Platt of Connecticut Dead and Other World News
Senator O H Platt of Connecticut is dead. President Roosevelt to visit Chicago around May 17. Alaska gold output estimated up to 20 million dollars. Ex Lieutenant Governor Timothy L Woodruff and Miss Isabel Morrison wed on Monday. US army transport Sheridan reaches Portland from Manila via Nagasaki. troops proceed to Vancouver barracks. Wheat options fall sharply on Chicago board of trade with big declines. Stratford on Avon hosts weeklong Shakespeare festival with city buzzing. London hosts Shakespeare at four major venues. First US strike reportedly in 1741 involving New York bakers resisting wage hikes. Chicago public meeting pushes municipal gas and street railway ownership measures.
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Chicago
City Council Chamber
Bankers Subpoenaed in Beef Trust Inquiry
Chicago officials subpoena vice presidents and cashiers of four national banks. They seek accounts and records of the Aetna Trading Company and the S Oppenheim Sausage Casing Company. Checks traced between banks and through the clearing house bear fictitious names. The move with major impact follows suspected Packers ties to Aetna Trading.
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Chicago
Beef Trust
Aetna Trading Company
S. Oppenheim
Wool Clip Large Shows Bullish Northwest Market
Wool shearing is active across Washington and other Northwestern states. Trade circles report a bullish outlook as outrun may match or exceed last year’s production. Eastern sections show lighter fleece but better quality with more sheep, predicting a 10 percent clip increase over 1904.
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Seattle
Alfred Noble Accepts Canal Appointment
Secretary Taft confirms Alfred Noble accepts a seat on the Panama canal commission consulting engineers board. Noble, builder of the Soo canal, leads the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel project in New York. A French funeral pageant is planned for Vice Admiral Paul Jones’ body’s return to the United States with a U.S. squadron likely in June.
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Washington
Taft
Alfred Noble
Panama Canal Commission
Noble
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Jones
Paris
State Department
Porter
Paul Jones
United States
Reading Prohibited by Imperial Guards in Russia
A general order forbids the Imperial guards and troops to read revolutionary literature spreading across Russia. The finance ministry has allotted 35 million dollars for new railroad construction this year.
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St. Petersburg
Imperial Guards
Russia
Ministry of Finance
Navy to name battleship Michigan joining South Carolina
The navy department announced that one of the two battleships authorized by the last congress will be named Michigan. The other ship has already been named South Carolina.
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Washington
Navy Department
Michigan
South Carolina
Illinois building to reproduce Lincoln home at exposition
The Illinois commissioners at Springfield on April 24 decided the Illinois building for the Lewis and Clark exposition will be an exact reproduction of Abraham Lincoln's home in Springfield.
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Springfield
Ills
Illinois
Abraham Lincoln
Washington News Highlights From May to March
The term of the state supreme court starts May 8. Colfax plans to finish its city water system by June 1. Sunnyside post office receipts rise 24 percent for the year ending March 31. Construction begins on the Bellingham Masonic temple costing 16500 dollars. The Palouse irrigation project appears unlikely to proceed at present due to high costs. Dr. A G Weed Seattle pioneer and two term mayor dies in Berkeley. Heavy snow hampers Mount Baker mining work and drives workers from the hills. Everett city council orders strict gambling enforcement and bans music in venues serving liquor.
Milwaukee Bank President Charged With Embezzling Large Sum
Frank G. Bigelow, president of the First National Bank of Milwaukee, is arrested for embezzling over 1 million dollars. He confessed to directors he misappropriated about 1.45 million, mostly from speculation in wheat and stocks, leaving only about 300 thousand in personal securities. The bank moved to protect depositors as a federal case is prepared.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Frank G. Bigelow
First National Bank of Milwaukee
United States
H. G. Butterfield
Bigelow
First National Bank
Henry 4. Goll
Goll
Bloodgood
Federal Grand Jury
Horace M. Brown
Arthur Mclooch
Wall Street
Europe
Western Pacific Railroad Plans Revealed by J Dalzell Brown
J Dalzell Brown releases a statement from director saying George J Gould funds and guides the Western Pacific construction to provide a California Pacific port at San Francisco. E T Jeffery to be president, Walter J Bartnett as vice president and chief counsel, with eastern directors named and construction contracts set. Route details include Oakland terminals, Sacramento to Marysville Oroville Beckwith Pass, Reno bypass, and a Salt Lake City terminal via Gould's Denver Rio Grande system.
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San Francisco
Western Pacific Railroad Company
J. Dalzell Brown
George J. Gould
California
Wereast Pacific
E. T
Sierras
Oakland
Sacramento
Marysville
Oroville
Beckwith Pass
Reno
Nevada
Southron
Great Salt Lake
Utah
Salt Lake City
Gould
Denver & Rio Grande
Negotiations Open on Chicago Street Railways Buy
Negotiations for the purchase of Chicago street railways began between traction representatives and the city. An appropriation is pending to modernize lines and sell to the city at a fair profit, avoiding legal complications and securing municipal ownership. A joint conference is planned with the mayor, companies, and a city council committee on transportation.
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Chicago
Chicago Street Railways
City of
Traction Companies
City Council Committee On Transportation
Fires Sweep Northeastern Minnesota Near Lake Superior
Smoke from numerous forest and slash fires blankets Northeastern Minnesota and the western Lake Superior area. Reports flow in via rail as fires threaten several Mesabi mining sites. Drought lasts three weeks with no rain.
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Duluth
Minnesota
Lake Superior
Messaba
Summer science school for teachers at Pullman
The state college at Pullman will hold a summer science school for teachers from June 26 to August 1. Tuition will be free and the session will offer a large curriculum of advanced courses for teachers throughout the state.
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Pullman
State College
Wool clips from Fergus firms sold for 23 cents a pound
The wool clips of William Fergus and Sons Fergus Brothers and the Fergus Land and Live Stock Company totaling 300000 pounds were sold to a Boston firm for 23 cents per pound. The sale set a record for several years and occurred in Lewiston Montana on April 24.
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Lewiston
Mont
William Fergus and Sons
Fergus Brothers
Fergus Land & Live Stock Company
Boston
Seattle Market Report Prices From Local Dealers
Seattle market report lists producer prices for grains, feed, hay, eggs, poultry, live stock, hides, wool, and wheat across commodities. It provides per ton and per pound rates for oats barley wheat corn oats hay eggs poultry turkey dressed chickens and various livestock and byproducts with regional notes and date stamp.
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Seattle
Washington
Puget Sound
Eastern
Washington Creamery
New Chinook Salmon Reach Fraser River in Large Run
Vancouver reports an unprecedented spring run of chinook salmon in the Fraser River. The fish are identified as Columbia River chinook that bypassed the Columbia and moved north toward Fraser waters, feeding near Monterey California in winter. Canneries and fisheries interest rise as the unusual migration is closely watched.
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Vancouver
B. C
Frazer River
Columbia River
Monterey
Cal
Fraser River
Haggard Sails For Liverpool With Salvation Army Aid
New York April 24 H Rider Haggard the novelist sails for Liverpool on the Majestic. He travels with his daughter and Commander Booth Tucker former head of the Salvation Army in the United States to study relief efforts to ease urban poverty by moving people to the country and fostering self support.
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New York
Joseph Jefferson Dies at Palm Beach After Long Career
Eminent actor Joseph Jefferson died at The Reefs Palm Beach at 6 15 yesterday following a day of unconsciousness and a long struggle. He was born February 20 1829 in Philadelphia and rose from strolling players to famed comedian with many classic roles including Rip Van Winkle. He leaves wife sons Charles B and Frank Jefferson nurse Miss Mabel Bingham and staff. He owned a Louisiana sugar plantation and a New Jersey farm and enjoyed angling and painting in retirement.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Joseph Jefferson
Palm Beach
Charles B
Frank Jefferson
Mabel Bingham
Br. R. B. Potter
Carl Kettler
Philadelphia
United States
Burke
Pizarro
Texas
Mexico
Asa Trenchard
Laura Keane
New York
Newman Noggs
Nicholas Nickleby
Caleb Plummer
Dr. Panglass
Bob Acres
England
Australia
Louisiana
New Jersey
Attorney General Expands Office Locations to Seattle and Spokane
The attorney general announces new offices in Seattle and Spokane in addition to the state capital. Robert M. Booth will oversee the Seattle office and E. C. MacDonald will head the Spokane office.
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Olympia
Seattle
Spokane
Robert M. Booth
E. C. MacDonald
Empire council imposes tax raises for war effort
The council of the empire promulgated a first war tax law detailing higher levies on matches and petroleum and a graduated tax on official salaries. The total revenue is estimated at 11 million dollars and the law takes effect May 1.
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St. Petersburg
Council of the Empire
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Kangarok
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Alaska
Timothy L. Woodruff
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Manila
Nagasaki
Portland
Vancouver Barracks
Chicago Board of Trade
Stratford-on-Avon
London
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Lincoln
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Colfax
Sunnyside
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A .G. Weed
Berkeley
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Crime
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Western Pacific
Seattle Market Report
Tacoma
Frazer
H. Rider Haggard
Trascomtiertal Tachne
CMA
W. W. Wrenn
East Market Street
Harper Rye
Kentucky
Harper
St. Louis
Fred Hewitt
G. W. Ninemire, Pres
Thos. Morgan
Pres
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Montesano
Aberdeen
Patterson & Locke Co., Incorporated
General Insurance Agents
Nature
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The
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Pacific Coast
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