Taft Visits Omaha and Bryan Rallies Denver Crowd
Secretary of War William H. Taft arrives in Omaha for two days of receptions and official duties meeting the Nebraskan delegation and city leaders. In Denver, William J. Bryan speaks to students and attends ministerial, church, and civic events ahead of the Democratic convention.
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Omaha
Neb
William Hatt
Omalie
Council Bluffs
Montdax
Missouri River
Big Muddy
Fort Omaha
Omaha Club
Taft
Victor Rosewater
Omaha Bee
United States
Brown and
Burkett
Sheldon
Nebraska
Gov
McKinley Club
Bryan
Denver
Col
Colorado Springs
T. M. Patterson
William J. Bryan
Denver Univers
Henry A. Buchtell
Bryan Club
John F. Shafroth
Ministerial Alliance
Central Presbyterian Church
Young Men's Christian Association
New Building
Chamber of Commerce
City Auditorium
el Jebel Temple
St Paul Murderer Confesses in Polish Rag-Picker Case
John Smo lensky a 73 year old Polish rag picker was found murdered in his St Paul home. Ex convict Fred Eschle 47 confessed to the crime saying he lived with the corpse for two weeks and stole 70 dollars before being robbed days later.
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St. Paul
Minn
John Smolensky
Ater
Fred Eschle
Eschle
French Schooner Champagn Lost Off St. Malo
News from Halifax New York Apr 7 reports the loss of the French fishing schooner Champagn near St. Malo France. The schooner crew of 28 reached port aboard the steamer Volturno from Rotterdam to New York and were rescued by boats from the Volturno.
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Halifax
N. Y
Champagn
St. Malo
France
Rotterdam
New York
Cicile Convicted of Manslaughter in Ohio Plant Killing
Logan Ohio April 7 The jury found Michael Cicile guilty of manslaughter for the killing of George Hale at the Kerlin brick plant after 20 hours of deliberation. Lawyers indicate the case may go to the Supreme Court if necessary, marking Cicilo’s second trial.
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Logan
Michael Cicile
George Hale
Kerlin
Supreme Court
Cicilo
Firestorm hits four business blocks in New Orleans
Four business buildings burned at the intersection of Tchoupitoulas and Natchez streets in New Orleans on Sunday causing an estimated loss of a quarter of a million dollars. The Morris McGraw Woodenware Company suffered the heaviest damage amid the blaze. Nearby officials and residents mourn a Danish minister of finance who died of a stomach ailment, prompting the Folke Thing to adjourn in his honor.
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New Orleans
Tchoupitoulas
Natchez
Morris McGraw Woodenware Company, Limited
Copenhagen
Wilhalm Lassen
Jong
Riots at Lisbon election as troops fire on crowd
Chaos erupts in Pedra square Lisbon as republican supporters clash with police amid vote counting. Troops fire on stone-throwing crowds killing and wounding several. Newspapers attacked. nationwide results show monarchist landslide outside the capital while Lisbon tallies delay votes and guard boxes.
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Lisbon
Neuse
Pedra Square
St. Dominique Weh
Yhang
Francis the Regenerators
Torpedo Flotilla at Magdalena Bay Regatta Planned
Torpedo boats from Magdalena Bay arrive ahead of schedule via San Diego. Arethus not yet in. Fleet rests after target practice as preparations begin for a Friday regatta. Plan to depart Magdalena bay next Saturday at 4 p m.
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Magdalena Bay
San Diego
Cal
Agr. T
Lynching Two Blacks Reported in South Mississippi and Alabama
In Wesson Mississippi on April 7 a mob of about 30 men stripped and hanged John Burr a young Black man for the murder of a 12 year old white boy near the town. In Mobile Alabama on April 7 or 8 Walter Clayton a Black man confined for manslaughter at Hand Lumber stockade was lynched by 75 men outside Bay Minette after assaulting Mrs Joseph White aged 20.
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Wesson
Miss
John Burr
Mobile
Ala
Walter Clayton
Hand Lumber Company
Joseph White
Bay Minette
Quarantine Against Cuba Expanded to Most Havana Districts
Washington reports a quarantine against Cuba to begin Monday except within the Havana metropolitan district of Havana, Marianao, and Camp Columbia. Separately, four Japanese attacked the American consulate in Mukden, prompting police action and potential diplomatic steps. King Victor Emmanuel bids a family conference in Naptes to discuss the rumored engagement of the Duke of Abruzzi to Miss Katherine Elkins.
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Washington
Marine Hospital and Public Health Service
Cuba
Havana
Marianao
Camp Columbia
Mukden
Apr
Straight
Naptes
Ann
Duke of
Aista
Victor Emmanuel
Rome
Abruzzi
Katherine Elkins
Stephen B. Elkins
West Virginia
Love Affair Ties to Roller Skater's Suicide in Philadelphia
William J. Troop, once a professional roller skater, died by his own hands in a Philadelphia hotel Sunday night. He swallowed laudanum and left letters suggesting a love affair was to blame for the suicide.
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Philadelphia
William J. Troop
Pittsburg man shoots girl then kills himself
Samuel L. Gardner, a well known resident of Church avenue McKees Rocks suburb, shot Dorothy Bradley 16 then shot himself Monday. In the same report the Wilmington Messenger in Wilmington North Carolina suspended publication after 19 years as a morning paper.
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Pittsburg
Samuel L. Gardner
Church Avenue
McKees Rocks
Bis City
Dorothy Bradley
Wilmington Messenger
Wilmington
N.C
Sterling Liability Bill Passes House Of Illinois
The Sterling employers liability bill passed the House under suspension of the rules after a time truce between Democrats and Republicans. The measure applies to interurban car lines between states and street railroads in territories and the District of Columbia, with Democrats applauding and Senator Littlefield opposing its contributory negligence provisions. The vote was 300 yes, 1 no, 3 not present. Also the House passed a $650,000 Navy Pearl Harbor appropriation. A Senate Judiciary Committee bill on interstate liquor shipments, to curb fictitious consignor names and declared no COD packages, was advanced by Senator Knox.
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Washington
House
Sterling
Ilinois
Territories
District of Columbia
Henry
Mr. Henry
Texas
Littlefield
Supreme Court of the United States
Yeas
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Senate Committee On the Judiciary
Knox
Consignor
Consignee
Death by Fall in Chicago Hotel Room
John Alden Hossack, 26, grandson of abolitionist John Alden Hossack, died at the Auditorium Annex in Chicago after leaping or falling from his room window into an eight story air shaft below. He had traveled from Odell Illinois last Thursday seeking medical advice for a looming nervous breakdown.
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Chicago
John Alden Hossack
Auditorium Annex
Canada
Mr. Hossack
Odell
Ill
Fire destroys Badger State Lumber Yard and threatens Ik Mound
A Sunday blaze swept the Badger State Lumber company yard and plant 12 miles west of here at Ik Mound, threatening the village until a special Northwestern train with firefighters arrived to save the town. The lumber plant and its offices were wiped out.
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Wisconsin
Hall Claire
Wis
Badger State Lumber Company
Here
Ik Mound
Northwestern
Missouri County Goes Dry In Local Option Vote
Howard county voters approve prohibition in local option election by a 180 vote margin. Glasgow Mo records the result as countywide dry status following the tally. The March vote reflects intent to ban alcohol sales within the county boundaries.
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Missouri County
Glasgow
Mar
Howard County
Prohibition
Forty Buried In Ruins After Oxford Tenement Collapse
London April 7 Forty people were buried alive when two old tenement houses in Castle Street Oxford collapsed. Eight were found dead within hours, 20 injured were rescued, and others remained unaccounted for. Firemen and volunteers searched amid debris as investigators linked the disaster to foundation excavation weakening supports.
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London
Castle Street
Oxford
Woman Leaps From Pearl Street Tenement Fire
A four story building at 470 Pearl Street burned on Monday in New York injuring nearly twenty people and killing Julia Isola a 22 year old woman who jumped from a fourth floor window as flames enveloped the room where her father brother and sisters waited for rescue. Firefighters quickly lowered an exterior ladder to pull others to safety after the fatal jump.
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New York
Pearl Street
Julia Isola
Wounded Man Saved After Knife Wound to Heart
Yonkers athlete Robert Inglis faced imminent death from a heart wound in New York. He was rushed to St. Joseph's hospital where surgeons opened the chest, removed the heart briefly, stitched it three times, and placed it back. He regained ability to talk within hours.
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New York
Robert Inglis
Yonkers
St. Joseph's Hospital
City
City to seek $50,000 to aid unemployed families
Philadelphia officials plan to ask city councils this week to allocate at least 50 000 dollars to relieve distress among the unemployed and their families. A Sunday meeting established a committee to present to the finance committee that more than 200 000 people are out of work.
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Philadelphia
Becker Plans Balloon Canvass For Wisconsin Nomination
Milwaukee Mayor Becker plans a balloon tour to boost support for the Republican gubernatorial bid in Wisconsin. He has spent days in Chicago arranging the trip and ordered a Jorge balloon for the northern tour to seek votes.
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Becker
Chicago
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Jorge
Spaniard Embezzles $400,000 From Public Funds
Madrid reports a principal tax collector of Almeria province fled the country after being charged with embezzling four hundred thousand dollars of public funds.
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Madrid
Almeria
Asquith Takes Lead as Premier and House Adjourns
An informal ministerial conference led by Herbert H. Asquith signals cabinet reshaping after poor election shows. Parliament adjourns to April 14 with tributes paid to Campbell-Bannerman as leadership transition unfolds in the House of Commons.
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Campbell-Bannerman
London
Herbert H. Asquith
House of Commons
David Lloyd George
Board of State
Haldane
Asquith
Birrell
Ireland
John Burns
Local Government Board
Lewis Harcourt
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Manchester
Mr. Asquith
House
Ouur
Balfour
Mr. Redmond
Redmond
Gladstone
Buffalo Banker's Coast Crash Leaves Him Severe Injuries
To ward R. Spaulding, a Buffalo banker who winters in Santa Barbara, was thrown from his buggy on the coast highway five miles south of the city. He sustained a concussion of the brain and other injuries that may prove fatal.
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Buffalo
Santa Barbara
R. Spaulding
Strike by Pensacola street car workers shuts system
In Pensacola Florida on April 7 seven o'clock at night the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes walked out. All trolley cars were driven to the barns as the union protested a company order requiring suspended men to report three times daily.
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Pensacola
Fla
Amalgamated Association of Street Railway
Rev Edward Abbott Dead Prominent Cambridge Pastor
Boston April 7 Rev Edward Abbott D D pastor emeritus of St James church Cambridge a prominent preacher journalist and author and brother of Rev Dr Lyman Abbott died at the Homeopathic hospital in this city Sunday
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Edward Abbott
Boston
D. D
St. James Church
Cambridge
Lyman Abbott
Homeopathic Hospital
Joliet Fire Destroys Barrett Block Costly Loss
A major blaze in Joliet Illinois consumed the Barrett block causing reported damages over 150000. The incident appeared among a string of national items including political moves in Indiana and a labor dispute in Paris. In New York two bombs exploded triggering injuries.
Thaw Divorce Case Filed For Annulment In New York
Eve lyn Nesbit Thaw filed in the New York supreme court for an annulment of her marriage to Harry Kendall Thaw on grounds of insanity at the time of the union. Thaw and his mother Mrs. William Thaw are defendants. A referee to take testimony was appointed, with Daniel O Reilly and Robert E. Deya named in connected actions. Eve lyn Thaw will sail for Europe on Saturday.
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New York
Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw
Supreme Court
Harry Kendall Thaw
A. Russell Peabody
Harry K. Thaw
William Thaw
Daniel O'Reilly
Evelyn Thaw
Europe
Justice Hendricks
Robert E. Deya
Reserves quell riot in Augusta shooting death
Augusta police reserves were mobilized Monday to quell a negro riot at Twiges and Charles streets. Mack Fryers, a 4-year-old black youth, was fatally shot by officers during the disturbance.
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Augusta
Twiges and
Charles Streets
Mack Fryers
Tillman Improves in South Visit Update
Augusta Ga April 7 information from Edgerfield DC Monday says Senator B R Tillman is able to undertake short drives through the country and is slowly improving.
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Tillman
Augusta
Edgerfield
D. C
B. R. Tillman
Markets Report From Chicago and New York on Wheat and Grains
The Chicago market shows weak flour with spring wheat at 7.70 dollars, hard patent 4.00 to 4.10, and winter patent 4.10 to 4.25. Wheat rallies May 1 1/2 to 62 1/2 cents, July 87 1/2 cents. Corn dull with May about 64 cents. Butter ranges 28 1/4 to 27 1/2 cents per pound, live poultry prices mixed, eggs 12 1/3 to 13 1/2 cents. Potatoes 68 to 71 cents. New York markets dull. wheat off on bearish tone, May 1.00 to 1.13 16 and July 54 15/16 cents. Rye dull, No. 2 western 6 1/2 cents. Corn easy on good weather, May 75 cents.
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Chicago
Minneapolis
New York
Tuly
F. O
Live Stock Prices in Chicago Cattle and Hog Markets Apr 6
CATTLE good to prime steers sell from 6.75 to 7.25 per cwt with varied grades, improved calf and cow values listed. HOGS heavy packing sows bring 5.85 to 6.00, mixed packers 6.05 to 6.20, prime heavy shipping barrows 8.16 to 6.25, lighter barrows and sows 6.10 to 6.20, with throw-outs and pigs noted at 4.00 to 8.00 per cwt.
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Chicago
Omaha Market Report Sets Mixed Bids Across Livestock
Cattle prices show higher bids in Omaha on April 6 with native steers from 5.25 to 7.00 dollars and western to Texas range between 3.75 and 6.00. Cows, calves, and stockers move within broad bands. hogs rise to 5.90 with bulk sold around 5.75 to 5.85. Sheep and lambs show slow, weak trade with yearlings near 6.75 to 7.40 and lambs at 7.00 to 8.10.
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Omaha
Neh
Texas
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