Dying by Degrees Amid Russian Famine Appeal
Dr. Kengard of the Society of Friends reports from Samara on the Russian famine. He warns 20,000,000 in southeastern Russia face death without aid and notes 750,000 starving in Samara, with only 372,700 receiving scant relief and a meal every 24 hours. He appeals for canned milk as funds last only to May 1.
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London
Kengard
Th Society of Friends
Samara
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Victory for Standard Oil on evidence and rates
In Chicago on April 10 Judge Landis ruled Standard Oil may present evidence that it did not intend to violate laws in accepting unlawful rates. The court also held shippers need only visit a railway station to learn the legal rate, ending four days of defense arguments over intent and knowledge in dealing with the Chicago and Alton railroad.
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Chicago and Alton Railroad
Oldest Rebekah Leader Dies After Paralysis
Mrs. Sarah Miles Hanna aged eighty two and claimed as the oldest Daughters of Rebekah member died at her Kansas City home after paralysis. She joined the Rebekah order in Rock Island Illinois in 1855 and helped organize hundreds of Odd Fellows assemblies. The order later bestowed the degree of chivalry on her.
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Kansas City
Sarah Miles Hanna
Daughters of Rebekah
Odd Fellows
Indiana’s New Laws Take Effect After Session
Indiana’s legislature closed last month and the new measures take effect at noon Wednesday. Highlights include a 2 cent railroad fare law an anti trust statute life imprisonment for kidnapping for ransom barber shop Sunday closing sixteen hour work limit for trainmen prohibition on selling poison without prescription and defining the receipt of deposits by an insolvent bank as embezzlement.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Lincoln Savings and Trust Company Closes in Philadelphia
Philadelphia April 10 The Lincoln Savings and Trust Company, operating about ten years with city contracts, has closed its doors. The involved amount is comparatively small, and the bank expresses embarrassment.
Immigrants Land Record at Galveston on April 10
The German Lloyd steamer Professor Woermann arrived from Bremen with 1 031 immigrants, the largest number ever to Galveston. Ruth Baker died in Washington at 65, widow of Lewis Baker former US minister to Nicaragua. Ardmore suffered a home fire, and a would‑be killer escaped after shooting the homeowner. In Vilna seven mutineers from the Sapper battalion were convicted or given sentences.
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Galveston
Professor Woermann
Bremen
Ruth Baker
Washington
Lewis Baker
United States
Nicaragua
Wheeling
W. Va
Ruth Fordyce
St. Paul Globe
Ardmore
L. C. Lesure
Lesure
Vilna
Russia
Loree Elected President of Delaware and Hudson
New York April 10 L F Loree has been elected president of the Delaware and Hudson River company replacing David Willcox who resigned.
Abundance of Nitrate and Bank Resources Reported
In Valparaiso Chile estimates indicate nitrate reserves could last 350 years. In Washington Fort Worth national banks report combined resources totaling $21,351,730.
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Valparaiso
Chile
Washington
Fort Worth
Culberson Rejects Presidential Nomination While Defining Party Roots
Senator Culberson says he is not seeking the Democratic nomination for president stressing delicacy of the honor and responsibility. He notes Southern birth and ancestry and asserts there could be future calls from Democrats in other regions to lead the party. He calls the Democratic party born in the South and warns against perversion and ruin.
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Culberson
Mississippi
Virginia
South
Ax Murders Cotton Belt Gang Member in Texarkana
At Floyd Switch twenty eight miles west of Texarkana a negro man was killed by an ax blow to the head. The skull was cleft and a warrant has been issued for Floyd Stout, a Negro, charged with the killing. Both men belonged to a Cotton Belt section gang.
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Texarkana
Floyd Switch
Here
Floyd Stout
Cotton Belt
Miners Win in Arkansas Dispute Over Pay Scale
John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers rules in favor of miners in the Spadra basin. Miners receive 87 1 2 cents per ton, settling a long dispute affecting about 1,000 workers. Also noted, Missouri calls extraordinary session and Roosevelt appoints Hindley as United States district judge in Alabama.
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Kansas City
Spadra
Ark
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
Hundley
Washington
Anvil
Roosevelt
Dereer P. Hindley
Huntsville
Ala
United States
Alabama
Recognition of Strike at Bisbee Affects Three Thousand
The Western Federation of Miners has organized a union at Bisbee Arizona and issued an ultimatum to employers threatening a strike unless the union is recognized. About three thousand workers would be affected. The strike meeting is set for May. Montgomery Alabama April 10: President F P Glass announces the Southern Newspaper Publishers association fifth annual meeting will be in Richmond Virginia May 21 22.
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el Paso
Western Federation of Miners
Bisbee
Ariz
Montgomery
Ala
F. P. Glass
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Richmond
Fire destroys George Trent’s barn and stock in Dodd City
In Dodd City a barn belonging to George Trent burned, five head of stock and feed were lost. Incendiaries are suspected. Trent’s wife was assaulted on March 26 by a Black man who later killed himself. authorities suspect the later crime may be linked. Local tensions rise as rumors spread.
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George Trent
Paris
Tex
Dodd City
Scared to Death in Logansport Sanity Board Case
In Logansport Indiana H F Stoughton summoned to Dr John W Ballard office to witness a lunacy board inquiry into his sanity He cried My God John would you send me to a madhouse He then fainted and later became speechless and paralyzed The board adjourned Stoughton died hours later at his sister’s home Relatives had petitioned for the commission claiming a short stay at Long Cliff hospital would restore him
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Logansport
Ind
John W. Ballard
H. F. Stoughton
Ballard
John
Stoughton
Long Cliff Hospital
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