Brownsville Texas Train Incident Reports Scene of Affray
An account from Brownsville Texas on May 1 describes an affray and chaotic scene as witnesses including a Foreman and interpreters testifying before a citizens' committee and Assistant Attorney General Purdy. Calderon testified he heard shots and found discharged cartridges and ammunition bandoliers in the streets. Over 30 passengers were reportedly slightly injured when a train jumped the track.
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Brownavil’e
Tex
Frownville
Konate
Cory
Foraker
Citizens’ Committee
Brownaville
Pernander
Fle
Purdy
Polleemas Calderon
Muslin yard goods priced to clear
A catalog-like listing offers muslin fabrics 36 inches wide priced at 10 cents per yard, with selections including 1 to 3 inch wide marks and multiple price notes. Buyers choose from the lot at per yard rates, indicating a clearance event with terms shown as 4 5 7 and 10 cents per yard.
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Ieee Sach
Rioting in Odessa follows police chief murder
Odessa May 21 serious rioting erupted after the assassination of three police officials. The Black Hundreds roamed the streets beating Jews, injuring over a hundred seriously while authorities stood by. A bomb killed Odessa’s police chief and the city’s chief detectives as two terrorists, including Teherthoff, fled. one girl escaped.
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Odessa
Central Police Bureau
Teherthoff
Resolution Celebrates Czar's Escape From Death
In St Petersburg on May 21 the lower house adopted a resolution expressing joy at Emperor Nicholas's narrow escape from an assassination plot. The reading drew applause. Social Democrats and others were absent. Stolypin noted plotters also aimed at Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch and himself.
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St. Petersburg
Nicholas
Social Democrats
Stolypin
Nicholas Nicholaievitch
Council of National Defense
Death follows threat in Minnesota shooting case
Allan Witt was shot and killed near Deer River by attorney David Cochrane, ex probate judge in Wright County, who is under arrest in Grand Rapids. Cochrane claims self defense. The shooting occurred at Fred Anderson's homestead after Witt allegedly threatened to kill Cochrane and alleged a conspiracy to defraud.
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Witt
Anderson
Cochrane
Five Miners Perish In Colorado Mine Blaze
Five miners including Superintendent Alexander Jacobs died in the Fregleville mine at Engleville Colorado. Investigators traced a fire that broke out a year ago and was still burning in parts of the mine. The men entered at night and failed to emerge by morning, prompting a rescue effort that recovered their bodies.
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Trinidad
Colo
Alexander Jacobs
Fregleville
Engleville
Laborers Strike at Lemont Quarries for Higher Wages
One thousand laborers at six stone quarries in Lemont HL have struck for higher wages. Rev. Franklin E Hamilton of Boston has been elected chancellor of the American university at Washington. Elihu Root delivered the third Dodge lecture on The Responsibilities of Citizenship at Yale. The twentieth annual convention of the American Federation of Musicians opened in Cleveland Ohio with 190 members present. The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen has adjourned at Atlanta Georgia after completing its business. Columbus Ohio was chosen for the next biennial convention. The Railway Storekeepers association began a three day session in Chicago with delegates from major railways in the United States and Canada.
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Lemont
Franklin E. Hamilton
Boston
American University At
Washington
Elihu Root
Dodge
Yale
American Federation of Musicians
Cleveland
Brotherhood of Railway Train Men
Atlanta
Columbus O
Railway Storekeepers’ Association
Chicago
United States
Canada
Hummel Goes to Prison After Farewell Dinner
Abraham Hummel of East Seventy Second Street leaves for Blackwell’s Island to begin a year in the penitentiary for conspiracy in the Dodge Morse divorce case. A crowd watched as he departed in a waiting automobile, then he was driven by deputy to the island to begin his term, with work assigned in the bakery.
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New York
Abraham Hummel
East Seventy Second Street
Blackwell's Island
Dodee-Morse
Hummel
Blackwell's
Change of venue asked in Kaufmann murder case
Mrs Emma Kaufmann wife of Moses Kaufmann a wealthy brewer stands accused of murdering Miss Agnes Poirers. The case was before Judge E G Smith in Yankton with defense counsel seeking a venue change citing public sentiment in Minnehaha county as preventing a fair trial. Evidence in support of the motion was not complete when the court adjourned.
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Sioux Falls
S.D
Emma Kaufmann
Moses Kaufmann
Agnes Poirers
E. G. Smith
Yankton
Frank R. Alkens
Minnehaha
Mexican troops move toward Guatemalan frontier amid regional turmoil
Reports from City of Mexico say Mexican troops are being moved to the Guatemalan border by way of the Pan-American railroad. Details on numbers or purpose remain official. Concurrently, tension rises in Central America as President Zelaya may support Toledo's Managua-led revolt against Estrada Cabrera, with open conflict already brewing in Honduras.
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City of
Mexico
War Department
San Jose
Guatemala
Senor Gamboa
San Salvador
Salina Crus
Guatemala City
State Department
Algera
Figueroa
Salvador
Ao Authority
Figueros
Estrada Cabrera
Zelaya
Nicaragua
Toledo
Managua
General Toledo
Cabrera
Honduras
Negro Convicts Halt Chain Gang Escape in Georgia
In Sumter county, four teen convicts attempted an escape from the chain gang. They overpowered two armed guards, but Brady Reddick, a Black convict, recovered a guard’s gun and recaptured ten fugitives. The incident occurred near Americus on May 21. In New York, Magistrate House and partners faced trial for conspiracy to obstruct the legal process.
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Americus
Sumter County
Brady Reddick
New York
Magistrate House
George R. Scrugham
International Policyholders Committee
Charles B. Stirrup
C. F. Carrington
Scrugham
Court of General Sessions
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Building Trades Council
Red Wing
M. L. Murphy
Stillwater
R. R. Murphy
Austin
Twin Cities
Ists
Leland Pereale
Price
Murphy’s
Markey
R.R. Murphy
Czar
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