Frightful Flood Wrecks Kansas City Area
Kansas City Missouri endures its worst flood with Kaw and Missouri rivers near four feet above 1881 levels. Across twelve square miles, lives are feared lost along the Kansas River valley near Kansas City Kansas and Armourdale. Reports vary from fifty to over a hundred dead with twelve bodies sighted on flood debris. Losses exceed 2.5 million dollars in Armourdale and about 0.5 million in Argentine suburb.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kan
Kansas River
Armourdale
Argentine
Train collision kills two laborers in New York yards
An eastbound Pennsylvan ia freight struck a derailed train in lower New York City, killing Recantio Del Milo and Frank Saner aldo and injuring five others. Engineer and fireman were badly scalded. They and Frank Yopse were trapped under wreckage. Topse’s arm was severed to free him. Rescue took him to St Michael's hospital. The crash occurred when the eastbound train jumped a switch in the yards west of the derailment.
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New York City
Recantio del Milo
Frank Saneraldo
Frank Yopse
Topse
St. Michael’s Hospital
Wajen Sailed Vessel Is Towed After Oil Cargo Loss
The German ship Wajen from New York to Yokohama was towed to Cooktown New Guinea after losing two masts and its rudder. It jettisoned 15,000 cases of cargo before rescue. Eight Edith crew members were aboard. Edith and Captain Oertel are missing after wrecking near Puget Sound. The Edith was wrecked on the Neurus shoals in January. News notes an earthquake at Melazgherd near Van killing thousands. Lipton sails for America with Shamrock flotilla to compete for the cup.
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Wajen
New York
Yokohama
Cooktown
New Guinea
Edith
Puget Sound
Oertel
Port Pirien
Neurus Shoals
Mob Hangs W. C. alias Diamond Selim Clifton near New Castle Wyoming
Clifton alias Diamond Selim was seized from the New Castle county jail by cowboys. The jail walls were battered as the mob forced the sheriff and deputies to stand by. Clifton was taken to a high bridge west of town and hanged. the forty foot fall severed his head. Clifton had earlier murdered J. W. Church and his wife near Gillette.
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W.C
Diamond Selim
Clifton
New Castle
Wyo
Lifton
J. W. Church
Gillette
Newcastle
Wye
W. C. Clifton
John W. Church
Mars Projection Reported by Lowell from Flagstaff
A telegram from Prof. Percival Lowell at Flagstaff, Arizona, to Harvard College Observatory states that Slipper observed a large projection on Mars on May 26 at 15 h 51 m Greenwich time. The position angle was 200 degrees and the projection lasted thirty five minutes.
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Jtarvard College Observatory
Percival Lowell
Flagstaff
Ariz
Mars
Greenwich
Steamer Oakland Foundered Near Port Stephens
A British steamer Oakland foundered off Port Stephens near Sydney Nova Scotia. Part of her passengers and crew were lost with details still unclear.
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Sydney
N.S. W
Oakland
Port Stephens
Storms Hit Iowa Towns Trials Across Spencer Brooks Audubon Guthrie
Floods and wind storms in Spencer Brooks Audubon and Guthrie Center Iowa injure seven children in Audubon and seriously hurt five people in Brooks. The events damage homes and raise concern across the affected communities.
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Spencer
Brooks
Audubon
Guthrie Center
Iowa
Fugitives Shot Down in Adrianople Frontier Crossing
A dispatched report from Vienna states a large group of fugitives trying to cross the frontier at Markë aibilare near Adrianople were shot down by Turkish forces.
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Vienna
Adrianople
Markë Aibilare
Vast Russian rebellion reported in Voronezh province
Berlin Tageblatt says ten thousand insurgents are in arms in Voronezh province. A large army has been dispatched to crush the uprising.
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Berlin
White tribe found in Mindoro Island described by Barton
Lieut. H B Barton of the Philippine constabulary reports discovery of a mysterious white-skinned people in Mindoro interior. The group fled when approached and is described as light hair blue eyes and caucasian-like complexions. An ethnological inquiry and expedition under Governor Offley of Martinique are planned to trace origins reportedly linking to shipwrecked sailors.
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Mindoro
H. B. Barton
Philippine Constabulary
War Department
Lieut. Barton
Ethnological Bureau
Guv. Offley
Martinique
Steamers Crash in Fog Near Two Harbors
The lake steamers Japan and Admiral collided in fog off Two Harbors as both moved toward Duluth. Both ships were under weather restrictions. Japan reported the impact occurred around 6:30 PM as fog signals sounded.
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Japan
Duluth
Girl Dragged to Death by Frightened Colt in Northwestern
Rena Webster, 20, of Northwestern New York, was killed when a frightened colt dragged her half a mile along a rough highway after she tied a halter rope to her wrist while sewing beside the road. The horse pulled into Northwestern village with the rope still attached.
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Rena Webster
Northwestern
N. Y
Miss Webster
Toledo Suffers Major Storm Damage and Rail Race Record
High winds and heavy rain caused extensive damage across northern Ohio, with telegraph lines down and estimated losses around 100000 in Toledo. Separately, the Lake Shore Limited set a new speed record at 114 minutes for the 103 mile Poledo to Dikbart run, averaging seventy miles per hour overall. In a separate incident, 10 year old William James is held for shooting Theresa Watson during a runaway youth party near Phainfeld, with one injury described as dangerous.
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Toledo
Olin
Voledo
Lake Shore
William James
Phainfeld
Theresa Watson
James Becanme
Mystery death hints at German visit and suicide note
A 21 year old man, recently in Germany, died by carbolic acid. He left a coroner’s letter saying he did not care how or where his body was buried and asked that his grave be marked with a stone inscribed A S.
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Germany
Socialist Arrested in Walla Walla Over Roosevelt Threat
Joseph Becker a Swiss radical socialist is held in the Walla Walla city jail on suspicion of planning to kill President Roosevelt. He allegedly said he had one bullet for Roosevelt and another for Emperor William of Germany in Pendleton Oregon. Becker traveled with Winchester. a partner, Pat Kine, alerted police. A rifle was found stored in a farmer's barn along the march. Police deem the incident a narrowly averted tragedy.
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Walla Walla
Joseph Becker
Wash
Roosevelt
Becker
Pendleton
Ore
William of Germanny
Pat Kine
Dakota divorces help a vet and frees him to remarry
Civil War veteran and former Louisiana governor Capt. John Amrein sought multiple divorces across states. After delays in Rhode Island he secured divorces in Dakota from his second and first wives, then planned to remarry the second wife. The cases highlighted Dakota divorce laws and pension tensions.
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John Amrein
Louisiana
Amrein
Rhode Island
Ife
Dakota
Flest
Man in Goshen Jail Drowns Himself
Charles Adams awaiting trial for attempted murder of his wife in January died by drowning in a bath tub. He left letters to relatives and friends saying he would be convicted. He shot his wife, left a note to forgive her, and acted in a jealous fury. His wife remained paralyzed and likely to die.
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Charles Adams
Goshen
N. Y
Adams
Murder Follows Divorce In Portland Tragedy
In Portland Oregon M VY Leasia shot and killed Plot Direws, the father-in-law, after his wife failed to obtain a divorce. Leasia’s former wife witnessed the murder and accompanied him. Police fear a fresh threat against the wife as the case remains under investigation. Samuel Keeler testified in Hamilton Ohio that he killed his wife while sleeping, claiming somnambulism after a quarrel.
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M. VY
Leasia
Portland
Qre
Samuel Keeler
Hamilton
Ohio
Famine Horror in China Spars Slaves in March and April
Hongkong papers recount famine in Kwangsi causing starvation and mass selling of people. Missionary Hess from Wuchow reports three crop failures led to hundreds dying. About 30,000 were sold in March and April as men seek work in the Straits Settlements and women and children fall into coastal slavery. Desperate scenes of starvation, mothers selling daughters for rice, and urgent relief needed.
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Kwangsi
Hongkong
Hess
Wuchow
Straits Settlements
Building Trades Employers Form Antiunion Group in New York
A New York meeting of 28 trade associations representing 2 100 firms employing 110 000 workers formed the Building Trades Employers Association of the City of New York. The group adopts constitution and by laws and pledges lockouts as its chief tactic in labor disputes. The board of governors from each subsidiary association will decide all labor conflicts.
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New York
Employers’ Association
Building Trades Employers’ Association of the
City of
Board of Governors
Trust formed to raise watch prices across major firms
A new alliance unites the American Waltham Watch Company Elgin National Watch Company Keystone Watch Case Company and Crescent Watch Case Company with nearly 14 million dollars in capital. The syndicate aims to buy Canadian Water Case Company Limited and to control U S and Canadian watch movements by reducing competition in price. A separate note reports detectives recovering a bloodstained necklace tied to Agatha Reichlin's murder found between Lorain and Elyria Ohio.
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Waltham, Elgin
Keystone
Crescent
AA Trust In Watches
Waltham Watch Company
Elgin National Watch Company
Keystone Watch Case Company
Crescent Watch Case Company
American Water Case Company, Limited
Toronto
United States
Canada
Agatha Reichlin
Mintz
Lorain
Elyria
Ohio
Automobile plow trial wows Mast Ashtabula observers
In Mast Ashtabula Ohio an automobile replaced a heavy team to plow a large field. Lt. Laser of Erie Pennsylvania and his brother George Laser guided the plow. Many spectators witnessed the unusual sight.
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Prower
Mast Ashtabula
Ohio
Lt. Laser
Erie
George Laser
Arrest in Postoffice Scandal Reaches High Official
Assistant Attorney General Daniel W. Miller was arrested for allegedly taking a bribe to favor John J. Ryan & Co in a postoffice decision. Rochester Indiana resident Joseph M. Johns was also arrested as a presumed go between in the scheme.
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Daniel W. Miller
Postoffice Department
John J. Ryan & Co
Get Rich Quick Turf Concern
Joseph M. Johns
Rochester
Ind
Powder Explosions Kill Man in Fontanet Plant Fire
A sequence of twenty five blasts at the Indiana Powder Company plant in Fontanet Indiana killed one worker and seriously injured three others. The building burned and was destroyed with property loss estimated at 830000. Several missing men were later accounted for.
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Indiana Powder Comppany
Fontanet
Ind
Propery
Death by Own Action at Lindell Hotel
Miss Tempest Leeper died by drinking carbolic acid at the Lindell Hotel in St. Louis. The suicide followed her flight from Norbury Sanitarium in Jacksonville, UL, the day prior, prompted by melancholia and nervousness.
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Miss Tempest Leeper
Lindell Hotel
St. Louis
Norbury Sanitarium
Jacksonville
Fire Destroys Grandstand During Harvard Cambridge Game
A grandstand fire during a Harvard Cambridge baseball game caused a rapid scramble for safety. players aided spectators as the game was halted and those in peril escaped. Spectators narrowly avoided harm in the blaze.
Boiler Explosion Kills Six at Wilcox Sawmill
Six men died when a boiler at Wilson & Cocoh ran s sawmill near Wilcox exploded. Nine others were seriously injured and two more were expected to die. The incident followed by a separate fire at Carliste Wy injury to twenty five and three missing with $25,000 damage.
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Wilson & Cocohran
Wilcox
Maringoin Station
Lun
Chicago Man Takes Poison at Inn
A Chicago man who registered at the York shire Inn in Great Barrington Massachusetts as Arthur Sands committed suicide by ingesting poison. Police investigated the incident and identified the deceased as the registered guest.
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Chicago
Yorkshire Inn
Great Barrington
Mass
Arthur Sands
Volcano Found in Mexico Near Sierra Madre
Residents traveling from Casas Grande report a smouldering volcano in the Sierra Madre range near I Paso with signs of a recent eruption. The feature was previously known only to a few natives.
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Mexico
I Paso
Texas
Casas Grande
Sierra Madre Mountains
Ship Collision Drowns Twenty-Two Emigrant Passengers
A British steamer U Tuddersfield collided with Norwegian steamer Uto and foundered. Twenty-two passengers, Austrian and Italian emigrants, were drowned while the crew were saved.
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Uto
Peruvian Gunboat Loreto Sinks Near Scilly Islands
The Peruvian gunboat Loreto sprang a leak forty miles northeast of the Scilly Islands and sank within an hour. The crew were rescued by a French vessel and landed at Wrymouth, England. The Loreto is described as a new vessel.
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Loreto
Scilly Islands
Wrymouth
England
Four Die In Tenement Fire At 806 West 135th Street
A five story New York tenement at 806 West 135th Street burned, suffocating four residents and leaving three others severely burned and feared dead. The blaze is reported to have incendiary origins.
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West 135Th Street
New York
Tornadoes Kill and Wound in Nebraska Counties
Twenty one persons killed and nineteen killed with more than twenty injured as tornadoes swept three Nebraska counties. One man was killed and a child injured by a tornado at Rolfe Town.
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Nebraska
Rolfe
Attack on Jail Repulsed in Kentucky Feud Fight
Armed clash at Jackson jail ends with militia repelling feudists who attacked the jail seeking the alleged murderers Jett and White, held in connection with J. B. Marcum case.
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Kentucky
Jackson
Jett
White
J. B. Marcum
Ferry Disaster Drowns Ferryman and Eleven Children
A ferryboat carrying forty five children capsized on the Warthe River near Dembro Germany. The ferryman and eleven children drowned in the accident.
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Warthe
Dembro
Germany
Earthquake Slays 2000 in Meluzgherd Asiatic Turkey
Two thousand people died when a quake struck Meluzgherd in Asiatic Turkey. Rescue teams and relief efforts rush to the devastated town as officials count the casualties and assess the damage.
Temperance Leader Resigns From National Group
Tady Elenry Somerset, president of the National Trinity Women’s Temperance Association and World’s Women’s Christian Temperance Union, resigns from the former post and will pause related work for now. Also reporting an $82,000 loss from the Falls City Shirt Company fire in Louisville KY, damaging neighboring Carter Dry Goods Warehouse. the blaze destroyed machinery and stock. Notorious forger Henry Renard, alias H. L. Moody, dies in Pueblo at age 70 while awaiting charges for obtaining money by deceit.
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Tady Elenry Somerset
National
Tritish Women's Temperanes Association
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Louisville
Tire
Falls City Shirt Company
Louisvilley
Carter Dry Goods Company
Tienry
Renard
H. L. Moody
Pueblo
Colo
Tie
Filipino insurgent defeat in Cebu mountains near Tabogon
Lieut. Javier commands constabulary and volunteers in Cebu where about 200 insurgents are defeated in the Tabogon mountains. Sixty eight are killed and twenty nine captured in fierce action.
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Javier
Cebu
Tabogon
Fire Island Hotel on Wire Island Burns in Fire
A new hotel on Wire Island New York was destroyed by a blaze. The sole occupant and caretaker J A Bailey escaped with a narrow death, and the loss is estimated at 150000 dollars.
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Fire Island
Wire Island
New York
J. A. Bailey
Brother fatally shoots aging man in Scranton clash
Charles Grenier, 89, was shot and killed by his brother George in Scranton Pennsylvania after Charles allegedly abused their mother, prompting George to intervene.
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Charles Grenier
George
Scranton
Charles
Ten Hurt In Big Four Train Collision In Columbus Yard
A Big Four work train carrying a gang of Italian laborers collided with a cut of box cars near Armstrong Street in the Columbus Ohio yards. Ten persons were injured in the crash.
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Armstrong Street
Columbus
Ohio
Presbyterians Approve Revision at Los Angeles Assembly
The Presbyterian general assembly in Los Angeles unanimously adopts the revision of the confession of faith signaling a major doctrinal update for the denomination.
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Presbyterian General Assembly
Los Angeles
Rainy Week Boosts Crops Across Regions
The weekly crop report notes favorable weather east of the Rockies with warm conditions and improved germination in Indiana Illinois Michigan and Wisconsin. Heavy rains from Oklahoma to the Dakotas slowed work in western districts while drought relief appeared in the Ohio valley lake region and southern middle Atlantic states.
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Weathr Bureau
Rocky Mountains
Oklaoma
Arkansas
Minsota
Dakotas
Ohio Valley
Lake Region
Middle Atlantic States
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Middle Atlantic
New England
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Minnesota
Iowa
North Pacific Coast
Maryland
Virginia
Bret
Ohio
Mississippi River
Weather and labor shift shape early 20th century markets
Weather and New York labor trends drive business, with unseasonable heat boosting retail but hampering vegetation and delaying planting. Dun’s Weekly Review notes cautious investment, slower payments, and varied demand, while manufacturing remains strong in footwear and steel. Rail traffic rises and cotton goods prices edge up as demand for wash and print goods grows amid improving overall conditions.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
United States
Canada
Peet Bros. to Build Large Omaha Plant This Year
The Kansas City soap maker Peet Bros. Manufacturing Co plans a large branch plant in Omaha this year. The move signals continued expansion by a regional producer amid growing demand and industrial growth in the Midwest.
Market price list across U S cities for cattle hogs and grains
A detailed compilation of live stock and grain prices from Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Toledo Buffalo New York and more. Includes cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye barley butter eggs and other commodities with bid ranges and quality notes.
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Chicago
Timothy
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
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Batesville, Ind
D. McCallum
Constantinople
Turkey
Melazgherd
Van
Erzroom
Euphrates
Russia
Colt
China
Watcil Trust
Coral Mine
Chartiers Core and Coke Company
Federal
Carliste
Kwy
Meluzgherd
Asiatic
Bradstreet
Waterson
Peet Bros. Manufacturing Company
Soap Makers of
Omaha
Saxony
Austria
City Board of Health
Wilson College
Chambersburg
M. H. Resser
Lindenwood College
Presbyterian Institution For
St. Charles
Samuel A. Martin
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