Anarchist Plot Foiled and Rail Accidents Reported
Brazilian police said they foiled an anarchist plot to destroy part of the American battleship fleet at Rio. A Southern Railway freight derailment at Corydon Junction Indiana killed three and wounded two. Charles Emory Smith, longtime editor and former minister, died at 65.
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Rio
Navy
Washington
John R. Walsh
Chicago
Chicago—National—bank
Corydon Junction
Ind
Southern Railway
Charles Emory Smith
Philadelphia Press
Russia
Allen Campbell Burrows
Ohio State University
Columbus
Guentemala
Ely
Nev
A. D. Bailey
P. J. Brown
Fred McDonald
Missouri Colony
Marshall
Sunflower Glass Company
Coffeeville
Kan
Dragooh
Macedonia
Cleveland Franklin
Dothan
Ala
Langdon
San Francisco
Abe Ruef
First National Bank of
Texola
Okla
Jones
Boston
St. Remi
Quebec
Aiar
Irv Ves
Noted Figures Loafing Through a Turbulent Era
The report by J L Bristow to Secretary Taft outlines a declining Panama Railroad traffic from west to east and the resulting halt in steamship business toward New York. It details exclusive contracts with the Pacific Mail Co and government policy affecting eastbound freight to New York via the Panama route.
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Hartfield
Liverpool
Seattle
Vancouver Island
Denver
Col
Iman & Crook
Lydia K. Bradley
Illinois
Peoria
Bradley Polytechnic Institute
John C. Guinn
Georgia City
H. R. Drew
Mineapolis
Minn
EH Harriman
Hough
United States Circuit
Interstate Commerce Commission
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Lake Carriers” Association
Detroit
Mich
Chicago Sanitary Canal
East St. Louis
Eliza Matsen
Duluth
Ezekiel Gregory
Davidson
N. C
John F. Betz
Philadelphia
Prince Edward F. L. Zu Innhausen
Kuyphausen
House of Lords
Berlin
R. Ast
St. Paul
Scharnhorst
Taft
Senate
New York County
William R. Montgomery
Hamilton Bank
Lumber Carriers’ Association of the
Stanley County
South Dakota
St Louis
Wells
jHarvey Lockner
Tuscola
Washington, D. C
Senate Committee On Interoceanic Canals
J. L. Bristow
War Department
Panama Railroad Co
Pacific Coast
Panama
North Atlantic
Bristow
Canal ‘Commission
San Francisco
New
Pacific Mail Steamship Co
Panama Railroad
Pacific Mail Co
Secretary of War
Steamship Company
New York
Foraker Admits Defeat In Ohio Delegates Fight
Senator Foraker says Ohio will elect district delegates to the national convention and allow Taft four at large delegates without a contest. He calls the state convention call illegal and will not participate. District delegates may choose differently, with each district electing its own delegates.
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Taft
Ohio
Cincinnati
Foraker
Washington
State Central Committee
Grim discovery ties Italians to Florence murder case
Three of four missing Italians were found buried near Antonio Nernino’s home in Florence. Victims include Dominic Minichello, his partner in a market garden, Ercola Buffetti, a garden worker, and Mrs. Frank Palmetto, Nernino’s housekeeper. Minichello’s throat was cut. Buffetti’s skull was split. the woman died from a head blow. A fourth brother remains missing as police hunt for his body.
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Florence
Col
Antonio Nernino
Dominic Minichello
Nernino
Ercola Buffetti
Frank Palmetto
Minichello
Buffetti
Immigration bill funds Philadelphia station debated in Senate
Congress debates a bill appropriating 250000 for an immigration station in Philadelphia. The Senate discusses codifying penal laws as part of the immigration topic and the proposal is set for further debate on the subject.
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Washington
Philadelphia
Hope
Senate
Champ Clark's Wichita years and first earnings tale
A Wichita letter in the Topeka Capital recounts Champ Clark, later a Missouri congressman and lecturer, starting as a lawyer in 1876. He opened an office where Pacific Express stood, struggled for business, left Kansas for Missouri, and claimed he earned a dollar for a day's work before departing town.
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Champ Clark
Missouri
Wichita
Kan
Topeka
Pacific Express Company
Congress
Ros Harris
Clark
Marriage trends among middle aged parents and famous prodigies
A discussion notes that while forty is late for many, marriage occurs as living costs rise. Dr Louise Rabinovitch cites 74 biographies showing over 80 percent of eminent figures had middle aged parents. Many geniuses were youngest children of older parents, suggesting late marriage may accompany success and inspire older bachelors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Rabinovitch
Congress of Psychiatry
Amsterdam
Napoleon
Benjamin Franklin
Coleridge
Balzac
Rembrandt
Rubens
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Wagner
Schumann
Schubert
Child's astonishment over turkeys with Christmas trees
A child named Charles Jr is shown a local birds display described as turkeys with tails like Christmas trees. He tells his mother in awe that the birds have festive, ornamental tails and vivid plumage in a quaint country setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles, Jr
Chas
Early 1903 Market Report From New York and Other Cities
The Markets column reports on agricultural goods and livestock across cities including New York Cleveland Toledo East Buffalo Pittsburgh and more. Prices are listed for flour wheat corn oats hay cattle calves sheep lambs hogs and related commodities with regional variations and Decimal price figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
York State
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William Thaw
Paris
Jerome
Justice Dowling
Harry Thaw
Amy Crosette
San Maero
Cal
Monte Carlo
Christopher Baggan
New York Whist Club
Matilda Stein
Per August Weber
Angus Johnson
United States
Avalon
Tex
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church
Manston-Ill
Edmund Clarence Stedman
New_York
Italy
Griscom
Paul Leicester Ford
Malcolm. W. Ford
Linley R. Williams
Coral
New Jersey
New England
International Harvester Company
Dana
Isaac N. Hascall
Nebraska
Omaha
Mhonolulu
National Guard of
Hawaii
Denmark
Straits of Magellan
Cc. C. Breuer
Mary —Robinson
Druce
Duke of Portland
London
Rio Janeiro
S. Sisson
Grand Army
Wisconsin
Northwest
la Crosse
Imperial Knitting Company
Scranton
Mobile
Federal District Court
Minneapolis
Roosevelt
Gov. Sparks
Nevada
Sovereign Bank of Canada
State Dispensary
South Carolina
Lydia Bradley
McNeil & Higgins Company
Masonic Temple
Baltimore
Indiana —National Guard
Muncie
Herbert H. Sears
St. Regis
Thomas Bates
Springfield
M&ss
Tennessee
Jennie—G-Sorg
Paul J. Sorg
Middleton, O
Merchants’ National Bank of
Middleton
Oge
Daniel C. Stover
Ereeport, Ill
Archduke
Ferdinand
IV. Grand
Duke
Tuscany
Salzburg
Austria
Israé
Putnam
Europe
Settat
Morocco
d’Amade
Mulai Rachid
Mulai Hafid
New Orleans
J.M. Leveque
Morning World
New York County Republican Committee
Guy Hughes
Western Bank & Trust’company of
Dallas
Texas
Kansas Town
Toledo
East Buttard
Pittsburg
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