Two White Men Implicated in Clara Rosen Murder
Des Moines reports John Junker, a Black suspect, implicates Tommy Saunders and Jim alias Katie White in the February murder of Clara Rosen. Junker seeks change of venue to Ottumwa or another county, citing mob danger and prejudice. His lawyers plan to discuss trial strategy and possible judge disqualification as they review his confession and statements about the alleged accomplices.
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Des Moines
John Junken
Ottumwn
Wapello County
Clara Resen
Tommy Saunders
Jim
Katie” White
Walter M¢Henry
Junker
Junken
Momtal
Ottumwa
Guumipa
Roberts
Clara Rosen
Walter McHenry
McHenry
Jon Brown
Katie
Road Blames Low Fares For Decreased Earnings
Philadelphia March 2 The annual report of the Pennsylvania Railroad for 1908 shows a decline in gross earnings by 52,446,722 and a net earnings drop of 7,486,297 versus the prior year. East and west of Pittsburgh gross earnings were 274,388,893 with operating expenses 203,605,535 and net 76,733,267. Freight moved totaled 334,429,541 tons, down 102,381,275. Passengers carried 142,676,779, a decrease from the previous year.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pittsburg
Railways Face Economic Slump in 1907 Report
The 1907 figures show gross earnings of all lines at 150,296,871 with gross income 48,577,895 and net income 28,207,680. The report cites an industrial low mood, with freight tonnage down over 18 percent and ton mileage and gross earnings down 21 percent. Passenger mileage fell about 10 percent and revenue over 7 percent, prompting widespread expense cuts and thousands of layoffs.
Buchanan County Pioneer Dies At 85
Mrs Mira A Gates widow of William H Gates, a Buchanan county pioneer, was buried this afternoon. She married Gates in 1841 at Bradford Wisconsin, maiden Mira Hyde. The couple moved to the township in 1857, bought 134 acres, and had eight children. Gates invented a locally patented well anger, and the homestead featured a model home, groves, and abundant fruit trees.
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Mira A. Gates
William H. Gates
Buchanan County
Gates
Bradford
Mira A. Hyde
Testimony Contradicted in Cooper Sharp Case
Nashville March 2 crowd at the Cooper Sharp murder trial is the smallest yet. W M Setter firearms expert testified that Carmack's revolver cylinder could not be revolved without pulling the trigger, directly contradicting S J Benning who swore he saw Carmack test the revolver by whirling the cylinder with his finger.
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Nashville
Tenn
Cooper- Sharp
W. M. Setter
Senator Carmack
S. J. Benning
Carmack
Election Clerks Hold Babies While The Mothers Vote
Detroit March 2 more women cast ballots in yesterday's school inspectors primary than ever since women gained the vote for this office. A sharp drive against an inspectors group long seen as controlling school affairs fueled the turnout. Several clerks said they cared for babies while voters used the booths.
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Detroit
Mich
Wage cuts hit Lackawanna Steel workers and related firms
Buffalo March 2 Ten percent wage reduction applies to all Lackawanna Steel Company employees and the largest dependent concerns. It marks the first wage action by the independents since the price war with the U S Steel corporation began.
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Buffalo
Lackawanna Steel Company
Lnegest
Sodat
U. S. Steel Corporation
Senate panel finds Roosevelt actions violated law
Seven members of the Senate Judiciary Committee issue a report asserting Roosevelt lacked authority to approve the Tennessee Coal and Iron merger with United States Steel, violating the Sherman anti trust law while a minority attaches views diminishing the declaration. Additional opinions come from Nelson and Bacon. Disagreement on the resolution awaits the session’s end.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Committee On the Judiciary
Roosevelt
Tennessee Goal & Iron Company
United States Steel Corporation
Clarke
Culbertson
Nelson
Kittredge
Foraker
Albertson
Bacon
Rayner
Overman
Hearst Wins Round Against Gov Haskell in Oklahoma Case
Beott MacReynolds of Brooklyn North Carolina, William R Hearst’s representative, won a court ruling in Guthrie Oklahoma that ordered Governor Charles N Haskell to return seized papers. Judge Strang found the search warrant lacking sufficient facts to justify the seizure and ordered the return of Mac Reynolds papers and property.
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Mac Reynolds
Lawrence student serving reformitory term keeps up with classes
Maren 8 Jay Lundy of Lawrence college, who set fire to a fraternity boarding house in Green Bay Wisconsin, received a year in the state reformatory. He studies in prison to take exams and aims to return to his former class, then complete a year at home in Harvey Illinois before pursuing study at a eastern college where the crime may be unknown.
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Green Bay
Wis
Maren
Jay Lundy
Lawrence College
State Reformatory
Harvey, I
Lawrence
Avalanche Kills Austrian Soldiers Near Tatrana
A six officers and twenty five men detachment of the Austrian army was overwhelmed by an avalanche near Tatrana on March 2. Troops have been dispatched to the scene of the disaster.
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Tanspruck
Austria
Tatrana
Ocena
Schroeder Succeeds Sperry as Atlantic Fleet Chief
Washington March Admiral Charles E. Sperry today filed to be relieved from duty as commander in chief of the Atlantic battleship fleet. Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder has been appointed in his place.
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Washington, D. C
Charles 5. Sperry
Atlantic Battleship Fleet
Seaton Schroeder
O Laughlin declines foreign post as Argentina minister
Washington March 2 John Callan O Laughlin retires March 4 from first assistant secretary of state and has been offered the post of minister to Argentina. He declines the honor to pursue other plans.
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Washington, D. C
John Callan O'Laughlin
Argentina
Huntington Wilson
Nox
Kansas Ballots Changed Under Election Law Proposal
Topeka reports the house passed a radical election bill by Edwards of Greenwood. It removes party emblems from ballots and requires the candidate's politics to follow his name. Ballots will classify candidates by the office they seek.
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Topeka
Kan
Edwards of
Greenwood
House
Public Debt Falls in February, Debt at 1.019 Billion
The February public debt statement shows that after cash in the treasury, the total debt stood at 1 019 678 946 dollars, down 5 561 718 from January. The article blends the financial report with a quotation on sin and responsibility.
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Washington, D. C
Heiress To Spanish Throne Fears Abduction
Miss Irma McMurray a 17 year old girl living in poverty in Des Moines claims direct royal lineage to Spain as a second cousin of King Alphonso and heir to a vast fortune. She says she was abducted from Richmond Missouri to Kansas City and then Mexico by men who escaped jail. Police will investigate her story detailing forged notes, a banished grandfather, and a hoped inheritance if she remains single or marries a Spaniard.
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Des Moines
Iowa Evening Press
Irma McMurray
Spain
Alphonso
Mexico
Mond
Harry Clark
Kansas City
Eter
Europe
McMurray
United States
Mauretania Sets Eastbound Atlantic Crossing Record
Queenstown March 2 The steam er Mauretania passed Daunt's Rock today at 19 47 establishing a new eastbound record from New York of four days twenty hours and two minutes. Her average speed was 25.28 nautical miles per hour.
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Queenstown
Daunt’s Rock
New York
Tribute to Poe Centenary Banquet in London
A banquet hosted by the Authors' club celebrated Edgar Allan Poe's birth centenary in London. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle presided with Ambassador Reid Mrs Humphry Ward and Capt Poe among the attendees. Speeches by Reid Doyle Poe Garvice and Gribble featured Poe poems recited between tributes to Poe's life and influence on detective fiction.
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Francis Henry Gribble
Poe
Conant Boyle
Beard Puller Banished In Paris Bearded Attacker Sentenced
Paris March 2 Jean Mattis the waiter who last Christmas attacked President Fallieres and tried to pull his beard was sentenced yesterday to four years imprisonment to be followed by five years banishment from the country.
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Paris
Jean Mattis
Fallieres
Sugar profits cited in Sugar Refining case
New York March 2 testimony from C R Helke secretary of the American Sugar Refining Company states that the average profit per pound of sugar is 1 8 to 1 4 of a dime. Helke testified in a government case seeking recovery of customs duties alleged in a shortage in weights claimed by the year company.
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New York
American Sugar Refining Company
Bm Dent
C. R. Helke
American Sugar Refinering Company
Helka
Aunty Math ews Dies as Dubuque Mourns
In Linwood cemetery Dubuque on Monday, the aged Negro woman known as Mammy Math ews was laid to rest. Flowers and cards from prominent white residents accompanied her funeral, with whites, blacks, and children alike praying together, highlighting humanity over race.
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Dubuque
City grafters convicted in Pittsburgh conspiracy case
In Pittsburgh on March 3 the jury found William Brand, John F. Klein, and Joseph C. Wasson guilty of conspiring to pass a wooden block paving ordinance for bribes. Former bank president W. W. Ramsey was acquitted. Klein and Ramsey had prior bribery convictions. An appeal will be filed.
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Pittsburg
Common Council
William Brand
John F. Kteln
Joseph C. Wasson
W. W. Ramsey
Kiein
Ramsey
White Seld To Grand Jury In Mail Fraud Case
Al White Eunice White bound over to the federal grand jury in Cedar Rapids on a mail fraud charge for operating a Waterloo matrimonial agency. They were arrested after a Bondurant man paid $13 by deceptive means. Post Office Inspector Bates filed the complaint and Deputy Marshal Healy escorted them to Cedar Rapids for federal court proceedings.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa Evening Press
White
Eunice White
Federal Grand Jury
Waterloo
Houston
Bondurant
Post Office
Bates
Mike Healy
Missing heir sought in railroad circular from Illinois Central Supt
Supt Bechely of Illinois Central divides a circular asking railroad agents to locate William Urton heir to W J Urton of Alabama California wealth. William, adopted in youth by an IC affiliate, may use alias of his adopted father. elder Urton in frail memory. Mr Taylor of Chicago aids in publicity for possible cash inheritance. advise if found.
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Bechely
Wlinoig Central
William Urton
Small Central
California
W. J. Urton
William Urten
Tlinois Central Railway
Chicago
Taylor
F. J. Bechely
Woman abused babies case shocks Ashieres crowd
English couple Sargent and wife arrested at Ashieres on charges of gross ill treatment of four adopted children. Woman claims normal treatment, but servants call her a prevaricating monster. Police seek the children’s parentage from Holy Trinity lodge where the youngest was born in November.
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Sargent
Ashieres
Sargents
Holy Trinity Lodge
West Point Bill Passes Senate With 2.54 Million Appropriation
Washington March 2 The Senate passed the military academy appropriation bill carrying 2 541 421 dollars. An effort to add 88 cadets was defeated and an amendment to reinstate Cadets W T Russell and Harry G Weaver, dismissed for hazing, failed.
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Washington
DD. C
Military Academy
Senate
Military
West Point
W. T. Russell
Harry G. Weaver
New Mexicans Demand Hearing on Statehood Charges
Santa Fe March 2 The territorial assembly passed a resolution calling for all papers and charges presented to the senate committee opposing statehood The action aims to give people of New Mexico a chance to reject charges of corruption before the judiciary committee in the senate The resolution was sent to the senate and referred to the judiciary committee.
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Santa Fe
N M
Territorial Assembly
Senate
New Mexico
Committee On Judiciary
Tobacco planter driven mad in Tennessee panic
Nashville March 2 Thomas Knight a Christian county Ky planter became violently insane and tried to kill his children. His tobacco crop was tied up in the pool of the tobacco association and this is attributed as the cause of his insanity.
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Nashville, Tenn
Thomas Knight
Christian County
Knight
Tobacco Association
Standard Oil Official Dies in New York Home
W H Tilford, a vice president of the Standard Oil Company, died at his home in New York on March 3. He was a long serving executive with the firm and a prominent figure in the industry.
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New York
W. H. Tilford
Standard Ol Company
Prohibition Bills Stir Iowa Politics In March Session
Des Moines March 2 Special Prohibition forces expect the constitutional amendment to pass both houses, affecting the next general assembly and shaping the gubernatorial election. A heated push remains to kill the anti Sunday amusement bill though floor passage is likely. Debate also centers on net weight labeling for foods, anti-discrimination aims for creameries, and moves toward commission government in larger Iowa cities. Rumors surface on state food and dairy commissioner appointment amid Republican factionalism.
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Des Moines
House
Senate
General Assembly
Thirty-fourth General Assembly
Iowa
House Committee
John Sullivan
Des Moines,’ Inc
H.R. Wright
Pure Food Department
Des. Moines
South Dakota
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Sioux City
H. R. Wright
Weight
Republican Party
Marinette banker testifies on campaign spending
Madison March 2 J A Van Gleave president of Stephenson and National Bank Marinette testified before the senatorial primary investigation committee. He showed a check ledger and memoranda indicating about 300 dollars spent for Stephenson in Marinette county. Van Cleave said the money came from his own pocket and was reimbursed after the campaign. He described small payments to newspaper writers but would not name recipients. The committee adopted a motion to add his itemized statement to the records.
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Madison, Wis
J. A. van Gleave
Stephenson & National Bank of
Marinette
Stephenson
Marinette County
van Cleave
Senators Desert Election On 38th Ballot In Springfield
In a joint session the 38th ballot failed to yield a quorum for a United States senator election. Hopkins received 28 votes, Stringer 88, with the rest scattering. Balloting will resume tomorrow. In Wisconsin the 21st ballot showed no quorum as Stevenson Johnson received 0 votes and five others scattered.
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Springfield
United States
Hopkins
Stringer
Wisconsin
Madison
Wisi
Gtepnlonson
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Dunken
Albia
Sheriff Griffin
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Helpe Junken
Cooper-Sharp
Succumba
Hearst
Gov. Haskell
Schroeder
Sperry
O'Laughlin
Kansas
Conan Doyle
White Seld
West Point Bild
Stephenson's Bank
Ilinois
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