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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1911
Page
11
A fragile plot to overthrow Mexico's leader Madero collapses as a wire telegraph plot backfires. An eloping couple, branded as offenders, face deportation from Quebec amid reports of a governess and child dress scandal.
M Ferdinand V Abbadie d Arrast and Mile Helena Benoit, detained at Quebec immigration, faced deportation after being detected by wireless aboard the Lake Manitoba. The man admitted false identity. he and his governess companion sought to stay in Canada, while the man agreed to return to France and drop an appeal.
Tacoma dispatch reports traveling preacher T H H Gardner attached to no sect beat his wife to death with a club a mile east of Kittitas. He surrendered after attempting to jump into an irrigation ditch claiming occult messages warned of infidelity from enemies. Gardner, 47, and his wife, 42, studied at Maryland Theological Seminary and preached near Baltimore for a decade.
At a railroad crossing near Rivers California five people died and one was fatally injured when a Pacific Electric car collided with an automobile. The victims include Jerry Kaufmann four Hazel Kaufmann thirteen and Mrs Kaufmann thirty eight along with Harry Hollingsworth twenty two and Mrs Hollingsworth twenty two. The Kaufmanns had recently moved from Cedar Edge Colorado and the Hollingsworths from Denver. The auto driver Kaufmann sped the car toward the crossing as the electric car from Whittier to Los Angeles approached. The impact hurled the car 20 feet onto a milk loading platform and the train crew attempted to brake but could not prevent the collision.
Cirri Italian aviator is killed during a near Voghera Italy airshow as his plane breaks apart after a motor explosion. Twenty thousand spectators including his wife and children watch the fatal plunge after Cirri completes several maneuvers.
A heavy wind toppled the grand stand at a Granite City ball game, injuring about twenty, including 22 year old Xdiney Manguss who suffered a broken leg and internal injuries. Twelve players were among the injured as spectators fled before hail and the storm.
Paris May 28 Report says the Paris to Turin air contest started with 12 of 21 entrants at 6 am and finished the first leg by 7 am. Rol land Garros led with Andre Beaumont close behind as Henry Weymann suffered engine trouble but escaped injury. The event, organized by Paris Petit Parisien, offers prizes over 100000 dollars with total distance about 1300 miles and a June 15 deadline.
Washington reports House committees to press steel and sugar trust investigations this week ahead of a Democratic wool tariff bill expected for Friday. Lorimer case may move in the Senate Monday, with the Can adian tariff accord and revenue measures under debate as sessions continue amid a hot campaign.
San Francisco May 28 A man named Francisco Luigi Capi del Cabesa hanged himself from a naked limb atop Telegraph Hill using a red sash from Tuscany. Countryman Andrea Giovanni said the death came from despair over being unable to return home.
Lisbon on May 28 reports perfect order at the constituent assembly elections held nationwide. In 30 of 51 constituencies candidates from the directory of the republican independent republican and socialist parties contested seats while regular republicans were unopposed in others. Monarchists abstained and warned of counter revolutions while authorities prepared for any uprising.
May heat broke season marks in the lower Ohio valley with Louisville Kentucky and Evansville Indiana tying at 98 degrees. A hot wave stretched across the Atlantic states, with nineties in Vermont and heat in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys and eastern Gulf states. Frosts occurred in the Dakotas and parts of Oregon, while the weather bureau predicted cooler conditions for the next two days except in the Northwest and north plains.
A warped rail caused the derailment of two Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton passenger cars near Erie Michigan as a hot day intensified. Two trainmen and several passengers were injured but none seriously.
From San Francisco May 28 a Pacific Mail steamer Newport with 63 passengers, mostly Mexican coast refugees, arrived four days late bearing details of the Acapulco battle. Insurgent activity around San Blas and the coast prompted fears of food shortages and further attacks as bandits and federals clash.
Ewing Artes reports that advisers are urged to desert his leadership as part of a mounting political dispute. The move signals strain within the advisory circle amid ongoing tensions and calls for change.
A Mexican plot to oust Francisco I. Madero and derail his path to Mexico City led to the arrest of Daniel De Villiers of Mexico City in Monterey and W. F. Dunn, an American, after a ten day detective pursuit. Both men allegedly conspired to fund military leaders and urged Viljoen and Orozco to desert Madero, with $25 000 promised to Viljoen.
A tornado hit Pekin Illinois at 1 pm killing Clyde Sakers 14 and Frank Woodley 15. The storm demolished the pumping station opposite the Illinois river, destroyed Boley Ice Company plants, and caused thousand of dollars in damage while sparing the residential area.
Edwin Hopkins died when a bolt of lightning triggered an explosion of a 40 gallon ammonia tank at an ice plant in Columbus Ohio. Two others were overcome but later rescued.
Special Dispatch from Great Falls May 28 Harry Furrow 20 of Cascade is jailed for alleged kidnaping of Rosette Shipp near San river. The girl, near legal age, remains missing despite efforts by sheriff and police. Furrow refuses to reveal her whereabouts. case stirs Cascade and San river communities.
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