Crazy Snake Still At Large Amid Creek Uprising
Oklahoma report says Crazy Snake, Creek leader, remains at large as 100 national guardsmen and deputies search hills and river bottoms. Over 40 captives jailed. five prisoners brought to Hickory Stamping Grounds. Fatalities include two deputies and a Creek man. fighting stemmed from land allotment dispute and sale under mortgage.
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Henryetta
Olka
Crazy Snake
Oklahoma National Guard
Hickory Stamping Grounds
Washington
Odom
Baum
Dick Barnett
Barnett
Baker
Farrer
Missionary Congress Opens in Toronto with American Leaders
The Interdenominational Canadian National Missionary Congress begins in Toronto on March 31 with prominent American church workers in attendance. Participants include Silas McBee, D F Wilbur, LAW Severance, Robert E Speer, J Lovell Murray and J Campbell White. Sir Andrew Fraser will deliver the principal address and Earl Grey serves as honorary president. The program also features the National Young Men's Christian Association quartet.
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Toronto
Canadian National Missionary Congress
Silas McBee
The
Churchman
D F. Wilbur
United States
Halifax
Law Severance
Cleveland
Robert E Speer
J. Lovell Murray
J. Campbell White
Sir Andrew Fraser
Bengal
India
Earl Grey
Canada
Congress
National Young Men’s Christian Association
Oldest City Celebrates Three Day St Augustine Jubilee
St Augustine Fra March 31 The ancient city marks the founding anniversary with a three day fete highlighting Ponce de Leon 1515 Menendez 1565 and historic flag changes Spain France England to United States through ceremonial landings and parades coast artillery bands state troops and cadets participate in the celebration.
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St. Augustine
Fra
United States
Ponce de Leon
St Augustine
Old Fort
Menendez
Spain
France
England
Coast Artillery
Florida
Kentucky Military Institute
Rich Man Ends Life With Shotgun at Washington
Henry A. Griswold former president of the Anacosta and Potomac Railroad now with Washington Electric Railway and Power Company killed himself with a shotgun in Washington. He was a wealthy real estate broker and a prominent Weatherfield Connecticut family member.
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Roailroad
Washington
Henry A. Griswold
Anacosta and Potomac Railroad Company
Washington Electric Railway and Power Company
Weatherfield
Conn
Harriman Seeks Unified Rail System and Big Spending
FE Harriman told the Denver Chamber of Commerce he would unite U S railroads under one head and spend 250 to 300 million on weaker lines with government supervision. He said five years earlier he warned President Roosevelt that the fight on railroads would incite broader harm, a prediction he now says is clearer. A court ruling followed about not mandamusing a private corporation to fulfill a contract.
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Denver Chamber of Commerce
Roosevelt
White House
Denver
Colo
FE. H. Harriman
America
Harriman
Chamber of Commerce
Woman Prevents Lynching in Chillicothe Missouri
Mrs James Wood wife of a farmer intervened as two men accused of shooting Marshal Caraway faced lynching. A rope was readied and a farmer posse prepared to string the prisoners when she urged that law take its course. A third man involved is armed with an automatic revolver and vows to die rather than surrender.
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Chillicothe
James Wood
Marshal Caraway
Court Denies Writ in Colored Students Dismissal
In Lansing on March 31 the Michigan Supreme Court refused a mandamus to compel Grand Rapids veterinary college to readmit two colored students expelled after white students objected to their presence.
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Mandamus College
Lansing
Mich
Grand Rapids
Veterinary College
Supreme Court
Court Straddles Fence in Equal Rights Clash Ruling
Federal appeals court rules in National Fire Proofing v Bricklayers unions that equal rights clash leaves the injured party without a legal remedy. Judge Noyes writes that there is no remedy in law or equity on the evidence presented.
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New York
Federal Court of Appeals
National Fire Proofing Company
Bricklayers’ Unions
Builders’ Association
Noyes
Fiancee and Money Gone After Planned Michigan Marriage
In Harvey Illinois William Lacey aged seventy asks police to locate Annie Thode forty years younger, once of Lyons Illinois. He asserts she took 400 dollars while he sought a clergyman in St Joseph Michigan, leaving his money with her for safekeeping.
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Harvey
Ind
William Lacey
Annie Thode
Lyons, Ill
Lacey
St. Joseph
Mich
Chickasaw Woman Kills Dentist in Self Defense Claim
Ardmore Oklahoma March 31 Harriet Pace a full blooded Chickasaw Indian shot dentist William Ader four times. He died as Pace testified that Ader attacked her and she fired in self defense.
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Ardmore
Okla
William Ader
Harriet Pace
Ader
Prohibition on Shackling Women Prisoners Ordered
Atlanta prison officials announce that under no circumstances will women prisoners be placed in shackles or chains. Chairman Turner of the prison commission issues the directive.
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Atlanta
Turner
The
Prison Commission
Fourteen Feared Dead From Altenburg Fire
In Havana on March 31 the steamer Altenburg burned at the Havana Central railway piers. Fourteen crew members are missing and feared dead after a rapid blaze forced an orderly evacuation. The ship was beached at Regla as fires in coal bunkers and cargo hinder search efforts.
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Havana
Altenburg
Havana Central Railway
Regla
New York's Oldest Woman Dies at 106
New York reports the death of Mrs. Machla Schlatsky aged 106, widely believed to be the oldest woman in the state. The March 31 obituary notes her long life and status as New York's senior resident.
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New York
Machla Schlatsky
Von Brelow Denies Kaiser Cabal In Reichstag Debate
Berlin March 31 Chancellor von Brelow told the reichstag there is no camarilla around the emperor and warned Socialists against disorderly agitation. He said stricter laws could follow if needed and defended new taxes as partly direct and partly indirect, with inheritance tax on property and shared burdens on luxuries and necessaries. The house adopted the appropriation measure.
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Berlin
von Brelow
Stralelhif
Clubwomen in Convention Opens Sessions in San Antonio
Leaders from across the country gather in San Antonio to start a two day convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. The council brings together the federation board state presidents and secretaries to discuss the tenth biennial May 1910 Cincinnati meeting, reports and committee recommendations.
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Council of General Federation
San Antonio
Tex
United States
General Federation of Women's Clubs
General Federation
Cincinnati
Lawmakers Back Bill To End Prison Labor Contracts
In Lansing on March 1 the House of Representatives in committee of the whole unanimously approved the Clarken bill to abolish the contract labor system in state prisons and end experience of avtetine contracts.
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Lansing
Mich
House of Representatives
Chicago Live Stock Market Summary March 31 1909
Chicago reports brisk cattle and sheep activity with 9000 plus receipts from cattle and 13000 for sheep. Hog prices hold steady with light hogs at 6 40 to 6 69 and heavy packs at 6 70 to 6 80. Estimated receipts for tomorrow around 27000, with markets seen strong to higher on cattle and steady on hogs and sheep.
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Texas
Tariff Debate Highlights Calls to Cut Duties on Sewing Machines
Washington March 31. The House opened with a small turnout as Rep Cox Indiana urged reductions on sewing machines bicycles and computing scales. He warned Germany’s favored nation status lets it ship at lower tariffs, risking American jobs and factory shifts abroad. Rep Bates Pennsylvania backed protection arguing tin plate duties protect thousands of workers and high wages, contrasting U.S. tariff policy with Europe.
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Pennsylvania
Washington
Cox
Indiana
Germany
Russia
France
Payne
Bates
Son Deposes His Mother as Executrix in Big California Estate
In Santa Barbara March 31 Lady Frances Broome an Englishwoman who has long attracted attention was removed as executrix of her husband’s 270 000 dollar estate after eighteen years without an accounting. Thornhill Broome, her eldest son, petitioned for an accounting and was named special administrator. The defendant wept in court as she collapsed and spoke of distrust in attorneys.
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Frances Broome
Big Estate
San Barbara
Cal
Thornhill
Lady Broome
Castro Will Be Admitted to Venezuela Returns Home on Guadeloupe
The Venezuelan government has reconsidered its decision and will allow Ciprano Castro to land in Venezuela. The French Steamship company confirmed the change after notification from Venezuelan commissioner in Europe Senor Paul. Castro, returning aboard the Guadeloupe, offered no comment on the development.
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Venezuela
Paris
Ciprano Castro
Guadeloupe
Senor Paul
Europe
Santander
Spain
Castro
Eliot to go to England for British ambassadorship
Senator Root announced at a Harvard dinner that Charles W. Eliot will become the American ambassador to Great Britain with Taft as guest. He praised Eliot as a true American gentleman and representative of the republic’s best qualities, indicating the succession plan.
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Root
Harvard
Whitelaw Reid
Washington
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
Taft
Dr Eliot
Great Britain
Eliot
Snow Heins Wheat Crops
Hutchinson Kansas March 3 Snow and precipitation reported throughout western Kansas and eastern Colorado will be of great value to wheat crops.
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Hutchinson
Kas
Wee'ern
Kansaa
Colorado
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Open Missionary Congress
Chapin
Kansas City Times
Chicago
Reichstag
Kaiser
Clubwomen
Beach-Wickham Grain Company
John A. Babcock
North American Live Stock Commission Company
U.S
Ili
Ireland
Mr. Bates
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