Global Turbulence and Aviation Feats Dominate Headlines
King Edward and Queen Alexandra hosted by Ambassador Reid at Wrest Park. Aeronauts Latham and Wright set records while Thaw and Pulliam headlines stun New York. Turmoil across Spain Mexico and Canada, with riots, strikes, earthquakes, and a dramatic train wreck near Kansas City.
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King Edward
Queen Alexandra
Ambassador Reid
Wrest Park
England
Rev
G. L. Morrill
Minneapolis
Spain under martial law as Alfonso faces revolt
Rioting spreads from Catalonia to Madrid over Spain’s war policy in Morocco. Alfonso declares martial law, dispatches cruisers and army corps to Barcelona, while Moors in Guruga and Melilla fight. Carlist plot suspected. bankers move reserves to France amid fears of a revolution.
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Catalonia
Spain
Madrid
Morocco
Alfonso
Barcelona
Charles of Bourbon
Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria
Royal Palace
San Sebastian
Melilla
Numancia
Mount Guruga
Marina
Don Jaime the Pretender
France
Toilers in Death Club Reported in Cleveland
A group described as a death by own action club of disheartened factory workers is said to exist in Cleveland. Miss Rebecca Bosewick, 18, was found dead in Gordon Park, and relatives fear another companion may also take her life within days. The mother claims she overheard plans for mutual suicide. The group reportedly includes six girls, four young men, and a couple. In Washington the Treasury Comptroller notes funds for alien examination phones cannot be paid this year from the immigration facility budget.
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Uncle Sam Cete Phéne
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Comptroller of the Treasury
Washington
Destroyers Move From Puget Sound To Alaska
Six torpedo boat destroyers named Whipple Truxton Hull Paul Jones Perry and Hopkins left Puget Sound after a month on maneuvers near Seattle. They proceeded to Alaska for training in northern waters and to allow officers and men to participate in further maneuvers.
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U. S
Alaska
Puget Sound
Seattle
Whipple
Truxton
Hull
Paul Jones
Perry
Hopkins
Rival Biscuit Company Formed In Hartford
A new $600000 General Biscuit Company was organized in Hartford Connecticut to challenge the National Biscuit Company. It will organize with $6 million capital, half common half preferred, with John B Summerfield as president Arthur N Taylor as vice president and Henry M Haviland as secretary treasurer.
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National Biscuit Company
Cracker Trust
Hartford
Wall Street
Arthur N Taylor
Brooklyn
Henry M Haviland
Summerfield
City National Bank
Miners’ Smelting Company
WHH Beard Dredging Company
Honesty Brings Life Position Brakeman Restores Fortunes Gems
A Long Island Railroad brakeman returns a jeweled box found on a train to railroad officials. Mrs H Schwab, a New York jeweler’s wife, claimed the jewels valued around 3000 dollars and rewarded the honest worker with 100 dollars, new clothes, and a two week vacation before a lifetime position offer at Schwab’s Maiden Lane office.
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William Robelin
Long Island Railroad
H Schwab
New York
Mra Schwab
Rohelin
Maiden Lane
Schwab
Hfe
Indian student guilty in Wyllie assassination trial
Madarial Dhinagri, the Indian student who killed Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie and Dr Lalaca in London, was found guilty and sentenced to death after a trial lasting under an hour. Dhinagri refused to plead and said his sentence would be avenged when India had power. Publisher A F Hossley jailed four months for incendiary articles.
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Madarial Dhinagri
William Hutt Curzon Wyllie
Dr Lalaca
London
England
India
Dhinagri
The
Indian Sociologist
Balloon race prize offered for Zurich international cup victory
James Gordon Bennett offers 2500 dollars to the winner of the international balloon races championship cup to be held in Zurich next October. Mrs H C Schnetter of St Louis begins a 1500 mile pedestrian journey to Boston with her husband, aiming to cover about thirty five miles daily in forty five days.
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James Gordon Bennett
Zurich
Switzerland
H. C Schnetter
St. Louis
Boston
Six Die as Wabash Train Plunges Into Missouri River
Six dead and over fifty injured in the Wabash passenger train No. 4 wreck near Orrick Missouri thirty miles east of Kansas City. The Missouri River current undermined the track causing the engine baggage mail and Pullman and chair cars to plunge into the river. Many passengers were in the chair car which stood on end spilling occupants and inflicting broken bones and other injuries.
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St Louis
Orrick
Kansas City
Courtroom Killing Ends Suit Over Child Custody
Nathaniel Parker Willis of Indianapolis, a wealthy liquor cure owner, was shot in the Little Rock chancery courtroom by W Ellis of Pine Bluff Ark during a custody dispute with his divorced wife who had remarried Ellis. Willis died soon after in his mother's arms as she rushed to him. the case concerned the possession of his child following a divorce filed years earlier.
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Nathaniel Parker Willits
Indianapolis
United States
Jeff Davis
W . Ellis
Pine Bluff
Ark
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Chancery Court Room
Little Rock
Willis
Ellis
White House mistress Elizabeth Dandridge dies at 86
Elizabeth Taylor Dandridge, daughter of Zachary Taylor and longtime White House mistress, died in Winchester Virginia at age 86. She was sister to the first wife of Jefferson Davis and to the wife of Army Surgeon General Wood, and served as mistress during her father’s presidency. Her death closes a chapter linked to the Taylor administration.
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Eltembeth Dandridge
Elizabeth Taylor Dandridge
Zachary Taylor
United States
White House
Winchester
Dandridge
Jefferson Davis
Wood
Army
Taylor
Betty Taylor
Safe Looted: Bank Robbery and Disappearance Shock Tipton
The First Nations Bank of Tipton Indiana closed after assistant cashier Noah Marker vanished with 50 000 to 60 000 dollars in the vault. Marker set a 9 am time lock and left a note claiming he took money to cover expenses leaving behind a brother William Marker who says he expects his return. Noah Marker a 19 year bank employee and former mayoral candidate is 35 with a wife and two children and active in church.
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First Nations Bank of
Tipton
Ind
Indiana
Noah 8. Marker
Marker
William Marker
Noah Marker
Mysterious Island Reported Near Gambier Group
Captain Quatrevaux of the French ship Thiers, arriving in San Francisco from New Castle, Australia, reports a newly formed islet off the Gambier group in the Pacific. He notes an uncanny swell drawing the vessel toward shore and danger of rocks, with the island at latitude 24.25 S, longitude 128.90 W, likely volcanic rock.
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Gambier Group
Quatrevaux
Thiers
San Francisco
Newcastle
Australia
Pacific
Quatravaux
Fugitive Nilsson Surrenders After Cal Strike Accident
William Nilsson, worn and ill, walked into Kansas City police and confessed to a forgery at Janesville two years earlier while employed by a Wisconsin creamery. He said he fled to Germany before returning to the United States. His family suffered a streetcar crash in California.
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Seutus & Goom
California
William Nilsson
Kansas City
iJanésville
Wis
Nilsson
Germany
Tragic double death in Harribore Ark case shocks town
Mrs. Bailey, a mother of five, drowned her 2 year old son in a rain water barrel in the backyard and then hanged herself on the back porch with a rope. The bodies were found at sunrise by her husband. She had shown signs of mental strain for weeks. She was 45 years old.
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Bailey
Sayes Wewan drowned saving Mrs Christian in river
James H. Walker aged 25 drowned in the Little Tennessee river while aiding Mrs F D Christian of Sydney Ohio to safety. He was overcome and sank after securing her from the current.
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Sayes Wewan
James H. Walker
Little
Tennessee
F. D. Christian
Sydney
Ohio
Doctor Clears Obstructed Throat With Elk Button Tale
A boy visits a threat specialist after swallowing a foreign object. The doctor identifies the object as an elk buttons piece mistaken for a reindeer horn. The object is removed and the patient recovers, though the tale ends with a humorous misstatement about a reindeer.
Dean's Kidney Pills Ad Claims Health Benefit
An old advertisement touts Dean's Kidney Pills as a remedy for kidney trouble and general weakness. It features a testimonial warning of secretions and deranged kidneys and promotes Fos ter Milburn Co of Buffalo NY as the seller at 50 cents a box.
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Dean
Dean’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Octopus Arrives in New York Aquarium as Sea Monster Sensation
The New York Herald reports a live octopus, the only one in America, captured near Bermuda arrived in New York and shown at the aquarium. Charles H Townsend struggled to Transport it, while L W Mowbry oversaw the Bermuda Natural History Society specimen. A tug ferried the crate and a seaman pumped water during the 48 hour voyage.
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Werry
New York
New York Herald
America
Bermuda
L. W. Mowbry
Bermuda Natural History Society Aquarium
Townsend
The New Woman Made Over by Quitting Coffee
A Richmond Virginia woman reports years of coffee use harmed her health with headaches nervousness and heart palpitations leading to blindness in one eye After giving up coffee she used Postum and later Grape-Nuts gaining health strength and mobility Her letter urges others to consider these products noting improved memory and stamina and ends with a testimonial invitation to publish.
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Richmond
Alforether
Wellville
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