Around the World Highlights from a Turbulent Era
A sprawling digest notes Col Evan T Williams a leading Ohio lawyer killed in a buggy streetcar collision at Iron ton. Others injured include Joseph Cloran. public school pupils in East New York to monitor saloon entry for police. Paris builds a 48-workshop model sweatshop apartment. Mayfield water plant fire triggers severe water shortage. Northwest storms cause damage. Wahpeton tent collapse injures 7. Ark moonlight cruise ends with drownings after oil tank explosion. Southwest coal strike nears end after wage talks. Chicago gas explosion injures and destroys factory floor. Coroner in Indiana rules Belle Gunness killed by homicide. Tennessee wife wounds husband amid suspected intoxication. Allegheny bank defalcations exceed $2,000,000. Pittsburg sues bondsmen. Indianapolis ex-commissioner McGaughey dies amid scandal ties. Atlas Engine works bribery implicated. Baseball standings shown for National and Western leagues. Greenville shooting injures Frederick Donaldson and Violet Carmen. bloodhounds aid arrest and confession. Fort Riley officer commits opium death. prior German service and Legion history noted.
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Evan T. Williams
Ohio
Joseph Cloran
Ironton
Miles O'Reilly
New York
Paris
Mdlle
Souvestre
Mayfield
Wahpeton
N. C
Campbell Brothers’ Circus
Clarendon
Ark
Southwest
Kansas City
John A. Colby & Sons’ Furniture Company
Wabash Avenue
Chicago
Belle Gunness
Mack
Laporte
Ind
Bessie Ellis Deeson
Hardiman
Deeson
Bartlett County
Tenn
Montgomery
Allegheny National Bank
Pittsburg
Carothers & Co
Pittsburg Securities
John E. McGaughey
Board of County Commissioners
Irvington
Indianapolis
McGraughey
Commissioners
Atlas Engine Works
Sam
Emmett Hugins
Thomas Spafford
Spafford
McGaughey
Mctaughey
National League
We & We
Toston
Phildelphia
Louis
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Not Guilty for Woman Slayer in Cassopolis Killing
Mrs Christina Metsker of South Bend Ind was found not guilty of the murder of Carlton W Morgan in Cassopolis Mich after a night of revelry that involved her husband and Morgan with Mrs Maud Berliner and Mrs Mae Green Audience cheered the jury as the verdict was returned Prosecutor Bresnahan asked for involuntary manslaughter Metsker testified the shooting was accidental saying she went to Cassopolis to rescue her husband from the merry widow’s house and that the revolver appeared only in a scuffle with her husband. she claimed not to know Morgan had been shot until she heard groans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christina Metsker
South Bend
Ind
Cassopolis
Mich
Carlton W. Morgan
Bresnahan
Morgan
New York City Tax Bill Surpasses 1905 Levels
The city government’s 1905 expenditures rise to 145,572,266 dollars, up 13,150,160 from last year and 65,081,034 above 1808. Per capita spend is 36 dollars, with an average family cost near 150 dollars, funded by current and future generations through bond issuance of 65 million dollars. Interest now exceeds 24 million annually, rivaling Chicago’s total city cost, while national expenses dwarf by comparison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
United States
New York City
City of New York
President Roosevelts Conservation Speech Opens Nation’s Debate
President Roosevelts keynote at the conservation conference urges a sane plan to preserve natural resources for future generations. He warns that exhausted coal oil iron and timber threaten the nations prosperity and urges coordinated national action and legal safeguards. The Maine Supreme Court and New Jersey decisions cited support public control of land and waters to protect forests and waterways. Mrs. Frank Gould dismisses divorce rumors as unfounded.
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Roosevelt
United States
Nature
Thesegeverae
Pacific
Atlantic
Gulf Coasts
Mississippi Valley
Great Plains
Alleghenies
Northern Lakes
Supreme Court of
Maine
Maine Senate
Supreme Court
Maine Supreme Bench
Court of Errors and Appeals of
New Jersey
Supreme Court of the United States
Holmes
Rabies Bulletin Denies Mad Stone And Water Myths
The Department of Agriculture bulletin Rabies and Its Increasing Prevalence debunks the belief in mad stones as an antidote and rejects the idea that rabid dogs avoid water or that crossing a stream proves illness. It also dismisses the notion of dog days tied to Sirius and the disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Sirius
Dehlohnega Springs stage overturns injuring three
The Dehlohnega Springs stage en route between Bakersfield and the mountain resort overturned on a canyon grade injuring driver Ed Smith and two passengers. Fred Miller and James H. Hiland of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad have returned to San Francisco from Japan after arranging service via Seattle.
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Dehlohnega Springs
Bakersfield
Cal
Ed Smith
Fred Miller
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
James H. Hiland
San Francisco
Japan
Seattle
German Baroness Dies After Chateau Murder Suicide
Baroness Udo von Ruexleben died after shooting her husband at their Buddenberg chateau in Germany and then turning the weapon on herself, ending a fatal domestic incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Udo von Ruexleben
Buddenberg
Germany
Congress to adjourn as bills move through chambers
The Vreeland currency bill cleared the House and shifted to the Senate for a finance committee report. Senate actions included tariff revision plans, defense and appropriation measures, and a broad push to finish up sundry civil and other spending before adjournment May 23.
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Vreeland
House
Senate
Committee On Finance
Aldrich
Keifer
Ohio
Sherwood
United States
Appalachian Mountains
White Mountains
New Hampshire
Maine
Carter
Postal Savings Bank
Inland Water- Ways Commission
Minnesota
Committee On Ways and Means
National Capital Notes and Federal Approvals
A parcels post convention between the United States and The Netherlands will take effect July 1. The Senate adopted the conference report on the naval appropriation bill carrying 122,062,715 dollars. Secretary Garf ield formally approves San Francisco’s 1901 application for Lake Eleanor and Hetch Hetchy reservoir sites in Yosemite for a city water supply.
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United States
Netherlands
Senate
San Francisco
Lake Eleanor
Hetch Hetchy Valley
Yosemite National Park
Secretary of the Interior
Garfield
Catarrh Twenty five Years Had a Bad Cough
Miss Sophia Kittleson of Evanston Minnesota writes of twenty five years with chronic catarrh and a severe cough. After using Peruna her throat healed and general health improved. She recommends Peruna to friends. Peruna tablets offered as tablet form of the medicine. Manufactured by Peruna Manufacturing Company Columbus Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sophia Kittleson
Evanston
U.S. A
Peruna Manufacturing Company
Columbus
Ohio
Unexpected Customer Purchases Lane’s Fancy Work
Mrs. Lane, busy with ready sale of her craft, is startled when her husband Mr. Lane appears in night attire with a decorated trinket. He asks the price and mystery item, explaining the buttons on his union suit have washed away, prompting his purchase.
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Lane
Philanthropist Compares Mind to Sand Bucket Scene
A philanthropic tourist observes a bareheaded worker hoisting a weathered windlass and carrying a sand bucket. He asks why the man does not cover his head, quipping that heat could affect the brain. The man replies with puzzled humor.
Doctor lauds Grape-Nuts as a balanced daily food
The Board of Health president citesPersonal experience with malnutrition and heart palpitations. He reports adopting Grape-Nuts with cow's milk improved sleep digestion and heart function. He endorses the product as a perfect food and urges readers to consider its benefits.
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Wellville
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Violet Carmen
Greenville
L. Thomas
Buffalo
Robert Foselar
Sixth Field Artillery
Fort Riley
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French Foreign Legion
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Boston
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Frank Gould
Work OF Congress
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Idaho
Bulkeley
Connecticut
Twenty-fifth Infantry
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Tennessee
Tokio Exposition
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Fort Grant
Arizona
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National Capital Notes
Miss. Sophia
Pe-Ru-Na
Board of Health
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