Self-Slain at Sea Prominent Railroad President
David Willcox former president of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad died by his own hand at sea aboard the Barbarossa, near Genoa. The Barbarossa reached quarantine with Willcox's death then investigated by Health Officer Doty. captain Langrenter reported the true cause. Willcox had retired for ill health after a long career, never married, and was a millionaire with extensive railroad and corporate ties. The incident follows years of health issues and a noted resignation in April.
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New York
David Willcox
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
Monte
Langrenter
Barbarossa
Genoa
Naples
Willcox
Railroad
Leonord Loree
Baltimore Md Ohio
Rock Island Rand
The
Delaware and Hudson
Wilcox
Flatbush
Long Island
Yale
Poughkeepsie
Hao
United Traction Company
Albany
Southern Pacific Railway
Union Pacific Railway Company
Jtels
Mir Willcox
Wall Street
Fairbanks Heads to Des Moines Grant Birthday Celebration
Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks spent hours in Chicago and departed for Des Moines Iowa to address the Grant birthday celebration tomorrow. Also notes an International Christian Endeavor trip from Seattle with Yellowstone and California stops and an address for details.
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Des Moines
Grant
Chicago
Charles W. Fairbanks
Iowa
International Christian Endeavor
Seattle
Wash
Yellowstone Park
California
Edward Tarring
New Kidnapping Theory Emerges in Horace Marvin Case
Special to The Washington Post Philadelphia April 2 Frank Butler a deck hand on the steamship John P Wilson says he is innocent of murdering Horace Marvin or knowing of his disappearance He describes being questioned by detectives while in custody and suggests Marvin was kidnapped The marsh behind the Marvin farm and near Delaware Bay are cited as possible routes for abduction with the boy unable to cross the ice covered marsh alone and reach the bay
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Washington
Horce Mirvin
Little Horace
Caldwell Ned
Marvin
Wooda
Horace Marvin
Horace
Marvin Farm
Delaware Bay
Engineer Foils Wreckers Near Harrisburg
In Charlotte on April 26 an engineer halted Southern Railway mail train No 48 just yards from a cross-wood barrier. Three suspected robbers fled. bloodhounds and a posse pursued. By midnight two white men and a nephew were captured miles away and are held for investigation as the train reportedly carried 140909 dollars.
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Charlotte
Southern Railway
Harrisburg
Nesto
Tie to Trees All Night In Oratorical Contest
Freshmen capturd and bound two judges after an oratorical contest at Shortieff College in Upper Alton. Prof M Magan of St Louis and E M Dey, Missouri Pacific advertising agent, were tied to trees and released at dawn. Third judge Harold Johnson of St Louis was not molested.
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Upper Alton
Shortieff College
M Magan
St Louis
E M Dey
Missouri Pacific System
Harold Johnson
St. Louis
Prof Magan
Dey
Houpa
Edward and Alexandra begin Mediterranean cruise progress
King Edward landed at Naples and will travel by raft to London while Queen Alexandra stays aboard the Victoria and Albert for a cruise to Greece. On April 28 Edward noted Palermo’s transformation after forty years and both royals expect to return next year for a longer stay.
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Queen Alexandra
Mediterranean
Naples
King Edward
London
Victoria and Albert
Greece
Palermo
Special Panel Granted for Burnham Forgery Trial
New York April 26 Justice O Gorman granted a special panel of jurors to try Frederick A Burnham president of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association indicted for forgery and larceny Burnham is reported very ill with diabetes his counsel asked that the trial not be called at once The panel was ordered to report for duty on May 1s
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New York
Frederick A. Burnham
Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association
Railway Firm Charged With Rebating in Grand Canyon Case
In Los Angeles on April 26 the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company faces trial on 76 rebate counts for allegedly granting rebates to Grand Canyon Lime and Cement Company of Nelson Arizona. The cement firm defends against receiving rebates in 38 counts. The total alleged rebate amount is 11 dollars. Judge Wellborn in the United States Circuit Court overruled the defendants demurrers after arguments.
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Los Angeles
Atchison, Topeha and Santa Fe Railway Company
Grand Canyon Lime and Cement Company
Nelson, Ariz
Wellborn
United States Circuit Court
Cooper Ties Stephenson In Joint Ballot For Senator
In Madison Wisconsin on April 2 a joint ballot for United States Senator showed no material change from the prior vote. Leading Republicans gathered votes with Cooper at 18 Esch 17 Stephenson 18 Lenroot 17 Hatten 15 and twenty absentees noted.
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Madison
Wis
Cooper
Esch
Stephenson
Lenroot
Hatten
Taft Boom Starts in New Jersey at Trenton Club Dinner
Congressman Theodore E H Burton of Ohio launched Secretary Taft’s presidential bid at the Trenton Republican Club dinner with 900 attendees. He praised Roosevelt’s policies, urged governmental control of corporations, and warned against wealth concentration and monopoly, signaling New Jersey’s entrance into the Taft camp. Moore seconded the nomination, and cheers erupted as Burton urged decisive reform and loyalty to a fair, efficient administration.
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Washington Post
Trenton
N. J
Theodore E H. Burton
Ohio
Taft
New Jersey
Republican Club
Burton
Olfo
William
Taft Taft
Masonic Temple
J. Hampton Moore
Philadelphia
Decision Against Hammond Incompetent to Manage Affairs
Alienists at Bellevue Hospital have ruled James Bartlett Hammond, president of the Hammond Typewriter Co, incapable of handling his own affairs. The finding will go to Justice Bischoff tomorrow, with family and physicians likely proposing private care.
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New York
James Bartlett Hammond
Bellevue Hospital
Hammond
Justice Bischoff
Supreme Court
Convention Hall Plan in Philadelphia Aims for 20,000 Seats
Mayor Reyburn announced the Trades' League has secured an option on a full block between Twenty third and Twenty fourth and Chestnut and Walnut streets to build a $1,000,000 convention hall in Philadelphia with seating for about 20,000, targeting the next Republican National Convention. Plans drawn up.
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Philadelphia
Reyburn
Trades’ League
Twenty-third
Twenty-fourth
Chestnut
Walnut Streets
Woman in Black cases vow to expose conspirators
Howard J. Dyer, a former special policeman, says he will name principals in the Mrs. Walter Fairfield mystery and force witnesses to testify. He claims the mysterious woman in black, alleged husband a city millionaire, seeks vengeance on James C. Barr and a local physician, and ties to a Netherlands Legation incident.
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Walter Fairfield
Andrewa
Walter
M Street
Netherlands
Legation
Howard J. Dyer
Sylvester
Connecticut Avenue
Dupont Circle
M Streat
Uberty
Smart Set
Walter Faurfield
Fairfield
Waatington
May Sylvester
Mra Fairfield
Pre. Andrews
Barr
Guatemalan Exiles Plan Provisional Government
In Mexico City exiled Guatemalans and Central American supporters expect to form two provisional governments for Guatemala. General Salvador Toledo is named as provisional president with a full cabinet as plans unfold, aiming for Toledo to assume active charge from Mexico. The movement unites exiles abroad opposing the Cabrera administration and anticipates a revolution in Guatemala within months.
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Mexico City
The
Daily Record Today
Gatemala
Guatemala
Mexico
Central America
Salvador ‘Toledo
Toledo
Cabrera
Left Helpless On Track After Brutal Robbery
Pittsburg April 26 Frants Driska a 42 year old employee of the Pressed Steel Gas Company lies dying in Allegheny General Hospital after being beaten unconscious on a West Penn railroad track and run over by a locomotive. He says three negroes robbed him of money and fled. he identified the assailants and a county wide alarm was sent.
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Pittsburg
Frants Driska
Pressed Steel Gas Company
Allegheny
Driska
West Penn
Pennsylvania Railroad
Allegheny County
Ida von Claussen Demands Minister Graves Expulsion
Mrs Ida von Claussen who sought Roosevelt’s aid to remove United States Minister Graves says she sent a letter to the Swedish prime minister demanding Graves be expelled from Sweden for alleged insults to King Oscar.
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New York
Ida von Claussen
Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Graves
Oscar
Sweden
Billeter Takes Bout In Heavyweight Victory
Toledo April 2 John Billeter champion light weight wrestler defeated Young Marquardt of Philadelphia two straight falls. First fall sixteen minutes arm hold and half Nelson second nineteen minutes leg and body hold. Also notes Eisterer to wrestle Max Luther in Kansas City next Monday. Furniture sale at Sloan's 107 Gat 24 floor today am. $1.25 Baltimore return every Sat and Sun via Pennsylvania Railroad. Tickets good until Sunday night. Regular trains except Congressional Limited.
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Toledo
Ohio
John Billeter
Young Marquardt
Philadelphia
Billeter
Nelson
Eisterer
Max Luther
Kansas City
Baltimore
Pennsylvania Railroad
Congressional Limited
Eames Divorce Hearing Ends With Sealed 60 Pages
Supreme Court of Westchester hearings in Mme Emma Eames versus Julian Story concluded with referee Frank Buck filing a report favoring an interlocutory decree for Eames. Testimony spanned sixty typewritten pages. details remain sealed as both sides seek to keep proceedings confidential. Justice Tompkins may take the case to special term with final judgment possible after three months.
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Tompkins
Washington Post
Supreme Court of
Westchester County
Mme Eimma Eames
Julian Story
Frank M Buck
Mount Vernon
Buck
Philadelphia
Mme. ‘Barnes
Mme Eames
Supreme Court
Judicial Batriet
Mmé. Homes
Arthur F.tompkins
New York
Mr. Story
Alt
Mme. Eames
Chicago
Death by Own Action Stuns Vi Civic District Leader
Richmond Virginia April 24 P B Bush a leading Virginia peninsular district figure died by his own hand at Toane after cutting his throat and shooting himself He was sixty two and a bachelor Survived by a brother a prominent Birmingham Alabama lawyer and a sister The Best Use for Surplus Money is found in depositing sane in banking department of Tmon Trust Co High interest paid on all accounts
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Richmond
Bush
Virginia
Toane
Birmingham
Ala
Banking Department
Tmon Trust’Co
Rockefeller Transfers Property to John D Rockefeller Jr
Special to The Washington Pest from Cleveland Ohio dated April 24 indicates John D Rockefeller oil magnate transferred unimproved property around Cleveland valued between nett and three quarters of a million dollars to his son John D Rockefeller Jr The deeds were signed in New York by John D Rockefeller and his wife Laura Rockefeller and filed in the county recorder's office The move appears routine as the elder Rockefeller ages with no stated plan for immediate development by the junior Prince says agent J G W Cowles that the son will hold assets for future opportunity rather than immediate use
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Washington
Cleveland
Ohio
John D Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
New York
Rockefeller
Laura Rockefeller
County Recorder’s
J G. W. Cowles
King
Rockefeller Gifts 125 Acres to University of Chicago
John D Rockefeller announced a gift of 125 acres valued at $2,000,000 for a University of Chicago campus. The total benefactions from Rockefeller to the university reach $22,115,000. Dr. T W Goodspeed calls the gift a magnificent domain and notes it aligns with the university’s enlargement policy, though future direction remains undecided.
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Washington Post
Chicago
John D Rockefeller
University of Chicago
Standard Oil
T W Goodspeed
Broker Follows Show Girl to St Louis
Special to The Washington from St Louis April 26 Relatives of Joseph Knorr a Philadelphia stock broker seek his whereabouts in St Louis At their request Superintendent of Police Taylor of Philadelphia has telegraphed to St Louis authorities asking that Knorr be found but not arrested He had followed Gussie Lang of the Girls Wide Girls chorus to the Grand Detectives show at the theater and then to St Louis Miss Lang says she and Knorr could not get along and she had not accepted his attentions for three weeks Detectives did not learn where Knorr is stopping He is said to be at a downtown hotel He is twenty eight years old.
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Washington
St Louis
Joseph Knorr
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Taylor
Knorr
Gussie Lang
Girls Wide Girls
German Loan Oversubscribed Amid High Interest Demand
New York April 26 Special to The Washington Post German government bond issuance for the empire and Prussia drew subscriptions about thirty times the 201 million marks issue. Subscriptions from institutions and individuals were moderate, with notes due in five years at 4 percent. Subscribers agreeing to withhold their allotments for six months will be favored.
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New York
Ziammermen
Forshay & Kissel and Kinnicut & Co
Poor Relatives Inherit Goodnews Estate In Ontario County
District Attorney Short of Ontario County New York and heirs’ attorneys collected depositions here on two wills of Josephus Goodnew the late stock man. The first will was destroyed when he made a second in 1915 the latter later disappeared and the vast estate will descend to all his poor relatives in Ohio New York and Michigan rather than six named heirs.
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Marion
Oto
Short
Ontario County
N Y
Josephus Goodnew
Stockman
Goodnow
Ohio
New York
Michigan
Four Killed and Fifteen Hurt in Black Diamond Mine Explosion
Seattle April 26 four men were killed and five fatally hurt in a Morgan Slope mine explosion at Black Diamond Washington. Fourteen others were severely injured. The Morgan Slope mine lies on the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad. The dead include Mike Heatley recently from Colorado. Two descending cars on the sixth level 1500 feet below the surface triggered the blast, believed caused by a cave-in and gas accumulation.
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Seattle
Wash
Morgan Slope
Black Diamond
Columbia and
Puget Sound
Mike Heatley
Colorado
Havana strike spreads as cigarmakers shut factories
Havana independent cigar manufacturers vote to close their factories on April 29 in sympathy with the tobacco workers who have been striking for two months to be paid in American money rather than Spanish. On Monday nine thousand cigarmakers in the city will be unemployed. Elks file suit in Frankfort to force the state secretary to file their charter, after refusal, while Baltimore Ohio offers weekend round trips priced at 127 dollars.
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Havana
Colored Elks
Frankfort
Eky
Hike of the World
Louisville
Franklin Circuit
Secretary of
State McChesney
State Department
Roosevelt Day at Jamestown dazzles with naval pageant
The opening ceremonies drew vast crowds as powers of the world joined in the inauguration fair. A presidential ovation and patriotic address calmed a crowd that strained to hear. A review of a great fleet of war ships provided a brilliant marine spectacle with thirty seven nations represented. Lee's parade featured the General Grant cheer moment as a military review and a gorgeous display.
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Lee
Gen
Grant
Opening Day Features at Jamestown Exposition
At Jamestown Exposition grounds in Hampton Roads Mayflower bearing President Roosevelt opens the event with a fleet review by the President and Gen. Grant. A ceremonial parade, receptions, and a luncheon follow. Electrical night illumination wows crowds as a massed display of warships salutes the President, who is hosted by Gov. Swanson.
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Hampton Roads
Exposition Grounds
Lee Parade
Gen. Grant
Gov
Swanson
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