Chicago Strike Resumes With Mixed Returns Across City
In Chicago on May 9 large wholesale houses and express firms resumed near normal operations sending wagons citywide. Sixteen hundred teams worked with some clashes between nonunion delivery drivers and police as unions threaten wider strikes including the Crane Company dispute over materials for steam and gas fittings. Honolulu reports M A Rego pleads guilty to embezzlement as former Koloa postmaster.
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Weinig Teaming Company
Clem
Marshal Field
Honolulu
M. A. Rego
Koloa
American Stock Growers hold first annual Denver convention
The American Stock Growers association formed by seceders from the National Live Stock association hosts its first annual meeting in Denver Colorado with several hundred cattlemen in attendance. Talks focus on rail rates service and challenging packer combinations. President J P Hagenbarth attends as head of the National Live Stock association. Colonel William E Hughes serves as temporary chairman and Fred P Johnson as assistant secretary.
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The
News Association
Schaefer
William E. Hughes
Denver
Fred P. Johnson
Hughes
Earthquakes Alarm Two Continents In Early May Shocks
In Mexico City two earthquakes struck within minutes causing theater panic but no building collapses there though damage feared in southwestern Mexico. In Bender Abbas Persia a quake on April 25 buried about fifty persons as a landslide toppled a mountain slope and damaged towers and buildings with several casualties. Seismic activity continued daily in the region.
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Mex
Mexico
Bombay
Bender Abbas
Persia
Khubgande
Tone Saileen
Charles Saileen
Saileen
Mr. Smith
Smith House
Ellvin
Marquette
Main Street
Inoon
President Alter Route For Presidential Train Across Blair Nebraska
The president altered his trip route sending the train across the Missouri River at Blair Nebraska. After leaving Denver he spent the day crossing Nebraska plains delivering brief speeches from his car rear platform. Union Pacific wires provided daily bulletins to the president, who praised the news service innovation.
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Omaha
Neb
Missouri River
Blair
Chicago
Nebraska
Denver
Nebraska Plains
Bis
Union Pacific
New York Brokers Declared Insolvent
On a complaint by Wriggway Bowker of Camden New Jersey Judge Lacombe named Walter D Edmunds of New York and James D Colt of Boston as receivers for Haight Freese company The receivers counsel Roger Foster alleges insolvency and long standing fictitious brokerage transactions with asset misuse by company members Tangier Morocco May 9 The French cable Cadiz Tangier built by the French government marks another step toward consolidating French interests in Morocco
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Wriggway Bowker
Camden
N. J
Lacombe
Walter D. Edmunds
James D. Colt
Boston
Haight & Freese Company
Roger Foster
Haight & Freese
Tangier
Morocco
Cadiz
Spain
Japanese Demand British Aid Amid Russo-Japanese Tensions
Tokio reports rising Japanese resentment over France backing Russia in the Far East crisis. The public calls for Allied support from Great Britain while government cautions against drastic actions. Separate dispatches note naval movements near Kamvanh Bay and a Jewish massacre at Zehitomir amid ongoing regional turbulence.
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France
Paei
Rojestvensky
Far East
Great Britain
Rojestversky
China Sea
Indo-China
Navy news and coal plots stir cautious public opinion
Victorian readers note cautious reports on a potential naval engagement. The era shows papers questioning alleged French neutrality breaches. Rumors allege Russian secret agents bought coal in Hong Kong Saigon and Singapore with ten coalers chartered and crews paid bonuses. Large coal shipments are described.
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Victoria
Fir
Hong Kong
Saigon
Singapore
Marquette Tornado Kills Twenty Nine In Kansas Town
A Kansas twister plowed through Marquette on May 9 killing 29 residents and injuring 44 others. Dozens were found amid wreckage as relief efforts began with aid from neighboring towns and Bethany college students acting as nurses.
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Bethany College
Marquette
Sullivan to Fight Mitchell Said to Close Deal
John L. Sullivan plans a fight with Charley Mitchell as his representative arrives in Thoma Washington to sign articles. He telegrammed Mitchell offering to bet up to five thousand dollars and to be present when time is called, promising one thousand with Considine as a match stake.
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John L. Sullivan
Mitchell
John 1. Sullivan
Hoch Accused of Deceit in Arsenic Murder Trial
Chicago May 9 Amelia Pischer Hoch testifies in the Johann Hech murder trial for Mrs Walckert Hoch. She details Hoch wooing her after her sister’s death and gaining access to her money after a Joliet marriage. The defense counsel faces claims of coaching testimony. Arsenic poisoning ruled as death cause by coroner’s physician.
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Chicago
Amelia Pischer-Hoch
Johann Hech
Walckert Hoch
Hoch
Joliet, HL
Olesen
Plotke
Fischer-Hoch
Ploske
Pischer-Hoch
Lewis
Japanese Shippers Lose Goods as LA Seizures Hit Imports
Los Angeles officials report long lax invoicing allowed Japanese dealers to ship goods undervalued for import, leading to widespread confiscations valued in the thousands. One major batch from Yokohama to Frank Deardorff of Santa Barbara, worth 8000 dollars, was seized after a failed replevin suit.
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Los Angeles
Cal
United States
Yokohama
Frank Deardorff
Santa Barbara
Deardorff
More Trouble for Equitable Directors
New York May reports all directors of the Equitable Life Assurance Society are being served with summons in a suit by Senator Edgar Brackett for an accounting. Mary Young sues as policyholder and stockholder. Senator Depew and Vice President Hyde were served yesterday with the action. A large force of process servers began serving the remaining fifty directors today.
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New York
May
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Edgar Brackett
Saratoga Springs
Mary Young
The
Equitable
Depew
Hyde
Wind Wrecks Big Elevator in St Joseph and Elwood
A severe wind storm at 9 15 tonight damaged multiple structures in St Joseph Missouri and Elwood Kansas. An elevator owned by Harron company in Elwood collapsed trapping four men, one five story Roberts Parker Grocery wall also blew down with five workers escaping.
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St. Joseph
Elwood
Kas
Harroun Company
Roberts-Parker Grocery Company
More Hard Luck for the Santa Fe
A landslide at Tehachapi grade tunnel No 8 covered fifty feet of track with earth twelve feet deep. Santa Fe freight train No 134 was derailed after striking the slide, halting Southern Pacific trains No 7 from Los Angeles and No 8 from San Francisco, delaying services at Mojave and Monta.
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