No Panic at Poorhouse Ends Tobacco War in Kentucky
Firefighters avert panic at the St Louis poorhouse as inmates sleep through a basement blaze while New York reports all children escape a Five Story school fire unharmed. In Cleveland the body of Miss Katherine Weiler is identified amid the Collinwood fire deaths. Kentucky moves toward ending its tobacco war with a suggested sale of 80 million pounds at 15 cents per pound to the American Tobacco Company, signaling a growers victory and easing night rider violence and embargo tensions.
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St. Louis
Curran
Leonard
New York
One Hundred and Ninth Street
Amsterdam Avenue
Broadway
Cleveland
Katherine Weiler
Collinwood
Hosetta Machnich
Srane
Tee
Lexington
Kentucky
American Society of Equity
Organization of the Growers
American Tobacco Company
Tobreco “Trust
Stole From Friend To Keep Position In New York
New York on March 6. Mrs. Jeanette Newman, living at Stratford house, is jailed for the alleged theft of jewels valued at $20,000 from her wealthy friend Eve Lyn Bell of Central Park West. Police say Newman confessed she sought to fund her son’s private schooling and preserve her social standing.
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New York
Jeanette Newman
Stratford House
Yesterday in Congress memory of Senator Proc tor
Senate and House adjourned yesterday in memory of the late Senator Proc tor of Vermont who died Wednesday. No business transacted in the House as well. Both chambers observed the tribute with adjournment out of respect for the senator.
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Washington
Houses of Congress
Senate
Senator Proctor
Vermont
HOUSE
Melting Snow Is Cause of Floods
The Mau mee river at Toledo Ohio surged flooding streets and cellars as ice jammed a steel boat against a bridge breaking traffic flow. In Peru Indiana high waters of the Wabash river forced 75 homes damaged and nearly a thousand men idle.
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Toledo
Ohio
Maumee
Peru
Ind
Wabash
Cannon Carries Champaign County Indorses Cannon for President
At a Champaign county central committee meeting Speaker Cannon was endorsed for president while William B. McKinley was named for Congress and Roosevelt policy support was affirmed. Delegates to congress and state conventions were left to the executive committee. In Pekin, Tazewell county backed Cannon for president with no gubernatorial instructions and delegates to the state convention chosen.
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County Central Committee
Indorses
Champaign
Ill
Champaign County Central Committee
Cannon
William B. McKinley
Congress
Roosevelt
Executive Committee
Tazewell
Pekin, Ill
Joseph G. Cannon
Tazewell County
Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain to Lay Off 2000 Workers
Announcement in St. Louis reports after March 10 the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain Railway system will dismiss 2000 shop workers, raising total idle staff to 7500. Also noted is the death of Hon. Albert L. Cole, former Republican gubernatorial candidate, in Texas.
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Missouri Pacific & Iron Mountain System
St. Louis
Missouri Pacific & Iron Mountain Railway System
Minnesota
Fergus Falls
Minn
Albert L. Cole
Texas
House Adopts Resolution to Investigate Lilly Charges
Washington March 6 without discussion the house adopted a rules committee resolution to appoint a committee to investigate Lilly charges that the Electric Boat company of New Jersey sought to corruptly influence house members. It authorizes calling for the company's books and all papers bearing on the inquiry. Army Pay Bill Passes Senate and Depew on Aldrich Bill also noted.
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Washington
House
Committee On Rules
Lilly
Electric Boat Company of
New Jersey
Senate
Depew
New York City
Ino Friend There Machinist a Traitor Buried in Potter's Field
Lazarus Averbuch was buried in Potter's Field without ceremony. The fragment suggests a contentious treatment of the worker known as a machinist and hints at accusations of betrayal, reflecting a tense public reaction.
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Lazarus Averbuch
Potter's Field
Bryan Praised as He Praises Bryan and Condemns Trusts
A long Chicago dispatch notes Laz arus Averbuch’s burial in potter's field after his attempt on Chicago's chief of police. Other items record William Esser's alleged German secret negotiations and Nebraska Democrats praising William Jennings Bryan at a state convention with calls to unite behind his presidential bid.
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Omaha
Neb
Nebraska
Democratic Party of
William Jennings Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Bryan
Frank B Gary Elected to Senate by South Carolina
Frank B. Gary of Abbeyville was chosen by the South Carolina Legislature to succeed Asbury C Latimer in the U S Senate. He won on the fourth ballot with 61 votes in Columbia March 6.
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Senate
South Carolina
Columbia
S. C
Frank B. Gary
Abbeyville
Asbury C. Latimer
United States
Rock Island extends security note maturity with Speyer & Co
Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway company announced it arranged with Speyer & Co for a one year extension on the $6,000,000 security gold notes maturing April 1 next. The notes bear 6 percent interest per annum and the extension moves the obligation to next year.
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Speyer & Co
New York
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company
March wind wreaks havoc in Chicago and wisconsin snow
Chicago recorded a 55 mile per hour March gale that toppled chimneys damaged storefronts and flooded Game Park residences forcing a 30 foot bridge to reach a funeral. The Grand Pacific smokestack fell injuring a passerby while northwest suburbs suffered tree and shrub damage. New Richmond Wisconsin also reported its worst snowstorm of the season since midnight Wednesday.
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Chicago
Mercantile
Game Park
Grand Pacific
Wisconsin
New Richmond
Wis
Legislative committee hears of cruelty toward Pontiac prisoners
A Pontiac reformatory visit exposes brutal treatment of inmates. A bloodied youth spoke to Chairman Hill as guards, shackling, and hanging punishments were described. Prisoners report beatings, solitary confinement for days, and a two week strike punishment affecting 175 inmates.
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Pontiac
Pontiac, Lr
John W
Hill
State Legislative Committee
Pontiac Reformatory
Reformatory
New Road Fails as Gould and Wabash Seek Cash
Western Maryland Railroad, controlled by the Fuller syndicate for Gould and Wabash interests, was placed in receivership in Baltimore. Receiver B F Bush, after failed efforts to secure funds, faces maturing bonds and $5 million in mortgage collateral. Creditors press for $3.8 million notes and $300,000 owed others. the Bowling Green Trust filed the petition. In Hawkinsville, two Black men were lynched for the murder of Mr and Mrs Hart.
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Baltimore
Western Maryland Railroad Company
Fuller Syndicate
Gould
Wabash
Bowling Green Trust Company of
New York
Morris
United States District Court
Gans & Haman
Thompson Vanderpool & Freedman
Goulds
B. F. Bush
Bush
Western Maryland
Bowling Green Trust Company
Hawkinsville
Curry Robertson
John] Henry
Warren Hart
American Car Now Past the Bad Roads
The American car in the New York to Paris automobile race left Denison Iowa at 7 20 am traveling on the Illinois Central right of way as a regular passenger train. It then reached Columbus Neb at 7 am noting improved roads in sandy country. The Italian car arrived in Columbus at 9 1 last night after four hours for nine miles from Vail. A crowd helped start the car when it stuck in mud by Secretary Shaw's residence and about a thousand people cheered.
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Omaha
New York
Paris
Denison
Iowa
Columbus
Neb
S.1
Vail
Shaw
Democrats Rally in St Paul to Endorse Johnson for President
The Democratic state committee in St Paul, Minnesota, votes to hold the state convention there and endorses Governor Johnson for the presidency. Delegates from Crookston urged Johnson’s candidacy amid party divisions, while speakers praised moral awakening and appeal for justice as the party’s hopeful path forward.
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St. Paul, Minn
Democratic State Committee
Crooks‘ton
Johnson
Republican Party
Democratic Party
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William Esser
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Esser
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Dahlman
State Central Committee
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Lincoln
James Dahlman
Rie
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Ellwood Hance
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Union Trust Company
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