Convicts Earn Forty Two Cents a Day at State Penitentiary
State items of interest report January totals from the Penitentiary Managers showing convict labor earnings of 18,142.48 from 40,95744 days worked, average 42 cents per day, with prisoner counts United States 630 and state 1,786. Warden Coffin provides fund balances and receipts for State, Convict, Parole, and Advance Parole funds, ending with total cash in hand of 13,950.23.
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CoLlumBus
McAdow
Board of Penitentiary Managers
United States
Coffin
Painesville Murderess Amanda Ely Dies in Jail
Amanda Ely, jailed for the 1897 murder of her five year old daughter and assault on her son, died at 10 45 p m Friday night in the county jail after a week in critical condition. Her case and pending trial were postponed due to her condition.
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Amanda Ely
Painesville
Elye
Charles Devine
Geauga County Common Pleas Court
Lynch Dr Samson Accused of Murder Mob Driven Off
Columbus reports Laurelville Pickaway mob surrounds Dr Samson after coroner verdict that Bessie Neff died from a drugged abortion. About three hundred men threaten lynching. guard holds line and Samson is jailed. Funeral held Sunday.
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Dr. Samson
Gans
Columbus
Laurelville
Pickaway
Bessie Neff
Adelphi
Samson
Closed Up Tight A Sunday Riot in Toledo
Toledo on February 7 imposed a Sunday closure order by Police Chief Raitz. Saloons, milk sellers, newsstands, and druggists faced restrictions. The Toledo Marine band and theater managers were arrested after a Sunday concert drew a crowd of about 3,000 hooting police. Separate incident in Delaware saw four masked men rob Miss Nancy Fix, binding and gagging her after demanding money. $900 in certificates and checks and $300 cash stolen. Miss Fix found with injuries and feared for recovery.
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Toledo
Raitz
Strobel
Toledo Marine Band
Vandorn
Stevens
People’s Theater
McFadden
The
Wonderland
Delaware
Nancy Fix
Miss Fix
Dana Election Law Faces Likely Repeal in Ohio Assembly
Columbus Ohio February 5 The Dana election law appears doomed as several bills to amend or repeal the law are introduced in the assembly. The senate elections committee has considered the Shafer bill favorably, which would repeal the law and allow fusion of political parties with candidates on one or more tickets. The elections committee will recommend passage.
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Columbus
Assembly
Senate Committee On Elections
Shafer
Elections Committee
Bribery Case Delayed With 68 Witnesses Summoned
Winchester Ohio February seventh. Edward Maiers faces bribery charges from the November election. Sixty eight witnesses were summoned, most unaware of the case. Judge Collings postponed the trial to April and limited sessions to fifteen witnesses for state and defense combined.
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Winchester
Edward Maiers
Collings
Toledo Gets New Electric Road to Monroe
Toledo Ohio February 7 The contract for the Toledo and Monroe Electric railway has been let and construction began Monday. The line is expected to be in operation by June 15. Fully equipped the project is estimated at 500000 dollars.
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New Electric Road
Toledo, O
Toledo & Monroe Electric Railway
Guilty Verdict in Jefferson Torture Robbery Case
ASHTABULA O Feb 7 Eugene Sloat trial for torturing and robbing Mrs Margaret Barret in Jefferson in December found guilty Four other young men remain jailed awaiting trial for the same offense
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Ashtabula
Eugene Sloat
Margaret Barret
Jefferson
Ohio Coal Trust Formed Says Dealers Agree Output
A Cleveland report says the Ohio Coal Traffic Association and the Ohio Coal Association plan a joint meeting next week to formalize a coal trust. Dealers will present sworn last year sales and average price per ton. Firms signaled willingness to accept an allotment scheme, ending direct dealings with consumers.
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Cleveland
Ohio Coal Traffic Association
Ohio Coal Association
Ohio Coal Trust
New Bill Seeks Nonpartisan Board for Cincinnati Waterworks
Columbus February 4 Senator Robertson introduced a bill to abolish the Cincinnati waterworks commission and set up a four member board of trustees for water works improvement and extension. Two Republicans would be governor appointed and two Democrats by the mayor with each earning 4000 dollars annually. The measure replaces the Swain bill already passing the house to transfer duties to the board of commissioners.
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Cincinnati Waterworks
Columbus
Robertson
Senate
Cincinnati Waterworks Commission
Board of Trustees of Waterworks Improvement and Extension
Swain
House
Cincinnati to Enforce Expectoration Ordinance on Transit
Cincinnati officials and the Street Railway Co will begin a campaign against spitting in public spaces. Circulars to be posted in all street cars warn that sputum spreads disease and that spitting on sidewalks floors and public conveyances is forbidden with penalties under statutes.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Street Railway Co
Withrow
Board of Health Regulation
Legislators tour Toledo as centennial site candidate
Ohio lawmakers visited Toledo on Friday to study the city as a potential site for the 1903 Ohio centennial. About twenty local citizens escorted an over 100-member legislative party to Columbus and then brought them to Toledo to inspect its advantages. A banquet was held at the Boody House Friday night.
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Toledo
Ohio Legislature
Columbus
School Building Burned in Columbus Ohio Fire
CoLumbus Ohio Feb 4 The Main Street school building burned Thursday Three hundred children were marched out safely and in an orderly manner by the teachers Books and wraps were burned.
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CoL_uMBus
Main Street
Miss Maxie Smith Sues for 21000 Damages
In Kent Ohio on February 4 Miss Maxie Smith filed a suit against the Kearney and Foot File Company seeking 21000 for damages after losing a thumb in a box machine at the works a few weeks earlier.
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Kent
Maxie Smith
The
Kearney & Foot File Co
Jilted Lover Takes Poison
Howard Kemp son of a local druggist killed himself with arsenic after his fiancee Miss Bannister eloped with Harry Young a hotel keeper. The incident occurred Sunday in ApA with Kemp described as distraught over the affair.
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Apa. O
Howard Kemp
Miss Bannister
Harry Young
Insane From Fright In Ohio Girl
Miller Backwan, 16, daughter of H. M. Backwan of Delphos Ohio, broke through canal ice weeks ago and, badly frightened, suffered mental decline. Adjudged insane Friday and to be removed to Toledo asylum.
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Delphos
Miller Backwan
H. M. Backwan
Toledo
Attorney Jenks to go to Copper River gold field
TORONTO O Feb 7 John M Jenks an attorney of this place will leave for the Copper river gold field April One or two others from this place will go with him.
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Copper River Region
Toronto
John M. Jenks
Copper River Gold Field
Zola Trial Sparks Paris Court Atrocity Protests
In Paris on February 8 the Zola Dreyfus case opened at the Seine assize court with huge public interest. Crowds surrounded the court while police maintained order. The indictment focused on a passage in Zola's letter denouncing the Esterhazy court martial. The court allowed evidence on other charges against Col Paty du Clam and generals Mercier Boisdeffre Billot and Pellieux, with Col Paty du Clam called but refusing to testify. Proceedings adjourned at 5 p.m. without further sensational incidents.
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Paris
M. Emile Zola
Dreyfus
Assize Court
Seiné
Rochefort
M. Bort
M. Zola
Zola
Advocate General
Esterhazy
Col
Paty du Clam
Mercier
Boisdeffre
Billot
Pellieux
Gen Cochranes Death In New York City Remains Noted
Gen John Cochrane longtime soldier and public official died at his home in New York City on February 8. He served in the army of the Potomac and was made brigadier general in 1862. He was nominated for vice president in 1864 on the independent Republican ticket and later held posts as New York attorney general and police justice. He filled the unexpired term as mayor after Oakey Hall. No funeral arrangements were announced.
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New York City
New York
John Cochrane
Cochrane
Loyal Legion
Army of the Potomac
United States
Independent Republican
John C. Fremont
State of
Oakey Hall
Jealous wife kills stepdaughter and injures herself in Brooklyn
New York police reportInsane jealousy drove Martha Place 87 to kill 17 year old Ida M Place day after her 17th birthday and then murder suicide attempt against her husband Wm M Place 47 in Brooklyn The husband wounded but likely to survive The wife out of danger Ida died in the incident and disputes over the daughter's company fueled frequent quarrels between the couple
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New York
Wm. M. Place
Brooklyn
Mr. Place
Martha
Ida M. Place
Ida
Congressional Record of Senate and House Proceedings
A summary of sessions from February 2 to February 8 detailing Senate debates on the Teller resolution Hawaii annexation and Corbett seat, House action on the District of Columbia appropriation fortifications bill and military academy funding, including political exchanges, executive sessions, and notable remarks by Mr. Clark, Mr. Caffery, Mr. Morgan, and Mr. Dingley.
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Washington
Senate
Clark
Rep
Wyo
House
District of Columbia
W. A. Stone
Mahany
N. Y
McClellan
Caffery
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Henry W. Corbett
Oregon
Corbett
Mitchell
Hovasse
Simpson
Dingley
Ways and Means Committee
New York
London
Kentucky
Committee On Claims
Fleming
Dem
Powers
Pacific Railroad Commission
Union Pacific
Kansas Pacific
Handsome Study of Gen Wallace to Become Crawfordsville Property
Gen Lew Wallace announces that upon his death Crawfordsville will receive his recently completed study worth $40,000. The room will be a public library housing a rare book collection spanning diverse subjects, and was designed with donation in mind for the city where he is adopted.
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Wallace
Crawfordsville
Ind
Lew Wallace
Fire damages Blumenthal Bros. wholesale clothiers building
A six story fire in Philadelphia at 42 and 44 North Third Street, housing Blumenthal Bros. wholesale clothiers, burned past midnight. By 2 a.m. the blaze was under control with losses estimated around $75,000 insured.
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Philadelphia
North Third Street
Blumenthal Bros
American National Bank of Chicago Authorized to Begin Business
Washington reports that the American National Bank of Chicago has been authorized to begin business with a capital of 1,000,900 dollars. The announcement marks the bank's formal entry into operations and signals regulatory approval for its financial activities.
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Washington
American National Bank of Chicago
Northern Pacific Schedules Faster St Paul Tacoma Train
The Northern Pacific will run a faster train from St Paul to Tacoma starting next Saturday, cutting travel time by five hours to accommodate rising Alaska travel. If demand remains strong, additional trains will be added.
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Tacoma
Wash
Northern Pacific
St. Paul
Alaska
Mrs Lane Improvement Reported After Restful Night
Washington February 8 The condition of Mrs Lane daughter of ex Senator Blackburn is improved Monday She had a good night's rest and is taking nourishment more freely
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Washington
Lane
Blackburn
Annexation debate and Wilsons Alaska concerns
The article covers Senator Teller’s four hour executive session on the Hawaiian annexation treaty, the push toward debating annexation via a bill, and House-Senate dynamics including Speaker Reed’s stance. It also reports Secretary Wilson urging military aid to Alaska ports Dyea and Skaguay, a funeral attendance, and an amendment on Hawaii’s government status. Additional notes discuss baking powder recommendations for Alaska travel and military supply considerations.
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Wilson
Washington
Senator Teller
Colorado
Senate
Teller
Congress
Committee On Foreign Relations
House of Representatives
House
Reed
Hawaii
Agricultural Ied
H 5
Department
Dyea
Skaguay
Alaskan
Canada
Europe
Cridler
State Department
Urbana
Jos. Smith
Richards
Dawes
Bristow
International Union of American Republics
Smith
Morgan
Ala
White
Cal
Republic of Hawaii
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Yukon River
Alaska
Wheat for Export From Pueblo to Gulf of Mexico
Colorado faces a wheat surplus as 300000 bushels are slated to ship from Pueblo within six weeks to the Gulf for export to France and Belgium. Kansas City buyers are purchasing at 65 to 70 cents a bushel for export.
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Prueblo
Col
Pueblo
Gulf of Mexico
France
Belgium
Colorado
Kansas City
Indian Girls Sentenced in Carlisle Fire Incident
Elizabeth Flanders and Fannie Eaglehorn, Indian girls at the Carlisle Indian school, pleaded guilty to attempting to burn the girls’ building. They were sentenced to one year and six months, saying they were homesick and asked Captain Pratt to send them home.
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Carlisle
Elizabeth Flanders
Fannie Eaglehorn
Capt. Pratt
Babe Fatally Scalded in Roxomo Indiana
A 20 month old child of Mr and Mrs Richard Alright of Roxomo Indiana died after drinking boiling water from a bucket on Monday. The accident occurred February 8 and officials report the child could not be saved.
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Babe
Roxomo
Ind
Richard Alright
Mysterious Alaska Sheep Scheme Ends in Bizarre Feasts
Jack Collins drove a flock 100 miles toward Dawson City, killed 700 sheep and sold 300 for about 20000 dollars. The remaining 400 carcasses were left to rot, attracting eagles ravens and other birds where they were found as Collins abandoned the site to seek a mining claim. The fate of the claim and the mutton remains uncertain.
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Dawson
Jack Collins
Dawson City
Arctic Zone
Collins
Mackenzie River
Clair
Birds of Prey
Oregonian
Elev elevator scene anchors town life across cliff and plain
A town relies on a single cliffside elevator to move between two unique places. The uphill path, the flat stretch below, and the lifeline of this elevator shape daily life in the community.
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Wmich'gan
Beirsuman Sod Wagner
Fan
Wagner
Ahvel
Dr. G. Edwards
Bissenger Trafic
Sakogo
Es. P. Marvin
Joseph Bernhard
Carrison, Chirio
Rone
Sonable
Market St
Harrison
Harrison, Ohio
General Banking
Mads
Frank Bowles
City Hall
Harrison, O
Pine
Peter Ebertz
Ia At
Louisville Sints West
York
Mackinac
State and Prison
D. R. Merrill
Emil
Mr. White
Hawaiian Islands
Adm
Worden
Hampton Roads
Monitor
Merrimac
Hovuse
Military Academy
Aldrich-Plawman
New Bank
Mrs. Lane
Alaskas
Yukon
McQuesten
Ami
Arctic
U. S
Lition
Peary
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