Global Happenings From Senate Wars And World Affairs
Prominent events move through U S and world arenas with a focus on the railroad rate bill in Senate, statehood talks in the House, and a war of notes among officials. Ambassadors named, surveys ordered, and a presidential veto mark a busy period as other trials, trials, and honors unfold across cities, farms, and industries.
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Senate
House
Charless. Francis
New York
Austria-Hungary
Miners Demand 1903 Wage Scale Restored in Central Field
United Mine Workers led by John Mitchell and T. L. Lewis presented an ultimatum to coal operators seeking restoration of the 1903 wage scale, a 5.55 percent increase. Operators adjourned the session awaiting a definite reply, with analysts predicting a likely rejection and a continued floor fight at the joint convention. The miners insist any district signs the advance scale only if paid across all four states in the central competitive field.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine Workers of America
John Mitchell
T. L. Lewis
National Union
Herman C. Perry
Illinois
Central Competitive District
Joint Conference of
Firemen Perish In Bedford Downing Street Blaze
Four firemen died and about twenty others were injured in a major fire at a six story factory building at Bedford and Downing streets. Explosions preceded collapse, the damage estimate ranging from 300000 to 400000 dollars. Chief Croker blamed the blasts as the cause of the building’s destruction and the out-of-control flames. One rescuer died soon after extraction, while three others were later recovered buried in wreckage.
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New York
Bedford and
Downing Streets
Croker
Wedding Eve Tragedy: Father Kills Daughter Then Self
Pansy E Townsend, 95, was shot by her father Jos P Townsend less than three hours before her wedding to Francis E Perry of Fort Myers Florida. Townsend then killed himself. The tragedy occurred in their home and investigators believe unbalanced mind due to looming separation drove the elder Townsend to the act.
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Wessaratt
Mace
Pansy E. Townsend
Jos. P. Townsend
Townsend
Miss Townsend
Francis E. Perry
Fort Myers
Fla
Perry
Train Drops Into Stream in Wyoming Wreck
A work train traveling from construction camps west of Walton to Casper slid into a small stream near Natsona due to melting snow and high water. It is the worst wreck in the Wyoming division of the Chicago & Northwestern, with nine men known dead including foreman Charles Noll.
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Casper
Wyo
Wyoming Division
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Walton
Natsona
Charles Noll
Outfit
Agreement Near in Morocco Policing at Algeciras
Washington reports Ambassador White cables that the Algeciras conference is close to an accord on policing Morocco. The proposed framework follows President Roosevelt's line, marking the conference's hardest issue nearly settled.
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Washington
State Department
Ambassador White
Algeciras
Morocco
Roosevelt
Transport Thomas Sails for Manila
The United States army transport Thomas sailed from San Francisco bound for Manila carrying many cabin passengers and a number of marines but no regular troops. Her cargo includes 4 000 tons of army supplies.
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Thomas
San Francisco
United States Army
Manila
Internal Revenue Collections Show February Total
Washington reports the February 1906 internal revenue collections at 18,343,289 dollars, up 1,477,984 from the previous month.
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Internal Revenue Collections
Washington
Internal Revenue
Tragedy at Missouri penitentiary shocks guards
In Jefferson City Missouri during breakfast a convict known as Son ny Anderson stabbed guard J W Woods of Macon to death. A second guard killed Anderson immediately after the attack.
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Jefferson City
J. W. Woods
Macon
Sonny” Anderson
Anderson
Tornado Hits Perry Oklahoma Injures Three, Destroys Property
A cyclone struck the neighborhood south of Billings Oklahoma causing severe injuries to three people. The tornado destroyed thousands of dollars in property and left damage across the area.
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Oklahoma
Perry
Okla
Billings
Chancellor Von Buelow to resign amid Berlin dispatches
Vienna reports Berlin dispatches say Chancellor von Buelow plans to resign and be replaced by Prince Hohenlohe Langeburg. The crisis is attributed to colonial affairs influencing the move.
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von Buelow
Vienna
Berlin
Prince Hohenlohe-Langeburg
Fire in Chicago causes $150,009 loss at Market Street building
A six story brick structure at 237 2389 Market street in Chicago housing several wholesale clothing merchants suffered a fire loss of $150,009 before fire crews gained control. The blaze damaged the wholesale premises and surrounding interiors. Investigations into the cause were not disclosed in the report.
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Chicago
Market Street
Jamestown Exposition appropriation and state prison labor reform
Columbus reports an Ohio legislature session with a 75 000 appropriation for participation in the Jamestown exposition, up from 50 000, and Senate passage of a Wertz measure abolishing prison contract labor. The reform would have prisoners work on roads and state projects, with other actions delaying prohibition constitutional amendments and combatting saloon tax changes. The naval militia loses state funding in current bills.
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Senate
Secretary of War
Ohio River
Cincinnati
Roosevelt
Congress
Western Judicial District
Texas
House
Secretary of the Interior
Oklahoma
Columbus
O’rourke
Lucas County
Committee On Judiciary
Senate Committee On Temperance
Wertz
Naval Militia of
Ohio
Lake Erie
Hill Joint Resolution Seeks Constitutional Convention
Columbus Ohio March 24 The house committee on federal relations recommended passage of the Hill joint resolution to appoint a four man committee to secure two thirds state support for calling a constitutional convention to amend the constitution to elect U S senators by direct vote The committee on banks urged a county depository law The committee on fees and salaries proposed a state inspector salary of 3509 dollars
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Columbus
House Committee On Federal Relations
Hill
United States
Tragedy in Findlay as Son Found Dead at Home
Findlay on March 26 reports C F Larkins and family returning from church to discover their 18 year old son Earl dead from a heart shot with a revolver beside him. The cause of the act is not known.
Wesley H. McClintock Dies in Ohio at 50
Wesley H. McClintock, longtime Ohio newspaper man and secretary of the state board of public works, died suddenly at his Nefiance home on March 26 from heart trouble. He was past 50 years old.
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Nefiance
Wesley H. McClintock
State Board of Public Works
Ohio
Frank Castor Scheduled for Electric Chair Death
Columbus March 26 Frank Castor the murderer of Police Officer Dan Davis at Horace L Chapman residence will die in the electric chair April 6 unless the supreme court interferes Circuit court judges affirmed the lower court ruling.
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Frank Castor
Columbus
Dan Davis
Horace L. Chapman
Supreme Court
Circuit Court
Spirits Guided Her Fire Act and Rescue in Springfield
Miss Mary Schultz, 31, an orphan, set fire to her clothing in Springfield Ohio after claiming spirits advised her to do so. Prompt aid saved her. she was sent to the asylum. She mourned her deceased parents.
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Springfield
Mary Schultz
Jealous Miner Kills Wife Then Shoots Self in Ohio Hamlet
In Deanville Nelsonville area, Fred Carey a saloon keeper shot his wife Nora in the right breast and then killed himself. Authorities cite jealousy as the alleged motive. Nora is reported to be recovering from her wound.
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Nelsonville
Deanville
Fred Carey
Nora
Man Wears Dollar Pills for Lung Protection
Cleveland march 26 a man named Chas Keibe wore dollar bills strapped around his body under his shirt for several days to protect his lungs from the wintry blasts. The makeshift belt of bills served as a home remedy amid cold weather conditions.
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Cleveland
Chas
Keibe
Foul play suspected in river death arrest made
East Liverpool Ohio March 26 The body of Frank Smith was found on the river bank with his head under the water. Police suspect foul play and have arrested Pearl Russell and Irene Adams.
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East Liverpool
Frank Smith
Pearl Russell
Irene Adams
Secret wedding announced in Newport Kentucky
Newark Ohio reports the secret wedding of F. B. Sinsabaugh and Miss Verne May Lock in Newport Kentucky on January 8. Sinsabaugh is the local representative for the O'Dell commission house of Cincinnati.
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Newark
Newport
F. B. Sinsabaugh
Verne May Lock
Sinsabaugh
O'Dell Commission House of
Cincinnati
Mary Hawn Die s in Marysville at 85
Mrs Mary Hawn aged 85 died in Marysville Ohio on Friday at her son's home after a long illness. She was reputed to be the granddaughter of the first white female child born in Ohio.
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Marysville
Mary Hawn
Ohio
Two Men Die In Wreck At Ivorydale Yards
In Cincinnati on March 23 two men, Edward Haverty yard foreman and John Eads brakeman, were killed when a C H and D freight wreck backed onto a side track at Ivorydale yards near the Laidlaw Dunn Gordon plant. Five others were injured. The locomotive backed into gondolas, the caboose overturned, trapping the two men beneath the heavy car as bystanders watched.
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Cincinnati
Ivorydale
Laidlaw-Dunn-Gordon Co
Rogers
Diehl
Mann
Cahill
Hatter
Edward Haverty
John Eads
Haverty
Eads
Grace Zellner Killed by Former Sweetheart in Boarding House
In Mansfield Ohio on March 24 Grace Zellner 28 daughter of merchant George W Zellner was shot dead by Roy Shanks formerly of Ashland who then killed himself at Shanks boarding house Zellner a known church worker and social figure had been romantically involved with Shanks despite her parents opposition and may have gone to announce she would not marry him.
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Indian Industrial School
Carlisle
Mercer
Alex S. Orr
New York Life Insurance Co
Casa Blanca
Roosevelt
Paris Temps
Algeciras
Denver & Rio Grande
Adobe
Col
Illinois Grand Lodge
Ancient
Order of United Workmen
West 54Th Street
New York
John Davidson Rockefeller III
Asheville
N. C
Frank A. Gotch
Charles Olson
Mutual Life Insurance Co
Richard A. McCurdy
Robert H
Charles H. Raymond & Co
McCurdy
John A. McCall
West End
N. J
United States
Reynolds
Van
Armenia
Rufus Johnson
George Small
Mt. Holly
Florence W. Allison
Moorestown
N.J
Atlanta
Andrew Carnegie
Stetson University
Oxford
Fla
University
Albert Prescott Marble
Public Schools
National Educational Association
Nashville
Curtis Jackson
Poplar Bluffs
Jackson
Dan Norman
J. D. McNeill
National Association of Firemen
Roanoke
Bartlesville
I. T
William L. Bray
Reinbeck
Adolph Weil
Weil
Claudine Wilson
John E. Murphy
Columbus
Secret Service
St. Louis
Panama
Magoon
Thomas M. Cook
Robert Lavington
Pullman Palace Car Co
Kansas City
Phoenix Powder Co
John Nash
Edward Higginbotham
Taft
United States Supreme Court
Watson H. Twitchell
Chicago
Justice Jordan
Hammond
Ind
Walter Twitchell
Twitchell
Twitchells
Samuel H. Ashbridge
Philadelphia
Ashbridge
Edward W. Serrell
S. R. Smith Infirmary
New Brighton
Staten Island
N. Y
Annapolis Naval Academy
House
Senate
Samuel W. Pennypacker
Pennsylvania
James K. Vardaman
Mississippi
Vicksburg Battle Park
Richard G. Ivens Wen
Bessie Honister
W. D. Haywood
Boise
Ida
Caldwell
James Nichols
Moyer and Pettibone
Moyer
Ferricuccio A. Vivanti
Vivanti
United Yokohama Tokio Co
Charles Mead
State Bank of
Beemer
Magtaon
Samar
Southern Pacific
Stockton
Cal
Peoria
Ill
Meent Devries
Harry Haaran
Devries
Haaran
Alabama & Vicksburg
Hickory
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Julian Hawthorne
Yonkers
Sprague
Gibraltar
Fred Fiernot
Bainbridge
Brooklyn
Baltimore
Walter Potee
Frank E. Moores
Omaha
Neb
J. R. Bennett
Eugenie
Jeff Saunders
Jefferson
Tex
Wrangel
Alaska
Plymouth
Newport
Lowell
Portland Gold Mining and Milling Co
Cripple Creek
Reader
Birmingham
Ala
Palma
Rius Rivera
Treasury
Freyre Andrade
House of
Congress
Iowa
Waterloo
Webster City
Council Bluffs
the Mutual Life Insurance Co
Louis A. Thebaud
Charles H. Raymond
Frank Thornton Dry Goods Co
Waynesville
R. M. Redord
Sumner
W. D. O’farrell
Prescott, Ark
Rederd
O’farrell
A. H. Smyth
Boys’ High School
Paris
Philadelphia & Reading
Hass Crossing
Sunbury
Ohio
Wisconsin
Manila
Shanghai
Mansfield, O
Grace Zellner
George W. Zellner
Roy Shanks
Ashland
Shank
Shanks
Reservoir Trial Ends Deadlocked After 52 Hours
Wapakoneta Ohio March 26 jury in the Isaac Sheeley reservoir trial failed to agree after fifty two hours of deliberation and was discharged by Judge Mathers. The panel stood seven to five for the defendant. The four week trial examined 150 witnesses and is noted as the region's longest and most famous case.
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Wapakoneta
Isaac Sheeley
Mathers
Great Sycamore Added to Coroner's Museum
In Tiffin Ohio on March 26 Coroner Lepper received a large section of the famed sycamore of Upper Sandusky donated by a friend. The tree measured 16 feet in diameter with five massive branches radiating over 100 feet. A Smithsonian representative once estimated its age at 2000 years.
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Tiffin
Lepper
Rocky Mountains
Upper
Sandusky
Smithsonian Institution
Edward Bloch, pioneer publisher of the American Israelite dies
Edward Bloch, renowned as the original publisher of the American Israelite, died at his daughter Mrs Henry J Lau man's home on Reading road and Hutchins avenue Avondale aged 77.
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Cincinnati
Edward Bloch
Henry J. Lauman
Reading Road
Hutchins Avenue
Avondale
Robbers Blow Open Glendale Post Office Safe
In Cincinnati on March 23 robbers forced entry to the Glendale post office and took a large stash of stamps and money. About $400 belonged to Postmaster Peter Schatzman. The thieves fled in a stolen rig.
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Cincinnati
Glendale
Peter Schatzman
General Appropriation Bill Moves in Ohio House
Columbus March 24 the general appropriations bill was introduced in the house. The measure aims to pare down expenses across all departments and sets a grand total of 5 928 821 dollars.
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Columbus
House
Will Pay the Shortage in Athens County Treasurer Case
Athens Ohio March 26. The pondsmen of ex treasurer E G Biddison will pay 17500 into Athens county treasury to cover a shortage that occurred during the last two years he served as treasurer.
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Athens
E. G. Biddison
Athens County
Court okays state ouster action against Bridge Trust firms
Bellefontaine Ohio March 24 The circuit court ruled the state may pursue ouster proceedings in a collective suit against 14 companies alleged to form the Bridge Trust and restrain their alleged anti competitive practice.
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Bellefontaine
Circuit
Bridge Trust
Brakeman Ross Dobson Dies of Injuries in Ohio Accident
Ross Dobson, 23, formerly of Lupton Michigan and a Pennsylvania brakeman, died at Alliance hospital from injuries suffered in Columbiana when he was caught between a car and a stock chute.
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Alliance, O
Ross Dobson
Lupton, Mich
Pennsylvania
Alliance Hospital
Columbiana
Workman Crushed To Death At Dayton Plant
Dayton March 26 John Wattinger was crushed to death at the Davis sewing machine plant when he stepped back into running machinery. The accident occurred before scores of workers. Columbus March 24 The senate passed the general appropriation bill with a finance committee amendment changing OSU fund distribution to build the women’s dormitory.
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Dayton, O
Davis
John Wattinger
Columbus
Senate
Finance Committee
Ohio State University
Ohio to Continue Executions After House Vote
Columbus March 24 Ohio will continue executions for murderers. The House voted 70 to 34 to indefinitely postpone consideration of the O Rourke bill to abolish capital punishment.
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Ohio
Columbus
House
O’rourke
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