Bank Holdup at Bridger Montana by Masked Men
Three masked robbers held up the Bridger bank in Carbon County Montana, relieving cashier Trumbo of 2000 while a mill driver and a mail carrier assisted in the assault. They fled on horseback toward Hole-in-the-Wall country, pursued by a posse that opened fire. the robbers vanished into timber and have not been seen since.
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Nooo
Heudite
Bridger
Carbon County
Montana
Trumbo
Crow Reservation
Hole-in- the- Wall
Frank Williams
Williams
Reina
Anti trust legislation bill targets interstate commerce
Senator Cullom introduces a Sherman law amendment proscribing interstate trade in articles from wraste. Violations carry fines from 500 to 5000 dollars. The bill empowers attorney generals and district attorneys to seek warrants for early questioning, with witnesses protected from prosecution for revelations but not from self incrimination. Annual reports from firms engaged in interstate commerce are requested and screened by officials. The attorney general may appoint fifteen agents to pursue violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cullom
Wraste
Interstate Commerce Commission
Emraar General
Attorney-General
Congress Opens as Senate Sees Short Session and Deaths
The fifty-seventh congress convened with the Senate in session twelve minutes and the House under an hour, adjourning to honor Senator McMillan. Reassignments, oaths, and resignations followed as new members took seats while messages to the president were planned. Admiral Dewey resumed active duty, and Rev. Milburn, Senate chaplain, resigned due to health concerns.
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House
Senate
McMillan
Russel
Connecticut
F. J. Prettyman
Milburn
Congress
Ray
New York
Hall
Pennsylvania
Messrs
Bingham Pa
Hitt
Richardson
Tenn
Grandegee
Russell
Admiral Dewey
United States
Philippine
Washington Navy Yard
Carrbbean Sea
Wind Chavinin Rerigns
W. H. Milburn
Frye
Mine Workers Convention Calls January Meeting
Secretary Wilson prepares the annual call for the United Mine Workers of America to assemble in Indianapolis on January 19. The call and local notices will be issued soon. Representation remains about 800 to 1,000 delegates with a voting strength near 1,700. The convention is billed as highly important after a year of major miners’ struggles and reports on the anthracite strike.
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Wilfley
Minole
Bailey
Dalay
Overlook
Neal
Boles
Francia
Meadows
Warren
Plymouth
Joni Kensler
Alfred Freel
Boise
Great Northern
Haroc
Chamberlaine
Rapid City
Wolser City
Port’land, Ore
EBA Rolling & Sona
Boston
Lewiston
Bonda
Wit
LIS
Bpcom
Wilson
United Mine Workers of America
Indianapolis
Mine Workers Journal
Our Standing Army in Secretary Root's Annual Report Disposition
Secretary of War Root details the coming year’s army allocations including 13,480 in the Philippines Coast Artillery and 13,298 in Hawaii and the United States for Field Artillery. Additional forces total 51,866 across infantry, cavalry, engineers, staff, and bands with scattered postings in Pekin Alaska and the United States.
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Root
Philippines
Coast Artillery
United States
Cubs
Hawaii
Field Artillery
Pekin
Alaska
Coloni zing the South moves to spend big on lands
In a Chicago meeting, Harriman Mines officials approved more than 100000 for five months to colonize southwestern Louisiana and southern Texas. Colonel Morse leads Texas Louisiana efforts promising vast development ahead. Also notes Philippine agriculture hampered by rhinderpest, with 90 percent of carabous dead and funding shortfalls halting immunization plans.
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Southern Pacific
Louisiana
Texas
Harriman Mines
Chicago
Colonel Morse
Philippines
Murder in Philadelphia Theater Leads to Suicide Attempt
Actress Kate Hassett aged 23, leading woman at Keith's Eighth Street Theater Stock, Philadelphia, was shot by Barry Johnston former Richard Mansfield company member. Johnston then attempted suicide near Darien and Wood streets in the Tenderloin district. two bullets struck Hassett, one in the left breast and one in the left arm.
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Kate Hassett
Keith
Eighth Street
Philadelphia
Barry Johnston
Richard Mansfield
Johnson
Darien
Wood Streets
Johnston
March 15 Relief of Bobotle by Manning’s flying column
Reports from Somaliland detail General Manning’s forces relieving Bobotle garrison on November 15 in the Mad Mullah’s country and recount early British reverses at Erego. Accounts emphasize the Somali levies’ cowardice and insubordination, provoking disgust among British officers at the futility of keeping them in line.
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Manning
Bobotle
Somaliland
Mullah
Erego
Emigrants to South Africa Face New Permits Rule
London dispatch reports expanded hurdles for emigrants to South Africa. After December 1 permits to the Transvaal or Orange River Colony will be issued only in England or elsewhere, not at South African ports. Prospective travelers are advised to write in advance to confirm permit eligibility.
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London
South Africa
Colonial Office
Orange River
England
South African
Aorkie's Mysterious Death In Elwood Indiana
Mrs Charles Dubois a newlywed was found dead in her Elwood room with a carbolic acid bottle and a note indicating suicide An autopsy found no poison In her stomach The head injury appears caused by a blunt instrument The coroner's inquest led to the husband being arrested on murder charges
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Charles Dubois
Elwood
Ind
Swift & Co boiler explosion in Chicago kills thirteen
A Chicago Swift & Co packing plant boiler explosion on Saturday morning kills thirteen and injures many. The blast sent boilers through the roof, wrecked adjoining buildings, and buried workers. Investigators attribute the tragedy to employer carelessness. one life was lost in the blast.
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Swift & Co
Chicago
Inhuman Mother Charged With Poisoning Children
Anttie L Whitten of Dexter Maine faces arrest on charges of poisoning her children to collect life insurance. Her 11 year old daughter Fannie and additional autopsy findings linked arsenic and strychnine to the deaths, with separate injury claims of 80 and 50 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anttie L. Whitten
Dexter Maine
Fannie
Jennie
Hanna refuses to resign from senate and RNC
Senator Hanne denies reports he will resign from the senate or RNC chairmanship. He vows to serve out his term as senator and leave retirement to the people. Venezuelan government appoints Antonio Velutini minister plenipotentiary to France to mend ruptured ties since 1804 amid German-related fears. The appointee is of French descent.
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Hanne
Senate
Republican National Committee
Antonio Velutini
France
General Velutini
Germany
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George E Way
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Colorado
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Kieth & Grube Company
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