Bomb in New York injures police and kills accomplice
A would-be assassin detonated a bomb in Union Square New York injuring four officers and killing his taller red haired companion identified as Igatz Hildebrand. The attacker, Se lig Silverstein, said he acted alone and was inspired by orders from a mystery contact. He named his Russian origin and claimed a wife and two children in Russia.
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van Brunt Street
Brooklyn
Clark Street
Broadway
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United States
Cohen
Park Street
Golstein
Eldridge Street
Broome Street
Manhattan
Silverstein
Bellevue Hospital
Plac
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Robert Hunter
University Settlement
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Chicago
New York
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Academy of Music
Union Square
Reilly
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Third Avenue
Taptir
Alexander
Beaver Street
Bialystok
Bomb explodes in Union Square injuring police and crowd
A bomb in Union Square New York targets Captain Lesby's police squad during a mass protest. One bomber dies, the other seriously injured, four officers hurt, and a large crowd disperses as responders contain the scene. Police plan remains heightened with thousands of reserves ready.
Chicago police to monitor Haywood meetings amid unrest
Assistant Chief Schuettler says Chicago police will watch three Haywood addresses planned for tomorrow following the May Day riot. He cites Chief Shippy's actions against unemployed marches and Emma Goldman, noting Shippy is away seeking a health resort for his wounded son.
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New York
Shippy
Schuettler
Emma Goldman
Averbuch
Haymarket
Schuettier
William D. Haywood
Hildebrand
Bavaria
Silverstein
Brooklyn
Alex Berkman
Bill to Abolish Gallo ws in District of Columbia
Washington March 28 A bill to abolish capital punishment in the District of Columbia was introduced in the house by Mr Scott Kansas He cited the Paolucci case and said the death penalty is ineffective as a crime deterrent and a blot upon civilization, urging its end in the capital.
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Washington
District of Columbia
House
Scott
Kansas
Beott
Paolucci
Wreath for Stevens Bier from Roosevelt
Washington March 28 As a man of his sympathy President Roosevelt sends a wreath for Stevens Bier. The brief dispatch notes the President's personal gesture as part of a ceremony or tribute in the capital.
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Stevens Bier
Roosevelt
Washington
Funeral arrangements for Durham W Stevens in San Francisco
Inquiry from the Japanese embassy to arrange the funeral of Durham W Stevens who died in San Francisco at the hands of a Korean assassin. A ceremonial wreath will be laid on the coffin as part of the arrangements discussed with the embassy on behalf of the president.
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Durham W. Stevens
San Francisco
Mr. Stevens
Phonograph Men Agree to Pay for Privileges
Washington reports that Senate and House library committees foresee a compromise between mechanical music device makers and moving picture interests and composers and managers. The plan calls for a percentage payment to authors when works are reproduced and licensing for mechanics in return, agreed after three days of hearings.
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Washington
Senate
House Library Committees
Mro
House Committee On
Gillette fate rests with Governor Hughes
Albany March 28 Chester Gillette’s fate again rests in the hands of Governor Hughes who will decide whether to grant a reprieve. New evidence was submitted and a decision is expected by tomorrow night. Public testimony was limited to Cortland shirt factory workers corroborating Grace Brown’s spasms.
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Chester Gillette Lea
Hughes
Sleetrie
Auburn Prison
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Gillette
Grace Brown
F. S&s. Gillette
Katherine Gi Jette
Duke Hurries Home to Fix Affairs with King
A Rome report says rumors of an engagement between the Duke of Abruzzi and Miss Elkins are largely imaginary. The duke cannot decide without the king's consent, which has not yet been asked. He is expected to arrive Wednesday for a formal decision.
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Laila
Abruzzi
Miss Elkins
Heflin Comments After Pennsylvania Avenue Shooting
Representative Heflin of Alabama says he acted as any gentleman would under pressure after a shooting on Pennsylvania Avenue. The police court case involving Heflin and H D Clayton was postponed to a future date.
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Morning Journal
Washington
Heflin
Alabama
Pennsylvania
Nue
H. D. Clayton
Mr. Heflin
United States District
Ralph Given
House Devotes Day to Agricultural Bill in Congress
Washington March 28 The house debated an agricultural bill with support from Mr Burleson Texas for a standard to grade cotton using expert classifiers. Opponents like Mr Crumpacher argued against a federal laboratory for seed and grain testing and the plan that lab reports would fix official grades. The contested clause was struck and the section adopted as amended before adjournment.
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Washington
Burleson
Texas
Secretary of Agriculture
Crumpacher
President Roosevelt Dines with Boone and Crockett Club
President Roosevelt attended a dinner honoring him hosted by the Boone and Crockett Club in the Metropolitan club banquet rooms. Thirty covers were laid and the event featured reminiscences of the chase, a hallmark of the annual gathering.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Boone and Crockett Club
Metropolitan Club
Desperate Cherokee outlaw Wickliffe killed in family quarrel
Chas Wickliffe, 35, a member of the notorious Wickliffe outlaw gang blamed for murders in the southwest, was shot and killed by his brother Thomas, 31, during a drunken family quarrel at the Wickliffe home in the Spavena hills Cherokee Nation. The trio’s crimes led to a prolonged manhunt led by U S Marshal Darraugh after the March 11 1905 attack on deputies near Kansas Okla.
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Morning Journal
Muskogee
Okla
Chas Wickliffe
Wickliffe
Spavena Hills
Cherokee Nation
Thomas
Wickliffes
Charles
John
Southwest
Kansas
Gistrap
Vinita
United States
Darraugh
Charles Wickliffe
Jonny
Wreck blamed on saboteurs for Santa Fe derailment near Gato
Special Dispatch from Las Vegas New Mexico reports passenger train No. 10 on the Santa Fe line derailed and ditched near Gato thirty four miles west of Raton. The locomotive and seven cars left the rails but all aboard escaped injury. Wrecking crews rushed to the scene and track repairs are expected to take about twelve hours with a temporary line built around the wreck. Eastbound trains were held and Santa Fe trains 7 and 9 were consolidated and rerouted to Albuquerque.
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The
Morning Journal
Las Vegas
N. M
Gato
Raton
Mrs Roosevelt Visits Vicksburg Cemetery
Mrs Roosevelt and party arrived in Vicksburg after a drive through the national military park and registered in the National cemetery with General Steven D. Lee present. They departed at 2 o'clock aboard the Mayflower, and the city council sent flowers aboard the yacht.
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Mise
Mre
Roosevelt
National Military Park
Steven D. Lee
Confederate Veterans
National Cemetery
Uncle Joe Wins Two Delegates in Illinois
The Republican conventions in Pinckney and East St. Louis elected delegates to the national convention, with instructions for Cannon. Ridgeley departs for Kansas City to assume presidency of the reorganized National Bank of Commerce. Lawrence Murray remains in Atlantic City and Deputy Comptroller Thomas P. Kane acts as comptroller in the interim.
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Uncle Joe
Illinois
Pinckney, Ill
East St. Louis
Ridgeley
Kansas City
Washington
William Ridgeley
Reorganized National Bank of Commerce
Lawrence
Murray
Commerce and Labor
Mr. Ridgeley
Atlantic City
N. J
Thomas P. Kane
Alabama Rate Law Suspended by Federal Judge
Judge Thomas Jones of the Federal court of Alabama mid district rules that state anti railroad acts are unconstitutional and suspends rate laws pending investigation of railroads conduct. The decision holds federal courts may review such questions and delays the Alabama railroad code while rates are examined.
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Montgomery
Ala
Thomas ©. Jones
Federal Court of Alabama, Middle District
Alabama
Juder Jones
Evans quits fleet coming north
Admiral Evans commander of the Atlantic fleet travels from Magdalena Bay to San Francisco aboard the Connecticut. He will stop at San Diego and San Luis Obispo for rail transfer and treatment at a mineral springs resort before rejoining the fleet under Rear Admiral Thomas duties.
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San Luis Obispo
San Diego
Morning Journal
Washington
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Magdalena Bay
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Connecticut
San Luis Opispo
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Evans Health Causes Anxiety in California
News of Admiral Evans health unsettles California cities as Magdalena Bay reports had masked severity. The flagship Connecticut detaches from the fleet to bring the admiral to San Francisco for treatment at San Luis Obispo, with northern travel two weeks earlier than the fleet. Planned shore entertainments in Los Angeles Santa Barbara Santa Cruz rest on his ability to participate, leaving locals hopeful yet anxious.
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Admiral Evans
San Francisco
San Luis Obispo
American Marshall Defeats Rubinstein in Vienna Chase
In the March 28 chase tournament at Vienna the American Marshall defeated the Mkusien Rubinstein. Jones holds good chances to win his adjourned game. ARAL Kaolhen Schlecter tilt is to the head.
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Vienna
Marshall
Mkuseian
Rubinstein
Jones
Aral Kaolhen Schlecter
Mine Disaster in Wyoming Claims 20 Lives
Frightful explosion buries workmen engaged in fighting fire in Union Pacific coal workings near Hanna Wyoming. Early reports list twenty men believed dead with rescue efforts underway and conditions described as dangerous.
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Union Pacific
Hanna
Massive Coal Mine Disaster Kills Twenty at Hanna
A gas explosion in Union Pacific Coal mine No 1 at Hanna Wyoming kills twenty miners. The superintendent Alexander Briggs and foreman Joseph Burton among the dead. Survivors and rescuers race to reach the submerged shaft as prior disasters in 1903 and elsewhere loom.
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Hy Morning Journal
Hutte
Mont
Hanna
Wyo
Union Pacific Coal Company
Alexander Briggs
Joseph Burton
James Knox
Alfred Dodds
Gus Rainey
PA. Boyd
John Evans
Lobe
James Furton
Peter Munson
Robert Warburton
Second Explosion Kills Men at Hanna Mine
A Hanna Wyoming report says a second blast at 10 30 p m in the Hanna coal mine traps thirty to forty rescuers including State Mine Inspector D M Elias of Rock Springs. Fear grows that all are dead.
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Fporty
Cheyenne
Wyo
Hanna
D. M. Elias
Rock Springs
Bryan calms angry audience at Wheeling rally
Morning Journal reports a near riot as a Mozart Park car and a railroad car forced through a dense crowd gathered to hear William Jennings Bryan in Chapline Street Wheeling West Virginia. Bryan urged calm and lawfulness while police and officials faced hostile chants.
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Wheeling
Morning Journal
Reece
W. Va
Preea
Mr. Bryan
Chaplaine Street
Mozart Park
Es- A
Clemans
Bryan
Position of Cars in Around the World Race
Oeden Utah March 28 The week in the New York to Paris race notes Italian automobile at Gaetdfield Nev French car nearing Nev German car on freteh train coming to repairs from Rock Springs Wye American machine is track steamer from San Francisco to
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Paris
Gaetdfield
Nev
Rock Springs
Wye
San Francisco
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