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...Calumet, Mich., world-weary John Korr, 55, put a stick of dynamite in his trousers pocket, lit the fuse, walked into a room where his landlady Mary Chopp and her daughter were sitting. They fled. John Korr ran after them, chased them until the dynamite exploded, blew him to bits...
Died. Rodolphe Louis Agassiz, 61, Boston banking & mining tycoon, board chairman of Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper Co., onetime international poloist, grandson of the late great Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz; after long illness; in Prides Crossing, Mass., his home since...
...gangsters told me that they had a list of men they were going to take and that every one of them would pay." Instantly local and state police guards were thrown around the homes of 40 rich Chicagoans, among them: Arthur Cutten, John D. Hertz. President Warren Wright of Calumet Baking Powder Co., Otto W. Lehman (former owner of The Fair department store). The names of the other 36 marked men were withheld by police. Politicians. Beer drenched and politics complicated another major kidnapping of the week. For four days the relatives of John J. ("Butch") O'Connell...
...strike day was dismal and rainy, but Englewood High School, in which the word had gone around the day before, was quickly followed by Crane High School, where 2,000 responded to posted placards; by Calumet, which disgorged nearly all of its 5,000 students; by Forestville, where teachers slyly took part by reporting "sick"; by others which brought the total of strikers near 50,000, teachers estimated, most of them in South Side high schools...
Died. William H. Kleppinger, 49, president of Calumet Foundry & Machine Co.; by his own hand (pistol); in Chicago. Five directors and his wife were waiting at his home at his summons when he killed himself in an alley next to an undertaker...