Bombardment of Lone Tree Hill Rages in Manchuria War
A dispatch from Manchuria reports Japanese artillery blasting Lone Tree Hill with field and siege guns as a 100 mile front sees heavy fighting. Russian forces destroyed Japanese fortifications at the Shakhe river bridge while Kuropatkin’s fate remains uncertain amid strict censorship in St Petersburg.
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London
Sachetun
Manchuria
Sys
Poutiloff
Lone Tree) Hill
Kondayu
Tunsilal Pass
Gauto Pass
Shakhe
Kalama
Huan Mountain
Shakhe River
St. Petersburg
da Pass
Kuropatkin
Oubenepusa
Kuroki
Revolt in Arabia Spreads from Yemen Province
The insurrection in Yemen province Arabia centers at Saada north of Sanaa where fighters have surrounded the capital and a five day battle continues. Turkish troops desert in large numbers. In the south Rab and Hidjeh with 2,000 troops and four guns are besieged and near capitulation.
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Constantinople
Yemen
Arabia
Saada
Sunea
Assur
Sanaa
Rab
Hidjeh
Man found dead in barn after gun discharges on ladder
Elmer Lindstrom aged 22 left a barn to shoot sparrows in Tustin Michigan. When he did not return a search found his body with a head wound. Authorities suspect he was descending a ladder while holding the gun by the muzzle and the hammer fired.
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Tustin
Mich
Elmer Lindstrom
Two Freight Trains Crashed Near Lebanon Junction
A head on collision between two Louisville and Nashville freight trains on the Knoxville division, a few miles south of Lebanon Junction, Ky., killed two men Judson Anderson and Charles Morgan both of Lebanon Junction, and injured one other.
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Louisville
Knoxville
Louisville and
Nashville
Lebanon Junction
Judson Anderson
Charles Morgan
Cambridge Man Suffered Shoulder Dislocations After Derrick Fall
March Lawrence Vernauf of Cambridge City Indiana fell from a derrick in the oil field months ago tearing ligaments and loosening the shoulder. He says the arm has been thrown out of joint at least twenty five times since the accident and any pressure can dislocate it again.
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Cambridge City
Ind
Lawrence Vernauf
Country Girls in Demand in Libertyville District
City residents seek household help as Lake County advert sees strong response. A Libertyville girl advertised for a position and received 120 applications in the March drive.
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Libertyville
Tfl
Lake County
San Francisco Plot Cited in Death of Mrs. Stanford
Honolulu special reports chemists find large strychnine amount in carbonate soda bottle from a San Francisco medicine chest. Unopened until the fatal dose, it confirms a plot formed in San Francisco over a month ago.
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Honolulu
Mar
Evening Journal
Leland Stanford
San Francisco
Primary election bill passes in Springfield
Springfield Illinois March 2 The house approved the primary election bill by a 112 to 96 vote. Special to Evening Journal.
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Springfield, Ill
Evening Journal
House Today
Inducements Offered to Move to City Home
A fragment notes suitors offering inducements to persuade her to take up residence in a city home, reflecting a social or domestic dispute snippet from the era.
Homicide Suspect Arrested After Hammond Struggle
In Waukegan Illinois on Saturday night Michael Goodrich was shot and killed. John Sosnoski, the accused shooter, was captured in Hammond Indiana after resisting police there. Sosnoski formerly resided in Hammond.
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Waukegan
Lil
John Sosnoski
Michael Goodrich
This Place
Hammond
Ind
Sosnoski
New York Sculptor In Cincinnati Finds Teeth By X Ray
Charles H. H. Meyer visiting Cincinnati was scanned at the city hospital after laughing caused his false teeth to slip down his throat. Doctors say no operation is needed and he is not in danger.
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Cincinnati
Charles HH. Meyer
New York
City Hospital
Prayers Reported as Futile in City Crisis
Philadelphia on March 2 sees thousands praying for Mayor Weever Smyth and city reform. Ministers and councilmen confess anger at machine rule and vice, with hundreds in church services and a thousand women fasting at Twenty-ninth Street Methodist Church.
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Philadelphia
Twenty-ninth Street Methodist Church
Soy Won’t Be Deportable, Chinaman Wins Right to Stay
At a hearing in St. Louis on March 2, United States Commissioner James R. Gray ruled that Jen Soy, a laundry operator born in San Francisco, could remain in the United States. Actress-like Mrs. Brandt applauded as the ruling was announced. Soy was the first of nine Chinese nationals tried under the Chinese exclusion act, and he presented certified birth certificates and testimony via interpreter.
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St. Louis
Jen Soy
John J. Brandt
First Christian Church
Thirteenth and Locust Streets
United States
James R. Gray
Soy
Olive Street
San Francisco
Job-hunting toughs teased in a July to January joke
In a humorous column a remark mocks a man who constantly seeks work. The exchange likens him to someone carrying a show shovel in July and a pitchfork in January, illustrating the stereotype of perpetual labor hopefuls.
Sioux Center Farmer Kills Wife Then Flees
In Hull Iowa March 2 William Van derwilt a wealthy farmer near Sioux Center beat his wife with a chair until her head was crushed he fled on a horse but was captured by neighbors The woman left five children and the motive cited was his belief that she caused his ill health
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Hull
William Vanderwilt
Sioux Center
Dr George T Moore Inoculates Soil With Benign Bacteria
Dr George T Moore director of the laboratory bureau of plant industry in Washington reports success inoculating soil with benign bacteria. The mailed colonies to farmers increase soil fertility by raising nitrogen levels and improving plant physiology nationwide.
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George T. Moore
Dr. Moore
Laboratory Bureau of Plant Industry
Washington
Suit Over Damages Aimed At Minnie Olderig
Mrs. Carl Carrer sues Minnie Olderig for 20000 damages alleging her influence lured her husband from sobriety into crime leading to his penitentiary sentence. Carrer, whose husband joined the Trynor bank gang, says he abandoned family to fund gifts for Olderig. Ex Senator Wolcott Dead.
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Des Moines
Minnie Olderig
Carl Carrer
Miss Olderig
Carrer
Trynor
Miss Olders
Wolcott
Prominent Colorado Senator Wolcott Dies in Italy
Denver March 2 a message announces the death of ex United States Senator Edward O Wolcott who had been sojourning in Italy and the news reached the Brown Palace hotel in Denver indicating a sudden loss for the Colorado Republican ranks.
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Colorado
Italy
Denver
United States
Edward O. Wolcott
Brown Palace Hotel
Frick Raises Wages 10 Percent For 30,000 Coke Workers
Notices posted at all Frick coke region plants announce a 10 percent wage increase beginning today restoring pay to prior levels after cuts. General industry gains cited. Rainey and Cochrane independents will match. About 30,000 workers affected including 17,000 at Frick and 13,000 at independents.
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Uniontown
H. C. Frick Company
Ios
W. J. Rainey
Cochrane Company
H. C. Frick Coke Company
United States Steel Corporation
Iowa law on embezzling self-loans declared defective
Davenport authorities rule Iowa statutes lacking a punishment for bankers who loan to themselves render M. Beuthien and Arnold Beuthien free. Judge J W Bollinger quashes Arnold Beuthien’s indictment and accepts withdrawal of his guilty plea, freeing him.
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Davenport
Iowa
M. Beuthien
Arnold Beuthien
New Liberty
J. W. Bollinger
District Court
Arnold Beuthein
Ice Gorge Break Opens Mississippi River Passage
St Louis reports the breaking of the ice gorge in the Mississippi and the last of the river floes passing the loca arbor as the river clears for navigation in early March.
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St. Louis
Mississippi River
Demolished Dykes Cause Large Damages at Illinois Works
A newly constructed government dyke measuring 100 feet was completely demolished at a cost of 200000 dollars. The protection dyke at the East St. Louis waterworks also collapsed, with damage estimated at 15000 dollars.
Sargar Beats Tobacco Trials in Wisconsin Beet Field
In Reloit Wisconsin on March 2 a report shows fifty farmers grew sugar beets on 184 acres producing 3058 tons and $16,358 revenue. The average yield reached 19 tons per acre and earnings averaged $88.91 per acre.
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Reloit
Wis
Minooka Cavern Cave-In Floods Street Area
A serious cave-in under central Minooka causes a five foot depression along Cemetery street over two blocks. Water mains torn, several houses and St. Joseph's hall damaged, area flooded and town mood dampened.
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Wilkesbarre
Minooka
Cemetery Street
St. Joseph's Hall
Premier Balfour confirms Milner resignation in South Africa
London March 2 Premier Balfour told the house of commons that Lord Milner the British high commissioner in South Africa had long since announced his regret at not remaining in South Africa thus confirming his resignation announced months ago in these dispatches
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London
Balfour
House of Commons
Lord Milner
South Africa
Minister Resigns Over Separate Schools in Northwest Bill
Clifford Six Ton resigns from the Dominion government in Ottawa after opposing the northwest autonomy bill’s educational clause which would practically endow Separate schools for Roman Catholics in the northwest.
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Ottawa
Ont
Clifford Sixton
Interior
Dominion
Northwest
No Decision in Patterson Case Reserved in Brooklyn
After arguments on writs of habeas corpus and certiorari to free Nan Patterson from the Tombs prison, Justice Gaynor reserved decision in the Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
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Patterson
New York
Nan Patterson
Gaynor
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Will of Jay Cooke leaves estate to heirs under law
Norristown estate authorities say Jay Cooke’s will leaves all assets after debts to heirs under jp t estate laws. The fortune is believed to be worth several millions. In Christiania the Hagerup cabinet planned new government after Premier Hagerup advised the regent Crown Prince Gustaf to appoint P. C. Michelsen and J. M. Schoening to form a new cabinet following resignations of finance minister and counselor of state.
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Norristown
Jay Cooke
Christiaania
Hagerup
Gustaf
P. C. Michelsen
J. M. Schoening
Government receipts exceed expenditures in February 1905
Washington reports February 1905 totals show receipts of 44 608 072 dollars and expenditures of 41 461 234 dollars leaving a surplus of 3 146 838 dollars. The monthly Statement of the government receipts and expenditures records these figures.
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Washington
Elvina Schneller Found Dead Near Neillsville
The 12 year old Elvina Schneller was found frozen to death near Neillsville after leaving her Humbird home on January 9. She had not been heard from since.
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Humbird
Wis
Elvina Schneller
Neillsville
Fanny Stories and Humorous Tales Shared
A jovial man boasts of three funny stories shown by his architect while an acquaintance remains unimpressed. The exchange reveals a note on humor and its sometimes pathetic undertone as the speaker reels from recent payoffs.
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Hal
Little Edith Finds Flea On Kitty In Tea Prank
In a playful domestic scene, Edith reports catching a flea on the family kitten and jokingly says she placed it back on the cat as if it were tea. The moment captures a child’s mischief and the mother’s amused reaction in a light home anecdote.
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Edith
Sys Lippincott
Kitty
Public debt statement shows decline in March balance
At the close of business March 28 1905 the debt minus cash in treasury stood at FUSUOTLISS, a decrease for the month of 855,461.
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Washington
Liquid Metal Polish Recipe by Blacksmith and Wheelwright
A vintage polish recipe instructs mixing eight ounces Spanish whiting with one quart of gasoline to separate a clear liquid. It directs adding thirty two drops of prete acil to prevent settling and to polish gold silver nickel brass glass or any metal with a flannel cloth.
Markets Open With Mixed Hogs and Steady Cattle Prices
Chicago March 2 1908 hog receipts estimated 3400 carryover 109 prospects to fall 10 lower. light pigs 84 55 to 84 90 mixed packers 84 70 to 85 00 heavy shipping 84 75 to 84 45 rough 84 75 to 84 50 cattle 1000 steady sheep 1000 steady official receipts yesterday 37310 shipments 11402 today 38000 tomorrow 23000. Beef prices 3 60 to 4 15 cows and heifers 1 45 to 4 70 stockers 3 20 to 4 40 sheep 14000 receipts steady market natives 4 50 to 6 00 western 4 50 to 6 10 lambs 6 50 to 8 75 western lambs 6 50 to 7 40 steady early declines noted.
Loans to Mrs Chadwick Spark Big Bonus for Broker
W V Coons the broker testified in Chadwick bankruptcy before Referee Remington. He admitted making several loans to Mrs Chadwick totaling about 75 000 with large extras for interest above the legal rate. Security included a 150 000 Sir Reynolds order and a pearl necklace valued at 20 000 to 30 000.
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Cleveland
W. V. Coons
Chadwick
Remington
Coons
Grossman
Sir Reynolds
Olds
Loans to Mrs Chadwick Show High Excess Interest
Witnesses describe loans by Coons and Wuerst to Mrs Chadwick with excess interest and large cash payments. Coons could not specify exact excess but suggested about 12 500 on a 75 000 loan while noting no records. Wuerst claimed 500 bonus on a 2000 loan with jewelry as full collateral.
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Cassie L. Chadwick
Coons
Grossman
Mr. Chadwick
Chadwick
Henry Wuerst
Elyria
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Frick
Tee
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Ohio Hypnotic Financial Ass
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