Panic in Bronx Subway Fire and Pope Pius X Birthday
Telegraphic notices describe a Mott Avenue subway blaze in the Bronx that caused dense smoke and panic. Fifteen people were overcome and two seriously injured. the fire came from an automatic pumping station and damage was nominal. The Pope turned 75 on June 2 with wide congratulations and a display of health.
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Mott Avenue
Bronx
New York City
Pope Pius X
Vatican
Pius X
Giuseppe Sarto
Riese
Kentucky House Completes Capitol Dedication
The Kentucky State House in Frankfort is completed with the two million dollar Capitol ready for dedication. Thousands arrived by special trains from all directions, including over one thousand girls from Louisville High School. The program opened with signal guns and included prayers by Bishop Burton and remarks by Governor Augustus F. Wilson and Senator William M. Bradley. The murals remain undecorated awaiting General Assembly funds.
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Kentucky
Frankfort
Louisville High School
Bishop Burton
Lexington
Augustus F. Wilson
United States
William CO. Bradley
General Assembly
British Antarctic Expedition Sails for Polar Quest
The Terra Nova left London bound for New Zealand as Captain Scott set December 1911 for reaching the south pole. Scott and Lt. Evans declare their expedition the best equipped ever to begin a polar search. The crew of twenty seven officers and scientists are all picked men.
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South Pole
London
New Zealand
Scott
F E. R. Evans
Cigarette Suspect Arrested In Forest Fire Near St Clair
Gioanni Jacobi was arrested by fire wardens after a cigarette allegedly started a forest blaze above St Clair Pa. The fires, driven by a gale, burned thousands of acres of timber as wardens fight the flames and remove dry leaf litter. He faces a hearing in Pottsville Pa.
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Gioanni Jacobi
St. Clair
Pottsville
Quarry Explosion Kills 25 at Union Portland Cement Site
An explosion at the Union Portland Cement Company quarry at Devil's Slide Utah killed twenty five workers. The majority of the dead were Japanese and Greeks among a 75 to 100 man crew. Dozens were injured and telegraph and telephone lines were toppled as news arrived by courier.
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Union Portland Cement Company
Devil’s Slide
Utah
Ogden
Man Plunges Over Niagara Falls At Prospect Point
An unidentified man about 45 to 50 years old stepped over the rail ten feet from the brink at Prospect Point Niagara Falls and went over the falls. He was six feet tall, of medium build, wearing dark clothes a sack coat and a soft hat.
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Prospect Point
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Second Annual Workhorse Parade Draws Huge Crowd
The Youngstown Ohio Humane Society staged its second annual workhorse parade attracting at least 20,000 spectators. Local organizers reported strong community support and highlighted the event's fundraiser impact.
The Same Old Game Chain Letter Traced
Postoffice officials seek the origin of a circulating chain letter promising luck to all who mail nine copies of a prayer. The missive warns calamity for anyone who breaks the chain.
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Postoffice
Rail Magnate Dies in Germantown Home
Joseph S. Harris former president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company died suddenly at his Germantown residence in Pennsylvania.
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Joseph S. Harris
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company
Germantown
Court halts freight rate raise in Western lines
United States District Judge David P. Dyer halted 25 Western railroads from enforcing a general freight rate increase. The injunction, sought by the federal government under Sherman Act, targets routes including Missouri Pacific and Chicago and Northwestern among others. Eastern lines move tariffs to Washington, signaling a wider contest nationwide.
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Western Railroads
United States District
David P. Dyer
Hannibal
United States
United States Circuit
St. Louis
Dyer
Edwin P. Grosvenor
Washington
Frederick N. Judson
George W. Wickersham
William S. Kenyon
Charles A. Houts
Missouri Pacific Railway
Chicago and Northwestern
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway
Wabash Railroad
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Illinois Central Railroad
Chicago and Alton Railroad
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Chicago Great Western Railway
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
San Francisco
Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City
St. Paul
Des Moines
Minneapolis and St. Louis
Iowa Central Railroad
Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railroad
Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad Company
Illinois
Chicago, Milwaukee and Gary
Minneapolis
Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ohio River
Mississippi
Missouri River
Atlantic Seaboard
Eastern Trunk Lines
Milliner Kills Bookkeeper After Wedding Jilt Claim
Carrie Pritchard a 25 year old milliner employed by J F Ball and Bro shot Sam E Ford bookkeeper for the same firm in his Pollock Louisiana office. After lunch she accused Ford of fickleness and asked about a rumored engagement to Birdie Long on June 22. Ford admitted the accusation. She drew a revolver from a hand satchel and fired through his head before clerks intervened. She was arrested.
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Carrie Pritchard
J. F. Ball & Bro
Sam E. Ford
Pollock
Stampede Begins to Alaska Rush of Prospectors Overloads Steamships
Officials estimate 15,000 people will leave Seattle for Nome and St Michaels on early June sailings drawn by reports of rich Iditarod gold fields. Wealthy men crowded into steerage as demand exceeds capacity. waiting lists at steamship offices surpass northbound capacity.
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Alaska
Bering Sea
Seattle
Nome
St. Michaels
Iditarod
Death of Dr Koch Ends Era in Preventive Medicine
German bacteriologist Professor Robert Koch died in Baden Baden in his seventy seventh year after a year long decline in health. He developed antitoxin for diphtheria and studied sleeping sickness in Central Africa while advancing tuberculosis research and a rat killing gas for ships. He emphasized his lymph therapy as preventive and practical in many cases.
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Robert Koch
Baden Baden
German East Africa
University of Berlin
Koch
Wallstein
Central Africa
Julia Ward Howe Celebrates 91st Birthday Quietly
Julia Ward Howe, aged 91, marks the day at her Beacon Street home in Boston with family. Friends send flowers telegraphs and letters from around the world while the annual New England Women’s clubs breakfast is noted as not observed this year.
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Julia Ward Howe
New England Women's Clubs
Turbulent World Notes From Berlin and Ankara
British navy coal consumption tops 3,000,000 tons annually. Turkey plans regulation to ban Angora goat exports to America and Australia. Commander Peary spoke in Berlin under the Berlin Geographical Society. The czar attended a theater for the first time in years, a hush event for old soldiers. Albanian rebellion suppression sees Gen. Shefket storm Katchanik Pass on the 29th with rebels retreating in good order to mountains.
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America
Australia
Turkey
Robert BE. Peary
Beriin
Berlin Geographical Society
Berlin
Rome
Opera House
Albania
Shefket
Katchanik Pass
Treat Falls Dead Treasurer Charles H Treat of New York
Charles Henry Treat longtime U S treasurer under Roosevelt died of apoplexy in his Hotel Victoria apartment New York. He was stricken an hour before death and did not regain consciousness Survived by wife and two daughters. Born in Frankfort Maine about sixty eight years ago he traced ancestry to Robert Treat Paine and Robert Treat He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1865 and later ran a fleet of twenty eight vessels with his family He served as Delaware delegate at large to the 1888 Republican convention and was Collector of Internal Revenue for the Wall Street district during the Spanish American War
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Charles Henry Treat
United States
Roosevelt
Hotel Victoria
New York
Mr. Treat
Frankfort
Robert Treat Paine
Robert Treat
Connecticut
Dartmouth College
Delaware
Chicago
Benjamin Harrison
McKinley
Wall Street
Floods Sweep Norway Causing Widespread Damage
Unprecedented heat melts mountain snow in interior Norway. Lakes and rivers rise to levels not seen since 1860. The town of Lillestrommen near Christiania is submerged and residents take to upper stories. Railways and crops suffer extensive damage amid the flooding.
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Lown
Norway
Lillestrommen
Christiania
New York Primary Bill Defeated in Assembly Vote
A Cobb compromise direct nomination bill failed in the New York Assembly by 46 to 94 after a fourteen hour session. Governor Hughes intends to veto the Meade Phillips bill, and only an extraordinary session could restore primary reform this year.
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Senate
New York Assembly
Hughes
Meade Phillips
Bank Robbery at Unity Wisconsin Dynamite Used
Two men dynamited the safe of The State Bank of Unity Wisconsin and made off with about $2000. The robbers fled the scene, having been seen around the bank in the days prior. The bank opened in 1905 with capital of £10000.
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Unity
State Bank of Unity
Wis
Church Membership Rises to 92 Million in 1906 Census
United States census of religious bodies shows total communicants at 32,936,445 with Protestants at 20,287,742 and Roman Catholics at 12,679,142. Proportions vary by city size, with 51.2 percent of Episcopal communicants in principal cities and 82.6 percent of Christian Scientists there. Growth noted since 1890, led by major cities New York Chicago Philadelphia Boston and St. Louis.
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United States
Protestant Episcopal Church
Church of Christ, Scientist
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Boston
St. Louis
State Senator Holstlaw Indicted in Bribery Probe
State Senator Dr W Holstlaw of Iuka Marion County faces two counts of perjury after Grand Jury testimony in a Sangamon County bribery investigation. Four other men are under review as State's Attorney Edmund Burke drafts additional indictments from letters Holstlaw allegedly sent to J W Knox of Derby Desk Co before a contract was let.
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Dr. W. Holstlaw
Iuka
Marion County
Illinois General Assembly
Sangamon County
Edmund Burke
Holstlaw
Grand Jury
J. W. Knox
Derby Desk Company
Burke
Knox
Cyclone In East Africa Dumps Hundreds Of Deaths At Sea
Dispatches from Mozambique report a terrible cyclone that struck East Africa and adjacent ocean drowning more than 500 people. The storm caused land damage and likely sank several large and small ships. One vessel carried 400 miners en route to the Rand mines and all aboard were drowned.
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East Africa
Mozambique
Rand Mines
Passenger rates to rise on Boston and Maine June 1
President Tuttle of the Boston and Maine announces a June 1 increase to pre 1907 10 percent reductions levels. Suburban service remains untouched. Wage increases spurred by higher pay for employees are cited as the cause.
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President Tuttle
Boston and
Maine
Chicago
Steel
Pittsburg
Steel Trust
Postal Telegraph and Cable Company
Middle West
Pennsylvania
Istrike
McKees Rocks
Deportation Orders Hit 1200 Jews in Kiev Exile Push
One thousand two Jewish families in Kiev and 193 suburban households face expulsion by June 14 under Russian rules to push Jews out of the area. The Jewish relief committee cites uncertain totals but estimates 200 to 300 families already left. Access to passports and residence rights is curtailed as authorities tighten restrictions. Funds are being raised in Kiev’s Jewish community to counter the deportations.
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Kiev
Russia
Jewish Relief Committee
Lorimer Defends Self Requests Senate Investigation
William Lorimer urged the United States Senate to probe charges that his election was bought in the Illinois General Assembly with payments from $1000 upward. He delivered a lengthy speech defending himself, attacking rivals, the governor, the Tribune and a political conspiracy narrative. The request was referred to the committee on contingent expenses.
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William Lorimer
United States Senate
Illinois General Assembly
Lorimer
Chicago
Lee O' Neil Browne
Chicago Tribune
Deneen
H. J. C. Beckemeyer
Michael S. Link
White
The
Tribune
Senate
Committee
Blaze Rages Through Minneapolis Warehouses
Fire at 1 a m in Minneapolis destroyed four large implement warehouses including Rock Island Great Northern Waterbury and Northwestern. Losses exceed 75 000 dollars with major claims at Northern Rock Island Plow 200 000 and Great Northern 250 000. One man Christ Madison seriously burned. Three St Paul engines aided firefighting. Location bounded by Washington avenue 3d street and 6th 7th avenues south.
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Minneapolis
Christ Madison
Great Northern Implement Company
Washington Avenue
3D Street
6Th
7Th Avenues
Rock Island
Great Northern
Waterbury
Northwestern
Sixth Avenue
St. Paul
Northern Rock Island Plow Company
C. W. Wright
Saginaw, Mich
Waterbury Implement Company
Record delivery sets mail time in Bremen to Seattle
A parcels post package was posted in Bremen Germany on May 2 and delivered to Seattle Washington on May 14. This marks the fastest time ever reported for this type of mail crossing the Atlantic and reaching its destination.
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Washington
Bremen
Germany
Seattle
Wash
Butter Prices Reach Civil War Highs in New York
May butter receipts were larger than usual but the best grades command higher prices in New York than at any point this season since the Civil War.
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New York
Fire Destroys Lumber Town in Inglis Oregon
A night fire nearly wipes out the village of Inglis. The Oregon Lumber Company sawmill and yards are destroyed, leaving the town with extensive damage and loss.
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Inglis
Ore
Oregon Lumber Company
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DR. Koch
H. Treat
Nation Stricken
Brooklyn
Philadel’a
Cincinnati
Philadel'a
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Detroit
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Indopolis
Kan
Bill Dead
Assembly
Dynamite Wisconsin Bank
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