President Estrada Cabrera Escapes Guatemalan Assassination
In Guatemala City on April 29 President Estrada Cabrera narrowly avoided an assassination attempt. An explosion damaged a carriage and killed horses, injuring the coachman and several officers, while the president, unharmed, investigated the scene. Investigators say a mine caused the blast and a tunnel connected to a rented house, with several suspects arrested.
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Guatemala City
Estrada Cabrera
Guatemala
Seventh Avenue
Sixteenth
Seventeenth Streets
Crellana
Rafael Rodil
Rodil
Pittsburgh Orchestra Faces General Musicians’ Boycott
A national boycott by the Musicians Union against the Pittsburg Orchestra threatens its future. Only about a dozen of 65 players have signed next season contracts as salaries are cut and the season shortened to 21 weeks. Conductor Emil Paur refuses meeting requests and says he plans to hire foreign musicians, prompting union action and appeals to authorities.
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Pittsburg
Penn
United States
Magnificent Musical Organization
Musicians’ Union
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Boston
Chicago
Pittsburg Orchestra
Emil Paur
Paur
Schenly
Paul
Trustees debate site for Consumptives' Hospital in Mattapan
Trustees of the Consumptives' Hospital weigh river view versus hilltop location on 60 acre Mattapan tract near 249 River street overlooking the Neponset River. Board members from Boston and Charlestown discuss site choice but offer no decision timeline.
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Mattapan
The
Consumptives’ Hospital Department of
Boston
Conness
River Street
Neponset River
Consumptives’ Hospital
F. P. Fish Resigns. Theodore N. Vail Elected President
F P Fish resigns as president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co and Theodore N Vail is elected to the presidency. Vail, longtime executive and former president of American Bell, joins the board. stock falls on fears of a Mackay influence but officials deny control shift.
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F. P. Fish
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Theodore N. Vail
Vail
The
Telephone Company
American Bell Co
American Telephone Co
F. P. Fisa
Mr. Vail
Mackay Companies
Alexander Cochrane
W. Murray Crane
Western Telephone & Telegraph Co
Isaac Rosenberg Pleads Not Guilty in $1000 Larceny Case
Isaac Rosenberg pleaded not guilty in Superior Court to larceny of $1000 from a Springfield man. He had refused to plead at arraignment last week because his lawyer Jacob Isaac was not present. The trial is set for next Tuesday. The accuser said the stake was $190 deposited during a pool game on Hanover Street before Rosenberg vanished.
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Isaac Rosenberg
Springfield
Jacob Isaac
Hanover Street
Rosenberg
Crew of Essex Abandons Ship at Providence Dock
The Merchants and Miners Transportation steamer Essex lay tied at Providence docks after every crew member left at noon to press wage demands of the Masters Mates and Pilots Union. Agent James M Barry reports hiring replacements if a strike continues.
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Providence
R. T
Merchants & Miners’ Transportation Company
Essex
James M Barry
Suit Over Return of Steamship Fare for Disabled Boy
Mendel Partree sues Julius Rottenberg in Municipal Court for 421.50 arguing an ironclad contract guaranteed transportation of foreigners to the United States. The boy, blind, was sent back in Liverpool after being declared insane, with Rottenberg claiming he acted to the best of his ability but was blocked by authorities. Evidence to be submitted before a decision.
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Ely
Mendel Partree
Julius Rottenberg
Rottenberg
Partree
Vilna
Russia
Liverpool
Three New Consumptive Infirmaries Proposed
The Senate committee on public charitable institutions reports a bill to build three state infirmaries for tuberculosis patients in northeastern Massachusetts southeastern Massachusetts and the Connecticut Valley. The governor would appoint nine members including health and charity board representatives and Rutland sanatorium trustees. Each infirmary would house at least 150 patients with construction capped at 300000 dollars and a four dollar weekly patient charge.
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Senate
Committee On Public Charitable Institutions
Massachusetts
Southeastern
Connecticut Valley
State Board of Health
State Board of Charity
Rutland
Largay Seeks Action in Massachusetts Court Over Will J. Block Amusement
Largay who backed the Will J. Block Amusement Co sought a supplementary receiver in Massachusetts to enforce New Jersey court orders for the company serving Coming Thro the Rye in Boston. Judge Lothrop refused jurisdiction and suggested proceeding in the Superior or Federal courts. receiver Charles Henderson attended with counsel.
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Goring
Freedman
Massachusetts
Charles FE. Henderson
New Jersey
Charles &. Henderson
HW. J. Jacquith
Mother Forgives Daughter Who Weds Worcester Man
Worcester April 30 N J Hibbard and Laura Prefontaine of Boston married secretly in Boston and returned to Worcester where Laura's mother Mrs. M Prefontaine forgives them. Hibbard says the marriage is their business and adds they traveled to Boston to wed for love.
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Worcester
N. J. Hibbard
Laura Prefontaine
Salem Street
Boston
M. Prefontaine
Lief
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James J. Minot
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John F. O’brien
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John KE. Potts
Herbert F. Price
Minot
J. J. O’callaghan
John S. O'Brien
Fish Out OF Telephone CO
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Greater
Harvard
American Bell
New York
Ger
Ernest Dan Someren
Liebig
Peeplere
Pabst
Milwaukee
L. Speidel & Co
Sleeper St
Theodore N. Vain
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
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Mace Goode
N. E
GC. W. Guy Furniture Co
Great House Outfitters
Canal 177
Friend St
North Station
Henry Siegel
Washington and
Essex Streets
Crex
Brussels
Bigelow Imperial Axminister
Royal Wilton Rugs
Axminster
Henry Siegel Co
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Hayward Pinece
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