March 1911

• March 1, 1911 [Wednesday]

  • Madison, WI - Assistant Professor Irwin Billman of the Wisconsin University was sentenced today to five years in the Federal Penitentiary, when he plead guilty to sending several "objectionable" letters to girl students.
  • Minneapolis, MN - 10,000 sacks of Washburn-Crosby Gold Medal flour has been shipped to the starving people of China. It was estimated to be about 850,000 loaves of bread. The Christian Herald has sent 40,000 sacks of flour a few years ago during another famine from that country.
  • St. Petersburg, Russia - Pei-Chaunlintze, about fifty miles north of Harbin, is being ravaged by the plague. The deaths there are reported to number 2,000 daily.

• March 2, 1911 [Thursday]

  • Sacramento, CA - Author Jack London is under investigation for distributing flyers along Long Beach advertising that young men not respond to the call of joining the National Guard.
  • Washington, DC - President Taft has nominated William H. Lewis of Boston, a negro, to be an Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice. This is the first time a negro has been named for such a prominent position in the department.

• March 3, 1911 [Friday]

  • New York, NY - One hundred thousand Bible have been ordered for general distribution by the Gideon's, as members of the Christian Travelers Association of America style themselves. The order is said to be the largest ever placed and it forms part of a national plan to place a Bible in every hotel bedroom in the country.
  • New York, NY - With a roar which brought the dwellers of sixty tenements to their feet and sent them scurrying, a dynamite bomb exploded in the heart of the East Side Italian Colony, blowing off the greater part of a five-story tenement at 307 East Forty-Fifth Street and breaking every window pane for a radius of three blocks. Thirty persons were injured by falling debris and glass. The latest bombing comes as climax to a long series of "Black Hand" letters.
  • Bismark, ND - Governor Burke has appointed C. Buttz of Minnewauken to act as judge in the Second Judicial district.

• March 4, 1911 [Saturday]

  • Minneapolis, MN - Forty thousand pounds of Buffalo fish were caught Wednesday in General Shields lake near Duenna, MN by Dandle Bros., who are operating under the fish commission. Sixteen cars were needed to transport the catch.
  • Helena, MT - The Merchants and Farmers Bank of Culbertson, MT has closed its doors today. The sheriff is searching for V.H. Bostwick, cashier, which is reported as missing with a reported shortage of $15,000.
  • Lansing, MI - Prosecuting Attorney Hayden of Ingham County has discovered, he asserts, that a majority of the members of the Michigan Legislature have been smuggling liquor, which is situated in "dry" territory. He says that fifteen days after the session is over he will issue warrants for their arrest.

• March 5, 1911 [Sunday]

  • Washington, DC - The American Red Cross Society today cabled another $1,000 to the American Consul General Wilder of Shanghai for the relief of the starving people of China.

• March 6, 1911 [Monday]

  • Baton Rouge, LA - William G. Purvis of Chicago was perhaps fatally injured here when he fell in his Gates biplane and was buried beneath the tangled mass of wreckage.
  • Honolulu, HI - One more case of cholera developed last night, making a total of 19 cases and 15 deaths since the disease appeared here. The schools in one district have been closed as a precautionary measure.

• March 7, 1911 [Tuesday]

  • 682 Patents, Design Patents and Re-Issues were granted today from the United States Patent Office.

• March 8, 1911 [Wednesday]

  • Birmingham, AL - Harry Welchounce, the promising young outfielder who is here with the Philadelphia Nationals, was taken to the hospital with a concussion of the brain resulting from being hit on the head by a pitched ball in the first inning of the practice game.
  • Olympia, WA - The State Senate passed the House bill providing for a new state capital at Olympia.
  • Portland, CA - Citizens of Portland cabled $5,000 to Hong Kong yesterday to be used in purchasing food for the starving Chinese. As fast as collected in amounts of$5,000, more money will be wired. It is expected that at least $20,000 will be wired from Portland this week.
  • Baynesville, KS - Half of the farmers living along the rural free delivery lines out of this town have pulled down their mail boxes and refused to accept their mail from a negro carrier recently appointed.

• March 9, 1911 [Thursday]

  • Monticello, IA - Four men charged with making counterfeit nickels were arrested at Sabula and the counterfeiting outfit used by them seized. The dies, molds and a quantity of the "bogus" coins have been turned over to the United States deputies.

• March 10, 1911 [Friday]

  • Pleasant Prairie, WI - Five powder magazines of the DuPont de Nemours Powder Co containing 180 tons of finished black powder and dynamite exploded. One man, E.S. Thompson is known to be killed and the shock waves were felt as far as 100 miles away.

• March 11, 1911 [Saturday]

  • Washington, DC - Dealer in corsets are not pleased with the latest fad of the Washington smart set. On excellent authority it is said to be strictly swagger nowadays a woman discard the engirdling stays, a thing not impossible with the present style of the girdled frock. The younger set here promoted the "back to nature" idea, causing a sensation among the older folks.

• March 12, 1911 [Sunday]

  • Concord, NH - A valuation of the late Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, founder of the Christian Science Church to be $2,512,146 comprised of stocks and bonds and the appraisal of copyrights.

• March 13, 1911 [Monday]

  • Stillwater, MN - After July 1, 1911 rural carriers will receive $1,000 a year for routes of 24 miles or more and a proportionate increase for routes of less length.

• March 14, 1911 [Tuesday]

  • 696 Patents, Design Patents and Re-Issues were granted today from the United States Patent Office.

• March 15, 1911 [Wednesday]

  • Tucson, AZ - Colonel W.F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) is ambitious to become the first United States Senator from Arizona. A democratic organization has been effected, having for its aim his election.
  • Wichita, K - Frank Burt, former Chief of Police of the Wichita Police, pleaded guilty in the federal courts here to charges of selling stolen postage stamps.

• March 16, 1911 [Thursday]

  • London, England - In an interview, Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, one of England's foremost statesmen and fighting men, declared that America must take the initiative in bringing about world peace and that America and England combined could force international disarmament.

• March 17, 1911 [Friday]

  • Chicago, IL - Leo Niewierowski, a sixteen year-old boy convicted of being incorrigible, was sentenced to enlist in the United States navy by Judge Pickrey in the juvenile court. "The Navy will make a man of him" the judge told the boys father. The boy will be taken to a recruiting office by an officer of the court.
  • San Bernardino, CA - Twenty five million oranges and lemons were moved out of southern California today making it as the largest fruit shipment in the states history. 373 boxcars are headed eastward.

• March 18, 1911 [Saturday]

  • Red Wing, MN - More donations have been received for the Chinese famine relief from the citizens of Red Wing. To-date $4.00 have been raised.
  • Santa Rosa, CA - Lester Brittain, city assessor and Miss Blanche Barham, daughter of Aubrey Barham, former councilman of this city, will be married in San Francisco to-day. They have grown up together from childhood. Their grandparents crossed the plains in the same wagon train party of 1848.
  • Washington, DC - The American Red Cross Society has cabled another $2,000 to China for the relief of the starving millions in that empire.
  • Seattle, WA - The Commercial Club today cabled $1,500 to the Red Cross for the Chinese famine sufferers making $9,000 sent thus far.

• March 19, 1911 [Sunday]

  • Peking, China - The negotiations for a loan total of $50,000,000 is in the final stages between China and a group of American financiers. The loan total assets will be drawn from banks from the United States, England, Germany and France.

• March 20, 1911 [Monday]

  • Minneapolis, MN - The historic Lincoln car, the private traveling carriage of Abraham Lincoln and the car that carried his dead body from Washington to Springfield, IL for burial in 1865 was totally destroyed by a prairie fire that swept Columbia Heights. Fragments of the ruins of the historic car will be given to the public as mementos.
  • New York, NY - The Christian Herald today sent a check for $25,000 to the United States Department of State for the famine relief in China.
  • London, England - Rudyard Kipling has written his first play, but for some reason the matter is being kept a profound secret. Neither title nor plot is revealed, but the fact that all characters are animals is known to Kipling's most intimate friends.

• March 21, 1911 [Tuesday]

  • Winnipeg, Canada - Canadian immigration authorities here received word that a train of 125 negroes and their affects was on the way from Weleaka, OK via St. Paul, to settle on farms of Northern Alberta and take up homesteads. There are already a considerable number of negroes in Alberta, but this party will be detained at the boarder, as there are some of the colored people from the southern states who cannot endure the severe cold of Western Canada. The cold of the northern prairies is said to be disastrous to the health of the negroes, especially to those from the southern US states.
  • 591 Patents, Design Patents and Re-Issues were granted today from the United States Patent Office.

• March 22, 1911 [Wednesday]

  • :: According to Messrs. Henriet and Bonyssy, ozone is produced by the ulra-violet light rays of the sun in the upper atmosphere and the amount contained in the air near the ground increases when air currents descend from the upper regions.

• March 23, 1911 [Thursday]

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• March 24, 1911 [Friday]

  • Coffeyville, KS - Six masked men held up the Iron Mountain passenger train six miles from here today and blew open the express company safe, securing $20,000. They fled in automobiles. No one was harmed.
  • Winnipeg, Canada - The party of negro immigrants from Oklahoma who had been detained at Emerson for the past two days were successfully passed by the Canadian medical inspector. They will be rushed forward to Edmonton with their affects without delay.
  • Red Wing, MN - The fund for the Chinese famine sufferers is slowly growing upward. It ought to reach a good sized sum. At the time of going to press a total of $11.00 has been raised.

• March 25, 1911 [Saturday]

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• March 26, 1911 [Sunday]

  • :: Pepper Nuts :: One pound of pulverized sugar, one pound of flour (very scant), three eggs, two ounces of chopped citron, one tablespoon of cinnamon, one quarter of a teaspoon of cloves, one quarter of a teaspoon of pepper, one pound of chopped almond meats. Beat the sugar and eggs one hour, then add the other ingredients, the citron last. Put in little lumps in greased pan, bake in a moderate oven.

• March 27, 1911 [Monday]

  • New York, NY - One hundred and forty-one persons, nine-tenths of them girls from the east side have died as a result of a fire at the Triangle Waist Company building. any died during attempts to escape. District Attorney Whitman announced rigorous prosecution for those responsible.

• March 28, 1911 [Tuesday]

  • 648 Patents, Design Patents and Re-Issues were granted today from the United States Patent Office.

• March 29, 1911 [Wednesday]

  • Augusta, ME - The Maine house of representatives, by a vote of 82 to 53, declined to ratify the proposed amendment to the United States Constitution providing for a tax on income and immediately, by a viva voce vote, accepted a favorable report on a bill providing for a state income tax.

• March 30, 1911 [Thursday]

  • Red Wing, MN - The Chinese Famine Sufferers Fund has continued to climb in total donations. At press time a total of $17.11 have been reported.

• March 31, 1911 [Friday]

  • Gainsville, AL - A tornado has swept though these parts, destroying one hundred buildings, trees and damaging crops. A two hundred foot path across a county town nearly wiped it out and has killed six people.
  • New York, NY - Men teachers in the elementary schools of New York City appointed hereafter will receive the same pay as women. This will mean that the present salaries paid to men in those positions will be cut almost one third.
  • Cordova, AK - The last spike completing the Copper River and Northern railroad between Cordova on Tidewater and Kemeicott, where Bonanza Copper Mountain is situated, has been driven. Trains will be operating within two days. The rail line which is 197 miles long cost $20,000,000 and was begun Nov. 15, 1907.
  • :: Webmaster Note :: The total stories of China famine relief continued. The outpouring from virtually every city made headlines from the collection of city newspapers we have access to. From New York to a town like Red Wing, MN (reported population of less than 2,000), everyone across the country, great and small made donations. ::