Montgomery Bank Cashier Accused of 429000 Defalcation
William Montgomery cashier of Allegheny National Bank in Pittsburgh charged with embezzling 429000. Arrested, arraigned before US Commissioner Lindsay, held for grand jury on 50000 bond. Closure notes bank can sustain loss. Montgomery once a political and social figure, tied to Senator Quay.
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William Montgomery
Allegheny National Bank
Pittsburg
United States
Lindsay
Montgomery
Quay
Bank
White ink to make Black newspapers a possibility
Wisconsin paper makers propose printing black newspapers with white ink to save forests and cut paper costs. If accepted, White ink newspapers could reduce wood pulp use and lower prices by about half. The plan targets eastern printers after congressional hearings in Washington.
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Wisconsin
Congressional Investigation
Washington
Robbers Kill Messenger On Dean and Rio Grande Train
Train robbers boarded the Dean and Rio Grande No 4 at Castle Rock Colorado early Thursday morning and murdered Charles Wright age 60 messenger for Globe express company. They took a key to a small safe and contents valued under 100 dollars. The large safe was not entered. They gained entry through a broken side window and shot the messenger dead with his gun in hand.
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Maogedy Oecura
Maj O P Chaffee Dead Confederate Army Officer
Maj O P Chaffee former Confederate Army officer and brother of Lieut Gen Adna R Chaffee died at his Kansas City Missouri home on Thursday aged 79 after kidney trouble His death was reported from Los Angeles where he had been living in retirement
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O. P. Chaffee
Adna R. Chaffee
O. P
Los Angeles
Kansas City
Divorce Condemned as Curse at Episcopal Conference
The final session of the sixteenth annual conference of Episcopal church clubs of the United States was held in St Louis Missouri on Thursday. Social sentiments were favored and divorce and remarriage were condemned as the curse of the country.
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Annual Conference of Episcopal Church Clubs of the
Decatur Goes Dry as Saloons Close at Midnight
Decatur becomes dry under the Illinois local option law with fifty eight saloons shut at midnight Thursday. The brewing company will switch to manufacturing soft drinks exclusively.
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Decatur
Four Die as Explosive Fire Hits Orchard Street Tenement
Four people were killed and twelve injured in a New York fire on Thursday believed incendiary in origin. The blaze leveled a four story tenement at Orchard Street, causing extensive damage and prompting swift firefighting response.
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New ‘York
Orchard Street
Sioux City Live Stock Market Prices Noted
Sioux City live stock market quotations list Yop Leeves at 6.60 and Lup hogs at 5.40 in a brief market snapshot.
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Sioux City
Phurscuy
Famous House Burns at New London Headland Chelsea Evokes Arson Charge
A blaze early Thursday destroyed the Pequet house and two cottages at the western headland of New London Connecticut. Authorities Chelsea Eire Jacob Lewitxy of Boston and Abraham Welnitz of Chelsea are arrested for arson in connection with the Chelsea fire dated April 12.
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Burns
Pequet
New London
Cunn
Harbor
Feur
Chelsea
Eire
Jacob Lewitxy
Boston
Abraham ‘Welnitz
Mann
Mighty Warshina Sweep Into San Francisco Harbor
The Atlantic battleship fleet arrived in San Francisco after a 14 600 mile voyage marking a major Navy review. Governor, mayor and officials welcomed the ships as the city declared a holiday with downtown streets deserted and large crowds gathering to greet the fleet.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate
Hampton Roads
Secretary of the Navy
Yorktown
Navy
California
Oakland
Life Insurance Validated After Banker's Suicide
Charles Coster of New York, a banker who killed himself last week, held a $100,000 incontestable life policy found during property investigation by Louis Werner, the assignee of the brokerage firm. The policy, taken out two months ago, obliges payment. Werner and surviving partner Henapp secure the firm’s stock exchange safekeeping, with securities likely aiding creditors as liabilities rise toward about 2100,00.
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Charles Coster
New York
Stock Exchange
Black Hand Crime Strikes Brooklyn Barber Shop
A 16 year old, Carmello, tricked into a Brooklyn barber shop attacked boss Antonio Peraso, Mrs. Peraso and three barbers, cutting throats as they slept. Peraso and wife are mortally wounded. barbers likely survive. Police suspect Black Hand backing, with the youth acting as an agent after Peraso refused blackmail demands.
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Carmello
Brooklyn
N. Y
Antonio Peraso
Peraso
Black Hand
Lotus Club Dines Wu Ting-Fang Chief Guest Dinner
Chinese minister Wu Ting-Fang was the chief guest at a New York Lotus Club dinner on Wednesday night. Prominent attendees included Gen Frederick D. Grant of the U S Army and Cornell University president Jacob G. Schurmann.
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Lotus Club
Wu Ting-Fang
China
New York
Frederick D. Grant
United States Army
Jacob G. Schurmann
Cornell University
Two Defy Dictator In Plague-Stricken La Guayra
In La Guayra Venezuela a plague crisis pits American consul Thomas P. Moffat and Venezuelan doctor Gomes Paraza against local authorities. Disputed diagnoses, imprisonments, and orders to isolate the city trigger a military sanitary cordon as Ta Guayra is shut off by land and sea.
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la Guayra
Gomez Peraza
Peraza
Rangel
Vargas Hospital
Caracas
Pei
I'vsident
Castro
Laguayra
Storm Devastates St Louis Area With Floods And Drowning
A violent storm struck St Louis area early Tuesday causing heavy property damage and loss of life. A bridge on the Toursville and Nashville road near Belleville was washed out, wrecking a freight train. Engineer Ward, Conductor Smith and a trainman died. Edgemont Illinois flooded as residents used improvised rafts to escape. The American Bottoms basin, spanning 35 square miles east of St Louis, was submerged, French Village Illinois saw a miniature tornado unroofing many houses. Trees and signs were toppled, storefronts shattered, and communications crippled across the city.
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St. Louis
Toursville
Nashville Road
Belleville
Ward
Smith
Edgemont
Awakening of China and its political implications
Wu Ting-Fang, China’s minister to the United States, told a Carnegie Civic Forum in New York that China’s awakening will end the Far Eastern question once it gains strength to protect its sovereignty. Introduced by Gen. Stuart Woolford as the foremost leader of the new effect in China, the minister spoke on progress toward Western civilization.
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Wu Ting-Fang
China
United States
Civic Forum
Carnegie.al
New York
Gen. Stuart
L. Woolford
Bomb Blast Follows $10,000 Demand in Dayton House
Four days after receiving a $10,000 extortion demand from the Black Hand, a dynamite blast wrecked the rear of the Dayton home of Frank Gentile, a wealthy Italian fruit merchant. No injuries reported. Police investigate possible connection between the threat and the explosion.
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Frank Gentile
Dayton
Piqua
Black Hand Society
Three Killed in a Southern Storm
Three persons are dead and several injured as a storm with wind and rain swept southern Arkansas western Tennessee and Mississippi Monday night into Tuesday. Property loss and traffic disruption were widespread across affected areas.
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Arkansas
Tennessee
Mississippi
Duchess in Paris Won’t Return to New York
The widowed Duchess de Chaulnes will stay in Paris with her father Theodore P. Shonts. A posthumous child is expected and the duchess is advised against a long journey to New York for safety reasons.
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Duchess de Chaulnes
America
Paris
Theodore P. Shonts
New York
Move Against Opium Dens In Crown Colonies
The English house of commons unanimously adopted resolutions urging speedy abolition of opium dens licensing in crown colonies notably Hongkong Straits Settlements and Ceylon.
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House of Commons
Hongkong
Straits Settlements
Ceylon
Dual Denver Tragedy Claims Fireman Victim and Self
Burton Koch, a Denver firefighter, fatally shot his wife Louisa and wounded Mathilda Motley before killing himself early Tuesday. Domestic troubles are cited as the motive, with authorities noting the tragedy unfolded in Denver.
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Burton Koch
Denver Fire Department
Louisa
Mathilda Motley
Amelie Bingham Moved to Sanilarium for Surgery
Actress Amelie Bingham, ill with peritonitis for over a week, was transferred to a New York sanilarium on Wednesday in preparation for an upcoming surgical operation.
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Amele Bingham
Amelie Bingham
New York
Cleveland man kills daughter then takes own life
Charles Kuppe, a 60 year old music teacher from Cleveland, killed his 27 year old daughter Mallie with chloroform on Tuesday and then hanged himself. Mallie, 43, had suffered long illness and grown mentally deranged.
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Charles Kuppe
Cleveland
Mallie
Hames Sweep Ohio Town Fire Destroys Records
Fire in Coalton Ohio damaged the mayor's office and police station burning town records, the fire apparatus building, and several structures in the business district Tuesday. No injuries reported. Local officials assess losses and investigate cause.
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Hames
Ohio
Coalton
Busings
Beick Receives Prussian Crown Order from Kaiser
William Charles Beick of the New York Times is awarded the Order of the Crown of Prussia by Emperor William. The announcement notes the honor reflects Beick’s service and standing in journalism.
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Kaiser Howord
Emperor William
Order of the Crown of
Prussia
Charles Beick
The
New York Times
Arbitration treaty with Japan signed by Rudy and Takahira
A general arbitration treaty between the United States and Japan was signed on Tuesday by Secretary Rudt and Ambassador Takahira. It permits arbitration at The Hague for nearly all disputes between the signatories. A fire in Walkerton, Indiana, destroyed the business district early Tuesday, causing about 15000 dollars in losses.
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Japan
United States
Rudt
Takahira
Hague
Walkerton
Ind
Wife of Wealthy Man Seeks Divorced After Brief Married Life
James Grant a Marshalltown landowner faces a sensational divorce suit from his wife Fannie M Daley of Centerville. She seeks divorce and separate maintenance alleging cruel treatment and failure to provide with $500 temporary alimony and $7 000 permanent alimony. A writ of attachment on Grants property was issued. The suit for separate maintenance names his daughter Catherine J Clark and her husband Fred Clark. The petition claims Grant induced Mrs Daley to sign a blank deed then deeded property to his daughter to defraud her equity.
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James Grant
Marshalltown
Fannie M. Daley
Centerville
Grant
Catherine J. Clark
Fred Clark
Clark
Typhoid Epidemic Ties Banquet to Outbreak in Rockwell City
Forty people contract typhoid within three days after attending a Methodist Episcopal church banquet on April 14. Most patients are men. two women, Mrs. Andrew Wood and Miss Othel Johnson, ate lunch home brought from the banquet. Rev. Robert Reedy, pastor, is hospitalized in Des Moines with a severe case as doctors and nurses rush to control the spread. The outbreak prompts urgent investigations into the banquet’s food source amid fears of high fatalities.
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Wood
Robert Reedy
Des Moines Hospital
Des Moines
Siounx City
Thirty-Year-Old Man Elopes With 14 Year Old Girl
Riley Collins, 30, eloped with Sarah Huntback, 14, from Geneva to Lancaster Missouri and then to Ottumwa. They married in Lancaster and later moved to work near Farson. Sheriff Jackson arrested Collins, who was brought to Ottumwa and turned over to Sheriff Co L. Jarnigan of Hampton Franklin County on charges of enticing a girl under 15 away from home.
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Jackson
Farson
Riley Collins
Ottumwa
Co. L. Jarnigan
Hampton
Franklin
Collins
Geneva
Sarah Huntback
Former Mapleton Merchant Dead
A telegram from Spokane announced the sudden death of Snyder, a longtime Mapleton merchant who moved to Spokane several years ago. He was 64. Miss Gertrude Modlin, 25, daughter of Charles and Mrs. Modlin of Toledo, died Monday after a year long tuberculosis illness.
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Mapleton
Snyder
Spokane
Snyder See
Toledo
Gertrude Modlin
Charles Modlin
Modlin
Drop a Dead Baking Bread in Coalville
In Coalville near Fort Doige Mrs S B Spainhower aged 50 dropped dead from heart failure while looking into an oven. She fell instantly to the floor and died.
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Coalville
Fort Doige
S. B. Spainhower
County treasurer shortage sparks 27000 dispute
W H Pettis of Sac County is accused of a 27000 cash shortfall after auditors found mismatches between tax receipts and cash books and two receipt sets. George A Taylor is expected to be appointed to complete Pettis's term as the shortage is investigated by the supervisors.
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Sac County
W. H. Pettis
Sae Clus
Hehimacht
George A. Taylor
Pettis
Sues Her Mother-In-Law for Loss of Husband Love
New London woman Mrs. T F Magetta sues her mother in law Mrs Ella Magers for 8000 damages alleging alienation of affection. Court records describe repeated abuse and manipulation by the mother in law as the husband’s violence escalated with her supposed encouragement.
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New London
T. F. Magetta
Ella, Magers
Mt. Pleasant
Ihlaw
Candidate Demands Railways Keep Depot Fires Warm
Des Moines gubernatorial candidate Fred E. White and his daughter reported a frozen wait at South English station after finding the depot stove removed. He filed a protest with the state board of railway commissioners urging railroads to maintain fires in passenger depots until winter ends and temperatures rise.
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Raihway
Fred E. White
Des Moines
State Board of Railway’ Commissioners
White
South English
Yowan on 12000 Mile Trip from Seattle to Yukon
Wilbur J. Green of Dows, son of James Green, begins a 42000 mile mission for the United States government. He travels with a companion from Seattle to Sitka then Dawson and St Michael, then 1700 miles down the Yukon. They cross the Arctic Circle and conduct compass and magnetic observations every eighty miles.
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Dows
Wilbur J. Green
James Green
Far North
United States
Mr. Green
Government
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Northern Wilds
Seattle
Sitka
Dawson
St. Michael
Yukon
Arctic Circle
Shake Up Sioux City Police Initiated by City Leaders
A shake up in the Sioux City police department is imminent as mayor, police and fire commissioners, and the city council decide to take over enforcing the gun law. Personnel changes are expected to ensure the new policy succeeds. Chief John Dineen will be summoned before authorities for instruction.
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Sioux City
Board of Police and Fire Commissioners
Police Commission
John Dineen
Potiey
Bank of Corwith Faces $350,000 in Claims
Over $250000 in claims have been filed against the recently defunct Bank of Corwith. At date 3200 claims are on record, bringing total claims to over $350,000. Most will be presented before Hancock County district court for investigation.
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Clabns
Bank of Corwith
District Court of
Hancock County
Clarion Loses School Head as Blakely Resigns
Prof. W. H. Blakely who led Clarion public schools for three years has resigned to head the Fort Dodge high school manual training department at an advanced salary. Death of B. J. Carney prominent Grinnell businessman dies after months of stomach trouble.
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Clarion
W. H. Blakely
Clarion’ Public
Fort Dodge
B. J. Carney
Grinnell
Strikers faced with ultimatum at Cardiff Gypsum plant
Fort Dodge workers warned by Cardiff Gypsum Co that noncompliant strikers will be replaced by outsiders. Plant has not been run during the strike though three other plants operate with armed guards. Minor injuries reported as a worker is severely scalded while fighting a fire in Mason City. A recent burglary arrest leads to recovered loot. J W Maxwell, 78, founder of Maxwell, dies after a fall at Kirkwood Hotel.
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Cardiff Gypsum Company
Fort Dodge
T. R- Dujat
Northwestern
Mason City
Fragmented historical dates listed in a timeline
A stream of dated entries spans 1607 to 1907 covering events like the first American newspaper, battles, territorial changes, royal titles, postage stamps, wars, and naval incidents. The list reads as a chronological montage of notable actions and shifts across countries and centuries.
Immigration limits and imperial aid prompt senate withdrawal
Canadian Senator McDonald attempted a resolution to curb Hindu immigration and urged inviting imperial help, but Senator Scott noted Mackenzie King’s trip to England for the task, leading McDonald to withdraw. An editorial in the Times praised Roosevelt’s anti-anarchist campaign and awaited further details. In Hong Kong boycott news, Chinese money changers and druggists' guild refuse Japanese notes and forfeit deposits from nonparticipants to a benevolent society. A Manila dispatch reports a clash between American troops and constabulary near Mindanao, with two constabulary and three soldiers wounded. A column of Eighteenth Infantry pursued outlaws under Col. Davis. Australasia warned of potential Japanese aggression and supported a large federal citizen army in Australia. The Cassard sails to Morocco to rescue the Baleine crew. Trial in Medicine Hat reveals the dreamers followed a leader who ordered arson and family harm for dissent.
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London ‘Times
Irrsidior Roosevelt
Anarchem
Times
Hong Kong
Manila
Lanao
Mindang
Constabulary
Eighteenth
Davis
Japan
London
Australasian Chamber of Commerce
Thomas Price
South Australia
Price
Great Britain
Australia
Cassard
Morocco
Baleine
Cape Juby
Eed
Dreamers
John Who
Medicine Hat
Cau
Lehr
Tal
Ghiy
Waidaigat
Hevetig
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Pactherville
Iowa
Vindicator
Republican Corn
Ziang
Wiliam Montgomery
Coster
Empire
Denver
OWA State News
Amony
Fontanelle
Dunlap & Welch
Younglove Construction Company
Pante
Floris
F. H. McDonald
George Stevens
Lester Shindely
Charls Knox
Grand Lardeny
Wiote
Yowan
George Heist
Oskaloosa
J. W. Maxwell
Maxwell
Kirkwood Hotel
Couneil
Trent
Thudson
Bonton News
Almanza
Demerara
Derne
Pripoli
Grask
Constantinople
Isabella
Spain
San Taciato
Earl of Cathcart
Canada
Cape Race
Charles Dickens
Victoria
India
Riverside Park
Matanzas
Cuba
Admiral Sampson
Swain
Dewey
Welland Canal
Salvador
Nicaragua
Amafala
Ottawa
Benator McDonald
British Columbia
Benator Scott
Mackenzie King
England
McDonald
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