Devastating Paterson Fire Leaves City in Ashes
A great fire swept through Paterson New Jersey on Sunday causing estimated property losses between 7.5 and 10 million dollars. The blaze devastated 25 blocks from Main to Paterson streets with 500 dwellings and 1000 families displaced. Martial law protected streets as governors and state troops aided a massive firefighting effort while factories and silk mills remained intact.
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Paterson
N. J
John Henchcliffe
Main Street
Paterson Street
van Houten
Market Streets
Main, Ellison
Washington and
Paterson Savings Institution
Market
Van
Ellison Street
Prospect Street
Church Street
Second Presbyterian Church
Market Street
Erie Railroad
Sixteenth Avenue
Washington Street
Broadway
Ellison
Jersey City, Hoboken & Paterson Traction Company
van Jleuren Street
Main
van Houten Street
Taft details Philippine commissions salaries and costs
In a Senate Philippines committee session Taft outlined preliminary Philippine expenses including school buildings. He described compensation for commissioners, with initial salaries of 10 to 12 thousand and allowances totaling 15 to 17 thousand, plus his own 20 thousand. He spoke of live-in duties at Malacanan, heavy personal expenses, and lack of other allowances.
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Washington
Philippine Islands
Senate Committee On the Philippines
Taft
United States
Culberson
Malacanan
Manila
Commission
Wright
Ide
The New Navy Cost Totals and Key Vessels
Washington reports the navy has spent 99 803 928 dollars on construction and 9 343 235 dollars on repairs for completed ships. The Kentucky Kearsarge Illinois Wisconsin and Alabama each show 4 000 000 or 3 750 000 authorized expenditures. Among completed vessels the Oregon leads at 6 575 032 dollars followed by the Massachusetts at 6 047 117 and the Maine at 4 677 788.
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Washington
United States
Senate
Secretary of the Navy
Navy Department
Kentucky
Kearsarge
Illinois
Wisconsin
Alabama
Chicago
Atlanta
Boston
Oregon
Massachusetts
Maine
Fire at sea burns three-masted schooner near Cape May
A three masted schooner burned off Cape May New Jersey Monday night. Fire visible from shore lasted from five to nine thirty with crew possibly afloat in small boats among ice. Life saving crews from Cape May Point Cold Spring and Turtle Gut inlets could not reach the vessel before darkness. The ship appeared burned to the waterline and rescue aid was unavailable within two miles at night.
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Cape May
N. J
Delaware Bay
Cape May Point
Cold Spring
Turtle Gut Inlet
Ijce
South American Notes From 19th Century Desk
An India rubber tree gatherer in Brazil yields 16 pounds of juice daily while Argentine gauchos largely eat roast beef with little vegetables. Coffee trees average a pound of berries. Brazil hosts over 1 000 million trees. Atacama’s vast water bed near Chile holds 25 000 000 tons valued at £300 000 000. Peru leads in mining with 2 500 mines employing 70 000 workers extracting gold silver sulphur coal and more. Lima to host a September exposition of machinery powered by alcohol.
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Brazil
Atacama
Chile
Peru
Lima
Detroit Bank Vice President Arrested for Fraud
Vice President Frank C. Andrews of the City Savings Bank was arrested after a state examination showed he overdrawn the account by $914,000 and caused total indebtedness of $1,158,000. Cashier Henry C. Andrews is ill with nervous prostration as the bank faces collapse and hearings set for February 21.
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Detroit
Mich
Frank C. Andrews
City Savings Bank
George L. Maltz
Henry C. Andrews
Fr. C. Andrews
Maltz
Andrews
F. C. Andrews
F.C. Andrews
C. Andrews
F. C. Pingree
RP. C. Andrews
Henry R. Andrews
Christian
Hunt
Detroit Trust Company
Board of Education
Clearing House Association
Bank of Detroit
Amalgamated
Amalgamated Copper
Holland
Grand Rapids
Maybury
George Fowle
World Notes From The East And Australia In 1903
In China the year begins in February and Japan plans an Osaka industrial exhibit in 1903 to study Western products. A giant pearl found near Broome, West Australia may be the world’s largest and valuable. Nile fishes study at South Kensington yields over 9 000 species. New South Wales covers 310 700 square miles with 22 700 000 acres of public reserves and water. it could form five states as large as Iowa.
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China
Japan
Osaka
Broome
West Australia
Natural History Museum
South Kensington
New South Wales
Australia
Commonwealth
Towa
Iowa Senate Passes Railroads Bill And Daily Sessions
A senate bill by Senator Hubbard allows Iowa railroads to transact business and hold or acquire railroad property in other states. A committee rule requires daily senate sessions 10 am to 12 noon except Sundays. Multiple bills target taxes on foreign insurers, railroad notices, and appropriations for counties, hospitals, and historical buildings.
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Des Moines
Senate
Hubbard
Knoxville
St. Louis
Vicksburg
Clarinda
Knoxville Reformatory
Senate Appropriations Committee
Cherokee Insane Hospital
Third Judicial District
Independence
Twenty-seventh General Assembly
Rex King of Carnival Returns to New Orleans
New Orleans observed Rex day with a near halt of business as Rex the carnival king arrived aboard the Ranger landing at Canal Street. A military pageant including the Old Guard of New York and the Burgesses corps of Albany greeted the royal procession. The city buzzed with visitors and a Krewe of Proteus pageant and opera ball capped the night.
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New Orleans
Rex
Ranger
Canal Street
Old Guard of
New York
Burgesses Corps
Albany
Proteus
Fined for Wielking Editor in Ottumwa court case
Ilon I. J. Phillips, the late Democratic nominee for governor, pleaded guilty to kicking Editor Moore over a published Ottumwa Herald article. He was fined 25 dollars.
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Ottumwa
Ilon
I. J. Phillips
Moore
Ottumwa Herald
Hiw
Glasgow University student body counts women at 350
Glasgow University enrolled 2,038 students last term with 350 women among them. The figures highlight gender distribution in the university’s student population.
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Glasgow University
Macaroni Trade and Cork Weights Across Nations
About 16 million pounds of macaroni valued at 500000 dollars are sent from Italy to the United States annually. Cork weighs 15 pounds per cubic foot and is bark of a Spanish oak not true wood. American pine green weighs 44 pounds 12 ounces per cubic foot, seasoned 30 pounds 11 ounces. Jaropolk lost much of his lower jaw in a saber clash with the Turks. Population figures show Great Britain 342, Japan 300, Italy 276, Germany 270, Austria 225, France 187, Hungary 154, Spain 92, United States 22, Russia 15 for land sectioning. Washington boarding house keepers face penalties under a district code for evading lodging bill payments.
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Italy
United States
Jaropolk
Russia
Great Britain
Japan
Germany
Austria
France
Hungary
Spain
Washington
Iowa Gov Considers Death Warrants and Execution Methods
Four men await death in Iowa with warrants set for December 19 1902 January 28 1903 and March 13 1903 Gov Cummins says he will perform his duty if cases reach his desk a committee calls for delaying electrocution and a repeal of capital punishment is discussed George Stanley of Story County seeks a pardon due to a prior repeal and reenactment of the law.
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Iowa
Albert B. Cummins
Albert Phillips
Lewis Brooks
John Sundblad
Marshal Locview
Albert City
Greenville
Clay County
Henry Hartman
Florence Porter
Cherokee
Richard Williams
William Sharper
Buxton
Phillips
Brooks
Hartman
Williams
George Stanley
Story County
Rural Free Delivery Routes Planned Across Iowa Area
Rural free delivery will start March 1 with multiple routes across Ankeny Maxwell Nevada Runnells Swan Winterset Bussey Woodward Grimes and Ridgedale Post Office to be discontinued. Carriers include George Thompson Milan Warner Robert Hawkins Charles Carpenter Guy Wiggins W C Bradley W D Bradley J C Bean C E Sixbury G L Pike and Zella Butler.
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Ankeny
Polk County
George 8. Thompson
Maxwell
Story County
Milan D. Warner
Nevada
Robert Hawkins
Runnells
Andrew Martin
Swan
Marion County
Charles HE. Carpenter
Winterset
Madison County
Guy M. Wiggins
Bussey
W. C. Bradley
W. D. Bradley
Woodward
Dallas County
J.C. Bean
C. E. Sixbury
G. L. Pike
Grimes
Zella Butler
Ridgedale
Width of Iowa highways reduced to fifty feet proposal
Representative William Larrabee argues a bill to cut highway width from 66 to 50 feet will save over 500,000 acres of tilled land, valued at about 25 million dollars, while benefiting farmers and public travel alike. He plans to push the measure through legislative committees citing ease of travel and greater land yield.
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Iowa
William Larrabee
Des Moines
Oldest Master Mason Claims in Iowa Go To Louis Teuscher
Louis Teuscher of Burlington, age 85, claims the title with a 49 year masonic record. He moved to Burlington in 1842 and was made a master mason in Des Moines lodge No. 1 in 1843, the first lodge organized in Iowa. A. P. Berry of New Virginia also claimed 1848 initiation but is outranked by Teuscher.
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Iowa
A. P. Berry
New Virginia
Louis Teuscher
Burlington
Teuscher
Des Moines
Towa
Clermont residents raise fund for Civil War monument
The people of Clermont are building a monument to local Civil War soldiers. Women lead the fundraising with a strong start. Ex-Gov Larrabee is expected to contribute a large sum to complete the project after the community raises as much as possible.
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Clermont
Larrabee
Chair and desk from Washington house of representatives
National Memorial University in Mason City adds a chair and desk once used in the Washington house of representatives to its historical relics collection. The pieces were procured by Hon. G. N. Tangen, Iowa's Fourth District congressman.
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National Memorial University
Mason City
House of Representatives
Washington
G. N. Tangen
Iowa
Congress
Judge Upholds Death Sentence in Williams Case at Buxton
Judge Dewey overruled the motion for new trial and affirmed the death sentence for Richard Williams for the murder of William Sharper at Buxton on December 1901. Execution is set for March 13, 1902, the first death sentence in the Sixth Judicial circuit.
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Dewey
Oskaloosa
Richard Williams
Williams
William Sharper
Buxton
Sixth Judicial Circuit
State board shows Iowa spend supports local business
The state board of control reports that about 86 to 90 percent of funds for state institutions stay in Iowa. Purchases outside Iowa totaled 84 408 dollars, with 20 644 dollars spent through Iowa branch houses, and salaries paid to Iowa residents amounting to 100 616 dollars.
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State Board of Control
Iowa
Towa
Lowwa
C.ccesenes
Railways eye cut offs to shorten routes in Iowa
Rock Island plans a northwestern Iowa cut off by absorbing the Marshalltown and Dakota line from Frazier to Gowrie and extending to Story City. Iowa Central might run parallel to Marshalltown with a Story City purchase. A Marshalltown to Marengo link would shorten Rock Island business to Chicago by 55 miles. Great Western considers a Marshalltown to Dyersville cut off, cutting to Chicago by 50 miles and challenging Milwaukee and Rock Island for Kansas City traffic.
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Rock Island
Iowa
Marshalltown
Chicago
Great Western
Dyersville
Dubuque
Oelwein
Dubuque & Southwestern
Milwaukee
Kansas City
Verdict in breach of promise suit awarded in Onawa
Mary Christiansen sued the estate of her deceased fiancé Frank Crum for breach of promise after he postponed their marriage before his death last summer. The jury awarded $6,000 of the $7,000 asked, noting Crum alone caused the failure to marry in a friendly suit.
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Onawa
Mary Christiansen
Frank Crum
Crum
Trustees Elected at State Universities and Colleges
Regents of the State University State Normal School and Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts announce trustees. Appointments include C B Pickett Alonzo Abernethy Joseph OH. Ailen P I Holbrook T F B Hanley to unexpired terms. Normal School adds McNider McIntire Osborn. College picks Alexander McElroy Wilson. Morning side families report cooperative kitchen plan with 2.25 weekly per person covers provisions cooking and rent.
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Senate
The
State University
State Normal School
State Agricultural College
C .B. Pickett
Alonzo Abernethy
Joseph OH. Ailen
P. I. Holbrook
Tleventhy Thomas FB. Hanley
M. A. Higley
State Normal School— Co
H. McNider
Cerro Goréo
W. A. McIntire
Wapello
B. F. Osborn
Greene
P. D. Rose
Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
E. A. Alexander
W. C. McElroy
James Hi. Wilson
Rockford Reporter Threatens Action Over Iowa Notes Incident
J. A. Melain, a 31 year old Rockford shorthand reporter, says he will file criminal charges against the Sioux City Iowa student leaders and as many as 400 students identified, accusing them of compelling him to burn notes from the Iowa preliminary to the Minnesota debate and alleging Minnesota spying.
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J. A. Melain
Rockford
Iowa
Sioux City
Minnesota
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