Rockefeller Gifts Boost Education Fund To Fifty Million
New York reports John D. Rockefeller pledged 32 million dollars to the General Education Board, aiming to raise total gifts to 50 million. The donation brings Rockefeller’s education gifts to 79 million, with prior support to the University of Chicago Rush Medical College and other colleges. other major benefactors include Carnegie Stanford Rhodes and Widener.
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New York
General Education Board
John D. Rockefeller
Wallace Buttrick
Frederick T. Gates
George Foster Peabody
Robert C. Qogden
J. D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
University of Chicago
Rush Medical College
Andrew Carnegie
Leland Stanford
Stanford University
Cecil Rhodes
P. A. BG. Widener
Memorial Training School For
Stephen Girard
Girard College
George Peabody
William Marsh Rice
Marshall Field
D. B. Fayerweather
Marshall Field of
Chicago
Field Columbian Museum
Engineer Dead In Pennsylvania Railroad Crash
The Congressional Limited train from Washington to New York barreled through Philadelphia at high speed Wednesday night. Engineer Joseph Toms was found dead at the throttle with head crushed, fireman Harry Michner discovering him after noticing the abnormal speed near West Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
Congressional
Pennsylvania Railroad
Washington
New York
Joseph Toms
West Philadelphia
Harry Michner
Michner
Toms
Fairmount Park
North Philadelphia
Infernal machine injures Paterson justice of the peace
Justice of the Peace Robert Cortese was severely wounded in his Paterson office by an explosion from an infernal machine sent by express. He died at midnight as the office lay wrecked and the blast was heard blocks away. Cortese had aided police in capturing Italian criminals recently.
Land Frauds In California Spark Federal Inquiry
Acting on presidential orders, interior inspector Thomas B. Neuhausen and State Mineralogist Lewis E. Aubury have uncovered large land fraud schemes in California. The probe is sweeping and targets wealth and influence, with criminal prosecutions expected.
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San Francisco
Roosevvelt
Thomas B. Neuhausen
Interior Department
Lewis E. Aubury
California
Jim Crow Bill Cleared Missouri Senate in Party Vote
In Jefferson City Missouri the Jim Crow bill passed the senate by a 20 to 11 party line vote with Democrats in support and Republicans opposing.
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Missouri
Jefferson City
Senate
Congressmen Elect Favrot Indicted for Murder
Baton Rouge Democratic congressman elect George K Favrot was indicted by a grand jury on a murder charge for shooting Dr Harry Aldrich a leading physician in Baton Rouge.
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Baton Rouge
George K. Favrot
Wriday
Harry Aldrich
Miners Entombed at Wanamie Colllery No 19
Seven miners are entombed at Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Company No 19 colliery in Wanamie Pennsylvania and fellow workers say little chance remains for rescue.
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Wilkesbarre
Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Company
Wanamie
Topeka Merchant Dies Aboard Denver Steamer
Warren M. Crosby of Topeka Kansas died aboard the Mallory line steamer Denver Thursday. He was 51 years old and the death was learned through a wireless message received in the city.
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Topeka
New York
Warren M. Crosby
Kan
Mallory Line
Denver
Crosby
Egan Resigns KC Depot Post to Lead South American Rail
John M. Egan, president of the Union Depot Co. of Kansas City, resigns his post with a $15,000 salary and will manage a South American railroad company.
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Kansas City
John M. Egan
Union Depot Company of
Russian Governor Fatally Shot at Penza Theater
Governor Alexandrovsky of Penza was shot as he left a theater by a young man who also killed the theater manager’s assistant chief of police and a policeman before killing himself. The assassin, whose identity remained unknown, used poisoned bullets. Alexandrovsky was a Red Cross field head in the Russo Japanese War and Russian commissioner to the St Louis World’s Fair.
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Penza
Russia
A. Alexandrovsky
M. Alexandrovsky
Red Cross
Japan
Far East
Harbin
Prince Vassilitchkoff
Alexandrovsky
Oliver bids Panama project after White House talks
Washington reports W J Oliver the lowest bidder for the Panama Canal construction filed his completed bid with the Isthmian Canal Commission on the last day of grace after a White House conference with the president and Secretary Taft. Oliver has enlisted capitalists and formed a corporation to undertake the work if awarded the contract as examination of all bids proceeds.
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Washington
W. J. Oliver
Panama Canal
Taft
Panama Construction Company
Isthmian Canal Commission
White House
Oliver
Chicago Council Passes Car Ordinances After Night Session
The Chicago City Railway and Chicago Railways settlement ordinances were approved by the city council in a marathon session, 56 to 13, at 3:50 am. The measures push for improved street car service and leave the voters to decide at the mayoralty election despite Mayor Dunne's expected veto.
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Chicago
Chicago City Railway Company
Chicago Railways Company
Dunne
Minneapolis Hotel Man Dies
Ira H. Shattuck, for 17 years part owner of the Nicollet hotel in Minneapolis, a leading midwestern hotel man, died here Friday.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Iira H. Shattuck
Nicollet
Middle West
King Oscar to Abdicate on June 6
Stockholm reports a high level statement that King Oscar intends to abdicate in favor of Crown Prince Gustaf. The date fixed for the royal action is June 6, coinciding with the king's golden wedding anniversary.
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Oscar
Stockholm
Gustaf
Ex Gov Leslie Dies at 88 in Helena Home
Helena Montana ex governor Preston H Leslie died at his home Thursday morning aged 88 He served as governor of Kentucky and as territorial governor of Montana authorities said Leslie long held political influence in the region and was remembered for his service to both states
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Helena
Mont
Preston H. Leslie
Mir. Leslie
Kentucky
Territory
Montana
Pioneer Kansan J K McLean Dies at Florence
Florence Kansas J K McLean a pioneer Kansan died at his home on Wednesday aged 64 years He served in the Civil War as a captain and later became a major in the regular army.
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Florence
Kan
J. K. McLean
Boiler Explodes On Lehigh Valley Locomotive
In Boston Pa between Fernwood and Neshanic a locomotive boiler exploded injuring two men and killing William Mesher. authorities investigated and the incident disrupted railroad service briefly.
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Boston
Lehigh Valley
Fernwood
Neshanic
William Mesher
Train wreck near German Valley kills three in Stephenson county
The Omaha fast mail on the Great Western railway derailed at German Valley 96 miles from Chicago. Three persons died and four were seriously injured as four cars left the track at speed 60 mph. The engine overturned into a grain elevator, burying crew and mail clerks amid grain.
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Rockford, Jr
Omaha
Great Western Railway
German Valley
Stephenson County
Chicago
Great Western
Martin Cline
Edinburg in Distress Appeals for Fuel Aid
Inter state commerce commission received an urgent appeal from Edinburg North Dakota to address imminent suffering as grocers run low on supplies and no freight or mail has moved for weeks. Dispatch notes coal has been on the road since October and two cars arrived in six weeks after repeated appeals.
Deep Waterway Scheme Beaten in House Vote
Advocates of a 14 foot Mississippi channel from Chicago to the Gulf faced defeat in the house as the river and harbor bill moved to stand by the committee recommendation. The amendment drew 43 votes in favor to 145 against, ending the push amid extensive speeches.
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Washington
Chicago
St. Louis
Gulf
House
Friends
Wanamaker Country House Burned Near Philadelphia
Lyndhurst the country home of John Wanamaker at Jenkintown near Philadelphia was destroyed by fire Friday night. Loss estimated at $750,000 with extensive damage to the estate.
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Wanamaker
Philadelphia
Lehigh Valley Train Derailed Near Hutchins Crossing
A Lehigh Valley passenger train derailed after spreading rails at a curve near Hutchins crossing in Ithaca New York. Four cars left the tracks and several passengers were injured.
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Lehigh Valley
Ithaca
N. Y
Hutchins Crossing
Board Orders Comprehensive Revision of Freight Rates
Des Moines Iowa at the close of Thursday's hearing on livestock rates the state board of railroad commissioners ordered a complete revision of all freight schedules in force in the state.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
France Honors E P Allis Jr with Legion of Honor
Paris announces Edward Phelps Allis Jr has been conferred a knighthood in the Legion of Honor for his research in science. The recognition highlights his scientific contributions and ties to Milwaukeee.
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Milwanukee
Paris
France
Edward Phelps Allis, Jr
Allis
Science
Minneapolis Lawyer Appointed Porto Rican Revenue Collector
Frank P. Nantz of Lane & Nantz in Minneapolis has been appointed collector of revenue of Porto Nien with headquarters in San Juan at a salary of $2,500 per year.
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Minneapolis
Ice Trust Evidence Missing In Albany Case
Albany reports that evidence used to charge the American Ice company with monopoly dissolution vanished from the attorney general’s office. Attorney General William S. Jackson announced the loss on Friday night and released affidavits showing parts of the papers were missing late December, known to staff before Mayer’s retirement but not to Jackson until January.
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Albany
N. Y
Julius Mayer
American Ice Company
William S. Jackson
Mayer
Jackson
Colorado Senator Ousted for Bribe Vote
Senator Richard W. Morgan of Boulder county was expelled from the Colorado Senate by a 29 to 1 vote. A committee found him guilty of accepting a bribe, based on his March 1905 statement that he received 750 dollars from James M. Herbert and Daniel Sullivan in exchange for voting for Alva Adams in the Peabody Adams race.
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Denver, Col
Richard W. Morgan
Boulder County
State Senate
Senate
Morgan
James M. Herbert
Daniel Sullivan
Alva Adams
Seven Die in Northwestern Wreck Near Des Moines
Des Moines reports seven dead and about a score injured after a Northwestern wreck in city limits Monday night. Victims include Olaf Anderson Ole Anderson Peter Peelstrom Peter Axner Samuel Drew Carl Anderson and Andrew Lundquist. No blame assigned. A misaligned frog caused rear cars to derail the caboose. Misses Horsburg and Rhoser, school teachers, were burned and disfigured but expected to recover.
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Des Moines
Northwestern
Olaf Anderson
Ole Anderson
Peter Peelstrom
Peter Axner
Samuel Drew
Carl Anderson
Andrew Lundquist
Horsburg
Rhos
Wabash and Milwaukee Seek Accounting in Des Moines Union Suit
A federal suit over an $8 million Des Moines Union Railroad property claims the Des Moines Union is trustee for the Milwaukee and Wabash to be the beneficial owners. Plaintiffs allege overreach, improper improvements, and unapproved salaries totaling $90,000 plus ongoing payroll from surplus earnings of $125,000. An immediate accounting is sought.
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Wabash and
Milwaukee Roads
Des Moines
Des Moines Union Railroad
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Wabash
Des Moines Union Railroad Company
Milwaukee and Wabash
F. M. Hubbell
Milwaukee
Des Moines Union Company
Des Moines Union
The
Hubbell
Supreme Court upholds life sentence for Iowa wife killer
Ma thias Baldes of Sioux county must spend the rest of his life in the state penitentiary after the Iowa Supreme Court affirms the district court verdict. Baldes beat and stabbed his wife after a farm home quarrel while their 14 year old son and daughter watched in horror.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Supreme Court
Mathias Baldes
Sioux County
District Court
Justice Weaver
Baldes
Nourse
Detectives Seek Lynchers in Cullen Lynching Case
Detectives nationwide pursue mob participants in the James Cullen lynching after Governor Cummins posted rewards. Floyd county reports masked figures. rumors place detectives in disguises as tramps and peddlers. The grand jury adjourned and will reconvene next month to consider indictments if evidence emerges.
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Charles City
Cummins
James Cullen
Floyd County
Girls School Receives $1.5 Million from Wallace Andrews Estate
The appellate division of the New York Supreme Court awarded more than 1,500,000 from the estate of Wallace Andrews, a Standard Oil figure who perished with his wife in a fire in April 1899, to the Andrews Institute for Girls of Willoughby, Ohio.
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New York
Wallace Co. Andrews
Standard Oil
Supreme Court
Andrews Institute For Girls of
Willoughby, O
Cattle and Sheep Saved as Winter Storm Rages
Rock Springs reports a warm chinook wind saving thousands of head of cattle and sheep from death by starvation and freezing after two weeks of snow and ice on the ranges.
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Rock Springs
Wye
Kansas City Poet Novelist Col Warder Dies at 50
Col W Warder died at his home in Kansas City from pneumonia at age 50. He was a poet and novelist and authored works on science. he built the Auditorium theater in Kansas City.
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Kansas City
Col. W. Warder
French Torpedo Boat Explodes at Lorient
An explosion on torpedo boat No. 339 of the French navy in Lorient on Friday morning left nine sailors dead and two injured.
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Lorient
France
Death of Prof William C Pickett Noted Medical Authority
Philadelphia reports the death of Prof William C Pickett a leading medical authority on nervous diseases and a longtime faculty member at the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia in the United States.
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William C. Pickett
Philadelphia
William cC. Pickett
United States
Medico-Chirurgical College
Emperor confirms Nebogatoff sentence in naval court
In St. Petersburg the emperor approves the court-martial sentences for Vice Admiral Nebogatoff and allied naval officers. Nebogatoff is to be interned in a fortress for ten years.
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Nebogatoff
St. Petersburg
Seven Die in Northwestern Wreck Near Des Moines
A coal train derailed at the north edge of Des Moines injuring many and killing seven. Two more are missing and believed dead, with ten or more seriously hurt. Conductor Harlan and brakeman Herbert Hudson were imprisoned in a caboose with two school teachers.
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Northwestern
Des Moines
Des
Harlan
Herbert Hudson
Personal Crisis Report at Breakfast in Vinton
J A Culbertson, a noted grain dealer, killed himself at home during breakfast. He placed a .38 revolver to his temple and fired, death instantaneous as family awoke to the scene. The act lacked any satisfactory motive.
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Vinton
J. A. Culbertson
Father and Daughter Burned While Extinguishing Fire
Mondamin reports a 14 year old girl and her father, George Purcell, suffered severe burns when the girl's skirt caught fire while tending a blaze. The father rushed to help, and both were badly burned before the flames were put out.
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Mondamin
George Purcell
State Board orders general revision of Iowa freight schedules
Des Moines report says the Iowa board of railroad commissioners unanimously ordered a comprehensive overhaul of freight rate schedules and classifications after the livestock hearing revealed sharp disputes between farmers and railroads. The work will begin with ten days notice and may take months as old systems dating to 1889 are reexamined.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
W. L. Eaton
Capitol
Commission
Mrs West on Trial in Des Moines Murder Hearing
Miss Flora Goble identified Mrs Fred West in Roe courthouse accusing her of suggesting laudanum for Baby Jim, the murdered infant. The confrontation featured intense eyeing as Goble faced cross examination by defense attorney Harry Noland after a long session beginning at 2:30 p.m.
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Des Moines
Flora Goble
Fred West
Justice Roe
Miss Goble
Lawrence de Graff
West
Jim
West Maternity
Harry Noland
Blind Mail Carrier Builds Store to Support Family
Michael Moore of Quote Missouri, blind for 17 years, served as rural and star route mail carrier delivering to 25 families on a 12 mile route between Mandeville and Quote. He saved for a country store and now helps his widowed mother and sister as locals admire his resilience and accuracy in mail delivery despite disability.
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St. Louis
Michael Moore
Quote
Mandeville
Mae Williams
Mike
Bloomington
Ill
Woman shoots man in police court tale at Council Bluffs
Patrick Burke of Council Bluffs, an employee of Pintsch gas works, is wounded in the leg and faces potential blood poisoning. His landlady Mrs Julia Silcott admits firing at the floor after Burke refused to leave a bed he had crawled into in soiled clothes. Burke initially withheld details of the wound as the case goes before police court.
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Patrick Burke
Council Bluffs
Council Blufffs
Pintsch Gas Works
Julia Silcott
Burke
Des Moines Court Upheld Medical License Law
The Iowa supreme court affirmed the state certificate requirement for practicing physicians in Kendig v. State, convicting A J Kendig for practicing medicine without a license. The ruling settles constitutional challenges by itinerant quack vendors and aids the state health crusade.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Board of Medical Examiners
Supreme Court
A. J. Kendig
Ikendig
Madison County
State Board of Health
Hawkeye Notes Drownings and Robbery Report
Calvin Hazard drowned after breaking through ice on Cutoff Lake near Council Bluffs. Bailiff Jake Osterberger of Dubuque County was robbed on a lonely road a few miles from Loore. Frank Gordon who lived with a broken neck since August 17 died in Marshalltown after being struck by a locomotive.
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Calvin Hazard
Cutoff Lake
Council Bluffs
Jake Osterberger
Dubuque County
Loore
Frank Gordon
Marshalltown
Syllable Typewriter Demonstrated in Europe
Washington reports from Kehl that the syllable typewriter invented by Charles Bivert reproduces speech in typographic characters. Operated like a typewriter with a 20 key keyboard, it prints syllables swiftly up to 200 words a minute and supports multiple languages, including French and German.
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Washington
J. I. Brittain
Kehl
Journal of
Alsace-Lorraine
Bivert
Charles Bivert
Legion of Honor
Bulletin of the Halles
Strassburg
Lost Newport $100 bill Found After Years in Denver Letter
Newport ex sheriff Benjamin Easton regained a $100 gold certificate after a long sequence of mail. A 1901 loss led to a Block Island ad and a Denver posted reply. An unregistered Denver letter contained the missing bill and a note to Mary Crowley of Seattle. The handwriting appears juvenile.
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Newport
R. I
Benjamin Easton
M. C
P. O
Block Island
Denver
Easton
Mary Crowley
Fourteenth Avenue No. E
Seattle
Wash
Chickens Adapt to Blasts Boost Egg Output at Port Jarvis
On farms near Port Jarvis New York chickens on Levi Van Ittens and neighboring farms adjust to blasting for a mountain railway spur. The birds retreat on hearing the warning shouts but egg production rises with the good exercise.
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Port Jarvis
N. Y
Levi van Itten
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