Sandusky Division of Lake Shore Electric Placed Under Receiver
The Sandusky division of the Lake Shore Electric Co. went into the hands of a receiver in Cleveland on June 11. A bankers committee reports confidence from Cincinnati in the Everett-Moore syndicate and seeks to pay smaller creditors by disposing of bonds. Albion E. Lang of Toledo named receiver by Judge Wing. railway property and books surrendered with committee acquiescence.
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Cleveland, O
Everett-Moore
Bankers’ Committee
Cincinnati
Newcomb
Sandusky
Lake Shore Electric Co
Fuelid Avenue Trust and Savings Co
Valentine Clarke& Co
Chicago
Lake Shore Electric
Prof W F Goldsborough Likely Head of Electrical Exhibits
St Louis January 11 Prof W F Goldsborough a Purdue University electrical engineering professor at Lafayette Ind is expected to head the electrical exhibits department for the St Louis World's Fair The appointment follows a committee recommendation and a flood of endorsements He will be responsible for obtaining electrical exhibits from around the world for the exposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Fair
St. Louis
W. F. Goldsborough
Perdue University
Lafayette
Ind
Committee On Electricity and Electrical Appliances
Goldsborough
American Stove Co Formed In Gas and Oil Stove Combine
A new trust unites nine gas and oil stove firms under the name American Stove Co with a capital of 5 million dollars. Offices will be in St. Louis Chicago and Cleveland with C A Stockstrom of St. Louis as president and H J Trentkamp of Cleveland as secretary.
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Chicago
American Stove Co
St. Louis
Cleveland
C. A. Stockstrom
J. Trentkamp
Unidentified man found dead in Seattle residence district
Seattle investigators report the body of a man in a residence area with evidence suggesting self inflicted death by placing a dynamite fuse in his mouth. He lay down awaiting the blast. a 15 inch deep hole marked the head’s resting place with no trace of the head remaining.
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Seattle
Wash
Death of J. M. French Former Forty Camel Band Wagon Boss
J M French, a veteran circus figure and once among America's richest horse owners, died at 71 in Detroit on January 11. He was famed as the original Forty Camel Band Wagon man in the circus world.
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Detroit
Mich
J. M. French
United States
Death of John Longking in Yonkers at 96
John Longking died at his Yonkers home aged 96. He served with the Methodist Book Concern for 50 years and authored many Methodism texts used as textbooks in Bible classes and seminars of the denomination.
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John Longking
New York
Yonkers
Methodist Book Concern
Tragedy in Galesburg Husband Fatally Shoots Wife and Sister-in-law then Kills Himself
In Galesburg Illinois on January 11 Ba Cheney a former state penitentiary inmate fatally shot his wife and her sister Lettie Goshorn during a domestic quarrel and then shot himself in the head dying instantly.
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Galesburg
Cheney
State Penitentiary
Lettie Goshorn
Milwaukee Divorce Decree Adds Seventh Separation Listed
Milwaukee judge grants separation to George M Meindel husband of Mrs Josephine Meindel nee Potter, marking the seventh divorce added to the list. The decision by Judge Williams of the superior court was issued January 11.
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Milwaukee, Wis
Josephine Meindel
Potter
Williams
Superior Court
George M. Meinde
Admiral Schley Arrives in Savannah to Enthusiastic Welcome
Admiral W S Schley and Mrs Schley reached Savannah with a crowd at the railroad station cheering as Mayor Meyers and aldermen invited a formal reception at the city hall. The pair will spend ten days visiting Gen W W Gordon and attended a theater performance after which the audience cheered them outside and at the box.
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Savannah
W. S. Schley
Schley
Meyers
Gen
W. W. Gordon
Adm
Mme
Nordica
Scheme for extra mail boxes speeds special deliveries
Washington dispatch reports Assistant Postmaster General Shellenberger is studying a plan to attach a supplemental letter box to regular street boxes for special delivery letters. The system would let messengers rapidly service remote city sections, transferring misdeposited letters to regular boxes and delivering them to addressees after post marking.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Shellenberger
Meeting planned to form wire and wire nails price pool
Gas belt iron and steel men report arrangements for a Pittsburgh meeting of principal wire and wire nails manufacturers next Tuesday. A price association is expected to be formed to control prices, resembling steel rail and plate pools, including about a dozen firms led by American Steel and Wire Co. of United States Steel Corp.
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Marion
Ind
Havana Signs $10.649 Million Sewer and Paving Contract
A Havana contract for sewering and paving worth 10 649 000 dollars is signed by McGivney of McGivney & Roke by Jersey City and Acting Mayor Latorre for the city. McGivney posts a 500 000 dollar bond. Work must start within 30 days of notice and be completed in four years.
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Havana
McGivney
McGivney & Rokeby
Jersey City
Latorre
Fatal Bedside Shootings End in Accidental Homicide
Elberton Georgia January 11 Lon Colson was shot by his wife while asleep. Mrs Colson woke to a noise and used his pistol to investigate. The weapon discharged killing Colson instantly. Coroner's jury returned accidental homicide verdict.
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Elberton, Ga
Lon Colson
Fight stops in fourth round between Fitzgerald and McCue
In Philadelphia at Industrial Hall Willie Fitzgerald of Philadelphia fights Marty McCue of New York. The referee halted the bout in the fourth round after McCue claimed fouls twice, the referee noting an evident desire to quit.
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Philadelphia
Willie Fitzgerald
Marty McCue
New York
Industrial Hall
McCue
Seven men burned at Hall steam pump works blast
White at Hall steam pump works Pittsburg January 11 involved casting a large fly wheel when molten metal exploded from the mold. Seven men burned four were hospitalized while the others returned home.
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Pittsburg, Pa
Family perished in blaze in Buffalo home tragedy
Henry P Pearlstein, his wife and five children aged 4 to 12 died in a Sunday fire that leveled a two story frame building on Broadway. Owner Joseph Supowski and Karl Stracki were arrested as investigators probed the lamp accident and blast that shattered windows and toppled the hallway floor.
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Buffalo
Henry P. Pearlstein
Joseph Supowski
Karl Sracki
Supowski
Pearlsteins
Pearlstein
Surveyors Repair Mason and Dixon Boundary Stones
Pennsylvania and Maryland boundary surveyors report stones along the Mason and Dixon line in Germany township Adams county displaced. Some stones used as a door sill or in a church were found moved. They will be recovered and reset to their original positions.
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Hanover
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Mason and Dixon
Germany Township
Adams County
Massena to Escort President Lobed to St Petersburg Visit
Paris report says the battleship Massena is fitting at Brest to take President Loubet to St Petersburg for the czar’s visit to France. It will sail late March or early April with three cruisers, stay three days in St. Petersburg, and return before the general elections.
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Paris
la Presse
Massena
Brest
President Loubet
St. Petersburg
France
Supreme Court Upholds Eight Hour Law in Kansas City Case
Kansas Supreme Court affirms eight hour law in favor of W. W. Atkin of Kansas City who faced conviction for paying workers overtime on a city street paving contract. Justice Smith authored the decision after Atkin appealed from the district court ruling.
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Topeka
Kan
State Supreme Court
Smith
W. W. Atkin
Kansas City
District Court
Woman's Mysterious Death In Marinette Traced to Fire
In Marinette Wisconsin on January 13 Lena Christel seventy was found dead after a fire in her room. A policeman saw smoke and found her charred body away from the sickbed with signs of a struggle. Her son Martin Christel is jailed awaiting investigation.
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Lena Christel
Marinette
Wis
Martin Christel
Nordica injured in Reeves Station wreck near Rome
Opera star Mme Lillian Nordica was bruised when a passenger train with her private car Brunnhilde crashed into an oncoming freight at Reeves Station Georgia. Accompanist E Romaine Simmons injured. engineer Tracey killed. 12 cars burned. Nordica aims to perform in Nashville Monday night.
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Tracey
Mme
Nordica
Nashville
Garington
Southern Railway
Mme. Nordica
Simmons
Pro-Boer Meeting Demands Neutrality Law Enforcement
Chicago branch of the American Neutral league met Sunday night and adopted a petition urging President Roosevelt to enforce neutrality laws. Signers include prominent judges and lawyers. The petition argues the U S is neutral in the Britain South Africa war and proposes halting Britain's military supplies from New Orleans to end the conflict, citing military supplies and the treaty of Washington.
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Chicago
American TranNaal League
Roosevelt
United States
Great Britain
New Orleans
Washington
Ten Thousand Dollars Pledged for McKinley Memorial
Pittsburg January 13 ten thousand dollars was contributed by Homestead workers to the national McKinley memorial fund. The major share of laborers gave a half day’s pay, from the lowest to the department heads, with a few donors giving nothing. The list of donors and the total will be sent to the McKinley memorial commission in Washington early this week.
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Pittsburg
National Fund
Homestead
Pennsylvania
McKinley Memorial Commission
Washington
Rear End Collision Near Baltimore & Ohio Crossing
A fast Pennsylvania passenger train from New York crashed into the rear of an express from Cincinnati at the Baltimore & Ohio crossing near 49th Street and Wentworth Avenue in Chicago. Two train attaches were seriously injured, possibly fatally, while passengers on both trains were shaken but largely unharmed.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania
New York
Cincinnati
Baltimore & Ohio Crossing
49Th Street
Wentworth Avenue
Icelandic independence bill blocked by Copenhagen government
Copenhagen announces a decision to block a bill in parliament that would give Iceland an independent ministry housed in Reykjavik. The page notes Hon. Henry C. Payne, a Milwaukee figure, is to replace Charles Emory Smith as Postmaster General and will join the cabinet in Washington early this week.
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Copenhagen
Oscar
Iceland
Reikjavik
Henry C. Payne
Washington
Milwaukee
Chas. Emory Smith
Wisconsin
Guatemala Coffee Crop Slumps 40 Percent
Consul General McNally in Guatemala reports to the state department that the coffee crop for this season will be about 40 percent smaller than last year. The decline affects Guatemala’s export outlook and regional trade patterns.
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Washington
McNally
Guatemala
State Department
Civil service reforms to bring laborers into federal Civil Service
Washington on January 11 announced that laborers employed by government departments will be brought into the Civil Service under presidential orders. The first order is expected to be issued very soon.
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Washington
Civil Service
Russia pushes telegraph line into Corean territory
A Seoul dispatch reports Russia crossed the Toamen river into Corean territory without Corea’s consent. The line extends telegraph communication into Corea, prompting diplomatic concern.
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Yokohama
Hagen
Seoul
Corea
Russia
Toamen River
Corean
Remedy for Surra Fails to Cure Horses
Manila reports veterinary authorities believe an arsenic vein injection kills the parasite causing surra, an East Indian malarial horse disease, reducing deaths as the treatment shows benefit.
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Manila
Empress Dowager Bodyguard Member Returns to Peking
Shanghai correspondent reports a 7000 strong bodyguard member of the Dowager Empress, who took part in the attack on foreign legations at Peking with Prince Tuan, has returned to Peking with the Chinese court. Mexico City sees two American dominated companies to begin drilling in the valley near. oil found historically by locals.
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London
Shanghai
Standard
China
Peking
Prince Tuan
Mexico City
Valley of Mexico
Native Constabulary Fully Able to Control Misamis Province
Manila reports from Batangas show a successful Loboo expedition where Cols. Wint and Wells destroyed barracks and hamlets and ration stock for 20 000 Filipinos six months with no American casualties. Maj. Henry Allen confirms Misamis is under control as invasion fears ease. A fire in Quinque Luzon destroys town except for the church. Reefers: Manila presses push for daily cable news from the United States to keep Americans in touch. subscription drive targets three months of 100 words daily. January 15 launch expected. government to send free news bulletins via military wires.
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Manila
Batangas
Loboo
Insular Constabulary
Leyte
Mindanao
Misamis
Davis
Wade
Quinque
Bulacan
Luzon
Philippine Islands
Mariila
United States Philippine Commission
United States
Chicago Fire Threatens American Malting Plant
Chicago dispatch reports a fire at 1 30am Monday in the elevator of the American Malting Co on 51st street near the Pan Handle tracks. The structure housed 300000 bushels of barley and was destroyed with its contents. Estimated loss approaches half a million dollars. The plant was formerly controlled by J F Weil before trust absorption.
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Chicago
American Malting Co
51St Street
Trust
J. F. Weil
Bell Combination Reorganizes Detroit Phone Firms
The Michigan Telephone Co and other Erie controlled lines join the Bell system forming the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. The Erie reorganization will eliminate $9,000,000 of debt carried for a year as part of the merger plan.
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Detroit
Mich
Michigan Telephone Co
Erie
Big Bell
American Telegraph and Telephone Co
Santos-Dumont Eyes St Louis Steerable Balloon Prize
M Santos-Dumont expresses willingness to compete for the steerable balloon prize at the St Louis exposition if conditions suit. He intends to exhibit at St Louis a balloon like the Paris Deutsche prize winner but larger and more refined.
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M. Santos-Dumont
St. Louis Exposition
St. Louis
Paris
Etruria Arrives After Rough Ocean Crossing
The Cunard steamship Etruria docked Sunday in New York showing extensive damage from the voyage. The forward rail on her promenade deck was washed away by an immediate wave, leaving many signs of a rough crossing.
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New York
Etruria
Cunard Line
Boer Laager Captured Near Ermelo In British Push
Pretoria reports British forces surprised and captured a Boer laager twenty miles northwest of Ermelo. Forty two Boers were taken prisoner including Maj Wolmarans in the raid.
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Pretoria
Ermelo
Maj
Wolmarans
Plans lauded for reception of Prince Henry of Prussia
New York, Jan 18 plans will be considered this week for welcoming Adm. Prince Henry of Prussia brother to Kaiser Wilhelm who will visit next month to witness the launching of the Kaiser's new yacht and attend related ceremonies.
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New York
Adm
Prince Henry
Prussia
Kaiser Wilhelm
Acquitted of Murder Charge In Clinton Case
Warren C. Brewer aged 19 and Clay Condor aged 20 were Sunday acquitted of the murder of Ed Taylor aged 20 in this county. The two defendants are Kentuckians and had been here only a short time.
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Clinton, Ill
Warren _C. Brewer
Clay Condor
Ed ‘Taylor
Cascarets Candy Cathartic Advertises Health Cure
The ad claims Cascarets cure a wide range of ailments from headaches to cancer by aiding natural bowel movements. It emphasizes painless relief, a 10 cent starter price, metal boxes, and the C. C. Co. stamp while warning to beware of imitations.
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C. C. Co
Making Others Happy and Social Remedies
A brief item from the Somerville Journal notes a lighthearted line about seeking company this afternoon and hints at cures and health advice. It mentions Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a refund promise if they fail to cure a cold in one day.
Doctors Treat Mrs Pinkham's Long Feme Trouble
A letter from a Mrs Pinkham describes three doctors diagnosing a prolonged feminine ailment, with persistent pain and distress over nearly three years. The writer notes fear of worsening symptoms and seeks relief, reflecting medical uncertainty of the era.
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Seattle, Wash
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Mason and Dixon Line
Czar
Loubet
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M’kinley
Mexico
Twassa
Ghigago
Mabelle L. LaMonte
Lydia E. Pinkham
E. 31St St
Miss LaMonte
Carter
Carters
Ittle Bite
Aker
Douglas
Eauriom
Aire
Peders
Doug Aery
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Ian Earn
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