Explosions and crimes spark multiple incidents across regions
Fire and explosion at Ohio Valley hospital Pottsboro injure three and cause $5000 in damage while gas meters are being changed in the drug room. Cossack patrols shoot at terrorists after an attack on a mail wagon leaving a guard killed and others wounded. A bat incident, a pin removal in Belle Center and an interview with a North Dakota wheat expert are also noted amid varied local events and a public postal stamp change coming July 1.
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Ohio Valley
Pottsbore
Belle Center Olio
Farrell Fitzpatrick
Oliver Dalrymple
St Paul
North Dakota
United States
Europe
Fragments and Trials Across a Turbulent Era
The text mixes reports on deaths, probate, a murder case, and wartime trade shifts. It notes Charles T Yerkes death and probate in London, a son charged with his father’s killing, a Japanese wartime immigration note, and the City of Memphis steamer abandoning the Kansas City trade amid reduced freight.
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Charles T Yerkes
New York
Londen
WF Mandelk
S Chvaley
Killig
Line Longon
Fina
Lamaon
Joseph Loengen
Memphis
Kansas City
Fifteen Slain by Cossacks in Polish Terror Attacks
Reported for the hour, cossack troops killed fifteen workers at Kuttner's spinning mills in Lodz and wounded over thirty as terrorists attacked a mail wagon, seized cash, and fled. Other raids included a Warsaw Vistula railroad office robbery of $5,000 with several deaths and injuries. Additional arrests related to a plot to assassinate the czar were disclosed with bribes offered to admit a stranger to the czar's chapel.
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Ladz
Poland
Kuttner
Lodz
Itus Sian
Bost
Lonkewna
Vistula
Warsaw
Tsarskoe-Selu
Terrioki
Finhind
Nicholas
Wisconsin Republicans Name Stephenson Successor Nominee
Isaac Stephenson of Marinette clinches on the first ballot as the Republican U S Senate candidate for Wisconsin. The final selection follows a tense vote with Goldsworthy and others switching positions, highlighting Stephenson as a rising self made man with a claim to wealth and a history of fair play.
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Wisconsin
Warinette
Isaac Stephenson
Marinette
United States
Goldsworthy
Conner
Stephenson
Religious and civic notices cross paths in church and mission circles
The Athletics section notes the Council of Jewish Women severs ties with limited charities to form a separate entity, while the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America plans its national convention in August. Items include resignations in Christian groups, visits by Seopranus E Clark to the West Indies, and Thomas Spurgeon resuming Metropolitan temple duties amid health issues.
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Council of Jewish Women
Lmited Charities
Leveling
Catholic
Total Abstinencs Unie of America
van Cheden Vogt
Faery
Ruef Pleads Guilty in San Francisco Graft Case
Abe Ruef the San Francisco political boss pleaded guilty to accepting a bribe before Judge Dunne. His confession threatens to expose fellow grafters and mobilize reform forces to reclaim city government from graft and boodle. Ruef’s dramatic surrender sent shock waves through the state.
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Frisco
Graftern
Abe” Ruef
San Francisco
Cal
Dunne
Millonaire
Ruef
Abraham
Abe
Schmitz
Octopus Sets Submarine Speed Records at Newport Trial
The submarine torpedo boat Octopus, under trial at Newport, made three speed runs with Captain Marix aboard and other naval board members as passengers. It averaged ten knots and reached 10.15 knots for one mile. A first time submarine bell kept surface contact with the receiving apparatus during submersion.
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Octopus
Newport
Marix
Naval Board
Notable Early 20th Century Academic News Highlights
The piece notes Robert H. Baker’s role at Allegheny Observatory, Francois Coppee’s prize funding for young port writers, and alumnae pressure on Gov. Hughes of New York. It covers sightings of snake photo collections, a Springfield high school policy on secret fraternities, and the Jamestown Exposition model playground opening. Additional items include moral lecture thoughts, Rockefeller’s Chicago gift, and Yale professor Phelps praising Mark Twain.
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Francois Coppee
Academe Francais
Gov. Hughes
New York
Cornell
Brown
Columbia
Colgate
William H. Fisher
Baltimore
University of Pennsylvania
Springfield
Mass
Board of Education
So Clelier
Playground Association of America
Syracuse University
New York Methodist Conference
Mames
John D. Rockefeller
University of Chicago
Rockefeller
University
William Lyon Phelps
Yale
Mark Twain
Martyr to Yellow Jack Soldier Sacrificed For Yellow Fever Study
John R. Kissenger of South Bend Indiana a soldier who volunteered for yellow fever experiments in Cuba is now a cripple from myelone inflammation of the spinal marrow. He was inoculated in 1900 by five infected mosquitoes and later deteriorated though Moran recovered. He travels on his knees using a wheelchair and doctors attribute his condition to the experiments. A second note reports rural delivery service statistics with 37 597 rural routes served by 37 447 regular carriers as of May 1.
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John Sapp
Willaims
Criminal Court
St Luunte
Mimety Dinesen
Stapp
Ordhe Kraus
Porter Palmer
Servia
Paris
Palmer
Jos
Congress
John R. Kissenger
South Bend
Ind
Kissenger
United States Army
Indiana Militia
John J. Moran
War Department
Cuba
Walter Reed
James Carroll
Jesse W . Lazear
Aristides Agramonte
Lazear
Messrs. Kissenger
Moran
Kissinger
New York Strike Breakers Load Ships as Walkouts Rage
The principal steamship line refused wage demands and used strike breakers to load ships due to sail while ocean liners left on time, though partly loaded. Street clashes erupted along the docks, several lines reached settlements, and rioting spread to the Bavemeyer sugar refinery in Brooklyn.
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Bavemeyer
Brooklyn
Unsettled Weather and Wheat Damage Moderately Drag Commerce
The article notes unusual business developments but urges that earthy progress remains undisturbed. Unseasonable weather and a government report on winter wheat damage are cited as unfavorable features, yet production and distribution stay strong. May bank payments signal soundness while money grows easier, yet mercantile borrowing falls and real estate investment improves. Manufacturing sees large deliveries and rising prices amid supply difficulties. Railway earnings rise in Chicago while lake traffic seeks more tonnage but yards stay idle due to a strike, with freight charters up from last week.
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Chicago Roads
Sear
Dur
Weather and trade effects curb Northwest crops and Midwest trade
Freezing weather and snow slow crop preparations in the Northwest while low temperatures and heavy rains affect Southern distribution. Wholesale and jobbing show light filling-in orders but overall demand remains steady as deliveries catch up. Brady Street's Bradstreet's Report notes weekly U S and Canada failures and grain exports for May 9 with year-to-date totals and comparisons to 1905-6.
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United States
Canada
Bradstreet
Commodity price listing by city and grain markets
Regional market snapshot with bid ranges for cattle hogs and sheep across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York Toledo and more. Includes wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and clover seed prices with unit figures and quality grades.
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Chicago
T&e
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
Toledo
Ste
Fire on Brooklyn export pier causes heavy damage
A fire on a Brooklyn export pier at the foot of North Twelfth Street did about 100000 dollars in damage. In other news Superintendent Sands of the Naval Academy issued an order for an escort of midshipmen for President Roosevelt at Jamestown with four companies, the pick of the brigade, included.
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North Twelfth Street
Brooklyn
Sands
Naval Academy
President Roosevelt
Jamestown
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