First Dynamiting Disaster in San Francisco Collapse
Coroner reports 319 deaths known by his department after a wall collapse during dynamiting in the downtown ruins. Three soldiers were buried but only one seriously hurt as two charges failed to yield the desired result. Police and hospitals remained open as city opens amid scattered rest.
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San Francisco
Cal
Amd
Wranklin Plail
San Francoisco
Walsh
Associated Press
National Assembly of
Russia
Tauride Palace
St. Petersburg
National Assembly
Council of the Empire
Constitutional Democrats
1. Petersburg
Paris Paper Misses Issue After Long Run
Paris May 6 Les Petites Affiches a famous advertisement paper failed to appear for one day last week. This was its first absence in 300 years except for 1814. The staff worked to exhaustion due to a compositor's strike and required one day of pay to cover the delay.
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Paris
Les Petites Affiches
Russian Troop Shifts Stir Manchuria Amid cultural Push
London reports show Russia strengthening control in Manchuria with Russian language and a Russo Chinese newspaper planned. Harbin gains new barracks as soldiers court Manchu society, while Tokyo sees wartime mementos traded back by Japanese merchants.
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London
Tuasia
Manchuria
Harbin
Blagovestchensk
Ivan Ivanovitch
Rusela
East
Russian bombing and political turmoil in 1906
A bomb wounded Moscow Governor General Doubassoff and killed his aide in an assassination attempt outside a palace. The attacker, in uniform, was reportedly killed. The incident follows unrest tied to a planned national assembly in St. Petersburg and broader Russian political upheaval.
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Moscow
Doubassoff
Yarred
Doubasoff
Usepenski
Doubasoft
Tennesseezulus Fight Denies Mob Killings in Cheatham County
Reports from Nashville describe a mob attack on Thomas Stewart near Pleasantview Cheatham County in which Marvin Winters was killed and Stewart and his daughter wounded. Arrests followed of Jim Hunt Epb Boyle and Newton Winters on murder complicity charges.
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Nashville
Tenn
Marvin Winters
Thomas Stewart
Stewart
Pleasantview
Cheatham County
Winters
Jim Hunt
Epb Boyle
Newton Winters
Newfoundland Protests United States Fishing Rights
Newfoundland colonial authorities dismiss Washington’s protest over Britain fining American fishing vessels for alleged breaches of coast regulations. They argue Americans must follow local rules unless the treaty of 1818 grants a different right, asserting Americans share fishing rights with British subjects under the treaty. A Dresden murder confession states Max Ditrich admits to eight killings over seven years.
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London
Great Britain
Newfoundland
Washington
United States
St. John’s
Nad
State Department
Postmaster General Urges Commission on Second Class Mail
Cortelvou proposes creating a commission to study second class mail laws and report by December 10, 1906. He urges a broad review and replacement statutes to fit modern publishing needs, saying current laws hinder bona fide newspapers and periodicals. Typhoid epidemic in Mexico City largely halted with two cases and one death. Persia unrest drives plague spread in Seistan with hundreds of victims and delayed medical aid.
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Corteyou
Congress
Persia
St. Petersburg
Seistan
Pesia
Morocco Pretender Loses Twenty In Valley Fight
In the Malaya valley near Melilla on May 4 a clash with sultan troops left twenty dead and wounded. The engagement was ongoing when dispatches arrived.
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Melilla
Morocco
Malaya Valley
Locked-out workers may trigger general strike in Hamburg
In Hamburg on May 6 locked-out May Day demonstrators threaten a general strike. A merchant and ship broker meeting with coal firm reps upheld yesterday’s decision to discharge all longshoremen who did not appear for work yesterday, with action lasting until May 11.
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Hamburg
Portland land fraud indictments widen across Oregon
Indictments allege conspiracy to secure 200000 acres of timber land in Lake Crook and Kalmath counties. Names include F W Gilchrist Patrick Culligan and James McPherson of Alpena Mich H W Stone of Benson Minn and others from Oregon Arkansas and Washington. Warrants to arrest the accused will be issued. The case signals broad government action in land fraud probes and rapid trials are sought.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Portland
Ore
United States
W. C. Bristol
Oregon
Lake, Crook
Klamath Counties
F. W. Gilchrist
Ralph Gilchrist
Patrick Culligan
James McPherson
Alpena
Mich
H. W. Stone
Benson, Minn
A. M. Q. S. Schlierhols
Little Rock
Ark
Charles M. Elkins
Jack Combs
Prineville
Benjamin Fallen
Elkins & Co
M. KE. Brink
D. F. Steffa
Crook County Journal
A. C. Palmer
H. J. Palmer
Porland
FE. Dorgan
F. J. Devine
J W. Collins
F Dorgan & Co
Albany
Malcolm McAlpin
J. W. Hopkins
Vancouver
Wash
W. W. Brown
Seattle
T. H. Watkins
Erickson and Watkins
Edgar White
Paris May 6 Results Show Small Change in Parliament
In the general parliamentary elections held today Paris shows few changes with most former deputies reelected and a record poll. A second ballot May 20 is expected to reproduce 1902 divisions in the capital while the government gains one seat. Provincial returns favor the government with eighteen seats to two. Paris polling was guarded by military and police amid strike and church inventory tensions but no major incidents occurred.
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Paris
Rhode Island Floated Off York Spit After Grounding
Norfolk May 6 The battleship Rhode Island was floated tonight after running aground on York Spit bar since Saturday. Four naval tugs pulled the vessel from the sand and it will head to Hampton Roads tomorrow morning. Extent of damage unknown. May 6 Wei Hai Wei British commanded Chinese regiment disbanded. Major H Bower sails to England. Britain to return Wei Hai Wei to China.
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Norfolk
Rhode Island
York Spit Bar
York River
Hampton Roads
Weil-Hei-Wei
Shanghai
Wei-Hai-Wei
H. Bower
England
Great Britain
China
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Industrial Workers of the World
Haywood and Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
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Idaho
Ganen
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Scranton
New York
Halifax
Alexander McGillivary
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Cape Bretdan
Cortelvou
Mexico City
Hamburger
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Speedy
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