Blast Kills 25 as New York Quarry Explodes
Albany May 13. Twenty five workmen reported killed in a premature dynamite blast at the Callanan Road Improvement Company quarry ten miles from Albany. Twenty five dead, thirty injured, scene described as earthquake like with flames threatening the dynamite storehouse. Two gangs were at work when the explosion occurred around five o clock. Authorities rushed physicians and nurses to the scene.
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Albany
N. Y
Callanan Road Improvement Company
J Hoyt Callanan
Charles D. Callanan
le Troy McMillan
Fred Snyder
John Hendrickson
William Baumes
Bishop Charles B. Galloway Dies in Jackson
Bishop Charles B. Galloway of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, a leading Mississippi divine and publicist, died in Jackson after several days of mild pneumonia with heart trouble. Funeral at First Methodist Church on Thursday, interment at Greenwood. Bishop Warren A. Candler conducts services. City orders close government departments and mayor urges all businesses to close for the day.
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Jackson
Miss
Charles B. Galloway
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Mississippi
America
First Methodist Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Warren A. Candler
Georgia
Mayor Crowder
Austrian Archduke in Workdays Disappears in Ohio
In Painesville Ohio Johann Salvator son of Leopold II and cousin of Emperor Franz Josef toiled for fifteen dollars weekly at Coe Manufacturing veneer plant. Dressed in work clothes he left his boarding house after learning his identity and ate no supper. Newsmen and locals watched for hours as Salvator vanished, leaving no trace.
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Painsville
Coe Manufacturing Company
Johann Salvator
Leopold II
Franz Josef
Salvator
Painesville
Clark Declines Ellis Island Immigration Post
Washington May 13 John Clark commissioner of immigration at Montreal was asked tentatively to take the Ellis Island job after Robert Watchorn He practically declined saying his health would not permit him to accept the position The note reflects a possible succession plan for the immigration service.
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Immigration Post
Washington
John #. Clark
Montreal
Ellis Island
Robert Watchorn
Clark
Twenty two drown when launch founders in river
Pittsburg May 13. Police and relatives search for bodies of about twenty men drowned when a 24 foot gasoline yawl sank while taking workers from the Pressed Steel Car Co. plant to the opposite shore on the Ohio river. A survivor recalled the panic and a brother lost as the engine quit and water swept the boat.
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Pittsburg
Ohio River
Pressed Steel Car Co
George Thompson
Frank
Boots”) Neeld
James Cotter
Walter Lowe
Thomas Kennedy
William Gotheridge
Henry Voegeler
Oscar Rusky
William Davis
Albert Graham
August Wolfe
George Spiceline
August Pope
Dennis Murphy
Louis Goldstein
William Burke
Joseph Lyle
Charles Copus
Harry Gotheridge
Graham
Prison Shaft Is Unveiled at Andersonville Memorial
In Andersonville Georgia on May 138 a monument to Capt Henry Wirz memory was unveiled by the Georgia division United Daughters of the Confederacy. Despite tensions observers from beyond Mason Dixon enjoyed the ceremonies as Mrs Perin Natchez Miss drew the cords and 2000 voices sang Dixie with a wreathing of flowers around the monument. In Oskaloosa Iowa May 13 a colossal statue of Chief Mahaska was unveiled in the city park with the IO Redmen group conducting the exercises. Former Congressman John F Lacey and Carl Keuhale spoke and Maj S H M Byers of Des Moines read an original poem.
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Andersonville
Georgia
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Henry Wirz
Mason and Dixon
Perin
Natchez
Wirz
Daughters of the Confederacy
Dixie
Oskaloosa
Towa
Chief Mahaska
Improved Order of Redmen
John F. Lacey
Carl Keuhale
Denison
Maj. S. H. M. Byers
Des Moines
Amazing fraud charged in London suit
London May 13. Amazing frauds involving hundreds of thousands of dollars are alleged against Hand street dealers in a suit before Justice Grantham. Executors of C. J. Dickins estate sue dealer Arthur lis, claiming he defrauded the late founder of Dicking & Jones by selling spurious modern chinaware as 150 year old Dresden ware amid his senility.
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London
Justice Grantham
C. J. Dickins
Dicking & Jones
Arthur Lis
Dickins
Bis
Attacked by Assassin Hits Michigan Legislator
Representative William H. Schantz of Hastings was slashed on a Lansing street as an assailant cut his throat with a razor. Doctors said the jugular vein was missed and Schantz would likely recover. Police arrested James Duggan, known to authorities, amid speculation the motive lay in drug use.
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Lansing
Mich
William H. Schantz
Hastings
Mountain Hotel Burns in Plymouth New Hampshire
May 13 fire destroys the Pemi gewassett house, one of the White Mountains' largest hotels. Loss estimated at 100000 dollars. No injuries reported. Fire crews fought the flames as smoke enveloped the resort town.
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Burns
Plymouth
N. H
Pemigewassett
White Mountains
Public Hangings Across Constantinople Reach Thirty-Eight
Reports from Constantinople detail 24 mutineers hanged in public within the city. The executions, part of a rising total since April 13, are cited as necessary to prevent perceived corruption and political deceit. International observers note continued massacres in Adana and ravaged districts near Marash, with thousands killed or displaced.
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Constantinople
Sultan’s Palace
Marine Barracks
Djinai Meidan
Stamboul
War Office
W. W. Peet
American Board
Thomas D. Christie
Tarsus
Christie
Adana
Ittidal
Form Biggest Mine Trust Consolidation Merger
The Consolidated Coal Company announced a merger with the Piedmont Coal Company and the Pittsburg and Fairmont Fuel Company and their subsidiaries. The combined entity becomes the largest mining firm of its kind, owning 200000 acres of coal lands in Maryland West Virginia and Pennsylvania with a capital stock of 37650000 dollars.
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Baltimore
Consolidated Coal Company
Piedmont Coal Company
Pittsburg and Fairmont Fuel Company
Rairoads
Consolidation Coal Company
Maryland
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Grand jury may compel access to reform school probe
Polk county grand jury plans to subpoena members of the Iowa board of control to testify about alleged immorality at the Des Moines reform school in Mitchellville. Officials contend the grand jury may investigate the state institution and its superintendent, despite the board’s objections, and may even summon girls for questioning if needed.
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State Board of Control
Reform School
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Board of Control
Polk County Grand Jury
Mitchellville
Reform Schoou
F. FP
Pitegerald
Court House
Board of Control
Grand Jury
Polk County
Girls’ Reform School
Senate Opens With Humor and Trade Talks
In Washington on May 13 138 Senator Gallinger read a New Hampshire petition seeking a ten cent per bushel wheat duty cut. Senator Culberson discussed the tobacco trust case with DOJ action and court opinions. Senator Simmons proposed lowering the window glass duties. Three injured in Kansas City auto crash after trolley collision on Independence Avenue.
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Washington
Senate
Gallinger
New Hampshire
New England
Nelson
Burkett
McCumber
Paynter
Culberson
Tobacco Corporation
Department of Justice
United States
Senator Culberson
New York
Supreme Court of the United States
Simmons
Cummins
Wilson
Senator Aldrich
North Carolina
Kansas City
Independence Avenue
Fightieth Street
Tracy Avenue
France and Venezuela at Peace Agreement Signed
The Venezuelan government and the French Cable Company signed a settlement ending all outstanding difficulties. Caracas hosts the signing on May 13 as the nations move to normalize relations and resolve prior disputes.
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France
Venezuela
Caracas
Missouri Prohibition Effort Ends In Senate
Jefferson City Mo May 13 The Missouri state senate refused to recede from the tax rider amendment to the prohibition joint resolution and asked the house for a conference committee The vote was 17 15 near a constitutional majority The senate will adhere to the amendment for immediate effectiveness if carried at the polls and conferees are not to concede The assembly is expected to adjourn May 17 indicating the measure likely dies in conference
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Jefferson City
Missouri State Senate
House
General Assembly
Palrot
Senate
Three Killed in Wreck Near Bonita Texas
Three persons died and twenty two were injured when a Missouri Kansas Texas passenger train derailed near Bonita Denison Texas May 13. Engineer Strazier and two firemen were killed. one fireman badly scalded. Passengers were brought to Denison on hand cars amid reports the crew had orders to slow at the wreck site but may not have followed them.
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Denison
Tex
Bonita
Strazier
Wilder
Paris in State of Siege Amid Postal Worker Strike
Paris faces a military lockdown as troops seize the central post and telegraph stations. Infantry guard branch offices while telegraph lines are watched and soldiers enter sewers to shield operations. Gen. Dalstein commands 60,000 troops with 600 telegraphers and hundreds of cars mobilized in the Galeries des Machines.
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Paris
Gallerie Des Machines
Dalstein
Alleged Forger Goes East
San Francisco May 13. Broughton Brandenburg a magazine writer accused in New York of grand larceny for selling to a newspaper an alleged article by Grover Cleveland declared a forgery left for the east in charge of Lieut Fitzsimmons of the New York detective force.
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San Francisco
Broughton Brandenburg
New York
Grover Cleveland
East
Lieut. Fitzsimmons
New York Detective Force
U W A O Grand Lodge Elects Officers At Burlington
The Grand Lodge A O U W of Iowa held its May convention in Burlington selecting Waterloo as the 1911 meeting city. E B Evans of Des Moines was unanimously re elected grand master T G Harper of Burlington was named grand foreman P F P Rehkopt of Des Moines re elected grand recorder Henry Michelstetter of Sioux City elected grand receiver No changes were made to admission of non beneficial members or grand master workman duties The annual meeting resolution was defeated.
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Burlington
Iowa
Grand Lodge
U. W. of
Waterloo
E. B. Evans
Des Moines
T. G. Harper
T. F P. Rehkopt
Henry Michelstetter
Sioux City
Judge Flags Night Riders in Waverly Tennessee
May 13 in Waverly Tennessee Judge Cook warned night riders he would request a regiment of soldiers to patrol the district if needed. He said he lacked authority to release defendants but planned to release all but two on their own recognizance and hold them responsible for lawlessness. State lawyers pressed for the death penalty for fourteen defendants.
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Night Riders
Waverly
Tenn
Cook
Nightvider
Bay Cypsum Lands In Webster County Purchase
Fort Dodge Iowa May 18 M J Haire leads the company that bought 100 acres of gypsum and clay land in Webster county to build and run another tile factory and gypsum mill. The land lies just south of the city with easy railroad access.
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Bay Cypsum
Fort Dodge
M. J. Haire
Webster County
No Sunday Funerals Movement in Des Moines
In Des Moines Iowa May 18 ministers call for a civic ban on all Sunday funerals to give grave diggers and undertakers a day of rest and allow attendance at divine services, aiming to save parochial labor. The proposal Reflects a push for rest days in the community.
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Nes Moines
Iowa
Givath
Death of Rev. Michael Hennessy Shocks Storm Lake Parish
Storm Lake and surrounding area were shocked yesterday afternoon by the sudden death of the Rev. Michael Hennessy, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church for seventeen years. He served the parish with devotion and is mourned by parishioners and community members. Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced.
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Father Hennessy
Storm Lake
Michael Hennessy
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Waterworks franchise voted for Bagley town
Citizens of Bagley Massachusetts vote to grant a water works franchise to the Bagley Water Works company. The tally stands 67 for and 15 against.
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Bagley
Bagley, Ta
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