Machen Arrested Over Free Delivery Box Profits
A. W. Machen the suspended superintendent of the free delivery division was arrested on information from Postmaster General Payne. Officials accuse him of taking profits from a device used in free delivery boxes and involvement in government contracts to the detriment of the government and for his own gain worth thousands. The Postmaster General will issue a statement with more details.
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Machen
A. W. Machen
Post Office Department
Payne
Post Office
Pennsylvania Republicans Back Roosevelt For 1904
The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention endorses Pennypacker praising his wisdom and duty. It commends Roosevelt for enforcing McKinley era policies and the party platform and pledges united support for his nomination and election in 1904.
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Pennsylvania
Endurase Roosevelt
Pennypacker
Roosevelt
William McKinley
Mine Explosion Kills Four at Chartiers Coal Mine
An explosion of gas at the Chartiers Coal and Coke Company mine in Federal Pennsylvania kills four men instantly. Seven are badly burned and several more missing as the mine is on fire. About seventy five workers were present when the blast occurred, likely from accumulation of fire and ignition by an open lamp.
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Chartiers Coal and Coke Company
Federal
New York
Pennsylvania
Electro-Mechanical Institute
Pittsburg
Bhut
Western Union
American Ice Company
Philadelphia
Charles Grenier
George
Scranton
Charles
Thomas McDonald
Plymouth
Bill’ Devery
Tammany
Roan
Mammy Bates
John Adams
James Monroe
Lincoln Hospital
Freedom
May
Kane
Philadelphia and Erie
Edwin Warren
Lowville
N.Y
Los Angeles
Archbishop Farley
Central Iron and Steel Company
Harrisburg
Front Street
North Front Street
Smith & Wesson
Springfield
Mass
Laconia
N. W
Lakeport
H. H. Wood
Brooklyn Bridge
Women's Education Association
Boston
Back Bay
Yorkshire Inn
Great Barrington
Arthur Sands
Chicago
Germany
Btolen Property Recovered Awaiting an Owner
Fort Wayne Indiana police hold a quantity of silverplated knives forks spoons tea spoons butter knife and sugar spoon some brands and patterns likely stolen. Readers with missing silverware can contact Superintendent H A Gorsline Fort Wayne to recover property.
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Police Department
Fort Wayne
Ind
H. A. Gorsline
Collision sinks Huddersfield with emigrants lost
The British steamer Huddersfield sailing from Antwerp for Grimsby collided with the Norwegian steamer Dro. The Huddersfield foundered and twenty two Austrian and Italian emigrants were lost. The crew were saved and the Huddersfield carried twenty nine immigrants and five other steerage passengers. The missing twenty two were rescued in boats alongside the Huddersfield.
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Huddersfield
Hamon
Antwerp
Grimsby
England
Dro
Huddersfeld
Ashor
Muddersfield
Manila Lieutenant Leads Cebu Fight Against Insurgents
Lieutenant Javier commands constabulary and volunteers in Cebu mountains near Tabogon and defeats insurgents. Sixty eight killed and twenty nine captured. Government losses not yet known and no further engagement details available.
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Manila
Javier
Cebu
Tabogon
Thirty Years in Bed Miss Barth Dies in South Bend
Miss Alice Barth of South Bend Indiana died recently and never left her bed for thirty years. Once a handsome accomplished leader, she fell ill while in good health and laid in bed for three decades though physicians could not find a cause for her condition.
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Alice Barth
South Bend
Ind
Killed in Wreck Near Bryan Alabama
Two Southern Railway freights collided near Bryan Alabama. Engineer Action was killed. Engineer Johnson and Brakeman J D Hill were fatally hurt. Chester and three firemen missing. One double header destroyed by fire.
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Southern Railway
Bryan
Ala
Chester
Johnson
J. D. Hill
Fire Island Hotel Destroyed by Fire
A new Fire Island hotel built about year ago was totally destroyed by fire with no injuries. The fire's cause is not yet known.
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Fire Island
N. Y
Fire Fiend's Awful Work At Five Story Tenement
A deadly blaze at SH and 205 West 185th Street in New York City destroyed a five story tenement. Four people died from burns and several others sustained serious injuries.
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West 185Th Street
New York City
Final Order in Beef Trust Case Declared by Judge Grosscay
In Chicago federal court Judge Grosscay enters final order in the beef trust case restraining meat packers from combining to regulate trade. The ruling covers all points of the prior decision and is deemed a complete government victory.
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Grosscay
Chicago
Jewish Refugees Arrive in New York from Antwerp
About 400 Jewish refugees from Russia arrive in New York aboard the Vaderland steamship from Antwerp. The group, identified as arriving by ship, marks a notable arrival event in the harbor.
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Russia
Navy
New York
Vaderland
Antwerp
Turbulent Times Mark City Labor and Society
A wide range of incidents are reported including mass idle workers in New York with potential weekly earnings near four million dollars, deadly elevator and boiler explosions in Pennsylvania, and a deadly shooting in Scranton. Other items note fires in Philadelphia and Harrisburg, a fatal bridge jump in Brooklyn, and social campaigns on divorce and servant training in Boston.
Edison Named Honorary Chief Consulting Engineer at St Louis Fair
A list of dramatic incidents follows: a Enid Oklahoma cloudburst left hundreds homeless with $300000 in damages. a tornado at Elmo Missouri killed nine and injured five. Canon City Colorado reports Terrible lead mine mill and mine fire losses of $50000. a San Francisco shoe maker Calcagno killed his former fiancée Madeline Picconi and then killed himself. a Cleveland and Pittsburgh brakeman George Blakely died after a fall between cars at Bingo Junction Ohio.
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Thomas A. Edison
St. Louis
Enid
Okla
Lulu T. Hadley
Booker T. Washington
Indianapolis
Elmo
Canon City
Colo
Anton Calcagno
San Francisco
Madeline Picconi
George Blakely
Cleveland
Pittsburg
Bingo Junction
Ohio
Miscellaneous 1900s News Flashes From Across The Nation
A montage of brief items covers a tornado threat in Rolfe Iowa. rail and streetcar accidents in Chicago and Portland. school principal George Reeder in Victor Colorado. a 14 year old confession in Helena Montana arson. a Leedy Oklahoma postmaster fined for detaining letters. a murder trial in Hamilton Ohio. Altman Colorado fire with incendiary arrests. a Missouri woman’s poisoning suicide attempt. automotive plowing test in East Ashtabula Ohio. the Lake Snare Limited record and divorce vengeance homicide in Portland. prehistoric finds in California. a St Paul engine works fire. an heir tale in Kansas City. press rights in Emporia Kansas. Ohio valley storm damage. bird protection treaties with the Audubon Society. and millinery artists agreeing to stop using song birds for three years.
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Rolfe
American Federation’ of Musicians
Indianapolis
Breva‘tor
Minn
Halsted Street
Chicago
George Reeder
Victor
Colo
Helena
Mont
Harry Anderson
Montana
Amos Leedy
Leedy
Samuel Keeler
Hamilton
Ohio
Altman
Bull Hil
Tempest Leeper
Lindell Hotel
St. Louis
Toledo
Elkhart
M. V. Leasia
WH. Drews
Portland
Ore
Teasia
Leasia
Chester County
Cal
University of California
St. Paul
W. E. Ecklin
Khan
Madden
Thompson
Ohio Valley
Mill Creek Valley
Carthage
Delhi
Home City
Fernbank
Milwaukee
Millinery Jokers Association
Audubon Society
Millinery Merchants’ Protective Association
New York Audubon Society
Southern era news briefs mix deadly accidents and legal ruling
A sermon in Atlanta calls a bridge player inferiority to a “negro crap shooter.” An explosion at Wilson and Cochran sawmill in Wilcox Kentucky killed six and injured nine, with two deaths feared. Carlisle Kentucky's city school fire injured twenty five and left three missing. Seaboard Air Line shops near Portsmouth Virginia burned, with losses around 750000 and locomotives ruined. The interstate long and short haul clause was struck down by the Supreme Court in a Louisville and Nashville rate case. El Paso residents report a smoldering unknown volcano near Casas Grande in the Sierra Madre. Falls City Shirt Company fire in Louisville caused total losses near 2000 with damage to nearby Carter Dry Goods. Judge Walter Evans in Bowling Green Kentucky holds postmasters liable for burglars’ stolen funds.
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Carlisle
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Portsmouth
Federal Supreme Court
Louisville and
Nashville
el Paso
Texas
Casas‘Grande
Sierra Madre Mountains
Falls City Shirt Company
Louisville
Carter Dry Goods Company
Walter Evans
United States Court
Bowling Green
Fire destroys ten market buildings at Panama City port
Across Panama Colombia the Marlborough Club in Liverpool notes a royal operation planned. Paris journalist Max O’Rell dies after New York appendicitis surgery. Queen Draga of Servia may divorce King Alexander. Croats revolt. 2000 imprisoned near Agram. Loreto gunboat sinks near Scilly Isles. crew rescued at Plymouth. Paris Madrid auto race ends with eight deaths. Marcel Renault fatally injured. Turks burn Banitzi village near Seres. 48 of 500 escape amid murders of women and girls.
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Market Wharf
Panama
Colombia
Marlborough Club
Liverpool
Paul Blouet
Max O’rell
Paris
New York
Draga of
Servia
Alexander
Sne
Fischineft
Hussner
Hartmann
Glentworth
Downham
Norfolk
Agram
Loreto
Scilly Islands
Plymouth
England
Combes
Marcel Renault
Sofia
London Morning Leader
Banitzi
Seres
Treaty with Cuba signed in Havana includes Platt amendment
A permanent pact between the United States and Cuba with Platt amendment provisions has been signed in Havana. Elsewhere prominent figures retire or shift roles, including George H. Primrose ending his minstrel career after 35 years and Daniel Frohman planning marriage to Margaret Ellington of Sothern’s company.
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United States
Cuba
Havana
George H. Primrose
America
Bradstreet
American Watch Company
Toronto
Daniel Frohman
Margaret Ellington
Mr. Sothern
Miss Illington
John J.ryan & Co
Get-Rich-Quick
Joseph ML. Johns
Rochester
Ind
Coban
Black Diamond Line
Sidney
Weather and crop prospects across the central states track a mixed season
The report details drought relief in the Ohio valley and mid Atlantic, with rains aiding corn planting in Indiana Illinois Michigan and Wisconsin. It notes spring wheat growth in the Dakotas Minnesota Iowa and Nebraska, while the southern states show patchy progress and late cotton.
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Rocky
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Minnesota
Dakotas
Ohio Valley
Lake Region
Middle Atlantic States
Indiana
Llinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
New England
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
North Pacific Coast
Missouri Valley
Illinois
Middle Atlantic
Texas
Georgia
Florida
Maryland
Virginia
Ohio
Towa
Mississippi River
Corr
Peet Bros to Open Omaha Plant This Year
Kansas City soap maker Peet Bros Manufacturing plans a large branch plant in Omaha within the year. The report notes economic expansion and job prospects tied to the project amid a growing regional footprint.
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Peet Bros. Manufacturing Company
Soap Makers of
Kansas City
Omaha
Saxony
Austria
City Board of Health
New York City
Nineteenth Century Jokes Float Across Papers
A collage of satirical snippets from multiple papers lampoons politics science and society. Jests reference smallpox germ vaccines duelist France Balkans graft in Philadelphia and Chicago reform urging humor through modern prompts and proverb like lines. The miscellany includes quips on auto industry and cotton seed oil.
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Panorama OF the World
Southern
Len ‘Broughton
Atlanta, Ga
Wilson & Cochran
Wilcox
Maringoin Station
I.a
AMS
Lorraine
Barrows
Libourne
Bordeaux
Coupe
Poictiers
Bonneval
Chartres
M. Porter
Angouleme
Ablis
Louis Renault
M. Gabriel
Beoardiniere
Vindee
Los Angeles Express
aAtlanta Constitution
Harvard
Los Angeles Times
Bingham
Philadelphia Ledger
Europe
Balkans
Baltimore Herald
Washington Post
Indianapolis Sentinel
Teddy
Newark News
Abontgomery Advertiser
Uncle Sam
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Adam
Houston
Cra
Macon
Telegraph
City. Journal
Marseilles
Atlanta
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