Bomb Attack on Warsaw Police Chief Sparks Conspiracy Theory
A bomb hurled at the carriage of Baron von Nolken chief of police in Warsaw wounds him seriously and wounds a bystander. Police pursue a suspected Jewish bomber, capture and later kill a plainclothes officer amid a widening revolutionary plot. Reports describe a coordinated conspiracy with bombs at Praga and the castle route, as uprisings spread across Poland and neighboring regions.
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Baron von Noiken
Pollu
Tenoer
Baron von Nolken
Revolutionary Party
Prague
Barin von Nolken
von Walken
Praga
Baron von Nolden
Vistula
Pawonsk
Bothday
Bare von Notken
Sear
St Petersburg
Seidice
Beuelse
Lodsiavsk Radin
Lukov
Poland
Gree Coults
Themitt
Kotzk
Beérissoff
Mirro
Jews Armed for the Fray in Odessa Massacre Threat
In a dispatch from Odessa dated February 19 and relayed to The Jewish Morning Journal, Jews organized armed defense amid threats of a government-backed massacre. Krushevan, an anti Semite from St Petersburg, was recalled after warnings to the governor. Officials ordered factories to appease workers to avert a strike as fears of renewed anti Semitic agitation rise.
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Washington Post
New York
Jewish Morning Journal
Odessa
St. Petersburg
Kishener
Krushevan
Gov
Neidegarte
von Plehve
Sergius
Caucasus
St Petersburg
Santa Clara aerioplane soars free of motor in test flight
Professor Montgomery of Santa Clara Catholic College unveiled the Santa Clara aeroplane, a birdlike craft using no motor or gas. Lifted by a hot air balloon to about 3000 feet, it flew for half an hour under operator control, then landed at Montgomery's workshop. The seven winged craft features timber frame and canvas wings worked by hands and feet, with steel guides and wires sustaining shape.
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Washington Post
San Franciseco Cal
Montgomery S Workshop
Santa Clara
Rare Pike Headed Whale Packed for Smithsonian Transfer
Provincetown Massachusetts reports a live rare whale specimen known as the pike headed whale washed ashore. Captain Backus from House Point lifesaving station secured the stranded animal while Sylvester Ellis later sold the specimen to the Smithsonian for $9.
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Smithsonian Institution
Washington Post
Provincetown
Mass
Arctic
Pilgrim Cove
Smithsonian
Capt Backus
House Point
Sylvester Ellis
Institution
Hollywood Auto Crash Kills Mrs Sherman Pease
Mrs Sherman Pease died instantly in a Hollywood collision when a streetcar struck the speeding car. Her husband Sherman Pease was seriously hurt along with two other occupants, Mr and Mrs D EL Welcome, who sustained minor injuries.
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Sherman Pease
Los Angeles
Cal
Hollywood
Subube
D. EL. Welcome
Four Killed by Lightning in Oklahoma Storms
Violent storms across the Territory cause four deaths and many injuries. Seventeen year olds Watonga near Dean Richmond and John Thomas were struck and burned by lightning. At New Weatherford Charles BSehoonover, a wealthy farmer, also died. A Pennsylvania Railroad special train from Sixth Street at 2 10 p m runs daily March 2 to April 12 to Benning for spring races at a round trip fare.
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Guthrie
Okla
Watonga
Dean
Richmond
John Thomas
New Weatherford
Charles
Bsehoonover
Pennsylvania Railroad
Sixthst Station
Benning
Lost Boy Returns After Four Years Mystery of Kidnapping
Evanston boy Frank Ely Rogers, missing since July 13 1901, returns to his family in Chicago. He denies being with Aunt Florence Ely, whose suspected insane affection sparked the kidnapping case. Parents and relatives renew search for the missing woman as investigators and kin assess the surprising reunion and lingering questions.
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Frank Ely Rogers
Washington Post
Chicago
Evanston
Frank Rogers
C. M Rogers
Earth
New York City
Buffalo
Dr. C . Ely
Rogers
Miss Ely
Strathroy Haircut Murder Suspect Arrested
Robert Quick, a widower living near Strathroy Ontario, strangled his brother Alfred during a haircut. He fled after the crime but was arrested once the murder news reached his children. The incident occurred March 26, as authorities pursue motive and details.
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Ont
Robert Quick
Alfred
Quick
Killed Young Wife in Georgia Tragic Domestic Crime
In Jasper Georgia a 20 year old man named Glazier shot and killed his young bride after she returned home from living with her mother. He fled as a posse and sheriff seek him, both families well connected in the community.
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Maron 2
Glazier
Glagzist
Mrs Chadwick Ends Silence With Autobiography Promise
Cassie Chadwick announces plans to write an autobiography covering her life from birth to now once her new trial is resolved. She vows to reveal facts that will hurt some people, insisting the public deserves her side and that the book will be published verbatim with no edits.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Cassie Chadwick
Pittsburg Coal Shipments Rise to 6 Million Bushels
Pittsburg, Pa. coal shipments began today exceeding 1,500,000 bushels and, with prior shipments, will reach around 6,000,000 bushels amid rivers remaining high. Shippers expect coal boat stage to continue for several days as river conditions ease slowly.
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Pittsburg
Marcn Ze
Two Men Die in Stanton Freight Wreck Near Wilmington
In Stanton Delaware a Baltimore and Ohio freight collision killed brakeman Charles Shewbridge and fireman Walter Hunt, both of Baltimore. Engineer William Weaver was seriously injured and hospitalized. A coal train failed to stop despite a danger signal, derailing the caboose and several freight cars.
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Del
Baltimore and Ohio
Stanton
Charles Shewbridge
Baltimore
Walter C
Hunt
William Weaver
Delaware Hospital
TITLED HUSBAND CRUEL. Judge grants divorce in Cleveland case
Mme Tackacs de Kis Joka wins a divorce from Count Tackacs de Bastoka on grounds of extreme cruelty. She says she was deceived about his finances and signed notes for creditors, later seeking bankruptcy. The count pursued reconciliation unsuccessfully before the petition for divorce was granted.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Beacon
Common Fleas Court
Mme. Tackacs de Kis Joka
Europe
Hart
Count Tackacs de Bastoka
Budapest
Mme. Tackacs de Joka
United States
Young Bride Ends Life After Wedding Night
In Wheeling West Virginia on March 26 Mrs. James Gallion a bride of three hours shot herself at Huntington after her husband teased her about an old admirer. She rushed from bed to a dressing case seeking his revolver and fired a fatal shot beneath her heart causing her flimsy robe to ignite. She died en route to a hospital.
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Washington Post
Wheeling
Gallion
No Decision Reached on Santo Domingo Customs Commissioner
State Department officials announced last night that no final determination exists on appointing a U S citizen as customs commissioner in Santo Domingo. The proposed plan would give 45 percent to the Dominican government while the rest is held pending treaty disposition before the Senate. Officials stressed that nothing is settled and much discussion remains.
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State Department
Santo Domingo
United States
United States Senate
Secretary Morton to Join President on Texas Colorado Trip
Secretary of the Navy Morton, after visiting Porto Rico and Cuban ports aboard the Dolphin, will curtail stops to return to Washington in time to join the president and his party, which departs April 8 for Texas and Colorado. The Dolphin will make brief calls at San Juan Guantanamo and Havana to minimize delays.
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Porto Ruiian
Cuban
Washington
Texas
Colorado
San Juan
Guantanamo
Havana
United States
Textbooks changed in Louisiana schools debate grows
Special to The Washington Fest reports Louisiana board of education in Baton Rouge selecting textbooks for five years. Gen Louis Guion raised objections to content especially on slavery in histories and geographies. Confederate Veterans influenced several changes already adopted. Also notes social items from New York and Oregon officials and a drug ad brief.
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New Orleans
Louisiana State Board of Education
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Louis Guion
The
United Confederate Veterans
Confederate Veteran Organization
Merger of Tech Schools Shapes Industrial Science Institute
Boston March 26 The articles of agreement outline a plan to unite MIT and Harvard into a joint school of industrial science still called the Institute of Technology. An executive board of nine will include three Harvard representatives and funding from MIT funds plus income from the Lawrence Scientific School and Gordon McKay bequest. After three years Lawrence Scientific School would be dissolved if the institute can house all needed industrial science instruction and transfer its equipment.
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Boston
Mass
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Institute of Technology
Harvard
Lawrence Scientific School
Gordon McKay
Woman With Club Learns Not To Mess With Mrs Brucks
Walter Wiegan a negro was arraigned in the West Side Court for assaulting Edward Brucks at 423 West Thirty-ninth Street after Brucks called Annie to fetch the club. Annie a 6 foot 10 inch 180 pound woman struck Wiegan until he collapsed in the hall. Brucks fired a revolver but missed. Magistrate Moss commended Mrs. Brucks for her defense.
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Washington
New York
Walter Wiegan
West Side
Edward Brucks
Wiegan
Brucks
Annie
Warrants Issued To Catch Departing Suspects At Sea
New York March 26 Armed with warrants issued by United States District Attorney J Whitaker Thompson detectives will monitor the outgoing ocean steamers to intercept Frank Marrin and Sophia Beck who are believed to be leaving the country Marrin is wanted for questioning about the disappearance of about 1 000 000 in bonds and cash and proceeds of the Storey Cotton Company business which failed recently in Philadelphia implicating many local investors Miss Beck was Marrins secretary and may accompany him on departure
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New York
United States
J. Whitaker Thompson
Philadelphia
Frank €. Marrin
Sophia Beck
Mariin
Storey Cotton Company
Girl Guards Prisoners in Jail Break Attempt
Scottsboro Alabama March 26 Miss Lula Austin daughter of Sheriff D O Austin stopped a daring jail break after three steel bars were cut. She forced the prisoners to surrender six saws and blocked the escape. Authorities suspect an outsider visitor supplied the tools.
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Scottsboro
Ala
Lula Austin
Sherff D. O Austin
Miss Austin
Wild Leap for Life in Williamsburg Fire
Three women leaped from third-story windows of a tenement on Union Avenue in Williamsburg during a blaze. Mrs Jeliza Cottus, her daughter Kate Cottus, and Mrs Julia Jensen suffered severe injuries, including skull fracture, broken leg, jaw fracture, dislocated shoulder, and knee cap fracture. They were taken to hospital unconscious as the fire caused only slight damage.
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New York
Union Avenue
Williamsburg
Jeliza Cottus
Kate Cottus
Julia Jensen
Missouri medical students form temperance group
In Columbia Missouri March 26 the medical school at the university organized a temperance society. Their first actions targeted drunk students who were ducked in tea water. Last night the group reportedly dragged two intoxicated men to the dissecting room in the medical building where two corpses had been prepared. Each man awoke with a card around a corpse neck reading This will be your wish.
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Washington Post
Columbia
Medical School of Missouri University
Tca
Medical
Jncard
Preached from Church Steps Faces Salary Suit
Special to The Washington Post from Lancaster Pa March 2 Rev J M Hunter pastor of Colerain Baptist Church preached farewell from church steps after being barred from the building over a Children’s Day cross dispute. He refused resignation and will sue for back salary as his term ends today. In Escanaba Mich municipal lighting fails and council votes to put city electric sale to voters in spring. In Wilkes-Barre Pa Charles Fritz, a printer, risked his life rescuing a 65 year old Morris Bergman trying to commit suicide in the flooded Susquehanna River, reaching shore with Bergman after current pulled them under.
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Lancaster
J. M. Hunter
Colerain Baptist Church
Washington Post
Escanaba
Mich
Muunicipal Lighting
Common Council
Wilkesbarre
Charles Fritz
Susquehanna River
Morris Bergman
Bergman
Spurns Rockefeller Gift for Missions Sermon Voice
Rev Dr Washington Gladden delivered a Columbus sermon urging the First Congregational Church to refuse John D Rockefeller’s $160,000 gift to the American Board of Missions. He argued the funds arise from a ruthless railway rate system and that accepting the money would compromise church integrity and alienate supporters. He urged loyalty to spiritual wealth over Mammon.
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Columbus
Ohio
Washington Gladden
First Congregational Church of Columbus
General Council of Congregational Churches of the United States
John D. Rockefeller
American Board of Missions
Board of Missions
Murphy Attacks Higgins Over Tax Policy in New York
Charles F Murphy through Tammany secretary Thomas F Smith denounces Guy Higgins administration for failing to repeal the savings bank tax law and for increasing state revenue sources. He accuses Gov Odell Nixon Raines Mailey of extravagance and bias against city interests, urging retrenchment and economy.
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New York
Thomas F. Smith
Tammany Hall
Charles F Murphy
Guy Higgins
Higgins
Guv Higgins
Odell
Qodell
Tobacco Cost A FarmIn A Will Case
Richard M. Underhill of Highland Ulster County lost two farms in Westchester County because he used tobacco against his aunt Mrs Hmelie Underhill Burgess. Burgess, a temperance advocate and Ulster Womans Christian Temperance Union president, recently died. In her will she states she would have given him the farm but for his tobacco use and leaves him one thousand dollars.
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Middletown
N. Y
Richard M. Underhill
Highland
Ulster County
Westchester County
Hmelie Underhill Burgess
Ulster Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Cornell co eds frightened by intruder on campus walk
Ithaca March 26 Cornell co eds report a large man hiding along a Beebe Lake path who suddenly appeared and squeezed several girls. Authorities suspect a student prank and have ordered measures to stop further disturbances on campus. Denver memorial services honor late Senator Edward O Wolcott drew crowds at Broadway Theater with speeches by John W Springer and Justice John Campbell.
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Cornell
Jack the Hugger
Beebe Lake
Denver
E. O. Wolcott
Colo
Edward O. Wolcott
Monte Carlo
John W. Springer
John Campbell
A. M. Stevenson
Joel F. Vaille
Attempt on Warsaw Official Life
A report details an attempt on the life of a Warsaw official, outlining sequence, suspect handling, and early investigations with little immediate public detail. The item appears in the day’s index page summary for 1-A.
Coma Victims of Gas Poisoning Die in New York
Mrs James H Huestis of White Plains New York and her daughter Luella died after sixteen days in a coma at Presbyterian Hospital. They were overcome by gas at a friends residence where they had been visiting. Coroner and doctors disagreed on duration of coma and its relation to gas poisoning.
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James H Huestis
N. Y
Presbyterian Hospital
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Luella
A H Ohyer
Presbyterian
Schole
Olivia
Lost Duke and Duchess of Manchester Found in Mexico After Ten Days
Special to The Washington Font Austin March 28 The Duke and Duchess of Manchester were lost for ten days after leaving the City of Mexico in a private car They traveled deep into the southeastern Mexican region and spent time at the ruins of Mitla Eugene Zimmerman father of the Duchess sent telegrams to many people in Mexico seeking news Railroad officials and English relatives were alerted but the couple reappeared in Mexico City without prior notice They had accompanied George Gould and his wife on the trip
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Tex
Duchess
Manchester
Mexico
Eugene Zimmerman
Chesnnut
Tromes
Mitla
Mr. Zimmerman
City of Mexico
Zimmerman
Raibroad
England
George Gould
Arrested for Abduction After Quick Brooklyn Marriage
Edward W. Stewart of Ottawa was arrested in Brooklyn within an hour of marrying 15 year old Madeline Gilder in New York City on March 26. He faces abduction charges from the girl's mother and a separate $100 bad check case with the Union Bank of Brooklyn. Stewart claimed ties to a furniture firm in Ottawa.
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New York
Madeline Gildersleeve
Brooklyn
Edward W. Stewart
Ottawa
Ontario
Stewart
T. ¥ .Assit
Union Bank of Brooklyn
Rector Laidlaw Resigns to Join Chicago Church
In Newport Rhode Island Reverend Gilbert W. Laidlaw rector of St George's Episcopal Church resigns to become assistant rector at St Luke's Church Chicago. His Easter effective resignation follows sermons condemning Rhode Island bribery and sparking clashes with State Senator Sinns and Governor Utter. A Rhode Island clergy anti corruption crusade followed. Grace Oar arrested in Schenectady for arson linked to Gloversville. She allegedly set fire to a saloon owned by George Clark. her husband was badly burned.
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Newport
Rfe
Gilbert W. Laidlaw
St George's Episcopal Church
St. Luke’s Church
Chicago
Laidlaw
Rhode Island
Siiness
Utter
M. Laidlaw
Ithode Island
Episcopal
Schenectady
N. Y
Maron
Grace Oar
Gloversville
George Clark
Accused by Broker Withheld Pay Checks in Army Case
A court martial in the East Department hears Capt Edson Lewis of the 18th Infantry charged with destroying or withholding pay vouchers of Louis Silverman who lent money on officer salaries. Silverman says Lewis collected about 60 percent interest and did not forward vouchers to the War Department after returning from the Philippines. Lewis appeals that illness and family expenses delayed action.
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War Department
Louis Silverman
New York
Washington Post
Army
Edson
Lewis
Department of the East
Nassau Street
Silverman
Capt Lewis
Philippnes
Capt
Silverman Coud
Reid
Philippines
Fort Leavenworth
of Greenough
United States as World Power to be discussed at academy meet
Philadelphia March 26 The ninth annual meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social Science will discuss The United States as a World Power with speakers including Francis B. Loomis Stewart L Woodford William L Penfield and Seth Low The program features talks on Far East settlement and efficiency in modern warfare with Gen James H Wilson Baron Kaneko John Hays Hammond and other officials and military leaders.
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United States
American Academy of Political and Social Science
Francis B. Loomis
Stewart L. Woodford
Spain
William L Penfield
State Department
Don J. de Paul
Venezuela
Talcott Wilms
House of Peers
John Hays Hammond
New York
Charles Emory South
Tasker H. Bliss
Charles H. Darling
Navy
George W. Melville
Arthur L. Wagner
W., W. Wetherspoon
War College
H. @. Sharpe
Insane intruder shot dead by lawyer in Woonsocket home
Special to The Washington from Providence March 26 Ernest C Herron of Cheshire Conn while violent and insane smashed into Attorney P F Cassidy s home at 287 Second Avenue Woonsocket early yesterday morning. Cassidy warned him to leave then fired a warning shot. The intruder broke through a door with a brick and Cassidy shot at close range ending Herron s life. Investigators identified the dead man later in the day as Herron. Family members said he had become deranged over religion.
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Washington
Providence
Ernest C Herton
Cheshire
Conn
P. F Cassidy
Second Avenue
Woonsocket
Cassidy
Rick
Casssidy
Eed
Herron
Famth
Mormons to Return. Three Churches Planned in Illinois
Bloomington March 26 The Mormon Church plans a return to Illinois establishing three churches at Monmouth Oquawka and Warsaw after a Lincoln era meeting in Warren County. The Monmouth trial of Joseph Smith in 1841 drew crowds. Smith was acquitted after arson murder charges. Stephen A Douglas was the circuit court judge at the time.
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Bloomington
Ill
Illinois
Lilnon Conference
Mormon Church
Waren County
Monmouth
Oquawka
Warsaw
Joseph Smith
Tie
Quincy
Missouri
Stephen A. Douglan
Abraham Lincoln
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