Governor Haskell weighs in that prohibition will soon block liquor sales in his state.
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Alabama
Mr. Landau
St. Louis
Oklahoma
Charles N. Haskell
Planters
Chicago Mayors Moves To Curb Pluto Crat Jokes On Stage
Chicago officials weigh legal steps to halt stage humor targeting plutocrats like John D. Rockefeller and J P Morgan. Mayor Busse endorses action after a Deering Coal Co letter urging an end to such jests, with plans to notify theater managers to curb vaudeville remarks.
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John D. Rockefeller
J. P. Morgan
Chauncey M. Depew
Chicago
Busse
Brundage
Deering
Deering Coal Company
Busse Indorsed
Judge Protest Met As Woman Strips In Court
In Queens County Circuit at Long Island City Judge Humphrey returns a 15 month old baby to Ruth Ettrick. Marie Ackerman, the caregiver, objects by disrobing in the courtroom, declaring the clothes she made belong to her. The judge invites her to chambers before she can act further.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Queens County
Long Island City
Humphrey
Ruth Ettrick
Marie Uckerman
Last Survivor of Light Brigade Dies at 90
Latara Colo March 19 Wm Nelms aged 90 who claimed to be the last survivor of the noble six hundred at Balaklava is dead at his home in Manassa southeast of here
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Latara
Colo
Wm. Nelms
Balaklava
Manassa
Here
Colorado bank closes its doors
Aspen, March 19. The People’s National Bank of Aspen was closed by order of the comptroller after officers failed to raise 25,000 to cover capital, a loan of 40,000 having been made by a former cashier Pumphrey, now under arrest. The bank reports 26,000 capital and about 14,000 cash on hand. Cashier Robey says debts can be paid in full.
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Aspen
Colo
People's National Bank
Pumphrey
Benjamin Robey
Theank
Situation in Hayt worsens as foreign ships arrive
Port au Prince reports a grave mood with the British cruiser Indefatigable and the German cruiser Remen arriving this morning. The article notes restraint toward foreigners and a tranquil surface despite the tense setup in Hayt.
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Port Au Prince
Remen
Grave Haytian crisis prompts U.S. sail to Port Au Prince
Washington reports the Haytian government bars refugees from leaving and the cruiser Des Moines is ordered to Port Au Prince from Guantanamo with the gunboat Hagle to protect American interests. Paris notes a critical foreigner situation with executions and feared reprisals including plots to arrest and execute armed conspirators.
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Des Moines
Port Au Prince
Guantanamo
Hagle
Paris
Huyti
Carteron
M. Lecompte
Interior
Temps
3500 Brewery Workers Strike in St Louis
In St Louis on March 19 thirty five hundred unionized workers in local breweries were ordered to strike following a factional split in the beer drivers locality. The International United Brewery Workers of America cited a threatened membership card requirement and demanded reinstatement for 450 discharged drivers after a split over local headquarters. A sympathetic strike by 800 bottlers and handlers followed.
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St. Louis
International United Brewery Workers of America
Reliable
International
Michigan U Boys In A Merry Riot
Ann Arbor reports a college riot with about two thousand students clashing with police at the Star Theater. Windows, doors and a piano were destroyed, the fire department was used, and several officers were injured as Mayor Henderson sought guard help that did not arrive.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
University of Michigan
Star Theater
Ann Arbor College
Henderson
Fire Department
National Guard
Angell
University
Dean Hutchins
Law Department
Planing Mill Wrecked by Explosion in Grandon Wis
The planing mill of George Kemp in Grandon Wisconsin was completely wrecked and burned today by an explosion. Three men were killed in the blast.
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Grandon
Wis
George Kemp
Sperry to Command Fleet After Evans Request
Washington dispatch reports Admiral Sperry will command the battleship fleet around the world at Admiral Evans request. Sperry to bring the fleet from San Francisco to the Atlantic via the Suez canal after Evans leaves command. Secretary Metcalf announced the detail today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sperry
Washington
Mail Car Robber Steals Strong Sacks On Transcontinental Train
A bandit posing as a postal inspector boarded the westbound Oriental Limited at Bonners Ferry and overpowered two clerks aboard. He bound them, rifled registered mail, and rode the train for nearly five hours reaching Spokane where six sacks were opened, blood on the mail, and bloodhounds later tracked a scent. The suspects fled after disarming the clerks and leaving one bound in a closet.
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Bepokane
Wash
Bonners Ferry
Spokane
Ife
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Junction
C. W. Bennett
John Nystrun
Benjamin Stumpf
Nystrun
Nystrinon
Stumpf
Nystrin
Iit
Coast Points
Sand Point
Bonner
Perry
Nyatrun
Nast Masterworks Fetch $1200 at Auction
In New York March 13 a Nast auction fetched high prices for his major works. A head of Christ topped the sale at 1200 dollars, a family member failing at 700. The winner paid 2000 intent to cover all bids, while other pieces like Galatea and Garibaldi portraits sold for 125 and 120 respectively.
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New York
Thomas Nast
Christ
Andersson Auction Company
Fifth Ave
Mary Anderson
Garibaldi
Robert E. Lee
Washtub Forces Girl to Miss Caiite Fanchier
In Pueblo Colorado March 18 Miss Caiite Fanchier was seized by her mother just before a planned wedding to L W Standley taken to the kitchen forced to work at the washtub all night guarded by two brothers. The mother says the girl is under age and warns Standley to stay away or be shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pueblo
Colo
L. W. Standley
Cai- Ite Fanchier
Stanley
Indians Relinquish Sioux Lands to Open 1.1 Million Acres
Major McLaughlin reaches a treaty with Standing Rock Indians transferring about 1 100 000 acres in North and South Dakota to settlement. The loss leaves roughly 1 5 million acres for the tribe. Open lands held by Nelson Morris and Walker will be leased to whites. entry expected in 1 year or more.
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Dakotas
Wakpain
S. C
McLaughlin
North
South Dakota
Standing Hook
Nelson Morris
Chicago Packer
Walker
Council Bluffs
Red River
Missouri
Marshal
Standing Rock Reservation
Major McGlaughlin
Congress
Major MoeLaughlin
West
Supreme Court
Major Mclaughlin
Standing Rock
Packers Must Pay 15000 Fines for Rebates
Washington reports that Armour Swift Morris and Uudhahy packing companies were fined 15000 each by a Missouri court for receiving rebates under the Elkins Act. The U S Supreme Court upheld the verdict, applying the act to transport and both shipper and carrier, with Burlington Railway also affirmed. Justice Brewer dissented on contract grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Armour, Swift, Morris Andudahy Packing Companies
Liem
I Kansas City
Wan
Owel
United States Circuit Court
Western District of Missouri
Supreme Court of the United States
Justice Day
Burlington Railway Company
Brewer
Peckhar
Missouri Court
Kansas City
Washington Dispatch
United States District Court
Smith McPherson
Burlington Railroad
George S. Thomas
New York
J. BR. Taggart
Thomas
Taggart
McPherson
New Companies Organized in South Dakota
South Dakota reports multiple new corporations filing articles of incorporation last week. Firms include Western Real Estate in Pierre, Automatic Roller Coaring in Pierre, and North Coast Lumber in Pierre, with capitalizations from 1,000 to 31,000,000 dollars.
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Wallace
News Printing and Publishing Company
Philip
Sioux Falls Fruit Company
Sioux Falls
United States Snow Melting and Machine Company
Huron
American and Quebec
Comany
North Coast Lumr Company
Pierre
Tayra Development Company
Duende Mining and Development Company
Farmers Elevator Company
Bridgewater
Aberdeen Produce Company
Aberdeen
Farmers Mania) Telephone Company
Sully County
Blunt
Woodman Hall Company
Carlyle
Wyoming and Rock Bprings Coal Mining Company
Custer City
Western Guarantea Company
Deadwood
Floods Threaten Northwest Across Oregon and Washington
Portland reports the Pacific northwest facing widespread flood damage after days of heavy rain. Rivers swell, bridges washed out, tracks under water, and landslides impede travel. Walla Walla sees Mill Creek flooding and business destruction. Pendleton also heavy. A new storm off Vancouver Island is forecast to bring more rain.
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Portland
Ore
Pacific Northwest
Northwest
Walla Walla
Mill Creek
Pendleton
Vancouver Island
Tragic halt to Egypt's first auto races
The first automobile races in Egypt end in tragedy near Matareyeh as a cushion collapse causes a car to veer into spectators. A policeman and two onlookers die instantly while 14 bystanders are badly injured. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught and the khedive witnessed the disaster.
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Cairo
Egypt
Khedive
Connaught
Malta
Mediterranean
Matareyeh
Heliopolis
Menzalch
Bauez Canal
Duke and Duchess of Connaught
Invites Friends In Then Hangs Himself in Winona
In Winona Minnesota on March 18 William Estey 65 a wealthy resident hanged himself from a tree near his home after inviting friends to an evening gathering. He left the house at midnight saying he would return in a few minutes and did not. His body was found at daybreak ten rods from the house. Ill health is listed as the cause.
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Winona
Minn
William Estey
Estey
Census Shows Large Unemployed in Providence
Providence March 18 Police complete a census of the unemployed finding about 1,000 idle residents in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
Outlaws Turn Tables On Pursuing Posse
Coffeyville Kansas March 18 three members of the Ochelata posse encountered Tyre bank robbers at a creek bank eight miles southwest of Ochelata. The robbers forced the posse to surrender rifles and pistols and took one horse before allowing the men to depart. The bandits then fled toward the Osage hills. A 100 man posse has gone toward Big Heart to try and surround them.
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Coffeyville
Kan
Ochelata
Andy Creek
Osage Hills
Big Heart
Oklo
Farmers' league appeals for city workers to Lancaster fields
Lancaster county farmers urgent plea seeks unemployed city residents to move to the country for work. The Lancaster Farmers' League asks Washington bureau of labor and immigration to direct able bodied immigrants to Lancaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Armers’ League
Lancaster County
Bureau of Labor and Immigration
Washington
Brewery Workers Seek Free Beer and Higher Wages
Chicago March 18 Brewers union members demanded unlimited free beer with a distributor and called for a $2 weekly wage increase. Delegates approved the core demands while balking at the wage raise to back the endorsement of other demands.
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Chicago
Chicago Federation of Labor
Forsakes the Stage to Be Evangelist
Washington report says Robert L Downing leaves a 30 year stage career to devote himself to evangelism after a Rhode Island Avenue Methodist revival led by Rev. John M Gill. He is urged to conduct services at Ryland Methodist Church in southeast Washington and prepares under Dr Gill.
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Washington
Robert L Downing
Rhode Island Avenue Methodist Protestant Church
John M. Gil
Downing
Ryland Methodist Episcopal Church
Gill
Gillette to Die in Electric Chair for 1906 Murder
Albany reports Governor Hughes will not intervene to delay Chester Gillette of Cortland, condemned for the July 1906 murder of Grace Brown at Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks. execution to occur the week starting March 30.
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Albany
N. Y
Hughes
Chester Gillette
Cortland
Grace Brown
Big Moose Lake
Adirondacks
Expedition of relief vessel is without result
On board the S S Yankton Acca pulse Mexico March 17 marked by a signal pole erected by a solitary man the point on Indefatigable Island where Frederick Jeffs an American sailor made his last appeal for succor has been found by Lieutenant Gherardi commanding the Yankton and his rescue party. Despite guns rockets searchlights and native guides none of the efforts located Jeffs or his body. The expedition was organized after R B Jones American vice consul at Guayaquil informed Washington of Jeffs stranding. Jeffs 29 years old has a sister Mrs Henry Claridge in South Norwalk Conn and parents in Victoria B C.
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1. S. S. Yankton
Accapulse
Mexico
Frederick Jeffs
W. R. Gherardi
Pacific
Alexandria
Albemarle Island
Wad Jeffs
Gherardt
Gherardi
Chatham Island
Galapagos
Jiefm
Falot Ray
Sope
Guayaquil
Ecuador
New Castle
Australia
Panama
Jeffs
Kiven
Kat
Yankton
United States
State Department
Washington
R. B. Jones
Navy Department
Evans
Callao
Magdalena Bay
Galapagos Group
San Cristobal
Henry %. Claridge
South Norwalk
Conn
Lve
Victoria
B. C
Amendment to meat inspection law proposed in House bill
Washington March 17 An amendment to the meat inspection law is proposed in a bill by Representative Haugen of Town It requires labels on cans pots tins or other receptacles containing meat or meat products declaring their contents when packed Haugen will have a hearing before the House agriculture committee soon.
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Washington
Haugen
House Committee On Agriculture
Copper Shows Advance
New York copper markets report all grades advancing half a cent per pound today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
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Leo A. Landau
Citronelle
Ala
Light Brigade
Colorado Bank
Hayt
AU Serene
Michigan
Boin
Hichwaymen
Packers
Supreme Court of United States
S. D
Pursui.g Posse
Evangelist
Gillette
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