Earthquakes and Volcanoes Hit Southwest Towns
Earthquakes rocked Tucson and nearby areas on May 4 causing damage to buildings and alarmed residents. Reports describe a volcanic eruption near Total Wreck mountains and lava visible from Benson, with tremors felt across Arizona, Texas, and California. In Victoria coal mine a major explosion left 150 men feared dead, while fires and other shocks disrupted towns from El Paso to Brainerd. The day carried multiple tremors, a dramatic landscape shift, and rescue efforts underway.
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Tucson
Ariz
Court House
Santa Cantalina
Tombstone
Tomastonk
New Mexico & Arizona
Benson
Southern Pacific
San Pedro River
Whetstone Mountains
Texas
el Paso
San Marcial
Lake Vailey
Trial of Czar Plotters Plays Out In St Peters burg
A trial in St Petersburg exposes a student Onkanoff, son of a Prussian official, as a key plotter against the czar. He delivers a polished defense and a fiery speech about dying to free Russia, while others nearby are described as intelligent and well born.
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ST. Petersburg
Czar
Czarina
Imperial Household
Onkanoff
Feodoroff
Onlanoff
Brussels
Russia
Combative coons and miscellany in northwest notes
A lengthy Minneapolis bout details the Black Pearl defeating Black Frank after forty rounds in three hours. Queen Kapiolani visits Chicago and prepares to sail for London. Canadian Pacific steamers sail to Vancouver and a new subsidy route debate follows. Messages from St Paul on rail transit and London wheat markets, New York boycott denial regarding Marquis de Mores meat, Frotheringham trial prep, Rossini reburial, and public debt figures in Washington wrap the cluster.
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Minneapolis
Black Pearl
Black Frank
St. Paul
Crystal Lake
Jack Keefe
CuicaGo
Kapiolani
Kalakaua
Hawaiian Islands
Lilvio- Katui
J. C. Dointz
Curts Jukia
J. O. Boyd
Chicago
Oelock
Pennsylvania Road
Soelock
Washington
New York
London
Winnipeg
Canadian Pacific
Cunard Company
Liverpool
Vancouver
Imperial
Marquis de Mores
Knights of Labor
Democratic Nomination Victory at Kentucky Convention
At Louisville on May 4 the Democratic state convention opened with Col Stoddard Johnson presiding and over 700 delegates present Henry Watterson attacked patent medicines corruption and political quackery while praising Cleveland and denouncing the Republican era. Buckner won the gubernatorial nomination shortly before midnight and Carlisle was named permanent state chairman. The report covers further national and local items including civil service reform Alaska import rules and a fatal assault in Minneapolis.
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Louisville
Col. Stoddard Johnson
State Central Committee
Watterson
Ienry Watterson
Mugwump
Grover Cleveland
Cox
J. G. Carlisle
M Henry Watterson
Cleveland
Treasury
Bureau of Cereatic
Pegale
Ireland
United States
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Arizona
Wilcox
Winchester Mountain
Centerville
Cal
Victoria
B.C
Nanimo Speeial
Victoria Coal Company
Bo'clock
Hudson
Bozeman Tunnel
Timberline
Mont
Villard
Brainerd
Minn
Minnesota
W. W. Hartel
C.F. Kindred
First National Bank
J. J. Howe
T. A. B. King
Gus Frohiman
May Blosson” Company
New Orleans
Julia Street
Chief O'Connor
O’connor
Firemen's Charitable Association
Lyon Laughlins
Haymarket
Michaeles
Freie Presse
St. Cloup
John Brutz
Cold Spring
Glenmary
Tenn
Edward Knox
Fortress County
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Eastern Lines
Duluth
the Commerce Commission
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Cooley
Denurn
Buchannan
Grocries
Jay Anderson
Ver Winstead
Howard, Minn
Jennie Wilson
Maxy Gottheilf
Helena
W. P. Shepperd
Sterling
Massachusetts
Ife
Paul
Brayton Ives
Northern Pacific
Oakes
Montana
McConnell
Tennessee
Boulder
Aniel L
Marshall
Sara Bernhardt
Twin Cities
Waconia
Radde
Hastings & Dakota
Cologne
Devils Lake
Minot
Minot, Dak
More Mail Service
Chamber of Commerce Today
P. IL
Britain
Mark Lane Express
Frotheringham
St. Louis
David
St. Louis & San Francisco
Jim” Cummings
Criminal Court
Paris
Rossini
Pere la Chaise
Florence
Boito
Verdi
St. Pau
J.C. Jones
University Avenue
Prospect Park
Public Dept
THE
Democrats
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Kentucky
Mr. Watterson
Washington Place
General Buckner
John G. Carlisle
Civil Service
War Department
Alaska
Wastameron
George Gensler
First Street North
Bill Flannery
Flannery
Gensler
Morris
Luus
Schwartz
Watt
Axtell
Canada
Winknep
Brandon
Thos. F. McGowan
van Nostrand
Newtown
McGowan
Ini
Keep
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Hughitt
Northwestern
Prrvseung
Connellsville
Wilkesbarre
Philadelphia
Union Trust Company
James N. Taggart
Athwa
Wm. K. Carlisle
Wichita, Kan
Isaac J. Cox
Ellenville
N. Y
Upshaw
A. C. Osborne
Senate
Fenous Fanos
Manitoba
Leech Take
Sauk Center
Pendergast Block
Bennett
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