Fire inquiry begun as North Collinwood disaster toll grows
Witnesses testified on the Collinwood school fire that many doors opened outward and were locked during the disaster. Investigations by the coroner and school board reveal the west entrance door was closed while children pressed toward it, a single fire escape, and walls that channeled flames. About 144 of 187 identified victims are counted, with 27 bodies largely unrecognizable.
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North Collinwood
Lake View Morgue
Collinwood School Board
le Horror
Fatally Shot Mystery Grips Dion Society Man
Emery Pulver a prominent Dillon society man was shot and fatally wounded early Thursday. Dr Bond found Pulver prostrate at his door after friends carried him there as police probe possible links to the Henry Cahill case, in which a galoon man was assaulted and shot in an alley.
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Dion
Mont
Dillon
Emery Pulver
Bond
Pulver
Fhenry
Cahill
Panic Fire Drill Averts Panic At Central High School
A fire broke out in the Central High School laboratory in Grand Rapids Michigan with 1200 students in morning work. The alarm sounded and students evacuated in two and a half minutes with orderly conduct, the fire causing comparatively little damage and proving the drill effective.
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Central High School
Ipand Rapids
Mich
Police release two sisters in Chicago assassination probe
Rosie Stern and Olga Averbuch, sisters of the man killed by Chief Ktes py, were released from custody at PTT Thursday after arrest in connection with the police investigations of the attempted assassination of Shippy.
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Chicago
Rosie Stern
Olga Averbuch
Ktespy
Shippy
PTT
Sioux City Live Stock Market Report and Cleveland School Fire Update
Thursday quotes show Slows livestock at 85.15 and Nophogs at 94.36. Many bodies remain unclaimed or unidentified as investigators probe the smoldering ruins of Collywood school in Cleveland Y. Arrangements for a large public funeral are being perfected.
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Sioux City
Collywood School
Cleveland Y
King Edward Takes Holiday in Bar-Irita Visit
King Ha ward leaves London Thursday for Bar-Irita for a month's holiday as reported by the London special edition.
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King Edward
Heliday
London
King Haward
Bar- Irita
Fire At Collinwood School Kills Hundreds Of Children
A devastating blaze at the Collinwood School in Cleveland suburb Collinwood wipes out hundreds of students. The two story brick building, overcrowded with nearly 300 pupils, burns from a defective furnace in the basement, trapping many on upper floors as flames seal the exits. Fire escapes were inadequate and doors held. the Lake Shore railway shops workers help open the first floor door built wall of flame, killing most before escape.
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Collinwood School
Collinwood
Cleveland
Lake Shore
Catholic editor warned after threatening postal card
Arthur L. Catlopy of Denver, editor of the Western Home Journal, received a postal card threatening harm if he continued writing against the working man. The warning references an article in his Catholic monthly denouncing anarchy and is being treated as a hostile message.
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Arthur L. Catlopy
Denver
Cola
Western Home Journal
Catholic Monthly
Callopy
Ridgeley to Be President of National Bank
The National Bank of Commerce in Kansas City Missouri will reopen Monday March 2 in its new Commerce building with 6.6 million dollars capital in vaults. Ridgeley will be president with Edward Ridgeley as cashier and George T Cutts as first vice president. Ww. as, sridge ly, announced as comptroller of the currency. The board will include many local men.
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National Bank of Commerce
Kansas City
New Commerce
Sridgely
Edward Ridgely
Willl
George T. Cutts
New York Senator Vidaver Arrested on Bribery Charge
Nathan Vidaver of New York a special deputy state attorney general was arrested by District Attorney detectives on a charge of accepting 600 in marked bills from William Montgomery former Tramillon Bank president. Vidaver played a leading role in the city banking probe and was a recent candidate for the Court of General Sessions.
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Nathan Vidaver
New York
Jerome
Wm. R. Montgomery
Tramillon Bank
Vidaver
Senate
Tuesaday
Bennatora McCumber
North Dakota
Newlands
Nevada
Tillman
Indian Territory
Mir Lloyd
Missouri
Post Office Department
Wanger
Pennsylvania
Hartje Acquitted in Plitta Burf Conspiracy Case
Judge McFarland directed the jury to acquit defendants Hartje Welshons and Hove in the Plitta Burf conspiracy case. The trial abruptly ended midweek, sending the charges back to the county as a sequel to the Hartje divorce case.
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Hartje
Plittaburf
McFarlane
Welshons
Hove
Wisconsin man guilty of murder in sane frenzy
Henry Wolf of Wauquau Wisconsin was found guilty Wednesday of manslaughter in the third degree for killing his wife during an insane frenzy on June 13 1907. He struck her with a king bolt from his cattle wagon and had pleaded insanity.
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Henry Wolf
Waucau
Wis
Wulf
Railroad Says Salary Reduction Reinstated
The Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis Railroad announces it has rescinded its order cutting salaries for all employees earning more than sixty dollars a month. The salary scale will stay unchanged.
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Nashville, Chattamooga
Man Leaps to River Below Lua Island Bridge
A Niagara Falls dispatch says a man, believed to be Grover C. Huden of Buffalo, jumped from Lua Island bridge into the river and his body was carried over the falls.
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Sligara Falls
Niagara Falls
Grover C. Huden
Buffalo
Lua Island
Bank Heist Frustrated Near Cincinnati Suburb
A heist targeted a bank near Cincinnati, Metropolis area, with $3,000 seized before the suspects fled. Authorities describe the robbers as unknowns who disappeared after the early Wednesday attempt. Local police cordon off the scene as they investigate the incident at the Metropolis bank.
No Quarter to Reds as Immigration Officials Target Anarchists
Secretary of commerce and labor Puerday orders all immigration commissioners and immigrant inspectors to consult with city police and secret services to identify alien anarchists and criminals. The directive clarifies the meaning of anarchist under the 1907 immigration act and urges reporting of felonies and moral turpitude to enable deportation within three years of entry.
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Viele Sam
Allen
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Puerday
Commissioners of Immigration and Immigration Inspectors
Gn-Operatioan
Polier
Straus
AML
Commissioners of Immigration and Immigrant Inspectora
United States
Police
Secret Service
Somnambulist Chief Justice Writes Death Sentence Opinion
In Chattanooga Tennessee an 1870 Tennesse Supreme Court ruling affirming Andrew Smith's death sentence was authored by Chief Justice while asleep. Justice Nicholson reportedly wrote the lengthy decision during a somnambulistic state and later recalled nothing. Peter Turney, later governor, helped draft and later confirmed the facts.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Supreme Court of Tennessee
Andrew Smith
Supreme Court
Justice Nicholson
Peter Turney
Fovernor
Tennessee
Gov. Turney
Scarlet Fever Serum Used by New York Doctors
New York physicians report success with a scarlet fever serum similar to the diphtheria treatment. Hypodermic injections are being used in east side hospitals where outbreaks are severe. Dr Henry G Robinson notes tests abroad in Germany and France show gratifying results.
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New York
Board of Health
Henry G. Robinson
Germany
France
Road Pays 15000 Death Claim in California Wreck
Claim agents for the Southern Pacific railway company in Binghamton New York settled with the executor of the estates of Mr and Mrs John W Cutler agreeing to pay 15000 for the death of the couple who were killed in the Shriners train wreck in southern California last spring.
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Road
Southern,Pacific Railway Company
Binghamton
N. Y
John W. Cutler
Cutler
Shriners
California
Freight train disaster rocks line near Titchfeld
A Big Four freight train carrying powder exploded ten miles from Titchfeld when running at full speed. The wreckage included the train derailed and several cars burned. Two men were severely injured in the incident.
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Titchfeld
Nine-Hour Limit Shuts Southern Pacific Telegraph Offices
The nine-hour law affecting railroad telegraphers led to about five percent of Southern Pacific telegraph offices in Louisiana being closed on Wednesday.
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Southern Pacific
Louisiana
Rossiter Named Public Printer Succeeding Stillings
The president intends to appoint W. S. Rossiter of New York as public printer, filling the post after Charles H. Stillings of Massachusetts. Rossiter, longtime chief clerk in the census office, receives the nomination amid ongoing government actions. Meanwhile France votes to dispatch 4,000 more soldiers to Morocco to persist with its policy there.
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Rossiter
W.S. Rossiter
New York
Charles 8. Stillings
Massachusetts
Morocco
Discrimination Question Raised At Pure Food Show
Judge James Ay Howe of Polk County Des Moines rules no discrimination in sample distribution at a Pure Food show booth. A colored couple, Mr. and Mrs. Brown, were refused coffee. the coffee company's manager J H Lane was arrested but discharged. Brown seeks Supreme Court ruling on the matter.
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James Ay Howe
Polke County
Des Moines
B. I. Brown
Brown
The
State University
J. H. Lane
Howse
Supreme Court of the State
Embezzlement Now Alleged in Green Mountain Bank Case
State auditor F. E. Roberts files new charges against Green Mountain Sayings bank officers in Marshalltown. President Stuart B. MacDiarmid and cashier Donald A. Johnson face misappropriation and perjury accusations. Johnson's hearing on accepting deposits while insolvent continues.
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Green Mountain
Marshalltown
F. EB. Roberts
State Auditor's Office
Stuart B. MacDiarmid
Donald A. Johnson
MacDiarmid
EB. Collins
Helen J. Edwards
Jofimson
Johnson
State F
Arbiters Fix Wages for Des Moines City Railway
A Des Moines arbitration board reached a wage agreement with the employer and city railway officials late Monday. The final scale is undisclosed amid one dissenting vote, but a wage increase is certain though specifics are not released.
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Des Moines
Board of Arbitration
Des Moines City Railway Company
Blackleg Alert in Ida County Cattle
Blackleg has appeared among cattle in Blaine township Ida County on the farm of T. Churchill between Ida Grove and Arthur. A close watch is kept on this and other big herds as Ida County ships more cattle than any county of its size in the West. If blackleg starts, serious losses could follow.
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Blackleg
Ida County
Blaine Township
T. Churchill
Ida Grove
Arthur
Will Rebuild St Francis Academy After Fire
The St Francis academy at Mason City burned a few days ago will be rebuilt. The school committee of the St Francis congregation met Monday morning and voted to erect a brick building larger and more convenient than the destroyed one at a cost of not less than $25,000.
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St. Francis Academy
Mason City
St. Francis
Tows Orator Honored by Michigan Law Class
The law class of 1908 at the University of Michigan elected Thomas W. Bird of Missouri Valley as valedictorian. Bird entered the university in 1906 after graduating from Iowa State Normal School, an honor highly prized among university distinctions.
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Tows
University of Michigan
Thomas W. Bird
Missouri Valley
Bird
University
Iowa State Normal School
Prominent Clinton Woman Killed by Street Car
Alice Gabriel aged 74 a longtime Clinton resident was instantly killed Monday morning when she stepped into the path of an electric street car. The woman did not hear the vehicle and turned directly in front of it as it passed over her body.
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Mia
Alice Gabriel
Clinton
New Pastor Chosen at Fonda Church
A congregational meeting at the Presbyterian church in Fonda unanimously called Rev. Edson Bell of Armstrong to the local pastorate. He will begin his duties about April 1.
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Fonda
Presbyterian Church of
Edson Bell
Armatrong
Funds to Pay Church Debt Raised by Local Fair
Home talent at Fonda under the young folks Catholic society organized a fair in the old church building. The event raised 1400 dollars, all of which will be applied to paying the debt on the new church.
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Jones
Fonda
Catholic Society
Hand Crushed by Cog Wheel in Tasling Engine
Charley Schimming, serving northeast of Hawarden, suffered a severe injury when a wheel and belt on a tapping engine entangled his hand. Medical aid was sought, and the incident was reported as a crush accident with the worker standing by for further evaluation.
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Charley Schimming
Hawarden
Ayushea
Nun Elopes With Barber In Omaha Marriage
Council Bluffs barber Roman R. Dye said he helped a nun leave St. Bernard’s hospital and married her in Omaha on Friday. He claimed she was a ten year nun named Geneva. hospital officials said otherwise. The woman used the name Lizzie M. Welch, age 26, in Omaha.
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Conneil Bluffs F Hospital
Roman Orange R. Dye
Council Bluffs
St. Bernard's Hospital
Omaha
Mayr
Geneva
Sister Geneva
Lizzie M. Welch
Cashier Under Arrest At Green Mountain Bank
Donald A. Johnson, cashier at Green Mountain Savings bank, was arrested in Cedar Rapids on charges of unlawfully receiving deposits for an insolvent bank. He was moved to Marshalltown, with bond not yet set, and claimed deposits after insolvency were kept separate. President MacDiarmid was arrested days earlier on related banking charges.
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Green Mountain Bank
Sont
Donald A. Johnson
Green Mountain Savings Bank
Cedar Rapids
Frank E. Roberts
Marshalltown
Johnson
MacDiarmid
Grief Thought to Drive Local Farmer's Wife to Suicide
Mrs Robert Sauter wife of a prosperous Buena Vista county farmer in Coon township shot herself in the temple and died instantly after leaving her sisters in the home. Grief over a child’s death in December is believed to have caused the act, with no signs of family trouble in a well off household. She went to her room upstairs then a shot rang out and she died before help could arrive.
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Robert Sauter
Coon Township
Buena Vista County
Sautér
Young Man Slain in Clinton Home Suspect Wife Held
The body of Fred Delph, 26, was found in his East Street Clinton home Sunday with a shotgun blast. His wife, the suspected killer, is under arrest and silent. Liquor bottles suggest drinking. friends say she threatened his life.
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Clinton
Fred Delph
East Street
Iowa Liquor Interests Form Traveling Men's League in Davenport
The Traveling Men's Liberty League of Iowa organized at Davenport Saturday with over 200 representatives of wholesale liquor dealers brewers and allied business interests from across the state in attendance. The league aims to advance members business interests promote personal liberty in line with law and morals and oppose the prohibition movement in Iowa and the nation.
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Owa Liquor Interests Organizant
Davenport
Men's Liberty League of
Iowa
I Ts
United States
Boy Discovers Man's Body Near Kingsley
A boy named Jamee Bolton, age four, found a man's body in a pasture along a river bank about three miles northeast of Kingsley on Saturday morning. The deceased is believed to be Otto Klingbrie, missing for two weeks. A second item notes Mrs. Richards’ home burned west of Moorhead, losing about $65 in money. a relief fund for eight children is being organized.
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Jamee Bolton
Kingsley
Otto Klingbrie
Long Cribbage Duel Extends Seven Years in Des Moines
Col John C Lopez and Milo Ward continue a historic cribbage match in Des Moines stretching seven years. The current score stands 406284 to 455284 as both players expect to finish in 1915. A remarkable endurance contest with high stakes and public interest persists.
Senate and House clash over currency and army bills
Senators from Oklahoma and Kansas spar over tribal nomenclature while Culherson and Nelson attack the Aldrich currency measure. The army appropriation bill faces revisions as the House debates pay for noncommissioned officers and private army manpower. A land syndicate probe and a $70 million mail weighing claim anchor a day of heated votes and procedural moves.
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Senate
Culherson
Aldrich
Nelson
United States
Nalzell
Republican Party
Houston
Tennessee
Owen
Oklahoma
House
Pny
National Capital Notes on House Deep in Pension Talks
The House rapidly considered pension business and briefly passed 370 bills. Military affairs favored a 27 percent pay increase for enlisted personnel in the army and marine corps. A New York representative introduced a 100000 dollar survey bill for a proposed whig canal linking Benton Harbor and Toledo. Columbus, Ohio post office and courthouse bids were opened with 11 firms bidding. Charles W. Gindele Company of Chicago submitted the lowest bid at 336650.
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National Capitol
House of Representatives
House Committee of
Army
Marine Corps
Fornes
New York
Benton Harbor
Lake Michigan
Toledo
Lake Exile
Court House
Columbus
Ohio
Charles W. Gindele Company
Chicago
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