Dynamite Fails to Check Furious Maine City Blaze
The Morning Journal reports a massive fire in Ranger Maine starting in a hay shed on Broad Street. The blaze destroyed churches public halls and many homes leaving thousands homeless and causing at least three deaths amid firefighting efforts aided by nearby towns and National Guard.
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Morning Journal
Ranger
Hoard Street
Maine
Hammond
Hrewer
Mullen
Portland
Hanger
National Guard
Portand
Lewiston
Augusta
Old Town
Brewer
Broadway
Central
Franklin Streets
Park Street
Marron Street
Center
French Streets
Chet
Kenduskeag Stream
Hanks
Public
Cit
Telegraph Company
Telegraph
Broad and
Exchange Streets
Devastating Bangor Fire Destroys Central District
Fires spread rapidly through Bangor with the city hall surviving the direct blaze while most of the Wholesale and retail districts burned. Key losses included Haynes & Chalmers Hodkins block Fiske building and Bangor post office as crews from Au exusta and other cities battled the flames and evacuated residents.
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City Hall
Kenduskeag
Auexusta Department
Haynes & Chalmers
Hodkins
Fiske
Fairbanks & Co
Angor
Morse-Oliver
Bangor & Aroostock Railroad
Windsor Hotel
One Tire
Stearns
Graham Uiding
Univer.e Oliet
Central
St. John's Episcopal Advent
Firat Pisapothet Horehes
Norumbega Hall
Gaiety Theater
Maine School of Law
Central Fire Station
Chinese marooned after wreck near Coronados isles
Ten Chinese men, possibly smugglled to the United States, are stranded on Northwest Shelter Island near San Diego after a wreck. Rescue efforts were organized by immigration and a landing party found them starving with little water.
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Moreteg
Spear
San Diego
Cal
Shelter Island
Orient
Chadney
Tomiene
Frank Pixley
Harry &. Harkness
Br. J. Chapin
North Pacific Steamship Company
Coronado Isands
Mr. Pixley
Coronado Islands
Mexico
United States
Ten Thousand Striking Workers March in New York
On April 20 New York workers across three trades plan a one day strike beginning May Day. Leaders state a single union machine shop will operate unless employers grant an eight hour day and better conditions.
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New York
Tiber
Plumbers Threaten Philadelphia Strike Over Wages
A Journeymen Plumbers union in Philadelphia threatens a May day labor disruption on April 30 if demands are unmet. They seek daily pay from 3.50 to 4.00, double overtime, and holiday Saturday work all year.
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Philadelphia
Desperate fighting in the Canton streets as rebels clash with loyal troops
Morning Journal reports 30 000 soldiers in Canton amid a brutal battle. Rebels attack the provincial arsenal, are repulsed, and a wooden barricade made from rice sacks is burned. Leaders from Hong Kong push for uprising, while viceroy’s bodyguard refuses to join. The American gunboat Wilmington sits near Shamien as authorities detain suspects and decapitations are noted.
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Morning Journal Special
Hong Kong
Canton
Wu Sum
Japan
Singapore
Wilmington
Shamien
Macao Fort Passage
Strike Declared by Los Angeles Carpenters
A general strike of Los Angeles union carpenters is threatened for May 4 if wages are not raised from 3.50 to 4 per day by the Master Builders Association. Contractors have dismissed over 100 union carpenters in the past week. At a meeting, the walk-out date was moved from May 1 to May 4, with relief funds providing 87 weekly.
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Los Angeles
Master Builders’ Association
Contractors Association
Fast Train Struck Switch Engine Killing Two
A Pennsylvania Railway train bound for New York struck a yard switch engine in Dayton yards. Two Dayton men Michael Crumtey sutchman and Albert Icke yard clerk died instantly. Charles Grandin of Nenia was fatally injured while several others were reportedly hurt. Railroad officials deny additional hospitalizations.
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Dayton
Michael Crumtey Sutchman
Albert Icke
Pennsyonia
Charles Grandin
Nenia
Pennsylvania
Bt. Lois
New York
Senate Deliberations Bump on Canadian Reciprocity Debate
Washington report notes the Senate organized but slows on democratic priorities while Canadian reciprocity looms. Debate centers on the bill's hearings and potentiality for lengthy discussion as party lines form and leaders seek swift action on other measures.
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Morning Journal
Washington
House
Senate
Finance Committee
Army officers examine failed horse sale to government
An army board led by Col W H Miller Col BR Thompson and Major H J Gathweher will meet in Seattle next month to finalize a report on the sale of horses to the government that were later found unfit. The batch said to be defective came from Idaho and eastern Oregon and was received at Kilinsburg Washington, not from Kansas City as previously reported.
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Dalzell
Pennsylvania
Democratic House
Ways and Means
House
Territories
Arizona
New Mexa
Seattle
Army Board of Investigation
W. H. Miller
BR. EB. Thompson
H. J. Gathweher
War Department
Miller
Idaho
Oregon
Kilinsburg
Wash
Kansas
Ding
Insurrectos
Labor leaders gather in Indianapolis to fund defense
Samuel Gompers arrives with about forty labor chiefs to organize a AFL defense fund for the McNamara case. An executive council meeting will set the fund's drive and may choose legal counsel. Attendees include William Spencer and Frank Mulholland with Burns still collecting evidence in Indianapolis.
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Indianapolis
Samuel Clampers
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
McNamara
Executive Council
William 4. Spencer
Building Trades Department
Federation
Frank L. Mulholland
Toledo
Ohio
Mulholland
National Organisation
Los Angeles
William J. Burns
G Eney
Socialists Rally to Defend McNamara Brothers in L A Murder Case
The socialist party of America offers full support for John and J D McNamara facing murder charges tied to the Los Angeles Times building blast. A communication urges locals to fund their defense and push a pro socialism campaign in California.
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Boston
Socialist Party of America
John
J. D. McNamara
Los Angeles Times
National Committee of
Socialist Party
National Manufacturers’ Association
California
Los Angeles
District Attorney Ford Heads to Los Angeles
Assistant District Attorney Ford of Los Angeles leaves Chicago after ten days of inspecting evidence from Detective Burns on the Times building dynamiters. He says J J McNamara James McNamara and Ortie E McManigie will be arraigned promptly upon his arrival in Los Angeles.
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Chicago
Ford
Los Angeles
Indianapolis
Burns
Times
J. J McNamara
James McNamara
Ortie E. McManigie
Haywood Advocates Nationwide Strike in Los Angeles Trial Timing
William D. Haywood urged a general strike across the United States on the McNamaras trial day in Los Angeles. The talk before about 1,000 union men in St Louis was sponsored by the socialist labor party with a Chicago based I W W influence. Delegates were appointed to rally both union and non union workers.
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Haywood
St. Louis
William D. Haywood
United States
Los Angeles
Socialist Labor Party
Industrial Workers of the World
Chicago
Rebel Commander Salinas Seized in Extradition Case
Francisco Vasquez Salinas, former commander of Mexican liberal forces in Lower California, arrested in Los Angeles on a robbery charge. He claims the accusation is a frame to deliver him to the Mexican government for his rebellion. Extradition is sought by Mexico. he will be arraigned tomorrow before a U S commissioner. Salinas warns a death awaits him if handed to the Dias government.
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Los Angeles
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Indianapolis
Morning Journal
Francisco Vasquez Salinas
Liberal
Lower
California
Salinas
United States Department of Justice
Mexico
United States
Insurrecto Junta Elects Peace Envoys for Talks
In a sunlit adobe camp, Mexican insurrection leaders chose Dr Francisco Vazquez Gomez Francisco Madero Sr and Senor Jose Pino Suarez as peace commissioners. They set a basis for terms and expect Carabajal to arrive with plenary powers amid extended armistice talks.
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Ty Morning Journal
Lenard
Senor
Jose Pino Suarez
Revolutionists Party
Francisco Carabajal
Federal Peace Commission
Senor Carabajal
Senor Braniff
Senor Obregon
Diaz
Insurreectos
Insurrecto
Francisco Madero
Madero
Francisco
Madero, Jr
Pascual Orosce
Villa
Blanco
Mexico City
Francisco L. Madero, Jr
Republic of Mexico
Congales Garza
Vasques Gomez
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Detroit
National Erectors’ Association
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W. J. Ford
McNamaras
McManigal
McNamara Brothers
Frederick
Anton Tolansen
State Building Trades Council
Joseph Gray
Carpenters’ Union
San Francisco
Andrew Gallagher
San Francisco Labor Council
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