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Earthquakes, trials and tides of a tumultuous week
A powerful quake shook Presno Cal lasting over a minute. Harper B Lee a bullfighter in Guadalajara is gored and not expected to live. June Vandervoort faces murder charges in Sumner County Kansas. Taft opens the Actors Club fair in New York to aid aged theater workers. A senate panel backs a campaign publicity bill amended to bar advance publication. A collapse of a Lake Side Park suspension bridge in Carthage Mo kills one, injures seven and dumps forty into the river. The bucket shop crackdown advances with prosecutions and a five year penitentiary sentence for Frank J Minor. Milwaukee publisher George Bruemeer dies at seventy-one. Philadelphia police officer William Weiss dies saving children from a horse trampling at a circus. A Deeming Michigan home burns, killing three. The Normanay steamer sinks in fog with all aboard saved. Oom alias Peter Coon faces seduction charges with bond. Former State Printer Mark Slater jailed four years for false vouchers. Weather bureau head Garriott notes extreme U S temperature ranges. The cyclops naval collier is launched at Cramp. Oklahoma supreme court denies a writ affecting Waters-Pierce Oil. Rescue work hampered by a Palos mine fire. Fifty death toll rises to 150 in Costa Rica earthquake. Queen Alexandra becomes dowager queen as Victoria’s line continues. Oklahoma inheritance law goes into effect. Cartazo destruction claims 1,500 dead and 1,000 injured. debris notes. Lieutenant Owen and Mrs Owen resume travel through Kansas City and Mexico. Short Horn bulls for sale by James Leith Alliance Neb.